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24 patience with god Frank Schaeffer talks with Lorna Tychstup about his book Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism), and why he thinks the proselytizing New Atheists are merely an anti-God mirror of the Religious Right.
20 beinhart’s body politic: hitting the free market slopes Larry Beinhart thinks privatizing the state-run ski areas is a snow job.
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Wendy Kagan chats with the founders of Jivamukti yoga.
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arts & culture 29 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 40 music Natalie Merchant talks with music editor Peter Aaron about her first album in seven years, Leave Your Sleep, set to be released on April 6. Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Jim Weider’s Project Percolator Pulse. Reviewed by Crispin Kott. Kirsten DeHaan Thorns on a Crown. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols. Voodelic Conjure. Reviewed by David Malachowski.
44 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia, whose recent memoir, Cleaving, details her butchery apprenticeship at Fleisher’s Meats.
46 BOOK reviews Anne Pyburn reviews Watching Gideon by Stephen H. Foreman and The Lock Artist: A Thriller by Steve Hamilton. Pauline Uchmanowicz reviews The Ticking Is the Bomb by Nick Flynn.
48 Poetry Poems by Lucia Cherciu, Julia Hickey, John Hopper, M. Hotvedt, Mary Kathryn Jablonski, Kristin Kimble, Arielle Lindstrom, D. C. Lynn, Mila Sailor Moeys, Thomas Perkins, Josh Platt, Bruce Weber, Walter Worden.
56 food & drink Peter Barrett tastes what the region’s craft breweries have on tap.
96 parting shot Woman in Black Dress, a painting by Catherine Welshman.
the forecast 82 daily calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 83 A show of coal industry prints, At the Heart of Progress at Vassar’s Lehman Loeb. 85 The Asperger’s Difference screens at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on February 6. 87 Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End, speaks with Brian K. Mahoney about his new book, The Unnamed. Ferris will read at Oblong Books on February 17. 88 New Day Repertory stages Eugene O’Neill’s Emperor Jones in Poughkeepsie. 89 Trisha Brown Dance Company performs in the galleries of Dia:Beacon.
planet waves 90 Everything All At Once (or, Welcome to 2012) Eric Francis Coppolino on the Aries point and the earthquake. Plus horoscopes.
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After weeks in futile pursuit of an interview with photographer Mark Seliger, I frantically e-mailed this month’s cover subject in late January, as we were sliding into the deadline for our February issue. Merchant replied from Amsterdam, where she was on tour: “Sorry you can’t get through to Mark, he’s one of those busiest-men-in-the-world.” Judging by the sheer volume of work Seliger accomplishes, I’m inclined to agree, and I’m not sure that the man takes time to sleep. Currently under contract to Conde Nast Publications, where he shoots for magazines like Vanity Fair and GQ, Seliger was the chief photographer at Rolling Stone for more than 10 years, shooting the lion’s share of their covers. His portraits of rock and roll icons and movie stars—Johnny Depp, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash, Drew Barrymore, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Bowie, and the list goes on and on—make him one of the most sought-after shooters in the biz. In addition, Seliger has published several books, including Physiognomy, In My Stairwell, and Merchant’s favorite, When They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the Holocaust, which pairs eyewitness testimony with portraits of survivors. Seliger and Merchant have a long history; he first photographed her for a profile in US magazine in 1992. In 1998, when Ophelia was released, Seliger shot Merchant for the cover of the album and went on to direct (with Fred Woodward) the video for “Kind and Generous,” as well as a concept film based on the album. (The duo have directed numerous videos and commercials together, working with Elvis Costello, Hole, Gillian Welch, and LL Cool J, among others.) The image that appears on the cover of the magazine this month is an outtake from a recent photo session for Merchant’s upcoming double album Leave Your Sleep. (The album, a setting of Victorian poetry to music, is due out on April 6. A profile of Merchant and a sneak preview of the project appears on page 40.) According to Merchant, there were two photo shoots. The first (from which the cover image is taken) was a highly stylized affair with multiple wardrobe, hair, and make-up changes, with Merchant assuming the role of characters from the songs. The record label found the photographs too theatrical, however, and a more subdued black-and-white session followed. —Brian K. Mahoney 8 ChronograM 2/10
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The yoga world has its own particular brand of fame, bringing the salutations of adoring disciples in body-skimming clothes. To be a guru among these limber spiritual seekers is a responsibility—and one that Sharon Gannon and David Life do not take lightly. They created the Jivamukti Yoga Method—a physically rigorous and intellectually rich practice rooted in ancient wisdom and scriptures—in 1986; ever since, they’ve been honing their message that yoga is about much more than being able to wrap your foot behind your head. Strong voices for veganism, animal rights, and the environment, Gannon and Life are yogi activists who remind everyone in their path that if you free the ass, the mind will follow. Their Jivamukti Yoga School has expanded beyond New York City to Canada and Europe, and the pair travel the world teaching workshops, giving lectures, training teachers, and circling back to the idea that the true aim of yoga is liberation and enlightenment. Images of the couple capture their trademark intensity (Life’s talk is peppered with references to the Yoga Sutras and other venerable texts) mixed with playfulness (Gannon has been photographed in crow pose flaunting a gown and high-heeled shoes). During a hiatus from a teaching tour that will send the duo as far afield as Bali and Japan, I caught up with Gannon and Life taking refuge at their upstate home and ashram, the Wild Woodstock Forest Sanctuary, amid the creatures of the woods they love so well. —Wendy Kagan
Sharon Gannon and David Life in the woods near their Woodstock home.
What drew you to Woodstock to create your home and ashram here?
How did you come to see veganism as a way to express the yogic principle of
Gannon: We don’t want to lose touch with what is wild. There isn’t much wild habitable
ahimsa (nonharming)?
land left—we spend so much of our time in urban, cultivated environments. We human
Gannon: I realized that I was an abolitionist. I did not like the idea of slavery. I realized
beings have done a pretty good job of covering most of the ground with concrete
that our culture was a culture of slavery—where the Earth and the animals are viewed as
or asphalt and the few open patches of dirt or grass we may come across are often
exploitable. I want to dismantle this present culture. Yoga provides us with the means to
either manicured and sprayed with herbicides and/or littered with plastic and trash. As
do that, stating that through friendliness and kindness strength and success will come.
a species we seem to have forgotten how to live without destroying the environment.
The yogi strives to live in harmony with the Earth—to live in a way that enhances the lives
Wild beings seem to know how to live in their environment and not mess it up. We
of others and the planet. Animals raised for food are enslaved and routinely tortured,
live in Woodstock because we want to live close to those wild beings and try to learn
all of their rights taken from them. They are treated as exploitable commodities—not as
a few things from them about living in harmony with the Earth. Our place is about 76
persons and certainly not as enlightened holy beings. When you stop participating in the
acres, mostly forest. It is home to many wild people including deer, black bears, foxes,
cruel exploitation of animals you take the first step toward your own freedom.
raccoons, opossums, fish, and turkeys and other birds, as well as elemental beings
Life: Actually, before we were teaching yoga we were actively working for the animals.
and fairies. We bought the land because it had been slated for development and we
At that time (early 1980s) I was co-owner of Life Café in New York City and the café had
didn’t want that to happen. We feel that trees are people, too, and should be left alone
always featured vegan food. Each year, Sharon and I staged an All Species Parade
to live out their lives without human encroachment.
around Tompkins Square Park celebrating Dog Days and the return of the star Sirius. We were also studying and practicing yoga. It was obvious to us that the methods of
Advice to those who wish to live with a lighter spirit?
yoga led to reintegration with the world around us and the other Earthlings that we share
Life: Suffering is optional. The key to realizing the option is the understanding that
that world with.
the world is not coming at you but is a projection of your own state of mind. Yoga practices are designed to lift the veil of ignorance of which suffering is a part. But not
Do you believe in the evolution of human consciousness?
everybody is interested in standing on their head! Everyone is interested in eating food
Life: It’s a good idea. But we’re not very good at perceiving change that occurs over long
and spends a large part of the day shopping, preparing, and eating food. If a person
periods of time. If the daily increments are small enough, then we don’t even notice them
were to become a more conscious eater, that could be a path to enlightenment. The
accumulating. That’s why reductions of greenhouse gases and other global warming
most simple guideline for conscious eating is to cause the least amount of pain and
initiatives are so slow on the uptake. It’s the same with cancer and heart disease and
suffering as possible with your choices. Applying that criteria to the food on your
obesity; they just accumulate one meal at a time. The world is coming to a slow boil and
plate becomes a spiritual practice, a political statement, based on the vision of a
we won’t really perceive it as a reality until it is already here. By evolution, we can mean
peaceful world.
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Esteemed Reader It is with pleasure that I welcome a guest columnist, LylaYastion, to this space this month. —Jason Stern Pausing for Peace We know in our hearts that peace in the world is the direct reflection of peace within ourselves. When inner peace radiates from a critical mass of people then outer peace spreads its harmonious vibrations around the globe. Confucius describes this expansion of peaceful energy as the key to a moral society. He says: If there is righteousness in the heart there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation there will be peace in the world. Every religious tradition speaks of this work of establishing harmony in the world by changing the way we feel and think, the way we view other human beings and other creatures. If we see other people—and species—as companions in a cooperative web of life the probability of a peaceful world increases. But if we continue to buy into the illusion of separation and believe that conflict is inevitable, then negative energies grow. Even as nuclear bombs are poised to expel their power and ecocide stalks the planet is it but a dream, a fantasy of the imagination, to think that we can harness our collective consciousness towards a shift in worldview that will issue in a reign of peace? Let us consider this question by first proposing that the level of stress, violence, fear, and disconnect from Nature in the global society has risen in direct proportion to a fall in the collective level of conscious awareness. If we were aware that what we do to the planet we do to ourselves, surely we would stop. So the antidote is clear. A conscious impulse is needed to remind us that Creation is a web of interdependent life forms. This impulse is found at the heart of all religions; it is embodied in the art of being-present. Presence is the engine of spiritual—and planetary—transformation. When we are present‌awake‌aware, there is a good chance that we will act with intelligence and compassion. Our thoughts and actions will be in harmony with our surroundings. As Thoreau, the iconoclastic American philosopher who retreated to the woods in order to awaken to himself, said in Walden: To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake by a conscious endeavor. How shall this awakening take place? First, we need to realize that we are usually asleep—lost in daydreams, beset by anxieties, preoccupied with mind-chatter. Let’s be honest: we are absent more than we are present. We go through our daily routine on automatic pilot. This habitual tendency to be “somewhere elseâ€? can be observed in ordinary events. If I walk into a room to get something and then have no idea why I am in the room, where am I? In a dream. If I lay down my car keys while thinking about what to fix for dinner, how shall I find them later? If I tune out during a conversation with my husband, how can my response to him be honest, let alone coherent? There is an alternative. I can learn to be present and stay present by waking up to the moment through a very simple but understated means: sensory awareness. For example, if I turn now from the computer to stroke my cat and feel the silky, smooth fur and the warm life breathing under it, I am awake. Anytime we are consciously listening‌seeing‌tasting‌smelling‌or touching, we are awake. Choice as to what to say or do is available, at that moment. Intuition rises to the surface of the mind. Compassion stirs the heart. But because the habit of absence is strong we need to practice connecting to the senses in a conscious way everyday. This is done through a practice I call pausing. Pausing is periodically stopping whatever you are doing and sitting down for a few minutes to consciously activate each of the senses in turn. I usually conclude the pause with listening because it sends the attention outward into an expansion of consciousness that ultimately connects with the vast web of life of which we are a part and allows us to rest in infinite awareness. Pausing is the perfect antidote for our 24/7 culture. As pausing becomes more frequent and more regular, the light of presence illuminates the day. Ordinary activities such as speaking, working, thinking, and relating to others are imbued with intelligence and power. A growing recognition of our oneness with all Creation arouses empathy. As the collective spiritual evolution of human beings accelerates the planet is bathed in healing energy and reveals itself as a habitat of peace and abundance for all. Indeed, the fruit of a re-awakened life is healing—for ourselves, for society, and for the entire Earth community. LylaYastion is the author of Pause Now: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution. She has a PhD in Anthropology and teaches ecological anthropology at SUNY New Paltz.
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EXHIBITIONS Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises February 6 – July 25 Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller February 6 – March 28 Renée C. Byer: “A Mother’s Journey” and Selected Photographs January 30 – April 11 Body, Line, Motion: Selections from the Permanent Collection January 30 – April 11
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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Free $peech “When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.” —Justice Anthony Stevens, from the majority opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
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ou probably haven’t seen Hillary: The Movie. I haven’t seen it either, though I did watch the trailer. By most accounts, it’s a scurrilous and decidedly unartful piece of cinema. It was released by the conservative nonprofit corporation Citizens United during the 2008 Democratic primaries to smear candidate Clinton. Robert Barnes of the Washington Post describes Hillary this way: “It is a nonstop montage of Clinton’s changing hairdos, interspersed with reports about various scandals during the Clinton White House years, critiques of her performance as a senator from New York and as a Democratic presidential candidate, and withering testimony about her alleged lack of character and honesty.” (Other stirring feature-length productions from Citizens United include ACLU: At War with America, Broken Promises: The UN at 60, HYPE:The Obama Effect, and Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny.) The reason you may not have seen Hillary (aside from, perhaps, a predisposition against reporting so slanted it’s practically prone) is that the Federal Election Commission ruled that the film was essentially a 90-minute campaign ad. Citizens United sued. The federal appeals court agreed with the FEC, commenting that Hillary was “susceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office.” Which meant that the film violated some of the restrictions placed on how corporations can spend money within 90 days of an election as per the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. Citizens United would not be allowed to be show Hillary on cable TV via on-demand, as it had planned. (A touch of history: The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of McCain-Feingold the year after it was passed, in 2003, but the conservative justices made noises at the time that the campaign finance reform law was in many ways at odds with the First Amendment. They suggested that most infringements on speech are a priori unconstitutional; and, my interpretation here, that it is better to preserve an ideal in the abstract—free speech in this case—than to acknowledge practical consequences of allowing groups to
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spend unlimited amounts of money “speaking” its message during campaign season. “Speech,” of course, means money. Anyone can say whatever they want in the street; the speech at issue is the kind of massive media buys that only big money can afford. The kind that, in profusion, can drown out all the other little, penurious voices.) On January 22, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that not only was the FEC wrong to block the showing of Hillary, but that government should not be in the business of regulating political speech at all. What the ruling boils down to: Let a thousand Swift Boat ads bloom. If a group wants to take down a particular candidate, there is no limit to the amount of money it can spend. (Not incidentally, this is essentially the same court that ruled 5 to 4 not to recount the votes in Florida in Bush v. Gore, if you swap out Rehnquist and O’Connor for Roberts and Alito.) What the ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done is to give more power to corporations to influence elections. (This applies to labor unions as well, but the pockets of a Wal-Mart or ExxonMobil are an order of magnitude deeper than those of the AFL-CIO.) It also brings corporations closer to being given all the rights of real people. For the premise defining a corporation’s place within the law is that it’s an artificial person. But it poses as a real person. It’s a legal entity separate from its shareholders, and shields them through limited liability. If it goes bankrupt, if it pollutes, if it commits crimes—the corporation is held responsible, not its shareholders. And this is the problem—the corporation, empowered with the rights of a person, does not share any of the responsibilities of a person. A corporation’s main directive is to deliver value to its shareholders. In the case of ExxonMobil, that means dividends; for Citizens United, it’s the advancement of a political agenda. If the CEO of ExxonMobil did not seek to maximize profits from its operations, he would be removed for malfeasance. The term “corporate responsibility” has always been a sham in some sense because of this. Corporations are responsible only to their shareholders. And now the Supreme Court has given these responsibility-free entities carte blanche to unleash a tidal wave of money (aka “political speech”) into the electoral process. Justice Kennedy believes that “the First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.” But just who are the “ourselves” Justice Kennedy is referring to? Is it flesh-and-blood people or artificial people? Corporations are people too, right?
Beahive Beahive is a collaborative workspace with two locations—Beacon and Kingston—with community events after-hours. This month, music and film are on tap. For a full schedule visit the Beahive websites: www.beahivebeacon.com; www.beahivekingston.com Hudson Valley Green Drinks The traveling networking event for the eco-committed meets at The Would restaurant in Highland on February 10, from 6:30 to 9pm. (845) 454-6410; www.hvgreendrinks.org
Woodstock Writers Festival Literary heavy-hitters Susan Orlean, Julie Powell, Shalom Auslander and many more read, perform, and offer advice and guidance February 12-15. www.woodstockwritersfestival.com Too Much Information The world premiere of "Too Much Information," directed by Eva Tenuto, on February 19 & 20 at 8pm at the Rosendale Theater, is a benefit Hope's for Fund. (845) 331-4199x3 2/10 ChronograM 19
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Hitting the free market slopes
“The state owns three ski areas—Belleayre in the Catskills, and Whiteface and Gore Mountain in the Adirondacks—which compete to a degree with private operators. Belleayre in particular, located within a few hours’ drive of the NewYork City metropolitan area market, would be a prime candidate for a long-term lease to a private operator.” —From “Blueprint for a Better Budget,” by E.J. McMahon and Josh Barro, of the Empire Center for New York State Policy I’m very fond of Belleayre. It was built in 1949 by the State of NewYork. I have a picture of my mother and myself standing outside the lodge about eight years later, when I was 10 years old. Except for the funny old-fashioned clothes, it doesn’t look much different today. It’s a friendly, low-key place, with lots of locals and lots of regulars. When my son was growing up, a season pass for a kid was $130 (it’s up to $215 now). Ski shops do seasonal rentals on equipment for about the same price, a total of $260 then, $345 now. Almost anyone can afford it, even a single parent. As a result, a whole crew of local kids show up. They’re outdoors in the winter, which is a marvelous thing, especially in a region starved for recreation, and in a nation in which most young people’s idea of action is something that happens on screen while they sit on a couch. In addition, Belleayre makes money for the state. So why the urge to privatize? Actually, the urge is to sell it. But that would require an amendment to the state constitution. Privatizing is the next best thing. Granted, New York State can be better organized; and there are almost certainly ways to get more bang for our buck. The tone of this report sounds very sensible. I spoke to one of the authors, E.J. McMahon. He’s an affable, well-spoken guy, who accepts that people can differ. But, is that what this is really about? To understand, let’s look at the source. The Empire Center for New York State Policy is a stepchild of the Manhattan Institute, a neocon think tank like the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and myriad others. Like them, it is funded by a collection of right-wing billionaires and major corporations including Exxon, Chase Manhattan, and Bristol Myers Squibb—big oil, big money, big pharma. The Manhattan Institute was founded by William Casey. Casey ran Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign, then became his CIA director, where he was a key player in Iran-Contra, trading arms for hostages, and, in order to fight the Soviet Union, he helped build the networks that became the Taliban and Al Qaeda. We also have to understand that privatizing Belleayre is a minor point in a long list. Much more important is to reduce school aid, aid to cities, and the judiciary, cut public health care spending, undercut the power of public service unions—especially the teachers union—put a cap on teachers salaries, reduce spending on mental health, and cut rail subsidies. The underlying theology, as stated, is that private enterprise can do anything better than government.Yet it is unfair to private enterprise to be forced 20 ChronograM 2/10
to compete against the government. If you’re a conservative, it’s easy to hold both of those ideas in your head at the same time and see absolutely no contradiction in accusing an institution that can’t do anything well with competing unfairly with the institutions that can do everything better. Nonetheless, we should look at the list, strip away the rhetoric and ideology, and attend to what it does. It is part of the movement to re-establish the difference between the rich and the rest of us. Until quite recently, being rich was not just a difference of degree, it was a difference in kind. Only the rich had the ability to save and retire in comfort. Only the rich lived in safe neighborhoods, with clean air and water, street cleaning, and garbage removal. Only the rich could afford good medical care. Only the rich received a good education. Only the rich had access to recreation; swimming pools, beaches, golf, ice skating, skiing, and the great outdoors. If political parties agitated for egalitarianism, the law moved on them. If workers tried to organize, the police were there to bust them. Then came the Crash of `29 and the Great Depression. Everything changed. Workers could organize, get decent wages, plus pensions and health care. There was a minimum wage, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, and safety standards on the job. Public schools and state universities came to rival private education. Cops and firefighters, teachers, and autoworkers, printers and miners could afford a good car, a vacation in Miami, and to send their kids to college! They could play golf and go skiing. (Mr. McMahon, who is a golfer, also wants to sell or privatize New York’s 31 golf courses.) This was a terrible, terrible thing, and could not be allowed to continue. Education should be for the rich. If we must teach everyone to read, free education should be second-rate and private education should be significantly superior. Teacher’s salaries should be frozen. What teachers do is already overvalued and they earn it through that vile device, collective action. (As opposed to brokers as Goldman Sachs, where bonuses are divinely established by “the marketplace” and should neither be restrained or excessively taxed.) If we cut spending on higher education, tuition can go up, students can take bigger loans, and that way, at least, we’re funneling money to the banks. Cut medical spending. Face it, if people can’t earn enough to take care of themselves, they should die. Cut spending on the mentally ill. Mental illness is a sign of weakness, and in a perfect Darwinian market system, it’s best that they be left to find places under bridges like trolls. If people want recreation, let them buy it from entrepreneurs. At least then it will make someone richer, which is, in neocon theology, the supreme social virtue, which trumps all others. If they can’t afford fancy stuff like snowboarding, the state has no business providing it. Let them go for a walk. (In the interests of full disclosure, I worked at Belleayre, very part-time, for one season. I currently work at Hunter Mountain, two days a week as a ski instructor. It’s a very private enterprise place. Nonetheless, I think it’s a great place to ski and work.) There’s two and a half months of winter left. Getting out on snow transforms it. I’m there most Tuesdays and Fridays. Drop by.
