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A festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. With over 15 premieres spanning an audience-driven barn raising to immersive sound performances—an evangelistic jumbotron diatribe to choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, Filament is a three day festival highlighting EMPAC’s support of artists in the creation of work via commissions and residencies, presented in an unparalleled facility. ﬁlament.empac.rpi.edu

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regional notebook

education

12 local luminary: Joan Kaplan Davidson

77 Life’s University

The former head of the Quad Commission talks with Jan Larraine Cox.

news and politics 20 while you were sleeping BP is still the biggest fuel supplier to the Defense Department; the uncertain fate of 12 million stateless refugees; suggestions in Congress to raise the retirement age.

beauty & fashion 89 In Season: autumn fashion

24 whistling in the dark Myron Levin of FairWarning.org reports on the problems besetting whistleblowers under the current OSHA guidelines for employee protections.

28 beinhart’s body politic: War & Unhappiness Larry Beinhart remembers why Osama bin Laden is pleased we're in Afghanistan.

community pages 31 Little Water Place: Poughkeepsie

Anne Pyburn Craig reports on the excitement in the Dutchess County seat over the Walkway Over the Hudson and other renewal intiatives taking shape.

55 rural urbanity: Hudson and Columbia County

Jamie Larson looks around Columbia County and sees an engaged citizenry that's working hard to preserve its past and assure its future.

green living 64 The Power of Three

Kelley Granger talks with local designers, boutique owners, stylists, and fashionistas about hot looks for fall. Plus an exclusive fashion shoot by Kelly Merchant.

whole living guide 96 Naturopathic Medicine Lorrie Klosterman examines the alternative medical approaches of naturopathy.

100 Flowers Fall: Why Have Kids?

Bethany Saltman is always questioning her assumptions.

advertiser services 22 hotels & lodging Where to stay when you’re staying in the Hudson Valley 23 phoenicia A collection of businesses in the southern Dutchess County city. 52 beacon A collection of businesses in the Queen City of the Hudson. 53 rhinebeck A collection of businesses in the nothern Dutchess County town 74 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 83 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 101 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

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Carl Frankel talks with Cinda Baxter about her big idea for small business.

Kaitlin Pitsker offers tips on local continuing education opportunities outisde of the classroom environment, from tarot to trapeze and beyond.

The fermentation room where soy sauce is aged six months in 20,000-gallon tanks at the Wan Ja Shan plant in Middletown.

FOOD & DRINK

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twenty-first season

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Berg and His World

august 13–15 and 20 –22 The Bard Music Festival presents two extraordinary weeks of concerts, panels, and other special events that will explore the musical world of Alban Berg.

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Berg and Vienna Alban Berg: The Path of Expressive Intensity

Friday, August 13

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Saturday, August 14

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The Vienna of Berg’s Youth

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Mahler and Beyond

Sunday, August 15

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Chamber works by Berg and Strauss

Chamber works by Zemlinsky, Webern, and others

American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Berg, Mahler, Korngold, and others

Eros and Thanatos

Chamber works by Berg, Schreker, Mahler, and others

program five

Teachers and Apostles

program six

The Orchestra Reimagined

weekend two

Chamber works by Berg, Schonberg, Ullman, and others

Members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Berg, Busoni, Hindemith, and others

Berg the European “No Critics Allowed”: The Society for Private Performances

Friday, August 20

program seven

Saturday, August 21

program eight

You Can’t Be Serious! Viennese Operetta and Popular Music

program nine

Composers Select: New Music in the 1920s

program ten

Sunday, August 22

program eleven

Chamber works by Berg, Debussy, Ravel, and others

Chamber works by Berg, Sullivan, Lehár, Kálmán, and others

Chamber works by Berg, Casella, Gershwin, and others

Modernism and Its Discontent

American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Berg and Schmidt

Between Accommodation and Inner Emigration: The Composer’s Predicament

Chamber works by Berg, Dallapiccola, Hartmann, and others

program twelve

Crimes and Passions

American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Berg, Hindemith, and Weill

bard college, annandale-on-hudson, n.y.

Tickets: $20 to $55 | 845-758-7900 | fishercenter.bard.edu alban berg in the atelier madame d’ora, wien, 1909. © önb/wien, 203481-d

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arts & culture 38 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 42 music Peter Aaron’s checks in with rocker Tracy Bonham. Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Graham Parker Imaginary Television. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren. Keith Pray Live at the Lark Tavern. Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson. Kenny Siegel Ellecentricity. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

46 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles JFK screenwriter Zach Sklar.

48 BOOK reviews Gregory Schoenfeld reviews Holy Water by James Othmer. Susan Krawitz reviews the anthology In the Fullness of Time. Plus Short Takes.

50 Poetry Poems by Joy Finnegan, Mitchell Flanagan, Sanford Fraser, Andrew C. Higgins, Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, M. Hotvedt, Rich Ives, Arielle Lindstrom, Kathleen C. Mandeville, Carol Peper-Goldsmith, Frank Possemato, Tad Richards, and Christina Lilian Turczyn.

68 food & drink

Here Comes the Rain, a woodcut by Anthony Lazorko, is being exhibited as part of “Printwork `10” at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie.

the forecast 108 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 107 The Bethel Woods Bluegrass Jamboree hits Sullivan County on August 22. 109 Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival sends up the Bard with "Bombitty of Errors." 111 The first Phoenicia Festival of the Voice sings out August 13-15. 113 Bard's Summerscape celebrates the music of Alban Berg and the culture of early 20th-century Vienna in a series of performances and talks through August 22. 115 Leonard Nimoy's photo exhibition "Secret Selves," celebrating the hidden identites of Northhampton, Massachusetts residents, opens at MassMoCA in North Adams. 117 “Picasso Looks at Degas” pairs the modern masters at the Clark Art Institute.

planet waves 122 Let's Get Real: Saturn in Libra Eric Francis Coppolino on change and authenticity in relationships. Plus horoscopes.

Nicole Tappa

Peter Barrett vivits producers of locally made Asian foodstuffs. Plus Food & Drink events and new and notable restaurant, bar, and market openings.

128 parting shot

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A serpent wider than a doorway and larger than a school bus sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. But enormous vertebrae and ribs from such a creature that lived 60 million years ago were found in a northern Colombian coal mine in February 2009. Each vertebra measures approximately five inches across— roughly double that of the boa constrictor and anaconda, previously thought to be the largest snakes to have lived. Titanoboa cerrejonensis, named for its size and the discovery site, spanned at least 40 feet in length and weighed upward of a ton. In addition to the snake’s shocking size, the discovery of the partial remains of 28 titanoboas has begun to fill in the 10-million-year historical blank after the dinosaurs’ demise. The National Wildlife Federation commissioned James Gurney to create an illustration of the animal for a Ranger Rick piece on archeological discoveries. Like his previous work in the wildly popular Dinotopia series, Titanoboa marks another ancient reptilian addition to Gurney’s collection of work. “It is always very exciting to me to try to picture things that not only has nobody not only ever seen, but maybe no one ever imagined,” says Rhinebecker Gurney, who has a background in both art and archaeology. With a subject he could neither see nor photograph, Gurney constructed a small maquette scene from oven-hardened clay, rocks, and sticks in a Chinese food takeout container. Challenged by the the snake’s extraordinary length, he decided to show the titanoboa rising half out of the water in a death match with a crocodilian, a giant forebear of the modern crocodile. “The main purpose of my piece is to try to imagine what would otherwise just be a fairly ordinary fossil—to go from that to imagining a very dramatic moment in the life of this creature and to take us in a time machine to see what it really might have looked like,” says Gurney. Titanoboa is currently featured in “Focus on Nature XI” at the New York State Museum in Albany. This biannual exhibit aims to show science through imagery in a way accessible to the general public. Pieces are admitted into the exhibit based on both educational and artistic merit. This year’s exhibit features 93 illustrations of plants and animals, the work of 73 regional, national, and international artists. A touchscreen panel in the exhibit allows visitors to learn more about the creatures or plants featured in pieces and the artists who created them. “Focus on Nature XI” runs through October 31. (518) 474-5877; www.nysm.nysed.gov. Portfolio: www.jamesgurney.com —Kaitlin Pitsker

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How has your career captured your passions? In the mid-1970s I served for three years as head of the New York State Council of the Arts, until my father called on me and I became president of the Kaplan Fund. At the Kaplan fund we early on were interested in environmental and preservation issues in the Hudson Valley and these interests were deepened when I served later as Parks Commissioner and fell in love with New York State. All this emotion has been topped off by the wonderful setting of my Columbia County house on a bluff over the Hudson, with the glorious Catskills right in front! This house, with its Hudson River painters’ setting, has given me a fine community of friends and neighbors, and a lively cultural scene. It also confirms the causes of our family foundation and our Hudson Valley project: clean air, clean water, protected lands, dense and interesting towns, equal justice for all. Describe your vision for regional and international branding of the Hudson Valley. We need a much stronger sense of ourselves as an organism, as a coherent whole, connected, interdependent, like the Loire Valley in France, the Lake District in England, and Napa Valley in California, which are strong regional entities with psychic clout. Recently, Representative Hinchey and Senator Gillibrand introduced bills in the House and Senate to examine the possibility that the Hudson River Valley could become part of the National Park Service. We live in hope and confidence that a new day is dawning for the Empire State and we want to be ready. The incomparable promise of the Hudson Valley can be celebrated throughout the United States and across the world.

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What compels you to keep working for our valley? Why not the Hudson Valley? With incomparable resources of every kind, we can build that vision of the Hudson Valley and all success will follow. This is coming out of a huge public process we set in motion. The main theme is “The river is everything; the connecting force. The land is everything; open space equals happiness.” We are desperately in need of transportation connections. We see the river as the great commercial highway it once was and we see its waterfront as it could be with access to the river for all. We want everyone to get to the river—it’s your river! Protect the river, now the cleanest it’s been in a long time. Build water traffic with barges, tugs, and other craft designed specifically for river navigation, such as the great long steamship Columbia. Did this public process evolve from your work as head of New York State’s Quadricentennial? The Quadricentennial saw many wonderful events up and down the Hudson Valley, largely organized by communities themselves. With encouragement from the Governor’s Office, the Commission provided for some of those commemorations to keep on going, as legacy projects of the Quad. The main one is, of course, the Walkway of the Hudson, which is attracting ever larger crowds and bringing about interesting new development at the Poughkeepsie waterfront. Then there is the docks program, in progress now. A few new docks are being built—in Athens and Brooklyn, and many more will come into being in the years ahead. Docks are sorely needed, to encourage recreational and commercial use, and to bring everybody to the river!

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Known as a wise and wonderful powerhouse who continues to forge ahead in her eighties, Joan Kaplan Davidson has worked for over 30 years as president and president emerita of the J. M. Kaplan Fund. A Manhattan-based family philanthropic fund founded by her father, the Kaplan Fund makes grants in such areas as the environment, historic preservation, migration, city life, and the arts. Davidson served as chair of the New York State Council of the Arts from 1974 to 1977, as well as State Commissioner of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation from 1993 to 1995. She recently chaired New York’s Quadricentennial Commission. Descended from a line of benevolent individuals, Davidson is the granddaughter of an immigrant rabbi and daughter of Jacob M. Kaplan, who organized and fostered the growth of the National Grape Cooperative Association in the 1930s, which culminated in the cooperative grape farmers successfully purchasing the Welch Grape Company from him in 1956. A champion of the Hudson Valley her entire life, Davidson, following in the family tradition, organized a “cooperative” process in 2009: initial listening tour workshops, and now six task forces (comprising of more than 100 Hudson Valley leaders) are collaborating to envision how the region’s assets can be utilized in transformative ways, within a long-range plan for the region’s future. An interactive website—www.ourhudson.org—has emerged from this process, with the goal of encouraging ongoing regional conversations among residents and friends of the Valley and also with the intention that the recurrent themes will become part of the political agenda this fall and beyond. Davidson delights in welcoming home to Columbia County her four children and 12 grandchildren, who gather without fail for Thanksgiving and throughout the year at her estate, Midwood, overlooking the Hudson. I spoke recently with Ms. Davidson at Midwood. —Jan Larraine Cox

The third legacy is Heritage Weekend, which will occur one weekend every other September: a Commissionlaunched project opens every museum, historic house, park, monument, etc., with special events thrown in, free to the public. Now I am engaged in what might prove to be the strongest legacy of all: a way to secure a healthy, sustainable future for the next decades of the entire Hudson Valley. Much wise and creative thinking has been under way for many months now, on the part of a great many Hudson Valley activists, in energetic conversations and diverse studies. How have you organized the “Our Hudson” project and what is its goal? The intensive planning process began in early 2009, the Quad year, with listening tours at six Hudson River towns. Afterward, our steering committee collated and studied the results of these early sessions, and then established task forces, comprising leaders in various fields, to more deeply pursue key Hudson Valley issues. The task forces delivered propositions and next steps toward the vision of how the Hudson Valley can become an economic powerhouse for New York State. Each aspect is dependent on the other: agriculture, education and culture, efficient transportation, the environment, tourism, and hubs with concentrated communities and jobs. Out of the meetings, with further refinement and editing, will come a kind of platform for the Hudson Valley—one that we hope our elected officials at every level, and all Hudson Valley municipalities will embrace. Stay tuned!

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(Top) Keith Streng of The Fleshtones rocking out on the waterfront at Beacon Riverfest on June 26. (Bottom left) Noah Sheetz, executive chef for New York’s Governor’s Mansion, grilling on the Mid-Hudson Bridge for an episode of “Green Peas TV” (www.greenpeastv.com). (Bottom right) Common Greens mobile farmers’ market at the kick-off event for their second season on July 9. A partnership between Common Ground Farm and the Green Teens Community Gardening Program, Common Greens brings affordable, fresh produce to Beacon residents.

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Recently, I applied for a fellowship—a two-week stint in LA, courtesy of USC Annenberg/Getty Foundation, for mid-career arts journalists. The aim of the excursion, according to the application, is to immerse journalists “in the distinctive cultural cauldron of Los Angeles.” Aside from the quaking wake-up call from mortality that the phrase “mid-career” rang in my colon, I excitedly gathered the requisite materials and sent them off without incident. There was an essay portion of the application, naturally. Its directive: Speculate on the future of arts journalism—where it might, and should, go, in 750 words or less. (Cue a brief spell of college-entrance-exam-type panic, even for a “professional journalist.”) Nevertheless. My essay, Twitter-style: Dominant financial paradigm in question, but new tools provide chroniclers with new possibilities for critique/reportage. Cream rises to top. All these deep, Marshall McLuhan-esque meta-thoughts about media eventually led me back home, to the Hudson Valley, this phenomenal place we call home. Here’s why: I’ve spent my career (the first half, anyway) covering this place. And the arts scene, as the kids say, is banging—especially in the summer. The summer explodes with culture. It is our cultural moment. But kind readers, I tell you this as much as a preventative against future regret as a paean to our profuse cultural wealth: You must start to hurry. Summer is half over and you might have already missed the Powerhouse season at Vassar completely—it ended on August 1. (Seeing Maria Cassi’s one-woman show “My Life with Men and Other Animals” at Powerhouse in July refreshed my faith in humanity. Cassi, an Italian who sings and dances and mugs and tells stories—though this does not capture her sparkling empathy—is a brilliant cross between Roberto Begnini and Tracey Ullman. And half the show was in Italian! It resonates in my psyche to this hour, reminding me of what the illustrator Saul Steinberg wrote about taking LSD, for the first and only time, at the age of 51: “A day of such happiness that the memory of this possibility existing in me makes everything else unimportant, reduces miseries to their proper scale.” Yes, Cassi possesses that kind of ethereal talent.) Luckily for us, August is another blockbuster month of culture in the Hudson Valley.There’s the Bethel Woods Bluegrass Jamboree on August 22, headlined by Ralph Stanley (of O BrotherWhere Art Thou? fame) and the Clinch Mountain Boys (page 107). Bard’s Summerscape kicks into high gear with a raft of dance, opera, and theater performances related to the work of composer Alban Berg, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival (page 113). The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival continues the trend it began last year of adding an irreverent sendup of the Bard to its repertory with “Bomb-itty of Errors,” a hip-hop gloss on “Comedy of Errors” (page 109). Three opera singers from the Catskills decided to pool their talent last summer for a one-off performance, which was so well received that they launched the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice, August 13 to 15, a multi-venue celebration of all things vox (page 111).

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There’s also a couple of art exhibits further afield that deserve attention. At the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is a clever show pairing of 100 works by Picasso and Degas. The two artists never met, but much of Picasso’s work is so clearly influenced by Degas that viewing the work side by side establishes the clear lineage (page 117). Also in the Berkshires, MassMoCA in North Adams is exhibiting “Secret Selves,” Leonard Nimoy’s photos of the residents of Northampton revealing their hidden identities (page 115). I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention our expanded food and drink coverage. For the past few months, we’ve been highlighting upcoming culinary events (page 71). But as we’ve witnessed a deluge of restaurants opening recently, we wanted to note the dozen or so exciting additions to the local eating scene (p. 72). That’s some of what we’re covering this month. Sadly, Chronogram is only 128 pages long, so we could not fit everything we would have liked in this issue. For starters, here’s some of what we missed, but you shouldn’t: Artists' Soapbox Derby, August 22 The kinetic sculpture parade turns sweet 16 this year. Join the awed masses to marvel at the assembled artistic ingenuity in Kingston’s Rondout as the vehicles roll down Broadway. www.artistsoapboxderby.com Arm-of-the-Sea's “Esopus Creek Puppet Suite,” August 13 & 14 Arm-of-the-Sea Theater is that rare troupe that maintains a high degree of artistry and remains politically relevant. For their annual performance pageant at Tina Chorvas Park in Saugerties, Arm-of-the-Sea is presenting a story that sounds eerily similar to current events. Here’s their synopsis: “The antics of a tribe of hominids who uncover a treasure buried deep under the Earth. When that treasure turns into a raging monster, the hominids must reckon with the consequences and struggle to save their home.” www.armofthesea.org Maverick Concerts, Through September 5 Arguably the most magical outdoor setting for chamber music anywhere, Maverick’s open-air concert hall features some of the most talented musicians on the planet each summer. This month, the Miro Quartet performs a program of Beethoven, Schubert, and Philip Glass on August 8. On August 21, jazz pianist Fred Hersch plays a solo concert. www.maverickconcerts.org The Wassaic Project, August 13-15 Centered around the historic Maxon Mills in this Dutchess County hamlet, the Wassaic Project is the labor love of a committed group of young artists who are producing their second annual multi-disciplinary riot of art and music: DJs, bands, installation art, poetry readings, films, and dance performances in a weekend-long artistic explosion. www.wassaicproject.org Summer is flying by. There’s so much going on—get to it while the weather is warm and the days are long. There’s always something happening this time of year, and we have it all listed in the Forecast (p108)!

Artists' Soapbox Derby Sweet 16 for the kinetic sculpture parade held on August 22 at 1pm in Kingston's Rondout. Kudos to the Donskojs! www.artistsoapboxderby.com

Hudson Valley Shakesoeare Festival Through Labor Day, three plays in repertory at Boscobel in Garrison: "Troilus and Cressida," "The Taming of the Shrew," and "Bombitty of Errors." www.hvshakespeare.org

Phoenicia Festival of the Voice The first Phoenicia Festival of the Voice, the brainchild of local opera singers looking to showcase world-class talent in the Catskills, sings out August 13 to 15 in Phoenicia. www.phoeniciavoicefest.com

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New Orleans United States District Court Judge Martin L. C. Feldman blocked the Obama Administration’s six-month moratorium on offshore exploratory drilling in more than 500 feet of water on June 22. In his 22-page opinion, Feldman wrote, “The effect on employment, jobs, loss of domestic energy supplies caused by the moratorium as the plaintiffs (and other suppliers, and the rigs themselves) lose business, and the movement of the rigs to other sites around the world will clearly ripple throughout the economy in this region.” In response, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he would issue a new order for a moratorium on deep-water drilling with further explanation. Obama’s press secretary countered Feldman’s injunction, saying the president believes, “continuing to drill at these depths without knowing what happened does not make any sense” and would jeopardize “the safety of those on the rigs and safety of the environment in the Gulf.” PR Watch points out that according to Judge Feldman’s financial disclosure reports, he had numerous investments in exploratory drilling companies including Transocean, the company that leased the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to BP. His 2008 potential earnings from investments was $174,000. His judicial salary last year (excluding benefits and retirement) amounted to $169,300. Sources: New York Times, PR Watch Last year, the White House announced they would miss their promised deadline to shut down Guantánamo Bay by 2010, but there is now skepticism that the president will accomplish the goal at all. Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), who supports shutting the prison down, says the effort is “on life support and it’s unlikely to close any time soon.” A White House spokesman counters that “our commanders have made clear that closing the detention facility at Guantánamo is a national security imperative, and the president remains committed to achieving that goal.” Some White House officials say that the Obama Administration has done its job by finding an empty maximum-security prison in Illinois where detainees can be transferred. Next, Congress has to allow the Justice Department to buy the prison from the state of Illinois. When President Obama took office, a majority of Americans supported closing the prison but a poll in March found 60 percent wanted Guantánamo to remain open. Though an estimated $180 million in taxpayer dollars would be saved each year if Guantánamo closed, some improvements have been made in conditions at the prison, including Obama’s successful ban on brutal interrogation techniques. Source: New York Times House Minority Leader John Boehner has suggested raising the retirement age to 70. In an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Boehner said, “We’re all living a lot longer than anyone ever expected, and I think raising the retirement age is a step that needs to be taken.” In Great Britain, the government has announced plans to raise the retirement age from 65 to 66 and in France, a suggestion to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 caused serious protest. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich remarked that the cost of Medicare is rising much faster than the cost of Social Security. Some liberal think tanks have commented that blue-collar workers who are more likely to lose their ability to work at a younger age would be disproportionately affected by a retirement age increase. Source: Newsweek 20 ChronograM 8/10

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Solicitors Reject Most Whistleblower Cases Referred by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration When OSHA substantiates a complaint of retaliation against a whistleblower and the case cannot be settled with the employer, OSHA refers it for court action to the Office of the Solicitor, the legal branch of the labor department. Over the years, solicitors have rejected far more cases referred by OSHA than they've taken to court. Here is a breakdown of cases referred to solicitors:

Year

Total referred

Rejected by solicitors

Litigated and won

Litigated and lost

Settled during litigation

Settled before litigation

Percent litigated

1996

1997

5.0

1998

3.0

1999

2.3

2000

0.0

2001

4.3

2002

3.6

2003

9.3

2004

6.5

2005

11.8

2006

21.7

2007

28.6

2008

0.0

2009

23.5

total

467

279

156

6.9

3.4%

SOURCE: OSHA data as reported to House Committee on Education and Labor. Years are federal fiscal years, so 1996 is Oct. 1, 1995-Sept 30, 1996; 1997 is Oct. 1, 1996-Sept. 30, 1997, etc.

of cases. Citing chronic shortages of manpower, training and equipment, demoralized whistleblower staff have become whistleblowers themselves, venting their frustrations to congressional aides and others. Advocacy groups have weighed in too. Saying OSHA has been “resourcestarved even for its primary activities,” the Government Accountability Project has described whistleblower protection as “a mission conflict” for the agency. Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, recently charged that “whistleblower protection at OSHA is not just on the back burner, it has fallen off the stove.” OSHA officials say funding constrains all agency activities, without exception. “We try to do the best we can, given what we have to deal with,” said Jordan Barab, deputy assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, “but we have a lot to deal with.” While piling on new statutes, Congress and OSHA have rarely boosted staff, resulting in bloated caseloads and long delays in resolving complaints, documents and interviews show. Pressure to close investigations to keep up with heavy caseloads can lead to a subtle bias in the employer’s favor, some investigators said, because it is faster and easier to dismiss a complaint than to marshal the evidence needed for a merit finding. While the various statutes differ on filing deadlines, available damages and other details, training for investigators has often lagged far behind assignment of new laws. For example, two of the most complex statutes — the SarbanesOxley Act to combat accounting fraud and the Aviation Investment and Reform Act—were enacted in 2002 and 2000, respectively. Yet in 2008, when the Government Accountability Office surveyed whistleblower investigators throughout the US, one third to one half said that they had yet to receive specific training in these laws. “When people really look at the down and dirty of how the program works,

the resources don’t match what we say—how much we respect whistleblowers,’’ said Celeste Monforton, a former OSHA official and now assistant research professor of occupational health at George Washington University. The whistleblower program has its own corps of investigators, distinct from the larger force of OSHA inspectors who check jobs sites for compliance with health and safety rules. Over the past decade, the number of investigators hovered between 70 and 75 even as new laws were being assigned. At least twice in recent years funds meant for hiring new investigators were instead used to plug shortfalls in other OSHA enforcement activities. Workers Languishing But help is on the way. Earlier this year, OSHA began the process of hiring 25 new investigators in what Barab called “the first semisignificant expansion in many, many years.’’ Critics say there is much ground to make up. Many investigators struggle with three or four times more cases than they can effectively manage. An investigator can best handle six to eight cases at a time, an OSHA spokesperson said. But in several regions of the US, investigators average 20 or more open cases, and in one region the average is 32. Recently, the largest caseload for a single investigator was 69, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Investigations often stretch far past the 30-to-90-day deadlines set by the various laws. Over the last seven months, the average time to close a case was 174 days, according to OSHA. Delay is usually tougher on the ousted worker than the employer. When “we’re not able to get to their case in a timely fashion, then that person is just kind of left out there in limbo trying to survive on their own,” an investigator said. “Complainants are upset because they’re not getting their cases investigated, and they have a right to be.” 8/10 ChronograM news & politics 25

OSHA Responsible for Whistleblower Protection Under 17 Different Statutes Occupational Safety and Health Act

1970

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

1972

Safe Drinking Water Act

1974

Solid Waste Disposal Act

1976

Toxic Substances Control Act

1976

International Safe Container Act

1977

Clean Air Act

1977

Energy Reorganization Act

1978

Federal Railroad Safety Act

1980

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

1980

Surface Transpiration Assistance Act

1983

Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act

1986

Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century

2000

Pipeline Safety Improvement Act

2002

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

2002

National Transit Systems Security Act

2007

Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

2008

SOURCE: U.S. Government Accountability Office NOTE: These years represent the date that whistleblower provisions were added to the laws, and not necessarily the date the laws were enacted or the date that OSHA was assigned to enforce the whistleblower protections.

“The deck is stacked against the whistleblower,” another investigator said. “You’ve got an agency that’s under-resourced and takes a real long time to do the investigation. All of that puts the whistleblower at a serious financial disadvantage.” “Some of them just can’t wait that long,” he continued. “They lose their houses. They end up getting divorced over the financial woes. And, of course, their wife doesn’t understand why they didn’t keep their… mouth shut and keep their job—why they had to blow the whistle in the first place.” About 2,000 complaints are filed per year under the various statutes. About 80 percent of cases are dismissed by OSHA or withdrawn. OSHA refers to the other 20 percent as “merit’’ cases, though most of them are settled with the employer and relatively few result in a finding in the complainant’s favor. Employers invariably claim they had a valid reason to act against a worker, and firings often occur under ambiguous circumstances. But advocates for whistleblowers say investigators tend to take the employer’s explanation at face value, even refusing to share his statements with the complainant so he has a chance to refute them. Jason Zuckerman, a Washington, DC lawyer who represents whistleblowers, charged in a letter last year to OSHA officials that some investigators “look for any reason they can find to dismiss a complainant’s claims. This is often done by questioning every factual assertion a complainant makes while unquestioningly accepting the employer’s justifications.’’ Under laws of some states, a whistleblower can file a wrongful termination case in court rather than trust the OSHA process. But as a practical matter, the modest damages available in most cases would make it hard to find a lawyer to file a lawsuit. In one critical area, the newer laws administered by OSHA provide greater protection for whistleblowers than the 40-year-old OSHA statute. Under the 26 news & politics ChronograM 8/10

more modern laws, if a complaint is dismissed by OSHA, the employee can take the case to an administrative law judge, a forum where complainants generally have had more success than with OSHA. Under the OSHA law, however, there is no independent right of appeal. If the case can’t be settled, OSHA finds it lacks merit, or solicitors won’t take it to court, the worker is out of options. That is what’s behind the proposed change in the law. Footdragging at OSHA In April 2004, after a fellow worker at Plastic Industries, Inc., was cut by a bandsaw, Neal Jorgensen co-signed a complaint to the OSHA office in Boise. OSHA did an inspection and issued several citations, including “serious’’ ones for lack of a guard on the bandsaw and inoperative safety features on other machinery. With the plant buzzing about who called OSHA, suspicion quickly focused on Jorgensen. When he reported for work a few days after the inspection, he was abruptly sent home. The explanation: The baling machine he would have operated had been found in violation by OSHA and was not available for use. It turned out that other workers did run the baler the same day though the violation had not been fixed, according to the OSHA investigation. The next day, Jorgensen was informed he was being fired for poor performance. However, OSHA found that company managers made inconsistent statements about the reasons for the firing, and altered at least one document in the course of the investigation. When an investigator showed a letter critical of Jorgensen to the foreman who supposedly wrote it, the foreman said he had been asked to write it and that the original included positive statements about Jorgensen that were removed when the letter was faxed to OSHA. “In conclusion,’’ the investigation found, “there is a preponderance of evidence that a prima facie complaint of discrimination has been established.” It wouldn’t have cost much to settle the case. OSHA calculated that Jorgensen was due $2,911.57 in lost pay from the day he was fired until he started a new job soon after. However, the company balked, and OSHA referred the case to the regional solicitor in Seattle. Jorgensen got the bad news in an April 2005 letter. The letter said “the case was deemed unsuitable for litigation” due to “insufficient evidence.” A cruder explanation emerged a few weeks ago when Jorgensen told his story to Congress. In testimony before the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections on April 28, Jorgensen read from an internal memo from the regional solicitor’s office that discussed his case. “We believe we have an approximate 25 percent chance of success,” the memo said. “There are two US District Court judges in Idaho, one of whom routinely is not well disposed towards the government cases, and the other who can go either way.’” “I thought I did the right thing,” Jorgensen told the panel, “but the system did not work for me.” The bill under consideration, dubbed the Protecting America’s Workers Act, would bring whistleblower provisions of the OSHA law more in line with the modern statutes. Introduced by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) with more than 80 co-sponsors, it would provide a right of appeal to an administrative judge if OSHA rejects a case or the solicitor won’t pursue it. In addition, it would extend the current deadline for filing a complaint from 30 to 180 days. Similar legislation is pending in the Senate. “There’s a lot of accidents that could be prevented if workers weren’t afraid to call the situation to the attention of somebody above their bosses if their bosses won’t pay attention,” Woolsey said in an interview. “But they’re afraid for their jobs.” Lloyd B. Chinn, an attorney with Proskauer Rose LLP who specializes in defending companies in employment matters, said that diverting cases from regional solicitors to administrative judges could mean routing them from one overworked, understaffed bureaucracy to another. “I’m not sure there is proof that the system doesn’t work,” Chinn said, “and if it doesn’t work, I’m not sure this fixes it.’’ For his part, Jorgensen said that as things now stand, he would not advise anyone to file a whistleblower complaint. “Absolutely not,’’ he said. “The way the law is written—no chance.’’ This article originally appeared on FairWarning.org, a nonprofit investigative publication focused on safety, health, and related issues of government and corporate accountability.

