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Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.
CONTENTS 9/08
NEWS AND POLITICS
LOCALLY GROWN SUPPLEMENT
23 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
78 SERVING THE BOUNTY OF THE VALLEY
The gist of what you may have missed in the back pages of the global media maelstrom: jellyfish-saturated seas, price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, declining life expectancy in the US, and ocean “dead zones.”
26 RESTORING THE GARDEN OF EDEN Lorna Tychostup documents work being done by Iraqi environmentalists and international partners toward creating Iraq’s first national park in the southern Mesopatamian Marshlands, an area ravaged by order of Saddam Hussein following an uprising of Marsh Arabs after the first Gulf War.
Brian K. Mahoney talks with chefs about sourcing local.
81 PICK-YOUR-OWN FARMS GUIDE
EFFICIENT HEATING SUPPLEMENT 84 WARMING UP TO NEW IDEAS Kelley Granger offers ideas on alternative home heating options.
WHOLE LIVING GUIDE
32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart envisions a starring role for George Bush in Russia’s invasion of Georgia, re-creating Neville Chamberlain’s infamous turn as the appeaser of Munich.
94 THE HEALING POWER OF IMPROV Lorrie Klosterman talks to the founders of Playback Theatre and Psychodrama.
COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK
BUSINESS SERVICES
34 MOTHERS OF ASCENSION
68 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 86 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 98 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.
Sarah Coleman and Hillary Harvey profile MomsRising, founded by author Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and MoveOn co-founder Joan Blades.
Evis impersonator Joseph John Eigo. MUSIC FIONN REILLY
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Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center GRAND OPENING
October 3 –19, 2008 Three weekends of world-class artistic performances and workshops, premieres of EMPAC-commissioned artworks, and eye-opening exhibitions of research at the frontiers of science. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute : : Troy, NY
Find out much more at www.empac.rpi.edu
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Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.
CONTENTS 9/08
64 FOOD & DRINK
ARTS & CULTURE
Sara Reinhart Brown profiles chef Ramiro Jimenez and La Puerta Azul.
40 PORTFOLIO
136 PARTING SHOT
The site-specific projects of sculptor Simon Draper.
Seven Deadly Sins, a mixed-media installation by Robert Hite.
42 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson previews “Origins,” a group show at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill.
THE FORECAST 118 DAILY CALENDAR
44 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE
Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.)
50 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles Elvis impersonator Joseph John Eigo. Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Kelleigh McKenzie Chances. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren. Pete Levin Certified Organic. Reviewed by DJ Wavy Davy. The Sweet Clementines More Sweet on You. Reviewed by Jason Broome.
54 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles former Times newsman turned author John Darnton.
56 BOOK REVIEWS Pauline Uchmanowicz reviews The Book of Calamities by Peter Trachtenberg. Kim Wozencraft reviews two thrillers by Woodstock mystery writers: Heartless by Allison Gaylin and Salvation Boulevard by Larry Beinhart. Plus this month’s Short Takes, a round-up of local memoir and nonfiction.
60 POETRY
PLANET WAVES 130 OBAMA AND THE GALACTIC LEAP Eric Francis Coppolino reads the chart for the Democratic National Convention.
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Poems by Paul Andre de Beaumont, Lee Gould, Aubrey Hirsch, Molly Lurie-Marino, Thomas Mahoney, Arianna Merems, Bruce Robinson, Rebecca Schumejda, Richard J. Treitner, and Joseph Walker.
PREVIEWS 117 All Tomorrow’s Parties rocks the Borscht Belt the weekend of September 19 with My Bloody Valentine, Yo La Tengo, Low, and more at Kutshers in Monticello. 119 Browse more than 10,000 books for sale at the Spencertown Academy Books Festival, over two weekends: September 5 and September 12. 121 Noémie Lafrance’s Rapture, a site-specific choreographic work atop Bard’s Fisher Center, will be performed September 25-28 and October 2-5. 123 Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz will play music from the heart of Appalachia at the Rosendale Theater on September 20. 127 Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon presents the group photographic show Planet China, featuring work by Alan Chin, Justin Guariglia, and Julien Chatelin. 129 Laurie Anderson brings her latest show, Homeland, to the Egg on September 21.
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The Stromberg Alphabet eugenia ballard | mixed media | ď™…ď™ƒď™ƒď™‰
Eugenia Ballard identifies as a picture framer first and an artist second. “Picture framing is a very satisfying job,� says Ballard, who loves the orderly, linear process to frame building. “I’ll do it until I’m dead,� she says. The twin poles of Ballard’s professional and creative existence are inseparable, however, as she creates tableaux and shadow boxes that suggest the exactitude of the craftsman in her art (Ballard trained as a graphic designer), and her frames exude an artistry that transcends mere technical prowess. (Ballard’s skill as a picture framer is attested to by her many dedicated artist clients, who’ve been bringing her their work to frame at the Kingston outlet of Catskill Art and Office Supply for the past 16 years.) The impulse to make art didn’t hit Ballard until 1999, when she was straightening up her house one day. “I started to clean,� says Ballard, “and I realized I had all this stuff, stuff I’d been saving since I was four years old in some cases. I said to myself: ‘Either do something with it or throw it away.’ I needed [my stuff] to go on and be in someone else’s life.� By 2000, Ballard had her first show, at the now-defunct Kingston Cooks. The pieces that emerged from Ballard’s treasure trove of knickknacks reflected her obsession with old things: candy labels, keys, dictionaries; and first and foremost, the alphabet. To accumulate the copious numbers of letters needed for her alphabet-themed pieces, Ballard spends much time of her time searching for letters among the detritus she’s constantly poring over. A favored technique is pulling the keys off of old typewriters. Ballard is an inveterate collector of what most of us would call junk—rusted hinges, broken-down clocks, and other cast-offs of the pre-digital age—and a “professional yard-saler.� She admits to planning her vacation schedule around various yard sales in the region. Ballard also explained that the cover piece, The Stromberg Alphabet, contains a clock face (note the word “Stromberg,� slightly obscured by the dragonfly) that she ripped off a defunct timepiece sitting in a flatbed trailer full of junk, which the owners couldn’t believe she wanted. The dragonfly, incidentally, was a gift from someone who had been to one of her exhibitions. “After a show,� Ballard says, “someone almost inevitably gives me a box of junk they’ve been saving in a drawer.� “A to Z,� a Eugenia Ballard retrospective, will be on display at the Town of Espous Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen, September 1 through September 30. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 6. (845) 338-5580; www.esopuslibrary.org. —Brian K. Mahoney
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Yoga being 2008
Keynote Speaker Russell Simmons
weekend conference
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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 EDITORIAL INTERN Amy Lubinski alubinski@chronogram.com CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Paul Andre de Beaumont, Larry Beinhart, Jason Broome, Sara Reinhart Brown, Amber S. Clark, Sarah Coleman, Eric Francis Coppolino, DJ Wavy Davy, Lee Gould, Kelley Granger, Chloe Hanson, Hillary Harvey, Aubrey Hirsch, Annie Dwyer Internicola, Mark Joseph Kelly, Molly Lurie-Marino, Thomas Mahoney, Jennifer May, Arianna Merems, Sharon Nichols, Fionn Reilly, Bruce Robinson, Rebecca Schumejda, Sparrow, Asher Stern, Richard J. Treitner, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Joseph Walker, Robert Burke Warrren, Kim Wozencraft
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LETTERS
Fall for the Arts An annual festival of storytelling, puppetry, music, and dance. Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz, NY Sponsored by
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School
We are thrilled to announce the inaugural date of Mountain Laurel’s annual Fall for the Arts festival! Performances by Molly Mason and Jay Ungar, puppetry by Arm of the Sea Theater and Star Penny Puppetry, storytelling for all ages by the Storycrafters. The opportunity to purchase great food, including seasonal fruit waffles from the award winning Village Tea Room and many varieties of hot vegetarian and meat chili from Gabriel’s Café and others. Also joining us will be the Bernstein Bard Trio, Livia and Bill Vanaver and members of the International Vanaver Caravan Dance Company, dance instructor Evan McDonald, Jeanne Fleming, director of New York’s Village Halloween Parade, and the Walking on Air Performance Troupe representing Walkway Over the Hudson’s Grand Opening and additional guest appearances to be announced. Join us for a wonderful day of food, entertainment, storytelling, puppetry, crafts, and so much more.
Sunday, October 5, 2008 11:00am to 5:00pm Ulster County Fairgrounds 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz, NY Admission $10 / Children 5 and under free $25 Special pricing per family Fee covers all entertainment
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Dis Not the Cat, Part Two
To the Editor: I’m sending this e-mail to voice my disappointment over an article in your July issue, Beth E.Wilson’s “Touch Not the Cat.” I’m a weekend resident of Catskill who was offended by this article on two levels. The first is obvious, Wilson’s tone is mean-spirited and condescending. I found this particularly surprising from a publication whose mission is “nourishing and supporting the creative and cultural life of the Hudson Valley.” Catskill is a village that’s had a hard run of it. In the last few years, a wonderful transformation has occurred that has revitalized the area.That transformation didn’t come without a lot of effort from the community itself and the Heart of Catskill organization that sponsored “Cat-n-Around Catskill.” Shame on Wilson and Chronogram for not recognizing that. And I posit that not so much for hurt feelings, but for an inability to serve the purpose of your publication. The second offense is more directly related to Wilson’s evaluation of the Cat project. Here’s a news flash—this isn’t about sculpture. (The opening quote is profoundly misplaced.) “Cat-n-Around Catskill” is a community-based fundraising project that uses design to celebrate heritage. Wilson missed the point and should go elsewhere to review true sculpture. I’ll be the first to admit that when I first heard about the project I was concerned about how it might be perceived. I had lived through the Cow Parade in Manhattan—and genuinely enjoyed it. I wasn’t sure how that would translate in Catskill. To my surprise and delight, I must admit that my fears were unsubstantiated. What do you see on the streets of Catskill today? Families strolling from cat to cat taking pictures, generally accompanied by squeals of delight from the youngest members. Just last week I strolled through town with my visiting nieces and their excitement over the cats was truly inspiring. Both immediately returned home to draw picture after picture of the cats they saw—and the cats they wanted to create. Can we measure the influence this will have on their creative development? Well, that would be hard—but it’s not insignificant to note. On that point I don’t think Wilson has walked down Main Street Catskill—or if she did, she didn’t observe the reaction these “works” are having. Generally, I enjoy your nicely produced publication, but I had to take issue with this article. It’s just the sort of misplaced bitterness I run upstate on weekends to avoid. I, for one, don’t want to read the same article on Hudson’s Dog project. Todd Whitley, Catskill
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS In a preview of “Dark Comedy” at the Shadowland Theater in our August issue, there were two errors and one omission.The names of director Brendan Burke and actress Laurel Casillo were misspelled. The photo of the performers was taken by Paul Cowell of Mirror Eyes Photo. In the Chronogram Seen section of our August issue, we neglected to mention where the pictures of beer drinking were taken. The pictures were from the 2008 New York State Beer Expo at Terrapin Catering in Staatsburg.
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT CONTESTS The deadlines for our Literary Supplement contests—we’re again sponsoring both a HUMOR and a SHORT STORY competition—are fast approaching. The Literary Supplement will be published in our November issue, and the contests are open to all in the Hudson Valley region. FICTION: Send entries of 4,000 words or less to fiction@chronogram.com. First prize: $150. The contest will be judged by Jana Martin, author of Russian Lover and Other Stories. Deadline: September 8. HUMOR: Spurious Sequels and Preposterous Prequels. See p. 55 for details.
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Beacon Celebrates 5 Years in the Hudson Valley
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September 19–21, 2008
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SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
Imi Knoebel Room 19, 1968 Reinstalled by Helen Mirra Ongoing
Walter De Maria Silver Meters, 1976 and Gold Meters, 1976–77 Ongoing
Agnes Martin Trajectories Through December 8, 2008
Sol LeWitt Drawing Series . . . Through September 2009
Dia:Beacon Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street Beacon New York 12508 845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
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SPECIAL SCREENINGS
You see I am here after all, 2008 September 21, 2008–September 7, 2009
Merce Cunningham Dance Company Beacon Events December 6 and 7, 2008, 2pm
LOCAL LUMINARY JENNY BROWN LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY
crammed into cages sun themselves on the lawn, a goat named Albie who escaped from a slaughterhouse in Brooklyn runs toward Brown on his prosthetic leg to receive affection, and cows rescued from being veal calves sleep peacefully in a shaded field. Every single one of the 140 rescued and rehabilitated animals on the farm has a name (Brown keeps a collection of baby-naming books in her bedroom), as well as a personal health chart. The sanctuary’s third annual Blessing of the Animals will take place on September 28 at 1pm. Guests and their companion animals are invited. www.woodstockfas.org. —Amy Lubinski
AMBER S. CLARK
She’s crashed a Gillette Corporation cocktail party in an Easter bunny costume to protest product testing on animals. She’s gone undercover for PETA to record animal cruelty in industrial factory farms. Now Jenny Brown works full time promoting animal rights as the director of a sanctuary for animals that were abused, neglected, or escaped from live-kill markets. Since 2004, the former TV producer, her husband and co-founder, Doug Abel, five employees, and dozens of volunteers have given hundreds of animals a new lease on life at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary as they simultaneously promote the vegan lifestyle. On the 23-acre parcel outside the village of Woodstock, de-beaked chickens once
What made you want to start the sanctuary? I had done some undercover videos in the early ’90s when I was still in film school. Then, in 2002, I did undercover work for Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen and visited stockyards in Texas as someone who was looking to purchase animals. It was truly that week that I saw things that scarred me: animals chained, kicked, prodded, and abused, workers ripping the calves away from their mothers immediately after birth and throwing them into a separate pen to die or be sold to a veal farmer; live animals suffering from heat stress lying in a pile on top of dead animals. I was going home to my hotel room and bawling my eyes out every night. I had a realization that I was really put on this Earth to do something for as many of these individuals as I could. What’s the message you’re trying to get out there? We strive to show people that these animals are really not much different than the animals we know and love as cats and dogs. We are living proof that you can live your life without consuming animal products. We believe that we have evolved and that meat is not good for you anymore. People die of heart disease and colon cancer and diabetes and all these things because of meat and dairy being such
mainstays in our diet. We’re not tree-hugging zealots, we just want people to start that thinking process to make smarter choices. There’s no denying that we hope people come here and fall in love with some critters and move away from an animal-based diet, but we’re also not here to point fingers at anybody. We just want people to make that important connection that “Oh, I didn’t realize that cows don’t just produce milk.” Many a cultured and intelligent person comes through here thinking that. What do you do to promote your cause? We often set up a table at the Woodstock Farm Festival. We give out literature on factory farms, literature on how easy it can be to move toward a plant-based diet. In this day and age, when we’re so concerned about our carbon footprint, the number one thing you can do is decrease your animal product intake. The livestock sector produces more greenhouse gases than the transportation sector. It takes 30 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef, whereas that 30 pounds of grain could be directed toward 16 people for a day’s ration of food. It’s just not sustainable. We could feed the world on the grain that’s going in to raise the cattle.
We also have a huge meatless Thanksgiving dinner that’s been sold out for the past two years. We put a huge tent in the pasture, the turkeys get to roam around—they’re the guests of honor—we have speakers get up and say a word or two, music, and then we have a fat, delicious, full-on, full-course vegan Thanksgiving dinner, and people love it. We call it “Thanksliving.” What hopes do you have for farm animals in the future? People are really becoming aware that the 10 billion land animals slaughtered each year for food are terribly mistreated. With farm animal sanctuaries popping up around the country, we just look at this as the beginning of a sea change. People are allowing themselves to listen to the facts. We are the abolitionists of our era. People once fought women having rights. People once fought to abolish slavery. We really hope there will be a time in the near future that people will look at the suffering of animals the same as they did on those other minorities and realize that just because something has always been this way, doesn’t make it right. We hope for a time when eating meat will be looked down upon.
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Esteemed Reader Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: There has been a bumper crop of blueberries this year. Each time I walk along the Shawangunk ridge I am astounded that their numbers don’t seem to diminish.Alone, or with friends, I pause my hike often to pick them, collecting a handful with each reach into a bush. In some places an entire hillside is suffused with a purple hue. Such abundance is rare. It is not often that I get the feeling that there is more of something than I could ever need. And though the blueberries are completely available to me, they are not mine. They are equally available to anyone that would venture onto the ridge. Faced with so many berries, my reactions occurred in series. First there was the bacchanal, as I ate the berries by the mouthful, even forgetting to taste their bright tartness. There was furtive harvesting and the instinctive gratification of being fed. But gradually, as satiation and the security that the berries would not run out set in, I slowed down and become present to the pop of each berry I plucked from a branch. I began to notice the dramatic and subtle difference in color, flavor, texture, and juiciness of berries from different bushes and locations. I felt like the berry bushes, and even the whole mountain was offering itself to me, personally. On reflection I considered that this is true. The berries are for me. And the offering is also completely impersonal, like the radiance of the sun, which shines equally on all, and yet every one receives the offering of its warmth and light. The blueberry bushes, like the sun, have their own imperatives and concerns that correspond to their nature. They are pursuing success in the world of blueberry bushes, seeking spots with more light and the right amount of water. The conditions this year, or perhaps a cosmic need for more blueberries, have invited them into an astonishing level of wellness. They have been lucky, and each individual blueberry bush ego (meaning it possesses a feeling of “I”) is glad for it. One might say they are full of themselves. As if to prove capitalist economic theory, the success of the blueberry bushes has a trickle-down effect. It has trickled down to you and me, who enjoy reaching in and pulling out berries by the handful. Their success has trickled down to the bears, whose enthusiasm is evidenced by impressive mounds of bright purple shit on the trail. The success of the blueberry bushes is the success of all. Q&A What have the blueberries done to be so successful? They have been themselves, just as the sun (most certainly an ego of the highest order) is busy being itself. In the process of being itself the sun sheds light and life into the whole solar system and beyond. And in the process of being themselves, the blueberry bushes manifest abundant fruitfulness. What do you make of that? I feel grateful to blueberry bushes. For what? For being themselves so fully, and making the fruits of that fulfillment available to all, unconditionally. What else? For demonstrating that being fully oneself, and using all available conditions to produce health, wellness, and abundant openness is not self-serving. In fact it is a gift to all and everything. A&Q This is the meaning of the saying “in order to be, in reality, a just and good altruist, it is inevitably required first of all to be an out-and-out egoist.” Are you suggesting a disposition of self-centeredness? Of course, you idiot! But not the upside-down, backwards notion of “self ” you are always entertaining. I mean the self that doesn’t need to go around calling itself “I”. I mean the self that simply, tacitly, is. How do I get to that? You already are that. You are the one that is present when you have a feeling of abundance; when you are full to overflowing with your own presence and there is no sense of lack or want. You and the world are both present, and connected, by your attention, which flows and overflows willingly. What do the blueberry bushes know that I don’t? Are you nuts? Blueberries don’t know anything. They just are, according to their nature.Your problem is that you have departed from yours.You look to things out there to complete yourself. You think you need to eat blueberries to be happy. You’re mistaken. What happens when I am myself? Get here, we’ll do the rest. —Jason Stern
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An explosion of jellyfish populations (pictured above, Nomura jellyfish netted off the coast of Japan) across the globe is signaling a decline in the health of the world’s oceans, scientists say. The increased number of jellyfish reflects a combination of severe overfishing of natural predators (tuna, sharks, and swordfish), rising sea temperatures (ideal conditions for jellyfish breeding) caused by global warming, and pollution that has depleted oxygen levels in coastal shallows, killing other fish as jellyfish thrive. The jellyfish populations are becoming more pronounced in the Mediterranean, but problem areas include the Gulf of Mexico, the Black Sea, the Sea of Japan, the Yangtze estuary, and the coastlines of Australia, Hawaii, Namibia, and Britain. Source: New York Times The federal government is spending more money on veterans than it did after the demobilization of World War II. In 2007, expenditures hit $82 billion due to the rising cost of health care, the expense of caring for an aging population of Vietnam War veterans, and a new crop of severely wounded troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The figure exceeds the $80 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars spent in 1947 after most of the 16.1 million Americans serving in World War II left the service. There are currently 5.5 million veterans of all ages receiving VA health care. Source: USA Today A study conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University revealed that ABC, NBC, and CBS news anchors said more negative things about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama than Republican presidential candidate John McCain during the first six weeks of the general election campaign. When network news people offered their opinions of the candidates during July, 72 percent of the statements made regarding Obama were negative, whereas only 57 percent of the statements made regarding McCain were negative. Obama has also received twice as much network time as McCain in the seven weeks after the end of the primary season, as found in a study conducted by the online Tyndall Report. Obama received 166 minutes of coverage, compared to 67 minutes of coverage for McCain. Source: Los Angeles Times Hundreds of people working in the military, government, and education are on a list of nearly 10,000 people who spent more than $7.3 million buying counterfeit high school and college degrees from a Spokane, Washington, diploma mill. Individuals on the list include high-ranking officials at NASA, the Department of Health, the
Life expectancy is declining in parts of the US, according to a study published by the online journal Public Library of Science. Life-expectancy data was analyzed for all 3,141 counties in the US from 1961 to 1999, the latest year for which complete data has been released by the National Center for Health Statistics. Counties with significant declines in life spans were concentrated in Appalachia, the Southeast, Texas, the southern Midwest, and along the Mississippi River. Life-expectancy increases were mainly in the Northeast and on the Pacific Coast. Since the last study, conducted in 1983, it was discovered that life spans rose with wealth and declined in counties where the proportion of African Americans was higher. Source: New York Times The “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, a region with too little oxygen to support marine life, is nearly the largest on record this year, at 8,000 square miles—an area the size of Massachusetts. First studied in the early 1970s, the dead zone has doubled in size since 1985 due to hypoxia—very low levels of dissolved oxygen—a downstream effect of the nitrogen in fertilizers used for agriculture in the Mississippi River watershed. Intensified corn production, which relies heavily on fertilizer, has been a major factor in causing the entire Mississippi watershed, not just the Gulf, to suffer the effects of agricultural runoff, making half the streams and rivers unsafe for recreation or drinking. Source: Washington Post One out of every three working-age adults without health insurance in the US has received a diagnosis of a chronic illness, as estimated by the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine. The first detailed study of the health of the uninsured is based on an analysis of government health surveys from 2004 of adults ages 16 to 64 years old, and revealed that 11 million of the 36 million people without insurance had received a chronic illness. The most recent government estimate of the number of people in this country without health insurance is 47 million, meaning that there might be over 15 million people in the US right now with a chronic condition but no insurance to pay for medical care. About seven percent of the uninsured with a chronic illness who were surveyed said they typically went to a hospital emergency room for care. Source: New York Times Drug companies are hiking up the costs of a growing number of prescription drugs as much as 1,000 percent, increasing the costs for insurers, patients, and government programs. Last year, prices rose 7.4 percent on average for 1,344 brand-name drugs, and the average wholesale price of 26 brand-name drugs jumped 100 percent or more in a single adjustment, up 15 percent from 2004, researchers from the University of Minnesota say. Many of the drugs are older products that treat fairly rare but often serious or life-threatening conditions. Drug companies say the price increases are covering the costs of keeping the drugs on the market, but patients are eating the costs by being forced to pay increased insurance premiums when hospitals choose not to cover the costs. Source: USA Today —Compiled by Amy Lubinski
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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note What I Didn’t Do This Summer
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ach year in late April and early May, as we plan the editorial lineup for our summer issues, I, too, eagerly start to plot out my cultural outings for the summer. It’s a fairly similar scenario year to year, and my unguardedly optimistic interior monologue goes something like this: Wow! It looks like another great summer of events in the Hudson Valley.There are so many things to do, so many cool things are happening. Concerts, theater, festivals, outdoor activities—I’ll do them all. I’ll write down the events in my date book so I won’t forget them like last year. I’m going to do everything this summer. I’m going to be the most cultured person in the region! Looking back on my summer with my date book beside me, I’m not sure, specifically, where I went wrong. Some days I had conflicts with personal obligations, some days it was work. Other times it was the desire to fiddle in my garden, or fire up the barbeque and spend an uneventful evening at home with Lee Anne. And then there was that week at beach in Rehoboth, Delaware. Sometimes it was general inertia, the inability to break the surly bonds of home and get in the car and go. Sometimes it took all my strength just to ignore the projects around the house I was supposed to be tackling this summer. Often, my desire to spend as much time as possible outdoors, in preparation for the varsity tanning team tryouts, trumped all. Many an afternoon was spent lolling in the sunshine, either in a canoe or just on our back deck, feet soaking in our inflatable kiddie pool. Either way, it added up to a season that flew by. Here’s a partial list of what I had hoped to attend this summer: Stone Ridge Library Fair, June 14 Making it to the Stone Ridge Library’s mammoth book sale (there are other events attached to the fair—readings, music performances, and whatnot—but they’re not the point, as far as I’m concerned) was a bit of pipe dream ever since Lee Anne and I put a moratorium on bringing more books into our house. Unless, of course, we removed a corresponding number. As we are reluctant to part with even our oddest titles, like Say It in Swahili! or Gout: The Patrician Malady, we decided not to tempt ourselves. If you are looking to expand your library, however, the Spencertown Academy’s third annual Festival of Books is coming up this month, September 5 to 14. Readings by Russell Banks and such, and over 10,000 books for sale. Amy Lubinski’s preview appears on page 119. Clearwater Festival, June 13-14 Luminary Publishing, Chronogram’s evil corporate overlord, publishes the event guide to Clearwater’s annual fundraiser, the Great Hudson River Revival, featuring multiple stages of music, storytelling, and general hijinks. I have worked on this project for the past five years and yet I’ve never been to the festival. Bound and determined to attend this year, I set my sights on Sunday. Torrential rain and flash flooding, however, washed out Sunday’s festivities at Croton-Point Park in Westchester. Weather Gods: 1, Brian: 0. Eric Bogosian’s “1+1” at Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater, July 1-11 For the July issue of this magazine, I interviewed comedy writer Alan Zweibel, about his career in comedy—Zweibel was one of the original SNL writers, writing for Gilda Radner and John Belushi—and his one-man show, “The History of Me,” that he was bringing to Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater in July. I can’t recall how I goofed to miss Zweibel, but I did catch Eric Bogosian’s latest play, “1+1”, starring Kelli Garner.The actors made an uphill trek through Bogosian’s plot, but the summit hardly seemed worth it.The experience reminded me that Powerhouse is a workshop environment. Oh to see Mark Linn-Baker’s one-man tour de force in Lee Blessing’s “Chesapeake” again!
“Uncle Vanya” at Bard’s Fisher Center, July 11-20 It’s the multi-day events that really make you feel lame when you miss them. Peter Dinklage, best-known for his portrayal of a misanthrope train enthusiast in The Station Agent, received good reviews for the title role in the Chekhov play. Just not from me, who had written down the wrong dates in his planer. I do plan on attending a performance of the site-specific choreographic work Noémi Lafrance has created for six dancers on top of the Fisher Center that will debut later this month. A preview of Lafrance’s Rapture appears on page 121. “Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” July 22August 28 Jay Blotcher previewed this production of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival for our August issue. Created by the Reduced Shakespeare Company for the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 1987, it’s all 37 of the Bard’s plays in 90 minutes, including a version of “Hamlet” backwards. A student production I saw 10 years ago was hilarious, so I imagine that in the sure hands of HVSF, it’s gut-busting. Luckily, additional dates have been added for the first week of September. www.hvshakespeare.org. Hudson River Swim, August 3 Last fall I read Akiko Busch’s Nine Ways to Cross a River. In it, Busch, who lives in Dutchess County, details swimming across a number of bodies of water, one of which is the majestic Hudson. When I had the opportunity to meet Busch last fall, I expressed my admiration for both the meditative engagement of her prose style and the accomplishment of fording so many rivers under her own power. Busch, a modest woman with two teenage children, assured me that I, too, could swim across the Hudson, and that I should join the mass swim to benefit Pete Seeger’s Beacon River Pool on August 3. Suffice to say that when the date arrived, I felt more like a chicken than a shad. I stayed home to train for the tanning team. For those up for a late-season Hudson River crossing, the Hudson River Swim for Life will take place from Nyack to Sleepy Hollow on September 7. www.hudsonriverswim.org. Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, August 20 & 21 One of the more idiosyncratic projects I set out to see this summer, Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea is a flotilla of seven boats crafted out of salvaged materials and scrap wood by the artist Swoon and her troupe, what the artist calls an “invented landscape.” The boats set sail down the river on August 15 for a series of performances, staged on the boats themselves and accompanied by music from the neo-Gypsy ensemble Dark Dark Dark, at towns along the river in Troy. I missed the first performance at the Saugerties Lighthouse. The second, at the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston’s Rondout, less than a mile from my house, I had to skip due to the fact that—irony of meta-irony—I had to write my column. Switchback Sea will be landing at Deitch Studios on the East River in Long Island City on September 7, with performances September 11 to 13. www.switchbacksea.org. Better luck next year. Maybe I’ll get an iPhone to help with scheduling my roster of events. —Brian K. Mahoney Get your weekly dose of Chronogram on Monday mornings at 8:15 with Brian and Greg Gattine on “The Morning Show with Gattine and Franz.” WDST 100.1FM. 9/08 CHRONOGRAM 25
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RESTORING THE GARDEN OF EDEN Creating Iraq’s First National Park By Lorna Tychostup
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t is said that the thick, endless green reed beds and seasonally mobile mud islands that make up Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian Marshlands once nourished and gave shelter to ancient communities born long before the recording of human history. Some scholars claim the marshlands are the location of the Garden of Eden, the birthplace of Abraham, and the site of the great flood where Noah built his ark. World famous archeological sites scattered along the edges of the marshlands hold remnants of the birth of human civilization. Among them are the ancient Sumerian cities of Ur, Lagash, Larsa, Eridu, and Uruk, one of the world’s first cities to house a dense population and home to a king who went by the name of Gilgamesh and resides in history thanks to one of the more famous works of early literature. It is in this place, the southernmost tip of the ancient Fertile Crescent— where the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers divides and separates into a drainage basin made up of a multitude of small waterways before emptying into the Persian Gulf—that plans are being implemented to create Iraq’s first National Park in an area ravaged by the vengeful acts of Saddam Hussein, who during the closing decade of the 20th century aimed to destroy a 5,000-yearold culture. The proposed Mesopotamian Marshlands National Park will cover an area just a under 350,000 acres and contain a core area of 59,000 acres. Known as the Eden Again Project and led by the Iraqi environmental group Nature Iraq, the project’s partners also include the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land, and Sea, and Iraq’s Ministries of Environment, Water Resources and Municipalities and Public Works. The broad objectives of the national park aim to protect the environment, foster socio-economic development in the region, preserve its cultural heritage inclusive of restoring and protecting from further deterioration all identified archeological sites, and to guide the establishment of ecologic corridors within the marshes along with the creation of an appropriate marshland monitoring and management system. 26 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 9/08
Creating a national park is a heady goal for an organization that hires body guards to accompany their scientists as they work in the field doing surveys, collecting flora, fauna, and water-quality samples; and cataloging wildlife. And if creating Iraq’s first National Park during a time of war and occupation weren’t enough, discussions regarding the creation of a second National Park have recently begun in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region, a more secure but equally environmentally devastated area thanks to the purposeful acts of the regime of Saddam Hussein. Although Iraq’s north and south are separated by its heavily populated central region, the lifeblood dispensed from the Tigris and Euphrates links the two regions. Fed by headwaters located in the mountains of Turkey, Iran and northern Iraq’s Kurdistan, the two main arteries flow south providing silt, clay, and all the nutrients necessary for the continual spawning of life. It is this link that some feel will ultimately unite Iraq, if not from some open desire to become one indivisible nation, than at the very least because of an environmentally driven need—access to water. “There are two places in Iraq—the high places in the north’s mountains and the southern marshlands—where you are speaking with God,” said Narmeen Othman, a Kurd who spent her youth as a Peshmerga, the Kurdish guerilla organization. As the Minister of Iraq’s newly formed Ministry of Environment, oversight of both projects fall to her. “When I was Peshmerga, alone in the mountains, I took my strength from nature, from the grasses and flowers and trees, from the waterfalls and rivers. The same pieces of water that come from our mountains, they end up in the marshes, and they are a gift given to Iraq.” In 2002, soon after reviewing the 2001 United Nations’ Environmental Program report that detailed “one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters”—the decimation of Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshlands—Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi expat born in Nassariya, on the fringes of the marshlands, and his American wife, Suzie Alwash, combined knowledge gleaned from their re-
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OPPOSITE: HARVESTED, CUT, AND CURED TO EXACT LENGTHS, REEDS ARE TAKEN TO MARKET IN CHIBAISH, WHERE THEY WILL BE BROKEN INTO STRIPS AND SOLD. ABOVE: A MARSH ARAB CARRIES A BUNDLE OF NEWLY CUT REEDS, WHICH ARE USED TO BUILD EVERYTHING FROM FISHING BOATS TO HOMES AND FURNITURE.