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There are 84,000 chemicals commercially used in the US (from flame retardants to household cleaners); 20 percent of which are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Companies claim that secrecy is “essential for ensuring the longterm competitiveness of US industry.” In mandatory notices to the government, more than half of the 65 chemicals reported in March 2009 as posing “substantial risk” were secret chemicals. According to the EPA, 151 secret chemicals are made in quantities of more than 1 million tons a year and 10 are used specifically in children’s products. Despite the chemical’s health and environmental risks, the handful of EPA employees who know their identities are legally barred from sharing that information under the 1976 Toxic Substance Control Act. The Obama administration wants to reduce secrecy by allowing federal officials to share confidential information with state regulators and health officials who could better determine their effects. Congress is set to rewrite chemical regulations this year. Source: Washington Post
Tight budgets are forcing states to rethink prison policies. In 2008, 1.6 million prisoners were in state and federal prisons, following steadily rising prison populations since the 1970s (each prisoner costs on average $30,000 a year). According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 739,000 people were imprisoned last year, only 3,500 more than were released. The result was the lowest annual growth of prison population this decade—0.8 percent. (The average annual growth rate of prison populations during the 1990s was 6.5 percent.) For drug-related crimes, nationwide studies show significant savings through drug rehabilitation over imprisonment. California has ordered the release of 40,000 inmates due to overcrowding, even as crime rates continue to drop. Source: Los Angeles Times In the UK, supermarkets have been accused of encouraging binge drinking by selling beer cheaper than water. Campaigners claim retailers are irresponsible, ignoring warnings from senior health figures that cheap prices lead to more drinking. Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson has suggested a minimum price for alcohol—approximately $8.60 for an average six-pack of beer. He claims raising the price would save 3,400 lives a year and cut hospital admissions by 100,000. Plans to force laws requiring warning labels on alcohol are planned after several brand-name labels ignored a voluntary code agreement with the government. Supermarkets deny they are promoting excessive drinking, saying their customers expect a wide range of good value. Source: Sunday Times (UK) Food stamp use is at an all-time record high with about six million Americans with no other form of income. Both states and federal government audits verify that the recession has caused millions to live at the barest of minimums. Food stamps have taken on a greater role in the safety net since they minimize abuse over cash aid, gaining more government support. Food stamp numbers had been rising previous to the recession due to tougher welfare laws and are said to continue. Over the past two years, food stamp programs have doubled in size in New York and grown nearly 90 percent in Minnesota and Utah. The range of people seeking assistance spans the demographic spectrum. Growth rates have been steepest among whites during the recession. Source: New York Times Abstinence-only sex education programs aimed at teenagers received more than $150 million per year in federal funding during the Bush administration. Clinic-based studies have shown the abstinence approach unsuccessful in preventing teen pregnancy. President Obama proposed $110 million for a new “teenage pregnancy prevention” initiative which would only fund sex education techniques that have “proven effective through rigorous evaluation,” effectively eliminating abstinence programs. It would include $25 million for new, innovative programs that could include those encouraging abstinence, but with no earmark for it. Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association estimates that more than 130 programs will lose funding by September if the initiative goes through. Another proposal by Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) would provide $50 million to states for abstinence programs, but it is still unclear what will happen once the bills are reconciled. Source: Washington Post
Two decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a tugboat working to prevent another incident hit the same reef off the coast of Alaska. The tug was part of the Ship Escort Response Vessel System, created after the Exxon disaster in 1989. The boat contained an estimated 33,500 gallons of diesel fuel, which will evaporate, unlike the heavier crude oil of the Exxon Valdez crash. The spill reached 3 miles long and 30 yards wide. Investigations on the cause of the grounding are pending, but the crew tested negative for alcohol use. There were three significant spills recently in the Prudehoe Bay oil fields before this incident. One contaminated several thousand feet of land, another spilled 46,000 gallons of oil, water, and natural gas, and another which left 7,100 gallons of water with oily residue. Source: New York Times The infamous Nazi sign declaring “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Sets You Free”) was recovered in three pieces late December after being stolen from the gate of the former Auschwitz death camp in southeastern Poland. Five Polish men have been arrested in connection with the crime. Police do not know if there is Nazi memorabilia market involvement, but the men have no known neo-Nazi affiliation or far-right links. The sign, found 250 miles from the camp, will be welded back together and returned to the gates of the former camp after new surveillance cameras are put in place. Source: Yahoo! News In October, a Ugandan politician introduced anti-homosexual legislation after three American evangelicals gave a series of talks on how to “cure” homosexuals last March. Gay Ugandans, already victims to violent hate crimes including so-called correctional rape in the case of women, are batting the bill, which imposes the death sentence for homosexual behavior. Donor countries, including the US, are demanding the proposed law be dropped or they will pull millions in foreign aid. Ugandan officials are only backing down slightly, saying they will reduce the penalty to life in prison for some homosexuals. The three American evangelicals, Scott Lively, Caleb Lee Brundidge, and Don Schmierer, are now trying to distance themselves from the bill, although Lively has acknowledged meeting with Ugandan lawmakers to discuss it. Source: New York Times The Federal Reserve Bank returned about $45 billion to the US Treasury for 2009, reflecting the highest earnings in its 96-year history. The earnings, made by investments in the firms bailed out by the Troubled Asset Relief Program, will dwarf those of Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan Chase combined. Although there remains a risk of significant future losses, the numbers show the Fed has been successful so far in protecting taxpayers as it intervenes in the economy. Source: Washington Post Australian researchers found that each hour a day spent watching TV was linked with an 18-percent greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and an 11-percent greater risk of all causes of death according to Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association. The results were not linked solely to the overweight and obese, but among healthy, active people as well, showing that “irrespective of a person’s exercise level, sitting for four or more hours a day was linked to a significant increase in risk of death,” said Dr. David Dunstan, lead author of the study. Even sporadic exercisers who sit for long periods need to increase their daily activity. Source: Los Angeles Times
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Summer Camps Almanac
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Patience with God
An Interview with Frank Schaeffer By Lorna Tychostup
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aybe you’ve seen the T-shirt: “Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8.” Verse 8 reads: “Let his years be few: let someone else take his position.” Requesting Obama have one term as president appears harmless enough—unless one keeps reading verse 9: “May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow” to verse 13: “May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation.” Popularized by the likes of California Pastor Wiley Drake, these verses have become an evangelical fundamentalist Christian incantation calling for the death of President Barack Obama. When asked by national radio host Alan Colmes if he was praying for the death of the US President, Drake said, “Yes,” adding, “If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around, I am asking God to enforce imprecatory prayers throughout the Scripture that would cause him death, that’s correct.” The President’s death doesn’t quite do it for Arizona Pastor Steve Anderson of Faithful World Baptist Church who sermonized, “I’m supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide, who wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth abortion. Nope. I’m not gonna pray for his good. I’m going to pray that he dies and goes to hell.” On the other side of the fundamentalist imbalance sheet are the “New Atheists,” who not only say there is no God, but declare themselves “Bright” (coined by Breaking the Spell author Daniel Dennett) as opposed to “Dim” religious folk, and call for religion to be abolished. Taking it one step further in his book, The End of Faith, New Atheist Sam Harris suggests that some religious people may need to be killed because of their dangerous beliefs. Enter Frank Schaeffer and his latest book, Patience With God (Da Capo, 2009). Agreeing with neither of these camps, Schaeffer sees both as equally fundamental, evangelical, and “religious,” less interested in truly helping people than they are in building million-dollar empires of belief by selling “certainty” to people who are looking for spiritual answers and salve. Schaeffer should know. As insider turned outsider, he has taken it upon himself to reveal the underbelly of the Religious Right that he and his parents helped to found and rakes in millions annually. Millions Schaeffer abandoned because he was disgusted at what grew from a one-message anti-abortion campaign into a hate-filled, fear of the “other” dogma inspiring people to kill, and an empire focusing more on its balance sheet than the souls of followers. Hearing the same sort of know-it-all, vindictive message coming from the New Atheists, Schaeffer says, “My life experiences have led me to believe that there are better choices out there than being asked to decide between atheistic cosmic nothingness and fundamentalist heavenly pantomimes.” Taking time from speaking engagements and television appearances, Schaeffer spoke with senior editor Lorna Tychostup from his Manhattan home. www.frankschaeffer.com. Lorna Tychostup: You are the insider gone rogue, revealing the underbelly of the Religious Right. What was your turning point? 24 news & politics ChronograM 2/10
Frank Schaeffer: There were really three things that operated. First, the experience of living in America as an adult starting in 1980.That opened my eyes to the fact that the propaganda I had been raised on—the Religious Right’s portrayal of America as this failed place plunging into chaos because Christianity was being “abandoned by the government, the secularists, the media, and the humanists”—simply didn’t match the facts. Second, the Religious Right was rooting for the failure of America on every level, much as Rush Limbaugh today is rooting for the failure of this country to serve as proof that Barack Obama has failed. Third, the people that I was working with on the Religious Right were simply getting more and more extreme. My introduction into the Religious Right was in 1973 and ended in the 1980s. We were working in the so-called pro-life movement to roll back Roe v.Wade. But that kept expanding into areas I had no sympathy for: gay bashing, anti-immigrant paranoia, this xenophobic version of the city-set-on-a-hill idea where America is afraid of the world and angry with everybody who is different. The deeper I got into the movement and the further “right” it got, the less comfortable I felt. Personally there was the aesthetic question. I’ve ways been interested in art and film. And the politics of the Religious Right is anticultural, antieducational, and I was working with people I didn’t enjoy being with who didn’t share my tastes. Then there was the theology issue. Moving away from evangelical beliefs that I had grown up with led me in a different direction in terms of spirituality. Those things came together, and I began to wake up, smell the coffee, and got out. The vitriol in the first chapters of Patience With God, regarding the New Atheists—the intensity of your anger almost saw me put the book down. The love you expressed in later chapters had me in tears. What is your gripe with the New Atheists? My gripe is not with atheism as a philosophy. I have nothing but respect for a great many atheists even in the so-called New Atheist movement, like Daniel Dennett. They could well be right. I am not arguing for absolute certainty. My specific criticism of [Richard] Dawkins and [Christopher] Hitchens is that these people are flakes. They are exactly the same sort of people as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and all the rest that I abandoned on the right. And to find them showing up on the left arguing while pitching their websites, building their personal empires, writing off everybody they disagree with as idiots—I’ve seen all of this before. Trust me on this, if there is one thing that I have a good nose for is fundamentalist absolutism and where it leads. It’s a flaky, commercialized, fake spirituality even when it’s packaged as “atheism.” And if you want to dress it up as atheism as a former scientist—which Richard Dawkins is, because he is certainly not still practicing science, but instead pitching himself through his website and books—be my guest.
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author Richard Dawkins, who wrote The God Delusion, stands on a bus in london at the launch of an atheist advertising campaign on January 6, 2009.
But why the intensity? Let me give you an example. Christopher Hitchens used to be a socialist antiimperialist who became one of George Bush’s biggest supporters of a completely illegitimate war. My son wore a US Marine Corps uniform and fought in that war. Where were Hitchens’ kids during this war that he was running around promoting? Nowhere. Hitchens was collecting millions of dollars from book royalties, appearing on talking head-shows and talking to magazines, while my son was getting shot at. Hitchens supported the worst president in our history from the progressive left, which is a laugh. In addition, based on his writing he comes off as a sleazy misogynist. Why should I have any tolerance for that? In fact, I’ll even pitch it the other way, and say atheism is a very credible philosophy, it’s a very thoughtful, serious idea. With friends like Hitchens, atheists don’t need enemies. You were also harsh with the evangelical/fundamentalists, but after Dawkins and Hitchens, the evangelical fundamentalist chapters were a relief. I wanted to make very clear at the beginning of the book in very stark terms where I wasn’t coming from, and with whom my sympathies didn’t lie, so I juxtaposed those chapters on the Religious Right with what I’ll call the fundamentalist atheist right. Hitchens is a hard right, anti-religious, “bomb them” kind of guy. And I wanted to say that it’s not a choice between these bad alternatives. But in order to discuss these bad alternatives we have to try to be honest about them, and then move on to what I think is a better way to look at things. In the second half of Patience with God, you talk about your granddaughter, Lucy, and share personal vignettes from your life.These stories elicit incredible emotion, to the point of tears, and at the same time you talk a lot about “God”; yet never come out and say what God is.
Well, that’s because I don’t know and I precisely disagree with people who say they do. How on Earth would I know what God is, or what anything is? I am struggling to be honest enough to say I don’t know. But at the same time, through these loving connections in my life, whether it’s my granddaughter, Lucy, or shedding some tears looking at pictures of little girls the same age who are sitting in Haiti tonight and literally climbing the walls—besides sending donations—thinking, “What can I do to get one of these little kids out?” It drives me nuts. It drives anybody nuts. In other words, what is it about the human condition that gives us this empathy for other people who suffer? Where does this empathy come from? To me, that’s what God is—that sense of empathy, of connection, of love. I also believe that we’re just very newly evolved creatures, and that these senses of empathy, love, and caring are just starting. One of the things I fault myself, Hitchens, Dawkins, and the fundamentalist Christians for, is this kind of conceit that we are modern, evolved creatures able to draw our clever conclusions. Ten thousand years from now the human race is going to look at our period the way we looked at Neanderthals who first discovered they could sharpen flint. We’re at the start of the process. This is no time to be drawing conclusions any more than the Haiti rescue effort should be defined by people who lay out beautiful tree-lined boulevards. That’s not where the planning should be. The planning should be how to get water from the airport to some little girl sitting crying alone by the roadside, not some grandiose scheme. Similarly, the argument isn’t between Hitchens, Dawkins, me, or anybody else about what God is or isn’t—or even what science is or isn’t. The argument is between the people who have the hubris to write off other people and their points of view, and/or those of us who understand that there has to be some humility where we say, “Look, we connect through love with other people. We connect through this sense of empathy with an idea that there may be meaning; there may be a God. (And I use the word maybe.) Let’s build from that and not draw these big conclusions founded on the hubris of 2/10 ChronograM news & politics 25
thinking we can make summations of cosmology and theories of everything.We can look at some details here, and draw limited conclusions there, but we can’t paint this in capital letters. The big accelerator in the CERN laboratory near Geneva shooting protons around is a crude machine that is going to look like a Stone Age pot someday. Face it. We’re not going to be around to see anything about the conclusions humans will draw about why we’re here, or what we’re doing. The only thing that’s going to stand up is art, because art is never dated. Whatever Hitchens and I am saying is probably 99 percent crap, and will be shown to be so as time moves on. Let’s admit that, so at least people remember that we were humble enough to know we were crude and semi-evolved. God? I don’t know what or who God is. But I do know that I sense something that is more than brain chemistry when I love my granddaughter, or look back at a teacher who years ago taught me not to be a bully and who let me sing in a musical in school when I was barely able to read or write. That’s what I am trying to get people to concentrate on instead of these big, fancy arguments.
rible things. But there are also people moving in good directions. In the history of Christianity anti-Semitism is no longer cool, whereas 500 years ago it was. The Israelis have sworn enemies in the Palestinians, but they haven’t rounded them all up and gassed them. They are trying to work it out. We are evolving, and it strikes me that we are evolving in a direction toward something better. I don’t judge atheism on the gulag, Mao Tse-tung, or Pol Pot. I just say those are horrible low points for secularism run amok. The same when someone straps a suicide belt on in the name of God. That issue is an issue of where the human race is in its evolution, whatever the excuse, whatever we call those horrible, predatory, ridiculous, deluded things we do—be they in the name of religion or an atheist philosophy.The point is not the philosophy. It’s the fact that those crazy, deluded, evil people, and all points in between all exist as part of a stage of human evolution. But that doesn’t mean it either has to stay that way forever, or that we haven’t made any progress, or that those same kinds of people wouldn’t be doing the same sorts of things in the name of other excuses.
The word “God” has been infused with many people’s definitions— the guy up in the clouds, he is male, looking down on us. If we take God out of the picture then we are responsible. The feeling of empathy is my feeling of empathy, something I have created. God, this being that created the earth to shake because we did something wrong—Pat Robertson’s reasoning for the earthquake in Haiti is a deal with Satan—is very dangerous. Maybe the word “God” needs to be evolved away from. Some words get used in a way that almost becomes “anti” whatever their original meaning was.You see that with all sorts of overused words, they’re almost impossible to use with any neutral sense of meaning because they’ve been deformed. And “God” may be one of those words since it got borrowed and mangled by American evangelicals. Belief is not the important thing because belief means, “Am I sincere? Do I have the facts?” Belief goes up and down. Experience is more important, so I would put it a different way. I experience in my life a presence that makes me feel that love and empathy and predates my existence—that this presence was around, was actually tangible somewhere before the Earth was here or the universe took its shape, and that it continues to evolve with us. This gives me a sense of peace, purpose, meaning, and something to appeal to—call it whatever you want. Now I don’t “believe” that, because “belief ” is something that hinges on rational argument. But I do “sense” that. So, when I hold Lucy and read her a story, or when I look at the many other people and things that I love, I sense a meaning that goes beyond my ability to describe. Or when I look at a canvas I sense something more than the molecular structure of paint. I know a scientist could take that same canvas and come up with a rational explanation in terms of the paint, its age, and chemical composition, but that’s not what the painting is. I feel the same way about existence. I experience a divine presence in my life that people have called God and maybe the name, or word, as you say, is wrong. Stories about Christ in terms of sacrificing for others, putting others first, doing unto others what you would have them do unto you, not casting the first stone—those are principles I choose to live by. “Belief ” in Jesus has nothing to do with it, but his life is a good template for me to try to live by. The word belief is overused, because belief changes. There are days I believe I love my wife, there are days I believe I don’t. But I sense her presence in my life in a way that I can’t and don’t want to escape even when we fight. It’s what we experience in our own life. And I personally experience what I call a divine presence as an entity that emanates from somewhere outside of me. The words fall far short.
A lot of people, left and right, are very upset President Obama hasn’t microwaved the American Dream back to life after just one year in office. People like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh are wishing and hoping for him to fail. Let’s separate them out. If you take Glenn Beck, this is a guy that without FOX media would be standing on some streetcorner barking at the moon. He’s not a rational person. The only reason he matters is because Rupert Murdoch makes money by giving him a megaphone to attract stupid people. There is a certain level of uneducated American that finds him entertaining and even dumber folks who actually believe him and his grand amorphous paranoid conspiracy theory of the world. If you look at Sarah Palin, if the Republican Party was still the Republican Party, and being run by people like William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater, you never would have heard of her. But having been taken over by the lunatic fringe of the Religious Right—or the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe—someone like her gets a platform. But it says a lot more about the bedrock of the party right now than it says about her. Looking at Rush Limbaugh, I am sorry to say this, but he is genuinely a despicable person. This is someone who mocked someone with Parkinson’s disease for twitching. In terms of the Haiti crisis, he looks at dead bodies piled up and uses this as an opportunity to slam the President. This is just a crass and horrible person. Limbaugh is the fart in the American elevator and we’re all stuck between floors with him. There are many individuals filling our prisons who are ill in this way. But what is disheartening is that there is a media company that will actually pay a guy like this and give him the platform. It’s a very discouraging fact, not because he is from the right wing, but because he is so obviously a crass buffoon.
This “sense” of the divine, this presence gets attached to religion. The bliss that you feel when you hold your granddaughter is also felt by another human being as he or she straps on a bomb preparing to blow his or herself up. Supporters of this behavior also get that same ecstatic, divine, “God” feeling. Is it time for us to evolve away from the “God” attachment of that experience? I agree with Barack Obama when he said that there is a universal curve toward order and purpose and progress, and that when you look at history, and the way things shaped up, the evil and the anomalies are there but there is also such a thing as foreword progress.When you look at the history of holy wars between nations, even only 500 years ago, there are individuals and countries doing ter26 news & politics ChronograM 2/10
Do you see these people as dangerous? When you look at the things Rush Limbaugh, Fox, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin—what she was saying during her campaign, that Obama is not a real American, he’s not like us, he pals around with terrorists, people calling out in her campaign “kill him,” wearing racist messages—it just goes to show that we cannot escape the fact that we have a broad, racist, and hate-filled streak of fear of the “other” running through our country. Where were the so-called responsible Republican leaders to put Palin in her place, or for that matter, 10 minutes after Rush Limbaugh said the Haiti crisis was tailor-made to help Barack Obama and that he’d be using it to gain favor with the black community? Thirty seconds later, any responsible Republican leader should have been calling a press conference to roundly declare Limbaugh an inhuman imbecile and to distance his or herself. But instead there is largely silence. That silence is shocking. The sum total of what FOX TV and the far right has been doing since Barack Obama was elected is trawling for assassins; like they did with Dr. Tiller. FOX commentators went on for years about him calling him a baby killer, showing his photo, and referring to him in the most scurrilous of terms. They didn’t actually pull the trigger, but they definitely share culpability when somebody who was a little bit of a looser cannon— or braver—than they were went out and did more or less what FOX News had been talking about. So, yes, this putrid right wing smell emanating from the Republican camp followers is dangerous. The Boston Globe reported [two months ago] that according to the Secret Service, the threat level against the
President has gone up 400 percent—higher than anything they have dealt with in presidencies stretching back over 52 years. These are the very same people who after 9/11, when Bush began banging the war drum, said clearly and loudly that because we were in a time of war, any comment against the president was anti-American and unpatriotic. We are still at war. Why is the right silent? This is a sign of hatred unleashed and has nothing to do with rational thought. This is an emotional response to our first black president and it wouldn’t matter what he was doing. And it’s an emotional response to the demographic change in America. The white, pontificating talking heads like Bill O’Reilly and others, they know their days are numbered. Our country is going to be a completely different place than the one where they have any sway. First of all, Tea Parties aside, Barack Obama’s problems aside, this country is definitely moving away from positions these far-right people are comfortable with. It’s moving away from white males being in charge of everything, too. They can’t face it. They’ve had a psychological breakdown, and/or they are just racist but can’t come right out and say that. You have been a big supporter of President Obama. How do you feel about him now? I have totally unswerving support of him. It has nothing to do with loyalty. I don’t know the guy. The very fact he is being criticized from the left, not to mention the scurrilous right, means that when he does triumph, it will be his triumph alone. People will see that he hung in there, while people who should have been supporting him all along—say so many commentators on the left— stood on the sidelines sniping him. When we look at the presidency of Barack Obama, we need to keep things in perspective. After Ronald Reagan’s first year in office, people said he wouldn’t run again and his popularity was flattening out. Left or right, people look back now and say he was a very effective president. Whether you liked his policies or not is a different discussion. But no one discounts or says his was a failed presidency. People who don’t like what he did don’t think it was a failed presidency and have to admit he got much of his agenda through. Obama will, too. I think he will go down as one of the greatest presidents in American history. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of people on the left, commentators, etc., who are going to have egg on their faces. Twenty years from now their anti-Obama quotes will be remembered as shortsighted in writing him off before he had had a chance to do anything. I think health care will not only pass, but will be improved in the next seven years. Twenty years from now there will be universal single-payer health care just like we have Social Security and Medicare and no one will question it. But we’ll all know whom to thank: Obama. People from the left who are saying, “It isn’t perfect� today, will be a laughingstock then because eventually it will be made better. I think we’re going to get out of Afghanistan in one piece and we will have some success there. I think our economy will be coming back, and unless there is some huge Republican victory that reverses all this, we will be heading into a time of prosperity, because Obama will slowly, patiently, and subtly reshape our national institutions. His agenda, broadly speaking, is going to work. The idiots from the right are going to be absolutely discounted by history, and the progressive critics of Obama are going to be remembered as shrill and crazy in 15, or even 5 years from now, embarrassed at their hurry-up impatience. I also will say something that I believe: There is such a thing as “progressives� who are racists, too. No, they aren’t consciously racists; they are just so damn know-it-all and condescending to Obama that I have to wonder if they would have such a supercilious attitude to a white man or woman. I think some progressives think that they were mighty nice to “allow� their token black of the day to win, and now he should be doing everything their way. I also think that the people who hang in there with him—yes, I’m one—are going to be remembered as correct in our assessment, because Obama is going to turn some big, “impossible� things around. This is going to be a historic presidency. He is a great man. His policies are actually working. The problem is he has had trouble pitching them to the American people because he hasn’t articulated his vision in a slick, dumb, sound-bite way—he’s been trying to tell the truth too much and talk to us as if we were grown up.
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arts & culture february 2010
Giovanni Boldini, The Singer (La Cantante mondana) oil on canvas, 24” x 18”, c. 1884 “Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris” will be exhibited at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, from February 14 to April 25.
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museums & galleries THIS MONTH AT THECENTER
ALBANY INTERNATIoNAL AIRPORT GALLERY ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ALBANY (518) 242-2241. “Material Witness.” Group show. Through June 20.
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THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
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258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519. “Edward Tufte: Seeing Around.” Through April 12. “Jo Yarrington: Ocular Visions.” Through June 6. “Paying a Visit to Mary: 2008 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition.” Through June 6. “Sleeping Under the Stars, Living Under Satellites: Sarah Bishop’s Cave.” Jeanne Finley and John Muse. Through June 6. “Tom Molly.” Through June 6. “White Box: Photographs of the Unseen Museum.” Chad Kleitsch. Through June 6.
Directed by Kevin Archambault
For tickets and information, visit www.centerforperformingarts.org or 845-876-3080
Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh , NY 562-6940 x119 www.annstreetgallery.org Fahrenheit 180: Encaustic Group Exhibition with an Artist Reception on Saturday, February 27, 2010 from 6 pm to 9 pm. The exhibit runs through to March 28, 2010.
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BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “2010 Faculty & Student Art Show and Open House.” Through February 20. “The 75th Anniversary 7˝x5˝ Show.” Through February 20.
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BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Old Works.” Old works by current members. Through February 7.
THE BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS & ESTUARIES 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600. “Reflections on the River.” Mixed media art and drawings Linda Cross. Through March 7.
CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Nature Abstracted.” Paintings by Elise Freda, Joseph Maresca, Nancy Rutter; drawings by Madelon Jones. Through February 15.
CARRIE HADDAD PHOTOGRAPHS 318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-7655. Birgit Blyth and Michael Sibilia. Photographs. Through February 21.
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “Living Under the Same Roof.” The Marieluise Hessel Collection and the Center for Curatorial Studies. February 20-June 6. Opening Saturday, February 20, 1pm-5pm. “Student-Curated Exhibitions.” Exhibitions and projects with leading and emerging artists. February 7-March 7. Opening Sunday, February 7, 1pm-4pm.
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “Landscape Forever.” Group show. Through February 28. “Vanitas.” Justine Reyes. Through February 28.
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ELLENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY 40 CENTER STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-1497. “Rochester and Wawarsing Sampler: Early Town Records from the Ulster County Archives.” Features copies of archival documents from Rochester and Wawarsing spanning the centuries, from 1671-1909. Through June 30.
G.A.S. 196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592. “Balancing on the Edge of the World: Photographs from South Africa.” Haifa Mahabir. Through February 14. “Triple Whammy: 3 Solo Shows.” Franc Palaia, Joanne Klein and Bill Rybak. February 21-April 11. Opening Sunday, February 21, 3pm-6pm.
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THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Carol Gobin and Anda Styler.” February 6-28. Opening Saturday, February 6, 5pm-7pm.
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “From the HOH Studio.” An exhibition of works created in art workshops at the Hudson Opera House. Through February 13.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Double Dutch.” Featuring Alon Levin. Through July 26.
HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ CENTER 300 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 331-5300 “A Decade of Transformation: 1968-1978.” Photographs by Ellen Shumsky. Through March 30.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “The Walking Series.” Works by Yura Adams. February 4-28. Opening Saturday, February 6, 6pm-8pm. HUNTER VILLAGE SQUARE, HUNTER (518) 263-2060. “Catskill Mountain Foundation Members’ Exhibition.” Through February 7. Group Show: “Presentation Without Representation” Feb 13 - March 21. Opening Saturday, February 13 from 4pm-6 pm.
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FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “Hole in the Wall.” Site-specific installation by Harry Roseman. Through May 18.
MILL STREET LOFT GALLERY 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477. “Patterns.” Group show of National Art Honor Society young artists. Through February 13.
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f everything looks perfect from far away, the Warwick Valley is no exception. From the overlook at Bellvale Creamery, an ice cream parlor perched on Route 17A near Mt. Peter, the area couldn’t appear more inviting, nestled cozily between the mountains. But if you continue to follow the road west and turn down Oakland Avenue, you’ll find a place just as idyllic close up as it was when viewed from above—a historic, picturesque village cushioned by orchards and working farmland. Head down Main Street and pop into one of the many boutique shops that call Warwick home, like Frazzleberries, a country store selling furniture made of reclaimed barn wood and a variety of crafts, or Newhard’s, an eclectic home store owned by the village mayor and his sisters. Just around the corner the antique wares of the Eclectic Eye spill tantalizingly out over Railroad Avenue’s sidewalk, and local hipsters sip fair trade coffee from the Tuscan Café while they stroll on South Street. The store facades, often brick or adorned with 19th century architectural details, give a warm, fuzzy, old-fashioned feeling to the streets, says Michael Bertonlini, who moved to Warwick from Chicago more than 30 years ago. Today, he’s curator of the Historical Society of the Town of Warwick, which cares for thousands of artifacts and 10 museum properties in the village, including the Azariah Ketchum House, a Federal-style home built in 1810 where Bertonlini currently lives. “These outsiders come in and they see a village, and it isn’t Disney—it’s a working village that’s very much aware of its roots,” Bertonlini says. “And they all leave with this wonderful feeling, a quality of America that’s fast going with the malls and the destruction of so many communities. Here, we have people that have been bright enough to be able to understand the value of where they live and their heritage.”
