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Your Hip Options Russell Tigges, MD, Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County, NDH Bone and Joint Center Total hip replacement or resurfacing—two viable options, but which one will work best for you? You will learn the questions to ask and the details to consider.
Thursday, March 26th
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Tuesday, March 31st
Is Infusion Therapy Right for You? Zeev Weitz, MD, NDH Arthritis Center For those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, and other rheumatological diseases, explore this supervised option offered right here at Northern Dutchess Hospital.
Wednesday, April 8th
Rx Dollars and Sense William Silta, Pharmacy Director, Vassar Brothers Medical Center Now more than ever it’s important to safeguard your health care dollars as well as your health. Discover the differences between generic Rx versus big-name brands, and learn strategies to help you efficiently and properly manage your medications.
Tuesday, April 14th
Female Incontinence and Male BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) Scott Kahn, MD, FACS, Hudson Valley Urology Associates, NDH Urology Center Explore the symptoms, diagnosis and treatments of these conditions, including physical therapy, medical therapy, and minimally invasive procedures.
Thursday, April 16th
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Wednesday, April 22nd
Migraine Headaches: A Professional and Personal Perspective Erin Elmore, MD, Kingston Neurological Associates Those who suffer from migraines know they are a painfully complex condition. This evening is devoted to discussing the causes, diagnosis, and various treatments—including hormonal issues of the “female migraine�—as well as the effects of “chronic pain syndrome.�
Thursday, April 23rd
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Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.
CONTENTS 3/09
NEWS AND POLITICS
EDUCATION ALMANAC
21 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
54 OUR ANNUAL COMPENDIUM OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Low-impact marketing, record profits for Exxon Mobil, nude hiking outlawed in parts of Switzerland, and other news you may have missed in the mainstream media.
24 THE NEXT WARRIOR: AN INTERVIEW WITH P. W. SINGER Lorna Tychostup talks with the author of Wired for War.
28 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC: AHH, SUCH STIMULATION! Larry Beinhart uncovers possible pitfalls in Obama’s stimulus package.
COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 30 BANG, BANG, BABY Sharon Nichols spends time with Veronica Varlow and Blake Heffner.
LOCALISM 52 THE LURE OF LOCAL: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SHUMAN Carl Frankel talks strategy with the author and localist guru.
71 LEADERS OF LOCALISM Kelley Granger profiles six local business leaders.
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Natural selection: Radial necklaces from Nervous System. PORTFOLIO
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GREENE COUNTY SUPPLEMENT 71 BLOWING IN THE WIND Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis shoots the breeze with Green in Greene.
WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 78 REVVING UP YOUR LOVE LIFE Aimee Hughes offers tips on sexual well-being without pharmaceuticals.
82 FLOWERS FALL: NO, GET MOM Field notes from a Buddhist Mom’s experimental life. By Bethany Saltman.
BUSINESS SERVICES 66 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 73 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 83 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.
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The Capital Campaign Committee and the Board of Directors of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center cordially invite you to attend Our Second Annual Gala Join us for an evening of celebration with Cocktails, Dinner, Dancing, Awards & Silent Auction Guest of honor NYS Assemblyman Daniel J. O'Donnell, The first openly gay man to serve in the New York State Assembly and the prime sponsor of the Marriage Equality Act
March 7, 2009 At the magnificent Grandview in Poughkeepsie Help support the Center and join us in a memorable evening with your family and friends
UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS. BeneďŹ t performance for HOPE’s Fund
FRI MAR 20 + SAT MAR 21 | 8 PM THE ROSENDALE MOVIE THEATER | ROSENDALE, NY TICKETS: $50 ADMISSION WITH PRE-SHOW RECEPTION & HOPE’S FUND MEMBERSHIP | $25 ADMISSION ONLY ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT HOPE’S FUND FOR TICKETS CALL UNITED WAY 845.331.4199
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 Fred Mayo Daria Papalia Marcuse Pfeifer Lance Ringel and Chuck Muckle Dean Rogers Jeff Zwolak Harris L. Safier and Robert Tonner Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante Rachel Evans and Barbara Hill Donn and Mary Ann Avallone
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Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.
CONTENTS 3/09
ARTS & CULTURE 108 PARTING SHOT
36 PORTFOLIO The algorithmic jewelry designs of Nervous System.
An untitled gouache by Erik Schoonebeeck.
40 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE
THE FORECAST
44 MUSIC
81 DAILY CALENDAR
Peter Aaron takes it to the bridge with Joseph Bertolozzi. Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Rebecca Martin The Growing Season. Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson. Susan Kane Highway Bouquet. Reviewed by Michael Ruby. The Westport Sunrise Sessions 2. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren.
48 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles author and filmmaker John Sayles.
50 BOOK REVIEWS Pauline Uchmanowicz reviews Body of Water by Janet Hamill and Falling Forward by Rebecca Schumejda. Jay Blotcher reviews Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill.
52 POETRY Poems by D. A. Bird, Jan Garden Castro, Kerry Giangrande, C. C. Isis, Elan Kwiecinski, Kirsty Logan, Richard Lopez, Dennis Lucas, Georganna Millman, Mimi Moriarty, J. R., Laura Recio, and Dave Wheeler.
Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 89 Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy performs as part of Clearwater’s spring benefit at Beacon High School on March 28. 91 Why He Still Matters, a one-day conference on Abraham Lincoln featuring leading scholars on the 16th president of the US, comes to Bard College on March 13. 95 “Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography,” an exhibition from the pioneering gallery, shows this month at the Dorsky Museum. 97 Blue Gold screens at the Kent Film Festival this month. 99 Paula Poundstone talks with Jay Blotcher about Timothy Leary and the power of Dumbo’s feather in advance of her March 7 performance at the Bearsville Theater. 101 A cast of local notables take to the stage of the Rosendale Theater to perform “The Vagina Monologues” to benefit HOPE’s Fund on March 20 and 21.
PLANET WAVES 102 KALEO: VENUS UNBOUND
62 FOOD & DRINK
Eric Francis Coppolino on the core cosmic dharma of Venus. Plus horoscopes.
AMBER S. CLARK
Peter Barrett tastes the DIY aesthetic in Cereghino Smith wines.
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ON THE COVER
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When Carolyn Marks Blackwood bought a small house in Rhinecliff on a bluff overlooking the Hudson two-and-a-half years ago, she began training her camera on the river. Blackwood, a screenwriter and producer (her production company, Magnolia Mae Films, produced The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley, which was up for an Oscar as we went to press), had been snapping photos for years, but it wasn’t until she was asked to participate in an exhibition at the Morton Library in Rhinecliff that she began to think of herself as a photographer. Her photos was spotted New York City curator and critic Barbara Rose, who invited her to show her work as part of a group show in Manhattan. “My career in photography is analogous to playing softball with friends in a Rhinebeck park and being asked by a scout for the NewYorkYankees if I would like to play in the World Series,” says Blackwood. A dedicated river chronicler, Blackwood has spent many hours on the river in the past year, both on patrol with Riverkeeper and also aboard the Coast Guard icebreaker Penobscot Bay. In her photos you can see the changing moods of the river, whether its sheets of ice piled on top of each other like so many torn storefront windows, or a lighthouse peering out through a fog bank. Sometimes the river’s landscape changes more rapidly than she can document. After photographing the ice breaking up last March one afternoon (“it sounded like thousands of panes of glass breaking”), Blackwood returned the next day to find that the ice had melted. “I had to wait a whole year for the ice to return,” says Blackwood. The river, endlessly flowing, counsels patience. After years in the movie business, Blackwood finds photography a welcome contrast. “Photography is such a joyful thing as I don’t depend on anyone but myself. In the movie business, you’re dependent on other people,” says Blackwood. “One is dependent on so many people when producing a film—and on huge amounts of money granted by other people. Photography is much more like writing for me. I am dependent solely on myself.” Blackwood’s photographs will be exhibited in the Alan Klotz Gallery booth at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers show March 25 through 29 at the Park Avenue Armory. This summer, Blackwood will have a solo show of her Hudson River themed work at the Hudson Opera House (June 13 to August 15) as part of the Quadricentennial celebration of Henry Hudson’s voyage. Portfolio: www.cmblackwood.com. —Brian K. Mahoney
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EDITORIAL LIKE A MIXER THAT LASTS ALL YEAR, YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU SHOWED UP!
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com SENIOR EDITOR Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com
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CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Peter Barrett, Larry Beinhart, D. Alex Bird, Jay Blotcher, Jan Garden Castro, Amber S. Clark, Eric Francis Coppolino, Jan Larraine Cox, Jason Cring, Carl Frankel, Kerry Giangrande, Kelley Granger, Annie Dwyer Internicola, C. C. Isis, Elan Kwiecinski, Kirsty Logan, Richard Lopez, Richard Lucas, Jennifer May, Georganna Millman, Mimi Moriarty, Sharon Nichols, J. R., Layra Recio, Fionn Reilly, Michael Ruby, Bethany Saltman, Sparrow, Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson, Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis, Robert Burke Warren, Dave Wheeler
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LETTERS The Clouds of War Reporting To the Editor: In regard to Mr. Stern’s Esteemed Reader in your February issue, and specifically to his third paragraph rant about Israel—what lofty pontifications given with no humility and with even less objectivity. I am not sure that when Mr. Stern wrote his piece he was aware of the fact that Israel did not bomb the UN headquarters and there were no children killed. While it made great headlines and no doubt contributed to Mr. Stern’s condemnation of Israel, it was just another example of Hamas’s press/media manipulation, much more common than Mr. Stern realizes. The reality was that the United Nations has publicly reversed its stance on one of the most contentious and bloody incidents of the recent Israel Defense Force operation in Gaza, and confirmed that the IDF mortar shells fell in the street near the compound, and not on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency school. Rather, it seems the real story is that some people, including at least two Hamas militants, were killed when Israel returned fire from Hamas mortars launched from among a crowd in the street. While it may still bother readers that people died, it is very, very different to what was so widely alleged, and far more forgivable. While it made great headlines, it was just another example of Arab terrorists’ manipulation of the press and media, which is more common than American’s realize. Unfortunately, I could supply countless examples of terrorist propaganda, naively (and in some cases not so innocently) accepted by journalists, including Mr. Stern, and publicized in the press. While retractions are often made as the truth becomes known, this media correction occurs after the fact, and well after public opinion has been influenced by these falsehoods. One other example of media manipulation by Arab terrorists that Mr. Stern needs to be reminded of is the Palestinian claims that Israel was guilty of atrocities in Jenin (on the West Bank). At that time, spokesman Saeb Erekat, for example, told CNN that at least 500 people were massacred and 1,600 people, including women and children, were missing.The Palestinians quickly backpedaled when it became clear they could not produce any evidence to support the scurrilous charge, and their own review committee reported a death toll of 56, of whom 34 were combatants. No women or children were reported missing. Colin Powel said at the time, “I see no evidence that would support a massacre took place.” Powell’s view was subsequently confirmed by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, and an investigation by the European Union. The coverage of journalists and welfare groups reporting from territory run by terrorists has never been trustworthy. When we repeat these reports we become mouthpieces for their propaganda. One other point, I think it’s up to the Israelis—who are actually living next to a failed, violent society which espouses their annihilation—to decide whether they should “open [themselves] to humility and forgiveness” and turn the other cheek or not. Given the neighborhood that Israel lives in, that’s a good way to end up without any cheeks, or limbs, or children, or country. Mr. Stern’s message of peace, love, brotherhood, humility, and smiley faces would be more appropriately directed to the misogynistic, murderous Hamas fanatics who were elected on a platform of killing Israelis, not on a mission of “hands across the border and let’s trade youth groups, kumbaya.” Then again, using Mr. Stern’s logic, it might be a good thing to find the native American group from whom the land on which Mr. Stern resides was stolen...and give it back. Susan Puretz, Saugerties
Chronogram welcomes Letters to the Editor If you would like to share your thoughts on somethng you read in the magazine, send a note of 400 words or less to: 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401, or bmahoney@chronogram.com.
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LETTERS Serendipity To the Editor: Last week, I spotted the newest Chronogram in my chiropractor’s office and secretly hoped that he was running late so that I could have some uninterrupted reading time. After 10 minutes into the magazine, I knew I had to write to you. I think the first thing that intrigued me was what you wrote [Editor’s Note, 2/08] about the way in which people decide what to read first “a seamless experience, flipping from one page to another” a great analogy. It made me look at how I read Chronogram. Usually, without exception, I go to the horoscopes first, then I look for your Editor’s Note. Once I have read your column, I dive into the rest of the magazine and save the poetry page for last. For some reason, I decided to read the poetry page first in the February issue and was so taken with Cynthia Poten’s “Anybody Knows What Love Is.” I read and re-read it several times…what a beautiful piece. It certainly gave me the impetus to try again to get one of my poems published in your magazine. And then I read your last paragraph. Serendipity. I have always loved poetry and I especially liked Robert Farley’s poem in the December issue, and the poem “For My Father” in the January issue really spoke to me. Suffice to say that I find Chronogram to be worthwhile and valuable. I have watched its evolution from the early days of the publication and look forward to the longevity of this provocative magazine. Thank you. Barbara Lane, New Paltz
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Where There’s Smoke… To the Editor: The full page cigarette ad in your February issue is a strange choice for Chronogram. Seems to me a magazine that says it’s about “sustainability, arts, and wellness” would benefit from a policy of limiting advertising to products that reflect its readers’ values. What’s next? Ads for booze? Handguns? Casinos? Adjustable rate mortgages? Carl Bethge, Catskill To the Editor: I have been a long time reader of Chronogram, so I was surprised and saddened to see an ad for cigarettes in one of my favorite magazines. Perhaps, an ad of this nature has been running for a while and I just missed it. I confess, I sometimes skip around to get to the high quality writing pieces! However, I have to ask the question: Why would a publication with your long-time integrity support a cancer-causing substance that contains enough government approved chemicals to induce death many times over, and is marketed to our youth in this classy magazine? If it’s because they are “all natural/organic”—please—I only eat organic foods, but a cigarette is a cigarette. It makes me angry enough to leave it on the shelf next time. If money is the issue, I would rather pay a cover price. Lisa Chason, via e-mail Publisher Jason Stern responds: My thanks go out to those expressing their concern and dismay that Chronogram accepted advertising from Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company. Having received these letters and reflecting more deeply, I see that running this advertisement was a violation of the special responsibility and trust we took on as publishers of a magazine dedicated to the wellness of our community. Though Santa Fe Natural is a small company that produces organic and additive-free tobacco products, their mission is ultimately inconsistent with our values and ideals and those of most of our readers. In addition to specific health issues around tobacco, addiction could be considered a form of disease in itself, and we do not wish to be an influence that would undermine a person’s determination to break free of that bondage. We will never again accept advertising for tobacco products and we will strive to keep Chronogram a magazine in which the advertising as well the content are worthy of your respect and attention. Please continue to hold us to that commitment.
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LOCAL LUMINARY MICHAEL CHEN LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY
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ichael Chen is like many 11-year-old boys you know. He lives with his parents in a split-level ranch in a recently built development. He attends the local public school and dislikes homework and would find an excuse
to miss school if he could. He’s got Rock Band set up in the den, along with his Xbox. Chen owns three skateboards and complains that his father recently promised to take him to Skate Time 209 to ride the skate park there, but now that his father has seen his daredevil antics, he refuses to take him. Where did his father see him skate? Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival. This is where Chen’s story diverges from that of other kids. Chen is one of the leads in Tze Chun’s indie feature Children of Invention, which premiered at Sundance last month. Chen is also the son of New York Times best-selling author Da Chen (Colors of the Mountain, Sounds of the River) and paranormal romance novelist Sunny Chen (Mona Lisa Blossoming). Chen’s acting career began with small parts in commercials, and he has also appeared numerous times on “Sesame Street,” as well in promotional spots for the Cartoon Network kids’ show “Ben Ten,” and as an extra (with his family) on “Saturday Night Live.” He was cast in the blockbuster Transformers 2—Chen’s small role consisted of him ordering ice cream in Chinese from a Good Humor truck and then turning into a Transformer—but the scene was cut before it was ever filmed. An accomplished dancer, Chen played the part of the prince in the 2007 production of “The Nutcracker” at the Bardavon. Children of Invention follows Raymond (Michael Chen) and Tina (Crystal Chiu), two first-generation Chinese kids growing up in Boston with Elaine (Cindy Cheung), an overworked single parent. Arrested because of her involvement in a pyramid scheme, Elaine doesn’t tell the police about her young children for fear of losing them. When their mom disappears for four days without explanation, the kids are left to fend for themselves. The film was shot over 24 days last summer, primarily in New York City, with five days of shooting in Boston. I spoke to Chen in the kitchen of his Highland home on President’s Day, a day he was pleased to have off from school. To learn more about Children of Invention, visit www.childrenofinvention.com. —Brian K. Mahoney
What made you want to be an actor? My older sister was in the play “Annie.” When I saw the play, I was really young, and it looked so real. So I went to my sister and I asked, “Was that real?” And she said, “No, it’s just acting.” So I said, “I want to do that!” When was the first time you acted? It was in a play. I don’t know what the name of it was. I was in an acting camp at Dutchess Community College. I was six or seven years old.
Did you see meet any famous people? I didn’t really meet anyone famous, but I saw Seth Green and Zooey Deschanel, and we shared a taxi to the airport with the writer of The Cove [Mark Monroe]. Did you see a lot of movies? I didn’t see any other movies. I couldn’t, because I was either busy watching my movie, or at a party.
What was your first professional acting job? It was a commercial for Fuji film. I was about eight. I was supposed to be having fun and blowing bubbles.
Did you have to sit up on the stage for panel discussions after the screenings? I only went to one panel. And I wasn’t even on the panel, it was only the director [Tze Chun]. Me and my movie sister [Crystal Chiu] were like, “We’re so tired.” I heard it was two hours long, but after the first 10 minutes we almost fell asleep.
How did you get that job? Through an agent. When I was really little, I was in a male pageant and a casting agent was there. She was one of the judges. She liked both my sister and me so she repped us both. After one gig my sister sort of faded away from it because she didn’t like it that much. But I like it.
What was your favorite moment at Sundance? Seeing myself on the screen. It was a little embarrassing, but I liked it. Watching some scenes though, I thought to myself that I could have done something different, said a line in a different way.
What about it do you like? The act of fooling people. Nobody knows that you’re playing someone else, not you. I think of it as sort of being something else that you’re not, but you make something good out of it. You get people laughing, or even crying sometimes.
What was it like to shoot Children of Invention? Were the days long? Some days were from four o’clock to eight o’clock, and then some days were from 8am to 1am.
Do you get stage fright? If it’s for something big, like Transformers 2, or some other really famous movie, then yeah. But if it’s about something I don’t know and I research it, then I’m not scared because I’ve never heard of it. You were out at Sundance to promote Children of Invention. How was it? It was really fun. My father and I were out there for five days.
That’s a long day. Yeah. I think it wasn’t legal for me to work that long because I’m a minor. What’s the hardest part of acting for you? Not looking at the camera, and memorizing lines. How do you memorize a whole script, like you did for Children of Invention? I went through the script eight times. After I read it once I read it over and over again.
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At least 128 active duty US Army troops killed themselves in 2008, the highest number of suicides since record keeping began in 1980. (This number does not include the 41 Marines who killed themselves.) The final count will most likely be higher because a dozen other suspicious deaths are still being investigated. In comparison, there were 115 self-inflicted deaths by Army soldiers in 2007 and 102 in 2006. The Veterans Administration estimates that 18 veterans a day—or 6,500 a year—take their own lives, a number inclusive of veterans of all wars. Source: Associated Press An early February snowstorm in Britain brought out the latest iteration of socalled “cleanvertising.” Curb, a British advertising agency that specializes in low-impact branding—cutting logos into turf (Addidas), building branded sand sculptures (Volswagen)—added a new medium to their offerings: snow tagging (pictured above). Curb employees, armed with laser-cut stencils of the sports and lifestyle channel Extreme took to the streets of London and left 3,500 imprints of the Extreme logo on parked cars, post boxes, walls, and other snowcovered surfaces. Source: Utne Reader The world’s largest publicly traded oil company, Exxon Mobil, posted the most profitable year ever by an American corporation in 2008, despite the collapse oil prices in the fourth quarter of last year. Exxon Mobil earned $45.2 billion in 2008, beating its record-setting 2007 profit if $40.6. Source: New York Times As of one of his first acts as interior secretary, Ken Salazar scrapped a Bush administration proposal to open up as many as 300 million acres off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to oil and gas drilling. Salazar said he was launching a comprehensive review of offshore resources by the Interior Department, which oversees oil and gas drilling on public lands, including 1.7 billion acres on the outer continental shelf. He also promised to conduct four meetings with stakeholders in Alaska, on the Pacific Coast, the Atlantic Coast, and the Gulf Coast before making a final decision on offshore drilling. President Bush’s draft proposal, which would govern drilling on the outer continental shelf from 2010 to 2015, was unveiled just days before Bush left the White House. Salazar said the delay represented a “dramatic change from the last eight years, where you had a one-road highway to energy independence, which was drill, drill, drill.” In a similar move, Salazar has reversed another Bush-era plan to lease wilderness land in Utah “at the doorstep of some of nation’s most treasured landscapes,” according to Salazar— Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Parks, Dinosaur National Monument and Nine Mile Canyon Source: Houston Chronicle, Agene France Presse In late January 85 children were released by the Mai-Mai armed group in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The children were between the ages of 7 and 17, five of them being girls, and many of them are believed to have been conscripted by the Mai-Mai as child soldiers into the ongoing conflict in the border region of Rwanda and Congo, the world’s deadliest battleground since World War II, killing 5.4 million people in the last 10 years. A number of armed groups in North Kivu, including the National Congress for People’s Defense, Pareco, and the Mai-Mai, have verbally agreed to release all children in their ranks. The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers estimates that tens of thousands of children are currently fighting in 19 conflicts across the globe. Sources: UNICEF, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
The Swiss canton of Appenzeil, a scenic portion of the Alpine country, passed a law in February outlawing naked hiking after many local residents were surprised last season by an influx of German nudists. Those caught trekking in the nude will receive a fine of approximately $200. The practice of FKK (“free body culture”) is a serious pursuit in Germany, dating back to the early 20th century. Source: Der Spiegel A study released by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden in January contends that socially active people who are not easily stressed have a 50 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared with those were isolated and prone to distress. The study tracked 506 elderly people over six years who did not have dementia when the study began. Of the seniors, 144 developed dementia, with more socially active and less stressed men and women less likely to develop the condition. An estimated 24 million people worldwide suffer from problems with orientation, memory loss, and other dementia-related symptoms. Researchers believe the number of people with dementia may quadruple by 2040. Source: Reuters In late January Disneyland announced plans to use compressed natural gas to fuel its 16 guest trams at its 500-acre resort in California and powering the Disneyland Railroad steam trains and Mark Twain riverboat with biodiesel derived from used cooking oil harvested throughout the complex. Use of biodiesel enables the park complex in Anaheim to save about 200,000 gallons of petrol-based diesel fuel each year, according to Frank Dela Vara, Disneyland director of environmental affairs and conservation. For a decade, the trams ran on diesel hybrid engines. Disneyland expects that using compressed natural gas will cut the need for some 50,000 gallons of standard diesel fuel each year. Source: GreenerBuildings.com According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2008, Sweden is the “most democratic” nation in the world. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is a project of the Economist magazine. When 60 indicators were graded from 1 to 10, Sweden achieved a score of 9.88. (North Korea scored lowest with .086) The indicators were spread across five broad areas: electoral process, functioning of government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties. The US ranked 18th in the survey, behind many European countries. This is due to the fact that Sweden and the US are diametrically opposed on one important point, according to Stefan Hedlund, Professor of Soviet and East European Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden. Swedes value equality over liberty, while the opposite is true for Americans. Although Sweden has a robust market economy, Swedish prosperity has been spread among the population to a greater degree than in most other countries. Surveys of individual happiness closely track the functioning of democracy, with Sweden ranking close to the highest in world surveys. Sweden also ranks first in Save the Children’s Mothers Index and Women, indicating effective societal support for families, and gender equality. Source: Positive News International Compiled by Brian K. Mahoney
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ebruary was a particularly grim month for local publications. On February 6, The Independent, the Hillsdale-based twice-weekly newspaper serving Columbia and southern Rensselaer counties, published its last edition. A week later, the Journal Register Company, which owned The Independent, shuttered its Taconic Press Group, comprising seven weekly newspapers serving Dutchess county—the Millbrook Round Table; the HarlemValley Times (Amenia); the Voice Ledger (Pleasant Valley); the Pawling News Chronicle; the Hyde Park Townsman; the Gazette Advertiser (Rhinebeck), and the Register Herald (Pine Plains)—and three magazines—Taconic Weekend, Dutchess, and HudsonValley Guide. A few days later, Lori Childress, publisher of the Ulster County Press, said that the Stone Ridge-based newsweekly was closing. Lastly, the Hudson-Catskill Newspapers announced on February 18 that, beginning in March, both the Catskill-based Daily Mail, which covers Greene County, and the Hudson-based Register Star, which covers Columbia County, will publish only Tuesday through Saturday. (The January/February issue of InsideOut magazine started the year off with a bang, featuring a picture of a dog with a toy gun to its head on the cover, next to the line: “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Shoot This Dog.” This stunt—an homage to a 1973 National Lampoon cover—was accompanied by a plea from the publisher, stating that the bi-monthly magazine, which had been free since its inception six years ago, would close unless it recruited a thousand subscribers. As Lee Anne and I have not been sent back our check for $18.95, I’m assuming they’re soldiering on.) The sudden cave-in of a good portion of the local media landscape was duly covered in the remaining regional press—Albany’s Times Union, the Poughkeepsie Journal, and the Kingston Freeman—and it brought to mind a couple phrases rattling around the ol’ brain box.The first of which is the great line Mike Campbell says in The Sun Also Rises when asked how he went bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” Watching how the Journal Register Company has eviscerated its editorial department in the Freeman over the last five years in a petty, penny-pinching grab at profits, I wasn’t shocked to hear that they decided to close a set of what are most likely marginally profitable businesses. (Plus, given Journal Register’s deep financial trouble—brought on by a buying spree of hundreds of weekly newspapers in the 1990s, which seemed like a sure bet at the time but has loaded the company with enough debt to bring it to the brink of bankruptcy—and the Freeman’s anemic ad pages, I wonder how much longer Kingston will have a daily newspaper.) I was also reminded of something I had read in the blogosphere about the demise of newspapers. After the usual critical pigpile on the mainstream media—the right thinks it’s too liberal, the left thinks it’s too cozy with the powerful, it’s gotten important stories very wrong (Judith Miller’s Iraq coverage in the Times, for one)—one writer asked, “Who will cover the demise of the newspaper industry if all the newspapers are out of business?” The uncomplicated answer, of course, is the blogosphere itself. Every time a another newspaper closes, someone is writing about it in some dusty corner of cyberspace. We all own our own printing presses now. We are all media
barons in our tiny blog fiefdoms. But blog-driven sites, even large ones like Huffington Post, do very little actual reporting. They aggregate content from actual newsgathering organizations, like newspapers. The Internet has yet to produce a model that can faithfully mimic the capabilities of a local newspaper. (Though some are trying. Parry Teasdale, editor of The Independent until very recently, has launched a web-only Columbia County publication— www.columbiapaper.com—that he hopes will take the place of his former newspaper. Godspeed. As Teasdale told the Times-Union, “People don’t realize how expensive it is to produce and distribute real news.”) You might think that as editor of a local publication (and as a partner in a business that works hard for every advertising dollar), I would be pleased with the swift removal of some of our “competitors.” And this is true, to the extent that it presents us with an opportunity for new business. But personally, as a citizen of a free society, I harbor deep misgivings about the ability of our democracy to adequately function without the tangible public-service benefit of newspaper journalism. Even on the most microcosmic of local levels, like the meetings of the town boards that are the bread and butter of small town newspapers. It ain’t sexy—anyone who’s ever had to cover a town board meeting knows that—but the transparent dissemination of this type of news is vital to our communities making informed choices. News, striving toward the objective ideal, also enables the public to hold government accountable. Without it, the government acts with impunity— look at the abuses of Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition. A 2003 study in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization examined the link between government corruption and newspaper circulation. The authors found that the lower the circulation of newspapers in a country, the greater the level of corruption; they uncovered a similar relationship between newspaper circ and corruption on a state-by-state basis in the US. If this study holds true in our region, brace yourself for a new level of venality and self-dealing in local government. Roy G. Biv* So, while everyone else is going out of business, Chronogram goes all color. We’d spoken about it idly for years, debated the costs and benefits and the effect on our brand (that serious, classic, high-minded, film-noiry feel of blackand-white reproduction). And then, wham! Dorothy isn’t in Kansas anymore. This change allows us to raise the bar yet again on quality in the magazine, a challenge we embrace. For 15 years we have viewed black-and-white as an ennobling limitation, like the formal structure of a sonnet. We hope to bring the same rigor to our continuing magnum opus. * Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic device for the colors of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Get your weekly dose of Chronogram on Tuesday mornings at 8:15 with Brian and Greg Gattine on “The Morning Show with Gattine and Franz.” WDST 100.1FM. 3/09 CHRONOGRAM 23
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ts name is SWORDS, or the Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System. Moving about on tank-like tracks, this soldier can be armed with a variety of different weapons, including machine guns and grenade launchers. Its 360-degree camera can pan and tilt, read people’s name tags at 400 yards, see the expressions on their faces, what weapons they are carrying, or even if a weapon’s safeties are on or off. SWORDS can accomplish this day or night, in the thick of sand or snow storms, and even drive underwater at depths of 100 feet only to pop up in unexpected places and take out a target with 100 percent accuracy. SWORDS is joined by flying counterparts with names such as Global Hawk, Shadow, and Raven. Equipped with similar sci-fi-like cameras that can see far better than the human eye, these daredevils can pinpoint enemy targets from the sky: the tiny Wasp can skim over rooftops and give views of enemy activities, while the armed Predator can fly as high 26,000 feet, peer through smoke, clouds, and dust to read license plates from two miles away and lock onto a target via its laser designator. All are remote-controlled robots. All send images back to soldiers controlling the robots from computer or TV screens either on or near the battlefield. Or, in the case of the armed Predator drone, flown by “reachback” or “remotesplit” operations, in converted single-wide trailers located 7,500 miles away in military bases in the US. Pilots connect to the drones via satellite using control panels that look like 1980s-type two-player arcade video games. Working 12hour shifts, seven days a week, scanning three TV screens for suspicious activities, these modern-day “aces” can kill with the touch of a control, and leave work each day in time to be home for dinner. With most born in the minds of sci-fi writers over the years, these are just a few of the modern day soldiers highlighted by P. W. Singer, in his latest book, Wired forWar:The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. Having worked for Harvard, the Pentagon, and recently served as coordinator of the defense policy advisory task force for the Obama campaign, the 34-year-old Singer is the youngest senior fellow ever at the Brookings Institute. Senior Editor Lorna Tychostup spoke with Singer recently about the capabilities of these futuristic warriors, the ramifications of their presence on the battlefield on the laws and ethics of war, and the profound effects these robotic warriors will have on the front lines and the political atmosphere back home. The media tells us all about the surge, successes on the ground, but we don’t hear about the use of these robots in Iraq. Part of what drove me to write this book, was the sense that in many ways people were in a little bit of denial simply because robotic devices sound so much like science fiction. There hasn’t been much reporting on these systems because one, the growth rate and use of these technologies happened incredibly quickly. In the air, we go from a handful—5,300 when I wrote the book—to 7,000 now. In the last few months, we’ve added another thousand in the air. That’s a lot in a short amount of time. Two, writing about robotics often comes across as science fiction—and that often makes it easy to ignore battlefield reality. Third, the way our media approaches things is complex. What doesn’t fit
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within previous understandings can’t be summed up in a single bullet point in 15 seconds. Also, stories that don’t fit pre-existing storylines often don’t get reported. The surge was an incredibly complex operation with different facets, yet has very different meanings to different people. For some, it added more troops to Iraq. For others, it’s represented by the Sunni Awakening, the turning of the tribal leaders to our side. Yet others see that the US figured out how to better use our technology. The book cites the role of Task Force Odin, which broke the IED-makers asymmetric advantage by finding and killing more than 2,400 insurgents either making or planting bombs, as well as capturing 141 more, all in just one year.The surge was all of these things and if you didn’t have just one element you wouldn’t have the success. But that’s a very complex story to tell in 15 seconds on CNN or FOX. And even with this amazing technology, war is still driven by human psychology that drives how it’s utilized and the dilemmas that come out of it. The main argument of the book is that you can’t forget the human side of war, even when you’re talking about this incredible technology. One example you give is the $5,000 MARCBOT that operates like a remote-controlled child’s toy car. One day an innovative soldier attached explosives to it, directed it toward insurgents, and blew them and the robot up. The combined use of technology and the human mind. That’s exactly what happened with airplanes historically. At the start of WWI, they were just used for observation. Then human ingenuity jury-rigged a little box to drop out of it and suddenly you had armed airplanes.Then someone said, “They’re doing it, we’ll do it too.” Then, “Well, if they’re dropping bombs on us and we’re dropping bombs on them, shouldn’t we try to shoot each other down in the air?” All the various ripple-effects outwards onto politics and law— “What’s legal with aerial bombing?” followed. All came out of just a little bit of human ingenuity. It’s the same with robotics. The emerging technology of robotics is the new hot potato even among such organizations as the International Committee of the Red Cross and Human Right Watch, who find it easier to raise funds for issues garnering media headlines then for investigations of weapons not yet on donor’s radar screens. You talk about how the military is enjoying this time of no regulation coupled with obscene spending and absolutely no oversight while these usual watchdog agencies are hiding their heads in the sand waiting for the issues to hit the newsstands. Without media coverage, how can legal issues be addressed when the public isn’t being made aware? I have a somewhat jaundiced view of this from my experience with a previous book I did on private military contractors that came out right before the Iraq war.Writing about Halliburton, Blackwater, DynCorp and how we are increasingly turning over military roles to private military companies, the issue was basically ignored. In fact, there was a research study that showed—despite the
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TWO US ARMY SOLDIERS PREPARE TO LAUNCH A RAVEN DRONE. ACCORDING TO ONE REPORT, ONE OF THE UNEXPECTED RESULTS OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES IS A “MILITARY CULTURE CLASH BETWEEN TEENAGED VIDEO GAMERS AND VETERAN FLIGHT JOCKS FOR CONTROL OF THE DRONES”; FROM P. W. SINGER’S BOOK WIRED FOR WAR.
