Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.
CONTENTS 12/08
ARTS & CULTURE 36 PORTFOLIO Andrew Lichtenstein’s “Behind Bars,” an examination of life “on the inside,” is on view at Fovea in Beacon through January 4.
60 FOOD & DRINK Brian K. Mahoney notes a few outstanding restaurants that opened this year.
116 PARTING SHOT Richard Dupont’s sculptural installation Between Stations is on view at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill through January 18.
38 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson files her final column as Chronogram’s art critic.
40 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE 46 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles jazz composer and pianist Carla Bley. Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Verdes Verdes. Reviewed by Jason Broome. Hopewell Beautiful Targets. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols. Jeff Siegel Quartet Live in Europe. Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson.
50 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles Beacon resident David Rees, creator of Get Your War On and Adventures of Confessions of St. Augustine Bear.
52 BOOK REVIEWS Jay Blotcher reviews Dreaming Up America by Russell Banks. Anne Pyburn reviews Last Train Out by Richard Boes and No Blood, No Foul by Charley Rosen.
56 POETRY
100 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 101 Hometown alt-rock heroes Mercury Rev return from their European tour to play the Bearsville Theater on December 4. Dean and Britta open. 103 Leah Oates of Station Independent Projects curates Converging Margins, a group photo show, at the Center for Photography in Woodstock. 105 Former Kinks frontman Ray Davies performs at the Bardavon on December 6. 107 Revealed Anew, a show of rarely seen and fragile works drawn from the permanent collection of the Loeb Art Center, will be on view through January 4. 109 Country blues artist Jeffrey Foucault will play the Rosendale Cafe on December 12 in support of his latest CD, Ghost Repeater.
PLANET WAVES 110 THE BRANCHING OF THE ROAD Eric Francis Coppolino’s commentary on the election. Plus horoscopes.
FIONN REILLY
Poems by Steve Clark, Paul R. Clemente, Suzanne B. Gilette, Robert Farley, Sari Grandstaff, Paul Houtrides, Mary Kathryn Jablonski, Anna Van Laan, Donald Lev, Susan Lewis, Mary Lou Paturel, J.R. Solonche and Patrick Walsh.
THE FORECAST
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Carla Bley MUSIC
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