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NEWS AND POLITICS 23 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Last-minute rule changes by the Bush administration, South Korean land grab in Madagascar, and other news you may have missed in the back pages of the global media maelstrom.

26 THE GROUND IS MOVING BENEATH US Lorna Tychostup interviews Dimitri Papadimitriou, president of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, about the current financial crisis and how we got here.

30 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC: GET SOME NEW RELIGION Larry Beinhart suggests a new religion: Spiritual Humanism.

GREENE COUNTY 63 THE GREENE BOOM Long a sleepy getaway for weekend warriors, Greene County is one of the fastest-growing counties in New York, and business is booming. Christina Kaminski reports.

AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLEMENT 66 A ROUTE TO SUSTAINABILITY Kelley Granger talks with auto experts about achieveing maximum green in your car for minimum green in your wallet.

WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS 69 EIGHT TIPS FOR KILLER WEDDING PICTURES Photographer Hillary Harvey talks to the wedding pros about how to prepare, organize, and execute the picture-perfect wedding day.

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 80 WELLNESS TIPS FOR THE NEW YEAR Lorrie Klosterman talks with local experts about how to get a jump on your health in 2009.

84 FLOWERS FALL: HAPPY NEW YEAR Field notes from a Buddhist Mom’s experimental life. By Bethany Saltman.

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108 PARTING SHOT Laura Levine’s 1982 photograph of Richard and Linda Thompson.

34 PORTFOLIO Molly Rausch’s chalkboard paintings this month at Carl Van Brunt.

36 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE 40 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles musician, composer, and inventor Brian Dewan.

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44 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles Ed Sanders, poet laureate of Woodstock.

46 BOOK REVIEWS Marx Dorrity reviews The Book from the Sky by Robert Kelly.

Lee Gould, William Seaton, and Nina Shengold offer a roundup of 10 titles by local poets for the new year.

THE FORECAST 92 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events.

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

PREVIEWS 93 A selection of World War I posters, part of the “Over the Top” exhibit, will be shown at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, through January 25.

95 Erick Hawkins Dance will perform at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck on January 31 and February 1.

97 Vassar College’s Modfest honors composer Steve Reich with music, dance, and film performances throughout January and February.

99 “21st Century Perspectives,” an exhibit of prints by SUNY New Paltz students, shows this month at the Arts Society of Kingston.

101 Old-time musicians Bruce Molsky and John Specker will play the Rosendale Theater on January 15, part of Hop High Productions’ world music series.

48 POETRY Poems by Andrew Brenza, Richard Donnelly, E. Gironda Jr, Jami Macarty, Wythe Marschall, Elaine Mills, normal, Jenn Nunes, E. P. Schultz, and Christina Turczyn.

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102 WELCOME TO THE NEXT WORLD Eric Francis Coppolino on the transit into the new year. Plus horoscopes.

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Robert Kocik’s disappointment with standard calendrical representations led him to create the circular chart for 2009 that appears on this month’s cover. “All regular calendars tend to be rectilinear, but everything being represented is a sphere and spins,” says the designer/architect. “It’s an attempt to get the most practical information right before our eyes in a very accurate and true-to-nature fashion.”

Here’s an explanation of what you’re looking at: The 365 days of the year run along the outermost band of the chart. Moving inward, the next band shows the cycles of the moon. For instance, if you track the first full moon of the year—the large empty circle, at approximately one o’clock on the face of the calendar—you can see it falls on Sunday, January 11.

The four concentric circles radiating out from the center represent the hours of 5 to 8, both am and pm. The center point of the wheel is 4am. The squiggly lines overlaying the concentric circles represent the time of sunrise and sunset, Eastern Standard Time.The double triangle overlaying everything marks the twin solstices and equinoxes dividing the year into unequal quadrants. (The calendar depicted on the cover is a simplified version of a more intricate chart that includes the movements of the other planets, lunar and solar eclipses, comet showers, and the standard holidays.)

Kocik is also an acclaimed poet whose books include Over Coming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2000), Rhrurbarb (Ecopoetics, 2007), and the forthcoming The Prosodic Body (The Factory School, 2009). His poetry and writings have appeared in the journals Action Poetique, The New Coast, and Ecopoetics, among many others. He has also translated and published the work of several contemporary French poets.

In 1990, Kocik co-founded the Atelier Trigon, a multidisciplinary arts, trades, and performance space in Paris with choreographer Daria Faïn, where he served as co-artistic director from 1990-94. In 1997 he founded the Bureau Of Material Behaviors, a materials research, consultation, design, and building practice located in Brooklyn. He has been commissioned to design buildings for several well-known artists, including sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard and art critic David Levi-Strauss. In the Catskills, for the past 12 years Kocik has worked toward the establishment of a vernacular architecture amid the modular blight. As an architect in the public sphere, he works toward the realization of “missing civic services,” conceptualizing, designing, and constructing buildings that serve a public function and provide an activity that in some way “turns the world around.” An example of such a space is the Enfranchisement Ranch, a rural doctor’s office in which the building itself is considered the first “treatment.” Kocik has exhibited related sculptural work in NewYork City at P.S. 122, Hunter College Gallery, the Kentler International Drawing Space, and the Makor Gallery.

Kocik has taught and lectured extensively throughout the United States.

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On December 2, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper. The constitutional issue in question is whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may take into account the costs of a given technology when assessing what is required of industry when utilizing bodies of water for cooling structures. The argument in the case turns on how to interpret the phrase “best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact” in the Clean Water Act. The Supreme Court’s decision (expected in the spring) could affect 500 power plants and manufacturing sites across the country, which collectively draw in 214 billion gallons of water per day. Case in point: Indian Point, Entergy’s Buchananbased power plant, withdraws billions of gallons of water a day from the Hudson River, killing millions of fish every year. Riverkeeper maintains that the Clean Water Act does not allow federal officials to take into account how much it costs to implement the best technology available when considering cooling water intake structures, and that by implementing a closed-cycle cooling system, Indian Point could reduce its water intake from the Hudson River by up to 97 percent.

Riverkeeper, which has been advocating on behalf of the Hudson in various incarnations since 1966, when it began as a group of concerned fishermen, is helmed by Alex Matthiessen. Since taking over in 2000, Matthiessen has transformed Riverkeeper, increasing membership and adding staff while strengthening the organization’s enforcement presence on the river and developing long-term strategies for preservation through partnerships with leading academic and research institutions such as the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Columbia University School of Law. I spoke with Matthiessen in early December about Riverkeeper’s day in court and the future of the Hudson River.

—Brian K. Mahoney How do you think the argument went before the Supreme Court?

I think it went very well. I think the good news for Riverkeeper and all those who love and want to protect the Hudson and other waterways around the country is that we clearly have the stronger case, in our view. We think that it would be very difficult for the Supreme Court to rule in favor of a cost-benefit analysis, because there’s just nowhere in the statute that would give them the basis to make that decision. This is a court that generally boasts that it doesn’t legislate from the bench.

Justice Roberts did pointedly suggest during arguments that “industry could have borne these costs two years ago, but they probably can’t today.”

Well, that’s not really the point. That, again, would be legislating from the bench because that’s not what the Clean Water Act says. It doesn’t talk about when in our economic cycles an industry can afford things versus not afford things. Riverkeeper does subscribe to the idea that while there shouldn’t be a cost-benefit analysis, there should certainly be a cost-sensitivity. But the way we and many others read that is simply that you first have to establish what the best technology is. In this case it’s clearly closed-cycle cooling. There’s just no dispute about that. Now, we also subscribe to the idea that you can look at it in terms of closed-cycle cooling, or its equivalent.

What would be an equivalent technology?

There’s lots of ways to get there, but essentially the equivalent would be some other combination of approaches that would reach your 95 percent [reduction of water intake from the Hudson]. And obviously, if closed-cycle cooling is 97 percent, we don’t necessarily demand that it has to be 97 percent, but it has to be very close to that. So if there is a series of measures that a plant can take to get to, say, 95 percent then we would consider that best technology available or its equivalent.

And if there’s a cheaper way for a company to do it, then we’re okay with that. But what you can’t do is what the EPA is trying to do, which is to give the industry huge latitude and discretion as to what kind of protection they provide.

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LOCAL LUMINARY ALEX MATTHIESSEN (continued) Indian Point is an interesting example. For Indian Point, the DEC [New York State Department of Environmental Conservation] did issue a draft permit that required a closed-cycle cooling tower. And, of course, Indian Point, or Entergy, is fighting that.

But I think the reason that Entergy did it in that case is that the volumes are so huge that there is no set or combination of smaller measures that, together, would get you anywhere close to that 95 or 97 percent that the closed-cycle cooling system would. The plant also has the physical space to do it, and they certainly have the resources to do it.

I imagine Entergy is stating that they do not have the wherewithal to build a closed-cycle cooling system.

Well, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absurd. This company, first of all, bought the plants in 2000 and 2001, respectively. And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re applying for a new license to extend their current operating license for another 20 years beyond their current expiration dates, which are 2013 and 2015. So, in theory, if they are successful in their pursuit of that new license, they will be operating those plants for 33 and 35 years, the two units. They are making over $2 million a day in profitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not just in revenues, but in profit from that plant. So, in a years time, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making approximately $730 million dollars. So letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s split the difference between Entergyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimate of $1.4 billion to build a closedcycle cooling system and our estimate of roughly $300 million. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three quarters of a billion dollars. Well, that means in a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time, with a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profit, they can cover that expense. And they still have another 32 and 34 years total, to keep those profits.

This company and the other owners of Indian Point have basically gotten a free ride for over 30 years. The Clean Water Act was passed in '72, and they were supposed to start upgrading their technology back then. If they were smart, they would have stashed away some portion of their profits, so that when the day came when they had to build these systems theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have the money to do it. They know exactly what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been avoiding the clear requirements of the law for a very long time. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to pay up.

What are the most pressing issues facing the Hudson in the next 10 years?

Well, I think sewage is definitely one of the most pressing. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made so many gains over the last couple of decades in terms of improving the water quality of the Hudson. The Hudson used to be an open sewer. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made enormous progress, but now I think that that progress is starting to slip. And one of the primary reasons is that our sewage infrastructure up and down the river (and frankly, across the country) is starting to fail. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out of date, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in poor repair. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just been a huge drop-off in federal funding, which traditionally provided the states and the localities the money they need to maintain and upgrade these plants.

The federal government used to contribute approximately 78 percent of a given stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total spending on sewage infrastructure upgrades and maintenance.

That percentage has dropped from 78 to 3 percent, so essentially theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve almost zeroed out their support for upgrading sewage. And these systems are extremely expensive, and any municipality relying on property taxes canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t possibly afford to spend a billion or a billion and a half dollars on a new sewage treatment plant or an upgraded sewage treatment plant. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a real problem, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not dissimilar from the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general infrastructureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;railroads, bridges, tunnels, and everything elseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be affected is the Hudson itself, because sewage plants discharge their effluent into the Hudson River.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also got to deal with this issue of the massive fish slaughter thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been happening on the Hudson for many, many years with these power plants. These four plants [Indian Point, Danskammer, Roseton, and Bowline] withdraw something like four-and-a-half or five billion gallons of water each day from the Hudson and in the process they kill enormous numbers of fish. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been looking at the trends data over the last 20 years and our scientists determined that 10 of 13 of the Hudsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature species are in various states of decline. Some are very close to extirpation; one or two seem to have disappeared from the Hudson altogether. Now, there are many variables and many factors that are probably contributing to the declines in fish, but one of the major ones is definitely power plant fish kills.

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Dan Malinowski is smiling…

“We are now too close to each other for the old kind of individualism to be bearable: The interaction is too powerful.What is in front of us is the need to change to an attitude in which we accept that every man [and woman] has to serve a cosmic purpose, that every life serves for something, not just for its own satisfaction and not for some otherworldly purpose either.”

—J.G. Bennett, from a lecture Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: “I love gum,” my two-year-old commented as we traveled together in the car.

“Do you love gum, Dad?” “Yes,” I answered, realizing the correct answer must be in the spirit of the question. “I love gum.”

“We both love gum,” he concluded.

We drove on in silence. `Nuff said.

It was only a couple of months ago that the little boy in question first uttered the personal pronoun, the symbol of a human biped standing upright and alone—“I”. That letter has an incisive look, and an even more cutting effect. It shears the inchoate sense of identity away from everything existing. It is the emblem of alienation. It stands for Adam’s removal from Paradise.

That first moment of estrangement from the totality marks the beginning of the striving to return. Such is the character of the period called the Terrible Twos. It describes a state of duality in which a child becomes separate from every other object he can name, and in which he is torn from all aspects of himself which don’t fit within the ever-morphing phantasm of “I”. It is fraught with Sturm und Drang and persists for the balance of his life or until the innate perception of unity is inhabited anew.

All but the most natively enlightened, i.e., saints and prophets, attempt a repatriation to that dimly remembered Paradise through the conventional sources of solace the objectified world offers. We look to the artifices of unity to supplant the missed perception of an inherent connection with all.

We join clubs, and take up causes, and hang out with people who like what we like, and dislike what we dislike. We console ourselves with money and sex and food and religion. We become patriots, partisans, believers, and activists and as with my son who discovered that we both love gum, there is a feeling of commonality in attachment to things that allow us to feel connected.

Unfortunately the need for establishing interconnectedness is usually only felt in moments of emergency. Those who intentionally use fear to foment a unified front against an enemy often capitalize upon this instinctive response.

The so-called War on Terror is a prime example. This one is particularly absurd given the vague definition of the foe. But it is the same in every war.

The threat of a distant, often manufactured, and always propagandized enemy brings people together, and the result is not only blind destruction, but a shallow and fleeting experience of unity.

The fact is that there is a present emergency that might drive humanity to recognize our inherent oneness, if we can feel it. It is not terrorists or the scary economy, global warming or global war, or even our personal plights.

These are only symptoms and results of the real emergency, which is our alienation from that which matters. What matters is the consciousness of inherent unity, and the strength of being to make that consciousness real in our world. And there is the emergency that we are, each of us, going to die. But there is the potential for each of us to, as one street philosopher put it, “not die like a dirty dog.”

The Sufi tradition says that 200 conscious people could change the whole of life on earth. These are beings that have attained a level of development in which their ideas and their actions, words, and deeds express the same understanding. And because that understanding arises from a common perception of reality, they cannot disagree. As such, their activity is informed by an identical aim and is fully cooperative. They are agents of one Truth.

Paradise is not a Hawaiian vacation or even in a utopian society, nor is it sometime in a possible future. We cannot get there by any amount of spiritual practice or striving, though effort itself may be the Paradisiacal circumstance.

Paradise is always here and now where the boundaries of openness are being tested. Paradise is the feeling that arises when we underscore what is; when we emphasize the positive; Paradise is when I look into the eyes of another and recognize myself.

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The EPA has approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that will allow coal companies to bury streams under leftover detritus from mining enterprises. The rule, established in 1983, prohibited companies from dumping mountaintop fill within 100 feet of streams. The law had been used by citizens groups to keep mining waste out of streams, which in turn prevented erosion or flooding prompted by the diversion or subsequent loss of mountain streams. Coal companies and lawmakers arguing on their behalf assert that the change in regulation is the only thing keeping the mining industry in business during a national recession. Finalized in December, the rule will go into effect late this month.

Source: CommonDreams.org In December, 19-year-old Abraham Biggs announced to the members of a bodybuilding website that he planned to “lifecast” his suicidal overdose on a website called Justin.tv. It was not the first time Biggs had made such a claim online, and while some egged him on or assumed he was kidding, others offered advice or attempted to notify police, whose discovery of the corpse was also broadcast over the Internet.

Source: New York Times In November, Swiss voters elected to permanently legalize a program that has distributed carefully measured doses of heroin—produced by a government-approved lab—to approximately 1,300 addicts in Switzerland over the last 15 years. Advocates argue that the heroin program has reduced some of the risks and crimes associated with the use of the drug. Swiss citizens also voted against decriminalizing the cultivation or possession of marijuana for personal use.

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This year’s gun-gift swap in Los Angeles netted a record number of weapons: 967 guns were turned in anonymously, in exchange for gift cards—$200 for an assault weapon and $100 for any other gun. The most popular vouchers were for a supermarket chain, leading the officers to suggest that the economic downturn might be behind the annual amnesty’s record haul (578 more weapons were swapped this year than last). Although the gun-swap scheme has successfully reduced gun crimes in the area, most of the weapons brought in this year, including a Soviet-era semi-automatic carbine and two hand grenades, belonged to people who had never used them.

Source: Los Angeles Times In June, a Congressional investigation revealed that world-renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Biederman, chief of the Johnson & Johnson Center for the Study of Pediatric Psychopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, had earned a substantial amount of unreported income from drugmakers. A unit of Johnson & Johnson responsible for the manufacture of the antipsychotic Risperdal said it had given Biederman’s center $700,000 in 2002 to “conduct rigorous clinical trials to clarify appropriate use and dosing of Risperdal in children.” In November, the hospital claimed that grant agreements indicated that the center had been used “for scientific and educational purposes only.” Through influential lectures and studies written under his name, Biederman helped to fuel a fortyfold increase in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder from 1994 to 2003.

Source: New York Times While tussles and even broken bones are common, Jdimytai Damour, who was trampled by a horde of customers at a Long Island Wal-Mart on the day after Thanksgiving, was apparently the first person to be killed in a shoppers’ stampede. Fisticuffs and trampling injuries have long been staples of Black Friday news cycles. In 2003, 41-year-old Patricia van Lester of South Florida was knocked unconscious and trampled by thousands of Wal-Mart shoppers. Two years later, Josephine Hoffman was knocked down and trampled by hundreds of Sawgrass Mills shoppers. That same year, a woman who fell down and struggled with her wig as hundreds of shoppers stepped or fell over her made national news. This year, four people (including a woman who was eight months pregnant) were taken to hospitals for crowd-related injuries, and there were two other fatalities: Two men in rival gangs shot each other to death inside a crowded South California Toys “R” Us store during the Black Friday mayhem.

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South Korean company Daewoo Logisitics is negotiating with Madagascar’s government to secure a lease of some 3.2 million acres (slightly over 2 percent of the island’s surface) for 99 years, with the goal of ensuring a food supply for South Korea, where land is scarce and expensive. Roughly 2.4 million acres will be devoted to corn cultivation, and the remainder will be used to cultivate palm oil. Though exceptional in scope, the operation is not the only one of its kind, as other African countries (namely, Sudan, Ethiopia, Angola, and Tanzania) also propose the sale or long-term lease of their territories to countries lacking an abundance of arable land.

Source: LesEchos.fr According to Doctors Without Borders, Myanmar’s government spends 70 cents per citizen for health care each year while thousands of Burmese citizens are dying of AIDS. The country’s government, which is run by a secretive military junta, has a long record of disregarding the health care of its people. Money for AIDS medication is available from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, but only governments can apply for it, and they are required to prove that the money will not be diverted to corrupt ends.

Source: New York Times Birth by Caesarean-section is associated with an 80 percent increased risk of asthma by age 8 compared with vaginal birth, according to a recently released study of almost 3,000 children in the UK. The study’s leader, Dr. Caroline Roduit, said that rates of asthma in industrialized countries had soared in parallel with a rise in medically unnecessary Caesarian births, which have swelled from 5 percent in the 1970s to more than 30 percent in 2000. Roduit suggested a possible reason: Caesarian-section babies are not exposed to microbes as early as babies born by vaginal delivery.

Source: BBC News The biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007 (adjusted for inflation), while median family income rose 147 percent. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade, and students from lower-income families, on average, get smaller grants from the colleges they attend than students from more affluent families. Especially worrying is the likelihood of large tuition increases in 2009—even among community colleges, which have long been seen as a safety net.

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n this issue, senior editor Lorna Tychostup, who’s been tracking the evolving financial crisis in its unfolding, interviews Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, who heads the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College (“The Ground is Moving Beneath Us,” p.26). Papadimitriou helps explain how foreign economies were brought down by an American mortgage crisis, why the unemployment numbers being reported are too low, the reason Americans are afraid of the word socialism but not fearful of having the government give almost a trillion dollars to the private sector, the importance of localism, and why capitalism needs saving.

Closer to home, Lorna surveys how macroeconomic forces are affecting the actual people who live in the Hudson Valley—those directly affected by job cuts, store closings, less work. She talks with Paul Nawrocki of Beacon, who lost his job as a toy industry executive and now walks the streets of Manhattan with a sandwich board, asking for work. She visits the office of Family of New Paltz and witnesses a woman come in simply hoping to find food for her three children. Not surprisingly, social service agencies across the region are experiencing a surge in clients seeking assistance in recent months. Diane Reeder, who runs the Queens Galley soup kitchen and food pantry in Kingston, says that she has seen a sharp increase in the number of free meals she serves in a month—close to 10,000, up from 1,200 when she opened in 2006. “And it’s not the stereotypical people coming in either,” says Reeder. “My newest clients are not people on social services but people who have jobs, who are looking to stay off social services.”

These people: our neighbors, who could use our help. If you’d like to donate money, here’s the information for Family of Woodstock (which runs programs throughout Ulster County—you can choose which one you’d like to fund) and Queens Galley. There are, of course, many other organizations throughout the region that need funding, and I urge you to donate to the one that best aligns with your principles.

Queens Galley 254 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY 12401 (845) 338-3468; www.queensgalley.org Family of Woodstock PO Box 3516, Kingston, NY 12402 (845) 331-7080; www.familyofwoodstock.org And something else—remember that what you give need not be financial.

Organizations like Family of Woodstock and Queens Galley exist because of the many people who volunteer their time. As we watch our time become devalued in this recession—we are worth less to the great economic engine than we used to be—let it be a reminder that time is the most precious commodity.

Unlike money, it cannot be hoarded or recouped—we can’t save it for a sunny day. It’s also a wealth we all share in equal portion. How we choose to invest it is up to us. May we do so with prudence and thoughtfulness in 2009.

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ven before the announcement on December 1 by the National Bureau of Economic Research that the US was “officially” in a recession—and has been in one since December 2007—it was apparent that not only was the US in a recession, but the economy was in a downslide of historic proportions. What some are calling “the end” of Wall Street reads like an epic horror novel, with bodies, too many to count, dropping in a freefall—the US dollar, available credit, investment banks and other major financial institutions, jobs, stocks, hedge funds, pensions, and savings. At the root of this crisis is the extreme relaxation of lending regulations that began under the Clinton administration, ballooned under Bush, and made mortgages and equity loans available to just about anyone. In 2002, home prices began to soar. Builders went on a building spree and people—many who simply could not afford them— began to gobble up homes. (Home values historically represent three times the average homeowner’s income, and grow by less than .05 percent annually; this growth skyrocketed to 8.2, topping off at 12.5 percent in certain areas in 2005.) When the bubble began to deflate in the second quarter of 2006, it brought down the super-inflated home prices with it, leaving people with homes they couldn’t sell—the amount owed greater than the current price of their home; and homes they couldn’t afford to live in. For the first time in history, lenders began to see people default on their first payment. Prices are still falling and credit is nowhere to be found.

The NBER announcement certainly wasn’t a surprise to Paul Nawrocki of Beacon. After 36 years working fulltime in the toy industry, he lost his job of four years in February 2007. Faced with a wife recovering from two hip operations and in need of 15 medications, health insurance premiums depleting his savings, and a recently graduated 22-year-old daughter with college debt hanging over her head, he sent out hundreds of resumes to potential employers. When that didn’t snag him a job, Nawrocki took to the streets. Literally. He spends his days on various street corners in midtown Manhattan wearing a sandwich board over his suit and tie that says, “Almost Homeless. Looking for Employment.”

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“I am not some freak,” says Nawrocki. “I’m just one of many ‘ghosts’ that happened to bubble up to the surface. More are emerging every day.” In what is becoming a common tale, Nawrocki went to work one day and was told it was his last. “This was a young company putting out great products. Not one you would expect to go out of business. It was my dream job—the one I was headed for my whole career. When my boss let me go he was practically in tears.” The $405 weekly unemployment payments, combined with his wife’s minimal salary as a part-time telephone poll person—work that has slowed down considerably since the election—does not come anywhere near to paying his bills. Recently forced to sell some gold jewelry—his high school, college, and 30th anniversary rings—Nawrocki isn’t lamenting their loss, but instead feels for other people in what he considers “more difficult situations.

You can’t get too caught up with ‘things.’ A man passed me on the street with his eight-year-old daughter. He didn’t stop, but as he passed he said, ‘I’m in the same spot. Lost my job months ago.’ It’s Christmas, and people can’t afford to buy gifts. What will this man tell his daughter?”

The financial crisis has a global face as well. Sigridur Hoster is a first-year graduate student in New York University’s Global Affairs program. At 38, she returned to school this past September after working internationally for eight years in the aviation field and saving for graduate school. Barely one month into classes, Hoster watched as one of the richest European economies, that of her Icelandic homeland, tanked. By early December, three of Iceland’s major banks were in receivership; its stock market lost 90 percent of its value, and its central bank broke with liabilities far surpassing assets. The London Times reported, “Icelandic banks have lent hundreds of billions of pounds overseas and their position in the world’s financial system far outweighs the size of the country’s tiny economy, the GDP of which was only $20 billion last year.” As British investors panicked, the British government declared Iceland a terrorist country under its Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, in order to legally freeze what was left of Iceland’s failing banks’ assets. Not before Hoster

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saw half of her savings—$15,000—disappear overnight, and the rest devalued to $12,000 as her dream vanished. “By the time they lift the freeze, I’ll be looking at $5,000, maybe,” said Hoster. “Even if I could get financial aid, as a foreign student, the interest rate is 20 percent, which I just can’t afford.”

Closer to home, a brief visit to the emergency food pantry at Family of New Paltz, gives a clear indication of the local extent of the global problem.

Phones ring off the hook, boxes of donated food fill the small crowded space, a woman stands at the desk asking for food and clothing for her three children, the youngest 18 months old. As one worker takes down the children’s sizes, telling the woman to fill one bag with whatever food she might want—to which she responds, ”Do you have any baby food?”—a man looking a bit like Santa, complete with snow-white beard, comes in and hands a check to another worker, whose eyes pop at the amount. “Go and buy a lot of turkeys,” he says, slipping out the door.

“People are signing up for food stamps in record numbers,” says program director, Cathy Cartegena. “We used to get one or two applications a month.

This week we received four on Monday and three on Tuesday. We used to limit food to one bag of three meals for three days, once per month. One couple with a baby came and applied for food stamps, took their food allotment and came back five or six days later with absolutely no food left in the house.” Unable to say no, Cartegena lessened the time between allotments. “We have a lot of food in this country, people in the community are doubling their donations and I have to trust.” But the agency is getting hit big-time, government grants are not being renewed, her staff has doubled their shifts, and each day “feels like ShopRite on Saturday,” she says. “I don’t know where I’ll be in January.”

Reported as the 11th and longest in the post-WWII period, this recession rivals that of the Great Depression. The housing bubble, while at the root, is just the tip of the iceberg. I spoke with Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, the president of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and executive vice president and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College to find out how we

got here. Papadimitriou heads the Levy Institute’s macroeconomic modeling team studying and simulating the US and world economies. In addition, he has authored and coauthored studies relating to Federal Reserve policy, fiscal policy, employment growth, and Social Security reform.

For information on how to support human-service agencies in our our area that are struggling to help the swelling ranks of the needy, see the Editor’s Note on page 25.

Lorna Tychostup: How did we get here?

Dimitri Papadimitriou: It used to be that an individual interested in buying a house would go to the bank and provide specific information required: income statements, assets—for the bank to analyze and determine whether the individual or household could service the mortgage. Because of Federal Reserve policy of low interest rates and the encouragement of the President and Congress to increase home ownership, those standards were relaxed. Individuals who could not buy a house because they couldn’t afford it, somehow managed to do so. Approvals were given based on assumptions that since we had a housing boom the prices of houses would keep increasing, and even though the mortgage was very high there would be an equity left that would allow the individual to even get a second mortgage and somehow manage to service it. Most of the mortgages being offered were of an adjustable rate of interest [lower interest rate at first for a period of time followed by an increase based on a benchmark rate at the time of adjustment]. Fixed rate mortgages were passed up.The adjustable mortgages were based on some kind of a benchmark, which was not very clear.

So what happened in cases like this, when you have an inflationary bubble— in this case, a housing bubble—the bubble reaches the point where it cannot go on any longer. When the bubble was realized, housing prices began to experience a downturn.You found individuals who had mortgages where the amount owed was higher than the value of the house. In this case, if I owe a lot more than I could recapture from the value of the home I have, the easiest thing to do is to not pay the mortgage and have it foreclosed. Since the American financial 1/09 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS 27

economy was very much integrated, not only with mortgages, but with derivatives that were based on these mortgages—second- and third-order derivatives, including debt default swaps—the bubble became even bigger than just a housing market bubble. It became a financial bubble. And once the housing market goes in reverse, then everything goes in reverse too. This creates the contagion effect, not limited to the US, but also in Germany, Ireland, all over the world, since markets are global. Individuals had bought derivative securities based on mortgages: some good mortgages, others subprime or Alt-A that were not clearly identified. This made securities all very difficult to unravel, leading the entire financial system to collapse.

These derivatives, these securities, were created as brokers took bundles of mortgages and put them all together in one big pot.

Some of these mortgages were what is called “insecure” and some were “secure”—rated triple AAA. Mixed together, they all became “securitized.”

All types of mortgages were securitized even though the risk was not of the same level. Good mortgages were mixed with bad mortgages. The rating agencies gave these mortgage-backed securities a very high rating because they didn’t really know what they were rating. These high-rated securities were bought by many pension funds and investors because of their higher rate of return, which, clearly, investors were looking for.

I understand. What I don’t understand is how these risky BBB securities went into the same pot with AAA securities, got cooked up and retranched as AAA securities. How did these people, who supposedly knew better, do this so easily? The world is wondering, is this simply a matter of greed?

Oh, absolutely, it was a matter of greed! The point is that you create securities that are so complex and you base the valuations on models that only a few people can understand and determine what that valuation is. When you are in a time of euphoria, the market for these securities showed that they were good buys for investors. So seeking a very high rate of return, if you agree it is a good investment, you will invest in this without realizing there is no free lunch. These investors thought that there was a free lunch. This is what really happened and has had real repercussions, not only in the financial markets, but also in the real economy, because once you realize that your house is no longer valued as you assumed, you stop spending. And this impacts the real economy—we are seeing a decrease in spending, leading to a decrease in economic activity and an increase in the unemployment rate. That is how the recession began last December.

Each player in the chain must have known something was amiss.

Real estate agents knowingly taking clients to look at homes they couldn’t afford. Potential homeowners thinking, “Wow, all I have to do is provide my name and income to the mortgage broker and I can be a homeowner.” Commission-driven mortgage brokers knowing they would not lose if a loan defaulted because by then it would have been bundled, resold, and someone else’s problem. Insatiable Wall Street traders with clients with lots of money in their hands looking for investments who told brokers to send them lots more of this extraordinarily lucrative product and regulations were loosened. Is this a correct picture?

This is exactly what happened.You are wondering why, right? Of course, with hindsight we say, “Who was that fool to believe that these kind of returns can be sustained?” Because, it was basically a scheme—the expectation was that houses would continue to increase in value. But as you know, nothing increases forever. In financial markets we call it the “Greater Fool Theory.”

There is always another fool after you—until there is no other fool. And then the unraveling begins.

But you have to understand the sub-prime mortgages are only five percent of the total markets and are not the only cause of this calamity. It has to do with what we call the “slicing and dicing” of these mortgages—mixing them in with good mortgages. The problem is that investors believe that all the mortgage-backed securities are bad, because you cannot distinguish bad from good.

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it. The traditional business of banks is to make loans and keep them on their books. In this case they did not keep them on their books. They sold them by way of securitization in the market. Some of them were given to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who also got their fees and sold them in the market. People bought them thinking, “Well, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are semi-public companies, so the government is really behind them.”You know you can interpret these things in any way you want to justify a very high return.

At present, we are experiencing a global reverberation. Looking at recent Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports, England had its own bubble that has crashed…

Spain…

Iceland…If we look at the major countries, Germany, the European Union, the US, Canada—the world is involved.

It’s an integrated world. The US was the importer of last resort, but, when there is a dramatic fall in US spending, the whole world is affected. Some people thought the world economy was decoupled from the US and that assumption was proven false, because as we see now, as the US is in a downturn the global economy is affected. Not for the same reasons, but [due to] codependency with the US. As you correctly pointed out, England had its own problems, and the same thing with Spain and some other countries. But Germany, dependent on exports to the US and other countries, has been affected dramatically. With the decline of economic activity and lower interest rates in the US, investors moved their positions from the US dollar to the euro as an alternative reserve currency, which created a big problem because the exports from Germany became more expensive. In a coordinated and integrated world one is never immune to a system that is collapsing, especially if it hits the most advanced country in the world, the United States.

How long will this downturn last?

It all depends on the coordinated effort of the leaders of the industrialized countries to actually begin to spend money. That is why you see that in the US the President-elect has suggested that he will spend and authorize a significant fiscal stimulus, whatever it takes to move the economy. And that, I suspect, will be dependent on what the new Congress does, because our current Congress isn’t going to enact anything. So in a way, recovery is dependent on what the fiscal policy stance will be to move us out of this deep recession— because this is a deep recession. Whatever it takes, whatever is spent, it will still be a bargain if we are to avoid a new Great Depression.

Economist Robert Reich wrote an entry in his blog on December 5 titled “Should We Call It a Great Depression Now?” Should we be calling it a Great Depression? Or are we not calling it a Great Depression simply because once this naming gets into the media, and into people’s hearts and minds it would cause more— Absolutely. However, it really is not a Great Depression, because during the Great Depression we had dramatic decreases in growth, much deeper than what we are experiencing today. And the unemployment rate reached 25 percent. We are not there. But if we don’t do anything, we will get there.

