Chronogram July 2006

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CONTENTS NEWS AND POLITICS 25 FRAMED: THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE Lorna Tychostup interviews linguistics expert and Berkeley professor George Lakoff, author of Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea, about how framing is used in the political arena as shorthand for perceived truths.

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Political observer and author Larry Beinhart (Wag the Dog) examines the troubling details behind the $19.5 billion Iraq rip-off in a new column.

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 35 THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT Jay Blotcher profiles Global Youth Connect, a Kingstonbased nongovernmental organization that educates youth about human rights through trips to areas of former conflict, like Rwanda and Guatemala.

41 ART OF BUSINESS Shannon Gallagher tours Gnome on the Grange, a new mini-golf course at Kelder's Farm in Kerhonkson designed by mini-golf afficianado Maria Reidelbach.

41 PAR FOR THE FARM: The region's newest mini-golf course, Gnome on the Grange, at Kelder's Farm in Kerhonkson.

ARTS & CULTURE

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE

48 PORTFOLIO Sculptor Kathy Ruttenberg's figurative ceramics.

88 YOUR INNER CANNABIS Lorrie Klosterman examines the endocannabinoid

50 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson previews a traveling exhibition of Op Art from

system—the cellular pathways and marijuana-like chemicals in our physiology.

the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo at the New York State Museum in Albany.

53 GALLERY DIRECTORY What's hanging around the region.

56 MUSIC Sharon Nichols listens in to the transmission artists of free103point9 who

92 INNER VISION Pauline Uchmanowicz talks with area "transition specialists" about the ins and outs of being a life coach, part motivation counselor, part spiritual adviser.

BUSINESS SERVICES

run the Wave Farm in Greene County. Plus Nightlife Highlights and CD reviews.

83 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

60 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles novelist and Hudson Valley native T.C. Boyle.

94 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

62 BOOK REVIEWS Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta; The Golden Hour by

109 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services.

Nicholas Weinstock; The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee.

THE FORECAST

68 FICTION Swan Song by Darlene Rivais.

117 DAILY CALENDAR Listings of local events. Plus previews of the "The Drawer Boy"

70 POETRY Poems by Burton Aldrich, Paul Andre de Beaumont,

at the Shadowland Theater, Spiegeltent at Bard Summerscape, Galumpha at the

Alan Catlin, Jennifer Pruden Colligan, E. K. Gordon, Rebecca Maker,

Woodstock Playhouse, Dave Holland at Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, "Prairie" at

Jesslyn Roebuck, Frank Serpico, Randy Way, and Martin Zemlock.

Powerhouse in Poughkeepsie, Roseanne Cash at Belleayre Music Festival, Todd Mack at the Rosendale Street Festival, Q&A with performance artist Sekou Sundiata.

CULINARY ADVENTURES 78 FLOUR POWER Eric Steinman spends four days at the Culinary Institute of America learning the ins and outs of flour and yeast at Baking Bootcamp.

80 Q&A: ASIAN GRILLING WITH CORINNE TRANG Jennifer May talks serious barbecue with the Stone Ridge resident dubbed "the Asian Julia Child."

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PLANET WAVES HOROSCOPES 134 GRAND SQUARE DANCING Eric Francis Coppolino examines the effects of Saturn on Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron. Plus horoscopes.

PARTING SHOT 140 HOW A GREAT DAILY ORGAN IS TURNED OUT An etching by Richard Hamilton.

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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com ART DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com NEWS & POLITICS EDITOR Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Jim Andrews jandrews@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Sharon Nichols music@chronogram.com BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com WHOLE LIVING EDITOR Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com COPY EDITORS Andrea Birnbaum, Susan Piperato INTERNS Nora Balantzian, Patrick Shields PROOFREADERS Teal Hutton, Laura McLaughlin, Barbara Ross CONTRIBUTORS Burton Aldrich, Emil Alzamora, Paul Andre de Beaumont, Jay Blotcher, Alan Catlin, Amber S. Clark, Jennifer Pruden Colligan, Eric Francis Coppolino, DJ Wavy Davy, Econosmith, Shannon Gallagher, David Goldin, E.K. Gordon, Richard Hamilton, Hillary Harvey, Annie Internicola, Bri Johnson, Mike Jurkovic, Susan Krawitz, Rebecca Maker, Jennifer May, Anne Pyburn, Fionn Reilly, Jesslyn Roebuck, Frank Serpico, Dash Shaw, Shawn Snow, Sparrow, J. Spica, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Robert Burke Warren, Randy Way, Beth E. Wilson, Martin Zemlock SUBMISSIONS CALENDAR

To submit calendar listings, visit www.chronogram.com/calendar and click on "Add My Event" and fill out the form.

E-mail: events@chronogram.com / Fax: (845) 334-8610 Mail: 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 Deadline: July 15

POETRY

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

NONFICTION/FICTION

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

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

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PUBLISHING FOUNDERS Jason Stern & Amara Projansky PUBLISHER Jason Stern jstern@chronogram.com PUBLISHING ASSISTANT Lara Buongiorno lbuongiorno@chronogram.com ADVERTISING SALES WEST OF HUDSON RIVER Jamaine Bell jbell@chronogram.com, x112 EAST OF HUDSON RIVER Ralph Jenkins rjenkins@chronogram.com, x105 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE MANAGER Lisa Mitchel-Shapiro lshapiro@chronogram.com, x101 ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE Becca Friedman bfriedman@chronogram.com, x120 OFFICE ASSISTANT Matthew Watzka mwatzka@chronogram.com, x113 TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR Justin Zipperle PRODUCTION PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Yulia Zarubina-Brill yzarubina@chronogram.com, x108 PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Kiersten Miench kmiench@chronogram.com, x116 PRODUCTION DESIGNERS Jim Maximowicz jmaximowicz@chronogram.com, x106 Julie Novak jnovak@chronogram.com, x102 BUSINESS CONSULTANT Ajax Greene OFFICES: 314 Wall St. Kingston, NY 12401 845.334.8600 fax 334.8610 SUBSCRIBE Send $36/12-issues or visit www.chronogram.com/subscribe MISSION Chronogram is a regional magazine dedicated to stimulating and supporting the creative and cultural life of the Hudson Valley.

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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS

Julie Novak is a graphic artist at Luminary Publishing, but in her spare time she is a talented musician, trend-setter, puppeteer, and a super-amazing aunt. She will make you laugh as she ponders life’s mysteries.

Presently, Julie is on tour across the Midwest as a member of the “Sparkle Kids Action Network,” singing sweet acoustic music.

For a sample, check out: w w w. p u r e v o l u m e . c o m / julienovak. You can catch Julie at the Rosendale Street Fest on July 22 at 1pm with her band Gigantic. She is grateful to her employers for letting her take the time to pursue her dreams! Julie’s photographs of the New Paltz Pride March appear on page 21.

A regular contributor to Chronogram since 1997, Pauline Uchmanowicz is a widely published freelance writer and poet whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Z Magazine, and elsewhere. Food columnist for the Woodstock Times and author of the poetry chapbook Sand & Traffic (Codhill Press, 2004), she is an associate professor of English at SUNY New Paltz, where she directs the Composition Program. Pauline’s article on life coaching appears on page 93.

Emil Alzamora was born in Lima, Peru, in 1975, and raised in Boca Grande, Florida.

He later attended Florida State University where he graduated in 1998 earning a BA in Fine Arts. Alzamora started his sculpting career in the Hudson Valley working with Polich Art Works as primary enlarger in the fall of 1998. Since his departure from PAW in early 2001, he has produced and shown his work regularly throughout New York, Boston, Maine, and Florida. Alzamora’s interest in the human form and its ability to communicate with the viewer are what fuel his works. For more information: www.emilalzamora.com. He currently has a solo show at Karin Sanders Fine Art in Sag Harbor. Emil’s illustration for Planet Waves appears on page 134.

Shannon Gallagher is a Hudson Valley native, having recently returned from academic pursuits below the Mason-Dixon and more recently in Portland, Maine. She lives in Rhinebeck, happy to once again be close to the mountains that distinguish home. In Portland she studied at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, staying on after graduation to intern at Salt Magazine. Shannon’s profile of the new mini-golf course, Gnome on the Grange, opening this month at Kelder’s farm, appears on page 41.

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ON THE COVER

Fourth of July DAVID GOLDIN | DIGITAL COLLAGE | 2006

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hile some artists have to buy material before starting a project, Woodstock-based illustrator David Goldin works with whatever is laying around. Everything from nails and wrenches to crushed YooHoo cans are fair game when it comes to putting together his collages.

Goldin said that the things he uses for his collages is “More garbage-y stuff [like] used up train tickets. In Morocco, [it was] used up cereal boxes. Just stuff you find on the street or stuff that graphically catches your eye.” He added that, rather than using a white-colored piece of paper, he prefers old newspapers from other countries. “One reason I like foreign material is it has graphics on it that you might not recognize,” said Goldin.

Because of the way he puts together his art, Goldin’s work is considered digital collage. By photographing his work, he can manipulate the pieces on a computer using Photoshop.

“Sometimes it’s nice to have the flexibility of doing it digitally because you can resize things,” said Goldin. “In this piece, the bottle rockets were the wrong size so I could resize them without having to physically build something,” he said of the cover image, Fourth of July.

An unabashed collector, Goldin will use anything that is easily accessible to create his work. This is most notable in a soon to be published book series called The Little Junkyard. “Basically it’s a joke, cause I’m a world famous international junk collector. When I go through customs and they open my bags, they see all this garbage from Morocco or Egypt,” said Goldin, who then has to explain to quizzical officials why he’s bringing Middle Eastern trash back in his luggage.

Recently, Goldin completed a piece for the Wall Street Journal about iPods. “They sent me nice photos of iPods and their competition. And I turn them into the bodies of these characters doing the old 98-pound weakling thing on the beach where one guy is kicking sand in the other’s face,” Goldin said.

Goldin has three upcoming shows in Los Angeles in July, August, and December. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. His work can be viewed online at www.davidgoldin.com.

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Esteemed Reader Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

—Jesus, Matthew 7:7 Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: In my youth I sought illumined teachers for guidance. I dreamed of finding the one who would rescue me from ignorance. Now, despite being more established in the world—I have a house, a business, a family—I still observe the signs of waking sleep. I notice my body fidgeting, my mind wandering, and my emotions mostly hovering between apathy and fear. What is different is that I no longer hope or expect to be rescued.

The perception that finding follows seeking is an example of the reverse consciousness that pervades the mindset of these dark times. The delusion is the root of the American Nightmare—the myth of fulfillment that an ordeal of desperate or methodical work will yield success and happiness. It cannot be so, for the seed of what will be is inevitably present in what is. If I am driven by a feeling that that what I have is not enough, I can never be fulfilled—for I am practicing and reinforcing this feeling of lack. The apparent object of fulfillment may be achieved, but it will be replaced with a new one, and the disposition of lack will remain constant up to the dying breath.

Instead of seeking in order to find is to find what we seek.

In the example at hand, my own, is the pursuit of wakefulness in all its signs: sense of body and grace of movement; presence of mind—perceptivity, sharpness of wit, and encompassing awareness; and an open heart in the highest sense—positive, empowering emotions that arise in response to and for others. I have come to see that these signs are already present. If I seek them in front of me, where they are already existent, I find them instantaneously. Seeking and finding are one event.

This is the significance of the Buddhist admonition that we are ourselves already Buddhas (the word literally means “awakened”). On this basis, though we practice, there is nothing to attain. Hinayana Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah said “we practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things”—including enlightenment. In other words the idea of achieving, attaining, or possessing anything that is not already present is delusion. For most this is the bad news, because our hopes and desires are pinned to imaginary and idealistic notions of what isn’t but could be or should become the case.

The good news is that everything exists in the present. If what I want is success, I can acknowledge a good bowel movement. Appreciating such a taken-for-granted example will inevitably increase my capacity for other forms of success. If my goal is to possess more money I can indulge the thrill of finding a penny on the pavement. Experiencing a seeming insignificant acquisition of wealth will produce a disposition of wealth that produces more of the same. If my goal, as in the case of the example at hand, is wakefulness, I can notice that the baby in the carriage near where I’m sitting is looking at me with utter and total openness beaming out a torrent of awareness; or that the man pouring sugar into his coffee is taking great care and attention in a seeming prosaic act; or that the person I am speaking with in a business meeting is really, truly listening.

I used to hope for a teacher to rescue me with the secret technique, the magic knowledge that would enable me to climb out of my low-level life. Now I recognize that everyone I encounter is demonstrating the wakefulness I wish for in my heart of hearts. Everyone, without exception, is the teacher I seek.

Thank you for being my teacher.

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WRITING CONTEST Fall Literary Supplement Chronogram is sponsoring two writing contests for the upcoming Fall Literary Supplement, to be edited by Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold.

For our annual Fiction Contest, we’re seeking outstanding short stories, up to 4,000 words in length. The guest judge will be Valerie Martin, prize-winning author of Property, Mary Reilly, and The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories. The winning story will receive $100 and publication in the Literary Supplement.

Honorable Mention stories will be eligible for publication in future issues of Chronogram. All entries must be unpublished; Chronogram requests first publication rights only, with reprint and all other rights to remain with the author. Submission deadline is August 15, 2006. Please send your best work (no more than one story per writer) to fiction@chronogram.com, or by mail to Chronogram Contests, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401.

For our first Humor Contest, “Joined at the Hip,” we invite you to help us eliminate bookshelf clutter by double-booking great works of literature. Please provide a title and one-line concept pitch for a literary twofer, e.g.:

Huckleberry Finnegans Wake. A plucky lad and a runaway slave fall asleep on a raft in the stream of consciousness.

Inherit the Wind in the Willows. A mole, a rat, and a toad are brought to trial by weasels for daring to believe in evolution.

Moby-Dick-and-Jane. “Look, Ishmael! See Dick breach.

Breach, Dick, breach!”

Entries will be judged by Shengold and Horowitz (who, contrary to popular belief, are not joined at the hip). Each winner will receive a Chronogram t-shirt. Submission deadline is September 15, 2006. Please send up to three entries to Humor Contest, fiction@chronogram.com, or by mail to Chronogram Contests, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401.

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PHOTO CREDITS: JULIE NOVAK (NEW PALTZ PRIDE FESTIVAL); ECONOSMITH (CLEARWATER FESTIVAL); LORNA TYCHOSTUP (SAVE THE RIDGE CELEBRATION)

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

Top left: Marchers in the New Paltz Pride Festival on June 4, a Chronogram-sponsored event.

Bottom left: A pride of Shengolds: Maya, Nina (Chronogram books editor), David, and Margaret at New Paltz Pride. Right, top to bottom: Sloop Clearwater making its final sail on Sunday, June 18 at the Clearwater Revival in Croton Point Park; Audience members listening to Pete Seeger at Clearwater; Dancers grooving to Soul Purpose at the Save the Ridge celebration party on June 10 in New Paltz; Ajax Greene, Amy Little, and Kathy Hudson at the Save the Ridge celebration.

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Editor’s Note

As I was standing in the doorway of the kitchen chatting with Rich Reeve, the chef, the owner, Dennis Cooper appeared behind me. A genial fellow, he said, without malice, “I guess you were right.” Now far be it from me to disagree with someone who is acknowledging my prognostication skills, but I had no idea what he was referring to, and said so. “You said, ‘But will it work in Kingston?’ I guess not,” he said, and with that he left the kitchen.

The restaurant in question is 23 Broadway. And for the record, what I actually wrote in a profile of the restaurant for the March 2005 issue, was: “Is tapas too weird to survive in downtown Kingston?” By the time you read this, 23 Broadway will have already shut its doors. Thankfully I will have one more chance to eat dinner there before the end of the month of June, when it closes for good.

The night Lee Anne and I heard the restaurant would be closing, we almost cried in Rich’s arms. While I can’t say I was overly surprised—the emptiness of a large space like a restaurant dining room designed to accommodate chattering pods of people is eerie and off-putting on a Friday night, and a trend in recent months at 23—learning of the closing was devastating, like a good friend telling you they had taken a job in Australia. (Rich wasn’t crying, he was trying to decide whether he should find another job immediately or take some time off.)

Before we left, we got Rich to sign a menu for us, which we are having framed.

I kid you not.

Why all the fuss about a restaurant? Why all the fuss about this restaurant? The Hudson Valley is full of restaurants; they open and close all the time. I mean, for all its charms, 23 probably wasn’t the best restaurant in the region. I’ve had more memorable meals in the past year at other restaurants, in fact. And its wine list was awkward, not quite matching the tapas-themed menu and not quite sure where else it should go.

I haven’t mentioned the food yet. Perhaps you’ve been enduring all the maudlin reflections while waiting for the descriptions of the meals, the food porn. As I wrote in my profile, the food was stunning. And part of why I was so stunned by the food was that it was unexpected, that I never imagined the food in a storefront restaurant on the Rondout in Kingston—an area known for its restaurants but

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING On CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on June 18, Gloria Borger, a CBS News contributor and US News & World Report contributing editor, acknowledged that the media “are suckers” because of their coverage of President Bush’s surprise trip to Iraq on June 13.

“I think we are suckers. Particularly if you’re the one who gets to go on the [press] pool...and gets to travel with the president on a secret trip to Baghdad. We do like these secret trips. Believe it or not, we kind of like to be surprised, but I think if you’re a bureau chief in Washington, you may be asking, ‘Gee, why didn’t we have more information?’ And when you ask that question, the answer you always get from the White House is, ‘Because this has to be shrouded in secrecy because this is a matter of presidential security. So we can’t tell you more about this in advance.’ So you know you’re being used, but in a way you kind of like it because it’s good pictures.”

Source: MediaMatters.org Some facts on air conditioning: One out of every five kilowatt hours of electricity consumed in the US goes to cooling buildings. This kilowattage (not including what’s used to cool military facilities or manufacturing plants) exceeds the entire electricity consumption of India and Indonesia—the world’s second and fourth most populous nations—combined. Of the seven billion gallons of gasoline burned by cars and light trucks in the US annually, five-and-a-half percent goes to run air conditioning—this is equivalent to twice the nation’s entire ethanol-fuel production. California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida account for 35 percent of that consumption.

(Studies differ on the exact fuel efficiency numbers of driving with windows down—increasing aerodynamic drag—or rolling them up an using the AC—which puts extra load on the engine—but a comparison of the two cooling strategies suggests a statistical dead heat.)

not very many good ones—could be so consistently risk-taking, high-quality, and fun.

The food is what made us come back the first few times.And while we’ll miss the food—and we’ll follow Rich wherever he goes next—we’re going to miss the thought of our favorite restaurant’s not existing most. Even on nights when we didn’t go, it was comforting to know that 23 was there. I could picture Bianca behind the bar, pouring wine, her husky laugh resounding; Daniella parading plates of tapas across the soft-lit space; Rich craning his neck under the glass partition to see what was happening in the dining room. It was our favorite restaurant. Maybe not the best, but it was ours, and that made all the difference.

••• This month, we debut a new column by Woodstock resident Larry Beinhart, Beinhart’s Body Politic, which can be found on page 33. A seasoned political observer, Larry will be writing on current events. He is best known for his prescient novel American Hero, on which the film Wag the Dog is based. Last fall, he published Fog Facts: Looking for Truth in the Land of Spin, a critique of the media’s inability to deliver quality reportage, especially about the Bush administration.

••• Chronogram’s own Julie Novak is in Chicago, on tour with the Sparkle Kids Action Network. In addition to being a graphic designer, Julie is also quite a talented musician, and she’s traveling across the Midwest with two other local musicians, MikeWilcock and Dave End, and writer and book artist Jacinta Bunnell, in a1987 Mercedes converted to Biodiesel. The report from the Sparkle Kids is that they have already driven 1,200 miles on just $30 in fuel (and a lot of recycled fry oil). Shine on, you crazy Sparkle Kids.

—Brian K. Mahoney

In January, the Environmental Protection Agency raised energy-efficiency standards by 30 percent for newly manufactured home central air conditioners.

This regulation will have little effect in the near future as central air units typically last 10 to 15 years.

The first modern central air-conditioning system, installed in 1902, was to cool the New York Stock Exchange.

Source: Alternet.org, New Scientist Authorities at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp reported on June 10 that two Saudis and one Yemeni were found dead in their cells after using clothing to hang themselves. There have been more than 40 suicide attempts at the prison camp, but these inmates were the first to succeed. Following the announcement of the deaths, some Bush administration and military officials made less than sympathetic remarks about the deaths of the three men. Rear Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo, stated that the men had been “determined to take their own lives,” and that the suicides were an act of “asymmetrical warfare” aimed at getting the prison to close. Colleen Graffy, deputy assistant US secretary of state for public diplomacy, told the BBC that the deaths were “a good PR move to draw attention,” and that the suicides were “a tactic to further the jihadi cause.” Graffy’s boss, Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes, is charged with improving the US image in Arab nations.

Only 10 detainees have been charged with crimes after more than four years behind bars at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

Source: AP, BBC In late April, the Boston Globe reported that since taking office, President Bush has issued more than 750 signing statements. What’s a signing statement? It’s an official document in which a president lays out his legal

Glen Wilson

“A restaurant is a fantasy—a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.”

—Warner LeRoy

interpretation of a bill for the federal bureaucracy to follow when implementing the new law. President Bush’s signing statements, however, are often in opposition with the actual bills he’s signing into law—a de facto assertion by the president that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. Bush has repeatedly stated that he does not need to execute a law he believes is unconstitutional.

According to the Boston Globe, the laws Bush said he can ignore are “military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, whistle-blower protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.”

The total number of signing statements by all presidents before Bush, dating back to George Washington, is 568.

Source: Boston Globe, Harper’src: Boston Glob, Harper’s On May 30, Karl Zinsmeister, Bush’s newly appointed domestic policy advisor, acknowledged that he had altered a 2004 Syracuse New Times profile of him and changed both quotes and text before reposting it on the website of the American Enterprise Institute magazine, which he edits—still under the byline of the New Times author, Justin Park. One of the quotes Zinsmeister changed was originally published as: “People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty human beings.” Zinsmeister has said that he merely “corrected” misquotes and wrong impressions in the original article, but Park has released an e-mail from Zinsmeister shortly after the article appeared in which he praised it for fairness and accuracy.

At a White House press briefing, spokesperson Tony Snow was forced to defend Zinsmeister, saying he should not be judged on this incident alone.

Source: Editor & Publisher

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NEWS & POLITICS World, Nation, & Region

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s a cognitive linguist, prolific author, challenger of Noam Chomsky, and professor of linguistics at Berkeley, George Lakoff looks at a single word and sees more than a simple grouping of letters assigned a specific meaning or meanings. Instead, he sees that word as a trigger, a neural pathway carved into the brain that immediately and automatically summons up a person’s intrinsic values—the values which define identity and beliefs.

All words are “frames,” Lakoff says. String a few wellchosen words together, and a slogan is born. Similar to the way Pavlov’s dogs reacted to his ringing a bell, when a person hears a frame in the form of a word or grouping of words, images, feelings, and definitions specific to that person and the nuances of his or her personal social upbringing are evoked. Having analyzed the differences between how “conservatives” and “progressives” view the world, Lakoff structures his discussion of those differences based on what he sees as the two widely varying sets of frames each group is raised under—the “strict father model” (conservative) vs. the “nurturant parent model” (progressive).

The definition behind any particular frame may or may not represent the actual truth, but after hearing or reading that frame enough times, the set of beliefs the frame evokes becomes the truth. The real truth dissipates as it is replaced by a false truth—or in some cases, more simply put, a lie. For example, what images and feelings does the phrase “War on Terror” conjure up for you? Do you see the “War on Terror” as an actual war, or do you see it as a slogan put together to direct public opinion? What stirs in your heart when you hear or read those three words?

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food you’ve been fed over a period of time that stimulates the same reaction? If the bowl is emptied—for example, the frames associated with WWII that were used to stir the hearts and minds of Americans were no longer needed and were put to rest over time—can those same words be used again at some point in the future, say, in relation to the current “War onTerror,” to conjure the nostalgic feelings associated with that time period?

I originally intended my conversation with George Lakoff to focus on the immigration debate, following the publication by the Rockridge Institute of a report by Lakoff and Sam Ferguson, “The Framing of Immigration,” in late May. However, as Lakoff quickly proved, the focus and outcome of all debate rests in how one frames that debate. He believes that conservatives have sunk a lot of time and money into framing their issues. In the case of progressives, Lakoff says “a conceptual overhaul” and “reframing” of how to approach and define issues is in order if their message is to be understood. Lakoff’s latest book, Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea, published in June by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, discusses the competing rhetoric used by progressives and conservatives in shaping political discourse.

Lorna Tychostup: Please explain “framing.”

George Lakoff:The idea is this:We think in terms of mental structures, and all words are defined by those structures. For example, take a word like “relief.” For there to be “relief,” there has to be an “affliction” and an “afflicted party” who is harmed by that affliction, and a “reliever” who takes that affliction away and is therefore a “hero.” And if anybody tries to stop the hero they’re a “bad guy.” If you add “tax” to that, you

get a metaphor that “taxation” is an affliction to be taken away. And if anybody tries to stop taking that affliction away, they are bad people. Any time you hear the words “tax relief ” that “frame” comes up.

Frames have certain semantic roles, which in this example include the affliction, the afflicted party, and the interloper. Then you also have “properties” of these things. The affliction is “bad”—an abstract thing. The afflicted party is a person. The reliever is a person. They have relations among them, which is “the affliction harms the afflicted party,” “the reliever takes it away,” etc. So there is a “scenario.” And these parts show up in frame after frame—that is, frames have a structure and we reason in terms of these structures. And words are defined relative to these structures so that use of the word invokes the entire frame. In addition, if you learn the words, you learn the frame.And because you think with your brain you learn a frame. The frame is physically represented in the synapses of your brain.

LT: The pathway is carved.

GL: Exactly. I am co-director of the Neural Theory of Language program at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley, and this is part of what I have been doing for the past 15 years.What that means is that if the frame is established—if there are facts that do not fit the frame and you don’t have any other frame to make sense of the facts, so the frame trumps the facts. The frame stays. The facts are ignored because the frame defines common sense. Common sense is the use of the frames you already have. Got it?

LT:Yes, I’ve got the sheep imagery down.You carve the synapse, you’ve got the path, all follow.

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MEXICAN MEN WALK ALONG THE BORDER WALL THAT SEPARATES AGUA PRIETA, SONORA, MEXICO FROM DOUGLAS, ARIZONA, MAY 23, 2006. IMMIGRANTS SAY THEY WILL KEEP CROSSING THE BORDER DESPITE US PLANS TO BUILD MORE FENCES AND SEND THE NATIONAL GUARD TO KEEP THEM OUT.

GL: It is more complicated than that. That is what is called a “surface frame.”The interesting part consists of “deep frames.” The deep frames include moral worldviews and fundamental principle.

LT: This frame gets to the heart of the matter?

How a person feels about something deep inside of them?

GL: Yes, and not only that, the frame defines the person’s identity. That’s the big deal.

LT: So the frame I accept represents what I am as a person.

GL: Exactly. Let me give you the examples of that.

Let me tell you how I came on these examples. In 1994 during the Newt Gingrich era, while that election was going on, I asked myself a question: Why should the same people who are against abortion be for the flat tax? What does taxation have to do with abortion? Why should those same people be against environmental regulation, and against gun control?

Why should those people be against the death penalty, and for tort reform, and against environmental regulation? What do all these things have to do with one another? It made no sense to me.Then I noticed that I had the opposite views on all of these things.

I couldn’t answer the question. Very embarrassing. I recognized this was a problem in my field of cognitive science so I began to conduct research and I got the answer from conservatives: “Family values.” We have the metaphor of the nation as a family: the founding fathers, Daughters of the American Revolution, Homeland Security, etc.That metaphor is a very natural one, and is there because your first experience with governance is with your family. So, basically, any

governing institution can be seen as a family.The idea is that that metaphor—the nation as a family—has two versions, each representing two different types of families giving two different views of the nation, and two different views of what is moral: the strict father family, and the nurturing parent family.

The strict father family has a strict father who is a moral authority in charge of the family, and mommy is a subordinate to him. And a strict father is needed because there is evil in the world and he must protect the family; there are competitions in the world [and] he must deal with them to support the family; and kids are born bad, in the sense that they just do what they want to do because they don’t know right from wrong—an absolute right and an absolute wrong— and it is the father’s job to teach them via punishment when they do wrong. So if he disciplines them when they do wrong then they will develop internal disciplines to avoid the pain of the physical discipline and they will discipline themselves to do “right.” And that is the only way they will become moral beings. And if they do “right” and get discipline, there is this wonderful secondary effect:They will use the discipline out in the world in the market to become prosperous.

LT: This is one model.

GL: Yes. And you can see its political effects. If you are not prosperous, you are not disciplined.Therefore you are not moral. So you deserve your poverty.The strict father is in charge. Morality is obedience. He is the decider in everything.Whether it’s foreign policy or domestic policy, he is not to be questioned. All of this is part of the model.

The other model is the nurturing parent model, where the parents are equal if there are two of them (there may be only one). Their job is to nurture their children and most importantly, to raise their

children to be nurturers of others. The nurturance has two parts: empathy and care, and responsibility to act on that care. That means you are responsible for yourself—you can’t take care of anyone else if you are not taking care of yourself—and responsibility.

You raise your kids to care about other people, to be responsible for themselves and socially responsible.

And that is the opposite of indolence.

From that model you get all progressive principles. You raise your child[ren] and you have to protect them. From that you get worker protection, environmental protection, consumer protection, and safety nets.You care about your kid[s], you want them to be happy and fulfilled. In order to be fulfilled they have to be free. In order to be free they have to have opportunities. In order to have opportunities there has to be general prosperity. All of this is part of the liberal ideal.You are not alone.You live in community.

What kind of community? A nurturing community with leaders who care, are responsible, and where people are responsible to each other.And that requires cooperation, which requires trust, which requires honesty. Those are the values.

So you have two versions of “family values.”They’re both part of the picture, and what is most interesting is that everybody knows both models.

LT:What bothers me about this view is that it is so polarizing. From a sociological viewpoint this is generalizing and stereotyping the whole population into two sides.

GL: The interesting thing is that some people, probably a good third of Americans, live by both of these models in both parts of their lives.

LT: So one family can experience each of these models at the same time?

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A PROTESTER HOLDS A PLACARD AS SHE LISTENS TO LEADERS FROM THE MINUTEMEN GROUP SPEAK IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON FEBRUARY 8, 2006. ABOUT 50 DEMONSTRATORS ATTENDED THE RALLY WHICH WAS HELD TO PROTEST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INTO THE UNITED STATES.

GL: Yes. And each of these models is not necessarily what you experience in your family, but also what you experience in your culture—in the movies and on TV. LT: As you were going through your examples I thought, “Well, my home was conservative, where did I come from?”

GL: Exactly. A lot of people are like that. Their culture, their peers, school experiences, nurturing teachers, etc.—some people can recognize them, and sometimes you rebel against one. Some people live entirely by one model, but they will recognize the other in the movies or on TV. When you watch a John Wayne movie, you don’t leave and say, “What was that about?”

So that is a piece of this story. From this you get all of the ideological positions and you predict new ones.

LT: Predict new ones?

GL: If a new issue comes up, you know what to say about it. Stem cell research—you know what to say about it. There is more to say about all of this, but in general, these models give you an idea of where to come down on an issue. You get a set of principles, a model. And the model generates your position on the issue. A new issue comes up and the model will tell you how to think.

LT:These models are used politically. I think of the lead-up to and the beginning of the war on Iraq.

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ship seemed to be straight out ofWorldWar II and it was clear to see how people responded to it.

GL: Well, they took an unquestionably wrong war and said Saddam Hussein was Hitler—which they had tried to use before—and we have to go to war.

The war was planned in advance and it was based on neo-conservatives’ notions of the national interests that the Project for the New American Century laid out in 1996. It has been sitting there on the Internet—you can read it. [www.newamericancentury. org/publicationsreports.htm; Rebuilding Americas Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources For a New Century.]

LT:Yes.They had a blueprint with core principles: defend the American homeland; fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars; perform the “constabulary” duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions; transform US forces to exploit the “revolution in military affairs.” It spoke about the need for an event mimicking the attack on Pearl Harbor to consolidate the US public’s support for rebuilding a military that could dominate the world.The PNAC document goes so far as to warn: “Further, the process of transformation [of the US military], even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.” And here we find ourselves.You speak of “reframing”—telling the truth as progressives see it.

GL: The first thing is that the brute facts are tough.

Say someone dies—they got shot in the head. Is this person a terrorist or a freedom fighter? If they are still alive—were they shot defending the country, and therefore should be immediately sent toWalter Reed Hospital to [get patched up], or should we let them fester in Iraq or let them die? So the brute facts have to be framed. Unframed, they may mean nothing. It is the framing that gives meaning to the fact.

LT: It means nothing to whom?

GL: It means nothing to anybody without a frame.

If you are suffering, that suffering provides a frame.

If you empathize with somebody that means you’re working in that frame model.

LT:Your example was: terrorist vs. freedom fighter. This is an example I use in my lectures. I say, “Freedom fighter, insurgent, terrorist, whatever you decide you want to call them is based on your beliefs. It is the same person.”

GL: What you are doing is writing them another frame. You are trying to say, “These are just people.

And these people are being framed by other people.

But they are just folks.” It is a different frame and a choice to step out of the ideologies, a humanist frame that says, “These are just folks.”

LT: Well, I am also trying to point out the frames that are present. I say, “You might call them a terrorist but the person next to you might call them a

GL: It is not just about defining terms. They fit into the structure, and not just the structure where there is a word “terrorist” but terrorist as it fits into the “strict father” or “nurturing parent” models.

truth will dissipate.

LT: And this is where the reframing comes in. How does one reframe?

GK: It is horrifying, but it is true. You notice it, right?

GL: Yes. We are trying to make people aware of their frames. It ain’t so easy. First of all, you have to know what you are doing. The other guys—the conservatives—know what they are doing because they have all these “think tanks” that have formed in the last 35 years and have been doing research. They have spent about $4 billion over the last 35 years. They spend $400 million per year now. The source of these figures is Rob Stein of the Democracy Alliance.The conservatives have research think tanks, training institutes; they spend about half of their money on media; they have a booking agency that books conservatives on radio and TV around the country so 80 percent of talking heads are conservative.

LT: Yes.

LT: They have a machine?

GL:Yes. It has become clearer over the past few years. Rob Stein made it very clear in 2003. The Democracy Alliance is attempting to get money to do something about this. Progressive think tanks are being formed—the only one really dedicated to reframing is the Rockridge Institute, which I am affiliated with, but [it] has very little money. The problem is that people think that framing is just words. But it is ideas—deep ideas within us.

LT: Ideas that cut to the heart of a person?

GL: Yes, ideas that define them as a person.

LT: So how do we reframe issues?

GL: We have to use the fact that a lot of people are bi-conceptual and you have to activate their nurturing model with words and with arguments. To do it you must repeat your argument over and over and over. You have to carefully construct these arguments so they undermine the other guy’s arguments. The biggest advantage we have is that a majority of people already have a version of this nurturing model within them even if it is not very active.

But it is there.

LT: I have seen this everywhere I go when giving lectures around the country. People are so concerned. The majority are concerned about the same things. Yet they just have no direction, no leadership. No one is directing traffic.

GL: That is exactly right. I have a new book coming out called Whose Freedom? which gets into this.

LT: What scares me about one thing you say is that if the truth doesn’t fit the existing frame, the frame will stay in place and the

GK: You got it. That is scary.

LT: It’s horrifying.

GL: Everybody has understood this except Al Gore.

LT: Well, wouldn’t we call him an idealist?

GL: I would call him a rationalist. He goes around giving talks that are rational. In his movie, which I think is very good, he actually does not just give the facts when he frames global warming. He frames global warming from a nurturing perspective.

LT: Well, he is an environmentalist at heart and the environmentalist view says, “Nurture the earth and it will nurture us back.”

GL: That’s the idea.

LT:You talk about the frames in today’s immigration debate.There is the “they are illegal” frame, the security frame, the amnesty frame, the undocumented worker, the temporary worker, the guest worker, the humanitarian frame, the foreign policy frame.

GL: There are issue-defining frames. If you say, “the problem is that of illegal immigration,” then who is to blame?The immigrants. If you say, “the problem is that of illegal employment,” then the people to blame are the employers. So if you define the problem as one of illegal employers, it can’t be illegal to make more money, it is a different problem than that of illegal immigrants. Or if [you say] the problem is illegal consumption—that the American consumers want cheap goods and a better lifestyle without having to pay for it. Or you can define it as a problem of our free trade policies, which have screwed up the Mexican economy.There are all kinds of ways to frame this problem.You could frame it as a cheap labor problem—that is, our corporations are structured to drive down the cost of labor. Labor is seen as a resource and you maximize profit by retaining responsible resources.

LT: There is also the frame that says, “This is work Americans won’t do.”

GL: Which is not necessarily true. Americans won’t do it for pay that will cause them to live below the poverty line. If you say, “If you pick strawberries I’ll pay you a million dollars a day,” everybody is going to be out there picking strawberries.You get the general picture. So we went through all the frames that are being used and the frames that are not being used.

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PROTESTORS HOLD U.S., MEXICAN AND SALVADOREAN FLAGS AS THEY MARCH IN LOS ANGELES, MAY 1, 2006, AS PART OF WHAT WAS BEING BILLED AS ‘A DAY WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS,’ A NATIONWIDE PROTEST STAGED BY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES TO PROTEST PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO REFORM U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW.

models are complicated and this issue of immigration creates fissures in their accepted models. If you consider one part of the model more important, and the other person who believes in your model considers a different part more important, they might both be conservative but they will come down on different sides of the issue. Bush considers the market the most important thing. Right? Free trade policy. So he is for temporary workers. This involves letting those who are here or who have been here for five years or more get citizenship because they are ready and able to work. And we are going to need a big supply of temporary workers who are young and who aren’t voting—because Republicans don’t want them to vote because they would vote Democratic—and don’t have rights to things like medical care, etc. So temporary workers are a way to bring in labor that is cheap and where the people have no rights. From my point of view, this is pathetic, but from Bush’s point of view it is the practical and right thing to do because they make some money and he makes some money, the market recedes, and the corporations are more profitable.

LT: Where is the fissure?

GL: The fissure is this. We talked about models, and there is something I didn’t tell you. There is a moral hierarchy which pairs morality and power. Moral people should be the people in power because they are good people. Good people are disciplined people.

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western culture above non-western culture;America above all other nations; straight above gays, right?

A lot of social conservatives have this hierarchy.

To acquire this hierarchy—the first part is already built into all conservatives.They may or may not be bigots, but they all believe in America over other countries, western culture over non-Western culture, etc. What does that say? Inferior people are coming into the country speaking a language that is inferior to our language, and they are threatening our culture and our way of life. They are lesser beings and we need to boot them out, deport them, and not only that—according to our morality—if you do something bad you must be punished. It is a duty to punish people. And the immigrants are criminals because they committed the crime of crossing the border without papers. So they should be arrested and deported. And more of them shouldn’t be let in.

LT: Except the ones who tend their yards. Social conservatives use this labor source as well.

GL: They sure do. And they are conflicted.They have to decide whether their profits are more important than their bigotry.

LT: This is interesting. I spoke recently with a financial advisor here in my incredibly green and progressive community. He told me that the greenest of the green people come and ask for green and/or sustainable investment prospects which he has plenty of to offer. As part of the job, he has to tell them that the green investments

don’t have as high a yield as the others and to a person—

GL: They go with the higher yield?

LT: Yes. He said this is true even of the greenest of the green who preach green in their daily lives and work. The bottom line is profit.

Money.

GL: Paul Hawken did a study of socially responsible investment companies. He found that they had rigid standards for identifying real socially responsible funds. [See “The Truth About Ethical Investing,” www.alternet.org/story/21888.]

LT:What do you suggest as a progressive solution to immigration in the US?

GL: I do not make any suggestions for the following reason. Immigration is the wrong issue.There is a set of issues—this is complex causation in action—there is a set of issues here: One is what I’ll call a cheap labor trap.We have a corporate system and economic system that drives down the price of labor and insists on cheaper and cheaper labor to earn more and more profits. That creates the trap that everybody can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. It also increases the demand for cheaper labor that we can’t supply via the people in this country. Not only that, this creates a trap for Americans who are poor.Their wages aren’t going to go up. Profits for American corporations have doubled since Bush came into office and wages have declined slightly.

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U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENT RICARDO AGUIRRE (L) AND HIS SUPERVISOR JOSE ESCARENO (R) QUESTION AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FROM GUATEMALA AFTER AGUIRRE APPREHENDED THE MAN CROSSING THE RIO GRANDE RIVER ILLEGALLY INTO THE UNITED STATES NEAR EAGLE PASS, TEXAS, JUNE 10, 2005. THE U.S. BORDER PATROL HAS CAPTURED 15,195 NON-MEXICAN MIGRANTS, MOSTLY FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND BRAZIL, CROSSING THE RIO GRANDE RIVER NEAR EAGLE PASS IN THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS.

LT: And according to a farmer in my community of disappearing farms, apples are the same price per pound that they were 15 years ago. So what is the answer?

GL: I am not going to give you an answer. I am saying you have to understand the questions before you can get an answer. The question is a huge question. This is about cheap labor. It is about US foreign policy and the way so-called free trade is screwing up other countries. You can’t address this question without taking a serious look at the heart of the so-called free trade policies and so on.

LT: So it requires an extensive examination of all the issues?

GL: Yes,On this question and on other questions as well. What about American workers who are trapped? They are not separate.

What you are doing is pitting them against the immigrants. So many of them are angry at the immigrants for political reasons.

While their wages are going down other people are profiting. And then there is the question of who gets the profits? Well, the people who get the profits are wealthy in-

vestors. The top one percent of the country own 33 percent of the wealth. That’s more than the bottom 90 percent. And that has doubled in the past 30 years. Now there are other people in between. So if you take the top 10 percent, they have 95 percent of the wealth.

