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home & Garden
18 while you were sleeping
34 home: the artful life
Hot pepper overdose, the end of free beer for Labatt’s employees, and more.
20 beinhart’s body politic Larry Beinhart’s deconstructs the circumstances of Hillary Clinton’s unexpected loss.
Art of business
Food & Drink 56 Butter: A rich history An excerpt from Elaine Khostrova’s culinary history, plus a Q&A with the author on what would drive a person to write a whole book on butter.
22 This month: Begnal Motors, Plattekill Mountain, Williams Lumber & Home Center, Bimi’s Cheese Shop, and All That Java.
holiday events & gift guide 24 new year’s eve guide
The year is ending. How are you going to spend the last hours of 2016?
kids & family 32 sheltered: Building Relationships around Homelessness When unstable housing becomes homelessness, there is shelter.
whole living 64 angel by my bedside
Wendy Kagan speaks with practitioners of Urban Zen Integrative Therapy.
Community Resource Guide 61 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 62 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 68 whole living Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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Diane Teramana and Ty Castellarian’s art-filled home in the Zena Woods.
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An untitled painting by Hudson-based outsider artist Earl Swanigan from the home of Diane Teramana and Ty Castellarian.
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42 Gallery & museum GUIDe
72 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.)
46 music: tani tabbal
Peter Aaron profiles the renowned percussionist.
71 The legendarily loud rockers Dinosaur Jr. blow the doors of Mass MoCA.
Nightlife Highlights includes shows by Matt Pond PA and Ipsa Dixit.
73 The Anthropologist screens on December 9 at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck.
Reviews of In Movement by Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, and Mathhew Garrison;
75 “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some)” at Shadowland Stages.
You Got Me Singing by Jack and Amanda Palmer; and Satellite Paradiso by Satellite Paradiso.
50 BOOKS: alexander chee The author of the operatic novel The Queen of the Night talks with Janet Hamill.
52 book reviews: holiday gift guide
PREVIEWS
77 Jesse Branford’s “Nomina Magica” exhibition at the Seligmann Center. 78 Work:Shop Winter Market returns to Wickham Solid Wood Studio in Beacon. 79 Tap dance doc Great Feats of Feet screens at the Rosendale Theatre on December 11. 80 Phil Kline’s sonic street parade “Unsilent Night” hits Hudson on December 3. 81 The writing workshop Imagining Your Voice on the Page at Garrison Institute.
Our picks for this books to give this season, from Iza Trapani’s adorable kid’s book
planet waves
Gabe and Goon to Gary Allen’s food preservation primer Can It!
82 the cahos factor
54 Poetry Poems by Frank Boyer, Peter Coco, Max Drew, Tom Fleming, Bruce Groh, Jim Hegmegee, Billy Internicola, Andrew Joffe, Bryan McGrath, Ted Millar,
Eric Francis Coppolino: Figuring out what’s true is now an essential survival skill.
84 horoscopes
What’s in our stars? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.
Ze’ev Willy Neumann, George J. Searles, Kate Skinner, Ken Sutton, Marc Swan,
88 parting shot
Samson Velazquez, Elizabeth Young, and Emily Zogbi. Edited by Phillip X Levine.
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Photos of faded glory in the Catskills from Marisa Scheinfeld’s Borscht Belt.
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December 2 - 18 8 pm Fri | 3pm Sat & Sun Tickets: $20
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hristopher Kurtz is a Kingston-based woodworker, a sculptor and a furniture maker whose work seems effortless. Behind his work’s apparent insouciance lies technical rigor and a fascination with negative space.Take Kurtz’s recent series of starburst sculptures, a constellation of diaphanous staves tapering off in fine points. All are made from blocks of wood carved down to whispers with a spokeshave—a process similar to sharpening a pencil. Kurtz then joins the pieces together and covers the seams in layers of graphite or milk paint. “I want it to be a sculpture first,” Kurtz says, “then the craft is something the viewer understands after spending some time with it. Craft can be like golden handcuffs. People can hide behind technique. Good technique doesn’t always make good art.” Kurtz’s virtuosity and materials-based approach is partly explained by his assistantship with Martin Puryear, the Accord-based sculptor whom Kurtz refers to as “a force in contemporary sculpture, an amazing craftsman, and incredible human being” and the man who taught Kurtz how to work with wood. (Puryear’s Ladder for Booker T. Washington was featured on the cover of our November 2007 issue.) Like Puryear, whose enigmatic work is also confoundingly familiar, Kurtz’s pieces can be mysterious and challenging while maintaining a tone of serenity and bright optimism. Singularity, an elegant bramble of basswood points stretching six feet high and twelve feet in length, might be a squad of ballerinas in arabesque or it might be a galloping herd of bison straight from Dances with Wolves. Tatanka! Tatanka! Kurtz tends to wear his influences on his sleeve, unlike Puryear, and the modernist aesthetics of Brancusi and Giacometti are easy to spot in Kurtz’s purity of line. His furniture tends to challenge materials, as in the Bauhaus-inspired dining tables with hollow legs that reference the tubular steel furniture of Breuer and Stam. The legs disappear through the table top, mini black holes sucking expectations down through the elastic portal between art and design. At this point, Kurtz is very comfortable tweaking perceived notions. “I’ve taken a slow-cooking approach to my career,” says Kurtz. “I’m 40 years old now and I’m just now starting to get a body of work that I feel like is mine.” Like the harmony immediately recognizable in the work itself, Kurtz strives for equilibrium between the two poles of his work. “If all I’m getting are furniture commissions, I skip work and start on a sculpture to balance it out,” says Kurtz. “And if I only did sculpture, I’d totally get lost in fantasy, in poetry. The furniture brings me back down to Earth. If I feel too Earthbound by the furniture, I’m able to have a break from that with the sculpture.” This is the necessary tension in Christopher Kurtz’s work, the practical magic in its duality: design and chance, form and function, art and craft. It’s also its simple, unifying framework. The furniture turns into sculpture, the sculpture turns into furniture. All Kurtz’s schooling, his apprenticeship with Puryear, his years of rigorously perfecting his technique and mastering the materials—they add up to the work of one man’s hands. “Ideas come from making things,” says Kurtz. “I like the alchemy of manipulating materials with your hands, taking a stick of wood and transforming it into something magical.” Portfolio: Christopherkurtz.net. —Brian K. Mahoney
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esteemed reader You let me sing, you lifted me up, you gave my soul a beam to travel on.You folded your distance back into my heart.You drew the tears back to my eyes.You hid me in the mountain of your word.You gave the injury a tongue to heal itself.You covered my head with my teacher’s care, you bound my arm with my grandfather’s strength. O Beloved speaking, O comfort whispering in the terror, unspeakable explanation of the smoke and cruelty, undo the self-conspiracy, let me dare the boldness of joy. —Leonard Cohen, “19th Psalm,” Book of Mercy
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: I had the privilege of seeing Leonard Cohen and his band perform a few years ago, when he was almost 80. Shortly into the concert, Leonard was on his knees, delivering the lines sacramentally, as though he were a priest or rabbi (in Hebrew “cohen” means priest), and I began to weep. It was then that I realized the event wasn’t actually a concert. It was a ceremony of a high order; a three-hour invocation. I wept almost continuously through the beautiful ordeal of the concert. I didn’t know where the tears came from. They seemed to arise from a mystery that the music tapped at the center of my heart, eliciting the delicate juxtaposition of matter and spirit, ignorance and illumination, fear and openness together. I heard the news of Leonard Cohen’s death with an already tender heart on the evening after the election. Only that day I had begun to listen to his new album, and its title song, “You Want It Darker,” in which he seemed to name the events of the day, and to announce his readiness to simultaneously leave and face the reality of this world. If you are the dealer, I’m out of the game. If you are the healer, it means I’m broken and lame. If thine is the glory, then mine must be the shame.You want it darker.We kill the flame. Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name.Vilified, crucified in the human frame. A million candles burning for the help that never came.You want it darker. Hineni, hineni, I’m ready, my Lord. The Hebrew word hineni means “here I am,” which is what Abraham says when he’s called upon to sacrifice his son. It harkens to Hamlet preparing to go into what will be his final ordeal: “the readiness is all… Let be.” Leonard Cohen declares that we want it darker, and it seems clear that whether or not we think we want more darkness, more is necessary to rouse us from our collective slumber, our comfort with things as they are. We need a stronger shock, a deeper bite from the fangs of ignorance to help us remember why we are here. In his way of weaving tragedy and hope, he points to the tenderness and humility that arises from heartbreak; the fertile remorse we can know in seeing ourselves as we are, and the outcome of our inattention. There’s a lover in the story, but the story’s still the same.There’s a lullaby for suffering, and a paradox to blame. But it’s written in the scripture, and it’s not some idle claim.You want it darker.We kill the flame. When I say Leonard Cohen’s work is objective, it is in the spirit of the Greek philosopher Protagoras, who said “Man is the measure of all things.” In this sense it is our own subjective experience, taken in a disposition of impartiality, which reveals truth beyond the seeming borders of that experience. It is like the dross spread through with gold that can be separated in the crucible of clear seeing. Leonard Cohen did this alchemy, continuously and publicly, for the benefit of all who would ponder and feel his meaning. Leonard Cohen bore witness to the unfolding spectrum of joy and suffering, pleasure and pain on the plane of life. At the same time, he invited us to join his striving to reach beyond this plane, reaching, as he did, for the sublime and divine. He showed that it is only in a thorough grounding in humanness, which is to say, humility, that we can strive for something more rarefied, refined, and even spiritual. Leonard Cohen was something between an artist and a prophet, giving a poetic user’s manual for an incarnation in human form. The body of his work, prepared tirelessly for over 50 years, is a record of a soul, striving through all the phases of a life, to become more fully human. Every heart, every heart to love will come but like a refugee. Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.There is a crack, a crack in everything.That’s how the light gets in. (“Anthem,” from The Future) Thank you, Leonard, and God bless. —Jason Stern
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ike many people—at least a statistically significant portion of Hillary Clinton voters—I woke up on November 9 to a country I did not recognize.The world outside looked the same—the trees were clinging to their last leaves; the squirrels were burying nuts in the planters on the deck; my inconsiderate neighbor’s garage light was still on, after another night of lighting up our bedroom like a surgery ward—but it sure felt different. There were 61,917,320 million people living in America who had voted for Donald Trump. He had won the unpopularity contest. I thought we were going to put the billionaire bullyboy behind us on November 9, assign him his final place as a cautionary and humorous footnote in our political history, and get on with adult conversation. (I can now look back nostalgically to simpler times, when Trump was just a self-aggrandizing narcissist who claimed that Obama wasn’t born in the US—an assertion on the face of it so absurd it relegated Trump to the lunatic fringe. At least in my mind it did; which is quite different from empirical reality.) So much for pleasant delusions. There’s no need to recap the events of the campaign or pore over the litany of ridiculous and vile things Trump and his cabal have promised. An imperfect candidate named Hillary Clinton lost fair and square. For a quick summary of where the Democrats went wrong, read Larry Beinhart (“What Happened?” page 20). And if you think Clinton didn’t lose fair and square because the Electoral College is a vestigial arm of an antiquated compromise attempting to balance the power of the populous and rural states, well, okay. Check out the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which is seeking an end-around the constitutional amendment required to abolish the Electoral College by getting the states to agree to throw their electors behind the candidate with the most popular votes. New York State has already signed on (While You Were Sleeping, page 18). In trying to understand why so many of us were shocked by the outcome of the election, I’ve gone full-force political junkie. I’ve read and listened to the self-lacerating pieces by the pundits and pollsters who didn’t see this coming (Fox News included), and how they’re going to break out of their insular, selfreinforcing bubble. I’ve read the triumphalist editorials on Breitbart News linking Trump’s election to a global populist movement that includes Brexit in the UK and upcoming elections in France and Germany that may bring anti-immigration candidates to power. I’ve taken a deep dive into alt-right subreddits like The_Donald to swim with the #MAGA fishes. In the New York Times, philosopher Alain de Botton chose to view Trump’s election as a reminder of how fragile democracy is and how fundamentally fucked up we are, inherently, as people: “We shouldn’t be surprised by our fellow citizens. That is what the human animal is really like: very sweet at points from close up, usually generous to small children and the elderly, hard-working, but highly prone to delusion, tribal, offended by strangers, disinclined to rational analysis and with a fondness for slaughter and reckless messianic plans. The elite are not ‘out of touch’ because they forget what a
gallon of milk costs, but because they forget how dark and broken human nature is.” On Facebook, once the keening and lamenting subsided, the strident calls to action began. They read like this: “I must now focus every fiber of my being, spare minute, and every available resource to curb hate and protect American values, including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, just to name a few. The time for convincing is over. I will now focus my efforts on organizing, planning, and protecting.” I feel like I’ve read it all, searching for some shitty little bromide to help swallow this bolus of anger, shame, anxiety, and resentment. For now I know what the alt-right is and who the major players are. Now I understand how deeply unpopular Hillary Clinton is. (Agreed that it’s not really her fault.) Now I’m beginning to sketch a picture of a country I didn’t know existed. But all this information isn’t helping. It’s not clearing away the post-election catatonia. There are at least 61,917,320 million people living in America who voted for Donald Trump. I’ve not spoken to a single one of them in a substantive manner beyond the rhetorical talking points of the election. About what their hopes and fears are. About how they make meaning in their lives. About what a shared future for all of us looks like. Because I refuse to believe that there are over 60 million bigoted, misogynist, climate-change deniers living in this country. Call me naive, but I need to err on the side of our better angels here. So yes, we’ll need to keep a very close watch on the incoming administration—many of us will take it on as a second job. And protect the groups targeted by Trump during the campaign. And continue to agitate for social justice. And organize and plan for the elections in 2018 and 2020. And be ready to take to the streets at the first whiff of fascism. But that’s about Trump and his administration. I’m talking about us, all of us, those of us who aren’t billionaires and have to live, in this country. How do we normalize relations in a land of loathing and fear? It starts by listening, methinks. What if we started to have informed and honest conversations about what’s most important to us? What if we found out that what we had in common was more powerful than our differences? What if we tried engagement? Knee-jerk opposition and blind hatred can’t be the only option. What if we started by affording the political other the same treatment we hope for ourselves: not assuming that they are the shittiest people imaginable. What’s the worst-case scenario? That we find out that our deepest fears are true and 60 million Americans are really terrible people? That feels a lot like where we are now, and that’s a nonstarter for the longevity of the republic. Because folks, what happened in the 2016 presidential election was not about Donald Trump. It was about upending the status quo. There is new energy percolating in the country. We can choose to hate it or we can help try and shape it. Our choice. 12/16 ChronograM 17
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A San Francisco man tore a 2.5-centimeter hole in his esophagus after eating a hamburger topped with ghost pepper puree, and was hospitalized for 23 days. As reported in a recent Journal of Emergency Medicine article written by physicians at University of California at San Francisco, the man was diagnosed with Boerhaave’s Syndrome (spontaneous esophageal rupture) after consuming the ghost pepper in a spicy food challenge. Ghost peppers measure 1 million units on the Scoville scale, a system used to gauge the heat levels of chili pepperss. A bell pepper measures zero on the scale, a jalapeño falls between 2,500 to 8,000 units. Source: Washington Post The World Health Organization has reported that vaping and e-cigarettes do not stop people from smoking, causing a split within the public health community. An early November meeting in Delhi discussed the future of tobacco control, and included the 180 countries that have signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control treaty. The topic of the meeting’s divide was a market newcomer—vaping. WHO issued their report, based on London health research company Cochrane’s data, after inquiries about scientific information for or against nicotine-delivery devices like vapes or e-cigs arose. Scientists are still uncertain about vaping’s effects on public health, and some parties think that the tobacco industry may be using the e-cigarettes to covertly continue marketing tactics. Source: Guardian (UK) Delhi’s pollution problem shut down schools for three days in November. Numbers of the air pollutant PM2.5, which causes lung clogging, were reported at 90 times higher than what the World Health Organization deems safe. WHO estimates that about 620,000 people die every year in India from pollution-related diseases, and measurements taken by the US Embassy placed the city’s Air Quality Index at a rate two-times higher than the “hazardous” level early in November. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has implemented a series of measures to reduce the smog, which has been attributed to the soot-releasing fireworks set off during the Hindu Festival of Lights, Diwali. Construction and demolition work was halted for five days, water was sprinkled on main roads, and citizens were urged to stay indoors. Multiple protesters rallied at Jantar Mantar, flooding social media with #MyRightToBreathe. Air pollution has been a steady issue in India, with previously imposed traffic restrictions and burning bans already in place. Source: BBC 18 ChronograM 12/16
Paralyzed people may experience more day-to-day freedom in the future, with the advancements of a new brain implant. Nick Ramsey, a specialist in braincomputer interfaces at the Brain Center Rudolf Magnus at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands, presented his new brain-computer interface work at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in November. Ramsey worked with a woman diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological condition that destroys voluntary muscle control, usually leading to complete paralysis. The woman received a brain implant called an electrocorticograph (ECoG), a brain signal-reading device that wirelessly connects to a device on the chest, and then to a computer tablet. It functions similarly to an EEG. The ECoG is small and lightweight enough for the patient to use at home or outdoors without a doctor’s supervision. Ramsey says that after six months of training, the woman has 95 percent accuracy in her ability to communicate. In the future, Ramsey hopes that the software’s typing speed will improve, and be able to help perform a wider range of functions, like turning on a television or making a phone call. Source: Ars Technica This year’s Global Drugs Survey has determined that gender impacts how the body responds to MDMA. The Global Drugs Survey is a UK-based data research company that is used for tracking drug usage, often cited in reports. Women are two to three times more likely to seek emergency medical treatment for symptoms of anxiety, agitation, hallucinations, and extreme sweating than men after taking ecstasy. The survey’s founder, Dr. Adam Winstock, said that there has been a four-fold increase in British women seeking emergency medical treatment after taking MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, in the last three years. Winstock also estimated that 200,000 British people use ecstasy every weekend. Too high of an MDMA dosage can cause the user’s body to retain extra water, leading to brain swelling. The female hormone estrogen impairs the body’s ability to release water, making women especially susceptible to the drug’s harmful side effects. Source: Guardian (UK) Following the unexpected result of Election Day 2016, the debate over the functions of the Electoral College has been reawakened. Similar to the 2000 election, when George W. Bush beat Al Gore after losing the popular vote, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Donald Trump gained the highest number from the electoral college—leading to his win. Some states have already begun to look at ways to reform the system. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is a movement and agreement among the states and District of Columbia to align the electoral vote with the popular vote. Eleven states, including New York, have already adopted the NPVIC agreement. The agreement would only go into effect if states with an absolute majority of 270 electoral votes, enough to elect a president, decide to pass it. Source: NationalPopularVote.com Bob Dylan will not be attending the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy says. The legendary Highway 61 troubadour won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature in October. The Nobel Prize Committee hosts an annual event to be attended by prizewinners, where they are expected deliver a lecture and receive their awards. Dylan’s win for the poetic expression and his contribution to the American song tradition has caused backlash—some feel that the prize should have gone to a more traditional author—as has his refusal to attend the ceremony. Dylan was “very honored,” for his win and regrets not being able to receive it in person. In the past, Nobel laureates Doris Lessing, Harold Pinter, and Elfriede Jelinek have not attended the ceremony. Source: Guardian (UK) Labatt Brewery is no longer offering free beer for life to its retired employees. Anheuser-Busch InBev, a Belgian-based corporation that also runs Budweiser, Corona, Beck’s, Stella Artois, and Michelob Ultra, owns the Canadian beverage maker. The company has decided to phase out the beer for life perk to cut rising overall costs to maintain full benefits for employees. Other measures have included lowered wages and previously reduced benefits. Worker benefits range from a free case a week to eight 24-bottle cases in a year. “It’s a loss to a class of former employees,” said Labbatt retiree Larry Innanen,“It means something. It’s material to them. Source: New York Times Compiled by Hannah Phillips
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what happened?
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ow, was I fooled. I did know that Hillary was a terrible candidate. But she had so much money. She supposedly had a machine that was well organized. She was supposed to have a great ground game. Her opponent appeared to have none of the above. Her opponent was a pouter pigeon imitation of a generalissimo from a banana republic, without even the excuse of coming from the military. Then there were the polls and the media. Which assured me, and us all, to a huge degree of certainty, that she would win and he would lose. What happened? The people of America wanted change. More than change. Something between a coup and a revolution. They took the only one on offer. They’d done it the last time they had the chance. In retrospect, that was what Barack Obama’s first election was about. It was to reject the elites that had brought about the financial and military and foreign policy disasters of the Bush years. They expected more from the Obama years. But Obama turned out to be too conservative. He didn’t go after the bankers. He didn’t really go after the banks. He didn’t revive the wages and benefits of lower and middle class employees. He tried to withdraw from America’s military entanglements. But the regions where the wars were being fought didn’t cooperate, and turned withdrawal into something that looked like disaster and even defeat. When the Republicans ran the sound, safe, respectable Mitt Romney against Obama in 2008, the people knew that it was just one elite member of the establishment against another and there was nothing to make them jump to the distinctly duller, white version of the incumbent. This election the Democrats ran as the establishment. Hillary was the candidate of The Party. She’d been part of the machine for decades. She was entwined with Wall Street and big money. She had come to live and hobnob, day in and day out, with the well connected, the super-rich, and the holders of power. To make it clear how much Hillary was the candidate of the establishment, the Republican establishment walked away from Trump—never having done anything like that in living memory—some nodding toward his rival, some even openly endorsing her. Virtually every newspaper in the country, practically a definition of the establishment, endorsed Hillary, even those that historically only endorsed Republicans. 20 ChronograM 12/16
The other thing that must be reiterated: No one in that establishment, Democrat or Republican, had given real thought to the losers in the game of income and wealth inequality that had been played against them for the last five decades. If anything, the establishments were willfully blind to what was happening. The Left had embraced social progressivism. But somehow, in the process, had abandoned economic progressivism. The Right kept pressing forward with anti-tax, anti-redistribution, antigovernment policies that had been so successful for Ronald Reagan, and then for his heirs and successors. So the Center, on economics, moved ever further to the Right. Part of the success of social progress meant the rejection and alienation of what used to be the mainstream voters, the white working class. Again, in retrospect, it shows that even the pollsters were somehow part of the establishment. It was a signal that they too had become corrupted. Not in the sense of selling out for money, but in the sense of buying into the thought patterns and conventions of the intertwined and interwoven establishment of politics, money, the military, power, and academia. Trump is, without doubt, a strange, even a terrible choice to be a defender of working people and people of low and middle income. There is no logical connection between his promises to them and his policies. Indeed, his policies, to the degree that they have been articulated, point in the other direction: Toward greater income inequality. Toward more power for the super-rich. To greater deficits—if that is actually a real problem. If history is a guide, the results of Trumponomics will be a repeat of Bushonomics but bigger. Huge tax cuts for the rich have always resulted in a boom that turns into a bubble, which turns into a crash, with bank failures, then a depression or a recession. Not only did he win, he has a Republican Congress, a Republican Senate, and the opportunity to nominate at least one new member of the Supreme Court who will be friendly to his policies will almost certainly be accepted. Republican dreams of destroying government, especially the programs that work—Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security—and turning the money that flows through them to profiteers, are even more destructive than Trump’s ideas. They will make survival even more tenuous for everyone except at the very top. They will make the next crash far more certain and far worse. On one level, it is a triumph of the will of the people over the cozy corruption of the establishment. At the same time, it was a logic-free act of lunacy that will make things even worse for the people who chose him.
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Art of Business
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Founded in 1946, Williams Lumber has nine locations. Their flagship store in Rhinebeck is the region’s biggest independent Ace Hardware dealer. But it’s the friendliness and warmth that keeps them winning Best of the Hudson Valley awards. “Just last Friday, a friend I grew up with and hadn’t seen in years came in with his little boy, who’s not quite three, and we got such a huge kick out of him running around looking at the trains, Santa, the decorated trees. He had such a blast. So did we,” says hardware buyer Andy Jozefowicz, who’s been on the Williams Lumber team since the 1990s. “We do lots of cool giftware, trees—real trees for $29.99— and lights and ornaments and decorations, but I think my favorite part is the Christmas display.” Williamslumber.com
Zen of cheese
“It’s a tough haul getting a shop like this off the ground in a tiny town,” says Ellen Waggett of Bimi’s Cheese Shop in Chatham. “But word is getting out; people are finding us.” Along with other specialty foods, the store stocks no more than 40 varieties of cheese—local and imported—at any given time; the self-taught cheesemonger would rather her staff become truly well versed in a few dozen items, and there’s a lot to know about fine cheese. Part of what’s making it work is undoubtedly Waggett’s talent for filling a niche, flowing like water with the needs she finds. “Since Ralph’s [Pretty Good Café] closed, there had been no breakfast in town on Monday and Tuesday so we decided to fill that gap. We have mac and cheese with garlic and caramelized onions. And having a family member with celiac disease, we’re very aware—we have a dedicated gluten-free grill. I’ve seen people’s eyes fill up with tears when they realize they can have a grilled cheese sandwich for the first time in years.” Facebook.com/bimischeese 22 art of business ChronograM 12/16
Auto Exotica
Remember Fiats? From 1966 till 1985, these sleek little Italian roadsters turned heads and drew drivers concerned with fuel economy and in love with style. When Fiat decided to reenter the US market in 2010, they were downright picky about who would get to sell their cars, giving preference to top-flight Chrysler dealers, requiring a selective application process and a dedicated showroom. In the Hudson Valley, Begnal Motors in Kingston made the cut a few months back. “We’ve been pretty excited about getting the franchise for a Fiat studio,” says Begnal sales manager Kevin Crockett. “People looking for an earth-friendly car with an exotic feel tend to love them. We’ve got a few happy drivers on the road already.” Crockett expects great things in 2017. Fiat is reintroducing its iconic Spider—and Begnal is completing over 30,000 feet of dedicated showroom space on Rt. 28 just past the traffic circle, built, Crockett says proudly, entirely by local labor. Look for a grand opening around May. Ltbegnalmotor.com
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Newyorkupstate.com calls Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury “one of four top places to hit the slopes,” with 38 trails, including 1,100 feet of the “true vertical” skiers crave, and four lifts. Plattekill has a rep as a laid-back, family-friendly ski destination, a great place for those who’d rather “keep it real,” as their tagline says. We spoke with co-owner Danielle Vajtay to get the latest. So you’re going into your twenty-fourth season of running a mountain. Has it been that long? It keeps us busy. There really is no off-season anymore. But it’s a good life; I can’t complain. It has ups and downs, for sure. I see you’ve upgraded your snowmaking equipment. We add new equipment every year. There was hardly any when we took over; you go along, you figure out where the loopholes are. This year we have a new valve-house and 3,200 feet of new pipe. It all starts with snow—without that, you got nothin’. It might have been pouring for days but the minute the temps drop, the phone’s ringing off the hook: “OK, what have you got up there?” It’s a relatively short season and everyone wants to make the most of it.