The unemployment numbers were at 6.7 percent as of December 5.

You’ve said that during the Great Depression they were at 25 percent.

The 6.7 figure doesn’t speak to the underemployment numbers.

Yes, underemployment and people who have given up looking for a job are not accounted for.The Bureau of Labor statistics has a much more detailed and expanded unemployment rate, presently for the US to be at 12.5 percent; it includes part-time people, who are working part-time for economic reasons, would like to have a full-time job but cannot find one. It includes individuals who have been discouraged, individuals who no longer receive unemployment insurance benefits and therefore are not counted [in the 6.7 percent tally].

There are also people who are not in the labor force but would like to have a job if one were available to them. If you include all these categories the unemployment rate becomes 12.5 percent. The 6.7 percent rate is comparable to the 25-percent rate of the Great Depression era. During the Great Depression, the more detailed unemployment rate was close to 40 percent

(comparable to today’s 12.5 percent rate). I don’t believe we will reach 25 percent. I do believe that by the end of next year we might be looking at an unemployment rate of close to nine percent. Then, perhaps, after the stimulus packages taking hold you might see a decrease, and, ultimately, perhaps, get out of the recession.

The current bailout plan that has been put forward seems to keep morphing. They keep changing their minds about where this money will be spent. We have one more month to go before the new administration takes office. Is this lag time between administrations detrimental?

I think it is detrimental for the markets. For example: the expectation is that something will happen with the automobile industry—so people will see that, in fact, the government is concerned with what will happen to two million people, not only to the three automobile companies, but to their suppliers as well. Everyone is waiting to see what will happen. We hear announcements, for instance, from China, showing leadership in approving a $600 billion fiscal stimulus plan. That’s China—$600 billion. For the US to have a $600 billion package it would take a huge amount of blood being spilled in Congress to actually have a fiscal plan of that level enacted. If they don’t enact a fiscal plan we are looking at really turbulent times.

will respond, and what the coordinated efforts will be from other countries.

If there is an understanding that massive fiscal stimulus packages are necessary [and they are implemented], I believe that by the end of 2009 we will see some dramatic improvement. However, if none of these things happen, I think that the recession will be deeper and longer than 2010. If we believe what the President-elect says, that he expects to sign a package on January 20 when he takes office, I think we will see an improvement by the end of 2009.

WE NEED TO SAVE CAPITALISM. THE PROBLEM IS THAT AMERICANS ARE AFRAID OF THE WORD “SOCIALISM.” BUT THEY DON’T MIND WHEN SOCIALISM TAKES THE FORM OF GOLDMAN SACHS.

Please explain.

In China, $600 billion represents a very big fraction of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Six hundred billion dollars for us represents only four percent of GDP. For China, $600 billion is closer to 20 percent. This I call strong leadership. The same thing with French President Sarkozy, who is trying to show leadership in seizing the moment and Gordon Brown in Great Britain thinking along the same lines.

The stimulus money on the table right now in the US, what do you think should be done with it?

What is in the package right now, we don’t really know. What we know is that the President-elect has indicated that he is willing to spend amounts of money close to $600 to $700 billion over two years.There are many things that can be done.There is infrastructure to be developed, providing stability to homeowners, increasing employment, and energy efficiency, healthcare reform.We have so many immediate needs that the government can play a pivotal role to get this economy to the place where it ought to be that has been neglected—not only during Mr. Bush, but also during the presidency of Mr. Clinton.

What about localism? Investing locally, shopping locally, investing in local businesses run by people that you know and trust, as a way to fortify the American economy?

I think you are absolutely right. If you don’t shop locally, and don’t promote the local business sector, the stability of the community is going to be eroded.

You need to maintain jobs in the community, to do business in the community.

We know that some of the local banks are not in trouble.The big money-center banks are in trouble because they are the ones involved in highly speculative practices. Nobody talks about the community banks being insolvent because they are doing quite all right.

Economist and New York University professor, Nouriel Roubini, known as Dr. Doom in economic circles, predicted two years ago all that has happened, would. According to Roubini, even if the economy comes out of the recession by the end of 2009, due to the damage done we will not feel any relief until sometime in 2010.

In general he is right. We have been predicting this at the Levy Institute before him. It all depends on what the new US administration will do, how Congress

Define massive.

More than $600 billion.

William J. McDonough, vice chairman and special advisor to the chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recently told an audience, “There is something about the American people that is different from all other people in the world. We are by nature, or by our history, given to be able to have hope.” After the election, a lot of hope was injected into the American psyche and a lot of hope is riding on President-elect Obama and his team. People expect some magic to occur.

You know, people have to latch onto hope. On the basis of what the President-elect has said and what he has been saying every Saturday in his radio addresses and with every press release, there is a hopeful sound that comes out of his mouth. It is in concert with his choices of cabinet appointments. They are all experienced people and know what is happening. The only issue here is if Congress will realize, especially the Republican aisle of Congress, that, unfortunately, big government is here to stay.

What about the global economy and capitalism? Are they here to stay?

Absolutely.There is no threat to capitalism.What we are experiencing is an aberration. We need to save capitalism. The problem is that Americans are afraid of the word “socialism.” But they don’t mind when socialism takes the form of Goldman Sachs. So when we say, “Goldman Sachs socialism” then it’s okay.

When we drop the Goldman Sachs and we just use “socialism,” which is the same thing, then of course we are all very, very afraid.

There is fear about this. All we hear is, “The new socialism. Are we entering the new socialism?”

That’s nonsense. Absolutely.

Speaking very futuristically, do you envision such things as a global currency?

I am not very optimistic that this will ever happen. But I do believe that the US dollar is no longer going to be the only reserve currency. We see some resilience to the euro, and therefore my suspicion is that the euro is going to be a very important countervailing currency to the US dollar.

About the economy and global interconnectedness. If we were in the Dark Ages we could talk about pulling up the tent poles and going back into the cave. But in this day and age we are already so connected it is not something you can reverse. Do you see— because of this situation—potential for an even deeper global atmosphere of cooperation, one that will have a lasting effect?

I think that we will have to. It is very clear that the major countries will have to spearhead a restructuring of the financial markets and the international financial architecture. I think regulation will be the new mantra – re-regulation, I should say. That free markets will reign supreme without any oversight is something of the past.

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DION OGUST

Commentary

Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

GET SOME NEW RELIGION It’s the New Year.

We have a new president. A new Congress.We’re going to try to rebuild the economy the Republicans destroyed. What else do we need? How about a new religion?

A natural first reaction could be, Wait a minute, we already have too many, and they’re the source of most of the trouble in the world.

One thing I learned as a ski instructor is that it never works to say “Don’t do that.” Whatever people are doing, however wrong it is, they’re doing it because they want to accomplish something. To get them to change, you have to replace it with a new and better way. This is something atheists should have figured out too. But they just keep pointing out how wrong religion is and then are surprised when hardly anyone deconverts. The trick is to figure out what is people are trying to get to, what’s wrong with the way they’re going about it, then come up with a better alternative.

Here—in superbrief form—is what atheists and secularists say is wrong with the religions we have now. (To be precise, theistic religions, not those that are simply collections of spiritual practices.) In their view: • The truth claims of religion are false.

Indeed, they are necessarily false and anything that we explain based on a theistic premise will be necessarily wrong (or meaningless).

• Theistic religions are inherently divisive.

People go to war, riot, and kill over them. In many societies with multiple religions, or even just different sects, one group is dominant and members of the other, or others, are second-class citizens, subjected to various levels of oppressions.

I’ve been to the headquarters, meetings, and conventions of atheists and secular humanists. Let me be brutally frank. While the individuals in them are wonderful, as movements they are sad. They don’t arouse enthusiasm (there’s more passion at comic book conventions), they are not especially joyous (even a mystery writers convention is more fun), they don’t spread their gospel, and they don’t convince many people to hand over money.

Let’s say they’re right. Yet religions, which are wrong, are vastly more successful. Why? Human beings do, in fact, have a spiritual dimension. What is spirituality?

In our natural state—the way God made us and abandoned us in this fruitful but dangerous and terrifying place, before we had learning, literature, technology, and science—we were nonetheless aware that things were taking place beyond our senses and beyond our comprehension. We could see those mysterious forces manifest themselves. There were seasons, growth and change, life and death, winds and tides, warmth and cold, light and dark—but we could not “see” the forces themselves.

Also, there were mysterious forces at work within us. Love, loyalty, greed, lust, terror, despair, hope, justice, morality, family, creativity, invention, curiosity, all sorts of things. We didn’t know where they came from or how they operated. Indeed, in large measure, we still don’t.

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ity is completely unsuccessful when it tries to understand and manipulate the external forces of the physical world.

Praying for rain is a great example. It doesn’t work. The way to deal with water shortages is dig wells, build irrigation systems and aqueducts. So, too, with the rest of the external world.The best approaches are through rationality, technology, and science. Spirituality is successful in manipulating the unseen in ourselves. It can induce calm, happiness, even ecstasy, and better health. It can transcend pain and fear. It can build community and bind people closer together. It can rise above the constraints of rules and conventions, of governments, violence, force and power. For ill and for good.

Spirituality is very successful in manipulating other people. Both individually and in groups. Religion is spirituality made manifest. It takes the practices and ideas that we have created out of our spiritual nature, organizes, and codifies them. It creates a class of experts and administrators and finds ways to fund them. Then, as with all human endeavors, its first loyalty and its overriding impulse becomes its own self-perpetuation.

We have two conflicting world views. Each does some things well, and others badly.Atheism is consistent with the other ways we think, logic, rationality, empiricism, and science. It is friendly to their truths. But it does not move our spirits.

Religion routinely defies logic, denies science, and insists it is beyond the rational and empirical. But it does get people up and do things. To organize and relate. To build and to tithe. (As well as exclude, oppress, and go to war.)

Let us take the best of both, and leave the worst behind. The flaw—the fundamental problem—with religion is that it is based on a false notion: God. The flaw—an equally fundamental problem—with atheism is that it only addresses our rationality. Its only strength is criticism. Which is not very inspirational.

Let the new religion be called: Spiritual Humanism. It is based on the recognition that those things that are best in us—courage, honor, loyalty, truthseeking, invention, ethics, artistry, spirituality itself—are ours.

Not His, Hers, or Its. They’re ours. It’s absurd to give them away. Let us reclaim them. Humans are imperfect. But at least we know it. It is we who strive and aspire. God doesn’t.

Even in our monotheistic mythologies, God kicked us out of the garden, naked but for fig leaves, and left us to fend for ourselves. And we did. We made tools and invented science. We invented language. Learned to manipulate symbols. Created art and music. Invented clothing and forms of transportation and commerce. We built roads and cities.

We created spirituality. Out of that impulse, we created gods and religions.

We created a wide and exciting variety of them and we change them at irregular intervals. Though they deal with what is called the sacred, they are no more eternal or sacrosanct, in theory or practice, than forms of government. Which are always worth criticizing and certainly worth changing on a regular basis.

That is worth celebrating. Even worshipping. I would especially like to think that a spiritual system based on the sacredness of human beings would necessarily be inclusive, not divisive. (But my sense of reality says that no matter how perfect the thought, someone will figure out how to pervert it in practice.)

Well, there it is, an act of hubris in 1,000 words. If anyone bites, we can apply for tax-exempt status, organize a choir, and find other people to tithe.

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Molly Rausch, Royal Lark, altered typewriter, 2008 PORTFOLIO, page 34

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Portfolio Molly Rausch

Molly Rausch is an artist of the everyday.

She paints mundane things—chairs, radios, step ladders, garage-door openers—elevating their status above their normal station in the hierarchy of objects. A lamp’s craning neck takes on the tristesse following a breakup. A bathtub evokes pleasurable solitude, misunderstood by others as loneliness.

Rasuch’s paintings are often more about what’s left out than what’s included, whether it’s the absence of figures or the enigmatic snippets of text that reference larger conversations. Her paintings at once express concerns about the limits of communication—your thoughts on an empty chalkboard, Dr. Freud?—as well as the inability to effectively use the tools available to relate to others. The personal gravity of Rausch’s work prevents it from escaping the orbit of its self-reference, while looking wistfully toward a genuine connection it might be incapable of.

A new, whimsical direction in Rausch’s work is her altered typewriters, in which the keys are rearranged to encode a message. (Note the keys on Royal Lark on page 33.)

Recent paintings by Rausch are being exhibited as part of a group show at Carl Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon through January 5. www.vanbruntgallery.com.

—Brian K. Mahoney

MOLLY RAUSCH ON HER WORK Subjects

Text

Chalkboards

I don’t put figures in my paintings. I paint inanimate objects.

It’s just worked that way over the last 15 years. If you go back through the chunks of work I do, I used to paint these tiny pieces, and they’d have figures, and they were interiors.

The figure weren’t the most evocative parts, though; they always looked flattened and dead to me. When I draw inanimate objects, they have more life to them than when I draw living things, which seem to look kind of killed. I moved from architectural interiors to landscapes to maps to these everyday objects. I’ve been on the everyday object kick for about five years now, just cataloging stuff that’s around me, things I grew up with, things I collect at yard sales or from places I visit. I’m a huge yard sailor. I collect a lot of junk.

I’m attracted to old papers, office supplies, typewriters, chairs and lately, chalkboards. Yard sales can make the best art supply stores.

All the quotes in my paintings are personal and selfreferential. They’re culled from my sketchbooks or what other people have said to me. Sometimes the quotes are connected between the person that said it and the place/ object that’s depicted; sometimes they’re connected just by my gut feeling. There’s a painting of a bathtub that says, “Just because I don’t say anything doesn’t mean I’m quiet.” The bathtub just seemed to suit the quote. The trick to those paintings was finding an image and some text that balanced each other and made sense, had equal weight, both content-wise and layout on the painting-wise.

I included text in my paintings for a while. I also had pairs of paintings without text, working off this idea that there was a conversation going on between them. Now that I’m losing the text again, it’s as if the chalkboard pieces are really just inviting the viewer to actually write on them. I don’t put chalk on them in a gallery because I don’t want it to turn into a big mess, but it’s a chalkboard, and that’s what it’s there for—you’re supposed to write on it. People, if they buy one of these [chalkboard paintings], are not going to use it for their grocery list—but they could. By not having text on the paintings, and by painting on a chalkboard, I’m not really talking with the viewer anymore, I’m providing them with this tool to talk back to me, even though I know they’re not going to use it because they think it’s a painting.

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Clockwise from upper left: Penthouse, oil on plywood, 60 x 48”, 2007 Ohioville (detail), oil on plywood, 48 x 120”, 2007 Ohioville (detail), oil on plywood, 48 x 120”, 2007

Opposite: I did everything I could, oil and chalkboard paint on panel, 35 x 29”, 2008

Chairs

Obsolescence

Chunks

I have thing for chairs. I have a problem with chairs. I have too many chairs. Chairs are very personal. They definitely have different personalities. For me, I’m interested in the implied presence of a person, or the just-left absence of a person. Chairs are stand-ins for people in my paintings.

They’re also just beautiful.

Chalkboards and typewriters are weird, childish, school-type things that nobody uses anymore. Most of what I depict are obsolete things that no one uses anymore. I’m not drawing iMacs.

My strategy is to play around until and I hit something and then I’m like, “Oh, I want to make 20 more like that.” I work in chunks. I do that until eventually I get to that point where it feels very stagnant and I start to know I’m done. When I’m in the middle of a body of work, in can sometimes feel like, well, work. But then it circles back around. There’s usually the freshness and the urgency at the very beginning—I’m like boom, boom, boom—I get all these ideas and it just takes a while to get through them all. I usually have a list, which I’ll constantly go through and edit and change as I work on drawings. But I usually have a set in mind. Then I say to myself, “Alright, this is going to be the last one.”

And then sometimes it opens me up in some way and I’ll think, “Oh, I’ll do just one more.” That painting can end of being a really, really good one. Generally the less that you try, the better it is.

Revision Sarcasm Key The typewriter project started with a joke. I was trying to e-mail somebody, and I said, “I can’t find the Sarcasm Key on this computer.” So I wanted to make a typewriter with a Sarcasm Key. The typewriter will be fully functional, but instead of having a Shift Key it’ll have a Sarcasm Key.

The only times I’ve edited or revised my work after I’ve finished it has been with a table saw. Sometimes an aspect of a painting will really bug me and I’ll have to trim three inches down one side. I’ve done that on several occasions. It’s an advantage of plywood—you can’t do that with canvas.

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Philipse Manor Beach Club © 2008 Ted Kawalerski

Top to Bottom THE HUDSON RIVER

Photographs by TED KAWALERSKI GALLERY HOURS

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Weekdays Saturdays 2nd Saturdays Sundays

9–5 11 – 5 11 – 8 12 – 5 845.838.1600 Ext. 16 or info@bire.org

199 Main Street, Beacon NY 12508

www.bire.org

TAYLOR GILLIS’S STEMS, LEAVES FROM THE “REGIONAL REDUX” EXHIBIT AT

Through January 12th

Group Show at our new location: 137 Main Street, Beacon

GALLERIE BMG, OPENING SATURDAY JANUARY 17, THROUGH FEBRUARY 16.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART 415 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4346.

“The Luminous Landscape.” Gary Fifer, Arnold Levine, Robert Trondsen. Through March 31.

“Seek, Look, Listen, Hope.” Works by Olga Poloukhin. Through March 31.

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Opening January 17th

Simon Draper’s Habitat for Artists

Sponsored by ecoartspace, curator Amy Lipton Grace Knowlton.Dar Williams.Christopher Albert Richard Bruce.SharonL .B ut l e r . R y an Cronin.Kathy Feighery Marnie Hillsley.Matthew Kinney.Sara Mussen Steven Rossi.Todd Sargood.Mathew Slaats.Lynn Stein, Grey Zeien.Donald Kimmel with Flying Swine Live Theater and Simon Draper “How Much? How Little? The Space to Create.”

Artists’ reception: Saturday January 17th, 6-9pm

258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519.

“Huma Bhabha: 2008 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition.” Through February 8.

“Karen Davie: Symptomania.” Through February 8.

“Lars Fisk: Trashbags.” Through February 15.

“Peggy Prehiem: Little Black Book.” Through February 8.

THE ART AND ZEN GALLERY 406 MANCHESTER ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3334.

“Photography of Patrick J. Gillease.” Through January 6.

“Tim Grignon.” Acrylic paintings. January 9-February 28.

Opening Monday, January 12, 7pm-10pm.

ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331.

“21st Century Perspectives, SUNY New Paltz Printmaking Students.” January 3-31.

Opening Saturday, January 3, 5pm-8pm.

“Good Enough to Eat: The Art of Food.” January 3-31.

Opening Saturday, January 3, 5pm-8pm.

BARRETT CLAY WORKS 485 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

“Jeep Johnson: Glass and Kathleen Heideman Ceramics.” January 24-February 14.

Opening Thursday, January 29, 8pm-12am.

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BE GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS 687-0660. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Works by Lynne Friedman and Ilka List.â&#x20AC;? Small bronze wall sculptures and pen and wash Irish Botanicals. Through January 12.

CARLSEN GALLERY, INC. presents

Important Mid Winter Antiques Auction THE BEACON INSTITUTE 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Top to Bottom: The Hudson River.â&#x20AC;? Photographs by Ted Kawalerski. Through March 1.

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 at 11:00am Previews: Thurs, Fri. & Sat. 12-5pm & Sun. 8am until sale CARLSEN GALLERY~ Rt. 32, Freehold, New York www.carlsengallery.com

BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO 54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Red Hook Pastel Group.â&#x20AC;? Through February 28. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Solstice 2008.â&#x20AC;? Through February 28.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contemporary Paintings and Sculptures.â&#x20AC;? Ragellah Rourke, James Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea, Cynthia Atwood.

Through January 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contemporary Women Painters.â&#x20AC;? January 8-February 15.

Opening Saturday, January 10, 6pm-9pm.

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art.â&#x20AC;? Through February 1.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Converging Margins.â&#x20AC;? Through January 11. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angle of Repose.â&#x20AC;? Photogrpahs by Toni Pepe. Through January 11.

4400 ROUTE 23, HUDSON (518) 828-4181 EXT 5513. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Biodiversity: Captured in Photographs Contest.â&#x20AC;? Through January 22.

Call: (518) 634-2466 Fax: (518) 634-2467 or E-Mail: info@carlsengallery.com Terms: CASH, Pre-Approved Check, MC, VISA, DISCOVER* (Credit Cards for Gallery Purchases Only) * 15% Buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Premium Directions: From the South: NYS Thruway Exit 21 (Catskill) to Rt. 23 West to Rt. 32 North. Gallery approx. 6 miles on left.

www.carlsengallery.com

DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holiday Boutique.â&#x20AC;? Through January 30.

FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Majestic Hudson.â&#x20AC;? Group show of paintings. Through January 31.

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COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

For this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mid-Winter antiques auction we are pleased to have been chosen to sell fine furnishings and accessories from a Woodstock, NY estate, an Ancram, NY Country home and a Lakeville, CT estate.

This sale features American Period, Country, English and Continental Period Furniture, Fine Paintings inc. oils by listed artists, Prints, Cast Iron Garden Decoration, an Impt. Collection of 19thC. Firearms, Attic Fresh dolls, Oriental Porcelain, Sterling Silver, a large group of Oriental Rugs, Clocks, Mirrors, Country & Formal Accessories, etc.

We are pleased to start the New Year off with this strong auction filled with many investment quality antiques. Please plan to attend and view our fully illustrated catalogue online at www.carlsengallery.com Absentee & Phone Bids are gladly arranged, please make those requests by Friday, January 16th.

G?LC=;H IMN?LM @LIG ILF> ;L on view through January 25, 2oo9

GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Douglas Ethridge: Oasis.â&#x20AC;? Through January 12. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Regional Redux: Tom Chesnut, Taylor Gillis, Michael Marston.â&#x20AC;? January 16-February 16.

GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMERS TURNPIKE, GARDINER DCHORNY@EARTHLINK.NET. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artwork.â&#x20AC;? Local images by Hardie Truesdale. Through February 26.

GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Salon Show 2008.â&#x20AC;? Annual exhibition of small art works by GCCA member artists.

Through January 10.

(HI)STORY GALLERY 433 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-6290. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bardo.â&#x20AC;? New work by The Love Artist. Through January 16.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outside the Box Inside.â&#x20AC;? Invitational group show. Through January 15.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Between Stations.â&#x20AC;? Sculptures by Richard Dupont. Through January 18.

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Opening Saturday, January 17, 5pm-7pm.

www.nrm.org # Stockbridge, ma 413.298.41oo # open daily free tuesdays

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rootless Algas.â&#x20AC;? Grimanesa Amoros. Through January 18.

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HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

“Origins.” Use of primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, aluminum, stone, and soil as mediums.

Through July 26.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.

“Paintings by Dale Emmart.” January 8-February 1.

Opening Saturday, January 10, 6pm-8pm.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON KMOCA.ORG. “Wild Horses.” Photographs by Jennifer MaHarry of wild mustangs living in California. January 3-31.

Opening Saturday, January 3, 5pm-7pm.

LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633.

“Peaceful Landscapes.” Exhibit of acrylic paintings by Warren Hurley. January 11-February 19.

Opening Sunday, January 11, 4pm-6pm.

MORTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY 82 KELLY STREET, RHINECLIFF 876-2903.

“Two Views of the Hudson Valley.” Paintings by Marybeth Blum and Paul Sandiford. January 9-31.

Opening Friday, January 9, 6pm-8pm.

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 GLENDALE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 298-4100.

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“Over the Top: American Posters from World War I.” Through January 25.

ODD FELLOW’S ATELIER 220 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES BISTRO@HVC.RR.COM. “The Traveling Buddha Show.” Includes Asian inspired and meditative art. Through January 11.

PALENVILLE BRANCH LIBRARY 3335 ROUTE 23A, PALENVILLE (518) 678-3357.

“Palenville Photography Group Holiday Show.” Through January 31.

PEARLDADDY GALLERY 183 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0169.

“Marlene Parillo, Storypots and Tapestries.” Vessel sculptures and mixed media quilts.

Through March 8.

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS PLACE 508 MAIN STREET, BEACON (917) 478-7620.

“Symbiosis Exhibition.” Landscape photographs by Mark MacKinnon. January 10-February 8.

Opening Saturday, January 10, 4pm-8pm.

UNISON ARTS AND LEARNING CENT 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“Learning 2 Look.” Works by 2nd graders. January 17-February 1.

Opening Saturday, January 17, 4pm-6pm.

VAN BRUNT GALLERY 137 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2995.

“Group Show.” Through January 5.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Orange County’s New Hudson River School Exhibit.” January 1-31.

Opening Saturday, January 10, 5pm-8pm.

WINDHAM FINE ARTS GALLERY 5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-6850.

“Decadence and Decline: 2009.” January 3-31.

Opening Saturday, January 3, 7pm-12am.

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THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 2009 REGIONAL PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

Host Committee Ginny Apuzzo and Barbara Fried K Jennifer L. Costley and Judith E. Turkel Michelle DeDominicus Tom Edwards and Nick Ciallelo Episcopal Churches in the Mid-Hudson Valley Kathy Friend Haynes Llewellyn and Gary Swenson Fred Mayo Daria Papalia Marcuse Pfeifer Lance Ringel and Chuck Muckle Dean Rogers Harris L. Safier and Robert Tonner Ted Snowdon Duffy Volenti Committee still in formation

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2009 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: 59 TINKER STREET WOODSTOCK NY | 845-679-9957 | WWW.CPW.ORG

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Music

BY PETER AARON

THE DIY DA VINCI Brian Dewan

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t makes perfect sense that Brian Dewan’s father, Edmond Dewan, is both a physicist and a musician. In the end, one plus one will always equal two, and the musical methods of the younger Dewan are nothing if not the gloriously brainy and quirky synthesis of science and art.

“My dad plays the organ. He doesn’t compose, but he does like to improvise,” says the stocky, well-coiffed Dewan. “He exposed me to [modernist composer] Edgard Varese, [organists] Jehan Alain and Jean Langlais, and early electronic music like [1960s duo] Perrey-Kingsley and Dick Hyman’s Moog records. He did research work for the Air Force during the height of the cold war, when the government was trying to second-guess what the Russians were doing and was indiscriminately funding just about any type of research, or so it seemed. So he was involved in a lot of really interesting projects, like researching [the phenomenon of] ball lightning and attempting to use brain waves to send Morse code. Weird stuff.”

Dewan’s music certainly qualifies as weird stuff itself, even to his fans. Generally speaking, it falls into either of two categories: 1) a folk-based vocal style that references hymns, obscure historical and topical songs, and the popular music of the last two centuries; or 2) the peculiar freeform, retro-futurist electronic music that he performs solo and with his cousin Leon Dewan under the name Dewanatron. But in addition to being a classically trained instrumental polymath with a bent for offbeat sounds—he plays anything with a keyboard, as well as homemade electric zither, autoharp, dulcimer, drums, and small wind

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photo by Fionn Reilly

instruments like the pennywhistle and the ocarina—Dewan, 45, is an underground renaissance man of the first order, a sculptor, painter, poet, furniture designer, orator, illustrator, and performer. And, perhaps most notably, with Leon he is also the co-inventor and manipulator of an ever-burgeoning arsenal of one-of-a-kind electronic instruments that are also called Dewanatrons.

Any one of the solid-state analog Dewanatrons could easily pass for the deus ex machina of a 1950s science fiction movie, and each has a name to fit: the Alphatron; the Swarmatron; the Dual Primate Console; the Portative Melody Gin; the Executive Chua Comber; the Astro-Space Organ. Most of these devices are housed in Dewan’s weathered Catskill Victorian, which is itself one big, enigmatic conversation piece. Pass through the detritus-piled front porch and navigate the teetering towers of castoff cultural ephemera and arcane instruments in the front parlor, and one finds the owner’s odd contraptions—and the endless mountains of raw electronic guts that comprise their innards—filling every nook and notch of the creaky old house. “Right now, I’m in the middle of getting the basement ready so that a concrete slab can be poured for the floor,” he excitedly says. “After that’s all done I’ll be able to set up a real workshop and do everything down there, instead of squeezing it all in up here.”

As his cat leaps from stack to stack behind him, Dewan turns to fire up the Coin-Op Melody Gin, a curious, angular box sporting a large sound hole and an array of knobs and switches that operate a series of oscillators within.

The instrument comes alive and emits a signal recalling any number of vintage

Atari video games (think Pong), which Dewan then begins to manipulate via the controls. Within seconds the steadily broadcasting bleeps and bloops have been reshaped into phased, gracefully morphing pulses that move with their own strange rhythms, artful figures that arc and pirouette like the strokes of a celestial paintbrush.

Rather than seeing themselves as instrumentalists when it comes to making music with theses appliances, however, Dewan and his cousin instead maintain that they’re merely the machines’ facilitators. “The special purpose of Dewanatrons is to grow music live in collaboration with the operators who guide them,” reads the mission statement at Dewanatron.com. “While inherently musical in their impulses, the machines have no discipline and require governing by judicious overseers.The operators begin a process [that] develops into a shape beyond their authorship; the operators become gardeners, watering and pruning, mulching, and composting sound. The music becomes a contrapuntal morass, twining and climbing, chirping, buzzing, blinking, snapping.

The operators guide the instruments, and the instruments carry the operators and others through an ever-metamorphosing landscape.”

Dewan grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, and attended Ohio’s Oberlin College before returning to New England to partake in Boston’s underground rock scene. In 1987 he moved to New York, where he immersed himself in the city’s experimental music and art world, playing venues like the Knitting Factory, Dixon Place, and the Bog, and performing in and composing for the band that accompanied Blue Man Group’s earliest performances (he even appeared with the troupe on “The Tonight Show”). The ex-New Englander also befriended They Might Be Giants, collaborating with the indie sensations on several recordings and contributing artwork for the band’s T-shirts and album graphics (one of Dewan’s “shrine” sculptures graces the cover of TMBG’s smash 1989 album, Lincoln; he also designed the cover of David Byrne’s 1992 release Uh-Oh, as well as the interior packaging of Neutral Milk Hotel’s influential 1998 classic, In the Aeroplane over the Sea). Over time other plum gigs began to come his way, such as writing music for “Sesame Street,” appearing in the überhip downtown Loser’s Lounge revues, and becoming a member of the ongoing repertory Raymond Scott Orchestrette. In his folk/story-song guise he released two critically adored albums, 1993’s Brian Dewan Tells the Story (Bar/ None Records) and 1998’s The Operating Theatre (Instinct Records).

But by the early 2000s, like many dues-paying urban artists, he was ready to move on. “New York was just getting more and more expensive. Most of the places I’d been playing had closed,” he says, ignoring the loud rings of his nearby antique rotary dial phone. “There was less and less of a reason for me to be there.

At first I had my heart set on City Island in the Bronx, but some friends turned me onto Catskill, which is much cheaper. It seemed like somewhere that I’d be able to get a place to live where I could build stuff and make sounds and not bother anybody. So I moved here in 2006.” Since the move, however, Dewan’s industrious work schedule hasn’t relented in the slightest. Last year, he released his third song-based disc, Words of Wisdom (Eschatone), appeared at Scotland’s esteemed Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and recorded a live album with the Liverpool Cathedral Bell Ringers, Ringing at the Speed of Prayer (Innova Records); December saw the release of a third Dewanatron set, Semi Automatic (Independent).

As part of his concentration on obscure historical music, one long-held area of interest has been the political songs of bygone elections. Dewan collected a number of these esoteric curios, such as “Jimmy Carter Says Yes,” an absurdly amusing nugget that attained cult popularity via its inclusion on the compilation Beat of the Traps (Carnage Press), and performed the tunes on Manhattan cable TV. So does he think there were any good songs to come out of the recent presidential election? “Oh yeah, there were definitely a few,” he says. “There’s one about McCain, a country song by John Rich called ‘Raisin’ McCain,’ which is pretty entertaining. But by far my favorite is a song by a rapper in Texas called Mr. Luke [‘New Obama Song’], which uses the melody of ‘Hail to the Chief’ and a sample of the Reverend Wright shouting, ‘Obama!’ It’s really crazy.”

Without missing a beat, Dewan next goes into stitch-inducing, off-the-cuff performances of both songs, the lyrics delivered verbatim from memory.

“Brian does a billion things, and all of them are really interesting,” says Leon Dewan, who lives in New Rochelle and has been collaborating with his upstate cousin since spring 2002. “Brainstorming with him, and making the instruments, is always really delightful because he comes up with such great ideas.”

Recently, many of Brian Dewan’s ideas have been expressed through yet an-

ABOVE: THE COIN-OP MELODY GIN, ONE OF THE MANY DEWANATRON INSTRUMENTS DESIGNED AND BUILT BY DEWAN AND HIS COUSIN LEON DEWAN. OPPOSITE: BRIAN DEWAN HOLDS THE INNER WORKINGS OF A VINTAGE ORGAN.

other medium: filmstrips. Using colorful maker pens, he draws images he uses for adaptations of fairy tales and original narratives such as Civic Pride and Obey Signals, which mock the stiff public-service strips once shown in grade schools.

Using a vintage projector, he screens the works at galleries, accompanying them with recordings of specially composed music and narrating them in a detached, surreally authoritative voice; he even vocally re-creates the once familiar “boop” tone that signals an advance to the following frame. “A little while back I actually did a special show for a large corporation, which hired me to make a strip as, I guess, a sort of hip promotional project,” says Dewan. “Some of the executives I showed it to asked me if I’d ever worked in PowerPoint, and I told them I’d never heard of it, which was true at the time, I hadn’t. At first they thought I was kidding, but when they found out I wasn’t they laughed and laughed. They just couldn’t believe it.” In a decidedly postmodern move, several of these works have been compiled onto a new DVD, Focus: The Collected Filmstrips of Brian Dewan (2008, Bright Red Rocket Video).

