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Community Notebook

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14 local luminary: Bob Anderberg

42 tradition of transition: Hudson and Columbia County

The Open Space Institute vice president and general counsel talks with Nina Shengold about his work with one of the region's premiere conservation organizations.

news and politics 20 while you were sleeping Coffee may be extinct by 2080, McDonald's sales have dropped for the first time in almost 10 years, drone strikes in Pakistan are at record levels, and a Pop Warner football game turned ugly—find out what you may have missed this month.

Hudson—a city brimming with energy and surrounded by nature's bounty.

66 Celebrating the Past, Discovering the Future: Newburgh

An emerging art scene is paired with renewed interest in the town's historic sites.

Holiday events 73 Winter Wonderland: A Guide to Holiday Events Festivals, candlelight tours, and performances—what to do this holiday season.

21 beinhart’s body politic: postelection, postMortem

Holiday gift guide

79 Holiday Gift Giving: embracing simple joys

Did Mitt Romney run a bad campaign or a brilliant one? Larry Beinhart compares the Republican nominee to the alternatives.

Why and where you should shop local this holiday season.

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whole living guide

26 loft Life: Empty Nesting in Downtown Poughkeepsie

100 Cold & Flu Myths & Mantras

New President of the Dutchess County Arts Council Linda Marston-Reid relocated from Brooklyn to a downtown loft in Poughkeepisie with her husband.

33 Serious Whimsy: The Furniture of Wendell Castle

An exhibit of Wendell Castle's "Wandering Forms" is at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, through February 24.

winter sports 40 Winter Sports and Activities

102 flowers fall: Did You WAnt to Have a Kid? Bethany Saltman attempts to answer another impossible question.

Community Resource Guide 22 education Educational services in the Hudson Valley.

95 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

96 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

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

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Find out how to stay active once the cold hits this season.

What advice should you take this flu season?

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arts & culture

food & Drink

52 Gallery & museum GUIDe

90 Bunsen Burner Cookery: Chem Class Cuisine at Vassar College

56 music: Making Their Way Named after the handmade instruments they play, Buke and Gass are redefining the rules of rock with a classical pop sound and industrial edge.

Nightlife Highlights include The Clancy Tradition, Shtrieml with Ismail Fencioglu, Tragicomedia, Armen Donelian Trio, and The Erotics' Annual Nightmare Before Christmas.

Reviews of Scordatura E (And Sometimes Why) by If, Bwana With/And/By Trio; Wings on Fire by Professor Louie and the Crowmatix; and Over and Around the Clove by Trummors.

60 books: tony fletcher canonizes the smiths Some Groups (and Books) are Bigger than Others—so argues Tony Fletcher in his new book A Light that Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths.

62 book reviews: 2012 Holiday Gift Books Holiday gift ideas for adults, teens, and children reviewed by Susan Krawitz, Jana Martin, Anne Pyburn, Nina Shengold, and Robert Burke Warren.

the forecast 110 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 109 "Kurt Seligman at Home" is at Seligman Center for the Arts through December.

111 NPR's "Radio Deluxe" hosts perform at Hudson's Club Helsinki on December 9.

112 Kingston's Celebration Chapel hosts the New Year's Day Harmonic Choir.

113 The Shandaken Theatrical Society presents the 1983 comedy-drama "Reckless."

115 Bard College's Stevenson Library exhibits private sketches by Jan Sawka.

116 Jay Ungar and Molly Mason host a New Year's Fiddle and Dance Weekend.

118 Now, Forager screens at Rhinebeck's Upstate Films on December 2.

119 Andy Borowitz performs at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on December 12.

120 Tomás Kubínek brings his comedic solo performance to Sugar Loaf.

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64 Poetry Poems by Arielle Lindstrom, Arlene G. Levine, Aviva Grossman, Checko Miller, Chris Milea, David G. Farber, Elias Sorich, Joe A. Oppenheimer, Peter Zickler, Rick Harnden, Rosalinda McGovern, Sophia Garelick, and William Windham.

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Something About Juno The winter solstice of 2012 is here, and Eric Francis Coppolino makes a prediction of his own: The world will not end.

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128 parting shot Douglas Gayeton builds "The Lexicon of Sustainability" in his multimedia project.

128 Douglas Gayeton's "The Lexicon of Sustainability."

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Vassar offers a Chemistry class that turns food into a delicious science.

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

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Peace! Lower East Side, NYC 2012, John Huba When John Huba was 16, he photographed Peekskill Mayor George Pataki next to the world’s largest brownie for the Peekskill Evening Star. A sweet start for a photographer, but mild in comparison to the 31 years to follow.

Huba got his first real taste of the field as an assistant for renowned fashion photographer Bruce Weber in the '80s. During the apprenticeship,Weber exposed Huba to the excitement of travel. “He gave great mentorship about being out in the world with your camera,” Huba says. By 1990, Huba was venturing out on his own on assignments for Travel + Leisure and Town & Country in places like Africa, Iran, Bali, India, Iceland, and Vietnam.

Huba embraces a wide variety of subjects in his travel photographs, from expansive views of seemingly untouched lands to wild animals in their natural habitat, like a blue-footed booby from the Galapagos Islands protecting her eggs.

“There are no wrong turns on a travel job,” he says. “You get lost and find one of the most amazing things you’ve ever seen.” Though he approaches his work with an open mind, portraits of people have a strong presence in his collection, which also includes celebrities like Salma Hayek, Richard Gere, and Anne Hathaway.

“It’s almost like speed dating,” Huba says of portrait photography. “You’re thrown into a person’s life, get to know them, and then leave. It can be very intimate.” From close-up shots that reveal intricate details, like the individual strands of a man’s beard, to capturing a candid moment, like a young girl combing her wet hair after a swim, the intimacy of his portraits is palpable. “I like to talk with my subjects a lot,” he says. “I think it’s about having a great conversation and making people comfortable, then evoking a reaction.” Though his photographs are worldly, they’re not world-weary. “I prefer to show people in a positive light.”

That he does. Full of color and movement, his shots couple an uncompromising playfulness and precise composition (Huba tips his hat to the formal eloquence of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, photographers he admired growing up), making an art of goodness and humor.

Though he’s traveled the world on assignment, the cover photo was taken close by—Huba's favorite noodle bar in the East Village. “I saw her and said ‘Hey, you look amazing. Can I take your picture?’ She said sure, flashed a peace sign, and I left.”

John Huba’s travel photographs will be exhibited at Sawkille Co. in Rhinebeck through December 25. The photographs are in vintage frames that Huba collected over the past year. “There are floor to ceiling pictures across one whole wall,” he says. “I wanted you to walk into this trip around the world with me.” Sawkille.com.

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At that time, also, there upon your planet, all the three-brained beings began to consider themselves and those like themselves merely as beings bearing in themselves particles of the emanation of the Sorrow of our UNIQUE COMMON CREATOR. —G. I. Gurdjieff, All & Everything Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Driving my two children to school this morning, I had the impulse to turn on the news. What came on was a report on the new round of Israel’s battering of the people of Gaza. Another 32 people were killed and hundreds more wounded—most of them women and children. A family of four was killed when a shell crashed into their apartment. It was only about 20 seconds of news, and I quickly turned it off.

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I was surprised to find that I could not answer, as my throat was tight with emotion and tears began to roll down my cheeks.

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“What war?” he asked, “the one Bush started?”

“No,” I managed with effort, “a different war, an older one.” And I gave probably the briefest explanation ever of the formation of the modern State of Israel, the multiple wars on Israel by its neighbors, and the displacement, ghettoization, and repression of Palestinians.

And then we arrived at school. I looked in turn into each of their eyes and kissed them goodbye. One stopped and turned back—“But why are you crying, dad?”

“Because it’s so sad that people need to destroy each other.”

Alone, I drove in silence. The tears had stopped. I was alone with my thoughts, and wondering why I had begun to cry. After all, it was a slight variation on the same news I hear every day. The numbers of dead and wounded; the civilian casualties; the slaughtered “women and children”; these are descriptions I have heard so many times that they have stopped carrying meaning or significance, and yet the news this morning touched a bit of the sorrow that lies beneath my veneer of habitual thoughts and patterns.

I feel that I and most of us have become immunized to the suffering and alienation we experience in the world around us. It has all been so packaged and normalized by media representations that we don’t feel the depth of separation we have from our own conscience and from one another.

Considering the state of humanity, the words of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now resound in my mind— “The horror… the horror…”

If we face the truth, we can acknowledge that we live in a dark time.

It may be that feeling the full impact of its darkness is all that can awaken enough sorrow to shear away the layers of callous that prevent our selves from being touched. There is a great defensiveness at work, and we are thoroughly inoculated with a world view that supports and justifies a society that continuously perpetrates crimes against the essential being of everything. We are taught, for instance, that we live in the most advanced state civilization has known in the history of humanity on earth, and the proof of our advancement is the abundant, sophisticated technology that gives so much control over the material and energies of nature.

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others? Is it proof of a high level when our knowledge of psychology is used to manipulate people’s thoughts or sell us things we don’t need? Is it mastery when we use our impressive instruments and systems to make more and useless, meaningless stuff to fill the void of our psychic emptiness?

It is a great arrogance that is able to disregard all earlier civilizations, when we might instead seek to learn something from them. It is a defensive arrogance that allows us to view civilizations like the ancient Egyptians, Mayans, Babylonians, and others that sustainably existed in peace and prosperity with high culture for thousands of years, as primitive and superstitious. We derisively project onto their magnificent, durable works egoistic motives akin to our own. But looking at the inherent beauty and subject matter of ancient Egypt’s works, for example, it is clear that values at the center of those cultures gravitated around understanding the meaning of the cosmos and the human being’s place in it, and that their mysterious but advanced technology was in service of that.

Meanwhile, what are our monuments a testament to? Power for the sake of power, personal egos, corporate brands, imprisonment, and indoctrination.

Our tallest buildings belong to the empty, mostly meaningless activities of commerce, banking, brainwashing (media and education), and superstitious, dogma-based religion.

The suffering that can be felt in the face of the spiritual bankruptcy underpinning human society and interaction, and consequently all institutions, can be a source of useful suffering if we have an aim of freedom. Of course, if we wish to comfortably trod the treadmill of meaningless life, or particularly, if we aim to run faster on the treadmill than our compatriots, we should steadfastly ignore the urgings of our buried conscience to perceive the empty state of the world as it is.

But if we wish for something more, we might make a study of how a world guided by conscience might be organized. For instance, such a world would not need some groups of people to dominate others, because we would understand that we are all one people, part of one body, with each person a unique cell in a larger body, containing a spark of what could be called the divine. For instance, instead of educating our young to be extruded into occupations that form the machinery of pointless, meaningless, and destructive activity, we would seek to discover the innate talents and creative proclivities that lie within each being, and draw them out to their fullness, allowing each maturing person to find a natural, productive place within the larger organism of meaningful society. For instance, our constructions would be monuments to and reminders of the possibility and real evolution of human beings. For instance, instead of elevating those who are the best lackeys, liars, and criminals to business, academic, religious, and political positions of power and wealth, we would elevate those who are most dearly connected to their innate intelligence, accomplished in their inner work, and have an ability to truly be of service to their fellow beings, "bearing in themselves particles of the emanation of the Sorrow of our UNIQUE COMMON CREATOR.” When I bring to mind this vision of a possible society, I feel that this, which might be described as having the characteristics of a golden age or utopia, is, in fact, normal. Feeling this eventuality as normal, I see and accept that the current state of life and its supporting paradigms are empty and fallacious.

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If you’ve driven through Rosendale recently, you probably noticed the work crew and yellow crane on the railroad trestle that soars 150 feet above the Rondout Creek. If you’re a Rail Trail walker or cyclist who’s approached the trestle from either end, your pulse may have quickened as you realized that the newly installed guardrails stretch all the way to Joppenbergh Mountain, so that when the work is completed, you’ll be able to cruise from Gardiner to Kingston, a continuous 24 miles.

Thank Bob Anderberg and his colleagues at Open Space Institute, which partnered with the Wallkill Valley Land Trust to purchase the trestle in 2009 and is overseeing renovations.

Don’t drive through Rosendale? If you’ve ever enjoyed the majesty of Sam’s Point Preserve, hiked the Shawangunk Ridge Trail or Long Path, gazed at Mohonk Mountain across pristine fields, bought produce from Davenport Farms, or blundered through the Catskill Corn Maze at Paul Farm, thank them again.

If these Ulster County landmarks aren’t on your radar, zoom out a bit further, to the two million acres OSI has helped to protect in the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and throughout the eastern seaboard, from Maine to Georgia. Founded in 1974, the Open Space Institute has grown into one of the region’s premiere conservation resources.

OSI Vice President and General Counsel Bob Anderberg met me at the impeccably renovated Accord farmhouse he shares with his wife Elaine. Outside the windows, Mohonk’s Skytop Tower stood sentinel over hayfields that will remain forever open.

—Nina Shengold What’s your short answer when someone asks what the Open Space Institute does?

OSI is a conservation organization that protects scenic, natural, and historic landscapes, preserves wildlife habitat and agricultural land. We’ve protected over 120,000 acres in New York State alone.

How do you preserve agricultural land that’s still in use?

We’ve preserved 24 family farms in the Rondout and Wallkill Valleys, totaling 3,500 acres, usually by buying conservation easements. Essentially, we pay farmers to continue farming their land rather than developing it.

Does this mean the land can’t be changed in any way?

There’s some flexibility. If you want to build a 300-unit subdivision, the answer is no, but we allow for changes in agricultural use and new agricultural structures. We’re interested in keeping large farms intact. We just bought three large farms owned by the Smiley family on Butterville Road [in New Paltz], including the iconic Testimonial Gateway, the scenic backdrop to Mohonk Preserve.

How big does a property need to be to qualify for a conservation easement?

There’s no minimum size. We assess every piece of land on its own merits. OSI works with local people who want to preserve their property and put a conservation easement on it, sometimes working with local partners—Mohonk Preserve, Wallkill Valley Land Trust, Rondout-Esopus Land Conservancy. It’s a case by case determination: conservation value, scenic viewshed, historic and agricultural value, adjacency to preserved land, public recreational use.

Tell me about OSI’s work with rail trails.

Ulster County is blessed with a number of beautiful rail trails: Wallkill Valley, O&W, Hudson Valley in Lloyd. We’re working to connect them. Right in the middle of this is the Rosendale trestle. It was originally constructed in 1872, when it was the tallest bridge 14 ChronograM 12/12

in the US, and it’s still structurally sound. Ulster County Iron Works will finish installing new railings this month, and the Woodcrest Bruderhof is donating labor to install new wooden decking this spring. It’s a wonderful community project, and will be a great boon to local tourism. There’ll be a grand opening in the spring.

How was this project funded?

The total budget is $1.4 million; OSI and the Wallkill Valley Land Trust have raised almost $1.1 million. That last $300,000 is the hardest. We’re gladly accepting donations.

Were you raised in the Hudson Valley?

I grew up on Long Island. When I was 15, a friend and I hitchhiked to New Paltz to rock climb. I found Ulster County intoxicatingly beautiful. Aside from some time at college and law school, I’ve been here ever since.

How did you become involved with OSI? I went to law school at Cornell and then went to work for a large New York law firm. In 1990 I became general counsel of OSI, because of my interest in conservation. The organization was a lot smaller then, and a lot of our work was expanding and creating new state parks. We created Sterling Forest State Park, among others, and saved a lot of the Hudson Highlands. In the 1990s we purchased the entire waterfront area of Croton-on-Hudson and transferred the land to the village for recreational use. We do everything from small vest-pocket parks to nature preserves of thousands of acres.

What are OSI’s plans for the next decade?

Finishing the job we started. We’d like to protect more land in all our landscapes. We’ve preserved lots of acreage in the Catskills and Shawangunks, and want to create a conservation corridor between these two massive ecological areas.

In the future, we all have to think more carefully about the impacts of severe weather and climate change. We don’t view ourselves as an advocacy organization–our role is to quietly and effectively preserve land through conservation efforts, working with landowners. But we’re beginning to focus our efforts on protecting “resilient lands” that enable flora and fauna to adapt and thrive in an era of climate change.

How do you raise money?

Funding comes from government grants, our endowment—we were the beneficiaries of a large stock gift by Lila Acheson and DeWitt Wallace of Reader's Digest, which we hold as an endowment—but individual support in any amount is important. We rely upon local donations.

Describe your typical workweek.

As general counsel, I supervise a four-person law department and assist my very talented colleagues with the task of operating a regional charity. Second, I’m involved with conservation transactions and dealing with landowners, many in Ulster County.

Working in land preservation has enabled me to meet many wonderful people in the Hudson Valley. It’s been a joy getting to know the Schoonmaker family, whose farm has been in their family for twelve generations. Our son Ryan is married to Jen Schoonmaker, and they have two lovely daughters. It’s fun seeing your grandchildren grow up in a beautiful landscape that’s being preserved. Land preservation is very much about future generations. It all comes down to keeping the world a beautiful place.

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Helen Hansen French in Requiem, choreographed

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John Sebastian at Hudson Valley Artists' Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert Benefit for Family of Woodstock and the American Red Cross at Bearsville Theater on November 11. Photo: Marian Tortorella.

Tony Trischka and BĂŠla Fleck at the Bardavon's Banjo Summit on November 4. Photo: Michael Weisbrot

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Clockwise from top left: (Left to right) Mark Soss, Elizabeth Simon, Gar Wang, Carol Soss, Lisa Gubernick, and John F. Simon Jr. at the Orange County Arts Council County Art Awards on November 9 at the Powelton Club in Newburgh. Image courtesy of E&J Photography.

Harmony Stempel as Jessie Cates and Lorna de Zengotita as Thelma Cates in the November production of "'Night Mother" at Rhinebeck's Center for Performing Arts. Photo: Ken Dreyfack.

During the "Electronic Music: Powered by Girls" workshop at Beacon Music Factory on November 17, participants built and used their own contact microphones. Photo: Rob Penner.

Tony Kushner after his talk at Kingston's Temple Emanuel on November 18. Photo: Leigh Stevens.

Tangent Theater Company's Michael Rhodes reads a scene from "Love/Sick" by John Cariani during the NEWvember New Plays Festival in Tivoli. Photo: Andrea Rhodes.

Members of Vanaver Caravan swing dance during the SUNY New Paltz presentation of "Pastures of Plenty: Woody Guthrie in Dance and Music" on November 3. Photo: Stuart Bigley.

Sculptor Carolyn Palmer and David Roosevelt pose next to Palmer's new sculptures of Franklin and Eleanor at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. Photo: Eric Anthony Johnson.

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he defining word for 2012 seems to be uncertainty. While we’ve always faced an unpredictable universe—just think of Thomas Hobbes description of humanity’s early days: “nasty, brutish, and short”—this year has amounted to an ongoing experiment in anxious unknowing, especially in the past few months.

The presidential election was probably the cause of greatest tsuris for most of us, even until election night. No matter who you were backing, it was nerve-wracking to watch the returns and not see a clear winner emerge until late in the evening. Then there’s the fiscal cliff that we are careering toward Thelma-and-Louise style: Will Congress reach a compromise? Will the military be gutted and entitlement programs cut down to size? Will the mainstream media ever stop using fear tactics to create buzz around stories?

On the environmental front, after Superstorm Sandy’s demonstration of nature’s growing displeasure with us, another source of great disquiet has been the specter of hydraulic fracturing.Will we or won’t we? While an amazing grassroots campaign has been mobilized to lobby for a permanent moratorium, Governor Cuomo, who’s been a bit inscrutable on this subject, holds all the regulatory cards. (On a related note, the International Energy Agency predicts that the US will overtake Saudi Arabia by 2017 as the world’s top oil producer, due mainly to reserves freed up by fracking [While You Were Sleeping, page 20]).

And don’t forget about Hostess Brands. As of press time, we still don’t know what will become of our beloved chemically enhanced treat, the Twinkie. (As someone told me recently: “If Twinkies don’t exist, then a part of my childhood ceases to exist as well.”)

It’s useful to remember at times like this that the flip side of uncertainty is opportunity. (Of course, Werner Heisenberg would be happy to tell you—I mean he’s dead, but still—that there’s a fundamental limit to the precision that can be brought to knowing anything about the way the universe works.

Uncertainty is a fact of physics, and physics is just a scientific description of this thing we call existence.) When the universe is unsettled, as it generally is, then possibilities heretofore unimagined can emerge. Looking back on this year in Chronogram, we published many stories featuring ways in which crisis was converted into opportunity. Below are some of the highlights.

Small-City Retirement In our October issue, we profiled Nora Strano and Rich Morris, who traded in their sprawling New Paltz home for a commercial building in Uptown Kingston in 2010. The couple were prompted by a desire to downsize for their impending retirement while receiving passive income from tenants (in essence, a nonliquidating retirement fund) and still providing space for their three sons, who live at home. Strano and Morris also saw the opportunity that urban life can offer, especially as we age, providing a healthy, walkable environment and a solution to the sometimes isolating effects of suburbia.

(In the current issue, Jennifer Farley profiles Linda and Scott Marston-Reid, empty nesters who’ve transformed a Poughkeepsie apartment into an artistic showpiece [“Loft Life,” page 26].)

The Cider Renaissance A corollary to the old maxim about what to do when life gives you lemons: What happens to Hudson Valley apple farmers when the market is flooded with cheap imported apples? You make cider! In our November issue, Peter Barrett spoke to a younger generation of local farmers who are turning their parents’ crop into the beverage of our forefathers—who drank the stuff like it was going out of style. (Which it did once Prohibition hit and the orchards of bitter apples used for making cider were replaced with sweet table varieties.)

Turn, Turn, Turn In April, Paul McGinniss wrote about the Transition Movement, which is a (oxymoron alert) proactive reaction to concerns about upcoming societal fissures due to Peak Oil and other apocalyptic possibilities. Instead of building bunkers to seal themselves off from society, Transitioners prefer to create local resiliency through mutual interdependence with community gardens, alternative energy sources, and the intelligence and resources of neighbors actively planning for the challenges to come. The Transition Towns movement is taking hold in the Hudson Valley, with groups continuing to form around a shared future rooted in collective action.

He Shall Be Levon The greatest story to come into the popular consciousness this year chronicling a triumph over adversity was Levon Helm’s. Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998, the former Band drummer began a series of concerts in his home studio in Woodstock to pay for his medical care. The Midnight Ramble Sessions drew world-renowned artists to play with Helm (Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Dr. John) and the intimate evenings in the barn are now the stuff of legend. When Helm died in April, we were lucky enough to feature previously unpublished photographs of Helm by Catherine Sebastian.

The Illusion of A Classier Reality We cover an eclectic mix of topics each month, but one thing we don’t do is local news—that particular type of ass-in-the-seat-at-town-board-meetings reportage that’s essential for an informed citizenry and the successful functioning of the republic. Geddy Sviekauskas, who founded the Woodstock Times 40 years ago, has built a mini-empire of local papers in Ulster County that serve as news sources, bulletin boards, and community forums. In an interview for our September issue, Sviekauskas offered my favorite bit of criticism directed at Chronogram this year: “The aim seems to be for it to produce an illusion of a classier reality rather than that reality which reflects the communities it serves.” The newspaper publisher sees us through his meat-and-potatoes-journalist lens, which is understandable. But I would counter that what Sveikauskas sees as Chrongram’s “illusion of a classier reality” is really our attempt to suggest alternative possibilities not yet realized. The future is merely the set of things we haven’t done yet, full of opportunities that remain uncertain until we muster the courage to release them into the world.

Special thanks to Hilary Chalmers for her help with the uncertainty.

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McDonald’s sales have dropped for the first time since 2003. Global revenue at McDonald’s restaurants open at least 13 months fell 1.8 percent for the month, dropping 2.2 percent in the US and Europe and 2.4 percent in the region encompassing Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. CEO Don Thompson cited the “pervasive challenges of today’s global marketplace” for the declines. Rival fast food chains, like Burger King, Wendy’s, and Taco Bell, are reviving their brands with improved menus and new TV ad campaigns. Food chains like Panera Bread are also increasing competition with higher-quality food at a slightly higher price point. In response to the drop, US outlets are refocusing on the Dollar Menu, Europe outlets will offer new meal combinations, and Asia will offer items tailored to local tastes.

Source: NPR

Arabica beans, from which 70 percent of the world’s coffee is made, are at high risk of extinction, according to a new study by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in England and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum in Ethiopia.

Climate change and deforestation threatens Arabica plants, which are highly vulnerable to temperature changes, pests, and disease. Coffee-producing countries such as Ethiopia, Brazil, and Colombia exported 93 million bags of coffee in 2009 and 2010. The study predicts a best-case scenario of a 38 percent reduction in land capable of yielding Arabica by 2080, and a worst-case scenario of a loss between 90 and 100 percent.

Source: CBC News According to the International Energy Agency, the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer by about 2017, becoming “all but self-sufficient” in meeting energy needs. The reports indicate a shift in global energy systems, due primarily to the US’s unlocking of new reserves of oil and gas found in shale rock from hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Dr. Fatih Birol, chief economist of the energy agency, bases the prediction of increasing American self-sufficiency on more oil production and improving energy efficiency, particularly with the Obama administration’s new fuel economy standards for cars. Birol estimates that a rise in power plants fueled by cheap natural gas would cut US electricity prices to half that of Europe’s. According to the report’s predictions, the US will overtake Russia as the leading producer of natural gas in 2015, and will become a net oil exporter by 2030.

Source: New York Times According to research published in an October issue of the journal Science, elevated levels of cesium are still being detected in about 40 percent of fish caught off the Fukushima coast of Japan. The findings suggest that radioactive particles from last year’s nuclear disaster have accumulated on the seafloor and could contaminate sea life for decades. Radioactive cesium is associated with an increased risk of cancer in humans. Japan continues to ban the sale of 36 species of fish since the Fukushima disaster, affecting one of the region’s principal industries. Local fisherman have resumed small-scale commercial fishing for species, like octopus, that have cleared government radiation tests. Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the Fukushima plant, is building a 2,400-foot-long wall between the site’s reactors and the ocean to reduce the chance of undetected leaks, a project that is estimated to take until mid-2014. Radiation readings in waters off Fukushima and beyond have returned to near-normal levels.

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As of the end of October, President Obama has authorized a total of 284 drone strikes in Pakistan since he’s been in office, six times more than the number during President George W. Bush’s eight years in office. The number of estimated deaths from the Obama administration’s drone strikes is more than four times what it was during the Bush administration—somewhere between 1,494 and 2,618. While Bush targeted leadership ranks of al Qaeda, Obama expanded the targeting to include the entire network of allied groups. The “signature strikes” target groups of men based on patterns of suspicious activity rather than individual militants. According to the Pew Research Center, majorities in almost every other country disapprove of drone strikes, arguing that they kill too many civilians and breed more terrorism. According to an analysis of the drone campaign in Pakistan by the New America Foundation, the civilian casualty rate has been dropping sharply since 2008 while the percentage of militants killed has been rising. Under the Obama administration, 11 percent of fatalities were civilian and 89 percent militants. Under President Bush, the civilian fatality rate was 33 percent, and the militant rate 67 percent. The CIA recently proposed to expand the strike program into other regions.

Sources: Slate, CNN A September Pop Warner football game in Massachusetts between the Southbridge Pee Wees and the Tantasqua Braves ended with a final score of 52-0 and five preadolescent boys with concussions. Two Tantasqua players were hit so hard in the first play that their coach pulled them off the field. Six plays into the game, another Brave was removed after a hard hit. The last boy was hurt in the final play of the game.

An official with the Tantasqua team said the eyes of one of the boys were rolling back in his head. The game went on without officials intervening despite the injuries and the fact that the Braves no longer had the required number of players to participate.

Southbridge coach Scott Lazo accused the Tantasqua coach of not properly training his team and jeopardizing them by not forfeiting. In October, the Central Massachusetts Pop Warner league suspended both coaches for the rest of the season, barred the referees who oversaw the game from officiating any more contests, and put the presidents of both programs on probation. Four of the five injured boys have resumed playing football for Tantasqua.

Source: New York Times In October, 14,500 pages of files documenting the Boy Scouts of America’s cover-up of decades of sexual abuse, from 1959 to 1985, were posted on the website of Kelly Clark, the Portland attorney who used the files as evidence in a 2010 lawsuit he won against the Scouts. The files, maintained by the Scouts since soon after their founding in 1910, consist of memos from local and national Scout executives, handwritten letters from victims and their parents, and newspaper clippings about legal cases. The files contain details about proven molesters as well as people who were wrongly accused.

The website crashed after receiving more than 200,000 hits within the first few hours of the posting. Clark said his firm received about four dozen e-mails from people about the documents, about half from people interested in filing lawsuits who say they were abused when they were in the Scouts. Some e-mails were from people who told of other alleged perpetrators who are not in the files. At least six people have contacted reporters for the Associated Press with questions about reporting sex abuse when they were in the Scouts, though none agreed to speak to the AP on the record. Attorney Paul Mones, Clark’s colleague, said uploading the files “democratized” information that was only available to lawyers and the Scouts.

Sources: Associated Press Compiled by Jennifer Gutman

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PostElection, PostMortem

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he conventional wisdom before the 2012 election was that President Obama had been severely damaged, even fatally wounded, in his first term. The recovery had been slow and weak. Government was gridlocked. After years of being tongue-tied trying to express their revulsion to Obama, without saying “'Cause he’s a nigger,” conservatives had at last layered enough code words around it to unite a wide swath of middle America against him.

(A note is necessary here. Many Republicans and conservatives are not racists. It is possible that Republicans would have been willing to harm the country just to make a white Democratic a one-term president. That being said, the foundation stone of the Republican Party’s antigovernment campaign is the claim that liberal government is taking money from us, the hard-working white folks, and giving it away to undeserving, lazy, dark people. Maps showing the slave states, and later on the states for and against segregation, define the essential bedrock of the Republican Party. For Republicans howling in response to that—yes, Lincoln was a Republican, the solid South used to be Democratic, and Republicans did help LBJ break segregation, but after that, white Southerners abandoned the Democratic Party and marched over to the Republican camp.)

A Republican should have been able to win in a walk. The postelection conventional wisdom is, therefore, that Romney was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign.

Really?

It seems to me that Romney was a superb candidate who ran an excellent campaign. Almost one of genius. Maybe not compared to an imaginary perfect race in the mind of a pundit who thinks it would have been different if the candidate had taken his advice, but certainly as compared to the real alternatives.

The Republicans had a variety of candidates to choose from. It could have been Rick Santorum. Here’s a quote from the Wit & Wisdom of Rick, “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” Along with losing the women’s vote, he’d have lost the grown-ups’ vote.

Not even older white-male voters want the possibility of having sex for fun taken away.

There’s Newt. Forget that Gingrich was having an affair while he led the charge against Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, that he left that wife while she had cancer, cheated on his next wife, and asked her for an open marriage, given that Callista, who became his third wife, “won’t mind,” thereby having earned the title King of the Hypocrites. Newt regards himself as millennial genius, yet he wasn’t together enough to even get on the primary ballot in Virginia or Missouri. How would he have fared against Obama’s get-out-thevote machine?

Ron Paul! He is special. Pull out of both wars, legalize drugs, get the federal government out of almost everything, end the income tax, the IRS, and the Federal Reserve, withdraw from NATO and the UN, dump the dollar as legal tender and let there be a free market for currency. As for health care, let’s go back to the days of his youth, when you could pay a doctor with a spare chicken. For a triple bypass? For cancer surgery and chemo? Ron Paul was in congress for 22 years. He introduced 620 bills. Only one got passed into law.

