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regional notebook

health care almanac

12 local luminary: Catherine "cappy" hill

76 a compendium of doctors and healthcare professionals

Brian K. Mahoney talks higher education with the Vassar College president.

whole living guide

news and politics

80 hot water: the therapeutic benefits of soaking

18 while you were sleeping

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Thousands of gallons of oil spill in to the Hudson River at Indian Point and more.

22 balancing act

Immersion in water just over the hundred-degree mark is an ancient pleasure with health benefits beyond the sensuous.

84 Flowers Fall: it's winter now

David Moberg's guide to the tough-choice deficit-reduction schemes.

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26 beinhart’s body politic: class warfare, part II

Bethany Saltman on the wispy web of fantasy life that permeates our moment-tomoment experience, and why the only way out is in.

How has a tiny fraction of the population trumped the interests of the majority?

fitness, gyms, & spas

community pages

90 strength in numbers

29 wallkill valley wonderland: new paltz & gardiner .

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Anne Pyburn Craig strolls in the shadow of the Shawangunk Ridge.

51 powerful attractor: the berkshires .

Jamie Larson visits the towns of Great Barrington, Lenox, and Stockbridge.

advertiser services 20 education A collection of local schools and ongoing education centers.

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

72 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

85 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

weddings & celebrations 56 put a ring on it .

Crispin Kott gets the skinny from local trainers on the myriad group fitness options available locally, why working out in a group can be more motivating than going it alone.

Anne Reynolds reports on the latest trends in wedding jewelry.

zumba class on the lawn at the ymca in kingston

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Celebrate Vassar College’s 150th anniversary!

Every month during 2011 special programs include: performances of opera, drama, and dance; special exhibitions; and conferences, lectures, and symposia.

For information on Vassar’s year-long Sesquicentennial celebration, see http://150.vassar.edu.

Rediscover

Picasso, O’Keeffe, Dürer, Cole, Church, Rembrandt, Pollock, Warhol, Van Gogh, Calder, Matisse, Rothko, de Kooning, Miró, Arbus, Avedon, Holzer, Stieglitz, Inness —to name just a few.

After a seven-month hiatus for renovations, the Art Center proudly reopens its doors with a refreshed presentation of the permanent collection.

Join us for our reopening

celebration on Thursday, January 20 th at 5 pm.

We are planning a spectacular evening.

Also on view from January 28 to March 27: 150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin

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arts & culture

food & drink

38 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe

64 cold gold

42 music

67 restaurant openings

Peter Aaron profiles New Paltz roots-reggae group The Big Takeover.

Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Tao Seeger Band ยกRise and Bloom! Reviewed by Michael Eck. The Tins The Tins. Reviewed by Jeremy Schwartz.

The Westport Sunrise Sessions Galesh. Reviewed by Mike Wolf.

46 BOOKS Nina Shengold talks with Bruce McPherson, who recently published Jaimy Gordon's National Book Award-winning Lord of Misrule.

48 BOOK reviews Marx Dorrity reviews Freud's Blind Spot, edited by Elisa Albert.

Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Playdate by Thelma Adams.

50 Poetry Poems by Noelle Adamo, Vernon Benjamin, Aleda Bliss, Brendan Blowers, Bella Finkel, Anthony Gambale, Jennie Guido, Nigel Gore, Forrest Hackenbrock, John Heath, Cliff Henderson, Frank LaRonca, Rebecca Maker, Ethan Romano, Jake St. John, Elliot Sutton-Inocencio, and Patrick Walsh. Edited by Phillip Levine.

112 parting shot

Agritourismo, Bistro Lilly, Charlie O's Hometown Bar and Grill, Delafields, Grimaldi's, Park Falafel and Pizza, The Restaurant at Club Helsinki, Rusty's Farm Fresh Eatery.

the forecast 94 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events.

(Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 93 Alt-chanteuse Neko Case belts it out at the Bearsville Theater on February 1.

95 Modfest, Vassar's annual new year cultural explosion, begins January 20.

101 "Thoughts of Home: Photographs from Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection" will be exhibited at the Dorsky Museum through March 18.

103 Dr. Sacha Spector talks global warming adaptation strategies on January 6.

105 Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings play the Bardavon on January 23.

planet waves 106 Annual Horoscopes for 2011 Eric Francis Coppolino offers a preview for what's in store this year astrologically.

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Jack's Lawn, a linocut by Carol Slutzky-Tenerowicz.

Peter Barrett talks visits the four-season farm at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills.

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The elegantly posed and fancifully dressed woman in Winterlude appears to be wearing a fur boa. A closer look reveals a fox with freshly caught prey—a mouse—dangling from its mouth. The woman, adorned with snow-covered whorls of spruce, is seemingly ignorant of this detail. This peculiar arrangement is artist Steven Kenny’s representation of the dysfunctional relationship between humans and nature.

Kenny, a Warwick resident, believes humans tend to focus on the glamorous aspects of nature and ignore its visceral features, like the cycle of life and death. “We turn a blind eye to the things that upset us, but from nature’s point of view they’re just necessary,” says Kenny. “There's something that really bothers us about death. But nature doesn’t distinguish so much between [life and death]. It’s not sentimental the way we are.”

The human figure is fantastically combined with natural elements throughout Kenny’s work. A series of paintings features birds perched on hands transfigured into tree branches. Kenny also often embellishes his subjects with luxurious clothing made from earthy artifacts. The women wear elaborate Victorian gowns composed of rock, cacti, tree trunks, or bark. Prom-style dresses are fabricated from a rain cloud or waterfall.

Moss sweaters are ornamented with leaves, mushrooms, and flowers.The figures in his paintings are not only interacting with their environment, but they are also confronted by their own human nature. Kenny makes it evident that although the world may be evolving with technology, human beings are still connected to the Earth.

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hen brewer Matthew Vassar first addressed the trustees of the women's college that he founded in 1861, he laid out an impassioned plea for equal education. "The mothers of a country mould the character of its citizens, detemine its institutions, and shape its destiny," Vassar said. "Next to the influence of mother is that of female teacher." In the 150 years since its founding, Vassar College has evolved from a small teacher's training school for women (Vassar went coed in 1969) to one of the most selective institutions of higher education in the country, consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges by US News & World Report and Princeton Review.The school also consistenly ranks among the top 10 colleges producing undergraduate Fulbright fellows in the country.

The accomplishments of Vassar grads include Pulitzer prizes (Elizabeth Bishop, 1934) and Oscars (Meryl Streep, `71), as well as a surfeit of cultural output from the likes of filmmakers (Noah Baumbach, `91) and actors (Lisa Kudrow, `85; Hope Davis, `86). Vassar's humanities programs tend to overshadow its scientific curriculum, yet the first faculty member hired by Matthew Vassar was breakthrough astronomer Maria Mitchell, and the school's interdisciplinary science programs are on the cutting edge in robotics and bioinformatics. A state-of-the-art science building that will house all of Vassar's science departments is planned to break ground in 2013.

2011 is Vassar's sesquicentennial. In late November I spoke with Vassar College President Catherine "Cappy" Hill about the school's next 150 years.

—Brian K. Mahoney What’s a typical day for a Vassar College president like?

I tend to have two lives, one of which is on campus and one is off campus. When it’s an on-campus day, it’s a day of meetings from the minute I get to my office— frequently through a dinner, sometimes something in the evening after dinner.

Those meetings are with other administrators, they’re with faculty, and they’re with students. Then I probably spend a week of every month on the road meeting with alums and doing some public service things; I’m on a couple of nonprofit boards that relate to higher education. So that’s most of my life; I also have a family and a dog.

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Only recently did I get a real appreciation of the sciences at Vassar. Now I have the sense that a lot of changes are coming down the pike, with a new science building and renovations of facilities being planned.

We have this incredible collection of period-piece buildings, and over the last 20 to 25 years we’ve been slowly going through them and renovating them. Our library is spectacular. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is wonderful. In the past decade we renovated an incredibly eclectic building, Kenyon Hall, over on the other side of campus, which has electronic classrooms that our faculty and students use intensively.

Kenyon also has a world-class volleyball court as well as squash courts and our dance studios and performance space, so it’s this very diverse, wonderful building. But we are behind on the sciences. Not in terms of the curriculum, but we’ve got a very charming but outdated physics building that could be used for a Back to the Future movie set. Our chemistry building is not that old but unfortunately has been more or less dysfunctional from the day it opened. Our psychology department is in a building on the other side of campus from most of our science departments, whereas psychology now is really a part of our interdisciplinary science programs to a very large extent. So rather than just renovate the existing buildings and have them not be adequate for what’s going on in the curriculum, we have a new plan that renovates some of them and adds an exciting new building. This new building will literally form a bridge between parts of our campus and connect to our existing biology building, Olmsted Hall. So we’ll have a more integrated science area on campus with a large share of the square footage in both Olmsted Hall and this new bridge building.

In a recent Letter from the President posted online you wrote that Vassar’s endowment is down $100 million.

Actually from its highpoint of $870 million it’s now down to about $700 million.

How does that affect the way the college operates?

Well, we use that endowment primarily to support operating expenses. We try to spend annually about 5 to 5.5 percent of it as a ballpark goal. In down years we may spend a higher percentage than that; in good years we try not to spend as much. So

we’ve really had to adjust our budget to the decline in the endowment. Now the run up to its high point had been pretty steep, because the stock market did so well. It hadn’t been sitting at $870 million for long, however. It got up there in the last couple of years, which meant that we had to scale back our spending. It took two years to do that. These were not easy decisions. It’s much easier to increase a budget than it is to decrease a budget.

When you came on as president, one of the first things you did was to reinstate need-blind admissions. Why is need-blind admission so important?

Well, we are a private, nonprofit institution, so we have a variety of advantages that the federal and state government give us. We don’t pay income tax. We don’t pay tax on our endowment. We can borrow as a nonprofit so our debt is tax exempt, which gives us an advantage in the market. People can take charitable deductions on their income taxes for their gifts to us. The reason that the federal government and state governments do that is because they see what we do as supplying a public good. We’re not like a car dealership looking to make a profit.We are doing something in the public interest, educating the most interesting, brightest students who can qualify to get in.

I think it’s part of the country’s commitment to equal opportunity. If you’re a smart kid, you should have the opportunity to go to the best school you can possibly attend, regardless of your family’s ability to pay.

But you’re not obligated to offer need-blind admission.

No, and if we really couldn’t afford it, we wouldn’t be able to do it. There are many really wonderful schools that can’t afford to be need blind. But many of the selective schools have the resources to be need-blind and to offer significant financial aid.

There’s been a lot of evidence presented recently that there are plenty of talented lower-income kids who are absolutely qualified to come to these schools but aren’t going, often because they don’t know that the schools that offer financial aid can be very affordable. If, in fact, they come to these most selective schools, their chances of graduating is higher, and their chances of going on to grad school is higher. So all kinds of benefits accrue from coming to our kind of schools that ought to be available broadly to talented students regardless of their family background. And I think it’s also in our interest to get the most interesting and the smartest kids we can, and not limit ourselves to just a part of the pool of high school graduates. Going need blind was both a commitment to a principle [and] also a method of getting a message out to high school students that this is a place that you should think about, and I believe it has contributed to our growing pool of applicants and the diversity of that pool.

How do you view Vassar’s role within Poughkeepsie?

I think it’s incredibly important. We’re part of Poughkeepsie, both the town and the city. We’re neighbors but we also employ about a thousand people. Many of them live in the city or the town or the surrounding towns. It’s where their spouses work, it’s where their kids go to school, it’s where their parents work. I just see us as part of the community, and we need to be a good neighbor. Our students increasingly want to be engaged in the local community in a variety of ways. They want to go do internships.

They want to volunteer in the local schools. They want to volunteer in the local social service organizations. They want to go shopping in the local communities. It’s very important for Vassar to continue to build on these local relationships—and to figure out what the local pressure points are.

What’s been the most challenging issue since you’ve become president?

It absolutely had to be the economy. I came in the fall of ‘06, and we spent 18 months to two years thinking about the direction we wanted to take the institution. We made some important decisions like being need blind and hiring an architect to work on the science facilities, and then the fall of ‘08 arrived and literally every month got worse and worse and worse. We kept sequentially planning what to do, and by February we realized it was a major negative event. So responding to that was probably the most challenging. It had been a pretty good couple of decades, so there weren’t a lot of people out there who remembered bad times and making hard decisions. It had really been an environment of “What are we going to add?” as opposed to “How are we going to get this all to work out?”

You’re only Vassar’s 10th president; there haven’t been that many of you.

What would you like your legacy to be at Vassar?

Ten of us, 150 years. That’s a 15-year average term. That’s a long time. I’m hoping I can really solidify the institution’s commitment to a diverse student body from all different backgrounds and really make sure that’s something we’ve got the resources for. We have a wonderful faculty, and continuing to make sure that’s the case is important. Part of the magic of the place is the place itself, our physical campus. Vassar’s previous president did a wonderful job of getting through much of what needed to be renovated. I see the sciences as the piece I hope to get done for future generations, and I think we will.

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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: The December full moon coincided with the winter solstice, and a total lunar eclipse.

Witnessing the beautiful interaction of extraterrestrial bodies was worth staying awake until 3 am, and not just because it was an uncommon coincidence, but because it was a refreshingly cosmic event originating outside our human-contrived machinations.

Much could be said about the potent confluence of the celestial symbolsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the returning of the light, lunar fullness, earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interruption of that fullnessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;each has a strong inner significance.

But the event itself invites a direct expansion of context and consciousness when, for a moment, attention stops fixating on the personal and human conversations that define our worldview, and expands like a psychic soap bubble to include the solar system.

Looking out past the atmosphere to a vast world that humans can barely comprehend, I was reminded of the allegory of a certain gnat, named Namouss, told by the Persian Sheikh Hamza Maqtul of the Malamati order of dervishes (also known as the Blame-Takers).

Once upon a time there was a gnat. His name was Namouss, and he was known, because of his sensitivity, as Perceptive Namouss. Namouss decided, after reflection upon his state, and for good and sufficient reasons, to move house. The place which he chose as eminently suitable was the ear of a certain elephant.

All that remained to do was to make the move, and quite soon Namouss had installed himself in the large and highly attractive quarters. Time passed. The gnat reared several families of gnatlets, and he sent them out into the world. As the years rolled past, he knew the usual moments of tension and relaxation, the feelings of joy and sorrow, of questing and achievement which are the lot of the gnat wherever he may be found.

The elephantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ear was his home; and, as is always the case, he felt (and the feeling persisted until it became quite permanent) that there was a close connection between his life, his history, his very being and this place. The ear was so warm, so welcoming, so vast, the scene of so many experiences.

Naturally Namouss had not moved into the house without due ceremony and a regard for the proper observances of the situation. On the very first day, just before moving in, he had cried, at the top of his tiny voice, his decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;O Elephant!â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;he had shoutedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Know that none other than I, Namouss the Gnat, known as Perceptive Namouss, propose to make this place my abode. As it is your ear, I am giving you the customary notice of my intention.â&#x20AC;?

The elephant had raised no objection.

But Namouss did not know that the elephant had not heard him at all. Neither, for that matter, had his host felt the entry (or even the presence and absence) of the gnat and his various families. Not to labor the point unduly, he had no idea that gnats were there at all.

And when the time came when Namouss the Perceptive decided, for what were to him compelling and important reasons, that he would move house again, he reflected that he must do so in accordance with established and hallowed custom. He prepared himself for the formal declaration of his abandonment of the Elephantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ear. Thus it was that, the decision finally and irrevocably taken and his words sufficiently rehearsed, Namouss shouted once more down the elephantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ear. He shouted once, and no answer came. He shouted again, and the elephant was still silent.The third time, gathering the whole strength of his voice in his determination to register his urgent yet eloquent words, he cried: â&#x20AC;&#x153;O Elephant! Know that I, the Gnat Perceptive Namouss, propose to leave my hearth and home, to quit my residence in this ear of yours where I have dwelt for so very long. And this is for a sufficient and significant reason which I am prepared to explain to you.â&#x20AC;?

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LETTERS In Praise of Ranting To the Editor: A good rant [Letters, 12/10] is a lot of fun and all too rare. So thank you, Ed Fertik, for having one, and thank you, Chronogram for publishing it.

The best rants quickly signal the detonation level of the ranter—hopefully, he or she is close to self-immolation. Ed met that standard.

The rant should be focused only on the ranter’s viewpoint. A high-five to Ed, he made the grade. We learned he is a Tea Partier who hates Mr. Obama and “Obamunism.” (Top-level ranters are always good at innuendo.)

A good ranter displays virginal shock at other’s views. Ed does it well: “This is terribly offensive,” he coyly says of Larry Beinhart’s comment on Republican philosophy.

The best ranters use good, strong insights to support their views. Ed is clear: “ass whipping”; “failed presidency.” These insights meet the grade.

Top ranters diminish what is real: “Your so-called magazine,” Ed says.

The finest ranters wrap their argument with an insult: “They [your so-called magazine] make fine mats for mud rooms.”

On this one I’m not so sure. Chronogram’s pages are varnished; the NewYork Times would perhaps be a more practical choice.

But my compliments to Ed. He met every standard.

—Michael Littler, Highland To the Editor: Please let Mr. Beinhart know for me that if he had done nothing else this year except get under the skin of Teabaggers, he has done the rest of humanity a great favor and to please keep it up.

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To the Editor: It was disturbing to me as an American to read Larry Beinhart’s rant against financially successful people in the December issue of Chronogram.Why admitted liberals would want to take such a discriminatory stand against other Americans is hard for me to understand. And make no mistake, class discrimination is as disgusting and morally wrong as race discrimination, age discrimination, or religious discrimination. It appears that Beinhart feels that as long as liberals feel that a form of discrimination is okay, then it is.

Let me ask Mr. Beinhart to tell us where philanthropy would come from if we beat down the wealthy as he wishes to do? Who would buy boats, jewelry, luxury cars, fine food, world cruises? In fact, who would employ people? Larry—the average person on the street does not hire people. They are not employers. Financially successful people are the employers. Do you want to punish employers to the point that they just leave America for a place where there is no class discrimination? Do you want unemployment to reach 20 percent? Maybe you do, so that socialism has a better chance of taking hold. Is that the master plan? Do you want to punish success and reward things like unemployment in America? Are we becoming a country where money is used to cause shame and getting money without working is the new dream?

Sure, there are many wealthy people that try to rip off the system, and I believe we need much stronger enforcement. But the sad news is that there are far more regular people involved in unemployment insurance fraud, Social Security fraud, Medicaid fraud, Section 8 housing fraud, and tax fraud. There is a whole group of Americans who farm government regulations as if it were a crop. Take it from me, because I’m a “Fed” and I’ve seen it firsthand for the massive problem it is and the waste of tax dollars that it is.

On the first trip of Albert Einstein to New York City in the 1920s (to raise money for the Hebrew University in Palestine), he remarked at how beautiful it was that New Yorkers showed no envy or dislike between the classes. Is America becoming a country that well-to-do people should fear? Readers of Chronogram hopefully see Beinhart’s discriminatory behavior, which may be directed at them.

I think that most people who shop at Asia Barong or retreat at Omega Costa Rica (two of Chronogram’s advertisers) are affluent!

We should applaud honest people who earn lots of money, and by the way—the wealthiest 3 percent of our country already pay 90 percent of all income taxes.That sounds more than fair to me.

—Ed Fertik, Philmont

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The Fretting Room The January issue can be tough on an editor. The first few weeks of the year are always a fallow time culture-wise, as if there was some unspoken rule that we all needed a breather after exhausting ourselves on the overstocked artistic offerings of summer and fall, followed close on the heels by the run of festivities that stretches from Thanksgiving through New Years.

(Gregg Allman, who returns to UPAC in Kingston on January 8, is a notable exception.) This leaves yours truly a bit of a nervous wreck in November and December, waiting to see what’s added to the schedule at local venues for the upcoming year so we can write about in the January edition.

The universe is perfect, of course, so all an editor’s fretting does is create a waiting room to contain his mental pacing until he can move on. (The fretting itself is perfect too, as our resident Zen mom, Bethany Saltman, who knows something about anxiety, will tell you; Flowers Fall, page 84.) And, as always, the press releases come in, and previews are assigned for the January issue.

What’s happening this month was certainly worth waiting for. Some highlights of our coverage: After being closed for nine months for roof repairs, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College opens on January 27 with “150Years Later: Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin.” The show of photographs was commissioned by the college to celebrate its sesquicentennial, and it's a centerpiece of Modfest, the college’s annual early year aesthetic eruption, which features over 20 performances and events. (Forecast, page 95).

As much as I tried to hate Amy Winehouse’s 2006 hit “Rehab,” I couldn’t.

Despite the excess of publicity surrounding the singer and her made-for-reality TV lifestyle, the record had an old school groove with a serious booty shake. The musicians responsible for that classic soul sound were the Dap-Kings, a Brooklynbased outfit fronted by fiery Sharon Jones. Jones and the Dap-Kings are the vanguard of an R&B/soul revival that will tell Poughkeepsie what funking time it is on January 23 at the Bardavon (Forecast, page 105).

I’ve harbored a lot of crushes on girl singers in my time, but alt-chanteuse Neko Case is a rare blend of brains, beauty, and minimally contained feral instincts. Dig this lyric from “People Got a Lotta Nerve,” on Case’s recent Middle Cyclone: “You know, they call them killer whales / But you seem surprised / when it pinned you down to the bottom of the tank / where you can’t turn around / it took half your leg and both your lungs / I’m a man-eater / But still you’re surprised, when I eat you.” You might not want to get too close when Case takes the stage at the Bearsville Theater on February 1 (Forecast, page 93).