Another of Dewan’s longtime collaborators is Julian Koster, who once performed in Neutral Milk Hotel and currently leads the Music Tapes. In 2002, Koster tapped Dewan to narrate the Music Tapes’ 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking, a story-album set for release on the Merge label later this year and which Koster hopes to perform live in New York and other selected US cities. “Every generation has a few very special people, people who are makers of things and are waiting to be discovered,” says Koster. “And Brian is definitely one of those people.”

But until his generation finally discovers him, Brian Dewan is hard at work in a little house in Catskill. Making more amazing things.

Dewanatron’s self-released Semi Automatic is out now. www.dewanatron.com.

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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ WAVY DAVY for your listening pleasure.

ACOUSTIC THURSDAYS WITH KURT HENRY & CHERYL LAMBERT January 8, 15, 22, 29. Kurt’s catchy vibe has been rocking the local music scene for years, and he plays his effervescent pop rock/folk at any venue he can get his hands on.

Every Thursday at the High Falls Café he holds it down with his partner-in-rhyme Cheryl Lambert, and (thankfully) on the early side for us weary club warriors. Kudos to HFC proprietors Buffy and Brian, who work tirelessly to serve up delicious food and (yay!) free Wi-Fi. January 15’s guest performers include Julie Parisi Kirby and T.G. Vanini (of Princes of Serindip), Split the Bill, and Jeff Entin. January 22 brings Charles Cullen, Melinda DiMaio, and personal fave Barbara Dempsey. (Big Joe Fitz brings in his swingin’ jazz/ blues dance every first and third Tuesday monthly.) 7pm. $5 suggested donation. High Falls. (845) 687-2699; www.highfallscafe.com.

RADIO FIX/MIDDLE AMERICA January 9. Jimmy “Lonesome” Goodman, owner of Leopard Studios in Stone Ridge, cut his rock `n’ roll teeth playing with former members of Hanoi Rocks and recording the Strokes’ blockbuster debut. Now he’s onto the next big thing by producing Radio Fix, a young and blazing new band from Waterbury, Connecticut, that tracked him down for his hit-making ears. Already signed to the King of Beasts label, Radio Fix is in residence at Goodman’s studio for a few weeks this month and has planned a quick trip over to the Basement tonight to try out new material. Opening is another Leopard Studio alum band, Middle America, which features Mo Kelly shredding the guitar riffs (and pouring stiff drinks at the Basement on Monday nights). Goodman will connect his iPhone to the house system for a quick “DJ” set between bands. 9pm. $4. Kingston. (845) 687-9207; www.MySpace.com/radiofixband.

THE JEREMY BAUM SOUL BAND January 10. Once upon a time, just over 10 years ago, a very young man debuted his organ jazz-funk sound at the Rosendale Street Festival and it was like a lightning bolt hit the stage. Baum plays the Hammond B-3 like it was with him in the womb and is so fly for a white guy. Here at the jazzy Skytop, Baum aka JB is joined by the ever-sweet Chris Vitarello on guitar, a longtime band mate. You’ll want to drop everything (except your pint of house-made Skytop beer) at this not-to-be-missed dance party. (Baum also plays with powerhouse blues singer Shemekia Copeland; see below.) 9pm. No cover. Kingston.

(845) 340-4277; www.skytopsteakhouse.com.

SHEMEKIA COPELAND BAND January 22. Grammy-nominated blues singer Copeland, still in her 20s, has already opened for the Rolling Stones, headlined the Chicago Blues Festival, and shared the stage with legends Buddy Guy, B. B. King, and Taj Mahal. Her father, the late Texas blues guitar legend Johnny Clyde Copeland, encouraged his daughter’s talent early on, even bringing her on stage to sing at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club when she was just 8. Local B-3 phenom Jeremy Baum rounds out Shemekia’s slamming touring band. 7:30pm. $30, 25. Pawling. (845) 855-1300; www.shemekiacopeland.com.

MICHELE RAMO GROUP January 31. The Tom Humphrey Guitar Series continues to honor the memory of the late Hudson Valley-based luthier, who passed away last year. The idea came from Humphrey himself, just two months before his death, with the concerts scheduled into the vintage Ritz Theater. Chris Silva of the Bardavon and UPAC stepped up as point man, with help from La Bella guitar strings, and Safe Harbors of the Hudson. This month, enjoy the gypsy-world jazz of eight-string guitarst/violinist/composer Ramo and his knockout band, which features pianist Arturo O’Farrill, drummer David Silliman, bassist Nilson Matta, and vocalist Heidi Hepler. (When not leading his own ensemble, Ramo tours as a jazz violinist with guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli, who brings his seven-string axe to the series on February 28.) 8pm. $25, includes postshow reception with the band. Newburgh.

(845) 562-6940; www.safe-harbors.org.

MICHELE RAMO PLAYS THE RITZ THEATER ON JANUARY 31.

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UPSTATE MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS:

CD REVIEWS THE BIG TAKEOVER FOLLOWING TOO CLOSE (TAKEOVER PRODUCTIONS, 2007)

Your work deserves attention. Which means you need a great bio for your press kit or website. One that’s tight. Clean. Professionally written.

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T days of giveaway demo CDs are over for the The Big Takeover.The New Paltz-based sextet is keeping alive the tradition of roots/ska/reggae realness.

Since its capacity-crowd album release/dance party at Bacchus in September the band has established a fast buzz, and was immediately tapped by Leah Boss of Upstate Reggae Productions in November tto open for the legendary Wailers at the Chance in Poughkeepsie.

You’ll find it hard to believe that all the cuts on FFollowing Too Close are originals, as they magnificently capture early rocksteady riddims with supertight songwriting. Lead singer Nee Nee Rushie, a native of Jamaica, leads her five bandmates in what is arguably one of the best Ulster County groups in recent memory. Big up to Sam Tritto on drums, Andy Vogt on trombone, Chas Montrose on saxophone, Johnny Klenck on guitar, and bassist Rob Kissner, who also engineered and mixed the album. The precise attention to detail comes right down to the eco-friendly packaging and choice of retro “vinyl”-looking disc.

Do I and I a solid and go see the Big Takeover at your earliest opportunity, and, whatever happens, don’t leave without a copy of this CD, a massive debut that will bless your music player for months to come. www.myspace.com/bigtakeover.

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NOW! Investigating Ed Sanders

by Nina Shengold photo by Jennifer May

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hen you look at Ed Sanders, even his hair leans left. The asymmetrical frizz and bushy mustache have been trademarks for decades. In February 1967, Life magazine featured the owner of the Lower East Side’s Peace Eye Bookstore, publisher of Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, and co-founder of The Fugs on its cover (“Happenings: The Other Culture”). A few months later, Sanders led thousands of antiwar marchers in an attempt to exorcize and levitate the Pentagon.

Where is he now? In Woodstock, of course.

Sanders and his wife Miriam live in a modest house walking distance from the village green. A trio of preternaturally mellow deer grazes under a birdfeeder a few yards from their door. When the poet emerges, they glance up, unruffled.

Behind them is a rushing brook with a small but tuneful waterfall.

“Negative ions,” gloats Sanders. He’s dressed in layered red and white shirts, black jeans, and black high-tops. On his jacket lapel, a button reads Imagine Peace.

Small as it is, the Sanders’ home burgeons with creative life. There are bookshelves everywhere, even above the windows. On top of the piano sit several more musical instruments, including a homemade lyre. There are birdcages, fish tanks, orchids from places as far-flung as China and Chile. There’s also a rainbow Peace flag, a few marble sculptures, and several framed prints, including a certificate with a linocut of a winged horse, declaring Sanders the Poet Laureate of Woodstock.

Any item in this lively assemblage may prompt a cluster of stories. A snapshot of a former pet duck named Jacques sets Sanders reminiscing about his kin, the first rescued by daughter Deirdre from a psych experiment at SUNY Albany.

A later clutch of duck eggs hatched in a box on the floor, where the hatchlings imprinted on a row of tennis shoes. “They became seriously screwed-up ducks.

They’d try to mount your shoe,” Sanders says, adding that a Scandinavian camera crew once filmed a duck humping his sneaker.

This may or may not be the reason he’s turned down 37 interview requests this year, mostly from European film crews. But today he seems eager to talk, settling onto a red settee at the room’s epicenter and resting his head on the back like an analysand, often staring upwards or closing his eyes as he speaks.

Foremost on his mind is his latest book and CD, Poems for New Orleans (North Atlantic Books; Paris Records). A magisterial suite of poems tracing the Crescent City from its founding in 1718 through the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, Poems for New Orleans is a vertical history in verse, recalling Charles Olson’s Gloucester and William Carlos Williams’s Paterson.

The project began in spring 2006 with an extraordinary offer from music producer Michael Minzer: He’d pay for Sanders to travel anywhere he wanted to research and record a CD of poems. Sanders’s first thought was Iraq, but “Miriam was not interested in going to the Green Zone.We’ve been married 47 years—she has shoot-down rights.” They considered the Egyptian pyramids, the Costa Rican rainforest, and other locales before choosing New Orleans. Sanders had given many readings there, and was already clipping news articles on the aftermath of Katrina and the grotesque failures of FEMA to allocate $8.3 billion in rebuilding funds. (“I’m Jack the Clipper,” he says.)

He also had extensive material in his historical database. The French, Spanish, and American colonists who displaced Choctaw Indians from the Mississippi Delta reminded him of local history. “It’s just like in Kingston—the Dutch took over the Esopus Indians’ cornfields in the late 1600s. Martha Washington bought wheat from what’s now Herzog’s Plaza.”

Listening to Sanders, you get the impression that everything interests him; there are no short answers. Describing the Battle of New Orleans, he notes that Andrew Jackson’s troops included “Dirty Shirts” toting long rifles (“a new super-weapon, the equivalent of an AK-47, only it’s 1814”); the “resplendent militia of New Orleans, all fancied up;” coastal pirates; and free Haitian people of color, radicalized by revolution. All fodder for poems.

Sanders created a Haitian family whose ancestry stretches from Jackson’s troops to Katrina survivor Grace Lebage to anchor his narrative.The Katrina poems range from the preflood tourist city he calls the “anarcho-bohemian-freedomistic Polis/where everyone tried their fastest licks/on the Carpe Diem guitar to the wake of the flood and beyond, to the fullest commixture/of everything that ever was in the Ever.”

As a young poet in the 1950s, Sanders often wrote persona poems in the tradition of early Pound, Eliot, and Lowell. “It’s very American to write in other voices,” he says.The New Orleanean voices he channels include an exiled survivor in “Echoes of Heraclitus” (“Four days I sat in the attic/with 27 cans of beans/we were going to use on Labor Day/and some coca cola I drank very slowly/to make it last”) and the

trembling-legged hipster of “My Darling Magnolia Tree” (“Dope won’t help. Tight shoes won’t help./The poems of Rilke won’t help./Help! Won’t help”).

On the CD, Sanders’s Midwestern diction sometimes morphs into such personae as good ol’ boy Johnny Pissoff, gleefully hijacker of idle FEMA trailers; he also employs several female readers. The entire CD is scored by New Orleans composer Mark Bingham, with sounds spanning marching-band Americana, jazz funeral, and even a healing raga.The final track, the 13:30 minute “Then Came the Storm,” is an emotional tour-de-force welding music and words.

Sanders has often been called an American bard; American Bard, in fact, is the title of one of his solo CDs. It’s an apt appellation for many reasons, including his affinity for recitation and the epic scope of his ambition. He’s currently working on volume six of his nine-volume America: A History inVerse; Volumes 1-5, completed over the past 10 years, will soon be released as a five-CD set. He’s also penned book-length verse biographies of Allan Ginsberg and Anton Chekhov.

Though the terms “creative nonfiction” and “New Journalism” are embedded in the zeitgeist—Sanders’ bestselling prose investigation of the Manson murders, The Family, being a prime example—he was left to coin his own phrase for his nonfiction verse: Investigative Poetry. In a City Lights-published manifesto by this name, he exhorts poets to “write everything down,” advice that he’s clearly taken to heart. He’s stored about 500 bankers’ boxes of research material in his garage and outbuildings.

“I try to organize so I can find stuff in less than a minute,” he explains, adding that he learned to file data by working with revered local historian Alf Evers during his final years. “Information systems tend towards chaos if left on their own.”

He uses a computer as well, but for longevity “paper trumps digitalia.” He and Miriam just returned from Europe, where they saw numerous medieval manuscripts. “They’re still happening,” he says with immense satisfaction.

Sanders overlaps many projects at once, following a regime he calls “All Projects Now.” By his own admission, he’s been known to fill out 3x5 cards while pushing a shopping cart. Indeed, he seems constitutionally incapable of not writing poetry: even his emails have line breaks.

Sanders often performs poems with musical accompaniment, and has invented a variety of instruments to suit his needs, including the Mona Lisa Lyre, the Talking Tie, and the Pulse Lyre. He fetches an attache case and pulls out two partial gloves with dangling wires and metal strips on each fingertip. It looks like a homemade torture device, which can pose problems at airports, says Sanders. “Homeland Security doesn’t like the Pulse Lyre.”

Growing up in Kansas City, he studied piano and drums, listened to jazz and classical music, and belonged to the Society of Barbershop Quartet Singers. Quite a leap to the anarchic, exuberantly D-I-Y sound of The Fugs, but the times, as one of Sanders’ colleagues wrote, were a’changin’.

Sanders’s Tales of Beatnik Glory, a four-volume suite of stories set between 1957 and 1969, limns the beatnik-to-hippie crossfade in a seamless braid of memoir, fiction, and the translucently fictionalized. Sanders’s hybridized beat poets, amphetamine-heads, performance artists, and film freaks interact with such realworld colleagues as Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, and fellow Fug Tuli Kupferberg.

The opening story, “The Mother-in-Law,” includes a “pretty accurate” vision of Miriam’s mother. “We’d be planning indictment stuff with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and she’d come squinching up Avenue A with these shopping bags full of chocolate-covered Streit’s matzos and palm hearts,” Sanders recalls. The story’s “m-i-l” eventually tracks the young couple to a striped party tent “in the Catskill hills near Phoenicia, New York.”

Ed and Miriam Sanders moved upstate in 1977, buying their house with a royalty check from The Family. It’s still paying bills: The Family was optioned for film (as was Tales of Beatnik Glory), and Sanders just received a set-up bonus. He’s hopeful the film will be made: “It’s a good bloody American crime story with nudity and communes and devil worship and the Beach Boys—it all maintains its Billy the Kid allure.”

Maybe Ed Sanders is entering his Hollywood period: the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading closed with The Fugs’s “CIA Man.” In a recent “Talk of the Town,” New Yorker columnist Hendrik Hertzberg proposed Sanders (among others) for Hillary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat. Meanwhile, there are more albums to record–his tireless band just finished The Fugs’s Final Album, Part 2—and more poems to write, including four more volumes of America: A History and a verse biography of Robert F. Kennedy.

Does this prodigious output ever feel burdensome? Sanders shrugs. “It beats working,” he says.

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here is a gnostic tradition in which Jesus has an imperfect twin, a personage who was once believed to be the turncoat Judas. Early societies made much of the uncanny aura of twins, and the doppelgänger (German for â&#x20AC;&#x153;double-goerâ&#x20AC;?) is the oldest of narrative devices. The double abounds in fiction and film, with countless examples that range from Dostoevsky to â&#x20AC;&#x153;South Park.â&#x20AC;? In his novel The Book from the Sky, Bard College professor and poet Robert Kelly gives an updated tweak to this ancient story form while mindfully adhering to its orthodox trappings.

Abducted by aliens as a boy, Brother William returns to planet Earth as a prophetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;toting a scriptural revelation of odd wisdom that catches on fast.

After years of instruction by a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Superior Race,â&#x20AC;? he has a godlike mastery of the limbic subtleties of human language and communication. In his advanced state, he can explain paranormal workings, such as mind-to-mind transmission, as though it were childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each item of information has to be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wrappedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in what is called a cortex of urgencyâ&#x20AC;Ślikeâ&#x20AC;Śthose little cylinders that fly through pneumatic tubes at department stores.â&#x20AC;?

Because his alien instructors told him that Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people â&#x20AC;&#x153;will spend the next hundred years learning from rectangles of light and information,â&#x20AC;?

Brother William inscribes each truth in the new Bible inside a rectangle, to heighten its luminosity. The opener is: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Darling, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m saying it one more time. The mind is someone else.â&#x20AC;? These boxed insights may strike the reader by turns as intriguing and even subversive, or sophistic and banal.

Brother William, who narrates much of the novel, details his evangelical logic: â&#x20AC;&#x153;What one saying may fail to do, another may spark. So leaning on one another they might succeed in hobbling into the temple of the mind.â&#x20AC;?

Kelly is a poet with a religio-mystic bent, for whom the cultic vistas of the universe are routine stops. In his hands, Brother Williamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book-withina-book establishes a fractal authority, even while teetering on inanity.

Nonetheless, the masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message is rejected by a reasonable antagonist, his doubleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a replica fashioned by the aliens upon the boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kidnapping so his disappearance would not be noticed. Ironically, at the point where the gloomy doppelgänger is most incensed by Brother Williamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;drivel,â&#x20AC;? the reader may be starting to marvel at the quirky in-touchness of this gospel, seeing truth rather than fatuity in the statement, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Darling, a good book finds the reader. I found you.â&#x20AC;?

We learn that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Darlingsâ&#x20AC;? in Brother Williamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s windows of text are not addressed to just anyone, but meant for his Judas-figure twin, his muse of otherness. Likewise, the book is a providential mirror for his disciples.

In a Vanity Fair interview, Brother William elaborates: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A book should be something that shows precisely and clearly the spiritual condition of the reader.â&#x20AC;? (Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own readers may be tempted to join the faithful.)

Among the cultâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amusing practices is kissing the bathroom mirror; and one wonders whether a convertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing mention of Jacques Lacan, who theorized on the significance of the mirror, is solemn or jokey. The story is toned with a vatic sense of mission, and Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poetic incongruities exert an eerie force: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Darling, if you want to find heaven keep looking down. The mud has much to tell you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Marx Dorrity

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POETRY FOR THE NEW YEAR Compiled by Lee Gould, William Seaton, and Nina Shengold If your list of resolutions doesn’t include “Read more poems!,” it should. Here are ten outstanding books by Hudson Valley poets to start off your year on the right iambic foot.

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In this extraordinary seventh collection, Grennan’s poems hold the natural world, then leap, articulating: Something to do with how raindazzle at cloudbreak/ touches up three apples in their skins and makes them blush/teal, cinnabar, gamboges; something with how that swan/stands splayed, a lovely alien, on slime-covered stones. Grennan, a Lenore Marshall Prize winner, migrates between Ireland and Poughkeepsie.

Th beautifully crafted, intelligent chapbook by Heliotrope This co-editor Sindall excerpts the life of a Hudson Valley woman. co Surprisingly dynamic, though quiet, the poems confront Su turmoil and joy with graceful resolve: Our lives/blink once, tu like a firefly; airy lips chew them far longer. Hornung’s lovely lik drawings extend as well as illustrate the poems. d

THE DARKNESS ABOVE: SELECTED POEMS 1968-2002 TH DONALD LEV DON RED HILL OUTLOUD BOOKS, 2008, $20

Se Selections from four decades of life among the avant-garde: metaphysical adventures, cries from the heart, zany goofs, and me sh sharply detailed observation. High Falls resident Lev is the poet of off offhand revelation, genuine/As a sack of Kosher chicken hearts/ On sale at Nadler’s. The Darkness Above will have you looking at everything in a new light, and reading out loud to whomever is fortunate enough to be nearby.

MY LATE MOTHER AS A RUFFED GROUSE WILL NIXON FOOTHILLS PUBISHING, 2008, $16

Nixon’s autobiographical-feeling narratives touch more lives than his own: the first crush on a teacher, the scavenging lust of urban bohemians, the Catskill walkabouts, the difficult deaths of two parents. His language is clean and startling: Suddenly, a pelican crashed like a box kite/in the hard water behind me. I heard every bone break/in my ignorance of the world. Carol Zaloom’s luminous cover evokes our landscape and avian mothers.

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To Derricotte was delighted to find that the debut poet to whom Toi she awarded the Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize was a retired sh journalist of 73. Germantown resident Marbrook’s lines are spare, jou fresh, and knowing, with a haunting afterlife. Riffing on wary fre responses to his Bedouin name—the sound of deportation—he re writes: I’m from nowhere/but a spurt in thoughtless dark:/You’ve w nowhere to send me. n

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In these angry, sometimes prophetic writings, popular local reader and outsider poet Milby insists that Thinking men have failed to deliver. His hectic banter focuses on a landscape ruined by war, ineffectual government, greed, and a populace dulled by easy pleasure. Heroes and fall guys Cindy Sheehan, Lynndie England, and Stanley Williams all put in appearances.

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This outstanding fourth collection by accessible experimentalist Gizzi wrestles with time’s invasions: that dark process/To accept it as a beautiful process, your face. Particularly exciting are the impassioned palindrome “Vincent: Homesick for the Land of Pictures,” in Van Gogh’s voice, and the title poem, with its glorious close: The dark we hope to unpack/and move into/that one day/we might find ourselves lit up.

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Th There are no wasted words in Gould’s oeuvre. The West Hurley poet’s titles are terse, her lines short. These 45 poems elevate po everyday details (the jubilation of wrens) and flirt with the eve su surreal (Your face goes mylar/ And when your mouth reaches 10 10th Avenue/ The sun says: Halt!) As Gould writes in “Voice”: I ffound my voice/ It straddled wings/ rode the blur of illusion/ an and lifted off/ more raucous than lilies. Indeed.

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Saratoga poet and Chronogram contributor Jablonski is an original. Her central suite of 12 epistolary poems limns a riveting chronicle of the shades of human yearning, from feisty irony (if you do not come this year, I will get/ a dog) to abject desperation (Husband, what dark petitions of yours die/ unanswered? What have you lost in the fire?) and the struggle to embrace imperfection.

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POETRY

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

The reservoir is very big.

the grass is green

The reservoir is bigger than the clouds.

like here

How do we get to the clouds?

but greener

—Piper Jaden Levine (4 years old)

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BARN IN THE RAIN here are three portraits of a barn in the rain on a Midwestern afternoon when you are tired the first you see the barn in the distance and the rain has started the second an old farmer has taken you inside to see an old tractor he is painting and as you think of leaving the rain starts then there’s the barn in the rain when you have spent the day alone it is late and you find you don’t want to go back to St. Louis Park you are afraid of your children and what your thwarted life might mean for them and as you disjoint your fly rod the raindrops come down on the barn gently at first so you stop and listen to the rain as it quickens and fills the barn with subtle rattling then something like a yoke drops from you and when it is over you can leave and go back home again as good as you ever were —Richard Donnelly

FOR MY FATHER in the end he left like a sparrow un-sentimental without apology or ado autumn was about to begina fallen brown leaf breaking free.

—E. Gironda Jr

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ALSO Here lies James Harleck 1850-1930 Merchant, Patriot, Statesman For his industry and generosity he will be long remembered Also Catherine, his wife. __________________________________ Also? She bore seven children, one of them not quite right: he had to be tethered to a staircase rail so he didn’t harm himself.

Also she bled a lot, slipping silently off while birthing that eighth bloody babe born dead.

Mr. Harleck was just that touch too generous, too industrious with her.

Also?

She was thirty.

—Elaine Mills

GOSSAMER 3 a thing will at times purr over the edges of its name as if it wished us the happiness of its strangeness— waves of light through leaflitter pronouns on a wet sheet of paper —Andrew Brenza

AT HOME After the long drive from New York, I recall that evening in the hospital. Midnight— my father curled up like a tendril, or a tight bud of veined confidence under the ribs.

He was a secret that would not unfold.

I summoned the story of the rabbit and the frog: The rabbit, always afraid of its own shadow, was heartened, upon first meeting, to see the frog leap into a pond.

And so, I explained his upcoming surgery as merely fear leaving fear in the same way that water passes through water. It is true that fear never really knows its source—echo, running away from loss.

Moving through time, as through distilled underwater shadows, I told stories, understanding how words stretched out before me, crescent minnows becoming invisible in depth.

If there were angels in the room, I did not hear them, only the muffled swish of a broom removing dust.

Is this how one slowly forgot?

Moved backwards through tense, as over a string of beads?

Turned off the TV? Dream of snow within dream: How will my grief become a river?

To whom will I tell this?

—Christina Turczyn

THE BIFFY When we started building our house We put up the biffy (out-house) For obvious purpose.

Throughout the year of obtaining The innards of plumbing for the house, The little shack was loved and appreciated.

Yes, we are well out into the sticks.

And tonight as the distant world Pulls up its blanket and smacks its pillow, I walk to the bathroom and consider The porcelain magician with its disappearing magic And swirling spectacle.

I stand in the doorway of porcelain convenience And remember the moony-tooth window Of the biffy. I remember the stars And wonder, What have we done That anyone should feel alone Beneath a night sky?

Slipping on my boots to meet The crunch of December night I head for the little shack.

The air ripples with coyote songs, And the snap of frost-wedged elm.

With the bite of life on my ears, The door ajar, I ask the stars, “What have we done, That anyone should feel alone?”

How? …with all you cousins winking And giving the nod for mischief.

How? …with all of you right here.

—E. P. Schultz

GROWING PAIN You can say it is a hotel. Rich, with dark wood and gold-framed mirrors, red carpets like open mouths. Keeping in mind you are lost—corridors turn into more corridors full of white doors like teeth, and the plush elevator, its glossy maple paneling, mauve cushions, dark glass, is not going to the main floor, and while it goes deeper, rolling into the hotel’s windowless guts, it grows smaller.

And you cannot breathe upholstery or wrought iron, and as the elevator tightens around your ankles, your thighs and then hips your hands flutter at the black lacquer buttons like blind fish in a tank.

GREEN BUSES newark nj 1963 i stood in the draft board i was 98 lbs pigtailed, silver fish ear ringed gold lame’ coat then i was naked all those crew cut guys yelling “sweetheart! hey sweetheart!

—how do people like him survive ??” but i was naked & my dick was average your typical run of the mill medium sized Jewish dick the sergeant sat looking at my records his forehead pushed up like a washboard road

Or else you can say, “I wandered all night in the throat of a whale and couldn’t find the door, but I saw a reflection without my face and felt what it feels like to be swallowed— a dry feeling that rubs like a horse’s hide and will not give, even under pressure of elbows and the hard flat of my hand. Before, I saw a building and thought: building. Since then, I have moved my body into many structures, my face, my shoulders, knees pressed into corners and bones, and I came to know a wide hunger and its pained digestion.”

“what do you do for a living?” “imma jazz poet” “where doya work?” “greenwich village” “section 10—GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!”

—Jenn Nunes

i was the second person rejected from military service that day,

FAMOUS EXPERTS We were raised from the age of four to know absolutely everything. But you already know that. What you might not know is—that time we ate mushrooms and hiked from school into the woods and then into town—the vines really were red with jam and really could speak Farsi competently, if not with a native flourish. The beetles wrote a decent, never dazzling screenplay about a poet. That stand of dolphinshaped trees really was fucking one of our girlfriends. Low blow. Lower still was the hour after, alone on my bed, thinking about now, the inevitable: Now we appear on TV regularly to talk about our famous expertness and, necessarily, each other, though we only really want to talk about jam and fucking. Time itself has hiked down from the woods to set the houses on fire for naming everything.

—Wythe Marschall

THE CALLING She is a victim of something within herself. Electric seas, excess of light, membranes of darkness It is much better to go with what she tells herself than it is to investigate meaning The height a bird flies varies depending on the bird What she’s on is a circle. There is no obvious beginning

the first person rejected down at section 10 was my old grade school buddy, konrad nubler who i wasn’t supposed to hang out with back then because i was Jewish & his family was from germany but he was my first friend & i showed him my circumcision & he taught me how to eat bacon later he wrote a thesis on what he called nazi-americanism & was promptly booted from school konnie was dressed in a sandra dee skirt an annette funicello hairdo & a joan crawford dinner jacket & i had pig tails gold lame’ coat silver fish ear rings we sat there the 2 of us down in section 10 the first 2 rejectees that yr in the state laughing & talking up the old times

She edges the outside: She must lean far out from the edge to fulfill her attraction to the margin

while the boys howled & hooted “sweetheart! sweetheart!!” on the way to the green buses

—Jami Macarty

—normal

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The Best Diagnosis Begins with the Best Image ■ WEBSITE: WWW.RIVERRADIOLOGY.COM ■ PHONE: (845) 340-4500 866-ANY-XRAY

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■ ADDRESS: 45 PINE GROVE AVENUE, KINGSTON 111 MARY’S AVENUE, KINGSTON ■ SIZE OF PRACTICE: 6 PHYSICIANS, 85 FULL AND PART TIME STAFF, INCLUDING TECHNOLOGISTS, NURSES, TECH AIDES, AND SUPPORT STAFF. JONATHAN AHMADJIAN, MD SUSAN K. CONNORS, MD THOMAS A. KOSHY, MD BRUCE MOOR, MD ORIN A. ROSSETT, MD GI SUK SONG, MD ■ OFFICE HOURS: SIX DAYS A WEEK (4 DAYS UNTIL 10 PM) ■ SPECIALTY AREAS: DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING ■ ALL BOARD CERTIFIED RADIOLOGISTS; WE ACCEPT AND WELCOME NEW PATIENTS; ALL MAJOR INSURANCE ACCEPTED, WE PARTICIPATE WITH MVP, CDPHP, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, THE BLUES AND MOST OTHER INSURANCE.

Our mission at River Radiology is to provide the highest quality diagnostic imaging and patient care in the Hudson Valley. We seek to provide each patient, referring healthcare provider and coworker with compassion and respect. We are committed to delivering accurate and timely exams/reports. We strive to improve our service and grow through continuing education, training, and careful evaluation of the latest technology. We are committed to excellence.

“I feel River Radiology is the most professional and accommodating radiology center. The employees are always willing to go the extra mile for the patient.”

Open 6 days per week/ open 4 days till 10 p.m. To schedule an appointment call between 7 a.m and 6 p.m. or visit us on line at www.RiverRadiology.com “Our goal is to provide the best possible care to our patients, and our advanced digital technology helps us do that,” said Susan Connors, MD, Medical Director of River Radiology.

Jonathan Ahmadjian, MD, President of River Radiology, said, “We are pleased to have participated in innovative projects and studies to improve patient diagnoses.”

Welcome to River Radiology. The foundation of River Radiology is our uncompromising commitment to quality. Our physicians, nurses, technologists and support staff are highly trained and patient-focused. We are the most experienced radiologists in the area. We are experts in imaging technology and use the most advanced imaging equipment to provide you and your doctors with the best possible imaging results We are continuously updating our technology software and imaging equipment. At this time, our diagnostic imaging services include High Field MRI in two locations, 45 Pine Grove Avenue and 111 Mary’s Avenue; Open MRI, Bone Densitometry, CT, Echocardiography, PETCT, Digital Mammography, Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound, Digital X-Ray. River Radiology pioneered many diagnostic services in our community and we continue to do so, including: The first MRI…the first Open MRI…first Multi-Detector CT scanner…first installed PET-CT Scanner.

We understand how apprehensive you can be about having a diagnostic test. That’s why we combine the latest technology with dedicated, compassionate, and experienced staff.

We invite you to explore our website, www.RiverRadiology.com to learn more about us and our staff, each procedure, and see photographs of the equipment and imaging results.

You are also welcomed to call our offices and speak with our staff regarding your questions and concerns. We want your experience with us to be a positive one and welcome your suggestions.

We’re glad to be of service to you and welcome you to River Radiology.

Recently, over 230 patients completed a survey and more than 98% rated their overall experience as “Very Good to Excellent.”

Here’s a few of their comments: “Your front desk staff is a delightful introduction to a remarkable establishment.”

“I called at 10:39 in the morning and was able to get an appointment that same day.”

“Best office (medical) I have ever been to.

Super nice, super efficient.”

“Explanation by the technologist was great and cheerful.”

“You are doing the community a great service. Accessible parking, lovely waiting area, interesting art reproduction. Thank you.”

“Your concern for my safety and health is VERY impressive. Thank you.”

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Health Quest Medical Practice (HQMP) is a multi-specialty practice focusing on delivering the most comprehensive, state-of-theart health care services to residents of the mid-Hudson Valley. As a team of extraordinary health care providers, it is our goal to set a standard of excellence in specialized care within each community we serve. Physicians include specialists in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Breast Surgery, General Surgery, OB/GYN, as well as family practitioners in offices throughout our region.