Rick Perry. Gosh, he sure came on as Macho Man but left like the Scarecrow, singing, “If I only had a brain.” Actually, he’s probably pretty bright. Maybe he’s just on meds. Heavy meds. Herman Cain was gonna solve allllll our problems with one great pizza promotion! Nine-nine-nine! With as many free toppings as you want! Michelle Bachmann signed a statement that black people were better off under slavery than they are today. Of course, her consort was the ever delightful Marcus, who runs a Christian counseling clinic that is reputed to cure gays. If she had been elected, his flounce through the halls of the White House would have been more feminine than several First Ladies.

Jon Huntsman. Poor Jon, he was often reasonable and sane. Republican primary voters wouldn’t have chosen him dog catcher, for fear he wouldn’t be severe enough.

Romney had a reputation for having been like Huntsman—reality based, willing to make practical decisions (health care), and to compromise (prochoice). Mitt played it better than Jon. He swore up and down that he would be a protector of the preborn, would not help anyone who was postborn, and would never let facts pervert his ideological choices. As for all the things he’d actually done, who should the voters believe: him, or their lying eyes? They believed him.

Then, when he had the nomination, he did The Pivot. Not the old primaryto-general-election half turn, in which a candidate ameliorates some extreme expressions. Anybody can do that. He brought a new step, The Romney Pivot, in which the candidate spins from way Far Right of his opponent and pops up just to his opponent’s Left, while totally denying that he’d ever been over in his previous position. That takes audacity of a kind never seen before, not even if you count Tom DeLay’s appearance on “Dancing with the Stars.”

Simultaneously, he managed to convince the Religious Right that even though he was a Mormon—heretofore a non-Christian cult—that he was the real Christian, not Obama.

Romney made very few missteps. He used direct speech, instead of code, to describe his party’s worldview about the 47 percent, the makers and the takers. One set of his misstatements was about major corporations, GM and Chrysler. That was not acceptable. He and his team figured that minorities wouldn’t come out and vote.

So kudos to Romney. It’s tough to run on discredited ideas. It’s tough to fully embrace them, as your base demands, while simultaneously denying them to the more general electorate. He had terrible cards, but he played his hand far better than it deserved.

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By Jennifer Farley Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid

Above: Sampling of art collection includes six Mexican folk Huichol yarn paintings and two large paintings by Linda Marston-Reid Opposite, top left: The dining area includes photos by internationally exhibited artists Billy Name and Robin Schwartz. The bookshelf is stacked with Mexican folk art.

Opposite, top right: The building housing the Marston-Redi’s loft.

Opposite, bottom: On the wall, a collection of Talavera plates, copper work, and ceramic masks from Mexico.

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n the fall of 2011, California native Linda Marston-Reid took over as president of the Dutchess County Arts Council. The job meant MarstonReid and Scott, her husband of 30 years—a corporate headhunter and sometime bartender—needed to relocate to Poughkeepsie from BedfordStuyvesant, where they had lived since 2003.

Although the Marston-Reids knew “the Queen City of the Hudson” had a seriously hip, urban swath, Brooklyn was a tough act to follow. But the couple was ecstatic when they quickly found a light-filled downtown loft on Craig’s List.

Their apartment is one of eight units in The M. Shwartz Building, 9 Main Street, built circa 1868 to house a clothing store for men and boys. The 1,300-squarefoot one-bedroom, one-bath loft has an open kitchen and moveable interior walls that double as shelf storage. They pay $1,250 a month in rent, in keeping with the high end of the local market, but it feels like a bargain to the socially active empty nesters, who have four adult children.

“The building is filled with artists, and it’s owned by an architect and his wife. We’ve had a wonderful 15 months getting to know the residents. My office is just around the corner,” says Marston-Reid, adding that it’s great to go for days at a time without needing to drive. The Marston-Reids share their loft with two well-behaved Scottish Terriers,Wallace and Seamus.

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Security is not a particular concern. The building has a video entry system.

“As with Bed-Stuy, there’s an enduring perception that there’s a lot of crime in downtown Poughkeepsie, when in fact, that’s no longer true,” says MarstonReid. “Because I have dogs, I’m out late at night and early in the morning walking them, and I’ve never seen anything, never had a problem.”

Steve and Lisa Aronson own the building, which was abandoned when they bought it in 1999. They spent several years on the remodel, incorporating recycled building materials whenever possible. Aronson designed the unusual room dividers, which also serve as portable closets; because they’re on casters, it’s easy to reconfigure the layout of rooms inside the loft.

Marston-Reid said she’s engaged professionally with making downtown Poughkeepsie a better place to live and do business, in part by stimulating and assisting the creative community. Case in point: a big community art show, just down the street.The Dutchess County Art Council’s “Luck of the Draw” member exhibit, featuring work by 21 local artists, will be on view through the end of December at Poughkeepsie’s Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, at 317 Main Street.

“I live what I support, which is a vibrant, livable downtown. On Wednesday nights, I host an open artists’ meeting at nearby restaurants and bars,” says MarstonReid. “Anyone interested in the visual arts or spoken word is welcome to attend.”

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In the foreground, a sculpture by Tanya Kukucka, recently added to the art collection. Painting on wall, Gathering Forces, by Linda Marston-Reid. On bookshelf, rooster and crow paper-mache sculptures by renowned Mexican sculptor Saulo Moreno.

Andy Arkun, the new owner of the Bull and Buddha, an upscale LatinAsian fusion restaurant known for its water wall, giant Buddha statue, and jazz brunches, just moved into the Shwartz building. Marston-Reid told him about the loft vacancy, and he signed a lease that same day.

Living in Poughkeepsie is convenient in so many ways, says Marston-Reid.

“Poughkeepsie is the county seat of Dutchess County, so most of the people I need to see come here. But we also serve Ulster County, and I can just zip over the bridge and be in Kingston in a few minutes,” she says.

A Showcase Place In her capacity as leader of the 48-year-old nonprofit arts service organization, Marston-Reid must occasionally host cocktail parties. She also regularly holds out-of-office meetings with major donors, local officials, and artists in need of encouragement or direction. For these reasons, the Marston-Reids needed to lease a space that would be good for her business entertaining. “We just had a huge fundraiser here; it was very successful. I’m sure it helps people to understand our passion for art when they see how much we have personally, and the ways we have found to display it,” says Marston-Reid.

In fact it’s challenging to imagine how any more art could be effectively squeezed into their gallery-like living space, with its high ceilings, exposed brick wall, industrial vibe (visible pipes), and large expanses of walls painted a cooperative white. “Our home is a showcase for our art collection,” says Marston-Reid. “We have folkloric pieces from Mexico, including Huichol ‘yarn paintings’; wood carvings from Oaxaca; and we collect contemporary Mexican artists such as Lorenzo Martinez, Rene del Toro, and Saulo Moreno.”

They’ve hung wall art in such a way as to cause minimum damage. Colorful wooden lizards, and an exquisite papier-mâché rooster, rest on ledges here and there. The rooster and a lively crow were made by Moreno and are museumquality pieces, says Marston-Reid.

“In the space I call my studio, we’re going to put up a sheet of Homasote, fiber wall board that we can constantly stick pushpins in, however, so we don’t upset the landlord,” says Marston-Reid.

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addition to myriad paintings in a variety of styles, they own a number of masks, plus a dramatic calaveritas sculpture of a skeleton playing a musical instrument.

Mexican art often deals directly—and playfully—with the subject of death. A dark but whimsical taste, unafraid of color or bold form, ties the many parts together. They only buy art together and usually after much discussion.

The Marston-Reids’ art collection is rounded off with a few choice contemporary American works and Linda’s own paintings. Linda is particularly fond of a Robin Schwartz photograph of a French bulldog; Schwartz is widely known for her visual exploration of “interspecies relationships” and has works in many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. No Yardwork or Snow Shoveling “We used to live in a 2,800-square-foot Victorian house in Virginia—that’s where we raised our family,” says Marston-Reid. “It was built in 1930 and had all the old-house issues, which I don’t miss.”

The Marston-Reids drastically thinned their possessions when they sold the family home. “Initially it was difficult to part with all our stuff—we sold it at garage sales and through an auction house. I did not even ask what the auctioneers thought they could get for various furniture items, I just wanted to get rid of them,” says Marston-Reid. “We also told the kids they could take what they wanted—so they have all my best paintings.”

Marston-Reid says that although she sometimes reminisces about the large garden she used to cultivate, neither she nor her husband longs to “shovel snow, rake leaves, or clip grass.” “It’s the perfect living situation for us at this time in our lives,” says Marston-Reid.

Because both have jobs which take them frequently to bars and restaurants, they make dinner at home whenever possible. “My husband bakes bread,” she says.

The arts advocate says her long marriage is thriving in this very modern space. But she doesn’t own much clothing or many pairs of shoes. “I’m now a firm believer in the one-year rule for my wardrobe,” she says.

“We’ve really fallen in love with loft living,” says Marston-Reid. “There’s a certain simplicity. But we keep changing where we put the bed.You don’t have that kind of flexibility in a conventional space.”

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n a 1966 episode of the popular television show “To Tell the Truth,” panelists ask three men questions designed to test their knowledge of woodworking and architectural history.

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The other is Wendell Castle, considered by many to be the founding figure of the American art furniture movement. At the end of the questioning session, the panelists guess which man is the artist. The program host asks, “Will the real Wendell Castle please stand up.” A diminutive man seated in the middle, wearing circular glasses and a wry mustache, rises.

A recording of the episode is included in “Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959-1979” at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. It plays on the wall of a gallery filled with some of Castle’s most famous and groundbreaking work. The video clip is included as a piece of ephemera, but it makes a few points. In addition to pointing out Castle was an artist with popular appeal, it leaves the question “Which man is the real Wendell Castle?” hanging in the air. Is Castle a sculptor or a designer? Can he be both? Does the distinction matter?

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“Wendell is a great example of someone who was trained as a sculptor, came out of the fine arts, and made a very calculated decision to enter into the arena of furniture and furniture making, and brought to that a completely different perspective because of his training as a sculptor,” says co-curator Alyson Baker. The objects on display at the Aldrich are organic and evoke animal forms. They swim with movement, but since they function as furniture, they’re also practical. In order to be a desk, a form must have a flat surface for writing. In order to be a bench, a form must include a sitting surface. Baker also notes that the cross-disciplinary approach is in vogue today, in particular among artists who are looking toward design. “We’re definitely in a time now when there is a great interest in cross over between different fields,” says Baker.

“Wandering Forms” looks at the years of Castle’s emergence as the founding figure of American art furniture. He wasn’t destined for furniture. Born in Kansas in 1932, Castle received both a BFA and an MFA from the University of Kansas. He trained as a sculptor. One day, Castle was in the studio, building a box with shelves. One of his instructors saw him and denigrated the work as furniture. This exchange got Castle thinking that furniture could also be art. With this creative challenge in mind he created Stool Sculpture (1959). Although he conceived the work as a piece of furniture, Castle entered it in a juried show at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. It won the first prize. Says co-curator Evan Snyderman, “Lo and behold it was a chair, and no one knew.”

Stool Sculpture, on view at the Aldrich, is a balanced and sinewy structure that begs interaction. Looking at it, you wonder, what would it feel like to sit on that perch? How fun would it be to climb onto that perch, rest your arms and feet on it supports, sit back, and enjoy the view? The piece won Castle the attention of the School for American Craftsmen in Rochester, New York. Castle took a position as the head of the furniture department and soon became one of the most sought-after furniture makers in the country. Snyderman says Castle was “one of the only furniture makers to focus on the sculptural aspects of furniture. He had a unique approach which in a way set in motion what we look at today as contemporary furniture in America.”

Castle has stayed in the area. Just outside Rochester, in Le Roy, New York, the Wendell Castle Collection production line is made. Launched in 1998, the Wendell Castle Collection produces furniture designed by Castle and handmade by craftsmen in Castle’s employ. The venture is aimed at bringing his sculptural vision to a wider audience and bridging the divide between art and furniture. The pieces can be purchased at select design showrooms in the United States and Canada.

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Castle’s forms are full of movement and volume, and suggest artists like Henry Moore and Isamu Noguchi were influences. But there was also a decidedly more low-brow inspiration. Castle uses a technique called stack lamination for building furniture. The time-consuming process involves gluing sheets of wood together, then carving it with a chisel as if it were a piece of stone.

Interestingly, Castle was inspired to try this technique after he read a book about building duck decoys. The book is on display at the Aldrich.

Several of the pieces on view at the Aldrich are rarely seen. Considered one of the most important of these is Environment for Contemplation (1969-70).

The form looks like a funky wooden igloo. Although not available to museumgoers, a door on the front of the form opens to reveal the piece is hollow and plush carpeted. The owner or participant could enter the environment, which acts as a kind of cocoon or a sensory-deprivation chamber. The participant can poke his head out an opening in the top. A light bulb on the contiguous tail comes on to indicate the user is inside, probably deep in contemplation.

The piece is simultaneously furniture, sculpture, and a canny summation of performance art.

Desk (1967), also referred to as Silver Leaf Desk and on loan from the Racine Art Museum, is a substantial yet graceful form that, both in spite of and because of its beauty, you could imagine in use at an office. It’s also cleverly selfreferential. The elegant silver top sits on an arch that could be either a winged bird or a dashed signature.

Desk and Environment for Contemplation are two of the forms placed in the Project Space at the Aldrich. The double-height gallery allows viewers to appreciate the pieces from many perspectives, including the view from above.

Again, perspective on Castle is important. Evan Snyderman: “[Castle] has always been successful, and what’s interesting now is, at 80, he’s still at it and there’s a new market growing for his work, which is the contemporary art world. Up until now, he’s been collected by craft collectors, let’s say, or some furniture collectors, and now the art world is getting turned on to Wendell because he’s really more of a sculptor than he is a furniture maker. And not just that but a really great sculptor. So he’s having a renaissance in a way.”

“Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959 to 1979” will be on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum through February 24. The curators will lead a tour of the exhibit on January 6 from from 2 to 3pm.

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Plattekill Mountain Road, Roxbury. (607) 326-3500; Plattekill.com Hunter Mountain Hunter Mountain, at 4,040 feet, is the highest mountain in Greene County––and with 240 skiable acres, including 54 trails and 11 lifts, has even been dubbed “the snowmaking capital of the world.” The Mountain was the first 40 winter sports and activites ChronograM 12/12

in the state to install snowmaking and first in the world with top-to-bottom snowmaking. A gladed section was added on the east side of the mountain three years ago, where the trees were thinned out so that intermediate skiers may experience more thrilling conditions. Hunter has two terrain parks, one of which, Park Avenue, is specifically for skiers and snowboarders who want to experiment and perform tricks.

Hunter Mountain is also home to many events and festivals. Throughout the winter, the center hosts competitive and casual races for skiers and snowboarders of all ages. New Year’s Eve festivities include a torchlight parade followed by a fireworks display.

Rt. 23A, Palenville. (800) HUNTERMTN; Huntermtn.com Catamount Ski Area Straddling the New York-Massachusetts border between Hillsdale and South Egremenot, Catamount is one of the last family-owned ski centers in New England. Catamount features 120 acres of skiing, with 1,000 feet of vertical descent and 33 trails, including 12 black diamond runs and 11 trails in the Meadows learning area. The terrain park features plenty of jumps and jibs, as well as a halfpipe and a boardercross with 800 feet of banked turns. A special treat: Night skiing on 15 trails as well as the terrain park.

Rt. 23, Hillsdale. (518) 325-3200; Catamountski.com Belleayre Mountain The New York Regional Olympic Development Authority (ORDA) took over management of Belleayre from the Department of Environmental Conservation this fall, and it’s hoped that the ORDA, which already runs two ski centers in the Adirondacks (Gore and Whiteface) will bring an exciting upgrade to the Ulster County slopes. As a publicly operated ski center, Belleayre strives to offer great value in a family-oriented, down-to-earth way. People head to Belleayre to learn skiing or to avoid the crowds, and return because the skiing is lovely, albeit a bit tamer than on some of the other regional mountains. “This is a place where you can let your kids go off on their own and you know they should come back all in one piece, just because of the way the lifts and runs are set up,” remarks a satisfied customer on TripAdviser.com. Belleayre hosts ski clinics and races and winter carnivals. It has 55 trails, 8 lifts, a terrain park for boarders, adaptive skiing, guided snowshoeing trips, and a ski camp for the younguns.

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Tradition of Transition Hudson and Columbia County

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he history of Columbia County, which includes the City of Hudson, has long been defined by the region’s geography. “There’s the proximity to New York, and the Hudson River connecting the area to points north and south,” says Diane Shewchuk, the Columbia County Historical Society’s director and curator. “And at the same time, you have this huge agricultural community all around Hudson. [The county] has given us a president, Martin Van Buren, two state governors, Samuel Tilden and Martin Glynn, and [Pulitzer Prize-winning poet] Edna St. Vincent Millay. Before them were the Indians and the Dutch and English settlers.” The area is unique for Upstate New York because in addition to its urban core, arterial river, and rambling farmlands, Columbia County encompasses many parks and nature conservancies and easy access to the Catskill and Berkshire mountains.

Energy with an Edge Hudson has a tradition of radical transformation. Chartered in 1785, the port city was developed by the Proprietors, a group of wealthy New England merchants and whalers. The metropolis came within one of vote of being named the capital of New York and by 1820 had grown to become the state’s fourthlargest city. As the whaling trade died out, Hudson became known as a center of gambling and prostitution—it hosted the largest red light district in the Northeast—a mantle it wore until 1950, when state troopers raided and shut down the numerous brothels that lined Diamond Street (now Columbia Street). Severe blight took hold in the 1960s and didn’t begin to ease up until the 1980s, when a wave of antique dealers began opening shops on Warren Street, the city’s main thoroughfare, and renovated several of the town’s many stately Victorian homes. The city’s new legacy as an antique hunter’s nirvana continues unabated with stellar outlets like Arenskjold Antiques Art, Hudson 42 columbia county + hudson ChronograM 12/12

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top row from left: Maggie Calhoun at Great Finds; Chris Youngblood at Crazy Daisy; Rebecca and Amy Daggett with Dora at Ooms Conservations Area; Tom Luciano at Time and Materials; Erin Carr, Marianne Courville, and Steve Orlando at Hudson Wine Merchants; Amanda Hummel and Miss Pixie at The Bee’s Knees. bottom row from left: John Gilbert and Ally Baker at The Berry Farm greenhouses; Brandon Bjerke at Tierra Farm; Tisha Mulligan and Sandie Gay at Tanzy’s Afternoon Tea; Donna Jordan at Verdigris Tea; Penny Ellis and Laura Murray at The Berry Farm Market Store; david wurth at crossroads food shop. below: the circle museum in Austerlitz.

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When Gary Schiro signed on as executive director of the Hudson Opera House, the historic building needed a lot of help. The yawning structure’s long-neglected, leaking roof had caused years of horrendous damage to the walls and ceilings.

Standing water from clogged sewers filled the basement. There was asbestos, nesting birds, and vermin to deal with. Fundraising for restoration had already started and one room had been redone by the time Schiro came into the picture in April 1998. But the road that lay ahead was still as daunting as the theater’s decrepit condition, which required detailed preservation studies, and building plans that met with approval from the City of Hudson Historic District and the State Historic Preservation Office. Not to mention the rigorous but delicate balancing act of keeping fundraising efforts on track in an unsympathetic economy.

“At first people thought [restoring the building] was a bad idea, that this place was beyond saving,” Schiro says. “Hudson had become incredibly depressed by that time. No one would go below Fifth Street.”

Today, of course, it’s quite a different story.

The Opera House is an anchor of renewal, its address one of many thriving sites lining the length of a rejuvenated Warren Street. Now one of the region’s leading arts centers, the beautifully restored Gilded Age building provides free or lowcost cultural offerings all year round, seven days a week—often more than once per day. Its reliably enticing programs include concerts, readings, lectures, exhibitions, theater and dance presentations, afterschool programs, workshops, classes, and children’s, family, and community arts events.

Constructed in 1855 as the first Hudson City Hall, the building houses an upstairs performance hall that is New York State’s oldest surviving theater. Inspired by Paris’s grand Palais Garnier opera house, many prestige-seeking American towns built their own so-called opera houses in the 19th century, hence the facility’s name. In addition to staging operas, plays, dances, and even poultry shows, the space in its early years hosted exhibits

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by Hudson River School painters Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford and speaking engagements

by Teddy Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, and best-selling author Bret Harte. After City Hall relocated in 1962, the vacant building fell into a 30-year period of disrepair.

In 1992, a nonprofit group was formed to bring the once proud edifice back to its former glory as a cultural and civic center. Since then, the site, which currently has five functioning spaces on its first floor (the ornate upstairs theater awaits restoration), has consistently presented such internationally esteemed talent as pianist Jenny Linn, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery, the Imani Winds quintet, bluesman Guy Davis, and theatrical, dance, and musical acts from China, Denmark, Mongolia, and Germany. Currently on the calendar are a showing of 1960s Andy War-

Supermarket, 3FortySeven, Carousel Antiques Center, Skalar Modern, Stair Galleries, Vincent Mulford, Regan & Smith, Marc McDonald, and dozens more. Art galleries include Carrie Haddad Gallery, Limner Gallery, 510 Warren St. Gallery, Tom Swope Gallery, and many others.

“People thought we were crazy and taking a big risk when we bought this place, because it’s on a truck route and away from Warren Street,” says Linda Mussman, a paragon of Hudson’s change-bringing older guard. She and her partner, Claudia Bruce, opened the performance arts center Time & Space Limited (better known as TSL) on Columbia Street in 1991. An outgrowth of the avant-garde theater company Mussman founded in New York in 1973, TSL presents indie and classic films, theatrical productions, youth and community workshops, and live HD simulcasts of the Metropolitan Opera.

One could say TSL and locally based performance troupe the Bindlestiff Family Circus deserve credit for nurturing the climate that attracted renowned performance artist Marina Abromovic, who unveiled plans earlier this year to remake a former theater and indoor tennis court into the Marina Abromovic Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art.With its remodeling being overseen by famed architect Rem Koolhaus, the facility is projected to open next year and sits next to another recent addition to the region’s cultural lifeblood, community radio station WGXC, which broadcasts programs covering all styles of music, local and international news, community discussion, and experimental transmission arts. (The station also has studios in nearby Acra and Catskill.)

Also on Columbia Street is Helsinki Hudson, an award-winning restaurant and nightclub that books top artists from around the world. Close to the riverfront and the city’s Amtrak station is yet another venue and arts center, Basilica Hud-

hol images by photographer David McCabe and a storytelling workshop presided over by “Law and Order” originator and screenwriter David Black.

When it comes to steering the Hudson Opera House’s ever-continuing rebirth, Schiro’s background clearly makes him the man for the job. A native of Niagara Falls, the director, a playwright himself, previously served with the New York State Council on the Arts and worked for years in New York as a drama teacher, performer, and administrator.

Schiro has been consulting with a design team for the past 11 months and hopes to see the site’s full facelift completed within two years’ time.

“We’re excited about preserving the building,” he says, “and continuing the purpose for which it was originally built: To serve the community by enriching our culture.”

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son, a mammoth converted factory that hosts film and art events and concerts (recent acts have included Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Grimes). Just north of downtown is the FASNY Museum of Firefighting, which contains the world’s largest collection of historic firefighting equipment and memorabilia.

Stop, Shop, and Eat Among the new influx of entrepreneurial energy is Hudson River Tattoo, at the top end of Warren Street. For another kind of ink (and paints, papers, brushes, and canvases), the two most prominent art supplies outlets are the newly opened Sketch and the venerated bookstore/beer and wine bar the Spotty Dog Books & Ale. Hudson City Books deals in antiquarian volumes, while Hudson Wine Merchants and Key City Wine and Liquor dispense fine vintages from around the world and Vasilow’s Confectionery further pleases the palate with exceptional handmade chocolates. The city is also home to an alluring array of clothiers that includes de Marchin, Look, Behida Dolic Millinery, and several vintage shops.

As a dining destination, Hudson is unsurpassed in the Hudson Valley in terms of restaurant choices. “For tourists it’s unique to have so many great restaurants in one spot that’s only two hours from New York and three hours from Boston,” says Joe Fierro, the owner of American Glory BBQ, which opened in a former firehouse in 2010. “There’re a lot of fine-dining places in Hudson but we’re really the only family restaurant in town. People are happy to have somewhere they can bring the kids.” Further exemplary eating establishments include the neighboring Swoon Kitchenbar, DABA, Ca’ Mea Ristorante, Grazin’, Cafe Le Perche, Le Gamin, and the Crimson Sparrow, 12/12 ChronograM columbia county + hudson 45

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“Columbia County has more open space and undeveloped land than most other counties in the region and has had a much slower population growth,” says Peter Paden, executive director of the Columbia Land Conservancy. “Its population is roughly a quarter of that of Dutchess County, and most of its farmland looks like it would’ve 200 years ago. For anyone who enjoys the outdoors and the kind of amenities you find in Hudson, I’d say Columbia County is hard to beat.”

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Events Winter Walk on Warren Street Held on the first Saturday in December, Hudson’s Winter Walk is a holiday in and of itself for those who attend the annual event, which ranges from Columbia County residents to people as far afield as Boston and New York City. Hudson’s main milelong street is transformed into a festive thoroughfare, with decorative storefronts, horse-drawn wagon rides, stilt walkers and marionettes, bagpipers, and live reindeer. Familiar characters joining the walk include Frosty the Snowman, Scrooge, a Tin Soldier, and angels, snowflakes, and elves of all sizes. Sax-OClause provides music at the 400 block, and dancers range from belly and can-can to ballet and hip hop. Street vendors offer eatas-you-go food and many restaurants provide heated outdoor dining areas. As if that weren’t enough, Mr. and Mrs. Claus give out free gifts in the City Hall and fireworks launch at 8pm from Promenade Hill, visible from most places on Warren Street.

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Falcon Ridge Folk Festival The July festival features three days of folk music and dance at the foot of the Berkshires, at Hillsdale’s Dodds Farm. The spectrum of styles featured at the festival ranges from classic and folk-pop to fringe-genres like bluegrass and polka. Past festivals have featured legends like Arlo Guthrie and Richie Havens to upand-coming artists like Dar Williams and Eilen Jewell. Headline acts perform on the Main Stage, including a songwriter swap on Friday night, and smaller-scale performances take place on the Workshop and Family stages. The Dance Tent features group and partnered dance styles, including contra, swing, square, and zydeco with live music accompaniment.

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Film Columbia Festival The small town of Chatham hosts world-class national, international, and local films for five days each October. This year, over 30 pre-released films were screened, including full-length and short form works ranging from controversial to entertaining.

Festival highlights include a panel discussion with Director Alex Gibney after the screening of his documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, the first ever Screenwriting Lab offering a space for script-reading and workshopping, and a screening of Ticket to Paradise as part of an exchange program with the Havana Film Festival. The films play at Crandell Theatre and the Morris and Tracy memorial halls in downtown Chatham, including a free Saturday morning children’s program.

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Hudson has become a destination-spot for food lovers of the Hudson Valley and beyond. From Crimson Sparrow’s molecular cuisine to Fatty Crab-king Zac Pelaccio’s soon-to-open restaurant, Fish and Game, new eateries are sprouting up at a rapid pace in Hudson’s happening downtown area. This annual event offers a chance to try samples from the food mecca’s finest restaurants and cafés, including appetizers, entrées, gourmet coffees and teas, cheeses, ethnic cuisine, baked goods, and soups from the rookies as well as the veterans, like Vico and Café Le Perche. BeLo3rd sponsors the September event between Warren Street’s 200 and 300 blocks in conjunction with the Gallery Stroll that follows.

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A detail from Mark Hogancamp’s Untitled (Brits on MC’s, in snow, Jan. 17, 2010), 2010, 11” x 14.5”, archival digital C-print.

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Lawrence Berzon’s Personality Splits, part of his solo show at Limner Gallery in Hudson, “Lawrence Berzon: A Compulsion For Beauty,” which runs December 1 through 30.

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“Winter Solstice Show.” Through December 31.

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

“Landscapes.” Through December 9.

“Sculpture.” Featuring works by Stephen Walling, Linda Cross, Roger Phillips, Birgit Blyth, Joseph Maresca, and Amy Podmore. December 13-January 28.

Opening Saturday, December 15, 6pm-8pm.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART UPSTAIRS GALLERIES 22 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 876-7578.

“Abstract Architectures.” Paintings by Todd Germann. Through December 30.

“Figurative Fantasies.” Paintings by David Eddy. Through December 30.

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519.

“Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms.” Works from 1959-1979. Through February 20.

THE ART AND ZEN GALLERY 406 MANCHESTER ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3334.

“Watercolor Paintings by Karleen Dorn.” Through December 31.

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

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

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

“Grace Knowlton.” Drawings, prints, photos and sculpture. Through January 25.

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“2012 Leaping Trout Art Project.” 35 local artists bring awareness to the issue of clean water.

Through December 14.

“Anything Goes.” Group show. Solo room shows: Fred Waller and Robert Draffen. December 15-January 13.

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“A Midnight Clear.” Paintings by George Ballantine and Robert Selkowitz. Through December 30.

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

“Made in Woodstock VI.” Featuring work by CPW’s artists-in-residence from 2010-2011. Through December 30.

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“Jean-Luc Moulène: Opus + One.” Through December 31.

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

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“Artisans Celebrate!” Holiday group art exhibit featuring ten ceramic sculptors. December 1-30.

Opening Saturday, December 1, 1pm-5pm.

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

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

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“Holiday Small Works Exhibition.” Through January 19.

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“Photoencaustics.” Featuring encaustic photographs by Rita Bernstein, Christa Kreeger Bowden, Hope Kahn, Leah Macdonald and Kara Taylor. December 14-February 11.

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“Tami Bone: Mythos.” Through December 3.

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“Apocalypse.” December 8-January 8.

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“Conversations.” Vincent Pomilio and Thomas Huber. Through December 2.

“New Works by Gary Jacketti.” Through December 2.

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“The Cogent Force.” Digital works by Hudson Valley graphic artist Andrew Nelson. Through December 31.

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“Landscapes and Their Changing Moods.” New work by Sasha Chermayeff. Through December 23.

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“New paintings and drawings.” Works by Ken Buhler. December 1 through January 24.

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“Through the Lens, Behind the Brush, Under Fire: Hudson Valley Views.” Through December 2.

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.

“Salon 2012: Handmade Holidays.” Through January 12.

GRAY OWL GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ www.grayowlgallery.com.

“1st Anniversary Exhibit.” Contemporary art by local and regional artists. Through December 31.

HAMMERTOWN 6422 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-1450.

“Holy Beings.” Photographs by photographer and Hudson Valley resident Valerie Shaff. Through December 31.

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

“Riverscapes.” Works by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, John MacDonald, and Petria Mitchell.

December 1-31.

Opening Saturday, December 1, 5pm-7pm.

HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598.

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

HOWLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY 453 MAIN street, 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.

hudson coffee traders 288 walll Street, Kingston. 338-1300.

“The Chronogram Covers Show.” Twenty years of magazine covers. December 7-February 28.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE

IMOGEN HOLLOWAY GALLERY

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81 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES (347) 387-3212.

“First Annual December Drawing Show.” Douglas Culhane, Heyd Fontenot, Ken Gray, Brian Lynch, Robert Petersen, Jose Pita, Harry Roseman, Joy Taylor, Douglas Wirls. December 7-January 6.

Opening Friday, December 7, 6pm-9pm.

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

“Works by Julie Evans.” Through December 2.

JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250.

“Luis Castro: Drawings.” Through December 29.

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

“13th Annual 5x7 Show.” December 7-January 6.

Opening Friday, December 7, 5pm-7pm.

“The Sky is Falling! Exhibit.” Through December 2.

LOOK|ART GALLERY 988 SOUTH LAKE BouLeVard, MAHOPAC “Member’s Holiday Exhibition.” Through December 23.

LOX OF BAGELS 3103 RouTe 9W, SAUGERTIES 246-8835.

“Kristy Bishop Studio 5th Annual Holiday Art Show.” Neon artwork. December 8-31.