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There are a lot of people in the military, and in politics too, who think we coulda, shoulda, woulda won in Vietnam.That wouldn’t matter much.The past is a foreign country immune from invasion. But here we are in Afghanistan. See, US forces won every battle in Vietnam. Every damn battle. Even Tet. For those of you who don’t remember, in January 1968, when we seemed to be firmly in control of the country, approximately 80,000 Communist troops launched 100 separate attacks at once, including 36 of the 44 provincial capitals. US and South Vietnamese forces were taken by total surprise. They responded well and quickly beat the offensive back, except in the city of Hue, where the fighting, depicted in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, went on for a month. But there, too, the Communists fell back. “You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,” said the American colonel. The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this remark a moment. “That may be so,” he replied, “but it is also irrelevant.” —From On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War, by Colonel Harry G. Summers (Summers was on the US negotiating team in Hanoi and was the unnamed American officer in the quoted conversation.) If it weren’t for the damn media. The damn politicians. The goddamn hippies. Or, to put it a different way, we didn’t have the will to win. That’s true. But, you have to discuss what that would have entailed. And, even more important, why there was a limit on the price we would pay. As compared to the Vietnamese, who would, and did, pay any price. In World War II, the cinematic model in our minds for every war we’ve fought since, Americans were willing to pay any price. We were fighting two countries, both bent on world domination. One attacked us and went on to conquer US-controlled territory, the Philippines (an American colony from 1895 to 1935, a “commonwealth” up to the Japanese invasion). Once we entered the war it seemed clear that it was a death struggle. Nobody was going to say, “We’ve had a couple of battles, it’s a draw, let’s go back to our original places,” or even cede a few territories here and there in return for peace. So, what was at stake in Vietnam? Would all of Southeast Asia fall? Like dominoes.Would the balance of power tilt? Would the Reds conquer the world? None of the above.What was at stake was who got to govern South Vietnam. Some jumped colonel with crooked cronies, with a pro-American, capitalist heart? Or “Uncle” Ho with his Commie friends and Stalinist purges? We know that for a fact because we—and whichever stooge was in the presidential palace at the end—lost. After we lost, the Communists took over and reunited the country. And that’s all. Yes, they intervened in Cambodia to put in lid on Pol Pot, a generally humanitarian thing. And had a brief war with China. Which they won.

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What would have happened if we’d won? Whatever that means? Not much. We weren’t about to invade North Vietnam and “set them free!” We would have had to continue to prop up inept and oppressive regimes. We would have had to maintain our programs of assassination and terror. Yes, there was a thing called the Phoenix Program, designed to sow terror among others who might oppose us by sneaking into villages at night, murdering people, and leaving the bodies to be seen. It was considered very effective. Except for that fact that we lost the war. That’s if winning meant creating a peace as orderly as San Diego, California. If, instead, the rebellions never went away and the country remained on simmer, we would have had to be an army of occupation. That would have been a problem. By 1970, the US Armed Forces were in deep trouble: “By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near mutinous.” —Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr., “The Collapse Of The Armed Forces,” Armed Forces Journal, June 7, 1971 So, as high as the stakes were said to be, the actual stakes were pretty low. If we’d left eight years earlier, Vietnam would have simply turned into what it is today a lot sooner, the loveliest Communist tourist destination in the world, with the best food. Do we have the Will to Win in Afghanistan? Does winning mean it becomes a stable, safe, secure country, suitable for vacation homes, like Costa Rica? Or, in the new scenario, safe for mining engineers and multinationals like Kuwait, and, at the same time, offering equality for women? Either way, committing to, and being successful at, “eliminating terrorist havens.” According to the highly touted new counterinsurgency doctrine, we can do it! But, according to the military’s own force ratio numbers, it will take at least 250,000 troops, calculating by population, or 500,000, calculating by territory. And a commitment of 10 to 20 years. That’s presuming we can somehow find Afghan leaders less ostentatiously corrupt, less flagrantly inept, and still pro-American. A very neat trick if you can do it. It’s a strange war. The initial goal was to get Osama bin Laden, plus his chief lieutenants. And Mullah Omar for having the chutzpah to harbor him. Then it became something else. No one is quite sure what. One thing we do know for sure. Osama bin Laden’s goal: to get America stuck in a quagmire in Afghanistan.

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t began as a rest stop on the footpath down the river, halfway between Albany and Manhattan, long before those place names existed. To weary travelers, it was “uppuqui ipis ing,” roughly translated as “The Reed-Covered Lodge by the Little Water Place,” a phrase that the earliest European residents found difficult to pronounce, naming a locality they found easy to love. The footpath was to become Market Street south of Main, and the city in the middle of the Long Reach—a 10-mile straight stretch of Hudson River—seemed well favored from the start. “Poughkeepsie,” wrote James H. Smith in his History of Dutchess County, NY (1882), “is one of the most beautiful and attractive cities in the State, and one of the most delightful of the many charming localities in the valley of the Hudson with its varied associations, its mountains of wonderous [sic] grandeur, its fruitful plains, and vales of rare scenic beauty. In varied natural scenery it is scarcely surpassed by any; while for wealth, culture, refinement—all those qualities which adorn a noble life—it is the peer of all.” Mayor John Tkazyik sounds a lot like Smith, if Smith were reincarnated as a hip, thirtyish businessman with energy to spare. “It’s dynamite,” he says. “We’re on fire here. The Walkway has just erupted; it’s terrific, it’s brought out hundreds of thousands of visitors and residents. It’s a national attraction, a unique park with such beautiful scenery. It’s breathtaking to walk upon this bridge that once sat empty and run down, to see this marvel come alive.” The railroad bridge that has been revamped into a park was a marvel in its own right when it opened in the 1880s, the longest bridge in the world and a true masterpiece of contemporary engineering. It lay dark and unused for a quarter century, closed by a fire. But the ambitious dreams of a few visionaries turned out to match the will of the wider community after all, and the Walkway Over the Hudson opened in 2009 and promptly filled up with fundraisers, charity walks, musical events, weddings, art shows, and just plain folks of every description out to get a breath of air. A 2007 impact study projected 267,700 visits a year, leading to $14.6 million in direct spending and $1.3 million in overall tax revenues The Walkway folks have reported happily that the projections were a bit off: 450,000 visitors showed up within the first few months.

Meet the Breathless Mayor That would seem to be the way things are going in the big little city on the Hudson. With a population of just about 30,000, Poughkeepsie (aka Po-town, PK, and a host of other monikers) is not immune to the issues facing small cities everywhere; in the ‘70s and ‘80s, things were looking a bit bleak. The explosion of retail along Route 9 and an ill-considered plan to remake Main Street as a pedestrian mall spelled, some said, the end of the urban center. Anyone who thought Poughkeepsie was down for the count certainly had another think coming. In the past decade, it’s been one thing after another; under the leadership of Tkazyik and his predecessor and mentor Colette La Fuente, so much is popping that the mayor gets breathless trying to list it all. “We’re putting in steps from the Walkway to Washington Street right now, and next year there will be an elevator installed from Waryas Park. Waryas Park, our waterfront, that’s our jewel in the crown. Other cities may have redeveloped their waterfronts faster but ours is going to be bigger and better. Waryas Park has the boat docks—the Clearwater has been here half a dozen times this year, along with a bunch of cruise lines. The park is being used to capacity—the egg hunt, the parades, the Kids Expo, the big Fourth of July bash, weddings, community events. A lot of major walks start and end there. And we just signed a licensing agreement to restore the icehouse—it will be a place to get refreshments and food.” The mayor is quick to point out that his city has 19 parks in all, in which his administration is busily replacing picnic tables and resurfacing ball courts. “A lot of people can’t get away on vacation right now; it’s important that they have places to play and feel welcome.” The city’s west end is richly blessed: Along with the Walkway’s opening, its historic train depot—designed by the same folks who brought us Grand Central Station—has experienced major restorations over the past several years.These helped spark revisionings like that of the Victorian Dooley Square warehouse, which has been converted to retail, offices, and restaurants, and the success of neighboring spots like Mahoney’s Irish Pub, occupying the former Vassar Brothers Brewery. 8/10 ChronograM poughkeepsie 31

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Stalwart Institutions Up on the former Main Mall—now a proud boulevard once again—the onetime Luckey Platt building, vacant for decades, has become a mixed-use residential and retail space. “We’ve got absolutely great tenants,” says the mayor. “It’s all young, hip people with fresh energy—a city vibe,” says Luciano Valdivia, a resident of the Luckey Platt project. He’s fresh from a meeting with Mayor Tkazyik about the area’s prospects for revitalization, being one of the key players in the creation of a new night spot opening shortly in the neighborhood—the Bull and Buddha, an Asian/fusion lounge that all concerned are hoping becomes a landmark. “It’s going to be unlike anything this area has seen before—major sushi bar, lots of dining space— presided over by a seven-foot-tall Buddha from Thailand. So far, the Buddha seems pleased.” The mayor is certainly pleased. “They’re adding 85 parking spots! And the place will be exquisite. That area’s coming back fast. We’re restoring a building on Academy Street. The Artist’s Palate [another Main Street restaurant] is doing well. “It’s been a long time since Main Street was really bad,” says Valdivia. “It’s a perception thing, and people should come see what we’re doing.There’s this alley here that was a blight on the landscape and kept getting vandalized with spray paint. We commissioned graffiti artists, and now there are murals—an urban feel, that’s what we’re aiming for, hip urban.” Even during its lean years, Poughkeepsie has always been blessed with stalwart institutions of all sorts that have carried it through. You want education? Vassar, Marist, Dutchess Community College, and the Ridley-Lowell Business and Technical Institute stand ready to teach whatever you’d like to know. Health care? Vassar Brothers and Saint Francis, both highly rated hospitals, are the tip of the iceberg—there are literally dozens of health care organizations and agencies that call Poughkeepsie home. Vassar Brothers is about to break ground on a $66 million dollar expansion, a 26,000-squarefoot ambulatory surgery center with four operating rooms, 50,000 square feet of medical office space, a parking garage with 875 spots, and a café/retail space. Performing arts? The Bardavon 1869 Opera House (the oldest surviving venue of its kind) is just moments from the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, so if half the family wants to hear the Philharmonic and the other half would prefer to catch live wrestling or

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with Poughkeepsie government,’ and I think we’re turning that around.” According to Kowalski and Valdivia both, Tkazyik is succeeding—and Poughkeepsie’s new breed of entrepreneurs seem determined to give as good as they get. Café Bocca on Mount Carmel Street (another Walkway neighbor) hosts an eclectic array of fare indeed: film screenings, readings, art openings, belly dancing, and music, and participants in a “Mount Carmel Community Forum” discussion in late July included a retired state mental health worker, a grandma and IBMer, a hipster DJ, a retired postmaster/ technical analyst, a Hudson River Housing employee who’s heavy into transformative mediation, and representatives of Vassar and Bard. And it’s an easy guess that folks from Lola’s circle will show up, and that the Irishers at Mahoney’s are cheering on the birth of the Bull and Buddha. “It’s all about collaboration, not competition,” says Charlie North, president and CEO of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce. “There are plenty of opportunities to make capital when you collaborate—it’s the right thing to do and the polite thing to do. When you become partners you become family. The waterfront, Main Street, the Walkway—they’re entrees on the menu of success for the capital city of the Hudson RiverValley. Keep watching—we’re percolating right now, and it’ll come to a boil fairly quickly. There are new initiatives about to be announced in the next few weeks.” The fermentation of New Urbanism can be left behind, when so desired, by simply driving east on Route 44 and crossing the border into Pleasant Valley, a town of about 9,000 souls that prides itself on keeping the finest traditions of American small-town life alive and thriving. Residents come together often, for free concerts and art shows or exercises and brain games. Postcard-pretty, Pleasant Valley boasts a quadruple handful of community organizations, ranging from the classics like Rotary to the Women in the Wind bikers and an active children’s theater. North is a big Pleasant Valley fan: “It’s the town everyone would have liked to grow up in—a classic small town with a thriving business corridor. They even have an actual department store. Everybody knows everybody, but they’re a warm and welcoming bunch—it’s a pleasure just to drive through because they keep it so nice.” Pleasant Valley, laid-back and sweetly traditional, offers low-key and intriguing retail alternatives to the big-boxes: besides the department store, there are a hobby shop and a thrift shop. Several restaurants are thriving. The historic Mill Site Museum offers a window into the past, and the Bower-Quarry Trails network beckons walkers, bikers, and cross-country skiers to peace and fresh air. “It’s just what it says it is,” says

North. “A really pleasant valley. How can you top that?” Indeed. Pleasant Valley, quintessential small town, and Poughkeepsie, venerable city dancing happily along to its own new rhythms, near neighbors offering complimentary, contrasting flavors of Hudson Valley life—and perhaps, models other towns and cities might learn from. For if each community is thriving in difficult times, the key would seem to lie in being exuberantly, unashamedly exactly who and what they really are— and loving it. RESOURCES The Artist’s Palate www.theartistspalate.biz Bananas Comedy Club (845) 462-3333 Bardavon www.bardavon.org Barrett Art Center www.barrettartcenter.org Bull and Buddha www.bullandbuddha.com Café Bocca www.cafebocca.net Catherine Street Community Center www.catharinecenter.org The Chance www.thechancetheater.com Crave www.craverestaurantandlounge.com Cunneen-Hackett Center www.cunneen-hackett.org Dutchess Community College www.sunydutchess.edu Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce www.dutchesscountyregionalchamber.org GAS www.galleryandstudio.org Lola’s www.lolascafeandcatering.com Mahoney’s Irish Pub www.mahoneysirishpub.com Marist College www.marist.edu Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum www.mhhcm.org Mid-Hudson Civic Center www.midhudsonciviccenter.com Powerhouse Theater www.powerhouse.vassar.edu Ridley-Lowell Business and Technical Institute www.ridley.edu St. Francis Hospital www.sfhhc.org Vassar Brother Medical Center www.health-quest.org Vassar College www.vassar.edu Walkway Over the Hudson www.walkway.org 8/10 ChronograM poughkeepsie 35

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11-5pm SEPTEMBER 4-5, 2010 The artists on the 3rd Annual Art Studio Views Tour work in a variety of mediums including oils, acrylic, water color, mixed media, photography, ceramics, stained glass, etching, and printmaking. Visit the studios to see art through the eyes of the artists. Richard Chianella Doris Cultraro Kari Feuer Rosemary Fox Maureen Gates Dan Goldman Bernard Greenwald

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Registration and Safety Check

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1:00 PM – Derby Starts

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Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis Through November 14 The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study August 18 – December 12 Thoughts of Home: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection August 18 – December 12

ARTIST PERFORMANCES Thomas Albrecht, News/Print Wednesdays – Sundays, 3–4 pm Marcy B. Freedman, The Go-Between Sunday, July 11 and Saturday, July 24, 12–3 pm Cave Dogs, Unsure Certainties Friday, August 27, 7–8 pm McKenna Theatre (adjacent to the museum)

EVENTS Sunday, August 1, 2 pm First Sunday Free Gallery Tour with guest educator Kevin Cook Friday, August 27, 5–7 pm Opening Reception for Hudson Valley Artists 2010, The Illustrious Mr. X, Thoughts of Home and re-opening of Andy Warhol

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David Konigsberg, The Road to Spencertown, mixed media on panel. Part of “Summer Group Show,” through August 8 at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson.

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ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ALBANY (518) 242-2241. “The Imaged Word.” Through January 9.

38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490. “Group Show: The Portrait.” Featuring new portrait work by Craig Barber, Jennifer Kiaba Barry, David Morris Cunningham, Andrea Cabane, Lucinda Knaus, Daniel S. Friend, and others. Through August 8. “Music|Sound|Art Exhibition.” A multimedia show with a variety of artists from around the country. August 8-September 10. Opening Saturday, August 14, 6pm-9pm.

ANN STREET GALLERY 140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 ext. 119. “The Green Wave: Sustainability & Found Object Exhibition.” Through August 7.

ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Shandaken Art Studio Tour Group Show.” Featured in the Solo Room is Rita Schwab. Through August 15.

ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Body Parts: A Members’ Exhibition.” August 7-28. Opening Saturday, August 7, 5pm-8pm. “Distinguished Artist Series: Thomas Sarrantonio.” August 7-28. Opening Saturday, August 7, 5pm-8pm.

BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “Printwork ‘10.” 5th national juried printmaking and print/mixed media exhibition. Through August 14. “Woodcuts: Roger Buck at the Montross-1934.” Through August 14.

BCB ART GALLERY 116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “Designs for a New American Flag.” New works by Scott Reynolds. Through August 8.

THE BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS & ESTUARIES 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600. “Water, Water, Everywhere.” Through October 3.

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CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Edward Avedisian: Retrospective.” Previously unseen paintings. August 12-September 19. Opening Saturday, August 14, 6pm-8pm. “Summer Group Show.” New works by David Konigsberg, Joseph Maresca, Monica Mechling and Shawn Snow. Through August 8.

CARRIE HADDAD PHOTOGRAPHS 318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-7655. “Photographs by David Seiler and Adrian Fernandez.” Through August 15.

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “At Home-Not At Home.” The Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection. Through December 19. “Works by Phillippe Parreno.” Through December 19.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “Either/And.” Group photography show. Through August 29. “Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny.” Works by Andrew Neumann. Through August 29. “Photography Now: Either/And.” Part 2: The New Docugraphics. Through August 29.

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Appalachian Spring and The Quiet City Poné Ensemble October 5 The Lyric Oboe October 26 Unknown (Mexican) Painted Head with Glass Eye The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study

THEATRE www.newpaltz.edu/theatre 845.257.3880

Faculty Jazz Ensemble November 9 SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART Programs and events: www.newpaltz.edu/museum 845.257.3844

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare October 7 – 17 Box Office opens Sept. 27

Thoughts of Home: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock August 18 – December 12 January 26 – March 18

The Wakeville Stories by Larry Carr Premiere of the New Play Reading Series October 23 & 24

The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study August 18 – December 12 January 26 – July 17

Noises Off November 11 – 21 Box Office opens Nov. 1 ART LECTURE SERIES Selected Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis Thru November 14 Andy Warhol: Private and Public in 151 Photographs Thru September 26

West Point Wind Ensemble September 14

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189 MONTGOMERY STREET, NEWBURGH historicalsocietynb@yahoo.com. “The Eye of an Artist/The Mind of a Photojournalist.” Ralph Aiello. Through December 31.

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DUBOIS FORT VISITORS CENTER HISTORIC HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 658-7124. “Fancy Work.” Jessica Poser. Through August 18.

DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Keith Gunderson, Oils.” August 7-28. Opening Saturday, August 7, 5pm-8pm.

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27 NORTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 927-0012. “Rust and Renaissance.” Featuring Michael Kalish. August 7-23. Opening Saturday, August 7, 3pm-6pm.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN ST, BEACON 765-2199. “Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children born of Rape.” Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik. Through August 8.

GAS. 196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592. “Out of GAS.” Final exhibition of current and former member of GAS and invited artists. August 14-31. Opening Saturday, August 14, 5pm-8pm. “7 Year Survey of Paintings.” Jose Acosta. Through August 7.

GADALETO’S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT 246 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-1717. “Part is the Whole.” Photography by Marlene B. Through August 15.

GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Brigitte Carnochan, Floating World.” Through August 2. “Reveries of Imagination.” Angela Bacon-Kidwell. August 6-September 6. Opening Saturday, August 14, 5pm-7pm.

GALLERY AT DAVID DEW BRUNER DESIGN 610 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (914) 466-4857. “New Paintings by David Roth.” Through August 10.

THE GALLERY AT R & F 84 TEN BROECK AVE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Paintings by Charles Forsberg.” August 7-September 18. Opening Saturday, August 7, 5pm-7pm.

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6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-4278. “Love Our Local Landscapes.” Through September 6.

GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Define the Decade.” Multi-media group show featuring provocative works that present controversial issues, frame recent history and use traditional and new media to convey the sense and texture of the decade. Through August 14.

THE GHOST ARMY GALLERY 6030 VILLAGE CENTER, STANFORDVILLE 235-5598. “Youth at War.” Through August 5.

HIGH FALLS STUDIOS ROUTE 213, HIGH FALLS 389-5825. “Pastels, Past and Present.” Vincent Connelly. Through September 30.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS specializing in emerging and established artists by fostering greater understanding of contemporary art across cultures and generations 104 Ann Street Newburgh, NY 12550 (845) 562-6940 ext. 119 www.annstreetgallery.org Monday-Thursday 9 AM-5 PM Friday-Saturday 11 AM-5 PM

162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “New Paintings by Catherine Welshman.” Through August 29. Opening Saturday, August 14, 6pm-9pm.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Local Self-Portraits.” Show of self-portrait paintings, photographs and sculpture curated by Richard Roth. Through August 14.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Brenda Goodman: Work: 1990 - 2010.” Paintings. Through August 14. “Concept Alters Reality.” Sculpture by Caroline Ramersdorfer. August 19-September 12. Opening Saturday, August 21, 6pm-8pm.

JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Joseph Yetto.” Paintings and drawings that examine nature close up. August 7-September 4. Opening Saturday, August 7, 4pm-6pm.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON kmoca.org. “Fantastic Dolls.” New outsider art creations by Warren Schmahl using construction paper, cardboard, magazine photos, a lot of glue. August 7-31. Opening Saturday, August 7, 5pm-7pm.

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Markings: Clay and Ink from the Japanese Tradition.” Jeff Shapiro and Noriko Maeda. Through August 1.

LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “Photographs by Jillian Brown.” August 1-September 10. Opening Friday, August 13, 5pm-7pm.

MAXWELL FINE ARTS 1204 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-8622. “Guardians/Watchers/Warders.” New sculpture in cement by Jo-Ann Brody. Through October 17. “Works in Progress.” William C. Maxwell. Through October 17.

MERRITT BOOKSTORE 57 FRONT STREET, MILLBROOK 758-2665. “Lens and Brush.” Natural year in photographs & paintings by Ellen Stockdale-Wolfe. Through October 31.

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MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY 26 WING ROAD, MILLBROOK (800) 662-9463. “Art in the Loft Exhibit.” Through September 5.

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “A Look Around.” Vindora Wixom. August 5-September 28. Opening Saturday, August 21, 5pm-7:30pm.

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MOUNT TREMPER ARTS 647 S. PLANK ROAD, MOUNT TREMPER 688-9893. “Seven Summits.” Through August 15.

NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090. “Terra Firma.” Photographs by Victoria Sambunaris. Through September 4.

OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 STATE ROUTE 9G, HUDSON (518) 828-0135. “Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica.” Through October 31.

THE OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE CAFE GALLERY VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. “Pamela Dalton: Scherrenschnitte.” August 1-September 1. Opening Sunday, August 1, 3pm-5pm.

ONE MILE GALLERY 475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON 338-2035. “Andrea Mihalovic: All Things Drowned and Resurrected.” August 7-28. Opening Saturday, August 7, 5pm-8pm.

ORANGE HALL GALLERY ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “Flower Show.” Through August 16.

PALENVILLE BRANCH LIBRARY 3335 ROUTE 23A, PALENVILLE (518) 678-3357. “Palenville Photography Club Group Show.” Through August 31.

PARK ROW GALLERY 2 PARK ROW, CHATHAM (518) 392-4800. “Embracing Tension.” New works by Steven Perkins. August 18-October 2. Opening Saturday, August 21, 4pm-6pm.

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RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Celebrating Summer.” Photographs by Linda T. Hubbard. Through August 9.

Roos Arts 449 Main Street, Rosendale (718) 755-4726 www.roosarts.com “Made in Rosendale (and nearby...)” Through September 11. Opening Friday July 23, 6pm - 8pm.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Interiors.” Exhibit of paintings, photography, fine crafts by 15 artists. August 27-September 19. Opening Saturday, August 28, 6pm-8pm.

TWISTED SOUL 442 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 705-5381. “Work by Ann Marshall.” Through August 12.

ULSTER SAVINGS BANK 3857 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 733-1848. “Peaceful Nature.” Watercolor and ink paintings by Roberta Rosenthal. Through August 14.

UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. “Words and Images.” Poetry and painting exhibition, including works by Cheryl Noelle. Through August 14.

UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Kat Capillino.” Mixed media, collage, ink, gouache, watercolor, and acrylic on paper. Through August 13. Opening Friday, August 13, 6pm-8pm. “Lost & Found.” Molly Rausch. August 21-September 13. Opening Saturday, August 21, 4pm-7pm.

VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. “New 3D Lenticular Art by Depthography.” Robert Munn & Sara Cook. Through August 8. “Works by Natalie Boburka.” Through August 8.

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RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5370. “You Said Something?” Works by Sean Bayliss. Through August 5.

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100 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 689-0613. “Kindred Spirits.” Paintings by Patricia Morgan and Janet Campbell. August 3-29. Opening Saturday, August 7, 5pm-7pm. “Works by Bob Oliver.” August 3-29. Opening Saturday, August 7, 5pm-7pm.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Pinajian: Master of Abstraction Discovered.” Through October 10.

WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Regional Exhibition 2010.” Through August 7.

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1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON www.theReInstitute.com. “Guy Walker.” A selection of the artist’s psychedelic films will be projected through large blown glass lenses. August 8-29. Opening Sunday, August 8, 7pm-10pm.

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ABOVE: Tracy Bonham at home in Woodstock. OPPOSITE: Bonham headlined the Beacon RiverFest in July.

Best of Both Worlds

Tracy Bonham

t’s 12:25 EST and Tracy Bonham is on the TV screen. “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” to be exact. She’s wearing high heels and a little black dress, standing in front of a band of crack West Coast musicians, and knocking out “Big Red Heart,” the infectious single from her first album in five years, Masts of Manhatta (Engine Room Recordings). Switching back and forth seamlessly between electric guitar and violin, she coos with playful poise over the tune’s überslinky bass line before the giant, lighter-lofting chorus comes around again and brings it to a close. The host shakes her hand and tells America goodnight, and the credits roll. The next day Bonham will fly back to NewYork for a soldout show at Joe’s Pub. She’s the very image of a self-assured performer, ready to rock ’n’ roll all night and then beat your ass to breakfast, thank you very much. But then, you don’t know the real story. With all of these high-stakes, high-profile happenings on her plate, Bonham’s been battling every vocalist’s worst nightmare: throat trouble. “Fortunately, I have a really good doctor,” says the singer-songwriter, back in fine voice, over tea the day after the concert. “He told me I had to keep my mouth shut except for when I was onstage. So that’s what I did, and it definitely helped.” Compounding her ailment, however, was some bad news that came just before the “Tonight Show” appearance: Her good friend, cellist Dan Cho, who played on Masts of Manhatta, died while on tour in Europe. His funeral is only days after 42 music ChronograM 8/10

the interview, and though Bonham is, naturally, crushed by the loss, she’s so far been able to compartmentalize her grief. She is, after all, a longtime pro. Bonham was raised in the wooded splendor of Eugene, Oregon, the hippie college burgh that also gave us author Ken Kesey and was dubbed “Track Town, USA” for the local University of Oregon’s consistent crop of champion runners. “[Growing up in Eugene] was great—perfect, really,” she says. “I went hiking and camping in the mountains a lot. And the arts are really strong there. Eugene has some nationally known music programs.” Indeed, Bonham’s mother, a singer and music teacher, was more than encouraging when her daughter took an early interest in music. “I started singing when I was around five, and when I was nine I found my older sister’s violin in the attic,” recalls Bonham. “She’d hidden it there because she didn’t like practicing, so I took it to my mom and said, ‘Mom, can I learn how to play this?’ And, of course, she was excited and signed me up for lessons right away.” Piano lessons came at age 14. Her formal schooling took her to the University of Southern California in LA to study violin performance, and eventually to Boston’s Berklee College of Music for jazz vocals. But the conservatory was no place for a precocious, uppity solo artist-to-be. “I’d come from a classical background but by then I was more into rock and going to see all of these great local shows by the Gigolo Aunts, Throwing Muses, Jen Trynin,” says Bonham, a self-taught guitarist.

Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Norah Jones, Beck, Tom Waits) and his band. Besides becoming an in-demand session player herself—over the years Bonham’s played with Aerosmith, Juliana Hatfield, and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, among others—she’s recently found a third career: teaching music. “I know I can’t tour forever, so I wanted to have something else I could do that still involved music,” says the singer, who currently tutors children in violin and piano at New York’s Blue Man Group-funded Blue School and plans to offer private lessons in the Woodstock area. “It’s been an absolute blast, seeing these kids blossom. Music is such a personal experience. I’ve found there’s really no one way to teach it.” And in a further ironic twist of for the rebellious student turned teacher, it seems that the artist who wrote “Mother, Mother” is about to become one. As she teaches and works to promote Masts of Manhatta (whose title, a reference to a line from Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” bears the perhaps unwitting acronym M-O-M), Bonham and Fine are in the process of adopting a child from Ethiopia. “Jason and I love kids so much, we’re really ready to become parents,” Bonham says, clearly thrilled. “I know it will mean a complete shift in life, but what are the alternatives? Not having kids? That sounds selfish to me. I still want to keep making music and stay in touch with my creativity, but that could change. It could grow. We’ll just have to see.” But with all of the back and forth, if Bonham had to choose between the unremitting stimulus of urbanity and the spiritual downshift of upstate solace, which direction would she head, north or south? “Is there a gun to my head?” she jokes. “Seriously, I couldn’t pick one. I have to have both. I love the busyness and all of the culture I get in Brooklyn, but I also couldn’t live without the beauty and the nature of Woodstock. How could I ever complain? I’m so incredibly lucky to be able to be connected to NewYork and also be part of this beautiful upstate community.” Tracy Bonham will perform at the Bearsville Theater on August 6. Masts of Manhatta is out now on Engine Room Recordings. www.tracybonham.com. rob penner

“There were a lot of talented students at Berklee, but going to school to learn to play pop or rock just didn’t make sense to me. So I dropped out and started playing in cover bands and recording jingles. A little later a friend told me, ‘You’re better than that.You need to do your own music,’ and challenged me to write a simple, three-chord song while he left me alone for an hour. When he got back, I’d written my very first song. Actually, ‘Mother, Mother’ was, like, the second or third song I wrote.” And it was “Mother, Mother” that put Bonham on the greater musical map. After debuting with the 1995 EP The Liverpool Sessions (Cherrydisc Records), she scored a deal with Island Records, which released The Burdens of Being Upright the following year. Home to the aforementioned grunge-tinged track, an era-defining number one single whose sly, self-deprecating lyrics parody the not-quite-ready-to-cut-the-apron-strings relationships of many younger artists and their matrons, the album went gold and brought her Grammy nominations for Best Alternative Performance and Best Female Vocal. “It was really exciting,” she says. “I was only 24 and I was having a lot of fun, listening to the Pixies and PJ Harvey and screaming a lot.” With the 2000 follow-up Down Here (also Island) Bonham not only established a routine of taking three to five years between records (“I operate on a different plane when it comes to creativity”), but also more fully came into her own as a songwriter rooted in Beatles/Badfinger pop and the stately classical touches of her schooling. Co-produced by the star team of Tchad Blake and Mitchell Froom (Paul McCartney, Los Lobos, the Pretenders), the disc was an artistic triumph, if not a commercial one. “Tracy’s one of the best singers I’ve worked with,” says Froom, who played keyboards on the Leno date. “She’s an excellent musician and a really cool songwriter, and musicians just gravitate toward playing with her because she also has this great spirit and personality.” Also among those that took to Bonham was Blue Man Group, which tapped her as an ensemble player and support act for its 2003 tour. “The Blue Man guys are just these silly, really creative nerds—and I mean that in the nicest way,” Bonham says with a laugh. “I played [the Who’s] ‘Baba O’Reilly’ with them and we did some recording. Luckily, I could fall into switching gears every night after I opened, get changed out of my dress and boots to go and do their thing.” After returning to LA, she released an independent EP, Bee, and cut 2005’s Blink the Brightest (Zoë/Rounder Records) around the time she met her husband, Rolling Stone’s executive editor, Jason Fine. Inevitably, the question comes up: Does their both being in the music business ever get to be a bit much? “We promised each other when we started dating that we wouldn’t bring our outside work home,” says Bonham. “And we’ve stuck to that. Jason’s definitely not phased by the whole celebrity/rock ’n’ roll world, so he really never talks about it. He’s more of a jazzhead, anyway. That’s his thing.” Another pact the couple made was in regard to which coast they would live on. To be close to Rolling Stone’s Manhattan office, Fine had long lived in Brooklyn, which posed a potential problem. “I said I’d move back East as long as we also had somewhere with woods and trees that we could get away to,” Bonham explains. “So I sold my little bungalow in LA and we put a downpayment on a cottage in Woodstock in 2006.” That same year brought another self-financed effort, the fan-aimed In the City + In the Woods, whose title comes not from the singer’s newfound domestic duality but rather its split lineup of live tracks from a rural Dutch festival and New York studio recordings. But it is, however, her urban/rustic lifestyle that loosely informs the songs on Masts of Manhatta, although Bonham didn’t consciously set out to make an album about her tandem worlds. “I guess I sort of realized I was doing it around the time I wrote ‘We Moved Our City to the Country,’” she says. One of the new record’s lyrical plums, the tune is a wry dig at big-city transplants who bring their speeding SUVs, birdcall-ringtoned cell phones, and sushi-eating offspring upstate in search of a “simpler” life. “A lot of the album was written in Woodstock. I remember coming up with the chorus to ‘Big Red Heart’ when we were painting the house, parts of songs hitting me on snowy days when I was out walking our dogs. But then there’s ‘You’re My Isness,’ which I wrote the words for in a Brooklyn café.” Buttressing Bonham’s recognizably warm and woody voice throughout the set is a company of sessioneers that includes violinist Matt Glaser and guitar ace

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Ida August 1. Our favorite New York-to-Woodstock “sadcore” band, the long-running outfit helmed by Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell known as Ida (see the May 2008 issue of Chronogram for profile), is a perfect booking for season two of Mystery Spot Antiques’ Music for Front Porches series. Truth told, the thought of the group’s quiet strumming and gorgeous harmonies filling the sunny mountain air outside the shop makes us anything but sad. Call it soft folk-us. With the Naysayer. (Upcoming: Holly Miranda, August 8; Grasshopper and Jonathan from Mercury Rev with Dean & Britta, August 15; Tommy Ramone’s Uncle Monk, August 22.) 1pm. Free. Phoenicia. (845) 688-7868; www.lauralevine.com.