■ WEBSITE: WWW.HEALTHQUEST.ORG/HQMP ■ HEALTH QUEST MEDICAL PRACTICE: DIVISION OF PRIMARY CARE POUGHKEEPSIE OFFICE PHONE: 845 4830447 ADDRESS: 29 FOX STREET, SUITE 200 MARK STEENBERGEN, DO JILL PASSANO, FNP OFFICE HOURS: M  T 8:30 AM  6:30 PM W  TH 8:30 AM  5 PM F 8:30 AM  2 PM BEACON OFFICE PHONE: 845 8385440 ADDRESS: 1020 WOLCOTT AVENUE MARINA MEZEY, MD HARLEE ANN FRIED, DO OFFICE HOURS: M, T, TH, 9 AM  4 PM CARMEL OFFICE PHONE: 845 2785570 ADDRESS: 660 STONELEIGH AVENUE LAUREN BUMBY, MD DOROTHY WILLIAMS, MD OFFICE HOURS: M, TH 9:30 AM  4:30 PM T, W, F 8:30 AM  4:30 PM MILLBROOK OFFICE PHONE: 845 6778358 ADDRESS: 28 FRONT STREET PAUL JEE, MD LISA GOLD, NP OFFICE HOURS: M, TH 9:30 AM  4:30 PM T, W, F 8:30 AM  4:30 PM STANFORDVILLE OFFICE PHONE: 845 8687300 ADDRESS: 3 GRISTMILL LANE ERNEST ENZIEN, MD CAROLYN SCHULHOFF, NP OFFICE HOURS: M, W, TH, F 8 AM  4 PM LAGRANGEVILLE OFFICE PHONE: 845 4730974 ADDRESS: 1141 RTE. 55, SUITE A SUNHEE WOO, MD OFFICE HOURS: M, W, F 9 AM  4:30 PM T, TH 9 AM  12:30 PM HIGHLAND OFFICE PHONE: 845 6919200 ADDRESS: 240 S. RIVERSIDE ROAD WILLIAM HEFFERNAN, MD MARY DYER, MD ANN JOHNSON, ANP OFFICE HOURS: M,T, W, F 7:30 AM  5 PM TH 7:30 PM  6:30 PM

FISHKILL OFFICE PHONE: 845 8968784 ADDRESS: 4 LAFAYETTE COURT DAVID KERNER, DO EKATERINA MILCHTEIN, MD OFFICE HOURS: M  F 8 AM  4:30 PM ■ HEALTH QUEST MEDICAL PRACTICE: DIVISION OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY FISHKILL OB/GYN FISHKILL OFFICE PHONE: 845 8969864 ADDRESS: 1089 MAIN STREET OFFICE HOURS: M,W,TH 8:30 AM  8 PM T, F 8:30  5, SAT VARIES POUGHKEEPSIE OFFICE PHONE: 845 4541514 ADDRESS: 15 FULTON AVENUE OFFICE HOURS: M  F 8:30 AM  5 PM THOMAS MURRAY, MD ROBERT STERN, MD LAWRENCE ZOLNIK, MD JED TURK, MD STACY MADOFF, MD RAJAN SRISKANDARAJAH, MD ANN BOLLMANN, PA ■ HEALTH QUEST MEDICAL PRACTICE: VALLEY OB/GYN FISHKILL OFFICE PHONE: 845 8963975 ADDRESS: 400 WESTAGE BUSINESS CENTER SUITE 212 POUGHKEEPSIE OFFICE PHONE: 845 4835888 ADDRESS: 19 BAKER AVENUE, SUITE 302 OFFICE HOURS: M,W 8:30 AM  4:45 PM T 10 AM  6:45 PM, TH 8:30 AM  5:45 PM F 8:30 AM  3:45 PM JOSE E. BAEZ, MD YASHODHARA MISRA, MD AZZAM SALEM, MD PETER WRIGHT III, MD ■ HEALTH QUEST MEDICAL PRACTICE: DIVISION OF MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE

■ HEALTH QUEST MEDICAL PRACTICE: DIVISION OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY PHONE: 845 4830100 ADDRESS: 1 COLUMBIA STREET, SUITE 300 POUGHKEEPSIE ARUN BHUTANI, MD, MBBS MOHAN SARABU, MD, FACS, FACC ROHIT SHAHANI, MD, MCH, FACS PETER ZAKOW, MD, FACS, FACC OFFICE HOURS: M  F 8:30 AM  5 PM ■ HEALTH QUEST MEDICAL PRACTICE: DIVISION OF GENERAL SURGERY PHONE: 8454373003 ADDRESS: 30 READE PLACE, POUGHKEEPSIE DARRELL W. CARPENTER, MD, FACS OFFICE HOURS: M 12 PM  3:30 PM T & TH 9 AM  4 PM ■ HEALTH QUEST MEDICAL PRACTICE: DIVISION OF BREAST SURGERY PHONE: 845 4836500 ADDRESS: 45 READE PLACE, POUGHKEEPSIE ANGELA KELEHER, MD, FACS PAUL SCHMIDT, MD, PhD SARA WINTERLEITNER, NP OFFICE HOURS: M  F 9 AM  4 PM ■ INSURANCE ACCEPTED: AETNA, EMPIRE BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD/ WELLCHOICE, BEECHSTREET, CDPHP, CIGNA, DEVON, FIDELIS, GHI HMO, GHI PPO, HEALTHNET, HUDSON HEALTH PLAN, HUMANA, LOCAL 1199, LOOMIS/HEALTH QUEST PARTNERS, MEDICAL PLAN, MAGNACARE, MEDICAID, MEDICARE, RR MEDICARE, MULTIPLAN/PHCS, MVP, NATIONAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATORS, NOVA, POMCO, OXFORD/UNITEDHEALTHCARE, TRICARE, THE EMPIRE PLAN/ UNITEDHEALTHCARE NYS EMPLOYEES, WELLCARE ■ HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL PUTNAM HOSPITAL CENTER VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER

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As part of the extensive network of Health Quest Systems, we are able to deliver the highest quality care and technologically sophisticated services while leveraging the strength and resources of the region’s premier health care system. Representing the union of Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Putnam Hospital Center and Northern Dutchess Hospital within a single, integrated network, Health Quest provides its patients the strength of our collective knowledge, compassion and collaboration.

PHONE: 845 4316800 ADDRESS: 45 READE PLACE, POUGHKEEPSIE KIMBERLY HELLER, MD OFFICE HOURS: MF 8:30 AM  4 PM

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Medical Diagnostic Imaging, PLLC ■ WEBSITE: WWW.MDIMAGINGNY.COM ■ PHONE: (845) 471-2848 ■ ADDRESS: 14 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE

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■ OFFICE HOURS: MON-FRI 7 AM-9 PM, OCCASIONAL SATURDAYS ■ SPECIALTY AREAS: DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY; OUT PATIENT MEDICAL FACILITY ■ INSURANCE ACCEPTED: MOST MAJOR INSURANCE PLANS ■ BOARD CERTIFIED RADIOLOGISTS; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY ACCREDITED; ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS

■ WEBSITE: WWW.SEAPORTORTHO.COM ■ PHONE: (845) 562-3600 NYC (212) 513-7711 ■ ADDRESS: 47 NORTH PLANK ROAD, NEWBURGH, NY 19 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK, NY ■ OFFICE HOURS: M - F 8 AM - 5 PM ■ SPECIALTY AREAS: ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, MEDICAL PAIN MANAGEMENT, PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION ■ HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: NEW YORK DOWNTOWN HOSPITAL NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES ■ BOARD CERTIFIED; ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS; MOST INSURANCE ACCEPTED (INFORMED AT TIME OF APPOINTMENT)

MD IMAGING, the Hudson Valley’s premier medical MD IMAGING……. imaging facility, offers patients comprehensive Superior Care Through diagnostic imaging services, which include MRI, Breast Advanced Technology.

MRI, MRA, PET, CT, CTA, Nuclear Medicine, Digital X-Ray, Fluoroscopy, Digital Mammography, Ultrasound, Echocardiography, Cardiac Imaging and Bone Densitometry.

MD IMAGING is staffed by Board Certified, specialized, experienced Radiologists providing patients with compassionate, quality care. In addition, the center is accredited by the American College of Radiology. The technical staff are highly trained professionals who are committed to the patient’s comfort and well-being.

MD IMAGING is a state-of-the-art facility producing digital images which are available to the referring physician either on-line or on CD-ROM. Patient exam results are available within 24 hours to the referring physician, thus allowing critical decisions about the patient’s treatment to be made.

For further information and to schedule an appointment please call 845-471-2848.

MD IMAGING…….Superior Care Through Advanced Technology.

Seaport Orthopaedic Associates (SOA) is a leading full-service orthopaedic practice that provides high quality care to the Hudson Valley. Our physicians are leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. We are specialists in orthopaedic surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain management, and podiatry. SOA is committed to quality care, patient education, injury prevention and patient wellness.

At SOA we believe in meeting a patient’s individual needs through comprehensive evaluation and treatment, designed to help achieve an active, pain-free lifestyle. Our physicians work with you from your initial symptoms or injury, through every aspect of recovery. Every patient is treated with the utmost respect in our comprehensive, state-of-the-art facilities. Our goal is to enable patients to return to a full and active lifestyle as quickly and safely as possible.

SOA has two locations to meet patients’ needs; in Newburgh and Manhattan. The professional staff rotates between offices to accommodate patients. Our goal is to continue providing the highest quality care through a combination of skilled physicians, an unparalleled support staff, and the latest technology. Seaport Orthopaedic Associates is the premier venue for patients who want a full and active lifestyle.

Dermasave Labs, Inc. ■ PHONE: 1 (800) 277-7099 ■ FAX: (845) 635-4087 ■ EMAIL: DERMASAVELABS@AOL.COM ■ ADDRESS: 3 CHARLES STREET, UNIT 4 PLEASANT VALLEY ■ GLENN R. ARPINO, R.Ph

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We specialize in compounding various medicines and creating new dosage forms for patients.

We specialize in skin care preparations and bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).

Hormone replacement therapy is most often used for menopausal and perimenopausal women. Typical symptoms include hot flashes, vaginal dryness, low libido, weight gain, irritability, moodiness and sleep disturbances.

Women have traditionally used synthetic estrogens and synthetic progestins for hormone replacement therapy. These compounds often have side effects and are dangerous in long-term use. A better solution may be the use of more natural hormones rather than synthetic ones.

Compounding pharmacists are meeting the needs of these women through the use of plant derived hormones that are biologically identical to those that naturally occur in the body.

No two women are alike, and the value of BHRT is that we can adapt to fit your individual needs and hormone levels. In fact, hormones can be made in a variety of strengths and dosage forms including oral capsules, topical creams and gels and suppositories.

With the help of your physician and a compounding pharmacist, a woman can start and maintain a BHRT regimen that closely mimics what her body has been doing naturally for years.

The New Face in Healthcare

■ HEALTHALLIANCE OF THE HUDSON VALLEY BENEDICTINE HOSPTIAL PHONE: (845) 338-2500 ADDRESS: 105 MARY’S AVENUE, KINGSTON THE KINGSTON HOSPITAL PHONE: (845) 331-3131 ADDRESS: 396 BROADWAY, KINGSTON MARGARETVILLE HOSPITAL PHONE: (845) 586-2631 ADDRESS: ROUTE 28, MARGARETVILE ■ OFFICE HOURS: 24/7 ■ BOARD CERTIFIED, ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS

“...we welcome you to be a part 2008 saw Benedictine Hospital, The Kingston Hospital, and Margaretville of our excitement, as we grow Hospital launch their new parent company, together to deliver exceptional HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley. Their boards, administrators, and staff have healthcare for a stronger made significant progress toward goals community.” of becoming a leader in healthcare for the Hudson Valley. Costly duplication of equipment and services, ranking among the top items that cripple hospital systems, has been a focus, and with its elimination, will improve the quality of care and services offered, as these two leaders, in Ulster County, become one.

Finance, Nursing, Information Systems, Planning, Pharmacy, Case Management, Physician Credentialing, the Hospitalist program, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Out-patient Physical and Occupational Therapy, Cardiac Catheterization and Sleep Lab departments were all consolidated in 2008. The Hospitals are now negotiating vendor contracts as one and realizing volume discounts. They have also reduced expenses with the recruitment of a major group of orthopedic specialists and two new general surgeons to the Kingston area, expansion of the Hospitalist program, and by the hiring of two new intensivists to staff our critical care units. The Kingston Hospital was one of only a handful, in the State, to achieve Chest Pain Center designation, while Benedictine Hospital and The Kingston Hospital were designated as Stroke Centers, as a result of the work with our medical staff that developed the appropriate interventions and protocols.

The construction of the Foxhall Ambulatory Surgery Center is nearing completion. The renovation of space for the consolidated Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation unit is completed at Benedictine Hospital, while the space vacated by that unit at The Kingston Hospital is under renovation for a new Maternity Center, which will offer a variety of delivery choices to our community. The remaining construction and renovation projects will continue through the coming year. The Benedictine Campus will be building two new operating rooms sized appropriately for orthopedic surgery. The existing CCU will be renovated for a new post-surgical unit for orthopedic patients and will be located on the same floor as the consolidated physical medicine and rehabilitation services creating a new orthopedic center. The existing inpatient psychiatric units at Benedictine Hospital will be renovated to accommodate moving the Substance Abuse Rehabilitation and Medically Managed Detoxification program from The Kingston Hospital, in order to develop a new Behavioral Health Center. The Benedictine Hospital Emergency Center will be revamped as an Urgent Care Center. A new consolidated Emergency Center will be built at The Kingston Hospital. The Kingston Campus ICU will be expanded, while a new, consolidated Maternity Center will be developed, as the area vacated by the Substance Abuse services will be renovated for a new, all single bed, medical surgical unit.

The public currently accesses the Hospitals through their emergency department entrances. The new construction will provide a new lobby for each facility so that outpatient and visitor traffic will be separate from emergency traffic. The Kingston Hospital is also developing a strategy to increase parking on its campus.

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■ WEBSITE: WWW.HAHV.ORG

As we near 2009, and our projects are in full swing, we welcome you to be a part of our excitement, as we grow together to deliver exceptional healthcare for a stronger community.

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Food & Drink

Salt Talk

MAKING TASTY USE OF NATURE’S PRIME PRESERVATIVE

by Peter Barrett photographs by Jennifer May

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alt is the only rock that we eat. It’s essential for our survival, was used as currency, and is now available in a dizzying variety of textures and varieties from all corners of the world. It is also the key to transforming humble meat and vegetables into sublime delicacies that can completely change our relationship with everyday ingredients, giving us more control over our diets and allowing us to add an artisanal flourish to our cooking. As Mark Kurlansky notes in Salt: A World History (Penguin, 2003), “Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning of civilization until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history. Salt preserves. Until modern times it provided the principal way to preserve food.” The careful combination of salt and time results in staples which kept our ancestors alive through many thousands of winters, and happen to also be profoundly tasty—they add extra bass and treble, as it were, to our home systems. And making these wonderful foods in your own kitchen couldn’t be easier (or cheaper).

Picture a fast-food breakfast muffi n: a warm, damp, greasy little stack of culinary defeat. All the ingredients are industrially produced, and it’s laden with fat and cholesterol. It’s not good for us, or for the planet. But it’s convenient, and ostensibly inexpensive. Now picture a similar arrangement, but with crisp slices of home-cured pork, a local egg, and your own crunchy kimchi on good toast: a toe-curlingly satisfying (and guilt-free) experience. With little more than a bag of salt and a few minutes on a weekend, you can make this your new standard for breakfast and never look back.

Salt preserves food in two main ways: dehydration and fermentation. Dehydration, or curing, is usually used for meat and fish. A filet of fresh wild salmon, covered in salt, brown sugar, and some flavoring (fennel seeds, citrus zest, a little hot pepper) for a couple of days, becomes lox. Fermentation takes place in a brine, where benevolent microbes create acid and thus create pickles. Shredded cabbage and salt, packed together in a ceramic crock and left somewhere cool, will produce tangy, funky, authentic sauerkraut in a week or two.

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between our cells, tissues, and organs. Different levels of salinity in our bodies cause water and salt to migrate back and forth across our cells’ semipermeable membranes in order to reach a balance. This process, known as osmosis, is the key to how salt has been used for countless millennia to preserve meat and fish.

If a cell—either of muscle tissue or an undesirable bacterium—is exposed to enough salt, the osmotic pressure from the salt will pull the water from the cell, drying it out. This kills the bacterium and makes the meat an inhospitable environment for future microbial growth.

Sugar is often included in a cure, as a balance against excessive saltiness, and because it creates even more osmotic pressure than salt. If the cure in question has also been mixed with herbs and garlic, then those flavors will migrate into the meat along with the salt. After about a week packed in salt, sugar, garlic, and herbs, a pig jowl or belly will weigh significantly less than its starting weight; the formerly dry cure will now be a liquid brine from all the water the meat has given off. The denser, salty, richly flavored meat is then ready to be air-dried or smoked.

Whether you want to preserve meat or vegetables—or both—the quality of the ingredients you use will determine the quality of the fi nished product.

This begins with the salt. Unrefi ned sea salt, though a little more expensive than standard table salt, contains important trace minerals and has a gentler flavor. Kosher salt is an acceptable substitute.

In the case of meat, local, organic, humanely raised animals will give you results of astonishing flavor and quality. Factory-raised meat will not. A hog jowl, after a week on a cure and a month hanging in a cool place, yields guanciale: an Italian delicacy and essential for making pasta all’amatriciana. The same treatment given to pure strips of fatback yields lardo, eaten in thin slices as an antipasto or as an addition to soups and sauces. A duck breast subjected to a similar treatment makes an astonishing “prosciutto” while involving a tiny fraction of the time, effort, and space required to make the real thing.

Your friends will also think that you’re a genius, although having them drop by all the time for snacks may not be. Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman and

ABOVE: SLICING HOME-CURED DUCK PROSCIUTTO. ALSO SHOWN: GUANCIALE (UNSMOKED ITALIAN STYLE BACON MADE OF CURED PORK JOWL); SALT PORK; AND WRAPPED LARDO (CURED PORK FAT). RAW MEATS WERE ALL PURCHASED AT FLEISHER’S GRASS-FED MEATS IN KINGSTON. OPPOSITE: DIFFERENT KINDS OF HOME-MADE PICKLES (LEFT TO RIGHT): JALAPENO, CARROT, AND LIME; RED ONION AND HABANERO PEPPER; KIMCHI; GIARDINIERA (GARDEN MIX); BEETS.

Brian Polcyn (W. W. Norton, 2005) is an excellent guide to making these and many other delicacies.

Local, seasonal, organic vegetables taste better, and result in vastly superior food; if you pickle California cucumbers in January you may wonder what the fuss is all about, but if you grow your own (along with some garlic and dill) and brine them within hours of picking, you’ll never want to buy another pickle again. In winter, kale, cabbage, and roots are all at their sweet peak and make superlative pickles that beautifully accompany the richer food we eat to keep warm. By submerging vegetables in brine, we can kill or inhibit many of the bacteria and spores that would cause them to spoil. In addition, the saline environment encourages the growth of lactobacilli, a family of bacteria used for making a wide variety of fermented foods, from cheese and yogurt to beer and kimchi. These bacteria convert sugars from the food into lactic acid, which gives the sour, pickled flavor and prevents the growth of undesirable organisms.

For kimchi, sauerkraut, and vegetable pickles, a ceramic crock specially designed for the job will give the best results, but a large mason jar will also do fi ne. The principal difference is that the crock has weights to hold the vegetables under the surface of the brine—which prevents undesirable mold from forming—and has a special lid which holds a small amount of water to allow gases to escape during fermentation without allowing any contaminants in. A sterilized rock or zip-top plastic bag filled with water can serve as a weight if you’re going to use a glass jar, though you’ll need to leave the lid open a crack to let the gases escape. The only other piece of equipment you need is a simple digital kitchen scale that measures metric units. A normal brine concentration is in the four-to-five-percent salt range, and that is most easily achieved by dissolving forty to fifty grams of salt per liter of water (a liter of water weighs one kilogram; the metric system is way easier for this).

There are as many recipes for kimchi as there are Korean Grandmothers, but a mix of napa cabbage, carrot, and scallion with garlic, ginger, and hot red pepper makes possibly the single most addictive raw vegetable food in the world. The considerable pleasure to be had from eating it right out of the jar is

equaled only by the satisfaction of having made it yourself. Change the mixture of vegetables, and you’ve got giardiniera for salads or pasta. A head or two of cabbage shredded and fermented either by itself or flavored with black pepper, caraway, and juniper berries makes a superlative sauerkraut for reubens (tempeh or pastrami) and grilled sausages of any kind.

These various foods, besides helping you develop a deeper relationship with your food, also bestow many benefits. The live cultures, vitamins, and fiber in raw fermented pickles are extremely beneficial to our bodies; they aid digestion, boost the immune system, and may even help prevent cancer. There’s a wealth of information available about the health benefits of fermented food.

Sandor Katz, author of the cookbook cum polemic Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (Chelsea Green, 2003), sums it up this way: “The data adds up to this: Fermentation makes food more nutritious.”

Pickles are also a perfect companion to almost every savory dish—from a vegan lentil soup to a hunk of seared steak, they make everything taste better, exciting our palates. Having a couple of cured meats in the pantry means that we can use a few slices of guanciale or lardo to impart a deep, porky richness to a soup or a pot of beans without the calories or expense of putting a whole chop on the plate next to it. And if you have a smoker, homemade bacon is a life-changing experience. (If you don’t, you can still make pancetta, which is almost as good.)

As with canning, there are some safety concerns when salting food, especially meat. Most books call for using nitrite when curing meat to guard against botulism. It’s not always necessary, but thorough research is required. There are plenty of good books available with detailed procedures and recipes, and complete information about the conditions (anaerobic, protein-rich, nonacidic) in which harmful organisms can grow. Keeping ingredients, tools, and surfaces clean is always essential. Don’t let any of this dissuade you—the payoffs are huge, and wide-ranging; from a health, economic, and taste perspective, these simple, ancient techniques will elevate your experience as both a producer and consumer of food.

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Come and play our new Piano or sing along with friends.

Watch the Big Events, with friends and neighbors on our huge flatscreen television.

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tastings directory BAKERIES The Alternative Baker 407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 or 1 (800) 399-3589 www.lemoncakes.com 100% Scratch Bakery since 1996. Soups, sandwiches (our Goat Cheese House Special is a favorite!), stickybuns, scones, muffins, breads, focaccia, tartes, tortes, seasonal desserts featuring local produce; plus sugarfree, wheat-free, dairy-free, vegan, gluten-free, and organic treats! Cakes and wedding cakes by special order. We ship our Lemon Cakes nationwide as seen in Williams-Sonoma catalog.

We are open Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Tuesday. Specific hours are subject to change with the seasons.

Please call to confirm! Located across from the Cinema. Weekends open later!

and NYC. We are passionate about creating political food—locally grown organic produce, fair wages, environmentally sustainable business practices—that tastes just as good as that served at the finest restaurants. Let us end weeknight meal boredom forever.

PASTA La Bella Pasta (845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.

RESTAURANTS (p.m.) wine bar

Bistro-to-Go 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com

119 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2833 www.pmwinebar.com contact@pmwinebar.com

Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.

Ernest Hemingway once said, “Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” (p.m.) thinks Ernest was right and wants to share a wonderful selection of wines with you. Focusing on Spanish wines and the food that compliments them, this wine bar breaks the mold of the “pour and snore.”

Bread Alone Café

Aroi Thai Restaurant

East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3108

55 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1114 www.aroirestaurant.com

Bread Alone Café offers fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at three mid-Hudson locations. Also located in Route 28, Boiceville, NY, (845) 657-3328 (headquarters) and Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY, (845) 679-2108.

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Aroi means ‘delicious’ in Thai, and delicious it is. David Thompson writes in ‘Thai Food,’ “Thai food creates a locus of flavor within each dish through its components, producing a complexity that can be dazzling.” And Aroi illustrates his description faithfully. The wine list is spare and perfectly paired to the flavors of Thai cuisine.

Some selections are familiar and some are off the beaten track; all compliment the food. Enter a little clapboard house with a treed, outdoor patio, and be in an oasis of muted green walls, fabric lamps, birch chairs, and coral table runners; a perfect backdrop to the colors of the food. Thai artifacts and fabrics hang as the works of art they are. Each room is flooded with light and, for chilly evenings, has a working fireplace. Aroi is open seven days a week for dinner from 5pm-9pm; and Thursday through Monday for lunch from 11:30am-3pm.

Terrapin Catering

Babycakes Café

Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 hugh@terrapincatering.com

1-3 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-8411 www.babycakescafe.com

Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Terrapin Restaurant recently expanded its operation to include a catering department in order to better serve the Hudson Valley. At our new Catering Facility in Staatsburg, we can host seated dinners for up to 150 guests, and cocktail parties for as many as 250 guests; and, we can provide off-site catered events up to your imagination. We are here to help you celebrate any occasion: anniversaries, showers, holiday parties, corporate events. Want to hold your wedding at a breathtaking mansion? Or host a small rehearsal dinner? What about an engagement party at your home? Or a bridal shower? Terrapin can cater anything from a casual get-together to a formal gala. Terrapin Catering, catering to your imagination.

Now in its seventh year, Babycakes Café has expanded to breakfast, lunch and dinner service featuring a full bar and live entertainment on the weekends. Seasonal menus feature many vegan & vegetarian choices. European-style baked goods made from scratch are still a big draw. Specialty holiday baked good and catering available. Open Tuesday through Sunday.

Casablanca Coffee Co. 11 Marist Drive, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4440 www.casablancacoffeehouse.com The finest coffeehouse beverages and cuisine served in our Moroccan inspired eco-friendly café. Specialty coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, fresh baked pastries, breakfast, and lunch, including wrap and panini sandwiches.

Vegetarian, soy, and gluten free options always available. Catering, take-out, and free Wi-fi.

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Barnaby’s Route 32 North Chestnut and Academy Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2433

Bistro Brie & Bordeaux—A French Country Restaurant in the Heart of the Catskills

(845) 255-8VEG www.lagustasluscious.com

5386 Main Street, Windham, NY (518) 734-4911 www.bistrobb.com

Lagusta’s Luscious brings heartbreakingly delicious, sophisticated weekly meal deliveries of handmade vegetarian food that meat-andpotatoes people love too to the Hudson Valley

Voted “Best Restaurant in Greene County”

by Hudson Valley Magazine, 2007 and 2008.

Zagat Rated. Come and enjoy a delicious meal prepared by award-winning French Chef/Owner

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Stephane Desgaches. Casual European-styled bistro, full bar, extensive wine list. Beautiful views of Windham Mountain, just 1/4 mile away!

Open Wednesday-Sunday for dinner. Sunday Champagne Brunch offered July-October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Le Tour de Franceâ&#x20AC;? $14.95, three-course meal offered Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday evenings 5PM-9PM (excluding holidays and holiday weeks).

Catalanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pasta Garden 985 Route 376 Brookmeade Plaza Wappingers Falls, NY www.CatalanosPasatGarden.com (845) 227-7770 CatalanosPasta@aol.com The Catalano Family Has Been Serving the Dining Needs of Dutchess County Since the Spring of 1991. Offering a Variety of Traditional Italian Favorites Including Veal, Chicken, Seafood and Our Home Made Pastas. Our Banquet Room Will Accommodate Up to 50 Guests for Any Occasion. We Also Offer Full Service Custom Catering for Your Special Occasion at Any Venue. So Stop in and Our Family and Staff Will Welcome You and Your Family to a Delicious Dinner, You Wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Leave Hungry.

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Where good friends meet. Located on Route 213 in the center of High Falls, NY, The Eggâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest is noted for its eclectic dĂŠcor, unusual menu, and friendly, casual atmosphere. The Eggâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest offers creative cuisine with a southwestern flair, unique overstuffed sandwiches, vegetarian dishes, burgers, homemade desserts, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nestâ&#x20AC;? Breads. Dinner specials start every night at 5pm and a cocktail lounge is also offered. The Eggâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest is open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner, 11:30am-11pm Sunday-Thursday and 11:30am to midnight on Friday and Saturday. We accept cash and personal checks, with an ATM on premises.

3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!

Karma Road Vegetarian CafĂŠ 11 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1099 www.karmaroad.net

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www.maincourserestaurant.com Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-range Hudson Valley products. Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.

Osaka Restaurant 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place.

Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Daily Freeman. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.

Starr Place (845) 876-2924

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For information on our upcoming wine school, e-mail us at ingoodtaste@verizon.net

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Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com

(845) 687-7255 www.theeggsnest.com

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232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY

6417 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY

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On Tuesdays receive 8% off any purchase, 13% off any 6 bottles of wine, 18% off any 12 bottles of wine

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This is just a few of our reviews: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cozy in winter, glorious garden dining in summer...wonderful food, delightful ambiance...a treasure!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll really get away from it all while feeling right at home at Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s...Get toasty by the fire with some homemade mashed potatoes, or a hot toddy in the charming bar. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll love the hint of deep country wafting up from their truffle Ajax fries!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cozy, fire-placed restaurant with tremendous food from a varied and original menu that ranges from devilish to devine.

Charming owners, Alicia in front and Mikael in the kitchen, provide great warmth and make the place particularly comfortable.â&#x20AC;? Reservations recommended.

Every day, enjoy 5% off any 6 bottles of wine, 10% off any 12 bottles of wine

a great wine list. Visit www.catskillmtlodge.com to see our menus and call (518) 678-3101 for reservations.

Quaint, compassionate, and bustling Organic cafĂŠ-deli with vegetarian/vegan fare for everyone!

Open 7 days, 8am-8pm. Best SMOOTHIE in the Hudson Valley in 2007. Stews, curries, wraps, sandwiches, soups, juice bar, wheat free, and gluten free desserts. Service with a smile and love in every dish.

www.starrplace.com Delightful American Bistro featuring Chef Roberto Mosconi, star of the Hudson Valley culinary scene. We strive to assure our guests fresh seasonal ingredients expertly prepared and graciously served. We offer a large one-price wine by the glass selection in addition to a well-chosen reserve list. On weekends our Starr Lounge offers the same menu but with live music. In season we have our Star Alley for that alfresco experience.

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

Suruchiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Fine Taste of India 5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com Suruchi offers a large selection of delectable Indian food in a beautiful, calm atmosphere.

All dishes are made from scratch from fresh ingredients including free-range chicken, wild shrimp, and homemade cheese and yogurt.

Many vegetarian/vegan choices. Menu is 95% gluten free. Enjoy your dining experience with soothing music in your choice of regular seating or Indian style cushioned platform booths.

Wednesday through Sunday dinner.

Terrapin Red Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com As a fine dining chef, Josh Kroner had the desire to serve great hamburgers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that he loves to eat, so he thought it would be great to make a really Great Hamburger using all natural organic beef and other great ingredients.

Terrapin Red Bistro serves all sorts of comfort foods like macaroni and cheese, quesadillas, nachos, fish â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chips and hamburgers. Patrons can enjoy the build your own sandwich menu, or find some favorites from the restaurant as well in a hip, relaxed, casual bistro style atmosphere.

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Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub at Catskill Mountain Lodge

6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY

334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.caskillmtlodge.com

www.terrapinrestaurant.com

Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub offers fine food and drink at reasonable prices. Open 7 days for breakfast and lunch and on weekends for dinner. The fireplace pub boasts13 taps and

(845) 876-3330 From far-flung origins, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most diverse flavors meet and mingle here, in this room, at your table. From 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.

WISHING YOU THE BEST FOR THE NEW YEAR! BEST MEXICAN / LATINO CUISINE 2008 BEST MARGARITA 2008 BEST RESTAURANT INTERIOR 2007 ___ Hudson Valley Magazine

Sweet deals, Savory savings Lunch $1995 Dinner $2995 With these prices, the economy won’t keep you away from a great meal.

Join us for our special opening day on Sunday, January 11, then every Monday–Thursday from January 12–March 31, 2009.

You can savor a three-course, fixed-price meal in any of our four award-winning restaurants.

Make your reservations today.

Also enjoy the CIA’s 2009 Dining Series—a festival of themed luncheon and dinner events.

the finest in Mexican food and drink ¡Come see what’s behind the blue door!

Our new Cookbook on sale now!

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IMAGES COURTESY OF GREENE COUNTY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ROBERT LUGO OF RETRIEVER ROASTERS, WHO RECEIVED A MICROENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE PROGAM LOAN FROM THE GREENE COUNTY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

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We might call them brave, inspiring, or even crazy. But the truth is this: Depending on where they are, they might be on to something. Greene County, which has long been considered a timeless and picturesque getaway for leaf-peepers and other weekend warriors, is also one of the fastest-growing counties in New York. This fact has not escaped notice by county’s legislators, nor has it eluded local business owners themselves. The Greene Business Partnership and the Greene County Planning and Economic Development Board have recently completed a comprehensive economic development plan designed to facilitate balanced economic growth in Greene County for the next 10 to 20 years. Some of the goals of the plan include the development of programs capable of assisting the growth of businesses in the county, enhancement of programs geared toward enhancing local quality of life, support of telecommunications and other business-oriented infrastructure, and identification of projects and programs that warrant federal, state, and local investments that would lead to better employment opportunities, especially for young people. In short, Greene County has adopted a long-term plan designed to keep its towns and villages bustling, beautiful, and open for business.

The Greene County Planning and Economic Development Board offers a wide spectrum of loan and grant programs to help existing businesses succeed or spark new businesses in target areas. The Microenterprise Assistance Program (MAP) offers small business loans of up to $25,000, ideal for new entrepreneurs. Another low-interest loan offered by the board is the Quantum Fund, which is capable of providing business loans up to $400,000. Perhaps the most visible and wide-ranging of the Board’s offerings to Greene businesses is the award-winning Main Street Revitalization Program, which has awarded about $660,000 in matching grants to some 130 projects over the past four

years, in addition to leveraging roughly $400,000 in state money and $3.5 million in private funds. Overall, every dollar spent by the county has seen a six-dollar return of private or public funds invested—and, no matter what the economy looks like, that’s good business.

Although the numbers speak well for progress, it’s much more exciting to see what these investments really look like on the streets of Cairo, Catskill, or Coxsackie. With the assistance of loans from the Quantum Fund and the Bank of Greene County, gourmet chef and specialty market supplier Wolfgang Brandl was able to move his business from a cramped 2,500-square-foot location in Saugerties to a 6,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, purpose-built bakery that had long been vacant in the town of Catskill. Brandl’s new digs have sophisticated draining and cooling systems, an elaborate exhaust system to handle the half-ton of onions caramelized at the facility each day, new machines for pumping the sauces and salsas directly from processing to the packaging machines, and a variety of new rooms for processing different ingredients.

Lars Andersen of AIM Radiant Heating is also a recent recipient of the Quantum Loan. Like Brandl, Anderson and his colleagues were “fed up by the physical limitations of our site and almost ready to leave the country and possibly the state” when a $200,000 loan, matched by the county, made it possible for them to move into the former Wolf Center in Cairo. One of the stipulations of the Quantum Loan program is that the business accepting the loan must agree to produce one new job for each $20,000 in loaned money. For businesses like these, moving into larger spaces gives the company room to grow—for the communities they move into, a company’s expansion means more local jobs and, in some cases, more fun things to do, eat, or enjoy around town.