LT: The bottom line, besides that it all needs close examination, is that economics of the situation is the crux.

GL: Right. The economics of the situation is the crux. And it involves the economics of the wealth distribution, the economics of: What does the balance sheet look like? Why is labor considered a resource? And laws that say that corporations must maximize profits to shareholders. It has to do with trade policies.

LT: So ultimately there is a deeper truth here.

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Beinhart’s Body Politic by Larry Beinhart

THE ONE GOOD STORY There’s only one good story from the Iraq War. It’s not the targeted killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It’s not the adventure of Jessica Lynch, either the first fake heroic tale of resistance, implied rape and rescue, or the revised tale about media manipulation and falsification. It’s not the great dramas of elections with the purple thumbs, though, I admit, those were pretty good.

The reason I discount the elections, as dramatic and heart warming as they were, is because of what they were supposed to mean. In the words of our Commander-in-Chief, from a speech at the US Army War College on May 24, 2004: “The rise of a free and self-governing Iraq will deny terrorists a base of operation, discredit their narrow ideology, and give momentum to reformers across the region.This will be a decisive blow to terrorism at the heart of its power, and a victory for the security of America and the civilized world.”

Reviewing that point by point makes it clear how shallow the show was. Instead of denying the terrorists a base, the whole country is theirs to run riot in. It has not discredited their ideology, it has, rather, been followed by Hamas’ victory in Palestine, aggressiveness from Iran, the return of both the opium warlords and the Taliban to Afghanistan. Instead of being a decisive blow to terrorism, it has demonstrated the limitations of American power and decreased the amount of security in the world.

The one great story is the $19.5 billion rip-off.

The plan that was announced was that the United States was going to rebuild Iraq. The oil would flow, business would thrive, stores would be open, goods would be imported and exported, the streets would be paved, there would be education, and sanitation, courts with real justice and police without torture, there would be clinics, hospitals, and schools.

Congress allocated $3 billion and then $18 billion for that purpose.

It was to be administered by the Coalition Provisional Authority, the CPA, which is sort of a funny set of initials, because they didn’t keep any books and did not, as required by the law that funded them, hire a certified public accountant.

The CPA began to go about its business in April 2003.Then there was a scandal when Halliburton was caught overcharging for gasoline imported from Kuwait.

After the first year of reconstruction, Congress, in reaction, passed regulations that required the CPA to have competitive bids and keep books.This was too much for Paul Bremer III and the CPA. They simply stopped using that money.

They turned to another source of funds.

When America won on the battlefield they took over the UN’s oil-for-food program. There was money already in the bank and, as the oil flowed out, more money flowed in. No knows how much since, apparently, no accounts were kept.

It’s usually estimated at $9 billion.The CPA also took over Saddam’s accounts in Iraq and Iraq’s fund that had been frozen in the US. That brought the total into the $19 billion to $21 billion range.Those fund were supposed to be held, like an escrow account, for Iraq to be turned over when Iraq had a government.

There were no congressional restrictions on that money.

There was no Iraqi government in existence to complain.

It was very unlikely that anyone would ever come after it in a serious way.

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policy of the United States…any…judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void.”

So the CPA took the money it was holding for Iraq and spent it. Fast. According to a July 3, 2004 Baltimore Sun article by Mark Matthews: “US officials in charge of the Development Fund for Iraq drained all but $900 million from the $20 billion fund by late last month in what a watchdog group has called an ‘11th-hour splurge.’”

But where? Where did the money go? Here’s one perfect tidbit from an October 16, 2004 article from the Boston Globe, by Bryan Bender: “One chunk of the money—$1.4 billion—was deposited into a local bank by Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq but could be tracked no further.The auditors reported that they were shown a deposit slip but could find no additional record to explain how the money was used or to prove that it remains in the bank.”

Planeloads of $100 bills were being loaded on planes in New Jersey and flown to Iraq.There they were handed out in suitcases and duffel bags to Army guys.That was reported in “US Is Quietly Spending $2.5 Billion From Iraqi Oil Revenues to Pay for Iraqi Projects,” the single article the NewYork Times did about it on June 21, 2004, by Steven R.Weisman.That article said that the money was being used in a program in which the Army was buying good will and creating jobs by riding into villages and doing wonderful good by quickly building wells and sewers.

No records exist that list these good works or their cost. No records were kept.

No one had to take videos to show what they’d built. I communicated with the Times reporter.Weisman said it was only given out to majors, and maybe above. I asked him if he thought any of that money had simply been sent home. Or spent on the traditional Army entertainments of alcohol, drugs, and whores. Without supporting documentation he felt that was improper speculation. He had never seen even Sergeant Bilko as a child, the warm and cuddly ‘50s TV show about soldiers as lovable con men and hustlers.

By 2004 when almost nothing was handed over to Iraq and it also became clear that virtually no reconstruction had been done, congress passed a law to investigate.

Now, on April 30, 2006, in an article titled “ Bush challenges hundreds of laws: President cites powers of his office” by Charlie Savage, the Boston Globe revealed that George Bush has been in the habit of adding signing statements to bills passed by congress that explains how he will carry them out or how he wont carry them out, depending on his mood that day.

One of the bills that he added a signing statement to was the bill to investigate the missing billions. It stipulated that money that had gone through, or been handled, or distributed by the pentagon would not be included.That was perhaps half of it, perhaps more.Then he appointed one of the usual Bush cronies, Stuart Bowen, a member of the team that handled the famous vote count atrocity in Florida in the November 2000 election, to be head of the commission of investigation. Someone he could trust to not do much of a job and minimize the damage.

Which is why, if you’ve heard of this at all, you’ve heard of only $1.2 billion or so and some bad bookkeeping.

As for me, I’ve just received a missive from beyond the grave. It was Meyer Lansky. It said, “Iraq, wish we’d been there. Those were guys who knew how to loot a country.”

Larry Beinhart is the author of Wag the Dog, The Librarian, and Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin. He’s a Fulbright fellow, he’s won an Edgar, a Gold Dagger, and several Emmy awards. He lives inWoodstock.

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COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK

LEFT TO RIGHT: NAVIN MOUL (PROGRAM DIRECTOR, CAMBODIA), MIKI JACEVIC (PROGRAM DIRECTOR, BOSNIA), CHRISTEN DOBSON (PROGRAM ASSISTANT), EMMA KREYCHE (PROGRAM DIRECTOR, GUATEMALA), AND JENNIFER KLOES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR).

The Kids Are Alright Global Youth Connect

by Jay Blotcher photos by Hillary Harvey

W

hen the Bush regime’s tenure has ended, the United States will likely address itself to the task of rebuilding its soured relations with other countries. (A survey of people in 15 countries conducted last spring by the Pew Research Center charted drops as low as 56 percent since 2000 in foreign approval of our government and its actions.) However, one international alliance of youth and human rights activists, based in Ulster County, has already begun a preemptive bid for mending fences with our world neighbors.

Global Youth Connect (GYC) resides in a factory building by the railroad tracks in Kingston. The organization, recently relocated from Woodstock, was formed in 1997 by international activists to train American youth in protecting human rights abroad, significantly in countries where US foreign policies have made a profound—if not always positive—impact on daily life. By 2001, GYC delegations of college-age students and young adults were traveling in three-week fact-finding missions to Bosnia, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nepal, and Rwanda.

While the prevailing impression of the next generation is a slacker nation committed to pathological apathy, Jennifer Kloes, GYC’s executive director, holds an opinion skewed in the opposite direction: Her work brings her in constant contact with ambitious and humane American 20-something students from across the country, each with an abiding sense that they can make a difference. The group’s website also draws people interested in the three-week trips, which average between $1,500 and $1,800, plus airfare. Scholarships of $250 are provided based on merit and need. In addition, GYC casts a net among the academic community for pragmatic idealists, soliciting professors for possible student candidates.

The purpose of these voyages, says Kloes, is, simply put, “humans working with other humans to help each other.” Rather than dispensing a welter of touchyfeely platitudes, GYC offers itineraries that bring students face-to-face with daily life in other countries. Within each host country, GYC delegates’ travels are organized and led by local grassroots human rights organizations, allowing them to gain a perspective never seen by the tour bus crowds. In Cambodia, for example, GYC members interact with local sex workers and learn how the need to make money to survive often trumps protection against HIV. In Rwanda, the delegates sit in on a session of the People’s Court or gacaca, a citizen judicial process established to expedite justice in the wake of the 1994 genocide. For a January 2007 tour of El Salvador, youths will visit villagers tucked away in rural areas and learn how the 12-year civil war has affected their lives, as well as attend events surrounding the anniversary of the signing of the country’s peace accords. By meeting with people their own age in other countries, as well as participating in discussion groups and workshops, GYC delegates better grasp the political and cultural issues that define and often limit societies.

GYC is similar to the Peace Corps in that it brings American students abroad in order to ameliorate the lives of others. So, how does a 501(c)(3) organization, required to remain politically neutral for its funding, steer clear of a partisan perspective in addressing social ills of a political origin?

“It is a difficult balancing act,” Kloes said. “But, in essence, we’re an educational organization, which means that we try to expose people to different points of view and encourage them to come to their own conclusions.”

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JENNIFER KLOES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL YOUTH CONNECT, LISTENS TO REPORTS AT A RECENT STAFF RETREAT.

departure for each trip, all students are brought up to speed on the sociopolitical profile of the country with markedly comprehensive and accessible summaries. Guatemala’s relationship with the US is a checkered one, ranging from the CIA-engineered 1954 government coup to the current Central American Free Trade Agreement CAFTA), which critics say benefits wealthy farm owners and excludes the small-time campesinos. By the time the GYC students arrived in Guatemala, says Christen Dobson, GYC program assistant, they already had a strong sense of outrage concerning US involvement in recent Guatemalan history. To provide a balanced historical view, GYC scheduled a meeting at the American Embassy in Guatemala, where officials defended CAFTA and touted the advantages of the US presence there. Although GYC students asked pointed questions of their hosts, “they received slightly vague answers,” recalls Dobson, who accompanied the group.

Following the convocation, the GYC group went to lunch, still feeling rankled, says Dobson, and the ensuing lunchtime conversation became heated as the students weighed the credence of the bureaucratic briefing versus recent history.

However, the fact that the students disagreed with both embassy officials and each other was not necessarily a bad thing, says Kloes. In fact, she explains, the embassy meeting was intentionally provocative, ensuring that the GYC students would “be really challenged in their thinking, because they’re hearing from that side [about] why the US is making certain choices, or how difficult it is to navigate the complexities of foreign policy.”

It is only through working with small organizations outside of the government’s circle of influence, that GYC can ensure that students receive a perspective untouched by overly effusive, tourist-friendly public relations.

“We purposely work with grassroots organizations,” said Dobson, “because we want to support the energy, dedication, and the passion at those levels.”

One such Guatemalan group is Nuestros Derechos (Our Human Rights), a street outreach advocacy. GYC delegates joined this group to meet the street children of Guatemala City. Forced 7/06 CHRONOGRAM.COM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 37

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into a transient life by poverty and broken homes, these fearsome youths steal for survival and work hard to evade the police, who consider them as little more than vermin and routinely savage them. “Kids told us of instances of police brutality and how their friends had been killed,” Dobson says. “They’re just kids trying to survive, and they have nowhere else to go.”

“It’s one thing to say, ‘I care about street kids and I want to change things,’" Kloes says. “It’s another thing to be going where they’re living and taking to them, and trying to understand how they got there and what their hopes are.”

The initial encounter between GYC youth and the street children was uneasy, she recalls until one girl from GYC produced a tape recorder and asked if the youths would share their stories.

One boy of about 10 agreed. He then asked to borrow the machine and began interviewing his friends. The interviewees’ nervous laughter soon gave way to sobering, courageous stories of forgotten lives at the edges of society, which caught Dobson off-guard. “Despite feelings of indignation and helplessness upon seeing firsthand the harsh conditions in which Guatemala’s street children survive, I found hope, joy, and courage in our interactions and their personal testimonies,” she says. “They were so grateful that someone was listening to their stories and what happened in their lives.”

“It’s hard to build a relationship when you’re only hanging with the kids for a couple of hours,” Kloes adds. “But that was a really powerful experience for everybody.” By the end of the visit, GYC students and the street children had collaborated on a mural for the local shelter where the children live. After painting a wall blue, the GYC students and the street kids all added their handprints in varying colors of paint, completing the mural with the words El futuro esta en nuestras manos: The future is in our hands.

Equally impressive to Kloes and Dobson was the transformation of one of the female delegates, a 20-year-old undergraduate. While many of the GYC students had brought clothing and shoes to distribute, this particular student’s suitcases were overstuffed with her own clothes. Every day, she paraded another outfit before her fellow delegates. But, by the end of her stay in Guatemala, she had given half of her wardrobe to Nuestros Derechos, telling Kloes, “I’m going to intentionally give away my favorite stuff because I realize I have so much and these kids have so little.”

Most students who seek out GYC are social science or economic development majors, intent on pursuing a career in this area. Since the programs abroad began only five years ago, Kloes points out, the oldest alumni are now graduating college and entering the work force. The impact of the GYC trips on their professional careers is yet to be measured. However, some GYC veterans have already returned to their host countries for graduate studies or independent research.

One tangible result of the GYC delegations is documentation: Students bring video cameras and audiocassette recorders on their trips to capture the reality of the lives of these youths. The resulting footage becomes educational tools for future GYC excursions, and provides the host groups with a vehicle for fundraising projects.

Another act that has become a benchmark for the success of GYC journeys is delegates’ “adoptions” of their host country. “Some say they have to go back,” Dobson says. Students frequently return to volunteer for the youth groups they visited. One young woman who went to Cambodia ended up raising enough money to sponsor two Cambodian women to attend college.

Another on the same trip raised hundreds of dollars to give to a charity that cares for Cambodian women and children.

This summer, GYC will open its programs for the first time to high school students with a pioneering program designed for Hudson Valley youths. Weekly meetings will provide discussions of local and global issues, under the rubric “Make Some Noise: Human Rights for the Next Generation.” The objective, Dobson said, is to groom students for their eventual trips abroad.

Workshop titles such as “What’s Going on Here? Human Rights in the Hudson Valley” vividly convey the objective of the five-day workshops, directing students to identify and confront the social problems in their own backyard before they rush across the globe to work in other countries. Issues such as equality for migrant farm workers, as well as the racist demonstration that occurred earlier this year in Kingston (when neo-Nazis marched on the city after a fight between black and white high school students) are merely two human rights concerns in the area that are worthy of teenagers’ attention, says Kloes.

The workshops offer interactive activities that guide students to draw parallels between political and socioeconomic problems abroad and similar situations at home, with moderators asking attendees to identify the ones they feel are most urgent and then share their thoughts about the issues. Next, the students’ problem-solving skills are brought to the fore, as they plan strategies for tackling the issues they’ve identified. Along the way, the students learn to strengthen their communication and diplomacy skills through seeking to engage the assistance of others.

Strategies are evaluated, discussed, and discarded until the most effective angles are identified.

The final result is a student-designed public campaign to raise awareness of local issues inviting the general public to help address the problems. Ultimately, Kloes and Dobson hope that “Make Some Noise” workshop participants will learn to become better neighbors.

Like their global exchange colleagues, “Make Some Noise” students are not spoonfed political ideology, but are encouraged to arrive at their own opinions about civil rights issues. “We also look at these workshops as a way of allowing local youth to tell us what we should be doing,” Kloes explains, “as opposed to specifically defining it for them in advance. We want to hear their voices.”

For information on Global Youth Connect’s “Make Some Noise” workshops in July and August, as well as human-rights delegations planned for 2007 to Rwanda and El Salvador, visit www.globalyouthconnect.org.

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THE ART OF BUSINESS

Gnome on the Grange

BY SHANNON GALLAGHER

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wenty years ago, encouraged by boredom, Maria Reidelbach and Nina Garfinkel got in a car in Manhattan and headed north in search of a book topic. “We wanted something fun, and pop culture is just more fun than high culture,” Reidelbach asserts, laughing at her admission. Their quest ended at a mini-golf course in the Hudson Valley. Initial research taught the co-authors that the first mini-golf was built in 1928 on Lookout Mountain in Tennessee, by a woman named Frieda Carter. They also learned that the game was a raging pop culture fad in the 1930s. “It had this wonderful, intriguing, long history and nobody had written [a book] about it yet, so that was our subject,”

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Reidelbach recalls. In 1987 their book, Miniature Golf, was published, the first book ever to be bound in AstroTurf.

Over the next several years Reidelbach continued to pursue her love of pop culture, writing the book Completely MAD: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine, and working on other community-oriented restoration art projects. In 2004 she began designing and building Goofy Garden Golf on Pier 25 in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. With the help of artist Ken Brown and local adults and children, Reidelbach turned the Pier 25 course into an eclectic garden furbished entirely with recyclables and trash found on sidewalks and in Dumpsters. The 7/06 CHRONOGRAM.COM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 41

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(PREVIOUS PAGE) JOHN HUTCHINSON SCULPTING THE (SOON-TO-BE) WORLD’S LARGEST GARDEN GNOME. (ABOVE) FARM OWNER CHRIS KELDER AND COURSE DESIGNER MARIA REIDELBACH. (NEXT PAGE) WORKERS LANDSCAPING GNOME ON THE GRANGE.

course featured broken dish mosaics, detergent bottle flowers, a small windmill energy generator, and Chomsky, the world’s largest garden gnome. An homage to Frieda Carter and the gnomes that decorated her course, Chomsky stands at almost 14 feet tall. First conceived as a topiary, Chomsky is made of wood and a wire frame, which is entirely covered in handcrafted plastic flowers. “We made him like a parade float,” says Reidelbach.

When the pier was torn down by the city for rebuilding in 2005, Chomsky was sent to a barn in Accord for safekeeping. He is now being refurbished in cement so that he may be eligible for the Guinness Book of World Records. With the pier gone, Chomsky’s new home will be in Kerhonkson at Gnome on the Grange, Reidelbach’s latest mini-golf endeavor, which opened July 1.

It was nine years after the publication of Miniature Golf that Reidelbach says she developed the idea for a roadside attraction to celebrate local farming in a farming community. “Mini-golf really lends itself to ‘theming,’ because it’s like a little world that you command, and you can make it express whatever fantasy you have,” she explains. Sitting at a plastic picnic table outside a small Airstream trailer—her temporary home away from Tribeca—Reidelbach is taping together a map of the mini-golf course, the earpiece to her Palm Treo dangling from beneath her short, red streaked, salt-and-pepper hair. Five feet to her right the lush, green lawn ends abruptly, a makeshift wooden fence denoting the steep drop to the dirt road and a breathtaking expanse of green fields lined on the horizon by blue sky and the Catskills. “My mother’s family were farmers [in Western Pennsylvania] and I love to eat fresh vegetables, and…because I know so much about miniature 7/06 CHRONOGRAM.COM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 43

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golf, that’s what I decided to start out with,” she explains. Aware that she lacked the resources to buy her own property, and that a mini-golf course cannot generate enough money to cover the overhead of a big mortgage, Reidelbach began pitching her idea to farms throughout the Hudson Valley. “I was literally knocking on barn doors,” she says with a laugh. Then, last summer, she visited Kelder’s Farm, a visit that proved to be as fortuitous as her 1987 road trip.

Kelder’s Farm includes a large farm stand, 100 acres of pick-your-own berries and pumpkins, a greenhouse, fresh flower gardens, and a petting zoo that is home to a donkey named Walter and goats purchased on eBay. “I’m in the entertainment business,” Chris Kelder says earnestly, his toothy smile white against his dusty, sunburned face. A large part of Kelder’s days are spent giving educational tours to various children’s groups, teaching them about the Rondout Valley’s agricultural heritage. As the vice president of the Rondout Valley Grower’s Association, to which 44 farms belong, Kelder seeks to promote a sense of community by emphasizing the inherently local focus of farming. “The truth is, the Hudson Valley would still eat if there were no farms.

But it’s about promoting agriculture as a way of life. It’s about community, the jobs it creates, preserving the working landscape and open space.”

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he constant rain of early June has left the dirt parking lot muddy. The 10 putting greens have been poured, clean cement islands surrounded by mud and clay. Naked, the holes are gently textured bowls, as though the cement was once water and someone opened a drain in the ground beneath them. The turf has been roughly laid over the first hole and a putter and ball lay by in the mud. As Reidelbach walks around the open space, cars on Route 209 cruising past just a few feet away, she gestures with her hands, pointing out where the woodlands and willow trees will be, and speaks excitedly about walking stick kale, which grows to be seven feet tall. In a low bed, she identifies cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes, purple Brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi. The landscape was designed with the help of Lavonne Filipek; the bold and unusual colors, textures, and sizes were chosen to make the space lush, fragrant, and surprising, much like Willy Wonka’s edible garden. Reidelbach snaps the petal off an orange flower to taste, then excitedly describes how at the final hole, the ball will disappear into a fake nest somewhere in the duck yard. To recycle, Reidelbach uses materials that were already on the farm, like sand and gravel. Leftover wood from a friend’s house serves as material for custom benches. Plaques with botanical information, poetry, and recipes will serve to educate players about the landscape, as well as introduce new ideas about food. Most everything grown on the course is edible, and once it’s all grown in, players will be encouraged to taste as they work their way through the garden.

“I want to introduce people to stuff they hadn’t thought about before. I want to make bridges over food,” Reidelbach insists.

In addition to the farm theme and educational purpose of Reidelbach’s mini-golf, her plan to sell locally made, rustic crafts as souvenirs, like Ellenville’s historically significant nut bowls, is further complementary to Kelder’s local thinking. It is this shared appreciation for the agricultural lifestyle, and the desire to make such a lifestyle accessible to everyone, that allowed Reidelbach and Kelder to forge a productive partnership. Though neither can tell how dynamics may change once the course is open, it is certain that Gnome on the Grange is indeed a farming roadside attraction in a farming community, and they’ve got the World’s Largest Garden Gnome to prove it.

“The neat thing about mini-golf is that the very best mini-golf courses are built by some person who woke up one morning and they had this dream to build a mini-golf like the world has never seen before—that’s sort of what happened to me.” As she stands on muddy feet atop the first hole, smiles abounding beneath her straw fedora, Reidelbach’s enthusiasm seems to color the afternoon and you can see it all.

Back at the farm stand, three generations of Kelder men stand around the counter. Eyebrows raised in playful provocation, the eldest, Wayne, turns to Reidelbach and, referencing the golf balls, asks, “You think people will buy those little white things?”

“Yeah, I do.” She smiles, and heads toward the grange.

Gnome on the Grange is located on Kelder’s Farm, 5575 Route 209 between Accord and Kerhonkson.

(845) 626-7137; www.gnomeonthegrange.com. Open daily, 10am to dark.

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JULY 2006

ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM

Hillary Harvey

Portfolio, page 48 Impaled, Kathy Ruttenberg, 11”x 14”x 14”, ceramic, 2005

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Portfolio Kathy Ruttenberg

Kathy Ruttenberg loves animals. Dogs, rabbits, goats, and cats cavort in and around her mountainside home and studio in Bearsville.

Animals also populate Ruttenberg’s work, and the obvious signs and signifiers apply (bird = flight; rabbit = passivity), but her sculptures strike a deeper chord than mere symbolism or anthropomorphism. In her ceramic sculptural assemblages Ruttenberg seems to be attempting to level the playing field between humans and animals. Her sculptures depict an alternate reality of profound interspecial communication and equality.

Through the end of July, Ruttenberg’s work will be exhibited as part of two group shows:“Journeys in Clay” at the GCCA Mountaintop Gallery in Catskill, and also at the Diane Birdsall Gallery in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where Ruttenberg will have a solo show this fall.

Portfolio at www.kathyruttenberg.com.

(top left) Bear Hug, 45” x 27” x 24”, in progress; (top right) Devoured series, 24” x 14” x 13”, greenware, in progress; (bottom right) Intuition, 38” x 23” x 16”, ceramic, 2005; (bottom left) Worlds Apart, 36”x 18”x 17”, ceramic bronze, 2005.

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PHOTOS: FIONN REILLY

—Brian K. Mahoney

(top left) Reincarnation, 16”x 8”x 4”, greenware, in progress; (top right) Wolfrat, 16”x 12”x 5”, greenware, in progress; (bottom right) Goatman, 12” x 6”x 4”, ceramic, 2006.

KATHY RUTTENBERG ON HER WORK Harmless Little Bunnies Bunnies are symbols of passivity. But now that I have them, I know how aggressive they are. They eat their babies if they’re not perfectly happy, and they kill each other. I have a little bunny in the house, and from across the lawn it went racing at the big bunny and attacked the big bunny. The big bunny was either playing dead or fainted. So rabbits have this very mysterious interior social life and hierarchy that I’m very attracted to right now. I mean dogs are so right there—what you see is what you get. There’s not the same mystery.

Working for a Show I don’t work for a show, I work for myself, really. And the times when I’m not having shows, I feel like I get further with where I want to be with my work. I am insane enough to keep working without any reason. For instance, for a while galleries would come in here and say, “Everything but the giant dead lady” [a larger-than-life sculpture of a tree growing out of the womb of a prone figure]. I’m not famous,

I’m not big, so for shows I have to do what I think will sell, because otherwise I’m not going to be asked. Eventually, I’ll hopefully be in a position where I can say, “This is what I have, you either show the giant dead lady or...” And it actually worked recently with this gallery in New York. I was playing a little bit hard to get with them. They wanted to do a show of dogs. [Ruttenberg has a series of dog sculptures.] I said, “I’m not doing dogs right now. Let me finish this body of work, then we’ll talk.” And it got them going. It was like dating. I learned something, you got to play hard to get.

And then he called. I wasn’t even here to talk to him. He called with a date and a show.

of things, you know. Just the fact that her work is at the Met makes it fine art because she’s contemporary.

I’ve been calling myself a ceramicist, but maybe that’s wrong. Maybe I should call myself a sculptor, because I am coming to ceramics with a fine art mentality.

Process

The Fine Art Mentality

As I’m working on it, it’s like, “This is so great, I’m so creative. This is a masterpiece.” And as soon as I finish it, I have to get it out, I hate it. It takes me about five years to like something afterwards. The process is really what I enjoy. I don’t then put something in my living room and think, “Oh genius!”

When I started doing ceramics, my paintings were selling for more because as soon as I started doing clay, it’s a craft. I’m in the craft category. Right now I could go to a [craft] fair and find a gallery. Not a fine art fair. It’s beginning. But anyway, I think that [ceramicist] Betty Woodman having a show at the Met is really going to change things. It’s funny because I find her work conservative. But just the fact that it’s at the Met changes it. It’s so funny how people have these visions

A week ago, I started working on this big piece, I was so excited about it, it really seemed to be my future. And then it came out of the kiln and I hated it. I thought, I have to go back to zero, this is awful. So that’s all part of the process.

And then I get really depressed and then the process begins again. Finishing things is so hard, but beginning things is really fun. I just ordered two tons of clay, so I must be feeling optimistic.

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Lucid Dreaming

BY BETH E. WILSON

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bstract art can be tough to love. It treads a dangerous territory, in which its purity of color and composition can allow it to be read as simple pattern, a backdrop for the real objects in the world. (This happened quite notoriously to Pollock’s drip paintings. When in 1951 Vogue photographer Cecil Beaton posed a number of models in evening gowns in front of them, the delicate figure-ground game the paintings play within themselves collapsed, as the works quite literally became a purely decorative ground for the women cavorting before them.)

The problem becomes: how to inspire continued visual interest in the viewer when you’ve dispensed with representational reference to the “real world” that we’re essentially hard-wired to find intriguing?

In the early 1960s, a number of artists, largely inspired by former Bauhaus instructor Josef Albers’s complex experiments in the perceptual psychology of color and form, coalesced into the movement known as Op Art. The high-water mark of the movement took place with the 1965 exhibition “The Responsive Eye,” organized and shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. An exhibition now on view at the New York State Museum in Albany, “Op Art Revisited,” draws upon the rich collection of Op Art at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo to recapitulate some of the history of the movement.

The key characteristic of Op Art painting is the way it manipulates color, depth, and perspective to create eye-popping effects—when the correct colors are placed next to each other, for example, the artist can create an intense visual vibration that implies movement, even as the painting itself remains stock-still.

It’s a rather sensational approach, and one that can become a one-trick pony effect, depending on the artist who executes it.

Richard Anuszkiewicz (an-OOSH-ka-vitch) stands out, largely due to the breadth of the Albright-Knox’s holdings of his work. The show includes no fewer than six of his paintings, treating the viewer to something of a miniretrospective of his work, which demonstrates clearly his restless energy over time, from painting to painting-plus-sculpture and back again, as he persistently explores various avenues of expression within the bounds of Op. 50 LUCID DREAMING CHRONOGRAM.COM 7/06

FRANCIS CELENTANO KINETIC PAINTING III, 1967 LACQUER ON MASONITE, MOTORIZED DIAMETER: 48” COLLECTION ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO

By contrast, Victor Vasarely (sort of the M.C. Escher of the group) evolves to the point of his 1969 canvas Vega-Nor—at which point he continued coasting with its unique brand of psychedelic geometry, immortalized by posters in stoners’ dorm rooms ever since.

Possibly the most important painting in the show is Larry Poons’s Orange Crush, a signature example of his hard-edged abstract phase. A vibrant redorange field sports an irregularly arranged series of pale blue dots and oblong blips, which create the illusion of bouncing around inside the canvas like so many quickly moving ping-pong balls. While it’s the sort of painting that can be easily parodied, experiencing it in real life (as opposed to knowing it only through reproduction) is essential to “getting it.” Orange Crush quickly rises to the top of the show as a bold yet sensitive foray into pure painting, in contrast to some of the more dubious attempts by (deservedly) lesser-known artists on view.

In an effort to continue the relatively small bit of momentum started by this interest in optical illusions, a number of artists attempted to expand the illusions into the physical realm, developing the even shorter-lived movement of kinetic art. Francis Celentano’s Kinetic Painting III of 1967 sets disks of painted masonite into motion, spinning to create something like the funhouse illusion I last saw in an Austin Powers movie—the whirling spiral that represented the portal into a time machine. Heinz Mack’s White Light Dynamo spins a field of clear, ridged glass to create a series of constantly shifting, fluctuating refractions of light. There’s something hypnotic about these works—and they were my kids’ favorite pieces in the show—but at a certain level, they come across as just trying too hard.

I missed seeing here any of Julian Stanczak’s recent work, which by contrast would have shown the deeper potential of the Op Art concept. Represented here by three paintings (the latest of which is from 1984), Stanczak has in recent years become the grand Zen master of Op illusion—settling into a fairly constant, methodical approach, he delves so deeply into the relationship between material, color and illusion that Op begins to resonate on an intensely spiritual level.

VICTOR VASARELY, BORA III, 1964 O I L O N C A N V A S , 5 8 3⁄4 ” X 5 5 1⁄2 ” COLLECTION ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO

Lacking any works with the seriousness and intensity of focus of Stanczak’s recent work, the Albany exhibition falls a bit flat. The curatorial statement claims that the show “aims to explore the vast influence of Op Art,” a statement that presses the limits of historical credulity. The demonstration of this supposed “vast influence” is traced through the development of kinetic art, which turned out to be little more than a blind alley, while the inclusion of a few contemporary artists working in the Op Art vein only shows that in today’s “anything goes” art world, the optical games of Op continue to find a place. While it’s worth the trip to Albany just to see Poons’ pieces (and an amazingly beautiful Albers work in incised Plexiglas), the exhibition as a whole misses its stated mark by a wide margin.

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his month, the artistic center of gravity of Ulster County will experience a significant shift away from the usual Woodstock-Kingston axis, down south to Ellenville. Cragsmoor resident Judy Sigunick has curated an invitational exhibition, “10x10x10,” which will take place in storefronts along the main streets of downtown Ellenville. The title derives from the concept of inviting 10 artists from 10 other towns in the region to contribute work to be displayed in 10 storefronts. The list of participating artists include Germantown’s Pamela Wallace, Grace Knowlton from Palisades, and the up-and-coming Stephen Spaccarelli from Hopewell Junction, each of whom is contributing challenging, interesting work. A high point of the show will doubtless be an innovative performance piece by Eeo Stubblefield, the details of which were still being worked out at press time.

The concept behind the show is to promote both the arts and Ellenville, using the interest sparked by this explicitly noncommercial exhibition to enliven public space and to highlight the town as an attractive destination for visitors and for business. This is exactly the sort of communitybased project that can advance the understanding between artists and the public, emphasizing the high quality of regionally-based work that we are enjoy here in the Hudson Valley, a task that is absolutely essential as we move into the brave, new, globalized future.

“OP ART REVISITED: SELECTIONS FROM THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX GALLERY,” ON VIEW THROUGH AUGUST 13 AT THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM, MADISON AVENUE, ALBANY. (518) 474-5877 OR WWW.NYSM.NYSED.GOV. “10X10X10,” OPEN THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF JULY ALONG THE MAIN STREETS OF ELLENVILLE. AN OPENING RECEPTION WILL BE HELD ON JULY 1, 4-6 PM, AT THE HUNT MEMORIAL BUILDING ON LIBERTY SQUARE IN ELLENVILLE.

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galleries ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART

CLARK ART INSTITUTE

125 WASHINGTON AVENUE, ALBANY. (518) 463-4478.

225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA. (413) 458-2303.

“Picture Perfect: Photographs of Washington Park.”

Through September 3.

“The Clark: Celebrating 50 Years of Art in Nature.”

Through September 4.

“From Burial Place to Green Space.” Through December 31.

“The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings.” Through September 4.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART 196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE. 454-0522.

“The Luminous Landscape 2006.” Over 80 paintings in this group show. Through September 10.

ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT. (203) 438-4519.

“Homecoming.” Through August 6.

“Tom Burckhardt: Full Stop.” Through August 6.

“Mary Temple: Extended Afternoon.” Through August 6.

COFFEY GALLERY 330 WALL STREET, KINGSTON. 339-6105.

“Travels.” Oil paintings by Robert Angeloch.

July 1-July 30.

Opening Saturday, July 1, Call for times “Paper Visions.” Handmade paper by Terry Ann Tomlinson.

August 6.

COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 4400 ROUTE 23, HUDSON. (518) 828-4181 EXT. 3344.

“Fine Arts Students’ Exhibit.” Through August 25.

ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON. 338-0331.

“Time Meets Space.” Installations of contemporary sculpture in neon, steel, and other materials by artist Don Bruschi. July 1-29.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 5-8pm

BARD COLLEGE EXHIBITION CENTER

CRAGSMOOR ROAD GALLERY 75 CRAGSMOOR ROAD, CRAGSMOOR. 647-2111.

“Findings on the Ridge.” Photographs of the Shawangunk Mountains by James Douglas.

July 22-August 13.

Reception Sunday, July 23, 2-5pm

7401 SOUTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK. 758-7483.

“Bard College MFA Thesis Exhibition.” Painting, photography, sculpture, writing, film, and sound. July 16- July 25.

DEBORAH DAVIS FINE ARTS

Opening Sunday, July 16, 2-5pm

“Summertime Pastels.” 4 artists use landscapes for inspiration.

Through August 6.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON. 440-7584.

“Bits, Pieces, Gold...and Waiting.” Egon Zippel, installation.

July 8-August 6.

Opening Saturday, July 8, 6-9pm

BE GALLERY 11 MONHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS. 687-0660.

“Judith Hoyt.” Sculpture, encaustic paintings, and jewelry.

July 1-August 6.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 5-7pm

DIA 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON. 400-0100.

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“Tony Moore: Who Knows Why.” 150 body cast human heads, wood-fired ceramic and steel. Through July 2.

345 WARREN STREET, HUDSON. (518) 822-1890.

“Vera Lutter: Nabisco Factory, Beacon.” 4 large scale pinhole photographs of the factory. Through September 4.

ELISA PRITZKER STUDIO AND GALLERY 257 SOUTH RIVERSIDE ROAD, HIGHLAND. 691-5506.

“Hudson Valley: 4 View Points.” Josephine Bloodgood, Seth Nadel, Elayne Seaman, and Marlene Wiedenbaum.

Through July 15.

ELLENVILLE STOREFRONTS VILLAGE OF ELLENVILLE. 647-5600.

BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY

“First Annual “10x10x10” Invitational Artists’ Showcase.”

July 1-July 30.

54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK. 758-9244.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 4-6pm

“Beneath Canal.” Photographs of Lower Manhattan by Richard Edelman. July 14-August 12.

Opening Friday, July 14, 6-8pm

BOSCOBEL 1601 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON. 265-3638 EXT. 115.

“Visual Passions.” Presented by artists from Contemporary Colors. Through July 2.

EXPOSED GALLERY 318 DELAWARE AVENUE, DELMAR. (518) 475-1853.

“Equus Vita.” July 15-September 5.

Opening Saturday, July 15, 5-8pm

FABULOUS FURNITURE SCULPTURE GALLERY 3930 ROUTE 28, BOICEVILLE. 657-6317.

CAFFE MACCHIATO 99 LIBERTY STREET, NEWBURGH. 565-4616.

“Sculpture Garden.” Sculpture and furniture from wood, metal, and car parts. Through November 15.

“Fiber Wall Sculptures by Eva Drizhal.” Through July 1.

FINE ART STUDIOS CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

1864 MOUNTAIN ROAD, OTISVILLE. 386-3305.

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON. (518) 828-1915.

“Images of Affirmation & Compassion.” Works by Hudson Valley artist Caroline Prieur Schulz. July 9-August 7.

“Three Solo Shows.” Featuring Shawn Snow, David Konigsberg, and Anne Francey. Through July 9.

Opening Sunday, July 2, 12:30-4pm

CEDAR GROVE

FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL. (518) 943-7465.

VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE. 437-5632.

“Jasper Cropsey: Interpreting Nature.”

“Forms of Exchange: Art of Native Peoples from the Edward J. Guarino Collection.” Through September 3.

Through October 29.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK. 679-9957.

“Subterranean Monuments.” Burckhardt, Johnson, Hujar, and the Changing Life of Bohemia in Post-War Manhattan.

Through September 11.

“Family Album.” Artists from Argentina, Canada, and the USA. Through August 6.

GALERIE BMG

“Preston Wadley: Pentimento.” Through August 6.

“Paintings by Joel Griffith and Photos by Bernard Gerson.”

Through July 4.

CHISHOLM GALLERY

“In Search of Eden: Photographs by Sandra Russell Clark.” Explores the remarkable coastlines of the Gulf of Mexico.

July 7-August 7.

3 FACTORY LANE, PINE PLAINS. (518) 398-1246.

“Princely Indian Paintings & Burmese Tapestry Paintings.”

Through July 28.

12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK. 679-0027.

Opening Saturday, July 8, 5-7pm

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MAXWELL FINE ARTS

25 NORTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL. (914) 293-0811.

1204 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL. (914) 737-8622.

“Chaos Art-Art Chaos.” Visions from a mathematical mind by Bill Ralph. Through August 5.

“Unexpected Visitors.” Invitations group show from multiple genres.

Through July 2.-

GARRISON ART CENTER

MILLBROOK GALLERY & ANTIQUES

23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON. 424-3960.

3297 FRANKLIN AVENUE, MILLBROOK. 677-6699.

“Julie Messenger: Botanical Watercolorist and Ada Pilar Cruz: Sculptor.” Through July 2.

“Leland Neff.” Art and photography. July 1-July 31.

GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY

MORGAN LEHMAN GALLERY

398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL. (518) 943-3400.

“Superartists.” Juried group exhibition of comic and sequential art in all media. Through August 5.

“Collages and Drawings by Rosalie A. Frankel.”

Through August 5.

Reception Saturday, July 1, 7-7pm

24 SHARON ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT. (860) 435-0898.

“Joellyn Duesberry.” New paintings and monotypes. July 1-August 6.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 4-7pm

MUSEUM OF THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY MAIN STREET, WINDHAM. (518) 734-3104.

OGDEN GALLERY, BOULEVARD LOCATION, CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON. 534-5506 EXT. 204.

“Journeys in Clay VI.” Through July 30.

“Symbols of New York.” Learn about our state’s symbols.

Through September 30.

“Flora and Fauna.” Works inspired by plants and animals throughout the world. August 5-September 24.

“Alive in New York: A Growing Invasion.” 43 works illustrating plants considered to be an invasive threat. July 15-October 29.

Opening Saturday, July 15, 7-7pm

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON. (518) 272-3500.

“Unseenamerica New York State.” Pictures of working life taken by working hands. Through July 15.

“Transition.” Curated by Melissa Stafford.

July 22-August 19.

Opening Saturday, July 22, 5-8pm

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HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM 50 RONDOUT LANDING, KINGSTON. 338-0071.

“Ship and Boat Building on the Hudson River.”

Through October 31.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL. (914) 788-7166.

“Reverence.” Work of 33 internationally renowned artists from 13 countries. Through February 26.

“Coincido Contigo En Lo Otro.” Collision of video, animation, sculptural installations, and drawing. Through August 20.

HUDSON VALLEY GALLERY 246 HUDSON STREET, CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON. 534-5ART.

“Hudson Valley Views.” Paintings by Paul Gould, Gayle Clark Fedigan, and Robert Trondsen.

Through August 13.

INQUIRING MIND GALLERY 65 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES. 246-5155.

“Time, Place & Response.” Works by 6 artists. Through July 9.

NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 506 WARREN STREET, HUDSON. (518) 828-5090.

“Secrets.” Exhibition of Alaskan artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs.

Through July 6.

“Kico Govantes-Solo Exhibition of New Paintings.” July 15-August 14.

Opening Saturday, July 15, Call for times

NOMA GALLERY MONTGOMERY GRANGE HALL, 26 WALLKILL AVENUE, MONTGOMERY. 457-9821.

“Group Show.” Works by 9 artists. Through July 20.

