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HUDSON VALLEY EDITION CONTENTS 9/07

NEWS AND POLITICS 25 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING The gist of what you may have missed in the back pages of the global media maelstrom.

26 LETTER FROM IRAQ: STORIES OF THE DISPLACED Senior editor Lorna Tychostup travels to the Middle East to report on the plight of Iraqi refugees living in Amman, Jordan and internally displaced across the country.

32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart explains how some things that seem plainly and obviously true are actually false—like the effectiveness of US intelligence services since the end of World War II.

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 34 OMEGA RISING Andrea Birnbaum reports on the 30th anniversary of Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, and how the pioneering center for self-transformation is preparing for engaging Gen-Xers and beyond in the post-baby boomer future.

38 ART OF BUSINESS Ann Braybrooks takes a spiritual inventory at Mirabai of Woodstock with transplanted seekers Jeff Cuiule and Audrey Cusson.

LOCALLY GROWN SUPPLEMENT 78 USE YOUR MELON Amy Giezentanner picks up some local varieties for a sweet, September treat.

80 CREAM OF THE CROP Kelley Granger’s guide to the best of fall’s food, wine, and fun—local harvest festivals.

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 90 CLASSICAL HOMEOPATHY IS ALIVE AND WELL Homeopathic experts explain why you are your own best medicine to Lorrie Klosterman.

94 INNER VISION: CREATING FROM YOUR CENTER Lorrie Klosterman explores ways to use yoga and expressive movement to unlock creativity.

BUSINESS SERVICES 68 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 86 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 96 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

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HUDSON VALLEY EDITION CONTENTS 9/07

ARTS & CULTURE 44 PORTFOLIO Richard Merkin talks with Beth E. Wilson about his retrospective this month at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson.

46 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson reports from Kassel, Germany and Venice, Italy on two of the year’s largest art extravaganzas, Documenta 12 and the 52nd Venice Biennale.

49 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE

66 FOOD & DRINK Robin Catalano profiles Blue Plate in Chatham.

140 PARTING SHOT Deborah DeGraffenreid’s “American Portrait Project” at KMOCA.

THE FORECAST 111 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.)

52 MUSIC Peter Aaron bowls a few games with indie rock anti-diva Laura Pepitone. Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by The Powder Kegs The Seedhouse Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren. Ratboy Wading in the Balance Reviewed by DJ Wavy Davy. The Christine Spero Group My Spanish Dream Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

56 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles poet John Ashbery, who will be the focus of a weekend celebration this month at Bard College in honor of his 80th birthday.

60 BOOK REVIEWS Kim Wozencraft reviews Trashed by Alison Gaylin. Anne Pyburn reviews Russian Love and Other Stories by Jana Martin. Caitlin McDonnell reviews Land of Stone by Karen Chase.

64 POETRY

PLANET WAVES 134 HOLD THE BREAD ON THAT SANDWICH, PLEASE Eric Francis Coppolino on the challenges of celiac disease. Plus horoscopes.

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Poems by Beth Balousek, Gary Bloom, Esther Cohen, Jennifer Pruden Colligan, Chris Heffernan, Ann Hutton, Donald Lev, Sana Sepko, Lucille Stutzbach, and Sarah Wagner.

PREVIEWS 109 Nonagenarian blues master and national treasure David “Honeyboy” Edwards plays the Rosendale Cafe on September 8. 110 Ron Haviv talks with Brian K. Mahoney about “The Children of Darfur,” an exhibition of his photos this month at Fovea in Beacon. 121 The Word of Mouth troupe presents “Fifty States,” a group spoken-word performance at the Depot Theater in Garrison on September 29. 122 Sparrow reviews R&F Handmade Paint’s biennial “Encaustic Works 2007” exhibition, curated by renowned painter Joan Snyder. 125 Kiddie rocker Dan Zanes plays two family friendly shows at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on September 29. 126 The Center for Photography at Woodstock exhibits “What We Think Now,” photographs about public reaction to news media by Jonathan Hollingsworth.

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thomas grady | encaustic on plaster panel | 2007 “I chose to study printmaking and sculpture because everyone did painting,� artist Thomas Grady says of his college curriculum. “I wanted to try different things.� Eventually, he would turn to painting but employ an unusual medium—encaustic. An ancient material notably used in Egyptian mummy portraits, encaustic is pigmented beeswax that can create a multitude of results—a matte or glossy finish, thin glaze or thick impasto. Grady says the paint is also one of the most permanent; the wax repels moisture and helps maintain the integrity of the piece. Grady’s initial attempts with encaustic were discouraging. “It can be a clumsy technique to get detail,� he explains, “and I was trying to paint with some detail because I was trying to paint figures—heads—so I wasn’t satisfied with the results.� Grady turned to oil and watercolor for some paintings in his series of conductor and composer portraits before being drawn back to encaustic. “Maybe it was because I was older or more patient,� he says, “but I was able to get better results with the encaustic. I’m very satisfied with it now and I’ve given up oils totally.� Still, Grady has only deemed three of these works suitable for public display, and he makes his encaustic debut at Kingston’s Gallery at R&F with his depiction of painter Francis Bacon. Bacon #1 is part of his series of closely cropped head shots of artists, which also include Picasso, Lucian Freud, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol. “In different ways, they each opened certain doors to artists by showing that anything was possible—that you could do abstract expressionism and throw paint around and it was acceptable. And those are important things, even if I don’t particularly like their aesthetic.� His choice to represent Bacon was based on an admiration of his style, not direct influence. “Bacon’s paintings tend to be very psychologically charged; he’s able to get a good overview of the sitter with a minimal amount of exact representation,� Grady explains. “But he still gets their essence, and I like that, even though it’s not particularly how I work.� Grady prefers to call these pieces “big heads� rather than portraits, explaining that a portrait often involves defining a psychological aspect of a person and conveying that through the painting. “Because I don’t know them,� he says, “I’m just using their image as a point of departure in painting. I want to have a certain resemblance to them, but I also want to paint and move paint around; that’s important to me.� Thomas Grady’s Bacon #1 is part of the exhibition “Encaustic Works 2007,� on view through September 29 at two Kingston locations: Gallery at R&F, (845) 331-3112, www.rfpaints.com; and Watermark/Cargo Gallery, (866) 405-8076, www.watermarkcargogallery.com. —Kelley Granger

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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com SENIOR EDITOR Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com VISUAL ARTS EDITOR Beth E. Wilson visualarts@chronogram.com CAPITAL REGION EDITOR Timothy Cahill tcahill@chronogram.com EDITORIAL INTERN Kelley Granger kgranger@chronogram.com COPY EDITOR Peter Aaron PROOFREADERS Christopher Hewitt, Candyce Martin-Lynch CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Beth Balousek, Larry Beinhart, Andrea Birnbaum, Gary Bloom, Ann Braybrooks, Jay Blotcher, Robin Catalano, Esther Cohen, Robin Dana, Jennifer Pruden Colligan, Eric Francis Coppolino, Amber S. Clark, Jason Cring, Deborah DeGraffenreid, DJ Wavy Davy, Amy Giezentanner, Thomas Grady, Hillary Harvey, Chris Heffernan, Thomas Jack Hilton, Ann Hutton, Annie Dwyer Internicola, Donald Lev, Jennifer May, Sharon Nichols, Anne Pyburn, Fionn Reilly, Nina Shengold, Sana Shepko, Sparrow, Lucille Stutzbach, Tom Tomorrow, Sarah Wagner, Robert Burke Warren, Beth E. Wilson, Kim Wozencraft

SUBMISSIONS CALENDAR To submit calendar listings, log in at www.chronogram.com, click on the "Events Producers" link, and fill out the form. E-mail: events@chronogram.com / Fax: (845) 334-8610 Mail: 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 Deadline: September 15

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

FICTION/NONFICTION Fiction: Submissions can be sent to fiction@chronogram.com. Nonfiction: Succinct queries about stories of regional interest can be sent to bmahoney@chronogram.com.

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Kelley Granger is a journalism student at SUNY New Paltz, where she is news editor of the New Paltz Oracle and vice president of the New Paltz Equestrian Team. If she’s not behind a computer, she can be found training for the next intercollegiate horse show or exploring the natural wonders of the upstate region. She has an insatiable appetite for travel: Two cross-country road trips and multiple visits to Europe and Morocco have not satisfied her craving for adventure and cultural discovery. Kelley was Chronogram’s editorial intern this summer. She interviewed artist Thomas Grady for the “On the Cover” feature on page 10.

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Amy Giezentanner is a student at the Culinary Institute of America. She moved to New York last year to further her culinary knowledge and begin a career in food writing. Her hobbies run the gamut from food and wine to the performing arts, literature, travel, animals, hiking, dancing, and antiquing. When not at school or work, Amy can be found studying for class, working out with friends, hiking, and playing with her dog. Although Amy misses her native home of Arkansas, she loves New York and the beauty of the Hudson Valley. Amy gets into a New York state of melon on page 78.

Robin Catalano is a freelance writer and editor of fiction and nonfiction. Her articles have appeared in a variety of regional and national magazines, including Gourmet, Culinary Trends, Santé, Let’s Live, Berkshires Week, Dance Spirit, Stage Directions, and Berkshire Living, for which she is also a contributing editor. A part-time jewelry designer based in Stephentown, Robin is a nature and animal aficionado and the author of Storey’s Barn Guide to Horse Health Care and First Aid (Storey Publishing, 2007). She takes us inside Pittsfield’s Brix Wine Bar on page 66.

Jason Cring, a graphic designer and illustrator, has called the Hudson Valley home all his life. A graduate of SUNY New Paltz with a BFA in graphic design, he currently resides in Rhinebeck. In between Mets games and samurai films, Jason takes on freelance book design projects for such publishers as Sterling, Thomas Nelson, and Orvis. Balancing work, an addiction to YouTube, and a love of the outdoors has proved challenging, but he manages to vacate his computer desk for such activities as Frisbee, running, golf, softball, and kayaking. Jason’s illustration for “Creating from Your Center” appears on page 94.

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CHRONOGRAM SEEN PHOTOS: CAFE CHRONOGRAM BY FIONN REILLY; SOAPBOX DERBY BY THOMAS JACK HILTON

The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community. Here's some of what we saw in August: CAFE CHRONOGRAM AT THE MUDDY CUP IN KINGSTON / ARTISTS SOAPBOX DERBY

Clockwise from top left: At the August 4 Cafe Chronogram event at the Muddy Cup coffeehouse in Kingston, Eric Mingus performs with saxophonist Catherine Sillora; Studio Stu on the Studivarius. At the Artists Soapbox Derby on lower Broadway in Kingston on August 19, Carl Linnich and Dick and Margaret’s Crenson’s entry “Got Blood?”; Steve Heller driving former Derby winner “Wrenchosaurus.”

CHRONOGRAM SPONSORS IN SEPTEMBER: CAFE CHRONOGRAM IN CATSKILL (9/08) WITH JASON BROOME, TOM ROE, AND THOMAS JACK HILTON; HUDSON VALLEY FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL IN RHINEBECK (9/08-9/09); FAMILY FARM FESTIVAL IN HIGH FALLS (9/09); QUEENS GALLEY BARBEQUE BENEFIT AT THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN IN ESOPUS (9/23). 9/07 CHRONOGRAM HUDSON VALLEY 17

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The Tree Fort I was in love with a blond girl named Cynthia. Blond is the best description I can give because I never saw her close up. She sat in a seat the farthest from me: diagonally across the room in kindergarten. Once, at a great distance, I followed her home, but not all the way to her door. After getting several blocks away from my usual path home I began to feel a rising panic and gave it up, but then, I was only five. That same night I had a vivid dream about my new love. I dreamt that we were married and that we lived in a tree fort in the backyard of my house. When I awoke it was with a distinctly absurd feeling of stupidity. I wondered, “How could I think that people could be married and live in a tree fort?� But the feeling of contented marital bliss, as I now know it is called, would not leave me. The very next morning I set about building a tree fort, with the limited means of a five-year-old. Our backyard presented a dismal prospect: a piece of dirt perhaps 30 feet square with a few strands of crabgrass. It was bordered with cinder-block walls on three sides. One of these walls was the back of a funeral parlor which had one window, its curtain always closed. In the corner of the yard grew a lone sumac tree about seven feet tall with spindly branches and those long leaves that look like the remaining unkempt hair of some balding old man. I spent a long time trying to nail a two-by-four into a sumac branch with no success. I remember being stupefied by the problem of how to hold the hammer, the nail, and the wood up in the air all at once and still be able to strike with the hammer. Each time I would try the nails would fly off into the dirt of the yard and I would have to stop and hunt around for them. Finally, I resorted to rope in desperation. I tied several two-by-fours to the branches of the tree and then, standing on a chair, I jumped upon them like mounting a horse. The branches of the sumac all broke at once and everything ended up on the ground, myself included. I had murdered the sumac tree even though I had not meant it any harm. I was just like Lenny in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. My crime did not go unnoticed. Later that day my mother confronted me. “Dicky, why did you break down the sumac tree?� “I was trying to build a tree fort.� “But why would you try to build a tree fort in a sumac tree?� This second question she asked more to herself than to me, not really expecting me to answer. Actually, to me, it sounded more like, “Dicky, why are you such a stupid little boy?� I couldn’t even face her apron but stared down at my shoes, the laces I still had not learned to tie. Late in the afternoon I occupied myself with throwing stones at the mortuary wall until, as luck would have it, I broke their only window. After that I went inside, told my mother about it, and said I would be in my room until the police came to take me away. —Richard Britell

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LETTERS The Great Elixir To the Editor: I read with interest your column “Enter the Wau Wau� [8/06]. When grown men dress as nuns and do a dance, the usual forum is the asylum. But then I read your comment, “Communion wafers, cigarettes, and a chalice were all employed as props in a piece that ended with a profane reenactment of the crucifixion. The crowd hooted and roared.� This suggests that something other than delirium is at work. Do you have any idea how utterly predictable the crowd’s reaction was? What else would you expect from Bard’s Spiegeltent gang? To be sure, these are profoundly alienated men and women, and no doubt your contribution offered them fleeting relief. But the truth of the matter is that there is no escaping reality, even where you live. At the end of the day, the savants you entertained must learn to cope with their maladies, and surely you must learn to do the same. Prayer helps—it’s a great elixir. Try it. William A. Donohue, Manhattan President, Catholic League

Esteemed Reader Look at your hand. A closing of the fist is followed by its opening. A hand that is always closed or always opened is no doubt crippled. This contraction and expansion is the functioning of the world, and a necessity for man, just as a closing and opening of a bird’s wings is a necessity for its flight. —Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: My two-year-old son is having a love affair with trains. It has been going on for almost a year. He looks for trains and train tracks wherever we go. He can differentiate a passenger train from a freight train, a diesel from a maglev, and he can even name the cars. We take Metro-North to Manhattan ostensibly to visit a museum, but his personal destination is the subway. When we get to the museum he says, “I want to go home, Daddy, and ride the train!” His fascination with trains is surprising to me. It seems to have arisen from within the depth of his being—not conditioned or even educed—though, since the interest is there, I make an effort to feed it with books, videos, rides, and whatever else will satisfy his appetite. Not long ago he offered an unsolicited commentary on the subject, as though intuiting my confusion. “Trains go very fast. They are vigorous, Daddy. Passengers ride the train, and get off at the station.” What I gleaned from this brief discourse is that his interest has something to do with the qualities of trains—qualities he identifies with his nascent individuality. Qualities like utility, speed, relationship, power. The other evening we were working with his growing collection of Thomas trains and tracks, building circles, figures of eight, with routes over and under bridges, across a turntable. As he pulled a long line of cars behind the engine I became distracted by my thoughts, considering some of the business challenges at hand. As I daydreamed I saw a projectile traveling toward my head out of the corner of my eye, and ducked. A small tank engine grazed my cheek and hit the wall behind me. My first impulse was anger. “Don’t throw things at me, Asher, or anybody,” I yelled—a statement that has become an almost constant refrain in our house. I looked into his innocent eyes. “The train fell off the track, Daddy,” he explained. Reflecting for a moment I understood that what he meant was that the train of my attention had been derailed. I was with him but was absent. And he was correct. So, though I reiterated that it is not acceptable to hurl anything at anybody, I secretly thanked him for the flying locomotive as a reminder to be present. One of Woody Allen’s most oft-repeated quotes is, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Which begs the question: Even if I am showing up bodily, how much of me is truly showing up? If my mind and attention are absent, and only my body is present, it’s not showing up at all. To really show up means to be a bona fide inhabitant of the body, with my attention available for the event. I once had a teacher who joked about the New Age obsession with out-ofbody experiences. He said, “The first step is to have an in-body experience.” Woody Allen also said, “I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” Perhaps Woody wasn’t thinking deeply when he said this, but I take the comment to mean: Why do people seek extraordinary experiences, when we have difficulty showing up for the ordinary ones? We use the expression “train of thought” as though our thoughts are linked like a procession of coaches. In my own observation I have seen that my mind generates a very strange and disconnected procession of images and ideas. What would a real train of thought look like? It would be guided by a consistent beam of attention—which is what my son saw lacking when he felt impelled to hurl his engine. Indeed, I always have the choice to show up or remain absent, to offer an open hand or a closed fist. Perhaps this is the only real choice I have, for if I am not present, is what I do really “chosen”? Who is there making the choice if “I” am elsewhere? The choice is to freely grant attention to whomever is before me. Not because it is required or compelled, but because I choose to chug ahead and give it. —Jason Stern Publisher

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e receive approximately 25 unsolicited submissions a week, people responding to our openended call to send us their written work. We get a few poems, essays on everything from local melons (see page 80) to the joys of taxidermy, a short story here and there, and every now and then, a seemingly amphetamine-induced e-mail 200 lines long with no paragraph breaks and minimal punctuation (a bit like a letter from Jack Kerouac, I suspect) on some hitherto unreported bit of local political skullduggery—which often turns out to be true. It’s not our beat, however. Most of the submissions we receive are personal essays. Lacy memoirs written by doting grandmothers about their precious grandchildren—the written equivalent of a spin through the family photo album. Emotionally harrowing first-person accounts penned by fathers on how they became estranged from their children. Personal stories of triumph over (or acceptance of) illness typed by chastened survivors. And beautifully written lyric submissions by graduates of creative writing programs about nothing at all. (I’m guessing here—about the creative writing program part—but it takes one to know one, as they say.) On the whole, regardless of the sincerity of the writer (think of Charlie Brown in the pumpkin patch), in 90 percent of the submissions we receive, the writing is not of a publishable quality. Sometimes, however, we’ll receive a piece that purports to be on one topic but is really about something else entirely. Such was the case with Richard Britell’s “Princess Diana in Paradise:The Hudson Antique Stores.” Richard submitted a 2,300-word meander down Warren Street that was evocative yet inconclusive, as he himself noted in the final line: “Actually, my trips to the Hudson antique shops have nothing to do with antiques.” Richard’s memoir was really about his long-ago affection for a blond kindergarten classmate, and the hijinks that ensued from his bumbling, five-year-old ardor. I wrote Richard and suggested we jettison the (rather substantial) bit about antiquing and focus solely on his reminiscence of the blond girl, and thankfully he agreed with me, adding, “As so often happens the entire piece about Hudson was an excuse to write the part about first love.” “The Tree Fort” by Richard Britell appears on page 18. This exchange reminded me of a poem long buried in my memory, about a poet visiting a painter’s studio and watching him paint (while drinking, of course). The poet sees that there are sardines in his friend’s painting and asks him, “Why did you put sardines in your painting?” The painter responds, “It needed something there.” The poet goes home and writes a line ostensibly about the color orange, which turns into a dozen poems, though he finds he hasn’t really gotten around to describing orange yet. He calls the 12 poems “Oranges.” When he returns to his friend’s studio, he notices the lack of sardines in the finished painting, now titled “Sardines.” I recalled all this, though I had not read or thought of this poem for at least 15 years, and could not bring to mind either the title or the poet’s name. (I lent the book the poem was anthologized in years ago to a person I’ve forgotten, and who promptly disappeared from my life, along with my cherished volume.) Feverishly Googling “Oranges/Sardines + poem” and the like—thinking the title was either “Oranges” or “Sardines”—I found the poem: “Why I am not a Painter” by Frank O’Hara. It is as satisfyingly perceptive— in its elliptical manner—about the enigma of the creative process as I remembered.And in an incredible stroke of luck, I also found, via the French Amazon.fr site, the anthology I “borrowed” out of my father’s bookcase as a teenager that convinced me that poetry was more than the palliative “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer. The New American Poetry 1945-1960 was originally published by Grove Press in 1960, and includes selections from some of the most well known names of 20th-century verse like Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and John Ashbery. (Book editor Nina Shengold’s profile of Ashbery, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, appears on page 56.) As a teen, I had possibly heard of Ginsberg, though certainly none of the others. And what had drawn me to the book was as much a desire to understand my father through his sole dusty volume of verse as it was to explore the realms of poetry. Knowing nothing of poetry, or which poems I should read in the book, I skipped around in an arbitrary way, trying poems on for size, beginning a lifelong affair with some (Gregory Corso’s “Marriage”), not possessing the mental and emotional resources as of yet to understand others (most of the volume), and finding passages in otherwise inscrutable poems that I’ve never forgotten and have ripened over time into more delicate meanings, like the last three lines of James Schuyler’s “The Elizabethans Called it Dying”: “not to be in love with you / I can’t remember what it was like / it must’ve been lousy.” Perhaps all that talk about submissions was “an excuse,” as Richard Britell puts it, to include three of my favorite lines of poetry. Maybe. If so, excuse me. But how do you get to the excuse if you don’t start at the beginning? 9/07 CHRONOGRAM HUDSON VALLEY 21

LOCAL LUMINARY ARIEL SHANBERG LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY

artists Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, and photographers Angelika Rinnhofer, Jeffery Milstein, and Sun-Joo Shin. Shanberg has served on various panels and nominating committees including an upcoming panel on artist opportunities at the 2007 PhotoPlus Expo at the Jacob Javits Center moderated by W.M. Hunt, and he has been an invited reviewer to Fotofest (Houston, Texas), Rhubarb Rhubarb (Birmingham, UK), and Photo Lucida (Portland, Oregon). Shanberg lives in pastoral splendor in the woods outside Woodstock (though he is allergic to most tree species native to the Northeast) and splits his time between his home (no pets, no TV, no Internet, houseguests aplenty) and that of his girlfriend, the photographer Charisse Isis, in Kingston.

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Ariel Shanberg is the executive director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, a nonprofit, artist-centered organization supporting artists working in photography and related media and engaging audiences through opportunities in creation, education, and presentation. The Center, located in the former Tinker Street Cafe, is a exhibition hub for photographers of international renown, including Mary Ellen Mark, Sylvia Plachy, and Ron Haviv. Shanberg has curated numerous exhibitions at CPW including “Family Album,” co-curated with Kate Menconeri in 2006, “Shifting the Political: Portraits of Power,” and “F|R|A|M|E—Analysis of Movement,” both in 2004; and serves as editor of CPW’s publication, PQ. In addition to his work at CPW, Shanberg will be curating an exhibition entitled “Food for Thought” at The Light Factory in Charlotte, North Carolina in spring 2008, and has contributed essays to accompany publications on the work of

What’s the worst job you ever had? I’ve had some jobs that have provided me with some unpleasant experiences (I’ve worked in pest control and while living on a kibbutz worked in the chicken house), but I always found something meaningful to pull from the experiences, so nothing thus far ranks too low to be called “worst.” Plus, I’ve always been fortunate enough to have great co-workers and decent bosses. Why do you choose to live in the Hudson Valley? Both my parents were immigrants which helped give me a strong sense of a larger world around me. At the same time, we lived in a town in northern New Jersey that didn’t seem particularly interested in welcoming or celebrating the “other.” So after finishing college,

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I knew I wanted to live somewhere where the idea of community and the arts played a major role in peoples’ lives—that, plus serendipity, brought me to Woodstock in 1997. What’s the strangest thing in your fridge? Whatever it is, it is no longer identifiable, has recently grown legs, and I think it ate my leftovers from last night’s dinner. What are some the things you’d like to change about the area? What are some of the things you’d like to stay the same? I’d like to see the younger population who are growing up in the region stay and be a dynamic part of our

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Research is showing a strong link between a population’s exposure to lead and the crime rate, with violent crime spiking two decades following a peak in lead poisoning. After studying nine countries and accounting for different modes of policing, economic status, abortion rates, and demographics, economist Rick Nevin believes that 65 to 90 percent of crime rate variations can be explained by lead exposure. Other evidence shows that lead is a neurotoxin causing impulsive behavior and aggression. This pattern, and the earlier phasing out of lead, may help explain the dramatic 67 percent drop in homicide and 57 percent decrease in overall crime during Rudy Giuliani’s term as mayor of New York City; two studies by criminologists Richard Rosenfeld and Steven F. Messner say only 10 to 20 percent of the change is due to his zero-tolerance policing tactics. Source: The Washington Post Brandon L. Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, has conducted a study that examines 200 cases in which wrongly-accused prisoners were exonerated due to DNA evidence. Garrett’s study shows that 79 percent of cases involved errors in identification by eyewitnesses, 55 percent used faulty forensic evidence, and 18 percent included testimony by informants who were the actual perpetrators. The average sentence length for the exonerated was 12 years, and 14 of the absolved inmates were on death row. Peter Neufeld, founder of the Innocence Project, a group which helped generate a number of the exonerations, says that DNA testing is available in less than 10 percent of violent crimes. Garrett’s study suggests that there could be thousands of innocent people serving sentences with no hope of DNA evidence helping to prove their innocence. Source: The New York Times A program designed to balance a shortage of doctors in the rural US by offering special visas to foreign physicians is being hampered by restrictions caused by terrorism and the immigration debate. The program grants J-1 visas to foreign doctors who work in underserved regions for three to five years and promises an expedited path to permanent residency in return. Since 9/11, the federal government has increased legal fees, made tests more difficult, and the Department of Health and Human Services has changed the rules that designate an area as “underserved,” affecting their ability to acquire J-1 physicians. The restrictions are expected to be tightened even more in the wake of the attempted terrorist attacks in Britain that were linked to foreign doctors. According to government calculations, it would currently take 16,000 medical practitioners to meet the needs of 35 million underserved Americans, and that need is estimated to grow to 24,000 by 2020. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer Reports filed by the House and Senate party committees for fund raising through June 30 state that the Democrats are leading in donations by vast amounts. So far the 2008 Democratic campaigns for White House, Congress, and other party committees has raised $388.8 million, while Republican donations lagged behind with $287.3 million. The contrast is also clear in numbers for the presidential race, in which eight Democratic candidates raised $179.3 million and nine Republicans collected just $118 million. A portion of the Democrats’ advantage is their demographic’s utilization of the Internet, while Republicans tend to be drawn toward more traditional forms of media like talk radio. Top Republican fundraiser Mitt Romney raised $10 million online in six months, while Democratic candidate Barack Obama raised $10.3 million for the latest quarter alone. Sources: The Wall Street Journal and BBC News

Pagans in Dorset, England are distressed at marketing efforts for the Simpsons movie. A giant underwear-clad Homer Simpson waving a doughnut has been painted next to the 180-foot Cerne Abbas Giant, a centuries-old landmark believed to represent ancient spirituality and bring fertility. “It is very disrespectful,” Ann Bryn-Evans of the Pagan Federation says. “Are they going to use the countryside as a giant billboard?” The painting, done by artist Peter Stuart, was done with biodegradable paint and will wash away with the rain, but Bryn-Evans claims, “It’s been raining buckets and the thing’s still there.” Source: BBC News REUTERS/HO NEW

In mid-July, Italian Transport Minister Alessandro Bianchi called the rate of traffic accidents, injury, and death on Italian roads a “national emergency” and is pushing for tougher penalties and arrests. Rome, which ranks second in the world for highest concentration of car ownership, touts 2.4 million cars for 2.5 million residents—but has one of the worst driving records in Europe. Rome’s rate of pedestrian injury or death is 8.47 people per 1,000, compared to other European cities like London and Paris, that have less than 1 death per 1,000 pedestrians. Danger exists for motorist and passenger as well; statistics show that only one in five Italians wears a seatbelt, including children, who often ride without a car seat or on the lap of the driver. A bill has been submitted to the Senate that would raise vehicular manslaughter to a murder charge for drunk drivers and limit the speeds of young drivers. The issue has also received attention from the Vatican, which released its Guidelines for Pastoral Care of the Road, more commonly known as the “Ten Commandments” of driving, in June. The commandments include orders to protect vulnerable parties, to avoid using a car as an expression of power, and not to kill. Source: The New York Times, UK Times Online

Thousands of pounds of ice obtained by the federal government for Hurricane Katrina relief are being melted after racking up $12.5 million in storage costs. According to FEMA contracts, the ice was supposed to be disposed of three months after purchase, but is now nearly two years old. The Army Corps of Engineers admitted that it ordered too much ice after giving flawed estimates, and FEMA decided to transport the ice thousands of miles and store the excess for the 2006 hurricane season. Source: USA Today NBC Universal Inc. is being sued for $105 million in litigation filed on July 23 by Patricia Conradt, sister of Bill Conradt, a suspected sexual predator. Conradt committed suicide after he became a subject of the “Dateline NBC” series “To Catch a Predator.” In the series, staff members of the Perverted Justice activist group pose as underage boys or girls in online chat rooms, inviting men to meet them at a house where police and a television crew are staked out. Once they arrive, they are confronted by the host of the show, Chris Hansen, and then arrested by police. Conradt, a former district attorney, had failed to show up at the rigged house, so police and cameramen proceeded to his home. The suit says the crew “trespassed and invaded upon Bill’s property” to “broadcast a spectacle to millions.” The Murphy, Texas, stakeout was plagued by other blunders as well—the district attorney was unable to prosecute the two dozen men who were arrested, saying many cases were marred by the involvement of amateurs, and the city manager was fired for arranging the filming without notifying the mayor or city council. Source: The Los Angeles Times Researchers have found that drinking just one can of soda a day, whether regular or diet, is linked with a 48 percent increased risk of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome symptoms include excessive abdominal fat along with high blood pressure, blood-glucose levels, and blood triglycerides. These accompany low levels of the healthy cholesterol high-density lipoprotein. Having three or more of these symptoms puts a person at twice the normal risk for diabetes and heart disease. Soda makers claimed the results “defy the existing body of scientific evidence, as well as common sense.” The study, which was published in the journal of the American Heart Association, also reported a 31 percent greater risk of obesity and a 30 percent greater risk of a larger waistline for those drinking one regular or diet soda per day. Source: The Los Angeles Times On July 24, an appeals court rejected a Bush administration rule supported by the American Trucking Association and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, an agency that works to prevent crashes, injuries, and deaths associated with large trucks and buses. The rule increased the maximum hours a trucker could work within a seven or eight day period, from 60 to 77 hours within seven days and from 70 to 88 hours over eight days. The court ruled against the changes citing the FMCSA had ignored data from a self-commissioned study that found a significantly higher risk of accidents caused by fatigue during those extra work hours. About 100 people die in accidents involving trucks each week, helping to make trucking the most dangerous industry in the country. Source: The New York Times —Compiled by Kelley Granger

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STORIES OF THE Letter from Iraq Text and photos by Lorna Tychostup

AMMAN, JORDAN My taxi is one of many pulling up to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office. It is only 8am yet sweat gathers in all crevices. Scanning the long line of Iraqis already standing outside in the quickly disappearing shade, I spot Amjad, my Iraqi interpreter. He is wearing a crisp button-down shirt complete with tie, an uncommon sight here in the Middle East where men wear their collars unbuttoned, tieless and open. He, his wife, and their two young children are here this morning joining other Iraqi refugees and asylum seekers in the hours-long wait for a registration interview. Amjad and his family are seeking resettlement to another country. Prior to the US invasion, he had been manager of a clothing shop in Baghdad. Post-invasion, he moonlighted for an Iraqi company that trained security contractors for Dyncorp, an international security provider. His starting salary of $200 per month increased to $500, and due to the long hours required by the interpreting job, he quit his job in retail. A note slipped under his door in August 2005, signed by a known al Qaedaconnected group, told him he would be killed if he continued working as an interpreter. Amjad moved his family to Amman three months later. “Life is safe here, but we are suffering from unemployment. It is a difficult life. We need to make a living but as Iraqis we are not allowed to work.” Amjad’s two brothers in Germany and a sister in the US help by sending money. “I wish to settle in a new country and start a new life, maybe in the States.” Amjad’s story is just one in this exodus from the violence, unrest, ongoing military operations, religious and other forms of persecution, kidnapping, and general insecurity in Iraq. Approximately 50,000 to 60,000 Iraqis are fleeing their homes per month, according to Rana Sweis, spokesperson for the Jordanian office of the UNHCR. More than 1,000 are making their way to Syria on a daily basis, where it is estimated that 1.4 million Iraqis now live. The Jordanian government claims another 750,000 Iraqis live in Jordan. An equivalent figure applied to the US population would equal 40 million refugees. (A May 2007 report by Refugees International, an international organization specializing in providing humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced persons, estimated that there were one million displaced Iraqis pre-2003. This was the result of twin ethnic cleansing campaigns pursued by Saddam’s regime after the end of the first Gulf War against internal opposition groups. “Arabization” efforts forced Kurds from their homes in Kurdistan while Arabs were sent 26 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

north, and the southern marshlands drained, forcing marsh Arabs from their homes. Skyrocketing present day exodus numbers make former displacement figures pale in comparison.) The exodus also represents the complete spectrum of Iraqi society. “Rich, poor, middle class, uneducated, and the very educated” make up the Iraqi refugee population in Jordan, said Sweis.A formal UNHCR registration process asks Iraqis to bring all identification documents—both legal and forged, without threat of penalty—to appointments where the most vulnerable Iraqis can be identified, given individual assistance, and for a limited few, resettlement to another country. While the registration process serves as an identification system for all refugees and separates out those who seek more permanent asylum due to persecution in Iraq, it does not protect registrants from punitive actions by the Jordanian government, such as deportation or incarceration if they are caught in the country illegally—that is without official residency status. Nor does it aid refugees in getting this much-needed residency status in Jordan—a requirement not only in order to remain in the country legally, but to work, enroll children in school or even create schools among refugees, get access to health care and other social services provided by the Jordanian government, and avoid the 1.5 Jordanian dollar per day immigration tax levied against people who overstay their visa or who do not have a residency permit. (For a family of six, that equals approximately $12US per day or $4,320 per year in immigration fees.) Resettlement, which is what Amjad desires, is an option available only to the most vulnerable, according to Sweis. “It is not the solution for the majority of Iraqis in Jordan. Resettlement is up to the host country—they decide how many they will take.” Of the 3,950 Iraqis in Jordan who have applied to nine countries for resettlement through UNHCR, only a small number—a few hundred—have actually departed. More than one million Iraqis are estimated to have fled their homes since the Samara mosque bombing in February 2006 unleashed a wave of sectarian violence in Iraq. Another 4.5 million are either internally or externally displaced and tens of thousands flee their homes monthly. Such figures make the recent US announcement stating it would accept 7,000 displaced Iraqis for resettlement—from Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Egypt combined—seem ludicrous at best. (It is reported as of early March that Egypt was hosting 100,000 Iraqi refugees, a recovering Lebanon 40,000, and the Gulf states another 200,000.)

IN AMMAN, JORDAN, EIGHT-YEAR-OLD IRAQI REFUGEE ALI SAFA SHOWS HIS DRAWING OF CONTEMPORARY BAGHDAD.

BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE With Jordan’s population numbering 5.6 million, the impact of Iraqi refugees on its infrastructure is enormous for a country already rife with domestic problems. Jordan suffers from a lack of water resources (one of the world’s 10 poorest in terms of water resources), high unemployment, and an 18 percent poverty rate among Jordanians. “That is why the international community must step in and help Jordan with this burden,” said Sweis, “which is what we are trying to do as well.” Due to its experience in relation to the Palestinian crises in 1948 and then again in ’67 that saw a flood of approximately 2.5 million Palestinians enter the country and eventually reshape Jordan’s political, socioeconomic, and cultural life, the Jordanian government is loath to create a hospitable atmosphere for Iraqi refugees. Although disenfranchised in many ways, according to Sweis, the Palestinian population placed their children in schools and took over the social services. Most of the original refugees were granted citizenship in 1950, and today they represent more than half of the Jordanian population. “The Jordanians do not want to see this happening again in their country—that the Iraqis would stay,” said Sweis. “The best solution for all is that the Iraqis would be able to return to a safe Iraq.What we [UNHCR] are trying to do is to make their life easier while they are here, and at the same time help the Jordanian government cope with this crisis. The solution will have to be a political solution. [What we are doing now] is a temporary solution.” In Geneva, at a UNHCR conference addressing the humanitarian needs of Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons in April of this year, Jordan reported that hosting 750,000 Iraqis, who have come to represent 15 percent of Jordan’s total population, is costing them $1 billion annually and asked for that amount from the international community. The Iraqi government has pledged $25 million dollars to help Iraqis outside of Iraq but that money has yet to be delivered. According to UN estimates, it would cost $78 million just to educate the children of Iraqi refugees. One important issue raised by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at the conference had to do with violations of international law, specifically refugee law, concerning nonrefoulement—that is, protections against refugees being returned to home countries where their lives or freedoms could be threatened. In the case of Iraq’s refugees, there have been reports of some neighboring states

refusing entry to Iraqis, and also the forcible return of refugees to Iraq. According to a statement drafted by a broad spectrum of NGOs at the conference: “At present, those fleeing violence in Iraq are received by neighboring countries as temporary visitors, not refugees with recognized rights.This situation is further exacerbated by the difficult renewal process of their visas, with the result that most Iraqis living in third countries quickly lose their legal status and are left to fend for themselves, living in fear and subject to exploitation.” CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE Hatem Oday was a colonel in the Iraqi Air Force. In 2004 he received death threats from the Iran-linked Shiite Badr militia in relation to his participation in the IranIraq War some 25 years previous. On May 30, 2004, 11 pilots living in the same Baghdad district were killed in one day. Oday left Baghdad three days later with his wife and six children. I asked his eldest daughter, Rafel, age 16, how it felt to be living in Amman. Her eyes filled with tears as she managed to respond, “I am bored. I miss my friends and wish to go back to my country,” before bolting from the room sobbing. Mamoud, the eldest boy said he is bored as well. A male of 14 years, he is especially at risk from random detainment or deportation. Their mother, Souad, is in the process of setting up a cottage sewing industry under the direction of Faiza Alaraji, a wealthy Iraqi woman married to a Jordanian who arranged for Souad to receive a sewing machine. With her children’s help, Souad sews Iraqi-insignia bracelets and women’s handbags. Hopeful as to the eventual Iraqi soccer team’s victory in the Asian Cup finals, she has sewn strips of red, green, and black material together to make Iraqi flags, which sell like hotcakes, as do the bracelets. Just as the POW bracelets of the Vietnam era were bought by thousands and worn as a reminder, Souad hopes her bracelets reach an international audience of people concerned about the welfare of the Iraqi people. Things are no different in the Hashem home. Ali Hashem, a Shiite, has been living in Amman for six years. Jailed for four days in 2001 by Saddam’s intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, in Karbala, he was released on conditions that included his promise to report on the activities of his brother, Hussein. Both were accused of participating in the “opposition” during the first Gulf War. “The occupation is very bad, there is no safety. We had hopes for the occupation but we have been disappointed,” said Hashem. “Even in 1991 during the uprising, the Bush father 9/07 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS 27

IRAQI EXILE SOUAD ODAY HAS SET UP A COTTAGE BUSINESS SEWING IRAQI-INSIGNIA BRACELETS AND WOMEN’S HANDBAGS IN AMMAN, JORDAN.

said, ‘We are going to free Iraq.’ But he didn’t comply.” Things were better for Hashem and his family before this latest US invasion, referring to Jordanian resentment of the growing Iraqi presence. “We were accepted here before the war but now with the influx of Iraqis, life is much more difficult for us.” Hashem’s eldest son, Ali, never ventures far from their home. His mother, Haleema, panics if he does not appear immediately when called, especially given the tales of deported Iraqis being dropped off at the Iraq/Jordan border being scooped up by “terrorists” who then cut their heads off. I ask her how she knows terrorists are doing this. Unlike Westerners, who use designations such as “insurgents” and “mujahideen,” Iraqis mince no words. “Anyone who creates terror for the people is a terrorist” is Haleema’s response. A photography class taken in the days before the recent Iraqi influx has turned Ali into a budding photographer. I tell him he, rather than Western journalists such as myself, are the perfect vehicles to get the story of the Iraqi people out to the world. Only 16 years old, Ali has already spent four months in an Amman jail for fighting after religious-based taunts by friends at school. His mother is beside herself with fear that not only will he fight again, but also that someone will report him to authorities, which could result in detention or deportation. Although the numbers of detentions and deportations have been small, and the Jordanian government has pretty much turned a blind eye to the presence of the illegals, the fear of being detained or deported runs high. It is important to note that Jordan and Syria have been extraordinarily tolerant and hospitable and have taken in most of the Iraqis who have fled there. However, fear is still rampant in Jordan for all of these reasons and more. In contrast, Sweis said that the Iraqi refugees in Syria suffer no such fear of deportation, detainment, being interviewed or filmed. In Syria, schools are free and work is available to the almost 90,000 Iraqis registered there. Approximately 50 percent of Iraqi refugees are children. It is estimated 550,000 are of school age with limited access to education. Historically, making sure their children receive an education has been and remains an absolute priority among Iraqis. Illegal families such as the Hashems and Odays simply keep their children in hiding.Yet, even in host countries like Syria that allow Iraqi children to go to school, many do not attend because families cannot afford supplies or uniforms. THE MISINFORMATION HIGHWAY: MYTH VS. REALITY It has been two-and-a-half years since my last trip to Iraq when, as an independent journalist—which means I make my own travel arrangements, and travel and work alone—I reported on Iraq’s first election in January 2005. In the course of three weeks, I made the death-defying round trip flight between Amman and Baghdad twice. I was refused entry the first time by an Iraqi immigration official 28 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

despite possessing the proper credentials. He actually did me a favor since the hotel I had planned to and eventually did stay in was damaged the next morning when a truck filled with explosives blew up immediately outside. Thick shards of glass shattered onto my thankfully empty bed. Once in the country, I had a few close calls: My hotel complex was attacked briefly on several occasions by Kalashnikov fire from outside its perimeter; I had a US soldier ready to take aim at me—I was wearing a black abaya and hijab; and while in a stopped car at a checkpoint I got caught in a shootout. At the time, I felt pretty safe. It wasn’t until stepping foot outside of Iraq that the effect of these experiences left me with no desire to return. However, a desire to lay certain demons to rest combined with an opportune door of entry has brought me back to Iraq. I have chosen to avoid traveling to Baghdad. Admittedly, fear keeps me away. Iraqis do not have such choices. Under Saddam, fear was a common ingredient to everyday life. Today, among the displaced, this fear is amplified. Even when a safe spot is found, fear abounds—of the unknown, of being made to leave— especially if one is in another country illegally—fear of the future, of death following on one’s heels, of being able to find work or the next meal. The fear simply breeds more fear and as Iraqis talk among themselves and others, the lines between rumor and fact become blurred, merging at times into fantasy filled with conspiracy theory. It is hazardous of the journalist to simply accept all stories verbatim. But it would also be neglectful to completely dismiss these versions of reality, as they do offer a glimpse into the inner psyche of people whose lives are deeply afflicted by war. As one UNHCR representative told me, “Many of these people are suffering from schizophrenia and mental disability.” Just about all are simply doing their best to survive. STORIES FROM THE DISPLACED FRONT It is a new idea that people in Iraq know the war was made by the US.The result is that there are five million people displaced within Iraq and five million people have left.The US has said it will accept 7,000 refugees. We don’t want an alternative homeland. We want human rights resettlement organizations to help us solve the reasons behind needing to leave Iraq.Without security the problems of Iraqis cannot be addressed.There are militias, ethnic identity killings, and there is internal interference by Iranians. Anyone who says the US should leave Iraq is insane.They need to stay at least three more years.We would say to the Americans,“Leave tomorrow.” But the Iraqi police force consists of 32 militias. Iraqi prisoners pay $50,000 US dollars to stay in American prisons instead of being transferred to Iraqi prisons. In Iraqi prisons they cut off ears, torture and kill. In US prisons all are registered. A lot of people are willing to sell everything to stay in an American prison. —Haj Ali

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Haj Ali at one time claimed he was the hooded man in the infamous Abu Graib photo. Everyone from PBS to Envirosagainstthewar.org helped to push his story. According to sources in Amman, Ali later recanted. In Amman, when I asked the towering giant of a man if he indeed was the one in the photo, standing on a box with electrical wires attached to his body, he said he has been advised by his attorney not to answer any questions in relation to the time he spent at Abu Graib. When I pressed him for a response, he said that he was “one of many” treated in this way. After his release from Abu Graib, Ali formed an Iraqi NGO originally named the Association of American Occupation Prisons, with the word “Prisons” changed to “Victims” at a later date. His original focus had to do with the treatment of prisoners and conditions of prisons within Iraq. His NGO now addresses more general humanitarian issues affecting Iraqis. Even though he was tortured in Abu Graib, Ali said, “I don’t hate American people and I don’t want to be seen as a victim, but as a messenger for peace and love.” He wants the Americans to appoint a “salvation government. A government of experts, not representatives of militias.We are ready to cooperate with the Americans.We are dissatisfied with the situation. It is time to go to the Iraqi people, not ethnic groups.” According to Ali, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has secret contacts with Iran and Iranians are controlling the Iraqi economy—a common story among Iraqis. “Hot areas” in Iraq—Salahadin,Tikrit, Falluja, Samara,Anbar—are targeted by an Iranian-financed al Qaeda. Iran is responsible for pushing the Sunni/Shiite divide and recent US talks with Iran are an “unforgivable humiliation for Iraqis because it is a confession that Iran is in control of Iraq.” There is enough food in Baghdad’s Food Storage system for two million people but its distribution is run by the Mehdi militia, who “do not distribute these food stuffs to areas not in agreement with them.” Ali wants five tanks to secure the road to allow for proper food distribution—“some people have not received [their food ration] for 10 months. Iraqis don’t know what is going on and so they are against the Americans.” A Sunni himself, when pressed as to how many among the 65,000 members of his “ethno-unified” NGO are Shiite, he said, “We represent all Iraqi people.We are all Iraqis.There is no division among us,” and explained that people from different parts of Iraq visit his association that “has helped 23,000 people in Iraq by giving them such things as a bottle of oil or food.” When asked who the funders of his NGO are, at first Ali said that in addition to money he accepts things like “10 boxes of wheat or flour and food.” Later in the interview Ali said his NGO doesn’t take money only goods.” Given the fact that he falsely put himself forth as something he was not—one look at the hulk of a man reveals he could not be the small man in the infamous Abu Ghraib photo—and that he willingly became 30 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

a poster child for an anti-war community who for some reason failed to question his story, it is safe to say that Ali is an unreliable source. At the same time, he has stated things that I have heard echoed from other, more reliable sources. Specifically, the overbearing Iranian influence in Iraq. I watch the BBC News and I am afraid to go back to Baghdad. I made seven visits to the Green Zone but nobody helps me in Iraq. I need treatment for these girls. How can I work with this in my old age? I am tired. I lost my home,lost everything;the mosques and good people helped me. If Iraq were secure I would rather be there—is there anyone who doesn’t love their country? —Um Rawa Two empty wheelchairs signal we have reached the home of Um Rawa and her daughters. The door is open and the women inside ask for a moment to cover their heads before we enter. Once all heads are covered, we enter to see three remarkably similar looking young women with huge smiles beaming up at us. All three begin talking at once. All three have speech impediments. All three are in wheelchairs. At the age of 26—some 12 years after her older sisters, Rawa and Wala took to their wheelchairs—Waarka, now 30 years old, began to show signs of the same mysterious affliction. Rawa and Wala said they have been recently diagnosed by doctors in Amman as suffering from nerve damage brought on by gases released when their complex in Tikrit was bombed by the US during the first GulfWar in 1991.Waarka was away from home when her affliction came on—living in a dorm of her university in Baghdad when it was bombed during the current conflict. Doctors have told her that the cause of her crippling is the same, albeit from newer bombs.They, along with their mother, have come from Baghdad, driven out by the violence and lack of health care. Carrying huge bottles of orange soda, Um Rawa arrives soon after we do. Despite her fasting to relieve a gastrointestinal infection, Um Rawa continues to work daily at the job she has managed to find in a local bakery where she earns 8JD a day—the equivalent of $5.60. Her husband was killed in the Iran-Iraq War, leaving her to care for her invalid daughters by herself. Neighbors in Amman have helped them get an exception from the Royal Court of Jordan—a rare allowance to Iraqi refugees—that enables them all to receive health care. The Iraqi filmmaker friend who has brought me here points out the obvious: “These girls are always laughing and their mother is always crying.” It is no wonder the mother cries continually. She has sole responsibility over her three crippled children. The girls, although in their 30s, repeat the story of how they came to be crippled with memorized clarity while laughing and giggling among themselves, heads bobbing. It is hard to tell if their affliction has

affected their sensibilities, and it is hard to believe that all three would be afflicted by similar events almost 14 years apart. I ask if doctors have considered genetic causes and I am once again answered by giggling, three bobbing heads, and the tear-filled face of Um Rawa. There are few poor Iraqis in Jordan because the Jordanian government threw them out. My two boys have lost one year of education.The UNHCR funnels money through Caritas and CARE. Some places make free meals but it takes 2 or 3JD to get to this restaurant. I don’t want a meal. I want a solution. I have an ulcer, it is very, very bad.The US must remove their troops. Sunni and Shiite will get together and be fine. Al Qaeda is supported by the US, and the US military supports the violence between the Sunni and the Shiite. —Amal Alwan Maseer The first time I met Amal Alwan Maseer was in February 2003 in Baghdad just weeks before the war. She lived a few blocks from the hotel where I was staying and by then had become good friends with Kathy Kelly, cofounder of the now defunct anti-sanctions groupVoices in theWilderness.Voices was responsible for bringing hundreds of people via delegations—including my own—to Iraq under the sanctions. A mother of three children, Maseer was taken under the wings of peace activists who bought and facilitated further sales of her artwork, which, among other things, has helped her family to survive. We now meet once again in the kitchen at the al Monzer Hotel in Amman, a gathering place for independent journalists, peace workers, Iraqis fleeing their homeland, businessmen, and others. We have both come to meet with Kathy Kelly. Comparatively speaking, Maseer looks better than she did in those days of uncertainty just before the coalition bombing. Yet she is obviously agitated, bitter and appears to have signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.While her son, Ali Safa, sits quietly beside me drawing on a pad, she answers none of my direct questions but instead continues in an unending breathless tirade against the current Iraqi, US, and Jordanian governments and US troops. “Money is coming to the Jordanian government but the Iraqi refugees are only getting maybe10 percent. Maliky gave $1 billion to Jordan. Jordanians have been very bad with Iraqis.They cut their water for four days. Most of [the current Iraqi government] has robbed the banks of Baghdad—they are the thieves of Baghdad.” When I ask what she would want if she had a magic wish, Maseer, unwilling or unable to stray from her course, responds as if she has not heard my question. “Iraqi soldiers with a pickup truck full of dead bodies will come and say, ‘Die or stand with us.’ The US military will come and ask you: ‘How many have been killed?’ You must say ‘10 Shiite.’ In reality, six Sunni and four Shiite have been killed. Fifteen minutes later the US military come. They support the violence between the Sunni and Shiite.When they asked a man how many have been killed, he answers 10 Shiite and is paid $1,000—a bribe. When the US military leaves the Iraqi police come to the man and get $500.” When last in Baghdad, Maseer says that while exiting the Ministry of Education building a bus exploded, knocking out four of her son’s teeth. In the next breath she tells me that a university student was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between US soldiers and al Qaeda.The bullet passed through six of the student’s spinal bones and when he was taken to the hospital one of his kidneys was stolen. Then she says that the US troops and al Qaeda are working together. I soon stop taking notes. It is apparent that somewhere between the horrors Maseer has suffered through, her rightful anger, and the conspiracy theories that fly along the communication avenues of Jordan and Iraq, the line between truth and fiction has disappeared. Not to mention the influence of peace activists who push “talking points” and have taught Maseer how to use the media to get a message across, or the idea that it is somehow appropriate to use the “ordinary Iraqi on the street” as a source of factual information (think of your community) other than their personal experience. The bombing of the Samara mosque in February 2006 signaled a dividing line among humanitarian agencies with regard to issues of displacement. A sudden explosion of religious fundamentalist-backed violence spread across Iraq, killing thousands and sparking a drastic increase of an already burgeoning Iraqi exodus. According to an article in a recent issue of UNHCR’s Refugees magazine, Iraqis, when asked, say that extreme religious groups are driving the violence, the result of which is the exodus. “In times of extreme violence, a blend of paranoia and bad faith can replace rational discourse. The violence gives the radical groups their raison d’etre.The displaced are pawns they use to further their agendas—which are strikingly similar.” Editor’s Note: Due to a policy reversal by the Jordanian government, tens of thousands of Iraqi children were allowed to attend public school in Jordan when classes began on August 10. Next month, senior editor Lorna Tychostup reports from Sulaimaniya on the work of Nature Iraq, an environmental NGO documenting flora and fauna in northern Iraq.

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Beinhart’s Body Politic

SECRETS The sun rises. The sun sets. Some things that are plainly true are actually false. It appears to be inarguably true that the United States needs secret intelligence services for national security. So we spend $40 billion a year on it. And even though everything that Bush has done with his already vast secret powers—ignore terrorism before 9/11, fail to get bin Laden, a war with the wrong country, lose that war—has led to abject failure, when he asks for more secret powers, he gets them. The basic concept has never been questioned. We did not discover that the Earth rotates—creating the illusion that the sun moves—directly. It was part of a whole perceptual system that put the Earth at the center of the universe, based, it should be noted, on realistic observations and sound reasoning. However, there were certain details where the model didn’t quite work. Those anomalies nagged at few people who picked away at it. Some, like Tycho Brahe, who kept a pet moose and a clairvoyant dwarf named Jepp as a jester in his castle, gathered data, without changing the concept. Others, like Copernicus, searched for a new idea. Still others, like Galileo and Kepler, put the two together and developed concepts that turned out to be accurate when we ultimately got into space and were able to look back. There are two parts: data and concept. Common sense, certain events, and most of the great theoreticians make it seem self-evident that secrets are crucial in war. The quintessential example is the Battle of Midway in 1942. Much of the American fleet had been destroyed at Pearl Harbor. Admiral Yamamoto wanted to draw what remained into a trap and destroy them, leaving Japan the sole naval power in the East. Imagine two fleets maneuvering blindly in the vast emptiness of the Pacific Ocean. Except that US Admiral Nimitz wasn’t blind.The Allies had broken the Japanese code. They knew Yamamoto’s intentions. Nimitz grabbed every ship and plane he could get, even two heavily damaged carriers, and was waiting when Yamamoto arrived. The Americans won. It was the turning point in the war with Japan. That’s pretty convincing and damn hard to argue against. After the defeat of the Axis, the world split in two again.The primary players, America and Russia, were unwilling to engage head-to-head. Instead, the battle was engaged in smaller countries with advisors, money and propaganda, subversion, revolutions, and coups, and in by-proxy shooting wars. Both sides made great commitments to the use of secret forces and intelligence services. The US, as represented by the CIA, had several notorious failures. However, the theory was that only its failures became known; but there were lots more successes, which were secret. There was no data. So the theory could not be argued. That’s no longer the case. A file compiled 30 years ago that the CIA called “The Family Jewels” was recently released under the Freedom of Information Act 32 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

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(www.foia.cia.gov). More important is the publication of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning NewYork Times reporter. Now there’s enough data to develop a scorecard. The secret intelligence services have two missions. The first is analysis, to gather data and make projections. Success is getting it more accurately and extensively than what’s on CNN. Failure is not getting information, getting it wrong, allowing information to be misused, or deliberately transmitting bad information. The intelligence community’s record of failure in analysis is astonishing. Their prediction of Russia’s nuclear capability was off by four years. They missed the Korean War, predicted China would not enter that war just before 300,000 Chinese troops crossed the border and almost drove American forces into the sea. Missed the Suez Crisis. Misjudged Castro’s communism, then his ability to hang on. Failed to predict the collapse of the Dominican Republic. Then told Lyndon Johnson that it was the work of Castro’s agents. The US invaded. The Cuban story turned out to be false and created LBJ’s “credibility gap.” Missed Lon Nol’s coup in Cambodia, the “Colonels’ Coup” in Greece, the Greek invasion of Cyprus, and the Yom Kippur War. They predicted that the USSR would never invade Afghanistan, missed their decision to pull out, and never considered what would follow—the rise of the Taliban. They didn’t anticipate the fall of the Shah, the rise of the Ayatollah, and the return of religion as a political force. They didn’t believe that Gorbachev wanted to end the Cold War. They had no clue that the Soviet Union had rotted from within and that it was going to fall. They said Saddam Hussein was too weak to invade Kuwait. They believed the Iraqi dissidents and encouraged the revolts against Saddam that failed. They believed the same dissidents that democracy would spontaneously arise after Gulf War II. They helped massage the intelligence about WMDs to justify that war. They failed to predict Iraqi resistance to the occupation and, even now, barely understand who we’re fighting. There are two known successes. They predicted Israel’s Six Day War. They tried to tell Johnson he couldn’t win in Vietnam. He wouldn’t listen. The scorecard cries out that the failures are systemic. Yet belief remains set in stone.To say there is something fundamentally wrong with secret intelligence is like telling a 16th-century pope that there’s no heaven in the sky. Before we do we have to examine the rest of the data: the second mission of intelligence services, covert operations, and the corrupting effects of secret intelligence on national policy. We have to explain why the flaws are inherent and can’t be fixed. Then offer a better alternative. All that coming up. Stay tuned to this publication.

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OMEGA RISING

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In 1923, author and activist Sholem Aleichem founded a summer camp with the goal of imbuing Jewish children with educational values and the experience of cooperative living. Today, those same 195 acres of rolling hills and woodlands are home to the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. A center for wellness and personal growth, Omega is a mecca of spiritual ideas and methodologies and a platform for many of the world’s foremost thinkers. The campus, located on the outskirts of Rhinebeck, is dotted with modest wood cabins, quiet gardens for reflection and meditation, and a lake at its center. A sense of serenity pervades the grounds, invigorated by the bustle of activity that hints at the intensity and vitality behind the calm. Inspired by the writings of the 20th-century mystic Teilhard de Chardin, Omega refers to the point of unity and integration that all life is evolving toward. For 30 years, Omega has set the standard for holistic education. Now it remains at the forefront as the next generation of questions are asked, and new warriors join its search for answers. In the beginning Omega was founded in 1977 by the Sufi meditation master Pir Vilayat Khan and two of his students, Elizabeth Lesser and Stephan Rechtschaffen, both of whom remain active as faculty and as advisors on the board of directors. At the time, few westerners were familiar with yoga, meditation practices, mind/ body connection, and alternative medicine. Experts from the disciplines of science, psychology, and religion were just starting to come together and figure out how they all fit together. “People thought you were some kind of freak for eating whole wheat bread,” Lesser remembers. “It wasn’t this that we started,” she explains, motioning around her to emphasize the distance they’ve come from the rented spaces the first classes and workshops were held in. “It was the ’70s. We were a bunch of hippie kids with an idea,” she says and laughs, but 34 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

continues in all seriousness, “That idea was to start a school, an updated kind of university, where people could learn how to live instead of getting trained for work.” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Thich Nhat Hanh were just a few of the pioneers who flocked to Omega in the early days. Spiritual leaders, doctors, religious practitioners, and others welcomed the opportunity to broaden their audience, and they attracted hundreds of participants within the first years. That number grew steadily into the thousands; Omega now accommodates roughly 20,000 attendees annually. Robert Bly, acclaimed poet and leader of the men’s movement, has led scores of workshops, including one this summer with folk musician Arlo Guthrie. Author and psychologist-turnedspiritual-seeker Ram Dass was among the earliest teachers at Omega, and was also one of the most influential. He supported the development of a staff community, realizing early on the importance of nurturing the ideals of the institution within its employees and encouraging them to take classes and pursue their own paths of personal growth. Doctor Deepak Chopra, physicist Gary Zukav, Buddhist teacher and author Pema Chodron, anthropologist Jane Goodall, and former Vice President Al Gore have all lectured at Omega. It is this stellar roster of visiting presenters and faculty that Omega’s reputation is built on. The next generation As these ideas have made their way into the mainstream, sorting through the voices has become more difficult. Ads for bottled water feature young women practicing yoga, and Zen masters sell laptops in TV commercials. Corporations are speaking the language of the formerly marginalized New Agers, and bookstores are flooded with anything and everything their merchandisers believe will make a buck. “Just like in the beginning, I look at what interests me, what works for me, and I think others will be interested too. But we also have

OPPOSITE AND ABOVE: VIEWS OF THE OMEGA INSTITUTE CAMPUS OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE OF RHINEBECK.

to consider what is going to last, not just the flavor of the hour,” says Lesser. Gone are the days when teachers would work for free, grateful for a place to espouse their lessons. They are now in demand around the world, traveling far and wide for frequent engagements and commanding considerable financial compensation. “We have to stay very open. We’re more like a colander than a sifter,” says Lesser. “That allows us to narrow down the field, to find people that are genuine. Then people can come and try it out and see what works for them.” In accordance with the changing times, people are changing too. “At the core, the questions are the same,” says Lesser. “Who am I? What am I doing here? Where will I go when I die?” But the circumstances people are living in and the stresses they are subject to are quite different. She explains, “My generation grew up thinking everything’s great, America’s great. It must be very different to grow up knowing the earth is in trouble. This generation, they’re global beings. They’re more accepting. They weren’t raised seeing as many distinctions between race, color, and class. This brings a lot more diversity and openness.” She continues, “There is also a degree of overstimulus, though. There are more children of divorce. They are growing up with different needs. In terms of healing, they bring different questions to the table. Our challenge is to decide just how that will affect the programs.” Programs are also focusing more on integrating how to live with how to work, and on how to bring one’s personal growth out into the world. Executive Director Skip Backus started working at Omega in the ’70s as a contractor. As his interests became more and more aligned with Omega’s mission, he began to transition his skill set. He asks, “What is it that we want to leave here? This body is not permanent. How do I address that in terms of what I leave to the world?” He describes a connectivity between self and the world that can be addressed each day through practices like yoga and meditation, as well as changing one’s eating habits, using compact fluorescent light bulbs, and mak-

ing other efforts to reduce one’s carbon footprint. “It’s individual work, but each individual is also part of a whole,” he says. In the same way, Omega is recognized both as a gem in the Hudson Valley and also as an institution of international repute. In addition to the Rhinebeck campus, Omega has retreat centers in California, the Caribbean, and Costa Rica. Students, as well as teachers, travel from Brazil, Portugal, Singapore, and beyond, and with an expanding website they’re able to serve an even more global audience. At the same time, they have a policy of supporting local businesses, hiring local contractors, and purchasing operational supplies locally. Omega is one of the largest purchasers of organic food in the Hudson Valley, and acts as a model for sustainability in the area. “We’re residents of Rhinebeck and global citizens. I don’t think you can separate local from global anymore. Thinking globally is acting locally,” says Backus. Toward the omega point The extensive schedule of programs at Omega reflects the interconnection between personal transformation and cultural change. In its attempt to move toward a more integrated, more compassionate, more sustainable society, Omega puts great emphasis on understanding and tending to the environment, human rights, poverty, and increasingly, peace. It’s a rare day when four Nobel Peace Prize laureates, a member of Afghanistan’s parliament, award-winning artists and musicians, social workers, policy analysts, political organizers, and a bevy of other influential professionals converge to work toward creating a new paradigm for power and peace. Jane Fonda, Eve Ensler, and Natalie Merchant are just a few of the world-class speakers, teachers, and performers enlisted for this year’s Women, Power, and Peace Conference (September 14-16), produced by V-Day and Omega’s Women’s Institute. This is just this kind of programming that gained Omega its renown. 9/07 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 35

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BeingYoga (November 2-5) is one of the Institute’s largest and most popular annual conferences, but many programs address practicing spirituality in more surprising ways. Beyond Basketball, led by Charley Rosen and Scott Wedman in July, focused on teamwork, group coordination, and practicing competition without anger or aggression. Flying Trapeze, taught by Peter Gold and the staff of Trapeze Experience, also in July, used the experience of physical exhilaration to explore the nature of awareness and transformation. Some weeks, the Institute is abuzz with drum circles, singing, boating on the lake, and youth programs. During silent retreats and mindfulness and healing workshops, the feeling is quite different. Yoga, meditation, and dance classes are held daily at Omega, and a wellness center offers massage, body work, nutritional consultations, and other spa treatments. (For $25 a day or $38 on weekends, the public can utilize these services without taking part in a workshop. Spa prices are listed on Omega’s website.) One of the newest initiatives at Omega is the Center for Sustainable Living, which will break ground on October 18 and is expected to open in April 2008. Structured as a living museum, its main purpose is to produce clean water from waste without harming the Earth or any of its inhabitants. Its main feature, The Eco Machine, designed by a team of architects, engineers, and ecologists, will filter waste water with naturally occurring bacteria, plants, and algae instead of chemicals. School children, college students, and individual visitors will be able to watch the entire process. “It will do no harm now and it will do no harm in the future,” says Carla Goldstein, director of external communications. “It will be completely transparent.” Transparency is a concept that’s getting a lot of attention at Omega these days. Co-founder Stephan Rechtschaffen sees it as an essential element of the shift Omega is attempting to navigate. A big part of the problem, as he and many scholars he is in conversation with see it, is that people are not inclined to make changes in their own lives, even when they know that in some way their actions are causing harm. He attributes this largely to a lack of transparency throughout our society. “The lack of real awareness is astonishing,” he says. “Enron—that was non-transparency. Our political system—that’s nontransparency. It has to do with good values. It is about seeing things clearly.”

Goldstein offers additional examples: “When you throw garbage down a chute, you don’t see it. You don’t think of what happens to it after it leaves your hands. When you buy clothing, there’s no connection between you and the worker in some other country that sewed the stitches.” “At some point, we have to own what is happening. I believe we can do that in a positive way, to see it as an opportunity. There is an awakening that is happening, and we have to look at what we can bring to that,” says Backus. Practice makes…practice Perhaps the most progressive thing about Omega is the worldview it has managed to sustain. It doesn’t tout one specific religion or belief system over another. It aims to bring awareness of different cultures and religions to a broad audience, without advocating one as any better than the next. As in the past, it moves forward with the goal of “awakening the best in the human spirit,” a phrase it has taken as the theme for its 30th anniversary. In its aim to promote holistic living and strengthen spiritual connections, its influence is immeasurable. “If a CEO comes here and has this transformative experience, we know it will effect their business and their business practice,” says Lesser, who says her own biggest hurdle was learning to run a business in a manner consistent with its virtuous ideals. She says, “I learned that business is actually a noble cause.” Whether attending to reach personal goals or for professional development, to learn new skills or to cultivate new attitudes, there are more than 300 workshops, conferences, and professional trainings each year to choose from. “Omega is a place where people come because they’re seeking to make a change, small or large. People come to us at points of transition.We’ve learned how to create a safe place for that kind of change,” says Goldstein. “We also want to apply that relationship between a person’s personal life and our global, socio-political issues. They are all interrelated.” The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is located at 150 Lake Drive in Rhinebeck. To find out about upcoming programs, register online, and learn more about Omega’s faculty and visiting teachers, go to www.eomega.org. For more information, call (845) 266-4444. 9/07 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 37

THE ART OF BUSINESS

SPIRITUAL INVENTORY

Mirabai of Woodstock

by Ann Braybrooks photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid

“We’d never been to Woodstock before,” says former Manhattanite Jeff Cuiule. “And we’d had no intention of ever coming to Woodstock,” says Audrey Cusson, his wife and business partner. “It was not really a draw for either of us. It wasn’t on our radar.” Yet in spring 2000, the high-achieving, highly stressed couple—Cuiule was a senior vice president in advertising, Cusson a senior vice president of marketing at a large publishing house—left New York City and purchased Mirabai of Woodstock, a bookstore founded 13 years earlier by Anne Roberts for people interested in exploring different kinds of spirituality, with the ultimate goal of improving themselves and the lives of others. The store’s mission dovetailed with the couple’s own “spirit journey,” a term that Cuiule uses. “I was, for many years, quite content,” he says. “But the more time we spent in our jobs in the city, the more I realized that what I was doing was not really meaningful to me anymore. It was accomplished, but it wasn’t really meaningful.” Cuiule says that the process of “getting out of my head and into my heart” began in 1984, when he and Cusson adopted Lucy, a German shepherd that, as the result of a marital dispute between a couple in Pennsylvania, had been chained in a yard, set on fire, and left for dead. Although the dog had been helped by a veterinarian, she needed more surgery and constant looking-after to fully recover.The intense, selfless experience of aiding Lucy “sort of started us on the road to getting Mirabai,” says Cuiule.

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ABOVE: BOOKS ON DISPLAY AT MIRABAI. OPPOSITE: A HANDCARVED BUDDHA FROM BALI.

