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news and politics

woodstock film fest preview by Jay Blotcher

19 frack watch: the Renewable energy crossroads

62 capsule reviews of films

Lynn Woods considers possibilities for long- and short-term investments into renewable energy, and how they conflict with one another.

20 while you were sleeping Is the Internet making it easier to cheat? Are private cities in Honduras the answer?

Does accupuncture really work? Find out in this month's roundup.

21 beinhart’s body politic: the re-flight of the chickenhawks

Is Mitt Romney the next George Bush?

22 city sidewalks, pretty sidewalks: planning an urban retirement Why Rich Morris and Nora Strano chose commercial over rural living.

31 Don't feed the animals...your prized flower bulbs

Michelle Sutton suggests critter-resistant bulbs for flowers that will last.

efficient heating 37 beyond the boiler: rethinking the way you heat

From load calculation and boiler specs to biomass and radiant heating, Anne Pyburn has the cutting-edge methods to get the most bang for your buck this winter.

education 41 ready when you are Bard College at Simon's Rock is a nontraditional college for the early achiever.

A fresh look at some historic Dutchess County.

88 town and country: Pawling, Hopewell Junction, Wappingers Falls

Communities with the perfect ratio of nature, industry, and culture.

whole living guide 108 home birth revolution

The opportunities for where women can deliver include at home.

110 flowers fall: the way of the bodhisattva Bethany Saltman discusses putting the self aside for others.

Community Resource Guide 102 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

104 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

112 whole living Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.

Monday's at Racine, a film by Cynthia Wade, which will be screened at this year's Woodstock Film Festival.

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Previews of 36 films from the 2012 festival by our esteemed critic.

64 Let's stay together: bad brains—band in dc 67 a cabin in the woods: in our nature 67 letter from gasland: dear governor cuomo 69 apocalypse yoga: first winter

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A Design-Inspired October Weekend at The Aldrich!

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Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms and Makers Market Friday, October 19, from 5 to 9 pm $75 members; $100 non-members Please join us for an exclusive evening with celebrated artist Wendell Castle and top American artisans to benefit The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Guests will enjoy a private exhibition reception for Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms with the artist and curators, priority access to Makers Market—described

by The New York Times as “the grand prix of crafts fairs”—where attendees can meet the makers and purchase works before the fair opens to the public, plus festive canapés and cocktails amid fall foliage on the Museum’s campus.

Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959–1979 October 20, 2012, to February 20, 2013 The first major exhibition of the iconic designer’s work in over twenty years and the only one to focus exclusively on the period when his inimitable style of ground-breaking sculptural furniture was defined.

Wendell Castle’s exploration of form and function blurred the boundaries between art, craft, and design, forever changing the way we look at furniture. The exhibition coincides with Castle’s eightieth birthday and will be accompanied by a publication. The Aldrich will host a public opening featuring a panel discussion, book signing, docent-led tours, and family activities on Saturday, October 20, from 2 to 5 pm.

Free for members; free with the price of admission for non-members.

Lindemann Collection, Miami Beach; The O’Grady Foundation.

Makers Market A Tented Open-Air Marketplace Featuring a Curated Selection of Skillfully Crafted Products October 20 and 21, 2012 With an emphasis on design excellence, technical expertise, and quality of materials, Makers Market is a premier forum to experience the convergence of contemporary design and craft. Collectors and enthusiasts will have the opportunity to meet American artisans and shop a curated selection of objects, including ceramics, glassware, textiles, jewelry, furniture, metalwork, lighting, and more. The Market will be open to the public on Saturday, October 20, from 11 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, October 21, from 12 noon to 5 pm. Free for members; free with the price of admission for non-members.

Programming Partners: Manitoga | The Russel Wright Design Center, The Glass House, The Noguchi Museum

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877 Tel 203.438.4519, Fax 203.438.0198, aldrichart.org

Wendell Castle, Baker Dining Chair, 1967 Courtesy of R 20th Century Photo: Sherry Griffin

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70 Gallery & museum GUIDe

96 unorthodox: how Warren Norstein Became Big W

76 music: Pop Artist Peter Aaron talks pop with A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers.

Previews of Dark Dark Dark, Kristen Dehaan, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Mike Watt and the Missingmen, and the Pocatello Record Release Show in Nightlife Highlights.

Reviews of These Years on the Boat by Fairweather Friends, The NYC EP by Mike & Ruthy, and Groovin' in the Garden by Story Laurie & Friends.

80 books: illuminated manuscripts Honor Moore's family portraits include her father, Reverend Paul Moore, Jr., in her memoir The Bishop's Daughter.

82 book reviews Reviews of Die a Stranger by Steve Hamilton, Silent Slaughter by C.E. Lawrence, NYPD Red by James Patterson and Marshall Karp, and Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con by Guy Lawson. Plus Short Takes.

86 Poetry Poems by Heather Craig, Richard Donnelly, D. Dougherty, Alice Spofford Friedle, Reina Hardy, Clifford Henderson, Kristen Henderson, Jason Jupiter, AndrĂŠ Kelley, Ed Meek, Lorcan O'Mulrian, and Laura Solomon. Edited by Phillip X Levine.

136 parting shot Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott are partners in work and life. Their collaborative series of large-scale photographs, "Clouds," is this month's parting shot.

Chef Warren Norstein's career path offers a new definition of success.

the forecast 118 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 117 The 13th annual Film Columbia Festival from October 17 to 21 includes Hyde Park on Hudson with Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

119 Collaborative Concepts' Farm Project—a sculpture exhibition on a working farm.

120 Buy your dream guitar at the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase.

121 The Center for Symbolic Studies hosts a Joseph Campbell conference.

123 Stand-up comic Sara Schaefer's Ulster County debut is on October 20.

124 Omega's Design by Nature Conference will be held on October 19 to 21.

126 New Paltz's Celebration of the Arts returns to Hasbrouck Park on October 6.

127 The 3rd annual O+ Festival is October 5, 6, and 7 in Uptown Kingston.

128 Why isn't Jason Downs famous? See his show at the Rosendale Theater.

planet waves 130

mercury retrograde election day What happens when astrology and politics collide?

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horoscopes What are the stars telling us? Eric Francis Coppolino has the answers.

136 An untitled photograph by Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott from their "Clouds" show at Center for Photography at Woodstock.

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American Ballet Theatre

Fall Events at Bard All performances take place in the Sosnoff Theater. Additional program information is available on our website.

845-758-7900 fishercenter.bard.edu

American Ballet Theatre is considered a living national treasure bringing the magic of dance-theater across the United States and abroad. Program includes The Moor’s Pavane by José Limón, In the Upper Room by Twyla Tharp, and The Leaves Are Fading by Antony Tudor.

Friday, October 5 at 8 pm, Saturday, October 6 at 2 and 8 pm, and Sunday, October 7 at 2 pm

Tickets: $20, 30, 40, 50

American Symphony Orchestra

CONDUCTED BY LEON BOTSTEIN, MUSIC DIRECTOR Program includes Carl Maria von Weber’s Bassoon Concerto in F, Op. 75, and Andante and Rondo Ungarese, J. 158, Op. 35; Menachem Zur’s Tuba Concerto; Serge Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise; and Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at 8 pm

Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40

The Soul’s Messenger

Composer/performer Meredith Monk and her acclaimed Vocal Ensemble will offer a quartet concert showcasing Monk’s range as a composer and her engagement with performance as a vehicle for spiritual transformation. Presented by New Albion Records, The House Foundation for the Arts, and The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10 at 8 pm

Tickets: $15, 25, 35, 45

John Cage: On & Off the Air!

On & Off the Air! celebrates Cage’s centennial year under the auspices of the John Cage Trust. In its theme, the performance means to spotlight Cage’s ever-prescient work with technology; in its design, it means to extend Cage’s devotion to multiplicity, creativity, and responsive living. Produced by the John Cage Trust and The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

Saturday, November 17 at 8 pm

Tickets: $15, 25, 35, 45

Conservatory Sundays

Join us at the Sosnoff Theater for a series of delightful concerts performed by the talented students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, with faculty and special guests.

Chamber Concert Sunday, October 14 at 3 pm

Conservatory Orchestra Sunday, October 21 and Sunday, December 9 at 3 pm Music Alive! Sunday, October 28 at 3 pm

Suggested donation: $15, 20

Images: Herman Cornejo in In the Upper Room, Photo : Gene Schiavone; Leon Botstein conducting American Symphony Orchestra, ©Richard Termine; Bohdan Hilash, Meredith Monk, Allison Sniffin, Katie Geissinger, © 2012 Musée du Louvre / Olivier Ouadah; John Cage, Photo by Ben Guthrie; Bard Conservatory students, photo by Karl Rabe

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Halfway through our interview, Michael X. Rose poses a rhetorical question: “What’s better than a person dying in a painting?” His answer: “Two people dying in a painting.

Once you cross that line, I think your paintings become much better.” If you’re looking for dismemberment and mayhem in art, look no further than the work of Wallkillbased artist Michael X. Rose. His paintings are filled with battling horror movie monsters, human sacrifice, satyrs running off with screaming maidens, Nazi zombies on the rampage, and other scenes of phantasmagoria. It’s like something straight out of a Strange Tales comic, and they’re weird, scary fun. Rose likens his sensibility to kitschy Roger Corman movies like The Masque of the Red Death, starring Vincent Price.

“They’re not really scary,” says Rose, “but they’re supposed to be.”

Rose isn’t joking around, however. “I’m not trying to be ironic or sarcastic,” he says. He just likes to paint monsters. This led Rose to search out landscape paintings at garage sales and thrift stores that he could paint figures into. Yeti Throws My Great Grandfather from MountWashington, British Columbia, 1913 is such a piece; Rose picked it up for $15 at the Salvation Army shop in New Paltz and filled in the figures on top of the Bob Ross-esque background. “Maybe my landscapes aren’t as good as they should be because I’m waiting to get to the red meat,” he says.

In addition to being a painter, the 45-year-old Rose is a father of seven (aged 1 to 16); an art educator; a musician (his band, Brian Wilson Shock Treatment, just released its ninth album, Operation Sun Probe); and a filmmaker (he is currently raising money via Kickstarter for a cinematic version of his paintings, Bloodlust of the Druid Overlords).

Rose is also the subject of a documentary currently in production by local filmmakers Steve Scibelli and Will Joel.

Rose’s most recently completed painting is a large-scale (78” x 54”) variation on the Biblical flood, which will debut as part of a three-person show at Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art (KMOCA) in January. In the painting, the last surviving members of humanity scramble for a sole point of higher ground as the water rises—drowning people, animals, and temples indiscriminately. Of course, there’s not enough room for everyone, so those already on the rock attempt to keep the hapless masses in the roiling waters. “What’s funny about it, I think, is that even as they’re about to die, they’re murdering each other,” says Rose. “Which is what people would do, right?”

Paintings by Michael X. Rose are currently being exhibited in the Hudson Valley group show “Dear Mother Nature,” at the Dorsky Museum through November 4.

Kickstarter: Kickstarter.com/projects/michaelxrose/bloodlust-of-the-druid-overlords-film; Portfolio: Michaelxrose.com.

—Brian K. Mahoney A video on Michael X. Rose by Stephen Blauweiss can be viewed at Chronogram.com.

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Esteemed Reader Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: The work on ourselves is about allowing. Being receptive to higher energies and allowing them to enter our being. For this to occur, we have to render our centers passive. Our bodies need to be in an extremely relaxed state, still, no tension. Our minds, the mechanisms of our personalities, have to be passive, immobile, serene, inconsequential. Opinions, thoughts of I, righteous indignation, reactions, need to vanish. Our emotions, so volatile, swinging, need to be passive as well. Calm, nonreactive. We need to have courage and intention to make this happen.

And then...

We allow. We render our centers passive, still, and allow the higher to enter. Conscious energy.

It is unmistakable, not subtle. A feeling of effortlessness takes over, an opening to the higher, the blinders taken off, a centered presence now in the solar plexus.

This will blend with automatic energy in us and the result is a nonforced, present, surplus of sensitive energy. At that point, it is so important not to confuse what is going on with “I," which is something on a different and higher level. Just be with yourself.The new person that is you.

The work on ourselves is about learning how to love. For this we have to get out of the way.

Life and work will provide shocks, tensions, change. Be still, nonreactive in front of them. Accept yourself, both the angel and the animal. Always separate the present moment from the present situation.Trust in the work.

—Jerry Toporovsky, September 10, 2012 I recently attended a memorial service for a cousin who died, unexpectedly. The event included people speaking—telling stories about the departed. Each described him in the context of their relationship. He was friend, musical partner, drinking buddy, fellow explorer of the inner landscape, neighbor, father. But what stood out most of all was that he was a man who took advantage of his life—stepping into a greater fullness. He managed to untie a few emotional knots cinched in a painful childhood (or, as some suggested, earlier) and became more relaxed, open, positive, and available. We were left with the feeling that, during the course of this man’s life, he became more fully himself.

It was a good funeral, because, in the course of an hour, many sides of the person were illuminated. His weaknesses were not glossed over, but they were not emphasized either. He had demons, and he struggled with them. And in the end, he invited his demons to lie beside him, and even enlisted their help in untying knots of negativity.

For me, the event evoked a simple question: What is success in this life?

The question was really aroused by the answer, which was the impression of a person who had taken even a small step toward being, and it was that being which was memorable and remarkable to the people around him. In other words, they were left with an impression of what he was—his struggle with himself—and what he was becoming.

Success, I determined, is to take even one small step toward freedom, and to share that process with others. With death everything we call “ours” disappears from the world—all our possessions and accomplishments, all our thoughts and words. What remains is the result of our work on ourselves, and the subtle, fleeting impacts that work has on the living body of the world through relationships with the community of others.

But how to further this development of being, and be “successful”?

The teacher G. I. Gurdjieff, among many models of explanation of this process, proposed what he called the Science of Idiotism. An idiot in the original and full sense of the word is someone who has a unique destiny, whose life is not just an accidental series of events. The meaning comes from the Greek root signifying “I make my own.”

The series of 21 idiots in his hierarchy are stages of development of being, from the Ordinary Idiot to the Unique Idiot.

Notable for me is the eighth idiot—the Round Idiot—who is characterized by a consistency of effort. “A Round Idiot is an Idiot who never stops, but continues being an Idiot day-night-year round.” The suggestion here is that of a person with a permanent center of gravity; that regardless of circumstances, there is a connection to what constitutes success—struggling with negativity and automatism in ourselves, and sharing that work with the world via our tasks and relationships within our overlapping and concentric circles of family and community.

The passage at the beginning, though somewhat technical, points to a kind of meditation that allows the noise of the world to become quiet and a finer intelligence to enter and guide our instrument. It is a clue for the pursuit of success, in the deeper meaning of the word.

As the director would say at the ritual toasts to the Idiots, “To the health of all Round Idiots!” May we all be successful in becoming single-minded and constant in our work on ourselves.

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Mornings AT This morning, farmer Scott Boggs is harvesting heirloom squash. Chef Jacob Griffin is preparing delectable small plates to serve in The Farm Stand.

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Safety Last

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’m not a great driver. I haven’t driven defensively since the day I took my road test. I don’t check my blind spot when I change lanes. Rolling through stop signs is a signature move of mine. I’ve had many near crashes trying to untangle and plug in the hands-free device for my phone. I’m not sure what correct mirror placement would look like. I text, I drink, I eat, I fiddle with the stereo—sometimes all at once. I hopscotch lanes madly to shave seconds off my 12-minute commute. If I see a group of schoolchildren on a corner and a bus approaching, I speed up and try to pass before the blinking lights come on. I’m test marketing a bumper sticker that reads: “Safety Is Not My Goal—Not By A Long Shot.”

A few years ago, I tore my rotator cuff—that muscle group in the shoulder that allows the splendid range of motion we have in our arms—reaching for a water bottle that had rolled behind the driver’s seat into the rear passenger foot well. Instead of just pulling over, I kept one hand on the wheel and pretended I was Plastic Man with the other. (And there are some other probably downright dangerous stunts I’ve pulled in cars, which, for legal reasons and the viability of my future political career, I am not at liberty to disclose.)

The thing of it is, I know I’m a menace, but only a casual, everyday one.

I haven’t been in an actual accident since a fluky all-the-traffic-goes-from65mph-to-a-dead-stop incident on the Bruckner Expressway 10 years ago.

I’m no different from anyone else. We all engage in these mildly antisocial behaviors (the torn rotator cuff probably excepted) when we’re cocooned in our metal-and-plastic composite carapaces. We know it might be just a matter of time before we send one text too many, before we sideswipe a cyclist in our distracted state, before we miss the little red ball as it comes bouncing out from between parked cars… We all know, in our automotive heart of hearts, we’re not safe drivers.

Or so I thought.

Ford recently hired a company to conduct a study on our driving habits.

When asked whether they would describe themselves as safe drivers, 99 percent responded affirmatively. The majority of the same group of 2,500 respondents then admitted to such automotive behaviors as talking on the phone, eating, and driving over the speed limit. These people also said that they were concerned that the driving habits of others were making the roads less safe. Luckily, Ford is incorporating this information into designs for its 2013 Fusion, which will have safety systems that enable technology to forestall human idiocy. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords (While You Were Sleeping, page 20).

One instance in which technology may sometimes be overly relied upon is in the birthing process. Hospitals are necessary places, but not all children

need to be born there. If you’ve ever tried to get discharged from a hospital and had to wait around for hours while your doctor is rounded up to sign some form, you know that hospitals—for good reason—are bureaucracies run on rules and regulations. This structural rigidity might not create the most relaxing setting for a transcendent birthing experience. And while home birthing isn’t for a lot of us, many in the region are choosing to have kids at home. Wendy Kagan, our health and wellness editor, talks with parents, doulas, and midwives about the philosophy and practicality of delivering at home in “Home Birth Revolution” (page 108). Home births are on the rise again after a contraction following the aging out of the hippie generation.

Though they constitute less than one percent of all births in the US, home births rose 24 percent between 2004 and 2009. And while I have no statistics on how the Hudson Valley fares against the rest of the US in home birth rates, I’m sure we’re at the crowning edge. Mary Riley, the dean of local doulas, has witnessed over 500 home births.

Since its birth in 2000, the Woodstock Film Festival has matured from a runt of a backwater regional film festival into a serious player on the national film festival circuit. (Mad props to Festival Director Meira Blaustein, cofounder Laurent Rejto, and all who’ve labored so productively on this project over the years.) As we’ve done each year since its inception, in this issue we again publish our near-exhaustive guide to the festival, penned by our indefatigable film writer Jay “Sitting in the Dark is My Indian Name” Blotcher, who previewed 36 films and spoke with a handful of directors and actors to help shape your festival-going experience (“How a Local Film Festival Could Save the World,” page 62).

The Woodstock Film Festival isn’t the only cinematic game in town, however. Just a couple days after WFF hands out its Maverick awards, the Film Columbia Festival begins its three-day run in Chatham. Now in its thirteenth year, the festival has a record number of filmmakers on hand to discuss their work this year, including Alex Gibney (Client 9), who will be screening his Catholic Church pederasty documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. Natalie Axton previews the Film Columbia Festival on page 117.

If film fests ain’t your bag, there’s plenty more to do this month, from the music and art of the O+ Festival (“The Art of Health,” page 127) to the weekend-long celebration of Joseph Campbell and his legacy at the Center for Symbolic Studies (“Mythically Speaking,” page 121). And let’s not forget the 500 other events listed in The Forecast (page 118).There’s so much to rush out and do! Well, with all those distracted drivers we keep hearing about, you may not want to rush.You may want to wait for a fancy new Ford Fusion.

Department of Corrections In our September issue, we neglected to credit a sculpture that was pictured on the opening spread of the Saugerties Community Pages (“Jimmy Fallon Was Here”). The sculpture, pictured right, is by Willy Zev Neuman and is titled Hollywood Watch Out, Here Comes Saugerties. The sculpture is sited on Snyder’s Farm, on Route 212 just outside the village of Saugerties. The photo was taken by David Morris Cunningham.

Also in our September issue, we neglected to credit a photo of Michael Arnoff of Arnoff Moving & Storgage in our Millerton/Amenia/ Millbrook Community Pages. The photo, left, was taken by Peggy Hurley.

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The Renewable Energy Crossroads

By Lynn Woods Once Governor Cuomo lifts the moratorium on fracking and New York invests in building a natural gas infrastructure, will this investment be at the expense of developing renewable energies, which are vital to meeting the challenge of climate change?

As it is, New York trails six other states in number of solar installations. However, the state has gotten more aggressive, nearly doubling the amount of electrical generation it obtains from renewables in the last three years. By far the largest portion of this energy comes from wind; the rest consists of photovoltaics (PV), solar thermal, biomass, anaerobic digester gas, and fuel cells. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), which administers the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, has set a goal of increasing the share of renewables to 30 percent by 2015 (that number includes hydropower, which is far more significant, constituting 15 percent of electrical generation in the state). NYSERDA also aims to reduce energy consumption 15 percent by 2015, compared to the 2011 level.

“New York has developed more than 1800 megawatts of renewables exclusive of hydropower and that’s more than any other state in the Northeast,” says Dayle Zatlin, assistant director of communications at NYSERDA. Demand for solar has been growing thanks to “power purchase agreements,” arrangements in which people lease the power from a third-party provider that owns and installs the solar system, rather than invest in a system themselves, she says.

The governor also recently authorized $107 million for the new NY-Sun program, which will double the annual funding available for large-scale PV installations in 2013, and he has increased the monthly funding for smaller residential and commercial PV installations. Cuomo has set a goal of quadrupling the number of solar installations in the state in 2013 compared to 2011, and he has committed to doubling the 1,274 megawatts of wind power the state installed in 2010 by 2015.

Renewable energy experts said these are all positive steps; however, NY-Sun only runs through 2015. Carol Murphy, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, says the lack of a longer timeframe makes it more difficult for wind farm developers and solar providers to get financing for their projects. “If you can say ‘I have a contract with NYSERDA for the next 10 years,’ it’s a real commodity. Then you know you can get a revenue stream.”

Cutting down waste by upgrading the grid is another priority. During peak demand periods, when more power plants need to be ramped up to slam more electricity into the lines, as much as 10 to 15 percent of the electricity produced is lost during transmission from power plant to end user. By 2020, up to half of the state’s transmission grid will be reaching the end of its design life, says Jackson Morris, director of strategic engagement at Pace Energy & Climate Center at the Pace Law School, in Albany.

The governor launched the Energy Highway Initiative this year to come up with a plan. The state needs to invest in a smart grid, Morris says. Constructing PV systems to provide power during peak demand times—hot, sunny summer days, when solar is most productive—would help ease the congestion and reduce the cost of electricity to consumers, since solar panels would replace the inefficient “peaker” power plants that are used as back-ups to maintain supply, said Murphy.

New York should also accelerate the implementation of its energy efficiency programs, Morris says. A step in the right direction is Green Jobs Green New York, which offers cheap or free energy audits and low-interest loans for energy-conserving home improvements that make the up-front investment more affordable and enable residents to immediately benefit from the energy savings.

Another major challenge for wind-farm developers and large PV-system installers is uncertainty about the federal production tax credit, which is due to expire at the end of this year. “Unless Congress takes action, it will be difficult for companies to get financing

and go forward with projects,” Murphy says.

Meanwhile, market forces overwhelmingly favor natural gas, which accounts for the biggest share of the amount of megawatts generated in New York—53 percent, compared to 15 percent for hydropower, 14 percent for nuclear, 8 percent for oil, 6 percent for coal, 3 percent for wind, and 1 percent for other renewals. (In addition, the state imports 16 percent of its power, which is a much dirtier mix.) “State and national governments need to craft incentives and adopt appropriate regulations to level the playing field, thereby making those resources more economically attractive,” said Morris.

The rock-bottom price of fracked gas—it has plummeted from $7 per million BTUs four years ago to just $3—coupled with its advantage as a clean-burning fuel, is leading to a wholesale shift to gas, from power plants to factories to truck fleets. But eventually the gas companies are expected to sell fracked gas overseas, where it is much more profitable, resulting in tighter supplies at home and higher prices.

“Some people will argue gas prices are so low we shouldn’t invest in renewable energy,” says Murphy. “But fossil fuel prices are volatile. The critical time to be making these investments is now.”

Another challenge facing renewables is financing. Investors favor fossil-fuel generation plants because they are relatively cheap to build; 80 percent of their costs consist of maintenance and fuel, according to Murphy. In contrast, the investment for renewables occurs up front, putting them at a disadvantage—even though renewables compare very favorably over the long term, since they require no fuel and minimal maintenance costs.

“The financing community has struggled to structure renewable energy projects in such a way that makes renewables competitive,” says Morris. Furthermore, the true cost of burning natural gas and other fossil fuels would be better reflected if there was an appropriate price on carbon. “If we had the real price on the impacts [of fracking gas] from start to finish, you’re looking a lot more competitive from a renewals standpoint.”

As it is, “we lack the regulatory and statuary framework to really drive energy in the direction it needs to go,” Morris says. “Our policies are failing to move us as quickly as the science says we need to move.”

Because the natural gas consumed in New York is likely fracked from Pennsylvania, some argue the state would benefit by having it drilled here, Morris says. “New York exports $30 billion in energy expenditures every year. It would be an economic benefit to keep those dollars in the state, because then you can tax those operations, get revenues and benefit from the multiplier effect of job creation.” He acknowledged, however, that the environmental impacts should be factored in. “Whether [fracked gas] is a net benefit after doing the analysis depends on the regulatory regime—and that’s a question that has yet to be answered in New York State.”

A critical point, Morris adds, is that “you can also keep those energy jobs and dollars in-state through scaling up renewable technologies that don’t come with those significant environmental costs.”

Meanwhile, progress continues to be made in bringing down the cost of renewables.

Much research is being done on how to more efficiently store the energy, Murphy said.

Fuel cells are starting to be utilized in telecommunication switching stations and computer server farms. Greater utilization of renewables in Europe shows the possibilities, she added: wind turbines are widely deployed in countries like the Netherlands, and solar power is routinely used at wastewater treatment plants and to produce zero-emissions hydrogen for fuel cells.

“We need a larger commitment to renewals, and we need more creative financing,” Morris concludes. “If we build the market over the long term the industry will respond. If we don’t have a market they’ll go somewhere else. We’re at a crossroads.”

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Shortages of food, water, electricity, jobs, hospital beds, and classrooms are problems in one of the most densely populated places in the world. At the nexus of political warfare between Israel, Palestine, and Egypt, the Gaza Strip depends on relief from the Untied Nations. The UN provides food aid to 1.1 million of the 1.64 million residents, many of whom live in floor-less houses, act against cultural practices by slaying horses for meat, and keep children from school because they cannot afford clothing or supplies. A United Nations mission in Gaza report issued August 27 questioned whether the 139-square-mile area will be “a livable place” in 2020; but, according to residents, it’s barely livable now.

Source: New York Times Studies show that high achievers are just as likely to violate standards of academic integrity as others—a problem that has worsened over the last few decades. Donald L. McCabe, a professor at the Rutgers University Business School and a leading researcher on cheating, notes that while typically students cheat to survive, more and more students are cheating to thrive. He attributes this to higher competition, higher tolerance from parents and institutions, and, with Internet more accessible, more ease in getting away with it. A recent study at Duquesne University found that students were more likely to copy the more online tools they were allowed to use to complete the assignment because students have a harder time understanding what constitutes plagiarism.

Source: New York Times In a new survey conducted for Ford Motor Company by Penn Schoen Berlin, 99 percent of the 2,506 licensed drivers described themselves as safe drivers. In the same group, 76 percent admitted to eating while driving, 55 percent to driving over the speed limit, and 54 percent to talking on hand-held mobile phones. Also, 37 percent said they drive when overtired, and 25 percent said they search contacts on their phones while driving. Most of the people in the survey who consider themselves safe drivers admitted to being concerned about other drivers on the road.

The survey findings are being considered for the addition of safety features in the new Ford Fusion sedan designed to help drivers with some of these impulses. Nine out of 10 people expressed interest in systems that slowed the vehicle if it detected an oncoming collision, and eight in 10 would want a car that pulled back into a lane if it started drifting off the road. The survey found that 59 percent would not feel comfortable with technologies that would take away their control over the vehicle.

The 2013 Fusion will offer some of these safety features.

Source: Wall Street Journal A federal court blocked a Texas law that would have required voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting ballots in November.

They argued that the law would discourage minority voters and impose unfair financial burdens on the poor, who would need to pay fees to obtain election ID cards if lacking proper documentation. To obtain the card, voters would need to travel to a state Department of Public Safety office, some which are up to 250 miles away from certain towns, and would require ID verification to obtain—a certified copy of a birth certificate costing $22. Supporters of the law claim that it’s needed to prevent voter impersonation fraud. Critics argue that such fraud is rare, and that the law is a veiled attempt to dissuade a Democratic demographic of students and minorities from voting. This ruling came two days after a panel in the same court found that the Texas legislature had intentionally discriminated against minority voters in drawing up electoral district maps.

Source: New York Times In the first-ever trial of a sitting prelate, Roman Catholic Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City was found guilty of failing to report suspected child abuse of a pedophile priest. Computer technicians found hundreds of pornographic pictures of young girls on Reverend Shawn Ratigan’s laptop when he brought it in for repairs. After being confronted with the photos, Ratigan attempted suicide. Bishop Finn sent him to live in a convent after returning from psychological treatment, but Ratigan continued to attend children’s events and take lewd photos unreported by the bishop. Finn is being sentenced to two years of court supervised probation. In August, Ratigan pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges, and is awaiting sentencing.

Source: New York Times

About 5.9 million people nationwide, up about a third in the last five years, have taken out government-backed student loans. Nearly one in every six borrowers with a loan balance is in default, amounting in $76 billion, more than the yearly tuition bill for all students at public two- and four-year colleges and universities. Defaulting can ruin borrowers’ credit and increase the amount they owe up to 25 percent of the balance. The Education Department paid more than $1.4 billion last fiscal year to collection agencies to hunt down defaulters. ConServe, a debt collection agency in suburban Rochester, expects their payroll of 420 to double in three years.

Source: New York Times Shepard Fairey, Los Angeles-based street artist and creator of the Obama “Hope” poster, was sentenced to two years probation and a $25,000 fine over copyright infringement accusations from the Associated Press. Though Fairey said his artwork fell under fair-use laws, the artist pleaded guilty in February to destroying documents and manufacturing evidence in his legal battle with the AP over his use of the 2006 Obama photo. Though the federal prosecutors sought jail time for Fairey, his charges were dropped due to mitigating factors like his admission of guilt, a difficult to treat advanced case of diabetes, and the artist’s charity work and letters of support.

Source: Los Angeles Times An international group of investors and government representatives signed a memorandum in September that will allow construction to begin in six months on three privately run cities in Honduras that will have their own police, laws, government, and tax systems. Supporters argue that the project will strengthen Honduras’s weak government and failing infrastructure. Mclaughlin Gormley King Co., Inc. will invest $15 million to begin building basic infrastructure for the first model city on the Caribbean coast, which would create 5,000 jobs over the next six months and up to 200,000 in the future. Opposers, including the indigenous Garifuna people and Oscar Cruz, a former constitutional prosecutor who filed a motion with the Supreme Court last year, argue that the project is unconstitutional and an act of pure colonialism. The Supreme Court has not responded to Cruz’s complaint.

Source: Washington Post A new study of acupuncture offers strong scientific support that the age-old therapy used by an estimated three million Americans each year can ease chronic pain. The six-year study financed by the National Institutes of Health included a detailed analysis of data on nearly 18,000 patients. The results found that acupuncture outperformed sham treatments and standard care for people suffering from osteoarthritis, migraines, and chronic back, neck, and shoulder pain. About half of the patients treated with true acupuncture reported improvements, compared to about 30 percent of patients who did not undergo the treatment.

Source: New York Times Compiled by Jennifer Gutman

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

GOTTERDAMMERUNG! IT’S THE RE-FLIGHT OF THE CHICKENHAWKS

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nyone with even a pretension of culture is familiar with our greatest native opera, “Gotterdammerung, Flight of the Chickenhawks.” Also known as the Ring Bicycle, going around and around and around to futility, it celebrates the epic military misadventures of the misunderestimated Bush!

Let us gather together, children, in the box seats of the opera house, look at our program notes, and review the essential elements of the story, before we listen to the music.

Upon coming into office in 2001, George W. Bush was warned about coming terrorist attacks. Vice-President Dick Cheney was assigned to head the counterterrorism task force. Cheney was chief among a group called the Neocons, the Vulcans, and, most aptly, the Chickenhawks, creatures who screech most loudly for war, but have never participated in one Cheney’s task force did not meet until after 9/11. Eleven years later, on September 11, 2012, the NewYork Times released a story that there were many memos that warned about a coming terrorist attack by Bin Laden and Al Qaeda that were ignored. “Neoconservative leaders…were warning the White House that the CIA had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein…a greater threat.” Those memos were withheld from the 9/11 Commission.

The towers came down and over 3,000 people died. The identity of the perpetrators was established almost instantly since we already knew about them.

There are songs of mourning and lamentation.Then, the young tenor, representing the president, sings the first of his famous arias, “Bellicosity!” with the chorus, “We’ll get him, like they say in the Old West, dead or alive!” In one of those peculiar footnotes in the history of opera, some scenic elements failed to arrive opening night and the song was sung to an empty chair, presaging the most famous moment of the 2012 Republican Convention, Clint Eastwood performing with exactly the same prop!

(Conspiracy theorists, take note).

Then it was “Off to War!” What a moment, what martial airs, with the first use of miniature drones in a musical performance. The critics were bowled over.

Into Afghanistan! Once known as the Graveyard of Empires. We would not fail as the British, the Russians, and even Alexander the Great had. No! We rushed to victory. “Hooah! Hooah!” cried the chorus, and then charged off to Imperial War Numero Duh, the Invasion of Iraq! A quick victory was had there, too! Cue the songs of celebration, “Tearing Down Saddam’s Statue!” and “The Cheer of Liberated Iraqis,” as the Neocons danced back in DC. Then it was on to the Reconstruction. It would (we were promised) cost us nothing! A fascist, socialist, statist regime would be replaced with democracy and the freest free-market economy in the world. The desert would blossom. It would be like France, except more loyal and subservient to America. All the other repressive Middle Eastern regimes would fall as their people rose up, crying, “We want to be just like Iraq!” Which was the rousing finale! Could anyone fail to be moved to a sort of exultation of tears and then walk forth from the theater into the night air determined to launch our forces once more, twice more, thrice more, and conquer more?

Of course, neither war was actually won. It’s reasonable to say that both were actually lost. (Shhh! Don’t ask. Don’t tell.) We went into Afghanistan to get Bin Laden and Mullah Omar, but they got away. We went into Iraq because of the WMDs, but they weren’t there. The reconstruction was an utter failure. As of 2006 (six years ago), over $50 billion had been spent without returning Iraq to prewar levels. Much of that money simply disappeared. Oddly, it’s almost impossible to find an estimate of the amount dedicated to rebuilding Afghanistan. Presumably they’re folded into

the war costs, about half a trillion dollars since 2001, currently running at about $20 billion a year. By contrast, according to Peter Van Buren, a career foreign service officer in We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, “The reconstruction of Germany and Japan cost only $32 billion and $17 billion, respectively,” in 2010 dollars.

That’s sad, even tragic, but it’s old news.

No, folks! It’s not! Welcome to the remake! Producer Mitt Romney is working hard, hard, hard! To bring you The Re-Flight of the Chickenhawks, Gotterdammerung II! A chickenhawk himself—yes, he loved the Vietnam War, but avoided service— he’s assembled the old team as his national security and foreign policy advisers! Cofer Black, who was head of counterterrorism from 1999 to 2001, one of the key guys in not stopping 9/11. Then he “led the hunt” for Bin Laden. The failed hunt, not the one that got him. He systemized torture for interrogations, then went to work for Blackwater. Romney calls him his “trusted envoy to the dark side.” Ohhh, shiverrr!

There’s General Michael Hayden (a military man, but not one who saw combat).

As head of the NSA he helped lead the failure to stop 9/11 and to catch Bin Laden.

He was in favor of torture (he won that one), and he did succeed in secretly instituting warrantless wiretaps.

There was an organization called PNAC, Project for the New American Century.

It advocated the invasion of Iraq and any place else that annoyed us. Notoriously, it suggested that the only way to transform the United States into the aggressive war machine it prescribed was to have another Pearl Harbor. If you like conspiracy theories, that’s the place to start. Their successor is FPI, Foreign Policy Initiative— same people, same attitudes, same hunger to blow something up, operatically, in the name of peace, justice, progress, freedom, and democracy. At least two-thirds of Romney’s team were members of one or both.

Dan Senor was the chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority, in charge of Iraq’s nonreconstruction. He was so cynical that he said to reporters, “Well, off the record, Paris is burning. But on the record, security and stability are returning to Iraq,” displaying an ability to lie with a straight face that makes him perfect for the Romney/Ryan team.

John Lehman, once Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy, thinks we’re in a worldwide holy war. He also thinks a stronger navy is the way to fight it. In addition, he criticized Obama because “We’re seeing the Soviets pushing into the Arctic with no response from us.” (Yes, that’s what he said, the Soviets).

Eliot Cohen, a PNAC founder, says we’re in WW IV and we should overthrow Iran. John Bolton is right there with him. He’s the guy with the comedy mustache.

Bush made him ambassador to the UN in one of his famous “up yours” gestures, since Bolton despised that organization.

There are a bunch of others of the same lineage. They are also, most of them, tied to big money, through banking or hedge funds, to the defense industry, to right-wing think tanks, the Wall Street Journal, and Fox News. Making bellicosity pay.

We’re mostly focused on the economy and domestic issues. But presidents deal with foreign policy. If you want a team that couldn’t find a terrorist if he was hiding in their undershorts, if you want a group that thinks we won their last two wars and we should cut taxes to pay for the next two, here they are. The Chickenhawks are back!

Gotterdammerung, who would’ve thunk anyone could be that dumb?

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hen Rich Morris asked Nora Strano to dance at P&G’s restaurant in New Paltz, a January blizzard blew in, so they just boogied “the night away,” says Strano, smiling at the memory. The combustion chemistry of the groovy Gaelic guy cutely meeting the sassy, sexy Sicilian girl led, in about six weeks, to cohabitation. “It was the ’70s and we were driving our college roommates nuts!” says Morris. To the great relief of their Irish and Roman Catholic parents, 18 months later, Morris and Strano wed. “My husband’s grandmother died happily believing I was Irish because I’m called Nora,” says Strano with a laugh.

An Unconventional Family For 12 years, the affectionate, artsy couple banged busily away trying to make a baby, eventually consulting nationally renowned fertility experts. They locked often but failed to load.A friend suggested international adoption—South Korea or Honduras— but that exotic avenue blew a tire on geopolitical roadblocks. However the couple, both social workers, had great contacts to mine for baby leads. Morris and Strano 22 home ChronograM 10/12

began to search locally. The social-theory sophisticates were unusually comfortable with open adoption, which supports the idea that legally-assumed children might openly explore their biological roots and even form relationships when, and if, they ever felt ready. Within weeks, Strano and Morris were matched with the first of three biracial sons they would eventually adopt from the Kingston area—Nicholas, 23; Isaiah, 22; and Michael, 20. Their two younger sons are also birth brothers.

“Rich is from Paterson, New Jersey, a real hotbed of race riots when we were in college,” says Strano. “We’re ardent lefties, so we were open to the idea of adopting children who didn’t necessarily look like us, but we really had no idea about the extent of bias still buried in our society until we began raising kids of color.”

Upsizing for Retirement As somewhat older parents, Strano and Morris, both 56, grew concerned a few years ago that the lofty property taxes levied on their 3,000-square-foot residence in the town of New Paltz could wreck their early retirement plan. Brooklyn native Strano

Opposite: The exterior of the dual-use Morris/Strano building in Uptown Kingston. Two businesses occupy the ground floor and the family lives on the second floor.

Top: Rich Morris and Nora Strano in their light-filled living room with their three sons, who live at home. Bottom: Morris in the central hallway, flanked by his paintings.

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yearned to trade septic tanks for sidewalks. Morris pined for a painting studio beyond the basement. But the trope swap of the “Brady Bunch” house for the Cocoon condo proved a blind alley.

This family’s unconventionality surpasses mere race diversification. Each member does something creative—Strano makes hats; Morris is a prolific abstract expressionist painter; Nick edits digital video; Isaiah draws and refinishes furniture; Michael’s a musician who acts in school plays.

Also, because they’d waited so long to become parents, Strano and Morris aren’t panting to become empty-nesters. They decided to plan on all five of them living together indefinitely. They don’t want their sons to ever feel shut out, and it hasn’t been easy for the older boys to find employment. The eldest is a postal worker; the middle son cleans offices; the youngest is a full-time student.

“For our family, downsizing just didn’t work as a retirement housing option,” says Strano.

“Our sons may not find jobs for a while that earn enough to pay for their own homes.”

They briefly considered relocating to North Carolina, but “that Southern pride thing, the Confederate flag stickers on the cars, it makes me want to rip their throats out,” says Strano.

The second floor was formerly an office space which Morris and Strano renovated more or less completely. One thing they saved was the sign on the Ladies’ Room door.

Michael, the musician in the family, watching football on a Sunday afternoon. Each of Morris and Strano’s three children have a large bedroom in the five-bedroom home.

Rich Morris painting in his studio.

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An Extensive Renovation In July 2010, they made a successful $400,000 cash offer on a dilapidated 1913 twostory commercial building at 260 Fair Street in Kingston.The 6,900-square-foot brick structure—built for Warren Co. Leather and Sporting Goods—boasts windows on all sides, an off-street parking lot, and two ground-floor office spaces with excellent rental histories. To fund the renovation, they took out a home-equity loan on their conventional New Paltz Victorian—which was sold as quickly as possible.

“Buying this building was the most insane risk we ever took,” says Strano. “For two solid years I drove past it—often pulling over, contemplating its buried architectural features—and I’d contacted Murphy Real Estate, the listing agent, but the initial asking price was $780,000, way more than we could afford.”

Repurposing the century-old structure proved far more expensive than estimated.