NORTH POINTE CULTURAL CENTER 62 CHATHAM STREET, KINDERHOOK. (518) 758-9234.

“Visions From the Valley.” Paintings in oil, acrylic, pastel, and mixed media by Robin Requa Guthridge and Judith Vargas Warren. Through July 9.

NO_SPACE GALLEY 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE. 658-9709.

“I’ll Cover Lights, You Cover Getaway.” Works by Sean Sullivan.

Through July 4.

“Hot Summer of Philocracy.” Group show bringing new artists to the Hudson Valley. July 1-August 30.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 5-9pm

PEARL FINE ARTS GALLERY 3572 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE. 687-0888.

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

“New Works.” Painter Sara Harris, sculptor Russell Krysiak, designer Kieran Kinsella, and stone carver/letter cutter Nils G. Kulleseid. July 8-August 8.

“Fran Shalom: Paintings.” Through July 16.

Opening Saturday, July 8, 6-9pm

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY

“Lucy Reitzfeld: Paintings.” July 20-August 13.

PEEKSKILL COFFEEHOUSE KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON.

101 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL. (914) 739-1287.

“Paintings and Drawings by Patricia M. Coyle.” Through July 27.

“Instance.” Works on paper by Beth Dary and Ruth Wetzel. July 1- 28.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 7pm

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER

PUTNAM NATIONAL GOLF CLUB 187 HILL STREET, MAHOPAC. 628-3105.

“Inaugural Exhibit of Public Art.” Through December 31.

34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK. 679-2079.

“Thread Bare: Tradition Unraveled.” July 1-August 6.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 5-8pm

M GALLERY 350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL. (518) 943-0380.

“Art and Sculpture: The 1st Annual Summer Invitational.”

July 1- 31.

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RICHARD SENA GALLERY 238 WARREN STREET, HUDSON. (518) 828-1996.

“Cosmography.” Works by earthwork artist and architect Daniela Bertol. Through July 4.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON. 838-2880.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 5-8pm

“Trucks and Other Beautiful Things.” Karl LaLonde. Through July 3.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ. 255-1241.

SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ. 247-3844.

“Romantic Realism.” Works by Kevin Cook and Keith Gunderson. Through July 12.

“Anxious Objects.” Definition and divergence in contemporary craft. Through August 14.

SPIRE STUDIO 45 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON. (914) 844-6515.

“Change In Attitude.” Artists from EDGE Gallery in Denver as part of an exhibit exchange.

Through July 16.

ST. GREGORY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 2578 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK. 679-8800.

“Three - Three Artists - Six Sculptures.”

Outdoor sculpture exhibition, presenting the abstract works of Anthony Krauss, Basha Ruth Nelson, and Shelley Parriott.

Through November 19.

THE BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS & ESTUARIES 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON. 838-1600.

“Dave White: The World of a Hudson Riverman.” Through September 9.

THE CATSKILLS GALLERY 106 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES. 246-5552.

“Chronicles of the Spirit: Barbara Threecrow Purcell.” Through July 10.

THE VILLAGE TEAROOM 10 PLATTEKILL AVE, NEW PALTZ. 255-3434.

“Works by Mindy Wright.” Images of the Hudson Valley. Through July 10.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI. 757-2667.

“Red! A Group Show.” July 28-August 20.

Reception Saturday, July 29, 6-8pm

VAN BRUNT GALLERY 460 MAIN STREET, BEACON. 838-2995.

“New Paintings by Richard Butler.”

Through July 3.

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“Colin Barclay: New Paintings.” July 8-August 7.

VARGA 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK. 679-4005.

“Summer Love.” Through July 16.

WALLKILL RIVER ART GALLERY 357 OLD FORGE HILL ROAD, NEW WINDSOR. 689-0613.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Oil Paint.” By Robert Lewis Hoover, William Noonan, and Mary Mugele Sealfon.

Through July 30.

WHITE GALLERY 343 MAIN STREET, LAKEVILLE, CT. (860) 435-1029.

“New Works by Robert Na.” Abstract paintings. Through July 30.

Opening Saturday, July 1, 4-7pm “Jane Filer and Dawn Breeze.” Abstract and mixed media works. July 4-August 28.

Reception Saturday, August 5, 4-7pm

WILDERSTEIN HISTORIC SITE 330 MORTON ROAD, RHINEBECK. 876-4818.

“Daisy.” Journey through the life of Margaret (Daisy) Suckley. Through October 31.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK. (518) 678-3516.

“Street Photographs 2000-2006.” 67 black & white prints by the photographer Jerry Miller. July 8-July 30.

Opening Saturday, July 8, 4-6pm

WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK. 679-2388.

“Deane Keller Memorial Exhibition.”

Through August 5.

YELLOW BIRD GALLERY 19 FRONT STREET, NEWBURGH. 561-7204.

“Vivid Designs and Unexpected Color Combinations.” Gloria Garfinkel.

Through August 20.

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Music

JENNIFER MAY

BY SHARON NICHOLS

TOM ROE AND GALEN JOSEPH-HUNTER OF FREE 103POINT9 STAND ON ONE OF THE MANY FOREST PATHS ON WHICH AUDIO SCULPTURES WILL BE INSTALLED THIS SUMMER AT THEIR WAVE FARM IN ACRA.

WAVE OF THE FUTURE

free103point9 transmits from Greene County The female voice is tranquilizing, haunting. “Hello. Welcome to Tune (In))).

Upon entering the facility, you will receive a stereo transistor radio. After putting on your headset, you will be transported through an extrasensory experience. For maximum auratorical pleasure, tune into the following frequencies on your FM dial.”

No, you have not stumbled onto the set of Logan’s Run. These are the instructions broadcasted in the lobby of Tune (In))), a project of the nonprofit media arts organization free103point9. During this sound event, listeners navigate among varying frequencies, exploring the radio spectrum itself as its own art form, tuning in to 30-plus artists’ performances via five transmitters. The room is silent, but the headphones are awash with aural hubbub. Salutations from the world of transmission art. Your host: free103point9.

Operating out of the Hudson Valley, New York City, and beyond, free103point9 is focused clearly on its goal: to cultivate transmission art. But what exactly is this art form? It’s entirely its own genre—utterly experimental, creatively expressive, specializing in radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation, and performance using the wireless spectrum. But, for the sake of this article, we’ll focus on the audible. Sound sculpture, if you will.

Admittedly, this din isn’t for everyone. It would be most appreciated by the curious listener, the connoisseur of sound, or the techie geek. Tune (In))) The Kitchen: Selected Performances from the Live Event (one of many CDs and vinyl LPs that free103point9 has released through its own record label) pilots the listener through the following sonic collages comprised of noises real or imagined: static; classical music; roaring wind; sheer, industrial dissonance; hovercraft; dialogue; 56 MUSIC CHRONOGRAM.COM 7/06

a chanting guru; and blood coursing through veins (courtesy of Peggy Ahwesh and Barbara Ess); or low-frequency hum, birds, disturbance, water, thuds, and Jodie Foster listening for little green men (thanks to Ben Owen); or manipulated guitar, sounds of schizophrenia, and harsh decomposition (Damian Catera); or electropollution, technoclash, creaking plastic trees, the voices of British males, plunking pogo sticks, classical strings, robotic rhythms, tapping ceramics awash in ambiance (from Robin Rimbaud); or English as a Second Language students gathered together in New York City, singing in their native tongues. Another audio dispatch—Skyline’s Private Sectors (noiseotica v.3)—combines guitar, electronics, turntablism, rhythmscapes, abrasions, and thumps to create rhythmic techno/industrial disharmony spanning from the upbeat and loungey to a screeching clamor from the crypt. Again, this stuff is unyielding ear whacks for the peerless and reverent audiophile.

Founded in Brooklyn in 1997 as a microcasting artists’ collective, the free103point9 ship is steered by executive director Galen Joseph-Hunter and program director Tom Roe. Says Joseph-Hunter: “[These] artists use the airwaves as their creative medium. Instead of paint, they use signals they’re taking from the airwaves, or create new content to put out on the airwaves. It’s not your typical music performance/audience/listener relationship. It’s much more exciting than that.”

Moving upstate from New York City in the fall of 2004, Joseph-Hunter and Roe established Wave Farm in the Greene County hamlet of Acra—30 acres of meadows, ponds, and pine forest dedicated to the airwaves. Though free103point9 has presented the work of hundreds of experimental sound art-

ists and partnered with organizations all over the globe, Wave Farm is the location of the organization’s latest public events, the first of which took place last summer. Once based in Manhattan, Tune(In))) has now morphed into TuneOutside. Setting up multiple performance areas on the Wave Farm property, between 40 and 60 artists create their live art throughout the day—nothing amplified, everything sent through independent FM transmitters—and visitors with headphones tune in to the different channels, weaving through the woods in what could only be perceived as a magical experience.

Of course, the rest of the commercial radio dial is also present. Last summer, approximately 150 listeners attended, including artists, curators, individuals from educational institutions, and the merely curious from Brooklyn, Albany, Hudson, Bard College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.

The programs and activities presented through free103point9 are legion. The organization has participated in projects as far away as South Korea and Poland, as well as collaborated with many of the major contemporary art institutions of the world. Wave Farm’s residency program has also attracted a diverse spectrum of artists from Buffalo, Troy, Brooklyn, and even Finland and England. The Wave Farm Study Center, which recently broke ground, will open next summer on free103point9’s 10th anniversary, and will feature a viewing, listening, and reading library specializing in transmission and media arts, as well as a performance and gallery space and a studio. Wave Farm has also been participating in skill-shares with open, free classes, allowing participants to come to Wave Farm to put together microphones and FM transmitters to share and teach each other new skills. Radio Lab, which began as an educational program for East Harlem youth, provides students with technical and creative skills, as well as a history of radio communications. The nonprofit is also actively accepting volunteers and interns.

Of course, free103point9 is also an online radio station. One program is hosted by Roe, who, in addition to being program director, is also a transmission artist himself and one-time pop music writer, broadcasting Dizziness on Thursdays (5 to 7pm) from Wave Farm. “I give people a sense of the millions of signals that are whirling around our heads,” he says.

“Invisible signals that are constantly bombarding us—cell phone signals, baby monitors, CB radio transmissions—and mixing all that together in an interesting soundscape and collage. I was interested in the history of pop music and using it as samples, and one way to sample in sound work is to use radio as a source material.” Other online radio shows are After The Polka, The Bird’s Nest, Giant Ear))), New + Used, Noise Solution, Radio Home Listen, Radio Squidco, Radio Yoga, and Triangulation.

Online radio is available 24 hours a day from the Brooklyn space, Wave Farm, and other locations throughout the world, broadcasting everything from free jazz to generative sound, and all manner of fringe styles and just good old-fashioned noise.

Not an artist herself, Joseph-Hunter comes

from a curatorial background, organizing and curating media arts shows internationally for the past decade. “We have regular listeners in over 60 countries,” she says. “It’s a rather intimate community of online listeners, but it’s a very impressive group.”

Practicing the art of transmission in Upstate New York is nothing new. Back in the 1970s, Videofreex operated out of Hensonville, declaring themselves the first pirate TV collective; ZBS Foundation in Fort Edward is another nonprofit arts organization which specializes in radio drama. free103point9 aims to carry on the local tradition.

Coming up at Wave Farm is its second summer of outdoor events, all of which are free and open to the public. From Friday, July 14, through Sunday, July 16, Campfire Sounds will feature avant-folk performances by many different artists on two stages. After-hours, participants will gather around the campfire for sounds late into the night; a radio listening path will guide visitors around the property with transmissions of live performances. There is an overnight camping fee of $15. On Saturday, July 29, Spectral Garden will present an afternoon and evening of experimental sound performance in which Matthew Burtner, Nicolas Collins, and Scanner will map and respond to the local environs from a meadow. A Radio Festival on Saturday, August 5, will feature microradio and nature walks, outdoor sound installations, mobile transmissions, and live music. The day’s events include sonic installations for a permanent transmission sculpture garden in the woods outside Wave Farm by Microradio Sound Walk; Michelle Rosenberg’s “Auricles,” which utilizes a Plexiglas listening environment that amplifies low tones and high frequencies; and Jeff Fedderson’s “EarthSpeaker,” which consists of several solar powered sculptural units that will record environmental sounds at dawn and dusk and play them back in a manipulated fashion. In addition, Signal-to-Pink Transmissions by Karin Bolendar will feature FM transmissions activated by a Nigerian Dwarf goat; and a live radio performance by Todd Merrell will transform Wave Farm’s electromagnetic radiation from the air and earth.

Free103point9 still maintains its project space in Brooklyn, bringing those audiences and artists north to connect with those in the Hudson Valley. Says Roe: “The artists find it interesting, the difference between the airwaves in New York City and the ones here at Wave Farm. It’s two different palettes to work with.”

Strangely, Wave Farm is unable to receive cell phone signals. Adds Joseph Hunter: “You have to go pretty far to find a place where you can’t get any signals. Maybe Alaska, if there’s any place left in the United States at all.”

Whether it’s working with AM/FM, CB, or shortwave frequencies; or mp3 transmitters, walkie talkies, or other remote control devices; transmission artists such as those at free103point9 are harnessing the airwaves to create “sombient noir,” intriguing musical trajectories, the sounds of thought and isolation which ultimately turn us inward.

For more information on free103point9 and Wave Farm, visit www.free103point9.org and www.wavefarm.org.

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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS

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

JAZZ JAM SUNDAYS July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30. Wildman drummer Marvin “Bugalu” Smith whips up a vortex of frenzied jazz every time he plays. At Backstage Productions he puts together a sweet lineup of players, including Rob Schepp on tenor and soprano sax, Derrick James on alto sax, and Rich Siracuse on bass. Players are invited to sign up early and sit in with Marvin and the band. 5pm. No cover. Kingston. (845) 338-8700. www.bspinfo.net.

JOE GIARDULLO AND RED MOROCCO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE July 8. Crosscultural world music takes on new life in these parts, spearheaded by Kerhonkson’s Roswell Rudd and Cottekill’s esteemed reedman Giardullo.

This Rosendale Cafe session will be recorded for release next year on Rogueart Records of Paris. Music from the modern classical tradition will be performed by Michael Snow on violin; Martha Colby on cello; Bob Forbes on double bass; Rich Rosenthal on guitar; David Arner on xylophone and piano; and Giardullo on bass clarinet, alto flute, saxello, sopranino, and percussion. (Scratch, er, catch Dog on Fleas’ CD release party here July 15.) 8pm. $10. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048. www.joegiardullo.com.

ROCHESTER PARK TWILIGHT CONCERTS July 8, 29. The pocket pavillion in Town of Rochester park, adjacent to Town Hall, hosts its first series of twilight concerts, featuring a little something for everyone. On the 8th, jazz and blues by trumpeter Rebecca Coupe Franks and her trio, and multi-talented Denise Jordan Finley brings her country and folk songbook on the 29th. (A documentary film, The World’s Fastest Indian, screens the 15th at 8:30pm.) Presented

by Rochester Residents’ Association. 6pm. Free. www.townofrochester.net.

HUDSON HARBOR FEST July 8, 15, 22, 29. The humble City of Hudson alongside Time and Space Limited cohost this Saturday soulfest that runs through August 19. “We need more music—for the soul, for the mind, for the community,” says Azouke Sanon, one of the organizers. Provided music includes Reggae from Azaka and world music from Andes Manta (7/8), spoken word with Climbing Poetree (7/22), and jazz with Geary Moore (7/29).

Many other performers in a rainbow of styles will also bless the stage. Call for times. Free. Hudson. (518) 822-8448. www.timeandspace.org.

THE MOONSHINERS WITH VITO PETROCCITTO July 14. The Moonshiners take you on a trip to the days when you didn’t actually have to leave town. Playing music from the Dead, Asleep at the Wheel, and New Riders, it’s a country-swing jam with a killer Catskills view to boot. The “Brass Bruthas” horns join Vito and the boys at what has to be the nicest juke joint in town, the Skytop Steakhouse. 9pm. No cover with dinner. Kingston. (845) 340-4277. www.skytopsteakhouse.com.

COLD SPRING SUMMER SUNSET SERIES July 16, 23, 30. What started out as a fundraiser for the Cold Spring Fire Company has turned into one of the best concert rosters in the Hudson Valley, and it’s still a fundraiser. This series, run by the Cold Spring Area Chamber of Commerce, celebrates its fifth anniversary of Sunday evening concerts at Riverfront Park and Bandstand, where the weekly raffle and refreshment sales have brought in $10,000 for the fire company in five years. This month catch The Rob Scheps Coretet (7/16), local fave Dar Williams (7/23), and rockin’ bluesman Murali Coryell (7/30). 5:30pm. Cold Spring. (845) 265-3200. www.coldspringchamber.com.

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CD REVIEWS ABBIE GARDNER: HONEY ON MY GRAVE ABBIE GARDNER, 2006

Honey On My Grave is a bittersweet blues pattern played with a gentle hand. The easy tone and tempo come from Gardner’s consistently strong Dobro, guitar, and vocal performances.

She slides and picks her way through the Fats Waller classic, “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and growls and purrs the Ray Charles chestnut “Hit The Road, Jack.” She is personal and honest when she sings country ballads, and, here, the song “One Love” is a great example. Her sense of humor percolates in the tune “Caffeine,” a gritty tribute to everyone’s favorite addiction. Although it’s a solo disc, Gardner doesn’t do it alone. Matt Munisteri, Peter Carr, Benny Rietveld, Laurie MacAllister, and Pat Wictor play and sing alongside. Abbie Gardner is an inspired musician, whether she’s singing with her dad, jazz piano stalwart, Herb Gardner, or doing harmonies as a member of Red Molly, the powerhouse Americana trio.

Sweet but serious, Honey On My Grave ends with the classic gospel blues nugget, “You Got To Move.” In a duet, Abbie slides the Dobro with Pat Wictor, and they do Mick and Keith proud. Check out her website, www.abbiegardner.com, for liner notes and lyrics.

—J. Spica

HAPPY TRAUM: I’LL WALK THE ROAD AGAIN ROARING STREAM RECORDS, 2005

Continuing in his do-it-yourself tradition, Traum gathers together John Sebastian, Brother Artie, the late (and greatly missed) Mindy Jostyn, Larry Campbell, Molly Mason, Jay Ungar, Leslie Ritter, Cindy Cashdollar, Amy Fradon, and a who’s-who of Woodstock-based, musically like-minded friends to play on this instantly likeable, and very listenable CD. Laid-back and bluesy, like an autumn hike down a Bearsville back road, Happy’s distinctive fingerpicking and warm, welcoming “c’mon in” vocals give a vibrant new step to the standard stepping stones through folk. Though you’ll replay every track again and again, highlights for yours truly include the bouncy opener, “Blues Ain’t Nothin’”; Allan Taylor’s irrepressible “It’s Good to See You”; “Step It Up and Go”; Paul Siebel’s “Pinto Pony”; Lee Hays’ “Times Are Getting Hard”; Hays’ and Pete Seeger’s “Empty Pocket Blues”; and Dylan’s country seduction, “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You”—which Traum first heard as a Nashville Skyline rough cut in 1969. I mean, honestly, can you imagine still being fascinated by anything that far along these days? Happy Traum is, thank goodness, and he treats that vibe as something new and wonderful, not old and dusty. For further info, check out www.happytraum.com and www.roaringstreamrecords.com.

—Mike Jurkovic

JOHN MENEGON: SOUL ADVICE MAKI RECORDS, 2005

As an elemental component in both Dewey Redman’s adventurous quartet and David “Fathead” Newman’s soaring quintet, Menegon knows a thing or two or three about challenging his listeners. Then why do I find Soul Advice a tad too standard? Nothing startling or stiff...just standard.

Given Menegon’s instructor side (he holds bass workshops at SUNY New Paltz and Bard), this isn’t a bad thing at all, especially if it helps to wean people off the abundance of smooth and easy-listening jazz and onto the genre’s more rewarding realms.

With Menegon as bassist, producer, and main composer, his Soul Advice is, quite naturally, bass powered, creating a fluid environment for his subtle and emphatic band to entwine themselves around. Though the CD is book-ended by the two more generic sounding tracks—Menegon’s “Boo Bop Bass” and, surprisingly, Thelonious Monk’s ever sprightly “Monk’s Dream”—guitarist Mark Dziuba, drummer Tani Tabbal, saxophonist John Gunther, and keyboardist John di Martino do stretch their chops on “Chapter One,” “Mobile Infirmary,” “In Sea on Land,” and, with its swelling, washing crescendos, the Coltrane-ish title track. www.johnmenegon.com.

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Books

TALK TALK SHOW

by Nina Shengold

It had rained earlier, the clouds gathering atop Storm King and fanning out to sink low over West Point, and that was something he’d missed, the suddenness and violence of the thunderstorms; now, standing at the kitchen counter, he caught the indefinable smell of his boyhood drifting across the lawns and through the screens, the smell of the woods, sumac, mold, rot, the superabundant water sitting in its pools in the hidden places, everything in ferment.

—from Talk Talk, by T.C. Boyle

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dentity is a slippery beast, slithering out of the gene pool and into the layered muck of experience. By the time we reach credit-card carrying age, most people have grown, stretched, and shed many skins.

T.C. Boyle, for example. There’s Tommy Boyle of Peekskill, dutiful son; Tom Boyle, teenage stoner turned 4.0 grad student; T. Coraghessan Boyle, black humorist, dandy, and Pen/Faulkner winner; and T.C. Boyle, best-selling author of the galvanic Talk Talk, from which he’ll read in Rhinebeck on Friday, July 7. None of these personae resemble the genial, avuncular fellow who picked up the phone on the top floor of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first California house in Santa Barbara and said he had “nothing ahead but joy” for the rest of the day.

Officer, who was that masked man? I don’t know, he was tall and thin.

Brown hair. No, reddish. Bleached blond and piled asymmetrically. He had a goatee. He was wearing an ear-cuff. Shades. Dunno, man, but the dude had a radical freak on.

T.C. Boyle, or his spokesman du jour, has identity much on his mind. Talk Talk is a high-octane riff on identity theft, with a couple of twists: the intended

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victim, Dana Halter, is female and deaf, and the man who assumes her identity—credit cards, bank accounts, PhD—is a whip-smart impostor from Peterskill, New York, who’s given himself a top-to-toe West Coast makeover.

You won’t find Peterskill on a map, but Boyle aficionados will recognize the author’s fictional gloss on his Hudson Valley hometown from World’s End, The Road to Wellville, and such stories as “The Fog Man,” which describes a class trip to the brand-new reactor at Indian Point. Why the extra syllable?

“The purposely disguised name is to remind readers that this is a fiction, in the manner of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Macondo.”

False modesty isn’t an issue, but Boyle beats accusers to the punch in his blisteringly frank autobiographical essay “This Monkey, My Back”: “What is cockiness, arrogance, whatever you want to call it, but a kind of preemptive strike on your own weaknesses?” He portrays himself as an addict who traded his parents’ alcoholism and his early flirtation with heroin for a literary jones, reading “everything” and writing “seven days a week, the addiction full-blown,” abetted by life-changing mentors in college and grad school.

Boyle is a high culture/pop culture omnivore who decries the idea that rock, television, and movies have outpaced literature as popular entertainment, but enjoys them all. He can reference Borges in one sentence and Oprah in the next, and his range as a writer is equally broad: He’s as comfortable slinging OED-busters like lucubrated, caliginous, and omphalos or describing the pixels that turn stuntmen’s heads into aliens.

An acknowledged master of the short story—he’s published seven volumes and the hefty compendium T.C. Boyle Stories—he’s also spun his trademark linguistic inventiveness into 11 novels. Boyle’s huge cast of characters includes Mexican immigrants (The Tortilla Curtain); 17th-century Dutch patroons (World’s End); futuristic eco-terrorists (A Friend of the Earth); hippies and survivalists in Alaska (Drop City); assorted eccentrics, including sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (The Inner Circle), African explorer Mungo Park (Water Music); and cornflake baron John Harvey Kellogg (The Road To Wellville; Alan Parker’s 1994 film starred Mohonk Mountain House). Nothing seems to escape his gaze.

Boyle had been mulling the theme of identity theft for some time, but Talk Talk was hatched in the dental chair. “Did you see that woman who sat there before you?” his just-divorced dentist enthused. “She was absolutely gorgeous. And she was deaf!”

Dana is a feisty, surprising heroine, who’d rather settle a score than settle for victimization. She’s fiercely proud of her lip-reading skills, and though she often bristles at hearing people’s misperceptions, she’s secure enough in her Deaf identity to scorn the idea of cochlear implants. Sh has a PhD in literature, and is at work on a manuscript about the legendary Wild Child of Aveyron, whose outsider status and struggles with language acquisition strike a deep chord.

Dana’s boyfriend Bridger Martin is a special-effects animator. They met at a club, where Bridger spotted a beautiful woman who seemed to be dancing to her own music (she was). Boyle’s descriptions of the everyday obstacles faced by a deaf/nondeaf couple are revelatory. But within a few paragraphs, Dana’s life is torn up by the roots: Pulled over for running a stop sign, she’s arrested for crimes committed by somebody using her name.

Like the Coen Brothers’ Fargo, Talk Talk is a hilarious How Not To primer: Don’t call a con man to let him know you’ve got his number, don’t start a car chase without filling the gas tank, don’t go home again. Boyle says he “didn’t set out to deconstruct chase novels or subvert the conventions of thrillers.

I just always want to do something different.”

Fast-paced, drum-tight novels are often compared to screenplays, and film rights to Talk Talk were snapped up by Universal even before publication. Boyle seems to have had a movie in mind all along: During a crosscountry chase, Dana mistakenly lip-reads Bridger’s “rational” as “Rashomon” and muses on the Kurosawa film’s trio of shifting perspectives. Boyle’s adrenaline-fueled road trip might seem more akin to the action-adventures that Bridger redubs than a black and white Japanese classic, but look at the three leads: a violated woman, her would-be protector, and an outsider thief. That thief (or “thiff,” as Bridger’s Eastern European boss dubs him) is one of Boyle’s most enduring creations.

Dana Halter is just one identity William “Peck” Wilson has appropriated as he clawed his way up from

unpromising roots in—where else?—Peterskill. what’s not to like?” he quips, adding that the fourIt’s tempting to construe the supercool Peck— hour roundtrip from Santa Barbara gives him time to catch up on books on tape, and a much-needed energy shift. “If you just wrote seven days a week, you’d probably wind up in a mental hospital,” says Boyle, who works every morning even when he’s on a book tour.

A Boyle tour would flatten some rock stars: for Drop City, he logged over 70 readings at home and abroad. “I’m flamboyant. I feed off the crowd,” he acknowledges, adding that he also enjoys signing books and meeting readers one-on-one. He oversees a bodacious website, www.tcboyle.com, launched by his son Milo. Along with literary excerpts and links, you can hear Boyle belt “I Put a Spell on You” with The Ventilators, view a rogue’s gallery of author pictures, enter trivia contests, or visit the T.C. Boyle Forum, which gets over 5,000 hits a day from the faithful.

Oblong Books & Music’s event coordinator Carrie Majer has been a fan ever since reading Riven Rock.

“When one of his new books comes out, I’m all over it,” she raves. Bookstore owner Dick Hermans, who calls Boyle “a real performer, very theatrical,” has with his ostentatious West Coast address, Bordeaux- booked the parish hall of the imposing stone church red Mercedes, hipster wardrobe, and great taste in down the road to increase his seating capacity. Boyle reggae and food—as a nightmare self-caricature. is delighted to hear it. “Probably I’ll give a sermon.

Peck is on top of the food chain until someone Sinners are welcome.”

T.C. Boyle will read on Friday, July 7, at 8pm at discovers he’s not who he says he is; his elaborately created persona disintegrates on the banks of the the Church of the Messiah Parish Hall, 6420 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Call (845) 876-0500 for Hudson.

Boyle has gone back to the “great, green, roiled, more information. broad-backed” river before. His groundbreaking 1987 novel World’s End is an idiosyncratic and richly tangled history of the Hudson Valley, braiding Chronogram is sponsoring two writing contests for the together genetically linked strands of Dutch tenant upcoming Fall Literary Supplement, to be edited by farmers and Kitchawank Indians, the homefront Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold. battles of 1968’s generation gap, and the 1949 For our annual Fiction Contest, we’re seeking outstanding Peekskill riots, at which “patriot” mobs stormed a short stories, up to 4,000 words in length. The guest Paul Robeson concert. Peppered with magic realjudge will be Valerie Martin, prize-winning author of ism, an uncommon number of foot amputations, and Property, Mary Reilly, and The Unfinished Novel and laugh-till-you-groan hippie menus, it’s a must-read Other Stories. The winning story will receive $100 and for anyone living in these storied hills. publication in the Literary Supplement. Honorable “The Hudson Valley is my home and always will Mention stories will be eligible for publication in future be,” avers Boyle, who once shared the gatehouse of issues of Chronogram. All entries must be unpublished; the Osborne Castle in Garrison with three smelly Chronogram requests first publication rights only, with dogs and “a bunch of ragtag hippies.” In those days, he reprint and all other rights to remain with the author. wanted to be a musician. He’d played saxophone and Submission deadline is August 15, 2006. Please send your best work (no more than one story per writer) to clarinet in high school, and “I had a drumming phase, fiction@chronogram.com, or by mail to Chronogram as many do. I drummed obsessively, on tabletops, Contests, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401. boxes. I alienated everyone I knew; they all moved For our first Humor Contest, “Joined at the Hip,” out. It was just me and the drums.” When Boyle we invite you to help us eliminate bookshelf clutter flunked his band audition at SUNY Potsdam and by double-booking great works of literature. Please majored instead in history and English, the die was provide a title and one-line concept pitch for a literary cast. After his story “The OD and Hepatitis Railroad twofer, e.g.: or Bust” was published in North American Review, he applied to the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Huckleberry Finnegans Wake. A plucky lad Boyle had never been west of New Jersey, so and a runaway slave fall asleep on a raft in he and his girlfriend drove out on I-80. At Iowa, the stream of consciousness.

Boyle studied with Vance Bourjaily, John Cheever, Moby-Dick-and-Jane. “Look, Ishmael! See Raymond Carver, and other greats. Five and a half Dick breach. Breach, Dick, breach!” years later, he had a newly minted PhD and an offer to teach at the University of Southern California.

Entries will be judged by Shengold and Horowitz The couple drove the rest of the way west, and (who, contrary to popular belief, are not joined at stayed. “This is it,” Boyle says of his Wright-dethe hip). Each winner will receive a Chronogram Tsigned redwood aerie. “My next move will be to shirt. Submission deadline is September 15, 2006.

Please send up to three entries to Humor Contest, the graveyard.” fiction@chronogram.com, or by mail to Chronogram He’s proud of the graduate writing program he Contests, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401. founded, and his “many generations” of students.

“I love them, they love me, they laugh at my jokes;

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SHORT TAKES A moveable feast for poetry lovers: three outstanding new books by local poets, an impressive anthology, Rumi unplugged, and a literary e-zine with a Darwinian twist.

FIELD ROAD SKY STEVE CLORFEINE CODHILL PRESS, 2006, $15

Accord writer/performer Clorfeine is an observant traveler, noting the “dizzying circular buzz” of carpenter bees, the scent of French lilacs, and musical names of Dominican hummingbirds.

His poems unfold with calligraphic spareness and not one wasted breath: “what I reach for has no name.”

SEARCH FOR OZ RICHARD BRONSON PADISHAH PRESS, 2006, $16

Dr. Bronson, who’ll appear this fall at the Colony Café in Woodstock, writes with a physician’s intimacy about illness and the body. His dense, literary verse references everyone from Vasari to Don Corleone, seeks wizardry in a hostile Manhattan, and offers a sextet of lilac-scented love poems.

I EXPLODE AND OTHER POEMS JACK CRAWFORD HELIOS PRESS, 2006, $14.95

Woodstock resident Jack Crawford crafts stanzas full of light and sound, color, and energy, employing all the senses to render his unique viewpoint on such universal themes as family bonds, beauty, nature, and time. Each poem is presented in a different typeface.

GATHERING GROUND EDITED BY TOI DERRICOTTE AND CORNELIUS EADY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, 2006, $19.95

This vivid collection encompasses the best poetry from the Cave Canem workshop and retreat for African-American poets. New Paltz resident and teacher Kate Hymes adds her distinctive voice to those of Yusef Komuyakaa, Lucille Clifton, Sonya Sanchez, and dozens more.

THE FORBIDDEN RUMI TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARY BY NEVIT O. ERGIN AND WILL JOHNSON INNER TRADITIONS, 2006, $14.95

“Rumi wants us all to become divine alcoholics,” Johnson writes. Among nearly 45,000 “divinely drunken” poetic utterances of the 13th-century Sufi ecstatic were these suppressed, sometimes startling verses on love, heresy, and intoxication, here translated into English for the first time.

ENTELECHY: MIND & CULTURE ISSUE #7: “TRUTH AND LIES” PUBLISHER/EDITOR ALICE ANDREWS WWW.ENTELECHYJOURNAL.COM

SUNY New Paltz professor Andrews and new poetry editors Tim Horvath and Jason Ronstadt oversee a peerlessly heady online journal of “creative and beautiful work that is concerned with ideas,” “Darwin-touched,” and lives at the visionary interface between art and science. Mind-bending reading.

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Eat the Document Dana Spiotta 2006, Scribner, $24

“I

t is easy for a life to become unblessed.” The opening line of Cherry Valley writer Dana Spiotta’s Eat the Document is a kind of verbal shrug.

Although the line refers to the novel’s main character, Mary Whittaker, a ’60s radical who stays on the lam from 1972 well into the ’90s, it also lets the reader know that Mary’s story won’t be told with blind idealism.

Spiotta’s 2001 debut novel, Lightning Field, won her critical acclaim and comparisons to Don DeLillo. Eat the Document—titled after the legendary unreleased documentary about Bob Dylan—is the story of how Mary and her true love, radical filmmaker Bobby DeSoto, became lost to each other and themselves. It’s also an examination of contemporary culture at unnervingly close range—a long, edgy riff on the personal nature of political activism, and a collection of portraits of a veritable tribe of restless, dissatisfied folks who have looked askance at America from their communes and computer screens over the past 30 years.

We meet Mary in the eerie aftermath of a Vietnam protest that went horribly wrong.

Having left Bobby at Grand Central Station, she’s crossed five state lines, holed up in a cheap motel, and dyed her hair; now she’s just got to figure out who to become. In tension-filled, elegant prose, Spiotta portrays Mary staring at “her whole life, the sum of her past twentytwo years and the path into her future” contained in a pile on the chenille bedspread: “clothes and supplies, $400, a box of L’Oreal Ash, some scissors, and a notebook” that she can write in only if she immediately rips up and discards the pages.

It is several chapters before Spiotta reveals the full story of what Mary and Bobby did.

Meanwhile, the reader senses Mary’s growing dread as she realizes that going underground is not the romantic adventure she and Bobby once pictured. Suddenly, she can never call her difficult mother, must discard favorite habits such as drinking coffee, and has to “count on bad luck.” No wonder she decides to become plain old Caroline Sherman, rather than Bobby’s suggestion, “Freya from the edge.”

Caroline crisscrosses the country, narrowly avoiding discovery, and eventually winds up living in the Pacific Northwest as Louise Barrot, a name taken from a dead infant. Louise is the single mother of Jason, a Beach Boys-loving, awkward, distant computer geek who’s hellbent on discovering his mom’s backstory. Louise stumbles through a life writ small by teaching cooking classes at the local community center and developing a nightly dependence on white wine spritzers.

Meanwhile, Bobby reinvents himself as Nash, manager of Prairie Fire, a leftist bookstore and networking center that’s frequented by ambitious cyber-activists. Nash turns for questionable comfort to Miranda, a twentysomething smartass who may or may not be leaving her hacker-turned-corporate-Web-engineer boyfriend. Nash also develops a tender friendship with Prairie Fire’s owner Henry, who, despite his age and mysterious symptoms of Agent Orange exposure, still takes to defacing billboards at night.

Simultaneously—and without knowing they’re in each other’s vicinity—Louise and Nash grow more and more disheartened as activism turns into a career path rather than a calling, and the world grows increasingly troubled and in need of ideals. As those close to Louise and Nash move closer to discovering their true identities, Mary and Bobby reemerge, meet once again, and edge toward being found.

In the end, Eat the Document is one unsentimental, meticulously researched, richly detailed, lyrical walk through the gray area that lies between the personal and the political, and along that ever so fine line that divides idealism and cynicism. It’s a mesmerizing page-turner with much to say about the nature of identity in a culture based on starting over, and what individuals and groups can do to save the world—or not. If this weren’t 2006 and if I had less respect for its author, I’d say, “Steal this book!”

—Susan Piperato

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The Golden Hour

by Nicholas Weinstock Harper Collins, 2006, $24.95

W

e meet Bill Schoenberg as he drives north through New York State, experiencing not a sweet peace but a deepening sense of dread and loathing as the bright lights thin out and the foliage thickens. Tossed out by his wife, he has chosen to cut himself off from all that’s familiar and dive into what he considers purgatory: the wildlands north of the George Washington Bridge.

An investment banker, Schoenberg is an unlikely candidate for country life. “When it came to greenery, I preferred mine creamed and served beside an $80 steak at Peter Luger. Men like me drew the snickers of trees.” Buying a country house had been the wife’s idea in the first place; on arrival, he finds himself literally afraid to get out of his BMW. Living on snacks from the gas station mart and lubricating his self-pity with a constant stream of gin, the displaced New Yorker skulks around trying to figure out which of the locals might have been sleeping with his wife and convince the kid next door that she can’t cut across his property. Everyone he meets seems sinister and ridiculous; one can only imagine how he appears to them. And the first time he lights a fire in his woodstove, he nearly burns the house down. In the world of investment banking, Schoenberg may have been Somebody, but in the upstate world of Harristown, he’s pathetic, annoying, and veering toward dangerous.

Schoenberg’s latent conscience is nudged from its sleep, however, when he begins to understand that the volunteer fire company that came to his aid needs people desperately, and finds himself attracted to the idea of actually doing something worthwhile. He’s out of shape and knows nothing about fire, mechanical equipment, or anything relevant at all, but the fire department is in no position to be choosy. Soon, Schoenberg’s gin-soaked dream of misery evaporates in the face of his desire to fulfill “the shiny clanging notion, for once in my life, of saving the day.”

His city-slicker ways attract a certain amount of derision, but his willingness to get involved creates a large and realistic benefit of the doubt. The situation chosen by novelist Weinstock (As Long As She Needs Me) to drive his plot is all too real—fire companies and volunteer ambulance corps are indeed enormously hard up for manpower—and one would hope that The Golden Hour might inspire a few transplanted weekenders to seek similar redemption. Echoes of Schoenberg’s flight from the city in disgrace continue to haunt him, and somebody is vandalizing his property—including that brand new BMW (“the only vehicle in the parking lot without four-wheel drive and crooked bumper stickers”).

He plays Teacher’s Pet in the firefighting classes, struggles with the urge to pass out cold at accident scenes, and can’t help noticing when his new friends serve white wine out of red wine glasses.

Schoenberg’s transformation is deftly handled, hilarious, and moving. His reflections on his failed marriage begin to give way to the embryonic rustlings of an actual life: Idly watching as the weekenders next door bustle about with caterers making ready for some A-list event, he answers the phone and accepts an invitation to dinner at a fellow fireman’s house. Eventually, he helps another would-be volunteer master the academics of the training course, learns how to climb a tree, and even discovers that snow doesn’t turn brown automatically.

“The golden hour” is rescue parlance for the crucial window of time during which a disaster can still be resolved without too much damage. Bill Schoenberg’s own golden hour may take a few months, but it’s a satisfying ride and a story of redemption that rings true.

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

By Lewis Buzbee Graywolf Press, June 2006, $17

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f you live in the Hudson Valley and have come here to the Books section of your own free will, you may well be a candidate for bookgeekdom.

Now, I’ll try not to make too many assumptions. After all, you and I probably have just a nodding acquaintance, at best. Perhaps you were a regular at the late lamented Ariel Booksellers in New Paltz, where I was a bookseller, or you frequent the Inquiring Mind in Saugerties, the well-stocked literary haven where I’ve since found refuge and employment. A short questionnaire will determine your book-geekdom, or level thereof. Have you ever been caught (shamefully!) inhaling a book, your face buried in its grainy paper and musty ink, only to look up and see a smirking bookseller out of the corner of your eye? Do you feel a certain euphoria when you enter a bookstore, whether it’s your favorite neighborhood shop or new, unexplored terrain with delightfully beckoning nooks, where you can be happily lost and found, alone amongst others? Have you ever marveled at the nondiscriminatory intimacy of the author-reader relationship, or wondered how many other like-minded strangers may have picked up the very book you’ve just chosen?

Lewis Buzbee would give an emphatic “yes!” to all of the above. A proud and uncloseted book-geek, Buzbee recounts his lifetime love affair with books in a series of short essays. Reading The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop feels like a particularly inspired dialogue with a fellow book lover, perhaps a charismatic stranger with whom you might strike up a conversation over the New Fiction table. From his first infatuation with Steinbeck in his teens (you never forget your first), to his experiences as an independent bookseller and traveling sales-rep, Buzbee became a professional book-lover. You have to be, really, to spend your life in the bookselling business. As Buzbee puts it, “Time may be money in the rest of the world, but not in the bookstore. There’s little money here, so we can all take our time.” This is wonderfully true. The bookstore is a refreshing resting place in our high-tech, fast-paced, profits-driven Brave New World.

Alongside his personal memoirs of a book-geek’s life, Buzbee details the sketchy beginnings and history of bookselling. “In the bookstore, the individual can meet that culture, become part of a river of creation and imagination that has flowed uninterrupted for thousands of years.” The first recognized library of the world—in Alexandria, Greece, founded around 300 BCE—held almost one million hand-copied papyrus scrolls (which, sadly forecasting trends to come, was burned by a conquering army to heat the city’s bathhouses). Next came the bright, cacophonous marketplaces of Europe, the Far East, and Arabic nations, followed by the invention of Gutenberg’s movable-type printing press, which sparked a literary explosion.