Lucy’s presence also helped the couple reconnect in their marriage, along with the work they were doing with a marriage counselor who lives in Saugerties and commutes parttime to New Yotk City. On the last day of counseling, the therapist asked them to close their eyes and imagine what they wanted to do together, since they had already told him that they wanted to be business partners. Cuiule said that they “imagined owning a bookstore, living above the store, being in a small town, being in the mountains, being within driving distance of New York, in case we missed it, because we’d lived there so long, but being far enough away, so that it was really a small town.” The couple imagined that the store would contain books that changed people’s lives. Says Cuiule, it was “as if a little light bulb went off on top of his head, and his eyes lit up, and he said, ‘Oh my gosh, I know exactly the place that you’re talking about, because I live in the next town over.There’s a store in Woodstock that’s been for sale for two years.’” A week later, Cuiule and Cusson traveled upstate. “A lot of people wanted to buy Mirabai, but they wanted bits and pieces of it,” says Cuiule. “Either they wanted to buy the store, but they didn’t want the building. Or they wanted the building, but they didn’t want anything to do with the business.” Founder and owner Anne Roberts was planning to move to Vermont and “was making her own transition,” says Cuiule. “Anne waited for two years because it was very important to her that someone continue what she had established. The store really meant a lot to people.” Roberts and the couple clicked, and soon Cuiule and Cusson became the new “curators” (Cuiule’s word) of the “co-created space,” referring to the contributions of Roberts, the couple, and the various readers, writers, and teachers affiliated with Mirabai. Back in New York City, when the couple announced that they had bought a spiritual/holistic bookstore, they found many naysayers. “We were going to be in an industry for which the prognosis was not very good,” says Cuiule. “When we decided to buy the store, our lawyer and accountant thought that we were insane.” So did their coworkers in advertising and publishing. The couple ignored them and took on the challenge of running a bookstore

that had a core group of admirers but had seen declining sales. During the first year, Cuiule and Cusson infused their own money and did not draw an income. They slowly transformed the store, inside and out, and within the last three years, sales have doubled—quite an achievement when many independents are struggling or have gone out of business. More than one bookstore has managed to survive in the small village of Woodstock, despite the rise of electronic retailing and the opening of a Barnes & Noble in nearby Kingston. The Golden Notebook has operated as a full-service bookstore for almost 30 years. The Reader’s Quarry, featuring used and rare titles (with an emphasis on literature and the arts), has been in business since 2003. Cuiule and Cusson attribute Mirabai’s success to multiple factors, including the environment they have created inside the store (“not replicable,” says Cuiule, in the electronic marketplace) as well as the cooperation of the community. “There was already support,” says Cuiule. “We just needed more people to know about [the store]. Our mission was to get people to come to the store and for us to make it an inviting place.” They advertised in publications and on the radio, “vehicles where we could get the attention of spiritual seekers,” says Cuiule. “And we tried to be as much a part of the community as we could, because a lot of people who lived in Woodstock had never been in the store.” To encourage walk-in traffic, they changed the exterior of the building. They removed bushes, put in a garden, and redirected the walkway. Inside the store, they rearranged the order of the books to make it easier for shoppers to navigate. “We added lighting so people could see what they were delving into,” says Cuiule. “We doubled the inventory in the first year so people had more to choose from. We started workshops. The workshops attracted people and created a beehive of activity in the store.” Today, workshops generate about 10 percent of Mirabai’s income. Examples of workshops held at the store include “Reiki Certification”; “Sunwise: A Druid Teaching and Ritual for the Solstice”; and “Cultivating Loving Kindness: Buddhist Tonglen Meditation.” Mirabai also hosts two tarot card readers, who are available every weekend and by appointment, and a psychic medium, who pro9/07 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 39

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MIRABAI OF WOODSTOCK OWNERS JEFF CUIULE AND AUDREY CUSSON.

vides individual channeling sessions on the first Tuesday of the month. About 35 percent of Mirabai’s sales come from CDs, DVDs, and other nonbook items such as incense, candles, crystals, statuary, and essential oils.The remaining sales (a little more than half) come from books. Mirabai offers texts on sacred geometry, integrative and alternative medicine, death and dying, qigong, yoga, feng shui, and other subjects. Spiritual belief titles cover everything from angels and Wiccans to shamanism, Sufism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Christianity. “There are books on Christianity,” says Cuiule, “but our particular spin on that is to acquaint people with the mystical aspects and the more esoteric aspects of Christianity. The same thing for Judaism. Or Hinduism. Most of the books are not orthodox in their approach. It’s the esoteric nature of those religions, or the mystical parts of those religions, that we feature.” Cuiule adds, “We have no spiritual axe to grind.A lot of people who own stores like ours come from a particular ashram, or a particular faith, or a path.”When the couple bought Mirabai, he says, “We were open to everything.That’s the nature of where we came from.We were not in the spiritual world.We were in the material world.We just wanted to evolve into more spiritual beings, basically.” While some people might object to the cafeteria approach to spirituality (an expression that Cuiule uses, but doesn’t particularly like), others might find it reassuring. Says Cuiule, “I think that’s the real attraction for a lot of people who shop here; that they’re not tied into one way of thinking. They can explore all sorts of different ways of thinking.” When Cuiule is asked how he would respond to skeptics—those who might find many of the teachings and theories a lot of hocus-pocus (questionable, and even a little silly)—he responds, “I would say, ‘Don’t believe everything you know,’ meaning that I think a lot of people have that skepticism because they’re convinced that what they know is absolute. But none of us have absolute knowledge. I don’t think absolutes really exist.” “You know, when someone says, ‘I absolutely know the way to enlightenment,’ that can be a little disturbing,” says Cusson. “It’s like, ‘My way or the highway.’ When it gets to that, then it’s time to read some other books.” She laughs and says, “It’s time to turn around and look at another shelf.” In the future, Cuiule and Cusson hope to offer rare and signed books in the store and online. They may also introduce sacred travel, possibly with tours to Egypt, Ireland, and spiritual communities in the US. On September 15, the staff will be celebrating the bookstore’s 20th anniversary with a performance, party, and 20 percent discount on merchandise throughout the day. From noon to 1:30pm, author and musician Shyamdas will translate and perform the devotional poetry of store namesake Mirabai, the 16th-century Hindu poet and mystic.The party will begin at 5pm. Both the performance and party are free. Mirabai of Woodstock is located at 23 Mill Hill Rd. (Route 212) in Woodstock. (845) 679-2100; www.mirabai.com. 9/07 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 41

SEPTEMBER 2007

ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM

UNTITLED (HARRY TRUMAN), LOUISE BOURGEOIS, INK, CHARCOAL, SANGUINE, AND PENCIL ON PAPER

LUCID DREAMING, p.46

9/07 CHRONOGRAM PORTFOLIO 43

HILLARY HARVEY

Portfolio RICHARD MERKIN

Richard Merkin’s lively, colorful illustrations and paintings riff on the classic cultural figures of 20th-century New York—from movie stars to jazz musicians, from sports heroes to literary figures, he captures the spirit of an age that has now largely passed. Mixing such immediately recognizable cultural references with his own, idiosyncratic personal content, Merkin generates a vivid, humorous, and sometimes bizarre vision of modern cosmopolitan life. A graduate of Syracuse University, Merkin taught at the Rhode Island School of Design for 42 years, commuting for most of that time from New York City. In addition to having work in the collections of prominent museums such as the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art, he has regularly contributed illustrations to magazines including Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. A retrospective exhibition of his work will be on view at the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson from September 20 through October 28, with an opening reception on September 22 from 6 to 8pm. —Beth E. Wilson

RICHARD MERKIN ON HIS WORK Formative experiences I was born in Brooklyn. It was a wonderful, wonderful time—New York was a grand, grand place. I was born in 1938. It had all the things that a boy needed, starting with baseball, and going out to Coney Island and to museums. I actually wasn’t a Dodgers fan, but that was just me being contrary. I liked the St. Louis Cardinals because I liked the red uniform, with the bird on it. I recall that going to burlesque shows was enormously important in my life. Fortunately, I was tall, so even though I was probably 15 or 16 I was able to get into burlesque shows. They were in New Jersey at that time. Burlesque—it was an introduction to sex! It was a whole world I didn’t know about. Also, it was a show-business sort of thing. I liked it a lot, and I went quite often. I went to a very good high school called Erasmus Hall in Flatbush, which was also home of Barbra Streisand. The thing that I liked the most was zoology. I liked animals, and the old man there [at Erasmus] who was part of

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that department. When I graduated, I thought I would double major in art and zoology. But academically I wasn’t that strong with the science. When I went to Syracuse University, I got in through the art side. If I had just applied for zoology, I probably wouldn’t have made it. As it turned out, double majors weren’t permitted, so art it was. New York I’ve been told that my work is very “New York,” but then, so am I! I was born there, grew up there. Moving back to New York in 1967 and commuting to teach at RISD [Rhode Island School of Design] reinforced that influence. I did that for a very long time. At the same time, I was showing a lot of pictures. I became part of a wonderful gallery, the Terry Dintenfass Gallery. Terry was a great dealer, and I liked her immensely. By that time I was living in New York on the Upper West Side, and, eventually, I moved into a studio on 80th Street and Broadway that I still have today. Trying to look back and make some sense of things, I think

my years with Terry were the most important artistic years of my life. Not to seem pompous, but I had lots of success, lots of opportunities to show at the Whitney and the Modern, both of which own my work. I was with Terry from 1973 up until she closed the gallery and passed away. When I moved to the Upper West Side, it was just gorgeous. It was glamorous, it was like a lavish version of Greenwich Village, only uptown. There were singers and musicians and writers, all these creative people. I loved it, I absolutely loved where I lived. Little by little, you could see it going downhill. It started going in the late ’70s and early ’80s. My wife and I got married in 1983, and by the time she got there (she’d never lived in New York), all I could do was tell her what it had been like. The streets were covered with vagrants and hookers. The mom-and-pop stores were gone, and all of a sudden you started seeing things like Victoria’s Secret and the Gap. I didn’t like what was happening, all these things. I didn’t like all these business people moving in there. The sort of people who live there now are not people that you

Clockwise from top left: Langston Hughes; Lillian Gish; Maeve Brennan’s Prayer; The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars II. Opposite: Carson McCullers. and I would be interested in talking to. I love jazz, and jazz singers. Bobby Short, a marvelous singer and piano player, and I were friends for 40 years. I used to go to the Carlyle Hotel three or four times a week to see him play, and we were great friends. It was another classic part of New York. My wife tells me that the city I talk about is the New York that was, not the one that is now. In short, I think I was in New York during the last great time. It’s not been the same since. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club artist I wasn’t part of the New York gallery scene. I know people who were in it; I was a guard at the Modern for a few months, and there were a lot of art people there, so I knew some of them, but my work has always been so eccentric. If you ask me, I actually feel much stronger about the British Pop artists than I did about the Americans. People forget that they invented Pop Art—they were such wonderful artists.

I went to England in 1966, in the middle of the great Carnaby Street period, and I got to meet a lot of artists that I enormously admired: David Hockney, Peter Blake, R. B. Kitaj (who is one of the best painters of our time, to my thinking). I spent that summer in London, and I became a close friend of Peter Blake and his wife. The next thing I knew, six months later, I got a photograph in the mail of the cover of [The Beatles’] Sgt. Pepper’s, which included a few people like Leo Gorsey and Gandhi, who didn’t make the final cover. There are eight people on that cover who are still alive, and, thank God, I’m one of them. (There’s me, two Beatles, Tony Curtis, Richard Lester the director, and some others.) All those things are cutouts, of course. The photograph of me comes from a very early exhibition catalogue of mine that Peter used. Nobody was paid anything. That’s one interesting thing about it. At the time, I just thought it was just another record cover. I sold the photograph two months after I got it. What

a jerk! I think I sold it for $200. That photograph would be worth $10,000 now! People say to me, “Didn’t you love the Beatles?” I’d say, “Love the Beatles?! I didn’t give a goddamn about the Beatles!” I loved Bill Evans, I love Bobby Short. Now I like that album [Sgt. Pepper’s], it’s grown on me over time. I’ve been listening to it more lately. I actually had a copy of the very first printing of that album as well, which I kept for a long time, until I loaned it to somebody, and you know what happens when you loan things out: I never saw it again. On artistic immortality The great thing about being an artist is this: All the things you’ve done, all the pictures you’ve made, they’ll stay and say what you wanted to say. You’re lucky to have that. Eventually you’re gone, but the work remains to reiterate all those experiences, all those things that made you want to make it in the first place.

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BY BETH E. WILSON

THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION The day I arrived in Kassel, the poppies were in full bloom. Apparently, at the opening of Documenta 12 (the latest edition of this huge, once-every-five-years contemporary art extravaganza hosted by the central German city), not a single flower had yet emerged, leaving the broad square in front of the Fridericianum Museum looking like an undistinguished, muddy field. But now, the flowers had changed the aspect of the Friedrichsplatz into a bright, bobbing field of color, mostly vivid red, with a few purple-white flowers mixed in. Poppies—the flower of sleep, of dreams, of death, and forgetting. Planted by artist Sanja Ivekovic, the field of flowers embraces an enormous range of references, from The Wizard of Oz to contemporary Afghanistan—a point made resoundingly clear twice a day, when loudspeakers on the square play revolutionary songs by RAWA, the Radical Afghan Women’s Association, as a bittersweet reminder of all that has gone wrong, and all there is left to do in the world. Documenta 12 has been subject to some of the most scathing criticism I’ve ever seen for a major art exhibition (aside from a few editions of the Whitney Biennial). A reviewer for UK paper the Guardian even called it the worst art exhibition ever. Arriving five weeks after the press opening, I had steeled myself for a trainwreck of a show only to find—inspiration. The list of artists in the exhibition quite pointedly omits the usual suspects of the international art circuit. In fact, the curators purposely refused to release the list until the month before the opening—probably because the received wisdom of the art world would not know what to do with it. (I recently ran into this myself when I invited an established New York critic to our own local Kingston Sculpture Biennial. In reply, he sent me an e-mail ticking off the names of five or six internationally prominent sculptors who live in the area, musing that “it would be great if some of them were in it,” and asking for a list of the artists. After I responded that there is certainly no shortage of talent up here, and that he should come to see the really excellent work in the show—regardless of the name-brand status of the artists—I received no response at all.) Instead, the curators at Documenta 12 have opened a space for negotiation— of aesthetics, of politics, and of the many ways in which these are continuously intertwined in our global era. The feeling that history follows a neat path, that 46 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

the universalizing vision of the European Enlightenment should be the lodestar, the ultimate measure of everything that takes place in the world, was only ever an illusion. This exhibition does not so much abandon the noble aims of liberté, egalité, and fraternité, as much as open the field to engage the inevitable blind spots of that Eurocentric philosophy as well. The point is neatly illustrated in a work by Romauld Hazoumé, titled simply Dreams. The backdrop of the installation is a large, panoramic photograph of a sandy shoreline dotted with palm trees and grass huts—at first glance, a vision of paradise. On closer examination, it becomes apparent that this is actually an impoverished, deserted African village. Parked in front of this tableau is a large “boat,” constructed out of hundreds of crushed oil cans. The openings of the cans leave the ship literally full of holes, making an open question of the success of any migration attempted with it. Written on the floor in front of the boat is a fragmented poem: “Damned if they leave / and damned if they stay / better at least to have gone and be doomed / in the boat of their dreams.” The work ingeniously overlays what might be best understood as a mutual misapprehension—the counter utopias of the European, longing for the distant shore of paradise, and the African seeking economic empowerment and a better life in the developed West. Both are dreams, and out of these dreams our shared, contemporary reality takes shape. Feminism, racism, globalization, economics, politics—these are the themes running throughout this Documenta 12, ideas taken seriously and up front, and integrated both directly into the artwork and curatorially by the context(s) provided for the work in a way that I’ve not really seen before. The false universality often assumed by the art world in its tidy, sanitized (and ideologically loaded) “white cube” spaces is here exploded, inverted, carnivalized. Gallery walls are painted coral, dark slate grey, or lime green, refusing to play the customary cool, detached aesthetic game. Form and content are no longer so easily separated, making neither fit for simplistic readings. It’s a brave, new world we’ve created for ourselves, the curators seem to be telling us, and it’s time we wake up to the new realities—and the very real political/ social/cultural engagements that they demand of us, in the spirit of constant negotiation. How else could it be?

Colin & Eline Barclay

September 8th - October 8th Reception: September 8th 6-9pm Also: an installation by Robert Brush

ABOVE (TOP): MOHNFELD, SANJA IVEKOVIC, FIELD OF POPPIES, 2007; ABOVE (BOTTOM): PHOTOGRAPH DETAIL OF MOHNFELD; OPPOSITE: DREAMS, ROMUALD HAZOUMÉ, INSTALLATION, 2007

I found that out at my next stop, the Venice Biennale. Curated by Rob Storr, formerly of MoMA and now dean of the Yale School of Art, the major exhibition of the biennial (which includes over 70 individual country pavilions as well) bears the grandiose title “Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense.� The portion of the exhibition in the Italian Pavilion of the Giardini plays it boringly safe, like a mini MoMA with work by all the major artists Storr exhibited during his tenure there. Ellsworth Kelly, Elizabeth Murray, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman—from one room to the next, it was a curatorial game of “Name That Tune� to see how quickly I could recognize the artists without bothering to look at the wall labels. Needless to say, the walls were all white, the rooms were properly squared, and very few surprises were to be found within. It surprised me to realize how such familiarity actively discouraged me from experiencing the works with any immediacy—it’s as though the mental labels attached simply got in the way of performing any part of the commands embedded in the show’s title. To counterbalance this blue-chip ghetto, Storr has installed in the enormous cavern of the Arsenale (the former shipbuilding center of the Venetian navy) a seemingly endless march of the more “socially engaged� art, including most of the artists-of-color. From Latin America to Africa to Asia, here is where you’ll encounter the funkier world-beat work that would otherwise disturb the grand masters of the Giardini. By quite literally separating pure aesthetic form (the Giardini show) from the more pointedly content-oriented work (in the Arsenale), Storr only perpetuates the artificial divisions and the illusions of the “old world order� that was so resoundingly deconstructed in Documenta 12. If we continue to cling to this sort of thinking, refusing to allow the new global historical realities to disturb the privileged precincts of “high art,� contemporary art will only grow more and more obtuse, removed, and irrelevant than it already is. DOCUMENTA 12 IS ON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 23 IN KASSEL, GERMANY. WWW.DOCUMENTA12.DE. 52ND VENICE BIENNALE IS ON VIEW THROUGH NOVEMBER 21 IN VENICE, ITALY. WWW.LABIENNALE.ORG.

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Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery, New York, and Galleria Massimo di Carlo, Milan

galleries & museums

Red Self-Portrait, Yan Pei-Meng, oil on canvas, 2007 From “Size Matters: XXL,” at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill through November 10.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

GALERIE BMG

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

59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957.

12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

“An Insufficiency in Our Screens.” Works by Charlotte Schultz. September 16-June 8, 2008.

“Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004.” September 1-October 21.

“Bohemia.” Landscape photographs by Craig J. Barber. September 7-October 8.

“ATM: Aldrich New Staff Hire.” September 16-February 24, 2008. “Life and Death: A Visual Taxonomy.” Works by James Prosek. September 16-June 8, 2008.

“What We Think Now.” Photographs by Jonathan Hollingsworth. September 1-October 21.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 5pm-7pm.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 5pm-7pm. THE GALLERY AT ARTEMIS 33 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 339-2494.

“Voice and Void.” 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition. September 16-February 24, 2008.

CHTHONIC CLASH COFFEEHOUSE

“Works by Marti Cormond.” 2007 emerging artist award exhibition. September 16-February 24, 2008.

“Interpreting Beacon.” Works by Beacon Art Salon members. September 7-October 8.

Opening Tuesday, September 16, 3pm-5pm.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 5pm-8pm.

ANN STREET GALLERY

COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS AT SAUNDERS FARM

196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE (845) 486-4592.

140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 EXT. 119.

853 OLD ALBANY POST ROAD, GARRISON 528-1797.

“Chi.” Works by seven Latin American artists. September 15October 21.

Outdoor group sculpture show. September 1-October 31

“Drawn to Distraction.” Photographer’s adventure into ADD by Michael Sibilia. September 15-October 14.

Opening Saturday, September 1, 2pm-6pm.

Opening Saturday, September 15, 5pm-8pm.

CUNEEN HACKETT ART CENTER

GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY

453 MAIN STREET, BEACON 831-0359.

“Artemis: After the Hunt.” Fashion as an artistic expression. September 2-October 4.

museums & galleries

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Opening Sunday, September 2, 6pm-9pm.

G.A.S.

Opening Saturday, September 15, 6pm-9pm.

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

“Marbletown Arts Member Show.” More than 30 local and regional artist members of the Marbletown Arts Association. September 7-30. Opening Friday, September 7, 6pm-9pm.

12 VASSAR STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4571.

“Just a Moment.” Photographs by Robert Lipgar. September 15-October 28.

GO NORTH GALLERY

Opening Sunday, September 23, 3pm-5pm.

“Neologisms.” Works by Rachel B. Abrams. September 8-October 7.

EXPERIMENTAL ART COLLECTIVE

“Richard Merkin Retrospective: 1970s-Present.” September 20-October 28. Opening Saturday, September 22, 6pm-8pm.

469 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0100.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 6pm-9pm.

345 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 392-9620.

“Relationship.” 5 artists explore relationships in art. September 1-October 7.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE

Opening Saturday, September 1, 4pm-7pm.

“Grid of the Community.” Works by Phyllis Hjorth. Through September 22.

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

Opening Saturday, September 29, 2pm-4pm.

“Called to Row.” Photographic documentary exhibit by Mary Koniz Arnold. September 16-October 16.

495 ACADEMY HILL ROAD, MILAN 758-3266.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 3pm-7pm.

“Sytes.” September 29-November 4.

Opening Saturday, September 15, 2pm-6pm.

BRIGGS MOUNTAIN GALLERY “The Luminous Palette.” Group show of plein air and still life paintings. September 8-October 13.

5348 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-3104.

327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438.

FOUNDRY POND STUDIOS 57 FOUNDRY POND ROAD, COLD SPRING 224-7985.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

“Core Elements and Face It.” Exhibits by Alex and Leslie Uribe. September 8-16.

1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

“Size Matters: XXL.” September 16-November 10.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 2pm-7pm. THE CATSKILLS GALLERY 106 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-5552.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS

“Works by Allen Bryan and Linda Gordetsky.” September 15October 14.

143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199.

Opening Saturday, September 15, 5pm-7pm.

“The Children of Darfur.” Photos by Ron Haviv. September 8-30.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON WWW.KMOCA.ORG.

“American Portrait Project.” Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid. September 1-29. Opening Saturday, September 1, 5pm-7pm.

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KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER

RIVERWINDS GALLERY

34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.

172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“Paths: Real and Imagined.� 2007 Byrdcliffe outdoor sculpture exhibit. Through October 8.

“Vanishing Landscape.� Paintings by Robert Ferrucci. September 8-October 8.

“Collage: A Group Show.� September 8-October 14.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 5pm-8pm.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 5pm-7pm.

ROSE GALLERY FINE ART 444 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6128.

LEO FORTUNA GALLERY 422 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 697-7907.

“Works by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.� September 8-24.

“Works by Loman Eng.� Fusion of classic Chinese painting with Hudson River School. September 29-October 29. Opening Saturday, September 29, 5pm-8pm.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 6pm-8pm. SILENT SPACE GALLERY 596 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 331-7432.

MILL STREET LOFT GALLERY 4555 MAPLE STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

“In Detail: Paintings and Drawings, 1970-2007.� Elayne Seaman. September 16-October 12.

“Multiples.� Print and paint work from local and semi-local artists. September 1-30. Opening Saturday, September 1, 5pm-8pm.

Opening Sunday, September 16, 2pm-5pm. STARR LIBRARY 68 WEST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 876-4030.

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SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113.

“Conduits and Portals.� Kinetic sculpture by Martin Olstad. September 8-28. Opening Saturday, September 8, 4pm-6pm.

NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY

“Starr Library Art Auction and Sale.� Featuring work by local artists in a variety of media. September 14-22. Opening Friday, September 14, 7pm-9pm. STORM KING OLD PLEASANT HILL ROAD, MOUNTAINVILLE 534-3115.

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

Sculpture park. Through November 15.

“The Set Up.� 5 artists explore relationships in art. September 22-October 20.

THE TANGO VILLAGE RESTAURANT

Opening Saturday, September 22, 6pm-8pm.

3299 FRANKLIN AVENUE, MILLBROOK (845) 677-6002.

Group photography show to benefit Dutchess County SPCA. September 15-October 14.

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“Playing Outside.� Recent works by Julie Chase and Dina Bursztyn. Through October 20.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 5pm-8pm. UNISON ARTS AND LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“Paintings by Murray Zimiles.� September 9-30. ORANGE HALL GALLERY

zupcu photography

Opening Sunday, September 9, 4pm-6pm.

ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790.

“North East Watercolor Society Group Show.� Through September 24.

VITA GALLERY

Opening Sunday, September 9, 1pm-4pm.

“Truth is Love.� Paintings by Vita. September 8-October 7.

12 OLD FORGE ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-2329.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 7pm-10pm. RIVER STONE ARTS 37 WEST BROAD, HAVERSTRAW (917) 532-3090.

WHITECLIFF VINEYARDS

“James Tyler: Structure and Sensuality.� Exhibition of paintings and sculpture. September 8-October 28.

331 MCKINSTRY ROAD, GARDINER 255-4613.

“Up Here and Down There.� Photographic images by Tom Ligamari. Through October 31.

Opening Saturday, September 8, 6pm-8pm.

845.592.0807

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Homage to Rothko, 2006 From “Just a Moment,� photographs by Robert Lipgar at the Cuneen Hackett Art Center in Poughkeepsie through October 28.

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ART Drawing & Painting for Kids Figure Drawing, Painting For Kids & Adults Fun Projects In Art AGES 6-UP With Nancy Catandella, MFA Painting

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HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL TRILOGY A Focused Collection, Drawings From Dia, and Selections from the Permanent Collection

August 17 to October 21, 2007 FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

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GUTTER ROCK GIRL

THE LAURA PEPITONE SHOW

PHOTO BY FIONN REILLY

“No, like this. You have to hold the ball up high, like this.” It’s an unexpectedly busy Monday night at Kingston’s Hoe Bowl on the Hill, and Laura Pepitone is offering lessons in Lane 8. “Look down here, on the floor,” she tutors, her Noo Yawk-tinged voice cracking above the clatter of falling pins and two noisy busloads of after-school program kids. “Line yourself up with the middle dot,” she continues, “and then just go like this—all one motion.” Her gangly frame bends low and glides forward to release the ball. Strike! Flash back a few frames to an earlier Monday night, this one in April 2007 at Oasis Cafe in New Paltz, and find Pepitone crouched low and locked in a very similar pose, only this time she’s holding a microphone, not a bowling ball. Sweating and decked out in a pair of garish, candy-striped tights and loud socks pulled up to her knees, she’s on stage with her one-woman “band”—The Laura Pepitone Show. “This next song is off my new CD,” the 31-year-old singer announces before releasing the pause button on a CD player set up next to her, “and it’s called ‘If You Are from Upstate, Be Proud.’” The backing track kicks on and so does the songstress. In between hopping up and down, running in place, punching the air, and straddling the stage to rock side to side, she belts out the two-chord tune’s downstate elitist-baiting treatise. Like pretty much all of Pepitone’s music, the raw cut was recorded on her home four-track using basically just an electric guitar and her ubiquitous Casio keyboard/rhythm-keeper. It’s lo-fi pop magic, a crunchy bubblegum 52 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

mix of two faves, Guided by Voices and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Standing still for a rare second during the next number, she points to an imaginary spot on the floor of the stage and deadpans, “Guitar solo.” Sure enough, the one-note solo plays, and then it’s back to the jumping around. Weird isn’t the word for this spectacle; the namesake artist and her infinite energy are almost too much—dizzying, inspiring, funny, and extremely entertaining, in one surreal serving. It’s safe to say that on a Monday night—or any night, for that matter—in the Hudson Valley, you’re not likely to catch another act quite like The Laura Pepitone Show. “I used to call what I do ‘Laura-oke,’ kind of a play on karaoke,” Pepitone says and laughs. “Lately, though, I’ve been calling it ‘slounge.’ You know, like a combination of slacker and lounge.” In the mid ’90s, Pepitone found a guitar in the street in Woodstock, took a couple of lessons, learned a few chords, and got started playing local open mikes. “But I wasn’t too into that because I didn’t want to be seen as yet another chick singer with an acoustic guitar,” she says. “I was having a hard time getting a band together, though, and I didn’t know what else to do.” (Later on, Pepitone would play in a couple of area outfits, the short-lived Pull-Outs and her boyfriend Garrett Uhlenbrock’s ongoing Lazy Suns.) During a 1996 visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she had previously studied art at Marywood College, a friend gave her a Tascam four-track tape deck, a microphone, and a stack of recommended CDs, and dubbed her “the new indie rock goddess.” Back

home, she studied web design at Ulster County Community College, got to know the Tascam, and continued to play out, still accompanying herself on acoustic or electric guitar. In 2005 she arrived at the idea of performing live with backing tracks out of pure indolence. “I got tired of schlepping my gear around, or trying to talk people into playing with me. It’s just such a pain, you know?” she groans. “[Playing with backing tracks] is great, because everything’s so self-contained.” Pepitone was born on Long Island, but her family relocated to the Hudson Valley soon after, when her father, a punk and new wave fan, took a position with IBM. Through her mother, a one-time keypunch operator, Pepitone was exposed to doo-wop and ’50s rock ’n’ roll; her older sister was into classic rock and heavy metal. In elementary school, she was the only female who signed up for drum lessons, and was asked by her teacher to take clarinet instead, “because girls don’t play drums.” When she wasn’t playing in the school band or singing in the chorus, Pepitone was feeding her budding popdiva fixation, which started in the mid ’80s with Cyndi Lauper. “I dressed up as her for Halloween, and I did a book report on her when I was 11,” Pepitone recalls. “I got a B-, but the teacher still wouldn’t hang it on the wall next to all of the reports on presidents. So I tore a few of those down when no one was looking.” By high school, in the early ’90s, she had acquired her second Casio keyboard and had been in and out of the marching band. She befriended WDST’s Saturday night DJ Jim Thompson, who allowed her and her friends to hang out during his program and pick out music to play. Then she made another pivotal musical discovery: Pavement. “I played [the influential band’s 1994 release] Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain so much that I literally burned a hole in the CD,” Pepitone remembers. “I just really dug the whole lo-fi thing; that you didn’t have to be some big, slick ‘rock’ band to make music.” While at Marywood, she made the requisite pilgrimage to CBGB, and, thanks to nearby college stations, discovered Sonic Youth, the Flaming Lips, Fugazi, Liz Phair, the Silver Jews, and other indie touchstones. After transferring to SUNY New Paltz and ultimately to UCCC, she dated a boyfriend who turned her onto the vanguard punk her father had missed (Patti Smith, Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Wire, and the like) and old-school country (Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Jimmie Rodgers, others). At the close of the decade, Pepitone released a cassette album, 5:30 in the Morning Music (reissued on CD in 2003), recorded in her Glenford apartment and at her parents’ house in High Falls. The charmingly crude sound of a young, untutored artist learning her craft, the tape nevertheless was helpful in getting gigs locally and in the Utica area. In 2004, she met Uhlenbrock, a guitarist and songwriter who has penned tunes for both the Ramones and Marky Ramone and The Intruders. “Laura writes from real life,” says Uhlenbrock. “Most of her songs are about people she knows or used to know. And her songs have really interesting parts. She comes up with things on her Casio—a pretty cheesy-sounding instrument—that sound really cool, not cheesy at all.” With help from Uhlenbrock and drummer Adam Padula, Pepitone recorded and released a follow-up album, 2006’s The New Mixdown, a still gloriously primitive but comparatively refined opus. Sporting a hilariously incriminating cover photo of the singer in her high school band uniform, the disc is home to hoarse but highly hummable shoutalongs like “The Secret Art of Lounge Singing” and the sublimely bittersweet, cascading “Couple Skate.” While The New Mixdown’s muffled sock-fidelity song sketches may be an acquired taste to those who consider Coldplay adventurous, it’s a taste that’s been acquired by many more discerning local listeners. Among her area fans, Pepitone counts WKZE DJ Raissa St. Pierre, Chronogram and Daily Freeman music reviewer and guitarist David Malachowski, and inventive New Paltz alt-rocker Erica Quitzow. “Laura’s music has so much spirit and energy,” says Quitzow, who performs solo under her last name and in the band Setting Sun. “I love her carefree nature and the fact that she worries less about technique and more about expressing herself. She’s really inspiring.” In an upstate rock scene that’s far too dominated by cover bands and sleepy singer-songwriters, the refreshingly oddball Laura Pepitone Show is a gift from the rock gods. “I don’t care what people think of me. If they laugh at me and have a good time when they see me play, that’s great. Actually, I want them to laugh at me,” says Pepitone, her clownish rented bowling shoes perfectly complementing her typically flamboyant ensemble. “Just as long as they also remember my songs.” The Laura Pepitone Show will play Snapper Magee’s in Kingston on October 11. www.renegadesuperstar.com.

SUNY ULSTER FALL 2007 EVENTS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Internationally Acclaimed Musicians JAY UNGAR & MOLLY MASON SUNY Ulster’s Fall Artists-in-Residence will present concerts featuring American roots music that has won them international acclaim. Wednesday, September 19 7:00 p.m. Vanderlyn Hall, Student Lounge Fiddle and Folk music concert and jam session with guests Michael and Ruth Merenda of The Mammals. The concert features vintage and contemporary fiddle, banjo, guitar, songs and more. Bring acoustic instruments and your voices for round robin instrumental and vocal jam session afterwards.All styles and levels welcome. Suggested donation $8. GALLERY EXHIBIT

MARTIN OLSTAD: KINETIC SCULPTURE Through September 28 Marvel at this show of kinetic sculpture by Olstad, which hints at spiritutal dimensions beyond the physical world. His exhibit of moving & reflecting sculpture, Conduits & Portals opens on September 8. COMEDY PERFORMANCE

KATHY BUCKLEY Wednesday, October 3, 7:00 p.m. Vanderlyn Hall, Student Lounge Enjoy America’s First Hearing Impaired Comedienne, Kathy Buckley, who is also an award-winning actress, author and inspirational speaker. Her one-woman show is sponsored by SUNY Ulster Honor Society, Phi Theta Kappa and SUNY Ulster Events Planning Council. ART LECTURE & GALLERY OPENING

VISITING ARTIST WILL COTTON Thursday, October 11, 7:00 p.m. Vanderlyn Hall, Student Lounge Join Will Cotton, internationally acclaimed artist, for a lecture on his unique and slyly humorous fantasy painting which will be on view at the Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery through November 9. For more information contact the College’s Office of Community Relations at 845: 687-5262 or visit the College’s website at www.sunyulster.edu All events are free & held on the Stone Ridge campus unless otherwise noted.

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

SONANDO September 7. Picture this: You’re sitting one balmy evening at an outside table at Downtown Cafe on the Rondout watching folks board the Rip Van Winkle for the sunset cruise and counting the cool kids who cross Broadway to come aboard for Sonando that night. Quickâ€”ďŹ nish that vino and join them for this caliente cruise on the Hudson and dance with reckless abandon to the best cumbieros in the Hudson Valley. Please keep your post-cruise drinks at Mariner’s in the glass, thank you. Boarding at 7:30pm sharp. $20. Kingston. (845) 340-4700. www.hudsonrivercruises.com.

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September 8. Okay, it’s a bissel schlep past the Orthodox camps of Sullivan County to Bethel Woods, but Allen Geary’s new arts center at the original Woodstock concert site is worth the gorgeous ride. Make that trip and you’re in boogie wonderland when Maurice White and the reunited EWF blaze the new stage with classics like “Shining Starâ€? and “Serpentine Fire.â€? Guaranteed to heat up your “Septemberâ€?! (Dancing encouraged.) “American Idolâ€? ďŹ nalist Taylor Hicks opens. Doors 6pm. Reserved seats $65/$45; lawn $20. (866) 781-2922. www.bethelwoodslive.org.

NICOLA September 8. Jim Marzano’s AIR gallery presents Billboard-featured indie act Nicola, featuring the band’s raven-haired namesake front woman; she not only writes the songs but wails ’em like crazy, plays up a guitar storm, and combines it all with rock-star dance moves. She performs regularly in New York’s Music Under NY subway series, where she was discovered by Billboard and ABC-TV and scored an upcoming album deal with Universal Records. Oh yeah, she’s also a graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia School of the Arts (the Fame school) and an alumnus of the Broadway hit “Les Miserables.� 9pm. $10, $15. Kingston. (845) 331-2662. www.airstudiogallery.com.

MOSE ALLISON/ROBIN HALPIN September 15. Mose Allison is a rare bird, one who has created a musical territory all his own by wrapping his complex piano stylings around vocals that are at once low-key and red-hot. For good reason, Allison continues to win new fans of every generation with music that is accessible, witty, and entertaining. The Towne Crier’s website says, “It is a privilege to bring him to our stage again.� Multitalented entertainer Robin Halpin has arranged horns for James Brown and Afrika Bambaataa and remixed tracks for Island and Warner Brothers records. (Singer-songwriters Ellis Paul and Kathleen Pemble appear on September 22.) 9pm. $35, $40. Pawling. (845) 855-1300. www.townecrier.com.

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September 28. After you recover from the Hunter Microbrew and Wine Festival, ďŹ nd your way back to Thruway Exit 19 and stop into the newly reopened Keegan Ales taproom for one of its jumpin’ dance parties. This time, the soulful Joe Medwick brings his Memphisstyle revue to St. James Street, along with several promised “special, famous friends.â€? He’s probably not kidding, as Medwick has played with everyone from Ry Cooder to Willie Dixon. You may just have to pry yourself away from the bar and boogie for this one! 8pm. No cover. Kingston. (845) 331-2739. www.joemedwick.com.

A TRIBUTE TO GOSPEL September 29. This multiartist event features several styles of original Gospel and roots music and is being presented by Ulster County’s Paashaus Brothers, who will also perform. The “inspirationalâ€? lineup includes the famous Blackwood Brothers of Memphis, hometown blue-eyed soul singer Murali Coryell, and the trio Dave, Duane, and Neil (formerly known as The Couriers). The show is also a beneďŹ t for the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. 7pm. $25. Kingston. (845) 339-6088. www.paashausbrothers.com.

