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Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.

FOUNDERS Jason Stern & Amara Projansky

EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Brian K. Mahoney ART DIRECTOR

Carla Rozman NEWS & POLITICS EDITOR

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view from the top 9 EDITOR’S NOTE Chronogram bids farewell to outgoing art director Carla Rozman. 11 ESTEEMED READER David Appelbaum writes a guest column in Jason Stern’s stead.

news and politics 12 SPIRALING IN AND OUT OF BAGHDAD Lorna Tychostup reports from Iraq. 20 BABY TALK The Linguistics of Embryos. Lynn Harris on “microscopic Americans.”

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24 PRISON PARCHMENT Jay Blotcher attends a college commencement behind bars. 26 RIDING THE WAVES Sharon Nichols hangs with Gattine and Franz from WDST.

backbone 28 LUCID DREAMING Tell Me a Story. Beth E. Wilson on the narrative impulse in art. 30 LIFE IN THE BALANCE Driving the Drive. Susan Piperato investigates biodiesel cars. 32 FRANKLY SPEAKING Cultivating Myself. Frank Crocitto aims for perfection. 34 EAR WHACKS Twisted Brothers. By Sharon Nichols. CD Reviews, Nightlife Highlights. 38 FRAME BY FRAME Inside/Out. Jeff Economy reviews current film releases. 40 PLANET WAVES Introspection. Astrological observations by Eric Francis Coppolino.

60 LOCAL COMPONENTS Mala Hoffman visits Fala Technologies in Kingston.

chef spotlight 62 A LITTLE BIT OFTEN Brian K. Mahoney taps into tapas at 23 Broadway. 64 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

the book shelf 72 MOTHER OF INVENTION Nina Shengold profiles editor Ann Patty. 74 BOOK REVIEWS, SHORT TAKES, OUT & ALOUD

whole living guide 78 HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS: SAVINGS OR SCAM? Jeanne Lenzer investigates. 82 CHRISTIANITY’S LOST GODDESS Elissa Richard explores the sacred feminine. 84 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY Products and services for a positive lifestyle.

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en Bradford did not set out to become an artist. Instead, while as an art history student at St. Andrews’s University in Scotland, she began yearning to create paintings rather than observe them. She returned stateside to earn a BFA in painting at the Maine College of Art in 1994, and moved from Portland, Maine to Beacon last year. Bradford strives to “create a bridge between accident and control, heaviness and lightness,” and her “private narrative” paintings express “ideas about isolation and connection, compulsiveness, the weight of history, the fantasy of a clean slate, and the sense of expectation or foreboding.” Last summer Bradford’s work was shown at Germaine Keller Gallery in Garrison and reviewed by the New York Times. In February she was featured in “Contemporary Drawings” at Brookdale College in Lincroft, NJ. Throughout March, Bradford’s work is featured in “The 21st Century Salon” at Lo River Arts Gallery, Beacon; and “WordWack,” a show of word-pair art, at Maxwell Fine Arts in Peekskill.

Meditation Moment We Have Come a Long Way Since the beginning we have come a long way We have come a long way We have come a long way Since the beginning we have come a long way We have come a long way We have come a long way this meditation from Be Generous by david marell has been excerpted with permission. to order Be Generous, contact red wheel, weiser and conari press at (800) 423-7087.

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Editor’s Note

t’s really gratifying to be the editor of Chronogram. Wherever I go, whenever I discuss this magazine—in speeches, in presentations, during interviews, talking with readers, when writing this introductory note—I get to take all the credit for it, as if Chronogram was my creation solely, springing from my laptop each month like Athena, fully grown, from the head of Zeus. While I give all the Oscar speeches and get to keep all the trophies in a silklined case, Chronogram, as one look at the masthead (p. 6) shows, is the product of a far-flung collaborative effort. It represents the collaborative work of approximately 50 people each month. If I could, I’d bring everyone with me on my media-hound rounds, all 50 of us, and we’d stand armin-arm like the cast of a Broadway musical and take one graceful bow together. This month, I’d like to direct the spotlight to Carla Rozman. Carla started working here in 2000 as a freelance designer, an understudy to our art director at the time, Molly Rubin. Carla took over When Molly left; her first issue as art director was February 2001. Carla was a precocious 24 at the time. Carla is now 28, and this is her last issue as art director. (As intensely creative people eventually do, Carla is leaving us to work on new projects.) Fifty issues as art director is quite a tenure. Fifty covers chosen. A thousand photographs and illustrations assigned. Fifty 100+ page magazines designed. Fifty deadlines met. Fifty bows not taken. Take a bow, Carla. Take 50 bows—you deserve it. Back in 2001, Luminary Publishing, Chronogram’s corporate parent, was a much smaller company; in fact, for all intents and purposes, Luminary Publishing was Chronogram. There were only five employees, and we all worked in two small rooms. There was no production department, just Carla to design and lay out all the ads, as well as the editorial. There were no systems, just Carla. If it had to be designed, Carla designed it. If it had to go in the magazine, Carla put it there. Until just recently, anything we published—Healthy Living, our custom publishing books, all our promotional materials—was designed by Carla. As we grew, we took on more staff and created a fledgling production department. There was no structure, however, and the inconsistencies and wildness of the non-system created large potholes in the workflow. The staff meeting that Carla called to establish an ad trafficking system was an unforgettable experience. Carla walked in with a folder full of notes; two hours later we had created a sane, working system. Given the feral nature of our organization at the time, I can only liken it to herding cats. But Carla’s lasting legacy is the aesthetic of the object you hold in your hands, this shapely mass of wood and ink. What Amara Projansky, co-founder and original creative force behind Chronogram, started, and Molly Rubin furthered, Carla has refined, tweaked, redesigned, emboldened, and made new. For every crazy editorial idea I threw at Carla, she created a supple design solution. Every ridiculously late article that came in over word count, Carla patiently designed. Even I, Chronogram’s closest reader, am still surprised by the startling beauty of the magazine that returns from the printer each month. Carla, you made the magic happen. All our fine words would have fallen flat without you. Thank you for everything you’ve done here, and for everything you’ve been to me: co-creator, sounding board, smiling face, editor, singing partner, cheerleader, rock of reliability, comedian, proofreader, friend. Don’t forget to send back postcards from the wide world. ——Brian K. Mahoney 3/05

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Esteemed Reader Note: This issue’s column is authored by distinguished guest, David Appelbaum.

Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: o begin again. A new season calls, in the lone bird song from the deep woods, in the young green shoots jutting through the garden’s winter kill, in the rush of spring stars that rise at midnight. We have waited, with patience and despair, and now it is finally upon us, externally and in the spirit. The germs of life contained within hard, protective seed pods (dropped by the maples last summer or sown by our own hands in the fall) have begun to stir. Warmth can be felt. The war of light and dark seems to tip in our favor. Soon enough, the leaves and blossoms will burst forth, and plans, conceived in the long night of winter, also. Why is there a subtle tingling of the nerves, a mix of anxiety and hope? What exactly is it that we wait for? I suppose for many of us, a kind of questioning rides with the break-up of the rigid, frozen forms of survival. To take stock, to see what needs to be refilled and what thrown out, is part of it. Winter food does not happily feed spring blood. But there seem to be deeper issues. What does it take to feel really alive again—to shuck the dead, stale taste of routine answers that kept us winterwarm—and where do we come into the act? Sometimes it just happens, a simple gift. A project, cause, or love comes along to shake us out of a drowsy afternoon (thinking of past mistakes) and to take us by the hand, pulling us off dead center, the doldrums of a soul, where we had sat for weeks or months on end. It can come as a subtle event barely noticed out of the corner of an eye like the smile of a stranger across a crowded room. Or it can be a seismic event (8.9 on the Richter scale!) not to be overlooked, and instantly the blood pounds in the chest, the nose takes in fresh fragrances of the earth, and we feel the beauty of this life—this only life. We then drink from the font and are made young once more. It is the impulse to begin again that interests me. There is a literal mind that mixes it up with a wish for the youth of happy days. In a story of a Greek hero, Adonis’ lover, we read how he wished never to die and asked the goddess Artemis for immortality. But because he forgot to consider his body, he grew physically older and more decrepit, living into old age and beyond—a shriveled dote of a man, and finally, a grotesque ball of cells. I wonder how often the impulse to begin anew is blended with a denial of the old, a past that repels and brings despair. The wish is masked by other things. It is really for a clone, the same life but without any offending feature and with a future cosmetically improved. Perhaps it isn’t yet time to quit winter and its ambiguities. In the cold and fear of a stormy night lies the courage to embrace the dark. I suppose it is connected with a buried awareness (partially buried, at least) of rest and of fertility—of the secret of growth. Winter brings in the reign of the White Goddess, as Robert Graves describes her, who is the terrifying life-force, destroyer as well as creator. Her arctic breath, her crushing teeth of ice, and her snowy tresses that whip across our face, drive life to its lowest ebb—make it suspend its metabolic processes. She who must be endured so that real hope can begin: it is she who is behind the seasonal theft of vitality, value, even consciousness as we know it. She is the teacher whose lesson we face. The lesson is about cost. That the cost of beginning again is daunting (because our attachment to life is very strong) is hard to grasp. The homework starts with a look at a kind of hope we feel when nothing at all is promised. Then, stripped naked, we are almost as helpless as an infant. Everything is back in question. There is only the call of new life and that part in us that can listen. That is the lesson of a winter now passing (but is not yet past). It is that about which the poet Grace Paley writes:

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SPIRALING IN & OUT OF BAGHDAD ELECTION DAY Traveling into the heart of democracy proved challenging for Iraqis and journalists alike. While Iraqi citizens risked life and limb to cast their ballots, the media fought its own battles to make sure the world would hear what they were trying to say.

he pilot starts the engines. There are six of us on this small AirServ plane at Amman’s tiny Marka Airport: a brilliant Vietnam vet who now does mine surveys for a non-government organization, a dashing security guard for a Baghdad-based Christian Broadcasting unit, a suited-up and spit-polished election consultant, a scruffy young man whose reasons for being there were never made clear, and a successful Iraqi-American who willingly left his country of birth only to return just as the last bomb was dropped to create the now 5,000-member Iraqi American Chamber of Commerce. As usual, I am the only woman. This is my third attempt to enter Iraq this trip. I canceled my first scheduled flight due to a failure in arranging for a proper driver to pick me up from the airport. Since the road to the airport is considered one of the most dangerous in all of Iraq, it’s important to have this part of the journey planned out carefully. On my second attempt, I arrived at Baghdad International Airport only to be refused an entrance visa. A car bomb had exploded outside the hotel where I planned to stay (when I finally did arrive they were replacing the blown out windows in my room), so I really had no complaints. I’d shed a few tears at my unfounded rejection at BIA—but

AN IRAQI POLICE OFFICER KISSES A CHILD ON ELECTION DAY.

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that was before the car bomb went off. The engines rev high for a while and then shut off. We’re asked to leave the plane and wait on the tarmac. “Last night the plane flew through the worst storm I have flown through in the past 10 years,” the pilot informs us. Water has made its way into the electrical system rendering the altimeter—necessary for the plane make the steep, security-inspired spiral landing into BIA—useless. The flight is canceled. We will try again tomorrow. As we head back to the terminal we notice a line of men, perhaps a dozen or so, streaming past—seemingly exchanging places with us. It is immediately apparent that these are elite contractors, not the usual bunch of scrappylooking worn private security enlistees who shuffle their way through the airports shoelaces untied, tattoos glaring, heads down as if too afraid to look up. No. These are high-caliber security contractors. Natural born killers. One is actually frightening to look at, his face creased and dark, as if he has covered himself in a protective force field and has seen more than any human's fair share of violence. It’s unlike any I’ve ever seen. He walks a few steps behind the others, and in his separation from them I can decipher the feeling that sweeps through me: he

THIS BAGHDADI WOMAN BROUGHT HER CHILDREN TO WATCH HER VOTE. PURPLE-INKED FINGERS WERE RAISED IN SOLIDARITY ALL OVER IRAQ ON ELECTION DAY.

has killed. He will kill again. And he is perhaps more frightened of it than I am. The Christian Broadcasting security guard recognizes one of the men in the line. After a split-second exchange he runs to get his bag from the terminal. Dashing past me, his face full of adventurous glee, he says, “I’ve hitched a ride to Baghdad with these guys.” “Hey, take me with you,” I answer. His expression changes drastically. “No,” he says emphatically. “These are Blackwater guys. You don’t want to go with them. You don’t want to be seen with them.” He runs outside. The glass terminal doors close and lock behind him, so I cannot follow. He boards the bus and I watch it roll away in the direction of our grounded plane. Highly skilled private military contractors are subject to neither US law nor the military code of conduct. It was four Blackwater USA personnel, driving in a white SUV as part of a food delivery convoy, that were brutally killed in Fallujah in March. It has been reported that they have more than 450 personnel in Iraq and have scored millions of dollars’ worth of contracts there, including guarding former Coalition Provisional Authority chief Paul Bremer. They are the top of the food chain. They earn between $500 and $1,000 per day for the privilege of working in Iraq. Demand for their services is increasing worldwide. But I’ll be hot-damned if they are to take they our plane, I thought as I watched their bus go out of sight. Private contractors, especially military contractors, are not allowed to use the AirServ plane. To do so would be a blatant breach of services, and possibly endanger the airline and anyone who might use it in the future. AirServ Airline is funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which has connections to the State Department, and is intended strictly to provide air transport for humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) approved by the State Department. It could have been yet another “blurring of the lines” of humanitarian relief aid efforts across the world—in which

terrorist groups, insurgents, freedom fighters, or whatever you choose to call them cannot tell the difference between NGOs and government aid agencies such as USAID. Feigning a heat attack, I asked the airport security officer to open the locked terminal doors so that my flight companions and I could see if the Blackwater crew are actually hijacking our plane. They weren’t. It turned out they boarded an old cargo plane flat along the top with a big rounded belly hanging underneath—a “flying elephant” as the mine surveyor called it. Told to “come back again tomorrow,” we leave the airport, but not before the AirServ staff has put in a request for the flying elephant to turn back—in order to return the cheerful security guard who had hitched the ride illegally

BAGHDAD AT LAST The next day we’re back—same time, same place. But there are only five of us. The security guard, I found out when I ran into him in Baghdad a few days later, successfully made his way with the Blackwater folks, who had refused the control tower’s request to return to the airport. Our plane takes off and lands without incident. By then I had acquired not one, but two letters of entry from the Iraqi Minister of Immigration and Displacement, Pascal Worda—she agreed to see me in her suite at a hotel in Jordan at midnight and hand-wrote the letters. When I saw the immigration officer at BIA who just a few days earlier had rejected my travel papers, I thanked him for possibly saving my life. He puffed out his chest and repeatedly told this to everyone in the room. I don’t think he will reject me again! Heidar, my newest driver, picked me up at BIA. Very sweet, very quiet, and a careful driver, he appears to know very little English until he has something important to say and then he speaks in full clear sentences. Like after the day we were caught in the crossfire of a firefight between Iraqi soldiers and a car firing at them at a checkpoint. He didn’t say a word the entire time, even when I grabbed his arm and pulled him back 3/05

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AN IRAQI SOLDIER CRAWLS TOWARD A POLLING STATION IN AN ACT OF RESPECT FOR THE ELECTORAL PROCESS. THE ELECTIONS ARE IRAQ’S FIRST MULTI-PARTY BALLOT IN 50 YEARS.

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into the car as the bullets were flying. Later, when we had gotten a good distance from the checkpoint he said, speaking very slowly, deliberately, and with an impish smile on his face, “Now, I think you have really good story to write, yes?” to which we both roared with laughter. Haythem, an Iraqi friend of a few years acts as my interpreter. We three make a great team and with the two of them I feel very safe and calm. To

the most dangerous checkpoint into the Green Zone was something I and hundreds of Iraqi and international media personnel—including the likes of CNN’s Christiane Amanpour—had to do several times. To get inside one has to pass through four sub-checkpoints, i.e. four searches—both bags and body. These searches included what I jokingly referred to as “massages”—the very thorough “pat down” given to all who enter. (The checkpoint pat

Journalists must acquire three separate badges in order to travel freely on the days before, during, and after the election. tell you the turth, Baghdad seemed as normal as ever, however normal Baghdad has become defined as for me. But I’ve arrived fresh and have not lived through the various horrors with the consistency that the Iraqis have. Nor have I built up my awareness yet, as to what is really happening here on a day-to-day basis. The next three days are filled with visits to friends and pre-election preparations. There are numerous visits to the convention center, located on the outskirts of the infamous Green Zone, to apply for the Coalition Press Information Center (CPIC) press credentials needed in order for us to be out and about in the days before the election and on Election Day. And even with those credentials, there’s still some question as to whether we’ll choose to be out, and if we’ll be allowed. Crossing

down is far more like a massage than the simple passing of hands performed at US airports.) We are told journalists must acquire three separate badges in order to travel freely during the daytime on the days before, during, and after the election. The first is required by the Coalition forces to show you are a journalist, the second is required by the new Iraqi government and allows access to polling stations, and the third is a media accreditation card required by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq. Each pass is validated by the one preceding it and each has its own separate requirements. In the end, it will take my team and the massive number of other media personnel—ranging from network giants like NBC to independent journalists like me—three full days at the convention center to obtain all three passes.

Physical full body pushes to the front of the line, heated tempers, long lines, and total confusion all become par for the course. One man simply turned and struck another out of frustration on day two, while the force of others pushing against a huge heavy metal and glass door caused it to become unhinged and come crashing down. It is but a microcosm of the chaos that has been occurring outside of the convention center—known as the Red Zone—for the past two years. With only 70 days to prepare Iraq’s first election in many years, it is nothing short of a miracle that media personnel were able to get credentialed at all.

PRE-ELECTION HUBRIS One of the first people I visited upon my arrival was Judge Zuhair Al-Maliky. During an interview in August, he revealed to me—off the record—that he would be issuing arrest warrants shortly for Achmed Chalabi and a number of men associated with his political party, the Iraq National Congress. Seventeen arrest warrants in all, including one charging Chalabi’s nephew, Salem, with murder. Back then Maliky, formerly Bremer’s interpreter, was the chief investigating judge on Iraq’s highest court. Month’s earlier, Maliky had issued an arrest warrant for Francis Brooke, an American consultant and right hand man to Chalabi, accusing him of interfering with the work of Iraqi police during a raid on Chalabi’s house in relation to allegations that he had leaked intelligence information to Iran. According to Maliky, Brooke, an evangelical Christian who has worked with Chalabi since 1900 and has boasted of engineering the Iraq war by providing evidence of WMDs to the Americans, stopped the raid by telling the police he was an American and they didn’t have legal jurisdiction over him. Maliky’s judicial actions earned him the label of a “rogue, out-of-control judge” pursuing “Saddam Hussein’s style of justice” by Richard Perle, the former chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Advisory Board with close ties to Achmed Chalabi. Other critics, including Chalabi, denounced Maliky as a “puppet of the Americanbacked government.” The label was touted by media beginning in the early months of 2004 every time Maliky’s name was mentioned in an article. Caught in this media-stoked, politically motivated crossfire, Maliky was removed—not long after serving the 17 warrants—and demoted to a regional judgeship. I was interested to hear what he had to say about the upcoming election. A large, attractive man in his 30s, Maliky is the first to admit he is more than a little bit overweight. His stress was apparent. Adding to my already sensory-deprived state brought on by the confines of my hijab—with its multi-layers of material wrapped around my head and covering my ears—he spoke so low at first that I could not decipher a word he said from his perch behind his desk. He then came, sat next to me, and in hushed tones explained that a friend of his, 32-year-old Judge Kais Hashim, had been stopped in his car earlier that morning by a few men in an Opel sedan. According to Maliky, the “assassins” got out of their car and danced around Hashim’s saying, “Death to the Shiite traitors. This is what will happen to them,” before opening fire and shooting Hashim and his six-year-old son to death. It was not the best time to interview him—his statements were colored by high emotions and laced with frustration and anger as he cited budgetary problems and a host of other issues that aided in the untimely death of his friend. But his responses echo the underlying feeling of hopelessness that strikes at many Iraqis, as they exist under this constant threat and everyday reality of violence. “I have 3/05

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AN ELDERLY WOMAN CASTS HER VOTE IN THE HOLY CITY OF NAJAF. AN ESTIMATED 60 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION TURNED OUT TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY, DESPITE THREATS OF VIOLENCE.

told them not to lessen the security because of the budget. This man would still be alive had he the proper security.” Touching on the issues of blatant nepotism within the current governmental structure, Maliky explains that there are five distinct offices in the Ministry of Interior, each headed by a member of a different culture. For example, Turkomen are represented by a deputy at the Ministry of the

for them: armored cars, bodyguards. For judges and people who are working, there is no budget. The people who are working deserve to be protected.” “No one wants to deal with the real problem,” Maliky added. “Corruption. And the insurgency is a scapegoat. All that people want are jobs. And instead you have price tags: $5,000 for a dead American, $3,000 for a dead foreigner, and $1,000 for a dead Shiite.” Indeed, in my travels around Baghdad in the

Judge Zuhair Al-Maliky has been branded a puppet of the American-backed government for indicting Achmed Chalabi. Interior—but according to Maliky, the deputy has no power. The Kurds control the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that oversees police intelligence. The Shiite control the Ministry of Finance; the Sunni, the Ministry of Planning; and Christians control the Ministry of Reconstruction. The structural separations provide no true unified direction with each group putting forth its own agenda. “I doubt even Dr. Alawi is in charge right now. The focus is on security but this is not the only problem. There is no heating fuel, no water, and no electricity. I have to take a cold bath and this is why I have the flu. We are just days from the election and I doubt we will have an election. And if we were to have a real election—a democratic, honest election, none of the people who are on the top would stay there. There is money in the budget

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days before the election, I found many people who were predicting there would be increased violence as each day passed, culminating in large-scale attacks on the day of the election. Among these, many acknowledged the fear of violence might keep them home on election day. Others felt that to vote would be a futile event where corruption would rule the day and nothing would really change for Iraqis. And yet for others, there was absolutely no question that they would vote—despite the threats by insurgents that their “blood would run in the streets,” if they attempted to do so. It was not difficult to find these sentiments being expressed or argued by and between people wherever I went. Wanting to stock up on supplies I drove with my team over to the neighborhood of Karada. Friends at the Kesh Mesha juice bar stuffed me with

pomegranates and oranges while Heidar parked the car and Haythem went to get us some falafel. When the falafel arrived, we sat down to eat while the Kesh Mesha men squeezed oranges and lemons into three one liter bottles for me to take back “home.” Talk of the upcoming election dominated the conversation. All three Kesh Mesha men said they would not vote, much to the horror of my teammates. “Without knowing who the candidates are or what the candidates stand for, the election is a sham and will only serve those already in power,” the Kesh Mesha owner said as his employees nodded their heads in agreement. Haythem, new at interpreting, soon involved himself in his own heated conversation with two of the men, at first forgetting to share with me what they were saying. His view differed from theirs and he passionately explained to the men the various reasons he felt all Iraqis should and must vote. His election-day plan was to be the first in line at his polling station. But the men would not be swayed and talked about the lack of security. “What value will this vote have? How can we vote when they will try to kill us?”

ELECTION DAY What at first seemed to be a journalist’s nightmare turned out to be, a singular media opportunity for the Iraqi people to show the world just how they felt about the elections. After all the hours and days spent getting the proper credentials, we all woke up the morning of the election to find out that no one American, international, big media, or small—the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Britain’s Independent, Time, the New York Times, a cornucopia of TV and radio outlets, no media outlets that I know of, including myself—would be able to drive the streets of whatever region they had requested to cover at the time of application to CPIC, because they didn’t have a sticker for their cars that allowed them to be on the closed-to-all-traffic roads. The reason? Everyone had been told during the application process in the convention center that the sticker would not be needed. So no one had one. The result was the media had to walk the streets if they wanted to find out what was happening in Iraq that day. Most media outlets are ensconced behind 16-foot-cement blast walls, hiding under the guarded eye of dozens of security contractors and only venturing out to “mingle” with Iraqis in armored vehicles. In most cases this involves two at a time—one carrying the journalist and his or her driver and/or interpreter and another full of bodyguards. To walk the streets and actaully have close contact with Iraqis was nothing short of a miracle. Their fear filter—the one through which they transmit the news of what is happening in Iraq to you, the recipient of the news, was removed, albeit for only this one day. And what a spectacular day it was. After much rain and cold damp weather the clouds disappeared, revealing a clear blue sky and temperatures resonating with the promises of spring. The Iraqi Police and National Guard were in charge of the security that day, with Coalition forces taking a back seat—but ready and waiting to give support if called upon. This was the day the Iraqi people came together, security forces and civilians alike, to show the world, and more importantly, those who have been bringing violence and the threat of bloodshed for participation in anything foreign or “Western,” that they would not be deterred from voicing their opinions, no matter what the threats. It was also the day that Iraqis showed the world that, with a proper security force in place, violence could be deterred. The change was palpable in Baghdad, where people regularly fill the streets as they go about the tasks of life—shopping, school, work, eating in restaurants, dealing with the new bureaucracy—under a very thick blanket of fear. There is laughter, joking, and light moments,

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but to walk in the street unafraid and look into another’s eyes and genuinely smile at a stranger— this is a rarity. Yet in the three days leading up to the elections, even an untrained eye could see a difference. The Iraqi soldiers, normally standing at checkpoints in a seemingly relaxed stance, could suddenly be seen completely alert—standing at attention, chests

of killing Saddam because he would find out and come to kill me first.” Election day was nothing short of inspiring. As one friend, a former interpreter, said, calling from his Christian community late in the day, “I would not believe that these are my people, that this is my country. I woke up in the morning prepared to vote but there were mortars exploding so I decided

On Election day, the Iraqi people came together to show those bringing the violence and the threat of bloodshed that they would not be deterred from voicing their opinions, no matter what the threats. swelling beneath their at-the-ready Kalashnikovs. The Iraqi Police also stepped up. It seemed as if each one had polished off their black leather jackets, dusted off their hats, spit-shined their buttons. The feeling was of being in control of their own welfare, of accepting and welcoming the burden of responsibility to keep their fellow citizens safe and create a strong atmosphere of security not seen since before the days of Saddam. Yes, not since before Saddam Hussein took control. Life under Saddam was never secure. Not for the people of Iraq, not for his family, not for anyone he took a dislike to, no matter what some people say. More than one Iraqi has told me they were afraid “even when I am sleeping to dream

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to try in the afternoon. But I looked out my window and hundreds of people were in the street walking, despite the mortars! I cannot believe my eyes. Even now I cannot trust that this is what I saw.” According to Haythem, hundreds had lined up long before his polling station opened, just one of 1,200 in Baghdad alone. Gunfire broke out at one point and “no one left,” he marveled. One elderly woman who couldn’t walk on her own was carried into the polling station by two young men. “I will not die before I vote,” she told the poll workers. At one of the polling stations I visited, without my teammates as they had decided to stay in their communities and vote, I asked a female poll worker what if the people who got elected were not good. She

AN IRAQI WOMAN CRIES TEARS OF JOY AFTER CASTING HER VOTE OUTSIDE A POLLING STATION IN THE HOLY CITY OF NAJAF. SHE HOLDS HER VOTER REGISRATION CARD IN HER HAND.

laughed and defiantly said, “In four years we vote again and they will be gone! I am not worried.” A man who lived down the street from the polling place stood outside his home with an Iraqi policeman, holding his son in his arms. “We have never met until today,” he said, pointing to the policeman. “But we stand here today as Iraqis.” He pointed across the street to a neighbor’s house—a Sunni—and told how in this neighborhood, as in many communities in Iraq, Sunni and Shiite live peacefully side by side. Holding up his purpletipped finger in the ET-like, pride-filled greeting between all those who participated in the fledgling democracy. He said, “It is for my son that I have voted. So that he will have a good future.” Others lined up to tell me tales of disappeared relatives. One man, who has nurtured for many years a backyard greenhouse filled with tulips, spoke of his eight relatives who had “disappeared” over a period of years when Saddam was still in power. His eyes were etched with a permanent sadness and ringed with tears; his face was visibly weary as he told of recently getting a call notifying him of the discovery of a mass grave and requesting he come and attempt to identify three of the bodies. As he was speaking, he held his purple finger up to a passing woman’s purple finger, a neighbor who had just come from voting and had brought her children along with her—her eyes had the same exhausted, older look to them. “Today is the birthday of the new Iraq,” he said. “Today the people have hope.” The unification of the Iraqis—the poll workers, the police, the National Guard, many of whom are in their 20s, and the voters—all coming together in a show of defiance and strength to those that would try

to impose their violence-driven rule over them, was a sight to see. In the face of threats and violence and potential loss of life they came out in droves to vote. Those who participated were standing a bit taller, looking relieved and smiling with unabashed joy. All told, estimates of up to 60 percent voter turnout have been widely reported. Those who report positive stories are often criticized, for failing to tell the sordid tales. It is not that there isn’t any horror and death occurring under this occupation. The violence comes from many sides and there is plenty of it. But you see these images every day and night, strewn across your consciousness with the singular purpose of enticing you, attracting your attention to the different agenda being put forth. In the case of the Iraqi election, it was inescapable for any journalist who left their cocoon of saftey from behind 16foot-high blast walls that day to actually walk the streets that day to feel and see the jubilation and unleashed spirit of the Iraqi people who dared go out to vote. The product of this was overall positive coverage of the Iraqi election day in the Western press—which of course was attacked by critics. Let the doomsayers ply their trade. Whatever tomorrow brings, for one day—Election Day—the people of Iraq got some respite. And they also got a jolt of something that will feed them for a great while inspire them to work towards more of the same. For one day they took back their power. Now it is your turn. You have to decide what is more important—your agenda to love or hate your government and its actions; or the plight of the Iraqis, and their desires for their future.

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BABY TALK THE LINGUISTICS OF EMBRYOS Is an embryo a clump of cells or a “microscopic American?” The US government says embryos aren’t “donated” to infertile couples—they’re “adopted.” How language has become a frontline in the abortion wars.

ast year, for the second time, the US Department of Health and Human Services gave away nearly $1 million in grants to promote awareness of embryo donation, a fertility procedure wherein a couple’s embryo is implanted in a woman’s womb and, assuming the pregnancy takes, is raised as her child. Such embryos are normally donated by couples whose in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure (in which the egg and the sperm are combined outside the body and then implanted) has yielded more embryos than they intend to make use of. Rather than keeping the embryos frozen indefinitely, offering them to fertility researchers, or disposing of them, the donor couple—either anonymously or openly—makes them available to a woman who can give them a good home, before and after birth. The appeal of impregnation with a donor embryo includes the relatively low cost—thousands of dollars as opposed to tens of thousands of dollars with a donor egg—along with the experience of pregnancy. “I can’t afford to use eggs,” says Kim Bell, 40, of Howard Beach, NY, who is currently searching online message boards for an embryo donor. Embryo donation, she says, “would give me a chance to nurture the baby from the very start.” Embryo donation has been medically available, though not widely used, since the 1980s. A 2003 Harris poll commissioned by RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, and funded in part by a 2002 HHS grant, found that 75 percent of people diagnosed with infertility who had considered treatment believed that they did not have enough information about embryo donation to make an informed decision about whether to try it. IVF clinics currently offer a patchwork of embryo-donation information and services, and the number of wait-listed recipients far exceeds donor-embryo supply. Hence the effort to “promote awareness.” Now, however, this personal reproductive decision is also becoming—with the switch of just one word—political. HHS, along with some of the organizations it supports with funding, explicitly calls the process embryo “adoption.” “There’s no such thing as embryo ‘adoption,’” says Sean Tipton, spokesperson for

the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. “You adopt a child. Embryo donation is a donation of medical tissue, like sperm or an egg. The groups that advocate ‘adoption’ have a vastly different and rather transparent political agenda. [They] have a very high political stake in establishing that a fertilized egg is a human being with legal rights and moral standing.” Most people who believe that embryos can be adopted, even symbolically, believe that embryos are children, or even, in the words of one conservative columnist writing in favor of embryo adoption, “microscopic Americans.” And, the logic follows, if embryos are mini-children, they shouldn’t be mined for stem cells—which they can’t be anyway, given the limits President Bush imposed in 2001—or lost to abortion. “The attempt to change the vocabulary around embryos is part of a larger strategy to elevate the fetus to ‘personhood’ under the 14th Amendment—and an effort to overturn Roe,” says Suzanne Martinez, Vice President for Public Policy at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The imposition of the term “embryo adoption,” she says, goes hand in hand with other ongoing efforts to confer personhood on embryos and fetuses: laws that make it a separate criminal offense to harm a fetus, for example, or government insurance plans that cover “an individual in the period between conception and birth up to age 19.” What do those have to do specifically with Roe v. Wade? Though the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion turns largely on the right to privacy, it also notes—in an aside that has become anything but—if fetuses were people, they would be entitled to protection under the 14th Amendment, and abortion would still be illegal. The Center for Women Policy Studies has stated that “legislative efforts to establish fetal patienthood, victimhood and, therefore, personhood represent the primary threat to Roe v. Wade.” As far as current law is concerned, the word “adoption” in the context of embryos is purely symbolic. “Embryo ‘adoption’ is a misnomer from a legal perspective,” says Susan Crockin, a Boston-area attorney who frequently writes about reproductive technology law. “In every state, adoption is a very specific, statutorily mandated set of procedures

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THE TERMINOLOGY OF “EMBRYO ADOPTION” GOES HAND IN HAND WITH EFFORTS TO CONFER PERSONHOOD ON FETUSES, ACCORDING TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

applicable to born children, birth parents, and adoptive parents, and that model does not fit embryo donation.” Currently, only eight states have enacted statutes that govern parental rights in embryo-donation arrangements: All but one use the term “donation” and state that an embryo donor is not a parent. Only Louisiana identifies embryos as “juridical persons” that are subject to “adoption.” (Specifically, if fertility patients in that state terminate their rights to an embryo, the embryo cannot be destroyed or otherwise donated; it must be made available for “adoptive implantation”—but only to married couples.) Still, while Martinez and other abortion rights activists don’t think the word “adoption” is going to sink Roe, they point out that the increasingly widespread use of the word—as well as the implicit recognition of it by the federal government—is a poisonous rhetorical arrow in the quiver of the anti-abortion (and anti-stem cell research) forces. “The more people talk about it as ‘adoption’ rather than ‘donation,’ the more we as a culture start changing,” says Martinez. “This is part of a concerted strategy. One day we’re going to wake up and they’re going to ask the court to say that society has recognized that a fetus is a person.” Recipients of HHS public-awareness grants do include RESOLVE, which uses the term “donation” and supports embryonic stem cell research (it received $236,000 in 2002 and $120,000 in 2004), along with the American Fertility Association, whose president, Pamela Madsen, opposes both the term “adoption” and the conflation of infertility treatment and abortion politics. (The AFA received $197,000 in 2003.) Another 2002 recipient (of $223,000) was the Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, RI, the primary teaching affiliate for Brown University Medical School in obstetrics, gynecology, and newborn pediatrics. But at least five other organizations the HHS grants support are doing their part to contribute to what Bush calls a “culture of life.” The Christian Medical and Dental Associations, the nation’s largest faith-based

organization for doctors—which opposes abortion and stem cell research and supports the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act—is sharing $304,000 with the Baptist Health System Foundation, Bethany Christian Services and the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), which is housed at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Baptist Hospital for Women and which offers medical, legal, and psychological services for embryo donors and recipients. (The salary of the NEDC’s spokesperson, who travels around educating infertility clinics about the center’s services, is paid by HHS.) In that regard, they’re doing much the same work as RESOLVE—and they share the goal of tapping into the estimated 400,000 frozen embryos currently stored in the US—but they’re coming from a different place. “If you believe that an embryo is human life, you think there ought to be something better to do with that human life than to discard it,” says Dr. Jeffrey Keenan, director of the NEDC. After about a year in operation, the center has approximately 200 couples wait-listed for embryos and about 80 sets of embryos available; they’ve performed eight embryo transfers, resulting in two pregnancies, and have just completed seven or eight additional transfers. Keenan acknowledges that his views, and the Christian overtones of many embryo “adoption” endeavors, are “part of the pro-life spectrum.” Nightlight Christian Adoptions, home of the eight-year-old Snowflakes embryo adoption program, received $506,000 in 2002 (roughly half that year’s grant) and $329,000 in 2004. Snowflakes functions not merely as a donor-recipient matching service but also, in many ways, as a traditional adoption agency, requiring prospective adopting families—who are selected by the genetic parents—to undergo screenings and complete classes on the raising of adopted children. Since 1997, they have matched 207 genetic families with 136 adopting families, with a live-birth success rate of 35 percent. “Nightlight Christian Adoptions does take the position that the embryo is an unborn child, and we have 85-plus children here and on the way that unequivocally prove that,” says Lori Maze, director of the Snowflakes program. “We also believe that children are adopted and not donated, but we don’t use the term ‘adoption’ to further any political 3/05

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or legal agenda. When we use the term ‘adoption,’ as opposed to ‘donation,’ we are using it from a social service perspective, focusing on the child who results from the adoption of those embryos. Any resistance to embryos being adopted is simply a matter of some portions of society being overly sensitive to anything that they perceive might give greater value or importance to the human embryo.” Likewise, Nightlight’s executive director Ron Stoddart said in a 2004 press conference that the use of the word “adoption” is a means of recognizing the emotional effect of the arrangement on the child. “We don’t talk about children being born from an embryo transfer as being ‘donated,’ we talk about them being ‘adopted.’ By creating a positive emotional framework for embryo transfers from one family to another, we respect the contribution of the genetic family and, most importantly, reinforce the identity of the adopted child.” Snowflakes, however, has not sat on the political sidelines. That press conference—held in the Capitol last September with seven Republican senators present, including Rick Santorum, (R-PA)—was sponsored by Snowflakes to voice its opposition to H.R. 4682, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2004, which would revoke the Bush policy limiting federal funding to embryonic stem cell lines created prior to August 2001. Critics of embryo adoption claim that proponents of the term tend to exaggerate the number of actual available, viable embryos—along with the notion that they’re trapped somewhere in a “frozen orphanage” waiting to be rescued. According to a May 2003 study conducted by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology with the Rand Corporation and published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, of the estimated 400,000 embryos cryogenically preserved in the US, about 88 percent still belong to the families who created them; only 2 percent were earmarked for donation to others. What’s more, their quality deteriorates over time, and many do not survive the thawing process. Might some of those who own the 88 percent be persuaded to offer them for donation when they feel their families are complete? Maybe, but it’s a hard sell. In other words, organizations promoting embryo donation—no matter what they call it—have their work cut out for them. Far removed from the rhetorical skirmishes and political banner waving, actual couples face the nuances and complexities of infertility and the agonizing decisions they must make.

