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Community Notebook
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14 local luminary: Erik Kiviat
44 A town with Roots: Warwick
A talk with the executive director of Hudsonia about social-ecological systems.
news and politics 20 while you were sleeping An interesting wrinkle in the faulty voting booth controversy of 2007 is just one story in this month's roundup that you may have missed.
21 beinhart’s body politic: The Flimflam tax plan Who is really getting a break in Romney's tax plan?
68 how deep is the valley: The rondout valley
Meet the towns that stretch between the Shawangunk Ridge and the Catskills.
Holiday gift guide 76 inspired gift ideas for the season
Health care 97 incision concision
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26 saving shadow Lawn
Agriculture provides the backbone, body, and soul of this thriving farming town.
A look into the process of renovating and restoring a High Falls historic property.
Insight into the procedure and benefits of single-incision laparoscopic surgery.
whole living guide
33 gather thy woodies 'round (then leave them outside in the cold)
100 power to the plant eaters
Michelle Sutton discusses how potted trees and shrubs rise to the challenge.
River towns 39 holidays on the river Find out what to do and where to shop with our events and shopping guides.
Holiday entertaining 76 be The Host Who Boasts
Holiday party tips from local industry professionals that are easy and elegant.
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A sign painted on the side of a building at Bellvale Farm Creamery in Warwick. community pages: warwick
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Are you ready to unwrap the health and wellness gifts of a plant-based diet?
102 flowers fall: Non-Duality for President Bethany Saltman, an ex-self-identified-radical-feminist, discusses being a girl.
Community Resource Guide 23 education Educational services in the Hudson Valley. 90 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 92 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 104 whole living Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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54 Gallery & museum GUIDe
86 the drunken apple: a cider renaissance in the hudson valley
58 music: eye was there Kate Simon's photographs are some of the most iconic images in popular music. Previews of Adam Arcuragi and the Lupine Chorale Society, FĂźxa, Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble, Four Nations Ensemble, and the Blues Project in Nightlife Highlights. Reviews of Timedog by Gilles Malkine, Confluence by Keith Pray, and Simon Felice by Simon Felice.
62 books: after the flood Nina Shengold talks with author and producer Daniel Wolff about his new book, The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back.
64 book reviews Reviews of Renato the Painter by Eugene Mirabelli, My Last Empress by Da Chen, and Nick & Jake: An Epistolary Novel by Tad Richards and Jonathan Richards. Plus Short Takes.
66 Poetry Poems by A. J. Huffman, Amy Glavasich, Bonnie Thompson Enes, Brian Ricci, Catherine Wald, Doug Draime, JLSchneider, Katherine Estes, Kristin Lukasik, Mark B. Fried, Noel Shafi, Randy Holden, Rylie Jones, Sari Krosinsky, and Sparrow. Edited by Phillip X Levine.
128 parting shot
Local orchards respond to the renewed demand for America's oldest drink.
the forecast 110 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 109 The Vanaver Caravan will perform "Pastures of Plenty: Woody Guthrie in Dance and Music" on November 3 at SUNY New Paltz. 111 Boscobel presents "Reflections Renewed: Hudson River Images Revisited." 112 Janisse Ray will give a talk about her new book The Seed Underground. 113 Pulitzer Prize-finalist Diane Ackerman comes to SUNY Ulster on November 8. 115 John Waters brings his one-man holiday show to the Bardavon on December 1. 116 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner comes to Kingston. 118 Choreographer Jorelle PomĂŠ returns to the stage after a near-death accident. 119 Orchestra of Exiles screens on November 16 at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. 120 The NEWvember Festival features new work by six promising playwrights.
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these men have issues Meet the natal horoscopes of Obama and Romney.
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Visionary artist Alex Grey depicts the world through spiritual realism, where seethrough life forms are set in dreamlike landscapes surrounded by cosmic energy.
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MASTER OF ARTS I N TEACH I NG PROGRAM
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The John Cage Trust celebrates the maverick composer’s centennial year with a program that • TheCage’s program completed either a one-year orinstrument. two-year explores interest may in radiobe as both a medium in of transmission and a musical
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INFORMATION Credo in Us (1942) SESSIONS Saturday, February 9, at 11:30 a.m. The City Wears a Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Slouch Hat (1942) Computation, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Wednesday, February 13, at 5:30 p.m. Bard Hall, 410 West 58 Street, New York City To register, call 845-758-7145 or e-mail mat@bard.edu. www.bard.edu/mat
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In a self-portrait sketch, Maud and Miska Petersham sit facing each other at their drawing desks in their Woodstock home, leaning in over their sketchpads. The shape made by their rounded backs and outstretched legs resembles a heart—a fitting image for these partners in work and in life. Publishing over 100 books, the Petershams were among the most prolific children’s book authors of the early 20th century. In 1946, they won the prestigious Caldecott Medal for their compilation of American rhymes and jingles, The Rooster Crows. Lawrence Webster offers a celebratory retrospective with 146 color illustrations in her first book, Under the North Light:The Life andWork of Maud and Miska Petersham (Woodstock Arts, 2012). Miska brought to his work a rigorous technical training from the Royal National School for Applied Arts in Budapest. Maud brought to hers a whimsical humor. Miska was right-handed; Maud, left. Maud started drawings, Miska finished them. Despite their seeming contradictions, the Petershams were an interdependent duo, sharing credit for their entire body of work. When asked in an interview if they had ever worked on a book without each other’s help, they responded, “We couldn’t do that.” The Petershams' work encompasses a wide variety of themes and styles. Illustrations of immigrants and travelers speak to their global worldview, while their “This Is America” series reveals national pride. The Story Book of Things We Use depicts elements of a burenoning technological world, but they also published five books illustrating biblical stories. Vivid fairytale atmospheres feel as fantastical and faraway as they do warm and inviting. “You feel like you could climb into one of those pictures and live there,” Webster says, as in the recognizable setting of the Woodstock village green with Overlook Mountain in the background, which is featured on the cover. The pages of Maud and Miska's stories often spilled out into their lives. Webster, whose grandparents were close friends of the Petershams, recalls costume trunks and an unrivaled toy collection in their home studio. “On rainy days you could go in the attic and make up plays and stories,” she says. “It was kind of a story book place.” An exhibit of Maud and Miska Petersham's work curated by Lawrence Webster, “Inspired by the Northlight,” will be at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum through December 31. Woodstockart.org A video interview with Lawrence Webster about the Petershams by Stephen Blauweiss can be viewed at Chronogram.com. —Jennifer Gutman
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To the Editor: Whenever I am in Kent, I pick up your periodical, and usually regret it. In this most recent case, involving your October number, my usual irritation turned to anger. This was, without a doubt, the single dumbest issue of a magazine I have yet perused. Let’s start with your column, in which you boast about your poor driving, and claim that you “casually” speed up when you see a school bus warning flag go up. At first I thought you were kidding, but apparently not. If that is not the single most irresponsible thing I have seen from an editor of a magazine, I am not sure what is. In what part of your universe is it considered cool to endanger the lives of schoolchildren? I would not want to inhabit that region. Perhaps you think that portraying yourself as a whacked-out klutz is endearing. It isn’t. Next we come to one Larry Beinhart, and his column on “chickenhawks.” If I understand the gist of his ravings, it’s that Mitt Romney wants to defend this country, and didn’t serve in the military. However, Mitt Romney has never sent one American soldier to his death in war. He was a governor of Massachusetts and worked on the Olympics. President Obama, on the other hand, has sent thousands of Americans to die in Iraq and Afghanistan. And President Obama has not served a day in the military. As for the vice president, let’s turn to Wikipedia: “Biden received five student draft deferments during this period, with the first coming in late 1963 and the last in early 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War. In April 1968, he was reclassified by the Selective Service System as not available for service due to having had asthma as a teenager.” A distinguished military career, certainly. As for Hilary Clinton, her record of military service is also curiously unavailable. Harry Reid’s Wikipedia page also curiously fails to mention any military service of his. Therefore, none of the top Democrats in the US government even served in the military, much less in war. Was that not relevant information for your diligent fact checkers? Frankly, you disgust me. —John Motavalli, via e-mail
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Anyone who has been a parent, or cared for babies beginning to grow, perceives the undeniable uniqueness of each child.The traits and qualities of their persons first make a general appearance, and then gradually come into focus as the child grows. Witnessing this multifoliate unfolding makes theoretical questions of nature versus nurture disappear like mosquitoes in a hurricane. The qualities of the essence of a person (essence meaning their innate pattern or unconditioned being, as in the French être, “to be”) is what makes her unique. Like mixtures of different proportions of ingredients, they comprise what she is, and determine the special blend of emanations she is meant to produce in the practice of her life. This is not to be confused with the simulacrum of uniqueness foisted by a society more concerned with appearance than substance—one in which we are trained to believe the collection of skills, knowledge, and even choice of brands are what set us apart from the crowd. No, this emphasis on the conditioned and learned is the dis-ease of the epoch, which, judging by its effect, is designed to overwhelm and even abolish the inborn essence, the nature, the seed of true potential of each unique being. Indeed we live in a dark time when we can count on the names of things to actually signify the opposite of what is meant in practice. Take, for instance, what is called education. The word comes from the Latin root educare—“to draw out”—suggesting that real education begins with noticing and then acknowledging the innate qualities, strengths, proclivities, and most importantly, interests of a child; and only then offering opportunities and knowledge to develop capacities and capabilities in response to what the child’s creative self is drawn to. In other words, real learning begins with interest and native ability, and only then are tools provided to help the person glorify her essence, by learning what she is meant to learn, and doing what she is meant to do. Meanwhile, what we see in the conventional education of children is a practice of forcing as much data that can fit in their tender brains, and training them to repeat it like so many talking parrots. Not only is the being or essence of children not seen, valued, or developed, but indeed it would seem that there is a conspiracy to kill off the inherent uniqueness, creativity, and otherwise exterminate interest in children as quickly as possible before it becomes too dangerous to the machine. Looking at the results of “education,” what we see is the production of people who know how to stand in line; will follow orders; and believe and regurgitate what they are told about themselves and the world by “authorities.” Which is to say, judging by its effects, the intention of conventional education is not to develop the inherent uniqueness or special purpose of individual beings, but to homogenize, control, and then insidiously paint a veneer of individuality comprised of a meager multiple-choice set of descriptions and consumables that the pitiable “educated” can falsely claim as their own. The tragedy (and terror, if we are to feel the full brunt of it) is that the most accomplished among us, the most respected in this upside-down society—our revered scientists, academics, politicians, artists, and, of course businesspeople—though full of well-organized ideas, techniques, skills, and abilities, are not themselves. They may appear animate, but in reality are undeveloped or dead within. An old Greek philosopher named Protagoras famously said “Man [meaning human beings] is the measure of the world.” This has meanings on different levels, but most importantly it means that the world has significance in light of our own individuality. We know the world not through data about it, but through what we are—living in and through essence. It is important to imagine the qualities that a person established in his own mature individuality embodies. For instance, a person who has come to be who he is is not concerned with the judgments of others against him. He has nothing to prove. He is aware of and connected to others, but not out of fear they may not give him what he wants, or fail to recognize the picture he holds of himself. He is an individual—one who not only knows who he is, but more importantly, is who he is. His life is a creative self-motivated fulfillment of his inborn pattern—but mature, like a good, ripe cheese or a well-aged whisky. A person with a real, stable individuality is truly unique, without trying to appear so. She is empowered from within to follow her interest and expend her creative force with an understanding that her unrepeatable being has a purpose in the scheme of the cosmos and she is not compelled to be anyone’s master or anyone’s slave; she does not need to dominate or submit to have a sense of existence. It is not a relative existence. Her existence is her own. —Jason Stern
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Local Luminary Erik Kiviat "Don’t use a GPS to get here!” warns an e-mail from Erik Kiviat, executive director of Hudsonia. The nonprofit environmental research and education institute is housed at the Bard College Ecology Field Station, at the foot of a steep unpaved road that follows the tumbling Sawkill Creek from the campus to Tivoli Bays. The small building is a stone’s throw from the water’s edge, next to a rack with a dozen weathered canoes. Its offices double as library stacks for such subjects as Ornithology and Herpetology; metal filing cabinets house the skulls, pelts, and archived dried plants of Hudsonia’s regional herbarium. There’s even a limp stuffed raven. Kiviat, a compact, wiry man with gray hair pulled back in a rubber band, unlocks the door to the field station’s deck, where he takes a seat with his back to the sun. “I’m outdoors a lot,” he explains. This is a bit of an understatement. During the next three workdays, he’ll be studying bog turtles in Amenia, doing wetlands research in the New Jersey Meadowlands, and visiting Newtown Creek, a pollution-choked estuary between Brooklyn and Queens that’s been designated an EPA Superfund site. Last week, he attended the Fourth International EcoSummit conference in Columbus, Ohio, as one of 1,700 delegates from 76 countries. There was, he reports, “a lot of discussion of socialecological systems—the interactions between people and the rest of nature.” Dr. Kiviat and his colleagues have monitored such interactions for more than three decades, as witnessed by such News From Hudsonia headlines as “Non-Target Impacts of Herbicides”; “Quantifying the Ecological Effects of Hudson Valley Sprawl”; and “Fracking and Biodiversity: Unaddressed Issues in the New York Debate.” As a nonadvocacy public interest organization, Hudsonia’s website declares, “We specialize in acquiring and interpreting accurate, up-to-date, site specific information, and we provide the science that other organizations and individuals need for decision making.” Hudsonia’s Biodiversity Resources Center offers training to nonbiologists who make land use decisions, including town planning boards, land trust staff, and conservation commissions. It’s also created detailed habitat maps and biodiversity reports covering over 400 square miles of Hudson Valley towns and watersheds. In other words, Erik Kiviat is the go-to guy if you want to learn—down to the last wood thrush, Blanding’s turtle, or spicebush swallowtail—what’s in our collective backyard. —Nina Shengold How long have you lived in the Hudson Valley? I was born in New York City. When I was one, my parents bought an old farm in Dutchess County and turned it into a children's nature camp called Jug Hill. You co-founded Hudsonia in 1981 with fellow biologists Bob Schmidt and Jim Stapleton. What was the impetus? We were all ecologists who were involved in other kinds of institutions—nonprofits, consulting firms, or working as independent consultants. We wanted to create an organization that didn’t have the politics and sorts of constraints that government agencies, universities, and consulting firms have, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Originally, we wanted to work on renewable energy and alternative technologies. We did an early project on apple pomace—the solids left over from cider production. Southeast Ulster County has three big cider mills generating as much as 25 tons of pomace a day. Landfills didn’t want it. They didn’t know what to do with it. We did three years of interdisciplinary research, also involving an economist and a composting expert.
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What was the takeaway? Pomace is a good feedstock for the anaerobic digestion processes that generate methane, which can be used as a biogas—remember the “chickenshit cars” in the ‘80s that ran on animal manure? It’s also compostable, and can be dried and burned for fuel. But it’s not cost-effective to move it far from the source; if you have to transport it long distances, it can use more energy than it creates. We did three separate pomace projects. There was a lot of interest from other apple-producing regions in Washington State, Hungary, South Africa, and Japan. What are some of Hudsonia’s other energy-related projects? We’ve spent years working with the plant phragmites [the common reed, an invasive species]. It has a lot of bioenergy potential. We’ve worked with Bard students and an entrepreneur in Montreal, trying to do everything we could with phragmites, including fuel pellets for pellet stoves. Switchgrass is being cultivated for pellet use. You don’t have to cultivate phragmites—it’s out there, and people want less of it. How about hydrofracking? Hudsonia has submitted two papers on fracking and biodiversity to scientific journals, and submitted our 2011 newsletter article to the DEC as part of the gathering of public comments. It’s a very, very big environmental issue, and it’s having an impact on plants and animals that isn’t being studied. Most of the concern, and it’s very legitimate, is about impacts on human health. We're putting together a grant proposal to do research at fracking sites in northeast Pennsylvania. Scientific research, not based on how you feel, or showing the scariest faucet with the most methane, or what gas drillers think or antifrackers think. Let’s find out what the facts are. Let’s look at streams that have fracking systems and streams that don’t. Let’s take data 25 meters from the well pad and 100 meters away. Pennsylvania’s development has been completely unplanned in terms of biodiversity. There’s been no study of impacts. Tell me about your townwide mapping projects. We just presented our habitat map to the Woodstock town board. We’ve mapped more than half of Dutchess County, parts of Marbletown, and some areas in Orange County, including a corridor along the Woodbury Creek that runs through the Woodbury outlets. How do you gather the data? It’s a 15-month project using existing data and aerial photography including stereoscopic photography—like a glorified 3D movie viewer—to interpret different habitats using GIS [geographic information systems] software. With landowner permission, we field-check half or more of the area, looking for animals, plants, birds—anything rare or of concern. We prepare the map and a detailed report, and make conservation recommendations. How is Hudsonia funded? Our funding is 25 percent individual donations, [and] 20 or more percent from or through the DEC, mostly for educational projects. The rest comes from foundations and municipal agencies, other nonprofits, and businesses. To some extent we have to go where the funding is, so we’ve cultivated a diversity of talent and experience here. Maybe next year somebody will want us to do a mammal project.
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ver the years, I’ve received numerous offers by those looking to write an advice column for Chronogram. I’ve consistently demurred, mainly due to my belief that the magazine’s limited editorial space is more constructively employed telling stories than doling out actionable aphoristic tidbits. The oft-heard advice (yikes!) from freshman composition holds true: Show, don’t tell. If there is a guide to behavior implicit in these pages, I hope it’s a by-product of our desire to inform and delight you. I’m also reminded of the fortune cookie scrap taped to my computer, which offers the following paradoxical recommendation: “It is better to receive advice than to give it.” That said, sometimes I look at Chronogram and I think: There are lessons here. This month, there are a number of pieces that set a clear course for action. Allow me to set myself in my advice booth, Lucy van Pelt-style, and alert you to some of the wisdom surfaced in our pages this month.
Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears A Crown Poor Chomsky. Built in 2006, Chomsky was the Guinness world-record holding tallest garden gnome for four years, towering 14 feet over the Homegrown Mini-Golf Course on Kelder’s Farm in Accord. The brainchild of artist Maria Reidelbach, Chomsky stood proud along Route 209 in the verdant landscape of the Rondout Valley, which Gregory Schoenfeld profiles in our Community Pages this month (“How Deep Is the Valley,” page 68). When you’re at the top, however, everybody’s scrambling to displace you. In 2010, not one but two taller gnomes were built—in Poland and Iowa—toppling Chomsky from his throne of tallness. Reidelbach is undeterred, and is working on some modifications to Chomsky to put him back on top. Eat Less Meat This is fairly simple, straightforward, and world-changing advice. We can live longer, both personally and globally. Dedicated carnivores like food writers Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman have recommended it, and there is growing momentum in the US toward a more plant-based diet. The natural carrying capacity of the environment cannot sustain how our meat is raised, so we factory farm, damaging our ecosystem and our own health. (The animals born to live and die inside the profit-driven confines of industrial agriculture often go unmentioned in this discussion. But the treatment of animals in factory farming is the great ethical quandary of our time.) In “Power to the Plant Eaters” (page 100), Wendy Kagan talks with wellness activist and “cancer thriver” Kris Carr, who documented her use of nutritious, whole foods as medicine in her 2007 film Crazy Sexy Cancer. Carr advises us to “add goodness in” before removing anything. If you’re eating meat five days a week, cut back to three, but first, add in a green juice or smoothie as a tasty substitute. Saving the planet doesn’t require complete self-abnegation. It starts with understanding where your food comes from and making conscious choices. Blur the Lines of Work and Play Studies tell us that we’re working harder than ever, putting in more hours at our jobs than in recent generations. Not only are we called upon to be more productive year after year, but mobile technology now allows us to take our work with us no matter where we go: home, vacation, waiting at the grocery
store checkout line. Call it the “new normal.” Blame the Great Recession. The reality is: our jobs are consuming time we used to spend on other things, if only sitting in front of the TV. I doubt Maud and Miska Petersham watched much TV. The couple, whose illustration appears on the cover this month, produced over 100 books in the course of their prolific career (On the Cover, page 10). The Petershams worked hard, but as Lawrence Webster reveals in her recent book about the Woodstock-based pair, Under the North Light, they built an integrated creative life that blurred the lines between work and play. An illustration of a heart from one of their books might wind up as a wood-carved motif on a staircase in their home. A visiting child might be swept up in an afternoon’s adventure via an attic costume trunk. And while most of us are not work-at-home creatives who can play dressup on a whim, the Petershams’ playfulness and creative engagement calls us to be mindful of the questions popularized by anticareer guru Rick Jarow: How do we create the work we love? How do we make meaning from our jobs? How to Survive the Holidays Filmmaker John Waters is touring his one-man holiday show again, bringing his delightfully off-kilter observations about the holiday season to the Bardavon on December 1. In an interview with Jay Blother ("From Sleaze to Grise," page 115), Waters offers his top piece of advice for not going bonkers over the holidays: Don't let the tree fall over. Tie up the dog—the main culprit in most reported Christmas tree accidents—and restrain the drunken relatives. (Waters knows about fallen Christmas trees from experience: One Christmas, the tree fell on his grandmother, which he repurposed in his1974 film Female Trouble.) For Every Action, There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction Newton’s Third Law of Motion, offered as a reminder that our words and deeds have consequences. Last month in this space, I spilled some ink detailing my poor driving habits. What was lost on some readers (Letters, page 11) was the Ford Motor study I cited that suggested that we, as unsafe drivers, are all in this together. (Admittedly, I may have fueled the Brian-is-unsafe-at-any-speed backlash by referring to myself as a “menace.” For future reference, I lead a rich inner life and have a tendency to skew toward hyperbole to illustrate a point.) I want all concerned readers to note—especially the gentleman who called me to make a personal appeal that I “reform my antisocial behavior” and enroll in a defensive-driving course—that I’ve heard your pleas. I am attempting to drive with greater care and attention. I will no longer answer your calls, nor will I type witty rejoinders to your texts. No doubt the sum total of jocularity in the universe will exponentially decrease, but y’all may drive without a debilitating fear of the Editorial Menace in the silver Honda. (And thanks to those who selfishly suggested perhaps I should spend more time riding my beloved bicycle than behind the wheel.) Our vehicular salvation may actually arrive in the form of technology— California just passed a law legalizing autonomous vehicles, which Google is testing on the roadways of Silicon Valley. Robot cars could be on the road as early as 2015 (While You Were Sleeping, page 20). I’ll let you know once I get my robot-controlled car. I’ll text you! 11/12 ChronograM 19
There is less pressure to wear helmets in international bike-share systems, and many opt out of the safety precaution. Many researchers agree that the pressure to wear helmets discourages people from getting on a bike at all. This leads to higher rates of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes in places that take a hard stance against riding without a helmet, like the US. A helmet-enforcing bike-share program in Melbourne sees about 150 rides a day, while Dublin, where the terrain and climate are rougher but helmets are not mandatory, has more than 5,000 rides daily. European researchers argue that focus should be turned to safer bike lanes and riding conditions. Despite 21 cyclist fatalities last year, Mayor Bloomberg’s administration has rejected calls for a mandatory helmet law for New York’s 10,000-cycle bike-share program scheduled to begin next year. Source: New York Times California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill in September legalizing autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the law allows Google to test out its self-driving car in the state if there is a licensed driver in the driver’s seat, paving the way for manufacturers to begin selling autonomous cars by January 2015. Questions circulate regarding the legalization, including what happens when a self-driving car gets pulled over or causes an accident. Or, how would an autonomous car react if faced with a choice between hitting either a shopping cart or a stroller? Source: Slate
An antijihad ad created by Pamela Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and publisher of a blog called Atlas Shrugs, went up in 10 subway stations across Manhattan near the end of September. The ad reads, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” It went up after a court victory by a conservative commentator who once headed a campaign against an Islamic center near the World Trade Center. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York initially refused to run the ad, but a federal judge ruled that it is protected speech under the First Amendment. The subway ad cost Geller about $6,000, and the MTA said they would stay up for a month. Recently, the ad also appeared on San Francisco city buses. Source: Seattle Times According to the first study that compares medical records for vaccinated and unvaccinated girls, shots that protect against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) do not result in increased sexual activity. The findings dispel the myth that getting the shots encourages promiscuity—a concern often expressed by parents. The study, which involved nearly 1,400 14-to-15-year-old girls enrolled in a Kaiser Permanente health plan in Atlanta, examined up to three years of records showing whether they sought pregnancy tests, chlamydia tests, or birth control counseling. The study found no difference in rates of these sexual activity markers between girls who got the shots at age 11 or 12 and unvaccinated girls. HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend the series of three HPV shots for girls and boys at age 11 or 12. Source: CBS News Thousands of people have lost jobs on Wall Street over the past two years. Now, annual compensation for those who still work in the financial district is at a near-record level according to a New York State comptroller report that uses data largely from 2011. Firms have been cutting jobs rather than compensation costs to keep their employment positions competitive and to attract the best talent. Nearly half of all revenue on Wall Street goes to paying workers—total compensation rising four percent from last year to more than $60 billion. This number does not account for year-end bonuses, which can easily account for more than half of a Wall Street professional’s total compensation. While pay remains high, it has declined since the 2008 financial crisis. Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd C. Blankfein made $68.5 million in 2007, and $12 million in 2011. Source: New York Times 20 ChronograM 11/12 10/12
Fourteen New York City high schools are distributing birth control and Plan B (also known as the morning after pill). The Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Health Care program has been operating the pilot program since January, and more than 1,000 students have been served so far. Parents were given the option to opt out, but only two percent of students have been excluded at their parent’s request. The school district is looking to expand the program to include injectable birth control. Though school nurses need a doctor’s permission to give out pain killers like Tylenol or Advil, students are guaranteed access to contraceptive pills. Source: Public Radio International A study published in September that was conducted by a team of researchers at Hiroshima University found that people did more productive work after seeing pictures of baby animals. Nearly 50 university students were asked to perform a simple task in three different scenarios: after viewing pictures of adult cats and dogs, after viewing photographs of appetizing food, and after viewing images of kittens and puppies. The last option caused the highest rise in productivity. Source: Mother Jones A test conducted in 2007 by the Ohio Secretary of State found that all five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward George W. Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the voting process. Teams were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines at polling stations, and introduce malignant software into servers at boards of election. Reports showed that Hart InterCivic was one of the companies that made easily corrupted voting machines and central servers. One of Hart InterCivic's owners, HIG Capital, is the 11th largest of all the contributors to Mitt Romney's campaign; and Solamere Capital, the investment firm run by Romney's son Tagg, shared business interests with the investment fund. Sources: New York Times; Forbes According to an epidemiological study published in October in the Journal of the American Medical Association, cholesterol levels have dramatically improved over the last two decades. High levels of LDL (“bad” cholesterol) and low levels of HDL (“good” cholesterol) can significantly increase the risk of heart disease. Public health officials have recommended eliminating trans-fatty acids and cutting back on unhealthy foods. Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering statin, is the bestselling drug in history. The study used three surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted from consisting of questionnaires about health behaviors and medication as well as cholesterol tests from thousands of participants. The average total cholesterol levels, including all age groups, sexes, and ethnicities, dropped from 206 to 203 to 196, with levels of LDL dropping and HDL rising. The authors of the study do not credit the cholesterol drop to people losing weight, exercising more, or eating fewer foods with fatty acids. Source: Los Angeles Times Compiled by Jennifer Gutman
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ere’s an actual fact. Almost half of all Americans, about 47 percent, don’t pay federal income taxes. Keep your eye on the pea. It’s under one of the shells.Watch me shuffle them around.The very next time I talk about it, federal has disappeared. So has income. All that’s left is taxes. Then I will say, “Almost half of all Americans, about 47 percent, don’t pay taxes.” That statement is completely false. We all pay taxes. If we’re working, we pay in for Social Security and Medicare. Every time we buy something we pay sales tax (except in Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon), usually between 4 percent and 7 percent. Local sales taxes run from 0 percent to 8 percent.There’s always a special tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents federal, plus state taxes, coming to an average of 48.9 cents and going as high as 69.4 cents. If you own property, you pay property taxes and school taxes. If you rent, the landlord passes those costs on to you. Forty-three states have income taxes, seven of them have a flat tax, and some of those vary by locality. There are two studies that attempt to combine all that data. Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson, Boston University economists, did a study for the National Bureau of Economic Research. It stated, “A 30-year-old couple earning only $20,000 a year has a marginal tax rate of 42.5 percent, while a 45-year-old couple earning $500,000 pays at 43.2 percent.” There are several odd points that step outside this range, but basically, “The average marginal tax rate on incomes between $20,000 and $500,000 is 40.3 percent, the median tax rate is 41.8 percent, and the standard deviation of all of those rates is 5.3 percentage points. Basically, most of us pay about 40 percent, plus or minus 5.3 percentage points.” The Institute for Tax Justice came up with somewhat different numbers. They said that people at the low end, earning $13,000 a year or less, pay 17.4 percent. People who earn between a $250,000 and $1.3 million, pay the most, 30.4 percent. Once you earn more than that, your tax rate goes down slightly. The difference seems to be that the Kotlikoff and Rapson looked at working-age adults, the Institute for Tax Justice looked at everyone. Tax payments fall off rapidly as people retire. Including them brings all the averages down, but more so at the low end. Neither study deals with people like Mitt Romney, in the top 1/10th of 1 percent. According to his Federal Income Tax returns, Romney made $21.7 million in 2010, and paid $3 million in federal income taxes, just short of 14 percent. If we added in his other taxes, the way we did for everyone else, that would likely add only another one or two percentage points. He stops paying Social Security taxes after $110,000, a pittance in relation to $21,700,000. He didn’t make Medicare contributions on most of it, because it was unearned income. Yes, he has a California beach house, a New Hampshire lake house, a Michigan lake house, and a Boston house, but how much can their real estate taxes be compared to their income? How much can they spend on food, clothing, Cadillacs, and horses? At a certain point, the income curve leaves the spending curve behind. That has them paying about half what average Americans pay in taxes. Average working Americans—a couple earning $20,000 a year, for example—pays
a rate two-and-a-half-times greater than what the Romneys pay. That’s the reality. But if you take that initial fact—47 percent of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes, and change it to “don’t pay… taxes,” by gosh and by golly, you’ve really got something exciting. You divide the world into the righteous, virtuous, hardworking taxpayers and the leeches. The Wall Street Journal called them the “Lucky Duckies.” It’s a publication dedicated to finance, economics, and business. Yet, when they dropped the two magic modifying words—federal and income—they instantly convinced themselves that half the people in America were dependent drones. They were so traumatized by this self-inflicted delusion that they wrote, “as fewer and fewer people are responsible for paying more and more of all taxes, the constituency for tax cutting, much less for tax reform, is eroding. Workers who pay little or no taxes can hardly be expected to care about tax relief for everybody else. They are also that much more detached from recognizing the costs of government.” This leap of counterfactual looniness was not limited to the Journal. The Heritage Foundation ran this headline on their website: “Government Dependency Grows as ‘Non-paying’ Taxpayers Hits Record Level.” The Constitutional Conservative blog took the federal income tax statistics, dropped the two defining words entirely, and concluded, “The top 1 percent pay 22.7 percent of taxes. The top 10 percent pay 50 percent of taxes. The top 20 percent pay 65.3 percent of taxes. The top 40 percent pay 84.3 percent of taxes.” On some level it would be nice to think that the leaders on the Right are cynical, clever propagandists. That they know they’re deforming the statistics to make it seem like the rich are doing the heavy lifting, that only half of Americans are actually working, and their taxes are going to support the freeloading, loafing, nontaxpaying parasites. But it doesn’t seem to be the case. They seem to really believe, as Romney did when he was caught on tape in a private meeting, that 47 percent who don’t pay federal income taxes, don’t pay taxes, and the reason that they don’t is that government handouts have made them too dependent to bother going to work. Each one of our big tax cuts has only been a tax cut for the very rich. For the country as a whole, and for most other people, it’s been a tax shift. However much they save on their federal income tax, other taxes go up. That’s why a couple making $20,000 a year ended up paying the same actual rate as a couple making half a million a year. Now for some truly spectacular flim-flam. Keep your eye on the pea. Mitt Romney says, “We’re going to cut taxes on everyone across the country by 20 percent.” Wait a minute. He’s only cutting federal income taxes. Forty-seven percent of us already pay zero taxes in that form. No cut at all for half of us. While he’s at it, he wants to cut taxes that only impact the very rich—estate and gift taxes—so that his kids can get his millions tax free. All together, 57 percent of the cuts would go to the top 1 percent. See what you can do, just by dropping a couple of… adjectives. 11/12 ChronograM 21
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The House
Above: The porch was an early 20th-century addition to David Cavallaro and Dan Giessinger’s historic home, Shadow Lawn. Opposite, top: Giessinger standing in the rear door of the three-story barn, renovated to host events. Opposite, below: A wedding reception hosted in the barn in early October.
Savoring Shadow Lawn Renovating and Restoring an Historic Property in High Falls By Jennifer Farley Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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hen David Cavallaro and Dan Giessinger bought the Jacob Hasbrouck House—one of High Falls’s most historic properties, also known as Shadow Lawn, situated on six acres at the top of the waterfall—the art educator and jewelry-designer-turned-property-manager had a very clear idea of what an 18th-century stone house should look like. That vision did not include garish `70s wallpaper. Exposed electrical wires? Perish the thought. When a house is almost three centuries old, you don’t just run to Home Depot for a new door; you have one made, milled to period dimensions. Hence costs add up quickly. “You want your restoration and renovation to be as faithful as possible, but you also need to be physically comfortable and at ease in your home,” says Giessinger. He confides that nevertheless playing with the idea of “all candlelight” and other antediluvian follies was initially seductive. But the open flames would spike the risk of structural fires, while also spewing soot. So that “Let’s be really authentic” train of thought quickly broached insanity, even in the unlikely event that Cavallaro and Giessinger could have slid the anachronism past the mortgage holder and property insurer. Thus, however pure their curatorial intentions, every update entails compromise. “Trying to minimize the visibility of the electrical wiring, for example, in a house like this is a messy, labor-intensive endeavor,” says Giessinger. “You do your best to hide all the modern systems, and that means there’s a lot of dismantling and replastering of walls.” 26 home ChronograM 11/12
Adjacent the High Falls Co-Op Although the Hasbrouck house was a commodious residence for the era, back in the day, life was hard, dark, and often cold. One grim reminder: the slave’s quarters, once under the rafters, now updated and offered on a semester basis to a fortunate SUNY New Paltz student. Cavallaro is the Assistant to the Dean of Fine and Performing Arts. That’s where the couple met 24 years ago, too. Giessinger, a native of North Dakota, was attracted to the school’s top-rated metals MFA program; they met at a party and have been together ever since. The couple was looking at houses in Maine when they found Shadow Lawn just as it was about to be listed for sale. It’s next to the High Falls Co-Op, a community-oriented health food store that’s also a local icon, where Cavallaro and Giessinger are regulars. Their other neighbor is an 80-year-old lady who belongs to an organization called “The Manhattan Club.” “They get together on Fridays at 5:15 and drink Manhattans,” says Giessinger. “We’ve had the group meet here, and sometimes I join them elsewhere.” Giessinger and Cavallaro declined to say what they paid for Shadow Lawn in 2004. They don’t know everything they’d like to learn about the property’s history, but the estate was owned by the Sahler family for almost 200 years. When Jacob Hasbrouck owned it, the High Falls waterfall powered a mill, and the tract spanned 300 acres, most of which were farmed. Occasionally people with connections to the property stop by—Giessinger graciously invites them inside for a tour. To recoup some of the renovation expenses, the couple occa-
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The dining room features a former library table that came with the house as its centerpiece. The artwork on the rear wall is by Myra Mimlisch Gray.