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CD REVIEWS

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THE POWDER KEGS THE SEEDHOUSE. INDEPENDENT, 2007

E Ever wonder why some folks willingly embrace the hhard life, take to the road, and depend on the kindness oof strangers? Hudson Valley-based acoustic fivesome the PPowder Kegs could learn ya with “Hard Travelin’,� the first cut off their rip-snortin’ debut, The Seedhouse. The ttrack is a Woody Guthrie chestnut that details rough ttimes—backbreaking, menial labor; slogging through ssix feet of mud; aching for a woman—but this version ccareens from pillar to post like a celebratory spiritual. O On several cuts from this live-in-a-room collection, the ssubject matter is dire; for example, the sole original, “Take Another Shot,� or the folk stalwart “Policeman.� Yet the Powder Kegs are ace players on fiddle, guitars, doghouse bass, banjo, and mandolin, and still manage to deliver all of their chosen tunes with a subtext of contagious joy. First-prize winners on “A Prairie Home Companion’s� People in Their Twenties Talent Show and increasingly popular on the festival circuit, The Powder Kegs still busk on street corners and in public parks. The dust and dirt of the byways is audible on The Seedhouse. This is lovingly rendered music designed to be heard across Appalachian hills and in juke joints sans amps, with vibrato-free and often ragged-but-right vocals recalling Leadbelly and Hank Williams (his “Lonesome Whistle� is covered here), and, when they join their voices, The Band. The one song the Kegs choose to slow down is the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers,� and dang it if these upstarts don’t make the tune all the better by dragging it through the streets. —Robert Burke Warren

RATBOY WADING IN THE BALANCE NOT YOUR DADDY’S RECORDS, 2007

T best bands somehow maintain an original voice while The sstill honoring their influences. One group of such messsengers of song is Ratboy, the New Paltz-based combo bbuilt upon the vocal gymnastics of Tim Sutton and Matt SSenzatimore, and the duo’s under-the-skin harmonies rreflect their longtime musical pairing. Drummer/ kkeyboardist Senzatimore and guitarist Sutton have hit sstages together in many a band, including Lost in the SSauce and the hard-rocking Wooden Rope. In Ratboy, ttheir signature lyrical and harmonic twist-up shows such influences as Beck (the urban pop country-esqe “Falling Up�) and Lou Reed (the haunting “El Futuro�). Leave it to Sutton to bag up an ode to trash collectors on “Garbage Man�: “If he didn’t do it, who would? / We think you can and you should / The garbage man ain’t half a man / Did you check out his tan?� Wading in the Balance was recorded by Mike Tuttle at Utopia Soundstage in Bearsville and also features Mark Beaumont on electric bass, Jay Brunka on upright bass, and the Blue Man Group’s Geoff Gersh and the ubiquitous Johnnie Wang (another ex-Wooden Rope-r) on guitars. Also aboard is funky sax man Shane Kirsch (Lost in the Sauce, Perfect Thyroid, P-Funk Horns), who contributes righteous honky-tonk lines. www.myspace.com/ratboy.

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W Whether your thing is jazz, pop, or Brazilian/Latin ggrooves, Christine Spero’s My Spanish Dream will transpport you to a loftier place. The leader, on vocals, piano, and synthesizer, is jjoined by Mike Woinoski on bass, Jody Sumber on ddrums, and Elliott Spero on sax, percussion, and synth. O Opening with the lengthy title track, the singer yearns ffor a place of fond imagination, her heartfelt vocals ssnaking their way around a colorful, exotic arrangement tthat is both tight and spirited; highlighting the track is a ccompelling sax solo. Her overdubbed scatting illuminates the upbeat and utterly danceable “Don’t Say No,� a samba rhythm-based track that is a joy to listen to. The tempo is continuously zealous until the middle track, “A Prayer,� which is a somber, solo piano piece written for a 9/11 memorial performance. Just as it must have on that occasion, it will leave listeners teary-eyed. The pace quickens again with “The Festival,� an ardent invitation to a jubilant musical gala. “Raiisha,� an instrumental, features a demanding, weighty sax solo, and the revelry continues until the very last note of the ninth and final track. Pick this one up if you’re ready for some sublime musicianship with true heart and soul. Or catch the quartet live at the Horton Smith House in Hensonville on September 1; at Stella’s in Catskill on September 15; or at the Hunter Mountain Microbrew and Wine Fest on September 22. www.cdbaby.com/cd/christinespero2. —Sharon Nichols 9/07 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 55

Books

PERENNIAL VOYAGER JOHN ASHBERY AT HOME By Nina Shengold Photos by Jennifer May

“Attention, shoppers.” This may not be the opening gambit most readers expect from a poet who’s won every major award in the pantheon, but John Ashbery often defies expectations: These Kmart-tinged words launch his poem “Wolf Ridge.” There are few laudatory adjectives that critics haven’t applied to Ashbery’s 26 books of poetry; “dazzling,” “sublime,” and the like become shopworn. His 1975 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror won an unprecedented triple crown, garnering the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Prize, and the Pulitzer. This fall will provide a matching trifecta for Ashbery lovers. From September 14 to 16, Bard College will host a celebration honoring the poet’s 80th birthday. In November, Ecco will release Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, and literary magazine Conjunctions (based at Bard) will devote some 150 pages of its 49th issue to Ashbery and his work. “John has been a contributor and dear friend for almost as long as Conjunctions has been going,” says editor Bradford Morrow. “I’ll never forget the exceptionally moving first lines of the first poem he ever sent me for publication—‘To have been loved once by someone–surely / There is a permanent good in that.’ He’s a colleague at Bard and, to my mind, the most 56 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

influential, important poet alive. His poetry investigates voice and what can be voiced in its every gesture. It soars, shimmers, and bristles with both street smarts and hieratic wisdom.” Ashbery divides his time between a Manhattan apartment and a magisterial Victorian home in Hudson. His partner of 37 years, David Kermani, a slight, dark-haired man with a seemingly permanent smile, opens the door to an alternate universe. He ushers his guests through the oak-paneled entryway, past a huge stained-glass window of striking amber and butterscotch hues, and into a formal dining room lined with deeply textured maroon wallpaper. Like the woodwork, beveled mirrors, and tile fireplaces, it’s original to the house. The careful arrangements of porcelain geishas, trompe l’oeil plates, and Little Orphan Annie teacups are pure Ashbery. The eclectic mix of architectural classicism and vintage curios mirrors the juxtapositions of high and low diction in Ashbery’s poems. The late Jim Ryan, curator of the nearby Olana State Historic Site, once told Kermani, “Someday this house is going to be seen as a major work by John Ashbery.” Kermani ran with the concept, publishing an essay called “In Context: ‘Created Spaces’ as a New Resource in Ashbery Studies” in LIT magazine, in

which he described these live-in collages as “a kind of physical poetry.” “Of course, John won’t say any of this is conscious, just the way he won’t discuss the meaning of his poems. He’ll just tell you he wants to provide a congenial atmosphere for himself,” Kermani says, leading the way through a butler’s pantry with a well-stocked bar and into the kitchen. This room is distinctly unmuseumlike: Its center table is piled high with junk mail and newspapers, and there’s a microwave squatting on top of a coal stove. In front of it stands the poet, in his stocking feet. If he’s surprised to be so interrupted, he covers it gracefully. Ashbery is a large man, with a handsome, square face and a corona of silky white hair. He’s wearing a light blue shirt that brings out the tint of his eyes. He walks with some stiffness, but when he speaks, his gentle, mellifluous voice is that of a much younger man. In the parlor, Ashbery settles into a favorite upholstered chair with antimacassars on both arms. He and Kermani bought some of the house’s original furniture from the former owners when they took possession in 1978. “Just from having sat in the same place for 80 years, it has a kind of authority,” he says, flashing a gap-toothed smile. Is he alluding to his own recent 80th birthday? Ashbery certainly exudes authority, but no one would accuse him of remaining in the same place. Born in Rochester, he studied at Harvard and Columbia, then spent a decade in Paris, where he worked as a translator (sometimes under the nom de plume Jonas Berry) and wrote about art for the International Herald Tribune. He also wrote poems, in fits and starts. In 1956, his collection Some Trees was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Ashbery and his peers, including Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, were dubbed the New York School of poets. “We didn’t think of ourselves as a school,” he insists. “We were a group of friends who wrote largely for each other, since we didn’t have any other audience and didn’t expect to.” Gallery owner and publisher John Myers chose the label, hoping the luster of New York School painters Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning would shine on “his poets.” Fifty years later, Ashbery is still on the cultural vanguard. Along with Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Isabella Rosselini, and other hipster celebrities, he performed live narration for Guy Maddin’s silent art film Brand Upon the Brain at New York’s Village East Theater last year; he and Maddin now plan to collaborate on a screenplay. Movie references abound in his poems, which also employ such cinematic devices as intercutting, montage, and flashbacks. He’s just as conversant with music, favoring contemporary classical and avant-garde composers. John Cage’s I Ching-based “Music of Changes” was “very influential when I heard it in my early 20s,” he relates. “I once heard John Cage talking to someone about music, and he said, ‘Beethoven was wrong.’ Several years later, having thought about this, I asked Cage what he’d meant. Cage replied, ‘He was wrong!’” Ashbery often listens to music while writing or preparing to write. “Lately, I’ve been listening with a lot of interest to ‘The Art of Finger Dexterity’ by [Carl] Czerny, which was written to torture piano students,” he says. “It’s mostly silly little tunes ornamented in a very complicated way to stretch the fingers to the limits of endurance. It’s kind of beautiful because of having been written from that angle, to educate the fingers.” The musical influence is reciprocal: Composers Ned Rorem and Elliott Carter, among many others, have composed settings for Ashbery’s verse. There’s a similar cross-pollination in visual art. Ashbery has provided texts for collaborations with Robert Mapplethorpe, Joe Brainard, and Archie Rand; Trevor Wingfield’s magazine, Sienese Shredder, recently reproduced some of the poet’s own early collages. Ashbery’s artistic vision infuses his writing as well. “Since I wanted to be a visual artist when I was a kid—I took art classes at the Museum of Rochester—I have a visual artist’s take on how a poem should be, for instance, ‘I should move a piece of this over there’; ‘This needs a certain color,’ rather than a certain word,’” he explains. Bard colleague, poet, and longtime friend Ann Lauterbach says of Ashbery’s oeuvre, “There’s an open discussion among various art forms that goes back and forth in a kind of wonderful, rich way.” With Conjunctions’s Bradford Morrow and Peter Gizzi, she assembled an extraordinary group of guests for Bard’s upcoming celebration, choosing artists rather than academics to discuss Ashbery’s work. “John is essentially not interested in academic writing,” she observes. “He thinks in the work and through the work. Analysis and theory have so little to do with his own processes.” Ashbery concurs: “I don’t know why I would want to analyze my own poetry. If I knew too much about it, I wouldn’t be able to write it.”

“THIS FEELING OF EXALTATION”: BARD COLLEGE CELEBRATES

JOHN ASHBERY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 THROUGH 16.

SEPTEMBER 14 4-6PM. POETRY READING BY CHARLES BERNSTEIN, PETER GIZZI, REGINALD SHEPHERD, COLE SWENSEN, AND SUSAN STEWART, INTRODUCED BY BRADFORD MORROW. THEATER TWO, RICHARD B. FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 8PM. CONCERT BY AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTED BY LEON BOTSTEIN. PRECONCERT TALK BY RICHARD WILSON AT 6:45PM, SOSNOFF THEATER, FISHER CENTER.

SEPTEMBER 15 10AM-12PM. PANEL DISCUSSION OF ASHBERY’S EARLY WORK WITH BERNSTEIN, SHEPHERD, STEWART, MODERATED BY GIZZI. 2-4PM. PANEL DISCUSSION OF LATER WORK WITH SWENSEN, ROBERT KELLY, JOAN RETALLACK, MODERATED BY GIZZI. 4PM. READING BY JOHN ASHBERY, INTRODUCED BY ANN LAUTERBACH. ALL EVENTS HELD AT THE REEM AND KAYDEN CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND COMPUTATION.

SEPTEMBER 16 11AM. “OFF-CENTER INTENSITY: REFLECTIONS ON JOHN ASHBERY AND THE VISUAL ARTS,” TALK BY JED PERL. AVERY ARTS CENTER THEATER.

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Larissa MacFarquhar’s November 2005 New Yorker profile details a day in the creative life of John Ashbery, full of the procrastinatory yet somehow essential practices most writers embrace: cups of coffee and tea, phone calls to writer friends, reading, playing significant music. “What he is trying to do is jump-start a poem by lowering a bucket down into a kind of underground stream flowing through his mind—a stream of continuously flowing poetry, or perhaps poetic stuff would be a better way to put it. Whatever the bucket brings up will be his poem,” MacFarquhar reports. This method has changed little over the years. “I suppose what’s changed is that when I was young, I was more intimidated by the process of writing,” says Ashbery. “I didn’t try to do it very often–maybe I felt that I’d sort of use up my artistic capital. And I would revise endlessly. As the years go by, I’ve become much more casual about writing. If I’m not pleased with something, I tend to discard it rather than reworking it to death.” The contents of Ashbery’s bucket may confound, even enrage, some readers. Adam Kirsch wrote in the New Republic, “Ashbery, like God, is most easily defined by negatives. His poems have no plot, narrative, or situation; no consistent emotional register or tone; no sustained mood or definite theme. They do not even have meaningful titles. So complete is Ashbery’s abandonment of most of what we come to poetry for that his achievement seems, on first acquaintance, as though it must be similarly complete: a radical new extension of poetry’s means and powers, or an audacious and wildly successful hoax.” Ashbery is aware of his reputation for inscrutability, but insists that the poems are their own explanation. In his collected lectures on poetry, Other Traditions, he wrote, “As a poet who cares very much about having an audience, I’m sorry about the confusion I have involuntarily helped to cause; in the words of W. H. Auden, ‘If I could tell you, I would let you know.’” In addition to lecturing at Harvard, Ashbery has taught writing at Brooklyn College and Bard. “I try to figure out the way a young poet wants to write, and point him in ways that turn out to be helpful,” he says. He assigns students to write poems based on Italian rebus puzzles and Max Ernst collages, or “translate” from languages they don’t speak, such as Finnish. “I try to disorient them, really—disorientation being a state of mind from which poetry emerges,” he says. “It’s for their own good.” There’s that smile again, cracked in the center, suggesting a mischievous schoolboy. Ashbery spent his school years in two very different households. His father owned an orchard in western New York; Ashbery still seems to shudder when recalling the man’s “terrible temper.” He spent most of his early childhood with his maternal grandparents in Rochester. His grandfather was a physics professor; gentle, bookish, and “interested in whatever was new”— X-rays, talking pictures. Young Ashbery adored movies. “The RKO Palace was a real palace, sort of like the Eighth Wonder of the World, with grand chairs in the lobby, ornate decorations. I won a contest to be on the ‘Quiz Kids’ radio program–the final quiz was held on the stage of the RKO,” he recounts. “The first movie I ever saw was the 1933 Alice in Wonderland, with W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty and Gary Cooper as the White Knight. I was five. It was a double bill with Disney’s Three Little Pigs—no, Frank Buck in Bring ’em Back Alive. He was a sort of adventurer and animal explorer. They showed a python swallowing a live pig. It was amazing because it was a movie—anything on the screen would have been equally amazing.” When Ashbery turned seven, his grandfather retired and moved to a country house on Lake Ontario. “I always felt this was the end of paradise, a place I could never go back to,” Ashbery says, turning his gaze out the window. The stately Victorian in Hudson, found after a long search which Kermani likens to “scouting for a film location,” reminded the poet of his grandfather’s house in Rochester. Kermani claims that Ashbery fell in love on the front porch, telling the realtor, “I’ll take it,” before he’d seen all of its rooms. Ashbery describes moving into his home as a “way of reliving a pleasant childhood.” He opens his eyes very wide, a characteristic expression which seems to suggest he sees more than most people. “Not everyone goes out and tries to replicate it,” he says. “Most people would be content just to remember their childhood—I don’t know what it says about me that I wanted to live there.” Like John Ashbery’s poetry, it says many things at once, letting each listener find his own meaning. And though Ashbery must rank among the least autobiographical of contemporary poets, such musings may bring to mind the closing lines of “A Man of Words,” from Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: “Just time to reread this / And the past slips through your fingers, wishing you were there.” 58 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

From Estuaries, From Casinos It’s almost two years now. The theme was articulated, the brightness filled in. And when we tell about it No wave of recollection comes gushing back— it’s as though the war had never happened. There’s a smooth slightly concave space there instead: Not the ghost of a navel. There are pointless rounds to be made. No one who saw you at work would ever believe that. The memories you ground down, the smashed perfection: Look, it’s wilted, but the shape of a beautiful table remains. There are other stories, too ambiguous even for our purposes, but that’s another matter. We’ll use them and someday, a name-day, a great event will go unreported. All that distance, you ask, to the sun? Surely no one is going to remember to climb where it insists, poking about in an abstract of everyday phrases? People have better things to with their lives than count how many bets have been lost, and we all know the birds were here once. Here they totter and subside, even in surviving. In history, the best bird catchers were brought before the king, and he did something, though nobody knows when. That was before you could have it all by just turning on the tap, letting it run in a fiery stream from house to garage— and we sat back, content to let the letter of the thing notice us, untroubled by the spirit, talking of the next gull to fly away on the cement horizon, not quibbling, unspoken for. We should all get back to the night that bore us but since that is impossible a dream may be the only way: dreams of school, of travel, continue to teach and unteach us as always the heart flies a little way, perhaps accompanying, perhaps not. Perhaps a familiar spirit, possibly a stranger, a small enemy whose boiling point hasn’t yet been reached, and in that time will our desire be fleshed out, at any rate made clearer as the time comes to examine it and draw the rasping conclusions? And though I feel like a fish out of water I recognize the workmen who proceed before me, nailing the thing down. Who asks anything of me? I am available, my heart pinned in a trance to the notice board, the stone inside me ready to speak, if that is all that can save us. And I think one way or perhaps two; it doesn’t matter As long as one can slip by, and easily Into the questioning but not miasmal dark. Look, here is a stance— Shall you cover it, cape it? I Don’t care he said, going down all those stairs makes a boy of you. And I had what I want only now I don’t want it, not having it, and yet it defers to some, is meat and peace and a wooden footbridge ringing the town, drawing all in after it. And explaining the way to go. After all this I think I feel pretty euphoric. Bells chimed, the sky healed. The great road unrolled its vast burden, the climate came to the rescue—it always does— and we were shaken as in a hat and distributed on the ground. I wish I could tell the next thing. But in dreams I can’t, So will let this thing stand in for it, this me I have become, this loving you either way. From Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery (Ecco, 2007). The poem was originally published in Hotel Lautréamont (Knopf, 1992).

literary supplement HUMOR CONTEST

Perhaps the true test of the enduring power of a great literary work is whether it can survive its incarnation—complete with pom-poms, falling chandeliers, and aggressively perky singers in Spandex—as a Broadway musical. When last we looked, “Big River” had not dislodged The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its pedestal; on the other hand, most of our friends and neighbors can more readily mangle a tune from “Man of La Mancha” than provide a cogent exegesis of the Cervantes novel on which it was based. As for “Cats,” well. For this year’s HUMOR CONTEST, we invite you to create titles for the Broadway musical versions of classic works of literature that Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, et al. have heretofore overlooked. Please provide a title and, for extra credit, a few representative songs, e.g.:

“Crack Your Cheeks!” King Lear, the musical (“Oh Fool, Who’s Fooling Who Now?” “Poor Tom’s A’Cool”)

“The Ring and I” Lord of the Rings, the musical (“These Are a Few of My Favorite Rings,” “They Call the Mines Moria”)

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Jeeves and Wooster, the musical

Journey to Chandara

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Saturday

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October 6, 2007 7:30 PM

Contest judges are Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold, and winning entries will appear in the Literary Supplement of the November issue. Winners receive an all-new Chronogram T-shirt, suitable for wearing or framing. Contest deadline is October 1. Please send entries (no more than three per person, please!) to fiction@chronogram.com or Humor

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SHORT TAKES The leaves are turning...it’s time for a road trip! Hudson Valley authors tell you where to get off. HU HUDSON VALLEY VOYAGE: THROUGH THE SE SEASONS, THROUGH THE YEARS

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Tw Twelve counties, dozens of photos, and enough historic sites, farm stands, scenic drives, river h cruises, wineries, spa resorts, B&Bs, rock-climbing cr schools, sculpture parks, rail trails, galleries, sc festivals, and great local eateries to keep you fe busy for decades. Joanne Michaels will appear at b Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, on 9/1 at 8pm. O

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The right pair of shoes can change your life forever.

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o begins Woodstock resident Alison Gaylin’s delightful romp through the sordid and deliciously sleazy world of the Hollywood tabloid media machine and the seriously neurotic, occasionally psychotic stars who feed it. Gaylin knows this world intimately, having spent 10 years writing celebrity gossip for a slick national weekly that covers Hollywood. The inside stuff is terrific, and terrifically funny. Simone Glass—holding a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University and a scrupulous sense of the reporter’s duty to deliver the truth—heads west to the promise of a job at a prestigious weekly newspaper in Los Angeles. She arrives for her first day of work only to fi nd that during her drive across the country, the paper has folded. Desperate to hide her bad luck from her parents and her older sister—a hot-stuff cable news anchor—Simone assumes a fall-back position at the Asteroid, a tabloid which the editor of no less than the National Enquirer has dubbed “the lowest form of sleaze.” Her fi rst assignment, from steely eyed, Red Bull-chugging, British expat editor Nigel Bloom, is to dress in head-to-toe black and don rubber gloves to rummage through the trash of Emerald Deegan, a TV megastar whose name, in certain celebrity gossip-driven circles, has been effervescing to the surface like bubbles in a crystal bowl of champagne punch. In Nigel’s office, sifting through Emerald’s detritus—after being encouraged to think of the activity as investigative reporting—Simone discovers a shoe. But it’s not just another worn-out Nike; this is a silver, open-toed Jimmy Choo. And it’s bloodstained. Simone suspects it’s the one that recent suicide Nia Lawson wasn’t wearing at the time of her death, when she apparently pulled a Marilyn Monroe by swallowing Nembutal (wearing only one Choo) and then took it one step further and slit her own throat. Nigel isn’t concerned with the shoe, or with Lawson. Nia was a has-been; Nigel wants Emerald Deegan on next week’s cover. He’s looking for “cocaine paraphernalia, empty bottles of diet pills, Ritalin and/or horse tranquilizer”—something he can use to blackmail Emerald into agreeing to an exclusive interview. He partners Simone with Asteroid veteran Kathy Kinney, explaining that what they will do on the set of Emerald’s hit TV show is not reporting, it’s infiltrating. Kathy is a pro, having “infiltrated close to one hundred funerals, three dozen A-list charity benefits, fifty-some-odd weddings, and Fred Savage’s bar mitzvah. She’d clocked more time in Cedars-Sinai’s waiting room than she cared to think about, owned several sets of surgical scrubs, and swore to Simone on a stack of Bibles that she’d assisted in the birth of Julia Roberts’s twins.” In the hour or so before their cover is blown and they’re kicked off the set by security, Simone and Kathy manage to get invited into Emerald’s trailer and actually talk to the actress. What they learn unsettles Simone. Not exactly comfortable with her job duties even before she realizes that Emerald is actually kind of, well, nice, Simone has to dig deep to come up with rationalizations for her actions. She manages well and the resulting interior monologues, delivered in brief conversational clips full of self-deprecating humor, are often as touching as they are funny. Soon enough, Emerald is discovered dead, another apparent suicide; her suspicious demise compels Simone to try to uncover the truth. Pitted against a savage killer and dealing with a hysterically demanding editor and the underhanded antics of a handsome, capable writer for a competing tabloid, Simone pulls off a series of infiltrations that range from laugh-out-loud funny to life-threatening and put her hot on the trail of a savage killer who just may have her name on his to-do list. Trashed is funny, suspenseful, and oddly touching. It is both a thriller and a send-up of the genre, a giddy frolic through La-La Land with a cast of characters that leave the reader smiling at human folly, and guessing at whodunit until the very end. Alison Gaylin will appear at Barnes & Noble in Kingston on 9/14 at 7pm and the Golden Notebook in Woodstock on 9/29 at 5pm. —Kim Wozencraft

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LITERARY SUPPLEMENT STORY CONTEST Chronogram’s 2007 short story contest is open to all writers who live in the Hudson Valley, Capital District, and Berkshires region. Acclaimed author Abigail Thomas (A Three Dog Life, Safekeeping) will be the guest judge. The winning story will be published in the November Literary Supplement, with a cash prize of $150. Stories must be no more than 4,000 words and previously unpublished; all rights will remain with the author after first publication. Send your best work (one story per author, please) to fiction@chronogram.com or Chronogram Fiction Contest, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401. Deadline: September 14.

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Land of Stone: Breaking Silence Through Poetry Karen Chase Wayne State University Press, ď™…ď™ƒď™ƒď™Š, ď™“ď™„ď™ˆ.ď™Œď™ˆ

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aren Chase begins her preface by calling Land of Stone “a story of silence and kinship.� It is also a story about love, healing, and the redemptive power of poetry—and it is unlike anything you’ll ever read. In a time when hope is as hard to come by as affordable housing or a teenager without a cell phone, Land of Stone is singular in its power to inspire. Also the author of Kazimierz Square: Poems, Chase served as poet in residence at Rosedale Hospital, outside New York City, during the late 1980s. There she worked in conjunction with the psychiatric staff, helping patients write poems as a means of helping them name their experiences in an alternative, more instinctual and engaged format. She formed a particularly meaningful bond with one patient, Ben, who was schizophrenic, violence-prone, and mostly noncommunicative. He was also tall, dark, handsome, and infi nitely intriguing. Over time, a relationship evolved between the two that was reflected in verse. As esteemed critic Harold Bloom observes, “No miracle takes place, nor need ensue, but both are changed somewhat for the better.� These days, art therapy is commonly seen as a useful component of treatment in many psychiatric institutions. Chase’s approach was unique in its collaborative potential: she and the patient would pass a notebook back and forth, alternating lines. The poems she wrote with Ben are included in the book, and, in mostly simple language, they evoke a complex world. Most use color, weather, and natural life as metaphors for a psyche changing like a temperate sky. Chase was cautious with Ben, learning early that she must let him lead to gain his trust, and must remain deeply attentive to his linguistic choices and subjects. As Ben became more verbally expressive, his poetic diction became more elevated. He moved from first person to third, and his poems were more populated. Slowly, a gentle crack emerged in his mysterious shell, which touched and transformed Chase, as it does the reader. There’s also a secondary relationship between Chase and her supervisor, Dennis. As the mentor-student relationship is explored and blurred between Karen and Ben, this bond also goes beyond their professional one. The narrative bravely explores the subtlety in relationships—between silence and word, patient and therapist, teacher and student. Chase possesses the poet’s fearlessness about looking inward, at her dreams, her childhood memories of polio (the physical limitations she experienced echo Ben’s psychological ones), and her feelings. In her efforts to chisel the narrative to its central dilemma, she leaves some loose strands. Her marriage is mentioned in broad strokes, and we sense it is stable and happy but don’t get to see how the romantic yearnings she openly expresses for Ben and Dennis affected that relationship. However, the book is really Ben’s story, devoted to his slow progress toward the shared world as seen through the window of poetry, and Chase is enough of a writer to know where to steer her intense gaze and focus. It is a testament to her gift that a book that largely recounts quotidian meetings in a psychiatric facility reads with the invigorating suspense of a mystery or love story. Land of Stone is hard to put down. Its message lingers long after one regretfully returns it to the shelf: In a time when we are more isolated from one another than ever, language still has the capacity to make us less alone. —Caitlin McDonnell

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about the sacredness of the landscape and walking Earth with reverence. What, in your opinion, is the most sacred sound in the world?

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The Breath. What spiritual, mental or physical practices most enhance your well-being? Sacred drumming. The practice of gratitude. Being in relationship with all beings. What author or teacher has most inuenced your life? The mystics in general, especially nature mystics who are deeply connected to the natural world. In the last decade, contemporary authors like Terry Tempest Williams and Mary Oliver have helped me connect more fully to the natural world. What virtues guide your life? Gratitude, integrity, authenticity and generosity. What word or phrase do you most associate with Mirabai? There are many: fun, adventure, curiosity, keeping the heart and spirit owing.

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Submissions are accepted year-round. Deadline for our October issue is September 5. Send up to 3 poems or 3 pages (whichever comes first), by regular mail, to: Poetry, 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401, or via e-mail (preferred) to poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Poetry Submission. Full submission guidelines at www.chronogram.com\submissions.

“What does a chair sit on?” —Piper Jaden Levine (3 years)

AMSTERDAM

THIS CHILD

Their well-known tolerance Does not extend to pedestrians In the designated bike lane.

This child says: I knew you a long time ago when I was old. That was before I was born.

Anne Frank’s house had a long line Even in the off-season And cost too much besides. The Sex Museum was more fun anyway And aren’t we all Jews and Gentiles alike Prisoners of sex?

She is three. She orders the world counting by twos, then hundreds, then by fives, backward. She says she is counting down until she is five again.

Don’t judge me For looking in a lustful way And not feeling the least bit sorry For the third-world woman in the window In the sin-red panties Smoking a cigarette.

This child is not a morning person. She orders family members by grumpiness. She is second. Only adolescence trumps this child.

This is Amsterdam Where van Gogh lost an ear For love Where coffee comes with cannabis And is served below sea level.

This child remembers. She does not hold a grudge; she just remembers farther back than you or I.

Who am I to question Whether this is right or wrong Or when the great flood comes Whether the levees will hold.

—Jennifer Pruden Colligan

—Gary Bloom

A RETIREE’S JOURNAL MIKE LOVES GAIL, IN A POEM I am a small Mike is marrying Gail this weekend writer, and I’d like to tell you why no catastrophes no truths no what life is about stories. How he met her (our only hope is to touch each other) on the telephone, wrong number. They are not survivors of much except life breaking neither barriers nor boundaries. They live in a trailer In Freehold, no war-torn city. Mike said she’s nice And plump. Gail said Mike Can fix everything Even broken birds. —Esther Cohen

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I will write what has happened down exactly as I have experienced it. Words being symbols of the above, of course. I sat myself down and wondered whether it was time to eat dinner. I turned the radio off. The drumming was getting me down. I heard the telephone ring and went inside to check whether it was anybody calling me, personally, or just some telemarketer. Obviously it was the latter. Time is slipping away, but, in one sense only, not fast enough. I miss everything that went before. I look forward to a knock on my door; be it from a friend passing by, or a witness for Jehovah. —Donald Lev

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STOP! world slow down let me think! let me stop growing just for a bit.

In my yard. They are walking trees. On most days they walk from the potted shrubs to the mailbox. And that is all. Lazy trees.

and I had left New Orleans the five of us on the edge of the road in Utah graduated jobless tired and undrunk there were no cars around not even way out where the thin black line of the pavement cut through the desert sand

put time in a standstill and let us rest. don’t you know what its like to be on the brink? brink of age brink of love brink of magic brink of the cliff. I’m afraid that soon life won’t be what I know because you thought I was old enough to bear it. I still want a small part of space left for watching the sun rise a flower bloom an endless life breath.

I asked the trees. “Trees? Will you walk with me to the store? I’d feel so much safer if I was not alone.” They walked with me. The next day. “Trees? Will you stand in front of my windows so no one can see inside. See what I do in there?” They did not move. They did not move at all. Trees do not walk. Because if trees could walk I would teach them to run. Put them to work. Make them do things.

the wind did not play

to hear the last trill of a note before rushing out of the concert hall…

no guitars or music of any kind

to look at one painting soak up all the colors all the brushstrokes…

In exchange I would let them live in my dirt.

and a long & loping melody simply did not happen

not just to sweep my eyes quickly over the entire gallery and go on to the next room.

I have good dirt.

as we sat talking

—Sana Shepko (12 years old)

(about when we would arrive in the next town and what we would eat) with our voices a small dull sound on the rock with no echo and the sun there in front of us with only a few pink clouds and the sky on fire and this fire running at me like a wild animal

—Beth Balousek

I think you might understand what I mean— let us have a bit of quiet, please.

AT MIDNIGHT A NEW LOVE Better. This one’s not crazy, doesn’t scrub her skin like she wants out of it, pushing hard against everything to tear it off like a molting snake. Simple. She’s not scarred, instead, impossibly flawless like the first real snow of a Connecticut winter. She’s not broken. She can stand on her own.

At midnight we cry For all the lost loves Gone by. They are salty tears, Lick them from my face. They taste not unlike potato chips. —Lucille Stutzbach

Peaceful. No more waking to the sound of screaming, panicked fists lashing out looking into blank, hollow eyes begging. Easy. No more gut wrenching, brain freezing need to coddle and comfort and protect to be a safe harbor in the night from demons. Empty. No one quite able to plug the holes in this protector’s heart left by my own desertion, AWOL by choice and damned for it.

Do you hear them now? A thousand tree frogs laughing, Repeating your name. —Ann Hutton

—Sarah Wagner

—Chris Heffernan

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Sometimes You Want to Go BLUE PLATE RESTAURANT By Robin Catalano Photographs by Jennifer May

“Over my dead body.” That’s Judy Grunberg’s standard response to the many people who’ve offered large sums of money for her beloved Blue Plate, the Chatham restaurant she didn’t intend to buy in the first place. But in 1996, when the former owners put it up for sale, she, her friends, and fellow townspeople went into a funk. “We were all so disappointed and downtrodden,” Grunberg recounts. “I never wanted to have a restaurant. I just couldn’t stand the idea of losing the place.” The Blue Plate Restaurant, on the pointed “ship’s prow” corner of Kinderhook Street, is one of those rarities that possess a definitive but indescribable essence—what’s known in Latin as genius loci, or “spirit of place.” The building was originally an old-fashioned meat market, then an upscale inn and restaurant that closed soon after it opened. “It wasn’t very friendly to the natives,” Grunberg recalls, noting that when John and Julia Gregory purchased the restaurant in the 1990s, they turned it into the casual, comfortable bistro it is today. “It was such an important meeting place,” says Grunberg. “It was the kind of place you could go to by yourself, on a date, or with a group, and feel at home. My intention wasn’t to change it; it was to preserve it and build upon it.” The problem was that Grunberg, though an avid home chef, had no experience in the restaurant industry. A painter and textiles artist who moved from Manhattan to Chatham with her late husband and her three sons four decades ago, she found the learning curve a bit steep. First came a yearlong period of retooling, then a short-lived, mismatched partnership with a chef who the nobull Grunberg characterizes as a “complete disaster.” She closed the Blue Plate briefly, then reopened as sole proprietor in 1997, with a new chef and much of the Gregorys’ original staff. Although she always insisted on high-quality food, she quickly understood that 66 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

it wasn’t the only consideration. “The food is important, but it’s only half of why a restaurant is successful,” she reports. “I pay a lot of attention to other things—the lighting, the feeling of the room, a welcoming atmosphere. The staff is wonderful at recognizing all the different customers. I remember my boys and me at home, sitting on my big bed together, watching ‘Cheers’ on TV. They got very tired of me telling them to listen to the lyrics to the theme song. That’s exactly where you want to go—where people know you and treat you like family—even if you have to sacrifice some other elements, like the perfect garnish on a dish.” The original concept—eclectic “American bistro” food—has been retained, though the menu has expanded over the years, particularly under chef Leo Castellanos, who has been the bedrock of the Blue Plate for the past six years. “He’s great—really easygoing, and very creative and intuitive,” Grunberg says. She often has an idea for a dish, perhaps something remembered from her childhood or a meal she ate during her travels, and brings it to Castellanos for experimentation. Sometimes the dish makes it onto the menu; other times, Grunberg admits, it’s a recipe better left to memory. Local and organic foods are hot topics these days, but the Blue Plate has ridden that bandwagon since its inception. Castellanos has crafted a menu focused on the rich bounty of Hudson Valley produce and meats, and has led the charge catering to the needs of vegetarians in the community. Along with the fried calamari, rack of lamb, and pappardelle Bolognese are substantial meatless choices like greens and cheese fresh ravioli with sage-infused brown butter sauce, soba noodles with stir-fried vegetables, imam bayildi (a classic Turkish dish of eggplant, bulgur, tomatoes, garlic, currants, and spices said to “make the sultan swoon”), and four different salads (the roast beet, orange, and fennel is superior). And of course, there’s the one dish that if removed would incite a

ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: BLUE PLATE CHEF LEO CASTELLANOS BACKSTAGE IN THE KITCHEN; PREPARING A FRIED ARTICHOKE APPETIZER; MURAL BY NEW YORKER CONTRIBUTOR AND BERKSHIRE ARTIST MARC ROSENTHAL; INSIDE THE DINING ROOM. OPPOSITE: AWNINGS SHADE THE RESTAURANT’S VICTORIAN ENTRANCE.

riot: the Blue Plate meat loaf, a rich and spicy take on the classic, topped with bacon and served with garlic mashed potatoes and gravy. The dessert menu, courtesy of multitasker Colleen Carpenter (who, depending on the time of day, can be found donning the hat of pastry chef, hostess, or server), is filled with sweet comfort foods: berry crisp, cheesecake, flourless chocolate torte, crème brûlée, hot fudge sundae, fruit sorbet, and biscotti, all for $5 or less. The Blue Plate strives to offer fresh, local foods at reasonable prices. Grunberg initially resisted pricing entrees over $20, but with escalating fuel costs for food transportation (yet another reason to eat local, she can’t resist pointing out), this has become impossible. Still, only three of the seven main dishes cross that boundary, and Grunberg sometimes relegates the more expensive recipes to the specials menu to control costs while giving customers a taste of something unique. “You don’t want to price anybody out,” Grunberg comments. “You can definitely get a good, nutritious meal here for under $20. You get to sit down and have a wonderful ambience, and you don’t have to spend $50. But you can if you want,” she laughs. The by-the-glass wine list is rather abbreviated, but for bottles diners can choose from four sparkling, 10 white, or 12 red wines, the majority loweracidity, food-friendly varieties from California and Italy. For nonwine drinkers, 14 beers and ales are ripe for the picking, and vary from the familiar (Amstel Light) to the funky (Sam Smith’s Taddy Porter). One of the main reasons customers—both regular Joes and Janes and the slightly better-known likes of Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, and Al Roker—have been flocking to the Blue Plate is the sense of welcome provided by the mostly young and uniformly J. Crew catalog-pretty staff. In an industry where turnover moves notoriously fast, Grunberg acknowledges the “great gift” she has in manager Marcia Curran and her other employees who have stuck around for three, four, and more years. “They’re so close, they’re like a big family. The Blue Plate is like a home for them,” she relates. “Sometimes one of them will go through a difficult time, but the others really rally around in support.” Case in point: A few years back, when the bartender’s brother developed a serious illness, her coworkers put together a benefit dinner to raise money to help defray some of his medical costs. “It was a huge event, and an amazing success,” says Grunberg. “The staff ran the benefit for two years in a row. It was so successful and they raised so much money that he was able to get the treatment he needed.” Once bitten by the community-service bug, the staff opted to continue the benefits, choosing the Columbia-Greene Humane Society

as the subsequent recipient. The Blue Plate also hosts regular brunches and receptions for local nonprofits. Grunberg credits her staffers for their above-and-beyond efforts and their daily work. She herself is the ultimate role model, having long served on boards or otherwise supported a long list of Hudson Valley and Capital District organizations, including Close Encounters with Music, Time & Space Limited, the Columbia Land Conservancy, the Chatham Real Food Market Co-Op, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio. In the village of Chatham, she not only owns the Blue Plate, but also founded PS/21 (Performance Spaces for the 21st Century), a new live performance venue, and initiated Re-Wraps, a consignment clothing store, the proceeds of which benefit PS/21. Is it any wonder that Grunberg takes the greatest pleasure in sharing food, the world’s primary social conductor? “The most satisfying thing is just going in there and feeling that we’re making people happy, even just for a couple of hours a day. Watching people enjoy themselves together—what could be better?” Shortly after opening the restaurant, Grunberg thought it would be nice to put a piano in the downstairs dining room, then recruited renowned jazz pianist Lincoln Mayorga and bassist Otto Gardner to play. She later branched out, inviting an intriguing selection of mostly acoustic folk, bluegrass, and jazz performers. The live music has been a Wednesday-night Blue Plate tradition for years, but still, says Grunberg, remains the best-kept secret in the area. The room may be too small to allow for louder forms of music, but on some slower winter Wednesdays customers have been known to slide back the tables and use the space as a dance floor. Grunberg, who has taken a spin or two, has an infectious energy that belies her senior status. But with each birthday, she’s been ruminating on the future of the restaurant. “I’m trying to find a way to have the Blue Plate live on in perpetuity. I mean, I could be run over by a tractor tomorrow,” she offers. “This is Chatham, after all. We want to keep our tractors.” If she seems preoccupied by what might happen, shall we say, over her dead body, it’s only because she loves the restaurant like she would a child, and wants it to endure. “I’m trying to work out all the legal details,” she allows. “It’s complicated. I know there will be changes, but I don’t care. Changes happen because people are different. I still think it would be interesting to see how long it could go into the future.” The Blue Plate Restaurant is located at 1 Kinderhook Street in Chatham, New York. Dinner is served Tuesday through Thursday from 5 to 9:30pm, Friday and Saturday from 5:30 to 10pm, and Sunday from 5 to 9pm. (518) 392-7711; www.chathamblueplate.net. 9/07 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 67

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

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BEVERAGES

Personalized celebrations and weddings, using fresh local ingredients to create delicious and elegant menus. Homemade artisanal breads, Hudson Valley cheese, fabulous appetizers, meat and vegetarian entrees, out-ofthis-world desserts. Claudia works one on one to custom design your menu, your party, your wedding or special event. (845) 868-7338 or (914) 4759695. www.claudiascatering.com.