spective PhDs in civil engineering and geology and conceived the Eden Again Project, the forerunner of Nature Iraq. The UN report was not exactly news to Alwash. Despite living in the US, he had kept his thumb on the pulse of his homeland. Yet both he and his wife were horrified by the extent of the devastation. What had been the third largest wetland in the world just 10 years before—8,000 square miles of thriving, expansive, and self-sustaining marshland—had been reduced to just five percent of its original size, purposely destroyed by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1990s in retaliation for the Shiite uprising that followed the first US invasion of Iraq in 1991. Avid kayakers, the Alwash’s had spent many hours exploring the wetlands of southern California with Alwash telling his wife, “Wait until we go back to Iraq and you see Iraq’s marshlands.” Having spent some time in his younger years accompanying his father, Jawad, to work, Azzam was left filled with memories of the spectacular landscape and its culture. A district irrigation manager and one of the first irrigation engineers to gain access to the marshes, the elder Alwash had a genuine interest in and delight at being accepted into the close-knit albeit reclusive and secluded culture of the Marsh Arabs, and regularly brought his young son along on trips into the marshlands to resolve water disputes. His work and attitude enabled him to establish close relations with people whose culture was remarkably unique. Although residing in southern California, Alwash spends most of his time traveling between the US, southern and northern Iraq, Italy, and wherever the work of Nature Iraq takes him. One of his greatest challenges in the preliminary stages of creating the planned Marshland National Park has been in opening/creating dialogue among the Marsh Arab tribal community—upon whom a genocide was attempted—and gaining their trust. “One of our goals is to provide legal protection for these marshlands, so that they are protected from ever again being deliberately dried,” said Alwash. “Not to be too poetic about
it, but the restoration of the marshes is a ‘phoenix from the ashes’ symbol for the restoration of the destruction visited upon it by the Baath regime. To that extent, the creation of the national park in the central marshes will serve as a ‘never again’ monument for the future generation of Iraqis to remind them about what happened in the late 20th century. The same regime that destroyed the southern marshes also destroyed 5,000 villages in Kurdistan.To that extent, the north and south of Iraq are linked, at least emotionally, through the destruction visited upon them by the same regime that governed Iraq for 35 years.” REVENGING REBELLION SADDAM-STYLE Until the end of the first Gulf War in 1991, the indigenous inhabitants of the marshlands, the Madan or Marsh Arabs, lived in much the same way as their ancestors did 5,000 years ago. They fished, herded water buffalo, and glided their small craft through the lush green reeds they tended, cut, dried and then used to construct their complex, arched homes and meeting places. As noted in a BBC interview with William Thesiger, British explorer, and author of The Marsh Arabs who spent time in the marshlands in the 1950s and 60s, “It [was] a curious sort of life because you had to live in a canoe. There’d be one house here and another 4 or 5 yards away and you couldn’t get to it because there was water between you. And you had to step in a canoe and go over. You traveled everywhere and lived everywhere in a canoe.” It was in 1991 when Saddam Hussein, freshly defeated by a United Statesled 34-country unified force, faced immediate internal opposition from rebellious groups that included predominantly Shiite Muslims from Basra and some Marsh Arabs in Iraq’s south, as well Kurdish forces in the north. All had been persecuted by Saddam’s regime during Iraq’s war with Iran during the 1980s. Rebels in the north and south had been inspired by the apparent ease with which coalition forces routed Iraqi troops from Kuwait. They were also en9/08 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS 27
couraged by a radio broadcast by then-President George Bush calling for open rebellion, and an expected intervention by coalition forces on their behalf once they rose up. The intervention never came. In the south, the rebellion was spontaneous in nature, although supported by the regional political parties. In Northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region, the uprising was more organized and driven by two rival Kurdish militias: the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The rebellions, both north and south, were savagely repressed by Saddam’s military. The southern rebellion lasted three weeks before Saddam’s regime began to reassert its authority by targeting the marshes. The remote region, lacking roads or points of entry by anything other than boat, acted as an ideal hiding place for those running from Saddam’s military forces. According to January 2003 Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, “In their attempt to retake cities, and after consolidating control, loyalist forces killed thousands of unarmed civilians by firing indiscriminately into residential areas; executing young people on the streets, in homes and in hospitals; rounding up suspects especially young men, during house-to-house searches, and arresting them without charge or shooting them en masse; and using helicopters to attack unarmed civilians as they fled the cities. Tens of thousands of army deserters, political opponents, and others who had sought shelter in the southern marshlands were systematically and relentlessly pursued by security and military forces following the Iraqi government suppression of the uprising. The government also launched an unprecedented attack on the Shi’a Muslim faith and culture.” In April 1991, in an attempt to stop Saddam’s military attacks, which included bombing and strafing of civilian populations in both the north and south of Iraq, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 688, which condemned “the repression of the Iraqi civilian population in many parts of Iraq,” and demanded that Iraq “immediately end this repression” and “allow immediate access by international humanitarian organizations to all those in need of assistance in all parts of Iraq.” Ignored by Saddam, the bombing continued unabated. In the north, as the Iraqi army attacked the rebellious region, fear of a second Anfal massacre [see Chronogram, August 2008] saw millions of Kurds flee to the Iranian and Turkish borders. No sooner was the ink dry on Resolution 688 than the US, Britain, and France—claiming they were acting under the resolution’s jurisdiction—allied under Operation Provide Comfort, which included the provision of humanitarian aid, military protection for the Kurds, and the creation of a no-fly zone enforced by allied aircraft. By October 31, 1991, Saddam withdrew his troops from the region, leaving it in an autonomous state of independence. RAGE AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT The south was not so lucky. Although a similar no-fly zone—Operation Southern Watch—was launched by allied US, French, British, and Saudi Arabian forces aimed at monitoring and controlling the airspace over southern Iraq, Saddam’s attacks in the south took a different tack. As direct bombing and strafing attacks on the civilian population abated, Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein better known as “Chemical Ali” and well versed on tactics of annihilation from his time spent directing the Anfal campaign in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan, launched almost a decade of measures that resulted in what is now is now seen as one of the world’s largest purposefully perpetrated ecological suicides or “ecocides” ever recorded. Although they represented a small portion of rebelling forces, Majid was bent on annihilating the Marsh Arab population. Under his command, the regime set about creating huge hydroengineering schemes in the marshes, building a series of drainage and water diversion structures that saw 90 percent of the massive marshlands—the third largest wetlands in the world at that time, measuring an area approximately the size of the state of Massachusetts—desiccated. In some areas, the waters were poisoned, killing all domestic animals and wildlife, as the endless seas of green reed beds dried up and were purposely burned. In its 2001 report “The Mesopotamian Marshlands:The Demise of an Ecosystem,” the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) stated, “At the dawn of a new millennium, the tragic loss of the Mesopotamian marshlands stands out as one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters. Dams and drainage schemes have transformed one of the finest wetlands, the fabled Eden of the Fertile Crescent that has inspired humanity for millennia, into salt-encrusted desert. The ecological life-support system of a distinct indigenous people dwelling in a rare water-world of dense reed beds and teeming wildlife has collapsed.” 28 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 9/08
According to the UNEP report, “The Marsh Arab society, whose livelihood has been entirely dependent on the wetland ecosystem for millennia, has been dealt a shattering blow. The numerous economic benefits provided by the marshlands, from fishing, hunting, rice cultivation, a prodigious reed supply for construction and paper milling as well as tourism, have been lost.” Their supporting ecosystem vanishing, it is estimated that between 40,000 and 100,000 of the approximately half-million Marsh Arabs fled to Iranian refugee camps. The remaining hundreds of thousands became internally displaced within Iraq living “in unknown conditions.” In addition, the silt and clay brought by the yearly spring rush of water from the northern mountain regions would push out the brackish water left over from the previous year. Along with important nutrients, the rush would bring toxic industrial pollutants from unchecked factories, sewage, and other human wastes. These pollutants, once filtered out by the massive reed beds, were left to gather in deadly amounts and before long pollution was being found six to seven miles out into the Persian Gulf. Cancer clusters began to appear and rocketing cancer rates were linked by some in the Western peace community to the depleted uranium (DU) left over from the First Gulf War. But others worried that focusing only on the DU aftereffects left Iraq’s southern population at great risk. “I have a theory that the cancer cluster in the south of Iraq has nothing to do with depleted uranium,” said Alwash. “I think the major cause is the fact that they are drinking the industrial pollution of all of the country down in the south. That’s what they are drinking.” While admitting DU could be part of the problem, he explained that in its campaign to exterminate the southern Shiite and Marsh Arab populations, not only did the Hussein regime not want outsiders coming into Iraq to clean up the DU, but was delighted by the fact that pollution might be aiding its agenda. “The previous Iraqi regime was so paranoid, it wouldn’t let anybody do anything to help. And besides, who is going to be hurt? The Shiite in the south? Let them die. Who the hell cares? [Cancer-causing DU] was good propaganda.” REBIRTHING THE GARDEN OF EDEN Horrified by the UNEP report, and in the case of Alwash, fed by memories of accompanying his father to work in the marshlands, the Drs. Alwash, as members of the Iraq Foundation, began working from a spare bedroom in their home and with the help of $120,000 funding from the US State Department, created Eden Again Project in 2002.The duo assembled a group of international experts to evaluate the potential for restoration of the marshes.They eventually determined that the marshes could and should be restored. This same group then began work on a series of documents and plans that could be implemented by Iraqis to reverse the devastation as soon as circumstances allowed. Not long after the last bomb of Operation Iraqi Freedom’s Shock and Awe Campaign had fallen (rumor says before the last bomb had fallen), local marsh dwellers and the Iraqi Ministry of Waters Resources began to implement the reflooding of the marshes. Today, 65 percent of the marshes have been reflooded, with over half of it being revegetated, thanks to the growing partnership of “The New Eden Team,” consisting of Nature Iraq, various Iraqi Ministries and science communities, Italian experts, and many concerned citizens who live in the southern Iraq region. While some sections of the rare aquatic landscape captured within the desert remain barren, and others are slow to recover, other large areas have been completely restored due to the rapid regrowth of the marshland vegetation. Assessment of the ecosystem’s recovery is underway and it is hoped that the habitats that once held important populations of wildlife, including endemic species of mammals, birds, and fish that were endangered (and many worry are now extinct), will experience regeneration and thus foster reintroduction of species thought to be lost in the devastation. Once a key wintering and staging site of the intercontinental migration of birds, the devastation of the marshes put at least 40 bird species at risk and greatly reduced their numbers. However, Marshland and Persian Gulf fisheries that saw great reductions in fish populations due to the loss of marsh spawning and nursery grounds are becoming hopeful that the bird and fish populations will thrive and flourish once again. One hopeful sign is the return of the threatened Iraq babbler. Not seen for decades, its babble can now be heard once again, mingling among the approximate 80 other bird species that have returned to the reed bed environ. The best news, however, is that along with the return of the plant and
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A WATER BUFFALO STANDS IN THE SOUTHERN MARSHLAND WATERS NEAR THE TOWN OF CHIBAISH, HAVING AN EVENING DRINK.
animal life, the Marsh Arabs are also returning. It is estimated that as many as 80,000 marsh dwellers have returned to their traditional lifestyles in the areas that have been reflooded. Reed houses on mud islands; herds of water buffalo with only their noses and the tips of their horns peeking above the water as they swim; fishermen fishing from their reed canoes; men and women weaving sliced reeds into mats; and the gathering, drying, and cutting into blocks of buffalo droppings to be used later for fuel—all of these remnants of a 5,000-year old culture thought forever lost are returning—have been birthed anew. A NATIONAL PARK? IN IRAQ? It is in this regenerating region where Iraq’s first National Park is planned. In May 2004, Nature Iraq under its former Eden Again persona, working alongside Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources, declared the restoration of the marshes a highest priority. With the help and generous financial and other support of their Italian partners, Italy’s Ministry of the Environment and Territory, plans were put in motion to develop a sustainable restoration plan for the marshlands. One of the projects proposed by the Italians was to do marshland National Park feasibility study, the goal of which was to bring sustainable economic development to the area that would restore, protect, and preserve the environment. While the priority of the National Park will be to conserve the ancient traditions and rich cultural heritage of the region, objectives also focus intensely on marshland restoration acting in concert with socio-economic development of the entire region include restoration of the marshlands ecosystem, and the protection and re-introduction of endangered endemic species. It is hoped that the park will one day become an ecotourism hotspot destination in the Middle East, complete with kayaking and bird watching, sheltered remote locations for the observation of wildlife activities in their natural environment; marked paths and informational education centers. In addition, environmental research facilities on biodiversity, habitats, and ecosystems will operate within doing applied research and creating various pilot projects such as fish hatcheries and buffalo milk farming. It is hoped that international tourists will eventually glide along the reed-strewn waterways and hike into an alien terrain filled with reintroduced species of mammals such as the Mesopotamian fallow deer, cheetahs, otters, the goitered gazelle and the endangered Arabian oryx—a small antelope said to be the creature responsible for the unicorn legend. Yet a major concern facing creation of the park is the unsettled nature of the structure and functioning of the Iraqi central government, still in its infancy and attempting to work out the kinks with various entities vying for power and control. “The largest challenge for us is the ambiguous nature of the Iraqi constitution,” said Alwash. “The constitution is essentially calling for decentralization and devolution of power to the governorates, which is great.Yet the ministers in Baghdad either do not understand this or they do not recognize it. Thus we always have a tug of war between the governorates and Baghdad. And 30 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 9/08
we are in the middle trying to keep everybody happy and talking to each other because we do not care who controls. We just are focused on the future vision of what the national park area is going to look like in a few years.” CREATING SUSTAINABLE PEACE ACROSS BOUNDARIES “It was an Arab culture and their values were the values of the desert,” William Thesiger, once remarked, reflecting on his time spent with the Marsh Arabs. “In the marshes they were very friendly in their loyalties to each other and their attitudes were that of the [Bedouin].They lived as hard a life as any human could live when I was with them. But their ultimate thing was freedom, ‘we’ve got freedom’ [they would say].” More recently, while interviewing returning Marsh Arabs, Suzie Alwash was told by one of their women that she had returned, “to have a traditional life, with our relatives, and to have our dignity.” The lure of returning to the homeland is strong for many refugees and the internally displaced worldwide. But it is a pervasive attitude among all Iraqis, so many of whom have had to flee from deadly purposeful annihilation. In Iraq, the violence of the current war is subsiding but has not yet ended.The violence of a regime bent on annihilating its own people has left scars not only on just about every family in the country, but scars on the environmental landscape as well. Yet the Iraqi people are attempting return, not only to their country or their community, but also to some sense of peace in their lives and in their minds. Complete healing of this sort is a long way off, and in many cases will never occur. It is up to the visionaries and the generations of the future to carve out such a peace, the foundation of which must ultimately be forged by addressing the lifeblood of the people—their environment. “That Iraqis are planning a National Park may seem unusual to some,” said Suzie Alwash, writing from her California home. “This National Park embraces the traditional indigenous uses of the environment and will continue to allow sustainable fishing, hunting, and reed gathering. The most important species that we are attempting to preserve in the marshes is the human species. Humans are an integral part of the ecosystem—the marshes are the garden that they have tended for thousands of years.” Her husband, writing from thousands of miles away, echoes her sentiments and takes the vision farther. “The creation of these two parks—north and south—will serve to remind the future generations of Iraqi Kurds and Iraq Arabs that they are linked. Establishing a National Park will bring the areas the protection they not only deserve but also require,” wrote Alwash. And to honor the victims of the former regime, we should build national parks and link them together as a series of peace parks. Maybe we can find like-minded people in Iran who would do similar projects on their side of the long shared border. Wouldn’t it be awesome to organize a hike from the mountains of Kurdistan to the rivers, traverse back and forth into Iran, and then land in the town of Chibaish in the marshlands? Think about it.”
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“Chamberlain’s deal with Hitler has become shorthand for naive, weak leadership.”—Newsweek, June 23, 2008 It was George Bush who raised the specter of Munich and appeasement. He raised it in reference to Iran and Palestine. He used it as a slur against Barack Obama because Obama said he would talk to such people. Then McCain picked it up. He said, “Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain. I think Barack Obama needs to explain why he wants to sit down and talk with a man [Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] who is the head of a government that is a state sponsor of terror, that is responsible for the killing of brave young Americans, that wants to wipe Israel off the map and denies the Holocaust.” What actually happened at Munich back in 1938? The western end of Czechoslovakia was called the Sudentland. A large part of the population was ethnically German, and was campaigning to be an autonomous region. Hitler demanded they be united with the Fatherland, and then made it clear he would go to war to make it happen. England and France didn’t want to go to war. They convened a conference with Germany and Italy and cut a deal that allowed Hitler to occupy the territory he was claiming, in return for a promise to go no further. Six months later, the eastern part of the country, Slovakia, seceded and became a pro-Nazi state. The next day, Hitler invaded from the west and took over the rest of Czechoslovakia. Poland was next. There is no parallel between talking to Iran and allowing Hitler to occupy part of Czechoslovakia on his way to taking over the whole of it. Iran has not expressed any territorial ambitions. Nor does it have the means to carry them out. It has expressed a belief that Israel should not exist as a state. It certainly does not have the ability to do much about it. Should it acquire nuclear weapons, the best it could hope for against Israel, which already has them and a far better ability to deliver them (and against the US, which will continue to support Israel), would be detente, with neither country able to dare attack the other. There is no parallel between talking to the Palestinians and the Munich agreement. Every US government since the creation of Israel has talked to the Palestinians, and to the Israelis, in the hope of reaching a peace accord, because there is no other solution, short of one group exterminating the other. In 1991 the Soviet Union fell apart. Georgia was one of the countries that reclaimed its independence. A large portion of the population of two areas of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, are ethnically Russian. As usual, the Western media—and as far as I can tell, America’s State Department and intelligence services, and our academics—are vastly ignorant of the actual state of things. There are two possible pictures. One is that the people of South Ossetia would be much happier to be part of Russia. Just as the Sudenten Germans actually preferred to join Germany. There was a referendum in which 95 percent of the people voted and 99 percent of the votes were for separation from Georgia. These are suspiciously high numbers, and nobody, not even the Russians, recognized the legality of it. The other is that “South Ossetia is not a territory, not a country, not a regime. It is a joint venture of siloviki generals and Ossetian bandits for making 32 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 9/08
money in a conflict with Georgia” (Yezhednevny Zhurnal, 8/12/08, translation by Radio Free Europe, reprinted by the NewYork Times). Siloviki are the Russian equivalent of America’s neo-cons, with the addition that most of them come out of the old Soviet state security services, like Vladimir Putin. Now Russia has invaded Georgia in defense of the South Ossetians.They’ve occupied the territory and plan to stay. It cuts Georgia almost in half. Back in May, Russia moved “unarmed peacekeeping forces” into Abkhazia. That lopped off the northwest section of the country. Now those peacekeeping forces have turned out to have guns, artillery, and tanks and have invaded Georgia—to protect the Abkhazians of course. It is possible that the Russians were actually out to protect their fellow Slavs. And will happily stop at the new borders. There is another scenario. The Russians are deeply unhappy with the loss of the countries they controlled in Soviet and tsarist times. These include the Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Russia would like to have them back. All of them have some ethnically Russian population that needs to be defended from discrimination and oppression. Putin watched George Bush expend America’s military forces—and use up the American people’s appetite for war—in Afghanistan and Iraq. It became clear that the US couldn’t even pursue a military option against Iran. The great principle of international law and international relations since World War II has been the territorial integrity of sovereign nations. But the Bush administration reset the rules on that, too. So it was a great time to strike. A Russian officer, commanding troops in the Georgian city of Gori, was quoted by NPR on August 14 as saying: “If the American president can take Baghdad, then why can’t the Russians take Tblisi?” Russian forces now occupy about a third of Georgia. If the situation is allowed to stand, the government of Georgia will know that it has no real allies and must become a compliant state in the Russian sphere of influence. If that doesn’t happen, Russia has made it very clear that it can manufacture a new pretext, and take the rest of the country. If that’s successful, then perhaps Azerbaijan, which is rich with oil, will be next. Or the Ukraine. Each success, according to the classic theory of appeasement, will encourage more aggression. George Bush is a great admirer of Winston Churchill, the man who stood up to Hitler after Neville Chamberlain appeased him. George Bush was, until recently, also a great admirer of Vladimir Putin. “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy,” he said. “That’s the beginning of a very constructive relationship. I wouldn’t have invited him to my ranch if I didn’t trust him.” Putin has a long-term plan to re-establish hegemony as it was under Stalin, as it was under the tsars. It may take 10, 20, or 30 years. George Bush has always dreamed that when historians looked back at him, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would look heroic and foresighted, and they would see Winston Churchill. More likely, they will see them foolish adventures that allowed the invasion of Georgia and a new Munich, in which Bush got to play Neville Chamberlain.
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MOTHERS OF ASCENSION Matriarchal advocacy group MomsRising By Sarah Coleman and Hillary Harvey photos by Hillary Harvey
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ileen MacDougall bends over a table, paintbrush in hand, considering how to decorate the all-white baby onesie in front of her. Around her, women are dipping their brushes into DayGlo pots of fabric paint, then carefully brushing messages onto their own onesies. “Let’s use our outside voices!” reads one; another identifies its potential newborn wearer as a “Product of the Labor Movement,” and one more reads, “I’d be cuter with universal health care.” MacDougall, a 55-year-old mother from Wilmington, Massachusetts, eventually settles on “My mom is MAD…and she VOTES,” which she writes with a flourish in orange, embellishing the text with ribbons on either side. Next to her, Elisa Batista, a 31-year-old mother of two from Berkeley, California, paints “Security for All” in vivid purple letters on the onesie in front of her. The women—and, it should be pointed out, one man—are among two dozen participants at a weekend workshop, MomsRising: Organizing for a 21st Century Women’s Movement, at Omega Institute near Rhinebeck. Led by Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-founders of an online grassroots advocacy group called MomsRising (www.momsrising.org), the workshop is hosted by Omega’s Women’s Institute, which seeks to examine the relationship between women and power. “Historically, the voice of the mom has been really left out of the public discussion,” says Carla Goldstein, director of the Women’s Institute (and a mother of two girls). “Now, moms are increasingly in the workforce and the public space.” They’re also online. MomsRising is the most prominent voice of a rising mother’s movement that, if Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner’s instincts are right, could have broad social impact: changing how America thinks about, and treats, its mothers. I’D BE CUTER WITH PAID FAMILY LEAVE The leaders of this resurgent women’s movement, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner, at first seem like unlikely partners. Blades, who began her career as a divorce mediator and software developer, is best known for founding MoveOn.org, the liberal political action group, with her husband, Wes Boyd. Rowe-Finkbeiner is an author, freelance journalist, and consultant with expertise in environmental and public policy who is married to a former Republican senator from Washington State.Their experience with different political constituencies is far from a problem, though; if 34 COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK CHRONOGRAM 9/08
anything, it’s MomsRising’s secret weapon. “We want to be universal,” says Blades, and Rowe-Finkbeiner adds, “It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican when you have a baby. These issues impact all of us.” Consider, for example, one of the most basic issues: fair pay for equal work. Eileen MacDougall, who’s dressed in a purple shirt with white lettering that reads “Outrageous Older Woman,” outlines the core issue that brought her to MomsRising as she brushes orange letters onto her onesie. “I work in a large financial instution, and although the company is benevolent, I don’t know if I’m getting pay equal to the men who are doing the same work as me,” she says. “There’s just no way to be sure.” Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner’s message is simple: America’s mothers are in a bind. Paid less than their male counterparts, forced to leave sick family members uncared for or forfeit pay, rarely given paid leave after birthing a child—working mothers in the United States have fewer support systems than mothers in almost any other country. When it comes to the issue of parental leave after childbirth, for example, there are only four countries—Swaziland, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and the US—that don’t have a national policy to provide some kind of paid leave. Since its inception, on Mother’s Day 2006, MomsRising has campaigned on issues that concern mothers, from fair pay and paid family leave to toxicity levels in children’s toys.The organization’s membership crosses political and socioeconomic lines: MomsRising is making particular efforts to reach out to women of color and low-income women. So far, there are 150,000 active members who do everything from signing online petitions to visiting legislative representatives. Even the onesies are part of the plan. MomsRising has amassed 2,500 of the customized outfits, in a campaign cleverly called “The Power of Onesie.” Used for displays in front of state legislatures, the onesies are pleasingly eye-catching and give an ironic twist to the cliché of politicians kissing babies. “No pressure, but every time we’ve used the onesie display, we’ve been able to push a bill through,” RoweFinkbeiner says with a laugh as the participants wield their brushes. Elisa Batista, who’s painting the “Security for All” onesie, got involved with MomsRising when, as a new mother, she realized how limited her options were. Five years ago, Batista was working as a reporter for Wired magazine when she
Opposite: Participants of the MomsRising workshop at Omega Institute stand with their decorated onesies; Above: Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, founders of MomsRising.
became pregnant with her first child. “The company had no telecommuting or flextime policy, and I couldn’t face the idea of a two-hour daily commute,” she says. Instead, Batista quit her job and launched MotherTalkers.com, a website where she blogs about issues from women’s health to work-life balance. Minimally funded by advertising, the site has boosted her sense that she’s not the only mother grappling with these issues. “I feel like I have an online community of like-minded moms,” she says, gluing yellow and orange feathers to her onesie. Community—whether on- or offline—may be the key. New parents often joke that their job is 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no vacation, no sick days, no pay, and a boss who’s the most inarticulate and dependent person one knows. Anita Jackson, who now works as a part-time staffer for MomsRising, joined the organization just before giving birth to her first child. “Motherhood can be really isolating,” she says. “MomsRising recognizes that reality. I’d never seen this kind of organizing done on behalf of moms before.” And men need not feel left out. MomsRising welcomes them, and two of the bloggers on its website are men—one of whom, Dana Glazer, proposes that “Only when men and women, moms and dads alike, can work together, is there a real chance to fix so many of the problems plaguing our culture.” Joe Dinkin, the lone man at the Omega workshop, worked directly with MomsRising last year on a campaign for paid sick leave in Connecticut:The bill died in the Senate after passing the House, but Dinkin says his group, Connecticut Working Families, will try again next year. “I came here to strategize about future campaigns,” Dinkin says. Of being the only man there, he says, “It’s easy to joke about, but it’s not a big deal.” MY MOM IS MAD…AND SHE BUYS Part of MomsRising’s growing popularity is that members choose their level of involvement: They can spend anywhere from five seconds (just clicking a button to sign an online petition) to several hours a week volunteering. In the past year, members took over a million trackable online and on-the-ground actions, and, in the past two years the organization has garnered one thousand instances of media coverage. “The sheer volume of engagement is inspiring to me,” says Rowe-Finkbeiner. “Our average action rate per member is 14 actions per year, which is hugely high.”
Another reason for its success is that, as an online organization, MomsRising can be “responsive to the environment in a real time way,” as Blades puts it. Part of this responsiveness involves floating new issues to its members and seeing which ones resonate. Last year, for example, Blades decided to see if members were interested in the issue of toxins in children’s toys.They were, and MomsRising partnered with HealthyToys.com to make available a database of toxic toys that could be accessed by text message. This year, the work on toxins continues. In April, MomsRising formed a coalition with environmental groups to protest the use of bisphenol A (BPA), which is thought to cause developmental problems, in baby bottles. Within two weeks, MomsRising had collected 16,000 signatures on a petition (the other coalition members contributed 4,000 signatures) that was delivered to Wal-Mart, Babys “R” Us and Toys “R” Us, CVS, and Playtex. Faced with the petition, the companies promptly announced that they would stop manufacturing and selling baby bottles containing BPA. What accounts for such a quick reaction? “The companies understand they’re doing a better job for their customers by getting rid of that stuff in their products, and they made a good call,” says Blades. More cynically, one could say the companies saw MacDougall’s onesie writ large, with one small difference: “My mom is MAD…and she BUYS.” Call it the power of momsie. THE INVISIBILITY OF MOTHERS Twelve years ago, Rowe-Finkbeiner gave birth to a son whose immune system was compromised (the problem has since been resolved), making him ineligible for day care. Curious, Rowe-Finkbeiner called the US Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, trying to find out how many other women in the country were at home with children.The answer floored her. “They said that the data wasn’t tracked because stay-at-home parents don’t make any money,” she says. Rowe-Finkbeiner knew, however, that data on households is used for everything from road building to attracting new businesses to an area. For her, the lack of any information on stay-at-home mothers signified something critically important: “the true invisibility of mothers.” Rowe-Finkbeiner began to write about the issues for the magazine Bust, then 9/08 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 35
saw that she had enough material for a book. In 2004, she was about to publish The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy when it occurred to her to send the manuscript to MoveOn.org to see if Blades would endorse it. Sitting on the stoop of one of the residential buildings at Omega, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner laugh as they recall how Rowe-Finkbeiner got a lot more than her endorsement. “It was a very good book; it educated me,” says Blades, and RoweFinkbeiner lobs back, “Joan’s amazing at deep thinking. I was so excited she liked the book.” Blades laughs and rolls her eyes. “I had no intention of starting another online group,” she says, “but there was just a synchronicity there.” Reading the book, Blades was flabbergasted when she came across the figures from a study by Jane Waldfogel, a professor at Columbia University: While women without children earn 95 percent of men’s salaries, mothers earn on average 72.6 percent, and single mothers’ earnings drop still further, to 56 to 66 percent. In other words, women who choose to have children are penalized in the form of lower wages that can add up to a lifetime shortfall of up to $1 million—and, since 81 percent of American women become mothers by age 44, that’s a lot of inequality. “That made my mouth drop open,” Blades says. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment. I knew I had to do something.” Blades was moved to write a two-page position paper on mothers’ issues, which got a public airing when her friend Arianna Huffington, the influential writer and political commentator, persuaded her to read it at a party in Hollywood. “After I’d read my two pages, these Hollywood moguls all looked at me and said, ‘You’re right—now what are you going to do about it?’” Blades recalls. She got on the phone to Rowe-Finkbeiner, and the two agreed to expand Blades’s paper into another book, The Motherhood Manifesto. The seeds for MomsRising were sown. FLEXING ITS MUSCLE Naturally enough, MomsRising borrows a lot of its structure from MoveOn.org, where Blades learned her online grassroots organizing. Like MoveOn, MomsRising encourages its members to throw house parties in order to spread the word about the organization. Guests view the Motherhood Manifesto documentary, produced in association with the book. Clearly low-budget, the documentary is earnest and a little clunky, but it contains memorable moments, like the scene where a smiling woman tells her friend she’s going to start a family. “Are you crazy?” the friend shoots back. “Don’t you know what happens to mothers in this country?” At the two-year mark, MomsRising has already shown that it has considerable muscle. In April this year, following heavy campaigning by MomsRising, New Jersey’s state senate approved a bill giving employees the right to paid leave to care for a sick relative or newborn. Bills on paid family leave have come close to passing in New York and Oregon, and are expected to pass soon in those states. In Washington, DC, legislators are working to expand paid family leave for federal workers, flight attendants, and even military personnel. Last year, thanks partly to lobbying efforts by MomsRising, Washington became the second state in the US to provide parents with paid family leave. (California was the first, before the formation of MomsRising.) The passage of the bill followed the organization’s first-ever onesie display. “The onesies really made a difference,” says Marilyn Watkins, chair of the Family Leave Institution in Washington, who’s attending the Omega workshop. “The legislators took notice of the large voting block we had behind us, and, of course, they all wanted to be photographed next to the onesie line.” “We’re seeing a lot of work in that area,” Rowe-Finkbeiner remarks. “Of course, we want paid FMLA [Family Medical Leave Act], which is also family leave insurance, for everybody. But we’re seeing that we’re getting there at the state level, and we’re getting there step by step at the federal level.” Other campaigns have gathered speed in the past year, too. MomsRising has been particularly active on the issue of fair pay, coming out in support of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.The act seeks to reverse a ruling by the Supreme Court in the case of Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at Goodyear who was paid as much as 40 percent less than her male counterparts over two decades. In the 5-to-4 decision against Ledbetter on May 29, the Supreme Court ruled that employees have just 180 days from the first discriminatory paycheck to seek redress, and no right to challenge subsequent inequitable paychecks. MomsRising members were inflamed, feeling that—as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in her dissent—“cause to suspect that discrimination is at work develops only over time.” One of MomsRising’s more colorful actions earlier this year concerned the Fair Pay Restoration Act. When John McCain reacted with the infamous statement that 36 COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK CHRONOGRAM 9/08
women needed “education and training,” MomsRising sent out an e-mail asking members to send in their resumes. Over 10,000 resumes were delivered to McCain’s office by volunteers wearing bright sashes that read “Magnificently Overqualified Mother,” or MOM. “Fifty-six percent of college graduates are women right now,” Rowe-Finkbeiner argues, “so that is not the key problem here. The key problem is that women aren’t paid equal wages for equal work, still. So this law is very much needed.” The McCain incident stirred up strong feelings, and signs indicate that they’re not going away.When MomsRising members came out in force for an Equal Opportunity rally in support of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in Washington, DC, on July 17, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did a call-out to the organization, saying that the reason the act would pass is because “this is a family issue and Moms are Rising!” READY FOR PRIME TIME At Omega, participants discuss how to broaden the movement by attracting a diverse range of women. “Do we have someone who’d be willing to go on the Bill O’Reilly show?” asks one woman in a group feedback session. “Maybe we could start online moms’ groups by baby age,” offers another. Other suggestions include offering low-cost health insurance, sending new mothers a “welcome wagon” of e-mails, and launching monthly MomsRising book and movie clubs across the nation, which Rowe-Finkbeiner says would “really spark more on-the-ground engagement.” “A lot of women’s organizations in the past have been seen as being about white, middle-class women,” says Rowe-Finkbeiner. “We have to remedy that.” Judging by the overwhelmingly white faces gathered at Omega, success on that front might be slow so far, but Blades says the organization is having good results reaching out to other demographics through faith communities and potlucks. With the presidential election fast approaching, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner see an opportunity to grow the organization by getting its issues into the forefront of the national debate. Its 501c(3) status prevents it from campaigning directly for a party or candidate, but since MomsRising aims to be inclusive and nonpartisan, that’s not an issue. Rather, Rowe-Finkbeiner sees the organization’s mission as twofold: pushing to change the stale terms of the national debate while giving members the tools to discern for themselves where candidates stand on the issues. To do this, MomsRising is bringing wit and style—hallmarks of third-wave feminism—to the debate. One example is its “Presidential Bingo” game, where participants check off an issues card while watching televised election debates. (How many times did Obama or McCain mention maternity leave? Or fair pay?) There’s also the “Don’t Get Sick” game, an interactive quiz on the website where viewers click to shoot tissues at giant noses in between learning factoids about sick leave (“Nearly 50 percent of private-sector workers have no paid sick days”). Other features include a countdown to the election, candidate forums, and candidate video blogs. So far, MomsRising is seeing great returns. On July 10, Barack Obama appeared on NBC’s “The Today Show,” where he answered questions about his economic agenda to support women. Obama reiterated MomsRising’s statistics on the wage gap, then went on to mention paid family leave, support for childcare, and overturning the Supreme Court decision on Ledbetter v. Goodyear. An e-mail circulated by MomsRising the next day began, “Finally, our issues are on center stage, where they belong—and are being addressed by a presidential candidate!” Compare that to the last presidential campaign, where the wage gap between men and women was discussed only as a side comment by John Kerry in one debate. “It was like a pickup line in a seedy bar. Like, ‘I’m going to get some women voters here,’” says Rowe-Finkbeiner. “I’ve really seen a change, in that these issues are being taken more seriously and addressed more seriously. Due to that, I think more women will probably turn out to vote. But that remains to be seen.” For Blades, the future looks rosy. With increased funding from foundations and philanthropists flooding in, she’d like to hire more staffers to concentrate on each issue area, “so that we can really get our membership engaged more deeply and broadly.” And she anticipates that, as the organization gains wider publicity and support, there will be more victories like state-mandated family leave and BPA withdrawal. “Most companies and government agencies want to be doing a good job, and they see we can help them,” she says. Leaning back on the stoop, Blades looks around and beams a high-wattage smile. “We’re getting results because people know that mothers aren’t just thinking of themselves; we’re more likely to take the long view, and we can be trusted,” she says. Later, as the two walk through the campus at Omega, Rowe-Finkbeiner puts it a bit more bluntly. “Let’s be honest,” she says. “We’re kicking some butt.”
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Portfolio Simon Draper Welsh-born sculptor Simon Draper has lived and worked in the US for the last 25 years, a sojourn that began with a student-exchange stint at the Cooper Union in New York. After his moving to the Hudson Valley in 1996, his work in recent years has focused on the humble architecture of the lean-to shed. An endlessly adaptable form, Draper has applied his ingenuity in fashioning them out of surplus and discarded materials—at times, including his own previous work. In an installation at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon last year, he erected a shed in the middle of the gallery space, fitted out with a small video screen inside that played a recording of the works (also by Draper) hanging on the surrounding walls. Lest he get too self-reflexive in his shed-building practice (even if brilliantly so), Draper has most recently developed the Habitat for Artists project, which debuted this summer with
a cluster of sheds adjacent to the parking lot of Spire Studios in Beacon. Reaching out to include nearly a dozen other artists, the questions raised here are pretty profound—in a time of escalating prices for artists’ workspaces (and when those who’ve been priced out of Manhattan and Brooklyn have arrived in the Hudson Valley in droves), just how much space does an artist need to create his or her work? On September 9, from 6 to 9pm, there will be a CD release party for Dar Williams (who’s been working in one of the Habitat sheds) on the site at Spire Studios in Beacon. www.habitatforartists.blogspot.com. On September 27, Habitat for Artists will be appearing at the second annual Celebration of the Arts (COTA) in Hasbrouck Park in New Paltz. www.celebrationofthearts.net. —Beth E. Wilson
SIMON DRAPER ON HIS WORK Art and mortality When I was young, people around me kept saying, “You have a good hand” or “You have a good color sense” or even just “You’re very observant.” I was looking into being a draughtsman, and I started to notice that people called artists were actually doing more interesting things. I think it was more stumbling upon it. Then when I was 15, I got run over by a car, and as my mother always said, “You haven’t been the same since.” When you’re looking as a kid into the grille of a big car, things alter drastically, because you’re one step away from the grave, and it’s not where you
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intended to be. At the time, my mind was going on about my physics homework, and all this other stuff, and suddenly, I was waking up in the middle of the road. There was this traumatic experience of not being able to walk for a period of time, being in a hospital, and not going back to school for a long time. You realize that everyone was in this other world, and I’d been taken out of it. Suddenly, it was almost an analogy of where the artist finds themselves on the periphery of society and culture, looking in and commenting upon it. Looking back, having this altered state, I started to look at things very differently.
When I lived in New York, working out of makeshift studios in various spaces, my most creative space was located in a basement next door to the Brooklyn Casket Company. As a sideline, I was making crates for art shipping. So I’d put these things out on the sidewalk, where they’d be picked up later in the day, and then next door you’d see these wooden pine boxes that were being built, and people would come along and ask if my crates were the bargain-basement versions (some of them were quite large). I was given the space for next to nothing, but the paradox was that I actually spent more time down there because it was so affordable.
OPPOSITE: FROM THE “MEDITATION, DEDICATION, AND PRAYER” SERIES, SIMON DRAPER, WOOD AND ASSEMBLAGE, 8” x 8”, 2006. ABOVE: SIMON DRAPER STANDING IN FRONT OF MATTHEW KINNEY’S MY SPACE AT THE HABITAT FOR ARTISTS SITE AT SPIRE STUDIOS IN BEACON.
Gone fishin’ My wife’s mother is a painter, and once, many years ago, she received a call from the police notifying her to bring her fishing house in from the lake. She said, “What are you talking about?” They told her that her name was on the side of this shack, and she realized that she’d thrown away a whole slew of paintings at the dump, and somebody had obviously commandeered them to make a fishing house. When I heard about this, five or six years ago, I imagined the paintings, on Masonite or plywood panel, being recycled into simple shelters for this other activity that people were passionate about in Minnesota. At that point, I thought it would be wonderful if all art could be that meaningful to people, even if it was just building material. But it’s also just recontextualizing, taking something with high aspirations back to its roots and becoming simply building material again. Location, location, location The Hudson Valley has become, over the last decade or so that I’ve been living here, a very different place. Beacon, when I first arrived, was the usual depressed, postindustrial river town that depended on manufacturing that had since moved to China or wherever, and the [people there] were finding new ways to support themselves, having to travel to New York, or be involved in local service industries. It wasn’t the place it is now (not that it’s a raging metropolis). The fact that Dia just celebrated its fifth birthday—not that it ordains the activity of artmaking in Beacon—but the fact that it is in
Beyond commodity to community close proximity drew a lot of artists who have found it hard to exist in the city, especially since 9/11. Part of being an artist is being able to see the jewel in the rough, but at the same time you’re doing that, you’re changing the market and putting a quantifiable value, making a commodity out of something that was just a rundown place. You see this redefinition of space. A real estate person told me the other day that they heard from a couple of speculators from elsewhere in the country that the thing to do was to follow the artists. So he’s now in Beacon trying to buy up property because the artists have moved up here. The artists sometimes unwittingly play this role of sanctioning the gentrification. I like the shed form because it happens off the grid [of all this real estate speculation]. Different towns have different building codes concerning outbuildings, also often defining their specific usage. So [with the Habitat project] I’m taking an architectural form that has a myriad of uses, and we’ll start to inhabit these as work spaces, small enough to slide under the radar of permitting processes, and also realizing that perhaps you don’t need such a big space to actually create work. Am I a more serious artist because I have this commitment to space, to having a huge studio, or am I more of a person because I live in a 6,000-square-foot McMansion somewhere? That’s an interesting value system, but it’s not one I want to subscribe to. What if you had a space you could change, and adapt, and be fluid with, and it doesn’t take you seven days of work to pay for?