A study by Dr. Susan Klock, of Northwestern University’s Feinberg Medical School, found that 20 to 30 percent of couples who freeze embryos after IVF say that when the time comes to decide what to do with them, they’ll donate—but three years later, two-thirds of them change their minds. Attorney Crockin says that of the dozens of people who come to her every year for legal help with donating their embryos to another couple, one-half to three-quarters wind up backing out after they receive counseling. And she hears similar numbers from her colleagues nationwide. “We can’t get five percent of our patients to even think about it,” says registered nurse Mary Fusillo, the third-party coordinator at Houston’s Center for Reproductive Medicine, a member of RESOLVE’s board of directors, and herself an initially reluctant embryo donor. Fusillo also says that among her peers with frozen embryos in storage—which can cost several hundred dollars a year in storage fees—offering them up for stem cell research would be Plan A. Not comfortable with either donation or destruction, they see no other Plan B but to keep them around. “I’m not doing anything with them until I’m 50,” she once heard a woman say. “I can’t bear the thought of giving them to someone else, or destroying them, so I’m going to leave them in the freezer.” What makes donation so cha-llenging? For many people, it’s just difficult to think about somebody else’s body—or home—housing your baby. Those who work with families considering embryo donation say that at first, especially when they identify with another couple’s infertility struggles, it sounds like an amazing, generous, satisfying thing to do. But once they have children, or when they don’t, it becomes hard to stomach the notion of someone else having a child who’s a genetic sibling to theirs, or someone else having the child they couldn’t. Efforts at raising embryo donation “awareness” may be increasing, and some may be effective— alarmingly so—in shifting public consciousness, even subliminally, toward a view of the embryo as an adoptable human. But persuading women to donate their embryos is another story. Politics and religion aside, many women already do view an embryo as potential life—life that they created. Which is precisely why they won’t give it away. Lynn Harris is the author of the satirical novel Miss Media and co-creator of BreakupGirl.net. This article was originally published at Salon.com. 3/05

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When the solemn strains of Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” begin, even the proudest parent can be forgiven a sigh of mild irritation. The melody usually heralds another graduation day, tricked out in metaphor-laden speeches and the fusty rituals marking this rite of passage. But on this sunny winter morning in January, a group of 200 well-dressed people chatters excitedly as a brass quartet performs Elgar. The doors in the back of this drab, aging auditorium open, and 11 men, clad in mortarboard and gown, enter the hall. Camera bulbs flash and the applause swells as they walk in single file down the sloping aisles. The ritual, by all appearances, is standard-issue. But the graduates are not. This is Eastern Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility in Napanoch which is the setting for the first commencement of the Bard Prison Initiative. BPI was founded in 1999 by Bard student Max Kenner, who belonged to a college club determined to bring creative writing workshops to local prisons. Kenner stayed on after graduation to expand the mission to provide a college education and degree program for inmates. For months, Kenner telephoned every correctional facility in the Hudson Valley, asking wardens if they would allow Bard professors to come and teach their prisoners a curriculum which included civil rights, anthropology, civics, sociology, and expository writing. One by one, they declined. “It wasn’t easy getting in,” Kenner, now 26, said. Only two institutions were willing to consider Kenner’s gambit. One was Eastern, where Superintendent David Miller and Sheryl Butler, Deputy Superintendent of Programs, “were willing to believe” according to Kenner. Private donors to Bard agreed to finance the initiative, which began in the fall of 2001, offering graduates an associate of arts, equivalent to a two-year college degree. The second BPI host is Woodbourne, a medium security prison in Sullivan County. BPI joins two other private programs currently operating at Bedford Hills and Sing Sing. A few others are scattered across the country. But three decades ago, the scene was vastly different. Beginning in the mid-1970s, scores of American prisons offered federally-funded college-equivalency courses. (Here in New York, Governor Hugh Carey had proposed such a program in 1972.) Prison programs were an effective use of taxpayer money; several studies confirmed they significantly reduced recidivism among released inmates. “Higher education was a component of criminal justice for almost a generation,” Kenner said. But in 1995, President Clinton’s crime bill ushered in a new era, making prisoners ineligible for the Pell grants which

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facilitated such programs. Congress approved the bill and prison programs were shuttered overnight. The reason was not only budgetary, said John Gordon, Senior Director of Education for the Fortune Society, an acclaimed post-prison program based in New York City. “There was a punitive notion to it.” Starting with President Nixon’s drug wars, the country shifted from rehabilitating criminals to demonizing them. The closing of prison education programs was the nadir of America’s “tough on crime” stance, Kenner said. Any beneficial programs were seen as coddling. Being tough on crime morphed into being tough on inmates, a sensibility which found favor with lawmakers. “No politician ever hurt his chances of re-election by taking away something from someone who was incarcerated,” Kenner said. Since 1995, only a handful of modest prison education programs have been developed, relying on private funding. The first in the country was at Bedford Hills in Westchester, notable since it is a maximum security prison for women. Kenner suggested that its proximity to affluent suburbs has guaranteed its ongoing financial viability. Another successful model program operates at California’s San Quentin.

the auditorium. When a worker accidentally drops a garbage pail, the unspoken tension becomes obvious: the noise jolts a few people from their seats.

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BPI’s first graduating class makes a ritualistic procession around the room. The graduates accurately reflect the racial make-up of American prisoners: nine of the eleven are men of color. Suddenly, deep-throated whoops of support echo from the back of the auditorium. The well-wishers are a group of 60 fellow inmates, seated apart from the others and each wearing forest-green prison workpants. Their faces bear witness to their difficult lives: some hardened, some feral, some utterly blank. They offer a stark contrast to the composed and thoughtful faces of the graduates. Since college classes don’t fall within the cellblock code of macho ethics, are BPI students a target for derision by fellow prisoners? Kenner dismissed the notion. “This program has created more of a community among students in the yard, in the block, in the mess hall. The same group of guys are moving around together.” Several BPI students had already distinguished themselves as leaders among fellow prisoners, heading ethnic or religious groups. They now serve as mentors, sharing the lessons gleaned from classes. There is only one conflict PBI students face, said Justice Walston of Brooklyn, one of today’s graduates. “These guys take heat from people who wanted to be sitting where they are sitting.” Walston’s deep bass lends further gravitas to . . . C O N T I N U E D

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Franz Kaisik is not a morning person.

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Yet weekdays he’s up long before the crack of dawn. “Four-forty-nine, to be exact,” he says. What’s with the odd number? “I’ve got it timed down to the minute as to how long it takes me to get out of the house.” Kaisik’s sidekick, Greg Gattine, isn’t a fan of getting up either. “It sucks just as much at 8am as it does at 4:30am.” But they rise early because they have to, for these two gentlemen are the co-hosts of “The Morning Show,” aka “Gattine & Franz,” which airs Monday through Friday, from 6 to 10am on Radio Woodstock, WDST. If you are a morning person, by force or otherwise, you may be familiar with their banter, reports, giveaways, and special guests. Aside from the miserable hours, they really love what they do. “Getting paid to play records on the radio?” blurts Gattine. “What could be easier than that? I’m very grateful to get away with what I do. And I love getting calls from listeners telling me that a song I played made their day.” “I really dig the show business aspect of the whole thing,” adds Kaisik. “The performance. If you do a good riff, as they say, you know it. That’s still a thrill.” Though they make their jobs sound cushy, watching them in action negates the notion. I visited the studio recently and sat bug-eyed as I observed them squeezing in task after task as they raced the clock. Gattine quickly took call after call during a commercial break, giving away tickets to a Grateful Dead movie. After finding his winner, he continued clicking on phone lines at high speed, thanking all the losers. Meanwhile, Kaisik was online, rapidly scanning CNN and other Web sites, looking for up-to-the-minute headlines. Oops! Suddenly, they’re back onair, riding the waves. It was bam, bam, bam, from one minute to the next. One might think they’d be a little nervous with the breakneck workload, but both say they’re not. “It took me a while to get over it—seven or eight years,” admits Kaisik. “Unless there’s a massive breaking news story. Then I still get nervous.” Gattine doesn’t know if his feeling relaxed is a good or bad thing. Regardless, they pull it off flawlessly. Part of the reason they perform with such ease is the many years they’ve put into the field. When Gattine was a senior in high school, he decided to try radio after hearing a commercial for the Connecticut School of Broadcasting. With no formal education (“You think radio people are educated? Have you listened lately?”), he landed his first radio gig in 1981, doing overnights at WJJB in Hyde Park, an automated Top 40 FM station. His task was changing reel-to-reel tapes when they ran out. He worked at WBNR/WSPK through the 1980s, and at WPDH from 1989 through 2000. Thinking he was finished with radio, Gattine landed his position as program director at WDST the same year, and took on his current duties, overseeing

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Both Gattine and Kaisik have had unique experiences in radio that go beyond the normal grind. Kaisik relates a story from his broadcast at Woodstock ’94: “My parents’ house is within walking distance of Winston Farm, so every night I’d hike through the woods to shower and sleep, then hike back through the woods at 4am. The first morning there suddenly appeared a massive 10-foot fence around the perimeter of the farm. It was pitch black. So, I had to scale this thing at 4:30 in the morning with my backpack and everything on me. It was a proud moment.” He also mentions the Bill Clinton/Boris Yeltsin summit at Hyde Park among his favorite career moments. “I got within a few feet of those guys, it was pretty nifty.” A great morning show moment involved having David Johansen in the studio with Joe Piscopo on the phone as they reminisced over the good old days on “Saturday Night Live.” “They took over the whole show!”

all on-air aspects from music to promotions to contests, and everything else in between. His life is made easier by a staff that includes music director Jimmy Buff, promotions director Noel Nelson, and production director Rick Schneider.

Kaisik, however, did have a formal education. He majored in communications at SUNY New Paltz. “Of all the careers I was contemplating, it seemed to be the least boring,” he says. “Monotony is a big fear of mine.” After graduating, he saw a job opening for a part-time news reporter at Kingston’s WKNY, WDST’s sister station, where he began co-hosting a morning show with Nic Harcourt in 1991. When WDST bought the station in 1995, Kaisik moved on over. Basically, he’s been with the same family since the beginning. “It’s like the mafia,” he says. “I can’t leave the place.” As news director at WDST, he’s in charge of world, national, state, and local news, and sports and entertainment stories; he’s also the coordinator of on-air PSAs (public service announcements) and the community calendar program, which runs on weekends. Much of the information he unearths comes from online research. “I’m trying to remember what I did before the days of the Internet, and I can’t even recall what the heck I did here. I just remember a lot of pain.” Monotony doesn’t have to be a fear for Gattine either, as he has his finger on the pulse of the music world. “I come to work every day under the assumption that the greatest rock and roll song hasn’t been played on the air yet, and maybe today I’m going to get it in the mail.”

GREG GATTINE

FRANZ KAISIK

Gattine had a weird

experience the very day of our interview. “This morning wildlife educator Rusty Johnson brought in an alligator and a peregrine falcon. I hit the floor when he took the bird out.” He also concedes that he has to keep an open mind with famous guests, as he can never tell who will be easy or tough. “The first time I interviewed the Counting Crows, they had just released their first CD. I thought they’d be fun, because they were coming to a happy hour gig I was broadcasting. They were all just jerks. I interviewed Sting during the last tour, . . . C O N T I N U E D

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Lucid Dreaming BY BETH E. WILSON

Tell Me a Story his aesthetic [Romanticism] encouraged that particular widespread form of artistic dishonesty which consists in the attempt to escape from the problems of the medium of one art by taking refuge in the effects of another. —Clement Greenberg, Toward a Newer Laocoon, 1940 The main crime of academic painting in the 19th century, according to critic Clement Greenberg, was that it fundamentally confused the means and aims of its medium with literature. All those skillfully crafted illusionistic paintings were largely bent on “disappearing” themselves as paint-on-canvas, redirecting the viewer to understand the story being told, whether it was a tale from mythology or a sweetly Victorian moral fable. He may have had a point there, but there is something very fundamental about the storytelling impulse, and it doesn’t necessarily proscribe visual expression. (Art History I students almost universally want to understand cave paintings as narratives about the hunt, and they may not be totally off-base in thinking so.) During the 20th century, the royal road to pure Form was paved by the accomplishments of primarily abstract artists, from Kandinsky, Kupka, and Mondrian to Pollock, Rothko, and Newman. Greenberg was one of the biggest cheerleaders for this development, championing Pollock’s classic drip paintings from the late ’40s as one of the most accomplished expressions of “advanced art,” as he called it, largely because there was no subject matter to get between the viewer and a direct confrontation with the autonomous medium. Perhaps at the time, such a Puritanical insistence on eradicating representation may have made sense, as a corrective to some of the excesses of the 19th century. But as the concept took hold and came to dominate much of the central aesthetic discussion in movements such as Minimalism, Land Art, and others, it seems that the locus of the storytelling was really only shifted to the “meta” level. The work itself was expected to present a sort of aesthetic pantomime, refusing to talk about itself too much, leaving the narrative task instead to surrogates like the critics and curators who wrote about it, or to be presented in the now standard-issue “artist’s statement.” In the contemporary art scene, this meta-narrative has

JOSEPHINE

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BLOODGOOD

OIL

metastasized. I subscribe to an e-mail art

admitted to me. A number of the works are

news list called e-flux, which consists largely

charged with some sort of implicit narrative,

of exhibition announcements, advertising

he said, without necessarily giving the

for contemporary art publications, and

whole thing away.

the like. (The posts can be seen at www.eflux.com without subscribing.) Over the past two or three years, I’ve noticed a set

number of the works accomplish this

of peculiar similarities in many of these

by inferring a human or animal presence

notices, namely the pairing of a particularly

through various means. Dan Feldman’s 40

vacuous photographic image—an empty

Nights, #2 presents us with a real, twin-size

street, some non-descript interior with part

mattress, painted with the delicate, limp form

of a figure, or something that looks like an

of an empty woman’s nightgown. The reality

out-of-context frame from a home movie—

of the bed meshes impressively with the

with a text that tries to fill in the gaps like a

image to capture something of the texture

savant with a thesaurus. To wit (the artists’

of bittersweet memory, as though someone

names have been omitted to protect the

once beloved is no longer present. Marian I.

potentially innocent):

Schoetle’s untitled installation is a garment rack hung with four pieces of empty,

In the context of art, the works of the artists

diaphanous white clothing that converts

engage critically in different ways with the

the implied human form into a hauntingly

social and aesthetic function of film and

sculptural presence. In a more formalist

television. Both the repertoire of images and

vein, Armand Rusillon’s Fly’s Tongue looks

narratives of the classical cinematographic

at first like an Abstract Expressionist splash

medium and the communicative function

of black paint across blank canvas; the title

are

converts the image, like a Rorshach test,

investigated. The medium film serves the

the

mass

medium

into a close study of entomological form,

artists as a matrix for their critical analytical

wittily reversing Greenberg’s proscription

investigations.

of representation.

References

television

emerge

contexts the history of media as well

Other works embrace a more literary

as to phenomena of representation in

approach. The painting I’m in a Tree… by

contemporary everyday life.

Tona Wilson (no relation) captures the stylized world of a dark children’s storybook,

Talk about the return of the repressed! I

while one of the more surprising entries,

think it’s an exhibition about how we watch

Laura Wilensky’s Past and Present Teapot,

television, or something. On the whole, I

deploys

think I’d rather stay home where I control

sensibility as she converts a normally

the clicker.

utilitarian object into an excuse for spinning

Coming off a steady diet of this sort of

Alice-in-Wonderland

an elaborate tale.

thing “in the context of art,” it’s refreshing

As should be apparent from even this

to come upon the annual juried exhibition

small selection, the exhibition features

at the Muroff-Kotler Gallery at UCCC that

works

opens on March 11. The exhibit’s curators

media—from painting to sculpture to digital

specifically solicited artists from the mid-

photography to collage to ceramics to

Hudson region to submit entries that

installation (it’s hard to think of a medium

openly embrace “The Narrative Impulse”

that’s been overlooked)—and they all share,

without having to apologize for it or over-

at some point, this embrace of narrative,

intellectualize it.

all in some way in direct contrast to the

The storytelling drive must be alive and well, because over 150 artists responded

from

enormous

range

centralized, absolutist proclamations of Greenberg’s 20th-century proclamations.

to the call. Sifting through this formidable

It’s reassuring to see artists “vote with

stack, juror (and Beacon gallerist) Carl van

their feet” in this way, and to see talented

Brunt selected work by 42 artists for the

work of “depth and sincerity,” as Carl van

show. “They’re all good at narrative, but

Brunt put it, finding a way to connect with its

I haven’t quite decrypted them all,” he

audience on such an utterly human basis.

OPEN ENDS: THE NARRATIVE IMPULSE

A JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION,

OPENS MARCH 11 THROUGH APRIL 15 AT THE MUROFF-KOTLER GALLERY, ULSTER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, STONE RIDGE. (THE GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED MARCH 21–25 FOR SPRING BREAK.) FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL (845) 687-5113.

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Life in the Balance BY SUSAN PIPERATO

Driving the Drive wo years ago Eddie Walsh bought an ’81 Volkswagen Rabbit with a diesel engine, added a second fuel tank and fuel line, began visiting local restaurants with a hose and a plastic drum to collect discarded vegetable oil to take home to filter for use as alternative fuel—and changed his life. Roy Gumpel

Deciding to convert to biodiesel was easy for Walsh, a former student of Design for Sustainability in the 1990s at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. More biodegradable than sugar and less toxic than table salt, biodiesel is produced from domestic feed stocks—basically any crop that can be grown to make oil, like soybeans or sunflowers, can be used to make biodiesel. (Yes, you can drink it.) If used on a wide scale, biodiesel would greatly reduce the need for foreign oil, while boosting the economy and supporting American agriculture. Biodiesel cuts greenhouse gases by reducing net CO2 emissions by 78 percent, in comparison with petroleum diesel. In an engine, it can be mixed with petroleum diesel or used on its own to produce a cleanerburning fuel that helps maintain the life of a vehicle. Biodiesel can also be blended with No. 2 oil for home heating without requiring retrofitting. Last but not least, biodiesel has health benefits, since it lacks the carcinogenic emissions of petroleum diesel—hence, the current federal program to switch to biodiesel-run school bus fleets. And, contrary to popular belief, biodiesel doesn’t smell like French fries, says Walsh. “It smells faintly sweet, like whatever kind of oil you use. If you use oil that cooked Chinese food, it’ll smell like Chinese food. Whatever it smells like, it smells better than petroleum diesel.” Walsh admits that when he started out as a biodiesel convert, he was something of a local maverick—and an uncertain one at that. “Nobody I knew was doing it then—it was very experimental,” he says. In college, Walsh and his classmates converted a diesel vehicle to biodiesel, using homegrown sunflower oil and discarded cooking grease from the campus dining hall for fuel. After relocating to Gardiner to work as a trail designer for the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, which oversees protection of state parks and preserves like Minnewaska, Walsh decided it was not enough for him to walk the walk of an environmental steward at work, but time to start to drive the drive, so to speak, in his personal life with a more environmentally friendly car. Walsh prepared to convert to biodiesel by “doing research from where the class left off.” Most valuable, he says,

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was reading the bible of biodiesel—From the

small businesses interested in making biodie-

Fryer to the Fuel Tank: The Complete Guide

sel readily available that meets monthly and

to Using Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuel

maintains a public online discussion forum.

(Tickell Productions, 2000) by Josh Tickell, a filmmaker and writer who, having grown up in the shadow of a Louisiana oil refinery and

iodiesel usage is growing at a surpris-

lost several relatives to petroleum-related

ing rate, says Skip Hauth, CEO of BioEconomy

cancers, began promoting biodiesel nation-

Development Corporation, a Grand Island,

ally via his own Veggie Van in 1997. Walsh

New York-based company that provides

also explored diesel-to-biodiesel conversion

demonstrations, advice, and facilitating

instructions available online through firms

for large-scale biodiesel conversions and

like GreaseL.com and GreaseCar.com. “The

biodiesel manufacturing. “A lot of what’s

biggest thing I’ve learned is that converting

going on in biodiesel in the US is patterned

to biodiesel is totally doable for anybody,” he

after what’s going on in Europe, where major

says. “I paid less attention to the mechanics

industrial-scale manufacturing of biodiesel

in class—I was more interested in testing the

has progressed,” says Hauth. Today, for in-

different oils—but it was still easy.”

stance, 50 percent of Austrian and German diesel vehicles, including passenger cars, are running on biodiesel; and use of 100 percent pure biodiesel (as opposed to biodiesel diluted with various percentages of regular

and using about $600 in parts from the local

diesel to keep it from gelling into glycerine)

Auto Zone, but he advises other converters

in 2003 was 50 million gallons compared with

to buy a $700 kit (available online), which

60 million gallons of petroleum diesel used.

can be installed yourself or by a mechanic.

According to Hauth, whose company is

(“Most people who are trying to do this are

looking to buy, blend, and deliver biodiesel

like me—idealists without much money,” he

to sites throughout the Northeast, including

says.) Walsh filters the discarded cooking oil

the Hudson Valley, biodiesel usage and man-

he collects twice a week from a New Paltz

ufacturing rates in the US look promising,

restaurant with a device that “looks like a big

largely thanks to federal tax incentives and

sock or stocking,” lasts for about 6,000 miles,

federal and state-run programs that call for

and can be purchased online for about $7.

increased biodiesel usage. Already, he says,

Two cars and two conversions (his first

the Department of Defense uses biodiesel

biodiesel car was replaced by an ’82 Volk-

in its nonmilitary vehicles, and highway de-

swagen Rabbit), a bumper sticker that reads

partments and school bus fleets have been

“Powered by Biodiesel,” and 30,000 to 40,000

targeted to switch to biodiesel.

biodiesel-fueled miles later, Walsh’s switch to

“In 2003 we used 50 million gallons of B100

alternative fuel has more than paid for itself.

[100 percent biodiesel] and 60 billion gallons

He gets 35 to 40 miles per gallon on a long

of petroleum diesel,” Hauth says. “New fed-

trip and has driving and filling-up experi-

eral tax incentives mean more people will

ences that are both “sweeter-smelling,” and

be blending and delivering biodiesel to gas

“relatively guilt-free.”

stations and fleets to satisfy the consuming

And in a little over two years, Walsh no

public. They also represent opportunities for

longer feels alone in making mileage out of

businesses to manufacturer and distribute

vegetable oil. “Now I know five or six people

biodiesel, as well as grow soybeans or other

in Ulster County alone who are doing it,” he

crops to make it. These tax incentives are a

says. Local examples of biodiesel user-activists

way to bring biodiesel’s prices down on a par

include Polly and Jay Armour of Four Winds

with petroleum diesel, so that more consum-

organic farm and CSA in Gardiner, who have

ers will be willing to buy biodiesel and the

converted their Mercedes sedan to biodiesel;

demand for it will grow. These incentives are

Sloop Clearwater captain Scott Cann, who is

important—we need people to see that it’s

working toward running the boat on 20 per-

very good for the environment to displace

cent biodiesel; a group of northern Ulster

fossil fuels.”

County small business owners, organized

Back in college, Eddie Walsh con-

by Jim Kricker of Rondout Woodworking,

ducted experiments comparing biodie-

that imports biodiesel from World Biodie-

sel and fossil fuel emissions. “Biodiesel

sel in Massachusetts to run their trucks and

still emits some bad things”—namely,

buses; and the Hudson Valley Biodiesel

carbon oxide, carbon dioxide, and hydro-

Co-op, an informal group of individuals and

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Frankly Speaking BY FRANK CROCITTO

Cultivate Myself t’s almost spring, the time when people start thinking about planting things, making things grow. The days are longer, the sun’s reach is stronger. Even devoted skiers are growing weary of winter ’s harsh and unpredictable ways. It’s time for a change, time for renewal. Mike Dubisch

To the gardener, the wanderer in the woods, the farmer, seeds are everywhere. They may be a blessing or a scourge, but wherever we look, the earth is abounding with seeds. Fortunately, nature is selective, and not every seed gets to reach its full potential. What determines a seed’s “success” depends on certain external factors coming into play in the proper sequence. There may be a million poplar seeds but only one of them becomes a tree, all because it landed in the right place, got the right amount of water, sunlight, and so on. Nothing mowed it down, stepped on it, or ate it. Every tree you see is lucky in that way—it escaped the fate of its failed fellows. All of us are, in a certain sense, seeds. What are seeds but vehicles of potential? The difference is that with nature, a seed’s success depends totally on external factors. With a human being, external factors are relevant only at the beginning of our life, when we need someone to watch over us. But once we’re grown, and we come to recognize that there’s something more within us, once we get a glimpse of it, then it’s up to us to do the rest. So, unlike anything else in nature, it’s up to us to find the circumstance where we can grow. If you live your life as if you were an ordinary seed—if you, as they used to say, go with the flow—you’ll be relying on nature to deliver you, and nature’s got enough to do finding a nurturing spot for that one-in-a-million poplar seed. It’s up to us to find the place where the water is, to find what nurtures us. And in doing that, in assuming this allimportant role, we actually become something more—not just the seed, but the cultivator of the seed. We become the farmer who takes care of that seed so that it can attain itself. If we remember that there is something in us that has yet to reach its full potential, we have to become that farmer. When we start cultivating what’s real in us, we find that we have many characteristics in us that need attention. But without that attention, without the farmer’s willingness to work, what’s unique about us will remain dormant. We’ll never come to fruit. Exactly like all those unlucky poplar seeds. This is when a person’s aim becomes crucial. If your aim is to begin paying attention to what’s lying there inside you,

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you can begin living a different kind of life.

You can see the beginning of this terrible

Once you know what you’re aiming for, you

loss in the way we raise our childrn. Children

have a standard. Here’s the task: You’re in the

have this wonderful capability to be creative.

course of your life, involved in the particular

But then they go to school and the school

circumstances it presents to you every

isn’t interested in that. All that matters are

moment, and you have to remember and

science and mathematics, getting the highest

hold to that aim. You have to remember what

test scores. The child with creative ability gets

you’re going for and then look at your life’s

lost, or buried.

circumstances to see if what you’re doing is

I used to teach writing in the public

furthering your chances of achieving that

schools. What I discovered was that these

aim. Is what I’m doing helping me achieve

seeds of artistic ability and creativity are in

my aim or not?

everybody. They liked me in one particular

If you say, “I want to develop my being

school, so I could get away with a little bit of

and become a full human being, the most full

murder. I taught young people how to write

human being that I am capable of becoming,”

by going into themselves. I nurtured them.

you’ll have to see if how you’re living day to

I didn’t teach them what I was supposed

day aligns with that desire.

to teach them—things like spelling and grammar, the subjects that kill creativity. It was a gamble, because they still had to pass

t’s not just a matter of reading books

their finals.

or getting caught up in thoughts of your

But they learned how to write. They

liberation. It comes down to things like

wrote things that made me cry, they were

this: When you talk about your interest in

so beautiful. They would say, “I didn’t know

becoming more human, the people you

I could do this.” If anybody made any kind

spend your life with make fun of you. They

of effort, you would see it. And in the end,

ridicule you. They think it’s ridiculous. You

although they weren’t taught what they

have to ask yourself, Is this getting me where

supposedly needed to know, they scored

I want to go? Is this a help or a hindrance?

the highest of all the English classes. They

If you’re serious, if you have an aim and can hold to it, you have a standard, something you

woke up to themselves. It made all the difference.

can follow. Without it, you go whichever way

One of the things Jesus said that has

the wind blows. You never attain anything.

caused any number of problems for people

You end up being someone who goes

was “Be ye perfect like your heavenly father

through the motions in life, goes from the

is perfect.” What he was talking about is this:

cradle to the grave and nothing happens. As

Become that which you can become. Come

people who let external circumstances drive

to your completeness by fulfilling all those

them—their jobs, their desires—get older,

things that are still dormant within you.

they begin to sense this probability, and it

So, let all your seeds come to fruit.

can be very painful. They’re no different than

That’s your perfection, and God, by Jesus’

they were when they began. The bloom of

understanding, is the being in whom all

youth is off them, their bodies are beginning

their possibilities have been realized. We

to fail them. Time is running out. The seeds of

have to do the same. All our possibilities

possibility within them never sprout because

have to become real. So, be perfect. So, aim

they never cultivated them.

for that.

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Ear Whacks BY SHARON NICHOLS

Twisted Brothers ou may think you’ve seen and heard everything, that it’s all been done before. Then an Amish dude in full garb whips out his electric guitar and starts singing Cypress Hill’s “Insane In The Brain,” and you know you’ve been a fool. In today’s world of entertainment, nothing is too bizarre. Kathy Gardner

We need to see things that boggle our minds because clearly we’re bored and we require something new. Here’s some entertainment that qualifies: The Amish Outlaws—six guys in suspenders who hit the stage with outlandish cover tunes, playing everything from Barry White to David Bowie, Neil Diamond to Devo, Twisted Sister to Frank Sinatra, punctuated by the occasional TV show theme song or commercial. Between numbers, they spin yarns of their Amish upbringings. Now this is new. In truth, only four of the six are actually “Brothers” (as the Amish menfolk call themselves). Brother Amos “Def” (keyboards, guitar, banjo, vocals) and Brother “Eazy” Ezekiel (bass, vocals) grew up together in a strict Amish community in Lancaster, PA, but didn’t become close friends until they left for the Devil’s Playground (as the Amish call the American way of life). This means they didn’t have access to electricity, alcohol, musical instruments, or any other modern conveniences. But at the age of 16, like all other Amish youth, they were encouraged to participate in the Amish tradition called rumspringa (or “running around”), in which they’re given the opportunity to leave the community, abandon the strict Amish code of conduct, and experience the way of “the English.” After weeks, or even years, they must decide—come back and be baptized into the church, surrendering the pleasures of the outside world, or leave the comforts of home forever. Interestingly, 90 percent of youth return. Brothers Amos and Ezekiel did not. Due to a hectic tour schedule, Ezekiel was the only member of the Outlaws available for an interview. I was dying to know what he did during rumspringa. “The better question, Sister Sharon, would be, ‘What didn’t I do for rumspringa?’ Actually, I wasn’t that wild by today’s standards. I wore English clothing, played Nintendo, drank beer. I never tried drugs, but I’ll never forget the first time I got drunk. It was like a cartoon when they show someone on drugs, and they say, ‘Look at all the colors!’ But mainly I listened to a lot of music. That’s what I loved most, and one of the things I couldn’t imagine being without if I went back. Listening to modern music—I mean really listening to it—was like a revelation to me.”

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The first album Ezekiel heard, The Beatles’ Sgt.

for the first time. Some of it I loved, some I

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, blew him

didn’t, but I appreciated it all.”

away. “The harmonies, the guitars, the driving beats. I’ll never forget it.”

Will the Brothers ever perform original tunes? Ezekiel admits that they’ve written

Most teens return from rumspringa to the

some original music, and have even played

Amish lifestyle because of deeply ingrained

a song or two in public, but they always come

faith, a true love of simple life, or, in many

back to the covers. “We love the songs, and

cases, the guilt of “sinning” exceeding its

we love the reaction we get from people

pleasure. During his rumspringa Ezekiel was

when playing them. What I get most out of

convinced that eventually he’d return, but the

the band is spreading joy, and that’s easiest

more time that passed, the more he loved his

to do playing the songs people love but don’t

freedom and the joy that music brought him.

usually hear a cover band play. There are still

“I couldn’t imagine going back to the com-

so many more songs we want to play before

pletely simple Amish life. It’s a pretty popular

we really start doing originals.”

misconception that if you don’t return, you’re

There is no such thing as a typical Amish

shunned, but that’s not the case. I still see my

Outlaws performance, but here’s one visual

family. If I couldn’t, I would have returned. Of

you might enjoy. Imagine the six Brothers,

course, my parents aren’t thrilled that I didn’t

in full Amish regalia—wide-brimmed straw

return, but they still love me.”

hats, crisp white shirts, suspenders, the occa-

Brothers Ezekiel and Amos stayed in close

sional fluffy beard scooping around the chin.

contact after leaving home. Years later they

They fall into the first notes of “We Are The

ran into Brothers McMullen and Hezekiah

World.” Vocalists Hezekiah and McMullen,

“X” (vocals), who had also grown up in

enormously talented in mimicking voices,

Lancaster and flew the coop during rumsp-

do their perfect Bruce Springsteen and Joe

ringa. They bonded immediately over their

Perry lines, then move onto Michael Jackson

upbringing and deep mutual love of music,

and Willie Nelson. Brother McMullen adds a

lamenting 16 years without classic MTV,

glaring omission to the original song, a mouth

radio, and CDs. But they needed more and

trumpet solo, ala Chuck Mangione. People in

decided to form a band. Ezekiel had taught

the audience are swaying back and forth, sing-

himself to play bass, Amos had music les-

ing along, waving lighters in the air. Suddenly,

sons, and both McMullen and Hezekiah had

Eazy Ezekiel launches into a death metal vocal

vocal training. But something was missing.

solo, his demonic voice deep and frightening,

They needed another guitarist and a drum-

roaring from the depths of hell. The audience

mer and knew they had to find them among

jumps a few inches, their faces drained in fear

the English. So, the four Brothers brought in

and confusion; everyone at the bar stops dead

Brother Jakob “The Pipe Layer” (drums) and

cold, staring at Eazy in shock. The shock turns

Brother Ishmael “L Cool J” (guitar), and they

to laughter as the rest of the band launches

became “honorary Amish.” With the passion

into a death metal blast behind him, the song

that only 16 years of repression can yield,

reaching a frenzied pitch. And just as quickly

The Amish Outlaws were born and came

as the evil has reared its head, the band cuts

screaming into the lap of the world.

back to a gentle la-la version of the song. The whole place is in stitches. “My wife calls it my heavy metal solo,”

f course, there’s the question of why

says Ezekiel. “After I do it, I get a lot of com-

they choose to perform cover tunes instead

ments from people like, ‘You scare me.’ It’s

of originals. Since the four Brothers discov-

a lot of fun!”

ered music relatively late in life, the songs

There’s no question that they’re having

we’ve all heard a million times—“Dancing

fun (I’m trying to envision their version of

with Myself,” “Comfortably Numb,” or even

the Chili Peppers’ “Suck My Kiss”). But do

“Baby Got Back”—all seem new to them.

they ever regret leaving the Amish lifestyle,

They play a wide variety of covers, everything

even just a little?

from rock and rap to metal, funk, and coun-

“There are some things I miss a lot,” says

try. “It’s all exciting!” says Ezekiel. “I’ve heard

Ezekiel. “But concerns are different. Work is

from English friends that while growing up,

still very important, but for different reasons.

social lines were often drawn based around

In the modern world, so many people work

music. You had the metal heads, people into

to get the money they need to live lavish life-

Hip Hop, the Goths into stuff like The Cure.

styles, while in the Amish world working to

Those lines never existed for me. When I left

obtain material goods goes against the spirit

on rumspringa, I was hearing all this music

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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS

BY DJ WAVY DAVY

JOHN MENEGON/TERI ROIGER MARCH 8. These SUNY instructors and jazz ambassadors resemble a well of music that springs onto the McKenna Theater stage each year. Vocalist Roiger (also an accomplished pianist) maintains a busy schedule for devoted fans and former students. Menegon’s expressive bass playing matches his broad, natural compositions. And when they say “very special guests,” they mean it. 8pm. $10 general admission, $8 seniors, $4 students. New Paltz. (845) 257-3880. WWW.TERIROIGER.COM

OPEN MIKE WITH JAMIE KAY MARCH 11. Every once in a while a songwriter rises above the coffeehouse grind. Kay, a 30-year performance veteran, squeezes the best performers of Orange County into his monthly meeting of the Arts Alliance of the Hudson Valley at the Elks Lodge on Liberty Street. Go for the line-up of talent, but stay for Kay’s warm, husky voice and troubadour lyrics. 8pm. No cover. Newburgh. WWW.JAMIEKAY.COM

EDDIE PALMIERI/DICKEY BETTS MARCH 12, 13. Palmieri apparently has caught the Hudson Valley bug, appearing here several times a year. The seven-time Grammy winner is considered the foremost Latin jazz pianist of the last half-century. Former Allman Brother Betts (who wrote and sang “Ramblin’ Man,” among others) revives his Great Southern outfit, bringing a little swamp water to these Hudson

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shores. Palmieri: March 12 at 8pm. $36.50 adults, $33.50 students/seniors. Betts: March 13 at 7pm. $33.50 adults, $30.50 students/seniors. Poughkeepsie. (845) 473-2072. WWW.BARDAVON.ORG

FOUR TOPS/CHARLIE DANIELS MARCH 12, 17. Hot on the heels of last year’s blockbuster Temptations show, UPAC keeps a soul groove with hit-makers The Tops. Founded in 1953-54, they label-hopped for 10 years before striking gold at Motown in 1964 with hits like “Baby I Need Your Loving” and “Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch.” Legendary fiddler Daniels is best known for “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” 8pm. Tops: March 12, $47. Daniels: March 17, $42. Kingston. (845) 339-6088. WWW.UPAC.ORG

VICTOR WOOTEN MARCH 19. Music fans know Wooten as bassist for The Flecktones, but bassists know him as “The Man.” His blazing fingers, melodic solos, and deep backbeat define versatility, as Wooten flits seamlessly between jazz, funk and contemporary R&B. The Capital region’s Egg theater serves up a rare performance by Wooten’s sizzling combo. 8pm. $24. Albany. (518) 473-1845. WWW.THEEGG.ORG

SOLAS MARCH 20. Always pushing the boundaries of Irish music, Solas celebrates St. Patrick’s week at the Towne Crier in support of Another Day, a spontaneous, mostly-acoustic recording that lives up to the band’s name (“light” in Gaelic). Solas can also reel and jig with the best, and the New York Times calls them “a group grounded in the fast fingered jigs and reels of the Irish tradition who plays them with unbridled vitality.” 8pm. $30. Pawling. (845) 855-1300. WWW.TOWNECRIER.COM

MATT FINLEY & RIOJAZZ MARCH 22. Dutchess Community College presents the 18th annual concert by jazz composer Matt Finley (flugelhorn/soprano sax) and his samba ensemble, with Peter Tomlinson (piano), Jeff Ciampa (guitar), John Menegon (bass), Tom Lopez (percussion), and Terry Silverlight (drums). DCC’s cafeteria offers refreshments in a cafe setting, as the band plays bossas and jazz sambas, swing and more. 7:30pm. Free. Poughkeepsie. 431-8050. WWW.RIOJAZZ.COM

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CD REVIEWS

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MERCURY REV: THE SECRET MIGRATION V2 RECORDS, 2005

Chronogram managed to obtain a copy of Mercury Rev’s new album five months before its US release date in May. By the time I received it, it had debuted at #5 on the Irish charts and was generating good reviews online. Although it doesn’t break new ground for a band that made its early living breaking new ground, fans of the Kingston-based psych-art-rock band will be satisfied by another effort consistent with their previous two. This sixth album completes their evolution from experimental noise rock to polished art rock spiked with bombast. Jonathan Donahue delivers self-penned vocals in a timid half-falsetto that producer Dave Fridmann juxtaposes over layers of swirling guitars (Grasshopper), crashing cymbals (Jeff Mercel), ethereal keys, and sweeping piano melodies. It’s dreamy, dramatic, and definitely an acquired taste. Although the band only has a fringe following in the US, The Secret Migration will cement Mercury Rev as a major player internationally. www.mercuryrev.com. —Jonathan D. King

DAVE'S TRUE STORY: NATURE BEPOP RECORDS, 2005

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It’s been said, “You’re born. You die.” If you’re lucky, you learn to walk upright, keep the Devil interested but waiting, and gasp in wonderment at Dave’s True Story’s new album, Nature. Guitarist/songwriter Dave Cantor’s ironic, wise lyrics arrive on a cloud of audience-friendly, mid-tempo Latin and rock rhythms, heart-tugging chord progressions, and small group pop-jazz arrangements. Producer/bassist Jeff Eyrich’s sound is low-key, after-hours intimacy, and truth telling—the players know less is more and make every note count. Vocalist Kelly Flint’s humid breeze of a voice aurally conveys the arched eyebrow and pouting lips necessary for post-midnight ennui. Throughout, Flint aptly portrays the coolly sighing heroine of romanceravaged intelligence struggling to make sense of the senseless. Call it Think Jazz, if you will. Nothing beats the masterful snarling sorrow of the future standard, “Small Black Heart,” a breakup ballad polished to perfection with love-lost sax solo. And the smile-in-the-face-of-ad-

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versity transcendentalism of “Everlasting No” is sure to tap the toe of even the most red-stated cynic. Nature, in Cantor’s world, is mischievous and accident-prone, but, to humanity’s eternal sorrow and joy, inescapably tempting...and so is Nature. www.davestruestory.com.

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—Dane McCauley

MIGHTY PURPLE: PREFABLES HMG RECORDS, 2004

Hamden, CT combo Mighty Purple has a new album that’s a richly textured, multi-layered tapestry of indie pop, both refined and quirky. Together for more than a decade, they’ve notably opened for Dave Matthews Band and Bare Naked Ladies, put out seven albums, and claim to have performed over 2,500 shows. Prefables kicks off with the catchy, hook-filled “Breaking Up.” There are a variety of gems here, from the lovely, latent alt-country sensibility of “I Choose You,” the surreal late night truck stop air of “Must Be Strong,” and the buoyant NRBQ feel of “Patience,” to the freewheeling “Not Coming Back.” Scott Amore’s clever, charming production really pulls this project up a notch, but it’s the complex, intricate tunes that are the real stars. Tales of desire, desperation, and spiritual bankruptcy give way in the end to hints of hope and redemption. And while these songs can be weighty at times, they’re also hopelessly infectious. Mighty Purple can offer plenty to enjoy on many levels with this exquisite record. www.mightypurple.com. —David Malachowski

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Frame by Frame BY JEFF ECONOMY

Inside/Out n an ordinary winter day in 1972, an eccentric and cantankerous retired janitor asked his landlord to

help him find a new place to live. At 82 he’d become too feeble to climb the stairs to his room, so the landlord helpfully obliged and later returned to clean out the man’s apartment. images courtesy www.wellspring.com/movies

What he found there was an entire world he never knew existed, a find that became one of the most notorious discoveries in art history. The landlord was Nathan Lerner—photographer, designer, and curiously, inventor of the bear-shaped honey dispenser—and his tenant was Henry Darger, novelist, visual artist, and the subject of filmmaker Jessica Yu’s new documentary In The Realms Of The Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger. It’s the rarest of biographical films: an attempt to get inside the head of one of the most puzzling, intriguing and troubled artistic minds of the 20th century, but without hammering the audience over the head with psychobabble, allowing audiences to make up their own minds about the man and his world. With a personality like Henry Darger that’s no small feat, due in part to so little being known about him to begin with. What is known is that his early life was almost Dickensian in its general bleakness. Around Henry’s fourth birthday his mother died in childbirth, and the baby girl was given up for adoption. Henry’s father, a mild-mannered tailor, cared for his son for the next four years until he became to ill to carry on, at which point the boy was placed in a Catholic boys’ home. There he suffered continual conflicts with teachers and fellow students (particularly a bully named John Manley), was treated as a pariah for making “strange noises,” and was eventually given the nickname “Crazy” before being shipped off to The Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children in Lincoln, IL. His father died shortly afterwards, and soon Henry started making escape attempts; at age 17 he finally succeeded, and journeyed nearly 200 miles on foot back to Chicago. There he found work as a janitor, a vocation that kept him employed for the next 50 years. It was a drab and unremarkable public life. But operating in almost complete isolation, Darger fully retreated from the everyday and poured every ounce of waking energy into nurturing his private world. The center of that universe is a fifteen-volume, 15,000 page-novel entitled “The Story of the STILLS FROM IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREA L TOP: AT MCCALLS RUN / BOTTOM: AT SECOND BATTLE OF MCHOLLISTER RUN

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Vivian Girls, in what is known as the Realms

difference between boys and girls.

of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian

Even for those well-versed in the

War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave

idiosyncrasies of so-called “outsider art,”

Rebellion.”

the immense weirdness of Darger’s work

Time & Space Limited 434 Columbia Street Hudson NY

518.822.8448 http://www.timeandspace.org

Gallery opens 3/5 4-7, also movies, lecture, and performance.