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

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 for prices and information. (845) 687-2334.

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For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to pre-pare for careers in the burgeoning Natural Foods Industry. www.naturalgourmetschool.com. (212) 645-5170 FAX: (212)989-1493. 48 West

Bread Alone cafĂŠs offer fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at three mid-Hudson locations. Boiceville, NY Route 28 (845) 657-3328 (headquarters). Rhinebeck, NY 45 E. Market St., (845)876-3108. Woodstock, NY 22 Mill Hill Road (845) 679-2108. HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

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FARMERS’ MARKET Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market The Hudson Valley’s best farmers bringing you farm-fresh vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, wine, honey, bread, flowers, jam, pickles, herbs, and much more. Free live music every week. Tastings and special events all season long. Municipal Parking Lot on East Market St. www. rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

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

Joyous CafÊ Emerson at Woodstock Crave fresh seafood? Need your red meat fix? Have a hankering for slow-cooked pork chops, organic chicken, or right-off-the-farm vegetarian dishes? Experience the Emerson at Woodstock. Enjoy fine wines, micro-brews, or specialty drinks from the Emerson’s magnificent bar while you enjoy the atmosphere of the transformed 19th century farmhouse. Surf the web at the Emerson’s new internet cafe with free wi-fi. Available for private parties, rehearsal dinners, and business functions. 109 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY. (845) 6797500. www.emersonresort.com.

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Is it any wonder that Joyous CafÊ 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 8am-4pm. Sunday Brunch 9am-2pm. Serving Dinner evenings of UPAC events. 608 Broadway, in The Heart of Broadway Theater Square, Kingston, NY. (845) 334-9441. www.joyouscafe.com.

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

Emerson Organic Spa CafĂŠ

Luna 61

Refreshing, organic veggie and fruit drinks. Made-to-order salads and wraps. Daily soup specials. Everything available to-go or for enjoying in the Asian-inspired design of the CafĂŠ. Servers will bring your selections to you on the wrap-around sundeck with views of Mt. Tremper and the Esopus Creek. Open for lunch every day, 11am to 4pm. Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mt. Tremper, just 10 minutes from Woodstock. Call (845) 688-2828.

“Best Vegetarian Restaurant.� Hudson Valley Magazine. “Food is simply delicious, four stars.� Poughkeepsie Journal. “Imagine spicy Thai noodles, delicate spring rolls, and the best banana cream pie you’ve ever eaten. Join the Culinary Revolution.� Dutchess Magazine. Luna 61 is relaxed and funky, candlelit tables, cozy, and romantic. Organic wine and beer. 55 Broadway, Tivoli, New York. (845) 7580061. www.luna61.com.

Gilded Otter

Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant

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 hand-

The only authentic Peruvian restaurant in Orange County, NY. Family owned and operated since 1990. Serving the community traditional dishes from the

HICKORY

RUSTIC DINING ROOM

Between Kingston and Woodstock, 3 mi. from I-87

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743 ROUTE 28 Kingston, NY

Featuring more than award-winning BBQ, but fresh, signature salads, soups & sandwiches served in a relaxed atmosphere quickly and at an affordable price. Don’t forget to stop by the Ice Cream Counter where we continue to serve over 32 avors of Jane’s Famous Homemade cones, sundaes, cakes, pints, etc.

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305 Wall Street Kingston, NY (Stockade Dist.)

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mountains and coast of Peru. Trained in Peru, our chefs make authentic dishes come alive. Wine list available. 301 Broadway, Newburgh, NY. (845) 562-6478. www.machupicchurest.com.

Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls, and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted. 49 Main Street, in the Village of New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-0162.

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

Osaka Restaurant

Mariner’s Harbor Restaurant

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Mariner’s Harbor Restaurant is casual waterfront dining at its best. Patio Dining on the water in the historic Rondout district of Kingston, Mariner’s has for years taken regional awards for their high quality of cuisine and service at affordable prices. Serving the freshest seafood and raw bar, Angus steaks, and a wide variety of time-tested classics, Mariner’s now offers new and even more healthy menu choices like fresh local produce, organic wild salmon, grass-fed beef and vegetarian dishes. From intimate dinners for two to large gatherings, a meal at Mariner’s is more than just eating out. Our friendly ambiance and recently refurbished décor, and our not-to-be-outdone waterfront location make dining at Mariner’s Harbor a treat for the palete and the senses. Party and in-house catering menu available. Open Tuesdays – Sundays for lunch and dinner, open on Mondays at 4 pm for dinner. Find our menu and schedule of special events online at www.marinersharbor. com. Mariner’s Harbor, 1 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 340 -8051.

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

Marion’s Country Kitchen Nestled inside the beautiful compounds of the Woodstock Lodge, near Woodstock. 20 Country Club Lane, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-3213. www. MarionsCountryKitchen.com.

Mexican Radio Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in NYC and Best Margaritas in the Hudson Valley, Mexican Radio features fabulous, homemade dishes made fresh daily. Extensive vegetarian/vegan choices. A Great Place for Parties! Hudson, NY and 9 Cleveland Place, NYC. (212) 3430140. 537 Warren Street, Hudson, New York. (518) 828-7770. pmljs@ecoipm. com. www.mexrad.com.

Monster Taco When you have a hunger that only Mexican food can satisfy, visit Monster Taco. With fresh food, reasonable prices, and a funky atmosphere. 260 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 452-3375. www.monster-taco.com.

Neko Sushi & Restaurant Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi & 76

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Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Daily Freeman. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli. (845) 757-5055. 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278.

Soul Dog Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts, & many gluten-free items prepared inhouse. Redefining the hot dog experience! 107 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-3254.

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

The French Corner Chef Jacques Qualin, former New York Times critically acclaimed chef of Le Perigord in NYC, impresses with his innovative style of cuisine which cleverly combines ingredients typical of his native Franche-Comt. Routes 213 West and 209, Stone Ridge, NY. (845) 6870810. www.frcorner.com.

The Phoenix Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa, 5340 Route 28. The area’s newest restaurant compliments the Silk Road design of the adjacent Inn. Chef Ross Fraser uses local ingredients and infuses spices from the Orient and India to create unique, mouthwatering dishes. Two dining rooms, a large bar area, and an expansive deck overlooking the Esopus Creek make the Phoenix a true Catskills dining destination. Tavern and children’s menu available. Open daily. (845) 688-7700. www.emersonresort.com.

Wasabi Japanese Restaurant Wasabi Japanese Restaurant. 807 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. (518) 822-1888.

JENNIFER MAY

THE 2007 CHRONOGRAM

LOCALLY GROWN

SUPPLEMENT

A CRATE OF EARLY QUEEN CANTALOUPES AT TALIAFERRO FARM, NEW PALTZ

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USE YOUR MELON THE TIME IS RIPE By Amy Giezentanner The coming of fall heralds change on every American calendar. Typically one of the busiest times of the year, it triggers a flurry of back-to-school shopping, last minute vacations, reluctant school-goers, fall sports schedules, and a heap of locally grown melons. Rhinebeck resident and author Amy Goldman is widely recognized as a person in the know regarding melons. A private grower for over 30 years, Goldman began her journey toward cultivating expertise when someone taught her to grow watermelons using black plastic mulch. Her success with this method, which helps trap heat and regulate moisture, contradicted the notion that melons couldn’t thrive in northern climates. Buoyed by her success, Goldman expanded her efforts to include a variety of heirloom melons and began entering her results in the Dutchess County Fair competitions. These contests are judged mostly on the basis of size and her watermelons were often the largest. Her frequent success set her up as a go-to expert for advice on raising your own melons in the valley. Not one to rest on her laurels, Goldman put her melon and general produce savvy to public use by authoring Melons for the Passionate Grower, The Compleat Squash, and Rare Forms. She uses her advocate’s voice to promote various heirloom varieties, which means an array of colors and shapes when it comes to melons. Her main source of inspiration, Seed Savers’ Exchange (www. seedsavers.org), is an organization dedicated to the preservation of America’s garden heritage. This seed movement’s “poster child,” as Goldman calls it, is the unique moon and stars watermelon. It’s known for its dark green rind dotted with small yellow stars and one large yellow “moon.” The colorful melon comes in several shapes and, depending on the strain, produces either sweet pink or yellow flesh. Its stunning rind and tasty flesh has made it a favorite among private and commercial growers alike. Those who love good cantaloupe can count on John Hand of Greenwich to produce intensely sweet melons. The Hand Melon Farm, east of Saratoga, grows varieties of cantaloupe so well known for their exceptional flavor that they were dubbed “Hand melons” in the 1920s. The farm typically devotes 10 78 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

Photos by Jennifer May acres a year to the melons, which they carefully handle in order to prevent the many diseases to which these fruits are prone. They’re available from late July through mid-September and can range from four to six pounds, depending on the season. While this yield is a little smaller than some better-known commercial varieties, Hand states his cantaloupes make up for their small size through intensity in sweetness and flavor. The signature flavor profile of these Hand melons makes them popular as mail-order items directly from the farm, or in the Saratoga and Capital Region farm stands at which they can be found. Watermelon has been a summer fruit staple in produce markets across the country for years. It appears in produce departments around April or May, picks up in volume through June and July, and tapers out in October. It’s become an iconic symbol of summer, representing sweet, crisp, cooling refreshment for countless melon fans. But while watermelon appears in bulk for most of the summer, commercially grown local melons don’t arrive on the scene until sometime in August. This may seem late in the season, but the melons cultivated by commercial growers require months of maturation. Since this region’s climate precludes planting melons early in the spring, it naturally follows that harvest occurs late for local growers. Once they do hit the markets, though, there are plenty of regionally produced melons from which to choose. Taliaferro Farms (www.taliaferrofarms.com) offers more than 90 varieties of certified organic produce, one of which is the popular sugar baby watermelon. Located in scenic New Paltz, the 34-acre farm sits within sight of the Shawangunk Mountains and the iconic Mohonk Tower. It began in 1995 when Pete and Robin Taliaferro bought the land in order to begin their dream of running an organic, sustainable farm. They devote 21.5 of their 34 acres to the practice of community-supported agriculture, or CSA. For those unfamiliar with the term, CSA allows communities to buy into a portion of the farm’s annual harvest in advance. This allows members, as the CSA produce-investors are called, to take home a share of the farm’s weekly harvest from spring clear through Thanksgiving. The variety shifts as the seasons progress, resulting in a broad range of choices for members throughout the membership year. That means

OPPOSITE AND ABOVE: IAN TALIAFERRO PLUCKS AND CUTS AN EARLY QUEEN CANTALOUPE AT TALIAFERRO FARM IN NEW PALTZ.

plenty of watermelon come the months of August through mid-October. Taliaferro says he chose to grow the well-known sugar baby melon for its sweet, crisp flesh—characteristics that no doubt lend to its popularity. Of the 21.5 acres he farms for produce, roughly three-quarters of an acre is devoted to the fruit. Taliaferro plants them in May to avoid the heavy rains and cold weather that sometimes persist through April. It’s a paradox of the plant world that the watermelon, which obviously contains a great deal of water, doesn’t actually need much of it to grow. In fact, Taliaferro said, most of the diseases to which watermelons are prone are brought on by moisture. Too much water can encourage cucumber beetles, which leave little trail-like scars on melons, or can even cause the fruit to burst. It’s therefore imperative to plant watermelon in the right environment with proper irrigation. Successful crops yield a wealth of refreshing melons that are popular with consumers and producers alike. Paul Wigsten of Wigsten Farm in Pleasant Valley devotes two acres of his farm to five watermelon varieties, and lends additional acreage to Charentais melons (similar to cantaloupe) and honey-orange honeydews. This honeydew varietal has orange flesh, offers more flavor than most other honeydews, and has become a popular choice among melon lovers who appreciate a richer melon flavor. Although Wigsten Farm employs organic growing techniques with all of their produce, they don’t go through the lengthy certification process that Taliaferro Farms uses. Wigsten’s watermelon yield produces the sugar baby variety, as well as the lesser-known sunshine, new orchid, sorbet swirl, and heirloom moon-and-stars varieties. This broad varietal range allows for slightly different flavor profiles and more variation in color. The sweet flesh of sorbet swirl, for instance, looks just like it sounds: a swirl of red and yellow. The sunshine variety is yellow and the new orchid is orange. Add the striking moon-and-sstars, and you have a color variety that adds a splash to any dish or table set with the popular fruit. Wigsten’s produce appears at Millbrook Farmers’ Market and in Adam’s Fairacre Farm locations. With the watermelon’s popularity comes any number of wives’ tales on how to select a perfectly ripe, crisp, and juicy fruit. Some people choose to thump their watermelon in search of a hollow sound. Some roll them around

on a flat surface, looking for a uniform shape. Still others bounce them up and down in their hands, hoping to ascertain the melon’s ripeness by judging how heavy it is for its size. There are so many ways to pick a watermelon, in fact, that the task of choosing one can be confusing and lead to a less-than-perfect choice. Hoping to clear the confusion, Sylvester Taliaferro, Paul Wigsten, and Amy Goldman have all been happy to recommend some advice. For the best possible results, Taliaferro suggests you pick your own straight from the vine; start by selecting a healthy plant, then choose a watermelon whose stem-juncture is accompanied by a dry and curly tendril. If you don’t grow your own fruit, though, select a melon that comes straight from a trusted source. Membership in Taliaferro Farms’ program allows for that, as all of their produce is picked fresh by the people who run the farm daily. For those without access to the benefits of CSA membership, try Wigsten’s advice when you select melons at farmers’ markets and produce stands: Look for a yellow or orange spot on the belly of the melon. Any stem left on the fruit should come off easily without a lot of force. And lastly, check the rind for firmness to insure the melon you select isn’t overripe; soft melons should be left alone or you’ll be left with a mealy, mushy melon. For the more adventurous who still insist on perfection, Goldman suggests growing your own golden midget watermelon. Golden midgets have salmon-pink flesh, and you can easily detect when they’re perfectly ripe because the entire rind turns golden-yellow when ready. With such a visually obvious cue, it’s a wonder this heirloom variety isn’t a more popular choice at produce stands. The region is ripe with produce stands and farmers’ markets. While the coming of fall heralds changes in schedules and climates, it also provides a wonderful opportunity to experience locally grown melons. Stop by your local farmers’ market or join a CSA, pick up a melon, and see for yourself. An astounding variety of refreshing sweetness awaits you. Chef Bryan Tobias of Portofino Ristaorante in Staatsburg shares his recipe for Chef Bryan Tobias of Portofino Ristaorante in Staatsburg shares chilled watermelon soup. www.chronogram.com. his recipe for chilled watermelon soup at www.chronogram.com.

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HILLARY HARVEY

CREAM OF THE CROP A GUIDE TO HARVEST FESTIVALS Communities teem each autumn with celebrations of the harvest. Whether you enjoy beer, wine, cheese, or baked goods, our region is well known for its abundance of agricultural producers and culinary artisans. Make like the black bear (who can feed up to 20 hours per day preparing for winter) and take advantage of the smorgasbord sure to be provided by one of this year’s many food and drink festivals. (See festival websites for ticket prices.) The Hudson Valley Wine and Food Fest More than 200 wineries are slated for the sixth annual Hudson Valley Wine and Food Fest. Begin a weekend of indulgence with Friday’s Grand Reserve Tasting and Gallery Gala—sample vintages from Seneca Shores Wine Cellars of Penn Yan and Thousand Islands Winery of Alexandria Bay, two of 12 currently scheduled wineries. For a small fee ($1 to $3 per taste) savor the specialty dishes of seven restaurants, such as Terrapin of Rhinebeck, known for its extensive use of local produce. Art from the River Winds Gallery, among others, will be displayed in the gallery wing at the grand tasting and throughout the weekend. Besides all-day tastings on Saturday and Sunday, visitors can attend a seminar by author and “wine diva” Christine Ansbacher, who gives tips on food and wine pairing, as well as cooking demonstrations by “Iron Chef” winner Peter X. Kelly of Xaviar’s restaurant. The Hi Flyers will perform their eclectic musical stylings, which range from Cajun to swing to rhythm and blues, and the Meg Johnson Band will offer up bluegrass and country folk. September 7, 6 to 9pm, grand tasting. September 8, 12 to 6pm and September 9, 12 to 5pm, Wine Fest. Dutchess Count y Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.hudsonvalleywinefest.com. Family Farm Festival This festival is all about food—and the methods, farmers, and chefs behind it. A range of local, organic, and biodynamic foods will be served, and festival-goers can anticipate sampling grass-fed meats, spinach pies, artisan breads, farmstead cheeses, and vegetarian selections. The day is centered around the celebrity chef competition, where local chefs pair up with farms and square off against each other for visitor votes. This year’s teams are Jessica Winchell of Global Palate Restaurant and Cabbage Hill Farm; Adam Kaye of Blue Hill Restaurant and Northwind Farm; and the Culinary Institute of America’s Student Challengers and Elysian Fields Farm. Kids will enjoy the draft horse hay rides, animal arena, storytelling, and blacksmithing demonstrations, while parents can shop for honey, maple syrup, woolens, and handmade soaps amid the solar-powered live music of Big Sky Ensemble, Laurie Siegel, and more. September 9, 11am to 5pm. Epworth Center, High Falls. www.familyfarmfestival.com.

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International Wine Showcase and Auction This event opens with a patrons dinner at Caterina De Medici Restaurant, a Tuscan-style villa designed by Florentine architect Roberto Magris for the Culinary Institute of America. This gourmet dinner pairs five Italian courses with complementary wines: The second course, for example, couples a dish of anelli di crespelle gratinati con ricotta e spinaci (crepe rings au gratin with ricotta cheese and spinach) with Livio Felluga Pinot Grigio, an elegant wine with complex notes of wild rose, apricot, and anise. The dinner is punctuated by a crostata di frutta stagionale (a crisp tart shell topped with seasonal fruit) and Ceretto Moscato d’Asti, an aromatic and effervescent wine. Saturday’s events include wine and food tasting by a multitude of fine vineyards and restaurants—expect to swirl, smell, and sip Charton et Trebuchet, Charles Krug, and Bisol Jeio; and savor the culinary creations of Cosimo’s Trattoria, Sukothai, the Culinary Institute of America, and La Stazione. Scotch, wine, and food demonstrations are planned, including a cooking demo by Ric Orlando, proprietor of New World Home Cooking. A live auction follows the tastings; bid on an African safari package, a VIP tour and tasting at California’s Bouchaine Vineyards, a collection of Biale wines, and more. September 14, 7pm. Patrons dinner, Caterina De Medici Restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park. September 15, 12:30 to 4pm tasting, 4:30pm auction. Culinar y Institute of America, Hyde Park. www.greystoneprograms.org/WineShowcase.htm. Taste of New Paltz For its past 16 years, the annual Taste of New Paltz outdoor food festival has been offering up the culinary diversity of the village in one stop. Featuring the talents of over 30 restaurants, breweries, wineries, and farm markets, the event is sure to please the most varied of palates. Go Japanese with a roll from Zagat-rated Neko Sushi, enjoy a vegetarian delicacy from Karma Road, or try the locally and seasonally inspired cuisine of Bywater Bistro. Whitecliff Winery, whose name and label is a tribute to the white Silurian quartz cliffs overlooking New Paltz, will be serving wine among a variety of other vineyards, including Baldwin, Adair, and Rivendell. Kids activities include face painting, inflatable rides, balloons, and a special interactive program called “Fun with Energy,” which explores light, sound, solar power, electricity, and kinetic energy. Visitors can browse among the paintings, photography, ceramics, and handcrafted jewelry of local artisans while regional bands like The Trapps, Lemonade Grenade, and The Sugar Bees play live. A country store will offer a variety of goodies and a wellness and recreation section will provide info and demonstrations throughout the day. September 16, 11am to 5pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.tasteofnewpaltz.com.

Hudson Valley Garlic Festival Tour the world of garlic right in Saugerties: German white, Italian purple stripe, Korean red, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Spanish roja—all these and more await you at the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival. Last year’s festival stomped records with 125 garlic vendors offering bulbs, braids, wreaths, and seed stock. The marketplace is known for its gigantic assortment of garlic-infused products, ranging from the foreseeable—pickles, pesto, rubs—to more bizarre finds like garlic biscotti, ice cream, and even cotton candy. Named as one of the top 10 regional festivals by USA Today in 2002, the garlic fest is just as famous for its quality entertainment and chef demonstrations as it is for purveying pungent bulbs. Check the festival website for a list of musicians, cooking demos, crafters, and kids activities. September 29, 10am to 6pm and September 30, 10am to 5pm. Cantine Field, Saugerties. www.hvgf.org. Warwick Applefest L ast year, 40,0 0 0 people at tended the War wick Applefest, and perused the wares of more than 275 crafters and artisans. Stained glass, handcrafted jewelry, pottery, woodcarvings, and other crafts will be displayed in numerous locations throughout Warwick. Visitors can indulge in Greek and Creole foods or stick with dependable cider donuts, cookies, and cakes. October 7, 10am to 5pm. Vendors are located throughout Warwick. www.warwickapplefest.com. The New York Sheep and Wool Festival If working with wool is your favorite pastime, “ewe” shouldn’t miss the New York Sheep and Wool Festival. Attracting vendors from as far away as Canada and Texas, the festival has an immense list of merchants, exhibitions, and competitions scheduled for October’s third weekend. On October 20, a number of demonstrations are planned, including rug braiding, sock knitting, and felting; and animal shows like an angora goat show, a llama and alpaca farm display, and assorted canine presentations. The “Make it Yourself with Wool” competition begins at 10am, and ends with entrants sashaying down the runway for a fashion show of their own all-wool creations. Scheduled for October 21 are white- and colored-wool sheep shows, a cashmere goat show, and entertainment by Steve Charney and Harry, a magic, music, and ventriloquism act. Other non-wool activities will appease those less appreciative of animal fibers; a “punkin’ chuckin’” contest, a gem and mineral show, miniature golf, a petting zoo, and a corn husk doll-making seminar will also be offered. Let’s not forget about food—representatives of the American Cheese Society will make an appearance and there will be wine tasting, specialty foods, and cooking demonstrations. October 20, 9am to 6pm, and October 21, 10am to 5pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.sheepandwool.com.

Come spend a day or a weekend & enjoy our farms, wineries, the arts, restaurants, B&Bs, antique shops and many unique businesses. (Selections featured below)

Savor our Hudson Valley local harvest. A bounty of fresh produce, wines, homemade goods, attractions and much more. Singles, couples, families and groups there’s something to satisfy everyone’s palette.

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Specialty Farms

Wineries

Dubois Farm 209 Perkinsville Road, Highland, NY 12528 845 795-4037

Willow Tree Flower Farm 300 Willow Tree Road, Milton, NY 12547 917 282-2453

Benmarl Winery at Slate Hill Vineyards 156 Highland Avenue, Marlboro, NY 12542 845 236-4265

Cuisine

Cuisine

B&B / Spa

Hudson Baking Co. & Café 26 Main Street, Milton, NY 12547 845 795-2024

Brickhouse of Marlboro 1 King St., Marlboro, NY 12542 845 236-3765

The Studio At Stephanie’s 42 Main St., Milton, NY 12547 845 795-2156

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Sept. 15-16, 23, 29 &30 Hudson River Valley Ramble Sept. 28-30 & every weekend in October Harvest Celebration – Farms, Wineries, Restaurant,& the Arts Oct 6th 10am – 4pm Participating in the Heart of the Hudson Valley Bounty Festival November 3rd – Art Show Benefit Gala

Southern Ulster Center for the Arts/ Madeline’s Dance Center

Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Rd., Milton, NY 845 795-1310

P.O. Box 960, Marlboro, NY 12542 845 236-7989

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From The Thruway (I-87): Take the NY State Thruway (I-87) to exit 17 (Newburgh). Take I-84 East to exit 10 (Rt. 9W). Turn left on Rt. 9W North. From The Palisades Parkway: Take the Palisades Parkway to Bear Mountain Circle. Take Rt. 9W North. Come through Newburgh. Stay on Rt. 9W and go under the I-84 overpass. From the I-84 overpass, go North on Rt. 9W. From The Taconic or Rt. 684: Take the Taconic or Rt. 684 to I-84 West. Go over the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge and take exit 10N onto Rt. 9W North. Go North on Rt. 9W.

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Where will you get your Local this Winter?

Join us for a WINTER SHARE full of HEALTHY delicious frozen produce from HUDSON VALLEY FARMS. Shares are limited!

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SUNFROST of Woodstock salutes all of our Hudson Valley Farmers. They are the source of our beautiful fruits and vegetables.

Thank you.

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Wild Hive Farm est.1982

Bakery, Micro Mill and Log-grown Shiitake COME TO SPROUT CREEK FARM MARKET! Grass-fed cheese from our own Guernsey and Jersey Cows... Free from artificial antibiotics and hormones

Specializing in small batch millings, artisan baking, and food products using our own freshly milled stone-ground whole germ our from local organic grains. Grown, Milled, and Baked in Dutchess County.

While you’re here you can also pick up... Grass Fed Pork, Veal, and Beef as well as Remsberger Farms Honey and Maple Syrup.

“Our mission is to help build sustainable communities through providing food products made with the local organic bounty of the Hudson Valley.�

Come meet all of our cows, sheep, goats, and ducks! 34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie NY 12603 www.sproutcreekfarm.org ~ 845-485-9885 ~ cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org Wednesday–Saturday 10–6

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ANTIQUES Outback Antiques Find that shabby chic look in our 125-year-old barn. We have all your indoor and outdoor decorating needs. Don’t forget the wonderful antique and vintage clothing and fancy linens and lace. 72 Hurley Ave. Kingston, NY 12401. (845) 331-4481. OPEN 10AM-5PM, Closed Tues. & Sun.

Van Brunt Gallery

on the go. Designed, installed, and maintainanced, fully

Exhibiting the work of contemporary artists. Featuring abstract painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new shows each month. The innovative gallery Web site has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work. 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-2995. www.vanbruntgallery.com.

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APPLIANCES Earl B. Feiden Appliances A full-service appliance store with a long history in the community and pioneers of the home-appliance industry. We provide premium products, premium service, and stock name-brand appliances. Our commitment to customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of our business. Visit us when you decide to shop for your next appliance at 661 Broadway, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-2230 or 785 Route 9, Latham, NY 12110, (518) 785-8555.

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

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

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) 6870888. chrissy@pearlartsgallery.com. www.pearlartsgallery.com. 86

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Esotec Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 21 years, we carry a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas,

River Stone Antiques & Design Center Featuring 10,000 square feet of elegant booths and showcases of fine antiques, mid-century furniture, and decorative accessories in the newly renovated historic Stone Building. In addition there is River Stone Arts, a spectacular 10,000-square-foot gallery of sculpture, paintings, and mixed media installations with new shows regularly. 37 West Broad Street, Haverstraw, NY. Hours 11-6 Fri-Sun. For information contact: (845) 786-8600 (River Stone Antiques), (917) 532-3090 (River Stone Arts).

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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 Art Supply Since 1962, big-city selection and small-town service have made Manny’s special. We offer a full range of art materials, craft and bookmaking supplies, as well as the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store. 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-9902.

iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now! (845) 246-2411. www.esotecltd.com.

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

BICYCLE SALES / RENTALS / SERVICE Overlook Mountain Bikes Open everyday except Tuesday, 10-6, 11-5 on Sunday. Brands: Kona, Giant, Marin, Scott, Seven Cycles, Intense Cycles, Vicious Cycles, Mondonico/Torelli. Friendly, Integral sales repairs, and rentals. Professional bicycle

R & F Handmade Paints

fitting on site. Come check out Woodstock for the day

Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery. 84 Ten Broeck Ave., Kingston, NY. (845) 3313112. www.rfpaints.com.

and see for yourself why Overlook Mountain Bikes was

Terenchin Fine Art

The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore,

Ether. Inaugural show explores the notion change is the only constant. International artist roster includes Hudson River painters of the 19th century, contemporary photographers, Formalist sculptors. May 12 - July 8. 462 Main St, Catskill, NY 518-943-5312. Opening Saturday, May 12, 6pm.

providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that

AUTOMATED WATERING SYSTEMS

voted Best Bicycle Shop in the Hudson Valley in 2006! 93 Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498. (845) 679-2122.

BOOKSTORES Mirabai of Woodstock

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, NY. (845) 6792100. www.mirabai.com.

Oblong Books & Music A true general bookstore, Oblong stocks the best and

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Custom Automated Watering Systems for gardens and lawns. Gives you controlled watering where you want it and when you need it. Perfect for time saving and water savings that is more important that ever. These systems are ideal for weekend homeowners and people

than a great bookstore, also offering the region’s best selection of music. Our CD Club rewards you with a free CD with very ten purchased. Open every day. 6422 Montgomery St. Suite 6, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-0500. www.oblongbooks.com.

BUILDING SUPPLIES

CRAFTS

Williams Lumber & Home Centers

Crafts People

The name you know and the name you trust. Our Design Centers are located at our Rhinebeck and Millbrook locations. Come meet with our outstanding design team and start creating your perfect kitchen or bath today! www. williamslumber.com. 317 Kyserike Road, High Falls, NY 12440. (845) 687-7676. 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. (845) 876-WOOD. 3679 Route 9, Hudson, NY 12534. (518) 851-3641.

CARPETS / RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine Best Carpets. Direct importers since 1981. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets; Balouchi tribal kilims; Russian sumaks; antique Caucasian carpets; silk Persian sumaks; Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/ AmEx. 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-5311.

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Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver & 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY. (845) 331-3859. www.craftspeople.us.

CUSTOM HOME DESIGNERS Atlantic Custom Homes Atlantic Custom Homes is an independent distributor of Lindal Cedar Homes, the world’s largest manufacturer of quality cedar homes. Lindal is known around the world for their signature post and beam home designs, quality building materials and detailed craftsmanship. We believe that your home should be a realization of your wishes. We take the time to explore them with you, and to develop your design in accordance with those wishes, your budget, and your property. (845) 265-2636.

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Dog Love, LLC Upstate Films Showing provocative international cinema, contemporary and classic, and hosting filmmakers since 1972 on two screens in the village of Rhinebeck, NY. 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2515.

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Personal Hands-On Boarding and Daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised playgroups in 40 x 40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats. 240 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-8254. www.dogloveplaygroups.com.

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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; all sizes accepted. Featuring a diverse and illuminating jewelry collection. Conveniently located at 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge. (845) 635-3115. www.pastnperfect.com.

The Present Perfect Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers. 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2939.

FARMS Blackberry Hill Farm Growing and producing beautiful luxury fleeces and yarns from the beautiful llamas, alpacas, sheep, and angora rabbits that are cared for on our family farm.The Llama Garden is a year round, hands-on program that entertains and educates children about llamas and other fiber producing animals. Includes story-telling, animal husbandry, a history of llamas, and crafting a project with llama and sheep fiber to take home. Join a day or weekend retreat of fiber animals and knit, crochet, spin, or felt. Springtime brings lambing and shearing and the beginnings of the greenhouse, specializing in herb and perennial plants. Summer is a full schedule of farmers’ markets and fairs. Relax in the flourishing gardens, which provide peace, beauty and comfort. During Fall, we prepare the farm for winter and attend the New York State Sheep & Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY in October, and several holiday fairs and boutiques throughout December. Winter is the time for woodstoves, baking, and the

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holidays. From February to March, we harvest and cook maple sap down to the syrup at the Sugar Shack. We invite you to join our retreats and enjoy many activities in knitting, crocheting, felting and spinning classes, and other workshops. Participate in a typical day of a working fiber farm‚ or just relax. Allow us to treat you to a great day sitting by the beautiful garden, spending time with the animals, or keeping warm by the fire. All retreat programs include a nutritional midday meal and snack, using homegrown, local, and organic products. Blackberry Hill Farm, A Wooly Nice Place to Be! 156 Bells Pond Road, Hudson, NY 12534. (518) 851-7661. bhf@taconic.net. www.blackberryhillfarm.org.

more than a 1,000 different styles and sizes in stock.

GARDENING & GARDEN SUPPLIES

LUMBER & WOOD PRODUCTS

Mac’s Agway in Red Hook/New Paltz Agway

www.Ghent Wood Products

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

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At Phantom we provide everything you need to create and enjoy an organic, beautiful landscape. Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff will help you choose from an unbeatable selection of herbaceous or woody plants, garden products, and books. We offer professional design, installation, and maintenance services. Visit us! Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-8606. www.thephantomgardener.com.

sharpening and engraving services. 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY 12722. (845) 876-6207. www.warrenkitchentools.com.