Cavallaro and Giessinger’s Maine coon cat, Otis, in the kitchen, which was added in the 1930s when the building housed an inn. The original exterior stone wall is on the left.
The sitting room, featuring an early 20th-century fireplace mantel faced with ebonized black paint.
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sionally rents Shadow Lawn for weddings and other private parties. Giessinger and Cavallaro are considering eventually converting Shadow Lawn into a bedand-breakfast. “We won’t retire here. It’s just too much constant work,” says Giessinger. Over the years, the main house, which has a section that may date to 1730, was expanded in phases to its present size of about 4,000 square feet and 14 rooms. That meant that a certain unification of stylistic and functional detail was required to maximize the home’s aesthetic potential. The couple replaced modern-ish windows with styles more appropriate to the period of the house. A particular success: The exterior trim is all painted “Cabbage Patch” by Benjamin Moore. “We held up a lot of swatches, and this color goes perfectly with the stone,” says Giessinger. Keeping the main house as period as possible—yet tucking a flat-screen television discreetly into the corner of the most-used room—they’ve modernized without erasing history. The redone guest house has a new full bath plus a laundry room, while the gigantic party barn is illuminated with inexpensive Chinese lanterns. The glowing rice-paper bubbles of light elegantly contrast the remarkable rectilinear carpentry of the 1897 barn, the proverbial circle inside the square. The barn has vaulted ceilings and measures 30 by 60 feet; it’s been completely restored. Cavallaro adores his haute Hudson Valley party barn, but with a touch of wistfulness, because it came at the expense of his dream kitchen. Their much-loved carpenter, Taylor Richey, warned that if the homeowners did not invest quickly in the structure, it would fall down. That meant that the couple, who practically speak in close harmony, had to fix up the kitchen on a tight budget. It’s nevertheless lovely, with a bay window and two interior stone walls—the 1930s addition is grafted onto what was once the home’s exterior. But it’s relatively modest. “Of course I’m glad we listened to Taylor about saving the barn. But I haven’t given up. We are going to really do the kitchen up right one of these days,” says Cavallaro, whom Giessinger describes as a “wonderful cook.” Septic Hell Cavallaro and Giessinger would rather whinge about onerous process of getting Shadow Lawn tagged for historic designation in New York—the paperwork takes about 80 hours—in lieu of sharing the story of their septic-upgrade hell. But the fact that it cost them three attempts, over $30,000, and the expertise of both an engineer and an excavator to solve their problem is by far the strangest aspect of their home-renovation venture. A septic system is a small-scale sewage treatment scheme common in rural areas with no connection to public sewage pipes. Of course, when Shadow Lawn was built, there wasn’t even indoor plumbing. But what’s important to know if you are considering purchasing an old stone house in the Hudson Valley that’s not in the best of shape is that bringing the septic system up to code may not be a simple or inexpensive endeavor. Shadow Lawn’s main house sits on very sandy soil. The old septic tank, which Giessinger says appeared to be a reclaimed agricultural holding tank, was located downhill from it, in a patch of rocky clay. “We knew we’d bought a house with serious issues. The home inspection report made it clear there were a lot of unknowns, but we bit the bullet,” says Giessinger. Giessinger and Cavallaro’s first attempt at an upgrade was to simply replace all of the equipment in its original location. However, that didn’t work. The problem was that clay acts as a vessel—the effluence leaches upward—and that meant that their backyard was always smelly and spongy. In sandy soil, the waste water drains downward and everything works as intended. After a second effort also failed, test holes were drilled and the problem identified. They started over. Although it’s counterintuitive, in the case of Shadow Lawn, the septic tank works best placed uphill of the main house, in the sandy soil. There’s no unpleasant odor, everything functions perfectly. But it’s actually rather complex. “We have a pumping system, a manhole, and an alarm,” exclaims Giessinger. “You expect manholes in a municipality, not in rural High Falls. But that’s what we had to do. The Board of Health came constantly for a while. It wasn’t until 2007 that we finally got it right. These are the things no one tells you about buying a really old house.”
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simply calling something “topsoil” is a meaningless designation, by the way— anyone can call their product that, even if it’s junk.) Soil-less media like those using peat or coir (ground coconut hulls) are highly porous and designed to allow water to drain freely out of pots, while field soil in containers perches— that is, hangs on to water too tightly. A good mix will feel light and friable in the bag. Don’t be surprised that it’s actually a bit hydro-phobic at first: it takes a certain amount of water saturation to penetrate all that pore space. Once your trees and shrubs are potted up, water them deeply once or twice a week during the growing season. Less frequent but deeper watering is more effective than frequent shallow watering. Smaller pots will need to be watered more often than larger ones. Bassuk says that the pots should be watered well before going into the winter. For one thing, well-hydrated woody plants are less prone to desiccation by winter winds. At the beginning of winter, she recommends moving the pots as close to the house as possible and ganging them together so the sides are touching. “The warmth of each pot insulates its neighbor,” she says. “You could also stack straw bales around them to further insulate them.” The best containers for overwintering are salt-glazed pottery and plastic. Ceramic, lightweight foam, and terra cotta pots are the most likely to crack under the freeze-and-thaw pressure of our winters. Time to Move Out If a tree or shrub is well cared for in its container, it may outgrow its space. This will take a long time in the case of dwarf woodies. (By the way, “dwarf ” means “grows very slowly, but doesn’t necessarily stay small”—for plants that stay little, see the “miniatures.”) You can prune the stems of shrubs and multistem trees to keep top growth in check, but this is not advisable for trees with one central leader. For smaller potted plants whose roots have fully colonized the pot and clearly want to break out, you can transplant the plant into a larger pot. More brutally, you can root prune an outer ring of roots and then replant in the same pot, but this kind of root reduction is stressful on the plant. For vigorously growing woodies, I transplant into successively larger pots and then at some point make the decision to move the plant into the landscape. Oftimes this is after many years of service as a containerized woody element of a mobile, elevated, and elegant pot garden. RESOURCES Cornell Urban Horticulture Institute Hort.cornell.edu/uhi The Phantom Gardener Thephantomgardener.com *Green Cities: Good Health is an extensive research database on the benefits of proximity to trees and shrubs to our health. Depts.washington.edu/hhwb
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Experiencing the Hudson Valley’s beautiful natural landscape is a great way to unwind. The four-mile-long Hudson Valley Rail Trail weaves through the Hamlet of Highland and connects to the Walkway Over the Hudson, the longest elevated pedestrian bridge in the world. Nearby Schunemunk Mountain and Mount Beacon offer hiking, climbing, camping, and, for the snowy months, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. If the fresh air isn’t soothing enough, there are cutting-edge resorts, spas, and accommodations running the gamut from luxury hotels to quaint bed and breakfasts. The eco-friendly Buttermilk Falls Inn and Spa in Milton uses only natural, organic products and solar and geothermal energy. Cromwell Manor Historic Inn in Cornwall offers the full spa package including fireside massages, yoga classes, and chiropractic care. But, what places like Inn on the Hudson in Peekskill lack in spa care, they make up for in private terraces overlooking panoramic views of the river—a therapy unto itself.
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The Hudson Valley has become a wellspring for culinary activity. Served out of a truck or under a chandelier, the food is creative, flavorful, and often local. The Peekskill Brewing Company offers a dozen homemade craft beers including Zeitgeist, a Berliner Weisse style, and the Eastern Standard IPA. For dinner, go casual with tacos at Tito Santana Taqueria in Beacon, or more formal with escargot at Brasserie Le Bouchon, a family-style French restaurant in Cold Spring.
After refreshing with some world-class cuisine, get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping. Cold Spring is an antique mecca with more than 25 shops along its Main Street. Whether it’s vintage clothing at Blackbird Attic in Beacon, jewelry at Arthur Weeks & Sons in Peekskill, or bicycle supplies at Bryan’s Bikes in Cornwall, you can find something for everyone on your list. (See our holiday shopping guide on page 43).
Rediscover
The Hudson Valley’s diverse culture is matched by its historic roots. Since Henry Hudson sailed the river in 1609, notable people have settled along its banks. Perhaps most notably, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s estate is in Hyde Park, where he commissioned the construction of America’s first presidential library—now the most-visited attraction in Dutchess County. A diverse offering of museums preserve various aspects of historic Hudson Valley. The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall works to protect the ecology and the indigenous species of the region, and West Point’s United States Military Academy, the nation’s oldest service academy, is home to a military museum and the restored Fort Putnam, used by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Revel
After the spa, the trail, the pub, or the museum, enjoy an evening of worldclass entertainment. Catch one of the five Hudson Valley Philharmonic shows scheduled for the 2012-13 season at Poughkeepsie’s 1869 Bardavon Opera House or internationally renowned jazz with your Sunday brunch at the Falcon in Marlboro. Bard’s Fisher Center hosts innovative and provocative performances year-round, and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Company will put on a production of “A Christmas Carol” throughout the month of December at the Boscobel mansion in Garrison. (See our seasonal events roundup on page 41). If you’re looking for a top-caliber college sporting event, catch an Army Football game at West Point. (Army takes on Air Force at home on November 3 and Temple on November 17.) The Black Knights, an NCAA Division I team, offer a show not only on the field—including the longest enduring rivalry in college sports, the Army-Navy game—but also in the surrounding spectacle, like the West Point parachute team jumping the game ball into Michie Stadium. Whatever your taste, the Hudson Valley’s river towns have the perfect recipe. With endless permutations and combinations of nature, history, and culture, a visit will feel as dynamic and satisfying as your favorite meal.
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he nights get longer, store windows offer an inviting mix of frosty confection and soft yellow light, and a dusting of snow coats the sidewalks: It’s the holiday season in the Hudson Valley. Enjoying the season’s festivities doesn’t require much more than just looking around. Crackling fires complement cold-fogged breath, and sweeping forest-green branches are studded with colorful lights. Whether an active participant or an interested observer, there’s lots to see and do this season.
the archives at Locust Grove, with dishes dating back to the 1900s.Through the month of December, Locust Grove will also host decorated house tours. The theme this year is “Christmas Around the World,” and each room will represent a different country’s holiday traditions. On Sunday afternoons, children— armed with a world map—can search for clues to learn about the varying traditions celebrated at Christmas around the world. Locustgrove.org
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Boscobel Festivities
Poughkeepsie’s Celebration of Lights parade, tree lighting, and fireworks on November 30 offers a festive start to the holiday season.The whole community comes out to take part in the parade, including Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik, the Amerscott Highland Pipers, the Poughkeepsie High School Jazz Ensemble and Middle School Choir, members of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and, of course, Santa. A screening of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure will be held at the Bardavon after the parade and fireworks. Bardavon.org
Cold Spring by Candlelight
Start December with Cold Spring by Candlelight on the first of the month. Twelve houses and historic sites will be open for tours—either self-guided walking tours or by way of an old-fashioned trolley. Cold Spring’s stores will stay open late for holiday shopping and village restaurants will offer specials to attendees. Sidestreet carolers, holiday music concerts, visits from Old St. Nick, ice-carving demonstrations, and storytelling round out the day’s festivities. All proceeds from the event go to Partners with PARC, which provides funding to programs and services for children and adults with developmental disabilities throughout Putnam County. Partnerswithparc.info
Locust Grove Candlelit Tours
The candlelit tours continue at Poughkeepsie’s Locust Grove, designed in 1851 for Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. On December 7 and 8, enjoy a twilight tour by candlelight through the mansion and grounds, and end with a historically inspired four-course holiday dinner presented by Chef Charles Fells from the Artist’s Palate. The menu will consist of recreated recipes from
The historic holiday events continue at Boscobel in Garrison, the Federalstyle mansion of the wealthy Dyckman family. Twilight Tours will be held during the last weekend in November, and Holiday House Tours through December. The tour guides, dressed in authentic period costume, will share stories about traditional 19th-century customs to give an authentic taste of the holiday season of times past. While at Boscobel, catch one of the nine performances of “A Christmas Carol,” put on by the renowned Hudson Valley Shakespeare Company in the grand entry hall of the mansion. Cookies and hot mulled cider will be served at the matinee shows, and a holiday feast will follow the evening performances. Mr. and Mrs. Claus come to Boscobel for two dates in December offering seasonal sweets, fireside storytelling, and a chance for children to tell Santa what’s at the top of their Christmas lists. Vanderbilt Mansion, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Springwood estate, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill estate will also host holiday open houses at the decorated mansions. Boscobel.org
Sinterklaas
For one of the more encompassing holiday events in the region, visit Rhinebeck during the first week of December. In honor of the Hudson Valley’s Dutch heritage, the town puts on a secular festival that brings to life the myth of Sinterklaas—a red-caped, jeweled-staffed saint—and his slew of sidekicks.The weekend is a joyous explosion of food, games, dancing, caroling, storytelling, and more. The Children’s Starlight Parade, where community members carry handmade stars to create a moving constellation in the streets, caps off the weeklong, citywide celebration. Sinterklaasrhinebeck.com —Jennifer Gutman 11/12 ChronograM river towns 41
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he holiday season is a time for thinking about the people who matter most to you. Rather than just buy a gift for the sake of giving one, it’s a time to show that you know and appreciate a person by choosing something that speaks to their interests and passions. The Hudson Valley’s river towns are filled with charming independent shops—from cosmopolitan boutiques to cozy book nooks. The following guide offers some suggestions for celebrating the diverse people on your list by sending a message that’s larger than the gift itself.
The Bibliophile
He’s a lover of the printed word, and you want to contribute something special to his seemingly endless collection. The Bruised Apple in Peekskill specializes in used, rare, and out-of-print books from as early as the 1600s. Find an original edition of a classic novel with illustrations, a local history book complete with maps of the Hudson Valley region, or a selection of vintage postcards from surrounding areas. Three Arts Bookstore in Poughkeepsie is Vassar’s campus bookstore alternative. The well-rounded selection of genres, including sports, travel, cooking, nature, language, and children’s books, are all hand-picked by owner Walter Effron. For the bibliophile on your list, an original edition of a book by his favorite author, a homemade bookmark, and a box of herbal teas is a gift that says more than Merry Christmas. Bruisedapplebooks.com; Vsa.vassar.edu/hudsonvalley/shopping/threearts
The Outdoor Type
Is there a special person in your life who measures time in miles, dreams about moisture wicking fabric, and looks forward to a different sport for each season? Hudson Valley Outfitters in Cold Spring is an outdoor speciality boutique where you are sure to find a gift that the outdoor type won’t only like, but will also use every day. Trustworthy brands include Merrell, Keen, Prana, and Patagonia and retail ranges from high-performance winter outerwear to essential night-sporting gear like headlamps and bike reflectors. Mountain Top Outfitters in Beacon is the official kayak outfitter at Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, but they have plenty to offer for the colder months as well, like Smartwool socks and Tubbs snowshoes. Find out her shoe size, buy the hiking boots she’s been talking about, and accompany her on a day trip to Breakneck Ridge. Hudsonvalleyoutfitters.com; Mountaintopsonline.com
The Treasure Hunter
For the person who can spend hours amidst the worn fabrics and bygone tchotchkes of an antique shop, the real gift would be a trip to the Cold Spring Antique Center. Set in a 19th-century Victorian bank building, complete with the original vault, the center spans over 2,000 square feet, with more than 25 dealers of antiques and vintage collectibles. The diverse stock covers a wide range of periods, and the center is always adding to its selection of furniture, lighting, sterling silver, jewelry, rugs, fine porcelain, tools, kitchen gadgets, books, collectibles, and clothing. While in Cold Spring, check out Art & Antiques, with over 30 antiques and collectibles dealers including books, magazines, comics, painting, and photographs. If something doesn’t strike you at first glance, plan a shopping excursion. For a true treasure hunter, the looking is just as important as the finding. Coldspringantiquescenter.com; Artantiquegallery.com
The Fashionista
If you have a friend whose ABCs mean Armani, Banana Republic, and Coach, check out a local boutique with all the right names. Elizabeth Boutique in Poughkeepsie is home to an inventory of clothing, belts, vegan and leather handbags, accessories, intimates, outerwear, eyewear, fragrance, and shoes. In October, it hosted a fashion show benefiting the Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation, and the website is filled with how-to videos and style picks from owner Elizabeth Madsen. Blackbird Attic in Beacon is a consignment boutique that offers a curated mix of modern and vintage fashions for men and women. Put together a look that only your daringly fashionable friend could pull off— like an '80s Blondie black backless dress ($18), a vintage Diane von Furstenberg trenchcoat ($85), and a pair of BCBG pink shimmery heels ($17)—then plan a night out together so she can show it off. Elizabethboutique.com; Blackbirdattic.com The phrase “It’s the thought that counts” is a cliché worth thinking about during the holiday season. A thoughtful gift that speaks to the different types of people you give to, the lifestyles they live, and the relationships you have with them is more than wrapping paper and receipts—it’s an exchange whose true value is priceless. —Jennifer Gutman 11/12 ChronograM river towns 43
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A Town with Roots Warwick By Erik Ofgang Photographs by David Morris Cunningham
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ike many towns in the Hudson Valley, Warwick has a rich cultural history. The Great Chain of the Revolutionary War was forged at Sterling Ironworks, the first steel producer in New York. The chain, approximately 500 yards in length and made up of massive iron links, was affixed across the Hudson River in 1778 and prevented the British from traveling up to the fort at West Point. Perhaps more relevant today is Warwick’s history as an agricultural community. The town is home to three hamlets: Greenwood Lake, Florida, and the Village of Warwick. One of the largest towns in New York State in terms of area, Warwick is a painter’s paradise of sweeping farmlands framed by rolling hills and mountains. The landscape is more than just pictureperfect, though—agriculture provides the backbone, heart, and soul of Warwick. Here, locally sourced menu items are found more often than not, and working the land is an important part, not just of the community’s past, but of its future as well. The Black Dirt Region in the town’s western section is named for its extremely fertile soil left over from an ancient glacial lake bottom and added to by decades of flooding of the Walkill River. The second-largest concentration of such soil in the US (outside of the Florida Everglades), it is known historically for its pungent onions, and, more recently, for a diverse offering of crops such as radishes, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, and sod. With annual festivals, artisanal shops, fine dining, and beautiful vistas, Warwick is a lovely place to visit. And, thanks to the town’s strong farming community, it’s a region that visitors can literally sink their teeth into.
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LIVE LOCAL Warwick is best experienced outside, and this time of year, though the weather might be brisk, the views are spectacular. The last embers of fall foliage glow a softer red and brown on the hills.Warwick is home to Orange County’s largest lake, Greenwood, and a reservoir that hosts NewYork’s last population of the endangered northern cricket frog, Glenmere Lake. A portion of the Appalachian Trail runs through Sterling Forest, whose state park was forged by community activism when local residents rallied in 2000 against the threat of a housing development on a 575-acre tract in the center of the forest. You can also enjoy the outdoors by strolling through one of the community’s many farms that allow for apple picking as well as other pick-your-own options. Pennings Orchard and Farm Market has been operating for over half a century. They started as a dairy farm and continue to operate an ice cream stand in addition to their apple orchard and farm stand, which also offers their apricots, sweet corn, nectarines, peaches, peppers, squash, tomatoes, and zucchini. The Pennings farm and the ice cream stand have been in existence for several decades, but the bar and grill opened just a few years ago. The menu is full of local offerings. Kaitlyn Leloup, marketing manager and special events coordinator for Pennings, says that the farm is dedicated to the “living local” philosophy. “We try our best to sell local products,” she says. “We have seasonable local produce and a variety of different products from local vendors.” The philosophy carries over to the Apple Grade Pub, whose bar is made out of an antique apple grader. Seventy percent of their craft beer comes from New York, and their hard cider is made on premises from home-grown Pennings apples. The grill pub hosts live music weekly, and, this past September, Pennings hosted its first Brew Fest.The day featured a four-hour tasting of craft beer from local breweries, including Ommegang, Keegan Ales, Olde Saratoga, and Sixpoint; as well as live blues music. “The whole eat, shop, and be local idea is very strong in Warwick,” Leloup says. Warwick residents get to show their community pride at the town’s annual Applefest, which celebrated its 24th year this past October. The event began in 1989 as a small harvest celebration to support the Warwick Valley Community Center. Now, the event has sprawled into a major regional attraction, drawing an estimated 30,000 people for this year’s one-day festival. Named one of the top 10 festivals in the “Top 100 Events in North America” by the American Bus Association, it features more than 200 food vendors, multiple stages of live entertainment, pie baking contests, and, of course, lots of apples. SHOPS AND SWEETS Once you decide it’s time to move indoors,Warwick has plenty to satisfy your shopping needs. An outing at the Warwick Antique Barn feels more like a trip to a fascinating museum or park. The shop is located in a restored 1800s post-and-beam three-story barn. The main floor and hayloft have been converted to an airy 3,500-square-foot antiques gallery featuring period, primitive, and country furniture, handcrafted farm tables, antique and vintage jewelry, lighting, artwork, and more. More than 200 farm tables using vintage barn wood have been built in the barn’s workshop. The barn is also known for housing one of the largest selections of cupboards, hutches, and farm tables in the area. Outside the barn, the wooded parklike setting includes picturesque gardens and a mountain stream. Warwick’s country store, Frazzleberries, specializes in custom made signs that will appeal to a range of people, from pet lovers to beach bums. They also sell kitchen and bath accessories, rugs, lighting, framed prints, nautical charts, pottery, and women’s handbags—a great place to look for a one-of-a-kind gift. If you’re done shopping, you will want to try out some of the delicate desserts Warwick has to offer. Jean-Claude’s Artisan Bakery & Café in Greenwood Lake features nonprocessed desserts handcrafted by master pastry chef Jean-Claude Sanchez, who began his culinary training in Bayonne, France.Their speciality cakes include chocolate ganache, nougatine, and gateau Basque, and they have a wide assortment of Europeanstyle treats, including tarts, breakfast pastries, brioche, croissants, and pain au chocolat. They also offer holiday confections, gluten- and dairy-free fruit sorbets, and, upon request, flourless cakes. If you enjoy finely crafted sweets and pastries, you won’t want to deprive your taste buds of the creations at Eat Sweet Bake Shop, which has locations in the village of Warwick and Pine Island. Eat Sweet makes all of its products entirely from scratch and uses local and seasonally available produce and dairy whenever possible. Their offerings include homemade classic cookies, truffles, mini linzer tarts, shortbread, cupcakes, whoopie pies, French macaroons, and blondies. If you think you’ve had one too many macaroons, Warwick offers a unique program that allows dieters to lose weight and help the community in the process. Whole Kids Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes healthy and sustainable living education in schools, is organizing a new “Pounds for Pupils” program. Adults who participate in the program shed weight in order to raise money for the school of their choice in theWarwickValley area. Potential dieters and fundraiser should visit Helpwholekids.org.
LOCAL NOTABLE Paul Ellis
When Paul Ellis sees a magician, musician, or juggler perform, he’s usually the most enthusiastic person in the room. “I laugh the loudest for comedians—I’m a great audience,” says Ellis. That enthusiasm serves him well in his new role as the director of the newly minted Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center. It’s a role that Ellis is certainly well rehearsed for. “I’ve been in show business for 43 years. I started when I was hired to be part of the backstage crew at the Meadowbrook Dinner Theater in New Jersey,” recalls Ellis, who is 63. During his career, Ellis has done just about everything entertainment related. He has acted, written and directed plays, served on the arts commission of cities, and produced theater, music, and multimedia events. Ellis trained as a theater director with Lee Strassberg and studied playwriting at Princeton University. Ellis is dedicated to making the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center a success and a community gathering point. “Art can develop a community,” he says. “Art can fix things. It’s not necessarily our goal, but we can do that.” He adds that his main goal is simultaneously less lofty and more ambitious. “I want people to come here and laugh and have a good time.” Ellis and his team have put together an impressive line-up of talent for the remainder of the year that promises to deliver plenty of good times. On November 3, the pioneering old school reggae group Toots and the Maytals will perform. On Saturday November 24, world-class juggler/ antigravity artist Michael Moschen will perform. December will feature a host of theater and dance performances which will culminate with a New Year’s Eve celebration featuring Brazilian drumming sensation Cyro Baptista and his group, Beat the Donkey. The Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center was previously known as the Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts. The theater was constructed about 20 years ago and until recently was owned and operated by Richard Logothetis. Because of the economy and taxes, it became impossible for Logothetis to continue operating the Center as a commercial theater. Ellis had long known Logothetis and had been involved with the theater. During an informal conversation about the theater’s future with Logothetis, Ellis suggested the theater could work if it was ran by a nonprofit organization. That conversation ultimately led to Logothetis’ retiring from the theater and a nonprofit organization being formed to save the venue. Ellis was named the interim director of that nonprofit organization. It all started with that informal conversation. “You’ve got to be careful what you talk about,” jokes Ellis. Ellis writes produces and directs a monthly comedy show called “The Air Pirates Radio Theater.” An actual radio show, “The Air Pirates Radio Theater,” is recorded in front of a live audience each month at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center. The audience is given sound-effect instruments and audience members perform all the sound effects with the help of cue cards. Whether the audience does a good job or a bad one, their work makes it into the final broadcast. “We do one a month and broadcast it on the radio and the audience does all the sound effects,” Ellis says. “If the audience gets it wrong, we just keep going anyway.” Ellis lives in Sugar Loaf with his wife Peggy. They have a 30-year-old son, Max, who works with Ellis at the theater. Ellis says that Warwick and the surrounding area is a special place. “Warwick has a very strong sense of community and a very strong sense of place. That community makes you feel home. I’ve met a lot of very interesting people up here it seems to attract unique interesting people.” —Erik Ofgang
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DINE AND DRINK At Grappa Ristorante, guests can enjoy fine dining in a casual atmosphere with authentic, traditional specialties of Northern Italy. Their wine list includes a wide selection with a variety of Italian reds—Brunello, Barolo, and Barbaresco as well as Super Tuscans, Amarone, and Chianti. Among the specialty menu items are homemade pasta and classic dishes like zuppa di pesce and veal scaloppini. The restaurant won the St. Stephen’s Parish Fifth Annual Taste of the Town Fine Dining award. For more fine dining, visit the Iron Forge Inn. The Inn is located at the site of a historic forge in a Revolutionary-era home built in 1760 and has been a celebrated dining destination in the town for more than 50 years. Chef and owner Erik Johansen is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. His modern American menu places an emphasis on local ingredients and, like the weather, it changes with the seasons. For more casual but equally tasty fare, try Chumleys BBQ and Catering Company in Florida.The barbecue joint specializes in rotisserie chicken, grilled Cornell chicken, St. Louis-style jumbo ribs, Texas brisket, Tennessee pulled pork, tailgate steak, as well as an assortment of sides and salads. Fetch Bar & Grill is a canine-themed neighborhood bar and restaurant. Popular menu items include their Philadelphia cheese steak made with bread brought in daily from Philadelphia, and their individually baked mac and cheese, made with aged Black Diamond cheddar, Parmesan, and cream and topped with smashed Ritz crackers. Most of their walls are covered with photographs of customers with their dogs, but one wall is devoted to their rescue mission, providing information on the Warwick Valley Humane Society’s Adopt-a-Dog program. Nestled between Warwick’s Mount Eve and Mount Adam is one of the town’s most spirited businesses: the Warwick Winery and Distillery. Despite its historical connections—it was the first distillery in the Hudson Valley licsenced after Prohibition—the business is continuously looking toward the future. Starting as an orchard in 1989, it expanded into a winery in 1994 thanks to an abundant crop: apples. Doc’s Draft Hard Apple Cider has become their signature product, winning a gold medal at the Hudson Valley Wine Competition, and their line has expanded to include pear, raspberry, pumpkin, and cassis varieties. In 2001, they opened New York’s first fruit distillery, producing fruit brandies and liqueurs. They also make gin and released their first bourbon, aged for three years, in September. The winery is located on a picturesque farm that is full of old school charm. There are bocce ball courts, a bakery, a café, and apple and pear picking. Jason Grizzanti, one of the winery’s owners and its master distiller, says the food they serve at the café has “a real farm-to-table theme, and we use local meats, local vegetables, local produce, and local fruits that we grow.” The Uncorked & Unplugged In the Orchard music series features live music on weekends, and the winery and distillery also hosts music festivals on its grounds during the warmer months. Grizzanti says that Warwick is a special place because it has been able to preserve and support agriculture and the land without stifling development. “There’s a lot of agricultural tourism in the area,” he says. “But what makes Warwick a really great place is the sense of community.”
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Events Applefest The annual festival began in 1989 as a simple harvest celebration to support the Warwick Valley Community Center. Now, Applefest attracts up to 35,000 people each October, and it was selected as one of the top 10 festivals in the American Bus Association’s “Top 100 Events in North America.” It also won the 2010 and 2011 Times Herald-Record “Best of the Year” competition for the family event category. Over 240 juried crafters, dozens of food vendors, and over 50 local nonprofit exhibitors come together in the village’s streets and parks to celebrate the region’s agricultural bounty. The festival also features music and entertainment on several stages, a children’s carnival, farmers’ market, and an apple pie baking contest (with slices for sale). Warwickapplefest.com
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Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Jazz drummer Steve Rubin created the four-day jazz festival in 2010, and it has been met with such success that the Warwick event is expanding into other areas of the Hudson Valley next year. This year, performances were held throughout the town, including outdoor venues in the village, the Iron Forge Inn, and culminating in a grand finale at the Sugar Loaf Center for Performing Arts. Acts included the Gabriele Tranchina Quintet with Grammy nominee Bobby Sanabria on drums and awardwinning pianist Arturo O’Farrill. The 2013 festival will present its first Jazz Camp, which will highlight local up and coming artists and music educators in the community. Hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org
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Locations around the Town of Warwick, including parks, storefronts, and farms, host music, theater, dance, and film for the performing arts festival held each July. As a way to bridge the artists and the audience, the festival offers workshops and presentations to get the community involved, including commissioned performances in the annual art parade. This year’s July event featured a performance at Scheuermann Farm & Greenhouses by Brazilian-roots group Matuto; the 12-piece band Zongo Junction, who blends West African rhythms with funk, jazz, and soul; and Ilusha Tsinadze’s Deda Ena, performing contemporary beats influenced by the ancient folk traditions of Ilusha’s native country, Georgia. Warwickarts.org
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Black Dirt Feast Each year, a group of regional chefs are chosen to prepare a fivecourse meal to be held on the lawn of Scheuermann Farm and Greenhouses in the heart of the Black Dirt Region of Pine Island. This year’s August celebration of farm-to-table local cuisine featured entertainment by the Chamber Strings Orchestra and the Jon Werking Trio. The feast featured hors d’oeuvres from the Catering House of Ed Fava, including Hudson Valley duck pâté on baguette rounds and asparagus mousse in petite phyllo cups. Entrée choices included sunflower seed crusted tilapia by Heather Kurosz of Black Dirt Gourmet and braised lamb osso bucco by Kevin May from Copper Bottom Restaurant. An assortment of mini desserts with seasonal ingredients included sweet corn cake with blueberry and lavender compote and zucchini whoopie pie with cream cheese frosting from Eat Sweets . Warwickinfo.net/blackdirtfeast
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Raudibotn Crater, Hardie Truesdale, 2011, from “Hardie Truesdale: The Art of Photography” at Mark Gruber Gallery
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69 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2650. “Matthew George Enger.” Through November 4. “Winter Solstice Show.” Group show. November 9-December 31. Opening Saturday, November 10, 5pm-7pm.
485 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “The Maltese Falcon at Barrett Clay Works.” 2D, 3D, and literary art. Through November 24.
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART UPSTAIRS GALLERIES 22 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “Abstract Architectures / Figurative Fantasies.” Paintings by Todd Germann and David Eddy. November 17-December 30. Opening Saturday, November 17, 5pm-8pm. “The Luminous Landscape 2012: 15th Annual Invitational.” Through November 11.
THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN ST., RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519. “Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms.” Works from 1959-1979. Through February 20.
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.
ART SOCIETY OF KINGSTON 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Evolution: Prints and Recent Paintings by David Holt.” November 3-24. “What a Dish, Food Art: A Members’ Exhibition.” November 3-24. Opening for both exhibitions Saturday, November 3, 5pm-8pm.
THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE VYTLACIL CAMPUS 241 KINGS HIGHWAY, SPARKILL 359-1263. “Grace Knowlton.” Drawings, prints, photos and sculpture. November 17-January 25. Opening Saturday, November 17, 2pm-5pm. “Mark Safan: Paintings.” Through November 10.
ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Eight Years Old.” Group show. Through November 11. “2012 Leaping Trout Art Project.” 35 local artists bring awareness to the issue of clean water. November 17-December 14. Opening Saturday, November 17, 6pm-8pm.
BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Conversations.” Vincent Pomilio and Thomas Huber. November 10-December 2. “New Works by Gary Jacketti.” November 10-December 2. Both exhibitions opening Saturday, November 10, 6pm-9pm.
bcb art 116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “The Postcard Show.” Through November 3.
BLACKBIRD ATTIC 442 MAIN STREET, BEACON 418-4840. “Landscape and their changing moods.” New work by Sasha Chermayeff. November 3-December 23. Opening Saturday, November 3, 6pm-8pm.
BRC GALLERY BEANRUNNER CAFE, PEEKSKILL (914) 954-5948. “The Ballot Box: 20 Artists Consider the Presidential Election.” Through November 25.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Landscapes.” November 1-December 9. Opening Saturday, November 3, 6pm-8pm.
Center for photography at woodstock 59 tinker street, woodstock 679-9957. “Made in Woodstock VI.” CPW’s artists-in-residence. Through December 30.
COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “The Postcard Show.” Through November 3.
DIA: beacon 3 BEEKMAN STREET, Beacon 440-0100. “Jean-Luc Moulène: Opus + One.” Through December 31. “Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive.” Through December 31.
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55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “The Maltese Falcon.” An exhibition of 2D & 3D art and visual poetry. Through November 24. “The Built Environment.” Group show. Through November 10.