fact that we had more contractors in Iraq than U.S. soldiers—only one percent of all media stories coming out of Iraq even mentioned contractors. It’s not until you have incidents like the Halliburton billing scandals, or Abu Ghraib involving Titan and CACI, or the Blackwater shootings that we get coverage. They don’t really become news stories until the problems break. The same is true now with robotics. I am hopeful my work will generate attention now, before the worst problems break. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is what corrects my spelling and grammar mistakes as I write. You write that there is software being developed that will give robots abilities to be creative—“to write catchy pop songs, design soft drinks, discover substances harder than diamonds, optimize missile warheads, and search the Internet for terrorist communications.” Fears, real or imagined, are associated with robots, their autonomy, and specifically, with AI and the implications of a Terminator-type takeover scenario. One, we are increasingly surrounded by more and more AI, from voicemail to the little annoying paperclip that pops up in Microsoft Word, to the more sophisticated stuff in counter-terrorism surveillance and data mining. We just don’t call it AI. Second, we see this doubling effect happening every two years in computing power, Moore’s law operating—particularly with intelligence. Combined with greater memory storage and connectivity, you really do get into the world of the potential of science fiction coming true. One area that really needs to be talked about is evolutionary software programs. That is, pro-
grams that don’t work in the way you exactly plan them, but where they build upon themselves and move into new, unexpected directions. People think you need to work on this because that’s the most efficient way for these programs to get better and better. The problem is, you’re building it to go into unexpected directions so you shouldn’t be surprised when it does. But I think that’s the part that’s questionable. We have to figure out the contexts where that’s allowable, and what are the ethics behind such development. You can’t simply say, “I’m working on this and hope it works out for the best.” Unfortunately, that’s kind of where we are right now. It makes me uneasy that we would create something that would be unstoppable, like “Hal” in 2001. I wonder if in addition to the link to science fiction, there is another factor where people just simply cannot accept the ramifications of this new technology. If a Martian landed in front of people, some would not be able to see it because their brains would not allow it. When something seems like science fiction, it’s often hard for people to digest it as reality. A classic example is atomic weaponry. The politicians and citizens at the time said horse pucky to the idea of using radioactive materials to build a bomb that could blow up an entire city. The flipside of science fiction is that it often inspires people to go out and make those things real. And yet you had some people living in denial regarding atomic weapons, the very name of which comes from science fiction writer H. G. Wells. And you have other people who were inspired to build this science fiction real in the Manhattan Project. What 3/09 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS
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I’m intrigued and troubled by is when it comes to AI and robotics, and also broader areas of research today, things like genetics and nano-technology, our policy-makers remain woefully ignorant of not merely where we are going to be in five years, but where we already are right now, or even where we were five years ago. A top defense advisor to the Pentagon made a joke about the Internet: “One day the Internet will probably be in 3D and you’ll be able to have little fingers to walk around inside.” My wife actually works for Linden Lab, the company that created Second Life, so I asked him, “You’re talking like this is something futuristic yet it’s been operative for five years! Haven’t you heard of Second Life?” It’s not like Second Life is hidden away. It’s been featured on everything from “CSI” to “The Office.”You don’t even have to access it to be aware of it—you simply have to keep your finger on the pulse of pop culture. But this story shows just how far behind policymakers often are in knowing where [the state of] technology is. So when it comes to wrestling with the effects outside of the technology, they’re very ill equipped. My hope is to show people what exists. They may not agree with everything I say, but at least I’m giving them a realistic framework for how to talk about it—not a science fiction way. The book reads like an overwhelming candy menu. You list a item, supply a customer review or comment, explain its ingredients and what it will do—good or bad—to your diet. “Network-enabled telepathy” where chips are implanted into the brains of paralyzed people allowing them to move a cursor just by thinking—again, AI, the coupling of robotics with human brains.You talk a lot about the positives, but what are some of the negatives when we talk implanted chips or robots operating directly from human brains or vice-versa? You get into very interesting questions, like: Where’s the exact dividing line between man and machine? Who should or shouldn’t be allowed to have these enhancements? Who regulates it? What is it like to have these and then have them taken away from you? If you’re equipping soldiers, is it something they get for life? Or just during deployment? From what we’re learning about people who have had some of these implants it has a psychological ripple effect on them— how they look at and think about themselves. I quote one scientist who implanted himself with a chip talking about how he felt superior to everyone around him. It sounds like something right out of a “Star Trek” episode, but he’s talking about a real-world experience. All these things are way out there and yet the example of the guy moving the computer cursor via thought—you talk to someone in DARPA, and they’re like “Oh, that’s old news! We did that five years ago.” You also write about advances in prosthetics, the implants of radiofrequency-identification chips that allow entry into a health club or automatically charge groceries, memory-chips implanted into the human brain that will allow it access to access gigabytes of information automatically, thus enabling people to make cell phone calls and send e-mails.You wrote: “Technological enhancements are creating a new type of human species, the first time in 25,000 years we have more than one type among us.” This all sounds fantastic and great, but you state that these technological advancements will go to the empowered and the rich. Will this cause more of a megadivide between haves and have-nots, and possibly new frontiers of war, new Davids fighting against Goliaths? That’s something I certainly fear. The example of the self-implanted scientist talking about how he felt superior is key.We need to remember that while these things give you enhanced capabilities; we still have age-old human psychology in us.We’ve fought wars over all sorts perceived differences among us.We used the color of someone’s skin pigment to determine whether we thought they were superior or not, whether they could be owned as a slave or not. And now when we’re talking about something that is a real difference—a person who doesn’t just think that they’re more intelligent, but truly is more intelligent, or truly has greater strength but didn’t have the discipline to build it themselves, they just simply had it because they were richer—this creates a lot of strange stuff when you add in our own normal psychology. A futurist who presented before me at a conference basically made the argument that we’re reaching our next step in evolution. He called it homo roboticus and talked about everything from the chip implants to artificial legs it in this wonderful, exciting, “Isn’t this 26
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really cool!” way. I brought up two things. One, the military is paying for all of this because of war, not due to general human betterment. Second, the story of evolution is one of winners and losers, and everyone sitting in the room was actually going to be on the “losers” side according to what he said. You say that much of what is written in human history is simply the history of warfare. It’s creativity that has truly distinguished us as a species; allowed us to take our species to the stars, create art and literature. And now we’re now using our creativity to build this incredibly fascinating technology. Some people even argue that one day we’ll produce a new species or a next step in the stage for our species. But we also must be completely honest with ourselves—the reason we’re mainly doing it is because of war. And that’s really sad. You write about “Singularity”—a qualitative advance where prediction of what comes next becomes difficult and all the rules change, in part because we are no longer making the rules. The idea is that every so often, something comes along in history that rewrites the rules. And it becomes almost impossible for people living before that time to really have a good sense of the possibilities and dilemmas that people will be facing after it. The classic example is the printing press. If you were living before its creation and are shown this rickety contraption, you could not fathom that it was going to create mass literacy, the Reformation, The Thirty Year War that would leave half of Europe dead, democracy, or help lead to the liberation of women in society. It is simply not possible. Today, there is a belief that robotics, and most importantly, AI, will reach that point. We can try to predict some things, but if we are honest with ourselves, we know that stuff is going to happen that we can’t even figure out yet. That’s a singularity—a break point in history. The book mentions the really interesting and active debate among very serious people who think we’re going to reach it before most of us pay off our mortgages. Take gunpowder. Within the realm of war the rules of the game were a lot different before gunpowder versus afterwards. Robotics is akin to that, but maybe in a greater context historically because it doesn’t just change the “how” of war, it changes the “who” of war at the most fundamental level.We are living it through the breakdown of humankind’s 5,000-year old monopoly on the fighting of war. That’s a rather big deal. You also write about advancement theory, a school of thought that explains how old paradigms are broken by people who look at the world in a fresh way; how brilliant people can do something that makes no sense to 99 percent of the population at the time, but later on seems like pure genius. You make clear that presently, the robotics field’s exponential growth, specifically as it pertains to war, absolutely lacks a doctrine. Add in rivalries between the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and what one commentator in the book called the military’s “attention deficit disordered” way of purchasing these systems. The war in Iraq is on. The next front is Afghanistan. It sounds like a mess—robotics stepping out of science fiction into an archaic, bureaucratic world, where no one is steering the ship of its development. A great quote in the book from an Air Force officer that encapsulates the current situation, “There’s gotta be way to think this better. Right now it’s just ‘give me more.’” We’re not asking, “How do I do this better?” There are two layers to the doctrine issue. First, you have to create a system of thinking around it. That work is just starting in the military. There is the question, “Will you be able to pull it off while we’re still fighting a war?” The lesson of WWI is that it’s often tough to create doctrine during a war; it’s only after the fact when they figure it out. Second, there’s no one set doctrine. There will be a debate over the best way to use these systems with someone being right and someone being wrong. It’s not as simple as “Let me figure out how to do this.” It’s “Let me figure out the best way how to do this.” I’m worried that today’s US military’s “bigger is better mentality” regarding technology and how we develop and buy it could turn out to be completely wrong. Add in the current state of manufacturing in the US, and that of our science and mathematics education [system] and you have a pretty scary brew. I certainly don’t want to see America be the losers of this worldwide robotics revolution.
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Plus what you call “open source warfare”—corporate control of robotics not just necessarily regulated either by a government or military. Exactly. Open source warfare is just like what happened in the software world with open source software. War is no longer dominated by one or two major players and is not a space that a couple of superpowers, or even governments control. Non-state actors, large and small, from organizations like Hezbollah all the way down to individual rogue terrorists have entered. The scary thing with robotics is that it’s not aircraft carrier or atomic bomb technology where you need a huge industrial structure to build it. It uses a lot of commercial technology—you can even do it yourself. For approximately a thousand dollars you can build a drone at home that’s very much comparable to the Raven drone our soldiers use in Iraq. Scary things are created when you have this cross between the current war on terrorism and these new technologies coming in. It means you have a number of actors who are going to be able to access pretty dangerous technologies rather easily. We’ve already seen that. Hezbollah used four drones in its war with Israel. In war between a state and a non-state actor we have non-state actors using just as sophisticated technology. How does this empower a future Unabomber, let alone an al Qaeda-type organization? This book isn’t just about robotics and war. It’s about a megashift in world power where power is accessible by individuals, or a failed state where children rule; where the uneducated and unsocialized can get their hands on mass destructibles—“losers” gaining control and power. A world where “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” You quote inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil: “It feels like all 10 billion of us are standing in a room up to our knees in flammable liquid waiting for someone, anyone, to light a match.” The forms of government we have often become tied in with technology. It’s the gunpowder revolution that allows kingdoms and the rise of the state to happen versus city-states or dukedoms, linked with the idea of mass mobilization, which is how democracies ultimately triumphed in war. Well, what happens when you have another technological revolution? We’ve already seen so many different ways that the state is under siege today—the inability to control its borders, not just regarding immigration, but broader forces in globalization: global war, disease flow, and now the terrorism game. And so we may be seeing the end of two long-held monopolies. For the last 400 years the state was the dominant player in war and for the last 5,000 years war was something involving only human participation. Now we’ve seen these other entities come along and challenge the state, plus we’re seeing more and more machines being utilized in the fighting of war.
Robots are only as responsible as the person operating them, according to what you’ve written. When robots operate on AI, who takes the responsibility of the act? Couple that with the human need to blame someone, to have someone that must to take responsibility, to extract punishment, someone who must pay. What is the potential for robotics to change the face not only of law, but also of human behavior? There’s a great scene in the book where Human Rights Watch staff argue over accountability, and start referencing not the Geneva Conventions, but the Star Trek Prime Directive. It illustrates how we’re grasping at straws to figure out right from wrong in this new world.When rules are being rewritten in relation to what’s possible with technology they also start to be rewritten on what is legally and ethically proper. How does this play in the war of ideas against radical groups? This idea that if a mistake happens because of the technology, there’s an assumption that we must have meant for it to happen because the US has lost the benefit of the doubt in a lot of countries around the world. It is hard for people to digest that the mistake was just a technologic error, that there was no human behind that accident. People won’t believe that. And yes, people want to place fault on someone. But where do you place fault when there’s not a distinct “this one decision is what made it happen,” but rather, “it was a series of decisions” or “it was no decision that made it happen.” If the system kills the wrong person whom do you hold responsible? The operator? Commander? Software programmer? No one has a really good answer. I try to identify certain pathways that can certainly be shored-up through the law—some sense of responsibility within the system. You can’t say, “Well, you know, I turned it on and then it did what it wanted.” No.You still hold responsibility for turning it on. I use the parallel of dog ownership. Even if a dog bites someone, the owner bears some responsibility if they helped set that chain of events into motion, such as if they trained the dog wrong, or they put the dog into a situation where it was likely to bite a kid.They can’t just say, “Well, dog did it, it’s not my fault.” People need to bear some responsibility for the things that happen with these systems, even if they get more and more technologically advanced.That’s the endpoint for me. The very few times that people talk about the ethics of robotics, they really only talk about it in the Isaac Asimov way—of the machines themselves. But the real ethical discussion needs to be of the people behind the machines. I don’t think history is going to look kindly on us if we don’t have these discussions right now. It may look at us the same way we look at the inventors of the atomic bomb where we’re looking back at them thinking, “You got so excited about the technology, you forgot all of the ripple effects it was going to have. How could you not have taken a deep breath and said, “Let’s think about this”? The difference is that this new technological revolution isn’t happening in some secret desert lab that no one knows about. I was able to write a book about it all, it’s right in our face. So we’re not going to have that excuse that a previous generation did for why they got it wrong. 3/09 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS
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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic
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he best thing about the stimulus package is that Obama won. It’s peculiar, as so many things are in American media. Obama has been hailed as a savior, the second coming of Franklin Roosevelt, and the impetus for a vast, world-sized sigh of relief, yet people still underestimate him. What they don’t understand is that Obama knows how to count votes. During his campaign for the nomination, the twittering classes and the critical twits blathered on that he couldn’t score the knock-out punch! Couldn’t close the deal! Didn’t know how to win. When the dust settled, he was calmly standing there with enough delegates to clinch the nomination. So, too, with his stimulus plan. The House Republicans stood united against him! Not a single one broke ranks. They hit the airwaves. They oinked about earmarks, deficits, and “pork!” They cried with delight that they’d “found their voice.” It happened to belong to Rush Limbaugh, a rotund, pink, and sweaty fellow with a big cigar and a fondness for pain pills and erectile dysfunction medication. But by gosh, and by golly, they were pleased with themselves. The Republicans could not actually stop the bill in the House. But they could in the Senate because there they have filibusters. It takes 60 votes to shut one down. There are only 58 Democrats. If the Republican ranks stand stubbornly solid, they can block any bill. Ten days later, the stimulus plan passed. The second best thing, is that the Republicans lost. The Republicans have a big problem. They proved that they can’t win a war (let alone two), can’t run a country, and shouldn’t be trusted with our economy. A new round of senatorial elections is just 20 months away, with 36 of the 100 seats to be contested. Right now, the best guess is that the Democrats pick up four seats, possibly even seven. If Al Franken holds on in Minnesota, that gives the Democrats between 63 and 67 seats. Once that happens, the Democrats have a dominant position and the whole dialogue shifts significantly to the left. The Republicans have only one hope: for Obama to fail. General George Patton, in a speech to the troops before the Normandy invasion, said “Americans despise losers. Americans love winners.” (Yes, the movie uses his actual words.) There’s a certain amount of truth in it. Particularly in people likely to be Republicans. It explains, in part, how George Bush got away with so much, for so long. He won his confrontations and the fact that he did so through deceit and bullying seemed to disappear in the fog of victory. Jimmy Carter, on the other hand, was a remarkably decent man whose ideas were usually correct. He’s still treated with contempt. If Obama had failed right out of the gate, he would have been labeled a loser. Who was right and who was wrong on the issues would not have mattered. Obama has now demonstrated that he can pass legislation—and get approval of nominations—that are important to him. Barring unforeseen events, 28
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he will continue to do so. In this case, he got three Republican senators to break with their party. There are at least three more he probably could have called on: Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar, and George Voinovich. Look for them to vote with Obama, when it’s necessary, or because they’re so inclined, in the future. Right now, the Republican Party is dominated by demented culture war zealots: rich is good, sex is bad, save the fetuses, kill the foreigners. Most of them will retreat further into their bunkers in Limbaughland. A few, in swing states and swing districts, will break away as liberal Republicans. The worst thing about the stimulus package is that its theoretical underpinnings are weak. The fundamental problem is that the United States has moved from being a production economy to being a consumer society. In order to do that, we have mortgaged and sold off our assets. This is unsustainable. We still hold to the theory that “the market” will magically find a way out of the problem. Since “the market” has eagerly created the problem, that’s like expecting a meth addict to guide us into tranquility. The necessity is to re-transform America into a production economy. If we produce more than we consume, we can pay our debts. If we don’t, we can’t, and we go bankrupt as a nation. Consumption is not the answer. You cannot consume your way out of debt. The market can’t figure out how to do that. Nor do the markets have any desire or motivation to do it. It has to be done through a national consensus and a national effort; that means by government. Production requires investment. If the investment is worth making, borrowing makes sense. But it still must be paid for. Government’s revenue stream comes from taxes. We can’t even pay our current costs (the normal operating costs, not counting the bank bailout and the stimulus package) with our current level of taxation. Not even if there is an economic boom. So taxes must go up. Especially on the wealthy and on corporate profits. Tax hikes, historically, mark the end of recessions and depressions. High top tax rates correlate with strong economic growth. So the government has to say: We are making an investment in transforming the American economy back to a production economy. That’s a big job. It requires a huge amount of money like fighting a successful war. It will require higher taxes. But the result will be a sounder economy and better conditions for everyone. Because the theoretical underpinnings are weak, the stimulus package has two problems. It’s too small. It does not address how it will be paid for. If we’re not on some sort of track to pay for it, it creates all sorts of new problems. As a political event, this bill should be applauded. As an economic event, it’s a good start. If, and only if, it’s followed up a lot more, in theory and in action. If this is the end, not the beginning, it just adds to the fundamental problems.
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BANG, BANG, BABY Burke Heffner and Veronica Varlow run with Revolver by Sharon Nichols photo by Amber S. Clark
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1920s Victrola is perched on a cabinet in one corner of the room. Burke Heffner proudly flips open a volume of vintage records and shows it to me, handling it as a most cherished possession. He appears to have stepped out of an earlier epoch himself, sporting a stubby, überwide necktie. “It’s the future in ties,” he announces. In strolls Veronica Varlow, a femme fatale in back-seamed stockings and jet-black Bettie Page bangs. Her lips, like the wall behind her, are blood red. She seductively settles back in a Merlot-hued wingback chair, tucking her long legs up beside her and taking a sip of tea. Heffner, her partner-in-crime, plants himself in the adjacent, identical chair and nurses his own steaming cup. “What kind of tea is that?” I ask. Heffner replies, sheepishly, “Whispering Heaven.” Varlow lets out an exuberant laugh. “Um...Can you make us sound a little more hardcore? Like we’re drinking whiskey?” “Only if you’re actually drinking whiskey,” I reply.
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Contemplating the forthcoming barrage of questions, Heffner retorts, “Oh, it’s not worth it!” Whiskey would seem more befitting to the image these two flashbacks project as they lounge in their boondock cabin in Woodstock. The debonair gentleman and his va-va-voom vixen ooze fantasies of world domination, adventures on the lam, bank heists, seedy bars, smoking pistols, and frantic liaisons. These imaginings, partnered with astronomical creativity, became the seeds of a quasi-autobiographical, yet-to-be-made motion picture, Revolver. The film’s premise initially emerged from a romantic journal Varlow began the day she met Heffner. She, a model/actress, and he, a filmmaker/photographer, crossed paths in 2000 while working on a short art film, The Catcher in Sleepy Hollow. “I knew the moment I met him that he was the one,” says Varlow, sparkling. “I knew my entire life was going to change. I spent three days trying to catch his eye and the last day was so pathetic. I was trying desperately to impress
him.” Heffner had seemed to ignore her, which only served to stoke the intense yearning Varlow has guzzled on since childhood. Of course, Heffner had noticed her immediately. “I already had her phone number,” he says with a shrug and a smirk. “She thrives on longing in a way that no one I’ve ever met does.” And so Varlow began penning her pining, scribbling furiously as their love story unfolded. “That journal was going to be my gift to him the day we got married,” she says. “But it turned into things we’d do together in this amazing fantasy. Eventually we’d talk about these stories, and all this crazy stuff became Revolver.” “She hadn’t intended it to be a movie,” Heffner explains. “It was just her fantastic expansion on our relationship. She turned it into robbing banks.” “I’ve had this obsession with robbing banks since I was four,” Varlow adds, mentioning that the goody-goody nature of her youth fueled the adventure in her reveries. “When I wrote, I had a crazy life. When I would hear about someone getting away with a robbery,”—Varlow leans back in her chair with a dreamy expression and a sigh—“I was so envious of them.” “She shared parts of the journal with me,” Heffner continues. “I thought they were good enough to turn into a screenplay.” Thus, the two began collaborating on the tale. Heffner has always been obsessed with stories. Growing up in Montana without a television fanned that fire; today he cannot walk into a restaurant that has one. “It sucks my entire consciousness right into it. I don’t have a TV in the house,” he says. “These are deliberate choices, because my love of storytelling is so deep and the power of cinema is so impactful. A great story has a trick to it that nothing else in the world has. If oral storytelling had more of an economy behind it, I never would have needed to go into film.” After a stint as a wildland firefighter in Alaska, Heffner made off for NYU’s Tisch School of Arts and worked in the film industry with stars such as Olympia Dukakis, Parker Posey, Alicia Keys, and the cast of “The Sopranos.” His work has appeared at the Sundance and Berlin International film festivals and on C-SPAN, and has been covered in the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Time Out NewYork, and dozens of other publications. Photography is another of Heffner’s passions. A connoisseur of the retro pin-up (www.thingstolookat. com), he captures women in the classic American style that was a muchappreciated distraction during the tensions of World War II. Not surprisingly, his stunning wife is his most popular model. “Not many people can capture the classic element,” Heffner expounds. “Lots of photographers can make [women] look sexy, that’s nothing unique. But I give them a good-girl feel.” “He shoots people who don’t normally model,” Varlow continues, “spending time with them, capturing what’s special about them, bringing out the essence of their personalities.” This ability is also one that Varlow possesses. Though known as an actress, pin-up model, touring performer with recording sensation Emilie Autumn, and owner of the online retro boutique, Danger Dame (www.dangerdame. com), she’s also a burlesque superstar who teaches and empowers women with glamorous magic tricks she learned from her Czechoslovakian grandmother coupled with tips from old Hollywood. “I pull the beauty and grace out of women,” she says. Varlow didn’t always feel so confident and lovely. While volunteering at an animal shelter a few years ago, a Rottweiler attack almost completely severed the nose from her face and nearly blinded her left eye; six hours of intensive plastic surgery corrected the damage. This horrifying experience spiraled her into deep contemplation about her future. “I could’ve been in the last ten seconds of my life, regretting not doing what I’d dreamed of. I realized I’d been holding back. I decided to fully go for my dreams from that time on. Within a year, we were shooting the trailer to Revolver.” Though still just a trailer, and the first major production Heffner directed, Revolver won the prestigious Golden Trailer Award in Los Angeles. The duo had driven across America with a small crew, shooting on the 35mm film they’d won through a grant from Kodak. The trailer (www.revolverthemovie.com) is both visually exquisite and
TOP: BURKE HEFFNER AS POCKET AND VERONICA VARLOW AS BLUE TAKING A BREAK ALONGSIDE ROUTE 66 IN THE TRAILER FOR REVOLVER. BOTTOM: BURKE AND VERONICA INSIDE THE CAB OF THE GETAWAY TRUCK ON THE SET OF THE REVOLVER TRAILER.
emotionally gripping. It follows the journey of Pocket, a cowboy traveling from Manhattan to Montana with Blue, an adventurous postcard-obsessed showgirl he picks up along the way. She drags him to strip clubs, ballrooms, and bars en route to Vegas, the destination he assured her.When her questionable past suddenly catches up with her, it sends them running as outlaws with nothing but a pawnshop pistol. Revolver has garnered a major “Where’s this movie?” buzz from producers eager to see the script ever since Heffner and Varlow appeared on “Made,” MTV’s Emmy-winning program, in repeated airings last December. “We’re so confident in the script,” says Varlow, excitedly. “I know with my heart and soul that this is the year we’re going to find the right investors. This is our life’s work, it’s why we’re here.” At the conclusion of our interview, Heffner sets the tea aside and breaks out Drachenglut, a mysterious liqueur given to Varlow by an occultist in the Netherlands. “The name translates as Dragon’s Blood,” she clarifies, alluding to its empowering quality. No doubt the whiskey will have to wait for the movie premiere party. 3/09 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK
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LOCALISM
THE LURE OF LOCAL GRANT’S GENERAL STORE
AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SHUMAN By Carl Frankel Illustration by Jason Cring
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e inhabit a world whose dominant mental model is big and global. For most people, “business” means large corporations with customers and facilities around the globe.Two hundred years ago, the typical person never traveled more than 75 miles from their home in his or her lifetime. Today, we think nothing of it if someone zips off to Peru or Thailand for a holiday. Our century-old Culture of Big carries big risks. Imagine a global economy that was massively interconnected, totally dependent on a commodity with highly volatile pricing and profoundly disruptive geopolitical implications (like, say, oil), and subsidized in a manner that totally disregarded real environmental costs. Sounds pretty precarious, doesn’t it? Yet that is precisely what we have. The Culture of Big has brought us to the verge of a Big Collapse. Could we be doing it differently? Yes, we could, by replacing “big” and “global” with “small” and “local.” Proponents of this increasingly popular economic strategy envision a web of thriving locally owned small businesses that collectively preserve local character and culture and bring our Main Streets back to life while ensuring the sort of stable, long-term economic foundation that increasingly appears beyond the reach of our top-heavy Culture of Big. The local-economy meme isn’t new. It got its first big boost from E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful in the early 1970s, and received new life from David Korten with works like When Corporations Rule the World (2001) and The Great Turning (2006). Another prominent bearer of the local-economy torch is Michael Shuman, whose books Going Local (2000) and The Small-Mart Revolution (2007) make a compelling case for local economic self-reliance. Shuman recently accepted a position as director of research and public policy for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), an organization dedicated to building local economies. Earlier this year, I caught up with him to discuss Small versus Big in a time of dramatic change. What’s the rationale for buying locally? There are four strong arguments for why locally owned businesses contribute more to the economy than other businesses. First, local businesses don’t move. They’re reliable generators of wealth for
the local community. Local governments often focus on attracting or retaining big corporations, only to find that at some point down the road they flee. Local businesses stick around and generate income for years and often generations. Second, local businesses have a higher economic multiplier.What this means is that a dollar spent at a local business tends to circulate in the local economy longer. About six years ago, a study was conducted of economic multipliers in Austin, Texas. When a person spent $100 at a Borders bookstore, $13 stayed in the local economy. When the books were purchased at a locally owned bookstore, $45 out of the $100 recirculated locally. Many similar studies have been conducted and they all point to the same conclusion. Third, local businesses have a size and character that is consistent with leading theories of what makes a community flourish. People want walkable communities. Megamalls and industrial aren’t compatible with this, but small and home-based locally owend businesses are. Communities built around locally owned businesses are also more appealing to the so-called “creative class,” a term coined by the social scientist Richard Florida to describe knowledge workers and other “creatives.”These people are a key driving force of economic development, and they’re drawn to communities that are diverse, entrepreneurial, and fun to live in—in short, communities with lots of locally owned businesses. In addition, tourists tend to be drawn to local businesses. Fourth, local businesses have a smaller carbon footprint because their inputs and their markets tend to be more local. To what extent is the culture shifting in the direction of buying locally? How much traction is the movement getting? Over the last five years, what began as mostly a public curiosity has turned into a torrent of interest.This is because the main crises afflicting Americans are clearly solvable through greater localization. Take the challenge of unstable oil prices. The more we localize, the less vulnerable we are to unstable Arab potentates. The sinking US dollar provides another example: imports are becoming more expensive. This means that even in manufacturing, now dominated by China, there is the prospect of local manufacturing becoming competitive again. Finally, when you come to the financial crisis, which is the mother of all the 3/09 CHRONOGRAM LOCALISM
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crises we’ve had in recent years, there’s compelling empirical evidence that local banks have done much better than the global banks. They’ve been more prudent and more ethical. In my experience it’s pricier to shop at locally owned businesses than at big-box stores and other national enterprises. Does this put a ceiling on the potential of the buy-local movement because it will only attract people with greater discretionary income? The argument that nonlocal stores have cheaper prices is a total myth. It’s true that big-box stores have some great prices some of the time. However, it’s not the case that across the board, non-local stores always have lower prices. Annual studies of prescription drug prices in Maine find that chain drugstores charge more for drugs than local drugstores. And who would argue that Starbucks doesn’t carry a price premium? When people learn about the true value of buying locally; that inevitably leads to increased consumption of local goods and services. Once people take into account things like the quality of the product, the reliability of the service, and the tenor of the sales transaction, they start to realize what a poor bargain many of the so-called deals at the chain stores really are. We’re moving into a period of hard times that could rival the Great Depression. What will be the effect on the Buy Local movement? Paradoxically, it will have a positive effect. An important philosophical premise underlies the buy-local movement—that people can do more with less inside their own communities.The economic crisis will bring the truth of this into sharp relief, and this in turn will fuel support for the local-economy movement. Another factor is that over the next years, we’ll see hundreds of chain store companies and large banks go out of business. Local entrepreneurs will step into the vacuum these departures create. It used to be that economies of scale favored the big players. Now that’s changing. Economies of scale are shrinking in the global economy, in large measure due to the rising costs of transportation. It’s becoming more costeffective to source locally rather than ship something halfway around the world. And then there’s the Internet, which enables people in the Hudson Valley and elsewhere to serve customers anywhere on the planet. The horizon of small-business opportunities, even in remote communities, is expanding tremendously. It is also becoming increasingly expensive for people to travel a great deal. This, too, will accelerate the transition to local economies. The NewYork Times recently ran a glowing article about the greening of Walmart. It used to be the company people loved to hate. Now its image is changing. As corporate sustainability reputations improve, will that undermine the Buy Local movement? These are completely separate issues. I’ve never hung my argument on villainizing
Walmart or any big corporation. Every business—big and small—contributes positively to the economy, and there are opportunities for more sustainable behavior at all scales of business. However, the fundamental arguments in favor of locally owned business are not altered by the somewhat better behavior of a large player. The Walmarts of the world will always have a lower economic multiplier. They will not have a positive effect on tourism, nor they will not create more livable communities. They will not support smart growth or creativity or entrepreneurship.They will not have a lower carbon footprint than similar locally owned businesses. What impact will the Obama administration have on the Buy Local movement? While the Obama administration will heighten interest and activity in localization, the impact will probably not be as great as people think. The administration is open to new ways of promoting local business, and it’s also receptive to socially responsible corporate forms. However, at the end of the day, it seems committed to continuing many of the big-business subsidization policies that have been relied on by previous administrations. The stimulus package and bank-bailout packages are greatly increasing the level of dollars going to large non-local companies and institutions. Can the administration be pressured to transfer its support from big banks to smaller ones, from big-energy projects to smaller energy projects, from big farms to family farms, and from traditional economic development policies to supporting local entrepreneurship? We don’t know yet. At this point, the Obama administration seems to be stuck in the old “big” paradigm. What are the most important changes in our macroeconomic system that we need to accelerate the transition to a locally focused economic system? One important step would be to move investment capital out of failing Fortune 500 companies and into promising local businesses. There’s currently a significant capital-market anomaly: Half of our economy consists of small and local business, yet none of our investment dollars touch local business! This is a total market failure. One way to address it is by revisiting our securities laws and making it much easier for small investors to invest in small businesses. I would like to see the Obama administration waive securities-registration requirements for microbusinesses. How can people get involved at the grassroots level in supporting the Buy Local movement? The first thing to do is actually to “Think Local First”—that is, to prioritize locally owned businesses over nonlocal ones. People can also educate themselves at sites like smallmart.org and livingeconomies.org. People can also get more “activistly” involved, for instance by developing a Local First campaign. These are programs to educate people about the benefits of buying locally. Where do you think the Buy Local movement will be in five years’ time? What’s your reality-based vision of the future? Ultimately, my vision for planetary prosperity is a world of increasingly selfreliant communities that trade only in the diminishing number of goods and services that they cannot provide for themselves. Paradoxically, a world of self-reliant communities might well see an increase in global trade, since selfreliance is a way of growing local wealth and global purchasing power. To give you a personal example of what I mean, I moved my mortgage from Bank of America to a credit union several years back. This made me several thousand dollars a year wealthier, some of which I now spend on single-malt whiskey from Scotland. A world of more self-reliant communities, moreover, is also a world with fewer causes of war, human rights abuses, and environmental malfeasance. We won’t get to this world in five years. But I do believe that our economic paradigm will begin to shift in this direction, along with changes in our policies governing economic development and global poverty alleviation. We will start to understand that every innovation the Hudson Valley does for, say, food selfreliance, can, if shared globally, move the entire planet in a fundamentally more hopeful direction.