LANDSCAPING

ICU Publish ICU Publish specializes in intensive care graphic design. On-site personalized consultation and training for both Mac and PC’s, Web design and publishing with customized data base driven websites created with the artist in mind. Limited-edition book publishing, artist’s books, portfolios, dummys, proposals, business reports, manuscript editing, off-site or on-site freelance editing available. Contact: info@icupublish.com. Visit www.icupublish.com.

Landscape, construction, consulting, design, masonry, project management. woodstockbob@aol.com. (845) 679-1095.

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

MARKETING Chill Media North A full-service integrated marketing, publicity, and viral

Pathways Mediation Center We are a unique mediation practice for couples going has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-petplant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable housesitting for your pets. (845) 687-0330. www.pussyfootlodge.com.

A Hudson Valley based photographer dedicated to documenting weddings in a candid and creative style. While remaining unobtrusive she is able to capture key, quiet and personal moments of the event. Please call for rates and availability. (917) 449-5020. www.chinajorrin.com.

Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a

France Menk Photography

Guidance Counselor working with families and children.

our one-hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on

Events / Portraits / Advertising / Fine Art. Private instruction in the art of photography: for all levels of experience. (845) 750-5261. iam@france-menk.com. www.france-menk.com.

the web at www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com. (845)

Michael Gold

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Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish, off-the-wall personalities. Complete studio facilities and lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional. Unconditionally guaranteed. The Corporate Image Studios, New Paltz, NY. (845) 2555255. www.michaelgoldsphotos.com and click onto the Headshots page.

This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use

MOVING & STORAGE

Accurate - Free Estimates. 85 Grand Street, Kingston, NY.

MUSIC Burt’s Electronics

HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING

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Hearth n Home

album and let them teach you how to choose the right

Take what you’re good at and marry it to your passion. That’s how we created Hearth n Home. Our vision — a holistic business that addresses all aspects of making your house a home; repairs/upkeep to additions/ renovations; fantastic dinner parties to a quiet evening at home with loved ones. www.hnhgateway.com.

audio equipment for your listening needs. 549 Albany

above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite

Avenue, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5011.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

PIANOS Adam’s Piano Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck) showroom. Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices, pictures at www.adamspiano.com. A second showroom will be opening in New Paltz in November. Superb service, moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos! (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326. www.adamspiano.com.

(845) 338-5984. www.deeplistening.org.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild wguild@ulster.net.

Warren Kitchen & Cutlery

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China Jorrin Photography

34 Tinker St. Woodstock NY. (845) 679-2079.

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(845) 437-5902. Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, NY. befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu.

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Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls

Located in historic Rhinebeck, in New York’s beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley, Warren Kitchen & Cutlery is a true kitchenware emporium — a place where inspired chefs and cooking enthusiasts can find their favorite cutlery, cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and serving pieces for home or restaurant. Knives are our specialty; we have

Lehman-Loeb Art Center / Powerhouse Theater

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(845) 339-5676. www.allwaysmovingandstorage.com.

KITCHENWARES

PERFORMING ARTS

beyond. (845) 750-5789. empress@chillmedianorth.com.

Nectar Fairtrade Items & Unique Gifts from Around the World. (845) 687-2870, Rt. 213. High Falls. www.nectarimports.com.

We sell North American perennials, shrubs, trees, & fruits. Native plants are a natural choice for woodland, meadow, and wetland gardens—and the flower borders around your house. Native plants are ornamental, easy to maintain, and provide food and habitat for birds, butterflies, bees—and yourself.

guerrilla tactical company for the Hudson River Valley and

Allways Moving & Storage

HOME DECOR

Catskill Native Nursery

Robert George Design Group

through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz

GRAPHIC DESIGN

NURSERIES

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omeone overhearing snippets of my conversation with David Kramer might have thought we were talking about spiritual growth when he said, “The whole purpose of being a healthy human being is to fulfill the higher purposes of our existence.” Or this: “We are the embodiment of the Earth, of nature. We have the same proportion of materials in our body that exists on planet Earth; water, minerals—that’s all in our system. So if we understand how nature works, we understand how our nature works.” But David Kramer was explaining his field of expertise: classical homeopathy. When homeopathic treatment eliminated his own debilitating, chronic allergies, he was convinced that something remarkable was afoot in this approach that pharmaceutically based medical treatments weren’t providing. Now, a few decades later, Kramer is a fully invested, exuberant homeopathic practitioner in a field he says is alive and well. “When I started studying in the mid ’70s, there were 250 homeopaths in the US,” he recalls. “Now there are probably 5,000 to 10,000.” Kramer is the founder of Hudson Valley School of Classical Homeopathy, dedicated to maintaining the highest of standards in the homeopathic healing arts by training practitioners and others interested in the healing process. “The mission of our school is to educate all people about the many reasons they become ill, on all levels.” He sees that people want to be empowered about their health, and knows they can be. “With a new paradigm shift of health and healing through homeopathy, people can finally gain access to some of the hidden aspects of themselves to unlock their own potential to heal.” Kramer’s vision is to open a holistic hospital and integrative medical center in the Hudson Valley that combines the best of conventional medicine, homeopathic care, nutrition, and other healing modalities for mind and spirit. Lest you think that homeopathy is a New Age phenomenon, it is not. Developed in the late 1700s by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, homeopathy was widely popular in Europe and immigrated to the United States, where it became the first system of organized medicine in this country. During the 1800s and 1900s in the United States there were more than 100 homeopathic hospitals and 14 homeopathic medical colleges. In 1900 in Washington, DC, home of monuments to the great, a bronze statue of Hahnemann was built just a few blocks from the White House to honor the man’s contributions.

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But homeopathy dissipated to a whisper in this country early in the 1900s. “Homeopaths did not practice the highest and purest standards of classical homeopathic treatments,” says Kramer. “Certain reports came out that cast a dark cloud over it, and it fell out of favor. Allopathic medicine and pharmaceuticals filled the gap and got the homeopaths out quickly.” The resurgence in homeopathy today is driven by citizens’ desires for holistic approaches to healing and wellness, and by dissatisfaction with the conventional medical system, including drug side effects and recalls. You may know of homeopathy from seeing little vials on the shelf of a natural food store, or maybe even a mainstream pharmacy. Those remedies are a small aspect of the approach—and not a very representative one. Larry Malerba, a doctor of osteopathy in Altamont and a trained homeopath, says that there are several ways a consumer encounters homeopathy. “The novice will use remedies he got at the health food stores for simple problems, such as a cold, a bruise, or a sprained ankle,” he explains. But the off-the-shelf remedies aren’t what classical homeopathy is all about. They are typically made from many substances to affect a particular general symptom or condition. By contrast, classical homeopathy applies a single remedy, prepared from one substance, and carefully chosen on an individual basis through precise, detailed evaluation of the person’s condition. Peter Fallon, a functional medicine consultant and pharmacist at the Fallon Wellness Pharmacy in Latham, who has some training in homeopathy, explains: “A classical homeopath will analyze the characteristics of a cough and of other symptoms and choose one remedy—a constitutional remedy—that is given once to see how the body adjusts. The good homeopaths have been out there for decades with a huge body of knowledge. It’s an art.” As for the remedies you can pick up yourself, Fallon says, “Because of the low-side-effect or no-side-effect profile with homeopathy, companies have provided the consumer with this option. You can walk into a health food store and pick something off the shelf for a cough. It’s consumer-friendly, but in essence it kind of defies what classical homeopathy is trying to do.”

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and dismally ineffective treatments were standard fare. Hahnemann recognized that there was no experimental basis for these, and reasoned it would be better to help the body do its own healing. He coined the pair of terms, allopathy and homeopathy, to describe the very different strategies in the concept of healing a body. The first used treatments unlike the body’s own healing physiology (allo- means other), the second used those treatments to enhance the body’s self-healing capacity (homeo- refers to same). Hahnemann developed the latter approach through extensive experiments, called provings, in which he observed and accurately recorded how healthy people reacted to homeopathic preparations made from plants, minerals, and animals. Hahnemann found that each substance created a set of specific symptoms, from which the person would then recover as the body reestablished its healthy balance. This key is the homeopathic law of similars, which posits that like cures like. In a healthy person, a substance can aid in healing if it creates symptoms closely matched by the illness. For example, a homeopathic preparation derived from Allium cepa (red onion) produces sneezing, watery eyes, and scratchy throat in a healthy person, and thus becomes one of the curative remedies for the symptoms in hay fever. The Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States (the official compendium listing today’s homeopathic preparations approved by the FDA) captures this foundational concept by defining homeopathy as “the art and the science of healing the sick by using substances capable of causing the same symptoms, syndromes, and conditions when administered to healthy people.” Homeopathy is more than giving remedies to support the body to heal what’s causing symptoms. It is truly a holistic practice. “People suffer on many levels,” Kramer says. “It took me more than 15 years to call myself a healer, which is to understand the human organism on all its four essential levels: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Homeopathy treats people; we don’t treat symptoms. Symptoms are merely the sign of what is called the vital force, the life force.” It is an ailing vital force that produces symptoms, he says, “just like a house will produce ‘symptoms’ if it’s left unattended. The paint will begin to flake, mold might be growing, it will become dilapidated, showing symptoms of ill repair. It may be sound, structurally, and the symptoms superficial. But, on the other hand, those symptoms may indicate dry rot or wet rot eating away at the infrastructure. That’s why someone drops dead on the golf course; because the infrastructure has been slowly eroding away.” By contrast, Kramer continues, “Allopathic, or conventional, medicine deals with only the physical body and the outwardly showing symptoms that cause enough distress that the person needs to seek attention—what we call the presenting symptoms. It doesn’t really take into account the psychological [aspect of a person], other than referring you to a psychiatrist. It rarely takes the emotional into account, and it never takes the spiritual into account.” Kramer and Malerba are quick to point out that medical doctors, however, have important roles to play. They collect valuable information about a person’s physical state. “I like to get good and accurate medical diagnoses [from a patient’s doctor],” says Kramer. “That helps me know to what degree the physical body has been impaired, and whether, for example, someone has asthma and not emphysema,” which are two very different airway afflictions that compromise breathing.

SEEING THE WARNING SIGNS Kramer puts a lot of responsibility on the homeopath to do his or her job well (something that, when done less well, only fuels the fire of doubt about the approach). What makes a good homeopathic practitioner? Kramer has several criteria. “A homeopath must be able to truly observe, to see people,” he says. To accomplish that, an initial appointment typically lasts two hours. During that time, questions and conversation reveal traits, concerns, history, and symptoms within all facets of one’s being, not just the physical. Being a good homeopath takes many years of learning and experience. In addition, Kramer advocates that practitioners “follow the golden rule of ‘Healer, heal thyself.’ I think we have to live an exemplary life—not that we’re going to be perfect, but I think we have to be healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The homeopath needs to first heal themself in order to see other people.” A hallmark of homeopathy is to see signs of a weakened vital force before a full-blown acute situation or chronic condition arises. “Nobody gets sick suddenly,” Kramer explains. “If there’s a tsunami because of an earthquake, it takes thousands of years for those plates to shift. As a homeopath, I can see the plates shifting before they crack. Hopefully, I can prevent the cracking. And if I can’t

do that, maybe I can prevent the subsequent damage.” He gives this example. “A man works a job for 40 years, retires, goes down and plays golf six months later, and then drops dead of a heart attack. That heart attack doesn’t happen suddenly. There were signs. Maybe he wasn’t sleeping well; maybe he was depressed; maybe his mouth had been dry for a period of time; or he had some mild skin eruptions. Nature never obscures anything. If you can see the signs, then you can treat the disease. We’re trained to see the signs.” He says that typically in our culture, we go to a doctor only when the catastrophe’s already struck. “The tsunami has already happened, and now you have to go and fix that.”

THE NATURE OF A REMEDY We are all familiar with getting prescriptions for an ailment. That is what conventional doctors are trained to do and supposed to do. We take ourselves in when symptoms get unmanageable, and the doctor observes, perhaps does tests, makes a diagnosis, and prescribes medicine. If a medication could influence a patient’s symptoms and is not prescribed, the doctor risks being sued. A homeopathic remedy is chosen from an analysis of the person’s presenting symptoms and feelings—not just physical, but those of the emotional, psychological, and spiritual realms. But skeptics of homeopathy say the remedy can’t have anything specific to do with the outcome (unless it’s a placebo effect). This denouncement of homeopathic remedies comes from how they are made and what they contain—and don’t contain. Homeopathic remedies are made through a series of dilutions that contains a material (such as a plant or mineral), while tapping, or succussing, the solution to capture the energy of the material. It is the captured energy that is said to be effective, not the original source material. Current methods of measuring those materials in a remedy typically detect none. This is in stark contrast to pharmacological preparations (and also herbal extracts in tinctures, capsules, and essential oils), which are highly concentrated forms of the source material. Working with energy as a healing strategy is not new; it’s paramount in many cultures’ systems of medicine, such as traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. But that has not been a component of allopathic medicine; most Western doctors deny that such an energy system exists. Malerba helps the uninitiated cast doubt aside. “We live in a materialistic culture. We only believe in that which we can see and touch with our hands, he says. “The interesting paradox is that you have a lot of diagnostics based on energy—energy is used in CT scans, MRIs, X-rays, et cetera. But it’s dismissed when it comes to the notion of using energy to heal illness. If you believe in physics and energy, then it’s very reasonable to believe that a dose is not a physical/chemical entity, but an energetic property, and that in illness a person is struggling with an energetic pattern or vortex they can’t get out of. So all the symptoms are manifestations of a distortion of their energy field. The right treatment would help restore that back to balance. Homeopathy is all about energy medicine. With energy, you can change things down to a cellular, molecular level—that’s what runs our bodies. It can reverse chronic illness. Lots of patients do very well.” To the critics, homeopaths calmly say, “Just try it.” Malerba is confident that “If the skeptical scientist were to give it a chance, and not dismiss it because it doesn’t make rational sense to them, they would find it to work. I’ve observed that it does, for 20 years. Anyone with exposure to homeopathy, who tries it for a few simple things, can’t help but notice the results.” What’s more, remedies are safe. They don’t have side-effect profiles like pharmaceuticals do. (The substances from which the remedies are made do, of course, have detectible physical effects before they are diluted.) Further, Malerba emphasizes, all the homeopathic remedies are FDA approved and regulated. RESOURCES David Kramer, MEd, classical homeopath, founder of the Hudson Valley School of Classical Homeopathy. (845) 255-6141; www.classicalhomeopathy.com Larry Malerba, DO, homeopath, Guilderland/Altamont. (518) 357-4210; www.docmalerba.com. Peter Fallon, functional medicine consultant. Fallon Wellness Pharmacy, Latham. (800) 890-1137; (518) 220-2005; www.fallonpharmacy.com.

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CREATING FROM YOUR CENTER INSPIRATION THROUGH YOGA AND AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT BY LORRIE KLOSTERMAN ILLUSTRATION BY JASON CRING

It was a dark and stormy night when…when…the rain fell like…like cats and dogs, and the wind howled like a wolf that…that…Oh, heck, forget it. I gotta do laundry, anyway. Getting vibrant, unique expressions onto paper can be tough. The same is true for creations in the visual arts, music, dance, or any imaginative expression. It’s no fun when the inspirational well has run dry—rather, when the universe of creative stardust has been sucked into a black hole. When that happens, it’s tempting to force progress by thinking about how stuck we are, and how we must make ourselves get unstuck. Then the analytical mind becomes another barrier—or worse, a hostile critic. “I’m a freelance editor,” says Daia Gerson of Marbletown. “Language comes easily to me, and I’ve worked on others’ books for years and years.” But she also longed to write her own material. “When it came to doing anything from my own imagination,” she recalls, “I always got stuck right at the beginning. I was always thinking, ‘This is not worth anything.’” Then she found Yoga as Muse, a process created by Jeff Davis. Davis is an Accord-based writing coach, workshop leader, consultant, and author of The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing. Since Gerson joined Davis’s once-weekly summer workshop, she’s seen a turnaround. “This is the first time in my whole life I’ve been able to enjoy writing,” she says. “It just comes out, it just flows.” Davis’s consulting service, Center to Page, has helped many professional writers of fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, speeches, and poets birth richer, more satisfying (and acclaimed) creations. And Davis is currently running the first longterm study of yoga’s effects on students’ creative productivity, with students from the Masters of Fine Arts program at Western Connecticut State University. 94 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

“Yoga helps writers become more aware of how to elicit insight from their own imagination, their intellect, and their emotions,” Davis explains. The process takes you to “the borderlands of consciousness, where boundaries of interior and exterior, joy and sorrow, self and other, and of magic and reality all overlap.” To reach those borderlands, Davis guides people in a three-step sequence: Set an intention for a creative session; engage in yogic upaya (skillful means) to breathe life into the intention; and then express what emerges through your chosen form (such as writing, song, dance, or photography). Using the example of enriching one’s writing, the steps of a Yoga as Muse session would go like this: First, sit in a relaxed position (adamantine pose, or vajrasana) and take several full breaths as you set your intention. The intention might answer the question, “What am I writing for?” Your response might be “I intend to describe a thunderstorm as though it were really alive” or “I intend to receive insight to improve the opening of chapter three.” Even something like “I intend to listen to my body” will birth a different outcome to one’s writing than would sitting at a piece of paper with the thought, “I have to conjure up something remarkable to describe a storm!” Next is the upaya segment of the session—a series of activities to bring the intention into the creative work. For instance, in a recent Yoga as Muse session, Davis led participants through a yoga asana (posture) sequence and breathing patterns to specifically boost concentration, stamina, and persistence. Davis says of the sequence, “It’s situated in the lower body. It works to quiet the congress up there [in the mind] if it’s loud. This is what I do every morning. If I don’t, I write for maybe an hour, and then I get tired. And then I fall into all my old patterns. I go eat something, I’ve got to alphabetize my books again, or get my study really clean,” he laughs. After perhaps 20 or 30 minutes of upaya, including additional techniques such as meditation and imagery to focus inward, and on the senses to expand

awareness outward, the writer begins to express in words what is emerging. Returning periodically to upaya activities helps keep the flow going, or boost it in a different direction. The results are often startlingly different from an analytical approach to writing. Of the power of yoga to inspire, Davis says it doesn’t take much. For instance, simply taking the yoga position of downward-facing dog—supporting oneself on straightened arms and legs, bent at the waist and head downward— can shift things. “Forward bends generate images from a more intuitive insight,” Davis explains. “They are calming, and you’re not projecting your persona, your self, into the world. You’re moving within, moving some parts of the back, and the back of the mind, the emotional, limbic system.” Carrie Ward Kelly, a certified kundalini yoga instructor in Beacon, agrees that “yoga is an excellent way of tapping into your core spirit and letting it shine.” She gives retreats jointly with her partner, Stacey Ward Kelly, to nourish creativity through yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditations, and exercises in writing and in art, including clay sculpture, painting, and mixed media. “The essence of each human being is creative,” says Carrie. “Yoga finds that creative potential. You are connecting to your essence on a very spiritual and energetic plane, and expressing that in the fullest way possible.” And it doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a creative person or not. “In being yourself utterly,” she assures, “the creation comes.” Stacey Ward Kelly is founder and director of the Beacon Art Salon and The Art Room, also in Beacon, and is a professional photographer, visual artist, teacher, and creative writer. “One of the ways I’ve learned how to teach art is to teach to multiple intelligences,” she explains. “Each person has many different strengths, including kinesthetic.” She likes using Brain Gym exercises, a type of movement sequence that gets the body energized. “I get students standing, then squeezing themselves from head to toe, then patting themselves, then smoothing themselves. It’s a way to signal not only to your body but to your psyche that you are now doing something on purpose, specifically, for yourself. It’s a really good way to start with a clean slate, to begin your creativity.” Denie Whalen also uses movement in her art classes. An Albany-based occupational therapist with an MA in expressive arts, she is director of New York Expressive Arts, part of an international network of professionals whose goal is “to create opportunities for the use of the visual, kinesthetic, written, and performing arts as a way of opening to the deeper dimensions of life and the universal need for self-expression.” In her classes, Whalen might begin with authentic movement, a form of kinetic expression inspired by inner impulses. “We might have an introductory warm-up, then go into a period of free movement,” she illustrates. “It helps us get in touch with our inner landscape.” She has found that asking people to simply move a piece of fabric around is beneficial. “It helps people lose their self-consciousness about moving their bodies. We start with the fabric, and then, all of a sudden, we’re moving our bodies, too!” Whalen often draws on Gabriel Roth’s ecstatic dancing approach, using Roth’s “wave” sequence of five rhythm patterns—flow, staccato, stillness, lyric, and chaos—to inspire improvised movements. Each class participant finds the pattern that feels right for the day, and takes that into paint, clay, or other forms of expression. An example of how this can open deeper dimensions is exemplified in her class with a group of women who are working with serious personal issues. “They are turning their lives around,” Whalen says, and she is awed by the art they create. “Now they have imagery to work with. They are able to make visible what is invisible inside them.” RESOURCES Jeff Davis’s Yoga as Muse classes, retreats, and upcoming workshop “Borderlands: Writing, Yoga, and Consciousness” (October 3, 4, and 5 at Lifebridge Sanctuary in Rosendale). (845) 679-9441; www.centertopage.com. Stacey and Carrie Ward Kelly’s “Developing Your Creativity: A Yoga Art Retreat” (October 20 at Howland Cultural Center in Beacon). (845) 401-8798; www.giraffeandturtle.com. Denie Whalen’s “Expressive Painting” classes and expressive arts teacher trainings, (518) 434-2412; www.newyorkexpressivearts.com.

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

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. Kingston, (914) 3887789. Dylana@mindspring.com.

apothecary in Kingston; home office, gardens in Accord. (845) 339-5653. www.earthboundapothecary.com.

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC For the past 18 years, Dr. Hoon J. Park has been practicing a natural and gentle approach to pain management for conditions such as arthritis, chronic and acute pain in neck, back, and legs, fibromyalgia, motor vehicle and work-related injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, and more by integrating physical therapy modalities along with acupuncture. Dr. Hoon Park is a 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. Half mile south of the Galleria Mall. 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY. (845) 298-6060.

Mid-Hudson Acupuncture — William Weinstein, L.Ac. Relief from headache, migraine, arthritis, carpal tunnel, TMJ/TMD, repetitive strain, rotator cuff injury, and stressrelated syndromes stemming from the modern lifestyle. PAIN RELIEF IS OUR MISSION. Personalized, unhurried treatment tailored to your specific needs. New Paltz: 218 Main Street, (845) 2552070. Manhattan: 119 West 23rd Street, (212) 695-3565. www.mhacu.com.

Earthbound Apothecary & Acupuncture Center

Transpersonal Acupuncture

Creating health in partnership with nature. Our effective, informative natural healthcare services are based in the elegant and profound traditions of Chinese medicine. Apothecary specializes in Asian and native medicinal herbs (many local/organically - grown!), tinctures, teas, and more. Herbal Studies Classes begin in May. Main office,

Transpersonal Acupuncture is the practice of Jipala Reicher-Kagan L.Ac. Jipala is a New York state licensed acupuncturist and a graduate of TriState College of Acupuncture. She has completed a three year post-graduate study in Alchemical Acupuncture, which specializes in psychological and spiritual healing. She has over eight years of

experience working with a certified nutritionist and knowledge of Western herbology, homeopathic medicine, nutritional supplements and dietary/ lifestyle counseling. Her main goal is to restore balance and to facilitate the innate healing power within each of her clients. She focuses on connecting the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the self and breaking blocks that contribute to pain, disease, trauma, and lifestyle imbalances. She welcomes clients who are interested in relief from acute or chronic pain, Facial Rejuvenation treatments, and quitting smoking. Please call (845) 340-8625 to make an appointment or visit www.transpersonalacupuncture.com if you would like to learn more about Transpersonal Acupuncture and Jipala Reicher-Kagan.

psycho-spiritual group for women in recovery. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz, NY. (845) 485-5933.

CAREER & LIFE COACHING David W. Basch, PCC, CPCC — Transition Coach Get your life, business, or career unstuck and moving forward. You become clear about who you are, what you really want, and then get into action. Whatever you are up to in your career, business or key areas such as money and relationships, coaching can assist you in creating a fulfilling life and achieving goals. You’ll be more focused and present. If you want to be responsible for creating extraordinary results, contact David for a free session.

APOTHECARY

(845) 626-0444. dwbasch@aol.com.

Beginning Fall/Winter 2007 Monthly Introductory Workshops Convenient Weekend Format Manhattan Location Program Director: David Zemach-Bersin One of Moshe Feldenkrais’ Original Students The Feldenkrais Method is an internationally recognized approach to human development, learning and change. You will learn valuable tools for improving your health and well being, and the knowledge and skills necessary to help others as a Feldenkrais Practitioner. t Learn innovative and effective ways to improve posture, flexibility, coordination, vitality, and ease of movement, regardless of age or physical ability. t Enjoy profound psychological and emotional growth and relief from pain, tension, and stress. t Learn hundreds of effective techniques to help both adults and children with chronic pain, orthopedic and neurological problems. Feldenkrais Practitioners maintain independent practices and also work in physical therapy, psychotherapy, education, ergonomics, gerontology, massage therapy, theater, dance, music, and athletic performance.

www.dwbcoaching.com. Change is

Dr. Tom’s Tonics — A Modern Apothecary

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 Alcohol Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Essential Oils, and more. Product Catalog $1. Workshops and Internships. (845) 339-2562. www.monarda.net.

AROMATHERAPY

CHI KUNG - TAI CHI CHUAN Ada Citron, Taoist Counselor and Instructor Receive a clear introduction to the basics of Mantak Chia’s Healing Tao System and Chinese 5 Element Theory.

ner Smile and Microcosmic Orbit Meditations. Ada also studies with Master Li Jun Feng, Michael Winn, Sifu Fong Ha, Robert Peng, and James Shaw, and offers a variety of their standing and gently moving practices. (845) 3390589. www.adacitron.com.

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Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York

Facilitator: Amy Frisch, CSWR some insurances accepted space is limited

(845) 706-0229 CLEANING SERVICES, NONTOXIC Bless Your Hearth Cleaning and Organizing Service. Pet

See also Massage Therapy Directory. (845) 679-0512. japter@ulster.net. www.apteraromatherapy.com.

Sitting. Home/Business Blessings.

By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session

For more information or to request a free catalog of tapes and books call

transform stress into vital energy, the In-

Experienced, Professional, Non-Toxic

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

“David Zemach-Bersin is a master of all aspects of the Feldenkrais Method and the outcome is astounding.” – Gisela Moellmann, Ph.D.,Yale University

Learn the Six Healing Sounds which

Joan Apter

BODY-CENTERED THERAPY

“I have long been intrigued by this subtle form of retraining the nervous system, which I recommend to patients whose movement has been restricted by injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, fibromyalgia, or chronic pain.” – Andrew Weil, M.D.

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A vision of Dr. Tom J. Francescott, Naturopathic Doctor, Dr. Tom’s Tonics is inspired by the old apothecaries from years ago filled with cutting edge and professional grade products backed by the expertise and support of a Naturopathic Doctor. Walk into Dr. Tom’s Tonics and ask Dr. Tom or Dr. Winnie your health questions. Closed Wednesdays. (845) 876-2900.

inevitable; growth is optional.

Excellent References. (845) 706-8447. Soundofspheres@aol.com.

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

for more information

A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence: relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more. Group sessions include expressive art activities - it‛s not all talk!

Stuck? Blocked? Need a change? Wondering what’s next? Time for a career move? We have all been there from time to time. But you don’t have to stay there. My name is David Basch. I am a certified professional life and business coach. If you want to produce extraordinary results in your life, contact me for a free sample session at 845-626-0444 or visit www.dwbcoaching.com. Change is inevitable... growth is optional. It’s your call. PCC • Professional Certified Coach

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Mind/Body/Spirit Healing ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH ENERGY HEALING & MYSTERY SCHOOL Stone Ridge School begins Oct. 26, 2007

Ideal for those desiring personal growth and for health care professionals. CEUs available.

FREE Special Intro Evenings: SELF-HEALING WITH OLHT Sept. 6 & 17 New Paltz | Sept. 10 Saugerties | Sept. 19 Kingston | Sept. 20 Goshen | Sept. 24 Stone Ridge

Special Introductory Weekend: ACCESS YOUR HEALING POTENTIAL Sept. 29–30, 2007 Stone Ridge

Private OLHT Healing Sessions Available Call for information and registration: Nancy Plumer: 845-687-2252 | nplumer@hvi.net www.womenwithwisdom.com | www.onelighthealingtouch.com

REINVENTING OURSELVES Weekend Retreats for Women Passion – Deep Connection – Joyful Co-Creation Inner Spirit – Wholehearted Living

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Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition Holly’s Cooking Classes have been inspiring people to cook since 1999, and will inspire you too! We use seasonal, organic ingredients including produce from local farms. At the end of each class we sit around the table to enjoy a delicious feast. So come on your own or grab a friend, and join us for a great class that is sure to spark creativity in your kitchen! Visit www.nourishingwisdom.com or call (845) 687-9666 for a list of upcoming classes.

Tischler Family Dental Center With over 35 years experience, Tischler Dental is the leading team of dental care experts in the area. Dr. Michael Tischler is currently one of only two Board Certified Implant Dentists in the Hudson Valley Region of NYS and one of only 300 dentists in the world to have achieved this honor. Sedation dentistry, acupuncture with dental treatment, dental implant surgery, cosmetic makeover procedures and gum surgery are just a few of the many unique services

COSMETIC & PLASTIC SURGERY

Tischler Dental offers. Their practice philosophy is that each modality of dental treatment is performed by the

M. T. Abraham, MD, FACS – Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, PLLC

area. Working as a team, they deliver ideal dental care.

Yoga, Pilates, dance fitness, and tai chi in the pastoral splendor of the Emerson Spa. Bamboo floors, views of the Esopus Creek and a deck for outdoor classes.

Call for daily schedule. Membership not required for classes. Monthly Fitness Membership Starting at $65. ENERGY HEALING Nancy Plumer, MS — Energy/ Spiritual Healing & Sacred Ceremony Nancy is an intuitive healer, teacher, and guide. Integrates visualization, breath work and grounding with her hands-on touch to support physical,

Just 10 minutes from Woodstock. (845) 688-2828 | EmersonResort.com

emotional, and spiritual healing. She

DENTISTRY

has helped people with life-threatening illnesses as well as those who have

Philmont Family Dentistry

chosen the path of higher levels of

Caring, modern dental practice for year-round and second-home owners in Upper Hudson Valley (Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Albany, Rensselaer, Berkshire). A sophisticated urban practice in a beautiful rural setting, one mile from Taconic Parkway in Philmont. Restorations (crowns, bridges, veneers, implants), cosmetic dentistry (whitening, bonding), root canal, extractions, emergencies. Call for appointment. 1078 Rte. 217, Philmont, NY. (518) 672-4077. www.philmontfamilydentistry.com.

consciousness. A certified One Light

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

Equisessions® with Ada, a life-long

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

Healing Touch Instructor and Practitioner, a long time Kripalu yoga teacher and a gifted intuitive. Offices in New

Acupuncture by M.D.

Hoon J. Park, MD, P.C.

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

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Dr. Abraham is Double Board Certified and a Clinical Instructor in Facial Plastic Surgery. He is an expert in the latest minimally invasive techniques (Botox™, Restylane™, Thermage™, Thread Lifts, Lifestyle Lifts, IPL Laser Hair, & Vein Treatments), and specializes in rhinoplasty. Offices in Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, & NYC with affiliated MediSpas. (845) 454-8025. www.NYfaceMD.com.

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HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Offering Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Psychotherapy, Reiki, Dr. Hauschka Facials, Counseling, Restorative Yoga, and Kabbalistic Healing. Classes in Spontaneous Theater, Toning, NVC, Pathwork. Call for an appointment (845) 255-3337.

HOLISTIC HEALTH John M. Carroll, Healer John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the Godgiven gift of his hands. John has helped individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, including back problems and cancer. Remote healings and telephone sessions. Call for consultation. Kingston, NY. (845) 338-8420.

Omega Institute welcomes the local community as we celebrate 30 years of awakening the best in the human spirit. Join us for an evening event on our Rhinebeck campus or sign up for a women’s only Saturday workshop with holistic fitness expert Sierra Bender. www.eomega.org or (800) 944-1001.

HYPNOSIS Kary Broffman, RN, CH

JEWISH MYSTICISM/ KABBALAH Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC Kabbalistic Healing in person and long distance. 6 session Introduction to Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory. (845) 485-5933.

LIFECOACHING Jeanne Asma, LCSWR — Psychotherapist & Life Coach Certified Life Coach & Psychotherapist. I specialize in helping people have more satisfaction in all areas of their lives. Life coaching is a dynamic and exciting process that can help you achieve the life you dream about. Free initial phone consultation. Poughkeepsie area office or phone appointments available. (845) 4621182 or www.JeanneAsma.com .

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

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MASSAGE THERAPY

Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypno-

Ada Citron, LMT

tism, hypnocoaching with the National

876-6753.

A licensed practitioner since 1988, Ada currently prefers the modalities of Chi Nei Tsang, Chinese internal organ massage, and Shiatsu, pressure point massage. Classes offered in CNT. House call fees are commensurate with travel time. Kingston. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt.

Joan Apter

Increase self-esteem and motivation;

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 prod-

Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential. Hyde Park, NY. (845)

break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change your outlook. Gain Control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training;

G Y R O T O N I C

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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies

broad base in Psychology. New Paltz/ Kingston, NY. (845) 389-2302.

WWW.THEMOVINGBODY.COM 679-7715 276 TINKER ST, WOODSTOCK

Happy Fall! Yoga for Everyone: Intro, Basics, Community Class, Iyengar Method and Vinyasa Check our website for schedule

CENTER FOR YOGA & MEDITATION

403 Warren, 3rd Floor, Hudson, NY 518-828-1034 www.sadhanayogahudson.com

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net. www.apteraromatherapy.com.

Board Certified

MIDWIFERY Catskill Mountain Midwifery — Home Birth Services

Apter. (845) 679-0512. japter@ulster.

Give birth as you wish, in an environ-

Madhuri Yoga Spa

ment in which you feel nurtured and se-

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cure; where your emotional well-being,

relieve stress and pain, and nourish

privacy, and personal preferences are respected. Be supported by a tradition

body, mind, and spirit — our tranquil

that trusts the natural process. Excel-

healing space in downtown New Paltz

lent MD consult, hospital backup. (845)

offers personalized aromatherapy mas-

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sage, Therapeutic Yoga, Ayurvedic

HORMONE BALANCING Bioidentical Hormones Oering in-depth consultation and treatment for: Premenopausal and Menopausal Symptoms Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome Women’s Health Issues

Jennifer Houston, Midwife

level Reiki. By appointment only; call

Since the 1970s Jennifer has been ac-

(845) 797-4124 or visit www.Madhuri-

tively involved in childbirth. She is an ex-

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pert in preserving natural birth and has

I Beginners classes every Tuesday.

attended over 3,000 births in hospitals,

Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT. 69 Main

high-risk medical centers, birth centers,

Street, New Paltz, NY.

and homes. She is uniquely qualified to provide women with personal, safe,

Michelle Renar, L.M.T

and supportive pregnancy & birth care

Custom Massage therapy for all body

in their homes. Certified Nurse Midwife

types and conditions. Modalities

& NYS licensed with excellent medical

Painless, Non-invasive Breast Cancer Screening

include: Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Swed-

backup. Contact Jenna at (518) 678-

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ish, Shiatsu. I also offer Aromatherapy

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COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

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treatments & products, and master-

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essential oils. Come enjoy a therapeutic

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Holly Anne Shelowitz, CNC — Director of Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition

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In addition to private sessions, our programs include cooking classes,

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touch tailored to your specific needs.

all levels of experience: introductions to

Jill Malden, RD, CSW

Zen meditation and practice; programs

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exploring Zen arts, Buddhist studies,

eating behavior and eating disorders

and social action, and intensive medita-

for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental

tion retreats. South Plank Road, Mt.

treatment. Understand the effects of

Tremper, NY. (845) 688-2228.

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cravings, concentration, energy level,

PILATES

and sleep, in addition to body weight. Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life! 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 489-4732.

Pilates of New Paltz / Core Pilates Studio These studios offer caring, experienced, and certified instruction with fully equipped facilities. Each student

OSTEOPATHY

receives detailed attention to his/her needs while maintaining the energiz-

Applied Osteopathy — Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO. Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physi-

ing flow of the classical pilates system. Hours are flexible enough to accmomodate any schedule. Pilates of New Paltz: (845) 255-0559; Core Pilates in Poughkeepsie: (845) 452-8018.

cians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic

The Moving Body

manipulation, we are dedicated to the

www.themovingbody.com. 276 Tinker

traditional philosophy and hands-on

St., Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-7715.