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You’ve Got Hate Mail I’d like to thank the many readers who wrote in with short notes of support or posted comments online following the letter we printed last month by Ed Fertik, who claims affiliation with the Columbia County Tea Party. Mr. Fertik took exception to our “left-wing bias” and suggested that the magazine was best fit to serve as a doormat in a mud room. (It should also be noted that Chronogram, once you scrape the mud off, can do double duty as a starter log for the fireplace. Just roll it up nice and tight—the recycled paper and soy-based inks burn clean and hot.) Donna Oakes, owner of Cow Jones Industrials, a vegan boutique, penned a typical heartfelt response: “I have advertised with Chronogram over the last few years. After reading the last letter to the editor (“Perfect for Mud Rooms!”), I knew that I was advertising in the right place. Keep up the good work.”

We’ve printed a couple of the notes (Letters, page 16), in addition to another missive by the irrepressible Ed Fertik, who laments the way we discriminate against financially successful people. I appreciate Mr. Fertik’s close reading of the magazine, and it’s wonderful to be able to provide a forum in Chronogram for opposing points of view. If you’d like to add your voice to the mix, just e-mail me at bmahoney@chronogram.com or post a comment at Chronogram.com.

Off-Broadway Smash The publishing houses whose authors contend for prestigious literary prizes year in and year out are primarily based in NewYork, with addresses on Broadway or close to it. 2010 was no exception, save for the fact that Jaimy Gordon’s gritty racetrack tale, Lord of Misrule, which won the National Book Award for fiction in November, was published by McPherson & Company, whose one-man operation is located just off Broadway in Kingston, New York. Bruce McPherson has been publishing small runs of important books since 1974, when he published Gordon’s first novel, Shamp of the City-Solo. (The book's title alone fairly oozes a difficult-yet-bound-to-build-acultlike-following ethos.)

The award for Misrule is huge for McPherson (and Gordon!), propelling his imprint onto the national stage. Since Misrule was nominated, McPherson has been caught up in a whirlwind of promotion, capitalizing on the book’s sudden notoriety. (Just before Christmas, Misrule was ranked a respectable No. 30 on the NewYork Times bestseller list.) But McPherson knows that buzz fades, and work— the pursuit of excellence that is a day in, day out affair, only rarely validated by laurels—remains. “Sooner or later, all this will be over,” McPherson tells our books editor, Nina Shengold, who profiles the publisher this month. “And that will be good too.” (Books, page 46.)

Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art Jeff Battersby and Tom Holmes will lead the monthly dialogue session at the BEAHIVE in Beacon on January 6 from 7:30-9pm on "Legitimacy, Legacy, and Impact." Cosponsored by the Beacon Art Salon and Rutigliano Group. www.giraffeandturtle.com/bas Iron Grad 2: The Return The Rhinecliff Hotel's over-the-top culinary competition returns to Stadium Kitchen Rhinecliff on January 10 at 6:30pm. With special guest chef Rich Reeve of Elephant. www.therhinecliff.com

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According to the annual survey conducted by the Chronicle of Higher Education, several US college presidents receive more than $1 million in annual compensation.

Touro College paid President Bernard Lander $4.7 million, the highest salary in the country. The president of Southern Methodist University in Dallas earned $2.7 million.

Quinnipiac University in Connecticut paid its president $1.8 million. The Chronicle report predicts more presidents will surpass $1 million annual salaries as the baby boomers retire and receive large payouts.

Source: Boston Globe Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear announced he had secured a deal with Ark Encounter LLC to build a creationism theme park, which is set to open in 2014. The $150 million amusement park is expected to bring 900 jobs and $250 million in revenue to the state, according to a press release from the governor’s office. It will be located on 800 acres in Grant County and will include a full-size Noah’s Ark, Walled City, live animal shows, a replica of the Tower of Babel, a 500-seat special effects theater, an aviary, and a first-century Middle Eastern village.

Sources: Gawker; Courier-Journal The Troubled Assets Relief Program’s $700 billion bailout is now expected to cost the federal government $25 billion. The Congressional Budget Office’s report released on November 29 said when TARP was created in 2008 it was not apparent that the cost would turn out to be this low, but the financial system stabilized and improved.

So far, $389 billion has been distributed through TARP, which expired in October. The CBO estimates that an additional $44 billion will go to American International Group and federal mortgage programs. That would bring total TARP spending to $433 billion, of which $216 billion has been repaid.

Source: Washington Post

Heavy traffic is seen on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on November 11, 2010.

The number of people living in African cities will triple over the next 40 years, according to UN-Habitat’s State of African Cities 2010 report. Urbanization is happening faster in Africa than anywhere else in the world, the report indicates. In 2015, it is estimated Lagos will have 12.4 million inhabitants and overtake the Egyptian capital Cairo as Africa’s biggest city. By 2050, Africa’s urban population is expected to reach 1.23 billion. UN-Habitat’s Executive Director Joan Clos said agricultural reform and poverty in rural areas is the reason for the trend.

Source: BBC

Last year, America’s Health Insurance Plans gave the US Chamber of Commerce $86.2 million that was used to oppose the health care overhaul law. The money paid for advertisements, polling, and grassroots events in opposition to the bill, said Chamber of Commerce spokesman Tom Collamore. Other large donations have been given to the Chamber, such as a $15.4 million 2008 transaction from an unidentified contributor and an anonymous $4.5 million contribution in 2009. Funneling the money through the Chamber allowed insurers to negotiate with Democrats while still getting the bill criticized by a credible source, said Trevor Potter, the head of the political activity practice at Washington law firm Caplin and Drysdale.

Source: Bloomberg An electrical transformer exploded at Indian Point on November 7 and resulted in 20,000 gallons of oil being released into the Hudson River. Private contractors hired by Entergy Corporation, the owner of Indian Point, hastily attempted to contain and remediate the oil spill. As of November 21, less than 10,000 gallons had been recovered. This is the second transformer explosion at Indian Point in three years.

Source: Riverkeeper

Netcare, South Africa’s largest private medical group, has pleaded guilty to performing illegal kidney transplants at a hospital in Durban. Poor donors, some of them children, were flown in from Brazil and Romania and given thousands of dollars to have a kidney removed. Netcare agreed to pay fines of nearly $1.1 million. The charges are related to more than 100 operations carried out between 2001 and 2003. Those involved in the transplant scandal have been fired by Netcare.

Source: BBC

For a study published by Psychiatric Services, Portland State University researcher Mark Kaplan collected information about female deaths by suicide in 16 states. He found that female veterans age 18 to 34 are three times as likely as their civilian peers to commit suicide. Dr. Jan Kemp, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Suicide Prevention Hotline, says many of the women who call are struggling to deal with military rapes they experienced during their deployments. Veteran mothers with post-traumatic stress disorder also call the hotline with concerns about being unable to take care of their children.

Source: NPR

The Senate approved the Food Safety Modernization Act on November 30 by a vote of 73 to 25. The House passed it as well on December 21 and President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law. The legislation would greatly strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s enforcement by granting powers to immediately recall tainted foods, increase inspections, demand accountability from food companies, and oversee farming. The bill also gives the FDA the ability to inspect foreign processing plants and set standards for how fruits and vegetables that are to be imported into the US are grown abroad.

Source: New York Times

The approximate amount of the Bush tax cuts on income above $250,000 a year would cost the government $60 billion. Households benefiting from these cuts will, on average, save $25,000 annually. The $60 billion could buy triple the amount of federal funding for medical research, a 15 percent cut in corporate taxes, and a $500 tax cut for all households. It could also buy tuition and room and board for about half of all full-time college students, twice as much money for clean-energy research, and a larger troop surge in Afghanistan.

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Balancing Act A Guide to current Deficit Reduction schemes

By David Moberg

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udget deficit mania grips the nation’s political elite.

Never mind that many people are more worried about finding a job, stagnant wages, home foreclosures, and the state of the Main Street economy.

Pundits and politicians from moderate centrists to the Tea Party rightwingers are frantically warning that if nothing changes, federal debt in 2050 will be three times the size of annual economic output—supposed proof that the end of America as we know it is at hand if we don’t make “tough choices.”

In late November, budget analysts began rolling out tough-choice plans that prescribe austerity for government, and people in the working and middle classes. Center-right proposals (with nominally bipartisan mixtures of budget cuts and tax increases) have been put forward­—most important by the co-chairs of Obama’s Fiscal Commission, Democrat Erskine Bowles, a multimillionaire former investment banker, and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson (BS); by former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin and former New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici (RD); and by the Pew Trust and Peterson Institute (PP).

A rejoinder, one that showed it is possible to create jobs and grow a new, fairer economy while balancing budgets, was provided by progressive Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a one-time community organizer who is now a member of the Fiscal Commission; The Citizens’ Commission on Jobs, Deficits, and America’s Economic Future (CC), organized by the Institute for America’s Future; and Our Fiscal Security (OFS), a joint project of the Economic Policy Institute, Demos, and the Century Fund. On the right, a “road map” was offered by incoming Budget Committee Chair Rep. Paul Ryan (PR), a Wisconsin Tea Party golden boy.

On December 1, Bowles and Simpson submitted a final Commission plan

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for a vote two days later. Cutting the deficit prematurely and endangering job market recovery, it closed roughly two-thirds of the deficit with cuts, the rest with new revenue—and the cuts hit Social Security, Medicare, and other crucial social programs as well as defense and farm subsidies. Despite some tweaks of the BS draft to emphasize growth or to soften some blows to the middle class, the final BS plan made “tough” choices that would balance mainly on the backs of low- and middle-income Americans—the very people who were the big losers during the Bush years and the Great Recession.

Predictably, the BS plan goes easy on the CEOs, bankers, speculators, and rich people who caused the crisis—the very same highly paid people (investment bankers like Bowles) who, through the media that they control, are stoking the deficit mania. That prominently includes Peter G. Peterson, the billionaire investment banker (Lehman Brothers), one-time Nixon adviser, and co-founder of the notorious Blackstone Group.

This deficit grand opera plays out as a variation on a discordant theme: The financial meltdown—viewed two years ago as a crisis of capitalism requiring massive state intervention—has somehow (and so conveniently) morphed into a crisis of government.The villain in this mainstream-media fantasy is the welfare state. It is a crisis that demands sacrifice from average citizens. Underlying this blame-the-government meme is a drumbeat to unleashing rule of the markets—in health care, education, pensions, and everything else. It is as if the collapse of 2008 taught no lessons about the limitations of markets.

A review of the six deficit-reduction plans yields 10 points of advice.

1. America is not Greece. (And in the short term, the deficit is a help, not a hindrance.)

The 2010 fiscal year deficit of $1.3 trillion represented roughly 9 percent of America’s gross domestic product. This was the biggest deficit since the end of

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A man holds a sign at a tax day rally by Tea Party activists in New City, rockland county, on April 15, 2010.

World War II, when deeper deficits did not inhibit growth and, in fact, turned out to precede two decades of shared prosperity.

However, with the 2008 collapse of the $8 trillion housing bubble, the year’s federal deficit compensated for declining consumer demand, saved or created as many as 3.7 million jobs, and helped stop economic free fall.

National governments do not operate like family households (which also go into debt, often wisely, for needs like education). Governments run surpluses or deficits in part as a reflection of business cycles and in part as a way to moderate business cycles. But according to Economic Policy Institute studies, debt does not constrain future growth.

Even if US debt rises to 70 or 80 percent of GDP in 2020, as different agencies project, it will still be moderate compared with many other rich countries (in 2009 it ranked behind 46 other countries, including Japan, which had debt equal to 160 percent of GDP). As the economy recovers, it will be easier to raise more revenue or make cuts that do not hurt low- and middle-income Americans and thus reduce the debt, even to the arbitrary, low goal of 40 percent favored by the BS Commission.

“The reality is, we should be doing something to boost the economy,” says Center for Economic and Policy Research Co-chair Dean Baker. “Near-term focusing on the deficit is next to crazy.”

deficits than an economy hamstrung by constricted public demand.

Even if growth alone cannot solve future budget shortfalls, government spurs to long-term growth—including infrastructure investment, basic research, more education funding (especially early childhood), support for developing new “green” manufacturing, and rebalancing the global economy to reduce trade deficits—would be good in their own right.

2. In the next few years, the paramount fiscal policy goal should be stimulating growth and job creation.

That means, first of all, not scheduling any serious deficit-reduction plans before roughly 2015. The country needs faster job creation not only to reduce unemployment but also to push up wages. Faster job, wage, and GDP growth—whether stimulated by a 2011 Social Security tax holiday or new public investment—will also generate more revenue to reduce government

4. Beware proposals that use deficits to mask attacks on government, the welfare state, public employees, or Keynesian policies.

President Franklin Roosevelt, expanding on his New Deal achievements, called for a Second Bill of Rights—rights to a useful and remunerative job, adequate income, a decent home, medical care, a good education, and protection from economic hardships of old age and sickness. “True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence,” he argued.

3. There is no reason to cut Social Security and many reasons to expand it.

As the BS plan states, Social Security does not—and by law cannot—contribute to the deficit. By current projections, it can pay full benefits until 2037, and collecting Social Security taxes on all income—from earnings and capital— would make the system solvent for many more decades.

Yet many deficit proposals (BS, RD) target Social Security, cutting payments by changing the cost-of-living formula and raising the qualifying age.

But as both income inequality and people’s risk of sudden changes in income increase, and as reliable defined-benefit private pension plans vanish (except for executives like Erskine Bowles), the government needs to increase the payout to retirees, not to privatize Social Security as many Republicans still want.

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President Barack Obama speaks with former Republican Senator Alan Simpson (R) at the White House in Washington on April 27, 2010. Pictured on the left is former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles. simpson and bowles were co-chairs of obama’s fiscal commission, in charge of deficit reduction.

But Rep. Ryan (PR), the Wisconsin Tea Partier, sees in such policies a “culture of dependency” on a government with an “unsustainably rapid rate of spending growth” that threatens to “smother the economy” and corrode our “national character.”

The proposed austerity budgets are more Ryan than Roosevelt, seeking to cut government, not secure a “second bill of rights.” For example, some propose shrinking and limiting federal spending to 21 percent (BS) or 23 percent (RD) of GDP, a goal that has nothing to do with reducing deficits and everything to do with arbitrarily limiting government. Currently, the United States taxes and spends less as a share of GDP than all but two other developed countries, Turkey and Mexico. Taxes account for more than 40 percent of GDP in eight developed countries with thriving economies and high standards of living, but combined taxes from all levels of government in the United States account for only 26.2 percent of GDP, according to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

5. Focus solutions on the real problem: healthcare costs.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the vast majority of the projected deficit through 2020 comes from, in this order, the Bush tax cuts, the economic downturn, the Iraq and Afghan wars, and the Obama stimulus programs. Many of the deficit plans include some military cuts, but none propose a major shift on current wars.

Looked at from another perspective, rising health care costs—both in the general market and in public programs—drive virtually all the rising deficits.

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medical and financial risk to recipients. (RD and PR favor vouchers for buying private insurance to replace Medicare, an option raised by BS.) But moving toward a public, single-payer plan—or at least a public option—could bring health care costs more in line with those in peer countries, control the deficit, and better protect average citizens’ health and financial well-being.

“There isn’t a long-term deficit problem,” Baker says. “There’s a health care problem. If health care gets under control, economic growth goes a long way toward solving the deficit.”

6. Focus solutions to solve multiple real problems.

A very small financial speculation or transaction tax, for example, would have two benefits: discouraging useless and often dangerous speculation, and collecting new revenue.

Likewise, a carbon tax—or less straightforwardly, a cap-and-trade system, even a higher gasoline tax—would combat climate change, encourage efficiency, enhance security, and raise revenues to reduce long-term debt.

7. Make solutions progressive to reduce growing inequality.

The BS plan relies on budget cuts more than revenue increases to reduce deficits. University of California at Berkeley economist Brad DeLong calculates that, overall, BS gives the top 1 percent of income earners a $7,000 a year tax cut but “an average $600-a-year tax increase for the working and middle classes.” It uses much of the tax expenditure savings not to cut deficits but to reduce tax rates—far outside the Commission mandate. The regressive tax burden adds to the disproportionate harm people of modest means will suffer from program cuts and shifting costs.

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The crisis stemmed in part from rising inequality and the policies that fostered it, especially financial deregulation. The rich should pay the bulk of any deficit reduction costs: that is proportional to how they benefited and to their ability to pay. And new budget guidelines to reduce deficits should aim to reduce inequality over coming years, as the JS, CC, and OFS plans would do.

8. Help state and local governments with their budget crises.

Despite deep cuts in essential programs and workforces in at least 46 states, the crises continue, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Most states can’t run deficits and have limited borrowing power. Between congressional Republican insistence on cutting state aid and Republican governors’ zeal to cut state government, even to the point of rejecting federal high-speed rail investment, state and local cutbacks will intensify hardships for the vulnerable, and slow recovery of jobs and incomes.

9. Public opinion is not aligned with the deficit-obsessed political, media, and business elite.

Democrats lost badly in the midterms largely because too many working- and middle-class Americans did not see Obama and congressional Democrats delivering any tangible help for them. Some voters shifted to Republicans out of concern with deficits and big government, but a November NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed little support for the BS deficit plan. In Democracy Corps polling, 67 percent of voters wanted both growth-producing investment and deficit cuts, while 52 percent wanted Congress to fight against corporate interests and for the middle class rather than focus on controlling spending, deficits, and taxes.

10. Tough choices.

They’re not over targets for debt or spending as a share of GDP, nor how deeply to cut the incomes and security of the working and middle classes. The tough choices are over values, such as giving reality to a second bill of rights.

It’s over the question plaintively posed by songwriter Florence Reece to the coal miners of Harlan County as they faced the choice of being “a union man or a thug”: Which side are you on?

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ummary of Part I:We’re losing, they’re winning.Who are they? The richest 1percent. And maybe the next 9 percent. Who are we? All the rest.

Which poses an interesting question: How has a tiny fraction of the population—which is diverse in many ways—arranged for their narrowest economic interests to dominate the economic interests of the vast majority?

And, while they’re at it, endanger the economic well-being of our nation and bring the financial system of the whole world to the brink of collapse?

They have money.

We have votes. Theoretically, that means we should have the government.

Theoretically, government should be a countervailing force against the excesses of big money, take the long view for the good of the nation, and watch out for the majority, not to mention the poor and downtrodden.

What we actually have is one political party that is flat out the party of big money, and another party that sells out to big money.

Well, at least we have safety nets.

George Bush’s biggest regret is that he didn’t privatize Social Security. Why so eager? One reason is that it’s a big pile of money. Absolutely gigantic. It drives the bankers and brokers crazy that they can’t get their hands on it. The other is ideological hatred. Stephen Moore, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, contributing editor of the National Review, and president of the Free Enterprise Fund, has written, “Social Security is the soft underbelly of the welfare state. If you can jab your spear through that, you can undermine the whole welfare state.”

Where Bush failed, Obama has now taken the first step. His new tax deal includes cuts on employee contributions to Social Security. Which means defunding, weakening, and setting a new precedent—that Social Security contributions can be cut to “stimulate” the economy.

The crash has put the states in trouble. Rather than raise taxes, or borrow, several have decided on cuts to Medicaid, the program that services several categories of low-income people: pregnant women, children under 19, the blind, the disabled, and those who need nursing home care. If you’re a poor kid who needs a liver transplant, you can beg, rob a convenience store, or die.

This shift to the right is a triumph of a long and very well-funded propaganda campaign. Every time I read an op-ed in the New York Times and it says it was written by a “senior scholar” from the Hoover Institute or a “fellow” from the Cato Institute, I want to scream, “Please replace that with ‘paid whore funded by a psychotic right-wing billionaire’!” Which is significantly more accurate.

Conservatives, in turn, have a great influence on the mainstream media.

“As conservatives decried the media’s left bias, they saw their institutions mentioned in various media almost 8,000 times in 1995, while liberal or progressive think tanks received only 1,152 citations” (How Conservative Philanthropies and Think Tanks Transform US Policy, by Sally Covington, Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1998).

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Their influence on the national media affects the whole national dialogue. Now, of course, they’ve taken the think-tank concept to a whole new level: Fox News.

What about the media? Aren’t journalists—outside of Fox News—supposed to be objective?

In journalism there is no objective reality. There are only objectively collated quotes. Quotes can only come from “valid” sources. A journalist cannot look at tax cuts and compare them to economic results—job growth, changes in the median wage, and the like—and report that tax cuts do not create jobs.

They can only quote politicians, like Bush and Obama, who say that tax cuts are a stimulus, and then look for someone of equal authority—or at least significant authority—to say the opposite, then go Chinese menu, two quotes from column A, one from column B. But what if there are no heavyweights from column B ready to go on record?

Here’s where it gets stranger than strange. A whole field—economics— has lost its way. This became obvious when 99.7 percent economists (that’s a made-up, but probably accurate, figure), failed to predict the crash of ’08.

Failed to diagnose the housing bubble, failed to understand the derivatives bubble, and failed to realize that world’s biggest banks were all bankrupt.

After the crash, they failed to cry out against the tax cuts that brought it on. They failed to come up with a way to solve the problems. Which, based on history, seems fairly obvious: raise taxes and spend the money on useful things that private industry can’t or won’t do, like hiring people.

Paul Krugman’s theory, loosely paraphrased, is that economists suffer from physics envy, which is like penis envy, but dumber. Economics is a social science, which is soft. Social scientists look at physics, the hardest of the hard sciences.They see lots of math and formulas.They imagine that if they have lots of math, they will get hard too. In order to create mathematical models out of the messy complexity of human activity, they presume perfect markets. So long as the economy is stable, that frequently works.

Faith in the perfection of markets promotes deregulation and tax cuts. That destabilizes the economy. The economists, therefore, help create the disasters that don’t exist in their mathematical models.

Charles Ferguson, who directed the superb documentary Inside Job, is much more cynical. He believes that academic economists, like doctors who shill for pharmaceutical companies, are on the take from big-money interests. He does a marvelous job of demonstrating exactly that in the film.

Indeed, most of academia—except, perhaps, for English departments— have become part of the business, banking, military, and political nexus.

