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ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.
CONTENTS 2/16
VIEW FROM THE TOP
WEDDINGS
11 ARTSCENE TV
30 WEDDING PLANNING 101
A preview of our monthly video series highlighting Hudson Valley artists.
12 ON THE COVER Photographer Mark Peterson is busy documenting the 2016 presidential campaign.
13 CHRONOGRAM SEEN Pictures from the Uptown Kingston New Year’s Eve celebration by Saundi Wilson.
HOME & GARDEN 38 HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL
NEWS AND POLITICS 16 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Dinosaur mating dances, inept condom thefts, and more you may have missed.
17 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Some thought experiments on whether or not tax hikes destroy the economy.
WELL-SPENT: SHOPPING 18 THE LOVE EDITION
Express your devotion with sweet and saucy gifts sourced around the region.
Avoid the pitfalls of your big day with advice from wedding planners.
Sometimes it pays to talk to strangers. Garin Baker learned all the skills needed to renovate a historic property in New Windsor via a chance conversation.
FOOD & DRINK 64 LOCAL EXOTIC: THE CORNER AT THE HOTEL TIVOLI
Devon Gilroy’s modern Mediterranean food with Moroccan influences finds a home in Brice Marden’s boutique hotel in Tivoli.
WHOLE LIVING 74 DOCTORS DOING GOOD
A homegrown volunteer medical initiative is saving the lives of African women.
KIDS & FAMILY
COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE
28 ADVENTURES IN PARENTAL MONOGAMY
69 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 70 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 80 WHOLE LIVING Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
Lock the bedroom door and start talking to your partner. Some experts say there is such a thing as erotic monogamy.
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Illustrator and cartoonist Will Lytle at his home and studio in West Shokan.
BOOKS
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ROY GUMPEL
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FEBRUARY–MAY 2016
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THE ELLINGTON EFFECT: A Centennial Tribute to Billy Strayhorn
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3.4 / 7 PM and 3.6 / 2 PM
IMPROV CUBED: From Bach to the Great American Songbook 4.16 / 8 PM
4.1 / 8 PM
SALUTE TO AFRICA!
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Messiah
THE ORCHESTRA NOW
GRADUATE VOCAL ARTS PROGRAM OPERA Higglety Pigglety Pop! and The Magic Flute
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4.9 / 8 PM 4.10 / 3 PM
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FAYE DRISCOLL Thank You For Coming: Attendance
FRAN LEBOWITZ: A Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn
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JOHN JASPERSE Within between
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Seven inspired weeks of opera, music, theater, dance, film, and cabaret
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DEMOLISHING EVERYTHING WITH AMAZING SPEED Futurist puppet plays by Fortunato Depero Translated, designed, and directed by Dan Hurlin World Premiere July 7 – July 17
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Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.
CONTENTS 2/16
ARTS & CULTURE
THE FORECAST
49 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE
82 DAILY CALENDAR
52 MUSIC: YUNGCHEN LHAMO
A Grammy-nominated ambassador of Tibetan music moves to the region. Nightlife Highlights include Sergio Mendes and Brasil `66, Billy Strayhorn Tribute, Angelique Kidjo, Sonny Landreth/Cindy Cashdollar, Ultraam. Reviews of Fourmation by INNErOUTe; Life is Long by Seth Davis; and A Remedy by Upstate Rubdown.
56 BOOKS: WILL LYTLE
Nina Shengold treks into the woods to chat with the illustrator and cartoonist.
60 BOOK REVIEWS
Reviews of Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma and Sharon Tate: A Life by Ed Sanders. Plus Short Takes.
62 POETRY Poems by Alex Apuzzo, Marcia Cavell, Elliott Corry, Irene Corvinus, Maeve Dwyer, Dorothy Gutterman, Anthony G. Herles, Eirini Melena Karoutsos, Kelly Lee, Perry Nicholas, Nicodemus Nicoludis, Will Nixon, Tom O’Dowd, Matt Shaw, Susan Sparrow, Matthew J. Spireng, and Veronica Stork.
VIDEO: ARTSCENE TV
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Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS “Beautiful Nonsense," a group show, is on display at Rockland Center for the Arts. Drag legend Charles Busch previews his latest show at Helsinki Hudson. Indie songstress Eleanor Friedberger performs at Bearsville Theater. The Culinary Institue hosts the third annual Beefsteak Dinner. Iva Bittova and Helena Baillie perform at the Hudson Opera House. DanceFest! brings 11 area dance studios to SUNY Ulster. The comic opera “We’ve Got Our Eye on You” is staged at SUNY New Paltz. DJ Jonathan Toubin returns to BSP Kingston this month for another installment of his popular all-45s Soul Clap dance party and contest.
PLANET WAVES 90
DAVID BOWIE: MEMOIR OF WHEN SEX WAS FOR FUN
Eric Francis Coppolino remembers when it was okay to be horny and creative.
92 HOROSCOPES
What are the stars telling us? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.
96 PARTING SHOT
Matt McKinney’s sculptures of tools in ebony.
ROY GUMPEL
Our monthly video series highlights the Hudson Valley artscene. Chronogram.com/TV.
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ARTSCENE TV
Each month, filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss produces “ArtScene,” a monthly video web series with short segments on artists, galleries, and museums in the Hudson Valley. Here, Stephen gives an outline of this month’s film. Check out the film and others from the ArtScene series at Chronogram.com/TV. This month’s film features artist Steven Siegel and his soon-to-be-completed A Puzzle for Alice, begun in 2014. The ambitious project started as a germ of an idea, and the composition has evolved organically, with each section growing out of the previously created adjacent part. “I feel this piece is a reflection of how we see the world nowadays—with continuity being broken by lots of bits and bytes,” says Siegel. A well-traveled, internationally recognized artist, Siegel works with many humble materials in large quantities, including, paper, rubber, fiber, and found objects. (Siegel’s multimedia assemblage Hands appeared on the cover of the January 2015 issue of Chronogram.) Siegel is often asked why he creates works of art that are so large they cannot be viewed all at once. He responds, “It reflects my belief that few things are actually self-contained images. You can’t see your marriage all at once, you can’t see ancient Rome all at once, nor can you see NewYork all at once. If you go on a hike, there is no point where you can see everything simultaneously. You are in fact stitching together a succession of parts.” Siegel’s current project and a previous work called Biography, which took him five years to construct, reflect his view of the world more accurately than individual stand-alone studio works. Alice will ultimately consist of 169 rectangular frames, or cells. Each one stands alone, but they do so in the context of the greater whole. Some parts have recognizable objects and some are clearly abstract, but all work together to create one composition. Photographs of some built cells have been reincorporated into the actual piece, creating the effect of the work being reflected in itself. In order to see both the entire image and its intensive detail, Siegel will be making a film that incorporates a voiceover narration.With the help of computer technology, the viewer will be given a guided tour, zooming in, out, and around. Each of the 169 cells will be photographed individually, reconstructed on a Photoshopped wall and incorporated into the movie. Siegel embraces a multimedia approach on multiple levels. In addition to the meticulous hands-on labor necessary to create the physical objects, the imagery is driven by the photography of Doug Baz, a narrative script to be recited by Siegel’s wife, Alice, and ultimately, a film. He says, “I find the inclusion of all this technology difficult but fascinating; the acknowledgement of today’s world and its effect on our vision is expanding my horizons.” Portfolio: Stevensiegel.net.
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Governor ScottWalker Speaks at the Red State Gathering in Atlanta 8/8/15 mark peterson | photograph | 2015
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hotographs of politicians are usually the same: immaculate posture, calculated smiles, orchestrated expressions. They’re painted more as characters, posing for their audiences. For New York City-based photographer Mark Peterson, this became a challenge to crack. “They want a picture taken from that specific angle because [they] will look the best with that view and backdrop behind them. Everything I try to do is to not take that picture,” says Peterson, who is currently following the 2016 presidential candidates as a freelance photographer for MSNBC, Time, and The NewYorker, among others. “That’s when I thought, ‘I have to be more dramatic.’” And boy, are these facial expressions worth a thousand words. With his alternative perspective, Peterson focuses his lens on the often ignored—yet essential—details of the shape of the mouth, crinkle of an eyelid, movement of the hands. They’re loud, theatrical, and natural, cringe-worthy to any political advisor. Shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Peterson uses limited editing through cheap photo apps for enhanced lighting and then switches to black and white, mimicking the raw, on-the-fly snapshots of 1930s political figures. Peterson has gathered his favorites together as “Political Theater,” an exhibit presented by Fovea Exhibitions at Hudson Beach Glass through March 6. “I’m trying to reveal things in the faces and gestures of the candidates that maybe we don’t know, or haven’t seen.” Luckily, the candidates seem to be making it fairly easy for him. Unlike his first campaign following Bill Clinton in ’92, the current candidates are erupting with anger, enhancing the drama. “[The candidates are] believing that government isn’t working, and are channeling the imagined or real anger from the voting populous,” says Peterson. “The rise of Trump and Sanders has made this project even more viable or come to life.” The most difficult candidate to break character? Hillary. “For the most part, she tries to demonstrate restraint and belief in her competency. All the other candidates are so angry, they’re just going to barge in there and claim house,” Peterson says. “I think some of the most revealing photos I’ve made have been of Hillary. When the curtain is drawn aside and you see a more real person.” This month’s cover shot is pressed with power and symbolism. Republican candidate Governor Scott Walker reaches out his arm to the crowd at the Red State Gathering in Atlanta, Georgia this past August. An American flag hovers in the corner. As his hand gestures forward, Walker—like so many other candidates—reaches out for support and trust. “He’s basically pleading for people to come aboard his campaign. All of them wrap themselves up in patriotism and the American flag,” says Peterson. While Peterson’s 35-plus years of photography experience is not solely politically based, he sure has a knack for capturing the type of picture that may be just as important as the speech itself. Mark Peterson’s photographs in “Political Theater” will be on display through March 6 by Fovea Exhibitions on the second floor at Hudson Beach Glass, 162 Main Street in Beacon. Peterson will talk about his work on Saturday, February 13 at 6:30 pm. Foveaeditions.org; Markpetersonpixs.com. —Zan Strumfeld
CHRONOGRAM SEEN Photos by Saundi Wilson Over 5,000 people gathered in Uptown Kingston on New Year’s Eve for dinner, drinks, and dancing! With multiple venues (BSP Kingston, Boitson’s heated tent and the Chronogram Speakeasy at the new Senate Garage to name a few), we all rang in the New Year with a Times Square-esque ball drop, Kingston dignitary show, and, new for this year, fireworks presented by Basch and Keegan. Many thanks to all our sponsors, neighbors, friends, and attendees. To see all the photos from New Year’s Eve: Facebook.com/Chronogram.
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ESTEEMED READER “Throughout the range of states, the structure stays the same, but the quality of life changes.”—JeanVaysse Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: I was in the post office opening mail at a counter along the wall. My mind was elsewhere, considering insoluble problems. I ripped open an envelope, pulling a tear across the top fold with the blunt instrument of my index finger. Withdrawing the folded contents of the envelope, I was surprised to see a man standing beside me. I hadn’t noticed his coming. The man was short, but he stood straight in a way that conveyed dignity. His white beard was trimmed to a point, and he wore a black fedora and cashmere overcoat and scarf. The man was staring at me, looking first into my eyes, and then down to the crudely torn envelope on the counter. He seemed to be observing and noting something. Thinking the man would go away if I ignored him, I went back to inspecting the handwritten letter. It was on fine, lineless paper filled on both sides with neat cursive writing in blue ink. I forgot about the man looking at me as I read the words written in a graceful hand, the curved lines showing the uneven light and heavy pattern of a broad-nibbed fountain pen. The letter began “You have the right to make sacrifices, but you have no right to require sacrifices from others.” I pondered this, and was shaken again by a renewed impression of the gentleman’s gaze. I put the letter down and turned to face him with an inquiring look. “What’s wrong with you?” he said in a deep timbre that spiked into falsetto in the middle of the word “wrong.” His resonant tone said it wasn’t a rhetorical question, and I remembered a Chinese doctor that asked me the same question in the same way after feeling my pulse in the back room of an herb shop in Chinatown. “Um, nothing…” I replied. “Why do you ask?” He didn’t answer right away. His head made a tiny movement from side to side as though he was turning to look through the left and right eye alternately, seeing something completely different through each. “I ask because of this,” he said, looking at the rudely torn envelope. “Has no one shown you how to open a letter?” I stared at the object trying to fathom what the man was asking. And then I saw it. I saw the envelope, the jagged tear in the paper, its haphazard position showing the way it had been thrown aside in hasty pursuit of its contents. I saw that I had not been present in the opening, and that the envelope on the counter was a direct reflection of my state of being. “I see,” I said, looking back at the man in the fedora. “Thanks for pointing that out.” “You have no idea how many opportunities you are missing,” he said. “Everything you want, all the qualities you think you can experience by doing or getting something, they are all here. If nothing else, you need to…” At that moment a fire engine sped along the street in front of the post office, the siren obscuring his words. My eyes mechanically moved to watch the red truck and flashing lights speed across the glass front doors from frame to frame. When I looked back, I saw the man’s back as he moved toward the door, and I realized I hadn’t heard the final admonition. “What?” I called to his back. He didn’t seem to hear, continuing his smooth movement toward the door. I called again. “What did you say?!” The man kept walking and looked over his shoulder, his eyes gleaming. His voice seemed to sound inside my chest cavity, “Use everything,” he said in my chest. “Use everything.” I watched him open the door and walk through. His movements’ efficiency suggested an awareness of his body in space. The appearance was one of stop-frame slow motion, and in an instant he was gone. I was shocked, clobbered. And then the feeling shifted to sadness, and loss. I missed this man I had talked with for all of 30 seconds. And then I remembered his words—use everything—even this feeling of emptiness in my chest. With an eye on the emptiness I focused on sliding the letter back into the torn envelope, placed it in a pocket of my bag, and walked to the door, sensing my feet in contact with the floor. I felt the cool metal of the door handle and the resistance of the door on its hinges. I felt the cold air as I stepped outside, and walked to the car. I heard the solid sound of the car door latching. As if an omen, the Beastie Boys were on the radio. No time like the present to work shit out That’s what I’m going on and on and on about Not fakin’ just makin’ beats in the dungeon Keep that shit funky ‘cause the odorMeetings is pungentat Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock NY No shame in my game just par for the path For information call 845/527-6205 Woodstock www.GurdjieffBeing.com / NYC I try to hone my craft because at hand’s the task www.GurdjieffBennettnYc.com —Jason Stern
LAUREN THOMAS
Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Magic Beans
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e all remember the fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. A boy (named Jack) lives with his widowed mother (name not provided) and a dairy cow (name not provided either) who is the family’s only source of income. When the cow stops giving milk, Jack’s mother instructs him to take the cow to market to be sold. On the way, Jack meets a creepy old man who offers him some magic beans in exchange for the cow. Jack, who seems far too credulous a person to be allowed to be conducting the family’s financial affairs, accepts the beans-for-cow trade. (Exeunt creepy old man and frightened cow.) When Jack returns home, mom goes ballistic, tosses the beans on the ground in disgust, and sends him to bed without supper. (A clear case of transference on the mother’s part, who must feel terrible for letting her child out into the world to be hoodwinked.) Over night, a giant beanstalk grows from the magic beans, which Jack climbs to find a giant’s castle. Cue “Fee-fi-fo-fum,” etc. Once the giant is asleep, Jack steals a bag of gold coins and escapes down the beanstalk. The versions of the story I’ve read are vague on or usually omit the mother’s reaction to her son’s (clearly felonious) actions. Regardless of whatever encouragement or censure Jack receives from mom, he climbs up the beanstalk twice more to steal from the giant, taking a goose that lays golden eggs (useful!) and a harp that plays itself (how much harp music can one actually take?).The giant, understandably pissed Art by Melissa Washburn about these repeated home invasions, gives chase down the beanstalk. Mom hands Jack an axe, he cuts down the beanstalk, and the giant tumbles to his death. Jack and his mother live happily ever after, perhaps beginning their happily ever after by heading into town for a celebratory steak dinner. I want to tell you another story about magic beans, except these ones come from Columbia County and tell a tale of a regional food shed, not a giant’s bloodshed. Sixty years ago, a fella named Hank Losee grew a variety of bean that was beloved in his community of Ghent. Hank’s beans were the star of the town’s own garden-to-table baked bean dish, to which many citizens contributed ingredients from their own kitchen gardens. Hank’s neighbor Flossy made the best baked beans in town, highlighting his prized crop using her own special recipe. After Hank’s passing, his beans disappeared, and their story, the story of a particular community and a specific place in time, went missing too.
That is until Hank’s daughter, Peg Lotvin, discovered a small stash of her father’s prized heirloom beans in a glass jar at his house and donated them to Hudson Valley Seed Library, an Accord-based organization that preserves and cultivates heirloom seed varieties. “Every seed is a story,” says Ken Greene, the founder of Hudson Valley Seed Library. “Growing a seed means growing its story and keeping it alive. Genetic stories, human stories of travel, tragedy, spirit. Some seed stories are tall tales, some are personal stories from recent generations. When you choose and plant a seed, you are answering the question: Which story would I like to grow?” I met Greene at a dinner celebrating Hank’s X-Tra Special Baking Bean at the Village Tea Room in New Paltz in late January, part of a series of cassoulet dinners at restaurants around the region highlighting the heirloom bean last month. It was the culmination of a pilot project between the agriculturalboosting nonprofit Glynwood, Hudson Valley Seed Library, and Hudson Valley Chef’s Network. In the spring of 2015, 14 pounds of Hank’s beans were divided between six regional growers, who planted the crop. In September, Glynwood hosted a community “thresh fest” to harvest Hank’s beans using traditional methods at the farms; 100 pounds of beans were harvested and a reserve of beans was returned to Hudson Valley Seed Library for cataloging and retail sale. This month, Glynwood will be organizing a meeting with growers and chefs to decide what heirloom cultivar(s) will be grown for this project in 2016. “When there is appreciation for food grown in this region, it ensures the viability of farming in the region. We are looking for ways to help farms thrive and endure,” says Sara Grady, vice president of programs at Glynwood, when asked why her organization cooked up this idea of a pilot grow-out of an heirloom seed. “We wanted to bring together chefs and growers to feature an heirloom cultivar distinct to the Hudson Valley.” From what I tasted at the Village Tea Room, Glynwood, et al., are on the right track. Hank’s beans are pretty tasty— nutty with a good bit of crunchy texture, they played well with the La Belle Farm duck confit and sausage and pork belly from Catskill Food Co. (And the Tearoom’s quince bread pudding tried its best to steal the show.) Every seed is a story, as Ken Greene says.The story of Jack and the Beanstalk is a dark tale of theft and worse. It sounds a lot like the rapacious narrative of modern industrial agriculture. But we can choose to tell a different story, and grow it here in our backyard. And it starts with some beans. Magic beans. 2/16 CHRONOGRAM 15
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The Periodic Table just got a little bigger. Researchers in the United States and Russia discovered three elements, and a fourth element was discovered by Japanese researchers. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially added these elements in December. While these names are temporary, ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium, and ununoctium are the new “superheavy” additions to the family. Not found in nature, superheavy elements need special laboratory conditions to reveal their highly unstable selves. Scientists artificially created these elements by colliding nuclei together, allowing them to exist momentarily before disappearing. Researchers suggest these four new elements could be used as treatments against diseases like cancer or HIV. Sources: Slate, Rapid City Journal
In Western Colorado, scrape marks etched in 100-million-year-old sandstone have attracted the attention of paleontologists as possible indications of dinosaur foreplay. The scrapes are five or six feet long and appear in irregular patterns. In a paper published in January, paleontologists from the University of Colorado suggested that the imprints left behind by these dinosaurs were reminiscent of the areas where modern birds, like puffins or ostriches, flaunt their feathers and strut their stuff. This dinosaur dance is believed to be a ceremonial ritual to attract mates. “We know these dinosaurs were very birdlike in so many aspects, and a sort of ritualistic mating behavior could explain these unusual traces,” said another paleontologist from the University of Edinburgh. The exact species of dinosaur is unknown, but it is believed to be an Arcocanthosaurus—a giant, ridged-back species found in western North America. Source: Guardian CBGB—the world famous club on the Lower East Side where many punk musicians landed early gigs—has been recreated as a restaurant in Newark Liberty International airport. The original CBGB opened in 1973 with the intention of hosting country, bluegrass, and blues music—hence the name. Ramones, Patti Smith, and Television were iconic figures that emerged from this punk and new-wave scene. The club closed in 2006, and shortly after, in 2007, club owner Hilly Kristal died. Harold Moore, a New York City chef, obtained the name from a holding company that had rights to the trademark. The restaurant, CBGB LAB (Lounge and Bar), serves everything from diner food to prime rib. Moore plans to feature his own World Famous Chili, in honor of Hilly Kristal’s original chili recipe. The restaurant also features an iPad ordering system at each table. Sources: Rolling Stone, Grub Street, Bowery Boogie After the Paris attacks in November, Wall Street investor Louis Navellier became a major shareholder in two of the nation’s largest gun companies, Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Company. According to Navellier, “Mr. Obama is the best gun salesman on the planet,” noting that stricter gun laws have created an increase in gun sales. President Obama took office in 2009, and since then, shares of these two major gun companies have increased over 900 percent. According to federal data, after the San Bernardino shooting, more guns were sold in December than any other month in almost two decades. Smith & Wesson also recently announced that sales for their fiscal year would be over $650 million—an increase of more than 57 percent since 2012. Source: New York Times 16 CHRONOGRAM 2/16
Florida Atlantic University professor James F. Tracy has called into question recent mass shootings through blog posts, Facebook, and radio interviews. Tracy claims that the Obama administration designed the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting as a hoax to gain support for gun control. Tracy wrote on the Sandy Hook Hoax Facebook page about the Pozners, whose six-year-old son Noah was killed: “The Pozners, alas, are as phony as the drill itself, and profiting handsomely from the fake death of their son.” The family demanded he take down the photo of their son from his blog, Memory Hole. He sent a letter in return demanding they show proof of their son’s existence and that they were his parents. The university ultimately dismissed Tracy for his “insubordination and failure to follow university policy,” noting his inability to report outside jobs on important college documents. Source: New York Times On Christmas Eve in Western Germany, a 29-year-old man planted a small homemade bomb inside a condom machine. The plan was to steal all the money and condoms. His attempt backfired as the bomb detonated while his car door was still open—a flying shard of metal hit the back of his head, knocking him unconscious. His friends quickly transported him to the hospital, but he was dead on arrival. When questioned by authorities, one friend said the man had fallen down the stairs. The other friend confessed, shortly after, the truth about the condom machine. Local residents found bits of the machine scattered around the street. Police say the two survivors did not steal any money or condoms. Source: Local (Germany) The solution to climate change might not need to involve complex technology. In a report issued last February, Oxford University researchers stated that the answer could be as simple as planting trees and nourishing the soil. The report concluded that afforestation—planting trees in new places—and biochar—burying a layer of charcoal to improve the soil—are two viable options to combat the shifting weather patterns. Planting trees would be an easy, low-cost option to help clean the atmosphere. Trees have been used as a way to manage the environment for centuries. Native Americans used forest fires to clear the way for new plant growth, and small British communities used a specific technique—coppicing—to keep forests alive with younger trees. This “geoengineering” used by early humans could still be one of the most valuable tools to heal the planet. The report also stated that these “negative emissions technologies” are not the final answer—they should be used in a worst-case scenario for climate change, along with the reduction of emissions. Source: Atlantic Fewer than two dozen countries continue to use the death penalty. Still, the number of deaths from this form of punishment has increased in recent years. “Terrorism offenses and drug-related offenses seem to be the driving arguments behind this increase, although there is no evidence of its deterring effects,” said Ivan Simonovic, the United Nations assistant secretary general for human rights. According to Amnesty International, 2,466 people were sentenced to death in 2014—a 28 percent increase from 2013. 28 people were executed in the United States last year. Iran and Saudi Arabia are among the leading executioners that use capital punishment. In 2014, Iran executed at least 289 people. Human Rights Watch reported that Saudi Arabia sentenced 158 prisoners to death in 2014. China is the world leader in executions; the United Nations stated the China killed 6,687 people from 1999 to 2003. Recent rates are unavailable since their death record is a state secret. Source: New York Times Compiled by Diana Waldron
DION OGUST
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
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very Republican candidate swears up and down, backward and forward, that tax cuts create jobs. Especially tax cuts for the rich. Also that tax hikes are job destroyers, just like high wages and benefits. Is that true? Is it false? How do taxes and jobs interact? Let’s try some thought experiments to figure it out. Let’s say you give one million consumers $1,000 each.You also have 1,000 entrepreneurs (those most-loved of all creatures), but you give them nothing. Do you think that: A: None of the entrepreneurs will do anything new? B: Some of these entrepreneurs will figure out ways to sell additional goods and services to the one million who have an extra grand to spend? And they will not stop until they’ve gotten every nickel? If you picked B you’ve sided with the New Deal and its successors. The simplistic $1,000 symbolizes Social Security, unemployment insurance, free education, support for unions, prevailing wage laws, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and the rest. There are a lot of people who think that’s bad economics—especially if you do it by taking the money from the rich or by preventing them from taking it from working people in the first place. That it would be way better to flip it around. Like this: You have the same 1,000 entrepreneurs. You give them each an additional $1,000,000. You have the same 1,000,000 consumers. You give them each $0. Zero, nothing, nada. Let us assume, for simplicity’s sake, that the 1,000,000 ordinary folks are already maxed out. They’ve spent everything they had before they were placed in the thought experiment. According to this theory the entrepreneurs will create all sorts of goods and services. The 1,000,000 ordinary folk will be so excited that they will conjure up new ways to obtain funds to buy the new goods. That is, in essence, supply-side economics. Can thought experiments actually be useful? Einstein loved them (maybe because, for him they were gedankenexperimente). They took him first to the theory of special relativity and then to general relativity. It’s how we’ve changed from imagining that gravity is a mysterious force of attraction that pulls objects with mass toward each other to imagining spacetime as a continuum that can be warped by mass, which, in turn causes anything in motion—even if, like light, it doesn’t have mass—to move along the altered shape. Thought experiments are very common. Political campaigns are stuffed with them. Here’s John Kasich: “To grow jobs requires tax cuts”—note the “requires,” like a law of science, and then the reasoning—“because that sends a message to the job creators that things are headed the right way. If you cut taxes for corporations, and you cut taxes for individuals, you’re going to make things move.” All the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, indeed, probably all Republicans, lots of economists, and even many ordinary people, agree with this idea. How do we separate thought experiments into the good, the bad, and the ugly? The good ones are prompted by facts that don’t fit the prevailing view and which can then be borne out by actual experiments. So do the facts prompt the tax-cuts-create-jobs theory? Let’s look. Obviously our population has grown over the years, so quantitative numbers of jobs created won’t be to scale across time. The best metric is the percentage increase in jobs created. Here are the big tax cutters and the percentage increase in jobs on their watch. Lyndon Johnson cut taxes 3.9%; Ronald Reagan, first term 1.43%, second term 2.69%; George W. Bush, 0.01%, and 0.23%.