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windows, doors, storefronts, and awnings. Municipalities and Main Street organizations are eligible for community signage and infrastructure, such as benches and decorative street lighting. Participants are able to benefit from improved commercial and residential space for roughly half the cost it would take without MSRP assistance. Renovation makes these galleries, shops, cafes, and offices much more vibrant and welcoming places that bring valuable goods and services to the community. Recent successful projects include Kaaterskill Engineering in Cairo, Fitness Concepts in Windham, Abby’s Deli in Athens, N&S Supply in Catskill, the Eagle Hotel in Coxsackie, and the Village Bistro and Pancho Villa’s Restaurant in Tannersville.

A combination of MSRP renovation grants, along with a MAP loan from the Greene County Planning and Economic Development Board, allowed Robert and Janice Lugo (both of whom were working as full-time educators) to open Retriever Roasters, a spacious and attractive shop where coffee is hand roasted, ground, brewed fresh, and served. Although the loan from the county was not the only part of their financing program, it was essential to getting them started on Catskill’s Main Street. “The loan helped us to actually purchase the building and then buy all of the equipment,” Janice Lugo explains. “We could not have done it without the money from the county. [It] made everything possible.” The Lugos made extensive renovations to the building for an entire year before Retriever Roasters opened in July of 2006. During that time, the couple had the opportunity to witness all of the other projects taking shape in their area. “The facade project was going on at the time, so a lot of people redid the fronts of their buildings, and a lot of new businesses were just getting started,” says Janice Lugo. “Some of them haven’t made it, and others have, but the whole area has really come along and developed.” Although she admits that the economy over the past few years has amounted to lots of ups and downs, business has been steady, and that is certainly positive in today’s economic climate. “We’re really happy with that stability,” she says, “and we just want to keep going as we have been.” As the couple moves into its third year in the coffee-roasting business, it’s probably safe to say that the people of Catskill feel the same way.

On the other end of the spectrum, bigger business is booming in Greene, too. Two sites in the county have recently gained shovel-ready certification: the Greene Business and Technology Park, on State Route 9W in the Town of Coxsackie, with 75 developable acres; and the Kalkberg Commerce Park, also on State Route 9W in the town of New Baltimore, with 72 developable acres. In order to better handle the increase in traffic these developments are likely to invite, the Greene County Industrial Development Agency (which owns both of these sites) will be giving the intersection of routes 385 and 9W a $2 million facelift. Renovations will include landscaping projects, paved sidewalks, old-fashioned street lighting, historical signage, and other appealing additions to the otherwise unremarkable stretch of highway. Town and village officials hope that beautifying the gateway to Coxsackie will give residents, potential employers, and tourists a good (and lasting) “first impression” of the area.

With all of these exciting new developments in the pipeline, it’s going to be a lot easier to start thinking “BiG.” Think BiG, which was launched in September 2008, is an initiative sponsored by the Greene County Legislators to encourage residents to buy the things they want and need in Greene County.

With a banner headline that reads, “Believe in Greene. Buy in Greene,” the Think BiG website (www.buyingreene.com) offers a number of interactive options designed to help people find places to shop, dine, relax, redecorate— there is even a feature allowing users to search the inventories of Greene County stores for specific items, making local shopping easier than ever. If you own or manage a small business in Greene County and want to become a BiG Business, you can register through the site to join the directory and receive various BiG amenities, from reusable shopping bags to decals for your store.

As a consumer, you can go to the BiG site, find a business you know a thing or two about, and enhance its listing. The site offers a number of different ways for people in Greene County to connect with each other and share information. After all, buying in Greene keeps local jobs, businesses, and services thriving—and that’s good for everyone.

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CHRONOGRAM 2009 AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLEMENT

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t’s a tough time to realize that your auto may be making a more significant contribution to the carbon crisis than you’d like—economic turmoil has made securing a bank loan to purchase a newer, more fuel-efficient model more difficult, and there’s a big question mark over the auto-manufacturing industry in general. But whether you can afford a new hybrid or not, there are simple and cost-effective ways to make your drive more environmentally considerate. Tom Lynch, the director of external affairs for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and Jack Gregory, owner and technician at Jack’s Auto Service of Wassaic, both weighed in with their advice on how to achieve maximum green for as much green as you’ve got in your wallet.

DRIVING SMART So much of what you do behind the wheel will affect how much you spend at the pump and how much your vehicle emits into the atmosphere. Driving at a constant speed and avoiding excessive braking not only helps keep you safer on the road, but it also gets you better fuel mileage, says Lynch.

“Gas mileage decreases rapidly for each five miles per hour after you hit sixty miles per hour,” he says. “It can be like paying an additional 30 cents per gallon for gasoline.” Observe the speed limit. If you have a lead foot, try using the cruise control whenever possible to move at a steady pace.

As the winter sets in, Lynch also says to keep in mind that most newer cars are able to warm up within 60 seconds of being started. “Lots of people like to leave their cars idling,” he says. “These days cars warm up very quickly. Twenty years ago you would have to have your car idle, but now you don’t have to do that.” Resist the temptation to wait until the inside of your car is supertoasty before taking off. Reduce idling at start up, and don’t leave the car on while it’s unoccupied.

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be a buyer—if you have the means to afford a new car or good enough credit to secure a loan in a tightened banking market. Hybrid cars are the obvious choice for efficient, low-emission vehicles, and purchasing one often comes with federal tax benefits. According to fueleconomy.gov, the owner of a new, two-wheel drive 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid may qualify for a full tax credit of $3,000. Some hybrid tax incentives are phased out after the manufacturer sells a certain amount of the vehicle, so be sure to confirm what the total credit is.

MAINTAINING YOUR ECO RESOLUTION If your pledge for the new year includes lowering your impact on the environment, your favorite mechanic may be able to help. Following your vehicle’s proper maintenance guidelines can have a tremendous effect on its emissions and fuel mileage, and can also prolong the life of your car, keeping it out of the junkyard.

“Maintenance is the key word,” says Gregory. “If you change the oil every 3,000 miles, keep tire inflation to the manufacturer’s specs, and do your routine maintenance schedule, you’ll get better fuel mileage. Also, keep your transmission up to service and keep the air filtration system clean.”

Start with these basics. Having your tires properly inflated can increase your fuel mileage by up to three percent, says Lynch. Drivers can also opt to replace their tires with low-rolling-resistance (LRR) tires, a choice Consumer Reports says automakers often use to enhance fuel mileage during government fuel economy tests. LRR tires, like Michelin’s HydroEdge, help save gas through a tread pattern that requires less effort from the engine. Make sure to have your car aligned at least once a year too, Gregory says—keeping the wheels straight means less drag, which in turn means better fuel mileage and overall handling.

Lynch also reminds drivers that changing air filters when they’re clogged can get an extra 10 percent out of the gas tank. “[Changing your air filter] will

save gas and protect your engine,” he says. “A low-restriction air filter may add an additional 10 percent. It may cost you a couple of more bucks, but it has value on the energy-efficiency side.” Gregory recommends K&N, a filter manufacturer that offers low-restriction options in its product line.

Don’t forget to schedule tune-ups on a regular basis, too. Lynch says these check-ups can increase fuel efficiency by at least 4 percent, and sometimes more—if a technician discovers an issue like a faulty oxygen sensor, the number could be as big as 40 percent. Gregory says that being proactive about part replacements can yield even more benefits. Replacing spark plugs, even if the manufacturer says they’re good for the vehicle’s lifetime, can have a big impact on fuel economy and help the car run cleaner.

Jack’s Auto Service performs a number of services that will enhance fuel mileage and help make your car healthier for the environment. Gregory recommends a fuel injector cleaning treatment every 30,000 miles to achieve these benefits. He says that fuel additives can be used at home to treat gasoline every 3,000 miles, but drivers will notice a bigger difference after a fuel injector cleaning appointment, because his machine hooks directly up to the injectors.

If you’d like to take your mission even further, converting to biofuel is becoming more and more common. Gregory says his shop has frequently worked on old diesel engines that have been altered to run on vegetable oil.

“Those systems work pretty well,” he says. Joining a local biofuel organization, like the Hudson Valley Biodiesel Cooperative, can be an educational resource and a way to get involved with a group dedicated to bringing alternative fuel to the area.

THE FUTURE OF GREEN DRIVING Sustainable vehicles and manufacturing processes are necessities, and many of the big automakers are responding. In early September, USA Today reported that General Motors was following the lead of other manufacturers, like Toyota and Subaru, by pledging to make half of its 181 plants landfill-free through reuse and recycling of 90 percent of its materials. The goal is to accomplish this by the end of 2010, which will be a busy year for the auto giant if all goes according to plan—it’s also the scheduled release date for the Chevy Volt, a vehicle that GM says will use no gas and produce no emissions for a person who uses it to drive less than 40 miles per day. The Volt will achieve this by using a “lithium-ion battery with a gasoline-powered, range-extending engine that drives a generator to provide electric power when you drive beyond the 40-mile battery range,” its page on Chevrolet.com says. However, its fate may lie with the rest of the GM family and its current economic plight.

Lynch is excited about other developments, too. The horizon is brimming with promises of fuel-cell technology and cars that run clean with hydrogen, he says.The prospect of a new energy secretary in Steven Chu, a Nobel physics laureate, is equally motivating—Chu is looking to solve the biofuel conundrum by substituting nonedible biomass, like plant and timber waste, for the edible ingredients typically used to derive ethanol.

With these developments and more coming down the sustainable pipeline, we’re sure to be in for an exciting ride on the road to greener driving.

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When the lights go up on the naked, washed tables that once held your carefully chosen three-course meal, your wedding day will come to mind only in snippets of faint sounds and flashes of smiles. But it will have been forever captured visually and left for you to rifle through in 4x6 print boxes, on CDs, and in wedding albums. As you plan for the upcoming blur of this day, with all the intense hopes and milestones the preparation entails, there are a few things that you can do to ensure those visual memories show you in the best, most blissful light.

1. GETTING READY There’s a lot of pressure on a bride to be the prettiest woman in the room. And there are many treatments and products out there waiting to up their price to “bridal” as soon as you mention the word. But in reality, though all eyes will be on you, chances are your guests will simply be looking at how happy/nervous/ contented their daughter/sister/niece/cousin/friend is. And your photographer is just praying that you look natural and vibrant. Gone are the golden days of cinema, where heavy makeup was needed to photograph well. As veteran local wedding photographer France Menk says, “If your makeup looks natural in the mirror, it will look natural in the photos.” The week of your wedding is not the time to experiment with a new beauty treatment, like facial waxing or sprayon tans. After years in wedding, commercial, and studio photography, Tivoli’s Cynthia Del Conte advises against shiny makeup and sparkly powders. “They just make you look sweaty in the pictures,” she says. She also suggests that brides

build in extra time for the hair and makeup.Very often things will run long in the beginning, and then the time for formal photos gets rushed as dinner is ready or the sun is setting. Del Conte suggests, “Tell them to be done one-and-a-half hours before you really need to be finished. Then you can sit around in your bathrobe with your friends and sip champagne, rather than have the anxiety of being late.”

2. ORGANIZING FORMALS Every wedding photographer suggests the couple create a must-have shot list.

Denise Edkins of Your Day Photography in New Paltz provides her clients with the list and suggests they assign a “wedding wrangler” to specific group shots. “The ‘wrangler’ will know everyone’s names and faces who need to be in the photo and will help to get those ‘main players’ to the assigned place and time of the portraits,” Edkins says. Michael Gold of the Corporate Image, also of New Paltz, reminds couples to let the photographer know the nuances of family relationships, especially if parents are divorced and wouldn’t want to be pictured together. It’s helpful to determine in advance the location of the formal photos. You can arrange for your photographer to do a site viewing where you can walk around the grounds together, talking about your vision and ideas. If your photographer has worked at your wedding site before, this conversation can happen via e-mail or telephone, as well. Ion Zupcu, who spent years in New York City and now has a studio in Hopewell Junction, suggests that couples “listen to the professional first and then ask questions or 1/09 CHRONOGRAM WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS 69

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make suggestions.” There are a lot of considerations when choosing a good spot for pictures, and your wedding photographer knows what will work best. After you’ve determined the location and timing for the formal photos with your photographer, don’t forget to let family and bridal party members know. The rehearsal is usually an ideal time.

Del Conte suggests, “Make your must-have list, and then make it shorter.

Because remember, on the day of the wedding, once you start those group shots, a third of the way through you’re going to want to be done!” She says it’s better to have a photograph of everyone together rather than having many shots with multiple combinations of people. There’s only so much room in a frame or wedding album.

3. THINK ABOUT THE LIGHT OF DAY There are certain times of day that are more or less photogenic. In the summer, when the sun doesn’t set until eight or nine o’clock, there’s time to have an evening ceremony with natural light. One problem you could run into, however, is that if you plan to do your formal photos after a ceremony timed for sunset, you’ll quickly lose the light. It’s not impossible, but you’ll definitely want all of your family ready to go right after the ceremony, and you’ll want to skip the receiving line. “We all know way ahead that during the summer the sun is going down after 8pm and after 5pm in late fall and winter,” says Zupcu. “All the formals should be scheduled to take place before the sun is going down.” If you’re working with a small window of opportunity for the light during formal photos, be sure things don’t run long in the beginning, or you could end up doing family pictures at dusk, which would require over reliance on flash and studio lighting.

Late afternoon emanates long, golden sunrays that make for beautiful back- and side-lighting opportunities. Early morning light offers the same beauty, but in order to catch those long rays, you’d need to start your ceremony very early. Mid day is the least photogenic. As the sun hovers overhead at around noon, it casts long nose shadows and not enough light around the eyes, making them look sunken. Pictures can look very contrasty at mid day because the difference in exposure between the bright areas and the shadow areas is greater. So that’s when you get a half-black/half-white face with distracting shadows.

Often the timing is solely determined by the officiant and reception venue, and depends on availability. If you can speak with your photographer before determining the timing for the day, that would be ideal.

4. THINK COLLABORATION “Every wedding is really a collaborative effort, and everyone’s suggestions are invaluable to the success of one’s wedding photos,” remarks Gold. “I’m always happy to have families and bridal party members at my side when photographing, aware that creative photographic teamwork invariably leads to better photographs.” But Del Conte and Menk caution that it’s a fine line between collaboration and interference with the creative process. As Del Conte notes, “It really isn’t easy to have everybody looking great in one place. Wedding photography is a participation sport—the photographer can’t create the pictures unless everyone is involved.” She argues that it’s distracting to those being photographed when the guests are shooting at the same time, and it makes it hard for the photographer to shoot quickly. Menk takes it a step further and requests that only one person be her point person for specific photo requests at the reception. “It interrupts my rhythm and creative flow,” she explains.

“And I could end up taking orders rather than actually shooting pictures.”

5. EVENTFUL MOMENTS At a wedding at Wynkoop House in Stone Ridge, a nervous bride stood at the top of the aisle. She didn’t at all like being in front of the camera. Edkins tells the story of joking with her and reminding her that she would thank her for it later. “She got so relaxed she even waved at the camera when she was waiting for the processional,” Edkins recalls.

The trick for those limelit wedding moments is to smile, smile, smile, even if you just feel nervous and stressed. It may be just the thing to get those endorphins going and get you to remember that the best thing you can bring to your wedding is a sense of humor. When walking down the aisle, it’s a nice sentiment to want to appear serious, but the camera will see it as solemn or

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scared. On the other hand, when you enter the reception, it’s more photogenic to laugh than to “Woo-hoo!” It’s just always more flattering to smile.

6. NERVOUS That being said, there are some practical tips for fighting off the camera-face jitters. One idea for formals is to look at the photographer’s trigger finger rather than into the lens.You begin to concentrate on when the photographer shoots and forget that your photo is being made. The angle of your eyes is also more flattering and somewhat angelic, though still direct. Put your hands on your hips to make your upper arms look thinner. Similarly, if you’re selfconscious about your arms, skip it and just wear sleeves. So many wedding dresses these days are strapless, but not everyone has the arms and shoulders for them. Save yourself from your own scrutiny later, and let your arms be covered and comfortable. Or if it’s a double-chin you hate, try standing with your feet slightly apart, one in front of the other. Lean your weight on the front leg, and drop your chin ever so slightly. To achieve a truly happy expression, if you’re not feeling it right then, think about someone who really loves you and always thinks you look great—your new spouse, perhaps—and put a picture of him or her in your mind.

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7. GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER Most photographers appreciate the opportunity to learn more about the wedding couple before the big day. It helps them to better create personalized photographs. Zupcu strongly suggests doing an engagement shoot prior to the wedding. “I see how they respond to the camera and, most importantly, they get to see my work before their wedding day. I need confident, relaxed, and great expressions for my camera at their wedding day,” Zupcu says. Menk tells of a wedding she shot for days. “I started days before the wedding and ended up the last one at the reception,” she says. “I shot the bride making the cake with her mother days before. It made a great story, and I loved doing it.” Edkins agrees that the better a client can identify and communicate their dream images to her, the easier it is to make that happen.

In the end, a wedding is about two people walking together in life, about the merging of two families into an extended personal community, and about celebrating. If you allow yourself to focus on what’s important, your photos will be about all that, too. “Beyond everything,” says Del Conte, “just remember: It’s a party. Just remember what it is, and try to stay calm.”

RESOURCES Your Day Photography: www.yourdayphoto.com France Menk: www.france-menk.com Cynthia Del Conte: www.delcontephotography.com The Corporate Image: www.corporateimagephotography.com Ion Zupcu: www.ionzupcu.ro

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ACCOMMODATIONS Catskill Mountain Lodge

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334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.caskillmtlodge.com

Frost Valley YMCA

Catskill Art & Office Supply

2000 Frost Valley Road, Claryville, NY (845) 985-2291 ext. 205 www.FrostValley.org info@frostvalley.org

Kingston, NY (845) 331-7780

Altren Geothermal & Solar Systems 1774 State Route 213, Ulster Park, NY (854) 658-7116 www.altren.net

ART GALLERIES & CENTERS Ann Street Gallery

Richard J. Smith, LCSW lifeworksprogram@earthlink.net

845 417-5060 Gardiner, NY

Portraits of Loved Ones

104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940, ext. 119 www.annstreetgallery.org The Ann Street Gallery is a non-profit gallery located in the City of Newburgh, specializing in contemporary emerging and established artists.

Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org

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

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ART INSTRUCTION

The Catskill Mountain Lodge, celebrating forty years of hospitality, is set on the banks of the historic Kaaterskill Creek in Palenville, America’s first art colony. Accommodations include fireplace rooms, cabins, cottages and a three bedroom house.

Frost Valley YMCA Camp and Conference Center in Claryville, is just 2.5 hours drive from metro NY/NJ and about 1 hour from Kingston. Established in 1901 as one of the nation’s first summer camps, Frost Valley provides four seasons of outdoor, experiential and educational opportunities including summer camps for children, environmental education, year-round activities for families and conference and retreat facilities for groups and businesses.

A pathway to the extraordinary ...

shows each month. The innovative gallery website has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work.

ART SUPPLIES

Art Materials, studio furnishings, custom picture framing, blueprint copies, graphic design services, large format color output, custom printing, personal stationery, legal forms, cards, maps, and novelty gifts.

Three locations dedicated to enhancing your creative adventure—voted ‘Best in the Valley’ year after year. Also located in Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251 and Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250.

Manny’s Art Supply 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902 Since 1962, big-city selection and smalltown service have made Manny’s special.

We offer a full range of art materials, craft, and bookmaking supplies, as well as the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store.

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

AUTO SALES Ruge’s Subaru Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057

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

Van Brunt Gallery

Located in the Historic Huguenot Street.

137 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2995 www.vanbruntgallery.com

BEVERAGES

Exhibiting the work of contemporary artists.

Featuring painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new

Coffee System of the Hudson Valley 1 (800) 660-3175 www.homecoffeesystem.com

Esotec

BUILDING SUPPLIES

(845) 246-2411

Williams Lumber & Home Centers

www.esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 22 years, we carry a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

BODY & SKIN CARE Essence MediSpa, LLC—Stephen Weinman, MD 222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.com Named “Most Affordable Skin Care Hudson Valley,” the Essence MediSpa specializes in skin rejuvenation and anti-aging treatments.

Non-surgical treatments for age spots and skin lesions, teeth whitening, Botox Cosmetic, laser hair removal, non-surgical skin tightening using the Thermage System, Varicose and Spider Vein treatment, Microdermabrasion, chemical peels, acne treatments, facials, and massage services.

BOOK PUBLISHERS Inner Traditions/Bear & Co. 1 (800) 246-8648 www.InnerTraditions.com

Riverview Office Services (914) 912-1202 info@riverviewbookkeeping.com A good defense to handle economic stress is to have your finances in order. I bring over 20 years experience to help you with your bookkeeping needs without having to pay a full time staff member. Often you only require a few hours a month to handle your billing, pay your invoices, prepare payroll and reconcile your bank accounts.

You can also have all of your information organized, ready to give to your accounting professional for Tax preparation.

Kindred Spirits STEAKHOUSE & PUB at the Catskill Mountain Lodge

Since 1946, Williams Lumber and Home Centers has grown into the largest familyowned building supply and design company with 9 locations in the Hudson Valley.

Williams offers customers exceptional service and a wide range of green products and building materials. Williams Design Centers in Rhinebeck and Millbrook showcase kitchens and baths and offers expertise from their professional in-house designers to assist in home improvement projects, as well as installation.

• A place for nature, art and music lovers.

• Open seven days for breakfast and lunch.

Dinner on weekends.

• Live Jazz—Friday and Saturday—Starts at 6pm • Call for reservations or to cater your event.

• Fireplace pub has 13 beers on tap.

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BUSINESS Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce

Studio C. Mathlein

P.O. Box 42, 23F East Market Street Rhinebeck, NY www.rhinebeckchamber.com (845) 876-5904 info@rhinebeckchamber.com

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Stuck? Stagnant? Business slow?

We are a professional business membership organization which represents approximately 400 businesses, large and small, primarily in northern and central Dutchess County. We provide a variety of services, including health insurance; provide opportunities for businesses to promote themselves; and interact with government representatives on behalf of the business community.

A new way to revitalize your business or home space.

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CAREER COACHING Ann Ruecker, MPA, MA, CPCC— Certified Career Coach AFAK Solutions, LLC (646) 886-2342 www.afaksolutions.com afaksolutions@yahoo.com Come discover your authentic vocation at a deeper level as well as strategizing for your next career or job through resume writing, interviewing skills, and negotiation techniques. Call or e-mail today for a free assessment and report.

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BOOKKEEPING

6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

January 2009 Annual Dinner with Our Government Officials The Beekman Arms Wednesday, January 21, 2009; 5:30 p.m. cocktails; 6:15 p.m. dinner and program

BOOKSTORES

CARPETS & RUGS

Mirabai of Woodstock

Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings

23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY

54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@verizon.net

(845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, Bali.

Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/ interpretation available.

Oblong Books & Music 6422 Montgomery Street, (Route 9) Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500

$50 per person Update for Chamber members from elected officials. Q&A included.

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Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Newly expanded store. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets, Balouchi tribal kilims, Russian sumaks, antique Caucasian carpets, silk Persian sumaks, Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.

CINEMA

www.oblongbooks.com

Upstate Films

A true general bookstore, Oblong stocks the best and most interesting books in all categories. Oblong is more than just a great bookstore, also offering the region’s best selection of music. Our CD club rewards you with a free CD with every 10 purchased.

Open daily.

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

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KOSA

Barefoot Dance Center

502 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-6620 corahales@kosaco.ne

West Park, NY (845) 384-6146 www.barefootdancecenter.com info@barefootdancecenter.com

Kosa is a unique indie store specializing in organic, recycled, green, independent clothing and jewelry designers. Our designers work with eco consciousness and style. We carry Stewart and Brown, Prairie Underground, Filly, Preloved, Beebop and Wally, Loveheals, Philippa Kunisch, Claudia Kussano, Individual icons, Supermaggie, and many many more...

Pique Boutique & Powerwear 43-2 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY www.ihavethepower.us (845) 876-7722 Pique (845) 729-3728 Powerwear Piqueboutique@yahoo.com We are a very unique boutique combining young juniors’ lines of denim including seven, True Religion, and many more of your favorite designer jeans. In our women’s wear department (Powerwear) we carry jewelry, leather jackets, handbags, belts, boots, shoes and much more. We are also featuring books by the author and owner of that department.

Barefoot Dance Center offers classes in Modern Technique, Improvisation, Choreography, Creative Movement, Ballet, and Boys’ Dance. We emphasize healthy alignment, skill-building, and the creative process in a supportive environment. We are the home of the Barefoot Dance Company, a modern dance performance group made up of dedicated teenagers. We also offer school residencies, performances, rental space, and birthday parties. Jessie Levey, Director.

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

We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.

CONSIGNMENT SHOPS

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Past ‘n’ Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique

Mass Match

1629 Main Street (Route 44) Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com

(413) 665-3218 www.massmatch.com

A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, shoes, and accessories, and a unique variety of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise from casual to chic; contemporary to vintage; in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse and illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. To add the finishing touches to your wardrobe a variety of BRAND NEW retail jewelry, scarves and accessories at exceptionally low prices are also available. If you haven’t already visited Past ‘n’ Perfect, the Hudson Valley’s premier Resale & Retail Boutique, now is the time! 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.

The Center For Advanced Dentistry—Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD

The Present Perfect

Dog Love, LLC

23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939

240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com

Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks.

Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.

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 For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural Foods Industry.

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DENTISTRY

494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com Setting the standard for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad.

Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes old-school care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18.

DOG BOARDING

Personal hands-on boarding and daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised play groups in 40x40 fenced area.

Homemade food and healthy treats.

FAUX FINISHES Down Under Faux Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1040 downunderfaux.com murielcalderon@downunderfaux.com Down Under Faux is the creation of Muriel Calderon, an Australian Faux Finish Artist

with more than 25 years of international experience. Muriel is motivated by a passion for transforming ordinary rooms into works of art as limitless as one’s imagination. Whether it’s the look and feel of an aged, luxurious Tuscan Villa, an Ultramodern Manhattan Loft, or the loving and authentic restoration of existing Historic Finishes, Muriel works with you (and/or your designer) to help you create the envisioned reality you desire.

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

HEALTH FOOD STORES Mother Earth Store House 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W Kingston, NY www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth 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! We can also be found at 804 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY, (845) 296-1069, and 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY, (845) 246-9614.

JEWELRY, FINE ART & GIFTS Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

FENG SHUI

We carry hand-made jewelry, gifts, and clothing that will touch your heart, uplift your spirits, and heal your soul. We offer various tools that will assist you on your quest for spiritual awareness and help you to deepen that connection. Essential Oils-HerbsCrystals-Incense-Candles-Divination Tools and so much more.

Studio C, LLC

Hummingbird Jewelers

(518) 789-0090 studiocm@mac.com

20 West Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 hummingbirdjewelers.com

Main focus—space planning. Kitchens, bathrooms, furniture, arrangements, and color consultations. To scale and 3-D drawings are provided to visually understand the outcome of the project.

Feng Shui consultations and ‘staging’ available. Ancient art of harmoniously creating a functional pattern of ‘flow’ within your home or business space to benefit you in a multitude of ways. Camilla Mathlein—certified in BTB Feng Shui/Feng Shui Staging (CFSS)—Parsons School of Design.

FRENCH LESSONS Emily Upham—French Lessons (518) 537-6048 uplandvl@valstar.net Learn to speak French—not scary! Private lessons; groups, toddlers-to adults. Tutoring available. All levels, weekenders welcome.

Emily Upham: French Interpreter, U.S. State Department and AP French teacher, The Millbrook School.

GRAPHIC DESIGN 11:11 Studio—Kelli Bickman (646) 436-8663 www.kellibickman.net Full service design studio including murals, fine art, illustration, and graphic design by award winning artist. Graphic design includes advertising, editorial, book/ magazine covers, sign painting, all aspects of print design/layout. Fine art/murals are tailored to your needs bringing art that will make your life rich with vivid color. Extensive client list.

HANDWOVENS Loominus 3257 Route 212, Bearsville, NY (845) 679-6500 www.loominus.com

KITCHENWARES Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6207 www.warrenkitchentools.com Located in historic Rhinebeck, in New York’s beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley, Warren Kitchen & Cutlery is a true kitchenware emporium—a place where inspired chefs and cooking enthusiasts can find their favorite cutlery, cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and serving pieces for home or restaurant.

Knives are our specialty; we have more than 1000 different styles and sizes in stock. We encourage you to take advantage of our instore sharpening and engraving services.

LAWYERS & MEDIATORS Law Office of Laura G. Shulman, PC 369 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-7970 lgshulman@hotmail.com I am a divorce lawyer and mediator. I am trained and skilled in divorce mediation, and I also practice Collaborative Law. In Collaborative Separation or Collaborative Divorce, parties agree not to go to court.

Lawyers facilitate the negotiation of a separation agreement or divorce stipulation through informal meetings. Clients talk directly about their needs and those of their family.

Pathways Mediation Center (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com We are a unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a Guidance Counselor working with families and children.

This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web.

Russell Law

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(608) 833-1555 www.erklaw.com www.artslawyer.blogspot.com

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B

Copyright. Trademark. Arts and Entertainment. Russell Law serves musicians, writers, visual, and performing artists. Elizabeth T. Russell is a musician herself, admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, and Wisconsin. Remarkably fluent in plain English, she is also the author of Art Law Conversations: A Surprisingly Readable Guide for Visual Artists.

LODGING Inn at Stone Ridge 3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7036 info@innatstoneridge.com Let us take you back to an era of comfort unparalleled in the Catskill Region of New York. Enjoy our 18th century historic mansion in peaceful Stone Ridge set on 150 acres of lawn including gardens, a working apple orchard and untouched woods. Daily, weekly, and monthly rates available.

MUSIC Burtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011

David Temple, Classical Guitar (845) 758-0174 www.davidtemple.com Classical guitarist and private instructor.

Music for concerts, weddings and occasions. Solo performances have included Mohonk Mountain Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Festival of the Arts, the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck and the Ulster Chamber Music Series. A graduate of the music school at Eastern Michigan University.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org

MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music, LLC (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com Peter and Judith Muir. Lessons in piano, voice, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophone.

Groups for young children 2 - 8. Also special needs children and adults.

PERFORMING ARTS Hudson River Performing Arts 29 Elm Street, Suite 205, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1888 www.hudsonriverperformingarts.com Hudson River Performing Arts, located in Fishkill, NY, offers instruction in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern, Acting, Voice, Guitar and Piano. Our goal is to cultivate and nurture a love and knowledge of the performing Arts at both the pre-professional and recreational levels. Our programs are designed to provide students with a solid foundation of technique in a nurturing and affirming atmosphere.

The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving 3 counties in the Hudson Valley.

Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets.

Thank you Hudson Valley for entrusting ALL your pets and homes to us for 37 years.

PHOTOGRAPHY 400 Square LLC 149 Main Street, Beacon, NY (914) 522-4736 info@400square.com 400 Square offers photographic services that include fine art printing, digital retouching, RAW processing and scanning of b/w and color film. We also specialize in portrait, fine art, event and advertising photography. Call for information on pricing of photographic services, session fees or assignment work.

David Morris Cunningham Woodstock, NY (914) 489-1991 www.davidmorriscunningham.com info@davidmorriscunningham.com David Morris Cunningham is a Woodstock, NY-based photographer specializing in portraiture, performance photography, fine art and digital retouching.

Michael Gold The Corporate Image Photo Studio New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.mgphotoman.com

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Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs.

(845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com

Photosensualis Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.com Fine Print Sales. Modern and Vintage Photography. Custom Sensual Portraiture.

Confidential Digital Services. Free Consultations.

Upstate Light 3 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3155 www.upstatelight.com Art reproduction, large-format exhibition printing, film, and flatbed scanning. We have over 20 years experience in digital imaging for artists and photographers. We photograph 2 or 3 dimensional artwork using the large-format Better Lightâ&#x201E;˘ scanning camera back, either in our studio or on location. Quality and expertise you would expect in the city, dedicated personal service youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find upstate. By Appointment.

PIANO Adamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano (845) 331-1300 or (518) 537-2326 www.adamspiano.com ADAMSPIANO.com. Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our showroom on Route 28 between Kingston and Woodstock. Open by appointment only.

Inventory and prices online. Superb service, rentals, storage, rebuilding.

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

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Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 431-8000 www.sunydutchess.edu Dutchess Community College, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, was founded in 1957. The College offers an educational policy of access, quality, opportunity, diversity, and social responsibility. DCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main campus in Poughkeepsie is situated on 130 scenic acres with facilities that are aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced.

The College has a satellite campus, Dutchess South, in Wappingers Falls, and learning centers in Carmel, Staatsburg, and Pawling.

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Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t settle for less, benefit from the best! N&S Supply is a third generation family owned and run business for over 60 years. At N&S Supply, we take pride in offering the highest quality plumbing and heating products at competitive prices.

Our experienced sales professionals will help you determine the right product for your project while keeping you within your budget. Our service is what makes us the best and easiest supply house to deal with. Come and see why N&S Supplyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Second to None.â&#x20AC;? N&S Supply offers many convenient locations throughout the Hudson Valley: Fishkill (845) 896-6291, Brewster (845) 279-8075, Kingston (845) 331-6700, Catskill (518) 943-2150, Hudson (518) 822-1771, and Danbury, CT (203) 791-9300.

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With over 32 years of professional experience, Maria Ferguson, of the Hudson Valley School of Massage Therapy, is honored to offer you an extensive education, which will lead you to an exciting and rewarding career. She, along with an exclusive team of elite professional instructors have extended their affiliations in this learning institution through teaching, and are proud to thoroughly prepare and lead you into the next generation of Massage Therapists. HVSMT will groom you to cultivate a positive impact in the wellness industry. You will receive extensive handson and academic training in a nurturing, motivating environment.