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Leaders of Localism Localism is about the focused vision that becomes the big picture—we can affect our livelihood and quality of life from the bottom up by thoughtful participation in our community’s economy. Chronogram has chosen to profile six such business leaders who define what it means to be a “localist.” —Kelley Granger
TOXIC AVENGER ANN LAGOY, SOUND EARTH LaGoy’s all-natural, animal cruelty-free cleaning products company was launched six years ago to provide the safest products possible and promote healthy living environments for people and their pets. She was inspired to create Sound Earth, the state’s only manufacturer of natural household cleaners, after becoming poisoned by commercial chemical products. Sound Earth manufactures its products in concentrates, which gives more product for less packaging. Beyond the ecological advantages, she also promotes the local economy by choosing 70 percent of her suppliers from within the tri-state area, with another 10 percent in the Northeast. www.soundearth.com
NATURAL NOURISHERS CHRIS AND KEVIN SCHNEIDER, MOTHER EARTH’S STOREHOUSE The first Mother Earth’s Storehouse opened in Kingston in 1978 to support the local producers who were providing natural, organic, and environmentally considerate products. Today, under owners Chris and Kevin Schneider, the health food and vitamin retailer operates three locations in Kingston, Saugerties, and Poughkeepsie providing employment to 90 people. Aside from supporting the local suppliers, Mother Earth’s Storehouse is also involved with the community through the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley, recently donating $25,000 to the charity, the result of a customer reward card program that designated one percent of sales for the cause. www.motherearthstorehouse.com
COMMUNITY CULTIVATOR PAT ADAMS ADAMS FAIRACRE FARMS What began as a simple farm stand in 1919 has evolved into a supermarket alternative that employs more than 700 people in three stores in Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, and Kingston. Adams offers profit sharing, a 401K, and paid vacation and holidays to part-time staffers. Full time employees receive those benefits plus personal and sick days, and comprehensive medical insurance. The driving principle that has led to Adams’s success is being able to provide customers with exactly what they’re asking for—a variety of quality products and excellent customer service. The business, still family-owned, sponsored more than 176 regional events in the past 18 months, ranging from penny socials to arts council award dinners. “We have always received so much from the community,” says Pat Adams, general manager and part owner. “We feel it is our duty to give back in every way we can.” www.adamsfairacrefarms.com
RAY OF LIGHT RICK LEWANDOWSKI, PRISM SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES Prism Solar, which was founded in 2005, acquired a worldwide exclusive license for manufacturing solar power modules and specialty module applications that can be used in just about any type of electric application. Using this special technology, they’ll be creating modules that cost significantly less than 95 percent of the rest of the market, which CEO Rick Lewandowski said will have a major effect on the entire industry. Not only will the technology bring a more environmentally responsible energy option to us for less money, but Prism Solar aims to manufacture the products for the domestic and international markets from a facility it’s preparing to base in Ulster County. If all goes according to plan, Lewandowski estimates this will bring more than 400 new jobs to the area. www.prismsolar.com
CURRENCY CREATOR ROBERT MIGLINO, LEONARDO’S ITALIAN MARKET AND RHINEBUCKS Soon after opening the specialty foods store Leonardo’s Italian Market in 2006, Robert Miglino shared with his late father Frank Miglino. The market aims to satisfy the motto “only the best and only the real thing” with its selection of fine meats, cheeses, and other Italian specialty items. As a local merchant, Miglino recently joined his local Rotary Club and began brainstorming with other business leaders on how to support Rhinebeck’s economy. He was subsequently elected president of the board of trustees for a new project called RhineBucks. “This project is formulating a local currency that will help local businesses by giving local residents an incentive to shop more locally, thereby supporting their local community,” Miglino says. “Projects such as RhineBucks also contribute to community capital, the goal of reduced-waste manufacturing, reduced fuel costs, and sustainable local agriculture.” www.rhinebucks.org BANKING ON THE REGION MARJORIE ROVERETO ULSTER SAVINGS BANK Ulster Savings Bank has been able to weather the economic storm and continue providing a range of banking services to the local community, employing more than 360 people and helping customers find ways to work through their financial difficulties. During the past eight years, the bank has expanded from five locations to fourteen. “Each of these new branches has brought new employment and additional spending throughout the valley,” says Marjorie Rovereto, the president and CEO of the bank. “It has also allowed us to significantly increase our local lending footprint.” In 2001, the bank created the Ulster Charitable Foundation to support the region with community grants for nonprofits and educational grants for students. The bank has donated more than $1.8 million to regional organizations over the last five years, supporting housing, education and economic development. www.ulstersavings.com
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SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 845.257.3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum Hours: Tuesday – Friday 11a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admission is free and open to all. Wheelchair accessible.
As Bees in Honey Drown By Douglas Carter Beane Parker Theatre March 5, 6, 7, at 8:00 p.m. March 1 & 8, at 2:00 p.m. Tickets Call the Box Office at 845.257.3880, or order online at www.newpaltz.edu/theatre
Current Exhibitions
MUSIC
Through April 8, 2009 Taking a Different Tack: Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography
Sponsored by the Department of Music (845) 257-3872 Tickets: available at the door one half hour prior to performance.
Through June 14, 2009 Eva Watson-Schütze: Photographer Bradford Graves: Selected Works analog catalog: Investigating the Permanent Collection
Innisfree Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 p.m. McKenna Theatre $6 general admission, $5 seniors/staff, $3 students
Public Programs
The Romantic Oboe Tuesday, March 10, 8:00 p.m. McKenna Theatre $6 general admission, $5 senior/staff, $3 students
Tuesday, March 3 at 5:00 p.m. Faculty Poets Presents... Faculty Poets invite local area poets to read their work in the galleries at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Thursday, March 12, 7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion- Taking a Different Tack Friday, March 27, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Some Assembly Required In- gallery dance performance developed by Pittsburgh, PA- based Attack Theatre in conjunction with analog catalog exhibition. Discussion will follow.
Ongoing Sundays, March 1, 8, 29, 2:00- 3:00 p.m. Docent- guided Tours of the exhibition Eva Watson-Schütze: Photographer. Free and open to all
Music for French Horn, Violin and Piano Tuesday, March 24, 8:00 p.m. McKenna Theatre $6 general admission, $5 seniors/staff, $3 students
ARTIST LECTURE SERIES Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Center 102. FREE and open to all.
March 11 Mike Mcgregor (Photography) March 25 Lauren Fensterstock (Metals)
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Jesse Louis-Rosenberg sitting in a prototype chair outside the Nervous System workshop in Saugerties. PORTFOLIO, page 38
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Portfolio Nervous System Jesse Louis-Rosenberg and Jessica Rosenkrantz are atypical designers. While the brass ring for most designers is to create a form that can be reproduced ad infintum, the cofounders of Nervous System have developed computer prgrams to generate one-of-a-kind designs. Using open-source programming, Rosenkrantz and Louis-Rosenberg built algorithms that users can manipulate via applets on the Nervous System site. This allows customers to design their own distinct creations within the context of the nature-based patterns developed by the pair. The method—the design of the design—is as elegant as the necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and brooches that take their inspiration from dendritic clusters, honeycombed radiolaras, and branching coral formations.
Nervous System jewelry can be found at Still Life Mercantile in Woodstock, as well as on their website, www.n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com.
Opposite page: Sterling silver Filament necklace; Stainless steel Undergrowth earring; Stainless steel Radiolara earrings; Radial necklace with adjustable strap made from industrial wool felt
This page: Model posing with Radial necklace
—Brian K. Mahoney
NERVOUS SYSTEM ON THEIR WORK Process
The natural world
Everyone can design
We are not traditional jewelry designers and have no training in jewelry or any associated craft, so to us our approach did not seem so unusual. Our background is in science and architecture. We are used to designing with CAD software and making things with computer-controlled processes. So the systems came before the jewelry. Our work actually derives some experiments in computationally generated architectural design. Our process went completely the other way around. We were not inspired to write a design program. We were inspired to make jewelry with design programs we had already been playing with.
We are constantly interested in the natural world and how it works, so there are definitely other projects [based on the natural world] we are working on. Currently we are experimenting with modeling leaf venation (the process by which veins form). What makes this exciting is that it is not only very intricate and beautiful, but it is also an ongoing area of scientific research. We do not know how and why veins differentiate in leaves. There are still several unproven theories and modeling techniques.
I think that anyone who wants to be a designer can be. And to that end I want to make our processes and methods as accessible and open as possible. [Our software] lets the curious explore, learn, and take things as far as they want to go. However most people probably do not want to be jewelry designers, so they are perfectly happy to be consumers in that context. I think many people are not yet comfortable being designers, but I hope that is changing.
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM. ALL PHOTOS BY SARAH ST CLAIR RENARD, EXCEPT FOR OPPOSITE , BOTTOM RIGHT, BY NERVOUS SYSTEM
While currently relocated to the Boston area, Rosenkrantz and Louis-Rosenberg maintain a studio in Saugerties. The duo recently participated in the AltCraft section of the 2009 American Craft Council show held in Baltimore last month.
Small-scale production
Price point
Ugly things
There is a distinction between mass production and the small-scale production of standard pieces, which is what many crafters or small designers do. In the past massproduction advantages have led to a marginal role for this sort of production, and I think that is changing. Today people can make things more cheaply and access markets more easily without the need of a large corporation for investment and marketing. As this [trend] progresses, I am hoping smallscale production, both local and nonlocal, will start being more competitive with mass-produced items.
We think it is important to keep things affordable. Too often, good design is too expensive. Our work is just as beautiful in stainless steel as it would be in silver, so why should we exclude a large segment of the population just to make a little more money? Besides, it is difficult to blur the line between consumer and producer when most consumers cannot afford the pieces.
We’ve had people walk by our stuff and say, “Eww...that looks like a bacterial petri dish.” We have also had people say, “Wow that looks amazing like bacteria.” Some of the pieces we make do have a bit of a disgusting quality to them because they do remind us of nature, which is very messy. But besides that, the programs can definitely produce designs that we do not find compelling. We spend a lot of time adjusting settings and creating many varieties before choosing final designs.
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galleries & museums
museums & galleries
Blue Bicycle, Erica Hauser, watercolor, 9” x 12”, 2006 Erica Hauser’s paintings will be exhibited through March 10 at RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon, part of a two-person with Karl LaLonde, “Cars, Trucks, and Planes.”
42 LIVINGSTON 42 LIVINGSTON STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-5970. “For Your Eyes Only: Fractured Art 1995-1997.” Ze-ev Willy Neumann. Through March 31.
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149 MAIN STREET, BEACON (914) 522-4736 “Alternative Processes in a Contemporary World.” Group show. March 14 to April 30.
Group Exhibition Bob Justin Bill Marlieb Dickie Peterson Matt Sesow Susan Ward William Yost February 21-April 18 Hours: Thur – Sat 11am-5pm Or by appointment
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART 415 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4346. “The Luminous Landscape.” Gary Fifer, Arnold Levine, Robert Trondsen. Through March 31. “Olga Poloukhine, Iconographer: Into the Depths.” Through March 31.
ANN STREET GALLERY 140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 EXT. 119.
Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street Newburgh, NY 12550 (845) 562-6940 x 119 www.annstreetgallery.org
“Art Brut.” Group exhibition. Through April 18.
THE ART AND ZEN GALLERY 406 MANCHESTER ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3334. “Simply Awesome Art Within Reach.” Exhibit featuring the work of Barbara Wood. March 1-April 30. Opening Saturday, March 21, 4pm-8pm.
ASK ARTS CENTER Bob Justin, “Skeleton Crew”, Mixed Media, 58ʼʼ x 28” x 8”
97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “The Contemporary Hudson.” March 7-28. Opening Saturday, March 7, 5pm-8pm. “Pastel Jewels: Still Lifes in Pastel by Marianne Heigemeir.” March 7-28. Opening Saturday, March 7, 5pm-8pm.
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO 54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244. “Red Hook Pastel Group.” Through March 31.
BRILL GALLERY ECLIPSE MILL,STUDIO 109, NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS (800) 294-2811. “Artists without Borders.” Works by Anita Rydygier, Rieko Fujinami, and Joanna Gabler. March 21-May 31. Opening Saturday, March 21, 6:15pm-8pm.
CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490. “Winter Group Show.” Featuring paintings, mixed media, and photography. Through March 31.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Photoshop 101.” Through March 29. “There and Then, Landscape and Still Life Paintings.” Works by William Sillin. Through March 29.
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The Marc Black Band 9pm
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CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “America The Gift Shop.” Installation by Phillip Toledano. Through March 29. “Site Seeing: Explorations of Landscape.” Group show. Through March 30.
DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Ulster County Photography Club Annual Show.” March 7-31. Opening Saturday, March 7, 5pm-8pm.
EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY 348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION 226-2145. “Life as I’ve Seen It: A Photographic Tour of my Travels.” Freida Wright. March 1-31. Opening Friday, March 6, 7pm-12am.
ELLENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY 40 CENTER STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-1497. “Tomorrow’s Artists Today.” Ellenville High School student works. March 4-April 1. Opening Saturday, March 7, 12pm-2pm. FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199.
serendipitous photography & design
“Hard Rain: From Memory to History by Anthony Suau.” Through May 3.
G.A.S. 196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592. “The Economic Stimulus Package Show.” Multi-media, multi-artist show. Through March 29.
GALLERY 345 345 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 392-9620. “Enterface.” Paintings and sculpture by Daniel Pate and Nathaniel Williams. Through March 1. “Triptych.” Photographic works by Peter Donahoe, David Schulz, Wendy Holmes Noyes. March 7-29. Opening Saturday, March 7, 5pm-9pm.
GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Outside the Lines 2009: Greene County Youth Exhibit.” Through April 11.
THE HARRISON GALLERY
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39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700.
photography and graphic design 845.757.2475 serendipitous.design@gmail.com
“All King’s Horses.” Through March 31.
THE HAT FACTORY 1000 NORTH DIVISION STREET SUITE 4, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1646. “For the Love of Art.” Works by modern and contemporary artists from the Hudson Valley. Through March 15.
HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “CCS Bard Exhibition.” Five exhibitions curated by 2nd-year students in the graduate curatorial studies and contemporary art program. March 8-April 5. Opening Sunday, March 8, 1pm-5pm. “CCS Bard Hessel Museum Exhibition.” First-year graduate students will curate an exhibition. March 17-May 24. Opening Tuesday, March 17, 5pm-7pm.
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Marking Time.” Artists from the NYFA Mark Program. Through March 28.
83 Main Street New Paltz, New York 12651
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.
Art Store 845.255.9902 Fax 845.255.1016 Web www.mannysart.com
“Origins.” Use of primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, aluminum, stone, and soil as mediums. Through July 26.
Mon thru Fri 10 am to 6 pm Sat 10 am to 5 pm Sun 12 pm to 4 pm
INQUIRING MIND/MUDDY CUP 65 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-5775. “Ellen Miret: Thresholds.” Lenticulars, 3D prints, photo essay from 2005 Tibet Journey. Through March 26.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Above the Neck.” Prints and drawings by Constance Jacobson. March 5-29. Opening Saturday, March 7, 6pm-8pm. “Paintings by Kristin Locashio.” Through March 1.
KENT ART ASSOCIATION 21 SOUTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 927-3989. “Kent Art Association Early Members Show.” March 15-April 12. Opening Friday, March 20, 5pm-7pm.
KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON KMOCA.ORG. “Pretty Girls.” Mixed media paintings by NYC artist Trevor Bittinger. March 1-31. Opening Saturday, March 7, 5pm-7pm.
LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “Moments Caught.” Pastel and oil paintings by Dorothy Hellerman. Through April 17.
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LAKE CARMEL ART CENTER 640 ROUTE 52, KENT 225-3856. “The Reflectionist Group.” March 8-15. Opening Sunday, March 8, 1pm-5pm.
MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “Venturing Out.” Photographs by Maryann Larson. March 2-April 20. Opening Saturday, March 7, 2pm-4pm.
MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Art Inspired by Food.” March 13-17.
Faith and Fantasy in Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection February 13 – April 26, 2009 Howard Finster Jesus Saves–Angel, 7/9/1992, 1992 C o l l e c t i o n o f T h e Fr a n c e s L e h m a n L o e b A r t C e n t e r, Va s s a r C o l l e g e ; g i f t f r o m t h e c o l l e c t i o n o f Pa t O ’ B r i e n Pa r s o n s
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NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090. “John Cleater: Appendages.” March 7-April 11. Opening Saturday, March 7, 6pm-8pm.
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 GLENDALE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 298-4100. “Annual Berkshire County High School Art Show.” Through March 8. “Artists in Their Studios.” Glimpse into the lives and work spaces of a century of American artists. Through March 25.
NORTHERN SPY 155 MAIN STREET, HIGH FALLS (845) 687-7298 Annette Chait Finestone. Photographs of Japan during the Occupation. Through April 14.
PEARLDADDY GALLERY 183 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0169. “Marlene Parillo, Storypots and Tapestries.” Vessel sculptures and mixed media quilts. Through March 8.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Cars, Trucks and Planes.” Karl LaLonde and Erica Hause. Through March 10.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART
Poughkeepsie, NY
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“Analog Catalog: Investigating the Permanent Collection.” Through June 14. “Bradford Graves: Selected Works.” Through June 14. “Eva Watson-Schatze: Photographer.” Through June 14. “Taking a Different Tack: Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography.” “Through April 8.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Erotica Show.” Through March 1.
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SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858.
THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE
“Works on Paper.” Twenty artists display a wide variety of works about the artist’s concept of the impact of man on the planet. March 6-29. Opening Saturday, March 7, 6pm-9pm.
ULSTER SAVINGS BANK 7296 SOUTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK 758-4020. “Red Hook Pastel Group.” Elaine Ring, Janet Borda, Milly Sugarman, Ginger Grab, Anna Bagnall, Keith Gunderson. Through April 11.
UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Paintings by Ryan Cronin.” March 6-31. Opening Friday, March 6, 5pm-7pm.
VAN BRUNT GALLERY 460 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2995. Group show. March 7 to March 16. “The Quad Show.” March 21 to April 15. Opening Saturday, March 21, 6pm-9pm.
VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. “Annual February Women’s Show.” Through March 8. “February Showcase of the Visionary Art Collective.” Through March 8.
WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Home Sweet Home.” Paintings of Orange County by Gene Bove and Shawn Dell Joyce. Through March 22. Opening Saturday, March 14, 5pm-8pm.
WARNER GALLERY 131 MILLBROOK SCHOOL ROAD, MILLBROOK 677-8261 EXT. 130. “Drawings and Paintings by Peter Charlap.” Through April 18.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Eva Watson-Schutze and Her Circle.” Paintings and photographs. March 7-April 26. Opening Saturday, March 7, 4pm-6pm.
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Music BY PETER AARON
TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE Joseph Bertolozzi
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he Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge is a deck-truss, gravity-anchored suspension bridge designed by Polish immigrant Ralph Modjeski and completed in 1930 at a cost of $5,900,000. A formidable 3,000 feet long and 39 feet wide, it rises 135 feet above the Hudson River. Connecting the hamlet of Highland to the city of Poughkeepsie, it stands as a true marvel of modern engineering. It’s a vital commuter conduit, an instantly recognizable local landmark, and a…musical instrument? “Sure, everything vibrates. Everything can be an instrument,” says composer Joseph Bertolozzi. And with that, the swarthy, 49-year-old Beacon resident grabs a shoulder bag filled with various-sized hammers, mallets, and wooden dowels from the trunk of his compact and leads the way onto the bridge’s narrow pedestrian walk. The sun is out, but it’s early February and the temperature, in the low twenties, feels more like the teens thanks to the ferocious wind that crashes across the structure. On the water far below, massive ice floes float slowly and steadily downriver in an ever-shifting mosaic of shattered, football field-sized chunks. “Those cables up there, supporting the deck,” he says, pointing overhead. “Those are called suspender ropes. The longer ones have a short, hard sound, kind of like a punch. But the shorter ones actually sound like a bass guitar. And the drainage grates there by the walkway make a pretty weird sound when you scrape them.” Pulling a pair of hammers from his bag, Bertolozzi snaps into a sumo-esque stance, feet spread far apart, and begins to bang out a rhythm on the handrail. His long coat flaps crazily in the heavy gusts. Trucks roar by not eight feet away. The occasional weather-braving runner and arctic-clad dog walker passes through, throwing Bertolozzi confused looks. But soon enough and, yes, indeed, all of the pinging and pounding begins to take the visible shape of a tune as his hammers work out a funky cadence, finding surprisingly melodic tones in the sweet spots at various points along the rail. At times the chiming crescendos actually sound somewhere between a Balinese gamelan and Verdi’s “Anvil Chorus.” Bertolozzi’s definitely made his point: The Mid-Hudson Bridge might just be the world’s largest percussion instrument.
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In honor of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the river, Bertolozzi has composed and recorded Bridge Music, a percussion suite that uses—exclusively—the sounds of the bridge itself. To prepare for the project, in 2007, with state-of-the-art contact microphones and recording gear run by audio engineer Ron Kuhnke and the help of a band of bridge laborers, Bertolozzi collected the sounds of his assorted implements striking hundreds of different parts of the bridge, not only the railings, suspender ropes, and other cables, but also various panels, spindles, fences, trusses—even the steel sign bearing its name. Using specialized software, he then arranged, notated, and mixed the samples into clinking, clanking, clanging, clattering—and undeniably catchy—pieces like “Bridge Funk,” “Rivet Gun,” and “Silver Rain” (the latter featuring the sound of several dozen pounds of steel shot cascading through a bridge drainage pipe). “I tried to find notes on the bridge to match the ‘dore-mi’ scale,” Bertolozzi explains. “But while ‘do’ might be in one spot of the bridge, ‘re’ could be in a completely different place, like, 100 yards away. So finding everything and getting it all recorded was quite a challenge.” There really are no exact precedents for Bridge Music.Yes, there have been works written that were inspired by the architectural magnificence of bridges: Tobias Picker’s 1983 concerto “Keys to the City” is meant to evoke the Brooklyn Bridge, and sound sculptor Bill Fontana’s “Harmonic Bridge” uses contact microphones that pick up the vibrations of the wind, pedestrians, and bicycles on London’s Millennium Bridge to transmit the sounds to the adjacent Tate Modern museum. And “Stahlversion,” from the German industrial band Einstürzende Neubaten’s 1984 LP Strategies Against Architecture, sports the sound of a bridge beam being pummeled amid the rest of the track’s cacophonous instrumentation. But none of those examples do what Bertolozzi’s does: use nothing more than the pure, untreated sounds of an actual bridge—with no added ornamentation of strings or other instruments—to make music. Making music is something Bertolozzi knows much about. As a classically trained organist studying composition at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, he gave a recital at the Vatican in 1979 and in the ’80s did two solo tours of Europe, one of them as a cultural ambassador of the US State Department. Becoming a percussionist in 2002, he developed the Bronze Collection, an arsenal of gongs, cymbals, and other instruments gathered from around the world on which he performed for audiences at two consecutive US Tennis Open tournaments. His symphonic works have been performed by the concert band of the US Military Academy at West Point and the Grammy-winning Chestnut Brass Company, and he’s given concerts with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic. But for Bertolozzi, a native Poughkeepise son raised in the very shadow of this latest and most massive instrument, Bridge Music is most certainly imbued with an extra-special resonance, if you will. So then just how did he first come to, er, hit on the idea of playing the bridge? “Well, actually it was my wife who gave me the idea—but I think by now she might be sorry she did,” Bertolozzi recalls with a laugh. “We were in Paris in 2004, and it was not long after I’d started the Bronze Collection so she knew I was really into gongs and other exotic percussion instruments. We were walking by a poster of the Eiffel Tower and, just to make me laugh, she pretended to hit the poster and went, ‘Bong!’ And it just sparked something. I thought, ‘That’s it! I have to play the Eiffel Tower!’ But since we don’t live in France, and the logistics of trying to pull that off would be tough even if we did, I thought, ‘What big metal structure is there back home that I could play instead?’ And the bridge was the first thing that came to mind.” “I thought he was nuts,” says a chuckling John Belluci, a New York State
Bridge Authority spokesman, who also serves as the bridge’s director of planning and public relations, about the day Bertolozzi proposed the project. “Nobody here could understand how anyone could play the bridge. But [the bridge authority] let him go ahead and do a test piece and after he’d recorded what he needed for that and put it all together into a song, he brought it in and played it at one of our board meetings. Right away, it was, like, ‘Yeah, he’s really got something here.’ And now all of the staff and laborers are really excited about it, they’re always checking out the mp3s of finished songs on [Bertolozzi’s] website, asking what he’s up to.” “It’s definitely the most unique project I’ve worked on,” says Kuhnke, who operates K-Town studios in midtown Kingston. “I tell people we’re recording the bridge and they just go ‘Huh?’ So then I explain it to them. But it’s really been a lot of fun.” Bertolozzi’s original concept was for the nearly one-hour-long Bridge Music to be performed live on the bridge by an army of 24 percussionists stationed on the southern walkway and a singer perched atop one of its two towers; the recorded tracks were intended as a kind of demo for the musicians to follow. Unfortunately the funding necessary for such an undertaking didn’t materialize, and the composer, who does have the aid of several sponsors but is still largely footing the bill for the project himself, had to revise his plan. So the site-specific work will premiere in June via the installation of a pair of permanent listening stations located at either end of the bridge and a
limited-range radio transmitter set to broadcast Bridge Music 24 hours a day to the site’s immediate perimeter. Additionally, Bertolozzi has just inked a deal with classical label Delos Records, which plans to release Bridge Music on CD and online, including a DJ-targeted remixable “club-style” version of the chattering “Rivet Gun.” But besides Bertolozzi, the other emerging star of Bridge Music is of course the bridge itself. “The media attention from all of this has been just unbelievable,” enthuses Bellucci. “We’ve had articles in the New York Times and other newspapers, and reporters have been visiting from all around the world to see the bridge and cover what Joe’s doing. None of us who work here at the bridge could have predicted any of this.” Yet despite the work’s grand scale and all of the ensuing interest, Bertolozzi maintains his goal has always been modest. “I’m not out to prove anything,” he humbly offers. “I just wanted to write music on the bridge.” Joseph Bertolozzi’s Bridge Music will premiere on the Franklin D. Roosevelt MidHudson Bridge in June. www.josephbertolozzi.com. 3/09 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC
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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor PETER AARON for your listening pleasure.
STUDIO STU March 6. Everyone’s favorite swingin’ hipster, Studio Stu is truly a cat to behold. Stationed behind the Studivarius, a one-string electric washtub bass of his own invention, he croons and scats his way through choice covers and swank originals. For this date he and said ’tub share the bill with singer-songwriter Erin Hobson at the Arts Upstairs gallery in Phoenicia as part of the town’s hep Phirst Saturday art walk. Be there or be square, Daddy-o. 7:30pm. No cover. Phoenicia. (845) 688-2142; www.studiostu.biz.
HUDSON VALLEY SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE March 6. After many years in Woodstock, this month marks a change of venue for the long-running Hudson Valley Songwriters Showcase, which returns to New Paltz’s Unison Arts & Learning Center to once again put the spotlight on a cast of today’s most accomplished singer-songwriters. This installment features folk legend Rex Fowler of Aztec Two-Step, 11-time ASCAP Special Award winner Bar Scott, and the Philadelphia father-and-son duo Beacoup Blue. 8pm. $8, 10, 12. New Paltz. (845) 255-1559; www.unisonarts.org.
REBECCA PRONSKY March 15. Brooklyn’s Rebecca Pronsky is one of the fastest-rising voices on the alt.Americana scene. Called “literate, passionate, and wry” by Time Out New York, her 2007 full-length Departures and Arrivals (Nine Mile Records) was also named one of the year’s best albums by Philadelphia City Paper. Pronsky’s newest release, The Best Game in Town (Independent), is an EP that’s only available at gigs—which makes this free show at Muddy Cup/Inquiring Minds a no-brainer for music fans. 7pm. No cover. Saugerties. (845) 246-5775; www.myspace.com/muddycupsaugerties.
AISLING March 17. What better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than with fine beer, delicious corned beef, and superb live acoustic Irish music? Aisling performs traditional and contemporary Irish and Scottish styles and will be joined for this special wearin’-of-thegreen engagement at Kingston’s historic Hoffman House by acclaimed Irish tenor Warren Kelder. Reservations are recommended for this truly beguiling evening. 6:30pm. No cover. Kingston. (845) 338-2626; www.aisling.fanspace.com.
RAMBLIN’ JUG STOMPERS March 22. The Ramblin’ Jug Stompers bring their rollicking “78-rpm music for the 21st century” to the elegant 1872 Howland Cultural Center for a fun-packed evening of oldtime hokum and hilarity. Comprised of several members of legendary Capital Region outfit Blotto, the Stompers fuse that band’s patented humor with traditional jug band sounds and tunes by the likes of Woody Guthrie, the Carter Family, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Jimmy Reed, and others. 7pm. $10. Beacon. (845) 831-4988; www.howlandmusic.org.
LEE SHAW TRIO March 28. Octogenarian pianist, composer, and bandleader Lee Shaw’s jazz trio has been up and swinging for over 40 years and has been the toast of numerous clubs, concerts, and festivals across the United States and Europe. The band’s current lineup features Hudson Valley luminaries Jeff “Siege” Siegel on drums and Rich Syracuse on bass and just released the stellar CD/DVD set Live in Graz (Artists Recording Collective, 2009). For this date the plush, mahogany-lined bar of Albany’s 74 State Hotel provides Shaw’s trio with the perfect first-class backdrop. 8:30pm. Call for cover info. (518) 434-7410; www.leeshaw.org.
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CD REVIEWS REBECCA MARTIN THE GROWING SEASON (SUNNYSIDE RECORDS, 2008)
SUSAN KANE HIGHWAY BOUQUET (INDEPENDENT, 2008)
THE WESTPORT SUNRISE SESSIONS 2 (2008, DIABLO DULCE RECORDS)
W Wrought by four multi-instrumentalist pals who take pperverse pleasure in writing and recording albums oover several sleepless, fraught days and nights, The W Westport Sunrise Sessions’ second album is a delightffully whiplash-inducing cornucopia. Brooklyn/upstate iindie fringe-dwellers Jason Broome (a Chronogram conttributor), Robert Kitsos, Lucas Van Lenten, and Daniel W Weintrab follow up their debut with more confidently m multitasked layers of pop, country folk, found sound, ggleeful flourishes of atonality, and disturbing-yet-comppelling imagery. Just when you’ve settled into the humaalong ’70s AM radio melody of “The King,” you realize tthat the narrator is a tyrant. But by then it’s too late and you’re hooked; hooked the WSS boys draw you in to the rocking, tempo-shifting vortex of “Butterfly,” where the insect in question is beautiful, but, sadly, pinned and quite dead. Before long, in the skanking “The Barn’s on Fire,” you are cheek-by-jowl with an unfortunate monkey who has been tricked into a doomed spacecraft. But you are glad to be there. At the end of the album’s 40 minutes, you will listen with rapt attention to the minute-long, rain-falling coda of “Hollywood Green.” The sound of 2 is all over the place, but hardly diffuse. Although Broome, Kitsos, Van Lenten, and Weintrab all sing and at various times offer everything from drums/bass/guitars/keyboards to clarinet/propane tank/bicycle bell, the record sounds remarkably of a piece. The focus is in the joyful spirit of the endeavor, which holds everything together and lends a contagious and eminently listenable sense of camaraderie to the proceedings. www.diablodulce.com. —Robert Burke Warren
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Susan Kane is the real thing. The lower Hudson Valleybbased singer-songwriter has just released her second aalbum, Highway Bouquet, and it’s chock-full of great ssongs and great singing, all set off with a shimmeriing production job from multi-instrumentalist and Suzanne Vega side man Billy Masters (who called in rringers like Lisa Gutkin, Fred Gillen Jr., and Marc M Muller to assist). Kane would have been comfortable iin the “Mellow Mafia” of late-’70s Los Angeles, but hher music has a stronger country edge and occasionaally even leans into the alt.folk territory of her peers. Since Kane covers the Eric Kaz/Libby Titus chestnut “Love Has No Pride” on the album, one assumes she won’t mind the comparison to Linda Ronstadt. But, truth be told, Karla Bonoff—who wrote many of Ronstadt’s most enduring songs—is an even stronger touchstone. And that’s not a bad thing, especially when you combine Kane’s irresistible voice—you can live in it for days—with hooks as big as those on the lush, anthemic “Ring the Bells,” the witty “Big Baby,” and the intimate, acoustic “Tenderhearted.” Kane also covers “To Lay Me Down,” a lesser-known gem from Jerry Garcia’s first solo album, which will certainly pull in casual listeners from the Dead side of the tracks. Further proof of Kane’s Me Decade leanings is the fact that Highway Bouquet clocks in at a vinyl-friendly 41 minutes. If only other songwriters would take the hint and offer this kind of quality, rather than simple quantity. www.susankane.com. —Michael Ruby
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R Rebecca Martin didn’t come to New York in 1990 carved oout as a jazz singer. She came as a singer filled with stories f from a lifetime spent with others marked with pain and p patience and sometimes sensuous joy. The Growing Season w produced at engineer Paul Antonell’s Clubhouse stuwas d in Rhinebeck and contains 13 compositions that dote dio u upon existential themes and recapturing what’s already p present within us. Like ice-coated branches on a shivery winter’s day, M Martin’s voice glistens and crackles on each tune. Her p plaintive message in “To Prove Them Wrong” reassures us o our intrinsic strength and wisdom that waits to be called of upon. In “After Midnight” we hear the haunted and remorseful thoughts of a soldier after resettling home; thoughts that bring him back to the battlefield. Martin counsels those holding in the best part of themselves during “Free At Last”: If given just a “little bit of time,” would you give back what you’d taken? It’s a piercing question that sharply snaps back at you. For this fourth release under her name, she chose a road-tested band—guitarist and keyboardist Kurt Rosenwinkel, who produced the album; drummer Brian Blade; and her husband, bassist Larry Grenadier. They’re all masterful at creating symbiotic relationships with whomever they’re playing with. Author Salman Rushdie poses the question: “Why do we care about singers? Wherein lies the power of songs?” About Martin, Antonell says: “She’s got real songs.” www.rebeccamartin.com. —Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
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BORN IN THE USA Writer-Director John Sayles Pays His Dues By Nina Shengold photo by Jennifer May
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ndependent. The word echoes through the American mythos with a clatter of cowboy boots. “Independent filmmaker” carries the same smack of feisty, lone-wolf autonomy. But John Sayles, who writes, directs, edits, and frequently acts in his work, never claims an above-the-title credit (“A John Sayles film”); in conversation, he invariably uses the first-person plural: our film. Call him an interdependent filmmaker. Since 1980, Sayles and his producer partner Maggie Renzi have made 16 films, starting with the shoestring-budget Return of the Secaucus 7. He’s supported his indie habit with Hollywood rewrites ranging from quirky B-movies (Piranha, The Howling) to blockbusters like Apollo 13 and The Mummy franchise; he’s also directed videos for Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” “I’m on Fire,” and “Glory Days.” Between movie gigs, he’s published three novels and two story collections, most recently Dillinger in Hollywood. Like a latter-day Woody Guthrie, Sayles spins populist tales that crisscross the continent, from Alaska (Limbo) to Florida (Sunshine State), with pit stops in the Rockies (Silver City), Chicago (Eight Men Out), New Jersey (City of Hope), Cajun country (Passion Fish), Texas (Lone Star), and Latin America (Men with Guns, Casa de los Babys). He’s written about striking coal miners, Cuban immigrants, lesbian midwives, and alien slaves. Talking to him, it would seem that the only story he’d rather not tell is his own. Affable and verbose, Sayles can shrug his way out of a personal question in seconds. Ask him about growing up in Schenectady, and after a nod to Proctor’s Theatre, he’s off on a tangent about Guyanese politics. Ask what background information he’d give to an actor who had to play him in a movie, and he’ll tell you about the character bio he wrote for Joe Morton in City of Hope. Sayles has agreed to meet at Rhinebeck’s Upstate Films, where he’s screened nearly all his movies, often appearing at benefit screenings. He and Renzi have lived in a quiet corner of Duchess County since 1992. “We wanted a place in the country, not the suburbs,” he says. Writer Akiko Busch, a longtime friend who grew up in the area, introduced them to a realtor; they bought the first farmhouse they saw. Sayles is an imposing man, six-foot-four, with the burly arms of an ex-jock and thick, mobile eyebrows. His manner is friendly, but far from relaxed. He gives an impression of restless vitality, of someone who needs to be working to know who he is. After a photo session in the theater, he stays on his feet, pacing constantly as he discusses his work. Only when we relocate to nearby Bread Alone does he settle reluctantly into a chair. He even answers a question or two about being John Sayles. The Schenectady of his youth was a “multiethnic, multiclass place, a real cross-section of America.” His dad was a school administrator; in high school, Sayles played football, baseball, and basketball. He also wrote stories for fun. “As a kid, I thought books came from someplace like Battle Creek, Michigan, where you sent away box tops for things. I didn’t know there were professional writers who got paid for it. Writing was just something you did, like watching TV.” AtWilliams College, he began writing more seriously. He also started acting, appearing in “Of Mice and Men” with fellow students David Strathairn, Gordon Clapp, and Adam LeFevre, all of whom would eventually act in his movies. After college, Sayles did summer stock theater and honed his blue-collar street cred by working in factories and as an orderly at an Albany nursing home. “I was a great orderly, the Paul Bunyan of orderlies,” he reports. He also sent stories to magazines, including obscure literary quarterlies he found in the back of Best Short Stories anthologies. “I started getting rejection slips like, ‘Ararat publishes Armenian fiction. There are no Armenians in your story.” He hung them on the wall of his Boston apartment. “A handwritten ‘sorry’ was a big deal,” he recalls. An upstairs neighbor flooded the building, destroying Sayles’s only copy of a 75-page story he’d submitted to the Atlantic. He called up the magazine. Editor Peggy Yntema suggested he cut his “novella” in half or expand it into a novel (“I recommend you put a plot in it,” he remembers her saying). But she liked his writing enough to ask for more stories. He sent two, and the Atlantic published both. Meanwhile, he was laid off from his day job at a sausage factory. “So I got my first grant for the arts: Unemployment.” He nailed a board across the warmest corner of his kitchen to use as a desk, and set to work expanding Pride of the Bimbos into a novel. Atlantic bought it for $2,500, “which seemed like a huge sum at the time.”