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In opening All That Java, Samantha Sapienza took her inspiration from the West Coast. “I grew up in New York City and Millbrook and then spent 15 years in Seattle before moving back to Rhinebeck four years ago,” she says, “and I felt like Rhinebeck deserved the kind of coffee place I loved so much out there. And people are loving it.” Sapienza built a tiny house addition on a trailer in which to brew her espressobased magic and moved it across from the county fairgrounds on Route 9.
There’s an article in Ski Magazine posted on your website about people’s visceral desire for old-fashioned skiing. That’s what you offer? We were so amazed to see that being discussed. It’s not about fancy bars and valet parking. It’s sport and snow and people. Who would have thought this old rustic lodge would so inspire people. But people come in and say, “My God, you couldn’t build this anymore.” We’ve added the infrastructure that counts, a second chairlift, a carpet lift in the beginners’ area. I also noticed you rent out the whole mountain? How’s that going? Hugely popular! We put it on social media offering people the chance to rent the whole thing and now we’re almost fully booked. Monday through Thursday, for $3,500, Plattekill can be your private mountain for a day. We get all kinds of people: retreats, family reunions. We’ve had half a dozen bank executives, 700 Jehovah’s Witnesses. We tailor the experience to your wishes. There was a period when we wondered how we’d manage, without high speed lifts and an ultramodern lodge. But you know what? We have a really good thing and people love it. Plattekill.com
“Rhinebeck doesn’t allow a drive-through; I’m still trying to figure a way to make it so people won’t even have to leave their cars in winter. We have outdoor seating in nice weather, but everything is to go; we sell small bites of baked goods so you’re not committed to juggling a huge chunk of food. People love their coffee! It’s really good coffee, it’s like a perfect little refreshment break. Such a positive vibe. There’s no BS about that; it’s a truly great moment that I love to provide.” Allthatjava.net
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Holiday Events & Festivals King Kong about to hurl the ball from atop City Hall at the Uptown Kingston New Year’s Eve celebration in 2015. Photo by Saundi Wilson.
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e did it. Another year has bitten the dust, and it’s time to celebrate. Food, music, meditation, dining, dancing: whatever your fancy, there’s an event going on around the Hudson Valley that will help you celebrate the New Year. Menla Mountain Retreat Center, Phoenicia From December 27th to January 1st, the Menla Center will host their annual New Year’s Dharma & Yoga Retreat. This Buddhist workshop explores the concepts behind many a New Year’s resolution: happiness, compassion, wisdom, and health. This year, the Real Life retreat features Carolyn Christie, Robert Thurman, Sharon Salzberg, and Brooke Myers. Prices vary based on room selection. Menla.secure.retreat.guru/programs. Honor’s Haven Resort and Spa, Ellenville Take a break from Friday, December 30th to Monday, January 2nd, and celebrate the New Year—Russian style—at this resort and spa. Live music, cocktails, gourmet dinner, hats, and noisemakers, this long weekend combines a little bit of relaxation and partying. Honorshaven.com. New Year’s Eve, Uptown Kingston Experience a neighborhood-wide transformation to the Wild West, at New Year’s Eve Uptown Kingston. BSP Kingston will house aerial artists, cocktail bars, and a dance party celebration with DJs Tony Touch and Shaman Vybez. Special guest performances by Big Takeover, and more spread across Uptown, with a ball drop and visit from Father Time and Baby New Year at midnight. Uptownkingstonnye.com. New Year’s Eve, Saugerties This family-friendly event takes over Main Street in Saugerties from 10:30 pm to 12:30 am. There will be music by DJ Riley Cornelison, coffee and hot cocoa, party favors, and extended restaurant hours. This year, it’s bigger and better, created by Saugerties-resident Mike Ivino and based on the original New York City ball blueprint. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge Dining and dancing to ring in the new year on December 31, featuring performances by ZydeGroove, Jay & Molly with Swingology, and the Tempest. Try out some swing, cajun, zydeco, waltzing, or contras—whatever your speed or style. Dinner is at 6pm, the show begins at 8pm. $30 adults, $15 teens and under, $30 for dinner. Ashokancenter.org. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon Performances by the Chris O’Leary Band and Sari Schorr & Band. Blues, rock, soul, and for dinner guests, a New Year’s Eve feast buffet and complimentary bottle of champagne. Dinner and a show pricing is $125 per person, $110 for 24 holiday gift guide & New year’s events ChronograM 12/16
members. Show only, including the midnight champagne toast, costs $50 per person, $42.50 for members. Townecrier.com. Daryl’s House, Pawling A New Year’s Eve celebration of music and soul at Daryl’s House, with sounds from Prince-acclaimed, Nashville-based R&B star Kandace Springs and Marvin Gaye- and Stevie Wonder-influenced jazz-funk group Klyde Jones & Friends. Don’t be urprised if the owner sits in. $50. Doors open at 5pm, the show starts at 9pm. (845) 289-0185; Darylshouseclub.com. Novella’s, New Paltz A New Year’s Eve celebration with an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, and of course, a champagne toast at midnight. DJ Joey Garcia will provide sounds to complement the food and atmosphere. 7:30pm to 1 am. $112 per person, including tax and gratuity. Novellasnp.com. Club Helsinki, Hudson The Simi Stone Band, Pearl (featuring Scott Ian of Anthrax), and Lisa Green, perform. $25 general admission, $35 reserved club seating. Doors open at 6pm, the show starts at 9pm. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie A New Year’s event for the kids, as the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum hosts their New Year’s celebration for a countdown…to noon. Pop music, dancing, and activities, with special surprises on the hour until twelve. $10 MHCM members, $14 non-members. Mhcm.org. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock The soulful rockers behind Fowl Play, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds take the stage at Bearsville Theater for NewYear’s Eve. 9:30pm. General admission $40, special VIP packages available for purchase. 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com. The Palace Theatre, Albany The Burlington-based jazz, rock, bluegrass, funk, and reggae musicians Twiddle take on the Egg for another New Years Eve. This jam-band will melodically lull you into 2017. Tickets are $39 in advance, $4 day of show. (518) 465-3334; Palacealbany.com. Bear Mountain Spend New Year’s afternoon ice-skating with the family at Bear Mountain’s outdoor rink. Children aged 3 or under are free, $5 for adults 12 and up, $4 children aged 4 to 11, and seniors $2. Skate rentals cost $4 per pair, shake sharpening is $5 per pair. Bearmountainicerink.com. —Hannah Phillips
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holidayGuide This holiday season, leave the fluorescent-lit mall and the glow of your laptop behind. Hudson Valley retailers offer a wide selection of goods and services. Go small scale and support local businesses with perfect stocking stuffers, places for either a relaxing day trip or exciting evening out, handcrafted designs, and more. Check out our selections.
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Featuring a constantly updated large inventory of used and new vinyl including rare and Painting by Sean Sullivan obscure records. We specialize in 60’s Psych, Punk, Jazz, Soul and many other genres. We buy and sell vintage hi - fi gear. Thinking of selling your vinyl? See us first. Check our Facebook for upcoming in store events.
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My bodywork is rhythmic, slow and penetrative. Transcendent and effective are words clients have used about my sessions. “Christine’s exquisite sensitivity and empathic gifts are matched by her phenomenal massage chops! She’s terrific.” Gift yourself, or someone you love, a deeply nourishing massage this holiday season. I might just be the therapist you’ve been looking for!
We are a men’s and women’s boutique, celebrating our 20th Anniversary during the month of December. Come celebrate with us! Bring joy, taste, and innovation to the season of gift giving. Featuring men’s and women’s clothing, shoes and gift items from Europe and USA, Italian handbags, handmade shoes, waterproof boots, cozy socks, cashmere sweaters, Parisian mohair scarves, enchanting Xmas decorations. Open everyday.
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41 N. Front Street, Kingston (845) 331-8600 Mon - Sat 11-7 Closed Sundays
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Located in the historic Uptown Stockade District of Kingston, we offer high quality new, used and rare vintage guitars, amps and effects. AND we teach guitar and piano. In fact, we love kids and know how to keep them involved and enthusiastic! Give the gift of music! Gift certificates available. Like us on Facebook!
Black Friday Special: Discounted prices on custom made gift baskets! Stock up for the Holidays and stuff the stockings of your friends and loved ones with any of our Holiday Spirit gift baskets available in the tasting room starting Black Friday (Nov. 25th) between 11am and 6pm. Don’t forget to check out our NEW line of R&D liqueurs.
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Uncanny Gallery
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17 John Street, Kingston (845) 204-4380 uncannygallery.com Uncanny Gallery, located in the heart of Uptown Kingston, showcases an eclectic and unique selection of art dolls and figurative sculpture. We currently feature the work of 14 doll artists working in various mediums — from the whimsical and strange to the disquieting and sublime. Expanded holiday hours Wednesday through Saturday afternoons. (See website for further details) Come Visit!
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Building Relationships around Homelessness Text and photo by Hillary Harvey
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n a cold night in January 2016, Ulster County counted 47 families asleep in emergency shelters. A January 2015 snapshot put the national number of homeless people at more than half a million, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a network of over 10,000 partners that provides data and research to policymakers and elected officials. These snapshot studies (a count done on just one night) are a common way to identify people with unstable housing. But with an underreported population that’s in constant transition, it’s not the whole picture of homeless families in America. “People ask for statistics, and we had 741 separate individuals come through our shelters between January and October 2016, but each one has a life and story attached to them,” says Linda Malave, the Director of Resident Services at Hudson River Housing, which offers 25 homeless service programs in Dutchess County, including emergency and transitional housing, case management, links to other nonprofits and government agencies, and affordable housing and home ownership opportunities. “Homelessness is multifaceted, people come to us from all different places.The three things I see a lot of are mental illness, substance abuse, and poverty.” Last school year, 339 homeless kids walked the halls of Ulster County’s public schools. The McKinney-Vento Act, which provides federal money for homeless shelter programs and guarantees the rights of these students, defines them as any youth who lack a fixed, regular, or adequate nighttime residence. According to a fact sheet published by the Department of Education last July, more than 1.3 million homeless children and youths (tracked annually rather than in snapshot) were enrolled in public schools during the 2013-14 school year. It’s disproportionately kids of color and LGBTQ youth. Irene Rosenberg, the Homeless Resource Coordinator at Ulster BOCES, says many people don’t know that couch surfing with friends and family is considered homelessness, as defined by McKinney-Vento. There’s a stigma, and she feels many don’t want to admit it and be counted. Rosenberg feels that getting the word out about homeless rights is important. School provides a sometimes uncommon stability for children struggling with insecure housing, so McKinney-Vento guarantees it be uninterrupted and optionally within their home school, even if they’re housed in another district. “There are so many other factors they’re facing,” says Rosenberg. “Even if we all
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do our jobs the way they should be done, these kids have been hit with so many other issues: mental illness, multiple housing situations, no food or clothing, school absences.They may not have taken a bath for a long time.” Being able to stay in their original school, where they have established relationships with teachers, friends, and a comfortable routine, is often ideal. There are Title 1 funds available for transportation, but in rural school districts where the high end of need might be far away from necessary services, it’s an expensive issue. Rosenberg says that public schools are being asked to do more and more while receiving less public funding. “McKinney-Vento requires that every school has a dedicated liaison who is responsible for identifying and providing services for that school district’s homeless population, but it’s an unfunded federal mandate,” Rosenberg explains. So her goal this year is to meet with every level of personnel in Ulster County schools. She feels that if the registrars, receptionists, bus drivers, and attendants, who might overhear a conversation others aren’t privy to, are educated about identifying signals, schools could have a better chance at helping kids who are struggling. “In a perfect world we’d catch them before they became homeless, so the liaison can be proactive.” “You Can’t Cure Poverty” Kimmer Gifford, the homeless liaison for the Kingston City School District (KCSD), is sipping tea at Outdated in uptown Kingston. The number of homeless kids in Ulster County excludes Kingston. Last school year, KCSD alone reported 277 homeless students, grades K through 12—more than double Ulster County’s higher end of the spectrum. That doesn’t include younger siblings and any parent attached to that count. As we talk, Gifford points out various locals and their acts of generosity. Waiting on line for coffee is an art professor from Sarah Lawrence who donates to Gifford’s community garden projects at the Everett Hodge Center and the Midway Shelter, both in Kingston. Barbara Cohen coordinates a drive for brand new coats. Brinnier and Larios, a community-based engineering and land surveying firm in Kingston, in lieu of exchanging coworker presents, adopts about a dozen children from KCSD anonymously identified by Gifford, and gifts them everything from basic needs to mind-blowing surprises during the holidays. “We
have so much fun shopping for them and their families, and hope sincerely that we make their Christmases a little brighter,” says employee Heidi May Emrich. A lot of Gifford’s work is about connecting people to resources. “If I’m doing my job right, you won’t know this kid is homeless,” she says, referring to a sentiment she heard when she first started her position six years ago. Homeless high school students are often coming from a lifetime of housing insecurity, so sometimes it comes down simply to new sneakers. “Kids are more comfortable wearing the same coat their friends are wearing. It’s the little things that really help: money for field trips, prom tickets, caps and gowns.” In her work, Gifford finds that homelessness is a possibility for anyone. “Once you lose your footing as a family in a housing crisis, it’s about climbing back up when you’re down,” Gifford says with a sigh. “There are people battling mental health and addiction, but the blanket culprit is poverty.” Gifford says the myths about homelessness are false. The majority of her clients are employed and want to work; they want good, safe housing for their families. But with a poverty level at $16,000, a parent working full time at minimum wage doesn’t quite qualify for supports, and yet often can’t find affordable housing on their wages of $1,500 a month. Families receiving housing grants have restrictions on the number of bedrooms they need to provide, dictated by the number and gender of their children. Gifford calls it a culture of poverty and worries that her work is just a Band-Aid. “You can create a foundation, but you can’t cure poverty. You need affordable housing, and grants, and support for affordable housing.” The NewWorld Foundation awarded Gifford $150,000 to help with her outreach programs, like the one that delivers eggs and milk from Boice Bros. Dairy to motels acting as temporary housing. “Kingston is an interesting community,” Gifford muses. “Economically, we’re not at the top of the paradigm, but donations are tremendous.” More than Shelter When someone in Ulster County needs housing assistance, chances are they’ll go to one of four shelters, two temporary housing programs, and other affordable permanent housing options run by Family of Woodstock, Inc. They host runaways, families, and youth without family resources who are preparing for independent living, for anywhere from thirty days to extended stays. Started in the fall of 1969 with impacts on the town of Woodstock from the famous rock festival of the same name, Family is the oldest continuously operating emergency switchboard in the country, maintaining 68 contracts in 2016 for state services and county programming. They began with a fundamental service: shelter. In 1980, Family opened a domestic violence shelter. Then survivors were bringing their children, so the agency developed children’s programming, and eventually the first Batterers Program in the region to address root causes. “So as we are presented with needs, we respond to the needs,” say Executive Director Michael Berg. The agency grew organically and now services Ulster County and the surrounding communities. Many of the youth they serve are runaways in need of a cooling-off period, and Family prepares them to reunite with their families, if the home is appropriate. “In this county, we’re very lucky when it comes to the number of agencies and services that we have for children,” says Kelly Warringer, Family’s team leader for adolescent services. “And we have a really good relationship with each other. So we try to refer kids to as many services as possible, and give families many chances. Because they ultimately don’t want to get placed [in foster care]. It’s scary and traumatizing.” Trauma care is a large feature of Family’s work, with staff attesting to the fact that all their clients have experienced some sort of trauma. “Homelessness in itself is a trauma,” Berg explains. Family is known for its trainings, which other resources in the county utilize, such as the suicide prevention training. “If trauma or adverse childhood experience is untreated, that’s going to affect how we make our decisions,” says Salvador Altamirano-Segura, a team leader for Crisis Services at Family. “But the system wants to see changes immediately. If I’m giving you ten dollars to do this, I want to see the results tomorrow. But sometimes it takes years.” Often Family clients do stay a long time, and kids go on to college, then come back to visit. Family credits this connectedness to its nonjudgmental, personcentered approach in assisting people as they balance and maneuver in their lives. “We’re not telling them what to do.We’re asking them what they need and helping them to achieve it. That’s a big difference,” Berg explains. Family staff advocate for clients, too, and have negotiated with landlords to accept incremental payments of the thousands needed for housing deposits, a first step in getting into more permanent housing. “What’s remarkable is how empowering it is for people,” says Victoria Read, Family’s program director for adult case management services. “Nobody’s ever told them before that they could make the choice.” “If you think about it, this is just being human,” says Altamirano-Segura. “We’re just talking about building relationships.” 12/16 ChronograM kids & Family 33
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The Artful Life A Video Artist & an Art Librarian in Zena Woods by Mary Angeles Armstrong photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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t’s an eternal question: Is the serpent eating an egg? Or is it a head, emerging from the serpent? Ty Castellarian, an artist, archivist and librarian, is describing a motif that runs throughout his creative work. “It’s the great creative metaphor,” his wife, Diane Teramana, an artist and avant garde filmmaker, agrees. “Everything is constantly changing, moving backwards, switching in on itself.” She adds, “We are big snake fans.” We are in Castellarian’s small office, in the Woodstock home he and Teramana have shared for the past 13 years. The snake image occurs and reoccurs throughout the oil paintings and photographs that wind around an extensive shelf of art books in one corner. On the opposite wall hangs a large framed photograph of the Ohioan Serpent Mound—the thousand-foot-plus winding effigy of earth and grass, dating from more than two thousand years ago. The two even have snake tattoos on the inside of their forearms; matching in theme if not design. “I’ve always thought,” Castellarian adds, “that the image comes from an intuitive understanding of human conception. Even in Hindu mythology, the central myth of creation is a serpent wrapped around an egg.” Like the ancient Serpent Mound, both artists emerged from Ohio. Its clash of cultures and people, as well as the intertwining of their own personal narratives with the state’s history, has always been the central subject matter, canvas, and backdrop of their art. Both descend from families that immigrated from Italy to work in the state’s milling industries. Teramana’s grandparents died tragically before their five children were grown.That story, and her family’s resulting diaspora,echoes throughout her art and films. Opposite: Ty Castellarian and Diane Teramana sit at the center of their artfilled home. The ceramic Buddha once belonged to actor Lee Marvin. This page, top: The front entrance of Teramana and Castellarian’s contemporary home in the Woodstock hamlet of Zena, which was designed to arise from, and blend in with, the surrounding woods. This page, bottom: Castellarian’s library and painting studio is one of the home’s many rooms lit from above and bursting with artifacts of two lives, artfully lived.
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Back to Ohio Teramana and Castellarian met when they were both art students at Ohio State University. After graduation both moved to the East Coast—Castellarian got a job as an archivist at the Museum of Modern Art, and Teramana married and had two sons in Westport, Connecticut. They both eventually returned to their roots, where their paths crossed again. Castellarian came back to get a library degree and then worked for Columbus College. After separating from her first husband, Teramana returned to live and work in Cincinnati where she began experimenting with video and performance art. That’s when friends reconnected them and they began their long personal and creative collaboration. They lived first in Cincinnati, and then in Columbus,where Castellarian worked as an archivist and art librarian. Upon Castellarian’s retirement, they headed back to the East coast, thinking they would settle in Provincetown. On the way to Massachusetts they stopped to visit a friend in Rhinebeck and were captivated by the art and artisans of the Hudson Valley.They decided to stay, first living in Kingston’s Rondout and then moving to their house in the Zena woods. 36 home & Garden ChronograM 12/16
Castellarian and Teramana’s home is dominated by their art collection. Everywhere is the juxtaposition of divergent voices and creative disciplines splashed over the sprawling white canvas of their contemporary home. It’s a place where tragedy and memory, the shocking, the colorful, the humorous, the sacred and the profane all have their place. It serves as testament to the power of art to engage with any subject matter, sometimes transforming it, but always looking straight on, unflinchingly. “Sometimes, I’m just a video artist. Sometimes, I’m just a collector. Sometimes, I’m somewhere in-between,” says Teramana. “We never collect names; we just collect pieces we like.”
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Inside, an open-living space centered under a slanted, two-story ceiling forms the light-filled heart of the 3,700-square-foot home. Five rectangular skylights, like slashes from an artist’s brush, illuminate the space from above. Like galleries in a museum, large open doorways encourage the flow of light, enlarging the space to include adjacent rooms. A kitchen and formal dinning room are demarcated by a glass block wall. Sliding glass doors open onto a sunroom filled with plants where it’s comfortable enough to sit and watch the winter snow. Everywhere is art. Everywhere is the juxtaposition of divergent voices and creative disciplines splashed over the sprawling white canvas of their contemporary home. A wooden box painted by an outside artist from Kentucky faces a photo of Indian Holy men and a bathroom decorated with Mexican devotional paintings. A reel of forgotten film, rolled and sculpted into a Shofar-like horn, curls toward a wall of ornate crucifixes. Taxidermied ducks hang in suspended flight over a ceramic sculpture of the Buddha. It’s a place where tragedy and memory, the shocking, the colorful, the humorous, the sacred and the profane all have their place. It serves as testament to the power of art to engage with any subject matter, sometimes transforming it, but always looking straight on, unflinchingly. Paintings that Move As an artist and filmmaker, Teramana has never shied from the charge of looking at all aspects of life. “Diane was really a pioneer of women’s video art in the `70s and `80s,” recalls Castellarian. In her avant-garde films and photography, she’s always tackled the sad, the profane, and the dark head on. Originally, she studied painting and film, but the art of video was especially attractive to her. “I was always obsessed with movies,” recalls Teramana. “What attracted me was the visual component—not necessarily the linear or documentary aspect but the idea of creating ‘paintings that moved.’” In 1990, her art and audaciousness met up with history. Robert Mapplethorpe’s controversial show “The Perfect Moment” opened in Cincinnati to immediate protests. The show was shut down and the curator was arrested, but not before Teramana filmed the event, with Castellarian interviewing protestors and attendees. The resulting film, The BruHaHa, was a record of the show as well as a humorous, cutting commentary on censorship and art. Before seeing the Mapplethorpe show, Teramana didn’t realize anyone else was engaging with subject matter that was so taboo.With the Mapplethorpe show she “broke loose.” Inspired by his openness, Teramana curated “Sins of the Flesh,” a collection of films that were considered obscene by filmmakers that had somehow been deemed “objectionable.” What Comes Naturally A long hallway leads past a bathroom—decorated with oil painted diagrams from an African medical clinic—into their master bedroom suite where paintings, family photographs and sculpture line the walls. There is also a full bathroom with a tub and another deck. Down the hallway are also the couples’ respective offices: Teramana’s is filled with a wall of videos and photographs and lit by another skylight. Downstairs, a finished walkout basement has extra sitting and studio space as well as an extra bed and bathroom. From there a sliding glass door leads back out into the woods. Over her long career, Teramana has created several other films and performance art pieces exploring the dark and taboo aspects of society as well as her own personal history. In much of her work she’s attempted to approach the shocking by combining it with the humorous. However, she never set out to be audacious or brave; really she just did “what she was inclined to do.” Her video art has been exhibited at the Experimental Television Center, both the Kleinert/James Gallery and Center for Photography in Woodstock, and the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz. Most recently a retrospective of Teramana’s work was exhibited at the Wave Pool Gallery in Cincinnati. Inside and outside, both Teramana and Castellarian have created a space to celebrate what is natural, even if what’s natural is something we don’t always want to see. “When we lived in the Rondout, our neighbors were George Cole and his partner, who have an auction house,” says Castellarian, referring to George Cole Auctions & Realty in Red Hook. The couple collected much of the home’s art and sculpture, and all of its taxidermy, from Cole’s estate sales.
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Mary Pickford in the silent film classic, The Little Princess (1917), based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett and directed by Marshall Neilan. The film also stars ZaSu Pitts. The Little Princess will be screened at the Rosendale Theatre on December 4 at 3pm.
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Sacred Poem XXXIV, Carole P. Kunstadt, 24K gold leaf, thread, paper pages of Parish Psalmody dated 1844, 5.5” x 5.5”. Kunstadt’s assemblages are part of the group show “Patterns” at Wired Gallery in High Falls through April 2.
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“Possession: Steven Strauss.” Exhibit of paintings. Through December 12.
“We are the Center for Curatorial Studies.” Both an exhibition and research project, a multi-year program incorporating artist projects, exhibitions, collaborations, and public and non-public programs. Through December 16.
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BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “Holiday Members’ Show.” Through December 17.
“The Long View: The Luminous Landscape 2016, 19th Annual National Invitational Exhibition.” James Coe, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Eline Barclay, Christie Scheele. Through December 4.
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“Engaging Place.” Artists David Brooks, Kim Jones, Peter Liversidge, and Virginia Overton. Through February 5.
“Photographs of Educated Youth: Images of the Chinese Youth Sent to the Countryside during the Cultural Revolution 1966–1976.” Through December 31.
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“Cornucopia.” Small works, established Hudson Valley artists. Through December 11.
“Alchemy of Light.” Watercolors by Betsy Jacaruso & Cross River Fine Artists. Through January 29.
ARTS MID-HUDSON 696 DUTCHESS TURNPIKE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-3222. “Dutchess Handmade Pop-Up Shop.” Over 70 artists from the Hudson Valley participating with locally made glass, jewelry, greeting cards, textiles, ceramics, wood products, prints, paintings, home decorating items, and more!. Through December 17. 42 arts & culture ChronograM 12/16
“Julie Jacobs: Stills in Search of a Movie.” Through December 4.
BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Stuart Farmery: Sculptures in the Landscape.” An outdoor exhibition of sculpture by Stuart Farmery. Through May 2.
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CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Winter Exhibit: Mixed Media Group Show.” Featuring work from Kate Hamilton, Andrea Moreau, Louise Laplante, Elizabeth Coyne, Laura Von Rosk, and Eileen Murphy. Through January 22. Opening reception Saturday, December 10 from 5pm to 7pm.