128 canal street, port ewen 338-5580. “Mira Fink and the Duck Pond Painters.” November 3-November 24. Opening Saturday, November 3, 5pm-8pm.
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Boy on Bike, Lisa Golightly, at Blackbird Attic in Beacon through Novemeber 5
“By The Road” by Joan Albaugh (oil) Water Street Market – New Paltz – Open 7 Days – 11 to 6 Call for evening apt 845-518-2237 – All Credit Cards Welcome
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Surface.stucco.red, Lewis Folden, 2012, from “Shade and Surface” at Front Street Gallery
ECKERT FINE ART 34 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON (518) 592-1330. “Awarded.” Barry Kieselstein-Cord photography retrospective. Through November 3.
ElizabeTh v. sullivan gallery at the art students league vytlacil campus, 241 kings highway, sparkill. “New paintings by Grace Knowlton.” November 17-January 12. Opening Saturday, November 17, 2pm-5pm.
Julie Chase, Tasha Depp, Beth Humphrey,Will Lytle, Norm Magnusson, Margaret Owen Opening Reception: November 10, 5 - 7pm 69 Tinker Street Woodstock NY (845) 679-2650 www.aiearthling.net Hours: Thurs - Sun 12 - 5:30pm Woodstock Open House: December 7, 5 - 8pm
First presbyterian church of beacon 50 liberty STreet, BEACON beaconpresbyterianchurch.com. “Blue Collar Blues.” Group show. Through January 27.
FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. “Celebrating Life.” Landscape and still life oil paintings and pastels, including new pastoral animal paintings by Mireille Duchesne. November 1-October 11.
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.” Photographs that document the Pacific Northwest by Eirik Johnson. Through December 9.
FREIGHT LIQUIDATORS 702 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3070. “Watercolor Paintings by Karleen Dorn.” November 1-December 31. Opening Saturday, November 17, 4pm-7pm.
front street gallery 21 front street, patterson 490-4542. “Shade and Surface.” Lewis Folden and Dan Van Benthuysen. November 2-November 30. Opening Friday, November 2, 6pm-9pm.
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12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Tami Bone: Mythos.” Through December 3.
GALERIE gris 621 warren street, hudson (518) 828-1677. “New photographs.” Christopher Sharples. Through December 28.
GALlery 66 66 main street, cold spring 809-5838. “Hudson Valley Views.” Tarryl Gabel, Lori Adams, Tom Holmes, Janine Lambers. November 3-December 2. Opening Saturday, November 3, 6pm-9pm.
GALLERY 291 291 MAIN STREET, KINGSTON andrewnelsondesigns@gmail.com. “The Cogent Force.” Digital works by Hudson Valley graphic artist Andrew Nelson. November 3-December 31. Opening Saturday, November 3, 5pm-7:30pm.
GALLERY ON THE GREEN 7 ARCH STREET, PAWLING 855-3900. “Light and Land.” Photography by Robert Rodriguez, Jr. Through November 10.
GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMERS TURNPIKE, GARDINER 255-1255. “Impressions of Provence, Tuscany, and the Costa Brava.” Works by Michael Gold. Through January 2.
GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Rosalind Tobias: Alphabet.” Solo exhibition of abstract paintings based on letterforms. Through November 3. “Typo.” Group exhibition in all media by artists using words, letters, numbers and symbols. Through November 3.
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6422 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-1450. “Holy Beings.” Photographs by photographer and Hudson Valley resident Valerie Shaff. Through December 31.
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39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Paintings by Mary Sipp Green.” November 3-28. Opening Saturday, November 3, 5pm-7pm. BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick.” Through December 21. “Anti-Establishment.” Through December 21.
HOWLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY 453 MAIN, BEACON 831-1134. “Bound to Printed Matter.” Eleven artists who are inspired by the printed book as a medium for art-making. Through December 2.
HYDE PARK LIBRARY ANNEX 2 MAIN STREET, HYDE PARK, ALABAMA 229-7791. “Dressings: Paintings by Audrey Francis.” Through November 27.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Works by Julie Evans.” November 8-December 2. Opening Saturday, November 10, 6pm-8pm.
KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “The Sky is Falling! Exhibit.” Through December 2.
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 www.lookartgallery.com. “Masked and Unmasked.” Works of Frank Gimpaya and Susan Zoon. Through November 18. “Members’ Holiday Exhibition.” November 24-December 23. Opening Saturday, November 24, 6pm-8pm.
marina gallery 153 MAIN STREET, cold spring Work by Barbara Smith Gioia. November 2-25.
MARist college art GALLERY 3399 north road, poughkeepsie 255-1241. “Making Light.” Larry Brown and Jean Feinberg. November 7-December 5. Opening Wednesday, November7, 5pm-7pm.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Hardie Truesdale: The Art of Photography.” November 2-25.
MCDARIS FINE ART 623 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-9896. “Burnt.” Kico Gavantes. Through November 18. “Lowcountry Landscapes.” Joseph Bradley. Through November 18. “Sighting Louis Sullivan.” Bernard Williams. Through December 15.
MID-HUDSON HERITAGE CENTER 317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE www.midhudsonheritage.org. “Fierce- Fancy- Found.” Three friends, three visions, three artists showing bodies of work. Through November 9.
MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “Quack-a-Doodle-Moo.” Dutchess Day School student exhibit of Hudson Valley Farm animal. Through November 8.
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ONE MILE GALLERY 475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON 338-2035. “My Other Guitar is a Paintbrush.” Artwork by artists who might be primarily known for their work as musicians. Through November 17.
james w. palmer gallery vassar college, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5370. “Conflict, Destruction, Renewal: Contemporary Artists on War.” Benjamin Busch, Monica D. Church, Linda Cunningham, and Charles Geiger. Through November 16.
RAMIRO’S 954 LATIN BISTRO 954 ROUTE 6, MAHOPAC (914) 255-5414. “Works by Lisa Zukowski.” Through January 1.
RED HOOK COMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK 7516 NORTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK redhookcan@gmail.com. “Angels in the Architecture.” Photography by Juliet R. Harrison. November 2-January 1. Opening Saturday, November 3, 5pm-7pm.
ROOS ARTS 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE (718) 755-4726. “Excursions on a Wobbly Rail.” Curated by Brad Hajzak David Ambrose, Patrick Brennan, Sean Greene, Sarah Mattes, Lucy Mink. Through November 17.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ 257-3844. “Russel Wright: The Nature of Design and Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York.” Through March 10.
SOHN FINE ART 6 ELM STREET, STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 298-1025. “The Proserpine Path.” Exhibition of photographic work by Eric Korenman. November 2-March 4. Opening Saturday, November 3, 4pm-7pm.
STEVENSON LIBRARY BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON h.m.sawka@gmail.com. “Personal Equilibrium: The Private Journals of Jan Sawka.” November 1-December 15. Opening Wednesday, November 7, 4pm-6pm.
STORM KING ART CENTER OLD PLEASANT HILL ROAD, MOUNTAINVILLE 534-3115. “Light and Landscape.” Through November 25.
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KAPLAN HALL, NEWBURGH 341-9386. “Reality and Beyond.” Group Show featuring Clayton Buchanan, Linda Richichi, and Mary Mugele Sealfon. Through January 4.
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 www.tl-rh.com. “Flyaway Garden.” Paintings and drawings by Kaitlin Van Pelt. Through November 25.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “From Fiber Soft to Rock Hard.” Bonnie Shanas, Bob Madden and Karen Madden. Through November 11.
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442 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 705-5381. “Generate.” Series of screen prints and mixed media works by Kate Daley. Through November 20.
UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Art of the Heirloom Cultural Seed Savers.” November 3-December 5. Opening Sunday, November 4, 4pm-5pm.
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232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “In Search Of.” Oil paintings by Bruce and Lita Thorne. November 1-30. Opening Saturday, November 3, 5pm-7pm.
wired GALLERY 1415 route 213, high falls (682) 564-5613. “Group Show #4.” November 10-December 30. Opening Saturday, November 10, 5pm-7pm.
WOLFGANG GALLERY 40 RAILROAD AVENUE, MONTGOMERY 769-7446. “Bruce Chapin: Sculptures.” November 7-December 2. Opening Saturday, November 10, 6pm-9pm. “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. Through November 4.
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. Through December 31.
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
This page, clockwise from left: Debbie Harry, Roof of W 58th St, New York, 1977 Sex Pistols, Nashville Room, London, 1976 Bob Marley, Exodus Tour, Germany, 1977 Opposite: Richard Hell, New York, 1977
Eye Was There The Photography of Kate Simon
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ot to take a single note away from the legendary musicians she’s photographed, but it’s safe to say that many of them owe a slab of their success to Kate Simon. While it always comes down to the music, it takes another kind of gifted, collaborative artist—the photographer—to capture and communicate the essence of what makes the music maker tick. And in the process of doing exactly that, the Poughkeepsie-bred, part-time Woodstock resident has created hundreds of striking works that match the greatest songs of her subjects. Since the early 1970s Simon has been giving us some of the most iconic images in popular music: a back alley-raw band on the Clash’s debut album cover; a flirty Debbie Harry on a New York rooftop; a foppish David Bowie in the studio; an amused Sex Pistols in front of a fist-fighting audience. And besides those of Rod Stewart, Queen, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, and more, there’ve been portraits of William S. Burroughs, Dennis Hopper, Jean-Michel Basquiat, W. H. Auden, and other nonmusicians. Most famous, perhaps, are her mythos-making photos of an intense Bob Marley, one of which graces the cover of the reggae hero’s 1978 classic, Kaya (Island Records); hundreds more are collected in the book Rebel Music (2012, Genesis Publications), and several appear in the recent documentary Marley. According to Simon, the secret to a great shot is all in the eyes. “Eye contact is what I look for most,” says the photographer, who is currently assembling a career anthology and preparing for a show at the National Portrait Museum in Washington, DC. “The eyes provide the whole barometer of a person’s status. To me, without [eye contact] you ain’t got a picture.” —Peter Aaron Katesimonphotography.com; Morrisonhotelgallery.com; Peterfetterman.com. 58 music ChronograM 11/12
All Photographs Š Kate Simon
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nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Adam Arcuragi & the Lupine Chorale Society November 7. Philadelphia neo-folk wunderkind Adam Arcuragi, who plays the Falcon this month, has been wounding hearts and winning ears since the release of his highly praised 2006 eponymous debut. Arcuragi’s newest album, Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It, was recorded with producer Duane Lundy (Jim James, Daniel Martin Moore) and sees his melancholic songs digging deeper into Americana’s rich past for inspiration and given a fuller musical setting by his new backing band, the Lupine Chorale Society. Spirit Family Reunion opens. (Arlen Roth strums November 17; Alpha Male Gorillas go ape November 21.) 7pm. Donation. Marlboro. (848) 236-7970; Liveatthefalcon.com.
Füxa November 8. Experimental electro-drone duo Füxa (pronounced “fyoo-sha”) was formed in Detroit in 1995 by Randall Nieman and Ryan Anderson; Nieman had recently left Windy & Carl, while Anderson came from the similarly spacey Asha Vida. In addition to touring with Stereolab, Füxa has released a slew of brain-bending albums, several of them on Nieman’s own Mind Expansion Records (home to two full-lengths by local psych outfit Venture Lift). Nieman has also performed as a member of Spectrum, the band headed by Spaceman 3 front man Sonic Boom. This rare US date finds Füxa at the happening BSP Lounge. Prepare to leave the planet. Avondale Airforce and World Lines open. (AM to AM, Time Travels, and more rock November 9; the Champtone Guitar Rock ’n’ Roll Barnburner blazes November 10.) 8pm. $5 donation. Kingston. (845) 481-5158; Bsplounge.com.
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble November 9, 10. Singer, composer, filmmaker, and choreographer Meredith Monk will need no introduction to devotees of the contemporary avant-garde. A pioneer of extended vocal technique and a Downtown New York legend for nearly 50 years, she’s been called “a magician of the voice” thanks to such singularly startling compositions as the signature “Gotham Lullaby” and its companion pieces on 1980’s landmark album Dolmen Music. Not to be missed, Monk performs with her acclaimed vocal ensemble this month at Bard College’s Sosnoff Theater in “The Soul’s Messenger,” a program that surveys her transcendent repertoire. (“John Cage: On & Off the Air!” celebrates the Cage Centennial with six works November 17.) 8pm. $15, $25, $35, $45. Annandale-on-Hudson. (845)758-7900; Fishercenter.bard.edu.
Four Nations Ensemble
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November 11. With a core ensemble of harpsichord or fortepiano, violin, flute, and cello, the Four Nations Ensemble, founded in 1986, explores and performs major masterpieces from the Renaissance through the Viennese Classical works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven and early-20th-century American compositions. The award-winning chamber group has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and other hallowed halls. This intimate concert at the Collens House, the last of a local three-part series, titled “Paris: From Versailles to the Verailles Room,” features the ensemble accompanied by guests on lute, oboe, and violin. Steve Ross and Rosa Lamoreaux also perform. 3:30pm. Call for ticket price. Hillsdale. (212) 928-5708; Fournations.org.
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& DON WHITE
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November 17. One of the very first psychedelic garage bands, the Blues Project is in many ways the American equivalent of Britain’s Yardbirds: an act that used electric blues and R&B as a jumping-off point to experiment with folk, jazz, and ethnic forms within a rock context. Begun in 1965, the band briefly included organist Al Kooper and the late Artie Traum and was a Greenwich Village mainstay, regularly performing at hotspots like the Cafe Au Go Go, where it recorded an outstanding live album. This show at the Bearsville Theater boasts original guitarists Danny Kalb and Steve Katz (Blood, Sweat & Tears) and drummer Roy Blumenfeld. (Jackie Green visits November 2; Robert Randolph & the Family Band return November 10.) 8pm. $30. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com. Adam Arcuragi & the Lupine Chorale Society plays the Falcon in Marlboro on November 7.
cd reviews Gilles Malkine TimeDog (2012, Independent)
Stage vet Gilles Malkine, probably best known for his comedy work with Mikhail Horowitz and his performances at the 1969 Woodstock festival and Carnegie Hall, has returned to the airwaves with his first solo record, the guitar-based TimeDog. Performing rhythm ’n’ rhyme with such seasoned players as Harvey Sorgen, Bruce Berky, Martin Keith, Mike Ralff, and Dennis Washington, he bangs out 12 poetic beauties. Cheerful and swinging “Jack of Hearts” is a Django Reinhardt-style instrumental piece, recorded twice on six-string for an echo effect that sounds like 12-string. Another chipper instrumental, “The Marionette Rag,” was written for his folk-performing mother. Malkine sing-talks his life advice on the amusing title track, spouting such gems as “It don’t do no good to whine and beg, man / TimeDog’s humping your leg.” Using the warm voice of his inner child, Malkine fingerpicks the folksy “Heart of Kindness” with poesy and heartbreak: “In those [faces] of children pitiful, there I’ve seen most clearly the good Lord is not watching every day.” Malkine waxes political on quite a few tunes: The lyrics of “Freedom Road” hit hard on the topics of greed and our “eon of brutishness” over a contrastingly cheerful, driving folk rhythm; “Marta” tells of a war hero who assisted Muslims during a massacre in Kosovo; and, with a choral akin to an old-time spiritual, “Pequena Brisenia” recalls the assassination of a nine-year-old and her father during a raid by an immigration watchdog group. Malkine promises a second array of “musical tarts to tickle your mental palates” very soon. Gillesmalkine.com. A video for Gilles Malkine’s “The Marionette Rag” can be viewed at Chronogram.com. —Sharon Nichols
Keith Pray Confluence (2012, Artists Recording Collective)
Many an artist has diluted the very essence of their work by adding too much to the mixture and thinning it out beyond recognition. Alto saxophonist Keith Pray, who leads several eclectic and diverse ensembles and teaches, seems to have hit upon the right measurements with the first recorded outing for this group—guitarist Chuck D’Aloia, pianist Peter Tomlinson, bassist Lou Pappas, and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel—by sparing with the cliched pabulum that would have toppled the superlative Confluence, Albany County resident Pray’s fifth release as a leader and his debut release on the Artists Recording Collective label. Seven of the ten compositions belong to Pray and one to D’Aloia. The remaining two, Jimmy Heath’s “Gingerbread Boy” and John Coltrane’s “Africa,” are tidal surges of fresh conceptions that befittingly pay homage to their creators. Pray’s “Song for Katie” brims with romantic notions brought forth by the touch of Tomlinson, while “Winter Brings” swings evenly and gently. The contemplative “Vamp for Peace,” with its brooding yet seductively lulling opening solo by D’Aloia, is a powerful evocation for our times influenced, as Pray says, by Coltrane and his fellow saxman Kenny Garrett. Throughout, Siegel reveals quite a variety pack of playing when asked to fill the rhythmic needs behind each piece. Pappas pleases with a fixed yet fluent facilitation of the music. In the year ahead, Pray will be tending to two other ensembles: Songs from Home, which includes cello and viola, and the Mohawk Brass Band. Keithpray.com —Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
Simone Felice Simone Felice (2012, Team Love Records)
Though still in his 30s, there’s no denying Simone Felice has led a full life, on both sides of the ledger. A writer and veteran of local bands since his teens, most notably the Felice Brothers (whose drum kit he left in 2009) and then the Duke and the King, Felice has also endured a lifetime of health crises resulting from a congenital heart defect. It’s the kind of thing that provides a poet-songwriter with a bottomless well of material. Lack of material for songs isn’t the problem on Felice’s generally likable solo debut. Each of the 10 tracks is populated with relatable characters—even when he invokes celebrities like Courtney Love he manages to skillfully humanize her. But while there’s hardly a bummer tune on it, the entire album drifts by without leaving a mark. Felice has a great voice with a soft coarseness, but like the simple acoustic strumming that accompanies it, he seems content to reside in a safe middle ground, both tunefully and lyrically. “Stormy-Eyed Sarah” fails to construct more than a ghostly outline of the titular woman, though Felice leaves a bomb in the middle, saying her father “beat you blue and black.” A few of the tunes, such as “Dawn Brady’s Son” and the opening “Hey Bobby Ray,” have a loose-limbed swing to them, informed by gospel-tinted soul and colored by organ and steel guitar, and the arrangements are spare and airy—especially on the lament “Ballad of Sharon Tate.” But overall, Felice’s debut feels just a bit incomplete. Team-Love.com. —Mike Wolf
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AFTER THE FLOOD
Daniel Wolff Chronicles New Orleans’ Long Way Home By Nina Shengold
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he media images of New Orleans devastated by post-Katrina flooding are indelible—levees breached, miles of homes underwater, bodies floating down streets, people stranded on roofs and packed into the Superdome. What happened after the waters went down got a whole lot less airplay. Daniel Wolff’s new book The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back (Bloomsbury, 2012) aims to change that. So do the documentaries he’s co-producing with filmmaker Jonathan Demme, newminted recipient of the Woodstock Film Festival’s Maverick Award. New Home Movies from the Lower Ninth Ward started as five half-hour segments on PBS’s “Tavis Smiley Show” and was later recut as a documentary feature; after numerous festival screenings and a theatrical run in New York, I’m Carolyn Parker is currently airing on PBS’s “POV” series. Three more documentaries are still in the works. Wolff is a rangy, affable man with a crooked smile and a wardrobe of baseball caps, outspoken t-shirts, and khaki shorts. Though he’s lived in Nyack for decades, he’s proposed meeting at Bear Mountain State Park. Sitting at a picnic table overlooking pristine Hessian Lake, he seems like a born multitasker, eating a burger and keeping one eye on a neighboring football game as he discusses his work. He and Demme are neighbors whose first collaboration was The Agronomist, a 2003 documentary about slain Haitian broadcaster/activist Jean Dominique, a mutual acquaintance. “We were walking our kids to 62 books ChronograM 11/12
school together, and asked, ‘What are we going to do about it?’” The same question spurred their first trip to New Orleans. They arrived with a video camera five months after the hurricane, when, Wolff reports, “The news people were mostly gone. We started hearing about ‘Katrina fatigue’ before we arrived. So people were glad to see us. They were excited that someone was going to be telling their story.” There was little preplanning. “We got down there, rented a car, and drove to what seemed to be the hardest-hit areas. People would tell us their stories, then point us to somebody else we should talk to,” says Wolff. “It was all very seat of the pants, very rough.” Demme did most of the camerawork; Wolff listened and took lots of notes. “Our original plan was to film for one year—four visits, one in each season, the story of everyone getting happily back into their homes.” When they realized that wouldn’t happen, they vowed to keep going back until all their principal interview subjects were back in their homes. It took five-anda-half years. Demme and Wolff returned every few months to document their progress, and ongoing struggles with recalcitrant insurance companies, inadequate FEMA trailers, corrupt contractors, and endless bureaucracy; they amassed over 500 hours of footage. Three years into the process, Wolff decided to write a book too. “There were things I could get at in a book that would be harder to do in a film,” he explains. “They’re very good at putting you right there, but it’s hard to pull back for historical background.”
The Fight for Home offers both context and vivid details, like a woman two-stepping with her rescued dog on the sidewalk, or this description of a subdivision in Violet, 18 months after the flood: “Down a long straight block, humps of dead appliances sit by the curb: stoves, iceboxes. The nearly identical houses wait under the bright sun, most of their carports empty, sometimes an abandoned vehicle left to rust on flat tires. The smell is of garbage and drying marshland. There’s almost no sound: no hammering, little traffic. Way down the street, a crew is chainsawing the big trunk of a limbless tree.” New Orleans natives are famously great storytellers, and Wolff has a Studs Terkel-like ear for dialogue rhythms (“We broke as a joke down here”; “Everything’s mumble-jumble.”) Here’s Suncere, a dreadlocked activist with a tattoo of Africa under one eye, describing why he came from North Carolina to volunteer with Common Ground: “If I don’t take myself down here to help my folks out, I might as well get a potato peeler and start peeling off my skin.” Though his intent was to help African-Americans, Suncere also wound up working with Vietnamese immigrants, Native Americans, and Cajuns like Mike, whose house he first approached on a dare because it was flying “a huge-ass Confederate flag.” Stocky and “sun-raw pink,” Mike burst into tears of gratitude that Suncere and his buddy had shown up to help; they became lasting friends. “This has always been a gumbo. And that’s never gonna change. God loves color! God loves diversity!” testifies Pastor Mel, an excrackhead preacher whose flock of recovering addicts rescued dozens of Gentilly residents in flat-bottomed boats, some of them marveling that they were doing so instead of looting. Wolff’s reportage includes dozens of local residents, out-of-state volunteers, politicians, and such surreal incursions as busloads of visitors on “disaster tours,” a blasted industrial landscape turned into a trailer park fenced like a refugee camp, and a pink-wrapped art installation commissioned by Brad Pitt to raise funds for building new homes. Even the graffiti is eloquent: NOT 4 SALE @ ANY $ I’M STAYING PUT! The Fight for Home also makes room for historical background, tracing New Orleans’ ethnic mix from the busiest slave market in the antebellum South to enforced desegregation during Reconstruction and again in the 1960s, along with the city’s gradual economic decline. “The media cliché after the floods was that it ‘lifted the veil off poverty.’ What veil? If you’re poor, there’s no veil. And the trouble is that if that’s how you see it, the veil goes back down,” Wolff asserts. “The quick news item on New Orleans is essentially that they were victims. These people had rich and compelling lives before and after the flood. It’s easy for people with a certain amount of money to walk by these people, and we have no idea. If we call them ‘victims,’ they’re easier to dismiss.” He gets up to fetch a stray napkin, picked up by the wind, and remains on his feet. “The longer we kept going down, the more important the story seemed to become, and the more universal,” he says. “It seemed to me that all the issues this country is grappling with were there in one city: low-
income housing, federal stimulus programs, public education, public health, race, class. It’s all there.” Wolff’s previous nonfiction books tackle many of the same underlying issues, often coming at them through the side door. InYou Send Me:The Life and Times of Sam Cooke (Virgin Books, 1996), he spirals outward from the story of Cooke, one of the first black Gospel singers to cross over to a “mainstream” (read: white) pop audience, to the Civil Rights era. In 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land (Bloomsbury, 2005), “I can use Bruce Springsteen as a way into Asbury Park, and then talk about the Ku Klux Klan in the Northeast.” How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations that Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2009) describes the nontraditional early educations of a dozen famous Americans, from Benjamin Franklin and Sojourner Truth to Elvis Presley. Posing the question “How did they learn what they needed to know?” Wolff also examines the roots of the public school system, founded to “Americanize” immigrants and foster obedience. (Pledge of Allegiance, anyone?) “If you talk long enough about education, the definition starts to broaden,” he says. “People tell you about how they learned woodcarving from their uncle. FDR would probably say the Hudson River was part of his education. We need to have this dialogue, not just ‘How did your kid do on his math test?’” Wolff’s own education took place in Mamaroneck, where he did a lot of sailing. He was a good student, if not an attentive one. “According to my mother, I got asked to leave a number of schools, probably because I was a wiseass.” He learned what he needed to know in large part by hitchhiking during the 1970s. “The story of America is a great story, with all its successes and failures. I was never able to get that from history books, but I sure got that from riding around in cars with all those oddballs who picked me up.” A self-described “general practitioner,” Wolff has sampled a wide variety of creative genres. Alongside his nonfiction and film credits, he writes music criticism and liner notes; his notes for The Complete Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers earned a Grammy nomination. He contributed introductory essays to Eric Meola’s Born to Run: The Unseen Photos and two books by the late African-American photographer Ernest Withers, as well as a historical essay about the Lenape for Riverkeeper. He’s also collaborated with his wife, choreographer Marta Renzi (sister of John Sayles’s producing partner Maggie Renzi), on spoken-word texts for dance performance. And he’s published two volumes of poems, with a third to be published next year. (“That’s just for cash,” he deadpans.) “I don’t think of myself as a writer with a capital W. I’m a human being who’s curious about things and has developed some communication skills,” insists Wolff, who rebels at the notion of specialization. “Nature doesn’t get branded. It doesn’t go, ‘You’re just going to be about the wildflowers; too bad about the bees.’ It’s a mix. It’s the Hudson River; it’s the freshwater and saltwater, all the different elements that combine so you get an interesting ecosystem. I’m interested in connecting things. The wider apart things are, the more interesting it gets to draw the connections.”
“I write books and things.
One way to get at it is that
you’re trying to tell stories, and at the end of the day it doesn’t matter what
your role is. But if I say at a cocktail party that I’m a
storyteller, they’ve got me with puppets.” —Daniel Wolff
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SHORT TAKES A Thanksgiving feast of Hudson Valley literature from small presses, serving fiction with a dash of truth. As It Is On Earth Peter M. Wheelwright Fomite Press, 2012, $15.95
Taylor Thatcher is a 12th-generation New Englander, born into a “fast-paced but solemn world” of “hospitals, funerals, weddings, hospitals, funerals.” During the end days before a Millennium Conference, his life intertwines with his troubled half brother Bingham, an alluring Israeli photographer, and the indigenous past. Columbia County resident Wheelwright writes with an architect’s vision and intricacy, courting big themes as he follows gnarled family roots deep into bedrock. Light Piercing Water: Guest Boy Djelloul Marbrook Mira Publishing, 2012, $4.99
Guest Boy follows the intercontinental odyssey of Bo Cavalieri, a peripatetic artist and merchant seaman of Arab-American lineage. Moving from German rathskeller to Moroccan burial, from wreck-diving off the coast of Oman to a brothel-trade slave ship, this first volume of an ambitious trilogy by award-winning Germantown poet Marbrook sails the seven seas in Homeric fashion, framing incident through character study. The Agitator Walter Keady Castletree Books, 2012, $19.95
Irish-born Dutchess County novelist Keady starts his historical novel in a reeking laundry room at Dartmoor Prison in 1877, as Irish freedom fighter Michael Davitt is summarily released. Returning home to rally starving tenant farmers, he emerges as a leader in the Land War, a nonviolent class conflict with the slow burn of a peat fire. Diligently researched and bristling with period detail, The Agitator fights the good fight. The Seduction of Erica Stein Roberta Seligman Epigraph Books, 2012, $14.95
It’s a set-up familiar from countless romances: lonely housewife meets handsome handyman. But documentary filmmaker Seligman adds some twists of her own. Her eponymous heroine (also a filmmaker) is 12 years older than the tattooed hunk who shows up to mow her Rhinebeck lawn, and he’s married with children. Opposites attract, prose becomes breathless, but Erica’s fairy-tale ending plays hard to get. Suite for Three Voices Derek Furr Fomite Press, 2012, $15
In this ambitious “dance of prose genres,” Bard professor Furr interweaves personal narrative, short fiction, and essay to link an astounding diversity of subjects—Battlestar Galactica and Victorian ghosts, birdsong, and death—offering readers what amounts to a literary brain scan. As he writes of his grandfather, “At any given moment, we are the sum of the stories we remember; life after death comes to those whose stories endure.” Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons Peter Trachtenberg Da Capo, 2012, $24
A beloved pet vanishes; a marriage flounders. How to go on? Spiked with intellectual digressions and unlikely graphics (Masaccio, Rembrandt, a Victorian “mourning photo”), Trachtenberg’s eccentric meditation on loss and transition is not your everyday cat book. The author of The Book of Calamities and 7 Tattoos uses language as a flensing tool, peeling back layers to glimpse deeper truths. Reading 11/17 at 7pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck.
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Renato the Painter
My Last Empress
Eugene Mirabelli
Da Chen
McPherson & Company, 2012, $25
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Crown, 2012, $25
wo noteworthy new novels are narrated by old men who, in different ways, have failed as artists. Serving the twin purposes of catharsis and redemption, these fictional memoirs promote the notion that being a member of the creative class is itself a kind of success. The fin-de-siècle Yalie Samuel Pickens, who pens Da Chen’s My Last Empress, wants us to know that he has “not led a fruitless life, but an immortal one.” The would-be memoirist first burst into obsessive scribbling after his teenage muse, Annabelle, perished in a freak accident—a fire caused by the embers of her opium pipe as she offered him her maidenhead. After this, Pickens is possessed by the ghost of the girl, who was the daughter of a prominent missionary. His aspirations as a sonneteer are dashed as he is guided by her ghost (whose existence is someplace between metaphor and mirage) to study Mandarin, becoming the British-appointed tutor to the sexually and politically impotent Chinese emperor. Chen’s narrator exhibits a lucid take on his own abnormal condition, and chooses to run with it unconcerned. “A tethered man could barely glimpse a heaven-bound kite, let alone the stringless one that I am,” he observes, upon refusing to play informant for a colonial intelligence agent. Pickens befriends his pupil’s prized consort, Qui Rong, one of five empresses. She seems to be Annabelle “in flesh and blood.” Their maze-like adventure in the Forbidden City involves speedy escapes, looted antiquities, confused paternity, and an insidious troop of eunuchs. Longtime Highland resident Chen displays chops at erotic description. His sly memoirist borrows from the giddy tradition of Fanny Hill and Josephine Mutzenbacher: “Wretchedly she weakened me with her parched lips and quivering tongue.” The nexus of genital and spectral inspires his ripe lyricism: “Oh, my ape heart, thawing and melting in one monstrous beat and phantasmal rhyme.” In Renato the Painter, by Delmar resident Eugene Mirabelli, the unity of the narrator’s life and vocation is demonstrated in his descriptive habits: “A handsome face seemingly drawn from black lithograph crayon” or, “an Art Deco face, composed of a few smooth planes.” Retired from teaching at a second-rate art school, Renato—70 and newly sporting a white beard—is desperate to show in a selective Boston venue. When an interested gallerist paying him a compliment confuses Klimt and Schiele, a dismayed Renato offers his readers an anecdotal tutorial on the difference between the two masters. That his own work will not outlast him is a crushing realization, yet he has managed to keep his certainties intact: “It’s a long lonely trek where you paint not for viewers who never come, but simply because you can, because you’re good at it.” Never having taken a theoretical slant, he is irked that computer art and feminist critique take up wall space he covets. Old associates have triumphed by staying saleable or having accolades sufficient for a Globe obituary. His closest friend, whose art discourses sustained him, recently died, and Renato’s wife, who covers art for the New England Newsletter, has never vouched for his work. Undaunted, Renato still makes love to the two mothers of his three collegeeducated children; his intake of coffee, biscotti, zabaglione, Asti, and Cinzano is documented with a bittersweet charm. A story slowly brews when a young homeless woman with a child moves into his studio, disrupting his routine. Grudging in the role of hero, our memoirist sees that his life is not without laurels. —Marx Dorrity
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Nick & Jake: An Epistolary Novel Tad Richards and Jonathan Richards Arcade/Skyhorse Publishing, 2012, $24.95
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ick & Jake: An Epistolary Novel is a marvel of recycling and literary invention, born of the question: What if F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Nick Carraway and Ernest Hemingway’s Jake Barnes (narrators of The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises, respectively) met as troubled middle-aged men in Paris in 1953? In the novel’s skewed universe, their creators do not exist, but Carraway and Barnes are flesh and blood. The mind reels, English teachers froth, and a cheeky yarn is born. Woodstock’s Tad Richards and his Santa Fe-based brother Jonathan cast Carraway as an erstwhile novelist (Trimalchio in West Egg, written in his youth, was a real-life early title for Gatsby). Carraway’s advertising work for the Eisenhower administration has landed him a State Department job. Anti-Communist hysteria is mounting, and Allen Dulles (real person), director of the fledgling CIA, enlists Carraway to write to the managing editor of the Paris Herald Tribune—crusty expat Barnes. Will Barnes help the CIA ferret out “objectionableâ€? books from embassy libraries? Barnes answers Carraway with a hilarious rebuff. Subsequently, though, Carraway’s praise for Barnes’ memoir of `20s-era Paris—A Lost Generation—engenders a pen pal-style friendship. When naĂŻve Carraway falls victim to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s blacklisting, he loses everything and hightails it to Paris, where he and Barnes hit it off; each man corresponds with various friends, detailing the budding bromance. Barnes encourages Carraway to start writing fiction again. The Richards brothers weave multiple correspondences to create a narrative of entwining adventures in jazz clubs, cafes, and government offices. Much is afoot: the Red Scare, existentialism, proto-rock `n’ roll, the world’s first successful sex-change operation—all revealed through letters and a few of Barnes’ Herald Tribune columns. Carraway’s missives from his fictional friend Ronnie Gilchrist, an aspiring New York City vocalist, offer tantalizing glimpses into the music world, where Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, and Atlantic Records impresario Jerry Wexler are laying the foundations of an empire. We’re also privy to hastily composed telegrams and decoded messages between covert CIA operatives like Roy M. Cohn and wet-behind-the-ears George H. W. Bush. In the alternate reality of Nick & Jake, Lawrence Durrell, from The Razor’s Edge, joins them on the dark side. Speaking of Bush, the Richards brothers took inspiration for Nick & Jake from the post-9/11 international goodwill squandered by his son’s administration; they draw attention to a similar set of circumstances in 1953, when the US took to fear-mongering and nation-building in Iran (the installation of the Shah and destruction of secular democracy). Although most of Nick & Jake is a romp, these trenchant observations provide exceptionally sharp teeth. Carraway and Barnes begin as proxies for their creators; their letters recall familiar cadences in Fitzgerald’s and Hemingway’s prose. It’s a great hook, but as the novel spools out and hijinks ensue—political, romantic, sexual—Nick and Jake acquire more distinction. Bidding them good-bye a second time is sweet sorrow indeed. In addition to providing incisive political commentary, resurrecting cultural icons, and breathing life into fictional heroes, the Richards brothers shine a warm, nostalgic light on the lost art of letter writing. Nick & Jake approximates the ebb and flow of missives between friends, lovers, even adversaries. Offered here are the rhythms of relationships fostered through the shared mind-space of language, and the sweet anticipation of awaiting a response. Nick & Jake proves the epistolary art may yet live. —Robert Burke Warren
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Come to me like feather down and spill on me with fingers. Place one hand on my belly and your other wherever you wish —p
Drip drop, rain splashing in the puddles Gooey, gicky, yucky mud getting in my shoes Crossing streams on the rocks Slipping, tripping on roots and logs Crash Bam Baing! Drip Drop Plop —Rylie Jones (8 years)
The Stars
Articulating “Love”
When Summer Meets Fall
One night I spoke to the stars.
when you say the word love tell me, does your tongue strike your incisors like a mallet to a drum? does it drop in transition and later then assume a transverse position as it settles in the womb? does your mouth open up like a butterfly cocoon or a dragon fruit flower, blowing kisses to the moon? do you bite your lower lip as if love could be consumed with a frication between petals where love begins to bloom?