But they were fortunate in choosing Rian Bradley, owner of R. Bradley Renovations and Property Management for the contracting job, initially estimated at $50,000 in labor and about twice that in materials and removal fees. The Kingston native lives nearby and has a soft spot for strategically salvaging uptown’s piles; his grandfather is the late Hon. Vincent Bradley, Ulster County Supreme Court justice.

Buoyed by an aptitude for problem-solving mated to unflagging esprit de corps—the SUNY Maritime College graduate once sailed professionally - Bradley nevertheless had to break bad news regularly. Recycling the fluorescent light bulbs alone cost $1,000. The concrete enveloping the massive vault added in 1974 by the Kingston Trust Company had to be blasted in order to install plumbing for the secondfloor kitchen and laundry room. A maze of office walls erected upstairs in the ’60s without regard for where they met the windows got ripped out, as did drop ceilings, vast expanses of ugly carpeting, and reluctantly, the original pine floorboards, past salvageability. The materials cost alone for the new oak flooring (stained cherry) hit $24,000. As reasonable as Bradley tried to be, the job was so big and complex it took seven employees about six months to make the place habitable.

“I’m a closet smoker, so I’d wake up, step outside for a cigarette, and then I’d find myself praying and asking for advice from my dead father, who’d been Director of the Finance Department for the City of New York,” says Strano.

The Boon of Commercial Tenants Strano and Morris say having commercial tenants is easy because their interests are so aligned. Strano sweeps the gutter out front every morning. Each of the two downstairs offices had its bathroom fully renovated. A specialty bookseller not open to the public has occupied the 2,000-square-foot space for 20 years. An insurance agency whose operations are almost wholly Internet based, leases the 1,200-square-foot unit. Both tenants pay their rent on time and it’s enough to pay for the property taxes plus most other recurring expenses.The whole building’s on a commercial utility meter. Because heat rises and the tenants keep their offices fairly warm in the winter, it doesn’t cost much to heat the family’s six-bedroom, two-bath, 3,900-square-foot loft.

“We don’t have a mortgage, but we don’t have any more money, either—we spent it all on this place, about $650,000 all-in,” says Strano. “Rich finally has a room with great light in which to paint, plus another room for storing canvasses. The demand for his work has picked up—he’s often in gallery shows, and sells online [Rmorrisart.com].”

Strano’s been able to cut back her social-work hours to part-time. Morris plans to continue working full-time for the Onteora Central School District for six years.

Strano admits it sometimes feels strange that they no longer have much in savings.

Morris doesn’t worry. “I’m going to be able to retire to paint full-time,” says Morris.

We put in just two closets upstairs, so if perchance I dropped dead—Nora calls me a medical miracle because I have asthma, hypertension, and diabetes—the whole building can be easily reverted to straight commercial use.”

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Some of the lengths people will go to try to protect their crocuses from squirrels and chipmunks: laying chicken wire, subsoil, over the bulbs with stakes to hold the wire down (imagine trying to divide bulbs in that mess later); covering the bulbs in poison; trapping or shooting the offending critters; or encouraging roaming feral cats to come eat the varmints. This seems like a lot of work against nature for a wee little flower, pretty as it may be, especially since there are other bulbs less palatable to animals that also produce pretty wee flowers.

We humans can be the worst bulb upsetters, like when I am digging up perennials and accidentally slice bulbs in half, a fate from which they cannot recover.

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When you go to the garden centers or order bulbs online, instead of perusing the big hybrids with fancy names like Tulipa Queen of Night (my favorite hybrid tulip, with nearly black petals), look for the smaller species tulips like Tulipa greigii, Tulipa kaufmanianna, or Tulipa turkestanica. In addition to critter resistance, another advantage of the species tulips is that they naturalize, or spread. By contrast, the hybrid tulips tend to, by nature of their breeding for short-term showiness, poop out after a couple of years.

Another selection I eschew is the aforementioned crocus (genus Crocus), at least the ones that bloom in the spring. They are bulb-like corms (underground plant stem sections swollen with stored food) that are culinary treats for many critters. However, there are fall-blooming crocus (genus Colchicum) that have bigger blooms and are much less vulnerable to predation, the bulb being toxic to the varmints’ digestive systems. They are bigger and showier than the little spring-blooming crocuses, and they come up in autumn to delight you when you’ve forgotten about them entirely. Partly you forget about them because they send up hosta-like leaves in early spring, then the leaves die back entirely in late spring, nothing happens in summer, then in fall the flower stalks come up, sans leaves (another common name for autumn crocus is “naked lady”). Those leafless flower stalks are quite striking.

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whites to yellow with orange or apricot centers to white with pink or chartreuse centers. I love the mini ones like Tête-a-Tête that emerge very early in spring, the ones like Rip Van Winkle that look like crazy hair, and the heavy doubles like Manly that fall over under the weight of their extra petals.

There are daffodils with a single flower per stem, and daffs that have a cascade of flowers as in the variety called Avalanche. Some are fragrant. My favorite supplier is Brent and Becky’s in Virginia, with a catalog of hundreds of varieties of daffodils. But one can find many of these lovelies for sale in garden centers in the Hudson Valley.

Some daffodils are better naturalizers than others. The most exotic daffodil I ever bought was $5 per bulb. I can’t remember the name, but it was a light pink with a cup that was stuffed full of pink and white “petaloids.” It was gorgeous, but it didn’t come back after the second season. By contrast, the inexpensive mini Tête-a-Tête naturalizes like a champ.The secret to getting the most mileage out of your daffodil show is to plant early-, midseason-, and lateblooming daffs. If you plan carefully (and springtime isn’t too crazy warm), you can have nearly three months of daffodil show.

The Dependables In addition to species tulips, fall crocuses, and daffodils, here’s the short list of critter-resistant bulbs I recommend to friends and clients looking to have some positive forays into bulb growing. Note the expression “critter-resistant” as opposed to “critter-proof.” There’s always the odd person whose “critterresistant” bulbs have been inexplicably absconded with.

Winter aconites: 2- to 3-inch-tall yellow buttercup-like flowers above a skirt of green Snowdrops: white flowers with green flecks in early spring Squills/Scillas: cute little blue, white, or pink flowers in early spring Alliums (ornamental onions): These are those lovely globes of purple (sometimes rose or white) on a sturdy talk that you see in late May through early July.The globes are composed of hundreds of tiny florets.

Ornamental onions are in the same genus as the onions we eat, and the critters don’t like the taste.The cultivar names are humorously boastful, too, like Gladiator, Purple Globe, Mount Everest, Globemaster, and Stratos. And don’t miss the one called, simply, Hair. It is not a pretty flower, but it’s a great conversation piece.

RESOURCES Adams Fairacre Farms Adamsfarms.com Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Flowerbulbs.cornell.edu

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ome heating used to be simple, albeit inefficient and hard on the health of both planet and homeowner.You had something called a furnace, and when it had a problem you needed someone called a furnace man, and that was that. For a couple of decades now, with rising environmental awareness spurring technological wizardry, options have expanded. And if you’re looking at a heating system upgrade, there’s quite a bit to consider.

“Many contractors will still just come in and look at the label on your old boiler and see, for example, ‘100,000 BTUs’ and go order and install a 100,000 BTU replacement,” says Dan Silvestri, head of Silvestri Plumbing and Heating in Fishkill. “But a 1,800-square-foot house built in 1968 that had a 100,000 BTU boiler installed might be wasting 36,000 BTUs in heat loss. And there’s a lot that goes into efficiency. It’s not about the appliance itself, it’s about what’s being done to deal with heat loss.”

“You might have a sticker on your new boiler that claims it’s 95 percent efficient,” says Silvestri. “That’s like the mileage sticker on a new car—a lot depends on how you maintain it and how you drive. And if a new heating system isn’t sized, designed, and installed properly, you may still get some savings but you won’t get true efficiency.”

True Efficiency True efficiency requires a thorough “load” calculation. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. explains on its website that a lot more goes into load calculation than simply square footage and R-values: “An accurate load determination includes building construction; orientation to the sun; “R” value of the insulation; number, size, and placement of

rooms; number, size, and placement of windows and doors; types of windows and doors (thermal efficiency); number and arrangement of floors; and the climate.”

Computer software allows contractors to input the findings of this thorough inspection—the “whole-house approach,” as Silvestri puts it—and come up with the right-sized heating unit. If, by some chance, a contractor you’re talking to scoffs at all of this, get another contractor.

“This is a great field to be in right now, with all of the advances being made and the awareness of energy efficiency,” says Silvestri. Among other changes, as of September 1, manufacturers will no longer be allowed to build boilers with old-style “pilot lights” or without outdoor resets, which respond to the actual temperature in calculating the heat load on the boiler instead of constantly calling for water heated to a wasteful 180 degrees.

“It used to be 180 [degrees] until shutoff,” says Silvestri. “Now, appliances are designed for 110 degrees, and the idea is to maximize the heat transfers. That’s where the whole market’s going, and manufacturers are still playing catch-up. But putting money into your mechanical systems will certainly pay for itself in energy savings down the line.”

The changes in boiler specs are consumer and environment-friendly, according to contractor and trainer Carol Fey, whose credentials include heating work in Antarctica. “The most important implication is that the plumber is going to have even less control over boiler water temperature.This is good for the homeowner’s pocketbook,” she writes in Contractor magazine.

Thus, if you’re faced with replacing a boiler, there are important improvements on the horizon even if you’re heating with fossil fuel. “Modulating condensing boilers are the state of the art with fossil fuel systems.” says Silvestri.

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Ditching Fossil Fuel Maybe you’re considering ditching fossil fuel altogether, a choice that is getting easier to make with advances in technology. Even the venerable woodstove has undergone major changes, according to Niels Wittus of Wittus: Fire by Design.

“Any stove or fireplace has to meet EPA standards, of course—it’s a different world from 20 years ago, thanks to catalytic converters and an enhanced understanding of wood combustion,”Wittus says. “Catalytic converters were an advance, but they tend to break down and not get fixed. In general, secondary combustion systems are a little more costly for the manufacturer up front, but there is a huge difference in efficiency and heating. Combustible gas used to go up the chimney, but by sending preheated air into the right places, you get a lot less heat and more ash.”

The future of biomass heating systems may have been discovered in a small town in Germany, where two cousins were seeking to design an efficient cooking unit for third world countries. The downdraft system they designed has been incorporated into the Twin Fire, which Wittus says is hands-down “the most efficient system for residential use—93 percent, which is incredible for wood. It uses a secondary fire box. We take it to biomass shows and people go crazy—there’s a big ‘wow factor’ over the two fire boxes.”

They may lack the “wow factor,” but a growing list of geothermal heat pumps now qualify for tax rebates under the federal EnergyStar program. Geothermal and solar electric (PV) systems are becoming increasingly affordable, and the list of local contractors who offer such systems is expanding.

Your heat source—furnace, boiler, woodstove, or heat pump—is but one factor to consider if you’re rethinking the way you heat. There’s also the control system—in that department, EnergyStar help is available with upgrading to a programmable thermostat- and the delivery system. And when it comes to delivery, forced air and baseboard systems may be giving way as the new century unfolds to the kinder, gentler, and more efficient concept of radiant heat.

A Radiant Future There are no tax incentives as yet for upgrading to radiant heat delivery. “However, one of the things we in the industry are working on is getting the needed thirdparty testing done to quantify and demonstrate energy savings so that that might be a possibility somewhere down the line. Beyond energy savings, people love the feeling of warmth created by radiant floor heat,” says John Abularrage, CEO of Advanced Radiant Design in Stone Ridge.

Radiant systems can be used with any heat source that produces hot water, and can be installed fairly easily in homes with unfinished basements; beyond that, products exist that can be installed over subflooring. And if you are planning new construction, radiant has emerged as the way to go. “If you go to Europe where they are very energy conscious, radiant heating is by far the main modality,” says Abularrage. “It is the most efficient way to heat. And there are health benefits as well as you’re not moving air around. We’ve done many homes for highly allergic individuals, and a radiant system makes a very real difference—people have seen their allergies subside.”

Threat/Opportunity Of course, the most wonderful heating system in the world won’t work efficiently if your house is a sieve. “There is no such thing as too much insulation,” says Silvestri. “The goal is to insulate to the point of net-zero energy loss, and then install a ventilation or air-handling system.” In the area of insulation and sealing, there is much that can be done—and unlike some of the cutting-edge mechanical possibilities, help does exist for weatherizing your home.

In fact, if your budget’s tight, you may want to start your research with NYSERDA, the New York State agency tasked with all things energy related.

Their “Home Performance with Energy Star” program begins with an energy audit performed by a contractor trained in that “whole house approach,” and leads onward from there to tax rebates and cash incentives, some available to people making as much as 80 percent of the median income.

Heating, in other words, is a hot topic right now. (Sorry, folks.) And if yours is giving you problems, you may do well to consider the flipside. This problem is an opportunity that can lead to lower bills, better health, and a greatly reduced carbon footprint—positively heartwarming.

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The Students The students at Simon’s Rock vary. Many have exhausted the possibilities of high school and are highly motivated. Here, they’re doing advanced work in one or more areas.There are bright students who have accelerated past the limits of high school as well as students who are gifted in a specific area (like arts or science) and want to pursue it at the collegiate level. (The Coen Brothers make the list of alumni.) Maryann Tebban, associate professor of French at Simon’s Rock, explains that their students find that they finally have a peer group when they arrive on campus. Davidson says that the fact that all of the students come at a younger age means they’re able to combine challenging and engaging col-

lege academics with a social and residential community specifically tailored to the age group. “We often joke that when we say ‘early college,’ parents hear ‘early’ and expect boarding school-level structure and supervision, and students hear ‘college’ and expect a complete absence of structure and supervision.” The truth is that it’s in the middle: While students have more freedom and autonomy than they would at boarding school or, in most cases, at home, they have more structure and support than they would at other colleges.

Gabriel Salgado, who attended Simon’s Rock after his sophomore year of high school in 2005, says that he ended up at there by chance. He attended high school in Mexico and when his counselor suggested the school after receiving a brochure in the mail, he applied and got in after being accepted for a solid financial aid package. Salgado has nothing but the highest of praise for Simon’s Rock. In fact, he’s currently employed at the college as a residence director after completing grad school at The New School. But he willingly shares his struggles to acclimate as a teenager. “Most people are used to being the smartest kid in the room, and when you show up at Simon’s Rock, you’re in a class with everyone else who’s used to being the smartest kid in the room.” The teachers at the school ask a lot of the students, and Salgado found that his grades suffered the first semester. Socially, he struggled too. He credits the support from the professors and staff that helped him to adjust in such a short time. By the time his second semester rolled around, his grades were back on top. “Because the students come in young, there’s more attention from the staff and a focus to succeed. I think that because we’re young, they feel a certain responsibility.”

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Bethany Geiger, who’s currently a junior at Simon’s Rock, had a similar experience. “Living at Simon’s Rock is unlike any other place in the world. I have met friends and professors who’ve changed my life, and I have also met people who I couldn’t stand.What I love most of all is the room everybody has to be a true individual. I was ‘that one kid’ in high school who stood out a little too much. Then, I came to Simon’s Rock to find that everybody else was also ‘that one kid.’” Geiger says that Simon’s Rock is made up almost entirely of all the people who, for a variety of reasons, felt out of place where they were before. "Because of that, there’s a level of social acceptance here. We do not tolerate racism, or sexism, or classism, or homophobia. No matter who you speak to. Even among enemies, you can be sure that you will be judged for your opinions as an intellectual, and not for how you identify yourself. When I leave campus for holidays, I am always shocked to rediscover what 'the real world' is like."

The Staff A nontraditional environment continues with the staff at Simon’s Rock. Ramiz Shaika, a senior, explains that all faculties, staff, even the provost, are called by their first names as a way to foster conversation between professors and students. “I think, by referring to our professors by their first names, it creates a much more welcoming environment,” he says.

Geiger says that she’s had plenty of friends transfer to the Ivy Leagues, grad schools, or private European universities only to exclaim, “It’s so easy to get an A here!” She was overwhelmed when she came to Simon’s Rock—not by how much she had to work, but by how much she had to think. Geiger is proud of how the professors expect so much more of her and she also learned to expect more of herself here.

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The goal for instructors is to capture the students’ energy and help them excel in their own way. Tebben, who also teaches the General Education seminar sequence that’s required for all students, explains that Simon’s is a nontraditional college in some ways, but the mode of instruction is classic-seminar courses with plenty of room for student input. “I’m continually surprised at the high level of discourse in my seminars and at how many students work so hard to accomplish everything we set before them. I think we are lucky to have them before the enthusiasm for this kind of love for learning wears off. But I also think that we attract a particular kind of student who sincerely wants to discuss Dante in the library at night, whether or not they are taking a course on Dante at the moment.” Tebben’s job is to keep French literature and French studies alive and well, and to her credit, there’s a healthy enrollment in French at Simon’s Rock, and in languages in general. “One of my best moments was at graduation, when one of my students in an upper-level French literature course was giving the graduation speech that year. She was an excellent student across the board, but she wasn’t a French major, so it was really touching to hear her cite a passage from Laclos’s ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ at the top of the speech, a connection between Madame Merteuil and making your own way in life. It had obviously resonated with her and that made me proud.”

The Results During the admission process, Davidson explains that the school specifically looks for students who are bright and motivated, who love learning, and who want to be around peers who may be different in their backgrounds and interests but are similar in their fascination with ideas and desire to be part of a vibrant intellectual community. It’s also important that applicants are socially and personally mature enough to take on a greater degree of responsibility for their own lives. “The students we admit are smart, mature, and independent; nonetheless, being away from home for the first time is an adjustment, particularly at 16,” she says.The level of staffing in the dormitories, the weekly adviser meeting, the guidance available for students learning to manage their own time and lives, the way faculty and staff involved with students in various capacities work together, and an openness to communication and partnership with parents is all designed to enable younger students to make a successful transition to college. Davidson explains that they expect students will learn to make good decisions and take responsibility for their own lives during their college years. They also know that this may not happen immediately or automatically, or without guidance and support.

Due to the size of the school, there are limitations in providing the specialized coursework and programs some students seek. For that reason, about half of the students transfer after the sophomore year—most commonly, to Bard’s main campus in Annandale, NY, Brown University, Cornell University, Smith College, NYU, University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. Shaikh says, “ I am definitely planning to go to a grad school, but not right away. In terms of my future, I am still unsure of what I would like to do after I leave Simon’s Rock, but I do know, from studying abroad in Peru in the spring of 2012, that I am ready to walk out into the real world.”

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NEW YORK MILITARY ACADEMY CO-ED t COLLEGE PREP t 7TH - 12TH GRADE BOARDING & DAY SCHOOL Established in 1889, the 120 acre campus is conveniently located just 60 miles north of New York City. We are dedicated to developing young leaders who have that competitive hunger and desire for success and fulfillment in college and in life, and who desire to be successful leaders in the future. Utilizing the military model for leadership and development, and a rigorous curriculum grounded by a demand for competence in the classical disciplines, our graduates are thoughtfully prepared to seek out extraordinary lives of accountability and service.

NYMA’s competitive academics and athletic programs are enhanced by a structured boarding environment that includes daily tutorials, a nightly, mentored study hall, a robust ESL program and a 12:1 student/teacher ratio in the classroom. Cadets enjoy opportunities to not only learn accountability but to practice peer leadership and to accept important responsibility. One of the things that set NYMA apart from other college prep schools is what we call our “real-life leadership lab”. Putting our

cadets in positions of increased accountability and responsibility in the Cadet Corps, while at the same time requiring them to maintain a high level of academic and athletic participation, requires them to constantly improve their organization, planning, time management and multi-tasking skills. We believe development in these critical areas gives our graduates a distinct advantage over others as they transition into some of the more prestigious colleges and universities in America.

Please take the time to browse the website and become familiar with what sets New York Military Academy apart from the other college prep schools. Then schedule a visit with our admissions office and come see for yourself why our cadets are SET APART FOR EXCELLENCE by being inspired, engaged and ready for the future.

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CREATE ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE

at Westchester Community College Center for the Digital Arts

SPRING CLASSES BEGIN January 26 in Peekskill; January 22 in Valhalla.

• 3-credit Digital Arts

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• Non-credit Quickstart to software training • Day/evening general education • Pre-college Digital Arts (summer only)

Located in the downtown arts district of the city of Peekskill, this Center offers high-end Apple post-production stations that are dedicated to graphic design, digital imaging and illustration, interactive design, digital filmmaking, and animation.

Integrate technology into your portfolio and gain the professional edge.

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• ESL (English as a second language)

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Woodstock Day School is accredited by the New York Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS).

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Walkway Over the Hudson

Fair Dutchess Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, and Pleasant Valley

By Lindsay Pietroluongo Photographs by David Morris Cunningham

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ong-time dwellers of Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, and Pleasant Valley sometimes lose sight of just how exceptional, inspiring, and revered these towns can be. When you drive by the same colleges, restaurants, theaters, and parks day after day, it’s easy to brush them off as uninteresting and trivial. In truth, though, our Hudson Valley is brimming with so much culture and wisdom.

Poughkeepsie Vassar College is possibly the Hudson Valley’s most respected school. Highly esteemed throughout the nation, Vassar’s admissions is extremely selective and the 1,000-acre campus is picturesque.

Started in 1865 by Matthew Vassar as a Great Experiment to see if higher education for women would actually flourish, the college has seemed to exceed its goal. Today, Vassar is coeducational and breeds independent thinkers, pioneers and students who defy convention.

Around the corner from the college is the Zagat-rated Babycakes Café, a restaurant-bar-coffee-shop-bakery that has a little bit of everything, including live entertainment, beer flights, and seasonal wine lists. Owner Susan Wysocki also caters weddings and holiday parties throughout the year at local spots, like Locust Grove and Vassar’s Alumni House. Nearby, Twisted Soul Food Concepts sells 50 poughkeepsie + hyde park + pleasant valley ChronograM 10/12

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clockwise from top left: Firefighters Mike Olheiser and Tom Murphy of the Pleasant Valley Fire District; Beehive scupture on Main Street, Poughkeepsie; Jenny Coronel at the Mid-Hudson Heritage Center; Don Goddard at Hyde Park Antiques; Marina Johnston and Katie Mullins at Past n Perfect; Susan Wysocki at Baby Cakes

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class. With more than 30 to choose from, you’ll find one just right for you.

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clockwise from top left: Empire Cruise Lines Dinner and Sightseeing Cruises; Lonnie Conners fishing the Wappingers Creek; Dawn Resmesburger, Dot Chenevert, and Kim Spewak at Green Oak Florist; Mill Site Museum Park; The Artist’s Palate

house made international street food for less than $10 a plate.

The Italianate-style Samuel B. Morse Estate, part of Locust Grove, was designed in 1850 for the artist and inventor. After the Young family bought the mansion in 1900, their daughter established the foundation that still preserves the estate today. In 1979, the mansion-turned-museum was opened to the public. Visitors can browse the 15,000-piece collection of paintings, decorations and furniture from the beginning of the 20th century.

The Bardavon hosts entertainment ranging from live bands and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic to classic movie nights during the winter. The Chance Theater is Poughkeepsie’s go-to live music joint, featuring both huge names in the music world and small, local performers who are just starting out.

Main Street in Poughkeepsie is a hub of eateries, bars and lounges. Brasserie, a chic Parisian-style restaurant, is about one block from Alex’s Diner, which isn’t your typical greasy spoon. Alex’s is small and charming, and thrives thanks largely to City of Poughkeepsie businesspeople. The Out Bar, the area’s newest and hottest LGBT venue, is next door to Karma Lounge, home of the area’s most imaginative cocktails. The Derby, which dates back 80 years, was revitalized in 2008 and business has been booming ever since. Lumped together down by the waterfront are Akari Sushi, a modern Japanese restaurant; Amici’s Restaurant, famous for its enormous pizza slices; Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant; and River Station Restaurant, a favorite of Marist students.

After opening Waryas Park’s concession stand on July 4th, the Ice House was established in the same location. “We are a beautiful new restaurant in a renovated building that has been vacant for years,” Front of the House Manager Michael Van Houten says. “We have done almost $1 million in renovations and the decor is breathtaking. The view—it doesn’t get much better.” Patrons look out on the Hudson River, the Mid-Hudson Bridge and the Walkway Over the Hudson from the outdoor patio, indoor dining room, and bar area.

The Walkway Over the Hudson, which preserved the late 1800s railroad bridge connecting Poughkeepsie to Highland, is one of the town’s favorite settings for both leisure and activity. Runners, bikers, and dog walkers enjoy the world’s longest elevated pedestrian bridge year-round.

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LOCAL NOTABLE Carole Wolf

“magical gifts and clothing that inspire” Open 7 days a week 44 Raymond Ave. Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 845.473.2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

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Poughkeepsie Plaza (near Pastry Garden) 2600 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 337-0020 www.HudsonRiverYoga.com

Offering over 20 classes per week led by certified instructors in a variety of yoga styles, including Hot Yoga and Vinyasa Yoga. We welcome everyone from the beginner to the experienced!

Come find your yoga practice at Poughkeepsie’s yoga studio, Hudson River Yoga.

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The first thing that Carole Wolf, founding executive director, says about Mill Street Loft is, “We change lives through the arts.” If there was a stronger statement in the English language, it would be used here. The Mill Street Loft does such an incredible amount for the local arts community it’s staggering, especially considering the fact that they’re a nonprofit organization.

Back in 1981, Wolf started the Mill Street Loft as a grassroots organization in the City of Poughkeepsie, on the fourth floor of an old factory building, when she and several artists used the space as a studio. It was a different community—a different world—back then. There wasn’t much technology for the arts and computer graphic design hadn’t been developed yet. To help pay for studio costs, the artists decided to start a summer camp for children. That tiny little program that had 19 members at first has since grown in the four campus-wide Dutchess Arts Camp. “It’s all about fostering self expression,” Wolf says. Teaching multiple arts with a visual arts focus, kids work in studios with professional artists to learn different mediums, dance, music, and drama.

At Mill Street Loft, the arts are used to address issues related to gender, poverty, aging, education and soft skills for work and life. “Social justice is what we use the arts for,” Wolf explains. “Remember, art is the universal language.” While programs are open to the public, they’re specifically geared toward low-income families and at-risk youth. By trying to offer what many schools can’t, preparatory classes get future college students ready for intense art courses. Thanks to this, many students start as freshman in undergraduate school already ahead of the curve.

Intergenerational programs help the wisdom of age to meet the spirit of youth while bridging the gap between the two. Project Able, the summertime employment training program, teaches high school students to break barriers, prepares them to find a job and helps them to eventually become what they dream of. While they learn, they earn a minimum wage.

Youth outreach programs, like Girls Empowerment, are entirely dependent on grants, donations, and fundraising. The Art Institute brings 40 colleges together with representatives who view and assess portfolios. This specific program has helped students to earn more than $27 million in merit-based scholarships through the years.

“I see a whole new generation coming up,” Wolf says. She innately understands something that most people fail to notice: the Hudson Valley is ripe with talent. “I never knew the Mill Street Loft was going to grow into what it is today.” The organization is still growing, too, as they continue to work with whole communities. “We’re trying to fill community needs that aren’t being filled instead of duplicating what’s already being done.” Relying on the old adage to make new friends but keep the old, Wolf’s team continues to foster relationships with current associates while staying on top of trends and always being open to progress.

Millstreetloft.org

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Lennox Hearth Products can help.

Our Country™ Collection Pellet and Wood Stoves and Inserts, can heat your home and keep your budget on track with a cleanburning, renewable energy source!

3647 Albany Post Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845)-471-0789 www.enjoywarmth.com Visit us at www.lennox.com © LENNOX HEARTH PRODUCTS, 2008. LENNOX DEALERS ARE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED BUSINESSES.

Poughkeepsie residents have St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center nearby, as well as Vassar Brothers Medical Center, which has been around since 1887.

Poughkeepsie Day School teaches young minds from pre-K to senior year, with attention paid to global awareness. Graduates are creative and resourceful thinkers and learners who value their community. Heading to Hyde Park from Poughkeepsie, Marist College is one of the last things you’ll pass. The school’s scenic backdrop is the setting for NCAA Division 1 athletics and a sought-after fashion program.

Pleasant Valley Dermasave Labs specializes in Bio-identical Hormone Replacement for both men and women. Owner Glen Arpino started the company after his wife encountered severe complications while giving birth. Seeing how well she responded to hormone treatments, Arpino wanted to offer these life-saving services to the public. Next, Arpino and his wife launched Hudson Valley Skin Care. The company reaches out to local businesses to use their ingredients in their line of natural products. “The products are freshly made in small batches here in Pleasant Valley,” Arpino says. “So far, the response to these products has been amazing.”

The Past ’n’ Perfect ladies consignment boutique has nearly-new clothing, furs and accessories for consumers who are looking for unique steals. Carrying both vintage and modern pieces, the shop has a collection of designer labels, including Armani, Chanel, Coach, Ralph Lauren, and Prada. For a bit more selection, the Pleasant Valley Department Store carries clothing for men, women, and children; footwear; accessories; sporting goods; toys; and gifts.

As one of the last small, independently owned department stores in NewYork, it’s quaint and not a bit overwhelming.

Foodies can dip into Ana Marie Organic Farms Olive Oil, which has been producing extra virgin olive oil on their family-owned farm since the early

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Hyde Park The Hyde Park Antiques Center is the weekend shopper’s best resource for everything vintage. “It’s a community of history buffs, design enthusiasts and avid collectors,” Meagan Camp, owner of Telesca home decor, says. “I find myself constantly inspired by my fellow dealers and their wealth of knowledge, be it on a style of furniture, a type of pottery or a genre of dress.” Set up as a sort of maze, the center has space for 50 dealers.You can find everything from glassware and fine china to original paintings and books.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site includes Springwood, FDR’s beloved home; the Presidential Library, operated by the National Archives; a museum; and grounds with blossoming gardens and rugged trails.

Across the street is the 1949 Hyde Park Drive-in Theater, one of the last of its kind in the US. For less than the cost of one ticket at most indoor theaters, you can see two movies. With a capacity for 670 cars, movie lovers can watch the latest releases on an 82-foot-wide screen as the sun goes down. Stick around during intermission between the films—the same footage that was played during the ’50s still lights up the big screen.

The Eveready Diner is a nod to the great American diners of the past and has been featured on Food Network. The Hyde Park Brewery produces eight original beers on premises. Regulars can purchase their own pint glass, have it etched with their nickname and keep it safely behind the bar to be used when they come in. 2 Taste Food and Wine Bar’s primary goals are to prepare fresh food and perfectly match it with exceptional wines.

The Culinary Institute of America is one of Hyde Park’s greatest achievements. World renowned chefs teach future food and hospitality professionals on the petite, breathtaking campus. Viewable teaching kitchens, top-notch cooking classes for the public, three formal restaurants and the bakery-cafe draws visitors from all over the world. Over the summer and winter, when students have short breaks from their intense schedules, popular cooking shows often film on location. In July, the French Escoffier Restaurant closed its doors, and is currently undergoing a $3 million renovation by interior design maven Adam Tihany, to be reopened as a sleek, modern brasserie, Bocuse Restaurant (named after celebrated French chef Paul Bocuse) early next year. Until then, the American Bounty Restaurant, the Ristorante Caterina de Medici, St. Andrews Café, and the Apple Pie Bakery Café are still open almost year-round.

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All You Can Eat* MONDAY - THURSDAY

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1500s. Instead of spraying crops with chemicals, soil is naturally free of weeds and insects thanks to sheep grazing. At Quattro’s Game Farm and Farm Store, part of the Hudson Valley Bounty, epicures can pick up chickens, pheasants, ducks, geese, turkeys, and venison. Smoked meats and a variety of eggs are also available. Hudson Valley Bounty believes that buying local products is beneficial for both helping and preserving the environment.

Bike riders who love to unhurriedly roll down lovely paths—or those who want to race up hill against fellow enthusiasts—should pay a visit to the PV Bicycle Shop. Every bike is professionally assembled and ready to ride out of the store. Whether you’re still a little shaky behind the handlebars or you’re a bike aficionado, the staff at the Bicycle Shop will help with everything from first-time bike buying to repairs.

James Baird State Park is a serene destination with generous picnic areas, pavilions, sports complex, playground, nature center and wooded hiking, cross country skiing and snowshoeing trails. The 590-acre park includes a golf course circa the 1940s that was designed by the distinguished golf architect Robert Trent Jones.

Each town, centuries-old attraction, and business owner begs locals to look within their own suburbs. With so much to do, see, eat, hear, and buy, the community should catch on to what out-of-towners already know: Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, and Pleasant Valley are overflowing with good taste.

RESOURCES 50+ dealers, 9,000 sq. ft 4192 Albany Post Road, (845) 229-8200 www.hydeparkantiques.net

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The first restaurant in Poughkeepsie on the banks of the Hudson with a spectacular view of both the Mid-Hudson and Walkway Bridges from a patio with umbrella tables just below the Poughkeepsie train station. Enjoy delectable culinary cuisine in an old world atmosphere from noon to nine PM daily. Cocktail Hour is from 5-7PM with half priced drinks. Jazz in the bar on weekends.

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MUSEUM

WALMARTS an exhibition of paintings by

BRENDAN O’CONNELL

October 12 - November 18, 2012 Artist’s reception: October 13, 4 - 6 pm

galleries & museums

Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, Connecticut open daily ~ (860) 435 - 3663 ~ www.hotchkiss.org/arts

SHINOHARA POPS! THE AVANT-GARDE ROAD, TOKYO/ NEW YORK Aug 29 – Dec 16, 2012

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Intersecting Planes, Michael Zelehoski, assemblage with found shelves and painted plywood, 38” x 27”, 2012. Zelehoski will be exhibiting his assemblages as part of the “Second Nature” show at Van Brunt Projects at The Living Room in Cold Spring this month.

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Woodstock Film Festival October 10-14, 2012 Preview by Jay Blotcher

HOW A LOCAL FILM FESTIVAL COULD SAVE THE WORLD For five days this October, amidst presidential debates and door-to-door canvassing, the Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) will offer fun with a conscience: nearly 130 films plus concerts, panels, and receptions throughout the region. For a few days, the local flower child gets to play the hip cineaste, rubbing shoulders on Tinker Street with bold-faced names from American indie cinema. Since its debut in 2000, WFF has been dedicated to screening film projects that shine a harsh light on injustices of all stripes, while celebrating the unruly joys of the counterculture—with a healthy dose of music to round out the mix.

Many of the movies will deal with the selfsame issues facing us as we head to the polls in November: social, political, and environmental conflicts, and finding the rare people who can offer lasting solutions rather than empty rhetoric.

Allow me to strike a dire note: As multinational companies subsume a larger market share of new media, certain films that expose environmental, fiscal and ethical violations may find themselves without a mainstream venue, banished from megaplex screens, corporate-owned network television, certain websites, and even your own iPhone. Hence, a sobering reminder why independent festivals like WFF are often the only forum for certain films that corporate America, in its infinite wisdom as a legal citizen, prefers you not see. Be clear: In many cases, this year’s WFF films will never be seen in a theater near you. This festival is your only chance.

Chronogram celebrates the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival with its far-reaching preview

CAPSULE REVIEWS OF WFF FILMS * denotes a Chronogram critical favorite

NARRATIVE FEATURES: Any Day Now Dir. Travis Fine It is 1979 and even West Hollywood gays are fired from jobs, are routinely hassled by cops, and are light years away from marriage equality. Alan Cumming is a fearless female impersonator who falls for closeted attorney Garret Delahunt. Together, they fight for the right to adopt an abandoned child with Down syndrome. Not only does this shameless tearjerker deliver operatic histrionics, but Cumming sings, too! Paging the Lifetime Channel.

Apartment in Athens Dir. Ruggero DiPaola This high-budget historical drama seems out of place at WFF, but it tells a side of the Nazi scourge usually overlooked. A German captain uses a Greek family’s apartment as his lodgings during occupation and makes them his servants. The father, a respected historian, struggles with his subjugation to evil as he watches his family transformed by the experience. Expansive emotions and period detail buoy a familliar story arc. *Arcadia Dir. Olivia Silver

section. At the center of this preview are the synopses of 36 films, complemented by interviews with actors and directors.

The film reviews herein, penned by your tireless Chronogram film critic, are unabashedly opinionated. But they are meant to evoke curiosity and debate rather than dissuade someone from viewing a film. WFF offerings are always a fitful mix of ham-fisted debuts by first-time directors, eccentric projects best viewed at midnight screenings, and the occasional work of brilliance that will expand your mind while healing the world. (I will now contradict myself: This year, there is a higher number of superior documentary and narrative films on the WFF schedule; the lowered cost of digital video cameras has democratized the creative process among filmmakers across the globe.)

If you place any store by my critical powers—and, admittedly, they are fearsome—then hie thee over to Chronogram.com for our companion WFF coverage. There, I have selected the two WFF films that merit the title of Best Documentary and Best Narrative Film. To see if the Festival judges are as sober and discerning as I, attend the WFF Awards ceremony on Saturday, October 13 at 9pm at Backstage Studio Productions on Wall Street in Kingston. For a career equally highlighted by thought-provoking films and an active dedication to progressive causes, director Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia, Melvin and Howard) will be given the Maverick Award at this year's ceremony.

For specific WFF 2012 show times, special events, late-breaking information, and ticket sales: (845) 810-0131; Woodstockfilmfestival.com.

watch a similar work that falls short. Carlo and Grace are ageing Greenwich Village bohemians. Cheryl and Joel, their friends since college, are wealthy Midwesterners.

During two separate nights together, the four vent about lingering jealousies and broken dreams. Despite a talented cast—including Taye Diggs and Julia Stiles—the histrionics often misfire. Sample line: "This is your revenge for your mediocrity.” Danmirvish.com

how best to scatter the ashes of a man they still resent.

Nicely observed emotional complexities, handled well by the engaging ensemble cast, surmount the recurring weird-for-its-own-sake flourishes. Deaddadmovie.com *Electrick Children Dir. Rebecca Thomas

California Solo Dir. Marshall Lewy

Indie screen veteran Robert Carlyle is Lachlan MacAldonich, a former rock star trying to outdistance a tragic past that still haunts him. Carlyle fully inhabits the role of an alcoholic farm worker, and even the musician’s chronically self-sabotaging behavior does not obscure the pain that motivates it. The relentless bleakness of the story is offset by its knowing look at the LA music scene and the beauty of the Valley fields. Californiasolo.com

A brother and sister in flight from their family, which belongs to a cloistered Southern Utah cult, end up on the Las Vegas strip with a rock band. There, they are bombarded by every hedonistic pleasure previously unknown, from skateboarding to sex. The audacious plotline is enhanced with magic realism and adroitly navigated by an expert ensemble, especially Julia Garner and Liam Aiken as the fugitive sister and brother. *Exit Elena Dir. Nathan Silver

*Dead Dad Dir. Ken J. Adachi

A father (the inestimable John Hawkes) has loaded his three kids in the car and is driving from New England to California. As the road trip wears on, the reasons for the journey, as well as the destination, grow murkier. Along the way, the kids learn tough lessons about life and love.

Hawkes is alternately scary and tender, abetted nicely by the young leads. An understated yet powerfully realized work. Arcadiathefilm.com Between Us Dir. Dan Mirvish To appreciate the combustible stage works of Neil LaBute,

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As far as eulogies go for a deceased parent, “Dad, you were weak and kind of a shithead” may fall short in eloquence. But the three adult children left behind suffered too long to sugarcoat their feelings. Now, they must decide

Nathan Silver is either a genius or in need of counseling.

The dichotomy makes this severely offbeat tale of a dysfunctional suburban Jewish family compelling. Elena is the young nurse hired to care for the grandmother while coping with the attentions of the family. Silver has cast his mother as the whiny matriarch and she tackles lines with a pain-inducing deadpan style. On second thought, forget the counseling; just make more films.

*First Winter Dir. Benjamin Dickinson This emotionally raw indie film draws its substantial strength from a shrewd technique: Hire people to play variations of themselves and shoot the fictional story in the country house where they live. The resulting tale, about yoga students facing the end of the world, unfurls with a mounting dread, enhanced by unobtrusive direction and naturalistic acting that eschews scene-chewing. This film will linger stubbornly in the mind. (See sidebar interview with the director and star on page 69.) Firstwintermovie.com 419 Dir. Ned Thorne A careless young New York actor gets hooked by an e-mail scam after a vacation in South Africa and loses big money.

When he vows revenge, two enabling friends reluctantly accompany him to Cape Town on a fool’s mission. Told in a series of videocam segments, iPhone clips, and surveillance camera footage featuring a strong cast, the film builds with the intensity of a documentary-turnednightmare. An elaborate hoax that will either prompt awe or annoyance.

Nor’easter Dir. Andrew Brotzman Passions, religion, and the unwritten rules of a hermetic community converge in this unsettling character study. On an island off the New England coast, a family prays for the return of a son believed kidnapped. But answered prayers only bring tougher questions and the well-intentioned local priest, struggling with his own vows, tries to set everything right. Strong imagery and portrayals, notably

by Liam Aiken (Electrick Children) and Broadway’s Danny Burstein, offset an air of sensationalism. Noreasterfilm. com

The Unlikely Girl, Dir. Wei Ling Chang Reminiscent of the stylish works of bad boy François Ozon, this film strives equally to titillate and confound.

Three longtime pals in Southern France play host to a student from Iowa who isn’t accustomed to moody young adults who smoke Gauloises and play mind games. But the biggest put-on is planned for the audience, as the plotlines grow more twisted. Unlike Ozon, Chang strains to create his revelations, but the leads are sexy enough to forgive the missteps.

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DOCUMENTARY FEATURES: * Bad Brains: Band in DC Dir. Mandy Stein & Benjamen Logan The directors gleefully throw everything at the screen and come up with a film as hyperkinetic as its subject: the pioneering African-American punk band. A go-for-broke depiction of the group and their era. (See sidebar interview with co-director Mandy Stein on page 64.)

I Am Not a Hipster Dir. Destin Daniel Cretton Dir. Joseph Muszynski & Peter Hutchings This film is ripe for cult status by misfit teens. The gifted Zosia Mamet (TV’s “Girls”) and Jee Han Yung are struggling actors in Brooklyn who become obsessed with the new neighbor, Paul Iacono. Insisting he is a talent agent, they kidnap him and demand work. The story ebbs and flows—endearingly crazy is tough to sustain—but the set design is a triumph worthy of Wes Anderson.