Sayles’s next novel Union Dues got him an agent, who opened the door to screenwriting gigs. He and Renzi moved to California, where he churned out three screenplays for B-movie maven Roger Corman. All three were made, and Sayles got to watch directors like Joe Dante and Lewis Teague on the set. In Thinking in Pictures:The Making of the Movie Matewan, he writes, “One of the main ways that storytelling on film differs from writing fiction is that the choices you make are extremely practical as well as aesthetic and intuitive. I’ve never had to change a line of fiction because the sun was or wasn’t out, because heavy machinery was operating in the neighborhood or union meal penalty started in five minutes.” For the next two decades, Sayles was a mainstay of the indie film scene, making film after film without compromising his inclusive vision. But the industry’s climate has changed to the point where he’s finding it nearly impossible to make movies and get them seen. “The average Hollywood film spends a third of its budget on advertising. It can be $30 million or more, $20 million on the opening weekend—that’s what you’re competing with,” he says. “Word-of-mouth movies can’t live on one weekend.” In this bottom-line era, a distinguished track record won’t float the boat; though Lone Star and other Sayles/Renzi films did respectably, none was the requisite breakaway hit. And though younger filmmakers are flourishing in a new world of low-cost equipment and YouTube promotion, Sayles points out that such DIY tactics can’t recoup the expenses of using professional actors and crews, since the Internet isn’t monetized. The hope is to gain visibility, like a rock band launching a demo CD. But as he puts it bluntly, “We’re not new. They can’t discover us.” For the first time in years, Sayles and Renzi don’t have their next project lined up. “I don’t know that we’re going to make another movie,” he says. “I just don’t know.” Many of the production companies that used to fund smaller projects have folded, and there are only so many corners filmmakers can cut. “I can’t shoot fewer weeks. We did Casa de los Babys and Honeydripper in four weeks apiece,” Sayles says. He’s gratified that A-list actors routinely accept union minimum wage to appear in his scripts, but he wound up draining his own bank account to produce Silver City, a 2004 political drama in which Chris Cooper out-Bushes George Bush. He wrote more studio screenplays to pay for the blues fable Honeydripper, starring Danny Glover and a transcendent Keb’ Mo’. Unable to find a distributor, he and Renzi hand-carried the film to 35 cities and 8 countries. “I wrote a lot of my novel on delayed flights,” Sayles says, searching for some silver lining. Some Time in the Sun is a sprawling historical epic set at the turn of the twentieth century. Sayles describes it as “a mosaic. Different chapters are written from different mindsets, so they’re in different styles. I have guys who are illiterate, Filipinos, African Americans, white guys. Mark Twain shows up, and Damon Runyon.” But the publishing industry is heading the same way as film, with everything between “hot discovery” and “proven blockbuster” teetering on the endangered-species list. Some Time in the Sun has been out for six months with no offers—”at least not from anyone who’s kept their job,” Sayles says, adding mordantly, “I’m too old to write fiction as a hobby.” Without a new novel or indie film in the works, what will he do with his prodigious creative drive? It’s hard to imagine him being fulfilled by Hollywood work-for-hire. Tonight’s homework, he says, will be watching Transformers to prepare for a story pitch, since the current hot genre is toy-market tie-ins. “Hot Wheels will be a movie. Barbie will be a movie.” Maybe so, but do they need a script by John Sayles? He shrugs. “It’s a job. It uses some of the same muscles as doing your own writing.” Sayles won’t write storylines he finds offensive, but he’s worked on projects that have racked up enough script doctors to turn them into Frankenstein’s monsters. Hearing him speak, it’s hard not to picture some grizzled gunslinger, or maybe the cynical samurai played by Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo. He’s taking the work he can get, but you can’t help sensing he’s biding his time, and that under that crusty exterior the old fire’s still smoldering, ready to put up one hell of a fight. If money wasn’t an obstacle, is there a movie he’d like to make next? John Sayles doesn’t hesitate. “Dozens,” he says with a welcome smile. 3/09 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS
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SHORT TAKES Oh, baby, it’s a wild world. Explore its outer dimensions with adventurers, visionaries, teachers, and artists of every stripe.
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Fe have seen more of our watery planet than writer/filmmaker Few Bowermaster, who rebounds to Stone Ridge between continents. Bo This raffishly titled collection features such fellow travelers as T RFK Jr., Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, Native R American activist Winona LaDuke, mountaineer Yvon Chouinard, A aand Obama’s new “energy czar,” Carol Browner.
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As the Mayan calendar hastens toward its numinous last day, the zeitgeist of transformational consciousness is also picking up th speed. Toward 2012 is culled from Reality Sandwich, a website sp premised on the urgency of creating a sustainable society. pr Contributors include Hudson Valley visionaries Sharon Gannon, C David Rothenberg, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. D
NEW YORK AND SLAVERY: TIME TO TEACH THE TRUTH NE ALAN J. SINGER ALA EXCELSIOR EDITIONS/SUNY PRESS, 2008, $16.95 EXC
An inspired high school teacher with Marxist leanings unearths the lon long-buried history of slavery, complicity, and resistance in New Yo York state, from the Wall Street slave market to the fiery rhetoric of Frederick Douglass. Singer provides useful strategies to help te teachers navigate racially charged curriculum and discussions, m making this an invaluable resource.
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St Stricken by cancer, composer and Bard professor De Wys trekked into the Ecuadorian jungle to work with a charismatic indigenous in healer. Undergoing ritual purifications and ayahuascan visions, she he stayed to become his apprentice and lover, then brought him back st north with disastrous results. A vivid chronicle of transformative n upheaval, for better and worse. u
AR ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS: MAKING CULTURE IN NEW YORK’S CA CAPITAL REGION JOSEPH DALTON, FOREWORD BY MARION ROACH JOS THE TROY BOOK MAKERS, 2009, $17.95 TH
Si Since 2002, Dalton has covered a free-range cultural beat for Albany’s Times Union. He offers dozens of lively, inspiring profiles Al of musicians, visual artists, and other luminaries, including filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, composer Pauline Oliveros, O author William Kennedy, puppeteer Basil Twist, and New York Y City Ballet director Peter Martins.
RIVER OF DREAMS: THE STORY OF THE HUDSON RIVER RIV HUDSON TALBOTT HU G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, 2009, $17.99
A painterly river runs through these pages, and it’s never th the same one twice. Talbott’s watercolor Hudson may be fr frozen in blocks of ice, tinged with a vivid Hudson River School sunset, murky and polluted, or popping with S ccomeback shad. A concise and accessible history for cchildren and open hearted adults. Talbott and Scenic Hudson Executive Director Ned Sullivan will speak at the Hudson Opera House on March 8.
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ick up the latest issue of literary bellwethers Poetry or Fence and you might think that language poets, intent on diminishing both lyric subject and personal narrative in favor of flat-prose register and imagistic non sequitur, have triumphed. But two new collections of verse prove otherwise. Body of Water, Orange County poet Janet Hamill’s fifth book, celebrates melodic expression in the lyric tradition, investigating subjects elemental and divine. Introducing the volume, the title poem opens and closes with the lines “Standing by a body of water. Moving / or standing still. In the dark green depths / my soul fi nds its own level.” Equally evocative stanzas repeat in offerings such as “Flying Nowhere” and “Moon Music.” Elsewhere Hamill recalls Pablo Neruda with lines like “the heart of a mandolin hums in the hand” (“Nine Card Spread”), or in epiphanies derived from surreal ambiguities, such as “in the asylum of a blue sound” (“Sea Fever”). Sparse use of punctuation and atypical line spacing oscillate throughout, creating metrical unity. Readers may long to carry away from nearly every poem such mantra-like lines as “The breath exhales / trailed by a string of the brightest lanterns” (“The Green Harmonica”). An oracular power flows through Body of Water, melding the ordinary with the planetary (horses frequently gallop across starlit skies), mythology with folklore. Divining objects, such as votives and fortunetelling cards, meet ritual gestures, from skywriting to sacrifice. Readers are greeted by St. George and St. Julian, the Virgin Mother and the Magi, and, in convincing persona poems, by filmmaker Federico Fellini and artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Rounding out the collection are deft portraits of lovers, such as the Mediterranean romance “Open Window,” that celebrate the flesh of the world. Heavier and more deeply personal in content, but at the same time stylistically sparser than Body of Water, Rebecca Schumejda’s debut volume Falling Forward follows in the tradition of confessional poets, though its autobiographical content remains modulated by skillful crafting. A singular, assured persona emerges in the book, a grim interrogation of the vicissitudes of marriage and motherhood. Schumejda, too, employs inventive spacing, as with lines in “Trick Candles” that resemble zigzagging flights of stairs, creating a sense of falling—forward as well as backward. And while her particularly remorseful brand of surrealism tends toward the quotidian as opposed to the ethereal, it succeeds at defining universal truths. For instance, in “Heat Wave,” one of several poems contemplating the specter of divorce, she writes that faith “is no more comforting / than the secondhand / walking the perimeter / of our sanity.” Neither religion (“The people in hell want ice water”) nor childrearing (the cynical “A Mother’s Mantra”) will redeem the seemingly doomed figures that populate Falling Forward, especially not mothers who drink, gamble, or otherwise avoid parental duties. Even the cosmos appears to offer scant comfort, given the couple in “Wedding Waltz” who become estranged newlyweds, desiring not to linger in bed but to escape it, tossing and turning all night as “Above, the moon, / a visual eulogy, / mourns the loss of stars / spit down at [them] like tiny seeds” (“Five Ripe Tomatoes”). With her unblinking look at life’s most intimate moments, Schumejda is a courageous new poet. Rebecca Schumejda will read from Falling Forward on March 7 at 6pm at Alternative Books in Kingston. (845) 331-5439. —Pauline Uchmanowicz
Don’t Cry Mary Gaitskill Pantheon Books, March , .
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islocated, disaffected people. They’ve always walked among us, but modern life has increased their number. We monitor their suffering—the poor, the homeless, the mentally ill, the sexually abused—with an unfounded superiority. We regard them with condescension, a coping mechanism to maintain a reassuring chasm between us and them. If we hear their stories, it is probably on afternoon TV, as they square off in front of a judge and emit tales like strangled screams. However, Rhinebeck-based author Mary Gaitskill apprehends in these characters an eloquence most of us never hear. Once a prostitute, a runaway, and a stripper, Gaitskill (both a cult favorite and National Book Award short-lister) knows how people can stumble upon self-destructive paths, and doesn’t summon psychological terms to illuminate, explain, or condemn them. Don’t Cry, the author’s first collection of short stories in a decade, introduces a legion of bruised souls, each trying to understand his place in an unforgiving world. We have passed through these airless, punishing lives before, guided by Raymond Carver, A. M. Homes, Hubert Selby, David Wojnarowicz, and even JT Leroy. (Gaitskill was a mentor to the fabulist; make of that what you will.) In the 10 tales splayed out here, the rawness of the world is as stimulating as despair-inducing. We know that people talk at, rarely with, one another. But Gaitskill catches these voices passing in the ether, as they conduct quizzical communions with themselves, during cigarette breaks at the clinic, at a literary conference, on a train heading north along the Hudson, among soiled bedclothes, and along a rutted mountain trail up in the Shawangunks. If their ceaseless self-examination yields no answers, Gaitskill suggests, that’s fine, for certainties can be just as hollow and self-deluding. Collected from a variety of publications where they first appeared, the stories in Don’t Cry differ erratically in style and tone. A cruel bluntness marks “College Town, 1980,” while emotional and sexual obsession leaven “A Dream of Men.” For those who laud Gaitskill as a feminist, she plays a cagey game with the concept in “The Agonized Face.” Mistaken as a merciless writer, Gaitskill simply knows that love is more commonly lost than found. In “Mirror Ball” she recounts the metaphysical reasons for a failed romance, bringing breathtaking insight—and sadness—to a familiar scenario. There are curious missteps and indulgences in this book. “Folk Song” is a mash-up of newspaper stories, straining to find the slender filament that joins the accounts. The title story is a small epic, detailing a journey by two friends to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to adopt a child as war erupts.The women’s struggles keep one transfixed, but a mawkish subplot concerning a dying husband stands at odds with Gaitskill’s dry-eyed style. Don’t Cry will delight fans, but a more judicious editing would have charmed, rather than wearied, the newcomer. Gaitskill relishes irresolvable moral contradictions and finds a touchstone in the Iraqi invasion. Two stories—”The Little Boy” and “The Arms and Legs of the Lake”—acknowledge the war’s moral dilemmas. The latter piece is as much opera as short story: Several passengers on a train react to two returning soldiers, the men serving as Rorschach tests for their own guilt or anger. For all her lacerating candor, Mary Gaitskill evokes compassion for the sorriest of souls. Don’t Cry offers much to marvel at. —Jay Blotcher
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Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our April issue is March 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.
(At the dinner table)
what do you learn?
That’s Quinn’s chair, and that’s
when you learn by letting go
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papa’s chair, and that’s somebody else’s chair. We have a lot of somebody else’s chairs. —Quinn Cummins-Lune (3 years old)
AFTER II
CABIN FEVER
AUTISTIC CHILD ON FLOOR IN DEN
The object is to not wake up at night, to not experience absence if you do; this phantom limb of a love affair.
I. I find a shock of fresh blood patterned in the snow, tip of a tail bitten off, discarded tough nut of cartilage. Last night a pack of coyotes ran down a deer. My riled dogs pull hard along the jack-pine trail of how it ends, what happens in degrees. They want to see it all.
They leave him on the floor again damp, pale.
II. The cardinal takes up his blizzard perch outside my otherwise vacant window, the place he lets go his staccato throat with a work-song of snowflakes, stellar dendrites, rimed plates and cups, bullet rosettes, no two the same, broken and irregular in a final act of being, outstretched arms of lovers in free-fall.
This is why they move to higher ground: coastal flooding.
The object is to slow the breathing, the blood, to stay still, tepid, rational; The breath runs fast because I am your lover, or lately, because I am not. The object is to teach the body to forget what kissing is like, to forget a smell, the brush of a specific skin; to become a man who doesn’t know you, to become a man who sleeps when it’s dark. —D. Alex Bird
YOUR BRIGHT WOUNDS So this is how you nurse your brightest wounds, when all your bruises bulge like botulin beneath a field of skin as thin as tin that’s stretched so tightly and so absolute. Your scabs, in baths of balmy solutes, soon grow soft as water leeches gently in. The woven threads of soiled bandaging are wads of tenderness, discarded too. Between the sticks, the grist, and gravel bits that nestle far below your shiny scars and fester long beyond their time to heal, the memories that breed in muscles twist your sinews ‘round your veins until your heart is split and every stitch forgets to feel. —Dave Wheeler
EFFECTIVE “I could do this forever,” I tell the words. Won’t you get tired? The answer is yes, very tired. We will lose meaning on the way, we will become gibberish. We will not fit in stories or poems, but stand alone on stray lines. We will be lonely and no one will love us. Few speak this language, I hear it in my sleep.
—Georganna Millman
IN SPITE OF ENTROPY the myth that we can bargain with time. the reality that its few truths are ancient. this affair of temporary gods and the neutral phantoms which scrape them.
He frightens them, as always, with his dire echoes of final days. Mother is fidgety, Father smokes. Geraldine plays the viola. This is how a family copes with a child a continent away. This is how they perceive his blank stare: stars.
They tiptoe around him as if he were the rising tide, wait for the storm to subside. —Mimi Moriarty
WATER RULES The sun falls down the mountain; the Yellow River flows to sea: to see far, you have to climb one more mountain.
we are miracles with tiny resources.
The moon shines in the woods. Mountain water presses against stone arteries, paring away years as though reversing time.
—Richard Lopez
—Jan Garden Castro
when the cards are laid upon the table and the blanket is flung from the statue there might finally be no sorrow or regret to have studied the fire, but only the fluid comprehension that all of our parts and devices are sharing the same pool of fuel
—Kerry Giangrande
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WHITE NIGHTS
THESE THINGS YOU DID NOT ASK OF ME
The neighbors are fighting again but I can’t understand what their saying.
To hurl myself out of the shower sheathed in soap and grab the phone call that might be you but wasn’t
Last time I saw you we drank pink champagne, and agreed about politics. The neighbors put on Spanish music and we left to get some coke. We put our hoods up and hid our faces, I was under dressed and you didn’t give me your coat.
To say “maybe” to plans offered by others holding the door open for you to come first if you came at all
I saw a girl on the corner with white skin and a wool dress and we locked eyes, and I thought I loved her.
To have you always in the back of my mind, clamoring for attention, or have my stomach turn inside out with fear you may be gone without a word To not take another lover like the darkly handsome poet who had just lost his cat and could have found comfort in my arms
I used to leave sometimes when it got too loud and walk and walk and unlock the car and dare myself.
All these things and more you never asked of me, did you? But you did ask me to want nothing, and give nothing
I remember we went to a bar one night, and I was pretty and drank cosmos, and wore heals and you left. I’d put the radio on and turn the volume up, and listen to the evangelists and get saved, and fall asleep. Sometimes you would be sober and you would love me, and I would get mad. I would look up at the sky and try to see the stars, but the buildings were too bright, so I would look down and see the sidewalk sparkle. The firetrucks would wake us up at night and I would sleep in the living room without a pillow, and drink diet coke and brandy, and read old newspapers, and wish I could see the stars.
Except laugh at the lunatic pink temple moon read the wise words of great mystics walk silently along the lake in tandem with the wind then lay me down on soft moss under pine boughs and breathe you in You asked me not to call your house because your estranged wife would make your home hours unbearable and you simply could not have that You asked me to not put my heart in your hands you could not bear the burden although of course by then it was too late —C.C. Isis
SUNDAY MORNING LIE-IN i’m staying down here until I make her sing louder than church —Kirsty Logan
—Laura Recio
INTERRUPTED HAIKU I have a burning sensation in my palm. A char-edged lily blooms there underneath the flame of an unchecked match. She has her hair pinned up above her neck. The storm begins to leak over her open throat. Then it cracks like an egg and drops on our upturned faces; I cradle my hand to the spindles of my collarbone and squint at the lake of sky above me. The water gathers into rivulets and spills down the groove of her spine, worn there by similar passages. Her breasts and shoulders harden in the chill; I press my cheek to them. My hand aches on her stomach, my hand aches in the rain.
A bee hovers around me realizing I’m no flower
—Elan Kwiecinski
Today I saw my lover’s face, And stood transfixed in time and space.
—Dennis Lucas
It spoke words with such grace, The sounds I did not care to place. —J.R.
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Berkshire Country Day School is dedicated to encouraging Berkshire Country Day School exists academic excellence at the highest level and to realizing each to inspire the individual promise of student’s potential for well-rounded development. We provide every student, that each may become an a stimulating and challenging education in a supportive and exemplary citizen of the world. nurturing environment. In the spirit of inquiry and discovery, students learn to be resourceful and responsible. In an atmosphere of mutual respect, students learn about community and caring for others. Berkshire Country Day School is a place where each student can meet success as a 21st century learner.
■ EMAIL: ABROBERG@BERKSHIRECOUNTRYDAY.ORG
Our values guide us to engage members of the school community in the shared responsibility of fostering students’ growth and supporting their individual talents and passions.
■ WEBSITE: WWW.BERKSHIRECOUNTRYDAY.ORG
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■ PHONE: (413) 637-0755
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■ SPECIALTY AREAS: CONSERVATORY LEVEL INSTRUCTION, “BABY BALLET” TO ADVANCED POINTE, MODERN, AFRICAN, HIP-HOP
Ballet Arts Studio is located in the thriving arts community of Beacon, New York. Our facility includes a performance size “I highly recommend Ballet Arts main studio, a second studio and classroom, offices, waiting to anyone who is interested in a areas, and dressing rooms. Both studios have sprung floors. nurturing and professional Our dedicated faculty maintains high standards in the teaching of classical ballet, modern dance, African dance, and other dance environment...” classical and traditional dance forms. At Ballet Arts, we know that there is nothing that compares to conservatory-based dance training for teaching children and young adults how, through self-discipline, commitment and hard work, they can fully develop their personal and creative potential. Our educational programs, which have grown to include The Dutchess Ballet Company and Dance Beacon, center around a complete approach to learning, individual growth and artistic development.
We provide learning activities that inspire creativity and thoughtful reflection in an environment where each student is nurtured, celebrated, and encouraged to take risks. Quality We promote academic excellence and scholarship so that each student can flourish and succeed through a vigorous curriculum and an extensive offering of arts and athletics. Respect We empower acts of inclusion and acceptance with due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, and traditions of others. Sustainability We educate our community about the impact of our actions and behaviors on the environment and instill practices that protect its long-term viability. Community We establish trust, cooperation, and accountability within an atmosphere of belonging where we all invest in the success and well-being of each other. Wellness We ensure the physical, social, and emotional health of each community member. Citizenship We guide all members of our diverse school community to become ethical, engaged, and informed global citizens.
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The Center for Diagnostic and Consultation Services ■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: CHILDREN & ADULTS ■ TUITION: FEE FOR SERVICE
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■ SPECIALTY AREAS: COMPREHENSIVE DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATORS FOR AUTISM, AFTER SCHOOL SOCIAL SKILLS GROUPS FOR CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS, INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING CONSULTATIONS, AND TRAININGS FOR AGENCIES, PROFESSIONALS AND PARENTS ■ LOCATION: 70 KUKUK LN., KINGSTON, NY 12401 ■ MAILING ADDRESS: PO BOX 657, LAKE KATRINE, NY 12449-0657 ■ CONTACT: DR. JANE NOFER, CLINICAL DIRECTOR ■ EMAIL: JNOFER@CHILDRENSANNEX.ORG ■ WEBSITE: WWW.CHILDRENSANNEX.ORG
The Center for Diagnostic and Consultation Services “We offer diagnostic and treatment (CDC) offers comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, school consultations, individual counseling and social skill groups services for people of all ages with known for people with known or suspected Asperger’s Syndrome or suspected Autism Spectrum Disorders” or other Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Located at The Children’s Annex, a nationally recognized agency specializing in education and support to families and individuals with autism to people of all ages. For over 33 years, The Children’s Annex has enjoyed a reputation for quality educational and clinical services serving over 200 adults and children annually in schools in Kingston and Ellenville and in community-based programs. The CDC utilizes the expertise of seasoned Children’s Annex faculty. Staffed by experienced psychologists and clinical social workers trained in evidence-based best practices, the Center’s services are available to children, adolescents and adults in the Hudson Valley and surrounding region. The Center for Diagnostic and Consultation Services currently offers after-school social skill groups for children and young adults with ASD’s, counseling and family support, skilled guidance to other programs and professionals, and workshops and trainings on best practices in serving the autism community.
■ PHONE: (845) 336-2616 x.123
■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: 2-YEAR DEGREE ■ TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO: 1/18 ■ TUITION: $1,608 PER SEMESTER (FULL TIME) ■ ACCREDITATION: COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE MIDDLE STATES AND ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS ■ EMAIL: INFO@MYCOMMUNITYCOLLEGE.COM ■ WEBSITE: WWW.MYCOMMUNITYCOLLEGE.COM ■ PHONE: (518) 828-4181 x5513
Columbia-Greene Community College offers an “The effectiveness of Columbia-Greene’s education that is both technology-rich and studentteaching methods is evident in the performance centered. A campus of the State University of New York, of its graduates. More than 90% of the Columbia-Greene is located on 150 acres near the Hudson River, offering campus wide connectivity in an institution career-track graduates are employed in known for its nurturing, small-class environment. The their respective fields.” college has dynamic programs in computer graphics, aviation, massage therapy, teacher education, computer forensics, and environmental studies, among others. Columbia-Greene offers 47 degree and certificate programs that include business, accounting, computer science, fine arts, nursing, automotive technology, criminal justice, human services, and classes such as computer networking and animation. The effectiveness of Columbia-Greene’s teaching methods is evident in the performance of its graduates. More than 90% of the career-track graduates are employed in their respective fields, many with high salaries. The university-bound graduates transfer regularly to such schools as SUNY Albany, SUNY New Paltz, College of Saint Rose, Russell Sage, Marist, RPI, and Cornell, among others. Add a diverse noncredit program, a vibrant cultural series of concerts and lectures, and a leading-edge training program for business and industry, and you have a comprehensive and stimulating community institution.
The Forman School ■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: 9 - 12 ■ TUITION: $55,000 BOARDING $45,000 DAY ■ ADDRESS: 12 NORFOLK ROAD PO BOX 80, LITCHFIELD, CT 06759 ■ CONTACT: BETH RAINEY, DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS ■ WEBSITE: www.formanschool.org ■ PHONE: 860.567.1802
The Forman School, located in historic Litchfield, CT, is a co-educational college preparatory boarding and day school for students with learning differences.
The Forman difference lies in the lasting outcome of the educational experience.
Every Forman student has a designated learning specialist. We teach specific strategies which enhance the academic curriculum. Once mastered, these can be applied across a variety of course disciplines. This means that our students learn to use tools and techniques that allow them to grow in confidence and become independent learners. We employ state of the art technology that both supports and empowers our students. At Forman, we are solely devoted to educating young men and women with learning differences. Learning is as individualized as one’s fingerprints. Bright students who may have difficulty in previous academic setting may simply process information differently. At Forman, focusing on the needs and strengths of students isn’t a supplemental part of what we do; it is all that we do.
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■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: MASTER OF ARTS ■ TUITION: $343 PER CREDIT $12,348 TOTAL PROGRAM TUITION ■ OTHER ADDITIONAL FEES: $60 APPLICATION FEE $385 PROGRAM FEE $90 GRADUATION FEE ■ ADDRESS: 171 AMITY ROAD, BETHANY
■ PHONE: (203) 874-4252
■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: 18 MONTHS - GRADE 7 ■ SPECIALTY AREAS: HANDS-ON STUDY OF MATH, LANGUAGE, GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE AND SCIENCE; LANGUAGE LIVE SPANISH PROGRAM; MUSIC FOR LIFE OUTREACH PROGRAM; PARTICIPATION IN MONTESSORI MODEL UNITED NATIONS (4TH GRADE AND UP) ■ LOCATION: ROUTE 55, LA GRANGE, NY ■ MAILING ADDRESS: 488 FREEDOM PLAINS ROAD SUITE 141, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12603 ■ CONTACT: DIRECTORS, ERIN CASTLE AND BARBARA KATAVOLOS ■ EMAIL: ERIN@HAWKMEADOWMONTESSORI.COM ■ WEBSITE: WWW.HAWKMEADOWMONTESSORI.COM ■ PHONE: (845) 223-3783
Hawk Meadow Montessori School is a new school with a long history of Montessori education in the LaGrange area. Together, our teachers and staff have 70 years’ worth of experience in Montessori instruction.
“Each child is encouraged to explore his or her environment, and given the tools to be a thoughtful, caring, and responsible citizen of the world.”
Evidence continues to support Maria Montessori’s belief that the child’s personality is fully formed by the age of six years old. With that in mind, the staff of Hawk Meadow believes that a Montessori environment is the ideal stage on which your child will develop to his or her potential. In a Montessori classroom, a holistic environment has been created in which each child’s individual personality and learning style is allowed to unfold. Hawk Meadow Montessori School offers the following programs: Toddler (18 months to three years); Primary (threeto six-year-olds); Elementary (six- to twelve-year-olds); and Middle School. A summer program is also offered. Hawk Meadow Montessori School is located in Freedom Executive Park, 488 Freedom Plains Road, Suite 141, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603. The school is situated in a large, light-filled space, and a playground is located outside. Hawk Meadow Montessori School is now enrolling for the 2009-2010 school year. If you would like to receive information about the school or schedule a tour, please call Erin Castle at (845) 223-3783.
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The Graduate Institute’s mission is to create learning communities in which graduate study enriches the spirit, “Exceptional opportunities for personal promotes philosophic discovery, provides opportunities for interpersonal and organizational change and encourages and professional growth in a learning intellect through the exploration of contemporary ideas. The community that promotes generative thinking Institute is dedicated to identifying, describing, developing and trans-disciplinary exploration.” and implementing graduate programs in emerging fields of inquiry. Through a series of process-centered collaborative events, The Institute serves mature learners by engaging exceptional thinkers and practitioners as faculty, by challenging individual beliefs, by providing cognitive dissonant learning experiences, by promoting generative and transdisciplinary thinking through the integration of content, and by delivering unique curricula within a cohort design.
■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: PRE K - 8 ■ TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO: 1/10 ■ TUITION: $9,500 - $10,500 ■ ADDRESS: ROUTE 209 STONE RIDGE, NY 12484 ■ SPECIALTY AREAS: WEEKLY SPANISH, ART, MUSIC, DANCE, AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION ■ CONTACT: SUZANNE BORRIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MICHELLE HUGES, EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR ■ WEBSITE: HIGHMEADOWSCHOOL.ORG ■ PHONE: (845) 687-4855
In the heart of Stone Ridge stands a beautiful 19th-century brick mansion surrounded by nine acres ripe for exploration and “To create a learning community that is learning. This progressive school puts each child at the center of inclusive, tolerant, & prepares students to be a continuously challenging curriculum that employs experiential, positive contributors as well as constructive instructional, and integrated learning across the academic core. problem solvers within our diverse society.” High Meadow School has received a coveted multi-year grant from New York State Council on the Arts enabling classroom teachers to partner with teaching artists to deepen academic learning. As students move to the Upper School, which features a 260-seat Performing Arts and Athletic Center and five new classrooms, Science and the Arts become the focus. This is a place where children truly love to be! The extraordinary teaching staff brings experience, innovation, and a wide body of knowledge. The diverse mix of families, committed to building a nurturing community that develops the whole child, makes High Meadow a rare find. Call 687-4855 for an appointment. See what learning can be for your middle schooler! Meet our teachers and tour our campus at our Upper School Open House: Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 PM.
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■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: PRE K - 9 BOARDERS 6 - 9 ■ TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO: 1/4 ■ TUITION: DAY $22,150 BOARDING $41,500
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■ LOCATION: 211 INDIAN MOUNTAIN ROAD LAKEVILLE, CT 06039 ■ WEBSITE: WWW.INDIANMOUNTAIN.ORG ■ PHONE: (860) 435-0871
Indian Mountain School is a co-educational day and boarding school serving a diverse population of 260 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 9, with boarders in grades 6 through 9.
“The cultural exchange allows students young and old to share information about their own experiences and learn more about the world.”
Mission Statement: Indian Mountain School provides a traditional education for boys and girls from pre-K through 9 in a boarding and day environment. We promote moral growth and personal academic excellence in a setting that fosters a respect for learning, the environment and each other. We celebrate our international and culturally diverse community. We guide and challenge students through balanced elementary and middle school scholastic, athletic, and arts curricula, combining instruction and coaching with a system of personal support. We involve students in our adventure education and community service programs, which tie into the spirit of IMS. We help our students gain confidence in their own innate abilities and develop the necessary academic and personal skills to be successful in secondary education. A well-defined set of values–honesty, compassion, respect, and service–is at the heart of Indian Mountain School. Unique Features: Indian Mountain offers a strong curriculum encouraging children, in a supportive environment, to strive for academic excellence and to develop the traits of good character. The academic program is enhanced by various offerings in music, art, theater, adventure education, athletics, and foreign language. Community service is an integral part of an Indian Mountain education, as the school strives to live its motto: Life through service.
■ DEGREES OFFERED: BA, BS (MORE THAN 50 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS) MBA, MS IN NURSNG, MS IN EDUCATION ■ TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO: 1/17 ■ ACCREDITATION: MIDDLE STATES COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION; NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ACCREDITATION OF TEACHER EDUCATION (NCATE); COMMISSION ON COLLEGIATE NURSING EDUCATION (CCNE) ■ ADDRESS: OFFICE OF ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT MOUNT SAINT MARY COLLEGE 330 POWELL AVE. NEWBURGH, NY 12550 ■ EMAIL: DEMPSEY@MSMC.EDU ■ WEBSITE: WWW.MSMC.EDU
Mount Saint Mary College fosters an environment of excellence, inspired by Catholic and Dominican traditions and values, that prepares students for leadership and service.
“Mount Saint Mary College provides students with learning that lasts a lifetime.”
Teaching and learning has been happening on what is now the Mount Saint Mary College campus since 1883. Mount Saint Mary College was chartered as a four-year, liberal arts college in 1959. The Mount experience includes a rich academic curriculum; enhanced academic programs, from honors courses to study abroad; engaging coop and internship programs; a competitive athletics program — 15 NCAA Division III teams — and an extensive intramural and recreational sports program; community involvement and service-learning programs; and a full-range of student clubs and organizations. No wonder that more than 12,000 Mount alumni contribute to their communities across the country. Our new Mathematics, Science & Technology Center and state-of-the-art Nursing Learning Resource Center are answering the nation’s call for the next generation of mathematics and science teachers, and qualified nurses and health care professionals.
■ PHONE: (845) 569-3136
Whether you are a high school student or a transfer student looking for a quality four-year college close to home as a resident or commuter student; an adult looking to either start or complete a college degree; or a college graduate interested in earning a master’s in business, education or nursing, the Mount has a program for you. Mount Saint Mary College provides students with learning that lasts a lifetime.
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■ GRADES OFFERED: PARENT/CHILD, NURSERY, KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE ■ TEACHER/STUDENT RATION: 1/7 ■ ACCREDITATION: NY STATE BOARD OF REGENTS, MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA (AWSNA)
■ WEBSITE: WWW.MOUNTAINLAUREL.ORG ■ CONTACT: JUDITH JAECKEL
“The impulse behind Waldorf Education is cultural renewal— an impulse for the future that founder Rudolf Steiner felt could be fostered through a new understanding of the individual & community.”