Left Field Exhibit includes Tramp , embroidery, and graffiti. American artists from unconventional and (often characterized

Apparently begun in 1910, the dense and

is daunting. But once the shock wears off,

action-packed work describes in obsessive

an exquisitely bucolic beauty emerges,

as) “unseemly” subcultures create an anterior world of hope, transcendence, and personal growth.

detail a war between the Satanic nation

a pastoral reverie where the most awful

3/3 7:00, 3/5 7:30, 3/6 5:00, 3/10 7:00, 3/18 7:30, 3/19 5:30

of Glandelinia and the Christian nation of

of horrors are continually perpetrated,

Abbieannia. “For more than 43 years, child

yet always with a hint that the evil will be

slavery existed in the Calverinian Country,”

vanquished. It’s a fantasy world of pure

Darger writes. ”Hundreds and thousands of

escape that acknowledges reality just enough

children torn from their parents, made to

to make the fantasy all the more poignant and

work themselves to death without getting

peculiar, a world made public not by design

a cent, and horrors upon horrors almost

but by accident, with details intact that most

equal that of perdition.” To free the enslaved

would be embarrassed to reveal.

children, the Abbieannians wage a four-year

There’s a purity to Darger’s work that

war against the godless Glandelinian slave

Yu respects deeply, and she captures the

owners. Under assault by the evil Gen.

sometimes eerie essence of it with warmth

John Manley, millions of young girls suffer

and sensitivity. Documenting an artists’ work

every possible torture, but seven plucky

can be a difficult challenge; there are only

sisters—The Vivian Girls—lead a rebellion

so many slow zooms and sweeping pans

and survive the ordeal intact, thanks in part to

a director can employ before the visual

the intercession of 45,000-foot-long dragons

palette becomes static and dull. Though

and one Capt. Henry Darger.

Yu sometimes opts for the simplicity of a

In The Realms of the Unreal

Academy Award Winner Jessica Yu explores the life of legendary outsider artist, Henry Darger, a reclusive janitor by day and prolific, unnerving artist by night.

3/11 8:00, 3/12 8:00 (volunteers needed)

Bread and Puppet Theater

The radical puppeteers perform their new show, World on Fire where national emergency clowns demonstrate official reactions to the ultimate emergency.

3/13 5:00, 3/19 7:30, 3/26 5:30

The Take Unemployed workers in Buenos Aires take over an

abandoned factory in hopes of creating jobs. Naomi Klien (No Logo) brings us a documentary on worker uprisings in Argentina amidst economic collapse and political upheaval.

3/13 3:00, 3/26 5:30, 3/27 3:00

Fear and Trembling “Hilararious! A corporate Alice In Wonderland.” --NY Magazine

camera aimed at a canvas, she’s also made a bold imaginative leap by animating many ven better-known in art circles are

of Darger’s murals, using a technique

Darger’s otherworldly illustrations. Betraying

that both brings motion to the work yet

his love for Civil War history and minutiae,

preserves its essentially 2-D characteristics.

Darger created maps, portraits, flags and,

She also employs two different narrators,

most famously, panoramic 12-foot-long

one as Darger (as both author of the book

murals rendered on butcher’s paper with

and narrator of his autobiography), and

the cheapest tins of children’s watercolors.

Dakota Fanning as the third-person docent

Ostensibly displeased with his drawing skills,

of Henry’s mind.

he traced figures from catalogs, comic books

Most thankfully, Yu avoids the trap of

and newspaper advertisements, sometimes

relegating Darger to the “outsider” ghetto

using healthy chunks of his take-home pay to

or treating him as an inscrutable nutcase. She

have photographic transparencies made from

understands, and conveys back to us, how

which he could copy scores of human forms.

important Henry’s inner world was to him,

The tableaus are richly-detailed tapestries

how fully fleshed and three-dimensionally

resplendent with enchanted landscapes

real it was to him. Henry had no “real life” in

under ominously pregnant storm clouds.

the conventional sense of the planet Earth

And above all: the girls. Hundreds, if not

most of us inhabit; the peerless breadth and

thousands of them all told, wide-eyed waifs

depth of his creations were life itself for

seen both in repose and in battle, the latter

him. One suspects that in a perfect world

often depicted as far more courageous than

he would have been happy to traffic with

the men that enslave them. They appear in

the normal people, respected as a serious

multitudes of frocks and summer dresses,

artist with hopes and dream and talents; but

often unselfconsciously naked, and most

since that world didn’t exist, he was forced

perplexing of all—equipped with male

to create it for himself, and live out his days

genitalia. It’s a motif that comes off as both

there. In some hands that story would be

perverse and oddly innocent, naïve even, as

a tragedy about imagination’s inability to

if Darger were so unfamiliar with the ways

transcend reality; Yu makes Henry’s dream

of the world that he was unaware of the

a triumph.

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Planet Waves BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

Introspection mong the many disturbing similarities between the United States today and Germany of the 1930s is one that I have not heard mentioned yet. No, I was not there when the first torture camp was installed in a neighborhood called Ilvers Gehoffen in the liberal city of Erfurt in early 1933. Emil Alzamora

I can’t tell you what the people in the hundreds of apartments that surrounded the camp were thinking as they buried their heads in pillows those hot summer nights to mute the sound of screams. But a few years ago I stood in the vacant lot where the camp once was, looked up at those windows, and wondered. And from those same windows, so many decades later, many people looked down on me with worried faces. The torture camp was located next to a movie theatre. People were going out and having a good time on Saturday night with the knowledge of what was happening in the old warehouse and yard right next door since, after all, they could see and hear it from their windows. In that time and place, which we look at through the wrong end of binoculars, people decided that the affairs of the state were distracting them from what you might call an inner life. A kind of internal vacuum sucked them out of reality. The way Wilhelm Reich tells it, people began to feel that the government and its doings were best left to the experts. One was, after all, primarily responsible for oneself. Qualified people were paid to take care of society. I guess it’s always a comfort to let mommy and daddy handle the complicated problems. America comes at life from another perspective: we gratify ourselves first and deal with everyone else second. I once worked aboard a ship, as the cook. During my basic orientation the third mate explained, “The captain eats first and best.” That’s America, only we don’t say the words. This self-centered frame of reference extends along a spectrum from the supermarkets to the yoga studios. On one end we have the people who respond to a crisis only when it hits home. My favorite moments in Fahrenheit 9/11 were the interviews with people in that little town who thought Arab terrorists might blow up their local tire joint or Super K-Mart. “You can’t really trust anyone,” the mechanic said. Remember? On the other end is a massive constituency that has for decades made being self-conscious an ongoing avocation. This constituency has its own spectrum, starting with the Beatniks and the Hippies, who were followed by the

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Back to the Earth people of the 1970s to the

of this has something to do with you. And

Human Potential Movement’s students and

right now, awareness, being informed, and

teachers to the New Age, and onward to the

taking personal responsibility are the most

many offshoots and crossovers that today

urgently needed forms of activism.

exist. There are communities for everything

I do see progress: the supposedly politi-

from tantric sex to co-processing to therapy

cal and the supposedly spiritual are begin-

training. Ammachi, an Indian saint/guru, has

ning to merge in some places. More people

a huge following in the States. And so on. I

understand that war is a result of projecting

lump all of this together because it’s all based

unprocessed shadow material onto the

on the idea of finding oneself.

world. There are some churches and spiritual

These movements or groups or ideas have

organizations that are encouraging people

a presence in every town I’ve ever lived in

to take personal responsibility, communities

(mostly on America’s East or West coasts).

that are openly renouncing murder. I hear

There are individuals who strive for, and of-

that some congregations in Atlanta are going

ten succeed at attaining, spiritual awareness,

from church services to the streets every Sun-

self-awareness, inner awareness, or self-actu-

day. There is the amazing work of Starhawk,

alization. But given the amount of time and

a pagan leader who, along with her affinity

resources that have gone into self-develop-

group, is openly willing to defy authority.

ment, and the deeply immoral conduct, war

But from where I sit—reading the Internet

crimes, and torture being reported in the

all day, talking to who I can, and even living in

news every night, one would expect to hear

the capital of an anti-war country—this voice

from the vast numbers of the self-aware. But

seems subdued. I get the feeling people are

the numbers and voices seem thin.

choosing not to speak up, or act up, in order to keep their hands clean, to remain theoreti-

kickin’.

cally pure. In reality, it’s more about laziness hen I look at the mainstream left and

and the desire not to burden one’s mind.

read my favorite news pages and commenta-

People ignore the problem because they

tors, I see that there is next to no inclusion

can. And they ignore the problem because

of the “spiritual piece” of the discussion. In

to not do so means stirring the pot. Taking

the tradition of the Enlightenment, religion

a position or even becoming informed can

is purged from the whole discussion of gov-

upset a group of friends that has on some

ernment and politics, as it should be. But also

level defined itself by having a good time and

purged is the entire cosmic viewpoint and

tuning out the worries of the planet.

the idea that opposing war really is about

It’s still okay to take yoga class; that’s self-

changing something within ourselves. It’s as

improvement. It’s still okay to be spiritual;

if saying anything about the bigger picture,

that’s in line with non-threatening activity.

or taking inner responsibility, negates all

But having allowed our lives be about our-

the rational grounds for wanting an orderly,

selves for so long, having searched for our

peaceful society.

spirits and our true beliefs, it’s time to look

When I look at most spiritual movements,

back out at the world, and do something

I see individuals and groups who are not in

about what we see. We need to find our

their political power. I see a lot of willful look-

bodies, deal with our feelings, address our

ing away. Some are so repulsed by the news

problems, and realize that we exist outside

that they cannot stand five minutes of politi-

the neat pecking order of our social groups.

cal discourse. I meet people who mean well

More to the point, we need to find our pas-

but have absolutely no historical bearings.

sion, our spark, our sense of raging spirit. I

I hear the dubious argument that we must

know it can feel strange to make that switch,

not focus on politics lest we run the risk of

and under so many layers, it’s a lot easier said

increasing it. I hear that it’s all an illusion. (A

than done. There is the necessity to endure

Course in Miracles teaches this specifically.)

some inner conflict, and some outer conflict.

So one side views everything requiring

Vitality threatens people who don’t embrace

change as being external; the other sees

it. But it’s not so hard to muster, actually. You

everything meaningful as being internal.

just need to stay awake. Doing what is right

There are valid arguments for not immers-

is not about doing the right thing, it’s about

ing one’s life entirely in politics—and usually,

doing what is real, and you can only do what

when the time comes, those arguments go

is real when you come from your center.

out the window and one just gets busy. But

Otherwise, how different are we from the

there are no good arguments for refusing to

people of Ilvers Gehoffen, going to the mov-

be aware, or for refusing to consider that any

ies on a Saturday night?

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SIGN-BY-SIGN

March 05

ARIES March 20-April 19

that will arrive the moment you realize you

You are not really free

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until you begin to ex-

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press yourself. Others

are not alone.

GEMINI

May 20-June 21

have other opinions—

All children are rebellious.

e.g., you’re not really free to do anything

Or rather, they seem to

except shop online—but I suggest that the

be so because their most

act of creative expression is no act at all: it

natural conduct almost al-

is the oxygen of existence. Creation is the

ways violates the artificial and

means by which you will identify with and,

restricted rules that adults

in truth, prove the existence of the love that

set up for human acceptability. Adults,

you feel. It is the conducting medium of that

however, tend to be in enormous conflict

love, between you and all the people in your

about how to “behave” in the world, be-

life. At the moment the very best of what

cause we all know that there has been an

you have to offer may seem deeply hidden

attempt made to kill part of our soul in order

away. But it still exists—though you can only

to render us worthy of membership in soci-

discover how much you have by passing it

ety. I suggest you take a stand against this

on. When the time arrives, you will know

ritual killing, and instead practice the ritual

where to look within yourself, and the way

giving of life. Springtime is coming. This is

will be open. Then, don’t be afraid—just let

your season. The immortal aspect of your

yourself out, and let yourself free.

soul is once again rising above the ground

TAURUS

for you to see and feel, and is returning

April 19-May 20

like a missing lover. Your curiosity is set to

You have a knack for

expand and push you to explore aspects of

from

life you have never even considered. Hold

danger unscathed, but

that energy in your heart, and the greater

walking

away

now you need to do better. Clearly, you have not used up all your luck, and you always have the resources

life will be yours.

CANCER June 21-July 22

you need to make any change or try any

You’re not as lost as you

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experiment. If you can move one inch from

might feel, but I assure

the idea that danger is an inherent part of

you that you’re respond-

life, you will see how much more there is

ing to the emotions of someone who

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at the moment. I recognize that certain past

desperately fears they are. In order to get

events have given you ample reason not to

clear, you’re going to need to hand back to

trust. Those events were not causes in and

someone exactly what is theirs, and keep for

of themselves; they were effects of beliefs

yourself exactly what is yours. Your mantra

that you have done much to let go of. They

for the month could well be, “People have

were the results of different choices and a

their problems, and I have mine. Mine, I

different time in your life. You can, with no

can work to solve. Of others, I can only be

effort at all, discover that you are in a life

supportive.” This is a critical boundary is-

where all that exists is safety—a revelation

sue, and your life these past two years, with

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SIGN-BY-SIGN

March 05

Saturn taking up residence in your sign, has

makeup seems to melt like a watercolor in

been about nothing if not learning, estab-

the rain. This can have a way of threatening

lishing, and maintaining boundaries. The

your entire sense of identity, which would

most important boundaries are often psy-

be a real loss, except for the fact that your

chological, but in your situation this month,

“sense of identity” is merely that—it’s not

physical boundaries come into play in a big

actually who you are. Yet you don’t need

way. Lock your door, and think carefully be-

a psychological framework or self-concept

fore you give anyone the key.

to experience passion or care about some-

LEO July 22-Aug 23 Ah, yes, for the love of God. This is the love that cannot be taught in words, but it can be learned, and it can be expressed in actions and in

one deeply. You merely need to let go, be yourself, and make the one discovery you know awaits you, even if you cannot say what it is today.

LIBRA September 22-October 23 The life force does not always

the way you treat yourself. Many people are

express itself in orderly or

taught that cosmic love or connecting with

organized ways. I know there

the “higher self” involves giving something

are times when you would

up, and all the focus is placed on that one

strongly prefer that it would. But with ac-

act of renunciation. At this point in your

tual creativity comes a measure of anarchy;

life, I don’t think that such a negative em-

new ideas rarely fit old patterns of living. A

phasis is necessary, when you have every

lot of chaos can be raised when we expect

occasion to focus entirely on giving and

that they will, and a lot of potent life-force

receiving freely. It may still be that you’re

energy can be released when we give what

driven by a sense of isolation, but if you

is being born into the world the space and

look, you’ll see this is entirely an illusion

the freedom to be itself. I suggest you treat

of your own mind. You are not alone; you

anything new in your life with this kind of

are surrounded not only by friends, but by

respect; that you honor the chances you

people who can and do have a profound

are willing to take with a kind of reverence

impact on your life and your growth. And

for the newborn; and most of all, that you

what you give them is equally beautiful.

see yourself in your creations. True artists

VIRGO August 23-September 22 You’ve waited a long time for love you can surrender to, and if you have to wait a little while longer, you can surely

don’t grow old because they are recreated every time they invoke the living spirit of expression. Accept the touch of madness that comes with the process.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov.22

do that. In the meantime,

Distinguishing ourselves from our

you would do well to question just what

parents can take a lot of work, but at

it is you’re reluctant or hesitant about. If

the end of the day, this is the only

I may propose this: When you experience

thing that can rightly be called

deep emotion, your normal psychological

human progress. Or perhaps

St. Patti’s Day

A Good Reason for a New Tattoo

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SIGN-BY-SIGN

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it’s better to say that those people who ac-

to go with the dreams are much more likely

tually make progress, who succeed in grow-

to happen. If you can take the things you

ing, and who adapt to the world in healthy

want the most and transform them from the

ways, are the ones who have successfully

etheric level to the material level, even if

dealt with the many unresolved and left-

just an idea, you will bring them that much

over issues that their parents passed along

closer to manifestation. In truth, what I’m

to them. When faced honestly, these issues

suggesting is often the most difficult and al-

may seem overwhelming. At times there

ways the most important step. Yet if sketch-

may feel as if there’s no escape from what

ing an idea on a napkin or in a notebook is

is so firmly entrenched in years of struggle.

difficult, it’s most likely because of a mental

But you now have the strength, the integrity,

block. If that is the case, please get over it.

and, more than anything, the motivation to make sure that you are the last generation

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 20

where certain qualities of your family have

Can it be that your long struggle is

come home to roost. Then, as your reward,

over? For a while it is. And

you get to do something far better.

when it returns, you will see it in a new context, as something

SAGITTARIUSNov.22-Dec.22

smaller than yourself, not

The world may seem full of pos-

something larger. This is the essential differ-

sibilities that aren’t really pos-

ence in what you could call perspective, and

sible. It is true—most of

this has a great influence on mental health

what can happen in life

and spiritual well-being. Some people have

doesn’t happen. However,

problems; other people think their prob-

you are now in a position to take the level

lems have them. I suggest you contemplate

of planning and speculation up to the level

this one carefully, because in truth neither

of architecture. Of all the houses people

need be true, but the first step is seeing

want to live in, the ones that have drawings

yourself as greater than any situation you

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SIGN-BY-SIGN face. Part of your strength and value in the

March 05 life. One thing you would benefit from be-

world comes from the people with whom

ing aware of is how much people depend on

you surround yourself. In truth, your ability

you, and how well placed their faith truly is.

to stand hand in hand with your family, your tribe, or your community is your greatest

PISCES February 19-March 20

asset. I suggest you bank on it heavily as

Beneath the ups and

the next few months progress.

downs of life—indeed,

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 19

beneath the whole world of feelings, issues,

Quite a bit has blown into and

changes, losses, and gains—your respect for

out of your life the past couple

yourself is developing and deepening. I can

of months. You might ask

assure you of this, despite what you may feel

yourself what has remained

some days or under certain circumstances,

constant or present. That’s

and I’m fairly confident you know what I’m

what’s most likely to be dependable in the

talking about. Because Pisces comes at the

long run. Certainly, some people and events

end of the astrological year, you’re less of-

have fed your opinion of yourself; others

ten blessed with the raw optimism or sense

have detracted. However, I suggest you

of opportunity of some of the other signs,

consider the extent to which everything has

which passes for self-confidence. But what

taught you something and in this way added

you have going for you is experience, your

to your spiritual bank account. One thing

significant and highly evolved power of

to keep firmly in mind is that, ultimately, all

adaptation, and a long repertoire of skills

love grows from a mixture of compassion

and many possibilities for how to apply

and trust. Gradually, you have invested

them. All that stands between you and

yourself in these feelings, and I think the

what you want is believing what is pos-

result is that you now stand at the beginning

sible. Whatever you may believe about that

of one of the most self-aware phases of your

statement, I suggest you experiment with it.

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This, As A Father

Mule

Empty Fence

sleep on, my son, benign bomb boy i have kissed enough absinthe to know the taste of your day rising —peaked and swooning, the conception was a coarse ride to hollow on friction’s tickle laugh.... i am man enough to kill my ghosts— to the fine germs undaunted, here’s a brother for your sister swallow, father too beaten and brash on a celestial spotting of time like a frenzied swarm galloping and gulping on their own arms —feeding this boy slipping tendril time i gut the alabaster belly of a moon, the thick ruddy smiles running from its lips thins my memory, sliding a dream into the eye— this boy eats unchewed the tidy pieces swept to his spiral plate, broom handle in hand with fist in brush stroke whispers, the shuffle of feet, the sister sound of someone joining, and making a fatherless love out of another’s haunts….

In times like these, though heavy like a mule, impatience forges ahead translucently in my veins. Among the toxins, the mercury and the broth of hindsight, the thoughts of tomorrow are wasted, stagnant—wanting nothing to do with glacial days.

Waiting,

—Sean Casey

The Night With You there’s a waiting involved as an omission of value and declaration toward intent that makes a seething sound under moments and breeds forked night peels from the moon where the wad is missing, I curl about the semantics of love feeling her legs climbing up like telescopes and can see in the distance that holding breath is stellar in breast, and in the other, this air is so small —Sean Casey

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—Jacqueline Markowski

News They have put the river in a zoo in a drowned valley. The animals have stopped speaking. What trees will be in the yard today? —Elizabeth Caffrey

Tablecloth Roulette I topple in several directions. Spilling like peas— across a checkered plastic tablecloth physically warm emotionally cold I watch green orbs, roll across red white, red white tablecloth roulette —Bill Cutrer

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in pretense of patience, as though the eye will adjust finally to the dripping static. They’ll settle, I say, in the flavor of summer. The taller fence is tired with the repeat of season. Stained with mossy streaks of no particular pattern. Wet, cold, worn and weathered. The slats bow outward, urging away from their supports—born of a different tree, a stronger wood. Believing in a better place (possibly next door) they peel away like dead, burnt skin; rebelliously forgotten organ— obedient to their source, their selves. The picnic basket’s been emptied. Stagnant crumbles sat too long. Patient, muted thing! I had forgotten what was on the menu. Scraped rot, death. No clues among them. It was a good idea, really— born of spurts of inspiration—but finally, death, lackadaisical neglect. —Jacqueline Markowski

Winter Time

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A Somewhat Mysterious Region

Time of My own lust for my own blood And the telling of the taking

Sleeping wounds you used to call them, the mysteries of a night’s rest. My body was convincing and cowardly with you— Born to the stage, the elaboration of ease. And when I mentioned pains without origin, you gifted me that phrase, all the lovely succinctness I knew you for.

The consensus is that most in that place lack self-awareness and complex emotions the need to think about things that are difficult (the general appropriateness of transactions or events) such as perceiving injustice or uncertainty about rewards the pain of being socially excluded or the sort of feelings that poets have.

Hopeless time of false spring When hooded snows Drop coins in my lap Cold marrow time Time of no smell And no rot Time of colors fleeing Time of nutrient as sacrament Foothill as farewell And moth’s absence felt Time of spider’s withdrawal From dangling savings Silk purses slit open Time of no sound And then scraping No wind And then howling No breath And then coughing

—Elizabeth Caffrey

So our nights were secretly vicious, and I have slept so with others, holding hands and other nonsense of comfort. You could have named it something more than sabotage. (We were something more than defensive, something beyond our generation.) I would like the sleeper of my youth, just a movement I made once that rendered me beautiful. —Megan Reynolds

Time of vanities and pieties Falling like icicles Shouldered from branches Time of bears in coma Hornets indolently fanning flames Underground The lucky housefly Who made his stand indoors Before the doors closed in Time of inconstant pulse And timid inhalation Time of rationing And triage Time to sleep like the trees —Samuel Claiborne

Two Poems Of the first, the scholar and critic both agreed: Sublime content, precise form—perfectly married Of the latter, the two’s opinions would not part: Such simplistic drivel makes a mockery of the Art

Mid-life Dancing Lessons Our tango is tangled, Our mambo is mangled, Our fox trot is more like a lope. But all is not lost We can count on the waltz, and we Do, two three; Do, two three; You keep losing the beat, I keep trying to lead, Our Quick Step is not up to speed. My hand is too high, Your foot’s on my toe, We cannot quite capture the flow. But all is not lost, We still know the waltz, And we know how to laugh at our faults. Move forward, move right, Very good, now begin And we’re suddenly back at the prom in the gym. —Alice Radosh

A work-weary soul found the two by the road And wondered, What is this the wind has blowed? Of the first, he inhaled the chill, biting air, And confused, unmoved, resumed his despair Of the second, he no longer felt alone, And clutched the poem the whole way home —Christopher Porpora

Untitled Love Poem #2 and I said that we should lose ourselves in punk and never learn the difference between love & death; so that when I said “darling I miss the crook of your chest,” we could smile, write little ditties about nothing, and together ride out of the sunset. —Rachel Bishop

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local components fala technologies in kingston

though it didn’t seem so at the time, the downsizing

sue o’hearn assembling parts at fala technologies

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of IBM in the early ’90s actually helped Frank Falatyn’s Kingston-based company, FALA Technologies, to grow in a new direction. When IBM closed its Kingston operation, it also eliminated a substantial portion of its design division, leaving FALA Technologies, which had primarily constructed components for the company, with a choice. “We had a decision to make,” recalls Falatyn. “Should we change our business and go into design and development? I was the only engineer at the time. Now we have significantly more. IBM forced us to be a different company.” Now, rather than having 80 percent of its business tied to the technology giant, FALA has a mere five percent. And instead of concentrating its market in the Hudson Valley, it’s operating on a global scale. According to Falatyn, IBM has indirectly helped in this area as well—a significant portion of FALA Technologies’ new client base has come from engineers who left the shrinking company for other pastures. “I would get these calls from companies I had never heard of, with the engineer saying, remember when you made such and such component for IBM, well, we think you can help us on this project,” Falatyn notes. “We got a lot of new customers that way. That network helped us expand our business.” FALA Technologies was started in 1946 as a custom engineering and precision machine manufacturer by Falatyn’s father. With the change in direction came a change in location, and the company moved into its specifically designed 50,000-square-foot space in 1996. Along with incorporating “constructive eavesdropping” into its office layout—sliding doors that allow employees in different departments to listen to each other’s discussions and problem-solve when necessary—the new building contains a quality control area and a “clean room” for specific assembly needs. In addition to designing and constructing components and machines for technology companies, FALA is also involved in “supply chain manufacturing,” in which it manufactures and ships products directly to customers under the contractor’s label. An outgrowth of that has been the development of FALA’s own line of products, including a ceramic bearing used in robotic handling systems that lasts two years (as opposed to the six months of its closest competitor, Falatyn notes) before needing to be replaced. According to Falatyn, the bearing, which has been on the market for six years, is a “multimillion dollar business for us. We sell it to the Intels, the IBMs, the Motorolas. We’re now branching into the Chinese market with it.” The company also plans to unveil a new product line this month to accommodate the larger computer chip wafer currently being marketed by technology manufacturers. “We’re trying to stay competitive cost-wise and efficiency-wise, but we also need to stay competitive design-wise,” Falatyn adds. According to Falatyn, FALA’s strength is that it begins with raw stock and goes from there. “We still actually build everything here. We don’t subcontract things out,” he says. While the company cannot compete with high-volume companies

frank falatyn, owner of fala technologies, and sue o ’ hearn ( background ) in a dust-free environment (Falatyn admits that when a client’s product becomes too successful, FALA tends to lose the account), what it does provide is the ability to customize and create designs in a very precise way. “Our job is to develop the next technology, the next prototype, the next type of robotic hand,” he adds. After a brief downturn during the Internet bust, Falatyn says FALA Technologies is back on track. With 48 employees, eight of whom are engineers, and $5 to $10 million in annual sales, FALA is “as busy as we were during the Internet boom days,” according to Falatyn. And the company is growing—inventing more products and hiring new people. Falatyn attributes a lot of the new surge to efforts being made on a state level to increase the market for technology companies. “In April, I’m going with other manufacturing companies to the semi-conductor conference, Semicon Europa, in Munich,” Falatyn points out. “I went last year for the first time. I never would have gone if New York State hadn’t organized it.” The next step, as far as Falatyn is concerned, is to encourage the start-up of more technology companies in the area. “We’re here because we grew up here,” he notes. “The trick is to start creating more entrepreneurs building these kinds of companies. My company will probably double in size in the next 10 years. That’s not much, but it’s 100 technology jobs in the Hudson Valley. If we have five or six companies like that, that would bring a much more diverse, stable work force to the area. And technology companies are environmentally friendly. For the most part we use water-soluble coolants that are recycled and biodegradable. We’re here because we love to hike and camp. We don’t pollute. That’s what we’re trying to work on. That’s a homegrown company.” FALA Technologies office and production facility is located at 430 Old Neighborhood Road in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 336-4000 or look on the Web at ww.falatech.com.

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s Frank Falatyn, owner of FALA Technologies points out, everyone in the custom engineering and precision manufacturing company “works with our hands,” including himself. But, he adds, it’s getting harder and harder to find qualified employees. “In my father’s generation, who would work here would be kids who worked under cars,” he says. “The problem is, there aren’t any kids working with their hands anymore. The car repairs are all computerized.” Falatyn, who serves on the advisory board of the BOCES in Port Ewen, says there are some candidates through that organization and others who come out of two-year technical colleges, but for the most part “we do a lot of the training ourselves.” Another source is workers from downsized companies in the South and the Midwest, he adds, where manufacturing is still prevalent. Once he finds a qualified employee, Falatyn adds, he doesn’t let them go. During the economic downturn following the dot-com bust, he refused to lay anybody off. “I had half of the company doing shop work,” he recalls. “They were painting and reorganizing the area, and I was out there with the sales force trying to drum up business.” There are even two men in their 70s who have been with the company for 40 years who still come in on a part-time basis. “I won’t let them retire,” Falatyn says with a laugh. “I give them all of my fussy work. It’s a tough business. It’s not like working in a retail store.” —mh

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THE FAMILY THAT PLAYS TOGETHER… BY SUSAN PIPERATO / PHOTOS BY ROY GUMPEL

Killing your television is frequently touted as the answer to whatever ails your offspring, whether it’s emotional distance, low grades, weight gain, or behavioral issues. But making it impossible for the members of your household to line up on the couch regularly to stare blankly in unison—or worse yet, alone from their individual beds—at a TV screen for hours on end doesn’t necessarily guarantee lasting familial togetherness. No, to stay together, you’ve got to play together at something that involves eye contact and some kind of emotional exchange. (In other words, playing Sega together or going shopping doesn’t count.) That’s relatively easy with babies and young children. After all, you can engage the very young simply by coming back in the door and shouting “Peekaboo!” and interact with the pre- or school-age child by reading together or working finger paints or clay or Legos at the kitchen table. But finding things to do with your kids becomes increasingly challenging as they grow up, since they’re more than likely to find the very notion of hanging out with the family as unappealing as it is embarrassing. Face it—in all likelihood, the last thing they want as they hit the double digits in age is for you to come up with things to do that will keep them close to home. And yet, finding hip, inventive ways to spend time together as your kids get older might just be the most important thing you ever do as a parent. After all, as I keep reminding myself about my own 11-year-old and 14-year-old, before I know it, they’ll be gone—and the less actively I seek their interaction, the fewer memories we’ll all have of their childhood and the weaker the base they’ll have from which to spring forth into this increasingly complex and difficult world. Although our family always eats meals together, and indulging in more than an hour at a time of electronic activities (which essentially involves ignoring everyone else) has traditionally been verboten, I have to admit that when we moved recently I got a bit slack about certain rules and routines. Whenever things got quiet at home, rather than check to see why, I sprang into action, unpacking or

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working on the house or completing another freelance assignment at my computer, always feeling grateful for the chance to get one more job done. But then, as the boxes and to-do lists and deadlines cleared, I realized that something had been lost—namely, family life. Plus, the boys couldn’t possibly have as much homework to do in their rooms at their computers as they were letting me assume. So lately, I’ve been rethinking how to spend the free time I have with my kids. Going up against what turned out to be their newfound Runescape obsession—and instant messaging habits—neither of which I find problematic in short doses—has not been easy, but the one-hour rule has at last prevailed in the name of us being a family. And in my online searches and talking with friends who are fellow parents, I’ve discovered that I’m not alone in wanting not only to curtail solitary and passive activities, but to enrich our life together too. There’s a zeitgeist occurring in regard to improving family time—check out www.BlueSuitMom.com, for instance, as just one example of the many Web sites devoted to enlivening family interaction. Although most folks I know and most Web sites I’ve visited are concerned with finding ways to interact meaningfully with toddlers or elementary school aged kids, between those resources and my own intuition, I’ve managed to relearn how to relate to my kids as they move toward adulthood in ways that are not only culturally enriching and promise to serve well down the track, but which, so far, they seem to consider cool rather than torturous. GAME NIGHTS

As anyone who spent time shopping last holiday season knows, games of all kinds—card, board, and gambling—are in, and there’s one for every sort of evening. We’ve designated Fridays

as pizza and game night. For a really loud, raucous evening, we like Pit, a card game based on the “pits” of the commodities exchange, which requires a lot of shouting and bell ringing to “corner” the market. The more intellectual Cranium (available in various levels) is a good game for stimulating conversation; while backgammon, chess, and my personal childhood favorite, Othello, can be meditative. Classic games for kids and adults—from Chinese checkers to poker—are being marketed in new and very appealing ways. Our Texas Hold ’Em Poker Set, for instance, came in a tin box shaped like the several stacks of plastic poker chips contained within it; and whatever your personal interests, there’s a Monopoly game designed just for you. (We like our Yankees and Star Wars versions as much as our original—and therefore, now retro-style—version.) Aside from the obvious lessons in sportsmanship and patience to be gained from playing just about any game, games allow family members to relax and reveal aspects of themselves that are perhaps not ordinarily seen. (Think of the complex characterizations of the mah jong players in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.) “Everybody plays differently,” I used to tell my younger son when he protested his brother’s penchant for communal Monopoly deals. And these days, I’m as happy to host poker games on Friday nights as my kids are. But any game allows us to face each other, simultaneously goof off and get serious, and bring friends of all ages to the table with us. EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE

It’s still fairly uncommon to take kids to an art museum, perhaps because there’s always the danger of kids making noise, running through spaces, and touching artwork. But if you want to raise culturally cognizant kids, you have to let them experience art right from the start—and although MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art eventually become de rigueur, you don’t necessarily need to go to New York City to do it. Dia:

Beacon, Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery at Vassar College, Olana, SUNY New Paltz’s Samuel Dorsky Gallery, and Albany’s New York State Museum are all within an hour’s drive of just about any point within the Hudson Valley. When looking at art with kids, remember that, regardless of their age, they learn best through their senses. Try playing I Spy when visiting an art gallery with very young children, suggests www.BlueSuitMom.com. For elementary-school-aged children, try telling stories about what’s going on in a particular painting, or bring along paper and pencils for the kids to make sketches of painted portraits. Or attempt the fifth grade painting project traditionally undertaken by art classes at Lenape Elementary School in New Paltz: choose any portrait, make a sketch of it, and let the child place himself or herself within it. Think: your daughter as Girl with a Pearl Earring or your son as Van Gogh. NEVER GIVE UP ON STORYTIME

I’ll forever miss the days when I read every night to my boys, and I’ll never give up their boxfuls of favorite picture books (except perhaps to my grandchildren), but recently, I realized, just because my kids have outgrown children’s stories doesn’t mean we have to give up reading together. Older kids, I happily discovered as we drove someplace one day, listening to short stories being read aloud on NPR, still like to be read to. Last summer during hot nights at home, in the face of complaints of boredom, I started to read short stories aloud: Hemingway, Poe, Faulkner, O’Connor, even Rick Moody. The room grew so quiet as I read for the first time that I suspected my listeners had fallen asleep, but when I stopped, they raised their heads from the sofa arms and asked me to keep going. Granted, reading “The Pit and the Pendulum” or “The Short, Happy Life of Francis MacComber” isn’t the same as reading Where the Wild Things Are. But like films, there are so many classic stories I don’t think we’ll ever run out of material for reading aloud.

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ure, we all rent movies and let our kids watch them, but hosting a weekly family movie night is something else again. Family movie night is as much about turning your living room into your own cinema as it is about creating a bonding and learning experience for you and your kids. At our house, Saturday nights are designated movie nights, but Sunday afternoons or evenings or other nights can work well, too—just choose a time when you’re unencumbered by work or household responsibilities and you can safely turn off the phone and relax. Rather than simply renting a few movies and letting the kids start watching them in another room while you finish doing the dishes, make sure the event involves the entire family. Designate a movie start time and work together to complete chores in time. Set a cinematic tone by making sure there are enough comfy seats and preparing snacks—setting bowls of popcorn and “movie candy,” like licorice or Goobers and Raisinettes, on the coffee table lets the kids know it’s a special time. For added interest, make your snacks “match” the movie thematically. When my kids and I watched the now classic 1973 Italian comedy Bread and Chocolate, for instance, we ate, well, sandwiches of French bread and dark chocolate like the Swiss in the movie. Writer and Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold often joins fellow writer Laura Shaine Cunningham for family movie nights with food themes. Recent titles, says Shengold, include Bend It Like Beckham (accompany the film with samosas, Indian breads like nan and parantha, and chutney), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (try baklava), Under the Tuscan Sun (the perfect opportunity to introduce northern Italy’s lighter, roasted cookery), and the delectable Chocolat (buy big at your favorite sweet shop beforehand, and be sure to pick up some Belgian cocoa). At our house, we’ve used family movie nights to introduce foods the kids might not normally try,

like crepes for French films and vegetable tempura to accompany an occassional Japanese flick. Lest you be a parent who loathes the idea of family movie night because, frankly, you don’t like movies that are made for kids (e.g. Disney), don’t despair. Plenty of foreign made-for-kids movies lack the saccharine of their American counterparts. For instance, try the British suspense film classic The Moonspinners with Hayley Mills, or (also from Britain) Fairy Tale: A True Story for little girls who like Tinkerbell or boys who are at all interested in Houdini. If you feel obligated to indulge in Toy Story or Finding Nemo one more time, you can always make it a double feature, with the second, more mature film scheduled for after the youngest kids have gone to bed. Choosing classic black-and-white movies allows you to catch whatever flicks you’ve missed, or to take private trips down memory lane as you watch movies or compilations of televisions shows that have disappeared but are still beloved, all while your kids soak up some of your generation’s culture. Added bonus: most classic films lack offensive language and graphic sex and violence, but are still complex and interesting enough to keep kids watching. My boys and I have enjoyed working our way through the Hitchcock collection—with a few

exceptions, of course—as well as Vincent Price’s interpretations of Edgar Allen Poe’s horror stories. Shengold keeps a list of kid-friendly classics on hand for trips to the video/DVD rental store, and says she’s proud her daughter Maya, age 10, is a Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck fan. Me, I’m as glad my boys can recognize Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, as I am that they know who Dick Van Dyke is, can quote Chris the deejay from "Northern Exposure" and understand what I mean when I say that when you assume, you make an ass out of u and me from last year’s "Odd Couple" collection marathon. Unbeknownst to your kids, you can use foreign films to teach them about their ethnic heritage, or show a few classic historical films to educate them about 20th century culture and history. There’s no better way to instill an awareness of World War II than with Au Revoir, Les Enfants or Life Is Beautiful during, say, the middle school years. You can’t go wrong with any age group or personal predilection by showing classic comedies—the Marx Brothers, the Pink Panther, and the films of Jacques Tati have all held up well over time, and still make kids laugh just as hard today as you once did. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to darken the room and let the show begin.