Singer Brook Hyde is a sensitive artist—and a major asshole. He seems hell-bent on destroying his career while alienating fans and friends alike. But Brook’s misanthropy stems from the recent death of his mother.

As Hyde, Dominic Bogart tackles a complicated portrayal with gusto, rising above the film’s narrative meanderings.

San Diego artists and DJs make cameos in a thorny tale of redemption.

2nd Serve Dir. Tim Kirkman Director Kirkman is best known for his landmark Dear Jesse, a plea for tolerance from homophobic Senator Helms and a film version of David Drake’s The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. Here, he turns to romantic comedy, with Josh Hopkins of TV’s “Cougartown” as a washed-up country club tennis player trying to restart his life. Hopkins’s boyish charm struggles against the predictable plot mechanics that stall in '80s-era humor.

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In Our Nature Dir. Brian Savelson Two couples—father and son and their respective girlfriends—carrying a tangle of back-story conflicts converge by accident in a country cabin for a weekend.

T’is the stuff from which drama springs. And so it does.

There are no surprises here, but the earnest material is heartfelt enough to forgive the predictability. (See sidebar interview with the director, page 67.)

* Chasing Ice Dir. Jeff Orlowski For that remaining few (including Romney) who claim global warming is an elaborate tree-hugger myth, photographer James Balog has crossed the globe to capture tangible evidence in the form of dramatically melting glaciers.

The genial Balog is admittedly obsessive, but heartfelt in a years-long mission that brings logistical problems.

Breathtaking and jarring photography and powerful animation make the science of this disturbing phenomenon accessible and indisputable. Chasingice.com David Bromberg: Unsung Treasure Dir. Beth Toni Kruvant

* La Brujula la Lleva el Muerto (The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man) Dir. Arturo Pons

Reminiscent of the 1970 cult Western El Topo, this film is a sly, expansive, rambling allegory about the history of Mexico. Its humor is deadpan, its brutality sudden, its dialogue portentous. A mismatched group travels across the desert during an insurrection to find safety, evoking both The Canterbury Tales and The Wizard of Oz. The film’s absurdities and existential noodling will keep stoned college students enchanted for a generation.

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* Sparrows Dance Dir. Noah Buschel Mirroring the trenchant observations of a short story, this tale of unlikely love in an increasingly disconnected Manhattan will puzzle before it charms. But stick with it.

Marin Ireland is an unemployed actress suffering from severe OCD and Paul Sparks is the jazz saxophonist daylighting as a plumber whom she allows into her agoraphobic world. Theater actors Ireland and Sparks deliver expertly modulated performances in this fullyrealized small gem. Onezerofilms.com

A dependable foot soldier of the blues, folk and bluegrass movements, Bromberg is afforded a laid-back canonization in this ambling retrospective. From his days in Westchester as a Jew embracing black culture to the heady Greenwich Village '60s, jamming with Zimmerman and Harrison, Bromberg never grasped for fame. This loving but even-handed portrait explains his 23-year disappearing act, career detours, and unshowy return to the stage. Goodfootageproductions.com

Strutter Dir. Allison Anders & Kurt Voss Indie legend Anders has created a love letter to both the LA music scene and to low-budget film itself, depicting a group of slacker-rockers struggling to fulfill their dreams.

The convoluted soap opera is beside the point; the oomph lies in its execution. Slapstick situations, presented in a flattened black-and-white cinematography, infuses the story with a deadpan stoner goofiness. But you must first find charm in the unpolished acting.

Dinner at the No Gos Dir. Marco Orsini If you can watch this film about a group of upper-class professionals, earnestly discussing progressive politics while eating elegant meals through a series of dinner parties across the globe and not mutter “limousine liberals” under your breath, you’re a far better person than I. Meant as a social experiment to foster solutions to religious wars and terrorism, these self-important events drive home the indiscreet charm of the bourgeoisie.

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Bad Brains hanging out backstage circa 1979.

Let's Stay Together: Bad Brains: Band in DC The propulsive new documentary about the celebrated black punk/reggae band from our nation’s capital goes deep: It traces Bad Brains from its tenuous beginning almost three decades ago to its 2007 reunion tour, ticking off the highlights, heartbreaks, and chaos of the intervening years with a frantic pacing that approximates an amphetamine jag. The accomplishment is even more impressive when you learn that co-director Mandy Stein didn’t really know Bad Brains until five years ago.

Growing up in Manhattan, the daughter of a rock manager and the president of Sire Records, Stein was better acquainted with The Ramones (one of her mother Linda’s clients), or Talking Heads and Blondie (artists on her father Seymour’s label.)

Bad Brains, she said, was on the periphery of her teenage life—“That’s what the cool guys were skateboarding and listening to—hardcore.” (The group’s name, ironically, was lifted from a Ramones song.)

When Stein was filming the closing of the famed Bowery club CBGB in 2007, Bad Brains was one of the headliners playing the final nights. Stein dutifully filmed them.

Yet when she returned to Los Angeles to review the footage, she was impressed by the veteran band’s manic energy and thought they merited their own film.

But tragedy intervened. In October, 2007, her mother, now a realtor for celebrities, was murdered in her upper Fifth Avenue apartment. Despite a 2009 premiere at the TriBeCa Film Festival, Burning Down the House: The Rise and Fall of CBGB, was never released. The trial consumed the filmmaker’s life, especially after the key suspect accused her of the crime. (Linda Stein’s assistant was eventually found guilty.)

Mandy Stein and co-director Benjamen Logan began work on the Bad Brains film in February 2008. The first stop was Woodstock, where band member Gary “Dr. Know” Miller had settled after the band’s glory days, working at Sunfrost Market. Reuniting sporadically over the years, only to separate again, Bad Brains were now in "together" mode. So Stein and Logan headed to Ulster County to film the sessions.

A bit of serendipity had revived the dormant project. Bad Brains singer Paul “HR” Hudson, a notorious eccentric, had been bumming around the East Village of Manhattan. When Logan found he had no place to go, he invited him to stay in his Brooklyn apartment. During that week, HR played music and Ben would bring him fish tacos and fruit. ”There was a real trust that was established,” Stein says. As for convincing the quartet to sign onto the project, she said, “HR was very easy; other band members were more resistant.”

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Stein and Logan began trailing the band, even as they pieced together archival footage to capture their auspicious rise, the joyous toking that was their credo, as well as the racism and bad luck that dogged their growing popularity. (Along the way, Stein and Logan went from artistic partners to lovers; they now have a daughter.)

Bad Brains: Band in DC is an overstuffed musical history that encompasses the '80s club scenes in both DC and New York, while assembling tribute interviews from an impressive line-up of fans: Henry Rollins, Anthony Kiedis, Beastie Boys Mike Diamond and the late Adam Yauch, Michael Franti, Dave Grohl, and Ric Ocasek.

An avalanche of vintage interviews and bootleg videos of club gigs crowd the screen. When key scenes were not documented—a frequent occurrence before video cameras—comic-book graphics fill in the storyline. The raucous illustrations, in sync with the fractured energy of the film, are the work of Rita Luxe, an artist who daylights at Mattel creating cartoons for Barbie.

As the Bad Brains film unfurls, HR’s erratic personality becomes the linchpin of the narrative. In this larger-than-life personage, equal parts mystic and clown, the directors had found gold. But that required a level of flexibility from them both as the project progressed, Stein says. “HR was always really cool with us, and obviously really open.

There wasn’t a lot of directing him in any way, as you can see in the film. He really says what he wants to say and answers questions how he wants to answer them and talks about what he wants to talk. So, you just have to be really open and just let it flow to where it does and allow HR to freely be HR, which is what I think we hopefully did.”

The band’s conflicts are a recurring leitmotif; in fact, the members had been separated a decade before their first reunion. During the film, various disagreements flare and abate. Stein and Logan eventually accustomed themselves to the love-hate dynamic of the members. “This is just one cycle of the band; they’ve broken up so many times,“ Stein says. After a momentous fight during the 2007 RioFest concert, the band seems on the verge of breaking up for good. But within a year, they are back in Woodstock, grievances settled, and recording a new album.

Bad Brains: Band in DC chronicles a difficult career path for a band that, like its music, lived on the edge. But Stein feels the documentary is a celebration rather than a cautionary tale. “We didn’t shy away from the difficult stories,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s all doom and gloom.”

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*Fight to Live Dir. Barbara Kopple The veteran documentarian, again training her camera on the underdog questing for justice, brings her talents to the battle for access to medications in America. Politics and greed in the pharmaceutical industry means life-giving drugs are not being government-approved quickly and patients are dying in the process. The complexity and dryness of the subject taxes Kopple’s storytelling powers, but she assembles eloquent advocates whose life-anddeath struggles underscore the urgency of this issue.

Fighttolive.org Idle Threat Dir. George Edward Pakenham Pakenham spent years informing Manhattan motorists that their idling cars are releasing pollutants into the air. At last count, the figure was 2,946 people and he documented each response. “I’m an educator, not just a vigilante,” says he. Call him brave or eccentric, but his crusade led him to city hall to lobby for an anti-idling law. A quirkily inspiring reminder that one person indeed can make a difference.

Idlethreatmovie.com Informant Dir. Jamie Meltzer

* Once in a Lullaby Dir. Jonathan Kalafer

Rolan Makes Movies Dir. Anton Verstakov

As privatized schools and gutted budgets continue to undermine American education, this film sounds a note of hope. Staten Island chorus teacher Gregg Breinberg is Mr. Schu from “Glee” times 10; his drive gets his fifth graders a spot on the 2011 Oscars. Intimate portraits of the students show them veering from age-appropriate mischief to diva-caliber aspirations. Unabashedly heartwarming yet with a healthy dose of the bittersweet for balance. Newjerseypictures.net

The Quentin Tarantino of Tuva, a republic in Russia, lives in a yurt with his extended family and makes lowbudget, violent action films with his friends. Rolan seems undeterred by his modest talent and aspires to fame on a global level. Whether you are inclined to admire or pity him—and there’s ample justification for both—this rambling film is as oddly engaging as its subject.

One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das Dir. Jeremy Frindel

*Shepard and Dark Dir. Treva Wurmfeld Many successful people cut off those who knew them in humbler days. Yet some retain old friends to keep themselves honest. For iconic playwright Sam Shepard, that person is Johnny Dark. A half century later, their friendship continues, but not without fits and starts. As the pair works to edit their combined correspondence for a college archive, the process throws into relief the divergent paths their lives took and the bonds that link them forever.

This perceptive film looks unsparingly at lions in winter and how the past both nurtures and holds us hostage. *Words of Witness Dir. Mai Iskander

The sole WFF documentary that would give Republicans cause to gloat. Brandon Darby, a charismatic lefty anarchist was working in New Orleans to provide support post-Katrina. Fiercely idealistic, he was not always a team player. Darby suddenly defected to the other side, going undercover to spy on former comrades and eventually became a Tea Party tool. Clumsily recreated scenes deepen the outrage and incredulity this bizarre film is bound to stir up. Informantdoc.com

The journey of Jeffrey Kagel from neurotic Long Island Jew to Kirtan singer Krishna Das is a rutted road that demanded extreme spiritual faith. But Das remains modest about his achievements, explaining that he sings “to clean out the dark places in my heart.” He has done likewise for hundreds of thousands of fans globally for over four decades. This film lovingly untethers the man from the myth. Onetrackheartmovie.com

*The Mechanical Bride Dir. Allison de Fren Lars and the Real Girl was just the start. Men across the world, wearied by the dead-end searches of Internet dating, are purchasing custom-made life companions.

Several satisfied customers—unsettling because they are thoughtful and eloquent—discuss sweethearts composed of silicone and circuitry, as do the doll designers. The film offers a thoughtful discussion about sexism, objectification, and eugenics. This deliriously fascinating study quickly sheds its initial “ick” factor. Mechanicalbridemovie.com

Only the Young Dir. Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims Ignition Skate Ministry lures new converts to their tent with tacos, chips and water, hoping to “show them the love of Jesus Christ through skateboarding.” This is the flipside of Larry Clark’s world, though the beautifully wounded gene pool seems the same. Dramatically gorgeous cinematography and a keen eye for the smallest human detail grounds this slacker opus, even when the narrative starts to wander off. Onlytheyoungfilm.tumblr.com

*Oma and Bella Dir. Alexa Karolinski

*Pretty Old Dir. Walter Matteson

The World’s Finest Chef, (Verden Bedste Kok) Dir. Rasmus Dinesen

Girlfriends since World War II, Regina from Poland and Bella of Lithuania survived the devastation of their homelands in the Holocaust and now reside together in Berlin. As the granddaughter of Regina (Oma is "grandmother" in German), the director is shrewd enough to know she has cinematic gold. So she simply lets the women tell their stories, which they interweave with sad memories, flinty outlooks, and the occasional bit of playfulness. Omabella.com

This big-hearted, life-affirming film chronicles the Ms. Senior Sweetheart of America Pageant, held annually since 1978 in Fall River, Mass. Women too vibrant for assisted living demonstrate their charms and talents to vie for a sash and crown. Offstage, they candidly discuss their motivations for participation year in and out with a level of self-awareness that is equally joyous and bittersweet.

Sarah Jessica Parker executive produced this crowdpleaser. Vimeo.com/35121236

The winner of the Bocuse d’Or, the culinary equivalent of the Olympics, is neither a raging egotist nor a screaming maniac. Charming and boyish, Rasmus Kofoed rides a skateboard to unwind. But in the kitchen, he morphs into an artist, creating multi-tier gourmet meals that look as sublime as they taste. This fawning film offers no revelations, but energetically chronicles the preparation for the 2011 competition.

The revolution in Egypt’s Tahrir Square unfolded with epic impact and captivated the world. On the inside was Heba Afify, a 22-year-old female journalist reporting for the independent newspaper Almasry Alyoum. This whiteknuckle documentary follows Afify on her beat as the struggle plays out in real time, but also watches her debate family members on the role of a woman in the new Egypt.

An impressive achievement. Wordsofwitness.com

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A Cabin in the Woods: In Our Nature

On the set of In Our Nature, the four-character drama shot in a cabin in the woods of Mount Tremper in northern Ulster County, the cast and crew had a good time ribbing director-screenwriter Brian Savelson.

During the three-week shoot, they took to calling the first-time filmmaker Seth. That was the name of the protagonist in the film who spends a weekend trying to heal a rift with his overachieving, uptight father. After all, the team reasoned, this keenly observed story was clearly autobiographical, fashioned from the raw material of Savelson’s own life.

Not quite. “I think I have a good relationship with my father, so…,” the director says. But Savelson was actually flattered; their presumption meant that he had crafted a story whose emotions and situations possessed the sting of real life. (After he wrote the screenplay, Savelson saw two fictional script plots occur in his own life: His father announced he was marrying his longtime girlfriend, and he decided to sell the family cabin.)

Originally an off-off-Broadway actor and then producer, most notably on the Broadway revival of “Raisin in the Sun” with P. Diddy, Savelson had worked on animation shorts and music videos before graduating to his first feature. In Our Nature was an effort to combine familiar and unfamiliar narratives. “The inspiration was to do something that we feel we’ve seen before—two couples in a country house for the weekend,” he says, “and then delve into areas that we have not explored. Or at least I haven’t explored

and do something a little different and allow these characters to go places we haven’t seen them go.”

Navigating the emotional twists and turns of this uneasy alliance are four solid actors: Zach Gilford (“Friday Night Lights”), Jena Malone (“Hatfields and McCoys”), Gabrielle Union (“City of Angels”), and John Slattery (“Mad Men”). As father and son circle each other warily, the girlfriends try to bring the two together.

Shot mostly in and around the remote cabin, In Our Nature relies on emotionally packed dialogue to convey the conflicted feelings of the men. Many industry colleagues, Savelson said, citing his background in theatre, were puzzled that he hadn’t mounted this four-actor story on a Manhattan stage instead. Savelson had his reasons. “[I] tried to explain that it was all about finding those intricacies, those nuances, that get lost on stage,” he says. “This was about getting to what you can only see in close-up on the big screen and that’s what interested me in taking it out of the theater.”

The rapport between the actors is palpable, suggesting a tangible back-story. This is as much a testament to their acting chops as it is to Savelson’s preparation. In addition to city-based rehearsal on this low-budget feature, Savelson was able to bring the cast up to the cabin a week before the shoot to acclimate them to the setting. The director led his cast through the rooms and explained the narrative arc of the film and what each person would be doing. “It was more like theater in a sense, where you get to block it out.”

While shooting in a real cabin lent the action a realistic dimension, the same could not be said for the authentic Hudson Valley weather. “Crazy thunderstorms” and recurring rain prevented many night scenes from being shot outside. Behind in the film schedule, Savelson resorted to shoot day scenes in the house at night, using artificial daylight. These scenes would usually start at sundown “and go all the way through to breakfast” In one scene as Savelson wrote it, the father is supposed to do what is called a kayak roll in the lake. Slattery had never attempted one. Savelson hired an instructor but there was no Manhattan pool big enough to conduct the lessons. The pair had to practice the maneuver in the Hudson River, as barges and boats went by.

Savelson, who watched the procedure, winces at the memory of what he forced his star to do. Each time Slattery attempted the kayak roll, “he comes up, gasping for air, and he spits out this water and [says], ‘This water tastes like sewage; it’s disgusting.’

He was a real trouper and he learned how to do it.

“That image of John spitting out water in the river in New York is something I will not forget anytime soon,” Savelson says. “It was like, 'You owe me for this'.”

—Jay Blotcher

Letter from Gasland: Dear Governor Cuomo Award-winning journalist, author, and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster has traveled far from his Stone Ridge home to write articles and books, and helm 12 films that document the damage man has visited upon his environment. Among his destinations: the Aleutian Islands, Vietnam, French Polynesia, South America, and West Africa.

But for his latest project, a call to arms against fracking, Bowermaster didn’t have to go far. New York may soon become the 37th state to allow fracking. “I thought it was time to focus on my own backyard,” he says.

This past May, Bowermaster and musician-activist Natalie Merchant (his creative collaborator and live-in companion) mounted an all-star concert called “New Yorkers Against Fracking” at The Egg in Albany. “Dear Governor Cuomo” is a 70-minute filmed document of that evening. The title refers to an open letter to Cuomo, read by actor Mark Ruffalo, asking the politician to maintain the state moratorium on fracking.

The concert and teach-in drew musicians who call the Empire State home and are concerned by how up to 95,000 natural gas wells may affect their land, air, and water.

Joining Merchant for an evening of plaintive and anthemic songs were Joan Osborne, Dan Zanes, M’Shell Ndegeocello, Citizen Cope, Medeski, Martin & Wood, John Sebastian, Toshi Reagon, and The Horseflies. Also sharing the stage were prominent anti-fracking activists and actors (Ruffalo, Pete Seeger, Melissa Leo) who provided facts, figures, and heartbreaking personal accounts to justify their collective concern. The songs and testimonies are enhanced by a series of images of pristine landscape and, in sharp contrast, areas befouled by fracking. (The images for both the concert and the film were provided by the Kingston-based company Evolving Media Network.)

Bowermaster, now a passionate anti-fracking adherent, can easily rattle off a string of sobering facts concerning fracking. Not that he was hard to convince; the director's last film about pollution caused by energy companies was SoLA: Louisiana Water Stories, which documented the oversights and corruption that transformed the state into a dumping ground for the collateral damage from oil drilling.

Dear Governor Cuomo makes its case with an understated integrity rather than histrionics—save for a harrowing letter read by Oscar winner Leo from a woman poisoned by fracking. But in the best sense, it is a manifesto. Does that make Bowermaster a filmmaker or an activist? “I’m a journalist-slash-filmmaker,” he says. “It’s a fine line. I guess I could be seen as an activist. But I would never call myself that.”

The rhetoric of the film is neither fiery nor divisive but “consistently moderate,” Bowermaster says. “What you hear is not ‘Governor Cuomo, you’re a bad guy” [but instead] ‘Come to our side; here’s the facts. We know you get it. You’re a smart guy.’”

Still, Bowermaster has jettisoned his usual quest for objectivity for this film. Anti-

fracking activists, actors, and musicians explain their stand against the process. But Dear Governor Cuomo does not give equal time to the energy companies, who have outspent antifrackers one hundred times to push their message.

The director stands by his creative decision. “This is not a traditional documentary where you go out and get both sides. I know what response I’m going to get from the gas companies.” Their argument, Bowermaster says, will emerge in the upcoming documentary Truthland, a pointed attack on the Josh Fox antifracking film Gasland.

The director plans to make DVDs of the film—which he bankrolled for an estimated $25,000—available at cost to the public while concommitantly screening it at festivals around the country. Bowermaster hopes that Dear Governor Cuomo will be seen at town meetings in churches and schools across the state. There is a sense of urgency to get the film out; political insiders predict that Cuomo may make a decision soon after the presidential elections. (Anticipating that, Bowermaster said, energy company reps are already going to door to door in Ulster County’s Kerhonkson and Accord, asking farm property owners to consider leasing their land for fracking.)

“It’s a good time to keep the pressure on [Cuomo],” Bowermaster says, “and I think this [film] may go a little way, I hope.”

A screening plus live concert by Natalie Merchant and friends will be held on Thursday, October 11 at the Woodstock Playhouse.

—Jay Blotcher

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Apocalypse Yoga: First Winter The most unsettling film in this year’s festival is First Winter. The storyline is deceptively simple: Yoga students from Manhattan have come to a rural house for a weekend of instruction from a charismatic instructor. But when a nuclear explosion occurs, the inhabitants must survive on dwindling supplies as their fears and conflicts rise to the surface.

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(845) 246-2729 or (212) 912-1212 cell The gamble paid off; as the character Paul, Manza suggests a shaggily handsome www.holisticortho.com • rhoney.stanley@gmail.com New-Age Rasputin, eerily captivating but emotionally distant. Paul emerges as an amoral narcissist, intent on maintaining his hold over his followers even as imminent doom becomes apparent. It is a brave, disturbing performance and Manza’s eyes, alternately placid and vacant, convey volumes. He is surrounded by an ensemble of actors (the females) and nonprofessionals (the males) whose unpolished performances deepen the urgency of their predicament. Missing are the conventional rhythms and tics of mainstream acting. “[E]veryone was just playing themselves,â€? Manza said, “not to say we weren’t playing different versions of ourselves. But there was very little transition between ‘this is who you are’ and ‘this is the character.’â€?

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37 West Market • Rhinebeck Early viewers of the film were outraged that an animal had been killed for art and the 845.876.3300 controversy threatened to overshadow the work. Dickinson refuses to discuss the matter. www.haggertylawoffices.com Manza, however, explains that he attempted to get a nuisance permit to legally hunt animals on his property. When he was turned down, he hunted anyway, a decision that weighed so heavily that Manza later turned himself in to the Department of Environmental Conservation. The officers “thought I was kidding,â€? he says. “They were wondering if they were on some funny TV show.â€? No charges were filed.

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Redwing Blackbirds Visiting Freedom Road Cornfield, a photograph by Claudia Gorman, part of the the Long Reach Arts exhibition “syn-co-pa-tion” at Mill Street Loft Gallery in Poughkeepsie, on view through October 20.

AI EARTHLING GALLERY

BARRETT CLAY WORKS

69 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2650.

“Matthew George Enger.” Through November 4.

485 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

“The Maltese Falcon at Barrett Clay Works.” 2D, 3D, and literary art. October 13-November 24.

AKIN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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378 OLD QUAKER HILL ROAD, PAWLING 855-5099.

“Meet Past.” 49 contemporary artists find resonance between their work and historic artifacts.

Through October 21.

161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“Grey Zeien: Alchemy.” Through October 7.

BCB ART

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART UPSTAIRS GALLERIES

116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539.

“Battle of the Naked Men.” New work by Ed Smith. Through October 21.

22 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 876-7578.

“The Luminous Landscape™ 2012: 15th Annual Invitational.” Through November 11.

ART OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER 59 LETTER S ROAD, GHENT (518) 392-4568.

“Skyline Adrift.” Cuban art and architecture in a site-specific installation. Through May 13.

THE ART RIOT 36 JOHN STREET, KINGSTON Theartriot.org.

“The Art of Geometry: A Fiber Show.” A solo show by King Mark. October 6-31.

Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-8pm.

THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE VYTLACIL CAMPUS 241 KINGS HIGHWAY, SPARKILL 359-1263.

“Mark Safan: Paintings.” Through November 10.

ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.

“What’s the Point.” Group show and featured solo artists Ian Worpole, Tor Gudmundsen, Trudi Abramson, and Liz Dehaven. Through October 14.

“Eight Years Old.” Group show. Solo Room show: Sunday Dawne-Marie. Through November 11.

Opening Saturday, October 20, 6-9pm.

BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

“Eileen Sackman: New Works.” Through October 21.

“The Built Environment.” Drawing, painting, pastel, printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, collage, mixed media works, architectural sketches or models. October 13-November 10.

Opening Saturday, October 13, 4pm-7pm.

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BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO 54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244.

“Catching the Light.” Annual student show. Through October 7.

BLACKBIRD ATTIC 442 MAIN STREET, BEACON 418-4840.

“Milk-Eyed Mender.” Art by Meera Lee Patel. Through October 12.

BOSCOBEL RESTORATION 1601 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON-ON-HUDSON 424-3960.

“Current.” Summer sculpture exhibition. Through October 8.

BRC GALLERY BEANRUNNER CAFé, 201 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 954-5948.

“The Ballot Box: 20 Artists Consider the Presidential Election.” October 14-November 25.

Opening Saturday, October 20, 3pm-6pm.

CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490.

“Karen Davis|Carla Shapiro: Memories, Longing and Close to Home.” Through October 28.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.

“Works on Paper.” Group show of an array of both high-tech and traditional techniques of working on paper. Through October 28.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957.

“Clouds.” Works by Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott. Through October 14.

Matt Enger Nationals and Skulls Show

Sept 7 - Nov 4, 2012 Ai Earthling Gallery at Ye Olde Hippie Shoppe of Woodstock

69 Tinker Street Woodstock NY

(845) 679-2650 www.aiearthling.net

Mark Safan: Paintings Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery Exhibition ThrouGh noVEMbEr 10 Mark Safan’s atmospheric paintings are sublime in their juxtaposition of what is real and what is not, depicting a contemporary sensibility imbued with an ancient understanding of air, space and time.

Vytlacil 241Kings Kings Highway, NY NY 10976 Vytlacil Campus, Campus 241 Highway, P.O. BoxSparkill, 357, Sparkill,

Mark Safan “Untitled” 2012

www.theartstudentsleague.org

Mined Structures, No. 6, Mary Judge, powdered pigment on paper, 42” x 30”. Judge is exhibiting works on paper this month at Imogen Holloway Gallery.

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COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.

“The Postcard Show.” Through November 3.

Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-8pm.

DIA 3 BEEKMAN STREET, Beacon 440-0100.

“The Pure Awareness of the Absolute / Discussions.” Through October 20. “Jean-Luc Moulène: Opus + One.” Through December 31.

“Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive.” Through December 31.

STOne, STeel, Ice

opening at bau, OcTOBeR 13, 2012

161 Main Street, Beacon NY www.TOMHOlMeS.cOM

DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580.

“Glens & Gardens.” Watercolors by Cross River Fine Artists. October 6-27.

Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-8pm.

516-965-6633

Blue Man

Ice, PrInted on canvas, 37” x 54”

ECKERT FINE ART 34 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON (518) 592-1330.

“Barry Kieselstein-Cord.” Awarded-Photography Retrospective. October 20-November 3.

Opening Saturday October 20, 3pm-7pm.

ELIZABETH V. SULLIVAN GALLERY THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE VYTLACIL CAMPUS, SPARKILL “Mark Safan: Paintings.” Atmospheric paintings. Through November 10.

FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894.

“Bountiful Still Life.” Oils painted in the classical style by Donna Prizzi. October 4-28.

Opening Sunday, October 7, 1pm-5pm.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199.

“One Earth.” Exploring our planet’s environmental conundrum. Through November 4.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632.

“Sawdust Mountain.” An exhibition of photographs that document the Pacific Northwest’s tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support by photographer Eirik Johnson. Through December 9.

“Reexamining Books: Book Objects and Artist’s Books by Werner Pfeiffer.” An exhibition celebrating the 75th birthday year of the Red Hook resident and multimedia artist of books that take on new forms and meanings as sculpture. Through December 15.

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Open Studio Weekend at the Center for Metal Arts 44 Jayne St. Florida NY 10921

October 20-21

Directions and workshop schedule online at www.centerformetalarts.com

12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

“The Liminal Portrait.” Richard Edelman. Through October 8.

“Reconstructions.” Charles Grogg. Through October 8.

“Tami Bone: Mythos.” October 12-December 3.

Opening Saturday, October 13, 5pm-7pm.

GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMERS TURNPIKE, GARDINER 255-1255.

“Impressions of Provence, Tuscany and the Costa Brava.” Works by Michael Gold.

October 28-January 5.

Opening Sunday, October 28, 1pm-3pm.

GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400.

“Rosalind Tobias: Alphabet.” Solo exhibition of abstract paintings based on letterforms.

October 6-November 3.

“Typo.” Group exhibition in all media by artists using words, letters, numbers, and symbols.

October 6-November 3.

Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-7pm.

GERMANTOWN LIBRARY 31 PALATINE PARK ROAD, GERMANTOWN (518) 537-5800.

“Reflections on Life: The KEEP Conservation Germantown Preserve, Spring 2012.” Amateur and professional photography exhibit. Through October 31.

HAMMERTOWN 6422 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-1450.

“Holy Beings.” Photographs by photographer and Hudson Valley resident Valerie Shaff.

October 6-December 31.

Opening Saturday, October 6, 5:30pm-7pm.

HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE 1843 WEST HOUSATONIC STREET, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (800) 817-1137.

“A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA.” Through October 28.

THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700.

“Paintings by Jamie Young.” October 6-31.

Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-7pm.

HEALING ART GALLERY ELLENVILLE REGIONAL HOSPITAL, ELLENVILLE 647-6400.

“Barbara Gordon: New Paintings.” Through October 5.

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HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART

Dory Shadows by Katherine Gray - Watercolor a fresh look at contemporary fine art.

Water Street Market – New Paltz – Open 7 Days – 11 to 6 Call for evening apt 845-518-2237 – All Credit Cards Welcome

BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598.

“From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick.” Through December 21.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068.

“Erica Hauser: New Paintings.” Through October 7.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438.

“Jazz Exhibition.” Wilson McLean and Henk Mommaas. Through October 27.

HYDE PARK LIBRARY ANNEX 2 MAIN STREET, HYDE PARK 229-7791.

“Dressings: Paintings by Audrey Francis.” October 1-November 27.

Opening Sunday, October 14, 2pm-7pm.

imogen holloway gallery 81 partition STREET, saugerties (347) 387-3212.

“Paper Works.” Charles Geiger and Mary Judge. October 5-28.

Opening Friday, October 5, 6pm-9pm.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.

“Group Show.” Featuring Farrell Brickhouse, Andrew Dunnill, Bruce Gagnier, Laetitia Hussain, Georgia Elrod, Charlotta Janssen, Joseph Haske, and Katherine Bradford. Through October 7.

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.

“Three Points Determine a Circle.” Photographer Lucas Blalock; painter, James Hyde; sculptor Fabienne Lasserre. Through October 7.

THE LIVING ROOM 103 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 270-8210.

“New Hudson: Second Nature.” Presented by Van Brunt Projects. October 12-21.

Opening Friday, October 12, 6pm-9pm.

LOCUST GROVE THE SAMUEL MORSE HISTORIC SITE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500.

“In and Out of Town.” Land and Cityscapes by Bruce Bundock. Through November 4.

LOOK|ART GALLERY 988 SOUTH LAKE BOULEVARD, MAHOPAC Lookartgallery.com.

“Bianco/Blake.” Exhibition of pastel works by Laura Bianco and paintings on silk by Jane Blake.

Through October 21.

“Masked and Unmasked.” Works of Frank Gimpaya and Susan Zoon. October 27-November 18.

Opening Saturday, October 27, 6pm-8pm.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241.

“Barns in Art.” Group show. Through October 15.

MID-HUDSON HERITAGE CENTER 317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE Midhudsonheritage.org.

“Fierce—Fancy—Found.” Three friends, three visions, three artists showing bodies of work.

October 16-November 9.

Opening Saturday, October 20, 5pm-8pm.

NEWBURGH FREE LIBRARY 124 GRAND STREET, NEWBURGH 563-3601.

“Forever NYC Community Art Show.” Part of the OrangeReads program. October 3-31.

Opening Sunday, October 14, 2pm-3:30pm.

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www.newpaltz.edu/theatre Box Office opens October 1 845.257.3880

Artists Open studiOs

Crimes of the Heart

October Artists 13 & Open 14, 2012 Studios 12-6pm

by Beth Henley October 11 – 21

Macbeth

By William Shakespeare November 29 – December 9

MUSIC

www.newpaltz.edu/music Tickets at the door

Cello, Voice & Piano Recital October 2 at 8:00 p.m.

McKenna Theatre, $8, $6, $3

Faculty Jazz Recital

October 9 at 8:00 p.m.

Julien J. Studley Theatre, $8, $6, $3

Guitar Recital

October 18 at 8:00 p.m.

Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall, $8, $6, $3

Vocal Jazz & Chamber Singers

October 23 at 8:00 p.m.

Julien J. Studley Theatre, $8, $6, $3

Made in Canada

October 30 at 8:00 p.m.

Julien J. Studley Theatre, $8, $6, $3

THE DORSKY MUSEUM

www.newpaltz.edu/museum 845.257.3844

Drawing Performance Jaanika Peerna and David Rothenberg October 20 at 2:00 p.m.

Dance Performance

Susan Osberg, Work with Dancers Co. and Steve Blamires October 20 at 3:00 p.m.

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RED HOOK COMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK 7516 NORTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK redhookcan@gmail.com.

“The Horses of San Marco.” Juliet R. Harrison photography. Through October 29.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“Sempre Italiani.” Photographs by Mary Ann Glass & pastel paintings by Linda Richichi.

Through October 7.

THE RONDOUT MUSIC LOUNGE 21 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 481-8250.

“Artwork by Moya Marcelino.” Through October 31.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ 257-3844.

“Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012.” Through November 4.

“Russel Wright: The Nature of Design and Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York.” Through March 10.

SAUGERTIES PUBLIC LIBRARY 91 WASHINGTON AVENUE, SAUGERTIES 246-8835.

“Oval Show.” Works by Kristy Bishop. October 13-27.

Opening Saturday, October 13, 5pm-7pm.

SAUNDERS FARM 853 OLD ALBANY POST ROAD, GARRISON 528-1797.

“Collaborative Concepts.” Local and national artists place sculptures throughout 140 acres of a working historic farm. Through October 31.

STORM KING ART CENTER OLD PLEASANT HILL ROAD, MOUNTAINVILLE 534-3115.

“Light and Landscape.” Through November 25.

TASTE BUDD’S CHOCOLATE AND COFFEE CAFE 40 WEST MARKET STREET, RED HOOK 758-6500.

“Time River Round.” Art and sculpture by Andres San Millan. Through January 16.

TEAM LOVE RAVENHOUSE GALLERY 11 CHURCH STREET, NEW PALTZ Tl-rh.com.

“Flyaway Garden.” Paintings and drawings by Kaitlin Van Pelt. Through November 25.

THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-7465.

“Worlds Between: Landscapes of Louis Remy Mignot.” Through October 28.

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THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336.

“Elements of Art.” Featuring works on paper by Peter Acheson, Frank Curran, Sarah Goldstein, Sara Farrell Okamura, Kim Sloane and Beth Thielen. Through November 4.

tremaine gallERy at the hotchkiss school 11 interlaken road, lakeville, ct (860) 435-3663 “Walmarts.” An exhibition of paintings by Brendan O’Connell. Through October 12-November 18.

Opening Saturday, October 13, 4pm-6pm.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342.

“From Fiber Soft to Rock Hard.” Bonnie Shanas, Bob Madden and Karen Madden.

October 19-November 11.

Opening Friday, October 19, 6pm-12am.

UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“Idiom.” 5th Annual Mini Works Show. Through October 14.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Local Color.” Debbe Cushman Femiak and Christina Pahucki. October 1-31.

Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-7pm.

WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION 330 MORTON ROAD, RHINEBECK 876-4818.

“Modern Sculpture & the Romantic Landscape.” Contemporary outdoor sculptures. Through October 31.

WIRED GALLERY 103 MAIN STREET, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613.

“Group Show.” Stuart Bigley, Josh Finn, April Warren, Kathi Robinson Frank, Lynne Friedman, Kaete Brittin Shaw, Bobbi Esmark. Through October 28.

WOLFGANG GALLERY 40 RAILROAD AVENUE, MONTGOMERY 769-7446.

“Elements and Emotions: Works by Ermalinda Cortez.” October 7-20.

Opening Sunday, October 7, 1pm-12am.

“Legacy of John F Gould & Military Art Show.” Robert Gould & Paul Esposito will be showing classic Hudson Valley Art with famous Saturday Evening Post illustrations during WWII. October 9-November 4.

Opening Saturday, October 13, 6pm-9pm.

“Traveling the Countryside.” Nat Baines & Amy Wiley. Through October 5.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940.

“Inspired by the Northlight: Maud and Miska Petersham.” Works by WAAM members; Solo show of paintings by Paul Chapman; Active Member Wall: Elisa Pritzker; Small Works show; Youth Exhibition Space: Flick Book Studios. October 6-31.

Opening Saturday, October 6, 4pm-6pm.

WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388.

“Woodstock Prints: Past and Present.” A survey of Woodstock printmaking, curated by Ron Netsky.

Through November 3.

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Music Pop Artist A.C. Newman

By Peter Aaron Photograph by Fionn Reilly

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op music has always been the great paradox. By design it’s about creating hooks, melodies, and lyrical couplets that have wide appeal, a sumptuous sum of addictive parts that will keep the listener returning for more. But, as Spinal Tap’s ever-sage David St. Hubbins once posited, there’s a fine line between stupid and clever. Despite the idiom’s built-in, easy-to-understand attraction, it’s not easy making truly great, long-lasting pop—music that will sound good to many but, unlike its fluffier, more disposable variants, will also stand the test of time.

It’s the difference between, say, Big Star and Big Time Rush. Those adept at crafting music that’s intelligent and astonishing as much as it is ear candy are rare; consummate auteurs to be valued equally alongside their peers in the so-called “serious” fields of contemporary classical or the challenging avant-garde. And one of the current generation’s reigning pop geniuses is Carl Newman, who, as the leader of indie super group the New Pornographers and as the solo artist A. C. Newman, is responsible for some of the most inspiringly enduring sounds since the glory years of the 1960s. It may be surprising, however, to learn that some of the songs that influenced the Woodstock transplant’s acclaimed, artful music are among those relegated to the throwaway bin by rock historians.

“I’ve always had this love of melody,” says Newman, 44. “I was big on classic rock when I was a kid—the Beatles, the Stones, Kiss, Cheap Trick. But at the same time I loved ’70s AM radio songs like [Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods’] ‘Billy, Don’t Be a Hero’ and [Paper Lace’s] ‘The Night Chicago Died.’ And I’m a sucker for ’80s stuff like Toto and REO Speedwagon’s High Infidelity, even though I rebelled against that music at the time. Now I find myself hearing it on the radio, looking back, and going, ‘Man, people wrote songs back then!’” Whether or not you agree with him on the compositional knack of Kevin Cronin and company, it’s hard to argue with the creative sensibility behind durable modern masterpieces like the New Pornographers’ Mass Romantic and ElectricVersion and Newman’s The SlowWonder and just-released Shut Down the Streets (all Matador Records).

Newman hails from White Rock, a beach town just outside Vancouver, British Columbia. “Nobody in my family played any instruments,” the singer says. “My parents were mostly into country, but I learned a lot about rock from my older brother. He leant me stuff like Talking Heads, Changes by David Bowie, [the Sex Pistols’] Never Mind the Bollocks. I really became obsessed with music when I was 15 or 16, which got me to pick up the guitar when I was about 18. In high school I hung out with the new wavers, not only because I liked the music, but also because I thought it was cool they didn’t give a shit what anyone else thought about them.

For music, Vancouver’s had two periods when it was really good: in the late ’60s, with garage and psychedelic stuff like the Painted Ship and the Collectors, and in the early ’80s, with all of these great punk bands—DOA, the Subhumans, the Pointed Sticks. When SPIN reviewed [New Pornographers debut] Mass Romantic, they said it was the best record from Vancouver since the Pointed Sticks. That gave me a deep sense of civic pride.”

It was through the coastal Canadian city’s punk scene that Newman joined his first band, the self-described “prog-grunge” outfit Superconductor. With an unwieldy lineup of two bassists, one drummer, and Newman and five other guitarists, the early ’90s band toured hard and released two albums to modest success. “I became the singer really just because no one else [in the band] was interested,” Newman recalls. “We were kind of a ham-fisted version of the first couple of Pixies albums, I guess. It was really noisy, but I couldn’t help but sneak some melodies in here and there.” The melodies came further to the fore during the latter phase of Superconductor’s existence, when Newman co-founded the decidedly pop-classicist Zumpano. Recalling the softer, more sophisticated sounds of the Zombies, Squeeze, the Beach Boys, and Burt Bacharach, the quartet (named not for Anthony Quinn’s character in Fellini’s La Strada, but for the group’s drummer, Jason Zumpano) signed with Seattle’s Sub-Pop Records in 1994, helping usher in the label’s move away from the grunge sound it had established in the ’80s and into the lighter pop direction of acts like the Shins and Fleet Foxes. Zumpano released two critically well-received albums for the imprint, 1995’s LookWhat the Rookie Did and 1996’s Goin’Through Changes, before the band drifted apart.