Opening Saturday, December 8, 2pm-4pm.

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marist college art gallery 3399 north road, poughkeepsie 575-3000.

“Making Light.” Larry Brown and Jean Feinberg. Through December 5.

mark gruber GALLERY new paltz plaza, new paltz 255-1241 “Home for the Holidays.” Group show. December 1-January 16.

Opening Saturday, December 1, 12pm-5pm.

mcdaris fine art 623 warren street, hudson (212) 518-7551.

“Sighting Louis Sullivan.” Sculptures by Bernard Williams. Through December 15.

MILL STREET LOFT’S GALLERY 45 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

“Member & Faculty Exhibition.” Featuring more than 30 Hudson Valley artists. Works include large and small scale paintings, drawings, photographs and mixed media. Through January 13.

“Holiday Small Works Art Exhibition & Crafts Show.” December 9-January 13.

one mile gallery 475 Abeel Street, Kingston. 338-2035.

“Crash Landing.” Photographs by Mark Hogancamp. December 1 through January 5.

Opening Saturday, December 1, 2pm-7pm.

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galleries & museums

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

“The Factory: Warhol and His Circle.” A photographic memoir of a year at the Factory and beyond featuring portraits of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and their inner circle at the legendary Factory.

Through December 9.

An untitled painting by Gene Garfinkle from the exhibit “Paintings, Pastels, Drawings by Gene Garfinkle,” which runs December 15 through January 6 at the Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center.

THE POOL ROOM AT BACCHUS

SUNY ORANGE

4 SOUTH CHESTNUT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-8636.

“Topologies: Recent Work by Zahra Nazari.” Through January 2.

KAPLAN HALL, NEWBURGH 341-9386.

“Reality and Beyond.” Group Show featuring Clayton Buchanan, Linda Richichi, and Mary Mugele Sealfon. Through January 4.

r&F handmade paints 84 ten broeck avenue, kingston 331-3112.

“Geological Radiance.” Paintings by Alexendre Massino. December 1 through January 31.

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. Through January 1.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“Buone Feste.” A feast of holiday gifts, made by Hudson Valley artists. Through December 31.

THE RONDOUT MUSIC LOUNGE 21 BROADWAY, KINGSTON www.rondoutmusiclounge.com.

“Works by Rebecca Caterson.” Through December 30.

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

“Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition.” December 7-11.

Opening Friday, December 7, 5pm-7pm.

“Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition.” December 14-18.

Opening Friday, December 14, 5pm-7pm.

“Russel Wright: The Nature of Design.” Through March 10.

stefan findel studio 40 west market street, rhinebeck 891-6629.

“Gold & Rust.” Stefan Findel and Chuck Davidson. December 7-16.

Opening Friday, December 7, 5:30pm-7:30pm.

STEVENSON LIBRARY BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON h.m.sawka@gmail.com.

“Personal Equilibrium: The Private Journals of Jan Sawka.” Through December 15.

THE STUDIOS AT 75 BROADWAY 75 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH www.thestudiosat75broadway.com.

“Through My Eyes.” Photography exhibition by Briana Cox. Through December 7.

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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.

THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM www.thompsongirouxgallery.com.

“Friend of a Friend.” Through January 3.

UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482.

“Luscious.” Through December 29.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Solo Exhibit by Linda Yater.” Plus Member’s Exhibit. December 1-31.

Opening Saturday, December 8, 5pm-7pm.

“Student Exhibition II.” Through December 15.

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

“Group Show #4.” Featuring works by 16 artists. Through December 30.

WOLFGANG GALLERY 40 RAILROAD AVENUE, MONTGOMERY 769-7446.

“Bruce Chapin: Sculptures.” Through December 2.

“Robert Trondsen: Enlightened Views with Gayle Fedigan Show.” December 1-January 4.

Opening Saturday, December 8, 2pm-5pm.

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.

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Put New Paltz on your Calendar www.newpaltz.edu/fpa 845.257.3860 T THEATRE www.newpaltz.edu/theatre Box Office 845.257.3880

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Free Gallery Tour with Kevin Cook December 2 at 2:00 p.m.

Fall Choral Concert December 4 at 8:00 p.m.

Julien J. Studley Theatre

Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition December 7-11 Reception: December 7 5-7:00 p.m.

December 2 at 3:00 p.m.

Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall

College-Youth Symphony & Chorale December 9 at 7:00 p.m.

Julien J. Studley Theatre

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition December 14-18 Reception: December 14 5-7:00 p.m.

Classical Voice Students of Kent Smith December 11 at 8:00 p.m.

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Music

Making Their Way Buke and Gase

By Peter Aaron Photograph by Fionn Reilly

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ock, like any other music, is one big, ongoing story of evolution. The torch of influence gets passed from the groundbreaking elders to the up-and-coming upstarts, who take what they’ve learned and do the right thing: They fuck it up, just so. Most often this means someone grabbing one or more time-tested templates and, with a twist or two, reintroducing the energy and passion that had been lost for too long. Say, like, Nirvana or the White Stripes. But every once in a while you get someone who’s gone a few extra miles and remade the very rules of rock, and come up with something really unique. An act that has some vague antecedents but still doesn’t sound much like whatever else is going on at the time. To these ears, the first act in a long while to do anything approaching such a dramatic rock ’n’ roll makeover is the duo Buke and Gase. And a major part of the band’s originality lies in the distinctive sound of the instruments for which the group is named, instruments that members Aron Sanchez and Arone Dyer built and play with their own hands.

The buke (pronounced “byook”), which is played by Dyer, the lead singer, is a six-string baritone ukulele with a body made from steel reclaimed from a junked automobile and a halved metal pipe as a neck. “I used to play regular baritone ukes that I would modify, but the necks kept snapping because of the heavier strings I use,” says Dyer. With her persistently stomping leg, she also plays ankle bells and toe-bourine, a jingling assemblage sourced from a reappropriated a tambourine. Her partner’s axe, the gase (“gayce”), is a guitarbass hybrid with similar origins to her own: Its scrap-metal components came from a 1960s Volvo. (As with Dyer’s voice and the buke, the gase is run through a bevy of effects pedals; the band uses no loop pedals and creates all of its sounds live in real time.) “The gase isn’t tuned like a regular guitar or bass,” says Sanchez, who also contributes occasional vocals and keeps time with a small, tricked-out bass drum rig. “The tunings I use are ones I came up with my own.” And why not, when you’ve come up with pretty much everything else on your own?

The instant you hear Buke and Gase (formerly Buke and Gass, the change presumably for reasons of pronunciation), the band’s novel instrumentation and squat-punk DIY aesthetic become little more than footnotes to the music itself. “You know, ‘form follows function,’” says Dyer. “Or maybe it’s ‘function follows form.’” Topped by her towering, spine-tingling vocals, the duo’s artsy songs have a clanking industrial edge and hooks that are near classical in sweep, but are at the same time undeniably pop. “When I first encountered Buke and Gase, I had heard of them but wasn’t prepared to be so blown away,” says Jim Thirlwell, the legendary avant-rock auteur who records under the names Foetus and Manorexia. “I loved Arone’s clear voice, with such commanding pitch and melodies. But another thing that drew me in was their tricky arrangements and time-signature changes and turnarounds.Their melodies were soaring and memorable from the get-go, and they were able to bring a hugely dynamic and nuanced sound from their instruments and simple effects. One of my favorite musical revelations in the last few years.”

Sanchez originally hails from Bar Harbor, Maine, where he soaked up music via his father, who had “a ton of classical of records, and a lot of jazz. Especially Mongo Santamaria and other Latin jazz.” He started out on drums, or, rather, drum, when he took snare drum lessons in fourth grade. Guitar came next, followed by 10 years of piano studies and eventually bass, which he played in high school cover bands; by the time he’d enrolled at Rhode Island School of Design he was playing upright and electric bass in jazz bands. Dyer grew up in rural, conservative Willmar, Minnesota, where she picked up guitar at age nine. Both her parents sang and enjoyed “Elvis and ‘Woodstock-y’ stuff,” and it was her dad, a guitarist and Bela Fleck fan, who took her to her first concert— King Crimson, clearly portentous—when she was 14. “Being a girl, I had to sing about my ‘issues’ when I first started writing songs,” jokes Dyer, who soon set out for the big smoke of Minneapolis, where she attended the multidisciplinary Perpich Center for Arts Education. “But later on, hearing bands like Shellac, Blonde Redhead, and Assembly Line People Program was key.”

In 2000, she moved to Brooklyn (“mainly to get out of Minnesota”) and met Sanchez via mutual friends who lived in his building. The two started playing together almost immediately, forming Hominid, a post-punk electronica quartet with Sanchez on standard bass and Dyer on vocals only.The band lasted just over two years, with Sanchez next forming the short-lived Proton Proton

and working as a musical instrument designer for Blue Man Group. In addition to immersing herself in bicycle racing, Dyer performed and recorded with Blue Man, the latter experience one she found fun but unfulfilling. “It was cool getting to tour, but [Blue Man] wanted me to sound like something I’m not,” she explains. When she and Sanchez resumed playing together in 2007, they found the chemistry was still there. Inspired by the rise of sonically expansive underground duos like Hella, Lightning Bolt, and Pink and Brown, the idea of keeping their act a two-piece was a natural one.Yet besides the stripped-down format, how conscious a move was building in such an individual sound by actually building the band’s instrumentation?

“I’d been playing electric guitar again, but I decided I didn’t want to keep doing that—it seemed too cumbersome,” Dyer says about the lead-up to the buke’s development. “I used to make string and percussion instruments in my dad’s woodshop, so just making something myself wasn’t so unusual.” “And in Proton Proton I’d already been using the gace, which covers a whole range of notes on its own,” adds Sanchez, whose interest in messing around with electronics was encouraged by his father, a Bell Telephone employee. In 2008, Buke and Gase debuted its minimalist/maximalist M.O. to the world with the appropriately titled +/­-, a self-released seven-track EP. When Aaron and Bryce Dessner of acclaimed indie quintet the National caught the duo in a Ditmars Park basement space, the brothers (the latter, coincidentally, another recent Hudson Valley transplant) secured the act a deal with Brassland Records for its first album, 2010’s Riposte.The album’s release was followed by tours in the US and Europe with Deerhoof, tUnE-yArDs, and Talk Normal.

In 2010, Sanchez and his girlfriend, then a Bard College student, bought a house in Greenport, just outside of Hudson. “I’d come up from Brooklyn to visit her and bring Arone along and we both just fell in love with the area,” says Sanchez. “But there was a lot of back-and-forth there for a while.” Dyer made the move herself the following year, and, between opening shows for Lou Reed and Tinariwen, the pair rehearsed and recorded in a large rented space on the Hudson waterfront. The new environment significantly impacted Buke and Gase’s music, the members maintain. “It was amazing, going from Aron’s cramped basement in Red Hook [Brooklyn] to this giant, open room where we didn’t have to worry about bumping into each other,” Dyer says. “All of a sudden we felt like we could do anything, and the songs definitely started to feel bigger.” The big, new sound manifested itself on wax and digitally with another EP, Function Falls (Brassland), released this past September. Opening with the appropriately named “Misshaping Information,” which casts Dyer’s shape-shifting, octave-hurtling voice over coarse, bent riffs and an insistent backbeat, the four-song set was duly hailed by the leading organs of the indie trade.

As solid as Function Falls is, though, it’s scarce preparation for Buke and Gase’s new full-length, General Dome (Brassland), which comes out next month.The fullest realization thus far of the twosome’s seemingly improbable marriage of singsong-y pop with angular art-punk and proggy constructs, the disc is marked by clashing moods: the clattering, tension-fraught tour de force title track; the mercilessly mechanized march “Hiccup,” tapped as a Best New Track by Pitchfork; the soothing-but-unsettling “Hard Times,” which the band paired with Function Falls’s cover of New Order’s “Blue Monday” as a download-only single to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims last month; and, in what is perhaps Dyer’s greatest vocal performance yet, the swelling, shuddering “Houdini Crush.”

To promote General Dome, this month the group is playing the Shellaccurated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival and other dates in England; tours in the US (February) and Australia (March, with Danish band Efterklang) await. But as this is being written, Dyer and Sanchez are holed up in Hudson, doing the work that must be done before they hit the road once again. And when she’s not busy silkscreening T-shirts to sell on tour, Dyer hits the road locally: Since moving to town, she’s graduated from building and racing bicycles to riding motorcycles.

“With the music itself, we’re constantly trying to do more but also keep it smaller,” says Sanchez. “I guess ever since we started, the way we’ve always looked at what we do has been, ‘Well, what is it that we can do differently?’”

General Dome is out January 29 on Brassland Records. Bukeandgase.com.

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nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

The Clancy Tradition December 1. In the 1950s, Ireland’s Clancy family formed a ceili band to play local concerts and country dances, and by 1960 brothers Pat, Eugene, and Brendan Clancy had left to tour the US as the Irish Ramblers, playing Gerde’s Folk City and Carnegie Hall and releasing the acclaimed The Patriot Game. Today, Eugene (vocals, guitar) and Pat (piano, accordion) co-lead the Clancy Tradition, which also includes Eugene’s daughter Rosemary (fiddle, mandolin) and son John (bass), Pat’s daughter Liadain (vocals), and family friend Mike Melanophy (button accordion). Here, the group returns to the Towne Crier Cafe, the site of its ebullient 1999 live album. (Jewmongous’s “Holiday Comedy Songfest” arrives December 15; Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s bring the boogie woogie December 22.)

8pm. $20. Pawling. (845) 855-1300; Townecrier.com.

Shtrieml with Ismail Fencioglu December 8. Another returning area favorite, the Montreal/Philadelphia quartet Shtrieml is led by harmonica virtuoso Jason Rosenblatt and seasons its already torrid fusion of traditional Eastern European Jewish and Turkish music with dashes of heated blues rock.

This hit at the Rosendale Cafe sees the band joined by world-renowned Turkish oud master and vocalist Ismail Fencioglu for an evening that explores the ancient connections between Jewish and Turkish styles via compelling originals and new arrangements of traditional folk melodies. (Susan McKeown sings December 1; Tom Pacheco performs December 15.) 8pm. $15. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; Rosendalecafe.com.

Tragicomedia December 9. Formed in 1987, the Baroque instrumental ensemble Tragicomedia features viola da gamba, lute, chitarrone, and harpsichord. Titled “Tragicomedia: A Baroque Holiday Celebration,” this seasonal concert presented by Close Encounters with Music at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center includes soprano and bass-baritone vocalists accompanied by such rarely heard Baroque instruments as the Italian mandolin and the lirone in a program of early cantatas by Handel, Steffani, Strozzi, and others. (The Temptations throw down December 2; the Berkshire Bach Society presents “Bach at New Year’s” December 31.) 2pm. $42, $32. Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100; Mahaiwe.org.

Armen Donelian Trio December 15. Pianist Armen Donelian began making his name on the jazz scene in 1975, when he joined Mongo Santamaria’s band. Since then, he’s added Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Billy Harper, Paquito D’Rivera, Billy Hart, Eddie Gomez, and others to the list of legends he’s worked with. Donelian’s newest offering is Leapfrog, a sextet session that appeared on the Sunnyside label last year. In addition to that grouping he leads a trio, which also stars drummer George Schuller (Jaki Byard, Mick Goodrick) and bassist David Clark (Mose Allison, George Benson), and does a date at the Castle Street Cafe this month. (The venue hosts jazz every Friday and Saturday night; visit website for schedule.)

7:30pm. Free. Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 524-5244; Castlestreetcafe.com.

The Erotics’ Annual Nightmare Before Christmas December 21. With band members named Mike Trash (vocals, guitar), Billy Beer (bass), and Johnny Riott (drums), you can guess what you’re in for: sleazy glam-punk that harkens back to Hanoi Rocks. Presently pumping their fourth album, Boulevard of Choking Screams, Albany-area trio the Erotics once again drop the holiday cheer on Valentine’s Music Hall. This year, the threesome brings along its hard-rocking Capital Region pals Midnight Mob, the Blisterz, Mordwolf, and Black Cat Elliot. (Break Science and Michal Menert visit December 7; Small Axe grinds December 8.) 8pm. Call for ticket prices.

Albany. (518) 432-6572; Valentinesalbany.com.

The Erotics play Valentine’s in Albany on December 21.

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cd reviews If, Bwana with/and/by Trio Scordatura E (and Sometimes Why) (2012, Pogus Productions)

We last covered Al Margolis’s nom de noise If, Bwana on this page with a review of 2011’s captivating Assemble.Age!.

Since then, the always-active, Chester-based experimentalist has been his usual busy self, releasing another If, Bwana title (31, on the GD Stereo label), as well as a big stack of recordings by other adventurous artists on his own Pogus Productions, the home of this offering. E (and Sometimes Why) is a double CD of electroacoustic music that pairs Margolis with the Dutch vocal/microtonal ensemble Trio Scordatura, which includes Elisabeth Smart on viola d’amore (a six- or sevenstringed Baroque-era viola), Bob Gilmore on keyboard and laptop, and Alfrun Schmidt on vocals.

Why the confusing “with/and/by” attribution? Perhaps it’s best explained as a case of the creations engulfing the creators: Some of the pieces here were composed for Trio Scordatura by Margolis; some of them feature Margolis manipulating the trio’s own compositions; one of them sees Margolis performing on keyboard alongside the trio; and one of them finds Trio Scordatura supplying sounds for “The Tempest, Fuggit” (great title or what?), a wonderfully unsettling, 20-minute performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest read by Michael Peters (of Albany band Poem Rocket) and Lisa Barnard Kelly (of Kingston’s Deep Listening Institute). “Diapson, maybe,” at 25 minutes the most extended of the set’s uniformly extended tracks, focuses on the searching drones of trombonist Monique Buzzarté. A consistently startling landscape of chafing strings and weird electronics, E (and Sometimes Why) is a feast for both the ears and the brain. Pogus.com.

—Peter Aaron

Professor Louie and the Crowmatix Wings on Fire (2012, Woodstock Records)

There are plenty of Americana-oriented bands out there using the work of The Band as a template, but few have a direct connection to that classic group and its distinctive sound. Aaron “Professor Louie” Hurwitz does, and it shows on his fine combo’s latest release, Wings on Fire. Hurwitz and crew tap directly into the spirit of The Band, combining top-quality original songs and select covers with an eclectic musical outlook. Irish writer Kevin Doherty’s disc-opening “Down at the County,” for example, goes to New Orleans with an intro lick straight out of Huey “Piano” Smith. Louie and Miss Marie’s “Open Hand, Open Heart” has an ominous, funky strut worthy of Tom Waits. And George Jones’s “Color of Blues” is accordion-drenched in all the right ways, merging Memphis and Nashville effortlessly.

Not surprisingly, the disc is dedicated to “our musical mentors,” Levon Helm and Rick Danko.

Danko actually gave Hurwitz his academic moniker, and the keyboardist returns the favor by leading a wonderful workout on The Band/Van Morrison collaboration “4% Pantomime” (recorded in honor of, but not featuring, album guest and longtime Morrison collaborator John Platania). The only weak spot is the tepid boogie of “High Tech Wreck,” co-written with Woodstock poet, author, and Fugs co-founder Ed Sanders. But that tune is more than balanced by the strength of the majestic “Time Moves On” and the Jesse Winchester-like lilt of “The Bird Song.” Woodstockrecords.com.

—Michael Eck

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Trummors Over and Around the Clove (2012, Ernest Jennings Record Co.)

Ultimately, there may be no satisfactory explanation of the Brooklyn bucolic—why NewYork’s hippest borough should become the delta of the new-old rural Americana. While mainstream country rock courts relevance with patriotic anthems and Pro-Tooled renewals of old country truths, Brooklyn’s root farmers cultivate something like the opposite of relevance—a hermetic, defiantly otherworldly retro that smacks of abdication, a rejection of modern musical, technological, and cultural values. It is done with abundant style, of course, and with a variable ratio of earnestness to postmodern winking. Trummors, a mostly acoustic alt-roots duo formerly of Greenpoint and now of Saugerties, approaches the “new old” from a chamber-country angle: delicate, Zen-still, emotionally leveled (though not quite to that pharmaceutical Cowboy Junkies extent). The Anne Cunningham-sung songs chase the homely and eccentric essences of Carter Family country.The tracks sung by David Lerner (ex-Ted Leo and the Pharmacists) begin with the acid country of Gram Parsons and explore from there, often out of folk and country’s realm entirely. The title track achieves a hushed ’60s shimmer-pop of the kind Belle & Sebastian routinely brews. Over and Around the Clove is an album of great sonic coherence, a singular, immersive trip. Ambience comes courtesy of close harmonies and a droning harmonium, filigreed fringes via a well-played pedal steel. Miracle-ofreverb tracks like “Ever Do I Wait” and “Salinas” almost approach the celestial Americana of Fleet Foxes. Ernestjenning.com.

—John Burdick

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Books

Some Groups (and Books) are Bigger Than Others Tony Fletcher Canonizes The Smiths

By Jay Blotcher Photograph by Roy Gumpel

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T

he Beatles. The Rolling Stones. The Who. The Clash. The Smiths.

If the final name in this pantheon of British supergroups is unfamiliar, veteran music journalist Tony Fletcher will change that. In his new book, A Light that Never Goes Out:The Enduring Saga of the Smiths (Crown Archetype, 2012), Fletcher, 48, makes the argument—persuasively and eloquently, over 600-plus pages—that the Manchester, England, quartet was the greatest band of the 1980s.

In the space of five years, The Smiths recorded four bold, plaintive studio albums that scorned England’s ruling institutions, toured sporadically, and commanded headlines. And suddenly, bitterly, they split up.

“The Smiths in the UK have reached a point in rock’s rich tapestry [where] they are considered rock gods,” Fletcher says over a vegan breakfast at Oriole9 in Woodstock. “In America, it’s still more of a cult, and that’s really fun and exciting.”

Slight but wiry, a swimmer and triathlete, the author brims with energy. (He credits The Smiths’ 1985 LP Meat Is Murder for his plant-based diet.) His words spill out in a torrent. This morning, Fletcher is especially amped up, having seen former Smiths frontman Morrissey in concert last night in Albany.

In recounting the career of The Smiths, Fletcher’s book strikes a balance between the hyperbole of a fan and the insight of a longtime music journalist. “[They] expressed the hopes—and just as relevantly, the fears—of a generation unmatched by any other band of their era,” Fletcher writes in A Light, and they attained this fame with an arsenal of “sexual ambiguity, political panache, collective confidence, and, especially, savage humor.”

What makes The Smiths story especially compelling is its brevity. “I think we are all in love with the story of a group that broke up prematurely,” Fletcher says.

In fact, the hasty end burnished their legend. “This band broke up before making bad records, and very few bands have ever done that.”

An English expatriate living in Mount Tremper, Fletcher spent three years researching and writing the book, which incorporates more than 50 interviews and extensive original research. Released in September in the United Kingdom and this month stateside, A Light that Never Goes Out is—and will remain—the defining Smiths biography.

Fletcher’s music writing career began inYorkshire, England, in 1977. Punk was scaring the horses and fans were making zines to honor their favorite groups. The 14-year-old schoolboy was caught up in the DIY ethos of the era. “It looked like fun, so I started one myself and printed it on the school copier. After about a year of that, I got good at it, attracted some major interviews with Pete Townshend and Paul Weller and others, and because I was so young, it got a lot of attention.”

A veteran music writer by 19, Fletcher launched his second zine, Jamming, to honor The Jam. But he was smitten by the newly formed Smiths and twice placed them on the cover.The love affair grew when he hosted a weekly TV show on which the group performed and Morrissey gave the first of his trademark audacious interviews. Fletcher saw The Smiths in concert five times before they imploded.

Just as Jamming expired from cash flow problems, the writer landed his first book deal. Never Stop was a 1987 biography of Echo and the Bunnymen, a Liverpool quartet whose songs combined surreal nursery rhyme lyrics and Doorslike psychedelic music. “I approached the group, they said yes, I wrote it, and it was published the next year,” Fletcher said. “It’s never been that easy since!”

Biographies of college rock darlings R.E.M. and Keith Moon, divine madman of The Who, followed. In the late `80s, Fletcher relocated to New York City to explore romantic notions of living on the edge. “I went through that classic period every writer goes through when they move there, reading Ginsberg and Bukowski and the like and figuring myself as some great postpunk beat poet/novelist.”

Despite the bohemian excesses, Fletcher was energized by the laissez-faire rhythm of the Lower East Side. “I found people encouraged and embraced creativity, and it was partly why I was so determined to live there.” He soon added DJ and club promoter to his credits. (Those days of extremes are recalled in his 2003 novel Hedonism.)

Immersed in the music scene on both sides of the Atlantic, Fletcher had the bona fides to deconstruct the tale of The Smiths. But, he insists, he also possessed the needed objectivity. “The Smiths wrote songs that saved a lot of people’s lives.

I was just far enough along that I was able to be a fan without needing to fall on Morrissey’s every word and worship every single lick that Johnny Marr did. And so I do think I have that balance.”

Aside from critical analyses and academic studies, the sole Smiths biography until now was Johnny Rogan’s 1992 Morrissey & Marr:The Severed Alliance (updated and re-released in October). Fletcher admired it, but felt there was “another story

to be told”—a sociocultural history of Manchester and how it birthed a dynamic musical scene. (Buzzcocks, A Certain Ratio,The Fall, Joy Division and its successor New Order, were all Mancunians.)

He began the project by reaching out to the four ex-Smiths, mostly incommunicado due to a court dispute involving song royalties. Fletcher was unsurprised when Morrissey refused. “Divas don’t give interviews lightly; they do not allow someone else to control their story.” Despite an acquaintanceship with Fletcher, drummer Mike Joyce initially declined. By the time he reconsidered, the book was completed. Only bassist Andy Rourke and lead guitarist and Smiths co-founder Johnny Marr agreed to participate.

Marr reminisced for 18 hours over two days, sitting with Fletcher in Manchester cafes and other public places, prompting a rash of fan sightings over Twitter. (Marr told the author in a subsequent e-mail that he found the interviews “therapeutic.”)

As he did in his magisterial All Hopped Up and Ready to Go, a history of New York City music from 1927 to 1977, Fletcher again plays the keen cultural anthropologist, weighing the political, educational, pharmaceutical, religious, and even sartorial aspects of Manchester in decline and how those forces shaped Morrissey and Marr as artists. (His account includes a pointed disdain for the decaying Manchester school system. This stems, he admits, from his own role as a combative reformer on the Onteora school board.)

Fletcher conjures a lost world in muscular prose.We watch Morrissey and Marr prematurely strike rock star poses in forgotten start-up bands before meeting in May, 1982. (By October, they were on stage together.) We savor the magic of early recording sessions. We sit front row at Smiths concerts that recall the days of Beatlemania. We witness fans of both sexes clambering onstage to embrace Morrissey, the self-declared celibate whose homoerotic lyrics and album covers suggested otherwise.

Fletcher deconstructs Smiths songs with the finesse of an English professor, explaining the melody lines with the exactitude of a musicologist and the brio of a musician. (He plays keyboards with the part-time band Catskill 45s, alongside fellow Valley rocker Robert Burke Warren.)

While lauding The Smiths with relentless superlatives, Fletcher doesn’t flinch from citing the reasons for their demise: Morrissey’s temper tantrums, recurring lapses in band members’ judgment, excessive drug use, and zero business acumen.

They hired and fired managers with impunity, seemingly bent on self-sabotage.

No fact is too arcane for Fletcher. We learn that Marr’s earlier band played Folk Mass at the local church in exchange for rehearsal hall time and Morrissey applied as singer for a new band that would become The Clash. Some details, however, will delight only obsessive fans: Fletcher explains that indie label Rough Trade ferried the band in a “rented Mercedes diesel undertaker’s limousine (that needed a screwdriver to start the engine).” Completists will cheer the 23 pages of footnotes.

Fletcher expected massive cutting when he delivered his doorstop of a manuscript. However, this was his only book “where editors asked for more information.”

Throughout the tale, Fletcher’s narrative powers are formidable, as in this lyrical description of the lead singer: “Morrissey, his quiff reaching almost as high as Johnny Marr’s bowl cut hung low, had adopted the full idol persona, accentuating every one of his personal traits: the one-legged pirouette, the bouquet-as-weapon, and the shirt unbuttoned to the waist, revealing a torso and abdomen remarkable only for its everyday Anglo-Irish scrawniness.”

The book ends when the group does. Fletcher defends the truncated timeline.

“I actually didn’t feel the need to go and spend another 200 pages, after doing 600 pages, talking about the court cases and the solo careers and so on. I didn’t really want to poison the story any more than it’s been poisoned.”

An inveterate multitasker, Fletcher is updating his 2003 R.E.M. biography while writing a memoir about his days on the 1970s London music scene. Boy About Town arrives next summer.

“Like anyone, I complain about being typecast, in my case as a rock biographer, but on a good day, I wake up realizing how lucky I am to be able to make a living out of this. Life could be one hell of a lot worse.”

Appearances: 12/8 at 6pm, Oriole9,Woodstock, sponsored by Golden Notebook, reading by Fletcher with Smiths music by Robert BurkeWarren and Grasshopper of Mercury Rev. 12/15 at 5pm, The Spotty Dog, Hudson, reading by Fletcher with Smiths music by Terry McCann and Stephen Bluhm.

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2012 holiday gift books Cradle of the American Circus: Poems from Somers, New York

The season’s literary merriments, reviewed by Susan Krawitz, Jana Martin, Anne Pyburn, Nina Shengold, and Robert Burke Warren.