Revolutionary Beginnings According to town historian Richard Hull, author of History of Warwick, New York: Three Centuries of a Community 1696-1996, Native Americans occupied the area for about 12,000 years prior to colonization. By 1764, the village of Warwick had been founded and the area (including Florida and Greenwood Lake, which help form the encompassing town of Warwick) anchored its economy on agriculture and iron. Local iron manufacturer Sterling Works forged bullets for George Washington’s army and made the links of chain that blocked British ships from moving along the Hudson River during the Revolutionary War. Many of the village’s most significant structures were built during this time. Baird’s Tavern, for one, was built of limestone in 1766 and served as an outpost for Washington and his men and a one-stop shop for townspeople—owner Francis Baird furnished medical supplies, farm equipment, candles, and other necessities. Another, the Old School Baptist Meeting House, was built in 1819 and features a number of striking elements, including a wine-glass pulpit and a barrel ceiling. Both are under the charge of the local historic society, and the Baptist Meeting House is still packed today when reserved for weddings; Baird’s Tavern can be used for a number of events, from tea parties to private dinners. It was the advent of the Warwick Valley Railroad in 1862 that changed the face of the village. An influx of wealthy city residents built lavish weekend homes in Victorian style and made local farmers more than financially secure with a way to transport crops for sale in the city. The height of this era would pass with the Great Depression, but the stage was set for a quick recovery as local roadways were built and the Black Dirt Region of neighboring Pine Island was drained, becoming one of the most fertile farming regions in the country. Today, Warwick thrives on tourism (its apple orchards, fall festivals, farmers market, and wineries 2/10 ChronograM Warwick 35
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Keeping Up Appearances It’s not by chance that Warwick is so well preserved, it’s on purpose—and if there’s any turbulence in the village, it’s usually impassioned opinions about development, conservation, and efforts to pass more protective zoning restrictions, like the ones that have prohibited vinyl siding in the historic district and restricted exterior alterations on buildings more than 75 years old. Anyone who lives around the Orange County area will remember numerous write-ups about Warwick’s battles against box stores, most famously against CVS, which replaced a bankrupt Grand Union’s vacant downtown lot. The clash even made the pages of the NewYork Times. Today, the concern is over the development of the Route 94 corridor, which is currently home to a couple of orchards and farms, scenic rural vistas, and a strip mall that houses a ShopRite and a RiteAid. The area is positioned for further strip mall development, with plans detailing a Price Chopper and other potential stores that will be erected near the entrance of the village. “It’s been a priority to get resolution [on the Route 94 project] so that whatever happens there doesn’t become a drain to the vibrancy of the downtown area,� says Village Mayor Michael Newhard. “What’s happened here over time is significant in terms of the development of a business district. It’s not just Main Street, it’s also lateral streets, like Railroad Avenue and Spring Street and South Street. It’s grown in such a way that I’ve described it as a renaissance of small business.� Still, Newhard says, “there’s a careful balance that has to happen.There are a lot of possibilities on the outskirts of the village, in the town, that may actually destroy the growth pattern in the village.� It’s a growth pattern to be proud of. Business in Warwick has remained resilient during the down economy, to say the least. The number of shuttered storefronts has been nominal, and in contrast, Michael Johndrow, executive director of the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce, estimates that there have been 35 grand openings in the area since the financial slump began. Businesses survive here, even if they feel a bit of an effect. “My money is off but there are people coming in the door,� says Yesterday’s restaurant owner John Christison. “The head count is still the same, but they’re spending different.� He credits the community as a whole for supporting local business in tough times, and specifically collaborations between business owners and the merchant guild and chamber of commerce. “It’s not just one of us doing it,� he says, “we all put ideas in and make it work.�
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board that makes sure the village is preserving its charm. There’s Community 2000, a nonprofit umbrella organization that puts together cultural events like the annual Warwick Summer Arts Festival. There’s the Think Local First committee, organized by the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce, that tries to pump up the local economy by promoting the virtue of the village’s own offerings. And there’s an overwhelmingly popular leadership—Mayor Newhard and town supervisor Michael Sweeton are known for their good rapport with each other and the community, and the superintendent of the school district, Raymond Bryant, is gaining recognition for his efforts to supply the schools with locally sourced goods (like apples, for instance). The motive is simply to keep Warwick what it is while changing it for the better.While preservation takes a priority, the villagers are quick to acknowledge that they’re not opposed to development, they just want smart development. Take the residential situation, for example. A local hospital has made living in Warwick an attractive option for senior citizens, and there are now five communities that cater to this demographic.Warwick Grove, one of the newest housing options for active adults 55 and older, is often described as the model, the ideal for any type of expansion.Working with the developers, Leyland Alliance, the 130-acre town home, condominium, and single family home project was approved because Leyland was sensitive to the character of the surrounding village and designed the new-build homes with those traditional architectural elements in mind. (The Leyland Alliance also donated two acres for the town’s new $9 million library, which opened in November.) The local government nixed a plan for a commercial aspect to the community, so that existing Warwick businesses wouldn’t suffer.This regulation of building has been the key to maintaining the personality of the place while also allowing it to grow, says Newhard.There’s no lack of interest in developing Warwick land—just strict moderation on what gets approved and how it’s done.
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Farming for the Future Staying true to roots while embracing change is nothing new to Steve and Jill Pennings of Pennings Farm Market, who’ve run the orchard and market there for more than 20 years. Steve says agricultural traditions are a staple of his family heritage, but he’s also combining those ideals with new technology—the Pennings are looking to add solar panels to their marketplace off Route 94. “We’re keeping a difficult industry, agriculture, prominent, or at least with a face to it here in Warwick,â€? he says. Especially in the fall, when hordes of visitors venture to Warwick for apple picking and Applefest (which draws upward of 30,000 people to the village on one day each autumn), the farms and orchards are the main attraction. From there, the tourism dollar trickles down to other businesses around town—retail shops, restaurants, bed and breakfasts. Kristen Ciliberti, co-owner of the Tuscan CafĂŠ, a coffeeshop favored by bohemian and young patrons for its off-the-main drag location and live music, says she often becomes an unofficial tour guide, fielding calls about village events, giving directions, and answering questions from curious city-dwelling folk. “I’ve literally had tourists on the street stop me and ask why it smells,â€? Ciliberti says, referencing Warwick’s active farms. But Warwick’s smell may be endangered—when the Pennings discuss the new Price Chopper, they do so with a quiet resignation. The supermarket is poised to move in on their turf, offering local products almost literally across the street from their farm market. There’s no way to compete, Steve says, so that means they’ll have to adapt. They’ve already got plans to make their market a little less of a market, and more of a cafĂŠ experience, serving local hard ciders, a hearty meal, and a good helping of local music. While they’re hoping that the new buildings will drive traffic into the village, many others are keeping their fingers crossed that it won’t be driving it away. “This village is special because it’s surrounded by farms,“ says the mayor. “The minute we start losing our grip on that we start losing our identity.â€?
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MARION ETTLINGER
by peter aaron
The Waking Dream Natalie Merchant
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amestown, New York, situated along the southern edge of Chautauqua Lake in the southwestern corner of the state, was once called the furniture capital of the world, thanks to its being a leading producer of mattresses and wooden furnishings. Today the city of 32,000 is, arguably, better known as the birthplace of two of America’s most iconic female entertainers. One is Lucille Ball, who has a museum there dedicated to her beloved sitcom, “I Love Lucy.”The other is Natalie Merchant, whose former band 10,000 Maniacs sold millions of records, took her around the world, and led her to the incredibly successful solo career she’s enjoyed since the mid 1990s. Like Ball, unsurprisingly, she didn’t stick around Jamestown when her star began to rise. By the time Merchant took her very first steps on the long musical road, however, there wasn’t much to leave behind. “In the ’70s, when I was growing up, it was already pretty economically depressed there,” says Merchant, whose mother, a secretary, and father, a jazz musician, divorced when she was very young; her stepfather was a college professor, a writer, and an artist. “What was great, though, were the outdoor concerts they had at [nearby historic education/performance center] the Chautauqua Institution. My mom was single for most of the seventies and didn’t have a 40 music ChronograM 2/10
lot of money, but she loved music and the arts. So in the summers she’d sneak me and my sister and two brothers under the fence there to hear the symphony and see people like Nuryev, Barishnikov, Art Tatum, Beverly Sills. But the furniture industry had long moved south, before, I guess, moving again to China. The other big export was automatic voting machines, and now those are being phased out. So there were all of these empty factories.” One such factory was Broadhead Worsted Mills. A former textile plant, it was taken over by artists and became the site of early gigs by Still Life, the band that would rename itself 10,000 Maniacs not long after Merchant joined in 1981, when she was 17. “I was already in college as part of an advanced placement program,” she recalls. “I’d studied piano and sang in school for fun, but I’d never been in a band before. The plan was to go to art school; I’d been accepted to the School of Visual Arts in New York. But that didn’t quite end up happening.” Not quite. But, then, what may have been the visual arts world’s loss has certainly been the music world’s gain. Spearheaded by Merchant’s plaintive but full-bodied voice and gift for graceful pop songwriting, 10,000 Maniacs’ ubiquitous modern folk rock pretty much defined college radio’s late-’80s arc
into mainstream alt-rock. After scoring a hit in the UK with “My Mother the War,” off its 1983 sophomore indie album Secrets of the I-Ching (Christian Burial Music), the quintet signed to Elektra and released a string of albums, TheWishing Chair (1985), In My Tribe (1987), Blind Man’s Zoo (1989), and Our Time in Eden (1992), all of which rode the charts for weeks on end, carried along by hit singles like “What’s the Matter Here?,” “These Are Days,” and “Candy Everybody Wants.” With the Maniacs, Merchant visited Europe for the first time when she was 19, for a while lived in London, and even performed at President Clinton’s inaugural ball in 1993. But eventually it was time for a change. Merchant left 10,000 Maniacs after the release of 1993’s live MTV Unplugged (also Elektra). “By then I’d been in the band for 12 years, and since I was so much younger than the other members I’d always felt like the little sister or something,” the singer says. “I needed to mature, to emancipate myself. The group and I didn’t always agree on everything and I really had to be able to speak for myself, not for everyone else.” To say her departure paid off would be the mother of all understatements. The very same day she left the group Merchant began writing the material for Tigerlily (Elektra Records), her 1995 solo debut. Home to an incredible three hit singles—“Carnival,” a Top 10 smash; “Wonder” and “Jealousy,” both Top 40—the album sold a staggering five million copies and right away made her one of the decade’s leading solo artists. “[The album’s instant success] shocked everybody at the label—and me, too,” Merchant says. “As far as major-label records go it wasn’t really a big production, and the band I had put together was all really young players. So it was very gratifying.” Her newfound cachet at Elektra enabled her to record 1998’s ambitious follow-up, Ophelia, a lavish conceptual album with symphonic arrangements by British composer Gavin Bryars and guest work by smooth jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and other star players. The disc went platinum as she co-headlined that year’s colossal Lilith Fair tour with Sarah McLachlan, and she capped the tour off with a run of her own shows at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theater, which were taped for 1999’s Live in Concert (Elektra). In 2000 she revisited 10,000 Maniacs’ folk influences, doing a tour performing traditional material backed by revisionist band the Horse Flies, and with Wilco, the tour’s opening act, and Billy Bragg, appearing on Mermaid Avenue,Vol. II (Elektra), the second such project to set unearthed Woody Guthrie lyrics to music. She made one more album for Elektra, 2001’s stripped-down, T-Bone Burnett-produced Motherland, which was supported by arena shows with Chris Isaak, before leaving the label and starting her own Myth America imprint to release 2003’s acclaimed The House Carpenter’s Daughter, a record that saw her digging even deeper into the folk canon. And then…silence. Until April 6, when Merchant will release Leave Your Sleep, her first album in seven years and her debut for Nonesuch Records. Why the long wait? Two solid reasons. The first is the raising of her daughter, now six, something any young mother will no doubt relate to. The second can only become obvious upon hearing the album. Available as either a deluxe two-CD package or an abridged single disc, LeaveYour Sleep has Merchant taking on the Herculean exercise of setting 26 poems by as many poets to original music played by a cast of over 130 musicians, a lineup that includes Medeski, Martin & Wood, the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Hazmat Modine, the Klezmatics, the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York, and others. Musically it plays like a voyage around the world, stopping at exotic ports to take in everything from blues to sea chanteys, Dixieland to Celtic folk, reggae to bluegrass, rock to chamber and early music, plus a boatload of other sounds. (Outtake tracks will be available for download on iTunes.) Merchant’s co-producer on the album was the Brazilian-born Andres Levin, who worked on the successful Red Hot album series; with David Byrne, k.d. lang, and Tina Turner; and with Caetano Veloso and other high-profile Latin acts. “It was a huge project—there was an endless stream of people coming in an out of the place,” says Levin of the sessions that took place at Rhinebeck’s Clubhouse studio. “It was challenging to keep the flow, but watching it come to life was great.Working with Natalie was wonderful. She’d done a lot of preproduction, and she always has a very clear idea of what she wants.” The program’s genius is in how Merchant pairs the poems with just the right accompaniment: Albert Bigelow Paine’s “The Dancing Bear” works perfectly as a sly klezmer tune; Jack Prelutsky’s “Bleezer’s Ice Cream” becomes a Randy Newman-esque New Orleans R&B stroll. Writing and arranging mu-
sic that adequately evokes the feel of someone else’s words would seem no easy art, but on LeaveYour Sleep Merchant somehow visits the brains of her de facto lyricists, most of whom are long dead, and gets them to tell her exactly what they’d like to hear. “Actually, I find it far easier than writing a song from scratch,” says Merchant. “Having to write melodies and chord progressions and then trying to come up with words that fit is almost a form of tyranny to me. By doing it the other way around—getting the mood of a poem and then using the structure as a skeleton makes me the tyrant; a tyrant informed by the lyrics.” But while her fascination with roots music is obviously well documented, her love of poetry hasn’t been. Did she read a lot of poetry growing up? Merchant shakes her head. “No, I came late to poetry,” she says. “I was pretty much just a magazine/newspaper article reader, someone who mainly read for information, not entertainment. But I became friends with Allen Ginsberg before he died, so I got into his work, and he also turned me onto Anne Waldman and other poets. And then, about seven or eight year ago, I had this epiphany that became a fervor, especially for the Victorian poets.That’s why there are so many of them on the album. [The two-disc version features works by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, and several of their contemporaries.] It just really resonated with me, that even though these people lived so long ago the themes and emotions they were dealing with have never gone away.” An outspoken progressive, the 46-year-old Merchant is known almost as much for her activism as her music, and frequently performs at benefit events. “Yeah, I guess I’m pretty ‘causey,’” she says with a smirk. “But that’s always been part of what I do. Even back in the 10,000 Maniacs days we’d have people from Greenpeace set up tables at our shows to collect signatures and donations. The first show that that band ever played was a Hirsohima Remembrance Day concert. But these days I like to do it in quieter, more under-the-radar ways. For instance, a few years back I was taking Pilates in [Kingston neighborhood] the Rondout and I noticed the playground equipment at the school there was falling apart. I made some calls, found out how much it would cost to replace it, and then donated the money from a show I did. It feels good to do those things.” Among the worldwide and area causes Merchant cites as favorites are Doctors Without Borders, Scenic Hudson, Family of Woodstock, Clearwater, Riverkeeper, and the local Head Start and Planned Parenthood chapters. She was recently appointed by Governor David Patterson to serve a five-year term as a member of the New York State Council on the Arts. Also an avid painter and gardener, Merchant has been a Hudson Valley resident since 1990. “It looks really similar to the Jamestown area, actually.There’s more snow there, but the Catskills remind me of the Alleghenies,” she says. “I really love that this area is just far enough from NewYork and still so culturally rich. Everyone I know here is here because they want to be here, and they’re doing really interesting work.” When asked about her return to the limelight and the state of the contemporary music industry, Merchant likens herself to another famous Catskillian. “I feel like Rip Van Winkle, waking up to a totally different world,” she says, visibly overwhelmed. “When I left Elektra in 2002 the record people were just beginning to run around like the sky was falling, because it was becoming clear that with the Internet artists would no longer be powerless without them.Things really hit home when The House Carpenter’s Daughter was released online—the same day my daughter was born—and it sold 75,000 copies with no touring or press interviews at all. Since then I’ve launched a new website, and it’s very exciting as an artist to see the way the old business model is being replaced.” As the determined Merchant arises from her lengthy hibernation, the lines of one of LeaveYour Sleep’s standout tracks, her adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Land of Nod,” come floating into view: All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do— All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams Natalie Merchant will perform at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on March 13 to benefit WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. www.nataliemerchant.com. Leave Your Sleep will be released by Nonesuch Records on April 6. 2/10 ChronograM music 41
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February 5, 6. Bard College President Leon Botstein conducts the magnificent American Symphony Orchestra as it continues the mission it began last October: to perform Beethoven’s first five symphonies in the acoustic splendor of the campus’s iconic Fisher Center. These two recitals present the composer’s pivotal third symphony, aka the Eroica symphony, and adds Bruckner’s third symphony. 8pm. $20, $30, $35. Annandale-onHudson. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu.
Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson February 6. Blues history has given us three guitarists named Luther Johnson, but don’t be confused: The Mississippi-born “Guitar Junior,” is the best known and the heir to the towering throne of his late Westside Chicago mentor, Magic Sam. Johnson further honed his soulful chops with the legendary Muddy Waters, appeared in The Blues Brothers, and grabbed a Grammy in 1985. Backed by his Magic Rockers, he enchants the Towne Crier this month. (CJ Chenier brings zydeco love February 14; bluesman Joe Louis Walker burns February 20.) 8:30pm. $25, $30. Pawling. (845) 855-1300; www.townecrier.com.
Fred Hersch February 6. Since 2001 Tony Falco and his family have hosted shows by music’s leading names in their cozy DIY venue, the Falcon. Featured artists come from the blues, rock, and contemporary chamber music worlds, but the strongest accent has been on jazz—a trend that continues with this date by pianist Fred Hersch. An ex-sideman to Joe Henderson, Art Farmer, Toots Thielemans, and Stan Getz, Hersch has elicited swoons from Downbeat and topped many a jazz poll. (The kid-friendly Gustafer Yellowgold plays February 13; blues rocker Chris Bergson heats things up February 20.) 7pm. Donation requested. Marlboro. (845) 236-7970; www.liveatthefalcon.com.
WGXC “Sound + Voice + Image” benefit February 13. On the heels of WGXC’s wildly successful, circus-like New Year’s Eve benefit comes another event designed to further raise funds for the community radio station’s operating costs. “Sound + Voice + Image” takes place at Nicole Fiacco Gallery and promises music and readings by Brian Dewan, the Bunnybrains, Peter Head, Maggie Estep, Lady Moon, Luc Sante, Studio Stu, Chronogram’s own Sparrow, and many others, plus visual works by area artists. (On February 6 Sorted boutique hosts “I ♥ WGXC,” a fundraiser/sale and performance by sound artist Hans Tammen.) 7pm. $10. Hudson. (518) 622-2598; www.wgxc.org.
Salman Ahmad February 20. Besides being a globetrotting Muslim musician and a former member of two of Southeast Asia’s biggest acts, Vital Signs and Junoon, Pakistani guitarist Salman Ahmad is an actor, a medical doctor, and a passionate advocate working to foster HIV awareness and peace between India and his homeland. He’s also the author of an inspiring memoir, Rock & Roll Jihad (Simon & Schuster, 2010), from which he’ll read, in addition to performing, at this rare appearance at the Tuscan Cafe. 3pm. Call for ticket price. Warwick. (845) 987-2050; www.tuscancafe.net. Matthew Sussman
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Jim Weider’s Project Percolator Pulse (Moon Haw Records, 2009)
Complex rock instrumental albums always seem to have comparatively complex names, so it should come as no surprise even to neophytes that one-time Band guitarist and current Levon Helm sideman Jim Weider’s Project Percolator falls into this category. But even with this collective’s genre-specific moniker, it’s clear from spinning Pulse that a great deal of care went into the music. The first three tracks are relentless, with drummer Rodney Holmes evoking an entire college marching band’s drum corps while Weider and Mitch Stein unfurl an entire Berklee School of Music semester’s worth of guitar landscaping on the absurdly titled opener “Squirrels in Paris.” The fourth track, “Dreamline,” not only serves as a mellow palate-cleanser, it does so while channeling Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes.” As though to prove that Project Percolator is really all about skilled musicians showcasing their considerable talents, the album’s lone track featuring vocals, “ReleaseYourself,” utilizes a trio of soulful singers whose sole job seems to be announcing the end of one guitar solo and the beginning of another. Pulse incorporates a wide array of styles, though whether it’s funk, rock, or jazz, it’s all filtered through the group’s neo-prog idiom. There’s not a single song among the 11 here that isn’t expertly played. But critics of this sort of thing, who’ve groused about the loss of anything resembling soul when every single guitar lick, bass line, and cymbal nuance sound as though they’ve been plotted using scientific calculators and Venn diagrams, aren’t likely to be swayed by anything here. As for fans of the genre, though, Pulse should delight. www.jimweider.com. —Crispin Kott Kirsten DeHaanThorns on a Crown (SirLady Records, 2009)
Kirsten DeHaan is a Woodstock artist to keep an eye—and an ear—on. Her recently released EP, Thorns on a Crown, is a bit of a tease, with five songs that make one wonder— when can we hear the rest? The upbeat “1984” introduces her guitar/bass/drumsbased sound and catchy songwriting skills, but it’s her elastic vocals that really pop. There are gratifying nuances in her voice and a little-girl quality that approaches the likes of Lisa Loeb or local songbird Valen. “Double or Nothing” is another cheery tune that urges the listener to get up and move. Things slow down on “The Night Shift,” which is a good thing, as the colorful variations in DeHaan’s voice are punctuated even more in moments of silence. She breaks out her harmonica in “I’m Coming Home,” and her singing is particularly earnest here. DeHaan winds down the EP with “Ms. Daisy,” another buoyant tune that leaves you wanting more. Another local publication voted this record into the top 10 of regional releases for 2009 and with good reason. DeHaan says her mission is to deliver goose bumps and to question the status quo, and she’s been doing just that on college and adult alternative stations across the Northeast. www.kirstendehaan.com. —Sharon Nichols
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Palenville-based and proud, Voodelic has been a staple of the local scene since 2004, and recently raised the bar with the addition of local light Ross Rice, a keyboard veteran who has put in his time in Memphis, playing with the greats and having hits with the band Human Radio. Other members include Colin Almquist (bass), Dan Cartwright (drums), Eric Cartwright (guitar), and Mississippi native “Little” Earl Lundy on vocals. You can be sure a dead chicken was swung over these tracks, as Voodelic surely lives up to its name with this dark and delicious fare. This North-meets-South scenario simply cooks on high heat, and a spicy funk/gospel/soul stew emerges, all played with an underlying rock stance. On the funky, clavinet-and-organ-powered “Dark Times,” Lundy sings, “I won’t rely on a rich man’s justice.” There’s palpable pathos in his tone with the anxious “Voices,” in which he wails, “There’s voices in my head I can’t control”—and you believe him. “Suppose” has an urgent urban vibe, while a bubbling bass prods “Blasphemers” and its false prophets. All the elements come together in the big closer, “Tha Voo.” The musicianship and tunes here are top-notch, the arrangements are razor-sharp, and the production is vibrant and alive, as Voodelic finally comes into its own and heads skyward. The band will play a Rosendale Street Festival benefit at the Rosendale Community Center on February 13, the Fernwood in Palenville on February 20, and the High Falls Cafe on February 27. www.myspace.com/voodelic. —David Malachowski
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ulie Powell doesn’t mince words. Her second memoir Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession (Little Brown, 2009) is a startling follow-up to the bestselling Julie and Julia, which inspired one of the summer’s most effervescent films, starring Amy Adams as Powell and Meryl Streep as Julia Child. Julie and Julia started its life as a blog. With her 30th birthday looming, Amherst-educated cubicle worker Powell (“government drone by day, renegade foodie by night”) set out to cook her way through Julia Child’s masterpiece Mastering the Art of French Cooking: 524 recipes in 365 days.The ups and downs of this “deranged assignment,” detailed in her signature breezy, tell-all style, won a huge online following and landed Powell book and movie deals. Happily ever after, right? Only in the movies. If Julie and Julie was a frothy soufflé, Cleaving is beefsteak tartare. This tale of carnal and carnivorous yearnings is not for all palates, but if you like your memoirs raw and juicy, it won’t disappoint. Powell enters a Manhattan coffeeshop with a gust of winter wind. She doesn’t look a thing like Amy Adams. Her hair is dark, her brown eyes sharp and bright. She’s wearing a parka over a nubby brown sweater with a few stray pine needles in the weave, a distinctly nonurban, nonceleb outfit. Her conversation is equally down-to-earth; she can be jaw-droppingly uncensored. Even when gleefully skewering fellow authors with phrases like “sanctimonious prick,” and “smug bitch,” Powell never invokes the dread “off the record.” “I’m a pretty confessional kind of girl,” she says with a grin. Indeed. “Cleaving” is one of those rare English words with near-opposite meanings; its dictionary definitions include “to stick or adhere, cling or hold fast” and “to split, rend apart.” In Powell’s case, both meanings are equally apt. The high-pressure Julie/Julia Project sent shock waves through a relationship that began when both partners were still in their teens. By the time Julie and Julia was published, Powell was deep in the throes of an obsessive, sexually kinky affair, and her husband Eric was seeing another woman. “During the book tour, we were separated. And I’d written a book about this wonderful supportive marriage, which was true at the time,” she asserts. “But by the time it came out, things were so much thornier. So there was a certain amount of cover-up. It made me feel like a liar.” Cleaving uncovers the truth with a vengeance, describing Powell’s marital struggles and her apprenticeship at Kingston’s celebrated Fleisher’s Grass-Fed and Organic Meats. Fleisher’s, writes Powell, became “My haven. My butcher shop. I spend my days now breaking down meat, with control, gentleness, serenity. I’ve craved certainty in these last troubled years, and here I get my fix.” Why butchery? “For me, it’s not that strange,” says the author. “I’ve always been fascinated with food, and butchery is a craft I’ve always admired.” She isn’t alone: the New York Times recently ran a food feature titled “Idols With Cleavers Rule the Stage,” about the new breed of cool-dude butchers with “swinging scabbards, muscled forearms, and constant proximity to flesh.” “It’s definitely a sex thing. I find it hilarious and a little bit overblown,” says Powell, who nevertheless describes Fleisher’s co-owner Josh Applestone as sporting a “Seventies porn star mustache.” In the rock-star butcher hall of fame, she says, “Josh is the big, buff guy” and Tom Mylan of the Meat Rack is “the Williamsburg hipster—he’s a wild man, the Hunter S. Thompson of butchers.” “I was so lucky I did my apprenticeship with Josh and Jessica—they’re such amazing, generous people.We matched up real well,” Powell says.The Applestones clearly agree—they’ve devoted a page of their website (www.fleishers.com) to Cleaving. Powell’s husband was not quite so sanguine, though he—and the Other Man, identified only as “D.” for the bulk of the book—granted Powell permission to write about their entanglements. “Does it feel like Cleaving is a betrayal, exposing something that shouldn’t be exposed?” Powell asks. “I think it’s a good thing to talk about how hard even a really good marriage can be.” Her only regrets are for Eric’s discomfort. “He’s a much more private person than I am. It’s not coincidental that I found my voice as a writer on the eve of this new blogging medium. I was always a person who spilled—that was why blogging connected so much,” she explains. “There’s a freedom you get, and a sense of communion with people. Twenty-first century life is so fractured, it’s so difficult to feel grounded. A blog is an effort to reach out and say, ‘Here I am.’” Powell talks fast, often using her hands; sometimes her fingertips seem to be tapping a text message onto the table. Hints of her native Texas still pepper her speech—when asked how many interviews she’s done, she drawls, “Oh, sweet God. Dozens and dozens and dozens.”