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he origin of tapas, the diminutive plates of food that are a Spanish institution, is veiled in legend and tall tales. The predominant founding tapas myth is that small dishes (tapa means “lid” or “cover” in Spanish) were placed over wineglasses to keep the flies out; tidbits of food were then placed on top. Another story tells of a Spanish king that suffered from a stomach ailment that allowed him to digest only tiny portions. A final unlikely tale claims that the army invented the tradition of eating tapas in bars to keep soldiers from getting too drunk on their nights on the town. This much is known: tapas came out of southern winemaking region of Andalusia, where it is customary to be given a small dish of food, basically just a nibble, when buying an alcoholic beverage. In some bars, the pairing of drink and tapa by the server is considered an art in its own right. (As Alicia Rios notes in The Heritage of Spanish Cooking, the marriage of alcohol and food is paramount: “The drink stimulates the appetite and aids digestion, and the food palliates the ethylic effects of the drink. The combination of these factors results in a perfect balance.”) Now throughout Spain, from Barcelona to Bilbao, tapas bars are commonplace, and they are beginning to catch on in a big way in the US. Locally, both Richard Erickson of the Blue Mountain Bistro and Ric Orlando of New World Home Cooking have offered takes on tapas in recent years. (Even Mr. Italian Cuisine himself, “Molto” Mario Batali, opened two tapas bars in Manhattan, Casa Mono and Bar Jamon, in 2003.) Tapas have evolved from humble bar snacks to a mini-cuisine with a culture and etiquette of their own. Tapas bars sometimes offer dozens of selections to choose from. Traditional dishes include cured meats; patatas bravas (“fierce potatoes”—potato wedges coated in spicy sauce made from tomatoes and chili peppers); cheeses, especially Manchego, a mild sheep’s milk cheese with a slightly nutty flavor; small fried or marinated fish; olives; and the tortilla española, or Spanish omelet, served at room temperature. When Susan and Dennis Cooper, original owners of River Station in Poughkeepsie, bought the building housing

clockwise from top left: a typical tapas plate at 23 broadway—duck liver mousse, manchego and arugula wrapped in spanish ham, artichoke fritters, grilled shrimp; close-up grilled shrimp; plates on their way out of the kitchen. the former Sturgeon Wine Bar in 2002, the decrepit storefront space in Kingston’s Rondout district was in sorry shape. The bar was falling down; the toilet in the ladies’ room had sunken through the floor. After extensive renovations, 23 Broadway opened in May 2003. The 50-seat restaurant was gorgeous—the copper gleamed, the dark stain of the woodwork reflected a whiskey glow in candlelight, and the exposed brick exuded Kingston’s industrial past. And the food was good. I ate at 23 Broadway a few times that first year and I was never disappointed; but I was never impressed either. The dishes were of the New American cuisine variety, the culinary staples you find in two dozen or so “fine, upscale dining” establishments across the Hudson Valley. Every hamlet and village now seems to have a restaurant of this type, where CIA

graduates are churning out perfectly fine versions of filet mignon, turbot, and sweet potato ravioli tricked out with some ingenious side dish or garnish. Red lentil purée! Pickled Japanese vegetables! At the time, I wondered how long 23 Broadway would last, another good restaurant in a region of good restaurants. When Rich Reeve became executive chef at 23 Broadway in June of last year, the first thing he noticed was how much the dining room reminded him of a tapas bar. Reeve had never been to Spain, but he had seen many pictures of the dark-wooded Spanish eateries of Madrid and Seville, and thought the space had a tapas-bar feel. Since taking over the creative direction of the kitchen at 23 Broadway, Reeve has piloted a course straight for the Iberian peninsula. I did not know that the chef had changed the first

“You’ve got to find that balance between what you want to do creatively and what’s going to sell. Because if your food doesn’t sell, you won’t be creative for long.” —Rich Reeve

time I tried Reeve’s food earlier this year. We started out ordering just a few tapas off the menu—chorizo, mixed olives and peppers, patatas bravas; there is a choice of any three of the 20 tapas dishes for $10.95. The food was stunning. By the time we left, many hours and a number of bottles of Rioja later (caveat emptor: the list is lopsided in favor of France and California wines, with only three Spanish reds), my party had tried all the tapas and the cheese plate, featuring inspired pairings of cheeses and accompanying sauces, like Manchego drizzled with romesco, and Ouray (from Poughkeepsie’s Sprout Creek Farm) with cranberry relish. (The cheese plate is sadly no longer on the menu; the Chef’s Sampler of olives, cheeses, and cured meats for $15.95 is a good substitute.) Reeve’s menu features a good deal of traditional tapas—boquerones (marinated white anchovies), crispy pork shank, Manchego and arugula wrapped with Spanish ham, grilled shrimp in romesco sauce, roasted piquillo peppers with Coach Farm goat cheese, Cabralas (Spanish blue cheese) with pear, duck liver mousse with black fig jam, lightly fried artichokec o n t i n u e d

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tastings EAST & WEST OF THE HUDSON BAKERIES The Alternative Baker

“The Village Baker of the Rondout.” 100% Scratch Bakery. Stickybuns, Scones, Muffins, Breads, Focaccia, Tartes, Tortes, Seasonal Desserts featuring local produce, plus Sugar-free, Wheatfree, Dairy-free, Vegan, Glutenfree, and Organic Treats! Cakes and Wedding Cakes by Special Order. We ship our Lemon Cakes nationwide, $30 2-pound bundts.OpenThursday-Monday 8am-6pm; Sunday 8am-4pm. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Well Worth The Trip! 35 Broadway, at the historic waterfront district, Kingston. (845) 331-5517 or (800) 399-3589. www.lemoncakes.com.

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Totis Gourmet is a market and cafe located at 490 Main Street in historic downtown Beacon. We feature locally grown produce, dairy, and meat in our cooking, and on sale in our market. We also provide a wide range of gourmet foodstuffs and inspiration for those who love to eat! (845) 831-1821. MEATS Fleisher’s Grass-fed & Organic Meats

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 & Owner Nuch Chaweewan. Please call (845) 687-2334 for prices and information.

A retail and wholesale butcher specializing in pasture-raised and organic meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, and cheese. Also glatt Kosher meat and poultry. Special orders welcome. Curbside delivery available—call first. Chef/owners Jessica & Joshua Applestone will also create delicious meals-to-go on the premises including rotisserie chicken and hot soups. Open Monday-Friday 10am7pm, Saturday 9am-5pm. 38 John Street, Kingston. (845) 338-MOOO(6666).

GOURMET MARKETS Bella Carne

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The bold tastes of Italy arrive in the Hudson Valley. Enticing ambiance meets old world flavors of traditional Italian cooking. Handmade Ravioli, Manicotti, fresh wet Mozzarella, imported Prosciutto, and many other tasty treats. Daily changing lunch and dinner specials offered along with mouthwatering selections featured in the meat counter. Catering is available for all occasions. (845) 331-4523.

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 to 6pm, Saturday 11am to 3pm. Located on Route

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28W between Kingston and Woodstock. (845) 331-9130. www.labellapasta.com. RESTAURANTS Agra Tandoor Restaurant

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. Open for Lunch: 12-2:30pm and 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. Bacchus

Celebrating our 28th Year! Enjoy creative cuisine with seafood and Southwest specialties in a casual, relaxed atmosphere. Offering a full salad bar; over 300 varieties of bottled beers, 13 on tap, plus a full wine list. Open Daily. Lunch 11am-4:30pm; Dinner 4:30-10pm. Weekend Brunch, late-night menu, and takeout available. 4 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-8636. Beech Tree Grill

Since 1991, this funky American bistro has entertained the Vassar College/Arlington Community and beyond with its sophisticated yet unpretentious menu that offers something for everyone in a comfortable and relaxing environment, including a fine selection of wine, beer, and microbrew that is as diverse as its clientele. 1-3 Collegeview Ave., Poughkeepsie. (845) 471-7279. Monday dinner 5-11pm; Tuesday-Saturday

lunch 11:30am-3pm, dinner 5-11:30pm; Sunday brunch 11:30am-3:00pm, dinner 5:00-10:00pm. Live music Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. MC, V, AE, D. www.beechtreegrill.com.

Eastern France. Families and children are welcome, private dining room available. Dinner Tuesday through Sunday and Brunch Sunday. Closed Monday. (845) 687-0810. Gilded Otter

Catskill Rose Restaurant

Four-star dining and catering in a comfortable and elegant dining room with antique art deco bar plus gorgeous gardens and outdoor dining. Chefs and proprietors Peter and Rose draw on years of creative experience to prepare the familiar and comforting to the classical and innovative. Soups and desserts made inhouse from scratch. Route 212, Mt. Tremper. (845) 688-7100. www.catskillrose.com. Cosimo’s on Union Ristorante & Bar

The most unique modern Italian Restaurant in Orange County, featuring wood-fired pizza, gourmet Italian pasta dishes, and other specialties from our open-air kitchen. Homemade Desserts, Espresso, Cappuccino, Full Bar, Party Rooms on request. Private Wine Cellar Dining; New Expansion; On- & Off-Premise Catering; Highly Rated, Zagat’s; Award of Excellence, Wine Spectator; Winner, Best of Hudson Valley 1994-1998; “5-Star Service”–Poughkeepsie Journal. Union Avenue, Newburgh. (845) 567-1556. The Inn & Spa at Emerson Place

Choose to dine in the elegant tapestry Dining Room, in the privacy of the Wine Room, or under the moonlight on The Terrace. Extraordinary cuisine complemented by a 6,000-bottle wine collection and the impeccable service of our European-trained staff. Spa and Lunch packages available. Lunch 12:30-2:30pm and dinner 6:30-9pm served daily. Reservations required. 146 Mount Pleasant Road, Mt. Tremper. (845) 688-7900 or www.emersonplace.com. The French Corner

Routes 213 West and 209, Stone Ridge, just minutes from Kingston. Experience Chef Jacques’ menu which features recipes using ingredients from his native Franche-Comte, France, combined with fresh seasonal products from Hudson Valley farmers. The French Corner dining room and bar are decorated with antiques and artifacts from

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 & brewed locally! 3 Main St., New Paltz. (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. Hours: Tuesday-Friday Lunch 11:30am2:30pm. Monday-Thursday Dinner 5-9pm. Friday Dinner 5-10pm. Saturday Dinner 4:3010pm. 7270 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY. (845) 758-4333. www.hana-sushi.com. 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 threestar 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 NYS Thruway Exit 19). (845) 338-2424 or www.hickoryrestaurant.com. The Hoffman House

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which during the 1600s served as a lookout for marauding Indians canoeing up the Esopus. Today, you can enjoy relaxed dining as you warm yourself near a soothing fireplace in one of Kingston’s oldest stone houses. Take a step back in time and savor the cuisine and service that the Hoffman House has been providing to their customers for over 27 years. Open Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner, 94 North Front Street, Kingston. (845) 338-2626. Joyous Café

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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 - 4:30 pm Saturday 10 am 2:30 pm and Sunday Brunch 10 am- 2:30 pm. Serving Dinner evenings of UPAC events. 608 Broadway, in The Heart of Broadway Theater Square, Kingston. (845) 334-9441. www.joyouscafe.com. Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant

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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 10am10pm and Friday and Saturday 10am-11pm. Closed Tuesday. 301 Broadway, Newburgh. (845) 562-6478. www.machu picchuperuvianrest.com. Maia Restaurant

Chef/Owner Anthony Kesselmark brings an exciting new American Restaurant to the Hudson Valley. Come and enjoy the newly renovated atmosphere, creative seasonal menu, and exceptional wine list. Enjoy tapas plates and wine in our lounge area. Open Wednesday to Friday for lunch, Monday to Saturday for Dinner from 4:30pm. Closed Sundays. LaGrange, NY. (845) 486-5004. Main Course

Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and freerange Hudson Valley products.

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Open Lunch and Dinner TuesSun, & Sunday Brunch. Wed and Thurs nights, food & wine pairing menu available. Voted “Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.” 232 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-2600. Visit our Web site at www.maincourse restaurant.com. Main Street Bistro

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner! Voted “Best Breakfast in the Hudson Valley” by Hudson Valley Magazine 2003! Creative American & Vegetarian Cuisine. Gourmet breakfasts, unique salads & sandwiches, homemade soups, burgers, pastas, vegan dishes & so much more! Join us for Tex Mex Mondays & Pasta Night Thursdays! Open at 8am daily, Saturday & Sunday open at 7am. Dinner served ThursMon. 59 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-7766. www.mainstreetbistro.com. Marcel’s Restaurant

Casual & comfortable dining, warm country inn atmosphere. Price range $13.95-$23.95. Now offering daily 4-course Prix Fixe specials for $15.95. House specialties: Beer-Battered Shrimp, Escargot, Coquille St. Jaques, Pistachio-Crusted Rack of Lamb, Steak au Poivre, and Duck Laparousse. Catering available. Open Thurs. through Mon. 5-10pm; Sun. 3-9pm. 1746 Route 9W, West Park. Reservations suggested. Call (845) 384-6700 for a fine dining experience. Mina

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use local purveyors, farmers, and food artisans whenever possible. A spectacular wine list of oldand new-world varietals has been created using producers that preserve fine, traditional, & artisanal winemaking. The staff at Mina is very passionate about our art & are sure that passion will be reflected in your time spent with us. 29 West Market Street, Red Hook, NY 12571. (845) 758-5992. Neko Sushi & Restaurant

Voted “Best Sushi” Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch & dinner daily. Eat in or Take Out. We offer many selections of Sushi & Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls & kitchen dishes. Live lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Sun.-Thurs. 12-10pm; Fri. & Sat.12-11pm. Major credit cards accepted. 49 Main St., in the Village of New Paltz. (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. 18 Garden St., Rhinebeck. (845) 876-7338 or 876-7278. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli. (845) 757-5055. 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 & conferences up to 50 people. Open 24/7. 27 New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz. Exit 18 off NYS Thruway. (845) 255-1030. The Red Onion Restaurant & Bar

The Red Onion Restaurant & Bar, a robust international bistro, invites you to join us for casual, upscale service & dining in comfortable elegance. Offering the freshest quality seafoods, diverse daily specials, and entree varieties in a glamorous new smoke-free facility. Located just outside Woodstock on scenic Route 212. The Red Onion wants you to enjoy house-made ice creams & desserts as well as expertly crafted cocktails using nothing but freshly-squeezed juices. The Red Onion also boasts the region’s most extensive wine3/05

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by-the-glass program. Closed Weds. Dinner Daily 5pm. (845) 679-1223. The River Grill

Enjoy a first class meal as you gaze out on the Hudson River and the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. Our outstanding culinary staff has over 40 years experience. We take pride in preparing for you a fresh eclectic American meal. Our top servers and bartenders will provide you with an impeccable dining experience. 40 Front St., Newburgh. (845) 561-9444. www.rivergrill.com. Soul Dog

Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts & many gluten-free items prepared in-house. Open for lunch Mon-Fri 11am-4pm. Redefining the hot dog experience! 107 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-3254. Terrapin

Since opening in 1998, in its original West Hurley location, Terrapin has received glowing reviews for chef/owner Josh Kroner’s creative menu, as well as one of the highest Zagat ratings in the Hudson Valley. Chef Kroner’s menu utilizes international flavors including Asian, Southwestern, and Italian, with classical French technique. Rhinebeck. (845) 876-3330. Yanni’s Restaurant & Cafe

Specializing in authentic, homemade Greek cuisine. Vegetarian and traditional American favorites. Gyros, Souvlaki, Stuffed Grape Leaves, Spanakopita, Tyropita, Veggie Wraps, Mythological Platters, homemade Greek desserts. All prepared fresh daily. Catering available. Bring the whole family. Open daily. New Paltz. www.yannirestaurant.com. (845) 256-0988. WINE & LIQUOR Olde Mill Wine & Spirits

Unique, handcrafted wines from all over the globe. We taste every wine before we buy it and are partial to family-owned and worked wineries. You’ll find exceptional and unusual liquors, plus longstanding favorites. Great values, stunning wines, liquors, & related stuff. Open Mon.-Sat. till 7pm. Come see us. Drink Outside the Box! 6390 Mill St. (Route 9), Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-5343. 3/05

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Mother of Invention Opening sentences matter a lot to Ann Patty. An executive editor at Harcourt, with 28 years in the publishing business, she sifts through 10 to 20 manuscripts every week, hoping to find the five or six gems she will steer into print in a given year.

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don’t slog. If there’s a grammatical error on page one, I stop reading right there.” This may sound harsh to aspiring novelists—what about my brilliant scene on page 472?—but most readers will also put down a book if its opening pages don’t grab them. Patty’s criteria for choosing a book are stringent and highly personal. “I use my own taste, always have,” she asserts. “If I start reading and don’t want to stop till I’m done, it’s for me.” When a literary agent sent her an unheralded manuscript called Life of Pi, Patty’s sister was visiting from Alaska. “All the way home [from the airport], I thought, ‘How can I tell her I have to finish this book?’” When her sister announced she was tired from her flight and wanted to rest, the editor was euphoric. This passionate response to books has brought Patty an astonishing string of literary and commercial hits. She has edited books by literary heavyweights Steven Millhauser (the Pulitzer Prizewinning Martin Dressler), Mary Gaitskill, Lynn Freed, Harry Crews, Laurie Colwin, and dozens more; authors she’s introduced to the US market include V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic), Michael Moore (Downsize This!), Clive Barker (The Inhuman Condition), Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), Olivia Goldsmith (The First Wives Club), Karen Finley (Enough Is Enough) and Frank Zappa (The Real Frank Zappa Book). I’ve asked Rhinebeck resident Patty to meet b y

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at Gigi Trattoria, unaware that its winter hours don’t include midweek lunches. When I arrive, she swoops out of a neighboring menswear store, where she’s been scouring the shelves for a Valentine gift for her bicyclist boyfriend (“I have a tall, thin boyfriend who doesn’t have any clothes,” she grins with infectious delight.) We relocate to Terrapin, where Patty instructs the waitress to bring her mesclun salad with blue cheese, crumbled not creamy, and just enough balsamic vinaigrette to moisten it a little. She catches herself sounding “like a total New Yorker” and bursts out laughing. Ann Patty laughs freely and often; clear-eyed and tanned from a mid-winter vacation in Belize, she gives the impression of a woman who loves every aspect of life. “I’m by nature very happy,” she says, adding, “Subject to change, of course.” Patty grew up in Oakland, California. Her family was not literary. “I was raised on TV. My mother read Mickey Spillane and Reader’s Digest Condensed Books.” When her older brother went to college in Berkeley, a scant few miles north and a world away, he brought home books and words, which his younger sister devoured. “I used to make lists of new words and try to use them in sentences. ‘Benevolent’ was one of my favorites.” Patty went to Berkeley as well, in the turbulent 1960s. She majored in literature. “My form of rebellion was to become recherché. My father was always after me to take economics courses, so I’d be able to make a living... I didn’t know the profession of editor even existed.” Eventually, a New York boyfriend brought her to a beach house party where

“there were all these editors talking about books. It was like a light bulb went off: That’s what I’ll do! I’ll go to New York and be an editor!” Patty started as an editorial assistant at Dell and became an editor at Pocket Books. Her commercial track record impressed her bosses so much that they made her, at 29, the founder, publisher and editorial director of her own imprint, Poseidon Press. Patty describes Poseidon as “an outrigger of Simon & Schuster,” within which she enjoyed a newfound autonomy. “I was always interested in literary fiction. First you pay the rent with commercial books, then you earn the right to publish what you like.” She ran Poseidon until 1993, when her beloved imprint fell under the corporate axe. Patty decamped to Crown, which she describes as “more marketing-driven” than Simon & Schuster. Four years ago, she moved to her current position at Harcourt. “It’s a literary house and always has been, it’s not driven by the million-dollar-sweepstakes game. The entry ticket is that the writing has to be good.” But even good writing requires a good editor. Editing is a mysterious art. As with many guiding professions—teaching, producing films, psychoanalysis—the editor’s contribution is allimportant, but difficult for outsiders to quantify. In The Forest From the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers, Betsy Lerner writes, “The art of editing is a dance one engages in with the author to help him achieve the best results. Only an author knows for sure whether an editor is making a serious contribution to and improvement of his work.”

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To be sure, there are stories of editors who become virtual collaborators: the legendary Maxwell Perkins helped Thomas Wolfe carve a viable narrative from his million-word opus Of Time and the River; many credit Gordon Lish with the rhythms of Raymond Carver’s best stories. But for the most part, the editor’s job is to render her guiding hand strong but invisible. As Lerner notes tartly, “No reviewer ever says, ‘By God, this book was well edited.’”

atty describes her role simply. “I’m the mother of the book,” she says, and details a book’s upbringing. “You dress it up, give it good manners, try to introduce it to nice people. It’s exactly like being a mom.” (Patty has a grown daughter, who works at New York’s legendary used bookstore The Strand.) When she falls in love with a manuscript, Patty’s first task is “conceiving”: describing its contents and style in a sentence or two to her colleagues and boss. Then she contacts the author’s agent to negotiate an offer. Sometimes there’s simultaneous interest from rival publishers, and an auction ensues. Once the rights are acquired, Patty says, “I work with the author to make a book its best self.” This process can vary enormously. Sometimes a manuscript requires major restructuring, or detailed line-editing. Sometimes it’s a matter of tiny refinements; as a colleague of Betsy Lerner’s said of editing a meticulous author, “It’s like polishing silver.” Interpersonal relationships with authors are equally varied, ranging from close friendships to divorce. Patty’s favorite part of her job is sitting alongside a writer to edit in person. “Things start to be magical when you sit down together over a manuscript.” Editors also work intensively with marketing and art departments. Patty has strong opinions on book jackets. “I feel that every book has a vibe. The book jacket needs to reflect a lot of subliminal information.” She often spends hours honing jacket and catalogue copy. “Writing copy is debased poetry. Every word counts.” Throughout prepublication, the editor does whatever she can to promote her book. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease. There are a lot of books published every year. I try to get people excited, both in-house and out, so my book gets attention.” Next comes publication, when the proud editorial mother gets to watch her book walk down the aisle in its cap and gown. Some of Patty’s summa cum laudes at Harcourt include Booker Prize-winner Life of Pi, The Crimson Petal and the White, and The Circus In Winter, the title of which was the answer to a New York Times double acrostic last month.

HARCOURT EXECUTIVE EDITOR, ANN PATTY

“People ask if I ever regret turning down a book which went on to become a bestseller. The answer is no. I couldn’t have made that book a bestseller, because I didn’t like it,” says Patty. Asked what she does like, she thinks for a minute, searching for ways to describe the heady sensation that lets her know she’s in good hands. “I really care about voice. I want to feel, right from the start, that the baseline intent of the author is to tell the truth—not the facts, the truth. You usually know in the first page or two. You can almost run your finger over it. The good ones kind of glow at me.” Patty’s gift for spotting “the good ones” has allowed her to shift her primary residence gradually from Manhattan to Rhinebeck, where she’s owned a home for the past 20 years. Her move to the country was prompted in part by a serious illness nine years ago, which changed her perspective. “When you’re staring at death for a year, a lot of bullshit drops

away. I put aside all false ambition. I try to stay away from things that make me unhappy.” Patty extols the joys of working for hours in her perennial gardens and taking long walks, turning over new books in her head. She reads a prodigious amount; on her Belize vacation, she logged 1,600 pages in 10 days. She’s also pursuing a formal Buddhist training, and dreams of becoming a rescue squad worker. But books come first. Some of Patty’s upcoming releases include a new Jeannette Winterson novel, Lighthousekeeping; an “amazing” short story collection by newcomer Christopher Coake; and an audacious English novel by Christopher Wilson, Cotton, whose protagonist changes race and gender several times during the course of a very strange life. Patty’s mounting excitement, as she describes Cotton’s narrative twists and turns, is contagious. “All editors I know feel this way,” she says. “It’s a calling. What else would you do?”

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SHORT TAKES

Major Conflict

A SEXTET OF OUTSTANDING NEW PUBLICATIONS

including three by authors who will

Jeffrey McGowan

read in area bookstores this month.

broadway books, 2005, $34.95

BUSH VERSUS THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT S. DEVINE, FOREWORD BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. ANCHOR BOOKS, 2004, $12.00

Kennedy’s foreword puts it bluntly: “George W. Bush is the worst environmental president in American history.” This comprehensively researched book explains how and why. A stomach-churning but important read for anyone concerned about the effects of Bush’s relentless pro-business agenda on environmental safeguards.

THE SHOOTING SCRIPT BY LAURENCE KLAVAN BALLANTINE BOOKS, MARCH 2005, $23.95

Roy Milano is a self-described “trivial man,” a finder of obscure films and film lore, who stumbles into a real-life film noir. Packed with old-movie references, this sequel to The Cutting Room is a delicious read for movie and mystery fans. See OUT & ALOUD for reading schedule.

THE KEENERS BY MAURA D. SHAW MEDALLION PRESS, MARCH 2005, $25.95

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Poughkeepsie author Shaw unveils her epic historical yarn of the Irish potato famine and the brave, beleaguered emigrants who settled Troy, New York, building new lives in the iron and collar industries. See OUT & ALOUD for reading schedule.

UNCLE DUBYA’S JIHAD JAMBOREE WRITTEN BY RON CALLARI, ILLLUSTRATED BY JACK PITTMAN HOWLING DOG PRESS, 2004, $15

The international follies of the first Bush presidency, examined in punchy essays and 80 full-color and b/w cartoons. A frequent flyer in Chronogram and other alternative publications, Callari & Pittman’s diaper-and-fedora-clad hero, kidd millenium, is a wise child indeed.

A WANDERING FEAST: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE JEWISH CULTURE OF EASTERN EUROPE BY YALE STROM WITH ELIZABETH SCHWARTZ JOSSEY-BASS BOOKS, $24.95

This joyous back-roads travelogue with recipes and music follows an American klezmer musician’s 1981 journey through Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Ukraine, and Romania and their still-vigorous Jewish traditional cultures. Reading and klezmer performance at Ariel Booksellers, New Paltz, March 26 at 7pm.

SOON, BABOON, SOON BY DAVE HOROWITZ G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS, 2005, $14.95

The award-winning Rosendale author of A Monkey Among Us spins an upbeat tale of an impatient baboon awaiting his big chance in The Percussion of the Apes. Horowitz’s exuberant blend of jazzy wordplay and colorful collage illustrations is guaranteed to be a read-aloud hit with the preschool set.

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ou may think you’ve never heard of retired army major Jeffrey McGowan before, but you have. On February 27, 2004, he wound up in the New York Times when New Paltz Mayor Jason West married him to his partner, Billiam van Roestenberg, in the first same-sex wedding in New York State. Not bad for a guy who spent most of his life in the closet. McGowan also spent a good chunk of his life—from 1988 to 1998—in the army, and that’s the subject of his first book, Major Conflict: One Man’s Life in the Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Military. Its title accumulates meanings as you read. As a kid growing up in Queens, McGowan played war games so fanatically that the nuns in school had to remind him he wasn’t a Stuka dive-bomber. As a young adult, he began to play head games with himself. Maybe he looked forward to holding hands with his male friend when nobody was watching, but what he really wanted, he told himself, was a military career, a wife, and children. As a major in the army, McGowan found that his career and his sexuality collided head on. It was easier at first, during Bush the elder’s administration, when McGowan’s concern was keeping his men alive in the Persian Gulf. It became harder during Clinton’s presidency, when the attempt to make the military more hospitable for gays and lesbians unwittingly had the opposite effect. McGowan writes his memoir as you’d imagine a soldier might. Not especially subtle or poetic, his prose marches in a straight line and keeps the pages turning. But the last chapters of Major Conflict are downright compelling, as he writes about the casualties of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, real men whose stories are tragic and too common. The big tragedy, of course, is McGowan’s. “Becoming a soldier,” he writes, “seemed as necessary to me as fulfilling the most basic of needs.” In the end, he found he couldn’t reconcile what he did with who he was. He says he’s happier than ever now, and working as a pharmaceutical sales representative. Still, you can’t help but mourn for the little boy who pretended to be a dive-bomber. Jeffrey McGowan will read from Major Conflict at Ariel Booksellers in New Paltz on Saturday, March 12 at 7pm. —Jane Smith

Twitch and Shout Lowell Handler

reissued with a new foreward by university of minnesota press, 2005 $16.95

is tics and jerky movements started in infancy, but Lowell Handler didn’t get a name or diagnosis for them until age 21. Tourette’s Syndrome can cause a wide variety of involuntary actions—twitching, odd vocalizations, expletive screaming—especially at inappropriate times. Twitch and Shout is an insider’s look at the uninhibited life of Touretters, and at the way the world looks back at them as well. Handler’s a first-class tour guide. A photojournalist by trade (and photography instructor at Dutchess Community College), he’s exposed

the world of the Touretter in projects like a collaboration with eminent neurologist Oliver Sacks for Life magazine, and the production and narration of an Emmy-nominated documentary, also called Twitch and Shout. The book is a window into life with Tourette’s in both content and style; its pace alternately surges, slows, and explodes. Through Handler’s photographs and his intense, unsparing prose, we meet Touretters of every degree; the 11-year-old twins who jerk and jump in unison, a closeted lesbian who compulsively repeats the word “gay,” an orchestra conductor who’s spasm-free when she lifts her baton. There’s even another photojournalist/Touretter—a Frenchman without Handler’s compulsion to explain the condition. A waitress once asked the two of them if they were all right as they “kicked and barked” their way through lunch. “We are high on crack!” the Frenchman gleefully replied. Getting a name for Handler’s differences provided both a relief and a burden; it explained his problems, but also removed hope they’d ever get fixed or just go away. Life with TS is one without the grace of self-editing; a hand flies out, unbidden sounds and words erupt. But as with many neurobiological conditions, brilliance emerges through the cracks. Dr. Samuel Johnson, creator of the first English language dictionary, probably had Tourette’s. Oliver Sacks believes Mozart did too. Ancient Zulus revered Touretters, and usually made them chieftains or healers. “Don’t feel strange,” Handler’s father told him upon his diagnosis, “This is the future. People like you are vehicles to get us across into the next stage.” Touretters’ most debilitating impairment is the way the rest of us often perceive them. And maybe that’s the thing that needs fixing. Lowell Handler will read from Twitch and Shout at Barnes and Noble in Kingston on Wednesday, March 23 at 7pm. —Susan Krawitz

Hide Your Eyes Alison Gaylin signet books, 2005, $5.99

amantha Lieffer is a free spirit who teaches pre-kindergarten and works in the box office of an off-Broadway theatre. Although not lacking in drama, her life has been blessedly free of blood and gore. She has a phobia of cops, a bisexual philandering ex-husband, and a mother named Sydney who’s made a fortune in self-help writing, while leaving her own daughter perplexed about the nature of their relationship. Woodstock author Alison Gaylin presents an enormous incongruity right up front: artsy, gentle Samantha has killed someone. And with classic New York Art World insanity, she even has a co-worker shallow enough to envy her the experience. (“I’d kill for publicity like yours.”) To say the reader’s curiosity is engaged would be serious understatement. It’s a twisty-turny tale indeed. Samantha, a believer in signs and omens, and an ardent student of human nature—her own and others’—witnesses something so odd she just can’t get it out of her mind. But getting anyone else to pay attention is an uphill schlep. Little weirdnesses begin to pile up, but it’s hard to convince other people to take them seriously: when someone at a gay bar slips a note into Samantha’s bag saying Hide, her best friend argues that it was a concerned member of the Fashion Gestapo trying to point out to her that her bag’s a disgrace. Something’s going on here, Samantha is sure—but what? Is it about sadomasochism? Satanism? Mirrored contact lenses, things that nobody should do to a Barbie doll, and strange phone calls all draw Samantha and the reader inexorably toward the reality of the situation: she may well be a little crazy, but someone is most definitely out to get her. Samantha is great company, sharp and funny with a heart of gold. Finding herself at the heart of these curious matters, she steps up and finds unexpected courage—and love in the arms of a homicide detective. Even her lunatic co-workers at the off-Broadway box office have developed toward recognizable humanity by story’s end. And that’s all I am going to tell you about story’s end—except that the criminal mind behind the mayhem turns out to be as surprising a villain as the semi-slacker, head-in-the-clouds Samantha is an action heroine. —Anne Pyburn 3/05

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OUT & ALOUD

n eclectic sampling of some upcoming literary events in the Mid-Hudson

Valley. CURATED BY PHILLIP LEVINE. Send your events listings to outaloud@chronogram.com

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins

berrett-koehler, 2004, $24.95

SATURDAY, 3/5, 2PM MAURA D. SHAW Author of The Keeners reads and signs at Merritt Books, Red Hook; also Sunday, 3/6, 3pm, Merritt Books, Cold Spring; and Saturday, 3/19, 7pm Ariel Books, New Paltz.

SATURDAY, 3/5, 2PM & 3PM WORD SALAD Poetry performance troupe of Christina Starobin & Michael Strong. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Street, Kingston. (845) 331-0507. Free.

SATURDAY 3/5, 7PM ROGER KAHN Sportswriter reads and signs his new anthology, Beyond the Boys of Summer. Ariel Bookstore, 3 Plattekill Avenue, New Paltz. (845) 255-8041. www.arielbooksellers.com. Free.

WEDNESDAY, 3/9, 8PM ANNE BAILEY The author of African Voices of the Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame reads and signs her new book. CSB Auditorium, SUNY New Paltz. (Bailey is the keynote speaker for the “Diversity, History, Memory” symposium.) (845) 257-2121.

SATURDAY, 3/12, 11AM LAURENCE KLAVAN Klavan reads and signs his new thriller The Shooting Script. Merritt Books (Millbrook), also Saturday, 3/12, 2pm, Merritt Books (Red Hook); Saturday, 3/19, 2pm, Merritt Books (Cold Spring). www.merrittbooks.com.

SATURDAY, 3/12, 2PM SHARON NICHOLS & MICHAEL PERKINS The Woodstock Poetry Society poetry reading followed by open mike. Hosted by Phillip Levine. Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street. www.woodstockpoetry.com. Free.

TUESDAY, 3/15, 7:30PM GEORGE NICHOLSON & KEVIN POSTUPACK Poetry reading followed by open mike. Hosted by Teresa Costa. Cross Street Atelier/Gallery, 7 Cross Street, Saugerties. (845) 3316713. $3 suggested.

FRIDAY, 3/18, 8PM THE HUDSON POETRY CIRCLE Open reading in a circle: all ages are invited to attend, read, and participate in commentary. Hosted by Ann Gibbons. Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. www.hudsonoperahouse.org. Free.

SATURDAY, 3/19, 5PM WOODSTOCK LIBRARY FORUM WLF presents readings from My Heart’s First Steps: Writings That Celebrate the Gifts of Parenthood (Jennifer Graf Groneber, Editor). Featuring prose & poetry from contributors Guy Reed and Susan Hodara. Woodstock Library, Tinker Street. Free.

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conomic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. I should know; I was an EHM.” So begins Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins’ memoir cum mea culpa about his service as a consigliore in what he calls the “corporatocracy”—the monolithic fusion of corporations, banks, and governments (mainly the US) that preach the gospel “that all economic growth benefits humankind and the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits.” Perkins, former chief economist at the international consulting firm of Charles T. Main (MAIN), frankly has a lot to confess, and his book echoes Christian works like St. Augustine’s Confessions in its narrative arc from spiritual debasement to awakening. Perkins’ work as an EHM took him on a tour of the developing world in the 1970s and early 80s, where he persuaded countries that were strategically important to the US—Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Panama—to accept humungous loans for infrastructure development. These projects were then contracted out to US corporations. Saddled with debts they could not hope to repay, these countries came under the influence of US-dominated agencies like the World Bank. If a country would not accept these terms, then the “jackals” would be sent in, according to Perkins, and presidents and prime ministers would die in mysterious crashes (Torrijos in Panama, Roldos in Ecuador), or democratically elected governments would be subverted (Mossadegh in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala). If that didn’t work, invasion was the final step (Noriega in Panama). While Perkins’ prose is downright simplistic at times—chapter titles include “I Quit” and “I Take a Bribe”—and he has a tendency to gloss over specific economic details in favor of a broad storytelling sweep, in Confessions, Perkins has achieved a rare thing—he has pulled back the veil and shown us the inner, sinister, mechanics of the macroeconomic world. —Brian K. Mahoney

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Health Savings Accounts savings or scam? h e a lt h s av i n g s a c c o u n t s a r e t h e c e n t e r p i e c e o f p r e s i d e n t b u s h’s m e d i c a r e r e f o r m a c t . t h e s av i n g s s o u n d e d s o e n t i c i n g t h at i n e a r ly r a n o u t a n d s ta rt e d o n e m y s e l f — u n t i l i l e a r n e d m o r e .

he lure is undeniable. Instead of paying high monthly health insurance premiums, you get to pay lower ones. Then the magic begins in earnest. Each year until age 65 you can invest tax-free dollars, up to a government-set maximum, into a special Health Savings Account (HSA) to use for medical expenses. What you don’t spend from it on health care you get to keep. After age 65, the money can still be used tax-free to supplement Medicare. You, instead of the insurance company, own the pot of gold. And the pot can be substantial. A family that puts the $5,150 allowable maximum into their HSA each year could accumulate $51,500 in just 10 years—plus additional tax-free earnings (the money can be held in a money market account or an investment vehicle, like a CD or mutual fund). And though a portion would surely be used for medical care, the potential savings after 20, 30, or 40 years is tantalizing. Another nifty thing: if a non-medical emergency leaves you strapped for cash, you can use your HSA funds by paying taxes and a ten percent penalty for the amount you withdraw. HSAs are part of President George W. Bush’s broad “ownership” initiative, and the linchpin of a Medicare reform bill passed by Congress in December 2003. By “owning” a large part of your health insurance, Bush says, you will spend your healthcare dollar more carefully, driving down costs and realizing savings in the process. They also provide more flexibility and choice, advocates say. That’s because traditional health insurance plans may cover things you won’t need, and not cover what you do, whereas people with HSAs can spend their money on any “qualified medical expenses” (like prescriptions,

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over-the-counter drugs, dental and vision services, and mental health services). But critics say HSAs actually increase costs for some people, will do little for the 44 million people without health insurance, and may result in poorer health outcomes. Touted as a way to provide catastrophic health coverage for the uninsured, self-employed, or unemployed, HSAs are more likely to be used by wealthy people, according to a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And only 440,000 people had set one up as of September 30, 2004, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

the devil in the details Chicago attorney and mother of three, Teresa Hoffman Liston, has an HSA—and she says the plan is great. Liston, who underwent a mastectomy for breast cancer over a decade ago, says, “It was hard to find any health insurance. I found I’d have to pay $1,800 a month for sub par coverage. So, I went with a high deductible insurance [policy].” It has lower premiums, so she can afford putting some income, tax-free, into an HSA each month. From that she pays medical expenses. But even Liston cautions, “Now that I feel I’m healthy, it’s a good way to budget and save. But there is no ‘one size fits all’ here. You have to shop around and do your homework.” And there’s a lot of homework to do. An HSA isn’t going to improve on most employer-provided health insurance plans, which are available at group rates. Those plans pay for most emergency,

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outpatient, and hospital costs. Some cover the entire cost of preventive health services and substantial portions of drug costs. For those comprehensive benefits, an employer often contributes over $700 monthly for a family plan, while the employee generally pays monthly premiums of about $350 ($4,200 a year). Usually, co-payments for medical services are required, but are only about $10 to $50 per visit. But when an employer doesn’t offer a group plan, premiums skyrocket—and they must be paid entirely by the employee. For a family of four, premiums shoot upwards to at least $1,400 per month in the upstate New York area (and about $3,000 in New Jersey). By the end of the year, a family in upstate New York has contributed close to $17,000 to the insurance company’s pool. Then, should anyone in the family actually need medical services, there are still co-payments and deductibles to pay. As employers increasingly drop health insurance benefits, many families and individuals are stuck with a choice that self-employed people have had to make all along: either pay extremely high monthly premiums or risk no insurance coverage at all. This is where the lure of the Bush plan comes in. Here’s how it works. First, an individual or family must purchase an “HSA-eligible” high deductible health insurance plan (HDHP). To be HSA-eligible, a plan must have an annual deductible of at least $1,000 for an individual and $2,000 for a family. (Many HDHPs have deductibles from $2,000 to $10,000.) These are not comprehensive plans, but are for catastrophic care. Monthly premiums for an HDHP can be as much as 40 percent lower than a comprehensive health plan, starting at around $840 for a family of four—a savings of about $6,600 annually. That savings, or a portion of it, is then invested in an HSA (though some people don’t get around to doing that investment step). The amount invested each year is subtracted from taxable income on each year’s tax return, up to a maximum of $5,250 (or the HDHP’s annual deductible, whichever is less) for a family. For individuals, the taxfree investment maximum is $2,650 (or the annual deductible). Then, if you get sick or are injured and need health care, you pay “out of pocket”— from your HSA—up to as much as the deductible your HDHP specifies. If you don’t have enough in your HSA to do that, you tap other personal holdings. Fortunately, there is an annual ceiling to what you’re expected

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to pay out of pocket. For an individual it’s $5,100, and for a family, $10,200. Employers can offer HSAs and contribute into them, but fewer than 5 percent currently do. More common but similar arrangements are employer-sponsored health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) or flexible spending accounts (FSAs). These plans give employees an account that they can use to spend in a flexible manner similar to an HSA. But only the employer can contribute to an HRA and the pot of gold is not portable: it stays with the employer when you leave your job. Employees can contribute to an FSA, but the money doesn’t carry over from year to year. Some employees have MSAs (medical savings accounts), but those are being phased out.

out-of-pocket problems The HDHP trade-off—lower premiums for higher out-of-pocket expenses—may be worth it to someone who rarely needs medical care. But it can take just one car accident or one gallbladder surgery to exceed any potential savings with an HSA. A family of four paying the lower HDHP premium of $10,080 annually could incur another $10,000 in annual expenses—more than $20,000 in a single year. In addition, one of the small-print provisos of HDHPs is that they don’t cover costs over “usual, customary, and reasonable” care. And any such costs, paid by the patient, are not tallied in the “out-of-pocket” cap. Also, expenses paid to professionals who aren’t in an HDHP’s network of providers don’t count toward the cap. This means you could be stuck with even greater expenses than the out-of-pocket ceilings widely publicized by supporters of the HDHP/HSA plan. Kathleen Stoll, Director of Health Policy at Families USA, says for families with even one member who has any sort of chronic illness, such as asthma, diabetes, or high blood pressure, high-deductible plans are “not going to be a smart choice.” Uwe Reinhardt, professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, agrees, saying the plan is not likely to help those who need it the most. He points out that HDHP premiums are still prohibitively expensive for many of the nation’s 44 million uninsured, and even those who can manage it may have little to put aside in an HSA. “Even the conservative American Enterprise Institute calculated that only 6.7 million of the projected 49 million uninsured in 2006 will gain insurance under this plan,” he says.