O+ Gallery at Tech Smiths 45 N Front street, Kingston
CATALYST GALLERY 137 MAIN ST, BEACON 204-3844. “Small Works Show.” December 3-January 8. Opening reception Saturday, December 3 from 6pm to 9pm.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.
CORNELL STREET STUDIO 168 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 679-8348. “Longreach Arts.” Comprised of 18 members from Ulster and Duchess Counties. Through December 31. DIA:BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. “Excursus: Homage to the Square3.” Robert Irwin installation. Through May 31. EMERGE GALLERY & ART SPACE 228 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES 247-7515. “Primar (il)y Red.” Group show. December 2-January 2. EMPIRE STATE PLAZA CORNING TOWER 100 S MALL ARTERIAL, ALBANY (518) 473-7521. “Works by Phil Frost.” Through August 18.
Maxfield Bala, Norm Magnusson, Mary Jane Nusbaum, Geddes Paulsen will have their work shown at this Mothers of Invention exhibit. Through January 31. Opening reception December 3 from 6pm-9pm.
“Holiday Gift Show.” Through January 3. ROOST STUDIOS & ART GALLERY 69 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 675-1217. E”xplorations by Lauree Feldman.” Digitally abstracted photography printed with ink on canvas. Through December 12. First annual holiday gala and art show. Through December 17. SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ Newpaltz.edu/museum. “A Retrospective.” Work by Bradley Walker Tomlin.Through December 11. “In/Animate.” Recent work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray. Through December 11. SELIGMANN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 23 WHITE OAK DRIVE, SUGAR LOAF 469-9459. “Nomina Magica.” Jesse Bransford’s work represents an ever-sharpening focus on art’s relationship to magic. Through January 9.
FOYER OF THE MINDY ROSS GALLERY, KAPLAN HALL, SUNY ORANGE CORNER OF GRAND & FIRST STREETS, NEWBURGH 341-9386. “Then and Now.” Thrown pottery by Jacqui Doyle Schneider. Through Decmeber 31.
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FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection.” Through December 18.
THEO GANZ STUDIO 149 MAIN STREET, BEACON (917) 318-2239.
THE GALLERY AT R&F 84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Last Picture Show: Forces and Artifacts.” Works by Carol Bajen-Gahm and Pamela Blum. Mixed-media works and sculpture. Through January 15.
“Works by Beth Haber.” Through December 4. THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. “En Masse III.” Through January 8. THOMPSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE Vassar.edu. “Shakespeare at Vassar.” A new exhibition reviews the ways in which the college has interacted with the Bard’s work. Through December 7.
GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Salon 2016 & Handmade Holidays.” Annual members’ exhibition, Salon 2016, features reasonably-priced fine art and craft collectibles. Through January 7.
TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 845 757 2667.
Hotchkiss Tremaine Gallery 11 Interlaken Road, lakeville, connecticut (860) 435-3663. “Marjory Reid plus Janet Rickus and Warner Friedman.” December 10-February 5. Opening reception December 10 from 4pm to 6pm.
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Word.” Group show. Through Decmeber 17. JEFF BAILEY GALLERY 127 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-6680. “Amy Pleasant/Brenda Goodman.” Through December 18. JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. Claude Carone: Paintings. Through December 4. KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Annual 5 x 7 Show.” Fundraising group show. Decemebr 3-31. Preview party December 2 from 5pm to 7pm. MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “40th Annual Holiday Salon Show.” Through January 14. MATTEAWAN GALLERY 436 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. “The Flat File Show.” Works on paper by gallery artists. Through December 18. MILKWEED 2 & 3 ROMER’S ALLEY, SUGAR LOAF. “Sugar and Grease.” New paintings by Olivia Baldwin. Through December 4. NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 222 MADISON AVENUE, ALBANY (518) 574-5877. “Hudson Valley Ruins.” A photography and architecture exhibition featuring over 80 photographs by Robert Yasinsac and Thomas Rinaldi documenting forgotten historic sites and cultural treasures in the Hudson River Valley. Through December 31.
“Holiday Show 2016.” Fine art to traditional crafts, whimsical fancies and creative, one of a kind pieces at a variety of prices. Through December 18.
“Friends of Fire: Ceramic Art by Delores Coan and Hotchkiss Alumni.” Through December 4. UNFRAMED ARTISTS GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ, 12561. “Small Works: Holiday show.” Holiday show of paintings, mobiles and small sculptures. Largest size 15 inches and smallest is microscopic. magnifying glass will be supplied. Through December 18. THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 15 LAWRENCE HALL DR., WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 597-3055. “Being the Measure: David Zink Yi.” David Zink Yi’s first museum exhibition in the United States brings together his work in sculpture, photography, music, and video. Through February 12. WINDHAM FINE ARTS 5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-6850. “Warm Woods, Crisp Reflections.” With three progressive artists working in different realistic mediums, Glenn Able, with cast fused glass, reflecting nature. Gustav Peterson, in wood sculpture, with advanced curves and diagonals. Krista Dragomer, multi-media, sound art, drawings, and installations. Through January 4. WIRED GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613. “Patterns.” Works by Sydney Cash, Susan Spencer Crowe, Laura Gurton, Carole P. Kunstadt, Stephen Niccolls, Vincent Pomilio, and Carol Struve.Through April 2. WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 RTE. 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Woodstock Invitational Monoprint Exhibition.” Works by 44 artists. Through December 17. 12/16 ChronograM arts & culture 45
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FRONT STREET GALLERY 21 FRONT STREET, PATTERSON (917) 880-5307. “The Story of the Path.” Front Street’s fifth annual juried group show. Through December 4.
“RedGreenBlackWhites.” New work by Taylor Davis. Through January 1.
Music
Tani Tabbal at his home in Woodstock on November 4.
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Unbroken Rhythm Tani Tabbal By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly
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eated on his living room couch, Tani Tabbal peels back his trademark black beret to reveal a scar several inches long on the left side of his head. “This is where they went in to take it out,” says the drummer, who in 2001 had a benign tumor removed from his brain. “I’d been having these wild migraine headaches ever since I was a kid that would go on for, like, three days. And then one day I was playing for a West African dance class, and I had a huge seizure.” After being rushed to Kingston Hospital, Tabbal was transferred to Westchester Medical Center for a 19-hour surgery, for which he was sedated but conscious throughout. Unsurprisingly, the career musician was worried about whether he’d able to play again after the operation. “The first thing I did [following the procedure] was move my feet,” he recalls. “Then I started pounding on my chest, and I was able to do that too. That’s when I knew everything was going to be okay.” Since then, the percussionist hasn’t— forgive the delicious pun—missed a beat. Tabbal is one of the modern masters of his instrument and has worked with some of the leading names in jazz, mainly those in the avant-garde arena. Raised in Chicago’s culturally diverse Hyde Park community, he was attracted to music via the tastes of his mother, a Motorola employee, and father, a teacher. “My dad was into Miles and Monk, and my mom loved Sarah Vaughn,” he says. “I was always bangin’ on stuff, so when I was in second grade they bought me a drum set. I loved [bop drummer] Roy Haynes and would play along with his records. I discovered that I had a great musical memory, especially for solos. Even now, I can still remember solos I haven’t heard for decades.” At age 14 he joined the band of noted singer, songwriter, writer, actor, and activist Oscar Brown, Jr., whose bassist son was one of Tabbal’s classmates. He also played in rock and funk groups in high school, but became increasingly drawn to the emerging sounds of free jazz. For the latter genre, Tabbal was in the right place at the right time. By the late 1960s, the Windy City was blowing by NewYork as a center of free jazz, thanks to the activities of the musicians involved with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the parent organization of the groundbreaking Art Ensemble of Chicago. Tabbal grew steadily immersed in the AACM scene and performed with trumpeter Phil Cohran before taking off into another realm, one that was endlessly exploratory: In the mid-1970s, while he was still a teenager, he found himself playing alongside Cohran in the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra. “Playing with Sun Ra was amazing,” says Tabbal about the famously eccentric bandleader who claimed to be from Saturn. “Half the band would be professional musicians and the other half would be people who could barely play. But he loved that! He’d say, ‘The universe has the best and the worst, so the music should have both of those things in it, too.’ And he always kept you guessing. We’d be doing some far-out, crazy thing and then he’d make us go into some old Fletcher Henderson tune. I remember at one gig he had me lay out for part of a tune. He said, ‘Tani, you need to play an unknown drum solo.’ I wasn’t sure what that meant, but I thought, ‘Hmm. Okay.’ Another time, I played something without totally realizing what I was doing and then I went back and tried to figure it out and play it that way again. He told me, ‘When you didn’t know what you were doing, it was great. But now that you think you know what you’re doing, it’s most displeasing.’” [Laughs.] Tabbal was with the Arkestra for almost two years and by the late ’70s had left Chicago for Detroit, where he played with local luminaries like pianist Geri Allen, guitarist A. Spencer Barefield, and Griot Galaxy, a fiercely experimental band led by the late saxophonist and poet Faruq Z. Bey. While in Michigan he also reconnected with AACM cofounder and Art Ensemble of
Chicago member Roscoe Mitchell, joining the saxophonist’s pivotal Sound Ensemble and working with him in other groups (the most recent entry in Tabbal’s on/off collaboration with Mitchell is 2005’s Turn). Come the close of the 1980s, however, and the intensity of life in the Motor City was beginning to take its toll on Tabbal. New York was next. “I’d met [New York saxophonist and band leader] David Murray when he played in Detroit,” Tabbal says. “About 1990, there were some problems happening with the drummer in his band, so he gave me a call. I was figuring it was about my time to get out of Detroit and use my New York connections anyway.” And use them he did. Once there, besides playing in both the David Murray Octet and the David Murray Big Band, Tabbal hooked up with James Carter, waxing five albums with the highly rated, stylistically diverse saxophonist. But even though he’d found himself a welcoming and productive home on the Gotham scene with Murray, Carter, Cassandra Wilson, Greg Osby, and others, after only a few years there he decided he was done with the concrete jungle. “Besides Chicago, Detroit, and New York, I’d lived in Philadelphia and Oakland—I was tired of cities,” Tabbal groans. “In 1993 I saw an ad in the VillageVoice for a house to rent in Woodstock, so I came up to check it out. I saw the place and I thought, ‘Wow, I can get all this for what I’m paying for some little place in NewYork?’ I loved it up here and I knew there were lots of other musicians around, so I moved up.” Many of those other musicians were ones he would soon be making amazing music with, among them saxophonists Dewey Redman and Joe Giardullo, bassists John Lindberg and John Menegon, pianist Marilyn Crispell, and vibraphonist Karl Berger, the cofounder of Woodstock’s renowned Creative Music Studio organization, who bumped into Tabbal in a local shop. “I knew all about Karl and CMS, but we’d never actually met,” Tabbal says. “So I introduced myself, but he already knew who I was and told me he’d heard about me living there. Then he just looked at me and said, ‘Rehearsal is next week.’ And that was it. [Laughs.]” The former Chicagoan proved a perfect fit for many of the projects Berger leads, especially those that have explored the music associated with influential trumpeter Don Cherry. “Tani’s style of playing is a lot like the style of [Cherry collaborator and Ornette Coleman drummer] Ed Blackwell,” says Berger. “He’s very crisp, but at the same he swings. And he doesn’t play too many beats. His style is between completely free playing and a more traditional style, which is wonderful and very rare.” Tabbal, who has children (and now grandchildren) from a prior relationship, met his life partner, the graphic designer Susanna Ronner, in the late 1990s and credits her as having been invaluable throughout his recovery from the 2001 operation. Ronner’s sharp, abstract designs grace the packaging of the four albums he’s released as a leader since the treatment: 2007’s solo-percussion Before Time After, 2014’s Wizards, 2015’s Mixed Motion, and the newest, this year’s Triptych, which features his trio with venerated bassist Michael Bisio and rising alto saxophonist Adam Siegel. “I have to keep playing, because I still feel it, you know?” says Tabbal, whose resume also includes the percussion ensemble Pieces of Time and such icons as Milt Jackson, Jackie McLean, Evan Parker, Henry Grimes, and Anthony Braxton. “Each day, I’ll have new thoughts and ideas.The music always changes the way it’s going.” Triptych is out now on Tabbalia Sound Records.Tanitabbal.com. 12/16 ChronograM music 47
nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Rory Block plays Infinity Hall in Norfolk, Connecticut on December 17.
Matt Pond PA December 3. Matt Pond PA is the moniker for the amorphous band led by singer-songwriter Matt Pond, a project that started out in Philadelphia in 1998. After doing his time in Brooklyn, Pond hooked up with bassist and Bearsville Studios producer Chris Hansen and hit an ongoing purple patch beginning with the cabin jams of the group’s ninth album, 2010’s The Dark Leaves (the singer reverted to his given name for 2013’s The Lives Inside of the Lines on Your Hand but has since re-added the PA suffix). Pond recently put down permanent roots in Kingston, where his autumnal indie folk rock outfit will launch a tour in honor of its 11th album, Winter Lives, with this record-release show at the Old Dutch Church. With JK Vanderbilt and Caroline Reese. 7pm. $15. Kingston. (845) 338-6759; Mattpondpa.com.
Matthew Shipp Trio December 3. On the same night that Matt Pond and his band perform at one Hudson Valley church (see above), another acclaimed artist named Matt will lead a very different musical evening at another church to the south: avant-jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, who will hold forth with his trio at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church for the occasion. New York’s fiery new-generation champ of the ivories, Shipp rose to prominence in the early 1990s as a member of the David S. Ware Quartet and has kept his highly inflammable creative torch burning full blast ever since, working as a restless solo performer and in musical settings of all sizes. His current trio features drummer Newman Taylor Baker and area bassist Michael Bisio and this month makes a rare visit to St. Andrew’s Church, an event guaranteed to veer between explosiveness and meditation. $20 advance; $25 door. Beacon. (212) 353-6971; Standrewsbeaconny.org.
Maucha Adnet and the Brazilian Trio December 3. The heroically tireless Jazzstock organization, which was cofounded by vocalist Teri Roiger and bassist John Menegon, has partnered with the Senate Garage to present a series of exquisite events within the historic brick walls of the Stockade District structure. On the schedule for December is this date by Rio de Janeiro-reared singer Maucha Adnet, who is perhaps best known for her work with the legendary composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on 48 music ChronograM 12/16
albums like 1995’s Grammy-winning Antonio Brasileiro. Accompanying her will be the virtuosic Brazilian Trio, which is comprised of Rio expats Helio Alves (piano), Nilson Matta (bass), and Duduka da Fonseca (drums), who formerly backed saxophone great Joe Henderson and got a Best Latin Jazz Album Grammy nomination for their 2009 debut, Forests. 7:30pm. $35. Kingston. (845) 802-5900; Jazzstock.com.
Ipsa Dixit December 9. Who says the avant garde is without humor or self-scrutiny? Certainly not composer and vocalist Kate Soper, whose new theatrical chamber music production Ipsa Dixit explores “the intersection of music, language, and meaning [and] blends elements of monodrama, Greek theater, and screwball comedy to skewer the treachery of language and the questionable authenticity of artistic expression.” The performance, whose six movements utilize texts by Aristotle, Plato, Freud, Lydia Davis, and other intellectual iconoclasts, incorporates voice, percussion, flute, and violin, has been in development since 2010, and is the culmination of Soper’s December EMPAC residency. (Del McCoury and David Grisman drop in December 10; Lapalux lays it down December 16.) 8pm. $18. Troy. (518) 276-3921; Empac.rpi.edu.
Rory Block/Cindy Cashdollar December 17. Blues-guitar bliss! This double bill to die for at Infinity Hall brings together the two reigning queens of the form, both of whom have deep links to the Hudson Valley’s heady days as a musical center in the 1970s. Four-time W.C. Handy Award winner Rory Block is a mind-blowing demon of the acoustic/slide style and a darling of the folk revival who learned her craft directly from such masters as Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, and the Reverend Gary Davis. Back in the day, she spent much time in Woodstock, which is where lap steel/ dobro diva Cindy Cashdollar grew up and performed with Levon Helm and Paul Butterfield. One of the world’s most sought-after roots musicians, she’s also worked with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart, Asleep at the Wheel, Leon Redbone, Ryan Adams, and far too many other names to fit here. (Jorma Kaukonen jams December 7; NRBQ returns December 17.) 7pm. $24-$39. Norfolk, Connecticut. (866) 666-6306; Infinityhall.com.
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ROCKET NUMBER NINE RECORDS
(2016, ECM Records)
It’s the day after the election.Your music editor, like so many others, is numb, gutted, gasping for air, and desperately struggling to comprehend an incomprehensible world. He sits down at his keyboard to contemplate in print the new album by the trio of drummer Jack DeJohnette, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, and bassist Matthew Garrison. The opening track, a flawlessly mournful reading of “Alabama,” the John Coltrane Quartet’s meditation on the 1963 church bombing that killed four girls and was perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan—a terrorist organization that publicly endorses the current president elect—rises like a bleak mist. A chill sets in and soon tears are streaming. Not in recent memory has solace seemed so sweet.That Ravi’s and Matthew’s fathers, saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison, played on the original version is heartbreakingly apropos. Every once in a while we’re reminded that, yes, music really is the best medicine. Woodstock resident DeJohnette, whose career spans 50 years, knows this well. Besides jamming with John Coltrane himself and working with Bill Evans, Chick Corea, and others, his 1969-1971 stint with Miles Davis is legendary. Here, he reaches even farther back in his musical history, to his first instrument, the piano, which he plays on a sparse rendition of Davis’s “Blue in Green” and the revealingly named “Soulful Ballad.” Coltrane’s yearning lines conjure his father’s while Garrison’s tasteful electronics on the title piece and “Two Jimmys” embody the bold outlook of this reliably rewarding release. The trio plays The Egg on December 9. Ecmrecords.com. —Peter Aaron
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The cover image is immediately recognizable—it’s a recreation of Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home LP cover featuring Amanda Palmer, her infant son, and her father posing in the same room in Albert and Sally Grossman’s Woodstock home where the 1965 Dylan cover was photographed.This is an unexpected 12-track release from the eccentric queen of punk cabaret and her sire, a collection of folk, blues, and contemporary covers that are kept sparse primarily using acoustic strings and keys. The two splendidly harmonize on a lullaby by the Simon sisters, Carly and Lucy, called “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” (check out the fun YouTube video) and again on the Phil Ochs doom ditty, “In the Heat of the Summer.” Hudson resident Amanda delivers a sweetly earnest rendition of Melanie’s “Again” and an impassioned version of Sinead O’Connor’s anthem of police brutality, “Black Boys on Mopeds.” A noble interpretation of Richard Thompson’s “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” spotlights the fatherdaughter call and response over spirited piano. To perfectly close the recording is Noah Britton’s simple yet poignant “I Love You So Much,” and a hankie warning for this track cannot be stressed enough. Even father and daughter choke up as they affirm their love for each other in tender, fragile voices. Considering that the two were recently united after a strained relationship of many years, it’s understandable and delightful to hear a family reconciled through song. Amandapalmer.net —Sharon Nichols
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Satellite Paradiso Satellite Paradiso (2014, Independent)
An ambitious spirit is at the heart of ex-Psychedelic Furs guitarist and John Ashton’s Satellite Paradiso record, a sort of “music can change the world” sensibility that lends most of the songs here an air of importance you’d expect from Live Aid ’85. Even a leaner rocker like “Dream” wants to rise up and claim the heights. Gail Ann Dorsey, Cheetah Chrome, Mars Williams, B.P. Hurding, and other skilled collaborators anchor the songs’ sense of purpose. The standout “Super Anti Hero” makes U2’s fairly decent “Vertigo” sound completely trite by comparison, while the album’s mix, by Ashton and Anthony Molina (Mercury Rev), finds each element of this noisy garden growing properly without becoming a tangled mess. Woodstock resident Ashton will always be associated with his old band, not that that is a bad thing. Still, it is always great to hear new material from veteran artists who have pioneered movements still sounding hungry for more, seeking the center of the creative urge. The deconstructionist-pop glue holding these songs together is a sacred faith in this day and age. In part, the album is dedicated to “those whose vision, talent, and unfaltering resolve helped us to see the beauty that is all around.” That sentiment stings extra-sharp in a year when we lost David Bowie, Alan Vega, Dio/Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain, and Prince, but Ashton might as well say that to a mirror. Then again, he sounds more concerned with getting creative results than an ego boost. Satelliteparadiso.com. —Morgan Y. Evans chronogram.com
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Alexander Chee’s Fabulism The Queen of the Night
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he location of Alexander Chee’s rural Ulster home couldn’t be more remote from the Second Empire Paris he evokes in his second novel, The Queen of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2016). Leaves are on the ground, lightly sprinkled with snow. The embracing woods and distant mountains are brushed with pale orange and yellow. All is beautifully quiet; only a whisper of wind disturbs the stillness. If the scene resembles anything from The Queen of the Night, it’s the stark, Minnesota wilderness of the heroine’s childhood—a wilderness from which she’s driven by an unnamed fever that claims her family, leaving her orphaned, fending for herself at the age of 12. Inside the cozy, cathedral-ceilinged lodge, Chee is welcoming in casual pants, shirt, and a sweater. He’s arrived just moments before, having been delayed in traffic on the drive from SUNY Purchase, where he was a guest reader. When asked as to how he found this remarkably isolated spot, Chee explains that he and his partner—director and screenwriter Dustin Schell (a distant relation of actors Maximillian and Maria Schell)—were considering an alternative to the often blaring sights and sounds of their Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. They had friends in the Big Indian region, so the area became the focus of their search. “The original listing didn’t look promising,” Chee says. Built in the early 1930s, as one of the first dwellings of a proposed private hunting association—an idea nixed by the Great Depression—the lodge pictured in the listing maintained its architectural integrity, but its walls were mounted with animal heads and a large, stuffed bear stood in a corner. Nevertheless, on his first visit Chee put aside his misgivings and found the lodge to his liking. Since then, with the standing bear and trophy heads removed, earth-toned paint applied, gray wainscoting, contemporary lighting, and a hot tub in the woodshed, Chee, jokingly, describes the lodge as “Palm Beach meets the
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Catskills.” “Being here, being able to have this house,” he says, “makes me feel lucky.” And well he should. With the publication of The Queen of the Night, he’s been riding a wave of success that began to build 15 years ago. Chee’s debut novel, Edinburgh (Picador, 2001) is a coming-of-age tale set in Maine about a boy soprano, of Korean-American descent, who suffers the shame and humiliation of sexual abuse at the hands of his choir master. The novel is semi- autobiographical: Chee was born in Rhode Island of a Korean father and American mother and spent most of his childhood in Maine where he performed as a professional boy soprano until his voice changed and “became a mockery of what it had been.” Edinburgh earned its author a Whiting Award, the Michener/Copernicus Fellowship Prize, an NEA fellowship, the Asian American Writers Literary Award, a MacDowell residency, and a Lambda Editor’s Choice prize. Teaching posts and visiting writer offers were soon to follow at the New School, UMassAmherst, Leipzig University, and the University of Texas. At present, he’s teaching fiction writing and the essay at Dartmouth. He has also written for the NewYork Times, Slate, The New Republic, Bookforum and the San Francisco Review of Books, and Amtrak awarded him a grant to ride and write cross-country by rail. That journey proved to be one of his best writing experiences ever. He says he likes to write “in unexpected places,” especially trains. Edinburgh was written almost entirely on the New York City subway, and he enjoys writing on Metro-North’s Hudson River Line Now, engaged in the promotion for The Queen of the Night, it may be a while before Alexander Chee has the leisure again to ride a train from sea to sea. The novel, in its ninth printing, has been a national bestseller, and its just been released in paperback. It’s even put Chee in front of TV cameras on “Late Night with Seth Myers,” not a routine occurrence for a serious author of literary fiction.
What Chee has created in The Queen of the Night is an inventive telling of a life lived as opera, an outsize, mythical, fairytale.The orphaned heroine arrives in Paris as a singing bareback rider with a New York circus. She shortly leaves the circus and steps into the theater of Paris during the reign of Napoleon III. With the adopted name of Lilliet Berne, the waif-like orphan conceals her true origins and past involvement with the circus, and, in turn, becomes a prostitute, a mute attendant to the Empress Eugenie, a spy, and the most celebrated falcon soprano (a soprano with a range placed between a dramatic and mezzo soprano) in France. Her voice is so delicate she could lose it at any moment. To preserve her voice, she never speaks in public, adding to her mystery. She’s courted; she’s imprisoned; she’s lavished with jewels and gowns. (Chee attended an exhibit in Paris of the Empress Eugénie’s costumes to get the dresses and the jewels right.) She flees Paris during it’s burning in the Franco-Prussian war in a hot air balloon from the roof of the Paris Opera. At the height of her fame as a soprano, Lilliet is approached by an author who’s written a novel, The Universal Circus of Decay, which seems to be based on her real life, not the life of the Lilliet Berne she has invented. The truth of her life prior to becoming a celebrated soprano is known only to four people. The writer wants to convert the novel into a libretto and have Lilliet portray the lead, thereby, portraying herself. A role originated just for her unique vocal abilities is a dream that has eluded Lilliet. But if the dream is made real, it may expose the deceit of the exterior she has created and destroy her. The author is also in possession of personal objects Lilliet considered lost. Finding out how he came into possession of the objects and which of the four possible suspects divulged Lilliet’s secrets provides the narrative engine of the story. It’s speculative fiction that’s also populated with historical figures. Verdi, Turgenev, and George Sand make appearances. And the Comtesse de Castiglione, graces the front of the hardcover edition of The Queen of the Night in one of 700 photographs, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, she had commissioned by Pierre-Louis Pierson. It uses history as theatrical backdrop and is loosely based on Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute.” It’s trial by fire and water. It’s fabulism, à la Italo Calvino, as written by an American author with a grand, sensual imagination, who enjoys research as much as he enjoys writing. Chee says the underlying themes of the novel deal with fate, masks, and fixed roles, the way society—in the case of “Queen,” the restrictive society of Second Empire France—forces his characters to wear masks and assume roles. Though fate plays a big part in the novel, Chee says he doesn’t believe in fate. “We aren’t the playthings of the gods,” he says. Lilliet’s “argument with fate is her argument with her life.” In his own life, Chee doesn’t assume masks or adhere to the prescribed roles of social class, gender, ethnicity, and history. Raised partially in South Korea and Main, Chee abhorred the prejudices people had about him based on his appearance. “People would actually ask me, ‘What are you?’ If they were polite, they’d ask how my parents met.” Chee acknowledges that while we may not be living in the rigid hierarchy of Second Empire France, contemporary society still demands that we play fixed roles. Chee most admires mold breakers, exemplified in The Queen of the Night by Lilliet and the Comtesse de Castiglione—“women who use their celebrity and sexual power not as vanity, but as a calculated part of their personal and political power.” So what’s next for Alexander Chee, after the 15 years it took him to write The Queen of the Night and the subsequent demands of its marketing campaign? It’s more work! He has three novels in various stages of gestation, and a new book, How toWrite an Autobiographical Novel , is forthcoming. Plus he and Dustin are collaborating on a screenplay, “The Scarlet Professor,” about the life of the closeted Smith professor, Newton Arvin, whose life was destroyed when his apartment was raided in 1960 and his collection of male erotica was confiscated. In the midst of so much productivity, Chee does find time for play. He’s developed an enthusiasm for karaoke, and he’s started signing again, performing on NPR’s “Cabinet of Wonders,” recorded live at City Winery in Manhattan. And as often as he can, he travels to his Big Indian getaway, the place where he feels “like the luckiest person alive.”