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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 hurdles. Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy. Sliding scale. (845) 679-5511 x304.

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YOGA Barbara Boris — Woodstock Iyengar Yoga The Iyengar method develops strength, endurance, and correct body alignment in addition to flexibility and relaxation. Standing poses are emphasized: building strong legs, increased general vitality, and improved circulation, coordination and balance. 12 years teaching yoga, 20 years practicing. 12 trips to India. Extensive training with the Iyengar family. Mt. View Studio, Woodstock. (845) 679-3728. bxboris@yahoo.com. www.barbaraborisyoga.com.

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, NY. (845) 256-0465.

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The Living Seed Open to the community for over 5 years. Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/ beginner to advanced. Including Pre & Post Natal Yoga, Family & Kids Yoga, as well as a variety of Dance classes, Massage, Acupuncture, Sauna & Organic Yoga Clothing.

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Bringing Hudson Valley artists, writers, and performers of mixed-skill levels and ages together. Meet and support the area’s aspiring and professional artists at this family-friendly event. Booth space still available.

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David “Honeyboy” Edwards plays the Rosendale Cafe on September 8.

Living Blues Treasure When one thinks of the masters of the blues, the names Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Big Bill Broonzy may come to mind, but these giants need to be conjured via recordings, photos, tall tales, and archives. Not so with David “Honeyboy” Edwards, the 92-year-old national treasure and veritable Zelig of blues history, master of both Delta and Chicago blues, and peer of all of the above and more. Not only is Honeyboy Edwards alive, kicking, and sharp as a fresh toothpick, he’s on the road, making a rare and not-to-be-missed stop at the Rosendale Cafe on September 8. “It feels like someone has placed an invaluable piece of art in my hands,” enthuses cafe owner Mark Morganstern. “A Ming vase, a Renoir, something that I will treat with great care, respect, and much gratitude.” Edwards’s story is as rich as the Mississippi soil from which he hails. The son of a sharecropper, he left home at age 17 on a hoboing apprenticeship with bluesman Big Joe Williams. “I didn’t want to be in that field from sun to sun, can to can’t, can see to can’t see. I was going to make it with the guitar,” Edwards asserts in his awardwinning autobiography, The World Don’t Owe Me Nothin’. From Williams the teenager learned how to work sidewalks, juke joints, and goodtime houses with not much more than a Sears, Roebuck acoustic guitar, guts, and charm. After his mentor attacked him in a drunken rage, Edwards lit out on his own, jamming and sharing whiskey with Robert Johnson—he was with the archetypal figure the night Johnson was poisoned by a cuckolded husband—and eventually

counting Howlin’ Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson as bandmates. All the while, Edwards honed his own distinctive style, a mix of herky-jerky rhythms designed to make folks move on a sawdust-covered dance floor, and vocals that go from a keening wail to a guttural whisper, thick with desire, experience, and celebration. Adept on both acoustic and electric, slide and fingerpick, dressed to the nines and seated in the middle of the stage—usually accompanied by a harmonica player—Edwards transcends any notions of hip; he’s a blues Buddha, outclassing most everything pop culture can dish out. Songcatcher par excellence Alan Lomax recorded Edwards for the Library of Congress in 1942, making sure he got stories as well as songs from the gifted raconteur; to this day Edwards will regale audiences with tales of derring-do on the streets of Clarksdale and Chicago and every railroad tie inbetween. “The blues is a leading thing,” he says, “something on your mind that keeps you moving.” And move he did, from the Delta to Chess Records in Chicago, where he alighted in 1953, plugging in and taking part in the nascent electric blues movement. Edwards has lived to tell and sing about it all, engaging audiences worldwide, winning numerous accolades and even an NEA fellowship. His appearance in Rosendale is a chance to witness in the flesh the power of music and the resilience and undimmed joy of the human spirit. David “Honeyboy” Edwards will perform on September 8 at the Rosendale Cafe in Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; www.rosendalecafe.com. —Robert Burke Warren

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From Ron Haviv’s “The Children of Darfur”: A 12-year-old girl (in striped scarf) explains how she was separated from her two friends and raped by soldiers from the Sudanese Army.

Witness to History Ron Haviv was 27 when he traveled to Yugoslavia in the early spring of 1992. A month later, open warfare began in Sarajevo on April 6. Haviv’s photo of a Serb militiaman kicking a dying Muslim woman in the head—published a week before the fighting started—became one of the most enduring images of the Balkan conflict. The photo is also emblematic of Haviv’s commitment to document humanitarian crises through an artist’s eye in some of the world’s most dangerous places. Haviv, whose work has appeared in Time, Vanity Fair, Fortune, and the New York Times Magazine, among other international publications, has covered conflict and crisis in Latin America, Haiti, Russia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and most recently, in Darfur. “The Children of Darfur,” an exhibition of 36 of Haviv’s photographs of the daily life of children in the troubled region of Sudan where nearly 200,000 people have been killed and millions more displaced in recent years, was shot in the region’s overcrowded refugee camps in the summer of 2006. The show will also include a multimedia presentation combining Haviv’s searing images with video, voiceover narration, and the voices of Darfurian children. “The Children of Darfur” will be shown at Fovea Exhibitions, 143 Main Street, Beacon, from September 8 through September 30. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 8 from 4 to 8pm. —Brian K. Mahoney What was your impetus for moving from straight photography to including multimedia presentations in your exhibitions? My main goal is to try to communicate with as many people as possible. I’ve noticed over the years that in spaces where I would have a book, an exhibition on the wall, and a multimedia projection, people responded to each differently. If you had a hundred people that came in to a gallery, one third of the people would say, “We really love the exhibition,” or one third of the people would say, “We really love the book,” or one third of the people would say, “We really like multimedia.” People really react to different types of documentation differently, so in order to try to be able to reach 100 percent of the people, I’m trying to increase my platforms. Basically, to have all my projects be multiplatform. Why risk your life to bring back images from conflict zones? It’s not a simple answer. I think that there are a number of factors that go into my decision each time to return to these places. The first reason is strictly a desire to create awareness, to be the eyes of the public and let people know what’s going on. Quite often, especially in this fragmented world of media, it’s very difficult for people to hear what’s going on in places such as Darfur or the Congo. So there’s an attempt to inform people and thereby put public pressure on places where our government can step in to do something. And 110

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another thing that I’ve learned over the years is the effect of the photography in the long run, even if nothing actually does happen in the immediate present. Taking Darfur as an example again, we basically watched a genocide live on television and read about it in magazines. But my work contributes to creating a body of evidence, a document, that will hold people responsible for what happened. And not only hold the people responsible on the ground—the Janjaweed, the militias, and the Sudanese government—but also to hold the so-called Western civilized countries responsible, those that had the option to put more pressure through the UN or by financial or military means, and neglected to do so. And by extension, and I think most importantly, especially for Americans, to hold us personally responsible because we are the ones who are electing our government to act on our behalf, and we have to realize that there is a connection between what we do by stepping into a voting booth and in faraway places like Darfur and Afghanistan and other situations. So I feel my photography helps remind people of how interconnected we are, and the fact that the decisions we make as Americans here affect many, many people around the world. And lastly, it’s an educational tool. It’s very important for the work to be used in order to hopefully awaken students to a better understanding of situations like genocide as they move into positions of power in the real world. Do you feel like you’ve gained some insight into human nature by immersing yourself in conflict zones time and again? The greatest realization I made was that there’s greater similarity between cultures than differences. I think the basic idea of the family and of people wanting the best for themselves and for their children you will hear from probably everybody—from a Darfurian, or a Rwandian, or a Bosnian, or somebody in New York—and everybody has similar dreams and hopes. I think that’s what makes it much more poignant—to understand that there are these similarities of just wanting to have peace and wanting security and prosperity for your family. Chris Hedges, in his book, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, talks about becoming addicted to traveling to and reporting from conflict zones, a phenomenon he found common among his journalist colleagues. Do you feel a visceral sense of being drawn to these areas? I think there’s a definite understanding and desire to go back to these areas, knowing that very few people are doing that and there are things that need to be told, that your work can have an impact. Another thing about going to conflict zones is that quite often in conflict zones you’re witnessing history—the birth of a nation or the death of a nation. That’s quite an amazing thing to be able to witness for yourself and a privilege to be able to show people your interpretation of.

SATURDAY 1 ART Relationship 4pm-7pm. 5 artists explore relationships in art. Experimental Art Collective, Hudson. (518) 392-9620.

American Portrait Project 5pm-7pm. Photographs by Deborah Degraffenreid. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston.www. kmoca.org.

SPOKEN WORD Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Readings by Authors Joanne Michaels & David & Nikki Goldbeck 8pm. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Visual Alchemy 8pm. Dan Estabrook. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THEATER Multiples 5pm-8pm. Print and paint work from local and semi-local artists. Silent Space Gallery, Kingston. 331-7432.

I Do! I Do!

EVENTS

Brecht on Brecht

Barn Sale

8pm. Excerpts from the work of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. $20/$15 students. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

9am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Kingston Farmer’s Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

Riverside Farmer’s and Artisans Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Martha Mitchell Calling 8pm. $22-$27. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

As You Like It 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SUNDAY 2

10am-4pm. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

2pm-3pm. By boat. $10. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.

ART Artemis: After the Hunt 2pm-6pm. Fashion as an artistic expression. The Gallery at Artemis, Kingston. 339-2494.

KIDS EVENTS The Great All-American Audience Participation Magic Show 11am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

One Incredible Dog: Lady! 2pm. Meet the therapy dog behind the book. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

MUSIC Legends of Music: 3rd Annual Berkshires BluesFest Call for times. Chicago Blues Reunion. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

Hooley on the Hudson 11:30am-9pm. Kingston Celtic festival. T.R. Gallo Park, Kingston. 338-6622.

10:30am-1pm. Riverside Market, Hudson. (518) 9434300.

2pm-4pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

EXHIBITION OF 35 ARTISTS AT LA MONTEIL DANCE STUDIO 17 Main Street, Warwick, NY Reception Oct 12 – 6-9pm TICKETS AT: Newhards, Baby Grand Books, Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce South Street Caboose, Pennings Farm Market, and Sewing The Blues in Greenwood Lake CALL: 845-987-8748 http://www.warwickinfo.net/openstudio

2pm-3:30pm. For ages 5-10 and their families. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.

MUSIC

Call for times. With Linda Lavin. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

GaiaWolf Elly Wininger

Explore How & Where Art is made t Special Treasure Hunt

Family Fun Day

Songs and Confessions of a One-Time Waitress Joe Michel Jazz Quartet

WEEKEND OF OCTOBER 13 & 14 | 10 AM – 5 PM

Highlights from the Footlights

Outdoor Encampment by the Third Regiment of the Ulster County Militia

Lighthouse Tours

Warwick Valley Artists Open Studio Tour

For information:

Ulster Ballet Company 845-246-4316 www.ulsterballet.org

11am. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

First Sunday Songwriters Circle Shorty King’s Clubhouse 2pm-6pm. Swing, jump, jazz, rockabilly. $10. Benmarl Vineyards, Marlboro-on-Hudson. 236-4265.

Qantara 8pm. Simon Shaheen and his ensemble. $20/$17 seniors/$15 contributors/$5 students. Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 734-3868.

Livingston Taylor 8pm. $25. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 6794101.

Maverick Concert Series 8pm. World premiere of Final Alice. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Los Lobos 8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Sixties Cabaret 8:30pm. Unique view of the musical, political, cultural & social changes of that decade. Thompson House Resort, Windham. (518) 734-4510.

4pm-5:30pm. Featuring Ethan Campbell, Amy Laber, and Peggy Atwood. $10/$8 ASK Members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Greyhounds 5:30pm. The Bandstand, Cold Spring. www.coldspringchamber.com.

THE OUTDOORS Peters Kill Loop 9:30am-1:30pm. 6-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

“A Christmas Carol� November 30th, December 1st and 2nd, 2007

Auditions Saturday, September 15, 2007. Registration begins at 9am. Auditioning Dancers age 10 through Adult. Some roles available for non-dancers. Especially needed - Teen and Adult Men

Singles and Sociables Hike: Ice Caves 9:30am-4:30pm. 12-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Pathwork Spiritual Lecture Reading/Discussion 1:30pm. Pathwork Spiritual, Phoenicia. 688-2211.

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Mark Brown & Uncle Buckle 9pm. $10. 82 Prince Street, Kingston. 338-5984.

Xoch 9pm. Acoustic. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

Hyngd, Stone Devil Hill, Fifty Habit 10pm. Rock. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS

2pm. Excerpts from the work of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. $20/$15 students. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

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2pm. $22-$27. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Highlights from the Footlights 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Singles and Sociables Hike: Upper Peterskill

As You Like It

9:30am-4:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

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MONDAY 3 MUSIC

Breast Cancer Support Group 6:30pm-7:30pm. Palenville Branch Library, Palenville. (518) 678-3357.

CLASSES Big Kahuna 12:30pm. Covers. Barton Orchards, Poughquag. 227-2306.

SPOKEN WORD

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. www.barushkadance.com.

Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Life Drawing Sessions

Poetry Open Mike

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

7pm. Featuring poet Max Schwartz. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

TUESDAY 4

MUSIC Acoustic Thursdays

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

Live Jazz

12pm-1:30pm. St. James Church Library, Chatham. 339-4673.

CLASSES

7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

SPOKEN WORD Separation & Divorce Support Group

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Call for times. Receive messages from spirit guides . $40/$75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Breast Cancer Support Group

6:30pm-8:30pm. For women. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-2235.

Empowering Yourself as a Patient 7pm. With Puja Thomson. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.

Larry Winters 7pm. Reads and signs The Making and Unmaking of a Marine. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

THEATER

1pm-2:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 339-4673.

I Do! I Do!

CLASSES

Martha Mitchell Calling

8:00. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

7:30pm. $22-$27. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Flying Trapeze Lessons Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

African Drum

FRIDAY 7 ART

7:30pm-8:30pm. $15/$12 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Marbletown Arts Member Show

EVENTS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Nursing Information Sessions

Stages on the Path of Meditation

3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Call for times. Review shinay in depth. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-0360.

6pm-9pm. Be Gallery, High Falls. 687-0660.

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4pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Call for times. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

MUSIC MUSIC Jon Walters Rhinebeck Choral Club Auditions 7:30pm. Ferncliff Nursing Home, Rhinebeck. 876-2011.

6:30pm-8pm. Singer/songwriter. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.

Open Mike

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10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

7pm. Featuring Sarah Morr. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

THE OUTDOORS Bar Scott, Joy Askew, and Jill Stevenson Giants Workshop Hike

8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

9:30am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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THEATER

8pm. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424.

Martha Mitchell Calling

Christine Lavin

7:30pm. $22-$27. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

THURSDAY 6 ART Fall for Art 6pm-9pm. Juried art show, sale and cocktail reception. $40/$35 in advance. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 331-0700.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

8pm. $20/$16 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-5155.

SPOKEN WORD Book Signing with Howard Frank Mosher 12pm-1pm. Author of On Kingdom Mountain and Disappearances. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Digital Landscapes 8pm. Dan Burkholder. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THEATER I Do! I Do! 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 11am-12:30pm. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 339-4673.

Cabaret 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Healing Circle 5:45pm. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

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Community Playback Theatre

Artist’s Nite

8pm. Personal stories told by audience members brought to life by improv troupe. $6. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

5pm-11pm. Featuring Gia Carangi exhibit: The Beauty And The Pain. Muddy Cup, Beacon. 758-2406.

WORKSHOPS

Big Band and Sunset Picnic 6pm-8pm. $12/$10 members/$8 children. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Arts Community Grants Application Workshop 1pm-7pm. Arts in Orange, Middletown. 956-0005.

SATURDAY 8

KIDS

Core Elements and Face It

Noisy Insects

2pm-7pm. Exhibits by Alex and Leslie Uribe. Foundry Pond Gallery, Cold Spring. 224-7985.

10am. $5/$3 members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

4pm-6pm. Kinetic sculpture by Martin Olstad. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113.

What We Think Now 5pm-7pm. Photographs by Jonathan Hollingsworth. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Collage: A Group Show 5pm-7pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Interpreting Beacon 5pm-8pm. Works by Beacon Art Salon members. Chthonic Clash Coffeehouse, Beacon. 831-0359.

Bohemia 5pm-8pm. Landscape photographs by Craig J. Barber. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

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American Girl “Petal Perfect� Event 1pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

MUSIC Head for the Hills 10:30am-1pm. Americana, country, blues. Riverside Market, Hudson. (518) 943-4300.

Big Band Sunset Picnic 6-8pm. The Big Band Sound. Boscobel, Garrison. 265-3638.

Ann Hampton Callaway 8pm. Jazz, cabaret. $28. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

Earth, Wind and Fire

5pm-8pm. Paintings by Robert Ferrucci . Riverwinds Gallery, Beacon. 838-2880.

8pm. With special guest Taylor Hicks. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Works by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma

The Flames of Discontent’s Rock and Roll Party

6pm-8pm. Leo Fortuna Gallery, Catskill. (518) 697-7907.

8pm. $5. Chthonic Clash Coffeehouse, Beacon. 831-0359.

Neologisms

Kurt Henry Band

6pm-9pm. Works by Rachel B. Abrams. Go North Gallery, Beacon. 440-0100.

8pm. Rock. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Truth is Love

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7pm-10pm. Paintings by Vita. Vita Gallery, Woodstock. 679-2329.

9pm. Indie, pop. AIR Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Strange Lloyd

The Mind-Heart Connection: How We Can Serve the World

THE OUTDOORS

1pm-5pm. Draws on neuro-cardiology. $75. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225 ext. 2.

Paddle from Tivoli to Esopus

CLASSES

Call for times. Moderate 5-mile paddle. Call for location. 928-1730.

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10am-Sunday, September 9, 5pm. Become a certified Reiki practitioner. Call for location. 336-4609.

DANCE Open Day Showings 3pm-5pm. Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Swing Dance 7:30pm-11pm. Lesson before the dance. VFW, Kingston. 236-3939.

Contradance 8pm. Music by Kitchen Chair. $10/$9 members/children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Freestyle Frolic Summer Dance Series 8:30pm-2:30am. Non-smoking, non-alcohol barefoot dancing. $7/$3 teens and seniors/children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, Tillson.

EVENTS Cafe Chronogram 8pm. Featuring Tom Roe, Jason Broome, Thomas Jack Hilton. Muddy Cup, Catskill. (518) 303-9228.

9pm. Rock. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Woodstock Poetry Society Meeting and Festival 2pm. Featuring poets George Nicholson and Will Nixon. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

Photographic Journeys Through a Pinhole 8pm. Craig J. Barber. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THEATER Cabaret 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

I Do! I Do! 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Wild Plants: Friend or Foe? 9:30am-12pm. 2-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Martha Mitchell Calling RVGA’s Harvest Dinner and Equestrian Show Call for times. Local food and chefs, learn about riding, music. $50/$40 for RVGA members/$25 students 13-18/ under 12 free. Call for location. 626-7919.

Kingston Farmers’ Market

8pm. $22-$27. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

WORKSHOPS Card Stamping Class

9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

10:30am. $12. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Riverside Farmer’s and Artisans Market

Fermentation Workshop

9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

1:30pm-3:30pm. Learn to make kimchi with Sandor Katz. $20. Phillies Bridge Farm, Gardiner. 744-8660.

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11am-3pm. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. 454-5345 ext. 100.

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The Good Word Spoken-word performance, the artform so identified with Manhattan’s East Village of poverty, drug addiction, and AIDS, has once again inched its way up the Hudson. A loose-fitting troupe of writers and actors, calling itself Word of Mouth, will perform an original spoken-word piece titled "Fifty States" on September 29 at Garrison’s Depot Theater. Some may consider this genre long dead, but Word of Mouth arrives with unimpeachable street cred: The group was nurtured by none other than Karen Finley. A pioneering performance artist in the mid '80s, Finley railed against misogyny, racism, and homophobia with raw poetry, the bastard cousin to rap, and often spattered with similar curses for effect. Her unique appearances were legendary, as Finley would drive home the abuse and exploitation of women by covering herself in chocolate sauce or inserting sweet potatoes in personal orifices—the notorious “yam jam� no doubt instrumental in denying her NEA funding in a landmark 1990 case. In 2003, Pamela Pearce of Word of Mouth enrolled in a workshop conducted by Finley at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (HVWC) in Sleepy Hollow. Formerly a publicist for International PEN, the worldwide writer’s advocacy group, Pearce took several courses with Finley, honing her skills and, presumably, shedding inhibitions along the way. “She’s so brilliant and she’s so different,� says Pearce. At the end of each course, the students would mount their own shows. Two years ago, after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Finley urged her students to apply their spoken-word skills to a HVWC benefit. “[Finley] helped us to each come up with one aspect of Katrina that was right for us,� Pearce said. “She is very good at determining a feeling for what every person is as an individual.� The resulting pieces ranged from prayers to rants. (Pearce’s piece focused on the food of the Big Easy.) Both a sobering event and an empowering one, Pearce said, it encouraged the octet of Finley students to perform in public again that year, at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan and the Katonah Museum of Art. Last October, Pearce invited the Finley alumni to her home to gauge interest in another staging. Discussion resulted in "Fifty States," a group riff on the red and blue states that compose our increasingly fractured union. Each performer would choose five states. The only limitation was an eight-minute cap. Drawing again on her interest in food as social commentary, Pearce will examine the pandemic obesity of junk-food America and pandemic hunger in other countries. Playing a breezy Food Network-type TV personality, she will offer popular recipes from famine-plagued Africa. A fellow actor plans a travelogue while tallying the romances forged in each of her five states. Marcy B. Freedman, director of "Fifty States" as well as a performer, said the resulting monologues will be as diverse as the Word of Mouth players, whose nine-to-five gigs range from singer to poet to psychoanalyst. “I want to make people laugh,� Freedman says. “Other people will make the audience think.� "Fifty States" will be performed by Word of Mouth on September 29 at 8pm at the Depot Theater in Garrison. A reception will follow at the Garrison Art Center. (845) 424-3900; www.philipstowndepottheatre.org. —Jay Blotcher

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Clockwise from top left: Red Dress, Ruined Street, Judith Burks, encaustic on paper on panel, 2007; Dory on Stage, Alana Kapell, encaustic on paper, 2006; Edna St. Vincent Millay, Diane Giardi, encaustic on wood, 2005; Bathers, Cindy Stockton Moore, encaustic and oil on panel, 2007.

Waxing Poetic The encaustic boom is going strong. “Encaustic Works 2007,” R&F Encaustic’s biannual juried exhibition, was chosen from approximately 3,000 entries, by the artist Joan Snyder. The resulting show appears at the Gallery at R&F and at the Watermark/ Cargo Gallery, both in Kingston. Mediums of art have fashions, like musical instruments. When Winslow Homer painted watercolors in the 1890s, it was considered an amateur’s medium. Although encaustic paint—made from beeswax—has been used since ancient Egypt, more and more artists are discovering it today. “You know what encaustic is most like? Glass,” explains Laura Moriarty, director of Exhibitions at the Gallery at R&F. “It’s something that can become molten—like lava is molten. And the moment it cools, it solidifies. And you can even capture, like you can with glass, that moment of flow. It just freezes. And the optical qualities of colored wax and colored glass are similar—you know, the way light passes through it. You can’t get that from any other paint.” Jasper Johns is the most well-known encaustic artist. Covering the strident brightness of the American flag in a paint made from beeswax (in Flag 1954-55) is a political statement in itself. Our nation’s emblem becomes ambiguous, halfburied. “The thing that drew [Johns] to this material is that you could see every brushstroke, piled one on top of the other,” Moriarty explains. This is the sixth biennial encaustic survey; the first was in 1997. Judy Pfaff, sculptor and MacArthur “genius award” winner, curated the 1999 show. The 2001 exhibit appeared at the Muroff-Kotler Gallery at Ulster County Community College. The last exhibition, at the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, was limited to artists from the Hudson Valley. This is the first biennial since the Gallery at R&F moved into its new quarters in March 2006. Snyder, an expressionist painter who emerged in the late ‘60s, has never painted with encaustic. Moriarty waded through the slides and DVDs with her. “So we sat there and looked at thousands of images, and just kept whittling it down—and it was pretty quiet,” observes Moriarty. “Joan is really physical in her response to work. So I’d hear

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grumblings, like, ‘What are these artists doing?’ And then she’d see something she liked, and she’d get animated. At a certain point, I remember her looking at the screen and yelling, ‘Paint who you are!’” This show includes 44 artists and 72 works, including pieces from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Only two of the painters live in New York City (which is rare for such a large exhibition). Many are from the West Coast. Some paintings explore the erotic possibilities of the medium. Michael Zelehoski seals a beautiful woman in wax (Girl in Green) only to watch her stand, remote, behind the layers. Sheila Mahoney Keefe creates Biblical fables, like the drawings in illuminated manuscripts. Journey II has copious hints of salvation. Thomas Grady of Kingston offers a portrait of Francis Bacon (featured on the cover of this very magazine)—an artist I myself once saw in a bookshop in Paris. But the Bacon I stood near was a shuffling old man, not the bold and quizzical youth in this work. “The trick of lighting encaustic is to shine the light in front of it, not onto it—to rake the lights,” explains Moriarty. The luminosity of encaustic is enhanced by indirect light. Snyder came to the opening and was delighted. “I love it,” she said. “You don’t know when you’re looking at slides, and DVDs, and all kinds of images; you have no idea what it’s going to look like. On some of them, I took a big chance. And I’m really so pleasantly surprised by so many of the paintings.” The endangered state of bumblebees adds a note of anxiety to the show. (Although Moriarty tells me encaustic painters need not worry; the supply from Canada is still ample.) This is the first of the encaustic biennials to travel. The show will reach Ball State University’s Atrium Gallery in Muncie, Indiana on October 31. The Gallery at R&F publishes a full-color catalog of the paintings. “Encaustic Works 2007” will be exhibited at the Gallery at R&F, 84 Ten Broeck Avenue, and at the Watermark/Cargo Gallery, 111-113 Abeel Street, in Kingston, through September 29. (845) 331-3112; www.rfpaints.com. —Sparrow

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TUESDAY 11

4pm-6pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Life Drawing Sessions Round Robin Tennis Tournament 1pm. $35. All Sport Fishkill, Fishkill. 896-5678.

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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EVENTS

Highlights from 2007 Hudson River Paddle

5K Race 10:30am. To benefit the American Diabetes Association. $15/$20. All Sport Fishkill, Fishkill. 896-5678.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

Family Fun Day

7pm. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.

WORKSHOPS Providing Wine On-Demand 8:30am-10am. Marist College, Poughkeepsie. 575-3128.

11am-3pm. Benefits the Vinny Zaccheo Memorial Fund . $25/$5 children. All Sport Fishkill, Fishkill. 896-5678.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published)

Family Farm Festival

6:30pm-8:30pm. $75/$15 per session. Call for location. 679-8256.

11am-5pm. Workshops, chef competition, kids’ activities. $7/12 and under $1. Epworth Center, High Falls. 687-0215.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Project Mercury

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

12pm. Folk, traditional. Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery, Pine Island. 258-4858.

Call for times. Catskill Community Center, Catskill. (518) 943-4950.

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Tai Chi Chuan

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Singles and Sociables Hike: Millbrook Mountain

7pm. With author and American Buddhist nun Kelsang Chokyi. Borders Books and Music, Wappingers Falls. 856-9000.

9:30am-3:30pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

CLASSES

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Flying Trapeze Lessons

The New Citizen Photojournalism

Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

Legacy Farm Cohousing 11:30pm-4pm. Information session. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 943-9005.

THEATER

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Call for times. Ten session course. $100. Call for location. 452-7067.

Five Mountains In Five Days

11am-12:30pm. A panel discussion. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

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Call for times. Hiking the Catskills peaks. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

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DANCE Swing Dance Classes

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Call for times. Various styles and levels. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

EVENTS

I Do! I Do! 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Martha Mitchell Calling

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

2pm. $22-$27. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

KIDS Cabaret 3pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Preschool Story Time

Auditions for County Players Woman in Black

MUSIC

7pm. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Call for times. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Rhinebeck Choral Club Auditions 7:30pm. Ferncliff Nursing Home, Rhinebeck. 876-2011.

MONDAY 10

Richie Mazzaferro, Michael Molnar, Lance Rizzo

ART

9pm. Comedic. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Day Trip to Norman Rockwell Museum

Mr. E aka Greg Englesson

9am-4:30pm. Saturday Evening Post Covers and children of 9-11 artwork. $76. Call for location. 633-0390.

10pm. Bacchus, New Paltz. 255-8636.

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CLASSES Swing Dance Class Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Learn to Meditate 8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

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10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

THURSDAY 13 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Dance Between Heaven and Earth: Taiji Quan Intensive

6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Call for times. With Arthur Makaris. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper. 688-2228.

Poetry Open Mike

Sufi Zikr - Healing Chant and Prayer

Scrabble Group

7pm. Featuring Donald Lev and Richard Boes. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

5:45pm. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class 6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.

THEATER CLASSES Auditions for County Players Woman in Black 7pm. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements

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Hamlet

Life Drawing Sessions

7:30pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

How I Learned to Drive 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

FILM WORKSHOPS Video’s Influence on the War in Iraq 7pm. Screening of When I Came Home followed by panel discussion. $10. Riverspace Arts, Nyack. 3585709.

MUSIC

Communication, Conflict Resolution & Cultural Diversity 9am-1pm. Diversity and bias as it relates to workplace relationships. $10. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 331-8920 ext. 3004.

Acoustic Thursdays

SATURDAY 15

6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

ART Live Jazz 7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

FRIDAY 14 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Soapstone Specialists: Seven Colors Available Also Available Solid Block Soapstone Sinks

2pm-6pm. Photographs by Robert Lipgar. Cunneen Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Works by Allen Bryan and Linda Gordetsky 5pm-7pm. The Catskills Gallery, Saugerties. 246-5552.

Sacred Doubt: A Proud History of Uncertainty

Drawn to Distraction

Call for times. Author and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper. 688-2228.

5pm-8pm. Photographer’s adventure into ADD by Michael Sibilia. G.A.S., Poughkeepsie. 486-4592.

2nd Annual Unconditional Healing: Embracing Illness and Discovering One’s True Self

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Call for times. Talks, guided healing, and group discussions. $205/$315 with lodging. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

Other Fabricated Stone Products Including Stone Sinks

Just a Moment

11am-12:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

DANCE

6pm-9pm. Works by seven Latin American artists. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 119

EVENTS 2007 Dutch Weekend Call for times. Visit Dutch homes in the Valley, learn about the culture and architecture. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

Zydeco Dance

Come Out and Find Out Educational Conference

8pm-11pm. Music by Redline Zydeco. $12. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-8730.

8am-5pm. Keynote speaker Libby Post. Holiday Inn, Kingston. www.LGBTQ.org.

EVENTS

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

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Women, Power and Peace Call for times. Featuring four women Nobel Prize winners, Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, and Natalie Merchant. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

Riverside Farmer’s and Artisans Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

Boat Ride for Freedom & Justice 7pm-9:30pm. Cruise to the George Washington Bridge with music, food, and drinks. $50/$100. Call for location. 358-4601 ext. 32.

11th Annual Craft Fair/Apple Festival

MUSIC

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Portraits of Loved Ones

6:30pm-8pm. Singer/songwriter. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.

Big Kahuna 8pm. Dance music. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Three’s a Charm 8pm. Faculty piano wind trio. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Sarah Perrotta CD Release Party 8pm. $10. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Slaid Cleaves 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Karaoke Night

10am-4pm. Golden Hill Health Care Center, Kingston. 340-3818.

11am-8pm. Italian songs, stories, wines, lessons, and dance. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

The Poetry and Music of Mirabai 12pm-1:30pm. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

12th Annual Hudson River Arts Festival 2pm-10pm. Music, vendors, food. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. 473-5288.

Family Fun on Huguenot Street 3pm-4:30pm. Tour the Deyo House . Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

20 Year Celebration 5pm-7pm. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

9pm. With Star Tracks Entertainment. Shooters Bar and Grill, Port Ewen. 331-9717.

FILM

THE OUTDOORS

American Experience: New Orleans

Autumn Outdoor Sporting Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Murderers

7:30pm-10:15pm. With filmmaker Stephen Ives. $7/$5 students and members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

KIDS

8pm. Presented by the Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $20/$16 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Super Saturdays for Kids

SPOKEN WORD

MUSIC

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Thunder Ridge

6pm-8pm. Mill Street Loft Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

10:30am. Featuring the Firebird by The Puppet People. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Call for times. Country. Creekside Restaurant, Catskill. (518) 943-6522.

Ampersand Allison Gaylin: Trashed 7pm. Book reading and signing. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

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10:30am-1pm. Folk, traditional. Riverside Market, Hudson. (518) 943-4300.

Elly Wininger 7pm-10pm. Griffin’s Corners Cafe, Fleischmanns. 254-6300.

Cabaret 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Christine Spero Group 8pm. Jazz. Stella’s Lounge, Catskill. (518) 943-3171.

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Dan Zanes plays two shows for the kids at the Bardavon on September 29.

One Heck of a Hootenanny At first glance, Dan Zanes’s Grammy Award-winning CD Catch That Train! appears to be all about the kiddies. But Zanes, who plays two afternoon shows at Poughkeepsie’s Bardavon on September 29, prefers to call it “all-ages music.” “I think there’s a real difference,” Zanes says. “There’s children’s music and it’s particular to the experiences of children, and it’s a great genre. But there’s really no need for me to add to it. There were people doing a great job of it already, but what I didn’t find was the type of all-ages music, or family music, that I was hearing in my head. And that’s what I decided to do.” Zanes, formerly of the Boston-based garage pop band The Del Fuegos, grew up listening to records on the Folkways label, which included the likes of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Ella Jenkins. So in honing his own craft he began searching for that same spirit in music that was geared more toward the 21st century. “Records that sound like people in a house having fun together, things that sound loose and homespun and artful all at the same time,” he explains. “I wanted to be a part of the fun that I listen to with my daughter. We have plenty of children’s music and it’s great, but I really wanted music that the two of us would be able to connect to together. I didn’t just want to pull out Beatles records and leave it at that. It seemed like there wasn’t enough in it for her.” Here’s what’s in it for her—and you, if you choose to catch Zanes’s train. Catch That Train!, his latest release, jumps right into that folk tradition and features appearances by Nick Cave, Natalie Merchant, The Kronos Quartet, Father Goose, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and the children of South Africa’s Agape Orphanage. The album includes Zulu folk songs, an early labor-organizing tune, a song about farming, and some good old train numbers. Zanes is not afraid to employ lap steel, trombone, saxophone, tambourine, mandolin, accordion, balalaika, tuba, tin whistle, fiddle, or anything else that helps step up the fun. “We used to be a very musical country and we did a lot of casual music-making just for our own enjoyment,” he says. “With the advent of electronic media, for the most part people now leave it to the professionals. When we do that, we miss out on a lot of the fun. We can do this, too. Music-making brings families together, neighbors together, people of different backgrounds together. It builds bridges. Regardless of your abilities or perceived abilities, you can be making music with other people.” It might feel like a step down from his sold-out run of performances on Broadway or at Carnegie Hall, but Zanes and six of his friends (which he calls “an orchestra, by family music standards”) are looking forward to bringing bring their hootenanny to the Hudson Valley. “When we think of the shows, we try to think of how we could make the biggest possible party. The audience is as much a part of it as the band, so there’s a lot of singing along and by the end it evolves into a big dance party. We try to make it as much like a little Grateful Dead show as possible,” he laughs. “It’s so satisfying. Kids are amazing because they really set the tone. They’re much more uninhibited than we are. So, people are much more willing to throw themselves into it to sing a-long and get up and dance than they ever were when I was playing in a rock and roll band! It’s a much wilder and looser crowd than I’d ever experienced.” Dan Zanes and Friends will play the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on September 29 at 1 and 4pm. (845) 473-2072; www.bardavon.org.

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Daylight Community Arts Foundation. In conjunction with these programs, a panel discussion will be held on "The New Citizen Photojournalism" on September 8 at 5:30pm, moderated by former Time magazine photo editor Robert Stevens and featuring Chronogram senior editor Lorna Tychostup. Both shows open on Saturday, September 1 and continue through October 21. Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock. (845) 679-9957; wwwcpw.org.