Topping the list of questions she never wants to be asked again: What was your favorite Julia Child recipe? (If you must know, in the LA Daily News she picked Bifteck Sauce Berce With Shallot and White Wine Sauce. And no, she never did meet Julia Child.) Powell did meet Nora Ephron, the movie’s writer and director. “She had my whole blog printed out on pink paper,” she laughs. “That’s so Nora. She’s this ferocious woman—all sharp edges, very, very smart in a very particular way, with a very particular worldview. So of course she goes and makes it into a Nora Ephron movie.” This included casting the role of Julie Powell. “Amy Adams is completely adorable, and she makes perfect sense in Nora’s movie,” says Powell, who has elsewhere described the actress as “completely un-me like.” She imagined someone “more neurotic, weightier. Before casting became a reality, I used to say Kate Winslet. She’s a good cusser, a little earthier—she looks like she might actually enjoy eating butter.” In one of Powell’s blogs for the website Double X, titled “What ‘Julie & Julia’ Butchered,” she deftly displaces her frustrations to the movie’s miscasting of her beloved cat, concluding, “It is my role now to be the good author, to be meek and sweet and endlessly accepting of harsh words and misinterpretations, no matter how much I might want to scream, in weaker moments, ‘But that’s not ME!’ Er, I meant, ‘That’s not my cat.’” Meek and sweet Julie Powell is not. Her blog is now called “What Could Happen? Musings from a ‘Soiled and Narcissistic Whore.’” This is one of the gentler epithets that’s been thrown at Powell since she revealed her extramarital affair in Cleaving. The backlash against her became so intense that fellow foodblogger Jennie Yabroff published a Newsweek piece titled “Stop Hating Julie Powell, Please.” “People have very strong reactions and feelings about this book,” Powell says. “I was really surprised by how intensely people reacted to adultery and infidelity by a woman. It’s a really visceral reaction.To me, it’s not that shocking—nothing Philip Roth didn’t write about 40 years ago. But the things people say about me, to me, online.” She shakes her head, speechless for the first time. “There’s a code of adultery. It’s acceptable if your partner is cruel, or not giving you something you need. But this was because I had a relationship with this other man, not because Eric was lacking in some way.” Some readers find it hard to sympathize with a woman juggling a generous, supportive husband and an irresistible bad-boy lover, griping that Powell wants to have her steak and eat it too. Others find her too unfiltered. “I’m often accused of the TMI thing,” she concurs. “But memoirists are memoirists because writing through their experience is a vital piece of processing. I was in the middle of this insane, crazy thing—I wouldn’t have gotten through it without writing.” Writing memoir is often a road to self-knowledge, and Powell is one of many celebrated memoirists slated to appear at the Woodstock Writers Festival, February 12-15 (www.woodstockwritersfestival.com). Susan Orlean, whose wild ride from book (The Orchid Thief) to Meryl Streep movie (Adaptation) makes Ephron’s transgressions look pale, will appear Friday night. Saturday’s headliner is best-selling writer (Not Becoming My Mother) and PBS star Ruth Reichl. “Love, food, and literature form the succulent base for this ‘moveable feast,’” says Literary Director Laura Shaine Cunningham, one of the festival’s founders. Executive Director Martha Frankel adds, “We’re hoping Julie will be as uncensored in person as she is in print.” Powell will read, sign books, and “give great Q&A” at the Bearsville Theater on Sunday, February 14 at 8pm. “The lineup of writers is awesome,” she says. “I can’t wait.” Powell and her husband own a country house in Olivebridge, but lately they’ve been trapped in Queens by a series of pet health crises. Their brood includes three cats (one 17, with kidney disease), a 110-pound dog (lame), and a five-foot ball python named Zuzu Marlene, who’s been with Powell since 1993. “We’re a decrepit bunch,” Powell admits. She and Eric are currently seeing a couples therapist. “It’s not all tied up with a bow, but we’re committed to working on it,” she reports. They’re learning to compromise—despite his reticence, Eric agreed to be taped at home for an Oprah segment, but not to appear live on the show. Powell shifts in her seat. “I need to go home and help clean the apartment for Oprah,” she says, pulling her parka back on. The handshake she offers is firm enough to crack pigs’ knuckles, though she’s no longer working at Fleisher’s. “I’m a recreational butcher these days,” says Julie Powell, who’s just started writing a novel. “I am now the turkey carver for sure.” 2/10 ChronograM books 45
SHORT TAKES Six outstanding local authors offer fresh takes on everything under the winter sun. Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America 1850-1920
Watching Gideon
The Lock Artist: A Thriller
Stephen H. Foreman
Steve Hamilton
Simon and Schuster, 2009, $14
St. Martin’s Press, 2010, $24.99
Peter C. Muir University of Illinois Press, 2009, $35
When Mamie Smith’s 1920 hit “Crazy Blues,” commonly cited as the first blues recording, kicked the music into the charts, the word “blues” had already appeared in over 450 commercially released titles. Muir examines the context and mechanics of these early “popular blues,” a fascinating subgenre of the now-iconic African American folk style. Reading/music performances 2/6 at 7pm, Grace Church, Millbrook; 2/7 at 3pm, Katonah Public Library; 2/11 at 10am, Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie. Position & Relation India Hixon Radfar Barrytown/Station Hill, 2009, $15.95
Radfar wrote these diverse poem cycles— “Twelve Poems That Were Never Written,” “Natural Megaron” (honoring Sappho), “Preposition Poems” (written without prepositions), and the typographically adventurous “Lung Poems”—while living in Woodstock, and the loose-lined, open-hearted poems seem to breathe mountain air. Appearing with Basil King at Cadmium Text 2/12 at 2pm, R&F Gallery, Kingston. Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard 1905-1930 Luc Sante Yeti Press, 2009, $24.95
Real-photo postcards were made in dark rooms by marketeering amateur photographers a century ago, and were once a trendy mode of communication in rural America. In his latest book, Bard professor Luc Sante presents a sampling of his own “RPPC” collection, and an essay that historicizes this demotic genre, whose unsmiling subjects derive from a time before the blending of self-awareness and photography. How To Be Inappropriate Daniel Nester Soft Skull Press, 2009, $14.95
If the flipped-finger cover art doesn’t make you laugh, you are definitely not the right reader for this portrait of the artist as a compulsive rule-breaker. “I tell these stories to explain why people stop liking me,” Nester writes, before launching into dryly hilarious disquisitions on such cultural phenomena as mooning, indoor tanning, Gene Simmons, and a personal timeline of inappropriate behavior. Silent Screams C.E. Lawrence Pinnacle Books, 2009, $6.99
There’s a dead woman in the very first sentence, naked and draped over a church altar with part of the Lord’s Prayer carved onto her body. Also on the scene: a sensitive criminal profiler, a cigar-chomping detective, and a querulous priest. Lawrence’s fresh take on the twisted-serial-killer genre is a high-octane, compulsively-readable thriller that gets New York right. Jam & the Box/The Fluffys & the Box Robert B. Wyatt A Wyatt Book, 2009, $13/$10
Publishing maven and erstwhile bookseller Wyatt makes a delightful fiction debut with these paired shaggy-cat stories of a newly widowed man’s unconventional road to recovery. It takes a village, they say, and Highkill, NY (a perfect-pitch Woodstock in mufti), is a grand place to disprove Fitzgerald’s maxim that there are no second acts in American life.
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dolescent boys are infamously noncommunicative, but most are technically capable of speaking when absolutely necessary. Maybe it’s just that the barrage of emotions and experiences involved in the journey from boy to man doesn’t translate easily. Anyone who has ever been a teenage male or known one well can testify that it’s not as if nobody’s home—there’s a simmering mass of often achingly beautiful content not far from the surface. Blessed be the translators. Two top-notch local authors have just published works that reach deep into the heart of the boy-man and come out with literary feasts, page-turning entertainments that are rich in understanding. Stephen H. Foreman’s Gideon has been mute from birth. His parents’ marriage does not survive his disability, but one parent emerges as heroic: his father Jubal, who finds inspiration and purpose in loving his baby boy. When Jubal decides to take 16-year-old Gideon on a fortune-seeking road trip to Utah, sheer chance brings a woman into the mix: Abilene Breedlove, foxy and fatally flawed. “She knew she was plenty quick enough to count change and to laugh at a good joke when she heard one, but even back in high school her dreams weren’t large ones.” Some of their adventures make hilarious reading. As in his debut novel Toehold, Foreman’s eye and ear for human quirks are spot-on. But although Abilene harbors no bad intentions toward her traveling partners, even trying in her way to take care of them, the undercurrents of greed and lust pull everyone down, and the lighthearted romp turns into nail-biting suspense. The absence of bad intentions—well, everyone knows how the road to hell is paved. Steve Hamilton’s titular lock artist was struck mute by trauma, the surviving victim of a terrible crime. As the statistics tell us, crime begets crime—Michael is telling us his story from behind bars. As we get to know him and live within his fiercely courageous reality, we begin to see how meaningless the term “crime” can be, and how arbitrary and capricious the societal response to it is. Michael’s journey from “Miracle Boy” survivor to convict with a number for a name is simultaneously bizarre and nearly inevitable. We berate “criminals” for poor choices, yet sometimes life offers no good ones, and there is a vast spectrum of morally contemptible behavior that skirts official consequences while causing havoc. Hamilton has a gift for weaving a complicated web of intrigue and irony and a knack for hoisting the system on its own petard. “If you think it’s just a big set of rules, you’re dead wrong,” Michael observes of the legal system. “It’s really a bunch of people sitting around and talking to each other, deciding what they want to do with you. When they make their decision, then they pull out whatever rule they need to make it happen.” Throughout both stories, the condition of muteness emerges almost as a character in its own right. If Gideon could speak, or if Michael could speak, the lives of everyone around them would be irretrievably altered, the course of events entirely different. It’s a lens that brings issues of communication and the heart into sharp detail. What amazes is that such intense meditations—on fathers and sons, right and wrong, life and death—can also be such great fun.
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The Ticking Is the Bomb Nick Flynn
W. W. Norton, 2010, $24.95
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year after the 2004 release of the Abu Ghraib photographs, author Nick Flynn (Another Night in Suck City, PEN/Martha Albrand Award) was photographed shaking hands with fellow honoree Sam Harris (The End of Faith, PEN/Nonfiction Award) at a literary award ceremony. Flynn, whose first memoir deals with his unstable father, suicidal mother, and homelessness, would soon condemn Harris’s atheist manifesto as “in part, a treatise advocating torture.� The poet-memoirist’s reignited obsession with torture is trenchantly chronicled in the stylistically explosive, genre-bending The Ticking Is the Bomb. Its heartbeat set in motion by a 2007 sonogram of Flynn’s then-unborn daughter Lulu, the atypical storyline crisscrosses space, time, and memory to interrogate the author’s decision to become a father in an age of large-scale catastrophe, shadowed by his own bewilderment and fear of intimacy. Linking travel on three continents, the book powerfully confronts truth in representation—foremost photographic. Poetically rendered, The Ticking Is the Bomb contains 94 discretely titled sections, their condensed dimensions (some a single paragraph) and nonlinear arrangement (sporadically dated by years) analogous to a group of shuffled photographs. “A photograph is like a house—once it is made we then start counting the days then the years from when it was made,� Flynn writes, introducing a 2007 journey to Istanbul, where he is privy to testimonies delivered by ex-detainees of Abu Ghraib. Countering American versions of the detainees’ torture, then getting “the information out through nontraditional channels� becomes increasingly urgent in subsequent chapters. Readers learn that Iraqis refer to the infamous image of a hooded man with arms spread crucifixion-style as “the Statue of Liberty,� and that Abu Ghraib translates to “House of Strange Fathers,� alluding both to enhanced CIA interrogation methods and to Flynn’s ongoing filial estrangements, woven into the investigative fabric. A shroud of apocalyptic imminence hangs over his reportage, relayed in sections variously coming to closure on the cusp of suicide, Hurricane Katrina, or 9/11. A sense of psychological devastation likewise emerges in philosophical meditations on torture, in which vampire movies, religious paintings, and comic strips collide with the teachings of Plato, Buddha, and Thich Nhat Hahn. Elsewhere, the political meets the personal in the author’s twin challenges of sobriety and (predominantly) fidelity. As befits the son of a man claiming direct descent from the Romanov line, our narrator compares his romantic pursuits to “reading Tolstoy—exhilarating, but a struggle, at times, to keep the characters straight.� Perhaps not coincidently, “Anna� figures among pseudonyms of the principal women he beds. Her chief rival, “Inez� (actress Lili Taylor), whom Flynn meets after purchasing a home on the Hudson River in “Rip Van Winkle country,� becomes Lulu’s mother. Readers of the never-discuss-former-relationships school of love may find his seemingly extended apology to one-night stands, serial partners, or those he two-timed tedious. But honesty and mercy remain central to the book’s overall righteousness. In the final movement of The Ticking Is the Bomb, Lulu joins the world. “G rounded� for the first time in his life, Flynn marks the occasion by comparing his own and his daughter’s first photos taken with fathers. In the background of the author’s conscience hover AP photographs viewed at a My Lai museum with his onetime stepfather Travis, a Vietnam vet. Though Flynn comes to believe that torture is not about getting information but “merely about power,� the possibility of redemption for those who have wrongly subjugated others emerges, resonating in what Travis asks of a Vietnamese woman: “to forgive America.�
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip 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.
Sometimes when you love a person too much you have tears.
…come to me like feather down and spill on me with fingers. Place one hand on my belly and your other wherever you wish, and we will share a laughter so silent our mouths drift open.
Do you see my tears? —Mila Sailor Moeys (4 years)
A Wintry Mind
Ok, I’ve told you. Now...
Here in this bare place, you are, and you are not. A wintry mind notices the warmth required to shape you. Nearer to the melting point, you congeal. Shrinking in the January thaw, you send a shiver. Could one reach in, preserve some part of you, like Shelley’s? In the icebox you would blend with frost, losing iridescence. Freezer burned, like one who walks into a whiteout, seeking you in every flake that disappears upon the tongue. —Mary Kathryn Jablonski
Spring Fretting The first warm day when leaves burst out of their cocoons with green, plied buds, pickup trucks zoom out on the arterial like oversized bugs caught in the wires of the ant hill, carried on the shoulders of hundreds of red-black dots with hairy worming, electric restlessness, even the sluggish, bald neighbor digs out a rusted rake from the garage and makes to gather putrid leaves from several years, only after five yards chokes, halts, turns back to the house, rummages through the fridge, lights a cigarette and collapses in a wicker chair, taking a long swig from his cold ten AM beer. Meanwhile, the pedophile across the street wakes up and goes out for a stroll in his black overcoat, his antennae flickering fast between the corners of the street, caught between two corrugated walls, whistling softly at the mere glimpse of a light pink camisole, polka dot flip flops, lingers in front of the gas station, hacks a persistent phlegm, spits on the pavement, spreads it with the heel of his torn shoe smudging it, careful not to step into the dried-up carcass of a squirrel flattened, brittle, paper thin, the delicate smell of spring folded in the spicy, satiating whiff of gasoline. —Lucia Cherciu
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How to Stay in Love with Your Girlfriend Who Has Cats When You’Re Allergic 1. Never fail to remember where you rate in the feline equation. 2. Never threaten her with a them-or-me proposal. 3. Never admit you’re wheezing when one of the cats just happens to be sitting on your head. 4. Humor her when she asks you to hold each cat for as long as it takes for them to stop hissing. 5. Pretend she’s referring to orphans in the wilds of Siberia. 6. Smile when she announces the cats will be joining the two of you for a candlelight supper. 7. Never question the difference between human and animal love. —Bruce Weber
The Annex My parents’ house has a large, wood attic, full of closets like caves. There’s a Talmud up there that’s useless. When he hugs me—my father—always as if for the last time (ageless arguments as illegible as any body) I cry as I hold on to Anne’s arm. My grandmother’s name, too. Her skin is downy, soft, and dark and she smells like dust and like the ocean. –Josh Platt
A Brief Treatise on the Dynamics of Unrequited Love She in the shade. He in the sun beyond the birches’ branches’ reach. He in the holy hold of love. She asleep. —Walter Worden
Café Garni
Nothing is Cool
Avenue B:
I awake before dawn to the sound of breakers and to the call of seagulls eating all the unfortunate clams that have washed ashore with the daybreak tide.
Started upstate along arrowhead hudson after school snow-cones and holy ways left it though for a west coast dream while the eucalyptus clicked and springsteen rehearsed i visited whole earth stewart who hangs in sausalito but drives a land rover anyway so i tailgate pickups north war weary like twain to calaveras and more tall tales hitched to seattle but right from the start nirvana saw it coming cashed-out californians wearing pricy jeans torn at the knee picked up 80 east sang taylor songs from stockbridge back to boston’s bronze revere looking for the citgo sign just as drunk but without you 90 to the thruway while springsteen hits the garden and explains the pain the east can’t shake and me wishing ron howard was bent over my california dreaming script a start-up story in a garage rags to riches to rags because i haven’t been able to follow it up with anything that cool since.
strange coquette your melancholic youth dropped a careful, illegal cigarette in my stupid, insipid, bitter barn. are you the undoer of ugliness? very well—for christssakes come in, there is much work to be done. I think I left the stove on, but whatever.
—M. Hotvedt
There’s so much of me in our boy, So much of me you’ve chosen not to love, Qualities that have stirred you to cease Nurturing an ideal of Us,
The morning breeze moves the curtain of my open bedroom window and the smell that only the Indian ocean can render begins yet another day. The joints of my knees and neck snap in sunrise yoga as the silent bounce of my partner’s breasts break a morning’s meditation in the semi-darkness. The glorious smell of coffee in two small, steaming cups clutched in long thin fingers mixes with the bouquet of the sea and the lingering aroma of a night of love-making which permeates the bed linen. The essence drifts aloft as it flows from the moist shaved-smooth center of all that is divine, of all that is feminine as she silently approaches with our morning’s liquid repast. Seagulls scream as I take it from her outstretched hand. —D. C. Lynn
Like Oxygen i need you almost as much as i did last week but not as much as i will tomorrow the butterflies surrounding us are prettier in our stomachs —Kristin Kimble
Able Bodied These hands can cup water To fill a fish bowl, land an airplane Frame a photograph, a tool shed Or an innocent bystander
—Julia Hickey
Ebb and Flow My sex drive is breaking up like a bad cell phone connection. That no one picks up sounds like good news. A horseshoe crab washed up by the outgoing tide, I lie on its sandy stage, raked seawards, wishing for a level playing field. Waves of applause attend me as I endlessly rock to and fro. On the next beach someone’s ringer is ringing, or just another buoy marking the way. —John Hopper
The Hope in Unfortunate Ends
Qualities you must now learn to love in him. —Thomas Perkins
—Arielle Lindstrom
After Fifty so the boat still floats and, in these warm currents even soars —Amelia Gearhart
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nown for its acres of farmland, impressive estates and nostalgic, community-oriented citizens, the quaint village of Millbrook is situated almost directly in the center of Dutchess County’s town of Washington. On any given day the sidewalks of Franklin Avenue are bustling with locals perusing their favorite rustic boutiques while tourists and weekenders enjoy aweinspiring scenery and perhaps a change of pace. In a 2003 New York Times article about the village, Ellen Maguire reported on the influx of weekend residents to Millbrook. She primarily credited the pairing of Manhattan “urbanites yearning for touches of small-town life” and the beauty of Millbrook’s “vast estates and hundred-acre horse farms.” According to town and village historian David Greenwood, weekenders are hardly a recent trend—they are actually a part of Millbrook heritage. “There are a number of estates that have been in the same family or a relative of the original builders since their inception,” says Greenwood. “Having people with multiple homes is really part of the tradition here. As far as the latest arrivals—the community has a real sense of self, which is shared generously by the people who live here full time and supported by the weekenders.” Many of these weekenders include celebrities whose second homes fall within the 1.9 square-mile village. Actor Liam Neeson, news personality Katie Couric, and singer Faith Hill are just a few. Countercultural icon Timothy Leary also staged his acid tests on an estate in Millbrook in the 1960s. Plenty of full-time residents also call Millbrook home—families are raised, homes are made, and traditions are carried on with a backdrop left virtually un-
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touched since the 1800s. Local traditions generally focus on an agrarian lifestyle incorporating small town ideals, farming, and equestrian culture. Horse farms, riding clubs, and competitions have been prominent in Millbrook since the village’s inception in the late 1800s and remain popular today. For over 100 years the Millbrook Hunt has taken place annually during the autumn. A tradition founded in Britain, the event sees men and women on horseback accompanied by hounds setting out to hunt foxes across the hills and through the woods of some of Millbrook’s largest estates. “As we travel the countryside and see the hunt in progress we see a rare image; it captures a time and place that exists in very few locations in this day and age,” says Greenwood. “The landscape and the ‘pinks’— the riders on the horses—over the countryside is just a timeless image.” While traveling east on Route 44 from Poughkeepsie, strip malls and franchise businesses slowly fade into rolling hills dotted with farmhouses and trees. February in Millbrook is an especially scenic time—green and yellow-tipped grass peaks through melting snow while white picket fences juxtaposed with log cattle fences. Snow and grass alternate in parallel rows on much of Millbrook’s farmland, indicating previous planting patterns. Modest homes and grand estates alike feature stonework dating back to the late 1800s—most of which was built by Italian immigrants. According to Greenwood, much of the uninhabited land is on family estates and will remain undeveloped. “Most communities have been obliterated because of commercial growth,” he says. “Our hamlet still has the charm that it did 100 years ago.”
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Millbrook proper Settled by Quakers in 1869, the village of Millbrook grew around a newly constructed railroad running parallel to today’s Front Street. According to Greenwood, “as Millbrook grew as a commercial center it eventually absorbed the earlier neighboring hamlets of Harts Village, Washington Four Corners, and Mechanic,” which are still currently parts of “Millbrook proper.” Early families farmed crops and cattle, due to superlative soil fertility and acres of available land.These practices were ultimately lucrative for settlers—families began calling Millbrook home and cultivating fortunes atop the newly broken ground. These wealthy families did not use the land exclusively for personal financial gains— many early families were very active in community service and philanthropy. Thorne Memorial School on Franklin Avenue was donated in 1895 by resident Samuel Thorne as an attempt to cultivate an educationally rounded community as well as a legally incorporated village—it is still in use today. According to Greenwood, Thorne “necessitated legal incorporation in order [for the village] to receive the gift; hence, the incorporated Village of Millbrook dates from 1895, despite its earlier origins.” The Millbrook Free Library was also a gift. It was given to the village in 1908 by the widow of Capt. Richard Hayes in his memory. According to village Mayor Andrew Ciferri, philanthropy and volunteerism have grown and developed into a Millbrook tradition since the efforts of early community activists like Thorne and Hayes. Ciferri notes the significance of small donations by a multitude of households as opposed to few large donations by a handful of families. “It’s real families that go back generations and generations who help offset the cost of maintaining a village,” he says. “Taxes are high, but how much higher would they be if you didn’t have these families?” Ciferri also mentioned that the nation’s struggling economy has only effected philanthropic donations marginally. “If [the average home-owner] was giving $25 two or three years ago, maybe they’re giving $15 this year” he said. “It’s a tradition and hopefully it will continue that way.” Another tradition carried through generations of Millbrook residents is quality education. The Thorne building was both a school and an educational venue welcoming all community members. Lectures, performances, and community gatherings were held in the enormous auditorium for the primary purpose of educating young, old, rich, and poor alike. Today, a newly built public high school shares a campus with the middle school on Church Street overlooking the public elementary school—all of which are modeled with late 1800s architecture in mind. Millbrook is also home to Dutchess Day School, an independent, coeducational day school for preschool through 8th grade students. A few miles outside of the village of Millbrook, stands the 600-acre campus of the Millbrook School, a top-tier private preparatory secondary school. Founded by Edward Pulling in 1931, the Millbrook School currently features renowned sports, arts, science, and volunteer programs. The original school complex still stands in its beautiful early 1900s dress, and additions, like the public school’s, were modeled with period-style architecture in mind. Amenities include dormitories; athletic facilities including an ice rink, a basketball court, and a weight room; and a newly constructed science building that is partially powered by solar energy. The campus is also home to the Trevor Zoo, the only zoo in the country located at a high school. Another aspect of the local learning environment is the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, founded in 1983 by ecologist Dr. Gene E. Likens. The Institute, situated on 2,000 acres just outside the village, is a world-renowned leader in applying the ecosystem approach to some of society’s most pressing problems, and conducts scientific research that is employed by environmental policymakers at the top most levels in the US and internationally.
However, Millbrook’s businesses are almost exclusively independently owned, making it a refuge of small-town entrepreneurial vigor. Lifelong resident Scott Meyer founded Merritt Bookstore on Front Street 25 years ago, and its inventory has featured bestsellers, classics, children’s books and toys, and some personal selections by Meyer ever since.The store also hosts regular events for community members, such as booksignings and the annual Millbrook Book Festival, which features author meet-and-greets, lectures, tours, and food. Much like Giovannini, Meyer appreciates his customers’ diversity and tries to cater to needs as they arise. “We always try to go for whatever the needs of the community are,” he says. “We tailor our inventory to what our customers want and need and also throw in some things I like.” Meyer and Giovannini are both advocates for the success of fellow small business owners as well as the village itself. “We try to promote the community as a whole. We know peoples’ products and we can send people to other stores,” says Meyer. “We’re trying to get people to shop local and think about shopping local first, then going elsewhere if they need anything else,” Giovannini adds. “We’re just trying to keep the town vibrant.” An important aspect of the vibrancy Giovannini cites are the local restaurants, specialty food shops, and wineries. Described by the NewYork Times as “the Hudson Valley’s flagship winery,” Millbrook Vineyards has been producing some of the region’s finest tipple on 184 acres since 1984, and is open daily for tours and tastings. The area is rich with a wide variety of cuisine from the French bistro fare of Café Les Baux and the Italian/Mediterranean bent of Aurelia, both located in the heart of the village, to fine dining at Charlotte’s Restaurant and upscale Mexican at La Puerta Azul on the outskirts of town. Babette’s Kitchen is a gourmet market right on Franklin Avenue serving breakfast, lunch, and dinners to go, and a wide selection of gourmet retail items.
Find a need and fill it Akin to the village’s dedication to education, Millbrook also holds independently owned businesses in high regard. Franklin Avenue is lined with specialty boutiques, colorful shops, and even more colorful shopkeepers. Eighty-two-year-old John E. Kading has lived in Millbrook for the past 78 years. He purchased the Corner News Store when he was 18 and sold it when he retired 10 years ago. His business advice rings true for many business owners in Millbrook: “Find a need and fill it,” he says. “I tell everybody that, and I hope for God’s sake they put it on my tombstone.” Carl Giovannini, owner of Village Wine & Spirit on Front Street believes he has done just what Kading suggested. “We have regular customers who look for value wines and customers who are looking for collectors wine, maybe from certain vineyards,” he says. “We have a wide array of things on hand in order to make everyone happy.” Owning a shop or boutique can be difficult given today’s economic climate.
RESOURCES Aurelia www.aureliarestaurant.com Babette’s Kitchen www.babetteskitchen.com Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies www.ecostudies.org Café Les Baux www.cafelesbaux.com Charlotte’s Restaurant and Catering www.charlottesny.com Dutchess Day School www.dutchessday.org La Puerta Azul www.lapuertaazul.com Merritt Bookstore www.merrittbooks.com Millbrook Business Association www.millbrookbusinessassociation.com Millbrook Diner (845) 677-5319 Millbrook Vineyards and Winery www.millbrookwine.com Town of Washington www.washingtonny.org Village of Millbrook www.village.millbrook.ny.us Village Wine and Spirit www.villagewinemillbrook.com
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Everybody knows everybody Considering ideals like supporting local businesses, quality education, and philanthropy, the people of Millbrook are very community-oriented. Greenwood chuckled while casually driving through roads marked “Private.” “It’s the nature of a small community,” he says. “Everyone knows each other.” Twenty-year-old Emily Atkin has lived in Millbrook for the past 15 years. She agrees with Greenwood’s opinion, but to an even greater extent. “It’s not even that you know everyone’s name—you know everyone’s dog’s name,” she says. “My dog is the dog that runs away the most.We don’t even have to call him to come home— if someone sees my dog running around town they know where to bring him: ‘Oh, there’s Archie, better put him on the Atkins’ front porch.’” She values growing up in Millbrook and believes that its tranquility and quaintness make it a great place to raise a family. Mayor Ciferri, a third-generation Millbrook resident, agrees “100 percent.” He raised his son and daughter in Millbrook and they are now raising their children in the village. Although Giovannini is not currently a resident of Millbrook, he looks forward to moving to the village with his wife and two children. “[Millbrook] has a sense of community, as far as people helping each other out,” he says. “The people who live and work in town are very good and have a good work ethic, and it’s good to see that and show the kids that. Mainly, the classic small town aspect is what I like about it—everybody knows everybody.” Ray Rhodes, a waiter at the Millbrook Diner, a ‘50s-style, 10-table retro eatery, spends three nights a week serving regulars and strangers. When asked why he enjoyed working at the diner he hesitates and says, “My clientele. I’ve been here 13 years and it’s a small town, know what I mean?” Immediately after making that comment he shouts, “Hey John, how are ya?” as one of his favorite regulars sits down at the counter.