The mighty juggernaut that is the New Pornographers—Newman and his fellow Vancouverites Neko Case (vocals), Destroyer’s Dan Bejar (guitar, vocals) and Fisher Rose (drums), the Evaporators’ John Collins (bass), and BlaineThurier (synthesizers)— began in 1998, rather inauspiciously. “We’d all been talking about starting a project together for so long that no one we told about it thought we’d ever actually do it,” explains Newman. “They were all, like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. You guys keep talking about this band you’re gonna start, blah blah blah.’ So we had the idea before we ever got together to play, and we felt like we kind of had to deliver after a certain point. We came up with the name [a reference to Akiyuko Nosaka’s 1966 film The Pornographers] and after that we made a four-song demo, which we felt really good about.

But when we sent it out to labels, none of them gave a shit.”

Almost none, that is. One that did was Canada’s Mint Records, which issued Mass Romantic, featuring new drummer Kurt Dahle (Limblifter, Age of Electric) and guitarist Todd Fancey, in 2000. A spirit-lifting burst of ’60s sunshine harmonies, slashing power pop guitars, and swirling, Day-Glo keyboards, the disc displays a fully formed act that not only had its rock history and songwriting chops down cold, but somehow manages the elusive trick of making the music familiar yet unexpected. Although the debut initially didn’t chart high, it ended up winning a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year and got critics in a giddy tizzy—and was no doubt helped along by Case’s concurrently exploding career as an alt-country solo artist. By the time of 2001’s South by Southwest festival, the New Pornographers were the toast of indiedom; such was their status as the new keepers of the classic pop flame that Ray Davies himself joined them on stage at the convention to perform—quite appropriately, one would imagine—the Kinks’ “Starstruck.” Newman calls the band’s arrival “amazing,” adding, “Really, I was just happy we were able to sell out [small Manhattan venue] Brownie’s.

That would’ve been enough for me.” NewYork’s powerhouse Matador Records, home to such indie giants as Pavement, Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth,Yo La Tengo, and Cat Power, soon stepped in, co-releasing with Mint the 2003 follow-up, Electric Version.

Another rocking trip through Candy Land, the set showed the band perfecting and streamlining its craft to an ever sharper, shinier edge; the record’s crunching wall of sound is highlighted by such treats as the crashing peaks of “The Laws Have Changed” and the gutsy, sugar-snap bounce of “The New Face of Zero and One.” Since then, the sucrose high has continued unabated, with the band steadily becoming a bigger live draw and releasing three more enthusiastically reviewed full-lengths, 2005’s Twin Cinema, 2007’s Challengers, and 2010’s Together (the latter was heralded locally with a raucous tour stop at the Bearsville Theater).

After doing their time in Brooklyn, Newman and his wife, former Matador marketing director Christy Simpson, bought a place in Woodstock and moved up in April 2009. “We didn’t intend to be here full-time, but it worked out that way—which has been great,” the songwriter says. “I’m amazed at how much I’ve come to like the solitude. [The couple’s wooded lot] feels like our own forest. It turned out [folk legend] Happy Traum is my next-door neighbor, and it’s been really great, getting to know him. I was afraid I might feel like a fish out of water, but I just keep meeting more and more cool local musicians.” (Newman recently recorded a version of Happy & Artie Traum’s “Jacksboro,” which he plans to release online.) Among the hip local players Newman’s met are Saugerties keyboard whiz Marco Benevento and Mike Merenda and Ruth Ungar (aka Hurley folk duo Mike & Ruthy), all of whom perform on Shut Down the Streets, Newman’s third Matador solo offering after 2004’s The Slow Wonder and 2009’s Get Guilty. Although it features appearances by Case and several cuts that recall the New Pornographers’ luminous bombast (see the roaring “Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns”), Shut Down the Streets is, comparatively speaking, a much more personal record. The composer says the turn was largely brought on by his becoming a father and the recent passing of his mother. It’s these emotion-packed, creatively fertile developments that permeate powerful standouts like “Strings,” a hushed, tinkling greeting to his newborn son Stellan, and the sweetly sad title track, a reflection on loss ornamented with Case’s heart-tugging choirgirl vocals. “[Newman] has an incredible intuition for writing unique, likable songs,” says Merenda about the album, which was recorded at his own Humble Abode Studio and at Catskill’s Old Soul Studios. “At first listen they come across as catchy, straight-forward pop songs. But as I started playing these songs and coming up with parts, I realized that each song had a rather unassuming sophistication: a sneaky undercurrent, a quirky arrangement, a surprise chord sequence, a genius turn of phrase.”

Newman’s presently gearing up to take those genius turns on the road in support of Shut Down the Streets for a three-week tour that begins on October 21. “I’m a little bit anxious about [the tour], because it’ll be the first time I’ve been away from Stellan for such a long time,” admits Newman. “But at the same time I’m really looking forward to playing again. I put together a great band, with Neko’s guitar player, Paul Rigby, and Elvis Perkins’s drummer, Nick Kinsey. There’s also bass clarinet, flute, sax, and cello.”

It sure sounds a long ways off from the muddy noise of Superconductor. If the angsty guy who sang for that band could now meet Newman—perhaps sitting on his porch with a baby on his knee and a guitar at his side—what might the younger version say? The redheaded singer-songwriter scratches his mussy scalp and thinks a minute. “He would be totally amazed. He’d probably say, ‘Look at you, man—you totally have it made!’” he theorizes. And what would the older Newman say in return?

“I’d tell him, ‘Yeah, I feel like I’m on my way, but I don’t have it made yet. I still have to work, you know?’”

As long Newman’s working, it’s music lovers who’ll have it made.

A. C. Newman will perform at the Bowery Ballroom in NewYork on October 22. Shut Down the Streets is out now on Matador Records. Matadorrecords.com. Acnewman.net.

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Dark Dark Dark October 8. Thanks to its Brechtian songs and moody, Eastern European flair, Minneapolis quintet Dark Dark Dark gets tossed into the same ragtag gypsy/cabaret-punk bag that houses too many gimmicky acts. Which just ain’t right. One of today’s most haunting underground folk acts, the band conjures deep and, er, dark sounds via acoustic bass, piano, trumpet, clarinet, soft drums, and the monochromatic voices of accordionist Nona Marie Invie and banjoist Marshall Lacount, and is miles above the hackneyed “Fiddler on the Roof” outtakes of most similarly inspired peers. The group often takes part in ambitious performance art projects, so who knows what this Club Helsinki show will bring. Emily Wells opens. (The Magnetic Fields return October 25; the John Spencer Blues Explosion erupts November 2.) 8pm. $10. Hudson. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com.

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October 12. With this month’s unveiling of PURUSA, her fourth effort, singer-songwriter Kirsten DeHaan kicks off a national tour of art spaces that begins at VARGA Gallery. Now based in Bearsville, the German-American DeHaan lived and performed in New York for several years and recorded her new disc at Rhinebeck’s renowned Clubhouse studio for release on her own SirLady label. The event features art by VARGA owner Christina Varga and Bill Miller and food by New World Home Cooking’s head chef Ric Orlando. “This album is a different sound and direction for me artistically and I wanted my concerts to reflect that too,” says DeHaan. “What better place than a gallery, to pay homage to the art of music?” 6pm. $20. Woodstock. (845) 679-4005; Vargagallery.com.

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings October 13. Since forming in 1996, Canadian roots rock giants Blackie and the Rodeo Kings have released seven acclaimed albums and worked with Robert Plant, Leon Redbone, the Band, and Bruce Cockburn. The trio, which here gallops into Enigma Music Hall, features guitarists Colin Linden and Stephen Fearing and Junkhouse singer Tom Wilson. Kings & Queens, the band’s seventh offering, features the stellar guest voices of Roseanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Exene Cervenka, Patti Scialfa, Holly Cole, the Hudson Valley’s own Amy Helm, and others. 7pm. $26. Rhinebeck.

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October 18. Mike Watt will need little introduction to fans of punk and alternative rock.

Currently the bassist of the revived Iggy and the Stooges, Watt was a founding member of California’s highly influential Minutemen and that trio’s successor, fIREHOSE, and has been involved in numerous solo and related projects in his more than three decades as an iconic DIY musician. He brings his newest outfit, Mike Watt and the Missingmen, which features the same rhythm section that backed him on his 2010 Hieronymous Boschinspired album Hyphenated-Man, to Valentine’s this month. The Last Conspirators open.

(The Lucky Jukebox Parade and others rock October 8; catch Herpes October 19.) 8pm. $12. Albany. (518) 432-6572; Valentinesalbany.com.

Pocatello Record Release Show October 19. Liv Carrow (vocals, guitar) and Sasha Pearl (vocals, banjo) had each already been playing and recording for years before they met at a 2011 harvest celebration. During the first of many parlor sessions to come, they discovered their dreamy voices blended like gossamer corn silk, and with Emily Willis (violin, mandolin), the pair formed folk threesome Pocatello. This evening at the Spotty Dog Books & Ale trumpets the trio’s first record, a seven-inch single produced and released by local rock god Tommy Stinson (Replacements, Guns ’N Roses, Soul Asylum). Like-minded roots unit the Happy Jawbone Family Band opens. (Sasha Pearl plays solo October 10; Janet Wygal’s new band Wygalator woos you October 20.) 8pm. $5. Hudson. (518) 671-6006; Thespottydog.com.

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cd reviews Fairweather Friends These Years on the Boat (2012, Salvation Recording Co.)

Fairweather Friends cultivate a ramshackle, communal vibe on their fine debut, These Years on the Boat. On the cover, the New Paltz house in which they recorded it is imagined as a vessel adrift in the time of floods. Under the CD tray, the house appears again, festooned with people hanging from railings and sitting on roofs. Friend-centric, open-road, antimaterialist themes abound. The opening song, “Fire,” reads like a youth-culture call to inaction: to experience and love, rather than to making and planning.

A kind of beatnik-family motif extends throughout the music as well. Fairweather Friends are a mere guitar-and-drums indie duo, Adir L. Cohen and Jed Kosiner, but the CD took a village to make. The spartan default instrumentation frequently sprouts baroque horn arrangements or erupts into party vocals and ecstatic drum circle workouts. It’s a fresh, frequently surprising duo-plus-friends approach.

This is indie roots music, skewed Americana in which slurred guitars and the slack ensemble logic of Pavement meet a visionary, Dylanesque lyrical ambition. Songs like “The Spill” and “Charlie Mortlok Bean” reveal a fondness for earthy Britpop as well. Cohen sings with a husky, offhand authority. His guitar playing languishes in soulful disrepair, a glove-comfortable fit with Kosiner’s wide, expressive feel, the subtle artistry of which is most apparent on spacious tracks like “Same Big Ring.” Fore to aft, this is an apocalyptic, happily shambolic folk rock odyssey. The themes may be dark and stormy but the touch is light. Salvationrecordingco.com.

—John Burdick

Mike & Ruthy The NYC EP (2012, Humble Abode Music) Hudson Valley soul-folk duo Mike & Ruthy’s The NYC EP opens with “My New York City,” an archived Woody Guthrie nugget presented to the husband-wife combo by Guthrie’s daughter Nora. Initially intended for the Guthrie tribute My Name Is NewYork, the cinematic ode to finding love among the “black rooftops” and “a billion, jillion windows,” energized Merenda and Ungar, transporting them to their beginnings as a besotted NewYork couple.When the dust cleared in the Brooklyn studio in which they recorded live with a band to analog tape, one tune had begotten seven, and a rollicking, lusty, uplifting EP was born.

The NYC EP seems to track the arc of a still-unfolding love story; our hero and heroine connect in “My New York City,” long for family in chugging “I’m On My Way Home,” delight in carnality in R&B potboiler “Romance in the Dark,” hit the road in Highway 61 Revisited-sounding “Toast My Memory,” bemoan a sleepless child in blues rave-up “Oh Mama,” and salute their homeland (“Wherever the good energy is / That’s where I wanna raise my kids”) with the exuberant anthem “Raise Your Glasses High.” Mike & Ruthy, who’ve been on the music-making road together for over a decade, shine both individually and as a two-voiced entity; he’s a folkie with a pop heart full of catchy choruses; she’s a vocal hotshot bringing the house down armed with only a resophonic ukulele. Together, they go a long way toward restoring love’s good name. Mikeandruthy.com.

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The sound ranges from ragtime, rounds, and rock ’n’ roll, to the Peggy Lee slink of “Apple Tree & the Bee” and the Cajun two-step of “L’alphabet.” Fabulously talented producer Dean Jones handles most of the instrumentation here, with guest spots from Betty Boomer, David Winograd, and various McIntosh clan members (including husband Ira on the gentle ukulele of “Grandma Said”). Those looking for a taste of Garden live have a few opportunities in upcoming weeks; Story Laurie will be appearing at Noon on October 7 as part of the Forsyth Nature Center Fall Festival in Kingston, and at 8pm on October 20 at the Woodstock Community Center. The latter, appropriately enough, is a benefit for the town’s Good Neighbor Food Pantry. Bring some sweet potatoes and shoofly pie. Storylaurie.com.

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onor Moore opens the door of her Upper West Side apartment to reveal a room full of books, art, and luggage. She’s just returned from a busy summer that included mentoring at Saratoga’s New York State Writers Institute and a writing retreat on Martha’s Vineyard, and she’s already taught two classes at the New School. Soon she’ll be heading to Hudson to join former US Poet Laureate Mark Strand and other distinguished writers at Hudson ArtsWalk Literary (see sidebar).

Barefoot, comfortably dressed in an off-the shoulder gray shirt and striped scarf, she sets sandwiches on china plates and sits down to talk about writing and family.

Moore’s acclaimed memoir The Bishop’s Daughter (W. W. Norton and Co, 2008) introduces the Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr. with a burst of ecclesiastical grandeur, as he enters the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Easter: “The massive doors swing open, an ethereal shaft of sunlight floods the dark, the roar of the city breaks the gigantic quiet, and there at the far end of the aisle, in a blaze of morning light, stands the tall figure of a man. My flesh-and-blood father, the bishop.”

The Bishop’s Daughter is a miracle of shifting perspectives, combining a skillful biography of an exemplary public life, an intimate view of a complex father-daughter relationship, and a glimpse of a private life shrouded in secrecy.

Born to a fabulously wealthy blueblood family, Paul Moore was a decorated war hero at Guadalcanal, graduated fromYale, and became a nationally known activist clergyman who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was Bishop of the Diocese of NewYork from 1972 to 1989. He was 6’ 5”, handsome, twice married, and fathered nine children with first wife Jenny McKean Moore. After his death, Honor, the eldest, received a phone call from a man her father had named in his will, and learned that they’d been lovers for many years.

There had been hints of affairs in both marriages, and occasional glints of attraction to men, but gay and bisexual clergymen of Bishop Moore’s generation remained in the closet. Although late in his life he helped open church doors to ordaining gay men and women, he never permitted himself the same openness.

His daughter, who came of age during the feminist and countercultural revolutions of the ’60s, was far more forthright about her affairs with both women and men. And she felt that her father deserved to be seen in all his complexities. “He always wanted me to write about him,” Moore says, leaning back in an overstuffed chair. “When he donated his papers to the Episcopal Church archive, he said, ‘There’s one of my children who’ll be very interested in these, my daughter Honor.’”

The bishop had reason to suspect his literary daughter might someday turn her lens on him. Moore’s 1974 play “Mourning Pictures” is about a young poet whose mother is dying of cancer. Many specifics are taken directly from life—Maggie is one of nine children; her father a liberal clergyman; her mother the age at which Jenny Moore died.The first of Moore’s three poetry collections is titled Memoir (Chicory Blue Press, 1988), and her nonfiction debut The White Blackbird (Norton, 1996) is a biography of her maternal grandmother, painter Margarett Sargent.

“For me, it’s not about the content,” Moore says. “I use autobiography to make what I make.We all write autobiography to some degree.The question is how much it seems documentary, or not.”

“The White Blackbird is a biography with elements of memoir, and The Bishop’s Daughter is a memoir with elements of biography,” she explains, adding that the latter book was “very controversial within my family.” Indeed. When an excerpt appeared in the NewYorker in 2008, three of Moore’s siblings signed a letter to the editor objecting to its publication.

“I was blindsided,” Moore says. “It was extremely painful and very unexpected.”

Her siblings all knew she was working on the book, and though one of her brothers had voiced his concerns in correspondence, she felt she had answered them. “I didn’t tell anyone else’s stories. I was scrupulous about that,” she avers. Moreover, the revelations of their father’s secret life “were discreet. It’s not a gossipy book.” Glowingly reviewed, it was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and NewYork Times Editor’s Choice.

The controversy caused “a major traumatic break” in the family. Moore maintains close relationships with two of her siblings, contacting the others only by e-mail. But writing The Bishop’s Daughter improved her often-tempestuous relationship with her father, “both through the act of writing, and recovering my love for him at the end of his life. I could not have written the book if that had not happened. He’s a comforting presence in my life. I feel very complete with him.”

She balks at the notion that writing memoir has a kinship with therapy, calling the process “metabolic, not therapeutic.You are making one thing out of another thing. It can have spiritual and personal effects, but I hate the word ‘therapeutic.’ I can’t stand this Oprahizing of everything.”

Moore goes to fetch some of her early books from the top of a closet, padding barefoot up a folding ladder (“Some texture for your interview,” she quips as her head disappears inside). She may be a celebrated woman of letters, but she’s also a kick in the pants, unafraid to let her eccentric flag fly. When the phone rings in midconversation, she fields a call from an electric company marketing rep. As the phone call stretches

on and on, Moore’s yeses become more impatient, accompanied by eye-rolling and bites of ham sandwich. After awhile she leans over and says sotto voce, “Do you have another question?” as the telemarketer continues to spiel. This is real life, she seems to be saying, in all its ridiculous textures and dizzying swoops from the intellectual realm to the purely mundane.

Was her father disappointed that none of his nine children followed him into the religious life? “He was a pretty hard act to follow,” says Moore. “But he would say being a poet is a ministry. It was part of my father’s theology—a sacrament could be you and I having sandwiches, or him giving communion in the South during the Civil Rights movement.”

Moore’s current projects include a new poetry collection—a recent poem was selected for Best American Poetry 2012—and a memoir about her mother, to be published

by Norton. Their relationship was close but embattled. Jenny McKean Moore was cool, slender, elegant; Honor was a wild card, whose looks and creative temperament recalled Jenny’s own mother, the talented, doomed Margarett Sargent.

Despite their differences, Jenny bequeathed her deathbed writings to her oldest daughter. (She’d published a memoir, The People on Second Street, to great acclaim in 1968.) Moore skimmed through the fragments, then “essentially set them aside for 35 years.”

“I thought I’d already told her story,” she says. But “Mourning Pictures” was written shortly after Jenny’s death at age 50, when Honor was 27. “Now I’m 66, and I’m looking at 50 very differently. At 27, I didn’t know what I might end up doing as a woman: Would I have children, get married? What would I do?”

Moore has no children, and is currently single. “I’m partnered with my art,” she says in self-mocking tones, then adds, “Once you decide as a woman that you’re not getting married for all the conventional reasons, you’re not having children, and you get to be 66—” She shrugs. “I don’t need to be with someone just to be with someone.

I need to be with someone who will enhance my life. Because I have a great life.”

Honor Moore vividly remembers her mother, whose nine children were evenly spaced over nearly two decades, reading Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. “It changed her life. But she died before she had a chance to live that second act.” She pauses, glancing at the dining table-turned-writing desk that takes pride of place in her living room. “She wanted to be an independent woman, a literary woman and a writer.

And I’ve done those things. It amazes me.”

FALL LITERARY EVENTS IN HUDSON & NEW PALTZ HUDSON ARTSWALK LITERARY Two days of free readings, book signings, and discussions.

Saturday, October 6, at City Hall, Council Room: 12pm: Mary-Beth Hughes & L. S. Asekoff 1:45pm: Helen Klein Ross & Honor Moore 3:30pm: Peg Boyers & Mark Strand Sunday, October 7, at Hudson Opera House, West Room: 12pm: Charles Stein & George Quasha 1:45pm: Anne Gorrick & Thomas Sayers Ellis 3:30pm: Illya Szilak & David Block Cccaartswalk.webs.com/artswalk-literary-2012

CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS, NEW PALTZ Saturday, October 6, 11am-5pm, Hasbrouck Park Free readings by Hudson Valley children’s and young adult authors Stefan Bolz, Jacky Davis & David Soman, Iza Trapani, Timothy Tocher, Jennifer Castle, Kimberly Sabatini, K. L. Going, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Steve Sheinkin, Elizabeth Cunningham, and C. B. Whitaker, with a preview of One Book/One New Paltz selection The Submission at 4:30pm.

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SUNY NEW PALTZ DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES Thursday, November 1, at 7:30pm, Lecture Center 100, SUNY New Paltz Amy Waldman, former New York Times journalist and author of The Submission, will speak, followed by a book signing and public reception. Admission $13 to $18; SUNY New Paltz students free. Newpaltz.edu/speakerseries

ONE BOOK/ONE NEW PALTZ The Submission is this year’s community read. For a full schedule of discussions, lectures, panels, and multimedia events from November 11 to November 20, visit Onebookonenewpaltz.com.

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SHORT TAKES The right book can help to illuminate life’s darker passages.

Six Hudson Valley writers light the way.

Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up edited by Leah Odze Epstein & Caren Osten Gerszberg Seal Press, 2012, $15

In this wide-ranging, potent collection, 28 women let loose about their relationships with alcohol. Alongside such literary lights as Pam Houston, Joyce Maynard, Daphne Merkin, and Kathryn Harrison, local contributors Sari Botton and Eva Tenuto (two legs of the powerhouse TMI troika) spin tales of dating drunk and sober partners, and the rambling road to self-respect.

Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails Anthony Swofford Twelve Books, 2012, $26.99

The bestselling author of Jarhead offers a no-holds-barred look at the wild ride of fame and the tug of old wounds. Written in a Mt. Tremper cabin where he went to escape his excesses— drugs, drinking, fast cars, and sex (“I was a Zen master of infidelity”)——this blistering memoir digs into the trenches of father/son conflict and the aftereffects of war, ending with the birth of Swofford’s daughter and a new lease on life.

Secrets Unraveled: Overcoming Munchausen Syndrome Andrea Avigal and Thomas G. Hall, PhD Createspace, 2012, $17.95

High Falls psychotherapist Hall collaborated with former patient Avigal on this riveting account of a nontraditional therapeutic relationship. Alternating chapters reveal Avigal’s brutal childhood abuse, self-destructive behavior, the hidden pathology of Munchausen Syndrome (in which patients compulsively lie and induce physical illness), and her hardwon recovery. Reading 10/18 at 7pm, at Book House, Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany.

No Stone Unturned: A Father’s Memoir of His Son’s Encounter With Traumatic Brain Injury Joel Goldstein, foreword by Lee Woodruff Potomac Books, 2012, $29.95

In 2001, Goldstein’s teenage son Bart was in a car crash that left him with traumatic brain injury, facing significant physical, emotional, and cognitive deficits. Recounting the determination, family support, and alternative therapies that helped his “hard-headed” Korean-born son regain independence, New Paltz resident Goldstein offers a valuable resource for TBI survivors (including countless wounded veterans) and families facing any medical crisis.

Not Yet: A Care-giving Collage Marcia Slatkin SFA Press, 2012, $17.95

In this suite of clear, intimate poems—“a farce / of confusion, a lyric / taming fear,” Slatkin finds the universal in the specific, painting a detailed double portrait of an aching caregiver and the Alzheimer-stricken mother whose feisty personality persists behind the walls of her dementia, “craving / bridges to span / billions of gaps.” Reading 10/6 at 5:30pm, Half Moon Books, Kingston; 11/3 at 7pm, COW at Outdated Cafe, Kingston.

O, Beautiful End: Memorial Poems Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, foreword by Anne Waldman Dharma Communications Press, 2012, $14

In Japanese Zen tradition, memorial poems or jisei are recited as a gift to the departed. Abbot Geoffrey Shugen Arnold wrote each of these poems for memorial and funeral services at Mt. Tremper’s Zen Mountain Monastery and elsewhere. Eloquent, simple, and timeless, the book begins and ends with poems for the late Daido Roshi: “nine bows / to an empty seat.” Reading 10/14 at 4pm at the Phoenicia Library.

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DIE A STRANGER Steve Hamilton

St. Martin’s, 2012, $25.99

SILENT SLAUGHTER C. E. Lawrence

Pinnacle, 2012, $9.99

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NYPD RED James Patterson and Marshall Karp

Little, Brown and Co., 2012, $27.99

reat detective serials deepen as they go along, merging extended character development and sense of place with the infinite variety of human weirdness that only crime and the foiling of it can offer.

Take Cottekill resident Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight series. In each book, McKnight reveals himself a little more thoroughly and we get to explore the subcultural layers Hamilton plays with so well: Northern Michigan, hardscrabble backwoods America, law enforcement. McKnight is tough as nails and inordinately lovable, with an unerring, offbeat moral compass and a dark, ironic funnybone. He’s also a loyal friend, and this drives the plot of Die A Stranger, in which his bud Vinnie goes missing.

Following the threads, McKnight finds himself eyebrow-deep in danger and violence surrounding an imploding pot-smuggling operation. As an ex-cop, he has a certain professional distance from the letter of the law, but never from the distinction between good and evil, and Hamilton rocks this interesting situation with enormous aplomb, reflecting on male friendship, drug policy, aloneness, and death. He’s a master at saying a lot with a few well-chosen details.

C. E. Lawrence’s Silent series is another homegrown indulgence for thriller fans.

Against the backdrop of a vividly drawn New York City, Lawrence pits her quirky, astute sleuths against yet another weird, believably evil serial killer in Silent Slaughter.

It’s a delight to spend time with protagonist Lee Campbell, untangling a few more strands of the overarching mysteries that define his life. Campbell is a brilliant and haunted profiler for the NYPD, and his struggles are artfully interwoven with the chilling violence he and his colleagues attempt to contain.

Like Hamilton, Lawrence has created a character readers can grow to love: imperfect, honorable, and entertaining. Indeed, Campbell’s entire precinct is worth revisiting. They are not some alien species, these cops—they get slighted by office politics, get the hots for one another, and spill coffee on the ties they hate to wear. Yet their dedication is heroic, and in delineating their humanity, Lawrence brings us into closer communion with the heroism in our own mundane selves.

It isn’t clear whether Woodstock’s Marshall Karp and Newburgh native James Patterson intend NYPD Red to launch a new series, but one wouldn’t mind. The premise (a special squad of elite Manhattan detectives detailed to protect the rich and famous) invites a nearly endless cascade of wrenched-from-the-headlines plots. This is the pair’s second collaboration, and Karp’s humor and gift for character development are much better utilized this time out, blending nicely with Patterson’s penchant for nonstop breathtaking action and capital-D drama.

Detective Zach Jordan’s budding romance with a police psychologist, counterpointed by his partnership with an ex-squeeze, is exactly the sort of frame story that begs for another episode. As as all police procedural readers know well, partnering is a love all its own, and therapy’s a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. Hopefully, Karp and Patterson had too much fun to quit—which is exactly what a good series is all about.

—Anne Pyburn Craig

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Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con Guy Lawson

Crown, 2012, $26

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rom The Manchurian Candidate to The Matrix to Men in Black, folks love a story in which a secret network, known only to the privileged few, controls the unwitting masses. Guy Lawson’s Octopus fits neatly into that category, except it is nonfiction; it is, in fact, stranger than fiction, alternately fascinating, funny, and terrifying.

This Hollywood-worthy yarn tracks trader and hedge fund manager Sam Israel’s odyssey from the upper echelons of Wall Street to the inner circles of shady CIA operatives and jaundiced European nobles, to a faked suicide and, finally, federal prison. Like the saga of Bernie Madoff, Israel’s hedge fund Bayou fails, but he can’t admit defeat, so he continues to court cash, transforming Bayou into a Ponzi scheme; investors, charmed by Israel, fork over millions, while he falsifies documents detailing the fund’s returns. “Regulators” prove incompetent at best. Unlike Madoff, however, Israel jumps through all manner of flaming hoops in an effort to redeem Bayou; a combination of bravado, ego, and an endearing, childlike capacity to be dazzled by storytelling sends Israel on an epic journey in which a master con man meets his match. Octopus gives flesh and blood to the Mark Twain quip, “A lie will go halfway around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.”

As Israel traverses the globe in a delusional fever, he falls under the spell of some intriguing spooks. Artists of deceit—still at large, some brazenly— usher him into a dangerous, amoral alternate universe in which the Federal Reserve operates a “shadow market.” An elite cabal of thirteen families runs the world, using the shadow market to spin billions from millions. This cabal is the Octopus, and Israel’s creepy pals promise him access. Although a duped Israel loses millions, he insists, from a jail cell in which his head is clear, that the Octopus is real. (Frankly, certain lax behaviors by the “authorities” will leave you wondering.)

Dutchess County journalist Lawson’s contagious affection for Israel, who he interviewed over three years, is the secret ingredient of Octopus. Israel cheats, rages, abuses his loved ones, and mismanages an unquiet mind and chronic pain with pharmaceuticals, cocaine, and booze, yet we identify with his struggles and, amazingly, root for him. We also delight in a little schadenfreude when he gets his comeuppance. Through it all, Lawson’s pen renders Israel and his roguish cohorts with aching humanity, eliciting our sympathy. For instance: Israel, born in 1959, is the scion of a famed trading family, yet he insists on working his way up through the Wall Street ranks, apprenticing with tickertape lions of the industry; he loves rock ’n’ roll, and befriends and even jams with the Allman Brothers in his mansion; he’s financially savvy, offering spot-on predictions of the global recession (and worse) long before it hit; he’s a devoted dad. You gotta love the guy.

In addition to the lively character study, Octopus serves double-duty as a primer for anyone with a desire to grasp the hubris-thick web of deceit that is the global financial system. But the heart of the book, the spoonful of sugar that makes a lot of bitter, complex truth go down, is Israel’s psychology, his Walter Mitty-meets-Indiana Jones worldview. (Interestingly, mood disorders and depression are quite common on Wall Street.) Somewhere in Hollywood, a producer is pondering which edgy young buck to cast as Sam Israel in the big-budget thriller: “It’s Bourne Identity meets Wall Street!” Except it’s real.

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our November issue is October 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first).

Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.

a long time ago, nothing was named

When It’s not when, I’m interested in, it’s the instant immediately following.

After it passes through the fan.

—Jason Jupiter (4 years)

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Explanation

So if we where,

We Have Lost

The story arrives like a hero, smiling teeth sparking gold, riding on the back of a dragon with all of the trumpets and strings. Recognizing I’m a princess naturally, and the essential part of the equation, the rescue-able x. Would you rather be a sorceress or a magician? it asks, and I assume the question has to do with sex. I mean gender. There are no permanently defeated monsters so we need all the feathers we can get. Sometimes I’m the thinnest whisker of an invisible world, just tickling your skin as the big animal sniffs and stretches and rolls its powerful muscles on, but sometimes not. I don’t like cats, the story says. So I’ll be a magician, I say, smiling, extending my hand to be swung up on the dragon’s back and taken away.

My days would be Sticky floors Wooden doors Chicken shit Flowers in my hair.

you wear white and I do too a shear white cotton shirt wrinkled soft

Stained sheets Fresh meat Cutting boards Trips to town “Put my face on.”

the windows are open roses bloom from the garden I can see your nipples large and round through your blouse

—Reina Hardy

So if we where My nights would be Pushing cats Swinging screens Moths in light.

when you sit in my lap and kiss me your mouth is open

Thursday forget Enlightenment Wang Wei says in orderly times people rarely enter seclusion. I return to one room each object holds a thought Being simple minded I listen to the rain.

—D. Dougherty

Heavy wet blankets Sunshine sheets Long sits in mountain air Flowers in my hair Feathers in our books.

—Heather Craig

21st C Haiku When you sit down beside your dog as he lays flat in the grass, be sure to position your buttocks more or less alongside the dog’s head.

Be sure not to sit so that you must stretch forward to caress your dog.

For, when you lie back in the grass, as you surely will, you will be too far away to rest your hand on your dog’s side in communion —Lorcan O’Mulrian

Group Therapy Gazelle: Yes, I am beautiful, yet always I am hunted. My beauty is a curse.

Lion: I take anything I want and I am always hungry, never satisfied.

Giraffe: I see so far ahead, I am wary of everything.

Hippo: Despite being always freshly washed, I am hopelessly ugly.

Alligator: Although famous for my smile, everyone runs away.

Elephant: Despite my dignity, I am always forced to labor or to entertain.

Rabbit: I must remain very still, ready to flee, as I have no defenses.

Snake: Call me.

—Clifford Henderson

Pamela I see how it is; the men don’t care and the women are jealous.

The men don’t care ’cause she’s better than them and the women are jealous ’cause the men don’t care and they know all too well why. Who? The one whose love is her second skin, second only to her third eye looking out, looking in.

—Kristen Henderson

outside our clothes are pinned to a clothesline white blouses white pants I’m fairly sure we have lost all our money —Richard Donnelly

Call To Action No one man is all evil or all good Each tone in our lives is a shade of gray Though men do not always do as they should Horrors have happened where right men have stood Blackened by apathy, blinder each day No one man is all evil or all good Men can be molded, not solid like wood The rulers over their own human clay Though men do not always do as they should Animation, breath, and free will all could Slow, fade, and wither if men look away No one man is all evil or all good Dark and light are easily understood The eyes must be opened wider today Though men do not always do as they should Awaken them, raise their natural half-hood Truly observe, have the vision to say No one man is all evil or all good Though men do not always do as they should —Alice Spofford Friedle

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Ode to the Scales Is she fishy

only to a few?

Was she designed like this on purpose?

Or is it to

only fool the unwary?

Her scales seem balanced, but on closer inspection one slightly

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Her sword, like a bloodthirsty raiding barbarian, sharp and ready to cut those foolish enough to question her intentions.

She seems to be blindfolded, but sneakily peeks

under her silky cloth.

Blind justice you call her?

Equal justice for all?

Yeah, right!

She smells like rotten fish on a scorching summer day.

Her scales are so heavy they’re ready to fall

off.

It’s all fishy.

Money, power, and a badge set you free All the rest are sacrificed like virgins to appease the gods.

Need proof?

Okay, you asked for it.

They sodomized him with a plunger, but went unpunished.

Their badges saved them.

Blam, blam, blam, Add thirty-eight more to those.

The cell phone looked like a gun!

But forty-one times?

Their badges saved them.

Not fishy enough for you?

Alright, how about this?

They have WMDs, we should attack them.

Boom, Boom, Boom.

Add another million more.

No WMDs. “Sorry, my intelligence failed me.”

That’s an understatement!

Clank,

clank,

clank.

The scales shift again.

He sold drugs to feed the family.

Well, fifteen years ought to teach him it’s wrong.

She shot the pedophile who molested her since she was a little girl.

Well, twenty-five years should make her reflect on her crime.

Yes, the virgins are sacrificed once again to appease the gods.

Need more to understand?

There’s no more room.

Just look at the scales closely.

Joan of Arc Sends a Postcard Home Dearest, they burnt me!

They caught me out on the road after midnight, astride my prancing pony, the wind full in my face.

They lassoed the horse and brought me in.

The moon put out its light, the stars fluttered, then failed.

There began a howling gale like the voices of the dead shrieking across a distant ocean full of cold, bloodless fish.

They prepared my stake it sat on the hill like a cross a stack of wood beneath it.

They tied me to the wood firmly, with rope, that cut into my wrists and ankles.

My black cloak puffed out around me like feathers.

Somebody struck a match and then the thing was lit.

Whoosh—the wood took and blazed, but I did not feel the burn.

It began to snow, large white flakes floated down around me and coated the ground. the hateful sent icy fingers down my spine I showed off as I died, howling and wailing and failing my limbs; a spectacle and then, I was gone, my spirit departed my body like a train leaving a station I became feathers and ash.

—Laura Solomon

Installation Art: Choice Enter the poem through this door.

Open the door.

It is unlocked.

It’s true the lights are dim, but you can still see.

Follow the corridor.

At the end of the hall, turn left or right— It’s up to you.

Although, as you know, choice is pretty much an illusion. Nonetheless On the left you’ll find a salon

On the right a party

Yeah, she’s a fishy gal alright!

Lots of talk ideas in the air the green movement The end of history less is more

dancing and music images media plenty to eat drink beautiful men women

—André Kelley

—Ed Meek

Look, look!

There they go shifting again.

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Town and Country

Hopewell Junction, Wappingers Falls, and Pawling

By Erik Ofgang Photogaphs by Roy Gumpel

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awling, Hopewell Junction, and Wappingers Falls are communities of sweeping farmlands, rolling forests, and unique restaurants and shops.

There are mountain trails, riverside parks, peaceful retreats, and innovative businesses. Here nature and humanity interact with minimal conflict and celebrities and hard-working men and women of various trades rub shoulders and share a common sense of community. These burgs are welcoming to visitors and worth exploring at length.

PAWLING Visitors can take a train straight to the heart of Pawling’s pleasantly old-fashioned New England-style downtown, located in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains.

On Saturdays in warm months, a weekly farmers’ market is held on a new town green that runs parallel to the main drag. This farmers’ market is a community gathering and also features live music performed by local musicians.

After a trip to the farmers’ market you can head over to McKinney & Doyle’s Fine Foods Café and the Corner Bakery.The bakery boasts a wonderful selection of homemade cookies, cakes, fruit tarts, pies, pound cakes, jams, jellies, dressings, and freshly baked breads and rolls. A mouthwatering specialty in the bakery is their rugelach, a type of Jewish pastry. The bakery is also home to a vintage, full-service soda fountain that serves up an assortment of ice cream drinks and

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dishes. The restaurant side of the establishment is an upscale dining area that features fine food, cocktails, wines, and freshly prepared lunch, brunch, and dinner items.

Next door at The Book Cove, visitors to the village can browse a selection of new books, as well as rare and hard-to-find, out-of-print books. The store has been open since the mid 1970s. Manager Tara Lombardozzi says the place has survived through the decades because it offers a personal touch for customers.

In addition to books the store carries a wide variety of items. “We sell things that go alongside with books like cards and calendars,” Lombardozzi says. “We sell jewelry as well. We sell anything that’s unique and you can’t find anywhere else, things that are one of a kind like our books.”

Lambardozzi says that Pawling has an authentic small town feel. “We have unique stores, it’s not just your everyday gift shops,” she says. “If you wanted to come someplace, spend the day, and get the Norman Rockwell feel this is the place to do it.”

Outside of downtown there are many exploring opportunities for nature lovers. A large part of the Great Swamp, a 63,000-acre watershed that stretches for 20 miles, is located in Pawling. Pawling also has two lakes and over 300 acres of parkland and a portion of the Appalachian Trail runs through the town’s borders.

clockwise from top left: Dominick Matra at Beekman Golf and Restaurant; Phil Lewis at Wheel and Heel; Derek Corsino and Cassie Pells at Corsino Cakes; Sean Hilderbrand and Aja at Freshcuts; Mike and Nina Kilroe at The Painted Guitar School of Music & Art

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Josh Morgenthau, general manager and part owner of Fishkill Farms in Hopewell Junction, admits that majoring in painting and Fine Art at Yale University is far from conventional training for a farmer. However, he says his background in art has served him well in his chosen profession. “In same ways farming and painting are opposite ends of the spectrum, but in a lot of ways caring for and maintaining this ever changing project that is a farm has a lot of similarities to a work of art,” says Morgenthau, who is 28-years-old. He adds, “I didn’t have academic agriculture training but I think learning to think creatively has definitely served me well.”

Fishkill Farm is 270-acre farm with about 150 acres that are actively farmed. The farm’s specialty is apples and it has 60 acres of apple trees.

In addition the farm has 20 acres devoted to a combination of peaches, nectarines, plums, and cherries. The farm also devotes 30 acres to vegetable growing and has some livestock, including more than a thousand pasture raised hens that produce fresh eggs. The farm also sells farmmade apple cider and famous apple cider doughnuts. The farm’s products are sold through CSAs, at the farm stand at the farm, and through local and New York City farmers’ markets.

Through mid-October the farm offers apple picking and hosts Fall harvest festivals each weekend. “We do hayrides, we have apple picking, we have live music on some of the days and other entertainment,” Morgenthau says. “We have a hay maze and a bouncy house for the kids. It’s really festive, it’s a great time of year to be outdoors.”

Fishkill Farm’s was opened by Josh Morgenthau’s grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Jr., in 1913. One early visitor to the farm was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose estate was located nearby. Roosevelt and Morgenthau Jr. became friends. When Roosevelt became governor of New York he appointed Henry Morgenthau chair of the New York State Agricultural Advisory Committee and also to the state Conservation Commission.

When Roosevelt became president, he appointed Morgenthau as US Secretary of the Treasury. As Secretary of the Treasury, Morgenthau played a role in helping to shape Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. Morgenthau was also one of only a few Allied officials to advocate for Jewish refugees during World War II. Josh Morgenthau recalls with regret how over the years parts of the farm his grandfather started were sold. “There were over a thousand acres when my grandfather started it and it was split between my father and his two siblings. My father was the only one to keep his portion running as a farm,” says Morgenthau.

Watching other farms in the area and a large portion of his family’s farm disappear inspired Josh Morgenthau to do what he could to preserve the land after he graduated from college. “The urge to preserve the farm and the land and to do something with it positive was my primary motivation,” he says. “I think food and agriculture is one of the biggest, and often less appreciated, issues of our time.”

Working on a farm my be a world away from painting, but Morgenthau could not be happier with his career choice. He says the best part of his job is “the appeal of the land and keeping the land open and making it into a productive source of healthy food.” He adds, “There is this constant struggle and collaboration with nature to produce food—there are elements of it that are scientific, and elements of it that are creative, and I think both are exciting.”

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Driving on the outskirts of Pawling’s downtown on Route 22 one gets a glimpse of the town’s natural beauty. There are still many sweeping farm pastures visible from the road and during sunsets, the sun’s red light falls majestically across fields as it sets into the far distant horizon.

It’s no surprise that Pawling is home to an innovative business such as Native Landscapes, an environmentally diversified design and landscaping company that works in residential and commercial landscaping in the area. The company takes special care to protect the natural environment and creates landscaping designs and projects that use only plants that are indigenous to the specific locale or to the local horticultural zone that they are working in.

Pawling is also home to the legendary restaurant and music club the Towne Crier Café. The Crier has been hosting music in the Hudson Valley since 1972.