Buzbee summarizes the developing culture of literacy in passionate, readable prose.

He also reveals a true talent for capturing attitude and atmosphere by painting vivid descriptions of bookstores through the ages. One shining example is Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Company in Paris, a home-away-from-home for American and British Lost Generation expatriates such as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound.

As to the tenuous future of independent bookselling, amongst the unfair market advantages of big-box corporate bookstores, the Internet, and the e-book, Buzbee asserts with confidence that “eccentricity always seems to find a way.” And indeed, it does. Although the demise of nearly two-thirds of all American independents since the ’90s is sobering, with Ariel’s closing last year standing as a painfully close-to-home example, Buzbee remains optimistic. He points out that the best independents have found creative ways around this shrinking market. Many have begun incorporating author events and other performances, along with such mercantile sidelines as coffeehouses, art galleries, art-supply stores, and even tobacco shops and bars to keep their business, and their sadly unprofitable true love, afloat. Where there’s a will, there’s a bookshop—and hopefully, enough secret book-sniffers to help out along the way.

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SHAWN SNOW

FICTION

SWAN SONG

BY DARLENE J. RIVAIS

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wo years ago, for six months, we were pregnant. Then we weren’t.

There will be no other baby. Doctor said. The swans in the marsh down the road raised noisy cygnets, but the silence we sank into was all I could hear. Until one day—morning, actually—you crawled across my barren landscape and plunged into the stillness. Long after you launched your grief into me, I listened. Deaf to the birds that sang again for you. The sex was good, it just seemed for nothing.

Tonight, silver moonlight slants through the blinds in broken stripes against the rumpled sheets, bends over my thigh and curls across your back. From deep in your sleep you murmur: Marian.

I don’t know Marian.

All is black and white in this light. Marian is a gray image. I guess you need the color.

It hurt at first. Confirmation coming when I asked if we should start using condoms. You missed my sarcasm, but pulled one from your wallet. After six years of marriage. Later, I learned that you thought I was telling on myself.

And took it in stride. Which gave me, first the idea, and then permission.

Later still, I learned about Carla. Sue…. You say you do it for hope. I do it so I don’t disappear.

T

rumpeter swans aren’t usual for this area, though the pair down the road set up housekeeping in the usual way. Together they built an expansive nest from cattails and bulrushes. Together, they scrounge food from the few square miles they’ll likely inhabit for life. It keeps them out of trouble, this undistracted commitment.

We order takeout. Claim space we haven’t earned—four bedrooms. Our range has no limit.

Water thickens in winter, increasing buoyancy. A deceptive lift. Last week I watched the swans paddle in slow circles, working together to prevent their home from freezing over. Imagined their conversation: Cob: Come on, babe, you’re being ridiculous.

Pen: Flying at night? In this wind? Who’s being ridiculous. Have a white cap. On the rocks.

Cob: We have to leave.

Pen: But this is our home.

Cob: We’ll be frozen in.

Pen: Nonsense, we’ve always been safe here.

Cob: Don’t you see. There’s nothing left for us here.

Pen: I won’t leave.

Cob: We can’t stay.

I lie on top of you. Don’t move, I say. Feel every place we’re touching. I am alive. Inside. You raise your hips. No, I whisper. Breathe. We are dynamic in restraint. It’s like a horse’s muzzle surprising every cell. Or humming against a balloon. Every aspect of our beings become the orgasm. It’s devastating.

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And we haven’t moved at all. On the outside.

That was different, you say, please tell me you read a book. No book.

Marco. He’s tantric. But you say please, so I say yes. Relationships are hard enough without arguing over every little thing.

We blur lines and cross them like something partially erased. I’ve cried and smashed vases and stained the new carpet in the nursery—now exercise room—with blood from the cuts on my hands. You’ve flipped the coffee table and punched walls. We could destroy each other.

A

week ago, the pen struggled against the frozen mass that held her feet. I longed to help, but the cob stood guard. An adult swan can kill a grown man with the power of his wings. Four days he beat back crows and rats, until a thaw released her. Too late. The pen wilts, a lurid white spectral sinking beneath black water. On the fifth day the water freezes again. On the sixth day, the cob is gone.

We chiseled that same ice from our driveway. Together we cut two paths, tire width apart. Jab our shovel blades. Gouge. Chisel. Scrape. Clear. Every sound amplified by the chill, then muted in the hunkering pines. I think I will shatter with each impact. If. I. Can. Break. Through. This. Ice. Ev. Ry. Thing. Will. Be. O. K. My nostrils sting. My lips stick together. Your shoulders slump and your shovel glazes off the ice without digging in. We finish. Inside, we pull off gloves with our teeth. Shake out of our boots. Spatterings of ice and snow seep into our stocking feet. I follow you into the bedroom. Tell you about the swans. You drop your sweater, pants, thermals, socks. Turn and kiss me. We warm in tendrils of shower steam.

Then scurry into the kitchen, naked and goose-fleshed. Grab snacks and run on tiptoes to bed. Maybe it’s not for nothing. We will kiss crumbs from each other’s lips. We will fold our dreams into a long slow slumber. Our breath will rise and fall. And rise.

But a phone rings. Your cell. You say you’re going out for a while. My voice strangles with pleas. Don’t. I’ll stop, in an instant. If you will. Your voice distorts with rage and scorn. We are ugly in argument. Slam, slam, slam: closet, house, car. Your car’s tires begin to slide, but find traction in the ruts we’ve dug.

Tonight, you fondle my thigh speaking Marian’s name. When your hand rests in the sweat beneath her breast, do you dream of me? All beds appear the same when light slants through the blinds across the scattered bedclothes. I could be naked beside: Chad, Marco, Adrienne (yes, Adrienne). Marian? You? Sometimes, I’m not even clear about the name of the dog licking my toes.

In legend, swans sing before they die. A haunting melody releasing life’s beauty. In reality, swans hiss grunt cackle honk. They bugle and bark.

They don’t sing.

Salt Point resident Darlene Rivais is at work on a novel.

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POETRY

EDITED BY PHILLIP LEVINE. You can submit up to three poems to Chronogram at a time. Send ‘em if you got ‘em, either via snail-

mail or e-mail. Deadline: July 10. 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401. E-mail: poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Poetry.

pop goes the culture —p

Peace

Talini*

I Here is a wheelbarrow, Here is a hand.

We are on a field of ice, flat & breaking.

Everything here is white-gray.

There is a bird screaming large wings in the sky.

Before turning pink, the magnolia blossoms look like tiny snow squalls.

They are too familiar in their place, suffering all the seasons in short order.

It’s a good thing.

Soon enough we all will have forgotten the words for snow.

Learn a lesson from the bird, you say.

He screams for today, not tomorrow.

II Here is a city: you will love it.

Here is my hand: it’s what I’ve given to you.

—Jesslyn Roebuck *An Inuit word for snow

Take, give, love.

Evan, Boy of The bird is still screaming.

I look up, and scream too.

—Rebecca Maker

Mealtime Lament A Villanelle “Is this chicken or tofu?” the teenage vegetarian asks. Her little sister looks at the night’s dinner.

“I’m not going to eat this!” she cries in rage.

“Is the oven on?” Dad heads to the stove; the page in the cookbook turns. Mom slices carrots thinner.

“Is this chicken or tofu?” The teenage daughter slices a pepper for salad. Her age brings inexperience to cooking dinner.

“I’m not going to eat this!” She cries in rage as Dad throws a handful of bacon bits and sage into the salad, saying, You can’t get much thinner.

“Is this chicken or tofu?” the teenage

Spring and his

sap is running we say of Evan boy of four of four springs counted springs impending

done un-

son of friends a friend impendant running Evan, boy of spring of four as Evan countless more as Evan coming running down the thousand springs till easing off the throttle timetraveler God says Whoa boy Be born here. Be friended.

Run as sap to upper -most leaf Be

daughter says hopefully. All the rage now, protein that looks like meat for dinner.

“I’m not going to eat this!” He cries in rage.

tapped, Be sweet.

Her erratic chopping of the carrots is a good gauge.

Beware, Mom’s patience is getting thinner: “Is this chicken or tofu?” The teenage “I’m not going to eat this!” cries of rage.

—E.K. Gordon

—Jennifer Pruden Colligan

Impend all your years unto death running Evan live

If we should escape together Under the trees and through the fields Up and above where the bumblebees call Up above the sparrows’ nest We hide —Paul Andre de Beaumont

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Edvard Munch: The Seine at St. Cloud, 1890

AmericUS. My K-nine friend

The effect of moon light

She has been abused by her handlers.

AmericUS, fearless, faithful and trusting, a noble Dane, a good Shepherd, an intrepid Pit Bull is getting infested with lice, Candida Lice et al.

Abused by her former and current masters.

The well dressed, smooth talking, well armed, filthy rich ... cowards, growing fat from oil revenues and war profiteer+ing.

on the Seine foreshadows sorrow; darkness moving as a tide —Alan Catlin

A true poet has to come from a place where nobody has been before.

—Martin Zemlock

Bringing Me Back on a Breeze Walking down the street Numbers Figures Pressures of the job Rattling through my mind Stoplights flashing Sirens whining My senses inundated A breeze picks up a leaf Sending it into the air Skipping down the street Calls me away To a tree-lined meadow Far from the city glitter A field of clover With violets and wild strawberries In the shade of trees Standing guard Defending this meadow A leaf rustles My heart jumps Your shape materializes Out of the woods Leaves of an ivy vine Form a crown on your head Your face shines with brilliance Eyes glistening blue You touch my hand And I lose myself I stumble on a curb A taxi threatens his horn Bringing me back on a breeze —Burton Aldrich

They throw AmericUS, without shame or remorse into dusty pits to fight any cur that has the audacity to bark, growl or sniff.

And Why not? no sweat off their miserable immoral backs.

AmericUS, my brave and noble warrior, you are fast becoming overwhelmed by blood sucking ticks, ....Politicks.

AmericUS, my faithful friend, protector, you are in great need of a good Frontline, to make you immune to these vermin.

They are thriving on your blood that was made rich by working class immigrants.

AmericUS, hope of the oppressed, you are in need of a Humane Society to free you from this undeserved abuse and bring your masters to task.

They are not fit to rule such a noble friend as you.

They are not fit to feed from your bowl, yet they feed you scraps from their festive tables, bask in luxury, control the Nation’s wealth, while using you to guard it and them with your life.

Instead of keeping you here to protect our homes, they send you abroad to chase after illusive shadows.

They are stifling your voice, they have placed a bark restrainer, like a yoke, around your neck. they threaten to confine you in the dog house should you complain.

They have put you on a leash and parade you around like proud owners at a dog show.

They smile, wave, make empty promises and strut around the globe .....but keep you on a leash.

But they do not own you these slave masters You were born free, our fathers shed their blood to keep you free You were made strong and weaned on our mothers’ milk.

You don’t belong to US You are US We all belong to you —Frank Serpico

Work in Progress The switch goes on.

Over here we have our best new product.

A machine that will give us endless possibilities.

Don’t touch that.

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JENNIFER MAY

MICHAEL BUTLER ROLLS PASTRY AT THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA IN HYDE PARK

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The obscene amount of butter baked into each croissant is so astounding and horrifying that everyone would be well advised to follow each wonderfully buttery croissant with a 20mg capsule of Lipitor.

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FLOUR POWER

Baking Bootcamp at the Culinary Institute of America More than a decade ago while trekking around the snow-packed Himalayas, I had a profound experience that changed the way I think about baking. A friend and I were eight days into a frigid mid-February trek guided by a crew of four goodhumored sherpas. On our last night together as a team, we wanted to stave off some of the cold with a good-bye feast. By this time we were a bit snow weary, and realized that we were unprepared for this many consecutive days of walking in our severely battered Nike basketball shoes. One of the sherpas, named Prem, was our dedicated cook and had been feeding us reasonably well with items he had picked up from villages as we had wandered through. Everything was conceived, cooked, and eaten by campfire, so when dessert arrived in the form of a fully realized orange sponge cake, I was floored. While it may not have been the finest cake to pass my lips, it was a rarified treat at just the right moment. Prem remained waggishly tightlipped about how he baked a cake in a campfire, and to this day I am still trying to figure it out.

This episode serves as evidence that the art of baking holds as many mysteries as it does nagging questions. Boutique patisseries, along with bakery chains like Panera, have gained significant momentum and real estate over the past five years, largely because, for most people, baking remains the last culinary frontier riddled with the disappointing, twisted remains of fallen cakes, spongy scones, and inedible dinner rolls. I, like millions of other people, enjoy and consume the fruits (or breads) of the bakers labor with only a vague concept of the nuance, skill, and artistry it takes to bake a quality baguette, croissant, or cake. My curiosity, or maybe my shameful ignorance, led me to the lofty proving ground of Baking Boot Camp, at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park.

Boot Camp is held over the course of four rigorous days and measures up to a sort of endurance test of the highest culinary order. The attendees, myself excluded, had trailed in from all over the country (most of them hailing from the East) with a shared desire to gain baking prowess and command of the sacred elements of baking—fire, earth, air, and water. Well, actually, the elements 78 CULINARY ADVENTURES CHRONOGRAM.COM 7/06

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could be more simply broken down into flour, liquid, fats, and yeast. Without a working understanding of these, you will fail miserably, or simply end up with a very unappetizing, and labor intensive, cracker.

The first day required all boot campers to be there at 6am—an ungodly hour for civilians, but midday for most bakers. The odd conceit about Baking Boot Camp, or any boot camp for that matter, is that in order to truly grasp the issue at hand it must be delivered with a certain severity and near penalty for having lived this long without sufficient mastery. In this case, the severity is merely implied by the early mornings and long hours, but the treatment is strictly genial. Upon arrival you are weighed down with a 30-pound duffle bag emblazoned with the CIA logo. The bag is rife with baking and pastry goodies, including a bench scraper, aprons, a substantial baking and pastry book, and two uniforms that we were expected to wear at all times. There is something to be said about donning the costume to make you inhabit the role, and wearing these black-and-white checked pants (also called “baggies”) topped by a crisp white chef’s jacket and hat raised the level of distinction among all of the students.

From an outsider’s perspective, we all looked like chefs, or an aging, but eager, new-wave band—depending on what you were expecting.

One of my motivating reasons for enrolling in Baking Boot Camp was to see who, exactly, has the time, money ($1500 plus accommodations and travel), and impetus to put their life on hold in order to get knee deep in yeast, water, and flour for four consecutive days. From the beginning, the whole affair struck me as something of a bourgeois indulgence—perfect for those whose clock and checkbook run along different rules than the rest of us. I was happily surprised at the diversity of my classmates. The group of 15 (11 women and 4 men) consisted of a New York City lawyer, a research scientist from Duke University, a personal chef from Belarus who is currently catering to an affluent family outside Boston, and an ex-CIA agent (that would be the Central Intelligence Agency) to name a few. While the group felt as random as an end-of-the-week jury selection, we were all there due to our love and mystification of all things baked.

(ABOVE) CHOCOLATE CHIP MINT COOKIES GET A CHOCOLATE ICING. (LEFT) LECTURING PROFESSOR STEPHEN EGLINSKI ADDRESSES THE FINER POINTS OF A PERFECT PIE CRUST.

Our time was evenly split between classroom and kitchen, with the class time consisting of lectures on everything from how to cream sugar and butter, to the formidable “rubbed-dough method.” Each lesson was deftly and drolly taught by Chef Stephen Eglinski, our boyish yet extremely knowledgeable ringleader for a few days in the kitchen, as we each furiously followed along with our three-ring binders that were choc-a-bloc with assignments, recipes, and an hour-by-hour itinerary. While the pacing was generous and workable, we all seemed to be quietly sharing a bit of anxiety over the unfamiliarity of the classroom dynamic.

It had likely been many years since we were kept at rapt attention while scribbling nuggets of wisdom imparted by a teacher.

The classroom work, informative as it was, was really just a formality to make sure we knew what we were doing before we were unleashed in the kitchen.

Actually, “kitchen” is an inaccurate description. A conventional kitchen is the glorified closet where blenders, stockpots, and blunted knives compete for counter space. This place was an expansive riot of shiny, stainless steel festooned by appliances that looked like they could mix cement. The most fetishized piece of equipment was the 60-quart Hobart mixer, which, as Chef Eglinski liked to warn us, “could easily break your arm if you decided to tangle with it.”

Each day the class was divided up into five groups of three and released into the kitchen to struggle through the recipes of the day. For the record, I consider myself a highly competent home chef and one that hardly balks at a challenge.

One might think that being in a huge kitchen, with a wealth of machinery, a surplus of ingredients and team spirit buzzing about, would have made for a more proficient and systematic experience. Not the case. The combined unfamiliarity of the machinery, location of ingredients, and almost complete lack of rhythm in working with people you don’t know made for an unexpected lesson in teamwork and thinking on your feet—both excellent skills for any chef. At one point, I found myself gravitating toward washing dishes and cleaning up, simply because it was a solitary task that I felt I could accomplish with some dignity.

Eventually, after the second day, everyone seemed to get the hang of the kitchen dynamic, and even engaged in some unexpected competition. Blame it on the abundance of reality television, but I observed a few instances of frenzied and sporting competition among the groups and even within the groups.

I unmistakably overheard one classmate boastfully whisper to another, “Our

dough is the best.” While this sort of thing was never encouraged, it might just be a sign of the times that everything, including baking, will soon be a spectator sport—albeit with questionable entertainment value.

Undoubtedly, the most grandiose challenge for the group was the delicate and much adored buttery croissant. This labor-intensive and time-consuming pastry is made best in a multifaceted process hinging on the idea of a “laminated dough,” which in essence is butter trapped, or locked, into successive folds of dough. The obscene amount of butter baked into each croissant is so astounding and horrifying that everyone would be well advised to follow each wonderfully buttery croissant with a 20mg capsule of Lipitor. Regardless of the health concerns, which were conveniently ignored by nearly all in the making of most of the week’s recipes, every last croissant succeeded in revealing both the burden of the baker and the sublime deliciousness of a butter-laden pastry.

Nevertheless, the true measure of our success, as a group, was the ritual tasting of our labors. Whether it was oatmeal streusel or a loaf of ciabatta, there existed a solemn moment of truth when we would gather around Chef Eglinski flanked by multiple trays of our baked goods. I could only describe it as ceremonial, when Chef Eglinski, would skillfully dice up our “product” and offer the pieces with his gloved hands extended outward, and we would descend like ravenous pigeons tasting and evaluating. These moments were humbling, but never brutally critical. We learned, through reverse engineering, where a piecrust went wrong, how dough became overworked, and why developing the “crumb” or the flaky interior of a loaf of bread is key to its success. The emphasis was on giving us a better understanding of the complex baking process and making us better, if not proficient, bakers.

Whether anyone in my class of eager students follows their playful inclination and opens a bakery, or simply attempts homemade croissants on a lazy Sunday morning, they have assuredly learned that bakery work is long, requires a wealth of knowledge and patience, and is sometimes brutal. Because, at its core, the art of baking bread is a struggle against time and a living being (the yeast-informed dough) and, often, the results can be disappointing. Regardless, if the essence of this boot camp was to reveal the mystic truths of an age-old profession, or just to shed some light on the subject, it certainly moved 15 people a few paces forward.

Sadly, though, I still have not figured out how to bake a cake on a campfire.

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Q&A Beyond Burgers Asian-Style Grilling with Corinne Trang

For those who love to grill but are tired of hamburgers, hot dogs, and charred vegetable skewers, despair no more. Corinne Trang, author of two previous Asian-style cookbooks, and dubbed the “Julia Child of Asian Cuisine,” offers a new book filled with recipes for bold, surprising, and delicious flavors sure to add zest to any griller’s tired repertoire. In The Asian Grill (Chronicle Books, 2006) you will find recipes for Thai basil and lime marinated jumbo shrimp, and chicken satay with spicy peanut sauce. On the side, replace a bowl of ordinary tossed greens with the lightly pickled spicy cucumber and red onion salad.

The daughter of a French mother and a Cambodian-Chinese father, Trang was raised in Phnom Penh, Paris, and New York. She took some time away from her beloved Weber at her home in Ulster County to discuss grilling with an Asian influence. Tune into the CBS “Saturday Early Show” on July 15 when Corinne Trang will be a guest on the “Chef on a Shoestring” segment.

—Jennifer May Jennifer May: What are your first memorable experiences around food?

Corinne Trang: I remember being in my grandmothers’ kitchens, and the smells floating through the air. In France, butter pastries baking in the oven.

In Cambodia, the sweet, herbal smells of kaffir lime leaves, ginger, and carambola [star fruit]. I call it aromatherapy in the kitchen. Even fish sauce smells good to me.

JM: What is the biggest mistake you see among novices cooking in an Asian style?

CT: This is not necessarily Asian related, but it has to do with cooking in general.

When people try to follow recipes exactly, and if they can’t find one ingredient they turn the page to the next recipe. If you can’t find cilantro you can use mint. It’s okay. You don’t have to let that stop you. If you can’t find tamarind you could use lime juice or lemon because tamarind is a sour note. You have to think about what the ingredient adds to the dish, rather than turn the page.

You need to allow yourself to be free with food. It’s not a science project.

JM: You have written that the art of the Asian grill is largely the art of condiments—can you explain?

CT: Condiments—marinades and dipping sauce, herbs and spices—are essential to creating meals at the grill. Condiments are used to tenderize and cure meats, and enhance flavors so the food becomes more palatable.

JM: How do you recommend a novice begin in creating an Asianinspired grilling repertoire?

CT: Start at the beginning and build a basic Asian pantry, which should include soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil, chili flakes (or sauce). In the refrigerator always keep garlic, ginger, and scallion (these three turned into an herbal paste and added to the mentioned pantry items plus sugar make for a terrific starter marinade). Move on to the next step and add fish sauce, palm sugar, hoisin, and miso.

JM: Can you explain the concept of the five flavor notes of Asian cuisine?

CT: The five flavor notes (or characters) system is what makes Asian food so interesting and appealing. It satisfies all taste buds. It is tied to the yin yang, the Chinese philosophy of balanced opposites. At every meal you should be able to experience salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and spicy notes throughout the meal. This system makes for a more sophisticated palate. It is essential in Asian cookery.

Consider that Asians do not eat dessert at the end of the meal, because they’ve had a sweet element to their food throughout their meal. There is no need to satisfy that sweet tooth. It has already been satisfied. You can approach every element of this five-flavor-note system in the same way. At the end of the meal, Asians drink tea to help digest. On occasion they will eat fresh citrus fruit.

JM: How do you feel about Asian fusion cuisine?

CT: My main deal in life is to preserve food the way it was made for thousands of years. That said, there is room for fusion—and what I call traditional fusion, where fusion occurs because it had to happen historically. For example, in Vietnamese cooking you see the French and Chinese influences because of 1,000 years of Chinese ruling, followed by 100 years of French occupation.

JM: Would the recipes in The Asian Grill be recognized by Asians?

CT: The sauces are all authentic, although I did play with some—in Asia recipes vary from one house to the next. The miso dressing is pretty authentic to what you would find in a Japanese restaurant, but I added walnuts to make it richer, and to add a toasted nut flavor. My peanut sauce is authentic in an IndonesianVietnamese-Thai way. It is an example of my East-meets-East philosophy.

JM: What is the last thing you grilled?

CT: I did pork with kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass served with a mango salad and sticky rice.

L-R: WATERMELON JULEP (FOREGROUND), LYCHEE MARGARITA; GRILLED SHRIMP SATAY; GRILLED VEGETABLES WITH MISO DRESSING; SUSHI RICE IN FRIED TOFU POCKETS WITH PICKLED GINGER AND SEAWEED; GRILLED WILD SLAMON MAKI. PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY CORINNE TRANG FROM HER BOOK THE ASIAN GRILL.

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tastings directory BAKERIES

FARMERS MARKET

The Alternative Baker

Rhinebeck Farmers Market

“The Village Baker of the Rondout.” 100% Scratch Bakery. Stickybuns, scones, muffins, breads, focaccia, tartes, tortes, seasonal desserts featuring local produce, plus sugar-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, vegan, gluten-free, and organic treats! cakes and wedding cakes by special order. We ship our Lemon Cakes nationwide, $30 2-pound bundts. Open Thursday-Monday 8am-6pm; Sunday 8am-4pm. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Well Worth The Trip!

35 Broadway, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5517 or (800) 399-3589. www.lemoncakes.com.

The Hudson Valley’s best farmers bringing you farmfresh vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, wine, honey, bread, flowers, jam, pickles, herbs, and much more. Free live music every week. Tastings and special events all season long. Municipal Parking Lot on East Market Street. Sundays 10am-2pm. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

CATERING Blue Mountain Bistro Catering Co.

Claudia’s Kitchen Personalized celebrations and weddings, using fresh local ingredients to create delicious and elegant menus. Homemade artisanal breads, Hudson Valley cheese, fabulous appetizers, meat and vegetarian entrees, and out-of-this-world desserts. Claudia works one-on-one to custom design your menu, your party, your wedding or special event. (845) 868-7338 or (914) 475-9695. www.claudiascatering.com.

Fresh Company At our kitchen in the Hudson Highlands, we gather great local and imported ingredients for events of all sizes and pocketbooks, from grand affairs to drop-off parties. True to our name, we emphasize the freshest, finest ingredients, because great food is the spark that ignites a convivial gathering. Our style is reflected in meals that encourage hospitality and leisure at the table, the elemental enjoyment of eating and drinking well. Garrison, NY. (845) 424-8204. www.FreshCompany.net.

Ladybird Home Catering Fresh, seasonal, balanced meals delivered to your home. It’s the newest solution for your “what’s for dinner?” problems. Feast your eyes on Ladybird’s new sensational menus online every week. Affordable catering, beautiful party platters and gift certificates available. Chef/Owner Tanya L. Lopez. (845) 5687280. ladybirdhomecatering@yahoo.com. www.ladybirdcatering.com.

Pad Thai Catering Delicious, affordable, and authentic Thai cuisine served with authentic Thai hospitality to your group of six or more. Lunch or dinner served in your home by chef and owner Nuch Chaweewan. Please call for prices and information. (845) 687-2334.

Healthy Gourmet to Go See Vegan Lifestyle in the Whole Living Directory. (845) 339-7171. www.carrottalk.com.

NATURAL FOOD MARKETS Beacon Natural Market Lighting the Way for a Healthier World...Located in the heart of historic Beacon at 348 Main Street. Featuring organic prepared foods deli & juice bar as well as organic and regional produce, meats, and cheeses.

Newly opened in Aug. ‘05, proprietors L.T. and Kitty Sherpa are dedicated to serving the Hudson Valley with a complete selection of products that are good for you and good for the planet, including an extensive alternative health dept. Nutritionist on staff. 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-1288.

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On and off-premise catering. Sophisticated Zagatrated food and atmosphere in a rustic country setting – wide plank floors, rough hewn beams and a stunning zinc bar. Chef-owner Erickson’s Mediterranean cuisine has garnered praise from Gourmet and New York Magazines to Hudson Valley Magazine (Best Tapas in the Hudson Valley 2004). 1633 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-8519. www.bluemountainbistro.com.

HOME MEAL DELIVERY

PASTA La Bella Pasta Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Open to the public Monday through Friday 10am 6pm, Saturday 11am 3pm. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock. (845) 331-9130. www.labellapasta.com.

PUBS Snapper Magee’s Heralded as having “the best jukebox in the Hudson Valley” by the Poughkeepsie Journal, The Kingston Times, and Scenery Magazine. Snapper Magee’s is the Switzerland of pubs, a rock & roll oasis where everyone is welcome. Daily happy hour specials from 4-7 weekdays and noon-2 on weekends. Always open late. 59 N. Front Street, Kingston, NY. (845) 339-3888.

RESTAURANTS 23 Broadway A wine-friendly bistro with creative Mediterranean cuisine. Chef Rich Reeve has developed a menu featuring Spanish tapas, fine steaks, fresh seafood, and pastas.

In a restored historic building with exposed brick walls, brass-top bar, and a glass-enclosed, temperature-controlled wine room. This is a casual, cool spot with big, bright, bold flavors, Zagat rated, and a CIA destination restaurant (SoHo and Kingston). Dinner Wednesday through Sunday; Brunch Sunday. 23 Broadway, Kingston, NY. (845) 339-2322. www.23broadway.com.

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Agra Tandoor Restaurant

The French Corner

Now open: “The Area’s Finest Indian Cuisine.” Open seven days a week with $7.95 lunch specials and $6.95 take-out boxes. BYOB. Lunch: 12-2:30pm.

Dinner: 4:30-10pm. Saturday and Sunday brunch: 12-3pm. Buffet dinner on Wednesdays: 5-9:30pm.

5856 Route 9 South, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-7510.

Chef Jacques Qualin, former NY Times critically acclaimed chef of Le Perigord in NYC, impresses with his innovative style of cuisine which cleverly combines ingredients typical of his native Franche-Comtè, France with the sumptuous ingredients available from the Hudson Valley.

All of The French Corner recipes are made on premise by Chef Jacques including the breads, pastries, and desserts. Dinner-Wednesday through Sunday from 5pm. Prix Fixe $25 available every evening. Brunch Sundays from 11am. Routes 213 West and 209, Stone Ridge, NY. (845) 687-0810. www.frcorner.com.

Aroma Osteria Aroma Osteria. 114 Old Post Road, Wappingers Falls, NY. (845) 298-6790.

Beso Located on Main Street in the heart of New Paltz is Beso. Spanish for “kiss,” Beso offers casual fine dining by chef owners Chad Greer and Tammy Ogletree. Fresh, modern American cuisine, seasonally inspired by local Hudson Valley farmers, using as many organic ingredients, including beef and poultry, as possible. Get cozy in the intimate dining room under skylights and glowing candlelit tables, or sit at the bar for a more casual experience.

Housemade pastas include gnocchi and cannelloni, grilled swordftish, or braised beef short ribs. and for dessert, maple mascarpone cheesecake.

International wine list. Private parties, children welcome. Dinner: 5-10pm, Sunday brunch: from 11:30am - 4pm, Sunday dinner 4pm - 9pm, Closed Tuesday & Wednesday. 46 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-1426. www.beso-restaurant.com.

Catamount Restaurant

The Emerson at Woodstock The Emerson at Woodstock enters its first summer with an inspired menu created by Culinary Institute graduate Jessica Winchell. Using locally raised meats and produce, Chef Jessica’s dishes celebrate the area’s bounty of right-off-the-farm ingredients. Enjoy specialties like an Apple Butter Glazed Double-Cut Pork Chop ($23), Green Garlic Pesto Smothered Chicken ($19), Crusted Tofu, Avocado, Arugula and Pesto Sandwich ($8), or Seared Arctic Char on a caramelized fennel bed ($20). Enjoy a fine wine, micro-brew or specialty drink from the Emerson’s magnificent bar while you enjoy the atmosphere of the transformed 19th century farmhouse. And save room for housemade desserts and ice cream created daily. The Emerson is available for group parties and other private occasions. Open for dinner, Tuesday - Sunday 5: 30pm to 10pm (9pm Sunday), Brunch Saturday & Sunday 10am to 3pm. NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH Wednesday - Friday, 11am to 3pm. Call (845) 679-7500 or visit us online at www.emersonplace.com.

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

Hana Sushi Best authentic sushi in the Hudson Valley! Superb Japanese sushi chefs serve the best authentic sushi with extended dining area. Sit at the counter or tables and enjoy all your favorites from Chicken Teriyaki and Udon to Yellowtail and Special rolls.

Eat-in, take-out, and private room is available.

Tuesday-Friday Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm. MondayThursday Dinner 5-9pm. Friday Dinner 5-10pm.

Saturday Dinner 4:30-10pm. 7270 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY. (845) 758-4333. www.hana-sushi.com.

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Located near Phoenicia and Woodstock, the Catamount Restaurant has been a locals and visitors favorite for years. Experience the pastoral beauty of the surrounding Catskills as you dine creekside in the warm, inviting dining room. Chef Mike Fichtel and his team have created a locally-inspired menu that features perfectly seasoned steaks and chops, creatively prepared fish and poultry, and several vegetarian dishes. And don’t miss the desserts created from the Emerson Bakery. “The Cat,” as locals call it, has a full bar including a great selection of local and regional micro-brews and international wines that can be enjoyed next to one of our two large stone fireplaces. Panoramic views are the signature of The Cat, a perfect location for weddings and banquets under the outdoor pavilion.

The Catamount is open for dinner Wednesday - Saturday 5pm to 10pm and Sunday 12pm to 8pm.

5368 Route 28, Mt. Tremper, NY. Call (845) 688-2828 for reservations. www.emersonplace.com/ dining/catamount.

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Hickory BBQ Smokehouse Located on historic Route 28 between Kingston and Woodstock, Hickory offers diners Hudson Valley’s finest barbecue and smokehouse cuisine such as ribs, pulled pork, smoked beef, fish and free-range chicken. Whether enjoying your meal by the fireplace in Hickory’s three-star dining room or sipping a cocktail at the wood bar, Hickory’s staff is trained to make you feel as comfortable as you would at home. Hickory also features several vegetarian options, steaks, homemade desserts, happy hour specials, a complete take-out menu, and catering and special events in our private dining room. You can enjoy live music featuring the area’s hottest bands on Friday and Saturday night. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 743 Route 28 (3.5 miles from NY Thruway Exit 19.), Kingston, NY. (845) 338-2424. www.hickoryrestaurant.com.

Joyous Café Is it any wonder that Joyous Café is the most exciting new eating experience in Kingston? Whether it’s Breakfast, Lunch, or Sunday Brunch, the wonderfully prepared food and attentive service are outstanding. Open Monday through Friday 8 am - 4 pm. Sunday Brunch 9 am- 2 pm. Serving Dinner evenings of UPAC events. 608 Broadway, in The Heart of Broadway Theater Square, Kingston, NY. (845) 334-9441. www.joyouscafe.com.

Kyoto Sushi Kyoto Sushi. 337 Washington Ave., Kingston, NY. (845) 339-1128.

Luna 61 “Best Vegetarian Restaurant.” Hudson Valley Magazine. “Food is simply delicious, four stars.” Poughkeepsie Journal. “Imagine spicy Thai noodles, delicate spring rolls, and the best banana cream pie you’ve ever eaten. Join the Culinary Revolution.”

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Dutchess Magazine. Luna 61 is relaxed and funky, candlelit tables, cozy, and romantic.

Organic wine and beer. Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 5-9PM. Friday and Saturday 5-10PM. Now Accepting Credit Cards. 61 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY. (845) 758-0061.

Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant The only authentic Peruvian restaurant in Orange County, NY. Family owned and operated since 1990. Serving the community traditional dishes from the mountains and coast of Peru.

Trained in Peru, our chefs make authentic dishes come alive.

Wine list available. Serving Lunch and Dinner Sunday through Thursday 10am-10pm and Friday & Saturday 10am-11pm.

Closed Tuesday. 301 Broadway, Newburgh, NY. (845) 562-6478. www.machupicchurest.com.

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

Mexican Radio Mexican Radio. 537 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534. (518) 8287770. cpmljs@ecoipm.com.

Monster Taco When you have a hunger that only Mexican food can satisfy, visit Monster Taco. With fresh food, reasonable prices, and a funky atmosphere, there’s no doubt you’ll keep coming back to feed the monster. Open for lunch and dinner. 260 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 452-3375. www.monster-taco.com.

Mexican Radio Voted best Mexican restaurant in NYC, Mexican Radio’s 3-year-old branch in Hudson features the same award-winning homemade dishes and the world’s greatest margaritas! Everything made fresh daily. Extensive vegetarian/ vegan choices. A Great Place for Parties! Open Every Single Day 11:30am - 11pm. 537 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. (518) 828-7770. www.mexrad.com.

Neko Sushi & Restaurant Voted “Best Sushi” Restaurant

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rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or Take Out. We offer many selections of Sushi & Sashimi, an extensive variety of special Rolls and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted. Sunday-Thursday 12-10pm. Friday and Saturday 12-11pm. 49 Main Street, in the Village of New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-0162.

Osaka Japanese Restaurant 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. (845) 757-5055. 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278.

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Food. Tapas. Wine. Gallery.

Catering. The newly opened OII in historic Beacon has wide appeal. Dine on contemporary American fusion cuisine in the elegant yet casual dining room while admiring the work of local artists. Sample a medley of tapas and wine at the bar. Call for your off-premise catering needs. Reservations recommended. Serving Dinner Sunday-Thursday 5-9pm; Friday and Saturday 5-10pm.

Closed Mondays. Reservations recommended. 240 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 231-1084. www.oiiny.com.

Plaza Diner Established 1969. One of the finest family restaurants in the area. Extensive selection of entrees and daily specials, plus children’s menu. Everything prepared fresh daily. Private room for parties and conferences up to 50 people. Open 24/7. Exit 18 off NYS Thruway. 27 New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-1030.

Soul Dog Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts & many glutenfree items prepared in-house.

Redefining the hot dog experience! Open for lunch Mon-Fri 11am-4pm. 107 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-3254.

Wasabi Japanese Restaurant Wasabi Japanese Restaurant.

Open 7 days a week. 807 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. (518) 822-1888.

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YOUR INNER CANNABIS MARIJUANA AS MEDICINE THROUGH THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM MARIJUANA-LIKE CHEMICALS ARE PART OF OUR PHYSIOLOGY; USURPING THEIR CELLULAR PATHWAYS FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND TREATMENT IS DECADES OLD.

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n the early 1980s, Steven J. Gould, Professor of Zoology at Harvard and curator of its Museum of Comparative Zoology, explained publicly how smoking marijuana was the only thing that made his cancer chemotherapy tolerable. Gould was one of last century’s landmark thinkers in evolutionary biology and paleontology. He penned hundreds of essays for the layperson in Natural History magazine, and collected his entertaining musings in The Panda’s Thumb, Ever Since Darwin, The Mismeasure of Man, and many other books.

Gould’s revelation impressed me, partly because he was admitting to a federal crime, but mostly because one wouldn’t mess with a cerebrum like his lightly. Indeed, it is said he shunned drugs, including alcohol, for that reason. Gould won his cancer battle back then, which bought him two more decades; he succumbed to another onslaught in 2002.

Thousands of people have used marijuana to alleviate symptoms of grave illnesses or to quell side effects of treatments, inspiring several panels of medical experts over the years to scrutinize existing clinical trials and testimony of patients and doctors to discern any promise for marijuana or its components as medicine. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine, a part of the revered US National Academy of Sciences, explained its findings in a 250-page document (an exceptionally educational read for lay people about many aspects of health and medicine). The report concluded that marijuana and its most-studied component, THC, were moderately effective for some conditions and in some patients—enough so that more studies were warranted. Further, the suite of drug effects offered multiple benefits that existing drugs did not.

Also in the late 1990s were reports from the American Medical Association, British Medical Association, US National Institutes of Health, World Health Organization, and the British House of Lords Science and Technology Committee; all echoed the Institute’s conclusions, noted a dearth of studies, and encouraged more.

But earlier this year, the FDA reiterated its position in response to discussions in Congress about medical marijuana. An April 20 interagency advisory and press release cited a “past evaluation by several Department of Health and Human Services agencies” (including the FDA, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and National Institute for Drug Abuse), which concluded that “no sound scientific studies

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supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use.”

The statement is the second of two recent federal-level punches to the notion of legalization of marijuana for medical use. The first was a 2005 decision by the Supreme Court that marijuana use for any purpose would remain a federal crime, including in those eleven states that allow medical exemptions.

The Institute of Medicine agrees that “there is little future in smoked marijuana as a medically approved medication [emphasis added],” faulting it as “a crude THC delivery system that also delivers harmful substances,” meaning the abundant toxins and carcinogens in marijuana smoke. But it clarifies: “The argument against the future of smoked marijuana for treating any condition is not that there is no reason to predict efficacy but that there is risk. That risk could be overcome by the development of a nonsmoked rapid-onset delivery system for cannabinoid drugs.” Specifically, an inhaler would be a good idea. Since that could be years and hundreds of millions of research dollars away with our drug approval system, says the report, “there is no clear alternative for people suffering from chronic conditions that might be relieved by smoking marijuana, such as pain or AIDS wasting.”

MEET YOUR ENDOCANNABINOIDS There is ample evidence that marijuana and THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) influence the body in ways that, for some patients, nothing else can. But how? Does it offer a mellow resignation, perhaps a lethargy that makes it hard to care too much about one’s horrific physical state? To some degree, yes. But that’s just a preface to a fascinating story that doesn’t get much popular press.

Just as studies of heroin’s effects on the brain led to the discovery of our own opioid system—the endorphins and cousins—so has marijuana revealed the endocannabinoids.

That tongue twister of a name refers to naturally occurring chemicals now suspected to play along with the brain’s neurotransmitter elite—dopamine, serotonin, GABA, and epinephrine—in essential brain functions such as mood, cognition, memory, appetite, pain awareness, and emotions. Endocannabinoids are widespread outside the brain as well. They are made from a hairpin-shaped lipid, arachidonic acid, an essential

omega-6 fatty acid in the membranes of all cells, and which serves as a precursor to several molecules with diverse activities. This is not to say that all our cells make cannabinoids, but their building blocks are nothing exotic.

Endocannabinoid history begins in the late 1980s, with clear evidence that people (as well as laboratory animals) have special proteins to which THC and related chemicals bind. These proteins were dubbed cannabinoid receptors (CB1) after Cannabis, the marijuana plant’s botanical name. By the early 1990s cannabinoid receptor proteins had been purified and their presence in many regions of the brain and other tissues established.