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very maple-flavored amber ale that’s best suited for drinking with pancakes on a Sunday morning. In addition to selling from the brewery, Chatham is carried by bars and restaurants throughout the area and in New York City. Crowell also sees growler-filling stands at farmers’ markets as a possibility in the near future. On the macro end of the micro scene sits Kingston’s Keegan Ales. The biggest producer in the valley, at 2,500 barrels per year, Keegan is also the only brewery to bottle its product. For this reason, 99 percent of what they make is their three well-loved brands, which neatly trisect the spectrum into yellow, red, and black. Old Capital, their golden ale, is a good choice for those who fear opacity in their beverages but who want a far more yeasty complexity than mass-market brands. Hurricane Kitty, named for owner Tom Keegan’s speed-demon grandmother, is an über-IPA: a rich, tangy, hopped-up reminder that hops are close relatives of marijuana. Mother’s Milk, a stout that Keegan describes as an “homage to Guinness,” is a bittersweet espresso smoothie of a beer that flirts with the edge of burnt and has a luscious creamy texture from the lactose used in the brew (hence the name). Keegan also makes a tiny run of two specialty beers, each a turbocharged version of his darker offerings: Super Kitty, the IPA re-fermented with local honey and aged in bourbon barrels, and Joe Mama’s Milk, the Stout refermented with brown sugar and fortified further with a shot of coffee from Monkey Joe Roasting Co. just down the road, making it another excellent breakfast beer. The extra steps boost the alcohol and add more layers of flavor, but Keegan’s style is so assertive to begin with that the normal versions have character to spare, offering sustained pleasure over multiple glasses. Keegan’s beers won top honors at the TAP festival last year for Best Craft Brewery in both the Hudson Valley and New York State, and he has plans to expand over the next few years by either enlarging his facility or outsourcing some of the production with an eye toward increasing production by about 1,500 barrels a year. Despite the growth, Keegan estimates that he’s on a first-name basis with about 80 percent of his customers.
opposite: tom keegan behind the bar at keegan ales in kingston; above: an assortment of local microbrews in distinctive growler-size bottles.
It’s all good Open since 1998, the Gilded Otter in New Paltz is among the oldest breweries in the area. Darren Currier has been the brewer there for almost the entire time. A home brewer in college, he went on to study brewing at the prestigious Siebel Institute in Chicago. He produces about 900 barrels a year, and offers eight or so brews at any given time; interested visitors can avail themselves of the “beer garden” tasting that includes a three-ounce glass of everything on tap. Currier has crafted a fine array of choices to accommodate any palate. One highlight is the Three Pines IPA, which beautifully balances sweet, sour, and bitter, making for a superb example of the style; English hops impart more earthy and floral notes than some popular domestic varieties, so the result is less cloyingly fruity than the norm. Currier says that nearly 50 percent of their business is in growlers, sold to regular patrons and some tourists, and that bottling lies ahead. The Cave Mountain Brewery in Windham has been open for just over a year, and is off to a successful start: Last year it won Best Microbrewery award in the Hunter Mountain Microbrew Festival. Owners Tim and Amber Adams (no relation to Sam) have built a prosperous brewpub around sturdy fare and up to 12 beers: six regulars and four to six rotating specials. It’s a big variety, offering something for all tastes, and all the more impressive given their tiny one-barrel system; brewer Chris Tilley brews twice a day most days in order to keep up with demand. The Adams’s plan to expand soon, both to a sevenbarrel system and another offshoot brew pub in Greene county, but Amber says that the small system is conducive to experimentation: “with small batches, there’s freedom to try something new without worrying.” The Skytop steakhouse in Kingston and the Hyde Park Brewing Company across the river are both owned by Joey LoBianco. John Eccles, the Germantrained brewer, makes ales and lagers with finesse. Each establishment offers six different beers, with one in common: the Winkle Lager, their flagship, which LoBianco hopes to have in bottles in the near future. Though different, LoBianco says, the two lines run the same gamut: a very pale Helles (strawblond, German-style lager), the Winkle lager, something red, something big and bitter, a seasonal beer, and one of three rotating black beers. Each example
is distinctive, and well suited to pairings with the food. Hyde Park makes about 750 barrels a year, and Skytop roughly half that, and since the beer never travels it goes directly from vat to tap. This is a central benefit of drinking beer where it is made; there’s a freshness to the product that is simply not to be found in a bottle. Beer is better on tap. And on tap for summer 2010, Crossroads Brewing Company will open in the former Brooks Opera House in Athens. Suds are the best disinfectant It’s worth observing that many of these businesses are fairly new, and thinner on the ground than sudsier parts of Vermont or Massachusetts. Theories for why this is the case center on the complex regulatory hurdles surrounding alcohol in New York State. With layers of ambiguous and even contradictory laws dating back to prohibition, the state liquor authority currently under investigation for bribery and corruption, and many applications for licenses taking 10 months or more to be approved, it’s easy to see how a streamlined system might help us enjoy still more local beer. Granted, none of these breweries use much in the way of local ingredients. Without a malting facility, and with no large-scale hops production, it’s not even an option, though most producers expressed a desire to have local sources. But the products are excellent, and when served fresh from tap or growler they make for the best possible drinking. And the jobs they create are local, and politicians care about jobs. And, if memory serves, politicians are meant to occasionally make or change laws to improve the lives of their constituents. So, hedonism and activism can be productively combined: think globally, drink locally. RESOURCES Cave Mountain Brewery www.cavemountainbrewingcompany.com Gilded Otter www.gildedotter.com Hyde Park Brewing Company www.hydeparkbrewing.com Keegan Ales www.keeganales.com Old Chatham Brewery www.chathambrewing.com Skytop Steakhouse & Brewing Company www.skytopsteakhouse.com 2/10 ChronograM food & drink 57
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Jacks Meats & Deli
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30 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA
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Yobo Restaurant
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eddings are the substance of dreams: the handsome Prince Charming, an immaculate stretch limousine, the flowing Cinderella ball gown. When he finally pops the question and slips a ring onto that naked finger, the dreams becomes real—until you glance down at the price tag attached to them. Downsize. Scrimp. Budget. These are not the words a girl wants to hear when she is planning a wedding. Enter the frugalista, the new wedding diva, a woman graced with both fashion and thrift. With a little creativity, she achieves the unforgettable, unique wedding of her dreams without breaking the bank. It’s all about getting the biggest bang for your buck, making a big splash with less cash. And it can be done if you follow these six frugalista secrets to a dream wedding for less. Location, Location, Location…With Benefits. For Hudson Valley couples, there are ample opportunities to have the wedding of your dreams without getting buried under a mountain of 62 weddings & celebrations ChronograM 2/10
debt. The region is overflowing with beautiful venues that don’t take much gussying up. Choose a location that has Mother Nature as the head decorator lets you skip expensive accessorizing. Take Round Hill House in Washingtonville, for example. There you can exchange those sacred vows before a cascading fountain surrounded by trumpet vines, lamb’s ear, and petunias with dragonflies lighting on the blossoms, while you are serenaded by sparrows. Or host your reception beneath the tent of the Grandview in Poughkeepsie. Just beyond your sweetheart table is the majestic Hudson River, and the romantic lights of the bridge by night. A few miles up the road in Staatsburg, the acclaimed Terrapin restaurant brings its fine dining chops to the Dinsmore Golf Course Banquet Hall in Staatsburg, with panoramic views of a Catskill Mountain sunset accompany world class cuisine. To the east, the historic 1782 Stissing House in Pine Plains is just the place for an elegant country affair, complete with 19th-century grand ballroom. Located in the picture-perfect New England village made famous in hun-
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dreds of Normal Rockwell scenes,The Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge anchors your celebration in the heart of the Berkshires. You can’t special order that type of décor and it’s all included free. A location with benefits lets you trim your budget without sacrificing an ounce of experience. Jingle Bell Time Is a Swell Time To Get Hitched Spring, summer, and autumn weddings may boast an advantage when it comes to warm weather, but winter’s crystalline beauty makes for a stunning celebration, perfect for a bride with big dreams a small budget. Winter is the wedding off-season, when prices drop along with the temperature. Hello, discounts! As a bonus, catering halls come pre-decorated for the holidays, decked to the rafters with trees, ornaments, wreaths, lights, and tinsel. When you book your winter wedding, you get all of that included free. Winter is white and white is cheap. Colored linens, variegated flowers, and tinted programs are expensive. If you stick to a simple white theme with black, silver, gold or blue, accents to match the winter season, you save money. Mary and Ken had their December wedding at the Dutchess Manor in Beacon. The ballroom was already bedecked with silver and gold draped Christmas trees, greenery, and white lights. A few pine cones on the tables around the Manor’s famous red rose centerpieces and wedding favor stockings filled with candy delivered big impact at a low cost. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Cut out the extras and stick with simple elegance. The less detail and labor 64 weddings & celebrations ChronograM 2/10
involved, the smaller the price. Simplifying also makes the splurges you make stand out more in contrast. Opt to skip wedding favors altogether or make a donation to your favorite charity instead.Your family won’t miss those Jordan almonds. Trim your invitation expenses. Stacey and Dana asked their guests to RSVP by telephone or e-mail, saving a bundle by eliminating the cost of reply cards, envelopes, and postage. Have your florist use local, in-season flowers for your wedding. Local blooms are the most economical option because they minimize delivery costs. Whatever you decide to buy, consider purchasing items that will be used again. Helen and Bob chose potted spring blossoms of daffodils and tulips as centerpieces for their wedding at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie to be later planted in their garden. Call in the Bridal Brigade Band together with fellow brides to create your own wedding discounts. The internet makes it easy to connect with other frugal brides and stack up the savings. On websites like Bride to Bride Boutique, Recycle Your Wedding, and The Knot’s Trash To Treasure board, you can purchase used wedding accessories, shoes, jewelry, vases, and more from other brides. Even preowned designer wedding dresses are available at a fraction of the cost. When you’re calling in the bridal troops, why stop there? Use Meetup to assemble a community of brides right in your neighborhood. You can pool purchases of items to be used again, like vases, baskets and accessories. You can even barter for services; a crafty do-it-yourself bride might help you with your centerpieces in exchange for the candy buffet jars from your reception.
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It’s Story Time One of the easiest ways to make your wedding completely unique and wow your guests in the process is to share your love story with them. And it also happens to be free. People are suckers for a good story. How did you meet your fiancé/ée? What was your first impression of him/her? Where was your first date? How did you get engaged? Many of your wedding guests won’t know your story and they certainly don’t know all the juicy details. When you work them into your wedding day it makes a lasting memory that involves them in your story. You don’t have to brave the spotlight to pull this off. Share your story by writing your own wedding vows or having your officiant tell your story. You might write love letters to each other and have your entertainer read them. If telling an actual story isn’t for you, let pictures tell the tale for you. Display the wedding photographs of your parents and grandparents, create a scrap book of the two of you through the years, or place a photo of you as a couple on each table. Vintage photographs add personal style that doesn’t cost a penny. DonnaMarie and Ed came up with their own personalized cake topper, a glass cube containing photos of themselves as children and two beautiful portraits of them as a couple.
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Say, “I Do,” to DIY You don’t have to be a crafty wonderbride to pull off a few unique, costcutting do-it-yourself projects. Do-it-yourself invitations and programs are easy with a little printing software magic.You can even avoid the hassle of wrestling with stationary in your at home printer by designing them yourself and having Vistaprint print them at bargain prices. With a quick stop at the craft store, a tuft of tulle or bit of ribbon can transform a boring old serving utensil into a clever cake knife and turn a plain bound book into a wedding guestbook. Presto! You’ve added a personal touch to your wedding with minimal damage to your wallet. If the thought of brandishing a glue gun gives you chills, visit Etsy.com. It’s like Ebay for homemade crafts, the perfect place to uncover wedding accessories and handmade goods at bargain prices. There is no need to give up your dream wedding when you embrace the secrets of frugalista savings. Maximize the impact of your details while minimizing the cost and you can have your wedding cake and eat it, too. Resources Red Lion Inn www.redlioninn.com Round Hill House www.feastcaterers.com The Grandview www.grandviewevents.com Dutchess Manor www.dutchessmanor.com Locust Grove www.lgny.org Stissing House www.stissinghouse.com Terrapin www.terrapinrestaurant.com Bride To Bride Boutique www.bridetobrideboutique.com Recycle Your Wedding www.recycleyourwedding.com Trash To Treasure http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/ 5440370/ShowForum.aspx Preowned Wedding Dresses www.preownedweddingdresses.com Meetup www.meetup.com Vistaprint www.vistaprint.com
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Bed By The Stream
Irace Architecture
George Sickle Road Saugerties, NY 845.246.2979
Warwick, NY (845) 988-0198 www.iracearchitecture.com
bedbythestream.com Bed by the Stream is a cozy ranch house with a beautiful historic barn, situated on five acres of streamside property in the Hudson Valley. Enjoy an unforgettable hot country breakfast on our sun porch overlooking the stream. Or swim in our in-ground pool during
Spire Architecture 3286 Franklin Avenue, Millbrook, NY (845) 688-4811 www.spirearchitecture.com
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Catskill Mountain Lodge 334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com Dinner guests will be entered in a vacation giveaway to be raffled off May 1, 2010. The prize is one week in a two-bedroom condo in one of 5,600 resorts around the world. Our website has details www.catskillmtlodge.com. We are open for dinner starting at 5pm every Friday & Saturday.
Minnewaska Lodge 3116 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-1110
The Stissing House Route 199 & Route 82, Pine Plains, NY (518) 398-8800 www.stissinghouse.com
Alternative Energy
Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@safe-harbors.org Hours: Thurs-Sat 11 am-5 pm or by app’t
Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org Founded in 1977, CPW, an artist-centered space dedicated to photography and related media, offers year-round exhibitions, weekend and multi-week workshops, lectures, access to traditional and digital photography workspaces, a monthly photographers’ salon, film/ video screenings, and much more.
Country Gallery 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
JW ArtWorks, LLC: Gazen Gallery (845) 258-0749
6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4ART (4278) www.gazengallery.com
Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc.
Mill Street Loft
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45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org
Gallagher Solar Thermal
School of Jellyfish 183 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-8017 www.schoolofjellyfish.com contact@schoolofjellyfish.com
Solar Generation (845) 679-6997 www.solargeneration.net
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A multi-arts center offering a range of educational programs for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Millbrook and Red Hook. Programs include the awardwinning Dutchess Arts Camps (building selfesteem through the arts for ages 4-14); Art Institute (pre-college portfolio development program); art classes, and workshops and outreach programs for economically disadvantaged urban youth.
Root 52 Gallery 87 Mill Street, Liberty, NY (845) 295-3052 www.root52.com
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Auto Sales & Services Ruge’s Subaru Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057
1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum
Art Supplies Manny’s Art Supplies 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902
R & F Handmade Paints 84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3112 www.rfpaints.com Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery.
The Inkwell 46 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-6100 www.inkwellartsupply.com info@inkwellartsupply.com
Artisans DC Studios 21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200 www.dcstudiosllc.com
Freaky Fish Beads P.O. Box 723, Stone Ridge, NY www.freakyfishbeads.com
Ingrained Woodworking, Inc. (845) 246-3444 www.ingrainedwoodworking.com
Banks Bank of Millbrook 44 Front Street, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-4266
Sawyer Savings 87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-7000 www.sawyersavings.com
Ulster Savings Bank (866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com sbemz@ulstersavings.com
Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 24 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, iced coffees, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!
Book Publishers SUNY Press www.sunypress.edu
Bookstores Merritt Bookstore
Kathy’s Creations
7496 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY & 57 Front Street, Millbrook, NY (845) 758-2665 www.merrittbooks.com
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Mirabai of Woodstock
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and
gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.
Building Services & Supplies Adirondack Design Associates Rhinebeck, NY, Sarancac, NY (518) 891-5224 www.adkgreatcamps.com (845) 876-2700
McMahon’s Home Improvement 1062 Bruynswick Road, Gardiner, NY (845) 616-5525 www.mcmahonshomeimprovement.com info@mcmahonshomeinprovement.com
Newhard’s 39 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-4544
Williams Lumber & Home Centers 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Calligraphy Geneva Claire Hamilton: Calligraphy & Lettering Art
Certificates, awards, announcements, invitation envelopes, quotations, bookplates, illuminated letters, family tree custom designs.
Clothing & Accessories
The Mac Works (845) 331-1111 www.themacworks.com support@themacworks.com
Consignment Shops Past ‘n’ Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, and accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com
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For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural Foods Industry.
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Marilyn’s Consignment Boutique 22 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-9844 www.marilynsconsignment.com
Locust Grove — The Samuel Morse Historic Site (845) 454-4500 www.lgny.org
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Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY (845) 331-4199 ex.3
White Rice 531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500
Coffee & Tea Coffee System of the Hudson Valley (800) 660-3175 www.coffeesystemhv.com
Collaborative Workspace Beahive Kingston 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (917) 449-6356 www.beahivekingston.com scott@beahivebeacon.com
Woodstock Writer’s Festival www.woodstockwritersfestival.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Mother Earth’s Store House 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find
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Pennings Farm Market 161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com Organic, local, farm fresh produce. Supplements, homeopathy, bulk coffee, beans, rice, and granolas. Fertile eggs, non HMO dairy, teas, and all natural body & skin care! And so much more.
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Florists
Hair Salons Allure 12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Androgyny 5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620
Dennis Fox Salon 6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777 dennisfoxsalon@yahoo.com
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245 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0874 www.burgevinflorist.com burgevinflorist@gmail.com
Floral Fantasies by Sara Astor Square, Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0400
12 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-3656
Metamorphosis Salon 29 East Main Street, Washingtonville, NY (845) 496-9785
544 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6653 www.nowthatsmoxie.com
246 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5505 www.studioonehairdesign.com
TressOlay 101 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1575
Home Furnishings & Decor Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings
Kingston Plaza, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4440 www.flowernest.us
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Women’s Anatomy of
Arousal
Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure It may surprise you to know that our accepted cultural ideas and images of genitals are missing a lot of really good stuff. by sheri winston illustration by annie internicola
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his month we welcome you to the world of female sexuality with selected excerpts from a few of the chapters in the new book, Women’s Anatomy of Arousal (Mango Garden Press, 2009), by Sheri Winston.The book is replete with descriptions, illustrations, quotations, learning tools, tips for guys, and humor, and it covers not just a woman’s remarkable body but also the multiple facets of what Winston calls wholistic sexuality, for both men and women. Winston is a sex teacher, certified nurse-midwife, gynecology practitioner, registered nurse, holistic healer, childbirth educator, massage therapist, and student of the esoteric erotic arts. She is executive director of the Center for the Intimate Arts in Kingston.—Lorrie Klosterman Believe it or not, the majority of contemporary books and illustrations of female genital anatomy leave out most of the equipment responsible for arousal and orgasm. When these specialized sexual structures are omitted from the images and text, they’re also absent from our mental model. This limits your ability to access your full sexual potential—it’s kind of like a psychological chastity belt. There is much more to women’s pleasure than the clitoris, and there’s more to the clitoris than meets the eye. This ultra-sensitive sweet button is only the tip of the female volcano, just one component of a whole network of erogenous structures. Women have an interlocking set of sexual pleasure parts, most of which are unknown or misunderstood. In fact, women have just as much erotic equipment in their bodies as men do.That’s right.The female apparatus is equivalent in size to that of the male— it’s just not as obvious. Pound for pound, inch for inch, women have the same amount of the good stuff as guys. Since we don’t know about all of these yummy parts, we’re operating with a limited mental model. It’s as if we’ve been trying to play the piano and make beautiful music but are only aware of a quarter of the keys. With most of the keyboard missing, we can still make lovely music, but the range is restricted. When we discover the complete network of structures and understand how the connected system works together, it’s as if we now know where all the keys are (plus the foot pedals!). Then we can learn how to fully play our
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instrument and make a much wider, more expansive range of music. Some songs that seemed well outside our ability now become possible. We may not be able to play a Mozart sonata or have 15-minute orgasms right away, but we can see that it’s possible to get there.
An Erector Set of Her Own
To discover what’s really there, let’s imagine that we’re going under the skin, fatty tissue, and top layer of muscles of the female genitals to reveal what’s hiding underneath—an exquisite treasure awaiting discovery. There is a rich variety of structures and systems there, including what I call the female erectile network. Erectile tissue is a unique type of tissue, mostly consisting of a compacted mass of specialized capillaries. Capillaries are the tiniest blood vessels in the body, characterized by a wall that’s only one cell thick.You have regular capillaries all over your body, supplying each and every tiny cell. The thin wall allows for exchange to take place, enabling our bodies to absorb things like oxygen and nutrients, and to get rid of things like waste products. Erectile tissue, however, boasts some very unusual and talented capillaries with an extra-special ability. They contain a multitude of miniscule one-way valves that stay open when you’re not aroused, allowing blood to flow just like regular circulation. When you get turned on, the valves close, causing the tissue to fill up with blood. It’s as if you’d stopped the drain at the bottom of your bathtub, but still have the faucet on. Blood continues to flow into the one-way passage, but it can’t get out. In addition, some of your erectile tissue has balloon-like extra spaces where you can pack even more red-hot blood, increasing that extra-stiff feeling. When the erectile capillaries fill, the tissue becomes enlarged, firm, and wonderfully sensitive, producing the delightful state called engorgement. Women have a network of structures that are composed of this wondrous expandable erectile tissue. When a penis gets hard, a guy gets an erection. When a woman gets her erectile network fired up, she gets a “herection.” The female erectile network is made up of the interconnected but separate structures of the clitoris, the vestibular bulbs, and the urethral and perineal
sponges. The clitoris is composed of three parts, the head, the shaft, and the legs.The paired vestibular bulbs form fat parentheses around the vaginal opening, lying under the lips (labia). There’s a tubular sponge of erectile tissue surrounding the urethra that lies above the roof of the vagina. Another spongy erectile pad lies under the vaginal floor, in the wall between the vaginal and anal canals. Together, these structures form a connected set of erogenous equipment designed by evolution to work and play nicely together. Remember, Mother Nature wants to ensure that reproduction is a desirable activity!
engaged in a symphony. Unfortunately, though, since they don’t know it’s all there, many women are only playing with part of their equipment, thus limiting their erotic adventures. For women to reach their full sexual potential, they need to discover this network of erogenous circuits. When that whole system is fully utilized, it becomes considerably easier for women to expand their arousal, access amazing orgasmic states, and discover their deep and wondrous wildness. When you know all your parts and give them the attention they so richly deserve, your music can become a powerful symphony of ecstasy.
Electric Erectile Circuits
A Womb of Her Own
Each of these structures is linked to the others, forming an arousal matrix— the elegant female erectile network. In fact, women have two interwoven circuits of erectile tissue, including all three parts of the clitoris, and the erectile structures in the floor, sidewalls, and roof of the vagina. One circuit forms the cuff around the vaginal opening. The second circuit overlaps the cuff and includes the whole clitoris. Everything feels better when the whole system is activated. A wide variety of stimulation can lead to arousal when the focus expands beyond the clitoral head (not that it should be ignored, either!). In particular, when the whole erectile cuff is engorged, penetration feels marvelous! Without all of the structures pleasured and puffed, insertion and thrusting are not nearly so arousing and may be downright uncomfortable. Pleasure is maximized when all circuits are online.
The uterus, or womb, is an amazingly strong multilayered organ shaped like a pear. It has multiple muscle layers and a remarkable lining capable of adapting to the cyclic changes of the fertility cycle. The cervix is the bottom part of the uterus—think of it as the smaller end of the pear. It nestles in the back of the vaginal canal. The opening to the uterus, called the os, is in the center of the cervix. Inside the cervix are microscopic glandular crypts that secrete a special slick mucus during the fertile time of a woman’s cycle. These “sperm hotels” support the reproductive process by keeping the sperm alive for up to five days as they await a forthcoming egg. The fertile mucus produced by these glands also acts like a slip-and-slide to help sperm on their journey into the uterus. The uterus is not a fixed organ—it moves. It rises and falls, following a predictable pattern, during a woman’s fertility cycle. When a woman is most fertile, the uterus rests highest up. When she’s about to bleed or during her bleeding time, it sits lowest down. But the fertility cycle isn’t the only cause of uterine movement. It also moves during arousal. As a woman gets turned on, muscle tension increases, which causes the round ligaments to shorten. The round ligaments are a pair of long, ropy muscles surrounded by a fibrous sheath, which begin on either side of the top of the uterus and pass over the top of the pubic bones, with the far ends attaching to the muscle that encircles the opening of the vagina. When the round ligaments shorten, this action lifts the womb up and forward while pleasurably tugging
Appreciating the Arousal Arrangement
The women’s arousal network has remarkable abilities that differentiate it from the male’s member. Women can get aroused and be orgasmic with only part of the network activated. The penis is different: guys have more of an all-or-nothing erectile experience.Women’s arousal and orgasmic experiences directly depend on which areas of their network have been neglected or stimulated. When the entire network is thoroughly engorged, a woman will tend to have the most fulfilling orgasmic response. It’s as if an entire orchestra was
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on the muscular opening of the vagina. As the woman’s turn-on escalates, the womb is raised further and further up, like a taut bowstring being pulled way back. This also opens up a space at the back of the vagina, forming a nice cozy sperm-bowl and proving once again how clever Mother Nature is. It also pulls the cervix safely out of the way of any potential battering. Now here’s the really good part: During orgasm, the uterus pulses up and down in a deep, slow, throbbing background rhythm that provides a bass counterpoint to the faster quivering of the pelvic floor muscles as they spasm. This pulsing adds emotional and erotic richness to the orgasm, and it also helps the uterus to suck up any sperm that happen to be hanging around in the nice open bowl at the back of the vaginal vault.