An excerpt from Alexander Chee’s Queen of the Night: “The bal, for size and splendor, had surpassed my expectations, as had my costume. True to his word, Worth had driven his seamstresses hard. In his vision for the “Queen of the Night,” Worth had created a costume for me that made me look to be covered in a shower of stars and comets. The embroidery was hand-stitched in a technique original to him that shaped the fabric as it was sewn, and the silhouette of the bodice was sculpted as a result. One comet outlined my left breast and wound down to circle my waist, meeting others, all beaded in crystal and leaving long white silk satin crystal-beaded trails that ran across an indigo velvet train. More comets created a gorgeous bustle and the edges of their trails scalloped the skirt down to the floor—the comets looked like wings. On the front panel of the gown’s skirt, more comets streaked across a night sky of indigo silk satin, and clouds hid a crescent moon as rays of white and gold light spread from it, embroidered in silver thread. The moon was beaded in pearls.”
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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2016 CAN IT!: THE PERILS AND PLEASURES OF PRESERVING FOODS
GABE AND GOON
Gary Allen
Charlesbridge Press, 2016, $16.95
Reaktion Books Ltd., 2016, $27
Before hipsters discovered mason jars, they were used to can and process food. This book offers a chance to learn the history behind and recipes for a variety of pickled, dried, fermented, smoked, condensed, salted, or freeze-dried foods. From chutney to glyko, Gary Allen gives readers a worldwide study on processing preserved food. Vintage magazine advertisements and other colored illustrations complement the 200-plus pages.
CONVERSATIONS IN THE SPIRIT: LEX HIXON’S “IN THE SPIRIT” INTERVIEWS: A CHRONICLE OF THE SEVENTIES SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION Edited by Sheila Hixon Monkfish Book Publishing, 2016, $20
Lex Hixon’s “In the Spirit” interviews on WBAI were essential in forming America’s spiritual exploration in the1970s. Many of the spiritual concepts talked about on the show have grown to societal familiarity today, like Zen Buddhism, yoga, and meditation. For the first time, 33 of Hixon’s original interviews, spanning from the 1970s to the early 80s, have been collected and edited into text format. Read Hixon’s interviews with icons: St. Teresa of Calcutta, Allen Ginsberg, Zen Mountain Monastery abbot John Daido Loori, and influential Indian monk and scholar Swami Nikhilananda.
THEY ALL SAW A CAT Brendan Wenzel Chronicle Books, 2016, $16.99
This book’s full-page illustrations make it a perfect bedtime story for the youngest of readers. Coxsackiebased author and illustrator Brendan Wenzel’s collage and array of styles shift as the different characters in the book encounter the cat. The bee sees small colorful dots to make up the cat’s shape, the skunk sees a large figure in shades of black and white. These images teach children the importance of perspective, as well as recognizing different points of view. A page shows the creatures capitalized and named alphabetically, a way to warm-up to practicing reading comprehension.
MICKEY MANTLE: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE LINES Tom Molito Black Rose Writing, 2016, $15.95
Tom Molito’s collection of stories is a refreshing hit within the baseball genre. Written in a Peekskill coffee shop, this sports memoir is part story of the player and part of its author. Molito’s lifelong friendship with Mickey Mantle informs these new narratives on Mantle’s career and personal life, a testament to the player’s presence on and off the field. County-great Charlie Daniels writes a foreword in honor of Oklahoma’s switch-hitting legend, and baseball historian Harold “Doc” Friend provides input.
THE CROWN MAPLE GUIDE TO MAPLE SYRUP: HOW TO TAP AND COOK WITH NATURE’S ORIGINAL SWEETENER Robb Turner, Jessica Carbone, photographs by Tina Rupp Abrams Books, 2016, $29.95
A sweet guide to maple syrup, served straight from Dutchess County. Crown Maple co-founder Robb Turner and culinary historian Jessica Carbone team up for this expansive book, beginning with the trade and colonial history of maple syrup. Chapters link together to form a how to guide from tap, yielding, filtration, and then, the table. Over 65 syrup-based recipes like roasted squash soufflé with maple streusel and maple crème sandwich cookies are included. 52 books ChronograM 12/16
Locally sourced and sold books for the holidays. Find the next great adventure read, go-to cookbook, new hobby, family-friendly bedtime story for the kids, or refresh on some ancient history this gift-giving season with our hand-selected holiday gift books. Compiled by Hannah Phillips.
Iza Trapani
Hudson Valley children’s writer and illustrator Iza Trapani, known for her renderings of Baa Baa Black Sheep and Old King Cole, returns with this frighteningly cute bedtime story. Purple and plush monster Goon lives inside Gabe’s closet. Gabe isn’t afraid of monsters, but Goon is afraid of kids: a switch of the classic monster tale. The two tackle their fears and become the best of friends. This illustrated story is as endearing as it is humorous.
Wildlings Mary Ann Mclean Cornell University Press, 2016, $29.95
This Rhinebeck-based naturalist writer and explorer’s work is subdued yet stunning. Watercolor illustrations of fields, woods, and watery places intertwine with handwritten poems, offering readers a glimpse into a whimsically colorful world. These pages are a bright splash, a chance to see nature’s bounty even as the skies darken and turn steely gray.
THE AGE OF CAESAR: FIVE ROMAN LIVES Plutarch, Edited by James Romm, Translation by Pamela Mensch W.W. Norton & Company, 2017, $35
Revisit Plutarch’s biographical history of Rome’s great political leaders, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, and Antony. War. Love. Betrayal. Tragedy. Empire. This classic BCE text profiling the Roman Empire’s famed and fallen leaders get a 21st-century update. Bard College classical studies professor James Romm writes a background-illuminating preface of Plutarch and his subjects, and provides insightful notes throughout the text.
THE MONSTER NEXT DOOR David Soman Penguin Random House Press, 2016, $17.99
The Rosendale-based best-selling author and illustrator who helped create The Ladybug Girl series is back. His latest subject: a little boy with a monster of a friend. The boy and monster are treehouse neighbors who communicate through a clothesline rope. After a musicrelated disagreement and water-balloon fight (illustrated with a comic-bubble styled full page spread and vibrant colors), the boy begins to see the monster’s point of view through his anger. Recommended for ages 3 to 5, this charming story teaches children empathy and working through disagreements to maintain healthy friendships.
RUNNING THE LONG PATH: A 350-MILE JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY IN NEW YORK’S HUDSON VALLEY Kenneth A. Posner SUNY Press, 2016, $19.95
Nine days. A 350-mile long stretch of trail from New York City to Albany. Inspired by Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road,” Kenneth Posner took the open road afoot and light-hearted. He scrambles up and around paths that take him through difficult terrain— the Shawangunks, Catskills, Schoharie Reservoir, and Endless Mountains, facing hunger, the elements, swollen feet, and the overall will to finish. Posner pairs his internal experience with the outside beauty of the Hudson Valley’s trails and history, channeling voices that protected them: Walt Whitman, John Burroughs, Teddy Roosevelt, and Raymond Torrey.
Recommendations from Local Booksellers
Chronogram asked independent bookstore owners from across the Hudson Valley to choose their favorite new releases for this year’s Holiday Gift Guide. These local stores are the perfect spots to visit in person for scoping out the new go-to read for your gift list. While you’re there, check out their event calendars: they also host author readings, workshops, community events, and more that will continue well into the New Year. Here are some of their selections to get you started:
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OUR TIME AT FOXHOLLOW FARM David Byars Excelsior Editions, 2016, $50
Deputy Managing Editor of Vogue David Byars has collected the history of the Hudson Valley’s Dows family through stories and photographs in this stunning book. The Dows estate, Foxhollow Farm, was built in Rhinebeck in the early 1900s with architecture by Stanford White protegee Harrie T. Lindeberg and landscaping by the Olmsted Brothers. Covering the history of the Dows family from 1903-1930, Our Time at Foxhollow Farm is the perfect gift for anyone who can’t get enough of local high society history. Recommended by Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books & Music, Millerton and Rhinebeck.
THE LYRICS: 1961-2012 Bob Dylan Simon & Schuster, 2016, $60
Right after the historic announcement that this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature went to a “musician,” this collection of Dylan’s lyrics was published in a handsome volume worthy of any coffee table. A perfect gift for all true music lovers, this should also be considered for any literary loyalist as it makes the case for Dylan to be included in the company of revolutionary wordsmiths like Dickinson or Whitman. As Salman Rushdie argued, Dylan is “the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition.” Recommended by James Conrad of The Golden Notebook, Woodstock.
ancient skies, ancient trees Beth moon abbeville publishing, 2016, $37
The perfect gift for anyone who appreciates the beauty of nature. Moon photographs some of the oldest and most revered trees on earth. The fact that they are all shot at night is the book’s most enthralling element as Moon illuminates features of the nighttime sky often undetected by the naked eye. These brilliant astronomical panoramas provide gorgeous frames for the majestic subjects below. Among the writing that accompanies the photos, local author on spirituality and religion Clark Strand contributes a heart-opening essay on photography as pilgrimage and the spiritual qualities intrinsic to trees.
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One of the coolest local books to come out this year is Heuvelt’s terrifying yet witty and reasonable novel set in a fictional Hudson Valley town, translated from the Dutch original. I projected Rosendale as I read it and you can do the same for your town. The central horror—an old witch with sewn-shut eyes who likes to stand at the end of your bed—is leavened (or worsened?) by the social media realism of modern life. Recommended by jesse post of postmark books, rosendale.
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our January issue is December 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
Untitled
End of Now
The elephants, The candles, The DRUMS BONG BONG! Listen to the beat of the drums in your mind, bong bong. It makes you think of the elephants stomping, Pounding against the ground: thum THUP! Thum Mix the sound of the drums And the elephants feet pounding Bong Bong
Thum Thump Bong Bong Thump And think of the sound of the candle’s wick Krickle Krack Krack Mix the energy of these sounds And listen closely You’ll hear Thabonkrick!
What today is this? That hasn’t any name like Thursday or Shabbat. —p
—Samson Velazquez (9 years)
Tahiti
Columbus Day
The Corner of Reality and Mine
The silvered man sipped his single malt Waved his cheroot and announced:
I like to think I become Atticus Finch whenever my children inquire about things they don’t understand.
I’m from the land of getting over, where every child has the moral courage to take the last cookie.
“Before I die, I will go to Tahiti I will take with me Two volumes of Conan Doyle And one of Kenneth Patchen I shall wear white khakis And wade in the water I will watch the sky and map it Day and night I will live on passionfruit And drink from springs Before I die.” I looked him in the cheroot: “It could be that Conan Doyle Will still hold mystery That Patchen will still provoke That your khakis will stay clean That the sun will not blind you That the moon will not addle you That passionfruit will still taste sweet Until you die But sadly I’m afraid you’ll find Tahiti is not what it used to be.” —Andrew Joffe
The Heart That Is Broken A friend said, “Your heart is strong” No, my heart is broken Shattered And will never be put together again Not by all the king’s horses nor all the king’s men I wish it were not so With all of the pieces of my heart —Kate Skinner
Zeroing In She takes aim Careful aim Without hesitation and plants one to its final resting place —Bruce Groh 54 poetry ChronograM 12/16
I don’t want them to discover as teenagers that the bad guys don’t always lose or that mommy and daddy aren’t perfect.
I’m from the land of the 2 a.m. talk show, where UFOs are identified by their star of origin.
So here I am watching the parade. The fire department and the Boy Scouts certainly are impressive.
I’m from the land of the mercantilist revival, where fiduciary responsibility is the only respectable virtue.
Whatever it is Rotarians do, they sure know how to smile and wave. There’s the town supervisor and his council,
I’m from the land of domesticated news, where if it didn’t happen to us, it didn’t happen.
The VFW, and the county’s oldest resident, following the high school marching band blasting out “America the Beautiful.” My daughter sees him first, perched upon an inflatable Santa Maria, the Nina and Pinta bringing up the rear. “He discovered America!” she declares, and suddenly I’m struck dumb. Not even in the car home do I inform her it wasn’t the real Columbus who winked in her direction; nor did he do what her teacher taught last week, unless the lesson was on European colonialism, unless twenty-five first-graders added to their vocabularies words like “genocide,” “intolerance,” or “smallpox.” I pull into the driveway still wrestling with the notion of sitting her down after dinner and revising the myth. Instead, I send her off to bed later to dream about the next celebration between those bucolic pilgrims and the Indians. —Ted Millar
I’m from the land of real choices, where what I chose to believe becomes real. I’m from the land of zero sum, where there are many losers, but only one winner. So why don’t you quit now. —Ken Sutton
Another spin on the loneliness wheel She lives alone in her Studio City home in need of repair near the farmers’ market, won’t wear ear plugs ‘cuz you just never know, met a man thru JDate, set up a weekend together in Cambria halfway from Oakland where he lives and the San Fernando Valley where she lives, took a freshly baked apple pie, a bouquet of white roses for the room. When they met she had misunderstood. He smelled like beer, hadn’t shaved, wore wrinkled clothes. In their phone calls he had been considerate, kind in fact, obsequious to a fault she found and here she is four hours from home planning her escape. —Marc Swan
Released Into The Wild
Gone
Welcome to the Suck
I see the jungle as it is: I kill and eat every day, Members of my clan are sometimes taken away in the night. Floods and mudslides destroy our nests and we have to start all over again. It’s not all bad. I sleep well most days and spend time playing with the cubs. This must be the best possible world, right? The real one at least? But I’m haunted but a vague memory of another existence A better one Free of violence or storm. Is it wishful thinking, maybe just a capricious dream? Somewhere inside of me There is a God and I can’t help but remember Him. I can see in my memory a yellow name tag shaped like a little hard banana. We called him “Jeff.” He smelt of peanut butter and aftershave. I used to think about Him at night when I couldn’t sleep and there was no moon.
Before the cursor even hit the screen I was gone Inclined to give feelings the stage, but Without letting them spill
I’m quitting cigarettes, probably until I start drinking again. I like butts.
—Billy Internicola
The Blight The robust memories of last year’s crop, Ripen with the promise of the fruit that this year’s will bring, Blue for the memory, pink for the promise. Yet blue gives way to pink in the unripening fruit, And yet-grown berries plucked from the branch not by fingers, but sickness, Fall pitiful to the mulchy autumn grass below. The Blight, from nowhere, creeps through my berries, And the lofty promise of the bumper, Remains unfulfilled. —Tom Fleming
Nesting A red bird hides in the gutters of my grandmother’s house & I wake gasping from a dream where she was swallowed by a heaving ocean & the bird builds a nest out of the muck that hasn’t been cleared away & I learn that even in dreams you can never outrun the flood & the bird settles in & the roof of my grandmother’s house sags downward into a smile. —Emily Zogbi
Love The rain falls Head over heels And I wonder Why no one told it That was such a bad idea. —Max Drew
Before the light even hit the concrete I was gone Dodging intense commutes Yawning out the night’s drips of insecurities Before an ounce was even consumed I was gone Holding on with intent Not to spill a drop along the way
Thad says, “That’s okay, Jimmer.” But he always says that, like a wired reply. So I sit on the porch in the winter, and the sky looks trippy sometimes when I’m not on drugs. —Jim Hegmegee
Before the light even hit the pillow I was gone Holding on with content To every drop of your skin
Keep Yourself keep yourself on track keep yourself on track keep yourself on track keep yourself on track track on yourself keep keep track yourself on on track keep yourself yourself on track keep on yourself track keep on yourself track keep keep track on yourself yourself keep track on track on keep yourself keep yourself on track
Before I even touched you I was gone My heart gave no consent Spilling every drop Before I was gone I was here Content Dripping wet with anticipation —Bryan McGrath
—Ze’ev Willy Neumann
Waking up with the Blue State Blues America! How could you? I thought I lived in another country. Prayer will, I’m hopeful, help. Shall we watch the world spin out?
Untitled Poetry is Rapid Transit for the Soul IT WHISPERS IN THE DELUGE
No. I’ll put my weird shoulder to the wheel, push my own looming boulder
WHISPERS IN THE SUNLIGHT…
Up my own personal mountain. With malice toward none, and...
WHISPERS IN THE MIDST OF ITSELF
—Frank Boyer
Big, Beefy Guys With Ponytails There sure are a whole lot of those dudes! —George J. Searles
—Peter Coco
Philosophy They say I drive a little too close. I open up too soon, too much. I say yes too often. I’m too sensitive, too intense, too difficult. But I say life is too short to be moderate about anything. —Elizabeth Young 12/16 ChronograM poetry 55
Ruminant’s Delight
Buttermaking in the highlands of Bhutan begins with hand-milking the yak.
photos by elaine khosrova
Food & Drink
An excerpt from Elaine Khosrova’s Butter: A Rich History
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lthough the time and place when people first created butter is a subject of ongoing debate, most anthropologists agree that butter arrived on the scene with Neolithic people, the first of our Stone Age ancestors who succeeded at domesticating ruminants. Once these early families had milking animals under their control, the invention of different dairy products was an evolutionary next step. We’ll never know the exact details, but the probable scenario goes something like this: One spring morning a herdsman is milking his animals, using the customary pouch of a tightly sewn animal skin as a storage container. Stored in the shade during the day, the pouch of milk starts to ferment slightly. As the sun goes down, the temperature cools, chilling the milk overnight. Early the next morning, the shepherd sets out with his herd for a new pasture, harnessing the cool pouch of milk to one of his animals. Traversing the bumpy route, the milk is rocked back and forth, rhythmically, for more than an hour. At a cool temperature and slightly ripened by bacteria, the milk fat is in an ideal condition for churning. Before long the herdsman’s dairy load separates into thick butter flakes floating in an opaque liquid (buttermilk). A possible and less romantic twist on this scenario—based on the theory that cheese making preceded butter making—is that the leftover whey drained from sheep’s cheese curds, rather than the whole milk, was accidentally agitated, which then turned into lumpy bits of butter swimming in whey. (This is still the way sheep and goat butter are made in some traditional dairies, as a by-product of cheese making.) Either way, the herdsman may have cursed his lumpy liquid at first, but we know how the story ends. Marveling at the rich taste of the butter kernels, he thinks surely this stuff is the result of magic by the gods. He smiles (I like to think) at their edible benevolence. 56 FOOD & DRINK ChronograM 12/16
Eventually this ancestor and his clan also discovered that this tangy dairy fat was not only useful for eating but also for cooking, fuel, and medicine. For early dwellers in hot climates of the Middle East, Indus Valley, and Africa, this breakthrough would soon be followed by the realization that when butter is long simmered, its water content is driven off and its milk solids sink, leaving a layer of butter oil (most commonly referred to as ghee or ghi) that keeps for many months at an ambient temperature. And wasting nothing that was edible, prehistoric dairy folk came to savor the leftover buttermilk—as either a refreshing drink or the basis of a simple low-fat cheese (as is still done in many dairy cultures around the world).Turning liquid milk into these various “value-added” products, prehistoric animal herders created the world’s first dairy processing industry. You wouldn’t recognize the world’s earliest butters. For one thing, they were made from the milk of sheep, yak, and goats, not from cow’s milk. Domesticated cattle came much later in man’s conquest of various animals. From as early as 9000 BCE in the region of what is now Iran, communities relied on domestic sheep and goats, which are less intimidating in size and have comfort-loving dispositions that early man coaxed into submission. In the Near East, domesticated goats functioned as a virtual power tool and dairy plant for early man as well, defoliating the scrubby land as they grazed so it could then be cultivated. The animals turned this coarse plant diet into a ready source of good meat and milk. Goat’s skin, being nonporous, also provided an excellent milk vessel. Thousands of years later, man began to tame cattle species and other wild bovines for work. Although the doe-eyed bovine cow has become an international dairy icon, the ancient world was much less monopolized by this fourhoofed favorite. Other ruminants—like the camel, reindeer, mare, yak, and water buffalo—also played the valuable role of milk maker for thousands of years, particularly in regions of the world where a cow would never survive.
A “Barbarian” Staple As butter making became less happenstance in Neolithic communities, its crude technology slowly advanced. The animal skin pouch filled with milk was moved off the back of an animal and hung like a cradle from a tree limb, or from a sturdy horizontal log supported at either end, or from the center of a tripod of logs. The filled skin could be easily rocked back and forth to agitate the milk for butter making. This primitive animal skin method of making butter can still be found in a few small, remote communities in the Middle East and northern Africa. The Sumerians of 2500 BCE used special terra-cotta jugs for holding the milk and a plunger-type tool (called a dash or dasher in English) for churning it. In many parts of Africa, hollowed-out calabash gourds became the first butter churns; with their rounded bottoms, they were ideal for rocking the milk back and forth. Just after the beginning of the Iron Age, butter making underwent a great regional boon with the expansion of another tribe of pastoralists, the Vedic Aryans, who flourished in the Indus River valley and northern India. Makhan, the traditional Indian unsalted butter made by hand from cultured whole milk dahi (yogurt), was a staple of these pastoralists, ancestors of today’s Hindus. The milk of their water buffalo, by virtue of its higher fat content, gave excellent butter that was then simmered into ghee. Although butter was common throughout most of the developing world by the first century CE, there were significant exceptions. All along the Mediterranean, olive oil became the ruling food fat (as it still is). Oil made economic sense in the region, since the same terrain that allowed the olive tree to thrive—craggy limestone slopes, light soil, arid conditions—was highly unfavorable to cattle dairying. Sure-footed foragers like goats and sheep fared well on the scrubby pasture, but their precious milk was generally set aside for cheese making. Only a little butter was made from whatever fat residue was in the leftover whey. Butter also suffered a poor reputation along the Mediterranean because the ancient Greeks and Romans who ruled the region associated it with the “barbarians” of the north. An Early Luxury Meanwhile, on the other side of the ancient world, most early Chinese communities, except those in the far north, would rarely see, let alone taste, butter since dairying itself was an anomaly. Some historians theorize that dairying was rare in the region because people of Chinese descent are highly lactose intolerant. (But, the chicken-or-egg counterargument goes, perhaps they are lactose intolerant because they didn’t develop a dairy culture. The enzyme needed to digest lactose naturally recedes as a person ages, but in dairy-rich cultures people have adapted epigenetically to digesting this milk sugar throughout their lives.) Other observers, like food science writer Harold McGee in his book On Food and Cooking, speculate that dairying never took off in China because in the region where Chinese agriculture began, the wild vegetation was toxic to ruminants. Even so, dairy wasn’t completely unavailable or rejected in theYellow River heartlands, the birthplace of Chinese agriculture. Influenced by roving Mongolian nomads to the north, who spread their dairy culture through trade with bordering communities, the early Chinese believed milk products to be nutritious in small, digestible quantities, especially when heated or fermented. Chinese dairy luxuries included a cultured skim milk, a fresh cheese similar to cottage cheese, clotted cream, and butter oil similar to ghee. The heavy hand of conquest also influenced butter’s reach in the early world. In the Anglo-Saxon territories of the early Middle Ages, butter was typically made from sheep’s milk—a remnant of Roman occupation. Cows existed in the region but they were kept primarily to breed the oxen needed to plow fields, not for dairying. Sheep, however, could supply four valuable commodities: wool, tallow, milk, and meat. Sheep dairies were the existing system of milk supply for the Romanized Britons and butter making was a minor by-product of making cheese with ewe’s milk. The amount of sheep’s butter produced was precious little (about two pounds for every one hundred pounds of cheese), so only the nobility or local thane enjoyed it. Butter was therefore a luxury in Anglo-Saxon times; not until the high Middle Ages, when wool and milk became more separate enterprises, did the dairy systems in the region shift from sheep to cow, making bovine butter more affordable. Before long, butter became so popular among all classes that its production was more profitable than cheese making. Elaine Khosrova will read from Butter: A Rich History (Algonquin Books, 2016) at the Golden Notebook in Woodstock on Saturday, December 3 at 4pm.
Top: Vermont buttermaker Marisa Mauro of Ploughgate Creamery handwraps and labels her cultured butter. Bottom: Traditional buttermaking in India uses a system of ropes to spin a center pole that churns water buffalo milk.