With windows wide open and summer skin rests, Fall pulls back his bow and aims at the crest.
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My Life I could have made a fortune in real estate, but instead I wrote 1,230 mediocre poems. •
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The Sad Truth Three-year-old kids understand my poetry.
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Daydreams-on-Hudson We pause beside our river watch the daydreams dance and bob— mine, yours, whoever’s the loner’s or the mob’s the lap dog looking for relief the riders of that honking train … Let all streak by like howls of grief or joy, or like a sweet refrain. Let billows wax grandiloquent, then bust up into tiny drops. Let water be our sacrament. Let’s scheme and laugh and never stop, for days are short and friendships rare and suns keep sinking everywhere. —Catherine Wald
Its cool thin arrow cuts through thick air, It glimmers like silver and tickles the pear. Slicing through wheat and brushing the sparrow, It stirs up the hay that lay in your barrow. Into the window and onto your breast, Through thinly spun linen it kisses your chest. Despite the dream and amongst it all, You know you’ve been kissed by the coming of Fall. —Randy Holden
Stein Arrives On Time Everything arrives on time, even, despite her continual critics, Gertrude Stein. She showed up in Paris at the perfect moment. Though, she had trouble speaking, because she lied each time she spoke. So, following advice from Alice and her brother, she wrote. And write she did! Casting on the page juxtapositions of words, boggling conventional concepts of sentence and meaning, and bashing around nouns and verbs . . . cramming them together like sun tanned bodies on a crowded beach.
How I Publish
In fall, I fell.
I collect my poems into tomes.
With the leaves, she left.
And the bewildered, stunned, reactions. T. S. Eliot shaved his head and contacted Sigmund Freud. Wallace Stevens lost a shitload of money in the life insurance business and stopped giving a fuck about much of anything. Everything falls into its exact order of arrival. Everyone who seeks, finds, even those excitable squares pissing and moaning over Gertrude Stein.
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Autumn
To Tell Him
The Ancestors
Barge
Grandpa’s cancer Was another grown-up problem, I thought It would be over soon. Just like tax season Or retirement or an oil change. The Mayhem of cousins and ringing telephones Was exciting for a while but I wanted my house To be focused on happy things and Me again.
Summon the spirits at night. Ask them to come, to make a circle, to hold hands. To pray.
rolling past in the distance the barge the barge rolling past in the distance through the window in the distance the barge the barge across the street in the distance on the river in the distance the barge in front of the cliffs the barge trudges on
It seemed just days since the doctor Didn’t mention cancer, but apparently He was wrong. They’re saying something About two weeks and Grandma’s crying Again while a curtain goes Up around him and I know to Stay away when the ladies come in their Nurse uniforms. It was all I could do not to shudder When Grandma told me to hold his hand And tell him I loved him. I whispered the words In a voice cold and jaundiced like his Hands. They gave small Response and I wished I could bring him A banana to make him smile Like he used to. Dad pulled up a chair and a hymnal, And we sang of when this passing world is Done, and it sounded like glory While the dying pastor looked beautiful for A moment. I thought I must have Impressed him with my voice And pretty Christianity. The new morning routine of peeking in to see What kind of flowers or crying People had appeared had become Comfortable and I didn’t know what to do That time there was an empty bed And nothing else.
The ancestors say do nothing. Be kind, do nothing. Listen. Do nothing. This is what they say. Go back, go back in time. He is a baby, he’s newly alive. Go back to his first day. Now go back even farther. He doesn’t yet exist. He has no mother or father to obey. The spirits make a circle, hold hands and then pray. He’s taken care of, do not worry. That’s what the spirits say. —Amy Glavasich
Faith Dissolves It’s hard to sorrow even the little g gods hauled on a flatbed trailer to Kansas where the missile silos hold faith in abeyance. Better to travel that far to the center of things and not arrive, the way
Where did he go, Dad? He said that day was the happiest because Grandpa was with Jesus. I Thought that sounded nice but wondered What it had to do with me. I didn’t seem To love him as much as everyone else did. Grandpa or Jesus.
it cannot snow on the sea, and it’s easy to see how the cold swallows
My seven-year-old heart didn’t break at death Or melt at glory Until it became sixteen, reading A letter from Sixteen years ago—words from The heart of that quiet man who Loved me and Jesus, from his knees at my birth And ever since. Too much time and sin later, Love Finally rings real in my heart too, once-dead but now Throbbing heavenward To tell him.
and disappeared.
—Katherine Estes
the warmer cold, the way your skin fell upon me
—Kristin Lukasik
A Lightly Dyslexic Haiku Sesquipedalianism: an offense of which I have now become guilty —Marc B. Fried
To be near you When other patients’ visitors thin enough, we claim one end of the long dining table and a jigsaw puzzle from the cabinet. The room’s inoffensive whites and blues conspire with the thermostat to mist the room with sleep. Like the cat, the times I don’t want to be petted, I do want to be near you, be it across the dining table at the psych ward, the bed, a breath. —Sari Krosinsky
Black & White Love
Cover like fake ideas. Flicker, dim, burn out. Flash of finality, emulation of lightning. (Count to ten.) No Echo. Reverberation’s absence proves my point.
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—A. J. Huffman
—Bonnie Thompson Enes
—JLSchneider
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f one thing is certain, it is that there is no one history that can truly define the character of the Rondout Valley. Though steeped in tradition, the valley always seems to make space for new additions to the rich fabric of its culture. Perhaps some insight into what shapes this captivating swath between the Shawangunk Ridge and the foot of the Catskill Mountains can be found in a tale that begins in a New York coffeehouse, almost 200 years ago. The Heritage In 1825, entrepreneurial brothers Maurice and William Wurts set what seemed like a fantastical plan in motion—one that would, in fact, help transform a sleepy section of the Hudson Valley into the vibrant community it is today. Seeking to jumpstart their efforts to promote the then miraculously hot-burning anthracite coal, the Wurts brothers staged an impromptu demonstration in a cafe on Manhattan’s Wall Street. Astounded investors backed their enterprise to the tune of an improbable $1 million, allowing them to begin digging 108 miles of canal that would open a trade route between the coalfields in Pennsylvania and the Hudson River in Kingston. Completed in 1828, the Delaware and Hudson (D&H) Canal cut a path along the sparsely populated Rondout Creek basin, giving rise to burgeoning way stations, like Ellenville and High Falls, along its route. The Wurts’s fanciful success story sets a tone of forward-thinking possibility that continues to shape the area’s personality, its heritage perpetu68 rondout valley ChronograM 11/12
ally evolving as new arrivals and fresh ideas are assimilated. The result is a singularly unique blend of old-world charm and a spectrum of contemporary appeal, one that distinguishes the area’s character from that of popular nearby destinations like Woodstock, Rhinebeck, and New Paltz. As much as the timeless peaks and trails of Sam’s Point Preserve, Minnewaska State Park, and the Mohonk Preserve describe the nature of the valley, so too does the range of newly minted traditions that, once established, seem like essential parts of the whole. Telling examples of that diverse growth within the valley span the proverbial spectrum, none more than Kerhonkson’s Soyuzivka, a Ukrainian Heritage Center and resort that, to visitors and residents alike, has become a fixture along the picturesque 44/55 mountain road. Each year, thousands of visitors of Ukrainian descent come to celebrate their rich culture; yearly events and programs, like their annual Cultural Festival and the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Academy, bring countless others who simply wish to bask in the magic of the heritage. At the other end of that spectrum—and of the valley itself—is Stone Ridge’s SUNY Ulster. “As the college approaches its 50th year, its mission to coalesce opportunities and community is at its highest point,” says Coordinator of Community Relations Ron Marquette. As Marquette points out, the college has become much more than a collection of classrooms—it is an ever-developing center for arts, culture, business, and community outreach.
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The Harvest Any mention of the Rondout Valley, however, must begin with the extraordinary agriculture that is at the very heart of its makeup. Every new valley settler quickly discovers what the indigenous Lenape Indians knew long ago: The region is blessed with spectacularly rich soil for farming. On either side of Route 209, the main thoroughfare that bisects the valley, the sweep of inviting and fertile fields inform any visitor about the true soul of the region. The myriad farming and growing businesses that line the valley remain the region’s true economic backbone, and a closer look reveals the special blend of tradition and progress that is its hallmark. “We are unique in that we are located in a concentrated area that has incredibly wonderful soil, which lends itself to abundant potential to create high-quality food,” explains Deborah DeWan, executive director of the Rondout Valley Growers Association (RVGA). About to celebrate its 10th year, the RVGA has grown from a grassroots movement of concerned local farmers to a trendsetting coalition committed to preserving farmland and creating a sustainable food system for the region—an institution in its own right. “What’s special is that at the core of our leadership is a diversity of farmers,” DeWan continues, “those here for generations, combined with new farmers that bring a new way of looking at what ‘back to the land’ means.” New endeavors, like flash-freezing the famous sweet corn of Stone Ridge’s Davenport Farms in an ongoing farmto-school movement, are indicative of community efforts to effect a more holistic agricultural infrastructure. Not far from Davenport’s, Stone Ridge Orchard Manager Elizabeth Ryan works tirelessly to reinvigorate one of the valley’s few remaining apple orchards. After implementing sustainable farming practices over the last several years, Ryan now looks to expand into the blossoming world of craft cider in order to preserve the precious open space. The hamlet of Accord is a perfect place to experience the harmony DeWan references, with long-established valley farming families side-by-side with newcomers that will write the region’s next chapter. Fresh-food enthusiasts can begin at Saunderskill Farms on Route 209, featuring the bounty of the land that has been the pride of the Schoonmaker family for over 300 years. A quick trip up the main road brings you to Kelder’s Farm, another name deeply enmeshed in the area’s farming history—and, each autumn, the site of the local harvest celebration affectionately known as the Jennie Bell Pie Festival. Kelder’s landmark grounds present fields of pick-your-own produce alongside the exceptional work of artist and New York City transplant Maria Reidelbach. Reidelbach’s Home-Grown Mini Golf, the world’s only sustainable, edible miniature golf course, sets beneath the shadow of her now-iconic creation, a 14-foot-tall garden gnome, Chomsky, which was, until recently, the world’s largest. Another quick jaunt up the rim of the valley will bring you to Hollengold Farm, one of the areas newest farms, where cutting-edge sustainable farming practices portend the future success of the region’s agriculture. The Sights and the Flavors Equal to the powerful draw of the landscape, the breadth of the valley’s cultural scene is an intrinsic part of its definition. The singular labors of the region’s constantly evolving population of artists and artisans are always in evidence. Though it’s impossible to catalog the range of the valley’s ever-expanding options, it is certainly fitting to say that, now in its 28th year, Ellenville’s Shadowland Theatre has become the bastion of the region’s cultural heritage. Offering first-rate, self-produced theater has made the organization a pillar of visibility in Ellenville and beyond, a role Artistic Director Brendan Burke puts great stock in. “We have become an anchor for culture and entertainment in the valley, and we’re very proud of that,” says Burke, pointing out that the theater continues to grow and expand, and plans include opening a second venue. More surprising treasures can be found in a trip to the local public library. Its initial collection in 1893 only consisted of about 1,000 books. Now, the library is an informational and cultural center, with both a full gallery featuring revolving works by local artists, and an annex at the Terwilliger House Museum, which presents an extensive collection of local historical artifacts and information. And, before leaving town, consider a table at Marcus Giuliano’s acclaimed Aroma Thyme Bistro, where the chef weaves his culinary magic with a seasonal selection of the finest local ingredients. A trip up Samsonville Road in Kerhonkson leads to the Bradford Graves Sculpture Park, owner Verna Gillis’s homage to the work of her late husband. This
LOCAL NOTABLES Phil and Judy Sigunick
The aesthetically exquisite vistas atop the Shawangunk Ridge that make up the incomparable Sam’s Point Preserve almost seem to demand that, upon inspection, one might find a rookery for superior art. A closer look at the hamlet of Cragsmoor—the sole inhabited aerie atop the ridge—proves that assumption to be well-founded. Cragsmoor actually gained prominence in the late 1800s as an artist colony founded by noted painter E. L. Henry, and longtime denizens Phil and Judy Sigunick are an integral part of continuing that tradition of exceptional creativity. Both husband and wife inhabit their own personal strata of visual art, and the constantly evolving product from their studios represents a spectrum of evocative work. It was actually Phil’s potter’s wheel that originally brought the two together in the 1970s, a note made more interesting in light of the significant fact that, if there was one word to describe Phil, it would be painter rather than potter. In fact, the wholehearted, 10year commitment that drove Phil to abandon his painting in pursuit of ceramic mastery informs about the body of work as it does the artist: he is, simply, not the least bit interested in compromise. Phil is an inventor, musician, teacher, father, and multi-faceted artist, all approached with equal and complete passion. (He is also a primary character in Peter S. Beagle’s classic cross-country travelogue, I See By My Outfit, for which he is creating a soon-to-be-published series of illustrations.) Recently, Phil also served as manager and curator of Wurtsboro’s Red Eft gallery, a highly celebrated compendium of local artists’ work until its closing two years ago—the final show that of Sigunick’s own work. The impact of taking in such an overwhelming retrospective caused Sigunick to begin reconsidering his approach, eventually leading to what he now describes as a personal renaissance. The
vitality of his new work is readily apparent; the deftly crafted colors and strokes, from portraiture or landscape, are a study in subtlety and boldness. “Art is an endless struggle, and an endless source of joy,” Phil posits with a wry smile. “I’ve left my comfort zone way behind, and I’m loving it.” A selection of new paintings will be on display at SUNY Ulster’s Muroff Kotler Gallery, from November 30 through December 21, part of the show “About Place.” According to Phil, he knew Judy was a “clay person” from the moment she walked into the first of his pottery classes; while that assessment is certainly true, it is far from a complete definition. The continuing journey of Judy Judy’s career has afforded her mastery over a range of mediums, each deliberately chosen and manipulated to gather every last mote of energy into her work. Judy’s community involvement is widespread, and her public commissioned creations are on display throughout the region, readily identifiable to the attentive eye. Concrete figures like the imposing rhinoceros at the Rosendale Community Center and the Poorhouse Memorial Rebekah at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz embody a combination of pathos and ferocity that is undeniably Judy’s. As a teacher at Dutchess Community College, as well as at Rosendale’s Women’s Studio Workshop, she shares her singular perspective and skill with generations of other artists. “I want my work to matter,” explains Judy, “and it will only matter if, somehow, there’s some access there to the truth.” Selections of Sigunick’s work are on display at Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Rhinebeck, and at the Stray Cat Gallery in Bethel. A show of her latest sculptures, a series of captivating mixed-media busts inspired by William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” is currently on display at Broadfoot & Broadfoot Gallery in SoHo. —Greg Schoenfeld
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hidden gem can hold its own with the likes of Saugerties’ celebrated Opus 40. Gillis testifies to the unique blend of energies that makes what she lovingly calls “the middle of somewhere” such an ideal place for creative expression. “We are a divergent group of characters all coexisting and complementing each other in unexpected ways, the old-timers and the recent immigrants. I feel blessed to be here,” Gillis proclaims. A synergy of another sort occurred when Brian and Buffy Gribbon opened their High Falls Cafe seven years ago. The Gribbons found that their genuine approach and hearty food fit in lock-step with the sensibilities of the local community. Now at their new location at High Falls’ Stone Dock Golf Course, the welcoming embrace continues. “It feels like home here, and that’s a feeling that everybody shares,” explains Buffy Gribbon. “I want people to feel like it’s my living room.”That works, as long as she has plenty of seats in the parlor: the High Falls Cafe has also become a preeminent hotspot for live music, from jazz to old-school funk, and everything in-between. And, when looking for a change of pace, High Falls always accommodates. Restaurants like George Nagle’s Northern Spy and longtime denizen Richard Murphy’s Eggs Nest offer both culinary delights and unique atmospheres, and John Novi, whose historic Depuy Canal House restaurant has been an eminent part of the local pastiche since the late sixties, continues to turn out his unique brand of gastronomic art. Recently, Novi has contributed in the visual arts realm, as well. Led by the efforts of yet another vibrant new area transplant, Sevan Melikyan, Novi’s charmingly rustic High Falls barn became the birthplace of the area’s newest original art forum, the Wired Gallery. Curator and manager Melikyan is as inspired by the welcoming community energy as he is by the captivating work of the artists on display, like noted local sculptor and ceramicist Kaete Brittin Shaw. Shaw’s studio, only a quick walk down Route 213 in High Falls, will now house the Wired Gallery movement, with its next group show opening there on November 10. “It’s a collective effort, dedicated to sustainability,” says Melikyan. “Truly, the local character is inherent to this business model.” If the valley’s history is any indication, that recipe should prove a success.
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Jennie Bell Pie Festival Every last weekend in September, Kelder’s Farm in Accord hosts the Jennie Bell Pie Festival in honor of the mother of Gordon Bell of Bell’s Tree Farm in Accord, who was well known for her homebaked pies. Chomsky, the farm’s giant gnome, greets the 2,500 visitors to the end-of-September festival. New to this year’s event was a Battle of the Bands contest, but the local vendors, amusement park rides, talent show, live music, firework display, and signature pie contest held true to the festival’s traditions. Local bakers, using local ingredients, plan their pies days in advance, and the judging criteria includes appearance, flavor, and, crust in both a local and children’s division. Jenniebell.org
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Named one of the nation’s top 10 road cycling events by Bicycling magazine, the Ride the Ridge Bike Challenge returned to Stone Ridge for its 6th year this June. Riders are invited to take on one of four routes: the 50-mile Shawangunk Ridge ride, the 30mile Countryside Ride, the 11-mile Bud Clarke Memorial Ride, or the 5-mile Family Ride. The event is not a race, but a personal challenge. Riders are supported by vehicles carrying water, first aid, and if need be, a ride back to the home base. The cycling event benefits the Performing Arts Center at the High Meadow School. Registration is $35 for adults and $15 for children under the age of 13. Ridetheridge.org
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The Rondout Valley Grower Association hosted its 10th annual Barn Dance and local food barbecue at Kelder’s Farm this July. Caller-fiddler Liz Slade and the Shoe String Band performed and provided dance instruction. Dr. Romo and friends provided Cajun music during dinner, which featured locally grown products from an array of local vendors. Children’s activities included hay rides, edible minigolf, a petting zoo, and a meadow maze. Rondoutvalleygrowers.org
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Every August, Ellenville celebrates the region’s wild summer fruits with a festival sponsored by the Ellenville Chamber of Commerce. The day kicks off with a blueberry pancake breakfast hosted by Pioneer Engine Co. 1 at Norbury Hall. Then, put your best fruit forward at the blueberry pie judging contest. This year’s festival featured live music on two stages from the Carl Richards Band, Mailbox 06, Bob Lusk, and Mark Fried. Over 200 vendors from local businesses and organizations come out for the event, and kids can enjoy face painting, rock wall climbing, Macaroni the Clown, and the world’s tallest pinball machine. Ewcoc.com
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Be the Host Who Boasts By Anne Roderique-Jones
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t’s the most wonderful time of the year… right? Holiday cheer is (hopefully) infectious, and a merry time with your nearest and dearest is an idyllic way to celebrate 2012. But if the near and dear are gathering in your home, and you’re stuck with whipping-up a holiday feast for the entire family—it’s good-bye mistletoe, and hello Xanax. Fear not:There’s no reason to drown yourself in liquid cheer and gravy—hosting a stress-free holiday is doable. These tips, from Hudson Valley’s expert partiers, spill the secrets to make planning (and hosting!) stress free. Now, put down the bottle.
Then, Sweet Dessert bars are a fantastic (and trendy) way to make a big impact for a large group. The designated and well-designed area is the perfect place to display (aka: show off) your laborious efforts in the kitchen. Simply set up a designated dessert table, and carefully display your sweets in groups. Think theme, such as favorite fall treats for Thanksgiving and wintery sweets for the holiday, with varying sizes and quantities. Peppermint and chocolate pops, doughnuts, and cupcakes make a really standout presentation.
First, Prep Laura Pensiero, owner of Gigi Trattoria in Rhinebeck, suggests that in order to keep the stress low, start thinking about menu ideas as soon as possible. Once you have a general menu in mind, you can figure out what can be done in advance and create a shopping list. “Lists are important—they keep you sane, on target and directed when you hit the market,” she says. Chris Crocco, proprietor of Brasserie 292 in Poughkeepsie, says, “It’s all about the ‘Meez.’” Mise en place—everything in its place—is the only way to successfully serve 50 guests. “In my opinion, simple is always better—keep your menu offerings simple and of high quality.Your guests will appreciate the attention to detail,” Crocoo says. Mary Anne and Richard Erickson, co-owners and executive chefs of Blue Mountain Bistro-to-Go, stress the importance of the length of the party. Mary Anne says that if you’re throwing a holiday cocktail party, it’s important to choose the time carefully, and make sure the guests are clearly aware that you’re not serving dinner. People coming from work are hungry, so you’ll need to have a nice spread of appetizers. They suggest at least six different appetizers for your guests—some stationary and some passed—for a good cocktail mix. She always suggests using foods that are in season, and adds, “No one wants to eat asparagus in December.”
Don’t Forget the Drink The holidays and boozing go hand-in-hand. Paul Maloney, owner of artisanal cocktail haven Stockade Tavern in Kingston, recommends a holiday punch for a larger crowd. “Before cocktails, Americans were serving punch, so it’s a traditional drink for the holiday,” he says. The Boston Rum Punch is light in alcohol, flavorful, and allows you to mingle while your guest serve themselves. He says, “It’s important to have small glasses and make sure you actually run out of the punch—otherwise, your guests won’t switch to another booze.” The natural booze progression would be to wine, which makes for an easy drink to serve with dinner. Crocco says that not all quality wines carry heavy price tags, and he likes to follow certain importers or distributors. “Thanks to Google, you can easily look up ‘great wine importers and distributors to follow’ and get a list of quality offerings,” he says. “The easiest way is to find a local shop that likes to talk to their customers about wines and spirits, and to guide them in the right direction.” And at the end of the night, Maloney recommends to serve a small, stirred spirit—this can be batched and ready to serve (in a lovely pitcher) at the end of the evening. The preferred end-of-the-evening cocktail for his clients is a Palmetto (an aged-rum version of the Manhattan), or a Boulevardier (a bourbon Negroni). He mentions that renting glassware is often the easiest option for a large group.
Now, Eat Pensiero’s best word of advice is to keep it simple and do as much as possible in advance. “For a crowd, I like only the main dish to be actually ‘cooking’ when entertaining—all else is reheated or divine at room temperature.” she says. As a registered dietitian, Pensiero understands that holiday eating can be both flavorful and healthful. She recommends using a lot of tasty seasonal, local vegetable side dishes and portion control. And yes, it’s okay to ask someone to bring a dish. Erickson has seen an upswing in pot luck parties lately, and found that it’s fun to ask each guest to bring their holiday favorite. She says, “This way, everyone gets to participate and feel like they’re a part of things—it also lightens the load for the host.”
Now, Be Merry Sure, the booze will make you merry, but there’s nothing like décor and music to get you in the spirit. Maloney advises extra candles and flowers for a simple and meaningful décor, and says that just because it’s the holidays, it’s not necessary to be completely traditional. “We’ve thrown a Valentine’s Day party with a gothic theme and love old-fashioned things like early jazz for the holiday.” And the music? Crocco recommends a gentle mix of the Ramones and the Smiths, while Erickson loves Pandora for creating the perfect holiday party playlist. 11/12 ChronograM holiday entertaining 83
Holiday Wine Tasting Taste over 50 wines from around the world
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Adam Fincke holds a Hidden Rose apple.
The Drunken Apple A Cider Renaissance in the Hudson Valley By Peter Barrett Photographs by Roy Gumpel
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he second annual CiderWeek took place in October, with events in New York City and the Hudson Valley. A project originated by Glynwood, the nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable agriculture in the region, the weeklong festival featured tastings, meals with cider pairings, and presentations by cider makers—all part of an ongoing effort to educate the public about America’s oldest drink. During Prohibition, orchards dedicated to growing cider apples were planted with sweet table varieties. Now, with renewed interest in hard cider growing fast, local farmers are replanting the older varieties and fermenting their juice into some compelling beverages. Sara Grady, director of special projects at Glynwood, describes the unique continuity of apple orchards: “Fruit growing is the only sector of agriculture where you can frequently see three or four generations of succession in the Hudson Valley. It’s a profound statement. In what form of agriculture are you more rooted?” The cider renaissance has arisen as the new generation responds to present economic realities: “Previous generations built profitable eating apple businesses, whether for supermarkets, export, or juice. But recently, that business just blew up,” says Grady, due to lower-priced foreign apples. Young farmers, some with their parents and some on their own, are creating new ventures that focus on adding value to apples, and in the process add still more value and variety to the ever-broadening range of excellent local products for us to enjoy.
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In case you missed out on CiderWeek, here’s a primer on the region’s offerings. Whether beer or wine is your go-to libation, you’ll find something that fits your palate and complements your dinner. Cider can be divided into sweet and dry styles; the sweet versions resemble the ciders made in Normandy, while the dry style is more English. Both are food-friendly; in general, the sweeter versions should be treated like off-dry Rieslings, which match well with Asian flavors and spice, while the dry versions are closer to beer with their tannic and slightly bitter notes. It’s also easy to overthink pairings; do what NewYorkers did for centuries before Prohibition and drink the cider you like with the food you like. Doc’s Draft hard ciders are made by theWarwickValleyWinery and Distillery, one of the sponsors of CiderWeek.Their annual output is huge—100,000 gallons a year—and, besides regular, their range includes pear, raspberry, currant, and pumpkin (in season, which is now). Doc’s is by far the easiest to find in stores, and offers a good introduction to those unfamiliar with hard cider.Warwick also makes the Pomme Bullé cider for the Hudson-Chatham winery in Ghent. The apples are 100 percent Northern Spy, all from one orchard in Germantown, making this cider the equivalent of a single-vineyard wine. It’s elegant, lightly sweet, and has a gently funky complexity. At 5 percent alcohol, it makes for a fine aperitif. “We’re a winery, but we love cider, and it’s important to New York State,” says Dominique DeVito, who owns the winery with her husband Carlo. They produce about 200 cases a year. Carlo is a big fan of the cider kir, a cocktail
made by adding some of the region’s excellent cassis to their sparkling cider. Warwick also bottles Tim Dressel’s Kettleborough Cider, a brand new venture that he launched from his family’s orchard in New Paltz. He is renting a tasting room behind the farm stand, and has already sold half of the 200 gallons he made in his first year. At 29 years old, he’s off to a good start; his bone-dry, English-style blend of Northern Spy, Idared, Golden Russet, and Empire apples was fermented on Champagne yeast at the Whitecliff winery’s facility and offers a strong apple character, bracing acidity, and a firm tannic grip. Lovers of hoppy beers and assertive red wines will find much to enjoy, and Dressel suggests that customers with a taste for sweeter ciders can make an apple mimosa by adding a bit of unfermented cider to soften the edges. He hopes to build a new building on the property in the next year or two so he can ferment and bottle on site. Another new arrival is the Bad Seed Cider Company, a collaboration between Albert Wilklow and Devin Britton (both also 29) that began selling this spring. Wilklow grew up on his family’s orchard in Highland, and he and Britton have taken their love of home-brewed beer and brought it to bear on apples. “We love to play around; we’re trying all sorts of things,” explains Wilklow, mentioning a new strawberry-rhubarb flavor and a bourbon barrel-aged version. They made about 1,000 gallons last year, and are on track to produce three times as much this year. In addition to their regular hard cider, they use Belgian yeasts to make witte and abbey-style ciders, and add hops to another that they call an IPC (India Pale Cider). They sell at several greenmarkets in Brooklyn, and are expanding their facilities to meet the growing demand. “I have learned that there’s no limit to the subtle flavors cider can have, and it’s awesome for carrying other flavors.”That’s Doug Fincke, who makes Annandale Atomic Hard Cider with his 25-year-old son Adam at the Montgomery Place orchards in Annandale. Made from a blend of the many varieties in their orchard, it has a rich apple character and lively acidity. Fincke is effusive and expansive on the subject of apples, and his enthusiasm is contagious: “In the spring, the blossoms come out and they seduce you with their scent, then you work hard all summer to get the fruit, then in the winter the wood keeps you warm and the cider gives you a buzz. It’s a beautiful journey; it’s like bonding with the trees.” They sell it from their farm stand on Route 9G, but it’s done for the year; aspiring druids and dryads will have to wait until spring to try it. Continuing on the more traditional English farmstead side of the field, Jeff Soons of Orchard Hill in New Hampton makes a field blend with a fruity nose, lots of complexity, and firm tannins. Also in Orange County, Andrew Brennan’s Aaron Burr Cidery is making another tangy and tannic old-school example as well as a version fermented with ginger and carrots that tastes like a very adult version of ginger ale and positively begs to be mixed into a dark and stormy with some good rum. Elizabeth Ryan, of Hudson Valley Farmhouse Cider in Staatsburg, makes a sturdy version well worth sampling. She, along with several other producers, went to France last fall as part of Glynwood’s Apple Exchange. They visited and learned from award-winning cider makers in Normandy, where wild yeasts are used almost exclusively. French producers use hundreds of different types of cider apples and a special fermentation process called keeving to achieve a profoundly complex product. Ryan and some of her colleagues have begun experimenting with these methods, and many of them are planting the bittersweet and bittersharp varieties of apple that make the most interesting cider. Rounding out the sweet end of the spectrum, Slyboro Cider House up in Granville makes two noteworthy off-dry sparklers: Hidden Star and Old Sin. The former is a blend of Northern Spy and Liberty, and strikes a nice balance between appley accessibility and farmstead funk. The latter is blended with some of their ice cider—made by concentrating sugars through freezing, like ice wine—and is quite sweet. The ice cider is available separately, and is ideal for accompanying desserts (like apple pie) or just being dessert by itself. Naked Flock, a product of Applewood Winery in Warwick, makes three flavors of cider: Original (sweetened with honey), Draft (fermented with Belgian ale yeast and sweetened with maple syrup), and Pumpkin.
Top: Adam Fincke at the Montgomery Place orchards in Annandale loads the apple shredder. Middle: Fincke loading the hydraulic press. Bottom: Fermenting demijohns of Annandale Atomic Hard Cider.
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Though it’s made in New Hampshire, Steven Wood’s Farnum Hill cider is worth mentioning both for its superlative quality and because Wood has been influential and helpful to local producers, offering guidance as they come together to form the Hudson Valley Cider Alliance. The Alliance, another facet of Glynwood’s strategy to build a viable apple industry in the region, will be meeting soon with New York State officials to discuss ways in which regulations can be made more friendly to small producers. Grady explains some of the obstacles: “We haven’t had a hard cider industry for decades, so any problems in the law are just becoming apparent now. It’s very convoluted. We’re dealing with an old law and a new industry.” There are discrepancies between federal and state laws governing cider, and the current state law caps cider at 7 percent alcohol, which, Grady says, “is not the true alcoholic potential of New York State apples.” After nearly a century of obscurity, hard cider has come roaring back to life across the country. MillerCoors recently bought a Minnesota-based cider operation, and Michelob has launched a low-calorie cider (which the New York Cork Report compares favorably with toilet water). Do not concern yourselves with these corporate simulacra; they have as much personality as the eponymous beers. Focus your attention instead on the talented local farmers who are rediscovering America’s original table wine and re-establishing a nascent industry in the process. If you support their efforts, in a few years you’ll be able to survey the region’s thriving cider scene and proudly tell your drinking buddies: “We built that.”
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Seoul Kitchen Good soup and food Homemade Kimchi Lunch & Dinner
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All Natural Korean Food
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MEXI
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Tues - Sun 11:30am - 8pm Closed Mondays 469 Main St, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8596 www.seoulkitchenbeacon.com
Casual Dining • Buffet • Takeout • Catering
COMING SOON! at 1571 Route 9 Wappingers Falls Monday-Thursday 11-9pm Friday & Saturday 11-10pm Sunday 11-9pm
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Fresh Fast Food No Freezers, No Fryers No Cans Fresh Mex and Southwestern 87 Main Street New Paltz, NY 12561 www.mexicali-blue.com
Give your customers the best snacks and we’ll give you the best service. Call DSD Services, Inc. handles over 3000 items
Call Mac
1.877.642.5622 www.mistersnacks.com
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www.bluemountainbistro.com 340-9800
tastings directory 18 Railroad Ave, Warwick, NY (845) 345-6555 162 North Main St., Florida, NY (845) 508-6555 www.favstreatery.com
Jean-Claude’s Artisan Bakery & Dessert Cafe 23 Elm Street, Warwick NY, (845) 986-8900 122 Windermere Ave, Greenwood Lake (845) 595-6580, www.Warwickinfo.net/Jean-Claude
Breweries Keegan Ales 20 Saint James Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2739 www.keeganales.com
Cafés Bistro-to-Go 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four-star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.