That still leaves tens of millions in the US without any health insurance. Another problem is what the experts call “market segmentation.” In plain English that means that people who are healthy will buy into the HDHP/HSA combo since they anticipate savings. But as the healthier population leaves the traditional insurance pool in favor of the HDHP/HSA plan, others with chronic illnesses are left behind, creating a higher per-person liability for insurers. That cost would be passed on to those people remaining with the traditional plan, already burdened by greater than average medical expenses. In other words, those who need help the least will get it aplenty, while the neediest will find themselves even worse off.

penny wise & pound foolish? The high deductible HDHP and a self-owned HSA create a powerful incentive for people to make “cost conscious decisions,” says Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies at the Cato Institute, a nonprofit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, DC. “Cost-based selection among competing providers” will also drive costs down, he says. But healthcare isn’t a toy truck or a lawnmower. We can’t rely on Consumer Reports to tell us the best buy in whatever service we might need. Are we equipped to be bargain shoppers who make decisions that require medical expertise? How will we know when cheaper care is actually more expensive, in terms of dollars or health, in the long run? For people insured with HDHPs, the powerful incentive to save their own money could turn into a terrible dilemma—and a potential medical disaster. Patients may second-guess their own symptoms before going to an emergency room, or avoid seeking care early on, when problems may be more treatable—and not just for ankle sprains and colds, but for dizziness that could be a stroke, or heartburn that turns out to be a heart attack. Doctors encourage preventive and early care, and it’s worrisome that financial incentives would drive patients away from precisely the sort of care that is thought to be most beneficial. Certainly not all colds need to be seen. But the decision about what is serious and what isn’t is often better made by a doctor, who can also help educate patients about when to be seen. Nevertheless, Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, says financial incentives shouldn’t be a problem: “The Rand Health Insurance

Experiment found that people responsible for the first $1,000 consumed 24 to 30 percent less care and had no harmful health effects. They eliminate unnecessary health expenditures but they don’t hesitate to go see the doctor when they need to.” The Rand Health Insurance Experiment was a 15-year, multimillion-dollar study to assess how much more medical care people would use if it were free, and what the consequences of that would be on their health. But a survey of 4,000 adults just released by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues, found that people with HDHPs failed to fill a prescription or comply with a medical test roughly 38 percent of the time, compared with 27 percent among people with more comprehensive plans. It also found that half of patients with HDHPs racked up medical debt compared with 31 percent of people with comprehensive plans. Although the survey was of people who did not have an HSA, critics say data like these suggest that people with little money to spare will keep expenditures down by stinting on medicines and healthcare.

promises, promises There is one more catch about HSAs, despite whatever other issues might make someone hesitate before going that route. The requisite HDHPs are simply not available in many locations. Without an HDHP, you can’t get an HSA. A search of insurance programs via the largest health insurance broker, ehealthinsurance.com, shows no HSA-eligible health plans in many areas of the Mid-Hudson Valley, including Albany, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Ellenville, Boiceville, and New Paltz. Phone calls to various providers confirmed this, though some say they may have plans available in the future. Fortunately, low-income New Yorkers have another option. The Healthy NY program offers comprehensive plans through several providers at reduced premiums. For a family of four with an annual gross income less than $48,250, monthly premiums range from roughly $450 to $600 (less for individuals). For information, call toll-free (866) 4325849 or visit www.healthyny.com. For more information on other health insurance plans, including HDHPs and HSAs, go to www.ehealthinsurance.com. Jeanne Lenzer is a Kingston-based freelance writer who writes frequently for the bmj (formerly the British Medical Journal).

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an Brown’s 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code, has enjoyed a staggering level of success, fascinating audiences with a brilliantly interwoven tale of secret societies, legends of the Holy Grail, and a “lost goddess” figure of Christianity: Mary Magdalene. The book’s widespread appeal has inspired many to reevaluate the patriarchal version of Christianity that has gone uncontested for so long, and to embrace the “sacred feminine.” “The real reason that people are so excited by Mary Magdalene today is that there is a huge change in our collective consciousness,” explains British psychologist and New Paltz resident Roger Woolger, PhD. “The culture as a whole is ready to throw over the old patriarchy. The first great ripple was the feminist movement, but now it’s become a huge wave that is finally reaching the Church.” Woolger, renowned for his work in past-life regression, is a scholar in comparative religion and a seasoned lecturer on the spirituality of medieval Europe and the Holy Grail legend. “Mary Magdalene is exciting to so many people because there is a psychic revival going on about what I call ‘the return of the goddess.’ She, for me, is the lost goddess.” The lost goddess ideology professes that the worship of an exclusively masculine image of God in Christianity is not only distorted, but dangerous in its neglect of reverence for a complementary female figure, the so-called sacred feminine. “The attraction to the Magdalene has to be seen as a profound awakening of modern consciousness to the idea that the divine—the idea of God, and his human incarnation and son, Jesus—can no longer be separated from their female counterparts and partners,” Woolger says passionately. “Father/God must once more be co-equal with Mother/ Goddess; incarnated Son/Lover must again be co-equal with incarnated Daughter/Lover.” The Da Vinci Code concludes that Mary Magdalene was the consort of Jesus Christ, as have earlier literary works like the 1983 book Holy Blood, Holy Grail and in the Nag Hammadi texts, a series of early Christian gospels discovered in Egypt in 1945 which suggest that, in addition to there being an intimate relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, she was his chief apostle. Some believe she was a pagan

priestess, and bore Jesus a child. Medieval lore holds that following Jesus’ crucifixion, Mary Magdalene and a small entourage, fleeing hostility towards his followers, landed in a frail boat on the shores of Les Saintes Maries de la Mer (literally translated, Saint Marys from the Sea) near present-day Marseille, France. Although no official documentation of her arrival exists today, France’s Provençal culture is saturated with tales of this occurrence, manifested in numerous shrines and sacred sites. In fact, it was Woolger’s teenage visits to the region that marked the onset of his lifelong investigation into ancient legends and sites. For the past 15 years, he has been sharing his knowledge of Southern France and spirituality by leading pilgrimages to the area’s many consecrated sites, allowing travelers to retrace the steps of those who worshiped the divine feminine in pagan and Christian times. “The essence of pilgrimage is to focus the mind and heart on a spiritual archetype and go to a place where many have already found their faith, had healing or some awakening experience,” Woolger explains. The two-week expeditions (called Magdalene Tours) take journeyers from the shores of the Mediterranean at Marseille to the majestic volcanic peaks of the Massif Central region. Among the sites that reveal aspects of both pagan and Christian reverence of the feminine are the ancient catacombs of old Marseille, where the shrine of a Black Madonna stands in a place once dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis. Southern France is remarkable for its high concentration of Black Madonnas, first appearing in the 10th century and thought by some to be Christianized effigies of pagan deities. “I think that these Madonnas are associated with old healing centers that later became Christianized,” Woolger says. “What I believe is that these churches and sacred sites were built over, or near, caves or mountains that are actually power places. They have a very strong energy. Dowsers and sensitives will attest to this.” Individuals are compelled to join Woolger’s pilgrimages for an array of reasons. Many, “like the readers of The Da Vinci Code,” he observes, “are looking for something of the lost feminine in the medieval legends and iconography of Christianity, [and] are dissatisfied with mainstream patriarchal Christianity.” Others claim to have perceived a palpable, powerful energy of the region, while others profess a profound fascination with the Middle Ages, which Woolger

sometimes attributes to past life connections. Travelers can have intense dreams or healing experiences while on the tour, like one woman whose chronic eye problem resolved while visiting a Black Madonna statue near Carcassonne—one that she later learned is renowned for eye cures. Another benefit Woolger sees in embracing the lost goddess ideology is that it can help reconcile what he and coauthor J.B. Woolger describe in The Goddess Within: A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women’s Lives as a profound split between sexuality and spirituality. “Over the centuries a series of dire equations were established in the minds of Christians: Woman = Earth = Dirt = Sex = Sin,” an idea reflected in the popular misconception that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. (This false attribution was first made by a pope in the sixth century; the Vatican only officially cleared her name as recently as 1969.) The Woolgers attribute the church’s negative view of the body and sexuality to an oppression of the legitimacy of a goddess figure, which often is associated with fertility and a healthy sexuality. Within Christianity, the Virgin Mary is a cherished feminine presence. But the rediscovered Mary Magdalene is a goddess archetype who embodies earthly and sensuous womanhood. Worshippers can experience her not as an unreachable deity of virgin purity in the sky, but in everyday experience. With millions of people exposed to and enlightened by the ideas of The Da Vinci Code (soon to be followed by Ron Howard’s film adaptation), human consciousness is ripe for fully unraveling the lost goddess enigma. “After being suppressed, denigrated, and persecuted for two thousand years,” says Woolger, “the Great Goddess is finally returning in all her beauty, wisdom, and glory—as the Magdalene.” This year’s Magdalene Tour, “In Search of the Magdalene, the Black Madonna and the Lost Goddess,” runs September 30–October 15. Highlights include visits to a holy cave high above Marseille where Mary Magdalene is said to have ended her life in a state of meditative prayer, the Basilica at St. Maximin-Ste.Baume where her enshrined skull is purportedly held, and several chapels housing black madonnas. A detailed itinerary is posted at www.magdalenetours.com. Enrollment ends March 31. Elissa Richard is a writer living in New York City. She first discovered the wonders of the lost goddess alongside many kindred spirits while studying at SUNY New Paltz in the late 1990s. 3/05

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ACUPUNCTURE Dylana Accolla, LAc

Treat yourself to a renewed sense of health and well being 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, 2568 Route 212, Woodstock. (914) 388-7789. Acupuncture Health Care, PC

Peter Dubitsky, MS, LAc, an acupuncture teacher for 12 years, examiner for the national board for acupuncture (NCCAOM), and member of the NYS Board for Acupuncture. He combines acupuncture, physical medicine, and traditional Asian techniques for effective treatment of acute and chronic pain conditions, and is available for acupuncture treatment of other medical conditions as well. Callie Brown, LAc, also an experienced acupuncturist specializing in acupuncture facial rejuvenation, combines her training in clinical nutrition with the latest in painless acupuncture techniques to treat the effects of aging. 108 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-7178. Stephanie Ellis, LAc, DiplCH

Ivy League graduate experienced in pain management, infertility, menopause, fibromyalgia, complementary cancer care, autoimmune conditions, and digestive diseases. Combining Chinese, Japanese, and trigger-point release needling techniques. Herbal medicine without acupuncture also offered. Special post-graduate training in classical Chinese herbal medicine. Rosendale and Beacon. (845) 546-5358. The Organic Tao, Inc.

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Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs, and Pure Sound to treat many conditions. Sound Acupuncture is a needleless technique using specially designed tuning forks, not needles. Provides certified Acupuncture Detoxification, effective for smoking cessation, certified in Constitutional Facial Acupuncture Renewal® or facial rejuvenation (needleless option available). Main Office: 515 Haight Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12603. (845) 473-7593. www.pcomgirl.byregion.net. Facial rejuvenation at Marlene Weber Day Spas. Millbrook: 2647 Rte 44, Millbrook. (845) 677-1772. www.marlene weber.com. Patients with Physical Therapy concerns are seen at Phyllis Moriarty & Associates, 301 Manchester Rd (Rte 55) Ste101,Poughkeepsie,NY12603. www.phyllismoriartyassociates. com. (845) 454-4137. 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 boardcertified 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. 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590. Half mile south of the Galleria Mall. (845) 298-6060. ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Judith Youett The Alexander Technique

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 Youett, AmSAT. (845) 677-5871. AROMATHERAPY 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, CMT. (845) 679-0512. japter@ulster.net. www.joan apter.younglivingworld.com ASTROLOGICAL CONSULTING Eric Francis: Astrological

Consultations by Phone. Special discount on follow-ups for previous clients from the Hudson Valley. (206) 854-3931. eric@ericfrancis.com. Lots to explore on the Web at www.PlanetWaves.net. 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, (845) 876-7100. Springbrook Medical Park, Rhinebeck.

Blissful Beauty by Brenda

Relax and revive with a professional beauty treatment from Brenda Montgomery, Licensed Aesthetician. Specializing in Burnham Systems Facial Rejuvenation, Belavi Facelift Massage, Anti-Aging facials, Acne treatments, and Body treatments. Also offering airbrushed makeup for a flawless, natural look for your next big event. Your skin is not replaceable; let Brenda help you put your best face forward! Call (845) 616-9818. Made With Love

Handcrafted lotions, crèmes, and potions to nurture the skin and soul! Therapeutic oils, salves, and bath salts made with the curative properties of herbal-infused oils and pure essential oils. No petroleum, mineral oils, or chemicals are used. Host a home party! Products available at Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage, 171 Main Street, New Paltz. For a full product catalogue e-mail madewithlove@hvc.rr.com or call (845) 255-5207. BODY AWARENESS Body Central

Body Central Massage and Body Therapies is a multiple-therapist massage studio offering a variety of bodywork promoting injury recovery, pain management, stress reduction, and emotional balance. Treatments are tailored to the specific needs of clients. Therapies include facials, massage, ultrasonic facials, manicures, pedicures, reiki, acupuncture, body treatments, chemical peels, waxing, henna tattooing, hot stone massage, and craniosacral therapy. 8 Livingston Street, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-7222.

words to contact the physical tension that limits our full experience of life. As the body relaxes or releases this muscular tension, awareness of the underlying purpose of this tension can become conscious. Rosen Method provides the safety to hear from within what is true for us and to trust that truth. Transformation then becomes possible. Julie Zweig, MA. (845) 255-3566. www.RosenCenterEast.com. BODYWORK 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. CHI GONG/TAI CHI CHUAN Second Generation Yang

Spiritual alchemy practices of ancient Taoist sorcerers yielded these two treasures of internal arts. Chi Gong prepared the body to withstand rigorous training and overcome the battle with time. Tai Chi Chuan became the expression of the energy in movement and self-defense. These practices have brought health, vitality, and youthfulness to myself and my students. The only requirement is determined practice of the principles and the will to persevere. Call Hawks, (845) 687-8721. CHILDBIRTH Catskill Mountain Midwifery

BODY-CENTERED THERAPY Irene Humbach, CSW, PC

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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 aim to offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy, thereby increasing their capacity to cope, create in the world, and love. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz. (845) 485-5933.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH

Rosen Method Bodywork

The physical body is the gateway to our emotional and spiritual being. Rosen Method uses touch and

See Hypnotherapy. Judy Joffee, CMN, MSN

See Midwifery. CHINESE HEALING ARTS Chinese Healing Arts Center

The Wu Tang Chuan Kung Association was founded by Doctor Tzu Kuo Shih and his family for the purpose of providing the American public with instruction in the ancient Chinese arts of Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Kung, and traditional Chinese Medicine. 264 Smith Avenue, Kingston. (845) 338-6045 or (203) 748-8107.

CHIROPRACTIC 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. Also at Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center (845) 876-5556. Dr. David Ness

Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques® (ART) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner® specializing in helping athletes and active people quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries. In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today. (845) 255-1200. COACHING Mind-Body-Spirit Connections, Sheila Pearl, MSW

See Consegrity. 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. New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-1516. See display ad. CONSEGRITY Mind-Body-Spirit Connections, Sheila Pearl, MSW

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to your health. Learn more about Consegrity and your ability to reduce stress, pursue spiritual growth, and more at www.SheilaPearl.com. Call Sheila Pearl at (845) 321-0834 or (800) 240-5884. See also Coaching, Holistic Health, Integrated Energy Therapy, Life Coaching, Personal/Professional Coaching, Psychotherapy, and Spiritual. COUNSELING SERVICES Compassionate Counsel

For Difficult Times with “Life Coach” Hannah Scott. Layordained, experienced, kind, and occasionally funny, Hannah utilizes the techniques of Hakomi body-based therapy, based in non-violence and the practice of mindfulness, to release suffering and confusion into a new freedom and sense of unity. (845) 758-2113. Elizabeth Cunningham, MSC

Counselor, interfaith minister, and novelist, Elizabeth brings humor, compassion, and a deep understanding of story to a spirited counseling practice for individuals and couples. If you are facing loss, crisis in faith, creative block, conflict in relationship, Elizabeth invites you to become a detective and investigate your own unfolding mystery. 44 Schultzville Road, Staatsburg. (845) 266-4477. E-mail: medb44@aol.com. Radical Truth Counsel

Radical – 1. of the root(s). 2. essential, fundamental. 3. forming the basis, primary. 4. affecting the foundation, going to the root, change, cure, reform. If this is what you want from a counseling session, then I welcome you as a client. I see it as the quickest way to what we want; freedom, even though the truth is not always easy to sit with. One can learn to see it but not have to identify with it. And keep moving forward through. Available for sessions at my office, by phone, or at a convenient public spot. Alexis Eldridge, MS. (845) 626-7674. 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,

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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. DIET Packard Weight Health

Eat Right for Your Brain Type: revolutionary, safe, scientific approach to weight loss that also reduces dangerous free radicals. We guarantee success with our unique Weight Health Plan. Your customized treatment will be tailored to your individual brain type so you lose weight, prevent weight gain, and achieve maximum wellness. Millbrook. gina.mandel@verizon.net. (845) 677-2300. DREAMS & ART Earthdreams Gallery

Karen Silverstein, Dreampainter, Dreamteacher, and apprentice of Robert Moss, offers ongoing adventures in Dream Travel. Classes offered include: Beginner Active Dream classes, 1-day dream workshops, and Draw-Relax-Dream classes. Come take a class or view dream paintings on display at the Earthdreams Gallery within the Healing Arts Center of Pawling, 54 East Main St., Pawling. Call (845) 855-0550 or e-mail Karen@earthdreams.com. www.earthdreams.com. FENG SHUI Healing By Design

Feng Shui consultations, classes. Explore how Feng Shui can increase the flow of abundance, joy, and well-being in your life. Create your home or office to support your goals and dreams. Contact Betsy Stang (845) 679-6347 or bebird@aol.com. HEALING SCHOOLS One Light Healing Touch: Healer Training School

Join us for an empowering, life-changing, six-month, transformational training. This comprehensive program includes: Meditation, Visualization, Sound work, Breath

work, Movement, Sacred Ceremony, Essential Grounding and Releasing Practices, and 33 Professional Healing Techniques. Certification: NYSNA and NCBTMB CEUs. Schools start May 20 and September 23, 2005. Special Intro weekends include: Self-Healing with OLHT April 29 and Distance Healing April 30-May 1. Ron Lavin, MA, founder and director of the international OLHT schools, is a respected spiritual healer with 26 years of experience. He heads seven OLHT schools in Germany and one in Rhinebeck, NY. He has worked with the NIH in Distance Healing for eight years. Appointments and Distance Healing sessions available. Call (845) 876-0259 or e-mail ronlavin@aol.com. www.One LightHealingTouch.com. 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 Chiropractic, Swedish & Sports Massage, Shiatsu, and Energetic Reiki. New offerings include meditation and nutritional counseling. 5 Academy Street, New Paltz. Call for an appointment. (845) 255-3337. 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. The upcomingSpring/Summer2005 issue will be available in March. See www.hvhealthyliving.com for advertising rates or call the HVHL sales team at (845) 334-8600. HERBS Monarda Herbal Apothecary

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 Al-

cohol Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Essential Oils, and more. Product Catalog $1. Workshops and Internships. www.monarda.net. (845) 688-2122 HOLISTIC HEALTH Body of Truth

Body of Truth®: The Place for Whole Health. Body of Truth®: The Spa at Stone Ridge. Treatment team, with over 200 years joint experience, offers unique healing approach using the mind to heal the body and the body to release the mind. Licensed practitioners offer continuity of care with local medical community. Kingston & Stone Ridge. (845) 331-1178, fax (845) 331-2955. www.bodyoftruth.com. Priscilla A. Bright, MA, Energy Healer/Counselor

Specializing in women’s stress, emotional issues, physical illness, including stress-related anxiety, depression, 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. (845) 688-7175. 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. (845) 338-8420. Mind-Body-Spirit Connections, Sheila Pearl, MSW

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Spirittus Holistic Resource Center

See Workshops. HYPNOSIS One-Session Hypnosis with Frayda Kafka

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. Phone hypnosis, gift certificates, and groups are available. Please call me at (845) 336-4646. Offices in Kingston and Pleasant Valley. info@CallTheHypnotist.com or www.CallTheHypnotist.com. HYPNOTHERAPY Achieve Your Goals with Therapeutic Hypnosis Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt.

Increase self-esteem; break bad habits; manage stress; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, back pain); overcome fears and depression; relieve insomnia; improve study habits, public speaking, sports performance; heal through past-life journeys, other issues. Sliding scale. Certified Hypnotherapist and Counselor, two years training Therapeutic Hypnosis & Traditional Psychotherapeutic Techniques. (845)389-2302. New Paltz, Kingston. See also Psychotherapy. Kary Broffman, RN, CH

A registered nurse, with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Hypnobirthing, and

Complementary Medical Hypnotherapy 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. Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, Hyde Park. (845) 876-6753. Ruth Hirsch

Call me for help moving forward! What are you ready/almost ready to change? Stop smoking? Weight loss? Old patterns you realize you are repeating? I have more than 20 years experience helping people using hypnosis and teaching stress reduction. It is a comfortable, enjoyable process. Office: 44 Main Street, Kingston. Phone me, Ruth Hirsch: (845) 246-8601 or (845) 255-8601. Adele Marcus, LCSW-R, ACHT

See Psychotherapy. INFANT MASSAGE INSTRUCTION Baby Touch

Learn infant massage and gift yourself with the knowledge and skill to learn how to massage your child. Children need loving touch to grow emotionally and physically strong. Massage helps your child to relax and let go of tension. Clinical studies show that the regular use of massage helps promote faster weight gain, improves cardiac and respiratory output, and also enhances sleep patterns. Children from infancy and older can benefit from the gift of nurturing touch. For further information, please call Francine Phillips, MS.Ed.(845) 485-7106 or Nancy Pate, OTR/L, CIMI (845) 296-0739.

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INTEGRATED ENERGY THERAPY Integrated Energy Therapy

IET heals with the pure energy of SPIRIT and the gifts of the angels. Suppressed emotions, limiting beliefs, and past-life memories are cleared from the Energy Anatomy on a cellular level. Remember and LIVE the true expression of your soul’s purpose. Also combining Spiritual Guidance, IET, and Massage. 15 years experience. Dona Ho Lightsey, LMT, IET Master. New Paltz. (845) 256-0443. www.learniet.com/dona_ho_ lightsey.asp. Mind-Body-Spirit Connections, Sheila Pearl, MSW

bodhi studio INTERFAITH MINISTRIES Elizabeth Cunningham, MSC

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Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage

Ione, Director, Ministry of Maat, Inc.

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. 171 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-4832.

Spiritual and Educational organization with goals of fostering world community. (845) 339-5776. Reverend Kevin Kraft, Interfaith Minister

Sacred Intimate Joyful. “Honor Tradition and Have the Ceremony You Want.” Together we develop a meaningful ceremony that expresses who you are while considering sensitive concerns. Personal attention to details ensures your needs are thoughtfully addressed and creates a joyful ceremony expressing your vision completely. Weddings, Unions, Renewals, Rites of Passage, and Spiritual Counseling. Hudson Valley Interfaith Fellowship. 89 N. Front Street, Kingston. (845) 338-8313. E-mail: Kevin@spirittus.org.

Providing Jewish people from all backgrounds the opportunity to experience the depth and soul of the Jewish teachings and vibrant way of life. Offering Jewish resources, workshops, gatherings, and classes. Rabbi Yisroel Arye and Ilana Gootblatt, co-directors. (845) 679-6407. www.chabadof woodstock.com.

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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, CMT. (845) 679-0512. japter @ulster.net. http://joanapter. younglivingworld.com.

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MASSAGE THERAPY Joan Apter

Monica Sequoia Neiro, LMT

Self-Healing through Bodywork Massage tailored to the individual, promoting your body’s healing response. I am certified in Swedish, Deep Tissue, and Lymphatic massage, as well as Zen Shiatsu Acupressure, Craniosacral Energy Work, and TMJ treatment. Pregnancy cushion. Gift certificates available. Great shower or wedding gift! See ad for Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center. Rhinebeck. Cell (845) 300-3569, or (845) 876-5556. Shiatsu Massage Therapy

Leigh Scott is a licensed Shiatsu Massage Therapist with 20 years experience and a former teacher at the Ohashi Institute in New York City. Leigh uses her skills and knowledge of Shiatsu as well as Reflexology and Polarity to give a very satisfying hour-long massage. (845) 679-3012.

JIN SHIN-JYUTSU Kenneth Davis, CPLT

MEDITATION Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch

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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. South Plank Road, Mt. Tremper. (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

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. No cost consultation. Also offering school, work, and general physicals for all ages. Call for no cost telephone consultation. (845) 255-2096. NATURAL FOODS 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. www.carrottalk.com. (845) 339-7171.

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Organic Nectars is dedicated to offering some of the highest quality culinary and nutritional organic food products available. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now showcasing our 100 percent raw, organic Agave sweetenerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a delicious low-glycemic syrup from the American Aloe Cactus, prized by raw food chefs and others into cutting3/05

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edge, health-conscious haute cuisine. Our Agave is certified organic and kosher, and is great for anyone monitoring sugar intake or interested in a natural, raw sweetener. And since sweetness loves richness, don’t pass up our 100 percent raw, organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil—a stonecrushed, cold-pressed, decanted and unfiltered domestic variety with a beautiful buttery flavor. Our products are always certified organic, raw, vegan, gluten-free, chemical-free, and low glycemic. Ask for Organic Nectars products at your favorite health food or gourmet store. Or call us at (845) 246-0506 or e-mail info@organicnectars.com. Organic Nectars, Woodstock, NY. Sunflower Natural Food Market

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At Sunflower we know the food we eat is our greatest source of health. Sunflower carries certified organic produce, milk, cheeses, and eggs; non-irradiated herbs and spices; clean, pure organic products to support a healthy lifestyle; large selection of homeopathic remedies. Sunflower Natural Foods is a complete natural foods market. Open 9am-9pm daily. 10am-7pm Sundays. Bradley Meadows Shopping Center, Woodstock. (845) 679-5361. NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE Naturopathic Medicine

Dr. Thomas J. Francescott, ND. Free Your Mind – Release Your Body – Energize Your Spirit! Solve health issues, enhance wellness, and gain awareness. Scientifically proven naturopathic solutions for challenging and/or chronic health concerns. I offer naturopathic expertise in a sacred space to help you feel better. Graduate of the prestigious Bastyr University. Call Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center: (845) 876-5556. www.drtomnd.com. NUTRITION Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN

Creating Wellness for individuals and businesses. Nutrition counseling: combining traditional and integrative solutions to enhance well-being. Health Fairs for Businesses wanting to improve employees’ productivity. Providing help with diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, weight loss, digestive support, women’s health, and pediatric nutrition. Many insurances accepted. Offices in

New Paltz and Kingston. Call (845) 255-2398 for an appointment. www.Nutrition-wise.com. Jill Malden, RD, CSW

Prominent Nutritionist specializing in eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level, cravings, concentration, energy level, and sleep, in addition to body weight. Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life! 199 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 489-4732. OSTEOPATHY Applied Osteopathy

Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO. Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We have studied with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO, and completed a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat newborns, children, and adults. 257 Main Street, New Paltz, (845) 256-9884. 138 Market Street, Rhinebeck, (845) 876-1700. By Appointment. For more info call or visit www.appliedosteopathy.com. PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL COACHING Mind-Body-Spirit Connections, Sheila Pearl, MSW

See Consegrity. PHYSICIANS Women Care Center

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 BODYCODE

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transformative body/mind work. Strengthening, lengthening, and organizing our basic structures. Inhabiting our bodies in a balanced, skillful, and graceful way. In all tasks a well-trained body is at work, a poorly trained one is overworking. We can retrain the body so it thinks not just better but differently, more efficiently, coherently, and organically. 103 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 263-5161 or (917) 715-8665. www.bodycode.us. PSYCHOLOGISTS James Cancienne, PhD

Licensed Clinical Psychologist offering adult psychotherapy and coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s counseling. Jungian-based psychotherapy for people in crisis, those with ongoing mental health difficulties, and those wishing to expand their personality and gain greater satisfaction from their relationships and work. Some insurance accepted and sliding scale. Hudson. (518) 828-2528. Carla J. Mazzeo, PhD

Licensed Clinical Psychologist offering psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescents and adults. I have experience working with trauma, mood disturbances, sexual assault, depression, anxiety, grief/bereavement, eating/body image difficulties, alcohol/substance concerns, teenage problems, relationship difficulties, sexuality issues, or general selfexploration. Dream work also available. New Paltz location. (845) 255-2259. Reduced fee for initial consultation. Mark L. Parisi, PhD

Licensed psychologist. Offering individual psychotherapy for adults. Specializing in gay menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. (845) 255-2259. Jonathan D. Raskin, PhD

Licensed psychologist. Insightoriented, meaning-based, problem-focused, person-centered psychotherapy for adults and adolescents facing problems including, but not limited to, self-esteem, interpersonal

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relationships, life transitions, family issues, career concerns, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and bereavement. 199 Main Street, New Paltz. Free initial consultation. Sliding scale. (845) 257-3471.

trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY. (845) 255-4218.

Diane L. Weston, PhD, CPP Health Education Counselor

Psychotherapy that engages the healing potential of the creative process through art therapy, psychodramatic techniques, and sand play. Individual sessions for children, adolescents, and adults. Ongoing Open Studio Workshops combine art and writing for self-directed inner work. No art experience needed. New Paltz. (845) 255-8830.

Specializing in treating addiction disorders. Over 25 years experience using alternative, interdisciplinary, counseling approaches to substance abuse and other stress-related behaviors. Integrating Cognitive, Behavioral, and Humanistic interventions to motivate Harm Reduction. Discreet location. Affordable rates. Sliding fee scale. Half rate for initial consultation. (845) 242-3857 or 452-2811. PSYCHOTHERAPY Kent Babcock, MSW, CSW Counseling & Psychotherapy

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. (845) 679-5511 x4. Judith Blackstone, MA

Subtle Self Work is a transformative practice integrating nondual spiritual realization, psychological healing, and awakening the energy/light body. Private sessions for individuals and couples, weekly classes, monthly meditation retreats, teacher/certification trainings. Judith Blackstone, MA, author of The Enlightenment Process and Living Intimately, director of Realization Center, Woodstock. (845) 679-7005. www.RealizationCenter.com. Debra Budnik, CSW-R

Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted, including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with

Andrea Grumbine, MFA, MS, ATR Beyond Words

Ruth Hirsch

Couples, Individual, Family Counseling. Use my 20 years experience to move forward and feel better about your life! Comfortable, effective work. Extensive training in stress reduction, phobias, parent-child and family issues, Gottman Institute Advanced Couples Therapy Training. Office at 44 Main Street, Kingston. Phone me, Ruth Hirsch: (845) 246-8601 or (845) 255-8601. Dr. Rita E. Kirsch Debroitner, PhD

Certified clinical social worker. A Holistic Psychotherapist, Biofeedback Specialist, and WholePerson Fertility Practitioner. Successful program helps children and adults overcome ADD without medication. Change starts from within! Available for long-distance and out-of-state consultations and appointments. (845) 876-3657 or (800) 9584-ADD. rkirsch@hvc.rr.com. www.addnondrug.com.

childhood abuse, codependency, addiction, recovery illness, and grief. Some insurance accepted. Office convenient to New Paltz and surrounding areas. (845) 883-9642. Eidetic Image Therapy

A fast moving, positive psychotherapy that gets to problem areas quickly and creates change by using eidetic (eye-DET-ic) images to promote insight and growth. The eidetic is a bright, lively picture seen in the mind like a movie or filmstrip. It is unique in its ability to reproduce important life events in exact detail, revealing both the cause and solution of problem areas. Dr. Toni Nixon, EdD, director. Port Ewen. (845) 339-1684. Amy R. Frisch, CSWR

Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Located in New Paltz. (914) 706-0229. Irene Humbach, CSW, CBT

See Body-Centered Therapy. Ione

Author and psychotherapist: Qigong, Meditation, Hypnotherapy, and Dreams. Specializing in the creative process. Healing retreats, Local and Worldwide. (845) 339-5776. Elise Lark, LMSW, LMT

Licensed psychologist. Insightoriented, 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. 199 Main Street, New Paltz. Free initial consult. Sliding scale. (914) 262-8595.

Soul Expressions promote Soul Emergence and being fully alive. Individual sessions are a creative collaboration utilizing integrative psychotherapy, bodywork and creative processes. Specializing in trauma, addiction, death/dying, bereavement, life transistions, spiritual and creative evolution. "Soul Expressions", "Dream Journeying", & "Explorations in Conciousness" Groups. Olivebridge, NY. (845) 657-2516.

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Adele Marcus, LCSW-R, ACHT

Holistically oriented therapist offering counseling, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy. Specializing in issues pertaining to relationships, personal growth, life transitions, alternative lifestyles,

Life Design: Creative Healing. Heart/Body/Mind-centered psychotherapy. Gestalt, Hypnotherapy, Expressive Arts. Fifteen years experience working with adults/youth, families, and

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groups; anxiety/fear, depression, abuse/trauma, addictions, grief, spirituality. Honoring the Soul women’s group/workshops; expressive movement classes. New Paltz. (845) 255-9717. lidesign@earthlink.net. Mind-Body-Spirit Connections, Sheila Pearl, MSW

See Consegrity. Dr. Nancy Rowe, PhD, CET

Heart Centered Counseling & Expressive Arts TherapyEmotional healing for children and adults using talk, imagery, sandplay, expressive arts, and/ or movement. Background in transpersonal psychology, play therapy, family therapy, spiritual guidance, authentic movement, and expressive arts therapy. Offices in Woodstock and Kingston. Call Nancy, (845) 679-4827. www.wisdomheart.com. 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. (845) 389-2302. New Paltz, Kingston. See also Hypnotherapy. Richard Smith, CSW-R, CASAC

Potential-Centered Therapy (PCT) alters thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that block growth. A psycho-dynamic approach incorporating NLP, EMDR, and hypnosis, PCT resolves addictions, trauma, limiting beliefs, and destructive behaviors. Twenty years experience and a gentle spirit guide you through an accelerated process of profound healing. Gardiner. (845) 256-6456. richard smithcsw@earthlink.net. 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. (845) 255-5613. Lee TenEyck, CSW-R

Dynamic, growth-oriented psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and adolescents. Engage in a collaborative, supportive

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process geared toward making effective, positive changes in your life and your relationships. Offices in Kingston and New Paltz. Weekend appointments available. (845) 255-3895. 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 body, mind, and emotions. Improve relationships, release the past, heal the inner child through personal empowerment.(845) 255-6482. SCHOOLS & TRAINING 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. SHIATSU Leigh Scott

See Massage Therapy. SPAS & RESORTS Body of Truth

Body of Truth®: The Place for Whole Health. Body of Truth®: The Spa at Stone Ridge. Voted Mid-Hudson Valley’s #1 health spa. Luxury & Necessity combined. Professionally licensed experienced practitioner team

provides the most comprehensive list of services and pure organic products. Stone Ridge location offers couples massages by the fire, and aromatherapy baths. Kingston & Stone Ridge. (845) 331-1178, fax (845) 331-2955. www.bodyoftruth.com. The Inn & Spa at Emerson Place

This extraordinary, historic property has been beautifully transformed into an oasis for connoisseurs of fine living. The Asian-inspired spa immerses you in a world of personally tailored therapies and stressrecovery programs. The spa offers more than 40 personalized services for men and women by European-trained therapists, including an array of Ayurvedic Rituals, Vichy shower, Oxygen Facials, Aromatherapy Massage, Hot Stone Therapy, and Detoxifying Algae Wraps. (845) 688-7900 or www.emersonplace.com. SPIRITUAL Bioenergetics/Hands-On Healing, Irene Humbach, CSW, CBT

See Body-Centered Therapy. Clairvoyant Counseling with Rev. Betsy Stang

If you carry a dream for transformation and healing deep within your heart, now is the time to listen to your inner wisdom. Betsy acts as a facilitator for that process. Her deep listening can give us the strength and affirmations to move ahead in alignment with our soul’s unfolding. For appointments or classes and programs call (845) 679-6347 or email bebird@aol.com. Ione

Egyptian Mysteries, Scarab Teachings™, Journeys to Sacred Sites. (845) 339-5776.

Mind-Body-Spirit Connections, Sheila Pearl, MSW

See Consegrity. New York Region Pathwork

The Pathwork is a way of life, a community of seekers, a school, and a philosophy. It is based in a profound set of teachings channeled over a 30-year period by Eva Pierrakos that show a way to live in this world with complete inner freedom and happiness. Learn more at Pathworkny.org, or (845) 688-2211. Pathwork and Channeled Guidance by Flowing Spirit Guidance

Is something missing in your life? Are you restless but don’t know why? Do you have a longing but don’t know how to fill it? Pathwork is a deep spiritual path based on knowing God by uncovering the God within. We have forgotten who we are and what we are a part of. By making the unconscious conscious, and transforming those parts of ourselves that don’t serve us any longer, we uncover our greatness, our beauty, our divinity. Pathwork Lecture Study Class beginning Wednesday, September 10. Committed (after 1st class) 8-session class, every other Wednesday. Call for prices and early enrollment deadlines. Also in-person or phone Pathwork or channeling sessions available. Contact Joel Walzer. (845) 679-7886. www.flowingspirit.com. Shakra Center for Humane Development

Our practitioners support individuals and communities on paths to enlightenment using different modalities. Transformational healing increases when we embody enough light that we feel safe to explore our shadows with an open heart.

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Please visit our website at www.shakracenter.com. Now excepting applications for the 2005 Mystic Apprentice Program. PO Box 747, Woodstock NY 12498. (845) 679-4553. Spirittus Holistic Resource Center

See Workshops. THERAPY Toni D. Nixon, EdD Therapist and Buddhist Practitioner

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. (845) 339-1684. www.eidetictherapy.com. By phone, online, and in person.