Stripes: Design Between the Lines Linda O’Keeffe

Jo Pitkin

The Monacelli Press, 2012, $50

The History Press, $19.99, 2012

Striped or not, coffee tables will welcome this big, handsome, enjoyable book. Brilliant author and Stone Ridge dweller Linda O’Keeffe, creative director at Metropolitan Home magazine for 16 years, has been involved in design for decades. Here she focuses her formidable acumen on the nature of stripes: from zebras to battleships, sand dunes to Op Art, couches to Buddhist temples. It’s a gorgeous visual journey and a fascinating read. —JM

How many Westchester towns can claim a memorial to a murdered elephant? Award-winning poet Pitkin explores her hometown’s unusual history in a three-ring circus of deft persona poems, “prose plaques” recalling historical signs, and frisky graphics. Where 19th-century showmen hauled traveling menageries from town to town, Pitkin sees their displaced animals as “nature’s aristocrats”: “Proof of God’s existence, / evidence of man’s bit part, / snorts in makeshift crates.” —NS

Susan Feniger’s Street Food: Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes Dancing Dogs: Stories Jon Katz Ballantine Books, 2012, $24

The prolific Hudson Valley author and dog maven includes 16 funny, believable tales of dogs and people in his latest collection. In “The Dog Who Kept Men Away,” a newly single woman rescues a mutt who proves a superior judge of character, much to her benefit. Katz respects dogs well enough to give his canine characters equal billing to his human ones, which makes these stories a rare pleasure for animal lovers. —JM

Susan Feniger with Kajsa Alger & Liz Lachman, photographs by Jennifer May Clarkson Potter, 2012, $27.50

The Border Grill and Food Network chef offers a food truckload of mouth-watering recipes, served with a side of travel tales from around the world. Flavors are bright and spicy: try Malaysian Black Pepper Clams, Tamarind Date Chutney, Artichokes with Lemon Za’atar Dipping Sauce. Enticing photos by Chronogram contributor Jennifer May vibrate with color and Feniger’s signature irrepressible grin. —NS The Tucci Cookbook Stanley Tucci, foreword by Mario Batali Gallery Books, 2012, $35

Jewdayo: A Daily Blast of Knowledge and Pride Lawrence Bush Blue Thread Communications, 2012, $21.95

Jewish Currents editor Bush offers perhaps the only “book of days” that dares to give as much ink to tragedy, infamy, and struggle as it does to glory, heroism, and stalwart progressivism. But who’s complaining? When you’ve got the discovery of the double helix, the defiance of holy gay poet Allen Ginsberg, and the Great American Songbook to commemorate, you can afford equal time for pogroms, the Rosenbergs, and Barbie. —RBW

If you’ve seen the movie Big Night, it’s hard to think of actor Stanley Tucci without mentally conjuring mounds of tempting Italian food. This cookbook presents a wide variety of delicious but simple recipes from Westchester resident Tucci’s “food obsessed” family, and chef/friend Gianni Scapin, along with family lore, personal commentary, and wine suggestions. An extra bonus: instructions for making timpano, Big Night’s uncredited star. —SK True Nature: an Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude Barbara Bash

Lawyers, Guns & Photos: Photographs & Tales of My Adventures with Warren Zevon George Gruel Big Gorilla Books, 2012, $35

Although never a superstar, wry singer-songwriter Warren Zevon influenced many icons—The Eagles, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt—in both music and rock and roll outlaw lifestyle. His faithful “aide de camp” and designated drunk driver, Troy resident George Gruel, was there throughout the late ’70s-early ’80s glory days, photographing scenes compromising and heartwarming, star-studded and humble, all rendered here in loving tribute. Ah-hoooo! —RBW

KTD Publications, 2012 $19.95

Sometimes quiet reflection is the best gift of all. Bash’s timeless meditation on the challenges and rewards of time spent alone in nature unfolds in fluid sketches and impossibly neat calligraphy. KTD’s expanded edition features exercises for fellow travelers wishing to “pick up your own sketchbook, step outside, and discover what is waiting for you—waiting to be drawn and seen.” Appearing at Golden Notebook, Woodstock 12/1 at 4pm and Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale, 12/6 at 7:15pm. —NS Under the North Light: The Life and Work of Maud and Mishka Petersham Lawrence Webster, foreword by Philip C. Stead & Erin E. Stead

Sailor Twain, or The Mermaid in the Hudson Mark Siegel First Second Books, 2012, $24.99

The Hudson River Valley generates a flow of literature as broad and deep and lovely as the river herself. This vision is wildly fresh—a graphic novel for adults, done in atmospheric grey charcoal. Man meets mermaid in the Gilded Age, and much ensues aboard the steamboat Lorelei. A miraculous reimagination of our enchanted terrain, told and shown with depth and hilarity, Sailor Twain is a gateway drug for graphic novel skeptics. —AP

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Woodstock Arts, 2012, $39.50

Vassar grad Maud Fuller and Hungarian emigree Miska Petersham met in New York in 1912 and moved to Woodstock during its bohemian heyday, becoming award-winning illustrators and authors of more than 100 children’s books. Woodstock’s Webster, who knew them as a child, depicts this loving collaboration (they drew at desks facing each other) with a sure hand in this lavishly illustrated book. The Petershams’ artwork graced Chronogram’s November cover, and can be seen at WAAM through 12/31. —NS

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FOR CHILDREN & TEENS As the Crow Flies Written by Sheila Keenan, illustrated by Kevin Duggan Feiwel & Friends, 2012, $16.99

“All day long you’re on the go. You don’t have time to watch a crow.” But this husband-and-wife writer/ illustrator team apparently does, and the result of their Capital District crow-watching is a picture book paean to an often overlooked bird. Playfully highlighting crows’ intelligence, persistence, and skill, the clever rhyming text and engaging illustrations ensure the corvid crew will be ignored no longer. —SK

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Blackwood Gwenda Bond Strange Chemistry, 2012, $9.99

The mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a puzzler since 1590, provides a lush backdrop of history and place. Debut novelist Bond weaves a smart, bewitching tale of two contemporary young people, both misfits with unusual powers, who are thrust into desperate circumstances when the present meets the past.

Appearing 12/9 at 4pm, Hudson Valley YA Society, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. —AP

The Christmas Tugboat George Matteson & Adele Ursone, paintings by James Ransome Clarion Books, 2012, $17.99

Tugboat captain George Matteson and his wife Adele Ursone recount, through the eyes of their young daughter, their true family adventure bringing the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree down the Hudson River. Kids and parents will love the frozen dew on the tree and the dollhouse-like interior of the tugboat cabin, brought to life in soft detail by local painter James E. Ransome. Appearing 12/1 at 4pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. —RBW

The Diviners Libba Bray Little, Brown, 2012, $19.99

Banished from Dullsville, Ohio, for trying to put more roar in the roaring twenties, 17-year-old Evie arrives in New York ready to peel the Big Apple. But an evil force is stalking the city, and Evie possesses a mystical talent that both puts her in his path and offers an end to his reign. This series kick-off by a best-selling author will delight anyone susceptible to page-turners. Appearing 12/9 at 4pm at the Hudson Valley YA Society at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. —SK

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The Three Feathers Stefan Bolz Beacon Books, 2012, $12.99

Test-driven by fourth graders at Lenape Elementary School, Bolz’s picaresque saga stars a plucky rooster who (literally) flies the coop to follow a magical dream toward his destiny. Lessons about loyalty, friendship, and overcoming limitations will also entice adult seekers. Whether you’re in it for spiritual metaphor or adventure thrills (chasms! labyrinths! dragons and vultures!) this quest tale enchants. Appearing 12/7 at 7pm, Inquiring Minds, New Paltz & 12/14 at 7pm, Stone Ridge Library. —NS

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POETRY

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

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

Wild Man

Season’s Greetings

I was mad very mad when my mom made me take a shower at nine I cried and told her I wanted to be a wild man then I would not have to take showers at nine after she left I meditated

Good luck to all during this difficult holiday season.

—p

—Peter Zickler (7 years)

Two Dogs

November Low and High Kus

The dog had not always barked so much. In the car the first time he trembled quiet in the backseat and then the car’s floor when the backseat became a place to relieve himself.

He would sit upright on the kitchen floor and look up, his mouth closed and his eyes unblinking and watch the seated man watching him, the man putting a piece of meat on his fork and the slow move to his mouth, his whole body turned toward the dog on the ground looking up. The dog learned to bark with purpose then upon that first piece shucked downward and he learned to bark to speak. The man grew tired of even those first barks and learned how he could make the dog quiet again and so he did. The dog spread into his age and became hard of hearing and awoke one morning totally and irreversibly deaf and no longer raised his head to the chime of the hall’s clock or the five o’clock slamming of the driver’s-side at the curb and the slow plod up the back stairs and he did not seem to mind his deafness. He would sit upright on the floor and look up and bark and wait and eat and bark and wait and eat and having no faculty to understand tomorrow or even later tonight but every faculty to understand now and what he would do and how he would do it. He would sit and bark and the man knew the dog was deaf and he was listening alone and when the last bit had been dropped he cursed the dog for its ways and raised his voice and yelled and cursed and asked what kind of God what kind of God would make such a thing that could not see its own self as a thing among other things. When the last bit had been dropped he would curse the dog and the dog would sit and look up, his mouth closed and his eyes unblinking, and he would bark.

The chrysanthemums color still stands out amid the dried, drooped, and done.

~~~ A November wind has thin bare branches scratching at the low gray sky.

~~~ Canadian geese form zigzag Vs in the sky, winged calligraphy.

~~~ That calling from geese outside my window on high, I long to follow.

~~~ The dark comes early before I am quite ready to be so quiet.

—Rick Harnden

—Checko Miller

Camping: Parent’s Point of View Two Lovers Eventually their love folded like a page upon itself and a page upon itself and upon itself.

They grew tired of remembering to remember it and, deciding not to, they didn’t.

—Rick Harnden

Solstice Prayer

Camping, Ahhh, The time to sit back and relax.

All that packing is finally starting to pay off.

You thought of everything—food, sunblock, water,

money for the ice-cream truck.

Finally,

Some Me Time.

Winter solstice dim yet star-bright carry us through the deep of night let not the darkness demolish our faith let not the darkness eat our hope let not the darkness drink our joy let not the darkness suffocate our knowing let not the darkness poison our hearts Winter solstice dim yet star-bright carry us through the deep of night allow the light to shower forgiveness allow the light to tender healing allow the light to open our hearts allow the light to render us whole allow the light to bring us home Winter solstice dim yet star-bright bless us through the deep of night

Watching your kids frolic and play in the sand.

You’re starting to get the hang of the whole relaxing thing.

Until … “Mom, Dad, Can you get the sand toys

from way back at the campsite?

I would, but I can’t reach it.”

—Arlene G. Levine

—Sophia Garelick (11 years)

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You look at one another.

He raises his eyebrow.

You give him a look.

Who will call Not It first?

Leda’s Ambiguities It was consensual: something I thought I wanted. …something about Trotsky and an ice pick— I thought there was more; I thought he wouldn’t die.

I had made love before— but, I realized, never (been) fucked before.

I was emptied,

The Movement of Peace in Blood

it wasn’t what you wanted.

I wanted to fly to Bohemia;

I’ve made repeated attempts to drive my point home: You’re looking for love

in all the wrong places.

Do you understand now what an empty act it can be?

He shouldn’t have pressured you.

Defenestration is nothing like flying.

Bohemia was nothing like Utopia.

I trusted him.

Trust is something you earn;

We were two strangers disappointed by one another;

he was a stranger.

neither of us turned out to be what the other one expected.

We were disappointments

to one another—

long enough with enough

Want me to go and break his nose?

invaded, by a stranger.

I thought he was a—

Wanting has driven

There was no sensuality involved;

Do you understand now what we had and consider it a possibility that at some point, we might return to what was?

—Aviva Grossman

Street Scene Dixie, she was, woman of means met me crosstown some days we shared old fruit, and beans reading together her essays finding my moment of fame written in detox aloud she read my name [in my cardboard box] —William Windham “The Park Poet,” who spent the last half of his life homeless, passed away in October.

Let nothing happen It gives the angels churning in your hearts a gale of relief God has built you as quite the endurance runner there is peace pulsing in you —Chris Milea

wysiwyg last nite u said ttyl but didnt, and ive hrd that b4 all those times u say gtg. im scared; r these ur last wrds? l8r? l8r? y not now? its not hrd 2 c y i cnt reach u; its b/c u run rings round my brokn nglish. btw luv, im still w8tng, for u 2 brb i m just like ur wrds; b/c w/o u i m disembodied, gossamer, fractured : ( —David G. Farber

Meeting Place

Ravishing

On the mug my mother held— where birds she loved flew under the storm painted in grey, over blue spruce, green pine, and brown earth— for years she and I almost touched on its rim.

Our hands almost joined on its grip.

Then careless, I let it slip and shatter.

With no where else to rendezvous, we’d never be together again.

Prickling over Moons of red Silence washes Come to bed

—Joe A. Oppenheimer

Roof Orgy Up on ladders, men with lights, Making reindeer fly, They are all, hot for Santa

Forget me not The blue-toned man Remembering eery The terrible ban Jiminy-crickets The jungle grows A nighttime ire So slowly close Bring me in So quicksilver smart Fell-found demon You try and start.

—Elias Sorich

Without Another person has left this world.

The disparity is strange, feels fictitious, like swimming— There are 56 articles attached to his name. Now —Arielle Lindstrom

—Rosalinda McGovern

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Community Pages

The view from the top of the tower at Cronomer Hill Park

Celebrating the Past, Discovering the Future Newburgh

By David Neilsen Photogaphs by David Morris Cunningham

N

ewburgh is a prime example of what’s happened along the East Coast,” says David McTamaney, retired high school English teacher and lifelong Newburgh resident. “So many industrial towns such as ours have seen their height, they came down, and now they’re trying to adjust to the 21st century.”

Located just over an hour north of New York City on the western shore of the Hudson River, Newburgh is a diverse, historic community which was once considered the jewel of the Hudson Valley. But Newburgh has seen hard times over the past few decades, being hit especially hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs after World War II. Fortunately, it has recently shown signs of life: new businesses opening in long-abandoned storefronts, renewed interest in the many historic sites in the city and town, and an emerging and vibrant artistic scene as artists flee New York City for the natural beauty and readily available studio space of the Hudson Valley.

Washington Stayed Here

George Washington had as many as 165 headquarters during the Revolutionary War. In none of them did he live longer than in Newburgh, where he stayed from April 1782 until August 1783. Today, Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site welcomes over 20,000 visitors each year. It was here that Washington wrote the orders of cessation of hostilities, ending the war. He also rejected the offer of a monarchy over the newly formed United States of 66 newburgh ChronograM 12/12

America while in Newburgh, wrote the Circular Letters (which became the basis for the Constitution), and created the forerunner to the Purple Heart, the Badge of Military Merit.

The new exhibit, “Unpacked and Rediscovered: Selections From Washington’s Headquarters’ Collection,” opens December 1 and features over 1,300 artifacts from the museum’s collection dating back to the Revolutionary War. 200 Years of Architecture

Newburgh boasts the largest contiguous historic district in New York State, and to drive down some of the streets is to travel back in time. Well aware of this treasure, Newburgh takes pains to ensure the district remains intact. “The city’s architectural review commission is diligent about ensuring that renovations and new construction within the historic district are in compliance within a set of guidelines,” says Newburgh City Manager Richard Herbek.

Ironically, the crowning achievement of Newburgh architecture is not a building, but a park. In the center of the city sits Downing Park, a 35-acre open space of hills, valleys, serpentine paths, water features, monuments, an amphitheater, and a two-and-a-half acre pond. If Downing Park reminds visitors of New York City’s Central Park, that’s perfectly understandable, as the two parks were designed by the same people. Partners Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed the park, which opened in 1897, and is named after Andrew Jackson Downing, their mentor and the father of American Land-

clockwise from top left: Joanne Minutolo at Nick’s Hot Dogs; Patrick Castelli At 3 Little Pigs BBQ; Adam Kooperman at Dark Towers Comics; Stephen Cameron at Lawrence Farms Orchards; Erika Madara and David Miers at Nature’s Pantry; Rory Glynn and Rick Brownell at the Powelton Club; Dave and Pat Quigley at Chadwick Lake

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Events Newburgh Candlelight Tour The annual Candlelight Tour of Homes, hosted by the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, offers an intimate look into the architectural treasures of New York’s largest upstate historic district, including Washington’s Headquarters and the neoclassical Captain David Crawford House built in 1830 on 500-acres overlooking the Hudson River. These historic spaces come to life with the holiday spirit of times past, decorated with traditional greens, flowers, and fruit. Warm Up at the Washington’s features 18th-century music performed by the Salmagundi Consort, historic interpreters in each room, and hot mulled cider brewed over an outdoor fire. Tour participants receive an illustrated booklet that includes a map of all the sites, and they tour the properties at their own pace. Tickets are available for a $25 advanced donation to the Historical Society.

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Newburgh Fish Fry This past August, the 5th annual Fish Fry Community Outreach at HRP Life Changing Ministries served 1,600 people, and supplied backpack and school supplies to 130 community children. Event founder Dawn Jackson of Healthy Meals on Wheels teamed up with Reverend Norcecio Harris, the inner-city church pastor, to achieve these record-breaking numbers, along with generous donations from local businesses and community members. The annual event features an afternoon of free food, games, music, prizes, back to school supplies, and good will.

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LOCAL NOTABLE Cathy Collins When Cathy Collins was a little girl, she wanted to grow up to be president so she could solve all the world’s woes. “What I wanted to do was make a difference in the world,” she says. “Had I known about nonprofit work, I would have said ‘Oh, that’s what I want to do!’” Collins has spent her working life in the notprofit world. Today she is executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, a position she has held for the past two years and one she intends to hold for a great many more.

Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Collins came to Newburgh after a two-year stint as manager of the Women’s Institute at the Omega Institute, which itself followed two-and-a-half-years as executive director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill in Hyde Park.

While she is proud of her resume, it is in Newburgh with Habitat For Humanity that Collins has found a home. “What this job does is it fulfills every aspect of who I am,” she says. “I think I am a good leader, running an organization of this size. I like construction very much. I’m in a community that has elements of great need. I get to do this work in a way that I believe in, both personally and professionally. And then there’s also the faith-based aspect—putting God’s love into action.”

Collins finds true satisfaction in her work with Habitat for Humanity. “I have a real passion for social justice, really transformative social justice,” she says. “What I love about Habitat is that from the beginning to the end, it holds dignity for everyone involved. The volunteers that come and are a part of this, they gain a different understanding of what poverty housing is. The people who live in poverty housing are not [all] lazy or drug addicts.”

Collins takes care to explain the difference between “poverty housing” and the “affordable housing” that her organization builds.

One family that applied for a Habitat for Humanity for Greater Newburgh home was living in a building where the mother had to hold an umbrella over her while she cooked for fear that peeling paint from the ceiling would fall into the food. Another family had to leave the center of their living room free of furniture because of a heating system that would occasionally shoot a jet of flame into the room.

“Why don’t people make a change? Well, they don’t have a tradi-

tional avenue to get out of those situations,” explains Collins. “We provide that hand up and give them that avenue.”

On November 11, the 13-year-old Habitat for Humanity for Greater Newburgh dedicated their 61st home. Sixty-one homes built in 13 years by a nonprofit is admirable, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Since coming on as executive director, Collins has upped the pace considerably. “Last year, in November, we dedicated our 50th house,” she says. “At that point, we decided that the need is great enough that we really needed to build our next 50 houses in the next five years [rather than the 12 years it took to build the first 50].”

And Collins makes it clear that families are not simply given a Habitat for Humanity home for nothing. They are taking on a mortgage, which they must show an ability to pay, and each family must provide sweat equity by working on Habitat for Humanity builds themselves. Another way the families pay for their home is the same way we all pay—taxes. “This process becomes a sustainable solution and changes that family forever, but that family is also annually contributing $5,000 back to city and school tax rolls,” says Collins.

“Right now we have over $300,000 that’s annually going back [to the city and school district], so that becomes part of a sustainable solution for the community.”

On East Parmenter Street directly behind her office is Collins’s most ambitious project. Within a three-block radius sit nine occupied Habitat for Humanity homes, the concrete foundations of five more units, and empty lots owned by Habitat for Humanity that will some day be seven more homes. Plus she has her eye on a number of dilapidated, unoccupied buildings bordering the area.

She’s not building a house on East Parmenter Street, she’s building a neighborhood.

It’s a sizable task, but Collins is up to the challenge. “To work in a community like this, you need to have a little faith. Because it doesn’t always seem possible,” she says. “It’s about creating community, and I get to do that in spades here.”

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The opening of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over the Hudson in 1963 connected the two sides of the river but took a tremendous toll on Newburgh, already reeling from the decline of its manufacturing sector. Suddenly traffic that once drove through Newburgh now drove around it instead. For a time, it seemed as though the city was destined for the footnotes of history, its industry gone, its infrastructure hopelessly outdated. “Many of the buildings that we have in Newburgh that once held factories would no longer be suitable [for manufacturing],” says McTamaney. “OSHA would close them down in a day if they tried to do the same thing [they once did].”

But a funny thing happened on the way to the scrap heap—Newburgh bounced back. One of the most stunning examples of this renewal is the Front Street River Walk, Newburgh’s Restaurant Row on the River. Close to a dozen restaurants sit along the water’s edge, offering a stunning vista in a wide variety of cuisine. Swing by for fish at Captain Jake’s or Cena 2000, indulge in Havana 59’s Cuban-American fare, or get some of the best BBQ on the Hudson at Billy Joe’s Ribworks. A couple of blocks away is the Newburgh Brewing Company, which opened its exquisitely renovated 6,000-square-foot tap room is always a great place to end an evening.

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In the last few years, Newburgh has become a haven for artists, lured by the abundant and affordable studio space. Once surrounded by Newburgh’s natural beauty, they choose to stay, adding to Newburgh’s growing arts community.

“You start seeing folks looking at some of these big old warehouse buildings and saying what can I do there?” says McTamaney. “There are several artists that are moving here from Brooklyn and New York City.” In October 2012, a number of Newburgh artists organized the Newburgh Open Studios Tour.

32 artists opened their doors to the public for the weekend in an event that brought in hundreds of people.

“Arts have always been extremely important to the City,” says Herbek, pointing to the Ritz Theater on Broadway, which served as an entertainment destination in Newburgh’s heyday, featuring performances by legends such as Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, and Frank Sinatra. The tradition continues with the newly-renovated Railroad Playhouse on South Water Street, the Newburgh Actors Studio on Broadway, and the Downing Film Center on the Front Street River Walk.

For those looking for something with more horsepower, the Motorcyclepedia Museum on Lake Street opened in the Spring of 2011. Director Ted Doring has spent the past 40 years collecting remnants of 120 years of motorcycles which are spread out over 85,000 square feet of museum space. Doring, a longtime Newburgh resident, says that Newburgh is and always has been a motorcycle town. “There was always a Harley dealer in Newburgh,” he says.

“Motorcycles are pretty blue collar. If a young guy had a good factory job, he’d buy a motorcycle.”

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The Future Is Bright

“I think there’s a lot of momentum [in Newburgh],” says Cathy Collins, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh. “People really do want it to succeed.” You can see that momentum all over the city: in artistic murals going up along Broadway, in the vibrant business along Front Street River Walk, in the new businesses opening up. What started out as isolated pockets of renewal has grown into a larger web of a community in rebirth. “It seems that there’s an increased amount of interest in coming to Newburgh,” says Herbek. “There is a, I think I would use the word renaissance, taking place here.”

For inspiration, Herbek points to another river town just down the shore that fell on hard times. “It took Peekskill a couple of decades to get to where they are today,” he says. “And it’s going to take a while here. But I see a lot of promise. I think we’re in a real transformative state right at the moment. I see a lot of positive things happening here.

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Wilderstein in Rhinebeck will host its winter house tours from Hawthornevalleyschool.org 1 to 4pm on weekends until the end of Decemeber. Drink and eat in Victorian style at the annual Yuletide Tea on December Polar Express 8 at 1pm, Cynthia Owen Philip will give a talk on her book Who needs Rudolph when you have a train? Bundle up Wilderstein & the Suckleys. Margaret “Daisy” Suckley was the last and take a ride to Kingston Point with Santa and his elves resident of the house, a cousin of FDR, and will be portrayed on the Polar Express at the Trolley Museum of NewYork.

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Tmny.org Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” “Count Your Blessings” because the musical based on the Unison Annual Holiday Crafts Fair Christmas classic is coming to the Center for Perfoming Arts Unison Arts Center will be holding its 22nd annual at Rhinebeck on November 30.There will be Friday, Saturday, Holiday Crafts fair on December 1 to 2 from 10am to and Sundays showings until December 16.Tickets are $26.

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Is that Santa Claus playing the sax? Yes, the 400 block Ikehall.com is his usual spot in the annual Winter Walk on Warren Street. On December 1 from 5 to 8pm the Hudson Locust GroveTwilightTour & Historic Holiday Dinner street will be void of cars for the Santa Parade with Taking a tour around the Italian villa-style mansion estate by the man himself and the missus. Stilt walkers, horse candlelight can build up an appetite. Luckily, an early 1900s drawn carriages, bagpipers, and live reindeer will all dinner menu from the Locust Grove archives will be pre- be joining the fun. And if you’re hungry after all that sented by Chef Charles Fells from Poughkeepsie’s Artist’s walking, don’t worry, food vendors will line the street.

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“The Nutcracker” Tchaikovsky’s iconic ballet “The Nutcracker,” about a little girl and her larger than life toys, is coming to the Bardavon. The New Paltz Ballet Theatre will perform their rendition for the 15th year from December 6 through 9 and for the 30th year the Catskill Ballet will also perform at the theater from December 7 through 9.

Bardavon.org A Gilded Age Christmas Take a tour of the lavish 79-room, Beaux-Arts style Mills Mansion. Learn the family history and see the turn-of-the century decorations. Tours until the end of December, closed on Christmas day.

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Woodstockguild.org “A Christmas Carol” Charles Dickens’s classic has been retold by everyone from Mickey Mouse to Bill Murray. This season some Hudson Valley theaters will put their spin on the tale. The Performing Arts Center at Rhinebeck will have The Puppet People’s “A Christmas Carol” on December 22 at 11am and CENTERstage Productions’ version on December 21 to 23.The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s production will be at Boscobel on December 1, 7, 8, 14, 15. Ulster Ballet will also present the play at UPAC. Bardavon.org.

The Old Dutch Church will have storyteller Jonathan Kruk recount the play on December 1, 8, 15, 22.

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Holiday Gift Giving Embracing Simple Joys

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t’s a rare soul—at least on this continent—who never even sets foot inside a corporate retail outlet of the big-box variety.You may disapprove in principle, but at some point or other the need of some particular thingamajig draws you in. Big-box stores, noxious politics notwithstanding, do a fine job of providing 87 different colors of spray paint in three textures, basic kitchen appliances, and the like.

But despite the zillion point seven dollars invested by the multinationals in convincing us—beginning while the leaves are still half-green—that they hold the key to Joyful Holiday Giving, they truly just can’t offer much here unless your loved ones would be most joyful to receive sweat socks, motor oil, and large trash bags. In that case, have at it.

It’s certainly not that the idea of presenting loved ones with treats is in any way unpleasant. What could be more fun? But the Black Friday Frenzy, assaultive toy mobs, and endless ads suggesting that only a next year’s car or living room suite can really make the grade can cast a bit of a pall. Finding some token that you know will be cherished is meant to be huge fun, not the royal road to megastress.

And herein lies the key to why shopping local and indie is not just a social good, not just a good thing to do for your loved ones, but the best thing you can do for yourself. As the days shorten, we are drawn instinctively toward the ancient ways of obtaining essential spiritual nutrients—coming together in community. This is why the shopping-under-fluorescent-lights plan is like choosing only the Brand X potato chips and dipping them in Brand X mayonnaise when you could be feasting fresh and rich with loved ones.

Happily, the genuine goodness is not hard to find. The art of retail is practiced with as much genius and love around the Hudson’s lovely valley and environs as the fine and performing and culinary arts. The holidays offer a fantastic excuse to venture forth and soak it all in.

You’ll be treated like gold. “Last year we had a very good customer actually make a late-night appointment to shop at her convenience,” says Barbara Schreiber of the Rhinebeck Department Store. “We normally close at 8pm

but she used us as her one-stop shopping and was here with us until 10pm. We wrapped many of her gifts and sent her a cyclamen the next day to thank her for her loyalty. She was very pleased at the customized service we gave her and touched by the gift we sent to her the next day.”

Even if you’re just browsing, you’re bound to notice a difference in the hospitality skills on display at a place wreathed in family traditions and lifelong dreams and a cookie-cutter chain where the elves are starving in the toy workshop.

When you shop locally, around three times as much of the money remains local, where it will bounce around among friends and neighbors and is highway unlikely to wing itself off to the Grand Caymans, never to be seen again.

Not only that, the choices you’ll have will amaze and delight you. No online megaboutique of gracious living accoutrements can come close to the level of creative inventory you will find at, say, Colors Home in Warwick. “My business partner Christina [Topaloglou] holds a degree in engineering and this has proved immensely valuable when designing custom projects—how everything comes together structurally and logistically as well as aesthetically,” says coowner Susan Lovegreen. “She also has a great deal of experience in furniture design—comfort meets function with a unique and modern twist.”

The result is a curated array that, even if it turns out not to contain exactly “the” item, will bring aesthetic pleasure and amazement just by visiting it—a sort of gallery of the useful. “We are always on the search for new products to introduce to our customers. We look for companies that are forging new design pathways versus companies that prefer to copy and imitate what is already available. We travel to a variety of international shows and exhibits to preview style trends. At the shows, we have access to new companies that are just getting their first exposure to a large audience. And we also keep tabs on design trends through a variety of internet sites that offer a large amount of designing ideas, creative new uses for a stand-by product or suggestions for solving a tricky design problem. These sites can sometimes give a little spark to a new design concept we create. It is a bit like treasure hunting.”

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Julie Safran of Cocoon in New Paltz agrees—the creation of a store that strokes every sense is best undertaken by the spiritual descendants of gypsy adventurers . “In January, half my month is spent on the road. That’s what it takes to find interesting merchandise that others don’t have.”

The caliber of her results can perhaps be measured by a five-star rave-up from one Alexandra P., who admits that it “sounds weird” to talk about traveling 90 miles from Manhattan for cool shopping. But Cocoon has won her heart: “I saw so much stuff that I had really never seen before but that I instantly wanted. They had legitimately good lunch and kitchen supplies, pretty home decor stuff, interesting books, baby gear, and so forth. Even their ‘witty T-shirt’ section was legitimately funny—a rare coup, for sure!” she says, adding that New Paltz “is a fun enough town that I can get away with pretending I’m not mostly going just to shop.”

What Alexandra may not know, but you, dear reader, should, is that we’ve got a lot of retail zones that make that grade and then some. From Saugerties and the Stockade down to Warwick, on both sides of the river, whichever locale is your personal “local” you’ll find it decorated and delightful, with good eats and drinks nearby. Downtowns—even tiny ones—pack mojo the mall can’t mimic.

Even if time or circumstances or inclination require you to do some or all of your shopping in virtual reality, there are wonderful web aggregations out there that make it easy to shop local without leaving the house. On the homey Accord-kerhonkson.com, you’ll find a “local artists” portal that brings together more than 40 sources of absolutely one-of-a-kind creations of stunning beauty. Hudson Valley Makes, a relatively new entry, is constantly adding new local sources and inspirations.

Of course, many communities are doing some aggregation in what we call real life at this time of year. Gift and craft fairs abound. Then there are the permanent installations. Art Riot in Kingston’s Stockade, for example, brings together more than 50 indie makers under the banner, “Local. Alternative. DIY.” But what, you say, if my sweetheart really does need something practical?

Am I not forced to dive into the soul-deadening fender-bender-generating creative desert that is Concrete Acres? Not hardly. Places like Kenco, up on a hill at the Kingston end of Hurley Mountain Road, and the aforementioned Warwick Department Store carry a full and wonderful line of footwear, apparel and useful basics.You can get and give true quality, while saving more in time and aggravation than you could possibly spend in extra dollars.

Shopping local is a gift you give yourself, restoring the level of blessedness to the whole gifting interaction that it’s intended to have. The sun will be back soon. Meanwhile, in its stead, we find ways to spread the light and keep each other warm. “Ninety percent is locally crafted and all of it is chosen to bring joy,” says Peri Rainbow-Sloan of Family Traditions in Stone Ridge, where a former video store has been transformed into a yummy gallery-emporium.

Joy, dear readers, doesn’t come from a sweatshop.

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By Peter Barrett Photographs by Roy Gumpel Vassar pastry chef Brad Goulden demonstrates chocolate tempering to the Culture and Chemistry of Cuisine class.

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his past October saw the release of Nathan Myhrvold and Maxime Bilet’s Modernist Cuisine at Home (The Cooking Lab, 2012), the abridged and simplified version of last year’s five-volume, 2,400-page, 40-pound behemoth Modernist Cuisine. While the original is a virtuosic and comprehensive compendium of current scientific cooking knowledge, dizzying in its depth, detail, and complexity, the new volume dispenses with the expensive gadgetry and exotic ingredients that place the big book firmly in the realm of pornography for most people and focuses instead on useful and feasible techniques for home cooks. While nongeeks may still scoff or balk at the book, there is no disputing the fact that an understanding of basic scientific principles can make you a dramatically better cook and deepen your understanding of food.

It is with that truth in mind that Miriam Rossi and David Jemiolo, both science teachers at Vassar College, created The Culture and Chemistry of Cuisine, a course that fills up quickly every fall. Though it’s technically a science class, it has no prerequisite so that students from any major can take it. Rossi is the Mary Landon Sague Professor of Chemistry, and Jemiolo is an Associate Professor of biology. Jemiolo explains that “Our philosophy is the enjoyment of food, but learning more than you would from just a recipe.” Rossi continues: “Vassar is a liberal art school, so lots of students are afraid of science. Our goal is to overcome that, especially given how important technology is in our lives now.”