And yet the biggest increases in jobs came under presidents who raised taxes: FDR (4.97%, 2.53%, 5%, 1.61%); Bill Clinton (2.64%, 2.33%); and Obama (1.99%). In sum, every president who raised taxes had better job creation numbers than those who lowered them. Some details are worthy of note. The first big tax hike of the Roosevelt era, a jump in the top marginal rate from 24% to 63%, was actually enacted in 1932, the year before he came into office. Roosevelt would raise rates again in 1936, 1941, 1942, and 1944. The comparatively anemic rate of job growth in his fourth term actually coincides with a slight cut in the top rate from 94% down to 91%. Reagan’s big tax cuts were in his first term. Then he had several tax hikes. The job creation record is better in his second term after the tax hikes. Reagan’s record is always compared to the “terrible” economy under Jimmy Carter. But Carter’s rate of job growth, 3.06%, was greater than in either of Reagan’s terms. Then there’s Obama. His job creation rate is his first term was a pretty lame 0.25%, very nearly as bad as Bush’s.The reason only one term is cited above, is that Obama’s tax hike—actually letting the top end of the Bush cuts expire—only came in 2012, his second term. Also, the number of government jobs, federal, state, and local, declined under Obama. So even with the public jobs subtracted from the increase in private sector jobs, they still increase after the tax hike. Here’s a thought experiment. If, in fact, more jobs are usually created after tax hikes than tax cuts, why do so many politicians and economists say the opposite? Is it because the tax cuts they are referring to are for the rich and the rich pay them to say so? Another thought experiment about the 1,000 entrepreneurs with an extra $1,000,000 each and the 1,000,000 consumers with nothing more to spend: It is the nature of these entrepreneurs, their helpers, assistants, hirelings, to want to use their money to make more money. What will they do? A. The entrepreneurs will sell the consumers’ money. That is, they will find ways to give them credit. So the customers will pay for the money on top of paying for goods and services. B. Getting an extra $1,000,000 feels very good. The entrepreneurs will try to make it happen again. If it came through busting unions so that workers no longer shared in increased productivity, they will keep pushing compensation down. If it came by keeping more due to tax cuts, they will invest in politicians who will give them more tax cuts. C. They will buy and sell money to each other, with ever new and exciting financial instruments that are based less and less on actual goods and services, creating huge bubbles. The big argument for cutting taxes, especially on the rich, is that past a certain point it discourages work. The classic, and one of the most colorful examples, comes from Ronald Reagan himself. He’d make two pictures a year, but income from a third on top of that would have been taxed at the top marginal rate, about 90% in those days. He said, “Why should I have done a third picture, even if it was Gone with the Wind? What good would it have done me?” and he preferred to “loaf ” around. Here’s the thought experiment. If taxes had been lower and Ronald Reagan had made three pictures a year would the movies of the forties and fifties been better for it? If we had more of Bedtime for Bonzo, TheVoice of the Turtle,The Girl From Jones Beach, Juke Girl, Cattle Queen of Montana, would the world have been a better place? 2/16 CHRONOGRAM 17
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The Love Edition By Jana Martin How best to express your love? Locally, of course—with these sweet to saucy gifts from around the Hudson Valley. Artisanal, alcoholic, silken, studded or waxen (really), chocolate or blooming, you’ll find it here.
Witty Shop Little House in Woodstock has charmingly tongue-in-cheek gifts for the occasion, including items that fuse the topical with the practical. The Counter Culture Anatomical Heart tea towel ($14) is a pure cotton flour sack towel printed in eco-friendly red ink (pictured), made in the US. There’s also a matching pillow ($44). Or go for gothic, with a one-of-a-kind porcelain skull and heart cup by Michael Corney ($95). Add a dash of bold red with color-dipped porcelain mugs, made in Japan ($28 each). Or, wander into the shop and find something you never even expected; that perfect objet to better house your heart’s delight. Shoplittlehouse.com
Charming Make your gem of a mate feel extra-special with a gem of a gift. Hudson Valley Goldsmith in New Paltz carries original jewelry by prominent artisans, made with recycled precious metals, conflict-free diamonds, and unusual gemstones. Many of its inventive, exquisite pieces are made right in the open studio, including hammered sterling silver earrings—dotted with a trio of diamonds ($499); a sterling silver and druzy agate necklace with matching earrings ($349 and $189); and a tree of life pendant in 14k rose gold and diamonds ($1,499). There are also charming, elegant wedding bands in 18k gold ($1,599 men; $699 women), and much more. Hvgoldsmith.com Warm, warmer, warmest Great Barrington Bra and Girl has lots of wearable treats for the man or woman in your life, from demure to naughty, including lingerie, sleepwear, and toys. For women, there’s a super cozy, luxe dream of a Sherpa robe by Natori, in cashmere or dark fig, sizes M, L and XL ($130). For men there are sleek black pieces by Blackspade Silver collection, with metallic waistbands and luxurious modal fabrics, sizes S, M, L and XL. Shirt ($35), long pant ($40). And spice things up a bit with a range of personal playthings, including a tantalizing Jimmy Jane massage candle in Bourbon: drizzle onto the skin and get the party started with a delirious massage ($33). Braandgirl.com 18 SHOPPING CHRONOGRAM 2/16
Hammered sterling silver and diamond earrings from Hudson Valley Goldsmith in New Paltz.
Chunky jasper necklace from Tender Land Home in Phoenicia.
Cotton kimono from de Marchin in Hudson.
Luxe Wrap her up in a cotton kimono from de Marchin in Hudson: these bright paisley and floral printed robes made by Handprint are softly sublime in 100 percent organic cotton ($69). There are also matching nighties ($59) and a range of pajamas ($69–$129). For men, there are spiffy cufflinks by Codis Maya, based in London—maroon enamel and silver-dotted ovals add a sophisticated charm ($159). Demarchin.com Sweet Lucky Chocolates in Saugerties has Valentine’s assortments to melt anyone’s heart. Love Sweet Love is 15 pieces of handmade scrumptiousness, including espresso, strawberry balsamic, passionfruit, and honey butter truffles; passionfruit and raspberry paté de fruits; and super-decadent chocolate beehive honey pots ($30). The Elvis-themed Love Me Tender assortment includes truffles in peanut butter, bacon, and fried banana; along with 4 chocolate guitars ($20). Stay out of the doghouse with a big chocolate French Bulldog—no two are exactly alike—five inches of ubercuteness ($20). Or present heart boxes in large ($45) and medium ($25). Luckychocolates.com
Valentine’s bangles from Green Cottage in High Falls.
Obsessed Not every gift need be frosted with sentiment. Instead, celebrate love and heartbreak with a book that tells it like it is: Unrequited: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Romantic Obsession by SUNY New Paltz professor and ex-NPR commentator Lisa Phillips. If you haven’t yet gotten this fascinating tome, the paperback is coming out just in time for Valentine’s Day—and Woodstock’s Golden Notebook is hosting what may be the hottest alt-romantic event in the neighborhood, with authors Phillips, Nina Shengold and Sara Eckel holding court upstairs on February 13, at 4pm. Goldennotebook.com
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Côté Mas Crémant de Limoux Brut Rosé, available from Viscount Wines and Liquors in Wappingers Falls.
A bouquet of Hanky Panky pantie “roses,” available at Elizabeth Boutique in Poughkeepsie.
Saucy Venture into Poughkeepsie’s Elizabeth Boutique for a great gift and you won’t come out empty-handed. Among Valentine’s Day favorites are cleverly packaged Hanky Panky roses: the classic stretch lace thong comes in pink, red or white, each wrapped around a long green stem like a wearable bloom. These underthings have a veritable cult following; they’re long-lasting, comfortable, great fitting, and one size fits all. Buy a single, a trio or a dozen—whatever you think will suit her fancy, it’ll be a bargain: the shop is offering a special deal on these for the holiday (normal price, $27). While supplies last (they sell out, says the shop). Elizabethboutique.com Liquid Toast your romance with a blush of bubbly from Viscount Wines & Liquor in Wappingers Falls. This ginormous emporium of all things alcohol recommends rosés for the occasion, including a bottle of Louis de Sacy Brut Rosé ($38.99) or a more budget-friendly Côté Mas Crémant de Limoux Brut Rosé ($11.99). Not sure? The shop is having a special Valentine’s Day event that celebrates the rosé in all its variations. Viscountwines.com
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Because flowers Flowers, but not just flowers. Exotic, bejeweled, with a secret treat tucked inside. Use your imagination—isn’t that what love is all about? Green Cottage in High Falls has far more than flowers, but let’s start with orchids: here, they take the exotic to the nth power, with vibrant, stunning planted Dendrobium orchids in a rainbow of pinks, purples and creamy whites ($18– $40 depending on size), as well as a whole range of other blooms and plants, and lots of fancy wrappings. Flowers procured, take a look at the jewelry by David Urso, such as a sterling silver and crushed stone pendant in a darkly sparkling red ($120–$350); or sterling silver cufflinks ($250).There are also chocolates in boxes and hearts—in other words, all the good stuff. Greencottage.com Marianne’s Floral Garden in Poughkeepsie turns into an explosion of roses and tulips come Valentine’s Day, but these aren’t just any garden variety fleurs. The premium-grade roses come in every color imaginable, including two-tone, but there’s nothing like that super-classic, velvety dark red. Present a single rose in a clear box with a big bow ($6); or a make an irrefutable statement with a dozen ($85–$95). Or, go with tulips, such as big and beautiful, frilled and splashy parrot tulips (a dozen, $18–$20). There’s a jungle of beauty to choose from here. Mariannesfloral.com
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Fun and Science in the Forest!
The Ashokan Center Summer Adventure Camps immerse campers in nature, history and adventure. Our activities are designed to foster team spirit. Our staff members have several years of experience working at Ashokan and are dedicated to providing a safe and fun camp experience. Located in the Catskills and overlooking the tallest mountain in the region, Ashokan’s 385 acres provide endless opportunities for outdoor adventures. Explore, discover, play, and make lifelong memories at The Ashokan Center’s overnight camps! Pioneer Camp: Ages 10-12 July 24-30th. Explorer Camp: Ages 10-12 July 31-August 6th. Expedition Camp: Ages 13-16 July 24-August 6th. Visit ashokancenter.org/adventure to learn more! Olivebridge, NY (845) 657-8333 x10 www.ashokancenter.org
Black Rock Forest Consortium welcomes middle and high school students this summer for authentic, week-long learning experiences in nature, working directly with scientists and artists. The focus is on understanding nature through observation and investigation. Morning and afternoon classes allow students to study interesting subjects without the pressure of a grade. Classes are taught by real experts and provide an opportunity to explore college and career possibilities in the natural sciences while having fun in Black Rock Forest, a private 4,000 acre preserve in Cornwall, NY. Offerings include classes on birds, reptiles, engineering, writing, art and more! Black Rock Forest Summer Science Camp is a Day Camp and runs from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, the middle school session will run July 11-15 and the high school session will run July 18-22. Contact Kate Terlizzi at (845) 534-4517 x18 kterlizzi@blackrockforest.org BlackRockForest.org
Arts Collaboration = Fun
Dutchess Arts Camp / Art Institutes
Voice Theatre Summer Youth Workshop Air-Conditioned Byrdcliffe Theater Woodstock (845) 679-0154 voicetheatre.org facebook/voicetheatre.com
45 Pershing Avenue Poughkeepsie (845) 471-7477 millstreetloft.org
Classes & Performance for ages 9-12 & 13-17. Explore theatre skills: acting, theatre games, voice, movement and improvisation. Develop confidence, focus and skills. Seven-day workshop and Open House Performance. Session 1: July 11–17. Session 2: July 18–24. Beginners welcome. Early–bird and sibling discounts. Registration / info: Shauna@voicetheatre.org.
Arts Camp in 4 locations: Beacon,
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Mill Street Loft offers Dutchess Millbrook,
Poughkeepsie
and
Red Hook, providing arts-driven and fun-filled programs for ages 4-14. The Junior Art Institute, ages 11-14, and Art Institute, ages 14-19, offer motivated students the opportunity to develop advanced skills in the visual arts. Programs July-August.
Stone Ridge
Claryville
High Meadow School Summer Camps Discover the Fun of Summer on the Meadow! High Meadow has been engaging children in creative and intellectual discovery for over 30 years. Our summer camp provides children ages 4 - 12 with unique and exciting experiences in the arts, sports, and open-ended play. Weekly themes for younger and older age groups including cooperative games and art projects, low-ropes course and optional weekly visits to the Rosendale pool. Our idyllic 9 acre campus features a pond for wildlife exploration, nature trail & bird sanctuary, sports fields, and “Popo Village,” where children use natural resources to build shelters and imaginary worlds. Dates: June 27 - July 29. Hours 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. Extended hours until 5:30 available. NEWS: Wayfinder Experience Returns to High Meadow! Running first two weeks of August. 3643 Main St, Stone Ridge, (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org
Frost Valley Adventure Camp An Exciting Summer Adventure
Rhinebeck
Nature Camp @ Primrose Hill School Back to Nature Primrose Hill School’s Nature Camp is an outdoor summer program for 3 to 6 year olds located on 7.5 acres in the Village of Rhinebeck. Our teachers lead the children in nature crafts, stories, songs, outdoor exploration, water play and animal care on our farm. They love to feed compost to Bucky the Pig! The children enjoy free play to engage their imagination as well as guided activities and nature walks. Sessions are Monday through Thursday, 9:00am to 2:00pm, starting the week of July 4, 2016 for 7 weeks. Please note: The first week of camp is Tuesday through Friday, July 5 to 8. There is a two-week consecutive minimum enrollment. Primrose Hill School follows the Waldorf philosophy of educating children. 23 Spring Brook, Rhinebeck (845) 876-1226 info@primrosehillschool.com, primrosehillschool.com/summer-camp
Whether your teen has shown interest in exploring the great outdoors, or in service projects that benefit a greater good, there’s a Frost Valley YMCA Adventure Trip waiting for him or her this summer. Adventure Trips are divided into nine overnight sessions based on age, interest, and experience. Young teens looking for a basic or introductory outdoor experience can go swimming, climbing, biking, sailing, hiking, and/or kayaking in locations such as New York’s Adirondacks, West Virginia, Vermont, or Maine. Experienced outdoor enthusiasts can head to New Hampshire to climb renowned cliffs and learn technical kayaking skills. High school-aged thrill seekers can try the Advanced Trip to the Adirondack Mountain Summit Multipitch, where they’ll spend 11 days backpacking before a full week of climbing the range’s highest peaks — including the east coast’s highest cliff face. From these experiences, campers discover newfound confidence and strength. They learn how to trust in themselves and each other, as they work together to explore, problem-solve, and achieve common goals. Teens interested in giving back can try one of two Service Trips that include up to 35 hours of volunteer service. During the Habitat for Humanity Catskills trip, campers gain building and repair skills while giving back to the community. They’ll also spend time climbing at Mohonk Preserve and biking through Minnewaska State Park. The Maine Trail Builders trip leads campers to scenic Acadia, Maine where they’ll volunteer in parks and trails. In their free time, they’ll go climbing by the ocean and bike nearby carriage roads. Sessions are available during specific weeks throughout the summer for the each program. Visit Frostvalley.org for dates and details. Frost Valley YMCA is located at 2000 Frost Valley Road in Claryville, NY. 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville (845) 985-2291 x265 adventure@frostvalley.org, frostvalley.org 2/16 CHRONOGRAM SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE 23
Lagrangeville
Hudson Valley
Hillcroft Day Camp
The Wayfinder Experience
A Family-run Camp Since 1950
Find The Hero Inside
A camp is where children can learn new skills, make new friends, experiment with ideas and grow in self-esteem. Camp Hillcroft, under the guidance of our mature and supportive staff, helps children achieve these goals. Camp Hillcroft prides itself on not only having a superior program but also in facilitating the growth of friendships, values and community awareness. Since 1950, Hillcroft has been a caring and nurturing family-run camp where children “learn by doing”. Children have the opportunity to experience a full range of enrichment activities: creative arts, swimming, outdoor adventure, theater, dance, farming and a full sports program. Camp Hillcroft, located on 165 acres, serving children pre-K through 9th grade in Dutchess County. Come see what everyone is talking about. 1562 NY-55, Lagrangeville (845) 223-5826 Hours: 8:45 am—4:30 pm camphillcroft.com
The Wayfinder Experience is a program that blends imagination, nature, improv theater and sword play into a magical summer camp adventure you’ll never forget. At each event a welcoming community helps campers dive into a curriculum of acting, athletics, leadership skills and team building. It all culminates in a unique, unscripted fantasy or scifi adventure game that empowers participants to explore new skills through immersive, costumed roleplaying. Awarded “Best Summer Camp” by Hudson Valley Magazine, The Wayfinder Experience runs both day camps for kids ages 8+ and overnight camps for teens 11 and up (this year at an exciting new location— the Taconic Retreat Center in Dutchess County!). For a full summer schedule, photos, testimonials, and more, visit Wayfinderexperience.com.
New Paltz
61 O’Neil Street, Kingston, NY (845) 481-0776 www.wayfinderexperience.com
Poughkeepsie
Camp Huguenot July 18 - July 22 Discover a fun-filled summer on Historic Huguenot Street! Learn about the site, its unique history, and the individuals who settled New Paltz over 300 years ago. Campers will work with others, alongside real archaeologists, searching for artifacts left behind by the original Huguenot settlers and the Native Americans who came before them. By excavating, cleaning, and cataloging their archaeological finds, they will learn the basic principles and practices of archaeology, as well as its modern day significance and relation to the understanding of past cultures. Additional time will be spent on historic crafts, indoor and outdoor games, related educational activities, and tours of the historic site. 81 Huguenot Street, New Paltz (845) 255-1660 huguenotstreet.org/camp-huguenot 24 SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 2/16
Poughkeepsie Day School A haven for the heart and a launch pad for life. PDS offers an array of unique summer camps for children and young adults in the Hudson Valley. Young Adventures camps for ages 4–10 focus on joyful learning and exploration in the arts, adventure, nature and sports. Enrichment camps for children in grades 2–4 offer enrichment in literacy in a creative, fun environment. Maker camps for ages 7–13 include coding and game design, 3D Printing, Minecraft, LEGO® Mindstorms® stop-motion animation, Mash-up Music Tech, engineering, science and writing. Music camps for ages 12–18 include our highly regarded Jazz Camp featuring professional musicians and amazing guest artists, or Mash-Up Music Tech for those who wish to explore and create techno music. For details and registration, call or visit our website! 260 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie (845) 462-7600 poughkeepsieday.org/camp
Chestnut Ridge
Claryville
Green Meadow’s summer programs take place on 11 beautiful, wooded acres. Photo by Dyana Van Campen.
Green Meadow Waldorf School A Summer to Remember Green Meadow Waldorf School offers unique, affordable summer programs for children ages 4-7. With our 11 acres of fields, woods, and streams, and a large farm nearby, our programs allow children to develop new skills, experience creative outdoor play, and spend time with new friends, plants, and animals. Recognized internationally as a leading Waldorf school, Green Meadow is one of the oldest, largest Waldorf schools in the US, with about 375 students from Nursery through 12th grade. Our students come from 13 counties and approximately 90 towns in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as well as from several countries around the world. Green Meadow students go on to top colleges, fulfilling careers, and are known for their resilience and creativity. 307 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge (845) 356-2514 x326 www.gmws.org/summer
Frost Valley Equestrian Camp An Equestrian Camp for Girls Frost Valley YMCA’s summer Horse Camps allow girls to
Ghent
increase or develop their riding and horsemanship abilities, while building confidence and leadership skills. The two overnight camps — Mustang Village and East Valley Ranch — are led by an experienced and supportive all-female staff, and feature more than 80 well-trained horses. At the end of each session, campers leave with an increased aptitude for riding, a nurtured sense of self-assurance, and lifelong friendships. Mustang Village, located at Frost Valley’s main camp, caters to younger riders ages 7-10 (no experience necessary) who also want to participate in traditional camp activities. They’ll spend half of each day with an assigned horse, perfecting their riding technique and learning horse care. The rest of the day is open to
Summer Camps at Hawthorne Valley Building Reverence for Life Hawthorne Valley offers a variety of residential and day camp experiences for children ages 4-16. Our camps seek to build reverence for life and community awareness through living, playing, and working together. Campers care for farm animals, spend time in our gardens, and explore the fields, forests, and streams on our beautiful 500-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County. Kinder Camp (ages 4-8), Kids Can Cook Day Camp (ages 8-13), Overnight Farm Camp (ages 8-16). Each camp offers multiple sessions throughout the summer with one-, two-, or three-week options. Camp season begins on June 27 and runs through August 13. To learn more about which camp is perfect for your child, please visit our website. 327 Cty Rte 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-4465 x201 hawthornevalleyfarm.org
other activities such as swimming, hiking, arts and crafts, sports, rock climbing, and more. East Valley Ranch, located a few miles away from main camp, provides a secluded environment for girls to truly focus on their equestrian skills. Novice and beginner riders will learn wrangling, feeding, grooming, tacking, ring lessons, and trail rides. A portion of each day is dedicated to hiking, crafts, games, swimming, and other activities. Experienced riders ages 12 and up can try a four-week program that builds strong leadership skills while teaching challenging techniques for riding, in-depth classes on horse health and care, and more. Each of our programs are accredited by the American Camp Association and Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) and upholds the highest safety standards. For more information, please visit FrostValley.org. 2000 Frost Valley Rd, Claryville (845) 985-2291 x240 horses@frostvalley.org, frostvalley.org 2/16 CHRONOGRAM SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE 25
Circle of Friends Outdoor Explorers
Alpine Endeavors
22 Dogwood Knoll Highland, NY (845) 417-4706 circleoffriendspreschool1.com
New Paltz, NY (845) 658-3094 info@alpineendeavors.com alpineendeavors.com
Our summer camp program encourages children to explore nature in open ended creative ways. Each week we explore a different realm of the outdoors, from insects to birds to pond life. Wonder and joy are woven into everything we do, creating art from nature, storytelling, group games, wilderness skills and more. Ages 4-11. Certified teacher and outdoor educator.
Let Alpine Endeavors and the Inner Wall of New Paltz show your child the wonders of the region. Our AMGA accredited programs start with indoor rock climbing to get everyone prepared, then move outdoors for rock climbing, hiking, scrambling, and other adventures. Gunks Adventure Camp Sessions: July 11 - August 19, 2016.
Shakespeare Youth Theatre
School’s Out! Summer@Steiner
New Genesis Productions Summer Shakespeare Intensive West Shokan, NY (845) 657-5867 newgenesis23@hve.rr.com newgenesisproductions.org
Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School 35 West Plain Rd, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4015
A highly respected youth theater company specializing in Shakespeare is offering its popular 1 and 2 week full immersion day camps for kids and teens this summer in the Catskill Mountains. Explore Shakespeare’s world and language — train in acting, voice, movement, rehearse & perform on an outdoor stage near Woodstock! Three age group camps: 7-9 years, 10-12 years, 13-17 years. For program details, visit newgenesisproductions.org.
Sojourner Youth Theater Sojourner Truth Learning Center 402 Main Street Rosendale, NY 12472 (919) 809-2003 Find us on Facebook!
gbrss.org
On sparkling summer days in the Berkshires, all doors lead outside! Steiner’s summer program for children 3 and up is located on 32 acres bounded by the Green River. Older children thrive on outdoor adventures: games, crafts, gardening, river exploration, horseback riding, lake trips, hiking, biking and boating throughout the Berkshires. Weekly sessions begin June 27. For information and registration, visit gbrss.org.
Woodstock Day School Summer Adventure Camps (845) 246-3744 ext.120 info@woodstockdayschool.org woodstockdayschool.org
SYT’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a three week intensive (June 27th-July 16th) for children 7 to 14. The troupe rehearses, designs sets, creates costumes, learns about makeup and theater tech; learning all aspects of producing a play. 10am to 3pm on weekdays; performances on the final Friday and Saturday. Since 2010. Contact director at nikkivly@gmail.com for information.
Day-camp for children 3 and up July 4 through August 12 Bridges Are So Cool (ages 10-14) Capture That! Photography (ages 8-14) Drama (ages 10-14) Fairy Magic (ages 5-7) Media Arts (ages 10-14) Music Mania (ages 7-13) (3 weeks) Rock Academy Summer Jam (ages 8-13) Wayfinder (ages 8-up) Writing Big!! (ages 10-14)
HVWP Young Writers’ Programs
Livingston Street Early Childhood Community
Hudson Valley Writing Project (845) 257-2836 www.newpaltz.edu/hvwp
20 Livingston Street
In HVWP’s unique summer programs, students ages 7 to 17 practice the craft of writing as they explore the region’s most important educational, cultural and historic sites and beautiful natural environments. Experienced, passionate teachers inspire young writers to develop new skills and confidence and share their work in relaxed, supportive settings. 26 SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 2/16
Kingston, NY (845) 340-9900 livingstonstreet.org Offering full-year programming for children ages 2 years/9 months through 5 years old in Kingston. With a focus on emotional/social development, communication skills, and community, Livingston Street creates an enchanted and engaging learning environment that is appropriately challenging and fun for children. Activities at Livingston Street include outdoor play, the arts, early literacy games, dramatic play, reading, sensory play, making friends, and much more!
Fishkill
All Sport Camp FIT SUMMER DAY CAMP CAMP FIT offers the perfect camp setting for campers to make new friends, develop new skills, experience and appreciate the outdoors and have FUN! Campers are divided up into age appropriate groups and participate in activities including: recreational swimming, sports & games, arts & crafts and special theme activities. Special events and guests make for more fun! TEEN TRAVEL CAMP Teens will take part in new and exciting activities outside of camp. Under the guidance of our camp staff, campers will take two trips during regular camp hours to local recreation sites and still have time to enjoy traditional camp activities on site. TENNIS CAMP Quick start tennis camp is the fast, fun way to get kids into tennis. During the morning campers will focus on the fundamentals of the game. Afternoon hours are spent participating in our regular Camp Fit activities. Rain or Shine Camp! Contact: Karen@allsporthealthandfitness.com • (845) 868-2355
Hudson River Maritime Museum 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston (845) 338-0071 ext. 20 boatschool@hrmm.org riverportwoodenboatschool.org Riverport
Wooden
Boat
School, opening 2016 at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, is located in Kingston, NY’s historic waterfront downtown district. The Wooden Boat School is offering adult, youth and family classes and workshops.
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Kyle Needham and Alexis Arvidson Needham in the family bed with Layla and Bowie.