M. Shanghai String Band August 5. Named for the Chinese restaurant in Williamsburg that serves as its home base, the M. Shanghai String Band is made up of vets from Babe the Blue Ox, Very Pleasant Neighbor, and Beekeeper. But while those Gotham bands were known for bracing and melodic indie rock, the 11-piece M. Shanghai is a hipster Americana revue, kicking up a hootenanny of classic country sounds and fun covers. Chinese fare isn’t on the menu for this show at the Piggy Bank, but the eatery’s barbeque has drawn praise from Zagat, Fodor’s, and the New York Times. (Pianist Bill Malchow returns August 12; reggae sextet the Big Takeover rules August 19.) 6pm. Free. Beacon. (845) 838-0028; www.local845.com.

Chris Zaloom Band with Bruce Katz August 7. Why Chris Zaloom has never busted out beyond his Woodstock confines is a real mystery. The man is clearly one of the area’s stronger guitarists, a master of understated taste who manages to make many a run-of-the-mill bar band sound downright golden. But, hey, the world’s loss is our gain, right? Bruce Katz, who sits in for this date at buzzing new venue the Harmony Cafe (the back room of the Wok ’n’ Roll restaurant), on the other hand, is no stranger to listeners local and abroad: In addition to his own Organiks, the keyboard king has performed with the Allman Brothers, John Hammond, Little Milton, Maria Muldaur, and other greats. (Blue Food dishes the funk August 14; Jimmy Eppard—another unfairly obscure local guitarist—rips it up August 28.) Call for set times. Free. Woodstock. (845) 679-3484.

Warwick Valley Jazz Festival

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August 26-29. Orange County has long been the bedroom community of some of New York’s top working jazz artists, several of whom are set to appear at the first annual Warwick Valley Jazz Festival, which takes place at various locations throughout the village. Among the growing list of plum players booked to weave their magic are saxophonist Bill Evans; pianists Arturo O’Farill, Richard Kimball, and Joe Vincent Tranchina; guitarists James Emery and Jeff Ciampa; bassist Mark Egan; drummers Elliot Zigmund and Karl Latham; and vocalists Jon Werking (New York Voices) and Sherma Andrews. Check website or call for schedule, venues, and ticket prices. Warwick. (917) 903-4380; www.warwickvalleyjazzfest.com.

Lara Hope & the Champtones August 28. In June’s column we touted the Greyhounds as being the Hudson Valley’s only true rockabilly practitioners. Well, it seems there’s a new gang in town: Lara Hope & the Champtones, who recently debuted with Heartbeat (Champtone Records) and hit Keegan Ales this month. Hope, who does double duty with New Paltz punk trio Tiger Piss, is a scene queen, while the foursome’s secret weapon is guitarist Jeff Kadlic, who clearly knows his James Burton and Jimmy Bryant. The group’s sets thus far have stuck largely to the expected chestnuts (Kids: Check out some Hasil Adkins or the Sin Alley comps and really blow your minds), but the originals are catchy and the band’s a whole mess o’ fun. (Django Gypsy Jazz swings August 11; Peter Head and the Memphis 59 rock August 13.) 9pm. Kingston. Free. (845) 331-2739; www.keeganales.com. ida performs at mystery spot antiques in phoenicia on august 1.

cd reviews Graham Parker Imaginary Television (2010, Bloodshot Records)

Perhaps one key to longevity is the ability to wax witty in the face of adversity.Witness esteemed British singer-songwriter and Hudson Valley resident Graham Parker: After having his compositions rejected for use as TV show title songs, the icon of acerbic, literate rock turned his irritation into inspiration, writing plotlines for 10 ludicrous (but sadly believable) productions, then composing the themes. (One track, the gospel-reggae “More Questions than Answers,” is a Johnny Nash cover.) The result is the masterful songsmith’s 20th album, Imaginary Television. Although the setups are consistently wacky, Parker’s lyrical skill gives simpatico flesh and bone to hapless protagonists caught in a world run by corporations and scored by clueless music supervisors.The hilariously satirical text—included in the CD in lieu of lyrics—doesn’t always jibe with the songs, but it’s a unique hook and you’ll be glad you got sucked in. Musically, this is the richly tuneful soul-rock for which Parker owns the blueprint, impeccably delivered with live-in-the-room punch (and employing local keys man Professor “Louie” Hurwitz). Each song adheres to the Parker template of assertive acoustic and alternately chiming and churning electric guitars, authoritative vocals, and loose-limbed rhythm, wrapped around soaring choruses with flourishes of banjo and lap steel. “Weather Report”—just another A-side about an agoraphobic Weather Channel-obsessed guy—kicks off the album with paranoid glee, while Moondance outtake-sounding “Snowgun,” which purports to be about a Japanese-American ski bum, namechecks Belleayre Mountain. www.bloodshotrecords.com. —Robert Burke Warren

Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble Live at The Lark Tavern (2009, Independent)

Like San Francisco’s Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, which is led by bassist Shelby, or Chi-Town’s Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, which is led by trumpeter Orbert Davis, Albany has its own neighborhood outfit: saxophonist Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble, which brings in a crowd (like the ones seated for these live recordings) weekly to Tess’s Lark Tavern. On this, the band’s debut release, the Capital District’s finest dig into compositions by Pray, pianist Yuko Kishimoto,Kenny Siegel guitarist/journalist John Dworkin, and saxman Brian Patneaude. The ensemble’s cohesive sonance is formed by pieces with built-in elasticity, like Pray’s deliciously swinging “Walkin’ the Dog” and the tranquil “I Remember Roland.” Just as Shelby and Davis do, Pray teaches as well as composes, and he grooves in other groups: his Soul Jazz Revival and his quartet. His “The Other Funk” and the disarming “The Gate (A Portrait of the Mohawk)” reflect his penchant for soulful sounds. Despite (and maybe because of) their high energy, the brass and winds flash some faulty intonation, clunkers, and flubs in noticeable spots. But there is redemption to be found in Kishimoto’s “Elements” and Dworkin’s “Renee.” The soloists throughout the recording are superb. Live at the Lark Tavern carries on conversations between tradition and contemporary idioms and demonstrates how Pray pivots on the present and past in order for the music to breathe and grow outward from the bandstand. As trumpeter Nicholas Payton says, “In order to find the way, you must leave the way. You have to be open.” www.keithpray.com. —Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson

Kenny Siegal Eleccentricity (2009, Old Soul Records)

At long last, Kenny Siegal, front man of fave New York indie band Johnny Society, has unleashed his strangely yet appropriately titled solo effort upon the eager ears of his old and new fans. Stylistically, this record could never be put into any sort of genre box, as it ping-pongs from one uncategorizable song to the next—yet, at the same time, it melds everything together into a perfectly cohesive whole. Not surprisingly, Eleccentricity was nominated for an Independent Music Award in the, ahem, eclectic category. Siegal himself sings in a chameleon of voices and plays electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, vibraphone, keys, and programmed drums while utilizing such fellow regional musical treasures such as Nina Violet and Blueberry. A feast of aural oddities abounds here, that warrants the use of headphones to pick up on all the peculiar nuances. There’s the slow, smooth groove of “Back to You,” the colorful Beatle-esque “Theremin,” the spooky-dreamy “The Wake,” the exotic pop of “Shamaness,” the dynamically funky instrumental “Punishments for an Open Mind,” and the whack, WTF-is-this? “Latest Creation.” The 12-track CD ends with “Beautiful,” the only song that seems, er, normal—and, yes, it is a beautiful piece, featuring Siegal’s acoustic guitar and soaring vocal. Siegal weaves a one-of-a-kind musical adventure here that never ceases to surprise, and it is in no way meant for mainstream monkeys, so you might want to question your sense of adventure before spinning. The more courageous, however, will have a field day. www.myspace.com/thewolfofthesteps. —Sharon Nichols

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Zachary Sklar By Nina Shengold

Photograph by Jennifer May

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he farmhouse sits on a sleepy back road near the Ashokan Reservoir, its front porch halfhidden by an immense rhododendron. Screenwriter Zach Sklar opens the kitchen door, wearing a Saratoga Racetrack tee-shirt. He’s lean and fine-featured, with a welcoming smile tempered by a guardedness that seems hard-wired into his posture. Pancho, a cocker spaniel rescued from an abusive home, frisks around, wagging his tail. Sklar’s longtime partner, film composer Sarah Plant, is panfrying matzo brei at the stove, and the smell of caramelized onions sweetens the air. A health-conscious vegetarian, Sklar tries to avoid both sugar and gluten, but he’s treating himself to a brownie today. The living room is low-key and homey. The only clues to its owners’ professions are a 3-D mockup of a cinema with a marquee reading Eat Drink Man Woman (Plant was associate music director) and a magnum champagne bottle with a logo for JFK (Sklar wrote the screenplay with director Oliver Stone). “I grew up with a lot of writers,” he says, settling into a chair with his contraband brownie within easy reach. “We had a surrogate family that was built around two things: Most of them had been in the Communist Party, and most of them were writers.” Sklar’s father, a politically active New York playwright and novelist, was wooed to Hollywood with others like Clifford Odets. Though George Sklar’s Broadway plays “Laura” (written with Vera Caspary) and “Merry-Go-Round” (written with Albert Maltz) and his novel The Two Worlds of Johnny Truro were optioned by studios, he spent most of his time as a salaryman, doing endless rewrites to support his family. The youngest of three children, Zach was born in 1948. A year later, George Sklar was named before the House Unamerican Activities Committee. Refusing to testify, he was blacklisted alongside Dalton Trumbo, Waldo Salt, Ring Lardner Jr., and other noted screenwriters. “My entire life was after he was out of film,” Sklar says. His mother, Miriam Blecher Sklar, a former Martha Graham dancer, became the family breadwinner, teaching modern dance classes for children and later for adults. “She was a very gifted teacher. People loved her,” says Sklar, “But she kept her dance life totally separate from us. She never danced at home. We never danced.” Her husband became a recluse. “He crumbled a bit psychologically,” Sklar says, emotion choking his voice. “He didn’t fight back. He didn’t wilt—didn’t name names or sacrifice his principles—but he didn’t leave the house.” He also never discussed his political affiliations, so his children would not have to lie if they were questioned. After his death in 1988, Sklar and his siblings— playwright Daniel Sklar and editor Judith Sklar Rasminsky—were sorting their father’s possessions when his Communist Party card fell out of a book. “I just gasped,” Sklar recalls. “He never told, even long after the blacklist was over.” Like many blacklistees, George Sklar warned his children against political activism, cautioning them not to sign petitions or get their pictures taken. “Of course, the first thing I did was sign petitions and go to demonstrations,” says Zach, who came of age during the Vietnam era. He attended the newly formed University of California at Santa Cruz, which he describes as “a very communal-minded place” in Reagan-governed California. “But I was frightened. That was one of the big messages—not subconscious, it was pounded into me. ‘Don’t accept the way things are. Fight for justice, but you can get hurt. Be careful.’ It was a very schizophrenic message. When I did things, it was always, always a way of overcoming that fear.” During college, he worked as a volunteer on poverty-stricken Daufuskie Island, off the coast of South Carolina. There were about 100 residents, all black. “It was like being in the 19th century: no paved roads or running water,” Sklar says. For a politically conscious Angeleno, seeing black people cross into the street in deference as a white person passed was shocking. “I was exposed to things I’d never been exposed to. People living in shacks with newspapers on the walls, eating squirrels. I buried a body.” He also worked with Donald Gatch, an idealistic doctor who served a community in which 80 percent of the children had malnutrition and parasites. “It was life-changing,” Sklar says. “An abrupt introduction into the contradictions of life in America.” That summer, Sklar’s family rented a house in Beacon, and the three siblings drove to the Woodstock festival. The closest they could get was 12 miles away. They parked on the roadside and hiked in, arriving at 3am to hear Joan Baez finishing her set in the distance. They slept in a field in the pouring rain,

and hiked the 12 miles back the next morning. “We never really heard any music at all,” Sklar laughs. For several years, he took a series of blue-collar jobs, including lawn maintenance in a trailer park housing the last remnants of the Merry Pranksters (“You could still see the day-glo on the barn ceiling”) and crewing on a salmon boat in Alaska. “I got a jellyfish in my eye on my birthday, and thought, ‘What am I doing with my life?’” Sklar recalls. It was 1973, the year of the Watergate break-ins. Inspired by Woodward and Bernstein, Sklar applied to Columbia’s journalism school. After graduation, he worked as a proofreader at Time and Life, and edited a national law magazine called Juris Doctor. He also edited books for the leftleaning Sheridan Square Press and wrote for the Nation, becoming its executive editor while Richard Lingeman was on leave. In 1984, he joined an international brigade picking coffee in Nicaragua, and fell in love with the woman who interviewed him. Sarah Plant was hard to pin down, but Sklar suggested they meet for breakfast in Riverside Park, and brought along a squeezer and fresh oranges. “I think that got her,” he laughs. Two years later, he was stricken with incapacitating chronic fatigue syndrome and lost his proofreading gig at Time, unable to keep the late hours. It wasn’t an ideal time to start a new project, but Bill Schap and Ellen Ray of Sheridan Square asked him to edit a book called On the Trail of the Assassins by a former New Orleans DA named Jim Garrison. “It ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me,” he says. Garrison’s first draft was an attempt at an objective history. Sklar urged him to tell the story in first person, tracing his 180-degree turnaround from career military man and true believer to someone who became convinced that the CIA murdered President Kennedy. He helped Garrison reshape the book as “not a whodunnit, but a whydunnit.” Soon afterward, Schap and Ray gave it to director Oliver Stone at the Havana Film Festival. Stone called three days later, saying he wanted to film it but was busy with Born on the Fourth of July; did they have a writer to recommend? Stone hired Sklar over the phone, telling him, “Don’t read any of those screenwriting books, just write from the heart. And I don’t care how long it is.” Sklar and Stone’s models were Costa-Gavras’s Z and Rashomon, using witness reports and flashbacks to interweave past and present. Sklar’s first draft took a year and weighed in at over 500 pages. Stone cut and combined scenes, adding new ones. Sklar learned “a tremendous amount” from his co-author, who encouraged such liberties as resetting an office meeting with Jack Lemmon’s character to a racetrack, where he’s hung over, drinking coffee in the stands. “It gave you the milieu of this guy, a much deeper character,” says Sklar. “It’s not factually true, but it’s actually more true—the audience understands him better.” The film came under attack even before it was shot, when a stolen script was leaked to the press. “Oliver enjoyed the fight—he stayed up late writing letters to editors,” Sklar recalls. “It was an adventure. It was insane.” JFK was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including one for Best Adapted Screenplay. “It was a high-visibility film that caused a huge controversy. Oliver took a lot of the heat, and a lot of the credit. But it established me as a screenwriter. And ended my journalism career.” Sklar laughs. “I think those doors closed the minute JFK came out.” He wrote an unproduced screenplay for Stone called Mediocracy, about a corporate media takeover, and continued to edit for Sheridan Square. But his health worsened, and he and Plant moved upstate so he could heal. Sklar has a penchant for hard-to-finance film projects. His other unproduced screenplays include Tai-Ping, set in China during the bloodiest civil war in history; The Wounding, set in Arctic Canada; and a biography of singer/ activist Paul Robeson, developed with Robeson’s son. He also adapted Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel Feast of the Goat; the 2006 film was released in Europe, but not in the US. In recent years, Sklar has mentored Latin American and Palestinian screenwriters through Sundance’s international workshops. “This is where I think the vitality of film is now, in these cultures that haven’t been heard from yet. There are stories they need to tell that nobody’s heard,” Sklar asserts. Zachary Sklar also has stories he needs to tell. He’s just interviewed for a controversial new screenwriting project. It’s too soon to reveal any details, but, he says with a grin, “If it didn’t get panned by the New York Times, I’d be very upset.” 8/10 ChronograM books 47

SHORT TAKES Wherever your vacation travels may take you, it’s well worth visiting the diverse destinations conjured by these local authors. The Poisons of Caux: The Tasters Guild, Book Two Susannah Appelbaum, illustrated by Jennifer Taylor Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, $16.99

If the cover’s malevolent cat spilling pitch-black ooze doesn’t entice you to pick up the second volume of Appelbaum’s wickedly imaginative fantasy trilogy, you’re just too nice. The prophesied quest of 11-year-old healer Ivy Manx and her taster-friend Rowan is complicated by nefarious enemies and a deadly weed nicknamed “Kingmaker.” Bon appetit! Book launch 8/14 at 3pm, Inquiring Mind, New Paltz. Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson Gallery Books, 2010, $15

If Tuscan sun is more to your taste than poisonous plants, pack your beach bag with Millbrook resident Nelson’s ebullient debut novel, the behind-the-scenes tale of a female chef who loses both her job at a trendy Manhattan eatery and her fiancé, relocates to Tuscany, and faces some enviable-sounding tough choices. Appearing 8/5 at 7pm at Merritt Books, Millbrook, and 9/17 at 7:30pm at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. The Cowgirl Way: Hats Off to America’s Women of the West Holly George-Warren Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, $18

Catskill cowgirl George-Warren, who’s written about everyone from Gene Autry to the Sex Pistols, looks westward with this exuberant homage to hard-working cattlewomen, outlaws, showgirls, rodeo stars, and other wearers of fringed chaps and mighty cool boots. Richly illustrated with vintage photos and linocuts by Carol Zaloom, this book is a bull’s-eye for girls of all ages. Feathers of Hope: Pete Dubacher, the Berkshire Bird Paradise, and the Human Connection with Birds Barbara Chepaitis Excelsior Editions, 2010, $19.95

We’ve all been moved by images of volunteers caring for oil-soaked Gulf pelicans, but saving wild birds is everyday life for Pete Dubacher, whose Grafton, New York aviary often houses injured and traumatized tropical birds, hawks, emus, and eagles. Novelist Chepaitis tells his story with airborne grace, musing on the healing connection between birds and humans. The American Golfer: A Novel Anthony Robinson Bluestone Books, 2010, $14.95

The green (and golf greens) of Ireland provides the backdrop for PGA Tour golfer Charlie Kingston’s journey out of a failed marriage and into a whirlwind of family history, romance, and political intrigue. Robinson, former director of the Creative Writing Department at SUNY New Paltz, deftly portrays the choices facing a golfer eyeing the approach shot of middle age: Throw caution to the wind and go for the pin or lay up and play it safe? Bungalow Kid: A Catskill Mountain Summer Philip Ratzer SUNY Press, 2010, $14.95

It’s the summer of hula hoops, The Blob, PF Flyers, and Elvis’s stint in the army, and the Ratzer family is leaving the Bronx in a two-tone pink ‘57 Mercury. Destination? A bungalow up in “The Mountains” of Sullivan County, visited by Ruby the Knish Man and countless urban vacationers. Ratzer’s skinny merink of a memoir is a pitch-perfect evocation of a vanished paradise.

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Holy Water James P. Othmer

Doubleday, 2010, $26.95

sk anyone who has ever curled up for the evening up with some Camus and a good bottle of wine: Existentialism makes for good reading. That is not to say that Henry Tuhoe, the protagonist of James Othmer’s Holy Water, bears any particular resemblance to, say, The Stranger’s Mersault. It is, rather, the nature of Tuhoe’s journey— a craftily interwoven mesh of culturally relevant mundanity and fairy-tale absurdity—that recalls such sobering yet inspiring romps as Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake (1997). Like Vonnegut, Othmer draws deeply on autobiographical experience. The Putnam County author, a transformed New York creative advertising executive, describes himself on his website as “once known as the surly guy on the 5:19 to Croton Falls.” He creates Henry Tuhoe as a 32-year-old, relatively successful New York middle manager for a large corporate conglomerate, increasingly at odds with his own version of the American Dream. Tuhoe has left his quasi-hip Upper West Side life for an exurb “McMansion,” an Audi A4, and a monthly Metro-North pass. His life is peppered with the spiritually challenging vicissitudes of the suburban existence: the dissatisfying banality of forced male bonding, the depressing chore of commuting, and the overwhelming and tedious demands of home ownership. Tuhoe and his wife are drifting increasingly farther apart, their rift accelerated not just by the spiritually unfulfilled nature of their lives, but by the confounding debate over filling that empty space through childrearing. The material contrivances of upscale family life offer no solace to Tuhoe, whose sole prized possession is his extensive iTunes collection of contemporary pop music. Tuhoe is suddenly launched into another dimension of absurdity by the “rightsizing” efforts of his corporate employer, an entity that itself offers a sparkling example of existentialist inanity. Armed with plummeting self-esteem and a pervasive sense of impotence (brilliantly characterized by Othmer via his antihero’s introspective run-in with a vasectomy), Tuhoe allows himself to be shipped off to the imaginary “secondworld” Asian kingdom of Galado. His purpose: to create a call center for a bottled spring-water company by “Americanizing” a group of impoverished, clean-water-starved natives. The country is being fast-tracked into the 21st century by its sociopathic, Western-educated Prince, who, like Tuhoe (and Othmer), is a graduate of Boston’s Northeastern University. Othmer’s extensive insider knowledge of global branding, and the pomp, personality, and silliness that surrounds it, informs this work, just as it did his acclaimed debut novel The Futurist and his recent memoir Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet. Tuhoe is ushered through his trek into the great geopolitical beyond by an engaging cast of opportunistic new-world corporate piranhas, and by conflicted representatives of an indigenous population grappling with the choice between their old-world, sequestered spirituality and the enticing draw of new-millennium wealth. While in Galado, Tuhue stumbles into romance, and even altruistic purpose, to offset his formerly barren work life and marriage; mingled with the struggle between ersatz-Buddhist simplicity and the inhumanity of Western globalization, Othmer offers an alluringly satisfying lullaby. Yet his sharp eye examines both the corruption of spirituality and the spirituality of corruption, and that seldom leads to nice, pat conclusions. Holy Water is an entertaining and provocative read to curl up with—and don’t forget the wine. You may need it. —Gregory Schoenfeld

In the Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life after 50 Edited by Emily W. Upham and Linda Gravenson Atria Books, 2010, $16

ove, loss, living on—that’s the inevitable pattern of life. But it’s the accrued effects of all of this resilient shuffling along our shared mortal coil that inspired anthologists Upham and Gravenson to solicit musings on the subject from 32 women across the globe. These essays, poems, and interviews are offered by a red-letter assortment of novelists, actors, editors, poets, and journalists ranging in age from 50 to over 100. Acclaimed novelist and Woodstock resident Gail Godwin is a contributor; so are gynecologist Christiane Northrup, journalist Jenny Allen, and actor Jane Alexander, and they’re all digging deep to dialogue about the part of a woman’s life journey that comes after mate seeking, child rearing, and often, career. Six are Hudson Valley residents, and, in fact, the seeds of this anthology were sown in a women’s writers group in Rhinebeck. Some writers dish advice: Take care of your teeth because it’s not fun to outlive them; give up anxiety; poke some fun at yourself. Others circle around the challenges facing a phase of life devoid of the easy privileges of youth. “When we’re young we tend to think that old people were born that way. That it’s somehow a choice,” writes playwright Tina Howe. “Then suddenly we hit sixty-five, seventy-three, or eighty-two and wonder what’s going on. That isn’t us in there! It’s someone else! Construction workers suddenly don’t whistle at us anymore and waiters call us ‘Ma’am’ instead of ‘Legs’ or ‘Sweet Thing.’” Youthful beauty can be a free pass on the make-something-of-your-life ride, but only for a while, says journalist Vivian Gornick. “For a woman, existential terror is the aging face. When a woman looks in the mirror and sees herself smooth and young, she thinks, ‘I’m not accountable. I don’t yet have to explain or justify my existence. It doesn’t matter yet that I’m not taking responsibility for my life. I still have tomorrow.’ When she looks in the mirror and sees herself lined and hollow-cheeked, she thinks, ‘Tomorrow is here. Now I’m accountable. Now I must do it. Can I? More important, will I?’” Anthologist Upham, a former concert pianist sidelined by injury, was originally attracted to the subject of female aging through the lens of loss, but this is not the book’s ultimate focus, nor the final destination of many contributors. Ultimately, triumph is the hub here—over other people, self, illness, bereavement, and diminishment. In fact, says Woodstock memoirist Abigail Thomas, it’s the unexpected gains of getting older that she’s found most surprising, and the potential insertion of old comforts, such as male companionship, that can be most discomforting. “It has taken me the better part of sixty years to enjoy the inside of my own head, and I do that best when I’m by myself,” she writes. “ I am smug. I am probably insufferable. And then the telephone rings.” Aging, says Vivian Gornick, can either be seen as a downer or a source of stimulation, and she prefers the latter path. “That way, loss is transformed into wisdom and life continues to provide adventure.” Writes Upham in the foreword, “Living on, never mind living well, is often life’s reward. One of the great gifts of experience, however, is the ability to choose—not our circumstances, but how we interpret them.” —Susan Krawitz

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our September issue is August 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.

It was a bad fall. I fell like a broken bird!

there is your blind side and there is the train

—Sage Perkins (7 years) —p

One Paper Boat 1. The beauty of a black bird is most easily discovered in snow. That is why I am falling. Isn’t there somewhere still to go when the sun moves behind our awareness of its presence? In winter it is not known if the tree is alive. That is why I have been waiting so long. Some day I will come to the bottom of whatever reward I deserve. That is how I will know you. My head seems to be too small for my expanding body. I want more room to rest my thoughts upon. Isn’t it easy to take for granted the attendance of the individual parts at the ceremony of the whole? It’s as if the path had been warmed all day by the sun for its absence to rest upon. If the seasons wish to move us along we can’t refuse, but we can watch the green stems rising through the stubborn stones. 2. You will never know your spirit if the past does not hold you nor your body if the future does not. I awake and suddenly I am here, thinking of you there, waking. How many of us there are. At least one thing moving in the encompassing night is not you, and one other thing moving nearby is not me seeking you. There are endings for everyone but not for everyone’s absence. Yours shows me to mine. 3. There is nothing to fear because nothing is more frightening. Who can I serve if I am not already brought forth to give pleasure? It’s me at the table and I can’t take orders.

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How many of you are there? You can’t be who I am. One is still too many. It’s not important that I am happy, and if it makes me happy to say that, I am doomed to recurring pleasures. I have gone to the shore and found my strength and wept to be near you. My little boat whispers you’re everywhere. —Rich Ives

“Winter Morning Montclair”: George Inness A tree breaks the field in half, as though memory, too violent for dream, falls into dawn. The grass itself is peaceful: Wood shavings scattered across a frozen surface; here and there, reeds summon deep water, in ways that lovers recall mistakes. In this museum, time, like water, is distilled. Elsewhere, children hug tanks. I, too, can freeze, become the oak’s striated skin. I can stand here forever, transfixed. But then—the figure of the grandmother, her back turned, quietly sweeping light. All she holds are branches, yet what she gathers is ice. There has been a near-hurricane in my county, and I imagine a survivor on her porch, making quilts of days against a sunken roof. Hands move over the blood’s quiet hum. I want to ask the woman in the painting who she is. Why, with shoulders stooped, does she refuse to turn around? What is her sorrow, and how cold? Does she know that in Haiti, a mother trapped beneath concrete tells her husband she will love him, always? She will not talk to us. The winters, the wars, the impossibly slow mornings. What else, after all is there to say? —Christina Lilian Turczyn

Aubade He enters into her morning coffee, becomes the aroma of Bolivian mountains, redolent of chill air and treacherous roads. She fills her nostrils with pungent steam, her night sweat swirling through him in fine particles. She’ll drink herself with him, he’s absorbed into her, acidic as he rises through her glands. She showers. He streams down her in droplets, catching on hair made heavy with soapy water, then gone but for the film of him still on the shirt she’ll wear again that night. She will never be free of him. —Tad Richards

Spelling Lesson You ask me how to spell shovel. S like a snake you know, O also an easy one. H stops you. I say, “A line and a line and a line in the middle like in your name. E? The first letter in your name, remember?” Back and forth we go, me thinking how easy it is when everything exists as an extension of yourself, in relation to your name only instead of a shovel being a shovel cold, hard, heavy tool used for digging holes that each of us must fill. That’s the hard part. —Leigh Anne Hornfeldt

Finally, We Are No One We had dreams We had maps We had plans We grew up —Mitchell Flanagan

Interior Designs The empty cup, the rug, the stairs, the legs of chairs and other bits of household wares lie jumbled on the floor. You sit and stare, and in your mind arrange a plan whereby it all makes sense. The rug will go upon the floor. The chairs upon the rug, just there. The cup you’ll fill with wine. But still the stairs, off to the side, angle out of the room, leading God knows where. —Andrew C. Higgins

Guys and Dolls A friend told me that her sister-in-law is in love with somebody else’s husband who she said she fell deeply in love with when they both volunteered to help build the set for guys and dolls at the high school and were so much in love that she was thinking about leaving her husband and two kids but last month she had a double mastectomy and so those plans are off. —M. Hotvedt

Love Song For a moment the sky is simply up there just blue nothing else It’s not a word in my mouth or on this page but blue just blue. Not like anything else your eyes, for example not anything like... Well, maybe a little bit. —Sanford Fraser

The Crows are not as Wicked as the People Have Said The crows sleep on the wires They stay still as they dream of a world with more purple in it. When sleep does not come so easily They leave pretty gifts for the pretty girls With long backs and red hair They ask for nothing in return. —Arielle Lindstrom

How does one know when it’s time to break camp, can the seasonal warnings be so strong? (can the weather make your mind change your day) but when I was seven (both times) the hands on the clock in the kitchen went nowhere, the battle was so very local and change is always the assassin, invisible felt only in its consequences

A Candle For Karma I do all the things one does when backed into the corner of change or die. Some of us make fires, make a mess, make word and image to make it through the narrow gate, squeaking mouse-like, past the last teensy sliver of wiggle room. I pray for the karma between you and I to be burnt up, transmuted into kitten fur ash, floating motes to the stars. I see a zipper unzipping, time to take off the coat, familiar with the stains of every battle, pocked with tear marks. As simply as taking off a coat; it is. The teeth separating with grace, their function now complete. I hand you the coat.