A recent class met in a room off the dining hall where many of the lab sessions take place. (Some labs take place in an actual science lab, but nothing made there can be eaten). This class focused on chocolate, specifically tempering it— melting and cooling it so it hardens to a shiny, smooth finish—and featured Brad Goulden, Vassar’s pastry chef, who has extensive knowledge of the subject and an infectious passion for sharing it. “Carbon is simple,” he begins, “and if you put a lot of it together, you get graphite” like in pencil leads. “Press it with enormous force, though [so the atoms all align] and what do you get? A diamond.” This principle manifests enticingly in a big bowl of melted chocolate that he stirs and pours off his spatula in a shimmering ribbon. By melting the chocolate, then “seeding” and cooling it with chips from the bag (which are already tempered) and then warming it back up to around body temperature, Goulden creates a liquid chocolate in which the cocoa butter crystallizes into one out of six possible sizes: the one that cools to a hard, glossy shell and melts in your mouth. Students carefully dunk cubes of fudge into the bowl using bent forks, gingerly lay them out on a sheet pan to cool, and then eat them all while they’re still warm.

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Food Science Besides the sweet side of polymorphous crystallization, the class offers examples of fermentation (cheese, bread, and vinegar), leavening (yeast and chemical), and the behavior of starches, sugars, fats, and proteins under all sorts of culinary conditions. Some of these facts are common knowledge: Eggs poached in water with a little vinegar hold their shape better. “It’s in Julia Child’s recipe, so we set up an experiment,” says Jemiolo. Groups of students poached eggs in water with salt, vinegar, both, and neither, and studied the results. “What happens is the proteins in the egg whites are less soluble in acid, so it holds together; they don’t disperse as much.” They also float when they’re done, which illustrates another principle at work: “There are not a lot of foods in nature that are basic [alkaline], and egg whites are one of them. When Mother Nature wants to make something basic, she uses bicarbonate. When you put it in water with vinegar, it effervesces and the protein coagulates and traps the bubbles so they float.”

This is exactly the same thing that happens in your pancakes when you add baking soda to leaven them.

The students experimented by cooking green beans in plain water, water with vinegar added, and water with baking soda. The beans cooked with bicarbonate remained green, whereas “with vinegar, protons displace the magnesium in chlorophyll, making pheophytin, which has an army green color.” Bicarbonate prevents this from happening, keeping boiled or steamed greens vivid and appealing. But cook them too long, Jemiolo warns, and the alkaline water will react with the pectin in the vegetables, which is acidic, and they’ll stay green but become limp and mushy. Rossi, also on the subject of pectin, illustrates another example where traditional recipes reveal an intuitive (and frugal) understanding of science: “Lots of jam recipes call for adding some lemon peel and pith, which has a lot of pectin, so you don’t have to buy any.”

“We talk about colors in food, and how some are water soluble and some are fat soluble,” she continues. A good example is saffron, says Jemiolo—they often finish each other’s thoughts, and clearly enjoy their collaboration—“it gets its bright yellow color from a long hydrocarbon with a sugar molecule on either end, which allows it to be water soluble. This allows it to stain rice yellow when you make risotto.” Both teachers are Italian-American, and their love of the traditional foods of that country is evident. Because Vassar

Left: Students dip cubes of fudge in the tempered chocolate. Tempered chocolate hardens to a shiny, shelf-stable shell. Right: It’s not as easy as it looks.

has such a diverse student body, however, they go out of their way to use examples from cuisines around the world and tie them to culture and history as well as science. Potatoes originated in South America, for example, but when they became a monoculture in Ireland that dependency on a sole crop led to the Great Famine of the 19th century.

Food as Culture Corn, another New World food that became a staple in Europe, offers another fascinating example of the perils of monoculture. Native people in the Americas treated their corn with lime, a process called nixtamalization, that softens the grains (as in the green bean example) and produces a lovely flour for tortillas. It also happens to free up niacin (vitamin B3), making it available to our bodies. At different times and places, like Northern Italy in the 18th century and the American South in the early 20th century, people subsisting largely on corn developed pellagra, a nasty disease resulting from a niacin deficiency; the body uses its own tryptophan (an amino acid) to synthesize niacin, but at the cost of other essential protein synthesis. “What came over was the corn, but not the culture,” explains Jemiolo. Rossi offers some other examples: “We also talk about the effect of starch on foods; different kinds of rice have different starches, like sticky versus long grain,” and that affects the types and textures of dishes that cultures develop, as does the need for combining foods—rice and beans being the simplest example—to create a complete protein.

By now most people are familiar with umami, the savory fifth basic taste.

L-glutamate, the amino acid responsible for the flavor, is present in meat, mushrooms, hard cheese, tomatoes, and many other foods. The umami in glutamate is potentiated by several nucleotides, among them guanosine monophosphate and inosine monophosphate, which happen to be present in dried fish. What makes all this technical and polysyllabic information fascinating are the diverse ways in which different cultures have figured this out: tomato sauce with mushrooms or anchovies and parmesan on top in Italy, Chinese cabbage and chicken soup, fish sauce in Southeast Asia, and probably the purest expression of umami on the planet: dashi, the mother stock in Japanese cuisine, where glutamate comes from kombu (kelp) and dried bonito fillets provide inosinate. Humble, unassuming ketchup (derived

from the Indonesian kecap) is a powerful umami-amplifier, based as it is on tomatoes and (originally, anyway) fermented anchovies, and everyone knows about soy sauce. If this still sounds arcane, try making your beef stew with a few anchovies and dried mushrooms and a bit of soy sauce and tomato paste and see if it isn’t a lot more interesting.

The class works in the other direction, too; a deeper understanding of cooking chemistry makes scientific work more familiar. “All the processes are things we use in the lab all the time,” says Rossi. “When you make espresso using a moka, the water comes up at a higher temperature than boiling [because it’s under pressure] so the grinds are finer than you use for a drip, which is exactly what we do in high-pressure liquid chromatography,” a technique for analyzing the chemical makeup of different compounds. The fine grind means more surface area, and thus better extraction, “but that also creates more resistance so you need more pressure.”

The class compiles a cookbook at the end of each semester, and each student contributes a recipe. This is clearly an elective that people are happy to take; the students are attentive and cheerful. Henry Liang is an STS (Science, Technology, and Society) major who is writing his thesis on food labeling and GMOs. “It has increased my interest in both [science and cooking] and offered me more exposure because otherwise I wouldn’t have the time.” Sarah Haven is a psychology major who hopes to become a farmer.

“I think it’s important to make as much food as possible from scratch and thought this class would enhance my knowledge of cooking. Many of the food projects I am interested in—fermenting, canning, sourdough, and general preservation—have processes that could be strengthened by learning the basic chemistry behind them.” Biology major Kevin Lee says that though his family loves to eat out, he wants to cook at home: “While the course has allowed me to appreciate chemistry even more, I feel so much pleasure and enjoyment while cooking, to the point where I am excited for the moment where I have a counter full of ingredients and cooking tools and I can make virtually anything I want.” Haven, obviously angling for an A, concludes with a sentiment that should make her teachers proud: “I definitely will continue to cook and experiment with foods. I am grateful to have learned about the processes that occur in many different food projects and will keep this knowledge with me.”

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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

Celebrating 20 years!

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Perfect for any occasion.

194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY 845-255-2633 www.LaBellaPizzaBistro.com 92 food & drink ChronograM 12/12

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Restaurant Openings Phoenicia Diner

5575 Route 28, Phoenicia (845) 688-9957; Phoeniciadiner.com.

A prominent feature of Route 28, the remodeled diner opened up in mid-September under new owner Michael Cioffi. Renovations include an updated, delightful logo of a packed station wagon, a redesigned interior featuring classic booths and retro bar stools. They focus on supporting local companies with products studding their menu from Bread Alone, Java Love Coffee Roasting Company, and Feather Ridge Farm eggs. Traditional diner breakfast items, like biscuits and gravy and French toast, are served all day long. The menu even features personal skillets, a charming presentation, for serving guest’s items like hearty house-cured corned beef hash or a unique “Arnold Bennett” containing smoked trout, parmesan cheese, crème fraiche, and scrambled eggs. The lunch menu fuses old and new, offering diner essentials like meatloaf (and milkshakes) to modern comfort food favorites like chicken and waffles.

Bread Bakery • Cheeses • House-made Charcuterie • Beer & Wine Bar Tuesday night: Pizza night. $9.00 all you can eat.

Sunday night: Trivia night.

Place your holiday bread orders now!

7496 South Broadway Red Hook, New York, 12571 Phone 845-758-3499

12 - 9 pm Tuesday - Thursday 12 - 10 pm Friday & Saturday 12 - 9 pm Sunday

Gift cards available. www.breadandbottle.net

Market Street

19 West Market Street, Rhinebeck (845) 876-7200; Marketstrhinebeck.com Gianni Scappin, chef/owner of Cucina in Woodstock and former coowner of Gigi Trattoria, is back in Rhinebeck. Occupying the former Mill House Panda space, Market Street provides simple, contemporary Italian cuisine in a quaint and chic setting. The cozy space showcases décor that mirrors the understated yet approachable local-inspired menu. Diners may choose from a plethora of appetizers and small plates ranging from arancini with marinara sauce to prosciutto with figs, mozzarella and mint. Pastas such as lasagna verde with meat ragu and béchamel sauce are offered, as well as entrees including local bonein aged sirloin alongside crispy fingerling potatoes, chickpeas, and sage topped with garlic-mustard aioli. Don’t miss their pizzas, like the signature Caprina (fig-rosemary spread, Coach Farm goat cheese, pear, arugula, truffle oil) that are baked in the restaurant’s wood-burning oven, a prominent feature of the rear dining room.

American Cuisine • Craft Beer • Fine Wine • Creative Cocktails. $16.00 2 course Prix Fixe Wednesday & Thursday 5:30 - 9:30 pm Wednesday - Thursday 5:00 - 10:30 pm Friday - Saturday 5:00 - 9:00 pm Sunday Dinner 7488 South Broadway, Red Hook, New York 12571 Phone 845.758.8260 – Fax 845.758.4013 www.flatironsteakhouse.com

Cooperatively Owned

52 Main

52 Main Street, Millerton (518) 789-0252; 52main.com

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Community Focused

Check out 52 Main to indulge in Spanish-inspired tapas and small plates with distinctive American flair. This establishment is about small dishes concentrated on local products to provide an interactive and economically friendly way to share multiple selections and savor different flavors. The menu undergoes seasonal changes yet favorites such as the spinach and garlic chickpea puree with pita chips, spicy grilled shrimp (shitake mushrooms, corn, and tomatoes with a sherry reduction) and classic Kobe beef sliders with red onion confit and Cabrales cheese will likely be long-time features. Paella is offered to be split amongst two to three, and the menu is expanding to include more entrée offerings.

Pair your plates with the predominantly Old World wine list that owner Eleanor Nurzia (also of Abruzzi Trattoria in Patterson) finds to be very food friendly. Flights of wine are suggested, encouraging patrons to taste new products or indulge in multiple varietals.

Conscious Fork

20 McEwen Street, Warwick (845) 988-KALE; Consciousfork.com A farm-to-table vegan juice bar and market, Conscious Fork is a business focused on fresh ingredients and well-being. Mostly take-out, the menu contains smoothies, cold-pressed juices, and vegan items as well as treats. Customers may select one of the daily juice specials such as sweet potato, carrot, orange, and turmeric from the menu, or their signature innovation the “Whole Bowl,” which allows patrons to choose from grains, proteins, and vegetables, then top it with a succulent sauce to create their own meal. The market sells grains, produce, heirlooms seeds, and various merchandise. Closing early most nights, they utilize the space for cooking classes, tastings, and events during the evenings.

Founder Kim Gabelmann and Chef Jamie Manza, formerly of Blue Hill at Stone Barns, collaborate to create a place for the community while cultivating awareness of sustainability and personal wellness.

—Alicia Yandell

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VALUE(S) Natural • Organic • Local 42 BRIDGE STREET • GREAT BARRINGTON 413.528.9697 WWW.BERKSHIRE.COOP MONDAY - SATURDAY 8 to 8, SUNDAY 10 to 6

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Open 7 days  Open during the Holidays Lunch and Dinner  Reserve your Holiday Parties  Join us for New Year’s Eve with Live Music

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Serving Lunch & Dinner Daily 91 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY 845.265.5582

Sunday Champagne Brunch

Noon–3 pm u◆ $20.12 $20.11 Prix Noon–3 pm Prix Fixe Fixe

Late Night Wine & Cocktail Lounge Menu Available

$2 Oyster Tuesdays Tuesdays Come and Taste Different Varieties Extensive Italian Wine List “America’s 1,000 “America’s 1,000 top top Italian Restaurants” Zagat Italian Restaurants”

www.TuscanGrill.com

A wintertime restaurant with fireside dining.

Rated “Excellent” by the New York Times.

955 Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3254 highlandscountryclub.net

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One Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 PoughkeepsieIceHouse.com

845 232-5783

On & Off Site Catering Available

Eclectic American Cuisine.

Fresh, Local Ingredients.

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Holiday parties for offices and large groups.

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

KRISTA WILD, Owner www.wildfireny.com

74 Clinton Street Montgomery, NY 12549 (845) 457-3770

tastings directory Bakeries Ella’s Bellas Bakery 418 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8502

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.

Café Le Perche 230 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1850 www.caféleperche.com

Haven Coffee and Express Bar 5426 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-9685

Sissy’s Café 324 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 514-2336 www.sissyscafékingston.com

Catering Hudson Valley & New York City (203) 858-5042 www.kellymillercooks.com

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

Restaurants Cathryn’s Tuscan Grill 91 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-5582 www.tuscangrill.com

CrossRoads Food Shop 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY (518) 325-1461 crossroadsfoodshop.com

Elephant 310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 www.elephantwinebar.com

Flatiron 7488 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-8260 www.flatironsteakhouse.com

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

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

Hillside Manor 240 Boulevard Route 32, Kingston, NY www.thehillsidemanor.com

il Gallo Giallo Wine Bar & Restaurant 36 Main Street, New Paltz (845) 255-3636

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

Leo’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria 1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446

Madison’s Pizza Route 44, Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-9500

McGillicuddy’s 84 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.cuddysny.com

Mexicali Blue 87 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5551 www.mexicali-blue.com

Osaka

Japanese Restaurant o sakasu sh i. ne t

TIVOLI 74 Broadway (845) 757-5055 RHINEBECK 22 Garden St (845) 876-7338

Rated “Excellent”~Zagat for 17yrs • “4.5 Stars”~Poughkeepsie Journal

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

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

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

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

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

The Ice House

Biting Spain elephant 310 Wall Street Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 Tues - Sat 5-10pm www.elephantwinebar.com

1 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 232-5783 www.poughkeepsieicehouse.com

The Would 120 North Road, Highland, NY (845) 691-9883 www.thewould.com

Tito Santana Taqueria 142 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-2350 www.tacosantana.com

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

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

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

Alternative Energy Getting Home Energy, LLC (518) 567-7158 www.gettinghome-energy.com naomi@gettinghome-energy.com

Hudson Solar (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com

Gray Owl Gallery Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.grayowlgallery.com

Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45

Lighthouse Solar (845) 417-3485 www.lighthousesolar.com

Antiques Outdated 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0030 outdatedcafé@gmail.com

Water Street Market (Antiques Center) 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com

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and commercial spaces. The gallery offers interior design services and installation. His latest work is part of a new special exhibit of color panoramics of the Hudson Valley.

Visit exposures.com for a current listing of Nick’s photo workshops.

Architecture North River Architecture 3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com

Art Galleries & Centers Ai Earthling Gallery 69 Tinker Street , Woodstock, NY (845) 679 -2650

The 5x7 Show will run through 1/6/13. Gallery hours are Wed-Sun 12-6. Sat 12/14, 8:00pm: Winter Solstice 2012 with Happy Traum & Friends. At the Bearsville Theater. Tickets $25/$40/$60

Exposures Gallery 1357 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-9382 www.exposures.com Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11 to 5 Internationally recognized, photographer Nick Zungoli has been photographing the Hudson Valley since 1979 when he opened Exposures Gallery. To date he has sold over 50,000 prints to collectors and for fine residences

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

Olde Warwick Booke Shoppe 31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 www.yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com

WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock

Aggravated Unlicensed Matters

1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltz.edu/museum

Appeals, Article 78 Cases

Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

Speeding, Reckless Driving, DWI

27 Years of Trial Experience

Audio & Video

Sierra Lily 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684

Stefan Findel Studio 40 West Mark Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 891-6629

Studio 303 307 wynkoop lane, Rhinebeck, NY (914) 456-9983 www.deanvallas.net www.artstudioviews.com

Thompson Giroux Gallery 57 Main Street, Chatham, NY (518) 392-3336 www.thompsongirouxgallery.com

Art Supplies

Rhinebeck Artist’s Shop Rhinebeck & New Paltz, NY www.rhinebeckart.com

www.beaconarts.org

Admission to the Opening Party is $10

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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.

Trucking Summons and Misdemeanors

Kingston, NY (845) 331-7780

Thru 12/2/12: THE SKY IS FALLING! Curated

by Alan Baer. Gallery Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday, 12-6pm. Fri 12/7, 5:00-7:00pm: Annual 5x7 Exhibition Opening Party.

Attorneys

23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Catskill Art & Office Supply

36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.byrdcliffe.org events@woodstockguild.org

(845)246-2703 www.joyoussky.com iamliamwatt@gmail.com

Mirabai of Woodstock

Representing companies and motorists throughout New York State

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

Joyous Sky Transformational Astrology

Bookstores

45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org

Art Students League-Vytlacil

Beacon Arts Community Association

Astrology

Artisans

Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Arlington Auto & Tire 678 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2800 www.arlingtonautotire.com

Fleet Service Center 185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812

Banks Sawyer Savings 87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-7000 www.sawyersavings.com

Wallkill Valley Federal 23 Wallkill Avenue, Wallkill, NY www.wallkill.com

Beauty Supply Columbia Beauty Supply 66 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996

Brooklyn Butcher Blocks 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 USAmade, 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.

Kaete Brittin Shaw 1415 Route 213, High Falls, NY (845) 687-7828 www.kaetebrittinshaw.com

Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 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

Pablo Glass

Monkfish Publishing

1 Sterling Street, Kingston, NY (646) 256-9688 www.pabloglass.com

22 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com

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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

Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704 www.glennssheds.com

Granite Factory 27 Renwick Street, (845) 562-9204 www.granitefactory.com

H. Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com

Herrington’s Hillsdale, NY (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.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

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 St. Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org

Clothing & Accessories de Marchin 620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657

Dig 89 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-3833 www.facebook.com/digsaugerties

Liza Jane Norman Designs 7 Old State Route 213, High Falls, NY (845) 687-8393 www.lizajanenorman.com

Inn at Hillcrest Manor 14 Hill Crest Manor Lane, Cairo, NY (518) 622-3331 www.innathillcrestmanor.com

Kaatsbaan International Dance Center www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org

West Point Band (845) 938-2617 www.westpointband.com

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores

Magnolia’s

Adams Fairacre Farms

30 Charles Colman Boulevard, Pawling, NY (845) 855-5664 www.magnolias-boutique.com Newburgh Mall, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-7121

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

Pleasant Valley Department Store

Beacon Natural Market

Pelella’s Leather Etc.

1585 Main Street , Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-2220 www.pleasantvalleydepartmentstore.com

Sorella

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348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 www.beaconnaturalmarket.com

Berkshire Co Op Market

Woodstock, NY (845) 684-5074

42 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-9697 www.berkshire.coop

Vilma Mare 7th and Warren Street, Hudson, NY (917) 992-4726 www.vilmare.com

Whinnies & Knickers Tack Shop

Consignment Shops What’s New Again 1177 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 462-2085 www.whatsnewagain.com

Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com

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.

Custom Home Design & Materials Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com

Education The Birch School 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern, NY (845) 361-2267 www.TheBirchSchool.org

Events Backstage Studio Productions Kingston, NY www.bsplounge.com

1278 Albany Post Rd, Gardiner, NY (845) 895-7433 www.Brookside-farm.com Info@brookside-farm.com Brookside Farm, organic grass-fed beef, 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.

Cutting EdgE, StratEgiC digitaL MarkEting SoLutionS for BuSinESSES and agEnCiES

www.dragonsearchmarketing.com 845.383.0890 dragon@dragonsearch.net

Harvest Spirits 3074 US Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-7683 www.goldenharvestfarms.com

Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon - Sat 7:30 to 7, Sundays 9 to 5 A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic Bakery and Creamery.

Farm-fresh foods include cheeses, yogurts, raw milk, breads, pastries, sauerkraut, and more. Two miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit. Farm tours can also be arranged by calling the Farm Learning Center: 518-672-7500 x 231.

Mother Earth’s Store House 1955 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614 300 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself!

Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com

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Farms Ronnybrook Farm Dairy 310 Prospect Hill Road, Ancramdale, NY (518) 398-6455 www.ronnybrook.com

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261 N. Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845) 566-7800 www.whinniesandknickers.com

Brookside Farm

Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com

Ice B’Gone Magic www.ibgmagic.com

William Wallace Construction (845) 750-7335 www.williamwallaceconstruction.com

Hospitals

Gardening & Garden Supplies Mac’s Agway

Hudson Valley Hospital Center

68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY (845) 255-0050 & (845) 876-1559

1980 Crompond Road, Cortlandt Manor, NY (914) 737-9000 www.hvhc.org

Graphic Design

Household Management & Planning

Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

Hair Salons Allure 47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com

Maki Yuinada 21 Ernst Road, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-0015

Liberty Security Services PO Box 2767, Kingston, NY (845) 418-3577 sales@issasap.com

Internet Services DragonSearch (845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net

Sensational Nail Creations 9 Grand Street, Suite 5, Kingston, NY (845) 553-28784

Heating Ashleigh’s Hearth & Home, Inc.

Bavier Brook 621 Warren Street, Hudson , NY (518) 828-6424 www.bavierbrook.com

3647 Albany Post Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-0789 www.enjoywarmth.com

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Cord King

Broad Options

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Home Furnishings & Decor Asia Barong Route 7/199 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-5091 www.asiabarong.com

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COLD & FLU MYTHS & MANTRAS by wendy kagan illustration by annie internicola

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reak out the Kleenex: It’s cold and flu time. For now, we might be stuck with the pesky viruses that were imported to the New World

by European settlers. But whether or not we’re stuck with the legends and folklore surrounding cold and flu season remains to be seen.

With the help of experts, I’ve set out to debunk a few oft-repeated adages and centuries-old myths. It turns out that there’s no simple answer in most cases—and that modern science’s efforts to find a cure for the common cold are nothing to sneeze at.

Feed a cold, starve a fever.

The origin of this popular health axiom is unknown, but some trace it back to the 16th-century, when British lexicographer John Withals wrote, “Fasting is a great remedie of feuer.” In those days, the prevailing wisdom dictated that you treat a cold by stoking the inner fires of the body with food, and conversely, that you cool a fever by cutting off your caloric fuel supply. In the same era that produced this thinking, bloodletting was considered a viable medical procedure. So is the saying pure folklore? Perhaps not. A small study conducted

by Dutch scientists in 2002 found that eating a meal can actually boost the immune response that fights a cold virus, while reducing food intake can turn on the body’s defenses against the bacterial infections that cause most fevers. Like many novelty studies, this one spawned a few cutesy, sound-bite news mentions but wasn’t exactly considered High Science’s final word on the subject.

A better rule of thumb might be “listen to your body,” says Lauren Vigna, MD, a family care physician in Highland. “It’s easier to pay attention to your body’s natural signals when you have a cold or a flu,” she says. “When you’re well, you automatically eat meals because they’re part of your schedule. But when you’re at home sick in bed and you’re off that routine, then you’re forced to look inward and see, ‘Do I need food, do I need liquid?’”Vigna acknowledges that the feed-starve adage does have an aura of truth to it. “When you have a fever you’re probably not going to want to eat so much anyway,” she says. “Your body’s working harder to keep up its immunity, and digestion takes a back seat.” Yet you’d be ill advised to take the dictate too far, justifying cold-turkey fasting for a fever, or worse, pigging out as a misguided antidote to a case of the sniffles. “There’s no need to overeat when you have a cold. Eating normally is fine if you’re tolerating it and have an appetite.” Specifically, this is not the time to pack away the candy bars. “Sugar is a detriment to the immune system, so avoiding that when you’re sick is pretty key,” says Vigna.

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Chicken soup is the best medicine.

If you think this adage dates back no further than your Jewish grandmother, think again. In the 12th century, Rabbi Moses Maimonides extolled the health virtues of chicken soup in his text “Medical Responsa.” The piety of the dish—a Sabbath meal—might have had something to do with its elevated medicinal status. Yet other cultures have spun their variations on the therapeutic repast, including Greek avgolemono (thick egg, lemon, and chicken-broth soup).

Aside from one small study conducted in 1978—in which sipping hot chicken soup was found to increase the velocity of nasal secretions in healthy subjects— science has been largely reticent on the effectiveness of Jewish Penicillin. But what does that matter? “It works for most people,” says Vigna. “Soup in itself is nourishing, and chicken soup mixes fat and protein—necessary for cell reparation—with a good blend of nutrients.” Naturally, increasing liquid consumption is crucial for rehydration when you’re sick, and the combination of steam for a stuffy head and heat to soothe a sore throat can work wonders. Regardless of what your Yiddish bubbe might say, however, chicken is not the active ingredient here; beans or tofu will do just as well for the protein component. Not to be overlooked, though, is the healing power of receiving a warm meal fed to you by someone else—homemade, preferably, for the ultimate TLC. To prevent a cold or flu, toke up on Echinacea or vitamin C. Is Echinacea an immune-boosting wonder herb or an overhyped pseudocure? Depending on which studies you read, you’ll find evidence for either classification. “I think it’s effective in general,” says Hillary Thing, an Accordbased herbalist and acupuncturist. “Some people have done meta-analyses of hundreds of studies, and the overall conclusion is that Echinacea is helpful in potentially preventing and also shortening the duration of viral and bacterial illnesses.” Thing theorizes that the clinical trials have produced wildly different verdicts about the herb for a couple of reasons. One is that Echinacea might wage a powerful defense against certain strains of virus, but might be less effective against others. More important, she adds, “Sometimes the dosing is not high enough in studies that are dubious about Echinacea. This is a big point about using herbs: You want to take a lot of them, a high dose, for a short period of time.” Thing recommends a dropperful (or half teaspoon) of Echinacea tincture every couple of hours at the onset of cold or flu symptoms. This way, the herb can inundate the system and stay active in the bloodstream. Happily, overdosing is not a worry with cold and flu herbs.

“They’re very safe and can be taken by all kinds of people, even if they’re on other medications.”

Another object of both adoration and derision in cold and flu science is vitamin C—championed by Linus Pauling, the two-time Nobel Prize-winning American chemist. In 1970, Pauling exalted the vitamin’s effects in preventing and alleviating cold and flu symptoms, basing his claim on the positive results of a placebo-controlled trial that he conducted on schoolchildren in a skiing camp in the Swiss Alps. Since then, popping chewable vitamin C tablets has become a cold-season ritual.Yet subsequent studies on the vitamin’s effectiveness have produced mixed results. In meta-analyses of more than 30 clinical trials that have included over 10,000 participants, researchers have observed no difference in the severity of colds contracted during vitamin C supplementation. On the brighter side, they have noted a small yet statistically significant reduction in the duration of the illness. So it seems that Pauling wasn’t entirely off base—though perhaps a bit overzealous regarding the size of the vitamin’s benefit. Meanwhile, both Vigna and Thing are optimistic about vitamin C as a cold defense—“especially at a higher dose than might be normal, at least a 1,000 milligrams a day,” says Thing.

Meanwhile, both experts recommend taking a supplement that most of us don’t always associate with cold and flu season: vitamin D. Deficiency in vitamin D—common in as many as three-quarters of Americans—can leave one susceptible to a host of ailments, from colds and flus to osteoporosis and even cancer. “I recommend it daily to support your immune system,” says Vigna.

You lose most of your body heat through your head.

We can thank the US Army for generating a myth that is so beloved among the maternal set. In the 1950s, the military conducted a series of vaguely thoughtout experiments to measure the loss of body heat in volunteers. They dressed their subjects in Arctic survival suits—without hats—and set them loose into the bitter cold. Since the soldiers’ heads were the only exposed parts of their bodies, wonder of wonders, a good deal of heat escaped from their noggins.

This prompted the Army to publish its “findings” in a survival manual, setting in motion the legend that the body can lose 40 to 45 percent of its heat through the head. In truth, the head doesn’t give off any more heat than any other area of the body; because it accounts for about 10 percent of the body’s surface, that’s how much heat will escape from it when the entire body is unprotected.Yet the myth lives on, usually in a more exaggerated form: Claims of an 80 to 90 percent loss of body heat through the head are commonplace in the parlance of the day.

Yet despite its faulty logic, this little nugget of pseudoscience offers some sound advice. The head and face are in fact more sensitive to cold than many other parts of the body—so no matter the percentage of heat they hold, you’ll simply feel warmer with those parts covered. And in cold and flu season, extra outerwear can only be a good thing. “Your body is working hard to keep its average temperature while you’re outside in the cold,” says Vigna. “So, yes—wearing a hat helps you to retain body heat. If you’re sick on top of that, your body is working overtime; with a hat on, your body has spare time to do what it needs to do to get better.”

We’ll never find a cure for the common cold.

If you listen to the naysayers out there, you’ll think that Western medicine has already hoisted a white flag of surrender to the various strains of rhinovirus.

One of the major obstacles to finding a cure is the multifaceted nature of the ailment. A cold is not one disease but rather a syndrome brought on by multiple viruses—hence the difficulty in coming up with a silver-bullet vaccine or single cure. Also, colds and flus are moving targets; these viruses evolve quickly, developing resistances and outsmarting our best-laid plans. The antiviral medications we’ve come up with thus far simply aren’t up to the challenge—and when we take them it’s usually too late, as most antivirals are administered 24 to 48 hours after the onset of symptoms.

Yet some scientists are standing up to the sniffles—and they say we have a good chance of snuffing them out one day. “I believe that there will be a cure for the common cold,” says Leo James, PhD, a lead researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. In 2010 James and his team demonstrated for the first time that a cold virus can be destroyed by the body’s natural defenses after it has entered the sanctum of a human cell—a task that was once considered an impossibility. James’s team located a molecule within human cells called TRIM21, which antibodies use to fight viruses. “The potential for [a new class of] antiviral drugs comes in because this system of antiviral protection is one that we did not know existed,” says James, who notes that this is only the beginning of a long road of research and, eventually, years of clinical testing. One day, the drippy nose might be a thing of the past. “We will all have to be patient,” he adds, “but we will get there.”

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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

Did you Want to Have a Kid? And Other Impossible Question

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was recently interviewed by someone about being a Zen Mom. Silly, I know. She asked for my “story,” which I told, about how I was in hell, found Zen, found a teacher, found some comfort, lived in a monastery, found a husband, left the monastery, had a baby, another crisis, some resolution. Repeat. The whole time I felt that disembodied creepiness of my mouth just talking and talking (and talking and talking), a runaway train of yakyakyak. I figured I would just say it all in one breath and it would be over. But then she asked, “So how has your practice influenced your life as a parent?”

Well…….

When I say that there is no aspect of my life that is not influenced by my practice, least of all my parenting, this is not to say that I am, in fact, actually practicing or being “mindful” or even a decent person. Far from it. But the deepest part of me, from which everything else radiates, is, so to speak, “influenced” by what I have experienced over the years of practice and training in Zen. And so even when I am a total jerk, it is within the context of the dharma, which is to say, I know better. In my body I know there’s more to everything than anything I can see. In other words, what practice has given me is an evergrowing tension between what I am embodying in any given moment, and a feeling of possibility. Oftentimes, this tension leads to disappointment, or frustration, dismayed that I have, yet again, chosen the low road. But other times it leads to the tiniest little pocket of curiosity that can actually save the day.