In art school, we read Chipp’s Theories of Modern Art, with all these quotes from famous modern artists. We actually strove to misunderstand or recontextualize what was said in that. It seemed almost like everybody else had this preordained understanding of what they were doing, so be careful what you say because it can either be taken out of context, or suddenly it’s like, “Wow, he’s not an idiot, he’s profound—or is he profoundly an idiot?” I always thought that book was hard to get your head around—it’s not until you’ve gotten into the driving seat, and experienced [making art] that you can get it. For most of us, it’s really hard to put into a clear context, so it’s words in an altered state. People don’t realize when they’re looking at a piece of art that the artist is, for the most part, supported by a community. There are very few people who are alone up in the garret. There’s a whole other social reality that gets left out when people focus on that moment of isolation, being hit by the arrow of creativity. Having relevance as an artist within your own community is, I think, the next step for revitalizing art as a valid thing to do, something valuable, but not a commodity. For me, it’s been, not a struggle, but a kind of quest to forge strong links to the community that I live in. The local hardware store now rings me up to say “We’ve got a gallon of paint that’s the wrong color—can you use it? Because we’re going to throw it away.” Stuff like that is important now, especially working as an artist in this fuel-thieved economy. Working a little more consciously in light of materials—not putting a further burden on things—is going to be important.
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Lucid Dreaming BY BETH E. WILSON
THE MARKET
What happens when there’s an inexorable demand for artists to be original— that is, to develop some indelible, personal “signature style” for their work, thereby differentiating themselves from the thousands of other artists currently at work? If you demur, thinking that someone making good work should be understood and accepted, regardless of whether the painting/sculpture/ whatever looks a bit similar to something published in last month’s Artforum, think again. Art school critiques these days are frequently recitations of the various influences/similar ideas to be recognized in the student work. Critic Rosalind Krauss some time ago wrote a famous essay titled “The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths,” which made a postmodernist point about the impossibility of absolute originality, holding that everything’s already been done, so the only thing left is to recycle the past. Thus, quite logically, followed her support of artists like Sherrie Levine, who (among others) launched the ironically “new” strategy of appropriation art in the late 1970s and 1980s. But where does that demand for constant novelty come from? The market continues to look for that latest hook (like appropriation), making new art stars along the way with impunity. Now many of these big names really deserve the attention—they got where they are because they really do good work—and I’m sure that over time, the flash-in-the-pan types will fade from memory, as the depth of the others becomes more and more apparent. I bring this up because of a show that opens this month at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill. “Origins” brings together an impressive roster of blue chip contemporary artists—30 of them, from Louise Bourgeois to Martin Puryear—focused on work that uses primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, and stone. It marks a major step forward for the 42 LUCID DREAMING CHRONOGRAM 9/08
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HVCCA as an institution, as its first show made up primarily of loans. (The center, which opened in 2004, was founded by Marc and Livia Straus, and their collection has been the basis for the shows organized there to date.) The show will be opening this month, along with the latest edition of the Peekskill Project installed throughout the city. The show began with an invitation from the Westchester County Arts Council, to participate in its fall ’08 initiative “celebrating clay-based artwork.” Not surprisingly, the show quickly grew to include not only ceramics, but a wide range of other materials deemed close to nature. This move away from a purely media-defined show reveals another of the contradictions embedded in today’s art discourse—despite the supposed postmodern erasure of distinctions between high and low, or fine versus applied arts, maintaining one’s allegiance to a specific medium carries with it old-school connotations of craftiness, of a humble, less intellectual path into the work. The preference for a more polygamous relationship to various artistic media in contemporary art has been dubbed the “post-medium condition.” Interestingly, there is no single curator for “Origins,” but, rather, a group of six or so people, recommending artists and/or works among themselves (and who prefer to remain nameless). Now the people associated with the HVCCA tend to be very smart (and very well connected), but this group process has produced an exhibition that seems closer to a market survey of the moment, rather than much in the way of a really unified curatorial theme. I can guarantee that there will be work that is well worth the visit, like Zhang Huan’s exceedingly delicate Ash Army, a bust of a Chinese soldier, modeled on Huan’s own features, made of the ash produced by burned incense. Going by the press release, I imagine this fragile beauty must fit within the rubric of “the
ABOVE: CARL ANDRE, 64 SQUARE ALUMINUM, ALUMINUM, 3/8” x 64” x 64”, 1969. COURTESY OF PRIVATE COLLECTION OPPOSITE: ZHANG HUAN, ASH ARMY, ASH, STEEL, WOOD, 25” x 15 7/8” x 16”, 2008. COURTESY OF PACEWILDENSTEIN GALLERY
human figure as a focus of expressive possibilities,” as opposed to the other main theme, work that presents its raw materials in a more direct, presumably nonrepresentational, fashion. This division of the exhibition is more of a convenient way of grouping so much work than it is a critical curatorial statement, and ultimately the show seems to be more of an embarrassment of riches than anything else. Now, due to monthly deadline pressures, I am writing this in advance of the actual installation of the show, so the actual installation of the work may add a layer of meaning that is difficult to envision when presented with the extensive artist list, and the minimal curatorial statement. Looking at the list, I wonder, though, how they will contend with having both Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta in the same exhibition. (Has anyone even dared to do this before?) Andre was a major figure in the development of both Land Art and Minimalism starting in the 1960s. He specialized in modular sculptures of minimally processed materials, often splayed out on the floor, as with 64 Square Aluminum, included in the show. (Even though it’s still an uncomfortable challenge to museum visitors today, you’re actually supposed to walk across this carpet of metal plates.) In the 1980s, Andre married a young, brilliant, up-and-coming sculptor and performance artist named Ana Mendieta. She’d made her name doing her own earth-based work, crafting simplified effigies of her own body (or digging out the impression of it) in the landscape, sometimes burning in this silhueta (silhouette) by igniting gunpowder. (I guess the Silhueta work included in this show would probably place her in the “figurative” subgroup.) The marriage was short, and met its untimely end with Mendieta’s death in 1985, when she either jumped or was pushed from the 34th-floor Greenwich Village apartment she shared with Andre. Her friends were dismayed, claiming that she was definitely not suicidal or depressed; there was an inquest and a grand jury considered murder charges against Andre, but declined to indict him for lack of evidence.To this day many still think him responsible, however; in the wake of the O. J. Simpson acquittal, the Guerilla Girls issued a poster calling Andre “the O. J. of the art world.” Given this history, I’m very curious to see how exactly the HVCCA will contend with the tension produced by having both artists included in the show—either they put them at opposite corners of the space, pretending that they have nothing to do with each other, or else they install the works in a proximity that raises all sorts of uncomfortable questions. (Whether those can be resolved is a whole other question.) In any event, the one thing that both artists share is a blue chip profile in the art market—which is, I’m afraid, the main message that many may take away from this show. “ORIGINS” OPENS SEPTEMBER 13 AND WILL BE ON VIEW THROUGH JULY 26, 2009, AT THE HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART IN PEEKSKILL. AN ARTISTS’ RECEPTION WILL BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 14 FROM 4 TO 6PM. “PEEKSKILL PROJECT 08” ALSO OPENS ON SEPTEMBER 13 AND WILL BE ON VIEW AT LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY UNTIL NOVEMBER 23. (914) 788-0100; WWW.HVCCA.ORG.
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galleries & museums
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART
COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS
GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY
415 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4346.
853 OLD ALBANY POST ROAD, GARRISON 528-1797.
5348 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-3104.
“Stopping TIME: An Exploration through Object & Image.” Through September 21.
“Farm Project 2008.” Sculpture and installations by more than 40 artists on an historic, working farm. Through October 31.
“Beautiful Greene.” Juried group exhibition exploring six unique spots in Greene County. Through September 20.
THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
COLUMBIA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519.
507 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.
“Snow: Beauty or Beast.” Featuring works in all media relating to snow, ice, winter and the color white in general. September 27-November 1.
“”Best in Show” Public Art Project. Through October 8.
Opening Saturday, September 27, 2pm-4pm.
DEBORAH DAVIS FINE ART
GRIMM GALLERY
510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1885.
6 BROADHEAD AVENUE, NEW PALTZ 255-1660.
“Juxtaposition.” Mixed media works of Patricia R. Hogan.
“A Notion to Sew.” 19th century needlework of Hylah Hasbrouk and her daughters. Through October 31.
“Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist.” Comprehensive exhibition of photographs. Through November 1. “Huma Bhabha: 2008 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition.” September 14-February 8. “Karen Davie: Symptomania.” September 14-February 8. “Lars Fisk: Trashbags.” September 14-February 15.
DOWNTOWN ELLENVILLE
“Paul Ramirez Jonas: Abracadabra I Create as I Speak.” Through November 30.
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“Peggy Prehiem: Little Black Book.” Through February 8. “Video A: Miguel Soares.” Through December 7. Opening receptions on Sunday, September 14, 3pm-5pm.
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THE FIELDS SCULPTURE PARK
ANN STREET GALLERY
OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER, GHENT (518) 392-4568.
104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940x119.
“Clench 2008.” Oliver Kruse. Through November 30.
“Collage Logic” group show. September 20-November 1.
“Stepping Stones (Pots and Pans).” Jean Shin and Brian Ripel. Through November 30.
Opening reception Saturday, September 20, 6pm-9pm.
ARTS UPSTAIRS
“Twitchers and Cheaters.” Nina Katchadourian. Through November 30.
60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.
FLAT IRON GALLERY
“Dog Days.” Through September 14.
105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894.
ASK ARTS CENTER
“New Visions.” Paintings by Lorie Gurian. September 5-28.
97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331.
Opening Sunday, September 7, 1pm-5pm.
“In My Backyard/Not in my Backyard.” Curated by Marist College Gallery Director, Ed Smith. September 6-30.
FOVEA EXHIBITIONS
Opening Saturday, September 6, 5pm-8pm.
143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199.
327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Story Lines.” Jack Millard. Through September 20.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Origins.” Use of primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, aluminum, stone, and soil as mediums. September 13-July 26. “Between Stations.” Sculptures by Richard Dupont. September 13-December 21. “Rootless Algas.” Grimanesa Amoros. September 13-December 21. Opening receptions for September shows on Sunday, September 14, 4pm-6pm.
HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE 80 VANDENBURGH AVENUE, TROY (518) 629-7309. “Look.” Portraits by Summer McCorkle and Lillian Mulero. September 18-October 18. Opening Thursday, September 18, 4pm-6pm.
“Planet China.” Photographs by Julien Chatelin, Alan Chin, and Justin Guariglia. Through September 30.
JAMES COX GALLERY
24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS (518) 945-2136.
THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER
“Baby Carriers: The Work of Leah Rhodes and Native Americans.” Through September 2.
VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632.
“Bill Miller Exhibit.” Reclaimed vinyl flooring, pieced together into paintings. September 20-October 17.
ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER
4666 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-7608.
Opening Saturday, September 20, 5pm-7pm.
BASILICA INDUSTRIA
“Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection.” September 26-January 4.
110 SOUTH FRONT STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-0131.
Opening Friday, September 26, 6pm-7pm.
“Reassembling Wisdom: Illustrating the Holistic Imagination of Spiritual Science.” 50 blackboard diagrams by Andrew Franck. September 6-30.
GAS
“Paintings by Laurel Sucsy.” September 11-October 5.
196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592.
Opening Saturday, September 13, 6pm-8pm.
“Let Them Eat Art.” Two group exhibitions about art about food. Through September 14.
KENT CABOOSE GALLERY
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JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.
GALERIE BMG
11 RAILROAD STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 248-8800.
12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.
“Remember When...” September 13-October 12. Opening Saturday, September 13, 2pm-5pm.
BYRDCLIFFE GALLERY
“Female Taxonomy.” Works by Pamela Fingerhut. September 12-October 20.
39 COUNTRY CLUB LANE, WOODSTOCK 810-0465.
Opening Saturday, September 13, 5pm-7pm.
“Byrdcliffe Pollack: Krasner Fellows.” September 13-October 19.
“Secret Garden.” Yumiko Izu. Through September 8.
161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Lisa Zukowski: Littoral Translations and Multiplicities.” Through September 7.
“Warm, Hot, Sultry.” Through September 7.
KOLOK GALLERY
THE GALLERY AT R & F
121 UNION STREET, NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 664-7381.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112.
“Si Dios Quiere.” Katrina d’Autremont. Through September 30.
622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.
“Old Material/New Thought.” Works by Ed Angell. Through September 20.
MARIANNE COURVILLE GALLERY
Opening Saturday, September 13, 5pm-7pm.
“Summer Group Exhibit.” Kathy Burge, Lependorf + Shire, Margaret Saliske, Ralph Stout, Margaret Crenson. Through September 7.
341 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 755-4208.
GARRISON ART CENTER
“Hans Namuth: Selected Portraits 1950-1981.” Through October 12.
“Paintings by Dan Rupe.” September 11-October 12.
23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960.
“Photographs by Russell Monk.” September 11-October 12.
“Love in the Valley,” new work by Julie Tooth. September 6-28.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
“Wood.” Richard Artschwager, John Cross, Jon DePreter, Frank Litto, Stephen Walling, Mark Wasserbach. September 11-October 12.
“Masterly Paintings.” Timothy Brewer. September 6-28.
NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241.
Opening Saturday, September 6, 6pm-8pm.
“Recent Works by Kevin Cook and John Varriano.” September 6-October 15.
Opening reception Saturday, September 13, 6pm-8pm.
GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY
Opening Saturday, September 6, 6pm-8pm.
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “2008 Benefit Gala Preview Exhibition.” 75 photographs to be auctioned off at benefit gala. August 30-October 9. Benefit gala Saturday, October 11.
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“ArtsWAVE.” Third annual invitational exhibition of 10 Hudson Valley artists. Through October 5.
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
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398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Artists’ Coats.” Solo exhibition featuring coats, vests and jackets created by textile artist Lila Hollister Smith. Through September 27. “Fiber Dialogues.” Juried exhibition for artists who work with fibers and textiles. Through September 27.
MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “Very Mixed Media.” A solo exhibit of drawings, paintings and collage by Jeannie Friedman. September 4-October 26. Opening Friday, September 12, 6pm-9pm.
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galleries & museums
MORGAN LEHMAN GALLERY 24 SHARON ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CONNECTICUT (860) 435-0898. “Franklin Evans, Kysa Johnson, and Katia Santibaez.” Through October 12.
MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Photographs by Rene Byer.” September 6-26. Opening Saturday, September 6, 7pm-12am.
NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 506 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090. “Solo Exhibition of Photographs by Karen Halverson.” Through September 20.
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 GLENDALE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 298-4100. “In Full Bloom: Artists Design Garden Gates.” Through September 7.
ORANGE HALL GALLERY ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “The Other Side of the Tracks.” Paintings by Barbara Graff. Through September 25. “The Warwick Art League’s 54th Annual Member Exhibition.” Through September 25.
museums & galleries
Opening Sunday, September 21, 2pm-5pm.
PARK ROW GALLERY 2 PARK ROW, CHATHAM (518) 392-4800. “New Paintings by Ruth Shively.” Through September 8.
PEARL ARTS GALLERY 3572 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-0888. “Where Are We?” Contemporary group exhibit. Through September 6. “Living on Earth.” Solo show of sculpture and photography by Robert Hite. September 13-October 26. Opening Saturday, September 13, 6pm-8pm.
PEARLDADDY GALLERY 183 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0169. “Lucie Tatarova: Fractal People.” Soft sculpture, print, and textile creations from Prague. September 13-December 7. Opening Saturday, September 13, 6pm-9pm.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Inspirit: Color Explorations.” Paintings by Ellen A. Lewis. Through September 8.
ROMAINE BROOKS GALLERY 332 HUDSON AVENUE, ALBANY (646) 319-2549. “The Eye of the Ego.” Photography by Alan Bennett Ilagan. September 5-30. Opening Friday, September 5, 5pm-9pm.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858.
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“The Medium is the Message.” Hudson Valley Artists 2008. Through September 7.
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“Noongar Boodja: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Ecology and Culture.” Through September 28. “Reading Objects 2008.” Works from the Museum’s collection with texts created by University faculty and staff. Through September 28. “Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett.” Retrospective of richly colored brooches, necklaces and pendants. September 26-November 16.
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SPIRE STUDIOS 45 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON WWW.SPIRESTUDIOS.ORG. “Habitat for Artists.” Group show curated by Simon Draper. Through September 30.
STONE WINDOW GALLERY 17 MAIN STREET, ACCORD 626-4932. “Recent Oil Paintings by Todd Samara.” Through September 28. Opening Sunday, September 7, 2pm-5pm.
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galleries & museums
TIME AND SPACE LIMITED 434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-8448. “War: Materials and Lies.” September 6-October 31. Opening Saturday, September 6, 6pm-8pm.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Natural Forces.” Textile prints and wood-fired pottery by Susan Kotulak. September 12-October 12. “Two Takes on Nature.” Paintings by Barbara Walter. September 12-October 12. Opening Saturday, September 13, 6pm-8pm.
TOWN OF ESOPUS PUBLIC LIBRARY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “A to Z.” Artwork by Eugenia Ballard featuring the alphabet and hand-carved mats. September 1-30. Opening Saturday, September 6, 5pm-8pm.
TWISTED SOUL 442 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592.
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. “Waking Planet: Visions of the World We Can Create.” Works by 25 artists exhibiting their visions of a better world. Through October 19.
UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.
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“Let Them Eat Art.” Two group exhibitions about art about food. Through September 14.
“Ro Calhoun: Walls of Healing.” September 7-October 1. Opening Sunday, September 7, 4pm-6pm.
UPSTATE ARTISTS GUILD GALLERY 247 LARK STREET, ALBANY (518) 426-3501. “POW! The Comic & Illustration Show.” September 5-26. Opening Friday, September 5, 6pm-9pm.
VAN BRUNT GALLERY 460 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2995. “Women of New Orleans.” Through September 8. “Hudson Valley Invitational.” Group show. September 13-29. Opening Saturday, September 13, 6pm-9pm.
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130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. “EV:LES- A Retrospective.” Retrospective of the East Village and Lower East Side art scene with over 50 artists. September 13-October 5. Opening Saturday, September 13, 6pm-9pm.
WILLIAM MAXWELL FINE ARTS 1204 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-8622. “INside/OUTside.” Works by 6 artists exhibited inside and outside the gallery. Through September 21.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 15 LAWRENCE HALL DRIVE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 597-2429. “Laser Show: Six Perspectives on a Chaotic Resonator.” The relationship between visual, aural, and physical vibration and its ability to carry information. Through September 14.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection.” Through September 21.
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Regional Exhibition 2008.” Through September 6.
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Music BY PETER AARON
PLAYING FOR KEEPS Elvis Impersonator Joseph John Eigo
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t’s a mystery as to how the Scarlet Showroom at the Friar Tuck Resort in Catskill got its name. Tucked away in the basement of the complex’s main building, next to the disused gym and the chlorine-wafting, family-packed swimming pool, the immense split-level ballroom features nary a trace of red. More off white-turning-pale yellow, the room’s faux-adobe stucco ceiling and walls, offset by segments of dark paneling, say ’70s steakhouse, not supper-club show palace. And red, of course, is a color often reserved for royalty, a caste not normally found among the bussed-in tourists who come to enjoy the resort’s many amenities and lush Hudson Valley surroundings. Tonight, however, for one hour such plebian trappings will be transcended. Tonight, the 60 or so guests who sip Coke and draft beer from plastic cups at the space’s cafeteria-style tables will be in the presence of the one they call the King. In the middle of the room’s back wall is a stage.Veiled in sheer, glittery curtains it features a low, handrailed staircase front and center.There’s a commotion, something is afoot behind the drapes. The house lights go dim. Whoops and howls arise from the audience. Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra” (aka the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) issues from the PA columns, flooding the room with its dramatic wall of massed brass and pounding kettledrums. Then, amid flashing strobe lights, the curtains part and the prerecorded music changes to a driving, drumroll-propelled “C.C. Rider.” Onto the bandless stage bounds a lone, gyrating figure, the sparkling of his jewel-encrusted, powder-blue jumpsuit and the sheen of his glossy black pompadour and sideburns glisten under the spotlight that follows his every hipswiveling, karate-chopping move. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome the one, the only…Elvis Presley! Okay, not really. It’s been 31 years since Presley’s passing. But in the Catskills on a Saturday night it’s safe to say that this is about as close as one is likely to get to the man many still call Entertainer of the Century. This is Elvis impersonator Joseph John Eigo doing what he does best—playing the role he’s held for nearly as many years as Presley has been gone. During the performance, he eggs on a solo by an invisible Ronnie Tutt (Presley’s explosive Las Vegas drummer) and sings as he walks through the audience to shake the hands of the men, kiss the cheeks of the ladies, and drape scarves around the willing necks of both. As he belts out “Teddy Bear” from the stage he tosses, you guessed it, plush toy bears to the eager
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kids down front. But one thing Eigo never does, however, is lapse into the expected po-faced Elvis-speak between songs. Yes, he does do Presley’s music and even his moves, but, unlike other Elvis impersonators, he knows he’s not fooling anyone. “What I do is pay tribute to Elvis; I’m not trying to be him,” Eigo maintains, somewhat emotionally. “My act is about celebrating his music and his talent, not the other parts of his life. I see other guys doing an Elvis show and they do the accent, the ‘Thangyaverahmush,’ all of that, try to act like him—even when they’re not on stage—which really bothers me. They’re making a joke out of it. The man was the greatest, and he deserves better than that.” He certainly does. The irony-laced, tail-swallowing, perpetually churning kitsch mill of popular culture has shamefully recast Elvis Presley as a clownish caricature; his staggering talent as both a vocalist and a dramatic interpreter and distiller of musics ranging from gut-bucket rhythm and blues to rollicking bluegrass, jubilant gospel to honky-tonk country and even operatic arias has been all but eclipsed by his tabloid-ready personal life and sad demise. Additionally, he is often maligned for “ripping off black music” when nothing could be farther from the truth: Presley loved black music and wanted the whole world to hear it, and, largely thanks to him, much of it did—including the legions of young Britons who would become the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and Led Zeppelin. And more subconsciously, deep beneath his larger-than-life abilities and influence, lie unspoken subtexts that further fuel the public’s undying fascination with the Presley myth. His messiah-like ascendence from abject Deep South poverty to worldwide adoration and his eventual fall via the self-inflicted crucifiction spurred on by his uncaring handlers is almost biblical in resonance. And this same life can be seen as a metaphor mirroring that of America itself: a rise from bootstrapping, renegade frontier beginnings to inspirational young democracy—followed by a slow descent to a deplorable state of bloated, decadent gluttony and tragically squandered innocence. But likely none of this is on the minds of the dedicated lady fans who fill the table directly in front of the stage at the Friar Tuck. And certainly none of them feels cheated by Eigo’s lack of method acting. “We started going to see Joe three years ago, when he was playing at a Mexican restaurant in Coxsackie,” says Kathy Polach. “Actually, now I enjoy listening to him even more than Elvis.” “We even have
our own VIP passes,� says Peggy Paterniti, Polach’s Climax neighbor, as she flashes a homemade laminate. Born and raised in Kingston, Eigo is actually one of the the longest-running such impersonators in the world and at 51 has outlived his idol by almost 10 years. A still-praciticing church organist and a choir director with a bachelor’s degree in sacred music, Eigo got into the game in 1977 by accident. “I was doing a gig as a piano player at the Governor Clinton Hotel in Kingston. And even back then I used to dress really flashy, like Liberace, you know?� Eigo recalls. “Elvis had just died that week, and this lady came up and begged me to play ‘Love Me Tender’ in honor of him. I didn’t sing then, so I told her I’d play it for her but I didn’t sing. But she just wouldn’t let it go, so I ended up singing the song—and it got it a much bigger response than anything else I’d played, ever. I really didn’t know that much about Elvis at that point, I’d never seen him perform. But the way people were so excited about him drew me to his music, and I ended up getting every record and bootleg video I could get my hands on. It just went on from there.� By January of ’78 Eigo was fronting a 16-piece band that would tour the country for the next decade. “Back then, there was maybe six or seven big-time Elvis shows in the country, not thousands like there are today,� says Eigo. “Besides me, you had guys like Johnny Harra and Doug Church. Rick Saucedo was probably the biggest, he’s a legend today.� Like most of his peers, Eigo chooses to focus on the performer’s later Las Vegas period, rather than the raw rockabilly of his Sun Records days. “That stuff is great, it’s what got him in the door, so to speak,� Eigo says. “But to me, it was when he made it to Vegas that he was able to really show everyone what incredibly great pipes he had. His versions of ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,’ ‘If I Can Dream,’ ‘You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling,’ those are just amazing. People just can’t believe it when they hear them, even today.� One longtime member of Eigo’s crew is his fellow Round Top resident Joel Lahey, who has run lights for him since 1986 and for a time worked as his drummer. “Joe is a real perfectionist when it comes to his show,� says Lahey. “He wants it to feel like a real concert. He prides himself on having a thunderous, very big sound.� But while the sound has always been big, over time the band has downsized considerably. “About 15 years ago, a DJ said to me, ‘In the future there won’t be any bands, singers will just use CDs,’� recalls Eigo. “I thought he was nuts. But about 10 years ago I found out about these CDs of Elvis’s music. Some of them even have guys like [guitarist] James Burton and other musicians who really played with Elvis doing the tracks.� Soon after, Eigo ditched the band, sold his tour bus (which had once belonged to Willie Nelson), and went all-digital. The result is a show that, thanks to its karaoke-like presentation, is predictably much more surreal than the mere concept of Eigo’s channeling of Presley. “It’s worked out really well, not only is there less people to have to pay, but the sound is perfect every time. I don’t have to worry about someone being too stoned to play or not showing up.�These days the singer has also left the road behind, preferring to work mainly local gigs such as the regular Saturday residency at the Friar Tuck he’s held since early 2008. And though his take doesn’t allow him to give away Cadillacs to casual acquaintances, his generosity mirrors that of the King in other ways. “I like to do charity shows whenever I can,� says Eigo. “I’ve done benefits for the Heart Association, some fundraising things with [Kingston radio station] WKNY. I just did a show for a senior citizens group on a Tuesday night.� In addition to the Sunday service church engagements he’s been doing on and off since he was 16, by day Eigo manages the photo department at Wal-Mart in Catskill. “[Wal-Mart’s management] are really great to me about the whole Elvis thing,� he says. “They even had me play at the grand opening, right in front of the produce section. They got me a limo, and the town gave us a police motorcycle escort, with sirens and everything. It was incredible. Little kids and people who’ve seen me play come in the store all the time and ask for my autograph, and everyone I work with is really cool about it. They think it’s neat.� But while his future at Wal-Mart is assured, how much longer does Eigo think he can go on paying homage to the Tupelo Flash? “I don’t know,� he says, seemingly puzzled by the very idea. “I never thought about it. I mean, I did stop for a few years when I had a jealous girlfriend who didn’t like me getting so much attention. But I’d always run into people who kept asking me to come back [to performing]. I couldn’t stay away, the pull was too strong. Plus it really makes people happy.� And tonight, after Eigo wraps things up with a suitably histrionic version of “Bridge Over Troubled Water� and the curtains close, there are indeed many smiling faces in the room. Over the PA comes the announcement that, yes, “Elvis has left the building.� But just `til next week. Joseph John Eigo presents “Elvis the Tribute� on Saturdays at 9pm at the Friar Tuck Resort in Catskill. (518) 678-2271; www.friartuck.com.
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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ WAVY DAVY for your listening pleasure.
THE BIG TAKEOVER CD RELEASE PARTY September 5. Praise Jah for a new band on the upstate reggae scene! The Big Takeover, another New Paltz hit machine (and one sharing bandmates and vibes with blues power trio the Paint Cans and funksters Grooveyard), has been wowing frenetic, dancing crowds from Kingston, New York, to Kingston, Jamaica. Now fans will have something to take home, namely the band’s new CD, Following Too Close (Takeover Productions), a “hot-peppa” mix of roots-ska originals featuring Jamaican singer Nee Nee and a skintight five-piece band. Wind up at Bacchus tonight, grab a Red Stripe, and let’s all get down to the I-rie sound of DJ Goodwill selecting when the band cools off. 21+ please. 11pm. Call for cover info. New Paltz. (845) 255-8636. www.myspace.com/bigtakeover.
JUDITH TULLOCH BAND September 7. Talk to singer-guitarist-songwriter-music teacher Tulloch and you can still hear a little New York roots in her dialect (the charming chanteuse was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn). But when she straps on the guitar and sings, she can be anywhere she wants, from the Caribbean to Nasvhille. Her songs are upbeat and lovingly skip from style to style, without irony or camp. She and her accomplished band—Stephen Franchino on flute and woodwinds, Tom Quaglieri on keyboards, Keith Meyer on bass, and Rich Sarles on drums—head to the Towne Crier in support of Tulloch’s tasty 2007 CD, Read Your Mind (Cammy Poeme Music). 7pm. $20, $15. Pawling. (845) 855-1300. www.judithtulloch.com.
HUDSON RIVER ARTS FESTIVAL September 20. First, a round of applause to everyone at the Bardavon and UPAC (present and past) for making a commitment to our river cities, we appreciate you. This year’s HRAF in Waryas Park kicks off with crafts, food, and two musical stages with 20 performers during the day. The co-headliners take the main stage after 5pm, and first up is Ollabelle, an international folk quintet that includes Woodstock’s Amy Helm. American treasure Odetta, 75, is an inspiration to generations of musicians, and just released a new album, Gonna Let It Shine (MC Records). The soul shines next on Ivan Neville (he of the Big Easy royal family) and his rollicking Dumpstaphunk band. Fireworks follow the last note. 2pm. $3 donation requested. Poughkeepsie. (845) 473-5288. www.bardavon.org.
Author Appearance / Book Signing LEARNING TO SEE A Matter of Light
Howard M. Brandston Saturday, September 13, 2:00 p.m. Howard Brandston, one of the most consummate lighting designers of our time, will read from his new book, Learning to See: A Matter of Light. Recipient of numerous achievement awards, he has more than 50 years of experience designing illumination for over 2500 commercial, institutional, residential, and governmental projects. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Free 327 Warren Street, Hudson 518-822-1438 www.hudsonoperahouse.org
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JOHN COLTRANE BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE September 23. Saxophonist/flautist Rob Scheps, who divides his time between Portland, Oregon, and New York, finds a hip spot upriver to launch his birthday party for Coltrane, who would have turned 82 today. The Terrace Lounge on Liberty Street (across from the Washington’s Headquarters house) plays host to the awardwinning Scheps (four Down Beat awards and counting) and his local crew, which includes cool Lew Scott on bass and the unsinkable Marvin “Bugalu” Smith pounding the barrels. Expect spot-on renditions of Coltrane standards like “Giant Steps” and “Love Supreme,” plus some surprise moments with weighty musical cargo like this. 21+. 7:30pm. Free. Newburgh. (845) 561-9770. www.robscheps.8m.net.
BLACK MESA TRUST BENEFIT WITH MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD September 28. When keyboardist John Medeski of jazz-funk trio Medeski, Martin & Wood attended a showing of PAATUWAQATSI H2Opi Run to Mexico, he learned about the Black Mesa Trust, which continues to address issues of land and water from the Hopi perspective after shutting down a 35-year pumping operation by a slurry coal-mining company. This huge story involves the bargain-basement purchase of sacred Hopi water to be used in the mining process by a poorly regulated company and the trust’s ongoing attempt to prevent an appeal of the pumping ban. Moved by their story, MMW will make it rain for the organization in this benefit at the Bearsville Theater. All proceeds go directly to Black Mesa Trust. A half-hour meet-and-greet with the band begins at 6:30pm, with tickets only available from the Soaring Eagle in Woodstock and Burt’s Electronics in Kingston. $58, $50 meet-and-greet; $38 general admission. 7pm. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406. www.bearsvilletheater.com.
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CD REVIEWS KELLEIGH MCKENZIE CHANCES
PETE LEVIN CERTIFIED ORGANIC (2008, PET LEVIN MUSIC)
T simple title pun of Pete Levin’s latest CD betrays The tthe rich layers of music within. Here, Ulster County rresident Levin, long a synthesizer specialist for artists ffrom jazz arranger Gil Evans to Paul Simon, returns to w what he calls his first love—organ jazz—for the secoond time since last year’s Deacon Blues (Motema). For CCertified Organic, Levin assembled a similar cast of band m mates, adding guitarist Jesse Gress (Todd Rundgren, U Uncle Funk), percussionist Ernie Colon, and the other ttwo-thirds of his regular organ trio, guitarist John Carrridi and drummer Harvey Sorgen (Hot Tuna). In addition to four Levin originals (the opener “I’m Falling” stands out with its ripping Carridi solo), the disc offers some deftly picked covers: the Jaco Pastorius burner “Teen Town”; Cole Porter’s classic “Love for Sale,” which gets a nice funk (not fusion, thankfully) treatment; and Prince’s “The Question of U,” which gets flipped on its well-crafted ear. And on a sad note, Levin’s longtime friend and collaborator, guitarist Joe Beck, makes one of his final appearances here before he passed away in July. Listen to the deeply soulful version of “Where Flamingos Fly” to hear Beck’s magic while Levin lays back. This track and three others are available for download at www.myspace.com/petelevinmusic. —DJ Wavy Davy
THE SWEET CLEMENTINES MORE SWEET ON YOU (2008, INDEPENDENT)
T songwriting duties on More Sweet On You, the first The C CD by New Paltz’s Sweet Clementines, are tackled aalternately by singer-guitarists John Burdick and Chris T Tanis.The difference in their styles is tangible: Burdick’s ssongs are wordy—the lyrics are thoughtful, more crypttic than deep (as in the first track, “Mary Goes ’Round”). H His songs would make a high school English student ssmile knowingly and a hillbilly want to kick someone’s aass. Tanis’s songs are more standard fare—a meatier T Traveling Wilburys. In general, the music is harmless rrock ’n’ roll: There is not a hint of Satan’s thorny tail or bl d bat b heads h d in the h first four f songs.The six-track EP was recorded and mixed by bassist bleeding Jason Sarubbi (The Trapps, Tracy Bonham), and the production only adds to the absence of drama. Aside from a “warbled” guitar on one song, this is a straight-ahead interpretation of tones and their placements in a straight-ahead musical vision.Think of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks without the hindsight and maturity of years of hashing out catchy, quirky, and angular postpunk masterpieces. The best songs on this record are track five, “(I Almost Wrote a Book About) Steve McQueen,” and the unnamed ghost track. Both of these songs finally let go enough to show some emotion; they’re more raw and less controlled, warmer and heartfelt, and not trying so hard. www.myspace.com/sweetclementines. —Jason Broome
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Books
LET IT BLEED John Darnton Paints the Times Red by Nina Shengold photo by Jennifer May
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alk about front-page news. In the opening pages of John Darnton’s Black & White and Dead All Over, merciless editor Theodore S. Ratnoff turns up dead in the newsroom, a note in his trademark purple ink pinned to his chest with the spike he once used to impale cancelled stories.The journalistic saw “If it bleeds, it leads” has rarely been taken so literally. Ratnoff was the scourge of a fictional newspaper that bears more than a passing resemblance to Darnton’s day job. In a waggish press release, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor writes, “Some have suggested that Black & White and Dead All Over, which is set in a major New York City metropolitan daily of international repute, may be a roman a clef. Such a rumor may have come from the fact that I have worked over four decades at the NewYork Times and that I have never worked at any other newspaper.” Could this be why the Times Book Review headlined its rave, “Anybody We Know?” From the aerie-like deck of his New Paltz retreat, the author insists, “The characters are not always one-for-one. I put pieces together.” After a pause, he adds wryly, “Some pieces are bigger than others.” Most of the novel’s wittily encoded cables were lifted verbatim from legendary reporter Homer Bigart; a fatefully bad lede is based on an actual one by a now-deceased colleague. “You can’t make this stuff up,” the semiretired Darnton shrugs, though Black & White provides ample proof that he not only can make it up, but can also 54 BOOKS CHRONOGRAM 9/08
make it hilarious. Kirkus Reviews called the satirical mystery a “multifaceted, gloriously entertaining thriller.” The LA Times weighed in with “deliciously sharp, wise, and hilarious. A love letter to an endangered species.” That species, of course, is print journalism. Darnton’s insider view of a news industry threatened by rising costs, diminishing profits, corporate greed, and a vanishing readership gives his novel additional bite. So does his undiluted affection for the hard-drinking, work-driven newsmen of past generations. “When I was in college, I didn’t know anybody who wanted to be a reporter. It didn’t seem like a profession,” says Darnton. This may sound a bit disingenuous—his father, a New York Times war correspondent, was killed on the job when John was an infant; his mother later became the Times’ first women’s editor—but he explains that in those days, reporting “was a craft, not a profession for experts. Papers hired reporters off the street, sometimes literally. They didn’t recruit from the Ivy League.” Darnton was not strictly Ivy League, either. Accepted by Harvard, he was expelled from Andover during his final semester for signing into his dorm and then sneaking out to a bar (a background he gave to a character in his fourth novel, The Darwin Conspiracy). Harvard rescinded its offer, and Darnton attended the University of Wisconsin, where he met his future wife Nina on the first day of school.