Performers such as Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Suzanne Vega, Livingston Taylor, and Leon Redbone have graced the Towne Crier stage. Last winter, The Towne Crier announced it would be closing its doors, but a huge outpouring of fan support caused the venue’s owner, Phil Ciganer, to negotiate a new deal with his landlord and keep the lights on for at least a little while longer. The venue hosts about shows a week and upcoming shows include Johnny Winter, on Friday, October 19, and singer-songwriter Chris Trapper, Saturday, October 27.

Across the street from the Towne Crier is Heinchon’s Old Farm House, an ice cream shop that has been in existence since 1923. The shop serves one of kind homemade ice cream that draws visitors from surrounding towns during the summer months.

Down the road from Pawling, in Patterson, is Abruzzi Trattoria. This finedining Italian restaurant serves a selection of authentic Italian food including a large selection of delicious specialty pizzas.

HOPEWELL JUNCTION From Pawling, explorers of the Hudson Valley can wander to Hopewell Junction, where they will find more opportunity to commune with nature and can stop by more unique shops and restaurants.

Hopewell Junction is home to Kagyu Thubten Chöling Monastery and Retreat Center, a meditative Buddhist retreat that was founded in 1978 by Lama Norlha Rinpoche. A fully trained meditation master in the tradition of the Kagyu Lineage, Lama Norlha Rinpoche continues to guide a community of practitioners in the practice of Tibetan Buddhism. The center hosts regular meditation classes and is open to overnight visitors.

Visitors to Hopewell Junction interested in more worldly pleasures can choose from a wide assortment of culinary treasures. The Tiramisu Café is an Italian restaurant, pizzeria, café, and bakery all in one. Guests can treat themselves to brick oven pizza and then head over to the bakery where they can feast on a wide variety of Italian delicacies, including sfogiatelles, cannolis, biscotti, éclairs, Napoleons, St. Josephs, profiteroles, lobster tails, and the restaurant and bakery’s signature desert—tiramisu.

Nearby at Le Chambord, guests can dine on fine French and American cuisine and experience the old-world charm of a European inn mixed with the elegance of a colonial estate. Located in a private setting less than a minute from the Taconic Parkway, Le Chambord hosts many weddings and corporate events and gives guests the opportunity to stay overnight in one of the inn’s rooms. Roy Benich, who has owned Le Chambord for 28 years, says, “We have 25 rooms for overnight guests. We have a conference center. We pretty much do it all. It’s a European style country inn.”

This past year Benich says his venue has hosted more weddings than it ever has in its almost three decade history. “Because of the economy we lowered our prices,” says Benich. “Instead of raising them, we lowered them, to try to help everyone, and in the long run we got rewarded because we booked more weddings.”

This year the venue hosted more than 70 weddings and Benich is present at every one, which, he says, helps make his costumers feel more comfortable on their big day. “People like to work with the owner, and they have a good feeling about it,” he says.

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LOCAL NOTABLE Vinny Lamorte

In the 1980s, Vinny Lamorte, owner and namesake of Vinny’s Deli in Pawling, was running a successful wholesale pasta business. The money was good, but something was missing for Lamorte. “I wasn’t crazy about the wholesale business, I’m more of a people person, I like to engage with people,” he recalls. When the opportunity arose, he bought a building in Pawling and opened up Vinny’s Deli. The specialty Italian deli will celebrate its 25th anniversary next March. Over the years, Lamorte’s store and his friendly New York City fugetaboutit personality have became staples of downtown Pawling. Lamorte’s culinary creations have earned acclaim and been featured on segments of “Live From Daryl’s House,” a free monthly webcast that was founded by Daryl Hall of the rock group Hall & Oats.

Customers have also become hooked on the store’s sandwiches, catering dishes, specialty items and fresh store made mozzarella—especially the mozzarella.

“People come from all over for my handmade mozzarella It’s very successful,” he says. “I wholesale it to maybe 25 or 30 different restaurants and other delis.”

He adds, “We make it twice a day here in the summer time so its always fresh. I have people that have gone to Italy had mozzarella there and say mine is just as good if not better.”

It is not surprising that owning a deli and making Italian specialty items comes naturally to Lamorte considering food is pretty much in his blood. “I was born in Italy, I came to this country when I was six years old. We settled on Arthur Avenue in Little Italy in the Bronx. We lived there until I was about 12, then we relocated to Carmel where my older brothers opened up a deli. I worked there as a kid.” He says his family’s history owning a deli helped prepare him to open his own business. “Growing up in the business it makes it a lot easier than doing something blind,” he says.

In addition to the mozzarella, another specialty at the deli is Vinny Skinny Sauce, a fat free mayonnaise substitute that is a standard on the signature sandwich at the deli, The Garden Combo. Lamorte says he developed the sauce in the late 1980s. “When I first did it many years ago, people were on a health kick, you had fat-free mayonnaise,” says Lamorte. He explains that he got into healthy eating as well and recalls he would try fat-free mayonnaise on sandwiches but the flavor left something to be desired. “It just didn’t do it for me,” he says. He experimented and took a basic fat-free mayonnaise recipe and “I spiced it up with Mediterranean spices.”

At Vinny’s Deli it’s a true family affair. “I got my mother, my sister, my daughters, my brothers around to help me—even my wife helps me out. It’s pretty much a family business.”

That sense of family and community is a big part of the shop. Lamorte knows most customers by name. Newcomers are also welcomed, Lamorte says he can spot people coming to the deli for the first time by their body language, and he says he always makes sure to offer new customers a free sample of mozzarella.

Lamorte says that over the years he’s formed an extended family of past employees. “I have to say, without my employees I wouldn’t be where I am today, I have people who’ve worked for me, 10 years, 20 years. I don’t have too much employee turnover,” he says. He adds that he’s always stressed to his employees that school comes before work. “I’m very flexible, especially if it interferes with school. I’ve had employees that became doctors out of here and teachers. If I need help they’re always there for me, if I’m stuck they’ll come in a few days for me. It keeps that family thing going, whether it’s blood family or not, we tend to feel like a family here and customers sense that.”

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Beekman Golf, a public golf course that is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The 27-hole course has a restaurant on the premises and is often praised as one of the best golf courses in the country for female golfers.

Hopewell Junction is also home to a wide assortment of unique shops including Out of the Loop, Inc., a knitting and yarn store that hosts regular knitting circles. In a message on the store’s website, owner Theresa Kirby writes: “I’ve been knitting for more than 30 years. As soon as I planned that first knitted sweater I knew someday I wanted to have a place where I could share my love of color, texture, and beautiful yarns.” She adds, “Here at Out Of The Loop you’ll find a casual, creative environment with knowledgeable, experienced help, beautiful yarns and supplies, and friendly people to inspire you.”

WAPPINGERS FALLS Pet lovers and their four-legged friends will have plenty to wag their tails about in Wappingers Falls. The historic village is home to the Earth Angels Veterinary Hospital. The hospital is a full-service veterinary medical facility that offers animal care and promotes responsible pet ownership and preventative health care for pets.

After taking care of their pets, pet owners can give themselves a treat by eating at the Maya Café and Cantina, a Mexican restaurant that offers a wide variety of Mexican specialties, including fresh guacamole that is made to order.

Visitors to Wappingers Falls can recharge their internal engines and pick up gear for their motorcycle engines at the Groundhog Coffee House and Motorcycle Company, a combination coffee house and motorcycle supply shop. At the coffee house, visitors can pick up freshly roasted coffee and choose from a selection of bagels and pastries. Next door, they can pick up parts for their Harley Davidson motorcycles Wappingers Falls is home to The Randolph School, a progressive school for children ages three through ten. Grounded in the educational philosophies of John Dewey and Jean Piaget, the school was founded in 1963 to offer a childcentered, holistic method of education. At the school the focus is on educating the whole child.

Children or adults looking to further their educations or just read for fun will find an inspiring place to do that at the Grinnell Library. The sixth-oldest library in the state of New York. the Grinnell library was founded in 1867 thanks to the efforts of the library’s namesake Irving Grinnell.

When you’ve had your fill of books you’ll want to visit Bowdoin Park, a picturesque 301-acre park located on the banks of the Hudson River. The park offers scenic river views, areas for picnicking, a handicapped-accessible playground, soccer, baseball, and softball fields, and more than four miles of walking trails. In addition, the park has several covered pavilions and a band shell where concerts are regularly held.

All that time outdoors may tire you out and if you’re looking for a comfortable place to lie down you should be able to find one at Futon Store. Here just about every type of futon you can imagine can be found, from straight beds, to bunk beds, to comfortable chairs and couches that’d you never guess were capable of folding out into futon beds.

Wappingers Falls is also home to the Dutchess County Airport, a countyowned airport that offers corporate and general flight services. Aspiring pilots can take flight lessons at the airport and get a stunning view of Wappingers Falls and the Hudson Valley from the air.

The village of Wappingers Falls also has a strong local theater scene that is powered by the County Players, an all-volunteer production company that stages shows at the Falls Theatre. The company was founded in the 1950s and will stage a production of Scott McPherson’s heartbreaking drama “Marvin’s Room” in November. Jeff Wilson, the group’s president, says that the County Players “provide a way for people to be exposed to theater without having to go to Broadway and it’s a lot less expensive than Broadway.” He adds, “We put on very high-level productions, not Broadway level, but for a community theater we put on very high level productions. People enjoy the shows.”

Wilson says that Wappingers Falls is still emerging and shaping its artistic identity and that the County Players’ are excited to be a part of that. “It’s nice to be able to walk around and go to different shops and restaurants and things,” he says. “It’s a nice place to be.”

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The largest art event in Eastern Dutchess is split into two weekends. The Northeast Dutchess tour is October 13 and 14, and the Southeast Dutchess tour is October 20 and 21. Artists in Dutchess County open their studios, workspaces, and gallery doors to the public. Visit the Pawling Trading Company and the Little Red Bakeshop on East Main for a preview featuring work

by John Colantuono, Lori Adams, Doreen O’Connor, Gretchen Hoffman Abene, Kathleen Heidermann, Brian Saltern, Amy Brenner, and Victoria Hayes. Pawling’s Gallery on the Green will host an artist’s reception for Arlene Nadel’s “Keyhole” exhibit on October 22, 5-8pm.

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Wappingers Annual Festival of the Arts The response to the age-old question “What did you learn in school today?” won’t be answered with “nothing” at Wappingers Central School District’s Annual Festival of the Arts. Each year in May, the school celebrates students’ artistic and musical talents in Mesier Park with hundreds of artwork exhibits by WCSD students (elementary through high school) and choral and instrumental musical performances throughout the day. The event also features student demonstrations and art-making activities.

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FroGS Annual Art Show Friends of the Great Swamp (FroGS) is a community group devoted to the protection and preservation of the Great Swamp of Dutchess and Putnam Counties, one of the largest freshwater wetlands in New York State, covering 6,000 acres. FroGS hosts an annual art show to celebrate the beauty and importance of the Great Swamp and to teach about its environment and inhabitants.

This year’s art show, “A Sense of Place,” will feature paintings, photography, and handcrafted items from local artisans based on the Great Swamp’s many environments, including marshes, wet meadows, and rocky hillsides. It will take place at Christ Church on Quaker Hill on October 20 and 21 and includes educational programs, children’s activities, Jim Eyring’s birds of prey, a slide show of the Great Swamp, and live music. Part of the proceeds goes to support the work of FroGS. Admission is free.

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Pawling Concert Series Trinity-Pawling School hosts the five-concert series every year, presenting classical, jazz, and ethnic music to the community.

The series started in 1973 and is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Dutchess County Arts Council.

Venues include All Saints’ Chapel, McGraw Pavilion, and the Gardiner Theater. The 39th season lineup includes The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble on October 19, Ellis Marsalis Quartet on November 16, Antioch Chamber Ensemble on December 14, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet on April 5, and So Percussion on April 26.

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East Fishkill’s Community Day Recreation Fields in Hopewell Junction is the home base for East Fishkill’s Community Day, which celebrated its 17th year this September. A parade featuring local businesses and organizations begins the afternoon, live music continues throughout the day— which featured In the Pocket and K104 radio live this year—and fireworks close out the evening at dusk. Food, business, and recreation booths are set up at the field including displays for Master Kwon’s Martial Arts, Betty Jean’s dance studio, and youth basketball. Cheerleading, Girl Scout ceremonies, and a Wappingers Crew Club duck race as well as raffles, games, and activities for kids and adults round out the event.

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elevision reality shows about cooking focus on a zero-sum notion of success: winning the contest, opening the restaurant, beating the competition. That inevitable trajectory toward greater glory and fame is an integral part of our national mythology, but in reality there are many parts to a complete life, and far more nuanced definitions of success. There are subtler stories that may not describe the arc we aspire to, but which can be more instructive and inspirational to us regular folks who may not have the requisite trifecta of skill, charisma, and incandescent ambition that make a star.Warren Norstein began his cooking career at the best restaurant in America and now makes barbecue in a roadside joint in Wingdale. And he’s never been happier.

The first sign that Big W’s might not be a typical barbecue joint comes in the form of Norstein himself—a bearded bear of a man, 48, well over six feet tall—hacking up a slab of pork ribs and bantering with a regular about going to Shul for Rosh Hashana while the Andrews Sisters sing “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” on the stereo. He’s warm, funny, and more than happy to talk about the unique path his cooking has taken. Norstein grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn, in a big family that cooked a lot of food. The kids were welcome in the kitchen, so he watched and helped his mother make dinner.

Nothing was wasted, and everything was eaten. “It wasn’t being taught; that’s just how it was,” he explains, describing how his mother would roast some chickens, boil bones for soup, and make chopped liver so everything got eaten.The neighborhood was a mix of Jewish, Italian, and Chinese families, and Norstein was exposed to those cuisines and kitchens through his friends’ families: an Italian mother who would start cooking for them “the minute our butts hit the stoop” and a Chinese family who owned a deli and eventually let him behind the counter to help, even giving him his first cleaver.

He went to the High School of Music & Art in Harlem, he says, “as a way of avoiding getting into fistfights with football players.” He took to ceramics, so a guidance counselor sent him to the New York State College of Ceramics in Alfred. He got kicked out, twice, and ended up working as a truant officer and driving a cab. A fellow driver showed up one day wearing checks and whites, and Norstein decided he wanted to cook. The New School had just begun a culinary program, so after conferring with

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his wife, he ponied up the $5,000 for tuition. “That was a lot of money. I was determined to get every ounce out of it. I would buy 50 pounds of carrots, then stand in my kitchen and practice brunoise, baton, macedoine—all the cuts. When I graduated [in 1989] top of the class, my knife skills were as good as a seasoned cook’s.”

That dedication and distinction earned him an apprenticeship in a place way down in TriBeCa (which wasn’t even called that back then) called Bouley that had opened two years earlier. David Bouley already had two stars, and was on the cutting edge of sourcing and preparing food in ways that are now common but were unheard of at the time. Norstein began as the commis, doing scut work: “schlepping 60-pound halibuts off the truck, running around, taking orders from everyone. The Dominicans who worked there taught me my new name: ‘Fucking Guy.’” Over time, though feeling perpetually out of his depth, Norstein worked his way up in the kitchen, getting hired as a baker under Bill Yosses, who is now the pastry chef for the Obamas, and then getting promoted to garde-manger. “Everything was prepared à la minute; it was unbelievable, but I had nothing to compare it to. All the boundaries blurred, so you were never safe. It kept changing, and everything had to be soignée [‘as good as it can be’] all the time.” Then Bouley got four stars from the New York Times, “and all hell broke loose. We had TV crews from Japan in the kitchen, and leggy models being photographed feeding David pasta. We had separate tasting menus for VIPs. I was working 85 to 110 hours a week.” After two years, Norstein couldn’t take it any more, so he looked for another job.

“There was a track that I was on, but I had no idea what the rules or protocols were.

I was stupid. I had no idea what my value was,” he continues; having Bouley on his CV meant he could have worked in any kitchen in the country, but he applied for a job at a fish joint in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, as well as high-end places. He ended up at Chanterelle, a more traditional yet highly refined French venue down the street from Bouley with a much calmer atmosphere. Norstein worked there for two more years, during which time he and his wife and child moved up to Hopewell Junction. The commute became too much, so he found work reopening La Crémaillère, the storied Westchester

From opposite page, left to right: Warren Norstein in front of Big W’s; smoking meat in the smokehouse; and chatting with customers inside the restaurant.

landmark, where he worked for seven years, beginning as a sous chef but moving up to kitchen manager after a rocky start. He and his wife had three more children.

Then a call came to return to the city for another reopening job, moving David Liederman’s Chez Louis into a new space across from Radio City, which he did, and stuck it out for a while, but then decided he was done and left the business. “A year later, I went back to cook at a benefit dinner in the city and all these other chefs came up and hugged me and whispered, ‘I’ve got something for you,’ as if I needed help. It’s such a small world, and everyone is swimming so hard in the same direction that if you go a different way they assume there is a problem. They didn’t understand: I was with my kids, who didn’t hate me for working all the time.”

After a year at home, living off his wife’s income as a nurse, their youngest entered kindergarten. Norstein wanted to cook some more, and a friend from Kentucky suggested barbecue, which began a year of research into smokers, recipes, and techniques.

“I’d never eaten the stuff before [he still doesn’t, except his own] so I experimented for a year to see what worked for me.” He bought a food truck on Ebay, painted a pig on it, got a smoker to tow behind it, and rented a roadside spot in Pawling. “I had no idea if this was really barbecue, but people were coming.” His kids would help out after school.

Four years into the new career, he sold the truck and bought a former deli on Route 22. Outside, next to the parking lot, is a small red prefab-metal barn with two smokestacks protruding from the top. Inside, two huge, black, steel reverse-vent smokers produce heat, smoke, and meat in copious quantities. Norstein had them made in Georgia, and he likes them for their imperfections: “It’s a challenge to regulate the heat and smoke so the meat cooks just right. My customers know that sometimes it’s a little chewy, but that inconsistency is part of the charm.” He uses a mix of hardwoods—cherry, oak, and hickory—that also fluctuates, adding another variable.

Norstein and his cooks work in shifts, keeping the smoker fed and the meat cooking at 230 degrees around the clock, all year long: “We’re good at it now, but it took us a while to figure it out.”

He misses the days of working with local farms to source meat for restaurants, but his volume is too high and the environment inside the smoker is too extreme for those leaner animals. “I go through 1,100 pounds of ribs in a month. That’s all the pigs in the area right there. Same with the beef; the briskets need to be consistent or it throws off

the cooking times. And briskets are tricky enough.” Briskets average 17 hours in the smoker, and his famously tender “slow chickens” spend five or six.

The meat is all dry-rubbed with spices, then smoked; sauce is always served on the side. Norstein grudgingly developed the sauce six months into his roadside days, under pressure from customers. “Sauce is a security blanket, but people are set in their ways.

I wanted something that would cut the fat and smoke, but not be the last taste in your mouth.” It’s made from mountains of caramelized onions, with several vinegars and wines as well as tomatoes, fruit, and spices. The hot version—now even more popular than the original, to Norstein’s chagrin—has habañero, jalapeño, and Scotch bonnet peppers blended in as well. It’s unique, and addictive; the onion base and fruity heat mesh nicely with the meat.

As in his kitchen growing up, nothing is wasted. All of the scraps from chopping each order get scraped into pans and used later to make chili, baked beans, or braised cabbage. All of the sides are made from scratch, and everything is served in aluminum takeout trays whether you stay or go. Meticulously pouring the liquid from a sheet pan of chickens into a container, Norstein reflects on his current situation: “We’re doing well for a business that’s doing badly.” He has plans to sell bottled sauce, but whether to replace his old equipment or contract with an offsite kitchen remains unresolved.

Bouley has visited a few times, offering ideas for upgrading the facilities so Norstein can stretch out a bit technically.

Meantime, he focuses on serving his customers the best food he can—a downhome version of soignée: “The same attentiveness and focus are there; the final product makes you feel good.You can sell down to people, but eventually they’re going to get smarter.You have to sell it to where they’re going to be, their next level of awareness.”

The key to his current peace of mind, he insists, has been to follow his passions for food and family without letting other people’s expectations govern his choices or his definition of success: “There are a lot of narratives filled with ‘shoulds’ and they’re all bullshit,” says Norstein. “Now sit, and eat!”

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Crafted Kup 44 Raymond Avenue #1, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-7070, www.craftedkup.com

El Solar Cafe 346 Broadway, Newburgh NY (845) 561-3498

Jack’s Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244

Restaurants American Glory BBQ 342 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1234, www.americanglory.com

Babycakes Café 1-3 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-8411, www.babycakescafe.com

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91 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-5582, www.tuscangrill.com

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1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY (845)-452-9600, www.ciachef.edu American Bounty Restaurant, imaginative cuisine celebrating the diversity of foods of the Americas; Apple Pie Bakery Cafe, sumptuous baked goods and cafe cuisine; Escoffier Restaurant, culinary traditions of France with a contemporary touch; Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici, seasonal ingredients and authentic dishes of Italy; and St. Andrew’s Cafe, menus highlighting locally and sustainably sourced ingredients.

Dim Sum Vault 447 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 202-7068

Frank’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria 1605 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-8493 FranksItalianRestaurantAndPizzeria.com

Gilded Otter 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!

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Osaka 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 17 years. For more information and menus, go to osakarestaurant.net.

Tivoli, NY (845) 757-4100, www.santafetivoli.com

Seoul Kitchen 469 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8596, www.seoulkitchenbeacon.com

Stella’s Italian Restaurant 44 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2210

Sushi Village 26 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-5245 www.sushivillagepoughkeepsie.com

Tavern 955 Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3254

Terrapin Catering & Events 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 889-8831, www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Local. Organic. Authentic. At a Terrapin event, you can expect the same high quality, award-winning cuisine and service that you know and love at Terrapin Restaurant. Terrapin’s professional event staff specializes in creating unique events to highlight your individuality, and will assist in every aspect of planning your Hudson Valley event.

Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330, www.terrapinrestaurant.com custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle. Out of elements both historic and eclectic comes something surprising, fresh, and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Local. Organic. Authentic.

The Hop at Beacon 458 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.thehopbeacon.com

Tuthill House 20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151, www.tuthillhouse.com

Wildfire Grill 74 Clinton Street, Montgomery, NY (845) 457-3770, www.wildfireny.com

1746 Route 9W, Esopus, NY (845) 384-6590 www.globalpalaterestaurant.com

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The Would Restaurant

36 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3636

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316 Old Stage Rd., Saugerties, N.Y. 845-336-8447 x222

194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2633, www.labellapizzabistro.com

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business directory Accommodations Aspects Gallery Inn Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com The new Aspects Inn resides in the heart of the historic artists’ colony of Woodstock, NY, nestled in the famed Catskill Mountains ski and summer resort region. Aspects provides a unique and exclusive sensual retreat with two private luxury two-bedroom apartments joined to a 2,000 square-foot cathedral ceiling, cedar-and-glass enclosed, climate-controlled spa with 40’ saline pool, Jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna.

Diamond Mills 25 South Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-0700 www.DiamondMillsHotel.com info@DiamondMillsHotel.com

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Animal Sanctuaries

Eckert Fine Art — CT Inc.

R L Carson Designs

34 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 592-1330 www.eckertfineart.com

(845) 800-5882 rlcarsondesigns.com

Exposures Gallery 1357 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-9382 www.exposures.com Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11 to 5 Internationally recognized and the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since 1979 when he opened Exposures Gallery. To date he has sold over 50,000 prints to corporations and celebrities such as Steven Spielberg and Quincy Jones. Along with images from the Hudson Valley, his new special exhibit “Mekong Journal” can be viewed this season. Visit online at exposures.com for Photo Workshops in Sugar Loaf and Italy.

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Hurley Motorsports Gallery

316 Old Stage Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 336-8447 www.CASanctuary.org

2779 Route 209, Kingston, NY (845) 338-1701 www.hmsgallery.com

Hyde Park Antiques Center 4192 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY (845) 229-8200 www.hydeparkantiques.net

Outdated 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0030 outdatedcafe@gmail.com

Architecture Balzer and Tuck Architecture

Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com

Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery 53 Pendell Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 431-8610

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org

468 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY (518) 580-8818 www.balzertuck.com

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

North River Architecture

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3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com

1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684

Art Galleries & Centers Ai Earthling Gallery

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Stephen Pentak www.stephenpentak.com

Storm King Art Center

69 Tinker Street , Woodstock, NY (845) 679 -2650

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Aldrich Museum

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258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT (203) 438-4519 aldrichart.org

307 Wynkoop Lane, Rhinebeck, NY (914) 456-9983 www.deanvallas.net, www.artstudioviews.com

Art Students League-Vytlacil

Tom Holmes Artist

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bau, 161 Main Street, Beacon, NY (516) 965-6633 www.TomHolmes.com

Mark Safan’s atmospheric paintings on view through Nov. 10 in the Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery. OPEN STUDIOS: Thursday, Oct. 25, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. Visit artists’ studios on the beautiful Vytlacil campus and meet our resident artists who come from around the world.

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Traffic and Criminally Related Matters Karen A. Friedman, Esq. President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys, 30 East 33rd Street, 4th FL, New York, NY (212) 213-2145 fax (212) 779-3289 www.newyorktrafficlawyers.com Representing companies and motorists throughout New York State.

Art Supplies Kingston, NY (845) 331-7780

Artisans North Park Woodcraft

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WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

Building Services & Supplies Cabinet Designers 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com

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Trucking Summons and Misdemeanors,

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Ballantine Communications Key Foods Plaza, Rt. 44, Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-8606

Granite Factory 27 Renwick Street (845) 562-9204 www.granitefactory.com

H. Houst & Son

Markertek Video Supply

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(518) 325-3131, Hillsdale, NY (518) 828-9431 Hudson, NY www.herringtons.com

678 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2800 www.arlingtonautotire.com

Hitchcock & Company

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Hudson Valley Contracting Group Inc.

1122 Route 82, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 221-9898

2713 Route 17M, Goshen, (845) 294-8284 www.hudsonvalleykitchens.com

Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com, www.thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, 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 Inner Traditions/Bear & Company Rochester, VT (800) 246-8648 www.InnerTraditions.com

Monkfish Publishing 22 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com

Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock 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.

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L. Browe Asphalt Services (518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com

MarkJames & Co. 199 Rt. 299, Suite 103, Highland, NY (845) 834-3047 www.markjamesandco.com

N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

Riverview Powerwashing Service PO Box 547, Marlboro, NY (845) 797-6967

WaterFurnace (800) GEO-SAVE www.waterfurnace.com

Will III House Design 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0869 www.willbuilders.com office@willbuilders.com

Woodstock Roofing Company (845) 616-7546

Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org

Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery Street, Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org

Cleaning Services Mold Mitigations (845) 462-2638 moldmitigations@yahoo.com

Clothing & Accessories Magnolia’s 30 Charles Colman Boulevard, Pawling, NY (845) 855-5664 www.magnolias-boutique.com

Pleasant Valley Department Store 1585 Main Street, Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-2220 www.pleasantvalleydepartmentstore.com

W Couture Boutique 250 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2595 www.wcoutureboutique.com

Woodstock Design 9 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8776 www.shopwoodstockdesign.com

Consignment Shops What’s New Again 1177 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 462-2085 www.whatsnewagain.com

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

Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.

Custom Home Design & Materials Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com

Education Center for Metal Arts 44 Jayne Street, Florida, NY (845) 651-7550 www.centerformetalarts.com/blog

Little Explorers Nursery and Daycare Center 304 Route 32 North, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-2299

Events Film Columbia Chatham, NY (518) 392-3446 www.filmcolumbia.com info@filmcolumbia.com

Kaatsbaan International Dance Center www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org

Sheep and Wool Family Festival Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4000 sheepandwool.com

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Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon - Sat 7:30 to 7, Sundays 9 to 5 A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic Bakery and Creamery.

Farm-fresh foods include cheeses, yogurts, raw milk, breads, pastries, sauerkraut, and more. Two miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit. Farm tours can also be arranged by calling the Farm Learning Center: 518-672-7500 x 231.

Mother Earth’s Store House 1955 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614 300 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 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 out for yourself!

Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com

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Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores

Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com

Gardening & Garden Supplies Mac’s Agway 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY (845) 876-1559, 145 Route 32 North, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0050

Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

Hair Salons Joseph’s Hairstylists 257 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-5588

Love Hair Salon 460 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 340-4544 lovehairNY.com

Hardware Stores Herzog’s True Value Home Center Kingston Plaza, Kingston, NY (845) 338-6800 www.herzogs.com

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Advanced Comfort Systems

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Ashleigh’s Hearth & Home, Inc.

Webster Landscape

3647 Albany Post Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-0789 www.enjoywarmth.com

Sheffield, MA (413) 229-8124 www.websterlandscapes.com

Cord King (914) 475-5769

Wittus-Fire By Design (914) 764-5679 www.wittus.com

Home Furnishings & Decor Classic Country East Chatham, NY (518) 392-2211

Lounge High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com

Bee Works (914) 330-7609 www.beeworks.biz

Light House 86 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-1000 www.lighthousestyle.com

Home Improvement Certapro Painters (845) 987-7561 www.certapro.com

William Wallace Construction

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(845) 750-7335 www.williamwallaceconstruction.com

Household Management & Planning Details by Design (914) 589-0711 details-by-design.com

Peaceful Living by Design (914) 456-2810 www.PeacefulLivingByDesign.com

Lawyers & Mediators

Close Encounters With Music The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA (800) 843-0778 www.cewm.org

Pathways Mediation Center 239 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com

Schneider, Pfahl & Rahm, LLP

100 Brown Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 739-2333 www.paramountcenter.org

Woodstock, (845) 679-9868 New York City, (212) 629-7744 www.schneiderpfahl.com

Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com

Music JTD Productions, Inc (845) 679-8652 www.JTDfun.com

Millbrook R & B Grill 3264 Franklin Avenue, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3432 www.millbrookrandb.com

Thiefs The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 thiefs.bandcamp.com

Music Lessons 1 Milton Avenue, Highland, NY (845)691-2701 Jacobsmusiconline.com Dennis@jacobsmusiconline.com For all your music needs! Retail Store, Music School, Band Rentals, Repairs.

Musical Instruments

Internet Services

Imperial Guitar & Soundworks 99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com

Networking Organizations

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Broad Options Lawrence Farms Plaza 1083 Rte. 9, Fishkill, NY

Dreaming Goddess 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 895-2051 www.warrenkitchentools.com

Landscaping Coral Acres— Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634

West Point, NY www.ikehall.com

Falcon Music & Art Productions

2781 W. Main Street, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 632.3735 www.fwinteriordesign.com

(845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net

Eisenhower Hall Theatre — USMA

A unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or families in conflict with the innovative, combined services of 2 professionals. Josh Koplovitz has 30 years as a matrimonial & family law attorney and Myra Schwartz has 30 years as a guidance counselor. This male/female team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultation to find out about us.

Jacobs Music Center

DragonSearch

35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org

37 West Market, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3300 www.haggertylawoffices.com

Fauxever Walls

3304 Route 343, Suite 1, Amenia, NY (845) 373-8400

Bardavon Opera House

Law Offices of Michel Haggerty

Interior Design

Van Maassen Interiors

Performing Arts

Mainstay 356 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4440 www.mainstaypoughkeepsie.com

Organizations Rural Ulster Preservation Company (845) 331-2140 www.rupco.org

US Green Building Council, New York Upstate Chapter, Hudson Valley Branch www.greenupstateny.org hvbranchcoordinator@gmail.com

Wallkill Valley Writers New Paltz, NY (845) 750-2370 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com

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1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com

Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra www.ndsorchestra.org

Paramount Center for the Arts

The Linda— WAMCs Performing Arts Studio 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu

Pet Services & Supplies Brook Farm Veterinary Center Patterson, NY (845) 878-4833 www.brookfarmveterinarycenter.com

Earth Angels Veterinary Hospital 8 Nancy Court, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-7297 www.earthangelsvet.com

Pet Country 6830 Rt. 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-9000

Photography Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com

Ulster County Photography Club 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen, NY (845) 338-5580 www.esopuslibrary.org The Ulster County Photography club meets the 2n Wednesday each month at 6:30 pm. Meet at the Town of Esopus Library. All interested are welcome.

Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful

selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and CPF, has over 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

Pools & Spas Aqua Jet 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com

The Pool Guys 2294 Route 9, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 635-1418 www.poolguysonline.com

Printing Services Fast Signs 1830 South Rd Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455 455@fastsigns.com

Real Estate Catskill Farm Builders catskillfarms.blogspot.com

Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg.

275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com

Paula Redmond Real Estate Inc. (845) 677-0505 (845) 876-6676 paularedmond.com

Victoria Wilkinson (845) 688-7685 VictoriaWilkinsonRealEstate.com

Schools Banner Mead Educational Consultants (845) 240-8066 www.walkway2college.com banner-mead@walkway2college.com

Bard College at Simon’s Rock (800) 235-7186 www.simons-rock.edu/admit admit@simons-rock.edu

Berkshire Country Day School P.O. Box 867, Lenox, MA (413) 637-0755 www.berkshirecountryday.org

Bishop Dunn Memorial School (845) 569-3496 www.bdms.org

Canterbury School 101 Aspetuck Avenue, New Millford, CT (860) 210-3934 www.cbury.org

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org

Center for the Digital Arts / Westchester Community College Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill peekskill@sunywcc.edu

Green Meadow Waldorf School 307 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY (845) 356-2514 www.gmws.org

Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School 330 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7092 www.hawthornevalleyschool.org

700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org

Wild Earth Wilderness School New Paltz / High Falls area, NY (845) 256-9830 www.wildearth.org info@wildearth.org

211 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org admissions@indianmountain.org

Wild Earth, a not-for-profit located in the Shawangunk Ridge region of the Hudson Valley, joins inspired leaders in offering multi -generational programs and events that strengthen connections with ourselves, others and the Earth while building ecological, social and cultural resilience. Our programs, which draw on a broad spectrum of teachings from indigenous cultures to modern natural sciences, offer adventure and fun, primitive skiils and crafts, awareness games, and story and song to boys and girls ages 4 to 104.

Marvelwood Preparatory School

Woodstock Day School

476 Skiff Mountain Road, Kent, CT (860) 927-0047 www.marvelwood.org katherine.almquist@marvelwood.org

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Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org

Hotchkiss School 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts

Indian Mountain School

Millbrook School 131 Millbrook School Road, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-8261 www.millbrook.org

Sunrooms Hudson Valley Sunrooms Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com

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Mount Saint Mary College

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School 16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org

New York Military Academy 78 Academy Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-3710 www.nyma.org admissions@nyma.org

Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org

Randolph School Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org

Rudolf Steiner School

SkinFlower Tattoo Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-3166 www.skinflower.org

Tourism Great Northern Catskills (800) 355-CATS www.GreatNorthernCatskills.com

Ulster County Tourism 10 Westbrook Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 340-3566 www.ulstertourism.info

Utilities Heckeroth Plumbing and Electric Serving Ulster, Dutchess & Orange Counties, (845) 255-2102

Wine & Liquor

35 West Plain Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4015 www.gbrss.org

Merchant Wine and Liquor, the

South Kent School

Miron Wine and Spirits

40 Bulls Bridge Road, South Kent, CT (860) 927-3539 www.southkentschool.org

Storm King School

730 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1923

SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts

HudsonValleyPhotoshop.com

491 Cottekill Rd, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 339-2025 www.sunyulster.edu/CampUlster Campulster@sunyulster.edu

Friday, October 19th at 7:00 p.m.

Forest Ecologist Gary Lovett will talk about the insect pests and diseases that are changing the nature of our forests, as a result of moving plants and animals around the world. The event will take place in the Cary Institute auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

FULL MOON ECOLOGY WALK Saturday, October 27th at 6:30 p.m.

www.childrensmediaproject.org

The Shirt Factory, 77 Cornell Street, Kingston (845) 339-7834 www.HudsonValleyPhotoshop.com

Writing Services Peter Aaron www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org

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WHAT’S BUGGING OUR FORESTS?

Workshops Children’s Media Project

SUNY Ulster

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Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-9860 www.sks.org admissions@sks.org

New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

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330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-3225 www.msmc.edu

Forestry Images

High Meadow School

Trinity - Pawling School

Pamela Freeman

Located in central Columbia County, NY and situated on a 400-acre working farm, Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School supports the development of each child and provides students with the academic, social, and practical skills needed to live in today’s complex world.

Also offering parent-child playgroups and High School boarding. Local busing and regional carpools. Nurturing living connections, from early childhood through grade 12.

During a leisurely walk on our internal paved roads, guests will be treated to the sights and sounds of nature at dusk. Listen for owls and other forestdwelling animals while enjoying the crisp fall air, the scent of pines, and the full moon. Register online at http:// caryfullmoonwalk.eventbrite.com.

Learn more at www.caryinstitute.org 2801 Sharon Turnpike (Rte. 44)|Millbrook, NY 12545|845 677-5343

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whole living guide

HOME BIRTH

REVOLUTION

Giving women the opportunity to choose where they deliver is a labor of love for today’s home birth midwives and doulas.

by wendy kagan illustration by annie internicola

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he cats knew something was up. At first, when a Buddha-bellied Woodley Humphreys was in the thick of labor, her two felines, Sidney and Asrael, hid upstairs. “They were scared in the beginning,” recalls Humphreys. “But eventually they came down to watch.” Unlike most expectant women, Humphreys never left home when her quickening contractions signaled true labor and imminent birth. Instead her husband, Jason Lipka, gathered towels and began setting up a sterilized birthing tub on the kitchen floor of their Rhinebeck apartment. And unlike most women in her state, Humphreys never traded her pajamas for a hospital gown. Instead her birth team—midwife Connie Kieltyka, doula Mary Riley, and labor-and-delivery nurse Kim Bissell—showed up at her doorstep on that late April night. “As soon as they walked in, they focused on me,” says Humphreys. “Mary was keeping me centered with her coaching, and Connie was attentive enough to make me feel safe, but she wasn’t intrusive.” Labor was “the hardest work ever,” but with that kind of support, says Humphreys, “it never felt unbearable.” Finding comfort in the bath, Humphreys writhed her way toward a water birth. At 1:38 a.m., after four hours of hard labor and a half-hour blitz of pushing, 7-pound, 14-ounce Holden Lipka was born in the rigged-up tub in the kitchen, caught in midswim by his father—under the watchful eyes of two curious pussycats.

These days, women have more opportunities to birth their babies at home, literally surrounded by their creature comforts. Popular in the free-love ’70s, home birth retreated in the more conservative ’90s and early ’00s, but it’s back again. Though still uncommon—accounting for less than 1 percent of births nationwide—the home birth rate has been quietly spiking. Between 2004 and 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the number of home births in this country rose 29 percent, to 29,650. In the midst of this period, a 2007 Ricki Lake documentary, The Business of Being Born—a scathing critique of the standard hospital birth model pitted against cozy images of women birthing where they choose—gave the home-birth movement a palpable jolt in popularity. And after the supermodels Karolina Kurkova and Gisele Bündchen both delivered at home, a June 2012 article in the New York Times Style section coyly asked if home birth might be entering the realm of the chic: “Are midwives becoming trendy, like juice cleanses and Tom’s shoes?” Not all the press for home birth is so insouciantly upbeat, however: Many articles and blogs hone in on the fears and risks surrounding this maverick approach to bringing a child into the world.Yet a strong set of voices is threading through the debate, claiming home birth as a safe, valid option for expectant mothers and their partners.

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A Choice for Healthy Women Today’s home birth midwives might have to deal with controversy or skepticism from a less than welcoming, highly medicalized birth culture. But they counter distrust with one caveat: their unassailable expertise. The home birth midwives of the Hudson Valley are an overeducated bunch; schooled in both Western medicine and traditional practices, they have strikingly impressive backgrounds and resumes. Take Humphreys’ midwife, Connie Kieltyka.

Though she started her Olivebridge-based home birth practice only a year ago, she spent the last 23 years preparing—first as a doula, then as a labor-and-delivery nurse before working with an OB on high-risk pregnancies and training with a traditional midwife in Mexico. “I think I have a nice balance of hospital midwifery and traditional midwifery, and I can use both in my practice,” says Kieltyka, who like all midwives also provides gynecology care and consults with other medical experts as needed. “I’m medically aware and I keep safe, but at the same time I trust nature—for healthy women. I’d refer a high-risk woman to a hospital practice. It’s best to leave the complicated cases to the OBs. Most problems present themselves long before labor starts. A midwife is trained in normal birth.”

Humphreys fit the bill for a textbook low-risk pregnancy; when she arrived at Kieltyka’s office, she was already deep into her third trimester and feeling great. Home birth was something that she had begun to explore only after first trying the conventional route: a hospital-affiliated practice of OBs and midwives. “I had a good experience there,” she says, “but it was a rushed experience.” Her time-pressed visits with overworked caregivers often left her anxious—and pining for the naturopathic and alternative medical approaches that she gravitated toward. So with her pregnancy ripening at 35 weeks, she changed course. “When I met Connie, I instantly felt at ease,” she recalls. “The difference was night and day. Connie spent so much time with us—an hour and a half at one appointment. She thoroughly reviewed my medical history and suggested some homeopathic remedies to help prepare for birth. She was always available; I could call her anytime. Her biller set us up with insurance coverage. It was easy.”

Laboring at home—while not exactly the easy part—is an entirely different experience from laboring in a hospital or birth center. “At home, you can be comfortable,” says Kieltyka. “There’s not so much pressure to act a certain way.You don’t have strangers coming into the room, changes of shift; the same person that you’ve known throughout the prenatal period is there at the birth. The woman has a lot more freedom to walk around, eat and drink, wear

clothes or not. I think being at home helps her to open up more.You don’t have to be on a certain time schedule or else you’re going to be induced—or else this, or else that. I don’t think you experience pain in the same way, so your body is able to open up more easily.”