The ivory tower was supposed to be above the mucky world. That was one of our final defenses in the class war—a place devoted to knowledge for its own sake and truth just because it was true.

Now, universities pursue truths that someone will provide a grant for.

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aking a drive through New Paltz—any idea where I should have lunch?” asks someone on the Chowhound website. A lively discussion breaks out; one user posts a lengthy guide: the Village Tea Room is a lunchtime must, the Mountain Brauhaus and its addictive buttermilk salad dressing, “smartly chosen cheeses” at the Cheese Plate, “fresh, honest, creative food” at Karma Road, breakfast at the Main Street Bistro or the Mudd Puddle or Paul’s Kitchen. Or, the poster adds, go to Yanni for Greek salad, Gomen Kudasai for high quality Japanese. Then someone else chimes in about Beso, and yet another poster recommends Café Mio, in “the next town south, Gardiner.”

One imagines that the original Chowhound may end up deciding to do more than just pass through New Paltz, like hang around for a breakfast or three. She would not be the first to be captivated.

The New York Daily News paid backhanded tribute in the late 1960s, with a cover photo of longhairs milling about on Main Street, captioned “New Paltz: Town Torn By Too MuchYouth.” Page two featured a map and directions, which likely thrilled the town fathers no end. In 1968, a student got arrested for wearing the American flag as a superhero cape in a film class project. His fellow students rallied around him, and college president John Neumaier bailed him out. The 1970s saw appearances of stars like Grace Slick in what were then called the Tripping Fields south of the campus. (“You can’t possibly let Anne go there,” my grandfather proclaimed when he heard about my college plans.)

Alice Chandler and the Evil Plot In 1980, SUNY officials brought in President Alice Chandler, who had a clear mandate to trim the sails and tighten up on the “Berkeley of the East Coast.”

Funds were redirected from environmental and interdisciplinary studies to business and nursing, and protests—rather sparsely attended ones—failed to avail. Some believed it an evil plot and an end to all things good and creative on the campus—which, 30 years later, has added an elegant art museum and maintains a packed calendar of cultural events guaranteed to scare the flag pins off conservatives’ lapels, such as a meeting in November ’10 that brought together a Jewish refugee from the Nazi era, a Palestinian student, and about 150 others to discuss the Palestinian side of the story.

Not only were the rumors of the demise of Art highly exaggerated, the Party for Socialism and Liberation still rocks on. Today, my grandfather would probably be telling my parents I’d better hit community college for a couple of years first if I expected SUNY New Paltz to let me in, and he’d be right.

What the alarmists declaring New Paltz—torn—and the students proclaiming Alice Chandler to be a fascist tool both missed was how adeptly this town keeps its balance, wind-surfing through controversy on wave after wave of impassioned, intelligent new blood and a deep sea of old timers.

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Streets downtown; when the tide ebbs again, a fair number of impassioned, intelligent folks remain beached, and so it has likely been since at least the 1940s, when what had been a small teachers’ college became a state university branch.

The university has become a highly selective star in the SUNY firmament, with “Best Of ” list mentions pouring in over the past decade from US News andWorld Report, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Princeton Review, Newsweek, and High Times. And the Town Torn? It’s doing just fine, despite being repeatedly and perpetually Torn by one thing and another, from a gay-marrying mayor to property taxes.

A Simmering Soup of Creative Energy Storms of controversy are as New Paltz as the very curve of the hillside itself.

A Marriott Hotel on Lake Minnewaska was vetoed in the 1980s, to the alarm of some; a couple of outstanding midrange motels and a couple of dozen topclass bed-and-breakfasts have emerged from the fray. A plan for a Walmart on Main Street got another thumbs down; two decades later, the downtown is eclectic and throbbing with life and the Water Street Market, a sopping arcade, boasts over 20 retail outlets. You can get Rolfed, have your computer fixed, eat, antique, gift shop, and gallery hop at “a wonderful place to cherish the day,” as a visitor remarked on the market’s website. It seems unlikely that anyone other than Sam Walton has ever voiced such sentiments about WalMart.

The simmering soup of creative energy seasoned with sweet youth and the cayenne of controversy makes New Paltz—the town that sang to the rightwing hate monger Reverend Fred Phelps until he got back onto his bus and went home—a magnet for dreamers and wild talents of all sorts.There’s Tango Argentino, an international coalition of four exquisitely accredited dance instructors giving bargain lessons in a dance they believe has a healing power all its own, and there’s choreographer Susan Slotnik, transforming children and felons alike with the Figures in Flight Dance Company.

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YoukoYamamoto’s vision of “a little noodle shop” has been taking shape since 2004, and has become incarnate as Gomen Kudasai, its offerings described by one of the Chowhounds as “insanely delicious.” “We do a lot of things to give people a reason to come back,” Yamamoto says. “We’re showing eight local artists right now—people like Brenda Bufalino and Helena Bigley.” Bufalino is one of Slotnik’s mentors in the world of dance; Bigley is the wife of the director of Unison Arts and Learning Center, one of a plethora of thriving New Paltz cultural venues, which maintains a popular gallery at the Water Street Market. If one could draw a family tree of creativity in New Paltz, it would resemble a schematic of an intricately connected circuit board, wires going every which way.

New Paltz is a charismatic rock star of a town. Supervisor Toni Hokanson ticks off the familiar handful of reasons why: “The culture of the college, the beautiful surroundings, the fresh food, the Rail Trail, the mountains, the people. Community projects like Bikes that Heal, where you can rent a bike for a dollar and it helps people with leukemia. I really love this town.”

Decorous, Enigmatic, Chic Strong main lines connect all that creative energy with another big little town six miles south. Gardiner and New Paltz share a mountain range, a river, a school district, a weekly newspaper, and relative affluence—according to community surveys conducted by the Census Bureau between 2005 and 2009, over a third of the citizens of each realm are college educated, and median incomes were right around $80,000.

With a common school district, the young of both towns grow up together; with a common newspaper, citizens can (and do) sort out their controversies together on the letters page in strongly worded missives, bad puns, and occasional outpourings of verse. Rock-star New Paltz has a faster feel and a grittier edge— spiritual descendants of the “Too Much Youth” era still flock back in summer to camp beside the Rail Trail and panhandle from the tourists downtown—while Gardiner’s star quality maintains a more decorous presence, slightly enigmatic

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and chic. But besides the schools and the paper, both regular generators of controversies and solutions in their own right, both towns can lay claim to high a percentage of dogged dreamers whose achievements resound far beyond the local stage. Gardiner Supervisor Joe Katz has a list like Hokanson’s to reel off: a new library, new businesses in the commercial/industrial zone, community institutions like the annual tree lighting event (“The state trooper told me he wished his town had something like this,” says Katz), and the Cupcake Festival, which has over 1,000 Facebook pals who are avidly swapping cupcake recipes and licking their chops a full six months before festival time in May. The town’s cherished agricultural heritage blends with its artistic and social consciousness and spawns modern classics; CSAs thrive beside generations-old family farms. White Barn Farm Sheep and Wool, a fiber shop offering classes and gatherings for the handiwork community at its Knit Local Cafe, was born of proprietress Paula Kucera’s artistic sensibilities, melded with her deeply held belief in the importance of sustaining local agriculture. “Knit Community,” urges White Barn’s website—you can’t get much more Gardiner than that.

Both towns share strong environmental sensibilities. In Gardiner, where an open-space bonding act passed by one vote, shifts in the political wind led to the decision to fund-raise for open space without tapping taxpayers—and a lively bipartisan committee is halfway to the $50,000 needed to preserve the beloved Kiernan Farms, site of the Classics Under the Gunks car show that helped build the library.

“I moved up here from a part of Long Island where seeing three trees together in one place was a big deal,” reflects Gardiner resident Andi Weiss Bartczak, “and before I decided where to settle I drove up and down both sides or the river. First I moved to Greene County, but there wasn’t any community activism to speak of. Here, they fight for and against every little thing, and I love it—it’s a little precious at times, but deeply wonderful.” Bartzack is a science consultant with a PhD in environmental toxicology; in between putting in her two cents on local issues and maintaining scienceforcitizens.org, she’s finishing a scientifically based vampire novel. Dreams of all descriptions thrive here, albeit sometimes shaped by the controversies into things the dreamer might never have expected.

Case in point: When Ralph Erenzo purchased the Tuthilltown Gristmill in Gardiner, the avid climber believed he was on track to develop lodgings for his fellow Gunks rock jocks. Neighbors weren’t so sure about a major campground and event venue. The faint-hearted would have packed their things and fled—Erenzo hung in there. Today, he operates the first distillery to open in New York State since Prohibition, having successfully changed state law to make that possible, and his Hudson Baby Bourbon was recently lauded in the pages of the Los Angeles Times as a famed sommelier’s favored party beverage.

Not only that, the distillery has a new neighbor: Tuthil House at the Mill, a gourmet restaurant that looks likely to garner its own set of Chowhound raves.

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Taxes are atrocious—we’ve done great preserving open space, but we need to be more proactive about bringing in business and relieving that burden,” says Hokanson). A local gadfly has already launched a campaign for village mayor with an anticonsolidation stance. Anything might happen, and probably will, in the magical and magnetic land along the Shawangunk Ridge.

And longstanding local institutions, private and public, keep rockin’ on. “I came to New Paltz two years ago to ‘go to school,’” a Rock and Snow employee writes on the website of the 40-year-old outdoor boutique, whose owner, Rich Gottlieb, was recently recognized for his long list of community good works—and promptly thanked a long string of his allies.The slight irony of her quotation marks will bring a snicker of recognition to many. This area draws you in, picks you up, and shakes you. Sometimes you’ll discover that the reason you thought you were here has changed completely; in other cases it will simply grow like Alice after she ate the magical cakes. But one thing’s certain: Just living in the Wallkill Valley is an education.

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(l-r) Sam Tritto, Andy Vogt, Neenee Rushie, Chas Montrose, Rob Kissner, Jon Klenk

Talkin’ ’Bout a Revolution

The Big Takeover

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t’s a hell of a long way from Jamaica to the Hudson Valley. Something Neenee Rushie, a native of the former, is reminded of every year with the arrival of December.

“Awwgh! I hate the cold,” she grumbles outside a diner in midtown Kingston—New York—on one of the season’s first bitterly frigid nights. “I can’t get used to it.”

One can only surmise, then, that Rushie must have a pretty good reason for sticking around the Hudson Valley and not heading back to her homeland of palms and patois. Indeed, she does. Rushie sings for the Big Takeover, the area’s most exciting roots-reggae and ska act, and of the few that also specializes in rocksteady.

Largely overlooked in America, rocksteady is the midtempo, mid-’60sborn genre that evolved between ska and reggae proper, bridging the transition between the former’s up-beat rhythms and the latter’s laidback, balmy grooves. “When I tell people we play rocksteady usually they’re, like, ‘What’s that?’” says bassist Rob Kissner, who also does the band’s booking and recorded its two albums using his own equipment. “So most of the time I just end up saying we play reggae. Or ska. Then they get it. Around here, unless they’re really, really into reggae music, people don’t know what rocksteady is.”

True. But, then again, outside of Millie Small’s “My Boy Lollipop” (1964) and Desmond Dekker’s “Israelites” (1968), ska didn’t actually make much of an impression in the States until the early 1980s. That was when UK “TwoTone” revisionists—the Specials, Madness, the English Beat—hit the punk/ new wave circuit and sowed the seeds for a third generation of acts, several of whom—Rancid, Sublime, No Doubt—broke into the mainstream during the ’90s. And reggae, though now taken as a given on college campuses from Boston to Boise, didn’t really emerge as a viable force in the US until well after the 1981 passing of its preeminent saint, the great Bob Marley. So as far as the rise of rocksteady in America goes? Give ’em time, son.

Time, though, has certainly begun to pay off for the Big Takeover, which has been, well, rocking steadily since 2007. Comprising of guitarist Jon Klenk, trombonist Andy Vogt, saxophonist Chas Montrose, and drummer Sam Tritto, the group met while its members—all still in their early 20s— were college students, and maintains a brain-jarring schedule, regularly hitting NewYork and packing sweaty skankers into local venues like Bacchus and Snug Harbor in New Paltz and the Black Swan in Tivoli. The sextet has also shared stages with some of reggae’s heaviest names, opening for the legendary Wailers at the Chance in Poughkeepsie and Aston Ellis and Inner Circle at the Bearsville Theater.

“All of [the band’s members] have this great sparkle in their eyes, a very unique energy,” says promoter Lea Boss, who organized the Bearsville shows and manages reggae shop Free Spirit of Woodstock. “They just have a spark that we really haven’t seen in the Hudson Valley for a long, long time.”

For Kissner and Tritto, that spark took flight in their hometown of Beacon, where they got into music at about the same time and learned to play together in basement bands. So what was it that made a couple of suburban white boys want to play reggae, as opposed to heavy metal or folk rock? “Marijuana!” blurts Tritto—jokingly, he insists. “For me, as a kid, it just sounded good. I had a babysitter who played me [a recording of the Bob Marley song] ‘Buffalo Soldier’ and I loved it right away. Rob and I used to go to a lot of outdoor parties in the summer time and there’d always be reggae CDs playing in the background. We both loved the easy, laidback feel [of the music]. So we actually kind of grew up with reggae always being around us, and we definitely wanted to start a reggae band at some point.”

Although it would be a few years before Tritto and Kissner realized that particular musical goal, they did, however, continue to perfect their skills

in the funk-soul trio Filet of Soul, a group that still works the bars around SUNY New Paltz. It was there that Tritto met Rushie, who’d never been in a band before and had no aspirations beyond her undergraduate English studies. Nevertheless, the drummer and Kissner talked her into performing and started to recruit other musicians. One of the first was Klenk, a startling player whose burning, rock-edged leads are another characteristic strength that sets the Big Takeover apart from its rote-reggae competitors. (The guitarist further explores his Hendrixian, blues-rock side with Kissner in the Jonny Monster Blues Band.) Vogt and Montrose, who also divide their time with Highland ska unit Boy Scout Dropout, were added next, and the band rather quickly became one of the bigger draws in New Paltz.

With its growing regional cachet upped by a 2008 debut disc, Following Too Close (Independent; reviewed in the January 2009 issue of Chronogram), the outfit took to the road, getting on the bills at several outdoor festivals in New England and doing a two-week summer tour of the Southeast.

The latter experience was especially eye-opening for Rushie, who hadn’t visited much of the US beyond the Hudson Valley and New York and got to witness the universal appeal of her native nation’s main musical export firsthand. “We played in Virginia, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Baltimore,” says the singer. “And it was great. Of course, most of the people didn’t know our band before they came to see us, but there was just a really good vibe in the audiences. The roots of reggae are about peace and love, and they were feeling that.”

Last summer, between juggling area shows, day jobs, and side projects, the band released a stop-gap EP, Walk the Plank, and worked on its just-unveiled sophomore full-length, Tale of My Life (both Independent). Taped in a former doctor’s office building in Kingston, where some of the band members lived for several months, the album shows the group stretching out somewhat from the comparatively stricter Following Too Close to include dub (“Months of the Year”), dancehall (“Summertime in the Ghetto”), and even calypso-pop (“Take Me Home”). Two cuts reprised from the EP, “Rattle My Bones” and “Walk the Plank,” are among the strongest, thanks largely to Montrose and Vogt’s infectious dual horns.

Besides being more relaxed and conducive to experimentation, the sessions for Tale of My Life were also reflective of Kissner’s learning curve behind the recording console in that they went far more smoothly than those for the first album—which, he says with a noticeable groan, the band recorded in full four times before finally coming up with tracks deemed worthy of release. The tension from such efforts has certainly broken many a band. But throughout its trials in the studio and on the road and the stage, the Big Takeover has kept the exact same lineup since the beginning, which the bassist describes as being like “straight-up family.”

In addition to the all-important tightness of both its ranks and its music, with Rushie out front the band of course also possesses the advantage of having an actual Jamaican vocalist. Conversely, the singer might never have stepped up to the mike if she hadn’t been encouraged to by her bandmates.

“It’s ironic that I had to come [to the US] to play reggae,” muses Rushie, who also works as a substitute teacher in the Newburgh and Poughkeepsie school systems. “I’ve always loved music, but I really don’t think I would have been in a band if I’d stayed in Jamaica. Growing up there, I was headed toward a life of conformity. I had to come here to spread my wings.”

So one could say, then, that the intensely jubilant music the Big Takeover makes is the sound of Rushie, as well as her five gifted cohorts, spreading their creative wings—and picking up more and more new fans as they fly along.

Tale of My Life is out now. The Big Takeover will headline a release party for the album at the Bearsville Theater on February 19. www.bigtakeoverband.com.

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The Toasters January 15. Skanking hard atop the third-wave ska heap for almost 30 years, the Toasters, who pop into the Basement this month, were formed in New York by expatriate British singer-guitarist Rob “Bucket” Hingley in 1982. In addition to performing to bouncing throngs across the U.S. and Europe, the band has released over 20 albums (many of them on its own Moon Ska label) and landed tunes on TV (“Two-Tone Army” was the theme for Nickelodeon’s “KaBlam”). Pickitup, pickitup now! Opening acts to be announced. (Battle Avenue, Caterwaul, Cosmonaut, and the Wiggle Room squeeze in January 9; Tool tribute band Schism hammers January 28.) 8pm. $9. (845) 338-0744; www.myspace.com/thebasement744.

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6pm. Donation requested. Marlboro. (845) 236-7970; www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Frank London’s “A Night in the Old Marketplace” January 22. Like John Zorn, his frequent collaborator, Grammy winner Frank London has spent much of his career boldly bouncing between and blending avant jazz and Jewish music. Ending a week-long residency at MassMOCA, the trumpeter presents “A Night in the Old Marketplace,” his acclaimed theatrical work based on I. L. Peretz’s legendary 1907 Yiddish play. All About Jazz describes London’s original score, which mixes Jewish, jazz, world, rock, and classical styles, as “a decadent, rich, klezmer-cabaret backdrop that sounds like Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht deep in the bottle after an opium binge.” (The Felice Brothers fall in January 15; Red Baraat brings the bhangra funk January 29.) 8pm. $13. North Adams. (413) 662-2111; www.massmoca.org.

“GamVille” (hosted by the Wiyos) January 29. The way the Wiyos bring honking, shuffling, jiving, high-octane, washboardfueled energy to old-time Americana has won them diehard fans not only among 1960sgeneration folkies (Bob Dylan tapped them for his 2009 tour), but with fringe-dwelling hipsters as well. For “GamVille,” the band—now featuring erstwhile-Hunger Mountain Boy Teddy Weber and area mainstay Sauerkraut Seth Travins—brings to Club Helsinki a vaudeville-esque revue of handpicked guests and surprises. High hokum ’n’ hilarity, guaranteed. (Olabelle rolls through January 14; Iris Dement croons January 30.) 9pm. $15. Hudson. (518) 828-4800. www.helsinkihudson.com.

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January 30. Talk about a triumphant return. Claire Lynch, who was named 2010’s Female Vocalist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Society, was born in Kingston but beat it down South to Alabama when she was 12. A few decades later and back she comes for this homecoming at the Skytop Steakhouse. Look forward to Lynch’s gorgeous voice, which has graced recordings by Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Rondstadt, along with some of the amazing tunes she’s penned for Patty Loveless, the Seldom Scene, Kathy Mattea, and others. The Hudson Valley Bluegrass All Stars open. (The Upstart Blues All-Stars play January 1; rockabilly royals the Luster Kings hold court January 14.) 6pm. $20. Kingston.

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cd reviews Tao Seeger Band ÂĄRise and Bloom!

(2010, Independent)

Tao Rodriguez-Seeger has the roots. Heck, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pete Seegerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandson. But thankfully, the Hudson Valley-toNew Orleans transplant isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t precious about it. Too many new, younger old-time acts handle their songs like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Christmas ornaments, shiny and fragile. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worse, they apply the Berklee chops and replace all the mystery with antiseptic mastery. Not so on the debut release by the Tao Seeger Band. ÂĄRise and Bloom! (co-produced by Jono Manson and featuring fellow travelers Laura Cortese, Jacob Silver, Robin MacMillan, and Jason Crosby, along with special guests such as John Popper and Jim Weider) is built on bedrock stuff like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wild Bill Jonesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twelve Gates to the City,â&#x20AC;? but Rodriguez-Seeger folk-processes the snot out of such chestnuts. If his cussing on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reubenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trainâ&#x20AC;? seems gratuitous, his good humor on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Train on the Islandâ&#x20AC;? is beyond winning. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, this record rocks, and not euphemistically. The guitars are plugged in and loud, making the opening salvo of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sail Away Ladiesâ&#x20AC;? roar instead of romp.

The 38-year-old erstwhile Mammal does justice to his lineage with Peteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bring â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Em Homeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well May the World Goâ&#x20AC;? (in Spanish and English), but the heart of this fine, gritty effort is the gentle, too-true take on the then-and-current economy, Jim Garlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Want Your Millions, Mister.â&#x20AC;? The hushed aspects of the song contrast with the big thunder elsewhere and make the messageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I want my job, not a handoutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even clearer. Rodriguez-Seeger plays Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basement on January 7. www.taorodriguezseeger.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michael Eck

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The Tins Tins (2010, Indian Ledge Records)

In sonic terms, the name Tins is a somewhat maladroit name for this Buffalo trio, whose sound on this self-titled debut EP is bright, clean, and widescreen. And it serves the dynamics of these five songs quite admirably. The interplay between Mike Santillo (keyboards, vocals), Adam Putzer (guitar, vocals), and Dave Munter (drums) is very intuitive and the arrangements on the songs refuse to be pigeonholed as neopost punk or indie rock, even as those spring to mind easily.The leadoff song, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Subtle Rattle,â&#x20AC;? is carried by the verses over a sinuous bass line punctuated by some incisive scratchy guitar and quiet/loud dynamism. Santillo and Putzer offer a compelling vocal tandem.