Meanwhile, his older brother Robert graduated from Oxford and went to work for the Times, landing a police beat in Little Italy. “Here’s this accomplished academic, covering grisly murders,” Darnton says, shaking his head. “It was a bad fit.” But Robert Darnton’s kid brother fell hard for the romance of hardbitten newsmen playing cards on hot nights, occasionally glancing up at different colored lights in the window (“so you’d know at a glance which paper was phoning”) and eating calamari on Mulberry Street between two-alarm fires. In 1966, John was hired as a NewYork Times copy boy, running a mimeo machine. (“My hands were purple to the wrists.”) Copy boys were expected to write on the side and move up through the ranks. “I’d never written a story, not even for the college paper,” Darnton recalls. He pored over the daily edition, following certain bylines, and soon became a general assignment reporter. As Connecticut correspondent, he covered the Black Panther trials in New Haven. Next came a high-pressure stint on night rewrite. Once Darnton and a colleague were assigned Man in the News features on two Supreme Court nominees, to be announced by President Nixon in a televised speech at 8. The Times’ first-edition deadline was 7:30. The national editor told them breezily, “We’ll hold the paper for you.” “And we did it,” Darnton marvels. “That was a lesson. The copy will come from somewhere. There won’t be a black hole underneath your name.” He covered City Hall during the mayoral transition from John Lindsay to Abe Beame. “I was rescued by the fiscal crisis,” he says, with the skewed logic of a true newshound. “I’ve had great luck in that wherever I go, mayhem and chaos follow.” The possible bankruptcy of New York City was a huge international story, and Darnton was right on its pulse. When the Times planned to open a new bureau in West Africa, Darnton was sent to select a location. A hotel clerk in Accra told him on a Tuesday that he could “probably” place a phone call to NewYork by Saturday, so Ghana was out. But one of the hotel’s other guests was the high commissioner of Nigeria, who knew Darnton’s byline and got him a visa to Lagos. After a one-hour flight that stretched into six, and a close call with a haughty customs official, Darnton took a late cab to the house he’d share with an Australian reporter. They awoke to martial music and a radio announcement that the government had been overthrown in a coup d’etat. “Coup d’etat?” Darnton remembers thinking, “I didn’t know where I was.” He wandered onto the street, somehow finding his way to the Reuters bureau. British reporter Colin Fox scooped him into his sportscar, and off they went. “The streets were deserted except for tanks. Guys were yelling at us from gun turrets,” Darnton recalls. They found the bloodstained car of the head of state, abandoned where he’d been gunned down. Darnton managed to file a story on Reuters’s telex machine—a rare commodity in the Third World—and slept on the office floor.The next morning, while he was out interviewing American officials, government forces trashed Reuters’ office, arresting Fox and throwing him out of the country. The coup was abortive. Darnton set up his bureau, sending for Nina and their two young daughters. The night they arrived, the American diplomat living next door dropped off a cold six-pack of beer, saying, “You’re going to need this.” From the new Lagos bureau, Darnton covered a third of the continent. It was the era of Kissinger’s “shuttle diplomacy.” “Africa was the newest chessboard for the Cold War,” Darnton observes. His byline, once buried, inched steadily toward the front page. Some of his stories were critical of the Nigerian government, including an expose on infant mortality rates and a story about local pirates preying on international freighters from dugout canoes. Darnton also befriended the revolutionary cult singer Fela Kuti. It was this last offense that finally got him arrested, strip-searched, and deported with his whole family. They wound up in Kenya, where he covered the Rhodesian Civil War and the fall of Idi Amin, earning the prestigious George Polk Award. Darnton’s instinct for arriving at a historical moment continued with his next assignment in Warsaw.The rise of Solidarity brought “an incredible rollercoaster ride of stories.” Filing a late-breaking dispatch in December 1981, he discovered his telex and phone were both dead. It was the beginning of martial law, and Poland was under a news blackout. The remaining American jour-
nalists were forced to settle for filing a joint news report, subject to official approval. “We called it ‘the camel,’” scoffs Darnton, who smuggled his own stories out via “pigeons”—departing Westerners whom he approached in hotel lobbies and airports. The NewYork Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Poland’s crisis left Warsaw in Marlboro cartons and boot linings, and on rolls of film shot by a German photographer. The Darntons moved on to Spain, where their son Jaime was born, then returned to NewYork. Nina wrote for Newsweek and the NewYork Post, and John became the Times’ culture editor. “Editing uses a different part of the brain,” he asserts. “But the real change was fiction.” Darnton’s first novel was based on—what else?—a newspaper article. After reading that Neanderthals lived at a time overlapping our own Homo sapiens ancestors, he found himself musing, “What if there was a small band remaining somewhere?” He wrote 100 pages and shelved it, until he heard someone else had made a movie deal on a similar concept. He put his unfinished novel up for immediate auction, and Steven Spielberg bought the movie rights. The movie was never made, but Darnton’s Neanderthal was an overnight bestseller. He followed it up with three more science-based thrillers, The Experiment, Mind Catcher, and The Darwin Conspiracy. Then he started researching a family memoir about his father’s death in the remote World War II theater of Papua New Guinea. Black & White and Dead All Over “was an avoidance book,” he admits.The opening scene came to him, and he wrote it down “just for fun.” Then he started plotting the rest, and got hooked. Does the veteran newsman and novelist prefer truth or fiction? John Darnton sits back in his cedar deck chair, surveying the Shawangunk Ridge. “It’s much more satisfying to create something out of whole cloth,” he replies. “And you don’t have to check your quotes.”
literary supplement HUMOR CONTEST Believing, as we do, that a good story never ends, for this year’s Literary Humor Contest we are seeking spurious sequels to works of literature or nonfiction, complete with a one-line description, e,g,: S. Grant Stately, plump Buck Mulligan is elected president of the United States. Charlotte’s Website www.SomePig.com :) Regurgitates, Reloads, and Remains A slightly edgier grammar manual.
Conversely, if you hold to the notion that every great tale has its antecedent, and every indelible fictional character has his or her predecessor, you may also submit preposterous prequels, e.g.: Ivanvirgin The early years held so much promise for Ivanhoe. Roget’s Tyrannosaurus In use for innumerable eons, epochs, ages, and millennia before the more portable edition. Moby-Bris Clip me, Ishmael.
Contest judges are Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold, and winning entries will appear in the Literary Supplement of the November issue. Winners receive a Chronogram T-shirt, suitable for wearing or framing. Contest deadline is October 1. Please send entries (no more than three per person, please!) with indications as to whether they are spurious sequels or preposterous prequels to fiction@chronogram.com or Humor Contest, Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401. Also, a reminder that the deadline for our 2008 short story contest, open to all in the Hudson Valley region, is September 8. Send entries of 4,000 words or less to fiction@chronogram.com. First prize: $150. The contest will be judged by Jana Martin, author of Russian Lover and Other Stories.
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ispirited and disfigured Rwandans attempt ongoing reconciliation through grassroots genocide tribunals. A bereaved family confronts consequences of 9/11. Tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka question faith and fate. A wrongly accused prisoner sits for years in a death-row cell. Twin sisters afflicted with a rare, tortuous congenital disease live out brief, noble existences. Whiting Award-winning writer Peter Trachtenberg tells these and other stories in The Book of Calamities, an ecumenical meditation on the question: What does it mean to suffer? With enlightened sensitivity, Trachtenberg combines reportage, personal narrative, and moral philosophy to explore “suffering as a spiritual phenomenon,� weighing its effects in terms of large-scale social injustice as well as individual tragedy. “Everybody suffers,� the author concedes, “but Americans have the peculiar delusion that they’re exempt from suffering,� a misapprehension his book “is meant to address.� Trachtenberg achieves this goal, particularly in allowing voices of those who have experienced extreme physical or emotional hardship to emerge. Divided into five sections relating suffering to circumstance, endurance, justice, God, and obligation, The Book of Calamities unfolds and doubles back on accounts and theories of misfortune as culled from the author’s experiences, interviews, observations, and readings in religion, philosophy, history, and literature. Moral scope (spiritual or judicial) and catastrophic contexts (global or local) are examined through in-depth consideration of religious classics, such as the Book of Job and Digha Nikaya (discourses of the Buddha), as well as writings by early Christian-era philosopher Anicius Boethius, Holocaust-survivor psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, and Judeo-Christian moralist Simone Weil, among others. The book’s narratives do not neatly coalesce in a grand articulation, but rather collectively illuminate a timeless, worldwide continuum of suffering. In a chapter titled “The Purpose of the Blindfold,� Andrea Yates’s notorious 2001 killings of her children and subsequent trial (leitmotif for the author’s summoning of various Greek tragedies, notably “Oedipus Rex�) is interspersed with a chronicle of Rwandan atrocities. A better reporter and storyteller than philosopher or theologian, Trachtenberg writes most forcefully when relaying eyewitness travels (from the Catskills to Calcutta) or personal biography (his previous works include the memoir 7 Tattoos). For instance, he recounts the cancer battle of onetime coworker “Linda,� who stood by the author during his former years of substance abuse, and whose passing awakens him to the consequences of suffering. Elsewhere, he offers a compelling description of a five-day Buddhist retreat he attended at a “holistic education center in upstate New York� (not far from his current Rhinebeck home) among Vietnam vets, invited by Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. Fleeting yet poignant applications of Trachtenberg’s broad learning—he quotes a single line from Hannah Arendt and presents a brief synopsis of the Edwardian short story “The Monkey’s Tale�—convincingly merge with the story, which culminates in the revered teacher’s “closing dharma talk,� in part spoken directly to the vets, whom he urges “to give up their pain, to relinquish their special claim on it.� Delivered overall as if intended for ongoing contemplation rather than immediate understanding, in the manner of an extended Zen koan, The Book of Calamities raises more questions than it resolves—perhaps deliberately so. Trachtenberg guides readers toward compassionate acknowledgement of the suffering of others, a necessary step on the path toward spiritual becoming. Peter Trachtenberg will appear at Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, on 9/12 at 7:30pm. —Pauline Uchmanowicz
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SHORT TAKES Hudson Valley authors keep it real in six striking works of memoir and nonfiction.
HIDDEN CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST: HID BEL BELGIAN NUNS AND THEIR DARING RESCUE OF YOUNG JEWS FROM THE NAZIS YO
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W While Bard professor emeritus Vromen’s family escaped Nazi-occupied Belgium, other Belgian es Jews hid their children in Catholic convents and Je oorphanages.This insightful account revisits surviving rescuers and now-grown hidden children, with re deeply moving results. Vromen will read at Temple d Agudas Achim in Kingston, 9/21 at 11. A
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Fr Poole and his wife, Marta Szabo, have enabled Fred hundreds of area residents to tell their stories hu authentically. Now it’s his turn. In 44 brief pieces, au Poole unfurls his life and teaching work, honoring Po W.H. Auden’s dictum, “Writers write what they W kknow, but they don’t know what they know until they write it.” www.stores.lulu.com/fredpoole. w
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W When Bard College chaplain Father Murray taught a course on same-sex unions and Christianity, his bishop accused him of heresy. An “unambiguously b and proudly” gay priest, he describes his “realm an oof contradictions” with elegant clarity. Lecture and booksigning at the Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann b Campus Center, 9/16 at 4:30pm. C
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Ki Kingston psychotherapist and author McCarthy assembled 10 dynamic essays by therapists, social as workers, artists, and others who work creatively with w troubled children, using clay, dance, sandplay, and tr other approaches to unlock the healing power of their ot imagination. Eight of the 10 contributors are Hudson im Valley residents. V
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Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, and an atheist are involved in a murder. Waiting for the punch line? It’s called Salvation Boulevard, Woodstock resident and Chronogram columnist Larry Beinhart’s latest novel. And yes, it packs a punch. Beinhart’s 1994 political novel American Hero became the film Wag the Dog, starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Anne Heche. Mandalay Independent Pictures has already acquired the screen rights to Salvation Boulevard. Nathaniel MacLeod, avowed atheist and professor of philosophy at the University of the Southwest, is discovered dead from a single bullet through his head. Pastor Plowright, the founder, minister, and CEO of the Cathedral of the Third Millennium (and as such, a man who knows the value of publicity in calling lambs to the shepherd), asks the six o’clock news anchor, “Is anyone surprised that an atheist committed suicide?” The police, initially happy to rule the death self-inflicted, suddenly have a suspect in custody. University student Ahmad Nazami, who studied with the dead professor, has confessed to the crime. Manny Goldfarb practices law at one of the largest firms in the city, but he has a taste for pro bono criminal work. Certain that Ahmad is innocent, Manny calls in private investigator Carl Van Wagener to help investigate. A born-again Christian and faithful follower of Pastor Plowright, Van Wagener enters the case doubting Ahmad’s innocence, but soon turns to finding who really killed Professor MacLeod and recovering the professor’s missing manuscript, rumored to disprove the existence of God. Van Wagener’s investigation entangles him in a web of deception: yea, he walks through the valley of death, encountering Christian and non-Christian thugs (including a couple who claim to be from Homeland Security), members of a Mexican drug cartel, the professor’s steamy and neurotic widow, and Van Wagener’s own faithful wife. Like any good PI, he questions everything—including whether his faith can sustain him through an existential crisis. Heavy stuff, that, but Beinhart embeds the religious and political issues in a brisk narrative that tackles the big questions with acerbic humor and good storytelling, building toward a climax that will pull readers to the edges of their seats. (Don’t miss his note to the reader, revealing real-world sources and inviting readers to his website to participate in an “ongoing dialogue about religion, irreligion, faith, belief, and their intersection with politics, war, money, life, and death.”) Religion and death must be in the air around Overlook Mountain, as fellow Woodstock resident Alison Gaylin’s fourth novel, Heartless, takes readers into this same territory, though the terrain is markedly different. Zoe Green has left her calling as an investigative journalist to write for a soap opera digest, leading her to an extreme affair with soap star Warren Clark. Zoe falls so hard that she leaves her Manhattan job to join the seductive and mysterious Warren at his home in San Esteban, Mexico for a romantic retreat. But beneath the idyllic surface of life in San Esteban lie deception, murder, and Sangre Para La Vida (blood in exchange for life), a longevity cult whose name says it all. Heartless is one of those novels where you find yourself whispering, “No! Don’t go in there! Don’t do that!” But Zoe does, and finds herself back in the world of investigation—not for the sake of a story, but to save her own skin. Alison Gaylin will appear on September 26 at the Newburgh Book Festival at 2pm and at Barnes & Noble in Kingston at 7pm; and on October 4 at Village Square Bookstore in Hunter at 2pm. —Kim Wozencraft
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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.
Dad, this is not my house. You are my house. —Asher Stern (3½ years old, after an admonition not to make a mess)
When I was young, so young I can only remember remembering, I had a lasso I looped ‘round most everything—except Marie with her two pig tails flying over 3 red wheels. —p
Your spirit has love in it. It is not a bad thing. Remember it ok? Angry or nice or mad or happy. —Chloe Hanson (7 years old)
QUESTIONS FROM A DREAM
ASHES
Through a hole cut in the woodwork a cable undulates, sidewinds into a gray SUV
the dead annoy the living
where someone wearing headphones turns knobs and levers, reeling, reeling in as though the house were a shirt being pulled inside out. At my end of the wire, a plug. I ’m holding it in my palm, imagining a casing, a plastic intaglio— something that cradles attachments. Suppose I don’t find it? The SUV is gone. Along with the cable and plug. What happened to the crying child? Our houses now lean in as though their ligaments have been extracted. —Lee Gould
IN AMBROSIA ALWAYS RISING If there are any heavens If they are fair You’ll be there, At the top of every cloud like cream, In ambrosia always rising. I’ll meet you there someday. —Paul Andre de Beaumont
first, we are to sit down with funeral purveyors, speak business and, then, shell out cash. there is an economy to be thought of, and men must be hired: limousine drivers, and florists. the tailors must get their pay: we get fitted for black suits. peripheral people and strangers must be entertained: we schedule speakers and prepare eulogies. their absence haunts us; we blurt out random anecdotes and drunkenly admit our melancholy. their absence requires explanation and we make pretend instead of admitting that there is no learning, no growth, involved in it. he, simply, is gone. —Joseph Walker
GOODBYE Merge In cold hard sweat we Drink each other’s secrets Hoping to find Bliss Entwined whispers, promises slip by like The last raindrop’s Descent from the old gutter on The house we were going to make into our dream Once Did you know? This was the last. —Arianna Merems
LIKE THE SON OF ATLAS, I BEAR THE BEAMS Like the son of Atlas I bear the beams of love on my shoulders. It’s not easy Because, I don’t know what to do with love. But I am learning. —Thomas Mahoney
SCRABBLE He says naïf (innocent, inexperienced). Jo, she replies (beloved one, darling). But her o underneath his n sends a clear message. It is the only thing of hers that will be beneath anything of his tonight. —Aubrey Hirsch
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ULTRASOUND Safe and sound The discordant music of painful organs Grunts and moans The flail of weakened limbs The frail cacophony of stiffened joints The fugue of a once active mind The cloudiness of memory Settled in upon the landscape The effects of good art upon the soul Lost to the ages Like floods of water long passed by Evaporating into the airs Of oblivion End the cries of babes Calling out for the comfiture Of Mother’s Healing Arms —Richard J. Treitner
WIND CHIME For David April came and went effortlessly. You squabbled over wedding arrangements, worked a few weekends to prove your dedication, settled into your new home. May was supposed to be something special. Alongside your fiancée, you prepared for the birth of your first garden, selected flowers with respect to available sunlight, fenced in vegetables to deter the deer. Somehow it’s June; May stole your sister, who was too weak to fight any longer. The area you tilled for your garden is now overgrown with weeds and regrets: the wind chime hanging from the back porch, her last words, and the flowers suffocated— all frozen in the still air. —Rebecca Schumejda
RE: DOROTHY, BY ALFRED KREYMBORG Dear Alfred, I am not what you think. I. My Eyes I open my lids that hold tar coated feathers— they bat to protect these chocolate eyes—richer, thanks to lilac shimmer and black kohl. (your body responds to each blink) II. My Lips I spread my supple lips wide over pearls that flash whiter next to mica filled crimson layer upon layer dangerously close to d r i p p i n g (your anticipation is palpable) III. My Hair I pull the band restraining wild waves of espresso until they cascade falling out of the easy style (your hands wish to soak here) IV. My Neck I clasp The string near my nape pearls go with everything they travel around to my collar so close to these elegant/bony shoulders. This is where it all happens. This is where my body meets its friends its enemies: style and history. (you love them both…on me) V. My Body I hold my head higher atop my neck shoulders breasts holding up an evening frock all this to be undone unclasped unhooked smudged by the end of the night I am woman I am ready. —Molly Lurie-Marino
FIG. 15 ABANDONING LINES IN FLIGHT, OR THE ART OF SINKING I. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: abandoning your craft 1. Notify words to abandon verse. At first alarum, all words deplore parachutes. 2. Jettison simile, offload metaphor. Use the emergency release handle. 3. Consider the retort of recalcitrant motors. 4. Restrain the craft, control the plain but treat verse with abandon. Reduce fancy and maintain level flight. 4a. The signal will be one long ring on the alarm bell. 5. To facilitate disengagement, engage the automatic p... no, leave it, “pilot.” 6. Exit via rhyming couplets, or, if time permits, use the main entrance stanza. 7. When leaving, face forward; tumble from a crouched position. Refer to figure 15. II. ALL WORDS 1. Face the front of the page. 2. Look about: above you the aeropause and below an accomplished horizon. 3. Grasp the figure of speech while jumping, but do not declaim until clear of the craft. 4. Pull the avowal all the way out; Reach a rapport with felicity. 5. Let the parachute assume its worthiness. Check oscillations. As the world reverses, transfer your pull from line to line. Think tidal. 6. Guard your eyes, speak softly, bend. Learn the art of sinking. 7. Prevent fouling in the floating canopy; Swim a while. 8. Under no circumstances inflate language even if time permits. It helps to have a passion for the plane. 9. Do not release the sea-markings until the value’s clear. Dye is short; it’s life that’s long. 10. See item II.3.i.a. Refer to fig. 15. —Bruce Robinson
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Behind the Blue Door LA PUERTA AZUL by Sara Reinhart Brown photographs by Jennifer May
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visit to a Mexican restaurant, fancy or otherwise, would not be complete without guacamole. La Puerta Azul, an upscale eatery outside Millbrook, offers a fairly conventional guac, with the usual ingredients, including tomato, onion, cilantro, and a balanced touch of seasonings. The texture is spot-on: not too creamy and not too chunky. What makes this guacamole stand out is the fact that they mash it with a mortar and pestle right at your table, which adds a certain charm to your dining experience. That, and the fact that it’s $12 an order. La Puerta Azul is located on Rt. 44 between Millbrook and Pleasant Valley in a strip plaza, amid a tanning salon, fitness center, and a tile gallery. Across the street is a tired-looking local grocery. But don’t let any of that deter you. The restaurant sits back, hacienda-style, flanked with hibiscus and impatiens, shrubs and stones, and hanging leather swings. Its pale beige stucco exterior, along with a formidable stone tower and signature blue door, is a marked contrast to the rest of its surroundings. The inside does not disappoint, either. It’s a mix of classic Mexican décor with a modern twist: ceramic tiles, wooden booths with brightly embroidered pillows, exposed wooden beams, bold-colored artwork, and a sleek indoor waterfall. The place is cool and modern, traditional and welcoming at the same time. While a good deal of the menu is on the pricier side of what you might expect to pay for Mexican food—the dinner entrees range in price from $18 for the traditional Arroz con Pollo, to $25 for the Bistec a la Punta, Filet Mignon with Tequila sauce and peppers—La Puerta Azul is good value for the price point compared to other fine dining establishments in the region. The fare is thoughtful and creative, and authentic. Executive chef Ramiro Jimenez, a native of Mexico City, grew up cooking alongside his mother and grandmother. After migrating to Manhattan to pursue his culinary career, Jimenez spent a number of years working his way up at some of the city’s premier Latin restaurants, such as Patria, Chicama, and Noche. In 2006 Jimenez was hand-selected to be the executive chef of La Puerta Azul after a chance meeting with owners Bradley and Ashley Reifler, a Manhattan couple. Jimenez’ vision for La Puerta Azul is to create high quality, vibrant, authentic Mexican food using the freshest of ingredients with a sophisticated flair. “Mexican food is so much more than just rice and beans and hot peppers. I want to 64 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 9/08
share my heritage, culture, and passion for real food,” he explained. “I want to serve it the way it is made in Mexico.” Jimenez seems to have successfully imparted this vision into the food. Having always wanted to try ceviche, I opted for the Ceviche Verde de Atun ($9), tuna in a mixture of lime juice, tomatoes, oranges, and pickled jalapenos, served atop a basil sauce. The genius of ceviche is that the proteins in the fresh, raw fish are broken down by the acids in the citrus juice, thereby “cooking” the fish without heat. The result: a rather attractive marriage of the fresh tuna, the cool citrusy tang of lime juice and bits of orange, the spicy acidic crunch of the pickled chilies, and the savory basil sauce. My companion and I also tried the beef empanadas ($8). To simply call them beef turnovers would not do them any justice. Savory ground beef, capers, olives, and tomatoes were encased in warm, crusty pastry, artfully drizzled with a condensed milk-sweetened chipotle aioli, and served, rather minimally, on a bed of shredded iceberg lettuce. We were intrigued by the sweet and salty dichotomy of flavors and the careful presentation of this traditional Latin appetizer. It was clearly a manifestation of La Puerta Azul’s concept of preparing classic Mexican cuisine with panache. Some of the other appetizers include Ceviche Acapulco ($10), a shrimp ceviche comprised of tomato, cilantro, onion, jalapeno, and avocado; Sopa de Maiz ($8), a sweet corn soup enhanced with leeks and poblanos; and Tamal Blanco ($7), which is white corn steamed and wrapped in a husk with chicken, peppers, tomatoes and cilantro. For brunch entrees, my companion selected huevos rancheros ($10); I ordered the chorizo omelet ($10). Huevos rancheros is a classic Mexican breakfast dish that is comprised of eggs, black beans, salsa, and tortilla. As soon as I saw my companion’s plate I was struck by plate envy. I wanted what he had: a festive tower of alternating layers of tortilla, black beans, salsa, shredded chicken, lettuce, cheese, and topped with two beautifully poached eggs. The chicken, an atypical but appropriate inclusion, was smoky and seasoned just so. My own dish, while not nearly as pretty as that of my companion’s, was satisfying in its own right. The tidy yellow half-moon was fluffy and filled with tomatoes, crumbled bits of the salty, sour Spanish sausage that is chorizo, and tomatillo sauce.
OPPOSITE: A VIEW OF LA PUERTA AZUL’S CERAMIC-TILED BAR; ABOVE: GUACAMOLE IS MADE FRESH TABLESIDE WITH A MORTAR AND PESTLE AT LA PUERTA AZUL.
Of course, brunch and dinner are not the only ways to go. La Puerta Azul also serves lunch seven days a week. The relatively short lunch menu offers, among other things: hamburgers, Mexican-style (topped with Oaxaca cheese; $11); chicken or pork enchiladas ($15); and fajitas ($18). There is, then, the matter of dessert. My companion resisted; I could not. Churros are Latin American street food, which are fried pieces of oblongshaped dough, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, served with hot chocolate, and they are on the menu ($7). I was more than eager to try them, and soon discovered, happily, that they alone are worth a second trip to La Puerta Azul. Really, what could be a better match for freshly fried dough than thick, velveteen hot chocolate? (It’s even better eaten straight-from-the-fridge cold the next day.) Other dessert offerings include pastel de tres leches, a three-milk cake soaked in rum and milk syrup and served with caramelized bananas, pineapple flan, and almond cake with blood orange ice cream. (The ice cream, too, is made from scratch.) Dessert prices range from $7 to $8. The extensive variety of alcoholic beverages is blatantly impressive. To start, there is a list of 75 tequilas, a haven for the aficionado. Blanco (white), reposado (rested), anejo (aged), special tequilas, and tequila flights are available. La Puerta Azul also has a selection of margaritas and other cocktails. Of note is a particular margarita called the Big Spender, and it is aptly named. Made with Herradurq Seleccion Suprema Tequila, which is aged in oak barrels for four years, it’s $50. The wine list consists of vintages from Millbrook, California, South America, Europe, and Australia, featuring a dozen wines by the glass and almost all of the two dozen bottles under $40. As for beer, there are 12 rotating brews on tap and an even larger collection of domestic and imported bottled beers. It would seem that La Puerta Azul’s iconic name (“the blue door”) is living up to its lore. According to Jimenez, the color blue in Mexican culture signifies luck and peace, so the act of painting a door blue symbolizes bringing luck and peace into the home. As it stands, reviews of the restaurant have been consistently favorable. But it is certainly not just luck in Jimenez’ case: The man works hard, commuting daily from Yonkers and logging 14-hour days. This month his long-awaited cookbook by Sea Script Publishing was just released, titled La Puerta Azul: Everyday Feast and featuring recipes from the res-
taurant. “It calls for the same ingredients and techniques we use here,” Jimenez said. “The premise of the book is good food doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s just traditional ingredients served with an upscale touch.” Like everything else he does, Jimenez channeled his passion for his craft into writing the cookbook, which took six years to complete. He doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon, either. He has visions of moving his up with his family to Dutchess County and opening a second La Puerta Azul in the area. “I’m here for the long run,” he said with a laugh. La Puerta Azul 2510 Route 44, Millbrook (845) 677-2985; www.lapuertaazul.com Hours Open 11:30am-10pm Monday through Thursday, until 11pm Friday and Saturday. Sunday 11:30am-9pm, brunch service until 3pm. Atmosphere Upscale, modern bistro meets traditional Mexican hacienda. It’s colorful, spacious, and downright cool. Service is warm and professional. Price Range Soups, salads, and appetizers range from $6 to $12; brunch $10 to $14; lunch $11 to $18, and dinner $16 to $25. Recommended Dishes Handmade guacamole; tuna and shrimp ceviches, chicken and rice, beef short ribs braised in Mexican red wine; grilled pork tenderloin; cured lamb shank; huevos rancheros, churros; pineapple flan.
Wine/Beer/Liquor Comprehensive list of tequilas; variety of margaritas and cocktails; rotating assortment of house-infused vodkas; extensive wine selection, by the glass or by the bottle; sangria by the glass or pitcher; 12 draft beers and a wellrounded collection of American and imported bottled beers. Credit Cards All major except Discover. Reservations Recommended. Children’s Menu Quesadillas, chicken fingers, hamburgers, French toast, and omelets. High chairs and crayons available. Entertainment L ive music ever y Friday and Saturday night; see website for complete schedule.
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Bread Alone CafĂŠ East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3108 Route 28, Boiceville, NY (845) 657-3328 (headquarters) Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2108 Bread Alone CafĂŠ offers fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at three mid-Hudson locations.
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CATERING Blue Mountain Bistro Catering Co. 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.
Terrapin Restaurant Catering Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 hugh@terrapincatering.com Terrapin Restaurant Catering: Seated dinners for up to 150 guests, and cocktail parties for as many as 250 guests at their new facility overlooking a magnificent view of the beautiful Hudson River Valley. Off-site catered events up to your imagination. For more information contact Catering Director, Hugh Piney.
DELIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Rossiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deli 45 South Clover Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-0654 www.rossideli.com Fine Italian Deli. Combining traditional Italian staples with constant experimentation, this bustling family deli has been wowing customers for 30 years. An ever-evolving daily menuâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with imported meats and cheeses and freshly baked breads and desertsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; helps keep this place packed.
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PASTA La Bella Pasta (845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.
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55 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1114 www.aroirestaurant.com Aroi means â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;deliciousâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in Thai; and delicious it is. David Thompson writes in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thai Food,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thai food creates a locus of flavor within each dish through its components, producing a complexity that can be dazzling.â&#x20AC;? And Aroi illustrates his description faithfully.The wine list is spare and perfectly paired to the flavors of Thai cuisine. Some selections are familiar and some are off the beaten track; all compliment the food. Enter a little clapboard house with a treed, outdoor patio, and be in an oasis of muted green walls, fabric lamps, birch chairs, and coral table runners; a perfect backdrop to the colors of the food. Thai artifacts and fabrics hang as the works of art they are. Each room is flooded with light and, for chilly evenings, has a working fireplace. Aroi is open seven days a week for dinner from 5pm-9pm; and Thursday through Monday for lunch from 11:30am-3pm.
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Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4440 www.casablancacoffeehouse.com The finest coffeehouse beverages and cuisine served in our Moroccan inspired ecofriendly cafĂŠ. Specialty coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, fresh baked pastries, breakfast, and lunch, including wrap and panini sandwiches. Vegetarian, soy, and gluten free options always available. Catering, take-out, and free Wi-fi.
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Bear Creek Restaurant and Recreational Park Corner of Route 23A and Route 214, Hunter, NY (518) 263-3839 www.bearcreekrestaurant.com Bear Creekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu ranges from various smoked BBQ delights to entrees like Pan Seared Ahi Tuna and Cedar Planked Salmon. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great burger, steak, or maybe a novel goat cheese, pear, and apple salad, Bear Creek offers an action filled venue along with fine cuisine at family prices.
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Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com We are open Wednesday and Thursday 5pm-9:30pm; Friday 11:30am-10:30pm, Saturday 11:30am-10:30pm, and Sunday 11:30am-9:30pm. This is just a few of our reviews: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cozy in winter, glorious garden dining in summer...wonderful food, delightful ambiance...a treasure!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll really get away from it all while feeling right at home at Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s...Get toasty by the fire with some homemade mashed potatoes, or a hot toddy in the charming bar. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll love the hint of deep country wafting up from their truffle Ajax fries! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cozy, fire-placed restaurant with tremendous food from a varied and original menu that ranges from devilish to devine. Charming owners, Alicia in front and Mikael in the kitchen, provide great warmth and make the place particularly comfortable.â&#x20AC;? Reservations recommended.
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Egg’s Nest
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(845) 687-7255 www.theeggsnest.com Where good friends meet. Located on Route 213 in the center of High Falls, NY, The Egg’s Nest is noted for its eclectic décor, unusual menu, and friendly, casual atmosphere. The Egg’s Nest offers creative cuisine with a southwestern flair, unique overstuffed sandwiches, vegetarian dishes, burgers, homemade desserts, and “Nest” Breads. Dinner specials start every night at 5pm and a cocktail lounge is also offered. The Egg’s Nest is open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner, 11:30am-11pm SundayThursday and 11:30am to midnight on Friday and Saturday. We accept cash and personal checks, with an ATM on premises.
74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Daily Freeman. Visit our second location in Tivoli.
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Kindred Spirits STEAKHOUSE & PUB at the Catskill Mountain Lodge
• A place for nature, art and music lovers. • Open seven days for breakfast and lunch. Dinner on weekends.
(845) 688-2828 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 Café. 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 Mount Tremper, just 10 minutes from Woodstock.
Gilded Otter 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!
Karma Road Vegetarian Café 11 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1099 www.karmaroad.net Quaint, compassionate, and bustling Organic café-deli with vegetarian/vegan fare for everyone! Open 7 days, 8am-8pm. Best SMOOTHIE in the Hudson Valley in 2007. Stews, curries, wraps, sandwiches, soups, juice bar, wheat free, and gluten free desserts. Service with a smile and love in every dish.
Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub at Catskill Mountain Lodge 334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.caskillmtlodge.com
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• Live Jazz—Friday and Saturday—Starts at 6pm • Call for reservations or to cater your event. • Fireplace pub has 13 beers on tap. 334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY 518-678-3101 | www.catskillmtlodge.com
232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2600 www.maincourserestaurant.com Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-range Hudson Valley products. Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.
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49 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0162 Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi and Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls, and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted.
Serevan 6 Autumn Lane, Amenia, NY, (845)373-9800
Soul Dog 107 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-3254 Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts, and many gluten-free items prepared in-house. Redefining the hot dog experience!
Starr Place 6417 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2924 www.starrplace.com Delightful American Bistro featuring Chef Roberto Mosconi, star of the Hudson Valley culinary scene. We strive to assure our guests fresh seasonal ingredients expertly prepared and graciously served. We offer a large one-price wine by the glass selection in addition to a well-chosen reserve list. On weekends our Starr Lounge offers the same menu but with live music. In season we have our Star Alley for that alfresco experience.
Sukhothai 516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375 Sukhothai Restaurant, located in Beacon, NY, offers a delicious menu full of authentic Thai cuisine. From traditional dishes, such as Pad Thai and Som Tam, to custom dishes created exclusively by our master chef, our menu is sure to please any palate. Takeout is also available.
Suruchi—A Fine Taste of India 5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com Offering a weekly newsletter with news, astrology and horoscopes. Private astrological consultations by appointment.
Terrapin Restaurant and Red Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Terrapin Red Bistro: serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Sometimes, you just want to eat a great hamburger, and enjoy other comfort food like mac and cheese, fish tacos and quesadillas. Patrons can find favorites from the restaurant menu as well in this hip and casual bistro style atmosphere.
Terrapin Resturant 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Terrapin Restaurant: serving dinner seven days a week. From far-flung origins, the world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle here. From elements both historic and eclectic comes something surprising, fresh, and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul.
Woody’s All Natural 30 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-1111 www.woodysallnatural.com Eat seasonal. Eat local. Burgers and Fries locally grown, fresh ingredients.
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Cup and Saucer Tea Room 165 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-6287 www.cupandsaucertearoom.com
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There is nothing fresher than Springwater.
“We write the menu every day,” explains Springwater Bistro owner, chef, and Pride of New York member David Britton. “Sometimes, as little as an hour before opening.” It all depends on what’s fresh, delicious, and available that day from a select list of local growers – like Pride members Pat and Albert Sheldon of nearby Sheldon Farms. “Our produce doesn’t sleep in a warehouse,” explains Pat Sheldon, “which makes a big difference in flavor, nutrients and even the energy to be derived.” Look for Pride of New York foods, and patronize Pride member restaurants and retailers. It not only assures great food for you – but helps support the local farm families and entrepreneurs committed to bringing you their best – both in freshness and fresh thinking.
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CLERMONT-BASED FARMER IRVING MINK SELLS HIS HEIRLOOM TOMATOES TO NUMEROUS DUTCHESS COUNTY RESTAURANTS.
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SERVING THE BOUNTY OF THE VALLEY CHEFS TALK ABOUT SOURCING LOCAL By Brian K. Mahoney Photos by Jennifer May
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t was just over 10 years ago, when I first started writing about food, that I experienced a revelatory brush with how fresh restaurant fare could be. I had been assigned to profile Peter Seidman, chef/owner of Stoney Creek in Tivoli. When I arrived, Seidman took me on a tour of the restaurant’s backyard garden, just steps from the kitchen door, where a dozen varieties of herbs, and rows of summer vegetables and lettuces were growing. Twenty minutes later, I was eating a salad that was picked to order.There could be no confusion between this plate of greens and the salad bar at Sizzler. The greens I was served were lightly dressed and possessed a simple integrity. They tasted like what they were: arugula, tatsoi, and mustard. BADGE OF HONOR Most chefs have neither the space nor the time to grow their own produce. But sourcing as much of their menus as possible from local purveyors has become the norm for chefs in the Hudson Valley. “You’re not a serious restaurant unless you use local,” says Rich Reeve, chef and co-owner of Elephant, a Kingston wine and tapas bar. “It’s a badge of honor.” Reeve, who serves modern European tapas, often with a twist of fusion, uses corn, peas, green beans, and cherry tomatoes from Red Hook’s Montgomery Place Orchard for his summer vegetable salad, which is tossed with crème fraiche and topped with rare Ahi tuna. Bruce Kazan, chef/owner of Main Course, a New Paltz restaurant and caterer, was an early adopter of local bounty in his eclectic, inventive cuisine—Pad Thai, peanut-crusted seitan, and pan-seared Hudson Valley duck breast are all on the menu. Kazan has bought local since he opened 15 years ago. This summer, he decided to ramp up his commitment to local. “Our new mantra is to try and create all of our daily specials based on food coming within 150 miles of our location—meat, everything,” says Kazan. One special served at Main Course in late August featured pan-roasted Long Island monkfish over corn puree, accompanied by purple potato croutons from Pine Island and oven-roasted Sun Gold tomatoes from Mountain View Farm in Gardiner.