Two years later a naturally occurring chemical—the first endogenous cannabinoid—was identified. It was named anandamide, after the Sanskrit word ananda, bliss (the chemical’s formal name is arachidonyl ethanolamide). It is about half as potent as THC. Then a second type of receptor (CB2) was located, mostly on immune cells. Other endogenous cannabinoids have since been discovered, with varying degrees of biological activity (most without the psychogenic properties of anandamide). For instance, 2-arachidonyl glycerol (2-AG) is more abundant but less psychoactive than anandamide and binds to both the CB1 and CB2 receptors; cannabidiol attaches most readily to CB2 receptors, and in doing so seems to relieve convulsions, inflammation, anxiety, and nausea.

MEDICINAL VALUE OF CANNABINOIDS The endocannabinoid system is how THC and similar chemicals are presumed to exert their impacts on physiology. Smoked marijuana typically induces relaxation, sleepiness, euphoria, and an increase in appetite. It temporarily impairs memory formation and clear thinking, and can produce visual distortions, dizziness, and even anxiety, panic, or psychotic reactions in rare cases. (The last effects can be too disruptive for some patients to continue.) But there is more to this drug. Accounts exist for nearly two dozen medical conditions for which marijuana (or purified THC) has improved symptoms. Here are the most established: Pain suppression. While opioid-based pain relievers (e.g., morphine) work well for many kinds of pain, they don’t touch others, and people develop drug tolerance that requires ever-higher doses for the same effect. Also, opioids create dependency and, for some people, insurmountable adverse reactions, especially at the high doses required to alleviate their pain. Several clinical trials show cannabinoids offer pain relief while also

inducing calm, sleep, and improved appetite. In addition, they can be added to opioids for better pain relief, such as for “breakthrough” pain that eludes ongoing opioid analgesia.

Alleviating pain is no small issue; the medical community has long acknowledged that undertreatment of pain is a serious problem. Studies suggest marijuana or THC helps with migraine headaches, for which existing medications don’t always work.

Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea and/or vomiting are nearly guaranteed side effects of cancer chemotherapy. More than just unpleasant, vomiting (emesis, medically speaking) can be so debilitating that people forego anything resembling a normal daily existence or choose to stop chemotherapy. Marijuana has helped many of those people (including in Dr. Gould’s time), before antiemetic drugs were as effective as they are today. And while only a third or a fourth of patients find marijuana and THC effective, they are an alternative for patients for whom the standard drugs are insufficient or intolerable due to side effects.

Food Intake. Clinical trials demonstrate that marijuana and THC improve appetite and weight gain in AIDS patients, for whom as little as five percent weight loss decreases survival, and in cancer patients with cachexia (tumor-mediated tissue breakdown and weight loss, common in later stage cancer). In fact, it was a study in the early 1990s showing that THC increased body weight in many people with AIDS wasting, that won FDA approval for pharmaceutical THC (called dronabinol, trade name Marinol) in that patient population.

Muscle Spasm Control. People with multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, and movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and Tourette’s syndrome have spontaneous muscle contractions that can be extremely debilitating. Marijuana or THC reduces muscle spasms (most studies are for multiple sclerosis), presumably through brain regions related to muscle control that are known to have cannabinoid receptors.

Anti-inflammatory. Ongoing studies in laboratory animals and people show promise for the cannabinoids in treating diseases of the digestive tract, especially those that involve inflammation, such as ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, and gastroesophageal reflux (heartburn). Another application is neuroprotection—sparing brain cells from death after head injury, oxygen deprivation, and inflammation or immune-mediated nerve cell damage.

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PLANT AND PHARM While virtually every existing drug product was born out of Mother Nature’s botanical warehouse, the Institute of Medicine noted in their report that those based on marijuana are “considered to be especially risky, to judge by the paucity of products in development and the small size of the pharmaceutical firms sponsoring them.” Still, the work to “pharm” marijuana has been underway for some time. The first synthetic cannabinoids were created in the 1980s (and key in the discovery of the receptors). Today, there are half a dozen agonists (drugs that mimic the effects of THC or endogenous cannabinoids in various ways) and a few antagonists (which block cannabinoid action). Some agonists are many times more potent than THC; certain forms are more specific for one receptor type, aiding the design of drugs to zero in on certain symptoms with the fewest side effects. The antagonist rimonabant is a potential appetite suppressant/weight-loss drug that also improves blood lipid profiles in such a way that would reduce risk of heart disease.

In the US, two oral cannabinoids are available by prescription. Marinol is synthetic THC, approved by the FDA in 1985 specifically to stimulate appetite in AIDS patients who are losing weight, and in 1992 to reduce nausea and vomiting in people undergoing cancer chemotherapy. Nabilone, a THC-like synthetic, was approved just over a month ago to treat nausea and vomiting in cancer patients when other drugs have failed.

There are pros and cons to both smoked marijuana and the pharmaceuticals. The former carries risk of airway irritation in the short term and airway disease and cancer in the long term (though the largest study to date of lung cancer among long-term heavy marijuana smokers found no increase compared to nonsmokers). And of course, it’s a criminal act to grow, buy, possess, or use it. Some medical users find it makes them too sleepy, but many learn to adjust their intake to balance benefit of symptom relief with side effects—something easily done because effects are rapid when inhaled.

The pharmaceuticals have their own—and many people would argue, worse—problems. Expense is one, though the makers of Marinol have financial programs for reduced cost to qualified patients. The oral delivery mode means it takes two to four hours for maximum effect (and is useless for patients who are vomiting), yet as additional doses are given to reach effect, overdose is possible. Marinol’s packaging warns “overdose may occur either with therapeutic doses or with higher, nontherapeutic doses” and “caution should be exercised in dose escalation because the incidence of psychiatric symptoms increases significantly at maximum doses.” Overdose symptoms can include blood pressure drop and unconsiousness, extreme agitation, and psychotic or hallucinatory reactions (these are rarely reported by marijuana smokers). Another consideration is that the dried plant contains many other potentially active compounds; this has been argued as a benefit both of using the plant and of using a single-drug pharmaceutical.

COMING DOWN THE PIPE—ER, PIKE Other marijuana-inspired drugs are out there. Sativex is an oral spray developed in the UK and recently approved in Canada and Spain to treat pain and muscle spasms of multiple sclerosis. It is billed as the first Cannabis-based drug in the world available by prescription (in the sense that it has THC and cannabinol from the plant, rather than being synthetics). Sativex got the nod in January by the FDA for a two-tothree year clinical trial in the US beginning later this year for pain relief in advanced cancer patients; at least two other studies are underway to test marijuana and THC for neuropathic pain relief in HIV and AIDS patients.

There is also the federal “compassionate use” program, which grants individual people with life-threatening conditions the opportunity to take a drug not yet approved by the FDA as safe or effective. These “n-of-1” (single-person) clinical trials allow a patient who qualifies and complies with requirements to take an “experimental” drug, including marijuana, while under a doctor’s supervision.

So while debates on legalization of marijuana continue and opponents fume, scientists have moved on, as best they can, to capitalize on the plant—monetarily and medically. Research into what marijuana’s cannabinoids and our endocannabinoids do, in sickness and in health, is forging ahead.

RESOURCES The Institute of Medicine’s Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base, at http://fermat.nap.edu/html/marimed “The Brain’s Own Marijuana” about endocannabinoids, in Scientific American (December 2004), online at www.sciam.com Online audio slide show about cannabinoids, by the makers of Marinol,at www.marinol.com/slides.html 7/06 CHRONOGRAM.COM WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 91

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COACHING THE GAME OF LIFE

By Pauline Uchmanowicz

The only certainty in life is change. So goes a familiar adage. But what happens to those of us who feel stuck and long for transformation and growth, but are unable to define or direct our goals? A life coach may be able to help. Life coaches provide assistance in one’s search to identify and pursue ever-evolving interpersonal, career, or inner-development objectives. Coaches vary in their training, technique, and credentials but typically counsel people in one or more of seven life areas: relationships, money, work, emotions, body, sexuality, and spirituality. Unlike a psychotherapist, who focuses on diagnosing pathology—what went wrong—and how to process it, a life coach is a “transition specialist,” a forward-looking ally who is part motivation counselor, part spiritual adviser. A life coach teaches people to cultivate and focus personal power in order to create an authentic design for life.

Patterned after partnership models of cooperation, coaching usually takes place in a one-to-one format, either during in-person meetings or over the phone. Practitioners typically recommend that clients sign on for 10 to 12 one-hour sessions over the course of several months. Fees vary, with prices ranging from $50 to $250 per session. Life coaching is currently an unregulated specialty (as compared to medical professions and social work), but its practitioners often receive specialized training. In the Hudson Valley, many have attended the Empowerment Institute, headed by husband-and-wife team David Gershon and Gail Straub of West Hurley. The institute’s curriculum offers five professional tracks, including a life coach certification program.

In name, life coaching is a relatively new phenomenon, an outgrowth both of corporate downsizing during the 1980s and of the more recent aftershock of 9/11. “Life coaching didn’t really exist in the early 1990s,” says David Basch of Accord, a PhD with a background in corporate advertising and college teach92 WHOLE LIVING GUIDE CHRONOGRAM.COM 7/06

ing. Basch took a leap of faith and became a coach, first through Coach U, the leading global provider of training, then with the Coaches Training Institute to become a certified professional co-active coach (PCC).

In actuality, both the practical and spiritual aspects of life coaching derive from social science movements and wisdom traditions popularized in the past half-century. Those influences resonate in the profession’s current buzzwords and catchphrases: empowerment, actualization, limiting beliefs, holding vision, growing edges, and transformational design. Basch draws on theories of systems management and organizational behavior, and combines coaching and consulting, whether to rattle a client’s “habitual mode,” to give clients “deadlines,” or to encourage “accountability” about making desired changes.

Characterizing himself as a “facilitator who helps others define who they are authentically and at the deepest level,” Basch stresses that clients must completely commit to the process and its outcomes. He offers an objective yet caring perspective that people need when they’re stuck. “We can’t hear ourselves. What we say is what we’ve always said—and I’m going to challenge that,” he explains. And the change he helps instill isn’t just a practical matter. “To get people to see themselves clearly enough to get in touch with their power is a spiritual endeavor,” he tells me.

Like Basch, Red Hook life coach Nancy Austin has worked in the corporate world. Holding a BA in Human Services with a concentration in Counseling Theories, she once considered becoming a psychotherapist. “But I don’t want to work with clients who need a ‘diagnosis.’ The majority of people don’t have something wrong with them; they are going through life changes and transitions.” According to Austin, “People want to achieve their happiness. Unhappiness comes from conditioned thinking—habits that keep people from what

they want to achieve. Examining old thinking is an act of spiritual growth.” After encouraging clients to develop a “series of commitments” aimed at evaluating a course of action, her task is then “to hold the big picture as they take steps towards achievement.”

New Paltz-based coach Caren Fairweather, who works with both individuals and organizations, uses the wellness model as the philosophical underpinning of her coaching. A certified hypnotist and former director of the Kingston Hospital Wellness Center, Fairweather says, “Coaching evolves out of many different traditions, but for me it’s related to the wellness perspective that approaches the individual holistically—the mind, the body, the spirit, your job, what you do with your time off.” A former student of Coach U’s Thomas Leonard, Fairweather relies on a wide range of evaluational tools with clients (“in evaluation is the word value,” Fairweather says, emphasizing her efforts to get clients to identify their core values), including intuition, observation, listening, and questioning. She also draws from humanistic education and tries “to get out of the way and not impose my will on a client.”

Maarten Reilingh of Red Hook, a PhD and formerly a tenured professor, bases his approach as a certified empowerment life coach on Gershon and Straub’s methods. “I have a set of tools that can be applied to any aspect of your life, including your spiritual life,” he says. Those tools include physical enactment, visualization, and affirmation. “The goal is to establish a sense of where you are and where you want to go—to get at limiting beliefs, and also beliefs that support positive changes.” At times he invokes textbook psychology, including behavior modification and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. “The fact is, you create your own reality,” he also says, quoting the essence of Aspect Psychology, posited by Jane Roberts in the 1970s using information channeled from an entity called Seth.

Reilingh works with clients from all walks of life and of all ages, from recent college graduates to AARP members. But he gravitates toward “the explosion of baby boomers” facing life changes. “For some, ‘fired and 50’ is their mantra. Others are mothers who have raised children, or people who retired early and don’t know what to do next.” One of his favorite exercises is to invite “life explorers,” as he calls his clients, to craft a resolution by following specific directions. For example, he suggests “make your resolution attractive” by using language that pleases you, such as “I soar through the work day.”

Shirley Stone, a certified empowerment life coach in Rhinebeck, counts “integrity” as paramount to her practice. Finding her way to the life-transformation field from advertising, she guides clients on an inner journey, intended to locate, examine, and understand patterns of belief. Reminiscent of spirituality-movement guru Caroline Myss’s seven stages of power and healing, Stone poses, “Do you want to give your power to those beliefs?” One of her clients, Regina, who sought Stone’s aid “during a time of great personal and family shifts,” worked with Stone through weekly phone sessions to clarify her life’s goals by connecting with “inner guides” and her own inner knowledge. Regina believes, “It deepened my spiritual practice and connection to the universe and Mother Earth, as well as to my own heart.” Gail, another client who was unfulfilled in her career path, echoes this: “Life coaching helped me put the chaotic contents of my mind into a logical plan [and to] approach life in a more balanced way.”

According to Woodstock career/life coach and onetime college teacher Allie Roth, now director of the Center for Creativity and Work, her “holistic approach to life transition” helps seekers cultivate personal power in order to “actualize creative potential, discover their soul’s purpose, and create a life that is meaningful, authentic, and filled with abundance and joy.”

Roth uses a technique she calls “soul glimpsing,” which combines meditation, art, somatic awareness, writing, and other strategies. Her top exercise for clients: Name 20 things that nurture your soul. “It could be talking with a friend, ice skating, or walking in nature. It’s not your to-do list. They are peak experiences of mind, body, and spirit—when you feel most alive.” An adherent of mythologist Joseph Campbell’s dictum “follow your bliss,” Roth’s Bliss Quiz measures whether or not you feel stuck in your work.

Other life coaches, such as Jane Ebaugh of Rhinebeck, apply core precepts from the burgeoning coaching field to community service work. Ebaugh studied spiritual growth in a program developed by Gail Straub known as Grace, based upon principles of self-responsibility and life awareness culled from the Pathwork Lectures. Those lectures were channeled by Eva Pierrakos from an entity called “The Guide” between 1955 and 1979, which Straub describes as “a stunning partnership of depth psychology and spiritual law.” Ebaugh has used its guidance to help empower the homeless, and stresses that it involves a reciprocal relationship between the life coach and other persons. “You realize you are helping someone who is helping you.

Giving, we are receiving.”

Contact information for the Life Coaches mentioned in this article: Nancy Austin, BA, Life Coach: Red Hook; (845) 417-7493 David Basch, PhD, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach: Accord; (845) 626-0444 Jane Ebaugh, Empowerment Certified Organizational Coach: Rhinebeck; (845) 876-7454 Caren Fairweather, MPS, Life Coach: New Paltz; (845) 255-8012 Maarten Reilingh, PhD, Certified Empowerment Life Coach: Red Hook; (845) 752-3321 Allie Roth, MA, Career & Life Coach: Woodstock; (845) 336-8318 Shirley Stone, Empowerment Certified Life Coach: Rhinebeck; (845) 876-8983 The Empowerment Institute: www.empowermentinstitute.net

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Judith Muir - The Alexander Technique

Peter Dubitsky, L.Ac., Callie Brown, L.Ac., and Leslie Wiltshire, L.Ac. Mr. Dubitsky is a faculty member and the Director of Clinical Training at the Tri-State College of Acupuncture, and a member of the NY State Board for Acupuncture. Ms. Brown and Ms. Wiltshire each have years of acupuncture experience in private practice and in medical offices. We are all highly experienced, national board certified, NYS Licensed acupuncturists. We combine traditional Asian acupuncture techniques with a modern understanding of acupuncture and oriental medicine to provide effective treatments of acute and chronic pain conditions, and other medical disorders. In addition to our general practice we also offer a Low Cost Acupuncture Clinic which is available for all people who meet our low income guidelines. 108 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-7178.

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. (845) 677-5871.

AROMATHERAPY Joan Apter See also Massage Therapy directory. (845) 679-0512. japter@ulster.net. www.apteraromatherapy.com.

ART THERAPY Deep Clay Art and Therapy

Dylana Accolla, LAc

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Treat yourself to a renewed sense of health and wellbeing with acupuncture, herbal medicine, Chinese bodywork, and nutritional counseling. My emphasis is on empowering patients by teaching them how to practice preventative medicine. Great for gynecological problems, chronic pain, and managing chronic illness. Two locations: Haven Spa, 6464 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, and Woodstock Women's Health, 1426 Route 28, West Hurley. Haven Spa, 6464 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY. (914) 388-7789.

ASTROLOGICAL CONSULTING Eric Francis: Astrological

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC For the past 16 years, Dr. Hoon J. Park has been practicing a natural and gentle approach to pain management for conditions such as arthritis, chronic and acute pain in neck, back, and legs, fibromyalgia, motor vehicle and work-related injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, and more by integrating physical therapy modalities along with acupuncture. Dr. Hoon Park is a board-certified physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and electrodiagnostic studies. His experienced, friendly staff offer the most comprehensive and individualized rehabilitative care available. Please call the office to arrange a consultation. New patients and most insurances are accepted.

Half mile south of the Galleria Mall. 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590. (845) 298-6060.

Stephanie Ellis, LAc, Chinese Herbalist Ms. Ellis is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia University in pre-medical studies and has been practicing acupuncture in Rosendale since 2001.

In 2003 she completed post-graduate work in the study of classical Chinese herbal medicine. Ms. Ellis trained at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for the treatment of cancer patients with acupuncture. Ms. Ellis also has special training in infertility treatment, facial acupuncture and chronic pain. Her new, expanded location is at the medical offices of Rosendale Family Practice. Evening and weekend hours and sliding scale rates. Phone consultations available. Rosendale Family Practice, 110 Creek Locks Road, Rosendale, NY. (845) 546-5358. www.HudsonValleyAcupuncture.com.

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Deep Clay Art and Therapy with Michelle Rhodes Licensed Master Social Worker, ATR-BC. A creative and grounding approach for crisis management, transitions, and deep healing. Individual, couple, and group arts based psychotherapy. "Dreamfigures" group for women in transition. Gardiner, NY. (845) 255-8039. deepclay@mac.com. www.deepclay.com.

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Consultations by Phone. Special discount on follow-ups for previous clients from the Hudson Valley.

Lots to explore on the Web at www.PlanetWaves.net.

(206) 854-3931. eric@ericfrancis.com.

Essential Astrology Free Astrology Consultation. Call with a question and I'll give you a free 15 minute consultation to introduce you to my work and to the helpfulness of the Western and Vedic astrological traditions. Penny Seator, Essential Astrology. (518) 678-3282.

AURAS AND ENERGY The AURACLE A Spirit shop offering aura photos/ readings, Reiki attunements/ certifications, Reiki healing, meditations, gifts, and tools for the mind/ body/ spirit.

Specializing in aura/ chakra imaging. Come discover your personal aura colors, and the health and balance of your aura and chakras! Join us in our weekly Sunday chakra balancing group at 11am!

Couples and pet readings available. 27 N. Chestnut Street., New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-6046.

ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH Healer Training School Also see Schools & Training category. Penny Price Lavin (845) 876-0239: pricemedia@aol.com. Nancy Plumer (845) 687-2252: nplumer@hvi.net. Check ad for One Light Healing Touch summer workshops.

Rhinebeck, NY. www.OneLightHealingTouch.com.

BODY & SKIN CARE Absolute Laser, LLC Absolute Laser offers commitment to beautiful skin through outstanding care and service. Offering Laser Hair Removal, Microdermabrasion, Vitalize Peel, and Fotofacial RF. The Fotofacial RF is the next generation in high-tech skin enhancement. These gentle, no downtime treatments are used to improve cosmetic appearance of the face, neck, hands, and body.

The results are brighter, smoother, more radiant and luminescent skin. This process delivers results that skin care products alone cannot do! Recover and rediscover the youth and vitality of your skin. Call for a complimentary consultation: Janice DiGiovanni.

Springbrook Medical Park, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-7100. www.absolute-laser.com.

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

Julie Zweig, MA

Rosen Method Bodywork Rosen Method is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using hands that listen rather than manipulate, the practitioner focuses on chronic muscle tension. As relaxation occurs and the breath deepens, unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge. The practitioner responds with touch and words that allow the client to begin to recognize what has been held down by unconscious muscle tension. As this process unfolds, habitual tension and old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, new choices in life, and a greater sense of well-being. Julie Zweig, M.A., Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner. (845) 255-3566. www.RosenMethod.org.

BODYWORK bodhi studio See also Massage Therapy directory. (518) 828-2233.

CAREER & LIFE COACHING Allie Roth Center for Creativity and Work Career and Life Coaching for those seeking more creativity, fulfillment, balance and meaning in life and work. Offer a holistic approach to career and life transitions Also specialize in executive coaching, and coaching small business owners, consultants and private practitioners. 25 years experience.

Kingston and New York City offices. Kingston, NY. (845) 336-8318. Toll Free: 800-577-8318. allie@allieroth.com. www.allieroth.com.

Change is inevitableî żgrowth is optional. Get your life, business, or career unstuck and moving forward. You become clearer about who you are and what you really want. We don't fix you because you aren't broken.

Transitions occur more naturally and powerfully.

Whatever you are up to in your career, business or key areas such as money and relationships, coaching can assist you in creating a fulfilling life, achieving goals and being more focused, present and successful.

Contact David for a free session. (845) 626-0444. dwbasch@aol.com. www.dwbcoaching.com..

CHI KUNG Ada Citron Explore the basics of Mantak Chia's Healing Tao System with Ada Citron, Taoist counselor and Healing Tao Instructor for over 10 years. Meet the Six Healing Sounds which transform stress into vitality.

Learn the Inner Smile and the Microcosmic Orbit meditations. Also learn standing and gently moving practices that relax and rejuvenate. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

CHILDBIRTH Catskill Mountain Midwifery Home Birth Services See also Midwifery directory. (845) 687-BABY.

Homebirth and Gynecology Practice of Judy Joffee, CNM This practice offers a unique and exquisite opportunity for woman care in a powerfully compassionate and sacred manner. I offer complete prenatal care focused toward homebirth. For the nonpregnant woman, individualized gynecological care, counseling, and self-determination await you. Also offering school, work, and general physicals for all ages. Call for consultation. (845) 255-2096.

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Verbal Body-Centered Psychotherapy utilizing doctoral level training in psychology and 15+ years of experience as a therapist, as well as the principles of Rosen Method Bodywork, but without touch. New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-3566.

David W. Basch, CPCC Transition Coach

Kary Broffman, RN, CH See also Hypnosis directory. (845) 876-6753.

CHIROPRACTIC Dr. Bruce Schneider New Paltz, NY 12561. (845) 255-4424.

Gabriels Family Chiropractic Come visit Dr. Christopher Gabriels at 381 Washington Avenue in Kingston. Experienced in a myriad of techniques (Diversified, Applied Kinesiology, SOT, Activator, Nutrition) and providing gentle adjustments iin a comfortable atmosphere. You only have one body, let me help you make the most of it by restoring your body's natural motion and balance.

Call (845) 331-7623 to make an appointment. 381 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-7623.

Nori Connell, RN, DC Nori combines 28 years as a registered nurse with 18 years of chiropractic experience to offer patients a knowledgeable approach to removing the interferences in the body that lead to disease. She combines accredited techniques such as Neuro-Emotional technique, kinesiology, and Network Chiropractic to work with the body's innate intelligence and its ability for healing. Dr. Connell also offers workshops on natural health care for the family and is also one of the directors of Alternatives Health Center of Tivoli (845) 757-5555 and Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5556.

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COACHING Jeanne Asma, LCSWR See also Psychotherapy directory. (845) 462-1182. ww.JeanneAsma.com.

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

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY Craniosacral Therapy A gentle, hands-on method for enhancing the body's own healing capabilities through the craniosacral rhythm. Craniosacral aids in the release of stress-related conditions such as anxiety, nervousness, insomnia, depression, digestive, menstrual, and other problems with organ function, breathing difficulties, and headaches. Increase energy, reduce pain, and improve immune system function. Effective for whiplash, TMJ, sciatica, fibromyalgia, scoliosis, arthritis, low back tension, and chronic pain. Also helpful for children with birth trauma, learning difficulties, chronic ear problems, and hyperactivity. Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage, Michele Tomasicchio, LMT. (845) 255-4832.

DENTISTRY The Center For Advanced Dentistry Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD; Jaime O. Stauss, DMD

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Setting the standards for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad. Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes "old school" care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18. 494 Route 299, Highland, NY. (845) 691-5600 | fax: (845) 6918633. www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com.

EQUINE FACILITATED HEALING Ada Citron Taoist Counselor and Instructor Equisessions速 with Ada, a life long rider, are therapeutically oriented, equine facilitated encounters based on the Epona Method from The Tao of Equus, by Linda Kohanov. Riding is involved in later sessions. This year Ada will present an all day pre-conference workshop for Region 1 of NARHA, the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, on Chi Kung as a tool for mounted equine facilitated healing work. She will also present, for the second time, her Chi Kung for Horse People at the conference itself. Kingston. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

FENG SHUI DeStefano and Associates Barbara DeStafano has been the owner of DeStefano and Associates, an interior design business, for 18 years. She received certification in Feng Shui from the Metropolitan Institute of Interior Design and has completed advanced work with several Feng Shui Masters. Feng Shui is the perfect marriage to interior design. It brings a spiritual dimension to your space.

Barbara can create a kind of beauty that touches your spirit, and brings balance and harmony to a level that transcends the superficial. Barbara is available for consultations, guest speaker engagements, and workshops.

(845) 339-4601.

HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Specializing in Craniosacral Therapy, Stress Point Release through Chiroprac96

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tic, Swedish & Sports Massage, Shiatsu, and Energetic Reiki. New offerings include meditation and nutritional counseling. Call for an appointment. 5 Academy Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-3337 and (845) 853-3325.

eat well for life. Individual programs are customized to your health goals. Special People Pet Wellness program for you and your pet. Whole foods cooking parties - fun, educational, and delicious! Free consultation. (845) 338-4115. julieabarone@yahoo.com. www.peoplepetwellness.com.

HEALTH FOOD

Marika Blossfeldt, HHC, AADP Holistic Health and Nutrition Counselor, Yoga Instructor

Pleasant Stone Farm Pleasant Stone Farm. 130 Dolson Avenue, Middletown, NY. (845) 343-4040. pleasantstonefarm@usa.net.

HEALTH PUBLICATIONS Hudson Valley Healthy Living A comprehensive directory of Mid-Hudson health services, products, and practitioners, along with articles on health issues of interest. Published biannually (April/October) by Luminary Publishing, Inc., the creators of Chronogram, 50,000 copies are distributed in the region throughout the year. Contents are also available on the Web at www.hvhealthyliving.com. See our website for advertising rates or call the HVHL sales team. (845) 334-8600. www.hvhealthyliving.com.

HERBS

You were meant to lead a happy and fulfilling life.

What's holding you back? Create change now.

Discover the foods and lifestyle that truly nourish your body and soul. Infuse your life with radiant health! One-on-one counseling, lectures, wellness workshops, whole foods cooking classes, yoga, summer retreats. Beacon, NY. (646) 241 8478. marika@delicious-nutrition.com.

Priscilla A. Bright, MA Energy Healer/Counselor Specializing in women's stress, emotional issues, and physical illness, including stress-related anxiety, depression, and physical burnout. Women in transition, businesswomen, mothers, all welcome.

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

Kingston, NY. (845) 688-7175.

HOMEOPATHY

Monarda Herbal Apothecary

HOLISTIC HEALTH John M. Carroll, Healer John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the God-given gift of his hands. John has helped individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, including back problems and cancer.

Remote healings and telephone sessions. Call for consultation. Kingston, NY. (845) 338-8420.

Julie Barone, Certified Holistic Health Counselor Live with vibrant energy! Whole foods nutrition and lifestyle consulting can help you kick the junk food habit, achieve better health, tune in to your body, and

Kimberly Woods C. HOM. With 25 years of experience and extensive training with world renowned master homeopaths and herbalists, she has helped 1000's of individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, ifrom physical problems to psychological illnesses. Kimberly is truly gifted at educating the individual in natural approaches to health and well being. (845) 688 2976. www.naturalhealthsource.us.

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In honoring the diversity, uniqueness, and strength of nature for nourishment and healing, we offer organic and ecologically wildcrafted herbs using tradition as our guide. Certified Organic Alcohol Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Essential Oils, and more.

Product Catalog $1. Workshops and Internships.

(845) 688-2122. www.monarda.net.

HYPNOSIS Achieve Your Goals with Therapeutic Hypnosis - Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt. 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. New Paltz/Kingston, NY. (845) 389-2302.

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Kary Broffman, RN, CH 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. Hyde Park, NY. (845) 876-6753.

One-Session Hypnosis with Frayda Kafka CHT Building on my success with smoking cessation in 1978, I have continued to help clients with weight loss, pain, childbirth, stress, insomnia, habits, phobias, confidence, and almost any behavior you can think of. Known for my easy, light manner and quick results, I have an intuitive knack for saying just the right thing at the right time so that a major shift can be initiated. Groups, home visits, gifts and phone sessions are available. Please call me at (845) 3364646. Kingston, NY. info@CallTheHypnotist.com. www.CallTheHypnotist.com.

JEWISH MYSTICISM/KABBALAH Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC Kabbalistic Healing in person and long distance.

See Body-Centered Therapy. (845) 485-5933.

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Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach 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. Rhinebeck, NY. (845)8762194. Shirley@findingthecourage.com. www.findingthecourage.com.

MASSAGE THERAPY Ada Citron, LMT Practicing since 1988, Ada Citron, LMT, has offered Swedish, Sports Massage, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Chair Massage, Shiatsu, Barefoot Shiatsu and Chi Nei Tsang (CNT) Chinese abdominal massage. Shiatsu and CNT are currently her preferred modalities. Classes offered in CNT. House calls fee commensurate with travel time. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

Affinity Healing Arts Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT Massage Therapy - Reiki - Yoga Deeply effective, intuitive and client-centered bodywork incorporating Swedish/deep tissue, myofascial, aromatherapy and energy balancing. Integral Yoga速 private, restorative, group classes. Poughkeepsie location.

(845) 797-4124. home.earthlink.net/~affinityhealing.

Donna Generale Licensed Massage Therapist If you have not experienced the deep, penetrating, and rigorous effects of Tuina massage, you owe it to yourself and your senses to enjoy a session.

A myriad of hand and arm techniques provides a detailed massage that's incomparable for sore muscles, aches and pains. When blended with Swedish massage strokes, the treatment is tempered with soothing comfort and relaxation. Whether you want a leisure hour and a half or a 15 minute "quick relief," or any other length of time you prefer, you will feel instant benefits. (845) 247-4098. Also: Shiatsu, Sports & Medical massage.

Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, specializes in Integrative Massage - incorporation of various healing modalities: Swedish, Myofascial Deep Tissue, Craniosacral, and stretching to facilitate the body's healing process.

A session may include all or just one modality. No fault accepted. Gift certificates available. By appointment only. 243 Main Street, Suite 220, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-4832.

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

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center See also Yoga directory. 521 Main Street (Rte. 299, across from Econo Lodge), New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-8212. contact@thelivingseed.com. www.thelivingseed.com.

Shiatsu Massage Therapy - Leigh Scott Leigh Scott will be moving to Westport, Conn. to continue her practice. She will return every 5 weeks to do housecalls. For an apointment call (203) 247-6451 or email leighmscott@earthlink.net. Blessings to all.

(203) 247-6451. leighmscott@earthlink.net.

Susan DeStefano, LMT Healing Massage Swedish. Deep Tissue. Hot Stone.

Shiatsu Craniosacral. Lymph Drainage Tibetan Reflexology. Reiki. Touch For Health. (845) 255-6482.

Sunflower Healing Massage See also Midwifery directory. (845) 705-5906.

Woodland Massage A healing practice for body, mind and spirit. Attention artists, activists, farmers, executives, builders, teachers, truckers, healers, helpers, merchants, mothers, and weekend wanderers. Strong, gentle, knowledgeable bodywork, personalized to meet your treatment goals. Flexible schedule and fees. Accord office/ home visits. Mark Houghtaling, LMT. Keep in touch.

(845) 687-4650.

bodhi studio Through bodywork one can connect with the body's own inherent wisdom and self healing abilities. With skill, intuition, and care, we offer therapeutic massage, bodhiwork, Reiki, warm stone massage, aromatherapy, earconing, and a full range of ayurvedic treatments including Shirodara, Abyanga, and Swedna. Melinda Pizzano, LMT and Helen Andersson, D.Ay. Call for an appointment. (518) 828-2233.

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MEDITATION Zen Mountain Monastery 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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South Plank Road, Mt. Tremper, NY. (845) 688-2228.

MIDWIFERY Catskill Mountain Midwifery Home Birth Services Give birth as you wish, in an environment in which you feel nurtured and secure; where your emotional well-being, privacy, and personal preferences are respected. Be supported by a tradition that trusts the natural process. Excellent MD consult, hospital backup. (845) 687-BABY.

Homebirth and Gynecology Practice of Judy Joffee, CNM See also Childbirth directory. (845) 255-2096.

Suzanne Berger Certified nurse midwife at the Women's Care Center offering a full range of holistic, alternative and traditional services. Serving Kingston, Benedictine and Northern Dutchess Hospitals. Kingston, NY. Rhinebeck (845) 876-2496. Kingston (845) 338-5575.

Sunflower Healing Massage Kim Beck, RN Certified Nurse, Midwife and Licensed Massage Therapist. In home prenatal and postpartun massage. (845) 705-5906.

mental treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level, cravings, concentration, energy level, and sleep, in addition to body weight.

Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life! 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 489-4732.

Vitamin Navigator Confused about what to eat and what not? Find your own bioindividuality, your diet is as unique as you are, your optimum health can be achieved without serious deprivation. Andrew Wright Randel HHC AADP has 15 years experience with alternative and complementary health care. (914) 466-2928. www.vitaminnavigator.c om.

Valerie Crystal, MS, Clinical Nutritionist "If I don't make time for healthy eating, I'll have to make time for illness." Valerie Crystal, MS, Clinical Nutritionist. Assessments and diagnostic testing for chronic disorders caused by poor eating habits. Learn how, what and when to eat and heal yourself! House calls available. Free Phone consultation. (518) 678-0700.

NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING Julie Barone Certified Holistic Health Counselor

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Live with vibrant energy! Whole foods nutrition and lifestyle consulting can help you kick the junk food habit, achieve better health, tune in to your body, and eat well for life. Individual programs are customized NATURAL FOODS to your health goals. Special People Pet Wellness program for you and your pet. Whole foods cooking Beacon Natural Market parties - fun, educational, and delicious! Free conLighting the Way for a Healthier World... Located in the sultation. (845) 338-4115. julieabarone@yahoo.com. heart of historic Beacon at 348 Main Street. Featurwww.peoplepetwellness.com. ing organic prepared foods deli & juice bar as well as organic and regional produce, meats and cheeses.

Newly opened in Aug. '05, proprietors L.T. & Kitty ORGANIC PRODUCTS Sherpa are dedicated to serving the Hudson Valley with a complete selection of products that are good NewAgeProducts.Org for you and good for the planet, including an extensive Offers handmade Organic Soaps, All Natural & alternative health dept. Nutritionist on staff. 348 Main Organic Herbal Juice Supplements and many Organic Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-1288.

Bath & Body Products. All high quality and very competitively priced. Your #1 place to get all your organic body care needs. An easy and convenient way to Sunflower Natural Food Market At Sunflower we know the food we eat is our greatest experience the difference of Organic & All Natural source of health. Sunflower carries certified organic Body Care. www.NewAgeProducts.org. produce, milk, cheeses, and eggs; non-irradiated herbs and spices; clean, pure organic products to support a healthy lifestyle; large selection of hoOSTEOPATHY meopathic remedies. Sunflower Natural Foods is a complete natural foods market. Open 9AM-9PM daily. Applied Osteopathy 10AM-7PM Sundays. Bradley Meadows Shopping Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO. Center, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-5361.

Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and handson treatment of our predecessors. We have studied Naturopathic Medicine with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Dr. Thomas J. Francescott, ND. Free Your Mind Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO, and completed Release Your Body - Energize Your Spirit! Solve health a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. issues, enhance wellness, and gain awareness. Scien- We treat newborns, children, and adults. 3457 Main tifically proven naturopathic solutions for challenging St, Stone Ridge, (845) 687-7589. 138 Market Street, and/or chronic health concerns. I offer naturopathic Rhinebeck, (845) 876-1700. 257 Main Street, New expertise in a sacred space to help you feel better.

Paltz, (845) 256-9884. By Appointment. For more Graduate of the prestigious Bastyr University. Call information call or visit the website.. www.appliedoste Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center (845) 876-5556. opathy.com. www.drfrancescott.com.

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PHYSICIANS Women Care Center

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Empowerment through information. Located in Rhinebeck and Kingston. Massage and acupuncture available. Gynecology - treating our patients through

the most up-to-date medical and surgical technologies available, combined with alternative therapies. Obstetrics - working with you to create the birth experience you desire. Many insurances accepted. Evening hours available. Rhinebeck (845) 876-2496.

Kingston (845) 338-5575.

PILATES Beacon Pilates A fully equipped classical studio that tailors each workout to fit the individual's needs and abilities.

Our class times and intro packages make it easy to get started.

Beacon Pilates is a Power Pilates Participating Studio. For information on becoming a certified Pilates teacher please contact us. 181 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Beacon, NY. (845) 831-0360. www.beaconpilates.com.

The Moving Body 276 Tinker Street, Woodstock,. (845) 679-7715. www.themovingbody.com.

PSYCHOLOGISTS Jonathan D. Raskin, PhD

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Licensed psychologist. Insight-oriented, meaning-based, problem-focused, person-centered psychotherapy for adults and adolescents facing problems including, but not limited to, self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, life transitions, family issues, career concerns, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and bereavement. Free initial consultation. Sliding scale.

199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 257-3471.

Mark L. Parisi, PhD Licensed psychologist. Offering individual psychotherapy for adults.

Specializing in gay men's issues, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, adjustment, issues related to aging, disordered eating, body image, sexual identity, and personal growth. Medicare and some insurance accepted. 52 South Manheim Boulevard, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-2259.

Mark S. Balaban, Ph.D. Licensed Clinical Psychologist offering individual and group psychotherapy for adults and adolescents. Experienced in working with relationship/intimacy issues, loneliness, depression, anxiety, current family or family of origin issues, eating/body image concerns, grief, stress management, and personal growth. Convenient after-work and evening appointments available.

Rosendale, NY. (845) 616-7898. balabanm@newpaltz.edu.

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Peter M. del Rosario, PhD Licensed psychologist. Insight-oriented, culturally sensitive psychotherapy for adults and adolescents concerned with: relationship difficulties, codependency, depression, anxiety, sexual/physical trauma, grief and bereavement, eating disorders, dealing with divorce, gay/lesbian issues. Free initial consult. Sliding scale. 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (914) 2628595.

Rachael Diamond, LCSW, CHt See also Psychotherapy directory.

(845) 883-9642.

PSYCHOTHERAPY Amy R. Frisch, CSWR

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Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It's a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls and The Healing Circle: an adult bereavement group offering a safe place to begin the healing process after the death of a loved one. Most insurances accepted. New Paltz, NY. (914) 706-0229.

Change Your Outlook, Heal, and Grow Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt. With combination of "talk" therapy for self-knowledge and hypnotherapy to transform negative, self-defeating thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Faster symptom relief. Feel better and make healthier choices. Sliding scale, Certified Hypnotherapist and Counselor. New Paltz, Kingston. See also Hypnosis.

New Paltz, NY. (845) 389-2302.

Debra Budnik, CSW-R Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing selfdefeating 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. New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-4218.

Deep Clay Art and Therapy "Dreamfigures" group for women in transition. (845) 255-8039. deepclay@mac.com.

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Hypnotherapy, and Dreams. Specializing in the creative process. Healing retreats, Local and Worldwide. (845) 339-5776.

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

Judy Swallow, MA, TEP Integrative body/mind therapist using Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama in her work with individuals, couples, groups, and families. Inquire for workshops and training, as well as therapy. New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-5613.

body, mind, and emotions. Improve relationships, release the past, heal the inner child through personal empowerment.

(845) 255-6482.

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center

REIKI Affinity Healing Arts Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT Massage Therapy - Reiki - Yoga

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Deeply effective, intuitive and client-centered bodywork incorporating Swedish/deep tissue, myofascial, aromatherapy and energy balancing. Integral Yoga速 private, restorative, group classes. Poughkeepsie location. (845) 797-4124. home.earthlink.net/~affinityhealing.

Julie Zweig, MA See also Body-Centered Therapy directory. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz. NY. (845) 255-3566.

Jeanne Asma, LCSWR PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND LIFE COACH Individual, couples and group sessions for adults. Women's issues groups now forming. Specializing in relation ship issues, improving self esteem, binge eating and body image, life transitions including divorce and grief issues, trauma and abuse. Many insurance's accepted or sliding scale available.

Office located in Poughkeepsie location.

(845) 462-1182. www.JeanneAsma.com.

The Sanctuary - Reiki Rev. Denise Meyer offers Usui Reiki treatments.

Experience the benefits of deep relaxation and energetic releases through this method of healing touch. Reiki energy supports and heals the mind, body, heart and spirit through the delivery of Light Energy into the energy field of the receiver.

"Denise's work is way beyond the other Reiki treatments I have had." Vera P. The Sanctuary, 5 Academy Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-3337 ext. 2.

Development of solutions through simple self-observation, reflection, and conversation. Short- or long-term work around difficult relationships; life or career transitions; ethical, spiritual, or psychic dilemmas; and creative blocks. Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy. Sliding scale. Offices in Woodstock and Uptown Kingston., Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-5511 x4. kentagram@gmail.com.