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The Spirittus Holistic Resource Center is a healing environment where people gather to explore Spirituality, Health, and Holistic Living. Each month we host 25 + workshops. Weekly meditation, monthly Nutrition, Astrology, and Reiki Study groups. We have a private healing room offering Reiki, Counseling, Hypnotherapy, and CranioSacral Therapy. We provide access to a holistic library, holistic referral network, and the holistic gift shop. 89 N. Front St, Kingston. www.spirittus.org. (845) 338-8313. Kevin@ spirittus.org. StoneWater Sanctuary

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WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GROUPS Honoring the Soul with Adele Marcus, LCSW-R, ACHT

See Psychotherapy. YOGA Ashtanga Yoga

Experience first-hand this dynamic form of Hatha Yoga. Ashtanga Yoga (sometimes known as Power Yoga) links the breath with dancelike movements of the body to create strength, flexibility, balance, & focus. Located at 71 Main Street, New Paltz, we have classes seven days a week. For more info, please call (845) 255-7978. Jai Ma Yoga Center

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. (845) 256-0465. The Living Seed

Sivananda Yoga offered five days a week. Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realizeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sivananda. 521 Main Street (Rte. 299, across from Econo Lodge), New Paltz. (845) 255-8212. Pondicherrry Yoga Arts

Full line of organic cotton & hemp yoga wear for men & women, yoga supplies, videos & books, chant & Indian Classical CDs. Inspired by Auroville, an international spiritual community in South India based on the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo. The shop carries Auroville handicrafts such as meditative wall hangings, meditation cushions, & cotton yoga mats with matching bags. Winter hrs: 11:30am-5:30pm Thurs.-Mon. Woodstock. (845) 679-2926. Info@pondi.biz. Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center

Moksha 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. For more information, call (845) 876-2528 or visit www.hudsonvalleyyoga.com. 3/05

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Gentle hatha yoga integrating mind, body, and breath. Suitable for all ages. Conscious breathing synchronized with postures creates a deeper peace and harmony. Emphasis on stretching and strengthening the lower back before performing a full range of asanas. Group classes and privates taught by Wendy Swaha Lines. Trained at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. Over 20 years experience. Mount Tremper, NY. (845) 679-5358 or Wendy@matagiri.org. Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch

77 acres of rolling hills and woodlands. Breathtaking views, hiking, and cross-country ski trails, organic garden, swimming pond, and sauna. Daily Sivananda Ashram Schedule of Yoga Asanas, Pranayama, and Meditation. Year-round Yoga vacations. Weekend Workshops on health, Yoga, and meditation. Karma Yoga residential programs. Yoga Teachers Training, September 7-October 5. Founded in 1974 by Swami Vishnu-Devananda. Woodbourne, NY. (845) 436-6492. YogaRanch@Sivananda.org. or www.sivananda.org/ ranch. htm. Yoga on Duck Pond

Grounded in the alignment of the inner and outer body, yoga can reduce your stress, reshape your body, recharge your mind. “Working with Donna is a spiritual and physical adventure for me. I experience a renewed sense of well-being, increased mobility, clarity of mind, and a natural diet adjustment. She is helping me change my life.” –Carlo Travaglia, sculptor. Donna Nisha Cohen, director and certified instructor, over 20 years experience. Stone Ridge. Classes Sunday through Friday. Call for times, and information on pre-natal and private sessions. (845) 687-4836. The Yoga Way

The Yoga Way in Wappingers Falls (Route 376) is a dedicated yoga facility with nationally certified yoga instructors. Everything for the beginner to the serious practitioner. Learn how to bring balance, strength, and a sense of well-being into your life through the ancient techniques of yoga. Call (845) 227-3223 for information. 3/05

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MARCH 3-APRIL 10 Biennial Photo Show Randy Green headlines this annual exhibition with calculated looks at modern America, capturing all its abundance, freedom, and often ironic humor. Also showing are Karin Berglund, David Halliday, Chad Kleitsch, Lependorf Shire, Eduardo Mari, Julie McCarthy, Dag Scheer, Gilles Tondini, and Roy Volkmann. Artists’ reception: March 5, 6-8pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. www. carriehaddadgallery.com.

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THE LONESOME SISTERS: SARAH HAWKER AND DEBRA CLIFFORD

HARMONIZING HEARTACHE

ver feel lonely? Sure, we all do. Cleverly, two musicians pinpointed this universal emotion last year and decided to package and sell it. Of course, nearly every artist has presented some pining and aching to the public, but these ladies are running with it. They’ve even named themselves after their woes: The Lonesome Sisters. Admittedly not a huge fan of Appalachian folk tunes or traditional country music, I heard 10 seconds of The Lonesome Sisters’ latest release Going Home Shoes and was immediately smitten with their hard hitting authenticity. And when I say latest release, I’m referring to the one from May 2004, not the self-titled debut from April 2004. Kinda prolific, these two. Curious yet? Go on, give them a listen, even if the genre doesn’t interest you (samples can be found at www.loneso mesisters.com). Their harmonies are smackingly clear and infectious. The Sisters keep it simple, employing only soulful vocals, rhythm guitar, and an occasional fiddle or banjo. The sparse instrumentation only serves to accentuate their introspective themes of tragedy, loss, and heartache. If you’re not persuaded yet, here are some impressive credits that Lonesome Sisters Sarah Hawker and Debra Clifford have already tucked under their belts: since 2003, they’ve played The Black Creek Fiddlers Reunion, The Great Blue Heron Festival, The Turtle Hill Folk Festival, and Grassroots Festivals in both Ithaca and North Carolina. At Merlefest 2004, they performed and won best country song for Hawker’s contagious “Forgiveness,” beating out nearly 900 other entries. Here’s a snippet of that subtly hilarious, meandering ode to a wandering lover: “Explain it all to Him and maybe He will take you in / And you can tell Him about the sorry, cheatin’ fool that you have been / You want a love that divine? You need the heavenly kind / You want forgiveness? Tell that to Jesus, that’s his job not mine.” Not all tunes are directed at men, though, as the Sisters emote the abandoned man’s point of view in another prominent wailer, the traditional beauty, “Rain and Snow” (with new arrangement and lyrics by Clifford): “Well I married me a wife, gave me trouble all my life / Run me out in the cold rain and snow / She came into the room where she met her fatal doom / Well I ain’t gonna be treated this old way.” I wouldn’t be shocked to find this angst-ridden tune in Kill Bill 3, if there could be such a thing. There are plenty of shivers in the Sisters’ forlorn repertoire, but their minimal instrumentation is made a little warmer on Going Home Shoes by bassist June Drucker and banjo player/fiddler Riley Baugus of Cold Mountain soundtrack fame. So, if you’re feeling a bit hopeless in these last few chilly days, or you’re just dejected in general, this old-time-feel duo is sure to pluck a few heartstrings. Come share in those moods we all know so well: painful one-night stands, night’s starry wings, and bridges leading home. —Sharon Nichols THE LONESOME SISTERS WILL PLAY AT THE ROSENDALE CAFE, 434 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE, ON SATURDAY, MARCH 19, AT 9 PM. TICKETS ARE $10. (845) 658-9048; WWW.ROSENDALECAFE.COM.

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Get your groove on with likemoving people, and without the benefit of alcohol, drugs, smoking, or shoes. Knights of Columbus Hall, Kingston. 8:30pm-1am. $5/$2; volunteers and kids 12 and under free. (845) 658-8319. www.freestyle frolic.com.

MARCH 5 Ione & Pauline Oliveros Performance for accordion and spoken word. Pauline Oliveros and Ione perform the latest in a series of musical/poetic compositions that have inspired meditative art forms in Spain, Belgium, Montreal, New York City, and here in Kingston. Deep Listening Space, Kingston. 8pm. $10/8. (845) 338-5984.

MARCH 6 Multimedia Poetry/ Theatre Performance “The Old Woman Who Slew a Dragon-Fox,” a fable for all ages by Ossining writer Mary Crescenzo, uses Dr. Seuss-style rhyme and theatre-in-the-round to illustrate the dangers of nuclear energy facilities. The play is based on the true story of Carrie Barefoot Dickerson, the Oklahoman who led the successful fight to stop construction of Black Fox Nuclear Plant, and is spearheading the fight to close the Indian Point nuclear reactor. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. Call for details. (914) 923-1703.

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MARCH 11, 12, 18 & 19 Wit Mohonk Mountain Stage Company presents Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prizewinning play “Wit,” in which Donne scholar Vivian Bearing discovers she has terminal ovarian cancer. Relentlessly probing, profound, and humorous, the play wrestles with questions like: How should we live, knowing we will die? Can art transform fear? What matters about our lives in the end? Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 8pm. $12/$9. (845) 255-1559. www.mmstageco.com.

MARCH 12-13 Woodstock Goddess Festival Meet, and help express the goddess in every woman…and man. The third Annual Goddess Festival is a celebration of feminine power in all of its aspects. Proceeds go to the Kingston Battered Woman’s Shelter. The Joyous Lake, Woodstock. Contact founder Jean-Michel Desjardins for details. (845) 246-1625.

THRU MARCH 20 Beauty and the Beast All the theatrical enchantment and dazzle of the original Disney musical is brought out by Up in One Productions. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. Thurs.Sat. 8pm; Sun. 3pm; extra matinees at 2pm 3/12 &3/19. Center for the Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. $20/$18. Reservations recommended. (845) 876-3080. www.center forperformingarts.org.

MARCH 4, 5, 11 & 12 Modern Dance Cocoon Theatre Modern Dance Company presents Assimilation, a modern dance performance based on the idea of chaos and order, and reopens Cocoon Theatre for the 2005 dance season. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 7pm. $10. (845) 876-6470. www.cocoontheatre.org.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART 196 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. 454-0522. “A Decade of Discovery.” Christie Sheele. March 1-May 31. Opening Saturday, March 19, 4-8pm.

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. “Michael Rees: Putto 4 Over 4.” Computer animation and sculpture create 3 dimensional snapshots. Through March 27. “Jonathon Seliger: Main Street Sculpture Project.” Third installation in the Main Street Sculpture Project series. Through March 27. “Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition.” Explores the use of bottle in contemporary art making. Through April 10. “Selected Works by Recent MacDowell Colony Fellows.” “Alyson Shotz: Light, Sound, Space.” “Shannon Plumb.” 8 short films with herself as the only performer. Through June 22.

ART UPSTAIRS 60 Main Street, Phoenicia. 688-2142. “Flora and Fauna Show.” March 4-27.

AWAKE GALLERY 10 Downs Street, Kingston. 532-2448. “Robert The: New Signs and Icons.” March 5-31.

BARRETT ART CENTER 55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. “Art of the Garden.” Botanical art for showing and sale. Through March 5. “Photowork ‘04.” National juried photography exhibition. March 19-April 16.

BAU 161 Main Street, Beacon. 591-2331. “Newburgh Beacon Bridge.” Artists from the Newburgh area meet artists from Beacon and present their works. Through March 6. “The Book of Art...Epilogue.” Gary Jacketti. March 12-April 3. Opening Saturday, March 12, 6-9pm.

BERTELSMANN CAMPUS CENTER Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 334-8461. “Transience, Contours of Anatomy as Metaphor.” Barbara Bash, Kristin Berthot, and Roger Jones. March 7-25. Opening Monday, March 7, 5-7pm.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. “Paintings by Randy Green.” March 3-April 10. Opening Saturday, March 5, 6-8pm.

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION GALLERY Main Street, Hunter. (518) 263-4908. “Sculptor’s Drawings.” Through March 27. Reception Saturday, March 5, 4-6pm.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 679-9957.

TODD SAMARA PAINTINGS

“Foreign Affair.” Through March 27. “Solo: Esteban Pastorino Diaz.” Through March 27.

March 5-27, 2005

THE CHISHOLM GALLERY 3 Factory Lane, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1246.

OPENING RECEPTION:

“Catherine Shinnick.” Hand Built Ceramic Sculptures and Stone Carvings. Through March 4.

COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 671-6213.

Saturday, March 5, 5-7 pm 330 Wall St., Kingston NY 12401 845.339.6105 • coffeygallery@netstep.net Tues / Wed / Sun 11-5 • Thurs / Fri / Sat 11-8 Closed Monday

“Abstract Art Exhibition.” Through March 12.

DEBORAH DAVIS FINE ARTS, INC. 345 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 822-1890.

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“Drawings.” Through March 13.

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DUTCHESS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ART GALLERY Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8622.

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“Lowell Butler Memorial Exhibit.” March 3-29. Opening Thursday, March 3, 5-7pm.

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ERIC JARMANN & CO. GALLERY 691 Broadway, Newburgh. 561-7960. “Still Life.” March 19-May 14.

FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 South Division Street, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894. “Multiple Exposures.” Black and white photos by Mikolaj Ciszewski. March 4-27. Opening Saturday, March 12, 1-5pm.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632. “Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity and the Object.” Through April 10.

THE GALLERY AT R & F 506 Broadway, Kingston. 331-3112. “Hive and Hue.” Paintings by artist Michelle Marcuse. Through March 26.

GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY 398 Main Street, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. “Into the Woods.” Featured artists include Jeanne Cameron, Jeri Eisenberg, Jeanne Englert, and Carol Hart. Through March 5. “Winter Landscapes.” Solo exhibit by Naomi Blum. Through March 5. “Warped.” Fabric and fiber art group show, featuring quilts, soft sculpture, wall hangings, and wearable art. March 5-April 24. “Artsmart.” Show of outstanding preK-12 student works. March 12-April 30.

VARGA Woodstock the way Dali would have done it. VARGA Gallery 130 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.4005

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Art Galleries HAWTHORNE VALLEY FARM STORE 330 Rt. 21C., Harlemville. (518) 672-7500.

Saturday, April 16 at 9am Food and Beverages Available Fire Engine and Police K9 Demonstrations Family Fun Fair

“Paintings and Drawings by Barbara Wilner.” Through March 11.

HOLBROOK ARTS CENTER’S WARNER GALLERY Millbrook School, Millbrook. 677-8261 ext. 132. “Color and Rhythm.” Exhibition by photographer, Ralph Della-Volpe. Through March 4.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 209 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 671-6213. “Juried Art Exhibition.” Greene County Council for the Arts. March 5-April 2. Opening Saturday, March 5, 6-8pm.

Cultural Arts Center

Paintings by Thomas Locker

Images based on Rembrandt's paintings through March 24th. Exhibition reception March 4, 5:30 - 7:30 PM.

Puppet Show *

March 6, 3 PM

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Film: The Age of Innocence *

March 11, 7:30 PM

Optional a la carte supper at 6:30pm, with reservations.

Poetry Reading, Film, High Tea, & Books * March 13, 2 PM

“Annual Juried Art Exhibition.” Paintings, works on paper, mixed media and photographs. May 5.

JAMES DOUGLAS GALLERY 22 River Avenue, Montgomery. 978-1371. “The Wallkill River Valley en Plein Air.” Shawn Dell Joyce, Gene, Bove, William Noonan. Through March 26.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 94 Broadway, Newburgh. 569-4997. “The Fabric of Life.” Sonia Lynn Sadler. Through March 26.

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KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 657-9714.

Gala Concert *

“A Life In Paint.” Henrietta Mantooth. Through April 10.

March 19, 8 PM

Coordinated by Gwen Gould, Samuel Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" & Ragtime music. � ��

Route 9 Kinderhook, NY 12106 • (518) 758-9234 • www.NorthPointe.com

KIESENDAHL + CALHOUN CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY 192 Main Street, Beacon. 838-1177

“Visions from a Cuban Outsider”, Paintings by Corso de Palenzuela, March 10-April 13, 2005. “Discussion on outsider art” by Corso, Saturday, March 26, 3-4 pm. Artist’s reception Saturday, March 12, 5-7 pm

THE LIVING ROOM 45 North Front Street, Kingston. 338-8353. “Abstract Reality.” Investigations of the abstract in objective & non-objective forms. Through April 24.

LORIVER ARTS GALLERY 530 Main Street, Beacon. 831-7660. “Finale- No Walls Just Art.” A 21st Century Salon. Through March 25.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz. 255-1241. “Paper Routes-Works on Paper.” Through March 9. “Recent Paintings.” Keith Gunderson and John Varriano. March 12-April 20. Opening Saturday, March 12, 5-7pm.

MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY Stone Ridge. 687-5113. “Open Ends: The Narrative Impulse.” March 11-April 15. Opening Friday, March 11, 7-9pm.

N25 GALLERY 25 North Division Street, Peekskill. (914) 293-0811. “Of Land and Water.” Paintings by Anne Johann. Through April 10. Opening Saturday, March 5, 4-7pm.

NORTH POINTE CULTURAL CENTER Route 9, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234.

ticker MARCH 18 Young Playwrights’ Festival For 10 years Emmy nominee Casey Kurtti has led Poughkeepsie sixth graders through an intensive 20-week program in playwrighting. The students’ works—on everything from family drama to death to divorce to pre-teen existential angst—never fail to surprise audiences with their candor and creative power. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 10am (primarily school groups) and 7pm. $5. (845) 473-5288. www.bardavon.org.

MARCH 19 Woodstock Film Festival Benefit Screening The Ballad of Jack & Rose, starring Daniel Day Lewis and directed by Rebecca Miller, is a poetic portrait of an idealist who’s cut himself off from the world, and a young girl’s sensual coming-of-age. Followed by Q&A with cast and crew, and champagne reception with door prizes. Rosendale Theater (1pm) and Rosendale Cement Company (3:30pm). Screening $25; screening and reception $100. (845) 679-4265. www. woodstockfilmfestival.com.

MARCH 19 MicroCinema Independent Exposure X Catch this two-hour program of the best of award-winning, cutting-edge indie shorts from the past 10 years as it tours the country. Elks Lodge, Newburgh. 8pm. $5. (845) 534-5284.

MARCH 24 Onyx and Weave Soundpainting Orchestra The creative team of puppeteer, mask-maker, and stiltwalker Lisa Abbatomarco and sound-painter and trombonist Sarah Weaver perform a series of short pieces. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 8pm. Free. (845) 431-8612.

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MARCH 28-APRIL 2 Solar Energy International Workshop The solar-electric industry is burgeoning at 25 percent per year, buoyed by state incentives. This annual intensive solar electricity workshop brings together experts from Vermont and the Catskills to teach both novices and those seeking solar industry careers, and culminates in the residential installation of a grid-tied solar-electric system. Students tour solar residences; complete handson laboratories; and learn different types of solar-electric systems and components, system location and size determination, and the basics of electrical wiring. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. 9am-5pm. $600 (meals and lodging extra). (970) 963-8855. www.solarenergy.org.

THROUGH APRIL 30 Wild Weeds Photo Exhibition Virginia Luppino has been photographing common weeds in the vicinity of her Krumville Road home for eight years. As she deconstructs these common plantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; components and life cycles, she reveals their uncommon beauty. Catskill Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Erpf Gallery, Arkville. Free. (845) 586-2611.

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Art Galleries â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thomas Locker.â&#x20AC;? Framed images based on Rembrandtsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; paintings illustrating his life. Through March 25.

The Collection of James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett. Through April 10.

Reception Friday, March 4, 5:30-7:30pm.

SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY 790 Rt. 203, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

ORANGE HALL GALLERY LOFT OCCC 115 South Street, Middletown. 341-4891. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stringing You Along.â&#x20AC;? Each artwork will be joined together by a line of string containing famous quotes on modern art. Through March 6.

POUGHKEEPSIE ART MUSEUM GALLERIES 214 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. 454-0522. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Past Works & Over the River.â&#x20AC;? Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Through April 3.

RICHARD SENA GALLERY 238 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 828-1996. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stain and Scout.â&#x20AC;? Images that depict the plight of the working class. March 5-April 16. Opening Saturday, March 5, 6-9pm.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 Main Street, Beacon. 838-2880.

Opening Tuesday, March 1, 5:30-7:30pm. ROSHKOWSKA GALLERIES 5338 Main Street, Windham. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Destinations.â&#x20AC;? Images of places that are memorable and worthy of the trip. March 1-31.

(518) 734-9669.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ultra Realism from Here to China.â&#x20AC;? Photos and abstracts by Howard Finkelson. March 5-April 3. Opening Saturday, March 5, 4-7pm.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3844. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Co-Conspirators: Artist and Collector.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Benjamin Swettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Route 22: The Autobiography of a Road.â&#x20AC;? Through March 26. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Afghanistan & Iraq.â&#x20AC;? Photographs by Connie Houde & Lorna Tychostup. Through March 26.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 Broadway, Tivoli. 757-COOP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ice Show.â&#x20AC;? Homage to Winter. March 4-27. Opening Saturday, March 12, 6-8pm.

VAN BRUNT GALLERY 460 Main Street, Beacon. 838-2995.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paintings and Drawings.â&#x20AC;? Richard Butler. March 19-April 18. Opening Saturday, March 19, 6-9pm.

WINDHAM FINE ARTS 5380 Main Street, Windham. (518) 734-6850. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Landscapes by Jeanne Staples.â&#x20AC;? Through March 6.

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WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 679-2940. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Sensual World.â&#x20AC;? Through March 6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Works from Art Garage.â&#x20AC;? Through March 6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Works by painter Bruce Ackerman.â&#x20AC;? Through March 6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With Affection: Personal Inscriptions and the Art of Giving.â&#x20AC;? Prints, drawings, paintings, and other works drawn from the WAA Permanent Collection. Through May 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recent Work and People of Cuba 2005.â&#x20AC;? March 12-April 3. Opening Saturday, March 12, 4-6pm.

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ART Destinations 5:30-7:30pm. Images of places that are memorable and worthy of the trip. RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon. 838-2880. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Prayer Beads & Spiritual Practice 7-9pm. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. MUSIC McLean Mix 8pm. A music/media performance duo comprising composer/performers Priscilla and Barton McLean. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872. $10/$8/$3. WORKSHOPS Yoga for Recovery from Trauma 6:30-8pm. Forest Studio, New Paltz. 255-2243. $125 for series. WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH CLASSES Middle Eastern Dance, American Tribal Style 5:15-6:45pm. Phoenicia Healing Arts Center, Phoenicia. 657-7276. FILM A Clockwork Orange 7:15pm. Harriman Hall Film Theatre, Middletown. 341-4891. $2. Ireland: Celtic Myths and Splendors 7:30pm. Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie. 296-2152. $5. MUSIC Ray Longchamp and the Reckoning 8pm. Acoustic, alternative, rock. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636. SPOKEN WORD Sacred Time: The Festivals of Christianity 12pm. Series of five lectures by the Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7279. $12. WORKSHOPS Writing & Illustrating Children’s Books 6:30-8:30pm. 4 sessions. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. $79. THURSDAY 3 MARCH ART Lowell Butler Memorial Exhibit 5-7pm. Dutchess County Community College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 431-8622. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT The Names of God 7-9:30pm. Woodstock. 679-2358. DANCE Nicholas Leichter Dance 7pm. Combines modern, hip-hop, jazz and street dance styles to examine issues of race, gender and culture. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. FILM In the Realms of the Unreal 7pm. About a janitor by day, artist by night. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. MUSIC Little Scotty and the Knockouts 8-11pm. Blues. The Woronock House, Wappingers Falls. 462-6600. SPOKEN WORD Anita Hollander 12:30pm. Star of the off-Broadway, one-woman show “Still Standing”. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050.

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Comedy Night 7pm. 3 comedians at 3 places: El Coqui, Ship to Shore and Mariners Harbor. Kingston. 340-1106. $10 covers all three locations. Tivoli Bays Talks: Saving Hudson River Sturgeon 7:30-8:30pm. Andy Kahnle. Tivoli Bays Visitor Center, Tivoli. 758-7012. WORKSHOPS How to Start Your Own Deli 7-9pm. 4 sessions. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. $129. FRIDAY 4 MARCH ART Thomas Locker 5:30-7:30pm. Framed images based on Rembrandts’ paintings illustrating his life. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. Flora and Fauna Show 7-9pm. Art Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142. DANCE Assimilation 7pm. Modern dance based on chaos and order. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. $10. FILM Blind Skateboards “What if...” Movie Premier 7pm. T.S.X. RockMusic Skateshop, Kingston. 339-2500. $3. MUSIC Night of the Big Bands 7pm. Students from local high schools play with the Tony Corbiscello Big Band for a battle of the bands. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. $10/$7 students and seniors. Southcott, Don’t Pass Go, and League 7pm. Punk. Historic Newburgh Elks Lodge, Newburgh. 534-5284. $5. Biggy, Itchy & Friends 8pm. Roots music. Hickory Barbeque Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424. Cajun Music and Dance 8pm. Featuring Back Porch Rockers. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. $10. The Judith Tulloch Band 9pm. Acoustic, alternative, contemporary, pop, rock. The Depot, Cold Spring. 265-5000. THEATRE Above the Din and Monster Island 7pm. By Devon E. Mattys and Lola Pierson, respectively. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Beauty and the Beast 8pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisation based on audience members’ experiences and dreams. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. $6. Moonlight and Valentino 8pm. Live stage version of Ellen Simon’s comedy. Cunneen-Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571. SATURDAY 5 MARCH ART Family Art Adventure Call for times. Games, activities, projects. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. Lydia Afia Call for times. Presenting a new sculpture. Deep Listening Space Gallery, Kingston. 658-3533.

Warped 2-4pm. Fabric and fiber art group show, featuring quilts, soft sculpture, wall hangings and wearable art. Greene County Council on the Arts Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Sculptor’s Drawings 4-6pm. Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, Hunter. (518) 263-4908. Of Land and Water 4-7pm. Paintings by Anne Johann. N25 Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 293-0811. Ultra Realism from Here to China 4-7pm. Photos and abstracts by Howard Finkelson. Roshkowska Galleries, Windham. (518) 734-9669. Holly Brooks and Todd Samara 5-7pm. Paintings and collage. Coffey Gallery, Kingston. 339-6105. Robert The: New Signs and Icons 5-8pm. Awake Gallery, Kingston. 532-2448. Juried Art Exhibition 6-8pm. Greene County Council for the Arts. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 671-6213. Paintings by Randy Green 6-8pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. Stain and Scout 6-9pm. Images that depict the plight of the working class. Richard Sena Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1996. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Ecstatic Trance 11am-4pm. With Barbra Threecrow. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $65. Herbal Aphrodisiacs 1-4pm. Monarda Herbal Apothecary, Phoenica. 688-2122. $35. DANCE Assimilation 7pm. Modern dance based on chaos and order. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. $10. English Country Dance 8-11pm. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 679-8587. $8. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm. Alcohol-free and shoe-free environment with a wide range of music. Kingston Knights of Columbus Hall, Kingston. 658-8319. $5/Teens, Seniors $2/Children & Volunteers free. EVENTS Dutchess County St. Patrick’s Day Parade 1pm. Wappingers Falls. 297-9773. FILM Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst 7:30pm. Hippodrome Theatre, Loch Sheldrake. 482-4141. $5-$10. In the Realms of the Unreal 7:30pm. About a janitor by day, artist by night. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. KIDS Make Your Own Pizza 11am-4pm. Greig Farm Marketplace, Red Hook. 758-6561. $5. MUSIC Recital for students up to age 18 1pm. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8916. $10/ $5 students, faculty, seniors & children. Amanda Homi 8pm. Full Moon Resort, Oliverea. 254-5117. Emerging Artists 8pm. Emily Gerace, flute, & Maria Rivera White, piano. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870. $20/$5 students.

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JIMMY CLIFF PERFORMING AT THE HUDSON RIVER FEST IN 2003

THE HARDER THEY RISE

he white-hot pulse of Jamaican music was rarely heard off the island in the early 1960s. But a dynamic, some say divine, artist was determined to change that, and spearheaded a worldwide revolution of music and culture. Forty years later, Jimmy Cliff is one of reggae’s founding fathers, an innovator who paved the way for Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, et al. A spokesman for Rastafari and world peace, Cliff has spread his message to a global audience. And on March 24, Upstate Reggae of Woodstock brings him back to Poughkeepsie for an intimate show at the vintage Chance theater. Born James Chambers in 1948, he took “Cliff” as his name to symbolize heights he would soon hit, and by 1964 his shining vocals helped catapult the new “ska” sound out of Jamaica. American soul radio was ska’s nursemaid, as the slippery, brassy riffs of James Brown and Otis Redding laced island rhythms into a new art form, perfect for dancing or just “liming.” Cliff’s first crossover hits soon caught the attention of Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, who went on to establish him in Britain and South America. (Ironically, Cliff also introduced Blackwell to Bob Marley, whose career overshadowed dozens of Jamaican artists.) Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell cast Cliff as the lead in The Harder They Come, a groundbreaking flick about the record industry and ghetto life. Cliff’s performance as Ivanhoe, a brash singer who bucks payola to protect his profits, won critical acclaim and led to future roles. The movie made headlines for its raw-nerve reality (legend has it a crew member was murdered during filming), and the landmark, platinum-selling soundtrack. In addition to Cliff classics (“Sitting Here in Limbo,” “Many Rivers to Cross,” and the title track), suddenly the world was skanking along to “Pressure Drop” by Toots and the Maytals, “ShantyTown” by Desmond Dekker, and other instant hits. Even though its US release came a few years after production ended in 1972, the film’s message of conscious revolt struck a chord with college students opposing Vietnam, riled by the Kent State riots and a phalanx of unfairness. The album’s hand-painted cover, centered around Cliff in a star-adorned t-shirt, became a staple of LP collections and is still available today on CD. “Jimmy is the reason I got into reggae in the first place,” says producer Leah Boss of Upstate Reggae.“I was a teenager at the New York World’s Fair in 1964 and he was performing at the Jamaican Pavilion as a musical ambassador. I was just walking through the fair and gravitated toward the music. It was like a magnet.” According to Boss, Cliff’s 2003 appearance at the Hudson River Music Fest drew a capacity crowd, “more attendees than they ever had.” Black Magic (Artemis Records), a collection of duets, is nominated for a 2005 Grammy award, and Cliff has one previous Best Reggae Grammy for 1988’s Hanging Fire. Boss has also promised some very special guests this evening. Her rolodex includes everyone from international stars to regional acts like Ras Negus, so expect I-tal riddims to wind up the dance floor beforehand. —DJ Wavy Davy JIMMY CLIFF PERFORMS AT THE CHANCE, 6 CRANNELL ST., POUGHKEEPSIE, ON THURSDAY, MARCH 24 AT 8PM. TICKETS ARE $27.50 IN ADVANCE, $32.50 DAY-OF-SHOW. (845) 679-3382. WWW.REGGAEWOODSTOCK.COM.

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Kate McDonnell 8pm. Folk guitar. Hyde Park Free Library Annex, Hyde Park. 299-7791. $8.

The Case of the Crushed Petunias by Tennessee Williams 8pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081

Moonlight and Valentino 8pm. Live stage version of Ellen Simon’s comedy. Cunneen-Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Michael Newman & Laura Oltman 8pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $11/$15 non-members.

WORKSHOPS Write Saturday 8:30am-4pm. With Wallkill Valley Writers. New Paltz. 255-7090.

O Fathomless Love by Frank Crocitto 4pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081

Newburgh Symphonic Chorale 8pm. Choral, classical. Grace United Methodist Church, Newburgh. 562-1800.

Cosmic Salon 10:30am-12pm. Astrological study group. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Howland Cultural Center Women’s Coffeehouse 8-10pm. Featuring Denise Jordan Finley, Melissa Holland, Lyn Burnstine, LouAnn Thompson. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Open Healing Circle 4-6:30pm. Woodstock. 679-2358.

Sloan Wainwright 9pm. An opera singer with a guitar. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. $10. THE OUTDOORS Hike in Harriman 9:30am. Moderate. Meeting Place: Anthony Wayne parking lot. 339-7170. Round Trip Hike up Slide Mountain 9:30am. Strenuous 6.3 miles. Call for meeting place. 339-7170. Hike on the Appalachian Trail around Nuclear Lake 10am. Moderate four miles. Meeting Place: Trail Head on Rt. 55 East of the Taconic Pkwy. and Rt. 82. 691-7442.

FRIDAYS $10 All-You-Can-Eat Buffet 4-9 PM and Live DJ! (No Cover)

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Mohonk Preserve Singles Ski or Hike: Awosting Falls 10am-4pm. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, moderate, 7-mile ski or hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $6/$4 members. SPOKEN WORD The Art & Science of Natural Building 10am-12:30pm. With Ben Simpson. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Cottekill. 679-9597. $25. How to Research Your Family History 1pm. Carol Johnson. D&H Canal Historical Society & Museum, High Falls. 687-9311. Author Maura D. Shaw 2pm. Reads from her book “The Keeners,” with signing. Merritt Bookstore, Red Hook. 758-2665. Roger Kahn 7pm. Author of “Beyond the Boys of Summer”. Ariel Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8041.

Cooking For One 4-7pm. Whole Foods Whole People, Salt Point. 266-4282.

EVENTS Annual Pancake Breakfast 9am-1pm. All you can eat with real maple syrup. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $6/$4 children.

MUSIC Sweetie Pie Jonas with Todd and Jim 10pm. Acoustic, alternative, rock. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636.

24th Annual Antique Toy & Model Train Show 10am-3pm. Sponsored by the Columbia-Greene Community Foundation, Inc. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181, ext. 3327. $3/children 7 and under free. FILM In the Realms of the Unreal 5pm. About a janitor by day, artist by night. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. KIDS Make Your Own Pizza 11am-4pm. Greig Farm Marketplace, Red Hook. 758-6561. $5. MUSIC Mark Ten Eiken 1pm. Classical, fusion, classical guitar and favorites. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Michelle LeBlanc, Jazz Standards 2-3:15pm. Mt. Pleasant Public Library, Pleasantville. (914) 769-0548. Allison Dennis 2-4pm. Blues, folk, soul. Deep Listening Space, Kingston. 338-5984.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Ski or Hike: Millbrook Mountain 9:30am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8.

Moonlight and Valentino 8pm. Live stage version of Ellen Simon’s comedy. Cunneen-Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571. O Fathomless Love by Frank Crocitto 8pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Intestinal Health 7pm. With Lainy Reicher. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $15. CLASSES Absurd Word Series 6:30-8pm. Adult story and craft class, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. $7 a class, $25 for the series.

Poetry Open Mike 8pm. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Chekhov Love Letters 8pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. $8.

MONDAY 7 MARCH ART Transience, Contours of Anatomy as Metaphor 5-7pm. Barbara Bash, Kristin Berthot, and Roger Jones. Bertelsmann Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 334-8461.

DANCE Swing Jam 6:30-9pm. Lesson half hour before dance. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-6955. $5.

A Wincenc Fantasy 3pm. Carol Wincenc with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. $24-$42.

Beauty and the Beast 8pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20, $18 seniors and children.

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CLASSES Middle Eastern Dance, American Tribal Style 12:15-1:45pm. Mt. View Studio, Woodstock. 657-7276.

Pauline Oliveros and Ione 8pm. Accordion and spoken word. Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston. 338-5984. $10/$8.

THEATRE Above the Din by Devon E. Mattys and Monster Island by Lola Pierson 7pm. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.

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SUNDAY 6 MARCH

The Case of the Crushed Petunias by Tennessee Williams 4pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081

Ski / Trek to Lake Awosting via Castle Point Carriageway 10am. Moderate 6 miles. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $6/$4 members. SPOKEN WORD The Geothermal Story 3-4pm. How geothermal energy is utilized in various countries. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8. THEATRE Beauty and the Beast 3pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

SPOKEN WORD Art and Its Motives in the Age of Revolution: 1750–1850 4:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7512. Open Mike Night 7pm. Featuring Jo Salas (short fiction) and Allen Fischer (poet). Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. $3. THEATRE The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 3pm. Presented by the Puppet People. North Pointe Cultural Arts Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $5. WORKSHOPS De Clutter Your Life 6:30-7:30pm. YMCA, Poughkeepsie. 471-9622. $5. TUESDAY 8 MARCH CLASSES Tilling the Soil Business Training 12-9 and 8-2. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Dutchess County, Millbrook. (315) 787-2622. $250. EVENTS Knitting Group 7-8:30pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619. MUSIC Two to Tango 8pm. The jazz duo of Teri Roiger and John Menegon. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872. $10/$8/$4. SPOKEN WORD Trish Chambers’ Performance of Civil War Women 7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943. THEATRE Flights of Fancy – The story of Amelia Earhart 11am. By Flying Ship Productions, for K-12. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080 ext. 13. $8.00 per student. Auditions for Off the Wall 7pm. An improvisational performance troupe. Cunneen Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 497-1390. WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. With Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

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THE TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION OF “FIDDLER ON THE ROOF”

IF I WERE A RICH MAN

ithout our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof!” So sings Tevye, a Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia and father to five daughters, all of whom he expects will eat, dress, pray, and marry according to his traditions. Instead, on the eve of the 1905 Russian revolution, his daughters take him on a musical journey called “Fiddler on the Roof.” An American classic that won nine Tony awards for its original Broadway production, including Best Musical, “Fiddler on the Roof” will stop at Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston on March 19 during its national tour. The musical just finished its fourth revival on Broadway, for which it won Best Musical Revival. Based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, Fiddler brings to life the Jewish communities or “shtetls” of Tzarist Russia, which eroded into poverty after World War I and were essentially wiped out during World War II. Hardships, however, did not slow the inevitable widening of the generation gap and the breaking of tradition by the young. When Tevye plays matchmaker for his daughters, and they insist on marrying men they’ve chosen for themselves, he is outraged. But as his love for his daughters begins to overcome his faith in convention, and the Jews are forced from their homes, Tevye must choose between his family and the ways of the past. When it premiered in 1964, audiences here, who were on the edge of their own rebellion, embraced the raw human experience “Fiddler on the Roof” delivered. As one critic in 1964 remarked, “‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is concerned with basic reality, with the human condition, with compassion and hope. It is concerned with a time and place, and with the timeless and universal.” The musical went on to hold the record as the longest-running show on Broadway until 1979. Barbara Cohen, a board member of both UPAC and the Jewish Federation of Ulster County, who is sponsoring the performance, said an anonymous donor provided money and encouraged the group to sponsor the event. “It’s unusual for a nonprofit to sponsor something like this, but we feel it’s extremely important for people to see. You don’t have to be Jewish or in 1905 Russia to relate, especially with what’s going on in the world and in communities today. In Tevye’s life, it was falling apart for him, but [“Fiddler”] shows it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It can be good to change how things are.” The performance will be produced by Troika Entertainment, which has been performing musicals all over the world for two decades since its founding by Nicholas Howey as The Harlequin Dinner Theater in Washington, DC. It is directed by Sammy Dallas Bayes, who appeared in the original Broadway production and credits Fiddler choreographer Jerome Robbins as his mentor. Bayes is also the Artistic Director of the Orpheus Theatre in Oneonta, New York. —Molly Maeve Eagan “FIDDLER ON THE ROOF” WILL BE PERFORMED AT THE UPAC, 601 BROADWAY, KINGSTON, ON SATURDAY, MARCH 19 AT 8PM. TICKETS ARE $42. (845) 339-6088, WWW.UPAC.ORG.

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CLASSES Up, Up, and Away 7:30pm. Discover new products and wine regions on the rise. The New Paltz Wine School, New Paltz. 255-0110. FILM Casablanca, Travels in Morocco 7:30pm. Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie. 296-2152. $5. MUSIC Allison Dennis 10pm. acoustic, alternative, folk, original, rock. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636. SPOKEN WORD Sacred Time: The Festivals of Christianity 12pm. Series of five lectures by the Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7279. $12. Is Freedom Attainable? 7:30pm. Presented by the Discovery Institute. Esoterica Books, New Paltz. 255-5777. Anne Bailey 8pm. Author of “African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame.” SUNY New Paltz. 257-3872. THEATRE Auditions for Off the Wall 7pm. An improvisational performance troupe. Cunneen Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 497-1390. Beauty and the Beast 8pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. THURSDAY 10 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Magick 101 7-9pm. Spirittus, Kingston. 679-4293. $10/$15. So What’s a Sufi? 7-9:30pm. Introduction to Shaduliyya Sufism. Woodstock. 679-2358. FILM In the Realms of the Unreal 7pm. About a janitor by day, artist by night. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. MUSIC Little Scotty and the Knockouts 8-11pm. Blues. The Woronock House, Wappingers Falls. 462-6600. THE OUTDOORS New Moon Reservoir Walk 7pm. Ashonkan Resevoir. 657-2516. SPOKEN WORD Camille Cellucci and An Inside Look at Visual Effects 12:30pm. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050. THEATRE Beauty and the Beast 8pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

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Multiple Exposures 1-5pm. Black and white photos by Mikolaj Ciszewski. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894. $6/$3 members, students and seniors.

Reinventing Ourselves Weekend retreat for women. Linwood Retreat Center, Rhinebeck. 687-2252.

Recent Work and People of Cuba 2005 4-6pm. Woodstock Artists Association Gallery, Woodstock. 687-0407.

DANCE Assimilation 7pm. Modern dance based on chaos and order. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. $10.

Recent Paintings 5-7pm. Keith Gunderson and John Varriano. Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1241.