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WHY LOCAL? The main reason chefs cite for creating dishes around local ingredients is the difference in food quality between what farmers sell them and what they buy from larger distributors who source their food from farms across the country. “The difference between a zucchini bought at the farmers’ market and a zucchini bought from Riveria [a produce distributor] is unmistakable,” says Gabriel Vasquez, chef/owner of Gabriel’s, a Kingston café. Vasquez, who can be seen most Saturdays mornings at the Kingston Farmers’ Market, wheeling a hand truck piled high with of crates of vegetables, cites the brighter flavors and firmer textures of farm-fresh produce, which makes for a tastier product. All the chefs I spoke to for this article declared that their dedication to working with local farmers was not only rooted in how their dishes taste, but also in supporting local, small-scale sustainable agriculture (an integral aspect of the regional economy), and working to reduce their restaurant’s carbon footprint by not buying product trucked-in from out of state. (NB: According to a study by the Center for Sustainable Systems, the average American foodstuff travels an estimated 1,500 miles before being consumed.) Melissa Everett, executive director of Sustainable Hudson Valley, also notes that buying produce from local farms helps conserve open farmland from development, which is essential for the ecological health of the area. “When agriculture is done properly,” says Everett, “the soil is replenished, water is well managed, and biodiversity is maintained, so that the region as a whole operates as a healthy ecosystem.” IT TAKES TWO OR MORE TO TANGO For chefs, maintaining relationships with farmers is not as simple as buying in bulk from a large purveyor, however. It takes time and effort to visit farms or farmers’ markets. Chefs, like farmers, are often putting in superhuman amounts of overtime to get the job done. “Chefs and restaurateurs are extremely busy people,” says Josh Kroner, chef/owner of Terrapin in Rhinebeck. “Having an ongoing relationship with a farmer is an extra step; it has to be a conscientious
OPPOSITE: FARMER IRVING MINK DELIVERING HEIRLOOM TOMATOES TO CHEF/OWNER JOSH KRONER AT TERRAPIN RESTAURANT IN RHINEBECK. ABOVE: A SLICED MINK HEIRLOOM TOMATO ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK AT TERRAPIN.
effort. A chef’s first inclination is to just call the produce guy and tell them exactly what he wants, and have it delivered. And the prices are generally cheaper than straight from the farm.” Kroner, who maintains relationships with local farms as matter of course, works with a number of local purveyors.Terrapin gets its greens from Sky Farms (Millerton), heirloom tomatoes from Irving Mink (Clermont), cheese from Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, potatoes from Brittany Hollow Farm (Rhinebeck), honey and currants from Ray Tousey (Clermont), and dairy and ice cream from Ronnybrook Farm (Ancramdale). Kroner also notes that his signature dessert, a molten chocolate cake (the recipe was featured in Gourmet), has been outsold for the first time since Terrapin opened. Customers have been preferring pastry chef Derin Tanyol’s “peach bomb,” a dish of peach cake topped with peach ice cream (made in-house) and a slice of peach. The peaches are from Migliorelli Farms in Tivoli, which supplies Terrapin with a wide array of fruits and vegetables. And chefs that do rely on local purveyors don’t always get what they order. Farmers are tied to the rhythms of nature, which don’t work on a fixed schedule. Richard Erickson, chef and co-owner of gourmet takeout joint Bistro-to-Go on Rt. 28 just north of Kingston, is sanguine about the chef-farmer relationship, however. “Sometimes we get what we want, sometimes we don’t,” Erickson says. “Yesterday I was counting on cucumbers but we didn’t get cucumbers, so I didn’t make tabbouleh. You make the menu up on the fly with the vegetables you’ve got.” Erickson, who formerly owned Blue Mountain Bistro in Woodstock before opening Bistro-to-Go, believes that partnering with farmers helps him hone his craft. “Listening to farmers talk about their crops, I learn things about vegetables I didn’t know before,” says Erickson, “like when certain vegetables are at their peak, or what potatoes go best in certain preparations.” Chance encounters with purveyors can also be a boon to chefs. The Main Course’s Kazan was met at the back door of his kitchen recently by a forager he has a relationship with, who had five pounds of chanterelles and ten pounds of porcinis to sell. Kazan bought it all, incorporating the mushrooms into a number of dishes on his menu. And according to Erickson, having a smaller palette of ingredients to work with doesn’t have to be dispiriting to either the chef or the consumer. “[As a chef] you’ve got this memory bank lodged in you of all that you’ve tasted, eaten,
or prepared in your life,” says Erickson. “If your technique is strong enough, you’re able to create different dishes from the same ingredients each week.” The real drawback of working with farmers for chefs is not a condition that can be overcome: the shortness of the growing season. Salad greens started in a greenhouse can be harvested in April, but after October, not much is still being taken out of the ground that will be on the plates of the region’s restaurants.Yes, root vegetables and certain other products like apples can be cellared all year, but restaurant consumers are trained to want everything, all the time. “People wouldn’t understand if I tried to give them an onion and apple salad,” says Terrapin’s Kroner. “I wouldn’t have many customers if that was the case.” Gabriel Vasquez put it more bluntly: “People want avocados in the middle of winter.” (That avocados don’t grow in New York is another story entirely.) THE FARMER AS CELEBRITY Despite the obstacles facing chef-farm partnerships—weather, consumer demand, price pressures, general economic conditions—more and more chefs are creating lasting relationships with farmers, and consumers are willing to pay to pay more for the privilege of eating local. A study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics suggests supermarket shoppers are willing to pay a premium for locally produced foods, and that farm-market shoppers are willing to pay almost twice for the same locally produced foods. In addition, farmers are finding their status elevated from that of rural laborer to foodie champion. In a recent issue of New York, Amy Hepworth, of Hepworth Farm in Milton, who supplies a variety of produce to adoring fans at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, was profiled in an article titled “The Farmer as Cult Hero.” Many of the restaurants that carry Irving Mink’s tomatoes and squash, including Gigi, Terrpain, Beekman Arms, and Sabroso, feature his name on the menu, branding their dishes with some of Mink’s farmer mystique. So while the winter looms ahead like a great white waste of supermarket tomatoes that resemble cardboard more than the real thing and canned vegetables that are eaten more for color than for taste or nutrition, remember that we still have two or three months to enjoy the bounty of the region before it’s back to dreaming about the first greens of spring. 9/08 CHRONOGRAM LOCALLY GROWN 79
WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY upcoming events September 20th: Cabaret & Comedy
Nellie McKay and Dan Piraro 8pm, Colony Cafe, Rock City Road, Woodstock
“Supremely gifted, charming and darkly funny'' (Washington Post) “A reverse prism that takes light from everywhere, musically and socially and politically, and coalesces it into a single unique sensibility. ” (NY Times)
Nationally syndicated cartoonist Dan Sept 28 Piraro (”Bizarro”) performs his Blessing of the legendary one-man comedy show. His Animals We open “Hate Mail” segment alone is worth the farm to dogs, cats the price of admission! and other companion critters for our annual Presented by the Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society celebration of the Four-legged, Feathered, and Finned.
For ticket info 845-679-5955 or www.WoodstockSanctuary.org
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MOGO (Most Good) Workshop Learn how to BE the change you want to see in the world at this one-day intensive workshop focusing on environmental, human and animal issues.
ThanksLiving Our rescued turkeys will not be the only ones enjoying a multi-course vegan meal in a heated tent. You will, too, if you’re lucky enough to get a ticket for the hottest veg event of the season!
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FROG HOLLOW FARM Celebrating the Partnership of Human & Horse
ENGLISH RIDING FOR ALL AGES Boarding and Training Saddle Club After School Program Summer Riding Weeks for Kids
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Meadowbrook Farm Market Open Everyday 9-6 (all year) Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Apple Cider Donuts! Fresh Homemade Salsa & Horseradish
Pick your own apples September 6th thru October Old Myers Corners Rd. 2.5 mi. east of Rt. 9 Wappingers Falls, N.Y. 845-297-3002
PICK-YOUR-OWN FARMS COLUMBIA COUNTY
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THE BERRY FARM 2309 Route 203, Chatham (518) 392-4609; www.chathamberryfarm.com Red, yellow, and purple raspberries
APPLEWOOD ORCHARDS & WINERY 82 Four Corners Road, Warwick (845) 986-1684; www.applewoodorchards.com Apples, pumpkins; farm store, petting zoo, live music, hayrides, puppet shows
DON BAKER FARM 183 Route 14, Hudson (518) 828-9542; www.donbakerfarm.com Apples FIX BROTHERS ORCHARDS 222 White Birch Road, Hudson (518) 828-4401; www.fixbrosfruitfarm.com Apples, pumpkins LOVE APPLE FARMS 1421 Route 9H, Ghent (518) 828-5048; www.loveapplefarm.com Apples, peaches, pears, plums; petting zoo, ice cream parlor RIDER FARM 100 Sawmill Road, Germantown (518) 537-6843 Apples SAMASCOTT ORCHARDS 5 Sunset Avenue, Kinderhook (518) 758-7224; www.samascott.com Apples, grapes, peaches, pears, peppers, plums, pumpkins, summer squash, tomatoes SMITH FARMS 200 White Birch Road, Hudson (518) 828-1228 Apples, raspberries
DUTCHESS COUNTY BARTON ORCHARDS 63 Apple Tree Lane, Poughquag (845) 227-2306; www.bartonorchards.com Apples, cucumbers, green beans, peppers, pumpkins, squash; country store, live music, petting zoo, hayrides, corn maze, gemstone mining, haunted house, playground FISHKILL FARMS 9 Fishkill Farms Road, Hopewell Junction (845) 897-4377; www.fishkillfarms.com Apples, pears
HODGSON FARMS 2290 Albany Post Road, Walden (845) 778-1432; www.hodgsonfarms.com Eggplants, peppers, tomatoes JESSUP ROADS ORCHARDS 101 Jessup Road, Warwick (845) 986-3331; www.jessuproadorchard.com Apples, pumpkins; hayrides LAWRENCE FARMS ORCHARDS 39 Colandrea Road, Newburgh (845) 562-4268; www.lawrencefarmsorchards.com Apples, eggplant, grapes, pears, peppers, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes; country store, hay maze, horse carriage rides OCHS ORCHARD 4 Ochs Lane, Warwick (845) 986-1591 Apples, eggplant, peaches, pears, peppers, pumpkins, raspberries, snap peas, string beans, tomatoes OVERLOOK FARM Route 9W, Newburgh (800) 291-9137; www.overlookfarmmarket.com Apples, pumpkins; garden center, petting zoo, bakery PENNINGS’ ORCHARD 169 South Route 94, Warwick (845) 986-2708; www.penningsorchard.com Apples; hayrides, petting zoo. PIERSON BICENTENNIAL FARM AND GREENHOUSE 1448 Route 211 West, Middletown (845) 386-1882; www.piersonsfarm.com Pumpkins, raspberries; gift shop WARWICK VALLEY WINERY AND ORCHARDS 114 Little York Road, Warwick (845) 258-4858; www.wvwinery.com Apples, pears; festivals, tasting room, café WRIGHT FAMILY FARM 325 Kings Highway, Warwick (845) 986-1345; www.wrightfamilyfarm.com Pumpkins
FRALEIGH’S ROSE HILL FARM (85) 758-4215; www.pickrosehillfarm.com Apples, pumpkins, raspberries
ULSTER COUNTY
GRIEG FARM 223 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook (845) 758-1234; www.greigfarm.com Apples, raspberries, pumpkins
COUNTRY CHARM FARM 201 DuBois Road, New Paltz (845) 255-4321; www.countrycharmfarm.com Pumpkins; corn maze, scarecrows, barn sale, hayrides
MEAD ORCHARDS 15 Scism Road, Tivoli (845) 756-5641; www.meadorchards.com Apples, pumpkins
DRESSEL FARMS 271 Route 208, New Paltz (845) 255-0693; www.dresselfarms.com Apples; hayrides, corn maze, ice cream
MEADOWBROOK FARM 29 Old Myers Corners Road, Wappingers Falls (845) 297-3002 Apples
DUBOIS FARMS 209 Perkinsville Road, Highland (845) 795-4037; www.duboisfarms.com Apples, gourds, pears, plums, pumpkins; café, bakery, barbecues, corn maze, hayrides, children’s activities
WONDERLAND FARM Route 308, Rhinebeck (845) 876-6760; www.wonderlandfarm.com Pumpkins
HURD’S FAMILY FARM Route 32, Modena (845) 883-8825; www.hurdsfamilyfarm.com Apples, pumpkins; corn maze, apple catapult
JENKINS AND LEUKEN ORCHARDS Route 299 West, New Paltz (845) 255-0999; www.jlorchards.com Apples; corn maze, country store, bakery KELDER’S FARM 5755 Route 209, Kerhonkson (845) 626-7137; www.kelderfarm.com Assorted vegetables, blackberries, pumpkins, red raspberries, sweet corn; corn maze, petting zoo, Draft Horse Festival LOCUST GROVE FRUIT FARM 159 North Road, Milton (845) 795-5194 Apples, pumpkins MAYNARD FARMS 326 River Road, Ulster Park (845) 331-6908; www.maynardfarms.com Apples, pears, and pumpkins MINARD FARM 317 Hurd Road, Clintondale (845) 632-7753; www.minardfarms.com Apples, pumpkins; farm store, wagon rides MR. APPLES LOW SPRAY ORCHARD 25 Orchard Street, High Falls (845) 687-0005; www.mrapples.com Apples PROSPECT HILL ORCHARDS 40 Clarkes Lane, Milton (845) 795-2383; www.prospecthillorchards.com Apples, pears, pumpkins; hayrides SAUNDERSKILL FARM 5100 Route 209, Accord (845) 626-2676; www.saunderskill.com Pumpkins; tractor pull, haunted house, hayrides, maze, face painting STONE RIDGE ORCHARD Route 213, Stone Ridge (845) 687-2587; www.stoneridgeorchard.com Apples TANTILLO’S FARM 730 Route 208, Gardiner (845) 256-9109; www.tantillosfarm.com Apples, pears, tomatoes; gift shop, bakery WALLKILL VIEW FARM 15 Route 299W, New Paltz (845) 255-8050; www.walkillviewfarmmarket.com Pumpkins; hayrides, corn maze, bakery WEED ORCHARD 43 Mount Zion Road, Marlboro (845) 236-2684; weedorchards.com Apples, eggplant, Italian plums, nectarines, peaches, pears, peppers, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes; hayrides, petting zoo, face painting, crafts, hay maze, music WILKLOW ORCHARDS 341 Pancake Hollow Road, Highland (845) 691-2339; www.wilkloworchards.com Apples, pumpkins; hayrides WRIGHT FARMS 699 Route 208, Gardiner (845) 255-5300; www.eatapples.com Apples, pumpkins; bakery
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WARMING UP TO NEW IDEAS Options for Efficient Heating in the Hudson Valley By Kelley Granger
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fter a season of record prices at gas pumps, there is one phrase that is a common denominator of concern as the region faces the winter season—heating efficiency. Homeowners will be looking to meet their heating needs in the most cost-effective, comfortable, and environmentally conscious ways possible. More than ever, businesses, organizations and individuals throughout the Hudson Valley are instituting a variety of systems and techniques to see that this is done. Chronogram spoke to some of the local pioneers of these alternatives to garner their efficient home heating suggestions. BIODIESEL: ANOTHER KIND OF TANK FULL If you have an oil burner that is serviced yearly by a heating professional, it’s pretty simple to get started replacing a percentage of costly oil with biodiesel—potentially saving gallons of fossil fuel and a lot of money. Jerry Robock, a former oil company employee who is now the president of Community BioFuels in Westchester, says that everything depends on the furnace you have, though a technician will usually only have to change the nozzle size and increase the pump pressure to accommodate the difference in viscosity to begin using biodiesel.There are, however, other considerations that are best discussed with a fuel service provider or biofuel expert. 84 EFFICIENT HEATING CHRONOGRAM 9/08
Biodiesel, a renewable fuel made from new or used natural oils, acts as a solvent—so homeowners will want to start with around 5 to 20 percent biofuel (which would be referred to as B5 or B20), and increase the ratio of biofuel to traditional fuel from there, Robock says. This will gradually clean out the tank and help avoid clogs. “When you first use biodiesel in a car or furnace it will clean the system out by attracting and dissolving any sediment that might be in your tank,” he says. “So the first year you need to make sure you get an extra filter cause it will get clogged with all the stuff that’s cleaning your system out. The good news is that your system is now optimized, but you have to be aware initially and take care to make sure that you don’t have any problems.” Robock also says that outdoor tanks can cause issues. “If you have an outdoor tank and you go to a higher percentage of biodiesel your fuel may gel, and you won’t have fuel,” he says. “So there’s things you have to be aware of if you want to switch.” Robock uses an in-ground tank, which regulates the temperature of the oils and prevents gelling. Outdoor tanks also carry the possibility of sucking in moist air that can lead to algae or fungus growth in the fuel, which will clog filters and have to be remedied by a technician. Biodiesel offers an array of benefits, from its low toxicity to its domestic production, but if it’s purchased from a home heating oil company, it can often
cost more than traditional fuel alone. “My recommendation is for people to call home heating oil and ask if they offer bioheat, and if not ask why not,” he says. “Unfortunately the price of bioheat is almost always more. Especially now with $4 a gallon prices—it’s already astronomical, why pay an extra 10 cents? Most heating companies aren’t offering it because there’s not a market for it.” The savings come in when individuals produce their own biodiesel at home, like Robock, or join organizations like the Hudson Valley Biodiesel Cooperative, where he is also involved. Both options provide an alternative to reliance on the home heating companies for biofuel. Members of the coop (who pay a one-time $50 membership fee and log hours working for the coop—picking up used vegetable oil from restaurants, running the biodiesel processor, and distilling the biofuel—to earn the right to purchase the biofuel) of the coop can currently purchase a gallon of biodiesel for about $2—a significant savings if used to replace portions of traditional heating oil. While 100 percent biodiesel would certainly run in a furnace, Robock says, “Unfortunately no one is selling 100 percent biodiesel in bulk. It would be very hard to find and very expensive to buy.” HEAT PUMPS: GEOTHERMAL AND AIR SOURCE Paul Tesoro, the director of corporate communications for Central Hudson Gas & Electric, says that geothermal heating is gaining widespread acceptance and has become a viable industry. Geothermal heat pumps are installed underground to absorb energy from the sun that’s stored in the earth. “[The pump] extracts cool air out of the earth to air-condition a home in summer and the system reverses to heat the same space during cold weather,” says Tesoro. “No fuel is burned, but it does operate electrically, so there is some impact at the power plant. For the individual homeowner there is no environmental impact at the home. It’s a very efficient, very environmentally preferable option.” Because it involves significant excavation to install, Tesoro says geothermal technology is impractical for existing structures and suburban homes that will be built on small lots. He says that homeowners who cannot use geothermal can get the next best thing by installing an air source heat pump. As opposed to geothermal technology, air source heat pumps draw the heat from the surrounding air, instead of the heat energy stored in the ground. “Both types of heat pump operate using the same kind of heat-exchange technology that makes your refrigerator operate, or a window air conditioner for that matter, by the circulation of a refrigerant chemical through tubes or coils,” Tesoro says. “In a geothermal system, that circulation is happening belowground, and the circulation is happening in an environment of constant ground or water temperatures. In an air source heat pump, that circulation takes place outside the house, in the system’s condenser unit—which looks like a big metal box, usually right next to the home’s foundation.” The air source heat pump system is similar to the workings of a refrigerator, where that circulation takes place at the very bottom of the unit and you can feel warm air being blown out from under the fridge, he adds. “That heat has been displaced from inside through the same basic heat-exchange technology.” By using the heat pump as a secondary heating source, homeowners can save money by avoiding the burning of oil until below freezing. “Think how much oil you save by only burning oil in a cold snap,” Tesoro says. “It’s very easy to install in any home that has central air-conditioning and has ducts.” The pumps need ducts and will not work in a home that with baseboards or radiators. RADIANT HEATING: THE FLOW UNDERTOE Radiant heating is a distribution system that can work in tandem with most energy sources and help lower energy consumption and cut costs in the long run. “Radiant floor heating is a heat delivery or distribution system that delivers heat to the home by heating the entire floor surface,” says John Abularrage, owner of Stone Ridge’s Advanced Radiant Design. “By heating the entire floor surface you have warm feet, for one thing, and no matter where you move in the space you have direct exposure to very even heat.The heat transfer is much like the sun’s, and you can be more comfortable at lower temperatures.” Radiant heat is installed using a system of plastic tubing called PEX (crosslinked polyethylene), which is embedded into concrete slabs or on framed floors in an underlayment that goes directly under the finished floor. Heated water flows through the PEX tubing, warming the floor. Radiant heat can be used with a variety of flooring materials, including wood and carpet, with
some minor limitations. For example, certain types of carpet padding would be avoided because they are too insulating and would inhibit the flow of heat. Radiant heat is more efficent and comfortable than baseboard or forced air heat because it heats directly—Abularrage says general industry statistics show that radiant heating is 20 percent more efficient than baseboards and up to 40 percent more efficient than forced air. The lower temperatures associated with this system also take stress off of heating systems and can save in oil and related costs. “It’s a very low-temperature delivery system,” Abularrage says. “You can heat a home with certain types of radiant floor heat with water as low as 100 degrees, where the conventional system would require water temperatures of 160 to 180 degrees. Those lower water temperatures can increase the efficiency of the boiler system, depending on what your boiler system is, by as much as 10 percent. For geothermal systems, which are quite popular now, using the low temperature distribution system of radiant floor heat can increase the efficiency of a geothermal heat pump by 50 percent, which is significant.” Though radiant heat is a pricey option when compared to baseboard and forced air, Abularrage reiterates that it’s the most effective, and will pay for itself in savings over time. It works best with new construction, but existing buildings can be retrofitted, especially if floors can be easily accessed from below. PELLET STOVES: NOT BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL The numbers speak for themselves—a 50 percent savings on heating costs for homeowners that use pellet stoves, says Deidra Darsa, a spokeswoman for the Hearth, Patio and Barbeque Association (HPBA), based in Arlington, Virginia. Pellet stoves are fueled by natural materials that pose little threat to the environment. “Pellet fuel is made from sawdust or forest waste and has no additives, only a natural binder, lignin, that is found in the wood,” Darsa says. “Some stoves are able to burn corn and cherry pits as well.” She says the cost of heating a home during the heating season would require about three tons of pellets, a total cost of $750 to $1,000. “Consider that each year a homeowner would save over 50 percent using pellets compared to other heating. The US Energy Information Administration reports that during the 2008-09 heating season fuel oil will jump 45 percent from last year and the typical consumer may spend $2,858 during the heating season.” Another benefit is that pellet stoves are relatively low maintenance. Darsa says the stoves burn very clean, only need to be filled, on average, once a day, and require emptying of the ash pan just once a week. “They are easily installed and can be vented either vertically or horizontally,” she says. “They do require electricity but only use 573 watts at startup for the igniter and then drop to 200 watts for the blower during operation.” According to the HPBA, the stoves are growing in popularity—during the first quarter of 2008 compared to the first quarter of 2007, the sale of pellet stoves jumped 54 percent. Even if you aren’t looking for a heating overhaul, there are small things you can do to ensure you’re getting the most for your money. Tesoro reminds that the most efficient home is a well insulated home, and that homeowners should be sure to schedule professional maintenance and tune-ups of heating equipment to ensure optimal performance. He also warns that as heating prices increase, it’s never worth the risk to bring outdoor equipment inside for heating purposes. “We understand the need to keep warm but please keep safety in mind,” Tesoro says. “Don’t use devices inside that home that are not meant for indoor use. Saving money and saving energy are great, but saving a life is much more important.” RESOURCES Advanced Radiant Design 96 Vly Atwood Road, Stone Ridge (845) 687-0044; www.radiant-design.com
Central Hudson Gas & Electric 284 South Avenue, Poughkeepsie (845) 542-2700; www.centralhudson.com
HudsonValley Biodiesel Coop 150 Cottekill Road, Cottekill www.communitybiofuels.com
Hearth, Patio, and Barbeque Association 1901 N. Moore St., Arlington, VA (703) 522-0086; www.hpba.org
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ALTERNATIVE ENERGY Advanced Radiant Design, Inc. (845) 687-0044 Advanced Radiant Design, Inc. is a recognized leader in the radiant heating industry, with several first-place national awards for residential and commercial projects. We custom-design fully integrated radiant heating systems that deliver complete comfort, the highest efficiency and greatest reliability. Whether your heating needs are simple and modest or large and complex, through our in-house design services, we ensure that your needs are met with the most cost-effective strategies available. And we provide creative solutions to unique design challenges.
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ANIMAL SANCUTARIES Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org A magical place where you can frolic with goats, cuddle with chickens and give belly rubs to pigs! Visit with over 100 farm animals all—rescued from terrible situations. Open weekends from 11am-4pm (other times by appointment). Tours on the hour from 11am3pm. Van Wagner Road in Willow, take 212 8 miles west of downtown Woodstock.
59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 Info@cpw.org
Garrison Art Center 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3960 www.garrisonartcenter.org
Hudson Valley Gallery 246 Hudson Street, Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY (845) 534-5ART www.hudsonvalleygallery.com Paintings and limited edition prints of the Hudson Valley and beyond by Paul Gould. Changing exhibits of representational paintings, sculpture, and photography by established and emerging artists. Gallery offers painting and frame restoration services and art instruction in all media, beginners welcome. Gallery open Saturday and Sunday 1-5pm or by appointment.
Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Van Brunt Gallery 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2995 www.vanbruntgallery.com 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 website has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work.
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Award winning design, harmonizing spirit, health, and the environment, solar and “green” design. Licensed in New York, New Jersey, and California, EcoArch DesignWorks specializes in planning, architecture, and Interiors for single-family or multi-family homes, entertainment, retail, or office environments. Recent projects in New York include the Oriental Emerson Spa, the Ram Dass Library at Omega and numerous private homes and additions. Unlock the potentials of your site, home or office, to foster greater design harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity.
ART GALLERIES & CENTERS Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940, ext. 119 www.annstreetgallery.org The Ann Street Gallery is a non-profit gallery located in the City of Newburgh, specializing in contemporary, emerging, and established artists.
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Kingston. NY (845) 331-7780 Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2251 Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 452-1250 Art Materials, studio furnishings, custom picture framing, blueprint copies, graphic design services, large format color output, custom printing, personal stationery, legal forms, cards, maps, and novelty gifts. Three locations dedicated to enhancing your creative adventure—voted ‘Best in the Valley’ year after year.
ART SUPPLIES Manny’s Art Supply 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902 Since 1962, big-city selection and smalltown service have made Manny’s special. We offer a full range of art materials, craft, and bookmaking supplies, as well as the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store.
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R & F Handmade Paints 84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3112 www.rfpaints.com Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery.
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A true general bookstore, Oblong stocks the best and most interesting books in all categories. Oblong is more than just a great bookstore, also offering the region’s best selection of music. Our CD club rewards you with a free CD with every 10 purchased. Open daily.
Russell Law (608) 833-1555 www.erklaw.com Copyright. Trademark. Arts and Entertainment. Russell Law serves musicians, writers, visual, and performing artists. Elizabeth T. Russell is a musician herself, admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, and Wisconsin. Remarkably fluent in plain English, she is also the author of Art Law Conversations: A Surprisingly Readable Guide for Visual Artists.
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CARPETS & RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 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.
CINEMA Upstate Films 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 Showing provocative international cinema, contemporary and classic, and hosting filmmakers since 1972 on two screens in the village of Rhinebeck.
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CONSIGNMENT SHOPS Past â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Perfect 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, shoes, 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 in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
v23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939 Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.
Barefoot Dance Center offers classes in Modern Technique, Improvisation, Choreography, Creative Movement, Ballet, and Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dance. We emphasize healthy alignment, skill-building, and the creative process in a supportive environment. We are the home of the Barefoot Dance Company, a modern dance performance group made up of dedicated teenagers. We also offer school residencies, performances, rental space, and birthday parties. Jessie Levey, Director.
DANCEWEAR First Street Dancewear Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.com First Street dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warmups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.
DATING SERVICE Mass Match (413) 665-3218 massmatch.com
Natural Gourmet Cookery School
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48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com
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For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural Foods Industry.
CRAFTS Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.
CUSTOM HOME DESIGN & MATERIALS Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY 1 (888) 558-2636 www.lindalny.com We are Atlantic Custom Homes, Inc., the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award-winning, premier distributor of Lindal Cedar Homes. We work with you to design your custom Post and Beam Lindal Cedar home, and provide a materials package that includes beautiful Western Red Cedar and architectural quality engineered lumber to build an energy efficient home. We find skilled contractors to erect and finish your beautiful custom home and assist you through the entire process of finding and developing land through completion.
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Setting the standard for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad. Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes old-school care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18.
DOG BOARDING
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Dog Love, LLC 240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com Personal Hands-On Boarding and Daycare tailored to your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individual needs. Your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised playgroups in 40x40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats.
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FARMS Adamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 Kingston, NY (845) 336-6300 Newburgh, NY (845) 569-0303 www.adamsfarms.com
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FAUX FINISHES Down Under Faux Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1040 downunderfaux.com murielcalderon@downunderfaux.com Down Under Faux is the creation of Muriel Calderon, an Australian Faux Finish Artist with more than 25 years of international experience. Muriel is motivated by a passion for transforming ordinary rooms into works of art as limitless as one’s imagination. Whether it’s the look and feel of an aged, luxurious Tuscan Villa, an Ultramodern Manhattan Loft, or the loving and authentic restoration of existing Historic Finishes, Muriel works with you (and/or your Designer) to help you create the envisioned reality you desire. See color display ad.
Faux Intentions (845) 532-3067 Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in custom faux finishes for your home and business. With infinite possibilities, your walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces, and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes, and many other mediums, help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhilaration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN Pi in the Sky Design (845) 613-0683 piintheskydesign@france-menk.com
Studio C. Mathlein CFSS
(certified feng shui stager)
518.789.0090
We make your virtual world real. Promotional, advertising, and editorial design. Book jackets, brochures, corporate identity campaigns, DVDs, magazines, newsletters, posters. 100% focused on your needs.
HANDWOVENS Stuck? Stagnant? Business slow? A new way to revitalize your business or home space. We will create immediate flow.
Loominus 3257 Route 212, Bearsville, NY (845) 679-6500 www.loominus.com
It always works!
studiocm@mac.com Main focus—space planning. Kitchens, bathrooms, furniture, arrangements, and color consultations. To scale and 3-D drawings are provided to visually understand the outcome of the project. Feng Shui consultations and ‘staging’ available. Ancient art of harmoniously creating a functional pattern of ‘flow’ within your home or business space to benefit you in a multitude of ways. Camilla Mathlein—certified in BTB Feng Shui/Feng Shui Staging (CFSS)—Parsons School of Design.
INTERNET SERVICES Webjogger (845) 757-4000 www.webjogger.net Webjogger is a local company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. We have a great solution for small businesses IT including symmetrical high speed internet, offsite on-line data backup and storage, collaborative archived e-mail, web hosting and domain registration, server collocation and management, and IT support by phone or on site, with nice discounts for bundled services. We’re big enough to have what you need and small enough to make it work for your individual needs. Many local companies swear by us, not at us! We also do high end routing and switching and gigabit wireless connectivity for local hospitals and radiology labs.
ITALIAN SPECIALTY PRODUCTS Leonardo’s Italian Market Rhinebeck, NY in The Courtyard (845) 876-3980
Hammertown Barn
JEWELRY, FINE ART & GIFTS
Pine Plains (518) 398-7075 Rhinebeck (845) 876-1450 Great Barrington (413) 528-7766 www.hammertown.com
Hummingbird Jewelers
Marigold Home
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25 miles Southwest of Albany, NY (518) 797-3373 www.gardenofone.com A center for spiritual evolution. Rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit in this sacred place.
Marigold Home offers professional interior design services and home furnishings for stylish living. Furnish your entire home with an elegant selection of upholstered furniture, wood and metal furnishings,
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HOLISTIC HEALTH
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The source for Italian specialty products in the Hudson Valley featuring Beretta meats, signature sandwiches, Italian cheeses, prepared entrees and salads, pastries/ cookies, Ricotta cheesecakes, Spumoni, Gelato, Italian ices, fresh sausage, oils, vinegars, legumes, San Marzano tomatoes, pastas, imported condiments, Perugina and Cafferal chocolate, artesian pizzas and more, including espresso, cappuccino and catering. Wi-fi. Open daily 10am–7pm to 9pm on Friday and Saturday. Call ahead for sandwiches, pizzas, and antipasto platters.
Garden of One A hands on, on-site, shift— in a few hours
interior and exterior lighting, wallcoverings, window shades and cusutom draperies, area rugs, outdoor furnishings, tabletop and accessories, decorative interior mouldings, and a variety of wonderful gift items. Marigold Home is the most remarkable home furnishings destination in The Hudson Valley!
20 West Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585
Jewel 21 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3775 Spectacular jewelry and clothing designers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America are represented here with many oneof-a-kind pieces of art. Owners Ronny and Michael Widener are committed to providing an inspired and diverse collection of jewelry, accessories, and artwork for your pleasure.
KITCHENWARES
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd
Warren Kitchen & Cutlery
(845) 338-5984
6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6207 www.warrenkitchentools.com Located in historic Rhinebeck, in New York’s beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley, Warren Kitchen & Cutlery is a true kitchenware emporium—a place where inspired chefs and cooking enthusiasts can find their favorite cutlery, cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and serving pieces for home or restaurant. Knives are our specialty; we have more than 1000 different styles and sizes in stock. We encourage you to take advantage of our instore sharpening and engraving services.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Restiano Design Landscape Architects, PC 290 Main Street, P.O. Box 778 Grahamsville, NY (845) 985-0202 www.restianodesign.com At Restaino Design, we focus on providing personalized landscape architecture services to our Clients. Our artfully inspired landscape plans are coupled with contemporary sustainable site design methods. From intimate meditation gardens and outdoor rooms for enjoyment and entertainment, to large scale site design, and native plantings, we instill our work with ‘the sense of place’ unique to each landscape. Barbara Restaino, RLA, ASLA is principal and a LEED Accredited Professional.
Hampton Inn 1307 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 382-2600 www.hamptoninn.com
Inn at Stone Ridge 3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7036 Let us take you back to an era of comfort unparalleled in the Catskill Region of New York. Enjoy our 18th century historic mansion in peacefull Stone Ridge set on 150 acres of lawn including gardens, a working apple orchard and untouched woods. Daily, weekly, and monthly rates available.
MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION Pathways Mediation Center (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com We are a unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a Guidance Counselor working with families and children. This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web.
MUSIC
MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com Piano Lessons for thwarted geniuses with Peter Muir.
Music Immersion with Debbie Lan (845) 255-2193 deblan@hvi.net Innovative programs for all ages, levels, and styles. Private Piano and Vocal sessions: tailor-made for the individual. Adult and teenage Vocal Ensembles: develop vocal technique, part-singing, harmonizing, deep listening skills, ensemble work, and performance skills.
Perry Beekman (845) 679-2364 perrybeekman.com
NETWORKING 360 Cities (845) 687-7145 www.HudsonValley.360Cities.net www.NYC.360Cities.net pete@gersmedia.com www.360Cities.net is the World’s fastest growing Virtual Reality network. Www.hudsonvalley.360cities.net and www.nyc.360cities.net are part of the 360cities global network. Our goal is to showcase area businesses from the most interesting perspectives. 360Cities can build awareness and attract new customers to your location and lets your new customer experience “the next best thing to being there”.
ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICES Neatnik (845) 255-6648 or (845) 283-9969 www.Talarts@aol.com Nancy.lobb@gmail.com Lessen your strife. Organize your life. Are you always: tired of looking for your keys, sunglasses, checkbook, cellphone, paperwork, clothes, favorite kitchen gadget? Surrounded by clutter? Feeling overwhelmed by it? Wishing you could get organized? Let us help! Neatnik will create customized systems for organizing every room in your home-offices too! If you’re moving, we can help you eliminate clutter before and organize after.
The Thruxton is a modern cafe racer based on the hybrid specials that used to blast up and down British roads in the Sixties. It keeps faith with a single seat hump, upswept megaphones, rearset pegs, aluminum rims and floating front disc. The tweaked 69bhp 865cc twin keeps you charged until the next espresso. Thruxton. The essence of a motorcycle.
Thruxton One hot cafe racer
Ed’s Service g Motorcycles 600 Violet Ave. Dealer Tag (Route 9-G) Dealer Tag Hyde Park, NY, 12538 Dealer Tag (845) 454-6210 eds-service.com Triumph dealer for over 50 years!
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PERFORMING ARTS Hudson River Performing Arts Fishkill, NY
Burt’s Electronics
(845) 896-1888
549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011
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Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs.