Less Fear, More Trust At first glance, earthy, grounded women like Humphreys and Kieltyka don’t seem like rabble-rousers. But choosing to birth at home is in some ways a subversive act: It’s going against the grain of our culture and conventions. “We’re off the grid, a little bit fringe, a little bit unaccepted by society,” says Jenna Houston, a home birth midwife with offices in Catskill and Hudson. In her 35-plus years in the field, says Houston, “I’ve seen everything from high-tech births and the overuse of technology, with its bad outcomes, to squatting on a dirt floor—which is in many ways safer and certainly more human. In certain countries it’s the inaccessibility of technology that’s the problem. But in this country it’s the depersonalization, not really knowing the woman and not spending the time doing preventative work, the educational part. The notion with home birth is that you respect your clients and are sharing information and decision-making—not just handing yourself over to the system, which so misuses its resources and technology. The medical model is so fear-based that it’s hard to see beyond that. It’s disempowering.”

Anyone familiar with today’s maternity world will have a taste of the fears that haunt expectant mothers at every turn: the battery of prenatal tests, the false positives, the branding of “advanced maternal age” for pregnant women over 35. Ironically, so much about modern maternity is paternalistic and intimidating—but it doesn’t have to be this way. “This is a women’s rights issue,” says Bearsville-based doula Mary Riley. “We need information, and not fear-based information, to make the right choices. When something goes wrong with a home birth you’re going to read about it in the paper. Not so with a hospital birth.There’s a feeling that when we’re in a hospital we’re safe, but standard hospital interventions can actually cause problems.” Neither Riley nor Houston are alone in thinking that the C-section rate in this country is way too high—over 32 percent. And both women, veterans of the birth world, are seeing more induction and more monitoring in hospital settings. “Today, we have birth centers and it seems all nice and homey, but it’s not—it’s a façade of natural,” says Houston.

“The system is so entrenched. Hospital practices are bigger, so mothers have to meet five or six practitioners—you don’t know who you’re going to get. It’s a whole different relationship when you’re working with a home birth midwife.”

An ExtraSpecial Delivery Listening to impassioned voices like these, home birth seems like a no-brainer of a choice. But not so fast: Even a fervent birth activist will say that it’s not the right option for everyone. Expectant parents choosing home birth must be willing to take responsibility and to assume an active role in their own health care. Home birth couples should be willing to ask questions—such as to inquire about a back-up plan in case a hospital transfer is necessary, and to ask a midwife about her transfer rate (for Houston, it’s three percent). Another logistic to work out is finances—though in most cases insurance companies will cover home birth. (Says Kieltyka, who has been known to accept the occasional barter payment from a client, “I will very rarely turn someone away because of money.”) Most important, mothers must feel comfortable with the idea of birthing naturally at home—because only if you feel safe in your surroundings and circle of support will your body open up and let birth happen.

“Before our experience I’d heard about home birthers, and I can’t say I felt like one,” says Humphreys’s husband, Jason Lipka, a financial planner. “Connie answered all of my ‘what if’ questions.” Now he and Humphreys couldn’t imagine doing it any other way. By the end, says Lipka, the birth team felt like part of the family; there was intimacy and trust. “After the birth Connie did all the required things and then some,” says Humphreys. “She and Mary got us situated and snuggled in; they made me peanut butter toast and cleaned our kitchen. Kim diapered and swaddled Holden and got me started with breastfeeding. They left around dawn, but Connie was back a few hours later to check in. I hadn’t left my bed; I was comfortable in my own room.There’s nothing better than that.” During the postnatal period, Humphreys stayed cuddled in with her baby longer than most mothers do. Instead of juggling with infant car seats and gear on the way to OB/GYN appointments, she enjoyed house calls from her caregiver.

For Riley, who has served as a doula at some 1,700 births, a home birth is all about women’s empowerment and autonomy—from freedom of choice to the flexibility and power of the birth experience itself. “At home, women are free to labor outside, walk in the woods, breathe some air,” she says. “There’s more freedom in their movement during labor and birth. I’ve seen babies delivered outside, under trees, in a barn, all sorts of places. Women are wild.”

RESOURCES Connie Kieltyka, CNM, LM Olivebridgemidwifery.com Jenna Houston, CNM, LM Midwifejennahouston.com Mary Riley, CCE, CD (845) 679-6565 10/12 ChronograM whole living 109

HILLARY HARVEY

Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

The Way of the Bodhisattva: Really?

Taking this [bodhisattva bow] of benevolence means giving up privacy and developing a sense of greater vision. Rather than focusing on our own little projects, we expand our vision immensely to embrace working with the rest of the world, the rest of the galaxies, the rest of the universes.

—Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche This morning I woke up at 5:25 a.m. I had already heard the tea beginning to drip into the coffee pot downstairs. It was dark, as it is these days, and cool, the comforter pulled up to my chin, T’s warm body just a reach away. Still aching for sleep, I heard A’s bare little feet tapping along on the wooden stairs, and the deep meow of our Siamese cat, who I could tell was being carried in her arms.

“Jimmy’s clawing me,” she said.

T rolled into wakefulness, then rose.

“Lie down here,” he said. “I’ll take Jimmy. Good morning, cutie.” Kiss.

A went back to sleep in T’s spot as I drifted in mine.

T returned with two teas.

It was still dark. 5:35 a.m.

“Morning, babe.” Kiss.

T and I did zazen together for a while as the sun rose, then got A up and ready for school, all dressed in an outfit picked out last night, hair dealt with, teeth brushed, then breakfasted, lunched, and snacked: Spirulina smoothie, bacon-y mashed potatoes in a thermos, avocado with salt and olive oil, popcorn, apple, almonds. T and A practiced piano while I made what may well be the last of the CSA heirloom tomato-and-basil sauces to put in the freezer for when we need it most. I did the dishes as they drove away.

The way of the compassionate, expansive bodhisattva? Please.

One of the things we hear in Zen is the encouragement to “give it all away.”

When we’re sitting there on our cushion, hour after hour, day after day, maybe in a retreat, or living at the monastery, or just in our lives, and we get slack or bored or particularly self-absorbed, it can be helpful to remember that we are sitting, indeed practicing (living!), for other people. While we need to take note of what arises as we sit, each and every deeply personal, sometimes complicated...thing, and we need to learn how to work with all of it, and the process can take years, or lifetimes, the ultimate hope is that through the practice of zazen, we can so harmonize inner and outer, as Master Dogen put it, that the self disappears and we can truly hold and take care of this sad, suffering world. Moment by moment, step by step.

And so when I am reminded to give it all away, what I hear is a nod to the world outside of my solipsism, and also a practice, a way of enlarging my view, my body even, to include everyone who needs a moment of stillness or intimate connection with their perfect, delightful, true nature. We are one body, after all.

Not that making myself bigger is easy, but steeped in deep quiet and stillness of the zendo or the monastery, or even my own predawn room, I can at least feel my way, and I know when I am touching in, and it feels right. Put me in my life, however, this palace of cushy pleasure/this dungeon of cruel samsara, and I get lost. I mean, come on. How the heck is this coziness, and my cooking and cleaning and schlepping

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and writing and working, helping anyone but my beloveds, or a few kind readers here or there, or a handful of online writing students who are happy to receive an understanding email from a virtual teacher? And more to the point, no matter how much I might like the idea of giving to others, of manifesting the bodhisattva’s vow of not being satisfied until all beings are free (never), I really want the goods for myself, and it can be hard to be truly generous. And the craziest part is that the more I practice, the more satisfied I am. Like, big-time. And so when I am lazy and cut off from the cries of the world, I don’t even feel guilty.Yikes!

So when I was recently reminded of some of the practices on offer from the classic text The Way of the Bodhisattva, by the eighth-century Indian master, Shantideva, I was intrigued.

I offer every fruit and flower And every kind of healing medicine; And all the precious things the world affords, With all pure waters of refreshment.

Pema Chödrön, commenting on this section of the text, says: “The special intention of making offerings of real value is to gain the precious attitude of bodhichitta [the awakened heart]. For example, when we’re feeling inadequate or closed-hearted, we could uplift ourselves with the simple but potent gesture of mentally offering the most pleasing things in our lives.”

Practices like this that involve mere visualization have always seemed like hogwash to me. When I am sitting, which I am 100 percent certain is a good thing to do, it is helpful to consider giving my practice away. But when I am in the world, when I feel as certain that I could (should?) be doing something else, like feeding truly hungry people instead of my healthy brood, it seems this type of practice, where I invoke an image of myself giving, and the world receiving, is actually just a self-soothing fantasy that I am doing something important, and certainly not real bodhisattva activity. As Chödrön says, just another way to uplift myself.

But wait.

I have been thinking: If I can’t even imagine myself offering up what is dear to me—my time, my energy, my life—how do I expect to ever be able to do it? In real life?

I once asked my teacher, Daido Roshi, what the difference is between invoking and pretending. He said, “Not much.” The Buddha taught that we create karma by what we do with our bodies, mouths, and thoughts. Now I am not going to sit here and say that as I clean out the fridge to make way for a new week’s worth of bounty, and pretend, elaborately, in my mind, that I am preparing to feed the universe of suffering beings, and imagine their living bodies beneath their clothes, the giant human smell mixed with the garlic heating up on the stove, billions of human feet traipsing through my tidy little house, that by doing that little invocation I am actually putting food in anyone’s mouth.

But I am definitely feeding something, and it’s galaxies away from nothing.

and breathe…

At Kripalu, we invite you to breathe—to intentionally pause the ongoing demands of life, bring your attention inward, and rediscover your authentic nature. Conscious engagement with the breath connects you with the intelligence and power of the life force within and around you. Whenever you are faced with a challenge—on the yoga mat, in a relationship, at work, or with your health—you can draw on a deep sense of ease, purpose, and mastery to create positive change.

We call it the yoga of life.

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World Peace Meditation Retreat — 12.21.2012 With Powerhouse Australian Spiritual Teacher, Suzy Meszoly & Special Guests Ashokan Center, Olivebridge, NY For more information www.crystalclearmasterteachers.com

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Mediation Design Your Own Future Nurture Your Children Preserve Your Assets

Rodney Wells, CFP 845-534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com

Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP

PSYCHOTHERAPIST • CONSULTANT

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25 Harrington St, New Paltz, NY 12561 (845) 255-7502 Acupuncture

The Mother-Daughter Connection a parenting support group

A support group for women raising teenage daughters

Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings • New Paltz, NY Facilitator: Amy Frisch, LCSW (845) 706-0229 for more information www.itsagirlthinginfo.com

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REINVENTING OURSELVES Fall Weekend | November 9-11, 2012 Is there passion and excitement in your life? Are you feeling burnt out? Have you always dreamed of doing something different?

Have you always wanted to explore other possibilities for yourself?

Join us in a systematic process to gain insight into your life’s purpose, design a course of action to manifest your goals and dreams and become fully engaged in transforming and celebrating your life.

Linwood Spiritual Center, Rhinebeck, NY FOR INFO AND REGISTRATION : Nancy 845–687–2252 112 whole living directory ChronograM 10/12

Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, L.Ac. 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 http://www.creeksideacupuncture.com

after acupuncture sessions during certain clinic hours, and 5 free acupuncture clinic sessions through Breast Cancer Options. Private sessions and herbal consults available outside of clinic hours.

Transpersonal Acupuncture

Private treatment rooms, attentive one-onone care, affordable rates, many insurances, sliding scale. Stephanie Ellis graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in pre-medical studies. She completed her acupuncture and Chinese medicine degree in 2001 as valedictorian of her class and started her acupuncture practice in Rosendale that same year. Ms. Ellis uses a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese-style acupuncture and trigger-point acupuncture. Creekside Acupuncture is located in a building constructed of non-toxic, eco-friendly materials.

(845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060

Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net

Meg Coons, L.Ac.

SpiritRoot Services

(512) 506-1720 megcoons.com

New Paltz Community Acupuncture — Amy Benac, L Ac 21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com $25-$40 sliding scale (you decide what you can afford within that range). 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. Also available: massage

Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 (845) 338-2965 joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy.

Astrology Planet Waves

Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 897-3280 www.SpiritRoot.com

Body & Skin Care Hudson Valley Skincare www.hudsonvalleyskincare.com

Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com

Dentistry & Orthodontics Dr. Robert Danz 5 McKinstry Place, Hudson, NY (518) 828-0115 www.drdanz.com

Holistic Orthodontics— Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert.

Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com

The Center For Advanced Dentistry— Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com

Fitness Centers Inner Strength Dance Studio 1600 Main Street, Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-5500 www.innerstrengthdance.com

Healing Centers Namaste Sacred Healing Center Willow, NY (845) 688-7205 (845) 853-2310 www.namasteshc.com

his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, and Raindrop Technique.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com 15 plus years of helping people find their balance. As a holistic nurse consultant, she weaves her own healing journey and education in psychology, nursing, hypnosis and integrative nutrition to help you take control of your life and to find True North. She also assists pregnant couples with hypnosis and birthing.

Nancy Plumer— Energy Healing and Mystery School Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net

Empowered By Nature (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes@optonline.net Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG), offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.

Holistic Health Donna Nisha Cohen— Guided Self-Inquiry Counseling Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4836 www.yogaonduckpond.com If you are looking for a way to transform the pain and suffering in your life into ease and freedom, consider learning the process of deeply listening to yourself by being deeply listened to. Learn to bring a warm, caring presence to your body, mind and emotions. Donna offers gentle, insightful guidance using a unique blend of healing modalities that connect body, mind and spirit. She combines 30 years of experience as a yoga and meditation teacher with studies in various therapeutic/spiritual modalities which include The Embodied Life Certification, Body Centered Therapy, The Sedona Method, and Focusing.

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

$25-$40 a session (You decide what you can afford) Now open Saturdays 10-1 with Yukiko Naoi, M.S., L.Ac. Private sessions and herbal consults available outside of clinic hours 5 free acupuncture sessions through Breast Cancer Options

Effective, affordable acupuncture in a beautiful community setting Please see Whole Living Directory listing for more info

21 S. CHESTNUT STREET, NEW PALTZ TEL: 845-255-2145 WWW.NEWPALTZACU.COM

Hospitals Health Alliance 396 Broadway, Kingston , NY (845) 334-4248 www.hahv.org

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Herbal Medicine & Nutrition

Amy Benac, M.S., L.Ac.

Energy Healing and Mystery School with One Light Healing Touch in Stone Ridge begins September 14, 2012. The School is based in Shamanic, Esoteric and Holistic teachings.

Learn to increase your intuition, psychic abilities; release old programming - hurt, grief, sadness, pain; become empowered, grounded, and heart-centered; access Source energy and increase spiritual awareness and more.

Call for information and registration.

Villa Veritas Foundation Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-3555 www.villaveritas.org info@villaveritas.org

New Paltz Community Acupuncture

Health Quest Medical Practice www.health-quest.org

Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com

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Sharon Hospital 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT (860) 364-4000 www.sharonhospital.com

Hypnosis Susan Spiegel Solovay Hudson Valley, and Great Barrington, (917) 881-0072 www.HypnoCoachNY.com healingwithhypno@fairpoint.net

Imago Relationship Therapy Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor 66 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com

Massage Therapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net 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.

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

Circles Of Caring Family Caregivers’ Conference Friday November 2, 2012 Holiday Inn, Kingston, NY Vendors are welcome and should register by contacting JFS of Ulster County, Inc. at (845) 338-2980

For more information check our website at www.jfsulster.org or call (845) 338-2980.

Namasté Sacred Healing Center Personal Growth, Spiritual Healing

Dianne WeiSSelberG, lMSW Owner/Director/Healer

Individual Sessions, Workshops, Group and Private Retreats

WillOW, nY 845-688-7205 845-853-2310

www.NamasteSHC.com

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Zweig Therapy Julie Zweig, MA

Pathways Mediation Center

River Radiology

239 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com

45 Pine Grove Avenue; 11 Mary’s Ave, Kingston, NY (845) 340-4500 www.riverradiology.com

A unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or families in conflict with the innovative, combined services of 2 professionals. Josh Koplovitz has 30 years as a matrimonial & family law attorney and Myra Schwartz has 30 years as a guidance counselor. This male/female team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultation to find out about us.

Imago Relationship Therapy New Paltz, New York • (845) 255-3566 • (845) 594-3366

www.ZweigTherapy.com • julieezweig@gmail.com

Meditation Suzy Meszoly, Natural Healing Ashokan Center, Olivebridge, NY www.crystalclearmasterteachers.com

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts— Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO

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3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy.

Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.

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1 Webster Avenue Suite 307, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5352 www.endovasculartherapy.com

Psychics

Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com

Giannetta Salon and Spa 1158 North Avenue, Beacon, NY (845) 831-2421 www.gianettasalonandspa.com

Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and the Garrison Institute: Buddhist Contemplative Care Symposium, November 8-11, and The Art and Science of Contemplative Teaching and Learning: Exploring Ways of Knowing, November 16-18.

Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 www.menla.org menla@menla.org

Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679 -5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org

Psychic Readings by Rose 40 Mill Hill, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6801

Psychically Speaking

Helping the alcoholic and addict find the gift of sobriety for over 4 decades and 4 generations.

MEN’S PROGRAM

WOMEN’S PROGRAM

(845) 626-3555

Kerhonkson, New York

FAMILY PROGRAM

www.villaveritas.org

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

e-mail: info@villaveritas.org

Licensed by NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse

CARF Accredited

(845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com

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Relax • Release • Let Go • Flow

H Y P N O s i s - c Oac H i N g Kary Broffman, R.N., C.H. 845-876-6753 • karybroffman.com 114 whole living directory ChronograM 10/12

Tarot-on-the-Hudson‚ Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com

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New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice. Janne specializes in childhood trauma, addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR and Brainspotting. Janne’s work is also informed by Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Coaching for all life transitions as well as Mindful Parenting, Mindful Eating and Circle of Women. Call for information or consultation. FB page: www.BrigidsWell.com/facebook.

Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7502 www.hvpi.net

Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.com

Clear Yoga: Iyengar Yoga in Rhinebeck Suite 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 845 876 6129 www.clearyogarhinebeck.com

Hudson River Yoga 2600 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 337-0020 www.HudsonRiverYoga.com

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org

Yoga Nude in Albany Albany County, NY (518) 577-8172 www.yoganudeinalbany.com yoganudeinalbany@yahoo.como

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Classes, Workshops, Private Sessions, Guided Self-Inquiry Healing Sessions

“ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.”

—Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations

See John’s website for schedules of upcoming classes and events.

johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420

70 Duck Pond Rd Stone Ridge NY 12484

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Acupuncture at Home Why drive?

Relax in the comfort and privacy of your home or office.

Group rates are available.

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Laura Linney and Bill Murray star in Hyde Park on Hudson, which will be screened at the Film Columbia Festival, October 17 through 21.

Celluloid Columbia Chatham, New York, may be a small town, but it has world-class credentials when it comes to film. October 17–21, the town will host the annual Film Columbia Festival, bringing national, international, and local films together for five days. Now in its thirteenth year, the festival is programmed by Executive Director Peter Biskind and Laurence Kardish, and only screens prereleased films. The films play at the Crandell Theatre and the Morris and Tracy memorial halls in downtown Chatham. “We purposefully keep the venues close together, so that the energy stays really close and vibrant,” says Festival Director Calliope Nicholas. The result is a unique festival that has both an international sophistication and a small-town charm.

This year the festival has a record number of filmmakers on hand to discuss their work.

The film programming includes a mix of dramatic, controversial, and entertainment films in full-length and short forms. This year there is also a script reading, part of the festival’s first-ever Screenwriting Lab. Festival crew and filmmakers will attend a party Friday night at the Peint O’Gwrw Pub at 36 Main Street. The festival’s beloved short animation series is back and scheduled for Saturday at 1pm. Curated by Gary Leib, the animator of American Splendor, these animated shorts are not for children. With over 30 films to choose from, there is something for everyone. Says Nicholas, “We have so many strong films. The hardest thing will be for people to choose which ones they want to see.”

Film Columbia begins Wednesday, October 17, at 3:30pm with Ticket to Paradise (Boleto al Paraiso), part of an exchange program with the Havana Film Festival. That evening Quartet, Dustin Hoffman’s first credited directorial effort, will be screened.

Quartet is an adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s play about a retirement home for classical musicians and stars Maggie Smith.

Director Alex Gibney (Client 9, Taxi to the Dark Side) returns to the festival with Mea

Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. The documentary, which screens Thursday night, examines the Catholic Church’s pederasty scandal through the case of Lawrence Murphy, a priest accused of abusing more than 200 boys while working at St. John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee between 1950 and 1974. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Gibney will be on hand for a panel discussion following the screening.

Bill Murray plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Hyde Park on Hudson. Directed by Roger Michel, the historical drama tells the story of King VI’s visit to Roosevelt’s country estate in 1939. Laura Linney plays Margaret Suckley, Roosevelt’s distant cousin and love interest. Olivia Williams plays Eleanor Roosevelt. The film screens Friday night at 8:45pm.

What might seem like a strange casting decision works, according to Nichols. She says Bill Murray “is FDR. He really got him perfectly.”

Two other films with local resonance are playing on Sunday. Writer-directors Melanie Shatzky and Brian M. Cassidy are represented by Francine, their feature-length debut.

Shot in the Hudson Valley, Francine stars Melissa Leo as a recently released convict trying to rebuild her life. Rochester-area resident Shira Evergreen tells the story of a Tompkins County energy initiative in her documentary feature, Empowered. Living in one of the cloudiest and least windy counties in the United States, the people of this Finger Lakes community implement sustainable energy technologies.

All this and more. Check the festival website for complete details. Tickets went on sale September 30 and can be purchased online and at the Crandell Theatre. Individual ticket prices range from $10 to $15. Be advised that some screenings are expected to sell out.

The Saturday morning children’s program is free. FilmColumbia.com.

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MONDAY 1

Residency Series with Studio Stu 8pm-10pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

The Wiyos 8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Figure Drawing: Long Pose with Model 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Marble Sculpture: Contemporary Art in Stone 1pm-3pm. Demonstration and master class. SUNY Orange, Newburgh. 341-9386.

Workshops

A Physical Chemist Looks at the Global Carbon Cycle 12pm. Chemistry Building, Poughkeepsie. www.vassar.edu.

College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be 5pm. Lecture by author, Andrew Delbanco. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Body / Mind / Spirit

Art

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Qi Gong 11:30am-12:30am. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4:45pm-5:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan: Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Occupy Yourself: The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm-9:30pm. With Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes

Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 3 Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tai Chi 11am-12pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-8pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes

Lobster Palooza Call for times. With music by MaMbo KiKongo. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Clay Play 3:45pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Zumba 6pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Beginners Belly Dance 7:45pm-9:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Music

Events

Zumba 6:30pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Belly Dance 7:45pm-9pm. Intermediate. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Events

Celtic Session 7:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Filligar 8pm. With special guests Tall Weeds. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Spoken Word Reading by Yannick Murphy 2:30pm. Weis Cinema, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7054.

Meeting of Dutchess Peace 5:30pm-7pm. Dutchess Peace meets to plan activities on the first Monday of each month. All those interested in peace, social justice, and the revolution of the 99% are invited. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 876-7906.

TUESDAY 2 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mindfulness Meditation Practice 6pm-7:30pm. 4-week course. $60. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Light Activation Under the Guidance of the Master Teachers 7:30pm-9pm. with Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Zumba Fitness 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

40 Years in Radio, What I've Learned & Where it's Going 1pm-3pm. Master class with Mike Bennett. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4790.

Jewelry Skills 101 3:45pm-5pm. 6 weeks, jewelry-making and design with a focus on finishing techniques, ages 8+. $120. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Events Kingston Farmers' Market Midtown Market 3pm. Kings Inn Site, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Music Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7:30pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Cello, Voice & Piano Recital 8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

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Farmers' Market 11:30am-5:30pm. Cornwall Community Co-Op. Town Hall, Cornwall. cornwallcoop.com.

Spoken Word Nanoscience and the Future of the Carbon Cycle 4:15pm. Chemistry Building, Poughkeepsie. www.vassar.edu.

Musica Electronica Viva 6:30pm. Talk on their own work as MEV moderated

by Marina Rosenfeld. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. teitelba@bard.edu.

Margaret Cho 7:30pm. Acerbic comedy. $28. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

THURSDAY 4 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Zumba Fitness 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Classes Creative Youth Studio 3:30pm-5pm. Mixed-media open studio session for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Events The Arlington Farmers' Market 3pm-7pm. Vassar College Alumnae House Lawn, Poughkeepsie. legacyrpb@aol.com.

Film Untouchables Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Priceless 7pm. Examines the growing cost of federal elections.

Followed by an audience discussion. Crafted Kup, Poughkeepsie. 876-7906.

Kids Hands On: A Pre-K Art Class 1:30pm-2:30pm. A variety of artistic experiences and processes for little hands and minds. Ages 3-5. $20.

Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Music Uptown Fine Arts Music Series 12:15pm-12:45pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston.

338-6759.

Wolff & Clark Exhibition 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Akie B & The Falcons 7pm. Soul, jazz. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

236-7970.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Spoken Word

Workshops Resolve Resolution: Digital File Preparation 6:30pm-8:30pm. $40. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

The Practice of Parenting 7pm-8:30pm. A parenting group at Maverick Family Counseling in Woodstock. $18 singles/$30 couples.

Maverick Family Counseling, Woodstock. 750-0049.

Theater The Exit Factor 7:30pm. A showcase of new work by local performing artists. $12. The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233

FRIDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Celebrating the Mythic Life Call for times. Conference celebrating Joseph Campbell and cultivating Myth, Creativity & Following your Bliss. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz.

658-8540.

Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Consultations/ Reiki & Reflexology 11:30am-5pm. By appt. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Kid-friendly postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $1o. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Qi Gong Class 10pm-11pm. $10. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757.

Classes Painting for Life 1pm-4pm. $140/4 weeks. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Dance American Ballet Theatre 8pm. Features The Leaves Are Falling by Antony Tudor, The Moor's Pavane by Jose Liman, and In the Upper Room by Twyla Tharp. $20-$50. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Nora Chipaumire: Miriam 8pm. A deeply personal dance-theater performance that looks closely at the tensions women face between public expectations and private desires. $18/$13.

EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

International Folk Dancing with Isabel Miller 8:30pm. $12/$10 seniors and teens/$5 children.

MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Flashback Fridays Dance Party 9pm. Dance to music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. $5.

Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Events Gelek Rimpoche: Melodies of an Echo-Searching for Truth Call for times. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.

Saugerties First Friday Music, libation, shopping and art. Downtown Saugerties. diane@ihgallery.com.

Starry Starry Night 5:30pm-9pm. Look at constellations and planets with mid-Hudson astronomers and dance through the evening to the Michael Dell Orchestra. Walkway Over the Hudson West Entrance, Highland. 454-9649.

Third Annual O+ Festival 6pm. Providing an opportunity for uninsured musicians, artists and filmmakers to exchange their craft in exchange for healthcare services with live entertainment. $25. Kingston. opositivefestival.org.

Field To Fork Gourmet Supper Club 6:30pm. Gourmet food from field to fork with live music.

W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.

Film Untouchables Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Little Painters 10am-11am. A parent-child art class, ages 18m to 3y. $20/$110 series. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Music Derek Knott 7pm. Acoustic folk rock. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Heart 8pm. Rock. With special guest Alejandro Escovedo. $56.50/$46.50. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

Leo Kottke 8:30pm. Acoustic guitar. Towne Crier Café, Pawling.

855-1300.

Rock and Roll Karaoke 9pm-2am. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

The Johnny Monster Band CD Release Show 9pm. With special guest Black Horse Riders. $5. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Cobert Operations 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Theater Doubt, A Parable 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

A Tale of Two Cities 8pm. Presented by Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org.

The Last Five Years 8pm. Contemporary one act musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

Workshops Lois Woolley: Portrait Drawing 9am-4pm. Weekly through Oct. 26. $370. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

SATURDAY 6 Art Arts Walk Reception: Meet the Artists Call for times. Hudson & Laight Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-1700.

Artswalk Riverfront Marketplace 10am-4pm. Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 671-6213.

COTA: Celebration of the Arts 11am-5pm. Art, dance, video, music, performance, author readings, and children's activities. Hasbrouck Park, New Paltz. (646) 331-5825.

Sketch the Model 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Inspired by the Northlight 4pm-6pm. Works by WAAM members; Solo show of paintings by Paul Chapman; Active Member Wall: Elisa Pritzker; Small Works show; Youth Exhibition Space: Flick Book Studios. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Fall Artists on Location 4:30pm. Live art auction. Preview at 3pm. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Paintings by Jamie Young 5pm-7pm. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 458-1700.

Rosalind Tobias: Alphabet 5pm-7pm. Solo exhibition of abstract paintings based on letterforms. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill.

(518) 943-3400.

Typo 5pm-7pm. Group exhibition in all media by artists using words, letters, numbers and symbols. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

Local Color 5pm-7pm. Debbe Cushman Femiak and Christina Pahucki. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. The Postcard Show 5pm-8pm. Columbia County Council of the Arts, Hudson. (518) 671-6213.

Holy Beings 5:30-7pm. Photographs by Valerie Shaff. Hammertown, Rhinebeck. 876-1450.

Glens & Gardens 6pm-8pm. Watercolors by Cross River Fine Artists.

Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

The Art of Geometry: A Fiber Show 5pm-8pm. A solo show by King Mark. The Art Riot, Kingston. www.theartriot.org.

Natural Instincts 5:30pm-8pm. Exhibit and sale by Patrick Milbourn to benefit the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. M Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-2189.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. 415. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. 415. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Introduction to Opening Your Spiritual Channels 2pm-5pm. Learn practical techniques to open your spiritual channels and receive powerful divine blessings from Divine Channel, Master Elaine Ward. $20. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

Classes Zumba 10am. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenzumbamama@aol.com.

Tango: Fundamentals/Intermediate/Practica 4:30pm-7:30pm. 1-hour classes/$15 each. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

art collaborative concepts' "Farm project"

Give Us Bread, Richard Brachman, fiberglass, resin, steel. Brachman's sculptures are part of the Collaborative Concepts' "Farm Project" exhibit at Saunders Farm in Garrison.

Until the Cows Come Home On the Saunders Farm, a black Angus steer nuzzles a bright yellow triangle. Welcome to the seventh year of Collaborative Concepts’ “Farm Project.” As far as I can tell, this is the only sculpture exhibition on a functioning farm in the world. The show runs through October 28, in Garrison.

Over 60 artists are represented, many from the Hudson Valley, others from New York City, with a smattering of international sculptors. “We’ve had artists from every continent except Africa—and I’m working on that!” vows Eric Arctander of Collaborative Concepts. Much of the art is for sale, and last year $25,000 worth of it was sold. As an artist-run nonprofit, the Farm Project never charges a fee for artists or visitors.

The submission process is rather elaborate. Collaborative Concepts posts an open call for sculpture, then fields submissions. The selections committee accepts almost every proposal, unless they find it inappropriate. One artist wished to paint the word COW on each steer, for example. (“We don’t do that; the cows are too dignified,” explains Arctander.) Another wanted to place obstacles in front of the cattle—that proposal was also nixed. Two years ago, however, the artist Hideki Takahashi proposed painting a picture of a cow and placing it on a cowpath, for the creatures to walk and defecate on. That artwork was accepted, and was successful—the cows cooperated.

Which brings up another point. Should one be careful while walking through the pastures? “You should wear sensible footwear and look down as often as you look up,” Arctander counsels.

A second engineering committee verifies that the art will be cow-proof. This year, a piece by Abby Lloyd called Big Girl was eaten by hungry bovines. It consisted of a large

bra and panties hanging from a clothesline. “Cows eat cloth,” Arctander notes.

All the art is temporary—in fact, at the closing, some of it’s burned in a bonfire— except for one piece. Last year John Allen chiseled the words THIS IS ONLY TEMPORARY into a stone wall. This sign remains, ironically, from year to year.

Collaborative Concepts began with an article in the New York Times. In the year 2000, a group of artists rented a 14,000-square-foot space in Cold Spring for an art show. After the Times wrote about the exhibit, it was extended for an extra month.

Eventually, the group rented space in Beacon for six years, but was forced out by rising rents. At this point, Sandy Saunders stepped in and volunteered his 140-acre farm.

A black Angus steer does not exist in the wild. It is as much a human creation as a Picasso. So the Saunders Farm makes perfect sense as an art installation. Most of the art is nonfigurative, though there are several skeletons this year. Bob Van Winkle has an untitled work of two giant bone-men with two-dimensional skull heads, one shooting an arrow at the other. Chrysalis is a multimedia skeleton hanging upside down from a tree, by Susan Zoon and Auggie Della Vecchia. Zoon is also the author of the horror novels Post Crypt and Vampire Lover. Why three skeletons in one year?

Perhaps they refer to the Mayan prophecies of doom for 2012?

Collaborative Concepts also presents cultural gatherings. A midrun reception on Saturday, October 13, at 2 PM (rain date October 14) will include performance art and a music program curated by Thom Joyce.

Collaborative Concepts Farm Project 2012 runs until October 28 at the Saunders Farm in Garrison, at 853 Old Albany Post Road. (845) 528-1797; Collaborativeconcepts.org.

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Dance American Ballet Theatre 8pm. Features The Leaves Are Falling by Antony Tudor, The Moor's Pavane by Jose Liman, and In the Upper Room by Twyla Tharp. $20-$50. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Events 78th Annual Harvest Festival Call for times. Action, crafters, farmers' market, entertainment, tag sale and more. $5/under 12 free. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Third Annual O+ Festival 9am-10pm. Providing an opportunity for uninsured musicians, artists and filmmakers to exchange their craft in exchange for healthcare services with live entertainment. $25. Kingston. opositivefestival.org.

Pawling Farmers' Market 9am-12pm. Pawling Green, Pawling. www.pawlingfarmersmarket.com.

Fire Prevention Open House 9am-12pm. Rhinecliff Firehouse, Rhinecliff. rhineclifffirerescue.org.

Meet the Animals Tour 10am-2pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

Wine Festival 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Rooms with a View 11am-7pm. Historic Hudson's 7th annual house tour and benefit reception. $40 tours/$75 reception/$100 both. www.historichudson.org.

ArtsWalk Literary 12pm-5pm. City Hall, Hudson. http://cccaartswalk. webs.com/artswalk-literary-2012.

Tour of Kingston's Industrial Heartland 2pm-5:30pm. Tour of Kingston's industrial heartland presented by Friends of Historic Kingston. $25. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Benefit for The American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund 5pm-10pm. Hosted by Paul Davis Restoration. Open bar, music, dinner, dancing. $65. Winding Hills Golf Course, Montgomery. 457-3187.

Historic Graveyard Tours by Lantern 7:30pm. $15/$10 ages 10-17/children free. St. James Church, Hyde Park. www.stjameshistoricgraveyardtours.com.

House of Hardcore 7:30pm. Wrestling. $75/$50/$35/$25. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

T.M.I.dol Story Slam at O+ Festival 8:30pm-10pm. Topic: Strange Medicine: From Bad to Worse. BSP, Kingston. 338-8700.

Betsi Krisniski 9pm. Acoustic. Crossroads Brewing, Athens.

(518) 945-2337.

Birds of Paradox 9pm. A birthday tribute to John Lennon. $15/$25 VIP. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Yasgur 9pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

The Outdoors Hudson River Cleanup 10:30am-1:30pm. Riverkeeper is hosting a cleanup of the Hudson River shoreline at Ulster County's Sojourner Truth Ulster Landing Park and the adjacent Turkey Point State Forest. Saugerties. (914) 478-4501 ext. 226.

Opening of New Trails at Burroughs’ Slabsides 12pm. John Burroughs' Nature Sanctuary, Esopus.

214-2384.

Spoken Word Reading and Book Signing with Da Chen 2pm. Author of My Last Empress. Barnes and Noble, Poughkeepsie. 485-2224.

Reading and Book Signing with Djelloul Marbrook 2pm. Author of Guest Boy. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties.

246-5775.

The Historical Use of Water Power & Current "Green" Technology 2pm. The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, Beacon. 838-1600.

Untouchables Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Manhattan Short Film Festival 5pm. 10 internationally acclaimed short films and participate in the global voting for the winners. Downing Film Center, Newburgh. 561-3686.

The Hero’s Journey 9:30pm. Joseph Campbell on his life and work. $10.

Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Reading and Book Signing with Douglas Nicholas 7pm. Author of Something Red. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Kids

Theater

Little Painters 10am-11am. A parent-child art class, ages 18m to 3y. $20/$110 series. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Doubt, A Parable 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

A Tale of Two Cities 8pm. Presented by Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org.

Spanking New Shorts 8pm. An evening of brand-new short plays by Actors & Writers. Gallery at the SPAF, Saugerties. 246-7723.

The Last Five Years 8pm. Contemporary one act musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

Song Stage 1pm-3pm. Budding songwriters of all ages will have the chance to explore and improve their songwriting and performing skills. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Eric Andersen with Brian Hollander 3pm. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Four Nations Ensemble Hudson River Harvest Concert 3:30pm. Concertos of Vivaldi, Porpora and Galuppi Sonatas of Marini and Vivaldi. Hudson, Hudson. www.fournations.org.

Madera Vox 5:30pm. Classical. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.org.

Gospel Concert 6pm. Featuring Minister Steve and saxophonist Tony Smith and local Gospel choirs from Tristate area. $25.

Union AME Church, Warwick. www.unionamechurch.org.

Bryan Gordon 7pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

Italian Dinner Dance 7pm. Featuring music by The Chain Gang.

Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge, Poughkeepsie. 454-6660.

Jonah Smith Band 7pm. Opening: Dylan Emmet. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

All-Mozart Concert with Choir and Orchestra 7:30pm. $15. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. www.christchurchpok.org.

Joint Chiefs 7:30pm. Acoustic. Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton.

(518) 789-3340.

The Bean Runner Jazz Project 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Jimmy Webb 8:30pm. With special guest Bill Bachmann. $40/$35.

Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

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Dance American Ballet Theatre 2pm. Features The Leaves Are Falling by Antony Tudor, The Moor's Pavane by Jose Liman, and In the Upper Room by Twyla Tharp. $20-$50. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Events Folk Weekend with The Roxbury Arts Group Call for times. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

78th Annual Harvest Festival Call for times. Action, crafters, farmers' market, entertainment, tag sale and more. $5/under 12 free. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Buy your dream guitar at the show that brings together world-renowned stringed-instrument makers displaying their handmade acoustic guitars. Thirty-two luthiers will exhibit in Bearsville Theater on October 26 to 28, with more vendors next door in Utopia Soundstage. There will be more than 50 exhibitors in all, including wood dealers, parts and tools suppliers, inlay artists, lutherie services, string and accessories manufacturers, magazines and publications, and lutherie schools. Special features include an exhibit of notable historic, vintage, and contemporary acoustic guitars and stringed instruments, a minimuseum of stringed exotica, a presentation by Martin Guitars on the evolution of the acoustic guitar, and Northwind’s fifth annual Tonewood Festival. Live music, luthier miniconcerts, and special appearances will take place throughout the weekend at the Bearsville Theater, the Woodstock Playhouse, and the Colony Café. Clinic and workshop categories include finger style, slide guitar, tone, tuning, melody, classical, and jazz.

Woodstockinvitational.com

Film

Music

African Drum 12pm-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Medical Intuitive Connection 2pm-3:30pm. With Darlene Van de Grift. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Flow & Ease Yoga Workshop 3pm-5pm. $30/$25. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-9642.

Satsang: Community Event 6pm-7:30pm. Meditation and chanting. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Film 5th International Occasional Spotty Dog Short Film Festival 7pm. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Spirit—The Seventh Fire 7:15pm. $7. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Jazz Brunch and Oktoberfest Call for times. The Saints of Swing, Mr. OH, The Kurt Henry Band, Trio Mio, Kimberly, The Broad Band, and Breakaway. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

JB's Soul Jazz Brunch with Myles Mancuso 11am. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Featuring local musicians and special guests. $15/$8 students. SPAF, Saugerties. saugertiesperformingartsfactory.com.

Fleurine 7pm. Turning pop into jazz. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

An Acoustic Evening with Medeski Martin & Wood 7:30pm. $40. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Over the Rhine 7:30pm. $30/$35. Towne Crier Café, Pawling.

855-1300.

Robert Glasper Experiment 7:30pm. Pianist and composer. $24/$20. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Straight No Chaser 7:30pm. Male a capella group. $27.50-$39.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Spoken Word A Violet Seson: Kathy Leonard Czepiel 3:30pm. Discussion and slide show. Germantown Library, Germantown. (518) 537-5800.

An Introduction to Jacques Lacan 7pm. Anna McLellan. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Theater Doubt, A Parable 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

A Tale of Two Cities 3pm. Presented by Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org.

The Last Five Years 3pm. Contemporary one act musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

Workshops Needle Felting: Basics & Beyond 1pm-3:30pm. Sculptural needle felting for beginning and intermediate levels with Kate Essery. Ages 8-adult. $42.

Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

An Acoustic Gryphon by Veillette Guitars

Workshops Forging and Metal Fabrication 10am-1pm. With sculptor James Garvey. Discover your creativity as you work mainly with steel to learn the basics of forging. $130 series. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.

SUNDAY 7 Art Bountiful Still Life 1pm-5pm. Oils painted in the classical style by Donna Prizzi. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.

Elements and Emotions: Works by Ermalinda Cortez 1pm. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.

Body / Mind / Spirit Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 1:30am-1pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

MONDAY 8 Eat in the Street Festival closing the 2nd Annual Village of New Paltz Local Food Week Celebration. Church Street, New Paltz. nplocalfoodweek@gmail.com.

Forsyth Nature Center's 10th Annual Fall Festival Call for times. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston.

331-1682 ext. 132.

Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. beaconfleamarket@gmail.com.

Hudson Valley Reptile Expo 9:30am-4:30pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

Highland HudsonFest 10am-6pm. Showcasing hamlet and valley merchants, farms, vineyards, restaurants, artists. Hudson Valley Rail Trail, Highland. www.hudsonfest.com.

Adams Fairacre Farms Annual Harvest Fest 11am-4pm. Free face painting, hay rides, pony rides, and petting zoo. Adams Fairacre Farms, Wappinger. www.adamsfarms.com.

Rustic Craft Show 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Third Annual O+ Festival 11am-9pm. Providing an opportunity for uninsured musicians, artists and filmmakers to exchange their craft in exchange for healthcare services with live entertainment. $25. Kingston. opositivefestival.org.

Historic Kingston Bluestone Festival 2012 12pm-6pm. Featuring artists and musicians to bring attention and pride to bluestone geology, history, preservation and importance. Trolley Museum, Kingston. bluestonefestival@yahoo.com.