Zydeco Dance 8-11pm. With Li’l Anne & Hot Cayenne. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061. $12. FILM Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Call for times. Marshall and Sterling Friday Film Series. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Age of Innocence 7pm. Based on a novel by Edith Wharton. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $3/$1.50 students. Friday Night Film Series 8pm. Ocean’s 12 (PG 13). Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050. MUSIC Open Mike Night 8pm. Hosted by singer/songwriter Jaime Kay. Historic Newburgh Elks Lodge, Newburgh. 534-5284. $3. Pete Lafifn 8pm. Solo Acoustic Folk. Hickory Barbeque Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424. Rising of the Moon- Ceile Band 8pm. Acoustic, Celtic, original. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Ray Bonneville 9pm. Blues. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. $12. SPOKEN WORD Let’s Talk About...Leonardo Da Vinci 7:30pm. HV Humanists at Unitarians of Catskills, Kingston. 247-0098. $3. Women’s Hormones 7:30pm. Susan Willson, CNM. Esoterica Books, New Paltz. 255-5777. THEATRE Scrabble and Tabouli Call for times. Mohonk Mountain Stage. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $11/$15 non-members. Buffalo Soldier 11am. By Theatre IV Productions, for grades 3 and up. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080 ext. 13. $10.00 per student. World on Fire 7:30pm. Presented by Bread and Puppet. Time & Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $12.50/$10 members/ $5 children and students.

The Ice Show 6-8pm. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 757-COOP. The Book of Art...Epilogue 6-9pm. Gary Jacketti. bau, Beacon. 591-2331. “Visions from a Cuban Outsider” Paintings by Corso de Palenzuela 5-7pm. Kiesendahl + Calhoun Contemporary Art Gallery, 192 Main Street, Beacon. 838-1177. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sweat Lodge Ceremony 2pm. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 687-7677. $5. CLASSES Reiki I & II Certification 10am-4pm. Become a certified Reiki practitioner. Woodstock. 336-4609. DANCE Assimilation 7pm. Modern dance based on chaos and order. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. $10. EVENTS Whose Library is it Anyway? 2-3:30pm. Game for teens. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943. Antique and Estate Auction 5pm. Absolute Auction Center, Pleasant Valley. 635-3169. KIDS Decorate a Shamrock Cookie 11am-4pm. Greig Farm Marketplace, Red Hook. 758-6561. $2.50. MUSIC Aisling Call for time. Irish/Celtic music. Air Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Woodstock Goddess Festival Call for times. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 246-1625. Tribute To Sinatra 2pm. Louis Landon performs Sinatra melodies. Howland Public Library, Beacon. 831-1134. Ulster County Band & Orchestra Festival 4pm. Ulster County’s elementary, jr. and high school bands and orchestras. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. $5/$3 seniors and students. A Night of Jazz 7:30pm. Judi Silvano and accompaniment. Historic Newburgh Elks Lodge, Newburgh. 534-5284. $10/$8 members/$5 seniors.

A Flea in Her Ear 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3872. $16/$14.

Beauty and the Beast 8pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

WORKSHOPS Natural Facial Care Workshop 6:30pm. The Rustic Bohemian, New Paltz. 255-8731. $34.

Wit by Margaret Edson 8pm. Presented by the Mohonk Stage Company. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Eddie Palmieri 8pm. Latin pianist. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. $36.50/ students and seniors $30.50.

De Clutter & De-Stress Your Life 7-8pm. Howland Library, Beacon. 831-1134.

WORKSHOPS Natural Bath & Body Workshop 6:30pm. The Rustic Bohemian, New Paltz. 255-8731. $34.

Folkfoot 8pm. Alternative, bluegrass, country, folk. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Introduction to Body Talk 7-9pm. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. $15/$20.

The Four Tops 8pm. Motown. The Broadway Theatre, Kingston. 339-6088.

String Trio of New York 7:30pm. Composition and Improvisation as a Creative Language. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. $5.

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Akasha Con Call for times. Spiritual Conference. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. $160.

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SATURDAY 12 MARCH

ART Open Ends: The Narrative Impulse 7-9pm. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113.

ART Artsmart 12-4pm. Show of outstanding preK-12 student works. Greene County Council on the Arts Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

Nancy Donnelly 7:30pm. Blues, Jazz, Latin. Ship to Shore, Kingston. 334-8887.

Uncle Buckle 8pm. Roots music. Hickory Barbeque Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424. Allison Dennis 8-11pm. Blues, folk, soul. The Beechtree, Poughkeepsie. 471-7279.

Joe Giardullo’s Late 20th Century 4tet 9pm. Music of Monk, Ornette Coleman, and Steve Lacey. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. $10. THE OUTDOORS Cross-Country Ski or Hike in the 3700 Acre Black Rock Forest 10am. Moderately strenuous. Call for meeting place. 297-5126. Ski Clinic 10am. For all abilities. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $6/$4 members. Meet at the Mohonk Preserve Second Annual Kids’ Day in the Sugar Bush 1-3pm. Come see how maple syrup is made at Spring Farm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $13 nonmembers/$5 Preserve members and a materials fee of $5. SPOKEN WORD Author Laurence Klaven 11am. Reads from his book “Shooting Script,” with signing. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

CLASSES Parent and child knitting 1-5pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $50/$35. EVENTS Poetry Reading, Film & High Tea 2pm. Film: Millay at Steepletop. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. FILM Fear and Trembling 3pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. The Take 5pm. Unemployed workers in Buenos Aires take over a factory. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Larry Del Casale 1pm. Acoustic, classical guitar and favorites. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Jeffery McGowan 7pm. “Major Conflict: One Gay Man’s Life in the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Military.” Ariel Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8041.

Colorado Quartet and Friends 7:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7425.

O Fathomless Love by Frank Crocitto 8pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081 The Case of the Crushed Petunias by Tennessee Williams 8pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081 World on Fire 7:30pm. Presented by Bread and Puppet. Time & Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $12.50/$10 members/ $5 children and students. Wit by Margaret Edson 8pm. Presented by the Mohonk Stage Company. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. WORKSHOPS How to Audition for Film 10:30am-12pm. With Anthony Giaimo. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. $59. What’s Cooking: Pasta 1pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619. Multi-Dimensional Gateway of Quartz 2-4pm. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. Eco-Friendly Cleaning Workshop 6:30pm. The Rustic Bohemian, New Paltz. 255-8731. $12. SUNDAY 13 MARCH ART Antiques and Collectibles Display 10am-4pm. 1870-1950. Creek Meeting House, Clinton Corners. 266-5212. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sufi Zikr 4-6:30pm. Mount Tremper. 679-7215.

pottery & statuary 25% off

MUSIC Dickey Betts and Great Southern Call for times. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2972.

Welcome Spring High Tea 4-6pm. Music by Hudson Valley Instrumentalists. Cup and Saucer Room, Beacon. 831-6287.

Beauty and the Beast 2pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

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KIDS Decorate a Shamrock Cookie 11am-4pm. Greig Farm Marketplace, Red Hook. 758-6561. $2.50.

Woodstock Poetry Society Meeting 2pm. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. www.woodstockpoetry.com.

THEATRE Scrabble and Tabouli Call for times. Mohonk Mountain Stage. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $11/$15 non-members.

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THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike: Peters Kill Dog Hike 10am-2pm. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead, moderate 7 miles. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $6/$4 members. SPOKEN WORD Author Maura D. Shaw 2pm. Reads from and signs her book “The Keeners.” Millbrook Library, Millbrook. 677-3611. Sunday Salon 2pm. Discussion the impact of Cole, his place in art history, and his artistic achievements. The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465. $8/$5 members.

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Opera for All 3pm. The Delaware Valley Opera Company will present highlights from popular operas. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619. The Case of the Crushed Petunias by Tennessee Williams 4pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081 WORKSHOPS Zen & Creativity 2-4pm. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. $15/$20. MONDAY 14 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Embodying the Sacred 12:30-1pm. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $15. Seven Secrets of Meditation 8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

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MUSIC Studio Stu 10pm. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636.

The Pfeiffer Center Biodynamics and the Environment

SPOKEN WORD The Two Faces of 19th-Century Romanticism 4:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7512.

Our Daily Bread BREAD BAKING WORKSHOP with Chris Stearn from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Bakery

Open Mike Night 7pm. Featuring Jackie Sheeler (performance poet) and Angelo Verga (poet). Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. $3.

Saturday April 2, 2005

ourdough and yeasted bread-making theory, history and hands-on using our conventional and wood-fired ovens.

WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH Student Matt Burns checking on the fire

Organic Beekeeping Workshop Friday & Saturday April 29-30, 2005

Hands-on for experienced and beginning beekeepers. Bee colony as an organism, with Gunther Hauk.

Internships Experience a year in the place where Biodynamic and Organic farming and gardening got their start in North America.

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DANCE Solas An Lae Irish Dance Troupe 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20. FILM Yellowstone—High Country Treasure 7:30pm. Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie. 296-2152. $5. MUSIC Melody 10pm. Acoustic, alternative, experimental, fusion, jazz, rock. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636. SPOKEN WORD Sacred Time: The Festivals of Christianity 12pm. Series of five lectures by the Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7279. $12. Ione 7-9pm. Pride of Family, Four Generations of American Women of Color. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. PubNet@yahoogroups.com. $5. THURSDAY 17 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sufi Poetry 7-9:30pm. Woodstock. 679-2358. EVENTS Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee: Regional Final Call for time. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. MUSIC The Charlie Daniels Band 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Little Scotty and the Knockouts 8-11pm. Blues. The Woronock House, Wappingers Falls. 462-6600. St Patrick’s Day with The Big Heavy 11pm. Oasis Café, New Paltz. 255-2400. THEATRE The Big Adventures of Stuart Little 11am. By Theatre IV Productions, for K-5. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080 ext. 13. $10.00 per student. Beauty and the Beast 8pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. FRIDAY 18 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Ostara/Spring Equinox Ritual 7:30pm. Hurley. 340-0220. DANCE Swing Dance 8:30pm. Music by The Propellors. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571. $12. EVENTS Skateboarding Mini-Ramp Trick Contest 4pm. T.S.X. RockMusic Skateshop, Kingston. 339-2500. $15. AURA Kids Benefit Performance 7pm. Show, food & merriment. The Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Woodstock. 679-0747. $5.

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FILM In the Realms of the Unreal 5:30pm. About a janitor by day, artist by night. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. MUSIC Rade Taylor 8pm. Solo acoustic rock guitar & vocals. Hickory Barbeque Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424. Return of Thunder Ridge 9:30pm. Country, rock. Creekside Restaurant, Catskill. (518) 943-6522. THEATRE Scrabble and Tabouli Call for times. Mohonk Mountain Stage. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $11/$15 non-members. Young Playwrights Festival 7pm. Sixth grade students’ work. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. $10/$7 students and seniors. Beauty and the Beast 8pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. Wit by Margaret Edson 8pm. Presented by the Mohonk Stage Company. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. WORKSHOPS Enlighten Up: Laughter & Well Being 7-9pm. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. Learning How to Let Go of Stress 7:30pm. Esoterica Books, New Paltz. 255-5777. The Devil Made Me Do It!! 7:30pm. Bill Coleman, Psychodramatist. Highland. 255-7502. $6. SATURDAY 19 MARCH ART Right Brain Saturday 10am-12pm. Ages 6-10, explore methods and issues of exhibiting artists. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. Still Life 12-8pm. Eric Jarmann & Co. Gallery, Newburgh. 561-7960. A Decade of Discovery 4-8pm. Christie Sheele. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie. 454-0522. Paintings and Drawings 6-9pm. Richard Butler. Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon. 838-2995. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Dream Interpretation Call for times. Healer Training School, Rhinebeck. 876-0259. Healing Forms for Women 1-2:45pm. Dream Awareness, Qi Gong, meditations and informal discussion. Per Ankh, Kingston. 339-5776. $25.

Kingston. 658-8319. Adults $5/Teens/ Seniors $2/Children & Volunteers FREE.

EVENTS Farm Toy Show and Auction 9am-3pm. Stissing Mountain Middle and High School, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7181. $3. Spring Fun Festival 11am-4pm. High Falls Firehouse, High Falls. 658-3467. $5 family/$2 adult/$1 children. Lunch at Charlie Brown’s and Sharpe Reservation Planetarium Visit 2pm. Charlie Brown Restaurant, Fishkill. 435-5072. FILM In the Realms of the Unreal 5:30pm. About a janitor by day, artist by night. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Double Feature 7:30pm. Blue Vinyl and Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers. Hippodrome Theatre, Loch Sheldrake. 482-4141. $5-$10. The Take 7:30pm. Unemployed workers in Buenos Aires take over a factory. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. The Gadabout Presents: Film Series 8pm. MicroCinema Independent Exposure X. Historic Newburgh Elks Lodge, Newburgh. 534-5284. $5. KIDS Decorate a Cupcake 11am-4pm. Greig Farm Marketplace, Red Hook. 758-6561. $2.50. MUSIC Jacques Brel Is Alive & Well & Living in Paris: A Concert Version 8am. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. $8. Cocoa and Rococo 6pm. Music from the era between Baroque and Classical. St. James Church, Great Barrington, MA. (800) 843-0778. A Concert For Peace 8pm. Featuring Jim Hall, jazz musician. Colony Café, Woodstock. 657-6004. Blind Mice 8pm. Rock, Folk & Harmony. Hickory Barbeque Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424. Gala Concert 8pm. Several performers. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $25/Seniors $22.50/Members $20/Students $10. Eric Erickson 8-10pm. Acoustic, traditional. Beech Tree Grill, Poughkeepsie. 471-7279. The Lonesome Sisters 9pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. $10.

Herbal Treatment of Respiratory Infections 1-4pm. Monarda Herbal Apothecary, Phoenica. 688-2122. $35.

THE OUTDOORS Winter Bird Walks 9am. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240. $2.

CLASSES Usui Reiki Classes: Level II Call for time. Taught by Faith Supple. Spiritroot, Hopewell Junction. 897-3280.

Spring Equinox Snowshoe / Hike 10am. Meet in upper parking area. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011.

DANCE Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre 7:30pm. Modern dance works. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106. $25. Contradance 8pm. With Bluebell and Susie. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050. $8. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm. Alcohol-free and shoe-free environment with a wide range of music. Kingston Knights of Columbus Hall,

Mohonk Preserve Singles Ski or Hike: Duck Pond 10am-3pm. Strenuous 7 miles. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8. Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $6/$4 members. SPOKEN WORD Cheryl Bernstein 10:30am. Tape looms, drop spindles, and the art of tambouring. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943.

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SUNY NEW PALTZ The School of Fine & Performing Arts presents the incomparable jazz legend

Anita O’Day in concert

April 15, 2005

Julien J. Studley Theatre

PASCAL RIOULT DANCE THEATER FEATURING HANNAH BURNETTE PERFORMING STRAVINSKY’S FIREBIRD SUITE

THE FIREBIRD SWEET!

ach person has a line dividing their heart—on one side, the evil and the dark, and on the other side, the light and the good. And that line moves, according to circumstance. Sometimes there are more possibilities of evil, and sometimes more possibilities of good. Every single human being has this capacity,” Pascal Rioult says, paraphrasing a passage from Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. “For me, it’s the idea that society does evil unto itself.” Rioult is explaining his version of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, which will be performed at the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center on March 19 and 20. Born in Normandy, France, Pascal Rioult came to America in 1981. He began dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1986. And eight years later, he founded his own troupe, which presents colorful, dramatic dances illustrating timeless moral fables. This month, Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre will be in residence for three weeks at Kaatsbaan, a former horse farm situated on 153 acres in Tivoli, NY. Igor Stravinsky wrote the Firebird Suite in 1945, for which George Balanchine did the choreography. In this ballet, young Prince Ivan follows a flame-colored bird in a forest, into the garden of Kastchei, an ogre with green talons. Ivan captures the bird, but the bird begs to be freed. The Prince gives the bird freedom, and in return receives one of its feathers. Later, Kastchei seizes the Prince and is about to turn him to stone when the youth recalls the feather. The Prince summons the Firebird and is saved. In Rioult’s version, eight dancers live together in a cave underground. They are prehistoric humans—or possibly survivors of a future catastrophe. Their motions are primal, animalistic. The sets, by Harry Feiner, are also central to the piece, using abstract, often triangular shapes to convey the struggle between dimness and light. A 10-year-old girl (Hannah Burnette) enters their cavern, and teaches them games. She carries a peacock feather, and touches them with it. As in the original dance, the feather frees them. The final scene is a march out of the cave into the light of the large sky. The Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre debuted the Firebird Suite at the American Dance Festival in North Carolina last summer, and later performed it at UC Berkeley. In addition to presenting the Firebird Suite, Rioult is now choreographing his first full-length ballet, Kansas City Orfeo, based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. A section of this work-in-progress and Stravinsky’s Les Noces (The Wedding) of 1923 will also be performed in the Kaatsbaan’s Studio Theater, which seats 160. The group will present two open rehearsals, free of charge. A free lecture by Pascal Rioult and composer/Bard College professor Joan Tower will explore the relationship between music and choreography on March 15 at 7pm. —Sparrow PERFORMANCES ARE ON SATURDAY, MARCH 19 AT 7:30PM AND SUNDAY, MARCH 20 AT 2:30PM AT THE KAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER, 120 BROADWAY, TIVOLI. (845) 757-5107. WWW.KAATSBAAN.ORG.

Tickets: $42 Orchestra Center/ $27 Adults/ $22 Senior Citizens includes Meet-the-Artist Reception

The Department of Theatre Arts presents:

AFLEA IN HER EAR by George Feydeau

Parker Theatre March 10 - 20

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare

McKenna Theatre April 28 - May 8 tickets for all shows on sale now:

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Maura Shaw 7pm. “The Keeners.” Ariel Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8041.

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Beauty and the Beast 2pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

THEATRE Scrabble and Tabouli Call for times. Mohonk Mountain Stage. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $11/$15 non-members.

Fiddler on the Roof 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. O Fathomless Love by Frank Crocitto 8pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081 Spring Dance Theater 8pm. A program of Moderation and other student choreography. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

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What Haven’t We Done? 8pm. Presented by Hudson River Playback Theatre. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 255-7716. $10/$8. Wit by Margaret Edson 8pm. Presented by the Mohonk Stage Company. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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WORKSHOPS How to Audition for Film 10:30am-12pm. With Anthony Giaimo. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. $59. Safety 12-1pm. Kerhonkson-Accord Rescue Squad Building. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5014. Puppet-making Workshop 1pm. Conducted by art instructor Barbara Smith Gioia of Blue Sky Arts, Inc. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619. SUNDAY 20 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Naked Sunday 7:30-9:30am. Morning Meditation and Movement. Acorn Hill Healing Arts, Olivebridge. 657-2516. $5.

Daedalus String Quartet 4pm. Bach, Sibelius, Purcell and Ravel. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243. $25/$12 students. Manhattan String Quartet 4pm. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870. $20/$5 students. Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4-6pm. Sign up at 3:30. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $6/$5 members. Acoustic Open Mike 6pm. With John DeNicolo. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Lou Rawls 7pm. Pop and r&b. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. $49.50/$46.50 students and seniors. THE OUTDOORS Maple Sugar Tours 11:30am-3pm. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $6/$4 members. Mohonk Preserve – Seventeenth Annual Signs of Spring Walk 2-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8. THEATRE Beauty and the Beast 3pm. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. O Fathomless Love by Frank Crocitto 4pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081 Spring Dance Theater 8pm. A program of Moderation and other student choreography. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. MONDAY 21 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Awaking Your Intuition 7pm. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $15/$20. Herbal Tasting 7:15pm. Joseph’s Hair Stylists, Saugerties. 246-5588. Seven Secrets of Meditation 8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

DANCE Sunday Master Class Series 2-4pm. Presented by the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 943-6700.

MUSIC Al DeFino Duo w/ Lewis Grenney on Bass 10pm. Jazz. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre 2:30pm. Modern dance works. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106. $25.

SPOKEN WORD Nietzsche Contra Kant: A Student Debate on Morality 4:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7512.

EVENTS Family Week Call for times. Yoga Ranch, Woodbourne. 436-6492. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School Spring Fair 12-3pm. New Paltz. 255-0033. KIDS Decorate a Cupcake 11am-4pm. Greig Farm Marketplace, Red Hook. 758-6561. $2.50.

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Bruce Molsky & the Southern Schoolhouse Rascals 3pm. Southern mountain old time fiddle tunes and songs. Theatre at Cunneen Hackett, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571. $15 adults/$10 seniors and students/free children.

Topics in Sufism: Forgiveness 4-6:30pm. Mount Tremper. 679-7215.

Swing Dance Jam 6:30-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 339-3032. $5.

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MUSIC Dan Scanell 1pm. Acoustic, blues, folk, guitar favorites. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Douglas K. Smith on His New Book 7pm. On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We in the Age of Me. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943. Open Mike Night 7pm. Featuring Steve Hirsch (poet) and Robert Milby (poet). Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. $3. THEATRE Spring Dance Theater 3pm. A program of Moderation and other student choreography. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

WORKSHOPS Family Fun & Healthy Living 6:30-7:30pm. YMCA, Poughkeepsie. 471-9622. $5.

Sufi Zikr 7-9:30pm. Deep healing through teaching and chanting. Woodstock. 679-2358.

THEATRE The Case of the Crushed Petunias by Tennessee Williams 4pm. The Present Company, New Paltz. 255-9081

DANCE Fashion Show Fund Raiser 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20.

TUESDAY 22 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Past Lives and Karma 7-9pm. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $15/$20. CLASSES Tilling the Soil Business Training 12-9 and 8-2. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Dutchess County, Millbrook. (315) 787-2622. $250. EVENTS Admission Information Session 8am. Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600 ext. 201. Knitting Group 7-8:30pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619. MUSIC Matt Finley and Rio Jazz 7pm. Brazilian/American jazz. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050. Shape Note Singing 7pm. Holy Cross Church, Kingston. 658-3485. A Benefit for Spark 7-8:30pm. Featuring Michelle LeBlanc. Cornwall Middle School, Cornwall. (914) 769-0548. $2. THE OUTDOORS Spring Break Junior Naturalist EcoAdventure Program 10am. For families with children 9 and up. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. SPOKEN WORD Nellie Bly 8pm. For elementary-aged students. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943. WORKSHOPS Sacred Singing Metals 7-9pm. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. $15/$20. WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH CLASSES Old School/New School 7:30pm. Relish the differences between wine styles. The New Paltz Wine School, New Paltz. 255-0110. EVENTS Book Discussion 7pm. “Nory Ryan’s Song”, for middle school students. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943. MUSIC Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Olin Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 246-7045. $12. Dave Ellison and Gian Starr 10pm. Acoustic, alternative, bluegrass, rock. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636. SPOKEN WORD Lowell Handler Reading & Signing 7pm. Author of “Twitch & Shout.” Barnes and Noble, Kingston. 3364691. Scholar’s Choice Book Discussion 7pm. Featuring reading of “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619. THURSDAY 24 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Journaling: A Path to Spirit 7-9pm. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $15/$20.

MUSIC Hip Hop with Will Power 7pm. Student projects working with rapper, actor, playwright Will Power. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. $10, $7 seniors and students. Little Scotty and the Knockouts 8-11pm. Blues. The Woronock House, Wappingers Falls. 462-6600. THE OUTDOORS A Special Spring Break Junior Naturalist Program 10am-2pm. Ages 5-8, includes animal discovery, reading the tracks, shelter building, and a rock scramble. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. Tour the Hudson Valley Materials Exchange 6pm. From Mid-Hudson Sierra. Newburgh. 255-5528. SPOKEN WORD History of Theatrical Costume Design 7pm. Periods in clothing history from the Romans to rock and roll. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619. THEATRE Onyx 8pm. Team of a puppeteer/maskmaker/stilt walker and a soundpainter/ trombonist. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8612. FRIDAY 25 MARCH ART Crayon Art Show 8pm. Historic Newburgh Elks Lodge, Newburgh. 534-5284. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Explorations in Consciousness 7-9:30pm. Meditation, dreamwork, and expressive arts. Acorn Hill Healing Arts, Olivebridge. 657-2516. $45/ session, $250 for series. DANCE Swing Dance 8:30pm. Lessons an hour before the dance. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 473-6955. $12. EVENTS Discovering Joy Through Yoga Call for times. Yoga Ranch, Woodbourne. 436-6492. FILM The Lavender Hill Mob 7pm. Howland Public Library, Beacon. 831-1134. Friday Night Film Series 8pm. Finding Neverland (PG). Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050. MUSIC Cabaret X 8pm. Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston. 338-5984. $7. Cleoma’s Ghost 8pm. Cajun. Hickory Barbeque Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424. Kathleen Pemble and Pat Wictor 8pm. Acoustic, alternative, original. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Mirabilis 8pm. Featuring Amy Fradon and more. Historic Newburgh Elks Lodge, Newburgh. 534-5284. $5. Soñando 10pm. With performer Ruben Quintero. El Coqui, Kingston. 340-1106.

SPOKEN WORD Gallery Talk 1pm. Jan Avgikos speaks on artist Hanne Darboven. Dia:Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. $10/$7 students and seniors. Voices by Susan Griffin 8pm. Dramatic reading about five contemporary women. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $11. THEATRE Voices Call for times. Readers’ Theatre piece by Susan Griffin. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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SATURDAY 26 MARCH ART Discussion on Outsider Art by Corso de Palenzuela 3-4pm.Kiesendahl + Calhoun Contemporary Art Gallery, 192 Main Street, Beacon. 838-1177. CLASSES Reiki III Certification 10am-5pm. Become a certified Reiki III Master. Woodstock. 336-4609. Reiki I Certification 12-4pm. Hurley. 340-0220. $50. FILM Fear and Trembling 5:30pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. The Take 5:30pm. Unemployed workers in Buenos Aires take over a factory. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. KIDS Cottontails Tales 10am. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $5, $3 children. Easter Egg Hunt 11am. Greig Farm Marketplace, Red Hook. 758-6561. Easter Eggs and Cookies 11am-3pm. Greig Farm Marketplace, Red Hook. 758-6561. $2.50. MUSIC Murali Coryell 8pm. Blues, R&B, Soul. Hickory Barbeque Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424. $6. Music Open Mike 8pm. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Charlie Kniceley Quartet 9pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. $10. Sanctuary 10pm. Iron Maiden Tribute. Forum, Kingston. 331-1116. THE OUTDOORS Hike up Stissing Mountain to Fire Tower 10am. Moderate 5-6 miles. Call for meeting place. 592-0204. SPOKEN WORD Yale Strom and Elizabeth Shwartz 7pm. “A Wandering Feast: A Journey Through The Jewish Culture Of Eastern Europe”. Ariel Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8041. Ione at Meeting of the Hudson Valley Publishing Network 7-9pm. Author of “Pride of Family, Four Generations of American Women of Color”. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. $5. WORKSHOPS Herbal Business Planning 1-4pm. Monarda Herbal Apothecary, Phoenica. 688-2122. $35. SUNDAY 27 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Embodying the Sacred 12:30-1pm. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $15.

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Sufi Zikr and Potluck 4-6:30pm. Mount Tremper. 679-7215. FILM Fear and Trembling 3pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. MUSIC Doug Smith and Friends 1pm. Experimental, fusion, jazz. The Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. An Afternoon with Ken and Julie at the Winery 2-5pm. Acoustic, folk, original, vocals. Warwick Valley Winery, Warwick. 258-4858. Paul Rishell & Annie Raines 3pm. Acoustic blues. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

MUSIC Bill Davis 10pm. Acoustic, alternative, rock. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636. SPOKEN WORD Rosendale Tidbits 7-8:30pm. Further Adventures of a Spunky Little Town. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013. THURSDAY 31 MARCH MUSIC John Gorka 8pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. $22. Little Scotty and the Knockouts 8-11pm. Blues. The Woronock House, Wappingers Falls. 462-6600.

OM for Peace 6pm. Singing a continuous OM for an hour. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 679-3804.

SPOKEN WORD Visiting Artist Justin Kolb 7pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. $5.

Baird Hersey and Prana 6-7pm. Om for Peace. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 679-1087.

WORKSHOPS 7 Secrets to Successful Weight Loss 7-8pm. Hyde Park Public Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Ski or Hike: Spring Farm 10am-3pm. Moderate 6 miles, meet at Spring Farm Trailhead. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8. Easter Sunday Millbrook Mountain Gertrude’s Nose Hike 10am-4pm. Strenuous 10 miles. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8. MONDAY 28 MARCH MUSIC Mike Chipak and Dave Ellison 10pm. Acoustic, alternative, bluegrass, funk, reggae, rock. Bacchus Restaurant and Bar, New Paltz. 255-8636. SPOKEN WORD Open Mike Night 7pm. Featuring Ralph Villano (poet) and Terrence Gallagher (poet). Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. $3. THEATRE Auditions for Intimate Apparel 7pm. SummerStar Theatre Company. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. WORKSHOPS Solar Energy Intensive Workshop Call for times. Learn basics of electricity, wiring and do a hands-on installation. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. (970) 963-8855. $600 plus meals and lodging. TUESDAY 29 MARCH BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Emotional Freedom Technique 7pm. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $10/$15. THEATRE Auditions for Intimate Apparel 7pm. SummerStar Theatre Company. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH FILM Lolita 7:15pm. Harriman Hall Film Theatre, Middletown. 341-4891. $2.

The Rose Meditation 7-8:30pm. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. $35/$40. FRIDAY 1 APRIL EVENTS Kirtan, Chanting With Keshav Das Call for times. Yoga Ranch, Woodbourne. 436-6492. FILM Friday Night Film Series 8pm. Meet the Fockers (R). Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050.

FILM The Terrorist 7:30pm. Hippodrome Theatre, Loch Sheldrake. 482-4141. $5-$10. KIDS Cottontails Tales 10am. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall. 534-5506, ext 206. $5/$3 children. MUSIC Recital for students up to age 18 1pm. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8916. $10/$5 students, faculty, seniors and children. Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra 8pm. Classical, solo, symphonic. Newburgh Free Academy Auditorium, Newburgh. 562-1800. Thunder Ridge 9pm. Country, rock. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse Restaurant, Kingston. 338-2424. THE OUTDOORS Rainbow Falls Hike 10am. Difficult 6 mile hike. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. SPOKEN WORD Elinor Fuchs 7pm. Reading from Making an Exit: A Mother Daughter Drama of Alzheimer’s, Machine Tools, & Laughter. Ariel Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8041. THEATRE War Games 8pm. Sam Hall’s WWII drama. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20 adults/$17 seniors/ children.

MUSIC Pianist Justin Kolb 7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. $8.

WORKSHOPS Our Daily Bread Call for time. Bread baking workshop. The Pfeiffer Center, Chestnut Ridge. 352-5020 ext. 20.

SPOKEN WORD Michael Korda 12pm. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8434.

Finding Out Who You Really Are Through Talk and Touch 2-4pm. Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-9808.

THEATRE Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisation based on audience members’ experiences and dreams. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. $6. War Games 8pm. Sam Hall’s WWII drama. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20 adults/$17 seniors/ children. SATURDAY 2 APRIL DANCE Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm. Alcohol-free and shoe-free environment with a wide range of music. Kingston Knights of Columbus Hall, Kingston. 658-8319. Adults $5/Teens, Seniors $2/Children & Volunteers FREE. EVENTS 7th Annual Twin County Science Fair 10am-2pm. Sponsored by the Columbia-Greene Superintendents Association. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181, ext. 3327.

SUNDAY 3 APRIL DANCE Swing Dance 6:30-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032. $5. EVENTS Cirkus Bezurkus 3pm. A Waldorf youth circus. Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA. (518) 672-7092 ext. 114. $12/$8 children/$30 family. THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike: Mine Hole Gully 8:30am-3:30pm. Strenuous, 8-mile hike with some rock scrambling. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $8. THEATRE War Games 3pm. Sam Hall’s WWII drama. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 8763080. $20 adults/$17 seniors/children.

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Business Directory ACCOUNTING Dennis Abbott Certified Public Accountant

An alternative CPA firm for those who prefer the personal attention so rarely found these days. Taking care of the tax and accounting needs of individuals, LLCs, partnerships, and small business corporations for over 30 years. The office is located in New Paltz. (845) 255-3482. 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, Woodstock. Master classes at the Times Square Sande Shurin Theatre. (917) 545-5713 or (212) 262-6848. ANTIQUE RESTORATION G. Leibovitz, Antiques

GLR specializes in the expert care and restoration of fine, period antiques using traditional methods and materials. Repairs are performed with an emphasis on the preservation and conservation of the original object. Services offered include hand-rubbed shellac finishing, repairs to marquetry and inlay, water gilding, carving, and structural repairs. 269[RZ1] Route 7A, Copake, NY 12516. (518) 329-1933. 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

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J. DiGuiseppe, AIA RIBA, an internationally published architect and award-winning furniture designer. Accord (845) 687-8989, New York City (212) 439-9611 diarcht@msn.com,www.di guiseppe.com. ART CENTERS The Living Seed

The Living Seed Yoga Center offers Sivananda Yoga classes 7 days a week. All levels and ages welcome. Morning meditations are free. Yoga Day 2nd & 4th Sundays. Sauna. Art Gallery. Dance. Drum. Workshops. And so much more. Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize Sivananda. 521 Main St. (Route 299) New Paltz (845)-255-8212. www.thelivingseed.com. ART CLASSES Ceramic Classes

Develop your creativity and learn the art of clay in a small Saturday class for adults with any experience level. Classes are taught by Doris Licht in a large, working pottery studio with gas kiln. Learn handbuilding, wheelthrowing, decorating, glazing and kiln firing. Visit the showroom by appointment. Phone: 845-679-5620. ART GALLERIES Art Forms

Specializing in later 20th & early 21st Century American Fine Art, Photography, Furniture, Lighting, Ceramics, Glass, and Jewelry. Featuring emerging artists as well as American Masters. Artists on view: George Tice, Lichtenstein, Wesselman, Dine, Sica, Scheele, Richichi, Hirsch, Thomas Mann, Caldwell,Corbett,Horowitz,Yale Epstein. Hours: Friday-Monday 12-5pm. (845) 679-1100. The Gallery@Highland Studio

A wide variety of art using highend digital printmaking. Large format on heavy papers and canvas using archival ink. Printing done on premises. Bi-monthly shows. 176 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-3700. 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, www.vanbruntgallery.com, has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work. 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508. (845) 838-2995. Varga Gallery

Varga is the artists co-operative representing outsider, lowbrow, pop, self-taught, and emerging artists. Artists share space in monthly exhibitions and new artists are welcome to submit work. New exhibitions open every 2nd Saturday of the Month with a reception from 5 - 7PM. VARGA Gallery of Woodstock, 130 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498, 845.679.4005, gall ery@christinavarga.com. Open Thursday - Sunday 12 - 5. ART SUPPLIES Catskill Art & Office Supply

Traditional fine art materials, studio furnishings, 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) 679-2251; Kingston (845) 331-7780; Poughkeepsie (845) 452-1250. 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. (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

ATTORNEYS Schneider, Pfahl & RahmĂŠ, 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. (845) 679-9868 or (212) 629-7744.www.schneider pfahl.com; www.nycrealestate attorneys.com. AUTOMOTIVE Roberti Motor Cars

Specializing in previously owned SAABs. Over 150 pre-owned SAABs in stock at all times. Authorized SAAB service center. Large selection of new and used SAAB parts available. Prices range from $1,500 to $25,000. All cars warranteed bumper to bumper. (845) 339-SAAB. 385 Foxhall Avenue, Kingston, NY. www.roberti.com. BEVERAGES Esotec

Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 20 years weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. sales@esotecltd.com. or www.esotecltd.com. (845) 246-0965 Leisure Time Spring Water

Pure spring water from a natural artesian spring located in the Catskill Mountains. The spring delivers water at 42oF year-round. The water is filtered under high pressure through fine white sand. Hot and cold dispensers available. Weekly delivery. (845) 331-0504. BOOKSTORES Barner Books

Used books. From kitsch to culture, Thoreau to thrillers, serious and silly. We have the books you read. Monday - Saturday 10-7, Sunday 12-6. Located

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Friday-Sat. 10am-9pm, Sunday 11am-6pm. (845) 876-0500. www.oblongbooks.com.

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CARPETS / RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings

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. (845) 679-8000, fax (845) 679-3054. the goldennotebook@hvc.rr.com. www.goldennotebook.com. Howard Frisch Books

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS The Children’s Art Workshop & Gallery

Howard Frisch Books was founded in 1954, and has been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) since 1957. We have a general stock specializing in the Out-of-Print, the Rare, the Unusual, the Unexpurgated, the Literary, The Scholarly, and much more in subject categories that range from Art to Zoology. 116 County Rte. 19, Livingston, NY 12541. (518) 851-7493. www.howardfrischbooks.com.

For ages 7-up (and adults). Classes offered: oils, watercolors, acrylic, pencil, clay, mixed media, perspective, color theory, and design, intro to decorative arts, graphic design, and illustration concepts without using the computer. Students also learn to curate and show art in the “Artists in Training” gallery. Hours: Mon.-Wed. 1-5pm, Sat.11am12:30pm. Call (845) 255-7990. www.nancycatandella.com.

Mirabai of Woodstock

Deep Clay

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

Expressive Clay Groups ages 5 to 14. Parent-child lessons. High school student classes to develop portfolio. Michelle Rhodes, Deep Clay Studio, (845) 255-8039.

Oblong Books

Oblong Books & Music is a full service independent bookstore with two locations, one in the heart of Millerton since 1975, and the other in the center of Rhinebeck since 2001. A true general bookstore, Oblong stocks the best and most interesting books and music in all categories with author and music events throughout the year. Hours: Millerton—Monday-Thursday 9:30am-6pm, Friday-Saturday 9:30am7pm, Sunday 11am-5pm. (518) 789-3797. Rhinebeck— Monday-Thursday 10am-6pm, 3/05

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. Open 6 days a week 12-6pm. Closed Tuesdays. MC/Visa/AmEx. 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock. (845) 679-5311.

Musical Munchkins

Winner of “Best Children’s Music Program” award for 1-, 2-, and 3-year-old Babies and Young Musician pre-piano classes for 3- to 5-year-olds. Now in nine locations: New Paltz, Woodstock, Red Hook, Beacon, Wappingers Falls/Hopewell Junction, Cornwall, Goshen, and Monroe. Weekday and Saturday classes. Visit our Web site at www.musicalmunchkins.net or call (845) 895-1387 for information and live video clips. Now registering for winter classes. CINEMA Upstate Films

Great International Cinema. Contemporary & Classic. 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-2515. www.upstatefilms.com.

Haldora, a family name from Iceland meaning Goddess of the Mountains. Haldora designs a lifestyle in women’s clothing and scarves—styles which are timeless, understated, and have a forgiving elegance. She designs and cuts her own line, then sends it to her seamstress where it is sewn locally in New York State. Her fabrics are mostly natural, including many kinds of silk, linens, and cotton in many colors, with wool added in winter. Also at Haldora, you will find other complimentary lines. In season, she has wool, cotton, and cashmere sweaters, which include Margaret O’Leary and Kincross Cashmere. Haldora carries a full line of Hanro of Switzerland undergarments and sleepwear. Shoes are also important to finish your look. Some of the lines carried are Arche, Lisa Nading, and Gentle Souls. Haldora also carries jewelry in a wide range of prices. Open Daily. 28 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, New York. (845) 876-6250. www.haldora.com. 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 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. (845) 431-8020. www.sunydutchess.edu. Marist College

Ranked among the top 10 percent of all American colleges by the Princeton Review, Marist College stands with over 70 years of educating adults. The School of Graduate and Continuing Education offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, and certificates, noncredit professional programs, and personalized services in Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, Goshen, Monticello, Kingston, and online. Phone: (845) 575-3000 x6039. Fax: (845) 575-3166. E-mail: Josh.Reed@marist.edu. Web: www.marist.edu/gce.

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. (845) 569-3222. www.msmc.edu. COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS Hawthorne Valley Association

Cultural renewal through education, agriculture, and the arts. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Hawthorne Valley School, Visiting Students Program and Summer Camps, Adonis Press, Alkion Center for Adult Education, Farmscape Ecology Program, Center for Social and Environmental Responsibility. 327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY 12075. www.hawthornevalley association.org, or call us at (518) 672-5118. 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. Open Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm, and Saturday 10am-4pm. Conveniently located at 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY—only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge. (845) 635-3115.www.past nperfect.com. The Present Perfect

Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry accessories, and knickknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers. Open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm; and Sunday 12-5pm. Located at 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. (845) 876-2939. CRAFTS 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 sil-

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ver & 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. Open Friday through Monday 10:30am-6pm. 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley. (845) 331-3859. DANCE Freestyle Frolic

An alternative to the club scene: dancing in a smokefree, alcohol-free, and shoefree environment to a wide range of music spun by some very eclectic DJs. Usually first and third Saturdays, 8:30pm to 1am at Kingston Knights of Columbus Hall, 389 Broadway. Adults $5, Kids Free! (845) 658-8319.www.Freestyle Frolic.org. DANCEWEAR First Street Dancewear

First Street Dancewear in Saugerties, NY offers quality dancewear for Adults and Children. We have dancewear, knit warm-ups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skate wear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates. Phone (845) 247-4517. www.first streetdancewear.com DESIGN Actionpact Solutions

Actionpact Solutions is your premiere, award-winning, full-service graphic, Web, and multi-media design firm located in Kingston, NY. We offer fresh, fun, and functional advertising and design solutions for businesses of all sizes. Make a pact for action and contact us today for your free consultation! (845) 532-5398 or support @actionpactsolutions.com.