Kids & Family
ADVENT
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PARENT MONOG AL AMY
Text and photo b y Hillary Harvey
“Sexuality is more than a metaphor for the relationship— it stands on its own as a parallel narrative.” —Esther Perel
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yndi Darnell likes to ask people straight out: “Why do you want to have sex?” They might be sitting on her couch during individual therapy, or peering at her on screen via Skype, or in a workshop like the one she’s offering at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck this May (“Sacred Sexuality: Discover Deeper Connections & Enjoy True Intimacy,” May 27 to 30). People might squirm and look at her funny, but Darnell won’t look away. A sex educator and relationship counselor, she feels it’s an important question—despite the fact that we’re all taught about sex through the lens of reproduction, that’s not why most people do it. In reality, Darnell knows that the two most common reasons that people have sex are for pleasure and connection. And most of the time, that doesn’t involve swinging from a chandelier as we orgasm (preferably multiple times and preferably with a hot 25-year-old). But Darnell says, “If you keep pleasure and connection in the front of your mind, you are going to be much more open to a variety of experiences.” Sex in long-term monogamous relationships is rife with challenges. In a lifetime together, there are heated arguments and make-up sex, caustic tongues and apologies, wandering eyes, physical changes, and tangled private jokes. According to Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic and a leading voice on what it takes to create satisfying partnerships, the two core components of a successful monogamous relationship are basically antithetical. Intimacy longs for closeness, familiarity, and time; desire needs space, freedom, and fantasy. It’s the ultimate paradox. “Ironically,” Perel writes, “what makes for good intimacy does not always make for good sex.” Desire requires mystery, but there’s not much of that in a long-term union, especially one that’s seen pregnancy and childbirth. “It is ironic that sex makes babies and then children spell erotic disaster for couples,” Perel quips during her TED Talks. Parenting changes people. And so does time. A sex life that’s been put on the back burner might not come alive again in the same way. Where parents once spent hours exploring each other’s bodies, they are often pressed for a quickie before the kids interrupt. Traumatized by childbirth, overwhelmed by transitions in parenthood, inhibited by the presence of others, some couples don’t have sex for months or years. In some long-term monogamous relationships, a baby isn’t even needed for a sexual dry spell. But for most experts, like Perel and Darnell, the fact that sex and intimacy waxes and wanes is not the problem. The problem lies in our imaginations. 28 KIDS & FAMILY CHRONOGRAM 2/16
For Kyle Needham, an oyster caterer who lives in Kingston, it’s about challenging yourself and your partner to find new ways to be intimate and redefine what it means to feel sexy. Not just with the birth of a baby, but as a regular practice within the partnership. When he met acupuncturist Alexis Arvidson, he was a regular at the bar she was tending during grad school. He consciously decided not to be the guy who asked the sexy bartender out. Instead, they built a flirtatious friendship until Arvidson Needham made a move. Eight years later, they’re married with two kids. And Needham tries not to take anything for granted. That yearning courtship still sparkles between them as they pass their new baby, Needham complimenting Arvidson Needham’s outfit changes, during our photo shoot. He points out, “You always have to try. You always have to be kind of active in the relationship.” Complacency, to Needham, just propagates a slow separation from each other. He says, “To make a relationship last, you need to be honest about what your wants are and what your fears are and lay it all on the line for your partner.” “Talking about sex is fundamentally important to creating the kind of sex life that you want,” Darnell says. She promotes conversations about what people would like to receive, even if it doesn’t look like conventional sex. One of the most common complaints from women who have just had a baby is that they feel “touched out.” A mother’s body is the family body. She births, feeds, and lulls the children, and her body provides comfort and companionship to everyone in her nuclear family. The touch often comes with a sense of urgency (diaper changes, hunger, quickies), and sex can feel like just another thing she has to give. “That doesn’t mean that she doesn’t love her partner anymore,” says Darnell. “That doesn’t mean that she’s not interested in sex anymore.” To Darnell it means that the intercourse they’ve been having may be off the menu for a little while, but that just opens the door of possibility for other types of pleasure. In her video series, Darnell enlightens people about the science of pleasure. “The truth is intercourse is really only one thing out of a hundred that you could do in any given situation.” In her workshops, she teaches that a deeper understanding of sexuality can actually help develop deeper connections with people in general. “Sex is about connection. Sex is about communion. Sex is about communication, and it’s also about removing the space between us.” The Ripple Effect Rebecca Wong, a relationship therapist in New Paltz, is full of ideas for intimacy that reach beyond the bedroom. Someone might be nursing the baby or
playing on the floor with a child when partners hold each other’s gaze across the room. “There are probably things that you did before the kids,” Wong says. “You probably gazed at each other at a party.You probably found a few minutes while skiing or something, and just gave each other a nice long, lingering kiss. But now that you have kids, those moments are much more interrupted and your attention is more dispersed. The key is remembering to come back to one another.” Wong and her husband enjoy prolonged kisses, even while their five- and seven-year-olds crawl between them. It’s not overtly sexual; it’s a moment to reconnect. With training in postpartum mental health, infant loss, and sex and relationship therapy, Wong frames parenting, in some measure, as a time of grief. “Most of the time, parents are mourning a part of themselves that they’ve lost. When you go from being single to being married to being married with kids, there are pieces of your individuality that get lost in there, and that you forget how to get back. So grief is a big part of parenting.” Lately, intimacy in parenting relationships is becoming the focus of her work. She recently launched an eight-part blog series, called Reconnecting Parent Couples, to unpack the emotional issues around maintaining longterm intimacy: mindfulness over monotony; thriving rather than surviving. It dovetails with a new website, connectfulness.com, where Wong posts content driven by collaborations with other clinicians around the country. These growing resources,Wong hopes, will answer the question, how can you have a really intimate life with all the people who matter to you, and still be connected with yourself in the process? It’s not all roses on the bed. Wong says it can’t be, if you’re spending a lifetime together. And in modern unions, where people live longer, it’s not uncommon for a marriage that lasts to do so for fifty or more years. Couples watch each other age, lose it, and evolve. “So the goal of the intimacy then changes and becomes a place to grow together,” Wong explains. “That’s what intimacy is: you are literally a mirror for the biggest trigger stuff.You’re there to help each other grow and heal and make the most meaning out of each other’s lives.” Wong says it’s about being comfortable in each other’s vulnerabilities. Over time, people develop new passions, work provides different avenues, midlife crises shift a person’s focus. Wong feels it’s an opportunity to see different connection points and to open to each other in new ways. “If we only think that our partner is who they were when we met them, then we’re missing everyone they’ve become since we’ve known them.” When couples take up the couch in Wong’s therapy office, it’s often years after the problems have begun, and now they’re noticing behavioral problems in their children. “So the way we treat everybody in our home is really significant because it sets the framework.” Wong sees children as the ripple we send out into the world. “They start to bring those pieces of how they relate at home into their community.” Just one shift in the family environment can transform things for everybody. Wong calls it relationship mindfulness. “We often only look at betrayal when it happens in the bedroom, but betrayals happen every day all the time,” Wong says. When we’re too busy, too involved with others, joke at our partner’s expense, those are betrayals. “So when those betrayals add up, over and over again, it creates an environment where that’s the flavor, and that’s the stuff that gets into the bedroom. It usually starts somewhere else; it doesn’t start in bed.” To help couples bring back intimacy, it takes an openness and a playfulness in other aspects of their lives. They have to feel safe with each other. That’s where those non-sexual intimacy moments come in. It’s what sex, intimacy, and relationship therapist Dr. Lily Zehner calls, non-sex sex, where intimacy happens without intercourse and the focus moves to sensuality. “Foreplay is something that really lasts all day long,” Wong says. “It’s not something that happens in the 20 minutes before we jump into bed with each other. It’s something that happens in how we treat each other in general in our lives. That’s the stuff that turns us on.” RESOURCES Cyndi Darnell Cyndidarnell.com Esther Perel Estherperel.com Rebecca Wong Connectfulness.com Dr. Lily Zehner Drlilyzehner.com 2/16 CHRONOGRAM KIDS & FAMILY 29
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Weddings
The dinner setting from a wedding at Grasmere Farm in Rhinebeck planned by Lydia Bailey for Charmed Places. Photo by Randy Ahart/Photopink.
Wedding Planning 101 ADVICE FROM SEASONED WEDDING PLANNERS TO AVOID THE PITFALLS AND PULL OFF THE PERFECT FEST.
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By Mary Angeles Armstrong
ust like a symphony, a wedding requires carefully orchestrating myriad details into a melodious whole. However, almost as much work, time and expense can go into a wedding’s preparation. Most newly engaged couples are neophytes and even knowing where, and how, to start the planning process becomes overwhelming. Family dynamics add further complications. Luckily, the Hudson Valley is home to some of New York’s finest wedding planners. Here is essential advice from seven of the most experienced in planning and executing a successful wedding celebration. Begin with a concrete budget It’s not very romantic, but it’s the most repeated advice from wedding planners. Before you do anything else—investigate venues, fall in love with a dress, or start taste-testing menus—you need to establish a budget and have a realistic view of what you can actually afford. The average Hudson Valley wedding costs about $50,000. “The first tip for planning a wedding is knowing what you can afford and want to spend,” advises Mary Beth Halpern of Events by MB. “Do some research and work with a realistic guest list. Speak with the families and see how to balance some of the guests they want to invite.”
Many planners also advise to not count on family member’s contributions. Often, when hearing of an engagement, well-intentioned relatives pledge financial assistance, but unexpected demands can keep people from following through. This leaves couples scrambling at the last minute, creating stress and resentment where there should be joy. “Know your limits without help,” confirms Karin Hlywiak of Cinderella for a Day. “That way when a family does contribute financially, it becomes an added bonus.” Hlywiak suggests couples break their budget into detailed subcategories, e.g., venue, catering, and even decor. Cathy Ballone, of Cathy’s Elegant Events, advises clients to leave a $5,000 to $10,000 budget cushion for unexpected costs. “Things always happen. Be prepared.” Prioritize details Once you’ve established budget and headcount, “prioritize, prioritize, prioritize,” commands Joann Provenzano, owner of What Dreams Are Made Of. She has clients make a list of their most to least important details; telling them to forgo bridal shows and make individual appointments with vendors instead. “You want to have live, face-to-face contact before you hire any vendor. Personality is very important.” 2/16 CHRONOGRAM WEDDINGS 31
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Research accommodations near your venue and encourage guests to book rooms well in advance. “Hotel room availability is always an issue in the Hudson Valley,” warns Hlywiak, “and many won’t let you ‘block’ rooms anymore.” Websites like AirBandB, VRBO, and even couchsurfing.com can help when traditional accomodations are exhausted. Hlywiak also suggests clients consider venues that can accommodate overnight guests (“there are lots of hidden gems out there”) or ask if venues can recommend accommodation. “Often venues will have relationships with private home owners nearby who can rent four to five bedroom houses for a weekend.” Additionally, keep transportation in mind while planning. “Remember,” reminds Provenzano, “there’s no hailing a cab out here.” Be mindful of driving distances between venues and accommodations, or plan to hire a shuttle service.
Eyes wide open venue viewing With nontraditional venues (think the barns, vineyards, or stately old mansions so popular in the Hudson Valley) most details come a la carte. You most likely will have to rent things like linens, tables and chairs, and even bathrooms.You also may need liability insurance. “Couples don’t estimate how much everything is going to cost,” warns Hlywiak. “There are a lot of little things that go into venue weddings and it adds up quickly.” Ballone advises couples to view at least two venues and have a third-party professional, whether a planner or caterer, look over the contract before you sign. As a neophyte, “there’s always some detail you haven’t considered,” she warns. Most Hudson Valley venues (80 percent are outdoors) require a “Plan B” for unpredictable weather. Again, a tent or back-up indoor space might not fit into your romantic vision, but “having a Plan B keeps you from worrying,” advises industry veteran Jeanne Stark. “Then if it rains, it rains.You’ll be fine.” Stark’s company Hudson Valley Ceremonies, offers couples a complimentary starter planning session to establish a budget; she then steers them toward appropriate venues.
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Give your guests plenty of time, and information, to plan Once you’ve established a date and venue, send out save-the-dates by post or e-mail. A wedding website, with links to accommodations and as much information as possible, is always a good idea. Make your intentions clear from the beginning—let guests know whether children are welcome and the level of formality to be expected.
Natural beauty makes the Hudson Valley a popular destination wedding locale. Consider taking advantage and spreading wedding events over an entire weekend. It means some extra work, but has added benefit. “Planning for a whole weekend wedding,” says Hlywiak, “gives families additional time to bond.” There’s more to good catering than good food Sample two to three menus and look for a caterer “you can talk to,” advises Stark. “You want to work with someone who is willing to work with you; someone who can explain things and will throw out suggestions. They shouldn’t try to 2/16 CHRONOGRAM WEDDINGS 35
Greek wedding dancing at a reception at The Emerson in Mount Tremper. Photo by Magic Flute Photo and Video.
change your mind. They should try to understand what you and your family are going to love.” When pricing caterers, don’t forget to consider extra costs. Alcohol often isn’t included in the catering menu. Remember, there will also be tax and gratuity added to the caterer’s final bill. Love your photographer A photographer is the most important (and undervalued) day-of wedding staff a couple will hire. “Keep in mind, your wedding photos will outlive you,” says industry pro Susan Knapik, who combined her military and design backgrounds to become Wedding Assistant on the Hudson. “Find an actual wedding photographer who knows the candid moments and the formal. They should be able to tell the story of the day. They also have to work autonomously and manage their timeline themselves.” Stark advises that good wedding photography is 50 percent skill and 50 percent personality and warns, “Don’t get assigned someone. Its a very intimate relationship—you want someone you could go out to dinner with.” Know what kind of party you want to throw A DJ needs to be a good master of ceremonies and he or she sets the tempo for your reception. Read reviews carefully; look for someone who has done multiple weddings and has a strong reputation. On the other hand, if you want a live band, don’t go by reviews. “You need to experience them live,” says Hlywiak. “Go see a showcase.” If that’s not possible, “they should at least have some good footage online.” While live bands are often more expensive than DJs (you must budget for each member separately), according to Knapik they tend to “be more interactive and make for a really fun party.” Be creative but be real “If it’s not important to you, leave it out,” advises Knapik. This rule goes for décor, ritual, and even ornate invitations. “A lot of wedding traditions have archaic origins and are somewhat irrelevant.” Knapik, who specializes in monthly, 36 WEDDINGS CHRONOGRAM 2/16
“benchmark” meetings, also suggests DIY projects (like hand-dipped napkins, signage, and place cards) be started at least six months in advance. “The last thing you want is to stay up until 4am the night before your wedding,” she warns. Also: “Go to your florist with a number, not a flower, in mind. Be open to substitutions.” Florists are artists with an impulse is to make your wedding as beautiful as possible. Make sure their vision fits within your budget. “Don’t pick a dress before you pick a location,” advises Stark. And, once you’ve found a dress “walk around the store a lot. Make sure you can move comfortably.” Hire a wedding planner, already Most wedding planners offer a variety of services—from long-term planning to day-of coordination—and their knowledge makes them a cost-effective wedding expenditure. An experienced wedding planner can be a sounding board and “tie-breaker” when emotions run high. Their job is to help you bypass pitfalls on your journey from ring to alter. Even if you can’t budget for long-term help, hiring a professional to do dayof coordination can free you to enjoy friends and family, and all those details you worked hard to get right. Ultimately, a wedding planner can refocus you on what matters. “Take a breath,” reminds Halpern. “Know that the most important aspect is that you will be getting married and sharing the day with loved ones.” RESOURCES Cathy’s Elegant Events Cathyselegantevents.com Charmed Places Charmedplaces.com Cinderella for a Day Cinderella4aday.com Events by MB Meetingsbymb.com Hudson Valley Ceremonies Hudsonvalleyceremonies.com Luminary Weddings Luminaryweddings.com Wedding Assistant on the Hudson Hudsonweddingassistant.com What Dreams Are Made Of Whatdreamsaremadeof.biz
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AN ARTIST IN NEW WINDSOR By Timothy Malcolm Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
Top: The gallery space at Carriage House Art Studios in New Windsor Bottom: A view of the 1790 house from the road
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arin Baker is not afraid to talk to strangers. Often this has helped, such as in the case of the carriage house on his New Windsor property, originally a 1790 Dutch settlement. By the late 1990s, Baker, a visual artist, was living and working in his main house, but the carriage house was untouched and debris-strewn. He hoped to convert it to a studio but didn’t have the necessary $300,000 or so he thought he needed to renovate the space. “We’ll wait ‘til I get rich and famous,” Baker said at the time. Then Baker and his family hosted a barbecue, inviting a friend who brought a Frenchman. Having a smoke, Baker chatted with the Frenchman about the property. He showed him the carriage house. “One day,” Baker told him, pointing to the dilapidated building. The Frenchman, named Patrick, looked at Baker and asked, “When would you like to start?” Patrick, a master carpenter who renovated structures in New York City and France, wasn’t joking. He would send Baker a materials list on Thursday. Baker would buy the materials, then Patrick would meet Baker on Friday night and start work Saturday morning. He’d work over the weekend, leave, then return maybe two weeks later. He accepted no payment, no gifts. After 18 months of this routine, Patrick had taught Baker everything necessary to safely renovate a structure. “He disappeared,” Baker says. “And I finished it on my own in the next two-and-a-half years.” Baker hasn’t seen or heard from Patrick since. But thanks to the mysterious master carpenter, Baker, who specializes in realist painting—everything from portraits to public murals—has his studio inside a renovated post-andbeam barn attached to a stone-walled carriage house. Here, at the aptly titled Carriage House Art Studios, Baker presents both his work and work by other artists. He also runs workshops and classes out of the carriage house, often giving artists accommodations inside his main house. Essentially, Baker is an artist constantly giving back to the art community; fitting, because strangers have given him plenty of help along the way. 38 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 2/16
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Looking across the atrium in Garin Baker’s office/study
Hudson River School Born in New York, Baker was living and working in a cramped two-bedroom Manhattan apartment with his pregnant wife and two-year-old son in 1990. Around that time, after visiting friends near Peekskill, the Bakers did what many before and since have done: look for a home in the Hudson Valley. Their hunt brought them to New Windsor, where they fell in love with the Dutch settlement off Union Avenue, whose structures also date back to the 18th century. The main house has three stories. On the first level is a living room painted in a deep Colonial red and outfitted with Baker’s paintings of his family members.There’s his daughter lounging on the grass outside their house.There’s his girlfriend, Clara, wild and intriguing in black on a colorful sunny afternoon. A black marble fireplace is in the dining room, and in the kitchen stands an original restored fireplace with beehive oven, perfect for home-baked pizza. The house has four guest bedrooms, each decorated differently, which are put to use at Baker’s artist workshops—up to five each year. Artists from all over the world have been traveling to Baker’s house for five years to improve their drawing and painting. Baker especially loves to take artists out on plein air excursions. “I go to those place where Thomas Cole painted, where Frederic Church painted, all the Hudson River painters, I know where they painted,” Baker says. “I take people to those spots, and they come up from Brooklyn or wherever and are like ‘Holy …’” Baker enjoys telling the stories of the Hudson River School, just as he relishes hearing the stories of the painters who visit him. “These days, I find more 40 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 2/16
younger artists want to get into the work and the process of creating something personal on a craftsmanship level, and on a real level that touches their own personal narrative or story,” he says. “They’re looking to express themselves in a meaningful way, and I think representational painting, traditional painting, allows them a language to examine that a little bit more honestly.” Baker’s devotion to traditional painting and mural work has afforded him opportunities in places like Helsingor, Denmark, where his mural of ship builders references the city’s history, or Santa Clarita, CA, where he painted a mural of firefighters controlling a forest blaze for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Baker observed and rode along with the firefighters for three days before starting his mural. “Most of the murals I do are really about communities, about the people,” he said, “and it’s about the stories they want to tell through public art.” The same philosophy holds true for his framed paintings, everyday work, and play captured in bold color. In Maine he watched a family salt entire bags of herring, which would be thrown into the water as lobster bait. And back home, down at Plum Point on the Hudson River, he met fishermen attempting to haul in some striped bass. For weeks he’d show up, sketch their activity, sometimes join them. Those paintings rest against the railings and walls of his Studio Gallery. Walking in, a visitor is immediately welcomed by the cozy stone walls and timber frame. Paintings and sculptures line both sides of the front room, a gallery that changes periodically. Baker wants to accept work from across the region while keeping regular themes.
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Garin Baker painting in his studio
Artist/Entrepreneur A staircase leads to a loft space with a leather couch, chair, and television, a place for artists and visitors to relax. An upper-floor walkway connects this space to Baker’s office, with two computers, a drafting table and paperwork spilling from every crevice. Back downstairs, and through a hallway extending from the gallery, is Baker’s studio. It’s an old horse barn, confirmed by the chew marks, about horse-head high, on the original wood that frames a doorway. The studio and upstairs office underscore the nonstop pace of Baker’s busy existence as an artist/entreprener. There’s space in the studio for a computer monitor, his painting easel, and then, at the far wall, an 18-foot-by-24-foot space for mural work. An object that resembles an oversized paper-towel rack stands in a corner. It holds mural canvas that can easily be unfurled against the wall. Baker also installed a skylight that faces north, which allows for controlled, indirect sunlight throughout the day, perfect for a visual artist whose use of color is essential. Whether in the studio, nearby in the gallery, up in the loft or office, or even inside his main house, Baker hopes people stop by, curious to view some artwork. It helps that he owns an 18th-century Dutch settlement property, and that he took care with a willing French carpenter to keep alive the carriage house’s character. “You have to be truthful to the reality of what [the carriage house] is, but then you have to bring to it an energy that creates an excitement about it,” he said. “I have the benefit of [the house], though it wasn’t such a benefit when it was crumbling and falling down and I had to jack up half the building,” says Baker. “I think you have to start where you are with what you have and the tools that are available, and you have to bring the most honest, positive energy to that and build something,” Baker says. And it doesn’t hurt to talk to strangers. 2/16 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 45
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Art collectors used to work directly with galleries to determine what was selling and what was in vogue. But now, according to Garin Baker, talk among East Coast artists focuses on how galleries are scrambling to keep up with rapid changes in the art world. Nothing stays hot for long. “It’s changing so fast, you know, next week, everything’s different,” he says. “So it’s like, ‘Wait a second, it took me four days to figure all that out—so that’s all irrelevant now?’” Young artists are suddenly the ones determining what’s selling and what’s the next big thing. They’re doing this, says Baker, through their mastery of digital media: 35-year-old Daniel Arsham has 219,000 followers on Instagram. 30-year-old Toyin Odutola has 17,900 followers on Instagram. 27-year-old Carly Jean Andrews has 14,200 followers on Instagram, and is also popular on Tumblr. They post new works, personal photographs, bold statements, and whatever they see in their everyday lives. “The opportunities and the calls and the ability to promote workshops, the ability to promote their wares, their books, their DVDs becomes open-ended because they have a built-in audience,” Baker says. “Organizations and galleries and dealers are going to them because they want their audience.” That audience is drawn in by the constant updates, instantaneous glimpses into the process of creating art. “It’s like they’ve created a soap opera about themselves, and people gravitate toward that,” says Baker, who had, as of January, nearly 7,000 Instagram followers. He claims he’s not as savvy as some of the younger artists with regard to social media marketing, but he learns quickly. “I try to allocate a certain amount of time, and I link things together,” he said. His Instagram is a combination of finished work and sketches, and scenes from his carriage house in New Windsor. What are his most popular posts? His sketches of nude figures, which typically come from his weekly nude figure-drawing workshops that he hosts at the carriage house for any artist interested at improving his or her figure-drawing skills. When his hired model arrives he’ll send an e-mail blast to his artist friends: “The model is posing.” Then the artists show. “They show up, the model poses, we paint and draw for four hours. I put out a brass bucket, everyone throws in a few bucks, the model gets paid,” Baker says. “We have coffee, we have laughs, we talk politics, we have a great time.” And if an artist can’t make it to the carriage house, there’s another digitally progressive option: Baker has sometimes put the posing model on the live video streaming app Periscope.You can work right along with the other artists from wherever you are in the world. “There’s always a learning curve, and I’m always trying to learn because things are changing rapidly,” Baker says. “More rapidly than I think we’re capable of.” Garinbaker.com —Timothy Malcolm
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Candy, Duncan Hannah, oil on canvas, 14” x 9”, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Jeff Bailey Gallery. Photo by Adam Reich. From the exhibit “Dandy” at Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, featuring the artists Duncan Hannah, Richard Kern, Wayne Koestenbaum, Cotter Luppi, Bob Mizer, Jim Richard, and Erik Schoonebeek. Through March 6
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galleries & museums GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Tea and Alchemy.” A solo show by Ruby Silvious. Through February 27.
HOTCHKISS LIBRARY 10 UPPER MAIN, SHARON, CT (860) 364-5041. “Donald Bracken: Imagined Landscapes.” Through March 31.
HOWLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY 313 MAIN, BEACON 831-1134 “Conflict and Resolution.” Members of The Beacon Photography Group join with poets and writers of Beacon NY, using the theme Conflicts/Resolutions. The show is curated by Jon Slackman & Samantha Palmeri. February 13-March 5. Opening reception February 13, 5pm-7pm.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Political Theater.” Photos by Mark Peterson presented by Fovea Exhibtions. Through March 6.
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY: THE SCHOOL 25 BROAD STREET, KINDERHOOK JACKSHAINMAN.COM/SCHOOL. “Winter in America.” A multimedia group exhibition. Through March 30.
JEFF BAILEY GALLERY 127 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-6680 “Dandy.” Through March 6. Featuring the work of Duncan Hannah, Richard Kern, Wayne Koestenbaum, Cotter Luppi, Bob Mizer, Jim Richard, Erik Schoonebeek. Welwitschia Mirabilis #0707-22411 (2,000 years old; Namib-Naukluft Desert, Namibia), Rachel Sussman, from the exhibit “The Oldest Living Things in the World,” showing at the Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, through March 6.
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510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-0510. “Hannah Mandel: A Way of Seeing.” February 5-28. Opening reception February 6, 3pm-6pm.
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY
22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “Whimsy and Gesture: Recent Work by Dick Crenson, Travis Jeffrey & Christopher Albert.” February 6-April 9. Opening reception February 13, 5pm-8pm.
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MCFARLAND DRIVE, WARWICK ALBERTWISNERLIBRARY.ORG. “Where We Live.” St James Camera Club of Goshen. February 1-28. Opening reception February 6, 3:00pm.
ANVIL GALLERY AT TECH SMITHS
45 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON TECH-SMITHS.COM/ANVIL-GALLERY. Animal Portraiture of Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence Robert Lucy. Through February 28.
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506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177. “Hue.” The 12 Artists of Bau present a purely colorful display. Through February 13.
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199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600. “Along the Mt. Beacon Incline Railway: Past, Present & Future.” Through March 6.
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43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 516-4435. “Shades of Light.” New work by Cross River Artists. February 4-March 31. Opening reception February 6, 6pm-8pm.
COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “Abstractions.” Through February 24.
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3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. “Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3.” Site-specific work. Through May 31, 2017.
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128 CANAL STREET TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Claudia Engel: Wind and Water Watercolor.” February 6-27.
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CORNER OF GRAND & FIRST STREETS, NEWBURGH 341-9386. “Artists of Excellence: Sculptures by Martin Dominguez.” Sculptures by Martin Dominguez will be on display as part of the Artists of Excellence exhibit series. February 27-March 25. Opening reception February 27, 4pm-7pm.
FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE
124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “American Stories 1800-1950.” A sweeping exploration of portraits, landscapes, and narrative paintings. Through April 17.
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84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Reverse Migration & Other Stories: Works by Lori Van Houten.” February 6-April 16. Opening reception February 6, 5pm-7pm.
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66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “Survey of Regional Artists.” Gallery B will feature the works of Cassandra Saulter’s “Delphine’s World.” February 5-28. Opening reception Febraury 5, 6pm-9pm.
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362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Joel Longenecker: Painting.” February 6-28. Opening reception February 6, 6pm-8pm. 1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT (518) 392-4747. “Anne Lindberg: Fold and Unfold.” Sculptures and drawings. Through March 13.
ORANGE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 707 EAST MAIN STREET, MIDDLETOWN 333-1000. “Field/Flower: Heidi Lanino and Janet Howard-Fatta.” Paintings. Through March 4.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “iEurope, Strange Beauties: Photos by Mary Ann Glass & Galina Krasskova.” Through February 7.
ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS 27 SOUTH GREENBUSH ROAD, WEST NYACK 358-0877. “Winter Theorems & Beautiful Nonsense.” RoCA will feature two exhibits: Beautiful Nonsense plays tricks on our perception of ordinary objects with an absence of functionality. Kevin Paulsen: Winter Theorems works on paper created with simple tools using free form strokes and etches leaves us with a landscape full of hope and possibility. February 13-April 3.
SPACE CREATE 115 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 590-1931. “Out of Shape.” Bob Madden, stone sculptor and Karen Madden, fiber artist, address the idea of art out of shape in their respective mediums. February 27-March 26. Opening reception February 27, 5pm-8pm.
THE LOFTS AT BEACON 39 FRONT STREET, BEACON 831-7867. Beacon High Winter Exhibit 2016. Participating Classes: Studio Art, AP Art, Drawing and Painting I, Digital Art I. Through February 28.
THE TRANSVERSE GALLERY, LOCUST GROVE ESTATE 2683 SOUTH ROAD (US ROUTE 9), POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500. “Moments in Manhattan.” A fine art photography exhibit by Claudia Gorman. Through February 28.
THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. “Oceans Apart.” Installation exhibition by Kingsley Parker. Through March 27. Opening reception March 5, 4pm-6pm.
TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 845 757 2667. “Chiaroscuro: Play on Light and Dark.” Show featuring artwork inspired by lightness and darkness. Through February 7.
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663. “The Oldest Living Things in the World.” Through March 6.
WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “100/$100.” February 1-13 Exhibit raffle and reception, February 13, 5pm-7pm.