The standout track is â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Green Room,â&#x20AC;? a seven-minute epic that throws in a mournful steel guitar trading licks with cascading keyboards and some stellar vocal harmonies. The feeling and tones in the song veer from a techno/country lamentation to resigned determination, and the pieces fit together very nicely, not unlike a satisfying jigsaw puzzle. Guitar and keyboards are equal partners in this collective and each coaxes the songs along with melodic and unpredictable invention.

At times, the cold-wave declamations of Talking Heads and Devo are in evidence, but there is also a distinct soulfulness and some West Coast harmonies. The Tins use the whole box, not just a couple of crayons, but the songs on this set are sturdy enough to be stripped to the bone or burnished with any number of sonic accoutrements. www.myspace.com/thetinsmusic. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jeremy Schwartz

The Westport Sunrise Sessions Galesh (2010, Diablo Dulce Records)

At 23 minutes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here and gone in a relative flash, but the new EP from the Westport Sunrise Sessions (a partly local trio whose moniker more suggests the next box set of unearthed Dylan demos) is one of the most curiously memorable records to amble down the pike in a good while. Unencumbered by vocals, Galesh coolly zags when others would zig, which gives the record as a whole a proggy vibe. But start breaking down the six songs into their building blocksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;passages of daydreamy guitar pop, funk vamps, dub-inspired basslines, and even metal-caliber riffageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll realize that by refusing to settle into genre, the WSS kind of lays claim to all of them.

On its websiteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where the entire record can be downloaded for freeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the trio (which includes Chronogram contributor Jason Broome) declares an interest in breaking out of old routines by blending extended improvisation with a hands-on, no-rules approach to reworking the songs in the studio. Whether or not this was a difficult process, the airy, easygoing results speak to the three musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chemistry: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tâ&#x20AC;? ebbs and flows in a groovy style, consistently returning to a casual three-note guitar figure, while â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mata Hariâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dreamâ&#x20AC;? does right by its title, spinning a seductively smoky vibe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Modsâ&#x20AC;? is the only tune to overtly display actual dub techniquesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all wobbly bass and spectral drumsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but that kind of in-studio intrepidness marks each song in one way or another. www.diablodulce.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mike Wolf

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WINNERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CIRCLE Kingston Publisher Bruce McPherson Brings Home Literary Gold

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he National Book Award (NBA) ceremony is normally a staid, black-tie affair. But when Joanna Scott announced 2010’s fiction winner, Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule, a table in the far corner of the Cipriani Ballroom erupted in Beatle-fan shrieks. Kingston-based publisher Bruce McPherson still grins at the memory.

His award-winning press, McPherson & Company, operates out of a modest house in midtown, just a few blocks from Eng’s Chop Suey Smorgasbord. The only clue to its identity is several cartons of books, just shipped from the printing press, stacked two deep on the front porch.

These are the tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds more cartons piled high on the back porch and stacked like cordwood under heavyweight tarps in the yard. Displaying the table surrounded by rolls of bookjackets where he packs orders for shipment, McPherson says, “This will dispel all illusions.”

On the contrary, it reinforces the fierce dedication it takes to become a successful literary publishing house with a full-time staff of one. “I’m the whole show,” the publisher/editor/distributor confirms cheerfully, though he collaborates with other editors on translation projects, and sometimes takes on summer interns. He offers a seat at the dining table, surrounded by houseplants, children’s artwork, and Hanukkah candles; this is clearly a home in which life is lived fully. McPherson’s wife, Erica Blumenfeld, is a museum registrar.Their son Aaron is 16, and 10-year-old Alyssa is dancing in UPAC’s “The Nutcracker.”

McPherson has lived and worked under this roof since 1987, but started his publishing career in Providence, Rhode Island in 1974. The first book he published was by Jaimy Gordon.

The two met in a poetry class at Brown University. McPherson was an undergraduate, planning to study “engineering with a side dish of English.” Gordon, a graduate student, was already publishing poems in magazines. “As we became friends, she would share some of her writing in progress,” McPherson recalls.

This included the MFA thesis that became her first novel, Shamp of the City-Solo.

“I was blown away,” McPherson says. “What’s immediately striking about it is, it’s not your typical autobiographical first novel. It’s a satirical bildungsroman, a novel of education. It’s Voltairean, but it is manic. To my mind, it encapsulates a lot of the energy and excess of the 1960s that was at large in the culture.”

When Gordon couldn’t sell Shamp, McPherson stepped in. He’d graduated from Brown, where he helmed its literary imprint, Hellcoal Press, and now worked in the admissions office. “I said, ‘Let’s publish it and make you famous,’” he laughs. “It was to be a one-off.” He named the start-up Treacle Press, honoring Gordon’s fondness for treacle oatcakes, and printed 1,000 copies.

“At that time, there was quite a community of small publishers, in Providence and nationwide,” McPherson explains. “You could shoot an arrow and kill a poetry press.” But few independent publishers released full-length fiction. “So we were embraced perhaps more easily. Embraced and repulsed—there was some negative press as well, but we did get reviewed.”

Encouraged, McPherson continued publishing books as a sideline while holding other jobs. After a brief flirtation with graduate school, he met performance artist Carolee Schneeman and moved to Tillson with her. In 1979, he published More Than Meat Joy, a monograph on Schneeman’s work that launched a new imprint for art books, Documentext. His “sideline” continued to grow, and in 1984 he dedicated himself to publishing fulltime. “McPherson & Company” became the umbrella for both literary and art publications. (“I asked myself, ‘What would Alfred A. Knopf name his press?’” he quips.)

Though he’d published one of Gordon’s poems shortly after Shamp, McPherson encouraged her to bring novels to other publishers. “I felt she would achieve a broader audience that way,” he says. But they remained close, and in the late 1990s, he read an early draft of Lord of Misrule. Set on the bottom rungs of the horseracing world, red-dirt gritty and linguistically airborne, the novel had garnered a string of rejections, prompting the author to shelve it.

“I think it’s safe to say that a book Jaimy thought would easily attract a commercial publisher, compared to some of her others, fell on blind eyes,” he says.

“She grew, I think, understandably dismayed. At the same time, she felt she wasn’t entirely finished; there were parts she wanted to redraft.” She was also busy teaching at Western Michigan University and a summer program in Prague, so the manuscript lay neglected for several more years.

McPherson didn’t give up. “Six or seven years ago,” he offered to publish the book if Gordon hadn’t sold it by 2010.When the date came, he mailed unbound galleys of the unrevised draft to her.

“After I recovered from my shock, I read the thing,” Gordon reports in a interview on the National Book Awards website. “It took me by surprise how much I liked Lord of Misrule when I read it again, just as if somebody else had written it.

I even cried twice—that was when I thought I probably had something.”

She started rewriting in earnest. In July, McPherson submitted her revised first draft for the National Book Award. In order to meet eligibility guidelines, the book had to be in print by November. “This made for a very tight schedule— we were still in the editorial process in August and September,” says McPherson, who’d submitted another author’s book a few years ago, “with no success, which is normal.” But he had a bettor’s hunch about Lord of Misrule.

“I just thought this was such an American book, and a book for this time. We may not be calling it a depression, but we are in the most serious financial downturn in our nation’s history since the Great Depression,” he says. “This book is about the resilience of the human spirit and the way we endure suffering and hardship. The people who lived at the bottom of the horse-racing industry 40 years ago lived this kind of life of hopeful desperation daily. That made it feel important. There’s plenty of comedy, and also tragedy and violence—these are all elements of the American nightmare.”

In early October, McPherson prepared an advance reading copy and left for the Frankfurt Book Fair. “I came home on Sunday. Monday I read proofs, still jet-lagged, making corrections with Jaimy late Monday night over the phone— dozens and dozens of them. On Tuesday I sent in final changes. On Wednesday it was nominated.”

He pauses, reliving the memory and the whirlwind that followed. “We had just one month to do everything we could to fulfill the nomination—since you don’t expect to win, you want to make the most of it.” Holding his breath, he asked his printer to increase the initial print run from 2,000 copies to 8,000.

“The printer not only quadrupled the order, but accelerated the schedule, so we had books within two and a half weeks,” he marvels. He sent updated books to the NBA judges, hired a publicist, and did “everything we could to make sure the press would pay attention.”

The first big break came when Washington Post sportswriter and Racing Form correspondent Andrew Beyer ran a column headlined “Lord of Misrule Beautifully Captures Language of the Racetrack,” proclaiming himself “mesmerized” by Gordon’s prose. “So we were off to a truly racing start,” grins McPherson.

Still, it was a long shot. Gordon’s fellow fiction nominees, all more familiar names, were published by Knopf, Norton, Harper, and Coffee House Press. On November 16, an informal Publishers Weekly poll gave Gordon 10 to 1 odds. At the next night’s awards ceremony, her name was not called. McPherson recalls, “There was a momentary hesitation. We heard an L sound—Lionel Schriver?

No, Lord of Misrule! That accounts for the eruption of screams from our table.”

The mainstream press was as stunned as the author. Janet Maslin’s December review admits that Gordon’s first five novels flew under the NewYork Times’s radar, then goes on to declare, “But this novel is so assured, exotic, and uncategorizable, with such an unlikely provenance, that it arrives as an incontrovertible winner, a bona fide bolt from the blue.”

McPherson still seems amazed by his sudden shift into the fast lane. Between calls from Wall Street Journal and NewYork Times reporters, he’s in constant phone contact with Gordon, and just flew to Michigan to introduce her at a university event. “Sooner or later, all this will be over,” he says. “And that will be good too.”

He already has projects lined up through 2012. McPherson & Company’s current catalogue bears eloquent witness to his editorial vision, encompassing the last volume of George Robert Minkoff’s trilogy of historical novels, Thomas McEvilley’s books on conceptual art provocateur Yves Klein and performance artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay, “visionary fiction” by Theodore Enslin and Robert Kelly, a Nicaraguan novel translated by Leland H. Chambers, and collected writings of experimental film icons Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren.

Since the beginning, McPherson’s books have been visually striking, often including original artwork. “I believe in the beauty of the artifact,” he says.

“I’m very much interested in making a total experience: the typography, the design of the page, the flow of the book, the bookjacket, the materials that go into the binding. I’m interested in making something that the reader will feel whoever made this cared about. Not to make it precious, but to make it right, to honor the words it protects, to make it as quote-unquote permanent as one can in this world.”

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SHORT TAKES There’s a book for every New Year’s resolution: 1) READ MORE LOCAL AUTHORS 2) LOSE WEIGHT, EAT RIGHT, GET HEALTHY Crazy Sexy Diet

Thelma Adams

Kris Carr, foreword by Dean Ornish, MD, preface by Rory Freedman

St. Martin’s 2011, $23.99

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yde Park resident Thelma Adams knows and loves the movies.

She’s film critic for Us Weekly, and hosts the annual Amazing Women In Film panel at the Woodstock Film Festival.

As her very California novel opens, the hills begin to burn, a box turtle awakens inside a Barbie Dream House, and an 11-year-old walks in on a classic primal scene. Astute readers might get the distinct impression that they’re in for a red-hot and wildly comic ride, and astute readers would be right.

Our hero Lance is an at-home dad to Belle, unfortunate witness to the primal scene and owner of the aforementioned box turtle. She’s turning 11, and is at a loss in the “finely calibrated scale of playground fabulousness” at Rancho Amigo Elementary (or “Raunchy Gringo Penitentiary,” as a graffiti artist has opined on the signboard). Her family has recently relocated from laid-back Barstow, and Belle’s having a tough time adjusting to faster and perhaps shallower waters.

To her father’s credit, he devotes considerable concern to his daughter’s plight.

Between Tantric sessions with his neighbor Wren and utilitarian, stress-packed babymaking encounters with his wife, Darlene, he’s running the Girl Scout Cookie drive.

Despite the social stigma of being an at-home dad, his devotion to Belle is deep; this former surfer boy is likeable despite his flaws.

Darlene is a piece of work in her own right. As driven as Lance is phlegmatic, her business aspirations were the driving force behind the move that has left both her daughter and husband adrift. (Lance was a TV weatherman in Barstow; the larger markets here have no use for him). Darlene has stars in her eyes. A slick-talking businessman, who also happens to be Wren’s husband, has convinced her to franchise the concept she had a hit with back in Barstow: a kid-centric diner with gourmet food and a bar/lounge for parents. Her original had soul and funk; under Slick Businessman’s guidance, the franchise version seems in danger of resembling Chuck E. Cheese.

As the wildfire rages, it’s crunch time for Darlene’s ambitions. Opening day has been timed to coincide with Belle’s 11th birthday. To suit Mommy’s business agenda, underwhelmed but compliant Belle must tolerate a glam party with a Barbie cake and a live performance by Barry Beige and his Scary Monsters.

Against the many tensions pulling Lance and Darlene apart, Adams sets the very genuine underlying love that brought them together—and the abiding love both feel for their daughter. It’s a sharply drawn tongue-in-cheek portrait of a family on the brink of chaos or epiphany, in a psychological pressure cooker that’s reflected and amplified by the growing menace of the Witch Creek Fire.

Adams writes with cinematic flair, great visuals, and dialogue that zings. Interior glimpses of the characters reveal how sadly and yet hilariously far they are from comprehending one another’s true feelings and motivations.

If there’s any quibble to be had with this very enjoyable tale, it’s that Adams’s fullon pace engenders a few disconnects from reality: How exactly does a Barbie Dream House stay “pristine” with a box turtle living in it full-time? And is there actually a part of America where a restaurant can have a play area for kids and a bar side by side without being burned to the ground by DWI activists?

Regardless, the characters are good company and the story engaging, and the climactic denouement is a blast. Lance and Darlene manage to fumble their way back into love as Belle rediscovers her moxie. This Playdate makes learning fun.

Reading at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck, January 29 at 7:30pm.

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With her trademark ebullience, Woodstock author, cancer survivor, and lifestyle guru Carr exhorts readers to “Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!” Whether you embark on a 21-Day Adventure Cleanse or stoke your “God Pod Glow,” Carr and her posse are kick-ass guides.

3) QUIT WAFFLING Decisions, Decisions: How to get Off the Fence and Choose What’s Best—For You! Randy W. Green, PhD, foreword by Dr. Joseph Riggio The Lyons Press, 2010, $14.95

Is your relationship or work life stuck in an unproductive rut? Psychologist, educator, and public speaker Green—a resident of the aptly named Hopewell Junction—offers the tools to get out, including practical steps to overcoming self-imposed rules and learning to make “Exquisite Decisions.”

4) CLEAN YOUR ROOM (A LITTLE) A Perfectly Kept House Is the Sign of a Misspent Life Mary Randolph Carter Rizzoli, 2010, $55

Subtitled “How to live creatively with collections, clutter, work, kids, pets, art, etc. and stop worrying about everything being perfectly in place,” Dutchess County author and photographer’s Carter’s compendium of artfully overstuffed living spaces is balm to the soul of the guilty not-neat.

5) GET MORE INFORMED Tales From the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York State Daniel L. Feldman & Gerald Benjamin Excelsior Editions, 2010, $24.95

Feldman, a former Democratic Assemblyman from Brooklyn, teams up with Benjamin, a political scientist at SUNY New Paltz and the former Republican majority leader of the Ulster County Legislature. Their book provides insight into how law and policy are shaped in New York, and what might be done to correct the legislature’s current dysfunction.

6) MAKE PEACE Study War No More: A Jewish Kid from Brooklyn Fights the Nazis Jay Wenk Llumina Press, 2010, $13.95

Playdate

Longtime Woodstock politico Wenk pens a moving, detail-rich memoir of his experiences as a very young infantrymen, thrown behind German lines in World War II. His afterword offers a perspective born of many decades in the anti war movement, concluding that “the true act of patriotism is saying NO!” 7) RELAX The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis Edited by Julie Holland, MD Park Street Press, 2010, $19.95

Now that medical marijuana has hit the cover of Time, Hudson Valley psychiatrist Holland’s wide-ranging anthology of cannabis essays is mainstream enough to give to your mother. Contents range from scientific research and cultural history to essays on legal issues, pot and parenting, and an interview with Tommy Chong. Inhale this book.

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Freudâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blind Spot: 23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings Edited by Elisa Albert Free Press, 2010, $15

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he modern-day intellectual progeny of Sigmund Freudâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the man known, interestingly enough, as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Father of Psychoanalysisâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;might well posit that we are all the victims of our own expectations. The pursuit of such elusive goals as success, love, or fulfillment stems from a yearning to know ourselves, to be realized, to be recognized and understood.

For good or for ill, the root of that search begins with what got us here in the first place: our families.

Yet, as any battle-tested veteran of the psychoanalytic couch can tell you, the focus of that selfexpository work most often concerns the parent-child relationship as our exclusive defining cause.

Hence, Freudâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blind Spot, Elisa Albertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wide-ranging anthology of essays on the powerful nature of expectations and identity that can be discovered in sibling relationships. Confounded and yet fascinated by her own experience as the sister of one estranged brother, and another long passed away, Capitol District writer Albert (2008â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s This Night Is Different and 2009â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acclaimed The Book of Dahlia) calls upon an impressive list of colleagues to offer their own accounts. A spectrum of contributors, from Greene County poet Rebecca Wolff to award-winning TV writer/producer Jill Soloway (and her sister Faith) to Albertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband, author and SUNY Albany professor Edward Schwarzchild, help to paint a gripping picture of the roles our brothers and sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or their absenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;play in the formation of ourselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know from my brother Sean that family is not defined by blood. It is not defined by race. It is not even defined by a shared voice or a way of telling a story. Family is who you choose to love. The unfathomable complexity of those two terms, choose and love, starts to feel simple after a while, when you live them day by day.â&#x20AC;? So suggests author Robert Anthony Siegel in his essay about his much younger adopted brother. Siegel describes an expansive and emotional learning experience, one of introspection and awareness, veins of which can be found throughout the tales of Freudâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blind Spot. Though the conclusions are not always quite so pat, and some of the situations far more confrontational (as in Mary Norrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compelling study of anger, self-doubt, and gradual acceptance of her transgendered brother), the suggestion remains that there is a unique opportunity for insight within the link of siblinghood.

It is a perspective built of choice, of shared experience, and of the necessity of honoring individuality.

This compendium of narratives may or may not offer any given reader the soothing relief of a deep, empathic experience. There are, after all, only twenty-three examples, and a potentially infinite number of our own collective storiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and of course there are many who have the equally unique experience of being an only child. Still, the question of what it means to truly belong is exceptionally stirring. What binds us to another, and what can stave off the chill of our own inevitable solitude? As each of us searches for a definition that will provide stability in the face of the unknowable, we are offered this most intrinsic resourceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to help explain who and why we are. Albertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skillfully crafted collection suggests that, seen through the richly diverse, painful, rewarding, and often baffling lens of siblinghood, there may be a separate kind of freedom: to stop explaining, and simply to be. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gregory Schoenfeld

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POETRY

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

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

Nothing and Something

i’ve never been self-contained i’ve never had a self-container

Nothing makes up most of our world, Everything just a bit.

—p

Something can be anything, by the way you want to think it.

—Bella Finkel (9 years)

Regret Five Ways to Love Thee

Faith

1.

Tucked in the wainscoting, hidden from view, I clap my hind legs and chirrup your name.

The mizuna was bushy And this was bad, exactly Not how it was supposed to be, According to a bossy seed packet.

Stunted growth, it warned reproachfully.

And so I took a deep breath and pruned.

Plucked out healthy lettuce handfuls As if they were trash.

Remembered how ancient this was, how long ago.

How the expertise was in the soil and the little, white root, And certainly not in me As I held my breath and waited.

2.

Disguised as a breeze, I ride the sunlight to your bedroom and dance on your breast.

3.

Later, when your eyelids tremble, I slip my wire skins and plug into your dreams.

4.

Silently I join the grackles on the telephone line and watch you undress.

—Rebecca Maker

tick abhorred pictures kept polished memories

toys to play make-believe tick a bowl of gilded apples a ceaseless sink

hands raw tick walled with mirrors

parallel universes

one candle

a legion of scouring suns

Tithonus lamenting never night tick

Losing My Religion

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5.

Hey! Down here! Hopping to the furry whorl, it’s me!

The little black flea!

He checked the book again because he just could not believe it.

—Ethan Romano

To remedy his affliction, it said, he should abandon his religion

Old Don Juan

—Vernon Benjamin

and start counting backward from the highest number he could reasonably say was not absurd.

He just couldn’t figure out how to avoid faith altogether and live like this from now on.

By the time we reached you on the porch, you were already three sheets to the wind with an umbrella pitched in your drink.

You were stark naked, of course, with your starboard side reflecting the diffused rays of the sun through the rattan screen.

It formed a small checker pattern across your Adam’s apple among other things.

Your wayward folds and bemused liver spots failed to honor the wife you’ve had for over thirty years.

My mother for one will never sleep normal again after seeing your onion form.

It horrifies me to think she spent her Social Security check vacationing in the shadow of your fleshy paunch.

You bear no resemblance to the man she once held close, my dear father.

Now, please come inside to finish washing the dishes.

—Frank LaRonca

—Brendan Blowers

How How do they do it, when we’ve run to fat or bones begin to show, when muscles have gone slack.

Such ease to love the babe, the girl, the boy, for what we dream they might become or even when the sex begins to show, to burn, to glow.

Past that, it all begins to go.

Going, going What does remain, the love, that tiny flame.

—Cliff Henderson

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The effects were subtle at first, less time on the toilet, not as much midday snacking, more immediate recall of the incidental names of people he thought he could care less about.

Within a week, he needed less sleep.

After a month, he heard himself telling people he’d never been happier, which was the kind of thing he’d wince at before, whenever someone decided to share their secret happiness. Improbable presumption on parade, he’d scoff.

But now, the only uncertainty preoccupying certain pauses in the day was How long?

He knew he’d been building a new one all this time, which was what he’d always made fun of in the others.