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Clarifying Agent Q&A with Elaine Khosrova
Elaine Khosrova’s Butter: A Rich History is a surprisingly expansive and entertaining exploration of a familiar grocery list staple. Part history, part travelogue, part cookbook, Butter follows the story of the culinary catalyst from its humble agrarian origins to its current artisanal pedestal. I spoke to the chef and author from her home in Chatham. —Hannah Phillips Why butter? How and when did it click that this was something you would want to pursue enough to write a book about? For most of my life and career I completely took butter for granted. I didn’t think about it much at all. Of course I used it, I relied on it, I liked butter. But I was a food writer for magazines chasing down much more exotic, trendy foods to study. I was working for a magazine and I had to do a butter tasting of 12 or more butters, and I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it: I thought, ‘Oh butter, it’s so elemental. Just get through this.’ But as I unwrapped them, and started to taste, touch, smell, I was surprised at how different they were. I wasn’t expecting it and I couldn’t really account for why they were so different. I knew that you churn cream to make butter—it’s a food with one ingredient. Yet these, with more or less the same process, how are they so different? That was kind of a small but significant ‘aha’ moment. Soon after that I changed jobs and worked as the editor of Culture [a magazine devoted to cheese], and that allowed me to be behind the scenes in the dairy world. That’s when I really began to understand what was happening on the table that day. It really pieced together the science of butter, which results from three very living, dynamic things coming together: the maker, the animal, and the land. I was intrigued by being able to read a butter, to read what’s going on with those factors. I had a full-time job and I wasn’t thinking ‘I’m going to write a butter book,’ I was just getting really geeky about the science and technology behind it—I’ve always been kind of fascinated by that stuff. It wasn’t until I had some changes in my personal life where I had to leave that job and thought, “Well, maybe.” In the meantime, I had also learned about the fairly epic history of butter, and saw a glimpse at how wonderful and complex that could be. I was lucky that a friend recommended an agent, and at that point it came together fairly quickly. I had time to do it, to really focus, which is why I was able to do a lot of traveling for the book too. Outside of the States, I was in Ireland, England, France, Bhutan, India, Spain, and Canada. And then throughout the States, mostly NewYork, Massachusetts,Vermont, and then California,Wisconsin, and Iowa. While I was reading I found the sections about gender and butter interesting. I enjoyed reading about the entire culture of witchcraft and butter that I had no idea about reading before this book. What fact, or aspect, about butter did you find to be surprising?
As far as the cultural history of butter, I think the most fascinating for me was discovering that across so many ancient cultures, butter was used as a sacred or spiritual tool. It sort of represented divinity in creation: butter is hidden in milk the way the divine is hidden in creation. The ancient Samarians believed that, the Hindus and the Vedic Aryans that preceded the Hindus, the Druids, and the Tibetan Buddhists. There’s even a Japanese Buddhist master that had a whole meditation based on the butter melting down and melting through your body. I was really amazed by that. And that was sort of the positive side of butter’s metaphysical story, whereas the witchcraft was kind of the more vicious and negative and dark side of the metaphysical quality. But I loved reading about the different rituals where butter was an important part of that ritual. What’s the absolute best butter you’ve ever tasted? I have to say the water buffalo butter that I had in India, this little tiny village in India, was really outstanding. I wasn’t really expecting that. It’s made from whole milk that they turn into yogurt. They use the same culture day after day; they just keep a little bit back when they save the buttermilk. Then they use it to culture the next batch. There’s this culture that’s probably been going on for, I don’t know, decades, but it was everything it should be—it had this like sweetness and nuttiness, a beautiful tang without any sour notes. It was really dense, and almost chewy. What’s next for you after butter? I’m not really done with butter. Even though the book had to happen and be done at some point, there’s still a lot of places I’d like to get to, like Mongolia, Nepal, and Ethiopia. There are places that still have a very traditional butter culture. I really want to document that. I think that soon with globalization, many of these things will disappear—I already saw it in India. I was able to have these women show me how they would churn traditionally, before they all got a blender. I was able to capture that on film and talk about it and know about it. At this point, I would be interested in moving into butter preservation. I’m not really sure where that will lead. In my dreams, I would love to be a part of a documentary about butter. I really feel like it’s practically universal, it’s so ancient. 12/16 ChronograM FOOD & DRINK 59
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Synergistic and holistic, Urban Zen Integrative Therapy is bringing care back into healthcare. by wendy k agan illustr ation by annie internicola
H
arley Decker was 19 when his left lung collapsed and he was rushed to Southampton Hospital for emergency surgery in 2013. He had a condition called blebs, prevalent in tall, thin white males (Decker is 6’2”), in which microscopic air pockets form on the lining of the lung, where they can rupture and compromise the vital organ. The operation involved inserting a chest tube between two ribs and then “sandpapering” the tiny air pockets so that when they healed they would fuse to the chest cavity, preventing the lung from future collapse. It was not his first surgery, and in previous post-ops he had responded well to morphine. But not this time. “I was getting severe morphine sickness,” he recalls, with three days of nausea, painful vomiting, migraines, and sleeplessness. His mother, Gina Decker, was by his side, helpless to relieve her son’s suffering and not getting much sleep herself. When he had his chest tube removed on day four he felt no better—until yoga teacher Sarah Halweil came into the room and laid her hands on him with Urban Zen Integrative Therapy. “I’m very open-minded to things like Reiki and Eastern medicine, but in the position that I was in, I didn’t believe that anything would help,” Harley says. Yet the moment he felt warm hands on his body, the effect was instant relief. “I watched in awe,” remembers Gina, as Halweil administered the healing touch that helped her son breathe more deeply, transporting him into a deep and much-needed slumber. For about 30 minutes Halweil worked on him, from his head to his chest to his feet, and a smile came over the sleeping boy’s face. “She finished by putting her hands in a heart shape over his chest area, and when she left the room I felt this profound sense of calm,” says Gina, who watched her son sleep for three hours. As Harley awoke she leaned in close, like she was looking at a newborn. “How do you feel?” she asked softly. After four days of nothing but agony and agitation, his response was one word: “Great.” “How is your headache?” she inquired. “Gone.” Treating the Whole Person Much more than just hands-on touch, Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT) is a system of five healing modalities inspired by fashion designer Donna Karan and created by yoga teachers Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee. In 2001 Karan’s husband, Stephen Weiss, was dying of lung cancer, and Karan got a close look at a healthcare system that was geared to treating a disease rather than a person—and that subjected doctors and nurses to burnout and fatigue. Eager to put more care into healthcare for both patients and caregivers, she turned to her yoga friends Rodney and Colleen to mastermind a solution. Launched in 2007, UZIT combines yoga therapy (including gentle movement, restorative poses, breath awareness, and meditation), Reiki, essential oil therapy, contemplative care, and nutrition-based wellness. “The [healthcare environment] has become so sterile that the human care aspect of it leaks out of the equation,” says RodneyYee. “It’s unfortunate because human touch and interaction are a big aspect of healing. Healing is not just fix-
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ing the physical body.”With many hospital coordinators and CEOs realizing that patient satisfaction is important, there is a need for services that offer a more human experience. “We came up with the idea that we’re not going to pretend to heal cancer or anything like that, but we’re going to do what we do best— we’re going to bring people into the present moment with our techniques,” says Yee. “We’re going to create as best we can the optimum environment so that the body and mind can do what they already want to do, and that is heal and balance.” Each of UZIT’s modalities is designed to address the symptoms of PANIC—pain, anxiety, nausea, insomnia, and constipation—as well as exhaustion and sadness. Practitioners are trained to draw from a toolbox of healing practices to address a wide range of scenarios for the patient or caregiver. While Harley Decker experienced mainly touch healing, a typical UZIT session will combine and synchronize aspects of all five modalities. It’s in this synergy that the magic happens and the power of each modality gets amplified. “At first I thought we should just use pranayama [breathwork],” saysYee. “When we started using five modalities, I was blown away. It wasn’t just 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1. It was 1 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5.” For someone experiencing anxiety, an UZIT practitioner might have the patient inhale an essential oil called Peace & Calming, and then put them into a Child’s Pose. They might use Reiki hands on the lower back or feet to give a sense of grounding. Then the practitioner might talk the patient through a body awareness meditation. Later, the patient might get some nutritional guidance. “We also utilize something called bearing witness, from the Zen Buddhism community, which is listening deeply to the person you’re with,” says Yee. “So with PANIC we created a chart of things to do in a half-hour or hour session.” In 2008, Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan conducted a yearlong research project using UZIT on one of its oncology floors—and the result was a savings of nearly $1 million that year on medications for pain, anxiety, and nausea. Since the strong endorsement of that study, about 750 practitioners have trained to become Urban Zen integrative therapists, and the program has spread its wings to UCLA Medical Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Boulder Community Hospital, and about 10 different facilities in the Greater New York City area. Not just in hospital settings, UZIT has also branched out to rehab centers, women’s shelters, yoga studios, and classrooms, with a modified version tailored for kids in inner city San Francisco schools. “In the institutions that we’re in, the staff members are so happy we’re there because the patient is happier and there are better patient outcomes,” says Mary-Beth Charno, a Kingston-based holistic nurse and one of UZIT’s senior nurse trainers. “A lot of times the physician will say, ‘I don’t know what you’re doing, but keep doing it.’” Charno is bringing UZIT to the Hudson Valley with a series of workshops to begin in January at Wellness Embodied in New Paltz. Designed for laypeople as well as health practitioners, and appropriate for any caregiver, from a nurse to a parent—the UZIT model begins with self-care.
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“The whole foundation of the practice is self-care,” explains Charno. “You have to get yourself into the yoga poses and feel them. You have to become the lavender oil that you use.” The philosophy is simple:You can’t effectively take care of other people if you don’t take care of yourself. We can’t give from an empty vessel or from an exhausted, stress-wracked body. “We like to think of [UZIT] as a life vest,” she explains. “As clinicians, we’re trained with this multitasking mind. We have to hold 10 or 12 things in our mind and juggle them. It creates a fragmented being because the mind is separated from the body. These therapies offer an invitation for the mind and body to have a moment to come together. Whether you simply recognize that your body has weight, or take a moment to feel your feet on the ground before you walk into a patient’s room, that’s where the magic is. There’s an availability to be present to what’s unfolding in front of me. I can hold those 10 things that I need to keep in my mind, but there’s something more supportive there. I can see the patient and what they actually need in that moment.” In the hospital room, the UZIT practitioner is trained to keep the language neutral and accessible, not using words like yoga or meditation. “When we present it as, ‘I’m going to have you move your arms and legs in bed so that you don’t get a lung infection,’ that’s understood by everyone. Really what we’re trying to do is get the patient back into their body, and into their breath.” Finding Refuge from Suffering Marina Vandenbergh, a functional medicine nurse based in Peekskill, took the UZIT training in 2012 and did her clinical rotation at Health Lodge—a free place to stay for cancer patients receiving treatment in Manhattan. “Many of the people I met were extremely sick and doing experimental treatments,” she says. “A few minutes into a session, everybody would be asleep. Just from sheer exhaustion.”Yet the tables turned for Vandenbergh two years later, when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and Lyme disease. She already had a self-care practice in place thanks to UZIT—a practice that she slipped into like a hammock for her discomfort-wracked body. “I have a daily breathwork practice that grew because of that training, and that has really helped ground me over the last few years. Whereas some of my other go-tos, such as yoga with large movements, weren’t as accessible, the breathwork was. Sometimes there’s no other way around [the pain] but through the breath.” Applying UZIT to herself has helped Vandenbergh find some comfort and a home in her body through difficult symptoms and a daunting diagnosis. Her situation also underscores the flexibility of UZIT, which can be adapted to suit anyone in any state of health. Sick patients can be guided through yoga-based movements right in their hospital bed, or in a chair. However it is administered, the multifaceted therapy gives people a chance to pause and reset. Vandenbergh knows that UZIT won’t cure her, but that hardly deters her from doing it. “During what could have been a very fear-driven time, I was able to keep my head on. I can only imagine what this would look like if I wasn’t caring for myself in this way. If I didn’t have a commitment to easing my body, my mind, my nervous system, what this could be is so much worse.” Whether it’s rolled out in a healthcare setting or served up in a classroom, UZIT is not trying to fix anything. Instead, it’s about helping people to “be here now,” saysYee, quoting the American spiritual teacher Ram Dass. As an example of how the practice can help center and ground even the most hard-to-reach individuals, Yee tells about a story about how his UZIT-trained sister uses the therapy with her special-education students. “She had a kid they called the Screamer. He was autistic. After a few Urban Zen experiences, he would come into the room, pick an essential oil, lie down in a restorative pose, and wait to be Reiki-ed. He can learn now. It’s about preparing the body and mind to receive.” The plan now is to take UZIT far and wide,with trainings in the works in more cities as well as internationally. Whether it’s close to home, where the comforting therapies can help ease a child’s stomach ache, or at a corporation, shelter, or hospital, relief is on the way. RESOURCES Mary-Beth Charno Marybethcharno@gmail.com Marina Vandenbergh Marina@embodiedcare.com Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Uzit.urbanzen.org Wellness Embodied Wellnessembodiedcenter.com Rodney Yee Yeeyoga.com
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Acupuncture Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, L.Ac. 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.creeksideacupuncture.com Private treatment rooms, attentive one-onone care, affordable rates, sliding scale. Accepting Blue Cross, no-fault and other insurances. Stephanie Ellis graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in pre-medical studies. She completed her acupuncture and Chinese medicine degree in 2001 as valedictorian of her class and started her acupuncture practice in Rosendale that same year. Ms. Ellis uses a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese-style acupuncture and triggerpoint acupuncture. Creekside Acupuncture is located in a building constructed of nontoxic, eco-friendly materials.
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Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org info@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo and Robert Polito teaching a poetry workshop, Imagining Your Voice on the Page: Back to the Beginnings, December 16-18; and Embodying Practice: A New Year’s Resolution Retreat, January 6-8.
Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org
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Thermography Breast Thermography Full Body Thermography Susan Willson, RN, CNM, CCT Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4807 www.biothermalimaging.com ACCT approved clinic, offering non-invasive Breast and Full Body thermography in a warm, personal environment, since 2003. Full Body Thermography highlights areas of chronic inflammation and organ dysfunction before they become established disease. Breast thermography shows abnormalities 8-10 years before tumors will show on a mammogram, allowing for much gentler options to rebalance the body and prevent a tumor becoming established. Susan was the first to offer Thermography in the Hudson Valley. She uses the latest medically calibrated camera and Board Certified Thermologists for interpretation.
Yoga Hot Spot 33 N. Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 750-2878 www.hotspotkingston.com hotspotkingston@gmail.com
The Hot Spot 33 N. Front St. (Lower Level), Kingston, NY http://hotspotkingston.com (845) 750-2878 hotspotkingston@gmail.com The Hot Spot is the only yoga studio in the mid-Hudson Valley offering AUTHENTIC BIKRAM Hot Yoga. Bikram Yoga is a series of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises, practiced in a room heated to 105 degrees, to stretch, strengthen, and detoxify the entire body. You will work hard; you will sweat; and you will feel amazing! Group classes and private yoga sessions available. Please see website for class schedule.
Woodstock Yoga Center 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY www.woodstockyogacenter.com (845) 679-8700 woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com Woodstock Yoga offers a range of yoga asana steeped in Indian tradition, with a foundation rooted in the healing and transformative powers of Yoga. Owner Barbara Boris and other talented teachers offer decades of experience and a wide range of classes and styles, plus events, workshops and private sessions.
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Dinosaur Jr. plays Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA, on December 10.
We Deal in Volume The increasing of decibels is a device long found in all genres of music. And, arguably, it’s rock ‘n’ roll, above all others, that depends on sheer volume to get its message across—a concept that indie icons Dinosaur Jr. have been literally building their rock on since 1984. Which is not to say the band—guitarist and singer J Mascis, bassist and singer Lou Barlow, and drummer Murph—embraces aural intensity at the expense of melody; their brand of “ear-bleeding country” is also steeped in pop hooks. Originally known as, simply, Dinosaur (a lawsuit by a similarly named outfit saw the suffix added), the trio released three albums that include 1987’s essential You’re Living All Over Me and 1988’s Bug before Barlow exited to form Sebadoh and Mascis led latter editions of the group. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not is the original lineup’s fourth album since their 2005 reunion. Dinosaur Jr. will perform at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, on December 10 at 7pm. Luluc will open. While the group was on tour in the UK, Lou Barlow answered a few questions for us from the road. Tickets are $28. (413) 662-2111; Massmoca.org. —Peter Aaron You’ve been playing on and off for over 30 years in a band that’s known for being one of the loudest in the world. How is your hearing these days? My hearing is fine. At the first practice Dinosaur Jr. had J was sporting gun earmuffs, and it was actually impossible to tell what he was playing without putting something in our ears. I did my share of standing, unprotected, in front of PAs as a youth, but a recent hearing test showed me to be within “acceptable loss” for my age. The band evolved out of the 1980s Western Massachusetts hardcore scene. What was the Western Mass scene like, compared to the more high-profile one in Boston? The Boston scene was violent and conformist. In Western Mass, the scene evolved out the ashes of the Vandals, a Clash-style punk band from Westfield. The first show
I saw was a matinee with the three bands that the Vandals splintered into: the Junior Hostesses (new wave dance band), Duh Stupids (bizarre, noisy, proto-hardcore) and Section 8 (later the more melodic 8th Route Army). For me, it set a precedent for its being a less-uniform, “be yourself” scene. These three bands eventually became the Pajama Slave Dancers. Their energy and irreverence offset the prevailing winds of hardcore’s militancy. The younger bands that popped up in their wake, including the one J and I formed, Deep Wound, maintained that idiosyncratic spirit. There was no “Western Mass sound.” The college radio in the area was unusually fertile too. The definitive Dinosaur Jr. lineup of you, J Mascis, and Murph reunited in 2005 and has since released four acclaimed albums. How is the band different this time around, both in terms of the music and the intrapersonal dynamics? It’s just easier. It’s not fundamentally different soundwise or personally. We’ve definitely maintained the strange energy that propels us, but the atmosphere is less toxic, less post-adolescent angst, less general tension. We surround ourselves with friends and family and concentrate on the music. Dinosaur Jr. will certainly go down as one of the most influential bands of the post-punk era. Thirty years from now, what do you most hope people get from hearing the band’s music? It would be nice to be considered a decent power trio. It would nice if J was recognized as a great songwriter as well a guitarist. It would be nice to be considered “classic” in some way and inspire kids to make analog music that lives in the moment, as opposed to being programmed. I love all kinds of music, but there’s nothing like the simplicity of a band and it would be nice if we were recognized as the bearers of that standard. 12/16 ChronograM forecast 71
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Towne Crier Dance Jam 7-10:15pm. $10. Enjoy dancing to a rich mix of R&B, soul, rock, Disco, Latin, Reggae, swing & much more. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.
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Jane Hirshfield 6pm. A reading by the award-winning poet. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. The Fugitive Justice and the Abolition of the Master/Slave Girl Dialectic 5:30-7:30pm. As part of the “Centering the Lives of Black Women and Girls” series, Jasmine Syedullah will give this lecture. Main Building Villard Room at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. The Hudson Residence of Charles C. Alger and His Patronage of Architect Alexander Jackson Davis 6-8pm. Walter Ritchey will discuss Alger’s house at 59 Allen Street and also address his patronage of the noted 19th-century New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792 ext. 101.
Music
Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Trio 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Cabinet 7:30pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. First Thursday Singer Songwriter Series 6-9pm. Hosts Maureen and Don Black welcome Amy Soucy, Vince Sauter, and Kevin and Carol Becker with Rich Keyes and John Martucci to the Cafe stage. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Frank Carillo & The Bandoleros 10pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Girls Guns & Glory 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Middle-Stage Music Social First Thursday of every month, 2-3:30pm. People with middle-stage Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia and their family caregivers are invited to this free opportunity to socialize in a safe environment. Preregistration is required. Wingate at Ulster, Highland. (800) 272-3900. The Package 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater
Holiday Interactive Mystery Dinner Theatre 7-9:45pm. $45+ tax and gratuity. ACME Mystery Co. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
Workshops & Classes
Fiber Art for Children Age 7-10 4-5:30pm. $145. 5-week class: We will learn how to use a sewing machine, and also following patterns. Small classes with lots of personal instruction. Beacon Art Studios, Beacon. 728-2542.
FRIDAY 2 Dance
Ballroom Dance with Pete Redmond & Crazy Feet First Friday of every month, 8-11:30pm. $15. After the lesson: the band provides a mix of dance-able ballroom, swing and Latin standards. Requests are encouraged: Waltzes, Foxtrots, Tangos (Ballroom and Argentine), Swings (West Coast, Lindy, Jitterbug, Balboas & Charlestons), Cha Chas, Rumbas, Mambos, Salsas, Merengues, Hustles, Sambas, etc. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, LaGrangeville. 204-9833.
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Miki Orihara: Resonance 7:30-9:30pm. $30/$10 student rush and children. “Resonance”, a solo performance, with pianist Senri Oe, showcases the longevity of early American modern dance works by Martha Graham and Jose Limón and their direct connection to contemporary choreography by Adam Barruch, Martha Clarke and Orihara herself. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 10.
Fairs & Festivals
Annual Snowflake Festival 6-8pm. In the Historic Stockade Business District of Uptown Kingston, featuring performers, music, and Santa. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.
Film
Reel Women in Film: Alice Guy Blance 8pm. The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio, Albany. 518-465-5233. It’s a Wonderful Night 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Food & Wine
Winter Holiday Market 3-8pm. Enjoy a Hot Toddy while visiting and shopping with a few guest vendors at the Distillery. Hudson Valley Distillers at Spirits Grove Farm, Clermont. (518) 537-6820.
Kids & Family
A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885. Sparkle 5-9pm. Featuring Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus in the glittering Sparkle Garden, the Snow Queen Stilt Walker, a Magic Show with magician Margaret Steele, jazzy holiday music with the Libby Richman Trio, house tours and Jonathan Geffner and his “Puppet Power” performance. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Lectures & Talks
Meet Nature Artist Melissa Fischer 6pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
Literary & Books
Book Publication: Reading & Signing 7-10pm. $5/$4 members/$3 students and seniors. The author and area poets will read work from Karen Corinne Herceg’s new book Out From Calaboose by global publisher Nirala followed by feature readers at 8 PM. Sponsored by C.A.P.S. Refreshments and book signing. Roost Studios & Art Gallery, New Paltz. 255-5532. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 6pm. The event will be facilitated by students from Bard College. The library will be serving pizza and screening and a short film about individuals incorporating science into their everyday lives. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
Music
4th Annual Christmastime Benefit Concert 7-9:30pm. $15/$5 child 12 and under. Come out for a fantastic evening of live music featuring the singing of Betty and the Baby Boomers, Rachel Loshak, Tobias Anderson & William Norman, and songs from the Mountain Laurel Youth Choir. Donations benefit Family of Woodstock, Inc. Light refreshments will be served. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051. Arthur Moon & Iris Lune 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Honors Recital 3pm. Enjoy music from our talented SUNY Ulster Music Department students. This concert features faculty-selected solo and chamber performances by students in our applied lesson program. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Hurley Mountain Highway 8pm. Pop, soft rock. Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor. 534-4227. Joey Alexander Trio 8pm. Jazz. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Kiss the Sky 8pm. Jimi Hendrix experience. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Lindsey Webster 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Salsa Night with Cuboricua 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Vassar College Jazz Ensembles 8pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
Outdoors & Recreation
Ropes: Wilderness Program for Teens at Wild Earth 5:30-11pm. Friday evenings: 5:30pm–11pm Friday evening programs plus 2, 2-night overnights. Come to Ropes to play epic night games, have deep conversations, cook over the fire, and hang out in the woods. The teens describe it as a place where they can come to remember who they are. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
Theater
A Christmas Carol 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8-10pm. $34-$39. 8pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. A Christmas Carol 8pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. The Turn of the Scrooge 8pm. The Loons return with another terrific original British-American Panto and their own zany spin on the classic holiday tale, “A Christmas Carol”. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Workshops & Classes
Ministry of Maat: Women of the Duat Through Dec. 4. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 658-3439.
SATURDAY 3 Business & Networking
Holiday Open House 2016 W/ Guitar Raffle 11am-9pm. Come on by during the day to pick up a raffle ticket. You must be present at the drawing to win the guitar. Woodstock Music Shop, Woodstock. 679-3224.
Dance
Swing Dance 7:30-10:30pm. $10. Lesson at 7:30pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. DJ dance until 10:30pm. MAC Fitness, Kingston. Got2lindy.com.
Fairs & Festivals
2nd Annual Holiday Craft Fair with De Facto Community Center Project 10am-5pm. Support local crafters, artisans, and artists and find some amazing gifts for friends and family for the holidays. Refreshments provided. Hosted by NPZ De Facto Community Center Project. Huguenot Street Farm, New Paltz. Https://facebook.com/ events/1779679528979252/. The Affordable Art Fair 12-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Annual Holiday Bazaar & Lunch Café 10am-2pm. Second Reformed Church of Coxsackie, Coxsackie. Arlington Holiday Festival 12-6pm. $5 for Egg Nog Crawl/children and other events free. Arlington Business District, Poughkeepsie. Arlingtonhasit.org. Christmas Boutique 9am-3pm. Come and shop local vendors, visit our Carpenter’s Cafe and Christmas Bazaar, and kids can visit Santa. St. Thomas Episcopal Church, New Windsor. 562-4712. Clinton Historical Society Annual Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Creek Meeting House, Clinton Corners. Handmade Holiday Craft and Gift Show 10am-4pm. High-end curated sale that features items made by dozens of Columbia, Ulster, and Berkshire area artisans. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Holiday Market Place 10am-4pm. The Holiday Marketplace is known for its long tradition of seasonal flowering bulbs, handmade wreaths and tabletop decorations crafted by local professionals as well as our volunteers and staff. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
Monastery Christmas Festival Fair 10am-5pm. There will be 10 different varieties of artisanal vinegars produced at the Monastery available for sampling, monastery food products, creaches from around the world, cook books, and the newly released, Christ the Merciful by Brother Victor Antoine d’AvilaLatourrette will be available for purchase. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, LaGrangeville. Ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com. St. Nicholas Fine Craft and Cookie Sale 10am-3pm. Holiday decorated cookies sold by the pound & more than 22 artisans offering handmade crafts, locally produced yarn, Christmas tree ornaments and skirts, unique bird houses, hand painted glasses, pottery, and much more. Grace Episcopal Church, Millbrook. 677-3064. Winter Walk 20th Anniversary 4-9:45pm. Now in its 20th year, the 2016 Winter Walk is set to be bigger and brighter then ever, so grab those hats and mittens and warm your hearts with festive cheer by joining us in celebrating this beloved only-inHudson event. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Film
The Definition of Insanity 7pm. $8. Filmed over a period of 18 months, a documentary crew follows Robert from one failed audition to another until he finally scores his dream role in a film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901. Juarez: A Documentary Mythology 8-10pm. $18/$12 in advance/$24 preferred/$10 students. This riveting work of theater explores the border community of Cuidad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, TX Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Prancer 10am-noon. $5. Come get in the holiday spirit with Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health by joining us for a showing of the holiday favorite Prancer! All proceeds benefit adults with developmental disabilities residing in the Hudson Valley. Lyceum Six Cinemas, Red Hook. 331-1660 ext. 221. The Singing Revolution 7-9pm. Estonians gain their freedom through song without the loss of a single life. Refreshments will be served and a moderated discussion will follow. Old Chatham Quaker Meeting, Old Chatham. (518) 766-2992.