—Frank Possemato

You take it, for once just holding it. Bewildered, but you take it, thank god.

Catharsis: 1966

I say thank you for letting me wear it, I don’t need it any longer. I say I have to go now and turn on my way.

Was which the reason I returned after five years away: Two days work in Widener’s stacks or ten minutes in your company? You looked up from your book and smiled at me. Formerly it was my wont to laugh with you in ecstasy. This and only time my heart withstood your smile. “What are you doing now?” you asked, still smiling. I am remembering the time you met my train at South Station to surprise me. I had descended at Back Bay. —Joy Finnegan

This time I don’t look back to see the storm starting in your face. I know the sound of thunder in your throat. And lightening quick with a crack and a boom and a bang, I could become salt again. It’s getting late. Without a coat, I step lively along inhaling the fresh moment. —Kathleen C. Mandeville

Split Personality There are two of her. One of her is serving coffee The other her is showing art One of her is playing hostess The other her is playing smart Neither her is either. —Carol Peper-Goldsmith

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(clockwise): Swoon Kitchenbar and American Glory BBQ on Warren Street in hudson; The view on the Taconic Parkway between Chatham and Hudson; Tortillaville, with outdoor seating, next to Sorted, a graphic design studio, in Hudson; fair trade espresso from Strongtree Coffeehouse in hudson.

rural urbanity Hudson and Columbia County By Jamie Larson Photos by Natalie Keyssar

t the river’s edge just north of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Columbia County sits the historic city of Hudson. Founded as a whaling port in 1783 by Nantucketeers displaced by the Revolution, Hudson was constructed on a hill and from its geological apex, the old cemetery, the city spills forth like rainwater to the river’s edge.Traveling down through the city streets Hudson gains momentum. A study in Hudson Valley historical architecture, Hudson’s shops and residences are tucked into a hodgepodge of old brick buildings, row houses, grand mansions, housing projects, recommissioned churches, banks, and even barns. Much of Hudson’s draw to visitors is in this somewhat unpolished aesthetic. Perhaps nowhere is that more visible in the Hudson’s many alleys, which run the length of the city.Vine-covered barns and carriage houses, and private gardens line the uneven and pocked one-lane-wide two-way traffic alleys.The alleys are like the wrinkles in Hudson’s face that show the complexity in its age. The alleys show that the city, so known for the upscale appearance of its main thoroughfare, Warren Street, is also one that is lived in by a wide range of peoples and communities. “It’s our diversity that people are attracted to,” says seven-term Mayor Richard Scalera, “Its a draw, we attract people of all walks of life.” Unlike the rest of Columbia County, Hudson is racially diverse, with large African American and Bangladeshi communities. While the busiest upper section of Warren Street has been gentrified, in a city that only covers two square miles one can’t help but know their neighbors.

This summer Hudson also saw its first ever gay pride parade and two gay best friends were prom king and queen of the high school. Both happenings went off with only marginal protest, most of which came from outside the city. Cultural Evolution Decades of cultural influence from New York City transplants has brought a stylistic revolution to Hudson. In the ‘90s, antique dealers brought the struggling city back from the brink, as manufacturing jobs left and the strip malls in nearby Greenport put many locally owned shops out of business. Antiques and art filled long-vacant storefronts that line Warren Street, Hudson’s backbone. Now it’s hard to imagine the city without the shops and art galleries that have since made the city a destination. There were once as many as 70 antique stores in the city. Now Warren Street is changing again. Store are more varied then they have been in a long time. Clothing stores—vintage and modern—are becoming more prevalent. Five and Diamond, Sideshow, and others are offering attentively curated and rather inexpensive racks of rare vintage while Kosa and White Rice are providing new styles. In recent years the restaurant industry on Warren has boomed as well, creating a reason for visitors to stay in Hudson after they’re done shopping. Up and down the street, restaurants like Mexican Radio, Swoon Kitchen Bar, Da/Ba, Red Dot, and the new American Glory Barbecue are providing a wide spectrum of menus and atmosphere. 8/10 ChronograM hudson + columbia county 55

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The city is also filled with music, with local performers and traveling acts playing nearly every night somewhere, in venues from the small bar and bookstore The Spotty Dog to the palatial Club Helsinki, recently transplanted from Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Hudson even has its own live-in circus.The gritty punk-vaudevillian hallucination that is the physical and exceedingly professional act of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus somehow slides seamlessly into Hudson’s complicated cultural tapestry. Hudson’s quirky circus folk have a social conscience too. Co-founder Stephanie Monseu teaches circus skills at the Hudson Youth Center. Then there are organizations like the Time and Space Limited Warehouse, an arts facility that attracts visitors and opens its doors to a community in need. “The chances of survival are against one,” says Linda Mussmann who, along with her partner Claudia Bruce, has operated the hard-to-define TSL on Columbia Street for the past 20 years. “We’re just always keeping one nostril above water in the arts. It’s always exciting. It’s always risky.” TSL’s largest draw these days are high-definition broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. The arts center is also known for the original theatrical productions of its founders and performances by visiting artists like Bread and Puppet Theater. Since the beginning, TSL has continuously shifted in tone with the vibrations of the city. “As Hudson changes, as the region changes, you have to keep up,” Mussman says, sitting behind her long desk cluttered with papers and objects like printing blocks, a meat grinder, and a box of small bullets, none of which seem particularly out of place or like they couldn’t be made useful at any moment in her daily office life. “That’s why there’s the slipperiness of ‘What is TSL?,’” saysMussmann. While now she now can’t imagine TSL without them, Mussmann said when they started, she never expected the kids, coming in from the poverty-stricken and truck-route-rattled Columbia Street neighborhood. TSL now holds a youth summer arts camp and runs programs for children throughout the school year. Mussmann and Bruce are running a “Macbeth” theater workshop this summer,

with performances of the classic slated for August. “Children came in and were eager to do things, and frankly they were hungry. I saw all of what happens to atrisk kids here. TSL’s youth programs changed who we are as an arts organization,” Mussman says. Investing in the Future Born and raised in Hudson, Mayor Scalera said the city has come a long way from its last vibrant period in the ‘50s and ‘60s, when the city was dominated by momand-pop shops and over 40 bars. “Hudson has a new energy now,” Scalera says. “It’s different but I don’t know if I’d want to go back. Every community goes through an evolution. Hudson is fortunate to have had so many people find it and want to invest in its future.” For many trying to run a business in Hudson or the body of the county during the recession, the new successful business model boils down to a few key tactics: Offer something distinctive, put an emphasis on all things local, and work seven days a week. In Valatie, near the county’s northern border, at the Harvest Spirits distillery those principals apply to both a family tradition and the beginning of a growing legacy. Behind a tall hedgerow in a section of the apple storage barn at the Golden Harvest Farm, Derek Grout is using apples and other fruit grown on the farm his grandparents started in the 1940s to create award-winning spirits. “A lot of people get into distilling because they want to be nightlife impresarios. We come to distilling from an agricultural point of view,” says Grout, standing beside a tall rack of aging barrels, his hands and forearms cut and scraped from a morning of picking black raspberries for brandy. Grout said the impetus to start the distillery came about in an effort to solve a consistent problem on the farm: what to do with the tons of surplus apples the farm can’t sell? Grout says it was finally Tom Crowell at the Columbia Land Conservancy, which suggested making liquor from the extra fruit. 8/10 ChronograM hudson + columbia county 57

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The Chatham House, located on Hudson Avenue in Chatham, is home to several retail establishments, including Lippera’s fine dining Restaurant.

Local Love Philmont Beautification, Inc., was formed in 2000 by a group of citizens who wanted to see the village they love thrive instead of languish. The organization connects local businesses with grants, creates low-income housing opportunities, promotes local art, runs youth programs, and hosts the Philmont Farmers Market on summer Sundays.While it behaves like any small farmers market on the surface, behind the stands of fresh local produce, dairy, and breads PBI is doing more by helping farmers sell directly to restaurants and make their crops more profitable. PBI Farmers Market Manager Sebastian McCabe grew up in Philmont and returned after six years in California. “I’m really grateful to be giving back to the community that raised me,” says McCabe, who is working directly with farms to help them find new, more lucrative distribution opportunities. “It’s a selling point for farmers and restaurants for the customers to know it’s locally grown and produced.” In Philmont, two local restaurants—on either end of Main Street and the culinary experience—are benefiting from PBI’s farm-to-table efforts. Local 111 is searching for the heights that county-grown ingredients can reach. Sourcing from neighboring farms almost exclusively, Local 111’s Executive Chef Josephine Proul does a little bit of everything, from pickling and canning to making sausage and ice cream. “You just have to plan,” Proul says during a busy Sunday brunch rush at the highly stylized modern restaurant. “You have to know how to extend the season and have the customers understand that it’s worth it to wait for it. We’d like to create a whole community of locavores.” They have begun to do just that. Proul says regulars constantly ask if one thing or another is in season yet, as they prepare to enjoy their favorite dish from the year before.

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After a few years of research and setup, Core Vodka, distilled from vats of fermented apples, began to flow into eager glasses in 2007. Core has already won numerous awards, from New York to the most important spirits competition in America, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, where it brought a silver medal back to Valatie. While Harvest continues to grow its original product line, Core vodka and apple and pear brandies, it’s the the company’s new projects that have Grout and his small team excited, especially the bourbonlike Cornelius Applejack, which won a double gold medal in San Francisco despite being aged only for a year instead of the desired three to five years. Grout says that while running the distillery with the help of his wife Ashley Hartka and two part-time employees has been a lot of work, doing everything themselves gives the distillery a sense of credibility and a connection to the agricultural character of the county. “I feel a little magic in Columbia County,” Grout says. “I’m using apples that were only going to get worse. We’re freeing apples from the burden of time.” Harvest Spirits is becoming a successful example of a persistent motivation in Columbia County to take the resources provided by a strong, established agricultural history and heighten it with contemporary ideas. On a larger scale, in the quiet village of Philmont, a grassroots nonprofit is working to use the same energy to revitalize a community.

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“We specifically wanted it to be locally sourced,” says owner Linda Gatter, who feels dinners are willing to pay a little more when they know that the food is of high quality and the producers are being compensated fairly. “Farming is a hard way to make a living. Let’s keep it in Columbia County when we can. Joe [Proul] has a great relationship with the farmers. It makes the food better.” Just down the hill in the unassuming Main Street Public House (established 1898), Elizabeth Angello is following the same philosophy of sourcing her ingredients locally while offering a twist on traditional pub fair at a low price point. Angello also happens to be the mother of Proul at Local 111. While there may be an underlying sense of friendly mother-daughter competition, the two are more allies than competitors due to the differences in establishments and their shared food philosophies. They recently bought a whole pig together (raised locally, of course), and shared the meat between the restaurants. At the Public House, Angello is trying to heighten the quality of average bar food and, as much as possible, make it healthier. “It surprises people how good, delicious and fresh our food is,” Angello says, sitting beneath the sun at a iron table in the center of the farmers market, in the heart of Philmont. It Takes a Village Arguably the most important local well of cultural identity in the storybook village of Chatham ran dry on January 16 with the sudden and unexpected death of Tony Quirino. Quirino was the second-generation proprietor of the historic Crandell movie theater in the center of Main Street. For nearly seven months the Crandell’s doors stayed closed, until, on July 9, a large crowd once again poured past the old arched-window box office and popcorn-filled concession stand. Nostalgic patrons returned to the double-decker single theater to watch Toy Story 3 at the Crandell’s consistent budget price of $5 for adults and $4 for children. After Quirino’s passing, an emotional local scrum ensued to find a new owner and operator for the theater, built in 1926 by Walter S. Crandell. A group of area residents pooled their resources, made the purchase, then immediately turned around and deeded the Crandell to the over-400-member Chatham Film Club, which has been screening movies at the theater once a month since 1998. 62 hudson + columbia county ChronograM 8/10

“I think every one in the community is glad,” says Anthony Quirino, who bought the theater in 1961 (the same year he met his wife) and relinquished control to his son Tony in 1985. He says he is sure Tony would be proud of the film club’s commitment to keeping the Crandell as it was. “When Tony died it sort of pulled the carpet out from under everyone’s feet,” said Film Club President Sandi Knakal. “This is very much a family-oriented establishment. We would like to continue that legacy and we know we can do it with the support of the community.” Keeping the Crandell running won’t be easy. It needs a new roof before winter and the old reel-to-reel projector has persistent problems. It would be easy to toss the old projector or raise ticket prices at the Crandell, but the film club won’t. It would be easy for the Main Street Pub and Local 111 to get their produce from Sysco at a lower price than the farmers offer, but they don’t. It would be easy for Time and Space Limited to just stick to showing movies and broadcasts from the Met, the things that make money, but the organization feels they must do more. Columbia County has rich soil and is still dominated by farms and farmers, and while not everyone has their hands in the dirt, throughout the hills and fields, along dusty wooded roads and crowded city streets, an agrarian work ethic seems to beat beneath the ground, one that looks forward while holding tightly to what remains strong in the county’s past. RESOURCES American Glory BBQ ww.americanglory.com Bindlestiff Family Cirkus www.bindlestiff.org City of Hudson www.cityofhudson.org Columbia Land Conservancy Crandell Theater www.crandelltheatre.com Harvest Spirits www.harvestspirits.com Local 111 www.local111.com Main Street Public House www.mainstpublichouse.com Philmont Beautification, Inc. www.pbinc.org Time and Space Limited Warehouse www.timeandspace.org

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Cinda Baxter tossed an idea for supporting local businesses onto the breeze. Next thing she knew, The 3/50 Project was a national movement.

deas are like sperm. Out of every gazillion, only one or two ever see the light of day. Cinda Baxter’s Big Idea was unplanned. On March 11, 2009, the Minneapolis-based entrepreneur and motivational speaker crafted a short, spontaneous blog post proposing a campaign that would “ask consumers to frequent three local brick-and-mortar businesses they don’t want to see disappear, and to spend a very affordable $50 per month doing it.” She closed the short piece with an offer to put her shoulder to the wheel—a little. “Whadaya say, folks? I can have a window banner whipped up in no time for printing at your favorite local print shop and bag stuffers you can print on your desktop. Just say the word-—I’ll get the PDF files in your hands ASAP.” Baxter dubbed her ideaThe 3/50 Project and cast it out into the blogosphere. Which, as a rule, is where ideas go to die. Only this one didn’t. Within 48 hours, Baxter reports, she “had 350 e-mails asking ‘What else have you got?’” A week later, more than 7,600 people had found the post. Now it’s over a year later and the buzz has evolved into a national movement, with The 3/50 Project promotional material now available at independent businesses throughout the country. And Baxter? She’s been tending to her love child since its birth. We caught up with Baxter, who will be speaking on the camppus of SUNY New Paltz on August 13, for a discussion of The 3/50 Project and her life after that fateful post. We had expected to encounter a passionate social activist. Instead, we found ourselves speaking with a person who is a businesswoman through and through, and bringing this specialized perspective to her work in the social arena. The 3/50 Project is a remarkable success story. How about some metrics? There’s been an extraordinary uptake, to be sure. I thought I knew what the term “viral” meant. Now I realize I didn’t. Before I mention any numbers, let me say that I’m single, I have no kids, no pets, and dead houseplants. So this is my version of “proud mom” stuff. As of today, we have more than 20,000 registered business supporters and 61,000 friends on our Facebook page. We’ve had 376,000-plus absolute unique visitors, over 481,000 total visits, and more than 1.4 million page views. 64 green living ChronograM 8/10

What makes The 3/50 Project different from the many ideas that are stillborn? I think there are three main reasons for its success. First, the simplicity of the message. We don’t discuss macro- and microeconomics. We speak in the language people use at the dinner table. Second, we’re not asking for impossible commitments. For instance, we’re not telling people to boycott the big box stores. Although it’s a fiction that their prices are usually lower, sometimes it’s necessary to shop there.We’re inviting people to spend a total of $50 a month at three local businesses. In fact, many people are doing this already. We’re just asking them to do it more consciously. We’re not trying to force people to shop locally, either. If you can’t afford to spend $50 at three local businesses, that’s okay. The third reason didn’t occur to me till six months down the road: The message came from and is being nurtured by someone who owned a brickand-mortar business for 14 years. When people learn that the person behind The 3/50 Project is one of them, they respond especially warmly. What business were you in? I had a business in Minneapolis called Details Ink. We sold fine papers, stationery, and gifts and did in-house design. I loved it: It brought together the various elements of my life. I closed the business after 14 years when the landlord defaulted on our lease. We decided to move on rather than get involved in a lawsuit. And now you’ve got yourself a new business! That’s right. I inadvertently created an 80-hour-a-week job with no paycheck, and I’m thrilled! In the summer of 2009, when it had become clear I had a tiger by the tail, I had to decide how I was going to proceed. I decided to treat The 3/50 Project as a start-up. It’s turned out to be the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done in my life. Right now, I’m living solely off speaking fees. Thankfully, The 3/50 Project could be integrated into that part of my pre-existing business. Doing so, however, created two conundrums. First, it crowded out accepting new consulting clients, which cut my revenue stream severely. Second, the project provided me with subject matter that was great for speaking to local organizations, but no local organizations could afford me. As a solution, I now offer a special “Chamber [of Commerce] rate” to those groups, less than half my normal minimum fee. The good news is, I’ve still got income coming in. The bad news is, I took a hefty pay cut in the process.

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When will you see your first paycheck? I wish I could give you a firm timeframe. I wish I knew what it was myself! Growing a grassroots movement is unlike any other entrepreneurial endeavor on Earth. The sooner, the better, though—ideally in the next year, given the financial burden I’m personally carrying on behalf of the project. When I first opened Details, I committed to not taking a paycheck for three years. I also resolved to spend my entire first paycheck on something completely frivolous. I had to give myself a reward. I believe that, as an entrepreneur, holding back on that first paycheck has to be part of the business’s DNA. The businesses that fail the fastest are the ones where the entrepreneurs pay themselves soonest. For me, this is purely a business decision. So what was that frivolous purchase? I walked around with my first paycheck for about a week. One day, I had to go downtown to visit our engraver. He took me by the hand and brought me to a family-owned jewelry store. He said, “This is my sister Cinda. She wants a bracelet. Do something nice for her.” I walked out with an exquisite bracelet at a very friendly price. I’ve worn it almost every day ever since. On your website, you invite people to help underwrite your costs. To paraphrase Sara Palin: How’s that Tip Jar thing workin’ out? Very well. Because we’re getting so much web traffic, our server costs are going up exponentially. That’s why I put up the Tip Jar. It’s amazing how fast $5 donations add up. These contributions have secured the website. The graciousness of hundreds of people reaching into their pockets has kept us on the web. You have a very strong social mission. Have you considered taking The 3/50 Project nonprofit? I’ve been back and forth about this. There are pros and cons on both sides. There’s no obvious benefit to going nonprofit, and there’s a lot more paperwork and red tape. For now, it’s wait and see. Any pushback about your doing this as a for-profit business? No. Remember that we’re doing all this for free, and we’re not making a profit.

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Although it’s technically a business, what you’ve really done is launch a movement. Where do you see it in five years? My approach is to take things one year at a time and to lay the groundwork for future growth. Marketplace circumstances fluctuate really fast. It doesn’t make sense to plan too far ahead. However, I believe some things will stay the same.We’re all overworked and worried about money. We’re all trying to save. This creates a condition I call “commuter consumerism.” At the end of the workday, we go into autopilot mode. We do our essential tasks and then collapse in a heap. We’re all moving so quickly! We go to the big box stores because we think that’s where the savings are and we don’t see the small independent businesses. We see the big shiny objects but not the small objects in between. None of this is going to change anytime soon. Independent businesses will continue to need the support of campaigns like ours. What we’re saying resonates very positively. What we’re doing won’t die on the vine. Any closing thoughts? Yes. First, it’s important to know that we’re emphasizing balance. We’re not asking people to change their behavior dramatically.We’re simply asking them to stop and think for a moment. We’re suggesting that you can balance things better, and inviting them to do so if they’re able. Second, while I thoroughly enjoy being the voice of the project, the real heroes are the small business owners around the country.These are the people who have breathed life into The 3/50 Project and continue to do so every day. I know what it’s like to be in their shoes. I know how hard they work. That they’ve found the time to run with this blows my mind. Cinda Baxter will be speaking about The 3/50 Project on Friday, August 13, from 8:30 to 9:30am at the SUNY/New Paltz Lecture Center (Room 102). The event is sponsored by the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Gardiner Association of Businesses. Tickets are $20 to $35. Reservations required; reserve in advance through PayPal at www.newpaltzchamber.org. For more information: www.The350Project.net.

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place in 20,000-gallon tanks for six months. There are over 50 such tanks at the facility, and conventional and organic soy sauces have dedicated tanks so they do not mix. (There are separate tanks as well for conventional yet non-GMO products for the stricter European market). After aging, the mash is pressed in small batches layered with sheets of cotton cloth in tall, square metal press towers that can accommodate up to 3,000 layers of mash and cloth. After gravity has extracted as much as possible, the mash is pressed again hydraulically. The resulting “press cakes” are given to local farmers to supplement animal feed. The soy sauce is then pasteurized and bottled. Soy sauce originated as a liquid byproduct of making miso, a fermented soybean paste that is often also made with rice and barley. A great deal of miso is consumed in Japan—18 pounds per person per year—but in this country it is largely unknown outside of natural and gourmet food circles, which is a pity, since it’s an extraordinarily healthy and delectable food.There are only three commercial miso producers in the US, and one of them is South River Miso in Conway, Massachusetts. Founder Christian Elwell and his wife Gaella started the company in 1980 after studying miso making with Noburu Muramoto in California. The Elwells’ interest in miso arose from their deep involvement with macrobiotic food, and that holistic ethos still informs every aspect of the business. “The dream was not to mass-produce miso, but to have a livelihood connected to the land with a sense of community,” Elwell says. “As food has become more of a commodity, we have lost our connection to where it comes from—even to what food really is.” South River Miso makes approximately 100,000 pounds of miso per year, and sales are brisk: Demand perpetually exceeds supply, and last year business increased by nearly 25 percent. The process at South River Miso is similar to making soy sauce, but not at all industrialized as at Wan Ja Shan. All the cooking is done slowly over wood fires. The koji growth and inoculation takes place on wooden trays, and fermentation happens in large wooden vats. South River makes about ten different kinds, which age either one or three years, and none are pasteurized; miso is a living food, and the microbes that thrive within each spoonful are beneficial to digestion. For this reason many people prefer not to cook miso, or else add it at the very end of cooking so as not to sterilize it. Miso is reported to have anticarcinogenic and powerful chelating properties, and to help those undergoing chemotherapy maintain a healthy digestive tract. Elwell speaks often of miso as medicine, “but not in the sense of ‘medical,’” he says. “When we prepare and eat food with intention, we connect with nature.” He likes to illustrate the digestive power of miso by stirring a spoonful into a bowl of freshly cooked oatmeal, and then letting it sit for a while. “It softens, becoming more liquid, and gets sweeter,” Elwell says, as the microbes and enzymes convert starches to sugars. “Rather than pouring syrup over the top, adding sweetness from the outside, you can unlock the sweetness that’s already there.” Besides health, eating is about pleasure, and these misos are sensual delights. Sweet, sour, complex, even fruity—they inspire creativity in the kitchen. The lighter one-year misos are ideal for soups, dressings, and adding depth to just about anything. The darker, more powerful three-year misos cry out to be rubbed on meat and fish, or mixed with butter for slathering on chicken or vegetables before roasting, or to cure pork belly. If, as Elwell says, “we’ve been robbed of our simple pleasures and tastes,” then his work is surely the remedy. The contrast between these two companies is instructive; one is rural, scrupulously traditional, and grows carefully despite ever-increasing demand. The other is urban, industrial, and most of their product is used in other industrial food. But it’s not so simple; Wan Ja Shan uses New York-grown beans and grain for their organic line, while South River Miso’s ingredients come from California and China. Wan Ja Shan makes enough soy sauce to allow anybody in the region to easily buy some, while South River Miso is available to only a tiny fraction of local consumers. Both examples can be useful as we grope (and eat) our way forward toward a sustainable food future. South River Miso (www.southrivermiso.com) and Wa Jan Shan (www.wanjashan.com) products are widely available in health food stores and food co-ops across the region.

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FOOD & DRINK EVENTS FOR august Terrapin Beer Expo August 7 and 8. Spend the weekend at Terrapin’s 4th Annual Beer Expo, featuring craft brews from over 20 New York State breweries, including local favorites Keegan Ales, Captain Lawrence, and the Hyde Park Brewery. Food includes innovative barbecue (including many vegetarian-friendly options) and other unlimited tasty samples from Terrapin’s repertoire. There will be live music, door prizes, and demonstrations by the Hudson Valley Home Brewers Association. From 4pm to 9pm on Saturday and 1pm to 6pm on Sunday at Terrapin Catering in Staatsburg. $39 single day/$60 both days; $19 designated-driver single day/ $30 designated-driver both days. (845) 876-3330.

Preserving the Summer Dinner at the CIA August 7. The Culinary Institute of America’s graduating class presents Preserving the Summer: Celebrating the Bounty of the Hudson Valley, a four-course dinner and silent auction benefiting the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley and the Peter F. Lenich Memorial Scholarship Fund. Local wines, cocktails, and hors d’oeurves will be served at 6pm, followed by dinner, including chilled corn bisque, compressed summer melon, pork spare ribs, and peach and honey upside-down cake. At 6pm at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. $70. (845) 905-4674; www.ciachef.edu/restaurants/events.

Old World v. New World Wine Throwdown August 14. Michael Weiss—wine instructor and coauthor of Wine Wise: Your Complete Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Enjoying Wine—from the Culinary Institute of America hosts Old World versus New World Wines, part of the wine and food seminar series at the Millbrook Winery. The class will feature Millbrook’s wines as well as wines from around the world. From 6pm to 8pm in Millbrook. $45. Reservations available at (800) 622-9463.

Red Wine and Grass-Fed Beef August 21 and 22. Visit the Whitecliff Winery nestled at the foot of the Gunks for a locavore’s delight. Enjoy Whitecliff’s red wines such as Sky Island Red, a traditional, elegant Bordeaux blend; Ridgewine Red, a light-bodied, five-grape blend; and Redtail, a soft, fruity blend of Noiret, DeChaunac, and merlot. The food menu includes London broil (from grass-fed cows raised two miles down the road) and homemade potato salad made with local produce. From 12pm to 5pm in Gardiner. $16 in advance/$17.50 at the door. (845) 255-4613; www.whitecliffwine.com.

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(courtyard behind Bread Alone) August 21 and 22. Come hungry and bring a bib to the sixth annual Hudson Valley Ribfest, featuring Big Moe’s M&M Ribs, Butch’s Barbeque, Jack McDavid’s Down Home Diner, and more. There will be over 20 concession and cooking-supply vendors, team barbecuecooking competitions (with a $10,000 prize pot), and live music. From 11am to 10pm on Saturday and from 11am to 5pm on Sunday at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz. $5/kids under 12 free. www.hudsonvalleyribfest.org.

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A guide to notable local debuts By Lisa Parisio American Glory BBQ

Specializeing in comfort food and pan-American barbecue, Ameircan Glory is set in a restored firehouse, retaining the original brick walls, wood floors, and staircase. The first floor’s 30-foot bar offers nine ice-cold local craft brews on tap from frost-covered towers. American Glory’s own brand is produced at nearby Chatham Brewery. Appetizers include macaroni and cheese balls ($7.25), crabmeat deviled eggs ($9), and Pail of O’s, a bucket of onion rings with dipping sauce ($7). Meat is smoked onsite and barbecue options include Texas hash sloppy joe ($8.50), North Carolina pulled pork ($8.50), St. Louis ribs ($16-$24), Tallahassee turkey drumstick ($20.50), and Texas beef brisket ($18). There are also a few vegetarian options—a grilled veggie platter ($18) and Nana Lee’s stuffed peppers ($14)—and there’s a long list of sandwiches, burgers, po-boys, salads, soups, combo meals, grilled and roasted entrees, and sides to choose from. 342 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 822-1234; www.americanglory.com

cheeses, smoked meats, and a wide selection of other local gourmet products. Highlights include smoked venison from Highland Farms in Germantown, local honey and potato chips, and Spacey Tracy’s pickles from Rhinebeck. Eric Molleur remarks, “Most people think wine and cheese but we thought, beer and cheese work well together, too.” The shop is definitely not a bar, but the casual, laid-back atmosphere has turned the small café area into a happy-hour spot for the locals. 6384 Mill Street, Rhinebeck. (845)876-6992; www.grandcrurhinebeck.com

Gunk Haus

Birdsall House’s draught list features 20 beers from small production breweries across New York and the Northeast as well as a curated list of beers from across the country and Europe. The list changes with the seasons, but always has an eye on local craft brews and keeping a balance of styles. Birdsall offers American whiskey, bourbon, scotches, and agave tequilas. Their menu is driven by local products and the restaurant purchases their grain, polenta, bread, and crackers from Wild Hive Farm in Clinton Corners and beef from Hemlock Hill Farm in Cortlandt Manor. Co-owner John Sharp describes the food as “pub fare with a little extra attention and a southern accent.” Offerings include a Hudson Valley cheese plate ($12), pulled pork tacos ($11), and blackened shrimp and grits ($16). 970 Main Street, Peekskill. (914) 930-1880; www.birdsallhouse.net

After leaving behind high-profile desk jobs in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Steckel and Dirk Schalle moved to the Hudson Valley with the dream of opening up a family-friendly gastropub. After over two years of renovations on the former Hollywood Bar in Highland, Gunk Haus opened its doors Memorial Day weekend. Dirk says, “The German theme is meant to put into perspective our preferences for seasonal, slow food, and beer-pairing as a cultural tradition, not a trend.” Examples include the grilled cheese sandwich: locally-made pastrami, jarlsberg, and haus-made pickled onion relish with a spinach-bacon salad with sherry vinaigrette ($12); portobello paprikash: grilled, marinated portobello on a pretzel with a local mesclun salad, pickled beets, and haus-made bleu cheese and dill dressing ($10); and pork schnitzel: boneless pork loin with paprika sauce, braised leeks, wilted spinach, and roasted red potatoes ($18). For dessert, try schatzies: chocolate-filled pretzel bites ($3). Their wine list is a Hudson Valley tribute, featuring wines from Whitecliff Winery in Gardiner, Brotherhood Winery in Washingtonville, and wine and hard cider from Warwick Valley Winery. On the beer side, enjoy Keegan Ales Mother’s Milk, Brooklyn Pennant Ale ‘55, Blue Point Toasted Lager, Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse, and Dunkel-Weisse. 387 South Street, Highland. (845) 883-0866; www.gunkhaus.com

Boitson’s

Krazy Kate’s Landmark Inn

Birdsall House

Boitson’s owner Maria Philippis, an on-and-off Hudson Valley resident for the past 20 years, has finally come home to stay and open her dream restaurant. The long, narrow dining room, lined with a room-long banquette and mirrors, leather, and velvet, leads to an outdoor deck with views of the Catskills. From the marble-top bar, Boitson’s serves an array of cocktails—many named after New York City boroughs. Go for little-neck clams ($7) and Blue Point oysters ($9) from the raw bar and entrees like the Boitson burger and fries ($10), whole trout meuniere ($21), fried chicken and mashed potatoes ($15), or roasted beet risotto ($14). Four-dollar sides include biscuits and gravy, succotash, and bacony collards. To support eating locally, many of the ingredients on the menu are purchased at the Kingston Farmers Market. 47 North Front Street, Kingston. (845) 339-2333