And he was more than willing to give it up as well.

A Kitchen Made of Split-Pea Soup

Before and After

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Nobody still quite understands what she was thinking when she chose that color swatch of green. It makes no sense to paint an entire kitchen, including the refrigerator, this putrid shade of split-pea soup that had been sitting out for a week or so. Imagine what that does to a person early in the morning, barely making it to the coffee pot, to be attacked by that lovely shade of green, perfectly offsetting the shade of sea-foam just past the kitchen door. Nannie plans to dress it up, though. She will hang handmade needlework over the breakfast table. She will bejewel the refrigerator with magnets from every vacation spot she and Paw-Paw have visited with his old war buddies.

She will hang a border of bluebird wallpaper just over the cabinets. Hopefully, no body will ever really notice the split-pea stained walls.

i’d rather have you, every groggy morning, kiss my stomach through (your) thin gray t-shirt i threw on than hear the sound “iloveyou.”

She sets the tone the dark barroom brightest on her curly blond hair

—Jennie Guido

go on and say i’m crazy. still.

when times have tiptoed off what do we have but contour memories toast crumb words crudely reassembled.

The Humvee

and will the skin forget?

We take our seats. The driver settles in his stage. The Humvee rattles our helmets, shakes our boots, ripples our clothing. We sleep, sleep, sleep through the ride back. The sweat has dried and staled our uniforms, soaked our socks, drawn out our faces.

The Driver shifts his composing stick. A box of Ritz crackers slides across the spit-stained floor. Vaguely, I am aware of their existence. We hear just the middle C of the engine, not the whack of our guns or the stomps of our boots. We hear a simple symphony, the Humvee hums one note. The truck stops. We hold the applause. The symphony is coming to a close. Play us just a few more notes so we can dream we are back home.

—Aleda Bliss

Missing Missing is like weather Looping, labile Perpetual.

I lay tranquil, until Sunlight glances a leaf And our trees, our walks, our days Fill the light.

Missing lives in the mouths The eyes of others In tongues that do not fit, In cadences falling flat.

Seeing most When least seen.

Memories circle like storms and tideswell.

Grief passes, pain dissolves But missing endures Like weather.

Looping, veiled Perpetual.

—Elliot Sutton-Inocencio

*****

all i gathered were sensations.

—Anthony Gambale

child’s eyes tire beautifully around the edges

Winter League January morning— a winter World Series in my backyard: Cardinals four, Blue Jays two.

—Patrick Walsh

Change Of Address

Betrayal

After we disappear

he bit me— nipple of pleasure and sustenance pierced he gazed up in milky purity with brown eyes that have known no harm heart still swathed in the wonderment of the womb and warm tongue more expert than any lover teased back and came forth with teeth and the power of the man within the one who will explore nipples other than mine who will find his way into other soft bodies executed his first strike. stunned i pinched his nose, held it firmly while breath won over bite and he released vulnerable and perplexed as his eyes memorized my first angry face.

we come back again

—Noelle Adamo

What are you smoking?

Raw fruit?

Think sexually again Grow stars— Winter way Become a spectrum

Somehow Anyhow Do you have access to Capital Letters?

Can you glow, if only for a moment When event and experience Meet And after Can you laugh Sullied in secular sin Only to then, once again Begin

only briefly an eternal second emerging in the vacant corner of a familiar eye just to inspire a thought before leaving —Jake St. John

Fishtown Poem #1

Don’t let crime crash gold for silver solitude of life— music eye link driving doors— drunk neighborhoods Fishtown —Forrest Hackenbrock

—Nigel Gore —John Heath

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n a bright morning, under an attractive layer of fresh snow, the rolling mountains of southern Berkshire County seem to heave a deep sigh of satisfaction as they welcome yet another season of looking better then where you’re from.

Just two hours from New York City and Boston, and a short jaunt east from the Hudson Valley, the Berkshires are anything but a shallow beauty. The area, it should almost go without saying, is widely renowned as a world-class destination for culture and the arts. The summer months are undoubtedly the busiest in the Berkshire towns of Great Barrington, Stockbridge, and Lenox. Many antique shops and galleries close or run limited hours until the snow melts, but with the aid of nearby ski resorts like Butternut and Catamount, and the draw of museums, there’s still plenty of life here in the winter.

Great Barrington “My wife and I consider Great Barrington the prettiest and nicest place we’ve ever been,” says Alan Chartock, President and CEO of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, a Great Barrington resident for nearly 40 years. Chartock breaks his town down as succinctly as perhaps only a news-radio man can. “It has all the great stuff. It’s got magnificent ski areas, hiking; it’s got an environmental ethos; and it has a community of really beautiful people.” Chartock says Great Barrington has changed a lot over the years and has a “more comprehensive” population then ever before. He feels the growing diversity is a good thing for the artistic-minded town and the Berkshires at large.

This year, Great Barrington will also be celebrate its 250th anniversary, with a series of monthly events ranging from concerts and antique-auto shows to a soapbox derby and a beard-growing competition. “It’s the commercial, cultural hub of the south county,” City Manager Kevin O’Donnell says, adding that the town has weathered the recession better than most. “We’ve got the best shopping and 45 restaurants. Business is undoubtedly off, but people are still coming to town.”

One of Great Barrington’s more eclectic shopping experiences, just outside of the town center on Route 7, is easy to spot, given the eight-foot Buddha head beside the entrance. Asia Barong is an expansive emporium offering all manner of art pieces, furniture, antiques, and even structures like a stilted rice house from Thailand. The massive collection of objects handpicked from their native lands by owner William Talbot are housed in a space large enough to be a lumberyard.

Talbot says that while a large chunk of his business is providing pieces to temples,

museums, and nightclubs, being located in Great Barrington is mutually beneficial for his business and the town. “It’s an artistic area and the local community is pretty sophisticated,” he says, adding that people often come to the area to see things in his shop that they can’t find anywhere else.

Great Barrington has a productive mix of working artists and patrons that allows for there to be interest in a wide range of artistic styles, according to Talbot. “I believe it all goes hand in hand,” he says. “There’s also a tremendous amount of innovation here.”

One of the organizations bringing people into Great Barrington is the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, housed in the 105-year-old Mahaiwe movie theater on Castle Street.The historic landmark underwent a $7 million renovation to restore its original appearance and acoustics that was completed in 2006. Given the august legacy of so many of the Berkshires’ performance venues, like Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is in its infancy as it begins its seventh season, but its presence is already being felt throughout town. Restaurants like the highly regarded Castle Street Cafe next door now offer specials on nights when the Mahaiwe has a large draw.

Mahaiwe Executive Director Beryl Jolly says Great Barrington has really embraced the theater and business has bounced back from a hard hit in 2009 when the whole region suffered. “There’s something to do almost every weekend of the year now,” Jolly says, “We’re offering something that brings in all aspects of the community, from people from New York and Boston to [students on] school field trips.”

Between concerts and live theater and workshops the Mahaiwe shows classic movies and live high-definition broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. Jolly says the Center is particularly looking forward to February 18, when it will host a Rennie Harris PureMovement Hip-Hop dance workshop and performance, and March 5, when the Flying Karamazov Brothers will bring their unique comedic juggling act to the theater.

“I think we complement [Great Barrington],” Jolly says, “and offer something special that [extends] it to everyone.”

Stockbridge It’s easy to walk into the Norman Rockwell Museum with a lot of baggage. I did. I was prepared to marvel at the skill of his brush and the meticulousness of his near -photo-realistic illustration, but I was also prepared to remain unmoved by images seen innumerable times before.

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Norman Rockwell, “Golden Rule,” Oil on canvas, 44 1/2” x 39 1/2”, Cover illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, April 1, 1961. the norman rockwell museum in stockbridge houses the world’s largest collection of Rockwell’s work, including 574 original paintings and drawings.

I wasn’t faulting Rockwell for my lack of enthusiasm. I figured that he was simply a victim of his own success in a nation saturated by his utopian icons. How could Rockwell’s paintings still hold relevance in modern times, in a world rabidly ripping apart any remaining scraps of the societal fabric his works are draped in?

One of the joys of art is being surprised by the range and power of emotions a piece pulls from rarely traveled internal places. That image of a boy with a bindlestiff elbowed up at a soda fountain beside a smiling cop isn’t supposed to connect anymore.

But then, standing before the full-scale painting of The Runaway inside the impeccably curated gallery your mind begins to wander down where you thought it wouldn’t and you find important questions. What would that painting look like today? What would that painting look like painted then but if the boy was black? What would so many of Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post covers have looked like had the editors allowed him to paint African Americans in anything but a service position?

“He created a world that was a slice of what he wished life would be like,” Jeremy Clowe, manager of media services at the Norman Rockwell Museum, says. “Some of the settings have changed but the themes are the same. It may not look like this anymore but it’s still the same sensation.” Clowe says The Runaway in particular is still highly regarded by police. It’s important to realize, he pointed out, that basic tropes resonate in a variety of ways for different people.

Then you turn around and there’s more. The original Golden Rule sneaks up on you, the weight of that universal desire for tolerance on one canvas. In the galleries’ center room, Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series encircles the viewer and immediately drives home the pregnancy of the painter’s idealism. “People are particularly moved by the Four Freedoms. I think in difficult times the museum is sort of like a balm,” Clowe says, adding that the accessibility of Rockwell’s style allows everyone, no matter their artistic literacy, to take something away from the paintings. “There’s not a lot of pretense.You don’t feel like you have to ‘get it.’”

The museum also showcases work from modern illustrators to highlight the work of artists walking in, or at least near, Rockwell’s footsteps.The current exhibition of illustrations by Jerry Pinkney includes moving historical scenes of the African American experience and provides a thought provoking addition to the main galleries. Pinkney recently won the Caldecott Medal for his reimagined version of the children’s book The Lion and the Mouse and in December celebrated his birthday at the museum.

The museum has also sent out traveling exhibitions, including “Norman Rockwell Behind the Camera,” a deep look into the artist’s process, working off of photographs of models, some of whom still reside in Stockbridge. It was easy for me to confuse Rockwell’s timelessness for cliche. Standing before his works it was even easier to realize I was wrong.

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Stockbridge earned the descriptive additive “Rockwellian” when it’s quaint main street was painted by its most famous resident. Large New England mansions line the road and the business district is warmly understated. There’s the Main Street Cafe, with a chatty young waitress who knows everyone’s name and sticks a candy cane in hot cocoas, an unattended general store where one is apparently on the honor system to go into the cafe to pay for their purchase, and then at the end of the street rests the palatial Red Lion Inn. “There’s been an inn here with a red lion in front since 1773,” says Carol Bosco Baumann, Red Lion director of marketing and communication, sitting in the inn’s crowded lobby beside an immodest Christmas tree. The gentle sound of a harp strummed live by the fireplace bounces off the antique lined walls. “It started as a Tavern and as in any traditional New England town, it was a gathering place,” Baumann says.

While the atmosphere of the inn is historically authentic, there are undeniable undercurrents of modernity in their philosophy. Environmentally conscious renovations to the inn’s infrastructure, for instance, garnered the inn an award from the American Hotel and Lodging Association. “People say [the inn] is like a postcard,” Baumann says, “and yes, we are, but we also take a lot of pride in doing things differently, in going energy efficient, in supporting the local economy.”

The Red Lion doesn’t shy away from giving credit to, or bragging about, their award-winning executive chef, Brian J. Alberg. The chef has grabbed attention for his locally sourced menus; Alberg even raises his own pigs for the restaurant. On February 4, Alberg will return to the James Beard Foundation in New York City to lead a team of regional chefs in a Berkshire-Raised Whole-Hog event, demonstrating how to use the entirety of a pig, with a menu ranging from Smoked Tomato and Bacon Bloody Marys to 48-Hour Sous Vide Carolina Barbecue–Style Spareribs with Mustard Kimchi and Pig Tail Torchon.

Once again, Stockbridge surprises. What appears calm and familiar on the surface is actually a well-crafted front supported by a much deeper consciousness.

Lenox Tanglewood is the largest draw in Lenox and one of the best-known institutions in the Berkshires. Tanglewood has been a part of the Berkshire experience since 1934, when summering patrons got together to bring the New York Philharmonic to perform three outdoor concerts. The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) was added the following year. Classical performances have echoed from the stage, and the tent before it, every year since, minus three during World War II.The schedule for the 2011 season includes four performances byYo-Yo Ma, and performances by the Mark Morris Dance Troupe and James Taylor, in addition to the BSO’s annual concert series.

While Lenox businesses can flourish in the fat times of summer, winter in town is unavoidably quiet, with slight improvements on the weekends. Most galleries are closed now, or are open by appointment only. Two sculptors, at opposite ends of the artistic spectrum, use the winter to create work in Lenox. Andrew DeVries and Tom Fierini, in spite of the rivalry that they both say can exist in the town among its numerous local artists, have become good friends. Both believe that having a town filled with art makes getting their pieces seen much easier and creates an artistic dialog that’s unique to the region.

Fierini welds together found metal objects to create what he calls “junk sculptures.”

He believes people either like his work or they don’t. A lot do. “People say it’s an insult to call it junk,” Fierini avers, sitting in a chair he made out of iron and road signs that’s almost too heavy to pull out from behind his dining room table. “I don’t think it is. I think it’s less snobby and pretentious.”

Fierini has lived in the Lenox area his whole life and figures he’s the only artist in town that’s actually from it. “It’s kind of funny we grew up here hating New Yorkers; now they’re a lot of my customers,” he says. Fierini doesn’t go many places besides his studio and his apartment but says Lenox has been good to him. In an outdoor gallery off Church Street a number of his pieces are on display: dogs, horses, an iron cowboy.

Across the street from Fierini’s sculpture garden is Devries’ gallery, closed for the winter. “The Berkshires lend themselves to individuality and the ability and necessity to be creative,” says DeVries, who is best known for his large, realistic figural bronze sculptures, which manage to capture both the movement and delicate balance of dance in a decidedly firm medium. “I thought about [opening my gallery in] Great Barrington, it’s a beautiful city. But it’s a city. There’s a lot to be said about Lenox. It’s small, but there’s a community here. There’s room for people like Tom [Fierini] to bloom—like me, too.”

DeVries lets out one of his signature explosive laughs that manages to be both infectious and terrifyingly loud at the same time and then becomes introspective again. “Sometimes I feel like there must be a magnet buried in the ground in Berkshire County that’s pulled all these things together,” Devries says wistfully. “It’s powerful, it really is.”

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ita Rudner once quipped, “I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.” Ladies, whether or not your betrothed has a piercing, the mark of true adulthood for men is often met at a jewelry store while purchasing an engagement ring. “It can be intimidating to go into a jewelry store when you’re buying a ring,” says Tom Jacobi, owner of Schneider’s Jewelers in Kingston. It’s our job to make you feel comfortable.”

Wedding jewelry, however, isn’t just about engagement rings and wedding bands. Jewelry also makes a wonderful, meaningful gift for your wedding party or those nearest and dearest as a thank you for being a part of your special day.

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For Creative Couples “Our main focus is unique wedding bands.” Says Bruce Lubman, owner of Hummingbird Jewelers. “We have over 40 different designers from antique to classic.” Hummingbird Jewelers in Rhinebeck offers one-of-a-kind creations for all special moments.

Owner and gemologist Bruce Lubman and his wife established themselves in 1978. The quaint 1,000-square-foot store offers a beautiful space, personal attention, and a diverse collection of jewelry, as well as an on-premise workshop upstairs that is used for master designers, antique restoration, jewelry repair, and custom one-of-a-kind creations. “Couples are getting more creative now,” says Lubman. “They’ll bring in their grandmother’s stone and have something designed that’s more modern or restore the family heirloom.” As for the groom, there are a few new designers that are exploring alternative metals, think:Tungsten carbide, carbonate, and stainless steel. But for brides, they won’t chance anything but the classics. Once the ring is bought the couple will also scoop up gifts for their wedding party. Bridesmaid gifts are particularly popular. Lubman sells an array of freshwater pearls from artists that are both unique and affordable. Another route is eco-friendly artist Lori Bonn, who sells personalized jewelry made with recycled metals. from hummingbird jewelers in rhinebeck, lori bonn silver necklaces let you match a person’s initial with their birthstone.

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Sterling silver and 18k gold pendants by New York designer Charles Krypell are available at zimmer brothers in poughkeepsie. These pieces feature chocolate, white, and black diamonds.

All in the Family Zimmer Brothers has been family-owned and operated since 1893. The store is now managed by the fourth and fifth generations who still provide the same superior products and customer care. Vice President Jocelyn Klastow says that Zimmer Brothers has become renowned for having one of the largest selections of antique and estate jewelry collections in Hudson Valley, which have come into high demand. “Halo settings, with a micro-pave is the new estate look,” says Klastow. “Diamond eternity rings are also popular. Women want to stack rings now. They buy one, like the engagement ring and then stack from there. We do custom just for this.” Zimmer Brothers also offer Die Struck rings- a process that’s relatively unique to the store and making a comeback.

Klastow explains, “Die-struck metals make the ring solid and resistant with no weak spots. They look magnificently polished and are the best of quality.

People want to return to that quality again.” Gifts are also of the utmost quality at Zimmer Brothers. Klastow says, “An engraved picture frame makes a great gift for the parents or even a bridal shower.” We’d have to agree.

Zimmer Brothers, 39 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. (845) 454-6360; www.zimmerbrothers.com.

Neither Platinum Nor Plastic Country Gallery, the 400 square-foot not-so-country store has been selling Poughkeepsie one-of-a-kind gifts for the last 30 years. Manager Jennifer Tell says, “We’re the place that people come for something unique. We fill the niche that’s not platinum and not plastic.” Country Gallery sells over 50 lines of jewelry but their number one seller is Pandora, the wildly popular charm bracelet collection. Tell says, “Husbands come in and start their wife with one. Or a mother whose daughter has a collection will buy her a charm for a wedding gift. One bride bought her bridal party a bracelet with a suitcase charms because they were going to Vegas for the bachelorette party. They’re great gifts because they signify events in your life.” Country Gallery also sells a fair amount of Brighton Jewelry. Tell says, “It’s a great gift because of price and also because Brighton Jewelry is good for dressing up at the wedding and then pairing it with jeans and a t-shirt.” Finally, her selection of John Mediros, whose jewelry line mimics that of David Yurman, with a much lower price

point, is quite popular with the mothers of the bride and groom. Tell says, “This handmade line from Rhode Island features a cuff that’s very popular. It’s has a classy and upscale look that our moms really like.”

Country Gallery, 1955 South Road, Suite 6, Poughkeepsie. (845) 297-1684; www.collectibles.net/countrygallery Personalized Gifts Jaymark Jewelers has been serving the Hudson Valley for over four generations and knows a thing or two about what’s trending in wedding jewelry.

Jim Matero, owner of Jaymark, says that while cushion and princess cuts are still popular in women’s engagement rings, there’s a trend towards the antique marquis-cut diamond. Colored stones with a diamond in the center are taking on a new popularity with platinum and white gold being the choice metal. But it’s the gents that are willing to branch out with the bands.

Matero sells the guys more tungsten carbide because it cannot be scratched.

Jaymark offers free engraving. He points out, “The engraving is not about the couple, but for when you pass it down.” Jaymark’s selection is vast and there’s something for everyone. Cuff links (in sterling, gold, and platinum) are a popular gift for grooms, dads, and groomsmen. Matero, who is all about being personal right down to gift giving, says, “A newer trend is buying individual gifts for the wedding party.” They can help you choose a pearl necklace for your more conservative bridesmaid and a funky square bangle bracelet for your maid of honor.

Jaymark Jewelers, two locations: 284 Katonah Avenue, Katonah, (914) 232-4143 3612 Route 9, Cold Spring. (845) 265-9246; www.jaymarkjewelers.com.

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wearable.” Jacobi also mentions that “couples don’t wear matching ring sets much anymore. Unless it’s just a plain band.” Schneider’s has always been a superior place for buying just the right gift and this holds true for the bride and groom as well as entire wedding party. “Watches are a popular gift for the groom,” says Jacobi, “something that represents a time period in their life.”

Grooms tend to stick with necklaces of the diamond or pearl variety. It’s the wedding party gift selection where Schneider’s shines.Vera Bradley accessories and Pandora, the popular charm bracelet company, are hits with the female attendants, as well as the classic pearls or a set of gold hoops. And the old school beer steins are a classic for the groomsman.

Schneider’s Jewelers, 290Wall Street, Kingston, (845) 331-1888; www.schneidersjewelers.com.

Proof of Provenance Whitworth Jewelers in Uptown Kingston specializes in loose diamonds and gemstones along with customized conflict-free diamonds. Owner Valerie Whitworth says that, “People are becoming more interested in knowing where their jewelry is coming from. We work with designers who have the same values.” Along with an interest in conflict-free diamonds, two trends are dominating the engagement ring industry; the first being a micro-pave setting. “Simon G. is king.” Whitworth explains of the trend where diamonds are locked into the ring’s setting to accentuate the stone, rather than the band. The second trend is a Princess Di look (now adopted by princess-to-be Kate Middleton).

Whitworth describes it as a hand-carved setting with beaded glass or an estatelooking ring with sapphires or emeralds. And though diamonds may not always be a girls best friend, platinum and 18-carat white gold are the standard metal.

Whitman did make mention of a new interest that’s taken vogue as of late; pink or rose gold that’s used as an accent to the platinum or white gold. Whitman says, “It gives a softness and uniqueness to an engagement ring. It really just pops.” For the men, it’s titanium, stainless steel, and mixed metals (such as a darker mixed with a lighter metal) being used to show off their personality.

“It’s usually the younger guys who want something unique, like a carving,” says Whitworth, “we do quite a bit of custom work for them here.”

Whitworth Jewelers, 36 John Street, Kingston. (845) 331-6228; www.whitworthjewelersonline.com.