For instance, a couple weeks ago, A asked me, “Mommy, did you want to have a kid?” followed by, “Do you remember what it was like before you had me?” and then (the doozie), “Do you ever wish you didn’t have a kid, because it’s so much work?” Because of all the years on the cushion, watching the clouds pass, I was able to take a deep breath, even as I tasted the tears rising in the back of my throat. I was able to wait as I watched A’s sweet face watching mine, eyes so soft and for real, just wanting to know if she belongs here, in this world, as if it is up to me. This world. Our quiet little dining room table surrounded by built-in benches and cushions, the big window opening onto the gray November mountain rising at the bottom of our hill. This is the house of her childhood. Hard to believe. I slip and slide through my habitual responses: Oh, sweetie, of course I wanted you! Or: Oh, A, eat your dinner. If I have learned anything, it’s that, even though it doesn’t always feel like it, I do have options.

And so I said: Baby, I was cranky before you were born. It’s not you. I felt like that was what she wanted to know: Am I her fault?

Another thing I have learned is that the world is so vast and so varied that we can never know what is truly happening in another’s sphere. It’s just too complex. But we can sniff around and do our best. In fact, we must. And I

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did feel like A was asking more about me and my edginess than about herself and her genesis. And, in fact, she seemed satisfied with my response. Either way, it’s an impossible question to answer. Did I want to have a kid? Was I one of those women who pined for a child? Who dreamt of being swept up into maternal responsibility and bustling bliss? Hardly. Honestly, the first time T and I spent time with a couple and their newborn, we left their little plasticaccessory-filled apartment, looked at each, other and said, “Wow, that looks really boring.”

But when it became clear that a life of full-time monastic Zen practice would not work for us (perhaps it was already clear to others?), we decided that our parallel course was decidedly not to live in an apartment nearby and practice like monks as much as we could, but to throw ourselves into another bot of boiling water altogether, a completely different way of studying the fundamentals of being human.We would stay nearby, yes, but we would have a baby, or at least we would try. And try we did. We bought this house while still living at the monastery, and A was born a year and a half later.

Did I want to have a kid? Yes, I did. I made a point of it. Did I have any idea what I was getting into? I did not. Knowing what I know, would I do it again?

Yes, I would (interviewing myself is so much easier). Not because I realized that something had been missing, or because I believe it is my job to bring children into the world (it is most definitely not my job to do that). And even though raising a child gives me direct access to some fundamental dharma of existence, that is also not why I would choose to do it again.The truth is that I am so drawn into my householder life, and all of its accompanying worldliness, just as the Buddha warned, that “real,” or “formal” dharma practice is, frankly, difficult.

Parenting can be a strong form or practice, but it can also be distracting.

So why would I do it again, give birth to this human being who needs so much of me, even when I feel I have so little to give? It is an impossible question to answer because it doesn’t make any sense.You could call it the pleasure of picking up My Little Ponies off the floor, making contact with the ghost of my daughter’s perfect hands as she and her long braids played through the house before school, narrating some lower-school, Ramona-infused, barnyard play in a remarkably convincing British accent. Or you could call it a deep karmic love that moves mountains of grief and clears away all the sad dust that has accumulated over lifetimes. Connection is a word some people like. Miracle is another. Taking care of my baby, watching her grow into herself—what can I say? It’s more natural than I ever would have imagined. As my teacher Daido used to say, “It’s not like anything.” And yet it reminds me of sitting. And letting the world heal me with its beauty.

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Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 (845) 338-2965 joanapter@earthlink.net

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Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net

Body & Skin Care Clairvoyant Beauty (888) 758-1270 www.clairvoyantbeauty.com

Hudson Valley Skincare www.hudsonvalleyskincare.com

Hudson Valley Skincare www.hudsonvalleyskincare.com

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 The Center For Advanced Dentistry‚ Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com

Healing Centers Namaste Sacred Healing Center Willow, NY (845) 688-7205 & (845) 853-2310 www.namasteshc.com

Villa Veritas Foundation Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-3555 www.villaveritas.org info@villaveritas.org

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.

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.

Hudson Valley Center for Neurofeedback 12 Davis Avenue, Vassar Professional Building, Poughkeepsie (845) 473.4939 www.HVCNF.com

John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com

John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, and Raindrop Technique.

396 Broadway, Kingston , NY (845) 334-4248 www.hahv.org

Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net

• Master's level Psychotherapist appointments at my office/studio or in the comfort of your home call 845 • 532 • 7796 or email tripleplay.cassandra@gmail.com www.holisticcassandra.com

Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com

Sharon Hospital 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT (860) 364-4000 www.sharonhospital.com

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Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP

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Rubenfeld Synergy® Psychodrama Training

Susan Spiegel Solovay Hudson Valley, NY and Great Barrington, MA (917) 881-0072 www.HypnoCoachNY.com healingwithhypno@fairpoint.net

Imago Relationship Therapy Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor 66 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com

Massage Therapy Bodhi Holistic Spa 323 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2233 www.bodhistudio.com

(845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net

Nancy Plumer, Energy Healing and Mystery School

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Joan Apter

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Master Elaine Ward, Worldwide Representative of Master Sha

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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.

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Mediators Pathways Mediation Center 239 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com

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Holistic Nurse HealtH coNsultaNt Manage Stress • Apprehensions • Pain • Improve Sleep Release Weight • Set Goals • Change Habits Pre/Post Surgery • Fertility • Hypno Birthing Immune System Enhancement • Nutritional Counseling Past Life Regression • Intuitive Counseling Motivational & Spiritual Guidance

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November 8 - January 31, 2012

Join the YMCA of Kingston or the YMCA of Ulster County and receive a FREE GIFT! Plus, be entered into our candle gift basket drawing.

All memberships offer access to the YMCA and include three free Healthy New You Sessions, free babysitting, Group Exercise Classes, Cycle Classes, Water Exercise, use of the state-of-the-art Wellness Center. The Y offers Zumba, Yoga, family programs, excellent child care programs, indoor track, three gymnasiumns, swimming pool, whirlpool, steam rooms, teen center.

For more information, call the YMCA at (845) 338-3810 or visit us at www.ymcaulster.org 507 Broadway, Kingston, NY

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Left: Barbara Monaco, LSCW-R, BCN, Executive Director Center: Dan Meyer, PhD, BCB-N. Clinical Director Right: Alyssa Montgomery, BA,BCN, Associate

Neurofeedback is a non-invasive intervention to help retrain the brain related to ADHD, Learning Challenges, PDD/Autism, Migraines and other headaches, OCD, Anxiety, Panic and TBI.

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12 Davis Avenue, Vassar Professional Building, Poughkeepsie, NY 845.473.4939 www.HVCNF.com Neurofeedback now recognized as a best practice by the American Academy of Pediatrics

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.

Optometrists Visionexcel 1636 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6310 www.visionexceleyecare.com

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts — Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO

Consultations by Gail Petronio Internationally Renowned Psychic Over 30 years Experience Sessions In-Person or By Phone

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3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com

Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.

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Coaching for all life transitions. Starting in 2013 monthly Trauma Training Workshops for therapists, healers and bodyworkers and Circle of Women Series. Call for information or consultation. FB page: www.BrigidsWell. com/facebook.

Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7502 www.hvpi.net

Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com

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Retreat Centers Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 www.menla.org menla@menla.org

First Care Walk-In Medical Center 222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-DOCS www.FirstCareMedCenter.com

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Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679 -5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org

Valley Endovascular Associates One Webster Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5352 www.endovasulartherapy.com

Psychics Psychic Readings by Rose 40 Mill Hill, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6801

Tarot Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com

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Clear Yoga: Iyengar Yoga in Rhinebeck Suite 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6129 www.clearyogarhinebeck.com

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RECEPTION Friday, January 18 5:30pm to 7:30pm Hudson Coffee Traders 288 Wall St. Kingston, NY 12401

December 2 Sunday SilentS: Charlie Chaplin Shorts $7 | 2:00 pm December 4 you don’t like the truth: 4 days inside Guantanamo $7 | 7:15 pm December 7 live theater: the Santaland diaries $15 | 8:00 pm December 8 live theater: the Santaland diaries $15 | 8:00 pm December 9 danCe film: turning $10 | 2:00 pm December 9 live theater: the Santaland diaries $15 | 7:00 pm December 15 the Sound of music Sing-a-long free | 11:00 and 3:00 pm December 16 Opera in Cinema: Cenerentola $20 | 2:00 pm December 18 viewS frOm the edGe: Belle et la Bete $7 | 7:15 pm December 22 live muSiC: deck the halls $15 | 7:15 pm December 23 live theatre On film: Barrymore $12 | 2:00 pm December 26-30 Children’S prOGramminG: Spirited away $3.50 | 2:00 pm Plus nightly films at 7:15. Closed most tuesdays & wednesdays.

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image provided Kurt Seligman working in his Sugar Loaf studio.

A Brave Encounter with the Unconscious “Surrealism is really another form of alchemy, bringing together a brave encounter with the unconscious and a series of technical skills you had to perfect,” explains Daniel Mack of the Seligman Center of the Arts. Surrealism came to the Hudson Valley in 1940, when Kurt Seligman bought a dairy farm in Sugar Loaf. In the last two years, this farm has become an art center.

Born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1900, the son of a furniture retailer, Kurt Seligman showed an aptitude for art as a youth. In 1929 he moved to Paris, where he met Arlette Paraf, granddaughter of the founder of the Wildenstein Gallery. The two married, and in 1937 Seligman was accepted into the Surrealist movement. The Seligmans escaped Europe in September, 1939—the first of the Surrealists to arrive in this country. Kurt helped his artistic comrades emigrate, including Andre Breton, founder of the Surrealists.

Nonetheless, Breton expelled Seligman from the group in 1943, after an argument about the Tarot. (Seligman published The Mirror of Magic, a history of the occult, in 1948.)

Kurt and Arlette bought a 55-acre farm as a rural getaway. They kept geese, turkeys, a few long-haired cows—but mostly they entertained. Among their guests were Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Peggy Guggenheim, and Alexander Calder. Duchamp, in fact, shot five bullets with a .22 rifle into an abandoned chicken coop as a conscious work of art, which he later replicated on the cover of the “First Papers of Surrealism” exhibit in 1942.

After the war, most of the Surrealists returned to Europe—except Seligman, who found a job teaching printmaking at Brooklyn College. Other artists on the faculty included Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko. Seligman was a modest, dedicated man, who relished the role of mentor. He stayed at the college 16 years.

Seligman died in 1962, in a bizarre gun accident. While going out one winter morning to shoot squirrels, he slipped on ice and shot himself. (This was the same rifle

Duchamp had used.) Seligman is buried on the farm, as is his wife. Shortly before her death in 1992, Arlette bequeathed the estate to the Orange County Citizens Foundation, a local nonprofit.

The show “Kurt Seligman at Home”—in the artist’s former studio—conveys Seligman’s life story through photographs and art, beginning with snapshots of a fouryear-old Kurt sharing a joyful tea party with his sister. Five paintings show Seligman as a youth experimenting with styles: swift, brutal brushstrokes (The Crime Scene), soft-focus Cubism (Mask). Later, Seligman’s canvases entered High Surrealism: multicolored strangulated creatures with scarves for heads. Most involving is a selection of uncompleted artworks, in a corner. Here we see Seligman in midthought, groping in darkness toward the next mythic figure.

Developments continue at the fledgling Seligman Center. The personal library of art critic Robert Fagan, consisting of 500 volumes, was donated to the center recently. A bog garden is being created, as is a sculpture garden, including works by local sculptors Julius Medwin and Michael Jamieson. Robert Whitman, the celebrated theater artist, is hosting an ongoing film series at the center. Pull My Daisy, the short starring Jack Kerouac, was recently screened.

In addition to Seligman exhibition, “Fantasy Drawings of Chaim Gross,” a show of works on paper from 1944 to 1950, will be on view. Gross was a sculptor who relaxed in the evening by sketching fanciful pictures of egrets, knights, African masks, and smiling naked women.

“Kurt Seligman at Home” and “Fantasy Drawings of Chaim Gross” will remain at the Seligman Center for the Arts until December 31. (845) 469-9459; Occf-ny.org.

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SATURDAY 1 Art Annual Holiday Pottery Sale Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Unpacked and Rediscovered Call for times. Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh.

562-1195.

Rock Tavern Holiday Craft Boutique 12pm-5pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 988-1813.

Artisans Celebrate 1pm-5pm. Holiday group art exhibit featuring ten ceramic sculptors. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill.

(914) 734-1894.

Holiday Small Works Exhibition 3pm-5pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Cheap Art Party 5pm. Hang your own art for sale during the party. Live music. $10 hang fee. Hangar 18, Hudson. miss_eliesha@hotmail.com.

Riverscapes 5pm-7pm. Works by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, John MacDonald, and Petria Mitchell. Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 458-1700.

Body / Mind / Spirit Sharon Salzberg & Sylvia Boorstein: The Four Boundless States Call for times. Introduces the teachings of loving kindess and support in your own experience and cultivation of these qualities through direct instruction and guided meditation using classical techniques in a modern idiom. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Qi Gong Classes 10am-11am. $10. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

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.

Jungian Depth Psychology: Meditations on Soul and Shadow 2pm-3:30pm. With Dr. Craig. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Zumba 10am. $15. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenzumbamama@aol.com.

Family and Friends CPR and First Aid for Children 1pm-3:30pm. $45. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Dance A Christmas Carol 7:30pm.$12/$15/$19 Bardavon members and group, Student/senior and adult. Charles Dickens's classic.

UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088.

Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 7:30pm. $30/$10 children and student rush. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

The Nutcracker 7:30pm. Ulster Ballet Company. $19/$15 students and seniors/$12 Bardavon members. UPAC, Kingston.

339-6088.

Come On Chilun', Let's Dance 8pm. Funk, blues, melody, jazz, blues, Latin and more. $10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Events C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Workshop Call for times. Offers training to college students and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business. $30. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 752-4514.

22nd Annual Holiday Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. $3/children free. New Paltz Middle School, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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.

Hawthorne Valley Annual Yuletide Fair 10am-4pm. A festive holiday fair with activities for children, local craft and gift vendors, puppet shows, and the acclaimed gingerbread contest and auction.

Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent.

(518) 672-7092 ext. 111.

Holiday Gift Fair 10am-3pm. TO benefit the WES PTA. Woodstock Elementary School, Woodstock. (888) 255-2796.

Annual Monastery Christmas Craft Fair 11am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery. webs.com.

Treasure Our Children 11am-5pm. Dedicated to the children affected by domestic violence, many different events. Party Zone, Middletown. www.empoweringevents.net.

Holiday Market 11am-4pm. Regional artisan craft and specialty food vendors, music, children's arts and crafts, and more activities. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

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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.

A Christmas Gathering 5pm. Festive gathering for friends and supporters will feature fun, food and lots of music, including a preview of the 2013 summer season. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070.

Holiday Boutique 5pm-8pm. Mix of works by many local artists including original paintings, photography, hand crafted jewelry, and quality needlework. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen.

338-5580.

Annual Holiday Caroling & Tree Lighting 5:15pm. Southeast Museum, Brewster. director@southeastmuseum.org.

Winter Walk 5-8pm. Front Street, Hudson. Street festival, live music, reindeer. www.hudsonoperahouse.org

Film Babes In Toyland Call for times. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville.

647-5511.

Kids Enjoying Animals Safely 10:30am. Meet Jan's animal friends of all kinds.

Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Kindermusik Family Style Classes— Zoom Buggy and Dream Pillow 11:15am. $225. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

Music Dell Trio Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Mozart’s La Clamenza di Tito 12:45pm. The Met: Live in HD. Seelig Theatre at Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake.

434-5750 ext. 4303.

Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito 1pm. Metropolitan Opera "Live in HD". $18-$25.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Singer/Songwriter Bill Lauf Jr. CD Release Concert 5pm. $18/$15. Milton Hall, Litchfield, Connecticut.

(860) 868-9254.

KJ Denhert & The New York Unit 7pm. Opening: Dante DeFelice & Good Night Brother.

Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Susan McKeown 8pm. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Frederic Acquaviva and Lore Lixenberg 8pm. Concert with composer Frederic Acquaviva and mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.

Mister OH! 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

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.

M.R. Poulopoulos 9pm. Folk. Crossroads Brewing, Athens.

(518) 945-2337.

Spoken Word Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 3:30pm. Featuring Diane Lockward. Orange County Arts Council, Sugar Loaf. 294-8085.

Theater Season's Greetings 7:30pm. Presented by VOICETheatre. $22/$18 students and seniors. Creekside Grille, Woodstock.

679-2914.

A John Waters Christmas 8pm. The 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.

Workshops Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

SUNDAY 2 Art Rock Tavern Holiday Craft Boutique 1pm-5pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 988-1813.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, 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.

Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 10:30am-12pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Qi and Psoas Release Workshop 2pm-3:30pm. Relieve back pain and chronic core postural issues with Amy Shoko Brown, MS Art Therapy. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA. Ying Yang Yawn 5pm-6:30pm. A mixed level yoga class incorporating three parts yoga and one part the yoga of healing sound. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Hypnobabies, Childbirth Hypnosis 9am-12pm. 6-week class. $375/series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Pet First Aid & CPR Course 10am-2pm. $40. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 475-9745.

Dance The Nutcracker 2pm. Ulster Ballet Company. $19/$15 students and seniors/$12 Bardavon members. UPAC, Kingston.

339-6088.

Events Rhinebeck Farmers' Market Winter Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

22nd Annual Holiday Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. $3/children free. New Paltz Middle School, New Paltz. 255-1559.

75th Anniversary Open House Model Railroad Show 11am-4pm. $6/$2 children. Kingston Model Railroad Club, Kingston. 334-8233.

Holiday Market 11am-4pm. Regional artisan craft and specialty food vendors, music, children's arts and crafts, and more activities. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Annual Monastery Christmas Craft Fair 11am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery. webs.com.

Festival of Trees 12pm-4pm. Open house, music, kid's activities.

Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. www.saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

2012 Trolley Holiday Run 12pm-5pm. Come meet and greet Santa Claus and the Trolley elves. $6/$4. Trolley Museum, Kingston.

331-3399.

Film Chaplin: The Mutual Shorts 2pm. Part of the Silent Sunday film series. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child 4pm-6pm. Special screening of the documentary followed by a Q & A with director Tamra Davis. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill.

(914) 788-0100.

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.

Toddler Art Class 10:30am-11:30am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

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.

Black Violin 3pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Collegium Musicum 3pm. Presents pieces from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. $8/$6 seniors/$3 students and faculty. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2700.

Evergreen Chorus of Sweet Adelines 3pm. $12/$10 seniors/children free. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.

Love's on the Way 3pm. Mid-Hudson Women's Chorus winter concert. $7/$6 seniors and students. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.

The Newman-Oltman Duo 3pm. Presented by The Mid-Hudson Classical Guitar Society. $10. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff.

876-2903.

Kairos: A Consort of Singers 4pm. Bach's Cantata No. 62, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland. $10. Holy Cross Monastery, West Park.

256-9114.

The Temptations 7pm. Motown legends. $50-$80. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-0100.

JB's Soul Jazz Trio 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Alan Cumming with Lance Horne 7pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Tedeschi Trucks Band 7:30pm. $39/$59/$79. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Spoken Word Marcy B. Freedman presents: One Artist/ Lots Of Videos 3pm-4pm. Will discuss her process and videos from the artist's perspective. Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac.

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.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Season's Greetings 5pm. Presented by VOICETheatre. $22/$18 students and seniors. Creekside Grille, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Workshops African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gift-making: Needle Felted Ornaments 12pm-3pm. Drop in & learn to make your own needlefelted creations, embellished with beads and all things festive. $15. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

African Dance 12pm-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.

MONDAY 3 Body / Mind / Spirit Qigong with Zach Baker Seniors 11am-12; others 5:30-6:30pm. $12/$10 members/$5 seniors. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Qi Gong 11:30am-12:30pm. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4:30pm-5:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan: Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Qi Gong Workshop 7pm-8:30pm. Facilitated by Lorraine Hughes, RH (AHG). $15. Dancing Crane Healing Arts Center, Beacon. 765-0645.

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-9pm. With Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Belly Dance: Intermediate 7:30pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Kids Toddler Art Class 10am-11am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 11:45am-12:30pm. $145 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Workshops Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

How to Have Fun As A Poet (Without Even Trying) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $12. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia.

688-2142.

music john pizzarelli and jessica molaskey images provided John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey perform at Club Helsinki in Hudson on December 9.

Deluxe Package By now most ears know them as the chipper married couple who host the weekly celebration of jazz and song that is NPR’s “Radio Deluxe.” But long before they found each other, guitarist-singer John Pizzarelli and singer Jessica Molaskey, who perform at Club Helsinki in Hudson this month, were well established individually in the fields of American music and stage. And when listening to the pair’s broadcasts it’s abundantly clear their contagious union is based as much on a shared love of timeless songwriting and inspired performance as it is on romance.

The son of jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli, John grew up in a household whose kitchen and living room regularly hosted visits by the music’s gods. As a teenager he explored the rock styles of the day and toured with his father, before setting out on his own and working his way up from small clubs to the opening slot on Frank Sinatra’s last world tour. Although he’s a breezy performer with a soft but amiable voice, it’s as a guitarist that Pizzarelli most stands out, and his bright, spare tone and fleet fingers recall the swing players who informed his father’s generation and the bop and postbop innovators who populated it. With Molaskey and with his own bands (usually his trio or quartet), Pizzarelli now performs at top festivals and venues in the US and abroad.

Molaskey’s background is more in the world of musical theater. Raised in Connecticut, she’s appeared in dozens of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, including “Dream,” “Tommy,” “Crazy for You,” “Les Miserables,” “City of Angels,” “Chess,” “Cats,” “Oklahoma!,” the world premiere of Stephen Sondheim and John Wiedman’s “Wise Guys,” and “A Man of No Importance” at Lincoln Center. As a vocalist she’s released five well-received albums under her own name; her most recent

offering is this year’s live At the Algonquin, a duo set with pianist/singer/composer Dave Frishberg.

“Radio Deluxe” first appeared on the airwaves in 2005. Recorded in the informal warmth of the couple’s Manhattan apartment, the two-hour program features Pizzarelli and Molaskey’s lively, engaging banter amid handpicked classic jazz performances and selections from the contemporary and Great American Songbooks. Among the guests on the show have been Regis Philbin, Keely Smith, Liza Minnelli, Margaret Whiting, and Tony Danza.

Reviewing one of Pizzarelli and Molaskey’s engagements at New York’s Cafe Carlyle, the New York Times’ Stephen Holden observed, “[The couple’s] pairings of songs and voices from different eras and genres (the Beatles with Woody Herman, Antonio Carlos Jobim with Stephen Sondheim, and many more) are not destructive musical collisions in which planets explode. Instead of repelling each other, these alien climates, once in proximity, fuse, generate electricity, and create an environment larger and more complex than the sum of its parts.”

A segment of the venue’s ongoing Helsinki on Broadway series, the exclusive local December date by the twosome is being billed as “a swinging evening of seasonal favorites and standards.”

John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey will perform at Club Helsinki in Hudson on December 9 at 7pm. As of press time, the show was sold out. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com.

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TUESDAY 4 Art Art Foray 4pm-8pm. Sale of works by great area artists.

Sponsored by Wired Art. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646.

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 Morning Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Zumba 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Noon Wabi Sabi Yoga 11am. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Zumba with Amanda Gresens 6:45pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Photoshop Ins & Outs 6-8pm. $150. Three class series continued 12/12 and 12/19. The Shirt Factory, Kingston. 339-7834.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Events Open House and Information Session 9:30am. Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie.

462-4200.

Arlington Farmers' Market 3pm-7pm. College Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7035.

Film Favela Rising 5pm-8pm. Followed by discussion. Lecture Center 104, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/blackstudies.

Kids Multi-Media Art Classes for Kids 3:45pm-5pm. Ages 4-12. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music Zach Brock's Criss Cross Quartet 7pm. Featuring Le Jazz Electronique. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Zach Brock 7pm. Jazz. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Wabi Sabi Yoga 11am. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Spoken Word

20/20/20 - Cardio, Weights and Stretch 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Theater

MaMaFit Classes 11:30am-12:15pm. Toddler/Preschoolers-children who can competently run through Kindergarten age. $40.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 6 weeks. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Zumba with Amanda Gresens 6:45pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gurdjieff's Movements: Inner Work and Sacred Dance 7:30pm-9:30pm. Facilitated by Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Zumba 7:45pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Amy McTear will lead the New Year's Day Harmonic Choir on January 1 at the Celebration Chapel in Kingston.

Classes 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.

Argentine Tango Lessons 7:30pm-8:30pm. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Kids Toddler Art Class 10:30am-11:30am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Rhinebeck Community Playgroup 11am-12:30pm. Mamas and children from 0-24 months. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Fall Choral Concert 8pm. $8/$6 seniors/$3 students and faculty. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/music.

Spoken Word Eric Lind: Hudson Valley Wetlands 6:30pm-8pm. Scenic Hudson's River Center, Beacon.

471-7477.

Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

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.

Tai Chi 11am. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4pm-5:15pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga with Elizabeth Gross 6:30pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Classes Watercolor Classes 2pm-4pm. $10/$7 seniors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Clay Play 3:30pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

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New Year’s Day Harmonic Choir Welcome in the new year by joining voices at this nondenominational community choir at Kingston’s Celebration Chapel on January 1. Last year, 300 people came together for the sound concert and vocal meditation, which depends on community participation both for providing melody and creating a sense of unity and fellowship. Among this year’s performers is world-renowned bansuri flute player Steve Gorn. The audience will sing original choral pieces accompanied by an array of instruments, including the 150-year-old building’s original pipe organ and bell in the 200-foot steeple, gong, crystal singing bowls, chimes, didgeridoo, flutes, piano, and drums. Amymctear.com Tom DePetris Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties.

246-8424.

Spoken Word Art Lecture: Gabriel Craig 7:30pm. Metalsmith and writer. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. 257-3830.

Workshops Tiny Gardens: Build a Terrarium 3pm-5pm. Learn about gardening under glass; a way to bring plants indoors year round. $60/$50 members/$15 materials. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Teen Tech Tutors 5pm-7:30pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

THURSDAY 6 Art Creative Youth Studio 3:30pm-5pm. Mixed-media open studio session for kids, teens & adults. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Photographer Mary Ann Glass and Artist Linda Richichi 7pm. PowerPoint presentation of their photographs and pastel paintings of Rome, Umbria, and the surrounding countryside, Glass and Richichi will discuss the ways art can enrich travelers' experiences in Italy. The Italian Center, Poughkeepsie. lspence@barrettartcenter.org.

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. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

MaMaFit Classes 11am-11:30am. Waddlers-children who are crawling and begging to pull themselves up through early walkers. $40. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Group Guitar Lesson With Peter Theodore 5pm-6pm. Acoustic and electric. Alternates weekly between adults and kids. $30/2 lessons. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Dance The Nutcracker 9:45am. New Paltz Ballet Theater. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Events Candlelight Shopping Shops stay open until 9pm Thursdays in Dec.Beacon. www.beaconarts.org.

Lobby Christmas Sale 9am. Poinsettia, wreath, and handmade quality Christmas decorations. All proceeds benefit NDH Auxiliary. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

876-3001.

Astronomy Night 6:30pm. John R. Kirk Planetarium, New Paltz.

257-1110..

Film Chasing Ice 7pm. Documentary on disappearing glaciers. Cary Institute, Millbrook. www.caryinstitute.org

Music MDO Jazz Trio Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Akie B & The Falcons 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Robert Cray Band 7:30pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Sera Cahoone 8pm. $15. Americana songwriter performance.The Linda, Albany.

Gardiner Library Book Club 3pm-4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

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.

Workshops Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. 1-2pm Infant under 1 year and 2-3pm toddler all ages. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

FRIDAY 7 Art 13th Annual 5x7 Show 5pm-7pm. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock.

679-2079.

Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition 5pm-7pm. Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844 First Annual December Drawing Show 6pm-9pm. Douglas Culhane, Heyd Fontenot, Ken Gray, Brian Lynch, Robert Petersen, Jose Pita, Harry Roseman, Joy Taylor, Douglas Wirls. Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties. (347) 387-3212.

Body / Mind / Spirit Morning Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Kids Yoga and Family Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $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, New Paltz. 2558212.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Menopausal Metamorphosis 7pm-9pm. Herbalist, author, and educator Susun Weed. $25. Call for location.

SachsHealthSleuth@gmail.com.

Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Dance The Nutcracker: Daytime School Performance 9:45am/12pm. New Paltz Ballet Theater. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The Nutcracker 8pm. Catskill Ballet. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088.

Events Saugerties First Friday Music, libation, shopping and art. Downtown Saugerties, Saugerties. diane@ihgallery.com.

Holiday Factory Sale 9am-6pm. Holiday markdowns on handmade jewlery.

Top Shelf Jewelry, Ellenville. 647-4661.

Lobby Christmas Sale 9am. Poinsettia, wreath, and handmade quality Christmas decorations. All proceeds benefit NDH Auxiliary. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

876-3001.

High Style for the Holidays 5pm-8pm. Tour the house decorated for the season.

Fred J. Johnston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Film Dear Governor Cuomo 7:30pm. $10. Anti-fracking film screening with guest panel. The Linda, Albany. www.thelinda.org.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 7pm. $10. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.

Kids Kindermusik Family Style Classes— Zoom Buggy and Dream Pillow 12:15pm. $225. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music 4 Guys in Disguise Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

M.R. Poulopoulos 6:30pm. Folk. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Bill Sims Jr. with Adam Levy & The Mint Imperials 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Tony Pastrana & NY Latin Jazz 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

The Glory of the Cello: From Baroque To Tango 8pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. Columbia Greene Community College Performing Arts Center, Hudson.

(518) 719-0633.

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A Bad X-Mas Perky Connecticut housewife Rachel looks forward to the Yuletide.

But husband Tom has a confession about this year’s present: He’s hired a hit man to rub her out. Merry fricking Christmas.

So runs the plotline of Craig Lucas’s 1983 comedy-drama “Reckless,” to be presented by the Shandaken Theatrical Society (STS), December 7 through 16. Hardly standard holiday fare.

Defying expectations is the mission of Michael Koegel, STS’s new artistic director. In his first season at the helm of the 35-year-old troupe, the veteran actor-director has a simple vision: “What I am trying to do in general is bring more contemporary American playwrights to [this] theater.”

Koegel originally arrived in New York City for theater but found work producing and writing for PBS, Fox Family Channel, FX and Nickelodeon.

When he relocated to the Mid-Hudson Valley almost three years ago, Koegel opened a coffee shop in Phoenicia across from the STS Playhouse. A longtime dream of running his own theater was reignited, and he joined the company.

To understand how much “Reckless” departs from typical STS fare requires a history lesson. Shandaken Theatrical Society is best known for offering genial fare, performed by local amateurs and professional transplants. Past productions have included musical classics like “The Pajama Game,” “Gypsy” and plays like “Wait Until Dark” and “The Subject Was Roses.” Generally, shows displayed more enthusiasm than expertise. But STS was community theater at its most guileless.

In 2005, STS experienced growing pains. Playfair, an annual showcase for new talent, drew a handful of audience complaints for staging works that included what your grandmother might term “blue language”.

A culture war flared among board members. In the end, two people departed and a new interim president, Dotty Casey-Gaede, then 73, was installed. She told this reporter at the time, “We want to put on good family entertainment. We don’t need a whole lot of sex and bad language, either in the show or on the stage.”