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The Way Home Yungchen Lhamo By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly
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ou are beautiful, I am beautiful,” goes the chant. Tibet Festival. She released her second album for Real World, Coming Home, The chanters are residents of Chiz’s Heart Street, a Kingston shel- in 1989 and that year, Lhamo also appeared on the soundtrack to SevenYears in ter for homeless and mentally ill people, many of whom suffer from Tibet and Natalie Merchant’s Ophelia (Elektra). schizophrenia. Several of the men have on brightly colored wigs and multi“Yungchen sings like an unearthly creature,” Merchant says. “Her voice has hued polyester house dresses; one of the women wears a red necktie and a the power to stop time and makes everything else in the world fall away. Her jaunty Homburg. The costumes and chanting are part of a musical play, and voice transports you.” the participants and the audience are clearly having fun. Leading the chants The singer and her son emigrated to New York in late 2000. “America and acting alongside the performers, just as she does nearly every Wednesday seemed like a monument or a flag to look up at,” Lhamo says. As they did for afternoon, is the Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo. Her magenta, traditional all of us, the September 11th attacks shook her deeply. “That day, no matter silk wrap dress and her hair, which falls well below her waist, make her a visual how powerful you were, the sight of people falling from those buildings made beacon that eclipses even the garish getups of the actors. She holds the hands everyone numb. I remember that feeling of helplessness. I think we all felt that. of the childlike players, smiling and looking deep into their eyes as she directs Then, of course, we all cried, no matter what country you were from. Now them. They smile and look back. And then she starts to sing. I travel the world, and when I see a city that looks like New York, it reminds Starting out softly, her soprano voice rises me of that day.” She was moved by the horrific and glides like an Asian bansuri flute or spike “Yungchen is the most kind, events to compose the keening lament “9/11” fiddle, filling the otherwise silent room with a for 2006’s Ama (Real World), a New Age-tinted selfless, and principled gentle, arcing, lullaby-like sound. Everything album that features the guest vocals of Annie is focused, all is calm, and the overall mood of woman I have ever known.” Lennox. “This song begins and ends with chants reassuring love and welcoming warmth in the reminiscent of a puja [Buddhist expression of space is so devastatingly humbling, that, quite honor, worship, and devotional attention] for —Natalie Merchant honestly, your music editor struggles to keep his the people who died, with prayers to ease their tears in check. Theoretically, it’s the realm outside this facility that’s the bastion passage to another world,” she explains. Lhamo continued to tour widely for of sanity, the one within that’s unsound. But as of this visit, especially in light the next few years, not releasing another album until 2013’s minimalist Tayof current world events, things feel much the reverse. atha (Cantaloupe Music), a collaboration with Russian pianist Anton Batagov. “Yungchen wandered in about a year ago and asked if she could come and Lhamo’s friend Merchant, a long-time Hudson Valley resident, encouraged sing,” recalls Mary “Chiz” Chisolm, the center’s executive director. “I had no her to move to Kingston. “She would always say, ‘Yungchen, you should come idea who she was or what kind of singing she did, but I said sure. And what up’,” says Lhamo. “Natalie is a very special artist, and I’m very proud and she’s done has been amazing. The fact that these people can now focus on honored that she took me in her arm[s].” After settling upstate in early 2014, something for any length of time is a miracle. Most of them wouldn’t even she started the Yungchen Lhamo Charitable Foundation to assist Tibetans with speak before.” direct relief supplies (food, clothing, shoes, artificial limbs, and medicine). In “It makes us feel more like family and gives us a sense of community,” says 2011, the organization launched an ongoing campaign to raise the desperately Linda Jessat, a resident since mid-2014. “We need those things, we’re no dif- needed funds to construct an aqueduct in the Tibetan village of Nugchu (pop. ferent from anyone.” 600). “The people have no place to get water there,” Lhamo says. “They must “We love the singing,” says Wilbur Daye, who arrived in December 2012. walk for one hour in each direction into the mountains to get snow or ice to “We love everybody.” melt into water for their families and their animals.” Lhamo is a Grammy-nominated paragon of the world music stage and a Lhamo’s association with Chiz’s Heart Street came about one winter when symbolic ambassador for the culture and plight of the Chinese-dominated Ti- she encountered a mentally ill homeless man in Uptown Kingston. “I saw he betan people. In addition to singing for the Dali Lama and meeting with the had no shoes and his feet were very bloody,” she says. “I tried to talk to him and Pope, she has performed at prestigious venues and events across the globe he was very angry and saying all these bad things to me—‘Get away from me! with Bono, Natalie Merchant, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Patti Smith, Mi- I hate Asians! I will kill you!’—all of these kinds of things. But I went to him chael Stipe, Sheryl Crow, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, and others. She and I hugged him. I said, ‘You can kill me. But only if you promise not to kill was born in 1966 to a Buddhist monk and nun in Lhasa, a city known for its anyone else.’” The man calmed down and Lhamo walked him to her nearby temples and palaces. “One of my earliest memories is the sound of prayer,” says apartment. There, she fed him hot tea and soup and washed his feet. “He said the vocalist, whose name, which means “Goddess of Song,” was given to her to me, ‘No one ever did these things for me before. My mama, she did not by a local Lama shortly after her birth. Her grandmother taught her Buddhist want me.’ Then he said, ‘Can I call you Mama?’ I told him yes, ‘You can call me devotional singing, but despite Lhamo’s presumed birthright she was resistant Mama. We are all mama for each other. We are all one.’” Lhamo offered to let early on to her calling. “I prayed that I would quickly become a man and grow the man stay overnight, but he declined. So she brought him a few blocks away up, because I thought ‘I am small, but men are big and strong and better at to the Washington Street shelter. helping people,’” she says. “I told my parents and my grandmother this and they “[Lhamo] is the most kind, selfless, and principled woman I have ever said, ‘Oh, no!Yes, you should pray, but not for these things.’They told me, ‘You known,” says Merchant. “She has endured great hardships in her life but holds have a gift [for singing] and if you truly want to help others, you [should] sing.’” no bitterness toward anyone and maintains a childlike innocence and wonder.” In 1989 Lhamo fled the violent clampdown that followed that year’s TiThe exiled Tibetan performed on composer Johnathan Elias’s 2011 album betan unrest, carrying her baby son on her back as she hiked for two months Prayer Cycle 2: Path to Zero (Across the Universe Records) and recorded some through the Himalayas to freedom in Dharamsala, India. She spent four years yet-to-be-released material with him and separately with producer Peter Ashthere singing for other refugees and learning more Tibetan music, and re- er (formerly of the British Invasion duo Peter and Gordon). On her own, she’s ceived the blessing of the Dali Lama, who encouraged her to further use her planning a new album of healing Medicine Buddha mantras. “In Buddhism we art to help others. She gained passage to Australia in 1993 and began singing know some sounds can heal the body,” says Lhamo. “Yes, we must sometimes for the meditations at a Buddhist center there, which resulted in the recording use Western medicine, still. But sometimes we think, ‘I will just take this pill,’ of Tibetan Prayer (Independent). The stark disc of ancient chants won the 1995 when maybe we don’t need to take a pill. With these sounds, we can make Australian Recording Industry Award (that country’s equivalent of a Grammy) ourselves and others feel better.” for best world music album, which led it to the ears of ethnic music enthusiast It’s a long way from the Himalayas to the Catskills, and Lhamo hasn’t seen Peter Gabriel.The ex-Genesis front man signed Lhamo to his Real World label Tibet in nearly 30 years. Does she ever get homesick? “Wherever I sit, the to re-record the largely acapella Tibetan Prayer as 1996’s Tibet, Tibet. Slots on minute that I arrive anywhere, I always treat that place as my home,” she says. Lilith Fair and Gabriel’s WOMAD tours followed, as well as Lhamo’s 1997 “But that is just a place. The real home is inside of us.” US debut at Carnegie Hall and an appearance at the Beastie Boys-curated Free Yungchenlhamo.com 2/16 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 53
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ULTRAAM RESIDENCY February 5, 12, 19, 26. Kingston’s self-described “free-improvising, psychedelic, noise-rock, spazz-jazz band” Ultraam is an underground super group made up of guitarist Grasshopper and drummer Jeff Mercel (both of Mercury Rev), drummer Chris Turco (Chron Turbine, Les Savy Fav), guitarist Matthew Cullen (Duke McVinnie Band), keyboardist/saxophonist D. James Goodwin (Snowflake), trumpeter Mark Ferraro, and bassist Eli Walker II (Bishop Allen, Lia Ices). Since forming last year, the out-there outfit has been readying for the release of their first album, and has set up this month-long residency at the Anchor to help raise awareness about the project. Each of the four Fridays will feature a different guest opening/collaborative act. 8pm. Call for ticket price. Kingston. (845) 853-8124; Theanchorkingston.com.
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February 3. Cluttering up the boomerang-shaped coffee tables of America’s hipper living rooms and bachelor pads of the 1960s were at least one or two LPs by easy listening bossa nova greats Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66, who here samba into the Ridgefield Playhouse. The group’s airy, pastel-hued cocktail of light jazz and tropical adaptations of pop hits by Bacharach and the Beatles were decried as elevator music by detractors but at the same time they also smacked of something subversive (“Put this on the hi-fi and watch Aunt Gladys loosen up after a couple mai tais.”). In the depths of winter, such sunny music always hits the spot. And who knows how long it will be before Mendes returns? (Bebel Gilberto breezes by February 11; Joan Jett and the Blackhearts rock February 14.) 8pm. $75. Ridgefield, Connecticut. (203) 438-5795; Ridgefieldplayhouse.org.
February 13. Beninese vocalist Angelique Kidjo has been called “Africa’s premier diva” by Time magazine. Her deeply soulful, passionately sung combination of traditional African and Latin styles and funk, reggae, samba, salsa, gospel, jazz, zouk, and other genres has made her a festival favorite around the globe, and especially in her adopted homeland of France. Fluent in English, French, and Yoruba in addition to her native Fon, she sings in all four languages and has collaborated with Herbie Hancock, Peter Gabriel, Phillip Glass, John Legend, Bono, Dr. John, the Kronos Quartet, and many others. Kidjo visits Mass MoCA this month for an intimate acoustic performance in the arts complex’s Hunter Center. (Jason Walker sings soul and Gospel on February 20.) 8pm. $32, $39, $49. North Adams, Massachusetts. (413) 662-2111; Massmoca.org.
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February 12. Titled “The Ellington Effect: A Centennial Tribute to Billy Strayhorn,” this celebration of the music and life of Duke Ellington’s right-hand man—composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger Billy Strayhorn—will present five emerging young jazz talents in concert at Bard College’s sonically and visually glistening performance venue, the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Sponsored by Catskill Jazz Factory, the band will be led by saxophonist Caleb Curtis (Walking Distance) and also includes trumpeter Alphonso Horne, trombonist Mike Fahie, bassist Adam Cote, and pianist Jeremy Siskind. (The Orchestra Now performs Bruch and Mahler February 13-14; Dante’s Inferno blazes February 26-29.) 8pm. $40. Annandale-on-Hudson. (845) 758-7900; Fishercenter.bard.edu.
February 13. The Egg’s ongoing “Roots and Branches” series welcomes these two slide guitar greats for an evening of blues mastery. Louisiana-raised electric player and singer Landreth started out in thrall to Nashville pickers Scotty Moore and Chet Atkins and found his first work as a sideman to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier. His tenth solo album is last year’s Bound by the Blues. Steel and Dobro genius Cashdollar comes originally from our region—Woodstock, to be exact—but now makes her home in Austin, Texas, from where she’s won eight Grammys as a member of Asleep at the Wheel. (Monty Alexander hosts his Valentine’s String Ensemble February 14; Kaki King kills it February 26.) 8pm. $29.50. Albany. (518) 473-1845; Theegg.org.
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CD REVIEWS INNEROUTE FOURMATION (2015, PLANET ARTS)
With case play on top of multiple puns, the quartet INNErOUTe doesn’t make it easy to type its name or to interpret it, but one could say that, given the group’s native genre—improvisational jazz—difficulty is part of the bargain on every level. On Fourmation, this quartet of trumpet, electric piano, drums, and bass sets out to capture one evening of improvisations, and the results are scintillating, due as much to the excellent recording quality as to the heightened, empathic playing of this very capable and egoless ensemble. The reverberant mix rounds the top end of Rick Savage’s often effected trumpet and flugelhorn tone in the most pleasant way and situates the rhythm section of Michael D’Agostino (drums) and Bill McCrossen (bass) in a warm and natural space. The complex, phasey timbre of Joe Vincent Tranchina’s electric piano swirls through the space between voices like a sonic glue. Like so much free jazz, this stuff originates with Miles circa Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way; free and untimed conversations morph into near funk and back again on the opening track “Consensual Motion.” But on the lovely “Sacred Eclipse” and on many other tracks, INNErOUTe reveals itself to be a band more interested in moments of warm euphony than in contentious squawk. The music-as-spiritualpractice liner notes are borne out in the quite accessible and enjoyable sounds. Planetarts.org. —John Burdick
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The human voice. Damn, it’s a beautiful thing. Upstate Rubdown’s full-length debut, A Remedy—produced in Woodstock and Rhinebeck by Grammy winner Jason Miles—is focused on three contemporary female voices, but the net result is closer to the Roches than Mountain Man. Mary Kenney, Melanie Glenn, and Kate Scarlett all sing remarkably, and they weave their voices well, recalling not only the serpentine sibling harmonies of the Roches, but of the Andrews and Boswell sisters, too.The cooing opening notes of the opening track, Glenn’s “Ball Rolling,” make it seem like madrigals will be on the way, but they never arrive, thankfully. Instead, the eclectic trio bounces off an unexpected superstructure made of bass (Harry D’Agostino), mandolin (Ryan Chappell), and percussion (Dean Mahoney). The band, lacking familiar chordal anchors of guitar or piano, is off-kilter in a delicious, entirely unobtrusive way; and Chappell’s brash mandolin lends a welcome drive. Auxiliary members and supporting players (including saxophonist Joe Lovano) job in for specific tracks but never overpower the exuberant Rubdown vibe. Key tracks include Glenn’s plangent “New Life,” stacked with session guests; Kenney’s “No Slack,” flashing a hipster “This town ain’t big enough” chant; and D’Agostino’s “Bad Enough” which brings jazz changes and harmonies to the game. Also included, as a nod to Rubdown’s deeper roots, is a vibrant take of the 1927 Gene Austin chestnut “Tonight You Belong to Me.” UpstateRubdown.com. —Michael Eck CHRONOGRAM.COM LISTEN to tracks by the bands reviewed in this issue.
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Books
CATSKILL MAGIC The Art of Thorneater Comics’ Will Lytle
by Nina Shengold Photo by Roy Gumpel Illustrations by Will Lytle
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here’s snow on the ground, but Will Lytle comes to his front door barefoot. “Did you find me all right?” he asks, with a grin that implies it might take a few tries. (It did.) Approaching his handbuilt house in West Hurley for the first time, a reader of Lytle’s visionary Thorneater Comics may feel a thrill of recognition, coupled with the sensation that she really should be arriving on owlback. There’s the clearing amid the tall trees, the triangular roof and small stainedglass window. And yes, there’s that furry-chinned wizard, inviting you into his lair. Lytle stopped shaving two years ago, while traveling in backcountry Alaska with friends, and now sports a chest-length red beard. His head is shaved clean. The visual contrast of smooth pate and intricate textures is striking. He looks like a Will Lytle drawing. Lately, Lytle’s drawings have been popping up everywhere. The Golden Notebook Bookstore just hosted a launch party for a second collection culled from his long-running Woodstock Times comic. He’s 56 BOOKS CHRONOGRAM 2/16
done illustrations for Clark Strand’s acclaimed Waking Up to the Dark (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) and murals, logos, and signs for uptown Kingston’s O+ festival and Grounded Cafe, Woodstock General Supply, Overlook Mountain Bikes, Phoenicia Flea, and Paris’s Catskillthemed Colette boutique, among others. “So much of his work reflects the magical essence of the Catskills, and it is that magic that’s finding its way onto the pages of newspapers, books, and even the streets of Paris,” says Golden Notebook co-owner Jackie Kellachan. The NewYork Times recently described Lytle’s work as “fairy-tale-like comics that evoke the dark humor of Maurice Sendak and Edward Gorey,” influences he cites alongside Graeme Base, filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Andrei Tarkovsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Rider-Waite tarot artist Pamela Colman Smith. Influences, sure. But Lytle’s art is uniquely his own, and the same whimsical, mordant, defiantly homegrown aesthetic permeates every detail of his little house, which is light-filled and lovely and lacks both a phone (he eschews instant access and monthly bills) and a bathroom (he uses the woods, or his parents’ house). Lytle makes tea on the two-burner camp stove hunched atop a half-size fridge and sits next to the woodstove, on a salvaged vintage armchair draped with what looks like a fox fur. Surrounded by feathers, antique bottles, and other plunder, with runic tattoos peeking out at the ankles, he resembles a Druid priest, or possibly an extra from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like I Spy and Where’s Waldo?—both childhood favorites—it would take many visits to see everything in this room. Some things you might spot at a glance: a 7-Up glass full of arrows, an animal skull on a glass-domed cheese plate, a marble bust with a tiara, five homing pigeon bands (some still on bird feet), seven kerosene lanterns, a pair of skunk pelts, a tarot card on a makeshift bluestone altar, an immense butcher block. It’s all of a piece—boho Catskills primitive—except for the desktop Mac on Lytle’s drawing desk and the huge black TV hanging high on one wall. Lytle comes close to blushing. “I’m fucking embarrassed that I have this 40-inch flatscreen,” he admits. Call it forbidden fruit. “My mom never let me have video games. I couldn’t get a Tamagotchi out of her.” Lytle’s parents came to Woodstock for the concert, sort of. His mother caught the muddy tail end, and his father arrived three days late, but they both loved the local vibe. In 1971, they bought a small plot of land to homestead, building the family house from hand-milled lumber and growing most of their food. The youngest of three siblings, Lytle says, “By the time I was born, they were good at it.” Though neither parent identifies as an artist, their creativity was everywhere—wood and stonework, heirloom gardens, handmade calendars—and they encouraged young Will’s love of drawing and books. “The library was humongous in my childhood, an endless miracle zone.” At Onteora High School, he joined the groundbreaking Indie film program, staying on for several years after graduation to work with teen filmmakers. “Russell Richardson made me a job,” he says gratefully. 2/16 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 57
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Lytle attended the film and video program at New York’s School of Visual Arts for a year, but urban life and the pull toward commercial art made him restless. He dropped out, alternating a day job at Woodstock’s Sunfrost farmstand with trips to New Zealand, Europe, and the American West, often hitchhiking or riding the rails. But the Hudson Valley always lured him back, and eventually he built his house on a wooded corner of his parents’ land. Inspired by Adrian Tomine’s guerrilla comics, he started printing zine-style chapbooks in 2011, leaving free copies in locations ranging from local libraries and bookstores to the beer fridge at Cumberland Farms (the franchise was not amused). Though he still prints small-batch chapbooks at “prices my peeps can afford,” Lytle is fitfully making his peace with success. Illustrating on commission has refined his technique, he says, adding, “I’m very self-taught. I look at my early comics, and it’s like, art school dropout for sure. Freelancing is illustration college. This freelance hog you’re always being dragged behind brings you places you’d never go otherwise.” It also enables him to travel abroad, often with girlfriend Anna Haffner, a multimedia artist who’s currently working with Arm-of-the-Sea Theatre. Even when he’s at home, he’s as likely to be someplace deep in the woods as hunched over his desk, though he may spend 10 hours or more on one densely detailed drawing. Lytle describes his DIY Thorneater Comics as “single-page sequential art,” favoring “ambient emotional narrative over anything actionoriented.” In his pages, fish speak and snakes fly. They’re more like storybooks for dreamy adults than traditional multi-panel comics or graphic novels. Text is minimal. “I’m happy when it’s under eight words, and definitely happiest when I can pull it off with an ‘Oh.’” For someone who values terseness, Lytle is hyperarticulate, peppering his discourse with loud exclamations of “Dude!” His laughter is raucous and frequent. So it’s a surprise when he calls himself prone to depression. In a bio for his recent window display at Catskill Art & Office Supply, he writes, “Early on art became my way of coping with a world that I often feared and distrusted. Imagination and creativity were my means of ritual protection. As I develop as an artist, I come ever closer to communicating with those fears and insecurities, and with maturity comes, maybe, a kindling of fear into a brighter wonder.” “He’s the most original talent I’ve seen in years,” says Clark Strand, who’s collaborating with Lytle on a second book, Our Lady of Deep Collapse: The Rosary as a Guide Through Climate Change. Of Waking Up to the Dark, he says, “Basically, the book called for a shaman. That was what I got in Will Lytle.” Though he calls himself “a pretty devout atheist,” Lytle acknowledges a freeform outdoor spirituality. “The Catskills in particular has that feeling of so many layers of creation, an energy that passes through you to get done,” he says. “I’m a deep believer in the numinous. There are wizards, for sure. I’m trying really hard.” Portfolio:Thorneatercomics.com
Will Lytle at his home in West Shokan.
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SHORT TAKES There’s so much to learn. Hudson Valley authors lead the way.
I’M SICK OF THIS ALREADY: AT-RISK LEARNING IN A HIGH SCHOOL CLASS GINNAH HOWARD ILLUME, 2015, $15
Honest education experts will tell you that poverty is a bigger obstacle than any dogma out there. What does that mean to disenfranchised kids in a rural district and those who struggle to teach them? Accomplished novelist Howard (Rope and Bone trilogy) lets us in on the complicated lives of a classroom full of challenged and challenging teens in a work that blends great storytelling with expert methodology, seasoned with warmth, empathy, and humor.
YO, MISS! A GRAPHIC LOOK AT HIGH SCHOOL LISA WILDE, FOREWORD BY KAYCEE ECKHARDT MICROCOSM PUBLISHING, 2015, $12.95
“How many people does it take to change a student so the light bulb goes on?” asks Wilde, who teaches English at Wildcat Academy, a “second chance” New York City high school. Praised by Alison Bechdel, this visually inventive graphic novel follows eight students (composites based on real lives) as they struggle toward graduation. Their journeys—moving, unexpected, and sometimes hilarious— are lovingly drawn by the teacher they’ve nicknamed “Wild” or “Snowflake,” an Ulster County weekender.
STORYTELLING AT WORK: HOW MOMENTS OF TRUTH ON THE JOB REVEAL THE REAL BUSINESS OF LIFE MITCH DITKOFF IDEA CHAMPIONS, 2015, $18
Everyone has stories to tell, and “innovation provocateur” Ditkoff spins 38, starting with his misguided attempt to avoid being labeled a hippie by euphemizing his hometown to German executives (“I’m From Woodstock, Yes I Am!”). Reflections and challenges—So What? and Now What?—follow each story. Part 2 is a toolkit for the storyteller’s task: “to create the stage for the human heart to dance.” Appearing 4/30 at 1:30pm, Woodstock Story Festival, Woodstockstoryfestival.com.
THE STORY OF SEEDS: FROM MENDEL’S GARDEN TO YOUR PLATE, AND HOW THERE’S MORE OF LESS TO EAT AROUND THE WORLD NANCY CASTALDO HMH BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS, 2016, $17.99
The author of Sniffer Dogs turns her eye to plants, offering young readers an empowering crash course in the importance of biodiversity and the politics of food production. In clear, lively prose, she introduces geneticist Gregor Mendel, seed bank pioneer Nikolai Vavilov, farm activist Dr. Vandana Shiva and other “Seed Warriors,” inspiring teens to get involved with conservation efforts global and local. Appearing 2/25 at 3pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck.
SHADES OF BLUE: WRITERS ON DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, AND FEELING BLUE EDITED BY AMY FERRIS SEAL PRESS, 2015, $16
This important, remarkably varied anthology breaks the silence around painful topics, shedding new light on darkness. Editor Ferris’ knockout introduction “The Balls-Out Truth About Depression” honors the courage of those who share their stories (including Hudson Valley contributors Chloe Caldwell, Beverly Donofrio, and Kitty Sheehan), assuring “the men and women, girls and boys who always—always—wear their scars like stardust” that they are not alone. This book could save lives.
KISSING JOY AS IT FLIES: A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF HEALING & WHOLENESS JASON ELIAS, FOREWORD BY STEPHEN LARSEN, PHD FIVE ELEMENT HEALING PRESS, 2015, $22
In this luminous memoir, Woodstock acupuncturist and herbalist Elias explores his deep roots (a Greek great-grandmother’s herbal ministrations) and far-flung journeys (to Esalen; Philippine psychic surgeons; an ashram in Poona, India; a stupa in Nepal) in his ongoing quest to heal himself and others. He offers inspiring and resonant words for seekers of every persuasion. Appearing 2/5 at 7pm, Inquiring Minds, Saugerties; 2/12 at 7pm, Inquiring Minds, New Paltz. 60 BOOKS CHRONOGRAM 2/16
Why We Came to the City Kristopher Jansma Viking, 2016, $26.95
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he collective ensemble as a character is hard to pull of. If the reader doesn’t like the group, you’ve got a problem: How to pull a cynical audience through multiple hundred pages of a story? One solution is to make the setting amazing—like, “Friends” amazing—a city full of novelty, promise, and just enough challenge to make pleasures feel earned, its streets buzzing with “take me, I’m your oyster” energy. But what if readers don’t relate to all that twentysomething consumption and joie de income? What if some readers fled the city in disgust, and now live quietly among the rustic oaks of the Hudson Valley? I wouldn’t put it past the very smart Kristopher Jansma (who teaches fiction at SUNY New Paltz) to think this through ahead of time. Even the title Why We Came to the City, his second novel (after his gasp-worthy 2013 debut The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards) makes a case for the post-college urban populace. Yes, these are the bright young things, buoyed through rounds of takeout and parties and spending money; self-centered, fecklessly inhaling sushi and speaking an irritating slang right out of UrbanDictionary.com. Here’s a round of dialogue, early on: “I forgot you can predict the future. You should look at my stock portfolio sometime.” “You don’t have a stock portfolio. You barely have a couch.” “I’ve still got half my bar mitzvah money in Nintendo stocks, and don’t insult the blue foldout! We bought that couch together, remember? And I’ve bumped more uglies on it than—” So they’re young. So they’re annoying. Well, yes, one can almost hear Jansma demurring, but wait. Theirs is not a time of plenty, but of uncertainty: post-9/11 New York, newly battered by the recession. But these overgrown kids sampling trendy cocktails, they’re mostly fine. And sure, they love each other, but of course they do: they cling together like a litter of pedigreed puppies. Still, make me care. Okay, then, here’s another solution: Make something terrible befall a character you simply can’t dislike. A sweet person. A woman: artistic, intelligent, private, beloved by her friends. And make the malady initially worrisome, then an all-encompassing, devastating monster. Which is exactly what happens. Among this group of five twentysomething apartmentdwellers, one becomes terribly, terribly, mortally ill, turning what was a scrappy but blithe existence into something far deeper and more mournful. And there goes the dashing metropolitan hubris of the collective, and there goes the optimistic promise of this town, and there goes this reader’s skepticism. As each character is forced to come to terms with the loss, each also comes to terms with the confines of his or her own heart. So much for the off-putting arrogance of the young. In this case, the tragedy grows them up: it renders them helpless, then rips them apart, and then it redeems them. What gives this story its appeal is that it doesn’t try to be appealing until it is. Jansma, himself once a twentyish New Yorker whose cramped but exciting life was ripped apart as he lost his sister to cancer, has a particularly sensitive ear for people coming to terms with unfathomable grief. Grief, actually, is the bridge from specific to universal, here. It makes what could have been a morality tale into something tender, human, and hard to look away from. And in the end, it puts a spin on that troublesome titular We that is both unexpected and intensely powerful. Why indeed, one asks, but already knows the answer. Just because. Appearing 3/7 at 5pm, SUNY New Paltz Honors Center. —Jana Martin
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Sharon Tate: A Life Ed Sanders
Da Capo, 2015, $25.99
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ack in 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, a gripping investigative piece on the Manson Family murders whose complex tentacles stretched out in myriad directions, deep into the southern California of the 1960s. In Sharon Tate: A Life, the redoubtable Woodstock poet-historian revisits that era from a fresh direction, giving us a touching biography of a young beauty infernally interrupted on the very brink of her promising personal and professional prime. Sharon Tate grew up an army brat and a stunner, a cheerleader and homecoming queen much loved by kind parents. Her beauty got her noticed: a chance encounter with a film crew in Italy brought her work as an extra. Barely out of high school, she headed to LA alone in 1961, but went back to Italy because her mom was worried. The following year, the whole family returned to the United States, and Tate began making Chevy and cigar ads and working as a wine hostess. Even for someone hailed as the most beautiful woman in a world of beautiful women, the struggle was real. Despite a classic folkloric “discovery” by Filmways CEO Marty Ransohoff—the very words, “Baby, we’re going to make you a star!” were spoken—she paid her dues with bit parts in TV series and extra jobs. From everything Sanders was able to discover, she did it with fortitude and good humor. She soon took up with Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring, in whose company she would later be murdered. The Swinging Sixties were just ramping up, and the Hollywood Sanders captures in the book’s early chapters has an almost fresh-faced feel, probably because of the references to TV shows like “Petticoat Junction” and “Mr. Ed.” Interwoven with Tate’s ascent, Sanders traces the rise of a brilliant young Polish filmmaker named Roman Polanski, who would ultimately win her from Sebring and be devastated by her death. By the late ‘60s, that veneer of innocence had been sandblasted by the rise of the counterculture. The entertainment industry was a swirl of drugs, Satanism, kink, and double dealing. Tate seems to have been in it but not of it, emerging as smart, kind, and likely to succeed. Unafraid to take her top off for Playboy or give her all in cheese like Valley of the Dolls, her sights were set higher; she admired Faye Dunaway and Catherine Deneuve, and was exhilarated by the prospect of motherhood. Sanders is meticulous and affectionate in his chronicle, its tone dry, wry, and journalistic. By its very nature, this is a story full of gossip, hearsay, and the musings of the famous and infamous; in several places, Sanders was given more than one version of a story and faithfully reports all he knows, leaving the reader to draw her own conclusions. As the summer of 1969 seeps into its dog days, Sanders juxtaposes the Manson Family’s descent into absolute unholy hell with Tate’s delight in her pregnancy and Polanski’s exuberant work on Day of the Dolphin. Was Tate specifically targeted? What were Manson’s true motives? No one truly knows the answers, but Sanders has tried harder than anyone living to figure it out, and his exploration of all available sources is a fascinating look at chaotic times and a fitting tribute to a life cut brutally short. —Anne Pyburn Craig
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our March issue is February 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
The House Boxes, boxes all around fill the room like candy in child’s pillow case on Halloween. I ask my mom where we are going she says I get to see today. It’s a very secluded house and it’s near the beach. It has a big fire place and a nice room for me. Except it’s very cold in this secluded house, with a big fireplace, on this hidden lane, near a wavy beach, on a tiny island, in a big state, on a huge continent, in a gigantic world, in a humongous galaxy, in an infinite universe. —Elliott Corry (11 years) *Inspired by The Napping House by Audrey Wood
THE SNOW BALL In this still round world Two children always stand Before a plot of pines Waiting for snow. And it is always so That just ahead, Beyond the plot of pines, There is a house the children cannot see. —Marcia Cavell
STORM Stubborn clouds hold gallons cumulus camouflage. Temperature spike mounts green sodden air. A million drops burst grey wet relief. The sky a child who can not be consoled. —Millie Falcaro
Half the things I remember Haunt the half I forget And in this way a whole is fashioned. —p
I’VE NEVER SEEN A WHITE WHALE
FAR AWAY IS A SCARY PLACE
I’ve travelled the world, laced by oceans and rivers nearly forgotten. Sometimes I keep track of failure by all the shores I’ve passed.