The Princess Bride Jewelry Expression in Kingston has been in business for over 30 years and President, Nick Malvai can attest to what’s happing in the jewelry industry. It seems that what’s old is new again when it comes to wedding trends. Malvai says that antique settings and estate jewelry are quite popular for engagement rings. “As far as stones, the princess cut is most popular. I guess it’s because the bride is like a princess now,” Malvai says, and laughs. He also says that there’s been resurgence in the pocket watch for men’s gifts. Jewelry Expression also sells a lot of the charm bracelets by Zabel Beads. Malvai says, “The bracelets are great for parents and bridesmaid gifts. They add a bead for each occasion.”

He says that men have steered away from the traditional beer stein at his store and are now more inclined to purchase a money clip. And for their brides, they’ll always buy her a bracelet. Perhaps it’s predictable, but a lovely gift, nonetheless.

Jewelry Expression 1300 Ulster Avenue, Kingston. (845) 336-4388.

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By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

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t’s easy to celebrate the produce of this region in the summer. The farms and markets explode with sustainably grown vegetables that are so beautiful, they look lit from within. Even a modest, well-tended kitchen garden can supply a family with a substantial portion of their weekly groceries; gardenless neighbors are often the happy recipients of the surplus. This time of year? Not so much. The ground is rock-hard and our garden beds are desolate. The seed catalogs arriving in the mail rival pornography in their evocation of the unattainable. It’s a hard time to be a gardener.

But it doesn’t have to be. Whatever the scale—from small backyard plot to large commercial farm—it is possible to grow food all year long in this climate using a few simple, inexpensive techniques. And the resulting vegetables actually taste better for having been grown in the cold.

Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills was built in the 1930s for the Rockefeller family as a dairy farm on about 80 acres of land. Now, besides being an organic farm that provides much of the food for Blue Hill’s on-site restaurant, Stone Barns is a nonprofit educational institution with extensive programs and classes for all ages in a variety of areas, including winter gardening. An elegant complex of stone buildings grouped around a central courtyard, it offers views on three sides of the sloped, undulating, partly wooded site that includes a seven-acre garden, pasture and housing for poultry, sheep, and pigs, several hoop houses, and a large, heated greenhouse. Some of the fields are fallow, but nearby plastic tunnels shelter long rows of plump spinach, shielded further by corn stalks left standing in adjacent rows on their north side as a windbreak. Nutrient-adding cover crops blanket much of the rest. It’s not postcard pretty, but there’s a whole lot of food still in the field, and in conditions that let it reach the pinnacle of flavor and remain accessible for harvest.

Jack Algiere is the four-season farm manager at Stone Barns. This time of year, his main focus is on the half-acre greenhouse that is farmed intensively all year long, growing 50 or so crops at a time. Minimally heated to 30 degrees (the thermostats are down at plant height) by high-efficiency propane burners (which also generate growth-spurring carbon dioxide), the vast enclosure smells like spring even as a cold wind scours the outside.

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Most of the farm’s produce goes to the restaurant, and the rest is sold at farmers’ markets in the area and at their own monthly winter market on the second Sunday of every month. Because the greenhouse is expensive to run—$11,000 per year in propane, and a total cost of three cents per square foot per day—Algiere works constantly to maximize the value of his crops. “Bigger is not necessarily better; the most money sometimes comes from the smallest things,” he explains; baby carrots and turnips and microgreens fetch far more than their mature siblings. Plantings are very close together, making use of every available square inch. Other plants—beets, parsnips, spinach—are better when they freeze, so they stay outside. Working closely with the restaurant up the hill, he says, “gives us the ability to grow different and exciting things.

I search the world for cutting-edge ingredients, and they are always looking for new things to try.” Recently, he has been growing ginger with great success (try buying some, burying it in a pot of soil, and keeping it in a warm place.)

Dan Barber is the James Beard Award-winning executive chef and co-owner of Blue Hill at Stone Barns, where he has earned a reputation as one of the most gifted and passionate proponents of farm-to-table cooking in the country. For Barber, eating locally grown food in the winter is a question of quality. “We’re not going to choose a bad-flavored vegetable just because it’s local,” he says, but winter has culinary benefits: Cold weather makes hardy plants taste better. “Starches convert to sugar to prevent ice crystals forming. We taste sweetness, but it’s the plant trying not to die.” He sees the constraints of winter as a boon to creativity: “Working with a distributor, the world is your pantry.With the farm, we’re limited in many ways, but there’s real pleasure in the limits. I enjoy the lack of options; we end up being really creative in the kitchen.” Recently, faced with a ton (literally) of banana squash that needed using, Barber pressed them under bricks as they cooked, trimming the result to look like steaks, and served them with steak sauce, creamed spinach, and cranberry ketchup. “There’s a glory to restrictions; we concentrate on the limited palette available. And I like food that has a story, a connection to a place.”

above: Spinach growing in hoop houses at Stone Barns. Consecutive plantings ensure harvests through March; Cosmic and mokum carrots, plucked from the greenhouse at Stone Barns, moments before being taken to market. opposite: four-season farm manager jack algiere plucks celtuse from the greenhouse.

Place, like taste, begins with the soil. “Good soil makes flavor,” says Algiere, enthusiastically. “We’re always working with the soil, touching it every day. It’s an ecosystem.” This dynamic, living dirt allows plants to achieve their full chemical complexity, which means they taste as good as they possibly can. Take pak choi, for example. The compounds that it generates to defend against pests are responsible for its bright, mustardy taste; the healthier the plant, the better the flavor. The sugars it makes when the frosts come mean that when caramelized quickly in a hot pan it develops a complex sweetness that contrasts beautifully with that sharpness. Add a pinch of salt and a splash of vinegar and you have a humble dish punching way above its weight. Salad greens like lettuce, arugula, mâche, and spinach are at their best in winter. Roots are sweeter: Parsnips left in the ground until it thaws are one of early spring’s great treats; they’re sugary enough to make into ice cream. It is simply not possible to get the same results with produce from thousands of miles away.

And this brings us to the relevance of these techniques for the home gardener.While a 22,000-square-foot heated greenhouse may be a tad ambitious, a few simple tunnels or cold frames can provide fresh vegetables of the highest quality all winter long. “Anything that can make it in November can survive the winter,” says Algiere. Eliot Coleman is a renowned expert on four-season gardening and the author most recently of TheWinter Harvest Handbook, a book with a companion DVD (Chelsea Green, 2009). He lives in Maine, and his methods all arise from the simple truth of latitude: Kingston is the same distance from the Equator as Barcelona.Their climate is different, of course, but we get exactly as much sun as they do; with a layer or two of protection it is possible to grow everything here that they do there.With a hoop house or row cover mitigating the damaging effects of cold and wind, our backyard plot can easily be the equivalent of three USDA zones warmer: While our lawn is frozen solid, our salad is basking in Southern comfort.

Algiere explains that a heated greenhouse allows for winter growth, while a tunnel allows for winter harvest: “An unheated space is like using the outdoors as cold storage; most plants won’t grow much. They’ll be in suspended animation,” staying alive and happy until harvest. Coleman agrees, stating that hoop houses and the like are

really for harvest extension, not year-round growth. The key is successive plantings of various crops from late summer through fall, so that there’s plenty to pick once growth slows to near stasis. As space opens up, spring seeds like radishes and greens can go in the empty rows.

The simplest method is to use appropriate lengths of block truss—stiff galvanizedwire mesh used for reinforcing masonry walls—or plastic electrical conduit poked into the ground so it forms arches that span the bed every few feet, with six-mil construction plastic draped over the hoops and weighted against the wind with bricks.

The sun can easily heat the interior of such a space to 60 degrees, even when it’s 25 degrees outside.This keeps the soil from freezing overnight, and the plants either grow slowly or stay fresh and alive until harvest. An open-bottomed cold frame right outside the kitchen door allows one to grow and harvest salads and roots all winter long with a minimum of effort. Even a quarter-acre subdivision has microclimates; the north side of the house will often retain snow for weeks after the south side is boasting crocuses.

Any cold frames or hooped beds should be placed in these warm spots to maximize use of passive solar energy.

Climate change notwithstanding, winter looks to be a regular occurrence around here for some time to come. The local options in the produce department are pretty thin in the cold months, but if we’re already growing some food for ourselves, we can extend the season for top-quality vegetables deep into winter, and get a jump on spring. This is a subject that can become quite detailed and complex at a commercial scale, but at its core it’s very simple: Plant some hardy crops from late summer into the fall, and give them some shelter. You will reap salads that positively squeak with freshness, and cooking greens and roots that surpass anything else available.

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restaurant openings for january Agriturismo 2938 Church Street, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1000 www.agriturismorestaurant.com At this weekend-only restaurant, Mark Strausman draws inspiration from the small farms, butchers, and specialty food companies in the Hudson Valley. The rustic Italian menu changes almost daily depending on what’s available. Products from regional growers and suppliers include butter and milk from Ronnybrook Farm Dairy, eggs from Feather Ridge Farm, and vegetables and herbs from Sol Flower Farms.

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Grimaldi’s Pizzeria 119 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-3800 www.grimaldispizzeria.com Grimaldi’s uses a coal-fired brick oven to give its pizza a smoky flavor and crisp crust. The building blocks of their pizza are all made in house, including mozzarella produced from free-range cows, secret recipe dough, and pizza sauce. There are no individual slices, but the pizza comes in three different sizes with a choice of plain, garlic, or pesto and over a dozen topping options. Open Monday through Thursday 11am11pm; Friday and Saturday 11am-midnight; Sunday noon-11pm.

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Delafields 2 Delafield Street, Poughkeepsie. (845) 849-9001 Delafields is located at the site where the historic restaurant Nick Beni’s once stood and has been renovated into an elegant American bistro. After years of vacancy, Delafield co-owners Patrick McKenna and James Svetz wanted to put a restaurant back in the space. The menu is created by Chef Robert Nelson, formerly of Locust Tree in New Paltz and Touché in Woodstock. Options include crab cake served with apricot remoulade and a platter of chevre, asiago, and fontina cheeses served with candied currents. Open Sunday through Wednesday 5-10pm; Friday and Saturday 10am-11pm.

Charlie O’s Hometown Bar and Grill 23 East Market Street, Red Hook. (845) 758-2123 Charlie O’s, located in the old Lyceum Theatre, is a family-oriented restaurant serving Modern American cuisine. Though Charlie O’s is known for their wings, they also have several original menu options. Charlie’s Chili is homemade macaroni and four cheeses served with a crunchy chili topping. The Shmancy is a mixed-greens salad served with crab cake and a remoulade dressing. Rocky’s Red Hook is a shaved prime rib served with carmelized onions, mozzarella cheese, and horseradish sauce. Open Sunday 12-9pm; Monday 11:30am-10pm; Wednesday and Thursday 4-10pm; Friday and Saturday 11:30am-11pm. Closed Tuesday.

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Baba Louieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Woodfired Organic Sourdough Pizza 517 Warren Street, Hudson NY, 286 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA (518) 751-2155 www.babalouiespizza.com

Cafe Bocca 14 Mount Carmel Place, Poughkeepsie, NY

Catering Terrapin Catering 5371 Albany Post Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail

(845) 483-7300 www.cafebocca.net info@cafebocca.net

Gilded Otter 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill

River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering

Osaka Restaurant

dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu,

74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY

and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier.

Chef driven and brewed locally!

(845) 757-5055 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338

Gomen Kudasai â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Japanese Noodles and Home Style Cooking

www.osakasushi.net

215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY

of America. Four stars from The Poughkeepsie

(845) 255-8811

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Inn at Stone Ridge

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Osaka has been the go-to-sushi restaurant for 15 years. Chefs work in rhythm to craft sushi,

(845) 687-0736

sashimi, and rolls from a vividly bright palette

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of salmon, tuna, yellowtail, squid, uni, and other

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break from the raw dishes, Osaka serves a variety of tempura, teriyaki, hibachi, and noodle bowl dinners. Eat-in or take-out. Hours: Lunch

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4 N Clover St, Poughkeepsie, NY

5 Old Farm Road, Red Hook, NY

(845) 473 4976

(845) 758-8000

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Kyoto Sushi

Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro

337 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY

6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY

(845) 339-1128

(845) 876-3330

THE best place for Sushi, Teriyaki, or Tempura

www.terrapinrestaurant.com

in the Hudson Valley. Delectable specialty rolls;

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filet mignon, seafood, and chicken teriyaki.

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Elegant atmosphere and attentive service. The finest sushi this side of Manhattan! Open every night for dinner and every day but Sunday for lunch. Takeout always available.

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Leoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria 1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446 Route 9D, Wappingers Falls, NY

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Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week.

Local. Organic. Authentic.

The Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY (845) 452-9600

43 East Market St, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5555 Our new Momiji restaurant in Rhinebeck has a fabulously fresh sushi bar & 4 hibachi tables & the full-service bar is now open. Experience a great contemporary atmosphere for families, private parties and large groups. Try our extensive eat in & take out menu! Hours: Mon-Thurs 11:30am-9:30pm, Friâ&#x20AC;&#x161; Sat 11:30am-10:30pm, Sun 2:30pm-9:30pm. Catering available, full-service bar, outside dining, handicapped accessible. Reservations recommended.

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(845) 496-3615

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Out of elements both historic and eclectic

diversity of foods of the Americas; Escoffier

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A report on the best vegetarian dishes served in restaurants around the Hudson Valley.

worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most diverse flavors meet and mingle.

(845) 838-3446 22 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-3446

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

Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393

7100 Albany Post Road, Rhinebeck, NY

www.mistersnacks.com

(845) 758-2267

steve@mistersnacks.com

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Chronogram readers are attuned to the arts. Our goals as a galler y are not only to sell art, but to educate our visitors about art itself. We promote the finest artists of the Hudson Valley, and the Chronogram opens our doors to the entire Hudson Valley community. We value this connection to our community. enormously.

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Japanese beers. Imported and domestic wines.

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Zagatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Tucked in the heart of Rhinebeck,

3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY

John Andrews Restaurant

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Accommodations Hampton Inn 1307 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 382-2600 Poukg_hampton@hilton.com

Inn at Stone Ridge

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3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-0736 info@innatstoneridge.com Let us take you back to an era of comfort unparalleled in the Catskill Region of New York.

Enjoy our 18th century historic mansion in peaceful Stone Ridge set on 150 acres of lawn including gardens, a working apple orchard and untouched woods. Customs weddings up to 130 people.

Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com

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

Antiques Jenkinstown Antiques 520 Route 32 South, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4876 www.jenkinstownantiques.com info@jenkinstownantiques.com

Pomarico Design Studio

Norman Rockwell Museum

181 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-0448 www.healthcaredesign.com mike@healthcaredesign.com

9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100

One Mile Gallery

Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@safe-harbors.org The Ann Street Gallery is a nonprofit art gallery specializing in contemporary emerging and established artists. The gallery is located at 104 Ann Street in Newburgh, and hours are Monday through Thursday 9 am-5 pm, and Friday through Saturday 11 am-5 pm.

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

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

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

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

Sharon, CT and, Brooklyn, NY, (917) 797-4039 www.lynngaffney.com lynn@lynngaffney.com

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Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 features yearround exhibits of works by a wide variety of distinguished Hudson Valley artists as well as students from the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft, the Dutchess Arts Camps and art courses and workshops. Mill Street Loft provides innovative educational arts programming for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Millbrook & Red Hook.

The best pie in the World! Wednesday - Saturday: 10:00AM­– 6:00PM Sundays: 10:00AM–3:00PM. Serving Lunch, Jane’s Ice Cream and the Best Pie in the World!

Beauty & Fashion Services The Dream Bride

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

www.TheDreamBride.com

1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum

Vassar College: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5632 fllac.vassar.edu

Art Supplies 815 Albany Post Road, New Paltz, NY (914) 456-6040 www.whitebarnsheepandwool.com

1578 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3311

Firehouse Plaza, 7466 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 835-8340 www.meohmypieshop.com

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

3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org

Green River Gallery

Me Oh My Pie

Root 52 Gallery

White Barn Farm

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45

Lynn Gaffney

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

Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries

Water Street Market (Antiques Center)

Architecture

www.nrm.org

Bakeries

Audio & Video

Beverages Binnewater (845) 331-0504 www.binnewater.com

Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Jenkinstown Motors, Inc. 37 South Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2500

Ruge’s Subaru 6444 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7074 www.rugessubaru.com

Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing.

Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet.

Expert Tarot reading.

The Golden Notebook 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, (845) 679-8000

Building Services & Supplies N & S Supply

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

www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

New Paltz True Value www.truevalue.com/newpaltz

Williams Lumber & Home Centers (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

Cinemas Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608, NY www.upstatefilms.org Showing provocative international cinema, contemporary and classic, and hosting filmmakers since 1972 on two screens in the village of Rhinebeck and now in Woodstock as well.

Sorella Woodstock, NY (845) 684-5074

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 www.beahivekingston.com bzzz@beahivebeacon.com

CONSULTING SERVICES TRACKING WONDER: Changing the Way Creativity Happens (845) 679-9441 www.trackingwonder.com I specialize in helping writers, designers, and creative entrepreneurs progress from ideas to completed projects, navigate obstacles, and work with a deeply motivating wonder.

Conversations in creative organization, timeshaping, problem-solving, platform-building, and manuscript review keep you on track while staying authentic to your vision. Impeccable attention. Delight guaranteed. Call to schedule a pro bono conversation.

Locust Grove — The Samuel Morse Historic Site (845) 454-4500 www.lgny.org

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Earthgoods Natural Foods Inc. 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5858 www.earthgoodsmarket.com

Kingston Natural Foods Market 33 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 802-0265 www.kingstonnaturalfoods.com

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

Be a part of something BIG! Hudson Valley Goes Solar!

Get the BEST PRICES on Solar Systems and other Renewable Energy Systems only available through group purchase.

Receive up-to-date information on HV Solar Co-Op Instation Roll-Out Schedule & Progress.

Receive educational information on renewable energy systems, programs and products. www.hudsonvalleysolarcoop.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!

Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 80 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com

Sunflower Natural Foods Market 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!

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Financial Advisors

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Chronogram is my ally in its social values and upscale audience. It is a magazine centered on the arts as I am, as a person. I teach Dressage, which is an art: the art of movement and communication between horse and rider.

It is the celebration of the partnership between human and animal.

”

Third Eye Associates, Ltd

Nancy Rosen, Owner

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

Frog Hollow Farm, Esopus, NY

Florists The Greenhouse at Rhinebeck

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41 Pitcher Road, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3974 www.thegreenhouseatrhinebeck.com

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Clothing & Accessories

Events

Graphic Design e-Diner Design & Marketing, Inc. 819 Little Britain Road, Suite 200, New Windsor, NY (845) 569-7000 www.e-dinerdesign.com

Hair Salons Dennis Fox Salon 6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777

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’x12’.

We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.

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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

Silken Wool 36 & 56 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 988-1888 www.silkenwool.com

The Futon Store Route 9, Poughkeepsie, (845) 297-1933 www.thefutonstore.com

Timbuktu 2 Tannery Brook Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 619-1169 www.timbuktuwoodstock.com timbuktushop@aol.com

Home Improvement Village Painter New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7383 Creative and clean • unique finishes • wallpaper • venetian plaster

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

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Site Optimized (845) 363-4728 www.dougmotel.com

Italian Specialty Products

Lawyers & Mediators Jane Cottrell (845) 266-3203 www.janecottrell.com

La Bella Pasta

Mediation Center Of Dutchess County

(845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com

(845) 471-7213 bvalente@dutchessmediation.org

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.

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

Earthlore/Amber Waves of Grain 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 thru Sat 11am-5:30pm, Sun 11am- 3pm and by appointment.

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

Printed Art www.printedart.com

Synchronicity 1 Broad Street, Pawling, NY (845) 855-1172

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

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

Potter Brothers Ski and Snowboard Kingston, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Middletown, NY, , www.potterbrothers.com

Performing Arts Bard College Public Relations

Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com

Mediators Hudson Valley Mediators

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts

Outfitters

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

Music DJacobs Music 1 Milton Avenue, Highland, NY (845) 691-2701 www.jacobmusiconline.com

JTD Productions, Inc www.jtdproductions.com

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

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

Paramount Center for the Arts 100 Brown Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 739-2333 www.paramountcenter.org

Performance Spaces of the 21st Century (518) 392-6121 www.ps21chatham.org ps21@taconic.net

Shakespeare & Company 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA (413) 637-3353 Shakespeare.org

WAMC — The Linda

Musical Instruments Imperial Guitar & Soundworks 99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com

Networking Hudson Valley Green Drinks (845) 454-6410 www.hvgreendrinks.org

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.

Organizations US Green Building Council, New York Upstate Chapter, Hudson Valley Branch www.greenupstateny.org hvbranchcoordinator@gmail.com

339 Central Ave, Albany, NY 518-465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.

Pet Services & Supplies Dog Love, LLC 240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com 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.

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.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.

Photography

Recreation

Fionn Reilly Photography

Catamount Ski Area

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

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

France Menk Studios (845) 613-0683

Laszlo Image www.laszloimage.com laszloimage@yahoo.com

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

Rob Penner Photography www.robpennerphotography.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

Printing Services Fast Signs 1830 South Rd Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455 455@fastsigns.com

Mailing Works/Fountain Press Millbrook and Amenia, NY (845) 677-6112 orchmail@aol.com

PDQ Printers www.pdqbiz.net

Publications

(845) 853-5450 www.mountainskills.biz info@mountainskills.biz

Restoration Ronnee Barnett Textile Restoration Cherry Hill Road, Accord, NY (845) 687-7398 ronneebarnett@hvc.rr.com In private practice since 1978.� Among other projects, most often requested is conservation and/or restoration of tapestries, rugs, quilts, coverlets, needle- point, upholstery, samplers, including mounting and cleaning. Featured in many magazines and newspapers, good communication with clients is a must. On staff part time at the MMA.