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Professional wood finishes & restoration to suit your needs. Interior/Exterior. French polish, shellac & wax, lacquer, gold leafing, faux finishing, color matching, stains, touch-ups, bleaching, stripping & refinishing, sanding, staining, antiquing, & minor repairs. New or old wood of any type.

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Berkshire Country Day School P. O. Box 867, Lenox, MA (413) 637-0755 www.berkshirecountryday.org Founded in 1946, Berkshire Country Day School is an independent school serving students in Pre-kindergarten through Grade 9. BCD is an academically rigorous school with a caring community in which students and teachers share in the process of learning. Steadfast in its commitment to learning in the spirit of inquiry and discovery, the school community is dedicated to encouraging academic excellence at the highest level, advancing each studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique potential for well-rounded development, and fostering responsive and responsible citizenship.

260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600, ext. 201 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org Poughkeepsie Day School, an independent co-educational school founded in 1934, serves 325 students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. With an intellectually challenging and creative curriculum that recognizes the strengths and talents of each child, we support our students as they grow to become active, independent learners ready to take up the challenges of the future as global citizens. Small multigraded classes and outstanding teachers create an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust. 100% of Poughkeepsie Day School graduates go on to college each year.

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SNACKS Mister Snacks, Inc. (845) 206-7256 www.mistersnacks.com Call Vinny Sciullo for distribution of the finest snacks in the Hudson Valley. Visit our Gift Shop online.

SPAS & RESORTS Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com; www.buttermilkspa.com Located on 75 acres overlooking the Hudson River. Brand new full service geothermal and solar spa. Organic products, pool, sauna and steam room. Hiking trails, gardens, waterfalls, peacock aviary.

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WEB DESIGN Curious Minds Media, Inc (888) 227-1645 www.curiousm.com Coding skills and design sensibility makes Curious Minds Media the right choice for your next project. We are the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premiere provider of new media services.

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WORKSHOPS Wallkill Valley Writers (845) 255-7090 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khamherstwriters@aol.com Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator.

Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated.

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whole living guide

wellness tips for

the new year by lorrie klosterman illustration by annie internicola

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h, the New Year. A chance for new beginnings at the drop of a calendar page. New Year’s resolutions may fizzle after a few months; unrequited intentions seem to be a part of human nature. But many resolutions are indeed fulfilled, at least enough so to launch a new direction. Changes toward a healthier lifestyle are often in the mix.

How does your current reality differ from your greatest vision for yourself?

What steps could get the reality closer to the vision?

Some of our area’s health practitioners told us what comes to mind as their top tips to escort you to wellness, not just at the turn of a year, but anytime.

EXERCISING WILL AND POWER Dr. David Ness, a leading sports chiropractor based in New Paltz, treats a lot of the area’s top elite runners and triathletes. He recommends that you “have a vision and a plan for how you want to feel physically, mentally, and spiritually. Write it down. Read it daily, visualize it, and take action.” As an expert in physical fitness, he says that scheduling exercise into your weekly routine is key. “Some how, some way, exercise three to five times per week, for 30 to 60 minutes, minimum.”

To help keep up a commitment to the schedule, especially if it’s new to your routine, Ness advises, “Set specific days and times to do your favorite routine. Be it yoga, Pilates, tai chi, running, biking, or going to the gym to work out. Do it on set days for set times. Vary the types of exercise you do to help build a balanced body. Alternate between strength training days and aerobic training days. If you are the type of person who cannot self motivate, pay someone to motivate you!” This could mean investing in a personal trainer or coach, Ness says, or ordering a few yoga, Pilates, or other exercise DVDs to do at home. “The same rules apply, though. You must set specific days and times to do your routine, and stick with it.”

Ness also emphasizes the importance of taking time to rest and recover. “If you have to be in one posture or position for a long time, try to find the time to use the opposite muscles and body position to balance the body out. Doing this will help you avoid overuse and repetitive strain injuries related to sports, work, musical instruments, and hobbies.”

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SPEAKING OF YOGA Yoga continues to be a very popular exercise avenue. But it’s much more.

“Yoga is for everyone,” says Debi DiPeso Medeski, director of BlissYoga Center in Woodstock. “That is one thing I love about it. There are many reasons why one should start or maintain a regular yoga practice. On a physical level, yoga brings increased stamina, flexibility, and healthy bones and joints. On a psychological level, yoga can improve concentration, lift your mood, and heighten your attention span. And then there are biochemical benefits such as decreases in cholesterol and blood pressure.”

But yoga’s advantages go beyond those realms, she adds. “It is a way of connecting to our life force through our breath, and to our spirit through meditation.Yoga means union—to yoke or unite. I believe we are all looking for the union between our selves, each other, and the natural world around us. Conscious community is essential in this day and age—there is a big shift in human evolution coming, and we can prepare ourselves for it with a steady and dedicated spiritual practice. We are in a time where it is important to stay grounded to the earth, to increase our capability to hear what it needs, to be aware of our actions and to learn how to move with gentleness and grace.

Yoga teaches all of this. We have much work to do in our lives. It is why we are here—to grow and to become more aware beings. Ram Dass once said that the most important thing that I can do for you is to work on myself, and the most important thing you can do for me is to work on yourself. Practicing yoga in any or all of its forms is one of the best things we can do for ourselves, for each other, and for our mother earth.”

DiPeso Medeski gives these tips to starting a yoga practice. Check out a few studios in your area and make sure that you connect to the space, the teachers, and the students. Start with a beginner class, and then buy a class card package, which gives you several sessions for the up-front price. “That ensures a commitment so you’ll stick with it.” Once you’ve started, be patient with yourself. Allow for the teachings and enjoyment of yoga to work its magic gradually and peacefully. “Learn to let whatever comes up rise to the surface, and practice observing. You will soon see old patterns fall away as you create more inner space for new possibilities to arise. Tapping into your highest potential can be scary and exciting, so just enjoy the ride.”

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FEASTING FOR HEALTH AS IF ECONOMICS MATTERED Vicki Koenig, a nutritionist with a private practice based in New Paltz, was one of the first people in the Hudson Valley to practice nutrition counseling.

She works with individuals and businesses, and is nutritionist for Stonyfield Farm in New Hampshire (and authors its Wellness Moosletter online, as well as answering customer questions). “You have the new year, and an interesting and challenging economic time,” she says. “So how do you accomplish your goals for health when there are other pressures in life? How do you manage? This is what life is right now. So, let’s prioritize.”

Buying organic foods is important, even thought they still tend to be more expensive than conventionally grown foods. “It’s important to look at the big picture for your health and the planet’s, and for farmers’ health,” says Koenig. “The main foods to emphasize when choosing organic over conventional are dairy products, meat, and certain produce. Organic is best for dairy and for meat because you’re sure you’re not getting antibiotics or hormones fed to cows, and you’re supporting local producers.You get better quality.” For fruits and vegetables, buy organic when you can. Also, check a guide to see which ones are sprayed the most and the least (e.g., Stonyfield’s Shoppers’ Guide to Pesticides in Produce, available at www.stonyfield.com). The guide lists the dozen fresh fruits and vegetables in stores that consistently have the highest pesticide residues, and the dozen that consistently have the least. Those with the most are apples, bell peppers, celery, cherries, grapes (imported), nectarines, peaches, pears, potatoes, red raspberries, spinach, and strawberries. Produce with consistently low residues of pesticides are asparagus, avocados, bananas, broccoli, cauliflower, corn (sweet), kiwi, mangos, onions, papaya, pineapples, and sweet peas. And, contrary to what you may think, frozen vegetables and fruits can be nutritionally superior to fresh produce. “They were usually picked and frozen in the same day,” says Koenig.

“They are higher in vitamin C and B vitamins than produce that’s been sitting around while it’s transported, and then in the fridge for a week.”

One way to save some bucks and garner health advantages is to cut back on portion size. Many folks are trying to loose some weight, so eating a little less helps, while also saving money. Koenig recommends eating smaller portions of animal protein in particular. “They are the most expensive item on your plate. Eating more vegetarian meals is a good thing to do. Make bean soup or chili—you can do quite beautiful meals with beans. Experiment with tofu and tempeh. This is a great opportunity to get together with a group of people to share vegetarian recipes or experiment with them.”

Koenig has a host of other suggestions to save money and still eat well.

“Bring your lunch more often to work. Have heated-up leftovers. At restaurants, look for coupons or cards that give you a free entrée after having bought a certain number. Another idea is buying foods in bulk if you eat them regularly. A natural food store often will give you 10 percent off. If you can’t put up that much money at once, buy with a group of friends or with family. This might be a good time to join a cooperative buying club where you can buy cases of items, or large bulk amounts at a discount, then split it up.”

YOUR WHOLE HEALTH PORTRAIT Naturopathic Doctor and acupuncturist Sam Schikowitz, based in New Paltz, describes health as “an overarching measure of the quality of life.” He sees the New Year as a good time to reflect on your past and think about what you would like more of in your future. “I suggest expanding the tradition of new year’s resolutions into a yearly goal-setting session,” says Schikowitz. “Goals often focus on work and career. However, we feel better about goals and benefit more when we include social/family goals and personal growth/health goals.

As a naturopathic doctor, improving the health of my patients can include addressing any or all of these categories.”

The following are four goals that Schikowitz encourages his patients to make and to keep, so they may experience the biggest improvement in health: 1. Listen to your body and feelings more. “Not paying attention to these inner sources of wisdom is one of the most common roots of disease. Pay attention to the stress in your life, and find ways to minimize it. This could include changing your life or just incorporating stress-reduction techniques or acupuncture into your life. Spend more time in the present with joyful activities like art, movement, and music.”

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2. Eat better! Schikowitz recommends three main areas: Watch your blood sugar. Eat regular meals. Combine carbohydrates with protein, fat, or fiber, and get protein in the morning. Be careful with sugary foods.

Reduce toxicity in your diet. Boycott or reduce factory farmed animal products, especially farmed salmon and conventional butter.

Schikowitz’s website has links to help find the least-toxic seafood and produce (www.trueabundancehealth.com).

Increase the vitality of your food. Local, organic, fresh, unprocessed foods have more available nutrients and less degradation. Shop around the outside of the grocery store and avoid the packaged goods in the middle.

3. Move your body! “The body moves best in the early afternoon,” says Schikowitz. “But people who schedule exercise first thing in the morning are more likely to keep their regimen consistently. There are several categories of exercise, and Schikowitz recommends participating in a variety: Cardiovascular or interval training, strength training, flexibility training, including Pilates and yoga, and integrated activities like dance classes, sports, or martial arts that integrate movement with skill and a little adrenaline. One of these activities, like jogging, biking, or yoga, can be used as an outdoor or meditative activity.” At minimum, he says, do one to three activities per week.

4. Get help! “Work with someone who can help you clarify your specific needs, tailor your regimen safely and effectively to meet those needs, and put the whole picture into perspective. Find a holistic practitioner can guide you through the maze of decisions about diet, exercise, lifestyle, medications, herbs and supplements, emotional issues, and other health-related questions.”

CAN YOU DO IT? YES, YOU CAN! Blair Glaser, a multidimensional psychotherapist based in Woodstock and New York City, applauds the intention of moving toward greater wellness at the beginning of each year, but knows that for many people “the gulf between knowing what to do, and doing, is wide. It can be so difficult to find the time and space to do things—even those that make us feel good.” Looking a little deeper at the psychology of motivation, she says that what blocks us from acting on things that we know will make us feel good may sometimes be “a deep and unexamined level of self-judgment that is too entrenched to allow for the movement towards good things. The prospect of change, even for the better, can be so daunting that it that takes some people a minor crisis—and other people a major one—to move toward health.”

How to tackle this quandary? “If you relate to this dilemma,” says Glaser, “I would suggest to first contemplate readiness for well being—imagining what it would feel like to be ready to have space in your world for more healthy things. Imagining what it would feel like to move effortlessly toward things that make you feel good, and how you might feel after doing them.

How would increasing your health and happiness affect your relationships?

It is a preliminary process of invitation and letting go, rather than doing.”

Then, maybe you can find a few minutes each day, for starters, to take action. “Can you find one thing that you love to do, that centers you in just being?,” Glaser asks. “Connecting with a beloved pet or person, listening to music, meditating or creating a piece of artwork—these simple things enhance emotional and spiritual well being. These days I walk my dog every morning for at least 30 minutes, with few exceptions. Having another being to attend to motivates me to get outside, and the daily ritual is very valuable to both of us. Some days, as I get my body moving and my heart rate up, I feel everything inside wake up and fall into place. My breath deepens. I appreciate the quality of the air, the way the light hits the bare trees or the way the wind whispers in my ear; I feel my own heart as I enjoy walking besides my happy dog. Other days, I am lost in a cloud of thought, and I must strain to turn my focus away from the endless stream of internal chatter in order to take in my surroundings. Either way, it is a great ritual for starting the day and marking where I am as each day begins, and it helps me assess the tone of the day.”

And, Glaser reminds us, “Whether you take steps to better yourself or not, love yourself no matter what.”

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Friday January 16, 7:30 pm Talk: Native American Healing Wisdom Saturday & Sunday January 17 & 18 Workshop: Coyote Wisdom All events at

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Introduction to Healing Practices Inspired by Indigenous Knowledge Talk $20 suggested donation Workshop $175 suggested donation To Register or for Information Call (845) 247-8839 Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical psychology and has been on the faculties of several medical schools. He is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy of books on what Native culture has to offer the modern world. He is of Cherokee and Lakota heritage.

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Flowers Fall

Field Notes from a Buddhist Mom’s Experimental Life

By Bethany Saltman

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

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

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appy NewYear.There is so much to celebrate.Why not start with an ode to chicken fat? One of my favorite moments in the whole world is when the perfectly roasted chicken’s been carved and eaten and I am “clearing the table.” I stand over the stove where the roasting pan, filled with toasty brown bits and sticky, caramel-colored jus waits for me, and we commune. Scraping the spoon along the bottom of the pan, my desire—my entire body—is so totally consumed that I am no longer a Jewish mother (one of many at any given moment, I imagine) shoveling grease into her mouth. Nor am I Buddhist. There is only, as they say, this: salty, fatty, sweet delight. Okay, maybe it’s an inherited pleasure (Thanks, Dad…I think), an acquired taste, but it’s one I would like to impart to my daughter. Not the lust for drippings, necessarily, but a deep appreciation of earthly bliss, homey pleasure, of life handled with care, attention, even passion.

‘Tis the season, after all. Short, cold days, a fire in the wood stove, lavender-scented water steaming on top of it…an out-of-nowhere urge to bake cookies. Some people fantasize about their kids going to a good college, getting a secure job, or subverting the dominant paradigm. Doing great things.

I have daydreams—on a regular basis I might add—about Azalea’s inner life, feeling-states I hope she experiences. For instance, I hope the blue lights we strung up in her room brighten her heart like they do mine; and that the pine incense T and I burn when we do zazen will always remind her of the ordinary pleasantness of mornings in her childhood home. And maybe one day a table set with great-grandma’s buttercup Wedgwood, Moroccan glasses, and batik cloth napkins will make her…happy, as happy as setting it for her makes me.

It’s not complicated, really. It’s just pleasure, right? However we can find it.

The world is going to hell in a hand basket. We do what we can.

And yet, there’s more. The love I feel for Azalea is such a mystery to me. As I have written here before, I am not always able to behave in accord with my feelings every minute of every day, and those moments of disconnect, though everyone tells me that they’re normal, still cause me anguish and her, I’m sure, suffering as well. Ouch. So when I find ways I can really give to my girl, I need to let it rip. Cooking for her has become one of those ways—introducing her to delicious-ness, and fortifying her little body, one well-planned meal at a time. I have always been a fairly whole-foods cook, but Azalea inspires me to be more wholesome, to cut down even more on packaging and processing, to really get to the heart of her food, putting my hands on everything she will eat, as in, Let’s make yogurt! And I feel more motivated to take care of everyone else too, by generating less waste, taking the time to make more mindful choices, reigning in my own desire and laziness. What can I say? I love her so much, I want to churn butter.

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Of course the truth is that Azalea would be happy to eat grilled cheese for every meal, and I feel self-conscious about spending so much money on organic produce and grassfed meat (Go Fleisher’s!), and of becoming this woman who thinks about “feeding her family” all day long. (Ummm, when, exactly, did I start reading “women’s magazines” and finding them helpful?)

I also feel ridiculous trying to wedge my edgy self onto the cozy-train, the quiet, gentle revolution of hipster knitting circles, Etsy-mania (a website— www.etsy.com—where crafty people sell their insanely cute homemade wares), chicken coops cropping up like cell towers, homesteader reality-TV shows, growing packs of “unschooled” kids, oodles of blogs with names like “Thoughts on Literature, Food, Faith, and the Subversive Power of Living Small,” where mostly women wax poetic about things like pasture butter, family dinners, and comparing pictures of their...pantries. It’s enough to make an average do-gooder such as myself feel like a coarse couch potato.

And we don’t even own a TV. Believe me, I am riveted by pantry porn, but I don’t think this Michigan girl is cut out for that much grooviness. As hard as I try, I will never be that earthy.

And maybe my longing for Azalea to live in a beautiful world is just so much preciousness, and limited by my own narcissistic fantasies. Probably.

Just watch—she’ll become a utilitarian computer nerd who never combs her hair (in which case maybe she’ll throw me a bone and let me put some Australian sandalwood on the dreadlocks that will surely sprout?). Or maybe I am just making excuses in lieu of doing more to really heal the world, trying to convince myself that my job as Azalea’s mom is important enough to actually get into…as in, how dare I enjoy planning menus for one well-heeled toddler when people—billions of real, live, other-mom’s-children, people—are suffering; in fact, starving? It’s a really good question, and one that I don’t take lightly. Who exactly am I to do such a thing? Who granted me this privilege of having enough? Who could possibly deserve such bounty? Maybe the billions of suffering masses. But me?

And finally, beneath all the tender homemaking I can muster, there is the haunting truth that it is all a dream. No amount of bean-filled mason jars or hand-knit sweaters can hide the chaos, the fact that Azalea may not come home from school today. T could fall in love with someone else. Our home could burn to the ground. And worse.

My vow for this New Year is to appreciate my life. That doesn’t mean I let myself off the hook, or stop trying to stretch myself beyond the comfy walls of even the most joyful kitchen. Cooking for Azalea is great. Feeding the universe is profound. Allowing myself to be nourished is cause for celebration.

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108 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7178 Peter Dubitsky, L.Ac., Callie Brown, L.Ac., and Leslie Wiltshire, L.Ac. Mr. Dubitsky is a faculty member and the Director of Clinical Training at the Tri-State College of Acupuncture, and a member of the NY State Board for Acupuncture.

Ms. Brown and Ms. Wiltshire each have years of acupuncture experience in private practice and in medical offices. We are all highly experienced, national board certified, NYS Licensed acupuncturists. We combine traditional Asian acupuncture techniques with a modern understanding of acupuncture and Oriental medicine to provide effective treatments of acute and chronic pain conditions, and other medical disorders. In addition to our general practice we also offer a Low-cost Acupuncture Clinic which is available for all people who meet our low income guidelines.

Carrie Andress 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-5575 Carrie Andress, a NYS licensed nationally board certified acupuncturist, also has NYS certification in Chinese Medicine. Carrie specializes in relieving acute and chronic pain. Additional training in Acupressure, Applied Kinesiology, Cranio Sacral Therapy, Acupressure, and Chinese Medicine, allows Carrie to start the healing process for a variety of diseases and internal disorders. You can reach Carrie at her office in Gardiner, NY (845) 674-3778.

Classical Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs 303 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 853-7353 For those looking for a radical, no-nonsense approach to pain, physical, mental, and spiritual dis-ease or discomfort, Dylana Accolla and Classical Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs offers 17 years of experience in the healing arts. Co-author of Back to Balance: a Self-Help Guide to Far East Asian Remedies, Dylana trained in bodywork, qigong, and tai ji chuan in Japan, graduated from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, and completed post-graduate studies at the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Cheng-Du, China. She specializes in gynecological and fertility work. Her practice is wide-ranging, including treatment of allergies, asthma, bronchitis, chronic and acute pain,

depression and anxiety, digestive issues, fatigue, gallstones, headaches, lingering common colds, Lyme disease, menopausal issues, prostate problems, sleep disorders, vertigo and dizziness, and weakened immune systems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dylanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach is dynamic. Her results are dramatic. Her practice brings about life-changing epiphanies, releasing pain and trauma.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Satisfied Patient

Earthbound Herbs and Acupuncture Kingston, NY (845) 339-5653 www.earthboundapothecary.com Creating health in partnership with nature.

Effective, informative healthcare based in the profound traditions of Chinese medicine. Both private and community acupuncture ($15-$35 sliding scale) is available to ensure affordability to all. Apothecary specializes in local, organic Asian and native herbs available in bulk, tincture, tea mixtures and much more. Workshops, apprenticeships, garden tours. Founded by Hillary Thing, MS, LAc., Professor and Clinic Supervisor at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in NYC, with over 10 years of clinical experience. Main office located in Kingston; home office and gardens in Accord.

High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acupuncture, Oriental Medicine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac. 87 East Market Street, Suite 102 Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com At High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, patients enjoy an advanced level of care, based on the ancient tradition of Oriental Medicine, enhanced by approaches developed through modern research. Regaining healthy balance in an environment full of stressors may call for more than one modality â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all five of the professionally practiced branches of Taoist healing arts are offered. Over 16 years experience.

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060 For the past 18 years, Dr. Hoon J. Park has been practicing a natural and gentle approach to pain management for conditions such as arthritis, chronic and acute pain in neck, back, and legs, fibromyalgia, motor vehicle and work-related injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, and more by integrating physical therapy modalities along with acupuncture. Dr. Hoon Park is a board-certified physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and electrodiagnostic studies. His experienced, friendly staff offer the most comprehensive and individualized rehabilitative care available.

Please call the office to arrange a consultation.

New patients and most insurances are accepted. Half mile south of the Galleria Mall.

Mid-Hudson Acupunctureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; William Weinstein, L.Ac. New Paltz and Manhattan, NY (845) 255-2070 or (212) 695-3565 www.mhacu.com Announcing MEI ZEN COSMETIC ACUPUNCTURE at Mid-Hudson Acupuncture.

Present yourself the way you wish to be. Feel great inside! Look great outside!ÂŽ Personalized, unhurried treatment tailored to your specific needs. ALSO: Relief from headache, migraine, arthritis, carpal tunnel, TMJ/TMD, repetitive strain, rotator cuff injury, and stress-related syndromes stemming from the modern lifestyle.

Support through chronic illness, including relief from the adverse effects of cancer care. NHAI, Oxford, Elderplan. MC/V/D. New Paltz: 218 Main Street. Manhattan: 119 West 23rd Street.

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Judith Muir—The Alexander Technique (845) 677-5871 www.JudithMuir.com The Alexander Technique is a simple practical skill that when applied to ourselves enhances coordination, promoting mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Improve the quality of your life by learning how to do less to achieve more.

Judith Muir, AmSAT.

APOTHECARY Dr. Tom’s Tonics 6384 Mill Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5556 www.drfrancescott.com info@drfrancescott.com The Hudson Valley’s first and only true alternative to today’s drug store with a naturopathic doctor on-site. A natural pharmacy, providing the community with innovative natural medicines along with Dr. Tom’s own professional formulations. Specializing in best quality fish oils, probiotics, proteins, detox products, and now pet remedies. Walk into Dr. Tom’s Tonics and let Dr. Tom help you and your pet achieve better health.

AROMATHERAPY Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net

Essence MediSpa, LLC—Stephen Weinman, MD 222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.com Named “Most Affordable Skin Care Hudson Valley,” the Essence MediSpa specializes in skin rejuvenation and anti-aging treatments.

Non-surgical treatments for age spots and skin lesions, teeth whitening, Botox Cosmetic, laser hair removal, non-surgical skin tightening using the Thermage System, Varicose and Spider Vein treatment, Microdermabrasion, chemical peels, acne treatments, facials, and massage services.

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

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

Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz.

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(845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes, LMSW ATR-BC. Short-term counseling and in-depth psychoanalytic arts-based psychotherapy. Activates creative imagination to enhance healing and problem solving for life transitions, bereavement, trauma, and dissociative disorders. Women’s clay group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, and teens. Poughkeepsie and Gardiner locations.

ASTROLOGY Planet Waves Kingston, NY (877) 453-8265 www.planetwaves.net Offering a weekly newsletter with news, astrology, and horoscopes. Private astrological consultations by appointment.

Spirit Root Services (845) 897-3280 Spirit Root Services: The Astrological Wheel and Your Natal Chart Consultations, Chart Relocations—Astrocartography, Transits and Progressions, Composite Charts—couples, parents, and children. Regular classes for all levels.

The spiritual alchemy practices of ancient Taoist sorcerers and Shaolin Buddhist monks, yielded these two treasures of Chinese internal Gung Fu. Chi Gung: This meditative practice incorporates and integrates both stillness and motion to strengthen the body and mind. Its deep breathing techniques, stretching and massaging of the acupuncture meridians, tendons, ligaments and muscles helps to fend off disease and old age. It prepares the body to withstand the rigorous training of Martial Arts and helps us to live a long life, free of degenerative diseases. Tai Chi Chuan, based on the same principles as Chi Gung, further embodies the expression of our intrinsic energy (CHI) in general physical movement and stillness meditation, as well as the deeply intricate movements found in the self-defense aspect of the Tai Chi form. Both of these practices were founded on the combination of Shaolin Buddhist meditation, Shaolin martial body mechanics and Taoist spiritual alchemy, but the first step in attaining results in these arts depends on setting the body and mind to the true nature of things…there are no short cuts. These esoteric practices have brought health, vitality, and youthfulness to me and my students, some of whom are in their 70s and 80s. The only requirements for Chi Gung and Tai Chi Chuan are determined practice of the principles and the will to persevere.

CHIROPRACTIC

BODY & SKIN CARE

Dr. David Ness

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(845) 255-1200 www.drness.com

Springbrook Medical Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7100 www.absolute-laser.com Absolute Laser, LLC offers commitment to beautiful skin through outstanding care and service. Offering Laser Hair Removal, Microdermabrasion, Vitalize Peel, and Fotofacial RF. The Fotofacial RF is the next generation in high-tech skin enhancement. These gentle, no downtime treatments are used to improve cosmetic appearance of the face, neck, hands, and body. The results are brighter, smoother, more radiant, and luminescent skin. This process delivers results that skin care products alone cannot do! Recover and rediscover the youth and vitality of your skin. Call for a complimentary consultation: Janice DiGiovanni.

Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner specializing in helping athletes and active people quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries. In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today.

Exelbert Chiropractic 4311 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY (845) 229-8868

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Therapeutic massage annie serrante, lmt, lmsw 25+ years experience For more information: 255-3337 ext. 1

GENTLE YOGA JENNIFER HUNDERFUND, RYT, lmt Fridays, 12-1pm — Core strengthening and hip openers Drop-in rate: $12. Monthly rate: $40 (255-3337 for info.)

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

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Classes for All Levels Offered 7 Days a Week UPCOMING AT SATYA YOGA CENTER

Very Beginner Yoga Series with Max Leeming in Rhinebeck Sundays, January 18 Ð February 8 12:30Ð1:30 pm, $65/series

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New YearÕs Day Benefit Class in Rhinebeck Thursday, January 1 1:30Ð3:00 pm, by donation

Satya Yoga Center 6400 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 845.876.2528 352 Main Street, Catskill, NY 518.943.3929 satyayogacenter @ gmail.com

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January 16-18 Calligraphy in Color with Kaz Tanahashi Winter Tracking with Jim Bruchac January 23-25 Beginner’s Kyudo with Marion Taylor The Haiku Path with Stanford Forrester For information please call 845-688-2228 www.mro.org/zmm/retreats Mountains & Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism

Mancarella Chiropractic—Dr. Antonio Mancarella 68 West Cedar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-3558 Located near Marist and Saint Francis.

Practicing for 21 years. Combining traditional chiropractic therapy with current rehabilitation and core strengthening exercises. Most insurance accepted including Worker’s Compensation, No Fault, and Medicare.

Convenient early morning and late evening appointments available.

CLEANING SERVICES— NONTOXIC Bless Your Hearth—Truly Natural Cleaning Services (845) 706-8447 Soundofspheres@aol.com Experienced, professional, non-toxic cleaning and organizing service. Pet sitting. Home/ business blessings. Excellent references.

COLON HEALTH CARE/ COLONICS Connie Schneider—Certified Colon Therapist

71 Main St. New Paltz

New Year Cleanse

New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1516 www.hudsonvalleycolonics.com

Kriya Yoga workshop with Michael Stein Learn ancient and modern practices to purify the body and support the immune system.

Colon hydrotherapy or colonics is a gentle approach to colon health. A healthy digestive tract helps support a healthy immune system, improving overall health, basics for a healthy lifestyle. Herbal Detox Programs available. See display ad.

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Preregistration required (845)430-7402

IONE—Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.org IONE is psycho-spiritual therapist, Qi Healer and inter-faith minister, who is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in myth and heritage, dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates writing workshops and Women’s Mysteries programs and leads retreats to sacred locations throughout the world. An author and playwright, her works include Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color and Listening in Dreams. Offices in Kingston and New York City. Fax: (845) 331-6624.

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

FAMILY THERAPY Laura Coffey, MFA, LMSW Rosendale, NY (845) 399-0319 undefinedreading@gmail.com Family Therapist specializing in Narrative Therapy. Practice includes eclectic interventions tailored to suit individual client’s needs.

Healing conversations for the entire family, gerentological services for the elderly and support for caretakers. Grief counseling, motivational interviewing for substance abuse, couples work, LGBT issues, PTSD and childhood trauma, depression, anxiety and performance anxiety. Fee: $25.00 a clinical hour.

GOURMET CHOCOLATE FRUIT ARRANGEMENTS Edible Arrangements Kingston, NY (845) 339-3200 www.ediblearrangements.com Over 600 stores nationwide!

HEALING CENTERS

Multi-Dimensional Psychotherapy—Blair Glaser, MA, LCAT, RDT

6384 Mill Street, Rhinebeck , NY (845) 876-5556

CRYSTALS & WELL-BEING

Board Cer tified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

(845) 679-7327 www.petpaintingusa.com

Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center

Bridge the gap between desire and potential by trying something new: SpiritPlay drama therapy is a powerful and fun-filled group process, and for individuals/couples looking to increase their connection to self and others, Multi-Dimensional Psychotherapy combines traditional counseling with creativity, intuition, spiritual philosophy, and energy work to support empowered living. NY licensed Creative Arts Therapist.

Hoon J. Park, MD, P.C.

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Woodstock, NY www.blairglaser.com (845) 679-4140

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Crystals & Well-Being Center 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, NY (845) 888-2547 crystalshealing.googlepages.com crystalswellbeing@gmail.com Dedicated to your body and soul, the center offers a large selection of spectacular and energetically powerful crystals, holistic gifts, books, and jewelry at extremely competitive prices. Also, in this breathtaking space, our licensed massage therapists, acupuncturist, chiropractor, and certified energy healers will move your energy and pain away. Healing per appointment. Contact us for info on upcoming events and Qi-Classes schedule.

Gift Certificates available. Located inside the renovated yellow church.

We are focused on providing the best, most comprehensive natural health care for the entire family in the Hudson Valley. We strive to work together as a team to help treat our clients.

Our professional staff includes: Dr. Thomas J. Francescott, ND (Integrative Naturopathic Medicine); Sequoia Neiro, LMT (Therapeutic Massage); Anne Ballantine, LAc (Acupuncture); Myrna Sadowsky, LCSW (Psychotherapy); Jana Vengrin, RN, NP (Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner); Chris VanOrt (ONDAMED®).

The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing (845) 255-3337 A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Offering Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Psychotherapy, Reiki, Counseling, Yoga, Goddess Workshops, Resonance Repatterning, and Kabbalistic Healing and Meditation. Classes in Spontaneous Theater, Toning, NVC. Call for an appointment.

HEALTH FOOD STORES Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500, ext. 1 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org An Organic and Natural Grocery Store.

Hawthorne Valley Farm Store features delicious foods made here on our Biodynamic organic farm, including raw milk, artisan cheese, yogurt, homemade bread, and desserts. We also feature local and organic fruits and vegetables,

holistic body care, and homeopathic remedies.

We are part of Hawthorne Valley Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable agriculture, education, and the arts. Our farming practices reflect our commitment to the Earth and our education programs raise awareness of the social, ecological, and economic importance of agriculture in our daily lives.

performance; enhance creativity. Other issues.

Change your outlook. Gain Control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC

John M. Carroll, Healer

(845) 485-5933

Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com

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 BodyCentered Therapy Directory.

Madhuri Therapeuticsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bringing Health to Balance Alice Velky LMT, RYT (845) 797-4124 madhurihealing@optonline.net A Yoga-based mind-body approach for adults, children, and special needs populations of all ages. Gentle, safe and effective treatment for ASDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, developmental, attention and learning differences; anxiety, depression, chronic pain & immune syndromes. Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga for the Special Child, Licensed Massage Therapy, Reiki, and other traditional healing modalities can return you, your child or loved one to a naturally balanced state of health and harmony.

Namaste. We look forward to working with you!

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies

Omega Institute is in its fourth decade of awakening the best in the human spirit. Join us for Winter Learning Vacations in Costa Rica and St. John and keep your eye on our websiteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;our 2009 Rhinebeck season will be for sale soon.

Ron Figueroa, MA, CHT (845) 399-2098 www.centerforwholelifehealing.com

HOMEOPATHY Hudson Valley School of Classical Homeopathy (845) 255-6141

Suzy Meszoly, DSH/Classical Homeopathy (845) 626-7771 Safe, effective, natural, individualized homeopathic health care for chronic and acute illness. Suzy Meszoly is an internationally trained and experienced homeopath, hands on healer and counselor. Using a gentle approach suitable for newborns, infants, pregnant moms, adults, and the elderly for a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional issues.