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LODGING
www.deeplistening.org
Hudson River Performing Arts Center, located in Fishkill, NY, cultivates and nurtures a love and knowledge of the performing arts at both the pre-professional and recreational levels. We offer classes in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Modern, Musical Theatre, voice, and acting.
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PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in professional pet care! Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable housesitting for your pets.
PHOTOGRAPHY David Cunningham www.davidmorriscunningham.com
France Menk Photography (845) 750-5261 www.france-menk.com iam@france-menk.com Fine art limited edition prints. Internationally exhibited. Events/Portraits/Advertising/ Fine Art. Private instruction in the art of photography: for all levels of experience.
Michael Gold The Corporate Image Studios New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.michaelgoldsphotos.com 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.
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Photosensualis 70 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.com
Upstate Light 3 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3155 www.upstatelight.com Art reproduction, large-format exhibition printing, film, and flatbed scanning. We have over 20 years experience in digital imaging for artists and photographers. We photograph 2 or 3 dimensional artwork using the large-format Better Light™ scanning camera back, either in our studio or on location. Quality and expertise you would expect in the city, dedicated personal service you’ll find upstate. By appointment.
PIANO Adam’s Piano (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326 www.adamspiano.com Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our Germantown showroom (just North of Rhinebeck). 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!
PLUMBING & BATH N & S Supply 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-6291 Showrooms Fishkill (845) 896-6291 Kingston (845) 331-6700 Catskill (518) 947-2010 info@nssupply.com Don’t settle for less, benefit from the best! At N&S Supply, we take pride in offering the highest quality plumbing and heating products at a competitive price. Our experienced sales professionals will
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help you determine the right product for your project while keeping you within your budget. With many convenient locations, stop by and see why service at N&S Supply is second to none!
PRINTING SERVICES New York Press Direct (845) 896-0894 At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason— to delight our customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shopping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions are leading-edge in the industry. Our pricing is among the most competitive in the northeast region. Call John DeSanto or Larry Read for more information.
RESTAURANTS Charlotte’s Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com We are open Wednesday and Thursday 5pm-9:30pm; Friday 11:30am-10:30pm, Saturday 11:30am-10:30pm, and Sunday 11:30am-9:30pm. This is just a few of our reviews: “Cozy in winter, glorious garden dining in summer ...wonderful food, delightful ambiance...a treasure!” “You’ll really get away from it all while feeling right at home at Charlotte’s... Get toasty by the fire with some homemade mashed potatoes, or a hot toddy in the charming bar. You’ll love the hint of deep country wafting up from their truffle Ajax fries! “Cozy, fire-placed restaurant with tremendous food from a varied and original menu that ranges from devilish to devine. Charming owners, Alicia in front and Mikael in the kitchen, provide great warmth and make the place particularly comfortable.” Reservations recommended.
SCHOOLS Berkshire Country Day School P. O. Box 867, Lenox, MA (413) 637-0755 www.berkshirecountryday.org Founded in 1946, Berkshire Country Day School is an independent school serving students in Pre-kindergarten through Grade 9. BCD is an academically rigorous school with a caring community in which students and teachers share in the process of learning. Steadfast in its commitment to learning in the spirit of inquiry and discovery, the school community is dedicated to encouraging academic excellence at the highest level, advancing each student’s unique potential for well-rounded development, and fostering responsive and responsible citizenship.
Dutchess Community College (845) 431-8020 www.sunydutchess.edu
High Meadow School (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org
Indian Mountain School Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org
Poughkeepsie Day School (845) 462-7600 www.poughkeepsieday.org
SNACKS Mister Snacks, Inc. (845) 206-7256 www.mistersnacks.com Call Vinny Sciullo for distribution of the finest snacks in the Hudson Valley. Visit our gift shop online.
SOCIAL INVESTMENTS Domini Social Investments 1 (800) 530-5321 www.domini.com
SPAS & RESORTS Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1301 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com www.buttermilkspa.com Located on 75 acres overlooking the Hudson River. Brand new full service geothermal and solar spa. Organic products, pool, sauna, and steam room. Hiking trails, gardens, waterfalls, peacock aviary.
Emerson Resort & Spa (845) 688-1000 www.emersonresort.com
TATTOOS Pats Tats 948 State Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-TAT2 www.patstats.com
TOURISM Ulster County Tourism 10 Westbrook Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 340-3566 www.ulstertourism.info
WEB DESIGN Curious Minds Media, Inc (888) 227-1645 www.curiousm.com Coding skills and design sensibility makes Curious Minds Media the right choice for your next project. We are the region’s premiere provider of new media services.
ICU Publish www.icupublish.com info@icupublish.com ICU Publish specializes in intensive care graphic design. On-site personalized
WEDDINGS Catamount Banquet Center (845) 688-2444 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort and Spa, the Catamount is an ideal, quiet location to host a wedding or other special event. The Emerson’s in-house event planner handles all the details, making each occasion unique with stunning views, creative cuisine, and impeccable service. Enjoy the fresh air under our graceful pavilion or venture inside to the warmth of the Catamount spacious dining area, complete with two fireplaces, and a full bar. Set along the Esopus Creek, the Catamount is a perfect place to join together friends, families, and business associates for an event to remember. For a site visit or questions, please call us or visit us online.
Hudson Valley Weddings (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWeddings.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, and online Wedding Guide that highlights hundreds of wedding-related professionals. Regional Bridal Show schedule, links, wed shop, vendor promotions, specials, and more. Call or email for information about adding your wedding-related business.
YMCA of Kingston & Ulster County
Fun & Fitness All-in-One! Get the entire family involved— Something for everyone! Group Exercise • Water Fitness • Yoga Weight Room • State of the Art Nautilus Room And much more! ING COM N SOO
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(845)338-3810 or on the web at: www.ymcaulster.org
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There is a silk road running through the Hudson Valley. Introducing the new Emerson Resort & Spa; a place just minutes from Woodstock offering the comforting sense that one is no longer part of the outside world. The new Spa, with 10 beautifully designed treatment rooms, celebrates the old-world traditions of India and the Orients with Ayurvedic rituals and Japanese and Chinese therapies. Modern spa-goers will also appreciate more wellknown treatments like Swedish, sports, and deep tissue massage, manicures, facials, and body wraps. Individuallytailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa’s 40+ treatments. Spend the day enjoying the Spa’s hot tubs, steam showers, sauna, resistance pool, cardio equipment, yoga/ meditation room and relaxation area... all included with your spa visit. Day spa appointments available.
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. Limitededition book publishing, artist’s books, portfolios, dummys, proposals, business reports, manuscript editing, off-site or onsite freelance editing available.
245 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8528 www.newpaltzwine.com
WORKSHOPS Children’s Media Project www.childrensmediaproject.org
Wallkill Valley Writers (845) 255-7090 khamherstwriters@aol.com Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated.
WRITING SERVICES CenterToPage: Moving Writers From The Center To The Page Accord, NY (845) 679-9441 www.CenterToPage.com With 20 years’ experience as author and teacher, Jeff Davis meets each person where he or she is at for coaching, editing, and ghostwriting. Jeff works in all stages of writing and publishing with scholars, nonfiction writers, novelists, poets, and people simply wishing to develop a writing practice from their center. Teaches at WCSU MFA Program and at conferences nationwide. References available.
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whole living guide
the healing power of improv Playback Theatre and Psychodrama “Human beings need stories—we’re hardwired to comprehend ourselves and others by them, and we crave them.” —Jo Salas, Playback Theatre cocreator
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he Hudson Valley has been a cradle for many things, and among them are two forms of improvisational expression that serve as catalysts for growth and healing. Playback theatre and psychodrama—often confused with each other by the uninitiated—both evolved here, and each thrives locally and worldwide as well. Playback theatre and psychodrama both use improvisational action to create scenes, but they are quite distinct from each other. Some confusion is understandable in our region as some practitioners of playback also do psychodrama, and Boughton Place in Highland hosts monthly public sessions of both. Key members of the founding troupe of artists who cocreated playback theatre, including Jonathan Fox, Jo Salas, and Judy Swallow, are Hudson Valley residents. “The idea of playback theatre emerged back in 1974,” Salas recalls, “when Jonathan Fox [her husband] first came up with the idea of telling real stories of real people. We were artists and believed in the unique power of experience— that something different and larger is created when you filter experience through the medium of art. We gathered a group of people to try this idea, and we experimented for a couple of years with how to actually do it. It was a collective exploration.” Salas emphasizes that, unlike psychodrama, a therapeutic technique, “Playback was not originally conceived as psychotherapy, and never has been framed as that in our view. But because playback is about personal story,” she adds, “it can be used by a therapist in a therapeutic context.”
Centre for Playback Theatre in New Paltz, of which Jonathan Fox is executive director, offers trainings and promotes playback theatre throughout the world.
LET’S WATCH So what is a session of playback like? They vary, but typically there is a general flow that begins with a “conductor” (a member of the group) who welcomes people. Each actor tells a simple story of his or her life which the troupe depicts briefly. “That primes the pump a little,” says Swallow. “Then we ask for a few stories from the audience and the actors do ‘fluid sculptures’—short improvs that represents the feelings they heard expressed. That gives the audience a quick idea of what’s to come. Next, we usually ask people in the audience to greet someone new nearby, to get them used to talking about themselves. Then we usually have time for three or four longer stories, where a volunteer from the audience comes to the ‘teller’s’ seat by the stage, explains the story, and then picks the actors to be in the story. Then the actors create the scene by improv, along with improv lighting and music.” At the end of a session, the conductor may ask the audience what kind of feelings are coming up, or what common threads link the stories of the evening. There isn’t a lot of psychoanalyzing about what happened. Still, says Swallow, “Sharing stories brings the deepest healing of our alienation.”
HUDSON VALLEY’S PLAYBACK DUO PLAYBACK STEPS ONTO THE STAGE “I was a theater artist when I thought of the idea,” Fox says of playback’s inception. “What interested me from my college years was oral tradition and the old stories that are told in performance—stories that are not just entertainment, but contain the ethical precepts of the people. Then I became interested in experimental theater, and was in the Peace Corps, spending a couple of years in Nepal, absorbing preindustrial culture. I learned many things there that were constructive for the community. I wanted to bring some of those things to modern day life. In playback, we’re artists who bring people’s stories to the stage, and the effect is to build community and to in some way provide a kind of community-based healing. We believe that whatever anybody chooses to tell—whether it’s about a special concern, a problem, or something as simple as a beautiful day—we can listen and have the artistry to bring out beauty and meaning for the teller and the audience.” The Mid-Hudson Valley’s two playback groups, birthed from the original group, are Hudson River Playback Theatre in New Paltz, founded and directed by Jo Salas, and Community Playback Theatre, founded by Judy Swallow and offering public “First Friday” performances at Boughton Place. In addition, the 94 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 9/08
Swallow started Community Playback Theatre almost 25 years ago, when the original company was going to disband. “I liked playback so much that I invited people who had taken playback classes or had come to the shows a lot to meet monthly, and then weekly,” she recounts. “A core of people emerged, and many of us have been meeting for 25 years. Our oldest member [of the acting group] is 81.We like the original company’s idea of being a people’s theater—that anybody who had the urge to be a playback actor could do it. So we do jams, where anybody can come for the day and participate, and see how they like it. We also do living-room playback, where you get together with friends and do it—people do charades, so why not do each others’ stories?” Besides hosting monthly public sessions at Boughton Place and a variety of other public and special interest sessions in our region, Swallow’s group offers ongoing classes at the Sanctuary in New Paltz. “It’s our gift to the community,” says Swallow, who encourages anybody to try it out. October’s public session is about climate change, where anyone can tell and watch stories about how it’s impacting their daily lives. Jo Salas’s group, Hudson River Playback Theatre (HRPT), has emphasized the community-healing power of playback. “From the beginning of playback
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we were aware that a great deal of what is unfair and unfortunate in society is the result of people not listening or understanding each other,” says Salas. “So there was a vision of using this as a community catalyst to develop tolerance and respect and justice. We wanted to create a forum for communication and integration of experience.You tell people what happened to you in the context of community dialog and ritual, and it has a healing function.” A prominent way Salas’ group is putting that into action is through the Immigrant Stories project, funded by the Dyson Foundation. “It’s a forum in which people who are not heard and not respected have a chance to tell their stories and gain a public voice. We do this because we feel the stories are very important, and offer immigrants a chance to see their experience embodied in theater. It has proved to be an amazing opportunity for people who are not immigrants to understand immigrants and why they came—the truth as opposed to the myth. Even those who have some degree of acceptance of the immigrant community are very often blown away by what they hear, which tremendously deepens their comprehension and compassion.” The first 20 performances (out of 55, and counting) have been transcribed into an illustrated book, Half of My Heart/La Mitad de Mi Corazón (available at www.hudsonriverplayback.org). The other major project of HRPT is in schools, addressing bullying. “We’ve worked with about 20,000 kids,” says Salas, “going in with the goal of empowering kids to stand up for what’s right. It gives children an opportunity to tell and watch stories that have happened to them. Our work is based on extensive research about bullying that shows that the main opportunity to have an impact on it lies with kids who are the witnesses.We do some role-playing where they get to explore what they can do. They leave with some pretty specific tools.” An international playback network has also developed, spreading to nearly 50 countries. “It’s been a very grassroots kind of movement,” says Fox. An international crowd signs up to learn from the School of Playback Theatre, founded in 1992 by Fox and Salas. “It’s fascinating who comes,” says Fox. “People who are involved in community development or communication see playback as a way to bring out voices.” He cites examples from this year’s just-completed five-week training: someone wanting to use playback to help a group of homeless people in Washington State, someone involved in bringing a lost tribe of Jews from India to Israel, and a town planner from Louisiana who is concerned about the fishermen who have been having a hard time since hurricane Katrina, and whose stories are not being told.
PSYCHODRAMA Imagine a difficult scene from your past whose memory still lingers, leaving traces of wounding to this day. Perhaps it was a single event, like a painful breakup that ended not just that relationship but also trust in others. Or maybe it was a drawn-out experience, like a childhood of powerlessness and fear that now undermines building a fulfilling life. One-on-one psychotherapy that involves analyzing one’s history and expressing feelings can be inestimably helpful in uncovering these experiences and dismantling their power. Several therapists recognize, however, that additional healing modalities can deepen recovery and growth in ways that discussion cannot. One of these modalities is psychodrama. Psychodrama creates scenes of key events or moments that have personal significance, so the event’s emotional or psychological impact can be explored therapeutically. A trained psychodramatist is the “director,” helping an individual recreate scenarios to glean insights and healing, or to “practice” future events. A key aspect of psychodrama, distinct from playback, is that the individual is part of the action in psychodrama, and “plays” not only herself or himself, but does role reversals to gain some clues to the perspective of others in the scene. Volunteers at the psychodrama session play the roles of others as needed. Judy Swallow, who is trained in psychodrama as well as playback, sums up the difference in the two activities this way: “In psychodrama, the person is in the action, while in playback theatre, the teller watches. The ‘director’ in a psychodrama session, who is a trained professional, is very involved in how the process goes.” She likens a few-hour session of psychodrama to the process of creating a large oil painting, focusing in detail and depth on the story of a single individual (or a few), while playback is like making many little watercolors from the stories of several people. The local chapter of the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and 96 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 9/08
Psychodrama—which is the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute—offers a public demonstration session of psychodrama on the third Friday of most months at Boughton Place. The welcoming, country setting is perfect for letting go of fear and trusting the fascinating process that evolves. What’s more, Boughton Place houses the original round wooden stage built by psychodrama’s founder, Jacob Moreno. “Psychodrama began inVienna with Jacob Moreno, but he came here around 1925 and bought a sanitarium in Beacon and built the stage,” explains Rebecca Walters, a board-certified practitioner, educator, and trainer of psychodrama who has directed psychodrama sessions and taught classes for 30 years. The stage was moved to Boughton Place in 1936. “Moreno intentionally built the first step onto the stage to be twice as tall as the next two, because it was the first step people needed to take to do their work. Now psychodrama is used all over the world—there are 4,000 psychodramatists in Brazil alone.”
EXPLORING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Psychodrama has diverse applications for awareness, growth, and healing. “A big part of it is finding creative and spontaneous ways to interact,” says Walters. “You can explore the here and now, and look at all the different parts of ourselves—the things we tell ourselves. That’s the psychotherapeutic part of it. Or we can redo things from the past—do and say the things we wish we had, and address some of the experiences in our past that are still impacting our present. For example, if I have someone who is having a hard time standing up for themselves, I’ll ask where in the past has this happened, and we put that scene up and give the person a chance to say what they didn’t, and create it another way. That frees them up.” In addition, psychodrama can be used to imagine and rehearse for the future—a process called role rehearsal—such as an interview with a boss, making a marriage proposal, or facing a difficult event. Walters gives an example from a session she directed, in which a woman was going to a family holiday gathering. “The woman was in her sixties, and wanted it to go better this time than it usually did. So we set up the scene of the family gathering [with various people playing the family] and had her reverse roles with every member of the family. When she walked onto the stage as her sister, and saw herself through her sister’s eyes, she realized she wanted to find a more creative way of interacting with her.” Walters had the woman recreate a childhood family event, which helped work through issues impacting the family dynamic today. Psychodrama has other applications outside of individual therapy. It has immense power in helping people to understand group scenarios and to practice situations. Psychodrama is helping to train hostage negotiators, aid trial lawyers in uncovering their clients’ stories, bolster college residence counselors’ skills, and more. An offshoot of psychodrama known as sociodrama explores social and political issues; a recent example of its application in Dutchess County, says Walters, is in helping kids who are reentering school after being in a psychiatric hospital. All the key people who would be involved create scenes together, so that each can explore different roles. The Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute trains therapists and counselors in psychodrama methods, leading toward national certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. The institute’s classes also qualify as continuing education units for therapists, counselors, and others. Improvising scenes from real life, whether through psychodrama or playback, touches everyone involved, often deeply.The popularity of both methods worldwide speaks of hope for a common, compassionate humanity. As Salas sums up about her 33 years of playback experience, “I’ve come to understand how important it is to listen. When people tell what happened to them in the context of community dialog and ritual, you understand the life of the community. I feel so enriched by the stories that we hear. Each one feels like an enormous privilege.”
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DENTISTRY Tischler Family Dental Center Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706
Connie Schneider—Certified Colon Therapist
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Dental is the leading team of dental
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care experts in the area. Dr. Michael
Colon hydrotherapy or colonics is a gentle approach to colon health. A healthy digestive tract helps support a healthy immune system, improving over-
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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies 1 (800) 944-1001
The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing
www.eomega.org
(845) 255-3337
Omega Institute is in its fourth decade
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 Sponta-
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neous Theater, Toning, NVC, Pathwork. Call for an appointment.
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Priscilla A. Bright, MAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Energy Healer/Counselor Kingston, NY (845) 688-7175 Specializing in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stress, emotion-
Cassandra Currie, MS, RYTâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Holistic Health Counselor
al issues, and physical illness, including
41 John Street, Kingston, NY
physical burnout. Women in transition,
(845) 532-7796
businesswomen, mothers, all welcome.
Cassandra is a Kripalu-Certified Yoga Teacher and Certified Ayurvedic Nutritionist with a MS in Counseling Psychology. She offers integrative health
stress-related anxiety, depression, and
Dr. Amy Jo Davison
Experienced counselor. Faculty, Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Convenient offices in Kingston and New Paltz. Initial phone consultation no charge.
counseling to individuals as well as groups, melding Ayurvedic nutritional
HOMEOPATHY
Specializing in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Caring for infants, children, adolescents & adults
Hudson Valley School of Classical Homeopathy
Open Tuesday thru Saturday Call for an appointment 518-567-9977 197 County Route 10, Germantown, New York 12526
counseling, yoga, and more traditional therapeutic techniques to guide people toward greater self-awareness, empowering them to find joy, balance, and health in their daily lives. Call for classes,
(845) 255-6141
appointments, and consultations.
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Suzy Meszoly, DSH/Classical Homeopathy
JEWISH MYSTICISM & KABBALAH
(845) 626-7771 Safe, effective, natural, individualized
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC
homeopathic health care for chronic
(845) 485-5933
and acute illness. Suzy Meszoly is an internationally trained and experienced homeopath, hands-on healer and counselor. Using a gentle approach suitable for newborns, infants, pregnant moms, adults, and the elderly for a wide
Kabbalistic Healing in person and long distance. Six session introduction to Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
range of physical, mental, and emotional issues.
LIFE COACHING
HYPNOSIS
Jessica Thayer, LLC 1 (800) 291-5576
Kary Broffman, RN, CH
www.jessicathayer.com
Hyde Park, NY
Serving artists, healers, creatives, and
(845) 876-6753
other sensitives called to integrate their
A registered nurse with a BA in psy-
rich interior worlds into their daily lives.
The NGH Hypnosis Certification Training Program
chology since 1980, Kary is certified in
When therapy for the past fails to provide
This program is for anyone interested in becoming a certified hypnotist. t Expert Instruction & Training t 12 Month NGH Membership t Business Start-up Portfolio t And So Much More
Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing,
the tools for the future. Schedule your
and Complementary Medical Hypnotism,
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Dr. John Carter Hypnosis Presents
hypnocoaching with the National Guild.
Training Dates: Weekends of October 10 & 24 and November 21 & 28 at St. James Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, NY
She has also studied interactive imagery
Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified
for nurses. By weaving her own healing
Empowerment Life Coach
For more information call or e-mail
journey and education into her work, she
Dr. John Carter jhcjr@optonline.net
Liz Granados lgranados@optonline.net
(845) 471-1527
(845) 229-2403
helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential. Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT
When was the last time someone really listened to your body?
New Paltz and Kingston, NY (845) 389-2302
Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empower-
Increase self-esteem and motivation, break bad habits, manage stress, stressrelated illness, and anger. Alleviate pain;
Roy Capellaro, PT
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Integrative Manual Physical Therapy Zero Balancing CranioSacral Therapy
relieve insomnia, improve learning,
125 Main Street ¡ Gardiner ¡ NY 845.518.1070 www.roycapellaro.com
Control. Make healthier choices. Certified
pain), overcome fears and despondency,
ment 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.
memory, public speaking, and sports performance, and enhance creativity.
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Other issues. Change your outlook. Gain Hypnotist, two years training; broad base
Conscious Bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ellen Ronis McCallum, LMT
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9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY
massage therapy with over 22 years
(845) 473-2206
of experience as a licensed Massage
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Therapist working with a wide variety
We carry hand-made jewelry, gifts, and
of body types and physical/medical/
clothing that will touch your heart, uplift
emotional issues. Techniques included:
your spirits, and heal your soul. We offer
deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral,
various tools that will assist you on your
energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an
quest for spiritual awareness and help
ancient Chinese abdominal and organ
you to deepen that connection. Essential
chi massage). Hot Stone Massage and
oils, herbs, crystals, incense, candles,
aromatherapy are also offered. Gift
divination tools, and so much more.
certificates available.
Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage
MEDIATION
Michele Tomasicchio, LMT Katie Hoffstatter, LMT Gia Polk, LMT 243 Main Street, Suite 220, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832
Kadampa Meditation Center
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47 Sweeny Road, Glen Spey, NY (845) 856-9000 www.kadampaNewYork.org
Are your muscles feeling tight and congested? Are you dealing with stress from emotional, physical, or environmental
MIDWIFERY
causes? Do you just feel overwhelmed? Our conscientious and skilled NY Licensed
Jennifer Houston, Midwife
Massage Therapists can help you discover a place of ease within your body, mind,
(518) 678-3154
and spirit. Let us help you to feel whole!
womanway@gmail.com
Craniosacral, Energy Healing, Therapeutic
Since the 1970’s Jennifer has been
Massage and Health Kinesiology. MondayFriday 8:30am-7pm, Saturday 9am-3pm. Joan Apter
attended over 3,000 births in hospitals, high-risk medical centers, birth centers, and homes. She is uniquely qualified to provide women with personal, safe, and
japter@ulster.net
supportive pregnancy and birth care
Offering luxurious massage therapy,
in their homes. Certified Nurse Midwife
including Raindrop Technique, with
and NYS licensed with excellent medical
therapeutic essential oils to relieve
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stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural
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personal care, pet care, children’s and home cleaning products from Young Liv-
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ing Essential Oils. For more information,
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Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP
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25 Harrington St, New Paltz NY 12561 (845) 255-5613
Piano Lessons for thwarted geniuses with Peter Muir.
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a healthy home and personal concerns, Essential oils, nutritional supplements,
www.thebodystudionewpaltz.com 845-255-3512
expert in preserving natural birth and has
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spa consultant, classes, and keynotes.
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actively involved in childbirth. She is an
(845) 679-0512
animal care, individual consultations for
T H E
Madhuri Therapeutics—Bringing Health to Balance 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 797-4124
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pain, address a health concern, or simply
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to pamper yourself—our tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offers indi-
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vidualized sessions to nourish and repair
Experienced, professional, non-toxic
body, mind, and spirit. Licensed Massage
cleaning and organizing service. Pet sit-
Therapy, Therapeutic Yoga, Flower Es-
ting. Home/business blessings. Excellent
sences, Ayurvedic treatments and prod-
references.
ucts, and master-level Reiki; all-natural and organic oils, herbs and body products; 15 years experience. Alice Velky LMT, RYT. Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
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Sarah Samuels, LMT
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(845) 430-2266
Prominent nutritionist specializing in
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eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental treat-
since 2001. Specializing in Deep Tissue,
ment. Understand the effects of nutrition
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on your mood, anxiety level, cravings,
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OPEN DAILY 9-6 August 28 thru Thanksgiving 3012 Route 213 Stone Ridge NY Between High Falls and Stone Ridge
845 687 2587 www.stoneridgeorchard.com
Dragonfly Holistic llc New dimensions of well-being t Integrated Energy Therapy t Homeopathy t Yoga & Relaxation Techniques t Reiki
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Classes for All Levels Offered 7 Days a Week UPCOMING AT SATYA YOGA CENTER
Satya Yoga Teacher Training Begins September 13, 2008
Next Beginner Yoga Series Sundays, October 12 Ă? November 2 12:30Ă?1:30 pm, $65/series
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Satya Yoga Center/Upstate Yoga, LLC is a Registered Yoga Alliance School
NUTRITION COUNSELING
Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a
Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN 7 Innis Avenue, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2398 www.Nutrition-wise.com
strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit. We are perceptive, experienced, and certified instructors who would love to help you achieve your goals whatever your age or level of fit-
Creating wellness for individuals and businesses. Nutrition counseling: combining traditional and integrative solutions to enhance well-being. Corporate
ness. Private and semi private apparatus and mat classes available. Visit our studio on main street in Rosendale.
wellness fairs, assessments, classes and programs for businesses wanting to improve employee productivity. Providing help with Diabetes, Cardiovascular conditions, weight loss, digestive support, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health, and pediatric nutrition.
Moving Body 276 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7715
Osteopathyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO
IRENE HUMBACH, LCSW, PC OďŹ&#x192;ces in New Paltz & Poughkeepsie (845) 485-5933
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and certified instruction with fully
3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY
equipped facilities. Each student re-
(845) 687-7589
ceives detailed attention to his/her needs
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while maintaining the energizing flow of
Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York
the pilates system. Hours are flexible
State Licensed Osteopathic physicians
enough to accommodate any schedule.
dylana accolla
m.s.,l.aC.
Kingston (914) 388-7789
specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As
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specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional
PSYCHICS
philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We have studied with
Psychically Speaking
Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis,
(845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125
DO, and completed a two-year residency
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in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat
gail@psychicallyspeaking.com
newborns, children, and adults. By appointment. For more information call or visit the website.
Susan DeStefano
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138 Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845)
C LASSICAL A CUPUNCTURE & C HINESE H ERBS
Psychic consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 20 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and in-
PASTORAL COUNSELING
sights as a means to provide awareness of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and destiny. Sessions are
Lifepath
conducted in person or by telephone.
(845) 657-9835 www.lifepathtransformations.com
PHYSICIANS Amy Davison DO, LLC 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY (518) 567-9977
PSYCHOLOGISTS Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. (845) 380-0023 Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults,
PILATES
post-graduate candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychothera-
Conscious Body
845.255.6482
peutic work for adults and adolescents.
426 Main Street, Rosendale, NY
Additional opportunity available for
(845) 658-8400
intensive, supervised psychoanalytic
www.consciousbodyonline.com
treatment at substantial fee reduction for
Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com
appropriate individual. Located across
Husband and Wife team Ellen and
from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Integrative Health Care for Women Group Meditation and Individual Treatment Stress-related illness, chronic pain, anxiety/depression, insomnia, phobia, weight and smoking. Using traditional medical practice, clinical hypnosis, and meditative energy healing. Kristen Jemiolo, MD American Board of Family Medicine, Diplomate American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Certification Poughkeepsie (845) 485-7168
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H YPNOCOACHING M I N D / B O D Y I N T E G R A T I O N ):1/04*4 t /-1 t $0"$)*/( .ĒğĒĘĖ 4ĥģĖĤĤ t "ġġģĖęĖğĤĚĠğĤ t 1ĒĚğ t *ĞġģĠħĖ 4ĝĖĖġ 3ĖĝĖĒĤĖ 8ĖĚĘęĥ t 4Ėĥ (ĠĒĝĤ t $ęĒğĘĖ )ĒēĚĥĤ 1ģĖ 1ĠĤĥ 4ĦģĘĖģĪ t (ĖğĥĝĖ $ęĚĝĕēĚģĥę *ĞĞĦğĖ 4ĪĤĥĖĞ &ğęĒğĔĖĞĖğĥ 1ĒĤĥ -ĚėĖ 3ĖĘģĖĤĤĚĠğ t 4ĠĦĝ 3ĖĥģĚĖħĒĝ .ĠĥĚħĒĥĚĠğĒĝ é 4ġĚģĚĥĦĒĝ (ĦĚĕĒğĔĖ
Amy R. Frisch, CSWR
(845) 679-5511, ext. 304
New Paltz, NY
Development of solutions through
(845) 706-0229
simple self-observation, reflection, and
group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts
®
Kary Broffman, R.N., C.H. --
Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW— Counseling & Psychotherapy
Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and
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PSYCHOTHERAPY
therapy group for adolescent girls, and The Healing Circle: an adult bereavement group offering a safe place to
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.
begin the healing process after the death of a loved one. Most insurances
SKIN CARE
accepted. Body Studio, The Debra Budnik, CSW-R (845) 255-3512 New Paltz, NY
www.thebodystudionewpaltz.com
(845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at
SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances
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accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.
Patricia Lee Rode, MA, CCC-SLP (646) 729-6633 Speech Language Pathologist with ten years experience providing diagnostic/ therapeutic services for children/adults with speech/language delays, and neurological disorders. Specializing in Autistic Spectrum Disorders, PDD, ADHD, Apraxia, memory, and language related
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC
We can help you achieve the peace and ease of movement you are searching for in your body, in your mind, and in your spirit. CranioSacral Therapy, Energy Healing, Therapeutic Massage, Advanced Myofacial Techniques & Health Kinesiology are available to assist you with finding health. You take care of your car, why not take care of the primary vehicle that gets you through life —YOU!
Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage 243 Main St., Suite 220 Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Owner New Paltz, NY 12561 Katie Hoffstatter, LMT (845) 255-4832 / hvtm@hvc.rr.com M-F: 8:30am - 7pm Sat: 9am - 3pm
(845) 485-5933
Hippotherapy. Offer individual therapy
Body of Wisdom Counseling and Heal-
and social skills groups. Offices in NYC/
ing Services. See also Body-Centered
Rhinebeck.
Therapy directory.
SPIRITUAL Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT,TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY
Healing, Pathwork & Channeling by
Integrative body/mind therapist using
Flowing Spirit Guidance
Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama
(845) 679-8989
in her work with individuals, couples,
www.flowingspirit.com
groups, and families. Inquire for work-
High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts Since 1992, specializing in the treatment of pain
disorders. Trained in P.R.O.M.P.T., and
shops and training, as well as therapy. Julie Zweig, MA, NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor
It is our birthright to experience the abundance of the universe, the deep love of God, and our own divinity! It is also our birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to
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do it. So why don’t we? Our imperfec-
(845) 255-3566
tions get in the way. As we purify, we
julieezweig@gmail.com
experience more and more fully the love
Verbal Body-Centered Psychotherapy
and the abundance of God’s universe.
utilizing doctoral level training in psy-
We can have it in any moment. We
chology and 20 years of experience as
can learn to purify our imperfections
a therapist, as well as the principles of
AND experience heaven on earth. Jaffe
Rosen Method Bodywork, but with-
Institute Spiritual Healing; Pathwork
out touch. See description of Rosen
and Channeling available. Contact Joel
Method Bodywork.
Walzer for sessions.
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My Bloody Valentine: Debbie Googe, Colm OCiosoig, Belinda Butcher, and Kevin Shields
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE DRONE Fans of shoegaze and hazy dream pop, listen up: What would you give for three days with My Bloody Valentine and 30 other droners, right in our backyard, at Kutshers, the old Borscht Belt resort? Here’s your dream festival—All Tomorrow’s Parties in Monticello, September 19 to 21. Appropriately, the festival’s name was borrowed from the masters of distortion and euphoria, the Velvet Underground. “It’s taken from the first Velvets LP, which is a perfect record for me in both sound and attitude,” says festival promoter Barry Hogan in London. “I like the name because it describes the festival surviving into the future. I think the key to that has been the festival’s personal and bespoke nature. Lots of events suffer because they look for how much cash they can make, rather than focusing on longevity.” ATP New York was born from the ashes of an event Hogan promoted in the UK in 1999, hosted by Belle and Sebastian. Hogan wanted to continue the project, endorsing quality over quantity, with better lineups than corporate festivals. What makes Hogan’s events special is that he chooses a band as curator to select the lineup. “Kinda like a mixed tape for the stage,” he explains. This year’s headliner and co-curator is My Bloody Valentine. The alt-rockers formed in Dublin in 1984, using pitch bending, digital reverb, and multilayered guitars to place them as a leader in the shoegaze genre. After taking a break for over a decade, the group reunited in 2007. Some of the other featured bands are as follows: Mogwai, which has created five albums of introverted music on guitar, piano, drums, and computers with very little vocals; Robin Guthrie, co-founder of the Cocteau Twins and a musical visionary
whose unique guitar style and deft production and programming skills have birthed some of the most beautiful music of the past 25 years; Low, which began producing slowcore, minimalist soundscapes and gorgeous harmonies when grunge was all the rage, releasing several critically acclaimed albums; Kingston-based Mercury Rev, whose first efforts combine chaotic noise with shiny pop, orchestration, and poetic lyrics; Bob Mould, who was once a punk pioneer with Hüsker Dü and an indie rocker with Sugar and now brings his quarter-century legacy to the ATP stage; and Fuck Buttons, which, though formed just four years ago, joins its fellow noisemakers by merging electronic, psychedelic dronescapes with tribal rhythms and distorted vocals. And if those are not enough, several dozen other bands will also perform, including Dinosaur Jr., Yo La Tengo, Thurston Moore, and the Meat Puppets. The event will take place at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello and will be indoors, just like Hogan’s other festivals. “The idea of camping was removed so people could be treated well, rather than herded around like cattle in fields,” he says. “We’re really looking forward to Kutshers. The people who run the resort are so supportive of our event, and it’s a family-run business in operation for over 100 years. It’s like a cross between The Shining and Cocoon. We look forward to this ATP being the first of many there, and our philosophy is to create an environment of like-minded individuals. A place to treat everyone like we would like to be treated, with respect.” All Tomorrow’s Parties runs September 19 through 21. www.atpfestival.com. —Sharon Nichols
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MONDAY 1
History and Nature Just Steps from Downtown New Paltz
September Event Highlights: Friday, September 5th, 8pm @ Historic Huguenot Street Sunday, September 28th, 8pm @ Locust Lawn Candlelight Tours Special 60-minute tours of our special houses by candlelight. $5. Saturday, September 13th, 11am Hidden Treasures: A Glimpse Into the Archives Go “underground” for a private peak into some of the treasures in the Archives of Historic Huguenot Street. 60 minutes. Limited to 12. Advance registration required at register@huguenotstreet.org. $5
CLASSES Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Sunday, September 21st Hidden Huguenot Street A walking tour featuring the not-so-obvious remnants of the past. $5
Karen Beals and Dave Meyers 6pm. Maggie’s in the Alley, Chester. 469-4595.
Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
EVENTS Peach Festival Call for times. Weeds Orchards, Marlboro. 236-2684. Columbia County Fair 10am-11pm. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. (518) 392-2121. Woodstock-New Paltz Arts and Crafts Fairs 10am-4pm. $8/$7.50 seniors/$4.50 children. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz.
KIDS Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. David Kraai 11pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
THE OUTDOORS Labor Day Family Camp Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike-Ice Caves 9:30am-4:30pm. 10 mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Carolyn Corbett and Carey Harrison. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Painting Workshop: Mixed Media Works on Paper Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.
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CLASSES Adult Drop in and Paint 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
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FILM Tango 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
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Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble 9pm. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.
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Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
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You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russ’s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
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Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm-8pm. Farm products, children’s activities, live music and gardening advice. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618.
Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.
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Sunday, September 14th Walk the Huguenot Path 90-minute tour of the historic marshland and oxbow lake of the Harcourt Nature Preserve behind Huguenot Street. $5
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Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
THEATER The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Call for times. $30-$38. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.
THURSDAY 4 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:15pm. 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-7215.