I wanted to warn you about the snow before you left; how it falls like white ash on your eyelashes, holding them down, like the weights you used to bench down in Georgia for sport but you never gave me the chance and the truth is, I loved you for who I thought you were for who I saw in my dreams— you, accompanied by love letters written in code. You, accompanied by the smell of pine trees and New York. You, accompanied by the mountains that I think of when I think “home.” And the truth is, I only missed my mother but you were just as warm
I have never seen a white whale, nor wondered why I haven’t before now—a small fish in an anonymous, massive pond. So when I’m weary of illusions, verse a blank sweep across my page or mammoth’s back, I thrust my pen like a harpoon into anything grey, pretending dun is white, life is lovely and infinite. —Perry Nicholas
—Alex Apuzzo
GOSSIPING ABOUT THE WEATHER
LEAVING NEW YORK
Tell me what you think about as you stare past dark glass, eavesdropping on secrets whispered between thunder and rain.
If I write another poem for the city, this time I want it to be an elegy. Oh New York, you wonderful piece of shit. You carved out bone. You mystery of rats. The subway shakes, rattles me awake, but the doubt is there.
Does your mind meander downstream, pulsing with debris, flooding creeks? Or do you fill yourself with the groans of storms to drain away muddled grey thoughts and put your own dry concerns at ease? Go ahead— tell me.
Oh New York, and all your confusion. The people and their tragedies measured against their neighbor’s. Oh, how your condos shine in the monied air. The way I can’t let go, even when I visit my parents and ask: Wait, is there anything even open right now? The city of immigrants, transition, bottomless brunch. Chris moved to Vegas, and he says it just isn’t as bright. Oh this city, so ruined by itself. —Nicodemus Nicoludis
(I’m listening too.) —Maeve Dwyer
DUSK
And I should’ve known better than to think I wouldn’t drown.
There be dragons in the splintered wilderness of today: the air damp and the fog moving in like a drumroll.
Gradual vision loss is like dusk coming on. Maybe you’re sitting outside at the picnic table on a late summer afternoon, talking with a friend, sharing some laughs and a beer. Maybe you’ve been sitting and chatting for a couple of hours as the sun slowly crosses the sky. You’re having a good time, enjoying each other’s company, you’re barely registering the passing of time or the diminishing of the light. Then one of you says, “Hey, it’s getting dark,” and suddenly it is.
—Irene Corvinus
—Eirini Melena Karoutsos
—Susan Sparrow
LURE Darling, your eyes hold all seven seas.
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MORNING ON THE RIDGE
SUICIDE
TO AN AIRPORT BIRD
The bridge looks taller today, yet the toll is the same. Once I wrote a lullaby in the space of paying $1.50.
O little airport bird O patron saint of liminality Come rap your wings ‘Gainst garbage cans and squawk.
little little rattle under my car how I wonder how you are Robin Williams only fell the length of his belt. your rapid tapping Mauro washed up in Beacon. your exhausted cough Emma chose the courtyard window. your final bleating before I turn the engine off Mauro reading his poetry at Albany Word Fest— police caution tape for a joke tie. Mauro locking his bike by the bridge. How I wish I could have led him up Beacon Mountain to see the green dragonflies— fresh injections of spring. Emma teaching me Hopkin’s “Windhover” was called a wind-fucker in old English, a falcon today. Emma laughing with a gap in her teeth which meant sexy in Chaucer. Oh, Emma— lying in the courtyard nobody noticed till lunchtime. little little rattle under my car I wish you well for what you are Robin Williams never far from his next joke about nipples. in the morning I’ll be here again to drive you near & far My quarters barely fill the tollkeeper’s hand. I listen for yodeling, Robin Williams windfucking all the way into the Hudson. —Will Nixon
O little brown one Perched sweetly on the ticket-teller Hop lightly on Linoleum and watch. O jewel-bug carapace: O sun-encrusted car parade We come amid dawn fog Eyes bent from glare. Bag-laden, we waddle Through metal detectors Past you, little sparrow— Up into the air. —Veronica Stork
TWO POEMS just tonic please we wal k in circles by n ight a n d are consumed by fire —Matt Shaw
TRESPASSING ON FROST I pass over the police tape and enter his yard I wonder if the flicker of light in the corner of my eye is from him peering out through his curtains or from a candle he has left lit on the table. I sift through his garbage, his apple-bin I climb his ladder up his apple tree just to see how it feels I examine his woodchuck holes to see if he, like Frost, is sleeping, or if we will have six more weeks of winter. The police are questioning a little boy about climbing trees as Truth broke in But I am studying the trees themselves, the birches; bending while ascending. —Tom O’Dowd
Kukicha has cooled while pacing from room to room searching for a verse —Sandra Palmer Shaw
STUDENT TESTING They are all bent forward Plying their #2 oars Like Vikings Pulling against a sea Of multiple choices. Amazing that not One of these adventurers Pulling against the tide Throws down his oar, Stands, and yells, “This is stupid!” —Anthony G. Herles
LATE JANUARY Fog and rain and wind and maybe some thunder. No old-fashioned winter. —Matthew J. Spireng
WILLOW THE WEEPER Light green breaks the cold wait, discontent for grey sake. Waiting winter willow wipes budding eyes; springs the cry: seasons live, die and give. —Kelly Lee
THE SKIER The bright sun glistens on a white snow covered trail between tall trees barren of leaves sculpture against the snow and the bright blue sky Alone I ski across the trail the only sound the shush of my skis a twig breaking under a snow capped bough and the sound of my breathing —Dorothy Gutterman 2/16 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 63
Food & Drink
The bar room at The Corner.
Local Exotic
The Corner at Hotel Tivoli By Brian K. Mahoney Photos by Roy Gumpel
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ere’s an open secret: Boutique hotels with farm-to-table restaurants nested within them have popped up all over the Hudson Valley in the past few years. There’s the Roundhouse in Beacon, Diamond Mills in Saugerties, Buttermilk Falls in Milton, and Wm. Farmer and Sons opened last fall in Hudson. There’s a similar formula at work at these upscale properties: Transform an existing space (usually involving a rough-hewn beam reveal), throw in luxe amenities on the accommodation side, and add a top-notch eatery, possibly with ingredients grown on site. The most exotic addition to this category is The Corner, which is on the ground floor of the Hotel Tivoli, a 10-room boutique accommodation owned by artists Brice and Helen Marden. The Mardens, who own an estate, Rose Hill, overlooking the Hudson River just down the road, bought the 100-year building, formerly the Madalin Hotel, in 2013. The couple spent the next year overseeing renovations and assembling an array of mid-century furniture (much of it sourced in Hudson), as well as some kaleidoscopic starbursts Murano chandeliers. Add in Berber rugs from Morocco (the Mardens have travelled extensively there), art by the couple’s creative friends (Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Roy Lichtenstein, Kiki Smith, and Francesco Clemente among them), a fat slab of Italian marble for the bar and thinner versions for the tables in the dining room, and their establishment was well on its way. All the Mardens needed now was a chef.
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Enter Devon Gilroy. The 31-year-old chef, burned out after a decade at some of New York City’s best restaurants, including A Voce and Chanterelle, was looking to move upstate when he answered an ad on GoodFoofJobs. com for a “Restaurant Opening Outside Rhinebeck.” After Gilroy was hired as executive chef, he reached out to his old friend from Chanterelle, Janett Pabon, to run the front of the house.(“Janett was the server that got Chanterelle four stars in the NewYork Times,” says Gilroy.) The Corner opened on August, 15, 2014. Walking into The Corner, you get the feel of a neighborhood place where the neighbors are college professors, well-heeled students, second-home owners, and young artists. On the right is the bar room, with its stunning chandelier and expanse of marble. “The bar is a central part of the restaurant,” says Pabon, “it’s a starting point as well as an end point.”The cocktail program was designed by Employees Only, a neo-speakesasy in the West Village run by the chef’s father, famed restaurateur Billy Gilroy. The Rose Hill ($10) is a delightful pisco concoction gently spiced with ginger and leavened with St. Germain elderflower liqueur. There are a dozen 15 wines by the glass ($10-$18) that tend toward small production vineyards. The wine list, put together by Michael Albon of Hudson Wine Merchants, reflects a tendency toward natural and biodynamic growers perhaps you’ve never heard of, but the wait staff is quite knowledgeable and helpful about how to pair these mostly light- to medium-bodied wines (a number of good bottles available
The restaurant’s signature dish, Moroccan chicken.
Chickpea fritters on spaghetti squash. Chef Devon Gilroy
The house charcuterie plate.
Chef Devon Gilroy in his own words: Competition In the city, I had been operating really busy restaurants. But I never felt like my role was that important. Up here I feel like I have more impact on the community than in the city. Because in the city, you’re just competing with everybody else who’s competing, you know, to stay busy, to stay relevant, to do creative things. You don’t have much mentorship, because you’re competing with somebody who could be your mentor. You have guys in their 20s competing with guys in their 50s.
Tivoli I didn’t know how to drive when I moved up here. I have my license now but I’m still working on it. Before my trip to Spain and Morocco last January, I realized I’d need to rent a standard car overseas. So this neighborhood guy says, “Come on over, I’ll teach you how to drive standard.” And I’m like, “Where am I? How is this possible?” So that’s amazing for me, to be able to be in a community where I can talk about what’s going on and somebody can be like, “Hey, come on over, I’ll help you out.” And I can do the same for them. Come in, have a hamburger.
Foraging I’m an avid forager and mushrooms show up in many of my dishes. I forage mainly on Rose Hill [the Marden’s property]. I’ve learned by trial and error, plus I’ve had an amazing mentor, Amy Lawton, the chef at Murray’s [a restaurant in Tivoli]. She’s a master forager, one of the best. I was into foraging for a few years before I moved here, at a novice level. And then when I came here and we became friends, we started going out together and looking in the woods and she started teaching me what grows where.
Responsibility to Farmers Working in the city, I didn’t have as intimate a relationship to the food I cooked as I do now. It would just show up, I would unwrap it and I would go, “That’s beautiful, I’m gonna cook it.” But now I have personal relationships with growers, like Miriam [Latzer] from Good Flavor Farm. She says, “Tomorrow I’m going to cut garlic scapes.” The next day she shows up and the garlic scapes are stunning, you can still see the wet end where they’ve been cut. And I can just fry them for a second, and I don’t have to do anything too crazy and it’s gonna be good. It’s gonna be really good. I think chefs have a responsibility to support the local farmers, to help them not have to go to the city and move that product down.
Yelp I think it’s a good thing. Sometimes it exposes some really good stuff, and you see something that you do need to work on, and it’s going to push you to do a better job. I think it keeps you on. If you ignore Yelp and you continually get bad reviews, it’s a sign that you’re not doing a good job. You have to look at it and do a better job. Maybe you need a new chef, maybe you need a new general manager, maybe you need to look at your floor staff, why are they not inspired? Even though I think it empowers people who don’t necessarily know what they’re talking about a lot of the time, I respect it because it’s still tapping into the community. 2/16 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 65
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The small dining room at The Corner.
Wine Bar & Cocktail Lounge with Late Night Lounge Menu Available Specialty Cocktails & Wines by the Glass “America’s 1,000 top Italian Restaurants” Zagat
for under $45) with Gilroy’s Moroccan-inspired Mediterranean cuisine executed with local ingredients. The menu changes frequently, but if you can, start with the chickpea fritters ($12), crisp dumplings spiced with harissa, toasted cumin, and lime, served atop a mound of spaghetti squash—delicate and lightly spiced in a wonderfully unfussy way. (This, like the casual, friendly demeanor of the staff restaurant reflects the restaurant’s insouciant vibe, belying their composure and attention to detail.) As you’re noshing, don’t skip the Moroccan street bread, a small round loaf halfway between a pita and a brioche that is tangy and light and leaves ciabatta in the dust. The restaurant’s signature dish is the Moroccan chicken ($23), a savory delight that’s served with green olive and preserved lemon and spiced with ras el hanout, the savory garam masala of North African cuisine. Like much of Gilroy’s ingredients, he sources the chicken locally, from Fazio Farms in Modena. (In season, the restaurant also grows some of its own herbs and vegetables on the Mardens’ estate.) The menu contains bistro staples like steak au poivre ($32), a charcuterie plate ($15) and a dry-aged burger ($15), as well as seasonal game (rabbit saddle crepinette, $28) and fish dishes like day boat cod with black trumpet mushrooms, foraged by the chef himself ($31). This is simple food—carefully planned, thoughtfully sourced, and meticulously prepared—that’s refined but eminently approachable. The Corner 53 Broadway, Tivoli The Corner will resume service on February 4 after being closed for the month of January. The Corner serves dinner Sunday through Thursday, 5:30-9:30pm and until 10pm on Friday and Saturday. Brunch is served 11am-3pm on Saturday and Sunday. (845) 757-2100; Hoteltivoli.org.
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6934 Route 9 Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Just north of the 9G intersection 845-876-6208 Mon–Sat 9:30–5:30, Sun 11–4:30
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Red Hook Curry House ★★★★ DINING Daily Freeman & Poughkeepsie Journal ZAGAT RATED
79 Main Street New Paltz 845-255-2244 Open 7 Days
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Classic Italian Food Prepared with Considerable Refinement Book your Holiday Parties and Luncheons now for any day of the week. Make your Valentine’s Day Reservations now. Ask about our prix fixe menu.
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Wed. - Sat. 5pm-10pm Sunday 4pm-9pm Closed Feb 29th through March 9th 22 Garden St, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3055 www.puccinirhinebeck.com PRIVATE PARTIES | ON & OFF PREMISES CATERING
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Bakeries Ella’s Bellas Bakery 418 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8502 www.ellabellasbeacon.com
Butchers Jack’s Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244
Cafés Bistro-to-Go 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four-star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.
Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY (845) 471-6608 www.ciarestaurantgroup.com
The Hop at Beacon 458 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.thehopbeacon.com
Ole Savannah Table & Bar 100 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4283
Osaka Restaurant 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY, (845) 876-7338 or (845) 757-5055, 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 20 years! For more information and menus, go to osakasushi.net.
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Frida’s Bakery & Café 26 Main Street, Milton, NY (845) 795-5550
Red Hook Curry House
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Outdated 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0030 outdatedcafe@gmail.com
Restaurants Cafe Mio 2356 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4949 www.miogardiner.com
Cathryn’s Tuscan Grill
Tuthill House 20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151 www.tuthillhouse.com
Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com
Wine Bars
91 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY
Jar’d Wine Pub
(845) 265-5582
Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.jardwinepub.com
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Pay it Forward Community Thrift Store - A Division of Community Action of Greene County, Inc. 7856 Route 9W, Catskill, NY (518) 943-9205 www.cagcny.org5 fohle@cagcny.org
Architecture Richard Miller, AIA
28 Dug Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4480 www.richardmillerarchitect.com
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Jacobowitz & Gubits
Mark Gruber Gallery
New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Mill Street Loft
Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.woodstockguild.org events@woodstockguild.org
Berkshire Products, Inc.
884 Ashley Falls Road, Sheffield, NY www.berkshireproducts.com
Cabinet Designers
747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
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Glenn’s Wood Sheds
Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys
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Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services Fleet Service Center
185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812
Beverages Binnewater/Leisure Time Spring Water (845) 331-0504 www.binnewater.com
Dorsky Museum
SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu
Building Services & Supplies
Books Monkfish Publishing
22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Bookstores Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe
31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 www.yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com warwickbookshoppe@hotmail.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
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Ingrained Building Concepts (845) 224-5936
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Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes
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Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films
6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515, 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608 (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org
Clothing & Accessories Lea’s Boutique
33 Hudson Avenue, Chatham, NY (518) 392-4666
477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge, NY Bard College (845) 758-7151 www.bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu
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Frost Valley YMCA
2000 Frost Valley Road, Claryville, NY (845) 985-2291 www.frostvalley.org
Garrison Institute
14 Mary’s Way, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org
Green Meadow Waldorf School (845) 356-2514 www.gmws.org
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Bear Mountain Inn
Art Supplies
High Meadow School
Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org
Hotchkiss School
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts
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Poughkeepsie Day School
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Rudolf Steiner School
35 West Plain Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4015 www.gbrss.org
Sojourner Youth Theater
402 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (919) 809-2003
Vanaver Caravan
10 Main St, Suite 322, NewPaltz, NY (845) 256-9300 www.vanavercaravan.org
Voice Theatre
Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-0154 www.voicetheatre.org
Wayfinder Experience
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292 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0191 www.leshag.com
Lush Eco-Salon & Spa
2 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 204-8319 www.lushecosalon.com
Home Furnishings & Décor Light House
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44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.dreaminggoddess.com
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Stockade Guitars
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507 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org
Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 895-2051 www.warrenkitchentools.com
Music Bearsville Theater
291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com
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Bardavon 1869 Opera House
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
Flymax Studio
661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 232-2320 www.centerforperformingarts.org
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405 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-4800 helsinkihudson.com
Helsinki on Broadway
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Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Poughkeepsie, NY www.midhudsonciviccenter.org
Recreation Alpine Endeavors
Rosendale, NY (877) 486-5769 www.alpineendeavors.com
Apple Greens Golf Course 161 South Street, Highland, NY www.applegreens.com
The Jungle
881 NY-28, Kingston, NY (845) 481-4988 www.jungle28.com
Specialty Food Stores Immuneschein Tea Haus
446 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (828) 319-1844 www.immune-schein.com
Maya Kaimal
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Sunrooms Hudson Valley Sunrooms
Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com
Tourism Historic Huguenot Street
Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660
Weddings The Bridal Cottage
1200 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6596 www.thebridalcottage.com
339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.
Dutchess Manor
Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Cente
(845) 688-9893 www.eventsatmounttremperarts.com
1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 610-5900 www.sugarloafpac.org
Photography
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Luminary Weddings
315 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 334-8601 www.luminaryweddings.com
Mount Tremper Arts
Roots and Wings
New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com
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Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing
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Pools & Spas
Wine, Liquor & Beer Arlington Wine & Liquor
18 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (866) SAY-WINE www.arlingtonwine.net
Denning’s Point Distillery
10 North Chestnut Street, Beacon, NY www.denningspointdistillery.com
Hetta
(845) 216-4801 www.hettaglogg.com
Nostrano Vineyards
14 Gala Lane, Milton, NY (845) 795-5473 www.nostranovineyards.com
Town and Country Liquors
Route 212, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8931 www.townandcountryliquorstore.com
Aqua Jet
1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
www.flymaxrecording.com
JTD Productions, Inc.
50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217
Center for Performing Arts
The Falcon
1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
Rocket Number Nine Records
Performing Arts
The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio
3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-1555 www.nydfo.myshopify.com
Record Stores
Imperial Guitar & Soundworks
New York Designer Fabric Outlet
Wild Earth Wilderness School
1430 Glasco Turnpike, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-3744 x103 www.woodstockdayschool.org
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Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
61 O’Neil Street, Kingston, NY www.wayfinderexperience.com
Windham Mountain Ski Resort
Barcones Music
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248 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2100 www.gentersjewelers.com
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Musical Instruments
Mother Earth’s Storehouse
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Workshops Hudson Valley Photoshop Training, Stephen Blauweiss (845) 339-7834 www.hudsonvalleyphotoshop.com
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DOCTORS DOING
GOOD
A VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE, HOMEGROWN IN THE HUDSON VALLEY, IS SAVING THE LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN.
by wendy kagan
illustration by annie internicola
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n the mountain-ringed terrain of Gondar, Ethiopia—a once-royal city known for its medieval castle ruins—malaria is not a problem. But a lot of other things can go wrong when you’re practicing medicine in the far reaches of northeast Africa. The power might go out while a patient is having cryosurgery. Rats might eat the electrical wires on the LEEP machine that cost $10,000. A CO2 tank that’s the size of a warhead, borrowed from a local brewery, could just decide to stop working one day, bringing the surgical schedule to a halt. For Maggie Carpenter, MD—a New Paltz–based family-practice physician with a side career in international medicine—those are just a few of the snafus that she has encountered while launching the first cervical cancer screening and treatment program at University of Gondar Hospital. But none of that will stop Go Doc Go, a homespun, nongovernmental medical nonprofit that Carpenter created out of her calling to make a difference for women’s health in parts of the world that need it most. Since high school, Carpenter has felt the urge to volunteer and find ways to improve people’s lives. So when a colleague in Seattle asked if she’d like to go to Ethiopia to broker a contract that would bring US medical residents there, she didn’t hesitate—and even paid her own way for a visit in 2011. Once there, Carpenter found there was more to be done beyond her original mission. “On a tour of the hospital,” she recalls, “a doctor took me to the pathology department, and I said, ‘Oh, this is where you do Pap smears.’ He said, ‘We don’t do Pap smears.’ I said, ‘Really? What do you do for cervical cancer?’ He said, ‘We don’t do anything.’” That got Carpenter’s wheels turning: When she got back from Ethiopia, she started researching what was being done in other low socioeconomic countries that don’t have the resources or facilities for more extensive pathology. “I found that the World Health Organization [WHO] had already come out with a method called VIA, which is “visual inspection by acetic acid”—a see-and-treat method where you put basic store-bought vinegar on the cervix [abnormal tissue appears white when exposed to vinegar], and you just treat the patient right there. It’s as good as the Pap, or better.” An action plan in place, Carpenter just needed to find a way to get back to Ethiopia with some medical supplies and expensive machinery in tow. So she launched Go Doc Go as a grassroots nonprofit 501c3, and got to work fundraising. The first efforts were slow—it took three and a half years to gather the money for travel, machinery, and supplies through her network of family, alumni, friends, and friends of friends. Finally, Go Doc Go gained momentum, and in October 2014 Carpenter was ready to help the medieval city of Gondar step more firmly into 21st-century cancer care and prevention. Trials & Tribulations of a Globetrotting MD Many medical facilities around the world could benefit from the work of do-good doctors—and thankfully, we have some powerhouse international organizations to make that happen. But joining a large, worldwide establishment like Doctors 74 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 2/16
Without Borders is a big commitment: Physicians have to quit their job and devote six months of their lives or more to a project. Carpenter also considered the “volunteer vacation” route, but paying $10,000 of her own money for a week or two practicing medicine in another country wasn’t that appealing, and wouldn’t necessarily make a long-term difference. In creating her own organization, Carpenter could focus on generating sustainable women’s health programs—and still keep her day job at home. While other international aid groups have built birthing centers and fistula repair clinics, “Cervical cancer has been kind of left out,” says Carpenter. “They have a lot of HPV [human papillomavirus] there,” she says of Ethiopia, which is similar to the US in the prevalence of the sexually transmitted virus that’s responsible for virtually all cervical cancer cases. And while cervical cancer is one of the most treatable forms of cancer in Western countries (here, the problem is overscreening), it claims about 53,000 women’s lives each year in sub-Saharan Africa, according to WHO. (A vaccine for HPV, now recommended in the US for preteen girls and boys, would be cost-prohibitive in a country like Ethiopia—and it might not be all that effective anyway, since it doesn’t cover all types of HPV.) Part of what makes Go Doc Go sustainable is that Carpenter isn’t doing all of the work herself. Ingrid Frengle-Burke, a High Falls-based family nurse practitioner and Go Doc Go’s assistant director, traveled to Ethiopia with Carpenter on the project’s maiden trip in October 2014. Once they arrived, they met another American doctor, Kristin Austin, from Seattle, who had recently come to Gondar and was wondering how to spend her year; the cervical cancer project was something she could sink her teeth into. On that first trip, Carpenter and Frengle-Burke trained 17 medical providers in how to use the VIA method and how to treat abnormal tissue with one of two procedures: cryosurgery (or cryo), which involves using liquid nitrogen to freeze the cervix and kill the virus, or LEEP (loop electrosurgical excision procedure), which uses a thin, low-voltage electrified wire loop to cut out abnormal tissue. For severe cases, a hysterectomy would be necessary. Once the program was up and running, it wasn’t long before word spread and Ethiopian women were traveling to Gondar, sometimes from distances of 200 to 400 miles, for treatment. Fingers crossed there would be no power outages, wire-eating rats, or malfunctioning CO2 tanks to turn them away. A Win for Women’s Health Fast forward to October 2015, when Carpenter and Frengle-Burke returned to Ethiopia to check on the program, bring supplies, and meet with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health to discuss future projects. In the year that had passed, the Gondar hospital had screened over 1,000 women, treated over 400 with either cryo or LEEP, and performed 30–40 hysterectomies. (Normally, the cancer rate would have been 25–30 percent, says Carpenter, but many women had already been screened and referred by small local clinics.) The program was a success, but chal-
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Rachel sussman
Camp Huguenot
The oldesT living Things in The woRld
Register: huguenotstreet.org · July 18 – 22, 2016 · mon – Fri, 9 – 3 pm · ages 9 – 12
JanuaRy 23 - maRch 6 For over a decade, Rachel sussman has been developing the critically acclaimed project The oldest living Things in the world, for which she researches, works with biologists, and travels around the world to photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older.
SummerDance on Tour! JULY 25 - AUG 14, 2016 ~ ages 9-teens Our unique dance intensive awakens students to a wide variety of dance styles that expand their perceptions, dance vocabulary, and performance skills. Dancers perform at venues and festivals throughout the region.