Kids & Family
Dear Santa: with Kids on Stage 11am. $9 adults, $7 children. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. Breakfast with Santa 10am. $15/$10 children. Price includes coloring book and crayons, a full breakfast buffet prepared by Chef Carlos and special holiday ornament craft. Bring cameras for pictures with Santa. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885. Mug-Making Family Day Noon. Sunflower Art Studios, Gardiner. 218-0014. Mystwood at Wild Earth First Saturday of every month, 10am-3:30pm. Mystwood is a nature connection program for 6-9 year olds that uses elves, fairies, wizards and magic as storytelling and teaching tools. Instructors will create a safe, nurturing container in which children can follow their curiosities and explore, each at their own authentic pace. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830. SInterklaas: Ryan T. Higgins: Hotel Bruce & Mother Bruce 1-2:30pm. Reading & book signing recommended for ages 5-8. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Sinterklaas: Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin “The Doll People’s Christmas” 3-4:30pm. Join us to celebrate Sinterklaas with authors Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin with their new book. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
FILM THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
Susie Crate and Katie Yegorov-Crate in Seth Kramer's The Anthropologist. The film screens at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on December 9.
It’s Getting Hot in Here Climate change is still whispering to us in inland North America. A superstorm hits, we get warm spells at odd times, hear word of starving polar bears and vanishing glaciers, we may get a sense of impending danger; we may even protest or call a Congressman. But to the vast majority of us, direct and catastrophic effects on our daily lives remain distant. Go on a voyage into that distance with The Anthropologist. Directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Daniel Newberger, the film follows anthropologist Susan Crate on journeys in Siberia, the Chesapeake Bay, the Andes, and the island nation of Kiribati as she seeks the human face of a global phenomenon. The film is strikingly apolitical, leaving finger-pointing and hard science for other projects—of which, as Kramer points out, there is no shortage. “We didn’t emphasize the politics or even the science, as most docs do,” he says. “There are a lot of them but they’re physics lessons; they talk about ice caps and penguins and polar bears and leave out the human factor.” Crate, an interdisciplinary scholar, professor at George Mason University, and author of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, is possibly the world’s foremost expert on the places where humans and climate change are rubbing elbows. Beyond that, she’s a down-to-earth soul who displays zero self-consciousness being filmed as she treks hither and yon with her teenage daughter Katie, getting deep in with the locals in the best Margaret Mead fieldwork style. The film was shot over five years, starting when Katie was 14 and concluding with her departure for college—where she will study anthropology, despite declaring early on that it’s the last thing she’d ever do with her life. The mother/daughter journeywithin-the-journeys is underscored by archival footage of Margaret Mead in the field with her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, whose present-day reflections on having
an anthropologist mom are interwoven with the travels of Susan and Katie. Bateson too became a cultural anthropologist after announcing that she’d never do so; this participant-observer stuff is apparently addictive. “Susie was perfect, but what we didn’t anticipate was her daughter,” says Kramer. “We’d been meeting for half an hour when her daughter got home, walked in, and they immediately got into an argument. I thought, ‘If only we can capture this on video.’” Capture it they did, and it resonates—from Siberia, where Katie’s father lives (Crate maintained a fieldwork site there for 20 years, and love was part of the cross-cultural connection) to Kiribati, where they dine with the president. We watch Katie mature from young teen who thinks Mom’s a bit of a nut into a young woman of empathy and courage without ever losing her deadpan, slightly sardonic millennial tone. Meanwhile, we are going places and meeting people: Siberia’s generations-old hayfields are now submerged and cattle graze hip-deep in water due to melting permafrost; the tiny South Pacific island chain’s seawalls regularly fail and relocation is increasingly seen as the only viable option; a coastal Virginia seafood festival is becoming a homage to a dying lifestyle; glacier ice in Peru is becoming a memory. Everywhere, we see the sparkling eyes of children, listen with Susie to the scientists and activists and regular folks trying to figure out what to do next, keeping despair at bay. Whether one ascribes climate change to human activity or not, it’s inarguable that these people, most impacted, are surely not to blame. And we’re left with the resounding question posed by Bateson: How much are we willing to change? The Anthropologist screens at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on Friday, December 9 at 8:15pm. Director Seth Kramer will take questions from the audience after the film. —Anne Pyburn Craig 12/16 ChronograM forecast 73
Sparkle 5-9pm. Featuring Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus in the glittering Sparkle Garden, the Snow Queen Stilt Walker, a Magic Show with magician Margaret Steele, jazzy holiday music with the Libby Richman Trio, house tours and Jonathan Geffner and his “Puppet Power” performance. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org. Yule Log Celebration 10am. $3-$7. Celebrate the end of year with a scavenger hunt for the hidden Yule Log. Learn the story of the Yule Log and the Winter Solstice. Make a craft and then enjoy hot chocolate around the campfire. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Literary & Books
Author Elaine Khosorova: Butter: A Rich History 4pm. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000. Victoria St. George presents The Rainbow Book 3pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Writing Group: Writers Write 10:30am-12:30pm. This writing group will offer weekly practice exercises to improve writing technique, and the opportunity to share work-in-progress for feedback. Facilitated by Elizabeth TenDyke. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
Music
America 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis 6:30pm. Blues. Village Market and Bakery, Gardiner. 255-1234. Chamber Music Recital 3pm. Featuring students of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Jazz Trumpeter Chris Botti 8pm. $29-$79. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. The Compact 9pm. Modern rock. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Foodstock 9 5-11pm. $20. 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley, the Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie, and Dutchess Outreach. Non-perishable food items will be collected. The Push Stars, Kristen Capolino, Sirsy, Jason Gisser Band, Adam Ezra Group and Snaphammer. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. A Gypsy Christmas: Andrei Matorin 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. L’Amour Toujours: The Passion of Camille Saint-Saëns and César Franck 6pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Luis Mojica & The Rainbow Tentacles 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Malcolm Bruce & Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Patty Larkin 8:30pm. $30/$25. Folk. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. The Saints of Swing 7:30pm. Alley Cat Blues and Jazz Club, Kingston. 339-1300. Sari Schorr & the Engine Room 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Third Ghost CD Release Party 8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits 20th Annual Winter Walk 5-8pm. 5pm Santa Parade kicks off the festivities from the Hudson Opera House, 5pm, Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night steps off from the foot of Warren Street at Front Street, 5:45pm Unsilent night culminates at the 7th Street Park, 8pm Fireworks at Promenade Hill. Also featuring a crafty party, shopping specials and other winter festivities. Warren Street, Hudson. Yuletide Fair 10am-4pm. Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Ghent. Hawthornevalleyschool.org. First Saturday Reception 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.
Theater
A Christmas Carol 4pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. A Christmas Carol 3pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. A Christmas Story 7:30pm. $32-$40. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900. Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8-10pm and 2-4pm. $34-$39. 8pm and 2pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. TMI Project: Forced Family Fun 8pm. $20/$15 in advance. 721 Broadway, Kingston. The Turn of the Scrooge 8pm. The Loons return with another terrific original British-American Panto and their own zany spin on the classic holiday tale, “A Christmas Carol”. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Workshops & Classes
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Renewal Course 9am-3pm. $165/$125. This is a recertification of the ACLS course. You must have an ACLS certification to take this course. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001. Antony M. Eminowicz M. Esq., LLM: Understanding Your Child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) 5pm. Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock. 679-2213. Babysitting Preparedness Course 9am-3pm. $45. Ages 12 to adult. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. 279-5711. The Business of Art 9am-4pm. $235. Two-day workshop. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Matt Pond PA Record Release Show 7-10pm. $15. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. Https://facebook.com/ events/151461741985554/.
Cover Hour Series: Neil Young 4-5pm. $15. All-Ages. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
Maucha Adney and the Brazilian Trio 7:30-10pm. $35. The Senate Garage, Kingston. (914) 388-7357.
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An Evening with Chris Botti 7-9pm. $68.63/$91.50. Jazz. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
What White People Can Do About Racism: 101 - Fundamentals, Part 1 9am-3:30pm. $95. Presented by The Center for the Study of White American Culture. The Senate Room at the Kirkland, Kingston. 989-598-4967.
Fat City 6pm. Funk. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Steve Forbert 8pm. The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio, Albany. 518-465-5233.
Marc Delgado and Derek Knott 8:30-11:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Matthew Shipp Trio 8pm. Jazz. St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Beacon. 831-1369.
Making the Belt Buckle Through Dec. 4. This class is appropriate for beginners and advanced students alike. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.
Drawing and Painting From the Figure 9am-noon. 150.00. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to approach the figure. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Group Guitar 1 1-2pm. $15. For people who have never played guitar before and want a quick jumpstart. Learn essential skills for playing 1st chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734. Group Music Theory 2:30-3:30pm. $15. Learn the logic behind music starting with the basics of individual notes and the process behind creating chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
SUNDAY 4 Dance
Just Dance First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. $10. DJ activated non-stop contagious expression. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444. The Nutcracker Performed by the NY Theater Ballet 3 & 6pm. $25/$35. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Fairs & Festivals
Chanukah Market & Bazaar 10am-3pm. Crafts, gifts, baked goods, dreidels, gift wrap, candles, books, jewelry and more. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 679-2218. Handmade Holiday Craft and Gift Show 10am-4pm. High-end curated sale that features items made by dozens of Columbia, Ulster, and Berkshire area artisans. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Holiday Market Place 10am-4pm. The Holiday Marketplace, is known for its long tradition of seasonal flowering bulbs, handmade wreaths and tabletop decorations. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Monastery Christmas Festival Fair 10am-5pm. There will be 10 different varieties of artisanal vinegars produced at the Monastery available for sampling, monastery food products, creaches from around the world, cook books, and the newly released, Christ the Merciful by Brother Victor Antoine d’AvilaLatourrette will be available for purchase. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, LaGrangeville. Ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.
Film
Mary Pickford in “A Little Princess” 3-5pm. $7. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Health & Wellness
Gong Bath Meditation 2:30pm. $25+. Fundraiser for The Rondout Valley Holistic Health Community. With Ricarda O’Conner. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 658-3439. SkyBaby Holiday Open House 1-6pm. Join us for the annual Skybaby Holiday Open House featuring samples of holistic health care, shopping and snacks. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
Kids & Family
A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885. Family Drum Circle with Otha Day 1-2pm. Join educator and musician Otha Day for a fun and lively family drum circle workshop. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
Lectures & Talks
Dharma Sunday School First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. A unique Buddhist-oriented class for children ages 5+. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
Music
Play Like Series: Blues Masters 4-5pm. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734. Albert Cummings 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis 10am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Darol Anger with Tony Trischka and All-Star Acoustic Lineup 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Mid Hudson Women’s Chorus Concert: Yuletide Memories 2pm. $10/$8 students and seniors. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030. Shy Spy, Sean Cortright, and Guests 1pm. $5. The Lace Mill, Kingston. 331-2140. A Service of Lessons and Carols 7pm. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. A West Point Holiday 1pm. Ring in the holidays with this Hudson Valley tradition of festive holiday favorites performed by the talented vocalists and instrumentalists of the West Point Band. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu. The Zucchini Brothers 3pm. Family rock band. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Dutch Christmas Open House 1-4pm. Join us for holiday music by student musicians, hot mulled cider, homemade holiday cookies and fresh-baked bread from the beehive oven. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. 758-5887.
Theater
A Christmas Carol 2pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. A Christmas Carol 3pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. A Christmas Story 7:30pm and 2pm. $32-$40. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900. Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8-10pm and 2-4pm. $34-$39. 2pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. Italian Futurist Cocktail Dinner 5:30pm. $150. Cocktails and show. Panzur, Tivoli. Panzur.com. The Turn of the Scrooge 2pm. The Loons return with another terrific original British-American Panto and their own zany spin on the classic holiday tale, “A Christmas Carol”. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Workshops & Classes
Mindful Movement Class (monthly) First Sunday of every month, 12-1pm. $15. Learn to use the principles of the Alexander Technique to build awareness of your body in order to notice and release habits of movement and thinking that are not serving you. Good for all ability levels. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 917-373-6151. Play Like: Blues Masters 4-5pm. $15. Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa. Derek Trucks. Mick Taylor. Stevie Ray Vaughn. Mike Bloomfield. Joe Walsh. Come to this class to learn about their playing styles, techniques, gear, and more! For people who already know some guitar chords. All-Ages. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734. Sunday Art Studios 11am-1pm. Projects take about 30 minutes and are fun for all ages. Everyone leaves with a work of art. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext.105.
MONDAY 5 Business & Networking
Dutchess One Stop Job Ready Sessions 10am-1pm. One-on-one sessions with Dutchess One Stop professionals will help you develop your job search direction. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Movement & Strength First Monday, Thursday of every month, 7-8:15pm. $20/bulk discounts available. For individuals that want to improve their balance, strength, and total overall body movement and range of motion. All strength and fitness levels welcome. Diamond Gymnastics, Poughkeepsie. 416-2222.
THEATER "EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD (AND THEN SOME!)"
"Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)" will be performed at Shadowland Stages December 2 to 18.
Acting the Dickens Out of Christmas Those versed in satirical theater may know of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” a play first performed in 1987 that crams the Bard’s entire catalog of comedies, tragedies, histories, and sonnets into 90 minutes. It both lampoons Shakespearean language and structure and pays loving tribute to the famous scribe. In that spirit comes “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!),” which Shadowland Stages is producing this December. Written by Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald, and John K. Alvarez, the play pokes fun at conventional yuletide traditions while managing to be an upbeat holiday show. It begins with three actors preparing for the holiday season, which means another run of “A Christmas Carol” at their local theater. Tired of the annual tradition, two of the actors revolt by telling every Christmas story they know, while the third staunchly defends Dickens. The actors hit “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” and “Miracle on 34th Street,” retell traditions from around the world, perform a medley of Christmas carols, and remember Gustav the Green-nosed Reingoat (to get around copyright issues). “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)” leans more on improvisation than typical Shadowland offerings. And like in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” the audience is asked to participate. Thus it’ll require nimbleness from actors Wayne Pyle, a New Paltz resident; James Taylor Odom; and Julia Register, a SUNY New Paltz graduate. Brendan Burke, producing artistic director of Shadowland Stages and director of the show, says his cast is up to the task. “A show like this is determined by what these guys create on their own,” says Burke. “With these three people it’s going to be fun getting in the room, seeing three chemicals mix together.” The show was conceived by Carleton, FitzGerald, and Alvarez in 2003, making its debut at Cape May Stage in New Jersey. Since then, the show has been performed
around the holidays in theaters from Phoenix to Cincinnati. In February 2016, Shadowland hired Kingston native Jon Wojciechowski as its executive managing director. Previously the executive managing director of Cape May Stage, Wojciechowski was familiar with “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!),” which was bringing in big crowds at Cape May. Burke sought to produce the show at Shadowland, and thanks to his new executive managing director, he was able to slate it for the 2016 season. But what should’ve been a celebratory Shadowland run of the show now has a bittersweet taste, as Wojciechowski died unexpectedly in June, just four months into his tenure at the Ellenville theater. “It was shocking; he was a really wonderful guy and had a major impact on us,” says Burke. “I was looking forward to working on this project with him.” Last year was Shadowland’s first attempt at a holiday show, a play called “Greetings!” about a man who brings his Jewish/atheist fiancée home to meet his Catholic family. Burke, who wants to bring nontraditional holiday shows to stage each December, also hopes to keep it a family experience. There are two official scripts for “Every Christmas Story,” one strictly for adults, one for a more inclusive family audience. Burke is working with the latter script and, for this show, reducing prices for ages 16 and under to $12, nearly 70 percent off the typical ticket price of $39. “It’s just a fun time. It’s a fun 90 minutes,” says Burke. “This is something you can take kids to and have a good time.” “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)” runs December 2 to 18 at Shadowland Stages in Ellenville. (845) 647-5511; Shadowlandtheatre.org. —Timothy Malcom 12/16 ChronograM forecast 75
Music
Joe Fiedler Quintet 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
WEDNESDAY 7 Film
Thursday Showcase: Secret Keeper 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Alexis Cole Ensemble 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Everett Bradley’s Holidelic 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Joe Louis Walker & Friends - Featuring ‘King’ Solomon Hicks 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Presents The Entertainer 7:15pm. $12/$10 members. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
The Wizards of Winter 8pm. $38/$48. With original members of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
SUNY Ulster String Ensemble 7:30pm. The College’s heralded string ensemble performs its holiday concert under the direction of Anastasia Solberg. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
Music
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits
The Falcon Underground Songwriter Sessions - Host: Casey Erdmann 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Bingo Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Beekman Fire Department, Poughquag. 270-9133.
Theater
Pontoon 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater
A Christmas Carol 8pm. Enjoy pre-theater dining at one of the CIA’s award-winning restaurants for an unforgettable family holiday memory. Presented by Half Moon Theater. CIA, Hyde Park. 452-9430.
TUESDAY 6 Business & Networking
UCCofC Annual Meeting & Election of Board of Directors 1-3pm. To hold the UCCoC annual gather and to discuss initiatives to reduce homelessness in Ulster County. The Senate Room at the Kirkland, Kingston. 331-9860.
Film
Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Presents The Entertainer 7:15pm. $12/$10 members. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Health & Wellness
Reiki Share First Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. For Reiki practitioners to replenish your reserves. Share and receive Reiki energy in front of the hearth fire with a loving community of Reiki practitioners. Only to those who have received at least Reiki l training. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
Kids & Family
Hour of Code 5-6pm. Join us as we celebrate Computer Science Education Week by hosting an hour of beginning coding for boys and girls from ages 6 to 10. Work together to learn basic computer programming skills using fun games & activities from code.org. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
Lectures & Talks
A View from the World Turned Downside Up 8pm. $5 suggested. A talk by award-winning script writer, James MacAllister. Catskill Recreation Center, Arkville. 586-6250.
Music
Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fis Blues and Dance Party First Tuesday of every month, 7-10pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Club Draw 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Lights for Learning Ceremony and President’s Holiday Reception 3:30-5pm. This year we will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Lights for Learning Program in Memory of Barbara A. Adams, President Emerita. This program includes fund raising for emergency grants and loans for students in financial need through the purchase of symbolic lights that recognize colleagues, friends, and loved ones. Ulster Community College Camp Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5283.
Workshops & Classes
The Essentials of Waldorf Education 7:30pm. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311. Mixed Media Fiber and Encaustic $650. Through Dec. 9. With Lorraine Glessner. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
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Open Houses/Parties/Benefits SUNY Ulster Academic Support Resources Info Session 4-5:30pm. Prospective students are encouraged to join us for an Information Session led by Maria O’Brien, TRiO Counselor & Diane Cimorelli, Learning Strategist Specialist. Topics include TRiO, EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) and other academic support programs in college. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.
Workshops & Classes
Group Guitar 1 4-5 & 7-8pm. $15. For people who have never played guitar before and want a quick jumpstart. Learn essential skills for playing 1st chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
THURSDAY 8 Fairs & Festivals
Made in Kingston Free. 4-8pm. An eclectic range of artists' items for sale. Ferrovia Studios, 22 Thomas Street, Kingston. Madeinkingston.com.
Business & Networking
Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8-10pm. $34-$39. 8pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. Holiday Interactive Mystery Dinner Theatre 7-9:45pm. $45+ tax and gratuity. ACME Mystery Co. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026. Holiday Memories 7:30-9:30pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. Russell Vandenbroucke’s brilliant stage adaptation of stories by Truman Capote, presented by Kaliyuga Arts and directed by John Sowle. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006.
FRIDAY 9 Dance
Cajun Dance with the C’Est Bon Cajun Dance Band 7-11pm. $15/$10 FT student ID. Free lesson at 7pm, dance 8pm-11pm All are welcome. No partner necessary. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. (914) 388-7048. Catskill Ballet Theater: The Nutcracker 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.
Dance of Universal Peace 7-8:45pm. $5-$10. Participatory simple circle dances and songs drawn from diverse sacred tradition. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.
Women in Business Luncheon 11:30am-2pm. Hudson Valley Magazine hosts this sit-down luncheon featuring a keynote speaker, recognizing the accomplishments of the women profiled in the issue. Villa Borghese, Wappingers Falls. 463-0542.
Nutcracker Ballet 7:30-9:30pm. $30/$25 students and seniors. Catskill Ballet Theatre presents a full length ballet featuring guest artists from Dance Theatre of Harlem. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088.
Comedy
Stand Up at The Underground 8pm. With Pat DaBiere. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Dance
The Nutcracker Noon. New Paltz Ballet Theater. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Health & Wellness
Movement & Strength First Monday, Thursday of every month, 7-8:15pm. $20/bulk discounts available. For individuals that want to improve their balance, strength, and total overall body movement and range of motion. All strength and fitness levels welcome. Diamond Gymnastics, Poughkeepsie. 416-2222. Ortho-Bionomy Self Care with Samuel Claiborne 7-8:30pm. With Samuel Claiborne. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org.
Music
The Acquaintances 7pm. Acoustic. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Driftwood 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Jim Pospisil 7-9:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Molly Venter and Goodnight Moonshine 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. The Red Stradivarius 6:30pm. Celebrated concert violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn brings the famed Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius to Lyndhurst for a holiday Concert. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 914-631-4481. Secret Keeper 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
The Nutcracker 9:45am & noon. New Paltz Ballet Theater. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Baby Magic Knitting, Crocheting & Meditation Circle Second Friday of every month, 7-9pm. This circle is for conscious, spiritual women who want to conceive or who are pregnant, as well as their supportive sisters, girlfriends and mothers. Open to knitters and crocheters at all levels, even beginners. White Barn Farm, New Paltz. 259-1355.
Kids & Family
A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885. Sparkle 5-9pm. Featuring Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus in the glittering Sparkle Garden, the Snow Queen Stilt Walker, a Magic Show with magician Margaret Steele, jazzy holiday music with the Libby Richman Trio, house tours and Jonathan Geffner and his “Puppet Power” performance. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Lectures & Talks
Climate Change and Ice Storms: Lecture at Cary Institute 7-8pm. Lindsey Rustad will discuss how ice storms impact forest ecosystems– altering everything from the composition of trees to water quality. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.
Literary & Books
Trunks of the Gunks: A Visual Odyssey Through the Shawangunk Mountains in Search of the Unexpected 7pm. With nora Scarlett. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Split Bill: Buffalo Stack and Jeremy Baum’s JB3 Trio 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Music
SUNY Ulster Chorus and Guitar Ensemble 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
Abraham and the Groove 7:30 pm. Alley Cat Blues and Jazz Club, Kingston. 339-1300.
The Acquaintances 8-11pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Jack DeJohnette Trio and Indo Pak Coalition 7:30pm. Jazz. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Joan Osborne 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Joe Lovano’s Birthday Bash 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Melissa Etheridge’s Holiday Trio 8pm. $70/$145. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Nightlife
Date & Create 7-9pm. $100/couple. Rockland Center for the Arts will be introducing a new program for couples, 21 years or older. Couples can experience an art activity on their date and bring home a work of art. Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack. 358-0877.
Theater
A Christmas Carol 8pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. Holiday Memories 7:30-9:30pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. Russell Vandenbroucke’s brilliant stage adaptation of stories by Truman Capote, presented by Kaliyuga Arts and directed by John Sowle. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006. Jeremy Kendall: This Wonderful Life 8pm. One-man play. Paramount Theatre, Middletown. 346-4195. The Santaland Diaries 7:30pm. The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio, Albany. 518-465-5233. Sundance Theatre Lab 8-10pm. $15/$10 in advance/$21 preferred/$8 students. A riveting night of theater-in-themaking. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. The Turn of the Scrooge 8pm. The Loons return with another terrific original British-American Panto and their own zany spin on the classic holiday tale, “A Christmas Carol”. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Workshops & Classes
Dance Workshop With Clyde Forth: Dancing within Darkness & Light 10:30am-noon. $20/$55 series. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Festive Clay: Art Night Out 7-9pm. $55-$60. Welcome the holiday season by making ceramic items for the table and beyond! IS183 Art School of the Berkshires, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-5252.
SATURDAY 10 Film
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 11am. Rosendale Theatre Company, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Dance
Catskill Ballet Theater: The Nutcracker 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Nutcracker Ballet 7:30-9:30pm. $30/$25 students and seniors. Catskill Ballet Theatre presents a full length ballet featuring guest artists from Dance Theatre of Harlem. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088. The Nutcracker 2 & 7:30pm. New Paltz Ballet Theater. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Fairs & Festivals
Beacon Second Saturday Second Saturday of every month. Second Saturday is a city-wide celebration of the arts held on the second Saturday of every month. Beaconarts.org.
ART "NOMINA MAGICA"
Two works by Jesse Bransford: Protection Against Evil Spirits, 2015, 4x61/2", watercolor and graphite on paper and Hills Become the Sun, 2015, 4x61/2", watercolor and graphite on paper
Do You Believe in Magic? “Magic is a place where categories dissolve,” says artist Jesse Bransford. His show “Nomina Magica,” Latin for “Magical Names,” will be exhibited at the Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf until January 9. “Nomina Magica” is a highly eclectic blending of esoteric traditions. Images from Hindu tantra merge with Navajo designs, witchcraft symbols, and Nordic runes. Most of the drawings resemble minimalist Tarot cards. OES Staff (for S. A.) is a four-color pentagram with an inscribed pentagon: the symbol of the Order of the Eastern Star, a lodge of the Freemasons. It’s almost like Bransford is inventing his own religion. Yet the work doesn’t exactly feel New Age. It’s a little too knowledgeable, too personal. It’s not the visual equivalent of a self-help book. When asked to name his influences, Bransford furnishes a long list, including Philip K. Dick, Aleister Crowley, Walter Benjamin, the Sufi Idries Shah, and the Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. As an NYU professor, Bransford has learned to footnote his obsessions. The works’ titles offer insight into his intent: To Receive All You Ask For, To Protect Trees; To Help Plants Grow; To Speak to Plants, Against Melancholy II. Each piece is both a work of art and a literal magic charm to create the effect of its title. In a circuitous way, Bransford is actually returning to the earliest roots of art. No one knows why cave dwellers drew luminous paintings of stags and bison on the cavern walls of Lascaux 19,000 years ago, but quite possibly a magic ritual was involved. (By painting a stag, the artist may have mystically ensured that a hunter would kill one.) How does Bransford define magic? “It’s two parts mind-body interaction, two parts sublime nature awe, another part psychedelic reverie, another part spiritual satori,” he says. Bransford’s art has included magical elements for the past 20 years.