CLASSES Portraits with Barry Pariser 9am-12pm. 4 weekly sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787. Pastel Techniques with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. 4 weekly sessions. $120. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Open Lab 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS 8th Annual Saratoga Wine and Food Festival Call for times. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109.
KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Piet & Ron 6pm. Maggie’s in the Alley, Chester. 469-4595. Corbin Bleu 7:30pm. A benefit for the Center for Disability Services. $35-$75. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Carrie Rodriguez 8pm. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. The Wood Brothers 8pm. $15. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-3394. Bearaoke 9pm. With Miss Angie. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
THE OUTDOORS An Evening at Beaver Pond 6pm-7:30pm. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox, MA. (413) 637-0320. An Evening at Beaver Pond 6pm-7:30pm. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0320.
SPOKEN WORD Addressing Portfolio Changes 4:30pm-6:30pm. Educators’ forum. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Conversation with Denise Markonish 7pm. Juror for Hudson Valley Artists 2008: The Medium is the Message. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.
THEATER The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Call for times. $30-$38. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.
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Book Smart “A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.” —François Mitterrand If you have any resemblance to bibliokleptomaniac Stephen Blumberg, you have an intense love for books. Blumberg’s obsession led him to multiple arrests in the 1980s and early ’90s for his theft of over 20,000 rare books from over 140 universities in 45 states and Canada, and to custom-build 86 bookshelves that extended over windows and into the backs of closets to house his collection. Though Blumberg’s case is extreme, to many nothing can compare sharing their home with their favorite authors and characters, breathing in the distinctive smell of worn paper, and turning each individual page as the words seemingly float away into space. If you’re looking to surround yourself with books like Blumberg (through legal means), or just searching for some new titles to curl up on the couch with, grab your biggest tote bag in preparation for the third annual Spencertown Academy Arts Center Books Festival, which will be held over two weekends, from September 5 through September 14. Over 10,000 donated new and gently used books will fill the building. “The important thing about the number is that they’re 10,000 quality books,” says Mary Anne Lee, executive director of Spencertown Academy. “We get rid of the junk and the pulp novels and and the bodice-rippers. They are all very well organized and it’s easy to shop.” Though Lee explains that all genres and books for all age groups will be available, and that event organizers have a strong collection of art books, biographies, political nonfiction, and paperbacks in contemporary literature. Keeping with the tradition of planning the programming at the festival around a theme, the theme chosen for this year is “Exploring the Immigrant Experience through Literature.” “It’s a hot topic that’s of interest to people generally, and has things being said about it in all genres of books: poetry, memoirs, fiction,” explains Lee. “It was a theme that was broad enough enough for us to have a range of voices all reflecting on the same issue.” Some of the authors participating in panel discussions and reading from their books this year include Russell Banks (author of The Reserve, Dreaming Up America, and Cloudsplitter) and Mary Gordon (author of Circling My Mother, Final Payments, and The Shadow Man). Also, authors Da Chen, Rigoberto Gonzalez, and Sadia Shepherd will
lead a key panel discussion on the immigration theme on September 6. Chen, author of Brothers, China’s Son, and Colors of the Mountain, grew up in southern China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, in which families, including his own, were forcibly placed into re-education camps by the emerging communist government. Gonzalez, foremost known as a poet, has also written memoirs, including The Butterfly Boy, about his experience as a double outsider: as both an immigrant in the US and as a gay man in a macho Latin culture. Sadia Shephard’s The Girl from Foreign recounts the Pakistani author’s discovery of her Jewish heritage. The festival will also have activities for children, as one of the art galleries downstairs will be devoted to the sale of children’s books. There will be visits by children’s book authors and illustrators including Marc Teague, a local author/illustrator of over 20 children’s books including First Graders from Mars, How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?, and Pigsty. There will also be a “Breakfast with Clifford the Big Red Dog,” story time, and arts and crafts. During the run of the festival, an art show by Buzz Spector will also be on view. Spector, an art professor and the art department chair at Cornell University, is known for his interest in using text and books in his artwork. In the past, his artwork has involved tearing the pages of hundreds of books to create a cascading staircase with their bindings; transforming a book of paintings from a six-sided object to a five-sided one by making its covers come to a point; and printing single lines of a poem onto separate pencils so the lines could be rearranged. The Spencertown Academy Arts Center Books Festival will occur on two weekends from September 5 through September 14. A preview party will be held on September 5 from 6 to 8pm. (518) 392-3693; www.spencertownacademy.org. —Amy Lubinski 9/08 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST
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In My Backyard/Not in my Backyard 5pm-8pm. Curated by Marist College Gallery Director, Ed Smith. A.S.K., Kingston. 338-0331.
KaleidoKreations! Call for times. Celebrating the magical world of kaleidoscopes. Emerson Inn and Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-7900.
A to Z 6pm-8pm. Artwork by Eugenia Ballard featuring the alphabet and hand-carved mats. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
The Eye of the Ego 5pm-9pm. Photography by Alan Bennett Ilagan. Romaine Brooks Gallery, Albany. (646) 319-2549.
War: Materials and Lies 6pm-8pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
POW! The Comic & Illustration Show 6pm-9pm. Upstate Artists Guild Gallery, Albany. (518) 426-3501.
Recent Works by Kevin Cook and John Varriano 6pm-8pm. Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1241.
FRIDAY 5
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Jessica Tamsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Make Believe 6pm-8pm. Blue Cashew, High Falls. 687-0294.
Introduction to Omega Living Weekend Call for times. Presented by psychotherapist Cindy Dern. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
Photographs by Rene Byer 7pm-12am. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113.
Advanced Yoga 9:30am. Wen Barn and Gardens, Accord. jeffdavis@centertopage.com.
CLASSES
CLASSES The Poetic Still Life Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Impressionism in Oil with Dennis Fanton 10am-12pm. 6 weekly sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787. Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.
DANCE Cajun Dance 8pm-11pm. Live music by Jesse Lage and Bayou Brew. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dance Salsa, Class and Social 8pm-10pm. $20-$110. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
EVENTS Festival of Books Schedule online. 10,000 books for sale, author readings, more. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. www.spencertownacademy.org. 8th Annual Saratoga Wine and Food Festival Call for times. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Schuetzenpark Biergarten End of Season Party 4pm. Light German food, drink, and music. GermanAmerican Club of Albany, Albany. (518) 265-6102.
MUSIC Wet Paint Call for times. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700. Eric Erickson 5pm. Singer/songwriter. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Cellobration 6pm. With leading cello guru Yehuda Hanani and a chorus of stunning young players. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. The Cover Girlz 6:30pm. Cantine Field, Saugerties. www.village.saugerties.ny.us. Eddie Fingerhut 7pm. Acoustic. Muddy Cup Coffeehouse, Catskill. 334-8600. Voice Sound Overtones 7:30pm-10pm. Healing world music. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Guinga 8pm. Brazilian guitarist. $26. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. The Moonshiners 8pm. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.
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The Outlaws, The Sundown Band, and Blue Coyote 8:30pm. Rock. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223. Dennis Gruenling and Jump Time 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Karton Herz 9pm. Acoustic. River Station Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 452-9207. Larry Stevens Acoustic Band 9pm. Pamelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. The Five Points Band 9:30pm. Blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. The Big Takeover Record Release Party 11pm. Bacchus, New Paltz. 255-8636.
Public shows, school programs and other events. www.hudsonriverplayback.org or call 845.255.7716
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Community Playback Theatre 7pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $6. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Call for times. $30-$38. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Camelot 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
SATURDAY 6 ART KaleidoKreations! Call for times. Celebrating the magical world of kaleidoscopes. Emerson Inn and Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-7900. Ways of Being 2pm-5pm. Works by Mary Frank. Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5432. Wide Angles: Paintings by Gail Kort 3pm-4:30pm. Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT. (802) 447-1571.
Landscape Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12pm. 6 weekly sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787.
EVENTS Festival of Books Schedule online. 10,000 books for sale, author readings, more. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. www.spencertownacademy.org. 8th Annual Saratoga Wine and Food Festival Call for times. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Tour Call for times. 18th-century cooking, crafts and games demonstrated by interpreters in period clothing, with guided and self tours. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. Pakatakan Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. Riverside Farmers and Artisians Market 10am-2pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Jewelry, Gem and Mineral Show 10am-6pm. Sponsored by the Northern Berkshire Mineral Club. American Legion Post, Pownal, VT. (413) 664-4115. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medicine Wheel for Peace 10am-4pm. An Earth Walk Project. $20/$10. Rokeby Farm, Red Hook. 757-2827. Hudson Valley Wine and Food Fest 11am-6pm. Wine tastings, food, demos, live music and crafts. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.hudsonvalleywinefest.com. Ulster Co. Democratic Picnic 2pm. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Big Band Evening and Sunset Picnic 6pm-8pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.
KIDS The Great All-American Audience Participation Show 11am. $6/$7 children/ $8/$9 adults. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
MUSIC The Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. Margaret Bernstein 2pm. Singer/songwriter. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Cellobration 6pm. With leading cello guru Yehuda Hanani and a chorus of stunning young players. $25/$20 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. David Bromberg & The Angel Band 8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Satori Chamber Music Ensemble 8pm. Music of Mozart, Schickele, Durufle, Britten, and Dring. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Buckwheat Zydeco 9pm. $35. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-8418. Hurley Mountain Highway 9pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Hurley Mountain Highway 9pm. Pamelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Patti Rothberg 9pm. Folk, rock. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
THE OUTDOORS Canoe Trip to Upper and Lower Goose Ponds 8am-12pm. $25/$20 members. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0320. Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hikeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bear Mountain Loop 8:30am-5pm. 10 mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Poetry Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Frank Malley. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 294-8085. Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
THEATER Camelot 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
DANCE RAPTURE
Kevin O’Connor rehearses Noémie Lafrance's Rapture atop the Fisher Center on the Bard campus.
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Noémie Lafrance, the choreographer the Village Voice calls "the uncrowned queen of site-specific work," will present her latest in-situ choreography, Rapture, a work for six dancers suspended atop the undulating surface of the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center, at Bard this month. Perhaps best known in nondance circles for choreographing Fiest's Grammy-nominated video "1234," Lafrance is at the forefront of the site-specific dance movement, incorporating urban landscapes—parking garages, the stairwells of municipal buildings, abandoned public pools—into her compositions, which explore the dynamics of dance in public spaces. Prior to Rapture, Bard College dance students will perform Lafrance's Manor Field, a work Lafrance developed at the 2007 Dance Across Borders symposium held at Bard, in the field adjacent to the Fisher Center. Rapture will be be performed Thursday through Sunday, September 25 to 28 and October 2 to 5, at 7pm, on the Fisher Center at Bard College. Tickets are $25, $22.50 for seniors. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu. —Brian K. Mahoney
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THEATER
The Yen of Apple Growing Workshop Call for times. Early Season Apple Varieties. $125/$200. Stone Ridge Orchard, Stone Ridge. 626-7919.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Call for times. $30-$38. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.
Voice Sound Overtones Healing Music Workshop 12:30pm-5pm. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
SUNDAY 7 ART KaleidoKreations! Call for times. Celebrating the magical world of kaleidoscopes. Emerson Inn and Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-7900.
Obituaries 2pm. Featuring Bob Balogh. Micro Theater, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 442-2223. Camelot 3pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.
New Visions 1pm-5pm. Paintings by Lorie Gurian. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.
Sunday Writing Retreat 9:30am-4pm. Call for location. ADayAwayRetreats@gmail.com
Recent Oil Paintings by Todd Samara 2pm-5pm. Stone Window Gallery, Accord. 626-4932.
Letterboxing Workshop 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
Portrait Sketching Demonstration 3pm-5pm. Lucille Weinstat. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz. 691-8065. Ro Calhoun: Walls of Healing 4pm-6pm. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Hive Maintenance- Fall/Winter Prep 10:30am-1:30pm. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.
MONDAY 8
CLASSES Tango Class Call for times. Beginner and intermediate available. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Tango Argentino Classes Call for times. $6-$70. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Tai Chi Chuan for Intermediate 6:30pm-7:30pm. 13-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.
CLASSES
Beginning Oil with William Noonan 9:30am-12pm. 5 weekly sessions. $155. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787. Calligraphy Through the Ages, Right Down to You! 10:30am-12:30pm. $40. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
DANCE Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.
EVENTS Festival of Books Schedule online. 10,000 books for sale, author readings, more. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. www.spencertownacademy.org. Ellenville Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. 647-5150. 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Jewelry, Gem and Mineral Show 10am-5pm. Sponsored by the Northern Berkshire Mineral Club. American Legion Post, Pownal, VT. (413) 664-4115.
Tai Chi Chuan for Beginners 5:30pm-6:30pm. 13-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Ceramics Call for times. Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock. 810-0465.
Beginning Art with Steve Blumenthal 1pm-3pm. 8 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787. Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728. Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.
Mansion Neighborhood Autumn House & Garden Tour 12pm-5pm. Homes dating to the 1840s. Albany’s Mansion Neighborhood, Albany.
KIDS
Green Drinks 6pm-8pm. Networking session for people in the environmental fields, sustainably-minded and ecocurious. Vino 100, Newburgh. 454-6410.
MUSIC Susan Kane 1pm. Singer/songwriter. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.
EVENTS
FILM The Future of Food 8pm. Presented by Hudson Valley Green Drinks. Downing Film Center, Newburgh. 454-6410.
KIDS
Project Mercury 1:30pm. Folk, traditional. Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery, Pine Island. 258-4858.
Clay Shop Call for times. 6-week class. $150/$120 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Groovy Tuesday 2pm. Music from the 50’s and 60’s. Benmarl Vineyards, Marlboro-on-Hudson. 236-4265.
Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Hurley Mountain Highway 4pm. Rosita’s Cantina & Mexican Restaurant, Kingston. 339-5372.
MUSIC
Hurley Mountain Highway 4:30pm. Pop/soft rock. Rosita’s Cantina & Mexican Restaurant, Kingston. 339-5372. The Judith Tulloch Band 6pm. Singer/songwriter. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Putnam Chorale 2008 Season 7:15pm. First rehearsal. Guideposts, Carmel. 279-7265.
SPOKEN WORD Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Michael Platsky and Cheryl A. Rice. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Steve Kaiser and Friends 6pm. Maggie’s in the Alley, Chester. 469-4595. AJ Sweraingen and Jonathan Beedle 7pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Judith Tullock Band 8pm. Sounds rooted in jazz, classical and rock. $20/$15. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Ramadan Break Fast and Prayers 6:30am. 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-7215.
CLASSES
The Felice Brothers 8pm. $20. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.
THE OUTDOORS
All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. Singles and Sociables Hike- Lake Awosting 9:30am-4pm. 7 mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. T.H.E. Paddle From Tivoli to Esopus 9:30pm. Call for location. 928-1730.
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Introduction to Acrylic Painting with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787.
Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
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Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Tai Chi Chuan for Advanced 5:15pm-7pm. 13-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:15pm. 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-7215.
Figure Drawing with William Noonan 7pm-9:30pm. 5 sessions. $170. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787.
KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Gravikord Duo 8:30pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
SPOKEN WORD ADK Chapter Meeting 7pm. Hudson River Issues, Threats and Opportunities. Rockefeller 200, Poughkeepsie. www.midhudsonadk.org.
WORKSHOPS Quest for Balance: Work/Life Expo 4pm-7:30pm. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. 10 Power Principles of the Spiritual Life 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Expressive Florals in Watercolor Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Swing, Cha-Cha and Blues Dancing 7:45pm-9pm. $110/$80 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Music of the Woods: Songs, Sounds, and Stories 10am-11:30am. Discover the tradition of family music making and heighten the awareness of nature. $9 nonmembers. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
WEDNESDAY 10 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Create Abundance, Peace & Health 6:30pm-8:30pm. A class based on spiritual healing and Pathwork. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989. Healing Group With the Sound of the Crystal Bowls 7:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
THURSDAY 11
CLASSES Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Open Lab 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Acting Class for Adults 6:30pm-9:30pm. $90/month. Green Zen Salon, Kingston. 679-0154. Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109.
KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC NCM Call for times. Punk, garage, alternative. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
CLASSES
Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.
Watercolor Workshop with Len De Virgilio 10am-12pm. 6 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787.
Vickie Russel and Betty and the Baby Boomers 7:30pm. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. 255-6340.
Jewelry 5:30pm-8:30pm. Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock. 810-0465.
The Felice Brothers 8pm. $15. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Late Summer Cooking Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. $50/$40. Call for location. Open Lab 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Painting Landscapes from Photos with Steve Blumenthal 7pm-9pm. 6 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787.
EVENTS Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm-8pm. Farm products, children’s activities, live music and gardening advice. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618. You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russ’s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337.
KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Dancing On The Air 8pm. $12. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
THE OUTDOORS Bob Babb Wednesday Walk- Shaupeneak Ridge 9:30am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Artist Talk: Caroline Kaars Sypesteyn 5pm. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Dr. Eric Chivian 7pm. Lecture: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity. Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.
Bearaoke 9pm. With Miss Angie. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
THE OUTDOORS Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Wine and food sampling series. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
THEATER Falling: A Wake 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
FRIDAY 12 ART The Garden of Eden Reclaimed 6pm-9pm. Works by Jonathon Bee. Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA. (413) 320-1162. Very Mixed Media 6pm-9pm. A solo exhibit of drawings, paintings and collage by Jeannie Friedman. Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Advanced Yoga 9:30am. Wen Barn and Gardens, Accord. jeffdavis@centertopage.com. Tune Up Your Frequency 7:30pm-9:30pm. An evening with the “Master Teachers.” $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.
DANCE Let’s Dance Salsa, Class and Social 8pm-10pm. $20-$110. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
EVENTS Festival of Books Schedule online. 10,000 books for sale, author readings, more. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. www.spencertownacademy.org.
Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Falling: A Wake 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Soup-a-Bowl 12pm-2:30pm. Annual Poughkeepsie Celebration of Food and Art. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589.
Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
WORKSHOPS
MUSIC
Greening Your Business 8am-10pm. The case for sustainability. $50. Stoutridge Vineyard, Marlboro. 431-8910.
Eric Erickson 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.
African Drum Workshop 7pm-8pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Lori McKenna & Mary Gauthier 8pm. Alt-country singer/songwriters. $22. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.
THEATER
MUSIC GINNY HAWKER AND TRACY SCHWARZ BESS GREENBERG
Ginny Hawker leads a session at the Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention in Mount Airy, North Carolina. She performs with Tracy Schwarz and the Rough Gems on September 20 at the Rosendale Theater.
Dulcet Duo “A lot of couples seem to meet here,” Ginny Hawker tells me in her molasses-rich drawl. “Something here fosters romance.” She’s speaking of the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp, near Olivebridge, where 20 years ago she met her multi-instrumentalist husband Tracy Schwarz, composer of “Dirt Farmer,” the title track of Levon Helm’s recent Grammywinning CD. Like they do every summer, the West Virginia-based couple is conducting workshops during the camp’s Southern Week. “I taught a gospel class in an old pewter shop today,” she enthuses. “No electricity, and the smell of the old ovens...” The call of the Catskills will bring Hawker and Schwarz—billed as Ginny and Tracy— back to the area for a performance at the historic Rosendale Theater on September 20. They’ll be kicking off a monthly series hosted by local non-profit Hop High Productions, whose mission is to bring cultural music to the Hudson Valley. (Jamaican mento trio The Overtakes plays on October 26; Traditional Chinese and lute virtuoso Liu Fang takes the stage on November 22.) Jed Greenberg of Hop High says, “Ginny’s singing has got that raw power, the fermentation of blues and country—the churchyard, the honkytonk, and the holler—it’s all there.” It will be a rare full-band experience for Hawker and Schwarz, who will be backed by the Rough Gems on upright bass, drums, and pedal steel. “I’m excited to be the lead singer in the band!” says Hawker. Expect everything from ancient ballads to Cajun to consciousness-raising folk. And expect to be singing along and, most likely, clogging. Since that fateful night in 1988 when Hawker heard Schwarz sing the obscure chestnut “Hick’s Farewell” in the flickering light of a campfire—“I’d only ever heard my father sing that song,” she says with wonder—the duo has recorded acclaimed albums for Rounder
Records, and Hawker has made a name for herself both as a soloist and collaborator. And none other than Emmylou Harris has been a champion of Hawker’s soulful alto, giving Hawker a recent shout-out in O magazine. Born into a musical family, Hawker grew up in the Primitive Baptist Church in Halifax County, Virginia. Accompanying her mentor father to the Smithsonian, as well as various folk festivals, the two of them performed and taught the ageless, stirring hymns of the church, passing along the rich oral tradition of Appalachia just as the oncoming information superhighway threatened to pave it over. Schwarz, by contrast, was born in Manhattan and came to folk music via 1940s radio broadcasts and old 78s. Not so much smitten as consumed, in short order he mastered banjo, mandolin, guitar, and fiddle. Alongside Mike Seeger and John Cohen, he performed in the highly influential New Lost City Ramblers—spearheading the late ’50s/early ’60s folk revival. In the ensuing decades, he has not let up. They may come from very different backgrounds, but Schwarz and Hawker’s shared energy and resolute devotion to each other and to roots music exemplifies the still vital and transcendent possibilities of folk. Having introduced countless listeners to the bedrock soul of common experience, this duo harkens to a less-stratified time, when connections over loss, misfortune, and struggle were more easily made. If ever there were an opportunity to unplug from that which keeps us informed rather than genuinely linked, and take part in a tried-and-true communal event, this would be it. Ginny and Tracy will perform at the Rosendale Theater on September 20 at 7:30pm. (845) 658-8989; www.hophigh.org. —Robert Burke Warren
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Marc Von Em 8pm. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Sky Smeed and His Band 9pm. $12. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington. (413) 528-3394. MH2 9pm. Acoustic. Pamelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
Project Nativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Community Volunteer Day 1am-4pm. Join the staff preparing and planting a native seed bank. Project Native, Housatonic, MA. (413) 274-3433.
Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.
Native American Social 2pm-4pm. Drumming, dancing, food. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
THEATER
Hannaford Hispanic Heritage Celebration 3pm-9pm. State Plaza, Albany. (877) 659-4ESP.
Camelot 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Green Pizza Fundraiser for the Family Farm Festival 4pm-7pm. $20/$10 children 6-12. Epworth Center, High Falls. 687-0215.
Falling: A Wake 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Annual Virgo Bash â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;08 8pm. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
SATURDAY 13 Art in the Park 9am-4pm. Artists and craftspeople from the Hudson Valley area, with an emphasis on Town of Shawangunk residents, will be displaying and selling their wares in a variety of genres. Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960.
Summer Projection Series 7:30pm-10pm. Live music and outdoor screening. Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon. 765-2199.
KIDS
Remember When... 2pm-5pm. Kent Caboose Gallery, Kent, CT. (860) 248-8800.
Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workshop: Equine Art 10:30am-12pm. Harness Racing Museum, Goshen. 294-6330.
Female Taxonomy 5pm-7pm.Works by Pamela Fingerhut. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.
MUSIC
Byrdcliffe Pollack: Krasner Fellows 5pm-7pm. Byrdcliffe, Woodstock. 810-0465.
Ann Klein 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
Two Takes on Nature 6pm-8pm. Paintings by Barbara Walter. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342. Living on Earth 6pm-8pm. Solo show of sculpture and photography by Robert Hite. Pearl Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-0888. Paintings by Laurel Sucsy 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Paintings by Dan Rupe 6pm-8pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. Photographs by Russell Monk 6pm-8pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. Wood 6pm-8pm. Richard Artschwager, John Cross, Jon DePreter, Frank Litto, Stephen Walling, Mark Wasserbach. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. EV:LES--A Retrospective 6pm-9pm. Retrospective of the East Village and Lower East Side art scene with over 50 artists. Varga Gallery, Woodstock. 679-4005. Catskill Cabaradio 6pm-9pm. Poets, local personalities, live music, local history and good old fashioned family fun. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Healthy Living Expo 10am-4pm. Majestic Park, Gardiner. www.gardinernybusiness.com.
CLASSES
Donna the Buffalo Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Dar Williams 7:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. John Street Jam 7:30pm. Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. johnstjam.net. Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine 7:30pm. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter 8pm. Folk. $19/$14 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Simonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rock Piano Quartet 8pm. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Eric Erickson 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Fairview Hospital: Paula Poundstone 8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Mark Erelli 8pm. $25/$20 members. Center for Creative Education, Stone Ridge. 687-8890. Dar Williams and Shawn Mullins 8pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. 4 of a Kind 9pm. Pamelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Michael Powers 9pm. Blues. $18. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.
THE OUTDOORS Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
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Leave No Trace Workshop and Hike 9:30am-11:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 1pm-3pm. 6 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787.
Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters in Newburgh 10am. Bevier House Museum/Ulster County Historical Society, Kingston. 339-7858.
Swing Dance 7pm-10pm. Lesson and performance. $10/$6 students/ children free. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.
Learning to See: A Matter of Light 2pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
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EVENTS Festival of Books Schedule online. 10,000 books for sale, author readings, more. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. www.spencertownacademy.org. Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Tour Call for times. 18th-century cooking, crafts and games demonstrated by interpreters in period clothing, with guided and self tours. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. Pakatakan Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. Wellness Center Dedication 9am. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Riverside Farmers and Artisians Market 10am-2pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Minnewaska Mountain Bike Expo 10am-3pm. Guided rides, gear for sale, instruction. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-0752.
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It Came From Schenectedy Call for times. 24-hour sci-fi film festival. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
Simply Squirrelly 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
Natural Forces 6pm-8pm. Textile prints and wood-fired pottery by Susan Kotulak. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.
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The Peekskill Project 12pm-6pm. Opening of citywide site-specific exhibitions of cutting-edge contemporary art. Downtown Peekskill, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.
Millay Colony Artists 5pm-7pm. Writers, composers and visual artists from around the country and the world present their work. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
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Walking Tour 1pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.
Chris Smither 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
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SPOKEN WORD
Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring Roberta Allen and Naton Leslie. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock.
THEATER An Evening with Sojourner Truth 5:30pm-8:30pm. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172. Camelot 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Falling: A Wake 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
WORKSHOPS Understanding Saturn: Spirituality on the Material Plane 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
SUNDAY 14 ART The Peekskill Project 12pm-6pm. Opening of citywide site-specific exhibitions of cutting-edge contemporary art. Downtown Peekskill, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.
Opening of 7 New Exhibitions 3pm-5pm. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519.
WORKSHOPS
MUSIC
EVENTS
Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.
Between Stations 4pm-6pm. Sculptures by Richard Dupont. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.
Hive Maintenance- Fall/Winter Prep 10:30am-1:30pm. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.
A Lover’s Evening 8pm. $6/$5/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109.
Rootless Algas 4pm-6pm.Grimanesa Amoros. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.
MONDAY 15 CLASSES
Origins 4pm-6pm. Use of primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, aluminum, stone, and soil as mediums. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.
Ceramics Call for times. Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock. 810-0465.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Vocal Power: Harnessing the Power Within Through Voice 1pm-4pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.
Group Meditation for World Service 7pm-8pm. Based on the Ageless Wisdom teachings. Call for location. 338-6418.
Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead 7pm. Internationally acclaimed medium and clairvoyant. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
Liberating Your Inner Vision 6:30pm-8:30pm. $5. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz. 679-9541.
CLASSES Tango Argentino Classes Call for times. $6-$70. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Calligraphy Through the Ages, Right Down to You! 10:30am-12:30pm. $40. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
EVENTS Ellenville Farmers’ Market 1am-2pm. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. 647-5150. 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Festival of Books Schedule online. 10,000 books for sale, author readings, more. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. www.spencertownacademy.org. Flea Market 12pm-5pm. Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399. Grand Opening Celebration: The Drum Depot 1pm-3pm. Drum circle to follow at 4pm. The Drum Depot, Rosendale. 658-8747. Butterfly Garden Tour and Talk 3pm-5pm. With Maraleen Manos-Jones, The Butterfly Lady. With a talk Butterfly Stories, Myths, & Garden Tips. Butterfly Gardens, Shokan. 657-8073. Taste of New Paltz 11pm-5pm. Festival of food. $3-$20. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 255-0243.
MUSIC Alex Diaz 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Maggie’s Music Salon 1pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Vassar Music Faculty Recital 3pm. Robert Osborne, baritone; Terry Champlin, guitar. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Brentano String Quartet 4pm. $30/$30. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. 2nd Annual 4S Songfest 5pm-9pm. Performances by 37 songwriters. $8. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Elly Wininger 6pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Slide 7pm. Celtic. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Sam Phillips 8pm. $25. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Tannahill Weavers 8pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.
KIDS
WEDNESDAY 17 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8pm. $15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Healing Group With the Sound of the Crystal Bowls 7:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Painting the Landscape Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Jewelry 5:30pm-8:30pm. Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock. 810-0465. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Open Lab 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE
Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble 8pm. $15. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Solas 8pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Bearaoke 9pm. With Miss Angie. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
SPOKEN WORD David Adams 6pm. Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA. (800) 235-7186.
DANCE
EVENTS
Falling: A Wake 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.
Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm-8pm. Farm products, children’s activities, live music and gardening advice. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russ’s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337.
Advanced Yoga 9:30am. Wen Barn and Gardens, Accord. jeffdavis@centertopage.com.
KIDS
CLASSES
EVENTS 4th Annual Festival of Peace 1pm-5pm. Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack. 358-4601.
KIDS Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
SPOKEN WORD
MUSIC
Echoes: A Return to Vietnam, Part I 11am-12pm. Hudson Valley Community College, Troy. (518) 629-7309.
Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.
Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Sylvia Mae Gorelick and George Guida. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Minnewaska Lake and Beacon Hill 9:30am-1pm. 3-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
TUESDAY 16 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Ramadan Break Fast and Prayers 6:30am. 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-7215. Inflammation and the Downfall of Vioxx 7pm. $3. It’s All Good Restaurant, Newburgh. toby.rossman@nyumc.org.
THE OUTDOORS
THEATER Falling: A Wake 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
WORKSHOPS African Drum Workshop 7pm-8pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
CLASSES Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Dance Class 12:30pm. Hispanic Heritage Month. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8440. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734.
Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Hudson Valley Ramble: Guided Hike 10am. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
FILM
The Gizmo Guys - Comedy Jugglers 2pm. $3. Arts Center Theater, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.
After Hours Mixer 5:30pm-7:30pm. New Paltz Chamber of Commerce. $5. Chronogram, Kingston. 255-0243.
Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
THE OUTDOORS
THEATER
Woodstock Writers Workshops 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75 series/$15 session. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
Swing, Cha-Cha and Blues Dancing 7:45pm-9pm. $110/$80 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Singles and Sociables Hike- Bonticou Crag 10am-2pm. 5-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
WORKSHOPS
THURSDAY 18 ART Look 4pm-6pm. Portraits by Summer McCorkle and Lillian Mulero. Hudson Valley Community College, Troy. (518) 629-7309.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Reiki III Certification Call for times. Become a certified Reiki III Master. Call for location. 336-4609. Journey Into the Depth of Your Chakras 2pm-5pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:15pm. 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-7215.
CLASSES Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Open Lab 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Battle In Seattle 7pm. Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville. (914) 747-5555.
Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
KIDS
Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348.
Preserve Toddlers on the Trail Walk- Trees of the Shawangunks 10am-12pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Falling: A Wake 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Nature Strollers 10am. Hike with tykes. $5 non-members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
Camelot 3pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THEATER
FRIDAY 19
Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 663-7962.
DANCE Elisa Monte Dance 7:30pm. Kaatsbaan Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106. $25 Let’s Dance Salsa, Class and Social 8pm-10pm. $20-$110. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
EVENTS Catskill Mountain Region Chocolate Festival 5:30pm-7:30pm. Chocolate Cocktail Party. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 331-4300. 20th Anniversary Autumn Celebration 7pm. Cocktails, dinner, music, silent and live auctions. $225. Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Scarborough. (914) 332-5953.
KIDS Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC The Big Smoothies 5pm. Rock It In The Circle series. The Circle, Schenectady. Bill’s Toupee 6pm. Dance music covers. 26 Front Street, Newburgh. 569-8035. Girl Howdy 7:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. Celebrating Joan Tower. $20-$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Songwriter’s Circle: An Open Mike 8pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Patrick Fitzsimmons 8pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Larry Stevens Acoustic Band 9pm. Acoustic. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Solas 9pm. Traditional Irish. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Crawdaddy 9:30pm. Cajun, zydeco. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
SPOKEN WORD Open Mike 8pm. $5/$3. The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Tarrytown. (914) 332-5953.
THEATER Evenings of Psychodrama 7pm. $6/$4 students and seniors. Boughton Place, Highland. 255-7502. Camelot 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
DANCE
Falling: A Wake 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Elisa Monte Dance 2pm. Open rehearsal. Kaatsbaan Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106. Free.
Darwin in Malibu 8pm. An evolved comedy by Mohonk Mountain Stage. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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SATURDAY 20 ART Bill Miller Exhibit 5pm-7pm. Reclaimed vinyl flooring, pieced together into paintings. James Cox Gallery, Woodstock. 679-7608. Junior Art Institute Exhibition 5pm-7pm. Drawings and paintings created by students ages 11-14. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
Trail Mix Concerts: Amy J. Yang 2:30pm. Piano. Bach, Beethoven, Tsontakis, Schumann. Olive Library, West Shokan. 657-6864. $20.
THE OUTDOORS
Trio of the Americas 3pm. Saugerties Pro Musica series. $12. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021.
Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Chanting in the Light 7pm-8:30pm. 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-7215.
Minnewaska Rambling 10am. Sponsored by the ADK. Call for location. 496-1731.
DANCE
SPOKEN WORD
Elisa Monte Dance 2:30pm. Open rehearsal. Kaatsbaan Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106.$25
Sunset Reading 4:30pm-7pm. Features Hudson Valley writers and their work. Poets’ Walk, Red Hook. 876-3847.
EVENTS
Poetry for Peace 7:30pm. $5-$10. Goshen Inn, Goshen. 294-8085.
Cool Communities/ Living Economies 3: Ten Years to a Green Economy Call for times. Seven21 Media Center, Kingston. www.sustainhv.org. Kingston’s History Tour Call for times. 18th-century cooking, crafts and games demonstrated by interpreters in period clothing, with guided and self tours. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. The Harvest Ball Call for times. The 15th Annual Hudson Opera House Gala. $175. Cannonball Factory, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Pakatakan Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. Riverside Farmers and Artisians Market 10am-2pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Breakfast at the Farm 10am. Hearty breakfast of farm fresh foods, local breads and cheeses and many other treats. Common Ground Farm, Fishkill. www.commongroundfarm.org. LarkFest 2008 10am-5:30pm. Call for location. (518) 434-3861.
Dan Piraro 8pm. Comedy benefit for Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
THEATER Camelot 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Falling: A Wake 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Darwin in Malibu 8pm. An evolved comedy by Mohonk Mountain Stage. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
WORKSHOPS One With the Earth Call for times. Initiation burial. $175. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Bookbinding Workshops 2pm-4pm. Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
Vassar Music Faculty Recital 3pm. Peter Reit, horn; Alyssa Reit, harp. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Kairos: A Consort of Singers 4pm. Cantata No. 27, Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende? Holy Cross Monastery, West Park. 256-9114. Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. American Roots & Branches Concert Series 7:30pm. Laurie Anderson’s Homeland. $35. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
THE OUTDOORS Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. Five Rivers In Five Days: Fly Fishing The Catskills’ Charmed Circle Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Singles and Sociables Hike- Mine Hole 9:30am-3:30pm. 10-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
TUESDAY 23 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Ramadan Break Fast and Prayers 6:30am. 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-7215.
CLASSES Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734. Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Design Your Own Waking Planet Mug 6:30pm-8:30pm. $18. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz. 255-5770. Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Hudson Valley Ramble: Guided Woodland Quest 10am. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
SPOKEN WORD
Salsa Dance 7pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Reading by Alison Gaylin 2pm-3:30pm. Part of Newburgh Book Festival. Newburgh. alisongaylin@verizon.net.
THEATER
DANCE
KIDS 1-2-3 Math 1:15pm. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890.
Pawling Arts and Crafts Festival for Pawling Matters 10am-4pm. Musicians, children’s storytelling, and author reading, food. Village of Pawling, Pawling. 855-0166.
ART
Catskill Mountain Region Chocolate Festival 11am-5pm. Chocolate Cocktail Party. $5. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 331-4300.
The Other Side of the Tracks 2pm-5pm. Paintings by Barbara Graff. Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown. 341-4790.
Family Heritage Day 11am-3pm. Explore your own family history and the history of Kingston. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.
The Warwick Art League’s 54th Annual Member Exhibition 2pm-5pm. Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown. 341-4790.
WORKSHOPS Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.
Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
11th Annual 2008 International Peace Pals Art Exhibition and Gala 4pm-7pm. Works by students ages 5-19 from around the world. Beacon High School, Beacon. 877-6093 ext. 203.
Sunday Writing Retreat 9:30am-4pm. Call for location. ADayAwayRetreats@gmail.com.
Music for Violin and Cello 8pm. $6/$5/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Book Fair 1pm-4pm. Impressed Ink: a Newburgh Celebration of the Printed Word and Image. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. http://www.newburgh-ny.com.
SUNDAY 21
Falling: A Wake 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Camelot 3pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
MONDAY 22
Kitchen Garden Harvest Celebration 1pm-3pm. Discover the Preserve’s 19th-century kitchen garden and taste recipes from days of old. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT The Autumnal Equinox: Reaping the Harvest 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CLASSES
Hudson River Arts Festival 2pm-10pm. Vendors, live music. $3. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. 473-5288.