Hot Tips for Guys When approaching a woman sexually, whether it’s over dinner or in the bedroom, remember that most women have core yin energy. Yin energy is about opening and receiving, while yang energy is about giving and doing. Everyone has both energetic poles within them. Much of the time, most women are operating with receptive energy at their center. It moves from the outside in toward the center, so she needs to be aroused by starting at the edges and working your way in. You want her to bloom open like a flower. Think of it as a pilgrimage to a sacred temple where the journey is as important as the destination. Begin the trip by taking the time to connect with her emotionally, energetically, and physically. Delight and awaken her whole body. Only after you feel her open and sense her energy accumulating in her sex center should you turn your attention there. Think of your partner as having concentric zones, with the innermost one your ultimate target. I invite you to imagine them as a seven-step stairway to heaven: 1.The outermost zone—your larger connection: the context and surroundings, and both of your energy fields. 2. The nonerogenous areas of her body—shoulders, calves, arms, and so on. 3. The nongenital erogenous zones—lips, mouth, ears, neck, breasts. 4. The genital vicinity—thighs, butt, hips, lower back. 5.The yard—the vulva, mons, and outer lips of the pussy.These are the parts of her genitalia that are accessible from the outside. Think of her outer lips and the mons as a garden that surrounds a temple—hang out there for a while before moving to the porch. There’s a lot to appreciate and enjoy in the yard! 6. The porch (vestibule)—the soft wet middle areas: inner labia, clitoris, and delicate areas around the vaginal and anal openings. 7. Her inner sanctums—inside the vagina and anus. It’s important to remember that not all nerves are created alike. The deep nerves are very different from the nerve endings that are part of the more sensitive erectile tissue, especially in the head of the clitoris and the mucosa around the lips and entrance of the vagina. It’s great to pound when you’re deep inside and your partner’s at high arousal with her cervix pulled out of the way. With her more delicate nerve endings, it’s better to stay delicate and subtle. They respond best to lighter tactile sensations such as caressing, light rhythmic motions, and slippery rubbing. Here’s some advice for you when you’re a bit lost—ask for directions! I know it can be embarrassing, and it definitely violates the Guy Code, but we love it when you ask! Really, there’s nothing sexier than a guy who makes it safe for us to tell him exactly what we like. It doesn’t mean you’re clueless, especially since what we like changes from day to day and moment to moment, depending on where we are in our cycle, how aroused we are, the time of day, and a multitude of other unpredictable factors. Trust me, there’s no way anyone could get it right all the time without guidance. Sheri Winston will be presenting a “clothes on, hands off ” workshop based on Women's Anatomy of Arousal on Thursday, February 25 from 7 to 9:30pm at the Beahive Space, 314 Wall Street, Kingston. www. intimateartscenter.com.
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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
My New Year’s Resolution: Putting My Kid First Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. — Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan
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couple months ago, I had the opportunity to be somebody else, someone we’ve all seen before. It was during the pre-holiday winter madness, in Kingston, at Adam’s Fairacre Farms. At the time, I had no idea that I was entering the realm of the illusory Other. All I was aware of was this: Body aching from a long day of negotiations with my three-yearold, Azalea, in Target, public bathrooms, her car seat, the produce aisle, etc. Standing in the checkout line, piling on the food for several upcoming festivities, I was vaguely aware of how this was all supposed to be fun, thus a mild disappointment was settling in my shoulders. I was also aware of said three-year-old, standing in the grocery cart, leaning over dangerously, trying to put the kale on the conveyer belt, while the wheels of the cart moved away in the opposite direction, and I was aware of my repetitive fear-fantasy that she would come toppling over onto the ground, head cracking, anticipatory tension squeezing me even tighter. And then the mounting pressure of people behind us sighing heavily at how long we were taking. The tightness in my jaw and a slight buzzing around my temples, brewing anger at the people who were rushing me, and then my ill-fated attempt to hurry a toddler and remove her from her position of authority both in the cart and in my life, which just invigorated her need to be “helpful” by grabbing hold of the bag of delicate (expensive!) porcini mushrooms, squishing them in her haste, which just totally pissed me off, so I grabbed the bag from her, which made her cry really loudly, wailing, “THAT HURT MY FEEEEELINGS!!!!” which is when the (evil) checkout lady started sending me some serious vibes, as did other people around me, glaring at me as if I had actually hit the child instead of just grabbed some gourmet items out of her hand, then ignored her. I remembered a friend of mine (childless) describing a mom in a store and how she just refused to pick up her screaming kid. And how she was actually tempted to break the public sound barrier and say something to the effect of, “Look, just pick up your kid, okay? Is it really so hard?” But by this time, I was so totally disembodied I wouldn’t have been able to pick up a thread of saffron had I so desired. After a few uncommonly frank exchanges with strangers, Azalea and I made it out of there. Once outside, I stopped the cart and picked her up. I re-embodied and apologized for snapping and being short. We hugged, then put the canned soup in the boxes outside for other people’s holiday dinners. And we drove home together, repairing. It wasn’t until later, in the middle of the night, accompanied by a full-body blush, that I realized I had become, in Adam’s, that woman, that fallen woman who is fatefully understood as someone who can’t control her child in public, or worse, who is so out of control herself that her capacity for natural, 76 whole living ChronograM 2/10
maternal love is questionable. I was her; she was me. There was, as we say in Zen, no separation. The fact that I stopped being that woman soon after the incident makes it even clearer how she, and every other fixed thing we think we can point to, is a phantom, an idea. When we see her struggling with her kids and/or herself in the supermarket, even though it may not feel like it to any of us at the time, that particular incarnation of that specific nightmare is impermanent. And in fact, it may even be our noticing that is, at least in part, creating it. Indeed. As I look back at this and other times I have lost my cool, it is so often because I am worried about the wrong person—someone other than my daughter—some adult who I feel is watching. Okay: Judging. A stranger, a friend, an in-law. Interior whispers sound like this: Are we taking too long? Is she too loud? Too saucy? Too passive? Is she spoiled? Am I mean? The crazy thing is that if there’s anything that is certain to make me act like a total jerk, it’s that anxiety. Parenting in public is a big challenge for me. As much as I wish I could be a little less emotional, that’s probably not going to happen any time soon. And a toddler demands response 24/7, limiting opportunities to hide. But for someone who vows to be still and brave in the face of such total exposure, to stop trying to be someone/somewhere else, this scenario is, as the Christians say, the good news. The gospel of being real. So my new year’s resolution is to put my kid first. What does that mean? It means that I vow to notice when I am more concerned about grown-ups and their thoughts about me/her/me than about my child. It means to appreciate that Azalea is not the center of the universe, but she is a person who needs a lot of help in the world and I am her guardian (thankfully not her only guardian, but an important one!). It means I am sorry to the folks who are in a hurry and have to slow down because a little girl is learning how to be helpful by pushing the kid-cart in front of them, and, whenever possible, we will move aside and let you pass. I am sorry to the people who work at the diner who aren’t in the mood to feign interest as the kid can ask for her own apple juice. Believe me, I get it. But at the same time, nobody ever died from faking it. And most of all, I am sorry to all the adults who feel bitter about their own childhoods, and resent the fact that this kid gets to call any shots at all. Another feeling I can most certainly appreciate. If I’m honest, I can see my own ambivalence about giving Azalea what she wants. This nonstop giving thing can seem unfair, or even impossible, since I don’t feel like I have what she needs. But then I hear her calling softly in the middle of the night, Ma-ma…. We’re turning toward each other in our halfdreams, and I can feel, head to toe, how simple this love can be.
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Acupuncture Bluestone Acupuncture, PLLC 44 West Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-7860 www.bluestoneacupuncture.com
Classical & Chinese Herbs 303 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 853-7353
High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, Oriental Medicine, Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac. 87 East Market Street, Suite 102, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com crabiner@highridgeacupuncture.com.
Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060
New Paltz Community Acupuncture — Amy Benac, L.Ac. 21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com $25-$35 sliding scale (you decide what you can afford). As a community-style practice, treatments occur in a semi-private, soothing space with several people receiving treatment at the same time. This allows for frequent, affordable sessions while providing high quality care.
Pain management, relaxation, headaches, TMJ, smoking cessation, Gyn issues, anxiety, depression, trigger point release, insomnia, fatigue, recovery support, GI issues, arthritis, muscle tension, chemo relief, immune support, allergies, menopausal symptoms, general wellness, and much more.
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Rhinebeck Acupuncture and Zero Balancing- Philip Brown MA L.Ac. 26 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4654 www.rhinebeck-acupuncture.com rhinebeckacupuncture@mac.com Philip is a graduate of TAI/Sophia Acupuncture School class of 1994 and also practices the bodywork modality known as Zero Balancing. For over 15 years Phil has helped many people with a very wide range of concerns. Please see the testimonial page on his website. In addition to his private practice, Phil is available for appointments at the Omega Institute from May through September. Free Consultations.
Betty Ann Robbins Greenwald 845 399 9119
Transpersonal Acupuncture (845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net
Imago Relationship Therapy
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Art Therapy Deep Clay New Paltz/Gardiner and Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 417-1369 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com
Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. Appointments sign up at: www.instant-scheduling.com/ sch.php?kn=128796.
Crystals and Gifts Notions-N-Potions
Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (877) 453-8265 www.planetwaves.net
Body & Skin Care Essence MediSpa, LLC — Stephen Weinman, MD 222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.com
Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com
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Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including BodyCentered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women.
Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com
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Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ART(r)) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner specializing in helping athletes and active people quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries. In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART(r) to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today.
Counseling IONE — Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.org www.ministryofmaat.org IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maüt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s
175 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.notions-n-potions.com
Pixie Dust 18 Main Street, Chester, NY (845) 469-3940
Dentistry & Orthodontics Dr. Marlin Schwartz 223 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2902 www.schwartzqualitydental.com dr.marlinschwartz@verizon.net Quality dentistry provided with comfort and care. Cosmetic improvements, Reconstruction, Implants, Veneers, Crowns, Root Canal, Periodontics (non-surgical and surgical), Extractions, General Dentistry.
Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 Dr. Rhoney uses expansion and gentle forces, not extraction, not heavy pressure, and offers early treatment for children to harness growth and development and enhance the natural beauty of the face. Dr. Rhoney considers the bones, teeth, face and smile, components of the whole — the functional matrix — and improves the bite with fixed braces, removable appliances, and InvisalignŠ, available for teenagers and adults. Insurance accepted. Payment plans available.
The Center For Advanced Dentistry — Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com
Energy Healing Nancy Plumer, MS — Energy/ Spiritual Healing & Sacred Ceremony (845) 687-2252
Healing Centers Woodstock Integrative Health 2565 Route 212, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6210 www.woodstockintegrative.com
Holistic Health Fertile Heart Studio (845) 678-5469 www.fertileheart.com info@fertileheart.com
John M Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, massage, and Raindrop Technique.
ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH Energy Healing, Penny Price Lavin Fishkill, NY (845) 878-5165 www.onelighthealingtouch.com pricemedia@aol.com International Energy Healing and Mystery School. Ideal for those seeking personal growth and all healthcare practitioners. Learn 50 Holistic, Shamanic and Esoteric self-healing Practices and 33 techniques to heal yourself and others. Profoundly increase your health, intuition, creativity, joy and spiritual connection. NYSNA/NCBTMB CEUs. Enroll now! School meets 18 days over 6 months. Next school begins June 4th. Introductory Weekend Workshops are April 17-18, or May 1-2. Call for brochure.
Columbia Memorial Hospital 71 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY (516) 828-7601
Health Alliance (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org
Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.health-quest.org
Vassar Brothers Medical Center 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org
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Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.
Insight Dynamics LLC (800) 291-5576 www.architectureofmeaning.com
Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.
Massage Therapy Bodhi Holistic Spa 323 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2233 www.bodhistudio.com
Doctor / Teacher Help Me Help Myself Supporting Your Clients on the Road to Parenthood Mightier than the Sword Birth a Book, Raise Your Voice, Repair the World The Fertile Heart™ Ovum Process is an original birthing practice. Julia Indichova’s work and books have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Oxygen, Discovery Health, Health Magazine, Chronogram, San Francisco Chronicle and other outlets. Workshops and teleconferences are ongoing.
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Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).
Joan Apter
Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, 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. For information, contact Joan Apter.
Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change Your Outlook. Gain Control. Make Healthier Choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.
Meeting Your Child Halfway Fertile Heart Ovum Intensive
692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com
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Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
Meditation The Center 372 Fullerton Avenue, Newburgh, NY deborah@beingknowingdoing.com
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Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.
Physical Therapy Roy Capellaro, PT 120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 518-1070 www.roycapellaro.com
Physicians Hometown Pediatrician 7 Grand Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-1667 www.yourhometownpediatrician.com edwarddoc@aol.com
Pilates Conscious Body Pilates 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus sessions available.
Pilates in Motion
Susan DeStefano
129 Route 94 South, Suite 2, Warwick, NY (845) 544-1576 www.Pilatesinmotionny.com
Rosendale Pilates: Pilates, Gyrotonic® and GyrokinesisS® Studio 527 RT 213, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-2239 www.rosendalepilates.com
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Rosi Landau loves sharing her enthusiasm for physical education with people of all ages, backgrounds, levels and ability to help them gain greater strength, flexibility and mobility, guiding them to work towards their full physical capability. Each session is personally tailored to meet your individual goals. Private and group sessions.
Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com
Psychologists Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023 Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-doctoral candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunities available for intensive psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Psychotherapy Amy R. Frisch, CSWR New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229
Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.
Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology.
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
Jamie O — Neil, LCSW-R 30 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845)876-7600, 35 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (at train station) (845)483-7600, NY www.therapists.psychologytoday.com/47545 Regain a sense of meaning, connections, and personal control in your life. Offering a variety of approaches, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy and EMDR. Treating anxiety, trauma, depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, relationship issues,
advanced recovery, ACOA, eating disorders. Individuals and couples; specializing in work with college students.
Janne Dooley, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com JanneDooley@gmail.com Free monthly newsletter. Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice helping people grow individually and in community. Janne specializes in healing trauma, relationship issues, recovery, codependency, inner child work, EMDR, and Brainspotting. Janne also coaches parents and people in life transitions. Groups forming: Mindful Parenting and Psychospiritual group, combining guided imagery and teachings from the book “Radical Acceptance” by Tara Brach. Facebook Group: Brigid’s Well
Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613
Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Laura Coffey, MFA, LMSW Rosendale & Beacon, NY (845) 399-0319 undefinedreading@gmail.com Family Therapist specializing in Narrative Therapy. Practice includes eclectic interventions tailored to suit individual client’s needs. Healing conversations for the entire family, gerentological services for the elderly and support for caretakers. Grief counseling, motivational interviewing for substance abuse, couples work, LGBT issues, PTSD and childhood trauma, depression, anxiety and performance anxiety. Fee: $25 a clinical hour.
Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com I work with adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disordered behaviors, loneliness and life transitions. I’ve helped teens and adults with substance abuse and trauma connected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. My approach is psychodynamic, linking the painful past with current and cognitive problems which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.
Residential Care Mountain Valley Manor Adult Home 397 Wilbur Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1254 www.mountainvalleymanor.com
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Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com The new Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa resides in the heart of the historic artists colony of Woodstock NY, nestled in the famed Catskill Mountains ski and summer resort region. Aspects Gallery provides a unique and exclusive sensual retreat with two private luxury two bedroom apartments conjoined to a 2000 sq ft cedar and glass enclosed climate controlled spa with 40' saline pool, 64 jet jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna. Enjoy a leisurely poolside bar brunch or order an organic gourmet candlelight dinner prepared by your host French chef Lio Magat- sommelier for famed international chef Paul Bocuse. Bienvenue et bon appetit!
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Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com; www.buttermilkspa.com
Marlene Weber Day Spa 751 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5852 www.marleneweber.com
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670 Aaron Ct., Kingston, NY (914) 466-0090 www.hudsonvalleyinterfaithminister.com
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Tarot Awakenings
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Two classes starting this month. Call now for info.
215 Katonah Avenue, Katonah, NY (914) 232-0382 www.awakeningskatonah.com
! Have confidence in your choices: Learn to choose with your heart ! Want to love another? . . . Learn to love yourself
Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com
Yoga Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Lenox, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org
33 Mill Hill Rd. 845.679.8989 flowingspirit.com
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High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts Womens Health: PMS, Infertility, Perimenopause
針灸 中藥 推拿 氣功 食療 full spectrum of Daoist healing modalities
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MONDAY 1 Art ModFest 2010 Call for times. Multi-disciplinary arts festival. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.
Body / Mind / Spirit Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $40/$75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & community. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session. John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. (518) 828-7470.
TUESDAY 2 Art Warwick Art League Session 9:30am-12pm. Greenwood Lake Public Library, Greenwood Lake. 544-3056. Saugerties Art Lab 3pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5155. Works by Sean Sullivan and Joseph Venditti 5pm-7pm. Suprenant Art & Design, Kingston. 383-1279.
Body / Mind / Spirit Spirit Guide Readings w/ Psychic Adam Bernstein 12pm-6pm. $40/$75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Instruction and Sitting Practice 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
Classes Life Drawing 7:30-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Dance Beginner Tango Series 7pm. Learn to tango. Body Bar, Poughkeepsie. www.woodstocktango.com.
Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months-3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Rumpelstiltskin 11am. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Music High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Mezoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. Open Mike Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
WEDNESDAY 3 Body / Mind / Spirit Class For People With Health Challenges 9:30am-10:30am. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 687-4836. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
Events Paws and Refresh 6pm-9pm. Benefit to Jack Russell Refuge. Pause Dog Boutique, Rhinebeck. 876-4330. United Friends Observer Society (UFOs) 7:30pm. Support group for UFO-related experiences. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Walker Valley. 744-3960.
Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Homeschoolers Nature Education 12:30pm-2:30pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059. Afterschool Juggling and Circus Arts Program 4pm-5:30pm. Ages 9 and up, 8 sessions. Morris Memorial, Chatham. (518) 828-7470.
Music Marc Cohn & Suzanne Vega 8pm. Contemporary singer/songwriters. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Split Rock 9:30am-1:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Focus on Nonprofits 7:30am. Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce, featuring Nicholas Garin, Assistant Attorney General, and Michael West, Esq. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, 454-1700 ext. 1000.
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Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2010 5:30pm. Ethan Bronner. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
THURSDAY 4 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 10am/7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Supporting your Immune System with Osteopathy 6pm. Ridgefield Community Center, Ridgefield. (203) 874-4252.
Classes Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. How to Cook Fish 7pm. $55. Beacon, Beacon. (917) 803-6857. Life Drawing 7:30-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events Dutchess Word Progressive Newspaper Fundraiser 6pm-9pm. $20-$40. Amici's, Poughkeepsie. 902-8154.
Kids Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Ages 7 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 8-12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Music Acoustic Thursdays: Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Bob Lusk 7pm-9pm. Irish Folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. The Circle: Songwriters In The Round 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Brandi Carlile 7:30pm. Country. $25/$35. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Sharon Klein 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
Spoken Word SRBP Lecture Series: Invasives: Here to Stay? 7pm-8:30pm. Lecture Center 100, New Paltz. 255-0752.
Theater Rumpelstiltskin 6pm. Lillie Kartofler Figuren Theater. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
FRIDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Dance Hip Hop Afro-Fusion Dance 4:30pm-6:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Events Winter Weekend Call for times. Workshops, craftmaking, indoor & outdoor activities. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
Film Goldfinger 7pm. Bond meets Pussy Galore. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Video Festival 8pm. An evening of original documentary and narrative work. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Music Glenn Zaleski Modern Jazz Quintet and NAIL Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro. 546-0444. Weekend of Folk Music Call for times. Warwick Conference Center, Warwick. (718) 672-6399. Eric Erickson 5pm. Reservoir Inn, West Hurley. 331-9806. Big Boss Bossa Nova 7pm. $10. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. David Kraai with Sean Powell 7pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400. Rocky 7pm-9pm. Acoustic rock. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. American Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm. $20-$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Still To Us At Twilight; Songs of Days Gone By 8pm. Parlor and music hall songs. $16/$14. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. WeMustBe 8pm. R&B, pop. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. The King's Singers 8pm. $20-$40. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Marc Douglas Berardo 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Poetry by Bob Waugh and Jan Schmidt 7pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater Emperor Jones 8pm. New Day Repertory Company. $18/$17 seniors/$16 students. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 485-7399. Community Playback Theater 8pm. Improvisation of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. Rabbit Hole 8pm. County Players Falls Theatre. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
SATURDAY 6 Art Foreign Affairs 5pm-7pm. Barbara Ellmann. The Gallery at R & F, Kingston. 331-3112. Seniors Paint the Town Exhibit/Susan Miller 5pm-7pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. A Girl and a Gun: A Trade Show 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. Kmoca.org. Fem Print Now/Music as Muse 5pm-8pm. Compilation of prints by female artists working in New York State. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Kristy's Kreative Kids and Kristy 5pm-8pm. Wildlife art show, mixed media. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. The Walking Series 6pm-8pm. Works by Yura Adams. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.
Classes Planning a New Hive for Spring 10am-6pm. Organic beekeeping. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.
Dance 8th Annual DanceFest! 2010 7pm. Hosted by The Vanaver Caravan, featuring students, teachers and choreographers from many dance schools and studios. $15/$10 children and seniors. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-9300. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Barefoot, smoke-, drug-, alcohol-free. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.
Events Woodstock Tribute to Bob Marley 8pm. Featuring live reggae music. $20/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Kids Storytime, Music & Movement 10am. Ages 3 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Little Leonardo and the Fantastic Flying Machine 11am. Robert Rogers Puppet Company. $8/$6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Children's Valentine's Tea 12pm-2pm. $15/$12 children. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.
Music Fred Hersch Trio Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro. 546-0444. Frances Kramer 3pm-5pm. Pop, soft rock. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Weerd Science & Friends 6pm. Hip hop music and art from Christina Varga, Scott Ackerman, and other artists. Cornell Street Studio, 168 Cornell Street, Kingston. Bern & the Brights 7pm. New age. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Music Without Walls Project 7pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. Real 7:30pm. With Kristin Hoffmann and Premik Russell Tubbs. $7. BeanRunner CafĂŠ, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. American Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm. $20-$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. An Evening with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin 8pm. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. The Jesse Janes 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Side by Side by Schubert 8pm. $16/$14. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Frank Vignola Quintet: Tribute to Django 8pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Luther Johnson and The Magic Rockers 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Stoners 9:30pm. Rock. Copperfield's, Millbrook. 677-8188.
The Outdoors 2010 NASTAR Open Call for times. Windham Mountain, Windham. (518) 734-4300. Singles and Sociables Snowshoe: Rock Rift 10am-3pm. 7-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
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Dr. James Hansen: Storms of My Grandchildren 7pm. Renowned climatologist reads. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-7600.
Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring Howard Horowitz. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165.
Theater Met Opera Live in HD: Giuseppe Verdi Simon Boccanegra 1pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Auditions for Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 2pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. ninetymilesoffbroadway.com. Emperor Jones 3pm/8pm. New Day Repertory Company. $18/$17 seniors/$16 students. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 485-7399. Rabbit Hole 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
Workshops Become a "Batty for Bats" Family 1pm-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Victorian Valentines 3pm-5pm. $40. Wing and Clover, Rhinebeck.
SUNDAY 7 Art Student-Curated Exhibitions 1pm-4pm. Exhibitions and projects with leading and emerging artists. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale. 758-7598.
Body / Mind / Spirit Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Healing with the Sound of Crystal 5pm-6pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Understanding and Caring for Your Honeybees 10am-6pm. Organic beekeeping. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113. How to Cook Fish 11am. $55. Beacon. (917) 803-6857. Graphic Novel 3pm-5pm. 2 sessions. $60. Wing and Clover, Rhinebeck.
Dance Swing Dance 6pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $8/$6. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Music Pianist Andrius Zlabys Call for times. Works by Alban Berg, Cesar Franck and Liszt. $30/$10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Gretchen Witt 1pm-3pm. Acoustic/folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Jalala 2:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Side by Side by Schubert 3pm. $16/$14. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Ariel String Quartet 4pm. Presented by the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society. $25/$5 students/children free. Church of Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870. Di & Rich 6pm. Ruben's Mexican Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 739-4330. Liz Dieleman 7pm-9pm. Pop, soft rock. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5155.
The Outdoors Winter Wildlife Tracking 9am-12pm. $30/$20. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116. Singles and Sociables Snowshoe: Stony Kill 10am-2pm. 5-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Winter Wildlife Tracking on Snowshoes 1:30pm-3:30pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.
Spoken Word Sunday Salon: Lecture by Katherine Manthorne Call for times. $8/$6. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.
Theater Auditions for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 2pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. ninetymilesoffbroadway.com. Emperor Jones 3pm. New Day Repertory Company. $18/$17 seniors/$16 students. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 485-7399.
Workshops Photographing the Nude 10am-4pm. Taught by Dan McCormack. $120/$100. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Pleasures of Pregnancy Workshop 2pm-4:30pm. Holistic pregnancy workshop. $95. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
MONDAY 8 Body / Mind / Spirit Meditation and Drum Circle 6:30pm. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Walker Valley. 744-3960. Spirit Communication Workshop 7pm-8:30pm. Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
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G. Lebart, Bernot Coal, color lithograph, 30" x 40", 1895. Collection of John P. Eckblad. From the exhibition "At the Heart of Progress" at the Lehman Loeb Art Center.
Art of the Carbon Footprint Collectors change the shape of art. A wealthy aging aesthete develops a fondness for butterflies. He buys every depiction of a butterfly he can find. Then he dies, and 12 years later you’re walking through three rooms of butterfly etchings at the Morgan Library. Dr. John P. Eckblad of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is one such collector. For the last 35 years, while working as a management consultant, Eckblad assembled a body of prints depicting the coal and iron industries. “At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam Since 1750” is the resulting show, and is now on exhibit through March 21 at the Loeb Art Center in Vassar College. Like me, you may associate industrial art with triumphalist corporate propaganda of the 1950s. If so, you will be startled by the beauty and variety of this show. To begin with, there are no photographs. Every piece is drawn by a human hand. Secondly, Eckblad divides his time between Chapel Hill and Paris, so he has collected many French artworks. Corporate posters from 1890s France are witty and colorful, while anarchists like Camille Pissarro and Maximilien Luce produced wrenching works of outrage (often in black and white). And Eckblad has a wonderful eye. “At the Heart of Progress” considers “the Faustian bargain between humanity and carbon. Though the trinity of coal, iron, and steam supports industrial civilization, the enormous benefits are counterbalanced by equally enormous tolls,” notes Patricia Phagan, curator of prints and drawings at the Loeb Art Center. William Blake wrote: And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?
Simultaneously, William Pickett produced etchings of the ironworks at Colebrookdale for the book The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales—bucolic renderings of factories amidst their clouded hills. A hundred years later, angry artists began to attack the exploitation of mine owners. This style eventually became known as “socialist realism,” and its mood was heroic. Whatever you think of socialism, you may admire the mighty workers who merge with their machines to become half manhalf mechanism, like modern centaurs. (Will anyone produce a mezzotint today of the current proletariat—behind the counter at Wal-Mart, passing the scanner over bars of soap?) Even some of the titles convey anguish, such as Cesar Klein’s The One Who Does Not Work is His Children’s Gravedigger (1919). This is a man’s world, largely—male artists celebrating brawny male workers. Am I imagining a touch of homoeroticism in these virile images? One exception is a French lithograph by Maxime Dethomas of a large family gathered around the entrance to a mine. The father is missing. Is he at work, injured—or dead? This question hangs over the picture, and also over the life of every miner. (The cryptic text of the poster reads: “National Loan: 1920.”) The exhibit also includes one toy: a miniature coal mine, operated by a windup key, produced in Germany probably in the 1950s. “At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750” will be exhibited at the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie until March 21. (845) 437-5632; www.fllac.vassar.edu. —Sparrow
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Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session. John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. (518) 828-7470.
Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Life Drawing 7:30-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Spoken Word Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
TUESDAY 9 Art Warwick Art League Session 9:30am-12pm. Greenwood Lake Public Library, Greenwood Lake. 544-3056. Saugerties Art Lab 3pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5155.
Body / Mind / Spirit Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Instruction and Sitting Practice 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Introductory Course 7pm-9pm. 9-week course presented by The School of Practical Philosophy & Meditation. $95/$45. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-1604. Present Life, Past Lives 7pm-9pm. $20/$25. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Classes Life Drawing 7:30-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months-3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Music Open Mike Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Rosendale Cafe Singer-Songwriter Tuesdays 8pm-10pm. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
The Outdoors Winter Wildlife Tracking 10am-1pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.
Spoken Word The Making of an Ethical Executive 4pm. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179. Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. Beahive, Beacon. (917) 449-6356. The Relationship of Catholic Social Teaching to Politics 7:15pm. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179. Alex Kreiger '95 Memorial Lecture: Frank Rich 8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
WEDNESDAY 10 Body / Mind / Spirit Class For People With Health Challenges 9:30am-10:30am. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 687-4836. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Learn to Treat Yourself with Love 7pm-9pm. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
Classes African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Organic Line Drawing 6pm-8pm. 2 sessions. $60. Wing and Clover, Rhinebeck.
Events Hudson Valley Green Drinks 6:30pm-9pm. Networking for people in the environmental fields and sustainably minded. $5. The Would, Highland. 454-6410.
Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Music Dancing On The Air 8pm. $12. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Franny Reese Preserve 9:30am-1:30pm. Franny Reese Preserve, Highland. 255-0919.
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Events Open House 5pm-6pm. The Graduate Institute, Bethany, Connecticut. (203) 874-4252.
Film Night of 1,000 Shorts Call for times. Theme: connections. Children's Media Project, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480.
Kids Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Ages 7 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 8-12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Spoken Word Peter Muir 10am-11:30am. Author of Long Lost Blues. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie. 485-3445.
FRIDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit Valentine's Couples Workshop and Retreat Call for times. $500 couple. CoSM, Wappingers Falls. 297-2323. Trance Journeying 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Peter Blum. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Dance Hip Hop Afro-Fusion Dance 4:30pm-6:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Urban Tap 8pm. $24/$20 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Events Woodstock Writers Festival Locations in Wdstk. woodstockwritersfestival.com. WBCA Pink Zone presented by DRA Imaging Women's Basketball Game 7:30pm. Miles of Hope Fundraiser. McCann Recreation Center, Poughkeepsie. frank.lombardy@marist.edu.
Film A Valentine's Rocky Horror Picture Show 11pm. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Music K J Denhert Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro. 546-0444. Marji Zintz 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. New Music Salon: Teri Roiger & John Menegon 7pm-9pm. New jazz song in the works. $10. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. (917) 449-6356. Joe Louis Walker Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Crossroads Band 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.
Spoken Word Darwin Days: Afternoon of Presentations 12pm-5pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. Blue Lias, or the Fish Lizard's Whore 7pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
Theater Falsettos 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Arsenic and Old Lace 8pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Rabbit Hole 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
SATURDAY 13 Art February Women's Show 6pm-8pm. Varga, Woodstock. 679-4005.
Kids Kids' Snow School Spectacular 9am-12pm. Build a snow shelter, learn about snow crystals, enjoy a hike, and play winter games. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Storytime, Music & Movement 10am. Ages 3 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Pigeon Party 11am. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Family Magic and Comedy Show 11am. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Creative Writing for Teens 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Music Gustafer Yellowgold Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro. 546-0444. Gary Paul Hermus 1pm. Singer/songwriter. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Joe Whytem 2pm. Folk. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Simply Noted 6pm. St. Mary's Hall, Kingston. 338-3972. Eric Erickson 6pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. Music Night Featuring Sharon Klein and Company 7pm-9pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811. Leland Sundries with Dan Kaplan 7pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Morry Campbell 7:30pm. $3. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300. The Burton Greene Trio 7:30pm. $7. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Professor Louie & The Crowmatix 8pm. $15/$10. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Mary Fahl 8:30pm. With Glenn Patscha and Byron Isaacs of Ollabelle. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Outdoors Ladies Rock the Park Call for times. Clinics, lessons, workshops. Windham Mountain, Windham. (518) 734-4300. Singles and Sociables Snowshoe: Awosting Falls 9:30am-4pm. 8-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Orienteering Nature Challenge III 1pm-3:30pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.
One Soul, One Path, One Heart: Healing Relationships 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing Workshop 2pm-4:30pm. With Lea & Philippe Garnier. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Dance Trisha Brown Dance Company Call for times. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.
Events
Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 10am/7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Info Session on Experiential Health and Healing 4pm-6pm. The Graduate Institute, Bethany, Connecticut. (203) 874-4252.
A Snow Softball Tournament 9am. Benefit for Riverfest. Memorial Park, Beacon. mprice@cityofbeacon.org. Winter Market 10am-2pm. Featuring local farmers' food and gifts. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. 758-5887.
Events Valentines Day Italian Wine Tasting Event 3am-5am. $20/$35 couple. Windham Mountain, Windham. (518) 734-4300. General George Washington’s Birthday Celebration 12pm-4:30pm. Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195. Continental Army Winter Encampment 1pm-5pm. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.
Kids Creative Writing for Teens 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Music Rizzi-Rizzi 3:30pm. Electronic listening music and spoken word. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881. Heather Maloney 7pm-9pm. Pop, soft rock. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5155. CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band 7:30pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Jane Monheit 7:30pm. Jazz. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
The Outdoors Love Lives of Animals 10-11:30am. Mating habits of animals. Madam Brett Park, Beacon. www.scenichudson.org. Jeremy Glick Memorial Sweetheart Race Call for time. Windham Mountain, Windham. (518) 734-4300. Singles and Sociables Snowshoe: Schunemuck Mountain Call for time. 10-mile trek. Call for location. 534-2886.
Theater Falsettos 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Arsenic and Old Lace 2pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Rabbit Hole 2pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. The Vagina Monologues 2pm. $7. Benefit production of Eve Ensler's play. The Basement, Kingston. (516) 749-2233.
MONDAY 15 Body / Mind / Spirit Mastery of Love Deck Readings 12pm-6pm. $15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & community. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Events Continental Army Winter Encampment 10am-5pm. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765. General George Washington’s Birthday Celebration 12pm-4:30pm. Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195. Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session. John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. (518) 828-7470.
TUESDAY 16
Spoken Word Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Memorial reading for Richard Boes. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. pprod@mindspring.com. Comedy Battle of the Sexes 8pm. $35/$25 in advance. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Theater
Art Warwick Art League Session 9:30am-12pm. Greenwood Lake Public Library, Greenwood Lake. 544-3056. Saugerties Art Lab 3pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Falsettos
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8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Shambhala Buddhist Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
Arsenic and Old Lace 8pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Rabbit Hole 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. The Vagina Monologues 8pm. $7. Benefit production of Eve Ensler's play. The Basement, Kingston. (516) 749-2233.
SUNDAY 14
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General George Washington's Birthday Celebration 12pm-4:30pm. Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195. 3rd Annual Mardi Gras Celebration 2pm-5pm. Presented by Saugerties Art Lab, with live music by Cleoma's Ghost. $10/$5 children. Senior Citizens Center, Saugerties. artlab@earthlink.net. 6th Annual Groundhog Ball 7pm-10pm. Buffet dinner and music by Glory Road, to benefit the Caring Hands Soup Kitchen. $20. United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-7188. WGXC: Sound + Voice + Image 7pm-10pm. Radio benefit with 30 performers. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 822-2598.
Body / Mind / Spirit Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. ECK Worship Service 2pm-3pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. (800) 749-7791 ext. 2. Fifth Annual Workshop of Keep It Real on Valentine’s Day 2pm-5pm. Courtyard Marriot, Kingston. 679-2282. Goddess Initiation Workshop 4pm-6pm. With Jenn Kluska. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Dance Trisha Brown Dance Company Call for times. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.
Classes Shambhala Buddhist Meditation 7:15pm-9pm. Contentment in everyday life class. $20. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Life Drawing 7:30-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events Open House 5pm-6pm. The Graduate Institute, Bethany, Connecticut. (203) 874-4252.
Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months-3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Creative Writing for Teens 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Music Open Mike Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
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image provided Noah, one of the stars of The Asperger's Difference, which will be screened at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on February 6.
The Little Professors In the lobby of the Center for Spectrum Services in Kingston hangs a painting. Thin, fine lines detail the Center, illuminated under a darkened sky. Precisely speckling the blanket of night are the constellations that appeared when it was painted—mapped to perfection. It sprang from the mathematical mind of Jesse Park. She has a disorder known as autism. Inspired by people like Jesse, Jamey Wolff, cofounder and director of the Center, created the documentary The Asperger’s Difference, screening at Upstate Films on February 6, about this less commonly known disorder on the high end of the autism spectrum. Not part of American lexicon until the mid-1990s, Asperger’s was mainly overlooked (or misdiagnosed for ADD, depression, or anxiety) leaving kids in a futile struggle to fit into a regimented academic and social world alone. With little details known as to where it stems from and why, and even less understood about how best to teach students with Asperger’s—high schools and colleges contacted Wolff for support. It became clear that these kids were “starting to hit a new set of circumstances—a new set of challenges and people not trained or prepared to deal with it,” says Wolff. Wolff decided on a hands-on approach. She wanted to create a teaching tool sympathetic to the learning style of kids with Asperger’s by relying heavily on repetition and visuals. Broken into chapters, the film helps Asperger kids build their own selfadvocacy while enlightening others on how to connect with them. Wolff follows three young adults with the disorder; Annie (age 13), Noah (age 16), and Jeffery (age 18). According to Wolff, the hardest thing to understand is that despite the aloof behaviors of kids with Asperger’s, “they care about social interactions—they just don’t have the
skills to be successful socially.” Annie explains feeling like the “odd one out,” the isolation that can result manifesting through her tears. Yet, compellingly, talents come with such ease some are deemed “savants”; commonly possessing heightened mathematical or musical ability. Noah is a fluent singer with a nearly perfect memory. Often finding himself compulsively obsessed with perfection he hangs a plaque on his wall: “Perfection and procrastination are the enemy,”—he jokingly points out its imperfection—words scratched out, “procrastination” awkwardly jammed in, a seeming afterthought. And since face-to-face conversation is difficult, Jeffery turned to the computer. Majoring in computer game design at Marist, he created an online graphic novel, amassing thousands of followers, yet absorbing him so fully that he needs to limit himself with an egg timer. “Their skill set can be a remarkable complement to the diversity of the population...with proper support, understanding, and the right education,” explains Wolff. The Center for Spectrum Services, started with two kids; it now serves 250 kids and has community-based programs spanning a 75-mile radius. With one in every 100 kids now impacted with an autistic spectrum disorder, the documentary breaks open a small hole in the wall of our knowledge. By letting the kids speak for themselves, we’re forced to acknowledge our lack of understanding of them, of the disorder, awakening us to the small breadth of genius that lays in their wake. The Asperger’s Difference will be screened at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on Saturday, February 6 at 11am, followed by a panel discussion featuring the filmmakers and students. (845) 336-2616 x116; www.centerforspectrumservices.org. —Siobhan K. McBride
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Theater Black Violin Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
WEDNESDAY 17 Body / Mind / Spirit Class For People With Health Challenges 9:30am-10:30am. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 687-4836. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
Classes African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Music Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Beacon Hill Loop 9:30am-1:30pm. 3-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Kids' Winter Snowshoe Tracking Course 1pm-3:30pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.
Spoken Word Solopreneurs Sounding Board 5:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. (917) 449-6356.
Theater Black Violin Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
THURSDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 10am/7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Rock. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. David Sancious: Jim Weider Blues Project 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Crossroads Band 9pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Push 10pm. Covers. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277.
Theater Falsettos 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Shakespeare's Clowns Call for time. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Separating the Men from the Bull 7:30pm. 2-man show. The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, Beacon. 838-1600. Arsenic and Old Lace 8pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Rabbit Hole 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. The Glass Menagerie 8pm. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340. Urban Guerilla Theatre 9pm. $10-$20. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
SATURDAY 20 Art Living Under the Same Roof 1pm-5pm. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale. 758-7598. Life Drawing Figure Drawing Gallery Show 4pm-6pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. John Eric Byers: New Works 6pm-8pm. Also with Pat Horner. Posie Kviat Gallery, Hudson. (917) 456-7496.
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Open Hive: Game 6:30pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. (917) 449-6356.
SpiritPlay Open Group 10:30am-12pm. $20/$10. Spiritplay Studio, Woodstock. 679-4140. Hudson Valley Community Reiki 11am-1pm. New Paltz Recreation Center, New Paltz. The Wondrous Breath: Prana to Free the Mind & Body Workshop 1:30pm-4:30pm. Euphoria Yoga, Woodstock. euphoriayoga.org. Conversation with Angels 2pm-4pm. With Author Dror Ashuah. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel 2pm-3pm. Newburgh Mall, Newburgh. (800) 749-7791 ext. 2.
Kids
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Classes Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Vegetarian Indian Cooking 7pm. $55. Beacon, Beacon. (917) 803-6857. Life Drawing 7:30-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events
Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Ages 7 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 8-12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Music John Mueller 5:30pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Rocky 7pm-9pm. Acoustic rock. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5155. David Kraai with Sean Powell 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881. WeMustBe 11pm. R&B, pop. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
Spoken Word An Evening of Love, Medicine, and Miracles 7pm. Bernie Siegel. The Graduate Institute, Bethany, Connecticut. (203) 874-4252.
FRIDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit The Return Prophecy of the Sacred Feminine 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Grandmother Barbara Threecrow. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Dance Hip Hop Afro-Fusion Dance 4:30pm-6:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Music Edmar Castaneda Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro. 546-0444. David Kraai with Sean Powell 6pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. The Lou Volpe Trio 7:30pm. $7. BeanRunner CafĂŠ, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. David Temple 8pm. Classical guitarist. $18/$13 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Open Book 8pm. Acoustic. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
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The Day the Music Died: Winter Dance Party 8pm. $20. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Barefoot, smoke-, drug-, alcohol-free. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.
Events Gardiner Abundance Day 11am-4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. 2nd Big Air Bag Throwndown 7pm. Windham Mountain, Windham. (518) 734-4300.
Kids Storytime, Music & Movement 10am. Ages 3 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Fakoli Dance and Drum 10:30am. Make your own drum. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Predators of the Wild 11am. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Music The Chris Bergson Band Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro. 546-0444. Small Town Sheiks 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Avalon String Quartet: A Night of Quartets 6pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. The Pink Floyd Experience 7:30pm. $27/$32. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Joe Gil and The Trio Of Terror 7:30pm. $7. BeanRunner CafĂŠ, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Commander Cody and Professor Louie 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Rock. Kitty McGuire's Sports Bar, Wappingers Falls. 297-3461.
The Outdoors Singles and Sociables Snowshoe: Duck Pond 10am-3pm. 6-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Tracking Winter Animals 2pm-3:30pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.
TUESDAY 23
Spoken Word Lauren Grodstein 7pm. Author of Friend of the Family. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater Falsettos 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Separating the Men from the Bull 7:30pm. 2-man show. The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, Beacon. 838-1600. Arsenic and Old Lace 8pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Rabbit Hole 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. The Glass Menagerie 8pm. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340.
Workshops Adult & Teen African Drumming 10:15am-11:15am. $5. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Family African Dance 11am-12pm. $5. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Advanced Papercutting 3pm-5pm. Use the basic skills of papercutting to create original own designs. $40. Wing and Clover, Rhinebeck.
SUNDAY 21 Art Triple Whammy: 3 Solo Shows 3pm-6pm. Franc Palaia, Joanne Klein and Bill Rybak. G.A.S., Poughkeepsie. 486-4592.
Body / Mind / Spirit Lemurian Seed Crystal Consciousness 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Dance Swing Dance and Workshop 5:30pm-9pm. West Coast Swing/California mix dance. $6-$12. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. (914) 475-0803.
Events Tour the Daniel Smiley Research Center 1:30pm-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Kids The Little Mermaid. 1pm. Based on Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Music Pianist Vanessa Perez Call for times. Works by Bach, Debussy, Albeniz and Chopin. $30/$10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Guy Figer: Violin & Anna Khanina: Piano 2:30pm. Trail Mix concert series. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-6864. Showcase 4pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Foreigner 7pm. Jukebox Hero, etc. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Melissa Ferrick 8pm. $23. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Art Warwick Art League Session 9:30am-12pm. Greenwood Lake Public Library, Greenwood Lake. 544-3056.
Body / Mind / Spirit Shambhala Buddhist Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Fiction Writing for Adults 6pm-7:15pm. 5 sessions. $150. Wing and Clover, Rhinebeck. Shambhala Buddhist Meditation 7:15pm-9pm. Contentment in Every Day Life class. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Life Drawing 7:30-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
The Outdoors Old Minnewaska Trail 10am-1:30pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.
WEDNESDAY 24 Body / Mind / Spirit Class For People With Health Challenges 9:30am-10:30am. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 687-4836. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Sedona Method Support Group 7pm-8:30pm. Simple but highly effective way to let go of stress and obstacles to success. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 626-3191.
Classes African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Film Open Hive: Film 6pm. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. (917) 449-6356.
Kids Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Music Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Awosting Falls 9:30am-1:30pm. 6-mile hike. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919. Give a Hoot Owl Hike 7-9pm. Night hike to track owls. Esopus Meadows Preseve, Esopus. 473-4440. www.scenichudson.org.
Spoken Word Storytelling as a Teaching Tool 5pm-6pm. Storyteller of the Year Robin Moore. The Graduate Institute, Bethany, Connecticut. (203) 874-4252.
The Outdoors Winter Ecology Walk 12pm. Family-friendly exploration. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-7600. Mossy Glen Snowshoe Outing 12:30pm-4:30pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.
Theater Falsettos 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Arsenic and Old Lace 2pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. The Glass Menagerie 2pm. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340. Separating the Men from the Bull 3pm. 2-man show. Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.
MONDAY 22 Body / Mind / Spirit Message Circle 7pm-9pm. Receive messages from your loved ones in the after life with medium Adam Berstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Stress Management for Optimum Health 4pm-6pm. Through April 6. $59. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. French Bistro Cooking 7pm. $55. Beacon, Beacon. (917) 803-6857.
Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session. John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. (518) 828-7470.
THURSDAY 25 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi 10am/7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. The Dark Radiance of the Chod 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Dr. Craig Lennon, psychologist. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events New Paltz Chamber of Commerce After-Hours Mixer 5:30pm-7:30pm. $5. Rocking Horse Ranch, Highland. 255-0243. CRUMBS Night Out at The Linda 7pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Film Open Hive: Film 6pm. Beahive, Beacon. (917) 449-6356.
Kids Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Ages 7 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 8-12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
books joshua ferris nina subin
Walking Man Joshua Ferris’s first novel, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown, 2007), is a laughout-loud dissection of early 21st-century cubicle culture at a Chicago advertising agency where rounds of layoffs are wreaking havoc on the psyches of the staff. Told in the first person plural, the tone of the book fits the collective consciousness of office life as snug as a cardboard sleeve on a paper coffee cup. Petty jealousy and fear are the ruling emotions. (Sample lines: “Most of us liked most everyone, a few of us hated specific individuals, one or two people loved everyone and everything. Those who loved everyone were unanimously reviled.”) Critically acclaimed, Then We Came to the End was short-listed for the National Book Award. Ferris, who worked at a Chicago ad agency (there’s an aspiring writer character in Then We Came to the End who talks of the novel he is working on that will catapult him from copywriting drone into literary stardom), has staked out unfamiliar territory in his second book, The Unnamed (Reagan Arthur, 2010). Unfamiliar to anyone, in fact. For the central conceit of the book is the bizarre illness that afflicts Tim Farnsworth, and forces him to walk against his will. Think of Tim’s disorder as a kind of restless leg syndrome on steroids. It drags him out of bed, down the stairs and out the door, without a thought to put on a hat and coat. Tim’s fevered hikes last for hours and leave him so exhausted that he falls asleep on the spot when he stops walking. (One of the book’s funnier scenes has Tim, a partner at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, walking around his office in suit and tie and backpack stuffed with items his wife, Jane, thinks he might need on his walks. Tim’s also wearing a jury-rigged bike helmet that a neurologist has kitted out with sensors to try and find the cause of the disease. And Tim’s trying to keep his illness a secret from his partners.) Tim ultimately finds normal life untenable in the face of his walking disorder and sets off on a quest which ultimately leads him inward, to struggle with philosophical questions about the relationship between the mind and body, the notion of free will, and the existence of God. Ferris, who splits his time between homes in Brooklyn and Columbia County, will be reading with Jami Attenberg, author of The Melting Season, at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck on February 17 at 7:30pm. (845) 876-0500; www.oblongbooks.com. —Brian K. Mahoney
How did you come to have a place in Columbia County? I knew that I needed a place to write that was secluded and quiet, in contrast to Brooklyn. It makes it easier to be entirely focused on the work. Brooklyn is very distracting. There’s something going on very late at night all the time. It feels like I’m either drunk or hungover when I’m in Brooklyn. I stay much more sober and efficient upstate. I’m being a little facetious. It’s really about the solitude and the pace of life, which is nurturing for a writer. Why invent a disease? Why not use one that readers might already be familiar with? I wanted to write about disease unencumbered by preconceived ideas. I felt that a disease that was entirely invented would allow access to the pure emotions and circumstances surrounding a diseased person. Pre-existing diseases carry baggage. When you hear cancer, you also hear chemo, radiation, metastasis. When you hear heart condition, you hear genetic predisposition. When you were researching the book, were there certain diseases you were attracted to? I’m attracted to all diseases, they’re fascinating. Most of us are going to have to bravely face one. The ones I’m most attracted to are the ones that fall between the medical cracks—diseases like fibromyalgia and Epstein-Barr. Or something more exotic like Morgellen’s, which is believed to be a rare dermatological disease. Sufferers believe it is a fiber-like organism that crawls just underneath their skin. They itch through their skin and their lives are essentially destroyed by it. But the medical community is very divided as to whether Morgellen’s is a separate disease from documented diseases. These types of diseases fall through the cracks and sufferers don’t feel that they get
the legitimacy that someone with a clear-cut disease gets. It’s lonely. The suffering is made lonelier by this. The mental anguish is compounded by its unknowability. That was another reason I found it important to invent a disease. The oddity surrounding Tim’s unnamed walking sickness almost feels like a piece out of science fiction. I would press against the science fiction classification because I think the world of rare diseases is so bizarre and contains multitudes. Tim’s disease is invented, but it’s not farfetched. I think a reader will personalize the disease somewhat, but it shouldn’t be taken as a metaphor. The disease is walking. What does the walking stand for? The walking stands for walking. It seems to me that the book ultimately boils down to an exploration of the struggle between mind and body. The important thing to remember is that the disease is real and Tim suffers from it. How he deals with it, eventually, is to go insane to some extent and wage battle against his body. He takes the position that his mind is made of nobler stuff and his body is dumb matter which he can’t control and which he feels is the degraded aspect of life on earth. The novel can be seen to some extent as the recognition by one man of his physical limitations and his search for a way out of those limitations. If Tim is merely a physical being, if he’s only an animal, a piece of meat, then the soul goes away. And with the soul, any chance of immortality, and with immortality, any notion of heaven, and God. The trouble he is having with the distinction between the mind and the body is sort of intricately caught up in this question he has with God. Tim comes to certain conclusions, but their sober-eyed conclusions, they’re not necessarily hopeful conclusions. 2/10 ChronograM forecast 87
Acoustic Thursdays: Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Dorraine Scofield 7pm. With JB Hunt & Larry Balestra. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.
Carbon Leaf 7:30pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
International Orange 7:30pm. With Todd Isler, David Phelps and Eric Udel. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Women's Anatomy of Arousal 7-9:30pm. Class and Powerpoint presentation by Sheri Winston. Sliding scale ($25-$50). Kingston Beahive, Kingston. 340-1800.
Jeffrey Wilgus 7:30pm. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300.
WorkshopS
FRIDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit The Rose Meditation 7pm-9:30pm. $40/$45. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Celestial Music Concert 7:30pm-9pm. $25/$20. A concert of celestial tone, tonality, and rhythm transmission with zither, voice, mbira, and percussion. Euphoria Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-6766. David Grisman Quintet 8pm. $35/$31/$28. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.
Dance
Rosanne Cash 8pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Hip Hop Afro-Fusion Dance 4:30pm-6:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Marji Zintz and Mike Benninger 8pm. Acoustic. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-OnHudson. 534-4717.
A Winter's Eve Swing Soiree 8pm. With Doc Scanlon's Rhythm Boys featuring vocalist Colleen Pratt. $15. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Kids When Elmo Grows Up 10:30am. Sesame Street Live. $12-$28. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
Music Gaida Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro. 546-0444. New Music Salon: Stephen Johnson 7pm-9pm. $10. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. (917) 449-6356. Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. Jazz. The Depot, Cold Spring. 265-5000.
Spoken Word Read for Food 7pm. Featuring poet John Kensalaar. Boughton Place, Highland. readforfood@gmail.com.
Theater Falsettos 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Arsenic and Old Lace 8pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Kimberly Akimbo 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
SATURDAY 27 Art Closing Reception for "On the Theme of Widows" 5pm-7pm. Woodcuts & etchings. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. (917) 449-6356.
Body / Mind / Spirit Continuum Movement Workshop 1pm-4pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Cleansing with the Sound of the Crystal Bowls 5pm-6:30pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. The Truth Will Set You Free 7pm-9pm. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
Classes YogaDance 10:30am-11:45am. Through March 27. $59. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
Dance Swing Dance and Workshop 5:15pm-11:30pm. $15/$10. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. (914) 475-0803.
Events 13th Annual Chili Bowl Fiesta 2pm-7pm. Featuring locally crafted ceramics, delicious chili and live music by Dog on Fleas. $5. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-9133. Open Hive: Game 6pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. (917) 449-6356.
Kids When Elmo Grows Up Call for times. Sesame Street Live. $12-$28. MidHudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Storytime, Music & Movement 10am. Ages 3 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Three Wishes and Wolf in Sheep's Clothes 11am. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Helen Avakian 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Yesterday And Today 8pm. A unique, interactive Beatles experience. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Alexis P. Suter Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. David Bowie Tributon 9pm. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
The Outdoors Singles and Sociables Snowshoe: Rhododendron Bridge 10am-2pm. 7-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Secrets of Ski Minne 10:30am-12:30pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.