The geometric precision, sharp colors, and sense of higher purpose are reminiscent of the late work of Wassily Kandinsky, who subscribed to the mystical system: the Theosophical Society, a group founded in New York City in 1875 that combined spiritual techniques of East and West. Bransford’s larger works play cat-and-mouse with symmetry, and have background washes of watercolor or ink that function as a visual commentary on the symbols in the foreground. “I also imagine them as nebulas, clouds, seen from a distance,” Bransford explains. His work can befuddle the rationalistic Manhattan art world, but is perfect for the Seligmann Center, which began as a small farm owned by Kurt Seligmann, one of the original Surrealists. Seligmann’s book, The Mirror of Magic (1948), a heavily illustrated overview of the occult, is still read by young adepts; in fact, Bransford himself has three copies! Crystals were found buried next to the fruit trees on the property, a sign that Kurt and his wife Arlette practiced biodynamic farming, a system of agriculture based on principles outlined by Rudolf Steiner. Bransford camped on the grounds for three days while installing the show. He also painted a magic circle on the gallery floor, quite similar to the one in a photograph of Seligmann from 1948 in which he entertains friends at a party in Manhattan, wearing a tuxedo and holding a metal scepter; near his feet is a human skull. Bransford lives in Williamsburg, but also owns an octagonal house in Catskill, which contains his studio. Along with its many influences, Bransford’s art balances city and country. And one can hear, in its symphonic geometry, the voice of the octagonal house! Jesse Bransford’s “Nomina Magica” will remain at the Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf until January 9. (845) 469-9459; Occitizensfoundation.org. —Sparrow 12/16 ChronograM forecast 77
Blooming Hill Artisans Fair 10am-2pm. Join for the best that local artisans have to offer. A wide range of hand made goods: pottery, knits, exotic soaps and lotions, rustic table and kitchen ware, and beautiful jewelry. Blooming Hill Farm, Blooming Grove. 751-9115. Frozendale 10am-6pm. A community generated festival where participating shops showcase the best of local food, art, music, and crafts. Rosendale, Rosendale. Facebook.com/ events/213855932383592.
Kids & Family
A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885. Dear Santa: with Kids on Stage 11am. $9 adults, $7 children. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org.
Holidelic 9pm. Part dance party, part funk concert, part comedy show. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Hot House Latin Jazz Ensemble 8pm. Latin. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton 7:30pm. $15. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, Putnam Valley. 528-7280. Joan Osborne 8pm. $36. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams 8pm. $25-$35. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine 8pm. $15. An evening of theatrical ineptitude, faux poetry, and comedy so abstruse that only three particle physicists and a multilingual German tobacco auctioneer can understand them. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
A Christmas Carol 3pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. A Christmas Story 7:30pm. $32-$40. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900. Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. Holiday Memories 7:30-9:30pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. Russell Vandenbroucke’s brilliant stage adaptation of stories by Truman Capote, presented by Kaliyuga Arts and directed by John Sowle.Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006. The Santaland Diaries 7:30pm. The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio, Albany. 518-465-5233. A Theatrical Reading of Charles Dickens Christmas Carol 7:30pm. Rhinebeck Grange 896, Rhinecliff. 876-6488.
Family Hootenany Second Saturday of every month, 10-11am. $5. Beacon Music Factory (BMF), Beacon. Https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ home?studioid=41760.
Nutcracker Ballet 7:30-9:30pm. $30/$25 students and seniors. Catskill Ballet Theatre presents a full length ballet featuring guest artists from Dance Theatre of Harlem. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088. Swing Dance to La Familia Swing and Blues Band $12/$8 FT students. Beginners’ lesson 6pm6:30, dance 6:30pm-9pm. No experience or partner necessary. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Fairs & Festivals
Affordable Art & Pottery Bazaar RoCA is having an Affordable Art & Pottery Sale just in time for Holiday gifts. Items include an array of functional pottery, jewelry, masks, smaller original 2-D & 3-D artworks. Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack. 358-0877.
Literary & Books
Bonnie Mackay: Tree of Treasures: A Life in Ornaments 5-7pm. The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. 518-392-3005.
Winter Faire & Outdoor Marketplace 11am-4pm. Make beautiful gifts from simple and natural materials, such as Translucent Window Stars, Wreath Decorating, Pomanders and more! Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, New Paltz. 255-0033 ext. 101.
A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden by April Bloomfield 2-4pm. bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy, Rhinebeck. 876-1117.
Cuboricua Salsa Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 10pm. Americana. 10pm-1am. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps dole out two sets of the finest country rock. Shea O’Brien’s, New Paltz. 633-8222. Dinosaur Jr. 8-10pm. $36/$46 preferred/$28 in advance. Viscerally badass rock-‘n’-roll. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Doug Ferony, The Four Aces, Comedian Dale Grand Esq 8-10pm. $30/$40.03/$45.75. A night of Holiday music and comedy that the whole family will love. Paramount Theatre, Middletown. (914) 739-0039.
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R&F Encaustic Mini Workshop 12-4pm. $65. Mini Encaustic Workshops are designed to give artists a hands on introduction to the encaustic process. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088.
Dance Film Sundays: Great Feats of Feet 3pm. $12/$10 members/$6 children.Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Richard D. Quodomine: Maps, Place Names and People in Woodstock from Before Colonization to Now 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
The Airplane Family and Friends 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Imagining the Guitar 10am. $325. A weekend-long interactive workshop with David Torn. Applehead Recording Studio, Saugerties. Davidtorn.bpt.me/.
Catskill Ballet Theater: The Nutcracker 2pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
Lectures & Talks
D Square 7:30 pm. Alley Cat Jazz and Blues Club, Kingston. 339-1300.
Group Music Theory 2:30-3:30pm. $15. Learn the logic behind music starting with the basics of individual notes and the process behind creating chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
Dance
Sparkle 5-9pm. Featuring Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus in the glittering Sparkle Garden, the Snow Queen Stilt Walker, a Magic Show with magician Margaret Steele, jazzy holiday music with the Libby Richman Trio, house tours and Jonathan Geffner and his “Puppet Power” performance. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Music
Group Guitar 1 1-2pm. $15. For people who have never played guitar before and want a quick jumpstart. Learn essential skills for playing 1st chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
SUNDAY 11
Santa Visits the Rosen House 10am-noon. $12.50/$9 children. The little ones will be in for an adventure with I Spy a Santa or Two in the Music Room, followed by a thirtyminute concert of sing-a-longs when Santa Claus will appear to delight the whole family. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.
Grapes of the Hudson Valley: And Other Cool Climate Regions of the United States and Canada 6pm. With J. Stephen Casscles. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
experience to be shared. Facilitated by Maureen Cummins & Dr. Roxanne Partridge. Aletis House, Hudson. (415) 686-8722.
Work:Shop Winter Market This holiday craft fair with an artisanal flair features products direct from the maker. Quirky, cute, functional, artsy, unique, and handcrafted—items from 20 local vendors will cover the variety of tastes on your shopping list. “The work is carefully curated and museumstore quality, but at the same time very grassroots and local,” coordinator Jessica Wickham says. Beacon Bee will sell their beeswax-based lotions and balms, Kelly & Co. exhibit their handmade cloth and wood wares, and Kit-Burke Smith bring their nature-inspired jewelry. Homespun Cafe will serve hot cocoa and savory snacks, and the award-winning Denning’s Point Distillery will offer spirit tastings. Saturday, December 10 from 10am-6pm; Sunday, December 11 from 11am-5pm. Wickham Solid Wood Studio, 578 Main Street, Beacon. Workshopwintermarket.com. Rhythm Rising 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Thrown Together Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits A Holiday Gathering $135/$45 cocktails only. The evening begins at 5 pm in the soaring interior of the New Studio, all decked out with holiday style, with dinner to follow in nearby private homes. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. 518-943-7465. Multi-Cultural Holiday Solstice Celebration 8-10pm. Open mike, pot luck, music, fun. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
Theater
A Christmas Carol 8pm. Enjoy pre-theater dining at one of the CIA’s award-winning restaurants for an unforgettable family holiday memory. Presented by Half Moon Theater. CIA, Hyde Park. 452-9430.
The Turn of the Scrooge 8pm. The Loons return with another terrific original British-American Panto and their own zany spin on the classic holiday tale, “A Christmas Carol”. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Workshops & Classes
Cover Hour Series: Holiday (Traditional) 4-5pm. $15. All-Ages. All students will receive TAB sheets of the songs they learn in class. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734. Drawing and Painting From the Figure 9am-noon. $150.00. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to approach the figure. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Grief Sits in My Passenger Seat: Transformative Writing Workshop 10am-4pm. $250. In this weekend intensive, we will use writing & storytelling as a transformative act, one that turns the pain of losing someone we love–or almost losing ourselves–into a gift of knowledge & life
Kids & Family
A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885. Max & Ruby’s Nutcracker Suite 3:30pm. $18/adult free with child. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Warm Up At The Washingtons’ 12-4pm. Visit the decorated Hasbrouck House, with live music, hot cider and cookies! Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.
Lectures & Talks
Newburgh Candlelight Tour 12-5pm. $25 in advance, $30 at the door. A historical walking tour of Newburgh's historic district. Captain David Crawford House, 189 Montgomery Street, Newburgh.
Literary & Books
Lauree Ostrofsky presents Simply Leap: Seven Lessons on Facing Fear and Enjoying the Crap out of Your Life 4pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Music
SUNY New Paltz's Collegium Musicum An afternoon of music from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. Newpaltz. edu/events. Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound 10am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Greg Westhoff’s Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Holidelic 8pm. Part dance party, part funk concert, part comedy show, the Yuletide-themed event features original holiday songs as well as loose, funk-infused adaptations of Tchaikovsky, “Frosty the Snowman,” “Little Drummer Boy” and the like. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Kurt and Cheryl noon. Singer-songwriter. Zephyr, Pine Hill. 254-8024. Maceo Parker 7pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. The Many Moods of Christmas 3pm. This year’s program will be anchored in Gustav Holst’s beautiful Choral Fantasy on Old Carols and Robert Shaw’s exhilarating collection, featuring the Orchestra Pro Musica. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. The Metropolitan Hot Club 12-3pm. MHC is a gypsy jazz group that plays hot swing of the 30s and 40s. The group celebrates the music made popular by legendary guitarist, Django Reinhardt, and jazz violinist, Stephane Grappelli. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk Second Tuesday of every month, 7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Second Tuesday of every month, after community meditation practice. Meditation: 6-7pm, Talk 7pm, followed by tea, cookies, and converation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Music
Literary & Books
Friends of PPLD Annual Meeting 6-8:30pm. The Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District conclude their 40th anniversary year with an Annual Meeting with a brief business meeting, Boardman Road Library, Poughkeepsie. 345-8445 ext. 3422.
Music
Art Labriola 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Joseph 7:30pm. $28. Featuring the mesmerizing, hypnotic harmonies of sisters Allison, Meegan, and Natalie Closner, the band known as Joseph brings their mystical exuberance and heart-on-sleeve emotion to the stage in support of their acclaimed recording I’m Alone, No You’re Not. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Community Band/Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. Members of the SUNY Ulster Community Band under the direction of Victor Izzo, Jr. join members of the SUNY Ulster Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Chris Earley in this invigorating annual concert. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
Pechakucha Night 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Lee DeWyze 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground with Host: Doug Weiss 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Emerging Artist Classical Music Series: Elysia Román 7:30-9pm. $15. Elysia Román delivers an homage to one of the most prolific composers for harp, Carlos Salzedo (1885 - 1961). ARTBar Gallery, Kingston. 338-2789. Rick Springfield “Stripped Down” Tour 8-10pm. $57.19/$68.63/$85.78/$267.78 VIP Meet and Greet. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2. Robbie Fulks 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Tony DePaolo 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com. Trio Mio 7-10:30pm. This 4-5 member trio performs mostly original music in either acoustic or electric formats. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Theater
Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
The Music Cottage Showcase noon. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Holiday Interactive Mystery Dinner Theatre 7-9:45pm. $45+ tax and gratuity. ACME Mystery Co. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
Theater
Workshops & Classes
A Christmas Carol 2 & 8pm. This new adaptation of a classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced—perfect for the entire family! Presented by Half Moon Theater. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.
Library Knitters Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
A Christmas Story 7:30pm and 2pm. $32-$40. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.
Comedy
FRIDAY 16 truTV Impractical Jokers: The Tenderloins 6:30pm. $52.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Every Christmas Story Ever Told 2pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Dance
Ballroom By Request Lesson & Practice Time Third Friday of every month, 8-11pm. $15 for both lessons/$10 one lesson. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, LaGrangeville. 204-9833.
Holiday Memories 2-4pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. Russell Vandenbroucke’s brilliant stage adaptation of stories by Truman Capote, presented by Kaliyuga Arts and directed by John Sowle. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006.
Film
A Christmas Story 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
The Turn of the Scrooge 2pm. The Loons return with another terrific original British-American Panto and their own zany spin on the classic holiday tale, “A Christmas Carol”. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Kids & Family
A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885.
Workshops & Classes
Snow Globe Workshop 10am. $3-$7. Learn how to make a winter wonderland snow globe from a recycled jar. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
MONDAY 12 Kids & Family
Community Talent Show 2pm. Come and share yours with your community. Northern Dutchess Hospital Center for the Healthy Aging, Rhinebeck. 876-4745.
Music
Bad Touch 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com. Joe Louis Walker & Friends featuring Johnny Feds 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Great Feats of Feet In 1977, when Brenda Bufalino’s documentary Great Feats of Feet: A Portrait of the Jazz and Tap Dancer was released, jazz and tap dancing were part of a bygone era. Bufalino was a tap instructor and SUNY New Paltz professor with an interest in the dance’s culture and greats—members of the “Copasetics Club,” a group of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson idealizers and retired African-American dancers. They met up weekly to practice routines and share swing era stories. Members included entertainers like James “Buster” Brown, Charles “Honi” Coles, and Albert “Gip” Gibson. Bufalino’s documentary launched tap dance back into mainstream American culture, and the performance limelight. Forty years later, the Bessie-Award-winner returns to showcase her documentary at the Rosendale Theatre. December 11 at 3pm. Tickets are $10 for members, $12 non-members, $6 for children 12 and under. (845) 658-8989; Rosendaletheatre.org.
Workshops & Classes
Theater
A Christmas Carol 2pm. This new adaptation of a classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fastpaced—perfect for the entire family! Presented by Half Moon Theater. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.
TUESDAY 13
Tea & Stones Second Tuesday of every month, 6:307:30pm. Each month we explore a different stone from our vast collection. You’ll learn about their healing qualities, some history and folklore and ways to incorporate them into our daily life. The evening always include a meditation whDreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
Lectures & Talks
Engaging Lectures with Everyday Experts 7:15-9:45pm. David Brownstein, founder and executive director at Wild Earth- NatureBased Education for All. Cassidy Barnes, inventor, mathematician, metal worker- The Mathematics of Nature and the Future of Human Systems. Diana Seiler, L.M.T, massage therapist, massage instructor, mindfulness instructor- The Origins of Thai Massage, and the Future of Healing Touch in The Paradigm of Modern Medicine. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Singer-Songwriter Larry Kolker 8pm. Dogwood, Beacon. 202-7500.
Workshops & Classes
Group Guitar 1 4-5 & 7-8pm. $15. For people who have never played guitar before and want a quick jumpstart. Learn essential skills for playing 1st chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
THURSDAY 15
WEDNESDAY 14 Film
Music
Kids & Family
Cherish the Ladies, Celtic Christmas 7:30pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Destined to Fly: A Film by Christopher Nostrand 7:15pm. Free. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989. Kids Knit 3:30-5pm. With Bruce Weinstein. Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-5041.
bigBANG 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Connor Kennedy & Minstrel 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Sparkle 5-9pm. Featuring Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus in the glittering Sparkle Garden, the Snow Queen Stilt Walker, a Magic Show with magician Margaret Steele, jazzy holiday music with the Libby Richman Trio, house tours and Jonathan Geffner and his “Puppet Power” performance. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Literary & Books
Ingrid Hughes presents Losing Aaron 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Music
The Big Takeover 7pm. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill, United States. 9147371701. Cherish the Ladies: A Celtic Christmas 8pm. $30-$45. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. The Judith Tulloch Band 7pm. Modern rock. Wildfire Grill, Montgomery. 457-3770. Singer-Songwriter Showcase 8pm. $6. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311. Tyler Hilton and Kate Voegele 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Nightlife
Feast of Friends 10pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Theater
A Christmas Carol 8pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org.
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Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops & Classes
Dance Workshop with Clyde Forth: 10:30am-noon. $20/$55 series. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
SATURDAY 17 Film
Food For Thought: Indian Point 7pm-10pm. The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio, Albany. 518-465-5233.
Dance
HVCD Third Saturday Contradance 7:30-10:30pm. $10/5 full time students. Refreshments for sale. St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050.
Kids & Family
A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885.
Hudson Valley Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah 2pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Marcia Griffiths: Holiday Reggae Show Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Mister OH! 8:30-11:30pm. Mr. Oh will be rocking out all night and a gunktastic time will be had by all. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. (845 687-2699. Ray Roy presents SpaceBar 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com. Roots-rock Trio Ballroom Thieves 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Todd Londagin Band 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Tom Pacheco 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Group Guitar 1 1-2pm. $15. For people who have never played guitar before and want a quick jumpstart. Learn essential skills for playing 1st chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734. Group Music Theory 2:30-3:30pm. $15. Learn the logic behind music starting with the basics of individual notes and the process behind creating chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734. R&F Saturday Lab with Encaustic and Pigment Sticks 11am-4pm. $65. The Saturday Lab is a hands on workshop, giving artists a taste of what’s possible using R&F’s two paint lines. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088.
The Fabulous Hackers 2-4pm. A group of golf buddies get together and play favorites ranging from folk to classic rock to country intersperse with a growing list of original songs. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Hedda Lettuce: Lettuce Rejoice, Holiday Drag Cabaret 7pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. The Marc Black Omelette Quartet 10am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ray Blue’s Step Up for Jazz Project 7pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Theater
Artist's New Work Forum Presents: On a Midsummer's Night by Debbie Lan 3pm. Free. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. Rosendaletheatre.org. A Christmas Carol 3pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. Every Christmas Story Ever Told 2pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops & Classes
Laurie Berkner Band Holiday Celebration 11am. $35-$100. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Play Like: Brian Setzer 4-5pm. All-Ages. All students will receive TAB sheets of the songs they learn in. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
Reptile Show with Dan Liebel 2-3pm. Come see Dan Liebel present reptiles large and small from all over the worldincluding your own backyard! Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
MONDAY 19
The Puppet People's "A Christmas Carol" 11am. $9 adults, $7 children. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org.
Food & Wine
Sparkle 5-9pm. Featuring Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus in the glittering Sparkle Garden, the Snow Queen Stilt Walker, a Magic Show with magician Margaret Steele, jazzy holiday music with the Libby Richman Trio, house tours and Jonathan Geffner and his “Puppet Power” performance. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Music
Lectures & Talks
Julie Parisi Kirby, T. G. Vanini and Jude Roberts: A Winter Concert 5pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Literary & Books
Victoria St George presents The Rainbow Book 3pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Writing Group: Writers Write 10:30am-12:30pm. This writing group will offer weekly practice exercises to improve writing technique, and the opportunity to share work-in-progress for feedback. Facilitated by Elizabeth TenDyke. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
Music
Big Blue Big Band $69.75. A seeventeen-piece orchestra and swing dancing. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. Mohonk.com. Kansas City Sound 7:30 pm. Alley Cat Jazz and Blues Club, Kingston. 339-1300. Aztec Two-Step Holiday Show 8-10:30pm. $25/$40 reserved table seating. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Classics on the Hudson: Messiah Sing 4pm. First Presbyterian Church, Hudson. (518) 828-4275. David Kraai with Fooch Fischetti 10pm. Two sets with the help of Fooch Fischetti on pedal steel and fiddle. 10pm. Country. Birdsall House, Peekskill. (914) 930-1880. Ed Palermo Big Band: “A Whiter Shade of Palermo” 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
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Holiday Tasting 2-7pm. Stone Ridge Wine and Spirits, Stone Ridge. Stoneridgewineandspirits.com. Joe Louis Walker & Friends featuring Joe Nott 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night Join in on a holiday caroling-styled event that requires no singing. Composer and conductor Phil Kline’s interactive, ambient street parade performance Unsilent Night comes to Hudson’s 20th Anniversary Winter Walk. In this community-friendly event, participants choose one of four specially selected tracks to play on a portable music device: boomboxes, cellphones, ipods, speakers, or a gramophone. (Just kidding.) “We’re each playing a separate audio track, which is part of the piece. In effect, we become a city-blocklong stereo system,” explains Kline. Kline will bring a limited selection of vintage boomboxes, CDs, and cassettes, but participants are encouraged to bring their own devices. WGXC 90.7 FM will broadcast the event live. Download the free Unsilent Night app to participate. December 3. 4pm meetup at Basilica Hudson; the walk departs 5pm from the Warren Street and Front Street intersection. Hudsonoperahouse.org/unsilent-night. Tuba Christmas 3pm. Join this seasonal favorite as a participant or audience member. Tuba and euphonium players of all ages perform traditional Christmas music from around the world. Participants register at noon, rehearse at 1 p.m. and perform the free concert beginning at 3 p.m. Ulster Community College Camp Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Tusk: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute 8pm. $25/$35. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. The West Point Benny Havens Band 7pm. The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio, Albany. 518-465-5233. Winter Solstice Concert with Happy Traum and Friends 8pm. $67/$47/$27. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.
Theater
A Christmas Carol 3pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. Every Christmas Story Ever Told 8pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops & Classes
Community Clay Day Third Saturday of every month, 1-3pm. $6. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. 454-4525. Cover Hour Series: TransSiberian Orchestra 4-5pm. $15. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
SUNDAY 18 Dance
Dec Uptown Swing: Bryan Brundige Trio at the Lace Mill! 6:30-9:30pm. $10 suggested donation. Uptown Swing is a monthly night of hot jazz, swing, and dance. The Lace Mill, Kingston. Https://facebook.com/ events/206226733155011/.
Kids & Family
A Christmas Carol 11:30am-10pm. $18-$50.This new adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday favorite is humorous, touching and fast-paced--perfect for the entire family! Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, United States. 235-9885.
Literary & Books
Eve Gendron presents The Angels on My Tree 3pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Music
Blood Sweat and Tears featuring Bo Bice 7pm. $48-$60. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. A Christmas Special with Ray Blue’s Step Up for Jazz Project 7-9pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Darlingside with special guests Tall Heights 7pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Joel Frahm Trio 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
TUESDAY 20 Health & Wellness
Community Holistic Healthcare Days Third Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available and we have many new practitioners. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. Rvhhc.org.
Music
Quinnsonic Electronic Music Night 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Nightlife
Third Tuesday Queer Night Third Tuesday of every month, 7-11:30pm. Yoo hoo mid-Hudson queers! Community, fun, music and more. Dogwood, Beacon. Https:// facebook.com/midhudsonqueernight/.
WEDNESDAY 21 Theater
Rosendale Theatre Youth Arts Presents: Dark Night New Light 7pm. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. Rosendaletheatre.org.
Kids & Family
Kids Knit 3:30-5pm. With Bruce Weinstein. Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-5041.
Music
Art Labriola 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com. Petey Hop Hosts Roots & Blues Sessions 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Workshops & Classes
Group Guitar 1 4-5 & 7-8pm. $15. For people who have never played guitar before and want a quick jumpstart. Learn essential skills for playing 1st chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734. Tarot Wisdom Gathering Third Wednesday of every month, 6:308pm. $10. Join us at our monthly Tarot gathering. Each month a card will be chosen that we will delve into with open minds and hearts. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
THURSDAY 22 Comedy
Stand Up at The Underground 8pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Christmas in the Tavern 10am-5pm. A festive brunch. Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern, Saugerties. DiamondMillsHotel.com.
MONDAY 26
Music
Judy Collins 7pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Middle-Stage Music Social Fourth Thursday of every month, 2-3:30pm. People with middle-stage Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia and their family caregivers are invited to this free opportunity to socialize in a safe environment. Preregistration is required. Wingate at Dutchess Recreation Room, Fishkill. 471-2655. Slam Allen’s Holiday Soul-a-bration 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Nightlife
Trivia Night 7:30-9:30pm. The evening is hosted by Paul Tully and Eric Stamberg. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Music Joe Louis Walker & Friends 7pm. Featuring Vanessa Collier. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ray Blue Trio 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Workshops & Classes Winter Break Kids Camp 9am-3pm. Ice skating, theatre, arts & crafts, and games. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. Midhudsonciviccenter.org.
FRIDAY 30
Workshops & Classes
Winter Break Kids Camp 9am-3pm. Ice skating, theatre, arts & crafts, and games. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. Midhudsonciviccenter.org.
Workshops & Classes
Group Guitar 1 4-5 & 7-8pm. $15. For people who have never played guitar before and want a quick jumpstart. Learn essential skills for playing 1st chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
Music
THURSDAY 29 Business & Networking
Happy Hour Yoga: Orange County Chamber of Commerce Last Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. $10-$15. Long day at work? Release tension, stretch, strengthen and relax with our Happy Hour Yoga Class, followed by a hard cider
Winter Break Kids Camp 9am-3pm. Ice skating, theatre, arts & crafts, and games. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. Midhudsonciviccenter.org. Bobby Harden & The Soul Purpose Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Daby Touré 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. David Kraai & Amy Laber 7:30-10:30pm. Country harmonies, sweet banjo, tasty mandolin, twangy guitars, beautiful autoharp and soulful harmonica. Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills. 928-5384. Peter Calo & Band CD Release Party 8pm. Americana. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Willie Nile 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Bingo Fourth Thursday of every month, 7pm. Beekman Fire Department, Poughquag. 270-9133.
SATURDAY 31 Kids & Family
New Years @ Noon 9:30am-12:30pm. $14/$10 MHCM members. Join us as we celebrate our biggest party of the year with pop music, dancing, and super cool activities! Every hour we will have a special surprise as we count down to noon. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589.