High Falls Cafe
Delis 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
Cathryn’s Tuscan Grill 91 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-5582 www.tuscangrill.com
DePuy Canal House (845) 687-7700 www.depuycanalhouse.com
El Solar Cafe 346 Broadway, Newburgh NY,12550 (845) 561-3498
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!
Grappa Ristorante
1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446
McGillicuddy’s 84 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.cuddysny.com 87 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5551 www.mexicali-blue.com
Osaka
Rated “Excellent”~Zagat for 17yrs • “4.5 Stars”~Poughkeepsie Journal
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
Stella’s Italian Restaurant 44 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2210
authentic homestyle cuisine dinner nightly, lunch tuesday-sunday
Tavern 955 Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3254
44 north front street • 331-2210 • www.stellaskingston.com located in kingston’s historic stockade district
Terrapin Catering & Events 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com
Have a smart phone? Check out our menu!
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.
EAT HEALTHY & ENJOY EVERY MOUTHFUL.
Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com
CHINA JAPAN KOREA INDONESIA
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.
Open 7 days Open during the Holidays Lunch and Dinner Reserve your Holiday Parties ROUTE 300 NEWBURGH, NY (845) 564-3848 YOBORESTAURANT.COM
The Hop at Beacon 458 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.thehopbeacon.com
POUGHKEEPSIE
The Ice House 1 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 232-5783 www.poughkeepsieicehouse.com
Food & Drink ON THE HUDSON
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.
Tuthill House
Hillside Manor
Wildfire Grill 74 Clinton Street, Montgomery, NY (845)457-3770 www.wildfireny.com
36 Main Street, New Paltz (845) 255-3636
The Wildfire Grill has been serving the Hudson Valley delicious, cooked to perfection meals and is ready to serve you and yours. Voted Best Rack of Lamb in the Hudson Valley by Hudson Valley Magazine.
LaBella Pizza Bistro
Yobo Restaurant
194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2633 www.labellapizzabistro.com
Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com
il Gallo Giallo Wine Bar & Restaurant
TIVOLI 74 Broadway (845) 757-5055 RHINEBECK 22 Garden St (845) 876-7338
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.
20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151 www.tuthillhouse.com
www.thehillsidemanor.com
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22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 www.osakasushi.net
22B Railroad Ave, Warwick, NY (845) 987-7373 www.GrappaRistoratnte.com 240 Boulevard Route 32, Kingston, NY (84) 533-14386
Japanese Restaurant
Mexicali Blue
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Great for Office parties with a view Rehearsal Dinners featuring culinary food delights Birthday Parties for a of fun time K Christmas Parties with a fully decorated dining room.
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One Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 PoughkeepsieIceHouse.com
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Corner of Mohonk Rd. & Rt. 213, High Falls, NY (845) 687-2699 www.highfallscafe.com
Leo’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria
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Fav’s Treatery
566 Route 94, Warwick, NY, (845) 986-5444 www.landmarkinnwarwick.com
PARKING
418 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8502
TRAIN STATION
Ella’s Bellas Bakery
Landmark Inn
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“Best Sushi”~Chronogram & Hudson Valley Magazine
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Accommodations The 1850 House Inn & Tavern 435 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7800 or (855) 658-1805 www.the1850house.com 1850house@gmail.com
Aspects Gallery Inn
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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, cedarand-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
Alternative Energy Hudson Solar (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
Antiques Outdated 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0030 outdatedcafe@gmail.com
Water Street Market (Antiques Center) 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com
Art Students League-Vytlacil Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery 241 Kings Highway, Sparkill, NY (845) 359-1263 www.theartstudentsleague.org Vytlacil@artstudentsleague.org
Byrdcliffe Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.byrdcliffe.org events@woodstockguild.org
Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center 12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 486-4571 www.cunneen-hackett.org
Exposures Gallery 1357 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-9382 www.exposures.com Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm 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.”
Gallery 66 66 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 809-5838 www.gallery66ny.com
Garrison Art Center 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3960 www.garrisonartcenter.org
Gray Owl Gallery
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply
Markertek Video Supply
Kingston, NY (845) 331-7780
www.markertek.com
Rhinebeck Artist’s Shop Rhinebeck & New Paltz, NY www.rhinebeckart.com
Artisans Barbara Smith Gioia at the Marina Gallery, Cold Spring, NY (845) 239-1123 Contact Nils Wessell www.brooklynbutcherblocks.com nils@brooklynbutcherblocks.com Where Beauty and Function Meet. I founded Brooklyn Butcher Blocks on this idea in 2010, focusing on wooden kitchenware: knife racks, cutting boards, countertops and more. My pieces are entirely USA-made, even the wood and glue. Stop by www.brooklynbutcherblocks.com and check out my new site and online store. See for yourself why Florence Fabricant of the New York Times, “Bon Appetit”, Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods and many more have recommended my work.
1415 Route 213, High Falls, NY (845) 687-7828 www.kaetebrittinshaw.com
Pablo Glass 1 Sterling Street, Kingston, NY (646) 256-9688 www.pabloglass.com
Astrology
Irace Architecture
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Warwick, NY (845) 988-0198 www.IraceArchitecture.com
1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltz.edu/museum
North River Architecture
1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
69 Tinker Street , Woodstock, NY (845) 679 -2650
Attorneys 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 Speeding, Reckless Driving, DWI
Dean Vallas-Studio 303
Trucking Summons and Misdemeanors
37 Wynkoop Lane, Rhinebeck, NY (914) 456-9983 www.deanvallas.net
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Sawyer Savings 87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-7000 www.sawyersavings.com
Wallkill Valley Federal 23 Wallkill Ave Wallkill, NY 12589 www.wallkill.com
Beauty Supply Columbia Beauty Supply 66 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996
Beverages
Esotec
New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Ai Earthling Gallery
Banks
Kaete Brittin Shaw
468 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY (518) 580-8818 www.balzertuck.com
Art Galleries & Centers
185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812
(845) 331-0504 www.binnewater.com
(845)246-2703 www.joyoussky.com iamliamwatt@gmail.com
(845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org
Fleet Service Center
Binnewater
Mark Gruber Gallery
Storm King Art Center
678 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2800 www.arlingtonautotire.com
(845) 246-3444 www.ingrainedwoodworking.com
Balzer and Tuck Architecture
3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com
Arlington Auto & Tire
Ingrained Woodworking, Inc.
Joyous Sky Transformational Astrology
Sierra Lily
Auto Sales & Services
Brooklyn Butcher Blocks
Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.grayowlgallery.com
Architecture
Audio & Video
Aggravated Unlicensed Matters 27 Years of Trial Experience
(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 year’s 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.
Olde Warwick Booke Shoppe 31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 www.yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com
Broadcasting 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
Dolan & Traynor Inc. (973) 406-2366 www.dolan-traynor.com
Glennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wood Sheds (84) 525-54704
132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org
Cleaning Services
onlinE MarkEting Search Engine Optimization / Pay-per-Click Management / Social Media
Mold Mitigations (845) 462-2638 moldmitigations@yahoo.com
Clothing & Accessories de Marchin 620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657
Pleasant Valley Department Store 1585 Main Street, Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-2220 www.pleasantvalleydepartmentstore.com
Style Counsel 19 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-9588 www.stylecounsel.net
Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School
Granite Factory 27 Renwick Street (845) 562-9204 www.granitefactory.com
H. Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com
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Hitchcock & Company (845) 382-9943 www.electricace.com
Hudson Valley Contracting Group Inc. 2713 Route 17M, Goshen, NY (845) 294-8284 www.hudsonvalleykitchens.com
L Browe Asphalt Services (518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com
Marbletown Hardware True Value 3606 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2098 www.marbletownhardware.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
Terra Tile of Dutchess 1115 Route 9 in the Plant Depot Plaza, Fishkill, NY (845) 298-7737
Will III House Design 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0869 www.willbuilders.com office@willbuilders.com
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery Street, Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515
Craft Galleries 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.
Cutting EdgE, StratEgiC intErnEt MarkEting SolutionS for BuSinESSES and agEnCiES www.dragonsearchmarketing.com 845.383.0890 dragon@dragonsearch.net
Custom Home Design and 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
Events Kaatsbaan International Dance Center www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845)569-0303 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Berkshire Co Op Market 42 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-9697 www.berkshire.coop
Brookside Farm 1278 Albany Post Rd, Gardiner, NY (845) 895-7433 www.Brookside-farm.com Info@brookside-farm.com Brookside Farm, organic grass-fed beef,
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Hillsdale, NY (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com
48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com
chicken, eggs and pork. We go beyond organic to bring gourmet quality, healthy food to the Hudson Valley. Visit our farm store and specialty shop for your gourmet needs.
Lounge
Iriniri Designs
High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store
Nest Egg County Store
20 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 469-7934 98 Main Street, Nyack, NY (845) 353-4245
327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon - Sat 7:30am to 7pm, Sundays 9am to 5pm
84 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5851 www.nesteggshop.com
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.
Pennings Farm Market & Orchards 161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com
Financial Advisors
39 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-4544
Silken Wool 36 & 56 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 988-1888 www.silkenwool.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
Third Eye Associates, Ltd.
William Wallace Construction
38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
(845) 750-7335 www.williamwallaceconstruction.com
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Newhard’s
Greenhouse at Rhinebeck 41 Pitcher Road, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3974 www.thegreenhouseatrhinebeck.com
Household Management & Planning
Internet Services
Allure
460 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 340-4544 lovehairNY.com
Sensational Nail Creations 9 Grand Street, Suite 5, Kingston, NY (845) 553-28784
Heating Ashleigh’s Hearth & Home, Inc. 3647 Albany Post Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-0789 www.enjoywarmth.com
(845) 255-6634
Lawyers & Mediators Pathways Mediation Center 239 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.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.
Music (845) 679-8652 www.JTDfun.com
(914) 456-2810 www.PeacefulLivingByDesign.com
Love Hair Salon
Coral Acres, Keith Buesing— Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art
1980 Crompond Road, Cortlandt Manor, NY (914) 737-9000 www.hvhc.org
www.aydeeyai.com
257 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-5588
Landscaping
Hudson Valley Hospital Center
Peaceful Living by Design
Joseph’s Hairstylists
6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 895-2051 www.warrenkitchentools.com
JTD Productions, Inc.
Annie Internicola, Illustrator
47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Warren Kitchen & Cutlery
Hospitals
Graphic Design
Hair Salons
Kitchenwares
DragonSearch (845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Broad Options Lawrence Farms Plaza, 1083 Route 9, Fishkill, NY
Dreaming Goddess 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com
Family Traditions
Music Lessons Jacobs Music Center 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 Imperial Guitar & Soundworks 99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com
Novelties Kick Butt Ball www.kickbuttball.com kickbutt@kickbuttball.com
Performing Arts Bardavon Opera House
3853 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 337-1021 www.familytraditionsstoneridge.com
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
Loominus Woodstock
Eisenhower Hall Theatre - USMA
18 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6500 www.loominus.com
West Point, NY www.ikehall.com
The Country Touch 97 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-5210
1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
East Chatham, NY (518) 392-2211
The Gift Hut
Hudson Opera House
86 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY
www.hudsonoperahouse.com
Colors Home
Top Shelf Jewelry
Orange County Ballet Theatre
14 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7111 www.colorshome.com
206 Canal Street, Ellenville, NY (845) 647-4661 info@topshelfjewelryinc.com
Newburgh, NY www.thocbt.com theocbt@yahoo.com
Cord King (914) 475-5769
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Falcon Music & Art Productions
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
Pet Country 6830 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-9000
Photography Corporate Image Studio 1 Jacobs Lane, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.mgphotoman.com mgphotoman@gmail.com
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 2nd 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.
Red Hook Framing 7578 North Broadway, Red Hook, NY (84) 575-85554 redhookframer@gmail.com
Pools & Spas Aqua Jet 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.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
Trinity - Pawling School
www.catskillfarms.blogspot.com
700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org
Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg.
Wild Earth Wilderness School
Catskill Farm Builders
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 www.paularedmond.com
The Gardens at Rhinebeck 54 East Market Street, Rhinebeck , NY (845) 876-5535 www.gardensatrhinebeck.com
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Incision Concision Recent Advances in Laparoscopic Surgery By Anne Pyburn
Dr. Darren Rohan, the chief of thoracic surgery, and co-chair of the department of general surgery for HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, performs a thoracoscopic lobectomy with the assistance of surgical technician Rob Wilson while watching on the operating room’s flat-screen high-definition monitor.
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or Katherine Corrigan, the SILS (single-incision laparoscopic surgery) she underwent at Vassar Brothers Hospital felt a little bit like magic or divine intervention. “The first thing I did, of course, was look to see what my belly looked like,” she says. “There was a tiny incision about an inch long. They don’t even need to put on a dressing—they used that NuSkin stuff. There was absolutely no pain at the time and very little afterward. I went home four days later and took the Percocet they gave me for one day, then realized I didn’t need it and switched to Ibuprofen.” A month later, Corrigan is back to doing her yoga and walking a mile and a half every day—after being relieved of a three-centimeter-long polyp in her intestine, her appendix, and 18 lymph nodes. “I know people who had similar procedures done in the traditional way—opened up from stem to stern— and their recovery took months,” she says. “I’m in awe. Part of me wonders, ‘How’d they do that?’ But I don’t really need to know. “ Corrigan’s surgeon, Dr. James Nitzkorski, is equally thrilled to be able to offer the single-incision technique at Vassar Brothers. “The SILS technique has been in use for gall bladder surgery for a while but using it for a colon resection isn’t too common yet,” he says. “In traditional laparoscopy you have three or four ports in use—one for the camera and the others for instruments.With SILS, one slightly larger incision, about 20 to 22 millimeters, can be used for multiple instruments.” (By comparison, a typical incision for an “open” surgery would be 20 or more centimeters.) “It’s ideal for cancer surgeries, where a specimen has to be retrieved through the incision in any case. It’s vastly better cosmetically. And of course there’s much less pain. Less pain means less pain medication, which is a crucial factor in recovery from any type of gastrointestinal procedure, since narcotic pain relief medication impairs normal intestinal function.”
Leaps in Laparoscopy Laparoscopy—surgery performed through small incisions using a type of telescope to guide the surgeon’s actions—may sound ultramodern, but the concept goes back over 100 years. The technique was first used on dogs in 1902, and on humans in 1910. It has been undergoing refinement ever since, especially in Europe. But after the advent of the computer microchip television camera in the 1980s, the procedure really gained ground—surgeons, understandably, liking the improved visibility. Prior to 1990, the only type of surgeries routinely practiced with laparoscopic techniques were minor gynecological procedures. “Every surgeon currently trained is trained in laparoscopy,” says Dr. Darren Rohan of Mid-Hudson Surgical Specialists. “There is a lot of technology that goes into it. In Poughkeepsie [at St. Francis] we just got the daVinci surgical robot, and that takes it to whole new levels. It gives you extra movement and three-dimensional visualization. The daVinci system takes the movements of your wrist and transfers them to the instruments that are inside the patient. Before daVinci, laparoscopy was sort of like operating with chopsticks. With daVinci, it’s like having a miniaturized version of your hand inside the patient. You have the same or more freedom you do with your own hand. It won’t be long before every hospital has one. It will be the new normal, just as laparoscopy itself has become the norm.” In traditional laparoscopy, tubes (trocars) are inserted through small incisions, or ports. The abdomen is inflated with carbon dioxide to improve both visibility and room to work, and the surgeon views the patient’s interior on a monitor. DaVinci surgery takes this a step further—the surgeon sits six feet away from the operating table, controlling the instruments from a console with equipment that has been described as resembling video game controllers. 11/12 ChronograM health care 97
don dempsey, white light llc Dr. James Nitzkorski practices out of the Health Quest Medical Practice surgery office located in the new Aronzon Ambulatory Surgery Center at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. The Aronzon Center is a 25,000-square-foot, same-day surgery facility that offers four state-of-the-art operating rooms, a special procedure room, and a spacious post-anesthesia care unit.
A Routine Route Although such concepts may sound like science fiction to those of us whose concept of “surgery” was formulated during the MASH era by scenes of Hawkeye Pierce up to his elbows in gore, the surgeons interviewed spoke of it casually as an everyday occurrence—and for them, of course, it is. Considerable training is undertaken during a surgeon’s residency period. Explains Rohan: “First you watch experienced surgeons do it. Then you practice on animals. (Veterinary laparoscopy has a long and honorable history.) You practice on cadavers. And when you finally work on an actual patient, you have mentors right there supervising.” Rohan works on chests and bellies, treating conditions of the gall bladder, colon, and appendix as well as repairing hiatal hernias and lung resections. At Benedictine Hospital’s orthopedic center, Dr. Stephen Maurer applies minimally invasive techniques—called arthroscopy in this context—on shoulders, knees, ankles, and elbows. He too finds it a boon. “I can repair tears in tendons, ligaments, the meniscus, the rotator cuff—all using just a few little holes. The technique’s been around for years now,” he says. “You used to have to look through an eyepiece; now we use a monitor. It’s become routine—I do it every day—and it means a patient can recover from, say, a simple knee surgery in just a few weeks. It used to be that we would have to detach the muscles to get to the joint. Now we just insert the cannula [similar to a trochar] right through the muscle.” Completely Scarless Minimally invasive surgery, with its long and honorable history and exciting new possibilities, may never be the solution to every single problem. Not everyone is a candidate—people who have had a lot of prior abdominal surgery, for example, or who have chronic breathing problems may be unable to tolerate the introduction of the needed carbon dioxide. And some conditions may simply require the old-fashioned type of incision. But it’s part of the surgeon’s art to know which those are. “Most colon problems are just perfect for SILS, and I think I’ll probably use it for a liver surgery next,” says Nitzkorski. “But the most important thing I can do is give every patient a perfect cancer surgery. I will not compromise, ever, for the 98 health care ChronograM 11/12
sake of technique or comfort.When laparoscopy is possible, we take great care to ensure that you get the same resulting procedure whether the technique is open or closed. “The techniques themselves are not new—after gynecology, they were applied to gall bladder surgery for years and the introduction as a cancer surgery technique was very cautious and gradual. We know how to do this.” In fact, they know how to do more. Beyond SILS and daVinci, Nitzkorski is excited to report that his partner, Dr. John Choi, recently performed the Hudson Valley’s first ever trans-anal microsurgery, or TEM—a microsurgical technique that allows avoiding an incision entirely by working through the anus to remove tumors or polyps. “It’s completely scarless,” says Nitzkorski of TEM. “And it can save a patient from a big incision and colostomy bag.” “Now that this has been done at Vassar Brothers,” says Nitzkorski, “there is literally no procedure you can find at a major teaching hospital that we don’t have available right here in the Hudson Valley.” Screen Ahead, then Steam Ahead One point that all of the surgeons emphasize: Take care of yourself. Get those screening procedures, especially if you’d like to be one of the fortunate patients who can be healed with minimally invasive techniques. “The vast majority of colon cancer cases show no symptoms until it’s very late in the game,” says Nitzkorski. “A colonoscopy is the only way they can ever be detected at the stage when these techniques have the best prognosis.” His grateful patient Corrigan agrees. “If I’d gotten screened at 50, this would have been a tiny polyp,” she observes ruefully. “But if I did have to experience this, I can’t say enough about how wonderful the technique is—and the surgeon himself. I’m into a lot of alternative modalities. Some were helpful—meditation, yoga breathing. I brought my Reiki person with me and Dr. Nitzkorski was fine with that. Some of the Chinese herbs I normally take could have interfered with clotting, and I had to stop taking those a couple of weeks ahead. But between my toolbox of anti-anxiety techniques and Dr. Nitzkorski’s confidence and warmth, I felt like I floated into that operating room—and that was before they gave me the good stuff. How do they do this stuff? I don’t need to know. I just know here it is barely a month later and I’m fine.”
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POWER TO THE PLANT EATERS Are you ready to unwrap the health and wellness gifts of a plant-based diet? by wendy kagan illustration by annie internicola
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hen Jasmine Jordaan, a longtime carnivore, adopted a vegan diet in 2011, the last thing on her mind was her own health. Linked to her yoga practice and a deep concern for the environment, the shift in Jordaan’s eating habits came with little self-interest. “For me to make that kind of change, it couldn’t be to help just myself,” says the West Hurley-based attorney, realtor, and former activist for Greenpeace. “I had to do it for the world.” Yet a curious thing happened: She started to feel better. “I had a lot of health conditions,” says Jordaan, “and some of them started to just go away.” Only recently she had been overweight at 200 pounds and her cholesterol teetered at 330 mg/ dL—considered high risk for heart disease.With prediabetic blood sugar levels, she was headed down a slippery slope toward medication or insulin injections. A bout of Hashimoto’s disease—an autoimmune disorder in which inflammation gives rise to an underactive thyroid gland—left her dependent on hormone replacement medication. Yet after going vegetarian in 2008 and then cutting out eggs and dairy almost three years later, her medical conditions began to evaporate. Precipitous drops in weight, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels put Jordaan out of harm’s way, and her thyroid disorder began to reverse itself. The best part? “Waking up with energy after not having it forever,” says Jordaan, 42, now a vegan educator. “I have more energy now than when I was 22.” Taking Back Wellness Not just a political statement made by tattooed PETA warriors and pretzelbodied yogis, adopting a plant-based diet can be a powerfully effective way to take charge of one’s own health and wellbeing. “People are wanting a way out of the insanity that is our healthcare system,” says Kris Carr, a self-described wellness activist, author, and “cancer thriver” who lives in Willow. “A lot of people want to feel better, have more energy, look better—and they’re slowly waking up to the fact that they have more power than they think. The more that folks wake up to that, the more they realize that a plant-based diet can be their tool, their vehicle for the type of freedom they seek.” Carr, whose 2007 film Crazy Sexy Cancer told the story of her brush with a rare stage-4 cancer and her road to health through diet, is not alone in broadcasting this message. She shares the megaphone with plant-passionate MDs like Neal Barnard, researcher and author of books like The Get Healthy, GoVegan Cookbook, and Caldwell Esselstyn, a retired surgeon featured in the groundbreaking 2011 documentary Forks Over Knives. Following the stories of dangerously ill patients who halted or reversed their disease with a whole-foods, plant-based diet, Forks Over Knives brims over with clinical evidence—including several studies about the rarity of certain types of cancer in populations that don’t consume meat or dairy.
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One theme that experts like these come back to again and again is a defiant truism: The standard American diet is deeply flawed. Obviously, we’re in guilty love with no-good fast foods and processed foods. Yet even our ideas about what’s healthy—we need meat for protein and dairy for calcium—can be problematic and misleading. In fact, our misguided philosophies about food may lie at the root of the insidious health conditions that plague so many of us—from cancer and diabetes to heart disease, obesity, and stroke. Before her cancer diagnosis, recalls Carr, “I was definitely a meat eater, but, more accurately, I was an unconscious eater. I didn’t know where my food came from. I didn’t have a connection to my food and an understanding that food can be harmful—or it can be healing and helpful.” Since her doctors decided not to set her on a course of chemotherapy or radiation, Carr had to literally take her disease into her own hands. Along the way, she discovered that she had a powerful arsenal available to her in the produce section of the supermarket. At one point in her film she stands in front of Whole Foods Market and says brightly, “This is my pharmacy.” Food as Medicine The idea that food can heal may seem obvious, yet Western medicine—with its focus on pharmaceuticals and surgery—is slow to catch on. “Unfortunately, in modern, more conventional medicine, diet is typically more of an afterthought than a treatment,” says Kenneth Bock, MD, of Bock Integrative Medicine in Rhinebeck. “The notion that foods are not related to our health and how we feel is really missing the boat.” Specializing in nutritional and integrative medicine, Bock is one of those relatively uncommon doctors who uses diet as part of his treatment programs for patients with a wide variety of disorders and complaints. While he doesn’t prescribe a vegan diet to all (“I think individualizing diets is important; one diet doesn’t fit all,” he says), Bock does espouse a plantrich, anti-inflammatory diet for many patients. “Plant-based diets are filled with colorful foods rich in flavonoids and phytonutrients that are anti-inflammatory, and that’s why they can be so effective in promoting health,” he says. Inflammation may well be a scourge of the modern day—an underlying cause of so many of today’s chronic, complex health problems, from Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s to autism and multiple sclerosis. “I think we’re looking at a chronically inflamed society,” says Bock. “Inflammation contributes to disorders that may not seem related on the surface and that may cross specialty boundaries—the GI system, the cardiovascular system, the neurological system, even the skin. Inflammation is obvious in some cases and not in others; sometimes it’s on the cellular level, or with Alzheimer’s, for example, it’s in
the brain. The concept of diets that may help with inflammation really starts to make sense, and becomes more important not just for people with these disorders but for the prevention of these disorders.” In prescribing an antiinflammatory diet, Bock recommends avoiding “bad fats” such as fatty meats, processed foods with hydrogenated oils, and polyunsaturated vegetable oils that have been heated to high temperatures (which creates free radicals that contribute to another health menace—oxidative stress). Good foods, says Bock, include olive oil, green vegetables, and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower, which contain sulfur for a natural detoxing effect on the body. “I don’t want to make any claims about wonder foods,” says Bock. “But clearly, plant-based diets are less inflammatory, and that enables people to take charge of their health in a very proactive, positive way.” Go Slow and Lean In Diving whole hog (or, um, whole tofu) into a plant-based way of living can work for highly motivated people. But for many of us, a more gradual foray can bring about lasting change and a wealth of health benefits. Almost three years before she went vegan, Jordaan cut meat out of her diet. “I had no clue about what to cook,” she says. “Meat was the main ingredient of everything I made.” She still used eggs and dairy because that’s what she believed would make things taste good, initially. But slowly her cholesterol went from 330 to 220, and she shed 25 pounds without trying. More surprising, her thyroid condition started undoing itself. Did the onset of a less inflammatory diet have something to do with it? “I told my doctor, ‘Someone should do research about this,’” says Jordaan. Carr, too, champions the baby-steps approach. “It’s more important to make slow changes and be consistent than it is to make big changes. I tell people to start adding goodness into their life before removing things. Before removing cheese or dairy, add a green juice or smoothie. Then you start to edge out the things that don’t serve you.” Meanwhile, Carr offers a three-step plan toward plant-centric eating. Step 1: Don’t buy from factory farms. “Really know where your food comes from,” she says. “It matters how animals are raised, from birth until slaughter. It affects their health, so why wouldn’t it affect yours?” Step 2: Look for the certified-humane seal.This ensures that the animals have been treated well and have been given no antibiotics or drugs. Step 3: Cut back. If you’re consuming animal products five days a week, reduce it to three days a week. As you go, she says, “Add goodness in. Cook real, whole foods instead of reaching for processed foods.”
Big Obstacles, Huge Rewards For most of us, adopting a plant-based diet is not exactly an easy skip down a garden path lined with oversized vegetables and Vitamix blenders. Any dietary change—which requires undoing years of habitual eating choices—has its challenges. “I had to learn to cook all over again,” says Jordaan about cutting eggs and dairy out of her diet. Yet the shift brought tremendous health returns as her cholesterol and blood sugar entered low-risk levels and she shed 10 more pounds without effort. “I kvetched at first about missing cheese and Total Greek yogurt, but after three or four weeks I stopped missing those things. My family doesn’t miss those foods anymore either; I weaned them stealthily of Parmesan cheese in their pasta sauce.” After Jordaan took a few cooking classes with Pam Brown of Woodstock’s The Garden Café, she was off and running with a new repertoire in the kitchen. Now she kvells about Vietnamese summer rolls, Indian and Thai curries, and falafel and hummus dinners. “My husband said, ‘I can be vegan if we eat like this.’” “People are afraid it will affect their social life or family life,” says Carr. “Sometimes people can get threatened when you change. You get all glowy and sparkly and you want to talk about it, and then your Aunt Sally will shoot you down. But this is your journey, and if health and happiness are important to you then you’ve got to stand by that decision.” Another common worry is eating out and traveling. Carr brings along snacks like trail mix for energy in a pinch. “Just because there isn’t a hunk of meat in the center of your plate doesn’t mean you can’t find nourishment,” she says. “You can get all the nutrients you need in a lot of the side dishes.” For the culinary-challenged, Carr recommends her new book, Crazy Sexy Kitchen, filled with recipes and cooking tips. Some adopt a plant-based diet for philosophical or political reasons, while others choose the produce-laden path on a quest toward better health. However you begin, you can’t help but get touched by the lifestyle’s spiritual aspects. After she changed her diet, says Carr, “I felt an interconnectedness to other beings, other animals, and also nature. Nature was providing me with an incredible vehicle for recovery and balance to manage my chronic disease. And when you feel better in your body, you naturally feel more connected to spirit.” RESOURCES Kris Carr Kriscarr.com Kenneth Bock, MD (845) 876-4500; Bockintegrative.com Jasmine Jordaan (845) 661-4808 11/12 ChronograM whole living 101
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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
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The policy [that legislated verbal consent at every level of sexual activity] emerged when 30 feminists disrupted a campus government meeting in November, 1990, demanding institutional rules to deal with rape, says Bethany Saltman, Antioch ‘92 and member of the original group, the Womyn of Antioch. Even at this tiny (650 students last fall) alternative college, the administration seemed to prefer to keep rape reports under wraps. Faced with vehement, relentless protest and a flurry of local news attention, the administration reluctantly accepted the feminists’ demand to remove any accused perpetrator from campus within 24 hours of a reported rape. But the rule was adopted on the condition that a committee of concerned staff and students would work to retool the policy while the administration consulted lawyers about its constitutionality. Womyn of Antioch demanded the policy out of strength, not weakness, notes Saltman. “We get to say who touches us, and where.” —Bonnie Pfister, On the Issues magazine, 1999 One of the things I love about kids—okay, especially my kid—is how when she asks a question such as, “What’s a de….bate?” And I answer, “An argument or conversation that happens in public,” she says, “Oh.” I love the “Oh.” Like, message received. How often do adults actually say, “Oh?” Instead, we often say, “Uh-huh,” when someone answers us, which is another way of saying, “Right,” as in, “I knew that.” By the time this hits the stands, we will be days away from the presidential election. So there have been lots of questions in our house about who is winning, who was president when A was born, and did George W. Bush have the same rules as Barack Obama? A couple weeks ago A asked me if there has ever been a woman president and when I said, “No,” she answered, “Oh.” In A’s nearly seven years we have not made a fuss about the fact that she’s a girl and “can do anything!” It has hardly seemed necessary, obvious as it is that she is bright, capable, curious, and kind. And come on, so we haven’t had a female president, and girls cut and starve and fold in upon themselves and have babies early looking for love, are left high and dry, and are abused and taken advantage of, and are programmed to think too much about princesses and not enough about math, but…. But it’s not like our girls are going to get shot for wanting to go to school like the brave little Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl, shot by the Taliban. Right? How to approach girlhood is confusing for this ex-self-identified-radicalfeminist. And believe me when I say I used the term “radical feminist,” not in the sloppy way of the common parlance, but with precision (though with a Marxist-feminist slant), in order to cast my lot with the other “womyn” who saw patriarchy as a system of oppression that must be dismantled at its very base, idea by idea, root syllable by root syllable in order to be free, radically free. What freedom was, I had no idea. I just wanted the depth of my misery to be met by the depth of available relief. It was in this haze of possession that I, and a handful of other young ladies, 102 whole living ChronograM 11/12
went after the alleged perps of date rapes on our college campus. Clearly, date rape is bad. And it happens, a lot! and needs to be addressed! But when I think back to how pumped I was (and please note, I am talking for myself and certainly not for any of the others involved) to be on Team Right, and to have the administration be afraid of me, to be a leader of something powerful, I feel truly embarrassed, and when I think of the young men who were accused and the way they were treated, I am ashamed. The long and the short of it is that I played an instrumental role in getting this Sexual Offense Policy passed, the one wherein each new level of sexual contact needed to be verbally consented to. When the national press guffawed at it, and when “Saturday Night Live” lampooned it in a quiz-show skit starring Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, Shannen Doherty, and the late Chris Farley, called “Is It Date Rape?” and then more recently, when a Los Angeles Times writer, in response to Antioch’s latest fiscal and managerial crisis, wrote an article called “Who Killed Antioch? Womyn” (ouch!). I wish someone had pulled me aside and said, “Girl, get ahold of yourself.” Finally, after years of struggle I did get a hold of myself, literally, by the seat of my `90s pants, sitting my ass on a cushion and seeing my insanity up close. After a few years of zazen, feeling literally saved by Zen practice, I took to talking about how “feminism failed me.” Another swing of the fist—I mean pendulum. What I meant was that I was looking for something true (freedom from my suffering, much of it, indeed, related to being a girl in the world), and what I got was something illusory (a vital set of politics that I morphed into a self-aggrandizing shtick). Now I am charged with raising a daughter. I know the world is unfair to girls, even privileged ones like mine, and even more to the less fortunate, and that we are deluded to ignore it. I also know that the most revolutionary act I have ever taken was to take all the crazy energy I had been putting out there and use it to see what was inside. So how do we practice within the world that needs us? The lay adept Vimalakirti, who lived during the Buddha’s time, said, What is the elimination of sickness? It is the elimination of egoism and possessiveness. What is the elimination of egoism and possessiveness? It is the freedom from dualism. What is freedom from dualism? It is the absence of involvement with either the external or the internal. I look at A, asking her questions, and wonder what kind of passions she has. An “absence of involvement” certainly doesn’t mean avoiding the heat. Instead, it means learning how to stand thoroughly in the midst of it. I can’t wait to watch my girl learn how to play with her own fire, and when she moves, as she naturally will, from one extreme to another, I will do what I can to gently nudge here back where she belongs, which is right smack dab in the middle.
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Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, LAc 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 http://www.creeksideacupuncture.com 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.
High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, Oriental Medicine— Carolyn Rabiner, L Ac 87 East Market Street, Suite 102, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com
Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060
Meg Coons, LAc (512) 506-1720 megcoons.com
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Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 (845) 338-2965 joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy.
Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net
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Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com
Counseling The Rite Brane 69 Main Street, 3rd Floor, New Paltz, NY (845) 625-7591 theritebrane@gmail.com
Dentistry & Orthodontics Dr. Rhoney Stanley DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 or (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com I believe in expansion and gentle forces. Too much pressure squeezes out essential blood supply and there is no support for tooth
movement. I do not recommend extraction of permanent teeth. When teeth are extracted, the bone that holds the teeth is lost and the skin of the face sags. With aging, this is exaggerated. As a holistic practitioner, I consider the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on whole health. The amount of plaque and calculus on the teeth is correlated with that in blood vessels. Movement in orthodontics affects the balance of the cranium, the head, and the neck. To support holistic treatment, I am certified in acupuncture and a registered dietician, trained in homeopathy and cranial osteopathy. At every visit, I do cranial treatments for balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign. I treat snoring and sleep apnea as well as joint and facial pain. We welcome children, teenagers, and adults. Insurance accepted. Payment plans available.