Student clinic supervised by NYS Licensed Instructor. www.HVSMassageTherapy.com.

Rachael Diamond, LCSW, CHt Holistically-oriented therapist offering counseling, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy. Specializing in issues pertaining to relationships, personal growth, life transitions, alternative lifestyles, childhood abuse, codependency, addiction, recovery illness, and grief. Some insurances accepted.

Office convenient to New Paltz and surrounding areas. Free half hour consultation. New Paltz, NY. (845) 883-9642.

Wellspring Evolutionary coaching using movement and breath to access and clear lifelong patterns and transform relationships. Rodney and Sandra Wells, certified by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks.

(845) 534-7668.

REBIRTHING Susan DeStefano Heart-centered therapy for healing the

wonderful workshop.

CEUs available.

PALTZ

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Hudson Valley School of Massage Therapy

Taking a systemic approach to well-being and relationships for over 20 years, Martin Knowles works with individuals, couples and families in Uptown Kingston. His effective, down-to-earth style amplifies and encourages natural talents and resources, bringing out the best in each of us. 845-338-5450 x301.

521 Main St (Rt 299) New Paltz, NY 12561 www.thelivingseed.com (845) 255-8212

Thai Yoga Massage 8/5 - 8/6 to give a full body, * learn 1 hour massage in this

Yoga Classes ( all levels) Family & Kids Yoga Massage Acupuncture Sauna Bellydancing Capoeira West African Dance West African Drum

SCHOOLS & TRAINING

Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW Counseling & Psychotherapy

Martin Knowles, LCSW

Workshops

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

(650) 493-4430. itpinfo@itp.edu. www.itp.edu.

ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH: Healer Training School The OLHT Training is ideal for health care workers and those desiring transformational personal growth, physical and emotional healing, and spiritual develpment. Join us for an empowering, life-changing, six-month, training. 50 self-healing practices and 33 Professional Healing Techniques, Certification in OLHT Energy Healing and NYSNA CEUs. Free Open Evenings: Special Intro Weekends: Olht School a six 3-Day Weekends of Training, starts Sept. 8th. For information & sessions: Penny Price Lavin (845-876-0239: pricemedia@aol.com): Nancy Plumer (845) 687-2252: nplumer@hvi.net) See ad for One Light Healing Touch summer workshops.

Begins Sept. 8, 2006. Rhinebeck, NY. www.OneLightHealingTouch.com.

SHIATSU Shiatsu Massage Therapy - Leigh Scott Leigh Scott will be moving to Westport, Conn. to continue her practice. She will return every 5 weeks to do housecalls. For an appointment call (203) 247-6451 or email leighmscott@earthlink.net.

Blessings to all. (203) 247-6451. leighmscott@earthlink.net.

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Sublime Bodywork Sabura Goodban. Zen Shiatsu, Raindrop Therapy. New York Licensed Massage Therapist.

(845) 246-4180.

SPAS & RESORTS The Spa at Emerson Place The Emerson Spa is open! This Asian-inspired design invites guests into an oasis of relaxation that is surrounded by the Catskills' pastoral beauty. Individually-tailored treatments are created by the European-trained staff who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa's 40+ treatments. Men and women alike will enjoy the personalized attention they receive while enjoying experiences such as Ayruvedic Rituals, Aromatherapy Massage, Deep-Tissue and Four-Hand Massage, Hot Stone Therapy and Detoxifying Algae Wraps. (845) 688-1000. www.emersonplace.com.

SPIRITUAL

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Healing, Pathwork and Channeling by Flowing Spirit Guidance It is our birthright to experience the abundance of the universe, the deep love of God, and our own divinity! It is also our birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to do it. So why don't we?

Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully, the love and the abundance of God's universe. We can have it in any moment. We can learn to purify our imperfections AND experience heaven on earth.

Jaffe Institute Spiritual Healing; Pathwork; and Channeling available. Contact Joel Walzer for sessions. (845) 679-8989. www.flowingspirit.com.

Ione Egyptian Mysteries, Scarab Teachings™, Journeys to Sacred Sites. (845) 339-5776.

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establishing appropriate relationships. Benefits include feeling lighter, more energy, greater freedom of movement, relief from chronic pain, and positive psychological effects. We offer a safe place for exploration and work with sensitivity and compassion. Krisha Showalter and Ryan Flowers are certified practitioners of the KMI method. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-4654.

TAROT Tarot-on-the-Hudson - Rachel Pollack Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome.

Tarot Readings in person or by phone. Also see ad. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5797. rachel@rachelpollack.com.

THERAPY Dianne Weisselberg MSW, LMSW Individual Therapy and Personal Mythology. Over 16 years experience; eight years Process Therapy training. "I am awed and blessed by the opportunity to walk with people in the deep places of their lives, and committed to supporting each person to find and live their own journey". (845) 688-7205. dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com.

knowing you are helping the planet, your own health, and the lives of countless animals all at the same time? If the idea is daunting and seems undoable to you, then let your personal Vegan Lifestyle Coach take you through steps A to Z. Whether you're a cattle rancher eating meat three times a day or a lacto-vegetarian wanting to give up dairy, it's a process that can be fun, easy and meaningful. You can do it easily with the proper support, guidance and encouragement from your Vegan Lifestyle Coach.

(845) 679-7979. andy@meatfreezone.org. www.meatfreezone.org.

Healthy Gourmet To Go Try our colossal coconut macaroons dipped in dark chocolate or our delectable pan-seared cornmeal crusted homemade seitan cutlets over rosemary smashed potatoes with mushroom gravy. From old-fashioned home cooking with a new healthful twist to live/raw foods and macrobiotics, HGTG has dishes to please every palate.

Weekly Meal Delivery right to your door. Organic, vegan, kosher. Baby Registry. Gift Certificates.

Catering. (845) 339-7171. www.carrottalk.com.

YOGA Jai Ma Yoga Center

Toni D. Nixon, Ed.D. Therapist and Buddhist Practitioner

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center

Offering a unique combination of techniques that integrate therapeutic goals and spiritual practice.

The basic principles of Buddhism and psychotherapy are concerned with the goal of ending human suffering. Both paths to liberation are through greater self awareness, a broader view of one's world, the realization of the possibility of freedom and finding the means to achieve it. In essence, effective psychotherapy moves toward liberation and Buddhist practice is therapeutic in nature. Eidetic Image therapy is a unique and powerful method that encourages the liberation of the mind and spirit from obstacles that block the way to inner peace.

Specializing in life improvement skills, habit cessation, career issues, women's issues, and blocked creativity. By phone, online, and in person. (845) 339-1684. www.eidetictherapy.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 & Post Natal Yoga, Family & Kids Yoga, as well as a variety of Dance classes, Massage, Acupuncture, Sauna & Organic Yoga Clothing. 521 Main Street (Rte. 299, across from Econo Lodge), New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-8212. contact@thelivin gseed.com. www.thelivingseed.com.

Wisdom Heart

Yoga on Duck Pond

Individual sessions and workshops. Heart centered counseling, and expressive arts therapy.

Located in Woodstock and Kingston. (845) 6794827. www.wisdomheart.com.

A new approach to yoga based on the premise that we develop habitual patterns of movement that can effectively be changed by bringing unconscious movement into conscious awareness.

Only then can we explore new combinations of ways to move. Learn how to experience yoga poses comfortably and beneficially, from the inside out, without strain or struggle. When we slow down, we can sense and feel more clearly and comfortably how we move. Experience a style of yoga that is dynamic, rejuvenating, empowering and transformational. Donna Nisha Cohen, RYT with over 25 years experience.

Classes daily. Privates available. (845) 6874836. www.yogaonduckpond.com.

Legga, Inc. at Cedar Ridge Farm

VEGAN LIFESTYLES Andrew Glick - Vegan Lifestyle Coach The single most important step an individual can take to help save the planet's precious resources, improve and protect one's health, and to stop the senseless slaughter of over 50 billion animals a year...is to Go Vegan. What could make you feel better about yourself than

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Specializing in Equine Assisted Discovery groups and individual sessions, for Children, Adolescents, & Adults. Saugerties, NY. (845) 729-0608.

Offering a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week, from Gentle/Restorative Yoga to Advanced. Meditation classes free to all enrolled.

Chanting Friday evenings. New expanded studio space. Private consultations and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy sessions available. Gina Bassinette, RYT & Ami Hirschstein, RYT, Owners. New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-0465.

Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center is located in the heart of Rhinebeck village, on the third floor of the Rhinebeck Department Store building.

We offer classes for all levels, 7 days a week.

There is no need to pre-register: we invite you to just show up. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2528. www.hudsonvalleyyoga.com.

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business directory ACTING Sande Shurin Acting Classes Revolutionary new acting technique for Film/Stage/TV. The book: Transformational Acting...A Step Beyond, Limelight Editions.

The technique: Transform into character using current emotions. No recall. No forward imagining. Shurin private coaches many celebrities. The classes: Thursday eves. at 7pm in Woodstock. Master classes at the Times Square Sande Shurin Theatre. Woodstock, NY. (917) 545-5713 or (212) 262-6848.

ANIMATION 8 Hats High 23-27 West Main Street 3rd Fl., Middletown, NY. (845) 344-1888. www.8hatshigh.com.

Please also see our Illustration directory.

ANTIQUES Hudson Valley Showcase

ARCHITECTURE DiGuiseppe Architecture Inspired, Sensitive, and Luxurious...these are the words that describe the quintessential design work that is DiGuiseppe. The firm, with Design Studios in Accord, New York City, and Boca Raton, provides personalized Architecture and Interiors for each and every client. Whether the project is a Sensitive Historic Renovation, a Hudson Valley Inspired Home or Luxurious Interiors, each project receives the attention of the firm’s principal, Anthony J. DiGuiseppe, AIA RIBA, an internationally published architect and awardwinning furniture designer. Accord (845) 687-8989; New York City (212) 439-9611. diarcht@msn.com. www.diguiseppe.com.

ART GALLERIES Van Brunt Gallery Exhibiting the work of contemporary artists.

Featuring abstract painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new shows each month. The innovative gallery Web site has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work. 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-2995. www.vanbruntgallery.com.

ART SUPPLIES Catskill Art & Office Supply Traditional fine art materials, studio furnishings,

Manny’s Since 1962, big-city selection and small-town service have made Manny’s special. We offer a full range of art materials, custom picture framing, bookmaking supplies, and the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store. 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-9902.

R & F Handmade Paints Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery. Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm. 506 Broadway, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-3112. www.rfpaints.com.

ART THERAPY

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Expect the unexpected at the Hudson Valley’s newest antiques and crafts center.

The multi-dealer Hudson Valley Showcase in Newburgh, minutes from the acclaimed Riverfront, is open 7 days, has ample parking, a café, and offers superb quality at affordable prices. Come check out the unique array of antiques, jewelry, collectables, crafts, and more. 280 Broadway (9W), Newburgh, NY. (845) 494-1135. www.hudsonvalleyshowcase.com.

office products, journals, cards, maps, and gifts.

Creative services, too, at all three locations: photo processing, custom printing, rubber stamps, color copies, custom picture framing, and full-color digital output. Pushing the envelope and creative spirit for over 20 years. Woodstock: (845) 6792251. Kingston: (845) 331-7780. Poughkeepsie: (845) 452-1250.

Deep Clay Art and Therapy with Michelle Rhodes ATR-BC, LMSW See Psychotherapy in Whole Living Guide.

ATTORNEYS Law Offices of Andrea Lowenthal, PLLC Offices in Hudson and Manhattan, serving individuals and businesses throughout the Hudson Valley and New York City. Estate Planning (wills and trusts) and Elder Law (planning for you or your aging relatives), Domestic Partnerships (for GLBT families), Family Matters, Business Formations and Transactions, and Real Estate.

Intelligent and sensitive approach to your personal and business legal matters. Hudson, NY. (518) 671-6200 or (917) 301-6524.

Andrea@LowenthalLaw.com.

Schneider, Pfahl & Rahme, LLP Manhattan law firm, with offices in Woodstock, provides legal services to individuals, institutions, professional firms, companies, and family businesses. Specific areas include: Real Estate, Estate Planning, Corporate, New Media and Arts, and Entertainment Law. Each matter is attended to by a senior attorney, who develops a comprehensive legal plan with the client. Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-9868 or (212) 629-7744. www.schneiderpfahl.com www.nycrealestateattorneys.com.

BEVERAGES Leisure Time Spring Water Pure spring water from a natural artesian spring located in the Catskill Mountains. The spring delivers water at 42 degrees Fahrenheit yearround. The water is filtered under high pressure through fine white sand. Hot and cold dispensers available. Weekly delivery. (845) 331-0504.

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BOOKSTORES Barner Books Used books. From kitsch to culture, Thoreau to thrillers, serious and silly. We have the books you read.

Monday-Saturday 10am-7pm. Sunday 12pm-6pm.

69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-2635. barnerbk@ulster.net.

The Golden Notebook A feast for book lovers located in the heart of Woodstock, we are proud to be a part of Book Sense: Independent Bookstores for Independent Minds. In addition to our huge database, we can special order any book in or out of print. Our Children’s Store located right next door has an extensive selection of books and products exclusively for the under-14 set. We also carry the complete line of Woodstock Chimes. 25-29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-8000. Fax: (845) 679-3054. thegoldennotebook @hvc.rr.com. www.goldennotebook.com.

Mirabai of Woodstock The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, and Bali.

Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/interpretation available. 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY. (845) 6792100. www.mirabai.com.

CARPETS / RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings

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Direct importers since 1981. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets; Balouchi tribal kilims; Russian sumaks; antique Caucasian carpets; silk Persian sumaks; Turkish kilims.

Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx. Open 6 days a week 12-6pm. Closed Tuesdays. 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-5311.

CHILDREN’S ART CLASSES The School for Young Artists An Extraordinary Art Experience! The School for Young Artists provides you with the tools, materials, instruction, and support to achieve your goals. Our studio is about the joy of learning and the power of making art.

Classes and individual sessions for children and adults.

Call Kathy Anderson. (845) 679-9541.

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

CLOTHING Pegasus Footwear 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-2372. www.PegasusShoes.com.

Rambling Rose Fabulous clothing for fascinating women. 73 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-3899.

COLLEGES Dutchess Community College Dutchess Community College, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, was founded in 1957. The College offers an educational policy of access, quality, opportunity, diversity, and social responsibility. DCC’s 110

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main campus in Poughkeepsie is situated on 130 scenic acres with facilities that are aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced. The College has a satellite campus, Dutchess South, in Wappinger Falls, and learning centers in Carmel, Staatsburg, and Pawling. Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 431-8020. www.sunydutchess.edu.

Mount Saint Mary College An independent liberal arts college offering more than 30 undergraduate programs; graduate programs in business (MBA), education, and nursing; and noncredit courses.

2,500 women and men. Its beautiful campus overlooks the Hudson River and is conveniently located off I-84 in Newburgh, NY. (845) 569-3222. www.msmc.edu.

CONSIGNMENT SHOPS Past ’n’ Perfect A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, shoes, and accessories, and a unique variety of high quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise from casual to chic; contemporary to vintage; with sizes from infant to adult. Featuring a diverse and illuminating jewelry collection. Tuesday-Friday 11am- 6pm. Saturday 10am-6pm. 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY. (845) 635-3115. www.pastnperfect.com.

The Present Perfect

CONSTRUCTION Phoenix Construction Phoenix Construction and Contracting is a company dedicated to superior addition, remodeling, and renovation work through top quality materials installed by trained professionals. Along with a high standard of work, we pride ourselves on superior job site and budget management. Our closeknit network of sub-contractors ensures the success of every project through proper delegation of its mechanical and specialist requirements. We deliver customer service coupled with quality assurance. Phoenix Construction professionally handles all details so that you don’t have to worry. (845) 266-5222. www.phoenix-b.com.

COSMETIC AND PLASTIC SURGERY M. T. Abraham, MD, FACS Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, PLLC Dr. Abraham is one of few surgeons doubleboard certified and fellowship trained exclusively in Facial Plastic Surgery. He is an expert in the latest minimally invasive and non-surgical techniques (Botox, Restylane, Thermage, Photofacial), and also specializes in functional nasal surgery. Offices in Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, and NYC with affiliated MediSpas. Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-8025. www.NYfaceMD.com.

Crafts People Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts, the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. Friday - Monday 10:30am-6pm. 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY. (845) 331-3859. www.craftspeople.com.

Deep Clay Showroom Pottery and Dreamfigures Wood-fired, raku, and stoneware. From everyday mugs and bowls to Tea Ceremony ware. Simple forms, natural colors, islands of calm, created by artist/ therapist Michelle Rhodes. Studied pottery in Bizen and Tea at Urasenke. Open by appointment year-round. (845) 255-8039. www.michell erhodespottery.com.

DANCEWEAR First Street Dancewear First Street Dancewear 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.

Saugerties, NY. (845) 247-4517. www.firststreetdancewear.com.

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Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry accessories, and knickknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers. MondaySaturday 10am-5pm. Sunday 12-5pm. 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. (845) 876-2939.

CRAFTS

Chronogram Is Everywhere!

Have you ever noticed how wherever you go, Chronogram is there? That’s because our distribution is so damned good. We can distribute your flyer, brochure, business card, or publication to over 700 establishments in Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia, Greene, Putnam, and Orange counties. Now in Westchester County with new stops in Peekskill. (845) 334-8600. distribution@chronogram.com.

EDUCATION RESOURCES Math Tutor Customized, creative tutoring for all ages. Get help with arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and precalculus. Prepare for Regents, SATs, GREs, and GEDs. I emphasize fundamental concepts, number sense, real-life application and problem solving skills. Individual and group sessions. Contact Halle Kananack.

(917) 232-5532. learn@mathwithhalle.com. www.mathwithhalle.com.

EVOLUTION Discovery Institute To Know. To Understand. To Be. Offering intensive training in a living school of psycho-transformism in the tradition of G.I. Gurdjieff. (845) 255-5548. discover@bestweb.net. www.discoveryinstitute.org.

FAUX FINISHES Faux Intentions Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in custom faux finishes for your home and business.

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ceilings, fireplaces and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes and many other mediums, help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhiliration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away. (845) 532-3067.

FINANCIAL SERVICES Center for Financial Wellness, Inc. I don’t sell anything! I help you become financially independent: retire early, reduce your taxes, build an investment portfolio, do work that you love, get out of debt!

Robin Vaccai-Yess, Certified Financial Planner, Registered Investment Advisor, fee-only. Visit www.financiallywell.com to receive my free E-newsletter and to register for workshops. (845) 255-6052. www.financiallywell.com.

FOOD SERVING PRODUCTS CoolCover

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CoolCover keeps food cool, fresh, and visible for hours using patent-pending air flow design. Perfect for entertaining at home, indoors and outdoors. CoolCover can be tipped back into stable, upright position for easy self serving. Clear, durable, food safe polycarbonate protects food from insects and pets. Great for everyday use as practical tool for healthy eating. No ice. 15 7/8” L x 11 7/8” W x 5 5/8” H. $34.99. Toll Free (800) 601-5757. www.coolcover.us.

FRAMING Catskill Art & Office Supply Woodstock (845) 679-2251; Kingston (845) 331-7780; Poughkeepsie (845) 4521250.

See also Art Supplies directory.

Manny’s 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 2559902. See also Art Supplies directory.

GARDENING & GARDEN SUPPLIES Mac’s Agway in Red Hook/ New Paltz Agway Specializing in all your lawn and garden needs. We carry topsoil, peat moss, fertilizers and organics, grass seed, shavings, straw, fencing, pet food, bird seed, bird houses, and more. Hours for both locations: Monday-Friday 8am-5:30pm; Saturday 8am-5pm; Sunday 9am-3pm. Mac’s Agway: 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY. (845) 876-1559. New Paltz Agway: 145 Route 32N, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-0050.

The Phantom Gardener At Phantom we provide everything you need to create and enjoy an organic, beautiful landscape. Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff will help you choose from an unbeatable selection of herbaceous or woody plants, garden products and books.

We offer professional design, installation, and maintenance services. Visit us! Daily 9am-6pm. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-8606. www.thephantomgardener.com.

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GIFTS Earth Lore Walk into a world of natural wonder: amethyst caves and heart-shaped druzies, quartz crystal spheres and sculptures, orbs of obsidian, lapis and jasper. PLUS a gallery of wearable art. Navaho necklaces of turquoise and coral, pendants and bracelets of moldavite, tektite and meteorite; watches crafted from oxidized copper, brass, sterling; an array of Baltic amber in all its hues: honey, lemon, butterscotch, cognac... fashioned into jewelry that makes a statement. Earthlore also offers unique objects of home decor such as a 100-year-old camel bell from Afghanistan, a Thai rain drum, and fossilized salt lamps from the Himalayas. A great place to find gifts from around the globe. Open Tuesday-Friday 10am - 6pm. Sat 10am-5pm. 2 Fairway Drive, Pawling, NY. (845) 855-8889.

GUITARS McCoy’s Guitar Shop Specializing in professional stringed instrument repairs and the best set-ups in the area at reasonable, musician friendly rates.

Psychotherapy extra. Used guitars and basses bought and sold. Services available by appointment only. Conveniently located in Rosendale, NY. (845) 658-7467.

HOME DESIGN Eco-Arch Design Works Janus Welton, AIA, BBEI An award-winning design architect, offering over 15 years of Traditional Chinese Feng Shui expertise to her Ecological and Healthy Building Design Practice: combining Building Biology, Solar Architecture, and Feng Shui to promote “Inspiring and Sustainable” environments for the 21st Century. Unlock the potentials of your site, home, or office to foster greater harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity. Services include: Architecture, Planning, Commercial Interiors, Professional Seminars and Consultations. (845) 247-4620. ecoarchitect @hvc.rr.com. www.JanusWeltonDesignWorks.com.

ILLUSTRATION 8 Hats High 8 Hats High is a full-service animation studio and production house located in Middletown, NY. We specialize in animation, illustration, storyboarding, television production, photography, post production, Web design, and more. Production: It’s what we do! 2327 West Main Street 3rd Fl., Middletown, NY. (845) 344.1888. www.8hatshigh.com.

INTERIOR DESIGN DeStefano and Associates Barbara DeStafano has been the owner of DeStefano and Associates, an interior design business, for 18 years. She received certification in Feng Shui from the Metropolitan Institute of Interior Design and has completed advanced work with several Feng Shui Masters. Feng Shui is the perfect marriage to interior design. It brings a spiritual dimension to your space. Barbara can create a kind of beauty that touches your spirit, and brings balance and harmony to a level that tran-

scends the superficial. Barbara is available for consultations, guest speaker engagements, and workshops. (845) 339-4601.

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS Webjogger Blazing fast broadband internet access.

Featuring symmetrical bandwidth, superior personal attention and technical support, rocksolid security and reliability, and flexible rates.

Complementary services include email, Web hosting, accelerated dialup, server collocation and management, and customized networking solutions. Webjogger is a locally grown company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston, NY. (845) 757-4000. www.webjogger.net.

LITERARY Ione Writing workshops and private instruction for writers. (845) 339-5776.

Submit to Chronogram Seeking submissions of poems, short stories, essays, and article proposals. Accepting pieces of all sorts. With SASE, send submissions to Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, 2nd floor, Kingston, NY 12401. info@chronogram.com.

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MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION Pathways Mediation Center A unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or families in conflict with the innovative, combined services of two professionals. Josh Koplovitz has 30 years as a Matrimonial & Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has 30 years as Guidance Counselor. This male/female team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultation to find out about us. (845) 331-0100.

Rodney Wells, CFP, Member AFM & NYSCDM If you’re separating, divorcing, or have issues with child support, custody, or visitation, choose mediation. On average, mediated agreements are fulfilled twice as often as litigated court decisions and cost half as much.

I draw on my experience as a Financial Planner, psychotherapist, and pro se litigant to guide couples in a responsible process of unraveling their entanglements, preserving their assets, and creating a satisfying future. Cornwall, New Paltz, and NYC. Cornwall, NY. (845) 534-7668. www.mediated-divorce.com.

MUSIC Burt’s Electronics 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

WVKR 91.3 FM Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. A listener-supported, non-commercial, student-run alternative music station. Programming is provided by students and community members, and includes jazz, new music, folk, hip hop, polka, new age, international, blues, metal, news, and public affairs programming. WVKR Web casts at www.wvkr.org. (845) 437-7010.

MUSIC LESSONS Bibi Farber - Guitar Lessons Acoustic/electric pop, rock, blues & folk.

Beginners welcome, age 11 and up. I offer very flexible scheduling and discounts for students teaming up. Lessons in Minnewaska area or in your home, if within a 30 minute radius. Songwriting coaching and demo recording also available. Let’s play! (646) 734-8018. www.bibifarber.com.

PERFORMING ARTS Powerhouse Summer Theater/ Lehman-Loeb Gallery Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 437-5902. befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu.

PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES Pussyfoot Lodge B&B

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The only complete arts and cultural events resource for the Hudson Valley. Subscribe and get the lowdown first. Whether you live in the Hudson Valley or just visit, you’ll know what’s going on. Send $36 for yearly subscription to: Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, 2nd floor, Kingston, NY 12401. info@chronogram.com.

teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs. Monday through Friday 9am-7pm. Saturday 9am-5pm. 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5011.

The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets’ health and happiness.

Also offering a cats-only resort with individual rooms. Extensive horticulture and landscaping knowledge in addition to domestic and zoo animal experience. Better Business Bureau Metro NY/Mid-Hudson Region Member. (845) 687-0330.

PET SITTING Dog Love, LLC Personal hands-on boarding and daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 windowed matted kennels with classical music.

Supervised playgroups in 40x40 fenced area.

Homemade food and healthy treats. 240 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY. (845) 2558281. www.dogloveplaygroups.com.

PHOTOGRAPHY China Jorrin Photography A Hudson Valley-based photographer dedicated to documenting weddings in a candid and creative style. While remaining unobtrusive, she is able to capture key, quiet and personal moments of the event. Please call for rates and availability. (917) 449-5020. www.chinajorrin.com.

France Menk Photography & Photodesign A fine art approach to your photographic and advertising needs. Internationally exhibited.

Major communications/advertising clients. My work is 100% focused on your needs. (845) 750-5261. www.France-Menk.com.

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Michael Gold Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish, off-the-wall personalities. Complete studio facilities and lighting.

Creative, warm, original, professional. Unconditionally guaranteed. The Corporate Image Studios, 1 Jacobs Lane, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-5255. www.michaelgoldsphotos.com.

Marlis Momber Photography LTD ‘KEEP IT REAL’ Call Marlis for all your photographic needs: Commercial photography, advertising, annual reports. Personal portraits, head shots, fine art reproduction.

Weddings, family reunions, life’s events.

Free in-depth consultations to meet your photographic needs and budget. Digital files send directly to you. Photo CDs or film and great prints all sizes. Studio in the heart of New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-4928. www.marl ismomberphoto.com.

PIANO Adam’s Piano

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Featuring Kawai and other fine brands.

75 pianos on display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck) showroom.

Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices, and pictures, at adamspiano.com.

A second showroom will be opening in New Paltz in November. Superb service, moving, storage, and rentals; we buy pianos! (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326. www.adamspiano.com.

Piano Clearing House 8 John Walsh Blvd. Suite 318A, Peekskill, NY. (914) 788-8090. www.pianoclearinghouse.com.

PLUMBING AND BATH Brinkmann Plumbing & Heating Services A third-generation plumbing company operated by Timothy Brinkmann and Master Plumber Berno Brinkmann. They handle all your plumbing needs with skilled, prompt, and attentive service. Call for further information or to schedule a free estimate. Fully Insured. (518) 731-1178.

N & S Supply N & S Supply. 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY. (845) 896-6291. cloijas@nssupply.com.

PRINTING SERVICES New York Press Direct At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason: to delight our customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shopping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions are leading edge in the industry. Our pricing is among the most competitive in the northeast region. Call John DeSanto or Larry Read for more information. (845) 457-2442.

PUBLISHERS Monkfish Book Publishing Company Monkfish publishes books that combine spiritual and literary merit. Monkfish books range from memoirs to sutras, from fiction to scholarly works of thought. Monkfish also publishes Provenance Editions, an imprint devoted to elegant editions of spiritual classics. Monkfish books are available at 114

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your favorite local or online bookstores, or directly from us. Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-4861. www.monkfishpublishing.com.

REMODELING Phoenix Construction See also Construction directory. (845) 2665222. www.phoenix-b.com.

RESTAURANT SUPPLIES Cool Cover See also Food Serving Products directory. Toll Free (800) 601-5757. www.coolcover.us.

SCHOOLS Hudson Valley Sudbury School A radically different form of education based on the belief that children are driven by a basic desire to learn and explore. We trust that children, given the freedom, will choose the most appropriate path for their education. Our democratic School Meeting expects children to take responsibility for their lives and their community. Year-round admissions. Slidingscale tuition. (845) 679-1002. www.hudsonvalleyschool.org.

High Meadow School Pre-kindergarten through 8th grade, committed to a child-centered education that engages the whole child. Intimate, nurturing, with small class size and hands-on learning.

A program rich in academic, artistic, physical, and social skills. Fully accredited. Call Suzanne Borris, director. Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY. (845) 687-4855.

Maria’s Garden Montessori School Cultivating independence, confidence, compassion, peace, and a lifelong love of learning. Serving children 3 years through first grade in a one-room country schoolhouse surrounded by gardens, woodlands, and streams. 8:30am-3:30pm, with part-time options for preschoolers. Half or full day kindergarten. 62 Plains Road, New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-1875. info@mariasgardenmontess ori.com.

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School At the Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, not only can all students do their best in academic basics, they can find and achieve a balance in rich programs of drama, speech, Spanish, Russian, painting, music, creative writing, woodwork, and more. Waldorf Education: for the head, heart, and hands. Nursery-8th Grade. Call Judy Jaeckel. 16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-0033.

Woodstock Day School Woodstock Day School, a state-chartered, independent school and member of NYSAIS, providing quality education for pre-school through high school students since 1972.

Small classes and a 6:1 student-to-teacher ratio allow us to give each child the individualized consideration necessary for a positive learning experience. Woodstock, NY. (845) 246-3744. www.woodstockdayschool.org.

SINGING LESSONS Ann Panagulias - Singing Lessons Concepts of classical, Italianate technique complimented by alignment and deep

breathing rhythms of Eastern callisthenics; repertoire grounded in 17th-19th century Art Song extending to vintage and contemporary musical theater; training at Oberlin College and San Francisco Opera; performing professionally on three continents for twenty years. (845) 677-1134. annpandora@aol.com.

SPECIALTY FURNITURE Art of the Grape

Curious Minds Media Inc. Want a website that works for you? We’ve got solutions to fit any budget, and we understand the needs of small businesses. Flash, E-commerce, database applications. CMM has what it takes to get you results. Mention this ad and receive 3 months FREE hosting! Call now toll-free, at (888) 227-1645. (888) 227-1645. www.curiousm.com.

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Let us give your tired cabinet a new life and convert it into a wine cabinet or custom design a wine cabinet to your style and taste, with matching cocktail table and/or wine tasting table. We also do bars and wine cellars. We supply everything you need to enjoy your wine. 11am to 4pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, or by appointment. 515 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY. (518) 822-0770. deekeegan1@aol.com.

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Beyond The Box Web Design

Curious Minds Media Inc. See also Web Design directory. Toll-free: (888) 227-1645. www.curiousm.com.

WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY Why choose an ordinary photographer for your extraordinary event? fete accompli offers photojournalistic-style photography for all your gala occasions. We excel in artistic, journalistic imagery that records the most poignant and surprising moments of your event, capturing the details without interrupting the flow of the occasion. (845) 838-3990. www.feteaccompli-photo.com.

WINE & LIQUOR In Good Taste

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We specialize in co-developing unique designs with clients, though we also work from pre-designed templates for fast, low-cost sites. We put friendly, patient, collaborative customer service first. Our sites adhere to current Web design standards (like CSS) for coding and accessibility, and include secure e-commerce and other integrated features (like forums, calendars, blogs, and forms).

Many of our employees are gifted high school students, so expect great savings! Visit us online, and request an online quote. (518) 537-7667. www.beyondboxweb.com.

23-27 West Main Street 3rd Fl., Middletown, NY. (845) 344-1888. www.8hatshigh.com. Please also see our Illustration directory.

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

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EVENT LISTINGS FOR JULY 2006

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GREG O’BRIEN, ANDY HOROWITZ, AND MARLON TORRES PERFORMING FROM THE DEPTHS.

OOMPA GALUMPHA

Three buff men in blue jeans, heads covered in black Velcro helmets, stand on a

abandoned experiment: After watching a foot juggler perform, Horowitz decided to

bare, silent stage lit by a single spotlight. Each has a single white ball stuck to his

try the trick with O’Brien. In rehearsals, he’d lie on his back, legs straight up, and

helmet. As they throw the balls back and forth with their teeth, their hands, and

attempt to spin O’Brien around by bouncing his butt off his feet. O’Brien would

occasionally by whacking their heads together, the only sounds are the contagious

fall every time. “It took hundreds of crashes to dampen my enthusiasm for the

laughter from the crowd and the bristling release of Velcro.

experiment,” Horowitz said.)

In another number, dressed in army pants, they parade around the stage to the

In 2002, Marlon Torres replaced Paul Gordon and the group renamed itself.

gravelly voiced sounds of Jablkon, a Czech band in Tom Waits territory. Then, like

“We have this shape in our company that is kind of like a camel and it galumphs

Oompa Loompas, two line up behind the front man and seesaw their bodies out

around,” Horowitz said. “We put an a on the end of what actually is an English

on either side. However, unlike the Oompas, the men begin scaling each other,

verb galumph—it has two meanings: to ‘walk clumsily’ or ‘parade about in victory,’

forming a crazy human scaffolding. At various points they recline on one another's

and both work great for us.” (Lewis Carroll coined the term in his nonsense poem

shoulders, or two of them link to the third man’s waist, feet off the ground, hands

“Jabberwocky.”)

on hips, and grin out at the audience.

In Clackers, they face the audience in black unitards, smacking their feet against

For those who aren’t familiar with Galumpha, think: Blue Man Group meets Cirque

their butts, seemingly bewildered at the clanking metallic whack that fills the air each

du Soleil, sans all the fancy equipment and with an emphasis on natural exuberance

time. It isn’t until the middle performer turns his back to the audience that the spurs

rather than immaculate finesse and precise synchronicity. Andy Horowitz, Greg

on his heels and the battered frying pan strapped to his behind are revealed. The

O’Brien, and Paul Gordon originally founded Galumpha’s precursor, The Second

number grows even funnier as two of them slap their pans together, while the third

Hand Dance Company, in 1987, at SUNY Binghamton. All athletic performers, they

tap-dances frenetically with his spurs.

discovered that each of them was strong enough to lift the other two—and rotate

While it’s clear that Galumpha practices its numbers vigorously, there is also a

all three enjoined bodies together, creating the dance/acrobatics hybrid that’s

refreshing visceral element of spontaneity that the audience immediately picks up

Galumpha’s trademark. They started looking for ways to share their gift of “stylistic

on. These guys are having fun, and the crowd wants in.

acrobatics while playing around with strange props,” Horowitz said. “We had no idea we were opening such a box of choreographic possibilities.”

Galumpha will perform at the Woodstock Playhouse on Saturday, July 29, at 8pm. Tickets are $25. (845) 670-4101; www.woodstockplayhouse.com.

“For every movement we’ve experimented with on stage, there have been thousands and thousands that have failed,” Horowitz said. (One example of an

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(LEFT TO RIGHT) DJ SPOOKY, AKA THAT SUBLIMINAL KID; SPIEGELPALAIS; BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRKUS

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PALACE OF MIRRORS The Bard Music Festival this year celebrates Franz Liszt (1811-1886), one of the greatest

The SpiegelPalais entertainers are a daring and accomplished crew. One Ring Zero

performers in European history. In his honor, SummerScape, Bard College’s summer

consists of Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, who met in music school at the Virginia

music program, will feature “SpiegelPalais,” the first Spiegeltent in the US. A Spiegeltent,

Commonwealth University in Richmond. Hearst and Camp’s first four albums were

or “mirror tent,” is a round, hand-hewn, wooden structure that is elaborately carved and

mostly instrumental, but then they conceived of the idea of asking writers to pen songs

includes teak dance floors, facet-cut mirrors, stained-glass windows, and ballooning velvet

for them—a project which has placed them at the forefront of the new genre of “lit-rock.”

canopies. The effect is much like a carousel, with a sense of whirling momentum. In the

One Ring Zero’s “As Smart As We Are” features lyrics by 17 authors, including Jonathan

early years of the 20th century, Spiegeltents traveled from town to town during the summer

Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, and Dave Eggers. The group will perform as a

throughout Europe’s Low Countries, offering both meals and entertainment.. Legend has

five-person band on July 28, with such instruments as the theremin and the claviola (of

it that Marlene Dietrich and Josephine Baker made their debuts in Spiegeltents.

which only 50 exist in the world).

Bard’s SpiegelPalais was designed by the Klessen family of Belgium, which has

Carl Hancock Rux, who will appear with a band on July 15, is a bold, focused performer

made such structures since the 1920s. This enclosure has 3,000 pieces, and may be

with a flaming presence. I attended a poetry reading of his in 1997, and Rux has since

assembled within 24 hours. SpiegelPalais will seat 250, and will remain in place through

fulfilled the promise I saw then. He has just released his third CD, “Good Bread Alley,”

the month of July.

his novel Asphalt was recently published by Simon & Schuster, his play “Talk” received

SpiegelPalais will open to the public each night at 5:30pm, offering a dinner menu that

an OBIE, and he has performed with The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Bill

includes steamed lobsters, mozzarella and tomato sandwiches, salads, berry shortcakes,

T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Rux sings and chants to complex musical figures,

and such local offerings as Magic Hat Beer, Jane’s Ice Cream, and wines from the Millbrook

sounding a bit like Jim Morrison if he had studied with Charlie Parker. On Saturdays and

Winery. Evening performances will begin at 8pm, and at 10pm the room will become the

Sundays, family events will be presented for the first time at SummerScape. The wise,

SpiegelClub, with music by DJ Josh Abraham, who has produced albums by Courtney

cheering, and anarchistic Bindlestiff Family Cirkus appears at the SpiegelPalais July 1

Love, Slayer, and Pink. All of the 200 artists involved in SummerScape will be given free

and 2.

passes to the SpiegelClub, where they may mingle with audience members and local

(845) 758-7900; www.bard.edu/fishercenter.

talent. Impromptu performances are encouraged.

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calendar SAT 1 ART Travels

Call for times. Oil paintings by Robert Angeloch. Coffey Gallery, Kingston. 339-6105.

Watercolors

by Staats Fasoldt and Friends

12-5pm. Paintings at the Doughouse gallery during the month of July. Saugerties. 246-0402.

First Annual “10x10x10” Invitational Artists’ Showcase 4-6pm. Ellenville Storefronts. 647-5600.

Joellyn Duesberry

Soñando

Call for times. El Coqui, Kingston. 340-1106. $10.

The Relatives

Call for times. Guitar based 70’s and 80’s classic punk rock. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Young People’s Concert

Prodigies at Play

6pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

Tom DePetris Trio

6pm. Harvest Cafe, New Paltz. 255-4205.

Guitarist Rolf Sturm

Evocative Symmetry

Liz Malys and Nic Enge

Judith Hoyt

5-7pm. Sculpture, encaustic paintings, jewelry.

Be Gallery, High Falls. 687-0660.

Lakeville Series

5-7pm. Abstract works by Robert Natkin and Judith Dolnick. The White Gallery, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-1029.

Art and Sculpture: The 1st Annual Summer Invitational 5-8pm. M Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-0380.

Group Art Show

5-8pm. Artworks of visual artists on Art Society’s Board. Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Thread Bare: Tradition Unraveled

Time Meets Space

5-8pm. Installations of contemporary sculpture in neon, steel, and other materials by artist Don Bruschi. Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston.

338-0331.

Hot Summer of Philocracy

5-9pm. Group show bringing new artists to the Hudson Valley. Silent Space Gallery, Kingston. www.silentspacegallery.com.

Leland Neff

6-10pm. Art and photography. Millbrook Gallery & Antiques, Millbrook. 677-6699.

Instance

7pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

7-10pm. Acoustic, folk, rock, solo. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $5.

8-11pm. Live music, lesson at 7:30. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 679-8587. $10.

EVENTS Strawberry, Chocolate, and Wine Festival

Call for times. Celebrate the marriage of three foods strawberries, chocolate, and wine. Pine Bush. 744-2226. $10.

Kingston Old Town Stockade Farmers’ Market

9am-2pm. Organic and traditional fruits and vegetables, breads, flowers. Wall Street, Kingston. 331-3418.

Family Fun on Historic Huguenot Street

10-11:30am. Tour the Bevier Elting House.

Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

MUSIC Music on The Waterfront

Call for time. Presented by Time and Space Limited. City of Hudson Waterfront, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Pathwork Spiritual Lecture Reading/ Discussion/Potluck 10:30am. Phoenicia. 688-2211.

11am. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $5-$7.

Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

Shambhala Training

8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Hot Tuna

8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

The Hunger Mountain Boys

8pm. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. $10.

Vito Pertroccitto

8pm. Gilded Otter Brewery, New Paltz. 2561700.

Neil Alexander and Nail

8-10:30pm. Experimental, funk, fusion, jazz, world, ambient. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Danny Kalb, Stefan Grossman, and Steve Katz

9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. $20/$17.50 members.

7:30pm. Levels I and II: a program of meditation instruction and practice. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Level I $135/ Level II $165/both $285.

CLASSES The Artist’s Way

11am-1pm. 12-week program to help you discover your creativity in the workplace.

Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

EVENTS New Paltz Farmers Market

10am-3pm. Rock and Snow parking lot, New Paltz. www.newpaltzfarmersmarket.com.

Family Fest

3-10pm. Fireworks, food, music, family fun.

Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham.