At Mountain Laurel, each student receives a full introduction to the classics, two foreign languages, history, geography, mathematics and science... the subjects today’s child needs to be prepared to meet the challenges of our world and the future - with clarity of thought, love of learning, a caring heart and confidence to initiate change. We serve early childhood through eighth grade. www.mountainlaurel.org (845) 255-0033.
■ PHONE: (845) 255-0033
NEW YORK MILITARY ACADEMY
■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: 7-12, PG ■ TUITION: $33,425 BOARDING $13,800 DAY ■ SPECIALTY AREAS: JROTC; COLLEGE PREP - 100% COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE; VARSITY, JUNIOR VARSITY ATHLETICS; BAND; HORSEMANSHIP ■ ADDRESS: 78 ACADEMY AVE. CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON, NY ■ CONTACT: MAUREEN KELLY ■ EMAIL: MKELLY@NYMA.ORG ■ WEBSITE: WWW.NYMA.ORG ■ PHONE: 1-888-ASK-NYMA
■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: 6 - 12 ■ TUITION: US DAY $21,725 MS DAY $18,750 ■ ROOM & BOARD FEES: 5 DAY BOARDING $10,900 7 DAY BOARDING $15,900 ■ ADDRESS: 22 SPACKENKILL RD. POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12603 ■ CONTACT: SUSAN MASCIALE-LYNCH, DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS ■ EMAIL: SMASCIALELYNCH@OAKWOODFRIENDS.ORG ■ WEBSITE: OAKWOODFRIENDS.ORG ■ PHONE: (845) 462-4200
“Educating Tomorrow’s Located in historic Cornwall-on-Hudson, just sixty miles north of the city, is New York Military Academy (NYMA). Leaders Today” Founded in 1889, the academy boasts an elite group of alumni from around the world as well as the reputation for Educating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today. Overall achievement is measured by the success of the graduating seniors in gaining admissions to the nation’s leading colleges and universities, including the United States Service Academies. Every student participates in a rigorous college prep curriculum and interscholastic athletic program. The military structure and tradition combine with self-discipline to enhance the student’s achievements in and out of the classroom. The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps teaches accountability and responsibility while developing character and leadership skills for life. The prestigious and highest designation awarded by the Department of the Army, Honor Unit with Distinction, allows NYMA to nominate qualified seniors to the United States Service Academies. Weekend outings, parades, field trips, band, drill team, fencing and a horsemanship program are just a few of the extracurricular activities offered. Open House events are held throughout the year for students entering grades 7-12. A Post Graduate prep year is available to recent high school graduates seeking to enhance their college placement.
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■ EMAIL ADDRESS: MTLAURELWALDORF@AOL.COM
Waldorf Schools offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education. They integrate the arts and academics for children from preschool through twelfth grade. The aim of the education is to inspire lifelong learning in each student and enable them to fully develop their unique capacities. The Waldorf curriculum is broad and comprehensive.
FIND YOUR VOICE AT OAKWOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL “...dedicated to nurturing the Oakwood Friends School is a Quaker, co-educational, spirit, the scholar, the artist and the college-preparatory school enrolling a diverse group of 175 students in grades six through twelve. 5- and 7-day boarding athlete in each person.” options are available. The student body at Oakwood represents a variety of ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds from within the U.S., and from five other nations around the globe, including Korea, China, Taiwan, Russia and Vietnam. Founded on the belief that “each life speaks,” the Oakwood curriculum is designed to nurture the unique value that is inherent in every student—by cultivating the spirit, scholar, artist and athlete within, and by encouraging creativity, self-expression, cooperation and teamwork. A steadfast commitment to mutual trust and an honest exchange of ideas contribute to a vibrant campus community. Rigorous academics, based on a combination of primary text and hands-on learning, respect the minds and imaginations of each learner. Intellectual skills and personal growth are fostered through artful teaching, thoughtful assessment and individual attention. Small class sizes, a challenging college-preparatory program and teacher accessibility lead virtually of graduates to pursue higher education at a college or university. Today, Oakwood has over 2,100 alumni living around the country and the world.
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Poughkeepsie Day School
â– GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: PRE K - 12 â– TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO: 1/7 â– TUITION:
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â– ACCREDITATION: NYS DEPT. OF EDUCATION, NYS ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS â– LOCATION: 260 BOARDMAN ROAD POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12603 â– CONTACT: â– EMAIL: ADMISSIONS@POUGHKEEPSIEDAY.ORG â– WEBSITE: WWW.POUGHKEEPSIEDAY.ORG â– PHONE: (845) 462-7600 (ADMISSIONS: EXT. 201)
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Pre-k through Grade 12
Poughkeepsie Day School, the pre-eminent pre-kindergarten through 12th grade school in the mid-Hudson Valley, was founded in 1934. Serving approximately 325 students, PDS features an intellectually challenging and creative interdisciplinary curriculum that recognizes the strengths and talents of each child. Small multi-graded classes and outstanding teachers encourage students to develop a lifelong love of learning and to become independent, critical, and creative thinkers and global citizens. A newly expanded high school curriculum offers students an excellent range of choices in each area of study: English, history, mathematics, science, languages, interdisciplinary studies, visual and performing arts, and physical education. Reflecting on his visit to Poughkeepsie Day School, Dr. William Hiss, Vice-President of Bates College wrote: “Poughkeepsie Day School is an extraordinary place: intellectually demanding, faithful to its principles of creatively engaging its students, exciting them about learning, and building an atmosphere of respect and commitment‌. Excitement and enthusiasm for learning are encountered in virtually all classes at PDS.... There is an affectionate if unrelenting focus on helping students to think.â€? Admissions Information Sessions Tuesday, March 3 at 7 pm for grades 7 through 12 Tuesday, March 24 at 8:30 am for grades pre-k through 12
â– GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: PRE K - 12 â– TUITION: $7,300 - $15,600 â– ADDRESS: 2467 ROUTE 9D WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY 12590 â– EMAIL: LEARN@RANDOLPHSCHOOL.ORG â– WEBSITE: WWW.RANDOLPFSCHOOL.ORG â– PHONE: (845) 297-5600
Randolph School students love to learn! Responding to children’s deep interests and probing questions, our teachers design a curriculum each year that helps their students explore and make sense of the world. Interest-based themes, information, and materials are presented in a challenging, relevant, and open-ended way, stimulating student curiosity, creativity, and innovative thinking.
“Randolph School is a place where children are respected, trusted, encouraged, and supported to develop their full potential.�
At the core of the Randolph Philosophy is a deep respect for the individuality of each child and a belief in children’s innate desire and ability to learn. Every child has a unique way of experiencing the world and learning from that experience. Randolph School is a place where children are respected, trusted, encouraged, and supported to develop to their full potential at school and later in life. Grounded in john Dewey’s philosophy of education and Jean Piaget’s insights into children’s cognitive development, Randolph School serves families who seek an innovative educational experience for their children. Our families come to the school because of it’s progressive approach, multi-age groupings, commitment to diversity, small class size, and low student-teacher ratios, passion for the arts and the natural environment, and emphasis on community. Students at The Randolph School develop curiosity, creativity, and a life-long love of learning.
■DEGREES OFFERED: BACHELOR AND MASTER’S DEGREES: CERTIFICATE OF ADVANCED STUDY (CAS) ■TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO: 1/13 (UNDERGRADUATE) ■TUITION: NYS RESIDENT FT UNDERGRADUATE: $2485 FT GRADUATE: $3940 MBA: $4055
Beginning in 1828 with a commitment to liberal arts education and teacher training, SUNY New Paltz’s expanded vision now includes a variety of programs in the fine and performing arts, business, nursing and engineering as well as a broad range of liberal arts. A selective and diverse center of higher education, the college allows students to get to know their professors and collaborate with them on undergraduate and graduate level research projects.
“SUNY New Paltz is committed to providing high quality, aordable education to students from all social & economic backgrounds.â€?
â– WEBSITE: WWW.NEWPALTZ.EDU WWW.NEWPALTZ.EDU/REGIONALED
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■ EDUCATION LEVEL: FIRST 2 YEARS OF COLLEGE ■ TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO: 1/18 ■ ACCREDITATION: MIDDLE STATES ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES & SCHOOLS ■ LOCATION: 491 COTTEKILL RD. STONE RIDGE, NY 12484 ■ TUITION: FULL TIME $1710; PART TIME $130/CREDIT
■ WEBSITE: WWW.SUNYULSTER.EDU ■ PHONE: 1-800-724-0833
SUNY Ulster provides academic and career opportunities responsive to our evolving region and the global market.
Recognized for its robust liberal arts program, other notable programs include Business & Entrepreneurship, Veterinary Technology, Graphic and Fine Arts, Music, Theater, Criminal Justice and Nursing. One of the hallmarks of a SUNY Ulster education is the opportunity to study in small classes with a distinguished faculty who take the time to know and advise their students. SUNY Ulster provides cultural and social experiences for students and the community through its arts, athletic and student activities. Innovative arts programming introduces students to internationally recognized writers, poets, and visual and performing artists in the classroom and in our 500-seat Quimby Theater. SUNY Ulster’s Business Resource Center is home to the Continuing and Professional Education Department. Continuing Education offers short-term classes in professional training, personal enrichment and technology, including certifications in green technologies. The department also provides customized training for business and supports grant applications to help fund business skills training.
■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: AGE 4-ADULT ■ ADDRESS: 10 MAIN STREET NEW PALTZ, NY 12561 ■ SPECIALTY AREAS: CREATIVE MOVEMENT, TO CONTACT IMPROVISATION, AND MODERN TO WORLD AND SWING DANCE ■ EMAIL: VCOFFICE@VANAVERCARAVAN.ORG ■ WEBSITE: WWW.VANAVERCARAVAN.ORG ■ PHONE: (845) 256-9300
■ GRADE LEVEL OFFERED: FIRST 2 YEARS OF COLLEGE
The Vanaver Caravan was established in 1972 by dancer/ “The mission of The Vanaver Caravan choreographer Livia Drapkin Vanaver and by musician/ is to enliven, educate and inspire diverse composer Bill Vanaver. Our Dance Institute runs yearstudents and audiences alike. We create round programs for children from age four to adult; with fall and spring classes during the school year. Our eclectic, and perform work that celebrates and annual SummerDance intensive program is comprised of promotes multi-cultural understanding workshops addressing a wide range of dance genres and and an appreciation of the diversity of our includes SummerDance on Tour! an opportunity for young dancers to perform at regional venues. Past performances global family tree.” have taken place at Opus 40, Mohonk Mountain House, and the Omega Institute. Our dance program represents a variety disciplines, ranging from Creative Movement, to Contact Improvisation, and Modern to World and Swing dance. The Vanaver Caravan promotes a community atmosphere among its students and faculty while fostering a deep love of dance and self-expression. Fall and Spring term Dance Institute classes take place in New Paltz and Stone Ridge, N.Y., and are taught by members of our professional dance company as well as by guest teachers from New York City. Our classes emphasize free expression and provide a supportive, non-competitive atmosphere for dancers to explore movement. Additionally, we have pioneered in-depth arts-in-education programs throughout the US for both public and private schools, often creating a curriculum in conjunction with teachers and administrators. We are available for school residencies and assemblies. (845) 256-9300, vcoffice@vanavercaravan.org, www.vanavercaravan.org.
“Whether you are interested in developing a web portfolio, recording an MP3 for your iPod or just getting into blogging, the Peekskill Center is an access point to new media arts and technology.”
■ TUITION (FOR RESIDENTS): $148/CREDIT $1,775 PER SEMESTER
One of the Hudson Valley’s premier digital arts resources is located in downtown Peekskill. The Westchester Arts Workshop facility, an extension location of Westchester Community College, a huge flagship post-production extension at 27 North Division Street is dedicated to the fostering of digital arts education.
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In 2003, the cutting-edge Center expanded to 20,000 square feet by adding an additional floor dedicated to general education, non-credit adult continuing education, English as a Second Language (ESL), and a full range of student services. The facility now serves approximately 1,200 students each semester in seven computer labs, three graphic/ interactive design studios, two digital video studios, a music and recording studio, and offers courses including 3D animation, interactive design, and DVD authoring.
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SUNY Ulster prides itself on a strong tradition of providing an exceptional education in a student-focused environment. Offering nearly 60 academic programs, students are prepared to succeed in a wide variety of careers. Serving as a crucial gateway to higher education, over 60% of our students transfer to four-year colleges throughout the nation to complete their baccalaureate degrees.
The facility is part of the lifeblood of the arts community in Peekskill. An integral component of the growing scene, artists flock to the extension facility to take classes, attend workshops, and enjoy special events such as appearances by notable lecturers and art exhibitions.
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From the Bowery to Bordeaux CEREGHINO-SMITH WINERY by Peter Barrett photographs by Jennifer May
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he essential point of collaboration—whether in marriage, art, music, or winemaking—is to create something that the individuals involved could not achieve separately. A few miles south of Kingston, in a funky old stone house, a collaboration that encompasses all four Cereghino-Smith strong suits is producing some high-quality wine in an improbable place. Paula Cereghino is a visual artist who worked for years in the fashion and wine businesses, and Fred Smith is the bass player for the seminal New York punk band Television. Cereghino’s grandfather, who emigrated from Genoa, Italy, had a cooperative farm in Tacoma, Washington, where she grew up. “Every year they made about 200 gallons of wine—as much as they could [legally] get away with,” she explains. On a trip to Northern Italy about 10 years ago that centered on a visit with a first-rate winemaker, she became inspired to try it for herself. Smith developed his palate on tour: “Playing in a band that traveled to Europe often gave me lots of opportunities to try many wines,” he says. “I was lucky enough once to get a week off in Bordeaux while I was accompanied by a couple of English wine-enthusiast roadies. We rented a car and took off to Saint-Emilion, where we went on a shopping spree. After that I was able to get ‘two bottles of good Bordeaux’ put on the band’s backstage food rider.” Cereghino accompanied him on tour whenever possible, and they tasted together everywhere they went. The duo began making wine in their apartment on Houston Street in 1999, shortly after Cereghino returned from Italy. They bought some California Zinfandel grapes and fermented the wine in 15-gallon glass demijohns. “‘I’ve got some homemade wine’ is one of the scariest things you can hear when visiting 62
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someone,” Smith says. “But it was just kind of fun to do. And when I had the first sip, at racking [siphoning the wine off the sediment], I couldn’t believe how good it tasted; it tasted like wine. Then the fi nished product was better than I had dreamed was possible.” Later, he bought Cereghino a small oak barrel for aging their wine as a gift. She remembers being relieved upon unwrapping it that it wasn’t “something dumb, like a computer.” Their enthusiasm quickly increased, and they began taking courses and seminars on winemaking—at the New York Horticultural Society, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and elsewhere. In 2003, they bought a 250-year-old house in Bloomington, renovated the accompanying barn, and began making wine at a professional level. They buy their grapes from high-quality growers in California and handselect and de-stem them before crushing. Fermentation takes place in three stainless tanks, and then the wine is aged in custom barrels, unique to this winery, with Canadian oak staves and American oak ends. This unusual combination allows the wines to benefit from the different qualities of the two woods; Canadian oak is considered to be a little closer to French oak in the subtler flavors it imparts to wine but costs substantially less. Smith’s recording studio is upstairs from the winemaking operation, and combines some seriously funky vintage processors with a computer and Protools, thus taking advantage of the best that old and new technologies have to offer. He clearly enjoys being an engineer as well as a musician, and this extends to the winemaking downstairs. “He’s the scientist and I’m the artist,” Cereghino says as a shorthand way of explaining their complementary abilities. “We’re comfortable in our roles.”
ABOVE: FRED SMITH AND PAULA CEREGHINO INSIDE THE RENOVATED BARN IN THEIR BACKYARD. SMITH USES A “WINE THIEF” TO SIPHON A GLASS OF WINE FROM A BARREL FOR A TASTING. OPPOSITE: FRED SMITH AND PAULA CEREGHINO MAKE WINE IN THEIR RENOVATED BARN.
Smith explains that “what we make is dictated by what there is,” and describes the process of reconciling their passion for flavor with the technical process of achieving it as being similar to producing live-sounding music in the studio. As winemakers, they have their priorities carefully tuned; since most wine is bought to accompany a meal, all of their wines have refreshingly low alcohol— ranging between 12 and 14 percent—which makes them uncommonly nimble and food-friendly for wine made from California grapes these days. Paula explains that “we love food, so we try to make wine that goes well with food.” Their two most popular and inexpensive (around $20) wines are blends. Eaten By Bears is a blend of 42 percent Sangiovese, 37 percent Petite Sirah, and 21 percent Mourvedre. The name comes from a friend’s warning when he heard that they were moving to the country (“You’ll be eaten by bears!”) and the wine is bright and cheerful. Rock `n Roll Red is a blend of the same grapes, but in reverse proportion; Mourvedre dominates at 60 percent of the blend, with 25 percent Petite Sirah and 15 percent Sangiovese, making the wine sturdier and better suited to hearty fare. Genoa ($26), their newest blend of 75 percent Sangiovese and 25 percent Petite Sirah, features a pencil drawing by Cereghino on the label; taken from old family photos, she tinted it with espresso. Tasted from the barrel just prior to bottling, it revealed a more complex aromatic profile and depth of flavor than the other blends, which should easily justify its higher price. They also make four single-varietal wines (in tiny quantities, from 150 to 180 hand-numbered bottles of each wine) and these represent the full expression of their passion for winemaking. The 2007 vintage is in bottle and available now.
The Sangiovese ($26) is light in both color and flavor, with characteristic red fruit and a whiff of the nail polish smell that seems to haunt some California Sangiovese. The Mourvedre ($27) is darker and rounder, with more physicality and some of the feral fruit that makes this grape so special in Southern France. Most interesting right now is their Syrah (the label says “San Giuseppe,” a reference both to Paula’s Italian grandfather and to Saint-Joseph in France, one of the world’s best expressions of the Syrah grape). It showed well, drinking elegantly, and after a few days open on the kitchen counter continued to maintain ebullient fruit and structure—a sure sign of well made wine. Their 2007 Petite Sirah ($45)—which they consider their flagship wine— has a lovely rich nose, but needs more time to unwind in the bottle before it’s ready to drink. This is a wine to lie down for three to five years and then open with a charred hunk of animal. The 2008 Petite Sirah is still in barrels: One is unadulterated, and the other has two percent Petit Verdot added as an experiment. Both versions are a deep, opaque purple—this grape is notoriously dark—and yet they have an astonishing and incongruous aroma of apricots and peaches that hovers above the inky fuchsia juice. Still in barrel, the 2007 Little House ($40) is another blend that they consider to be their homage to Chateauneuf-du-Pape, the King of Southern Rhône wines in France. Named after their 18th-century house (built by the Huguenot immigrants, who brought wine grapes to New York), it includes Syrah, Mourvedre, and Petite Sirah. It looks to combine the best qualities of all three grapes, and they are clearly proud of it. Their house is pictured on the label, and they have high hopes that it will become a defining wine for them. 3/09 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK
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Bread Alone Café East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3108 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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Bistro Brie & Bordeaux-A French Country Restaurant in the Heart of the Catskills 5386 Main Street, Windham, NY (518) 734-4911 www.bistrobb.com Voted “Best Restaurant Greene County” Hudson Valley Magazine, 2007 and 2008. Zagat Rated. Award-winning French Chef/Owner Stephane Desgaches. Casual Europeanstyled bistro, full bar, extensive wine list. Beautiful views of Windham Mountain, 1/4 mile away! Open 5PM for dinner Wednesday-Sunday. “Le Tour de France” $14.95, three-course dinner offered Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday (excluding some holiday weeks).
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337 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1128 THE best place for Sushi, Teriyaki or Tempura in the Hudson Valley. Delectable specialty rolls; filet mignon, seafood, and chicken teriyaki. Japanese beers. Imported and domestic wines. Elegant atmosphere and attentive service. The finest sushi this side of Manhattan! Open every night for dinner and every day but Sunday for lunch. Takeout always available.
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Neko Sushi & Restaurant 49 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0162 Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi and Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls, and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted.
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.
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.
Suruchi-A Fine Taste of India 5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com Suruchi offers delectable Indian food in a beautiful, calm atmosphere. All dishes are homemade from fresh ingredients including free-range chicken, vegetarian and organic choices. Menu is 95% gluten free. Dine 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 Sometimes, you just want a really Great Hamburger! Terrapin Red Bistro serves all sorts of comfort foods like macaroni and cheese, quesadillas, nachos, fish ‘n’ chips and hamburgers. Enjoy the build your own sandwich menu, or find some favorites from the restaurant in a hip, relaxed, casual bistro-style atmosphere.
Terrapin Restaurant 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the world’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.
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he Hopi people have a legend about the wind. It is said that their tribe was troubled by the constant gusts that blew away their seeds and crops, and that they sent two little war gods to stop the wind god Yaponcha from all of his huffing and puffing. With the wind gone, the heat became unbearable. Recognizing the error of their ways, the Hopis sent the war gods back to make peace with Yaponcha. Since that time the winds have blown just right—not too hard, not too soft—and the Hopis are friends with the wind. In October 2008, Keith and Jessica Abrams of Coxsackie made good friends with the winds as well, honoring the great blustering force that tracks across the Great Lakes toward the East Coast. They opened their business Green in Greene, which specializes in the distribution and installation of full-service, residential wind turbines. The couple’s brainstorming began back on Earth Day of last year. As the parents of a six-year-old son, they wanted to take part in preserving the environment for future generations.They wanted to provide a source of clean, sustainable energy to the people of Greene County and beyond, and they sought to provide jobs to members of their community. Exploration of solar power left them less than bright on its prospects as an energy source. Relatively new technology meant that harvesting the sun’s rays could only provide about 18 percent mass-produced efficiency. The Abrams also had doubts about solar power’s reliability in a less sunny clime. They turned toward their ongoing research of an energy type that was 95 percent efficient, and better suited to the capricious and sometimes volatile weather conditions of the Northeast, a power that would be supported by the altitude of the Catskill Mountains. “The answer was blowing in the wind,” says Jessica. Keith had worked as a contractor for many years. He had been involved in historical restorations, with a focus on mostly larger, commercial projects, never losing his belief in the value of recycling. Waste costs on projects were commonly reduced by his reuse of scores of materials: residual lumber, plumbing supplies, tiles, drywall, even brick. Although Jessica was also involved in
that business, as a bookkeeper and manager of human resources, Green in Greene is different. The small-scale wind harvesting business is an entity they have created together. It’s their baby. Jessica spends time on marketing, getting the word out about the importance of finding alternative energy sources in this age of global crisis and increasing electricity and fuel prices. She has created a website for Green in Greene full of information on the spread of diseases caused by climate change, the benefit of herbs and chemical-free cleaning; she is proud of the links forged with organizations such as Green Jobs Now and Al Gore’s We Can Solve It.The Green in Greene team is, in fact, a regional captain for Gore’s initiative. Keith was trained in the installation of wind turbines at Southwest Wind Power in Flagstaff, Arizona. The Abramses investigated several operations before they settled on Southwest Wind. They enjoyed the company’s practicality and business sense, its understanding of turbine engineering, its dedication to testing its products in even the most extreme climates, and its lengthy history of success. For Green in Greene, Keith and Jessica chose to purchase Southwest Wind’s Skystream 3.7 model, which had been working flawlessly in the field for seven years. The number “3.7” refers to the diameter of the blades in meters. Standing 33 to 50 feet tall, the Skystream 3.7 units look like colossal pinwheels. The center of the wheel is called the nacelle.Three six-foot-long blades exten from the nacelle, creating a 12-foot diameter. Their special curvature creates twice the amount of lift as straight blades might, and they face passively downwind. In this manner, the equipment is barely strained, and, barring any unseen catastrophe, maintenance is not required for 20 years after installation. Given that they are built to withstand 185-mile-per-hour winds, the roof of a house might cave in before these units topple. Yet they are gentle giants. Their soft hum alerts birds and bats to change their flight path, protecting wildlife. Otherwise, operation is extremely quiet, and the blades will do their work even in winds as tranquil as eight miles per hour. Keith explains how they function: “The wind turns the blades, and the gen3/09 CHRONOGRAM GREENE COUNTY
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ABBY SCHWETER KEITH ABRAMS, JESSICA ABRAMS, ASSEMBLYMAN TIM GORDON, AND COXSACKIE TOWN SUPERVISOR ALEX BETKE AT THE GREEN JOBS NOW EVENT IN EARLTON ON OCTOBER 18, 2008.
erator converts the kinetic energy of the wind from DC power to AC power in the nacelle. When the power comes down the pole from the nacelle, it’s grid compatible and can be connected to any electrical system. Electricity is like water. It takes the path of least resistance. The home will take from the generated power first before it takes it from the grid.The greater the wind speed, the more power is generated, and the less that home needs to take.” The Abramses put a Skystream 3.7 turbine on their own property to begin. They live in a 2,500-sqare-foot converted 1800s barn on a plot that measures just under five acres. Their single turbine is 50 feet high and has helped the Abramses save 80 percent annually on electricity. “We have increased our electrical usage with the addition of electrical heaters and the price of electricity has gone up this winter, and still we have seen a decrease in our bill,” says Jessica. Bob Longewell of Hillsdale was one of Green in Greene’s first residential clients, and he is also noticing how his 50-foot-tall Skystream 3.7 tower is making a difference. “When it’s producing more electrical power than I’m using, it will stop the meter or turn it backward, which is credit to me,” he says. “Plus, I love to watch the turbine when it’s whipping in the wind. Longewell found Green in Greene through an advertisement in his local paper. He had investigated turning to solar power, but feared he did not have enough sun to make this feasible. He knew he had wind, and he decided he wanted a windmill. He had spoken to other providers, but was not satisfied. When he talked to Keith, he knew he had found his installer. Keith’s simple, straightforward manner and thorough knowledge sold him on Green and Greene, particularly after the two men had met on Longewell’s property so that Keith could evaluate the viability of the site. Such site evaluation is given to clients for free or at minimal cost (to cover travel expenses) after an initial phone contact seems to indicate that the location is suitable for a wind turbine. While wind maps of Greene County reveal an average wind speed of 12 miles per hour, such maps are only 80 percent accurate. A site must have at least eight-mile-per-hour winds, but more ideally it should average a wind speed of ten miles per hour, and Keith must 72
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determine that this crucial component is in place. The property must span at least one-quarter acre and be unobstructed by tall trees and structures, which create undesirable turbulence. Lastly, local zoning must allow a structure that is at least 42 feet high. Happily, Green in Greene does work with local governments to create new ordinances if none are in place. In fact, in an effort to avoid legal impediments, Jessica and Keith have been methodically contacting town after town in Greene County and the surrounding areas so that future clients will experience no delays in their journey from site evaluation to turbine connection. Apart from potential restrictions due to undesirable location issues and legal stickiness, there are a few other downsides to wind power. At present, there is a six-to-eight-week waiting period for a Skystream 3.7 to arrive from Arizona, although the Abramses hope that this window closes as increased demand ramps up supply. Further, the initial financial outlay of $20,000 for equipment and installation may take up to five years to recover, although state and federal programs do provide grants, incentives, and tax breaks, including a 15-year exemption on property taxes. Keith and Jessica also point out that installing a wind turbine means decreasing dependence on fossil fuels and foreign supplies of energy. Over the course of its 20-year existence, the Skystream 3.7 can offset more than 6,000 pounds of global warming pollutants. In the process, it feeds energy back to the utility grid, boosting the grid’s capability. Once the windmill is paid off, money is saved, freedom is gained, and the environment is nurtured. And if small-scale wind harvesting catches on, the local economy will be stimulated by the creation of green-collar jobs and the increased values of homes that use wind power. Currently, Green in Greene serves all of New York State and certain territories within Massachusetts, but the Abramses are pleased by the prospect of working outside these limits. Blazing bravely forward like the good wind itself, Keith and Jessica Abrams would surely make the Hopis proud as they harness this natural force for the benefit of all. Green in Greene: (518) 731-2098; www.greeningreene.com
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Alternative Energy Altren Geothermal & Solar Systems 1774 State Route 213, Ulster Park, NY (854) 658-7116 www.altren.net
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Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940, ext. 119 www.safe-harbors.org Art Brut: Group Exhibition. Outsider art, which refers to works by those outside of mainstream society. February 21-April 18.
Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org
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Van Brunt Gallery 137 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2995 www.vanbruntgallery.com Specializing in the work of contemporary artists of the Hudson Valley. Featuring painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new shows each month. The innovative gallery Web site has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work.
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Auto Sales Ruge’s Subaru Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057
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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.
Cinemas
Ulster Ballet Company P.O. Box 565, Saugerties, NY www.ulsterballet.org
Banks
Upstate Films 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org
Rhinebeck Savings Bank
Androgyny 5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620 Located in the Historic Huguenot Street.
Bookkeeping Riverview Office Services (914) 912-1202 info@riverviewbookkeeping.com Financial stress can be relieved. With my 20 years plus experience, I may be able to handle your bookkeeping needs in just a few hours each month. Your information can be organized, ready to give to your accounting professional for Tax preparation.
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Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.
Pique Boutique 43-2 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY www.ihavethepower.us (845) 876-7722 Pique; (845) 729-3728 Powerwear Piqueboutique@yahoo.com
Consignment Shops Past ‘n’ Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique
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WDST 100.1 radio Woodstock
The Present Perfect
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23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939 Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.
Star 93.3 www.star933fm.com
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Building Supplies Williams Lumber & Home Centers 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
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.
Carpets & Rugs Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@verizon.net Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Newly
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502 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-6620 corahales@kosaco.ne 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...
1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, and accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
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240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com 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.
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Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red hook, NY (845) 752-2216 thirdeyeassociates.com
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.
Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com
Handwovens Loominus 3257 Route 212, Bearsville, NY (845) 679-6500 www.loominus.com
Health Food Stores Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500, ext. 1 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org
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.
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 warm-ups, 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.
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Dog Love, LLC
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Mother Earth Store House 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY www.motherearthstorehouse.com
Sunflower Natural Food Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 natural@hvc.rr.com
Insurance Allstate 2591 South Avenue Route 9D, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-8803 nancyschneider@allstate.com
Interior Design & Home Furnishings Lounge & Linger High Falls , NY (845) 687-9463
Italian Lessons Gabrielle Euvino—Private or Small Group Lessons (845) 339-0023 www.labellalingua.net gabrielle.euvino@gmail.com Unleash your passion for language and learn Italian with author and professor Gabrielle Euvino (The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Italian, and other titles). Customized to fit your needs in a dynamic and nurturing setting. All ages and levels. Tutoring and translation also available.
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com 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-Herbs-CrystalsIncense-Candles-Divination Tools and so much more.
Hummingbird Jewelers 20 West Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 hummingbirdjewelers.com
Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com Located in historic Rhinebeck, Warren Kitchen & Cutlery is a true kitchenware emporium— where inspired chefs and cooking enthusiasts can find their favorite cutlery, cookware, kitchen tools, and serving pieces for home or restaurant. Knives are our specialty; with over 1000 styles and sizes in stock. Expert sharpening on premises.
Landscape Architects Coral Acres (845) 255-6634
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 A unique mediation practice for couples divorcing or family strife. Josh Koplovitz, 30 years practicing Matrimonial and Family Law, Myra Schwartz, 30 years Guidance Counselor working with families and children. Male/female, counselor-attorney team, effectively addresses all legal and family issues. Schedule a one-hour free consultation or visit the web.
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Inn at Stone Ridge
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3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-0736 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.
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Mediation Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce
Moving & Storage Arnoff Moving & Storage Kingston, NY (917) 232-3623 www.dova-imagery.com Barbara can provide you with what you need. Product images, event coverage, wedding imagery, portraits, and more. Studio set up available. Affordable rates partial barters accepted.
Music Burt’s Electronics
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 House’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.
Networking Hudson Valley Green Drinks (845) 454-6410 hvgreendrinks.org
Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc. www.lgbtqcenter.org
Rhinebeck Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 42, Rhinebeck, NY info@rhinebeckchamber.com
Bard College Public Relations Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
Hudson River Performing Arts 29 Elm Street, Suite 205, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1888 www.hudsonriverperformingarts.com
Lehman-Loeb Art Center/ Powerhouse Theater Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5902 befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu
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Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com 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.
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549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011 Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs.
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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.
Barbara Strnadova 1282 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-1504 or 1 (800) 633-6683 www.arnoff.com
Dan Stein Photography + Imaging 303 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 206-4303 http://danstein.info info@danstein.info NYC industry quality and experience in the heart of the Hudson Valley. Photographic solutions individually tailored to meet your needs. Portraiture. Product Photography. Events. Editorial Assignments. Commercial studio and on-location services available.
David Cunningham Woodstock, NY (914) 489-1991 www.davidmorriscunningham.com info@davidmorriscunningham.com
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Community Playback Theatre Improvisation spun from your experiences & dreams
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student’s unique potential for well-rounded development, and fostering responsive and responsible citizenship.
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Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 431-8000 www.sunydutchess.edu DCC is one of the best community colleges in the state for academic excellence and graduate success. Students transferring to four-year schools do better and graduate at higher rates than students who transfer from other colleges. Classes are offered in Poughkeepsie, at Dutchess South in Wappingers Falls, and other locations.
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3 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3155 www.upstatelight.com Art reproduction, large-format exhibition printing, film and flatbed scanning. We photograph 2D or 3D artwork in our studio or on location. Quality and expertise you would expect in the city, dedicated personal service you’ll find upstate. By Appointment.
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592 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 255-5295 www.adamspiano.com ADAMSPIANO.com. WE HAVE MOVED! By appointment only. 75 Pianos on display! Kawai and other fine brands. Inventory and prices at adamspiano.com.
Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Plumbing & Bath N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com N&S Supply is a third-generation family run business for over 60 years. We take pride in offering the highest quality plumbing and heating products at competitive prices, with service that makes us the best and easiest supply house to deal with. Come see why our service is “Second to None.”
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Frog Hollow Farm Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com
Indian Mountain School 211 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School 16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org
One Light Healing Touch— Energy Healing School (845) 279-3407 www.onelighthealingtouch.com International Energy Healing and Mystery School. Learn 33 Holistic, Shamanic and Esoteric techniques to heal yourself and others. Increase your health, intuition, creativity, joy and spiritual connection. NYSNA & NCBTMB CEUs. Training is 18 days over six months. Instructor Penny Lavin. Fishkill school begins June 12.
Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600, ext. 201 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org Poughkeepsie Day School, the pre-eminent co-educational day school in the mid-Hudson area, serves 325 students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Its intellectually challenging, creative curriculum and outstanding teachers recognize each student’s strengths and talents as they become active, independent learners, ready to take up the challenges of the future as global citizens.
SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3872 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews
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1830 Route 9; Suite 101 Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455
(203) 84-4252 www.learn.edu info@learn.edu
Schools Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries 199 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1600 www.bire.org info@bire.org
Berkshire Country Day School P.O. Box 867, Lenox, MA (413) 637-0755 www.berkshirecountryday.org Berkshire Country Day School is an independent school serving students in preschool through ninth grade. Founded in 1946, BCD is dedicated to encouraging academic excellence at the highest level, advancing each
Shoes Pegasus Comfort Footwear 27 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY, and, 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 256-0788 and (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com Offering innovative comfort footwear by all your favorite brands. Merrell, Dansko, Keen, Clarks, Ecco Uggs, and lots more. Open 7 days a week—or shop online at PegasusShoes.com.
Shopping & Retail Bop to Tottom 799 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100
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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 at www.sunbirdsnacks.com.
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.
Sunrooms Hudson Valley Sunrooms Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com
Supermarkets Adams Fairacre Farms
Roccoroma Food Products 99 Railroad Avenue, Goshen, NY (845) 294-1884 www.roccoroma.com roccoromafoods@frontiernet.net Wholesale Grocers of fine Italian food products, fresh meat and fish to the restaurant, pizzeria, and home. Our wholesale facility is open to the public, no membership is required.
Tourism Adirondack Trailways/Pine Hill Trailways (800) 225-6815 or (845) 339-4230 ext.169 www.trailwaysny.com
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 region’s premiere provider of new media services.
ICU Publish www.icupublish.com info@icupublish.com ICU Publish specializes in intensive care graphic design. On-site personalized consultation and training for both Mac and PC’s, web design, and publishing with customized data base driven websites created with the artist and/or collection in mind.
Weddings ASO Limousine Service, Inc. 1032 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1696 www.asolimo,com
Woodstock Weddings www.woodstockwedding.com nancybaysinger@gmail.com
Ron Figueroa M.A. CHT Licensed Mental Health Counselor All credits toward M.A. in School Psychology
Hypnotist, REIKI practitioner, OLHT Healer School graduate, Addictions, Phobias, Life transition issues Healing with Present Moment Focus
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Wine & Liquor In Good Taste 45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net Full service wine and spirit shop with knowledgeable staff. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 10am-9pm. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10am-10pm. Sunday 12pm-6pm. Wine tastings every Saturday. We deliver and consult when planning a party, wedding or any other special occasion. See our display ad in this issue for specials.
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Workshops Garrison Institute Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org
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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.
Writing Services CENTER TO PAGE: moving writers from the center to the page (845) 679-9441 www.centertopage.com Our small team works with writers nationwide— memoirists, scholars, novelists, and people seeking to develop an authentic writing practice. We mentor, edit, ghostwrite, and more. Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.
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whole living guide
revving up your Love life natural sexual vitality You don’t need to resort to pharmaceuticals to improve sexual well-being and enjoyment.
by aimee hughes
illustration by annie internicola
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ex is one of the great mysteries of life. Straightforward for the animal kingdom, for us humans it can be pretty complex—or perhaps we’ve just created the complexity. A fulfilling sex life and good sexual health are truly important. Sex can be incredibly satisfying with a partner you love and who you are truly connected to—through mind, body, and spirit. It can relieve stress, and add that extra spice to the day-to-day repetition of modern living. Because we are such intricate creatures of the mammalian world, our sex lives are sometimes faced with obstacles. Sexual vitality and function may need some revving up from time to time. But you don’t have to resort to Viagra and hormone replacement. From herbs to oils to overall fitness and relaxation, there’s a lot you can do naturally to enhance your sex life. HERBS FOR PLEASURE Chinese tonics and herbal aphrodisiacs have been found through the ages to safely, healthfully, and profoundly fortify sexual functioning. They often intensify the pleasure of sexuality and help eliminate roots of sexual dysfunction, frustration, and anxiety. Schizandra berry, which can be taken as an herbal tea or in capsule form, builds energy in the sexual organs while increasing sexual sensitivity and intensifying orgasms. It is considered in Chinese medicine to be one of the most potent herbal aphrodisiacs. Ginseng is a restorative tonic that increases overall well-being and endurance. It is most effective when taken over a period of several months. Lycium berry is a tonic that provides energy needed for sex and also has rejuvenating qualities. It can also be taken in capsule form. Dong Quai, also called Chinese Angelica, is considered to be one of the most important herbal tonics for women according to Chinese medicine. This herb helps to bring hormones into balance and regulates the entire reproductive system. Damiana is another natural remedy that has been used for centuries by Mexican women, who traditionally drink a cup of damiana tea before lovemaking. It contains a volatile oil that gently stimulates the genitourinary (reproductive and urinary) tract when it is excreted, which acts to enhance sexual arousal. Damiana also has muscle-relaxing properties and is a mild euphoric. While generally safe, natural remedies do interact with your physiology. Before taking an herbal preparation, learn about possible side effects or warnings. If you are taking any prescription or over-the-counter medications, or are pregnant or nursing, be sure to consult a health practitioner before taking herbal/ natural remedies. APHRODISIAC FOODS Throughout the centuries people have sought out foods with aphrodisiacal powers and have proclaimed their sexual enhancing qualities. Foods can be sensually 78
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delightful simply because of their textures, aromas, and flavors, but certain foods have chemical components that enhance sexual function.You’ve heard of some of them—oysters, chocolate, peppers—and perhaps you’ll discover your own. Oysters are considered sexy for textural reasons, but there’s more to it than that. A team of American and Italian researchers analyzed bivalve mollusks—a group of shellfish that includes oysters, mussels and clams—and found they were rich in rare amino acids that trigger increased levels of sex hormones. Chilies heat up your sex life due to capsaicin, the special compound that gives a kick to peppers, curries, and other spicy foods. Capsaicin stimulates nerve endings to release natural neurochemicals, raising the heart rate and possibly triggering the release of endorphins—those brain chemicals that give you the pleasurable feeling of a natural high. Chocolate has been thought of as an aphrodisiac for millennia, perhaps as early as 600 BCE. In modern times, researchers hunting for clues to explain chocolate’s allure have some leads. For instance, chocolate (with its fat and sugar content) triggers the release of brain chemicals such as opioids, dopamine, and serotonin, which are associated with feelings of happiness or elation—positive states for enjoying sexuality. Some of chocolate’s compounds can gently stimulate the central nervous system, which gives an energy boost that increases physical stamina. Strawberries gained their reputation as an aphrodisiac due to their large number of tiny seeds symbolizing fertility. In art and literature, strawberryies were usually portrayed as symbols of sensuality and earthly desire and have been described as fruit nipples. Strawberries are nutritious, too, containing more vitamin C than any other berry, a good amount of potassium, folic acid, iron, and fiber. Honey has been known as an aphrodisiac as far back as the 500 BCE. Even Hippocrates prescribed honey for sexual vigor. Everything about honey is romantic, from the way it’s made to its golden appearance and delightful texture. Honey’s rich B vitamin and amino acid content are excellent for sexual health. EXERCISE Exercise is one of the most important ways to maintain good sexual health. Exercise strengthens the body, builds endurance, increases flexibility, and relieves stress. The more physically fit you are, the more sexual energy you will have. Exercise also enhances our moods and gives both men and women more confidence about their bodies. Find a form of moderate exercise that you enjoy. Exercise can also be directed specifically at abdominal or pelvic areas. A three-part exercise based on Taoist practices can strengthen sexual organs while increasing sexual vitality. The exercise begins by sitting in a comfortable posi-
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tion. Close your eyes and start tuning into the breath as it flows into and out of your body. As you inhale, expand the abdomen, and as you exhale, draw the abdomen in toward your spine. Continue to breathe in this fashion for several minutes. Once you feel relaxed, change the flow of your breathing so that as you inhale you draw the abdomen in towards the spine, and as you exhale, expand the abdomen.This reverse breathing generates energy in the pelvic area. As you continue breathing this way tighten the muscles in the pelvic floor (around the vagina, base of the penis, and anus), then relax them as you exhale. Practice this technique for 10 minutes daily to build sexual energy and to strengthen vaginal muscles and to enhance erections and allow greater control over ejaculation. VAGINAL DRYNESS Vaginal dryness is a common problem for women of all ages but is more common during menopause and with increasing age due to lower estrogen levels. Estrogen keeps vaginal tissue healthy by maintaining normal vaginal lubrication, tissue elasticity, and acidity. Estrogen levels can fall for a number of other reasons, including recent childbirth, breast-feeding, surgical removal of the ovaries, immune disorders, cigarette smoking, medications such as allergy and cold medications, and certain antidepressants. Symptoms of vaginal dryness include itching and stinging around the vaginal opening, pain and/or light bleeding during intercourse, a general burning sensation, and frequent urination. A variety of healthy lubricants alleviate dryness during sexual activity. Many are quite effective and more fun than the old KY jelly. Local herbalists often make their own sensual versions. Or check the natural product shelves of naturopathic or natural food stores. Be sure to read the instructions to see if a lubricant is compatible with condoms, as oil-based ones typically render the latex barrier permeable. For longer-term aid with dryness, certain herbs can be helpful. Ginko biloba, taken in tea or capsule form, has been shown to increase blood flow to the genitals and help a variety of sexual ailments including vaginal dryness. Be patient, though. As with many herbs, continued usage is necessary before symptoms improve. IMPOTENCE Impotence is defined as the inability of an adult male to achieve (or keep) an erection sufficient for intercourse. Most men will experience this problem at some point in their lives. While it may be a real blow to the male ego, impotence is nothing to be ashamed of. It is just one of the many ways our bodies give us the signal that something is not quite right. There may be an underlying health issue such as hormonal imbalance, diabetes, spinal cord damage, hardening of the arteries, cancer, or overall poor health. Many drugs such as marijuana, cigarettes, alcohol, antidepressants, and blood pressure medication also interfere with normal erectile function. In addition, periodic impotence may be psychological, with anxiety, stress, depression, and conflict in a relationship being possible contributing factors. Viagra has taken over in the impotence department, but not without physical side effects. And when Viagra enters the bedroom, the natural flow of sexual intimacy often exits. A pill is popped and voila, he’s raring to go, while his partner needs more time for arousal. Before turning to the little blue pill, consider the following herbs that have been used for centuries by ancient cultures spanning the globe. For years, Peruvian doctors have been using maca root, a plant in the radish family. Maca comes to us from the Incas and has been shown to enhance sexual pleasure of both genders while having no side affects given its long history of use as a food. Ginseng is another wonderful herb that comes to us from China. Studies have shown that ginseng increases the body’s production of nitric oxide, which enhances the dilation of blood vessels, including those in the penis (which is what causes erection). The bark of a West African tree known as yohimbe contains several chemicals, including yohimbine hydrochloride (available in purified form as a pharmaceutical drug to treat erectile dysfunction), which improves sexual function for some men. Yohimbe, however, has been known to cause nervousness, irritability, and headache, so consult a physician before committing to using it. SENSATION Reduced sensation in sexual organs of both genders is not uncommon. Our bodies, especially those of women, are constantly changing, so it would make
sense that the way we feel during lovemaking also changes. When sensation during intercourse is on the low side, examine your mind and body for a possible explanation. There may be psychological or emotional reasons that distract you from being in the moment of sexual play. Or, physical factors, such as waning tone in pelvic muscles, could be contributing. Kegel exercises can greatly enhance sexual sensation and can be incorporated into a daily exercise regime (and are good for men, too). Begin by locating your pubococcygeus (PC) muscles:They are the muscles of the pelvic floor that you tighten to intentionally stop urine flow. Contract your PC muscles, squeezing them lightly for five seconds, then relax them for five seconds. Repeat the exercise ten times; do at least three sets of ten throughout the day. Kegels done with vaginal cones or weights, which can be purchased online, can further strengthen muscles.Yogis believe that sexuality is stored in the hips and pelvis, and specific yogic asanas (positions) are thought to increase sensation in the sex organs. Seated butterfly (bound angle pose) is one of these asanas and can easily be practiced daily in a calm, quiet space, or even in front of the television. LOW LIBIDO A low libido, or reduced desire for sexual activity, is another common complaint of both men and women. Causes among women are stress, weight gain, headaches, back pain, relationship conflict, inability to reach orgasm, emotional issues, childbirth, onset of menopause, breastfeeding, certain drugs, depression, and hormonal imbalances. For men, low libido is usually associated with impotence, depression, and thyroid problems, but other psychological, emotional, or health issues may also play a role. The stresses of modern lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;busy schedules, a lack of attention to the many delights our senses encounter, and our constant connection to technologyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all take away from our sensual sides. A low libido can be enhanced by a variety of herbs including maca, ginseng, and gingko biloba. The supplement L-arginine may help increase sexual desire as well. Essential fatty acids provide hormonal support, while vitamins C and E and zinc are great for circulation. Vitamin E also helps in the production of sex hormones. The various forms of vitamin B are among the most efficient and important vitamins to increase libido. Specifically, vitamin B3, or niacin, helps the body make a variety of sex-related hormones in both the adrenal glands and elsewhere. In addition, niacin dilates blood vessels, which improves blood flow. This, in turn, increases sexual pleasure and arousal. In fact, research has found that women with insufficient amounts of niacin in the uterus are actually incapable of achieving orgasm. According to Dr. Maoshing Ni, a doctor of Chinese medicine and author of Secrets of Self-Healing, a sulfur bath or soak in a hot spring is helpful for kidneyadrenal energy and also promotes circulation in the sex organs, which is beneficial for sensation. He also recommends eating a clove of vinegar-pickled garlic daily for one month. These can be purchased, or made at home by filling a glass jar with peeled cloves of garlic and white vinegar. Add one teaspoon salt and seal the jar, storing in a dark space for one month. Another home remedy is to boil a chopped onion, a chopped leek, 3 chopped stalks of chives, 10 slices fresh ginger root, and 1 teaspoon each of turmeric and cayenne in 4 cups of canned chicken stock for 30 minutes, eating one bowl a day. RECLAIMING SENSUALITY To improve sexual problems or get more out of an already enjoyable sex life, set aside some time to evaluate the pace of your life, and make timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little at firstâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to slow down. Enjoy a few small touches that relax and sensualize the mind and body. Soothing baths, aromatherapy, daily exercise, massages, yoga practice, candles, sensual and nourishing meals, inspiration from books, music, and natureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these are all essential to a connected and peaceful existence. See to it that your home is a sanctuary, regardless of its size. Reestablish the bedroom as a sensual space by eliminating anything technological. Use your bed for sleep and intimacy onlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or, if you have space, create a special room devoted to sensuality and sexuality. For a wealth of additional ideas to inspire intimacy and sexual enjoyment, try one of the many books on the topic, such as Margo Anandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Art of Sexual Magic and The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, and two books by local authors Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson: The Essence of Tantric Sexuality, and Tantra for Erotic Empowerment:The Key to EnrichingYour Sexual Life.
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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
No, Get Mom 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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his weekend I am teaching a poetry workshop through the group Writers in the Mountains called “Top Ten Memories.” I got the idea from Allen Ginsberg, who was my teacher and advisor in the MFA program I attended, and this was one of the first things he asked us to do in his workshop. In my early 20s, when I completed the assignment, my number one memory was about the time I was in the bathtub, maybe three years old, and my dad poked his bald head in through a crack in the door and I said: No, get mom. When I wrote the poem about that moment, it felt meaningful, as if I had uncovered a truth about myself, my life, my relationship to my father. And regardless of the “truth” of that moment, I suppose I had, in the sense that I had revealed my story, if nothing else. I was in the process of coming to terms with the fact that I never really liked my dad. (Apparently this process is a long one, as I am still engaged in it, several years after his death.) But instead of just accepting my feelings, as sad as they may be, I have been searching for reasons: the stack of Playboys in my parents’ room and the greasy bathroom of the auto-parts store that he owned, then lost in bankruptcy—another reason. And there was his awkwardness, his effort, his lack of effort.Yuk. I just didn’t like him. The bathtub incident sealed my case against him. Clearly, that little girl sensed something. Something really bad. No, get mom. I “remember” it well. In the memory, I can see the ’70s-style bathroom: There were two sinks! And foil wallpaper. My mom’s thin red robe hanging on the back of the door—to imagine her in it reminds me of her yellowish frosted hair and her pack of Tareytons lying on the counter. I can feel the warm water and the barely blue air filling my little bath chamber. I can’t remember any bath toys floating around, which isn’t to say there weren’t any. I can fill the scene with the soft, watery sound of a mild little girl (Azzie’s age, but so different!) kind of just sitting there in the tub, waiting for someone to come and do whatever it is adults do to kids: wash, play, love, ignore. And then the door opens and in pops my dad’s bald head, probably trying to look happy, but exposing some fundamental anxiety on his face, which in truth may or may not have had a darn thing to do with me. But I of course didn’t know that then. No, get mom. Over the years I have carried this moment around in my pocket as some coin of truth, even wisdom, that helped me justify my sourness and my anger, not just toward my dad, but in general. So when Azalea started saying to T, “No, get mom,” I was psychically
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startled. Wait a minute. How is this possible? Azalea adores T, and the feeling is mutual. “Come wrestle me,” she’ll say, and then the scrappy couch bouncing begins. They hang out for hours throwing rocks into the river (remember summer?), they love to make a big mess painting, making cards, baking cookies. T will sit and scratch her back at night for much longer than I will because I’m always buzzing around doing dishes, trying to catch up on work, freaking out (our Buddhist names mean Enduring River and Enduring Mountain: Can you guess which one I am?). He can get her to eat several spoonfuls more of whatever’s for dinner. T even has better hair! I know I have my strengths, but I don’t think I am being unduly self-deprecating to say that if parenting were the kind of vocation one applied for, he would totally get the job over me. And yet, she says, “No, get mom” to him all the time. So this is what I wonder: Is it possible that I just wanted my mom to come to the tub because, like Azzie, I was in the Mommy-Mommy-Mommy stage, and not because I was intuiting some dark thing? Clearly, there were “issues,” as I never stopped preferring my mom. And, yes, my dad was clueless about a lot of things and made some serious errors in judgment. There are definitely aspects of my childhood I wish had been different, and the hurt that I feel is real. But is it necessary or helpful for me to construct a narrative that “makes sense” around the whole thing? Can I live with the mystery of Wow, who knows? Can I just accept that life is hard for human beings, including for my dad who was flatly rejected by his only daughter and never really let off the hook for some vague and mysterious transgression? And won’t it totally suck if (okay, probably when) Azalea comes to me at 16 and tells me what a horrible mother I’ve been? How much she resents all this bullshit pontificating I actually put in writing, and demands me to answer this: What kind of person knows she is so temperamentally ill-suited to be a mother, and actually tries to have a baby anyway? I mean, Jesus, Mom! But won’t it be something else if I can look her in the eye and stay there, in that crazy space between us? I will know how hard I have worked, and how for whatever reason I still failed her. Will I be able to say I’m sorry with an open heart, and vow to keep at it? Will I mean it? Wouldn’t it be nice if my father and I could have this conversation, from this side of my life as a parent, now that I know deep down, how imperfect I am, as well? And then I could tell him that I forgive him for being lame. And myself, too.
whole living guide Active Release Techniques Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.drness.com Active Release Techniques (ARTÂŽ) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica.
Acupuncture Classical Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs 303 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 853-7353 Dylana Accolla offers 17 years of experience in acupuncture, herbal medicine, bodywork, qigong, and emotional release work. Trained in San Francisco, China, and Japan, she is coauthor of Back to Balance: a Self-Help Guide to Far East Asian Remedies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dylanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results are dramatic. Her practice brings about lifechanging epiphanies.â&#x20AC;?-A Satisfied Patient.
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High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts-Acupuncture, Oriental Medicine-Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac. 87 East Market Street, Suite 102 Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com Offering all five of the professionally practiced modalities within Oriental Medicine-Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Medical Massage, Dietary Therapy and Exercise Therapy-in order to help patients regain healthy balance. Treatment of neuro-musculo-skeletal pain, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health, mood problems, digestive problems, asthma, sinusitis, fatigue, and much more. Since 1992.
Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060
Mid-Hudson Acupuncture-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 life-
Alexander Technique Judith Muirâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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.
Apothecaries
Dr. Tomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tonics 6384 Mill Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5556 www.drfrancescott.com info@drfrancescott.com The Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alternative to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drug store with a Naturopathic doctor on-site. A natural pharmacy, providing the community with innovative natural medicines with Dr. Tomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own professional formulations. Specializing in best quality fish oils, probiotics, proteins, detox products, pet remedies. Come let Dr. Tom help you and your pet.
Monarda Herbal Apothecary 48 Cutler Hill Road, Eddyville, NY (845) 339-2562 www.monarda.net
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style. 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.
Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net See also Massage Therapy.
Art Therapy Deep Clay (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. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clay group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, and teens. Poughkeepsie and Gardiner locations.
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Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC-Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services
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Monarda Herbal Apothecary Annual Herbal Classes Beginning Every Spring.
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Counseling & Psychotherapy Ariella Morris, LCSW-R | 853-3325 EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Body-Centered Talk Therapy
Integrated Bodywork/Massage Annie Serrante, LMSW, lmt | 255-3337 ext. 1 Series Specials & Massage of the Month Club
Gentle Yoga Classes Jennifer Hunderfund, RYT, LMT Mon. 5:30-7pm & Fri. 12pm-1pm NVC, Spontaneous Theatre, Inner Voice Drawing, &Vocal Visionary Workshops
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(845) 750-6488 oldredland@gmail.com CHI GUNG, Physical, meditative energy practices for dexterity and fending off degenerative diseases. TAI CHI CHUAN: founded on a combination of Shaolin martial body mechanics and Taoist spiritual alchemy. These practices have brought health, vitality, and youthfulness to my students, some in their 70s and 80s. Requirements: determined practice and the will to persevere.
Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.drness.com Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ARTÂŽ) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner who helps athletes and active people relieve their pain and heal their injuries. Dr. Ness utilizes ARTÂŽ to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength.
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 Workerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Compensation, No Fault, and Medicare. Convenient early morning and late evening appointments available.
(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
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$20. /30 min. Walk-in Bodywork Tues. 1pm-5pm
IONE-Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.org IONE is psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of MaĂĽt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. Appointments sign up at: https://instantscheduling.com/sch.php?kn=128796.
Lifeworks Gardiner, NY (845) 417-5060 lifeworksprogram@earthlink.net
Creative Arts Therapy
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Bless Your Hearth-Truly Natural Cleaning Services
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Cleaning Services-Non-toxic
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Amy ColĂłn, Herbalist
(845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including BodyCentered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz.
Counseling
Connie Schneider-Certified Colon Therapist New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1516 www.hudsonvalleycolonics.com 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.
Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery Facial Plastic Reconstructive & Laser Surgery LLC (845) 454-8025 www.NYfaceMD.com
Multi-Dimensional PsychotherapyBlair Glaser, MA, LCAT, RDT Woodstock, NY www.blairglaser.com (845) 679-4140 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.
Dentistry / Orthodontics Holistic Orthodontics-Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, LicAcup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 Experience Orthodontics in a magical setting using expansion and gentle forces, not extraction and heavy pressure. Member of The Cranial Academy, Dr. Rhoney Stanley considers the bones, teeth, face and smile components of the whole. Offers fixed braces, functional appliances, Invisalign. Insurance accepted. Payment plans available.
Marlin Schwartz (845) 255-2902 www.schwartzqualitydental.com
Gardening & Garden Supplies Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens 389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 NDBGonline.com sales@ndbgonline.com A retail nursery nestled in the back woods of Rhinebeck, where local growers produce an extraordinary variety of annuals, perennials, wildflowers, herbs, vegetables and organic edibles. Servicing the horticultural needs of gardeners throughout the Hudson Valley for nearly thirty years. Open from the end of April through September.
Healing Centers Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center 6384 Mill Street, Rhinebeck , NY (845) 876-5556 We are focused on providing the most comprehensive natural health care in the Hudson Valley. Our professional staff includes: Dr. Thomas J. Francescott, ND (Naturopathic Medicine); Chris VanOrt (ONDAMEDÂŽ); Sequoia Neiro, LMT (Therapeutic Massage); Myrna Sadowsky, LCSW (Psychotherapy); Jana Vengrin, RN, NP (Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner).
The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing (845) 255-3337
Holistic Health John M. Carroll, Healer Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the God-given gift of his hands. John has helped individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders. Visit John’s website or call for more information.
Madhuri Therapeutics-Bringing Health to Balance Alice Velky LMT, RYT (845) 797-4124 madhurihealing@optonline.net A Yoga-based mind-body approach for ASD’s, attention & learning differences; anxiety, depression, chronic pain & immune syndromes. Experience a naturally balanced state of health and harmony with Therapeutic Yoga, Massage Therapy, Reiki and Yoga for the Special Child®.
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies 1 (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org Omega Institute’s 2009 season is open for registration. Take a workshop, enjoy some R&R, or learn a new skill with one of our professional trainings. Time at Omega is a stimulus package for the spirit. Register today.
Ron Figueroa, MA, CHT (845) 399-2098 www.centerforwholelifehealing.com
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.
Hospitals Benedictine Hospital 105 Mary’s Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2500 www.benedictine.org
Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.health-quest.org
Vassar Brothers Medical Center 45 Reade Place Joseph Tower Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org
Hypnosis Dr. Kristen Jemiolo Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 http://mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2
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.
New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change your outlook. Gain Control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.
Integrated Kabbalistic Healing Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.
Life Coaching 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.
Victoria Lewis—My Coach for Creativity
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Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT
www.mycoachforcreativity.com Victoria@mycoachforcreativity.com Are you juggling, bungling or struggling with your “Creative Life?” Had enough? Want change? Need a hand? Creativity Coaching may be your answer. Schedule a free phone session to find out. Sign up for free tips and monthly newsletters. Take the first step. Give your creativity the support it deserves.
Massage Therapy Bodymind Massage Therapy 7 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3228 www.bodymindmassagetherapy.com
Conscious Body-Ellen Ronis McCallum, LMT 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. Gift certificates available.
julieezweig@gmail.com
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Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage-Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Katie Hoffstatter, LMT, Gia Polk, LMT 243 Main Street, Suite 220, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832
Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant,
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John M. Carroll H EALER, T EACHER, S PIRITUAL COUNSELOR
“ John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last eight years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen.” —Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now “ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.” —Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations
classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. For information, contact Joan Apter.
Madhuri Therapeutics-Bringing Health to Balance Alice Velky LMT, RYT (845) 797-4124 madhurihealing@optonline.net Our tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offers individualized sessions to nourish and repair body, mind & spirit. Licensed Massage Therapy, master-level Reiki, Therapeutic Yoga, Ayurveda, Flower Essences, natural & organic oils, herbs and body products; 16 years experience.
Visit John’s website for more information
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Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
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Meditation
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47 Sweeny Road, Glen Spey, NY (845) 856-9000 www.kadampaNewYork.org
Zen Mountain Monastery 871 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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Midwifery Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 www.midwifejennahouston.com womanway@aol.com Since the 1970 Jennifer has been actively involved in childbirth and is an expert in preserving natural birth, has attended over 3,000 births in hospitals, high-risk medical centers, birth centers, and homes. She provides informed women with personal, safe, and supportive midwifery care in their homes. NYS licensed.
Naturopathic Medicine Thomas J. Francescott, ND (845) 876-5556 www.drfrancescott.com I seek to inspire and transform people with authentic and personalized natural health care. Identifying the underlying cause, and offering holistic and natural solutions to challenging health issues and alternatives to conventional drugs. I specialize in: sciencebased detoxification; testing and balancing neurotransmitters and hormones; supporting the adrenals and thyroid.
Nutrition Counseling Ilyse Simon RD, CDN Nutrition Therapist 318 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6381 www.ilysesimonrd.com Do you feel fat? Ilyse works with ‘stress eaters’ and those with chronic eating disorders. A Bastyr University of Natural Medicine graduate, her counseling has a holistic approach. Eating disorders are not about food. Eat what you want and feel good about it. “Life is not black and white. Living is the full spectrum in between.”
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
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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 Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.
Pain Management ONDAMED®, FDA-Approved Device (845) 876-5556 FEBRUARY SPECIAL: 50% off initial treatment. Therapists throughout Europe have been using ONDAMED® for over 10 years with great success. Patients using ONDAMED® frequencies report benefits physically, emotionally, mentally. ONDAMED® is a cutting-edge and FDA-approved device for pain management by reducing inflammation, promoting relaxation, smoking cessation, improving circulation.
Physical Therapy Roy Capellaro, PT 120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 518-1070 www.roycapellaro.com
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, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus, and mat classes available. Visit our studio on Main Street Rosendale.
The Centering Studio 3752 Route 9G @ IXL Fitness (membership not required), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5114 www.thecenteringstudio.com Pilates Method in Rhinebeck since 1996. Private and small group classes, non- competitive and non-impact. Working on the apparatus and mats with our caring, creative and certified instructors you will build deep muscle control and proper body mechanics to support you through your day with ease and energy, grace and power.
Psychics Psychically Speaking (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.
Anton H. Hart, PhD
Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023 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.
Psychotherapy Amy R. Frisch, CSWR
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.
Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees.
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT,TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613
Julie Zweig, MA, NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 julieezweig@gmail.com Verbal Body-Centered Psychotherapy, for individuals, couples and families. Julie has 20 years of experience as a therapist, with many areas of expertise. 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.
Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSWCounseling & Psychotherapy (845) 679-5511, ext. 304 kentagram@gmail.com 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.
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.
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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 and cognitive problems which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.
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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 Something New! The Mother/ Daughter Connection: a parenting support group for women with teen daughters. Most insurances accepted.
Dooley Square, 35 Main Street, #333 Poughkeepsie, NY (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, spirituality issues, work and relationship problems.
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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 short-term work with problems of anxiety, depression, relationships, career, illness, gay, straight, lesbian and transgender issues. Consultation by appointment.
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Reiki Lorry Salluzzi Sensei (845) 688-5672 www.psychic-healer.tv lorrysallu@yahoo.com “Psychic Readings & Reiki Plus Healing” for Upstate is only $1 & includes: Energy Healing, Electronic Acupuncture, Tuning Fork Therapy and mini-psychic reading. $1 per minute, you decide the cost of your session. Reiki I Certification $50, Reiki II $100, ART $100, Master $500.
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.com julieezweig@gmail.com The Rosen practitioner focuses on chronic
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muscle tension and constricted breathing. With gentle, direct touch; unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge, allowing the client to recognize the purpose of unconscious tension. Old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, well-being, and new choices in life.
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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 Flowing Spirit Healing 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 flowingspirit.com Jwalzer@flowingspirit.com
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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.”
Workshops Non Dual Vedanta Workshops Nondualvedanta@aol.com Jnana Yoga, the Path of Knowledge, is the subject of this ongoing workshop/study group in the tradition of Sankaracharya. The facilitator, Michael Chandra Cohen, is a former swami and adjunct professor of religion at Hunter College. Open to all level aspirants. Particulars: TBA.
Yoga Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.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. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.
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 Certification in Structural Integration and Visceral Osteopathic Manipulation. We specialize in chronic pain conditions, structural/postural alignment and function. We are committed to providing soft tissue manipulation that is communicative and receptive to the individual. Free Consultations.
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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 in-
Satya Yoga Center Rhinebeck and Catskill, NY (845) 876-2528 www.satyayogacenter.us 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!
The Living Seed 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.
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Jeff Tweedy will perform at Clearwater’s Spring Splash on March 28 in Beacon.
In the Footsteps of Woody and Pete Jeff Tweedy isn’t doing interviews. This isn’t a surprise. He has headaches. He has issues. He even hit a fan onstage once, in Springfield, Missouri. The fan deserved it. He had jumped on the boards to do the “look-at-me” dance, then snuck up behind Tweedy, who freaked out and put the kid in his place. He lives in Chicago, what do you expect? Chances are slim that Tweedy will haul off and belt anyone when he headlines Clearwater’s Spring Splash at Beacon High School on March 28, but whatever happens, it will be interesting. Tweedy, after all, has made a career out of confounding expectations—whether as half of the creative engine of the contentious but brilliant Uncle Tupelo or as the emotionally fragile, artistically fearless leader of alt-rock super group Wilco. And heaven knows being a member of that band is even more dangerous than being a fan. But Tweedy onstage alone with a 1957 Gibson J-45 is another thing entirely. In fact, Tweedy is a lot like a ’57 Gibson. He’s weatherbeaten, used to the point of abuse, battlescarred, and beautiful. He’s a little rusty, a lot funky, and fickle as Chicago weather. And, oh yeah, there’s a big hole where the sound comes out. Solo, that sound can veer from confusion to rage to joy, with as strong an emphasis on the latter as the clinically depressed rehab vet can muster. A 2006 Albany appearance nearly mirrors much of the chatter on Tweedy’s live solo DVD, Sunken Treasure. The film finds Tweedy alternately arguing with and cajoling audiences at a series of shows in the Pacific Northwest during a different leg of the same tour. In one particularly telling scene, Tweedy, scruffy as a castaway, pleads with a crowd of Chatty Cathies to shut up. His language is a little more colorful, as you might imagine
(especially considering his ruthless self-assessment of his primary skills: “All I do is fart and swear”). But once he starts to win the crowd over Tweedy actually cons them into playing possum and gets a few hundred people to stand still and be silent for a raw, pure moment. “Cool,” he says, almost under his breath, breaking his own reverie. “It could go on even longer.” Maybe he’ll find that same magic space in a high school auditorium. Maybe he won’t. Either way, it’s appropriate that Tweedy is finally making his way to Beacon, particularly on a quick tour that lands him only in Burlington and Northampton before he flies to Spain. Beacon, after all, is Pete Seeger’s town, and Tweedy’s already done Woody Guthrie. Few rockers as successful as Tweedy look so helpless, hapless, and homeless. Billy Bragg may espouse the spirit of Guthrie, but Tweedy inhabits it. Seeger—as Tweedy is well aware—will also be a part of Spring Splash, singing with students from J. V. Forrestal Elementary School. He’ll probably sing with Tweedy, too, and it’s hard—Chicago, migraines, and flatulence aside—to say no that wonderful opportunity. “If you want to have a singalong, that’s my favorite thing in the world,” Tweedy says in Sunken Treasure, deep in his parry-and-thrust with the crowd. That’s Pete 101 and Tweedy knows it. So, sing along with all your might, but just don’t get too close and make a fast move, or he’ll have to take you down. Jeff Tweedy will perform at Clearwater’s Annual Spring Splash at Beacon High School on March 28 at 8pm. (503) 265-2270; www.clearwater.org. —Michael Ruby
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Weaving the Rhythm of Life 2pm-3pm. Performance of Big Brothers and Big Sisters with their mentees. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3136.
Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s 27th Annual Gala Performance 3pm. $10/$7 for seniors, Vassar students, and the Vassar community. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 454-3388.
CLASSES
Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032. Forever Tango 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
EVENTS 15th Annual Winterfest Call for time. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. VAC Fundraiser Event Call for time. Varga Gallery, Woodstock. 679-4005. 28th Annual Antique Toy & Train Show 10am-3pm. $3. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181 ext. 5513.
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Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Belgian Beer Night 5:30pm. Swoon Kitchenbar, Hudson. (518) 822-8938.
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Cries and Whispers 5:30pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
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Clash Tango 2pm. St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.
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Chrissy 2:30pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. A Sound Like This 3pm. Cantus Vocal Ensemble. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.