CaravanKids Summer Workshop Week JULY 27 - AUGUST 16, 2016 ~ ages 4-8
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publicprograms Roaring Back
Friday, February 19 at 7 p.m. Dr. Joshua Ginsberg, President of the Cary Institute, will present an optimistic update on the world’s large carnivores. Lions, tigers, bears, wild dogs, and other iconic animals are often depicted as being on the brink of extinction. Discover conservation success stories and lessons learned. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Trees in Trouble
Friday, March 11 at 7 p.m. This important documentary reveals how invasive pests like the emerald ash borer and Asian longhorn beetle are wreaking havoc on America’s trees. Learn how community efforts can make a difference. Q&A with filmmaker Andrea Torrice and forest ecologist Gary Lovett to follow the film. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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lenges still arose—such as the problem of keeping stocked with supplies, since shipping to Ethiopia is so difficult. (When Carpenter and Frengle-Burke arrived, supplies had run out and the program had a waiting list.) And transportation issues meant that follow-up with patients was basically nonexistent. Whether at home or abroad, making a difference with medicine for underserved populations has its obstacles. In the US, the hurdles come mainly from bureaucracy, says Carpenter; in Ethiopia, it’s infrastructure—basic, everyday things that we in the West take for granted, like electricity and cars. Both she and Frengle-Burke work with high-need populations at their day jobs at home: Carpenter has launched a house-call service for elderly and hospice patients on Medicaid, spending her days driving around Ulster County visiting housebound and disabled people, while Frengle-Burke works at the Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center, a community health and urgent care clinic in Newburgh. “It’s a lot easier to make changes [in Africa],” says Frengle-Burke. “They have so many needs there, and we can make much more of an impact doing what we do.” Collaborating with doctors in Gondar, she was struck by their work ethic. “The physicians there don’t have the same lifestyle or salaries as they do here, though they have the same hours,” she says. “It’s impressive to see them working so hard. They’re not living large.” The differences in lifestyle appeared even more stark through the eyes of their children: On Go Doc Go’s first trip to Gondar in 2014, Carpenter brought her 14-year-old son, Julian, and Frengle-Burke took her 12-year-old daughter, Amelia. The two kids had the chance to spend a day at a local school and even teach an English lesson; they also visited a few families’ homes. “One of my favorite things was watching [Amelia] see how people could live with so few material belongings, yet also be incredibly happy. The [Ethiopian] children were running around and smiling,” says Frengle-Burke. Of course, not everything was rosy: Amelia also visited a fistula repair clinic, where teen and preteen girls like herself were being treated for the complications of delivering babies before they were fully grown, leading to obstructions and injuries that left them incontinent, and often ostracized from their families and communities that had rejected them. “It was intense to have my daughter see that, but also pretty amazing for her to learn about relevant and substantial problems that kids don’t often think about when they’re 12 or 13.” (After the trip, says their mothers, both Julian and Amelia have an intense desire to see the world—and the more exotic the destination, the better.) Code Blue for American Medicine For Carpenter, working in Africa underscores not just the advancements but also the shortcomings of our country’s healthcare system—its bloated, wasteful spending; its tendency to overscreen and overtreat patients; and its insistence on keeping sick people alive through any means necessary, even when quality of life has gone out the window. “There is no way that our current system can handle our model of overtreatment,” she says. “What I have a hard time with is not just the money being spent, but the agony that people go through in their later years here, in the false belief or hope that they need just one more treatment or one more medication.What are we doing to our elderly? We’re pumping them up with more and more medications. It’s frightening.” In her palliative care house-call practice, called Nightingale Medical, Carpenter helps housebound patients edit down their list of unnecessary pharmaceuticals, keeping only those that will improve their daily life. She’s seen about 150 patients in less than two years, logging hundreds of miles in her Volkswagen Jetta—and likely saving Medicaid thousands of dollars by reducing hospital visits and fall risks for her elderly and hospice patients. “I’m hoping to get a coalition of people together in Ulster and Dutchess County to get funding so I can expand [the program],” says Carpenter. “My goal is to reproduce it as a model that can be used in lots of different places.” Go Doc Go, meanwhile, has gained supporters and is off and running. The Gondar program is saving the lives of women every day, and a similar program is in the works for two sites in Senegal and possibly a site in Cameroon as well. Money is still needed, of course, and Carpenter’s goal is to build the organization’s base so it can send volunteers out to field projects every six months or so. And while it’s not easy work, it feels great to be able to do it, says Frengle-Burke, who plans to return to Ethiopia this summer. Adds Carpenter, “In modern medicine, it isn’t so obvious how much good one is sometimes doing. This kind of work is so needed and so rewarding.” RESOURCES Go Doc Go Godocgo.org Nightingale Medical Nightingalemedical.org
Getting your bearings
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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.
Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy
Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net
Body Work Patrice Heber 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-8350
Counseling
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Mary Taylor, LCSW New Paltz, NY and the Upper West Side, NYC, www.creativeintelligence.org (212) 579 7955 My practice targets areas of most concern for the creative person. Psychotherapy, career counseling and peak performance methods are combined with experiential and energetic practices to cultivate flow and allow you to work effectively with your creative abilities. Peace of mind emerges when living from your own ‘creative space.’
Dentistry & Orthodontics Tischler Dental Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 www.tischlerdental.com
Dermatology Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-5273 www.medicalaestheticshv.com
Fitness Centers ClubLife Health & Fitness 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 320-7885 www.clublifefi t.com
Funeral Homes Copeland Funeral Home Inc.
Judith Elkin 2381 New Hackensack Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-6619 www.JudithElkinGriefSupport.com
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Health Coaching Take Control Health Coaching (845) 758-6067 www.takecontrolhealthcoaching.com
Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature 1129 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Fishkill, NY (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes54@gmail.com Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist
(AHG) and ARCB Certified Reflexologist offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.
Holistic Health Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT‚ Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 www.holisticcassandra.com
John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com
Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.
Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com
Retreat Centers
Kary Broffman, RN, CH
Garrison Institute
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Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.com Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Sharon Salzberg, Ali and Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez: People Who Care for People, March 4-6; and Special Event on March 17: Riyaaz Qawwali Concert with a pre-concert talk by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan. Dinner at 6pm; Talk & Concert at 7pm.
Hospitals Health Quest 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org
MidHudson Regional Hospital Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5000 www.westchestermedicalcenter.com/mhrh
Life & Career Coaching Peter Heymann (845) 802-0544 www.breakthroughwithcoachpete.com
Massage Therapy
Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org
Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Hot Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. Consultant: Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with healing statements for surgery and holistic approaches to heal faster!
Yoga Anahata Yoga 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY facebook.com/anahatakingston
Clear Yoga 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY www.clearyogarhinebeck.com (845) 876-6129 clearyogarhinebeck@gmail.com Iyengar yoga is a form of hatha yoga that promotes strength, flexibility, and stamina, as well as a more focused state of mind. It is suitable for people of all ages and experience, from yoga enthusiasts to athletes interested in building core strength.
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Riyaaz Qawwali Concert with talk by
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
March 17, 2016 Dinner at 6pm Talk & Concert at 7pm
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Few of the world’s traditional musics are as captivating as the 700-year old form of qawwali. With lively rhythmic cycles, gripping melodies and inspirational poetry, Riyaaz Qawwali weaves new songs and texts from Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, and other religions into the fabric of this venerable devotional music conveying a universal message of oneness and joy that transcends religious and political boundaries.
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
$50, dinner, talk & concert | $25, talk & concert only For tickets, visit garrisoninstitute.org/concert or call 845-424-4800
14 Mary’s Way, Route 9D at Glenclyffe, Garrison, NY
This engagement of Riyaaz Qawwali is made possible through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. www.m w idatlanticarts.org w.m
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THECENTERFORPERFORMINGARTS (845) 876-3080 • www.centerforperformingarts.org ATRHINEBECK For box office and information:
And Then They Came for Me
You Can’t
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February 5-7
February 12-21
8pm Fri & Sat • 3pm Sun Tickets: $20/$10 at door for students with current i.d.
8pm Fri & Sat • 3pm Sun Tickets: $24/$22
Readings by women and men edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle to benefit The Grace Smith House, some featuring original choreography by Leighann Kowalsky.
Feb. 26-28 8pm Fri & Sat 3pm Sun Tickets: donations accepted
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Super Circus Stuff with Lisa Lou February 6 Stinky Cheese Man the Musical February 13
Mr. Pennygraff’s Cirkus Sideshow Spectacle February 20 Bubble Trouble February 27
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EVENT PREVIEWS & LISTINGS FOR FEBRUARY 2016
Jared Handelsman's Driving Around is part of the "Beautiful Nonsense" exhibit at RoCA.
If Nonsense Is Beauty, Is Beauty Nonsense? Keetra Dean Dixon specializes in impossible symmetrical objects: a cigarette with two filters, one at each end (Every Breath You Take); a balloon with two openings (Dubloon). Peter Iannarelli offers a similar concept: two hammers joined at the “face.” (The face is the part of the hammer you hit the nail with.) Steve Rossi’s “Reciprocal Ladder to Roll” is a circular red ladder, seen feet in diameter, designed to be rolled down the street. All these self-contradictory objects appear in “Beautiful Nonsense,” a show at the Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack starting February 13. The artworks tend to fall into two categories: the rural and the urban. The rural are often homemade. Paul McMahon’s Bouncy Bench consists of a plank of wood supported by two coiled springs. Driving Around is Jared Handelsman’s puzzling photograph of a pickup truck caught in a circular trench. In fact, Handelesman dug the trench himself with a backhoe, and dropped in the truck. The “urban” items, on the other hand, look like they were fabricated in a factory. Katerina Kamprani, a designer in Greece, produces sleek, anonymous pieces—a green coffee cup with a horizontal handle, a fork with oneinch-thick tines—that resemble impersonal riddles. Some of the works show immense technical skill, such as Livia Marin’s melted teapot, from her “Broken Things” series. Half of the pot has become a puddle, still imprinted with its blue Chinese-style pattern. Myra Mimlitsch-Gray’s spoon with an extended handle—a spoon that has been stretched like taffy—may be quoting my favorite Salvador Dali painting, Agnostic Symbol, which shows a 20-foot-long spoon reaching toward a mysterious stone, then bending around it. “Beautiful Nonsense” is often funny. The artworks function the way a joke does: the setup, then the punchline. There is an affinity to pranks, like the ones advertised in comic books in the 1960s: pepper chewing gum, the “joy buzzer,” whopee cushions.
These pieces reach to the heart of the question, “What is art?” The answer: art is a fork you can’t eat with. The absurd object is most closely associated with Dadaism, the anarchistic art movement which began in Zürich in 1917. But Dada must be updated from time to time. To begin with, the state-of-the-art absurdities of the 1920s look quaint and grandmotherly today. Most of the artists represented here are from the Hudson Valley, but a number are international. Sculptors from Spain, England, Greece, Brazil, and Germany are represented. Absurdism, it turns out, is a universal language. The show began with an idea. The curator, artist Norm Magnusson, explains, “I was thinking of moments in our lives when you are taken out of our perceptual surefootedness, when you wake up in a strange bed in a strange town and for a second don’t know where you are.” Magnusson is best known for his faux history markers, which often include subtle political satire. Many of these signs appear in the Hudson Valley. The absurd object can have a political dimension. “Joy Taylor did a piece that’s one of my favorites: a dustpan made out of steel wool,” observes Magnusson “For me, it’s a home run, because it first takes you out of your ordinary relationship to ordinary objects, and then interjects this other commentary, which is the abrasiveness of domestic life for a woman.” The Rockland Center for the Arts is also showing “Winter Theorems,” a collection of fanciful mixed-media drawings by Kingston artist Kevin Paulsen, many of them on “foxed” paper (i.e. paper dipped in tea). “Beautiful Nonsense” and “Winter Theorems” will appear at the Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack February 13-April 3. (845) 358-0877; Rocklandartcenter.org —Sparrow
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MONDAY 1 FILM
The Three Stooges Film Fest 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Detox & Transform Body & Mind: A 21 Day Group Cleanse 6-8pm. $100 +$235 detox juice in advance/$185. Awaken awareness, and experience a cleansing journey of healing, selfdiscovery, and transformation in which you learn to detox your body, clear your mind, and feed your soul. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713. 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.
MUSIC
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys 7pm. Zydeco. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Sip & Paint for a Cause 6:30-9pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & relaxation to help us raise money to support Raising HOPE: Women Mentoring Women to Success. Christina’s Restuarant, Kingston. Vinevangogh.com.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Readings: Translation as an Art 5:15pm. Readings of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish texts in their original tongue and in translation by Vassar students. Translations and performances have been prepared with the help of the language fellows from the participating departments led by Lea Espinoza and Yaroslava Abramova. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
MUSIC
Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Songwriter Sessions at The Falcon Underground Hosted by Casey Erdmann 7pm. A creative showcase for the singer/ songwriters of the Hudson Valley. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 8pm. Brazilian jazz. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Syracuse/Siegel Duo Featuring Special Guests 9pm. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969.
First Thursdays in the Archives First Thursday of every month, 12-2pm. Welcoming visitors to learn more about the library’s special collections. These tours provide an insider’s glimpse at rare menus and documents, as well as sneak peeks of newly discovered materials. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430. Tom Lake: The Lives and Legends of Hudson River Fish 6-7pm. Long Dock Park, Beacon. Scenichudson.org.
MUSIC Devin Daversa 7pm. Covers. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Donna the Buffalo 8pm. $35/$25. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Dweezil Zappa and the Zappa Plays Zappa Band 8pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
TUESDAY 2 BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Healthcare Open House 1-4pm. Employers who are scheduled to attend include The Institute for Family Health, Health Alliance, Normann Staffing, AMPM Homecare & Companions, Any-Time Home Care, Inc., and Ten Broeck Commons. Ulster Works Career Center, Kingston. 340-3170.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
LITERARY & BOOKS
Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys 7pm. Zydeco. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Entry Level Ensemble Workshop 4-6pm. $400. For middle school students. Through April 5. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459. Hook Up a Hat 11am-1pm. $40. Join Drop Forge & Tool with teacher and crafter extraordinaire Cal Patch to learn a simple crocheting formula. This technique enables you to make hats for any size head, in any gauge! Learn to work in the round, from the top down, and design any shape of hat you wish. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. Dropforgeandtool.com/workshops-list/.
WEDNESDAY 3 LECTURES & TALKS
Tales of the Titanic 6:30-7:30pm. Don Fraser, educator at Staatsburgh State Historic Site (Mills Mansion). Staatsburgh’s owners, Ruth and Ogden Mills, had tickets to sail on that ill fated trip. Mrs. Mills’ cousin, John Jacob Astor, was the richest man to die in the sinking. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580 ext. 1007.
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Oceans Apart Opening reception March 5, 4pm-6pm Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham. (518) 392-3336. 100/$100 Exhibit raffle and reception, February 13, 5pm-7pm Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
DANCE
Anna Mayta Fusion Dance Class 7:30-8:30pm. $60/6 week session or $15 dropin. African, Classical Indian, Flamenco. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. 454-4525.
LECTURES & TALKS
Nathan Schram: Music in the Prisons 4pm. A presentation by violist Nathan Schram about MUSICAMBIA, a New York-based initiative working toward establishing a network of music programs within prisons and jails in the United States. The program is currently active in Sing Sing. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Kissing Joy As It Flies: A Journey in Search of Healing & Wholeness. 7pm. A leading healing arts practitioner of acupuncture and herbal medicine for over three decades, Jason Elias shares his astonishing quest for personal healing while learning the art of healing others in his book. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
Beginner Swing Dance Classes $85/four week series. With professional instructors Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. 4-week series. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
Chronic Disease SelfManagement Program 10am-12:30pm. This workshop is for anyone who deals with a chronic or ongoing health condition and for caregivers who want to learn how to self-manage and take control of their disease management to achieve or maintain an active and fulfilling life. 6-week program. Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie. 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. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
FRIDAY 5 ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS
Charles Busch: “The Lady at the Mic” Prior to its world premier in late February at Lincoln Center, part of its acclaimed American Songbook Series, Charles Busch’s brings his new show, “The Lady at the Mic,” to Helsinki Hudson on February 21 for a sneak preview performance. Tony nominee, recipient of a Drama Desk Lifetime Achievement Award, actor, playwright (“Vampire Lesbians of Sodom,” “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”), and drag legend, Busch’s latest production pays tribute through song and personal reminiscence to five extraordinary women of the American stage: Elaine Stritch, Polly Bergen, Mary Cleere Haran, Julie Wilson, and Joan Rivers. Busch is joined by longtime musical director and pianist Tom Judson for “The Lady at the Mic.” Tickets are $60. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com
NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. The Pandorica Restaurant, Beacon. Vinevangogh.com.
SPIRITUALITY A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THURSDAY 4 HEALTH & WELLNESS
First Thursday Singer Songwriter Series 7-9pm. Hosts Maureen and Don Black welcome Kimberly and Bruce Hillenbrand, Steve and Terry Massardo, and Terry Seely to the Cafe stage. Come enjoy a tasty meal while listening to original songs by these talented artists. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Folk-Rock Quintet Donna the Buffalo 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Jane Siberry with special guest Kelly Flint 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Sultans of String 7pm. Folk jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Movement & Strength 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.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
KIDS & FAMILY
Death Takes a Cruise 7pm. Dinner theater performance by ACME Mystery Co. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
A Thursday Morning in the Nursery/ Kindergarten 9:30-11:30am. Experience a typical morning in an accredited Waldorf Early Childhood classroom. Bake bread, watch a puppet show, and talk to faculty while children enjoy creative play. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. Gmws.org.
LECTURES & TALKS Beyond (Post)Modern Theories: Alternative Approaches to Art and Craft 7pm. $15. A lecture by Zvi Svir, painter and co-founder of the neuKUNSTschule in Basel, Switzerland. Inky Editions, Hudson. Newartschoolusa.org.
Milkweed Open House 7-9pm. Milkweed is a new, interdisciplinary art space and open studio dedicated to collaboration and communitybuilding. Milkweed, Sugar Loaf. milkweedsugarloaf@gmail.com
THEATER
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Holistic Self-Care Class 7-8:30pm. Sponsored by The Rondout Valley Holistic Health Community. Ayurvedic Health of She:Womyn With Lauryn Bellafiore. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 8456870880. Orange County 4-H Fly Tying Program 7-8:30pm. $20 4H member/$40 non-member and adults. Fly tying is the art of tying string, yarn, feathers, & other materials to a fish hook so it resembles food that fish eat. Orange County 4-H/Gander Mountain, Middletown. 344-1234.
Cabaret Night 6-9pm. $10-$30. Members of the Vassar College Choir, Women’s Chorus, and Madrigal Singers hold a Cabaret Fundraiser to benefit their upcoming March 2016 tour to Cuba. Among the attractions are a silent auction, tasty food, and outstanding musical theater, jazz, and piano music. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. Guitarist Billy Gibbons 8pm. $110/$95. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Jay Collins & The Kings County Band 7pm. Roots rock & jazz. Opener: Silver City Bound. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Orlando Marin Orchestra 8am-10:30pm. $15. The golden era of mambo lives. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. 914-737-1701 8pm. Latin. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill, United States. 9147371701. Salted Bros 9:30pm. Blues. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
THEATER
The Weir 8pm. $20/$17 Friends/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Healing Circle to Nourish Your Soul 6:30-8pm. $35. A sacred circle to connect, explore and expand. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. (646) 387-1974.
SATURDAY 6 DANCE
Hudson Valley English Dance 7:30-10:30pm. $10 adults/ $5 students. Enjoy dancing to traditional tunes played by local musicians. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 679-8587. Swing Dance 7:30-10:30pm. $10. Basic lesson at 7:30 with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. MAC Fitness, Kingston. 853-7377.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Teatown’s Hudson River EagleFest 9am-4pm. $13. Join Teatown for their 12th Annual Hudson River EagleFest featuring bird walks, unique interactive and educational opportunities with eagles, guided and independent eagle viewings, children’s activities and storytelling, bus tours to viewing sites, and participation from 25 environmental organizations. This year’s event will include performances by local musical acts including Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, Tom Chapin. Croton Point Park, Croton. (212) 205-6632.
FILM
Jack of the Red Hearts 2pm. Screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Janet Grillo. Sponsored by Woodstock Film Festival. Upstate Films, Woodstock. 679-6608.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Healing Music Meditation First Saturday of every month, 4-5pm. $15 (or class card). Bring your body and soul back to harmony through live healing music. Find your mind clear and at ease as you are enveloped in the vibrations of gongs, singing bowls, drums and more. A fabulous way to deepen your meditation practice or simply relax. Bodhi Spa, Yoga & Salon, Hudson. 518-828-2233.
MUSIC ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER
Eleanor Friedberger performs at the Bearsville Theater on February 20.
Fresh From the Furnace “You can’t even remember how he entered your life he’s been so omnipresent,” Eleanor Friedberger says the morning the news broke of David Bowie’s unexpected passing, two days after his 69th birthday. “I’ll never understand how brilliantly he and Tony Visconti planned it, or not. But I think it was the most beautiful and magnificent way to go.” It was difficult to talk about anything but the loss of our beloved Thin White Duke the day we found out he had succumbed to an 18-month battle with liver cancer. In the case of Friedberger, it was an oddly fitting topic of conversation, given her stunning recent release New View (Frenchkiss Records). The album displays a sense of warmth you might get from the Starman’s sweeter side. Recorded in Germantown with the Brooklyn-based band Icewater as her backing group, the 12 tracks find the Chicago native cutting closer to the cloth of rock purity than anything she’s done in her 15 years in the business, both as a solo act and alongside her brother Matthew as The Fiery Furnaces. She doesn’t cite Bowie as a direct influence on this LP, but admits the underrated beauty of Dark Horse Records-era George Harrison was, in fact, a primary creative touchstone in shaping the fabric of these songs. “As a singer, I’ve always been drawn to voices,” Friedberger says. “And with George Harrison, I just feel so connected to his voice. It’s so comforting. This time last year I went to LA, because I wasn’t quite mentally prepared to spend a winter in Upstate, New York. [Friedberger lives part-time in Ulster County.] A couple of my bandmates wanted to move to California, so we were all up for going and we went for a few months to work on some of my new songs. And while I was there I was staying at a friend’s house who
had this great box set of later George Harrison stuff. I brought the CD of his self-titled album in the car with me one day driving to practice, and ‘Love Comes to Everyone’ comes on and I’m thinking to myself, ‘How have I not heard this song before?’ I wound up listening to it like a hundred times (laughs). And Cloud Nine, that was my childhood right there. I remember putting on concerts and lip synching to that album.” Meanwhile, frequent visitors to Minnewaska State Park in New Paltz will definitely find themselves doing a double take on the landscape graced by Friedberger’s presence on the gorgeous cover of New View. “We shot that up at Peter’s Kill,” she says. “It’s so beautiful out there. That’s one of my walks I take. It’s like 30 minutes uphill and then you arrive at this amazing flat rock formation that just looks out toward the Catskills.” Yet while she’s a resident of the area, Friedberger’s upcoming show at Bearsville Theater marks only the second time she’s played in the Hudson Valley area since the Furnaces performed in the Campus Center of Bard College back in 2009 when the sibling duo were touring behind their seventh studio album I’m Going Away. “I played in Hudson in a little bar my friends opened called The Half Moon,” she says. “But aside from that I haven’t played in Ulster before, and I’m so excited. Not just because of the beauty and the history of that Bearsville stage, but also the fact that I can drive home afterward.” Eleanor Friedberger plays the Bearsville Theater on February 20 at 9pm. Big Thief opens. Tickets are $15. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com. —Ron Hart 2/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 83
KIDS & FAMILY
Bring Your Child to the Library Day 11am. Listen to a story about libraries and then learn how to use the library. All ages welcome. Town of Ulster Public Library, Kingston. 338-7881. Saturday Social Circle First Saturday of every month, 10am-noon. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship.New Baby New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0624.
LECTURES & TALKS
4 Chaplains Day Program 2pm. The Hall of Honor will commemorate the sacrifice of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives on February 3, 1943. The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765. Armchair Travel Series: Iceboating on the Hudson River Then and Now 3-5pm. $10/$5 members. A group of weatherhardened ice yachters cling to the traditions of a centuries old sport on the Hudson River, despite the looming threat of climate change. Brian Reid from Hudson River Ice Yacht Club will present historical photos of ice boats, and set up his ice boat for viewing in the parking lot. Olana State Historic Park, Hudson.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Viewing Station for EagleFest 9am-4pm. Find breathtaking vistas and viewing opportunities from the Belvedere overlooking the Hudson River. There will be eagle spotters from Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary with scopes to assist you, and a small fire for hand-warming. Grab a free, keepsake map and head on to the next viewing station for a fun day of searching for our national bird. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
THEATER
Branagh Theatre: The Winter’s Tale in HD 1pm. $17. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company: The Winter’s Tale in HD 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Weir 8pm. $20/$17 Friends/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Don Sparks accompanied by Dan Bonis 2pm. Opening act Stuart Kabak. Contemporary, singer-songwriters. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791. Just Dance 2:30-4:30pm. $10. DJ activated non-stop contagious expression. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444. Marji Zintz 11am. Acoustic. Zephyr, Pine Hill. 254-8024 8:30pm. Acoustic. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760. Sari Schorr Featuring Chris Bergson 7pm. Blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ulster Chamber Music Series 3-5pm. $25/$20 seniors/Under 18 free. The Ulster Chamber Music Series opens its 48th season with the renowned Manhattan String Quarte. Termed a ‘national treasure’ by the
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
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.
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Detox & Transform Body & Mind: A 21 Day Group Cleanse 6-8pm. $100 +$235 detox juice in advance/$185. Awaken awareness, and experience a cleansing journey of healing, selfdiscovery, and transformation in which you learn to detox your body, clear your mind, and feed your soul. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.
NIGHTLIFE
Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for painting, drinks & relaxation. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. Vinevangogh.com.
SPIRITUALITY
New Moon Manifestation 7-8:30pm. $10/newcomers. Join us as we come together to manifest our heart’s desires with the creative energies of the New Moon. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
TUESDAY 9 FILM
Beacon Film Society Presents: Song of Lahore 8-10pm. $10. With its ancient palaces and stately gardens, the Lahore of Pakistan’s 1947 independence was a haven and a muse for musicians, artists, and poets. Today, this vision of Lahore exists only in myth. One man is on a mission to bring it back. Q&A with co-director Andy Schocken following the screening. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. 418-3731.
MUSIC
The CBC Trio 8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Concert by the Vassar Ensembles 8pm. The Vassar College Orchestra performs music by Norman Dello Joio, Charles Ives, and Prokofiev. The Mahagonny Ensembles perform a première by alumnus Robinson McClellan ’99. Eduardo Navega, Jaylin Remensperger ’17 and Joseph Sopchak ’16, conductors. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. ChoralFest 2pm. Cappella Festiva Treble Choir performs in a joint concert with the Vassar College Women’s Chorus in a celebration of music for treble voices. Music of Jim Papoulis, Eleanor Daley, Carson Cooman, and the regional premiere of a new work by Moira Smiley. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Darlene Love 8pm. $48-$68. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. David Temple 7pm. $20. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348. Django Reinhardt & the French Salon 5pm. Jazz. Millbrook Free Library, Millbrook. 677-3611. Groovy Tuesday Band 8pm. Acoustic. Pamela’s Java Hut, Fishkill. 896-1261. Joe Louis Walker Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Keith Newman 8pm. Acoustic. The Publik House, Ellenville. Thepublikhouseny.com. Maggie Rothwell 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. Mamalama 7:30pm. $6/$5 members. Followed by open mike. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884. Open Rehearsal: Mahagonny Ensembles 11am. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. Professor Louie & The Crowmatix 7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Soul Purpose 8pm. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston. The Trapps 9-11:30pm. Sean Schenker, Warren Gold, Jason Sarubbi, Seth Moutal, and John Burdick display their unique singer/songwriter sound. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
LECTURES & TALKS
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. Orange is the New Black: An Evening with Piper Kerman 8pm. Author Piper Kerman, whose memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in Women’s Prison inspired the award-winning Netflix television series of the same name, will deliver the annual Alex Krieger ’95 Memorial Lecture. Includes a question and answer session and a book signing following the talk. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
MUSIC Beefsteak Dinner at the CIA Beef, beer, brass bands, and gluttony—if that’s your jam, then listen up, the third annual Beefsteak dinner is on February 6 at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. A little historical context: Beefsteak dinners originated in New York City in the late 1800s as celebratory meals for the working class and were also held by organizations as fundraisers. In the early days, Beefsteaks were raucous men-only, all-you-can-eat events, with diners sitting on crates and eating with their fingers—no utensils were provided. Not to worry, however, as the CIA has updated the event to modern dining standards and knives and forks will be provided. Even the ladies are invited. Pre-registration required, tickets are $150. (845) 451-1011; Americanbountyrestaurant.com/events.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Beginning Microsoft Word 9:30-11am. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Watercolor Painting Class 9:30am-12:30pm. $150 series/$30 per class. Taught by Mira Fink. Mira Images Studio, Stone Ridge. 338-6503.
SUNDAY 7 BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Newburgh Swap Meet 10am-3pm. $10/$5 children. Motorcyclepedia, Newburgh. 569-9065.
FILM
The General 3pm. One of Buster Keaton’s most beloved silent films. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
KIDS & FAMILY
First Sunday School: A Unique Buddhist Oriented Class 12:30-2pm. A Unique Buddhist Oriented Class for children ages 5+ and their families. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
LECTURES & TALKS
Thomas Cole and the Ohio Statehouse 2pm. $9/$8 members. Robert D. Loversidge, Jr., FAIA. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. 518-943-7465.