(518) 392-2121.

Independence Day Celebration

Rich Milite and Blue Moon

6pm. Feature music, food, and fireworks at sundown. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 255-0604.

Trio Loco

FILM In Debt We Trust

9pm. Blues, swing. High Falls Cafe. High Falls. 687-2699.

9pm. Jazz. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

The Real Men

DANCE English Country Dance

12:30-4pm. Works by Hudson Valley Artist Caroline Prieur Schulz. Fine Art Studios, Otisville. 386-3305.

7-11pm. Blues, original, r&b, rock, soul.

Costanzo’s, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7800.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Communing with the Goddess

7:30pm. Levels I and II: a program of meditation instruction and practice.

Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Level I $135/Level II $165/both $285.

SUN 2 ART Images of Affirmation & Compassion

Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl Chakra Balancing Guided Meditation

The Charms with Guests The Flairs

Shambhala Training

1:30pm. The Red Hook Library, Red Hook.

340-4576.

The Providers

7pm. Works on paper by Beth Dary and Ruth Wetzel. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Arts, Kingston. www.kmoca.com.

9:30am-3:30pm. Walking the path of the Priestess. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

883-7899.

T-shirt Creations (Ages 3-8)

9pm. 2 bands playing lots of music. Forum Lounge, Kingston. 338-1116. $8.

10pm. Rock. Firebird Grille & Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Rail Trail Bike

5pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 8767535. $5.

MUSIC Music on The Waterfront

Call for time. Presented by Time and Space Limited. City of Hudson Waterfront, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

New York Opera Studio to Present Operatic Scenes 2pm. Skinner Theater, Poughkeepsie. 4375370.

10am-2pm. Moderate 16 mile bike ride. Meet at Rosendale Railroad Bridge, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Miami String Quartet

THEATER The Music Man

Pandemonia Orchestra

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/ $20.

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

11am. Presented by The Puppet People.

Features marionettes, two life size puppets, special effects, and music. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. $7.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

Proof

8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. $24/$19.

On My Own

8:30pm. One-woman performance. Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. $10.

WORKSHOPS Intro to Photography

Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

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5-8pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

1-3:30pm. For serious writers: stories, memoirs, novels. 2 Saturdays a month for 4 months. Woodstock. 679-8239. $350.

11am. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

4-7pm. New paintings and monotypes.

Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-0898.

5-7pm. Collection of Lisa DeRensis’s kiln-fired glass tiles. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Playful Writer Workshops

3pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

4pm. Kelley Love, director, with singer Nina Fine. The Tent at PS/21 Chatham, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121. $15/$12 for members.

Studio Stu

5pm. Evocative jazz, exotic lounge. The Harvest Cafe, New Paltz. 255-4205.

Marvin “BuGaLu” Smith

5-8pm. Jazz. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 331-1116.

Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams 5:30pm. Cold Spring’s Riverfront Park and Bandstand, Cold Spring. 265-3200.

Chris Brown and Marc Berardo

8pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. $15/$12.50 members.

Eric Burdon & The Animals

8pm. British rock. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Robbie Fulks

8pm. Country rock. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528 3394. $15.

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The Cast of Beatlemania

8pm. With the Belleayre Festival Orchestra and Community Chorale of the Catskills.

Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 9426904 ext. 406. $15-$55.

Baird Hersey and Prana

8:30pm. Overtone singing choir. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897.

Four Dogs Playing Poker

10pm. Rock. Firebird Grille & Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Laurel Ledge Hike

12-10pm. Contests for kids, crafts, and food, fireworks. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240. $7 per vehicle.

MUSIC Trio Loco: Mark Dziuba, Studio Stu, & T. Xiques 3-6pm. Red, White, & Blues concert.

Rivendell Winery, New Paltz. 255-2494.

Seth Ray as “The Lesbian Bros.”

THEATER The Music Man

THEATER The Music Man

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WORKSHOPS Seeing with the Unconditioned Eye: A Photography Retreat

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

6pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42

MON 3 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Women’s Co-Dependency Group

7-8:30pm. Psychotherapy group for women who grew up in families stressors.

Poughkeepsie. 462-1182. $35.

Shambhala Training

7:30pm. Levels I and II: a program of meditation instruction and practice. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Level I $135/ Level II $165/both $285.

CLASSES The Conductors Institute Summer Program

Call for times. Conducting program for fellows and colleagues. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7425.

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Old-Fashioned Independence Day

6:30-8pm. Alternative, progressive, punk, rock, psycho-folk, punkgrass. Rhinebeck Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

2pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. $24/$19.

KIDS Woodstock Day School Summer Adventure

Call for times. 2-week sessions available with sports, music, arts, drama, outdoor, and more. Woodstock Day School, Woodstock.

246-3744 ext. 100.

Express Yourself

Call for times. Multi-art summer program for ages 6-14. Levine Art Center, Mahopac.

628-3105.

Summer Arts on the Hudson

9:30am-3pm. A three week multi-arts program for ages 6 to 13. Garrison. 424-3960.

MUSIC Music on The Waterfront

Call for time. Presented by Time and Space Limited. City of Hudson Waterfront, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Open Mike

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam.

The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 8763080. $22/seniors & children $20.

Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

WED 5 EVENTS Wine Tasting

7pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925. $15/$20.

MUSIC Baba’s Dance

8pm. Drumming. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. 266-4444.

Hudson River Underground

8pm. Hosted by Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon. Maxie’s Bistro, Hudson. (518) 828-9081.

The Soul of Genius: A Mozart Celebration

8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

THU 6 ART Fine Art Group Exhibit

12-6pm. Paintings, pastels, linocut prints, photography, jewelry. Back Room Gallery/ Gallery 475, Beacon. 838-1838.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Green Witch Intensive

Call for times. Any woman can become a witch. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock.

246-8081. $400-$500 includes meals and lodging.

CLASSES Art Programs For Kids

7:30-10pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Call for times. Kids’ special summer multiarts program. Belle Levine Art Center, Mahopac. 628-3105.

Open Mike & Hootenanny

Bee Buzz For Kids

8:30-11:30pm. All genres. Rhinebeck Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

SPOKEN WORD Colony Cafe Poetry Open Mike

7pm. Five year anniversary with Phillip Levine.

Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

WORKSHOPS Collector Inspector: From Frogs to Faberge

Call for times. Antiques Barn at Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1403.

TUE 4 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Shambhala Training

7:30pm. Levels I and II: a program of meditation instruction and practice. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Level I $135/ Level II $165/both $285.

EVENTS Fourth of July Celebration

11am. Field activities, bands, craft and food vendors, and a carnival at Cantine Field.

Saugerties. 246-2321.

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12pm. Fireworks at 9:30pm. Ellenville. 6476560.

9:30am-3pm. Strenuous 8 mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

3pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam.

The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 8763080. $22/seniors & children $20.

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4th of July Celebration in Ellenville

Call for times. Introduce your children to the amazing world of honeybees.

HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113. $10.

Painting 1- Watercolor

6-7pm. The Red Hook Library, Red Hook.

340-4576.

SPOKEN WORD The Venerable Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche: Working with Emotions 7:30pm. The Skylake Lodge, Rosendale.

658-8556. $15.

THEATER Camille

Call for times. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.

The Music Man

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/seniors & children $20.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

7pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

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DAVE HOLLAND WILL PLAY AT MAVERICK IN WOODSTOCK ON JULY

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INTO THE WOODS “Music Goes Back to Nature” was the headline in the New York Times on July 30, 1916. The article beneath it described the first Maverick Hall concert series in Woodstock. When the article appeared, Maverick founder Hervey White was still putting the finishing touches to his rustic, semi-improvised concert hall, made with local (mostly volunteer) labor, from local wood: oak, chestnut, and pine. “Music is almost akin to religion, the highest, the most divine of all the arts,” White wrote. Where better to hear it than in a virgin forest?

Perhaps that’s why John Cage chose to premiere his famous “4’ 33”—the piece in which a pianist sits at a piano without playing a single note—at the Maverick Hall on August 29, 1952.

Of course, the forest surrounding the Maverick is not always silent. Last year, cellist Zuill Bailey and a pianist performed a Beethoven sonata as a thunderstorm rolled in, echoing the pounding chords of Beethoven. Several years ago, a bird flew into the Maverick Hall and perched above the stage while Paula Robeson played the flute. As the audience watched in surprise, the bird began to accompany Robeson.

“Nothing in Woodstock can ever be completely formal,” notes Leon Barzin, one of the Maverick’s first performers. Today, the Maverick Hall is a National Historic Site and is celebrating its 90th year as a concert venue; the Maverick also holds the record as America’s oldest continuing chamber music series. This year, for the first time, the annual Maverick Concert series will feature jazz and klezmer. “We’re still doing chamber music, but the definition of chamber music has expanded,” observes Susan Rizwani, Maverick Concerts' chairperson. “The organization Chamber Music America includes jazz and world music within chamber music—mainly defining it as music where there’s one instrument on a part.”

Violinist Alicia Svigals, founder of the Klezmatics, will play klezmer music on August 5, and renowned jazz pioneer Marilyn Crispell will perform on piano August 19. There are also three Young People’s Concerts, throughout the summer, which are free for children.

One of the most intriguing concerts will be a solo jazz bass performance by David Holland (July 29), who was voted No. 1 Bass Player in the Down Beat Critics Poll for three consecutive years. Besides playing with Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, Holland has released two solo bass albums: Emerald Tears (1977) and Ones All (1993). Though he lives in Woodstock, Holland rarely performs locally.

Also of interest is a solo cello concert by Felix Fan (July 9), who will perform two suites by Johann Sebastian Bach and two pieces by Benjamin Britten. This is the third in a series of solo cello events exploring Bach and Britten’s compositions. Fan, 29, founded the Muzik3 festival in 1998, a successful West Coast new music summit. He is also one of the few cellists who plays ska music.

The Maverick Concert Hall seats 240 (general admission), with room for an additional 100 listening outside. One section is pay-what-you-wish, a tradition maintained since the first concert.

(845) 679-8217; www.maverickconcerts.org.

—Sparrow

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BETH HENLEY’S STAGE ADAPTATION OF LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE HITS POWERHOUSE IN JULY.

PRAIRIE IN POUGHKEEPSIE For 21 years, Vassar’s Powerhouse program has offered hundreds of theater apprentices the enlightening and often fruitful opportunity to meet professional directors, writers, performers, and designers as they work and live together. This summer, several theater students will work with jet-setting, internationally renowned director Francesca Zambello to present a production of a new musical. Adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House on the Prairie series by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Beth Henley, “Prairie” will feature a cast of 15 and live music composed by Rachel Portman, who won an Oscar for

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her soundtrack to Emma. I caught up with Zambello on the set of her latest production, “Show Boat,” at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Over the Atlantic Ocean and a five-hour time difference, she related the details of her upcoming project.

“I’m very excited to be working with the Powerhouse program for the first time this year,” Zambello said. “I understand that it is a very nurturing environment for the long development process of a new musical. The writers, actors, and students stay together on the campus. We have all-day rehearsals and use our evenings to rework the script and music compositions.”

The script for “Prairie” is taken mostly from the middle to later books, and will encompass about three years of Laura’s life in the mid 1880’s, from age 14 to 17, and will include her early relationship with her future husband, homesteader Almanzo Wilder. “Prairie” will detail the Ingalls family’s moves from Plum Creek in Minnesota to De Smet, South Dakota, and will focus primarily on Laura’s coming of age.

When asked about her previous experience with the Little House books, Zambello is frank. “I never read them as a kid,” she confesses. “ I came across them about a year ago when we [herself, Henley, and several others] were searching for a classic story with a strong female lead. Laura Ingalls seemed perfect.”

“Prairie” will produce four performances between July 7th and 9th at the Martel Theater in Vassar’s Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film. (845) 437-7235; http://powerhouse.vassar.edu.

—Bri Johnson Proof

8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. $24/$19.

Retreat with Malidoma Patrice Some, African Shaman

Call for times. Antiques Barn at Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1403.

Call for times. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville.

657-8597.

How to Deepen Our Relationship with Spirit

CLASSES Integrated Energy Therapy Class

FRI 7 ART Sandra Russell Clark: In Search of Eden

Contempory photography. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Green Witch Intensive

Call for times. Any woman can become a witch. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 2468081. $400-$500 includes meals and lodging.

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Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. (212) 807-0563.

WORKSHOPS Antique Tips for Beginners

7-9pm. Explore our relationship with spirit guides. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. $15/$20.

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Jivamukti Yoga

10am-6pm. IET reintegrates and balances universal life force energy. Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, Hyde Park. 688-5602.

Basic $175/intermediate $225/advanced $225.

EVENTS Mid-Hudson Balloon Festival

Call for times. Various Hudson Valley locations. 454-1700.

Sunbridge College Open Day

Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

KIDS Pirate Art

10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

MUSIC Matt Cantello and the Third Rail

6-8:30pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Duo Loco

6:30pm. Fresh sushi and music. Neko Sushi & Sake Bar, Wappingers Falls. 298-9869.

Thunder Ridge

7-9pm. Country, rock. Town of Greenport Town Field, Greenport. (518) 828-4656.

Sonya Kitchell

8pm. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

8:30am-3pm. Learn about programs, take a tour, visit classes. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055 ext. 24.

Big Kahuna

FILM Comedy Tonight: Silent Film

Eric Erickson

8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great

8pm. Dance, pop, rock. The Pavilion on The Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 471-2233.

8-11pm. Acoustic, original, solo, traditional, vocals. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.

Helen Avakian

8-11pm. Acoustic, alternative, new age. Maia Restaurant and Lounge, Poughkeepsie.

486-5004.

Inside Out

8-11pm. Roots of reggae, jazz and blues.

Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700. $10.

Denise Jordan Finley With Daniel Pagdon

Kingston Old Town Stockade Farmers’ Market

Book Signing with Bill Pfleging and Minda Zetlin

57th Annual Stone House Day

Woodstock Photography Lecture Series

9am-2pm. Organic and traditional fruits and vegetables, breads, flowers. Wall Street, Kingston. 331-3418.

10am-4pm. Visit seven of America’s oldest private homes in a 343-year old National Landmark Dutch village. Features costumed guides, 1777 militia encampment, colonial demonstrations, and book and craft sales. Hurley. 331-4121.

5pm. Authors of The Geek Gap. Joshua’s, Woodstock. 679-5533.

8pm. Featuring photographer Christopher James. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-6337. $7/5.

Mountain Culture Festival

9pm. Folk rock. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300. $25/$22.50 members.

10am-6pm. Fine craft fair, music, performances, quilt show and more. Hunter Village Square, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext.

209. $8/children $1.

THEATER The Music Man

Tracy De Lucia

Secret Gardens of Saugerties Tour

Open Auditions

9pm. Folk, jazz. Manna Dew Cafe, Millerton.

(518) 789-3570.

Fairport Convention

9pm. Country, pop, rock. Fusions Restaurant and Lounge, Highland. 849-9065.

SPOKEN WORD George Nicholson and Matt Spireng Call for times. Calling All Poets series. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-0077. $4.

Reading and Book Signing with T.C. Boyle 8pm. Author of Talk Talk. Church of the Messiah Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

THEATER The Music Man

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam.

The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 8763080. $22/seniors & children $20.

11am-5:30pm. Visit six Saugerties gardens at their most beautiful time. Saugerties. 2460710. $15.

Cherry Orchard

11am-4pm. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-6070.

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Family Tours

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

3pm. Build relationships with art and creating a connection to the sculptures. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.

Family Arts Festival

5-9pm. Music, storytelling, painting, children’s activities. North East Community Center, Millerton. (518) 789-4259.

FILM The Healing Work of John of God

Cherry Orchard

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

KIDS Magic Soles

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

Community Playback Theatre

8pm. Improvisation based on real-life stories of audience members. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. $6.

Prairie

Proof

8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. $24/$19.

WORKSHOPS Spiritual Retreat with Malidoma Patrice Some

Call for times. Explore your inner and outer life. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville.

657-8597.

SAT 8 ART Street Photographs 2000-2006

4-6pm. 67 black & white prints by the photographer Jerry Miller. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock. (518) 678-3516.

Sandra Russell Clark

5-7pm. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

Watercolors

by Staats Fastoldt and Friends 5-8pm. Newburgh. 246-0402.

Bits, Pieces, Gold...and Waiting 6-9pm. Egon Zippel, installation. Bau, Beacon. 440-7584.

New Works

6-9pm. Painter Sara Harris, sculptor Russell Krysiak, designer Kieran Kinsella, and stone carver/letter cutter Nils G. Kulleseid. Pearl Fine Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-0888.

Surrealist Sculptures

6:30pm. Creating dual images. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.

CLASSES Integrated Energy Therapy Class

10am-6pm. IET reintegrates and balances universal life force energy. Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, Hyde Park. 688-5602.

Basic $175/intermediate $225/advanced $225.

DANCE Freestyle Frolic

8:30pm. Smoke, drug, alcohol, and shoe-free environment to a wide range of music. Center for Symbolic Studies, Tillson. 658-8319. $7/$3 teens and seniors.

EVENTS Crafts on John Street

9am-2pm. Juried crafts marketplace.

Kingston. oxbowart@hotmail.com.

11am. Dance, mime, acting and storytelling.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080. $8/$5 children.

MUSIC Music on The Waterfront

Call for time. Presented by Time and Space Limited. City of Hudson Waterfront, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

Men, Women, and Pianos: The Mozart-Schumann Connection

6pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

Harpist Elizabeth Panzer

6-8:30pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Ashlee Simpson and The Veronicas & Ashley Parker Angel

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

Prairie

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Proof

8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. $24/$19.

Simply Barbra

8pm. Impersonation of Barbra Streisand.

Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

WORKSHOPS Alternative Processes

Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Photographing the Nude in Nature

10am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Denise Jordan Finley Workshop on Guitar for Songwriting 11am-4pm. Intensive workshop for guitarists and songwriters. Colleen Geraghty Studio, New Paltz. 256-9233.

Playful Writer Workshops

1-3:30pm. For serious writers: stories, memoirs, novels. 2 Saturdays a month for 4 months. Woodstock. 679-8239. $350.

Woman’s Mysteries, Empowerment, Wilderness Skills 2-9pm. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8105.

7:30pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. $35/$15.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Regina Carter Quartet

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl Chakra Balancing Guided Meditation

8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. $15-$55.

8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Acoustic Artists Coalition

8-11pm. Featuring Emily Zuzik, original jazzy blues. AIR Studio Gallery, Kingston. 3312662. $10.

Todd Mack

8:30-11pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Lowry Hamner

9pm. Blues and roots. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Two Dudes

9pm. Rock. Bleachers, Hyde Park. 561-9286.

Soñando

10pm. Firebird Grille & Lounge, Rhinebeck.

876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Wild Plants: Friend or Foe?

9:30am-12pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike: Zaidee’s Bower

9:30am-2:30pm. West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Alcohol in Early America

9:30am. By UCHS President Phil Ryan. Bevier House Museum, Marbletown. 338-5614.

Woodstock Poetry Society

2-4pm. Open reading with features: Maria Arrillaga and Richard Loranger. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. www.woodstockpoetry.com.

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8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

11am-1pm. For the Present Company’s 20062007 season. Sunnyside Theater, New Paltz.

255-9081.

Civil War Living History and Recruitment Weekend

2-4pm. Documentary on first-hand experience in Abadiania, Brazil. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/$20

11am. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $5-$7.

CLASSES Integrated Energy Therapy Class

10am-6pm. IET reintegrates and balances universal life force energy. Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, Hyde Park. 688-5602.

Basic $175/intermediate $225/advanced $225.

EVENTS New Paltz Farmers Market

10am-3pm. Rock and Snow parking lot, New Paltz. www.newpaltzfarmersmarket.com.

Mountain Culture Festival

10am-6pm. Fine craft fair, music, performances, quilt show and more. Hunter Village Square, Hunter. (518) 263-4908

KIDS Stayin’ Cool with Uncle Rock

2pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

586-5310.

MUSIC Sacred Pulse Music Festival

Call for times. Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA. (800) 741-7353.

Helen Avakian and Terry Champlin

1-3pm. Alternative, chamber music, folk, new age, Flamenco. Indian Rock Schoolhouse of Maplebrook School, Amenia. 373-8338.

Bach/Britten III

3pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

Studio Stu

5pm. Evocative jazz, exotic lounge. The Harvest Cafe, New Paltz. 255-4205.

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ROSEANNE CASH WILL PERFORM AT THE BELLEAYRE MUSIC FESTIVAL ON JULY

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BLACK CADILLAC “Overwhelming” is the word John Leventhal uses to describe the response to Rosanne Cash’s performances of her acclaimed new CD Black Cadillac. Cash’s bandleader, Leventhal is also her husband, producer and co-writer. Along with some stellar backup musicians, the two are taking on progressively bigger venues as Cash receives more attention than she’s been paid in many moons.

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It’s all well-deserved and hard-won, and Hudson Valley residents will get an opportunity to see what all the fuss is about on July 22 at the Belleayre Music Festival.

Black Cadillac—co-produced by the Grammy-winning Leventhal and Bill Bottrell (Sheryl Crow) —is dedicated to Rosanne Cash’s father Johnny, her stepmother June Carter Cash and her mother Vivian Liberto, all of whom died within a two-year period (Liberto actually passed away on Rosanne’s 50th birthday). Much of Black Cadillac delves into the bonds of family that are forged before birth, and how they continue after death. But while Black Cadillac’s 12 songs were conceived in a turbulent wake of loss, the end result—whether performed live or on CD—is a redemptive and positive one.

While her material does not shy away from deep, soul-scarred territory, a Rosanne Cash concert is another matter. “We’re the George and Gracie of folk music!” quips Leventhal, and it’s true. Throughout the show, the convivial couple engages audiences with entertaining banter and razor-sharp wittinessunder-pressure. They are show people,and with the assistance of their band, they can just as easily open up a can of rockin’ whup-ass—as in Black Cadillac’s “Burn Down This Town”—as they can generate a sultry, soulful groove for a reading of the Bobbie Gentry chestnut “Ode To Billie Joe.” Rosanne’s rockabilly version of her dad Johnny’s “Tennessee Flat-Top Box” (“She sort of owns that tune now,” says Leventhal) comes across with real Sun Records rawness while the aching beauty of Rosanne and John’s own bittersweet new ballad “Like A Wave” touches down with grace. And while the pristine pop of “Seven Year Ache” is as strong as ever, a twang has recently resurfaced in Cash’s re-examination of her heritage, as evinced in the Appalachian drawl of Black Cadillac’s “House On The Lake” and “Radio Operator”—both songs containing coarse country textures reminiscent of her late father.

Props must be given to the crackerjack band: longtime Leventhal collaborators Shawn Pelton on drums (from "Saturday Night Live" and a cast of thousands), bassist Zev Katz (Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, James Brown), backing vocalist Katherine Russell (Madonna, Steely Dan, Paul Simon), and new guitarist Michael Daves (John Herald, the Klezmer Mountain Boys). The deep-pocket grooves of rhythm section Pelton and Katz make it all swing, and Russell elevates the soul meters simply by stepping onstage. Daves—recently replacing longtime Bob Dylan sideman Larry Campbell—will offer the necessary back porch acoustic feel.

“It’s an emotional record,” says Leventhal of Black Cadillac, opting not to use the term “dark.”

When asked if any of the songs in particular have morphed as they’ve been aired out onstage, he says, “They all have. That always happens.” To see Black Cadillac performed live is to witness that transformation.

Roseanne Cash will perform on Saturday, July 22 at 8pm at the Belleayre Music Festival. Tickets are $40, $50, and $55. (845) 254-5600; www.belleayremusic.com.

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Hot Diggity Dog Summer Music Program

DATA: Discovering Animals Together Activities

Judith Tulloch

2-4pm. Ages 5-7. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $160/$140 members.

11am-12pm. Ages 3-4. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506 ext. 204. $100/$85.

Phil Lesh & Friends

MUSIC Open Mike

MUSIC Songs of Qadim

7:30-10pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

8pm. World, drumming. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. 266-4444.

Innuendo

Open Mike & Hootenanny

SPOKEN WORD How to Create a Rewarding Social Life

Ninth Annual Summer Classical Series

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike

Marvin “BuGaLu” Smith

5-8pm. Jazz. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 331-1116.

5:30pm. Cold Spring’s Riverfront Park and Bandstand, Cold Spring. 265-3200.

5:30pm. Featuring The Benevento Russo Duo. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. $50.

8pm. Boston Symphony violinist Lucia Lin. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook.

(518) 758-9234. $25/$20.

8pm. Webern, Brahms, and Ravel. Skinner Hall of Music, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

THE OUTDOORS Singles Hike: High Peters Kill

9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve Visitor Center, New Paltz. 255-0919.

THEATER The Music Man

3pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/$20.

Prairie

2pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Proof

2pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

6pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

Cherry Orchard

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

WORKSHOPS Know No Boundaries

MON 10 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Yearning for Light: Contemplative Meeting

8pm. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Conference Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799.

CLASSES Swing Dance Class

6:30pm Essential Swing/7:30pm Essential Lindy Hop/8:30pm Intermediate. 4-week session. Reformed Church of the Comforter, Kingston. 236-3939. $60.

KIDS Performing Arts Day Camp

9am-4pm. Designed to teach the craft of live theater to ages 6 to 16. CunneenHackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie.

486-4571. $200 per week.

Junior Naturalist Program

9am-3pm. Kindergarten to 1st grade.

Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston.

331-1682 ext. 132. $75/ $100 non-Kingston residents.

7pm. Featuring Joanne Pagano Weber and Bruce Weber. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 6795342. $3.

THEATER Cherry Orchard

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

TUE 11 FILM Orwell Rolls in His Grave

7pm. Examine America’s descent into an Orwellian world of doublespeak. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston.

339-6925.

KIDS DATA: Discovering Animals Together Activities

9:30-10:30am. Ages 2-3. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506 ext. 204. $100/$85.

Story Time, Music & Movement

10-10:45am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

MUSIC Native American Music

5-6pm. Lecture and demonstration.

Dutchess Community College Music School, Poughkeepsie. 431-8916. $12.

WORKSHOPS Woodstock Writers Workshop

6:30-8:30pm. Writing poetry, short story, novel, memoir, creative nonfiction.

Woodstock. 679-8256.

Hospice Care for Your Pet

7-9pm. Learn to tune in to your dying pet, pain management, flower essences. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. $15/$20.

WED 12 CLASSES Swing Dance Class

6:30pm Essential Swing/7:30pm Essential Lindy Hop/8:30pm Intermediate. 4-week session. Boughton Place, Highland. 2363939. $60.

Class: Drawing for Young Artists 1 4-5pm. The Red Hook Library, Red Hook.

340-4576.

KIDS DATA: Discovering Animals Together Activities

9:30-10:30am. Ages 2-3. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506 ext. 204. $100/$85.

7pm. Inventory, article and question-andanswer. The Institute for Human Development, Kingston. 339-6250.

20-20 Vision, Far and Near

7:30pm. Reading by two poets, Sarah Hannah and David Petruzelli. The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Sleep Hollow. (914) 332-5953. $5/$3.

Wing’d Word: Spoken Word and Performance

8:30pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925. $3.

THEATER The Music Man

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/$20.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

7pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

A Steady Rain

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

WORKSHOPS Window Replacement & Installation 9am/2pm. Lowes, Kingston. 340-3990.

Brush and Story on the Page

Call for times. Calligraphy and bookmaking.

Shambhala Retreat Center, Rosendale.

658-8556.

Life Drawing Workshop

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Call for times. Workshops about the new field of Integrative Health. Winslow Therapeutic Center, Warwick. 986-6686.

8:30-11:30pm. All genres. Rhinebeck Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

7/12-21. Six full days. Deepen seeing, shape, line, color, composition, and space explored.

Shuster Studio, Germantown.

(518) 755-4733. $425.

Open Book

10am-5pm.7/12-7/15.Workshop with Barbara Bash and Jude Robinson. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. $325/$500.

THU 13 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Self-Healing With One Light Healing Touch 7-9pm. Rhinebeck. 876-0239.

CLASSES Class: Drawing for Young Artists 1 4-5pm. The Red Hook Library, Red Hook.

340-4576.

EVENTS 49th Annual Guilford Art Center Craft Expo 2006

Thurs and Fri 12-8pm/Sat 10am-7pm. Featuring 180 of the best traditional and contemporary high-caliber craft artists. Guilford Green, Guilford, CT. (203) 453- 5947. $7/$5 seniors.

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MUSIC Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival 2006

Fri, Sat 11am-1am/Sun 10:30am-3pm.

Rothvoss Farm, Ancramdale. (888) 946-8495. $15-$150.

Songwriter’s Circle

7-10pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Readings

7pm. Featuring Glenn Wernner & Laura L. Ludwig. Bohemian Bookbin, Kingston. 3316713. $2.

THEATER The Music Man

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/$20.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

7pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

A Steady Rain

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Talley’s Folly

8pm. One evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

WORKSHOPS Quilting Tips and Demonstrations

THEATER The Music Man

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/$20.

Black Coffee

8pm. Coach House Players, Kingston.

331-2476.$15/$12.

The Oresteia

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

A Steady Rain

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Bob

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Talley’s Folly

8pm. One evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

The World Goes ’Round

8pm. The Songs of Kander and Ebb. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Voices From Around The World

8pm. Improv from audience members’ true stories. Reform Church of New Paltz, New Paltz.

845 255 7716. $10/$8 for “Friends of HRPT”

Call for times. Antiques Barn at Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1403.

The Color of Everything: A Watercolor Retreat

Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

FRI 14 ART Beneath Canal

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6-8pm. Photographs of Lower Manhattan

by Richard Edelman.

Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery, Red Hook. 758-9244.

EVENTS Women’s Sacred Moonlodge

7pm. Celebrate moon-time bleeding with ritual, song, and dance. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081.

KIDS Reading of The Whole Human Race 1-2pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

MUSIC Campfire Sounds

Fri 6pm-Sun 3pm. Folk festival. Free103.9 Wave Farm, Acra. (518) 622-2598.

Equus Vita

5-8pm. Exposed Gallery, Delmar.

(518) 475-1853.

Alive in New York: A Growing Invasion

7-7pm. 43 works illustrating plants considered to be an invasive threat. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506 ext. 204.

CLASSES Workshop: Mask Making (Ages 6-14)

1:30pm. The Red Hook Library, Red Hook.

340-4576.

DANCE Country Dinner Dance

7pm. Music by Stolen Heart. Wappingers Knights of Columbus, Wappingers Falls.

298-7093. $20/$25 at the door.

Contradance

8pm. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050. $10.

Riversedge Band

EVENTS Kingston Old Town Stockade Farmers’ Market

7-9pm. Country. Festival Square, Middletown. 346-4195.

Marta Topferova

8pm. Latin vocalist. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. $20.

Little Sammy Davis

9am-2pm. Organic and traditional fruits and vegetables, breads, flowers. Wall Street, Kingston. 331-3418.

KIDS William K. Whiskers

9pm. Blues. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595. $10.

11am. Master puppeteer and puppet maker Michael Wolski. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $8/$5 children.

Open Mike Night

Silhouettes

9pm. Alternative, blues, country, folk, oldies.

New York Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 452-7001.

Vito Pertroccitto

9pm. Country swing dance party. Skytop Steakhouse, Kingston. 340-4277.

GaiaWolf

9pm. Acoustic, alternative, contemporary, folk, pop, r&b, rock. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston.

339-6925.

SPOKEN WORD Patricia Heller Book Signing

2-4pm. See sculptures and study their silhouettes against nature. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.

MUSIC Music on The Waterfront

Call for time. Presented by Time and Space Limited. City of Hudson Waterfront, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

A Woodwind Celebration

6:30pm. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville.

534-3115.

Alki Steriopoulus

7pm. Author of If You Hear the Message 3 Times, Listen. Barnes & Noble, Kingston.

336-0590.

8pm. Jazz, world. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. 266-4444.

Woodstock Photography Lecture Series

8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. $15-$55.

8pm. Featuring photographer Elinor Carucci. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-6337. $7/5.

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Call for times. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-5090.

Duo Loco

6:30pm. Come and eat some fresh sushi.

Neko Sushi & Sake Bar, Wappingers Falls.

298-9869.

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SAT 15 ART Kico GovantesSolo Exhibition of New Paintings

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

Denise Jordan Finley

8pm. Featuring performers from the Hudson Valley Folk Guild. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Poughkeepsie. 229-0170.

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SEKOU SUNDIATA AND ENSEMBLE WILL PERFORM “THE

51ST (DREAM) STATE” AT THE MAHAIWE IN GREAT BARRINGTON ON JULY 15 & 16.

Nationally acclaimed poet and New School professor Sekou

experience with kidney failure and your subsequent

are we? What are our values, and do we hold them in

Sundiata is often praised as the griot of our times. Born in

transplant. How has your experience with this new

common? It makes you think about things like the torture

Harlem, Sundiata’s development as an artist was directed

project been different?

of humans, wiretapping, the surveillance of private citizens.

by the 1960s Black Arts/Aesthetic movement. Though his

SS: Well, "blessing the boats" was a one-man show. And

Is democracy for all or just for some?

work continues to be influenced by the literature, speech,

so much of it is tied to my personal experience. "The 51st

and music of his culture, a kidney transplant in 1999 caused

(dream) state" is a much larger, more ambitious project.

SG: So, do you feel like American power threatens

Sundiata to unearth a new, visceral intimacy in his work.

There is more involved. But it’s personal in the public sense

democracy?

Inspired by the poetic content of his own life, Sundiata

of being personal. It’s not so autobiographical, but it still

SS: Absolutely. The cost of America maintaining power is our

wrote "blessing the boats"—a one-man show about coping

comes out of a personal place. What does it mean to be

own resources at home. Hurricane Katrina was an example

with kidney disease and searching for grace. Now, in post-

an artist, an American, an African American? These are

of that. We are suffering at home because our resources are

9/11 America, he explores American national and cultural

perennial questions of my culture. Because of the history

deployed in the maintenance of a military condition.

identity with his new project, "the 51st (dream) state.

of my people, it is a contentious and complex subject.

Sundiata’s multimedia music-theater experience will be

At the height of American power, ["the 51st (dream)

performed at the Mahaiwe Theater in Great Barrington on

state"] is looking at the domestic cost. What should I be

American identity—politically and culturally?

July 15 and July 16. Through song and poetic monologue

thinking about as an artist? What should I be thinking about

SS: I don’t know if I can say there is just one. I think that,

performed with an ensemble of musicians and singers, and

my life and times?

well, racism—that has always been a problem. And there is

with the use of still and moving images, Sundiata facilitates

As an artist and teacher I know that a good question—

a civic dialogue about our role as individuals, Americans,

framed well, provocative—will implement people to think

and human beings.

about these things.

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MANIFEST DESTINY OF A DREAM

SG: What do you feel is the largest threat to our

the corporate dominance of American political, economic, and cultural life. And militarism.

SG: Do you feel that your role as a professor, as a

—Shannon Gallagher SG: What inspired the multimedia format of this

teacher, changes your perspective as an artist?

Shannon Gallagher: What inspired this project?

project?

SS: It deepens it and enriches it in certain ways. I’ve

Sekou Sundiata: I think like a lot of people, like many

SS: I think that American society, global society in fact,

always been an artist. Being in the academic world, I’m

people, I woke up on September 12, 2001 and realized

is a multimedia society. It is the language of the 21st

immersed in the world of ideas, the working of the mind.

that we were in a new era in American history, in world

century. This project is about me learning to be literate

As a professor I have more opportunities to study and think

history. The world had suddenly become more complex.

in the 21st century.

about ideas. I’m immersed in them. It seeds my art.

9/11 America, asking, what does it mean to be an American

SG: Is identifying what it means to be American the

"The 51st (dream) state" with Sekou Sundiata and

in an era of unprecedented global power?

solution to these problems?

ensemble will be performed on Saturday, July 15 at 8pm

SS: Yes. A decision has to be made. We need to do some

and Sunday, July 16 at 3pm at the Mahaiwe Theater in

soul searching. What is our purpose? What kind of nation

Great Barrington. (413) 644-9040; www.mahaiwe.org.

"the 51st (dream) state" was created in response to post-

SG: "Blessing the boats" was about your personal

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PianoSummer Faculty Gala

8pm. McKenna Theatre. 257-3860. $27/$22.

Windham Chamber Music Festival

8pm. Windham Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 734-3868. $30/seniors $25/ students $5.

Gaia Wolf

8:30pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Variety. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-459.

The Moonshiners

9pm. Country swing dance party. Casperkill Country Club, Poughkeepsie. 433-2200.

CLASSES Ikebana Class with Toshiko Alden

12-4pm. Workshop in two styles of Ikebana arrangement. Sky Lake lodge, Rosendale.

255-4112. $40/non-members $45.

EVENTS Work/Learn Day

10am. Two-hour herbal class in exchange for work. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock.

246-8081.

New Paltz Farmers Market

10am-3pm. Rock and Snow parking lot, New Paltz. www.newpaltzfarmersmarket.com.

15th Annual Hudson Valley AIDS Auction

The Outpatients

2-6pm. Live auctions on distinctive items and a raffle for a $5,000 prize. Highland. 340-1168. $100.

Too Human

MUSIC Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon

9pm. Blues, comedy, rock. Primo’s, Clintondale. 883-6112.

9pm. Jazz, folk. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Deuce

12:30-3:30pm. Folk, jazz. Costanzo’s Bistro, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7800.

Bob

7pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

MON 17 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Resting the Mind

7:30pm. Through 7/24. Week-long silent meditation retreat. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. $415/$625/$450.

CLASSES Learn to Meditate

8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

EVENTS 2nd Annual Autism Awareness Golf Tournament

Call for times. Branton Woods, Hopewell Junction. 297-9004. $160.

KIDS Junior Naturalist Program

9pm. Acoustic, oldies, original, rock, rockabilly. Rondoutbay Cafe & Marina, Kingston. 339-3917.

Borromeo String Quartet

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike Colgate Lake

Ninth Annual Summer Classical Series

Young Writers’ Camp

SPOKEN WORD Woodstock Photography Lecture Series

The Central Park Stompers

MUSIC West African Music

9:30am-5pm. Meet at Exit 20, Saugerties Park & Ride, New Paltz. 255-0919.

8pm. Featuring photographer Mark Citret.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-6337. $7/5.

THEATER The Music Man

8pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/$20.

The Oresteia

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

A Steady Rain

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Bob

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Talley’s Folly

8pm. One evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

The 51st (Dream) State

8pm. Multi-media music theater performance. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

The World Goes ’Round

8pm. The Songs of Kander and Ebb. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

WORKSHOPS Personal Narrative

Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Herbal Medicine Chest

10am-5pm. Identify, discuss, and learn how to use herbal remedies. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. $75.

Playful Writer Workshops

1-3:30pm. For serious writers: stories, memoirs, novels. 2 Saturdays a month for 4 months. Woodstock. 679-8239. $350.

SUN 16 ART Bard College MFA Thesis Exhibition Call for time. Bard College Exhibition Center, Red Hook. 758-7483.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Pathwork Spiritual Lecture Reading/ Discussion/Potluck 10:30am. Phoenicia. 688-2211.

Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl Chakra Balancing Guided Meditation

11am. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $5-$7.

3pm. Music of J.S. Bach, Scheidemann, and Bohm. Skinner Hall of Music, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

3pm. Jazz. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.

Studio Stu; Evocative Jazz, Exotic Lounge

5pm. Jazz. The Harvest Cafe, New Paltz.

255-4205.

Marvin “BuGaLu” Smith

5-8pm. Jazz. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 331-1116.

Rob Scheps Core-tet

5:30-7:30pm. Jazz. Cold Spring Gazebo, Cold Spring. www.robscheps.8m.net.

John Hiatt and The Northern Mississippi AllStars

7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

The Searchers

7pm. British rock. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. $40.

Flamenco/Latin Jazz Trio

9am-3pm. 2nd to 3rd grades. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston. 331-1682 ext. 132. $75/ $100 non-Kingston residents.

9am-12pm. H.V. Writing Project sponsored writing camp for middle and high school students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. (914) 271-2147 ext. 501. $275.

6-7pm. Lecture and demonstration. Dutchess Community College Music School, Poughkeepsie. 431-8916. $12.

Open Mike

7:30-10pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

The Heavy Pets

8pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595. $7.

Open Mike & Hootenanny

8:30-11:30pm. All genres. Rhinebeck Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike

7pm. Featuring Teresa Costa and William Seaton. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

THEATER The Oresteia

8pm. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. 266-4444.

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

THE OUTDOORS The Rip Van Winkle’s Wacky Raft Race

WORKSHOPS Instant Healing Chinese Energetics

8am. Spans 6 miles from Athens to Catskill.

Athens Boat Launch, Athens. (800) 355-2287. $25 to enter.

A Two for One Hike: Table Rocks and Bonticou

8:30am-12pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

7-9pm. An experiential workshop with Sirriya Din. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. 15/$20.

TUE 18 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Resting the Mind

Giants Workshop

7:30pm. Week-long silent meditation retreat.

Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. $415/ $625/$450.

Hudson Valley Tri/Bi-athalon

KIDS Toddler Painting Workshop

9am-4pm. Meet at the West Trapps, New Paltz. 255-0919.

8pm. Town of Ulster. www.nytri.org.

THEATER The Music Man

3pm. Consummate con-man “Professor” Harold Hill comes to town with a beautiful scam. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $22/$20.

A Steady Rain

2pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee

2pm. Coach House Players, Kingston. 3312467. $15/$12 children and seniors.

Talley’s Folly

2pm. One evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

The 51st (Dream) State

3pm. Multi-media music theater performance.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

6pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

The Oresteia

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

FORECAST

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

3pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

1pm. Tivoli Library, Tivoli. www.theartscenterny.org.

MUSIC Rob Scheps & Marvin “Bugaloo” Smith 7:30-9:30pm. 2 jazz masters jazz jam.

The Terrace Tavern, Newburgh. www.robscheps.8m.net, ww.halevymusic.com.