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Melvin Chen: Piano 3pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Buckwheat Zydeco 4pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. First Sunday Jazz Series: Ross Rice 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Jefferson Starship 7:30pm. Benefits The Woodstock Guild. $50. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Ski or Hike: Castle Point. 10am-3pm. 8-mile hike. Meet at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve Upper Lot, New Paltz. 255-7059. Black Creek Forest Hike 1pm. 2-3 mile hike. Black Creek, Esopus. 373-8202.
SPOKEN WORD The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights 1:30pm-3:30pm. Women Who Dared book discussion group. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles 4pm. $12.50/$10 members. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100. Dominican Sisters of Hope: Sustainable and Mindful Eating 6:30pm. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179.
THEATER As Bees in Honey Drown 2pm. $16/$14 seniors, faculty and students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
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Hollywood Florida Botanical Art Workshop Call for time. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
KIDS Kids Yoga Classes Call for time. For ages 5-8. $15/$80 series. Woodstock. 679-8700.
MUSIC Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.
SPOKEN WORD Reading by Elizabeth Hand 2:30pm. Author of Generation Loss. Weis Cinema, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7087. What is the Enlightenment? Revolution and the Limits of Reason 4:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. A Bridge between Earth and Heaven: Jewish Women’s Prayers from the Earliest Times to the Present Days 5:30pm. Israeli author Aliza Lavie. Vassar College Center’s Multi-Purpose Room, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
Documentary Films from ART/New York Call for time. Bau, Beacon. 440-7584.
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Steel Magnolias 2:30pm. Canterbury Theatre Ensemble. $12/$10 seniors and children. The Storm King School, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-7892. Closer 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Importance of Being Earnest 7pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
WORKSHOPS Interpreting the Landscape 9am-Sunday, March 1, 4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Basic Drawing with Maj Kalfus 2pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Native American Hudson: Shamanic Teachings 2pm-4pm. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
TUESDAY 3 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT The Future of Medicine-Using Energy & Vibrational Frequencies for Healing Call for time. Dr Tom’s Tonics, Rhinebeck. 876-5556. Spirit Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 339-4673. Channeling the Master Teachers 6:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Handbuilding 10am-1pm. Clay class. Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133. Advanced Wheel 6pm-9pm. Clay class. Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133. Belly Dance Class 7:30pm-9pm. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
EVENTS Admissions Information Session 7pm. For grades 7-12. Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600.
KIDS Crafts for Tots 10:30am-11:30am. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205. http: hudson teen theatre project 4:30pm-7pm. Theatre improvisation workshops. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC Split the Bill 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Rob Scheps Trio 7:30pm-10pm. Terrace Lounge, Newburgh. coretet@hotmail.com.
SPOKEN WORD Forgiving Thi Mau, a Girl Who “Dared to Defy” 5pm. Lauren Meeker. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.
WORKSHOPS Unleash Your Comedy Power Stuff 10am-12pm. Workshop for de-stressing. Olympic Diner, Kingston. 246-5348. The Art of Origami 2:45pm-4:30pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
WEDNESDAY 4 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6pm-7:30pm. St. James Church Library, Chatham. 339-4673. Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CONFERENCE WHY HE STILL MATTERS PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION
On Friday, March 13, to celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, Bard College is sponsoring a conference titled “Why He Still Matters,” involving some of the foremost contemporary Lincoln scholars examining what is it about the 16th president that makes him such an enduring figure in American political life. Bard Center Fellow Philip Kunhardt III, lead author of Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon, is directing the conference, which will explore the ways in which Lincoln’s actions, words, and decisions, both real and imagined, have profoundly shaped America’s social and political fabric. “Lincoln has been brought back forcefully into a national conversation by Barack Obama,” says Kunhardt. World-renowned experts on Lincoln, including Douglas Wilson and James Oakes, will lead portions of the day’s events. Harold Holzer, one of the nation’s leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, will deliver the keynote address on “Lincoln in American Memory.” Philip Kuhnhardt III spoke about the big issues surrounding the Lincoln legacy prior to the conference. “Why He Still Matters” is free and open to the public, and will be held at Olin Hall from 10am to 5pm. (845) 758-7008; www.bard.edu. —Jan Larraine Cox
President Lyndon B. Johnson contemplating the Borglum bust of Lincoln in Washington.
Enduring Abe In the PBS documentary Looking for Lincoln, aired for Lincoln’s bicentennial birthday celebration last month, Henry Louis Gates Jr. quoted Lincoln as saying “If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong,” and stated that Lincoln hated slavery on moral grounds but not as an abolitionist, which would have been political suicide in 1860. Would you comment on the film’s depiction of Lincoln’s dedication to preserving the Union, which only later grew into a commitment to emancipation and racial equality? I was historical consultant and advisor to the PBS special, attempting to help make it as accurate as possible. Lincoln grew tremendously in office. Though always opposed to slavery on moral and economic grounds, early on he was not committed to racial equality. The amazing thing was his capacity for growth. He was deeply moved by the dedication of African American soldiers in the Civil War and believed they had earned their right to become full citizens. Gates also said that every president “must get right with Lincoln,” that his legacy is the presidential benchmark. How do you see the appeal that Lincoln has for President Obama? Both hail from Illinois; Lincoln is a great model to aspire to. One learns in office and survives terrific tests. Initial popularity fades. There’s tremendous criticism. You must stay true to your vision and bring the people along with you. I think President Obama could possibly attain
success similar to Lincoln’s; it’s going to be such a difficult task getting there. I wish him well. Your companion book to the PBS special Looking for Lincoln has the same title.Which came first? The book. I worked on it full-time for three years, which is unusual for most authors. The real Lincoln is endlessly fascinating, close to genius. He had less than one year of formal education, yet he spoke with great eloquence, had political vision, and accomplished tasks very few others could. His letters and utterances bear repeated reading. You could spend your entire life and not uncover all the dimensions of his life. While reading your book, I was struck by the disconnect between the country’s struggle to achieve racial equality after Lincoln’s death versus the huge centennial celebration of his birth in 1909. Forty-four years after he died, the country had forgotten what he stood for: There were lynchings in the 1890s, segregation was instituted into law in 1896, race riots occurred in Springfield, Illinois in 1908, and yet America held a festive observance of Lincoln’s birth! It was ironic. An apex of reverence for Lincoln in this country coincided with the nadir of race relations. There were race riots in Springfield in which people were heard to yell out, “Lincoln freed you; we’ll show you where you belong.” The NAACP grew directly out of the 1908 riots. But the problems continued. Organizers
of commemorative events such as the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial tried to suppress the theme of emancipation in the ceremonies. Lincoln was promoted chiefly as the savior of the Union, while the subject of race relations was ignored. Because of this failure to commemorate emancipation, black newspapers across the country called for African Americans to boycott the Lincoln Memorial; there was a march to protest the dedication. And yet this site would grow to become a central symbol in the Civil Rights movement. Lincoln’s personal secretary John Hay is quoted in your book: “Real history is not to be found in books but in the personal anecdotes and private letters of those who make history.” Filled with every known photo of Lincoln, Looking for Lincoln is a treasure trove of anecdotes, letters, and fine details, a disarmingly personal look into his life; it feels like reading a family album. My great-grandfather, Frederick Hill Meserve, whose father had fought in the Union Army, haunted secondhand bookstores and auctions, buying old prints to illustrate his father’s wartime recollections. In 1902, while visiting a New Jersey warehouse, he discovered and purchased 11,000 glass negatives from Matthew Brady’s studio, saving seven photographs of President Lincoln from possibly being lost to history. Now part of the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection, prints from these negatives are included in Looking for Lincoln.
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CLASSES
MUSIC
African Drum 7pm-8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Solas Call for time. Celtic music. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
DANCE
Just 3 6pm. Rock. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.
PoTown Swing 8:30pm. Lesson at 8pm. Ely Hall, Poughkeepsie.
KIDS Story Time, Music & Movement 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Andy McKee Call for time. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Open Blues Jam 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Chimps In Tuxedos 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
Open Mike 10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
Deuces Wild 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717.
SPOKEN WORD
The Providers 8pm. Blues. Tin Pan Alley, Red Hook. 758-4545.
Informational Meetings 7pm-9pm. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.
Madeleine Peyroux 8pm. American Roots & Branches music series. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
WORKSHOPS
Rex Fowler, Bar Scott, and Beaucoup Blue 8pm. Songwriters. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THURSDAY 5 Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6pm-7:30pm. Palenville Branch Library, Palenville. 339-4673.
Blue Food 9:30pm. Jazz and funk originals. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
Reflexology: Part 1 6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
Storm Front: A Billy Joel Tribute Band 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
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Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Steel Magnolias 8pm. Canterbury Theatre Ensemble. $12/$10 seniors and children. The Storm King School, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-7892.
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Urinetown, the Musical 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.
Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique class. $90/month. Dutch Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-0154.
Preschool Drop-In Activities 9:30am-11am. Tangrams with dot painting. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. artlab@earthlink.net.
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Carrie Rodriguez 8:30pm. Rock. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Albert Carey and Billy Beehler 9pm. Acoustic. Loopey’s, Millbrook. 677-6212.
Beginning Wheel 6pm-9pm. Clay class. Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
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Lola Cohen 7pm. Video presentation and discussion by SUNY Ulster’s Artist-in-Residence. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.
Kiln Fired Silver 2:45pm-4:30pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
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David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 7pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400. Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. Featuring Erin Hobson with bassist Steven Ross and Studio Stu. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.
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WORKSHOPS
Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Birthing a Drum Call for time. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Rupert Wates 7pm-9pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5155.
Introduction to Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
Singer/ Songwriter Rounds 8pm-11pm. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
Writing Club 2:45pm-4:45pm/6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
Reddan Brothers Band 11pm. Rock. Snug Harbor, New Paltz. 255-9800.
SATURDAY 7
SPOKEN WORD Film Industry in India 4pm. Villa Library, Mt. St. Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3179. Reducing Energy Consumption 7pm-8:30pm. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
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FORECAST CHRONOGRAM 3/09
THEATER As Bees in Honey Drown 8pm. $16/$14 seniors, faculty and students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
FRIDAY 6 ART Paintings by Ryan Cronin 5pm-7pm. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559. Life as I’ve Seen It: A Photographic Tour of my Travels 7pm-12am. Freida Wright. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
ART Tomorrow’s Artists Today 1pm-2pm. Ellenville High School student works. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497. Venturing Out 2pm-4pm. Photographs by Maryann Larson. Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670. Eva Watson-Schutze and Her Circle 4pm-6pm. Paintings and photos. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. Pretty Girls 5pm-7pm. Mixed media paintings by NYC artist Trevor Bittinger. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. Kmoca.org. Ulster County Photography Club Annual Show 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Marianne Heigemeir/The Contemporary Hudson 5pm-8pm. Solo and group shows. ASK, Kingston. 338-0331.
CLASSES
Triptych 5pm-9pm. Photographic works by Peter Donahoe, David Schulz, Wendy Holmes Noyes. Gallery 345, Hudson. (518) 392-9620.
Ballroom Dance Class Call for time. $75. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
John Cleater: Appendages 6pm-8pm. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090.
Above the Neck 6pm-8pm. Prints and drawings by Constance Jacobson. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Works on Paper 6pm-9pm. Twenty artists display a wide variety of works about the artist’s concept of the impact of man on the planet. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Binding Workshop 10am-2pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
CLASSES Intermediate Whiskey Distillers Course Call for time. $50. Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery, Pine Island. 258-4858.
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. 658-8319.
Hotflash with Special Guests 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
THEATER As Bees in Honey Drown 8pm. $16/$14 seniors, faculty and students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Steel Magnolias 8pm. Canterbury Theatre Ensemble. $12/$10 seniors and children. The Storm King School, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-7892. Urinetown, the Musical 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Intro to Organic Beekeeping: Planning a New Hive for Spring 10am-6pm. Sustainable Hudson Valley Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.
SUNDAY 8 MARCH
EVENTS Hudson Valley LGBTQ Annual Gala Call for time. Keynote speaker Assemblyman Daniel J. O’Donnell. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. 331-5300. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Paula Poundstone 9pm. $35. Author and comedienne. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
FILM
ART The Reflectionist Group 1pm-5pm. Lake Carmel Art Center, Kent. 225-3856. CCS Bard Exhibition 1pm-5pm. Five exhibitions curated by 2nd-year students in the graduate curatorial studies and contemporary art program. Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson. 758-7598.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Documentary Films From ART/New York Call for time. Bau, Beacon. 440-7584.
Sacred Chanting 11am-12:30pm. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
KIDS
Women’s Full Moon Circle 8pm. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 11am. Puppet People. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
EVENTS
MUSIC Marc Black Band Call for time. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Kidtopia 11am. House band Ratboy Junior with a special guest each week. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949. David Kraai 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The United States Army Field Band 3pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Radio Days 6pm. Rock. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. The Virginia Wolves 7pm-9pm. Folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Erica Kiesewetter & Blair McMillen 8pm. Violinst and pianist. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216. Jayme Layne 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717. Time for Three 8pm. Blend of classical, country western, gypsy and jazz. $20-$32. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. The Judith Tulloch Band 8pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Off Hour Rockers 8:30pm. Rock. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277. The Cool and Deadly 11pm. Cabaloosa, New Paltz. 255-3400.
THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Ski or Hike: Spring Farm 10am-3pm. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919. Maple Sugaring Day 11am-3pm. $4. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. Outdoor Evening Astronomy 5:30pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
SPOKEN WORD The How, When, and Where of Pruning 10am-2:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. The Men’s Round Table 10am-12pm. Information on parenting and other issues which impact the family. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208.
Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium 11am-5pm. Presented by Pachamama Alliance. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 657-6549. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. The Green Bridal Show 1pm-6pm. $10 at the door/free in advance. Terrapin Restaurant, Rhinebeck. 876-3330. Sixth Annual Kids Day in the Sugar Bush 2pm-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
FILM Documentary Films From ART/New York Call for time. Bau, Beacon. 440-7584.
MUSIC Tret Fure Call for time. Singer-songwriter. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Rupert Wates, Rainfall 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Bob Lusk 8pm-10pm. Hindustani guitar. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. San Francisco Jazz Collective 8pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Clove Chapel 11am-4pm. 7-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Hudson River’s History, Present Status and Future 3pm. Hudson Talbott, author of River of Dreams and Ned Sullivan, Executive Director of Scenic Hudson. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Robert Lavaggi 4pm-6pm. Author of Einstein on the Carpet. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.
THEATER As Bees in Honey Drown 2pm. $16/$14 seniors, faculty and students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Urinetown, the Musical 4pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS
Curating the Documentary 1pm. Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7598.
Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Guy Reed. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 294-8085.
Understanding and Caring for Your Honeybees 11am-7pm. $95. Sustainable Hudson Valley Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.
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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Meditation: Discover Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.
FILM The Quiet Man 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Kids Yoga Classes Call for time. For ages 5-8. $15/$80 series. Woodstock. 679-8700.
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MUSIC Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089. Greg Westhoff & Friends 8pm. Swing. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique class. $90/month. Dutch Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-0154. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS Weston A. Price Foundation Nourishing Traditions Potluck 7pm-9:30pm. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 687-8938.
KIDS Preschool Drop-In Activities 9:30am-11am. Animal masks. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. artlab@earthlink.net.
Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
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Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Belly Dance Class 7:30pm-9pm. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Singer/ Songwriter Rounds 8pm-11pm. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
http: hudson teen theatre project 4:30pm-7pm. Theatre improvisation workshops. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
SPOKEN WORD The Significance of Cultural Identity and Cultural Differences on the Academic Performance of African-American High School Students 5pm. Jonathan Rust. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933. Brian Regan 7:30pm. Comedian. $37.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
MUSIC Michael Benedict Jazz Vibes: Bossa Nova Jazz 12pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
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CLASSES
Crafts for Tots 10:30am-11:30am. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
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The Road to Scholarships: Parent & Student Preparations 6:30pm-8:30pm. Presented by the Mill Street Loft. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
The Art of Origami 6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
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Drop in Meditation 5:30pm-7:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
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THURSDAY 12 MARCH
Reflexology: Part 2 6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
Reiki Healing Circle for Practitioners 9:30am-10:30am. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
It Takes Guts to be Me: How an Ex-Marine Beat Bipolar Disorder 7pm. Features anti-drug system to help treat bipolar disorder. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013. Full Moon Healing with the Crystal Bowl 8pm-9pm. $15/$20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
FRIDAY 13 MARCH ART Art Inspired by Food 6pm-8pm. Muroff Visual Arts Center, Stone Ridge. 687-5113
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Inspired to Respond: Finding Your Activist’s Voice Call for time. $325. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.
CLASSES Ballroom Dance Class Call for time. $75. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
DANCE
African Drum 7pm-8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Flamenco Vivo! Carlota Santana 8pm. $26/$22 seniors/$13 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
DANCE
Zydeco Dance 8pm. Johnny Ace & Sidewalk Zydeco. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. jpagliarulo@hvc.rr.com.
PoTown Swing 8:30pm. Lesson at 8pm. Ely Hall, Poughkeepsie.
KIDS Fun with Energy Call for time. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Story Time, Music & Movement 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC Graduate Vocal Arts Program 8pm. Folk music around the world. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
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Ulster County Photography Club 6:30pm. Competition & critique: assigned topic is snow. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
What is the Enlightenment? Revolution and the Limits of Reason 4:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
Pediatric Eczema to Adult Psoriasis-A Naturopathic Approach Call for time. Dr Tom’s Tonics, Rhinebeck. 876-5556.
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Fats in the Cats Mountain Bike Club 6:30pm. Annual membership meeting. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.
Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 10am-11:30am. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 339-4673.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
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Rethinking Religion: Recent Women’s Novels and American Identity 4pm. Book discussion group. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.
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MONDAY 9 MARCH
EVENTS Lincoln: Why He Still Matters 10am-5pm. Conference on Abraham Lincoln. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7405.
MUSIC Roomful Of Blues Call for time. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Bob Lusk 7pm-9pm. Irish music. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
Open Blues Jam 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Trance/Mission Healing Sounds 7:30pm-9:30pm. Musical instruments from different traditional world cultures. $15/$20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Open Mike 10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
Angel Band 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
PHOTOGRAPHY THE FLOATING FOUNDATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Robert D’Alessandro, untitled, gelatin silver print, ca. 1970, from “Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography” at the Dorsky Museum.
Whatever Floats Your Art No one disputes now that photography is an art form, but as recently as 1970 no photography gallery existed in Manhattan—except for a houseboat at the 79th Street Marina. The boat was a bright, purple, two-story catamaran called the Floating Foundation of Photography. Maggie Sherwood, a recently widowed photographer, had purchased the craft on impulse in Ocean City, Maryland, in 1969, and arguably created the most important boat-gallery in history. The exposition “Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography,” which is on view at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz through April 8, explores this real-world fantasy. Steven Schoen, Sherwood’s son, returned from serving with the Signal Corps in Vietnam in 1970 and helped organize the gallery. He had minored in humanistic education at the University of Wisconsin and soon found himself teaching anywhere that would have him. Writing a grant with a friend, Schoen noticed that Sing Sing was on the Hudson River, and proposed teaching photography there. To his surprise, the grant was awarded, and Schoen’s prison ministry began. This led to a book of photographs, Sing Sing: The View from Within, in 1972. Eventually, the Floating Foundation had programs at the Green Haven, Rahway, Bedford Hills, Taconic, and Fishkill correctional facilities. Meanwhile, at the art gallery, Lisette Model and Gene Smith were two of the superstars. Many art photographers got their starts at the Floating Foundation, including Peter Hujar and Eva Rubinstein. “We would sell the photographs for $25 or $35. Gene Smith we would sell for $100,” Schoen recalls. “Nowadays, some of those photographs are worth $15,000!”
Photography as we know it was still being invented in the ’70s, and Sherwood was in the vanguard. She experimented with a fisheye lens, solarization, and shooting through cellophane from a cigarette box. One of Sherwood’s fascinations was “spirit photography”—images of ghosts and other discorporate beings. Next to Sherwood, Bob D’Alessandro has the most photographs in the show (six), including one of him reading a newspaper with the headline NIXON RESIGNS, as he pisses, naked, in the New Mexico desert. Beth E. Wilson, a lecturer at SUNY New Paltz (and former visual arts editor of Chronogram) curated the show. In addition to 130 photographs, she included a “conversation corner” filled with wicker furniture similar to that on the boat, next to a coffee table of photography books. A slide show tells the story of this unlikely venture, and a video records an interview with Steven Schoen, who tells stories with the novelistic relish of a Mississippi barber. Sherwood died of cancer in 1984, and soon after, the purple catamaran was sold. But the Floating Foundation still exists, and is centered in High Falls, from where it occasionally sponsors a movie at the Rosendale Theater or an art show at the Rosendale Library. “Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography” will appear at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz until April 8. A panel discussion moderated by Beth E. Wilson on March 12 at 7pm will include Steven Schoen, Bob D’Alessandro, Eva Rubinstein, and photo critic A. D. Coleman. (845) 257-3844; www.newpaltz.edu/museum. —Sparrow
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Cavalleria Rusticana & Ipagliacci 8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Rev and The Revtones 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
Creation 9:30pm. Dance music. Seany B’s 101, Millbrook. 677-2282.
Slavery and the Role of the Northern Churches 4pm. Nell Gibson. St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Staatsburg. 485-8627.
DANCE PoTown Swing 8:30pm. Lesson at 8pm. Ely Hall, Poughkeepsie.
THEATER
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Reality Check 9pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.
Madd Dog 9:30pm. Classic rock. Junior’s Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 486-9237.
James Joyce’s The Dead 2:30pm. $31-$46. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
Five Points Band 9:30pm. “The Addams Family of Woodstock.” New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
Long Neck Band 9:30pm. Americana pub rock. Copperfield’s, Millbrook. 677-8188.
The Peking Acrobats 3pm. $18/$15 seniors/$10 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Spelling Bee 8:45am-12pm. Literacy Connections of Dutchess County fundraiser. Marist College, Poughkeepsie. 298-2043.
Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.
Urinetown, the Musical 4pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Story Time, Music & Movement 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
The Rhodes 10pm. Rock. Cabaloosa’s, New Paltz. 255-3400.
WORKSHOPS
Open Blues Jam 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
THEATER Urinetown, the Musical 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. James Joyce’s The Dead 8pm. $31-$46. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
WORKSHOPS
Whiskey Tango 10pm. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.
THE OUTDOORS
Introduction to Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Rhododendron Bridge 10am-3pm. 7-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Writing Club 2:45pm-4:45pm/6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
THEATER
SATURDAY 14 ART Home Sweet Home 5pm-8pm. Paintings of Orange County by Gene Bove and Shawn Dell Joyce. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tarot: The People in the Cards 2pm-4pm. $25/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Crystal Clear CD Release 8pm-10:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Intermediate Whiskey Distillers Course Call for time. $50. Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery, Pine Island. 258-4858.
DANCE Spring Dance 8pm. Featuring choreography for Moderation. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
EVENTS Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
KIDS Barbara Caldwell: O’Reilly the Leprechaun 10:30am. Irish folklore, song and dance. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Michael’s Surprise Show 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
MUSIC The Clancy Tradition Call for time. Celtic favorites. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Marc Black Band Call for time. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Kidtopia 11am. House band Ratboy Junior with a special guest each week. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949. Josh Weinstein 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Art of Song Deconstructed 4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
James Joyce’s The Dead Call for time. $31-$46. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
Read for Food 7pm-10pm. Poetry open mike fundraiser for local food pantries. $5. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
Making Earrings with Natural Beads 2:45pm-4:30pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
Urinetown, the Musical 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Meditation: Discover Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.
WORKSHOPS
DANCE
ART
Book Binding Workshop 10am-2pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
Spring Dance 3pm. Featuring choreography for Moderation. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
The Road to Scholarships: Parent & Student Preparations 6:30pm-8:30pm. Presented by the Mill Street Loft. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
SUNDAY 15 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Hudson Valley Healing Arts Salon Call for time. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Rosen Method Bodywork: Accessing the Unconscious through Touch 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Spring Dance 8pm. Featuring choreography for Moderation. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
EVENTS Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Healing the Children reception and Photo Exhibit 2pm. Exhibit, performances, food, music to benefit medical missions by Dr. Manoj Abraham. $75. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
Kids Yoga Classes Call for time. For ages 5-8. $15/$80 series. Woodstock. 679-8700.
MUSIC Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.
TUESDAY 17 CCS Bard Hessel Museum Exhibition 5pm-7pm. First-year graduate students will curate an exhibition. Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7598.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Natural Adrenal, Stress, & Sleep Support Call for time. Dr Tom’s Tonics, Rhinebeck. 876-5556. Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 11am-12:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 339-4673. Channeling the Master Teachers 6:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
MUSIC
CLASSES
The Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
Belly Dance Class 7:30pm-9pm. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Inna Faliks: Piano 2:30pm. Trail Mix concert. $20. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.
DANCE
The Simon Quartet 3pm. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867.
Trefol 4pm. Early music trio. $30/$10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Jazz Guitar Summit 8pm. Featuring Bucky Pizzarelli, Gene Bertoncini, and Frank Vignola. $30. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Moet Trio 4pm. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870. David Munnelly Band 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
THE OUTDOORS Rock Rift Hike 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape 2pm. $6. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.
Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. 339-4673.
CLASSES Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique class. $90/ month. Dutch Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-0154. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
KIDS
ART
The Peking Acrobats 3pm. $18/$15 seniors/$10 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
An Afternoon with Garrison Keillor 3pm. Host of “Prairie Home Companion.” Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
THURSDAY 19
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
KIDS
DANCE
Bard Orchestra 8pm. Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
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Seminar on Arthritis 6:30pm-8pm. LaGrange Library, Poughkeepsie. 452-3141.
WORKSHOPS
Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Bobby Messano 9pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
MONDAY 16
Open Mike 10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
Reflexology-Part 3 6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
Al Semenovich and Rebel Red 8pm. Acoustic. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
Adrian O’Leary 9pm. Elsie’s Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.
Dialoguing with the Body: A Writer’s Workshop in Motion 12:30pm-2:30pm. 8 Sunday sessions. $195/$175 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Saints & Tzadiks 3pm. Featuring Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg performing rare Yiddish & Irish songs. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Studio Stu 8pm. Jazz. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
KIDS
LA Theatre Works: The War of the Worlds 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
Cabaradio 6pm-9pm. Potluck supper at 6pm, music at 7pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Lydia Adams Davis with John Guth 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717.
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John Schrader Band 9pm. Tin Pan Alley, Red Hook. 758-4545.
West Coast Swing Dance Jam 7:30pm-10:30pm. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. (914) 475-0803.
KIDS
Preschool Drop-In Activities 9:30am-11am. Spring quill work (paper curling). Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. artlab@earthlink.net.
MUSIC Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Peggy Atwood and Jim Barbaro 7pm. Singer-songwriter. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Rockin’ for Hunger 2009 7:30pm. Benefit for the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York featuring Jovi. $17. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Singer/ Songwriter Rounds 8pm-11pm. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
SPOKEN WORD Seminar on Arthritis 12pm-1:30pm. LaGrange Library, Poughkeepsie. 452-3141.
WORKSHOPS Reducing Energy Consumption 7pm-8:30pm. $12.95 workbook. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
Crafts for Tots 10:30am-11:30am. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205. http: hudson teen theatre project 4:30pm-7pm. Theatre improvisation workshops. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
FRIDAY 20 ART Kent Art Association Early Members Show 5pm-7pm. Kent Art Association. (860) 927-3989.
MUSIC XCalibur 6:30pm. Traditional Irish. Scruffy Murphy’s Pub, Marlboro. 236-2822. Spatter the Mud 8pm. Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
WEDNESDAY 18 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT EMDR Therapy 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CLASSES Ballroom Dance Class Call for time. $75. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
EVENTS
Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Wingate at Beacon, Beacon. 339-4673.
Fundraising Potluck 6pm-9pm. Benefit for Clearwater. Lynch’s Marina, Saugerties. 454-7673 ext. 107.
CLASSES
FILM
African Drum 7pm-8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Funny Girl 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
FILM KENT FILM FESTIVAL JOHN SNYDER
FRYEBURG, MAINE RESIDENTS POUR OUT BOTTLED WATER IN PROTEST OF POLAND SPRING DIVERTING THE TOWN’S AQUIFER IN SAM BOZZO’S BLUE GOLD.
Water, Water, Everywhere Founded in 2006 by Patrice and Frank Galterio, the Kent Film Festival, which bills itself as “Connecticut’s premier film festival,” is one of the region’s best-kept cultural secrets. For four days each spring, the festival screens world-class feature films in the northwest corner of the Constitution state. This year, the focus is on documentaries, including The Brothers Warner, an portrait of the four film pioneers who founded and ran Warner Brothers for over 50 years by Warner namesake Cass Warner Sperling; the rock doc Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio; The Gramercy Stories, chronicling the often tortured lives of teenage boys growing up gay and transsexual; and Mira Van Doren’s The World Was Ours, celebrating the vibrant creative life of the Jewish community of Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) from the 14th century until its destruction during World War II. Also being screened at the 2009 installment of the Kent Film Festival is Sam Bozzo’s Blue Gold: World Water Wars, based on the muckraking book by Canadian Activists Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke (Blue Gold: The Right to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water), which first brought the effects of globalization on the world’s water supply to public attention in 2002. Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, Blue Gold’s premise is that the wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as corporate giants (Vivendi, for instance, supplies water-related services to 110 million people in more than 100 countries) and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling life source, prompting protests and revolutions from citizens fighting for their right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Will we follow? I spoke to Sam Bozzo about his film, the latest in water activism, and the environmental impact of the water wars in early February. Blue Gold will be screened as part of the Kent Film Festival, March 26 through March 28, at locations in Kent, Connecticut. (203) 681-5929; www.kentfilmfestival.org. —Jan Larraine Cox
You’ve stated that you self-financed Blue Gold at great risk and also risked your life. Ironically, while researching and writing a sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth, Si Litvinoff and I came across Barlow and Clark’s book Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World’s Water. I was horrified to discover that what is happening on our planet now is worse than what we were dreaming up for a sciencefiction film. As an aspiring filmmaker, it was not an easy choice to document a film where Vivendi, one of the leading corporations in the entertainment industry, was the “bad guy.” I had a camera that I won from Kevin Spacey’s short-film contest. I had credit cards. I found a sponsor to fund the film, so I bought all plane tickets and equipment on my credit. The night before I was to set out shooting, the sponsor backed out. I knew I would likely lose my house for doing this, but I set out as a one-man crew on an adventure that changed me forever. While traveling, I quickly realized to document the film, one must go to the source. Doing so required me to bribe guards in Mexico, a country whose government does not want filming of their sewage-irrigated farmlands. It required investigating the murder of another documentary filmmaker, Joan Root, in Lake Naivasha, Kenya, killed for trying to save precious lake water from the European rose farm plantations. It required traveling deep into Africa, where women fetch water daily from miles away, and white men are kidnapped almost as regularly. What kind of response has the film generated? Mark Achbar helped me secure distribution with PBS Video, Mongrel Media, and Filmoption. I am thrilled by the response of audiences who knew nothing of the subject, and walk away stunned, enlightened, and empowered to think differently about water. Activists have thanked me for creating a tool for them to spread the word, realizing that film is the most powerful communicative tool in our society, and thus has the greatest potential to bring awareness for change. After seeing the film, Martin Robertson of Ideas in Motion arranged 30 screenings in 22 countries on World Water Day. But I did not make this film for activists; I made it for the general public who do not know about this issue—while there is time for change. I made it for my son. Ultimately, climate change is an issue of how we live, while the water crisis an issue of if we live.
Blue Gold depicts young people in Bardejov, Slovakia building retaining structures which conserve rainwater for that community’s use. Could this progressive Blue Alternative project model ultimately supercede the current bottled water industry, which relocates precious water resources worldwide? Michal Kravcik’s Blue Alternative helps to structure landscapes so rain is turned into ground water instead of flushed out to sea. It is in my opinion the grand solution to all water problems we see. What hold can corporations or governments have over our water if there is plenty of groundwater to sustain a population? No demand means the supply power becomes meaningless. This model is currently in operation in parts of India and is being considered by a Middle East country for national implementation. Deserts can quickly become green. Kravcik wants to expand the water conservation effort to construct our landscapes as carefully as we do our houses. We don’t let our roofs leak; why let our landscapes leak rainwater to the sea? What sort of solutions to the water crisis does Blue Gold author Maude Barlow call for? Maude Barlow points out the larger problem is our global economic trade structure which keeps Third World countries poor and unable to build water infrastructures. These countries are forced to grow cash crops using water they themselves need, and then export these crops. However, they must pay huge tariffs in order to pay off World Bank debts which go back to World War II. So they remain poor even though they have resources. I cite Kenyan tea as an example of this. While in Kenya, I could not believe the amount of tea being exported—fields from horizon to horizon—yet they can’t build water pipes for their people. Only the surgical removal of the tumor of economic-debtinduced-blackmail will cure the patient. The key is legislation. National and international laws will bring global change. As that has yet to happen, my film shows the smaller model successes that will help pave the way. But, with Maude Barlow now at the United Nations as senior advisor on water, let’s hope that global changes will happen.
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MUSIC
MUSIC
The Battlefield Band Call for time. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Graham Parker Call for time. Early New Wave icon. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Cover Up Band 6pm. Rock. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. Bar Scott 8pm. Acoustic. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. Boys with Toys 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. $20/$5 students. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216. Leahy 8pm. Celtic dance and song. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. John Hammond 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
Kidtopia 11am. House band Ratboy Junior with a special guest each week. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949. Gary Paul Hermus 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Peter Kyle: Master Class 2pm. $20/$10 observer only. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. Eric Erickson 6pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. 4 Guys in Disguise 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
Allan Vache Presents: A Benny Goodman Centennial Tribute 3pm. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021. Kathy Mattea 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Solos by Murray Louis 8pm. $20. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.
THE OUTDOORS Twenty-first Annual Signs of Spring Walk 2pm-4pm. Easy 2.5 mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Peter Pan 3pm. Hudson Valley P.O.P.S. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.
The Rhodes 9pm. Rock. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.
Project Mercury and Jim Lord 8pm. Acoustic. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Keepers of the American Dream
Crawdaddy 9:30pm. Swamp rock. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
The Trapps 8:30pm. Rock. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Urinetown, the Musical 4pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
The Road Kings Band 10pm. Rock. Michael’s Sports Bar, Fishkill. 896-5766.
WORKSHOPS
THE OUTDOORS
Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
THEATER Peter Pan 7pm. Hudson Valley P.O.P.S. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. Urinetown, the Musical 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Keepers of the American Dream 8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. The Vagina Monologues 8pm. Benefit for HOPE’s Fund. $25. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: High Peters Kill 9:30am-4pm. 8-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Undercliff Overcliff Trail 10am. Easy 5-mile hike. Meet at New Paltz Diner, New Paltz. 592-0204.
WORKSHOPS Introduction to Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
Informational Meetings 12pm-2pm. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.