MUSIC
Attacca Quartet 3pm. Works by Haydn, Richard Wilson, and John Adams. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis 10am-1pm. Jazz blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Boston Globe, they will present a program of Mozart, Ives and Brahms. Church of the Holy Cross, Kingston. 340-9434.
THEATER
NT Live: Donmar Warehouse—Les Liasons Dangereuses 1-4pm. $21/$18 members. In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’ novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalised the world. Two hundred years later, Christopher Hampton’s irresistible adaptation swept the board, winning the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play. Josie Rourke’s revival now marks the play’s thirty year anniversary. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022. The Weir 2pm. $20/$17 Friends/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
MONDAY 8 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. ENJAN is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). New Progressive Baptist Church, Kingston.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Chuang Yen Monastery Chinese New Year Blessing Ceremony 10am-3pm. Free Donation. The ceremony will begin with a blessing speech delivered by the Abbot, followed by chanting services led by the monastery’s clergies. In the afternoon, the monastery’s clergies will tie the Auspicious Blessing Threads to all participants. Chuang Yen Monastary, Carmel. 225-1819.
Jesse Lége & Bayou Brew 7pm. Zydeco. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Soul Brass Band & Funky Dawgz Brass Band 8pm. Jazz. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Financial Aid 101 6:30-7:30pm. The ins and outs of Financial Aid presented by the Ulster County Community College. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Intermediate Swing Dance Class 6:30-7:30pm. $85. 4-week class. Intro to swing dance performance class at 7:30pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-7578. Tea & Stones Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Each month we explore a different stone from our vast collection. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
WEDNESDAY 10 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. ENJAN is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie.
DANCE
PoTown Swing Special Live Music Edition 7:30-10pm. The Big Band Sound will be live in the Aula in Ely Hall. East Coast Swing/ Lindy Hop. Open to all! No partner necessary! Come to dance or just to watch/ listen. Beginner lesson at 7:30pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Https://facebook.com/ events/928523707232125/.
KIDS & FAMILY
Teen Advisory Board Meeting Second Wednesday of every month, 4-5pm. Free. Do you need to fulfill volunteer hours? Come to this monthly meeting to volunteer and advise the library on what teen programs, teen books, music and movies we should be looking at. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580 ext. 1003.
MUSIC
Candlebox 8pm. $32.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Kurt Henry 8pm. Singer-songwriter. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
MUSIC HELENA BAILLIE & IVA BITTOVA
Helena Baillie, Iva Bittova, and the Bard String Quartet perform on February 13.
Classical Collision Cool things happen in music when cultures collide. Composers Bela Bartok and Leos Janacek both had this in mind when they veered from the haughty conservatory world to mine the indigenous folk music of their native Eastern Europe. Along with the music of each, the very precept of ethno-musical fusion will be celebrated on February 13, when Czech vocalist and violinist Iva Bittova and English-born violinist Helena Baillie join the Bard String Quartet for “Folk Tales and Myths: Travels Through Hungary and Beyond,” a concert at the Hudson Opera House presented by Baillie’s Classics on Hudson organization. “This will be the first time that Helena and I have performed together,” says Bittova. “So it’s very exciting.” Bittova, who was profiled in the April 2014 issue of Chronogram, is an occasional actor as well as a musician whose distinct avant-garde approach encompasses not only classical music and the folk styles of her regional homeland, but opera, experimental rock, and jazz as well. She came of age as a participant of Prague’s politically dissenting, psychedelic underground arts scene, which thrived from the 1960s through the 1980s despite the iron hand of the Iron Curtain. Dunaj, the art rock band Bittova cofounded in 1986, brought her outside fame and collaborations with English musicians Fred Frith and Chris Cutler and American players Marc Ribot, George Mraz, Tom Cora, Don Byron, Hamid Drake, Bill Frisell, Bobby McFerrin, and the Bang on a Can collective. She has been a resident of Rhinebeck since 2007. Baillie, who doubles on viola, was raised in London and makes her home in the
Hudson area. A Bard College artist in residence and member of its violin faculty, she has performed throughout Europe and the US and collaborated with Pinchas Zukerman, Midori, the Tokyo String Quartet, and the Beaux Arts Trio. An international prizewinning instrumentalist, Baillie performs frequently at prisons and appears on behalf of Music Kitchen, a program that brings together top musicians to share the inspirational, therapeutic, and uplifting power of music with disenfranchised New Yorkers. In 2015, she became co-artistic director of the newly revived Classics on Hudson association. Performing with Bittova and Baillie at this month’s concert will be the student-staffed Bard String Quartet. In addition to Janacek’s Moravian folk-referencing works, the program will also include several of Bartok’s Slovak songs in special arrangements for voice and string quartet. Bittova knows her Bartok well, having recorded 44 Dueta pro Dvoje Housle (Rachot Behemot Records), an album of the composer’s violin duets with Dorothea Kellerova, in 1997. But so do several of her and Baillie’s accompanists for the evening; the quartet includes student musicians from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. “They have this music in their blood,” she says. “Folk Tales and Myths: Travels Through Hungary and Beyond” featuring Iva Bittova, Helena Baillie, and the Bard String Quartet, will be presented at the Hudson Opera House on February 13 at 7pm. Tickets are $35 and include a post-performance champagne reception with the artists. (518) 822-1438; Hudsonoperahouse.org. —Peter Aaron 2/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 85
Syracuse/Siegel Duo Featuring Special Guests 9pm. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THURSDAY 11 BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7-8:30pm. MECR is a group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
HEALTH & WELLNESS LECTURES & TALKS
Laura Heady: Hudson Valley Wetlands: What Do We Have to Lose? 6-7pm. Long Dock Park, Beacon. Scenichudson.org.
KIDS & FAMILY
Wild World of Animals 6:30pm. With Bill Robinson. Red Hook Firehouse, Red Hook. 758-6575.
LECTURES & TALKS
Exhibiting America: Art Institutions and National Identity 1805–1913 5:30pm. Anna O. Marley, curator of historical American art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, has written extensively on American art and material culture from the colonial era to 1945. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5237. Leacture by Devdhutt Pattanaik: Appreciating Hinduism Through Stories 7-9pm. $25. Most Hindus appreciate their culture not through rulebooks or lectures by priests but through stories shared informally by family members. Devdutt Pattanaik, bestselling author of 30 books and over 600 columns on mythology, shares them and draws attention to their relevance in modern times. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008.
Phil Vassar 8pm. $60/$50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Second Friday Jam with The Acquaintances 8-11pm. The emphasis is on fun for both Jeff and Bob and the audience, with familiar, obscure, and original tunes and jams making the show. Special guest often show up and join in on the fun. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The THE BAND Band 7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Winter Tracking on Tremper Mountain with Jim Bruchac 5pm. $350. We will spend this weekend with Jim Bruchac—a master tracker who combines Native American philosophies, legends, and observation skills with modern scientific techniques. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.
MUSIC
Bebel Gilberto 8pm. Brazilian jazz. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. David Kraai 9pm-midnight. Great food, amazing drinks and fine country folk music. Birdsall House, Peekskill. (914) 930-1880. Open Mike Night with Jeff Entin 7-9pm. Jeff Entin welcomes musicians from all around the Hudson Valley to Open Mic night. Bring your instrument and talent to the stage or enjoy a tasty dinner listening to the music. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Preston Frank &Big Daddy Zydeco 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto 8pm. $48. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Will Hoppey 7pm. Acoustic. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Sip & Paint for a Cause 6-8:30pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & fun, to help raise money to support the American Heart Association. Ellenville Regional Hospital, Ellenville. Vinevangogh.com.
THEATER
Death Takes a Cruise 7pm. Dinner theater performance by ACME Mystery Co. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
FRIDAY 12 COMEDY
Amateur Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Signup online to perform. Rosendale Theater, Rosednale. $5. Rosednaletheatre.org.
DANCE
Dutchess County Singles Dance 8-11:30pm. $22. Lesson at 7:30pm. Music by Bronx Express, also a light dinner buffet with desert and coffee. Couples welcome. The Southern Dutchess Country Club, Beacon. Dutchesscountysingles.org. Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 7pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
FILM
Abbott & Costello Go to Mars (1953) 7:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. A Screening of Original Short Films 4pm. Vassar Filmmakers Club and the Film Majors’ Committee present a selection of student short films from the Vassar film community. Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
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.
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KIDS & FAMILY
Valentines Day Eve 6-9pm. $29/discounts for siblings and members. Drop the kids with us for V-Day Eve and enjoy a romantic (and crowd-free!) evening amongst adults. Poughkidsie, Poughkeepsie. 243-3750. Wayfinder Experience’s Living Legends 11am-9pm. $10-$40. Living Legends are oneday, 10-hour promotional events designed to give new players a taste of our programming. Ages 8+. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 481-0776.
LECTURES & TALKS
TalkAboutDying 2-5pm. Talk About Dying is a series of free community workshops that creates a supported forum for discussion of issues related to living and dying on the practical, emotional and spiritual planes in a supported and deep way. In this session, the discussion will focus on how to choose the right person to speak for you in challenging situations. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 657-7545.
LITERARY & BOOKS
How I Learned to Breathe Under Water: A Rite of Passage from Crippling Disability to a New Normal 7pm. Memoir presented by Lee Epstein. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Love and Heartbreak: An Alt-Valentine Reading & Conversation 4pm. With Sara Eckel, author, It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single and Lisa A. Phillips, author, Unrequited: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Romantic Obsession Moderated by Nina Shengold, author and Chronogram Books Editor. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000. Upstate Funk 6-8pm. An evening celebrating the recent launch of Upstate Diary, a pioneering publication focused on the creative possibilities that thrive outside of city limits. Darren Winston Bookstore, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-1890.
MUSIC
DanceFest! The Vanaver Caravan, the crown jewel of Hudson Valley grassroots dance and music troupes, has been presenting DanceFest! since 1992, bringing together the region’s diverse for a blockbuster evening of performance. The 24th annual DanceFest! takes place on February 27 at 6pm at Quimby Theatre at SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge. Special guests Natyanikethan School of Indian Dance are joined by 11 area dance studios, including Saugerties Ballet Center, D’Amby Project, Barefoot Dance Company, American Youth Ballet, New Paltz School of Ballet, New York Academy of Ballet, Rhinebeck Dance Centre, and many more. Tickets: $18 for adults, $12 for seniors/children 12 and under, are available through the individual schools and at the door. (845) 256-9300; Vanavercaravan.org.
LITERARY & BOOKS
The JB3 Trio 7-10:30pm. Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor. 534-4227. Kissing Joy As It Flies: A Journey in Search of Healing & Wholeness. 7pm. A leading healing arts practitioner of acupuncture and herbal medicine for over three decades, Jason Elias shares his astonishing quest for personal healing while learning the art of healing others in his book. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Mystery Book Discussion noon. Old Bones by Aaron Elkins. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
MUSIC
C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Contemporaneous presents Laws of Nature 7:30pm. $20/students free. Featuring a world premiere by Fjóla Evans and works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Kate Moore and Joanna Newsom. Murray’s Tivoli, Tivoli. 757-6003. The Ellington Effect: A Centennial Tribute to Billy Strayhorn 8pm. $40. Jazz. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Get The Led Out: The American Led Zeppelin Experience 8pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Jacqui Naylor Quartet 8pm. Jazz. 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. 914-737-1701. Marji Zintz 7pm. Acoustic. Chatham Brewing, Chatham. 5186970202.
SPIRITUALITY
Buddhism and Desire with Robert Glass 5pm. $350. Can there be a non-dual desire? If so, what are its characteristics, and how might we cultivate it in our lives? Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Introduction to Shamanism 7-9pm. $25. In this introduction to Shamanism, we will compare traditional shamanism to modern ideas. Pre-Registration is required. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
SATURDAY 13 ART GALLERIES & EXHIBITS
50 Beast Show & Sale 1-7pm. Jennifer Russell’s figurines. Creative Coop, Rosendale. 527-5672.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Beacon Second Saturday Second Saturday is a city-wide celebration of the arts. Galleries and shops stay open until 9pm, most of which are right along Main Street. Beaconarts.org Downtown Beacon, Beacon.
FOOD & WINE
New Paltz Winter Farmers’ Market Second Saturday of every month, 10am-3pm. All are welcome to come and shop for delicious local food items such as meat, eggs, root crops, greens, goat cheese, bakery items, maple syrup, heirloom seeds and more. New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 383-1761. Valentine’s Eve Paella Dinner 6-9pm. Starting with the preparation of the aromatic sofrito and cooking the saffron scented rice to combining everything in the paella pan, Sarah Jay will guide the group through the preparation of two variations—a chicken and sausage paella and a vegetarian paella. Valley Variety, Hudson. (518) 828-0033.
Albi Beluli 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Amy and Leslie Valentine’s Concert 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Barrelhouse Blues Band 8pm. Covers. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Blue Gardenia Quartet 6pm. Jazz. The Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinebeck. 876-0509. Blue Note Era Jazz Concert 7:30pm. $20/$10 students. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm-midnight. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps dole out two sets of the finest country rock this side of 1973. O’Neill’s Shire Pub, Delhi. (607) 746-8758. Ed Palermo Big Band’s Valentine Noise 7pm. Orchestral jazz rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Folktales and Myths: Travels through Hungary and Beyond 7pm. $35. Iva Bittová, the Moravian violinist, vocalist, singer, actor and dancer, joins violinist Helena Baillie in music by Janacek, and Bartok, including his Slovak songs in a special arrangement for voice and string quartet. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-4181. Get the Lead Out 8pm. $60/$55. Led Zepplin tribute band. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble 12-3pm. Led by Hudson Valley Jazz Festival director and drummer, Steve Rubin. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Jesse Lege and Bayou Brew 8pm. $10. Cajun. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Ladysmith Black Mambazo 8pm. $36/$26. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Live Society 9:30pm. Motown/R&B. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Mary Fahl 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. The Orchestra Now: Concert 3 8pm. $25-$35. Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director. The Orchestra Now’s inaugural season continues with Bruch’s rousing, folk-inspired Scottish Fantasy and Mahler’s sweeping and epic Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
OPERA "WE'VE GOT OUR EYE ON YOU"
Nkeiru Okoye's opera "We've Got Our Eye on You" is performed at SUNY New Paltz this month.
Myth Fussers Nkeiru Okoye can’t help laughing as she explains the over-the-top, outrageously oddball plot of her comic operetta “We’ve Got Our Eye on You.” “Modern opera can be silly, it can be very humorous,” Okoye, director of theory and composition at SUNY New Paltz, says. And silly and full of humor, “We’ve Got Our Eye on You” certainly is. With a nod to Monty Python and 1981’s Clash of the Titans, the operetta is set in ancient Greece and tells the story of the Graeae, three mythological sisters who are figuratively and literally man-hungry, and have one eye between them that they’re forced to share. Workshop performances of the opera will take place on March 1 at 8 pm and on March 5 at 3 pm at the Julien J. Studley Theater on the SUNY New Paltz campus. The catalyst for the plot—take a deep breath before reading further—occurs when Pythia, Oracle from Delphi, visits the Graeae and prophesies that a man bearing the mark of Zeus will be “known” (in the Biblical sense of the word) to all three. Meanwhile, Perseus, a would-be hero, attempts to find the Graeae and charm them into revealing the whereabouts of Medusa. After leaving the Graeae, Pythia encounters Perseus and warns him of the same prophecy, but he brushes it off since he is madly in love with another. As you can probably guess, Perseus’s faith in his own fidelity is not exactly well founded, and when his dedication to monogamy fails, all kinds of comic complications ensue. The operetta’s story and music is by Okoye, with libretto by David Cote. The workshop performance at SUNY New Paltz is directed by Susan Einhorn. It features a cast of students and professional mezzo-soprano, Patrice P. Eaton, who will be portraying the role of Oracle of Delphi. The performance will last about 60 minutes and though a workshop production, it will include full costumes and props. Prior to “We’ve Got Our Eye on You,” Okoye wrote the opera, “Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom,” which told the very serious story of the famous American hero. It was a successful project and one that consumed Okoye’s creative energies for several years. “When a project like that is over there’s kind of that sense
of, ‘Well, what do I do now?’ It’s sort of like this postpartum type thing,” Okoye says. At that time she was approached by fellow New Paltz professor Kent Smith. “He asked if I could write a small opera, like a one-act opera about sisterhood because he had three sopranos that he thought were ready for some type of opera experience,” she says. She loved the idea and knew she wanted to do something funny, but didn’t know what until she happened to catch a scene from Clash of the Titans in which three mythological sisters shared one eye. “There’s so much comedic potential there,” says Okoye. As she began to research the mythological basis for these characters, she also decided to turn the classic hero’s story on its head. “In most myths and most operas, the hero goes in and deflowers the virgin—that’s because men write those,” she says. She thought, “I’m totally not writing that story. What if the virgins decide they want something from the hero? And I just took it from there.” In the mythology on which the story is loosely based, the Graeae are old, monsterlike and according to lore not exactly easy on the eyes, but in this telling they’ve gotten younger and somewhat less ghoulish at least in appearance—they still sing gleefully in one number about how to properly cook the men caught in their mantrap. “We’ve Got Our Eye on You” is sexually charged but not sexually explicit. “In this entire thing I did not use the word ‘sex,’” Okoye says. The operetta is all innuendo and suggestion, and hides a social message among the laughs, one particularly resonant on a college campus. “There’s an anti-hooking-up message,” she says. “If you wait, true love will come to you.” “We’ve Got Our Eye on You” will be staged on March 1 at 8 pm and March 5 at 3 pm at Julien Studley Theater at SUNY New Paltz. (845) 257-7869; Newpaltz.edu/music/ concertseries.html —Erik Ofgang 2/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 87
NIGHTLIFE
Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 6-8:30pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. Bad Seed Cider House, Highland. Vinevangogh.com.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Eagle Watch Bus Tour 10am-1pm. $20/$15 members. Join the Delaware Highlands Conservancy and learn about eagles in our region, how they returned from the brink of extinction, and the habitat they need to thrive while you take a scenic drive with an expert guide on a heated bus and look for eagles. Reservations required. Upper Delaware Visitor Center, Lackawaxen, PA. 583-1010.
SPIRITUALITY
Meditation Intensive 9am-4pm. Meditation Intensive with Gurudev Nityananda, successor of the renowned meditation master Baba Muktananda, provides a unique opportunity to receive guidance, inspiration, and encouragement for one’s own spiritual practice by spending the day in his presence. All are welcome. Shanti Mandir, Walden. Shantimandir.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Joe Tobin 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. KJ Denhert & The New York Unit 7pm. Folk jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Monty Alexander & Frank Vignola with special guest Caterina Zapponi 7:30pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. The Orchestra Now: Concert 3 3pm. $25-$35. Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director. The Orchestra Now’s inaugural season continues with Bruch’s rousing, folk-inspired Scottish Fantasy and Mahler’s sweeping and epic Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Rhonda Denét & The Bad Cats 9:30pm. Soul. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Singer/Songwriter Marshall Crenshaw 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
TUESDAY 16 HEALTH & WELLNESS Free Holistic Healthcare 4-8pm. Free. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 687-2252.
LECTURES & TALKS Amazing African American Quilt History as Prelude 5:30pm. A self-taught, skilled crafter who uses cotton to explore political, religious, family and romantic themes, Kyra Hicks’s original story quilts are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City and the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
LITERARY & BOOKS Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Beginning Microsoft Word 9:30-11am. An introduction to Microsoft Word, which is used to create documents such as papers, letters, reports and more. Topics covered will include how to get started, edit, formatting, saving work, and printing. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Color Workshop with Christie Scheele 9am-4pm. $318. Through Feb. 15. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. How to Become More Profitable Using QuickBooks 9am-4pm. $49.95. Boardman Road Library, Poughkeepsie. 363-6432. Ikebana: The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging 1pm. $16. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030. Watercolor Painting Class 9:30am-12:30pm. $150 series/$30 per class. Taught by Mira Fink. Mira Images Studio, Stone Ridge. 338-6503.
Another Telepathic Thing 3pm. $12/$10 members/$6 children. A rare collaboration between Annie-B Parson, one of America’s leading dance theater choreographers, and Jonathan Demme, acclaimed film director. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. Roman Holiday (1953) 7pm. $7. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
FOOD & WINE
Rosendale Monthly Winter Farmers’ Market Second Sunday of every month, 10am2pm. Rosendale Farmers’ Market, Rosendale. 658-8348.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Valentine’s Day Love Yoga Flow 1-2:30pm. $45/couple. Followed by Champagne Mimosa Toast. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
MUSIC
Share the Love Valentine’s Day Concert 2-4pm. $15/$10 students and seniors. Performers will include John Cohen, Janice Hardgrove and Tim Pitt, Bill Molloy and Jennifer Dreaper; and teen acapella group The TempoMentals. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, Putnam Valley. 528-7280. Blair McMillen, Piano 4pm. Excerpts from Preludes by Claude Debussy, Mikrokosmos by Bela Bartok, and Makrokosmos Book 2 by George Crumb. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. The Blues Farm 7pm. Blues jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Gin Blossoms 8pm. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039.
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THURSDAY 18 ART
Potluck Slideshow 6:30-8:30pm. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.
FILM
Frozen 3pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
MUSIC
The Fab Four 8pm. $60/$55. Beatles tribute band. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Former Black Crowes Guitarist Jackie Greene 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Mark Henderson 7pm. Covers. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Samantha Fish 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Styx 7:30pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. The Thunderhead Organ Trio 8pm. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240. Thursday Night: Trio Mio 8-10:30pm. Mostly original music in either acoustic or electric formats. Fran Palmieri is the front man, singing most of the leads and playing rhythm guitar, Bruce Hildenbrand sings harmony, co-writes some of the originals and plays lead guitar. Robert Muller is the drummer/ percussionist and sings. Steve Massardo plays bass and adds harmony. Terri Massardo occasionally sits in on vocals, too. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Death Takes a Cruise 7pm. Dinner theater performance by ACME Mystery Co. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
FILM
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THEATER
SUNDAY 14 Fishkill Model Train and Railroad Hobby Show 10am-4pm. $7/$2 children. This show will feature the best in model train displays, memorabilia and related hobby items, for fun and for sale. Fishkill Recreation Center, Fishkill. 616-0931.
SPIRITUALITY
Soul Clap The vinyl resurgence has mainly been about albums, but for many record geeks the seven-inch, 45-RPM single remains the greatest format. Go for broke and give us your two best songs, hopefully under three minutes apiece and at an upbeat, danceable clip—and then make way for the equally great 45 that’s all cued up and ready to rip on turntable two. It’s a flawless, Zen-like medium that forms the booty-shaking backbone of Jonathan Toubin’s popular Soul Clap dance night and contest, which returns to BSP Kingston on February 13.”I guess it’s sort of a statement, but there’s a mixture of pragmatic reasons I only play original-issue 45s,” says Toubin, who specializes in gritty, grinding, and deepdigging ‘50s and ‘60s soul, R&B, and rock ‘n’ roll. “A lot of the music I play either hasn’t been reissued or, if it has, tends to be on rush-job compilations that don’t sound good. And mp3s, besides being intangible, sound even worse. A 45 that’s been done right can sound like the band is right there in the room.” Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. (845) 481-5158; Bspkingston.com Valentine’s Day Singer Showcase Brunch 12-3pm. The Valentine’s Singer Showcase returns to the Cafe. Enjoy a tasty brunch while listening to the music styling of several local singers. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. $20/$18 seniors/students and children free. Works by Khachaturian, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky will be featured along with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.24, Hiroko Sakurazawa, soloist. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
NIGHTLIFE
Brunch & Brush with Vine Van Gogh 11:30am-3:30pm. $120/couple. Umberto’s Mamma Marisa, Poughkeepsie. Vinevangogh.com. Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh: Valentine’s Day Event! 5:30-9:30pm. $175. Novella’s, New Paltz. Vinevangogh.com/product/gogh-together-sipand-paint-at-novellas-dinner-buffet-included/.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Valentine’s Day Gala $175. Featuring Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
MONDAY 15 OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Storm King School Information Session 10-midnight. Information sessions begin in the Walter Reade, Jr. Theater at 10:00 with brief welcoming remarks. During the tour, the group will learn about SKS’s academic, sports, arts, and service programs. Please wear comfortable shoes and outer wear. Storm King School, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-9860 ext. 210.
MUSIC
Il Volo 7:30pm. $75/$55/$45. Featuring Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Befriend Your Sewing Machine 10am-1pm. $60. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. Dropforgeandtool.com.
WEDNESDAY 17 KIDS & FAMILY
Winter Art Camp Through 2/19, 9am-3pm. $190/$350 for two. Ages 4 1/2-12. Winter at Omi is the cure for cabin fever! This action-packed three day camp includes 2D and 3D art projects, music and movement, sledding in The Fields Sculpture Park, special workshops with a visiting artist, storytelling, and play. Children bring a snack and lunch. Omi International Arts Center: Education Omi, Ghent. (518) 392-4747.
MUSIC
Robert Cray Band 8pm. Six-string blues rock legend. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Roots & Blues Sessions at The Falcon Underground 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Syracuse/Siegel Duo Featuring Special Guests 9pm. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Sip & Paint for a Cause 6:30-9pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & fun, to help raise money to support the Town of Washington Recreation Community Programming Fund. Millbrook Firehouse, Millbrook. Vinevangogh.com.
Library Knitters Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
FRIDAY 19 FILM
Spaceballs (1987) 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Book Discussion noon. The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791. Storytelling hosted by Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
Joel Gray 8pm. $90. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Scott Sharrard & The Brickyard Band 7pm. Blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Singer-Songwriter Showcase Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singer-songwriters and musicians at ASK GALLERY, 97 Broadway, Kingston 8-10:30 pm Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311. Sip & Paint for a Cause 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & fun, to raise money for the students at Kingston Catholic School. VFW Kingston, Kingston. Vinevangogh.com.
THEATER
Shakespeare’s Will 8pm. $10/$5 senior citizens, faculty, staff, alumni/students free. A solo performance by Tannis Kowalchuk of Vern Thiessen’s play. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4891. Wittenberg 8pm. $10. A performance reading of David Davalos’s play. ASK, Kingston. 338-0331.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Candle Making Craft 5:30-6:30pm. Using paraffin wax, we will use a simple paper cup mold to make colorful and sparkly candles. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580 ext. 1007. Find the Essence: A Regenerative WholeSystems Planning Workshop $299. Through Feb. 21. Spillian is proud to present international sustainability leaders from the consulting and coaching firm 7Group, LEED green building expert architect John Boecker and multiple Emmy Award-winning film maker Tom Keiter in a workshop on whole-systems, regenerative planning. Spillian Retreat Center, Fleischmanns. (800) 811-3351.
SATURDAY 20 COMEDY
Mayheim and Madness Invades the Art Society of Kingston 8-10pm. $15. Featuring Rich Shultis, Jared Whiteford, hosted by James Mattern. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0333.