Fitness Centers Mid Hudson Athletic Club East Chester Street Bypass, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2887 Kingston Plaza, Kingston, NY (845) 853-7377 www.macfitness.net
Healing Centers Namaste Sacred Healing Center Willow, NY (845) 688-7205 (845) 853-2310 www.namasteshc.com
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Herbal Medicine & Nutrition 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 John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, 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.
Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net Energy Healing and Mystery School with One Light Healing Touch in Stone Ridge begins January 11, 2013. 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.
Hospitals Health Alliance 396 Broadway, Kingston , NY (845) 334-4248 www.hahv.org
Health Quest Medical Practice www.health-quest.org
Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com
Sharon Hospital 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT (860) 364-4000 www.sharonhospital.com
Imago Relationship Therapy Julie Zweig, MA— Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor 66 Mountain Rest Road, 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.
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Nancy Plumer— Energy Healing and Mystery School
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Marina Smith Massage Therapy Pine Island, NY (845) 258-8457 www.marinasmithlmt.com
Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
Mediators Pathways Mediation Center 239 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.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.
Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac., Dipl. C.H. Board Certified (NCCAOM) NEW LOCATION! 7392 S. Broadway (Rt.9) North Wing of Red Hook Emporium Red Hook, NY 845-758-2424 Some insurances accepted Saturday hours available www.highridgeacupuncture.com
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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 Route 9D, Garrison, NY www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. The Art and Science of Contemplative Teaching and Learning: Exploring Ways of Knowing, November 16-18, and Sharon Salzberg and Sylvia Boorstein: The Four Boundless States, November 29- December 2.
Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 www.menla.org menla@menla.org
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Yoga Clear Yoga: Iyengar Yoga in Rhinebeck Suite 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6129 www.clearyogarhinebeck.com
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org
Yoga Nude in Albany
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School of the Golden Rosycross Lectorium Rosicrucianum A GNOSTIC MYSTERY SCHOOL EXPLAINED •in New York City at TRS on November 18th at noon, a discussion on “Microcosm and Personality” 40 Exchange Place, 3rd floor, NYC, NY 10005
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lois greenfield The Vanaver Caravan will perform "Pastures of Plenty: Woody Guthrie in Dance and Music" on November 3 at SUNY New Paltz.
Dancing for Woody “I want you to put everything into it, so it sounds clean and together and sharp,” says Amy Fenton-Shine to a group of eight teenage dancers in Stone Ridge. Outside it’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon, but the teens are focused on what’s happening in the studio. Fenton-Shine is a long-time performer with the Vanaver Caravan. She specializes in clogging, an American folk dancing style rooted in Appalachian immigrant cultures that has similarities with American tap and Irish step dancing. As Fenton-Shine demonstrates, clogging has as much to do with being heard as being seen. With the help of Vanaver Caravan professional dancer Rachel Prince, she’s teaching the students to put the beat into the steps and to mark time in the music. These students will be performing with the Vanaver Caravan’s professional dancers in “Pastures of Plenty: Woody Guthrie in Dance and Music.” The tribute to folk singer Guthrie has won rave reviews, most notably from the New York Times dance critic Alastair Macauley. Hudson Valley audiences can see the show on November 3 at the SUNY New Paltz’s Parker Theater. The young dancers in the studio work on steps with names like “crab crawl,” “Indian,” and “shuffle step.” They stand shoulder to shoulder in a line and keep their arms at their sides while practicing their footwork. They work practice “scuffs” and “chugs” while Vanaver Caravan Music Director Bill Vanaver accompanies on banjo. He gets up occasionally to give a few pointers and to help a dancer having trouble with his high knee kick. This year marks the centennial of Guthrie’s birth, and it is a fine time to revisit the musician who created songs such as “This Land Is Our Land” and “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World Anymore.” Guthrie is a natural touchstone for Bill Vanaver, who started his own music career at 15. “I was a folk singer touring by myself, singing traditional songs.” Guthrie, says Vanaver, “was part of my background with folk music. He’s kind
of the grandfather of American singer-songwriters.” The other Vanaver in the Caravan is Livia Vanaver, the company’s principal choreographer. She and Bill Vanaver met at a Balkan dance festival over 40 years ago. They founded the Vanaver Caravan in 1972, and have been doing world music and dance together ever since. Their organization has an arts education program that teaches world folk dances to school children. They also offer classes in Stone Ridge and New Paltz. “Pastures of Plenty” features modern dance and partnering, in addition to the clogging numbers. Bill Vanaver’s arrangements of Guthrie songs range in style from mariachi to bluegrass, and will be performed live. The show demonstrates what a wealth of inspiration can be drawn from Guthrie’s art, and the happy marriage of good music and dance. Literally. Guthrie met his second wife, Marjorie Mazia, at a dance rehearsal in 1942, around the time modern dance choreographer Sophie Maslow was creating a suite of dances to songs recorded by Guthrie. The dance work was titled Folksay. One day Maslow heard Guthrie was available, and she invited him to come to rehearsal and sing for the dancers. There was one problem: Guthrie wasn’t used to singing a song the same way twice. In order to keep the musician and the dancers on the same page, Mazia wrote out cue cards for Guthrie. Decades later, it was Mazia and Guthrie’s daughter, Nora Guthrie, who commissioned “Pastures of Plenty.” Says Bill Vanaver, “Modern dance to Woody Guthrie—we’re kind of coming full circle.” The November 3 performance of “Pastures of Plenty: Woody Guthrie in Dance and Music” is produced by Unison Arts. The show starts at 7:30pm at SUNY New Paltz's Parker Theater. Tickets are $15 for students and children, $20 for Unison Arts members, and $25 for nonmembers reserved in advance, $2 more at the door. Tickets may be purchased online at Unisonarts.org. —Natalie Axton 11/12 ChronograM forecast 109
THURSDAY 1 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 Tai Chi with Martha Cheo Beginners 5:30pm, advanced 6:30pm. $12/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. 20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 6 weeks. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Gurdjieff's Movements 7pm. Inner work and sacred dance facilitated by Jason Stern. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com. Zumba 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. 1-2 infant up to 1 year, 2-3 ages 1+. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. 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. 227-3223. Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. All proceeds go the Deaf Yoga Foundation. $10. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, 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. 227-3223.
Hair 8pm. Castaway Players Theatre Company. $20/$15 students and seniors. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. Marvin’s Room 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Mop & Bucket Co. 8pm. Comedy. $14/$6. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.
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Insight / On Site: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Historic Huguenot Street 11am-3pm. $5. Historic Huguenot Street, in collaboration with the Metal Program at SUNY New Paltz, hosts exhibit tours every hour on the hour. DuBois Fort Visitor Center, New Paltz. 255-1660. The Proserpine Path 4pm-7pm. Exhibition of photographic work by Eric Korenman. Sohn Fine Art, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-1025. In Search Of 5pm-7pm. Oil paintings by Bruce and Lita Thorne. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Angels in the Architecture 5pm-7pm. Photography by Juliet R. Harrison. Red Hook Community Arts Network, Red Hook. redhookcan@gmail.com. Paintings by Mary Sipp Green 5pm-7pm. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700. The Cogent Force 5pm-7:30pm. Digital works by Hudson Valley graphic artist Andrew Nelson. Gallery 291, Kingston. andrewnelsondesigns@gmail.com. Evolution: Prints and Recent Paintings by David Holt 5pm-8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. What a Dish, Food Art: A Members’ Exhibition 5pm-8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. Landscapes 6pm-8pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.
Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org. The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. 8-week course. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Dance Survival, It’s a Dance 8pm. Work by dancer and choreographer Jorelle Pomé. Performing Arts Center, Stone Ridge. 339-7886.
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Beacon Arts Awards 5:30pm-7:30pm. The Waterfall Room at The Roundhouse at Beacon Falls, Beacon. www.beaconarts.org/category/beacon-arts-awards. Astronomy Night 7:30pm. John R. Kirk Planetarium, New Paltz. 257-1110.
Saugerties First Friday Call for times. Music, libation, shopping and art. Downtown Saugerties, Saugerties. diane@ihgallery.com. 18th Annual Multicultural Conference 8am-5pm. Student Union Building, New Paltz. 257-3033. Circles of Caring 5th Annual Caregiver’s Conference 8am-4pm. 6 workshops to choose from. $25. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 338-2980. Field To Fork Gourmet Supper Club 7pm. Gourmet food from field to fork with live music. $75. W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574. Penny Social 7pm. Shawangunk Valley Ladies Auxiliary, Wallkill. 895-3673.
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Photographic Memory 6pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Life and Debt Film Screening 7pm. Documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank and current globalization policies. The Crafted Kup, Poughkeepsie. 483-7070.
Photographic Memory 6pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives 7pm. Film screening. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com. Godzilla 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. The Revisionaries 8pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Events
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. LeWitticisms 6:30pm/8pm. An evening of exciting new music and contemporary dance in the MASS MoCA galleries inspired by the wall drawings of Sol LeWitt. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2211. Janis Ian 7:30pm. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333. Dr. John and The Blind Boys of Alabama 8pm. Funk. $47.50/$37.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. NT Live Simulcast: Timon of Athens 8pm. $22/$15 student. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. JP Patrick & Friends 8:30pm. Blues, rock, jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Spoken Word Author Event: Mark Schuller 7pm. Author of Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Book Reading and Signing with Steve Hamilton 7pm. Author of Die a Stranger. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15. Distinguished Speaker Series: Amy Waldman 7:30pm. Lecture room 100, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/speakerseries.
Theater Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. America’s Brightest Star 7:30pm. Can a reality show save a dying town? A world premiere production with an all-star cast. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. 565-3791.
Workshops Stress Free Holidays using Self Hypnosis Techniques 6:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
FRIDAY 2 Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Private Angelic Channeling 11:30am. $125. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
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Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Reality Check Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828. First Friday Latin/Salsa Series 7:30pm-10:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Melissa Ferrick 8pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Joe Louis Walker Band 8:30pm. Featuring Murali Coryell. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. DJ Erik Santana 9pm. 80s and 90s dance party. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Jackie Greene 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Spoken Word Local Author Event with Titan Raines: Cotton Comes To Holland 6:30pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Authors William Pond Bostock and Margaret Doner 7pm. Authors of Searching for My Wives and Infinite Darkness, Infinite Light, respectively. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775. Reading and Book with Tad Richards 7pm. Author of Nick and Jake. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater The Beggar’s Opera 7pm. $20-$75. Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison. 424-3900. I Remember Mama 7:30pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. www.ninetymilesoffbroadway.com. America’s Brightest Star 7:30pm. Can a reality show save a dying town? A world premiere production with an all-star cast. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. 565-3791.
Workshops Purification Through Shamanic Sound Healing 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
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Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Private Limpia Cleansing/Vibrational Healing Sessions 11:30am-6pm. $40 for 30 mins./$75 for 60 mins. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:45am-1:30pm. Workshop will cover postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to yoga practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774. Dreamers’ Marathon 3pm-8pm. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
Classes Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Dance Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. The Rite of Spring 6:30pm. Bowen McCauley Dance. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut. www.hotchkiss.org/arts. Survival, It’s a Dance 8pm. Work by dancer and choreographer Jorelle Pomé. Performing Arts Center, Stone Ridge. 339-7886. Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Freestyle barefoot dancing open to the community. Knights of Columbus Hall, Kingston. 658-8319.
Events Free Vassar Campus Historic Walking Tours 10am. Led by Colton Johnson, Dean Emeritus of the College and Professor Emeritus of English. Tours begin at the front entrance to the college's Main Building. Rain or shine. 437-7400. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 12pm-5pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233. Hudson Valley Brew Fest 1pm-6pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Annual Marathon of Dreamers 3pm-5pm. Followed by concert at 6pm. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
Retro/Verso 4:30pm-5pm. A performance by Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7598. Karmabee’s Grand Anniversary Party 5pm-8pm. Enjoy celebratory snacks & drinks and see the latest handmade items from over 30 local artists. Karmabee, Kingston. 443-3358. Historic Graveyard Tours by Lantern 7:30pm. $15/$10 ages 10-17/children free. St. James Church, Hyde Park. www.stjameshistoricgraveyardtours.com. Kurt Hentschläger: Cluster 8pm. Video and audio performance. $18/$13 seniors and non RPI students. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Film Photographic Memory 6pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Young Frankenstein 7pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. The Revisionaries 8pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Kids Children’s Author Event: David Goldin 2pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Music NY BANJO: A Five String Summit Call for times. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Johnny Dell and Nightlife Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. 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 Blue in Green Jazz Quartet 2pm. Robibero Family Vineyards, New Paltz. 255-WINE. Swinging Moments Cabaret 7pm. 6th annual fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association. $15/$12.50 students and seniors. Bailey Middle School, Kingston. 336-4219. Coloratura and Chocolate 7:30pm. Join Soprano Katherine DeFiglio and pianist Joel Flowers for an evening of opera, art song, and musical theatre songs followed by a chocolate reception. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220. Fred Smith Ensemble 7:30pm-10:30pm. Blues and jazz. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Essential Elgar: Hudson Valley Philharmonic 8pm. Tower Tambor, Elgar Cello Concerto, Op. 85, E minor with 2012 HVP String Competition Winner Jiyoung Lee, Cello, and Brahms Symphony No. 1, Op. 68, C minor. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Jesse Lege and Bayou Brew 8pm. Cajun. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. String Band Patterns 8pm. Featuring films and music by John Cohen with special guests the Down Hill Strugglers. $10. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 882-1050. Meat Loaf 8pm. Mad, Mad World Tour with special guest Evan Watson. $38-$78. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Seldom Scene 8pm. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333. Mark Donato 8pm-1:30am. With Mark Lerner, Eric Parker, and Amy Allison. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. The Moon 8pm. $5. Experimental improvised music influenced by contemporary classical composition, jazz, noise, and psych-rock. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006. Buskin & Batteau 8:30pm. Acoustic. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Fat City 9pm. Blues. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277. Nelson-Dempsey Band 9pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. Robbie Dupree and Friends 9pm. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Electric Beef 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Hurley Mountain Highway 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. The Trestle Restaurant, Cornwall. 534-2400.
Spoken Word Conversations with Artists on the Autistic Spectrum 12pm-2pm. Lecture Center 104, New Paltz. 257-3844. Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 3:30pm. Featuring Dennis Bernstein. Studio at the Seligmann Homestead, Sugar Loaf. 469-9168.
Theater The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2pm. London’s National Theatre “Live in HD” encore. $10. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. America’s Brightest Star 2pm. Can a reality show save a dying town? A world premiere production with an all-star cast. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. 565-3791.
art reflections renewed images provided Left to right: Popolopen Creek, Frank Anderson, 1863; Popolopen Creek Falls, Alexander Boyle, 2009.
Latter-Day Replicas “Before the Mississippi was even used, the Hudson River was the gateway to North America,” explains Alexander Boyle, curator of “Reflections Renewed: Hudson River Images Revisited” at Boscobel in Garrison. The show consists of 20 reproductions of Hudson River School paintings, each paired with a contemporary photograph of the same spot by Boyle. The pictures are arranged in geographical order, traveling upstate from New York City. Boyle has been working on this project for eight years. He has found 150 locations within New York State and another 160 outside the state, including Ecuador and Italy. Boyle’s focus is on the Northeast, though just for fun he recently identified the setting of Frederic Church’s Gateway to the Andes. Eventually, Boyle hopes to produce a book of his photos, possibly paired with a GPS-based website, so that others may find the locations. So far, he has documented about 60 of the sites. I spoke to Boyle recently as he drove back from a fruitless search for the setting of Schroon Mountain after a Storm by Thomas Cole. “The term ‘Hudson River School’ was coined by a nasty critic in the New York Herald Tribune in 1883,” Boyle notes. “It’s a dismissive term. The Hudson River School called itself the ‘Native School’ or the ‘American School.’” It was the first American movement in painting, though initiated by Cole, an Englishman. This style emphasized the play of light on water, and wide, generous skies, to evoke the grandeur of God. The Hudson River School was economically dependent on the Erie Canal, which transformed the Hudson into a major thoroughfare, and brought the first economic boom to New York. Thomas Cole’s earliest patrons were two grain merchants who made their fortune on the Hudson. In return, Cole’s paintings were proto-advertisements for the beauties of our river valley. (Later in the movement, railroads would pay for Thomas Moran and Robert Bierstadt to paint the West.) Did Hudson River School artists edit out
all signs of human presence? “They all used the iron horse, but they had a love-hate relationship with it,” Boyle recounted. One painting of Breakneck Ridge by Charles Herbert Moore transforms the railroad tracks into a carriage path. This art movement ended around 1890. What did in the Hudson River School, Boyle believes, was the Civil War and the industrialization of New York. Suddenly, America looked less like “the new Eden.” This school of art was out of favor for nearly 100 years, until interest revived in the 1970s. Now these long-dead painters are hot properties. Alice Walton (of the Wal-Mart fortune) made headlines by paying $35 million for Asher Durand’s Kindred Spirits in 2005. There is an implicit athleticism to this art—the ability to climb mountains and walk through soggy meadows—which Boyle is reliving. In the 19th century, artists and tourists would search for the perfect vantage point to turn a pretty vista into an exalted one. They were connoisseurs of seeing. Boyle, the son of environmentalist Robert H. Boyle, who was pivotal in saving Storm King from becoming the site of a power plant in 1962, co-wrote the book Acid Rain in 1983, and makes a subtle statement about the sanctity of local landscapes in “Reflections Renewed.” Who would have guessed that so many of the original sites of Hudson River School paintings were extant? “It didn’t happen by accident,” Boyle remarks. They are the gifts of generations of activists, who have preserved a living heritage. “And that’s half the reason I’m doing this show, to remind people that these places exist, and the next time some genius proposes an industrial power plant, we’ll make sure that doesn’t happen!” “Reflections Renewed: Hudson River Images Revisited” will appear at Boscobel in Garrison through December 12. (845) 265-3638; Boscobel.org. —Sparrow 11/12 ChronograM forecast 111
Pastures of Plenty: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie 7:30pm-10pm. The Vanaver Caravan. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-1559. I Remember Mama 7:30pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. www.ninetymilesoffbroadway.com. America’s Brightest Star 8pm. Can a reality show save a dying town? A world premiere production with an all-star cast. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. 565-3791. Hair 8pm. Castaway Players Theatre Company. $20/$15 students and seniors. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Marvin’s Room 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.
Workshops Landscape Design Clinic with Walt Cudnohufsky 9am-5pm. $125. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. 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/month. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263. Making Alcohol-Free Spirits 10am-12pm. Cordials, Shrubs and Syrups from Fruit and Flowers. Lecture and demo. $27/$22. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. The Big Squeeze: Making Apple Cider (Hard and Sweet) 1pm-3pm. Demo and tasting. $27/$22. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
Kids The Bard Warm-Up 10am-3pm. Theater workshop for ages 9-13. $65. New Genesis Productions, West Shokan. 657-5867. Children’s Author Event: David Goldin 1pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Sleeping Beauty 1pm. The National Marionette Series. $6/$4. Columbia Greene Community College Performing Arts Center, Hudson. (518) 719-0633. The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare 2pm. Lightwire Theater brings these children’s tales to life. $10. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
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Dance Survival, It’s a Dance 1pm. Work by dancer and choreographer Jorelle Pome. Performing Arts Center, Stone Ridge. 339-7886.
Events Institute for Jewish Spirituality and the Awakened Heart Project: Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Call for times. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 11am-4pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233. Writers In the Mountains 12pm-2pm. Readings and potluck lunch. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Open House and Information Session 12pm. Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie. 462-4200. Women’s Studio Workshop Gala Dinner 4pm-8pm. Honoring Gillian Jagger & Patricia GouldPeck. $250/$125. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 658-9133.
Film Metropolis 1pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Pirates of Penzance 1pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Strangers in Paradise 1pm. The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 443-7171.
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Dance Swing Dance Class 4-week class with Linda & Chester Freeman. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate and advanced at 7pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Met Opera: Otello (Verdi) 12:45pm. Encore presentation. $25/$15. Time and
Janisse Ray Writer, activist, and naturalist Janisse Ray will give a talk about her new book The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook on November 16. Her book discusses a missing piece in the renaissance of local food, farming, and place-based culinary traditions happening across the country: seeds. She presents a staggering statistic—out of the thousands of seed varieties available at the turn of the 20th century, 94 percent have been lost. Ray, a gardener who co-owns and lives on Red Earth Farm in Georgia, which organizes health, sustainability, and homesteading workshops, looks to save endangered varieties, like Old Time Tennessee muskmelon and Long County Longhorn okra. Along with her own story, Ray tells of people across the country who remind us of the weighty impacts of the loss of seeds, including health, food security, and our heritage and history. Caryinstitute.org
Colorful Crowns and Masks 12pm-1:30pm. Celebrate autumn by making crowns and masks from a variety of colorful fallen leaves and natural items. Schor Conservation Area, Canaan. (518) 392-5252 ext. 210. Gallery Tour with Kevin Cook 1pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844. Art of the Heirloom Cultural Seed Savers 4pm-5pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Hypnobabies, Childbirth Hypnosis 9am-12pm. 6-week class. $375. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. African Drum 10am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. African Dance 11am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Jazz at the Falls Sunday Brunch 11am. Featuring Mike DeMicco. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. Harlem String Quartet 2pm. $20/$5 students. St George’s Episcopal Church, Newburgh. www.newburghchambermusic.org. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra Concert 2pm. Program includes Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye, Kyle Gann’s The Disappearance of All Holy Things from this Once So Promising World, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. $20/$5 students. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.
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SUNDAY 4
Vinyasa Yoga 8am-9:30am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Meditation Class 10:15am-10:45am. Middletown Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, Middletown. 343-3858. Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA. Kirtan: Sacred Chanting 5pm-6:30pm. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
New Mother’s Adjustment Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Classical Meditation 7:15pm-8:30pm. $60. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm. Group for inner work, sittings, teaching, and observations facilitated by Jason Stern. Sage Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com.
The Revisionaries 5pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Organist Vaughn Mauren 2:30pm. Tower Music Series. Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110. Bajo Summitt 7pm. Featuring Béla Fleck. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Toots and the Maytals Unplugged Acoustic Tour 6pm. Reggae. $41-$46. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.
Spoken Word Reading by Sharon Flitterman-King 3pm. Author of A Secret Star. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.
Theater The Beggar’s Opera 4pm. $20-$75. Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison. 424-3900. Hair 8pm. Castaway Players Theatre Company. $20/$15 students and seniors. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Workshops Aura Reading & Third Eye Initiation 1pm-3pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Photo Workshop 3pm. $60. Use your photos to create a 3-dimensional morph deskslider and learn some photoshop tips. Cost includes printing. Morphicism, Beacon. 440-3092. Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.
MONDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559. Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Hula Hoop Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. 6-week session. $72. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191. Zumba Toning 6:30pm-7:30pm. 6-week session. $72. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Spoken Word Living with Diabetes: A Cooking Demonstration for the Diabetic on a Budget 12:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001. Reading by Samuel R. Delany 2:30pm. Author of Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Weis Cinema, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7087. Meeting of Dutchess Peace 5:30pm-7pm. All those interested in peace, social justice, and the revolution of the 99% are invited. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 876-7906.
Workshops Photo Workshop 3pm. $60. Use your photos to create a 3-dimensional morph deskslider and learn some photoshop tips. Cost includes printing. Morphicism, Beacon. 440-3092.
TUESDAY 6 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 Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $40 for 30 mins./$75 for 60 mins. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. New Mother’s Adjustment Support Group 2pm-3:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Dance Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.
Kids Media Magic 3:30pm-5:30pm. Practice making narrative videos for ages 13-18. Children’s Media Project, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480. 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 Met Opera: Otello (Verdi) 12:45pm. Encore presentation. $25/$15. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Spoken Word Hip and Knee Replacements: What’s New and What’s Good 6:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.
WEDNESDAY 7 Art Personal Equilibrium: The Private Journals of Jan Sawka 4pm-7pm. Stevenson Library, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. h.m.sawka@gmail.com. Thomas Lail 7:30pm. Art Lecture Series. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3830.
Body / Mind / Spirit Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 6 weeks/$12 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Vinyasa Flow Yoga 6pm-7pm. 6-week session. $72. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Classes Watercolor Classes 2pm-4pm. $10/$7 seniors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Dance Swing Dance Class 4-week class with Linda & Chester Freeman. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
Events Sustainable Development: Practical Solutions to Real World Problems Call for times. Conference on storm water management, erosion control and green infrastructure, with a large trade show. Ramada Inn Conference Center, Fishkill. 489-2286. Rhinebeck@Home Luncheon 12pm. Neighbors Helping Neighbors Stay Independent. $15. EverReady Diner, Hyde Park. 876-4663.
Film An Uncommon King Call for times. $7/$5. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Human Sexual Response 8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Spoken Word Art Lecture with Thomas Lail 7:30pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3844. Former CNN correspondent Linda Scherzer lecture 7:30pm. Lecture Center 104, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/resnickinstitute.
Workshops Christina Varga’s Creative Explorations in Mixed-Media 6pm-9pm. Learn to successfully compose various materials into original works of art. $45. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.
Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541. Afro-Caribbean Fitness 7:30pm-9:30pm. Ages 3+. $10. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
THURSDAY 8 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 Tai Chi with Martha Cheo Beginners 5:30pm, advanced 6:30pm. $12/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
books diane ackerman image provided Diane Ackerman will read at Vanderlyn Hall's College Lounge at SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge on November 8.
The Full Sum of Creation Certain authors inspire outbursts of passionate praise. Diane Ackerman, whose 24 books of nonfiction and poetry include the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses, tends to make critics go weak in the knees: “You’re immersed in Ackerman’s glorious prose, studded with arresting phrases and breathtakingly beautiful images. Her gift to us is the sheer pleasure of seeing the world through her loving eyes” (Washington Post). “Diane Ackerman is the great dramatist and explorer of the sensual world; her books, probe, open, take off lids, peel back covers, taste, sniff. There is no limit to her curiosity, and she is constantly discovering surprises” (New York Times Book Review). Ackerman’s memoir One Hundred Names for Love (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Other titles include Orion Book Award winner The Zookeeper’s Wife, a nonfiction account of WW II rescuers who sheltered over 300 Jewish refugees and activists in the decimated Warsaw Zoo; An Alchemy of Mind; Deep Play; and Cultivating Delight. The author, naturalist, and self-dubbed “Earth Ecstatic” is coming to SUNY Ulster this month as part of the Herbert H. and Sofia P. Reuner Library Writers Series. Now in its 14th year, the series has welcomed such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Billy Collins, Francine Prose, and Michael Cunningham. Distinguished as they are, none of the above is the namesake of a molecule that affects crocodilian sex drive. Diane Ackerman fielded questions about her work, writing habits, and the 19-carbon aromatic ketone dianeackerone via e-mail from the home she shares with her husband, novelist Paul West, in Ithaca. —Nina Shengold
human fascinates me. So do the ways of our animal neighbors, and the rest of nature, from the at-times wicked beauty of the atom out to the farthest star. Water flows into an empty space; so does my curiosity.
It seems ironic to converse with the author of A Natural History of the Senses via email, a medium utterly lacking in sensual detail. Could you please describe where you are as you’re answering this? I’m sitting in my study, which is painted the yellow of spring light in the forest, and includes shelves of white three-ring folders, some wooden filing cabinets and overflowing bookcases, big windows with a view of the backyard and woods, and a bay window
writing regular op-ed columns for the Sunday New York Times.
to curl up and write in, one that looks out onto the garden and a big old magnolia tree. Your books are all over the Dewey Decimal System: memoir, biography, biology, gardening, aviation, poetry, children’s books. Is there a common thread that runs through your work? All of my books are about the natural world, the world of human endeavor, and the connections between the two: nature and human nature. The whole pageant of being
The book-jacket copy for An Alchemy of Mind includes the phrase, “Long treasured by readers for her uncommon ability to bridge the gap between art and caption science.” Do you think there is such a gap? Personally, I don’t divide the world in that way. For me, “nature” includes all of the socalled sciences. Whether in poetry or prose, I think of myself as a nature writer—if what we mean by nature is the full sum of Creation. Your language is a feast. How does your writing process differ from poetry to prose? My process is the same in poetry or prose—I wish I could say that I just think in poetic phrases, but, actually, I revise an enormous amount. I keep tinkering with words, trying to find the best one, sometimes even after a book is in print. Language is very much at the heart of One Hundred Names for Love, subtitled A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing. Did your husband’s aphasia change the way you speak, and has that changed the way you write? No, I don’t think so. I think we all probably speak slightly differently to the different people in our lives (kids, friends, spouse, etc.). And my writing style—the way I converse with myself and my readers—stays pretty much the same. What are you working on now? I’ve just begun a new book, which I’m not ready to talk about yet. And I’m enjoying
What do you plan to talk about at SUNY Ulster? I’ll be reading briefly, and then [WAMC radio personality] Joe Donahue will be interviewing me on stage about my work, creativity, and the challenges of writing. How did you come to be the namesake for the molecule dianeackerone? When I was writing The Moon by Whale Light, I joined a research team and took part in sexing alligators for a hormone study. It meant lassoing the alligator, pulling it from the swamp, climbing on top, lifting its tail up and doing an internal). A pair of biologists, who had just discovered a pheromone in crocodilians, decided to name it after me. Diane Ackerman will appear with WAMC’s Joe Donahue on Thursday, November 8, at 1:15pm in Vanderlyn Hall’s College Lounge, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. Sunyulster.edu. 11/12 ChronograM forecast 113
I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. 20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 6 weeks. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Gurdjieff's Movements 7pm. Inner work and sacred dance facilitated by Jason Stern. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com. Zumba 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Classes Dignity for All Students Professional Development Call for times. Social and Emotional Learning in Practice: Setting the context for a bully- and harassment-free school. A three-part course taught by David A. Levine. Also Dec. 7 and Jan. 11. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Events
M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Orange County Arts Council 2012 Annual Art Awards 5:30pm. Powelton Club, Newburgh. 469-9168. Warwick Valley Humane Society Fundraiser 7pm-9pm. An exhibit of local artists who are willing to donate a portion of proceeds to the Warwick Valley Humane Society. WVFA Gallery, Warwick. www.WarwickFA.com/events.
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Buddhist Contemplative Care Symposium Call for times. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Warm Up the Winter: Annual Benefit for Construct’s Fuel Assistance Fund 7pm. Presented by Deborah Zecher. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.
Music Matinees & Music: Tribute to the Big Bands 2pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. Open Mike Night 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Spoken Word Reading by Poet and Naturalist Diane Ackerman 1:15pm. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Gallery Conversation: On the Grid 4:30pm-8pm. Exhibition curator Miriam Stanton discusses the grid from a variety of perspectives with Satyan Devadoss, Associate Professor of Mathematics, and other Williams’s faculty. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 597-2429. Bio-Identical Hormones- A Fad or Here to Stay? 6:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001. Book Reading and Signing with Myra Armstead 7pm. Author of Freedom’s Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15. Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 876-7906.
Theater NEWvember New Plays Festival Call for times. A weekend of new play readings by emerging playwrights; with veteran actors and directors. $10/show. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020. Bat Boy: The Musical 7:30pm. $10/$5 students. Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-3663.
Workshops Doody Calls! 1pm-2pm. Cloth diapering information session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Peace Work 1pm-4:30pm. Utilizes experiential exercises in specific ways, to grow personal insight, interpersonal skill & community. Queens Gallery, Kingston. 853-4023. East Fishkill Library Photography Workshop 7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
FRIDAY 9 Art 11th Annual Regional Portfolio Day 4pm-8pm. Representatives from 31 Colleges gather to talk to students and review their portfolios for scholarship eligibility to major art schools and universities. Henry J. Wallace Center, Hyde Park. 471-7477. Glenn Adamson 7:30pm. Art Lecture Series. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3830.
Body / Mind / Spirit Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Integrated Energy Healing 11:30am-6pm. $75 50 min./$95 80 min. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. 1-2 infant up to 1 year, 2-3 ages 1+. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
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Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. All proceeds go the Deaf Yoga Foundation. $10. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, 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. 227-3223.
The Maltese Falcon 7:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org. The Magic Fish 7pm. $25 adults, $20 children/seniors. Based on the Grimms' fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, Half Moon Theatre presents "The Magic Fish," an opera for children that tells the story of a boy who catches a magic fish who grants wishes. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. (888) 718-4253.
Music
Maria Hickey and 4G Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Off the Wall/On the Wall 7pm-9pm. Singer/songwriter and Painter Mark Safan presents an evening of music and artwork. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263. Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828. Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Kati Mac “Save Me from Myself” 7:30pm-10:30pm. Blues and rock. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Rusted Root 8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. David Bromberg and the Big Band 8pm. $34.50/$45.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Jeff Entin & Bob Blum’s Second Friday Jam 8pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble: The Soul’s Messenger 8pm. $15-$45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Christine Lavin and Don White 8pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. The Warp / The Weft 8pm. $5. Multi-instrumentalist Shane Murphy's folk duo. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006. The Connor Kennedy Band 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Spoken Word Author Event: William Pond Bostock 7pm. Author of Searching for My Wives. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Art Lecture with Glenn Adamson 7:30pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3844.
Theater The Beggar’s Opera 7pm. $20-$75. Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison. 424-3900. I Remember Mama 7:30pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. www.ninetymilesoffbroadway.com. Lust and Rust: The Trailer Park Musical 7:30pm. Coach House Players. Coach House Players, Kingston. www.coachhouseplayers.org. Bat Boy: The Musical 7:30pm. $10/$5 students. Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-3663. 'Night Mother 8pm. $22 adults, $20 seniors. Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of mother and daughter Thelma and Jessie Cates's existential crisis. Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Marvin’s Room 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.
comedy john waters Greg Gorman John Waters brings his one-man holiday show to the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on December 1.
From Sleaze to Grise In four decades, director John Waters has gone from eminence sleaze to eminence grise. Not that his modus operandi has changed; Waters continues to celebrate the offbeat, the maligned, and the gloriously gross. But somewhere between Waters shooting underground films in his native Baltimore and savoring the huge success of the musical “Hairspray” (a sugar-sweetened version of his 1988 film) mainstream America finally caught up with his unique perspective. While it is a crime that he can’t find investors for another movie—his children’s film Fruitcake has stalled in development five years—the man dubbed “The Pope of Trash” by William S. Burroughs finds other ways to share his wisdom. Waters is currently writing a book detailing the eight days he spent hitchhiking across America earlier this year. And his annual one-man show “A John Waters Christmas” plays the Bardavon on December 1 to reassure the suicidal and psychotic that their anti-Yuletide feelings are justified. In a telephone interview, America’s greatest cultural treasure discusses his holiday show, the entertainment value of toppled Christmas trees, and why he remains an optimist. —Jay Blotcher Talk about the inspiration for “A John Waters Christmas.” Well, my obsession with Christmas. I wrote a piece once called “Why I Love Christmas” in Crackpot, one of my books. And I think it grew from there. I first did a version of it at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. And then it sort of snowballed into a whole other thing where I’ve done it all over the world actually. So, I’m like Santa working in a mall; every Christmas I’m at work. I’m like a drag queen on Halloween. I like Christmas without any irony. But I do understand why some people hate it. I do understand why, if you’re not Christian, then it is seemingly something you can’t escape. So I have advice for everybody—even for the people who hate Christmas, too: How you can get through a hurtful Christmas. How you can get through a radical Christmas, a fashionable Christmas, a criminal Christmas—every kind of Christmas you could ever have. I met many people during this tour that have told me horror stories about the Christmas tree falling over at their house. It happens really a lot. And it’s usually the dog. One told me her mother had been sober for eight years and when the Christmas tree fell over, she ran out of the house and never came back. So, it can affect you. I always tell people they should rig their own tree to fall over at the height of their excitement and how much fun that would be.