Writing Club 2:45pm-4:45pm/6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
Birth Choices 2pm-4pm. $10. Deciding what you want. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.
SATURDAY 21
3pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Dialoguing with the Body 12:30pm-2:30pm. A writer’s workshop in Motion Dara Lurie. $195/$175 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MONDAY 23
SPOKEN WORD Designing Dazzling Borders 10am-1pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
Craig Ferguson 8pm. Comedy. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Meditation: Discover Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.
FILM Harold and Maude 7pm. Classic tale of disaffected teenager. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
MUSIC Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.
ART
THEATER
Simply Awesome Art Within Reach 4pm-8pm. Featuring the work of Barbara Wood. The Art and Zen Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 473-3334.
Peter Pan Call for time. Hudson Valley P.O.P.S. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.
Artists without Borders 6:15pm-8pm. Works by Anita Rydygier, Rieko Fujinami, and Joanna Gabler. Brill Gallery, North Adams, MA. (800) 294-2811.
Urinetown, the Musical 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Keepers of the American Dream
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
SpiritPlay Open Session 10:30am-12:15pm. Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-4140.
The Vagina Monologues 8pm. Benefit for HOPE’s Fund. $25. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Drop in Meditation 5:30pm-7:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel: Keys to Spiritual Truth 1:30pm-2:30pm. Newburgh Mall, Newburgh. 1 (800) 749-8871. Balance, Rejuvenate and Heal: Spring Cleanse with Ayurveda & Yoga 3pm-4:30pm. Madhuri Yoga Spa, New Paltz. 797-4124.
CLASSES Intermediate Whiskey Distillers Course Call for time. $50. Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery, Pine Island. 258-4858.
WORKSHOPS Orchids Bloom in March 9:30am-4:30pm. Painting orchids in bloom botanical watercolor. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS Transforming Your Demons Into Allies 3pm-5pm. $15/$20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
SUNDAY 22
DANCE Contradance 8pm-11pm. 7pm jam session. $10/$5 students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050. 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. 658-8319.
EVENTS EatLocalFoods Winter Farmer’s Market 9am-1pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. info@eatlocalfood.org. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Ulster County SPCA Fur Ball 5:30pm. Featuring music by All That Is Jazz. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 338-5100.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559. Tuning Forks for the Healing Practitioner 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Metabolic Syndrome-the Silent Killer Call for time. Dr Tom’s Tonics, Rhinebeck. 876-5556.
CLASSES Belly Dance Class 7:30pm-9pm. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
EVENTS Admissions Information Session 8:30am. For grades pre-k through 12. Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600.
KIDS
Good Night Moon and Runaway Bunny 3pm. Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. $18/$15 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Richard Shindell Call for time. Singer-songwriter. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Open Mike 10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
WORKSHOPS Creative Writing Workshop for Narrative Prose 12pm-3pm. With Laurie Stone, 3 dates. $175/$150 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
THURSDAY 26 ART The Road to Scholarships: Parent & Student Preparations 6:30pm-8:30pm. Presented by the Mill Street Loft. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Reflexology: Part 4 6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205. Energy Exercises 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CLASSES Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique class. $90/month. Dutch Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-0154. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FILM 4th Kent Film Festival Call for time. Kent Community House Theater, Kent, CT. (860) 927-7954.
KIDS Preschool Drop-In Activities 9:30am-11am. Spring origami flowers. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. artlab@earthlink.net.
MUSIC Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Singer/ Songwriter Rounds 8pm-11pm. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
SPOKEN WORD Chemistry at Bacterial Surfaces: Bioremediation and ‘Natural’ Antibiotics 5pm. Megan Ferguson. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.
FRIDAY 27 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Women’s Wellness Weekend Call for time. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Swing Dance with The Gordon Webster Trio with Brianna Thomas 8:30pm. Workshop at 6:30, lesson at 8pm. $15/$10 dance, $15 workshop. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
http: hudson teen theatre project 4:30pm-7pm. Theatre improvisation workshops. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
KIDS
MUSIC Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
WEDNESDAY 25 Women’s New Moon Circle 7pm. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
Ramblin Jug Stompers Call for time. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Open Blues Jam 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
4th Kent Film Festival Call for time. Kent Community House Theater, Kent, CT. (860) 927-7954.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
MUSIC
MUSIC
FILM
Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
Barefoot Dance Center 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Story Time, Music & Movement 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Crafts for Tots 10:30am-11:30am. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
EVENTS
KIDS
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TUESDAY 24
Sacred Singing Metals 3pm-5pm. Sound healer and hypnotherapist Peter Blum. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Piedmont Wine Dinner 5:30pm. Swoon Kitchenbar, Hudson. (518) 822-8938.
KIDS
THEATER
Open Mike 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717.
Kenny Faranda & Bobby MacDougal 9pm. Acoustic. Loopey’s, Millbrook. 677-6212.
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Doug Marcus 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
CLASSES African Drum 7pm-8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
DANCE PoTown Swing 8:30pm. Lesson at 8pm. Ely Hall, Poughkeepsie.
Greek Mythology for Kids Call for time. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
MUSIC Just 3 6pm. Rock. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. Erin McKeown & Carrie Rodriguez 8pm. $22. Singer-songwriters. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Kinney & Storms 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Creation 9pm. Dance. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Alfred Sire & Karl Allweier 9pm. Acoustic. Loopey’s, Millbrook. 677-6212. Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Cafe International, Newburgh. 567-9429.
THEATER Peter Pan 7pm. Hudson Valley P.O.P.S. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.
COMEDY PAULA POUNDSTONE IMAGE PROVIDED
What's South Africa? Poised between Ellen Degeneres and her wide-eyed Pollyanna musings and Rosie O’Donnell’s bilious observances, there’s stand-up perennial Paula Poundstone. The Alabama native simply tattle-tales on herself in a signature deadpan, stumbling onto wince-making universal truths. Starting out in comedy clubs in 1979, the award-winning Poundstone made the transition to TV and has performed on several HBO specials. Adored by fellow comedians, she has been booked numerous times by Jay Leno and David Letterman. (A misguided 1993 TV variety series, however, lasted two episodes.) While raising three kids as a single mother has limited her club gigs, Poundstone was able to transfer her coruscating wit intact to the page with her first book There’s Nothing In This Book That I Meant To Say (Random House, 2007). She has also written math books for students. Having just released her first CD, I ♥ Jokes: Paula Tells Them in Maine, Poundstone is in the process of writing her second book. From her home on the West Coast, the comedian shared her views on the new president, sleeping on Timothy Leary’s couch and the value of Dumbo’s feather. Paula Poundstone will perform at the Bearsville Theater on March 7 at 9pm. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com. —Jay Blotcher
From a quick survey of comedians in America, you emerge as one of the better-informed people— That’s frightening. As a testament to that, you have a great gig on the NPR current events show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” Does that require being more voracious about what you read on a weekly basis? No. I don’t even know how to describe how uninformed I am. And I try really hard during those weeks to keep up. I was just telling somebody today: I was in San Francisco for awhile [in the 1980s], and I was lucky enough to be a part of the comedy scene back there that was very creative. The truth is, at that time in my life, I didn’t ever watch the news; I had not a clue what was going on in the world outside of me. I lived one summer with Tim Leary and he woke me up while taking a nap one time, which I thought was just terrible, and it was about five o’clock in the afternoon. And he said, “The news is on.” And I was like, “Yeah?” And he was all excited, jumping up and down like a little kid. And I could care less. And he said, “You don’t watch the news?” And I said, “Of course I don’t watch the news.” And he said, “Well, come watch it now.” And I said, “No, it would be like coming in in the middle of a movie.” And he said, “Anything you have a question about, Barbara [Leary’s wife] and I will answer.” My first question was “What’s South Africa?” I mean, I was way uninformed. And therefore, it is with great pride that I take the stage on “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” I’ve redeemed myself with the news, but I’m battered by the storm, I’m hanging on to the little bit of knowledge I can glean each week. And this is borne out by the fact that I lose repeatedly on that show; in seven years, I think maybe I’ve won four times now. And I may be exaggerating for the sake of publicity; it may have been three times.
You lived with Timothy Leary? The guru of the 1960s. Yeah, I knew him; he was a friend of a friend, and I knew him in that friend-of-a-friend way. And one time we were at a party, and I was a bit shy of a place to live. And his wife made the sad mistake of saying, “Well, you can stay with us.” Most of the people I knew at that time in my life were a little bit more solvent than I was. I was still in my early 20s and doing the friend’s-couchto-the-friend’s-rug routine. I had some friends who were older than me, and they just didn’t do that anymore. So there was a little bit of shame with which I pulled into their driveway that fated day. Tim opened his arms and said, “Consider this one of your homes on the planet,” which was such a Tim Leary thing to say. And then I overstayed my welcome, to be totally honest with you, and he began to wish I had more homes on the planet. As an unapologetic liberal, do you see the election of President Obama as a signal of less comic material? I don’t think so. It’s true that I might be hard-pressed to parody him. It’s the rest of us that deserve mocking at this point. I watched the [election night gathering in Grant Park] on TV like so many people did. I watched this huge crowd of people and [Obama] would say, “There are storm clouds gathering,” and they would cheer and smile! I thought, What is it about us? In what ways have your three children had an effect on your comic style and choice of material? I’m more tired; I deliver my jokes more slowly. You know, my act is largely autobiographical and always has been. Even when I talk about politics, I only talk about politics as I experience it; I’m not a Rhodes scholar. I’m certainly not fair and balanced. I talk about the little bit that I know. I admit openly that I might be wrong right from the start; it’s just my perception on that day. So my kids came along,
and I talk about being the best-I-can-do parent—with no answers and no advice to share. You made the decision to discuss your 2001 courtordered alcoholism rehabilitation in your act, and audience allegiance came back to you tenfold. I don’t know if anything’s happened tenfold; everything has been an uphill and difficult slog, both personally and professionally as a result of all of that. It’s funny to say that I made the decision; the truth is that, again, because my act is largely autobiographical, there was no decision to be made. I talk about what I’m doing and how I’m doing it—even if I were working on a rockpile, I guess. In a way, there wasn’t really a choice to be made. There was some mean mail, too, but largely I got a lot of mail of support. I got a lot of people literally pulling over while I was walking the dog. It’s like kicking an anthill and watching them get right back to work, rebuilding the anthill. Except that in this case, I kicked my own anthill. What's the best advice you’ve received from a fellow comedian? Dana Carvey and I used to philosophize about comedy a lot. He used to tell me, it didn’t matter what other [comedians] were doing around me; you have this really special quality, and you can’t manufacture that. It’s the thing that all else comes from. And I don’t even know what that means really in retrospect, but at the time I loved hearing it. One day he took this yellow legal pad and he drew a diagram that somehow illustrated this point. I remember there was a circle somewhere in the center. And I carried it with me for years, actually, kind of like Dumbo’s feather. It didn’t even need to be true; it just needed to be that I believed that. To read the full transcript of Jay Blotcher's interview with Paula Poundstone, visit www.chronogram.com.
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Urinetown, the Musical 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Keepers of the American Dream 8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. The Importance of Being Earnest 8pm. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.
Friend of a Friend: Tales of the Underground Railroad from the Capital Region 11:30am. $5-$10. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Keepers of the American Dream: A Journey in Black History 8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
WORKSHOPS
Urinetown, the Musical 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Introduction to Photoshop 11am-2pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
The Importance of Being Earnest 8pm. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.
Writing Club 2:45pm-4:45pm/6pm-8pm. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205.
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SATURDAY 28 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation 11:30am-1:30pm. Ven. Lama Pema Wangdak. Palden Sakya Center, Woodstock. 679-4024. New Moon Visioning Workshop 12pm-4pm. Meditation, hypnotherapy, journeying, collage, writing. $60. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Crystal Speak 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
SUNDAY 29 DANCE Indian Music and Dance Festival 3pm. Whittaker Hall, Mt. St. Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3179.
EVENTS New York Military Academy Open House 10am-1pm. New York Military Academy, Cornwall-onHudson. (888) 275-6962. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
FILM CLASSES Intermediate Whiskey Distillers Course Call for time. $50. Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery, Pine Island. 258-4858.
DANCE Ballet Hispanico with the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 8pm. $28/$24 seniors/$14 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
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4th Kent Film Festival Call for time. Kent Community House Theater, Kent, CT. (860) 927-7954.
MUSIC Joe K. 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
THE OUTDOORS
Barn Sale 9am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Millbrook Ridge 9am-4pm. 10-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
EatLocalFoods Winter Farmer’s Market 9am-1pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. info@ eatlocalfood.org.
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11th Annual Twin County Science Fair 10am-2pm. $3. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181 ext 5513. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. $7/$5 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
FILM 4th Kent Film Festival Call for time. Kent Community House Theater, Kent, CT. (860) 927-7954.
KIDS Pinocchio: Amazing Adventures of a Wooden Boy 10:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
MUSIC
Peter Pan 3pm. Hudson Valley P.O.P.S. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. Keepers of the American Dream: A Journey in Black History 3pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Urinetown, the Musical 4pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Life Drawing 10am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Dialoguing with the Body 12:30pm-2:30pm. A writer’s workshop w/Dara Lurie. $195/$175 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Kidtopia 11am. House band Ratboy Junior with a special guest each week. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949. Senior Recital 1:30pm. John Wolfe, organ. Music of Bach, Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Scheidt, and Scheidemann. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.
MONDAY 30 MUSIC Monday Jazz 8pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.
Jerry Mitnick 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Senior Recital 4pm. Claire Walsh, soprano, assisted by Gregg Michalak, piano. Martel Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.
PLANT A TREE
A Night of Quintets 6pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. The Judith Tulloch Band 6pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. The Rhodes 7pm. Rock. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Jeff Tweedy 8pm. Clearwater’s annual fundraiser. $45-$75. Beacon High School Auditorium, Beacon. 454-7673 ext. 112. Vassar College Choir 8pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902. Elisa Girlando and Out of Truth 9pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Creation 9:30pm. Dance music. Copperfield’s, Millbrook. 677-8188. The Last Rights 10pm. Rock. Seany B’s 101, Millbrook. 677-2282.
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Peter Pan Call for time. Hudson Valley P.O.P.S. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.
TUESDAY 31 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Naturopathic Solutions for all Sorts of Digestive Problems Call for time. Dr Tom’s Tonics, Rhinebeck. 876-5556. Discover Your Archetypes 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CLASSES Belly Dance Class 7:30pm-9pm. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
KIDS Crafts for Tots 10:30am-11:30am. Hudson Valley Guild and Book Trader, Saugerties. 246-7205. http: hudson teen theatre project 4:30pm-7pm. Theatre improvisation workshops. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC Jennifer Hudson 7:30pm. With special guest Robin Thicke. $49-$69. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
THEATER St. Catherine of Siena 4pm. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3179.
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Planet Waves EMIL ALZAMORA
BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
Kaleo: Venus Unbound
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arlier this winter, the New York Times Magazine published an article looking at the work of a new generation of female sex researchers who are studying the mysteries of female desire, or trying to. Now that Venus is about to be retrograde in Aries, we have the perfect opportunity to study the nexus of self, of identity, and of sexuality. The lead study covered by the Times was conducted by Dr. Meredith Chivers, a Canadian psychologist and professor at Queen’s University in Ontario. She studied the sexual responses of men and women to a diversity of visual and auditory stimuli: men and women having sex, men together, women together, men and women masturbating (separately), bonobos having sex, a man walking on a beach, and a woman exercising. The data were collected by one objective method (a probe in or on the genitals to sense minute changes in physical arousal from second to second), and reporting by keypad to describe whether the subject thought he or she was aroused by a particular scene. Then the two sets of data—the body’s responses, and the mind’s responses—were compared. Cool idea, right? Chivers demonstrated that men tend to have a narrow focus of what they think turns them on, and those are the things that their bodies respond to in the form of their penis growing more erect. If you’re a straight man, you get aroused by heterosexual sex or women together or a woman masturbating, and you know it. If you’re a gay man, you get aroused by images of men hav102
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ing sex or masturbating, and you know it. The copulating bonobos (despite being our closest primate cousins, who are known to have sex for pleasure and not just reproduction) did nothing for the men, consistent with what men reported. For men, Chivers determined that conscious arousal corresponded with physical response. Women also have a narrow focus of what they think turns them on. Straight women said they were turned on by images of a heterosexual couple making love; lesbian women, by images of a lesbian couple. But when the responses of their bodies were measured by blood flow and vaginal lubrication, they responded sexually to nearly everything, including the bonobos and the woman exercising. The scene that got the least response was a buff man walking on the beach. Everything else, including the exercising woman, increased their blood flow and vaginal secretions significantly. What does this data tell us? Well, Chivers and the Times expressed the findings as indicating that women are out of contact with what turns them on. They think very little does; in reality, nearly everything does. Men were described as having equally narrow interests, but as being more connected and aligned with their desires. I think that most men, including myself, would take this as vindicating. Men who want to coexist with women sexually have encountered the maze of yes meaning no, no meaning yes, maybe meaning yes, yes meaning maybe,
no meaning maybe, and maybe meaning anything or nothing at all. (My female friends who are into women often tell me the same thing.) The subtext: don’t believe anything women say. It’s impossible to negotiate or get consent when yes and no have no meaning. The implicit message to men is to keep assuming; you’re more aware than women are. Women aren’t going to say what they want or what they feel because they don’t know, or they’re confused by the diversity of things they feel, they are scared to, or they don’t want to commit in words to something they might regret having said later. Now we have a scientific study, apparently one of many, that seems to establish this feminine property. Chivers says she teaches her students that “arousal does not equal consent,” which is noble enough. Yet in a world where we are trained to not speak honestly about sex, in particular about desire, we might well ask what does. Usually, a woman signals with her body and not her words, and often this signaling is “unconscious,” such as open body language meaning she is open to approach. In applied practical reality, arousal does equal consent—until you start talking. Then the cognitive mind gets in the way, unless the goal is awareness (which it usually is not). Most of us learn the unfortunate lesson: If you want sex, don’t talk about sex. Avoid the subject. That works better. This is frustrating if you’re an honest person who shuns playing games; or if you like sex and talking about sex. One thing we can surmise from this study is that women are turned on by life itself. Let’s give this a name: biophilia. Anyone who has been erotically close to a woman might have noticed that her entire body and emotional field can become a sex organ under the right conditions; a puff of breeze blowing or the sound of a voice can be experienced as erotic. If you’re a man and you have this kind of response, you’re probably a poet. If one lets go into that kind of general state of being turned on by the world, that’s a lot like total vulnerability. Mental censorship would be one possible adaptation to that amount of sensory input. That women might deny their response, or not be aware of it, may be a product of conditioning, such as the feeling that their opinions or desires do not matter, or that they will be punished for them. What I think is more interesting is that the focus of men’s desires and responses were identified as being so narrow. I don’t hold it as a virtue that so many men succeed at knowing what turns them on, but only within a narrow range. It is likely that their minds and bodies are shut down to the rest of reality that they don’t think interests them, but which might, were they more open. Men tend to be socialized into roles that require meeting a goal. Women tend to be socialized into roles that require them to be generally responsive to their environment; multitasking is an example of this responsiveness. At least the physical bodies of women are still connected to the full spectrum of experience, even if their minds have a different opinion; that is, even if their minds are becoming more like the bioenergetic systems of men—attempting to focus on one goal or one acceptable stimulus. If you know something about astrology, you know we’re talking about Venus and Mars here. Both men and women have Venus and Mars in their charts (they never leave the solar system). It is socializing that drives the sexes to express one gender energy at the expense of another, or to fail to integrate the other energy. Venus is a full-spectrum planet associated with females, femaleness, and desire on the level of receptivity. Carlos Castaneda proposed that the universe itself is female. To me it is the principle of emotional intelligence. It’s also considered an indicator of what we value; that is, what is truly important to us in a deep and abiding way. Most people would associate Venus more with love than with sex, though this depends on your definition of sex. It rules Taurus, which has extremely strong preserver energy; and Libra, which is inherently relational, and seeks beauty and balance. The glyph of Venus is a circle with a cross below it; grounding is suggested, and a connection between the “celestial” and the “mundane.” The image is reminiscent of women’s genitals beneath a pregnant belly. Mars is a circle with an arrow reminiscent of the Sagittarius glyph. That arrow is about attaining a one-pointed goal. Mars is designed to penetrate. Penetration requires identifying, seeking, and hitting the mark. There is an element of precision required, and danger suggested. That arrow, the working end of Mars, is grounded in the circle; perhaps the world. It’s focused upwardly, on
an idea or goal (incidentally, at the angle of an erect penis meeting a pair of balls). Mars rules Aries, which is about self and initiative; and Scorpio, the sign associated with the genitals. Most women’s physical sexual responses are more closely aligned with what we think of as Venus, which is a biophilic kind of energy. Mars may be about conquering and impregnating, but obviously it can be accessed on a holistic level—and that’s one direction in which we need to go. What astrology does not generally admit is how profoundly corrupted Venus and Mars are right now. A few examples will suffice. If Venus is about emotional intelligence, beauty, and what we value, think of how these are stamped on (or out) by advertising, which manipulates and dictates to us what we’re supposed to think and feel. There are thousands of drugs on the market designed to override our feelings. The entire environment is awash in chemicals that mimic female hormones (called xenoestrogenic compounds), disrupting both male and female hormonal processes, psychology, and, I believe, our sexual signaling. Women, more closely associated with Venus, are in a double bind. On the one hand, they are told that to have any value, they must go out and work and be like men. Raising children has been devalued (including by economics) to the point where few people do it full time, which is a recipe for society falling apart. Their biology is still in tune with the physical necessities of children and partnerships, while their minds are being trained to deny these things and participate in the world, if only out of economic necessity. Even the role of Venus as caregiver is being pathologized out of existence; “caregiving” is a psychological buzzword for a woman denying her own needs, and is considered something to remedy. Many men are gradually growing out of their conquering-warrior roles, and becoming more attuned to the full spectrum of experience, which includes intuitive responsiveness to relationship partners, to the needs of children, and life in a holistic way. Yet they too are in a double bind; this is extremely difficult in a world that does not value this psychic posture. We still live in a world of women who often don’t know how to handle male sensitivity or emotional availability; who assume, perhaps out of ignorance, conditioning, or convenience, that men are impervious to pain—and this itself is a profound double bind, and one that has not been identified in any gender studies discussion that I’ve ever encountered. As relates to men, I have another question: How do we handle women opening up to the full spectrum of their sexuality? By its inherent multivalent nature, there will be episodes from the lives of sexually awake women that would exclude men. Others might involve other men. Ultimately, the freedom to express the prerogative of what amounts to infinite erotic potential must be hers exclusively, if it is to mean anything. I believe that men embracing the erotic freedom of women will be a key tipping point in female equality to men. We can see that the world is in chaos right now. James Hillman, one of the preeminent Jungians of the 20th century, talks about how in Greek mythology, Venus would call to Chaos every night and they would make love. She would seduce him into not completely destroying the world. The role of Venus is to stop this beautiful world from being swallowed up by insanity. Yet right now there is an overwhelming amount of chaos for Venus to embrace, including hormonal chaos that scrambles the body’s signals; the chaos of a world at war; and a world in economic transition/transformation based on a previous collapse of values. For another, there is the constant influence that she be more like Mars: one-pointed. She is pressured constantly to close her mind to the profound beauty of life, and cease to be biophilic. We know that she’s being conditioned or pressured to shut down to the pain of war, and that it’s working—otherwise we would be hearing more from her. Shutting down will not work, is not working. We need more sensitivity, not less. We need to focus on goals, but not at the expense of reality. And we need to consciously embrace the chaos that is gradually enveloping us. How do we call to the chaos with love, and not try to delete it, filter it out or stick it in a folder? How do we engage the chaos—perhaps as a creative source? Venus wants to say: I can take on chaos. I can make you feel wonderful, and take the edge off of your desire to destroy. I can embrace anything (and this does need to include emotionally sensitive men). For us who are alive today, this is a political task, an environmental necessity, a relational task and a sexual one as well: It has a name, Kaleo. This is the most divine gesture of loving the universe, the core cosmic dharma of Venus. 3/09 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES
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Planet Waves Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net
ARIES
(March 20-April 19)
As people and situations disappear off the radar, you might ask where they are going. And while you are asking, I suggest you take their fading out as an opportunity to simplify your life. You have good reason to do so, namely that it will provide you with opportunity to focus on one aspect of your personal goals that will lead you to the most satisfying and moreover authentic success. But herein reside the core issues, of which there are three. There is one dimension of accomplishment that is connected to what you feel you deserve; there is another with how high you set your goals; and another connected to how much discipline you can muster. You need to work on all three aspects of yourself at once. There is one additional challengeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;your most meaningful objective or goal may, at the moment, be mixed in with much other activity that obscures it. So the first thing you must focus on is discernment, and part of that is about knowing yourself. This is the thing that is given lots of chatter in our world, and many people claim possess have this pearl of great price. This month, I will leave you with a question: assuming you feel you possess deep self-knowledge, how would you know if you did not?
TAURUS
(April 19-May 20)
Your sign is renowned for its ability to resist, and to persist. Yet there are times you may find yourself resisting what you want the most, and persisting at what you want the least. Events of the next two months (and indeed the next two weeks) seem determined to teach you one thing, which is your true objective in life. Will you notice it when you finally have the information, or the gut feeling? This is question of awareness, but also a question of how you deal with originality. Here is the Paradox of Originality, as I see it. When you finally figure out that you want to do something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been done, you reach a juncture. This is the place where you must decide if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re capable of doing something that has no preset plan; no precedent; no pre-approval by the world; and no guarantee of success. In a sense, one problem is solved and another few are created. Your commitment level is tested, and you can confront the moment of being in a place without a mapâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and that includes rich inner territory without any prefabricated guide. The truth is most people would rather run. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easier and generally works better, that is, if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care.
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(May 20-June 21)
The angle of your chart that is pumping megavolts of power is the one where you meet the wider world of ideas and of possibilities. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the house of going past your mental limits. To get there, you need to do at least two things. One, throw away, dissolve, or step out of the contracts in relationships that do little other than create those limitations. Your life in that case consciously would become about something more than hooking up with that one special person. This supposed goal takes the place of every other goal, which keeps you locked in your past and terrified of the future. The second thing, as far as I can see, is figuring out the extent to which you allow yourself to take action on ideas you suspect other people wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t approve of. As in most matters, you will be coming at this from two distinct viewpoints: for example, one that wants to blaze out and be absolutely yourself; and another that will want no part of anything like that. Please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the mistake of spending more time fighting yourself than you do expressing yourself. Remember that just because something is acceptable to others does not mean itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not worth your time. Just because part of you rejects an idea does not mean itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the wrong for you.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22)
If I am not mistaken, the whole concept of making deals probably revolts you. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like success; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like thinking of it in terms of a hustle or a game where one person wins and another person loses. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to be even more irritating that so many people walk around with such an idea of successâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that it implies failure by someone else, or anything other than a situation where everyone benefits. A lot of people do in fact lose in these situations, and plenty more cheat to get a piece of the action, and this does in fact hurt people. And most of it is simply an addiction not to wealth or excess, but rather to the feeling of greed. Therefore, your primary objective this month needs to be thinking some other way. There are in truth many other ways available to us. What you may discover, as you experiment with them, is not so much a distrust of win/lose situations, but rather a distrust of situations where you come out ahead at allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the time has come to leave this particular worldview in the recycling heap of your psychic history. To accomplish this, note that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do things a lot differently, only a little differently. And this is not about being differentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about being who you are.
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LEO
(July 22-August 23)
Clearly this is an unusual time in your life, though the universe has yet to reveal its true colors. You may not understand the motives of someone close to you, or why they need to be so zealous about what they are trying to accomplish. Remember that not so long ago they had that moment when their ideas seemed like sage wisdom; but you may be having your doubts. This is understandable enough. Most of us would rather live in a laid-back world where things just happen. In the human realm, nothing just happens; everything is connected to intention and volition. Even the choice to be unconscious is an option. The situation you are looking at is rapidly driving itself in the direction where awareness is the only option, and that awareness would be very useful coming from you. You will feel more in control of your vehicle the more you apply your own intention and energy to the situation—gently, dancing with the flow, but consciously. There is an incomprehensible amount of energy moving, but the thing to remember is that it is beginning to focus like a laser. That calls for all the more care in how you handle it; all the more refinement; and with Mercury and Neptune together in the picture, the east-facing, forehead to the ground honoring of your intuition above all else.
VIRGO
(August 23-September 22)
The myth is that you are taking your time, needing to think the situation through left, right and in reverse; and that others are provoking to immediate action. This story has been going on so long they are starting to etch it into the side of the Great Sphinx, right where they hid the water damage with new masonry. There is at least one deeper layer to this psychology (with psychology there always is). Your caution and indeed your reticence to act is a veil thrown over your fear that your impetuosity will not lead to a flood, but rather a fire. Beneath your stoic exterior, your mind is on burning up. You seem to get into these cycles of thought, and I am sure there have been moments recently when you doubted your sanity. You may also be wondering whether some of your ideas are as brilliant as you think they are; as brilliant as they seem when they burst out like a solar flare or push you as you walk, like a firm gust of wind. I don’t think your mind is damaged; not in the sense of broken. What you have experienced has revealed elements of weakness and imbalance, but you’ve also experienced this sense of an interior opening where something truly different is escaping into your awareness. I suggest you feel, and think, and take notes; you will not burst into flames.
LIBRA
(September 22-October 23)
Creative power quickly turns destructive if it’s not focused with the utmost intention. In truth (at least in my spiritual view), all toxic energy or matter, and all destructive or self-destructive actions, are composed of misdirected creativity. It is easy to see this fact if you look closely enough and compassionately enough at any situation. However, there is another side to this. Any true (at least true in my opinion) artist will tell you that they draw enormous strength from their shadow material; from the places inside themselves that are filled with the things most people avoid vehemently: their pain, fear, regret, shame and their sense of the past. Creativity is about ideas, yes, but it’s also about burning all this shadow stuff as fuel. There are spiritual traditions that call this burning off karma, which is a close enough approximation. It’s not surprising how much of this stuff gathers around sex and relationships where sex is a factor. This dark erotic matter is some of the most potent source material for the creative process. There is just one thing: To go there, you have to get your hands dirty. The kind of art you are making is not airbrush or Adobe Illustrator. It’s more like finger-painting or sculpting with hot, wet clay—which would be you.
SCORPIO
(October 23-November 22)
Family of choice is rapidly becoming a more important influence in the world than family of origin. This makes sense to be, because the nuclear family is basically a creation of marketing culture, and humans are inherently tribal. It is this aspect of your life that is coming into focus now. The implication of your charts is that you are discovering, perhaps once again, that you are profoundly different than most of the people you know. By my reading you may feel you’re so different in the context of your values around home, family and tribe that you have long feared that you would never fit in. Everyone reaches this point at some time in their life; you have been here so many times that it’s starting to perplex you as to why. There are really two ways you can go, at this juncture. One is to try to conform; to seem normal; to set aside some of the things you might count as frivolous in exchange for something perhaps more necessary—such as a relationship as society defines it. The other way to go is to plunge all the way into what about you is absolutely different, and vow to be that person. As with so many simple things that it took Bob Dylan to remind us, “If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail.”
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(November 22-December 22)
I feel like I’m starting to repeat myself on this subject of your ideas, your ability to work with them and their influence in your life. Remember our society’s profound phobia of being different, of thinking differently, and even of having an original thought. It is a phobia (generally with its origins some time around kindergarten) that borders on manic, though in appearance it is often subdued. Be aware of this as you pursue a concept that you know is profoundly important to you. You don’t need anyone’s permission for what you are thinking or doing, and indeed this is an opportunity to step outside the notion that you do. This may be the easy part, anyway. The real struggle we face is what to do with freedom. Like many commentators on human potential before me, I am of the view that freedom is the most terrifying state of mind for “civilized” people—in part because it implies a) the necessity to take responsibility and b) being wrong, or a potential lack of civility. Freedom must, by is nature, embrace every possibility. Mars conjunct Chiron this month reminds us that what has the power to heal will also have the power to do harm, and this is why consciously directed intention, connected to conscious action, is the safest, most productive place you can place the focus of your mind right now. No other will ever suffice.
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(December 22-January 20)
With the world in the throes of money problems and the media delivering daily promises that the economy will seize like an engine without oil, this is your time to be resourceful. You do have resources; it’s a question of whether you know it or not, and whether you are willing to take a chance putting them to work for you. These resources will come in two forms, people and ideas. Despite its reputation for high achievement, your sign is one of the more retreating ones in the zodiac. But Pluto is pushing you to come out of your shell and express your passion. This would include focusing on aspects of your life that have deeper personal meaning than most Westerners are accustomed to ever experiencing. There may be many important values, goals or needs that are surfacing, and have been over the last couple of months, and the prevailing question is: where do you start? How do you do it all? It will not be long before one of them can be seen to be more important in its own right, and hold a key to the rest. This will take discernment and focus, which may be in short supply right now. That is the place to start. If you know what is important to you and moreover why it is important, you will see the obvious choices for what they are.
AQUARIUS
(January 20-February 19)
For a decade of your life, that is, dating back to approximately 1998, the prevailing influence on your personality was one that created a sense of obscurity about who you are. At best, this often came with a sense of being lost; at its worst, the feeling that you were living a lie. Yet the doubt and fog served a purpose, which was to melt away psychic patterns that, had they persisted, might have created a toxic mentality from which it would have been extremely difficult to escape. The process has started to change over the past few years, and very recently something seems to have thrown itself into a whole new direction. And I do mean thrown: the current astrology has come at you like a gale-force wind, with many changes, rapid inner and outer developments and perhaps a good splash of chaos for seasoning. In the midst of this, something is coming into high-resolution focus. I could write a book describing this one particular aspect, but in the simplest terms it is about mastering the ability to direct your willpower, your intention, and your sense of presence in the world—all as one entity. Feel that. Let this become who you are. The fog has cleared, the past is over, and you are sailing on the high seas.
PISCES
(February 19-March 20)
You have no idea—or maybe you do. The upsurge of energy that has been building behind the scenes of your life has now given way to one of the most interesting and high-energy performances on the cosmic stage. This is an extremely chaotic time for many, and no doubt you are feeling the pressure. Yet this is a cosmic moment that was made for a Pisces, because so much of it involves vast developments that transpose between the hidden world and the manifest one. You are gifted with a kind of psychic radar that few people around you have, or understand. Over the next few weeks it’s going to be providing you with extremely precise information; with keys to solving long-standing problems; and with a perspective on life that will reveal opportunities that are directly relevant to your talents and mission. You need to be an extraordinarily careful observer of yourself, of the people around you, and of the flow of events. You are as protected as you may be overwhelmed, so you can afford to trust the flow of events, and your perception of them. You can trust that the people you need, and who need you, are the ones who are now coming into your life. Most of all, you can trust your intentions. This is a rare, glorious, and dangerous time to be alive. Let’s do it well. Read Eric Francis Coppolino daily at PlanetWaves.net.
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