ArtsWalk Literary 12pm-5pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. cccaartswalk.webs.com/artswalk-literary-2012.

Oktoberfest 4pm-7pm. To benefit Jewish Family Services of Ulster County, Inc. $25/$10 children. Keegan Ales, Kingston.

331-2739.

Olanafest 2012 5:30pm-8pm. A celebration of food, art and farming featuring art-inspired hors d'oeuvres, craft beers and local wines and music. $115/$90 members. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

Art Figure Drawing: Long Pose with Model 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Qi Gong 11:30am-12:30am. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4:45pm-5:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan: Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Occupy Yourself: The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm-9:30pm. With Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Zumba 6:30pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Belly Dance 7:45pm-9pm. Intermediate. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Events Adams Fairacre Farms Annual Harvest Fest 10am-4pm. Free face painting, hay rides, pony rides, and petting zoo. Adams Fairacre Farms, Kingston. www.adamsfarms.com.

Film Escape to Witch Mountain 2pm. Children’s programming. $3.50. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Celtic Session 7:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Dark Dark Dark & Emily Well 8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Python Soup 8:30pm. Simon Phillips, Don Byron, David Spinozza, Scott Petitio, and Pete Levin. $15. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

conference celebrating the mythic life

Bill Moyers interviewing Jospeh Campbell for The Power of Myth, a TV documentary that aired in 1988. Celebrating the Mythic Life, a conference on Campbell's work, will be held in October at the Center for Symbolic Studies.

Mythically Speaking Many of us have heard and may even strive to live by the message “Follow your bliss.”

But not all of us know the deeper roots of its origin and meaning, or of the 20th-century American mythologist, scholar, and writer Joseph Campbell, who said it. Campbell’s message is not as simple as it might sound: It was meant to be a doorway into a vast expanse of a complex philosophy that has influenced our culture during and beyond his lifetime.

Campbell’s work has a wide cultural reach—from musicians to writers to filmmakers.

His work inspired artists to utilize the concept of myth. Most notably, George Lucas credits Campbell for the Star Wars series’ structure of mythological motifs, referring to him as his Yoda. Myths, according to Campbell, are narratives that metaphorically inform our lives. “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive,” Campbell said. He believed in using stories from the past to make sense of our present world, allowing room for fluidity and change rather than depending on fixed meanings.

To sustain and further Campbell’s work, the Center for Symbolic Studies, located on 200 beautiful acres near New Paltz, will host a celebration of Campbell’s legacy.

Celebrating the Mythic Life, a three-day conference from October 5 to 8, will look to the past, present, and future of Campbell’s work—work that continues to deeply influence our culture. “Myths are recipes for nourishing the soul,” says Conference Director Richard Schwab. “They help us understand and overcome difficulties when viewed as metaphor. Every once in a while, these old recipes can and may need to be cooked up again through using fresh ingredients to connect with the world we’re living in now.”

Activities will allow participants to contribute their own work, learn about the interpretation of myth and dreams, and embrace mythic themes and motifs for creative purposes, both

in their own lives and in projects intending to perpetuate this work.

Presentations will be interactive, experiential, and/or in lecture form, and will be given by leaders in the field of myth studies, including musician and storyteller Rebecca Armstrong, author and filmmaker Phil Cousineau, author Gioia Timpanelli, Jungian analyst Linda Weissman, and Justin Spring, a poet, writer, and founder of Soulspeak, a video collage project of instinctive art forms. Phil Robinson’s Campbell-inspired band The Bliss Jockeys and Stephen and Robin Larsen, conference founders and biographers of Campbell’s days living in Woodstock in the 1930s, will also present.

Before he died, Campbell told Stephen and Robin Larsen that he felt his work was done and now it was their turn, which was part of the inspiration for the conference.

“Robin and I and Rich [Schwab] went down to see the movie Finding Joe, which is about Joseph Campbell’s legacy. We realized it would have been 25 years since his death. We did not want his legacy to slide into oblivion,” Stephen Larsen says.

Myths, like most powerful phenomena, are double-edged swords. Like ships, they can bring you safely to shores you never imagined existed. But if you start to think the boat you are on is the only one, that only you and yours can ride in it, and that it can never change direction, you crash into other travelers—travelers fighting to reach what are always, in the end, the same safe harbours.

The Celebrtaing the Mythic Life conference will be held at the Center for Symbolic Studies from October 5 to 8. Tickets, which include meals, workshops, and access to grounds for camping, range from $125 for single day admission to $325 for the full weekend. Senior and student discounts are available. (845) 658-8540; Celebratingthemythiclife.com.

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TUESDAY 9 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Zumba Fitness 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Events Kingston Farmers' Market Midtown Market 3pm. Kings Inn Site, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Music Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Residency Series with Studio Stu 8pm-10pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Faculty Jazz Recital 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/music.

Spoken Word MBA Information Session 5pm-6pm. SUNY New Paltz School of Business, New Paltz. mba.newpaltz.edu.

Marshall Karp Book Talk 6:30pm. The local author discusses his latest book, NYPD Red, which he coauthored with James Patterson. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Theater Auditions for Harold Pinter's Other Places 7pm. Cocoon Actor's Theater. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Workshops

october 6 Documentary: Hero’s Journey $10 | 9:30 pm october 7 Spirit - the Seventh Fire $7 | 7:15 pm october 8 cHilDren’S Programming: escape to Witch mountain $3.50 | 2 pm october 10-14 WooDStock Film FeStival october 16 Dance Film: Sylphide from the Bolshoi Ballet $10 | 7.15 pm october 20 vieWS From tHe eDge: epstein’s Fall of the House of usher $7 | 10 pm october 21 oPera in cinema: la traviata $20 | 2 pm october 25 Documentary: Big easy express $7 | 7:15 pm october 26 the rocky Horror Picture Show $7 | 7:15 pm october 27 live tHeatre: Why am i not Famous? $15 | 8 pm october 28 national tHeatre live From lonDon: the last of the Haussmans $12 | 2 pm Plus nightly films at 7:15. closed most tuesdays & Wednesdays.

408 Main St, RoSendale, nY 12472 |

www.rosendaletheatre.org

NORTHERN DUTCHESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Kathleen Beckmann, Music Director

We bring classical music home

Vienna& ISTANBUL 2012/2013 SEASON OPENER

IN RHINEBECK

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 3PM • RHINEBECK HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM The Abduction from the Seraglio (abridged), Mozart’s tale of passion and comic intrigue AN NDSO AND DELAWARE VALLEY OPERA COMPANY COLLABORATION UPCOMING CONCERTS: January 26 – OSLO & PRAGUE IN RHINEBECK April 20 – VENICE & BUENOS AIRES IN POUGHKEEPSIE June 15 – SEVILLE & RIO DE JANEIRO IN RHINEBECK

Purchase tickets online now - $5 to $20, (Flexible Savings Packs now available) Discover more about NDSO and its 7th season at www.ndsorchestra.org!

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Woodstock Writing Workshops 6:30pm-8:30pm. Led by Iris Litt. $15/$60 4 sessions.

Call for location. 679-8256.

Paper Paper Everywhere Organizing Workshop 6:30pm. Ellen Kosloff. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 10 Art Open Critiques 10am-4pm. Get feedback on your artwork from League instructors. $12. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tai Chi 11am-12pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-8pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Gurdjieff's Movements: Inner Work and Sacred Dance 7:30pm-9:30pm. Facilitated by Jason Stern. $5.

Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Classes Clay Play 3:45pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Zumba 6pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Beginners Belly Dance 7:45pm-9:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Events Farmers Market 11:30am-5:30pm. Cornwall Community Co-Op. Town Hall, Cornwall. cornwallcoop.com.

Film 13th Annual Woodstock Film Festival Call for times. Panels, discussions, concerts and independent film screenings. Woodstock. woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Yes, In My Backyard 4:30pm. Q&A with the director, Tracy Huling. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/sociology.

Music The Go-Go’s 8pm. With Belinda Carlisle. $45. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333.

Spoken Word Art Fraud: Recognizing Authenticity in Art 6pm. Peter Matthaes. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

The Glaring Omissions 7pm-8:30pm. Reading series. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

THURSDAY 11 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Zumba Fitness 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Classes Creative Youth Studio 3:30pm-5pm. Mixed-media open studio session for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Events The Arlington Farmer's Market 3pm-7pm. Vassar College Alumnae House Lawn, Poughkeepsie. legacyrpb@aol.com.

Film 13th Annual Woodstock Film Festival Call for times. Panels, discussions, concerts and independent film screenings. Woodstock. woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Kids Hands On: A Pre-K Art Class 1:30pm-2:30pm. A variety of artistic experiences and processes for little hands and minds. Ages 3-5. $20.

Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Music Music of the Earth: A Celebration of World Cultures 11:30am. Program for children K-12. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Uptown Fine Arts Music Series 12:15pm-12:45pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston.

338-6759.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Chris O'Leary Band 7pm. Blues and rockabilly. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Johnny Mathis 8pm. Beloved crooner. $36/$56/$76/$126. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Plants & Animals 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

The Outdoors The Last of the Haussmans 7pm. London's National Theatre "Live in HD". $18-$25.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Spoken Word Caregiving Redefined with Grant Abrams 6pm. Caregiver Revolution book signing event.

Earthgoods Natural Foods, New Paltz. www.thecaregiverwebsite.com Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. Group to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 876-7906.

Workshops The Practice of Parenting 7pm-8:30pm. A parenting group at Maverick Family Counseling in Woodstock. $18 singles/$30 couples.

Maverick Family Counseling, Woodstock. 750-0049.

Theater Selmer Bringsjord + Naveen Sundar G: To Infinity and Beyond!

12pm. Selmer Bringsjord and PhD student Naveen Sundar G. will use EMPAC technology to visualize the infinite in a surprising and unique way. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Auditions for Harold Pinter's Other Places 7pm. Cocoon Actor's Theater. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Second City for President 7pm. Comedy. $50/$30/$20. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

comedy sara schaefer

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In his essay “Humor” of 1927, Sigmund Freud unpacked what takes place in the exchange between the humorist and the audience: Humor has something liberating about it: But it also has something of grandeur and elevation, which is lacking in the other ways of obtaining pleasure from intellectual activity.

The grandeur in it clearly lies in the triumph of narcissism, the victorious assertion of the ego’s invulnerability. The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

The stand-up comedian is perhaps the only individual in our society whose job is to tell the truth in public. The confession of disappointment, trauma, embarrassment, and the exposure of hypocrisy in daily life is a cathartic experience shared by both the performer and the audience. It can also be very funny.

“When you are born, if you come out of your mom as a smart girl with glasses, they put you in the comedian bin. It all works out.” Sara Schaefer is a smart girl with glasses.

A critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, writer, and producer, she has won two Emmy awards for her work as head blogger for “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch in 2010.

Schaefer will make her Ulster County debut at Rosendale’s Market Market Café on Saturday, October 20.

“I’ve been performing comedy for over 15 years, doing everything, including standup, sketch, and improv,” says Schaefer. “As far as stand-up goes, I’ve been doing that for about nine years.” She got started doing sketch comedy with a college group and performing on a regular basis when she moved to New York in 2001. “I had no idea

what I was doing or even what I wanted—I tried all sorts of things and gradually, standup became my favorite thing. I was doing sketch, improv, hosting shows, blogging, videos—in addition to doing stand-up. I am pretty sure one of the most ridiculous comedic ventures I did was an improv show based on the satirical heavy metal band GWAR—there was lots of blood. I worked as a financial analyst for a securities fraud law firm for five years. That job was hell but it taught me about stock trading! Useful for a career in comedy.”

In 2010, she launched a podcast called “You Had to Be There” with comedian Nikki Glaser, which has received critical acclaim and a rapidly growing audience. She has a show coming out on MTV in January called the “Nikki and Sara Show.” She’ll play the part of Sara.

Schaefer’s brand of snarky, irreverent humor touches on the usual traumas of life—growing up, dating, relationships and sex, parents, everyday disappointments and her life as a comedian. Pop-culture references abound—her website features a public service announcement begging Justin Timberlake to make music again. As a smart girl with glasses, of course, there is no lack of self-deprecation.

She’s looking forward to enjoying our famous autumnal scenery; but, aware of our region as a Mecca for the yogic-minded, she warns, “I am not good at yoga. I have the posture of Quasimodo. But I do enjoy the basic principles of Buddhism. I think when you’re performing, you have to be in the moment. I actually want to learn how to meditate.

Can Rosendale teach me?”

Sara Schaefer will appear at Market Market in Rosendale on October 20 at 10pm.

(845) 658-3164; Marketmarketcafe.com.

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The Last of the Hassmans 8pm. A new play by Stephen Beresford by the National Theatre of London, performed in HD. $22/$15 student.

Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

FRIDAY 12 Art New Hudson: Second Nature 6pm-9pm. Presented by Van Brunt Projects. The Living Room, Cold Spring. 270-8210.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $1o. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

New Moon Energy Healing with the Sound of Crystal 7:30pm-8:30pm. Activation of our crystalline self. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Painting for Life 1pm-4pm. $140/4 weeks. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

2012 Cold Spring Arts Annual Open Studio Tour 12pm-5pm. Visit the workspaces of over 40 artists. Call for location. www.coldspringarts.com.

Shaminic Sound and Transition Journey 7pm-9pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Sketch the Model 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Classes

Art Talk 2pm-3pm. Laura Martinez Bianco and Jane Blake will discuss their work and take your questions. Look| Art Gallery, Mahopac. 276-5090.

The Built Environment 4pm-6pm. Drawing, painting, pastel, printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, collage, mixed media works, architectural sketches or models. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Oval Show 5pm-7pm. Works by Kristy Bishop. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-8835.

Tami Bone: Mythos 5pm-7pm. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

The Maltese Falcon 5pm-7pm. An exhibition of 2D & 3D art and visual poetry. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Legacy of John F Gould & Military Art Show 6pm-9pm. Robert Gould & Paul Esposito will be showing classic Hudson Valley Art with famous Saturday Evening Post illustrations during WWII. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.

Zumba 10am. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenzumbamama@aol.com.

Farm to Table 11am-5pm. The class will include a two-part cooking class, boxed lunch, visit to the garden, and an educational movie. $45. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.

Precious Metal Clay Demystified 2pm-5pm. Create your own silver jewelry from this material that begins as clay and ends as fine silver with Christina Brady. 2 Saturdays, 16 to adult. $120/$60 materials. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Tango: Fundamentals/Intermediate/Practica 4:30pm-7:30pm. 1-hour classes/$15 each. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Dance balletNext 7:30pm. $30/$10 children and student rush. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Contradance 8pm. Peter Stix calling, with music by Party of Three. $10/$9/ 1/2 for children. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Dance Flashback Fridays Dance Party 9pm. Dance to music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. $5.

Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Film 13th Annual Woodstock Film Festival Call for times. Panels, discussions, concerts and independent film screenings. Woodstock. woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Kids Little Painters 10am-11am. A parent-child art class, ages 18m to 3y. $20/$110 series. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Music Jon Herington Group 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Midnight Slim with Michael T 7:30pm. Blues. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Felix Cavaliere of The Young Rascals 7:30pm. Blue-eyed soul legend. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. Carl Maria von Weber, Bassoon Concert in F, Op. 75, Andante and Rondo, Ungarese, J. 158, Op. 35, David Nagy, bassoon, Menachem Zur, Tuba Concerto, Peter Blaga, tuba, Richard Strauss, Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64. $25-$40. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

The Chain Gang 8pm. Classic rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Jeff Entin & Bob Blum's Second Friday Jam 8pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Primus 3D 8pm. 3D musical experience. $39.50. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

Rock and Roll Karaoke 9pm-2am. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Matthew E. White 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

The Blue in Green Jazz Quartet 9pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston.

Spoken Word Reading and Book Signing with Tad Richards 7pm. Author of Nick and Jake. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Reading and Book Singing with Laird Barron 7pm. Author of The Croning. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Theater Doubt, A Parable 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

A Tale of Two Cities 8pm. Presented by Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org.

The Last Five Years 8pm. Contemporary one act musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4790.

SATURDAY 13 Art The 6th Annual ArtEast Open Studio Tour 11am-Sunday, October 21, 5pm. 2 Weekends, 34 Studios, over 50 miles of art from Wingdale to Stanfordville, Patterson to Millerton. www.arteastdutchess.com.

Orange County Arts Council 2012 Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Self-guided tour of local performing and visual art studios, venues and galleries. www.facebook.com/OrangeCountyNewYorkArtsCouncil.

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Design by Nature Conference Rhinebeck’s Omega Institute for Holistic Studies places great emphasis on sustainability.

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living, one of the first two buildings in the world to be certified as “living” by the International Living Building Institute, is powered by a 48.5kW solar electric system with a water reclamation facility. The “conference on sustainable design for a new earth,” to be held on October 19 to 21, brings together leaders in the field to review current environmental, economic, and social systems and explore new creative solutions for responding to them. Speakers include cofounder of the Biomimicry Institute Janine Benyus, author of the definitive book on green jobs Van Jones, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends Jeremy Rifkin, and African spiritualist Sobonfu Somé, an initiated member of the Dagara tribe of Burkina Faso.

Eomega.org Animal Soiree Group Art Show 6pm-10pm. Over 40 artists showcasing their love for animals with animal themed artwork and crafts. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Works by Tom Holmes 6pm-9pm. Lost in translation, ice portraits, stone and steel. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.

Performance Arts in Phoenicia 8pm-11pm. Entertainment, live music, reading of a short play, poetry, story telling, dance, and guest artists. Wine and finger food available. The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. 415. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Qi Gong Classes 10am-11am. $10. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. 415. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Reflexology Days 11:30am-4:30pm. Private Foot Reflexology Sessions by appt. $45. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie.

229-9998.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Intro To Kundalini Yoga Class 1pm-3pm. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

Continuum Movement 1pm-4pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Uncovering the Brilliance of Your Soul Shadow 2pm-3:30pm. A jungian archetypal soul journey with Dr. Craig Lennon, PhD. accompanied by Jim Davis on Celtic harp. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Baby Yoga 2:15pm-3:15pm. Non-walking babies, including newborns through crawlers, along with their caregivers, establish early connections to yoga, body movement, and breath awareness. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Toddler/Preschooler Yoga 3:30pm-4:30pm. Toddlers through age 4 and their care-givers establish early connections to yoga, body movement, and breath awareness. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Events Hudson Hop & Harvest Festival Call for times. Farm to Table cuisine from the Hudson Valley's bountiful farms and restaurants; craft beer, and live music. Peekskill Brewery, Peekskill. (914) 734-237.

Columbia County Golden Gathering 9:30am-12:30pm. Co-sponsored by C-GCC & Senator Stephen Saland. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181.

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 10am-5pm. $10. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckantiquesfair.com.

Meet the Animals Tour 10am-2pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

The Sixth Annual Mid-Hudson Woodworkers' Show 10am-5pm. Displays, demos, workshops. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. www.midhudsonwoodworkers.org.

Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society Lighthouse Tours 11am. Tours leave hourly until 2pm. $20/$10 children/ members 1/2 price. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 822-1014.

Adams Fairacre Farms Annual Harvest Fest 11am-4pm. Free face painting, hay rides, pony rides, and petting zoo. Adams Fairacre Farms, Newburgh. www.adamsfarms.com.

HOPE Dance for a Cure 6pm. Benefit performance of Solas An Lae Dance Company. All proceeds benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Includes silent auction. $5-$15. Rhinebeck High School, Rhinebeck. hopedanceforacure@gmail.com.

Neal Shusterman Book Signing 7pm. The teen author hosts a discussion, Q&A, and book signing for UnWholly, book two of the Unwind Trilogy. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Historic Graveyard Tours by Lantern 7:30pm. $15/$10 ages 10-17/children free. St. James Church, Hyde Park. www.stjameshistoricgraveyardtours.com.

Masquerade Ball to Benefit the North East Community Center 8pm-12am. Bonfire, dancing, live and silent auctions. $75. Home of Pilar Proffitt , Lakeville, Connecticut.

(518) 789-4259.

Film 13th Annual Woodstock Film Festival Call for times. Panels, discussions, concerts and independent film screenings. Woodstock. woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Kids Little Painters 10am-11am. A parent-child art class, ages 18m to 3y. $20/$110 series. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

RitzKidz "Newburgh's Got Talent!" Auditions 10am-4pm. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. www.ritztheaternewburgh.org.

Dream Mandalas 10:30am-12:30pm. Kids' workshop with Sadee Brathwaite, ages 4-12. Kingston Library, Kingston.

331-0507.

Music Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 12:30pm. Country. Barton Orchards, Poughquag.

227-2306.

Song Stage 1pm-3pm. Budding songwriters of all ages will have the chance to explore and improve their songwriting and performing skills. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Helen Avakian 7pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

E.J. Strickland Quintet 7pm. Opening: The Kandinsky Effect. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Vocalist Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya and Raga musician Srimati Durba Bhattacharyya 7pm. $20. Vivekananda Retreat, Ridgely, Stone Ride.

687-4574.

Mark Raisch Trio 7pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

Ian Fitzgerald 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Folk Guild Open House 7:30pm. Rock Tavern Chapter presents Phil Teumim followed by open mike. $6/$5 members. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 978-5620.

Club Cabaradio 7:30pm. $5. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Who Are You 8pm. A celebration of The Who. $15. The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233 American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. Carl Maria von Weber, Bassoon Concert in F, Op. 75, Andante and Rondo, Ungarese, J. 158, Op. 35, David Nagy, bassoon, Menachem Zur, Tuba Concerto, Peter Blaga, tuba, Richard Strauss, Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64. $25-$40. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Zoe Keating: Avant-Cello 8pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings 8pm. Roots rock. $26. Enigma Dance Hall, Red Hook. www.studioredhook.com.

Gordon Bok 8pm. Seafaring songs from Maine. $20. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 356-3197.

Hudson Valley Philharmonic I Feltsman's Russia 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. $20-$40. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Mark Gamma 8:30pm. Acoustic. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Patty Larkin 8:30pm. With special guest Jess Klein. $35/$30. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Big Sandy & The Fly-Rite Boys 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Black Dirt Band 9:30pm. Blues. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.

The Outdoors The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Program 12pm-6pm. GardenLarge's Brine Garden tour. Brine Garden, Pawling. (855) 855-9023.

The Last of the Haussmans 7pm. London's National Theatre "Live in HD" encore broadcast. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Spoken Word Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival 2pm. Adrianna Delgado and marina mati. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Theater Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore 11am/1pm. Metropolitan Opera "Live in HD". $18-$25.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

The Last Five Years 8pm. Contemporary one act musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4790.

A Tale of Two Cities 8pm. Presented by Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org.

Doubt, A Parable 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops

Film

Music

Film

Forging and Metal Fabrication 10am-1pm. With sculptor James Garvey. Discover your creativity as you work mainly with steel to learn the basics of forging. $130 series. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.

Abstracting the Landscape 10am-Sunday, October 14, 4:30pm. Frank O'Cain Weekend Workshop. $140/$250 both days. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.

At Play in the Fields of Poetry 10am-12pm. Weekly workshop led by Lynn Hoins, through Dec. 1. Presented by Northeast Poetry Center's College of Poetry. $150. Studio at the Seligmann Homestead, Sugar Loaf. www.collegeofpoetry.com.

The Dependable Muse: Daily Writing 1pm-3pm. Weekly workshop led by William Seaton, through Dec. 1. Presented by Northeast Poetry Center's College of Poetry. $150. Studio at the Seligmann Homestead, Sugar Loaf. www.collegeofpoetry.com.

13th Annual Woodstock Film Festival Panels, discussions, concerts and independent film screenings. Woodstock. woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Celtic Session 7:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

FilmColumbia Festival Call for times. Screens major independent and awardwinning films. Film Columbia, Chatham. (518) 392-3446.

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness 5pm-8pm. African Diaspore Film Series. Lecture Center 104, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/ blackstudies.

SUNDAY 14 Art Fine Arts Auction Call for times. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the WSA Angeloch Building Fund. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Orange County Arts Council 2012 Open Studio Tour 10am-5pm. Self-guided tour of local performing and visual art studios, venues and galleries. www.facebook.com/OrangeCountyNewYorkArtsCouncil.

19th Annual Westchester Fine Craft Show 11am-5pm. $12/$11 seniors/children free. Westchester County Center, White Plains. www.craftsamericashows.com.

2012 Cold Spring Arts Annual Open Studio Tour 12pm-5pm. Visit the workspaces of over 40 artists. www.coldspringarts.com.

Dressings: Paintings by Audrey Francis 2pm-7pm. Hyde Park Library Annex, Hyde Park.

229-7791.

Forever NYC Community Art Show 5pm-7pm .Part of the OrangeReads program.

Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601.

Body / Mind / Spirit Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 10:30am-1pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Mediation, Intention and the Zero Point Field 2pm-3:30pm. With Ricarda O'Conner. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-9642.

Dance La Sylphide 2pm. Performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in a high definition cinema experience. $10/$6 children.

Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Renaissance Revels 2pm. A program for children and families about dance and music in the Renaissance period, by two costumed dancers. Pre-concert activity at 12:30pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. balletNext 2:30pm. $30/$10 children and student rush. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Events Shalom! On Grand Festival Call for times. Jewish Community Center of Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie. 471-0430.

Hudson Valley Horrors Roller Derby Hyde Park Roller Magic, Hyde Park. www.horrorsrollerderby.com.

Rondout Valley Common Ground Celebration Music, food, dance, outdoor ed, skill-share classes, speakers, farmers. $10. Stone Ridge, Stone Ridge. www.rvcgc.org.

Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. beaconfleamarket@gmail.com.

A Day at Vassar 9am-5pm. Ages 15+ can attend college for a day and attend classes and lectures. $10 lunch. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. vassar.edu/day.

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 10am-4pm. $10. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckantiquesfair.com.

Adams Fairacre Farms Annual Harvest Fest 11am-4pm. Free face painting, hay rides, pony rides, and petting zoo. Adams Fairacre Farms, Poughkeepsie. www.adamsfarms.com.

Car Seat Safety Check and Installation Station 11am-3pm. Health Quest, Lagrangeville. 475-9742.

Psychic Fair 11am-5pm. Readers, practitioners, and vendors. 1846 House Soaps, Walker Valley. 649-0787.

The Beacon Sloop Club Annual Pumpkin Festival 12pm-5pm. Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon.

Walking Tour to Explore Brewster History 2pm. $5. Southeast Museum, Brewster. director@southeastmuseum.org.

TUESDAY 16

Music Gustafer Yellowgold and Rachel Loshak 11am. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 12:30pm. Country. Barton Orchards, Poughquag.

227-2306.

Louis Landon: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra 2pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Faculty/Student Chamber Music 3pm. $15/$20. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Madera Vox 3pm. Presented by Newburgh Chamber Music. $20/$5 students. St George's Episcopal Church, Newburgh.

(800) 836-3006.

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Featuring local musicians and special guests. $15/$8 students. SPAF, Saugerties. saugertiesperformingartsfactory.com.

An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin 7pm. To benefit The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center and to honor John Hoyt Stookey. $75-$500.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Asia: 30th Anniversary Reunion Tour 7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Renaissance 7:30pm-2pm. Folk rock. $34.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Spoken Word Leasing Farmland Tour 1pm-4pm. A panel of farmers and landowners will discuss farmland leasing challenges and how to establish successful, long-term relationships.

Sparrowbush Farm, Livingston. (518) 392-5252 ext. 211.

Theater The Last of the Hassmans 1pm. A new play by Stephen Beresford by the National Theatre of London, performed in HD. $22/$15 student.

Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

The Last Five Years 3pm. Contemporary one act musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown.

341-4790.

A Tale of Two Cities 3pm. Presented by Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org.

Doubt, A Parable 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Workshops African Dance 12pm-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Alexander Technique Workshop 3pm-5pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

MONDAY 15 Art Figure Drawing: Long Pose with Model 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Qi Gong 11:30am-12:30am. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4:45pm-5:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan: Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Wisdom's Way DVD Series 6:30pm-8pm. With best-selling author, Guy Finley.

Cornwall Public Library, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-8282.

Occupy Yourself: The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm-9:30pm. With Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit Meeting Your Spirit Guides 2pm-5pm. With Adam F. Bernstein. $40. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Community Holistic Healthcare Day 4pm-8pm. Rondout Valley Holistic Health Group 3rd Tuesday. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. www.rvhhc.org.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

The Yoga That YOU Can Do 7pm-8:30pm. Join Siri Chand Kaur to practice the sacred science of Kundalini Yoga. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

Transformation Through Kinesiology 7pm-9pm. Use Transformational Kinesiology to access and clear subconscious blocks. $20-$40. The Sanctuary, New Paltz. www.mytrueplace.com.

Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Zumba Fitness 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Workshops Songwriters' Workshop with Bill Pfleging.

7pm. An open forum for all songwriters looking for feedback and/or inspiration. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Theater Four Bitchin’ Babes 8pm. “Mid Life Vices…a Guilt Free Musical Revue!” $25. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333.

THURSDAY 18 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Transformation Through the Chakras 7:15pm-8:45pm. Sponsored by the Rondout Valley Holistic Health Group and Family Traditions. Family Traditions, Stone Ridge. www.rvhhc.org.

Zumba Fitness 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Classes

Kingston Farmers' Market Midtown Market 3pm. Kings Inn Site, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Creative Youth Studio 3:30pm-5pm. Mixed-media open studio session for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Film

Events

Sylphide from the Bolshoi Ballet 7:15pm. Dance film. $10. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

The Arlington Farmers' Market 3pm-7pm. Vassar College Alumnae House Lawn, Poughkeepsie. legacyrpb@aol.com.

Music

Film

Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Residency Series with Studio Stu 8pm-10pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

FilmColumbia Festival Call for times. Screens major independent and awardwinning films. Film Columbia, Chatham.

(518) 392-3446.

Food for Thought: The Waiting Room 6pm reception. 7pm film. A behind-the-scenes documentary of an American public hospital and its uninsured patients. The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Events

Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 17 Art Open Critiques 10am-4pm. Get feedback on your artwork from League instructors. $12. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tai Chi 11am-12pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-8pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Gurdjieff's Movements: Inner Work and Sacred Dance 7:30pm-9:30pm. Facilitated by Jason Stern. $5.

Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Classes

Kids Hands On: A Pre-K Art Class 1:30pm-2:30pm. A variety of artistic experiences and processes for little hands and minds. Ages 3-5. $20.

Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio. com.

Music Uptown Fine Arts Music Series 12:15pm-12:45pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston.

338-6759.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

The Funk Junkies 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Greg Perantoni 7pm. Classic country and 50's rock. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Keb' Mo' and His Band 7:30pm. Post-modern blues. $55-$75. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Guitar Recital 8pm. Classical guitarist and faculty member Gregory Dinger will present a program of six centuries of variations for the guitar. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-2700.

Morrissey 8pm. The king of mope rock. $29.50-$59.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Spoken Word

Zumba 6:30pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Mixed Media Art Play Class for Adults 7:15pm-9:15pm. 6 sessions, no experience necessary, with Mira Fink. $160/$25 materials. Family Traditions, Stone Ridge. 338-6503.

Belly Dance 7:45pm-9pm. Intermediate. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Figurative Sculpture with Maddy Segall-Marx 9:30am-1:30pm. 4 weekly sessions. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Clay Play 3:45pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Zumba 6pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Beginners Belly Dance 7:45pm-9:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Film

Events

Art

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 7pm. Frankenfurter, it’s all over. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Farmers' Market 11:30am-5:30pm. Cornwall Community Co-Op. Town Hall, Cornwall. cornwallcoop.com.

From Fiber Soft to Rock Hard 6pm-12am. Bonnie Shanas, Bob Madden and Karen Madden. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.

Classes

Using Radiation Therapy to treat Breast Cancer: How much Technology is Needed?

4:30pm-5:30pm. Dr. Jean M. Moran. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/sse/colloquium_series.html.

Workshops The Practice of Parenting 7pm-8:30pm. A parenting group at Maverick Family Counseling in Woodstock. $18 singles/$30 couples.

Maverick Family Counseling, Woodstock. 750-0049.

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Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Kid-friendly postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $1o. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Classes Painting for Life 1pm-4pm. $140/4 weeks. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Dance Prophets of Funk 8pm. David Dorfman Dance. $24/$22. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Flashback Fridays Dance Party 9pm. Dance to music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. $5.

Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Events

Dear Mother Nature: Drawing Performance by Jaanika Peerna and David Rothenberg 2pm. $5. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

The Sky is Falling! Exhibit Gallery Talk 3pm. Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock.

679-2079.

The Ballot Box: 20 Artists Consider the Election 3pm-6pm. Beanrunner Café Gallery, Peekskill.

(914) 954-5948.

Eckert Fine Art Gallery Opening 3pm-7pm. Barry Kieselstein-Cord AwardedPhotography Retrospective. Through November 3.

Eckert Fine Art, Millerton. (518) 592-1330.

Fierce—Fancy—Found 5pm-8pm. Three friends, three visions, three artists showing bodies of work. Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie. www.midhudsonheritage.org.

Arts Upstairs Monthly Opening 6pm-9pm. “Eight Years Old.” Group show. Solo Room show: Sunday Dawne-Marie. Through November 11.

The Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Group Art Show 7pm-10pm. Graceland Tattoo, Wappingers Falls.

297-3001.

Live Reptiles with Wildman Jack DiMuccio 2pm-3pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.

Village Invasion Zombie Crawl 6pm-10pm. $2 or canned good. Downtown Saugerties, Saugerties. 399-3390.

Historic Graveyard Tours by Lantern 7:30pm. $15/$10 ages 10-17/children free. St. James Church, Hyde Park. www.stjameshistoricgraveyardtours.com.

Ralphie May: Too Big To Ignore 8pm. Presented by Bananas Comedy Club. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Music

Forging and Metal Fabrication 10am-1pm. With sculptor James Garvey. Discover your creativity as you work mainly with steel to learn the basics of forging. $130 series. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. 415. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore 1pm. Met Live in HD. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Art

Design by Nature Conference Call for times. A conference on sustainable design for a new Earth. $195. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck.

(800) 944-1001.

Food Truck Party 4-10pm. Yum Yum, Cue, and other food trucks. Music, beer/wine garden. FiberFlame, Saugerties. 399-2222.

FilmColumbia Festival Call for times. Screens major independent and awardwinning films. Film Columbia, Chatham. (518) 392-3446.

Kids Little Painters 10am-11am. A parent-child art class, ages 18m to 3y. $20/$110 series. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Music

Spoken Word Alton Parker: Presented by John Wadlin 5:30pm. Kingston's Buried Treasure Lecture Series.

Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.

Reading and Book Signing with Victoria Law 7pm. Author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

What’s Bugging Our Forests?

7pm. Forest Ecologist Gary Lovett will talk about the insect pests and diseases that are changing our forests. Cary Institute, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Theater Urban Guerilla Theatre 9pm. Poetry/spoken word/performance group. The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

SATURDAY 20 Art Orange County Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Featuring 74 visual and performing artists. www.ocartscouncil.org.

Brine Garden Open Event 11am. Part of the ArtEast's Open Studio Tour. Brine Garden, Peekskill. GardenLarge.com.

Sketch the Model 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

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FilmColumbia Festival Call for times. Screens major independent and awardwinning films. Film Columbia, Chatham. (518) 392-3446.

Jean Epstein's Fall of the House of Usher 10pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Little Painters 10am-11am. A parent-child art class, ages 18m to 3y. $20/$110 series. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Merdwin the Mediocre: Magic and Comedy 10:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Celebration of the Arts On October 6, New Paltz’s Hasbrouck Park will look like a DIY arts carnival, where everything down to the bean bag toss is homemade. The annual explosion of culture returns to the spot where it got its start six years ago, showcasing work from over 100 fine artists. In addition, there will be live painting throughout town with New York City graffiti artist outfit Pure TFP, large-scale sculptural installations, and live music by Dylan Emmet Band and Rhett Miller. Through the month of September, COTA Corridors will exhibit 22 site-specific art installations at New Paltz businesses, and work by the Brooklyn street artist GILF will be at the Main Street Bistro.

Readings by local authors include Jacky Davis and David Soman, Iza Trapani, Jennifer Castle, and a reading of The Submission by author Amy Waldman’s. Children’s activities will include chances to create Picasso-inspired collages, Michelangelo drawings, and Monet watercolor paintings. Listen to music, meet local artists as they exhibit their work, and take part in hands-on activities—maybe even at the same time. 11am-5pm.

Celebrationofthearts.net

Film

Marlene VerPlanck & Bucky Pizzarelli 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks 7:30pm. Folk jazz. $29.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Fiona Apple 8pm. Femme rocker on the rebound. $34.50-$59.50.

Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

A Reggae Tribute to Peter Tosh 8pm movie, 9:30pm music. Featuring a CD release show

by Royal Khaoz with special guests The Big Takeover. $15. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Steep Canyon Rangers 8pm. Bluegrass. $35. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Akousma@ EMPAC 8pm. $18/$13. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

Johnny Winter 8:30pm. With special guest Matt Rae Trio. $80/$75.

Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Hurley Mountain 8:30pm. Classic rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Rock and Roll Karaoke 9pm-2am. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Charlie Hunter 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

McMule 9pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Film

The Gil Parris Band 9:30pm. Jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Reading and Book Signing with Victoria Law 2pm. Author of Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Storytellers and Drummers 8pm. Milk and Honey (percussionists) to accompany storyteller Gioia Timpanelli and others. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 684-5226.

Indie Comedy with Sara Schaefer 10pm. $12. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164.

Theater Duty’s Faithful Child: A Visit with Louisa May Alcott 7pm. A one-woman show written by Peter R. Nadolny and performed by Jeanne L. Austin. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.

Workshops

SUNDAY 21 Brine Garden Open Event 11am. Part of the ArtEast's Open Studio Tour. Brine Garden, Peekskill. GardenLarge.com.

Orange County Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Featuring 74 visual and performing artists. www.ocartscouncil.org.

Body / Mind / Spirit Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 1:30am-1pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Qi and Psoas Release Workshop 2pm-3pm. Relieve back pain & chronic core postural issues with Amy Shoko Brown, MS Art Therapy. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-9642.

Dance West Coast Swing Dance 6:30pm-9pm. Beginner's lesson 5:30-6:30. $8/$6 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen.

255-1379.

Events Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. 415. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Yoga for Deep Relaxation with Live Didgeridoo Music 1pm-2:30pm. $20/$15 in advance. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Classes Zumba 10am. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenzumbamama@aol.com.

Vegan Thanksgiving 11am-4:30pm. $65`. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.

Dance African Dance 12pm-1:30pm. $20. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Dear Mother Nature: Dance Performance 3pm. $5. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

Ulster Singles Community Dance 8pm. Pizza, wine/soda, snacks, prizes and great dance music. $13. Town of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. (914) 388-0697.

Events Sheep and Wool Family Festival 9am-5pm. Livestock shows, workshops, competitions, children’s activities, lectures, food, and family fun. $12.

Dutchess County Fairground, Rhinebeck. 876-4000.

Meet the Animals Tour 10am-2pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

Craft Show and Public Picnic 10am-4pm. Benefits Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation. $2. New Hamburg Fire House, Wappingers Falls. 297-7652.

Festival of Storytelling, Puppetry, Music and Dance 11am-11pm. Literary, musical and theatrical events/ activities presented by Mountain Laurel Waldorf School. $10/5 and under free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 255-0033 ext. 110.

Jus Accardo Talk 2pm. The local teen author discusses her Young Adult, paranormal romance and urban fantasy fiction book Toxic. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Song Stage 1pm-3pm. Budding songwriters of all ages will have the chance to explore and improve their songwriting and performing skills. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

The Met: Live in HD Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore 1pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Russian Piano Virtuosos Natalia Lavrova and Vassily Primakov 6pm. $40/$30. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Chris Bergson Band 7pm. Opening act: Fifth Nation. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Wickers Creek Band 7:30pm. Acoustic, bluegrass. $5. Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton. (518) 789-3340.

American Art Song with Natalie Merchant 8pm. Presented by Esopus Chamber Orchestra.

Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

The Australian Pink Floyd Show 8pm. The delicate sound of Down Under. $25-$55.

Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Eddie Fingerhut and John Pinder 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Crossroads Brewing, Athens.

(518) 945-2337.

Keb' Mo' 8pm. Country blues, soul, and pop. $34.50/$45.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Living with Elephants 8pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Ramblin' Jack Elliott 8pm. Tom Humphrey Guitar Series. $25. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.

Annual John Lennon B'day Beatle Bash 8pm-11pm. With Pete Santora. AIR Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.

Broadway Rox 8pm. A live concert event with the best of Broadway.

Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point. 938-4159.

Ed Gerhard 8:30pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling.

855-1300.

The Smithereens 9pm. With Rennie Cantine. Presented by Radio Woodstock. $40/$30. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. beaconfleamarket@gmail.com.

Sheep and Wool Family Festival 10am-5pm. Livestock shows, workshops, competitions, children’s activities, lectures, food, and family fun. $12.

Dutchess County Fairground, Rhinebeck. 876-4000.

Festival of Storytelling, Puppetry, Music and Dance 11am-5pm. Literary, musical and theatrical events/ activities presented by Mountain Laurel Waldorf School. $10/5 and under free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 255-0033 ext. 110.

Make a Morphicism Deskslider 1pm. Two-hour workshop for using photos to create a three-dimensional sliding scrapbook. Photoshop tips from Hudson Valley Photoshop Training. $60.

Morphicism Shop, Beacon. 440-3092.

Guided Walking Tour of Main Street 2pm. $3/children free. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

The Golden Dragon Acrobats 3pm. Acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, ancient and contemporary music and theatrical techniques. $22/$15 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Film FilmColumbia Festival Call for times. Screens major independent and awardwinning films. Film Columbia, Chatham.

(518) 392-3446.

La Traviata 2pm. Opera in cinema. $20. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Durga Bernhard 2pm. Childrens' author reading and book signing.

Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Music Jazz at the Falls Sunday Brunch 12pm. Featuring The Bill Bannan Trio. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Mark O’Connor 2pm. First show in the Fantastical Classical series. $35.

Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill.

(914) 739-2333.