Michael Koegel is determined to bring STS into the 21st century by staging the works of playwrights who are challenging, transgressive and yes, may employ four-letter words, including Pulitzer Prize winners Paula Vogel and David Lindsay-Abaire.

Initially, there may be a learning curve among local theatergoers, Koegel acknowledged. “It’s not that the audience is less sophisticated; they just have less experience because they haven’t seen this type of theater.”

In “Reckless,” Rachel flees her home during a Christmas Eve blizzard and embarks on a picaresque journey that lasts a dozen years. The mishaps and misadventures accrue—betrayals, poisonings, assassinations, and TV game show fame—leaving Rachel stripped of illusions and transcendent of her past. Cast members include Alise Marie, Phil Mansfield, Kathy Richter, Faye Storms, George Tsontakis, Jay Braman, Tom Hagakore, Sarah Hagakore, and Cameron Williams.

“Reckless” may seem the theatrical equivalent of a lump of coal in your fireplace stocking on Christmas morning. But Koegel stresses the upbeat message tucked among the cruel absurdities of Lucas’s play. “Rachel comes out of this a much stronger, capable and wiser human being.

And that is what we can all hope for ourselves at the end of our journeys.”

“Reckless” will be staged December 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16 at the STS Playhouse in Phoenicia. Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm.

Tickets are $15/$12 seniors (845) 688-2279; Stsplayhouse.com.

—Jay Blotcher

Cameron Williams

Alise Marie and Jay Bramen Jr. star in Craig Lucas's "Reckless" at STS Playhouse in Shandaken this month.

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Last Good Tooth 8pm. $5. Appalachian and folk music. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Ruthie Foster 8pm. Contemporary folk, blues, soul and gospel music. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

An Evening with Simone Felice 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Steve Kimock 9pm. Featuring Bernie Worrell, Andy Hess and Wally Ingram. $40/$35/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Reality Check 9:30pm. Modern rock. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724.

Spoken Word Presentation by the Western Massachusetts and Albany Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology 6pm-7:30pm. A dramatic reading of correspondence between psychoanalyst Dr. A.A. Brill and his patient Mabel Dodge Luhan, composed by Patricia Everett, Ph.D. and performed by Dr. Everett and Paul Lippmann, Ph.D. Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-1604.

Stefan Bolz 7pm. Author of The Three Feathers. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Theater Black Nativity 7pm. $15 adults, $12 children. Gospel play celebrating Christmas. 29 North Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

Season's Greetings 7:30pm. Presented by VOICETheatre. $22/$18 students and seniors. Creekside Grille, Woodstock.

679-2914.

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.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

After the Revolution 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Readers Theatre. $16/$12/+$2 at the door. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Reckless 8pm. Comedy. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children.

Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia.

688-2279.

Workshops A Real-World Look at Bullying and How We Can Stop It Call for times. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Gift-making: Jewelry 3pm-7pm. Drop in to create a beautiful piece of jewelry. $25. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

SATURDAY 8 Art Community Bowl Making Days Call for times. Help us create vessels to sell at Chili Bowl! Wheel throwing & hand-building. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.

Holiday Craft Fair 2012 11am-5pm. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Rock Tavern Holiday Craft Boutique 12pm-5pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 988-1813.

Annual Member's Exhibit and Handmade for the Holidays Bazaar 12pm-7pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. 2012 Leaping Trout Art Collection Auction 2pm-4pm. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Kristy Bishop Studio 5th Annual Holiday Art Show 2pm-4pm. Neon artwork by students and instructor.

Lox of Bagels, Saugerties. 246-8835.

Robert Trondsen: Enlightened Views with Gayle Fedigan Show 2pm-5pm. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.

Second Saturday All day. Art exhibits, window decorations. Beacon. www.beaconarts.org.

Solo Exhibit by Linda Yater 5pm-7pm. Also showing Member's Exhibit and Handmade for the Holidays Bazaar. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Form and Function 6pm-8pm. Group exhibit. Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon.

(917) 318-2239.

Triple Zero Wonderland 6pm-8pm. Carl Van Brunt's projection installation. Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon. (917) 318-2239.

Apocalypse 6pm-9pm. Bau, Beacon. 222-0177.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Qi Gong Class 10am-11am. $10. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757.

Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

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Introductory Orientation Workshop 11am-1pm. This workshop lays the groundwork for you to build a well-rounded classical yoga practice. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

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 Zumba 10am. $15. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenzumbamama@aol.com.

Dance The Nutcracker 2pm/7:30pm. New Paltz Ballet Theater. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Holiday Contradance 8pm. Peter Blue calling, with music by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. $10/$9/ 1/2 for children. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Holiday Swing Dance 8pm-10:30pm. Beginner lesson at 7:30pm. $10.

Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.

The Nutcracker 8pm. Catskill Ballet. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088.

Events Cookie Walk 9am-12pm. Supports the Women's Fellowship of Reformed Church of Shawangunk. $6/pound.

Reformed Church of Shawangunk, Wallkill. 895-2952.

High Style for the Holidays 10am-4pm. Tour the house decorated for the season.

Fred J. Johnston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Holiday Sale 10am-3pm. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley.

338-5253.

Holiday Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Featuring the Hudson Valley Etsy Team.

Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243.

2012 Holiday Craft Sale 11am-4pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Annual Monastery Christmas Craft Fair 11am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery. webs.com.

Big Indian Native American Cultural Center Thunder Bear Drum Circle 12pm-4pm. Dancing, stories, drumming. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Catskill Cabaradio 6pm-9pm. Music, interviews, poetry, storytelling and trivia. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Graceland Tattoo Winter Party 7pm. Showcasing winter themed ornaments. These unique ornaments will be for sale and part of the proceeds will go towards the Grace Smith House.

Graceland Tattoo, Wappingers Falls. 297-3001.

Perphormance Arts in Phoenicia 8pm-11pm. A fun night of entertainment, featuring live music, a reading of short play, "ConversationSinfonietta" by Jean Tardieu, poetry, storytelling, dance, and guest artists. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Upcycled Bicycle Christmas Tree Lighting 5pm. Tree lighting and music by Beacon Music Factory Choir. Cross and Main Street, Beacon. www. beaconarts.org.

Kids Kindermusik Family Style Classes- Zoom Buggy and Dream Pillow 11:15am. $225. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 8765952.

Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

Music David Mason Solo Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Met: Live in HD Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera 1pm. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088.

Eldar Djangirov 8pm. $18/$15 members. Piano Jazz. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera 1pm. Metropolitan Opera "Live in HD." Pre-performance lecture at 11am. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-0100.

Mr. Roper 7pm. Rhinebeck Concert Series. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 266-8387.

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix 7pm. Opening act David Kraai and Amy Laber.

Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

M.R. Poulopoulos 7:30pm. Folk. $5. Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties.

943-6720.

Natalie MacMaster 7:30pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

The Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse 7:30pm. Featuring Neil Okeson. $6/$5 members.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern.

978-5620.

The CBC Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. $10. Jack and Luna's, Stone Ridge.

687-9794.

art jan sawka Greg Gorman A page from Calligraphy, Part Two, Q-XYZ journal, Jan Sawka, sumi ink and marker, 2008.

Jan Sawka's journals will be on display at Bard College's Stevenson Library through December 15.

The Page Speaks In Communist Poland, the only medium open to artists who shunned officialdom was the poster, and in the 1970s, one of its stars was Jan Sawka. Sawka, a longtime resident of High Falls who died this summer at age 65, had studied painting, printmaking, and architectural design. By age 27 he had earned international renown for his posters and avante-garde theater sets, work that got landed in trouble with government censors and led to his exile in France in 1976. Sawka, who was accompanied by his wife and infant daughter, became artist in residence at the Pompidou Center before moving to New York City the next year, where his first job was an illustration for the Op Ed page of the New York Times. Besides editorial illustration work, his multifaceted career included exhibitions of paintings and sculptures, architectural installations, proposals for public monuments, and even large-scale sets for touring rock bands, including a 10-story illuminated backdrop for the Grateful Dead’s 25th anniversary concert tour.

Sawka rejected the rampant narcissism of the art world and used his talent as a force for good. For example, his 2010 model for a proposed peace monument in Jerusalem consists of a cluster of white, upright, spearlike rods crested with the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—a case of swords turned into plowshares for sure. He was working on a 90-minute projection of 1,200 images that celebrated humanity in all its richness and diversity, accompanied by a soundtrack by Mickey Hart, at the time of his death. (Called The Voyage, the multimedia show is scheduled to tour theaters in 2014.)

Sawka was also working on a show of his sketchbooks at Bard College’s Stevenson Library, “Personal Equilibrium: The Private Journals of Jan Sawka,” which opened in November and is on display until December 15. His sketchbooks served as the laboratory for his paintings, sculptures, and architectural designs and accompanied him on his travels in Asia and Europe. Ideas seem to have sprung fully realized onto the page: his pen-and-ink faces, figures, trees, landscapes, and buildings are depicted in a fluid,

expressive line or dense hatch marks, in many cases embellished with washes of pale or smoldering color.

A bold, 1960s exuberance combines with a classical sense of structure to create an art that bridges the personal and collective, East and West, the concrete and the sublime. The artist defeated the tyranny of the rectangular page by bleeding images off the edges or framing them in circles or other shapes that enliven the paper like giant punctuation marks. His means became the subject of his art: tones served as a metaphor for good and evil and even for existence itself: in a drawing titled Illumination, for example, a half-drawn figure passes from a darkened landscape into the empty page and vanishes. Omissions signify presence—in this case, the white paper reads as a brilliant, blinding light. Elements, such as the upper half of a face, are frequently obscured, charging his subjects with suspense, and the layering of images—there are drawings within drawings—suggests complex narratives in which memory, observation, commentary, and emotions coalesce.

Sawka loved typography, and some notebooks are filled with letters, elegantly conjured out of calligraphic swirls or imagined as massive, architectonic forms. Letters fill the sky of a peopled landscape like a portentous omen; blown up to a huge proportion, they become a surreal topography. Sawka’s art abhors a vacuum. His drawings are like fragments of the mind itself, a cacophony of words and visions that is by turns exhilarated and frightened, analytical and moody, questioning but always transfixed by the world’s beauty. Sawka the man may be gone, but his art is resolutely alive, the pages sonorous with his lovely, inventive images.

“Personal Equilibrium: The Private Journals of Jan Sawka” will be exhibited through December 15 at Bard College’s Stevenson Library. Bard.edu.

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Shtreiml 8pm. With special guest Ismail Fencioglu. $15.

Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Amnesty International Benefit Show with Questionable Authorities 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Creation 9pm. Covers. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005.

Hive Holiday 7pm. Kelleigh McKenzie performance. Party and fundraiser. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.

Woodstock Era Experience 9pm. $40/$30/$20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Davey O. 9pm. Folk, Americana. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. www.rondoutmusiclounge.com.

Hurley Mountain Highway 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. The Trestle Restaurant, Cornwall. 534-2400.

Yoga for Deep Relaxation with Live Didgeridoo & Melody 3:30pm-5:30pm. $25/$20 pre-registered. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

The Outdoors

Dance

Volunteer Trail Work Day 9:30am-2:30pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus.

473-4440 ext. 273.

Bark and Buds: Winter Identification of Trees and Shrubs 10am-2pm. $35/$30 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Backyard Birds 2pm-3:30pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.

The Nutcracker 2pm. Catskill Ballet. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088.

Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA. Ying Yang Yawn 5pm-6:30pm. A mixed level yoga class incorporating three parts yoga and one part the yoga of healing sound. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Hypnobabies, Childbirth Hypnosis 9am-12pm. 6-week class. $375/series.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Photoshop Elements 11am-1pm. $150. Three class series continued 12/16 and 12/23. The Shirt Factory, Kingston. 339-7834.

The Nutcracker 3pm. New Paltz Ballet Theater. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Events 2012 Holiday Craft Sale 11am-4pm. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Spoken Word

Theater Season's Greetings 7:30pm. Presented by VOICETheatre. $22/$18 students and seniors. Creekside Grille, Woodstock.

679-2914.

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.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

After the Revolution 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Readers Theatre. $16/$12/+$2 at the door. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Reckless 8pm. Comedy. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children.

Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia.

688-2279.

Workshops Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Gelatin Printing: Handmade Cards 1:30pm-3:30pm. Ages 16+ with Beth Humphrey. $40.

Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

SUNDAY 9 Art Rock Tavern Holiday Craft Boutique 1pm-5pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 988-1813.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, 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.

Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 10:30am-12pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Meditation, Intention and the Zero Point Field 2pm-3:30pm. With Ricarda O'Conner. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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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.

Reckless 2pm. Comedy. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Season's Greetings 5pm. Presented by VOICETheatre. $22/$18 students and seniors. Creekside Grille, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Workshops African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

African Dance 12pm-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 2558212.

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.

MONDAY 10 Body / Mind / Spirit Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

New Year’s Fiddle and Dance Weekend Do you want to go dancing on New Years Eve? Really dance—not some equivalent to Elaine’s limb flail from “Seinfeld.” The Ashokan Center in Olivebridge not only offers a space for group dancing, but lessons to learn some new moves for the big night. From December 29 to January 1, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason host worldclass musicians and dancers; styles include cajun, zydeco, contra, swing, waltz, and blues. Weekend admission includes all daytime and evening classes, music, food, late night snacks, and bunks, culminating with the New Year's Eve bash and New Year's dinner and dance. With Ashokan’s 18th- and 19th-century architecture and quiet tree-wreathed setting, you’ll feel worlds away from modern society’s critical eye—so, as they say, dance like no one’s watching.

Ashokan.org

Gallery Talk and Reception 2pm. Featuring Eva Respini on Jean-Luc Moulene.

Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Children's Author Susan Davis 3:30pm. Reading from her book Summer of Red Rain.

Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Poets Steve Dalachinsky 3:30pm. Studio at the Seligmann Homestead, Sugar Loaf. 469-9168.

Jason Gehlert 7pm. Author of Jeremiah Black. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Poetry Reading 7pm. Featuring Leslie Gerber & Nina JeckerByrne. $5/$2.50. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884.

Annual Monastery Christmas Craft Fair 11am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.

Winter Fair & Outdoor Marketplace 11am-4pm. Crafts, food, song, dance, artisan wares, indoor and outdoor activities. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, New Paltz. 255-0033.

Warm Up At The Washington’s' 12pm-4pm. Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh.

562-1195.

Kids Toddler Art Class 10:30am-11:30am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

Music Charles & Bernard 1pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill.

(914) 739-1287.

Tragicomedia 2pm. A Baroque holiday celebration presented by Close Encounters with Music. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-0100.

The Zucchini Brothers 3pm. Original holiday tunes. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Tudor Brass with Janice Grace 3:30pm. $10. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110.

College-Youth Symphony & Chorale 7pm. $8/$6 seniors/$3 students and faculty. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/music.

Erik Lawrence Trio 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molesky 7pm. $50/$40. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

TUESDAY 11

Theater

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Qi Gong 11:30am-12:30pm. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4:30pm-5:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan: Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 2558212.

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-9pm. With Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Belly Dance: Intermediate 7:30pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Kids Toddler Art Class 10am-11am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 11:45am-12:30pm. $145 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music Studio II Open Mike for Music and Vocals 6pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Workshops Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

How to Have Fun As A Poet (Without Even Trying) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $12. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia.

688-2142.

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 Morning Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Zumba 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Noon Wabi Sabi Yoga 11am. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Zumba with Amanda Gresens 6:45pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Classes 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.

Argentine Tango Lessons 7:30pm-8:30pm. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Kids Toddler Art Class 10:30am-11:30am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Rhinebeck Community Playgroup 11am-12:30pm. Mamas and children from 0-24 months. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Classical Voice Students of Kent Smith 8pm. $8/$6 seniors/$3 students and faculty. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/music.

Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

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.

Tai Chi 11am. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4pm-5:15pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga with Elizabeth Gross 6:30pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Classes Watercolor Classes 2pm-4pm. $10/$7 seniors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Clay Play 3:30pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Events Arlington Farmers' Market 3pm-7pm. College Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7035.

Kids Multi-Media Art Classes for Kids 3:45pm-5pm. Ages 4-12. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music Scott Feiner & Pandeiro Jazz 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Tom DePetris Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties.

246-8424.

Spoken Word Glaring Omissions Reading Series 7pm. Themed reading series presents three Hudson Valley authors reading from their recent work. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Theater Andy Borowitz 7pm. A benefit fundraiser for WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. $50. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Surprises at the End 7:30pm. American theatre by teens. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438

THURSDAY 13 Art Creative Youth Studio 3:30pm-5pm. Mixed-media open studio session for kids, teens & adults. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Mama's Creative Circle: Needle-Felted Ornaments 6:30pm-8:30pm. Women's art party. $35. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

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 5:30-6:30; advanced: 6:30-7:15. $12/$10.

Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MaMaFit Classes 11am-11:30am. Waddlers-children who are crawling and begging to pull themselves up through early walkers. $40. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Wabi Sabi Yoga 11am. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

MaMaFit Classes 11:30am-12:15pm. Toddler/Preschoolers-children who can competently run through Kindergarten age. $40.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 6 weeks. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Zumba with Amanda Gresens 6:45pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gurdjieff's Movements: Inner Work and Sacred Dance 7:30pm-9:30pm. Facilitated by Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Group Guitar Lesson With Peter Theodore 5pm-6pm. Acoustic and electric. Alternates weekly between adults and kids. $30/2 lessons. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Events Kingston-Rhinebeck Toastmasters Club Meeting 7pm-9pm. Ulster County Office Building, Kingston.

340-3800.

Music MDO Jazz Trio Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Spoken Word Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.

Workshops Peace Work 1pm-4:30pm. Utilizes experiential exercises in specific ways, to grow personal insight, interpersonal skill & community. Queens Galley, Kingston. 853-4023.

Doody Calls!

1pm-2pm. Cloth diapering information session. $10.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. 1-2pm Infant under 1 year and 2-3pm toddler all ages. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

FRIDAY 14 Art Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition 5pm-7pm. Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3844.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Kids Yoga and Family Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $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, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Photoencaustics 5pm-7pm. Featuring encaustic photographs by Rita Bernstein, Christa Kreeger Bowden, Hope Kahn, Leah Macdonald and Kara Taylor. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

Open House & ArtsWalk 5pm-8pm. Albert Shahinian Fine Art Upstairs Galleries, Rhinebeck. 876-7578.

Sculpture 6pm-8pm. Featuring works by Stephen Walling, Linda Cross, Roger Phillips, Birgit Blyth, Joseph Maresca, and Amy Podmore. Carrie Haddad Gallery.

(518) 828-1915.

Anything Goes 6pm-9pm. Group show. Solo room shows: Fred Waller and Robert Draffen. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia.

688-2142.

Events

Body / Mind / Spirit

Classes

High Style for the Holidays 11am-3pm. Tour the house decorated for the season. $10. Fred J. Johnston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Live Outdoor Nativity Scene 4:30pm-7:30pm. First United Methodist Church, Highland. 691-7853.

Winter Solstice 2012 with Happy Traum & Friends 8pm. $60/$40/$25. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Film The Sound of Music 7:30pm. UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088.

Kids Kindermusik Family Style Classes- Zoom Buggy and Dream Pillow 12:15pm. $225. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 8765952.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music Woodstock Chamber Orchestra Call for times. A program of orchestra folk songs. $20/$5 students. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 679-6431.

Cameron Brown and the Hear & Now 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Lucky Peterson's Two-Day Birthday Celebration & Texas BBQ! 7pm. Opening Myles Mancuso Band. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Music Theatre Singing Ensemble 7pm. $8/$6 seniors/$3 students and faculty. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

The Joy of Christmas: Martina McBride 7:30pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Hurley Mountain Highway 8pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Nick Millevoi and Keir Neuringer 8pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Winter Solstice Concert a Benefit for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild 8pm. With Happy Traum and Friends. $60/$40/$25.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Second Friday Jam with Jeff Entin & Bob Blum 8:30pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

David Kraai 9pm. Singer/songwriter. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

Spoken Word Discussion with Mirza Ashraf 7pm. Author of Rumi's Holistic Humanism. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Reading with Will Pflaum 7pm. Author of Juba: The Search for the Sons of the Martyrs. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Theater Boxaroxen 7pm. An original play by M. San Millan. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Season's Greetings 7:30pm. Presented by VOICETheatre. $22/$18 students and seniors. Creekside Grille, Woodstock.

679-2914.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Reckless 8pm. Comedy. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children.

Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia.

688-2279.

SATURDAY 15 Art Rock Tavern Holiday Craft Boutique 12pm-5pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 988-1813.

Pop-Up Artisan Craft Show 2pm-8pm. Two day holiday craft show with work by the Look Gallery Artists. Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac.

Catching the Light 5pm-7pm. Paintings by Betsy Jacaruso & new work by Cross River Artists. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook.

758-9244.

Open House 5pm-7pm. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook.

758-9244.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, 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, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Reflexology Day 11:30am-4:30pm. $45/45 min. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774.

Stress Reduction Techniques 2pm. K.I.S.S. Holiday Stress Goodbye! Five Quick, Easy Ways to Keep It Simple, Sweetheart, During the Holidays. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

The Fundamental Principal and Practical Application of Sound Healing with the Tuning Forks 3:30pm-5pm. Presented by Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Gong Songs: Activation of Radiance 7pm-8:30pm. With Kate Anjahlia Loye. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Zumba 10am. $15. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenzumbamama@aol.com.

Events Pine Hill Community Center Annual Winter Holiday Fair 10am-4pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Rosendale Library Holiday Booktique 10am-3pm. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

The Pine Island Farmers Market 10am-3pm. Walter Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.

High Style for the Holidays 11am-3pm. Tour the house decorated for the season. $10. Fred J. Johnston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Kwanzaa Festival 3-5pm. Candle lighting ceremony, community dinner.

Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438 Winter Green Market 11:30am-2:30pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Live Outdoor Nativity Scene 4:30pm-7:30pm. First United Methodist Church, Highland. 691-7853.

Christmas with the Ellisons 5pm-8pm. Tour by candlelight the elegant 1754 Ellison mansion decorated for the season in 18th century fashion. Knox's Headquarters, New Windsor.

561-5498.

Apocalypse Party 8pm-11pm. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.

Kids Kindermusik Family Style Classes— Zoom Buggy and Dream Pillow 11:15am. $225. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

Music Dell Trio Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Met: Live in HD Verdi's Aida 1pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The Met: Live in HD Verdi's Aida 1pm. Pre-performance talk at 11am. $18-$25.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

John Menegon Trio 7pm-9pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

255-8811.

Judy Collins 7:30pm. With special guest Rachel Sage. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Annual Holiday Concert 8pm. $18/$13/+$2 at the door/children half price.

Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mountain Snow and Mistletoe 8pm. A down-home concert of holiday songs and stories with Christopher Shaw and Bridget Ball with The Mountain Snow Orchestra. $24. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Holiday Benefit Concert 8pm. Professor Louie & the Crowmatix. Mr.Roper opening. BSP Lounge, Kingston. 481-5158.

Tom Pacheco 8pm. Singer/songwriter. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Spoken Word Reading by ChrisMarks 7pm. Author of 50 Authors on 50 Shades of Grey.

Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Theater Boxaroxen 7pm. An original play by M. San Millan. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Guerilla Theatre 8pm doors open. 9pm show. $20. Stories of love, life and society through spoken word, music, and theatre.

The Linda, Albany. www.thelinda.org.

Season's Greetings 7:30pm. Presented by VOICETheatre. $22/$18 students and seniors. Creekside Grille, Woodstock.

679-2914.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Reckless 8pm. Comedy. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children.

Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia.

688-2279.

Workshops Supply and Demand!

1pm-2pm. Breast pumping information session. $10.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

SUNDAY 16 Art Holiday Craft Show 10am-7pm. Array of handmade jewelry, home wares, apparel, cards and more by local artists. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Pop-Up Artisan Craft Show 12pm-5pm. Two day holiday craft show with work by the Look Gallery Artists. Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac.

Rock Tavern Holiday Craft Boutique 1pm-5pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 988-1813.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

One Day Intensive Labor 10am-4pm. Everything you need to know about childbirth. $155. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Meditation Class 10:15am-10:45am. Middletown Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, Middletown. 343-3858.

Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 10:30am-12pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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.

Dance The Nutcracker: Albany Berkshire Ballet 2:30pm/6:30pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Events Christmas with the Ellisons 2pm-6pm. Tour by candlelight the elegant 1754 Ellison mansion decorated for the season in 18th century fashion. Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor.

561-5498.

Kids Toddler Art Class 10:30am-11:30am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

Music Woodstock Chamber Orchestra Call for times. A program of orchestra folk songs. $20/$5 students. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock.

679-6431.

The New Foundry and Andrea Tomasi 7pm. $7. Old time folk. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson.(518) 671-6006.

Mountain Snow and Mistletoe 2pm. A down-home concert of holiday songs and stories with Christopher Shaw and Bridget Ball with The Mountain Snow Orchestra. $24. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

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Open Mike 4pm-6pm. $6/$5. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Funk Junkies 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Theater Reckless 2pm. Comedy. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children.

Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia.

688-2279.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

New York Holiday Cabaret 3pm. Presented by the New York Theatre Organ Society and New York Academy of Ballet. $15/$12 seniors and children. FDR High School, Hyde Park.

266-3858.

Boxaroxen 3pm. An original play by M. San Millan. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Season's Greetings 5pm. Presented by VOICETheatre. $22/$18 students and seniors. Creekside Grille, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Workshops African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

African Dance 12pm-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Zumba with Amanda Gresens 6:45pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Sound and Light Activation Under the Guidance of the Master Teachers 7:30pm-9pm. with Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes 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.

Argentine Tango Lessons 7:30pm-8:30pm. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Film Belle et la Bete 7:15pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Toddler Art Class 10:30am-11:30am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

MONDAY 17 Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Qi Gong 11:30am-12:30pm. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4:30pm-5:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

I Liq Chuan: Tai Chi/Qi Gong 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Wisdom's Way DVD Series 6:30pm-8pm. With best-selling author, Guy Finley.

Cornwall Public Library, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-8282.

Classes

Film A Christmas Story 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Kids Toddler Art Class 10am-11am. 1-3 year olds-Me and My Grown Up. $48/4 weeks + $12 materials. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 11:45am-12:30pm. $145 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Workshops Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

How to Have Fun As A Poet (Without Even Trying) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $12. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

TUESDAY 18 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit Morning Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 2558212.

Zumba 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Noon Wabi Sabi Yoga 11am. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

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Watercolor Classes 2pm-4pm. $10/$7 seniors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Clay Play 3:30pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Events Holiday Beer Dinner Call for times. $39. Terrapin Restaurant, Rhinebeck. 876-3330.

Arlington Farmers' Market 3pm-7pm. College Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7035.

Kids Multi-Media Art Classes for Kids 3:45pm-5pm. Ages 4-12. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera 1pm. Metropolitan Opera encore performance.

Pre-performance lecture at 11am. $18-$25.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Now, Forager If the slow food movement were a game, mushroom foraging would be the treasure hunt.

Some mushrooms are poisonous, others edible, and the most delicious are often extremely rare. Finding those coveted fungi requires knowledge and patience—a business where love can be lucrative. Jason Cortlund, member and editor of the New York Mycological Society, wrote the screenplay for the 2012 feature film on love and fungi that he also stars in and co-directs with Julia Halperin. Now, Forager tells the story of husband-and-wife mushroom foragers who follow contradictory paths. Lucien risks financial instability for the unconventional lifestyle of the nomadic hunt; Regina pursues a more secure route working in an upscale New York restaurant. This food-to-table testament, partially shot in Dutchess County, screens at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on December 2.

Lisa Resnick and Barbara Plume of the MidHudson Mycological Association will lead a discussion after the screening.

Upstatefilms.org

Body / Mind / Spirit

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Belly Dance: Intermediate 7:30pm-9pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Classes

Rhinebeck Community Playgroup 11am-12:30pm. Mamas and children from 0-24 months. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Tom DePetris Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties.

246-8424.

Music

Spoken Word

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

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.

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.

Spoken Word Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading 2pm. Poets Mike Jurkovic and Rebecca Schumejda.

Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

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.

Tai Chi 11am. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4pm-5:15pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga with Elizabeth Gross 6:30pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Workshops Songwriters' Workshop with Bill Pfleging 7pm. An open forum for all songwriters looking for feedback and/or inspiration. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

THURSDAY 20 Art Creative Youth Studio 3:30pm-5pm. Mixed-media open studio session for kids, teens & adults. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

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 MaMaFit Classes 11am-11:30am. Waddlers-children who are crawling and begging to pull themselves up through early walkers. $40. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Wabi Sabi Yoga 11am. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

MaMaFit Classes 11:30am-12:15pm. Toddler/Preschoolers-children who can competently run through Kindergarten age. $40.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 6 weeks. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Zumba with Amanda Gresens 6:45pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gurdjieff's Movements: Inner Work and Sacred Dance 7:30pm-9:30pm. Facilitated by Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Group Guitar Lesson With Peter Theodore 5pm-6pm. Acoustic and electric. Alternates weekly between adults and kids. $30/2 lessons. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Events Holiday Beer Dinner Call for times. $39. Terrapin Restaurant, Rhinebeck.

876-3330.

Astronomy Night 6:30pm. John R. Kirk Planetarium, New Paltz.

257-1110.

Film Happy 6pm reception. 7pm film. $6. Director travels to find what makes people happy. The Linda, Albany. www.thelinda.org

Music MDO Jazz Trio Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Matthew Stevens Group 7pm. Featuring Ben Williams, Eric Doob, and Taylor Eigsti. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Workshops Supply and Demand!

1pm-2pm. Breast pumping information session. $10.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. 1-2pm Infant under 1 year and 2-3pm toddler all ages. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

FRIDAY 21 Body / Mind / Spirit Chant for World Love, Peace, and Harmony Continues for until 12/23. Global Teleconference. www.drshaw.com Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. All proceeds go the Deaf Yoga Foundation. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Winter Solstice Planetary Alignment Sound Healing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Special evening of sacred sound.

Come join us for a special candlelit time together to celebrate the releasing the dark and embracing. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Events Holiday Beer Dinner Call for times. $39. Terrapin Restaurant, Rhinebeck.

876-3330.

High Style for the Holidays 11am-3pm. Tour the house decorated for the season. $10. Fred J. Johnston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Live Outdoor Nativity Scene 4:30pm-7:30pm. First United Methodist Church, Highland. 691-7853.

Winter Solstice Laser Installation 6pm. Laser show and light art installation. Creekside Park, Beacon. www.beaconarts.org.

It's a Wonderful Life 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Kids Kindermusik Family Style Classes— Zoom Buggy and Dream Pillow 12:15pm. $225. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music Soul City Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Bucky Pizzarelli & Nicki Parrot with Rossano Sportielli 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Alexis Cole Ensemble 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

comedy andy borowitz

Tease and Sympathy Andy Borowitz isn’t exactly sure what he and WAMC’s “Roundtable” host will be discussing when the humorist graces the stage at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on December 12.

“Joe Donahue will be interviewing me. So I assume I will mainly be making fun of Joe,” wrote Borowitz via e-mail.

Borowitz’s has accumulated millions of readers with his blog “The Borowitz Report,” which the New Yorker acquired in July. In this daily column, Borowitz puts his own satirical twist on current events. A post from November 5, the day before the recent election, contains the following “official argument” from the Republican Party: “We’re strongly opposed to FEMA and health care, but basically OK with rape.”

As “America’s satire king” (“Daily Beast”), Borowitz is able to poke fun at the political world, providing readers with a daily dose of laughter. “As Will Rogers said, ‘There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you,’” says Borowitz.

In September, Borowitz was contacted by Joe Donahue.

As the vice president of news and programming for WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Donahue felt that with Borowitz’s “cool” background (Harvard Lampoon alum, screenwriter for “The Facts of Life,” creator of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”) he was more than qualified to help raise money for one of three annual fundraisers conducted by WAMC. “We try to think of things that will get people to donate and things that we can think of that will be interesting,” says Donahue. “And this time I thought that Andy would be a great choice. He’s a perfect match for our listeners.”