Dutch Ale House

When Johnny and Karyn Pavich took over the Dutch Ale House last September, they decided to keep some of the old charms—like the Dutchthemed memorabilia that’s been on the walls since the ‘80s—but add some fresh ideas. Chef Thomas Muff kept some of the old favorites on the menu, like the Pilgrim sandwich—house-roasted turkey, stuffing, and provolone on grilled rye with cranberry sauce and gravy ($10). New additions include garlic and ale cheese spread with flatbreads ($5); mozzarella spedino—mozzarella stuffed inside focaccia and fried ($7); the bacon, egg, and cheeseburger ($11); and a roasted vegetable panini with zucchini, yellow squash, red peppers, eggplant, fresh mozzarella, and harissa-lemon vinaigrette ($9). At the bar, there are 15 craft brews on tap and 20 bottled beers to choose from. The Pavichs are in the process of building a microbrewery on the premises and hope to start brewing this fall. 255 Main Street, Saugerties. (845) 247-2337; www.dutchalehouse.com

Grand Cru Beer and Cheese Market

The Grand Cru Beer and Cheese Market is piled high with 350 to 400 different craft beers from around the world—and owners Eric and Mary Molleur have tried them all. Grand Cru offers a revolving three beers on tap, growlers to fill up, artisanal

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This outpost of country-style comfort food has been open in Boiceville for half a year, serving eclectic fare that wouldn’t have been out of place at a family restaurant circa 1980. (And, gratefully, at prices closer to then than to today.) Steak au poivre ($19.95), chicken française and chicken Marsala (both $14.95), and a variety of pasta ($13.95 to $16.95) anchor the entrees. For starters, the citrus-marinated seared sea scallops and braised pork “wings” are highlights. The cozy atmosphere and supercomfy bar chairs in the historic setting give Krazy Kate’s the perfect down-home Catskills feel. 4072 Route 28, Boiceville. (845) 657-8777; www.krazykateslandmarkinn.com

Mint Lounge and Tapas

Mint Lounge, in the former Downtown Café space in Kingston’s Rondout, specializes in innovative cocktails. They offer drinks like the Peach Pearl— Ketel One, Captain Morgan, peach nectar, and Cointreau ($11); the Green Tea Lychee Martini—house-infused vodka and muddled lychee ($10); the Love Affair—Grey Goose vodka, muddled strawberries, lemon, honey, and prosecco ($9); and the Acai Basil Caipirinha—cachaca, acai juice, muddled basil, and lime ($9). On the food menu, savory tapas include grilled endive drizzled with olive oil and balsamic reduction ($4); goat cheese crostini sprinkled with walnuts and drizzled with lavender honey ($5); and classic fondue with apples, pears, homemade rosemary focaccia, ciabatta bread, and smoked ham ($14 for 2/$24 for 4). On the sweet side, try fruit and cream with fresh berries served on a rosemary skewer with limoncello mascarpone ($4); two homemade biscotti served with a dollop of honey ricotta ($4); or chocolate fondue with pretzels, strawberries, bananas, mini macaroons, and pound cake ($11 for 2/$20 for 4). 1 West Strand, Kingston. (845) 338-6139; www.mintloungeandtapas.com

Momiji Steakhouse & Bar

A second restaurant in the heart of Rhinebeck (the former Sakura location) for the Japanese restaurant already with one outlet in Stone Ridge. The spare, clean aesthetics of the space offer a blank slate against which to try the hibachi, sushi, and tempura offerings. Among the extensive appetizers, the tuna dumplings are not to be missed. 43 E. Market Street, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-5555

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No. 9 Restaurant

Chef and owner Tim Cocheo’s appreciation for food began as a child from watching his Croatian immigrant grandparents tend their gardens and make wine. After graduating the French Culinary Institute, Cocheo got a job as a sous-chef at Wallse, considered one of the top French restaurants in New York City. The combination of these experiences inspired No. 9’s creative American cuisine with French-Austrian leanings. The current menu features roasted beet salad with smoked trout, crème fraiche, and horseradish ($12); pan-roasted duck breast with braised red cabbage and wild mushroom bread pudding ($26); sauteed diver scallops with sunchoke puree, bacon, sauteed pea shoots, and Reisling sauce ($26). For dessert, warm red wine poached pear with vanilla crème fraiche ($7) or local pumpkin souffle with crème anglaise. No. 9’s menu is constantly evolving, with changes made every week based on what’s in season in the Hudson Valley. The restaurant uses predominately local, organic produce and only uses sustainably farmed or wild-caught seafood. The wine list offers over 35 wines from the West Coast, Australia, South America, Europe, and South Africa. No. 9 is located inside the Victorian-styled Simmon’s Village Way Inn, awarded Gannett’s four-star rating. 53 Main Street, Millerton. (518) 592-1299; www.number9millerton.com

Pennings Harvest Grill and Brew Pub

Pennings Harvest Grill and Brew Pub is set on the grounds of Pennings Farm and Orchard in Warwick, making eating and drinking there a true farm-totable or farm-to-bar experience. The bar at the pub is made out of an antique apple grader, with Ommegang Witte, Keegan Ales Old Capital, Southern Tier IPA, and PBR on tap. Pennings makes their own hard apple cider and they offer hard peach cider from the Warwick Valley Winery and Distillery. They have local wines from Warwick and Washingtonville as well as wines from California, Italy, and South America. Adjacent to the bar is the Harvest Grill, an informal, family-oriented eatery with specialties that include a signature apple salad—field greens with marinated julienne apples, toasted almonds, and house vinaigrette (small for $5 or large for $8); fish and chips (various sizes available for $8 to $32); and their self-proclaimed specialty, New England clam chowder ($3.50 cup, $5 bowl, $10 quart). They also offer a list of paninis, sandwiches, burgers, pasta dishes, seafood, and a kids menu. Outside, visit the old-fashioned custard and ice cream stand and the farm animals petting area. Route 94 & Warwick Turnpike in Warwick. (845) 986-1059; www.penningsfarmmarket.com

Stockade Tavern

Husband and wife co-owners Giovanna “Jenny” Vis and Paul Maloney are bringing the pre-Prohibition-style cocktail back into fashion in uptown Kingston. “The cocktail was invented in America.” explains Vis. “There were incredible, inventive bartenders [before Prohibition] and [today] we don’t touch upon the variety of ingredients.” Try the sweet-tart Prosecutor ($9): Old Overholt Rye, St. Germain, Chartreuse, and lemon juice; or the Moscow Mule ($8): vodka, ginger beer, and lime. The tavern is set in the former Singer sewing machine building; the original S is still on the door and inside the tables are made from the iron sewing machine bases left behind. The original tin ceiling is in place, embellished with crown molding and Federalperiod colors. Appetizer-like vittles are also available. 313 Fair Street, Kingston. (845) 514-2649

Superfood Citizen Café

One of the Beacon community’s newest additions is the Superfood Citizen Café, a raw, organic living foods café and high-alkaline juice bar. The breakfast menu, served all day, includes cinnamon rolls, pecan-maple leather rolled with apricot jam and house cream cheese ($8), and yogurt parfaits, layers of raw granola in vegan yogurt and fresh fruit ($10). Gluten-free dinner entrees, also served all day, include stuffed corn enchiladas and mesquite cocoa mole with vegan sour cream, guacamole, fresh salsa, and lemon ($21/$12 half portion); zucchini macaroni and cheese with spiced collards, crusted heirloom tomatoes, and bacon bits ($16/$8); and four-tiered pizza rounds made with macadamia nut mozzarella, italian herbs, pesto, sun-dried tomato marinade, mushroom-pepper tapenade, and olives ($18/$9). Try naturally sweetened, low-glycemic, desserts like nut-milk cheesecake ($8/$4); raw cocoa truffles ($4); and house cookies ($2/$1). 484 Main Street, Beacon. (845) 440-8344; www.superfoodcitizencafe.com

Yum Yum Noodle Bar

Yum Yum will be Nina Moeys-Paturel and Pierre-Luc Moeys’s third Hudson Valley restaurant, following Café with Love in Saugerties and Oriole 9 in Woodstock. Moeys describes Yum Yum as “a noodle bar with all kinds of Asian street food dishes on the side.” The make-your-own bowl includes a choice of noodle, broth, and protein for $9. On the side, enjoy a of helping of miso-cured grilled salmon ($8); Indonesian chicken satay ($4); green papaya salad ($6); pad thai ($8); and marinated green beans ($6). Nothing on the menu is over $10 except for family-size portions. 4 Rock City Road, Woodstock. (845) 679-7992; www.yumyumnoodlebar.com

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407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 or (800) 399-3589 www.lemoncakes.com 100% all butter scratch, full-service, smallbatch, made-by-hand bakery. Best known for our scones, sticky buns, Belgian hot chocolate, all vegan soups & sandwiches (Goat Cheese Special is still winning awards). Plus varied treats: vegan, wheat, gluten, dairy or sugar-free. Wedding cakes too. Lemon Cakes shipped nationwide and for local corporate gift giving. Closed Tues/Wed but open 7 AM for the best egg sandwiches ever!

Cafes Strongtree Organic Roasters 60 South Front Street, Hudson, NY

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

Catering Holberts Catering (845) 457-5806 www.holbertscatering.com holberts@frontiernet.net

Suruchi — Fine Taste of India

www.suruchiindian.com

484 Main Street, Beacon, NY

We offer catering for pick up or private parties in our beautiful, calm atmosphere. Fresh & homemade Indian cuisine from finest ingredients including local & organic. Free-range chicken, wild shrimp, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free. Fine Wine/Crafted Beer. Zagat Rated.

(845) 440-8344

948 Route 28, Kingston, NY

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Superfood Citizen Cafe

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(845) 338-1300

5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY

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Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.

(845) 255-2772

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Terrapin Catering

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5371 Albany Post Road, Staatsburg, NY

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

(845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail

of your wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, corporate event or any special occasion. On-site, we can accommodate 150 guests seated, and 250 for cocktail events. Off-site services available. Terrapin’s custom menus always include local, fresh, and organic ingredients.

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and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!

Gino’s Restaurant Route 9, Lafayette Plaza, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-8061 www.ginoswappingers.com

Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY (888) 693-1062 www.ciachef.edu/enthusiasts

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

Gomen Kudasai — Japanese Noodles and Home Style Cooking 215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811

John Andrews Restaurant Route 23 at Blunt Road, South Egremont, MA (413) 528-3469 www.jarestaurant.com

Restaurants Abruzzi Trattoria 3191 Route 22, Patterson, NY (845) 878-6800 www.abruzzitrattoria.com

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

Baba Louie’s Woodfired Organic Sourdough Pizza 517 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 751-2155 286 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-8100 www.babalouiespizza.com

Charlotte’s Restaurant and Catering 4258 Rte 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com A few of our reviews:

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Leo's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria 1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446 www.leospizzeria.com

No. 9 Restaurant Millerton, NY (518) 592-1299 www.number9millerton.com

Osaka Restaurant

Great food you can bank on! Seasonal Menu • Thin Crust Pizza • French • Asian Italian Signature Dishes • Martini & Wine Bar

22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278

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The River Bank 3 River Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-3046 www.theriverbank.biz

Rolling Rock Restaurant and Bar Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston , NY (845) 382-2233 www.therollingrockcafe.com

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Soul Dog

...a treasure!"

107 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

"...gorgeous lawn dining in the summer. The wood-fired grill will supercharge your appetite."

(845) 454-3254 www.souldog.biz

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"Tremendous food from a varied and original menu that ranges from devilish to divine." Perfect for a romantic dinner for two to a jovial family lunch. Also, available for reunions, weddings, rehearsal dinners and showers. Restaurant Hours: Wed & Thurs 5pm – 9:30pm, Fri & Sat 11:30am – 10:30pm, Sun 11:30am – 9:30pm. Gift Cards.

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Doc’s Trattoria

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Out of elements both historic and eclectic

Enter the world of Yobo.

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Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week.

3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700

Local. Organic. Authentic.

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,

6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330

Voted best Sushi 2008 Zagat award of distinction

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comes something surprising, fresh, and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul.

Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com

Dine on fine Asian Cuisine & relax amidst babbling brooks or in the rain fall lounge. We serve vegetables grown in our own garden.

Serving the Hudson Valley for 30 years. Exit 7B Rte 84; Exit 17 NYS Thruway Open 7 days | Rehearsal Dinners & Catering Rte 300 Newburgh next to Ramada Inn See our party menu for parties of 8-60 (845) 564-3848 | yoborestaurant.com Reservations accepted

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Waldorf Education

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by nurturing the connection between the child, the physical Earth and others around them through experiential learning. 16 S. Chestnut St. New Paltz, NY 12561 (845) 255-0033 - Fax (845) 255-0597 www.mountainlaurel.org 76 education ChronograM 8/10

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learning to fly at the trapeze club in new paltz

he monotony of the work week, scheduled life, and structured plans start to catch up with us after a while. Surrendering to this dullness is optional. Continuing education doesn’t mean being tethered to a desk or tormented by exams. For nondegree-seeking students of life there are numerous nontraditional education options available. More flexible than high school and less stressful than college, these interest-based opportunities allow students to explore areas of interest for the sake of enjoyment and personal growth. School may be out for the summer, or it may have been a few years since you set foot in the classroom, but with the numerous programs in the area, there’s never a bad time to take on the challenge of learning something new. 8/10 ChronograM education 77

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Students participate in a yoga class in Kripalu’s award-winning green-built Annex that opened last summer.

Healthy Immersion T-shirts, snowglobes, and keychains are classic vacation mementos, but an educational retreat offers a more satisfying souvenir. Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, offers participants the chance to relax while learning nutrition or yoga and working on a personal goal such as establishing a healthier lifestyle, changing habits, or losing weight. “One of the main reasons people come to Kripalu is that they want to immerse themself in a healthy lifestyle,” says Cathy Shamir, Kripalu media relations director. Kripalu, though named for a specific type of yoga, offers several types of yoga, healing arts services, appointments with experts, nutritional workshops, outdoor activities such as kayaking and hiking, and creative programs including painting and movement. Generally, Kripalu participants spend between three days and a week residing at the Center and participating in their chosen programs, More in-depth courses, such as certification programs, last about a month. (800) 741-7353; www.kripalu.org. Rejuvenate and Change For those seeking wellness and personal growth, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck provides opportunities for improved health, self-exploration, and spiritual growth. Founded in 1977, the Omega Institute uses educational experiences to awaken the best in the human spirit. “Omega provides a forum for people to be exposed to new ideas and ways of navigating an increasing complex world in the presence of leading thinkers of the day,” says Chrissa Pullicino, Omega media relations manager. “Through these educational experiences people learn how to ‘be the change’ at home, at work, and in their community.” Omega offers more than 350 classes a year in six categories: body, mind and spirit, health and healing, creativity and play, relationships

and family, leadership and community, and sustainable living. The Women’s Institute focuses on harvesting the power of femininity. The annual Women and Power conference, held this year on September 24-26, will feature Ani DiFranco, Gail Collins, and many more presenters. Omega’s upcoming workshop topics include leadership, intuition, painting, social media use, and sport. They also offer retreats, teen programs, professional training, and programs for continuing education credit. (877) 944-2002; www.eomega.org. Spring into Life Learning and personal development shouldn’t be restricted to a timeline. Lifespring in Saugerties offers programs specifically for retired, semiretired, and adult students. Now, in the program’s second year, Lifespring learners can take up to three classes on Tuesdays during each six-week semester. Academic course offerings for the fall semester, beginning September 21, include biology and comparative religion. Lifespring also offers writing and poetry courses as well as gentle yoga.While exploring interests and learning skills, members can also engage in additional planned activities and enjoy the learning community created among the students. “The original idea was just to have courses, but it’s really about developing a sense of community,” says Susan Puretz, Lifespring president. (845) 246-2800 ext. 452; www.lifespringsaugerties.com. Fly Like an Eagle Learning to fly may be a forgotten childhood fantasy, but from May through September the Flying Trapeze Club in New Paltz can make it a reality for students age four and up. In their first two-hour lesson, trapeze students can expect to advance from basic groundtraining to their first trips on the bar. Students can anticipate learning the tricks of the trapeze trade: knee hangs, splits, and whips. 8/10 ChronograM education 79

Courtesy of Omega Institute for Holistic Studies master chef Thomas W. Griffiths teaching at Omega. Griffiths will teach "Omega Thanksgiving: Creating a Delicious and Meaningful Celebration," Oct. 22-24.

“Flying trapeze isn’t just fun, it’s therapy. This sport helps students vanquish fear and feelings of self-doubt, teaching us all that we are what we think,” says instructor Meghan Loggia. (845) 255-4375; www.trapezeclub.org. Master Rhyme, Rhythm, and Romanticism For aspiring wordsmiths, the College of Poetry in Warwick offers aspiring poets, regardless of experience, the opportunity to enhance their poetic skills through general survey courses, topic-specific workshops, special events, and readings. Courses balance study of classical poetic works with writing style and techniques. “Though many people that are taking the courses have a love of poetry, they don’t necessarily have a background in it on the college level. The instructors do, and they’re able to impart that,” says Janet Hamill, instructor. Over the course of eight weeks, students take two classes at a time. Class sessions last two hours on Saturday morning or Saturday afternoon. Fall courses, beginning October 14, include Poetry and Myth, Confessional Poetry, and Song Lyrics and Poetry. (845) 294-8085; www.collegeofpoetry.com. Blown Away It’s hard not to marvel at the artistic creations of others but often difficult to imagine creating one of your own—especially the alchemy of turning earthen materials into glass. Glassblowing lessons provide students the chance to pick up the blow pipe and create their own piece to take home. Hudson Beach Glass, in Beacon, and Gilmor Glass, in Millerton, each offer classes to aspiring glassblowers of all levels. In glassblowing classes, students can expect to 80 education ChronograM 8/10

learn techniques, gain skills, and complete projects. Early projects for students learning the trade include creating paperweights, solid statues, and beads. Hudson Beach Glass offers classes, including glass-bead-making workshops, and hosts performing glass artists. Classes last between one and three hours. Gilmor Glass offers full-day, half-day, and private or semiprivate sessions. Hudson Beach Glass: (845) 440-0068; www.hudsonbeachglass.com. Gilmor Glass: (518) 789-8000; www.gilmorglass.com. Reflect and Reconnect Slowing down can be an important step in spiritual development. There are a number of different opportunities in the region designed to help clarify the window of vision into the immense well of self. Mirabai of Woodstock’s workshops focus on metaphysics and spiritual development. The Crystals Center, in Wurtsboro, offers workshops on crystal healing. Gatherings at the Garrison Institute, in Garrison, seek to use contemplative ideas to aid personal growth and social change. Tarot on the Hudson’s classes, in Rhinebeck, explore the spiritual guideance the cards offer. Menla Mountain Retreat, located in Phoenicia, hosts a variety of retreats including sessions on detox and yoga. Dreaming Goddess in Poughkeepsie offers classes on various psychic energy systems. Mirabai of Woodstock: (845) 679-2100; www.mirabai.com. Crystals Center: (845) 888-2547; www.thecrystalscenter.com. Garrison Institute (845) 4244800; www.garrisoninstitute.org. Tarot on the Hudson: www.rachelpollack. com. Menla Mountain Retreat: (845) 688-6897; www.menla.org. Dreaming Goddess: (845) 473-2206; www.dreaminggoddess.com.

The Natural Gourmet Cookery School For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of

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healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural foods Industry.

With the growing awareness of the effect that food has on health and well-being, there is a great demand for culinary professionals who can prepare food that is not only beautiful and delicious, but health-supportive as well. Our comprehensive Chef’s Training Program, the only one of its kind in the world, offers preparation for careers in health spas and restaurants, bakeries, private cooking, catering, teaching, consulting, food writing and a variety of entrepreneurial pursuits. Please browse our website to see how much we can offer you!

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This year, give your debit card a rest by learning to make fabulous cuisine at home. The experts from The Culinary Institute of America will show you how—in fun, hands-on Taste of CIA Cookbooks classes like Gourmet Meals in Minutes, Baking at Home, and The Italian Table. Come spend a Saturday at the CIA!

1-888-693-1062 www.ciachef.edu/enthusiasts 1946 Campus Drive | Hyde Park, NY

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CIA BOOT CAMP: FOR THE CULINARY ADVENTURER IN YOU If one day just isn’t enough to satisfy your culinary appetite, how about a multiday CIA Boot Camp program? You’ll experience the excitement, camaraderie, and creative satisfaction of the professional kitchen as you take your cooking and baking skills to the next level.

inking a screen in Laureen Griffen's "Fabric Printing with Dye" workshop at women's studio workshop in rosendale earlier this Summer.

Museum Village

An eclectic collection of 19th c. artifacts in a bucolic village setting.

Special Exhibits: Wind Steam Gasoline Restored Mastodon

Open 7/6 – 8/29, Tues. – Sun. 11-6

Special Events:

8/1 Firehouse Day 8/8 Little Houses: Laura Ingalls Wilder 9/4 – 5 Civil War Era Weekend

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Add a Splash of Color Brighten up your free time and express your creative self by taking advantage of any of the multitude of nearby arts programs. Whatever your chosen method of artistic expression, there is a place to unleash your creativity. Paint, in connection with nature, at the Wallkill River School of Art, located in Montgomery. The Woodstock School of Art offers classes, lasting consecutive days or meeting weekly, in an array of topics including artistic anatomy, pose drawing, and sculpture. Learn painting techniques and about the versatility of mediums at R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston or enhance your photographic skills through lectures and workshops at the Center for Photography in Woodstock. Mill Street Loft and the Barrett Art Center, both in Poughkeepsie, will collaborate in the offering of various art courses this fall. Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale provides classes in papermaking, printmaking, book arts, photography, and ceramics.Wallkill River School of Art: (845) 457-2787; www.wallkillriver.school.com. Woodstock School of Art (845) 679-3802; www.woodstockschoolofart.org. R&F Handmade Paints; (845) 331-3112; www.rfpaints.com. Mill Street Loft: (845) 471-7477; www.millstreetloft. org. Barrett Art Center: (845) 471-2550; www.barrettartcenter.org. Center for Photography Woodstock: (845) 679-9957; www.cpw.org.Women’s Studio Workshops: (845) 658-9133; www.wsworkshop.org.

business directory Accommodations Hampton Inn 1307 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 382-2600; fax (845) 382-2700 www.kingston.hamptoninn.com ramona.vazquez@hilton.com

Holiday Inn Express 2750 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-1151 www.hiexpress.com/poughkeepsie

The Green Wave: Sustainability & Found Object Exhibition-The Ann Street Gallery’s newest exhibition The Green Wave, runs through to August 7, 2010. In this exhibition, ten artists: David Borenstein, Rik Catlow, Deborah Colotti, David Edgar, Janice Gordon, Brooke Holve, Julie Kornblum, Todd Knopke, Patianne Stevenson, and Stuart Wagner work to communicate new meanings and interpretations about sustainability.

Back Door Studio

Rhinecliff Hotel

9 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3660 sydhap@aol.com

4 Grinnell Street, Rhinecliff, NY (845) 876-0590 www.therhinecliff.com

Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries

Shaker Meadows 14209 Route 22, Canaan, NY (518) 794-9385 www.shakermeadows.com

Alternative Energy (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com

Solar Generation (845) 679-6997 www.solargeneration.net

Animal Sanctuaries Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary 35 Van Wagner, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org

Antiques Louis J. Dianni Antique Marine Art West Point, NY (914) 474-7710 www.LouisJDianni.com

Mystery Spot Antiques 72 Main Street, Phoencia, NY (845) 688-7868 www.mysteryspotantiques.com info@mysteryspotantiques.com

Appliances Custom Overhead Doors 248 Route 295, Chatham, NY (518) 392-4443 www.customdoors.com

Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@safe-harbors.org

Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org Founded in 1977, CPW, an artist-centered space dedicated to photography and related media, offers year-round exhibitions, weekend and multi-week workshops, lectures, access to traditional and digital photography workspaces, a monthly photographers’ salon, film/ video screenings, and much more.

Columbia County Council on the Arts 209 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 671-6213 www.artscolumbia.org

Country Gallery 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684

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

9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100 www.nrm.org

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org A multi-arts center offering a range of educational programs for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Millbrook and Red Hook. Programs include the awardwinning Dutchess Arts Camps (building self-esteem through the arts for ages 4-14); Art Institute (pre-college portfolio development program); art classes, workshops, and outreach programs for economically disadvantaged urban youth.

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

Omi International Arts Center 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY www.artomi.org

Beverages

One Mile Gallery

Esotec

475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2035 www.onemilegallery.com

(845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 24 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, iced coffees, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

Root 52 Gallery 87 Mill Street, Liberty, NY (845) 295-3052 www.root52.com

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum

Book Publishers Custom Artist Books (203) 431-4381 or (860) 354-1118 www.customartistbooks.com Roysco@aol.com

Artisans Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us

Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock

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.

DC Studios 21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200 www.dcstudiosllc.com

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Mass MoCA 87 Marshall Street, North Adams, MA (413) MoCA-111 www.massmoca.org

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Auto Sales & Services Performance Motors 1401 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY www.performanceon9.com (845) 297-5500

Ruge’s Subaru Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7074 www.rugessubaru.com

Banks

23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.

Oblong Books & Music 6422 Montgomery Street, (Route 9), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 26 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3797 www.oblongbooks.com

Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603, (845) 373-8309, (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com

Ulster Savings Bank

N & S Supply

(866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com

www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

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Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc.

199 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1600 www.bire.org info@bire.org

Beauty Supply

Norman Rockwell Museum

Williams Lumber & Home Centers 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

Clothing & Accessories Christina Faraj —The Bra Fit Expert www.thebrafitexpert.com

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

Dream in Plastic 177 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.dreaminplastic.com

Echo Boutique 470 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0047 echoboutique@optonline.net

Jacqueline 478 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1737

Sorella Woodstock, NY (845) 684-5074

jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.

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 For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural Foods Industry.

Equestrian Services Frog Hollow Farm Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

Horse Leap LLC 3315 Route 343, Amenia, NY (845) 789-1177 www.horseleap.com

Events

Swagg Central 728 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-6975

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White Rice 531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500 306 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 644-9200

Collaborative Workspace Beahive Kingston 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 418-3731 www.beahivekingston.com bzzz@beahivebeacon.com

Computer Services Blue Screen Repair (845) 594-7924 www.bluescreenpcrepair.com eric@bluescreenpcrepair.com

Consignment Shops Past ‘n’ Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

The Present Perfect 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939 Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles,

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Art Studio Views Northern Dutchess County, NY www.artsnortherndutchess.org/asv

Artists’ Soapbox Derby Kingston, NY www.artistsoapboxderby.com

EMPAC at Rensselaer Troy, NY (518) 276-3921 www.empac.rpi.edu

Hudson Valley Wine Festival

Financial Advisors

Quail Hollow Events P.O. Box 825, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8087 or (845) 246-3414 www.quailhollow.com The WOODSTOCK-NEW PALTZ ART & CRAFTS FAIR returns to the Ulster County Fairgrounds this Labor Day Weekend for its 29th anniversary year. In addition to the juried exhibition area, Specialty foods & healthcare products, this fall’s show will feature two new vibrant demonstrations in Windsor chair constructions & leather handbag making. The expanded food court will be continued for the Fall show. Discounts & details at www. quailhollow.com.

Queens Galley www.thequeensgalley.org

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

Gardening & Garden Supplies Maple Lane Nursery 3025 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-7677

Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens 389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 www.NDBGonline.com

The Warwick Valley Jazz Festival

Graphic Design

Warwick, NY www.warwickvalleyjazzfest.com

Watershed Agricultural Center www.buypurecatskills.com

Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

Hair Salons

Farm Markets & Natural Food Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 Route 21C, Ghent (Harlemville), NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Certied Biodynamic/organic artisanal bread, pastries, cheese, yogurt and sauerkraut all made on our Biodynamic farm. PLUS local produce, farm raised meat & more!

Adams Fairacre Farms 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845)569-0303 www.adamsfarms.com

Harvest Spirits

Allure 12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com

Androgyny 5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620

Casa Urbana Boutique and Salon 525 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2690 www.CUHudson.com

Cheri Voss 102 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2138

Dennis Fox Salon

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

6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777 dennisfoxsalon@yahoo.com

(413) 243-0745 www.jacobspillow.org

Kingston Farmers’ Market

Shapers

Locust Grove — The Samuel Morse Historic Site

Historic Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 853-8512 www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com

4 North Manheim Blvd., New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3355

(845) 454-4500 www.lgny.org

Mother Earth’s Store House

(888) 687-2517 www.hudsonvalleywinefest.com

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Magical Egypt: A Symbolist Tour with John Anthony West 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 334-8600 x107 www.JAWest.com jason@chronogram.com

New Paltz Chamber of Commerce — The 350 Project SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0243 www.the350project.net www.newpaltzchamber.org

Olana State Historic Site Partnership (518) 828-1872 www.olana.org

Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Phoenica, NY (888) 214-3063 www.phoeniciavoicefest.com

440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 804 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614. www.motherearthstorehouse.com

Your image is our passion. We are a full-service artistic salon for men and women. We have a wide selection of salon products such as Goldwell, privé, Aveda, Brazilian Blowout and KMS. Appointments recommended.

Shear Intensity 5455 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-4074 www.shearintensityhairsalon.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!

Studio One Hair Design

Sunflower Natural Foods Market

101 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1575

75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com Since 1978, Your source for organic and local, farm fresh produce, eggs, dairy products, bulk coffee, rice, beans, granolas, teas, all natural body & skin care, supplements, homeopathy. And so much more!

246 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5505 www.studioonehairdesign.com

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Home Furnishings & Decor Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@verizon.net

Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Newly expanded store. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets, Balouchi tribal kilims, Russian sumaks, antique Caucasian carpets, silk Persian sumaks, Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’ x 12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.

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

Hammertown Barn Pine Plains, Rhinebeck, NY and Great Barrington, MA www.hammertown.com

Lili and Loo 259 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-9492 www.liliandloo.com

Lounge High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 Hudson, NY (518) 822-0113 www.loungefurniture.com

Marigold Home Interiors 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0800 www.marigold-home.com

64 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-7213 www.tenderlandhome.com

Insurance Carter MGM Insurance 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-1500 www.cartermgm.com

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

Webjogger (845) 757-4000 www.webjogger.net

Italian Specialty Products La Bella Pasta (845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts

2 Fairway Drive, Pawling, NY (845) 855-8899 Walk into a world of natural wonder: amethyst caves and crystal spheres, orbs of obsidian, azurite, septarian, chrysocolla --- to name a few; museum-quality mineral ores, and sculptures of breath-taking beauty. PLUS a gallery of wearable art: Navajo necklaces of turquoise and coral, pendants and bracelets of moldavite, tektite, and meteorite; an array of Baltic amber in all its hues: honey, lemon, butterscotch, cognac — fashioned into jewelry that makes a statement. From amethyst to zirconium, Earthlore offers an awesome display of Nature’s Artistry. Open Thurs, Fri, Sat 11-5:30, Sun 11- 3 and by appointment.

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Hummingbird Jewelers 23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com hummingbirdjewelers@hotmail.com

Newburgh Artisans 87 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 565-7540

Give us a call to discuss your vision.

We have the experience and skill to build the court you’ve been dreaming of. In our second generation with over 40 years experience, we specialize in driveways, parking lots, tennis courts, and private roads, all built to last. Call today for a complimentary consultation.

Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com

residential & commercial

518.479.1400 / 518.794.0490

Landscaping

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Bamboo for sale Contact Mark: (845) 677-0484 innergarden@aol.com

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Is bamboo for you? It makes a great barrier, ChronoTennis.indd grove, or container subject, indoors or out. Great theme plant for events. New shoots are edible. Lush, soothing foliage. Sculptural stems have many uses. Once established, it spreads, but can be contained. Being native to cold regions, it’s right at home in our winters. Deer don’t eat it. People of all ages love it. We sell bamboo, decorate with it, and service existing bamboo plantings.