Too Human 2pm. Original compositions and jazz standards.

Mahopac Library, Mahopac. 628-2009.

festival the o+ Festival of music, art, and wellness

alexandra marvar Gathering outside the Kirkland Hotel for the opening procession of the O+ Festival of Art, Music, and Wellness last year. This year's festival will be held on October 5, 6, and 7.

The Art of Health What would you trade for a much-needed check-up by a qualified health-care provider, one who understands your lack of insurance and starving-artist economic situation?

Would you play a gig for free or volunteer a few hours of community service to a fun cause? Such is the phenomenal model of exchange at the O+ Festival of Art, Music, and Wellness in Kingston, now in its third year of “bartering the art of medicine for the medicine of art.” A generous troupe of doctors, physical therapists, and others will staff a weekend-long clinic to provide free consultation to the musicians, artists, and volunteers who participate in this three-day celebration of music and public art. And it all begins with a parade at 6 p.m. on Friday, October 5, when Hungry March Band will lead the way from the Kirkland Hotel to BSP Lounge in historic Uptown Kingston.

Multiple venues around town will open up their doors all weekend to 40 bands and as many visual and performance artists, including The Felice Brothers and Richard Buckner headlining at the Old Dutch Church on Friday evening. Meanwhile, Acoustic Sun, The Philistines Jr., and The Dead Exs will be at Keegan Ales; Nelsonvillains, It’s Not Night: It’s Space, and Tigeriss will be at BSP; Howard Fishman, Alta Mira, Wygalator, DJ Grasshopper, and Breakfast in Fur will perform at The Stockade Tavern; and Andrea Tomasi and Sasha Pearl will entertain at Elephant.

The Saturday lineup features The Anders Griffen/Otto Hauser Drum Deluge, Jo Schornikow, Life in a Blender, Lovesick, Lucius, Man Forever, Mouth4Rusty, The Broken Stares, DJ Carlos the Sun, Dead Heart Bloom, Graveyard Lovers, Hopewell, Nothing But Wolves, Ratboy Jr. (no wristband required), Rosary Beard, Ryan Ross Smith, Tall Tall Trees, The Parlor, Trummors, Two Dark Birds, and Guardian Alien. And on Sunday, it will be Autovore, Hello Later, Jake Sorgen, Studio Stu (at Boitson’s), The Shoe String

Band, and The Sweet Clementines. All-access, all-weekend Festival Wristbands are available for a $25 donation, the advance purchase of which will guarantee a seat at the Felice Brothers/Buckner show.

A free Health Expo will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the LGBTQ Center, where information on disease prevention, nutrition, diabetes care, alternative medicine, organ donation, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV testing will be available at no charge. Participating organizations include Health Care Is a Human Right, ARCS, Institute for Family Health, Planned Parenthood, Health Quest, and many others.

Lots of free activities for all ages will take place, including kids’ music, yoga and tai chi, art and life counseling, art installations and paste-ups, plus a gong bath sound healing session. And on Sunday at 2 p.m., a free screening of The Waiting Room will be held at BSP. This documentary by Peter Nicks focuses on the humanity of publicly funded emergency service providers.

And if you haven’t experienced a T.M.I.dol Story Slam, come check out—or better yet, share your three-minute story—at BSP Saturday night (wristband required or donation at the door, please). The theme is “Strange Medicine: From Bad to Worse,” and the slam winner will get a free massage from Ani Kaiser. For a complete schedule of concerts and events, and to purchase a Festival Wristband or make a donation to O+, visit their website.

The third annual O+ Festival of Art, Music, and Wellness is October 5, 6, and 7 in Uptown Kingston. Opositivefestival.org.

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Conservatory Orchestra 3pm. $15/$20. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Featuring local musicians and special guests. $15/$8 students. SPAF, Saugerties. saugertiesperformingartsfactory.com.

The-O 6pm. Acoustic. Bean Runner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Dually Noted: Music for Four Hands 6pm. A duo piano evening with Russian virtuosos Natalia Lavrova and Vassily Primakov. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Tisziji Munoz Quartet 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Keb'Mo' and his Band 7pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Delta Moon 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Battlefield Band 7:30pm. Band from Scotland. $35/$30. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Stray Birds 7:30pm. American folk trio presented by Flying Cat Music. $15/$13 with RSVP. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453.

Spoken Word Reading and Book Signing with Laurie Boris 1:30pm. Author of Drawing Breath. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Reading and Book Signing with Da Chen 2pm. Author of My Last Empress. Pine Plains Free Library, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1927.

BeanRunner Poetry Series 3pm. Richard Levine, Bertha Rogers, Nicholas Johnson. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Classes

Events

Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Zumba Fitness 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Farmers' Market 11:30am-5:30pm. Cornwall Community Co-Op. Town Hall, Cornwall. cornwallcoop.com.

Events Kingston Farmers' Market Midtown Market 3pm. Kings Inn Site, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Kids Media Monsters 4:30pm-6pm. Students use Flip video-making to bring their favorite books to life. In cooperation with Children's Media Project. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Music Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Residency Series with Studio Stu 8pm-10pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Music Thiefs 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Wooden Nickel Encore 7:30pm. Acoustic. $5. Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton. (518) 789-3340.

Battlefield Band 8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Spoken Word Storytelling Open Mike 7pm. Hosted by Janet Carter. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

THURSDAY 25 Art Open Studio and Reception 5pm-7pm. Visit their studios and meet our resident artists who come from around the world on a monthly basis. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Henry Rollins 8pm. $23. Punk rock legend. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Laura Marling 8pm. Pink October event. Colony Café, Woodstock.

679-5342.

The Magnetic Fields 8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Moonalice 8pm. With special guests Professor Louie and Original Fillmore Poster Art Show. $15. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Spoken Word Reading and Book Signing with Da Chen 2pm. Author of My Last Empress. Plattekill Library, Plattekill. 883-7286.

Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. Group to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 876-7906.

Workshops Ethnic Cooking Series: Mediterranean Cuisine 6pm-8:30pm. $45. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.

The Practice of Parenting 7pm-8:30pm. A parenting group at Maverick Family Counseling in Woodstock. $18 singles/$30 couples.

Maverick Family Counseling, Woodstock. 750-0049.

FRIDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore 1pm. Metropolitan Opera "Live in HD". $18-$25.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $1o. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Full Moon Energy Healing with Sound of CrystalActivation of Our Crystalline Self 7:30pm-8:30pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Workshops

Classes

Build a Bat Box 2pm-3pm. Schor Conservation Area, Canaan.

(518) 392-5252 ext. 210.

Empathy, Diversity and Communication Practices Call for times. SEL weekend. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Painting for Life 1pm-4pm. $140/4 weeks. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Theater

MONDAY 22 Art Figure Drawing: Long Pose with Model 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Qi Gong 11:30am-12:30am. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4:45pm-5:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan: Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Occupy Yourself: The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm-9:30pm. With Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Zumba 6:30pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

5th Round of TMI Project Page-to-Stage Fall Monologue Workshops 6:30pm-9:30pm. Women only. Through January. $450.

Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. www.tmiproject.org.

Belly Dance 7:45pm-9pm. Intermediate. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Music Celtic Session 7:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

TUESDAY 23 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Consultations/ Reiki & Reflexology 11:30am-5pm. By appt. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Herbal Medicine & Nutrition: Back To Basics 6:30pm-8pm. This talk will focus on how we nourish our body, mind and soul. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757.

The Yoga That YOU Can Do 7pm-8:30pm. Join Siri Chand Kaur to practice the sacred science of Kundalini Yoga. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

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Why Am I Not Famous?

Jason Downs’s one-man-with-a-band show comes to the Rosendale Theatre for a special one night performance. Originally developed at the Shadowland Theater in Ellenville, the show chronicles the life of child-actor Jason Downs, who reached his celebrity zenith at age 11. Since then, he has performed in minor film roles like the original Hairspray and Clara’s Heart with Whoopi Goldberg, made appearances on “Saturday Night Live” and nationally televised commercials, and even signed a record deal with Jive, which led to a top 20 hit in the UK and a European tour. Downs and the band documents his journey toward ever-elusive fame and comments on celebrity culture in America today through the songs of Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and the Doors. October 27, 8pm.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Vocal Jazz Student Concert 8pm. Students of Terri Roigers. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. teriroiger@earthlink.net.

Workshops Woodstock Writing Workshops 6:30pm-8:30pm. Led by Iris Litt. $15/$60 4 sessions.

Call for location. 679-8256.

Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 24 Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tai Chi 11am-12pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-8pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Clay Play 3:45pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Zumba 6pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

5th Round of TMI Project Page-to-Stage Fall Monologue Workshops 6:30pm-9:30pm. Coed class. Through January. $450.

Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. ww.tmiproject.org.

Beginners Belly Dance 7:45pm-9:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Delivering Messages From the Other Side 7:30pm-9pm. With Adam F. Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Zumba Fitness 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Classes Creative Youth Studio 3:30pm-5pm. Mixed-media open studio session for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Events Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards Dinner 5:30pm. Gateway to Entrepreneurial Tomorrows. Villa Borghese, Wappingers Falls. info@gethudsonvalley.org.

Silhouette of a Woman Fashion Show 7pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Kids Hands On: A Pre-K Art Class 1:30pm-2:30pm. A variety of artistic experiences and processes for little hands and minds. Ages 3-5. $20.

Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Film Big Easy Express 7:15pm. A documentary. $7. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Uptown Fine Arts Music Series 12:15pm-12:45pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston.

338-6759.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Jim Campilongo Electric Trio 7pm. Opening: Margaret McDuffy. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Dance Swing Dance Workshop/Dance 6:30pm. 2 sessions, intermediate workshops at 6:30 and 7:15. $15/$20 both. Dance at 8:30pm.

Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Flashback Fridays Dance Party 9pm. Dance to music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. $5.

Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Events Annual Rhinecliff Halloween Party 6pm-8pm. Rhinecliff Firehouse, Rhinecliff. rhineclifffirerescue.org.

Linda Zimmerman Talk 6:30pm. The local author and ghost investigator will discuss the new volume of her Ghost Investigator series. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Ghost Walk 7pm-9pm. Main Street and the cemetery. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 338-2193.

Film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 7:30pm. With Wurlitzer Organ. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 8pm, midnight. The traditional Halloween presentation with Albany’s shadowcast troupe acting out the film.

The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 7:15pm. $7. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Little Painters 10am-11am. A parent-child art class, ages 18m to 3y. $20/$110 series. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Music 2012 Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Check web for times. Guitar show, featuring fine, contemporary, handmade acoustic guitars and stringed musical instruments, exhibited by their makers. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. www.woodstockinvitational.com.

Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Alexis P. Suter Band 7pm. Opening: Adam Falcon. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Melissa Etheridge 8pm. $38/$58/$78/$103. Soulful rocker. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Madera Vox 8pm. Classical. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

MidNite Image Band 8:30pm. Classic rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

A Woman's Voice - Singing For Our Lives 8:30pm. Putnam/ Northern Westchester Women's Resource Center benefit concert. $45/$40. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Rock and Roll Karaoke 9pm-2am. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Lake Street Dive 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Michael Bram & the Alternators CD Release Party 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Informal Staged Reading 6:30pm. Different readers capture the different flavors of award-winning stories by Ina Claire Gabler. Q&A for the story behind the story. Half Moon Books, Kingston. icgabler@verizon.net.

Reading and Book Signing with Greg Olear, Stephanie St. John, and Robin Antale 7pm. Authors of The Beautiful Anthology, an exciting new collection of essays, stories, poems and art.

Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Workshops Farm to Table: Vegan 101 6pm-8:30pm. $45. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.

SATURDAY 27 Art Sketch the Model 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Masked and Unmasked 6pm-8pm. Works of Frank Gimpaya and Susan Zoon.

Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac. www.lookartgallery.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. 415. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Qi Gong Classes 10am-11am. $10. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. 415. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Reflexology Days 11:30am-4:30pm. Private Foot Reflexology Sessions by appt. $45. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie.

229-9998.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Kate Anjahlia Loye Group: Healing with the Gong 2pm-5pm. Sound healing for ascension: gong song for the soul activation. $40. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774.

Classes Zumba 10am. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenzumbamama@aol.com.

Dance Ballroom by Request with Joe Donato & Julie Martin 9pm-11pm. Lesson at 8pm. Refreshments included. $12. Snap Fitness, LaGrange. 227-2706.

Events Second Annual OrchidFest Call for times. Black Meadow Flora, Chester. 469-5055.

Halloween Costume Breakfast/Open Mike 9am-2pm. Walter Rogowski Farm, Pine Island.

258-4574.

Meet the Animals Tour 10am-2pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties.

336-8447.

Third Annual Sprint for Service 11am. A fundraising race for UlsterCorps. Kids' fun run, 5K, fitness walk. $20/$15 in advance. Williams Lake, Rosendale. www.ulstercorps.org.

Rondout National Historic Walking Tour 11am. Hear how entrepreneurs and immigrants rapidly transformed farmland into a thriving maritime village. $5/$2 children. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Halloween Storytime 11am. Activities, costume parade, in-store trick or treating, and a reading of The Monster’s Monster by Patrick McDonnell. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Douglas Nicholas Reading 2pm. Something Red blends fantasy and mythology to create a world of mystery and fascination. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Full Moon Ecology Walk 6:30pm. A leisurely evening walk through the institute’s paved roads. Cary Institute, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Historic Graveyard Tours by Lantern 7:30pm. $15/$10 ages 10-17/children free. St. James Church, Hyde Park. www.stjameshistoricgraveyardtours.com.

It Was Dark Back Then 8pm-9pm. Tour of the site in the dark. Knox's Headquarters, New Windsor. 561-5498.

Kids Little Painters 10am-11am. A parent-child art class, ages 18m to 3y. $20/$110 series. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Music The Trapps High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www. highfallscafe.com.

2012 Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Check for times. An alternative guitar show, featuring fine, contemporary, handmade acoustic guitars and stringed musical instruments, exhibited by their makers. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. www.woodstockinvitational.com.

The Met: Live in HD Verdi's Otello 11am. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Song Stage 1pm-3pm. Budding songwriters of all ages will have the chance to explore and improve their songwriting and performing skills. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

The Met: Live in HD Verdi's Otello 1pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 3396088.

The Met: Live in HD Verdi's Otello 1pm. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Bob Gluck 5pm. Jazz. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

The Halloween Punk Rock Hoedown 6:45pm. Featuring The Dead Channels, The Armedalite Rifles, Obsolete, The Little Known Facts and Son is a Gunner. $8. 10 North Main Street, Monroe.

Keith Newman 7pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 6473000.

Richard Julian 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Valerie Capers Ensemble 7:30pm. Jazz. Bean Runner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Edge Edge 8pm. "Rising Star" on violin, Jason Kao Hwang and his quartet. $15/$10 seniors and students. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.org.

Jez Lowe 8pm. British singer/songwriter. $20. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 356-3197.

Moonalice 8pm. With special guests Professor Louie and the Cromatix. $15. The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Arrival: The Music of ABBA 8pm. An ABBA tribute show from Sweden touring with ABBA original musicians. $25. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333.

String Sampler Concert 8pm. Cindy Cashdollar and Steve James, Julian Lage, Haig Manoukian, Al Petteway. Part of the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.

Chris Trapper 8:30pm. Folk. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Creation 9pm. Dance music. Copperfield's, Millbrook. 677-8188.

The Chris O'Leary Band 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Akashic Records Revealed 2pm-3:30pm. With June Brought. The recording of our soul imprint revealed. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-9642.

Spoken Word

African Dance 12pm-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Collage & Assemblage Extravaganza 1pm-4:30pm. A playful mixed-media workshop with illustrator Melanie Hall. Ages 16+. $75. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Feldenkrais "Change your Age" Workshop 2:30pm-4:30pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Reading and Book Signing with Da Chen 7pm. Author of My Last Empress. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Theater Hatmaker’s Attic Dinner and Showcase Evening Call for times. Buffet, cash bar, and an evening of music featuring songs performed by the talented cast members of the Hatmaker’s Attic 2012-2013 season. $20. Union Square Restaurant and Bar, Poughkeepsie.

204-0065.

Jason Downs’ Why Am I Not Famous?

8pm. Follows the journey toward fame of a child actor who reaches his peak at age 11. $15. The Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. (917) 279-4064.

Workshops Game of Logging For Landowners 8am-5pm. This Chainsaw Safety Training Level 1 workshop introduces participants to the development of safe chainsaw techniques as well as open face felling. $75. Ghent, Ghent. (518) 392-5252 ext. 205.

Forging and Metal Fabrication 10am-1pm. With sculptor James Garvey. Discover your creativity as you work mainly with steel to learn the basics of forging. $130 series. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.

Photo Play or Is the Barrett House Haunted?

2pm-5:30pm. Photo workshop utilizes long-exposure photography and playing with lighting exposure options to create surreal images. $50. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

SUNDAY 28 Art Impressions of Provence, Tuscany and the Costa Brava 1pm-5pm. Works by Michael Gold. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Body / Mind / Spirit Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 1:30am-1pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Events Second Annual OrchidFest Call for times. Black Meadow Flora, Chester. 469-5055.

Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. beaconfleamarket@gmail.com.

Film The Reach Out Film Showcase 12pm-6:30pm. $15. Seven21 Gallery, Kingston. www.facebook.com/ReachOutFilmShowcase.

The Last of the Haussmans 2pm. National theater live from London. $12.

Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music 2012 Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Check for times. Guitar show, featuring fine, contemporary, handmade acoustic stringed musical instruments, exhibited by their makers. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. Woodstockinvitational.com.

Erik Lawrence Trio 11am. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Bach at Zimmermann's: The Inventions 2:30pm. Berkshire Bach Society. First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(860) 435-4866.

Black Violin 3pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Music Alive!

3pm. $15/$20. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Straight No Chaser 3pm. The a cappella sensation. Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point. 938-4159.

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Featuring local musicians and special guests. $15/$8 students. SPAF, Saugerties. saugertiesperformingartsfactory.com.

1964 The Tribute to Beatles 7pm. Rock. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill.

(914) 739-2333.

Al Stewart with Dave Nachmanoff 7:30pm-8pm. $40/$35. Towne Crier Café, Pawling.

855-1300.

Theater Ancestral Voices 2:30pm. Reading by A.R, Gurney. $12/$10 seniors/$8 students. St George's Episcopal Church, Newburgh.

561-5355.

Workshops

MONDAY 29 Art Figure Drawing: Long Pose with Model 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Qi Gong 11:30am-12:30am. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4:45pm-5:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan: Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Occupy Yourself: The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm-9:30pm. With Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Zumba 6:30pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Belly Dance 7:45pm-9pm. Intermediate. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Film Singin' In The Rain 7pm. Classic Gene Kelly. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Music Jeff Ballard's Fairgrounds 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Celtic Session 7:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

The Outdoors Walk Under the Moon of Falling Leaves 5:30pm. Borden's Pond Conservation Area, Ghent.

(518) 392-5252 ext. 202.

TUESDAY 30 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

The Yoga That YOU Can Do 7pm-8:30pm. Join Siri Chand Kaur to practice the sacred science of Kundalini Yoga. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, intermediate: 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Zumba Fitness 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Events Kingston Farmers' Market Midtown Market 3pm. Kings Inn Site, Kingston. www. kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Kids Media Monsters 4:30pm-6pm. Students use Flip video-making to bring their favorite books to life. In cooperation with Children's Media Project. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Music Arc Attack 7pm. A multimedia performance art group specializing in the production of music through homemade instruments. $20. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333.

Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Residency Series with Studio Stu 8pm-10pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 31 Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tai Chi 11am-12pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-8pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Clay Play 3:45pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Zumba 6pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Beginners Belly Dance 7:45pm-9:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Events Halloween Breakfast Call for times. W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island.

258-4574.

Halloween Costume Party with Breakway 8pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.

Music Halloween Party 9pm. Featuring Kook. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Connor Kennedy Band 9pm. With special guests performing the music of the Allman Brothers Band. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

Mercury Retrograde Election Day

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omething happens this year that’s never happened before in American history: Mercury stations retrograde on the day of a presidential election.

Just about everyone who follows astrology has heard the term “Mercury retrograde.” This is an approximately three-week spell, happening three times a year, wherein Mercury appears to move backwards through the zodiac. It’s a visual illusion—Mercury is actually passing between the Earth and the Sun, creating an apparent rather than real effect. (Mercury’s year is a third the length of ours, hence, this happens three times a year).

I know it seems like a lot more frequently than that. Lots of people say that “Mercury is always retrograde,” which is not true—but Mercury is always Mercury, which means it’s tricky, and requires a combination of cleverness, skill, and respect to handle, whether moving retrograde or direct.

The first and last days of any Mercury retrograde are usually the most challenging.

Those days are called stations, which is short for stationary; one is that station retrograde (when the retrograde begins), and one is the station direct (when it ends). The word station in this context means “changes directions.”

There can be considerable confusion on the day of Mercury station, and in fact for about four days on either side there’s something astrologers refer to as “the Mercury storm.” Think of this as the change of direction rippling out in time. It’s turbulent, just like a ferry pulling into the dock, with the captain putting the engines in reverse to slow the ship down. When that happens, the water is churning in all directions.

On the day of a Mercury station, that’s how the mental and psychic energy feels. We get the worst, and the most interesting, manifestations of the retrograde on the days that it begins and ends—and that happens next on November 6, the day of the 2012 presidential election, when Mercury stations retrograde in early Sagittarius.

Someone on the Planet Waves research team compared all the dates of retrogrades to the dates of presidential elections, and discovered that Mercury had never before stationed retrograde on a the day of a presidential election.

And it’s only stationed direct once. Take a guess what year that was.

It was 2000, when Al Gore won the election and George Bush took office. Remember the chaos that surrounded that election? It really was classic Mercury station material.

And it’s not a good precedent. Clearly, it was a terrible outcome; we ended up with a president who owed nothing to the people, because the people did not elect him. The Supreme Court elected him, in part by halting a recount. (The station direct happened in Libra, the scales—an appropriate sign for describing judicial intervention.)

Mercury stationing retrograde on Election Day begins a long process of the retrograde, just in the last hours of the voting process. All of the tallying, the news reporting, the certifications, and the legal challenges, will happen not just under a retrograde; most of it will happen under the influence of the station and the subsequent retrograde.

This is unlikely to be pretty.

We are looking at the possibility of irregularities that could take weeks or months to sort out, and where the truth may never be known. The results may seem to change suddenly. With the retrograde happening in Sagittarius (another sign associated with the courts), there are likely to be legal challenges. My colleagues and I at Planet Waves have been analyzing this chart for a year; it seems to illustrate the meltdown of the electoral process.

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We don’t really need astrology to see this coming. Most of us are familiar with Republican efforts to block Democratic voters in many states, including purging the voter roles, blocking early voting in Democratic counties, blocking Sunday voting places where black people go from church straight to the polls, requiring identification that many old people, students, and poor people lack, and numerous other games. These fraudulent efforts are being conducted in the name of allegedly preventing fraud; yet the only fraud we’ve actually seen has been in years when a Republican won, particularly 2000.

The organization Common Cause lists Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia as states vulnerable to problems. For example, there could be poll watchers whose job is really to bully people at the polls, and block them from voting. Common Cause wrote in a recent report that these are “states where races are expected to be competitive, which makes voters in those states particularly vulnerable to challenges.” Quoting one Tea Party voter reform activist, we hear they want to make voting “like driving and seeing the police following you.”

All these efforts conclude on a presidential Election Day—the first in history— where Mercury stations retrograde. It makes perfect sense, really, at least as an illustration and even pointing to a result.

There’s an especially interesting factor in the chart for the retrograde, which suggests the potential for even more complications than normal. Mercury will be in Sagittarius, and Jupiter will be in Gemini. If you know a little astrology you might recognize that Mercury will be in Jupiter’s sign and Jupiter will be in Mercury’s sign. That’s a rare condition called mutual reception.

It can have several effects. One is that the planets can seem to trade places in their influence. We have to look carefully what’s coming from what direction, who is projecting and who might be blaming someone with doing with what they just did.

Another interpretation is that of a hostage situation. The two planets are in a sense held captive in a sign they have little in common with.

A third interpretation is that this indicates in which seemingly different political theories and approaches actually support one another. In an election, we’re supposed to be differentiating between the candidates, but we don’t usually notice the ways in which their approaches and conduct are similar or identical.

We tend to overlook the ways that boundaries that are breached during Republican administrations become business as usual during Democratic administrations. Many were upset or even outraged at Guantanamo Bay, saying it represented the most oppressive conduct of the Bush/Cheney administration. Obama promised to change that, and he’s left it in place. There are many examples of how this happens.

And this is described by the planets representing the opposing forces being in one another’s signs, locked in a kind of spiral that they cannot get out of. Part of that spiral is the extent to which corporate money, in vast amounts, has been infused into this election, thanks to the Citizens United ruling of 2010.

Behind the façade of ideology is the fact that “the business of America is business,” and I don’t mean the local ice cream shop. I mean the companies that can afford to buy elections

The Last Weeks of the Race Let’s look at the few weeks prior to the election, which are just as interesting as Mercury stationing retrograde. On October 6, one month before the election, Mars arrives in Sagittarius. Currently, there is a power source in Sagittarius that’s in part responsible for all the religious fanaticism we’re seeing in the world, including the strange beliefs driving the American right wing, and is mirror image, what we call “extremist Islamists.”

Most people think these Koran-thumping Muslims are weird; I say that the American fundamentalist movement is far stranger. We know about their apocalyptic thinking, the notion that the world is ending and that Jesus is coming back and therefore, let’s help things along and have a big for-profit, misogynistic hate orgy.

Mars in Sagittarius (the planet of aggression in the sign of religion) is going to heat this up, and we’re very likely to see numerous unusual outbursts of religious fervor in October and early November. This will be on both sides of the ideological divide Sagittarius is also the sign of international affairs; Mars trekking across this sign in the last weeks of the election and for the week after looks like some kind of contentious international event. In the first week of November—right before the election—Mars is right in the thick of the Sagittarius mix, making contact with a group of small planets that carry themes of cruelty, warfare, grief, and mourning. Are we looking at some outsized terrorism event? An assassination? A “new” war?

We are also in the midst of the 2012 aspect—Uranus square Pluto, which spans from mid-2012 through early 2015. The charts of Iran are aligned with this aspect, and the current astrology is coming right at them. Some form of manipulated international event is likely to influence the election, with everyone standing in shock wondering how this could have happened.

If you ask me, this chart and the scenarios that surround it have as much in common with the election of 1980 as they do with the election of 2000. The 1980 election was influenced by the hostage crisis in Iran. Reagan and Bush cut a deal with the terrorists, who kept the hostages through the election and then released them just as Reagan was being sworn into office on Jan. 20, 1981. This was a facet of what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal, which finally bubbled up to the surface in Reagan’s sixth year in office.

On one level, all of this chaos is a ruse. It’s being used by people who have other agendas, those that thrive in conditions where order has been broken up into a kind of cultivated anarchy. The chart for the 2012 election is a warning to be aware of the agendas that are at play.

As author Chris Hedges wrote after the Citizens United decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections, “Liberals, socialists, trade unionists, independent journalists, and intellectuals, many of whom were once important voices in our society, have been silenced or targeted for elimination within corporate-controlled academia, the media and government.”

For this reason, he says, political discourse ignores or marginalizes nearly all of the brightest thinkers. Even if they get into the media, can they count on people knowing who they are? I was once watching an interview with Ramsey Clark, who was identified as a “peace activist,” not as the former attorney general of the United States.

Hedges continues, “The uniformity of opinion is reinforced by the skillfully orchestrated mass emotions of nationalism and patriotism, which paints all dissidents as ‘soft’ or ‘unpatriotic.’ The ‘patriotic’ citizen, plagued by fear of job losses and possible terrorist attacks, unfailingly supports widespread surveillance and the militarized state.

This means no questioning of the $1 trillion in defense-related spending. It means that the military and intelligence agencies are held above government, as if somehow they are not part of government.

“The most powerful instruments of state power and control are effectively removed from public discussion. We, as imperial citizens, are taught to be contemptuous of government bureaucracy, yet we stand like sheep before Homeland Security agents in airports and are mute when Congress permits our private correspondence and conversations to be monitored and archived. We endure more state control than at any time in American history.”

So what are we to do? Pay attention. Yes, vote. Help bring out the vote; encourage others (especially young people) to vote and try to take at least one other person to the polls, who might not normally go.

Question what you see and hear in the media. Question your own opinions. Educate others about what you learn. Use every tool at your disposal to get the word out. Take a personal stand and refuse to believe lies, and refuse to be manipulated. Research the truth yourself, and try to figure out what’s really going on. Yes, Mercury will be retrograde, and it may be hard to get to the bottom of things. But astrology is no excuse.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes ARIES (March 20-April 19) The time has arrived to carefully consider the role of religion in your life, in society, and in the place where the two meet—which is where you make your most personal choices within the context of society. Your charts tell the story of someone who goes from making their decisions more or less autonomously, who is to then suddenly making them in the context of numerous outside influences that vie for which of them will run your life. One of those seemingly outside forces is religion, as if you have some kind of stunning awakening, conversion experience or revival of belief. This could be productive, and who knows, it might be, though your charts describe a scenario of both getting high on power and also of restricting your emotional and erotic freedom in the name of purity. I suggest you start with the notion that there is no such thing; even under laboratory conditions, actual purity is rarely attainable. Within the psyche, there is so much churning around and such a mix of elements that denial would be a more suitable word. I suggest you save yourself a lot of conflict and remember that you’re human. As such, you have both sexual impulses and also the impulse to a relationship with the mysteries. We’re basically forced to convert “the mysteries” to some notion of God or higher power, who invariably wants you to be a better person. It’s time to question whether any of this is really true.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20)

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Saturn enters your opposite sign Scorpio this month, and that’s a dependable cue that you’re entering an extended phase of housekeeping in your relationships. As with many things Saturn, this is a study in boundaries, which is another way of saying agreements. Part of this experience will be practical: who in your life belongs there? With whom do you have wholesome and healthy connections, and with whom do you have unhealthy or destructive attachments? What are you going to do about them? You may notice that you’re attracting older, “more serious” people who you may recognize have something to teach you about yourself and about life. They will hold up a mirror to the aging process, through which you will be invited to make some decisions about how you want to grow older. Another aspect is conceptual, and even philosophical. What does commitment mean to you? What is bonding? What is the nature of attachment? What does jealousy have to do with any of this? Perhaps most significantly, what role to you allow others to have in your life? One of the most beneficial things you’ll gain from the experience of Saturn in your opposite sign is that of learning how not to give away your power. You may feel like the universe is taking some extreme measures to keep you in alignment with yourself, though remember how challenging it is for you to change in response to any factor besides your own will—and even that can take a miracle.

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(May 20-June 21)

One role that Jupiter plays within our solar system is to absorb stray asteroids and comets, and as a result there are fewer that might strike the Earth. Currently Jupiter is in your sign—and there’s boundless energy coming at you from your opposite sign, Sagittarius. You’re subject to these incoming influences, which will arrive in a diversity of forms, and what they have in common is high energy. Some will be obvious and bold; others will be subtle, and change you in ways that you would never have predicted. As for the obvious, this may come in a diversity of offers to play, to engage with different beliefs and to wage a social crusade or two. As for the less obvious: Pay attention when others are inviting or enticing you to compromise your ethics or to rearrange your moral structure. Such may come in the form of “Well, now that I’ve had you do this (against your ethics), you may as well do this (even more against your ethics).” Remember that you become like the people you have sex with (this is based on a direct transfer of energy), so if you’re wondering why you’re becoming the way you are, pay attention to who you’re waking up with. The thing to remember is that for the next two months, you’re going to be deeply susceptible to influences that come from outside yourself. The key to managing this is choosing which of these influences to accept, and which to reject—at the first possible opportunity.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22)

Heed early warnings, especially where sexual boundaries are concerned.

This isn’t about saying no; it’s more like saying maybe, until you understand your environment and everyone’s involvement in your life. Then, do what’s appropriate based on your understanding of your situation. At first this may seem like you’re having a limit placed on your fun. Actually two other things are happening. One is a limit being placed on the new karma you incur based on choices you make. Whatever you encounter is sufficient for a moment of reflection, and to put you on notice where you need to be more vigilant.

Second is that you are about to discover ways to channel your vital force in a more structured way.

In a sense, you have to get organized about what you want, and make sure you are also aware of what you don’t want—then make your choices using this as your guide. The thing to bear in mind all the time is that whatever theory of relationships we may subscribe to, sex leads to something deeper.

That depth could be love, and it could be a diversity of other means of human bonding, connection, or entanglement. Saturn is the lord of time, and it’s essential that you use time to your benefit, in order to save time. Taking a little while to test the true nature of your relationship to another person, before you dive in, would be well advised in this moment and for the next couple of years.

Planet Waves Horoscopes LEO (July 22-August 23) Saturn’s ingress this month into Scorpio, your solar 4th house (security, home base, family) is about the use of space, and its relationship to your emotional grounding. Scorpio is a somewhat strange energy to have on your house of security, since it’s all about plunging into the deep dark waters of the psyche, and coming out a different person (something you do fairly regularly, and you’re safe knowing that you can). Seen another way, it’s the image of living with a swamp in the basement of your house, wondering if you’re going to get swallowed, or if the whole house is going to sink—and calling that shelter. Saturn making its way through this region of your chart for the next 10 seasons is about getting onto dry ground. It’s about shoring up your foundations and clearing out inner space. As part of this journey, you’re going to stabilize emotionally, which will be good for you and the people you care about. As part of this emotional stability, you will be doing an inventory of family influences from your early childhood, and making sure that you have them contained and confined to your own inner space—this way, you won’t pass them on to anyone younger than you are. One of the overarching themes of this transit is learning how to feel safe. The combination of Saturn and Scorpio may combine to do this in strange ways—but if you work with these influences, you will get the job done.

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VIRGO (August 23-September 22) From time to time, you’re subject to bouts of what feels like emotional chaos, insecurity and deep questioning. This can compromise your happiness and, at worst, limit your ability to function in the world. In truth, these episodes are about your inner spiritual life, which means it’s deeper than you may think. If the issues were just emotional, it would be a lot easier to address them. Yet you can count yourself lucky when you have any real insight into your situation, or meet anyone who has an actual grasp on what you’re going through (rather than speculating or guessing). Your sign is said to be earthy, intellectual, and focused on rationality, though the truth is that you have your vital roots in the world of spirit, a dimension that most of the world denies the existence of. My sense is that you’ve been processing the issues using your intellectual capacity as best you can. However, to effectively learn from, grow from and actually cope with what emerges over the next few weeks, you will need to go directly into the deepest available level of your psyche: your core spiritual identity, or what you might think of as soul level. There’s a lot of competition for what that really means, though I can say at least this: soul level embraces everything and does not deny anything. Therefore, any feeling or memory that comes up for you is normal. Soul level is oriented on the greatest good for all concerned. And there are no problems that don’t come with solutions—as long as you state the problem in a way that makes sense.

LIBRA

(September 22-October 23)

There’s always a difference between theory and reality, and you’re about to find out what it is—in reality and not in theory. Through most of the month, your ruling planet Venus is trekking across Virgo, where you do lots of contemplating, ruminating, and a very precise kind of fantasizing.

Toward the end of the month, Venus emerges into your sign, where it starts making aspects to planets that have already been stirring a revolution in your life. You’re likely to see how little a real-time experiment has in common with all of your (admittedly) fascinating concepts and plans.

You can expect the pace of events to pick up rapidly. You can expect to go deeper into questions that have been nagging you, though about which you have only skimmed the surface. And there is something about allowing your relationships to change you. I suspect this may be a sticking point for you, as one of your goals is stability and change happening only in a controlled environment, and only with your consent. That’s more for the laboratory, and you’ll be there for a little while longer; then comes an extended field experience. As you’re going through all of this, a new theme emerges in your life: understanding the reasons you do and do not respect yourself. Most people know there is something called self-esteem, but what, exactly, is it made of? How does it express itself, in its positive and negative manifestations? In the long run, everything hinges on this—and I do mean everything.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) You are approaching one of the boldest “get serious” moments of your life, a process spanning nearly three years. When you get to the other side, you’ll have acquired additional self-knowledge, privileges, and responsibilities of adulthood. This is about Saturn in your sign, which arrives on October 5 and departs in early 2015. I’ve described Saturn in your Sun sign (or in your rising sign) as an extended phase of coming to terms with yourself. Said another way, this transit is about becoming your own inner authority, something that few people ever do—and which is much likelier with Saturn in your neighborhood. One sad story of our society is people refusing to grow up; other people continue to have authority over their choices and even their opinions. Saturn in your sign can feel like authority figures or seemingly more powerful people imposing themselves on you. This is a reminder to take authority over all of those aspects of your life, and many more where you anticipate this kind of involvement by others. There are structured and organized ways to do this. Many people have described therapy as a kind of “reparenting” process, at the end of which you’ve taken over the role previously delegated to them. This is what I’m talking about, in whatever form works for you. You have to answer to some authority—whether you provide it, or whether someone or something outside yourself shows up and imposes it on you. The choice is yours.

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CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) This is the time to be responsible not to your own ambitions, but to your community. I know that this idea is pissing into the wind of the privatization, privation and exclusion that is all the political rage now. Greed worshippers can keep their lies; not only don’t they influence you; you must stand up to this false philosophy, both in yourself and in society. Establish a commons in your life: hold he space for an authentic, equitable exchange of resources. This is leadership in action: There are goals and results involved.

There are competing interests involved. There are those who will immediately take advantage of any fair system, and you will have to address that factor as well. Note that there are aspects of this that will happen in your “official” capacity (such as your professional role) and outside of any official capacity, and perhaps even out of sight of others. Another way to describe the aspects that are developing in your chart is that you are shifting your concept of self-interest into a full embrace of the conditions of the world around you. Your role is to use your power, your knowledge and your experience to uphold the personal values you have stated many times are precious to you.

Acting on those values requires taking a chance, not the least of which is wondering what all those greedy people will think of you when you insist on fairness and integrity. What they think of you is their issue; what you do is yours.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Saturn finally changes signs this month, ingressing Scorpio, where it will be into 2015. This is your 10th solar house, the one associated with your highest ambitions, your reputation, and your true professional calling.

Saturn through the 10th is sometimes associated with having the golden touch of King Midas; however, for you there may be some extra challenges involved. As you hear and heed your calling, expect some adversity. Expect a tempering process, where you refine your goals. Imagine that your life is a theater production, where you do the performance, listen to the director’s notes, rewrite, rehearse, and do the show again the next night—over and over again, with no intention of just “settling in” to a routine. Bear in mind that the world does not owe you success: not because you’re a good person, not because you’re talented and not because you choose to develop any useful skill. Success is the product of all of these factors, and something else: your determination, and a commitment to be true to your values. This is the kind of success that doesn’t happen overnight, and to which you must dedicate yourself for much longer than you might think. Most of the early progress will be invisible, and you may be convinced you’re in the midst of a setback. It’s nothing of the kind—though you may see it that way unless one of your top priorities is to use anything and everything that you experience as a resource.

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Know when you’re coming from belief, and when you’re coming from knowledge. Somewhere in the high 90th percentile of people live like they have no idea what I am talking about, though you cannot afford the luxury of ignorance. I say this because you run the risk of being driven by belief, at the expense of what is true and verifiable. It’s not any excuse that many believe “there is no such thing as the truth.” That’s a good assignment for students to discuss in postmodernist philosophy class. I mean verifying in the most practical ways what you believe against facts that you can identify. I mean reading the fine print, reading between the lines, and remembering what people say to you. I also mean belief in the biggest sense—for example, your relationship to your cosmology. I’ve only heard about five hundred people tell me they weren’t influenced by religion, while they spend their lives acting out the irrationality, guilt and obsessive conduct that can have few other sources. Therefore, reconcile your ideas about life with the actual facts about how you treat people and how you want to be treated. One thing about beliefs is that they tend to be fixed like epoxy, or change every 10 minutes. I suggest you be suspicious in either case, and engage yourself in a reasoning process of evolving your ideas consciously as new information becomes available. Don’t just move on and forget; remember where you’ve been, because before long, it will become significant.

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Sexuality has always been your portal into your spiritual side—or rather, sex and the cosmic questions that it evokes, and the inner mysteries to which they grant you access. Yet this organic approach to existence is denied and resisted by many forces in society, including those that would control sex to promote religion, those that use sex for commercial gain, and anyone whose approach to natural human feelings is moralistic (controlling rather than exploratory). Even as adults, we can be constantly entangled in the control dramas and moralizing of others, which include scandal and jealousy. It’s fair to say that unless we intervene, for all our lives, someone else seems to be in charge of our sexuality, and this extends into our creative power, our perspective on life, death, and relationships. The time has arrived to live your way of life with full commitment. That means taking charge, and deciding what is right or wrong for you. If you don’t step in and take over yourself, it’s likely that someone else will. This is the Saturn principle in operation: where you lack discipline, boundaries, and structure, these things will be imposed on you.

If you have discipline, and take a realistic, honest, long-term (and, notably, not a hedonistic) approach to your sexuality, you will have done something that few humans ever accomplish: To be the master of your vital force, your creativity, and your emotional drives, rather than their slave.

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An untitled photograph from “Clouds,” an exhibit of work by Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

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The nomadic wife-husband pair, born in Poland and New Zealand, respectively, has been collaborating since 1976 on a well-regarded body of nature photography. The couple, now settled in the Catskills, has an impressive publication record that includes assignments for National Geographic too numerous to list, and six books (Momatiuk and Eastcott share credit for every bit of the work they do! It’s a nice symmetrical play on discerning distinctions in their work and their shared biography.)

They travel incessantly to places that are difficult to get to and somewhat less difficult to fathom from the comfort of our common surroundings: Patagonia, fire-charred Rockies, trenches and canyons in New Zealand.

The photographs function like digital prints of ceaselessly narrative and contemplative paintings. The work suggests that there’s more to see in the simple clouds we see every day. These pictures are reflections not on some universalism that clouds, like other things, are indistinguishable whatever their names, but of the situations and contexts in which they form and appear. These pictures are events. “Clouds” will be on view at the Center for Photography at Woodstock through October 14. Cpw.org. Portfolio: Momatiukeastcott.com.

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