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Little Cabin Graphics

Start the New Year off right...increase your business income potential with a professional Web site, business card, or brochure. Little Cabin Graphics is an established, fullservice graphic art and Web design company specializing in graphic design of business logos, ads, illustrations, and superior Web site development. We also offer competitive Web site hosting and maintenance. For more information visit www.littlecabingraphics.com or call (845) 658-8997 or (845) 688-5075. DISTRIBUTION 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. Call us at (845) 334-8600 x107 or e-mail distribution@chronogram.com. DIVORCE SERVICES Lois M. Brenner

See Attorneys. EDITING Manuscript Consultant

See Literary. EDUCATION Shawangunk Ridge School

Shawangunk Ridge School is a NYS-accredited private day school serving young people between the ages of 10 and 17. Shawangunk Ridge School combines a thematic study approach to learning with real-life experiences, to offer students a whole education that can help

them to better understand themselves and their environment, to see what is needed in any situation, and to respond appropriately. New Paltz. (845) 255-4262. ELECTRICIAN JR Electric

Prompt and Reliable Service Renovations, additions, new construction, violations removed, no job too small. Free estimates, fully insured. All work guaranteed. Quality work at reasonable rates. Over 30 years experience. Serving the Hudson Valley area. Call JR Electric. (845) 255-4088 EVOLUTION Discovery Institute

To Know. To Understand. To Be. Offering intensive training in a living school of psychotransformism in the tradition of G.I. Gurdjieff. (845) 255-5548. discover@bestweb.net. FINANCIAL SERVICES Center for Financial Wellness, Inc.

I don’t sell anything! Robin Vaccai-Yess, Certified Financial Planner™, Registered Investment Advisor, and founder of the area’s first fee-only financial planning firm, will help you achieve financial independence through smart money management techniques. Reduce your taxes, save and invest more, get out of debt and build a nest egg. 691-9700. Post Office Box 738, Highland NY 12528. www.financiallywell.com FRAMING Catskill Art & Office

See Art Supplies. Manny’s

See Art Supplies.

FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS North Park Woodcraft Ltd.,

Your wood furniture destination. Our showroom features custom and factory-built pieces—dining and kitchen tables and chairs, bedroom sets, entertainment and computer centers, display cabinets, and bookcases. Our finishing department offers standard wood tones, custom colors, and paint; also specialty, antiqued crackled and/or handdecorated finishes. Route 9G, Hyde Park. (845) 229-2189, fax (845) 229-6843.www.north parkwoodcraft.com. FURNITURE MAKER Michael Gregorio Furnituremaker

Michael Gregorio is a meticulous furniture maker and designer with 30 years experience building original studio furniture, commissioned residential furniture, antique reproductions, and fine antique repair. His style is sculptural, organic, and sensual. His Gallery is located at 315 Route 308 in Rhinebeck, just one mile east of the Beekman Arms. (845) 876-6032, www.mgregorio.com. Hours are 11-5, Wed-Sun., or call for appt.

Monday-Friday 8am-5:30pm; Saturday 8am-5pm; Sunday 9am-3pm. GIFTS Sapphire

The newly opened Sapphire is a unique gift shop like none other. Featuring handmade quality gifts of pottery, stained glass, jewelry, wooden bowls, bags, prints, cards, and home accents made by American and Hudson Valley artisans. Located in downtown Rosendale, Sapphire is open Monday: 2-9, closed Tues. & Wed., Thurs: 2-9, Fri: 2-9, Saturday: 12-9, and Sunday: 11-4. 415 Main St., Rosendale. (845) 658-3315. sapphireskyllc@hvc.rr.com. GLASSBLOWING Glassblowing.com

The glassblowing.com studio offers Beginner Workshops in both Glassblowing and Beadmaking. Lee Kind has been teaching glassblowing since 1990 and has the ability to make this hot medium safe for anyone to try. In addition to teaching, Lee creates a line of “one of a kind” lamps and lighting installations for both homes and businesses. For more information call (845) 297-7334 or www.glassblowing.com.

GARDENING & GARDEN SUPPLIES Mac’s Agway in Red Hook /New Paltz Agway

GUITAR & BASS LESSONS Learn Guitar or Bass Guitar!

Specializing in all your lawn and garden needs. We carry topsoil, peat moss, fertilizers, organics, grass seed, shavings, straw, fencing, pet food, bird seed, bird houses, and more. Mac’s Agway, 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY (845) 876-1559; New Paltz Agway, 145 Route 32N, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0050. Hours for both locations:

Beginner to Advanced, all Styles. All Ages Welcome! Note Reading, Theory, Chords, Harmony. Modern Fun Approach. Call Today! Dennis Jacobs, BA of Music, 15 Years Performance & Teaching Experience. (845) 384-6477. DJacobsmusic@Yahoo.com.Get Started Today and Receive One FREE Lesson the First Month. Give the Gift of Music!

HOME DESIGNS Eco-Arch Design Works Janus Welton, Architect

Janus Welton, AIA, Feng Shui, and Eco Architect, an awardwinning design architect offering over 12 years of traditional Chinese Feng Shui expertise to her Ecological and Healthy Building Design Practice combining Feng Shui, Bau-Biology, and Solar Architecture to promote “Green 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 Consultations, Planning, Architecture, Commercial Interiors, Interior Design, and Professional Seminars. (845) 247-4620. E-mail: ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com. www.JanusWeltonDesign Works.com. HOME FURNISHINGS & GIFTS The Pearl Gallery

The Pearl Fine Decorative Arts Gallery specializes in handcrafted furniture and sculpture by local artists and renowned 20th-century designers. The gallery also offers African and Native American Art, handmade jewelry, and hand-blown glass. Among other items featured are exceptional 20th-century prints, lithographs, and photography. 3572 Main Street, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-0888. chrissy@pearlartsgallery.com. www.pearlartsgallery.com. HORSEBACK RIDING LESSONS Frog Hollow Farm

English riding lessons for adults and children. Solarheated indoor, large outdoor, cross-country course, extensive trails. Summer camp, boarding, training, and sales. Emphasis on

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Dressage as a way of enhancing all horse disciplines. Holistic teaching and horse care. 572 Old Post Road, Esopus. (845) 384-6424. www.dressage atfroghollowfarm.com.

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We offer riding instruction to children and adults, beginner through advanced all year round in a safe, fun environment with qualified instructors. We also offer summer day camp for children. We are located 3 miles from the center of Woodstock. 446 John Jay Road. For more information call (845) 246-9427 or visit us at www.greenheronfarm.com. INTERIOR DESIGN DeStefano & Associates

Barbara DeStefano. (845) 339-4601. See Whole Living Guide under Feng Shui. INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS Hudson Valley Internet

Local Internet access and commercial Web site hosting. Fast, reliable, easy to use, flexible pricingâ&#x20AC;ŚWant more? How about: free software, extra e-mail, K56Flex support, personal web space, helpful customer service, and no setup charges. (845) 255-2799. www.hvi.net. Webjogger

Blazing fast broadband Internet access. Featuring symmetrical bandwidth, superior personal attention and technical support, rock-solid security and reliability, and flexible rates. Complementary services include e-mail, Web hosting, accelerated dialup, server collocation and management, and customized networking solutions. Webjogger is a locally grown company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. (845) 757-4000. www.webjogger.net. LANDSCAPE PRODUCTS & SERVICES Adams Fairacre Farms

The Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complete farm market/garden center for all seasons: Christmas trees and holiday decorations, seedstarting supplies, garden tools, annual & perennial packs, pots, grass seed, fertilizers, nursery stock, and everything for the birds. Route 9W North, Kingston. (845) 336-6300, and Route 44, Poughkeepsie. (845) 454-4330. 3/05

After 20 years as a destination for NYC’s most discerning shoppers, Joovay Lingerie has relocated to two locations in the Hudson Valley. The stores carry a mix of daywear, loungewear, and intimate wear that combine the practical, elegant, luxurious, and simply fun. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable. Gifts are beautifully wrapped. 623 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534. (518) 822-1526. 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. www.joovay.com. LITERARY 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. www.chronogram.com. Ione

Writing workshops and private instruction for writers. (845) 339-5776. MAGAZINES Chronogram

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. www.chronogram.com. MARKETS Adams Fairacre Farms

The Hudson Valley’s complete farm market/garden center for all seasons: seed-starting supplies, garden tools, annual & perennial packs, pots, grass seed, fertilizers, nursery stock, and everything for the birds. Route 9W North, Kingston. (845) 336-6300. Route 44, Poughkeepsie.(845) 454-4330. 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

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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

as well as an ever-growing collection of vinyl. And Rhino recycles! You can trade in your unwanted CDs, LPs, videos, and DVDs and get credit or cash. Come into Rhino and let the warm glow of music embrace you. 188 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-0230. WVKR 91.3 FM

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. (845) 534-7668. www.mediated-divorce.com.

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.

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Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs. 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston. Monday through Friday 9am-7pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; and Sunday 12-4pm. (845) 331-5011. Drums of Woodstock

The ultimate source for all your jammin’ needs. Check out our diverse collection of Djembe, Dun Dun, Conga, Bougarabou Drums, Didgeridoos, Rain Sticks, Chimes, and Hand-Held Musical Instruments. 77 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498. (845) 810-0442. www.drums ofwoodstock.com. Rhino Records

Rhino Records is your hometown record shop; the musical mecca of the Hudson Valley. Staffed by local music aficionados whose vast knowledge and love of music is outshone only by their courteous demeanor, Rhino embraces both the esoteric and the popular. We stock CDs, LPs, and DVDs by artists from the top of the charts to the deepest recesses of many musical vanguards. Rhino has thousands of new and used CDs for sale,

Paychex eases the burden of payroll and payroll taxes for hundreds of thousands of businesses nationwide. Our sophisticated electronic network capabilities handle all the intricate business needs, from payroll direct deposit and laser check signing to 401(K) recordkeeping. Our payroll service supplies a comprehensive business solution that is accurate, confidential, and affordable. (845) 896-6100. PERSONAL ASSISTANTS Personal Assistant

Office and personal assistant more than able to provide full-spectrum support. Intelligent, dependable, industrious, discreet long-term resident can handle it all. Plan a travel itinerary or a dinner party? Organize a wardrobe or a year’s worth of accumulated clutter? Bring order to chaos? No problem. Treat yourself. Free yourself. Your style is my objective. Contact lucabra@earthlink.net or phone (518) 945-3311. PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES Angel & Us Pet Sitting

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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. PHOTOGRAPHY France Menk Photography & Photodesign

A fine art approach to your photographic and advertising requirements. Internationally exhibited. Major communications/advertising clients. My work is 100% focused on your needs. (845) 256-0603. www.photocon.com. 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. www.michaelgoldsphotos.com and click on to the “Headshots” page. The Corporate Image Studios, 1 Jacobs Lane, New Paltz. (845) 255-5255.

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Creative photography of artwork, architecture,people,andproducts. Grant proposals require outstanding 35mm slides to be successful, and your web site can be improved with fresh and imaginative images. The impact of a stunning postcard/announcement should never be underestimated. Andy possesses cutting edge digital skills and 28 years of experience exceeding the client’s expectations. Spectacular lighting, all the tools, and an impassioned interest in your goals. Take a look: andywainwright.com. (845) 757-5431. Michael Weisbrot Studio

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With Fred Poole & Marta Szabo. Since 1993. Creativity over criticism. Twelfth year of workshops, retreats, and private sessions in Woodstock & NYC. Monday evenings in Woodstock, new series begins March 14. Tuesday afternoons in Woodstock, new series begins March 8. Saturday afternoons in Manhattan. Please see the website for the full calendar, writing from the workshops, and much more. Open to all writers, the seasoned and the brand new. (845) 679-5598 & (212) 332-0299. www.AuthenticWriting.com Wallkill Valley Writers

Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated. (845) 255-7090. khamherstwriters@aol.com.

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fritters in blood orange aioli. But his inventive, fusion-oriented dishes are best. The Scandanavian-inspired sugar cured duck breast was cut thin and melted in the mouth. The crab and corn cake, lightly fried with chipotle aioli, is a bit of Maryland meets New Mexico. Our favorites are the crispy pork shank mentioned above and the Argentinean-inspired grilled and chilled steak with habañero-honey sauce. I’ve neglected to mention that tapas is only half the menu at 23 Broadway. The restaurant also serves Reeve’s version of comfort food; a bunch of bistro dishes—duck confit, grilled tuna sandwich, a signature burger, a New York deli-style pastrami sandwich; as well as a variety of New American-style entrees, from pan-roasted duck breast to wild boar ragu to filet mignon to a knockout mac and cheese with truffle oil. Is tapas too weird to survive in downtown Kingston? Will 23 Broadway have to retrench in six months or a year and bring its menu fully in line with conventional expectations? GATTINE AND FRANZ MAKE LIGHT OF THE MORNING

and I thought he would be aloof or even pompous. He spoke to me like a friend.”

I sincerely hope not, but with almost half the menu devoted to tapas, Reeve is putting himself out on a creative limb and he knows it. “You’ve got to find that balance between what

No matter what the day holds for Greg Gattine or Franz Kaisik, they’re happy to still be

you want to do creatively and what’s going to sell,” says

working for one of the few independently owned radio stations in the region, especially

Reeve. “Because if your food doesn’t sell, you’re not going

one celebrating its 25th birthday this spring. “As far as the Mid-Hudson is concerned,

to be creative for long.”

every other station is Cumulus or ClearChannel,” says Kaisik. “Conglomerates are the norm these days, and it’s a real challenge to find any locally owned and operated stations. It’s a sad trend, but we’re hanging on.” Adds Gattine: “Gary Chetkof bought the station in 1993 because of his love of music. He is always challenging us to find new music and artists, and to expand the boundaries. He’s very committed to the station, and I can’t see any of us working for a corporation.” May the airwaves continue to rock with the sounds of freedom. For more information on The Morning Show, the album of the week, curious quotes,

23 BROADWAY 23 Broadway, Kingston. (845) 339-2322. Open Wednesday-Friday, 5-10pm; Saturday and Sunday, 12-10pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Biodiesel

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carbons, as well as soot—“but it’s nothing compared to

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regular diesel,” he says. “I remember attaching a piece of loose leaf to the exhaust pipe and revving up the engine. With regular diesel, it blacked up pretty quickly, but with

of glassenheit (or humility). I still believe in

biodiesel, it just turned yellow after awhile. There’s a huge

hard work. I have to work to pay my bills and

difference.”

mortgage, but I miss working for the result of the work itself, like raising a barn or growing crops, as opposed to working to make money to cover expenses.” Does he still believe in Amish teachings? “I’m not looking to ever get rich or own a fleet of fancy cars. I just want to lead a good life, spend time with family, and do what I can to spread some joy in the world, which is a big part of why I love performing music so much. But at the end of it all, what really matters is that you worked hard in life, whether at your job, raising a family, or being a good person. So, do I still believe in the Amish THE AMISH OUTLAWS

teachings? Yeah, I do. The basic tenets.” May the Brothers continue to bless us with their

buggy beat. They’ll be at Vintage Restaurant & Bar in White Plains on Friday, March 11, at the Triangle Pub in Nanuet on Saturday, March 26, and Fennell’s Finish Line in Pearl River on Saturday, April 9. To listen to MP3s, purchase “Amish Men Do It With A Hoe” t-shirts, or to update your quilt pattern collection, visit www.amishoutlaws.com. If you’re not entertained, they’ll eat their hats.

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RESOURCES The latest book on biodiesel, Greg Pahl’s Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy (Chelsea Green 2005), explores the uses and future potential of biodiesel as well as its history and technology. (Interesting factoid: Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine to run on vegetable oil, but after his body was found mysteriously floating in the English Channel, the oil industry co-opted the engine to run on a petroleum byproduct.) Hudson Valley Biodiesel Co-op meets monthly at the Sustainable Living Resource Center in Cottekill. For more information, call (845) 687-9253, or join the co-op’s public online discussion forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/HVDIODIESELCOOP/. For the latest information on biodiesel, visit the National Biodiesel Board’s Web site at www.biodiesel.org . To find out more about BioEconomy’s plans for widescale distribution of biodiesel, contact Skip Hauth at (847) 2813020 or shauth@centerforbiodiversity.org.

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thoughtful, carefully-chosen words. “The program helped me to broaden my awareness of world ideas,” he said. “It broadened my perspective, and helped me develop personal maturity.” At age 27, he has already been in prison for four years and hopes for release in seven months. To be accepted for PBI, inmates must have a high school diploma or GED. There were 15 spots available at Eastern, but 10 times A BPI GRADUATE WITH HIS DIPLOMA

that number were turned away. The same

situation occurred at Woodbourne. To avoid prejudice, Kenner and his colleagues are not informed of the nature of inmates’ crimes. A writing examination and screening interview are administered. Whether an inmate is here for homicide or drug possession, admission is ultimately based on aptitude and behavior. “If the department [of corrections] deems an inmate to be safe and eligible, and not a danger to faculty or volunteers,” Kenner said, “then they are welcome to apply.” Many prisoners applied, Kenner said, as a way to make amends with their children. Criminal statistics suggest that a child is likely to follow a parent’s path, no matter how errant. By opting for graduate studies, the BPI students said they hope to break the pattern. “There is no better predictor for whether your child goes to college than a parent’s education,” Kenner said. The auditorium stage is now occupied by a dozen Bard officials, dressed in the arcane robes and colorful medals of their academic fraternity. In contrast to the graduates, most of the Bard personnel are white. Among the first to speak is Eastern’s David Miller. A veteran of four decades in prison work, he remains committed to the power of prison education. He has seen it succeed. He recalled one specific prison graduation before the programs were scrapped a decade ago. A prisoner known for his legendary surliness was awaiting his turn at commencement exercises. Suddenly, his young daughter leapt from her seat in the audience and ran towards the man. Guards tensed up, but Miller motioned for them to stay cool. The girl settled proudly in her father’s lap and Miller saw the prisoner smile. Following Miller are several Bard officials offering high-minded speeches on freedom, space, and time. Then four graduates ascend the stage to make personal remarks. Justice Walston is the first to speak. It is not a rough-hewn, street-smart rap, but a thoughtful piece of oratory about misjudgment, repentance, and the transformation from prisoner to citizen of the world. “What you have given us is sustenance,” Walston said. “Many of you have believed in our potential even more than we have.” Three others follow him to the podium and each delivers remarks with a poise and gravity we have been facilely taught to never expect from men condemned to years behind bars. One is Derek Rawlings, 37. Seventeen years ago, he was sent to Eastern, charged with homicide and attempted homicide. Rawlings quotes Socrates about ”the unseen good” that resides in all people. Then this powerfully built man breaks down. Fellow prisoners shout out their support in prayer meeting style, telling him to take his time. Rawlings recovers, looks up and thanks everyone “for not giving up on us... so I wouldn’t be counted among the broken men.” The audience is hushed, then rises in applause. Fellow graduate Abdullah Jihad Rashid, who takes the microphone, says with awe, “I’ve known that man for about 12 years and that’s the first time I’ve seen him cry.” The commencement ceremony will be repeated next year for Woodbourne inmates. Meanwhile, Kenner continues to build on Eastern’s success. This fall, a BPI degree program will open at Bayview, a medium-security in Manhattan. The scheme that most prisons first turned away now boasts a track record. “It’s the one thing that can be offered inside where the prisoner has the agency to accomplish something for himself,” Kenner said. But other challenges remain. Many New York inmates may want to take advantage of such programs, according to the Fortune Society’s John Gordon. But three-quarters of this state’s prison population lack a high school diploma. Nonetheless, this leaves 15,000 New York state inmates whose lives could be enriched by BPI—or other college prison programs, if only they existed. For more information about the Bard Prison Initiative, visit www.bard.edu/bpi.

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DONALD V BODEEN CHIROPRACTOR & IRIDOLOGIST

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-473-3276

GARRISON ART CENTER

GARRISON

845-424-3960

BOOK COVE

PAWLING

845-855-9590

THE GARRISON

GARRISON

845-424-3604

BOP TO TOTTOM

KINGSTON

845-338-8100

GEORGE COLE AUCTIONEERS

RED HOOK

845-758-9114

BRENNER, STEPHANIE

LAGRANGEVILLE

845-227-1458

GLASSBLOWING.COM

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-297-7334

BRIGHT, PRISCILLA

MT TREMPER

845-688-7175

GOLDEN NOTEBOOK

WOODSTOCK

845-679-8000

BROWNSTEIN, DAVID

NEW PALTZ

845-256-9830

GREAT FOOD & CO

STAATSBURG

845-229-0209

BROFFMAN, KARY

RHINEBECK

845-876-6753

ROY GUMPEL PHOTOGRAPHY

HIGH FALLS

845-687-2109

BROADWAY THEATER/UPAC

KINGSTON

845-331-1613

H HOUST & SON

WOODSTOCK

845-679-2115

BUERKLIN, EUGENIA

WOODSTOCK

845-679-0747

HALDORA

RHINEBECK

845-876-6250

BURT’S ELECTRONICS

KINGSTON

845-331-5011

HANA SUSHI

RED HOOK

845-758-4333

CANCIENNE, JAMES

HUDSON

518-828-2528

HAND IN HAND - A HEALER’S CONNECTION

HOPEWELL JUNCTION

845-897-3280

CARROLL, JOHN M.

HURLEY

845-338-8420

HAWTHORNE VALLEY SCHOOL

GHENT

518-672-7092

CARLSEN GALLERY

GREENVILLE

518-634-2466

HEALTHY GOURMET TO-GO, INC.

WOODSTOCK

845-339-7171

CATSKILL ROSE

MT TREMPER

845-688-7100

HICKORY BBQ SMOKEHOUSE

KINGSTON

845-338-2424

CATSKILL ART & OFFICE SUPPLY

KINGSTON

845-331-7780

HIGHLAND STUDIO

BEACON

845-838-3700

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN MIDWIFERY

COTTEKILL

845-687-2229

HIGH MEADOW SCHOOL

STONE RIDGE

845-687-4855

CENTER FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH MUSIC

LAGRANGEVILLE

845-677-5871

HOFFMAN HOUSE TAVERN

KINGSTON

845-338-2626

CENTER FOR DENTAL WELLNESS

FISHKILL

845-265-9643

HONDA OF KINGSTON

KINGSTON

845-338-5400

CENTER FOR POSITIVE THINKING

PAWLING

845-855-5000

HOPE FARM PRESS & THE BOOKTRADER

SAUGERTIES

845-246-3522

CENTER FOR ADVANCED DENTISTRY

HIGHLAND

845-691-5600

HOULIHAN LAWRENCE LAVERY REAL ESTATE

EAST FISHKILL

845-227-4400

CENTER FOR CREATIVITY AND WORK

WOODSTOCK

845-336-8318

HOWARD FRISCH BOOKS

LIVINGSTON

518-851-7493

CENTER FOR ADVANCED DENTISTRY

HIGHLAND

845-691-5600

HUDSON RIVER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

FISHKILL

845-896-1888

CHINESE HEALING ARTS

KINGSTON

845-338-6045

HUDSON VALLEY ELECTROLYSIS

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-473-4747

CLASSIC COUNTRY

EAST CHATHAM

518-392-2211

HUDSON VALLEY SCHOOL OF MASSAGE

HIGHLAND

845-255-0013

CLUB HELSINKI

GREAT BARRINGTON

413-528-6308

HUMBACH, IRENE

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-485-5933

COFFEY GALLERY

KINGSTON

845-339-6105

HUMMINGBIRD JEWELERS

RHINEBECK

845-876-4585

COLDWELL BANKER VILLAGE GREEN REALTY

WOODSTOCK

845-679-2255

HUDSON VALLEY CLEAN ENERGY, INC.

RHINEBECK

845-876-3767

COLONIAL HEALTH FOOD CENTER, INC.

KINGSTON

845-331-5959

HUDSON VALLEY LEARNING CENTER

NEW PALTZ

845-255-4704

COMMUNITY PLAYBACK THEATRE

NEW PALTZ

845-255-5613

HUDSON VALLEY SUDBURY SCHOOL

NEW PALTZ

845-679-1002

COSIMOS

NEWBURGH

845-567-1556

HUDSON VALLEY SUNROOMS

BEACON

845-838-1235

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HYMES, KATE

NEW PALTZ

845-255-7090

PEGASUS COMFORT FOOTWEAR

WOODSTOCK

845-679-2373

IN GOOD TASTE

NEW PALTZ

845-255-0110

PFEIFFER CENTER FOR BIODYNAMIC GARDENING

CHESTNUT RIDGE

845-352-5020

INNER TRADITIONS \ BEAR & COMPANY

SANTA FE

505-660-6167

PHANTOM GARDENER

RHINEBECK

845-876-8606

INSTITUTE OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY

PALO ALTO

650-493-4430

PHOTOCON.COM INC.

NEW PALTZ

845-256-0603

IONE

KINGSTON

845-339-5776

PILATES OF NEW PALTZ

NEW PALTZ

845-255-0559

JACKS MEATS & DELI

NEW PALTZ

845-255-2244

PIQUE BOUTIQUE

RHINEBECK

845-876-7722

JACOBOWITZ & GUBITS

WALDEN

845-778-2121

PLAZA DINER

NEW PALTZ

845-255-1030

JAI MA

NEW PALTZ

845-256-0465

PLEASANT STONE FARM

MIDDLETOWN

845-343-4040

JANE MOORE PAINTING

ANCRAM

518-329-3423

POUGHKEEPSIE TENNIS CLUB

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-471-1120

JENKINSTOWN DAY SPA

NEW PALTZ

845-255-3160

POUGHKEEPSIE DAY SCHOOL

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-462-7600

JOYOUS CAFE

KINGSTON

845-334-9441

POWERHOUSE SUMMER THEATER/LEHMAN-LOEB GALLERY

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-437-5902

JTD PRODUCTIONS, INC.

WOODSTOCK

845-679-8652

QUATTROS GAME FARM AND STORE

PLEASANT VALLEY

845-635-8202

KASMIN PIRTLE

PINE PLAINS

518-398-6298

RASA MUSIC

NEW YORK

212-253-1567

518-469-1715

REBIRTHING

SAUGERTIES

845-246-1640

KIDS’ REBELLION KITCHEN DRAWER

HYDE PARK

845-229-2300

THE RED ONION

SAUGERTIES

845-679-1223

KOENIG, VICKI

NEW PALTZ

845-255-2398

FIONN REILLY PHOTOGRAPHY

SAUGERTIES

845-246-4230

KYOTO SUSHI

KINGSTON

845-339-1128

RHINO RECORDS

NEW PALTZ

845-255-0230

LEISURE TIME SPRING WATER

KINGSTON

845-331-0237

RHINEBECK COOPERATIVE HEALTH CENTER

RHINEBECK

845-876-5556

THE LIVING SEED

NEW PALTZ

845-255-8212

RHINEBECK WOMEN’S HEALTH

RHINEBECK

845-876-0494

LOCO LOBO MANAGEMENT

ELLENVILLE

845-647-1772

RIGHTEOUS BABE RECORDS

BUFFALO

716-852-8020

LUMEN OCCULERE

HURLEY

845-340-0220

ROBERTI MOTOR CARS

KINGSTON

845-339-7222

MAIN COURSE

NEW PALTZ

845-255-2600

ROCK CITY YARN

WOODSTOCK

845-679-9600

MALDEN, JILL

NEW PALTZ

845-256-1420

ROMANCING THE WOODS, INC.

WOODSTOCK

845-246-1020

MANNY’S

NEW PALTZ

845-255-9902

ROSE CROSSING

WANTAGH

516-978-2260

MARIST - ADULT EDUCATION

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-575-3800

THE SANCTUARY

NEW PALTZ

845-255-3337

MARK GRUBER GALLERY

NEW PALTZ

845-255-1241

SAPPHIRE

ROSENDALE

845-658-3315

LIFE DESIGN CREATIVE HEALING

NEW PALTZ

845-255-9717

SATYA YOGA CENTER

RHINEBECK

845-876-2528

MAXIE’S URBAN ITALIAN BISTRO

HUDSON

518-828-9081

SCHNEIDER, CONNIE

NEW PALTZ

845-256-1516

MERRITT BOOKSTORE

MILLBROOK

845-677-5857

SCHNEIDER, BRUCE

NEW PALTZ

845-255-4424

MERRIWEATHER’S

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-454-5566

SIVANANDA ASHRAM YOGA RANCH

WOODBOURNE

845-436-6492

SUZANNE MESZOLY & ASSOCIATES, INC.

KERHONKSON

845-626-5666

SOUL DOG

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-454-3254

MEXICAN RADIO

HUDSON

518-828-7770

SPARROW HAWK BED & BREAKFAST

STONE RIDGE

845-687-4492

MICHAEL GREGORIO FURNITUREMAKER

RHINEBECK

845-876-6032

SPIRITTUS HOLISTIC RESOURCE CENTER

KINGSTON

845-679-4293

MID HUDSON MUSIC TOGETHER

ROSENDALE

845-658-3655

SPIRIT ROOT SERVICES

HOPEWELL JUNCTION

845-897-3280

MINA

RED HOOK

845-758-4413

ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-483-5000

MIRABAI

WOODSTOCK

845-679-2100

STONE RIDGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

STONE RIDGE

845-687-8890

MISTER SNACKS, INC.

AMHERST

800-333-6393

SUNFLOWER NATURAL FOOD MARKET

WOODSTOCK

845-679-5361

MOHONK PRESERVE

NEW PALTZ

845-255-0919

SUNY CONTINUING & PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

NEW PALTZ

845-257-2894

MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE/MARKETING DEPT

NEW PALTZ

845-256-2731

SUNY SCHOOL OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS

NEW PALTZ

845-257-3872

MONARDA HERBAL APOTHECARY

PHOENICIA

845-688-2122

SUNY ULSTER

STONE RIDGE

845-687-5262

MONKFISH PUBLISHING

RHINEBECK

845-876-4861

SWALLOW, JUDY

NEW PALTZ

845-255-5613

MOTHER EARTH’S STOREHOUSE

KINGSTON

845-336-5541

TAROT ON THE HUDSON

RHINEBECK

845-876-5797

MOUNT SAINT MARY COLLEGE

NEWBURGH

845-534-4780

TAYLOR, MARY

WAPPINGERS FALLS

845-298-7417

MOUNTAIN LAUREL WALDORF SCHOOL

NEW PALTZ

845-255-0033

TERRAPIN

RHINEBECK

845-876-3330

THE MOVING BODY

BEARSVILLE

845-679-7715

THREE CRAZY FRIENDS, INC.

CORNWALL

845-534-8355

THE MOVEMENT CENTER

KINGSTON

845-331-0986

TIBET HOUSE US

NEW YORK

212-807-0563

N & S SUPPLY

FISHKILL

845-896-6291

TORCHES ON THE HUDSON

NEWBURGH

845-568-0100

NATURES PAVILION

KINGSTON

973-831-5804

TOTIS GOURMET

BEACON

845-831-1821

NEKO SUSHI & RESTAURANT

NEW PALTZ

845-255-0162

TROUTBECK

AMENIA

845-373-9681

NESS, DAVID

NEW PALTZ

845-255-1200

TRUE VALUE - NEW PALTZ

NEW PALTZ

845-255-8481

NEWBURGH VETERINARY HOSPITAL

NEWBURGH

845-564-2660

TIME AND SPACE LIMITED

HUDSON

518-822-8448

NEW ENGLAND WINE CELLARS

WEST CORNWALL

860-672-9463

LORNA TYCHOSTUP

NEW PALTZ

845-255-9467

NEW YORK PRESS DIRECT

MONTGOMERY

845-457-2442

UNITED SMOKE SHOP

RHINEBECK

845-876-7185

NIXON, DR.TONI

PORT EWEN

845-339-1684

UPSTATE FILMS

RHINEBECK

845-876-4546

NORTH PARK WOODCRAFT

HYDE PARK

845-229-2189

VAN BRUNT GALLERY

BEACON

845-838-2995

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL

NEWBURGH

845-569-1425

VARGA

WOODSTOCK

845-679-4005

NORTH POINTE CULTURAL CENTER

KINDERHOOK

518-758-9234

VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-431-5663

NUTSHELL REALTY

STONE RIDGE

845-687-2200

VASILOW’S CONFECTIONERY INC.

HUDSON

518-828-2717

OAKWOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-462-4200

THE VILLAGE TEAROOM

NEW PALTZ

845-255-3434

OBLONG BOOKS

MILLERTON

518-789-3797

VIOLET ALCHEMY

NEW PALTZ

845-883-7899

DION OGUST PHOTOGRAPHY

WOODSTOCK

845-679-4135

WAINWRIGHT, ANDREW

RED HOOK

845-757-5431

OLDE MILL WINE & SPIRITS

RHINEBECK

845-876-5343

WDST 100.1 RADIO WOODSTOCK

WOODSTOCK

845-679-7266

ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH

RHINEBECK

845-876-0259

WEBJOGGER INTERNET SERVICES

TIVOLI

845-757-4000

OPERATION FREE FALL

KINGSTON

845-340-3443

WELLSPRING

CORNWALL

845-534-7668

ORGANIC TAO

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-473-7593

WESTON, DR. DIANE

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-452-2811

ORGANIC NECTARS

WOODSTOCK

845-246-0506

WESTWOOD METES & BOUNDS REALTY

NEW PALTZ

845-255-9400

ORIGIN COMMUNICATIONS

SEATTLE

206-285-9615

WHITE RICE

HUDSON

518-697-3500

OSAKA RESTAURANT

RHINEBECK

845-876-7338

WILLSON, SUSAN

STONE RIDGE

845-687-4807

OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN BIKES

WOODSTOCK

845-679-2122

WINDCHIME REALTY

BEACON

845-831-1451

THE OWL AND THE SERPENT

NEW PALTZ

845-255-2882

WOMEN’S CARE CENTER

RHINEBECK

845-758-1141

PACKARD WEIGHT HEALTH

MILLBROOK

845-677-2300

WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL

WOODSTOCK

845-246-3744

PAD THAI CATERING

KERHONKSON

845-626-4200

WOODSTOCK WOMENS HEALTH SPA

WOODSTOCK

845-679-6699

PANZER, ELIZABETH

ACCORD

845-626-8195

WOODSTOCK MOVEABLE FEAST

WOODSTOCK

845-679-2109

HOON PARK, MD

WAPPINGERS FALLS

845-298-6060

WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL CAMP

WOODSTOCK

845-246-3744

PATHWAYS MEDIATION CENTER

KINGSTON

845-331-0100

WVKR

POUGHKEEPSIE

845-437-7178

PATS TATS

KINGSTON

845-338-8282

YOGA ON DUCK POND

STONE RIDGE

845-687-4836

PAULINE OLIVEROS FOUNDATION

KINGSTON

845-338-5984

ZEN MOUNTAIN MONASTERY

MT TREMPER

845-688-7993

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WATERFRONT PROPERTY

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

WOODSTOCK MANOR HOUSE

Wonderful waterfront property on nearly everyone’s wish list. Long private drive leads to secluded spot where the Peterskill flows past 1200 feet of decking. Expanded home in true Adirondack spirit and style. There’s a terrific master-bedroom suite w/office looking out to the stream.Walk out to the hot tub and stare at the stars. Sit and be serene by the side of a sweet pond. One of the few properties to offer true seclusion. $449,000. Kingston. (845) 331-5357.

This 26-acre property includes three buildings: a beautifully rebuilt cedar-sided farmhouse with exposed beams, wide board pine floors, brick FP and sunroom; a two-story, 1600 sq ft building with high ceilings and tons of light that could be converted to a guest house, studio, or possibly a tack shop; a barn w/hayloft, currently used as garage and workshop. Property also includes a pond, above-ground heated pool and hot tub. Price Reduced. $699,000. High Falls. (845) 331-5357.

Fabulous large stone original 1790 village manor house, one of Woodstock’s jewels, sits regally up on a hill overlooking the street below. Own an important piece of architectural history with this rare find. Many delightful original details intact. Carriage house on its own deed fully restored and expensively appointed also available to purchase. Large and important barn attached to carriage house property as well. $950,000. Woodstock. (845) 331-5357.

BRAND NEW 2005 – CLERMONT

JUST BUILT 2005 – L AGRANGE

NEW CONTEMPORARY COLONIAL

3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch. Finishable walkout basement. 2 acres, country setting near Red Hook border. Asking $280,000. Contact Norm McKay at Houlihan Lawrence-Lavery Realty. (845) 464-5854.

3 to 4 bedrooms, 3 baths. Contemporary hardwood floors, central air, .83 acre, Arlington Schools. Could also be mother/daughter because of design. Asking $449,000. Contact Norm McKay at Houlihan Lawrence-Lavery Realty. (845) 464-5854.

Pine Plains, 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath. Central air, master bedroom suite on first floor. 1.3 flat acres surrounded by Thomas Newman Preserve. Stissing Lake across the street. Asking $525,000. Contact Norm McKay at Houlihan Lawrence-Lavery Realty. (845) 464-5854.

INCREDIBLE POST & BEAM

ENCHANTING FARMHOUSE

GINGERBREAD VICTORIAN

Incredible custom built home centered around an antique hand-hewn post and beam barn. Great open floor plan with soaring ceilings to the top of the old barn structure. Stone faced fireplace, hickory floors, copper top island, Jacuzzi tub and lovely garden round out this property. Just 10 min. to NYS Thruway, Stone Ridge and Woodstock make this a great location. $449,000. Nutshell Realty. (845) 687-2200. www.Nutshellrealty.com.

1948 Farmhouse located in secluded area of Stone Ridge with three bedrooms and two full baths. Lovely perennial gardens, beamed ceilings, wide board floors and Woodstock Soapstone woodstove make this a perfect setting for entertaining and relaxing. There are two outbuildings, one with electric that is a lovely summer dining room and could easily become a studio and the other a woodshed. Many mechanical updates and large deck. $324,000. Nutshell Realty. (845) 687-2200. www.Nutshellrealty.com.

Sweet gingerbread Victorian loaded with charm & character. Minutes from Mohonk Preserve, ready to move into and waiting for your personal touches. Painted wood floors, bow window in living room, lovely wood stove. Upgraded bathrooms and kitchen. Large screened porch off kitchen, rocking chair porch and serene farm and meadow views (Protected by conservation easement). 24x18 barn could be great studio/workshop. New septic, rebuilt furnace, chimney liner, roof, electric and plumbing. $259,000. Nutshell Realty. (845) 687-2200. www.Nutshellrealty.com.

NEW FARMHOUSE

AFFORDABLE BUILDING L OT!

PRIME SPACE AVAILABLE...

Architect designed home with old world character and details.Wide board floors, brick fireplace, tiled baths, stainless steel and soapstone gourmet kitchen.Two covered porches with views of mountains and protected farmland. Large garage/barn with future expansion space above. 3 Bedrooms 2 1/2 Baths, 3 Acres $499,000. Frank Wellington Dunn R.E. LLC. New Paltz. (845) 255-2593.

Yes Virginia there is such a thing as an affordable building lot left in Ulster County! Flat, level, even lot with frontage on 2 roads, close to utilities. 1.55 surveyed acres. Asking $40,000. Contact Helen Nickerson @ Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty. helenindia@msn.com. (845) 255-9400, ext 104.

Prime advertising space for rent in Chronogram Dwellings! Chronogram Dwellings are a great way to display your property. Reasonable rates, month-long exposure! Call a dedicated sales rep today for more information. Luminary Publishing. (845) 334-8600. sales@chronogram.com.

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Parting Shot

archival inkjet print of low resolution digital image

Liza Macrae / A Knot Once Tied

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or 25 years, while working as a mother, gardener, house builder, and homemaker, Tivoli resident Liza Macrae has used the camera to explore the world around her and to ask questions of it. This close look at a discarded helium balloon is part of “Reflections from Home,” Macrae’s continuing series of works that seek out “life and beauty in simple, unencumbered forms.” Considering each image a “poem of prayer and meditation, promise and continuation, and/ or tension and balance,” Macrae “charges” her photographs “with a force and a life of their own, much like a poem,” representing “long, reflective moments, made of sound, sight, and smell” offering “solace from the news of the day.”

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Chronogram LETTER FROM BAGHDAD I FAMILY SUPPLEMENT I BARD PRISON INITIATIVE

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