DANCE
Freestyle Frolic 7:30-11:45pm. The Frolic is an all-ages dance party for dance lovers: a not-for-profit all-volunteer freestyle dance event in the MidHudson Valley. Frolic dances are alcohol free, smoke free, and drug free which keeps the focus on dancing. Dancers of all kinds attend. The Jungle, Kingston. 658-8319. Third Saturday Contra Dance Party Third Saturday of every month, 7:30-10:30pm. $10/$5 full time students. Dances are taught, if you are new try to get there on time; the earlier dances are easier. Somewhat like square dance, but always with live music which sounds like jazzy Celtic music! A caller leads dancers through a variety of easily learned and fun dances. St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050. West Coast Swing Dance Party 8-11pm. $10. A slower, smoother version of swing dancing, it’s danced to a range of music from blues and R&B to Contemporary and beyond. We start with a beginner friendly lesson then dance, dance dance! We have a very friendly and welcoming group of dancers. Blazin’ Dance and Fitness, Fishkill. 542-0280.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
The Healing Power of Meditation 2:30-4:30pm. A workshop with Nomi Bachar. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-1212.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Young Adult Book Discussion 1pm. Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
MUSIC
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabin Fever Cabaret 9pm. Cabaret, featuring a variety of circus, theater, comedy and musical entertainers. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Charles Busch 6-7:30pm. $40. Bridge Street Theatre is proud to present a very special sneak preview performance of Charles Busch’s new cabaret act “The Lady at the Mic.” Charles pays tribute in song and story to four cabaret legends (Elaine Stritch, Polly Bergen, Julie Wilson, and Mary Cleere Harran) as well as Joan Rivers. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006. The Conigliaro Consort 8-10:30pm. $10. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. 914-737-1701. Dennis Newberg 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. The Dylan Doyle Band 8-11pm. A unique musical interpretation that lies somewhere within the Delta of Rock, Blues, and Funk. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Jason Walker 8pm. Walker combines jazz, gospel, classical, and soul. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Lucky 5 8pm. $10. Hard-swinging jazz. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Ralphie May 8pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Ramon Santiago & La Orquestra Espada 8pm. Latin. 8-10pm. $25/$35. The full orchestra is comprised of 11 members, 4 horns, 3 percussion, bass, drums and vocals. Espada’s sound includes a wide range music, from original Salsa, Jazz and Brazilian rhythms to create a spicy brand of music. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. Soñando 7pm. Latin dance. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Beginning Microsoft Word 9:30-11am. An introduction to Microsoft Word, which is used to create documents such as papers, letters, reports and more. Topics covered will include how to get started, edit, formatting, saving work, and printing. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Sand Casting with Darren Fisher Learn small-scale sand casting with rings, pendants, and parts or elements using primarily silicon bronze. Techniques for finishing a casting, from filing to patination. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.
SUNDAY 21 DANCE
Swing Dance to Live Music Third Sunday of every month, 6:30-9pm. Beginners’ Lesson 6-6:30; band 6:30-9:00; sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571. Swing Dance to Crazy Feet 6:30-9pm. Beginners’ lesson at 6pm. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 255-0614.
FOOD & WINE
5th Annual Chocolate Lovers’ Brunch 12-3pm. Diamond Mills, Saugerties. 247-0700.
KIDS & FAMILY
Winter Solstice Ice Spectacular 4-7pm. $40. Professional ice skaters glide across Playhouse stage in a Ridgefield Academy Family Series performance like no other. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
MUSIC
Charles Busch 7pm. Sneak preview performance of Charles Busch’s new cabaret act “The Lady at the Mic.” Charles pays tribute in song and story to four cabaret legends (Elaine Stritch, Polly Bergen, Julie Wilson, and Mary Cleere Harran) as well as Joan Rivers. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
NIGHTLIFE
Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 3-5:30pm. $45. Join us for an afternoon of painting, drinks & relaxation. Piano Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. Vinevangogh.com.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Barrett Art Center 100 for 100 Annual Gala Locust Grove, Samuel Morse Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
THEATER
Wittenberg 8pm. $10. A performance reading of David Davalos’s play. ASK, Kingston. 338-0331.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Ballroom Dance Crash Course 1-4pm. $20 each/$45 all three. Swing 1pm, foxtrot 2pm, waltz 3pm. Take each section or entire series. La Maison du BienÊtre, Newburgh. Better Living Through Tarot 2-4pm. $20. In a safe, nurturing space, with playful but profound games and exercises, we will explore guidance from the Tarot for creating the most fascinating and joyful life possible. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
MONDAY 22 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. ENJAN is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). New Progressive Baptist Church, Kingston.
FILM
The Princess Bride 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Book Discussion 6:30pm. The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
WEDNESDAY 24
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Sip & Paint for a Cause 3-5:30pm. $45. Join us for an afternoon of painting & fun, to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Planet Pizza, Monroe. Vinevangogh.com.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Hike & Hops 10am-1pm. The Orange County Land Trust and Pennings Farm Market present Hike & Hops, a pairing that includes a scenic winter hike with local craft brews at Pennings Farm Market. Pennings Farm Market & Orchards, Warwick. Https://facebook.com/ events/1742860915937381/.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
2016 Vegetable Gardening A-Z 9:30am-noon. $95. Four Saturdays and Fri. March 18th. Dutchess County Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. Ccedutchess.org.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. ENJAN is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie.
MUSIC
Elsässer Anderson Nussbaum Trio 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Nick Moss Band 8pm. $15/$10. Roots music. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Syracuse/Siegel Duo Featuring Special Guests 9pm. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THURSDAY 25 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7-8:30pm. MECR is a group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
MUSIC
.38 Special 8pm. $87.50. Rock. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. David Kraai 7-10pm. David Kraai swings by to dole out two sets of fine country folk music. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.
NIGHTLIFE
Trivia at the High Falls Cafe 7:30-9:30pm. Come and test your knowledge for a fun night of trivia. Teams compete for first and second place prizes. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
THEATER
NT LIve: As You Like It 7-10pm. $21/$18 members. Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years, with Rosalie Craig (London Road, Macbeth at MIF) as Rosalind. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
FRIDAY 26 COMEDY
Comedy Showcase Night 9:30pm. 7 performers. Jennifer McMullen headlines. Rosendale Theater, Rosednale. $10. Rosednaletheatre.org.
DANCE
Swing Dance to The Gordon Webster Sextet 8-11:30pm. $15/$10 FT students. Beginners’ Lesson 8-8:30; band 8:30-11:30. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. 8:30-11:30pm. $15/$10 FT students. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
LECTURES & TALKS
Introductory Sessions 9-11am. Watch a short video about Waldorf Education, tour the school’s 11-acre campus, and speak to Administrators and faculty. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311.
MUSIC
The Bridge Jazz Festival 8pm. $40/$60. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Paul Green Rock Academy featuring Ed Mann 7pm. Orchestral jazz rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Twang-Rocker Sarah Borges 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Umphrey’s McGee 7:15pm. $30/$27 in advance. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
SPIRITUALITY
Shamanism Series 7-9pm. $75. In this three part series we will delve into a deeper understanding of the many uses of shamanic journeying. The classes will be Feb 26, March 11, March 25. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
SATURDAY 27 FAIRS & FESTIVALS
24th Annual DanceFest 7pm. $18/$12 children. Experience a world of dance with works presented by twelve of the Hudson Valley’s finest dance studios. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Deep AIR: Interdisciplinary Arts Reading Series 1-2pm. $10/$5 members. Readings followed by Q&A and a reception with tea & cake. Olana State Historic Park, Hudson. Laura Ludwig Presents Poetry and Performance Art 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
The Reunion Project feauring Chico Pinhiero 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Robin Baker and Breakaway 8-11pm. Local singer Robin Baker returns to the Cafe for a fun night of music and dancing. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Smithereens 8pm. $42.50. Pop-rock. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Fashion Show Fundraiser 6-8:30pm. $10/$25 VIP Pre-Show. The show supports students with autism at Center for Spectrum Services. See local celebrities, autism community members, Spectrum Services staff and families, and more modeling the latest and coolest new merchandise. The night includes complimentary food, door prizes, and beverages, raffles, and more. Woodstock Harley-Davidson®, Kingston. 366-2616. 19th Annual Women’s Studio Workshop Chili Bowl Fiesta 2-7pm. $5. Rosendale Receration Center, Rosendale. Wsworkshop.org.
SPIRITUALITY
Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup 3pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Exploring Abstraction with Jennie Nelson 9am-4pm. $255. Through Feb. 28. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Home Composting Class 1-3pm. $10. How to create quality compost from garden, lawn and kitchen waste. Dutchess County Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. Ccedutchess.org. HoneybeeLives Organic Beekeeping Class 10am-6pm. $200. This two-day class introduces students to Organic/Natural Beekeeping with a Biodynamic influence. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113. Intermediate Joinery with Pat Quinn Two-day workshop. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550. Learn to Swing Dance Workshop for Beginners 5:30-7pm. $25. Instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. La Maison du Bien-Être, Newburgh.
SUNDAY 28 MUSIC
The American String Quartet 3pm. $15/$10 senior citizens, faculty, staff, alumni/students free. Selections by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Tsontakis. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4891. Cowboy Junkies 8pm. $50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Dave Keyes Band 10am-1pm. Jazz rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble 12-3pm. Iron Forge Inn, Warwick. 986-3411. Leon Russell & Dave Mason 7pm. $34.50-$44.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Lise de la Salle, Piano 4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Open Mike with Featured Act Jim Barbaro 1:30pm. Open mike acts at 2:00. Feature act at 3:15. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
THEATER
NT LIve: As You Like It 1-4pm. $21/$18 members. Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years, with Rosalie Craig (London Road, Macbeth at MIF) as Rosalind. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
MUSIC
Bill Galanin 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. Corey Glover’s Soul Project 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Dar Williams 9pm. 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Keith Newman 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
MONDAY 29 MUSIC
Singer-songwriter Beth Hart 8pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
White Line Woodblock 9am-4pm. $330. Through March 2. With Anita Barbour. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
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Planet Waves BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
Photo by Eric Francis Coppolino
David Bowie: Memoir of When Sex Was for Fun
F
or a few weeks now, we’ve had the opportunity to grieve the loss of David Bowie, one of those rockers who seemed for all the world like a personal friend—and like someone destined to live forever. For me, that has meant appreciating what I learned from someone I consider one of my most significant teachers of life and art. And of sex. David Bowie had so blended into the landscape of culture that we forget when this gender-morphing, bisexual, polyamorous, potentially extraterrestrial glam rock star was shocking to the sensibilities of the Western world. I am sure when encountering so much as a photo of this seemingly bizarre weirdo, a good few people were assured that the end was near. They were right. Among the many things we can thank David Bowie for was taking his hammer and chisel to the concept of normal. When he was done, it had (at least for the moment) been sculpted down to size, the better to clear space for everyone else. If Jane’s Addiction got to make hay out the idea that nothing’s shocking, they have plenty to thank Bowie for, as does nearly every artist who knew about his work. Every kid who has ever dared to be different does as well, even though they may be hearing about him for the first time now that he’s gone. Bowie was a bold advocate for young people getting to be who they actually are, and to actually live our lives. In the song “Young Americans,” recorded in 1974, he asks, “We live for just these 20 years / Do we have to die for the 50 more?” As for those walking dead adults he’s referencing, he had earlier cautioned them in “Changes”: “And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds / They’re immune to your consultations / They’re quite aware of what they’re going through.” He knew just how to use his shock value for humor, style, beauty, fash90 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 2/16
ion, and art. Yet that was not the point. The point was advocating the right to exist. That, above all else, is why David Bowie was our friend. Standing up for young people, who are bestowed with exceedingly little power in our society, he became a reference point of trust and of respect for kids who felt the most outcast. The first recorded interview we have with him is from BBC in 1964, when at age 17 he was heading up the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long Haired Men. I’m not kidding. Somehow he got on TV with that, politely demanding an end to the insults and accusations that the world was projecting onto guys who liked to grow their hair. We forget, here in the days of the LGBT movement demanding transgender bathrooms in McDonald’s, that not long ago men could be beaten and arrested for wearing clothing considered inappropriate for their sex. We forget that people much braver than today’s activists had to clear those brambles and build that long road. There was a time when coming out, or being found out, was not a point of pride like it is in so many families today. When he said, “You got your mother in a whirl / she’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl,” that was actually liberating. More than anything, David Bowie emanated sex. Not sexy. Not sex appeal. Not sexualization. Not porno. Not sex as a marketing tool. Bowie was about sex, the real thing, expressed boldly and unabashedly and notably, with no regard for gender norms, the ultimate social prison. Today his early work is a time capsule from the days when sex was for fun, rebellion, and creative expression. He is a reminder that those days in fact existed and that we can find our way to such a place again. What seems to be progress (mostly for the LGBT movement) has not been progress in all ways, or for everyone. Today, society seems to have sexually polarized in three directions: monoculture, hookup culture, and rape culture.
The vast experiment that was queer has been rendered solemn and homely, clad in white gowns and tuxedos without the slightest hint of irony. Marriage, hospital visitation, and death benefits have been sanctified by the Supreme Court not just as a right under equal protection but a rarified fundamental right—as they well should be. But the party isn’t nearly as fun. The culture of repression is so obsessive today that most young people I know have to be blotto before taking off their clothes. Anti-queer abstinence indoctrination is still taught in schools. LGBT activists, having won the Golden Globe of their Supreme Court victory, might turn their attention to that atrocity. Becoming a pickup artist is now trained like karate, the better to hack the code of our frigid social environment (i.e., so you can get a date). Kids are still made to sign the abstinence pledge and wear purity rings. Rape is a serious problem, but rape cultists, whose practical definition of sex is rape, present a much more insidious situation, leading young people to wonder if merely having sexual desire makes them a perpetrator or pervert. Today many young men and boys are afraid to make any overture to girls or young women, afraid that they will be misunderstood and classified as rapists. Many of what are today called helicopter parents—the late Baby Boomers who tripped, boogied, and fucked to many of David Bowie’s songs—are appalled at the notion of their young sons and daughters having sex. Many are too terrified to even have an honest conversation with their kids, much less to stand up against puritanical school administrators who still teach abstinence, and whose balls are in the vise of a few fundamentalist Christian parents. It is my observation that the canonization of homosexual marriage has arrived in a parallel delivery with much else being deemed abnormal, immoral, and dangerous. Queer is now considered okay because you can seal the deal with monogamous marriage. Today, we need David Bowie more than ever, to remind us that it’s okay to be different, and to feel good. It’s okay to be horny and frisky and creative all in the same gesture. It’s okay to play and to experiment just because you want to, just for fun. It’s just fine to be sexy and have that be about sex and not about power. Most of all, it’s okay to offend your parents and their version of God or secular morality if that’s what it takes for you to be who you are. It was Bowie who arrived like his fictional Starman and indeed blew our minds—though for most of us that was long ago and far away. He helped open that sacred window to the unknown. Have you left yours open, even just a little, or was it long ago painted over and sealed shut, so you might never smell the fresh air from that garden again? Here’s the thing: sex actually does need advocates. The moral guilt trip today is so thick many people still feel ashamed by the least desire. As a writer, I do my best, but I think my polemics on the subject (while vaguely informative) are not nearly as useful as Bowie’s get-it-on rock and roll. Most of what people—younger and older—now need is permission to feel as weird as they think they are, which is unlikely to be so weird after all. It’s just that one can feel strange when exposed to heat and sunshine when you’ve been locked into a cold, dark room for decades. Maybe it took guts for Bowie to say what he did, and to be who he was, but really, I think for him it was the obvious and only thing to do. In a sense he took the revolution and made it personal. There was plenty of dancing, so it was a revolution that Emma Goldman would have been down with for sure. I don’t know what it will take to get past the calcified hip and smug we are confronted with nearly everywhere today, but there must
be something. I think it would help if people relaxed a little about having to convince everyone how supposedly pure they are. That’s going to require taking a risk. It’s easier for young people to take that risk, because they have less to lose. Yes, you’re being told that that one thing you post to Instagram could end up preventing you from being chairman of the board of some corporation in 30 years. But is that really true, and do you really care? Well, you still may. You might think you have to protect your priceless image at all costs. But I can tell you that the moment when you decide you don’t care is a beautiful one. The moment when you decide that you are who you are whatever anyone might think is bold and astonishing, coming from the inside out. It’s as good as your first orgasm, because the two are directly related—they are about giving up self-control long enough to have some fun, to experience yourself as alive in the moment, and to plant the seeds for the next phase of who you’re becoming. Sex makes babies, but it’s procreative in every other way as well. When you open up your sexual aperture, you open up your potential, your creative flow, and your desire to live. If we’re wondering why so many people today seem like zombies (and why zombie and vampire films are the rage), and why so many people are drugged on suicide-inducing antidepressants, maybe it’s because there’s so much pressure to be pristine and uptight. Maybe, as my teacher Joe Trusso is fond of saying, the opposite of depression is expression.
Today, we need David Bowie more than ever, to remind us that it’s okay to be different, and to feel good. It’s okay to be horny and frisky and creative all in the same gesture.
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I was not aware of David Bowie’s deeply troubled early home life until I started researching him this week, to write about him for the first time. His life as a child was as messed up as any kid’s is today, with what he described alternately as madness and as “emotional and spiritual mutilation.” His chart has the intensity of a serial killer. It speaks of isolation, violation, deception, and an environment where trust was nearly impossible. He was surrounded not just by muggles but by aggressive and toxic ones. But he was a gentle, graceful spirit. He was observant. He was creative and curious about that fact, and by some miracle he was able to keep that flow going. If we’re looking for a possible explanation, I would say that he was well on the way to weaving that thing called soul when he arrived here. I am not sure if doing this is a choice. There are some people who seem to use these devastating experiences and the lack of contact that they need to become some of society’s most important and helpful teachers. Many, many others are hardened and become immune to empathy, passing the cruelty forward. Judging just from Bowie’s chart, he could have gone either way. But I think that, as evidenced by dropping his family name (Jones) at age 17, he was taking over the process of forming his own identity and his own reality. He claimed himself, and he made a life of doing so. That’s something that everyone who actually grows up must do, sooner or later. At a certain point, one must actually stop worrying about what they will think. This is best taught by example, and David Bowie was just exactly role model. I would add that no matter how many times he morphed his persona, or reinvented or renamed himself (apparently one of his favorite hobbies), he was still the person who he was at the core of his being: Someone who chose to live, to love and to work right until the end of his days. CHRONOGRAM.COM READ Eric Francis Coppolino’s weekly Planet Waves column.
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You can have a formula for success, though it requires that you focus many different talents and capabilities simultaneously. The one that stands out is using positive vibes rather than power to persuade people. One way to do that is to get people turned on by what you want. This may seem self-centered, but it’s really saving people the trouble of originality while they get to contribute to something larger than themselves. Therefore, I suggest you know your objectives and know what’s appealing about them—and make a point of both feeling good and being open. In many respects, the more radical your plans, the better. By that I mean that the more you are challenging yourself and others to think in a different way, the better. There is another piece to this, which is about ethics; or rather, teaching ethics. Focus on doing the right thing because it’s the right thing to do. This notion is starting to become popular, but it remains mostly an idea because the skills are not readily available. Yes—what I am saying is that people need both teachers and examples for how to do the right thing: how to be devoted, honest and faithful. There remains the question: is it possible to teach ethics? That’s debatable, but you may find yourself needing to do just that. Start by setting the best example.
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Relationships, family matters and your professional ambitions are showing up on the astrological radar right now, though there is a common theme: can one person exercise property rights over another? This seems like a ridiculous question here in the age of political correctness. Of course they can’t! That’s just wrong! But the problem is that people do, and often in ways that are not accounted for. Many of the social behaviors we take for granted involve some measure of this, even if it’s just an underlying assumption or two. One place to start the discussion is with jealousy. Although this is lauded as the token of true love, I would propose that it’s the thing most antithetical to love. Jealousy wears many masks, though from a metaphysical perspective I can say this. If you look at the way the topic of death is handled in any relationship, you will have a way to make transparent the many other themes associated with jealousy. Is it even spoken of? Is it bargained with? Is it something that makes you feel more alive (because your time with anyone is finite) or is it something that sends you into control mode? These normally difficult topics are unusually accessible right now. And if you have the courage to bring them up, or to go with the conversation when it arises, you will learn vital lessons to last a lifetime.
GEMINI (May 20-June 21) Start paying attention to financial matters. It could pay off, and it could also save you a lot of hassles. What exactly happened the past two months? Do the forensics; for example, study your bank statements. Yet the real highlight is on shared resources and investments. There are clearly opportunities available, though to get to them, you may need to go back over some points of disinformation that entered your consciousness recently. You might have the feeling that you don’t want to know the truth, but you will directly benefit from knowledge. More to the point, the more information about your own affairs that you’re working with, the more independent you will feel from the influences of others. This is crucial for you now—it is perhaps the deepest ongoing theme of this long phase of your life. You need to not be under anyone’s thumb, or under their financial thrall. That doesn’t mean that mutual support, or being helped by someone, is out of the picture. This really is a question of power. The problems begin when one thing becomes another, and that thing is not questioned. What seems like sex, for example, can often be seen, more truthfully, as a matter of money and consequently of power. The first step toward transcending this is being absolutely honest with yourself about what you’re experiencing and how you feel.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22)
The trick to making the most out of the current extraordinary astrology is to consider your wildest and most visionary plans, and then condense them down to some tangible concepts. You don’t even need to act on these ideas yet; you just need to know about them and take the time to get clear. For what may be the eleventy-first time in this column, I suggest that this be in writing, in a notebook; to wit, not on some kind of digital device. And I suggest you write in pencil, to have in your body that all plans are subject to revision and improvement. Part of the tangibility factor, the thing that makes your ideas real, is having a physical relationship with them. You also want to think in a non-linear way; that is, to have the ability to scribble and sketch. I don’t know what this is about, but it’s big. Let that aspect not stop you, remembering how many great things were first sketched on napkins and paper bags. You must remember how moved you are, and then go right to the point of the humble beginning—and stay there for as long as you can. Many stages of this scenario will unfold over the next two years, and right now you’re at the most important step: understanding your concept. Or, you might say, becoming your concept.
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LEO (July 22-August 23) Leave room for a little madness in your life. Leave yourself room to cut loose, and be a bit Bacchanalian. Real mental stress sets in when people are wound too tight, or become obsessed by control. You need to loosen up, however you define that, though I would say that you need something better than alcohol. You need to feed your imagination and get into that space where you really can share yourself with others, and receive what they offer you. Generally this is called intimacy. But I don’t mean it so much in the sense of pure fidelity as I mean it in the sense of an experiment and a celebration. To go there, you may really need to convince yourself to relax, and set aside any concerns related to work or health. You are already doing what you can, which may mean that you’re doing quite enough. What you would benefit greatly from adding is the quality-of-life piece, which may feel like a throwback to a much younger age. But that is who you were, and in many respects it’s who you still are. What you have now that you didn’t have then is a degree of confidence. Your self-esteem is much stronger. It’s true you built that on your accomplishments. You’ll appreciate it more if you take a breath, slow down and play.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Seen one way, it would seem like the challenge you face in a relationship is not being swallowed by another person. You might be worried you’re trying to ‘be like’ them. Yet I would propose that the challenge is taking advantage of a good example when you have one. Now, there may be many examples around you at the moment, and some are better than others. Yet there is one that stands out, someone with some wisdom, experience and independence, who may be more smitten with you than you think. Indeed, the more intelligent the potential suitor (or suitee), the more likely their feelings are to be deep and authentic. If this is not a romantic situation, it could also be a close friendship or partnership based on learning. You are especially open to new ideas now; but closer to the astrology, you are open to being reminded what you already know. One thing you may know is not to be hung up on the seeming outcome of any human encounter. You have no need to plan, speculate or control. No need to make a head-trip out of anything you feel, wondering what it might mean. Just cup your hands into the waterfall of life and drink up. Humanity is in the midst of a long, chilly winter of discontent. Some hydration will do you good.
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LIBRA (September 22-October 23) You’ve been through many seasons of changes that seemed beyond your control. This has, many times, left you wondering the degree to which you’re really safe, living here on our strange old planet. Yet your solar chart is describing a scenario where you feel right at home, not merely despite all the intensity but thanks to it. Said another way, you’re learning to feel safe in the midst of nearly constant change and adaptation, and if you have not felt that way so far, you can take a big step this month. We could say as an understatement that the Libra charts have been intense, particularly starting in 2012. But really, the story of your life is the story of the world. It’s just that you’re getting it in a particularly focused way. Lest you feel tempted to believe that your life is especially challenging, consider the possibility that you’re particularly gifted at adapting to such a rapidly changing environment. This puts you in a position of leadership, because you’re accustomed to territory that people are just getting used to. Yet you have an added benefit: discovering some unusual source of nourishment in the midst of this all. You’re likely to be in a position to affirm that deep personal investigation, going through changes and, most of all, standing on your own foundation, are actually worth the fuss.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) With Mars moving slowly through your sign right now, you’re unusually persuasive and are endowed with some serious, deepdown drive. This is, therefore, a great time for you to make some choices about what is actually right for you, because you have the energy to make any necessary adjustments. The whole theme of this year is threading the needle between your motives, your deepest values and your actions. There is no longer room for cognitive dissonance or neurosis. You simply must act in accord with who you are. Doing anything else is no longer an option. Astrology that develops from April through July is all about going deeper into those already deep values and motives, but you are likely to discover what you already know. You can save yourself time by having confidence in your knowledge, without needing to relearn anything, whether it’s the hard way or the easy way. Time, as you know, is your most precious resource, and it keeps moving even when you sleep at night. I suggest you live as if you have an honest relationship with life’s many uncertainties, and its finite nature. This alone will be the thing that motivates you to make the changes you need to make, to say what you must say, and to do what you must do. The realer you get with yourself, the happier (and more productive) you will be.
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Let your fears inform you. You might try an exercise where you transform them into some kind of opposite outcome. Imagine that each worry or concern is really an explication of what might happen in the best possible outcome, but reversed. For example, “I fear my partner might leave me” would translate to something like, “This could be the best relationship I’ve ever had,” or, “I am ready for the right relationship in my life.” All fear has a source, and I would propose that it’s a kind ego reaction to your currently incredible creative potential. However, apropos of understanding and working with that potential, remember that at the moment, building your life is in part about what you’re adding, and partly about what you will be subtracting. This is not about going forward in all directions, or the nonstop bull market. Nor is it about magical alchemy. What you’re doing is more like an industrial process of experimenting, synthesizing and putting in the time and discipline to get something like the result you’re looking for. Don’t be attached to one outcome—there are better things possible than what you might be imagining. Yet underneath it all, both the objective and the result is confidence in yourself. This is not about a test but more about a process of temperance: of gradually conditioning yourself to be in actual possession of the strength you know you already have.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) You can now be the bold, lusty being you’ve always wanted to be. Forget your carefully groomed image. Forget prim and proper. Life is not a pageant, nor is it an integrity contest. Anyway, if you associate integrity with being real (that’s the standard, in this astrology lab), then be a real goat. That means mischief, and accessing your somewhat devious/deviant side, and considering anything potentially edible; you don’t know until you try. But most of all it means throwing your image to the four winds. Basically, you’re a prisoner of how you think you appear, which you will only discover the moment you decide, even as an experiment, that it doesn’t matter. The sensation of cracking out of your shell will feel so good, you will wonder how it you could have ever waited, or what you were waiting for. The best discovery is likely to be that as you are real with people, you will discover that they are real with you. You have the power to subvert the social media public relations department in the simple gesture of connecting your voice, your words, and your facial expression with your feelings. This will liberate so much energy that you’re likely to do something like make a film, write a novel, foment a revolution or get out of whatever you think is dragging you down. Is freedom dangerous? You will have to see.
AUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Whatever you’re doing or working to succeed at, turn your soft side to the community. You are in one of those phases where you must be gritty and serious in order to get the job done, to establish yourself or to go to the next level. But make sure the public aspect of what you’re doing is all compassion and empathy. Think of Fred Rogers, who was at once the central figure in “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” and at the same time one of the pioneers of both public television and children’s television. On camera, people met Mr. Rogers, the gentle and kindly friend to the kids. Off camera, people had to work with a shrewd developer, director, and businessman. He never confused the two roles, and you would be wise to know which scenario you are in at any given time. What you’re doing requires an all-wheel-drive, brass bolts (and perhaps balls) approach. Yet community relations is where you will actually make contact, and your skill will determine the degree of success you are able to attain. Work on this as a special topic, and develop it as a distinct skill. Study people who are very, very good at it and learn everything you can. When you write for the public, make sure you rewrite until your message and presentation are smooth, clear, and authentic.
PISCES
(February 19-March 20)
A constellation of forces is now aligning in your favor. If you can keep your focus from day to day, get enough rest and eat actual food, you’ll be able to make great strides assembling the many parts of the whole you’ve been designing. This will call on you to be at your best in every skill you have, as well as to attend to both one-on-one and group relationships. You have everything you need, you have momentum and you have some significant cooperation. Using your resources wisely has two parts—the wisdom piece and the actual use piece. Put it all to work intelligently, and remember who is doing the coordinating. Yet one interesting fact of your charts is the extent to which the scenario is directed toward the exterior world rather than your inner experience. Therefore, take the time, care, and effort to maintain your inner focus. Know how you feel at all times. Pause and assess your inner weather. Track your currents, your tides, your appetite, your libido, and your dreams. Pay attention to yourself. The more that’s happening in “the world,” the more urgent that is—especially for a Pisces. One other thing: hang out with people who nourish you. If depleting people are buzzing around, put out the Do Not Disturb sign, and stick to the people who show up with food, love, and music. 94 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 2/16
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