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Coral Acres — Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634

Fox Stonework — Christopher Layman, Stonescape Artist (518) 731-6804 foxstone.weebly.com foxstonework@gmail.com

L. Browe Asphalt Services (518) 794-0490 www.broweasphalt.com (518) 479-1400

ninebark, llc (845) 758-4184 www.ninebarkllc.com info@ninebarkllc.com

Seed and Stone Landscape Creations (518) 929-7544

Mediators

Dreaming Goddess

Hudson Valley Mediators

9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

Rhinebeck & Poughkeepsie (845) 876-6100 Kingston & Highland (845) 338-9638 www.hudsonvalleymediators.com

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Networking

Printing Services

Hudson Valley Green Drinks

Dog Love, LLC

Fast Signs

(845) 454-6410 www.hvgreendrinks.org

240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com

1830 Route 9, Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455

Personal hands-on boarding and daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised play groups in 40x40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats.

Mailing Works/Fountain Press

Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce 23F East Market Street, P.O. Box 42, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5904 www.rhinebeckchamber.com info@rhinebeckchamber.com Professional business membership organization comprised of approximately 400 members. Benefits include monthly networking events, newsletter subscription, referrals, group insurance, business directory listing, website listing and link. Affordable advertising available.

Performing Arts Bard College Public Relations Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu

Bardavon Opera House

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Pet Services & Supplies

Gina’s K-9 B&B 349 Farm Road, Copake, NY (518) 329-4675

Millbrook, NY (845) 677-6112 www.themailingworks.com Amenia, NY (845) 373-8800 www.fountainpress.com

Recreation

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B

Catamount Ski Area

(845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com

Route 23, Hillsdale, NY (518) 325-3200 www.catamountski.com www.catamounttrees.com

The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! B&B for cats, with individual rooms at a lower cost than caged boarding. Full house/pet/plant sitting service, proudly serving 3 counties in the Hudson Valley. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets. Thank you Hudson Valley for entrusting ALL your pets and homes to us since 1971. Bonded and insured.

Sky Acres Airport 30 Airway Drive, LaGrangeville, NY (845) 677-5010 www.skyacresairport.com

Steiner’s Sports 301 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-5063 steinersskibike.com

35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org

Dmitri Belyi

Undermountain Golf Course

Bearsville Theater

rawpixelz@gmail.com

291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com

Fionn Reilly Photography

274 Undermountain Road, Copake, NY (518) 329-4444 www.undermountaingolf.com service@undermountaingolf.com

Belleayre Music Festival Route 28, Highmount, NY (800) 942-6904 ext.1344 www.belleayremusic.com

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Route 17, exit 104, Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org

Mac-Haydn Theatre 1925 Route 203, Chatham, NY (518) 392-9292 www.machaydntheatre.org

Maverick Concerts 120 Mavervick Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8217 www.MaverickConcerts.org

Shandaken Theatrical Society 10 Church Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-2279 www.stsplayhouse.com

WAMC — The Linda 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 ext. 4 www.thelinda.org

Weekend Rock Gods (518) 331-7249 www.weekendrockgods.com thor@weekendrockgods.com We’re not your average rock n’ roll party band. We are a real rock band- not a wedding band in disguise, playing the best of rock/soul/new wave at an affordable price. Want to be a Rock God too? Come sing or jam with us at your next party! Oh yeah.

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Photography

1534 Route 212, Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com

Michael Gold The Corporate Image Photo Studio, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.mgphotoman.com Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, executives, business, special event, wedding and web photography. Complete digital studio facilities and lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional. Lovable, too. Unconditionally guaranteed.

Photographics Solutions (518) 929-7378 www.PhotographicsSolution.com molinski@msn.com

Photosensualis 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7995 www.photosensualis.com

Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

Undermountain is one of the best maintained golf courses in the Copake Roe Jan area, with a nine-hole executive yardage course which offers alternate tees for a back nine. The small and meticulously maintained greens and narrow fairways offer a challenging layout for the accomplished golfer, yet are non-threatening to the novice. Players of all levels will enjoy Undermountain’s beauty and serenity

Schools Academy of Christian Leadership (518) 784-2222 www.ACLonline

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org www.ecostudies.org/events.html

Center for the Digital Arts / Westchester Community College Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill peekskill@sunywcc.edu

Dutchess Community College Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 431-8000 www.sunydutchess.edu

Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care 1723 Route 9W, West Park, NY (845) 255-0013 www.HVSMassageTherapy.com (845) 691-2547 www.HVSAesthetics.com

Institute for Integrative Nutrition (877) 730-5444 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com

Mount Saint Mary College 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, NY www.msmc.edu

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School 16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org

Oakwood Friends School 22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-4200 x245 www.oakwoodfriends.org

Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org

Randolph School Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org

Storm King School Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-9860 www.sks.org admissions@sks.org

SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3872 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

The Graduate Institute 171 Amity Road, Bethany, CT (203) 874-4252 www.learn.edu Info@learn.edu

Trinity-Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org

Shoes Pegasus Comfort Footwear 27 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 256-0788 and (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com

Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393 www.mistersnacks.com steve@mistersnacks.com

Supermarkets Ginsberg’s Cash & Carry Store Hudson, NY (518) 828-4004 www.ginsbergs.com

Otto’s Market 215 Main Street, Germantown, NY (518) 537-7200 www.ottosmarket.com info@ottosmarket.com

Tailors

Wine & Liquor

Michelle Garesché

In Good Taste

275 Fair Street, Suite 17b, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0864 www.michellegaresche.com

45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net

Tattoos

Workshops

SkinFlower Tattoo

Honeybee Lives

Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-3166 www.skinflower.org

www.honeybeelives.org

Thrift Stores

Playshops for Women — Meg Costa Gardiner, NY (845) 256-8248

The Second Show Inc.

R & F Handmade Paints

519 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2990

84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (800) 206-8088 www.rfpaints.com info@rfpaints.com

Tourism Columbia County Tourism (800) 724-1846 www.columbiacountytourism.org

Museum Village 1010 Route 17M, Monroe, NY (845) 782-8248 www.museumvillage.org

Philmont Beautification, Inc.

Town Tinker Tube Rental Bridge Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5553 www.towntinker.com

Toys & Games The Parent Teacher Store 63 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1442 515 Troy Schenectady Road, Latham, NY (518) 785-6272 2600 South Rd, Route 9, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 559-0037

Web Design icuPublish www.icupublish.com mtodd@icupublish.com

Weddings HudsonValleyWeddings.com 120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWeddings.com www.HudsonValleyBaby.com www.HudsonValleyBabies.com www.HudsonValleyChildren.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, and online Wedding Guide. Hundreds of weddingrelated professionals. Regional Bridal Show schedule, links, wed shop, vendor promotions, specials, and more. Call or e-mail for information about adding your wedding-related business.

Wallkill Valley Writers New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7090 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khamherstwriters@aol.com

SALES 8am - 8pm Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm Saturdays

SERVICE 8am - 7pm Monday - Friday 8am - 3pm Saturdays

845.876.7074 rugessubaru.com 6444 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY 12572

WVW workshops provide writers — time to practice, solitude writing in the company of writers, safety and confidentiality, each unique voice honored, honest and supportive feedback. Weekly workshops (10 week sessions) and Write Saturdays (whole day workshops). Hudson Valley Writers Guild Contest for Short Fiction - 2010: This year’s contest is in short fiction. Winners and Honorable Mentions will be awarded cash prizes and invited to read their winning story at a special Guild program in the fall of 2010 or the winter of 2011. Deadline: August 31, 2010.

Writing Services CENTER TO PAGE: moving writers from the center to the page (845) 679-9441 www.centertopage.com Our small team works with writers nationwide‚ memoirists, scholars, novelists, and people seeking to develop an authentic writing practice. We mentor, edit, ghostwrite, and more. Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.

Peter Aaron www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org Your work deserves ATTENTION!! Chronogram music editor and AP award-winning journalist Peter Aaron can deliver a great, customcomposed bio for your press kit or web site. General copy editing and proofreading services (academic and term papers), and consultations also available. Reasonable rates.

Maria R Mendoza NYS Certified Interior Designer summer sale through aug. 15th Also

FuRnituRe SaMple Sale! Furniture & home decor • Decorative interior moldings Indoor and outdoor lighting • Wallcoverings Reupholstery • Window shades and custom draperies • Area rugs Outdoor furnishings • Custom framing • Mirrors and clocks Tabletop and accessories...plus lots of gift items! 747 Route 28, Kingston NY 12401 | 845-338-0800 | Open 7 days Located 3.5 miles west of NYS Thruway Exit 19

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R & F has been internationally recognized as the leader in manufacturing high quality Encaustic Paint and Pigment Sticks for over twenty-two years. R & F’s ongoing workshop, demonstration and exhibition programs have introduced thousands of artists to these exciting mediums. The Gallery at R & F continues to offer bi-monthly exhibits of wax and oil-based artworks from around the world. Stop in for a tour of the factory and visit the Gallery and the Factory Store. Workshops are offered year-round.

Photography and Styling Dmitri Belyi rawpixelz@gmail.com

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at utility canvas, Models Kristina Valts (reclining) and Valerie Cascino (standing). Makeup by Zuleika Hasbrouck for Lovelei Cosmetics. Kristina’s outfit: utility canvas Long sleeve button down in olive and pleated skirt in honey. valerie’s outfit: utility canvas Shirred shirtcoat in brown diamonds.

In Season

Autumn Fashion and Beauty From Head to Toe By Kelley Granger photos by Kelly Merchant

he Los Angeles Times has heralded the upcoming season’s look as a “new era of clean minimalism.” Simple elegance and natural style will be welcome news for those who prefer a less fussy approach to fashion and beauty. While Stella McCartney and Chloe may have ushered this fresh period in with runway shows in major cities, the Hudson Valley’s host of talented designers, makeup artists, and other beauty and clothing experts haven’t been idle themselves. Functional Fashion Take Jillian Grano, proprietor of Utility Canvas and a new line, Archerie, for instance. “Right now we’re riding the wave of people wanting things that are practical and functional and not frivolous,” she says. “Our clothes are enjoying the popularity of that right now, though we think that’s important all the time.” While many will think of canvas—sturdy yet soft and linenlike—as classic and

preppy, Grano says the goal of Utility Canvas has been to provide a modern take on the material and provide comfort and function in pieces that are still stylish. Shoppers can ride this clean-edges wave from summer right into the fall with a shirred shirt dress, available in red and white with contrasting stitching and a button-down front. Grano says the dress is a great transitional piece for this time of year—you can finish out the summer bare-legged and then when a chill sets in, use the dress as a lightweight coat. She also recommends Utility Canvas’s quilted outerwear, particularly the natural cream-colored version, which will be a popular color choice for fall. As much of a staple as Utility Canvas has become for the people who’ve inspired its look—the gardeners, artists, and creatives of the Hudson Valley—there are just come things you can’t quite pull off with canvas. With that in mind, Grano in 2009 launched Archerie, a new line of dresses that provides a polished look 8/10 ChronograM beauty + fashion 89

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top: Model Ashara Perkins, with Makeup by Zuleika Hasbrouck for Lovelei Cosmetics. Clothing provided and styled by Kelly Merchant. BOTTOM: Model Heather Prime, with Hair and makeup by Marlene Weber using Aveda products. Clothing provided and styled by Kelly Merchant.

suitable for an office or a night out while still maintaining a sense of practicality. For example, the line’s new collared shirtwaist dress is made of an organic merino wool jersey that’s machine washable. Browse through the fall line full of tweed, herringbone, and A-lines, and you might find a common thread style-wise—each outfit seems to hearken back to a time when women wore dresses 24/7. That nostalgic thought is the basis of Archerie, and with shows like “Mad Men” reviving such elegant styles, Grano is expecting to see a lot more of these looks this fall.The look will be defined by what she calls the “feminine silhouette.” “They reference the female body but they’re not exposing your body,” Grano says. “You might think that when it’s conservative it’s not exciting, but these shapes can be exciting and show a lot about women without having to be racy or sexy. They just kind of are inherently because they bring out the feminine form as opposed to being overly strong.”

WIGS, COSTUMES, BEAUTY SUPPLIES Wigs, Hairpieces, Attachments Makeup, Hair, Skin & Nail Care Products

66 North Front Street Kingston, NY 12401

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Private Labels One of the things about buying clothing that comes from local designers is that it’s most likely been designed with you in mind. So is the case with Mary Vaughn Williams of White Rice, whose private-label line ideas are fueled by the people she sees shopping in Hudson and Great Barrington, where her stores are located. According to her, one big fashion idea this fall is the short skirt, which can be worn with bare legs or a bit more modestly with a pair of opaque tights. One of Williams’ favorites right now is the parachute skirt from her White Rice line. Available in short, midcalf, and long lengths, the skirt’s textured parachute material scrunches up at both sides. With a variety of dress styles and wrap silhouettes slated to hit her shelves, Williams is also excited about the shoes that she’ll be carrying, most notably the ankle boots that she says will be popular this fall and pair well with the aforementioned fashions or with a tucked-in skinny jean. According to Fashion Institute of Technology graduate and professional tailor Michelle Garesche and Paul de Marchin, owner of the boutique de Marchin in

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1955 South Rd. • PoughkeePSie, NY 12601 845.297.1684

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Dennis Fox Salon Hair ∙ Nails 6400 Montgomery Street, 2nd floor above the Rhinebeck Dept. Store

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C lassiCal a CupunCture & C hinese h erbs dylana accolla m.s.,l.ac. 19 years of experience – Trained in China Fertility Specialist & Hormone Balancing Auto-immune issues Chronic degenerative illness Ravages of Stress

daccolla@gmail.com 303 Fair Street, 2nd floor, Kingston, New York 12401 845.853.7353

Art Therapy Deep Clay New Paltz/Gardiner and Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading expressive healing sessions. Women’s art group “Dreamfigures.” Child play therapy. Psychotherapy and grief counseling, individuals and couples. Workplace/agency/ in-school/ inhospital expressive therapy workshops. Publication: “Getting the Inside Out” in Speaking about the Unspeakable, Dennis McCarthy editor.

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

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ments in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. If you need help feeling vibrant call or e-mail for a consultation.

Crystals and Gifts Crystals & Well-Being Center 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, NY (845) 888-2547 www.thecrystalscenter.com crystalscenter@gmail.com Come! Be WOWed by the Power and Beauty of our SPIRITUAL SPACE. See! Feel! Experience amazing CRYSTALS, HEALING tools, art jewelry, beads and so much more... Consult our ENERGY healers, teachers, readers who can help with "past lives", "the here-now", "drama", and "emotional blocks". Join the community that cares!

Notions-N-Potions 175 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-2410 www.notions-n-potions.com

Clairvoyant Beauty (888) 758-1270 www.clairvoyantbeauty.com

Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com

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Primp Beauty Lounge 88 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6869

Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/ healing approaches, including Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women.

Counseling IONE — Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org

John M. Carroll H ,T ,S C EALER

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“ John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last eight years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen.” —Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now “ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.” —Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations

Massage and Acupuncture also available with Liz Menendez See John’s website for schedules of upcoming classes and events

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IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. Appointments sign up at: www.instantscheduling.com/sch.php?kn=128796.

Dentistry & Orthodontics Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com HOLISTIC ORTHODONTICS: I believe in expansion and gentle forces, not extraction, not heavy pressure. When you lose teeth, you loose bone, and the face is affected. As people age, the lower face recedes; therefore, treatment of children must consider how age changes the face. I offer early treatment for children to help growth and development and to avoid extraction of permanent teeth. Holistic orthodontics considers the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on the individual’s health. At every treatment, I do cranial adjustments to help create balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign. We treat children, teenagers, and adults. Insurance accepted. Payment plans available.

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

Fitness Trainers Stephanie Blayer Woodstock & Manhattan, NY bleyer@gmail.com

Healing Centers Chatham Holistic Healing Arts

CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner

3 Railroad Avenue, Chatham, NY (518) 392-3339 www.chathamholistichealingarts.com

Holistic Health

New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com

John M Carroll

Headaches? TMJ? Insomnia? Pain? Brain trauma? Depression? CranioSacral is a gentle approach that can create dramatic improve-

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

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

Nancy Plumer, One Light Healing Touch Energy Healing and Mystery School High Falls/Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net Energy Healing and Mystery School is for those seeking personal growth/transformation and for all healthcare practitioners/healers. Based in Esoteric, Shamanic and Holistic practices and includes 33 techniques for healing oneself and working with others. Increase your health, intuition, creativity, joy and spiritual connection. NYSNA/NCVRMB CEUs. Enroll now. School begins Oct. 1st. Introductory weekends are August 7-8 in NYC, August 14-15 and September 4-5 in Stone Ridge, NY. Call for a brochure.

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org

Hospitals (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org

Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.health-quest.org

Vassar Brothers Medical Center 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org

Dr. Kristen Jemiolo Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2

Hypnosis Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity and address other issues. Change Your Outlook. Gain Control. Make Healthier Choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.

Integrated Kabbalistic Healing Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introduc-

Massage Therapy Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).

Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage — Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Vesa Byrnes, LMT 7 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 hvtmassage@gmail.com Do you have chronic neck, back or shoulder problems? Headaches? Numbness or tingling? Or do you just need to relax? Utilizing a blend of soft tissue therapies, we can help you resume the activities you need to do and love to do with freedom from discomfort and pain.

Jesse Scherer, LMT New Paltz, Kingston and NYC, NY (914) 466-1517 www.Catskillmountainmassage.com Jessemassage@gmail.com Jesse delivers sessions based on the client's individualized needs, addressing injury rehabilitation, muscular stagnation, flexibility, and stiffness due to lyme and other chronic illness, as well as relaxation and restorative massage. Utilizing Neuromuscular and other Specific Deep Tissue Techniques; with strength and precision Jesse supports the bodies natural inclination to move from a place of strain and fatigue to its preferred state of flexibility, suppleness and integrity. Also: Maya Abdominal Therapy, Sports Massage, Medical Massage. Some Insurances Accepted.

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products.

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

Mind/Body/Spirit Healing ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH inTernaTiOnal energy Healing & MySTery ScHOOl enrOll nOW! rosendale School begins October 1st!

Ideal for all those desiring personal growth and healthcare professionals. Learn 33 Shamanic, Esoteric and Holistic techniques for healing others and a variety of practices that increase your health, creativity, joy and spiritual awareness (NYSNA and National Massage Board CEus available).

Self-Healing with One ligHT Healing TOucH evenings

Release stress, strengthen your immune system and open to your healing ability. Class runs 1 1/2 hours. Stone Ridge, Woodstock, Warwick, Cornwall on Hudson, Port Ewen, Palenville, NYC, Call for times and locations.

acceSS yOur Healing pOTenTial Weekend

Participants will learn grounding and clearing techniques, six self-healing practices—meditation, visualization, sound work, breath work, movement, and sacred ceremony, techniques for healing others and a nine-point healer protocol for working with others in an empowering way. Dates: August 7 & 8 - NYC August 14 & 15 - Stone Ridge, NY September 4 & 5 - Stone Ridge, NY Cost: $295 register early and save $50

Call for info, sessions or a brochure Nancy Plumer 845–687–2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com

Holistic Orthodontics in a Magical Setting

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tory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.

Fixed Braces Functional Appliances ∙ Invisalign Sleep Apnea Appliances Cranial Adjustments at every visit Children and Adults Insurance Accepted ∙ Payment Plans Rhoney Stanley CertAcup, RD, DDS, MPH 107 Fish Creek Road | Saugerties, NY 12477 2 miles from NYS87 exit 20 0.5 miles from 212 845-246-2729 | 212-912-1212 (cell) www.holisticortho.com rhoney.stanley@gmail.com

High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts Acupuncture Chinese Herbal Medicine Tuina Diet Therapy Exercise Therapy

Menopause Treatment Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Helping women to move through the process of menopause with ease. A unique blend of healing modalities, nutrition and self-care techniques are utilized to help you to become

Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac., Dipl. C.H. Diplomate in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine (NCCAOM) 87 East Market St. Suite 102 Red Hook, NY 845-758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com 8/10 ChronograM whole living directory 103

balanced through this transition. If you need assistance becoming your vibrant self call or e-mail for a consultation.

Midwifery Womanway 1081 High Falls Road, Catskill, NY (518) 678-3154 www.midwifejennahouston.com womanway@aol.com 35 years experience as holistic, out of hospital, homebirth midwife. NYS licensed and certified. 100 mi radius from Catskill NY, serves informed committed women who desire homebirth services.

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Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.

845.255.6482

Pharmacy Dermasave Labs, Inc. 3 Charles Street, Suite 4, Pleasant Valley, NY (800) 277-7099 dermasavelabs@aol.com

Medical Arts Pharmacy 37 North Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-DRUG

37 North Plank Rd. Newburgh, NY 12550 Free delivery & pick up Phone 845-561-DRUG

Amy R. Frisch, LCSW New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229

Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.

Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933

7 Grand Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-1667 www.yourhometownpediatrician.com

New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com

Psychics Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com

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Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well

Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semiprivate apparatus sessions available.

www.zweigtherapy.com

Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-doctoral candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunities available for intensive psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Hometown Pediatrician

692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com

julieezweig@gmail.com

Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023

Physicians

Conscious Body Pilates

New Paltz, New York • (845) 255-3566

Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D.

Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

Pilates

Imago Relationship Therapy

Psychologists

Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice helping people heal and grow individually and in community. Janne specializes in healing childhood trauma, recovery from addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR, and Brainspotting. Bi-weekly workshops on Mindful Parenting and Living Serenity at the Sanctuary, New Paltz. Newsletter sign up on website. FB page: Janne Dooley|Psychotherapy|Mindfulness| Hudson Valley|LI|NY.

Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613

Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com

Spiritual

Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com I work with adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disordered behaviors, loneliness and life transitions. I’ve helped teens and adults with substance abuse and trauma connected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. My approach is psychodynamic, linking the painful past with current and cognitive problems which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.

Residential Care Always There Home Care (845) 339-6683 www.alwaystherehomecare.org

Mountain Valley Manor Adult Home 397 Wilbur Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1254 www.mountainvalleymanor.com

Resorts & Spas

Flowing Spirit Healing 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com Jwalzer@flowingspirit.com

Emerson Resort & Spa (877) 688-2828 www.emersonresort.com

Marlene Weber Day Spa 751 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5852 www.marleneweber.com

Retreat Centers Gangaji-Hudson Valley Silent Retreat Garrison, NY (800) 267-9205 www.gangaji.org

Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change, in a monastery overlooking the Hudson River. August 14-19: CARE for Teachers: Garrison Institute’s 3rd Annual Teachers’ Summer Retreat. August 20-26: 5th Annual Focusing Institute Summer School.

individuals/couples/groups in person & by phone

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Structural Integration

Joel Walzer Spiritual Healer, Pathwork Helper & Channel 845.679.8989 33 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock

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Charles Ruland Woodstock, NY (845)532-1323 www.rolf.pro zber@hotmail.com Dr. Rolf Method of Structural Integration is a series of myofascial sessions designed to balance your body in gravity, improve posture and release long held tension in your body and mind. Charles Ruland NYS LMT since 1983, Structural Bodywork since 1986, Cert. Zero Balancing Teacher, Cert. BodyMind Practitioner.

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Yoga Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org

Yoga Nude in Albany Albany County, NY (518) 577-8172 www.yoganudeinalbany.com yoganudeinalbany@yahoo.como A Healing Modality... Transcend body & mind. Transcend societal & religious negativity around the body. Experience your sensual self with naked bodies flowing in movement ignited by their ujjaji breathes. Private sessions for couples or individuals.

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The new Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa resides in the heart of the historic artists colony of Woodstock NY, nestled in the famed Catskill Mountains ski and summer resort region. Aspects Gallery provides a unique and exclusive sensual retreat with two private luxury two bedroom apartments conjoined to a 2000 sq. ft. cedar and glass enclosed climate controlled spa with 40' saline pool, 64 jet jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna. Enjoy a leisurely poolside bar brunch or order an organic gourmet candlelight dinner prepared by your host French chef Lio Magat – sommelier for famed international chef Paul Bocuse. Bienvenue et bon appetit!

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Belleayre Mountain Rt. 28, Highmount, NY (800) 942-6904, ext. 1344 e-m: festival@catskill.net www.belleayremusic.org

Sat. Jul. 31 8pm

Regina Carter's "Reverse Thread"

Fri. Aug. 6 8pm

John Scofield/ Joe Lovano Quartet

Sat. Aug. 7 8pm Sat. Aug. 14 8pm

Patti Austin “For Ella” America— the 40th Anniversary Tour

Sat. Aug. 21 8pm

“The Day the Music Died”

Music of Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens

Sat. Aug. 28 8pm

Festival Opera

Rossini’s Cinderella

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FREE Children’s Opera

“Three Little Pigs” Aaron Neville Quintet featuring Charles Neville

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Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys will perform at the Bethel Woods Bluegrass Jamboree on August 22.

Catskill Mountain Breakdown There are some historical tidbits that might give pause to even the most hard-core bluegrass fanatics. Though the form is to many the quintessential white American music, originated by mountain folk from the Southeast, the real story of its genesis is not so simple. Let’s start with the banjo, perhaps the signature bluegrass instrument. A direct descendent of the five-stringed African halam, the banjo was actually first brought to America by slaves before it was eventually taken up by white minstrel performers and early country musicians. And while bluegrass’s roots in the Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and English traditions of Southern mountaineers are fairly obvious, the music is really a synthesis of those Anglo-derived folk styles and black American jazz and blues; the great Bill Monroe, for example, the man commonly cited as the architect of bluegrass, was well versed in the blues and profoundly influenced by the obscure African-American bluesman Arnold Schultz. Additionally, legend has it that ancient Ireland was colonized by the Moors or the Tuareg Berbers, which may explain the origins of the Saharan ney-like pennywhistle and the lilting, snake charmer-hinting lines of the Celtic fiddlers who helped shape bluegrass. That’s right: It’s a distinct possibility that bluegrass is descended from North African music. Mind blown yet? Well, you’ll be able to put such theories to the test on August 22, when Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, the Travelin’ McCourys and Dan Tyminski, Rhonda Vincent, and Cherryholmes play the Bethel Woods Bluegrass Jamboree. Ralph Stanley’s importance to American music can’t be overstated. With the passing of Bill Monroe in 1996 he became the living king of bluegrass, and in 2000, thanks to his Grammy-winning performances on the hit soundtrack of the film O Brother, Where Art

Thou?, experienced a late-in-life career renaissance of fairy-tale proportions (he won a second Grammy in 2003 for Best Bluegrass Album). Born in Virginia in 1927 and schooled by his mother in the clawhammer banjo technique, Ralph began performing in a duo with his late brother, Carter Stanley, with whom he formed the Clinch Mountain Boys in 1946. While mentoring future stars Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley, he’s toured the world and continues to be among bluegrass’s most influential artists, virtually defining the music’s “high lonesome” sound. Mandolinist Ron McCoury, the son of another bluegrass legend, Del McCoury, leads the Travelin’ McCourys, who’ve shared their jazz-influenced skills with Phish, Vince Gill, and the Allman Brothers. For the Bethel Woods show they’ll be joined by the great Dan Tyminski, who sang lead on O Brother, Where Art Thou?’s “Man of Constant Sorrow.” Called “the new queen of bluegrass” by the Wall Street Journal, singer and fiddler Rhonda Vincent has been named Female Bluegrass Artist of the Year for seven consecutive years by the International Bluegrass Music Association and is revered for her hard-driving, highenergy style. The sextet Cherryholmes was formed in 2001 and is one of the hottest acts on the festival circuit, releasing six albums (three on Ricky Skaggs’s Skaggs Family label) and bringing bluegrass’s Celtic lineage to the fore via interludes of Irish step dancing. The Bethel Woods Bluegrass Jamboree, featuring Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, Travelin’ McCourys and Dan Tyminski, Rhonda Vicent, and Cherryholmes, takes place at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on August 22 at 2pm. Tickets are $39, $19, and $15. (845) 292-1351; www.bethelwoodscenter.org. —Peter Aaron 8/10 ChronograM forecast 107

SUNDAY 1 Art

Metropolitan Hot Club 1pm-3pm. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Artist's Way Cluster 11am-1pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Cosi Fan Tutte 2pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

Pamela Dalton: Scherrenschnitte 3pm-5pm. Old Chatham Country Store Gallery, Old Chatham. (518) 794-6227.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 2:30pm. $19-$99. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Inner Portraits and Landscapes 4pm-6pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Franz Schreker: The Distant Sound 3pm. $25/$55/$75. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

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The Dixie Rascals 3pm. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.

Sustainability and the Sacred Call for times. Youth Summit: A Gathering for Young People (under 30). $180. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Classes Ukrainian Folk Singing Call for times. $110. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Butchery 101 Call for times. Weeklong course. Fleisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grass-Fed, Rhinebeck. 876-7507. A History and Fine Food in the Hudson River Valley Call for times. Week-long session includes classroom instruction, related field trips, appreciation of the local arts and a scenic cruise on the Hudson River. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076. Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375. Photographing the Nude in the Landscape 12pm-6pm. With Dan McCormack. Weekly through August 22. $220/$200 members/$80 model fee. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Open Level Class: Trapeze 12:15pm-2:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Events Native American Weekend with Grandmother Nancy Call for times. Multiple class and packages available. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for times. Fun, food, music, sales and activities for all ages. Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-1463.

Lara St. John, Violin 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Stephen Clair Band 5:30pm-7:30pm. Urban roots troubador. Riverfront Bandstand, Cold Spring. Steve Chizmadia 6pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Adrenaline Hayride 7:30pm. $22.50/$17.50. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Doc Watson with Richard Watson & David Holt 7:30pm. Mix of mountain music, blues and early country music. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra 7:30pm. $65-$110. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

The Outdoors Pirate 2pm. $35. Powerhouse Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.

Theater On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Call for times. $30. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902. The Marvelous Wonderettes 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Imagining Madoff 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Friends with Kids 2pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902. The Rocky Horror Show 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. A Midsummer Night's Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Open Level Class: Trapeze 5:15pm-7:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Chang and Von Oeyen: The World Tour Continues 8pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Zumba Dance Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10/$90 ten classes. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

The Dan Brother Band 8:30pm. Blues. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.

Kids

Tanglewood on Parade 8:30pm. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Camp Kindness at Catskill Animal Sanctuary 9am-2:30pm through August 6. Gardening, barn chores, vegan cooking classes, and spend plenty of quality time with the animals. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Wayfinder Experience 9am-3pm Friday, August 6. Ages 6-8. $330/$300 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Mini Movies 10am-4pm Friday, August 6. Ages 10-12. $295. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-2515. Story Hour 10:30am-11am. With face painting. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976. Cirkus Arts Summer Program 2:30pm-5pm Friday, August 6. Ages 8-11. $175. Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts, West Taghkanic. (518) 851-5501.

Music Tanglewood Vocal Fellows and Orchestra 7:30pm. $65-$110. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600. The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson 8pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Spoken Word Japanese Chat Club 6pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Workshops Historic Timber Frame Construction and Restoration 8am-6pm Thursday, August 12. $1100. Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon. (518) 794-9100. Davis & Orton Create Your Website 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Setting up a Tropical Freshwater Aquarium 6pm-7pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

TUESDAY 3 Art Viking Dragon Figureheads: Family Craft Program 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Umbrage 5pm. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music. Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150.

The Taming of the Shrew 6pm. Call for Tickets. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Callicoon Farmers' Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Our Town 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer's market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com. 1812 Johnston House Tour 1pm-4pm. Guided tour of c.1812 Federal style house. $5/$2 children. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720. Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Test 5:30pm. $20 membership fee. The Rosendale Pool, Rosendale. www.minnewaskaswimmers.org/testing.

Film Water Street Cinema Call for times. Thought provoking and enlightening films. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976. The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010.

Kids Young Actors' Summer Workshop 9am-12pm. Ages 6-12. $450. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. Young Actors' Summer Workshop 12pm-4pm. Ages 13-18. $450. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. Youth in the Outback Summer Youth Program Call for times. $35/$25 half day. Catskill Outback Adventures, Big Indian. 254-9888. Sleepaway Summer Camp Session 3 Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. The Vanaver Caravan's Summer Dance 9:30am-Friday, August 13, 3:30pm. Ages 9-teens. Vanaver Caravan, New Paltz. 256-9300.

Music Karen Davis 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Ida+The Naysayer 1pm. Mystery Spot Antiques, Phoenicia. 688-7868.