Spoken Word Bettina Funcke and Johanna Burton On Zoe Leonard 1pm. Gallery talk. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100. Nova Ren Suma: Reading with Q&A for Young People 2pm. Author of locally inspired 'tween novel Dani Noir. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.
Theater Falsettos 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Arsenic and Old Lace 8pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Kimberly Akimbo 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Workshops Laugh and Grow Rich 2pm-4:30pm. $30/$25. Laughter meditation with Laraaji. Euphoria Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-6766.
SUNDAY 28 Body / Mind / Spirit ECK Worship Service 11am-12pm. Newburgh Mall, Newburgh. (800) 749-7791 ext. 2.
Kids When Elmo Grows Up Call for times. Sesame Street Live. $12-$28. MidHudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
Music Brian Dolzani 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble 2pm. Magical History Tour. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100. Palisades Virtuosi 3pm. Saugerties Pro Musica concert. $12/$10 seniors. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-7802. Bereznak Brothers Band 4pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Outdoors Singles and Sociables Snowshoe: Spring Farm 10am-3pm. 6-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Theater Falsettos
Music
3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Jenn Clapp and Aaron Parks Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro. 546-0444.
Arsenic and Old Lace 2pm. $12/$10 students and seniors. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.
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Rodney Douglas is the founder and director of the New Day Repertory Company. The troupe will perform Eugene O'Neill's “The Emperor Jones” at the Cunneen-Hackett in Poughkeepsie this month.
The “Emperor's” New Clothes It's been nearly a century since Eugene O'Neil's “The Emperor Jones” debuted on Broadway, featuring the first black actor in America in a starring role and crediting O'Neill his fame. The Poughkeepsie-based New Day Repertory Company, which began as an all-black troupe in 1963, is now tackling this controversial drama in a three-day stand at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center this month. The original 1920 performance set a precedent when O'Neill demanded the black actor, Charles Sidney Gilpin, play the role of Brutus Jones (black roles were traditionally played by white actors in garish “black-face”). The play teeters between degrading and intellectual—Gilpin eventually leaving due to the play's frequent use of the word “nigger.” But O'Neill refused to omit it. He felt its use was consistent with his dramatic intentions—intentions that have been countlessly debated: from an antique view of the black man's burden to O'Neill's take on Jungian ideas of the collective unconscious. “The Emperor Jones” follows Brutus Jones, convicted murderer, who has escaped from a chain gang and declared himself king of a Caribbean island. After a rebellion Jones flees through the jungle and consequently into his subconscious fears. Experimenting with expressionism, O'Neill based Jones on the Haitian dictator Henri Christophe and the Haitian revolution. Focusing on the uncharted aspects of human consciousness Joneses thoughts create specters which haunt him, each running into the next as his brutal past is eviscerated. The guttural beat of tom-tom drums resonate as Joneses regality contorts and dormant, visceral instincts take control. Ellwoodson Williams, playing Brutus Jones in New Day Repertory's production, disagrees with reviews calling it “dated.” “I don't see it as racist,” Williams says “it's about corruption and dictatorship—” depicting the impact society has in shaping the individual. Paired with the recent tragedy in Haiti and our “war on terror,” O'Neill's message has been resurrected: Fear erodes rationality. New Day Repertory Company will perform “The Emperor Jones” on February 5 at 8pm, February 6 at 3pm and 8pm, and February 7 at 3pm at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie. (845) 485-7399; newdayrep@gmail.com. —Siobhan K. McBride
dance trisha brown dance company stephanie berger Above: The Trisha Brown Dance Company performing at Dia:Beacon on November 13, 2009. Clockwise from top: Dai Jian, Leah Morrison, Tamara Riewe, Todd Lawrence Stone, Nicolas Strafaccia, Laurel Tentindo, and Samuel von Wentz perform Figure 8; Leah Morrison performing Accumulation; Dai Jian and Todd Lawrence Stone performing Leaning Duets. TBDC again performs at Dia:Beacon this month.
Inside the Box (Factory) Trisha Brown's site-specific choreography dates back to the early 1970s, when she debuted Walking on the Wall and Roof Piece, both reacting to urban spaces, and establishing herself up as the doyenne of experimental dance. As part of Trisha Brown Dance Company's year-long residency at Dia:Beacon, the troupe will highlight innovative work produced throughout Brown's innovative career. The choreographer again returns to earlier form with a second performance of works at Dia, incorporating the museum's collection into her pieces. Floor of the Forest is an exploration of a 12-by-14 foot pipeframe structure installed adjacent to the sculptures of John Chamberlain. In Spiral, dancers walk horizontally down a column while strapped in with ropes. You can see
us will be staged in front of Imi Knoebel's 24 Colors-for-Blinky, and Soft Phrase will be danced in the Donald Judd Gallery. (Robert Rauschenberg designed costumes for both pieces.) And Skymap, an audio work, will be installed amidst Sol LeWitt's Drawing Series. Performances will be on Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14 at 12pm and 2pm. After the Saturday performance, Dia will present a conversation between Trisha Brown, independent curator Klaus Kertess, and Dia director Philippe Vergne. $35 general admission; $20 for members, students, and seniors. Includes museum admission. (845) 440-0100; www.diaart.org. —Brian K. Mahoney 2/10 ChronograM forecast 89
by eric francis coppolino
eric francis coppolino
Planet Waves
Everything, All at Once (or, Welcome to 2012)
F
irst, a historical note. Did you know that when Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, the thing he discovered was Haiti? So the island that was shaken and the country that was shaken to rubble has a hallowed place in the dark history of the New World, as the place where European feet first touched the ground. There, they met the native Tainos, one of the Arawak people; and made a settlement, called La Navidad, on the north coast of present-day Haiti. Thus began a holocaust. In 2007, US News and World Report said that from an estimated initial population of 250,000 in 1492, the Arawaks had dropped to 14,000 by 1517. How did that happen? There’s the famous entry from Columbus’s log, reporting his first encounter with them; that pretty much explains it. “They brought us barrels of cotton thread and parrots and other little things which it would be tedious to list, and exchanged everything for whatever we offered them. I kept my eyes open and tried to find out if there was any gold, and I saw that some of them had a little piece hanging from a hole in their nose. I gathered from their signs that if one goes south, or around the south side of the island, there is a king with great jars full of it, enormous amounts. I tried to persuade them to go there, but I saw that the idea was not to their liking. They would make fine servants. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” So much for Pat Robertson’s theory the Haiti quake happened because the Haitians had made a pact with the devil at Bois-Caiman near Cap-Haitien on August 14, 1791. Yes, those in the slave revolt used Santeria at the commencement of the rebellion; that is historically documented. But even in the unlikely event that has some kind of karmic influence, it doesn’t explain what had happened on Hispaniola for the prior 300 years: brutal slavery at the hands of the Spaniards and the sugar-addicted French. Bad things have been happening in Haiti since Columbus laid eyes on the place. Is this about something much bigger? Are we getting a message that this is so big, it’s a comment on the story of the entire New World? Yes, earthquakes happen, and they can happen anywhere. For example, there is an active geological fault line running down the Hudson River. The Indian Point nuclear power plant sits atop a newly identified intersection of two active seismic zones. We in New York who don’t even experience tremors could wake up to the Earth shaking one day next week or in 5,000 years. The Aries Point and the Earthquake The Haiti earthquake occurred in the days before a solar eclipse, mixed up with an 11-planet alignment in Capricorn and Aquarius. Yet in the midst of that alignment was a specific astrological marker: the Aries Point. That’s the location of the Sun on the first day of Northern Hemisphere spring. The Aries Point, literally the first degree of the sign Aries, is extended by astrologers to include all four cardinal signs: the early degrees of
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Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, all of which are sensitive to Aries Point effects. I often characterize the Aries Point as “the personal is political,” in that the news that occurs around the time of an Aries Point event always affects a lot of people and also has a property of merging the personal and the collective realms. The world crashes into our living rooms. Everything happens at once. On the same day, relief efforts are underway from one of the deadliest earthquakes in recent history, and possibly in a very long time; congressional hearings on the banking crisis that nearly toppled the economy are proceeding. Citigroup was leveraged 68:1, debt to assets. There are no new regulations in place to prevent it from happening again. Suddenly there’s a new terrorist alert coming out of Yemen; and a new war. Most people hadn’t heard of Yemen until a month ago. One near-miss incident on one flight is causing some to respond as if 9/11 had happened again. A trial was underway in San Francisco to determine the constitutionality of banning same-sex marriage; talk about the personal being political. This trial is uniting one of the nation’s top conservative attorneys, Ted Olson—the US government’s lawyer under George Bush—with one of the stalwart “liberal” movements. Finally, a defection. Then, in the approximate flavor of Mercury retrograde in Capricorn (on the Aries Point, with Pluto two degrees away), Google is considering pulling out of China. That Was Just the Warm-up This is a snapshot of the culmination of Mercury retrograde, two eclipses and a massive alignment within about 60 degrees of sky: a lot of pressure, a lot of Aries Point. Mars (the ruler of Aries) is retrograde, too: That lasts all winter, and you could look at it as Mars being a bit reserved and feeling cramped in his style; or Mars calling us all to look inward and search out our true sense of self. That the retrograde takes place in Leo puts Mars opposite Aquarius, the sign of conformity to groups. We are just coming out of one of the most impressive phases of mass hypnosis that a talented, astrologically literate fantasy writer could ever make up. That would be based on a decade of Neptune in Aquarius, the drug of the masses being denial, Facebook, and Fox News. Chiron is now conjunct Neptune, a rare event that is about clearing up all that fog and seeing through the denial, delusion, deception, and false idealism of Neptune in Aquarius. But here’s what I’m here to tell you: We ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I can say this with some confidence after studying Aries Point effects for about 10 years, and knowing a little about the astrology of 2010. All the fuss about 2012 is the Aries Point, but we are fully into the aspect pattern right now, as planets begin to gather in the early degrees of the cardinal signs. Of course the Flying Saucer People (who may be right) probably don’t know that; yet the Mayan astrologers seem to have had a clue: Their long count comes to its transition on December 21, 2012, with the Sun in the first degree of Capricorn, that is,
aspecting the Aries Point precisely. The issue is not the Sun, itself; what the Mayans were looking at was where the Sun would be located, precisely on one of the cardinal points, and where they would be aligned at this time in the precessional cycle. Before that happens, we have the spring of 2010. And here’s a bit of what we get. The big event involves a conjunction in the first degree of Aries: the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus, two very influential planets. Jupiter leaves Aquarius and moves into Pisces on Sunday, but it does something unusual: It cuts clear across Pisces and stops in the first degree of Aries, where it stations retrograde. Uranus, meanwhile, has been in Pisces for nearly seven years. If you’re a Pisces you’ve been on a wild ride, no doubt; but we’ve all been feeling this one as the morph of the technical world with the dream world, as a sense of bizarre instability and emotional restlessness. Uranus moves into Aries in June, right when Jupiter does, and we have the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction on the Aries Point. The last time these two planets teamed up with Aries Point involvement, it was in Libra the summer of 1969. That was the summer we had the Manson murders, the Moon landing, and Woodstock, among many, many other news events that get eclipsed by these big three. What is this conjunction about? From a political angle, we see many signs of a mass movement or uprising—even here. It could be aggressive, or even militant; it could just be highly energized. I recognize that there are occasionally protests in our time of history, but we still don’t identify with this as being a time of rebellion or uprising against the many injustices that are being perpetrated. This seems strange, given all the years and years of abuses taken by the American public, and by extension, the public of many other countries. Most people will still tell you they don’t know what to do about these things. Jupiter-Uranus to me looks like an invention, and in part, an invention of identity; one that can identify with the ability to respond. Yet the influence of Aries could have certain individuals becoming extremely gung-ho about their “ideals” and Uranus could have them convinced they represent a “group.” Jupiter can lead people to think they know more than they do. The theme of the hour is precisely the opposite: Figuring out how little we know and getting some perspective on all this group identification that has been dominating the political landscape of our era. When Jupiter and Uranus meet on the Aries Point, they will be in alignment with Saturn and Pluto, which have already been stirring up plenty of change. In total, this is the 2012 alignment; the big leverage point, which has a series of peaks over the next three years. Pluto in Capricorn all by itself represents the banking collapse, the neartotal dysfunction of Congress, and many other aspects of corporate and government decay. Astrologers have seen this coming for years; in articles years ago I was describing a banking crisis though I did not know exactly what form it would take. Notably, when Chiron crossed Capricorn beginning in late 2001, we had the aftermath of the 9/11 event, the Enron scandal, Worldcom going down, Arthur Andersen, and a variety of government scandals involving the FBI and US intelligence ignoring the warning signs about the imminent attacks. What I said at the time was that Chiron in Capricorn was a kind of readiness exercise for Pluto’s arrival; if we learned the lessons then, we would not have to go through them again. Now it seems the entire economy has turned into one giant Enron. An Awakening of Consciousness Jupiter and Uranus in Aries add a lot of energy to this equation. But they add something else, something we really need: self-awakening. The thing about Aries is that it is deeply connected to themes like self-awareness. Aries is the original sign of I Am; it turns the key to existence, to action, and to desire. Uranus is a revolutionary force, forward thinking and provocative. It could have been named Prometheus just as well. The “fire of the gods” is the core of self-awareness, which of course all religions seem to have an issue with. Better to leave it all to God, than to be entrusted with the responsibility of making decisions. Then comes Jupiter. Jupiter magnifies things and is an excellent compliment to Uranus because it brings in a wisdom aspect, a cultural attribute, and something worldly. And this sounds like it has the potential to be a sudden, spontaneous awakening of awareness, in particular, of self-awareness. Opposite Jupiter/Uranus is Saturn in Libra, which is about taking relationships seriously. The ‘60s were great and all, but one of the missing pieces was a reverence for relationship. That was a problem. What happened in the ‘60s was not really a sexual revolution; it was the unleashing of long pent-up desire. There is plenty of sex going around these days, but most of it is not what you would call conscious or honest, and that is what we need. At the same time, in the same era, many of the people who aspire to do the work on themselves are afraid of sex or sexual contact; a good few—you must know some of these folks—are chipper and spiritual and associate sex with the “baser instincts.” Many people are trapped in relationship paradigms that force them to suppress who they, or is it who we, are; and it looks like that issue may finally catch fire. We sure could use the heat. Eric Francis Coppolino writes daily at PlanetWaves.net.
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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries (March 20-April 19) Your charts suggest strongly that you are making some decision involving marriage. You might be thinking of creating a marriage or of ending one; or you are formulating your thoughts on the subject. Here is what I see: You have a concept that marriage simplifies things. This is consistent with the old expression “tying the knot.� There’s nothing so simple going on, however. In truth, your charts present a complex situation regarding not just a relationship, but also your whole idea of what a relationship is. What I suggest is that you shift the entire thought process from ‘relationship’ to yourself. The most important relationship is the one you have with you. When we confuse our inner relationship with the one we have with others, that is called projection. It may not be literally true that whatever you are saying about, or appreciate about, or dislike, in others is true of you; but you would be wise to look for the connection points. In this project, you will learn something from photos. Photos are interesting because they are historical documents and projection screens. Photographs of you, of loved ones, family photos and in particular wedding photos will tell you a lot right now, in the sense of providing useful information. At the moment, certain pictures will paint a thousand words.
Taurus
(April 19-May 20)
Nearly every Taurus I know is struggling with their career. This seems to be a life-theme of your sign. Let’s pretend that has something to do with all the activity in Aquarius, your career house. Going back quite a long way—five years, 10 years, even 15 years, depending on how you count—there’s been constant change, movement, and an odd sense of insecurity about what you want to do, or what you “should be doing.� You’ve had plenty of ideas along the way, some of them excellent, but less in the way of traction or stability. Perhaps you know what you want, not how to make it work for you. Remember that most of our experiences train us to compromise passion and curiosity, or to expect certainty and incontrovertible correctness of the plan. Sure, that happens. More often, we find ourselves involved with events, uncertain where they will lead. Through many such experiments, we can arrive in an interesting place. What you have going on is subtler than either of those usual paths. At the moment, you have a rare perspective (think of it as visual, from a high place) that you didn’t have before. Use it to observe the ways you have been conditioned to not know what you want; to want what others want for you; and to doubt your own ideals, for the sake of others. What would your life be like, if you moved all that out of the way?
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Last month’s Mercury retrograde was pretty impressive, and its affects are still working out. For you, it was all about agreements. You tend to live your life trying to figure out what others expect from you, rather than determining what you want. In the tangle of opinions, obligations and pushing and pulling and sorting out the details, I trust you’ve learned to make this distinction. It’s not only okay to want; whatever the Buddhists may say, desire is your organizing principle. It’s the value by which you decide what to decide, including what to do and who to associate with. Jupiter in Pisces, which just crossed the potent midheaven angle of your solar chart, is offering you a wild card of desire. This may be arriving as an idea or a vision, or it may be an opportunity you’re not sure is solid. I promise you one thing: This qualifies as something different. It may take you a few weeks to catch on, but now that you have a clue I suggest you look carefully and make a decision while you’re still excited. One of the distinctions between this and the kind of opportunity you’re accustomed to involves going beyond your usual sense of scale, to something much wider; so wide, indeed, that you may not recognize it for what it is, or selling yourself short because this seems too good to be true.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) Life would be easier, were the playing field level. Usually it’s not, and it’s slippery, and some people cheat. The deeper issue, though, is what game you are playing, and the rules that you apply. Deeper still is making sure you take full authority over your own life. Two games show up on the radar as being particularly dangerous to your peace of mind. One is retribution; the other is teasing. It’s possible to tease yourself, and it’s possible to get revenge on yourself; if humans are good at two things, it is luring themselves with what is unavailable and self-loathing (in its many subtle forms). Remember that guilt is not an indicator that you are wrong. Rather, it suggests you have an issue to work out, potentially that you don’t believe your life is your life. It’s altogether better if we get those around us on board with the process of mutually freeing ourselves from guilt. But you don’t need anyone’s permission; that’s part of the game. When we feel guilty the tendency is to blame ourselves or seek forgiveness; a better approach is to offer forgiveness for what you think has been done to you. It may indeed be unclear who is responsible for what, or who is perpetuating any dysfunction. Account for the ways you are perpetuating anything distasteful to you, and change your act on the spot.
Planet Waves Horoscopes Leo (July 22-August 23) There has hardly been a more magnificent time to get clear on the intentions of your relationships. Indeed, it is happening without your deliberate intervention; you seem to be coming into alignment both with yourself and with the people around you. In an odd way, this quality is morphing from your sense of individuality to your sense of mutual purpose in one-to-one experiences, and this is shifting your group encounters. By alignment, I mean sense of purpose and mutual understanding of one another’s most important values. One of your gifts to the world is to love people despite their seeming flaws and to hold yourself out with dignity as a whole person, understanding perfectly well that you’re not perfect. You now have an opportunity to see how those seeming imperfections provide sources of strength and awareness. This really is the key to enlightenment, in these days when one of the most pressing psychological issues is self-loathing, and when the lack of self-understanding seems to verge on total. It’s deep in your nature to use mistakes, misunderstandings, and paradoxes as footholds for learning and awareness; it’s good times when the people around you get into that same mode, and that is approximately what you have going on now. In simple terms, everything is an opportunity to raise awareness. Every seeming fact implies a question. How you see yourself directly influences how you see others.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) You may not have counted the rewards of so much restless instability in your relationships going back so many years. The planetary setup has not lent itself to your romantic ideals; you probably canceled your subscription to Modern Bride in 2004. Yet one benefit of what you’ve been through has been to take nothing, and nobody, for granted. There has been no prefabricated scenario that was supposed to come true. You developed a knack for liking and loving people despite their wild oddities, despite what your parents would think; despite what you thought you would think. People have pushed you and challenged your beliefs and made sure you couldn’t hide in your mental box for long. In moments when spontaneous changes happened, you learned to move on. You leaned to envision the future rather than obsess over the past. But something has been missing: a degree of comfort, a space of authentic respite, an actual sense of benefit. Over the past year, you have gained an unusual new depth of clarity and focus, and I imagine you determined that was an omen of positive developments to come. Let that clarity give you the discernment to know healthy, loving influences when they manifest for you. You have been through enough, over enough time, for this to be truly possible. Lay down that restlessness for a while and open the door to love.
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Libra (September 22-October 23) You are not really caught in a situation you cannot get out of—but someone else may really be certain they are. You cannot convince them of the reality of their situation, but you can figure out for yourself that you have options. Having options is another way of saying that you are at a turning point. I suggest you make peace with the possibility that someone you care about may not quite see themselves at that place where a decision is necessary; to the contrary, they may be at a point of maximum chaos and confusion. Even on a good day, you have little choice but to negotiate with the world on your own terms. You are, at least, aware of your situation, and that provides the closest thing to a guarantee that you are going to work it out sooner rather than later. The risk you run is getting drawn into someone else’s drama, their romantic ideals, or their sense of fragmentation. Keep an eye on that third one. It’s the one most likely to drive you nuts, because when people are feeling fragmented those around them tend to respond in fragments. Note: the issue that is troubling them is likely to be a past idea of what a relationship should be, and the way that gets tangled up in the simple reality of life. Give the situation ‘til midMarch to work out; I think it will.
Scorpio (October 23-November 22) You may be questioning your treatment of someone important to you. You have become deeply sensitive to how someone feels in the environment of your emotions. In any form of emotional healing, step one is getting beyond the guilt that is so deeply entrenched in our relationships. The usual way to do that is by “not caring,� and obviously that’s not the answer; you would not be here unless you cared. One way to process guilt is to forgive yourself so that you can forgive everyone else. Most guilt, indeed, nearly all of what we think others think, is projection. Projection is something that is happening internally that we are then perceiving or ascribing to some experience or event “outside ourselves.� Just like you cannot write on a movie screen and change the plot, you cannot write on the world or on your relationships and change the underlying feelings. That is why you have to start with you. One thing that is clear is the extent to which you are subject to group dynamics. Much of what you’re dramatizing in your relationships right now involves what happened to you as a child, and that, in turn, created a situation where you don’t feel safe being yourself. So, let’s short-circuit this whole psychological process and summarize it as one question: What would you do if you felt absolutely safe being exactly who you are?
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Sagittarius (November 22-December 22) I’ve noticed something about some Sagittarians I know, which is that they don’t seem to mind living in half-renovated places. I guess when you feel like you came from a different galaxy, living on Earth like it’s a camping trip isn’t so bad; you don’t mind if your house is wrapped in Tyvek or your bedroom floor is made of plywood as long as it keeps out the rain. Or do you? Jupiter has arrived in Pisces, which is the place we look for information about the home environment of Sagittarius. I suggest you take a series of swift steps to transform your home into someplace you’re actually comfortable. Finish work in progress; make a list of anything that’s broken or out of place and repair or remove it. Get someone who knows Feng Shui to come and help you arrange things to maximize the efficiency of energy flow. Clean, clean, clean—with Dr. Bronner’s soap and water, not chemicals. If you don’t like where you are, now is the time to make an easy move to someplace better. All of this will have useful material effects, and the sense of closure that you get from fixing that which was long broken will help you feel more settled, like you’re here on the planet to stay for a while, and your home is a place where others who love you feel welcome.
Capricorn (December 22-January 20) Do you know those e-mail things designed to prevent you from writing to people if you’re drunk? The one with a series of arithmetic questions to make sure you’re clear enough to handle yourself? I suggest installing one of those on your entire life this month. Be careful what you do under the influence of any substance. “Do” includes say and do; it includes what you don’t do; and most of all, this includes how you respond to what you feel and what you think. You’re under a mix of influences that could lead you to act uncharacteristically, impulsively, or “not really coming from you.” Your emotional confusion is calling on you to take conscious, careful steps with the people you love, particularly with yourself. This month’s planetary set-up won’t prevent you from feeling clearly who you are, unless of course you let it do so. Yet you must be especially careful with substances, which will emphasize some emotions over others, sometimes contradictory. In itself this is not a bad thing; every emotion is valuable for what it teaches you. It’s just that you don’t want to act on certain darker sentiments; better to acknowledge and make peace with them. To give another example, if you want to have sex with someone on a few glasses of wine, first make sure they’re still interesting when all you’ve had is a coffee—preferably not the next day.
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Why are you the way you are? You seem to have lost contact with your motives—which you’re finally figuring out, now that you’re back in the groove of listening to them again. In the journey of awakening, you’re in that delicate space of playing snooze tag with yourself, only it’s not a single day you’re preparing to embark on; it’s the rest of your life. Denial is a peculiar state, unique to human consciousness; the ability, in essence, to pretend we’re not aware of something that we are actually aware of. Denial presumes that there is something to deny, and that we have a motive to keep it from awareness. If you notice that you’re struggling to admit something to yourself, break it down into what that something is, and why you might not want to acknowledge it. While you’re pondering that, here is another question: Is this whole thing a dance around how you were treated as a child? Are you covering up for someone else’s psychological stance toward you? Once that pattern is established, it can establish a pattern that the mind copies, which then propagates and takes root in many other relationships. See if you can get to the original motive; the original transaction that led you to learn any mode of response that involved pretending or denying that something obviously true was not. Get clear about that and much else will come into focus.
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For a long time, longer than you may care to admit, you’ve grown accustomed to a certain kind of progress in your life; behind the scenes, or in theory, or in principle. Fortunately, you have a rich inner life, and this enables you to stay interested in existence even in times when movement is slow or invisible, or when fulfillment seems unlikely. Yet this has caused you to live in two worlds, one being a world where so much is happening and where you can envision what is possible, and another where the people around you seem oblivious to their own potential and where potential, in general, seems frozen. Get ready for something different. Jupiter arriving in your sign is going to do a lot in a short time, all of it in visible, tangible ways. If you write plays, you may find them suddenly being produced on the live stage. If you write books, you are likely to discover people interested in publishing you. If you drum alone, you will surely find other drummers. What was solitary can now become social; what you were sure was worthless to the world now suddenly may have a high value. Yet to manifest this potential, you must do what is perhaps the most challenging thing for a Pisces: think in a forward direction; exist outside your previous states of confinement; leave behind your prior role of victim of existence for your new role as benefactor.
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Catherine Welshman, Woman in Black Dress, oil on wood panel, 24” x 24” Catherine Welshman’s figures stare out from the canvas—luring the viewer into their world for a brief moment. Like the whimsical air of a vaudeville act, they linger with glimpses of enigmatic events. Welshman took inspiration from the literal hands-on approach of artists from India, China, and Mexico, and the cultural as well as personal stories they told. Wanting to portray reality in her work, Welshman’s figures evoke a sullen strength inspired by her personal experiences. “I find when I’m making a figure, a person, and it’s becoming almost beautiful, I have to mess it up to make it my own,” she says. The result gives her pieces a haunting voice amidst their elegantly disheveled demeanors. “The figures have become my family,” she says. “I have to let them develop on their own.” Catherine Welshman’s paintings will be exhibited as part of the “Winter Group Show” at the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon through February 28. www.vanbruntgallery.com. —Siobhan K. McBride
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