Ken DeAngelis and Soprano Julie Ziavras

9-10pm. Acoustic, blues, folk, original. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 256-2027.

SPOKEN WORD Leslie Gerber: Composers at the Piano

2:30pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860. $10.

THEATER A Steady Rain

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

WED 19 EVENTS Singles Wine-Tasting Mixer

8pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925. $5.

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10am. Reading Buddy Booby’s Birthmark.

Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Open Mike Night

9pm. Alternative, blues, country, folk, oldies.

New York Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 452-7001.

Tequila Sunrise

9pm. Eagles tribute band. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. $25.

THEATER The Rivals

7pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

Capall, A Celtic Cross

A Steady Rain

SPOKEN WORD Open Mike

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

WORKSHOPS Performing Arts Workshop with Judi Silvano

2-4pm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown.

(914) 213-2292.

THU 20 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Spiritual and Psychic Protection

7pm. Learn to shield your personal energy.

The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $7-$10.

CLASSES Master Class: Alexander Slobodyanik

2:30pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860. $10.

THEATER A Midsummer Night’s Dream

7pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

A Steady Rain

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Talley’s Folly

8pm. One evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

9-11:30pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

8pm. The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Sleep Hollow. (914) 332-5953. $3.

THEATER The Storm

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

A Steady Rain

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Quiver and Twitch

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Talley’s Folly

8pm. One evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

The Rivals

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

The World Goes ‘Round

8pm. The Songs of Kander and Ebb. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Black Coffee

8pm. Performed by the Coach House Players.

Kingston. 331-2476.

Chicago: The Musical

8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080. $22/$20 seniors and children.

WORKSHOPS Haiku & Haiku Painting

FORECAST

Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

The Earth Speaks: Ceramics and Flower Arranging Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

Fun with Food From Around the World

3-5pm. For teens. Haverstraw King’s Daughters Library, Garnerville. 227-3190.

Hand Drum Workshop

5:30-7pm. 6-week session of Afro-Caribbean Basics. Ancram Opera House, Ancram. (518) 329-7393. $10/$60 for whole series.

Performing Arts Workshop with Judi Silvano

6:30-8:30pm. Cornwall Library, Cornwall-onHudson. (914) 213-2292.

FRI 21 ART A.I.R. Open Studios

5pm. Meet the artists and view their work. Bring a dish for potluck. Villetta Inn, Woodstock. 679-2079.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Mozart, Inner Harmony and Transformation

SAT 22 ART Transition

5-8pm. Curated by Melissa Stafford. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.

Lucy Reitzfeld: Paintings

6-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-5907.

Figurative Garden

6:30pm. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville.

534-3115.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Access Your Healing Potential 10am-5pm. Rhinebeck. 876-0239.

DANCE Freestyle Frolic

8:30pm. Smoke, drug, alcohol, and shoe-free environment to a wide range of music. Center for Symbolic Studies, Tillson. 658-8319. $7/$3 teens and seniors.

EVENTS Rosendale Street Festival

The festival will feature live bands as well as food and craft vendors. It will take place on Saturday from noon until 10pm and Sunday from noon until 6pm. Rosendale. 658-7340.

Kingston Old Town Stockade Farmers’ Market

Call for times. Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA. (800) 741-7353.

9am-2pm. Organic and traditional fruits and vegetables, breads, flowers. Wall Street, Kingston. 331-3418.

MUSIC Duo Loco

Antiques Fair

6:30pm. Sushi and music. Neko Sushi & Sake Bar, Wappingers Falls. 298-9869.

10am-5pm. Annual antiques show featuring top quality antiques dealers. Rhinebeck.

876-1989. $7.

John Bruschini Trio

Woodstock Library Fair

7-10pm. Jazz. High Falls Cafe, High Falls.

687-2699.

10am-5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock.

657-6439.

The Radiators

KIDS Young Writers’ Camp

7:30pm. Creole spice with a little bit of bayou funk and mean river blues. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-7600.

Jennifer Shinyoung Drake-Perry Recital

7:30pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860. $10.

9am-12pm. H.V. Writing Project sponsored writing camp for middle and high school students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. (914) 271-2147 ext. 501. $275.

Dr. Marmalade

The Prodigals

11am. Travel the world helping puppet animals. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $8/$5 children.

Helen Avakian

MUSIC Music on The Waterfront

8pm. Irish rock. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. $20.

8-11pm. Acoustic, alternative, new age.

Maia Restaurant and Lounge, Poughkeepsie.

486-5004.

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KIDS Story Time with Donna Ducker

Call for time. Presented by Time and Space Limited. City of Hudson Waterfront, Hudson.

(518) 822-8448.

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TODD MACK PLAYS AT VENUES AROUND THE REGION THIS MONTH.

AIDING THE INDIE A musician and producer who’s been releasing independent music for nearly two decades, Todd Mack certainly knows the score. He sympathizes with the struggles and pitfalls of the unsigned artist as host of the grassroots Off the Beat-n-Track Radio Show (which airs Saturday nights from 9-11pm on WKZE, 98.1 FM) restricting his first hour onair to local or locally performing indies, and his second hour to indie music of all genres from across the US, Europe, Canada, and Asia.

“The whole idea is to give exposure to artists who don’t have the backing of a [major] label,” says Mack, who’s based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He keeps his show upbeat and eclectic, spinning a mixed bag of punk, polka, electronica, rock, roots, and even a little ambient on occasion. The show recently went into syndication, airing on a handful of stations nationwide. This isn’t all Mack does to help out the indie newbie. He’s just finished writing his first in a series of related texts, Artist to Artist: Getting Started (Mack is already an established author of children’s books). “Not that I’m a scholar on [the music industry]. Everything I’ve learned is just from experience. But the biggest problem that most artists have is promoting themselves. I’ve read a ton of books that will guide you on how to do it but 99 percent of them are written by nonmusicians and people who sit behind a desk—and some of them are so far from reality.

There needs to be more people helping people like us.”

As someone who used to tour full-time—up to 200 shows a year from Florida to Maine—Mack’s best advice is to perform as much as possible. “Even with MySpace, CDBaby, and Amazon, if you’re not out there gigging, you’re not going to sell CDs. There’s nothing like live music. It’s electrifying. I sell more CDs after one show than I do in a month online.”

Through perseverance and hard work, Mack has been fortunate to move his music beyond the local scene.

His sixth recording, following on the heels of last year’s solo effort, Yonder The Big Blue Holler, is Square Peg, Round Hole, which he recorded with his band, The Star Alternative, in his converted barn studio. The recording is 13 tight tracks of edgy indie rock (“Tell Me”), slacker fashion (“Bombs Away”), ska slant (“Him Not Me”), psychedelic funk (“Sweet Tokin’ Mama”), and roots-driven rock (“The More You Drink [The Better We Sound]), featuring Mack’s guitar and laid-back gritty vocal style, Will Curtiss’s bass, Matt Sermini’s drums, and James Bill’s guitar. It’s uninhibited and spirited and these qualities have garnered Mack a devoted following.

Todd Mack will perform an acoustic show at Mezzanine, 79 Broadway, Kingston, on Saturday, July 8 at 9pm. He’ll then hit the High Falls Cafe with The Star Alternative on Friday, July 14; the Rosendale Street Festival on Saturday, July 22, at 6pm; and New World Home Cooking the same night at 10pm. Mack is open to all local CD submissions for his radio show. For more information, visit www.toddmack.net.

—Sharon Nichols

Soñando

Picturing Stories

Jazz Festival Featuring Dianne Reeves

Byrdcliffe Furniture Workshop

Acoustic Artists Coalition

Woman’s Mysteries, Empowerment, Wilderness Skills

Call for times. El Coqui, Kingston.

340-1106. $10.

Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 454-3388.

12-9pm. AIR Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.

Young Artists Concert

2:30pm. Red Barn Performing Arts, Hunter.

(518) 263-4908.

Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

1-4pm. Intro to the techniques used to make Byrdcliffe style furniture. Byrdcliffe Barn, Woodstock. 679-2079.

2-9pm. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8105. $50.

SUN 23

Hypnotic Clambake

3pm. Red Barn Performing Arts, Hunter. (518) 263-4908.

Talk and Performance by Bar Scott 5pm. Joshua’s, Woodstock. 679-5533.

Solisti Unplugged

6pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

Naked

6pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Music at the Pavilion: Soul Purpose 6-7:30pm. Spring Farm Pavilion, New Paltz.

255-0919.

The Providers

7-11pm. Blues, original, r&b, rock, soul.

Costanzo’s, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7800.

Alexander Korsantia Recital

8pm. Performing Haydn, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev. McKenna Theatre. 257-3860. $27/$22.

Amati Music Festival Concert

8pm. Red Barn Performing Arts, Hunter.

(518) 263-4908. $15.

Harmony Nights

8pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595. $32.95 includes dinner.

Roseanne Cash

8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount.

(800) 942-6904 ext. 406. $15-$55.

Rhett Tyler & Early Warning

9pm. Modern blues. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. $17.50/%15 members.

9pm. Brazilian jazz. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Thunder Ridge

9-11pm. Country, rock. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike - Lost City

9:30am-3pm. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Invasive species

10am. Where do they come from and how do they get here? Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. $7/$5/$3/$2.

Woodstock Photography Lecture Series

8pm. Featuring photographer Eugene Richards. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-6337. $7/$5.

THEATER The Storm

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

A Steady Rain

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Chicago: The Musical

8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Quiver and Twitch

2-5pm. Photographs of the Shawangunk Mountains by James Douglas. Cragsmoor Road Gallery, Cragsmoor. 647-2111.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl Chakra Balancing Guided Meditation 11am. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $5-$7.

EVENTS New Paltz Farmers Market

10am-3pm. Rock and Snow parking lot, New Paltz. www.newpaltzfarmersmarket.com.

MUSIC Acoustic Artists Coalition

12-7pm. AIR Studio Gallery, Kingston.

331-2662.

Jazz Du Jour

3pm. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville.

534-3115.

Ninth Annual Summer Classical Series

3pm. Music of Schubert and Wilson.

Skinner Hall of Music, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

Pacifica String Quartet

3pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

Antioch Baptist Church Choir Group 4pm. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. 424-3825.

Marvin “BuGaLu” Smith

5-8pm. Jazz. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 331-1116.

Dar Williams

5:30pm. Cold Spring’s Riverfront Park and Bandstand, Cold Spring. 265-3200.

Hot Jazz Concert With Nina Sheldon and Friends

7pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

586-5310. $7.

Open Mike & Hootenanny

8:30-11:30pm. All genres. Rhinebeck Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike: Beacon Hill Scramble

10am-3pm. Minnewaska State Park Preserve Upper Lot, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Call for times. One Light HealingTouch, Rhinebeck. 876-0239.

3pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860.

Open Mike

7:30-10pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Open Mike & Hootenanny

8:30-11:30pm. All genres. Rhinebeck Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

David Kraai

11pm. Acoustic, country, folk, original, solo, traditional. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike

7pm. Featuring Daryl Wise and Alison Koffler.

Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. $3.

THEATER The Storm

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Hansel and Gretel

8pm. Presented by the Berkshire Opera Company. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

TUE 25 MUSIC Rob Scheps & Marvin Smith

7:30-9:30pm. 2 jazz masters jazz jam. The Terrace Tavern, Newburgh. www.robscheps.8.net, www.halevymusic.com.

SPOKEN WORD Robert Hamilton: Piano Music of Shostakovich

2:30pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860.

Adrienne Brodeur Signing

7pm. Signing her novel Man Camp. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

WORKSHOPS Woodstock Writers Workshop

6:30-8:30pm. Writing poetry, short story, novel, memoir, creative nonfiction.

Woodstock. 679-8256.

WED 26 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Astrology Dinner: The Gifts of the Zodiac

7pm. Monteverde at Oldstone Manor, Cortlandt Manor. (914) 739-5000. $85.

Kunga Dawa: Enlightened Display

MUSIC Jacob Flier Piano Competition: Round One

2pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Talley’s Folly

2pm. One evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

Chicago: The Musical

3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080. $22/$20 seniors and children.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Storm

WORKSHOPS Access Your Healing Potential

MUSIC Jacob Flier Piano Competition: Round One

A Steady Rain

2pm/7pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

Talley’s Folly

8pm. The Songs of Kander and Ebb. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

10am-2pm. Ages 10-16. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $165/ $140 members.

7:30pm. His experiences with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. $15.

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

The World Goes ’Round

Magic Summer Program for Kids

THEATER Quiver and Twitch

6pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

8pm. One evening in the courtship of two unlikely lovers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880. $24/$19.

9am-3pm. 4th and 5th grades. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston. 331-1682 ext. 132. $75/ $100 non-Kingston residents.

6:30pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

MON 24 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Learn to Meditate

8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

FORECAST

Machan

ART Findings on the Ridge

KIDS Junior Naturalist Program

3pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860.

GE Smith and Taylor Barton

8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595. $20.

SPOKEN WORD Patricia Edwards Clyne Book Signing and Presentation

7pm. Signs her book Hudson Valley Faces & Places. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

How to Make Your Marriage Better 7-8pm. Survey with time for questions and answers. Institute for Human Development, Kingston. 339-6250.

Fork and Pen

7:30pm. Night devoted to literary writing in which food is a key ingredient. The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Sleep Hollow. (914) 332-5953. $5/$3 members.

Wing’d Word: Spoken Word and Performance

8:30pm. Gus Mancini and Patricia Martin Performing “In the Moment.” Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe & Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

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Family Tours

WORKSHOPS Painting Workshop

Call for times. Opera. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Toward a Buddhist Psychotherapy: Self and Selflessness Call for times. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. (212) 807-0563.

Treading the Path in Times of Turmoil

9am-5pm. How to apply the principles of Shambhala Buddhism. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. $75/$125.

Finding and Working with Your Angels 7pm. A guided meditation and journey.

Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. $15/$20.

Manifesting Your Needs With Intention

7pm. Learn to harness and focus your own mental power. The Auracle, New Paltz.

255-6046. $7-$10.

FILM Film Mini-Festival

8pm. Spirited discussion, screening thought provoking films. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

KIDS Young Writers’ Camp

Duo Loco

6:30pm. Sushi and music. Neko Sushi & Sake Bar, Wappingers Falls. 298-9869.

Peter Frampton

7pm. Bowdoin Park, Wappingers Falls. 4543388.

Belleayrians III - Recital in the Lodge 8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. $20.

Brad Paisley with Eric Church

8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. $46.

Slaid Cleaves

8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 4694595. $17.50.

Open Mike Night

9pm. Alternative, blues, country, folk, oldies.

New York Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 452-7001.

Burning Sky - A Tribute To Bad Company

10pm. Alternative, rock, Bad Company Tribute. East Side Bar and Grill, Walden.

778-2039.

SPOKEN WORD Meet the Artist: Kate Forman

7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943.

THEATER Chicago: The Musical

8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080. $22/$20 seniors and children.

9am-12pm. H.V. Writing Project sponsored writing camp for middle and high school students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. (914) 271-2147 ext. 501. $275.

Mixed Company

Music Together

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

10:30am. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 586-5310. $100/6 sessions.

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MUSIC Genoveva

7pm. Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

THU 27

MUSIC PianoSummer Student Recital

7:30pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860. $5.

THEATER The Rivals

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

The Rivals

SAT 29 ART Daniel F. Gluibizzi

Millbrook Gallery and Antiques, Millbrook.

677-6699.

7pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

Chicago: The Musical

8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Hansel and Gretel

8pm. Presented by the Berkshire Opera Company. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

WORKSHOPS Quilting Tips and Demonstrations

Call for times. Antiques Barn at Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1403.

Landscape Painting

9am-4pm. With renowned oil painter Gregg Kreutz. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $450 members/$500 non-members.

FRI 28 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Become A Reiki Healer

7pm. Reiki level one attunement/training. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $60.

Master Class: Sergei Babayan 2:30pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860. $10.

DANCE Swing Dance

7:30pm. The Tent at PS/21 Chatham, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. $10/$8 for members.

Jim Osborne Quintet

8:30-11:30pm. Lesson at 7:30pm. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 473-6955. $10.

EVENTS Kingston Old Town Stockade Farmers’ Market

9am-2pm. Organic and traditional fruits and vegetables, breads, flowers. Wall Street, Kingston. 331-3418.

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George Washington Day Parade & Picnic

7pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

7/26-8/4 Deepen seeing, shape, line, color, composition and space explored. Shuster Studio, Germantown. (518) 755-4733. $425.

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Candlelight Tours of Historic Huguenot Street

Spirit Essence Portraits by Melissa Harris

11am-6pm. Have your portrait painted.

Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. $175.

Newburgh Sculpture Project

12-6:45pm. Site-specific outdoor sculptures throughout the city of Newburgh. River Art Walk, Newburgh. 457-5928.

Red! A Group Show

6-8pm. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 757-2667.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Summer Enchantment an Encampment for Women

Call for times. Garden of One, Rensselaerville.

(631) 287-9000. $350.

CLASSES Workshop: Mosaic Pots (Ages 6-14) 1:30pm. The Red Hook Library, Red Hook.

340-4576.

2pm. Square dancing, crafts, parade, oldfashioned games. The Historical Society of the Town of Warwick, Warwick. 986-3236.

3pm. Build relationships with art and create a connection to the sculptures. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.

KIDS The Little Mermaid

11am/1pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $8/$5 children.

MUSIC Music on The Waterfront

Call for time. Presented by Time and Space Limited. City of Hudson Waterfront, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Jump for Joy: Jazz for Families

11am. Maverick Concerts 2006.

Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

Rebel Red

2-5pm. Rock and roll. Applewood Winery, Warwick. 988-9292.

Young Artists Concert

2:30pm. Red Barn Performing Arts, Hunter. (518) 263-4908.

Spectra Garden

3-9pm. Experimental sound performance.

Free103.9 Wave Farm, Acra. (518) 622-2598.

Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra and Chorale

4pm. Choral, classical, solo, symphonic.

Downing Park Amphithe ater, Newburgh.

562-1800.

Denise Jordan Finley

6-8pm. Acoustic, folk, jazz. Village Center, Accord. 943-7747.

Ken and Julie and the Bernstein-Bard Trio

7:30-9:30pm. Acoustic, ethnic, folk, melodies from around the world. Warwick Valley Community Center, Warwick.

986-6422. $12.

Daniel Pagdon

8pm. Folk. Irving Farm Coffeehouse, Millerton.

(518) 789-6540.

David Holland: Jazz Double Bass 8pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Bros.

8pm. Country and gospel. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount.

(800) 942-6904 ext. 406. $15-$55.

Sergei Babayan Recital

8pm. Performing Leighton, Rachmaninoff, and Rameau. McKenna Theatre. 257-3860. $27/$22.

Windham Chamber Music Festival 8pm. Music of Mozart and Robert Schumann. Windham Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 734-3868.

Adults $20/seniors $17/students $5.

Chris Smither

8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595. $20.

Mango!

8:30pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

The SugarBees

9pm. Electric American roots. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Louis Landon

DANCE Learn to Dance in a Day: Lindy Charleston

9pm. Jazz and New Age piano. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Contradance

9am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

10:30am-12:30pm. Reformed Church of the Comforter, Kingston. $30/$35.

8pm. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050. $10.

Galumpha Dance Company

8pm. Stunning acrobatics, visual effects, physical comedy, with inventive choreography. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. $25.

EVENTS Kingston 4th Annual Latino Festival

12-10pm. T.R.Gallo Memorial Park, Kingston.

340-1106.

11th Bounty of the Hudson Food and Wine Festival 12-5pm. Adair Vineyard, New Paltz. www.gunkswine.com. $20/$8 designated drivers.

THE OUTDOORS Bonticou Adventure for Parents & Kids

Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike - Two Falls

9am-3pm. Minnewaska State Park Preserve Jenny Lane, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Invertebrates and Plankton

10am. What does this small world look like?

Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. $7/$5/$3/$2.

SPOKEN WORD Woodstock Photography Lecture Series

8pm. Featuring photographer Elizabeth Opalenik. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-6337. $7/5.

PAUL COWELL, MIRROR EYES PHOTO

THEATER Hansel and Gretel

THE OUTDOORS Harlem Valley Rail Ride

Mixed Company

Verkeerder Kill Falls

2pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

9am-3pm. Sam’s Point Preserve Visitor Center, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Chicago: The Musical

SPOKEN WORD Christie Scheele: Book Signing & Artist Demonstration

2pm. Presented by the Berkshire Opera Company. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080. $22/$20 seniors and children.

Galumpha

8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock.

679-4101. $25.

2-4pm. Child-friendly painting demonstration. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie. 454-0522.

Jerry Christmas

8pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

THEATER Jerry Christmas

The Rivals

2pm. Martel musical. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7235.

8pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

Chicago: The Musical

3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080. $22/$20 seniors and children.

WORKSHOPS Sensual Image

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

6pm. 20th season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison.

265-9575. $25-$42.

Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Treasure Map Dream Board Building Workshop

WORKSHOPS Women’s Mysteries, Empowerment, Wilderness Skills

1-5pm. The Manor, Poughkeepsie.

227-3190. $50.

Playful Writer Workshops

1-3:30pm. For serious writers: stories, memoirs, novels. 2 Saturdays a month for 4 months. Woodstock. 679-8239. $350.

RORY JAMES KELLY AND JOHN MICHALSKI STAR IN “THE DRAWER BOY” AT THE SHADOWLAND.

A FARMER'S LIFE FOR ME Miles: Yes. I was wondering—could I help out here in any way? We want to spend some time with— Angus: We’re farmers.

Miles: I...Yes. Could you use some help around the farm for the next couple of weeks? Free of charge. I just need a place to stay and the chance to watch you.

Woman’s Mysteries, Empowerment, Wilderness Skills 2-9pm. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8105. $50.

SUN 30 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Pathwork Spiritual Lecture Reading/ Discussion/Potluck

Angus: Watch me what?

Angus: As a farmer.

—from “The Drawer Boy,” by Michael Healy “The Drawer Boy” is a three-man play that tells the story of two World War II vets, Morgan and Angus, who live on a farm in central Ontario. Morgan is Angus’s caretaker—Angus suffers severe memory loss due to a war injury—and he must continually refresh Angus on the details of how they grew up together, soldiered together, and met two English girls whom they brought back to Canada after the war, and who were subsequently killed in an automobile accident. The story eventually becomes a ritual that Angus demands nightly.

Angus and Morgan’s insular existence is disrupted with the arrival of Miles, an actor who arrives at the farmhouse and begins taking notes on how the farmers live, what they do, and what living like a farmer is all about, all in an effort to do research on an improvised play about farmers. Brendan Burke, the director of the play said, “When you look at the play, it’s the most basic dramatic formula. There’s a very static situation. Somebody comes in and kind of starts messing with the dials.”

Set in 1972, “The Drawer Boy” is a takeoff on a play from that year called “The Farm Show.” “A theater company up in Toronto essentially started the whole idea of what is now known as documentary theater,” Burke said. A group of young actors went knocking on farmhouse doors and moved in for a couple weeks with the farmers and started living with them, working on the farms, researching their subjects, and eventually creating monologues, and songs, and little scenes.

As time passes, Miles learns about the complex myth Morgan has constructed for Angus in his nightly story. From what he overhears, Miles finds out that there is more to the story than meets the eye—Morgan has not only been sensationalizing the story, but has even lied about what happened to their girlfriends.

After getting the scoop on the real story through his eavesdropping, Miles brings the material back to rehearsal and eventually puts it into his play. When Angus sees his nightly story performed on stage, the Burke said that he chose “The Drawer Boy” with the Shadowland’s mission statement in mind; that it’s “about finding things that are socially relevant and thought provoking.” He added, “A theater like [the

9am-3pm. 6th and 7th grades. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston. 331-1682 ext. 132. $75/$100 non-Kingston residents.

Farm Camp at Phillies Bridge Farm

10am-3pm. Rock and Snow parking lot, New Paltz. www.newpaltzfarmersmarket.com.

9am-2pm. Ages 6-12. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $190/$170 members.

Working Landscape Tour

Wayfinder Experience

10am-5pm. A uniquely different garden tour of ten sites within five miles. Ancram.

(518) 398- 6435. $35/$30.

Marbletown Democratic Family Festival

12-4pm. Music, kids’ events, food and more.

Tongore Park, Stone Ridge. 340-0573. $5/$15 family.

2pm. Hurley Heritage Society Museum, Hurley. 331-0593. $3.

MUSIC Recital: 2nd and 3rd Place Winners of the Jacob Flier Piano Competition

Summer Sing Monday

7:30pm. Gwen Gould, director with professional soloists Faure Requiem.

The Tent at PS/21 Chatham, Chatham.

(518) 392-6121. $7/$6 for members.

MUSIC Genoveva

Call for times. Opera. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Open Mike

7:30-10pm. Mezzanine Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar, Kingston. 339-6925.

Bensen-Scott Big Band

1-3pm. Antiques Barn at Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1403.

Brentano String Quartet with Hsin-Yun Hwang

Open Mike & Hootenanny

8:30-11:30pm. All genres. Rhinebeck Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

THE OUTDOORS Triathlon Training Camp

3pm. Maverick Concerts 2006. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 338-5254.

Judi Silvano & Jazz Trio

Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291.

Studio Stu

SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike

3pm. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville.

534-3115.

7pm. Featuring Elizabeth Thomas and CT National Youth Poetry Slam Team. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. $3.

5pm. Evocative jazz, exotic lounge. The Harvest Cafe, New Paltz. 255-4205.

5-8pm. Jazz. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 331-1116.

are arguing about the play they saw last night rather then ‘American Idol.’”

THEATER Hansel and Gretel

2pm. Presented by the Berkshire Opera Company. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center,

Murali Coryell Eddi

—Patrick Shields

9am-4pm. Ages 10-16. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $320/$295 for members per week.

7:30pm. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall.

257-3860. $5.

Olde Hurley Guided Walking Tours

Shadowland] is considered like a regional newspaper. And for me, it’s great when the next morning people

Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm. (845) 647-5511; www.shadowlandtheater.org.

Learn to Meditate

KIDS Junior Naturalist Program

5:30pm. Cold Spring’s Riverfront Park and Bandstand, Cold Spring. 265-3200.

“The Drawer Boy” will be performed at the Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville through July 9 on Thursdays,

Call for times. Apprentice for a week with Susan Weed. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. $800-$1000 includes materials/books and lodging.

Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl Chakra Balancing Guided Meditation

Marvin “BuGaLu” Smith

true memories of what happened before his injury start to come back.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Green Goddess Apprentice Week

8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

EVENTS New Paltz Farmers Market

Miles: Well, whatever you do all day. As a farmer.

MON 31

10:30am. Phoenicia. 688-2211.

11am. The Auracle, New Paltz. 255-6046. $5-$7.

Miles: Uh, yes.

2-9pm. For teen women. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8105. $35.

FORECAST

Angus: Watch me.

Call for times. 5 different routes for bikers of all abilities. Millerton. (212) 932-2453 ext.120. $40/children 14 and under $25.

Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

6:30pm. Acoustic duet featuring Pete C. and Juli C. Bau, Beacon. 440-7584.

Vickie Russell

7-8:30pm. Acoustic, blues, country, folk, original, pop, vocals. Freedom Park, LaGrange. 452-1972.

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Planet Waves

BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

EMIL ALZAMORA

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Grand Square Dancing

here are more squares in the sky right now than at the big hoedown. Squares are 90-degree astrological aspects that, depending on who you ask, are associated with challenges, associated with character building, or are a colossal pain in the ass. The three are not mutually exclusive.

There is a slow-moving fixed T-square in effect; that is, Saturn in Leo, Jupiter in Scorpio, and both Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius holding three points of the grand square (also called a grand cross)

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long-term, waiting for anything to come along and complete the fourth corner of the square and put the Earth in the crosshairs.

This is intimately involved with several major long-term astrological processes. You can think of astrology in terms of the placements of slowmoving planets within certain signs defining the theme of an era, or you can think of it in terms of aspects or shapes the planets make together, which add a level of action to the story. Aspects are the turning points. Here are the big ones we’re living through at the moment, explained by aspect.

1. Jupiter square Saturn. This is the first square since the Taurus conjunction in 2000, the Year of the Metal Dragon. Any aspect between Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest known planets, is significant. Dr. Marc Edmund Jones described the square as the sense of a “last chance,” but as this aspect is in the first-quarter (waxing) phase, I would say it represents a very large opportunity. The square represents a turning point of what began at the conjunction.

2. Saturn opposite Neptune. This is the first opposition since the momentous triple conjunction of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in Capricorn in 1989, which was one of those watershed years: the year of the Berlin Wall coming down and the official fall of the Iron Curtain, as well as Tiananmen Square and other world-changing events. The Saturn-Neptune opposition, which began last summer and extends through 2007, is the full expression of what began at the conjunction.

3. Chiron opposite Saturn. We are now at the end of a long process of Saturn and Chiron opposing one another a total of seven times, which has been going on since 2003. In other words, Saturn and Chiron are now moving at about the same speed and have been in aspect a long time. The opposition began across Cancer and Capricorn and then moved onto LeoAquarius axis as both planets changed signs.

All these planets opposite and square one another, and generally in aspect to one another, multiplies the effect up to a lot of Saturn, as the one thing all three processes have in common.

And all in Saturnian square or opposition aspects (4th harmonic, in 90-degree increments).

The setup covers Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius (though there are important minor planets in Taurus, such as newly discovered Sedna, which is square Neptune). When fast moving planets move through the mix of the slow ones, and make even more squares and oppositions.

Four times a month, the Moon comes through the configuration, and did at the moment of the summer solstice. Then, numerous times a day, the aspect structure becomes angular—that is, parts rise, culminate, and set, and it’s picked up by the ascendant or midheaven, and is emphasized yet again (and again).

Of the three major aspects in effect, the SaturnNeptune opposition is the most world changing.

Though the first exact opposition is not until late August, Neptune has a very wide orb of influence, and we can see its direct influence back to last summer, when Hurricane Katrina occurred.

The opposition, combined with the “when the levee breaks” property of Saturn in Leo, made water disasters eminently predictable. And as covered in the summer of 2005, Varuna (discovered in 2000), the lord of waters and the great equalizer, was making interesting patterns with the Sun and Moon, plus the USA chart and Bush’s chart, and this fills in part of that story, too.

Speaking of water, we must consider Neptune in Aquarius represents the kind of mass delusion that we live with—from television dictating reality to moods dictated by the pharmaceutical industry, on down. Neptune’s opposition to Saturn represents a confrontation between the delusion and the solid reality of Saturn. But the

thing about water—that is, Neptune—is that it always finds a way. Water always gets through; nothing is really waterproof, in the long run.

Still, Saturn is strong and there is likely to be an increasing level of ideological (i.e., Neptune in Aquarius) chaos as the exact opposition forms, as belief systems fail, and as what is true vs. what we don’t want to be true becomes increasingly apparent. There are plenty of people today who simply cannot handle what is so. If you watch television with any sensitivity, it’s abundantly clear that there is a vast agenda comingled with what are, really now, an astonishing number of drug and beer commercials. The message “shut down” is everywhere.

There is another factor in this equation and it may account for some of the early action of Saturn-Neptune, and the intensity of the aspect.

That’s the fact that Uranus is in Pisces at the same time Neptune is in Aquarius. These two planets rule one another’s sign placements. That is, Neptune is the modern ruler of Pisces and Uranus is the modern ruler of Aquarius. The two are now occupying one another’s signs.

This is called “mutual reception.” It would seem that this ancient rule works with modern planets, given the intractable quality of belief and perception that we seem to live with in our era. There are many ways to interpret a mutual reception; it can be helpful, offering an unseen option, or it can represent a hostage situation between the two planets.

This pair of planets and the corresponding pair of signs present a challenge to most people because they are somewhat above the wavelength of normal consciousness. The higher vibrations of Aquarius and Pisces are for the most part unavailable to usual perception. Where we might have the gentle mysticism and compassion of Pisces, we tend to have addiction, mass hypnosis, and deception; where we might have the egalitarian spirit and community consciousness of Aquarius, we have a kind of lock-step mentality, worship of technology, and a violent media haze. Together, these two factors can serve to keep a lot of people in a trance, and feeling that “if it feels good for me, then it’s okay.”

But we may ask, what is the incentive to wake up and face the challenges of the world? Most people are completely convinced that they don’t make a difference at all; most are completely unaware of any phenomenon such as power in numbers or the ability for people to change their beliefs and influence the world around us. Awakening to what I will reluctantly describe as reality is usually met with pain, not the reward of awareness. Humans, particularly Americans, strive to avoid pain at any cost.

What gives? Hmm. Well, I have given up on the belief that “bad things” wake people up.

Many of us have asked for a long time, “What will wake people up?” The proposed answer is often, “A huge disaster, maybe that will do it.”

However, we now have used the world as a Huge Disaster Testing Lab, to very little avail.

It’s also clear that all combined, the challenging, often difficult events of current history are pushing people to think and consider things they, or we, may never have. Even if it’s so ugly we have to look away, eventually our necks get sore from turning.

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Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino

ARIES

(March 20-April 19)

A moment of hesitation is appropriate at the start of such an important new cycle, where you have most definitely arrived. You may feel a need to balance out your life at the same time balance is precisely the most difficult thing to attain. At the heart of your situation is an emotional matter to sort out, and circumstances are fortunately allowing you some time for retreat and contemplation of what seems like subject matter from the distant past, but really is affecting you in the present place and time. This is not a matter of breaking free, but rather one of making peace with yourself. There will be plenty of time to explore and put this to work in the long run through creative expression, and you’ll surely have your moments in the coming weeks where you have to get something out. Just don’t forget that that subtle inner level is the place where the healing takes place.

TAURUS

(April 19-May 20)

You have, at the least, succeeded in regaining some of your confidence. Few other personal attributes (talent, sex appeal, love) are worth much without this one factor, so you can be sure it’s precious. You’re capable of such highs and lows in this regard, and for many reasons, these can send you reeling in strange directions. This month’s Mercury retrograde will give you the strength and insight to get beneath the floorboards and find out what’s going on down there. This really was a case of your taking on somebody else’s insecurity long before you knew what was happening, and I speak in particular of the parent you feel took “better” care of you. All things being equal, most people would be able to stand up to the challenges of living, but in our place and time, we often must (and fortunately can) dismantle the apparatus of fear and self-doubt.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) Have you ever had one of those experiences where you’re standing in a store considering purchasing something, and it seems expensive. Then, you see something that you really want, at twice the price, but it seems perfectly affordable? This is the story of your life now. If something seems difficult to attain or out of reach (financially or otherwise), keep looking for what aligns with your values.

You may discover that what means the most is most readily attainable. Yet the search may take a while, and I suggest you be patient. What I can propose, however, is that you already know what that something is, and you will need to take something of an inner quest to establish that fact. As part of this process you will solidify the inner sense of what is correct for you, before you come around to the final conclusion that you can, indeed, make it real.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) It’s time to think big. How big? Big as you like, whatever that means to you.

All rules are suspended on matters of scale, proportion, size, and effort as relates to results. Practical concerns take third or fourth place. What now matters is that you consistently apply one thing to any goal or necessity you may have: imagination. The reason the rules are all on hold—and may well remain that way for a while—is that creativity is the answer to everything. Creativity is love applied to a specific circumstance, whether it’s a house to build, a photo exhibit, or making sure your kid gets into the college he or she wants (and paying for it). It’s not about how hard you work, but rather, how well you tap into the inner source of cosmic intelligence that is far greater than the whole drama we live here on the physical plane, and for whom this whole dog and pony show is so much watercolor. www.planetwaves.net 136 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM.COM 7/06

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LEO (July 22-Aug. 23) Focus will come and go this month, and you may be met repeatedly with the sense that you don’t quite know your own mind. You do, but you may have a tendency to forget, so I suggest you devise ways to communicate with yourself over the various little gaps and lapses that seem to dot the landscape between now and your birthday. If you are having moments of forgetfulness, do take the metaphor. There is something you’re trying to dissolve, let go of, forget or otherwise put in the past. It’s something that’s resisted mightily and will, soon enough, begin to let go of the hold it’s had on you. Despite this, you have managed to emerge from a recent struggle of some sort with your identity intact and with a higher degree of motivation than you’ve felt in a long time, but that may work out to be one of the things you have a tendency to forget. Write this in lipstick on your bedroom mirror: Why think when you can feel?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) You may feel it’s time to reactivate an old social network that can be enormously helpful to you at this time in your life. It turns out that the people who took the best care of you in the past have something new to offer, as you aspire to make one of your most important dreams come true. That you’re even willing to consider this is a rather large shift of attitude from your sense, not so long ago, that only the worst possibilities were likely. We may well ask what was keeping you up nights, and if I had to guess it was the sense that you faced obstacles that you did not recognize or could not perceive. Once you know what you face, it’s much easier to deal with it, but this particular phobic phase seemed to focus on the unknown—which is precisely the kind of contradiction you were struggling with.

In any event, it’s time to think about what you’re actually doing and creating, and who can help.

LIBRA (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) If you had to piss somebody off in order to accomplish a particular goal last month, just factor it into the cost of doing business. Anyway, remember, it was your business, and all that you really got in the way of was somebody’s opinion. This was good practice, since you can be pretty sure that you’re going to go against the grain of civilization more than once to accomplish what you need to do this month, with some surprising results. It’s once again time for the tried and true advice that life is not a popularity contest. But what you do have going for you, as ever, is the ability to think in political terms and make sure that you both draw energy from the world, and impact the world, in an evenhanded way. People need you just as much as you need them—but please let them figure that out on their own, so the information is that much more meaningful.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) There is really no accounting for what happened to, with, or for your career last month, but I presume you’re a better person for it, and that you’ve made just the adjustments you need to make. In particular, these adjustments relate to how you use your energy, apply your authority, and coexist with others in authority.

The main point is that power must be shared, though people who have some of the stuff, and who have an agenda, are usually unwilling to do so. What you’ve learned, if nothing else, is that at times, you need to use your will in the face of someone else’s will; that there are instances where negotiation does not get the job done. People need a reason to sit down at the table and talk, and if nothing else, you’ve given them one. Now a civilized discussion can ensue, but the occasional polite rattling of your saber may be appropriate. www.planetwaves.net

Gifts with a Twist 299 WALL STREET KINGSTON, NEW YORK 12401 845-338-8100

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) For the sake of people around you, please avoid getting into tangles or struggles of any kind—and make sure you understand that your passion has an emotional impact that goes deeper than the physical or psychological sensation. This being said, you have the potential for some extraordinary growth experiences in your relationships this month, particularly ones where sex and attachment are a factor. But you may need to violate something inherent in your nature and invest a great deal of consciousness into seeing, feeling, and experiencing the world from the viewpoint of the people close to you, even if their perspectives seem to contradict themselves at times. They will be willing to talk, if you are willing to listen. They will yield their secrets, if only you will give up yours. Someone you love will willingly give you the vulnerability you need, if you will open the door to your heart and receive it kindly.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) You’ve discovered the force more powerful than money, which is credibility. We use the word “credit” in relation to financial matters, often limiting this to a score or rating. But in truly human terms, credibility is the single factor that matters, both to you, and for you. This begins with everyone having their cards face-up, and their agendas on the table. When you have your doubts, ask first. You have seen the power of information, and you need to keep your eye on that factor as Mercury makes its way backward through your relationship angle between July 4 and the end of the month.

For anyone you may be inclined to doubt, or think you may, or who is in a position to cost you grief or money, make sure you start with a good interview or face-to-face talk, and get some notes or other documentation in writing. In other words, start strong, and stay strong.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 19)

You take your life seriously—that is always your saving grace. Yes, you have other talents; but your ability to meet challenges head-on, and to make sure that real discussions happen, is what pulls you through every challenge and helps you make the most of your opportunities. What’s interesting is that the more direct you are, the more you may be noticing you’re changing in every moment. When you find that core of self and relate directly from it, what you encounter is a living creature—not a fixed idea, not a role, not a place in society. This point of reference is too scary for most people to maintain for long, because without all the ego trappings, it’s possible to feel like one does not really exist. But exist you do, in a relationship with the world that changes and develops from moment to moment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) These days of your life call for foresight, maturity, and patience, but more to the point, they summon you to remember your mission on Earth. In times when we must fulfill what seem to be important responsibilities, face “reality,” and work within defined limitations, at those moments, we need to hang in the closest to the very center of existence. Clearly, you are rethinking some of the beliefs by which you live, but some things are not changing. One is your hard-earned awareness that you’re an absolutely unique entity on this Earth. Living this truth is less about exercising a right and more about fulfilling your part in a relationship—with existence, with a person, with what you need to create, and most of all, with your personal truth. The world is under no obligation to admit the veracity of what holds for you. But you may notice many people willing to stand back, allow, encourage, and support you on the road less traveled. www.planetwaves.net 138 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM.COM 7/06

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Richard Hamilton COURTESY ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, LONDON, AND BCB ART, HUDSON

Parting Shot

Richard Hamilton How a great daily organ is turned out: 1987, etching, 30” x 22” British Pop art pioneer Richard Hamilton, best known for his Warholesque Swinging London series of prints, brings together studies he has been making since 1947 for his etching How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out. The inspiration for the piece was Hamilton’s long-running obsession with illustrating James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Hamilton explored How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out through a series of drawings, etchings, and digital images, the pictorial equivalents of the wanderings of Leopold Bloom. The collage includes images such as Leopold Bloom meeting Boylan, the man having an affair with his wife, and envisioning himself as being treated like a coat rack; Molly Bloom looking in a mirror while reflecting on age and her affair; and a picture of a mangy Irish Wolfhound, possibly named Garyowen, owned by an outspoken and cranky man known as “the citizen.”

Like Joyce, Hamilton mined both high and low culture for content. Each put together past and present in order to produce two-way reflections, while deploying an eclecticism of voice and point of view as a way to resist the romantic artist’s investment in personal style.

Hamilton’s work was exhibited at BCB Art in Hudson in June. (518) 828-4539; www.bcbart.com.

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