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Workshops Color, Light & Feeling Workshop Call for times. Taught by Alex and Allyson Grey. $300. CosM, Wappingers Falls. 297-2323. Archives and Ephemera: Poetry with Ronaldo Wilson Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144. Art Workshop Series Call for times. Henry Horenstein, The Unseen Landscape; Portia Munson, Scanner as Camera. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Short Fiction Intensive 1pm-4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 2 Body / Mind / Spirit Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Drumming Energy Circle 6:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. Peter Blum & the Community, Talking Stick, singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Ukrainian Folk Art: Gerdany Call for times. $60. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Ukranian Folk Art: Traditional Ritual Baking Call for times. $60. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Dances for a Variable Population 9:30am-10:30am Friday, August 6. 5 day fitness class. $70 series/$15 class. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Kids Trapeze Classes 4pm-5pm. Ages 4-11. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

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Classes Open Level Class: Trapeze 4:30pm-6:30pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

DANCE Kaatsbaan Dance Lecture:The Limon Company 6:15pm-7:45pm. Carla Maxwell and Lynn Garafola. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106; www.kaatsbaan.org.

Events Ulster County Fair 4pm-10pm. Rides, attractions, events. Carload night. $40 per car. 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. 225-1308;www.ulstercountyfair.com Go Club 4pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811. Monthly Supper Club 6:30pm. Gourmet food from field to fork with live music. $83.28. W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.

Film White Nights 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Writing Box Program 3:15pm-4:30pm. Weekly activities that will encourage children to express themselves through writing. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

The Big Takeover 9:30pm. The Blue Martini, Newburgh. 562-7111.

Spoken Word American Short Stories 4pm-5pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest: Bombitty of Errors 7pm. $34/$17 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www.hvshakespeare.org. Menopause The Musical 7:30pm. $55/$45. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Youth Project Theater Performance 7:30pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Workshops How to Talk So Kids Will Listen 10am-12pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208.

WEDNESDAY 4 Art Prehistoric Marine Life: Teen Craft Program 2:30pm-4:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Home Circle: Spirit and Anel Communication, Spirituality and Psychic Development 7pm-8:30pm. With medium Adam Bernstein. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375. Watercolor Workshop 10am-12pm. $25. Cabane Studios Fine Art Gallery and Photography, Phoenicia. 688-5490. Kids Class: Trapeze 5pm-6pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Events Ulster County Fair 10am-10pm. Rides, attractions, events. 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. 225-1308;www.ulstercountyfair.com. Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Kids Kids in the Catskills Call for times. Tie-dye t-shirts, crazy chemistry, arts & crafts. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Music Philadelphia Orchestra Call for times. With Yo Yo Ma. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Franz Schreker: The Distant Sound 3pm. $25/$55/$75. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Empire State Idol Search Open Mike 6pm-11pm. Comedians, singers, musicians, poets and rappers welcome. Mardi Bob Bowling Ally, Poughkeepsie. 471-1820. Sweet Plantain String Quartet 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com. Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra 7:30pm. $65-$110. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600. John Mayer 8pm. With special guest Train. $36-$69.50. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Fred Gillen, Jr. and Rebecca Loebe 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Theater

Music

The Taming of the Shrew 7pm. $34/$17 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Blues & Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Imagining Madoff 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Cooking with the Calamari Sisters: Mangia Italiano 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

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Michael Borrelli and Christian Jacobs star in Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's production of "Bombitty of Errors" through Labor Day at Boscobel in Garrison.

Notorious B.A.R.D. The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF) story began with a benefit production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for the Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison in 1987 organized by local actors Melissa Stern and Terrence O’Brien. After two shows in the rain, the play had to be relocated to an elementary school gym. Over two decades later, HVSF is known for its creative, spot-on direction and breathtaking Hudson Highland views at the historic Boscobel estate on the Hudson River, the backdrop for its earthen stage beneath a giant, arching tent. The festival now features multiple productions each season, the “In Process” reading series, and extensive educational outreach. The 2010 season includes three shows in repertory through September 5. “Troilus and Cressida” is a Trojan War drama; “The Taming of the Shrew” is a suitor’s comedic attempts to win a less-than-willing bride; and “Bomb-itty of Errors” is a rap version of “Comedy of Errors,” the story of the hilarious, accidental reunions of two sets of twins who were separated at birth. Instead of river valley and sunset views, “Bomb-itty”’s background is graffiti art and colored lights. In a crow’s nest above the audience a DJ spins the hip hop soundtrack. I spoke with “Bomb-itty’s” director Christopher Edwards about the irreverent show. For the full schedule and ticket prices: www.hvshakespeare.org. —Lisa Parisio How did you have the actors prepare for "Bomb-itty"? We did a lot of early work with freestyling, just getting used to the idea of finding what the rhyme is and dropping in on the rhyme. We did freestyle circles and switching up the music a lot so that they were able to count music instead of just being able to respond to a particular song. So it didn’t matter how fast or how slow the beat was—they were able to go, "Okay, these are the four bars and I’ve got to get this language into these four bars." When I saw the show, people actually left in the middle of the action. Fortunately or unfortunately, when you do comedy, there’s always going to be someone who is offended. The great thing about the show is that no one is safe. We treat all the characters with the same sort of energy. We’re irreverent to everyone. I think it’s the same with Shakespeare. If you do a Shakespeare play straight, people tend to think, “Oh, well, that’s the way that it was supposed to be done.” And there’s

people who think, “If you don’t make it relevant why do we need to watch it?” And then there’s people who say, “How dare you put a Shakespeare play in the sixties?” So, this isn’t really anything new, it’s just that this is a contemporary, palpable thing. Hip-hop is of our generation. So I think it’s easier for people to say, “I reject that.” Is it different because it’s hip hop and not Shakespeare set in the ‘60s? I think it is because of the media’s portrayal of hip-hop and the commercialization of hip hop and what things are popular in hip-hop. The things that get popped out are misogyny, foul language, sexual content and exploitation, drug use, generational rebellion. And those are pretty much some of the same things that were happening when rock and roll was a big movement. The negatives come to the forefront. A lot of people don’t see the positive. You’ve got people playing with language, creating language. You’ve got people being exposed to an art form, whether that be singing or dancing or graffiti art. You’ve got people who find a way to express themselves for the first time. Have you seen more young people in the audience at “Bomb-itty” compared to other HVSF shows? Definitely. For our theater we think, “How are we going to develop new audiences over the years?” Let’s face it, there is a tendency for audiences to be older, a particular economic demographic. This is an exposure to Shakespeare’s plot using intricate language. If they can get through this and realize, well, rap and Shakespeare are really not that far apart, then maybe they’ll come to see “Troilus and Cressida” or “Taming of the Shrew.” One of the things I really like, too, is when I see older people come in and for the first 15 minutes of the show they’re like, should I leave? Then at the end of the show I see 60-, 70-, 80-year-old people with their hands in the air with smiles on their face. The hip hop is just a minor part of what the play is in a way. They can get to the language, they can get to the fun, they can get to the characters, they can get to the comedy of it. That’s amazing to me—to see old people and young people enjoying the exact same thing and having the exact same responses. I wish there was more stuff like that just generally in the world that allowed people to see the audience as a community, that we’re more alike than we are unalike. 8/10 ChronograM forecast 109

THURSDAY 5 Art Graffiti Artist Paint Out 2pm. Live painting with some of NY's finest. Dream in Plastic, Beacon. Viking Dragon Figureheads: Family Craft Program 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7am/10am. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Green Meditation Practice and Spiritual Discussion 5:30pm-6:30pm. Meeting & conversation on Sacred scriptures with Clark Strand. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. UFO/What's Going on in the Universe Circle 6:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Classes Watercolor Workshop 10am-12pm. $25. Cabane Studios Fine Art Gallery and Photography, Phoenicia. 688-5490. Kids Trapeze Classes 5pm-6pm. Ages 4-11. $175 series/$30. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375. Teen Trapeze Classes 6:15pm-7:30pm. Ages 12-17. $210 series/$35. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Readings by Young Audience Authors 7:30pm. $5. The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Tarrytown. (914) 332-5953.

John Scofield/Joe Lovano Quartet 8pm. Jazz. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext.344.

Works by Bob Oliver 5pm-7pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Theater

Lee Hoiby's A Month in the Country 8pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

Andrea Mihalovic: All Things Drowned and Resurrected 5pm-8pm. One Mile Gallery, Kingston. 338-2035.

Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Keith Gunderson, Oils 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Troilus and Cressida 7pm. $34/$17 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org. Imagining Madoff 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

FRIDAY 6 Body / Mind / Spirit Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Hannya Shingyo Sutra Chanting 4pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

10am-10pm. Rides, attractions, events. 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. 225-1308;www.ulstercountyfair.com. Mahjan Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Film The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010. Wisdom's Way Film Series 7pm. Featuring videos of Guy Finley's presentations on how to find a life of inner freedom and true happiness. Moffat Library, Washingtonville. 725-7666.

Living with Elephants 8:30pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Foofwa Imobilit: Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam 8pm. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Spiegeltent: Kim Smith 8:30pm.$25. age 18+ only Kim Smith. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/ spiegeltent.

Freestyle Frolic Outdoor Summer Series 8:30pm-1am. R&B, world, funk, hip hop and electronica. $7/$3 teens and seniors/children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8319.

Tracy Bonham 9pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Events

Classes

An Inside Look at Current Artistic Trends 7pm-9pm. Cory Nakasue and Aynsley Vandenbroucke challenge each other to a choreographic duel. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Woodstock Fringe Festival Call for times. Check website for specific events. Call for location. www.woodstockfringe.org.

John Cobert & the Guise 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Live music, cooking demos, children's activities. Millerton. www.neccmillerton.org/farmers.htm.

Theater

Ulster County Fair

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

10am-12pm. Rides, attractions, events. 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. 225-1308;www.ulstercountyfair.com.

Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org.

Senior Moments 7pm. Taconic Stage Company. $40 dinner and show. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234.

Fundraiser Flea Market 7:30am-2pm. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.

Day of Hiroshima 10am-12pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Friday Night Swing Dance 8pm. Lesson at 7:30. $10/$8. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Events Ulster County Fair 10am-12am. Rides, attractions, events. 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. 225-1308;www.ulstercountyfair.com.

Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 4pm-7pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Gardiner Farm Market 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-0087.

Live Music Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976. The M Shanghai String Band 6pm-9pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028. Jerry Costanzo with The Andy Farber Octet 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com. USMA Concert Band 6:30pm-8:30pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Acoustic Thursdays 7pm. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Circle: Songwriters In The Round 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Bernarda Fink and Anthony Spiri 8pm. $17-$51. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600. Natalie Amendola 8:30pm. Jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Spiegeltent: Thursday Night Live 8:30pm.$10. Eclectic styles of live music, local performers. Features Brian Dewan.Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/ spiegeltent.

14th Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing 6pm-8pm. $25. Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, Sharon, Connecticut. (860) 364-1919. Spiegeltent: Spieglclub $10pm. $5 cover. age 21+ only. Bar, dance floor, music. Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter. bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Kids Peter and the Wolf Call for times. Ice cream, strolling magicians, face painting and more. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Music is Magic: Kids & Music Workshop Call for times. 4-weekly sessions. $106. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Kids' Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-11. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Music

Imagining Madoff 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. A Month in the Country 8pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136. Community Playback Theater 8pm. Improvisation of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. Cooking with the Calamari Sisters: Mangia Italiano 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Plant Identification and Medicinal Herb Walk and Reading the Land/Natural Meadow Management 11am-6pm. Center for Bioregional Living, Ellenville. Contact@homebiome.com.

Badge of Military Merit Celebration 2pm. Featuring Alexander Rose, author of "Spies for Washington". Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Food without Poison: What a Concept! 6pm-7pm. $15. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

SATURDAY 7 Art

Joseph Yetto 4pm-6pm. Paintings and drawings that examine nature close up. Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham. (518) 392-2250.

Ernie Hawkins 8pm. Acoustic. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Catskill Region Farmers' & Artisan's Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com.

Ikebana Flower Arrangement Lesson 1pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Zeb Haggerty: Garden Set Fire 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Conversations in French 1pm-2pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the Healthy Eating Series. Uptown Kingston. 853-8512.

Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 12pm-4pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Rust and Renaissance 3pm-6pm. Featuring Michael Kalish. Eckert Fine Art, Kent, CT. (860) 927-0012.

George Thorogood & The Destroyers 8pm. $42.50-$50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Shantz Park, Milton. 464-2789.

Beginner Chess 11am-12:30pm. Ages 5-10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Ode to Joy 7pm. Philadelphia Orchestra. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. Features Marji Zintz, Ron Renninger, and Mr. Roper. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Workshops

Franz Schreker: The Distant Sound 7pm. $25/$55/$75. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix 7pm. Riverfront Green Park, Peekskill. (914) 734-7275.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com.

Purple Heart Appreciation Day 11am-3pm. Military Timeline, 17th-20th centuries; Veteran's Outreach program, History of the Purple Heart; Firing demonstrations. National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 28.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest: Bomb-itty of Errors 8pm. $40/$20 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 Demonstration and Workshop Call for times. Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-3579 ext. 25210.

Spoken Word

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Dance for a Variable Population Performance 8pm. $20/$15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Car on the Moon and Gertrude's Paradise 9pm. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164.

Kids

POPS: A Century of Broadway Call for times. Philadelphia Orchestra. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Classes

Dance

Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-3377.

Music

Reiki 1 Attunement/Reiju Attunement 4:30pm-6:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

LongShot 8:30pm. Country. Greenville Inn, Greenville. (518) 966-5219.

Independent & International Film Series 7pm. Call for film title. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454. Wet 'n' Wild: Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi 1pm. Listen to a Japanese folktale and make a watercolor collage using lots of imagination. Ages 5 and up. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Butter 8:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Crystals Experience Workshop 4pm-6pm. $25/$30. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Chance Journeying with Peter Blum 6:30pm-7:30pm. Travel into a Shamanic/hypnotic journey. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dance

Ulster County Fair

Boston Symphony Orchestra 8:30pm. $9-$89. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm/12:15pm-2:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 10-class series. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Admission Open House 9am. Berkshire Country Day School, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0755.

The Bloodletters 8pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Distinguished Artist Series: Thomas Sarrantonio 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Jimmy LaFave 8:30pm. With Kinney and the Storms. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Events

The Figgs CD release Party 8pm. $12. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Body Parts: A Members’ Exhibition 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Sight Singing for Beginners 6:30pm-8:30pm. Ages 12 and up. $5. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Tom Freund 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Spiegeltent: Afternoon Family Fare 3:30pm. $15/$5 children. Singers, dancers, puppeteers, magicians. Cavalcade of Youth. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/ spiegeltent. New York State Craft Beer Expo 4pm-9pm. Terrapin Catering, Staatsburg. 876-3330. Woodstock Fringe Festival Kick Off and Benefit 4pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. Alzheimer's Association Evening of Bowling 6pm-8pm. 3 games and shoes. $20/$10 children. Catskill Hoe Bowl, Catskill. (518) 867-4999 ext. 305. Celebrating the Bounty of the Hudson Valley 6pm-11pm. Dinner, dancing and silent auction to benefit the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley. $70. Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park. 905-4674. Spiegeltent: Spieglclub

Fantastic Dolls 5pm-7pm. New outsider art creations by Warren Schmahl using construction paper, cardboard, magazine photos, a lot of glue. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. kmoca.org.

$10pm. $5 cover. age 21+ only. Bar, dance floor, music. Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter. bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Paintings by Charles Forsberg 5pm-7pm. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.

Chicken Run & Redwing Blackbird Puppet Theater 2pm. $5/$4. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kindred Spirits 5pm-7pm. Paintings by Patricia Morgan and Janet Campbell. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Orthodox Stance 8pm. Documentary of a Jewish boxer. $5. Chatham Synagogue, Chatham. chathamsynagogue.org.

Film

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(Clockwise from left): Phoenicia Festival of the Voice co-founder Maria Todaro; Eric Thomas Johnson; Austin Ku; Alex Agard.

Voice of the Mountains Imagine taking a day to experience a diverse sampling of what the human voice can do: The sudden heights and miraculous swoops of a master gospel soloist, or the subtle tonal refractions of a mighty tribal chanter, or the impeccable coloraturas of an opera star. Picture this in a mountain hamlet blooming with wildflowers, where lovely old churches alongside pristine streams serve as concert halls. It is this vision—this auspicious combination of artistic energy and natural setting—that has organizers of the first Phoenicia Festival of the Voice confident the event will resound far beyond the hilltops: “Tickets are already selling like hotcakes,” says Kerry Henderson, the festival’s executive director. The inspiration for this new venue came last year, when Henderson, Maria Todaro, and Louis Otey, all opera singers who live in Phoenicia, produced an outdoor benefit to raise money for playground equipment. Publicized by flyers, the performance drew an audience of about 700; the number of music lovers who attended nearly equal to the village’s population. “We realized it’s obviously something that people want,” says Henderson. Converting the small town into a major cultural destination, Henderson points out, will require only minimal modification. “We don’t need new buildings. We are just enhancing what we already have.” The festival is constructing a band shell out of hemlock and maple at the foot of Tremper Mountain—the rocky crevices and resonant ridges of the mountain providing contour to the acoustic. A gala recital by renowned soprano Elizabeth Futral will inaugurate the rustic stage. The program’s centerpiece is Verdi’s "Falstaff," featuring the festival’s directors along with musicians and chorus singers from the Metropolitan Opera. The organizers have had no problem attracting high-caliber

talent. “They’re our friends,” says Todaro. Many performers, in fact, are donating their efforts in order to help kick off the festival. In addition to professional entertainers such as Broadway singer Rozz Morehead and Cheyenne flutist Joseph FireCrow, the festival will also shine its spotlight on hundreds of well-trained amateurs when it hosts a regional convergence of choirs as the weekend’s finale. Todaro will conduct Phoenicia’s choir—a new group that has been practicing under her instruction for the past year, and whose members comprise the festival’s most dedicated supporters. “I just love Maria and I’m learning so much,” says former rock singer Nancy Howell. Todaro also leads a choir in a Times Square halfway house. Her zeal for singing as a way to dissolve barriers and promote peace rivals that of Pete Seeger. In her melodious, French-accented voice she explains, “You can have a lawyer and someone homeless sitting together with exactly the same purpose, which is delivering beauty. Because of the nature of what a choir is, it is a very soothing place.” Todaro’s long range ambition for the festival includes an educational component fully provisioned with workshops, residencies and scholarships. The organizers have researched the effect of the performing arts on economically challenged areas and are excited by their findings. They cite the 17-day Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, as a hopeful indicator of the various forms of enrichment that might accrue to the Catskill region. “We are giving the people the vision,” says Todaro, “and asking them to dream with us.” The Phoenicia Festival of the Voice will take place August 13 to 15. www.phoeniciavoicefest.com. —Marx Dorrity 8/10 ChronograM forecast 111

Kids Music Fun for Kids Call for times. Music games, songs, playing simple percussion instruments. $96 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Colonial Overnight for Kids 6pm-Sunday, August 8, 10pm. Colonial games and crafts, an after-dark tour of the houses. $45/$40 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Music Inner Visions Call for times. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Ode to Joy Call for times. Philadelphia Orchestra. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Imagining Madoff 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Water Street Cinema Call for times. Thought provoking and enlightening films. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976. Streets of Encounter and Live Capoeira 2pm. $10/$6 cildren.Rosendale Theatre. www.rosendaletheatre.org.

Cooking with the Calamari Sisters: Mangia Italiano 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Coal Country 3pm-5pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

The Taming of the Shrew 8pm. $47. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010.

Workshops

The Trouble With Harry 8pm. Main Street at the tent Film Festival. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Art vs. Commerce: Find the Balance Call for times. Doug Menuez. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Kids

Young People's Concert: Garry Kvistad and Bill Cahn 11am. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Hancock Shaker Village 50th Anniversary Gala Call for times. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.

A One-Week Try-It Sleepaway Summer Camp Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Scott Massarsky 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Mary Ellen Mark; The World Observed Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 2:30pm. $18-$89. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Introduction to the Alexander Technique 1pm-5pm. $80. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Camp for Children with Chronic Heart Disease or Heart Transplants Call for times. Ages 6-8. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Music Omi Concert 5pm. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Introduction to Digital Photography 1:30pm. Sally Delmerico. $25. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Opus Two 6pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Bob Lusk: Horsing Around 7pm. Songs about horses and the people who ride them. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Anne McCue 7pm. Opening: Sidewayz. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Children's Recital 7pm. Concert of Ukrainian folk songs and poems. $5. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Cosi Fan Tutte 7pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272. Sharon Klein 7pm. Acoustic. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

SUNDAY 8 Art Guy Walker 7pm-1opm. A selection of the artist’s psychedelic films will be projected through large blown glass lenses. Re Institute, Millerton. www.theReInstitute.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Psychic Readings 11am-4pm. $45/$25. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. New Moon Kundalini Asana and Meditation 11am-1pm. With Yogi Bajan's student Nidhi Huba. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

O.A.R. 8pm. With special guest Citizen Cope. $22/$36. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Transformation Work 11am-12:30pm. Meditation and techniques to remove blockages and free up your energy pathways. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Open Mike 8pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Patti Austin 8pm. $20-$55. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (180) 094-2690 ext.1344.

Heal the Spirit: Using Your Imagination to Heal Emotional Upset 5pm-7pm. With Nurit Nardi. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Providers 8:30pm. Blues. American Glory, Hudson. (518) 822-1234. Kevin Kane Band 8:30pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Boston Symphony Orchestra 8:30pm. $18-$89. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600. Spiegeltent: Noche Porteña 8:30pm.$25. age 18+ only. Noche Porteña: The Sensuous Music and Dance of Buenos Aires.. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter. bard.edu/spiegeltent. Shakin' Loose Band 9pm-1am. Blues. The Glen Fall's House Tavern, Roundtop. (518) 622-9363. The Sweet Clementines and The Trapps 9pm. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164. Buried in Blue 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Author Da Chen 2pm. New York Times best selling novelist, memoirist, children's book author & speaker. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Harris Schiff. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

Theater Treasure Island 11am. Hampstead Stage Company. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Senior Moments 7pm. Taconic Stage Company. $40 dinner and show. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte 7pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136.

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Classes The Roosevelts Call for times. Week-long session includes classroom instruction, related field trips, appreciation of the local arts and a scenic cruise on the Hudson River. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076. Butchery 101 Call for times. Week long course. Fleisher's Grass-Fed, Rhinebeck. 876-7507. Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm/12:15pm-2:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Dance Foofwa Imobilit: Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam 3pm. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Events Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com. Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music. Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150. Ulster County Fair

MONDAY 9

Film

Sleepaway Summer Camp Session 4 Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Music Pete Seeger Book Signing & Performance Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. David Reed 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Martin Fried 1pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Sonando 1pm-3pm. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. Holly Miranda 2pm. Mystery Spot Antiques, Phoenicia. 688-7868. Lee Hoiby's A Month in the Country 2pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272. Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 3pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Mira Quartet 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Swamp Gumbo 5:30pm-7:30pm. Cajun rock. Riverfront Bandstand, Cold Spring. JT & Anthony 6:30pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. McPeake 7:30pm. Irish music. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Silk Road Ensemble 8:30pm. $18-$89. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

The Outdoors Black Creek Preserve 1pm. 2-3 miles. Black Creek, Esopus. 373-8202.

Spoken Word Andre Brooks Call for times. Author of the Real History of the Jewish Doctor. Gomez Hill House Museum, Marlboro. 236-3126. Answering the Call: Women in the Military During Vietnam 2pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Body / Mind / Spirit A Call to Power: Grandmothers Speak 6:30pm-8:30pm. Led by Grandmothers Gonyea & Jennifer "White Raven". Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Self-Healing with One Light Healing Touch 6:30pm-8pm. $20. The Nurtured Spirit, Warwick. 687-2252.

Classes Kids Trapeze Classes 4pm-5pm. Ages 4-11. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375. Open Level Class: Trapeze 5:15pm-7:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375. Zumba Dance Class 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10/$90 ten classes. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

DANCE Katherine Dunham: Bringing the African Diaspora to the Stage 6:15pm-7:45pm. Performance. Lecture. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106; www. kaatsbaan.org.

Film The Music Man 7:30pm. Main Street at the tent Film Festival. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. The Englishman Who Went Up The Hill But Came Down A Mountain 8pm. Main Street at the tent Film Festival. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Kids Day Camp Session 4 Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291. Camp Kindness at Catskill Animal Sanctuary 9am-2:30pm through August 13. Gardening, barn chores, vegan cooking classes. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Wayfinder Experience 9am-4pm Friday, August 27. Ages 9-16. $395/$365 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Youth Dance Workshop 9am-4pm Friday, August 13. In collaboration with Kuumba Dance and Drum and Operation Unite. $150. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Story Hour 10:30am-11am. With face painting. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Music 200 Celebratory Candles for Schumann 8pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. The Westchester Swing Band 8pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

The Outdoors Paddle & Swim on the Esopus Creek 12pm. Saugerties Village Beach, Saugerties. 255-7671.

Spoken Word Japanese Chat Club 6pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Workshops Davis & Orton Create Your Website 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

TUESDAY 10

Theater

Body / Mind / Spirit

Imagining Madoff 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Healing Meditation Circle 6pm-7:30pm. $15. Woodstock Wellness, Woodstock. 679-6700.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. A Month in the Country 2pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136. Cooking with the Calamari Sisters: Mangia Italiano 3pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Sounding Your Sacred Voice 7pm-8:30pm. Cantor Robert Michael. $18. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes

10am-8pm. Rides, attractions, events. 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz. 225-1308;www.ulstercountyfair.com.

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Open Level Class: Trapeze 4:30pm-6:30pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Callicoon Farmers' Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Herb Farm Extravaganza 12pm. Farmer’s market pestos, herbal iced teas, dried herbs, salves, lip balm, and more, music, kids, frolicking, & singing. Tweefontein Herb Farm, New Paltz. www.tweeherbs.com. New York State Craft Beer Expo 1pm-6pm. Terrapin Catering, Staatsburg. 876-3330. Spiegeltent: Afternoon Family Fare 3:30pm. $15/$5 children. Singers, dancers, puppeteers, magicians. Cavalcade of Youth. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter. bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Before I Forget 6pm. One-woman play starring Sally-Jane Heit. $25. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-1955. Troilus and Cressida 6pm. $40/$20 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Workshops Advanced Channeling: Accessing Messages via Voice & Written Word 11:30am-6pm. $125/$95. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Events Go Club 4pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Kids Common Ground Farm Summer Programs for Kids 9am-Friday, August 13, 12:30pm. Ages 6-9. $125. Common Ground Farm, Fishkill. ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months – 3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

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Soprano Yamina Maamar and director Thaddeus Strassberger rehearsing Franz Schreker's opera "The Distant Sound," part of Bard's Summerscape.

The German Puccini Every year, Bard’s Summerscape presents music, dance, film and theater that provide audience members with a sense of the life and cultural context of a composer. (Summerscape evolved out of and now encompasses the Bard Music Festival, whose mission is to help contemporary audiences understand musical history.) This year, Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg’s most celebrated pupil, is being celebrated. Schoenberg, an expressionist composer who invented twelve-tone technique—a difficult and not necessarily audience-friendly composition style—conducted Berg’s first major work, Five Songs on Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg, in Vienna in 1913. The performance caused a riot. It wasn’t until 1925, with the premiere his opera “Wozzek” that Berg achieved international notoriety. Berg’s work is personal and romantic, combining elements of Mahlerian Romanticism with an idiosyncratic take on Schoenberg’s innovations. While he is primarily known as a dissonant composer, Christopher Gibbs, artistic director of the Bard Music Festival, notes that Berg is one of the more accessible Second School composers, whose work manifests parallels to Mozart and other composers of the first Viennese School. If, as Arnold Schoenberg suggested, dissonances are the more remote consonances, then the rediscovered works of this year’s Summerscape may become new classics. The connections between pieces, as Gibbs explains, are often abstract and based more on creating a certain experience for the audience than a linear presentation of a composer’s time and influences. For instance, Berg, an avid moviegoer, added a film sequence to his opera, “Lulu.” The films of his Austrian contemporary, G.W. Pabst (Three Penny Opera, the White Hell of Pitz Palu), which primarily treat the lives of women in the mid 1920s, will be shown in this context. As well as the first full-scale, North American staging of the opera “The Distant Sound” (1910) by Franz Shreker, who greatly influenced Berg on August 1, 3, and 6. Berg also worked on the piano parts of the second and

third acts for with Shreker. Thaddeus Strassberger, the opera’s director, describes the second act in this way, “[It] sounds like a cacophony of competing sounds that somehow makes its own clarity.” The first Berg concert series, which will run from August 13 through August 15, plays on similarities between the compositional styles of Berg and Mahler. It will include the first and only completed movement of Mahler’s last symphony. The performance will also include a piece by Erich Korngold, a celebrated composer of the Second School who composed scores for Hollywood films. The second concert series, held from August 20 through August 22, will celebrate Berg as an opera composer and include excerpts of “Wozzeck” and “Lulu.” Leon Botstein will direct “The Book of the Seven Seals,” Franz Schmidt’s powerful oratorio. Oscar Straus’ “The Chocolate Soldier” (1908) is the summer’s operetta. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play, “Arms and the Man,” it is performed in a two-level space that invites the audience to take part. It also includes vibrant dance performances. This year’s Summerscape creates a parallel sense of the innovation and romanticism of Berg’s work, which combine harmoniously and visually. Yet his work is pleasant and very accessible. Leon Botstein, Bard College president and director of the American Symphony Orchestra, “This guy was the German Puccini," says Botstein. "In the end it’s just about raw emotion and theater. But emotion is a dirty word! People say, ‘Oh my God, if I’m going to have a good time, I shouldn’t be made to think.’ It’s provocative and deeply enjoyable.” Top it off with a visit to the Spiegeltent across the lawn for some cabaret and a lobster roll. For full listings of Summerscape performances and ticket prices: www.fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010. —Emily Nelson 8/10 ChronograM forecast 113

Writing Box Program 3:15pm-4:30pm. Weekly activities that will encourage children to express themselves through writing. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers 8pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Music

The Taming of the Shrew 7pm. Call for Tickets. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

An Evening with the Wister Quartet 8pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Theater

THURSDAY 12

The Dan Brother Band 8:30pm. Blues. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.

Art

Marc Black Band 8:30pm. Rock. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Viking Dragon Figureheads: Family Craft Program 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

The Big Takeover 9:30pm. The Blue Martini, Newburgh. 562-7111.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Spoken Word Tuesday Afternoon: An Adult Reading Group 4pm-5pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Workshops Broken Dish Mosaic Workshop Call for times. $125. Back Door Studio, Woodstock. 679-3660. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen 10am-12pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208. Is Your Legal House in Order? 5pm-6:30pm. Frank D. Greco Senior Center, Saugerties. 334-3182. Greg Miller: Stitching Panoramas 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Flying Fish: Family Craft Program 7pm-8:30pm. $3. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Theater Troilus and Cressida 7pm. $34/$17 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

WEDNESDAY 11 Art Prehistoric Marine Life: Teen Craft Program 2:30pm-4:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. PASWORD & Project AWARE, Girls Empowerment Alumnae Programs: Summer Reflections Art Exhibit 4:30pm-6pm. Mill Street Loft's Gallery 45, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Body / Mind / Spirit New Moon Cleansing with Sound Cleansing 6pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center For the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Menopause 7:15pm-8:15pm. Getting relief without the risks. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Classes Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375. Kids Class: Trapeze 5pm-6pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

DANCE Kaatsbaan Dance Lecture: Entertaining the King: Dance at the Court of Louis XIV 6:15pm-7:45pm. Lecture and Performance. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106; www.kaatsbaan.org.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children’s activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7am-10am. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Green Meditation Practice and Spiritual Discussion 5:30pm-6:30pm. Meeting & conversation on Sacred scriptures with Clark Strand. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

1st O Bon Woodstock Festival Ceremony 5pm-9pm. Ancient Japanese lantern festival for the dead. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Pre-Natal Yoga 6pm-7pm. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Classes Kids Trapeze Classes 5pm-6pm. Ages 4-11. $175 series/$30. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Teen Trapeze Classes 6:15pm-7:30pm. Ages 12-17. $210 series/$35. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Events

Sight Singing for Beginners 6:30pm-8:30pm. Ages 12 and up. $5. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 10-class series. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events Mahjan Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811. Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling series. $26/$24 in advance. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Kids

Spirit on Hudson Cruise Call for times. Elvis tribute & 50's rock & roll band. Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1014. The Gathering Call for times. Weekend of events for descendants and those interested in the region's earliest history. $50/$90 couple. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org. Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 4pm-7pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-3377. Gardiner Farm Market 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-0087. Project ABLE, Final Event, Performance & Recognition Awards 6pm. Mill Street Loft's Gallery 45, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Spiegeltent: Spieglclub 10pm. $5 cover. age 21+ only. Bar, dance floor, music. Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter. bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Film

Closing Party - The Wayfinder Experience 1pm. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Chocolat 8pm. Main Street at the tent Film Festival. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Music

Kids

The Farewell Celebration Concert Call for times. Philadelphia Orchestra. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Kids' Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 5-11. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Lee Hoiby's A Month in the Country 2pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

Loretta Hagen 6:30pm-8:30pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Kids in the Catskills Call for times. Tie-dye t-shirts, crazy chemistry, arts & crafts. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

The David Heckendorn Jazz Orchestra 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com/.