Project Mercury 8pm. Folk, traditional. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Rebecca Martin 8pm. With the Paul Motian Trio. $25/$20 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

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EVENTS 2007 Dutch Weekend Call for times. Visit Dutch homes in the Valley, learn about the culture and architecture. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

8pm. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.

Long Neck Band 9:30pm. Country, southern rock. Junior’s Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 486-9237.

THE OUTDOORS

Antiques Road Show 11am-4pm. Featuring author Harry Rinker and appraisers. $5. Holiday Inn, Fishkill. (800) 345-8082.

Swim the Hudson for MS 11am. Croton Point Park, Croton-on Hudson. (914) 694-1655.

Moderate Hike to Millbrook Mountain Call for times. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 888-2853.

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11am-5pm. Italian songs, stories, wines, lessons, and dance. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

9am-2pm. Hike from the Hudson up Mount Beacon. Call for location. 473-4440 ext. 270.

Festival of Peace

Singles and Sociables Hike-Bonticou Crag 10am-2:30pm. 6-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

1pm-5pm. Music, entertainment, and kids’ activities, National peace prizes. Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack. 358-4601.

Graveyard Tour Woodland Walk 10:30am-12:30pm. $10/$7 children. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

1pm-2:30pm. $3. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Candlelight Tours Butterfly Migration Tagging

7pm-8:30pm. $7. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.

11am-4pm. Rainbow’s End Butterfly Farm & Nursery. Pawling. 832-6749.

Taste of New Paltz

Kitchen Garden Harvest Celebration

11pm-5pm. Festival of food. $5/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 255-0243.

2pm-4pm. Traditional dishes and story telling. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

MUSIC

Murderers

Cover Girlz

8pm. Presented by the Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $20/$16 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

1pm-2pm. Featuring Peggy Atwood, Elly Wininger and Terri Massardo. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

SPOKEN WORD

Excelsior Trombone Ensemble 3pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

LeFevre Family Association Call for times. Annual meetings. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Unplugged Open Acoustic Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THE OUTDOORS Five Rivers In Five Days

A Sense of Place 8pm. Mark Klett. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Call for times. Fly fishing in the Catskills. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Singles and Sociables Hike-Gertrude’s Nose

THEATER

10am-3pm. 7-mile hike. Meet at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve Upper Lot, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Cabaret 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Hamlet 8pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

Walk Through History 11am. Explore the site’s 19th-century past. West Point Foundry Preserve, Cold Spring. 473-4440 ext. 270.

SPOKEN WORD Pathwork Spiritual Lecture Reading/Discussion 1:30pm. Pathwork Spiritual, Phoenicia. 688-2211.

How I Learned to Drive 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

WORKSHOPS Yoga for Golfers Call for times. Improve your game through focus and flexibility. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.

Reaching for Resolutions 1pm-5pm. Bias Awareness workshop facilitated by Creative Response to Conflict. $100. Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack. 353-1796.

SUNDAY 16

THE OUTDOORS Butterfly Migration Tagging 11am-4pm. Rainbow’s End Butterfly Farm & Nursery. Pawling. 832-6749.

Hudson River Ramble 2pm-4pm. A guided hike to Lost Pond will be offered as part of special event. Advance reservations requested. Manitoga, Garrison. 424-3812.

THEATER How I Learned to Drive 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

ART

WORKSHOPS

Elayne Seaman Opening

Felted Silk Neckwear/Scarf Workshop

2-5pm. Paintings and drawings, 1970-2007. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

10am-2pm. $60/$55members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Works by Marti Cormond

Hive Maintenance

3pm-5pm. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519.

10am-1:30pm. Fall and winter preparation. $40. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Psychic Spa Day in the Mountains 2pm. Noni massage, facials, Reiki healings, psychic readings, classes and guided meditations. Hunter Mountain’s Lanesville House, Lanesville. 688-5672.

MONDAY 17 CLASSES Swing Dance Class

DANCE

Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Swing Dance Jam

Learn to Meditate

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

8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

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THE OUTDOORS Toddlers on the Trail Walk-Trees of the Shawangunks 10am-12pm. Ages 2-6. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Scrabble Group

A Course in Miracles

MUSIC

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

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THE OUTDOORS Nature Strollers 9:15am. For families with babies, toddlers and young children. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

SPOKEN WORD

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Israel in the World

7pm. Poetry and music. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

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7pm. An overview of modern Israel. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 338-8131.

Flying Trapeze Lessons Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

DANCE

SPOKEN WORD RCAL and the That All May Worship Committee Meeting 1pm. Meeting to plan conference events. Resource Center for Accessible Living, Kingston. 331-0541.

Adult Book Discussion 7pm-9pm. Charlotte’s Web. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various styles and levels. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

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WORKSHOPS EVENTS ART

Adult Literacy Tutor Training Workshop 7pm-9pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

WEDNESDAY 19 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Reiki I Certification

Tai Chi Chuan

6pm-Wednesday, September 19, 9pm. $95/$80. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Call for times. Ten session course. $100. Call for location. 452-7067.

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CLASSES

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

KIDS Preschool Story Time Call for times. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Discovery Day: Balancing Act 1pm-3pm. Family tours. The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls. (518) 792-1761.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Breast Cancer Support Group 11am-12:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 339-4673.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 12pm-1:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 339-4673.

Sufi Zikr - Healing Chant and Prayer 5:45pm. $5. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class 6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.

MUSIC Jon Walters 6:30pm-8pm. Singer/songwriter. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.

Reality Check 9pm. Modern rock. Silo Ridge Country Club, Amenia. 373-7000.

THE OUTDOORS Tuesdays with Morrie

CLASSES

8pm. Presented by the Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $15/$11 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style

SPOKEN WORD

7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. www.barushkadance.com.

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MUSIC Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Live Jazz 7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason 7pm. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

Bevier-Elting Family Association Call for times. Annual meetings. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Mudd Poets’ Poetry Series 7pm-10pm. Featured poets followed by open mike. $2. Mudd Puddle Cafe, New Paltz. 255-3436.

Girls Night Out Book Groups 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Mid-Hudson Photography Club Meeting 7:30pm. Featuring guest speaker Scott Ian Barry. LaGrange Town Hall, Poughkeepsie. 297-1875.

THEATER Cabaret

SPOKEN WORD

8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Separation & Divorce Support Group

Hamlet

6:30pm-8:30pm. For women. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-2235.

8pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

Humanist Book Groups 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

How I Learned to Drive 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Joel Kovel: Overcoming Zionism 7pm. The author reads and signs. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Nyack’s Poetry Jam

SATURDAY 22 ART

7:30pm-9pm. $3. Nyack Center, Nyack. 358-6759.

“The Set Up” Opening

THEATER

6-8pm. Group show. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090.

Hamlet 8pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

Richard Merkin Retrospective: 1970s-Present

How I Learned to Drive

EVENTS

6pm-8pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.

8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Kingston Farmers’ Market Improvisational Theatre 6pm. Stories about recovery and the recovery process. Family Partnership, Poughkeepsie. 486-2950 ext. 172.

9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

12th Annual Hawk Migration Workshop

WORKSHOPS

9am-12pm. Includes 2-mile hike, lecture, bird watching. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Adult Literacy Tutor Training Workshop

Riverside Farmer’s and Artisans Market

7pm-9pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

FRIDAY 21

MUSIC BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Cafe Jazzbo ‘Olohe Malu-Ancestral Teachings of Aloha Call for times. Talk story, music, movement, meditation, play. $560. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225 ext. 2.

Mountain Mediumship Retreat

10:30am-1pm. Riverside Market, Hudson. (518) 943-4300.

Cover Girlz Do Woodstock 2pm-5pm. Terri Massardo, Peggy Atwood, and Elly Wininger. Joshua’s Java Lounge, Woodstock. 679-5533.

Call for times. Training, ghost hunt, drumming, “home circle”, message circle, Reiki. $299 overnight/$199. Hunter Mountain’s Lanesville House, Lanesville. 688-5672.

Shafaatullah Khan

Meditation-Thon

Hurley Mountain Highway

5am. Create a more peaceful world. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-0360.

7:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Guru Rinpoche Tsok Puja

Eric Erickson

7pm. 10th day of the lunar month. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-0360.

8:30pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

CLASSES

7pm. Indian classical music. $10. Arts Center Theater, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

Kurt Henry Band 9pm. Rock. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424.

The Art of Cooking Meat -Beef 101 7pm-9pm. For recovering vegetarians and others who are slightly perplexed. Fleisher’s Upstairs, Rhinebeck. 876-7507.

THE OUTDOORS

EVENTS

10am-2:30pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Singles and Sociables Hike-Humpty Dumpty Path

Carolina Pig Roast 6pm-10pm. Bonfire, food. $20. Catamount Banquet Center, Hillsdale. 688-2444.

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Tuesdays with Morrie 8pm. Presented by the Mohonk Mountain Stage

Company. $15/$11 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

SPOKEN WORD

SPOKEN WORD Steve Hamilton: Night Work 1pm. Book signing and discussion. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Book Signing Walk With Us 7pm. Triplet boys, their teen parents & two women who tagged along. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 471-6580.

DiGuiseppe Architecture / Interior Design

THEATER Hamlet 2pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

How I Learned to Drive

THEATER

2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Cabaret 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS Yoga for Golfers

Hamlet 8pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

Call for times. Improve your game with added focus and flexibility. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.

MONDAY 24

How I Learned to Drive 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

CLASSES

SUNDAY 23

Swing Dance Class

ART

Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Celebration of the Arts

Learn to Meditate

10am-5pm. Visual arts, performances, children’s tent, silent auction, food. Hasbrouck Park, New Paltz.

Called to Row 3pm-5pm. Photographic documentary exhibit by Mary Koniz Arnold. Cunneen Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

SPOKEN WORD Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Poetry Open Mike Magick 101 and Equinox Ritual 6pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

7pm. Featuring Steve Cleaver and Brett Bevell. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

TUESDAY 25

CLASSES Plein Air Oil Painting in the Park

CLASSES

9am-12pm. With Brian Shapiro. $75. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519.

An Appreciation for Your Hometown Eateries

Magick Basics & Equinox Ritual

Call for times. Tour different eateries, meet with the owners, and enjoy dinner . $119. Call for location. 339-2025.

6pm-8pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

EVENTS

Women’s Circles: Rhinebeck Cooking from the Harvest Garden 6pm-9pm. $45/$30 members. Jessica Bard’s Farm, Milan. 876-2194.

Pfalz Point Trail Challenge Fundraising Run 7:45am. $25/$20 members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

Bone Rattling, Bone Sucking, Take a Bite out of Hunger BBQ 4pm-7pm. To benefit the Queens Galley. $69/$79. Headless Horseman Hayrides, Ulster Park. 339-2666.

MUSIC Mary Nessinger 3pm. Messo-soprano. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

WORKSHOPS Adult Literacy Tutor Training Workshop 7pm-9pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75/$15 per session. Call for location. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 26

Kairos: A Consort of Singers Bach Cantata Series

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

4pm-5pm. Soprano Carol Lundergan. Holy Cross Monastery, West Park. 256-9114.

Tai Chi Chuan

Organ Recital and Choral Evensong

Call for times. Ten session course. $100. Call for location. 452-7067.

4:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220.

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Full Moon Chenrezik Puja 7pm-8pm. Sandhana of Chenrezik are emphasized. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-0360.

7:30pm. $30. Philipstown Depot Theatre , Garrison.

Music Faculty Recital 8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 043-7729.

CLASSES

THE OUTDOORS

Flying Trapeze Lessons

Moderate Hike to Fishkill Ridge

Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

Call for times. Call for location. 896-9332.

Stretch And Stride: Yoga And Hiking In The Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Swamp Things Paddle 10am. Kayak the Hudson’s largest tidal swamp. RamsHorn-Livingston Sanctuary, Catskill. 473-4440 ext. 270.

Overlook Mountain Hike 1pm. Call for location. 592-0204.

DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various styles and levels. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

EVENTS Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about Nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

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Saturdays

KIDS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Preschool Story Time

The Shower of Blessings

10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

MUSIC

Call for times. Mipam’s famous guru yoga practice and feast liturgy. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-0360.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

SPOKEN WORD

12pm-1:30pm. Greenport Town Hall, Hudson. 339-4673.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 12pm-1:30pm. Catskill Community Center, Catskill. 339-4673.

Veterans Symposium on Survivors of Bataan 4pm. Panel discussion and buffet dinner. $5/free for veterans. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

May ‘til November 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Ed Spiegel: Hudson Valley Voyage: Through The Seasons, Through The Years 7pm. Book signing and discussion. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Rain or Shine

What Are They Trying to Tell Us? 7pm. Lecture on canine behavior. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

DANCE Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Music by The Gordon Webster Trio . Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

EVENTS French Soiree Call for times. Terrapin Restaurant. Rhinebeck. 876-3330.

THEATER PFLAG Meeting Hamlet 8pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

THURSDAY 27

6:30pm-8:30pm. The Kingston Chapter of PFLAG. LGBTQ Center, Kingston. 853-5798.

MUSIC African Drumming Weekend Call for times. Call for location. 326-3467.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Jon Walters

Tai Chi Chuan Classes

6:30pm-8pm. Singer/songwriter. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.

Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul 8pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

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Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class 6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.

Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila 8pm. Muddy Cup coffeehouse, Catskill. 334-8600.

CLASSES Music Faculty and Students Jazz Concert Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style

8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. www.barushkadance.com.

SPOKEN WORD

Life Drawing Sessions

Janine Fallon-Mower: Woodstock and Woodstock Revisited

7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

7pm. Book signing and discussion. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

FILM

THEATER

Cages

Hamlet

7:30pm. $7/$5 members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

MUSIC

8pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

How I Learned to Drive

Acoustic Thursdays

8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Live Jazz 7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

SATURDAY 29 ART Sytes

David Kraai 8pm. Country folk. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

2pm-4pm. GCCA Mountaintop Gallery, Windham. (518) 734-3104.

SPOKEN WORD

New Hudson River School Painters Paint-Out & Art Auction

Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition Book Group

4-6:30pm. Sixth annual. Good Shepherd Church, Millbrook. 471-2550.

7pm. Geneen Roth’s When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Works by Loman Eng Understanding Past Native American Cultures in the Hudson Valley Through Archaeology

5pm-8pm. Rose Gallery of Fine Art, Hudson. (518) 671-6128.

7:30pm. With Dr. Eugene J. Boesch. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 331-4121.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

THEATER

Female Spirit in Action Call for times. Holistic fitness workshop for women. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

Hamlet 8pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

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8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Call for times. Swing dance and instruction with Joel & Alison Plys. Masonic Lodge, Poughkeepsie. 236-3939.

WORKSHOPS

EVENTS

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Kingston Farmers’ Market

How I Learned to Drive

7pm-9pm. $30/$25. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Riverside Farmer’s and Artisans Market

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9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

1st Annual Kingston Italian Festival 1pm-8pm. Italian cuisine, vendors, games, prizes, children’s activities, fireworks. Historic Rondout Waterfront, Kingston. (800) 331-1518.

Hudson Valley Garlic Festival

Fifty States

Call for times. Celebrating the “stinking rose.” Food, music, crafts, kids’ stuff. Catine Field, Saugerties. 246-3090.

8pm. Performed by Word of Mouth. $10. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison-on-Hudson. 424-3960.

National Geographic and Beyond Front and Center III Call for times. Fundraiser featuring music, magic, comedy, and a live auction. $75. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

8pm-1am. Sam Abell. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THEATER

KIDS

Hamlet

Jerry “The Snakeman” Reptile Demonstration 3pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Call for time. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

MUSIC

How I Learned to Drive 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Big Kahuna 8pm. Cafe international- dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.

Dan Zanes and Friends Call for times. $22.50/$17.50 children. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

WORKSHOPS Healing Tools: Imagery, Energy and Divine Intervention 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

SUNDAY 30

Paul Slusar One-Man Band 10:30am-1pm. Riverside Market, Hudson. (518) 943-4300.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar 3pm. Flute. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Engaged Spirituality

Tribute to Gospel

Call for times. The movement of spirit in action. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

7pm. Special guests and several styles of “roots” music. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Eckhart Tolle Group Meeting

Eradicate

2pm-4pm. Meeting to experience and explore Eckhart Tolle’s teachings. Call for location. 687-8687.

8pm. Metal. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.

EVENTS Ollabelle 8pm. $25/$20 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

The Doug Maloney Memorial Golf Tournament Call for times. $95/$360 for a team of 4. Rondout Country Club Ltd, Accord. 331-1261.

Sundad: Journey to Eternity 8pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

Victor Prieto Trio

The Big Band Sound Jazz Orchestra 8pm. Beacon High School Auditorium, Beacon. (800) 838-3006.

Commander Cody 9pm. $22.50. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

1st Annual Kingston Italian Festival 1pm-8pm. Italian cuisine, vendors, games, prizes, children’s activities, fireworks. Historic Rondout Waterfront, Kingston. (800) 331-1518.

Hudson Valley Garlic Festival Call for times. Celebrating the “stinking rose.” Food, music, crafts, kids’ stuff. Catine Field, Saugerties. 246-3090.

THE OUTDOORS

Olde Hurley Guided Walking Tour

Singles and Sociables Hike-Undivided Lot

MUSIC

9:30am-4pm. 9-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Hudson Valley Ramble: Wildlife of the Hudson Highlands 10am. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

SPOKEN WORD Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Edwin Millard Ford: Kingston 12:30pm. Book discussion and signing. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Living With Chronic Pain 1:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Annual Hudson River Ramble 4:30pm-7pm. 7 Hudson Valley women writers read their work at a bonfire. Poets’ Walk, Red Hook. 876-7060.

Miami String Quartet Call for times. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Gertrude Stein 3pm. $10/$8 seniors and students. Alternative Books, Kingston. 338-5984.

Trefoil 3pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 7pm. With Wynton Marsalis. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Minnewaska Grand Tour Call for times. Difficult hike. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead, New Paltz. 462-0142.

Singles and Sociables Hike-Rock Rift 9:30am-3pm. 8-mile hike. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD

5pm. Barbecue to follow. Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Pathwork Spiritual Lecture Reading/Discussion 1:30pm. Pathwork Spiritual, Phoenicia. 688-2211.

6:30pm. Book discussion and signing. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

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THE OUTDOORS

Reading by Ledig House Writers Residency Program

Russell Dunn: Trails with Tales and Mohawk Region Waterfall Guide

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

2pm. $3. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

Virginia Luppino

8pm. Jazz. $18/$14 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Plants, Garden Supplies, Gifts, Workshops

THEATER How I Learned to Drive

Everything Happens Somewhere

2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

7pm. Short stories by emerging artists. No Space Gallery, Rosendale. 339-3600.

Hamlet

Preserve Into the Unknown: Slide Show and Book Signing

2pm. Presented by Walking the Dog Theater, ShakespeareAlive!, and The Actors’ Ensemble. $16-$20. StageWorks, Hudson. (800) 838-3006.

7pm-8pm. With author Susan E.B. Schwartz. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

WORKSHOPS

Reading by Brett Bevell

Yoga for Golfers

7:30pm. Author of America Needs a Woman President and The Reiki Magic Guide To Self Attunement. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Call for times. Improve your game with added focus and flexibility. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.

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ne day last month, standing in a convenience store in northern Belgium, I decided to join the Nestle boycott. I’ve always tried to avoid Nestle products, but it’s difficult in Europe because they have vast market share. I was standing in the store, wanting some chocolate, looking at a lot of Nestle options. Then I decided to draw the line right there, and picked some gourmet chocolate off the shelf. I got home and read the ingredients on the chocolate I had purchased, and noticed that wheat flour was on the list. Because I have celiac, I can’t eat anything containing wheat and several other grains that contain a protein called gliadin, which is part of gluten. Gluten makes it possible for bread to rise and hold its shape. It provides that delightful rubbery goodness that wheat is famous for. It’s the stuff in dough that makes it stretchy, for example giving pizza dough the property of being able to stretch thin and still be strong enough to hold the sauce and cheese. Vegetarians and macrobiotics sometimes eat something called seitan, or “wheat meat”—an extremely convincing, versatile meat substitute that is pure gluten. It is made by taking ordinary wheat dough and rinsing out all the starch. Gluten is very useful, and it’s difficult to digest. It’s also the probable main culprit in celiac, an autoimmune disease that can damage the small intestines and makes it difficult for people with the illness to absorb nutrients from other food. Celiac is not an allergy; it’s a genetically transmitted immune disorder that affects one in 100 people, often of Northern European descent. Most cases go undiagnosed. Gliadin is found in wheat, old forms of wheat such as spelt and Kamut, rye, barley and malt, and probably oats. Immediate symptoms include diarrhea, bloating, flatulence, and malnutrition. There are also mental symptoms that can be severe, including both long-term and short-term depression. One’s immune system, which has a lot to do with the state of awareness, feels distinctly out of whack. Kids can suffer from something called failure to thrive, which is the result of their nutrients not being absorbed properly. If left untreated, there can be long-term consequences ranging from epilepsy to cancer. When I was only a year old, I looked like a refugee kid who had not eaten in months. My mother, with the help of my grandmother Mary and Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care, figured out what the problem was. Doctors gave her a hard time, but she insisted, and she was right. She spent most of my early childhood fending off what she calls cookie pushers—relatives and innocent bystanders who for some reason loved to hand me bread, crackers, and baked treats. One alcoholic uncle loved to give me beer; he somehow lived to tell the story. Forty years later, she is still incredulous at their stupidity: No matter how many times she explained it, some relatives just did not get it. They also loved to debate which side of the family was to blame, but celiac is passed by a double recessive gene and must therefore come from both sides of the family. Once you and your doctor figure out that you have celiac, then the fun really begins: Your life becomes a constant obstacle course of avoiding products containing wheat and related grains. What you soon find out is that wheat is ubiquitous, and some of its cousins do a pretty good job. Once you get rid of

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PLEASE the basics—bread, cakes, cookies, and most other baked goods—then it’s time to figure out where wheat and its gliadin friends are hidden in the food supply. Beer, for example, is made of barley; that is a gliadin grain. Beer is easy to identify, but not so easy for some people to avoid. I am lucky—I don’t like the stuff. (Distilled spirits don’t contain gliadin even if they are made from wheat, rye, or malt, because those are taken out in the distillation process.) Many sausages and frankfurters have wheat filler or extender; you have to read the package, which is often difficult if you’re eating in a restaurant. Anything deep fried is suspect; most of it is coated in flour, batter, or breadcrumbs. As a result, anything else that goes through the deep-fryer is likely to be contaminated; if French fries don’t already have wheat in them, they may be picking it up from the frying oil. Next come sauces, gravies, and soups. Most of them have some wheat flour sprinkled in. It makes them thick and creamy, and it’s completely unnecessary from a culinary standpoint. Most chefs, except for the very best, will use flour routinely in their sauces and soups. All Cajun food is suspect because it’s based on roux, a mix of flour and butter that is the basis of all soups and sauces in that genre of cooking. Then there is anything that comes out of a package. Wheat and its derivatives are hidden in hundreds of forms, and in thousands of places, ending up in salad dressings, prepared sauces, potato chips, and most other junk foods, even in soy sauce. Veggie burgers are famous for having wheat: It usually comes in the form of seitan, sometimes identified as wheat gluten and sometimes by another name (modified vegetable protein, for example). As you are starting to figure out, this turns eating into a constant yoga. It’s easy enough if you make all your meals at home. I happen to live on the road, so I eat out a lot. Every time I sit down in a restaurant, I have the same basic discussion. I have to recruit the assistance of the dining room staff, and get them to be my lawyer in the kitchen. If they get it, that is. I don’t hesitate to ask to see the formula for any particular dish; I have asked that the chef be called at 10 o’clock at night. I presume I have the right to eat safely. In some ways, my life is an ongoing survey of food awareness in the world. You would be surprised how many people don’t know that bread and pasta are made from wheat and flour. I have stopped being surprised, and have resigned myself to the fact that about 80 percent of the population has no idea what it’s putting in its mouth. I live in Europe, so half the time this discussion is going on in French. The French have some special properties. For one thing, they are cookie pushers like few others. French food is laced with flour. They love sauces, and since everyone can’t be a great chef, most restaurants must content themselves with shades of mediocrity. A properly trained French chef would no sooner put wheat flour in a sauce than you would put shoe polish in one, but unfortunately there are not so many of these elites. In the United States, most people decide I’m trying to lose weight. I am not

prone to violence, but there came a point where if one more server asked me if I was on the Atkins diet, I thought I was going to turn the table over. Or, I explain the dietary restrictions I have—no breads, breaded food or sauces or gravies containing wheat—and the server asks me if I’m a vegetarian. Well, wheat rhymes with meat, but they are different. Unless that meat is seitan. Then there are the times when I negotiate everything being wheat and flour-free—I negotiate and stipulate everything—everyone agrees and is happy to oblige, and then dinner comes out with a big piece of bread soaking in the middle of the plate. Soy sauce was an interesting discovery. One of the ways you can avoid wheat is to eat Asian food, but you have to be careful because soy sauce is brewed with wheat. I don’t know how many parts per million of gliadin end up in soy sauce, but I prefer to avoid it. I will either bring my own gluten-free soy sauce to sushi dinners, or a bottle of Bragg’s Liquid Aminos; but I can’t tell you how many of these notso-cheap condiments I’ve left behind at Asian restaurants. Note that many lowerquality Chinese places recycle their old deep-fryer oil into other dishes; this spreads gluten into places you would never imagine have it, such as sautéed vegetables. In my neighborhood in Brussels, one sympathetic Chinese restaurant keeps a bottle of gluten-free soy sauce on hand. I’ve found that the best bet is to eat in Thai restaurants, which use other things to thicken their soups and sauces, and they don’t use much soy sauce. Thai chefs seem to be particularly impeccable when it comes to knowing their ingredients. Astrologer Debbi Kepton-Smith once wrote that people with Venus in Taurus (which I have) tend to go to the same restaurant and eat the same thing every day. That would be me. The good side to all of this is that by avoiding wheat and its cousins and derivatives, you eliminate nearly all of the foods in the Western diet that are the worst for us, the most fattening, and the least nutritious. The difficult side is that partaking in food is one of the most important social activities that we humans have. When a person is on a restrictive diet, it comes with a social stigma of not being able to eat what other people are eating. I remind my friends about this; I appreciate that they sometimes come up with gluten-free options at a dinner, but that is different from being able to eat the same food as everyone else. Mind you, I grew up in an Italian household, eating rice when everyone else ate spaghetti. Once you figure out all the ins and outs of restaurants and packaged foods, and figure out who your friends and enemies are, and which foods you can and cannot eat, and make notes of which waiters and chefs will cooperate and which will not, there are still surprises. A Canadian writer informed me last week that the gluten theory of celiac, which has 100 percent acceptance by the mainstream medical establishment and most of the alternative medical establishment, may be entirely incorrect. “Gluten intolerance is not really enough to explain celiac disease, since symptoms do not disappear when gluten is eliminated from the diet,” writes Victoria Anisman-Reiner, a Toronto-based holistic writer. “In some cases, avoiding gluten restores health and improves digestive symptoms. However, according to [Elaine] Gottschall, it does not result in healing of the intestinal wall.” She refers her readers to a book by Elaine Gottschall called Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet. The author presents a new model for healing digestive disorders including celiac, with an approach called the “specific carbohydrate diet” that calls for eliminating most carbohydrates and many milk products, along with wheat gluten. This is like discovering your chocolate bar has wheat in it, but on a very grand scale. Unless one lives on a diet of steaks and crouton-free salads, it’s nearly impossible to follow this diet and eat outside your house. It is difficult to live like this and not see all food as potential poison. But that would actually be a good idea; at this time in history, all food is potential poison. Whether you’re talking about the additives that go in, such as dyes and preservatives, or the inadvertent toxins, such as the mercury in your tuna fish and the phthlate plasticizers in your bottled water, we do have a food-safety issue. I shudder to think of how you’re going to raise awareness among those who don’t know that pasta is made from wheat. How would you convince someone who smokes and drinks Diet Coke not to microwave in plastic? All of this has made me uniquely suited to write about toxins that are everywhere in the world—dioxins and PCBs. Sometimes I wonder how I have the strength to face an issue that is so widespread, that is invisible and that few people actually care about—and I finally figured out that I’ve been facing it all my life. I already have to regard every morsel of food as a suspected poison. This is true even when I’m in the very best company. Recently, I was a guest at a dinner party, and our chef was the owner of one of the most famous gluten-free restaurants in the city, which serves tiny little $18 pizzas and recently got a rave in the New York Times. He knew I had celiac because that’s how I found out what restaurant he owned. When we sat down at the table, dinner was impeccable: except for the gravy, which was made with flour.

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There is just one way to avoid dramas at work, and that is to focus on work. There is one way to avoid health dramas, which is to focus on your health. In both aspects of your life, you are facing a significant threshold, yet the easiest and most productive thing to shift is your point of view—that is, your attitude or position with respect to these fundamental aspects of existence. For the moment, where other people are concerned, that position might best be a bit remote or removed. Certain people seem poised to shake the tree, when your calling is decidedly in the direction of patient effort, focus and long-term accomplishment. You are laying a foundation now for when Pluto crosses your career angle and your role in the world begins to take on entirely new proportions and undergo some profound changes. The foundation involves learning to set priorities and being able to maintain your integrity when that becomes the last thing on the priority list of others who are influential in your professional environment.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) You seem pulled in three directions. One feels like stern, cool discipline. Another feels like a creative or erotic risk you would never normally imagine taking. A third is “Anywhere but here.” This third option is a good start, because the past, as a long-haul phenomenon, is something you know it’s time to break with. Yet you still seem to be wrestling with the perception that a passionate life is something you can plan and live in a structured way. The structure you need is an inner sense of focus; Saturn now making its way across your fifth solar house—the house of art, risks, and passion—is here to remind you that you must be your own master. Planning the future is one thing, and it’s generally difficult. Knowing your priorities and what you are willing to do about them is another. Yet there is one factor on the horizon that you simply cannot plan for; all you can do is respond, and respond with both authority and your hard-earned sense of adventure.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) Your foundations are moving and shifting. You were planning on certain changes, some were hinted by unusual developments in a domestic situation, and others that are less easy to conceive of are reminding you that flexibility is your best asset. At least you now have something you can aim for, which will help you orient and keep your agenda in order. One key is this: Something recently ceased to be an ambition or aspiration. It would appear that you struck something that was a long-term goal from your life plan, or it unexpectedly ceased to be important. This has allowed you to recognize that something else, something that has been brewing for about three years and has long seemed like an impossible dream, is now ready for action. The changes going on beneath your feet, such as to your home situation, your security base, or your delicate choice of where to be on the planet, are conveniently timed to allow you to pursue your most outrageous dreams.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) A combination of aspects is suggesting that you pay close attention to your local environment. Local means walking distance or short driving distance from where your feet are at any given moment. Pay attention to the room you are in, the neighborhood you are in, the town you are in, and what you find when you are walking around or traveling at a slow speed. Current aspects suggest that your immediate surroundings will be giving you plenty of feedback, including information about whether you need to be there or not. Yet all the ongoing and impressive astrological developments have particularly vivid meaning for those who consider themselves people of letters: writers, programmers, and idea people of all stripes. In my years of working as a journalist, I have often noted that the most important stories and projects choose me. This is one of those moments when your next assignment will choose you, and while details are still forthcoming, the one thing we know is that it will be interesting.

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LEO (July 22-Aug. 23) Conventional wisdom you might be reading in other horoscopes holds that Saturn transiting one’s second house, which begins for you September 2, brings challenges with money. Yet Saturn leaving Leo no doubt comes as a relief on all fronts. As for money, much of how Saturn manifests depends on how we meet those challenges. Saturn transiting any house talks about making reductions and improvements to efficiency—things you’re already good at. But it also talks about focusing your efforts on what matters most, and applying refinements to earn your living from your professional calling rather than some other way. Where Saturn is present, focusing on the architecture and form of the matter in question is helpful, and many have noted that money flows toward structure. Above all, this two-year transit is about deciding what’s most important to you. When you’re involved in what really matters, you will tend to feel good about yourself. If you ever get to a point where you don’t, ask yourself what you’re doing and why.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) September’s partial solar eclipse in your birth sign happens on a day associated with high drama, which is often a ruse for deception. Keep an eye on this syndrome. Keep both eyes on your integrity. The best thing that will come from events this month is that you’ll finally open up to the influences of someone who has been trying to get through to you for a long time. Either that, or a circumstance beyond your control does the job for you. Lighten the impact and deepen the positive influence by making your own choice to reconsider an idea that for too long has seemed necessary but impossible. While you’ve learned to be open to change in recent years, it hasn’t always been easy. But you know the struggle comes down to this: It’s not always possible to respond to the passion that drives you forward and still reckon your choices with logic. Events this month will go a long way toward demonstrating that you don’t have to think things make sense in order for them to do so perfectly.

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LIBRA (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) Events or feelings beyond your control suddenly seem to be running your life. You may also feel a need to draw yourself into some seclusion after many months of working to find your place in society. You’ve accomplished more than you think in that regard, and what remains more than identifying your place is the choice to take it. That, it seems, is a decision awaiting some inner breakthrough that will advance you so far it seems like you’ve made years of progress, at the pace you are accustomed to, that is probably true. It could be said that you do better in circumstances where you seem to have no choice in the matter. What you then tend to do is make up a second option where none existed before, which is almost always preferable to the one you were faced with. If you ever find yourself going into textbook Libra mode of not being able to make up your mind, consider it would help a lot if you took full responsibility for having invented one of the options. It’s also likely to be the most appealing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) You don’t like others setting the terms of your reality, and now they are attempting to do just that. Specifically, it seems that someone is telling you what is possible and what is not. We could be polite and say that their thinking is a bit provincial—based on a simplified and reductionist version of the world. We could be less polite and say that someone is attempting to act in the role of parent, and define the metes and bounds of your potential. I suggest you not spend your precious time arguing. Rather, focus on getting over your own inhibitions about accepting what is possible in your own life, most of which involve getting caught in too many details. Anyone who argues in favor of your limits is doing you a big favor, because they are taking over that job for you. Once you’re relieved of it, you can decide to go beyond their version of littleness; or you may decide that you don’t need anyone, you or someone else, trying to convince you of what cannot happen. The truth of that matter remains to be seen.

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You work on a different timescale than other people. This is in part because you’re inherently connected to the distant past, and aware that certain timeless traditions bind together the logs on the fragile raft on which humanity is floating. Yet the sign change of your ruling planet Saturn is taking you into an era when you begin to question some of your fundamental beliefs, and reassess your most basic orientations on existence. No sooner does this process begin than it gets some unexpected results. You’re likely to conclude that there’s no way you could have created these results yourself, merely by committing to a process of reevaluation. However, what science has not accounted for is that the decision to do something has power that can be called metaphysical. It gets results that can’t really have their roots in the clunky world of cause and effect that we spend so much time navigating. In this moment of revelation, all the normal rules of your life are suspended: Take advantage of this situation to make some decisions that would otherwise seem much more difficult.

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Existence as we know it is like a vast matrix of agreements. Some we can see and acknowledge, others we seem to have no clue about. What remains a constant, and what every good therapist or spiritual teacher will strive to convey to you, is the importance of following your own values and priorities. This creates the effect of your maintaining your internal psychic air pressure when the human atmosphere is constantly pushing against you. Second, it reminds others that you come with your own agenda. What is always interesting is when they decide suddenly to go along with you. Don’t spend so much time wondering why, if the climate of your relationships shifts toward focus, or toward eliminating the nonsense from the discussion. Don’t be shocked if someone suddenly decides they are willing to take you up on your whole crazy plan. Just remember: You tend to be ahead of your time, and people need time to catch up. Or rather, they needed it. And soon, a whole new set of agreements will be possible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Fair to say that something you were not expecting to happen, yet have been working toward for a long time, manifests suddenly this month. The September 11 solar eclipse in Virgo serves as a kind of time warp, which you can ride toward catching up with a plan, idea, concept, or dream that has been in the works perhaps since 2003. It may have gone through many revisions and revolutions, but something is ready to hatch. What you’ve accomplished during that time mainly involves developing the kind of self-assurance that comes only from asserting who you really are, and seeing the results. Remember that long ago, you gave up your reluctance to push others into getting your way, setting themselves free. Among the discoveries of the coming weeks is how willing some people close to you are to wake up and pay attention. As for the rest—you’ll find out where they stand, and don’t take it personally. We live in strange times, when many neither understand the pressure they are under, the responsibilities they face, nor why they believe what they believe. Don’t let anyone’s doubts influence you. www.planetwaves.net 138 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/07

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