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

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

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

Indian Mountain School 211 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org

Kinderhaus Montessori School 17 Crum Elbow Road, Hyde Park, NY (845) 229-4668

(845) 616-7834 www.countrywisdomnews.com Country Wisdom News – Subscribe to Country Wisdom News, Ulster County’s newest source for good news—age old and modern thoughts on food, the land, and the home. An annual subscription is $35. Send checks to PO Box 444, Accord, NY, 12404.

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

(917) 969-0106 www.kellyshimodaweddings.com kelly@kellyshimoda.com Kelly photographs weddings in a documentary style - capturing events and moments as they occur, with an artistic and slightly abstract angle. In addition to wedding photography, she freelances for The New York Times, includ-

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

ing the Vows section.

SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts

Weddings

New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3872 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

HudsonValleyWeddings.com 120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWedding.com www.HudsonValleyBaby.com www.HudsonValleyBabies.com www.HudsonValleyChildren.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com

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

The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, 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.

Shoes

New Paltz (845) 256-0788 Woodstock (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com

ROOTS & WINGS

78 Academy Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-3710 www.nyma.org admissions@nyma.org New York Military Academy is an important part of America’s independent school heritage.

Today, we offer a rigorous global curriculum for students who actively seek to be set apart for excellence in a structured program

P.O. Box 1081, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com/ceremonies.html puja@rootsnwings.com

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

Rev. Puja A. J. Thomson will help you create a heartfelt ceremony that uniquely expresses your commitment, whether you are blending different spiritual, religious, or ethnic traditions, are forging your own or share a common heritage. Puja’s calm presence and lovely Scottish voice add a special touch.

“Positive, professional, loving, focused and experienced.”

Tennis Rhinebeck Tennis Club 2 Salisbury Court, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8008 www.rhinebecktennis.com bob@rhinebecktennis.com

Wine & Liquor In Good Taste

Play tennis year-round on five outdoor Har-Tru clay courts or our one indoor Claytech tennis court. Specializing in personalized tennis programs. Pro Shop with on-site stringing and demo rackets. Offering adult and junior private, semi-private, and group tennis lessons. Affordable and easily accessible.

PUBLIC WELCOME.

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

Wedding Photography Kelly Shimoda Wedding Photography

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We are a multi-disciplinary architectural office with a vision to produce comprehensive, sensitive, state-of-the-art Architecture and a high level of emphasis on personal involvement while assisting in all aspects of the planning and design processes that lead to the enrichment of the medical facility and success in its mission. In addition to direct healthcare projects, we provide an additional depth of experience for planning of ancillary health care functions, such as medical offices, teaching and conference facilities.

Our ongoing contact with the health care architecture industry insures up to date methods and information resources for our client’s needs. We can also assist in the evaluation and documentation of existing health care facilities by preparing existing conditions documentation on CAD drawings, providing your facility with a computerized database of the physical site and evaluating the facility for code compliance and obsolescence. We provide our health care clients with comprehensive space programming capabilities and correlate projected needs with project budgetary requirements. PDS maintains ongoing experience in the preparation and submission of applications related to the approval of construction contract documents. In addition we are fully capable of assisting you with the full spectrum of architectural components of a CON application.

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OUTLINES WEBSITE: www.hahv.org BENEDICTINE HOSPITAL Phone: (845) 338-2500 Fax: (845) 334-4781 Address: 105 Mary’s Avenue, Kingston, N.Y. Contact : Sylvia Murphy Email: info@hahv.org

One of these improvements is a new Emergency Department, opened on April 27, 2010 at Kingston Hospital. For the HealthAlliance and Kingston Hospital, investing in and expanding the state-of-the-art emergency department is good business and good medicine. Kingston Hospital has the only nationally accredited Chest Pain Center in the Hudson Valley and is a designated Primary Stroke Center -- with the ability to care for heart and stroke patients 24 hours a day. Minor emergencies can now be treated in the 10-bed Fast Track unit and digital imaging is available on-site, with a new, high resolution, 64-slice CT scanner. Kingston Hospital also provides obstetrics and other acute care services, while Benedictine Hospital specializes in orthopedic surgery, rehabilitation, oncology, cardiology, vascular, sleep and radiology services. Margaretville Hospital is a critical access facility with an Emergency Department and its own ambulance squad for rapid response.

It provides a wide range of services including general surgery, endoscopy, gastroenterology, gynecological, urology, podiatry, physical and occupational therapy, a women’s center and a rehabilitation program. For more information go to www.HAHV.org.

MARGARETVILLE HOSPITAL Phone: (845) 586-2631 Fax: (845) 586-2186 Address: 42084 State Highway 28 Margaretville, N.Y. Contact : Sandy Horan email: info@hahv.org MOUNTAINSIDE RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER SENIOR CARE FACILITY Phone: (845) 586-1800 Fax: (845) 586-1933 Address: 42158 State Highway 28 Margareteville, N.Y. Contact : Philip Mehl Email: info@hahv.org WOODLAND POND AT NEW PALTZ CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Phone: (877) 505-9800 Fax: (845) 256-5777 Address: 100 Woodland Pond Circle, Suite 1, New Paltz, N.Y. Contact : John “Jack” Ritchie Email : jritchie@wpatnp.org

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HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is the parent corporation that aligns Benedictine Hospital, Kingston Hospital, Margaretville Hospital, Mountainside Residential Care Center and Woodland Pond at New Paltz. As the parent organization, HealthAlliance provides a unified governance structure, while still allowing each hospital to continue as a separate and distinct corporation.

HealthAlliance effectively integrates these facilities to strengthen the quality of patient-centered care and bring forward enhanced medical technology to Hudson Valley.

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We feel this “integration” of traditional/ allopathic pediatric care with complementary/ holistic options puts us on the cutting edge of a growing trend, and may give your children a better chance of coping with the health challenges of the 21st century!

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“It’s been my genuine privilege to have Joel Fischer as my dentist. He is the consummate professional, always diligent and wise in his medical practice. But on top of that, he is unfailingly sensitive and kind to his patients, singularly wise and up-to-date on the latest developments in dentistry, and truly gifted as a practitioner.”

- Steven G. Poskanzer, Former President, SUNY New Paltz Our helpful and friendly staff will guide you comfortably through the process and explain in easy to understand terms what is being proposed and done. Treatment can be phased in over a period of time or done more quickly and efficiently. Flexible payment plans are available through Chase Health Advantage and Care Credit.

For more than 30 years we have proudly served the community. We use high tech equipment to make dentistry both safe, comfortable and as simple as possible. Whether our patients wish to have a complete smile makeover or just replace a lost filling, we will be pleased to help. The results will be long lasting and look both beautiful and natural.

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hot water the therapeutic benefits of soaking by lorrie klosterman illustration by annie internicola Soaking in water just over the hundred-degree mark is an ancient pleasure with benefits beyond the sensuous.

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f you’ve enjoyed a hot tub experience, you know that the relaxation and skin sensorama it induces is benefit enough. It’s also a psychological stress reducer and has healthful impacts on physiology. Lolling in a natural hot spring or a heated large tub or pool has the combined benefits of increasing body temperature and relieving gravity’s usual tug on the skeleton and tissues. Body temperature and heart rate gradually rise, but without also triggering a rise in blood pressure (as exercise does) because blood vessels dilate with the heat. As a result, blood delivery improves, bringing in nutrients and oxygen and taking away toxins from areas that may otherwise suffer sluggish flow. As the body’s natural cooling mechanism kicks in (aka sweating), pores all over the skin release moisture that carries away chemical wastes. Massaging jets of water or air further enhance all this fluid movement, and just plain feel wonderful.

Heating yourself also supports immune cell travel among your tissues and nurtures tissue repair. The combination of warmth and freedom of movement, thanks to the body’s buoyancy in a tub of water, speeds healing from injuries and surgery, improves arthritis symptoms, helps those who are obese or have restricted mobility, reduces the need for pain medication, loosens muscles before a workout or soothes them afterward, and improves sleep.

Note that hot-water soaking is not advised without first checking with a medical expert, or for the very young, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with cardiovascular or other serious illness. The intersection of hot tubs and the use of alcohol, drugs, or medications that cause drowsiness has proven fatal. And though exercising while in a tub may sound like a great workout, doing so can dangerously ratchet up body temperature and stress the heart.

Mineral Soaks In this country, public heated baths had a big heyday in the 1800s, but today, large venues have mostly given way to smaller resorts with private soaking rooms that offer tubs by the hour or as one of multiple body treatments during a day, weekend, or weeklong retreat. In the Hudson Valley, Saratoga is the destination spot for a natural mineral soak, as it has been for over a century. Roosevelt Baths and Spa is one of several spas in the area that draw from natural mineral springs.

The Roosevelt is a historic bathhouse built in 1935 using New Deal money, thanks to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had earlier taken great interest in the mineral waters’ healing potential. While New York’s governor, Roosevelt had hired an architect to study the spas in Europe as a first step in his vision to create the grandest spa in the world. Renovated and reopened to the public in 2004, Roosevelt Baths and Spa is within a state park and offers 43 private tubs.

The 50-degree naturally effervescent mineral water is mixed with a small amount of fresh hotter water (or you can request 100 percent heated mineral water, with advance notice).

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of a mineral bath is hard to understand until you’ve had one. “Our water, from the Lincoln Spring, has the highest carbonation in Saratoga, and because of the effervescent bubbles, you float. The water has 18 different minerals and trace elements that help different systems of the body.” Soaks are $25 for 40 minutes; afterward, you can have a massage in the same room, or enjoy the steam room. “We have a safe, clean, family-oriented environment in its own little development,” Calzada adds. In addition, the Roosevelt was deemed one of 10 most “green” vacation spots by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation in 2009 for its efforts to save energy, reduce waste, and conserve resources.

Because mineral hot springs occur only where the Earth deems appropriate, not where it’s convenient to busy people, a second best is adding goodies to mimic mineral water, like dry salts from celebrated mineral sources such as the Dead Sea, or to create healing and rejuvenating solutions using plants or oils. For instance, at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, guests to the spa can soak year round in an outdoor heated, jetted pool to which salts from the Dead Sea are added daily.

“The minerals are fantastic—magnesium, potassium, calcium chloride, bromides, and many others,” says Mohonk Spa Director Barbara Stirewalt. “They have several significant benefits, and we know that people like it.”

Designer Soaks and Steams Adding herbs or oils to the water enriches the sensual feast and can include specific healing and rejuvenating concoctions. You can order up a private session in a tub of delights at Mohonk’s spa. “In the winter you lose some serotonin and you need to reenergize yourself with uplifting oils, and a bath is a great way to do that,” says Stirewalt. “Indoors we offer what we call water cures. These are aromatic soaks performed in a circulating jetted hydrotherapy tub, in which extracts or essential oils have been added to the water. They offer relaxation and relief as well as the pleasure of soaking in hot water that’s between 98 and 102 degrees.”

The spa’s Lake in the Sky Water Cure, for instance, combines balsam fir, white pine, pink peppercorn, and green mandarin essences, and the Refresh Water Cure features extracts of oats for skin hydration and bourbon vanilla plus massola bark to ease nervous tension and soften skin.With any soak you can choose accompanying music and afterward enjoy an iced fruit antioxidant beverage of the day.

Steam rooms are a great heating-and-hydrating experience too, though the oft-depicted image of them (peopled by nearly naked, rotund men discussing dangerous business) may be off-putting. Imagine instead the steam experience at Buttermilk Falls Inn and Spa, overlooking the Hudson River in Milton.

Allie Rockermann, the spa’s director, says many locals enjoy a day pass at the spa and go between the indoor pool, the sauna, nourishing treatments like a massage or seaweed detox wrap, and the steam room. “We put eucalyptus oil in the steam, which clears out the senses and has great antibacterial, antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory properties,” Rockermann explains. “The steam room makes you sweat,

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releasing toxins, and breathing in the steam really helps the eucalyptus get inside the body and help with that.” The steam room and sauna are both at about 110 or 120 degrees, offering a super hot indulgence in winter.

Clean Soaking When you soak in water, you’re going to be a sponge for substances dissolved in it.

The multilayered barrier that is your skin will deter some materials, but others will make their way through the outer layers of dead cells into the blood vessels of the dermis below. Absorption through the skin has its pros and cons: Beneficial minerals, herbs, or oils may seep in, but so may potentially harmful microbes and chemicals.

Just as swimming pools are treated to remove or destroy microorganisms, hot tubs must be too. Every time somebody steps into the pool, a new supply of microbes is introduced. So chemicals or processes that kill and inhibit the growth of microbes are essential. In addition, the organic material from dirt, skin oils, and those that linger in tap water provide nutrients for growth of algae and bacteria, so a periodic “shock” treatment to oxidize (degrade) these materials is essential.

Nonchemical oxidation processes exist but aren’t yet common.

Although chlorine treatment has been standard practice to sanitize and shock water, many health experts advise that chlorine exposure be kept to a minimum, and many people find it drying and itchy. So other approaches to water treatment are evolving. Bromine is a favored substitute for chlorine nowadays (with fewer health concerns so far, anyway), and chemical-free methods can reduce the amount of chlorine or bromine needed (but most do not completely replace them). Such treatments include ozone produced by an ultraviolet light or corona discharge unit, addition of metals such as zinc or copper in minute amounts, and some patented products.

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A Tub of Your Own What about having access to a steamy tub of water at home? In-home hot tubs— more trendily called spas—run from a few thousand dollars to higher priced luxury models. (“Jacuzzi” is a brand name, not a product category.) Spas are beloved for the powerful jets of water or air that act as underwater massagers. Some bathtubs have jets, but there’s nothing like sinking neck-deep into water to get that massage, accompanied perhaps by other spa options such as underwater lighting, waterfalls, sound systems, or a DVD or TV screen. Local spa retailers will do more than provide you the unit: They will help you figure out where to put it, whether you’ll need floor reinforcement, and more.

“We’ll come out and do a site inspection at no charge,” says Kevin Olheiser from Rainbow Pools and Spas in Fishkill. “We’ll recommend where to put the spa, and help you along in the decision-making process. We put in a cement slab if you need one.We teach you how to care for the spa and have a year-round water-testing service.There’s a misconception that caring for a spa is expensive and time consuming.

In reality, it takes just minutes a week and costs less than a night at the movies.”

Over the 20 years in business, Rainbow Pools and Spas has settled on one product line: Hot Spring spas. “We are confident with the brand and quality, and they are the most efficient and environmentally friendly spa on the market,” says Olheiser. “Hot Spring has 100 percent no bypass: All water is going through the filter before being returned to the tub. The circulator pump uses less power than a 40-watt bulb. And Hot Spring puts emphasis on the quality and variety of the massaging aspect.” Some other brands offer over a hundred jets, but Olheiser counsels, “when it comes to jets, more being better is not the case. A lot of research has gone into the Hot Spring spas. The jets are designed and positioned very specifically for different parts of the body.” Some units have a lounge chair in which you can recline underwater and receive a full-body jet massage from neck to feet: There are even jets that move up and down your spine.

If you’ve never experienced a hot tub, this winter is a perfect time to be initiated. The Hudson Valley has a number of venues offering a range in services, from a half-hour dunk to a full day or weekend retreat. Some have frequent user clubs, low-cost day passes, or unlimited use with membership (check out YMCAs, universities, and exercise clubs). If you’re thinking about installing a tub at home or workplace (!), you can take a test soak in a Hot Spring tub at Rainbow Pools and Spas, where a private “wet testing” spa awaits you.

RESOURCES Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa www.buttermilkfallsinn.com Rainbow Pools and Spas www.rainbowpools.com Roosevelt Baths and Spa www.saratogaspastatepark.org The Spa at Mohonk Mountain House www.mohonk.com/spa

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Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

It’s Winter Now Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

Last night I stayed up late with some girlfriends, so I didn’t set the usual alarm.

And when I awoke, T was long gone, Azalea was still asleep, and the house was silent. I was alone, in bed, and the sun was up. An uncommon set of circumstances, to say the least. And when I opened my eyes, the wooden blinds of our wide window already pulled up, I could see the whole big world of grey clouds settling over the mountain that makes this valley, with just a little bit of red light passing through fog, so pink and soft behind the brown December trees. I took all that beauty as some encouragement to face into this day with a brave heart.

Holidays. As much as I love them, especially now that I am a mom, and am excited to excite Azalea about things like gravy and latkes and setting a table, each year I notice a little more sadness leaking into all the candle lighting. Last week, on the day of Hanukkah we were celebrating with the most fanfare, I actually had to sit down and cry over missing my dad, which I have really never done before. But it was so strange, not like missing his person, or personality, or the smell of car grease on his hands, or anything particularly pleasurable that I associate with him. It was more just missing his life as a fact, a dot to which I might have connected if he were alive. A familiar phone number I could call.

Even if the person on the other end had been unsatisfying or irritating, at least I could engage in some primitive human question, like how much vinegar should I add to the prune roast?

And last month I wrote here about his mom, Grandma Beryl, who I long for more intimately, but again, it’s almost as if I just want to know someone. I want someone to know me. I want to feel like I exist in a context.

And due to all this stirring up, I have been looking into other aspects of my childhood with a fresh eye, making the effort to be simple and honest with myself without censoring my feelings or cutting myself off in order to protect people. This is proving more difficult than I would have imagined. It feels silly, after all this time, to be here, again. And it is hard to believe that all this processing really matters. It is not unusual for us grown-ups to continue to probe our childhoods for answers to the present. But once we have children of our own, the pressure mounts and the stakes are raised. Not only do our habitual patterns become someone else’s lifelong burden, but we can also be triggered by seeing our own kids as kids, the tender little humans we once were.

It is a basic of Zen that the past doesn’t exist, or the future for that matter, not to mention all the other “things” we imagine our life to consist of. The only truth is each moment—no arising, no dissolving, absolutely right now.

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appreciate more and more all the time.Through hours and hours, days, weeks, months and years of sitting in zazen, we begin to see through the wispy web of fantasy-life that permeates our moment to moment experience, calling to us as the poet Michael Van Walleghen writes in one of my favorite poems ever, “like voices from the moon.” And he continues, “Where would they have you go/ That is not the same/Blank field?” My favorite question these days.

Even without practice, we can see clearly that the past is just an idea.

For most of us, our ideas about who we are, and were, our bundled energies of childhoods (or past lives, even, if you’re a Tibetan Buddhist) are so powerful they anxiously, blindly, catapult us through our present lives. The Buddhist word for it is samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death. As far as I can tell, the only way out is in, awakening to the radical present of our own bodies and minds, which of course includes the past. Not my ideas or feelings, per se, about the past, but the karmic traces of it that fill and direct my body now. As in, the way my body heats with rage when someone gets in my face, which is something that, unfortunately, 4-almost-5-year-olds do all the time.

In other words, I have been through so much of this material before, and sometimes seeing that makes me so cranky and frustrated! And yet, this time, it’s different. I’m different. My ego’s desire to maintain itself has finally met its match: she has the dreamiest milk smell, is afraid to die because of how much she will miss her stickers, says things like, “my brain needs to see your beautiful dark eyes,” and can kick my butt at wild-animal Memory. Loving Azalea has changed the course of my life.

And inspired as I am by the challenge to take good care of her—better care than was ever taken of me—I am willing to take the risk of dwelling in what Pema Chodron calls “the cool loneliness” of the middle way. Withstanding the urge to move away from what feels intolerable, to cut a little closer to the bone. To stop chasing after something to settle or resolve or hide the raw nerve. I mean, come on, it’s 15 degrees outside, and I’m not getting any younger. It’s time.

So, after my morning reverie of looking out the window, I got up, jumped in the shower, and began the business of my day. Azalea soon woke up, warm little feet meeting the cold floor, dragging her Kai-kai bunny along with her.

We hugged, ate, negotiated. The usual. And on the way to school, the car windows crusted with snowflake-patterned frost, Azalea remarked: Mama, Fall is over. It’s winter now.

That’s my girl.

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Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading individual and group psychotherapy and expressive arts healing sessions. Brief intensive counseling for teens and adults, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child and family play therapy, parent counseling, and "Dreamfigures" a clay art therapy group for women.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

Janne Dooley, LCSW Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com

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

Sally Roth, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (917) 566-4393 20 + years of psychotherapy experience successfully helping people cope with stress, feelings, and life & relationship problems. Training and expertise in insight-oriented and couple’s therapy, eating disorders, women’s issues, chronic illness, anxiety and depression.

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Resorts & Spas Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com

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New Age Health Spa (800) 682-4348 www.newagehealthspa.com

Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change. Featuring People Who Work with People — Tools for Resiliency, with Sharon Salzberg, Gina Sharpe and Cheri Maples. Healing strategies for anyone in helping professions or a caregiving role, Jan. 27- 30, 2011.

Spiritual Circle of Ceremony 917-373-6426 www.circleofceremony.com revchristan@circleofceremony.com

Nowist Society http://www.facebook.com/Nowist

Reverend Diane Epstein 670 Aaron Ct., Kingston, NY (914) 466-0090 www.hudsonvalleyinterfaithminister.com

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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.

MINDFUL PARENTING GROUP at Simply Create, in New Paltz on alternate Thursday evenings. Call for information or free 1/2 hour consultation to join group. Call for information.

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The Interfaith Sanctuary of the Hudson Valley 99 Long Hill Road, HIghland Mills, (845) 913-8636 www.interfaithsanctuary.org rev.naomifay@gmail.com

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

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Strength in Numbers

Group Fitness

By Crispin Kott

P

ersonal fitness is often viewed as a solitary endeavor, and with “personal” the first word in the phrase, it’s no wonder. But more and more people are finding out that improving one’s own level of fitness doesn’t have to be a road traveled alone.

Judy Burns is the group fitness coordinator at the YMCA in Kingston, and for the past three she’s seen interest in working out in a group setting skyrocket. “The group fitness program, little by little, went from classes of five people to 50,” she says. “There really hasn’t been a focus on group fitness until recently.”