CLASSES
Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Harvest Dinner and Barn Dance 6pm. Tralee Farm, Stone Ridge. Debbie@rondoutvalleygrowers.org. Ira Glass of “This American Life” 8pm. $100. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
KIDS Bookbinding Workshops 10am-12pm. Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133. Terrific Turtles 11am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
MUSIC Berkshire Bach Ensemble 5pm. 3rd Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert. $35/$30 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Tango Class Call for times. Beginner and intermediate available. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Tango Argentino Classes Call for times. $6-$70. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.
Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.
DANCE
Swing, Cha-Cha and Blues Dancing 7:45pm-9pm. $110/$80 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 339-3032.
The Indigo Girls 8pm. $38/$35. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Vassar Music Faculty Recital 8pm. Todd Crow, piano. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Sanctuary - Iron Maiden Tribute 8:30pm. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.
Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Calligraphy Through the Ages, Right Down to You! 10:30am-12:30pm. $40. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Galaxy Entertainment: Jonathan Edwards 8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
Richie Havens 8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Still Life Intensive Workshop with Karen O’Neil 10am-5pm. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. (845) 457-2787.
Baroque Concert 7:30pm. St. James Catholic Church, Chatham. (518) 325-3805.
EVENTS Bike for Cancer Care 8am. Proceeds to benefit Gruner Memorial Cancer Fund. Kingston. www.bikeforcancer.org
DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.
FILM Wizard of Oz 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
KIDS
Ellenville Farmers’ Market 1am-2pm. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. 647-5150.
Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467.
MUSIC
Annual President’s Awards Celebration 3pm-5pm. Presented by The Wallkill Valley Land Trust, with live music by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. $35/$40. Jewett Farm, New Paltz. www.wallkillvalleylt.org.
Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC
THEATER Bridging the Gap 4:30pm-7pm. http: hudson teen theatre project. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Ceramics Call for times. Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock. 810-0465.
Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.
Annual Dinner Dance 5pm. Congregation Ezreath honors Ellenville Regional Hospital. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville. 647-5600.
American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. Celebrating Joan Tower. $20-$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
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Long Neck Band 9:30pm. Rock. Junior’s Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 486-9237.
NCM Call for times. Punk, garage, alternative. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400. The Kurt Henry Band 5pm. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.
WEDNESDAY 24 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Create Abundance, Peace & Health 6:30pm-8:30pm. A class based on spiritual healing and Pathwork. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
CLASSES Jewelry 5:30pm-8:30pm. Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock. 810-0465. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Open Lab 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
EVENTS You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russ’s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337.
FILM CAS Film Screening 6pm. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8440.
KIDS Story Time, Music & Movement 10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Indigo Girls 7:30pm. $40/$35 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.
Sanctuary - Iron Maiden Tribute 8:30pm. Metal. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.
FILM
Debbie Davies Blues Band 9pm. $27.50/$22.50. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Manhattan Short Film Festival Call for times. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Met Opera 6:30pm. Live in HD opening gala with Renee Fleming. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
MUSIC
SPOKEN WORD
THE OUTDOORS
The Locks and Eddie Fingerhut 9pm. East Side Bar, Walden. 778-2039.
Deuces Child 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Cedar Drive and Beyond 9:30am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
MH2 9pm. Acoustic. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
The Hazbins 1pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.
Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring D. Alex Bird, Irene O’Garden, and Terry Chiesa. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
How to Run Your Business So You Can Retire in Style 9am-12pm. $15 non-members. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0243.
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Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
SPOKEN WORD
PHOTOGRAPHY PLANET CHINA
Clockwise from above: An untitled image from Planet Shanghai by Justin Guariglia; an untitled image of Tibet by Julien Chatelin; Biechuan, China by Alan Chin; On the roads to Wenchuan, China by Alan Chin; an untitled image of Tibet by Julien Chatelin.
Sino Qua Non Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon's powerhouse photography venue, has mounted another starstudded show for "Planet China," featuring the work of award-winning photojournalists Julien Chatelin, Alan Chin, and Justin Guariglia through October 5. The trio examine wildly divergent aspects of the world's most populous nation, though all engage their subjects on a level of street-life portraiture that is striking and immediate. Guariglia, whose photos are taken from his recently published Planet Shanghai (Chronicle Books), documents the tight living spaces of the city's vanishing longtangs in his vibrant color photographs that capture the odd charcters and bright lights of Shanghai. Chatelin, who's covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Honduras, and Iraq, spent time in Tibet in 2002 witnessing the uneasy confluence of ancient Tibetan culture with the obliterating influence of Chinese domination. Chin, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his work in Kosovo in 1999, covered the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that rocked western China in May. His photographs tell stories of tragedy, survival, despair, and perserverance in the face of an apocalyptic calamity that killed over 70,000 pople and reduced much of the infrastructure of Sichuan Province to rubble. "Planet China" will be on display at Fovea Exhibitions, 143 Main Street, Beacon, through October 5. (845) 765-2199; www.foveaexhibitions.org. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brian K. Mahoney 9/08 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST
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THEATER
DANCE
Falling: A Wake 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Swing Dance 8pm-11pm. 7:30pm lesson. Live music. $15/$8 students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
WORKSHOPS African Drum Workshop 7pm-8pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THURSDAY 25 ART Artist Salon 8pm. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Beyond the Chakras: Your Auric Field 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
EVENTS Center for Creative Education Open House 4pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 499-9348. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS Business to Business Showcase 11am-5:30pm. Network with business representatives at this county-wide showcase of more than 120 local businesses and services. Senate Gymnasium, Stone Ridge. 338-5100. Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109. CRUMBS Night Out at The Linda 7pm. $10. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
FILM Manhattan Short Film Festival Call for times. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
KIDS
Singles and Sociables Hike- High Peters Kill 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Fred Gillen Jr. 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Hudson Air 8pm. Writer and composer Andrew Joffe and Ellen Thurston bring live radio theatre. $12/$10 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. The Rhodes 9pm. Classic rock. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881. Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes 9pm. Funky rock. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Voodelic 9:30pm. Blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
SPOKEN WORD Poetry Reading 12pm. Hispanic Heritage Month. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8440.
THEATER Falling: A Wake 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. A Body of Water 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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FRIDAY 26 ART Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett 5pm-8pm. Retrospective of richly colored brooches, necklaces and pendants. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection 6pm-7pm. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Pakatakan Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. Riverside Farmers and Artisians Market 10am-2pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Kid’s Days 10am-3pm. Prospect Hill Orchard, Marlboro. 795-2383. Mid-Hudson Woodworkers Show 10am-5pm. $3/children free. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. http://www.midhudsonwoodworkers.org. Last Saturday Arts, Crafts & Farmers Markets 10am-4pm. Hosted by Safe Harbors of the Hudson. Ritz Theater Parking Lot, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107. National Take Your Child Outside Week Celebration 10:30am-1:30pm. $3. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. A Taste of Sand Lake 6pm-9pm. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007. Networking Party for the Arts 6pm-12am. Live music, DJ dance party, vendors, model contest and art show. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
FILM Manhattan Short Film Festival Call for times. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
MUSIC
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Ben Vita Call for times. Byrdcliffe Barn, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Advanced Yoga 9:30am. Wen Barn and Gardens, Accord. jeffdavis@centertopage.com.
Sonya Kitchell Call for times. With special guest The Slip. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Shambhala Training: Level I: The Art of Being Human 6:30pm. $175/$275 with lodging. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Amanda Shaw 7pm. Cajun, zydeco. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
CLASSES Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 663-7962.
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Ninth Annual Hudson River Valley Ramble 10am-2pm. Table rocks, Bonticou hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
CLASSES
SPOKEN WORD
Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Philip Gefter on Bernd and Hilda Becher 1pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
THEATER Falling: A Wake 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
WORKSHOPS Past Life Regression 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
SUNDAY 28 ART
Ceramics Call for times. Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock. 810-0465.
Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 528-6728.
Colored Pencil Demonstration 1pm-3pm. Connie Noelle. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz. 255-5770.
Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Swing, Cha-Cha and Blues Dancing 7:45pm-9pm. $110/$80 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
CLASSES Tango Class Call for times. Beginner and intermediate available. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.
KIDS
Calligraphy Through the Ages, Right Down to You! 10:30am-12:30pm. $40. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Kingston’s History Tour Call for times. 18th-century cooking, crafts and games demonstrated by interpreters in period clothing, with guided and self tours. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.
Falling: A Wake 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Setting Future Goals without Sacrificing the Present 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Snow: Beauty or Beast 2pm-4pm. Featuring works in all media relating to snow, ice, winter and the color white in general. GCCA Mountaintop Gallery, Windham. (518) 734-3104.
MUSIC
THEATER
MONDAY 29 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
SPOKEN WORD
Harvest Celebration Call for times. Annual benefit. $25. North East Community Center, Millerton. (518) 789-4259.
The Forgotten Holidays 7:30pm. Lecture and slideshow. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 331-4121.
Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.
Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.
Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Elliot Landy 7pm. Internationally acclaimed photographer discusses photography in the digital era and how photo journalism has changed. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.
WORKSHOPS
Celebration of the Arts 11am-5pm. Visual arts, performances, children’s tent, seminars, food. Hasbrouck Park, New Paltz.
EVENTS
SPOKEN WORD
Falling: A Wake 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
KIDS
Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
THEATER
ART
An Afternoon with Master Teachers 12pm-6pm. $45. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Bearaoke 9pm. With Miss Angie. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
David Sedaris 8pm. Comedy. $38.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Tango Argentino Classes Call for times. $6-$70. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Culinary Demo and Show 12:30pm. Hispanic Heritage Month. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8440.
Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.
Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Catskills-Slide Mountain 9am. 7-mile hike. Call for location. 462-0142.
MUSIC
Open Lab 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
THE OUTDOORS
Manhattan Short Film Festival Call for times. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
CLASSES
Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
4 of a Kind 9pm. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Tony Darrow 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
FILM
Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:15pm. 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-7215. Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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Let’s Dance Salsa, Class and Social 8pm-10pm. $20-$110. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
The Rhodes 8pm. Rock. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
Baroque Concert 7:30pm. Copake United Methodist Church, Copake. (518) 325-3805. The Subdudes 8pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Writing Workshop: Short Fiction Intensive 1pm-4pm. Weekly through Nov. 16. $200/$175 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
EVENTS Ellenville Farmers’ Market 1oam-2pm. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. 647-5150. Annual Pfalz Point Trail Challenge Ten Mile Fundraising Run 7:45am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Kids’ Days 10am-3pm. Prospect Hill Orchard, Marlboro. 795-2383. Fall Harvest Festival 12:30pm. Featuring live music by Hurley Mountain Highway. Weeds Orchards, Marlboro. 236-2684. The Blessing of the Animals 1pm. $10. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.
MUSIC Chris Moore 1pm. Singer/songwriter. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Rebel, Ensemble for Baroque Music 3pm. Invention and Innovation: Rarely Performed Music of Telemann & J.S. Bach. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Guitar Duo John Myers and Suzanne Higgins 7:30pm. Kellogg Music Center at Bard College, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-4400.
THE OUTDOORS Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919. How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Trapps Bridge, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Esther Frances and Jan Castro. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
TUESDAY 30 CLASSES Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 281-6734. Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE Salsa Dance 7pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Stretch And Stride: Yoga And Hiking In The Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
MUSIC
Constitution Marsh Paddle 9am. Foundry Dock Park, Cold Spring. 297-5126.
SPOKEN WORD
Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike- Van Leuven Cabin 10am-2pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Memoir as History: From Germany to Iran 4:30pm. Reading by Mimi Schwartz and Nahid Rachlin. $5/$3. The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Tarrytown. (914) 332-5953.
Cake 8pm. $30-$40. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Reading of Varieties of Disturbance 7pm. By author Lydia Davis. Blodgett House at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (800) 235-7186.
WORKSHOPS Woodstock Writers Workshops 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75 series/$15 session. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
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Laurie Anderson will perform Homeland at The Egg in Albany on September 21.
Homeland Hipster Performance artist Laurie Anderson first gained international attention when her single “O Superman” reached number two on the British pop charts in 1981. She went on to record six albums for Warner Brothers Records and tour extensively. In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA. Her current show, Homeland, has a spare setting, with votive candles; Anderson delivers monologues and performs on violin, keyboards, and erhu (Chinese fiddle). Appearing with her are Okkyung Lee on cello, keyboardist Peter Scherer, and Skuli Sverrisson on bass. Homeland is Anderson’s most political work to date. Nonesuch Records will release a CD of the piece in 2009. I spoke with her as she walked to the beach in the Hamptons. She straggled behind some friends, husband Lou Reed, and a dog. At 61, Anderson is still elfin and insatiably curious. Laurie Anderson will perform Homeland at The Egg in Albany on Sunday, September 21 at 7:30pm. (518) 473-1845; www.theegg.org. —Sparrow So you’re on a break from touring. I looked at your tour schedule. Now I understand your whole year. Yeah, you would by looking at my schedule, that’s true. It must be weird, touring. I really do enjoy it, because I’m a spy. You know, that’s a perfect thing for a spy to do: travel around and take notes. You’re in disguise. Yeah, deep disguise. I think a uniform is the best disguise. You’ve got your own uniform. Don’t you wear a hipster uniform, at your shows? Yeah, it’s the regulation hipster black uniform. That’s what you perform in, usually? Well, only out of laziness.
I saw a video of you on this tour, on your secret press website. But I don’t know where you were playing. I’ve performed Homeland in clubs and theaters. The biggest place was the Herod Atticus Theater—that was amazing. What’s that? It’s a 2,000-year-old amphitheater at the Acropolis in Greece. It’s where the Greek tragedies were performed, when they were just written! It’s on the side of the hill, as you wind up to the Parthenon. You played at night? You can only perform at night because it’s so hot. It was 108 degrees when we were there. We worked there the night before, setting the lights and stuff, and at 3am the stone seats are still really boiling hot. That’s how hot it is there. It’s blastingly hot. Actually, I walked up that hill. I was in Athens, and I found a free ticket to the Acropolis. And as I walked that hill, I remember looking at those houses—you pass small Athenian villas. Yes, they’re beautiful. And I thought: “That’s where I want to live—in one of those little houses!” Wow! So where are you calling from? I’m calling from Phoenicia. Nice! So you got there! Phoenicia, New York—do you know it? Yes, I do. Right! Because you know everywhere. You travel everywhere. I know everywhere! Well, if you ever come here, you should go tubing. I love tubing.
Really? Who would’ve guessed that you enjoy tubing? But it’s a little dangerous, tubing. Oh, I like danger. That’s why you’re taking on the whole Homeland Security establishment! [In a steely voice] That’s right! That’s right! Do you ever think they might just come and arrest you, for the Homeland show? No, no. It hasn’t come to that point. Do you think it will? Well, I think Barack Obama is going to save us. You know, save us from this fascism. Yeah, it is fascism. Let’s call it fascism. It’s oppressed a lot of people, and depressed them. And I don’t think Americans are a naturally fearful people. We’re not naturally paranoid. The fearmongering is very annoying, I find. And insulting. I’m tired of being treated like a 10-year-old! You’re one of the people who invented performance art, don’t you think? So they say. It didn’t have a name then, that’s for sure. Exactly! That’s a sign you may have invented it. [Laughs.] Or I may have been standing next to the person who invented it! I’m a student of performance art. One theory of mine is that it tended to become a form of standup comedy. One offshoot of it did, with Karen Finley and Eric Bogosian. Or sit-down comedy, which was more what Spalding Gray did. Sit-down sadness—that’s another genre. Yours is more like standup violin-playing. That’s it! A whole new category! Your work is related to Jack Benny, in a way. I love Jack Benny. I loved the way he used his violin. He laughed, and the violin cried. They were a great team. 9/08 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST
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BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
Obama and the Galactic Leap
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merica loves a pure, comely daddy figure as its president. He has to be someone who’s had sex only as many times as he has legitimate, handsome children. He must have two adorable dogs he loves very, very much, and one very cute little kitty cat who is slightly standoffish but ultimately gets along with her canine friends. He must have a beautiful, magnificently poised wife whom he married in a church where he worships the right God. And he must be ready to order the cluster bombing of civilian populations the moment his advisors tell him that’s the right thing to do. Are we ever going to get past this kind of idiocy, and plant our feet in truth and our hearts in our highest potential? What does the astrology say? The astrology says something. But if we’re not careful, we need to consider
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revising the elementary school social studies curriculum. To wit, based on recent history, we need to tell kids that we live in a democracy, therefore, whoever gets the fewest votes takes office. Also, I must mention that I’m writing this article on August 12 (pushing my deadline as usual), and as of this writing, neither of the nominating conventions have happened (though the Republican National Convention begins on the issue date of this magazine, September 1). That chart is somewhat interesting, but it’s nothing compared to the chart for the Democratic National Convention. The DNC chart makes me nervous, though. It reminds me too much of the chart for the September 11 incident, which in turn reminds me of the chart for the earthquake that caused the Asian tsunami. The problem could be solved by waiting about four hours to begin the
convention, allowing the Moon to change signs. You might think this is superstition, but astrology is about understanding the nature of time. You don’t think it’s superstitious if a pilot aims for the runway while landing an airplane. That’s a matter of time as much as it is of space. Plunk a 777 down five seconds too early and you end up on the freeway. Touch down on the runway and everything is great. Astrology is not that different. You use it to navigate actual space-time and, in the process, you access dimensions of meaning and causation. Those are indeed places we need to be poking around in right now. I have to get technical to explain the DNC chart’s similarities to September 11 and the tsunami, but it’s not so complicated, really. The Moon, a key player in anyone’s astrology (and that of most events), takes one month to go around the Earth. It moves through the sky at a rate of about 12 degrees a day (on average) or one degree every two hours. So the Moon occupies each degree of the zodiac for about two hours a month. Now that you’ve heard the word “degree,” I’m about to introduce you to arc minutes, which are divisions of a single degree by 60 (we need to be that precise in order to appreciate the beauty of this synchronicity). Everybody put on your tinfoil thinking cap. In the September 11, 2001 chart for the moment Flight 11 struck the World Trade Center, the Moon was at 28 Gemini and 5 arc minutes (abbreviated 28 Gemini 05). When the earthquake struck Indonesia and wiped out a quarter of a million people, the Moon was at 28 Gemini 11. This has boggled my mind for years. In astrology you see a lot of weird coincidences, but not this weird. The Moon was a mere 1/10th of a degree apart for those two global events—two of the most significant events of the 21st century so far, and it’s been quite a little century. What does this say? I am, by the way, one of the few people willing to blame the tsunami on corporate behavior; specifically, the combination of global warming and air-pressure oil drilling in Tasmania a few days before, which I think set off a knock effect. So in that respect, the tsunami may be a conspiracy akin to September 11; in my view, both are about the oil business. Looking at the chart for 4pm on Monday, August 25, 2008 in Denver, Colorado, when the DNC opens, we find the Moon at 28 Gemini 38, about half a degree in distance from both September 11 and the tsunami; and, notably, occupying the same degree, 28+ Gemini. This is stunning and ominous. Were we considering the chart for any other campaign, or for a theater performance, it might not be so noticeable, so strange and deserving of so much consideration. But this is a very important election. Let’s zoom in a little more. In the DNC chart, the corresponding opposite degree in Sagittarius is rising, or the exact ascendant—the way you would say that is 28+ Sagg is rising. This does several things. One, it puts 28+ Gemini (and thus the Moon of all three events) on something called the descendent. The convention begins with the Moon on an exact angle (the western horizon) at the precise moment of moonset. When you place a planet on an exact angle, you crank up its emphasis by quite a lot; name a proportion—fivefold, tenfold, pick a number. It puts it in the cosmic spotlight. And that planet happens to be the September 11 and tsunami Moon, which is now the DNC 2008 Moon. Next, it puts Pluto precisely in the ascendant—rising to one arc minute of exactitude. Pluto is 28 Sagittarius 33 and the ascendant is 28 Sagittarius 34. Pluto is rising to 1/60th of a degree. This verges on ridiculous and it makes you think they hired an astrologer to do the chart. That’s usually how you get a chart like this. But they probably did not—the convention started at 4pm in 2004 and it’s starting at 4pm in 2008. The Moon is opposite Pluto to within 1/10th of a degree; its position is 28 Gemini 38 and Pluto is at 28 Sagittarius 33. I have not called up every astrologer I know, but I don’t think too many of them would rate this as a friendly arrangement, even subtracting the whole bizarre September 11/tsunami synch. If I had to describe this chart, it’s like the Democratic National Convention is a loaded gun pointed at itself, and consequently the public. If you had paid me a lot of money and I had venom in my heart, and I brought the full weight of my talent to the question, I could not have chosen a darker chart to commence the 2008 Democratic campaign. The chart has a few saving graces. First, dark may be exactly what we need. Second is that it’s precise. That does not make it “good” per se, but it does make it a clean work of cosmic engineering. Not to subtract from my savinggrace theme here, but the last chart that came close to being this precise was the September 11 chart. And that chart was certainly “good” for whoever
pulled it off. It was, however, more elegant and a little less in your face than the DNC 2008 chart. We, at least, have a clue that we’re dealing with some potent astrology. The September 11 chart is precise, but it’s slippery, just like 9/11 itself. Next is that the Galactic Core is not only rising in the DNC chart, it’s in the ascendant to within about two degrees. This is the center of our Milky Way galaxy. If there is an astrological stand-in for the highest order of Divine consciousness, we can look for it in the Galactic Core. Whatever is there binds together our magnificent 300 billion-star, spiral-barred galaxy. Given these facts, we have an occasion to take the highest possible interpretation of the chart. To paraphrase the poet Donald Rumsfeld, you don’t necessarily go into the future with the chart you want; you go with the chart you have. So—let’s go. We live in dangerous times (which we prefer to zone out and deny), and those times are represented in this chart: reminders of the two enormous global disasters previously mentioned and often forgotten. The Moon opposite Pluto (which feels like a weapon pointed at the public, which happens to be a true fact of our world); a sharply divided public suggested by both the Gemini Moon and Pluto seeming to split it down the middle (let’s see which cool-minded liberals can’t quite bring themselves to vote for a black guy). We are dealing with a mix of profound potential global threats, all of which seem to push the amazing potential of our era into the shadows. These threats, as we well know, include our perfect train wreck of an environmental crisis; fossil fuels running out; terrorism; false-flag terrorism (fake attacks coming from the inside and/or used for manipulative political purposes, such as September 11), oil men and arms brokers in charge of the government stealing from absolutely everyone, and killing a few people along the way; a stressedout public that is conditioned to believe lies and to expect the government and corporations to lie; and so on. Indeed, our moment of history is so precisely reflected in this chart that we could say that whatever or whoever it represents is dealing in reality— and that is Obama’s appeal. He not only speaks in sentences, what he says is worth thinking about. He does not look like his aura is in 151 pieces, rearranged like a bad copy of a Cubist painting. The public (Gemini Moon), divided though it may be, is precisely aligned with and looking straight into the power, the danger, and the sense of what, spiritually, is at stake (Pluto and Galactic Core rising). To get anything done, that is, for us as a people, a country or a world, we need to confront our moment directly, with a sense of history, particularly recent history. And this chart does not skew the issues. It is shaped like a key that could unlock the incredible paradox of our moment in history, a paradox comprised of monumental problems, the opportunity to apply our technology and our minds toward evolutionary purposes, combined with dinosaurism that is eating away at the integrity of what precious little progress we have been able to make in recent years. The DNC chart has a feeling of homeopathy—that like cures like. Not conducting ourselves like the people who have made these problems (to which we are all more or less party), but, rather, reflecting the ability to understand and bear witness to the real issues in order to do anything about them. The Obama campaign, on the surface, is based on hope, but this chart says it’s based on a sober understanding that the human race and in particular the American public need to grow and make some difficult decisions. Part of that difficulty involves confronting people who don’t want the past to end, and who cannot drag themselves forward, and those who are quite literally violent toward any semblance of progress. To make progress, we have to face them, our problems and our own issues, and devise solutions, many or most of which will be spiritual, not political. There is another dimension to this chart. We have all heard of 2012, and the evolutionary leap purported to be associated with it. This date is represented one way in Mayan astrology, but in the Western zodiac, 2012 takes place precisely on the Sagittarius/Capricorn cusp, where all these planets and the Galactic Core are so precisely aligned—along with the great disasters of our day. The president we elect now will most likely be the one to serve until 2012 and maybe beyond. Suffice to say, this is a chance to take a leap forward, but it is indeed a chance. Do we have the guts to take it? We shall soon see. 9/08 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 131
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) You should be having no trouble keeping busy these days, but the question is, with what? Your charts suggest that you’re popular at work and in love. Well, popular may be stretching things, but there’s plenty of action, and you can either have dates or your existing dates are actually available. Business, however, has that slightly too-much feeling, and it seems like your inbox is heaping itself full. If I had to guess, this is eating up most of your free time. Here we have one of the central dilemmas of existence: the supposed competition of love and work. Your heart says that it’s more important that you have fun, and I would second the motion. There is an escape hatch on the business front, and in a word, it’s efficiency. Do things right so you only have to do them twice. You would also benefit from jumping to a higher level than the one you’re on; you seem to get caught in a mental bog frequently, consisting mainly of your sense of responsibility rather than the work itself. If you prioritize love—not socializing, but actual intimacy—your life is much likelier to come into balance. And there will come a natural limit to the frenetic pace of professional effort that takes effect later in the month when Mercury stations retrograde.
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron makes the excellent point that creativity is not based so much on inspiration as it is on routine. You seem to be running a bit cool on the flashes of inspiration but hot on the kind of energy that would help you expand and develop your ideas. Having said this, there is the chance you may feel like you have a lot of energy to do something but nothing feels quite up to the standard you have set for action. And it also seems that you have some obstacles in the way of seeing even a sketch of your long-term plan. The astrology is suggesting your time is better spent completing old projects than it is on starting new ones. When you start digging through the files of what you have not yet completed, you’ll be surprised how much you can do, and how easy it will be. The beauty of completing old projects comes partly from recognizing that beginning is the hard part, and this you have begun. Time also grants some perspective, and I trust that you will see the quality of your work in a new light. Finally, there is the satisfying feeling of resolution and closure. Plan on a couple of months of this, and the freedom to change directions entirely will be that much sweeter when it comes.
GEMINI (May 20-June 21) Love affairs can do strange things. We need to expect them to, and observe ourselves in the process. We need to remember that the story is in the dialog; that is, in the quality of communication. The quality you are seeking is on the daring side. That translates to exchanges that are based on understanding yourself in precisely that way that most people avoid. The fear of self-understanding, or the fear of revealing to others that which you’re not willing to understand about yourself, is the zone you need to be working in. Hey, you may even want to be working there, but we’re talking about the realm of taboo. There is a feeling about your charts of an obvious secret that you don’t want to reveal or even discover. As the month progresses, there will come a time that you need to focus on the past, to get beneath an issue that arises. And truth be told, the past is the source and core of all taboos. Here is the clue you’re looking for. If passion and anger tend to get confused, or if one arises in the context of the other, I suggest slowing down and having the conversation you need to have, out of bed. This little factor—well known to sex therapists-—is the key. Talk at the kitchen table or a park, and take some notes.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) There’s certainly an interesting scenario evolving in your personal life, though you seem to be feeling secure enough about it. That is the part to emphasize—your confidence, particularly in yourself. The scenario may involve a love triangle. We tend to shudder at the thought of such a thing, because it usually means someone is going to get hurt. Yet since one-to-one relationships have a tendency to triangulate, we would be wise to learn how to navigate these waters. If the scenario involves some sort of victim situation, that would be one thing; if it involves people making a sincere attempt to love one another, that is another. If it’s the first instance, you can begin the process of setting things right by owning how you go there. If it’s the second, you can go a long way toward keeping the scenario in balance by maintaining your commitment to truth and integrity. This would appear the likelier scenario, so let’s focus on that. You’re being called upon to find your most authentic sense of security. This comes from you, and it extends into your relationships. One clue for how you might do that is by keeping no secrets from yourself. This will strengthen your integrity within yourself, and in turn with the people around you. True, it may come with a learning curve, but it’s a skill you’ve wanted for a while.
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LEO (July 22-August 23) Humans may be unique in that not only do we think, but we have the ability to observe ourselves doing so. We can consciously recognize and change our thought patterns. I have no personal memories of being a bird, skunk, or reptile, so I don’t know what they are capable of. And I also notice that most humans don’t take advantage of this cognitive feature. This seems the skill you want to develop with the greatest emphasis. In the symbolic and literal sense, it’s a skill that can save your life, because nearly everything that goes wrong in life has its origins in our cognitive patterns. The most challenging and dangerous one is the inability to change one’s mind. You seem to be in the process of making an important decision. For the next few months, it’s going to be natural to go back and forth on how you want to handle it, and on what factors really matter. But this is more like a test than a reality. What you are trying to do is get a handle on how you think, and what influences your ideas; and then to what extent those ideas influence your actions. There’s a childhood pattern involved, and the subject matter is what you perceive as danger. You seem to be encountering a layer of your early existence, where you made some decisions about what to do when you perceived danger. As you make similar decisions now, remember that you are an adult, not a kid.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22) You need an objective way to measure your self-esteem. This is not easy, since how we feel colors how we see the world, and how we see the world appears to be so far outside ourselves. You seem to have yourself under the weight of some tremendous expectation, and at the same time someone in your environment appears to be corroding your self-confidence. Does this have anything to do with you? In other words, are you just seeing the person this way, or is their inability to have faith in themselves spilling over onto you and washing out your own confidence from below? You will find the answer through a combination of listening to yourself and listening to them. Pay attention to what you say, and to what they say. Listen to the tone of voice as well as the words—this will provide the bigger clue. If any discussion involves money, I suggest you consider this a ruse for the deeper issue, which is how you feel about yourself and why. I can assure you of one thing: there will be a moment when you start to put the pieces together. The picture you see assembling may be quite different than the one that your previous logic informed you about. It may not match the words that you or anyone else said. Emotions may not speak louder, but you need to listen to them more carefully.
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) You may find yourself with an unusual ability to imagine yourself into existence in the coming weeks. Remember you’re the one who can do this if you ever have to imagine yourself out of anything. Embracing this kind of power is a challenging lesson for humans, though you’d think it would be the happiest of them all: that we influence who we are becoming. This involves the necessary step of eroding (I won’t say eliminating—it is too daunting) the notion of victimhood. While this is probably the deepest spiritual layer you are after, there’s another tool coming your way this month, which is the concept of undoing. This is a prerequisite for just about any spiritual path. Various thought structures function as blocks, interfering with the infusion of new information, progress and most other forms of healing energy. Most of these blocks are conceptual. Usually when we observe or feel them, we avoid them. The next two months are the time to precisely the opposite. While there are many prescriptions for how to deal with these kinds of blocks, noticing them is about the best that I have found. A block would count for any negative emotion that interferes with love; or any seemingly positive emotion that distracts you from your purpose of awareness. For now, awareness itself is quite enough.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) Your 12th solar house, your immediately prior sign Libra, is the scene of a Mercury retrograde that begins later in the month. This will open the way to an entire universe of emotional information you may never have considered. Difficult to believe for a Scorpio, but let’s see what you learn. The 12th is such a challenging house because it tends to function like the closet of all that most people don’t want to admit, confront or explore. Those who write psychologically driven fiction, horror, deep erotica, or who study esoteric sciences work in the 12th house. What we see in dreams is a product of the 12th, which could be called the “unconscious,” except that dreams are the emergence of what’s contained in the 12th into conscious awareness. Of course, we usually forget about them. Now is the time to not forget. You are currently involved in a profound emotional healing mission. It involves where you are in the world, how you feel about being there, what you call safety and why it’s so difficult for you to ever feel secure. The roots of this situation exist on another level than your feelings or your environment; these things are just
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SAGITTARIUS
Weaving a New Global Tapestry Q’ero Shamans from the High Andes of Peru Invite you to a community ceremony
to create Peace Join Don Francisco and Doña Juanita as they prepare a Despacho, an offering of our gratitude to Pachamama, Mother Earth.
(November 22-December 22)
One of the reasons group therapy is so effective is that the group tends to take on the dynamics of everyone’s family of origin. People click into their roles smoother than Broadway actors who have been working together for years. You see and participate in the dynamics, and you get a chance (hopefully with the help of someone experienced in these woods, namely the therapist, who knows how to stay out of the fray). Your circle of friends may take on some dimension of this phenomenon in the coming weeks. Not that friends don’t often have this tendency, which is why you shouldn’t use them as your therapy group. In fact there are days approaching when you may consider not using them as friends. Be conscious of situations that take on any resonance of predator/victim/rescuer. Count it as the same whether it’s happening to you, or near you. Keep paying close attention. I suggest you not take sides, and avoid the temptation of asking other people to take sides. You want to do your best to avoid polarizing any situation. The reason for this, as you will see, is that a fair number of people who pick sides tend to change sides; and they tend to take the whole business very personally. Particularly as the equinox approaches, maintain your Sagittattitude and stay aloof—and aware.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) You will need to be on top of your professional game in the coming weeks, and when in doubt, remember that it is indeed a game. I suggest you be happy with nothing less than success that comes without the price of resentment, or of conquering, or of anyone feeling left out. This being said, you must beware of giving people who are not really your friends too much power in your life. There would appear to be someone who’s poised to play the role of loose cannon on deck. I’ve got out my astrological identikit and I can offer you the following composite sketch. Beware of anyone who is pious. Beware of people who impress you mostly with their psychological rigidity couple with their casual, even careless use of language. Be particularly careful if other people think they sound good. I don’t suggest you take obvious action; rather, do things like quietly squish down the lock on your most sensitive file cabinet, and listen to rumors carefully without spreading them any further; moreover, pay attention to where they are coming from. If you encounter someone who fits this general description, a private, friendly, low-key three-minute conversation will be enough to inform them that you are aware. This might, in turn, prod them aware.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
Wednesday October 1, 7-10 pm Hawthorne Valley School, Route 21C, Harlemville, Ghent, NY Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
Participate in creating a community Despacho - an ancient ceremony building a prayer bundle. This is an opportunity for everyone to put in their heartfelt prayers and to receive a blessing from the Q’ero.
The role of belief is something that we all need to question, and which you seem ready to question. What you might call the problem of belief is that it works on so many levels, and we can’t see most of them, most of the time. On one level, it’s a very good thing that most of what we think is true is wrong. On another level, there exist what you might call metabeliefs that have a cascading effect and shape the process of everything we perceive. Most of these are our concepts of existence itself, and these are the ones to focus on. You will know you’re on the wavelength when you find yourself once again thinking about things that nobody ever considers, only more deeply than usual. You can ride out this month’s astrology as a kind of crisis of faith—or you can explore it at it as the perfect opportunity to get inside your own process of creating your reality; which is based nearly entirely on what you believe. The most potent metabelief of all is what you think you are. Adjectives like ‘weak’ or “strong” or “happy” won’t do it. What are you, in the cosmos? How did the water, carbon and random minerals your body is made of suddenly spring to life in the form of you and all your ideas? Such will direct the course of your existence.
PISCES (February 19-March 20)
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I suggest that you not take what you want so seriously; and that you not take who wants you so seriously. Hang loose, so that your agreements can be adaptable to your circumstances on a more or less ongoing basis. There are people who have been in your life a long time, and you can depend on them; this you have learned. Track your seemingly more superficial exchanges of ideas, cash flow, commerce, and erotic energy. These will be doing an interesting dance, and you want to dance, not be stuck. If ever there was a Mercury retrograde (September 24 through October 15) that said avoid signing contracts, this is the one. Conserve your resources, but remember you’re doing this for when you really need them. The chances are you will actually be able to wait until after October 15 to apply any significant money to a project that calls for it, and the chances are, it will be a lot more efficient if you do. And while you must be extremely careful with other people’s money, much of what you experience involves interacting with and applying the resources of others. “Resources” in this scenario has a fairly wide definition, including their intelligence and the intentions you share. These intentions may seem to shift and change, but at the end of the process, it will be pretty easy to agree on the truth. And the truth is, everyone has a lot to gain from mutual support.
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Seven Deadly Sins, Robert Hite, mixed media, 7’ x 9’6” x 20”, 2007 “Imagined Histories: Installations in Hudson Valley Landscapes,” showing this month at Pearl Arts Gallery, is the documentation of sculptor Robert Hite’s engagement not only with the local geography (Seven Deadly Sins was photographed at Ulster County’s Hell Brook Farm), but also with local materials—Sins is composed of wood and metal collected from the banks of the Hudson River near Hite’s Espous studio. “Imagined Histories” runs September 13 through October 26 and will feature both photographs of Hite’s eerie sculptures in situ, as well as the physical pieces themselves, some of which are larger than life, 12 feet high and almost 20 feet long. An opening reception will be held on September 13, from 6 to 8pm. Pearl Arts Gallery, 3572 Main Street, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-0888; www.pearlartsgallery.com. Portfolio at www.roberthite.com. —Brian K. Mahoney
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Rumi and The Whirling Dervishes from Turkey An Intoxicating Evening of Mystical Poetry, Music, and Whirling Dance Performed by the Mevlevi Sufis Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 7:30pm The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
“For those who love the beauty of God, there are hundreds of ways to pray." - Rumi
Arranged with the support of the Mayor & the City of Konya, Turkey and the International Mevlana Foundation Tickets are available through the Box Office at the Fisher center: call 845.758.7900 or visit www.Fishercenter.bard.edu Also: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 25; Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Oct. 26 Amherst College, Oct. 27; Washington National Cathedral, Oct. 29 For further information please visit www.poetryofrumi.com
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