People look to you to illuminate the absurdities of everyday life. Does that get harder as life becomes more absurd? No, because everything that I’ve done, I’m just a storyteller. It doesn’t matter which way I tell stories. I’ve always been in [a] kind of bit of awe and looked up to people. I never make fun of those people that think they’re normal but are actually insane. And that is my subject matter. And I’ll never run out of subject matter. I’ve never been bored. I don’t understand people who say [they’re] bored. Look—go outside. How could you be bored? So, the study of human behavior is delightful to me. My sister saw my Christmas show and she said, “How do you get away with saying some of that stuff?” And the reason I do is because I’m not mean. When people come to my spoken-word show, they want me to take them into a world that they’re a little nervous in. But if I’m they’re guide, they’re okay. And that’s what my humor [does]; to get you to reconsider judging other people. You don’t know the whole story, so try to appreciate everything because everybody has a reason for why they act the way they do. Are you somewhat disappointed that there’s a high ceiling for outrage these days? No, I’m not. Because I never just tried to do that. I always tried to be funny, I always tried to be witty. It’s easy to be shocking and mostly it’s dumb when you try to just shock. I think Hollywood does that now. Is there anything about current life that makes you despair? I don’t despair easily; I’m a very guarded-optimist person. I believe in the goodness of people, mostly. If things don’t work, I figure a new way to make them change. I’m not a depressed person. I’m optimistic and I don’t always win a lot. I mean, nobody said my movies were good for the first 10 years. So, I don’t give up and I go right back out and try to think, “How can we make it change so it does work?” And I also don’t believe that yesterday was better; I think that the kids that are 18 today are having just as much fun as we had in the `60s. I have fond memories of my youth but I don’t think I had more fun. I still go out; I have youth spies that tell me [about] new rap groups and pop groups and that seems fair. John Waters will perform his one-man show “A John Waters Christmas,” on December 1 at 8pm, at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie. (845) 473-2072; Bardavon.org. 11/12 ChronograM forecast 115
SATURDAY 10 Art Art/Craft Photo Shoot 12:30pm-4:30pm. Help setting up Etsy page, websites and more. $25. The Art Riot, Kingston. 331-2421. Renaissance Art & Collectibles Grand Opening 5pm-9pm. Group show with exclusive representation of Raymond Wiger in New York. Gallery grand opening and reception. Renaissance Art & Collectibles, Millbrook. 677-6758. Works by Julie Evans 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Bruce Chapin: Sculptures 6pm-9pm. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446. Conversations 6pm-9pm. Vincent Pomilio and Thomas Huber. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584. New Works by Gary Jacketti 6pm-9pm. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.
Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Qi Gong Classes 10am-11am. $10. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Reflexology Day 11:30am-4:30pm. $45/45 min. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774.
The Met: Live in HD Ades’s The Tempest 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse 6:30pm. Featuring Rick Nestler. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 978-5620. Peter Calo 7:30pm-10:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Albany Tango Society 8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble: The Soul’s Messenger 8pm. $15-$45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Mamak Khadem 8pm. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. George Winston 8pm. Solo piano concert. $29.50/$27.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Robert Randolph & The Family Band 9pm. $45/$35. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. The Released 9pm. High Falls Cafe at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. Live Society 9:30pm. Motown. 12 Grape Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Marvin’s Room 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.
The Outdoors
Art
Music
Unison’s 28th Benefit Auction 1pm-4pm. $35/$30. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 255-1559.
NT Live Simulcast: Timon of Athens 1pm. $22/$15 student. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. The Four Nations Ensemble 3:30pm. Paris: From Versailles to the Versailles Room. Collens House, Hillsdale. www.fournations.org. Veterans Day Concert 5pm. In collaboration with Central Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists: Organ, Regional Choir, Patriotic Hymn-sing. $15. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220. The Last Waltz Live 7pm. A re-creation of The Band’s classic concert film. $20-$40. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Benefit Concert for The Nature Institute 7pm. Quiet in the Head. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116. George Winston 7:30pm. Solo piano concert. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Tuck and Patti 7:30pm. Vocal/guitar jazz duo. $35/$30. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. The Howling Kettles Album Release Hootenanny 8pm. $5. With special guest Liv Carrow. Raw, hearty takes on the Old Time/Country cannon. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.
Historic Walk of Denning's Point 10am. Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries and
Classes Family and Friends CPR and First Aid for Children 1pm-3:30pm. $45. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Dance
Events Free Vassar Campus Historic Walking Tours 10am, 1pm. Led by Chemistry professor and Vassar alumnus Chris Smart. Tours begin at the front entrance to the college's Main Building. Rain or shine. 437-7400. Fair Trade Bazaar 11am-5pm. A wide array of multicultural fair trade items, including coffee and chocolate, fine jewelry, carved wooden bowls, woven baskets, pottery, and hand-knitted clothing and dolls. Local artisans, artists, and nonprofits. The Aula at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-4013. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 12pm-5pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233. 1st Anniversary Open House 5pm-8pm. Fruition Chocolate, Shokan. 657-6717. Bill Cosby 8pm. $48-$78. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Perphormance Arts in Phoenicia 8pm-11pm. Poetry, storytelling, dance, guest artists. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.
Kids The Magic Fish 11am, 2pm. $25 adults, $20 children/seniors. Based on the Grimms' fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, Half Moon Theatre presents "The Magic Fish," an opera for children that tells the story of a boy who catches a magic fish who grants wishes. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. (888) 718-4253.
Music Petey Hop: Solo Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. 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.
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Cajun Dance Woody Sloop Fundraiser 6pm-10pm. With Krewe de la Rue. 6-7pm Lessons in basics of two-step and waltz. Jambalaya, Gumbo and refreshments available for purchase. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Beacon. www.beaconsloopclub.org. Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mid-Hudson Larreynaga Sister City Benefit Dance 7:30pm. Live Latino Dance Music provided by the wonderful sounds of “Cuboricua.” Live dance demonstrations, door prizes, and light refreshments will be provided. $20. Church of Messiah Parish Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-3533. Buglisi Dance Theatre 7:30pm. $30/$10 children and student rush. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. Contradance 8pm. David Katnor calling, with music by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. $10/$9/ 1/2 for children. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.
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/month. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263. Play With Your Camera - DSLRs 10am-1pm. With Lori Adams. $75. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. A Local Thanksgiving 2pm-5pm. Explore sustainable cooking methods and all of the local ingredients needed to make your traditional holiday meals. $50/$35 members. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Uranus Square Pluto: A New Internal World Order 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
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Tony Kushner The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright will be the featured speaker at Temple Emanuel in Kingston on November 18 in conversation with award-winning playwright Rinne Groff. He will discuss some of his major writing projects, including his play “Angels in America,” which the New York Times called “the most influential American play of the last two decades.” Kushner will also discuss his screenplay for the new Steven Spielberg film Lincoln, which opens this month. The film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Abraham Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the president. Kushner will also discuss the controversial screenplay he cowrote for Spielberg’s 2005 historical film, Munich, set after the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics, as well as his 2003 children’s book Brundibar, an adaptation of the opera performed by the children of Theresienstadt, which was illustrated by his friend, the late Maurice Sendak. Tickets are $35 for adults, $25 for seniors and students. Speakerste.org
Clarkson University present a walk based on Jim Heron's Denning's Point, a Hudson River History. 199 Dennings Ave., Beacon. Register at www.bire.org/events.
Art Sanctuary 2pm-5pm. Works by Cindy Booth, Maureen Winzig, Marc Yarnes, Lana Yu, and others, and a concert at 3pm. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Peekskill. (914) 737-6312.
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Body / Mind / Spirit
Spectacular Natives! Diversity and Beauty from the Wilds of America 10am-12pm. $35. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. Gardens Filled with Life: Designing with Northeastern Flora 1pm-3pm. $35. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. Author Event: Douglas Nicholas 2pm. Author of Something Red. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775. The War of 1812 in American Caricature 2pm. A lecture by Dr. Allison Stagg. Southeast Museum, Brewster. director@southeastmuseum.org. Reading and Book Signing with Patrick Kern 5pm. Uncharted Journey: Our Decade Living w/Breast Cancer. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213. Reading by Patrick Kern 5pm. Reading Uncharted Journey: Our Decade Living with Breast Cancer. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.
Vinyasa Yoga 8am-9:30am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Meditation Class 10:15am-10:45am. Middletown Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, Middletown. 343-3858. Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA.
Theater Ade’s The Tempest 11am/1pm. Metropolitan Opera “Live in HD.”$18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens 7pm. London’s National Theatre “Live in HD”. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. I Remember Mama 7:30pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. www.ninetymilesoffbroadway.com. Bat Boy: The Musical 7:30pm. $10/$5 students. Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-3663. Lust and Rust: The Trailer Park Musical 7:30pm. Coach House Players. Coach House Players, Kingston. www.coachhouseplayers.org. 'Night Mother 8pm. $22 adults, $20 seniors. Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of mother and daughter Thelma and Jessie Cates's existential crisis.
Classes African Drum 10am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. African Dance 11am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Dance The Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake 2pm. The Royal Opera House’s 2012/13 Cinema Season’s opening performance. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Buglisi Dance Theatre 2:30pm. $30/$10 children and student rush. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. Swing Dance 8pm-10:30pm. Beginner lesson at 7:30pm. $10. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.
Events 41st Annual Railroad Expo 10am-3pm. $5/$2 children. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Fair Trade Bazaar 11am-3pm. A wide array of multicultural fair trade items, including coffee and chocolate, fine jewelry, carved wooden bowls, woven baskets, pottery, and hand-knitted clothing and dolls. Local artisans, artists, and nonprofits. The Aula at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-4013. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 11am-4pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233.
Honoring Our Veterans and Preserving Their History 2pm. Celebrate Veteran’s Day with a musical and visual tribute to our veterans. National Purple Heart Hall of Hono, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 28. Jonathan Kruk: Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson River Valley 4pm. As part of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries and Clarkson University Sunday Authors Series, Kruk will give a behind the scenes story of the Headless Horseman of the Hudson Valley, and offer a lively mix of scholarship, storytelling, and local history. The Gallery, Beacon. 838-1600.
Kids The Magic Fish 2pm. $25 adults, $20 children/seniors. Based on the Grimms' fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, Half Moon Theatre presents "The Magic Fish," an opera for children that tells the story of a boy who catches a magic fish who grants wishes. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. (888) 718-4253. Children’s Author Reading and Activity: Hudson Talbott 2pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Newburgh Media Monsters 4:30pm-6pm. Grades 3-5 create videos weekly through Dec. 12. $50. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh.
Spoken Word One Book/One New Paltz Book Discussion & Bagel Brunch 11am. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org. Art Talk with Susan Zoon 2pm-3pm. She will read selections from her short story anthology Post Crypt. Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac. One Book/One New Paltz Community Book Discussion 7pm. United Methodist Church, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org.
Theater Lust and Rust: The Trailer Park Musical 2pm. Coach House Players. Coach House Players, Kingston. www.coachhouseplayers.org. I Remember Mama 2pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. www.ninetymilesoffbroadway.com. Marvin’s Room 2pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Bat Boy: The Musical 2:30pm. $10/$5 students. Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-3663. 'Night Mother 3pm. $22 adults, $20 seniors. Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of mother and daughter Thelma and Jessie Cates's existential crisis. Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Beggar’s Opera 4pm. $20-$75. Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison. 424-3900.
Workshops Hudson Valley Photoshop Training 11am-1pm. $150 for 3 sessions. Photoshop Ins and Outs. The Shirt Factory, Kingston. Call to register: 339-7834. Herbal Syrups & Tincture Workshop 1pm-4pm. $50. Call for location. 416-4598. Sound Healing Workshop 2:30pm-5:30pm. $25. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.
MONDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559. Private Energy Healings & Soul Readings 12pm-6pm. $40 for 30 mins./$75 for 60 mins. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 8765952. New Mother’s Adjustment Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Classical Meditation 7:15pm-8:30pm. $60. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm. Group for inner work, sittings, teaching, and observations facilitated by Jason Stern. Sage Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com.
Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Events Open House and Information Session 1pm. Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie. 462-4200.
Kids Children’s Author Event with Nancy Krulik: Hey! Who Stole the Toilet? 11am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Studio II Music/Vocal Open Mike 6pm-9pm. $5. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Spoken Word One Book/One New Paltz Community Book Discussion 4pm. Woodland Pond at New Paltz, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org. Diabetes: The Not So Silent Killer 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 8763001. One Book/One New Paltz Community Book Discussion 7pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org.
Workshops Using Newspapers for Genealogical Research 10:30am. Mary Colbert. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Intro to Indigo & Shabori with Beth Humphrey 1:30pm-4pm. Ages 15+. $40. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com. Hudson Valley Photoshop Training 6pm-8pm. $150 for 3 sessions. Photoshop Elements. The Shirt Factory, Kingston. Call to register: 339-7834.
TUESDAY 13 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 2551559.
Body / Mind / Spirit Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. New Mother’s Adjustment Support Group 2pm-3:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Classes Jewelry Skills 101 3:45pm-5pm. Through Dec. 18. Ages 8+. $120. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio. com. M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org. Afro-Caribbean Fitness 7:30pm-9:30pm. Ages 3+. $10. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Events Introduction to Human Design System 7pm-9pm. With Chart Analyst Frank Camarda. Discover your unique design and personal authority. Human Design is a synthesis of astrology, the I'Ching, the Chakra system, and Kabbalah. Outdated Cafe, Kingston. 450-0899. Green Mixer. Green Business Cocktail Mixer 7pm-10pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 481-0164.
Kids Paige in Full 10am. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 4732072. 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. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Symphonic Band 8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3860. The New Lazy Boys 8pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Spoken Word One Book/One New Paltz Community Book Discussion 10:30am. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org. What You Need to Know About Stroke 6:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001. One Book/One New Paltz Community Presentation/Book Discussion 7pm. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org.
Workshops Organize for the Holidays 6:30pm. Ellen Kosloff. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Four-part Morphology Workshop Series: The Four Temperaments of Face Reading 7pm-9pm. 4-weekly meetings. $70/$60. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.
WEDNESDAY 14 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 Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 6 weeks/$12 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Zumba 5:30pm-6:30pm. 6-week session. $72. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191. Pilates with Janet 6:30pm-7:30pm. 6-week session. $72. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191. Holistic Eye Care with Marc Grossman, O.D. 7pm. $15/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 6 weeks. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Gurdjieff's Movements 7pm. Inner work and sacred dance facilitated by Jason Stern. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com. Zumba 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Events YMCA YouthBuild Informational Meeting and Assessment Call for times. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 331-2381. Third Thursday Luncheon 11:30am. As part of Messiah’s Outreach Programs, these luncheons benefit a local organization to support their ongoing programs. $6. Church of Messiah Parish Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-3533. Health Quest Hosts “Ladies Night Out” 5:30pm-9pm. Focus on healthcare issues affecting women, will feature physician guest speakers from each of Health Quest’s three hospitals. $65. Ramada Inn Conference Center, Fishkill. 475-9734.
Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Events YMCA YouthBuild Informational Meeting and Assessment Call for times. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 331-2381. A Starry Night: 20th Annual Ulster-Greene ARC Holiday Auction 6pm-9pm. Fisherman, silent & live auctions. “Bargain Box or Bust”, 50/50 raffle, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres & dinner and more. $70. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 331-4300 ext. 281. Fall Auction 6:30pm. Silent and live auctions, refreshments, and raffle. All proceeds benefit programs at Saint Joseph School. $17/$30 couple. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 339-4390. Kodi Kids Benefit 7pm. $20 donation. Benefit event for children living in Miyuga, Kenya. CD release and music by Woodstock Jazz Q. Unitarian Church, Kingston. 246-2195. 8th Annual Vampyre Ball 8pm-12am. Hosted by Sharon Nichols (DJ Occulere) Black attire mandatory. $5. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Film Hip Hop is Bigger Than the Occupation 6pm. Documentary about a ten day journey of artists traveling through the West Bank, Palestine, teaching and performing Non Violent Resistance. Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie. 452-6088. Warren Miller’s Flow State 8pm. $22. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Kids
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.
The Magic Fish 7pm. $25 adults, $20 children/seniors. Based on the Grimms' fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, Half Moon Theatre presents "The Magic Fish," an opera for children that tells the story of a boy who catches a magic fish who grants wishes. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. (888) 718-4253. Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
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Music
An Uncommon King Call for times. $7/$5. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. African Diaspora Film Series: RiseUp 5pm-8pm. Lecture Center 104, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/blackstudies.
One Book/One New Paltz Academic Panel Discussion 12pm. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org. Dr. Jenny Magnes: The Hidden Dimension of Microscopic Life 4:30pm-5:30pm. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/sse/colloquium_series.html. Gallery Conversation: The Greenheads Series 4:30pm-8pm. A conversation with Carol Ockman, Dennis Meenan, 54 Third Century Professor of Art; Mark Reinhardt, Class of 1956 Professor of American Civilization; and David Smith, John W. Chandler Professor of English. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 597-2429. Book Reading and Signing with AJ Schenkman 7pm. Author of Wicked Ulster County. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15. One Book/One New Paltz Academic Panel Discussion 7pm. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org.
Kids
Workshops
Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Supply and Demand! 1pm-2pm. Breast pumping information session. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Mama’s Creative Circle: Paint Your Own Pottery 6:30pm-8pm. Monthly art party for women, sponsored by Illuminated Baby and Fiberflame. $35. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.
The Differents Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828. Bella Winds Trio 7:30pm. Wind and color celebration of music through time from Baroque to jazz. $12. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220. Steve Chizmadia and the Accidental Gypsies 7:30pm-10:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. The Blues Brothers 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. ASK for Music 8pm. Featuring Matt Turk, Fred Gillen Jr. and Blair Shepard. $6. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. Jim Kweskin 8pm. Folk. $20. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. Dala 8:30pm. $27.50/$22.50. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Another Night of Paul Butterfield 9pm. $30/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. The Geoff Hartwell Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Classes Watercolor Classes 2pm-4pm. $10/$7 seniors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. American Bonsai Society Intensive Course for Beginners 5pm. 10-week course. $300/$275 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Film
Spoken Word EFCL Afternoon Book Club 1pm. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Glaring Omissions 7pm. Reading series presents three Hudson Valley authors reading from their recent work. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775. One Book/One New Paltz Community Presentation/Book Discussion 7pm. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.onebookonenewpaltz.org. Joel Mowbray: Israel’s Realities 7:30pm. Lecture Center 104, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/resnickinstitute.
Workshops Sew-Your-Own Winter Tote with Juda Leah 6pm-9pm. Ages 14+. $40. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.
THURSDAY 15 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 Tai Chi with Martha Cheo Beginners 5:30pm, advanced 6:30pm. $12/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Film Special Broadcast: Barrymore 8pm. $15/$12.50/$7.50. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Music
FRIDAY 16 Body / Mind / Spirit
The Outdoors
The Art and Science of Contemplative Teaching and Learning: Exploring Ways of Knowing Call for times. Weekend retreat at the Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. 1-2 infant up to 1 year, 2-3 ages 1+. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. 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. All proceeds go the Deaf Yoga Foundation. $10. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, 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.
Nature at Night 5pm-6pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.
Spoken Word Author Event: Nancy Schniedewind 7pm. Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush on Public Education. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater Poe’s Last Mystery 7pm. Interactive theatrical performance. $8. Columbia Greene Community College Performing Arts Center, Hudson. (518) 719-0633. Lust and Rust: The Trailer Park Musical 7:30pm. Coach House Players. Coach House Players, Kingston. www.coachhouseplayers.org. 'Night Mother 8pm. $22 adults, $20 seniors. Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of mother and daughter Thelma and Jessie Cates's existential crisis. Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Marvin’s Room 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. The Submission Reading & Discussion 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $10/$8. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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Workshops Breastfeeding Essentials 6pm-8pm. Designed to be taken during pregnancy, this class covers all the breastfeeding basics from birth through the first 6 months. $55/couple. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Earthcatchers Dreamcatcher Class 7pm-9pm. $25. The Art Riot, Kingston. 331-2421.
SATURDAY 17 Art 35th Annual Group Holiday Show and Sale 10am-8pm. Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck. 430-3130. Grace Knowlton 2pm-5pm. Drawings, prints, photos and sculpture. Vytlacil, Sparkill. 359-1263. Watercolor Paintings by Karleen Dorn 4pm-7pm. Freight Liquidators, Poughkeepsie. 473-3070. Abstract Architectures 5pm-8pm. Paintings by Todd Germann. Albert Shahinian Fine Art Upstairs Gallery, Rhinebeck. 876-7578. Figurative Fantasies 5pm-8pm. Paintings by David Eddy. Albert Shahinian Fine Art Upstairs Gallery, Rhinebeck. 876-7578. 2012 Leaping Trout Art Project 6pm-8pm. 35 local artists bring awareness to the issue of clean water. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.
Body / Mind / Spirit The Art and Science of Contemplative Teaching and Learning: Exploring Ways of Knowing Call for times. Weekend retreat at the Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Private Morphology Consultations 11:30am-6pm. $30 for 20 minutes. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:45am-1:30pm. Workshop will cover postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to yoga practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774.
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. Fat City 6pm. Blues. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. 569-2337. Andrea Wolper Trio 7:30pm. $15/$10 students and seniors. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.org. Arlo Guthrie: Here Comes the Kid 7:30pm. $34.50-$49.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Labor of Love 7:30pm-10:30pm. Blues. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Lonesome River Band 7:30pm. Presented by Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220. En Vogue 8pm. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333. Welcome Back the Music & Art of Joni Bishop 8pm-11pm. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Madera Vox 8pm. $20. Enigma Dance Hall, Red Hook. modmedia@theriver.com.
Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Dance
Events Santa’s Express Arts and Crafts Fair 9am-3pm. Regina Coeli School, Hyde Park. 229-8589. Buy Local Holiday Extravaganza & Thanksgiving Farmers' Market 10am-4pm. 9W, Marlboro. www.meetmeinmarlborough.com. Holiday Wine Tasting 12pm-5pm. Taste over 50 wines from around the world. Live music, refreshments, and prizes. JK's Wine & Liquor, Kingston. 331-6429. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 12pm-4pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233.
Nat Adderley Jr. Trio 8pm. Tom Humphrey Guitar Series. $25. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199. John Cage: On & Off the Air 8pm. $15-$35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Concrete Rivals 8pm. $5. Inspired by the raw guitar melodies of instrumental '60s surf rock. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006. Livingston Taylor 8:30pm. With special guest Stephen Stavola. $45/$40. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Blues Project 9pm. $30. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. The Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. Natalie Forteza 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Spoken Word
Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz 7pm. $6. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Warren Miller’s Flow State 8pm. $22. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Unexpected House Plants with Tovah Martin 10am-1pm. Lecture, workshop and book signing. $35/$30. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. Author Event: Mirza Ashraf 2pm. Author of Rumi’s Holistic Humanism. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Kids
Theater
The Firebird 10:30am. The Puppet People. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. The Magic Fish 11am, 2pm. $25 adults, $20 children/seniors. Based on the Grimms' fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, Half Moon Theatre presents "The Magic Fish," an opera for children that tells the story of a boy who catches a magic fish who grants wishes. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. (888) 718-4253. Local Author Children’s Event with Hudson Talbott: It’s All About ME-OW 2pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.
Auditions for Spring Awakening 1pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Lust and Rust: The Trailer Park Musical 7:30pm. Coach House Players. Coach House Players, Kingston. www.coachhouseplayers.org. Marvin’s Room 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. 'Night Mother 8pm. $22 adults, $20 seniors. Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of mother and daughter Thelma and Jessie Cates's existential crisis. Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Difficult Comedy for Hard Times 8pm. Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine. $20/$15. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Film
Music Steve Black Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
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SUNDAY 18 Art 35th Annual Group Holiday Show and Sale 10am-4pm. Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck. 430-3130.
Body / Mind / Spirit The Art and Science of Contemplative Teaching and Learning: Exploring Ways of Knowing Call for times. Weekend retreat at the Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.
Survival, It’s a Dance After receiving a BFA in choreography from Concordia University in Montreal, Jorelle Pomé worked as an independent choreographer and dancer in New York City. In 2005, she suffered a traumatic brain injury after an automobile accident, taking away her ability to walk independently and seriously impairing her coordination and balance. After years of physical therapy, she began to choreograph and perform again in 2009. Her most recent work, “Survival, It’s a Dance,” combines able-bodied dancers with short cameos by Pomé. The evening-length piece features three local dancers—Beth Woronoff, Ruby Bard, and Kyle Duncham—and will premiere at the Center for the Performing Arts at the High Meadow School in Stone Ridge from November 2 to 4. Pomé’s family and friends have created a nonprofit organization, Earthborne Dance Project, which looks to fill the gap in the Hudson Valley of opportunities for people with disabilities to dance. Its goal is to give Pomé the resources she needs to create a company and continue performing. Jorelle.com
Classes
Holiday Dance Party Kathy Anderson calling, with music by Crowfoot. Challenging contras at 3pm, potluck and jam at 5pm, evening dance at 7pm. $8/$15/$20. St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050. Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Freestyle barefoot dancing open to the community. Knights of Columbus Hall, Kingston. 658-8319.
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/month. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263. Life Drawing Intensive 10am-4:30pm. This intensive gives professional artists and students an opportunity to work with experienced models until controlled lighting for an entire day. $40/$35. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Biz Pics 12pm-4pm. Biz Pics, headshots for business, modeling and gun. $100. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 3310191. Supply and Demand! 1pm-2pm. Breast pumping information session. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. A Photoshop How-To for Newbies 4pm-6pm. The Art Riot, Kingston. 331-2421.
Workshops
Vinyasa Yoga 8am-9:30am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Meditation Class 10:15am-10:45am. Middletown Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, Middletown. 343-3858. Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Baby Yoga 12pm-1:15pm. Non-walkers. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Toddler/Preschool Yoga 1:15pm-2:15pm. Through age 4. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Transforming into Heart Centered Orion Consciousness 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Alexander Technique and Pain Management with Judith Muir 3pm-5pm. $35. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA.
Classes African Drum 10am-11am & 11am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Music Jazz at the Falls Sunday Brunch 12pm. Featuring Eddie Diehl & Lou Pappas. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. Healing Ana Concert 4:30pm. Featuring The Felice Brothers, The Trapps, and Dog on Fleas. $20/$45 VIP. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855. Victor Wooten Band and Jimmy Herring Band 7pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Vocalist, Pianist, Songwriter Lisa Lipkin 7:30pm-10:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Spoken Word Women Writers of a Certain Age 4pm. Panel of women, who grew up in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, will discuss their work and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing publishing world. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101. Tony Kushner 7pm. In conversation with Rinne Groff. $35/$25 seniors and students. Temple Emanuel, Kingston. 338-8131.
Theater Lust and Rust: The Trailer Park Musical 2pm. Coach House Players. Coach House Players, Kingston. www.coachhouseplayers.org. 'Night Mother 3pm. $22 adults, $20 seniors. Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of mother and daughter Thelma and Jessie Cates's existential crisis. Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Auditions for Spring Awakening 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops Hudson Valley Photoshop Training 11am-1pm. $150 for 3 sessions. Photoshop Ins and Outs. The Shirt Factory, Kingston. Call to register: 339-7834. Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.
MONDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559. Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Wisdom’s Way DVD Series 6:30pm-8pm. With best-selling author, Guy Finley. Cornwall Public Library, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-8282. New Mother’s Adjustment Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Classical Meditation 7:15pm-8:30pm. $60. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm. Group for inner work, sittings, teaching, and observations facilitated by Jason Stern. Sage Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com.
Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Events A Night at the Headquarters and Museum 5pm-7:30pm. Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.
Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Spoken Word Let It Be Known: The What, Why, and How of Advanced Care Planning 2pm. Center for Healthy Aging, Rhinebeck. www.health-quest.org/ndh.
Workshops Hudson Valley Photoshop Training 6pm-8pm. $150 for 3 sessions. Photoshop Elements. The Shirt Factory, Kingston. Call to register: 339-7834.
TUESDAY 20
Events Artisan Faire 10am-4pm. Exhibit, market and cafe to benefit the Sinterklaas celebration. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. hana527@gmail.com. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 11am-4pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233.
Kids The Magic Fish 2pm. $25 adults, $20 children/seniors. Based on the Grimms' fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, Half Moon Theatre presents "The Magic Fish," an opera for children that tells the story of a boy who catches a magic fish who grants wishes. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. (888) 718-4253. Wild Animals in Winter 2pm-3pm. 3-6 years old. Schor Conservation Area, Canaan. (518) 392-5252 ext. 210.
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 Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. New Mother’s Adjustment Support Group 2pm-3:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Transformation Through Kinesiology 7pm-9pm. Explore a particular theme and use Transformational Kinesiology to access and clear subconscious blocks, suck places and limiting beliefs that have been getting in your way. $20-$40. The Sanctuary, New Paltz. www.mytrueplace.com.
film orchestra of exiles courtesy of the felicja blumental music center library/huberman archive
Arturo Toscanini and Bronislaw Huberman on stage after the first Palestine Symphony concert in November, 1936. From the film Orchestra of Exiles, screening at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on November 16.
Orchestral Fist Oskar Schindler had his list. Bronislaw Huberman had his orchestra. One was immortalized in a 1993 film. The latter had to wait until Rhinebeck-based director Josh Aronson discovered him four years ago. In the documentary Orchestra of Exiles, screening on November 16 at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, the quixotic mission of a virtuoso violinist becomes a fresh drama from the ashes of the Holocaust. Huberman, a prodigy who played for the crowned heads of Europe, saw the storm clouds of Nazism gather when others would not. His plan was to recruit Jewish musicians, already ejected from their careers, to form an orchestra in the land then known as Palestine. “One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism,” Huberman stated, as he auditioned musicians in Warsaw, Berlin, and Vienna in the mid-1930s. “A first-class orchestra will be this fist.” His unlikely invitation was bolstered by an astounding detail: Musical deity Arturo Toscanini would conduct the incipient Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Fired equally by genius, arrogance, and compassion, Huberman stood firm against detractors who suggested this unpleasant business with the goose-stepping brown shirts would blow over. He pleaded with musicians that relocating to the Holy Land was not only a wise career move but might also save their lives. Aronson, 60, a documentary filmmaker since 2000, is also a classical pianist. He first learned of Huberman from a fellow pianist, Dorit Straus, who has a weekend home in Rhinebeck. Straus, whose father was David Grunschlag, concert master of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (the new name for Huberman's group) for many years, was organizing a concert in Vienna to honor Huberman. As Straus recounted Huberman’s historic achievements, Aronson recognized the story united his key passions: his own Jewish heritage, his love of classical music, and defiant nonconformity—a subject he’s explored in previous films about hearingimpaired children facing cochlear implants and about transgender people.
“It was just a life moment for me and it felt right,” Aronson says of his decision to commit the tale to film. It would take him three years. First, the director had to play detective, locating letters and documents about Huberman, written in Polish and German, and scattered across Europe. Happily, Aronson’s subject was both eloquent and voluble. In addition to performing, he lectured frequently about his dream of a united Europe and his support for Zionism. Where photos, music, and documents could not push forward the narrative, Aronson filmed lavish recreations, drawing on two decades of experience as a TV commercial and industrial film director. At one point, he envisioned an epic running four hours. But he excised subplots to bring the film in at 85 minutes, albeit reluctantly. “This was rich, golden material that covered the whole century,” says Aronson. As his research advanced, Aronson recognized the flawed hero of his drama. While possessing immense fame in his era, Huberman was also a difficult and cold man, prone to intense periods of work that shut loved ones out. “There were a lot of warts in this guy that I didn’t go near,” Aronson says. But Huberman’s personal writings shed light on the reasons for his prickly character, offering what Aronson called “a very good sense of how he had been scarred by the [emotional] abuse of his father early on in his life.” If he were starting this project again, Aronson said he would avoid grandiose depictions—some have called the film hagiography—in favor of a more complex portrait of Huberman, contradictions intact. Still, Orchestra of Exiles engagingly depicts a man who saved thousands of lives—and perhaps European music as well. Orchestra of Exiles will be screened on November 16 at 7pm at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. Director Josh Aronson and Bard College President Leon Botstein will host the screening. (845) 876-2515. Upstatefilms.org. —Jay Blotcher 11/12 ChronograM forecast 119
Classes
Classes
M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541. Afro-Caribbean Fitness 7:30pm-9:30pm. Ages 3+. $10. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Dance Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2012 7:30pm. $65/$52.50/$39.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Events A Night at the Headquarters and Museum 5pm-7:30pm. Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.
Music Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com.
Spoken Word Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 876-7906.
FRIDAY 23 Body / Mind / Spirit Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. 1-2 infant up to 1 year, 2-3 ages 1+. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. All proceeds go the Deaf Yoga Foundation. $10. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic
Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774.
Classes Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Dance Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Events Sinterklaas Celebration Call for times. The celebration that has drawn thousands to Rhinebeck is going bi-coastal. Open houses in all the shops, music, a workshop creating beautiful crowns and branches and a visit from Sinterklaas himself. Kingston. www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com. Phoenicia Turkey Trot 9am. 2-mile run to benefit Shandaken Food Pantry. $20
WEDNESDAY 21
Body / Mind / Spirit
Watercolor Classes 2pm-4pm. $10/$7 seniors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Spoken Word Able Together 6:30pm-8:30pm. A support group focusing on helping to support mothers with disabilities and families who have children with disabilities. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Theater Ades’s The Tempest 1pm. Metropolitan Opera “Live in HD.” $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.
Workshops In the Kitchen Garden 1pm-3pm. Learn how to select the best tasting varieties for your kitchen garden. $27/$22. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. Songwriters’ Workshop with Bill Pfleging 7pm. An open forum for all songwriters looking for feedback and/or inspiration. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.
THURSDAY 22 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 Tai Chi with Martha Cheo Beginners 5:30pm, advanced 6:30pm. $12/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. 20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Gurdjieff's Movements 7pm. Inner work and sacred dance facilitated by Jason Stern. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com. Zumba 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
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Open Studio and Reception 2pm-5pm. Meet our Artists-In-Residence from around the world and see their artwork. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.
Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 8am-9:30am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Meditation Class 10:15am-10:45am. Middletown Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, Middletown. 343-3858. Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA.
Classes African Drum 10am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. African Dance 11am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. 5th Annual Woodstock Arts Fair 1am-4pm. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 246-1671. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 11am-4pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233.
Open Critiques 10am-4pm. Get feedback on your artwork from League instructors. $12. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.
Classes
SUNDAY 25 Art
Events
Art
Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 6 weeks/$12 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
your creativity as you work mainly with steel to learn the basics of forging. $130/month. The Art Students League Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263. Doody Calls! 1pm-2pm. Cloth diapering information session. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Film
Tangent Theatre Company NEWvember Festival Co-produced with AboutFACE Ireland, the Tangent Theater Company presents a festival featuring rehearsed readings of new plays by promising playwrights in the intimate 50seat Carpenter Theatre in Tivoli. Over 300 submissions of plays came from as close as the Hudson Valley to as far as Ireland. Six plays were chosen by members of Tangent for the weekend event, to be held from November 8 to 11. Family has emerged, unprovoked, as the central theme of the six finalists. “Love/Sick” is a series of love stories that explore romance in the suburban jungle by John Cariani, a Tony-nominated actor and playwright best known for his role as Julian Beck in “Law & Order” and for his play “Almost, Maine”; “The Prediction” by Michael DeVito follows a family of German Jews who escape the Nazis aboard a freighter bound for Cuba; “Comes a Faery” by James McLindon tells of a parentless eight-year-old girl who is visited by an Irish storybook fairy. Five of the playwrights will attend the festival and take part in audience Q&As after the performances. Tangent-arts.org Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Events Holiday Sale 11am-3pm. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253. Special Twilight Trolley Run 6pm-10pm. Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399.
Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Mike Hamel Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828. Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Alva Nelson Trio 7:30pm-10:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Back To The Garden 1969 8:30pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. The Grand Slambovians 9pm. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Marc Von Em 9:30pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Black Dirt Band 10pm. Blues. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.
SATURDAY 24 Art
family/$10. Parish Hall, Phoenicia. 688-7064. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 12pm-5pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233. Holiday Photoshoot with your Pets 12pm-4pm. $30. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191. Hancock Shaker Village Shaker Suppers 4pm. Tour and dinner. $65/$60. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.
Music Graham Parker & The Rumour: Reunion Tour 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Theater A Christmas Carol 2pm. $36/$32/$28. A 200th birthday celebration for Charles Dickens. Broadway musical presentation by the Woodstock Playhouse Production Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.
Workshops Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723. Hudson Valley Photoshop Training 11am-1pm. $150 for 3 sessions. Photoshop Ins and Outs. The Shirt Factory, Kingston. Call to register: 339-7834.
MONDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit
The Wizard of Oz 3pm. $6. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Special Broadcast: Barrymore 8pm. Encore presentation. $15/$12.50/$7.50. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559. New Mother’s Adjustment Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm. Group for inner work, sittings, teaching, and observations facilitated by Jason Stern. Sage Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com.
Music
Classes
Film
Anthony Nisi Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Handel’s Messiah Sing-In 4pm. Presented by the Berkshire Bach Society. First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (860) 435-4866. Brian Conigliaro Trio 7:30pm-10:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Marc Black 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Mary Fahl 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Music with Elijah & The Moon//Just Kids//Mad Satta 9:30pm. Presented by Safehouse Studios. $7. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Spoken Word Laura Ludwig: Performance Art and Poetry 7pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Theater
Body / Mind / Spirit
A Christmas Carol 7:30pm. $36/$32/$28. A 200th birthday celebration for Charles Dickens. Broadway musical presentation by the Woodstock Playhouse Production Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.
Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Forging and Metal Fabrication 10am-1pm. With sculptor James Garvey. Discover
Members’ Holiday Exhibition 6pm-8pm. Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac. www.lookartgallery.com.
Special Broadcast: Barrymore 1pm. Encore presentation. $15/$12.50/$7.50. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Workshops
Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Film 3 Stooges Film Festival 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Chamber Jazz Ensemble 1 7pm. Jazz students perform in guitar, vocal, and mixed ensembles. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3860.
Workshops Hudson Valley Photoshop Training 6pm-8pm. $150 for 3 sessions. Photoshop Elements. The Shirt Factory, Kingston. Call to register: 339-7834.
TUESDAY 27 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 Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
New Mother’s Adjustment Support Group 2pm-3:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541. Afro-Caribbean Fitness 7:30pm-9:30pm. Ages 3+. $10. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775. Chamber Jazz Ensemble 2 8pm. Students in the Jazz Studies program showcase their improvisational skills in an energetic evening of great music. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3860.
Theater Menopause the Musical 8pm. Presented by Gfour Productions. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.
Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café at Stone Dock, High Falls. www.highfallscafe.com. Chamber Jazz Ensemble 3 7pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3860.
Theater Macbeth 8pm. Shakespeare’s epic play about ambition and betrayal conceived and contextualized as a contemporary story of tribal warfare. $18/$16/$10. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Menopause the Musical 8pm. Presented by Gfour Productions. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Workshops Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
FRIDAY 30 Body / Mind / Spirit
Watercolor Classes 2pm-4pm. $10/$7 seniors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Sharon Salzberg and Sylvia Boorstein: The Four Boundless States Call for times. Weekend retreat at the Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. 1-2 infant up to 1 year, 2-3 ages 1+. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Reconnective Healing 2:30pm-6:30pm. $75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. All proceeds go the Deaf Yoga Foundation. $10. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Kids
Classes
Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
The Outdoors
Kids
Wednesday Wandering 10am-12pm. Ooms Conservation Area, Austerlitz. (518) 392-5252.
Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Spoken Word
Music
Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775. Art Lecture with Mads Lynnerup 7:30pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3844.
Fat City Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828. Black Dirt Band 7pm. Blues. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. 561-2327. Ray Blue Quartet 7:30pm-10:30pm. Blue jazz. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Silent Isle + Twins of El Dorado 8pm. $5. Silent Isle is the solo electric songwriting project of Anastasia Clarke. Twins of El Dorado is a modern art song ensemble. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006. Marc Black Band 8:30pm. Folk rock. $25/$20. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Joy Kills Sorrow 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
WEDNESDAY 28 Art Mads Lynnerup 7:30pm. Art Lecture Series. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3830.
Body / Mind / Spirit Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 6 weeks/$12 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Classes
Theater Menopause the Musical 8pm. Presented by Gfour Productions. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Workshops Wreaths from the Wild 1pm-3pm. Learn about the natural history of common and not-so-common plants that can be used to create interesting holiday decorations. $45/$35. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
THURSDAY 29 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 Sharon Salzberg and Sylvia Boorstein: The Four Boundless States Call for times. Weekend retreat at the Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Tai Chi with Martha Cheo Beginners 5:30pm, advanced 6:30pm. $12/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 8am-9am. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. 20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Gurdjieff's Movements 7pm. Inner work and sacred dance facilitated by Jason Stern. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com. Zumba 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Spoken Word Author Event with C. Joseph Greaves: Hard Twisted 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.
Theater Season’s Greetings Call for times. Presented by VoiceTheater. Woodstock Golf Course Pub & Restaurant, Woodstock. 679-2914. A Christmas Carol 10am, 7:30pm. Discount tickets for morning school group performance. $36/$32/$28 for evening performance. A 200th birthday celebration for Charles Dickens. Broadway musical presentation by the Woodstock Playhouse Production Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900. A Christmas Carol 7:30pm. Presented by Ulster Ballet Company. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: The Musical 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Macbeth 8pm. Shakespeare’s epic play about ambition and betrayal conceived and contextualized as a contemporary story of tribal warfare. $18/$16/$10. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER Art Unpacked and Rediscovered Call for times. Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.
Body / Mind / Spirit Sharon Salzberg and Sylvia Boorstein: The Four Boundless States Call for times. Weekend retreat at the Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774.
Dance Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 7:30pm. $30/$10 children and student rush. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. Come On Chilun’, Let’s Dance 8pm. Funk, blues, melody, jazz, blues, Latin and more. $10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Events Holiday Gift Fair 10am-4pm. Featuring handicrafts, stocking stuffers, yoga mat bags, wine bottle bags, pillows, clothing, totes, shawls, cards. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008. 22nd Annual Holiday Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. $3/children free. New Paltz Middle School, New Paltz. 255-1559. Highwoods Coop Holiday Ceramics Sale 10am-5pm. 958 Church Rd., Saugerties. Holiday Tea 12pm-4pm. Fresh greens and wreaths, paperwhites and terrariums, uncommon holiday gifts. Classic Country Home & Garden, East Chatham. (518) 392-2211. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 12pm-5pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233. 2012 Trolley Holiday Run 12pm-5pm. Come meet and greet Santa Claus and the Trolley elves. $6/$4. Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399. 5th Annual Holiday Boutique Gala Opening 5pm-8pm. The Holiday Boutique features work by local artists including paintings, photography, handcrafted jewelry, and quality needlework. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. 16th Annual Winter Walk 5pm-8pm. Carolers, horse-drawn carriages, musicians, performers, festive lights, fireworks, and Santa Claus. Warren Street, Hudson. www.hudsonoperahouse.org. Annual Holiday Caroling & Tree Lighting 5:15pm. Southeast Museum, Brewster. director@southeastmuseum.org. A John Waters Christmas 8pm. Enjoy some anti-yuletide humor with the oneman holiday comedy show. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA.
Events 22nd Annual Holiday Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. $3/children free. New Paltz Middle School, New Paltz. 255-1559. Highwoods Coop Holiday Ceramics Sale 10am-5pm. 958 Church Rd., Saugerties. 75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 11am-4pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233. Holiday Tea 12pm-4pm. Fresh greens and wreaths, paperwhites and terrariums, uncommon holiday gifts. Classic Country Home & Garden, East Chatham. (518) 392-2211. 2012 Trolley Holiday Run 12pm-5pm. Come meet and greet Santa Claus and the Trolley elves. $6/$4. Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399.
Kids Try Hockey for Free Call for times. Sponsored by the New York Rangers and USA Hickey for kids. McCann Ice Arena, Poughkeepsie. Maggie.Tadros@msg.com. Celebrate St. Nicholas 2pm. Storytelling, refreshments, and crafts. Ages 3-11. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
Music The Putnam Chorale Presents: Brahms A German Requiem 3pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. Temple Beth Elohim, Brewster. 279-7265. Tedeschi Trucks Band 7:30pm. $39/$59/$79. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Theater Macbeth 2pm. Shakespeare’s epic play about ambition and betrayal conceived and contextualized as a contemporary story of tribal warfare. $18/$16/$10. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. A Christmas Carol 2pm. $36/$32/$28. A 200th birthday celebration for Charles Dickens. Broadway musical presentation by the Woodstock Playhouse Production Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900. A Christmas Carol 2pm. Presented by Ulster Ballet Company. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088. The Nutcracker 2:30pm. $15. Presented by Orange County Ballet Theater for the 45th year. Monroe-Woodbury High School, Central Valley. 562-6750. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: The Musical 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops
Kids
Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.
Enjoying Animals Safely 10:30am. Meet Jan’s animal friends of all kinds. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Music 2nd Annual Holiday Concert 8pm. To benefit the Washbourne House. Featuring The Alexis P. Suter Band and the Lindsey Webster Band. $25/$20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Frederic Acquaviva and Mezzo-Soprano Lore Lixenberg 8pm. Deep Listening Institute, Ltd, Kingston. 338-5984. Susan McKeown 8pm. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Theater The Nutcracker 7pm. $15. Presented by Orange County Ballet Theater for the 45th year. Monroe-Woodbury High School, Central Valley. 562-6750. A Christmas Carol 7:30pm. $36/$32/$28. A 200th birthday celebration for Charles Dickens. Broadway musical presentation by the Woodstock Playhouse Production Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900. A Christmas Carol 7:30pm. Presented by Ulster Ballet Company. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: The Musical 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Macbeth 8pm. Shakespeare’s epic play about ambition and betrayal conceived and contextualized as a contemporary story of tribal warfare. $18/$16/$10. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
SUNDAY 2 DECEMBER Body / Mind / Spirit Sharon Salzberg and Sylvia Boorstein: The Four Boundless States Call for times. Weekend retreat at the Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Meditation Class 10:15am-10:45am. Middletown Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, Middletown. 343-3858. Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MONDAY 3 DECEMBER Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559. Qigong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm. Group for inner work, sittings, teaching, and observations facilitated by Jason Stern. Sage Center, Woodstock. RSVP at marfotai@gmail.com.
Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Kids Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541. Afro-Caribbean Fitness 7:30pm-9:30pm. Ages 3+. $10. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.
Music Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.
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Planet Waves eric francis coppolino
by eric francis coppolino
These Men Have Issues Meet the Natal Horoscopes of Obama and Romney
O
nce I read an article in an astrology magazine about how to figure out who is going to win an American presidential election. “The person with the worst chart wins,” wrote the author, who had been paying attention for a while. Astrology, a vastly complex subject, often seems best suited for teaching in one-line quips. I don’t want to predict who will “win’ the election, mainly because the process seems so heaped-on with agendas, puppetry, muppetry, dishonesty, evasion, paranoia, Big Bird being served for Thanksgiving dinner, and, most of all, way too much money that I doubt there will be an actual winner. After a fuss, someone will take office, and sadly, the public seems to be the party that loses at every turn. That said, it’s now that time in the election season to look at the charts of these candidates. First, though, a birth data check. When doing natal astrology, it’s essential to have good data, or to know when you don’t. Such a big deal has been made of Obama’s birth certificate that we know his time better than any candidate, ever. He was not born in Kenya. He was born in Hawaii when it was not only an island but also actually a state. His data get the highest rating: AA (which means birth certificate in hand), even if Donald Trump doesn’t like it. As for Romney, his data get an A rating, the second highest, by our profession’s most respected collector of birth data, the late Lois Rodden. (An A rating can mean “from memory,” because either he was wearing a watch when he was born, his mom told Rodden, or it was reported in the newspaper.) Let’s start with Obama. There’s only one thing I respect about him, which is an aspect in his chart. Obama’s regal Leo Sun is opposite a very weird minor planet: Damocles, named after the guy from the Greek legend. I say “weird” because this little planet has an elongated (way elliptical) 40-year orbit, and it spends nearly all of its time in Aquarius. It then races through the other signs in a very short time, and then is back in Aquarius for what seems like forever. It was named for a slave who was envious of the magnificent fortunes of the tyrant he served. So the tyrant said, okay, you want to be king? Have a seat in my throne. Sitting there, he noticed a sword that dangled all the time by a single thread, usually over the king’s head but now his—and the thread could snap at any moment. Obama has his Leo Sun so precisely opposite Damocles that it really does feel like the sword hanging over his head by a thread (the opposition is exact to a quarter of a degree). To me this gives new meaning to the line, “Either his brains or his signature would be on the contract,” from the scene in The Godfather. This is the famous scene 122 planet waves ChronograM 11/12
where the guy is made an offer he cannot refuse. Obama lives under this pressure all the time, which is why I think he would do something sign the National Defense Authorization Act even if he didn’t want to. You (as in you) can claim you wouldn’t sign a law that allows US citizens to be arrested as enemy combatants, but then, you’ve never sat beneath that sword. You don’t have to think: I can do something noble, and my kids will grow up without a father. Well, maybe I’m giving him too much credit. Astrology depends on these things called houses, which tell us the environment where certain events happen. One is called the 8th house, important in astrology for many reasons (most often, a map to financial matters), though in part because it sometimes describes the nature and cause of death, and one’s relationship to the topic of death. Obama has Mars there. He fears and indeed may expect a violent death, and he’s likely to be easily swayed by that idea. He doesn’t need it explained to him. He passes this fear off as a kind of intellectual construct, but it looks like he’s easily manipulated by the silent knowledge that he could end up like so many other politicians who refused the offer. Obama has had a deeply troubled past—worse than we know about. He was subjected to some kind of extreme psychological cruelty as a child, and it haunts him constantly. He is the living incarnation of The Drama of the Gifted Child, and he probably thinks he’s our therapist. He is also tapped into some deep, ancestral cruelty—a pattern of abuse that goes back generations, like a family tradition. There is also a security and comfort factor here. It’s as if he was so often subjected to a combination of psychological and emotional abuse that he feels safe in a danger zone, which I guess should be a prerequisite for any president. One problem, however, is that the aspect involves his Moon in Gemini, and this has a way of splitting him in half; the psychological word is “dissociative.” This is a typical response to extreme abuse. What it does is give him the ability to subvert his feelings and his intuition, and to work with two separate sets of ethics, almost as if he were two different people. This becomes a serious problem when we consider other aspects to his Sun, and nearby Mercury. Both are square Neptune (tense, 90 degree angle), which is not inherently given to honesty. In fact this is often a situation where the person must do a lifetime of learning and growth to understand what honesty even is, why it matters, what it means to be real with yourself, and why you want to be. There is an integrity problem here. Obama is a talented liar, helped by the fact that he’s the kind of guy who believes his own PR.
Obama was also born in the evening, moments after sunset. This puts many factors of his chart on the relationship side of the wheel, in the west, sometimes called the zone of projection. (He has a Leo Sun with Aquarius rising.) Charts like this can produce people who will morph into whatever they perceive others need them to be, in order to get the approval they need. By itself, this can be worked with, but with so many other factors suggesting integrity problems, the bottom line is we have no idea who this person really is. Do we ever know who a public figure is, having had no direct personal experience with the person? There are always limits, of course, but some people are more transparent than others. And some are less. Obama is impressively opaque, though he seems transparent. Let’s consider Mitt Romney. The first thing I see when I look at his chart is that Venus as the highest planet. This is his charm, if you can call it that; he’s charming in that B-rate actor playing a presidential candidate kind of way. Venus, a planet involved with emotional receptivity and emotional intelligence, is in Aquarius. In her classic work, Secrets from a Stargazers Notebook, Debbi Kempton Smith described this as a person who acts like an $80 robot from Sears. She wrote this in the ’70s, I guess back when Sears sold toy robots. Have you ever seen that YouTube video of Romney campaigning for Senate in Massachusetts about 20 years ago? The one where he walks into a diner, and everyone is sitting around eating? “This is terrific! What’s going on here today?” As if he’s never seen people eating, he bumbles around: “Look, a room full of humans. What are they doing? Oh, they are consuming foodstuffs. Hello, consuming humans! I mean ‘fellow humans,’ haha. What does your foodstuff taste like? Hello! I am a politician.” It would be painful to watch were it not so damned strange. I’ll come back to Venus in Aquarius—his whole chart pivots around this one placement. Note, if you have it, it doesn’t automatically make you a robot; you might just be a little like Mr. Spock. You might be able to feel your feelings; just make sure you can feel those of others, and you’ll be fine. Romney was born with the Sun in Pisces, along with a cluster of other planets— Mercury, Ceres, and Mars among them. Pisces is the sign of illusions; it changes constantly and evades accurate perception. Mercury happened to be retrograde in Pisces when he was born, which is like a long discussion with yourself where you don’t necessarily tell the truth, and which can break into a full-on convoluted internal argument that nobody seems to win. It’s also about marching to the beat of a drummer that nobody else can hear. The first thing I think of when I see this Pisces cluster is “pleasure seeking.” I know we think of Romney as “Business Guy,” but really, he is Mr. Lifestyle. He wants you to know it, and he wants it to be visible. He can’t be humbler about his car elevator because he so desperately wants you to know he has one. What good is a car elevator otherwise? This excess factor is confirmed by his powerful, very exact Scorpio conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter. This describes both sex and money: He can never get enough, no matter how much he has. How he goes about this doesn’t matter; it’s meeting the goal that does. This aspect screams with entitlement, as if he personally inherited the world. Maybe he was a Mormon on another planet, did very well for himself, and got the Earth as his reward. Now, back to that Venus. I said that it’s the highest planet in his chart -- the most elevated in the sky. That gives it a lot of what the old astrologers called “accidental dignity.” It makes him an elitist, the kind of guy who can only relate to others he perceives to be of his class. Even though Venus isn’t terribly happy in Aquarius, it’s particularly strong in Romney’s chart. Strong—and under siege. It’s at one point of a cross—a fairly rare aspect called a grand cross. (This is four planets spread at 90 degree angles to one another.) To one side is the planet of psychological abuse (Nessus, which is also strong on Obama’s chart). For this guy, love is a bitter pill. To another side is Chiron, which has Romney living from one emotional high to the next. And then Venus is opposed by Saturn and Pluto—chilly, detached, and yet intense. There is a real drive for power here, and it’s all about him. I think of two things when I look at this pattern. First, Mitt Romney is a three-hooker kind of guy. He needs the three most beautiful, best-dressed, and (most of all) most expensive call girls in town. Then he needs them to do all manner of delightfully perverse things to him, simultaneously, for hours on end, till they finally start to get sleepy. Second, he’s pulled in four different directions all the time. He “doesn’t know who he is” because he’s split four ways down the middle; it’s like he’s drawn and quartered psychically. But he’s learned how to juggle this, and the man knows how to have fun. Especially in public office, which he wants more than anything in the world. For sure, Obama’s chart is worse. He’s suffered more and, despite his problems, I think he’s closer to his humanity. And I think that most people can feel this. Just remember: Mercury stations retrograde on election night, so there really are no guarantees. 11/12 ChronograM planet waves 123
Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries (March 20-April 19) The time has come to go beyond belief. In fact, I suggest that the moment you find yourself “believing” something, that’s the time to question it. By this, I mean ask yourself a series of questions, check every fact, and persist in going deeper, over an extended period of time. You’re about to encounter a situation where this kind of mental rigor will be essential both to your happiness and your financial well-being. The setup is essentially that you’re headed for making a decision that seems good at the time, only to doubt yourself, only then to find out that you have regrets. You can avoid this whole thing by pausing and getting the facts now. I recognize that this kind of attentiveness can be off-putting to others. Having information is a form of power, and refusing to go blithely on belief, or to simply accept others at their word, can be off-putting. You might feel guilty for challenging others. The most important thing you can do, besides having some healthy skepticism, is to be polite. Persist in seeking specific facts and numbers, which will take a few more weeks (into early December or a bit longer). Meanwhile, if you’re moving forward about anything and you still have your doubts, slow down the move. Build in some delays, and hold your cards until your knowledge starts to reach a tipping point. That’s a moment of truth, and it’s better when this happens before you’re committed to something you can’t get out of easily.
Taurus (April 19-May 20)
Whatever else may be going on in your life—and there is plenty—I suggest you keep your emphasis on your well-being, such as maintaining a balance between your work and your personal life. The most intimate aspects of your existence are likely to be compelling, as you rethink your involvement in a certain agreement based on factors you’re unlikely to have considered before. The practical aspect may seem to compete against the emotional aspect, though you’re making progress when you see them as the same thing. It’s essential that you become a highly conscious decision maker, which may be challenging amongst so many unusual factors, events that somehow seem fated, and doubts about your past choices. I suggest you develop the skill of knowing when you’re in denial. Each time you figure it out, consider that a moment of awakening. From there, your first objective would be to remain awake, so you can use your awareness to help you guide your life in a wholly positive direction. One additional challenge is the sense of mystery that may be pervading everything. There are the usual questions, such as where am I and how did I get here? These have answers. The most pressing questions involve you and what you want. You’ve taken some strides on this particular issue; you’ve figured out some of what you don’t want and discovered a few things that make you happy. Yet you remain the most persistent mystery in the room. Sit with that one; don’t rush yourself.
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Gemini (May 20-June 21)
Maintaining one’s independence is challenging in relationships, especially in a world where we seem to have two options—taken and not taken. Taken often involves signing a 100-page contract, and not taken can come with the sense of being a nonperson. You’re finally seeing the futility of this, yet there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out of the paradox. It would be a cruel world where intimacy came only at the expense of a hostage situation, though for too many people this is what happens nearly all the time. You seem intent on going beyond this limited reality, or what could less politely be described as an emotional trap where your own needs and desires are used as bait. If you’re seeking your freedom without the corresponding sacrifice of closeness, make sure you notice those moments when freedom seems like a dangerous, unstable state of existence. Those are your best indication that the door is actually coming unlocked. Usually, an overwhelming sense of responsibility and the daunting prospect of failure contribute to the sense that the fewer options one has, the better. Lately, however, you’ve become aware of a fact that verges on metaphysical: You are a distinct entity in the universe, responsible for the course of your own existence. You may be feeling it as a struggle for survival, and I assure you that your quest is precisely that. Don’t let anyone convince you of what is not true, but more to the point, don’t convince yourself.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
If you find yourself going deeper than you feel safe in an erotic situation, remember one word: healing. That will help you focus, and it will give you a basis of both purpose and communication. You can pretty much assess everyone and everything on the basis of their affinity with this concept—including yourself. There’s the phase of this experience where pleasure itself is a kind of necessary balm. Yet the experience continues from there. The whole experience is a vehicle to take you deeper into a kind of hidden realm, which may involve dealing with certain matters that (for example) your parents did not address and which were passed on to you. Yet there is something deeper than your immediate lineage that you’re about to address, and that is part of the reason that you may be feeling out of your depth (particularly around the time of a total solar eclipse on November 13). You seem to be dealing with something much larger than yourself, and if you know that, you will both not feel so overwhelmed and you’ll also have a line of approach to the territory. You seem to be involved with a situation that started with the intent for one thing, then in a series of steps you didn’t know you were taking, became something else, as if you encountered a kind of emotional or psychic undertow. To proceed from here, you will need to take one step at a time, making one decision at a time, based on the best available information you have. 124 planet waves ChronograM 11/12
Planet Waves Horoscopes Leo (July 22-August 23) Is this a moment of settling down, or of upheaval? The astrology for your sign this month presents two distinct scenarios, and how you respond to it will depend on a number of factors, one of which I will call your density level. This isn’t a concept I’ve used in my column before, so I will explain. Think of increased density as contraction, fear, resistance, denial, and the feeling of being stuck. Think of lighter density as expansion, a sense of flow, flexibility, alertness, and the sensation that you have the ability to choose. Taken on a denser energy level, the astrology of this month could be jarring, threatening to your security, and come with the sensation that changes are being imposed on you by outside forces. As you go to lighter, less dense levels of awareness, the astrology will feel more like being in the right place at the right time, putting down emotional roots and taking the opportunity to make productive, necessary and long-overdue changes. Looked at in the best light, the approaching combination of astrological factors describes a time of distinction between the past and the present. You’re being set free from negative attachments, seeming obligations, and a whole raft of family karma. This is an amazing opportunity for you, except for one thing: It’s entirely too easy to be attached to a low density level. It’s easy to be attached to the past. Therefore, focus on raising your vibration—and keep your mind focused on a vision for the future.
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
This month we return to a theme that’s arisen periodically over the past few years: your relationship to your ancestral past. You do seem to be here on a mission, though it’s difficult for you to separate your particular calling from the views of so many others who have imposed their intentions on you. Some of this is from the distant past, some of it’s from your family of origin, and much of it is filtering in from various teachings you’ve been exposed to over the years. At the moment you seem poised to do something daring, and that you haven’t quite done before: Go beyond all of that theory, and reach your awareness into the core of who you are. You don’t need these other influences; they no longer serve you, and to the extent that anyone thinks they need you to do their bidding, they’ll get over not having you as their agent. Here’s the thing: on the way to finding out something that is absolutely true for yourself, you will go through a process of discovering what’s not true—and that may be a little unnerving, especially as you realize the negative influences they’ve had. Remember you’re doing this in a time when there’s a prevailing philosophy that “there’s no such thing as the truth.” There’s another notion that the truth is whatever someone can get someone else to believe. As you’ve no doubt noticed, these become excuses for many to abandon integrity. You have a different agenda.
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Libra (September 22-October 23)
You will need to be impeccable with money and resources for the rest of the year. This includes making no commitments you’re not sure you can keep, or that you even suspect you might not be able to keep. You’ll also need to preserve what you have as a conscious act. As you do this, a lot of information is going to come your way. There will be certain specific facts that prove to be useful, though the thing to look for is the overall pattern. This will take some time to develop, and you may find yourself wading through plenty of murky water before you arrive at several moments of clarity. Take these one at a time, and watch the pattern of what you learn from these developments as well. Any sense of needing to rush is entirely artificial. Rather than resisting the urge to push forward, devote your energy to learning and, in particular, learning about the way in which resources are as important as money, or more so. “Resources” includes your skills, your reputation, and your ability to relate to others. It would also include your relationships with resourceful people, and all those who care about you and have demonstrated over time that they are willing to lend support to your cause. The communication piece—listening, and learning to speak in a clear, focused way—may be the most significant of all. In a sense, it’s the key to everything else, and the most meaningful tool for establishing both your credibility, and your creativity.
Scorpio (October 23-November 22)
On November 13, there’s a total solar eclipse in your birth sign, the first in more than nine years. Though there are numerous other factors influencing you this month, this by far is the most significant. Eclipses are about shifts in continuity, sometimes subtle, sometimes radical. I would say they represent “change,” but these days that’s a meaningless word. It’s a special kind of change, involving things that have gone on so long you’ve taken them for granted. This could include emotional patterns, certain facts about your sexuality, and, most significantly, the ways you communicate with yourself and others. Your charts present an image of you passing through what would normally be a “veil of forgetfulness,” only this time, you remember who you are. Not only that, you remember the support, love, and trust that surrounds you, much of it coming from far beyond the Earthly realm. Yet in the aspect of your life that’s located here on Earth, one implication is that you’re experiencing the drive to rebuild your integrity. It may be painful, at first, to consider the ways that your words and actions have not been in alignment—then, after a while, you’ll figure out that every time you discover one of these fractures is an opportunity to make amends with yourself and, by extension, with others. It will help if you come to terms with the fact that, for many years, not everything you’ve believed was true. And that, you will discover, is very good news.
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Sagittarius (November 22-December 22) As the days go by, the forces of society increasingly draw people outside of themselves. Whether people are gazing into little rectangular crystal balls, obsessed with fashion, obsessed with romance, chasing sex or success or fixated on something they despise, in our current era the prevailing direction of flow of consciousness is outward. For you, the pull is in the opposite direction—into yourself. This may be happening to a degree that is unsettling, though the result will be to make you a more settled person. It’s true that there are still externals to distract you. Yet your inward draw is much stronger, and it’s likely to increase in intensity over the next few weeks until it gets not only your attention, but your full devotion. Of particular concern is resolving any ways you’ve been living a double life, which could include any tendency to exclude people close to you from awareness of what you think or do. Yet there is something else going on, which is being real about your tendency to compartmentalize and hide information from yourself. This kind of detachment can allow you a measure of temporary freedom, and helps you suspend awareness of certain ethical or emotional responsibilities. However, you’re no longer in a position to pretend that these emotional influences or factors don’t exist, or to make believe that you don’t know what you know and feel what you feel. It doesn’t matter how popular you are. What matters is that you’re real with yourself and with others.
Capricorn (December 22-January 20)
In retrospect, you may decide this was the month you actually woke up and figured out that you’re alive, and that you’re here to live your life, your way. One element of this is the discovery that it’s simply impossible to please everyone, and a miracle when people actually recognize who you are. The message coming through from life and from the planets is: don’t bother trying to please anyone, and recognize and appreciate who you are. Acting on this intention will introduce a shock to your psyche, making you more alert and calling several people around you into focus. Then, you’ll get to have a different kind of conversation. When you feel a real level of trust, take the opportunity to push the boundary of who you are—and by that, I mean to not only stretch but also exceed your comfort zone. The idea is to be realer than you’re accustomed to being, even to the point where it feels a little dangerous. Yet I suggest you do this in a contained environment, not live on YouTube. Perhaps the most significant aspect of this journey is an experiment in revealing what you would have been reluctant to reveal before or, indeed, what you would have never considered. You cannot be comfortable with yourself if you’re not comfortable being yourself and allowing others to see who you are. While you might think that you would feel confident before making any such revelation, your growth will proceed in the other direction.
Aquarius (January 20-February 19)
It was the astrologer Patric Walker (1931-1995) who handed John Lennon the beautiful line, “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” This is a fair reading of your chart these days, particularly as regards your professional life. It’s true that some people are born knowing what they’re “supposed to do,” set about doing it, and succeed brilliantly. Most of the time, the process is an extended experiment, and devotion to one particular path or intention can be altered by a casual conversation at a party, a chance meeting, or an opportunity that seems interesting. In those moments, it seems to be the hand of fate that’s guiding you, though what you call it doesn’t really matter—only that you notice when it’s at work. Through this month, there are two forces or factors guiding you. One is your traditional approach to success: set goals, work hard, be dependable. The second factor is the sensation of providence moving in your direction. It’s essential that you recognize this when it happens; it may not come in a form that you recognize, and, in truth, everything that happens to you this month is part of a conspiracy to guide you to where you belong, and where you want to be. For this to work, you’ll need to let go of your desire to control your direction or the specific outcome, and muster up just a little faith in yourself. A little goes a long way.
Pisces (February 19-March 20)
As the Zen Room of the zodiac, your sign often spawns individuals naturally inclined to live in the moment. This is more neutral than it seems, facilitating pleasure seeking or spiritual growth, self-absorption, or devotion to service. Yet you’re now feeling the need to both develop your long-term plan, and to put certain deeply cherished goals into action. Your solar chart suggests that you’re tired of wondering what is possible, or what the universe is willing to cooperate with, and are intent on finding out for yourself. This will take a combination of discipline and risk taking, which is exactly what this month’s aspects offer. Yet the most meaningful chance you will take is expanding your beliefs about what is possible. It would be best if you could set the whole question aside, focus on your vision, and go one step at a time for as long as it takes to get where you want to be. To do this, you need to blend persistence with something even more challenging: believing in yourself and what you want. And there’s one other factor. To fully embrace your mission, you must accept being different. This includes the potential for standing out, for challenging people, being thought of as weird, and recognizing that some people will not agree with or approve of what you’re doing. Your spiritual and creative quest is not a popularity contest. However, being willing to take these risks might make you very successful in the end. 126 planet waves ChronograM 11/12
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St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution, Alex Grey, oil on wood panel, 24” x 30”, 2006 As a 21-year-old art student at the Boston Museum School, Alex Grey pondered suicide. He called out to God, whom he had rejected as a child, and took LSD for the first time. Grey went from a godless existentialist to a believer overnight and met his future wife, Allyson. They began living and tripping together. After a large dose of LSD, the couple had a vision of a world that blurred the lines of life and death, spirit and body. For over 25 years, Grey, a visionary artist, has depicted this world of spiritual realism, where see-through lifeforms are set in dreamlike landscapes surrounded by cosmic energy. This energy flows through the subjects of his paintings, as in his portrait of Albert Hoffman, the synthesizer of LSD. His most famous 128 ChronograM 11/12
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