Along with his intimidating scroll of accomplishments, Borowitz is now also a New York Times bestseller. Earlier this year he completed his first autobiographical work, a memoir titled An Unexpected Twist, documenting a life-threatening intestinal blockage. (Borowitz has suggested a follow-up volume of life lessons: “Tuesdays with My Colon.”) The book’s breezy tone and numerous scatological jokes belie its gravity, taking readers on a hilarious and harrowing personal journey.

This is the first time WAMC has chosen a comedian for its fundraising and Donahue feels the audience will not be disappointed. Since both are at-home with the format of an interview, Donahue plans to throw as many topics as he can at Borowitz and let him run wild. The most obvious topics will be politics, including the election and current events, or as Donahue called them, “the usual suspects.” Those attending the show more than likely know what they’re in for: a night of witty remarks, snarky humor, and anything and everything that comes to Borowitz’s mind. Responses will be unfiltered and Donahue is eager to hear what Borowitz will have to say. “I hope [the audience] will see what a damaged person I am and be more sympathetic toward me going forward,” said Borowitz.

Andy Borowitz will perform on stage at the Bardavon on December 12 at 7pm. Tickets are $50 and are available exclusively through WAMC. (800) 323-9262.

—Jenny O’Toole Andy Borowitz performs at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on December 12.

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Walter Wright & Al Margolis 8pm. $5. Experimental acoustic/electronic. Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

West Point Jazz Knights 7pm. Holiday jazz concert. The Linda, Albany. www.thelinda.org.

Spoken Word Author Event: Boria Sax 7pm. Author of City of Ravens: The Extraordinary History of London, the Tower, and its Famous Ravens.

Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

SATURDAY 22 Art Rock Tavern Holiday Craft Boutique 12pm-5pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 988-1813.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774.

Events High Style for the Holidays 11am-3pm. Tour the house decorated for the season. $10. Fred J. Johnston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Live Outdoor Nativity Scene 4:30pm-7:30pm. First United Methodist Church, Highland. 691-7853.

Film It's a Wonderful Life 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Kids Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

Workshops African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 2558212.

African Dance 12pm-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 2558212.

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.

MONDAY 24 Body / Mind / Spirit Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

I Liq Chuan/Tai Chi/Qi Gong 4pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mixed Level Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Zumba with Amanda Gresens 6:45pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

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.

Kids Rhinebeck Community Playgroup 11am-12:30pm. Mamas and children from 0-24 months. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Thomás Kubínek Does the holiday season make you crazy? Feel some solidarity with the “Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible” at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center on December 14. Charlie Chaplin meets Cirque du Soleil in Kubínek’s acclaimed comedic solo performances—an artful composite of vaudeville, spectacle, music, and magic. A self-described visual poet, he incorporates props and uses his body as one, too. A given show may find him flying through the air with a pair of bat-like wings or doing a backward somersault with a glass of red wine balanced on his head while playing a mandolin. With awards ranging from the Samuel Beckett Theatre Award to the International Grand Champion of Housefly-Catching, he moves seamlessly between the highbrow and the lowbrow, managing to both delight and awe.

Sugarloafpac.org

Kids Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

Music Dell Trio Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine 8pm. Literary hip-hop, political mockery, roots music spoofs. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

A Celebration of Seasons 8pm. Nadege Foofat, conductor and violinist. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Blue Food 10pm. Harmony, Woodstock. 679-7760.

Theater Charles Dickens Tells A Christmas Story 7:30pm. Following the Festival of Lessons and Carols in the Stone Church. Stone Church, Cragsmoor.

647-6487.

Workshops Doody Calls!

1pm-2pm. Cloth diapering information session. $10.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

SUNDAY 23 Art Rock Tavern Holiday Craft Boutique 1pm-5pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 988-1813.

Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, 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.

Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 10:30am-12pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA. Ying Yang Yawn 5pm-6:30pm. A mixed level yoga class incorporating three parts yoga and one part the yoga of healing sound. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events Advent Lessons & Carols Eucharist Service 10am. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie.

452-8220.

Spotty Dog Christmas Carol Spectacular 6pm. Christmas Spectacular with Brian Dewan, Liz Carrow and more. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

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New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Kids Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 11:45am-12:30pm. $145 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music Christmas Eve Concert 10:30pm. "Gloria" by John Rutter. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220.

Workshops African Dance 12am-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

How to Have Fun As A Poet (Without Even Trying) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $12. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia.

688-2142.

TUESDAY 25 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 Morning Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Zumba 9:15am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Noon Wabi Sabi Yoga 11am. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

Workshops Time Is Precious/Rhythm Is The Key 8pm-9:30pm. A workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Photosensualis, Woodstock. 679-8847.

WEDNESDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit

Film Bedknobs and Broomsticks 3pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Kids Multi-Media Art Classes for Kids 3:45pm-5pm. Ages 4-12. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Music The Met: Live in HD Encore Performance: Verdi's Aida 1pm. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Murali Coryell 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Tom DePetris Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties.

246-8424.

Spoken Word Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

THURSDAY 27 Art Creative Youth Studio 3:30pm-5pm. Mixed-media open studio session for kids, teens & adults. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

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 MaMaFit Classes 11am-11:30am. Waddlers-children who are crawling and begging to pull themselves up through early walkers. $40. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Wabi Sabi Yoga 11am. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

MaMaFit Classes 11:30am-12:15pm. Toddler/Preschoolers-children who can competently run through Kindergarten age. $40.

Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. $100 8 weeks/$15 drop-in.

Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $90 6 weeks. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Zumba with Amanda Gresens 6:45pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Classes M*Power Dance 4:30pm-5:45pm. Ages 6+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Group Guitar Lesson With Peter Theodore 5pm-6pm. Acoustic and electric. Alternates weekly between adults and kids. $30/2 lessons. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Events Open House 10am-2pm. Tour the elegant 1754 historic house decorated for the season in 18th century fashion.

Knox's Headquarters, New Windsor. 561-5498.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

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.

Tai Chi 11am. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Flow Yoga 4pm-5:15pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Multi-Style Vinyasa Yoga 6pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga with Elizabeth Gross 6:30pm. $12/$40 series of 4. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Music

Classes

Events

Mixed Level Yoga 7:30am-9am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 11:30am-12:45pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Community Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. All proceeds go the Deaf Yoga Foundation. $10. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Open House 10am-2pm. Tour the elegant 1754 historic house decorated for the season in 18th century fashion.

Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor. 561-5498.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Watercolor Classes 2pm-4pm. $10/$7 seniors. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Clay Play 3:30pm-5pm. Hand-building and glazing ceramics for kids, teens & adults. Ages 5+. $38/2 classes, $72/4 classes, $150/10 classes. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. www.fiberflamestudio.com.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

MDO Jazz Trio Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Clarence Spady 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Workshops Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. 1-2pm Infant under 1 year and 2-3pm toddler all ages. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

FRIDAY 28 Body / Mind / Spirit

Classes

Events Open House 10am-2pm. Tour the elegant 1754 historic house decorated for the season in 18th century fashion.

Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor. 561-5498.

Real Happiness Retreat Retreat featuring yoga, meditation, talks, spa treatments.Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. www.menlamoubtai.org.

Kids

Kindermusik Family Style Classes— Zoom Buggy and Dream Pillow 12:15pm. $225. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity 10:30am-12pm. Renew, restore and uplift within a musical community of song, gong, singing bowls, poetry and praise. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Akashic Records Revealed 2pm-3:30pm. With June brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Community Yoga 4:30pm. $5. The Yoga House, Kingston.

706-YOGA. Ying Yang Yawn 5pm-6:30pm. A mixed level yoga class incorporating three parts yoga and one part the yoga of healing sound. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Music

Kids

Todd Boyle Acoustic Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Ben Rounds Band 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Oz Noy, John Abercrombie, Jay Anderson & Adam Nussbaum 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Chris Talio Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

The Outdoors Full Moon Winter Walk 4:30pm-6:30pm. Schor Conservation Area, Canaan.

(518) 392-5252 ext. 210.

SATURDAY 29 Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9:30am-11am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Gentle Yoga 10am-11:15am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Kundalini Yoga Class 2pm-3:30pm. Breane Wood. $25. Tadasana Yoga Studio, Wappingers Falls. 297-2774.

The Fundamental Principal and Practical Application of the Crystal Singing Bowl 3:30pm-5pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Full Moon Sound Healing Activation of Our Crystalline Self 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events New Year's at Ashokan Call for times. Music, dances, New Year's Eve bash, classes, workshops. $495/$455 no room. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

The Pine Island Farmers Market 10am-3pm. Walter Rogowski Farm, Pine Island.

258-4574.

Kids Puppet Shows 1pm-3pm. Ages 6+. Puppets made from recycled materials, interactive workshops to help children with literacy and foreign language development. The Green Palette, New Paltz. 594-8476.

Music Bach at New Year's: Brandenburgs Plus 3pm. Presented by the Berkshire Bach Society.

First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (860) 435-4866.

New Riders Purple Sage 8pm. $40/$30. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Workshops

SUNDAY 30 Body / Mind / Spirit Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10:30am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 2558212.

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.

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Body / Mind / Spirit Qigong with Zach Baker Call for times. Seniors 11am, others 5:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Vinyasa Yoga 9am-10am. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6:30pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Classes Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 7+. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Events New Year's Dinner 4:30pm-10:30pm. $59/$39. Terrapin Restaurant, Rhinebeck. 876-3330.

5th Annual New Year's Eve Comedy Blast 8pm. Featuring: Travon Free, Eli Braden, Halli Borgfjord & Pauly Casillas. $20/$30/$35. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 4-6. M*Power, Poughkeepsie. www.mpowercfcf.org.

Tango Fundamentals 4:30pm-5:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Intermediate Tango 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Tango Practica 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

2 nd Saturday

Jazz Workshop 4pm. Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.

Kids

Workshops

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African Dance 12pm-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

The Ed Palermo Big Band Presents "eddie loves frank" 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Keith Newman 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

Krewe de la Rue 8pm. Cajun. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Performance Art and Poetry with Laura Ludwig 7pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5775.

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African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Music

Spoken Word

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Music Together Babies Only: Birth— 9 Months 11:45am-12:30pm. $145 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Music New Year's Eve Bash with The Cagneys Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Bach at New Year's: Brandenburgs Plus 6pm. Presented by the Berkshire Bach Society.

First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (860) 435-4866.

The Bedtime Kissers 9pm-1am. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Soul City 9pm. New year's eve show. Keegan Ales, Kingston.

331-brew.

Workshops African Dance 12am-1:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

African Drum 11am-12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

How to Have Fun As A Poet (Without Even Trying) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $12. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia.

688-2142.

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

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he long-anticipated winter solstice of 2012 is now just weeks away. I may be one of the few people considering the 2012 issue for 25 years who did not make a religion out of this event, which marks the end of the 13th bachtun of the Mayan long count. I have a prediction for you: The world will not end.

I was first introduced to the 2012 idea when I was living in a spiritual community in 1986, in my first year as a professional news reporter. My year in the community— Miracle Manor in Piscataway, NJ—ran from September 1, 1986, through August 31, 1987. That August was the Harmonic Convergence, a global event orchestrated by José Arguelles, author of The Mayan Factor. Twenty-twelve is coming, he said, and we better get ready.

Arguelles did not come up with all of this himself. Credit to introducing December 21, 2012, into public consciousness goes to the brother act of Daniel and Terrence McKenna in their 1974 book The Invisible Landscape. Yet it was Arguelles who, with some collaborators, took tangible, worldly action and helped us establish an anchor at one end of what some came to know as the 25-year span, from the Convergence to winter solstice 2012.

We are now on the exit ramp from that span, completing a cycle that has stretched on for 5,125 years, or more than 1.82 million days. It will deposit us right on the winter solstice of a year that included one of the Mayan’s favorite things ever, a transit of Venus (that was the big news back in June).

The Mayans calculated this and plenty else besides without the benefit of the US Naval Observatory’s ephemeris or the Cornell supercomputer. They were amazing at math and astronomy. They also dealt with a lot of the same problems we now face—climate change, war, and political strife. In all likelihood they were not transported back to the Pleiades aboard the Mothership. It is probable that their civilizations were scattered and they became refugees, long before the arrival of Magellan.

From the beginning of my astrology studies, I cast the chart for the 2012 winter solstice over and over, and I could find little that was distinctive about that particular day. It’s true that every day is different and has something special; this chart does not stand out.

However the era we are now in was daunting to consider. Many outer planets would be changing signs in the years leading up to it. In the last years before 2012, there were many planets discovered orbiting our Sun. Many interesting stories were being told in the sky in those years, and these very days.

Yet no matter how carefully I looked and how many new planets I brought into the chart, I could find no special “winter solstice alignment.” When the Sun sets that night, there will not be an eclipse or a string of planets glowing in the sky, harkening the New

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Age. The Sun will make no special alignment to the Galactic Center. I could not find one of those theories that added up to the actual astronomy involved.

The one thing I kept noticing involved an asteroid called Juno, which was discovered in 1804. When the Sun arrives in Capricorn on December 21, there will be a little planet waiting for it on the solstice point, one that most astrologers associate with marriage and jealousy. Juno was named for the Roman equivalent of the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus and the queen of heaven. She was notoriously jealous and thought nothing of spreading all the emotional grief, despotism, and clever revenge she could dish out.

“Well, her husband had a lot of affairs,” her apologists always say, as if that’s vindication for all the agony she wrought. Here is early evidence that jealousy is rarely perceived to be the issue of the jealous person. It’s usually blamed on the person who is “making” them jealous. See how far that gets you in therapy.

Juno in a natal chart also describes potential marriage partners and tendencies around marriage, particularly the first one. A Sun-Juno conjunction in Capricorn looks like it’s describing the “institution of marriage,” since Capricorn addresses all things corporate in nature. This would include the institutionalization of relationships: their tendency to be rigid, to follow old rules and traditions, and to be excessively materialized (all properties of Capricorn).

Yet does this aspect cut it as the “2012 alignment”? The thing is, that’s what’s in the chart. Not only is it in the chart, it’s right at the winter solstice point, the focus of this whole business we have been describing as 2012. Even speaking as a minor planet specialist, I kept looking at the chart, seeing that Sun-Juno conjunction, and thinking, well, that can’t really be important enough to be the 2012 alignment.

It was one of those weird astrological games of hide-and-seek. I would look at the chart, see the Sun aligned with Juno, and then keep looking for something that seemed to be more important. Then I would come back to Sun-Juno and wonder what it was about.

It wasn’t till weeks before the event itself that I actually questioned whether that really is the central message of this momentous time in world history—something about marriage, or at least something about Juno.

Well, as it turns out, relationships are one of the most significant issues of our moment of history. Marriage remains a central goal of many people, as well as one of the biggest sources of profit for lawyers. Marriage itself is at a historic turning point. Samesex couples can now marry in many places, even in the puritanical United States. This is an evolution not just in the history of our particular culture but also since the time of the Old Testament, when a man lying down with a man meant that he had to be stoned (now in Colorado and Washington, he can be).

Here in the US, we’ve finally backed off of the Defense of Marriage Act, a ridiculous concept. The whole issue is about to get to the Supreme Court. Europe is already on board with this; we are at a significant turning point in world history.

One thing about the first degree of Capricorn—the winter solstice point—is that it relates to all of the other cardinal points, one of which is the first degree of Aries. The whole cardinal cross resonates with the Aries Point, which has the theme “the personal is political.” Fifty or 100 or 500 years ago, who would have predicted that marriage and personal relationships would be one of the most contentious issues at this time in history?

Who would have imagined that we who live in the capital of the free would be fighting for the right to have a relationship with the person we love?

Yet we’re not talking about Juno by herself here; the Sun is in the picture, and it is the Sun’s movement that completes the 5,125-year cycle. In astrology, the Sun is one of the most vivid symbols for self. A Sun-Juno conjunction so prominent in the chart can be read as a kind of alchemical union with oneself.

This is the thing that our relationship-obsessed culture so often overlooks: that a relationship to oneself is the basis of all of the bonds and associations we form with others. It seems like just about all the time, every other relationship topic gets the attention, the books, and the courses. There is still significant misgiving about the topic of self-relating. At least in the US, we have a taboo on the topic, concerned that it will be conflated with vanity, narcissism, or being egotistical.

Most relationships are about a narcissistic infatuation with “the other” rather than recognition of the other. This is one reason why our relationships are in such crisis. There are many other drains on intimacy, including the time shortage, but if your consciousness is not centered in yourself, and you are unable to recognize the value of someone you care about, that does not bode well for clear relating.

So to me, Sun + Juno on the Aries Point on this momentous day suggests that we really do need to get right with ourselves before we can be right with anyone else. That, or we need to go into our relationships honestly admitting that we’re also working out an inner relationship, and leave the bond with the other flexible enough to accommodate some self-discovery.

Sadly, we are taught to do precisely the opposite in our intimate bonds. In order to preserve the relationship, it’s considered reasonable to subvert one’s own process of growth and change—or that’s what just seems to happen. The relationship is elevated to supreme status, and the life quest of the individuals involved seems to become its disciple.

This chart—and the current relationship crisis—is suggesting we take the opposite approach. It’s time to ask honestly if our relationship structures, including our concepts of relationship, actually serve our growth. Are they flexible enough to allow the space necessary for the people in them to continue their process of being individuals? Or do the people in highly structured relationships gradually individuate in spite of them?

We seem to do a lot of growing through the process of forming and then cracking bonds with others, rather than creating flexible, sustainable associations that recognize who and what a person is, and allow for that “who and what” to evolve naturally.

In part because I have a dialogue with the public on relationship themes, I know that the discussion of evolving our relationship models is controversial. The seat of the controversy seems to be the unwillingness to confront jealousy, a theme deeply connected to Juno. This in turn reflects some deep insecurities that it’s simply not fashionable to confront, nor is it easy without a brave heart and some social support.

One thing that nearly everyone who tries to make their relationship more flexible comes up against is the crisis of what their friends might think. Juno is obsessed with playing a social role, relative to another. This indicates that our tendencies in relationships tend to be driven by a conformist obsession with what we pretend is the only socially acceptable way to relate.

Of course, that is a lie. As we near the end of the Mayan cycle, one of the last big stories in the news was an extramarital love affair by someone considered a great war general. Everyone knows that perhaps half the time, the supposedly monogamous marriage is a kind of public relations position.

In my reading of the 2012 chart, this whole group of issues are the ones that emerge as the culminating spiritual issue of our era. It’s time to guide our obsession with relationship toward an actual union within, which is to say, healing the many schisms that we take for granted. As we commit openly to making peace with ourselves, we can form relationships that nourish and respect this most basic journey of existence. Then, as we allow our curiosity to be set free, we can explore the infinite mystery of the other, from a grounded place of loving ourselves.

Here on the eve of the winter solstice of 2012, I envision a world where our relationships are built more of mutual support than of jealousy.

More sympathy and less control.

More appreciation and less guilt.

More devotion and less obligation. More fidelity and less obsession with monogamy.

Where living sincerely takes the place of worshipping at the altar of our insecurities.

A world where we encourage curiosity and set aside expectation.

A world where we see the pain that deception causes, and recognize that only the truth is erotic.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries (March 20-April 19) Being weird is not enough. Having no fear of being perceived as weird is essential. This will help insulate you from any misguided impulse to sacrifice your individuality or conform to what some authority figure wants you to be, and I assure you that the temptation will be there.

Yet experiencing the tension between “rebellious” and “conformist” is not enough to guide you, on its own. You must do something subtler, which is trust that your self-guidance is more effective than anything any “leader” could provide. Worship of authority is one of the most common forms of the mommy/daddy drama that adults, by definition, have resolved and put behind them. Getting clear about these things will allow you to step into the bold place of being an actual creative person, rather than an iconoclast. Of course, one persistent icon does need to be taken off of the altar, and that is your self-image. Remember that actual self is stronger, more influential and more beautiful than any mockery of it could be. Therefore, avoid glamour, fashionable trends of belief, or doing anything for the sake of appearances. If you can do this, you will guide yourself deeper into the confidence that you are the only leadership you need.

To many this will seem like a dangerous place, and it just may be. I suggest you equip yourself with a few more tools. The most important one is honesty, by which I mean the willingness to know yourself, and call something what it is.

Taurus (April 19-May 20)

It’s easy to turn relationships into a religion. It’s also easy to group with others based on a structured belief system. Having the two in the same place is a hazard to your growth. Intimate relationships do not need to be grounded in materialized form, in ideology, or in commitments that extend far into the unforeseeable future. If humanity is to proceed in a way that could vaguely be called progressive, enlightened, or honoring of human potential, relationships need to be a flexible meeting of individuals who support one another in getting to understand themselves. Please don’t underestimate the extent to which relationships as we’re taught to think of them are designed to undermine that very process. The problem you may face is that stepping into actual individuality is so daunting. The reasons for this go back as far as the first person who declared himself king, and demanded the loyalty of others; they extend into the present day, when most people fully expect to be punished for authenticity. I don’t think that either of these are the real issue. For you, it’s about diving into the unknown, and by that, I mean consciously entering the space within yourself where you actually don’t know who you are, and where nothing can substitute. If you can embrace what you don’t know about yourself, you may catch a glimpse of how much you have to discover, and what beauty the mere willingness to meet yourself would release into the world.

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Actively cultivate your vision, both for your own life and for the world.

Then hold that vision gently, and take a conscious step every day in the direction of expressing it. To do this, it will be necessary to look beyond what you think of as the potential in your current relationships.

Whether you think of that potential as limited or extraordinary, whether your relationships are inspiring or distracting, there is something more that you have access to.

At times, this thing I’m calling a vision feels so subtle you can barely bring yourself to admit that it exists, much less to accept that you can manifest it. Other times you may engage directly in the controversy and sense of difference that seizes the world. And at yet other times you can feel the actual power contained in your vision, including the subtlety and the controversy. They are all part of the same thing. What I am saying, though, is that to bring this in fully, you need to look beyond the parameters of your current relationship involvements, whether personal or professional, friendly or hostile. Those relationships may, at some point, factor into what you do, and they may provide you with suggestions about what you want or don’t want. To attain your potential, you must be willing to take leadership, and for a while, that may mean accepting being misunderstood, or perceived as a threat to the security that others usually enjoy in your presence.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

The world is your mirror. It is therefore the place to extend any compassion or appreciation that you have discovered on your journey to wholeness. Self-love emerges from your center, though if it’s to be meaningful—indeed, if it exists at all—it will extend beyond you into the gentle embrace of the people around you. One indication that you’re doing this is that you find yourself treating people on equal terms. The usual hierarchies and pecking orders of life give way to the understanding that we are all on the same journey, that we all contribute to one another’s lives, that we all reflect one another. While I am not suggesting that there is absolute equality among all of your relationships, they are a lot less different from one another than you may imagine. And the one thing they all have in common is you. In this way, the compassion that you offer to yourself extends out to others the moment that you feel it—unless you feel threatened and choose to hold back. I suggest you notice if you’re doing that, because when you hold onto defensiveness, attachment, fear or guilt in “someone else,” you’re really holding onto it within yourself. They want to be free from their pain, and want to be close to others, just as much as you do. For anyone to feel secure in this world is as meaningful as your own need to. If you think you take risks, consider that others may take even greater risks. If you want the privilege of vulnerability, extend your hand. Take off your glove first.

Planet Waves Horoscopes Leo (July 22-August 23) Nobody in this world should be excluded from healing, and in the end, nobody is. Yet you may need to balance your desire to include everyone with the understanding that some resist, some go kicking and screaming, and others have another agenda entirely. The most significant theme to focus on is your own healing agenda; if you’ve ever wondered when the perfect time would come to do this, you’re standing right in it, right now. Here are some themes as I see them: How do you handle your need to belong to the world around you? (Some options are: conforming, collaborating, communicating, or coveting.) How do you relate to the past? (Some options are: destroy it, reinterpret it, regret it, or learn from it.) How do you handle your obsessions? (Some options are: self-control, hyperfocus on your immediate environment, or eating your brain alive with anxiety.) How do you handle your violent tendencies? (Some options are: take them out on yourself, collect weapons, play sports, argue with everyone.) Most significantly, what is your concept of relationship? Does it include or exclude others? Are you basing your conduct on a commitment to freedom, or retreating into jealousy? The implication of your chart is that relationships are the most significant focus of your healing process right now, which will, sooner or later, include providing both an example and a safe space for others. In this regard, you are far more influential than you may suspect.

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If you are hesitating, make sure that it’s not to avoid provoking the insecurities of someone else. There are many reasons to pause, reflect, and use your power judiciously, though one of them is not acting out a childhood fear that someone more powerful than you will be scared by your potential. I have a suggestion. Try on the world from two points of view. In the first, imagine that everyone around you is threatened by your existence. Make no exceptions—imagine that every response or reaction is the result of a threat that someone else feels, and it’s all about you. In the second, imagine that nobody is threatened, that everyone embraces you, and that anyone’s apparent response or reaction to you is all about who they are and has nothing to do with you. Practice this for a little while and the difference will start to become stark. I suggest you develop sensitivity to when you’re trying to compensate for what you think are someone else’s potential reactions to you. Notice when you cut yourself off and therefore don’t give yourself a chance to get anywhere near full expression. Notice when this whole dynamic is influencing your decisions. There is another way to be—though it calls for a mix of self-awareness and bravery. If at any time you feel yourself compromised, add one or better yet both of these ingredients, and see how this shifts things. Note, there is an efficient way to access both in one gesture: curiosity.

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Are you feeling confident, or afraid that the ground is going to drop out beneath you? Is it time to embrace the people in your life, or are you making more excuses to keep them at arm’s length? What you’re going through is certainly deep, and it’s stirring up some old questions, some fear, and many of your old reasons to keep people at a distance. That said, I don’t think there is a time when we’re actually “ready” to be close to others. Rather, I would say there may be a time when we understand that everyone is a work in progress. Part of that progress is the willingness to accept your insecurities, not as a permanent part of who you are but rather something you experience. To accept your insecurities implies revealing them in intimate situations, which in turn implies giving people power over you. Here’s the problem with this point of view: If you see your life as a power dynamic, you’re living in the world of politics rather than human emotions. Part of your Libra karma is to understand what one professor at my university called “the politics of love,” which includes the politics of your early-childhood environment. That may have been a rigid world, based more on expectations than on compassion. You have the awareness and determination to see the implications of the past on your life today, and to work them out. I would ask: What’s that inside your velvet glove? Is it an iron fist, or a warm, loving hand?

Scorpio

(October 23-November 22)

The time has arrived to distinguish you from your ideas about yourself.

You may not be the first kid on the block to succeed at this, so don’t expect a keg party in your honor. Yet what is likely to happen is that by experiencing yourself differently, you will see the world differently.

This is most of the issue, right? The willingness to see, to envision, and to experience the world as different (particularly, as different from the one that our parents imposed on us)? Yet to embark on this requires consciously embracing instability, uncertainty, and the unknown—not the flavors of the month these days. Both your “ideas about yourself” and “yourself” are powerful concepts, though they are different kinds of concepts and need to be distinguished from one another. For some, this is about sorting out the appearance of something from the underlying reality—the press release from the contentious meeting where it was written, and where much else was said. For others, this is about distinguishing where you are now from where you want to be in the future.

And for others, this is a question about how the past weighs on you, and may drag you back to a time and place that no longer exists. All of this would be much easier, were you willing to take the risk of rejection. That implies having little to no influence on what people think of you. Then, you could be honest with yourself, and proceed on that basis alone.

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Sagittarius (November 22-December 22) If there is nothing holding you back, then what is holding you back? At this point, it’s likely to be the feeling that you’re not on solid or stable ground with yourself. So I would ask, can you get accustomed to the fact that the Earth is moving? Can you accept that as a fundamental truth of existence? (The Earth really is moving beneath you, literally and metaphorically.) Many factors in your astrology suggest that there is no certainty, and that nobody can hand it to you. Yet this also means that you are standing in a rare, and beautiful, opportunity to embrace the potential contained in an actual review of what you think, what you feel and what you value the most.

In other words, questions are more valuable than answers, in part because they lead you to an open-ended place. If your phase of questioning is to end before you embark on your experiment, that’s a little like buying a set of paints, putting them in the closet, and waiting for them to dry out before you make a painting. The uncertainty you feel, is an experience of your potential—as is any self-doubt, or anger at yourself, at your past, or, for that matter, anger at your parents.

You seem to be pulled between the desire for total, radical independence at the same time you’re aware that every aspect of your life contains subtle or overt interdependencies with the rest of existence. This is less of a paradox than it seems.

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“Become the change you want to see in the world” may be getting old as a slogan, but not as the thing to do. The 2012 phenomenon—day 13.0.0.0.0 of the Mayan calendar (marking the completion of a 5,125-year cycle of time)—happens when the Sun ingresses your birth sign in December.

What is the message, to you personally? It’s a resounding cry for social justice, which can only be answered in the embodiment of leadership by example. It’s the only kind that works, whether intentional or not, and whether the example is of corruption, truth or love. Therefore, be conscious of the example you provide. Be conscious of the alignment of your words and of your actions. What you say, what you do and who you are has an impact on the world. You may not feel that way, yet. One thing that will help you notice your influence is to pause in trying to live up to what you think others would have you be. You do not need to be anything but who you are. In our particular world, the fact that this may not be acceptable to some people is evidence that you’re doing what is right, and popularity may be a sign that you’re wasting your time. Express your passion for justice by being just. Include people rather than exclude them. Make nobody conform to your point of view. Offer your empathy and consciously, vocally refrain from trying to control anyone—especially yourself.

Aquarius

(January 20-February 19)

I would suggest you take a less somber and more celebratory approach to life, to sex, and to work. Remember—you’re not in this alone.

That would be your worst fear, and, thankfully, it’s not vaguely possible. Yet something equally daunting is. In order to work with, bond with and grow with others, you must be willing to do these things with yourself. At first, deep self-embrace can feel like reaching for someone’s hand in the darkness. Yet imagine this hand in the darkness is grasping for you, though you cannot see where it is, or be sure that it’s there. It’s far easier to reach for someone else, but less meaningful until you’ve embraced your fear, not of being alone, but that you might not show up for yourself. The nice thing is that unlike in an interpersonal relationship, you get to decide what you’re going to do; you have all the influence and you make all of the decisions. When you get to the place where you’re entirely certain that you’re going to meet yourself, and know that you will never abandon yourself, that gives you a lot more freedom in everything you do, particularly in your relationships with others. The world has this one backward, as the usual logic runs, “I will show up for myself when someone shows up for me.” By now you’ve seen the futility of this—and you’ve tasted the essence of nourishing yourself, which is your prerogative every moment of this life and beyond.

Pisces

(February 19-March 20)

You have come a long way to get where you are. It’s taken you a long time and impeccable patience, and for years you’ve sorted through your mind with the approximate feeling of sifting through a box of pottery shards. You are finally starting to get a sense of your wholeness—and the strength that this offers you. One gift of wholeness is the benefit of being able to see the world from many points of view. Your psychic mobility is your best asset, and it’s in full bloom right now. Don’t worry if those who lodge themselves in one point of view find this disorienting. In this moment of history, nobody can really afford to be rigid, or convinced of their rightness. And you cannot afford to have the idea that there is no truth, or that the truth can never be known.

As you shift from viewpoint to viewpoint, observe the world and notice what changes, and what the different perspectives have in common. After a while, I think you will start to see the obvious, and then you will be able to express it in a way that entices others to embark on their own healing process as a matter of free will. Any fool can spot differences; it takes a perceptive person to notice common ground. You may wonder, however, why others don’t see it. The answer is because they have not looked. In truth there is so little we don’t know—about our problems, or about our solutions.

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