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Acoustic Thursdays 7pm. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

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Introduction to Plant Spirit Medicine: ¨Listening to the Wisdom of Plant Spirits¨ Call for times. $465/$405. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225.

Cooking with Coral Call for times. Meals from the farmer's market. $385. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225.

Kids

Derrick James Quintet 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Classes

Bill Malchow Band 6pm-9pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Empire State Idol Search Open Mike 6pm-11pm. Comedians, singers, musicians, poets and rappers welcome. Mardi Bob Bowling Ally, Poughkeepsie. 471-1820.

Kat Capillino 6pm-8pm. Mixed media, collage, ink, gouache, watercolor, and acrylic on paper. Unison Gallery at Water Street Market, New York. 255-1559.

Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. $25/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Groundhog Day 8pm. Main Street at the tent Film Festival. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 3pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Photographs by Jillian Brown 5pm-7pm. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.

Laughter & Screaming Workshop 6:30pm-8:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Film

A Gershwin Evening Call for times. Philadelphia Orchestra. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Art

Animal Totem Workshop 6:30pm-8:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Live Music Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

Music

FRIDAY 13

Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Spiegeltent: Khaira Arby 8:30pm.$10. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Music Cirque de la Symphonie Call for times. Philadelphia Orchestra. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Call for times. Phoenicia, Phoenicia. www.PhoeniciaVoicefest.com. Rosie Ledet & The Zydeco Playboys Call for times. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Jim Osborn and the Handsome Pilgrims 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Alban Berg: The Path of Expressive Intensity 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:30. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Bach and Forth 8pm. Classical music in a night club setting. Additional dinner and dessert available at extra cost. $30. Crissey Farms in the Jenifer House Commons, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (800) 838-3006.

Theater

Sleepyhollow Stringband 8pm. Bluegrass. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

A Month in the Country 2pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136.

Cosi Fan Tutte 8pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

Troilus and Cressida 7pm. $34/$17 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Jamie Saft Trio 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com. Hurley Mountain Highway 8:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Spiegeltent: Jackie Hoffman 8:30pm.$25. age 18+ only. Jackie Hoffman. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent. Rennie Cantine 9pm. $10. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Ross Rice 9pm. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164. Four Guys In Disguise 9:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Spoken Word An Inside Look at Current Artistic Trends 7pm-9pm. Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Theater A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Clue: The Musical 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Esopus Creek Puppet Suite 8pm. Arm-of-the-Sea puppets. $10/$5 children/$25 family. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. 246-7873. Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte 8pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest: Bomb-itty of Errors 8pm. $40/$20 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Workshops Beginner Chess 11am-12:30pm. Ages 5-10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Food without Poison: What a Concept! 6pm-7pm. $15. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

SATURDAY 14 Art Saugerties Artists Studio Tour 10am-6pm. Self-guided around Saugerties. www.saugertiesarttour.com Portrait Demonstration 1pm-4pm. George Van Hook. Riverfront Studios, Schuylerville. 695-5354. Reveries of Imagination 5pm-7pm. Angela Bacon-Kidwell. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027. Out of G.A.S 5pm-8pm. Final exhibition of current and former members of G.A.S and invited artists. G.A.S. Poughkeepsie. 486-4592. Fabulous Philadelphians 6pm. Professional and amateur visual artists demonstrate their artistic skills. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Edward Avedisian: Retrospective 6pm-8pm. Previously unseen paintings. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. New Paintings by Catherine Welshman 6pm-9pm. Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon. 440-0068. Music|Sound|Art Exhibition 6pm-9pm. A multimedia show with a variety of artists from around the country. Cabane Gallery, Phoenicia. 688-5490. Group Show four-Ever 6pm-9pm. Dream in Plastic, Beacon. Windows on Main Streat: Opening 6pm-9pm. Exhibit features 20+ local artists, runs through September 11, Reception at Chill Wine Bar, Beacon. www.beaconwindows.blogspot.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Eft and the Great Shift in Consciousness 2pm-5pm. With Ethan Campbell. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Crystals Experience Workshop 4pm-6pm. $25/$30. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Classes Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm/12:15pm-2:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Dance Swan Lake 7:30pm. Ajkun Ballet Theatre. $29/$17 children and seniors. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

photography leonard nimoy

Spock vs. Zeus According to Greek mythology, humans were once double-sided creatures with two heads and two pairs of limbs. The power and arrogance of humans in this form angered the gods. Zeus cleaved everyone in two—thus weakening the human spirit and leaving us to search for our missing half to feel whole again. Inspired by the concept of hidden identities, Leonard Nimoy recruited volunteers in Northampton, Massachusetts, for his latest photo project, “Secret Selves.” Nimoy invited people to reveal their latent personalities to his camera. Participants brought in their own costumes and props: art supplies, a chain saw, large dogs, boxing equipment, and more. Over the course of three days, Nimoy photographed more than 100 Pioneer Valley residents. “Nimoy’s different sides came together to create this project,” says Richard Michelson, owner of R. Michelson Galleries, who has been part of the project from the beginning. With “his easy manner of being able to draw people out and in a sense see what people were bringing to this project, Nimoy was able to bring out things in the models that they themselves didn’t know was in them,” says Michelson. Under Nimoy’s gaze, Joseph, who is in the US Navy, transforms into Superman; Barry, a book designer, poses nude—covered from the waist down by his large dog; Aimee, who works in tattoo and body piercing, forces us to rethink gender as she displays both her breasts and beard. For those familiar with Nimoy’s earlier fame, “Secret Selves” serves as an opportunity to see the artistic abilities of the man many know as Spock. His other photography work, including the “Full Body Project” (portraits of plus-size women) and “Shekhina” (featuring a woman clad at most in Jewish religious veil), offer similarly provocative renderings of the human form. “Because of Mr. Nimoy’s fame, a lot of people will come to the exhibit with preconceived notions. People often come into the gallery skeptical of the work and talking about Mr. Nimoy as a celebrity,” says Michelson. “They tend to leave the gallery as converts talking about the photography.” Leonard Nimoy’s “Secret Selves” opens August 1 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Admission $15 adults, $10 students, $5 children age 6-16, free for members and children 5 and under. (413) 662-2111; www.massmoca.org. —Kaitlin Pitsker

Scott, a children’s book illustrator, says, "I play music for preschoolers... but that’s a bunch of screaming kids, not a bunch of screaming girls."

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Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly/Moving Theater 8pm. Trio Triage. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Cosby Gibson 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Southern Dance Party 8pm. Cajun, square & contra dancing to live music, lesson at 7pm. $15. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 246-2121.

Dr. Peter Muir and Steve Fabrizio 7pm. With Barbara Rankin. Thorne Building, Millbrook. www.millbrookartsgroup.org.

Events Summer Retreat for K-12 Teachers Call for times. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Sweet Corn Festival Call for times. Weeds Orchards, Marlboro. 236-2684. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Live music, cooking demos, children's activities. Millerton. www.neccmillerton.org/farmers. htm. Fundraiser Flea Market 7:30am-2pm. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Kids' Day. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. Hyde Park Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111. Catskill Region Farmers' & Artisan’s Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com. 5th Annual Rock, Rattle and Drum Powwow and Spirit of the Mountain Music Festival 10am-10pm. $7/$5 seniors and children. Gardner's Field, Stephentown. (518) 733-9227. Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 12pm-4pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Storytelling and Music Festival 12:30pm-10:30pm. Historic Colony, Crompond. (914) 528-5830. Spiegeltent: Afternoon Family Fare 3:30pm. $15/$5 children. Singers, dancers, puppeteers, magicians. The Magical World of Manfred Winthrop. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent. A Night to Remember 7pm-9pm. Experience by candlelight the last days of the encampment before most of the Continental Army returned home. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765. Family of Woodstock 40th Anniversary Celebration 7pm-11pm. Food, music by the Voodelics and art, as well as proclamations from politicians and community workers. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Spiegeltent: Spieglclub $10pm. $5 cover. age 21+ only. Bar, dance floor, music. Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Film The Tale of Despereaux and the Energizers with POOKito 2pm. $5/$4. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Cinema Paradiso 8pm. Main Street at the tent Film Festival. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Kids Music Fun for Kids Call for times. Music games, songs, playing simple percussion instruments. $96 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Bee Buzz for Kids Ages 4-9 10-11:30, ages 10-15 12:30-2. $10. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.

Music Philadelphia Orchestra with Yo Yo Ma Call for times. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Call for times. Phoenicia. www.PhoeniciaVoicefest.com. Auditions for The Cross River Youth Chorale 1pm-3pm. Ages 10-18. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. John Keller 1pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. The Vienna of Berg's Youth 1:30pm. Pre-concert talk at 1pm. $35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Folksongs of the Catskills: The Spirit of Camp Woodland 2pm-4pm. Former campers will present the history and music of the camp. Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock. 452-4013. Gay Life: Barber, Schumann, and the New York Art-Song Tradition 6pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.

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Rock 'n Roll Extravaganza 7pm. Vol. I - Lou Christie, Jay Siegel and The Tokens, The Teenagers, The Dubs, Shirley Alston Reeves, The Classics and Johnny Farina. $19.50-$59. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Lee Hoiby's A Month in the Country 7pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272. Kristin Hoffman and Premik Russell Tubbs 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Chamber Music Ensemble 8pm. $15/$12 members and seniors. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. America - The 40th Anniversary Tour 8pm. $20-$65. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (180) 094-2690 ext.1344. Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. Jazz. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. A Night of Modern Music 8pm. Joe Lovano & Judi Silvano. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Mahler and Beyond 8pm. American Symphony Orchestra. Talk at 1pm. $25/$40/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Scott Seltzer 8pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Bill Charlap Trio 8pm. Windham Chamber Music Festival. $25/$20 seniors/$15 contributors/$5 students. Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 734-3868. Chip Taylor Trio 8:30pm. Featuring John Platania. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Reality Check 8:30pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. The Bush Brothers 8:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Spiegeltent: Evening Cabaret 8:30pm.$25. age 18+ only. Eric Walton's Esoterica. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent. The Outpatients 9pm. Annies 40 Western, Marlboro. 236-2667. Love Eat Sleep 9pm. With special guest Tao. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. The Kiss Ups 9pm. With Kitty Little. $6. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. A Night of Modern Music 9pm. Joe Lovano and Judi Silvano with others. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Tributon-T Rex 9pm. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164. Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Rock. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.

The Outdoors Historic Village of Woodstock Walk 10am-12pm. With authors of Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town Michael Perkins and Will Nixon. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000. Hudson River Paddle at Athens 11am. Athens State Boat Launch, Athens. 883-0132. Bird and Butterfly Garden Open House 12pm-2pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3. All about Butterflies 2pm-3pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.

Spoken Word Berg: His Life and Career 10am-12pm. Panel discussion. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring poets Ken Holland and Lee Gould. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345. Susannah Appelbaum 3pm. Author of Poisons of Caux series: The Tasters Guild. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Cultural Pluralism in the Hudson Valley, Circa 1750 7pm. $8/$6. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. A Month in the Country 7pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136. The Marvelous Wonderettes 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Closer Than Ever 8pm. Musical revue with special Equity Guest Artists Janna Cardia, Alex Agard, and Austin Ku and local singer Amy Wallace. $15/$13 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Clue: The Musical 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Esopus Creek Puppet Suite 8pm. Arm-of-the-Sea puppet. $10/$5 children/$25 family. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. 246-7873. Troilus and Cressida 8pm. $47. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Workshops Lothar Osterburg: Photogravure Call for times. In collaboration with Women's Studio Workshop. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Miles Ladin: The Big Event Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Young Adult Writing Seminar with Eileen Charbonneau 10am-5pm. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857. Backyard Medicine with Silvermoon 11am-1pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

SUNDAY 15 Art Saugerties Artists Studio Tour 10am-6pm. Self-guided around Saugerties. www.saugertiesarttour.com

Body / Mind / Spirit Tiny Yoga Call for times. Babies and toddlers form their earliest connections to yoga, body movement, and breathe, alongside parents and caregivers. $18. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Music for Yoga 9am. Music by Gwen Laster. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. www.vikasastudio.com. Psychic Readings 11am-4pm. $45/$25. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Transformation Work 11am-12:30pm. Meditation and techniques to remove blockages and free up your energy pathways. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Prayer, meditation and lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Women's Circle 2pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Classes Plein Air Painting Classes 9am-1pm. $120 4 classes/$200 8 classes/$300 23 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm/12:15pm-2:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Events Sweet Corn Festival Call for times. Weeds Orchards, Marlboro. 236-2684. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com. 5th Annual Rock, Rattle and Drum Powwow and Spirit of the Mountain Music Festival 10am-6pm. $7/$5 seniors and children. Gardner's Field, Stephentown. (518) 733-9227. Ellenville Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Local produce, specialty foods, live music. Corner of Center & Market Sts., Ellenville. 647-5150. Callicoon Farmers' Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Theater

Alice in Wonderland 11am. Kids on Stage. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Round Top Car & Bike Show 12pm-5pm. Featuring music by Shakin' Loose Band. Riedlbauers Resort, Round Top. (518) 622-9584.

Southern Dance Party 8pm. Cajun, square and contra dancing to live music. Lesson at 7pm. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 246-2121.

Underground in the Archives: Diversity in Early New York 1pm-3pm. $12/$10 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Spiegeltent: Afternoon Family Fare 3:30pm. $15/$5 children. Singers, dancers, puppeteers, magicians. The Magical World of Manfred Winthrop. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Music Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Call for times. Phoenicia. www.PhoeniciaVoicefest.com. POPS: A Century of Broadway Call for times. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. The Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Jazz Pioneers 1pm-3pm. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. Jonathan & Grasshopper + Dean & Britta 1pm. Mystery Spot Antiques, Phoenicia. 688-7868. The Hazbins 1pm. Bluegrass. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti CD Release Show 2pm. $10/$5 children. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Andre Watts "Al Gusto" 2:15pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Instrumental Guitarist Francis Doughty 3pm. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115. Oscar Straus: The Chocolate Soldier 3pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Joe Hickerson 3pm-5pm. $8. Kiersted House, Saugerties. www.heritageconcerts.blogspot.com. Jazz Concert 3pm. Concert with Armen Donelian and Marc Mommaas and special guest Jim McNeely. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Amernet String Quartet 4pm. Samuel Barber: an American Romantic. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Dana Edelman & his Slammin' Band 5:30pm-7:30pm. Folk soul. Riverfront Bandstand, Cold Spring. The Orchestra Reimagined 5:30pm. American Symphony Orchestra. $20/$35/$45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Barbara Cook 7pm. $52-$87. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Jenee Halstead 7:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $12/$10 with RSVP. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501. CD Release Party with Hemingway's Cat 7:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. Elza 7:30pm. With her mentees. $20/$15. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Anna Cheek CD Release Show 7:30pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Cosi Fan Tutte 8pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

The Outdoors A Secret Waterfall USGS Hike 1pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Theater The Marvelous Wonderettes 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte 2pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136. 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Clue: The Musical 3pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. The Taming of the Shrew 6pm. Call for Tickets. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

ART picasso looks at degas images provided

Pablo Picasso, The Blue Room (The Tub), 1901

Two Guys Who Never Met When Picasso first arrived in Paris in 1900 as a nearly impoverished 18-year old Spanish artist, Edgar Degas was already renowned. Picasso stayed in the same neighborhood as the elder artist—Montmartre—and eventually moved there permanently, within a five-minute walk of Degas’s studio. In the meantime, Picasso began imitating the paintings Degas had made in Paris cafes and nightclubs 30 years before. But because he was Picasso, his canvases were not exactly copies. “Picasso Looks at Degas,” at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is the first exhibition examining this surprising artistic lineage. The show juxtaposes In a Café (L’Absinthe) by Degas with Portrait of Sebastià Junyer i Vidal by Picasso. “It seems very clear that [Picasso’s] idea here is to do Degas one better,” observes Sarah Lees, associate curator at the Clark Art Institute. “His figures are more bluish looking and down-at-the-heels.” Degas’ once-scandalous painting shows two dispirited absinthe drinkers lodged behind a table. Picasso’s, painted in Barcelona in 1903 during his Blue Period, invents an early “heroin chic.” Though his subjects are not (as far as I know) junkies, they have that same creepy, ethereal languor. Like Degas, Picasso graduated from anecdotal scenes of cafe life to an eternal fascination with the feminine form. The late works of the elder artist often depicted women toweling themselves after a bath, usually with obscured faces and simplified forms. Picasso’s responses to these works typically pushed them even further. This exhibit compares Degas's Combing the Hair (La Coiffure) with Picasso’s Nude Wringing Her Hair, where the vulnerability of Degas’s work is transformed into a sexual sadism. Both Degas and Picasso were self-taught sculptors of great talent. (For my money, they were both better sculptors than painters.) “Picasso Looks at Degas” discovers sculptures by Picasso from 1931, mislabeled as bathers, that were inspired by bronzes of Degas. “Picasso’s are highly simplified; they’re very humorous,” remarks Lees. “They’re almost mocking Degas, yet going after the same idea of how the body takes up space. They’re funny, they’re exuberant, they’re really wonderful.” Most art lovers associate Degas with dance but are unaware that Picasso also was fascinated with ballet. Picasso met his first wife, Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, while designing sets for the Ballets Russe in 1917. The Clark displays previously unknown photos of Khokhlova, revealing what a major dancer she was. Though Degas and Picasso apparently never met, the dialogue between them was

long, extensive—and perhaps oedipal. Picasso found the elderly, eminent, top-hatted “master” unapproachable, yet ripe for private parody. In the late 1870s, Degas created monotypes of life in Parisian brothels. Picasso, impressed with these works, eventually bought nine of them. In March 1971, near the end of his life, Picasso began a series of 39 etchings of Degas visiting houses of prostitution. In these works, the bemused master is a stand-in for Picasso himself. “Picasso Looks at Degas” contains over 100 artworks, roughly half by each artist. Virtually the entire art careers of both prolific painters are represented. The curators, Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall, emphasize traditionalist elements in the radical Picasso, and avant-garde tendencies in the bourgeois Degas. “Picasso Looks at Degas” will continue at the Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts, until September 12. (413) 458-2303; www.clarkart.edu. —Sparrow

Edgar Degas, Nude Woman Drying Herself, 1884–86

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MONDAY 16 Body / Mind / Spirit Angel Channeling 6:30pm-8:30pm. Chakras, What are they and what angels govern them. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. Peter Blum & the Community, Talking Stick, singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

DANCE Kaatsbaan Dance Lecture: Dance History: Is it Dreary, Does it Matter? 6:15pm-7:45pm. Elizabeth Aldrich. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106; www.kaatsbaan.org.

Film The Last Picture Show 8pm. Main Street at the tent Film Festival. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Kids

Greg Miller: Stitching Panoramas 6pm-9pm. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Flying Fish: Family Craft Program 7pm-8:30pm. $3. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

WEDNESDAY 18 Art Prehistoric Marine Life: Teen Craft Program 2:30pm-4:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

DANCE Kaatsbaan Dance Lecture:Staging the Spanish Civil War: Dance and the Fight Against Fascism 6:15pm-7:45pm. Historic Dance Theatre Company. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106; www.kaatsbaan.org.

Events

Workshops

Music

Power Attunements: Powering Up for the Aquarian Age 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Sarah Chang Call for times. Philadelphia Orchestra. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Empire State Idol Search Open Mike 6pm-11pm. Comedians, singers, musicians, poets and rappers welcome. Mardi Bob Bowling Ally, Poughkeepsie. 471-1820.

Self-Healing with One Light Healing Touch 5:30pm-7pm. Palenville Branch Library, Palenville. 687-2252.

Sage 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Australian Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600. Leon Russell 8pm. $40. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Classes

Theater

Open Level Class: Trapeze 4:30pm-6:30pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Troilus and Cressida 7pm. $34/$17 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Menopause The Musical 7:30pm. $55/$45. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Kids ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months – 3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

The Amish Project 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Closer Than Ever 8pm. Musical revue with special Equity Guest Artists Janna Cardia, Alex Agard, and Austin Ku and local singer Amy Wallace. $15/$13 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Workshops Lothar Osterburg: Photogravure Call for times. In collaboration with Women's Studio Workshop. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THURSDAY 19

Music Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. The Ebene Quartet 8pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. The Dan Brother Band 8:30pm. Blues. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123. The Big Takeover 9:30pm. The Blue Martini, Newburgh. 562-7111.

Theater The Taming of the Shrew 7pm. $34/$17 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org. Menopause The Musical 7:30pm. $55/$45. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Closer Than Ever 8pm. Musical revue. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

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Events

A Taste of Sand Lake 6pm-8:30pm. 3rd annual celebration of arts and community. $35. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007.

Story Hour 10:30am. With crafts and music for ages 3-5. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Yellow Submarine and Beatles Sing Along 8pm. Main Street at the tent Film Festival. Sing-along at 7pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Kids Class: Trapeze 5pm-6pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Kids

Film

Adult Modern Dance 7pm-8:15pm. $15/$140 10-class series. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Mahjan Club 5pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Japanese Chat Club 6pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Go Club 4pm-7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Teen Trapeze Classes 6:15pm-7:30pm. Ages 12-17. $210 series/$35. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Teen Cuisine 11am-Friday, August 20, 1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Spoken Word

Events

Rubberbandance Group 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Story Hour 10:30am-11am. With face painting. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.

The Path of Practice with Shawn 7:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Dance

Kids Trapeze Classes 5pm-6pm. Ages 4-11. $175 series/$30. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

Red Hook Chamber of Commerce August Breakfast Meeting 7:30am-9am. $9/$7 in advance/$5 members. Red Hook Golf Club, Red Hook. (914) 204-3020.

Classes

Woodstock Farm Festival 3pm-8pm. Market, children’s activities, food by local chefs, picnic area and live music. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.

TUESDAY 17

Classes

Art Dreamfigures 6pm-8pm. Women's expressive clay group introductory session. Call for location. 255-8039.

Body / Mind / Spirit Zero Balancing II Call for times. Expand your knowledge NYS 25CEU approved, prerequisite ZBI. Charles Ruland NYS LMT. Call for location. 532-1323. Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun 7am/10am. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Green Meditation Practice and Spiritual Discussion 5:30pm-6:30pm. Meeting & conversation on Sacred scriptures with Clark Strand. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Pendulum Dowsing Workshop 6:30pm-8:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Meditation 7pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Film The Best of G. W. Pabst 7pm. $8. Ottaway Film Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2010. Wisdom's Way Film Series 7pm. Featuring videos of Guy Finley's presentations on how to find a life of inner freedom and true happiness. Moffat Library, Washingtonville. 725-7666. Food for Thought 7pm. An evening of socially relevant cinema. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Music Wicked Divas Call for times. Broadway, opera, pop. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Cosi Fan Tutte 2pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272. Live Music Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976. Uncle Rock 6pm. Children's music. Plattekill Library, Plattekill. 883-7286. The Big Takeover 6pm-9pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028. David Kraai 6pm. Singer/songwriter. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Events Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Mural Park, Poughkeepsie. steve@farmproject.org. Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Gardiner Farm Market 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-0087. Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 4pm-7pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Farm Market 4pm-7pm. Backcountry Outfitters, Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-3377. Spiegeltent: Spieglclub $10pm. $5 cover. age 21+ only. Bar, dance floor, music. Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard. edu/spiegeltent.

Music Tchaikovsky Spectacular Call for times. Philadelphia Orchestra. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Metropolitan Hot Club 7pm. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-8811. Bill Buttner 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. No Critics Allowed: The Society for Private Performances 8pm. Talk at 7:30pm. $20/$35/$45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Christian Open Mike Cafe 8pm. Fringe Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. www.fringefellowship.com. Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra 8pm. Jazz. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. The Depot, Cold Spring. 265-5000. Lee Hoiby's A Month in the Country 8pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272. Patti Rothberg 8:30pm. With Montgomery Delany. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Willis Wilson Quintet 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.

Spiegeltent: Evening Cabaret 8:30pm. $25. age 18+ only. Albanian Folk Music with Merita Hallili and the Raif Hyseni Orchestra. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard. edu/spiegeltent.

Reddan Brothers Band with Rob Valentine 6:30pm-8:30pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Four Guys In Disguise 9pm. Rock. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

Acoustic Thursdays 7pm. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

George Porter Jr. and the Runnin' Pardners 9pm. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Ebene String Quartet 8pm. Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-1600.

Blueberry and Johnny Society 9pm. $5.Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164.

Spiegeltent: Thursday Night Live 8:30pm.$10. Eclectic styles of live music, local performers. Features Bard Music Festival Program Eight: You Can't Be Serious! Viennese Popular Music and Operetta..Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Theater Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte 2pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136. The Taming of the Shrew 7pm. $34/$17 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org. Menopause The Musical 7:30pm. $55/$45. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. The Amish Project 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Closer Than Ever 8pm. Musical revue. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

FRIDAY 20 Body / Mind / Spirit The Four Faces of Woman Call for times. A retreat for women. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Transformation with Shamanic Sound: Ancient Peruvian Vessels Realign us with Our Stat Source Origins 6pm-9pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow Healing At Sage. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375.

The Lifesize Gorgeous Cocktails 10pm. Rock. The Sunset House, Peekskill. (914) 734-4192.

Spoken Word Dr. Heidi Cullen 7pm. Researcher for Climate Control. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343. Open Mike Night 8pm. Accompanied by the improvisations of live jazz musicians, hosted by Nathaniel "Papahawk" Goldberg. $5. The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Tarrytown. (914) 332-5953.

Theater A Month in the Country 2pm. Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22. Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg. 252-3136. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Private Lives 7pm. Taconic Stage Company. $40 dinner and show. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. Songs Overheard 7:30pm. The chamber oratorio by Robinson McClellan. $15/$12 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Menopause The Musical 7:30pm. $55/$45. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Underground at Proctors 8pm. Improvisational theatre by The Mop & Bucket Co. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Clue: The Musical 8pm. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Closer Than Ever 8pm. Musical revue with special Equity Guest Artists Janna Cardia, Alex Agard, and Austin Ku and local singer Amy Wallace. $15/$13 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Red Herring 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Amish Project 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Troilus and Cressida 8pm. $40/$20 children. 155 Main Street, Cold Spring. 265-7858; www. hvshakespeare.org.

Spiegeltent: Afternoon Family Fare 3:30pm. $15/$5 children. Singers, dancers, puppeteers, magicians. Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/ spiegeltent. A Celebration of the Gifts of the Earth 4pm-8pm. Candlelight supper. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent. (518) 672-7500 ext. 105.

Spiegeltent: Spieglclub $10pm. $5 cover. age 21+ only. Bar, dance floor, music. Center, Bard College, Annandale. www.fishercenter. bard.edu/spiegeltent.

Workshops

Film

Food without Poison: What a Concept! 6pm-7pm. $15. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Babe and Rusty Johnson's World of Animals 2pm. $5/$4. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Art Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 Demonstration and Workshop Call for times. Chesterwood, Stockbridge. (413) 298-3579 ext. 25210. Embracing Tension 4pm-6pm. New works by Steven Perkins. Park Row Gallery, Chatham. (518) 392-4800. Third Saturday Art Walk: Poser and Portraits 4pm-7pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Lost & Found 4pm-7pm. Molly Rausch. Unison Gallery at Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1559. A Look Around 5pm-7:30pm. Vindora Wixom's works in pastels, encaustics, acrylics, and oil, as well as threedimensional wall art made out of copper and brass wire, felt, and a whole variety of textile media. Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670. Concept Alters Reality 6pm-8pm. Sculpture by Caroline Ramersdorfer. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

Body / Mind / Spirit Hudson Valley Community Reiki 11am-1pm. New Paltz Recreation Center, New Paltz. 616-1219. Drumming Energy Circle 1:30pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Crystals Experience Workshop 4pm-6pm. $25/$30. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Crystal Sound Healing With Philippe Garnier. 5pm-6pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Open Level Class: Trapeze 10am-12pm/12:15pm-2:15pm. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 255-4375. Pagan Festival Call for times. Featuring harpist Siobhan. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Salsa Festival Call for times. Weeds Orchards, Marlboro. 236-2684. Peach and Pony Festival Call for times. DuBois Farm, Highland. 795-4037. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Live music, cooking demos, children's activities. Millerton, Millerton. www.neccmillerton.org/farmers.htm. Fundraiser Flea Market 7:30am-2pm. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. www.ocfleamarkets.com. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Glorious Greens are the focus of the Healthy Eating Series. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Hyde Park Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Hyde Park Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-9111. A 3-D Archery Shoot 9am. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Catskill Region Farmers' & Artisan’s Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Main Street, Catskill, Catskill. welcometocatskill.com. Hurley Heritage Society 30th Annual Corn Festival 10am-4pm. Crafts, specialty foods, children’s activities, antiques, corn chowder, sweet corn, entertainment, food and craft demonstrations, flowers, and quilt raffle. $3/ children free. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 338-1661. Farm Market Stand/Ask the Farmer 12pm-4pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Hudson Valley Ribfest 12pm-6pm. $5. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.hudsonvalleyribfest.org. Catskill Mountain Chapter of ASD-Dowsers Meeting 1pm-3pm. $5/$3 ASD members. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Kingston Farmers’ Market

Rock & Bowl Vinyl Dance Party with DJ Dave Cook 8pm-12am. $25 to benefit Saugerties Art Lab. Bowling, dancing, cash bar, snacks. Bowler's Club, Saugurities. 246-5577; artlab@earthlink.net.

Urban Guerilla Theatre 9pm. $15/$12. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

SATURDAY 21

Creating a Harmony of History, Community and Farmland with the Best of the Hudson Valley.

Kids Music Fun for Kids Call for times. Music games, songs, playing simple percussion instruments. $96 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Music Setting Sun and Quiztow Call for times. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164. Viennese Popular Music and Operetta 10am. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Composers Select: New Music in the 1920s 1:30pm. Talk at 1pm. $35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Marji Zintz 2pm. Americana. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Cornwall String Ensemble 3pm. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115. Creation 5pm. Pop, soft rock. Rogers Point Marina, Hyde Park. 229-2236. Cosi Fan Tutte 7pm. The Delaware Valley Opera. $25/$22 seniors and students. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 252-7272.

Over a Decade & Still Growing Strong! Saturdays May 29th - November 20th 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Rain or Shine Wall Street · Uptown Kingston Crafts on John Street 1st & 3rd Saturdays

Local apples, fresh, sweet corn and so much more!

845-853-8512

Visit us online to read about our events throughout the month.

www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org

Rhett Miller 7:30pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.