HYPNOSIS Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753 A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotism, hypnocoaching with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential.

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

LIFE COACHING Jessica Thayer, LLC 1 (800) 291-5576 www.jessicathayer.com

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Serving artists, healers, creatives, and other sensitives called to integrate their rich interior worlds into their daily lives. When therapy for the past fails to provide the tools for the future.

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

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

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John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the God-given gift of his hands.

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Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Katie Hoffstatter, LMT, Gia Polk, LMT 243 Main Street, Suite 220, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 Are your muscles feeling tight and congested?

Are you dealing with stress from emotional, physical or environmental causes? Do you just feel overwhelmed? Our conscientious and skilled NY Licensed Massage Therapists can help you discover a place of ease within your body, mind, and spirit. Let us help you to feel whole! Craniosacral, Energy Healing, Therapeutic Massage and Health Kinesiology.

Monday-Friday 8:30am-7pm, Saturday 9am3pm.

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes. Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter.

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Madhuri Therapeutics—Bringing Health to Balance Alice Velky LMT, RYT (845) 797-4124 madhurihealing@optonline.net Whether your goal is to relieve stress and pain, address a health concern, or simply to pamper yourself — our tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offers individualized sessions to nourish and repair body, mind, and spirit with Licensed Massage Therapy, Reiki, Polarity & Chakra Balancing, and Therapeutic Yoga; flower essences, all-natural and organic oils, herbs and body products; 16 years experience.

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

MEDITATION Kadampa Meditation Center 47 Sweeny Road, Glen Spey, NY (845) 856-9000 www.kadampaNewYork.org

Zen Mountain Monastery South Plank Road, Mount Tremper, NY (845) 688-2228 Offering year-round retreats geared to all levels of experience: introductions to Zen meditation, and practice; programs exploring Zen arts, Buddhist studies, and social action, and intensive meditation retreats.

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

Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN 7 Innis Avenue, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2398 www.Nutrition-wise.com Try my cost-effective web-based Health Coaching for $30/month. Nutrition counseling: combining traditional and integrative solutions to enhance well-being. Corporate Wellness presentations and programs for businesses wanting to improve employee productivity.

Providing help with Diabetes, Cardiovascular conditions, Weight, Digestive support, Women’s health, and Pediatric Nutrition. Creating Wellness for individuals and businesses.

OSTEOPATHY Stone Ridge Healing Arts

(845) 876-5556

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NUTRITION Ilyse Simon RD, CDN Nutrition Therapist 318 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6381 www.ilysesimonrd.com Fat is not a feeling and “Diet” is a four-letter word. Food is neither good nor bad. Ilyse works with people with eating disorders and disordered thinking. Spanning the range of emotional and stress eating to chronic eating disorders, Ilyse uses a gentle but firm approach with her clients. Clients range in age from 11 and up, all sexes. With a degree from a Bastyr University of Natural Medicine, her counseling has a holistic approach. She guides clients to understand that the eating disorder is not about food. When food and emotions become woven together, Ilyse can help her clients untangle these two separate entities. The non-diet approach gives permission to eat all foods, decreasing the attachment to former forbidden foods. She works in a team approach with therapists and medical professionals. “Life is not black and white. Living is the full spectrum in between.”

Roy Capellaro, PT 120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 518-1070 www.roycapellaro.com Listening. Touch. Quiet. The interface of structure and energy. There are optimum ways of working with out of balance states in our body, utilizing the hierarchy of forces within us. I have been a manual physical therapist for over 30 years, specializing in gently unlocking the roots of structural dysfunctions and their associated patterns. Zero Balancing. Craniosacral Therapy.

Muscle Energy Technique. Ontology.

PILATES Conscious Body 426 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8400 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. We are perceptive, experienced, and certified instructors who would love to help you achieve your goals whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus, mat classes, cardio circuit and combined cardio/Pilates classes available.

Visit our studio on Main Street in Rosendale.

The Centering Studio 3752 Route 9G @ IXL Fitness (membership not required), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5114 www.thecenteringstudio.com Deni Bank, owner, has been teaching the Pilates Method in Rhinebeck since 1996, helping

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Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated?

Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees.

(845) 485-5933

Lorry Salluzzi Sensei

Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

(845) 688-5672 www.psychic-healer.tv lorrysallu@yahoo.com

Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathy physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We have studied with Robert Fulford, DO; Viola Freyman, DO; James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO; and completed a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.

ONDAMED®, FDA-Approved Device

(845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC

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PAIN MANAGEMENT

Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW

PSYCHICS

“Psychic Readings & Reiki Plus Healing” for Upstate is only $1 & includes: Energy Healing, ETPS Therapy, Tuning Fork Therapy and minipsychic reading. $1 per minute, you decide the cost of your session. Reiki I Certification $50, Reiki II $100, ART $100, Master $500.

NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE

I seek to inspire and transform people and their lives with authentic and personalized natural health care. I offer holistic and natural solutions to challenging health issues and alternatives to conventional drugs. Women, men and children benefit from Dr. Tom’s skill in identifying the underlying cause of their symptoms. Dr. Tom specializes in: testing and balancing neurotransmitters and hormones; supporting the adrenals and thyroid; and helping your body and mind with detoxification and inflammation.

clients build strength and flexibility to relieve the imbalances created by the wear and tear of life. Pilates is taught in private or small group classes and is non-competitive and non-impact.

Working on the Pilates apparatus and mats with our team of caring, creative and certified instructors, you will build deep muscle control and proper body mechanics to support you in your daily activities. Pilates helps you move through your day with ease and energy, grace and power. Special offer: New clients working with our new instructor receive 1/2 price classes through March 31, 2009.

Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com

JANUARY SPECIAL: 50% off initial treatment.

Therapists throughout Europe have been using ONDAMED® for over 10 years with great success. Patients using ONDAMED® frequencies have reported benefits on all levels of well-being: physical, emotional, and mental. ONDAMED® is a cutting-edge and FDA-approved device for pain management by reducing inflammation, promoting relaxation, smoking cessation, and improving circulation.

Offered at Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center.

(845) 876-5556 www.drfrancescott.com

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(845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com Psychic Consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 25 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and insights as a means to provide awareness of one’s life and destiny.

Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone.

PSYCHOLOGISTS Anton H. Hart, PhD 39 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY www.apapo.org/DrAntonHart/ (845) 454-2477; (212) 595-3704 antonhartphd@alum.vassar.edu Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute. Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Poughkeepsie and Manhattan Offices. Specializing in intensive long- and shortterm work with problems of anxiety, depression, relationships, career, illness, gay, straight, lesbian and transgender issues. Consultation by appointment.

Julie Zweig, MA, NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 julieezweig@gmail.com Verbal Body-Centered Psychotherapy. Julie is trained through the doctoral level in psychology (ABD for PhD), with many areas of expertise, including trauma recovery, somatic issues, body image and chronic pain, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, cross-cultural issues, attachment in adoption, spiritual issues, ACOA issues and more. Julie has 20 years of experience as a therapist. Although Julie also practices Rosen Method Bodywork, this verbal modality does not involve touch. It is termed “body-centered,” as the breath and muscle tension of the client is observed visually to enhance and deepen the work. Please see Julie’s listing under Rosen Method Bodywork.

K. Melissa Waterman, LCSW Dooley Square, 35 Main Street, #333 Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 464-8910 (845) 464-8910 therapist.psychologytoday.com/52566 My goal is to encourage and guide you to find and live from your own place of joy. I have experience helping with depression, anxiety, trauma resolution, negative thinking, work and relationship problems, spirituality issues.

Certified EMDR practitioner, Sliding scale available. Groups offered.

Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D.

Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW— Counseling & Psychotherapy

Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023

(845) 679-5511, ext. 304 kentagram@gmail.com

Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-doctoral candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunities available for intensive psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Each person’s therapy is an organic process of self-exploration and discovery, unfolding uniquely according to our different personalities.

Through conversation and reflection, this process can begin at any point. It can focus upon any life struggle or topic, from practical or relationship issues to existential or spiritual concerns. Short- or long-term; sliding scale.

PSYCHOTHERAPY Amy R. Frisch, CSWR New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229 Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults.

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

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.

Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com I work with adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disordered behaviors, loneliness and life transitions. I’ve helped teens and adults with substance abuse and trauma connected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. My approach is psychodynamic, linking the painful past with current problems, and cognitive which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.

RESORTS & SPAS Honor’s Haven Resort & Spa 1195 Arrowhead Road, Ellenville, NY (845) 210-3119 Natural healing and the modern educational breakthrough of Brain Education, a systemized method that develops brain potentials and enhances brain function, is the foundation of our wellness programs. Offered to you in the luxurious Honor’s Haven Resort & Spa.

ROSEN METHOD BODYWORK Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.RosenMethod.org; www.youtube. com/watch?v=OrwvSF2Bp_k julieezweig@gmail.com Rosen Method is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using listening hands, the practitioner focuses on chronic muscle tension.

As relaxation occurs and the breath deepens, unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge. The practitioner responds with touch and words that allow the client to begin to recognize what has been held down by unconscious muscle tension. As this process unfolds, habitual tension and old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, new choices in life, and a greater sense of well-being. Please see Julie’s listing under Psychotherapy.

SCHOOLS Institute for Integrative Nutrition (877) 730-5444; (212) 730-5433 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com Study at the largest nutrition school featuring live weekend classes in New York City with the world’s leaders in health and wellness.

SMOKING CESSATION ONDAMED® (845) 876-5556

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

SPIRITUAL Healing, Pathwork & Channeling

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

STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Hudson Valley Structural Integration 26 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4654 www.hudsonvalleysi.com Ryan Flowers and Krisha Showalter are NY State Licensed Massage Therapists with additional

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

Tarot Readings in person or by phone.

WEDDING OFFICIANTS ROOTS & WINGS P.O. Box 1081, New Paltz, NY www.rootsnwings.com/ceremonies.html 845) 255-2278 puja@rootsnwings.com Rev. Puja A. J. Thomson will help you create a heartfelt ceremony that uniquely expresses your commitment, whether you are blending different spiritual, religious, or ethnic traditions, are forging your own or share a common heritage.

Puja’s calm presence and lovely Scottish voice add a special touch. “Positive, professional, loving, focused and experienced.”

YOGA Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.com

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High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts Women’s Health: PMS, Infertility, Peri-menopause

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Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac. Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine 87 East Market St. Suite 102 Red Hook, NY 845-758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com

Offering Ashtanga/Vinyasa style yoga classes for all levels seven days a week. This style of yoga is both therapeutic and dance-like. By first warming up the body naturally we can stretch safely, gaining an understanding of how to move from our core. We also offer “Community Yoga Classes” which are by donation.

Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week.

We offer classes for every level of student. Our classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Anusara Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette, RYT and Ami Hirschstein, RYT have been teaching locally since 1995.

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The ONDAMED® protocol has been used worldwide with remarkable results. In just a few visits, patients happily stop smoking and free themselves of their nicotine addiction.

The ONDAMED® can identify energetic disturbances that occur as a result of the consumption of nicotine. “In only 1-3 sessions, 95% of our clients stop smoking.”—Dr. Beate Andreassen, Denmark... Call for Smoking Cessation package at Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center (see ondamed.net).

professional training and Certification in Structural Integration and Visceral Osteopathic Manipulation. We offer advanced manual therapy specializing in chronic pain conditions, structural/postural alignment, movement reeducation and rehabilitation. We are committed to providing a high level of skill in manual therapy, utilizing intelligent principles to guide the use of techniques, detailed visual and manual assessments and soft tissue manipulation that is communicative and receptive to the individual and their body’s systems. Free Consultations.

We can help you achieve the peace and ease of movement you are searching for in your body, in your mind, and in your spirit. CranioSacral Therapy, Energy Healing, Therapeutic Massage, Advanced Myofacial Techniques & Health Kinesiology are available to assist you with finding health. You take care of your car, why not take care of the primary vehicle that gets you through life —YOU!

Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage 243 Main St., Suite 220 Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Owner New Paltz, NY 12561 Katie Hoffstatter, LMT (845) 255-4832 / hvtm@hvc.rr.com M-F: 8:30am - 7pm Sat: 9am - 3pm

521 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com Open to the community for over 5 years.

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

Route 299, across from Econo Lodge.

Satya Yoga Center Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2528 www.satyayogarhinebeck.com Join our friendly yoga community for great classes and to meet interesting people. We offer Basics, Gentle, Svaroopa, Anusara, Iyengar, Vinyasa, All Levels, and Yoga Teacher Trainings. We also host special workshops and an inexpensive community class, both in Rhinebeck and at our Catskill location. Make an investment in yourself now!

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ART

Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock.

679-7215.

Open Atelier-Drop in and Paint 9:30am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

EVENTS Hall of Transgenic Organisms of New York State Call for times. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890.

Putting DNA to Work Call for times. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890.

Tea and Critique!

12pm-1pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

DANCE Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.

EVENTS

MUSIC Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

THE OUTDOORS Family Winter Camp Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA’s Straus Center Inn, Claryville. (800) 454-5768.

Wappingers Greenway Trail to Hudson River 12:45pm. Call for location. 462-0142.

FRIDAY 2

Dia de los Reyes 1pm-4pm. St. Joachim Gymnasium, Beacon.

838-7076.

MUSIC John Scarpulla 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Brunch CD Release Party for Yuko Kimura’s “A Beautiful Friendship” 1pm-5pm. Pearldaddy Gallery, Beacon. 765-0169.

Rick Altman Trio 7pm-9pm. Jazz. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

Vanderbilt Estate Walk 1pm. Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park. 373-8202.

MONDAY 5

EVENTS Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7pm. Featuring music Eugene Ruffolo with backup vocalist Margaret Fiellin. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia.

688-2142.

KIDS Pre-School Story Hour 10:30am-11:30am. Ages 2-5. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

MUSIC Kevin McKrell & The Hard Road Ceilidh Band Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

The Mojo Myles Band 8:30pm-1pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

The Holmes Brothers 9pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

SATURDAY 3 ART Wild Horses 5pm-7pm. Photographs by Jennifer MaHarry of wild mustangs living in California. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.Kmoca.org.

21st Century Perspectives, SUNY New Paltz Printmaking Students 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Good Enough to Eat: The Art of Food 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Decadence and Decline: 2009 7pm-12am. Windham Fine Arts Gallery, Windham.

(518) 734-6850.

DANCE Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Wide range of music spun by eclectic DJ’s. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.Freestylefrolic.org.

MUSIC Mary Fahl Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Sal Oliveri 2pm. Jazz. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Abandoned Interstate with Jesse Denaro 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Sweet Hollow Drive 8pm-10pm. Alternative. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Carrie Rodriguez Trio 8pm. $12. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

The Holmes Brothers 9pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

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CLASSES

Prez 8pm-10pm. Pop rock. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble 9pm. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

Read Hebrew America 7pm. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville. 647-5600.

MUSIC Wet Paint Call for times. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

MUSIC Musicians Open Mike 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Live Jazz 7:30pm-10pm. Terrace Lounge, Newburgh. www.robscheps.8m.net.

SPOKEN WORD Mother to Mother Circle 10:30am-12pm. Waddle ‘n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

La Rondine 6pm. Iris Bass will discuss the literature, lore, & libretto.

Lee Library, Lee, MA. (413) 243-0385.

Puccini’s La Rondine 6pm. Words Before Music series. Lee Library, Lee, MA. (413) 243-0385.

Orfeo ed Euridice 6pm. Iris Bass will discuss the literature, lore, & libretto.

Lee Library, Lee, MA. (413) 243-0385.

Poetry Open Mike with Stephen Dodge 7:30pm. $3. Downtown Cafe, Kingston. 331-5904.

Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

TUESDAY 6 ART Drop in and Paint! Louise McCutcheon 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Detox & Weight Loss 6:30pm-8pm. Dr. Tom’s Tonics, Rhinebeck. 876-5556.

CLASSES All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes.

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Snowshoe, Ski, or Hike: Undercliff/Overcliff 10am-2pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Venere Lute Quartet 7pm. $16/$14 in advance. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Karton Herz 7pm. Acoustic. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Evan Uhlman 8pm-10pm. Pop, rock. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

THE OUTDOORS Shaupeneak Ridge Morning Ranger Hike 10am-12pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus.

473-4440 ext. 222.

SPOKEN WORD Mother to Mother Circle 3pm-4:30pm. Waddle ‘n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Writing in the Light 6pm. A class and practice in writing holy teachings which bring deep healing. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

WEDNESDAY 7

FRIDAY 9

CLASSES Watercolor Studio with Len De Virgilio 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Artist’s Way with Beverly Brand Donato 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hebrew Reading Crash Course for Adults 6:30pm-8pm. Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church, LaGrangeville. 227-3327.

MUSIC Open Blues Jam 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

THE OUTDOORS Project FeederWatch 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Percussionist Doug Elliot 7pm-10pm. Jazz, world music. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

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MUSIC

Rhinebeck Board Game Afternoon 1pm-3pm. Adults only. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-8799.

THE OUTDOORS Van Leuven Cabin Hike and Photo Shoot 10am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

CLASSES

EVENTS

THURSDAY 8

ART Two Views of the Hudson Valley 6pm-8pm. Paintings by Marybeth Blum and Paul Sandiford. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff.

876-2903.

CLASSES Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

KIDS Pre-School Story Hour 10:30am-11:30am. Ages 2-5. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

MUSIC The Cathie Ryan Band Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Peggy Gould: From Within & Outside a Bright Room 7:30pm. $16. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Rockapella 8pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Addictive Tragedy 8pm-10pm. Alternative folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

John Schrader Band 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

Guy Davis 9pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Big Kahuna 10pm. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.

Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Thunder Ridge 10pm. The Celtic House, Fishkill. 896-1110.

CLASSES

SPOKEN WORD

Painting Watercolor 9:30am-12:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Practicing Peace 1:30am-1pm. Weekly practice group focusing on the work of Marshall Rosenberg. Call for location. www.practicingpeace-NewPaltz.com.

Beginning Oil Painting 9:30am-12:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Calligraphy I 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique class. $90/month. Dutch Reformed Church, Woodstock.

679-0154.

Pastel Studio 6:30pm-9pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

3 Guys From Gotham 9pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595.

THEATER Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keefe 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy 8pm. Aerialists, contortionists, vine swinging characters, strongmen and balancers. $20-$50. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Follies 8pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 10 ART Knitting Naturally 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

KIDS

Symbiosis Exhibition 4pm-8pm. Landscape photographs by Mark MacKinnon. The Photographers Place, Beacon.

(917) 478-7620.

Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

Orange County’s New Hudson River School Exhibit 5pm-8pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

“VK-RED” DUVIVIER

the forecast EVENT LISTINGS FOR JANUARY 2009

Fight or Buy Liberty Bonds, Howard Chandler Christy, 1918, Lent by Thomas L. and Edward L. Pulling.

A TIME OF SACRIFICE It seems hard to imagine a time when Americans were required to sacrifice during wartime. For the past six years the US has been waging two costly foreign wars that have receded to the rear of public consciousness. The closest the president got to calling for Americans to do their part in the war effort was right after 9/11, when he exhorted us to not lose faith in the airline industry and to fly to Disney World.

It was not always thus. When America entered World War I in 1917, the bloodiest battle the world had ever known had been staining the fields of Europe for three years, and it was clear that engagement in the conflict would require great sacrifice—by the troops, in materiel, and on the home front. To assist in the propaganda effort to build support for the war, illustrated posters inspiring public support served as a primary mechanism of mass communication. These were

the brainchild of celebrated illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, who chaired the Committee on Public Information’s Division of Pictorial Publicity. Gibson enlisted the greatest illustrators of his day, including J. C. Leyendecker, Joseph Pennell, James Montgomery Flagg, and Howard Chandler Christy to craft compelling visuals that would inspire the populace to support the troops and buy bonds to finance the war. (Back in the day, the government had to borrow directly from its citizens to fund military campaigns.)

“Over the Top: American Posters from World War I” will be exhibited at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, through January 25.

(413) 298-4100; www.nrm.org.

—Brian K. Mahoney 1/09 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST

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Paintings by Dale Emmart 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-5907.

Contemporary Women Painters 6pm-9pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-1915.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sharing Shabbat 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange.

223-5925.

Free Healing Day 2pm-4pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock.

679-7215.

DANCE Contradance 8pm. Kathryn Wedderburn calling, music by The Electric Dance Orchestra. $10/$9 members/children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

246-2121.

MUSIC Met Opera in Live in HD: Puccini’s La Rondine 1pm. $23/$21 seniors/$16 students. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

John Street Jam 7:30pm. Singer/songwriters. John Street Jam at the Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties.

Michelle LeBlanc Trio 7:30pm-10:30pm. Division Street Grill, Peekskill.

(914) 739-6380.

Randy Stern and Gilmartin & Gilman 8pm. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.

Jeremy Baum Soul Band 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

Josh Tyler 9pm-11pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

THEATER Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy 2pm. Aerialists, contortionists, vine swinging characters, strongmen and balancers. $20-$50. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Follies 3pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 12 ART Tim Grignon 7pm-10pm. Acrylic paintings. The Art and Zen Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 473-3334.

CLASSES Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Read Hebrew America 7pm. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville. 647-5600.

It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

THE OUTDOORS

KIDS

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Millbrook Mountain 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival 2pm. Featuring Michael Hare and poet D. Alex Bird.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. pprod@mindspring.com.

Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy 6:30pm. Schaffer Theater Talks. Robb Alley, Schenectady. (518) 388-2388 ext. 138.

THEATER

Follies 8pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

ART Peaceful Landscapes 4pm-6pm. Exhibit of acrylic paintings by Warren Hurley.

La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT ECK Worship Service: Love The Passkey to Heaven 2pm-3pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. (800) 749-7791.

FILM Screening of The Business of Being Born 5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

KIDS Sunday Fun Day! Bear Necessities 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

MUSIC Split the Bill 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Loretta Hagen 7pm. American. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595.

Melvern Taylor 9pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

SPOKEN WORD Nasca Lines: Unlocking the Secrets of an Ancient Civilization 3pm-4:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Chronogram’s Poetry Picks 5pm-7:15pm. Display of all the books in the January poetry round-up, plus those of Ed Sanders. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

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CLASSES Watercolor Studio with Len De Virgilio 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Artist’s Way with Beverly Brand Donato 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hebrew Reading Crash Course for Adults 6:30pm-8pm. Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church, LaGrangeville. 227-3327.

Winter Blues Cooking Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. $50/$40. Call for location. 231-2470.

KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

MUSIC Open Blues Jam 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

THURSDAY 15 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

EVENTS Potluck Shabbat 6pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

KIDS Pre-School Story Hour 10:30am-11:30am. Ages 2-5. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

MUSIC David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 6pm. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Faith & Family Music Night 8pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Strunz and Farah 8pm. Blend of flamenco, Afro-Latin and Latin folk, Middle Eastern and jazz forms. $28. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

The Pat Metheny Duo 8pm. Featuring Larry Grenadier. $75/$50 in advance.

Coach House Players, Kingston. 331-4598.

Patricia Mazo 8:30pm. Country. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595.

Mojo Myles Mancuso Band 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

SPOKEN WORD Practicing Peace 1:30am-1pm. Weekly practice group focusing on the work of Marshall Rosenberg. Call for location. www.practicingpeace-NewPaltz.com.

Diavalo 6:30pm. Schaffer Theater Talks. Robb Alley, Schenectady. (518) 388-2388 ext. 138.

THEATER Follies 8pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC Wet Paint Call for times. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Painting Watercolor 9:30am-12:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Percussionist Doug Elliot 7pm-10pm. Jazz, world music. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Beginning Oil Painting 9:30am-12:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

ART

Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

Calligraphy I 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Learning 2 Look 4pm-6pm. Duzine Elementary 2nd grader’s exhibition.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Regional Redux: Tom Chesnut, Taylor Gillis, Michael Marston 5pm-7pm. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

TUESDAY 13 ART Drop in and Paint! Louise McCutcheon 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

CLASSES

SUNDAY 11

WEDNESDAY 14

CLASSES

Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy Call for times. Aerialists, contortionists, vine swinging characters, strongmen and balancers. $20-$50. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keefe 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

FRIDAY 16 CLASSES

FILM

Whiskey Tango 10pm. Rock. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.

SPOKEN WORD

Poetry Open Mike with Stephen Dodge 7:30pm. $3. Downtown Cafe, Kingston. 331-5904.

All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes.

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

EVENTS Rhinebeck Board Game Afternoon 1pm-3pm. Adults only. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-8799.

MUSIC Musicians Open Mike 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

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

SPOKEN WORD Mother to Mother Circle 10:30am-12pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique class. $90/month. Dutch Reformed Church, Woodstock.

679-0154.

Pastel Studio 6:30pm-9pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

KIDS Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston.

338-0331.

Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

MUSIC

SATURDAY 17

CLASSES Introduction to Digital Photography Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

DANCE Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Wide range of music spun by eclectic DJ’s. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.Freestylefrolic.org.

KIDS Fifth Annual Winter Wings: Birding for Children 10am-11:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

MUSIC Christine Lavin with Bill Bachmann Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

DJ Boomie 6pm. Dance. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Live at the Library 7pm. Acoustic music series presents Abby, David & Rosie, Jennie Litt & David Alpher, and Julie Parisi Kirby & T.G. Vanini. Woodstock Library, Woodstock.

679-2213.

O.C. Blues Xpress 7pm. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277.

Bearfoot Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Bruce Molsky 7:30pm. Master of fiddle, guitar, banjo and song. $20.

Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison. 424-3900.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

3Jules & Rick Orchestra 8pm-11pm. Folk, country, pop. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Patricia Mazo 8:30pm. Country. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595.

Bob Luck 8pm-10pm. Hindustani guitar. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

John Schrader Band 9pm. Rock. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

SPOKEN WORD Mother to Mother Circle 3pm-4:30pm. Waddle ‘n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Writing in the Light 6pm. A class and practice in writing holy teachings which bring deep healing. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Milton 9pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Long Neck Band 9:30pm. Americana pub rock. Copperfield’s, Millbrook.

677-8188.

Hurley Mountain Highway 10pm. Pop, soft rock. Scruffy Murphy’s Pub, Marlboro.

236-2822.

DANCE ERICK HAWKINS DANCE TONY CENICOLA

Kristina Berger, Jeff Lyon, and Katherine Duke in “Cantilever,” which will be performed by Erick Hawkins Dance at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck on January 31 and February 1.

Beautiful Truths On the last weekend of this month, the Erick Hawkins Dance company will give its first performance honoring the centenary anniversary of Erick Hawkins. Born in Trinidad, Colorado, in April 1909, Hawkins studied and later taught at George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. He also became the first male dancer to join Martha Graham’s troupe, before starting his own school and company in 1951 and founding what is now called the Erick Hawkins technique—though Hawkins himself, according to his performers and students, preferred to simply call his principles of movement “truths,” without laying claim to them. His method, which works toward centering the body, mind, and spirit, involves a collaborative, integrative, and reciprocal creative process.

The company’s founding composer, Lucia Dlugoszewski, became Hawkins’s partner in art and life, choreographing and composing dances to be set to live music, which was often composed especially to suit each movement, sometimes with instruments crafted specifically for the music. The pair worked together for 42 years, with Dlugoszewksi assuming leadership of the company for several years after Hawkins’s death in 1994.

The company’s current artistic director, Kathryn Duke, began studying with Hawkins in 1983, eventually becoming principle dancer under his direction and assistant choreographer under Dugloszewksi. “It was [Hawkins’s] desire to give the audience the highest, most enlightening level of theatrical experience,” Duke explains, “and that can only happen when you have live music—not dancing to what he called ‘canned’ or ‘dead’ music, because only live, original music shines. When there is that level of interactivity between the musicians and the dancers, it has an immediacy that will

resonate with the audience.” The intimate interplay between dance, music, and set are the result of relationships that have been built over time—an extra step seldom taken in today’s world of glittering, in-your-face immediacy. Duke suggests that there is another, and much more subtle and gratifying, way of cutting straight to the quick: Hawkins’s incorporative method centers on awareness and unification in performance.

Tthe sense of time, [the] qualities of dynamics, energy, and sensation in the body while moving correctly give you an incredible consciousness," she says, "which I think comes through in the performances of the dancers.”

Nine years ago, shortly after Dlugoszewski’s death, Duke premiered Fountain in the Room in silence at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. The piece, which is now accompanied by Dlugoszewksi’s own music (composed for the timbre piano, an instrument she invented) and choreography, will open the program this month as the company returns to the center. Cantilever, a work dedicated to architect Frederick Kiesler with set designing by sculptor Ralph Dorazio, will close the show. Versions of the dance for as many as 12 dancers exist, but the company will be performing the original 1963 four-person version, complete with the original set. Other works on the program will feature paintings by local artist Joanne Klein, bass trombone playing by virtuoso David Taylor, and footage of Erick Hawkins (projected on a screen between dances). The Erick Hawkins Dance Company will perform at the Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts on January 31 and February 1 at 8pm. (845) 876-3080; www.erickhawkinsdance.org.

—Christina Kaminski 1/09 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST

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Karton Herz 10pm. Acoustic. Seany B’s 101, Millbrook. 677-2282.

Read Hebrew America 7pm. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville. 647-5600.

THE OUTDOORS

MUSIC

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Ski or Hike: Spring Farm 10am-3pm. 5 miles. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Wet Paint Call for times. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

SPOKEN WORD Some Delights of the Hudson Valley 7pm. Reading and book signing. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.

Percussionist Doug Elliot 7pm-10pm. Jazz, world music. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

THEATER

THE OUTDOORS

Follies 8pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

School’s Out Winter Fun Day 10am-1pm. Esopus Meadows Point Preserve, Esopus.

473-4440 ext. 222.

WORKSHOPS Raising Children Compassionately 10am-2pm. Nonviolent communication for parents w/ Roberta Wall. New Paltz. amara@chronogram.com.

Bruce Molsky Fiddle Workshop 3pm-4:30pm. $20. Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison. 424-3900.

SUNDAY 18 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Hudson Valley Healing Arts Salon 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

CLASSES Remembering the Holocaust 2pm. Adult education program. Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church, LaGrangeville. 227-3327.

DANCE West Coast Swing Dance Mix 6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. (914) 475-0803.

EVENTS Mapping Your Ideal Life: A Vision Board Workshop 10am-4pm. Presented by James Porter and Lisa Kellogg. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale.

687-7019.

MUSIC Enter The Haggis Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Wiyos Call for times. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Rebel Red 1pm. Roots music. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill.

(914) 739-1287.

Melvin Chen: Piano 2:30pm. Trail Mix concert. $20. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Collin Ruel 3pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. Featuring Prometheus Brass. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021.

Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Mine Hole 9:30am-4pm. 8 miles. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

KIDS

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

CLASSES

THURSDAY 22

Web Design for Artists Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

ART

Digital Scanning Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Teen Visions, Words and Sounds 5pm. Part of ModFest. Vassar College’s James W. Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

CLASSES

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

EVENTS

Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Painting Watercolor 9:30am-12:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Beginning Oil Painting 9:30am-12:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

KIDS

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.

Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice 6pm. Words Before Music series. Lee Library, Lee, MA. (413) 243-0385.

Poetry Open Mike with Stephen Dodge 7:30pm. $3. Downtown Cafe, Kingston. 331-5904.

THEATER

Joshua Redman Trios 8pm. Jazz. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Reality Check 9pm. Rock. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls.

298-1724.

The Rhodes 9:30pm. Rock. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

SPOKEN WORD Practicing Peace 1:30am-1pm. Weekly practice group focusing on the work of Marshall Rosenberg. Call for location. www.practicingpeace-NewPaltz.com.

Brew Ha Ha Comedy Night 8:15pm. $15. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston.

340-4277.

THEATER

Follies 8pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 8pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

SATURDAY 24 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sharing Shabbat 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange.

223-5925.

MUSIC

MUSIC

Shemekia Copeland Band Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Met Opera in Live in HD: Orfeo Ed Euridice 1pm. $23/$21 seniors/$16 students. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Mr. E 8pm-10pm. Acoustic singer-songwriter. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Mother to Mother Circle 3pm-4:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

SPOKEN WORD

Writing in the Light 6pm. A class and practice in writing holy teachings which bring deep healing. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

WV Area History Meeting 6:30pm. Featuring Walker Valley long-time resident George Low. Walker Valley Fire House, Walker Valley.

895-2611.

CLASSES

THEATER

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Watercolor Studio with Len De Virgilio 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Avenue Q Call for times. $20-$60. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Artist’s Way with Beverly Brand Donato 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

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Johnny Winter 8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Anusara Yoga Workshop with Elias Lopez 1pm-4pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

The Rhodes 10pm. Snug Harbor, New Paltz. 255-9800.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Butter 8pm-10pm. Acoustic blues/classic rock. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Avenue Q Call for times. $20-$60. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

WEDNESDAY 21

Winterpills Call for times. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Pastel Studio 6:30pm-9pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Musicians Open Mike 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Rory Block Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Rhinebeck Board Game Afternoon 1pm-3pm. Adults only. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-8799.

MUSIC

MUSIC

Avenue Q Call for times. $20-$60. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique class. $90/month. Dutch Reformed Church, Woodstock.

679-0154.

Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Pre-School Story Hour 10:30am-11:30am. Ages 2-5. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Calligraphy I 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Inauguration Day Broadcast 11am. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Mother to Mother Circle 10:30am-12pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

CLASSES

FILM

Open Blues Jam 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Gallery Talk 4pm. Featuring artists Richard Dupont and Grimanesa Amoros. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

MONDAY 19

MUSIC

Avenue Q Call for times. $20-$60. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes.

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.