Theater
Holiday Interactive Mystery Dinner Theatre 7-9:45pm. $45+ tax and gratuity. ACME Mystery Co. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
FRIDAY 23
Literary & Books
Dance
Writing Group: Writers Write 10:30am-12:30pm. This writing group will offer weekly practice exercises to improve writing technique, and the opportunity to share work-in-progress for feedback. Facilitated by Elizabeth TenDyke. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
Swing Dance to the Blue Gardenia Quintet $15/$10 FT students. Lesson at 8pm. Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Beginners welcome! Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Music
Holiday Celebration: Live Music & Guitar Raffle Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734. David Temple's Gift of Music 8pm. $20. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. Centerforperformingarts.org. JP Patrick & “Sessions” 9:30pm. Blues, jazz, rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Nalani & Sarina 8pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Popa Chubby 8pm. Opener: Nalani & Sarina. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Valerie not Val & Friends 8pm. Motown/R&B. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Workshops & Classes
Dance Workshop with Clyde Forth: Dancing within Darkness & Light 10:30am-noon. $20/$55 series. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Tips and Tricks in Watercolor Fourth Friday of every month, 10am-1pm. $40. With instructor Claudia Engel. Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery, Rhinebeck. 516-4435.
SATURDAY 24 Food & Wine
Christmas in the Tavern 5-9pm. Featuring a specialty dinner menu. Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern, Saugerties. DiamondMillsHotel.com.
Music Imagining Your Voice on the Page Voice. In poetry, voice is elemental and elusive. It is not confined to one definition, and is a topic often contested amongst writers. Voice can be heard, read, or even felt, an evershifting medium. This weekend-long seminar at the Garrison Institute will feature Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo and poet, essayist, and Bob Dylan biographer Robert Polito as instructors on the variety of ways to think about voice. Attendees will read and discuss poems, listen to a variety of music, and craft their own poetry. Award-winning vocalist and choreographer Meredith Monk will also perform on Saturday evening. December 16th through the 18th. Including room and board, cost varies from $380 to $510. (845) 4244800; Garrisoninstitute.org.
SUNDAY 25 Food & Wine
Christmas Day Grand Buffet $77.50/ adults, $42.25 ages 4-12. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. Mohonk.com.
New Year’s Eve with Soul Purpose 9pm-1am. $20. Let Soul Purpose dance you to the end of 2016 under the stars and in the shadow of the Gunks with an eclectic mix of Soul, Motown, R&B, Swing and Jazz favorites! Light appetizers and champagne toast provided. Bring your own special beverage. Reservations recommended. Unison, New Paltz. (914) 489-8391.
tasting and networking. Orange County Chamber of Commerce, Montgomery. 8454579700.
New Year’s Eve Concerts 5-5:45 & 6-6:45pm. Grace Episcopal Church, Millbrook. 845 677-3064.
Winter Break Kids Camp 9am-3pm. Ice skating, theatre, arts & crafts, and games. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. Midhudsonciviccenter.org.
Music
Nightlife
Latin Jazz Express Celebrates the Music of Tito Puente 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Daryl’s Rockin’ New Years Eve Show 6:30pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Kids & Family
Moon Hooch 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Twiddle New Year’s Eve 7:30pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
TUESDAY 27 Workshops & Classes
Holiday Break: Project Printmaking: A Day Long Workshop for Grades 1-3 10am-4pm. $75/$65 member. Explore all the different ways to press, push, and print masterpieces filled with colors, patterns, and textures. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519.
Music
Open Mike Night with Jeff Entin 6:30-9pm. Jeff Entin welcomes musicians from all around the Hudson Valley. Bring your instrument and talent to the stage or enjoy a tasty dinner listening to the music. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
The Alternate Routes 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Pat O’Shea 10pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Beacon Music Factory Night 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Texas Singer-songwriter Hayes Carll 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
WEDNESDAY 28
Workshops & Classes
Group Music Theory 2:30-3:30pm. $15. Learn the logic behind music starting with the basics of individual notes and the process behind creating chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
New Year’s Eve Party with Breakaway featuring Robin Baker 9pm-midnight. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Music
Festival of Lights: An Evening with Matisyahu 8pm. $35/$30. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Poet Gold’s Poelodies 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Rhett Miller 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
WVKR DJ Bill Skillz Diggin’ in the Crates Radio Roadshow 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater
Holiday Interactive Mystery Dinner Theatre 7-9:45pm. $45+ tax and gratuity. ACME Mystery Co. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
Workshops & Classes
Winter Break Kids Camp 9am-3pm. Ice skating, theatre, arts & crafts, and games. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. Midhudsonciviccenter.org.
Workshops & Classes
Group Music Theory 2:30-3:30pm. $15. Learn the logic behind music starting with the basics of individual notes and the process behind creating chords. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.
SUNDAY 1 Music
New Year’s Day Brunch with Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fis 12-3pm. A sophisticated blend of jazz and blues which is always soulful, always swinging, and always in an engaging style that never fails to connect with the audience. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Workshops & Classes
Mindful Movement Class First Sunday of every month, 12-1pm. $15. Learn to use the principles of the Alexander Technique to build awareness of your body in order to notice and release habits of movement and thinking that are not serving you. MaMa, Stone Ridge. (917) 373-6151.
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The Chaos Factor We now have our first tangible result of full digital conditions: a Frankenstein monster of every vile or repressive political stance has been designated president-elect. A national Muslim registry? Really? Rounding up Mexicans? This has been an exhausting year. It’s been agonizing enduring the attacks on women, on darker-skinned people, on Muslims, on veterans. It was enough that this got broadcast on TV and the Internet month after month. Now it’s about to become national policy. We have experienced a shock as individuals and to the collective mind. This shock is not limited in its effects by partisan viewpoints. Everyone is feeling it, or will be, but only some people are saying what they’re experiencing and how they feel. We all know that change is upon us. We all know it’s been a long time since anything radically shifted the trajectory our culture. Remember that in order to move society in one direction, something must come loose and be movable in any direction. There is no ratchet mechanism that says things must always click toward one particular side of the spectrum. There’s the relationship between the manipulators and the manipulated: this is something we must look at carefully. Anyone concerned about fake news on the Internet needs to learn how to fact-check for themselves. There is only so much of your power you can give away and still have any. Figuring out what’s true is now a top-level survival skill. The kind of shock we’re experiencing is difficult to understand if we try to perceive it through prior labels or categories, particularly political. The terms we have and try to use—liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, independent—are meaningless now. They are merely used to divide people. Many other social concepts are also falling apart, everything from notions like gay, straight, career, job, married, single: they lack the seemingly clean lines they used to have. And we all know that time—the most important boundary of all—ain’t what it used to be, which means our concept and experience of time is changing. 82 planet waves ChronograM 12/16
Three References to Astrology Let’s put an anchor down into the long-range astrology on which I’ll base the rest of my analysis. This consists of several main factors and many supporting ones. I will offer you three in this discussion. The common threads involve slow-movers Uranus, Pluto, and Eris, all of which have precedents for revolution. First let’s consider the Uranus-Eris conjunction. This is a ridiculously potent aspect associated with digital conditions, identity chaos and an explosion of self-discovery. The current alignment completes and also resets a cycle that began in 1927-1928, at the dawn of the broadcast era. (Think: the War of the Worlds radio broadcast of 1938 being at the beginning of the most recent cycle.) Uranus conjunct Eris is at its peak now, and will be so through 2017, with obvious effects building, rippling, and reverberating beyond the end of the decade. My research has the early rumblings of this aspect starting in 2007. You might think this is funny, but my basis chart is that of the introduction of the iPhone. That event was the water line between “there is an Internet” and “we now live at the bottom of a digital ocean, please pass the oxygen.” The most toxic effect of this aspect is that we’re being trained by our technology to be chilly little robots. We become like our tools, and our tools are now all robotic devices. The greatest potential is a wave of self-awareness rippling through the culture. On the most intimate, inward level, this is the choice we have. There is not much room for compromise between the two. Next is Pluto in Capricorn. That’s the sensation of the foundation of society crumbling. This commenced in the summer of 2008, and coincided with the revelation of what was quaintly known then as the subprime mortgage crisis, which became the failures of the banks and the Great Recession. Pluto is only halfway through Capricorn. It enters Aquarius beginning in 2023. Between now and then, we’re likely to witness an accelerating shock to institutions, some of which will fall.
Last is a series of alignments that involve Pluto and Eris, which happen in 2020 and 2021. First is Saturn conjunct Pluto, then Pluto square Eris, and finally Jupiter conjunct Pluto. There are no words for this, except to say that it’s as potent as astrology gets. What we are seeing play out in politics today is merely the warm-up act. While we’re on the astrology, here’s one last thought. The United States is now in its Pluto return. The US has its natal Pluto at about 27 degrees of Capricorn. Pluto reaches that degree in February 2022, completing one full 250-year cycle. This has never happened in US history. Because Pluto is in Capricorn within seven degrees of the US Pluto, what we’re experiencing now, and everything I’ve described so far, can be seen as early effects of the Pluto return. This is the great and grand spiritual checkpoint for the American experiment—and we are in it now. In this time, we decide we are one nation, one people, living on one world, or we see the effects of the fragmentation of American society in structural ways. These might include secession movements and interstate compacts designed to protect against the too-powerful federal system of government. A Change in Perspective We are experiencing change, shock and disorientation on an accelerated scale, as described by world events and the astrology you just read about. But there’s a weird dissonance: most people’s lives are, at this time, moving along more or less normally. Of course, “normally” means verging on insane—the pace, keeping up with communications, money being worth less, a strange social environment, and yes, the pace of existence seeming to leave no time to breathe. There is a split here; we see and feel the shocks and yet wonder where the change is for us personally. This is a central question. I think that much of the change we’re seeing has its epicenter in consciousness, not in the world. In order to keep our sanity, we’ll need to begin describing ideas and events in more descriptive terms rather than labeling them. The ongoing crumbling of context is making it increasingly important that we have new ways to tell the story of our lives. This will involve a reorientation of perception. What we need to study is the environment more than dwelling on specific people, problems and events. “The environment” means your surroundings, technology that’s in your hands and in the background, the backstory, and all else that is normally invisible or that you don’t typically notice. Now that we’ve had our minds, hearts, souls, careers, and appointment calendars thrust onto the astral plane of the Internet, it’s time to use discernment and notice what normally goes unseen in the world around us. You are part of that background—that which you look through and do not normally see. Your mind, which synthesizes all you experience, tends to be a transparent device. You seem to see through it, more than you actually see it—yet the opposite is true. You take in the sensory data and then assemble it into the reality you experience. This is why your state of mind is the single most important factor in this whole discussion. It’s also the most transparent factor because you rarely see the thing itself; you experience the results. Your mind colors and shapes everything you think you feel and see. Digital technology has pushed our minds outside ourselves, or that’s the illusion. Sense organs, our memory structure, our nervous systems, all are now projected outside ourselves, contained on computing devices. We often remember things by looking them up on a computer. We see the world through cameras and hear it through microphones. This is unnerving; one result is the need to cut off from so much input. That extend/cut-off cycle is the digital haze, the sleepwalking through life, that’s so reflective of our moment. When this happens, particularly in younger people who lack the prior reference points and contexts, one result is extreme destabilization. There is literally nothing to cling to, no dependable harbors or moorings, nothing that does not change with disquieting speed, and everything is subject to being pushed to extremes. Tell Your Own Story, Your Way Without old-fashioned concepts to fit your experiences into, you need your own way of telling your story, in a way you can relate to others. You must take over the narrative of your life. This will help you navigate your experiences of yourself, your relationships, and your community. More than anything, having an accurate, workable description of your life will help you navigate your
purpose. That is to say, navigating your way through time in a meaningful way. One thing I hear about a lot in my role as an astrologer is a struggle with meaning. Not everyone is blessed with an inner compass pointing them in a dependable direction. Most of the landmarks that one uses as navigational references are also endangered species. American culture had relatively few rites of passage to begin with: high school graduation, first car, college graduation, embark on career, get married, have children, and so on. These still exist, but in ways that are less significant or even insignificant for more and more people. The idea of a job is getting difficult to grasp (another influence of the internet). Note to the new administration: the jobs have not gone to Mexico or China. The jobs have gone to robots. The environment we’re in makes it difficult to see where we’ve been, where we are and where we might go. To do this will take seeing yourself in the context of your environment, which means really, truly paying attention to the invisible background. More than anything, that means your interior reality. It’s getting difficult to describe this elusive thing, interior reality, in an environment where it’s been blown inside out. There was a time not long ago when nearly all communications had a reasonable chance of being private. When you would mail someone a letter, it was not copied over on 10 different servers. When you made a phone call, all but actual targets of investigations could be sure that nobody in the government or the phone company recorded it. Young people today who have grown up going through security checkpoints on the way into high school, having bag and locker searches, and being declared psychiatric cases based on poems written in their diaries have no concept of privacy. Many young people have been subjected to stop-and-frisk tactics of the police on public streets. Most do not remember a time before this happened. Privacy means you can walk down the street or get on a subway train and not be searched. The loss of privacy translates into not just a loss of interior space but also a loss of the idea that it might exist. Then add the internet, the use of which has trained everyone to blow their minds inside out, sharing every personal thought and private detail as if it’s breaking news. While we’ve been busy doing this, the magicians of marketing have colonized our minds with their branding, their jingles and most of all, with their concept of who you should be. This has been going on for a long time, though most advertising now has nothing to do with the product and is all about the life you should be living, who you’re supposed to be and what you’re supposed to want. You might think of all of this as “invisible background,” if only because it’s so prevalent that it’s nearly impossible to see. We Need to Reclaim Inner Space My perspective is that the present chaos of the world—and our seeming inability to rein it in—involves the collapse of interior boundaries. This is the effect of something, which I’ve described in the preceding paragraphs. It’s not getting any easier. Those influences are only growing more frantic as they compete for our attention, loyalty and money. The need to cultivate inner space has never been more important. As in never, ever. How to do that would be the subject of an excellent article series or book; and speaking of books, reading them is an excellent way to start. Devoting yourself to art, music, and writing is also deeply helpful for cultivating inner space. And then there is sex, the most maligned, co-opted, and misunderstood subject in all of existence. Connecting with sexuality has the power to save our souls like few things. The fact that it’s so maligned and misunderstood requires careful handling. It calls for having real information. We also need to develop the language to communicate with one other about our inner reality as we discover it. That transaction—sexual self-discovery combined with learning to relate those experiences to others—can provide some of the best direction you’ve every had in your life. You can gain access to your “original instructions” and begin to get a more tangible understanding of how to be of use. With the chaos factor being what it is, we need to explore and master every tool we have available. This takes time, commitment, and patience. In a world with few boundaries, you need a code you can live by. Just keep it flexible. chronogram.com Read Eric Francis Coppolino’s weekly Planet Waves column.
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Aries (March 20-April 19) You’re not through finding yourself, though you’re less lost than you were at this time last year. You’re adapting to the idea that you wake up a slightly different person every day, in a different world every day. This means embracing being less certain, though what you’ve giving up is a fragile or even false concept of who you are. You now have more space to maneuver, and less need to prove to yourself or anyone who you are. It’s through action and interaction, live and in real time, that you will make your most significant discoveries. Life is not a matter of theory that you or the world must live up to; rather, your experience will have a way of hinting at who and what are real and relevant to you. It’s then up to you to extract the potential from all of this, and create something for yourself. You may still be inclined to ask for permission from others; you may still think you need the approval of authority figures. You may still think there’s a matter of morality involved, especially if someone is trying to impose their morals on your choices. There is no argument to have. It can be challenging to grasp that merely existing sends a stronger message about your intentions than anything you might say.
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) You’re seeing the benefits of taking the long view, and the slow approach. Pace yourself, and use your plans as a kind of guide to the possibilities rather than as a firm commitment. One thing you’ve learned is that you must leave room for variables. Taurus is perhaps the most steadfast of all the signs, and you bring tenacity and integrity to all that you do. That includes your relationships. Remember, the safe container you are seeking starts with your confidence in yourself. It almost goes no further. When you have confidence in yourself, you can create, contain, or handle anything, and you’ll believe people love you when they do. When two people get together to share anything more than lunch, they have to work out understandings and power sharing agreements. Those are always cultivated over time, and become the ‘container’ of the relationship. They are based on the discovery of common values that can be built on: common reasons for living. No matter how clear anything may be in the beginning, these understandings evolve, flow, are adapted and adjusted with the nonstop flow of time. We live in the world of forever changes. No house or concept can protect us from change; we don’t need to be protected. To truly live, we must to dance with life and death and experience existence outside of any concept about it.
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GEMINI (May 20-June 21) Everything about your charts is saying go deep: that you want to, and that you need to. This means having the real conversation sooner rather than later. No matter how apprehensive that may make you feel, you’re the bold person in the equation, the one who has a feeling for what you need to say, and what you want to know. Once the discussion is going, though, you don’t need to push any particular point. Take it gently and allow the momentum of truth to carry the subject forward. You will know you’re having a real conversation when it takes on a life of its own, when things come up that surprise you, and you end up in a completely different place than you may have intended. You seem to be climbing around on the wreckage or artifacts of the past. If you get that feeling, think of it as the unresolved remnants of past commitments. In the midst of that all, you might find one or two things you can still stand by, though not much else. To actually live, you must clear out of your way any promises you’re no longer able or willing to keep, and free others from the same things. Be aware that most of the time, most humans try to live in the past, and why so little of actual relevance ever seems to happen. Your way is different.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) The thing about love interests is that if you’re alive and friendly, there are likely to be a few of them around. This is true regardless of whether you consider yourself monogamous, polyamorous. or something in between. Regardless of your orientation, you cannot really endure jealousy for long; you feel how controlling it is. Though you’re a loyal person, you can be loyal to many people, indeed to anyone, which is rooted in your commitment to your own purpose. Therefore, you need a way to engage with people close to you and deflect the issue until you can have a real conversation. It’s possible that you’ve attained a state of harmony among the people around you, or that you’re on the way to doing so. You thrive on collaboration and cooperation. Competition does not feel good, and it has limited use. Yet you also need to love who you love, which is a privilege rarely taken with an open heart and clear conscience. You owe yourself at least this much. This is true in all aspects of your life, from the (seemingly) most private to the (seemingly) most public. What you strive to do in life, the impact and influence that you have, all stem directly from you. You are the primary person who will benefit, who will notice and who will give yourself credit for what you’ve accomplished.
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LEO (July 22-August 23) You’re growing and changing in ways you may not understand; don’t let that stop you from appreciating them. You may, for instance, have noticed that the ground seems to be leveling between you and those you previously considered powerful or daunting. It’s a sign of maturity when you can meet people on the human level, irrespective of any rank, status or power they may seem to have. Learning to see people eye to eye, across level ground—including everyone you encounter—is going to be the essence of your life for the far foreseeable future. To do this requires commitment and practice. It’s a form of karma yoga that you can do all the time, and from which nobody you encounter is exempt. By this I mean the great and the mighty, the poor and the infirm, plants, animals, skyscrapers, sacred ruins and all the great achievements of culture. All of the above: train yourself to view this as all being equal to you. This would also include the tragedies you witness, and the desolation that is becoming prevalent in our benighted world. In the most immediate, practical and day-to-day approach, this ‘level field of reality’ reaches first into the agreements that you mutually make with others. You must hold yourself to those agreements, and do what you can to hold others to their commitments to you. That is the beginning.
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VIRGO (August 23-September 22) When you are honest with yourself, the feeling is akin to tapping into a hot well of your own strength. If you swim down into yourself in the direction the heat is flowing from, you can make many discoveries about yourself. They are all part of the same thing. Your chart right now looks like the rocks have cracked open at the bottom of your personal ocean, and light and heat and love are flowing out into your emotional body. You can trust this process, even though it might be frightening at times. That part passes, and you will be left with the deep feeling of being whole within yourself. Your astrology suggests that you’ve been experimenting in this territory for years. Yet a new factor has entered the equation. This, you might say, is an ability to hold space for yourself, as you go through your self-discovery. Your holding open of inner space has many effects. One of them is to wipe out your tendency to be lied to, or to get confused by the self-deception of others. The current of your personal, visceral truth is more potent than any deception or misunderstanding, anywhere. Another is to point you on a trajectory into yourself. You are gradually aligning with an opening that you’ve been seeking for a long time. In that unusual space, all self-judgment releases itself into love.
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) There seems to be some complex family situation brewing in your chart, and you have the ability to entirely subvert this from becoming a drama. As you do that, you have an opportunity to shift your perspective on your family history and all the ways that it relates to both your past and your present. There seems to be a lot to unravel here. Yet I can tell you from much experience in therapy that sometimes the simplest observation can reveal the whole pattern, and once you see that for what it is, you can let go of it—if you choose. Here’s a story for you. Many years ago I was in therapy and brought in my father. I was frustrated that he did not seem to recognize who I was, but he was willing to come in. It was a form of Gestalt therapy (which gets right to the point). Joe, the therapist, had us stand face to face about half a step apart. He said, raise your hands and press them together. We stood there like that for a moment, and he said, on the count of three, push. One, two, three—and I went over backwards. My father had just pushed me over backwards. I caught my balance, though in that moment I understood the total dynamic of our relationship. I got it, just like that—and I was set free and never forgot.
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The past year of your life has summoned a level of discipline in you that’s been most unusual. Yet the results have been worth it. You have come into a state of balance that has brought maturity, progress, and some actual achievements. Keep in mind that the most important of those are internal: your ability to make decisions, to get along with others, and to set the course of your life. It’s true that you’ve had to make some sacrifices, though in hindsight you will likely see that what you’ve given up you actually exchanged for experiences of greater value. If your chart describes one necessary growth task at this time, it involves a lingering attachment leftover from early in life, that you now have an opportunity to identify and resolve. There area few people who have not endured some kind of abuse or neglect, and most of them underestimate the degree to which this affects their lives today. Even a relatively small unresolved emotional condition can, at times, turn into a reactive state that is projected onto others, who have absolutely no connection to the original situation. Should something like this happen over the next few weeks, you have the ability to stop the show, and get a handle on what’s really going on. Those now in your life will be open to your healing. You can let it go.
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There’s a story developing in your chart about devoting your attention to those who are less well-off than you are. If you follow this story, it will become a calling, an invitation to do what you can for whomever you can. I recognize that these are instincts that must be followed carefully. It’s easy to burn out or overextend yourself. It’s also easy to listen and hear the seemingly small ways you can be of help, and take action in a way that is harmless to everyone and helpful in the intended way. Noticing that people exist is an excellent place to start; being noticed can be of profound significance for someone who lives their life feeling invisible. And there may be more tangible ways you can help, whether in the moment or in the long run, for example, making introductions between those who have a need and someone else who might be able to fulfill it. The wider theme here is the cultivation of your compassion and empathy. This comes at no cost to anyone, and does not take up your time. What these qualities do call for is vulnerability, and the recognition of human frailty. Once you make contact with that level of your existence, you will tap into a deeper strength, perhaps deeper than you’ve ever known. And you will discover yourself to be a messenger of faith.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) In addition to being one of the most mentally intelligent signs of the zodiac, Aquarius can have a tendency to outsmart itself. This is the result of overemphasis on analysis as a means of answering questions or solving problems. Reason and rationality are essential tools, and they must be balanced by what is sometimes called emotional intelligence. We might reframe that as physical intelligence, a kind of clairvoyance that comes directly through your body. Your body does not usually speak in words, and it’s easy to drown out its intelligence with too many of them. That said, your intuition seems to be developing a new language. You might think of this as a language conveyed in light rather than in sound or the alphabet. The light you ‘read’ may be experienced internally, or you may gather a feeling or sensation off of visual illumination. Look carefully at the edges of things, of people and their auras. There is a message for you, though it will be subtle. It may be filtered and/or doubted by your rational mind. Work with that: doubt is a kind of affirmation and acknowledgement. If you experience any negative emotions directed at yourself, tune into the spiritual level in this way. The purpose of these communications is healing your self-doubt and past injuries to your self-esteem. Ease back and let the love flow to you, and through you.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) The coming year is the last full year of Chiron in your birth sign. That journey began in April 2010, and represents a series of initiations that you’ve been through. You are no longer an aspirant. You’ve had little choice other than to rise to the occasion of whatever Chiron has offered. This complex little planet has many facets; here are three of them. Perhaps the very essence of Chiron is training your ability to turn what has harmed you in the past into a source of strength and wisdom today. Talents and healing gifts can collect around these injured places, which can have a way of transforming your life and your sense of purpose. Second, Chiron has taught you that it’s necessary for you to be as different as you are. Continue the process of burning off any awkwardness or uncertainty about this. You simply must stand out and be who you actually are, even if there seems to be a price to pay for that. Last, perhaps the least acknowledged theme of Chiron, is that of mentorship. This is a form of teaching where the flame of knowledge and power is passed directly from one person to another. Note the few people in your life who have stayed with you through this journey. Note as well your own state of devotion to those who seek out your leadership and guidance one-on-one. You teach what you most need to learn.
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Above: Postcard, ca. 1960, by Bill Bard Associates. Indoor pool, Laurels Hotel and Country Club on Sackett Lake, Monticello New York. Below: indoor pool, 2010, Laurels Hotel and Country Club on Sackett Lake, Monticello, New York. Photo by Marisa Scheinfeld.
Marisa Scheinfeld grew up in the western Catskills, and like many other Jewish families, hers vacationed there. The “Borscht Belt,” or “Jewish Alps,” was a hotspot for seasonal entertainment, pleasure, and leisure. The area experienced a golden age from the 1930s into the `60s—but the resorts have been abandoned now for decades. Nature has taken over. Rust and decay have eaten away at buildings and structures where families once flocked for card games, dining, and ice-skating. Scheinfeld’s photos in The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland (Cornell University Press, 2016) contrast the present, overgrown spaces to the once carefully maintained and thriving vacation scenes. “Ruins can be metaphors for things that survived, persisted, and persevered despite the fact that everything around them as falling and crashing,” Scheinfeld says, “Some people might consider them dead, but I see them as active and vital, a powerful force.” A stark beauty occupies the snow-filled remains of what was once an indoor pool brimming with bodies. Kodachrome summer turns to monochromatic winter. Red pool lounge chairs are replaced with scraggily trees. The building in the postcard’s background is nonexistent. People are replaced with piles of snow, and all that remains from the original image are fragments in a side-by-side comparison. —Hannah Phillips
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