CLASSES Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

Drop in and Paint! Louise McCutcheon 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

FRIDAY 23

Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

ART

SPOKEN WORD

Follies 3pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

KIDS

THEATER

SPOKEN WORD

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Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

DJ Boomie 6pm. Dance. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

An Evening with Steve Winwood 8pm. $60-$85. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Deuces Child 8pm-10pm. Folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

THE OUTDOORS Copes Lookout Ski or Hike 10am-3pm. 7 miles. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Avenue Q 6:30pm. Schaffer Theater Talks. Robb Alley, Schenectady. (518) 388-2388 ext. 138.

THEATER The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Avenue Q Call for times. $20-$60. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Follies 8pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC MODFEST STEVE REICH PHOTO BY WONGE BERGMAN; THE CLEARING PHOTO BY NOAH FOWLER; MAHAGONNY ENSEMBLE PHOTO BY BEN M. RUTKOWSKI/VASSAR

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: STEVE REICH; BRIDGET ANN KIBBEY; DANCERS PERFORM KATHERINE WILDBERGER’S THE CLEARING; THE VASSAR MAHAGONNY CHORUS

We Are the Mods “Vassar is an absolute treasure for the community,” declares Dee Wilson. When she retired from teaching seven years ago, Wilson began making that treasure more accessible. She and her husband Richard, a Vassar music professor, founded Modfest, a yearly celebration featuring art created in the 20th and 21st centuries. Modfest 2009 is the largest to date, with 18 events from January 22 to February 13. Composer Steve Reich will be in attendance for two concerts and a rehearsal with the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre. Richard Wilson will conduct a public conversation with Reich on February 1. All events are free.

Now 72 years old, Reich is increasingly recognized as a luminary of modern music.

Once overshadowed by his fellow minimalist Philip Glass, Reich is being performed, danced to, and recorded around the world. Critic Kyle Gann wrote that Reich “may be considered, by general acclamation, America’s greatest living composer.”

“What has pleased me is that the students are very aware of Steve Reich. They come up timidly, saying, ‘Is it true that he’s coming?’” reports Wilson.

For the first time, the film department at Vassar will take part in Modfest. “The Daniel Variations” (2006) is a work by Reich quoting writings by Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was killed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. In honor of that composition, the documentary The Journalist and The Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl will be shown on January 28. “The Daniel Variations” itself will be performed as part of a concert by Signal, a 22-person chamber orchestra, on January 31.

Reich traveled to Ghana for five weeks in 1971 to study music with the master drummer Gideon Alerwoyie. On January 24, Modfest will offer an African drumming workshop with Ghanaian-born percussionist Joakim Lartey, who graduated Vassar in 1978 and currently resides in Newburgh. This event is co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Department, now marking its 40th anniversary.

Another American composer featured at Modfest is Elliott Carter, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday at a concert at Carnegie Hall that featured the New York premiere of a new composition. The New York New Music Ensemble will perform Carter’s “Triple Duo” at a chamber arts workshop on February 5.

Each year at Modfest, Vassar poetry students write verse in response to paintings at the Loeb Art Center. Each student performs the poem in front of the chosen artwork.

This year, the show is “Faith and Fantasy in Outsider Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection.” Students will read at the show’s opening.

“Some of the students pride themselves on announcing that they’ve made it to every single show. So, to make it harder for them I have more and more events,” Wilson slyly reveals. She is present at all the performances, usually serving cider and home-baked cookies.

Modfest will take place at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie from January 22 to February 13. (845) 437-7294; www.music.vassar.edu/concerts.

—Sparrow

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Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

WORKSHOPS Photographing the Nude in the Studio 10am-4pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Workshop on Ghanaian Drumming 2pm. Part of ModFest. Villard Room, Poughkeepsie.

437-7294.

SUNDAY 25 MUSIC David Kraai 1pm. Singer/songwriter. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

David Kraai 3pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Valentina Charlap-Evans, Joel Evans, Ruthanne Schempf 3pm. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery.

457-9867.

The “The Band” Band 4pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Renaissance City Winds 4pm. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870.

Garden. Set. Fire 7pm-9pm. Acoustic alternative rock. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Hudson Valley Songwriters Show Case 7pm-9pm. $10/$8 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

SPOKEN WORD Stories and Desserts Featuring Brent Robison 7pm. Spoken Word Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 473-1324.

THEATER Avenue Q Call for times. $20-$60. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 2:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Follies 3pm. Musical about love, the past, delusion and folly. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 26

POETRY PICKS A Reading by Poets in the January Issue

Sunday, January 11 5 - 7 pm Inquiring Minds Bookstore 6 Church Street | New Paltz | 845-255-8300 Featuring: Anne Gorrick, Lee Gould, Roberta Gould, Donald Lev, Djelloul Marbrook, Robert Milby, Will Nixon, William Seaton, Susan Sindall, and others.

All Books in the Issue for Sale at a 15% Discount.

Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

CLASSES All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes.

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

EVENTS Rhinebeck Board Game Afternoon 1pm-3pm. Adults only. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-8799.

MUSIC Musicians Open Mike 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Live Jazz 7:30pm-10pm. Terrace Lounge, Newburgh. www.robscheps.8m.net.

Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon 7:30pm. Singer/songwriter. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

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

SPOKEN WORD Mother to Mother Circle 10:30am-12pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Intro Lecture on Honeybees and Organic Beekeeping 6pm-8:30pm. $25. Sustainable Hudson Valley Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

Poetry Open Mike with Stephen Dodge 7:30pm. $3. Downtown Cafe, Kingston. 331-5904.

CLASSES

THEATER

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.

WEDNESDAY 28 CLASSES Watercolor Studio with Len De Virgilio 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Artist’s Way with Beverly Brand Donato 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Read Hebrew America 7pm. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville. 647-5600.

FILM

FILM

Film with Discussion: Journalist and the Jihadi 6pm. Part of ModFest. Rosenwald Film Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Fiddler on the Roof 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

KIDS Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

MUSIC Wet Paint Call for times. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Percussionist Doug Elliot 7pm-10pm. Jazz, world music. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

THEATER

MUSIC Open Blues Jam 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

THEATER The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Kreisler’s Long Sleep 7:30pm. $10. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

THURSDAY 29 ART

TUESDAY 27 ART Drop in and Paint! Louise McCutcheon 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

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The Oatman-Lail News Hours Collages 4pm-8pm. Michael Oatman and Thomas Lail. Hudson Valley Community College, Troy. (518) 629-7309.

Jeep Johnson: Glass and Kathleen Heideman Ceramics 8pm-12am. Barret Clay Works, Poughkeepsie.

471-2550.

MUSIC BRUCE MOLSKY & JOHN SPECKER IMAGES PROVIDED

BRUCE MOLSKY

Meet the Masters

JOHN SPECKER

One asserts, “I’m not an egghead scholar of old-time music, I’m a gunfighter.” The other has opined, “Why does anybody try to spread the word about anything they think is beautiful? It’s just because it’s beautiful. There’s no secret message in there.”

The former is revered Queens-born, wild-eyed, stompin’ fiddler John Specker; the latter is celebrated Bronx-born multi-instrumentalist and teacher Bruce Molsky. This venerable yin-and-yang twosome—each world-renowned masters of old-time music—will be performing at the Rosendale Theater on January 15 as part of Hop High Productions’ World Culture Concert Series.

Billed as “Modern Masters of Old-Time Fiddle,” Specker and Molsky have not tread the boards together since they first crossed paths in Ithaca, New York in the early ’70s as members of the pioneering, back-to-basics Correctone String Band. Although fate sent them on divergent paths, each man left an indelible imprint on Ithaca, now considered a hotbed of roots music.

Like their inspirations the Holy Modal Rounders and the New Lost City Ramblers, Specker and Molsky began their respective troubadour journeys as urban hipsters looking for music that resonated amid the shrill chaos of modern pop culture. Each discovered prebluegrass hillbilly tunes via records and older musicians, and found that the raw intensity of the oft-maligned rural music transported them like nothing else.

“This is invisible art,” the outspoken Specker has said, “a whole different smell and feel. People don’t even know it. Bluegrass got started because country people didn’t want to be associated with ‘hillbilly music’ and poverty.

The children [of old-time musicians] never got into old time music. The people who took up old-time music were urban hippies, which I’m a part of.”

While Specker—sometimes called “the Mick Jagger of the fiddle”—has made a name for himself as an intense solo performer, sssaying ancient chestnuts like “Liza Jane” and “Turkey in the Straw” as well as Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire,” Molsky has stretched his oeuvre to include Nordic and West African folk music, releasing acclaimed CDs on which he sings and puts his expert hands to guitar, banjo, fiddle, and all manner of stringed instruments.

As in those various strains of folk, the line between audience and performer in American old time music is porous, and the songs—which rarely are notated—are more open to personal interpretation. “Old-time music was really community music,” notes Molsky. “It’s just what people did.”

Local impresario Jed Greenberg of Hop High Productions enthuses, “I am thrilled to have John and Bruce performing for our World Cultures Concert Series. These guys are titans of the old-time music revival. What is cool about this combination is that stylistically they represent two distinct approaches to the art of modern old-time fiddling...the scholarly and the innovative. Both are serious artists, worldclass entertainers, and important purveyors of our unique musical heritage.”

Bruce Molsky and John Specker will perform on January 15 at 5pm at the Rosendale Theater. (845) 658-8989; www.hophigh.org.

—Robert Burke Warren

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

SPOKEN WORD

Detox & Weight Loss 6:30pm-8pm. Dr. Tom’s Tonics, Rhinebeck. 876-5556.

Practicing Peace 1:30am-1pm. Weekly practice group focusing on the work of Marshall Rosenberg. Call for location. www.practicingpeace-NewPaltz.com.

Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock.

679-7215.

CLASSES Painting Watercolor 9:30am-12:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

THEATER The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 8pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Beginning Oil Painting 9:30am-12:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Calligraphy I 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston.

338-7664.

Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique class. $90/month. Dutch Reformed Church, Woodstock.

679-0154.

Pastel Studio 6:30pm-9pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

SPOKEN WORD Mother to Mother Circle 3pm-4:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs…”

Steve Reich and His Music 5pm. Presented by Harold Meltzer. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

-Kipling

THEATER The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

FRIDAY 30 ART William Joseph 8pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

CLASSES Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.

KIDS Pre-School Story Hour 10:30am-11:30am. Ages 2-5. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

MUSIC Cherish The Ladies Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

DJ Boomie 6pm. Dance. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

ModFest Concert 8pm. The Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble, Vassar Mahagonny Chorus, and Vassar College Orchestra. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie.

437-7294.

Karton Herz 8pm. Acoustic. River Station Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 452-9207.

The Providers 8pm. Blues. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Von Robinson & His Own Universe 8pm-10pm. Alternative. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

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Digital Stitching - Panoramas Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

DANCE Erick Hawkins Dance Company Call for times. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

EVENTS Mountain Laurel Waldorf School Open House 10am-12pm. Mountain Laurel, New Paltz. 255-0033.

KIDS

MUSIC

The Pretenders 8pm. $30-$40. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Based in the tradition of GI Gurdjieff

CLASSES

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Journey Blue Heaven 8pm-10pm. Folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Call or write to find out how you can experience these simple and effective principles and practices.

The Red Tent and Beyond Call for times. A series of pre-natal and parenting workshops. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon.

778-1855.

Awesome Opossums 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

We live in a time of confusion and possibility. What better backdrop for the practice of Presence? The world now requires people who are centered, at peace in themselves. Now, more than ever, we need tools to help us stay rooted in Presence.

The Third Line teaches practical methods to help you keep your vision clear, your awareness open, your attention directed to the reality of the present moment.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.

MUSIC

The Third Line

SATURDAY 31

David Kraai with Sean Powell 6pm. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Sugar Shack Burlesque Call for times. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts “Starting Over” 3pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Durga Bernhard African Drumming Group 7pm-9pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

John Street Jam 7:30pm. Acoustic music themed “Geography”. John Street Jam at the Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties.

Johnstreetjam.net.

Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Future Life of Billie Holiday 8pm. Ronald K. Brown/Evidence with the Nnenna Freelon Quintet. $28/$24 seniors/$14 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Daniel Variations and Music for Eighteen Musicians 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

The Michele Ramo Group 8pm. $25. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Mystic Ritual 8pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Ronald K. Brown/Evidence with The Nnenna Freelon Quintet 8pm. Jazz. $28/$24 seniors/$14 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

John Schrader Band 8pm. Rock. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-OnHudson. 534-4717.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm. Rock. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Big Kahuna 10pm. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.

Frankenstein Dog and The Gonedaddys 10:30pm. $4. Snug Harbor, New Paltz. 255-9800.

THE OUTDOORS Snowshoe Carnwath Trail 10am. 1 mile. Call for location. 298-8379.

Snowshoe Challenge 10am-1pm. Fishkill Ridge, Fishkill. 473-4440 ext. 222.

THEATER The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Intro to Organic Beekeeping: Planning a New Hive for Spring 10am-6pm. Sustainable Hudson Valley Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

Workshop on Electronic Music 10:30am. Part of ModFest. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie.

437-7294.

Art, Music, and Poetry 3pm. Part of ModFest. Music recital and poetry readings by students of the Music and English Departments, with an exhibit of art and photography by students in the Art Department. Villard Room, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

ART 21ST CENTURY PERSPECTIVES

Fit to Print This month at the Arts Society of Kingston gallery, ASK hosts “21st Century Perspectives,” an exhibition showcasing the work of students in the bachelor and graduate printmaking program at SUNY New Paltz. Curated by master printmakers Ro Calhoun and Dylan McManus, the show highlights the cutting-edge work being done by students in the printmaking studio, who combine traditional techniques with new media and multimedia practices to push the boundaries of what might be considered a print, blurring the lines between printmaking, sculpture, installation, and painting.

“21st Century Perspectives” will be exhibited at the Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, in Kingston, January 3 to January 31.

An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 3, from 5 to 8pm. (845) 338-0331; www.askforarts.org.

—Brian K. Mahoney

Burned Boy, Jonathon Linaberry, woodcut on found object, 2008

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Planet Waves

EMIL ALZAMORA

BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

Welcome to the Next World (The One You’re Making)

H

ave you noticed how dense it is on this planet? The weighty, energetic quality comes in several forms: the unwieldy nature of physical reality; the often foggy, sleepy quality of human consciousness; our obsession with the past; our burning need to conform to what others think we should do; and the peculiar way something done twice turns into a habit and anything said twice turns into the truth.

With all things Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces coming under the microscope in 2009 and well beyond, we are going to see change of a kind that Barack Obama’s campaign writers could not even imagine. Science does not, as yet, acknowledge the realities that the astrological signs represent: the energy patterns in the background of existence that provide the rough blueprints for the world we live in. These patterns can change, but they don’t change easily. Usually, the agents of change are represented by planets. For the foreseeable future, the planets involved are Chiron, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto: the very gods of change themselves.

Let’s organize the discussion by sign, taking Capricorn first. Families often try to push us into making the same mistakes they did; or we feel a massive guilt trip come on if we don’t do what we think they expect us to do. Let’s give this a name: ancestral guilt. A famous astrologer once accused me of overblowing the importance of guilt as a spiritual issue because I’m Italian. Then for the next decade I observed my friends and clients and noticed that it’s not just us goombas (and our Jewish cousins) who have a guilt issue; it is the entire Western world. (I’ve never been to Asia, but I bet you a quart of fried rice that it exists there, too.) The slightest proposed digression, the least notion of doing things one’s own way, the meekest desire to challenge authority or experience an unauthorized pleasure, often are met with the sting of guilt.

Enter Pluto into Capricorn, long awaited, long revered, and the previous birthplace of the Declaration of Independence. Pluto sometimes manifests as Shiva and sometimes

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as Dionysus. Either archetype will work in this case, if we are looking for something more powerful than the obsessive power of self-accusation. This is the archetype of the persistent thought patterns of the past getting ripped to shreds or, for the bolder and more adventurous, celebrated out of existence with the awareness that we are alive now, and the people whose bones we walk around on have nothing to say about it.

This transit is coming with considerable fear, from astrologers and from prognosticators of all kinds. We have many predictions of the rise of fascism under this transit.

Down the block from me, two guys are writing a book called The Greatest Depression, predicting that it’s all gonna come crashing down, causing enormous misery and mayhem and then maybe eventually we will have a renaissance. We will, unless we return to being hunter-gatherers. Notice the sense of punishment encrypted in this thinking, and very little sense of creativity and adventure. The “news,” for its part, is pumping out so much economic pessimism that people are afraid to go out for lunch. We track (or are subjected to) the rise and fall of the stock market as if our lives depended on it, and this is utterly ridiculous. In the horoscopes that follow, and the longer version of “Next World Stories” available on my website, I do my best to offer tools for how to take this transit into your own hands and make something out of it.

Next is the conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune in Aquarius. Neptune in Aquarius, which we’ve lived with for a decade, is about the public going into the kind of haze as if there were Prozac in the water (there is) or as if we were all connected to the Internet Matrix in red pill fashion. We live in another reality; we have friends we don’t know, who we recognize by their avatar; we take the BlackBerry or the iPhone to bed (it makes a good alarm clock and toasts our dreams with microwaves, meanwhile).

Chiron, a planet that is about raising awareness and going through a conscious healing process, has been slowly gaining on Neptune the past four years. This has served to wake us up, gradually; awake enough (at least) not to elect Sarah Palin president-

to-be. And I would add, awake enough during these past four years to convert a lot of people who would normally be media consumers into Internet contributors (bloggers, YouTube filmmakers, and so on)—which is exactly, precisely what we need: active participation, the assertion of individuality, and the authentic search for community and common ground.

The two planets are very close to a long-anticipated (by me, anyway) conjunction.

It only makes a very close near-miss this year (in late May, accurate to one degree) but the process is accelerated and magnified by Jupiter in Aquarius aligning with both Chiron and Neptune. What have we here? A magnificent opportunity to be yourself and find your true peers, which I suggest you get out of digital form and into physical form.

Yes, do that very dangerous thing and use the Internet to meet people in real life. Try not to have them be only in Timbuktu. Try for within one-hour travel time, or even

walking distance. Let’s turn the world to Burning Man and manifest the Internet on the ground, in physical form. Read your blogs at the local coffee house open mike.

Last but not least, we have the continuing opposition of Saturn and Uranus, across the Virgo-Pisces axis. Uranus in Pisces is about sparking up the imagination and our sense of what is possible on the material plane. This has been going on for a while, but the opposition from Saturn in Virgo gives us something to push back against, like a swimmer propelling herself off the pool wall in a race. Yes, it represents a solid object, a kind of obstacle, but it’s also something to work with: actual material with which to construct those Uranus-in-Pisces visions of what you could be and, consequently, what the world could be. The next world: the world we can and must create, lest we become subject to something else.

This is the short version of these transits. Read more at www.planetwaves.net/next.

Planet Waves Horoscopes January 2009 Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net

ARIES

(March 20-April 19)

Ambition, focused and urgent, seems to be the most significant theme of your charts, but you know better. Your calling to succeed is so potent as to be humbling; as to make you wonder whether you can do it at all, and you need to burn that doubt like fuel. This is a special phase of your life, wherein you will orbit closer to your outer destiny than perhaps ever before, and even make direct contact. What you accomplish in the highly eventful early part of the year may indeed open the way for what you create during an extended phase of your life. This being said, try not to judge your achievements or lack thereof; your impulses are likely to be far greater than your ability to actually do all that you want to do; and I strongly suggest that you keep in mind just how long of a process we are talking about with Pluto in Capricorn. My godmother, an unusually patient specimen of an Aries (born 04/04/1904), was fond of saying that Rome was not built in a day; you might want to use a photo of the Coliseum as your desktop image to remind you of this. I also suggest you remember that, though your push energy is running strong, you are being drawn to something as well. That something involves your human environment, a factor that is rapidly developing, though the shape of which you may not yet see. The beauty of this process is that you are gradually, but very steadily, finding out who you are through an ever-clearer reflection developing in those around you. They can see something you cannot; and as you begin to open your eyes, you will become what you have been missing.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) For a while, trying to figure out how writing careers work, I read a lot of Wiki pages on authors. I began to see a pattern. Many of them were unknown nobodys until one day they were somebody really special. Before and after, they brushed their teeth and took their coffee with however many sugars. Their cat did not notice the difference (but cats are smart, so you never know). But the recognition came, often after a long, exasperating delay. Why it came when it did was often a matter that could, at least, be identified in their astrology: They had one of the five of six big transits of their lifetime. You now have such a transit developing; in fact, several of them. While you are waiting the relatively short time for this to happen, you have a little time to make up your mind about a few things, such as what is possible. Your job is not to conquer anything or make anything happen or even to get people to notice you. Rather, in my view, it is to adjust your beliefs to the point where you at least concede anything is possible, evidence of which you can find by (for example) looking at the career trajectories of people who are doing some version of what you want to do the most. While you are noticing the at-times comical befores and afters, notice the core theme, which is that most of them were doing exactly what they wanted to do the most when this elusive thing known as success transformed their lives. Also notice the pattern of how incredibly insecure many of the most luminous people have been throughout the ages, and perhaps stop using this as an excuse to convince yourself of what is not possible.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) Did you ever take a sociology class where the professor explained that there are two kinds of power—formal and informal? An example of formal power is the prison warden. Informal power is the bull goose inmate, who really runs the place because people respect and resonate with him. At this point in your life, it’s imperative that you learn the difference between the two, both as someone who is subject to them and as someone who may wield either. In reality, we respond to informal power, because it’s based on a human factor; how we feel; who we like; how a person talks to us. This works in group settings and also in the most intimate personal relationships. You are in a reorientation process, a phase of your life where you are adapting to a new mental posture and also a new understanding of how and why people respond to you the way they do. If you are running up against old obstacles, now is the time to clear them out, particularly what are called ancestral patterns. You are the heir to a very old set of ideas about marriage, sex, and partnerships. Your breezy, open-minded mental approach to the world conceals a much deeper involvement with the ways of the distant past, indeed, a profound notion that there is just one way to do things: they way it’s always been done. It is time for a new way, if for no other reason than the previous ones were not getting you what you need. In short, they left little room for negotiation, and even less space for people, yourself included, to simply be themselves rather than who we are all expected to be. The antiquated, useless ways of history will yield to the present more gently than you may imagine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) We typically live with an annoying, disturbing lack of directness in our relationships, and our attempts at relationships. Whether we fall for the indoctrination or not, most people are taught to lie casually, conceal important aspects of our reality, omit significant experiences of how we feel and to report our personal history selectively. Then, we wonder why we draw so little satisfaction from what we call intimacy. I’ve noticed that one reason for all the smoke and mirrors is that many people you meet feel they lack substance. Heck, you might even feel that way sometimes. When met by a person we perceive to have a little soul fire going on, or a little more vitality than we’re accustomed to, the typical response is to bob and weave, a strategy designed to conceal how empty we feel; how powerless; how needy. Another typical response is to attempt to control the person we perceive as alive and substantial, rather than allowing ourselves to rise to the occasion of life.

I could not think of a more profound waste of time, except maybe a war. Many of us live it out (on one side of the equation or the other) every single day. Pluto entering your opposite sign Capricorn indicates a profound change in your relationship patterns, particularly the ones that have gone on so long you thought you would never experience anything different. The thing is this: You cannot use your old response patterns, nor can you walk around with the same expectations of how people are going to approach you.

Ideally, you would respond to everyone you meet directly and boldly; and you would have no expectations at all. It may not be possible to forget the past, but it’s that much easier when you have an occasion to remember how alive you feel right now.

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LEO (July 22-Aug. 23)

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The question is not what you think is possible, but rather how you think it will manifest. I suggest you keep two things in mind. The first is the concept of leverage. There was a time before this simple idea existed. You need to make difficult things easier using your existing resources; it’s all a matter of how you arrange them. One of those resources is time. The premium on working with time more efficiently, and with more flexibility, is vital now; you tend to be something a prisoner of this strange, invisible medium. What you have probably not figured out yet is that it has a way of bending to your will, if you apply your attention. Another vital source of time is other people. As a Leo, you are way too accustomed to going it alone; your tendency to take full responsibility makes you someone who resists delegating responsibilities. However, the dominant theme of your charts for this year and indeed the next two years is how you work with and within groups. It is essential that you step outside your individual consciousness, and your sense that if you don’t do it, nobody else will. Your responsibilities are moving to a higher, more meaningful level. It is true, it can be a real waste of time expecting others to do things they are unwilling or unable to do; and you have little patience for those who do things less effectively than you do. The goal to set is finding people to do things who are better than you are. A second goal is striving for cooperation. Group efforts are cumbersome only to the degree that they lack a conscious desire to coordinate. It is you who must focus that effort, be discerning, and work with a clear agenda articulated in a way that makes supporting your ideas irresistible.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sep. 22) You are now under the influence of astrology that will entice you to do things you’ve never done before; to take risks that are completely alien to your usual cautious, rule-regulated frame of reference; and most of all, to let go of the hangups that have, in essence, become your personal religion. It is a religion based almost entirely on the precedents of what you think of as the past. Astrologers learn that for most of humanity “the past is the present,” because we carry it around with us, often unconsciously, until it becomes so heavy that we finally have to lay it down. This, after wondering why we were so enamored of in the first place: a question you need to ask yourself every day. This is particularly true in your relationships. Even if you live some form of serial monogamy, leaving behind one situation and picking up the next, what you have accumulated is an energy field full of what we could call esoteric karma. It’s the feeling of not being able to locate, much less find yourself, in the present. It’s also the feeling of your vitality being inaccessible.

So far as I can see, this is all a kind of ruse for avoiding actual passion. It’s necessary to surrender to being driven by passion. From the outside, it looks like a person seizing their destiny, doing what they love, making bold choices. In reality, one must be totally submissive to the creative process if it’s to mean anything at all. One literally gives oneself over; you give yourself; you let go. You know this, on some level, and you also know that it clashes mightily with your obsession with control. Think of how many opportunities you have lost because of your love affair with control. Consider how little it has given you. Think of what else you love, and how much you want it.

LIBRA (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) Our world has been living through a long, painful addiction to security for the past decade. This doesn’t seem to be getting any better as so-called economic “news” dominates our mental bandwidth. Security includes an obsession with privacy in a world where every word we write or picture that we send (for example, in an e-mail) is archived and duplicated many times around the world, accessible to anyone who wants it badly enough—as if they do. We are conditioned to live like the world is going to end tomorrow (without the fun you would expect, were that really true). I suggest you teach yourself to live as if you’re being born today. You are someone with a native gift for survival, but this has grown extremely old. What’s difficult to see is how the survival trip, yours and those of so many others, are born of something more properly classified as emotional than environmental. Safe or unsafe is a feeling; consider all the moments when you were perfectly safe but felt horribly threatened. Remember the times you were loved but felt abandoned. And

Planet Waves Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net how about all those episodes when you thought your door was unlocked. You are being called to let go of some profound insecurity, which in truth has nothing to do with you personally, except for the fact that you inherited it. And you are being beckoned to broader horizons as a creative person, as a thinker, as a social visionary. That implies its own kind of risk, but I assure you that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got nothing to do with the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prevailing paranoia. If you want the rewards, you need to teach yourself about safety. You need to remember that to give up isolation, you need to take the risks of contact. To be free, it is necessary to give up being trapped.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) In recent years, groups and communities of various kinds have played such a diversity of roles in your life, you may not know what to think. I see them showing up as islands of hope and idealism, as blatantly deceptive, as points of crisis, as things that are designed to make you feel secure but really have the opposite effectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and about 12 more permutations on reality. A crucial one has been to focus your process of actually finding and making peace with your identity, in particular, with how different you are. You may finally be noticing matters gradually improving: that is, you are, at least, getting the hint of a clue about the nature of this odd karma around collective energy. In some ways it seems you are searching for the family you never had; families are often a substitute for the tribe or village we never had, and (at least in the United States) could not until recent years hope to reconstruct. Society is changing fast, and it is doing so partly by necessity and partly as a consequence of humans realizing that life is not a long ride alone in an SUV. The turning point this year involves putting group or tribal energy to work for you. For too long, you have made one sacrifice after another, hoping to build, create, or establish some sense of a world around you. There is only so far that an individual can go, doing this on their own. Beyond a certain point, the collective you are working to connect, create or awaken must come into its own, and there is very little that one person can do except be a focus of awareness and stay out of the way. That, and to look for the benefits that are available, and promise yourself that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll enjoy them.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) Do you need all the emotional barricades that you think protect you? What exactly do they protect you from? This is the question that is so infrequently asked. A Course in Miracles goes as far as to suggest that we question why we have locks on our doors. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t advise removing the locks, but rather asking specifically against whom they exist; and why we think they protect us. Barricades, locks, and bolts are all forms of boundaries. So, too, is psychological armor; and secrecy; and 1/09 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 105

Planet Waves Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net this thing so casually called compartmentalization. Pluto has made its way into your sign.

While every astrologer on the planet debates or ponders the meaning of this on a global scale, let’s consider how this is going to clear the way to making you a more accessible person. The transit of Pluto in your sign represents a complete shift in your worldview and your perception of yourself (Capricorn Moon and rising included). Something is being dismantled, a something that was, in a sense, installed into you from birth, or, rather, long before birth; it came along with your DNA and what some call a karmic inheritance. It is this same something that is coming under a process of enforced change for many people around you, though for few of them so directly as it is affecting you. Look around and you’ll notice the same thing, taking more abstract forms. The beauty of the moment is that you are being compelled to question every assumption you’ve ever had about yourself. You will see how these assumptions push you out of reach of the people who love you and, more importantly, of whom you love. They form a latticework of denial of your most basic truth. As has been written before, you don’t need to seek the truth—only that which obscures it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) An identity crisis is a beautiful thing, if you notice.

It’s too bad that they are mandated out of existence by our peers, parents, and advertising, all of whom are so certain of who we are and who we must not be. I suggest you commit to keeping yours going for as long as you can. I know it’s exhausting at times, and if you’re sincere about finding out who you are, you cannot play the game of being disappointed that you got laid off from a job you hate. Being an Aquarian, you might think that the usual tension that exists between you, the world, and its ridiculous pronouncements about life would be enough to keep the mystery going. Remember that Aquarius is a fixed sign and its energy strives to crystallize in a pattern. This is the individualist/conformist thing you struggle with so much of the time; the wish to be normal and the desire to smash normal as crystal with a bat. Your current process is gentler, though it doesn’t always feel that way.

There are many factors conspiring not only to dissolve the known patterns, but also the ones you cannot see. This is the world of the unconscious; the world of dreams; those secret psychic closets wherein reside our most guarded secrets, including the ones we keep from ourselves. Are they coming out in your dreams lately? And speaking of dreams, in the other sense of the word, do you feel like some of those are evaporating, or crumbling? Let them go: old ones, the dead ones, the tired ones. Set free the part of you that knows no bounds: Nothing else can rightfully be called dreams. If you have to dream them alone, so be it. If they call on you to summon your courage, let it out.

If you have no words, say it some other way—’til you get it yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You have discovered that, looked at one way, your life is a series of negotiated agreements. If these agreements are living commitments among living entities, they will change and grow over time, to the benefit of everyone involved. Looked at another way, your life is a commitment to yourself, which (because you are alive) is something that changes every day. Uranus is in your birth sign now, and it’s reaching a peak as it makes a series of oppositions to Saturn in your relationship house. This setup is about you refusing to compromise on the most basic realities of your nature. I trust you’re seeing how much pressure you and the rest of us are under to give up the wild parts of who we are, the passionate ones, the daring and the creative, the truly organic. Consider the idea that your persistence about who you are ultimately helps everyone you exchange energy with. This face may be obscured by your cloud of Piscesan guilt that rolls in from the sea every now and then, though if it’s true that everyone gains, then you have nothing at all to regret, deny, or feel remorse over, and this can be a tricky lesson to master. Meanwhile, noticing the prevailing state of the world has given you something to push back against, to refine your inner vision, and, most of all, to strengthen your determination and soulful quality. Step by step, you have maneuvered into a position where the only option is revolution. You know this, but more than this being about knowledge, your existence has become dominated by a will to exist, even in the face of those who so often seem too terrified to dare. You know who I am talking about, and you also know that you’re no longer on this journey alone. Indeed, look around and you will see that you have gathered some mighty companions. Listen and you will hear that this is how they feel about you.

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Laura Levine, Richard and Linda Thompson (NYC, 1982), gelatin-silver print

Laura Levine took the above picture of British folk-rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson, when the couple on tour promoting their sixth and final album, Shoot Out the Lights. “They were very friendly and courteous to me, but it was apparent that something was going on,” says Levine about the hour-long, two-roll session, during which (as she later learned) they were in the midst of a painful divorce.

“Sometimes when I shoot a photograph, I’m very aware of the composition, or a specific prop or setting, but in this case—although I’m sure I must have suggested placing the guitar in the frame and sitting them on the sofa—the only thing I see when I look at this image is the intensity of the emotion and the dynamic between the two of them. All of the other elements seem to fade away.”

The shoot, as Levine recalls, was particularly intense, and the photograph it produced (itself unique for a “portrait”) provocatively walks the tightrope between artistry and technique. “In some ways, I suppose you could technically call this a ‘bad’ photograph, in that her eyes are closed,” Levine concedes, “but this is one of those cases where I feel the intimacy and the emotion of the moment transcend any technical considerations.” Although it has been several years since Levine has dedicated herself exclusively to the kind of photography exemplified in this particular shot, she still finds herself looking at things from a photographer’s perspective—“Once a photographer, always a photographer,” she says.

This image will be among several dozen of Levine’s photographs on view this month at “Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography” at the Portland Museum of Art in Oregon. The exhibition, drawn from the largest private collection of photographs of rock musicians in the country, opens on January 22 and runs through March 22. Additionally, Levine contributed an essay to the accompanying exhibition catalogue, to be published by Yale University Press, and her work will be included in an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in October, entitled “Who Shot Rock: Photographers of Rock and Roll.” Portfolio: www.lauralevine.com.

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