As theYMCA has begun to shift its focus toward seeing to the interests of those who prefer to work out in a group atmosphere, its offerings have expanded as well.Among the more popular classes offered are spinning, Pilates, yoga, and Zumba, a form of Latin-flavored dance fitness that saw as many as 50 participants in each of theYMCA’s pair of outdoor summer sessions, held on the lawn outside the building facing Broadway in midtown Kingston.

“We enjoyed it immensely,” Burns says. “All the cars driving by were beeping at us.”

Perspiration Inspiration For neophytes, the notion of working out for the first time in front of a group might be intimidating. But supporters of group fitness say the experience can actually be inspiring. That’s a group that doesn’t just include trainers, but also enthusiasts.

Dave Nelson, a Port Ewen health insurance worker, has been taking group classes at the YMCA for the past three years, including spinning, barbell, and a fitness boot camp that focuses on strength and cardio exercises. “Having people in a group setting, everybody feeds upon each other’s energy,” says Nelson. “Everybody has the same goal.

You look forward to going there every day.You can see your friends.”

Nelson wasn’t always this comfortable with the idea of group fitness, preferring to spend his time doing solitary nautilus workout routines. But it wasn’t working out for him. “I was going to the gym on a not very regular basis,” he says. “I’d find myself losing interest and having no motivation. You just burn out.” Nelson’s girlfriend helped him make the transition from going it alone to being part of a group. While he entered his first group class with his own set of fears and preconceptions, he came to find something far more inviting. “I had a goal in mind, and when I first got there, I couldn’t do a lot of what I’m doing now,” Nelson says. “But the instructors told me to go at the pace that’s comfortable for me and work up to a certain level of fitness over time.”

Furthermore, Nelson’s anxiety over being the new kid in town was assuaged by the other people in the room. After all, they’d all been in the same boat at one time. It’s a feeling Nelson has held with him as he’s now in the position of being welcoming to

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people who are new to group fitness. “When I first got here people encouraged me,” he says. “And we’re all here for the same purpose.You sort of guide newcomers, and I’ve been here long enough that I can pass on some barbell skills or spinning skills.”

Burns sees the look of intimidation on new faces pretty much every day of the week. Usually, she’ll see a complete turnaround by the end of the first group workout.

“Most people have that fear of walking into that room,” she says. “I let them know that nobody is looking at you. There’s no time to look at anybody else.”

From Gun-shy to Gun Show Acceptance, or fear of finding a lack thereof, is just one of the reasons the experts say people are often a bit gun-shy about starting a fitness regime that will put them in among a group of people.

Andrea Pastorella, founder of Movita Dance Theater, teaches modern dance and core strengthening at Woodstock’s Mountain View Studio. She says the social benefits of group fitness are inherent in dance, and are encouraged in all the classes she teaches.

“Sometimes when you walk into a room full of people, you’re very exposed in dance, and even in exercise,” she says. “You look to see who’s there, what they are wearing, how good they are. My intention is to bring people down to the same level, which is the floor, and start from there.”

Because she sees dance as a social art form, Pastorella says it can have significance beyond its ability to shape the body. And as a result, the benefits of its being used as a form of physical fitness can actually be magnified. “Dance is something you don’t do alone in your living room,” she says. “Culturally and historically, dance has always been something people do together. I think that people coming together inspires unity among ourselves and also a certain profound recognition of our own humanity.”

It’s the recognition of humanity, Pastorella says, that can help people new to group fitness get over their trepidation. “I guess what I look to do is to have the people in the class really get that we’re all built the same way. We’re all human and we have pretty much the same mechanisms; we only have different limitations. I’ve always been in classes where there were many people, and I think you learn from each other.

Watching each other is where you’re really going to learn, getting inspiration from the people in the group and becoming familiar with each other. As soon as there’s a human recognition with people recognizing each other in the space, they start to have fun, they start to work harder and focus on what they’re doing instead of how they look, and I think that’s really important for people.”

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Competition & Community Peter Nathan runs the Gunx CrossFit Studio in Gardiner, focusing on a relatively new form of fitness that combines weightlifting, sprinting, and gymnastics in short, intense workouts. Nathan says the sense of community is there in CrossFit, but also a natural feeling of competition. “Since you’re in a group, you look around and say, ‘I’d like to do this faster than he does or she does,’” he says. “There’s a competitive aspect, but at the same time there’s a community. In the middle of a workout you might think, ‘I’m tired, this sucks,’ and you want to quit. But you look around and people are cheering you on.”

Nathan says the mix of competition and support can lead to the greatest success in fitness regimens like CrossFit. “The combination allows you to increase the intensity of your work, and the more intense that you work, the bigger the fitness return,” he says. Nathan adds that working out with a group is also helpful for people who might be inclined to let themselves off the hook. “If you’re working on your own, you usually work on your strengths,” he says. “You do what you’re good at and ignore what you suck at. I post my workouts every day on my webpage. If you look at the workout and say, ‘I don’t want to do that,’ that’s the first clue about what you really need to work on.”

Michelle Duvall, co-creator of the BeyondBarre program at Pilates in Motion in Warwick, agrees. “Having somebody in a competitive sense to push you beyond your limits, or someone to lean on when you’re sore, is an advantage of group fitness,” she says. “The support and camaraderie lifts up the entire class.” BeyondBarre is a balletbased workout that combines small muscle movements, isometric holds, and slide boards that allow for precise body-sculpting. “We use small weights to tone the arms, do some mat work to narrow the waist and strengthen the core, and we put a lot of emphasis on stretching,” says Duvall. “The slide boards really bump up the cardio.”

Regardless of which group fitness option you choose from among the many offered locally, what you may find yourself coming away with is a bunch of new friends.

“By the end, everybody’s been put through the same misery,” says Nathan. “They meet people they can hang out with, and that’s probably one of the biggest draws. Unlike going into a large or a big-box gym, where you’re shown how to use the machines once and everybody is walking around and doing the same thing—you can go to one of those for a year and still not meet anybody—there is definitely a sense of community in group fitness.”

Burns agrees. “The classes build friendships that they take outside the Y,” she says.

“They go for coffee, or there’s a triathlon somewhere.” She adds that there’s even fun to be had within the classes themselves, such as a recent costume party in a barbell class on Halloween, when one (male) attendee dressed as the Tooth Fairy. “It’s not as easy to have fun when you’re working out on your own. Besides,” adds Burns, “who says you can’t squat in a tutu?”

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Neko Case will perform at the Bearsville Theater on February 1.

Lady Singer as Horn Section From her early punk girl band days through her alt-country albums, through her ongoing work with the New Pornographers, Neko Case’s torch-rocker voice has been her calling card. After Case released her fifth full-length studio album, Middle Cyclone, in late 2009, she told the New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones, “I’ve never really listened to my voice and gone, ‘That is a quality instrument.’

It’s more like, ‘Okay, that’s good and fucking loud.’ I’m kind of the horn section of any band I’m in.” While her voice does take over a room—when the New Pornographers opened their Together tour at the Bearsville Theater in May, her vocal instrument was amped up to 11—Case’s solo work explores sonic textures outside her singing and showcases her visceral lyrics, which tend toward clipped narratives of raw emotion. “Magpie to the Morning,” a slow burner from Middle Cyclone, opens with this moody set piece: “Magpie comes a-calling / drops a marble from the sky / tin roof sounds alarm / and wake up child. / Let this be a warning says the magpie to the morning / don’t let this fading summer pass you by.” You can hear the urgent poignancy of the bird’s advice in the plaintive tone of a singer on the verge of turning 40. Especially when she sings it loud.

Neko Case will perform at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on February 1. Lost in the Trees will open. General admission tickets are $40. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com.

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SATURDAY 1 The science behind environmental solutions

Body / Mind / Spirit New Year’s Day Meditation 12pm-1am. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

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New Year’s Day Clairvoyant Channeling 2pm. $25/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

6QRZ LV *RRG Friday, January 28th at 7:00 p.m.

Cary Institute scientist Peter M. Groffman will discuss how mild winters threaten soil productivity, plant growth, and freshwater resources. Dr. Groffman’s talk will focus on climate warming in the Northeast and how the loss of snow cover has a ripple effect on soils, trees, and water quantity and quality. The event will be held in the Cary Institute auditorium, located at 2801 Sharon Tpk. (Rte. 44) in Millbrook, N.Y.

New Year's Love Intention: Cranio Touch, Sound Massage and Healing Energy

Sunday, February 27th at 2 p.m.

Join Cary Institute educators for a walk along snow-covered trails and an afternoon of family-friendly ecoexplorations. Discover animal tracks, ice bell formations, cold weather insects, and the wonders of winter survival.

Meet at the main campus parking area, located at 2801 Sharon Tpk. (Rte. 44) in Millbrook, N.Y. RSVP’s are necessary.

Contact freemanp@caryinstitute.org or call (845) 677-7600 x 121.

Music The Shoe String Band 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

4:30pm-6pm. Taught by Maia Martinez, direct from Argentina. $12. Beacon Studios, Beacon. 440-7197.

Eliza Presents 7:30pm. $20/$15. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Dance Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/free children and volunteers. Knights of Columbus, Kingston.

FreestyleFrolic.org.

Events

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Classes

Kids Kids' Winter Camp Call for times. Activities such as ice skating, crosscountry skiing, snowshoeing, downhill skiing and more.

Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Music 4pm. Berkshire Bach Society. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

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Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Tanya Tyler-Barber. College of Poetry, Warwick.

294-8085.

TUESDAY 4 Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $40/$75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Dance-Based Moves 4:30pm-5:30pm. Caribbean, African, Funk. Yoga based stretch and strengthening exercises to warm up and cool down. $10. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Call for times. $155-$225. The Nature Institute, Ghent.

(518) 672-0116.

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

New Moon Class 7:30pm-9pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

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Classes

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun

Schemker Fighting Spirit Karate Program 4:15pm-5:15pm. Ages 5 and up. Open Space, Rosendale. 687-8890.

Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

11am-1pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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

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Dance Bill Evans Technique Call for times. Master class. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

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Mathematics Alive: Geometry Workshop for Middle School Teachers and Parents

2pm-2pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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Bill Evans Residency 8pm. Bill Evans Dance Company. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

High Frequency Channeling 6pm-7:30pm. Archangel Metatron & Master Teachers. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

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7:30pm. Special guests Professor Louis & the Cromatix. $30. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

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Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

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Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson.

SUNDAY 2 New York Upstate Chapter Hudson Valley Branch

Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $40/$75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

New Year's Sound Healing Meditation 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

5:30pm. $7/$5 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Learn about statewide and national Tues, January 18th rebates and incentives for green Location: Dutchess or Putnam County building and energy upgrades.

Wed, January 19th Location: Ulster County Venues and Presenters: TBA More information to follow!

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Bhutto 1:30pm. $7/$5 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Columbia Arts Team Kids Holiday Spectacular 1pm. $10. North East Community Center, Millerton.

(518) 789-4259.

10am. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

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4pm-5:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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Exploring The Articulate Body: A Bartenieff-based Somatics Lab Call for times. Master class. $20 per class. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Events Pancake Breakfast 8am-12pm. Benefiting Rhinebeck's Boy Scout Troop 128. $2-$6. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. u.morgan@lgny.org.

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Music Open Mike 7pm. Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

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

Rhonda Denet 7:30pm. Blues. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

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

WEDNESDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Gurdjieff Study Group 6:30pm. Stone Ridge. gstudygroup@gmail.com.

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A sketch of King Aethelred by composer Robert Wilson, whose comic opera "Aethelred the Unready" will be the centerpiece of Vassar's Modfest this month.

We Are the Mods Vassar students seldom have to stray far in pursuit of an aesthetic thrill. The college, now celebrating its sesquicentennial (i.e., its 150th anniversary), has never scrimped in bringing art and performance to its community or in keeping au courant. Modfest—whose broad theme is the arts in the 20th and 21st centuries—is a yearly interdepartmental collaboration that pools the creative resources of students, faculty, and alumni: “It is unusual in the sense that it’s really making use of what we have here,” says Dee Wilson, a Vassar alum who founded the two-week-long festival nine years ago with her husband Richard Wilson, a music professor and composer.

Music predominates in the 2011 program. The Cygnus Ensemble will play a concert of works by distinguished composers who are associated with Vassar, including Ernst Krenek, Harold Meltzer, and Annea Lockwood. Students will also be showcased. Luke Leavitt (’12) heads the nine-piece Body Electric Afrofunk Band, a campus favorite that always draws crowds. In addition, student chamber musicians are performing in conjunction with a student art show, with student poetry readings interspersed among the pieces. Two dance compositions by student choreographers of the Vassar Repertory Dance Theater will also be blended into the mix.

The festival’s centerpiece is the first fully staged production of “Aethelred the Unready,” a comic opera by Richard Wilson about a lackluster 10th-century monarch who pleads with the muse of history to change his unfortunate epithet. The production is directed by renowned countertenor Drew Minter and the school’s entire vocal faculty is in the cast. Wilson penned the opera in 1994 after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship. He derived the idea for the libretto from the Anglo-Saxon chronicler William of Malmesbury, who he read as an undergraduate (and who is a major character in his opera). “It’s about how people’s reputations get formed and what leads to a negative historical reputation,”

Wilson explains, “but I’m making it sound more serious than it really is.” Wilson admits there may be an autobiographical aspect to his Aethelred, but emphasizes that there is no similarity between his wife Dee and Aethelred’s nagging, ambitious wife, Emma.

He even jokes about carrying a sign to the performance that says, “My wife said that I’m to say that Emma is not her.”

For this year’s festival, Dee Wilson, a retired elementary school teacher who is an ambitious learner of languages, has conceived an interesting, performative way of involving Vassar’s foreign language departments. The “Tower of Babel” will be a dramatic telling of folktales (modernized, of course, for Modfest) in their original tongues, with students providing translations. Another theatrical treat will be two lehrstücke, or “teaching plays,” by Bertold Brecht: “Der Jasager” and “Der Neinsager” (“He Said Yes” and “He Said No”). These short plays are examples of an experimental form that Brecht devised as a means to break down the barrier between actor and audience; for the German-speaking drama students, the audience will matter naught and it will be all about embodying the Brechtian process and acquiring what the playwright termed an “epic” attitude.

In association with Modfest, the newly reopened Loeb Art Center will feature an exhibition of photographs commissioned by the college to celebrate its sesquicentennial, “150 Years Later: Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin.” The show, 40 images uncovering the college’s distinctive cult and culture, is curated by Mary-Kay Lombino and opens on January 27.

Modfest encompasses over 20 events between January 20 and February 5 at various locations on the Vassar College campus in Poughkkepsie. (845) 437-5370; http://arts.vassar.edu.

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The Artists' Way with EFT 7pm-9pm. Tony Guy Parker. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

January Garden 3pm-5pm. Juried show. Small Gallery at Valley Artisans Market, Cambridge. (518) 677-2765.

A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Call to verify. Unitarian Feelowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

New Works by Hebb, Rico, and Kravitz 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org.

Music

OMG! A Gaggle of Artists!

5pm-7pm. 40-artist demonstration creating artworks using various techniqus. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Live Jazz 7pm-10pm. ZenDog Cafe, Rhinebeck. 516-4501.

THURSDAY 6 Art Group Exhibit 6pm-8pm. Paintings, photos, sculpture. Collage, Warwick. 986-9000,

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Invitational: Greene County Council on the Arts 6pm-8pm. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.

Beginner/Mixed Level Bellydance Class 7pm-8:30pm. $15/$50 month. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events Trivia Night 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry

12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 845.876.7774 Email: allure7774@aol.com

6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

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RedCred 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

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Live Jazz 7pm-10pm. ZenDog Cafe, Rhinebeck. 516-4501.

Spoken Word NPRCoC Health Plan FAQ 10am-2pm. New Paltz Chamber of Commerce, New Paltz. 255-0243.

Our Fight Against Global Climate Change 6:30pm-8pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh.

473-4440 ext. 273.

Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art 7pm-9pm. Sponsored by the Beacon Art Salon. $5.

Beahive, Beacon. (917) 449-6356.

Fireside Chat â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who is St. James?â&#x20AC;?

7pm. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.

FRIDAY 7 Body / Mind / Spirit Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Projective Dream Group 6:30pm-8pm. With Melissa Sweet. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Music Carmen Souza/Adam Nussbaum Quartet 7pm. Martin Domingues. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Nostalgia 7pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

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Cross River Fine Art 5pm-8pm. Artwork of sixteen watercolorists. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Students of Mira Fink, Watercolors 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Classes

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A Solo Show by Betsy Jacaruso 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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SATURDAY 8

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

Ray Blue 7:30pm. Blues and jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 8pm. Featuring Rupert Wates and Dave Kearney. $3.

Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Doo Wop a Luz 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Kevin McKrell & Train Of Fools 8:30pm. $22.50/$17.50. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Body / Mind / Spirit Psychic Saturday 12pm-5pm. With Suzy Meszoly and Adam Bernstein.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Classes Take Charge of Your Life 10am-11:15am. Interface Healing, Kingston.

(914) 466-0090.

Salsa Dance Lessons 4:30pm-6pm. Taught by Maia Martinez, direct from Argentina. $12. Beacon Studios, Beacon. 440-7197.

Dance Dzul Dance 7:30pm. Presented by Millbrook Arts Group. $15.

Millbrook High School, Millbrook. (646) 244-1499.

Fiddle Dance Jam 8pm. $10/$9 members/children 1/2 price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Events Cold Spring Indoor Farmers' Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

Chronicle of a Literal Man 8-10:30pm. Multimedia performance on the murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner: Screening of Old Jolly Farm and music by Rob Morsbeger and Jon Herington. Bean Runner CafĂŠ, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Film The Catskill Mountain House, and the World Around 2pm-4pm. Hot Cocoa and a Movie series. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Music The Met: Live in HD: La Fanciulla del West 1pm. Pucciniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opera. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Rob Morsberger and Jon Herington 7:30pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

The Tartan Terrors 7:30pm. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Gregg Allman & Friends 8pm. Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get more classic rock than Gregg Allman. $65 Golden Circle/$48/$43 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Hemingway's Cat and Miss Creant 8pm. $10. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Chris Barron and The Time Bandits 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Tao Seeger and George Kilby, Jr. 9pm. With Members of Railroad Earth and Hot Tuna.

Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

The Kurt Henry Band 9pm. Rock. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Madd Dog 10pm. Rock. Michael's Sports Bar, Fishkill. 896-5766.

Spoken Word Woodstock Library Writers' Forum 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.

Theater

The Mommyheads/Johnny Society 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Fiddler on the Roof Call for times. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Crawdaddy 9:30pm. Cajun, Zydeco. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Mean Girls, The Musical 7pm. 5 Sterling Place, Kingston. 331-7955.

Madd Dog 10pm. Charlie O's, Red Hook. 758-2123.

Theater Mean Girls, The Musical 7pm. 5 Sterling Place, Kingston. 331-7955.

SUNDAY 9 Art Daniel Pitin: Garrison Landing 4pm-7pm. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

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COLIN MOCHRIE & BRAD SHERWOOD March 6, 7pm

FERDINAND THE BULL March 16, 12pm School-Time Matinee

AMERICA March 17, 8pm

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914-739-2333

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Music

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Claudia Bracaliello and Harold Russel 12pm. Noontime organ concert series. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

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

Open Mike 7pm. Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

The Human Experience: Part I 2pm-4pm. Adrienne DeSalvo. $25/$40 series. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Spoken Word

Community Talking Circle 4pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Lecture IV: New Art Markets 7pm-9pm. Introducing the Collectors Education Program. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Workshops

Film All the Ladies Say and The Energy Dance Co. 2pm. Dance Film Series. $10/$6 children. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music

Public Persona 7:30pm-9:30pm. Designed to help professionals improve their public presentation skills. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WEDNESDAY 12

Open Book 3pm. Acoustic. Harmony, Woodstock. 679-7760.

Body / Mind / Spirit

La Traviata 4:15pm. Opera. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Gurdjieff Study Group 6:30pm. Stone Ridge, Stone Ridge. gstudygroup@gmail.com.

Theater

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

Fiddler on the Roof Call for times. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Behind the Scenes in the Golden Age of Hollywood 3pm. Tales of the Great Movie Stars by Carey Harrison, son of Rex. $14. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Call to verify. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Events

Mean Girls, The Musical 7pm. 5 Sterling Place, Kingston. 331-7955.

Neighborhood Green Drinks Call for times. Networking night for people in the environmental fields and sustainably minded. Multiple locations. Call for locations. 454-6410.

Workshops

Music

Photoshop for Photographers 2pm-4pm. 3 Saturday session. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Photoshop Fundamentals 4:30pm-6:30pm. 3 Saturday session. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

MONDAY 10 Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Schemker Fighting Spirit Karate Program 3:45pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-6. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Schemker Fighting Spirit Karate Program 5pm-6pm. Ages 6 and up. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson.

Film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

TUESDAY 11

Live Jazz 7pm-10pm. ZenDog Cafe, Rhinebeck. 516-4501.

Workshops Cash Flow: Budgeting, Analyzing, Controlling, & Understanding 8:30am-10:30pm. New Paltz Chamber of Commerce, New Paltz. 255-0243.

THURSDAY 13 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Beginner/Mixed Level Bellydance Class 7pm-8:30pm. $15/$50 month. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events Trivia Night 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Music

Dance-Based Moves 4:30pm-5:30pm. Caribbean, African, fun. Easy to follow using a wide range of inspiring music. $10. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Merkaba Activation with the Master Teachers 6pm-7:30pm. Channeled Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Open Book and Marc Von Em 8pm. Acoustic. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring.

265-2012.

Live Jazz 7pm-10pm. ZenDog Cafe, Rhinebeck. 516-4501.

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

Heart Opening Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. With Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Schemker Fighting Spirit Karate Program 4:15pm-5:15pm. Ages 5 and up. Open Space, Rosendale. 687-8890.

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

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FRIDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit Holding Your Own, A Workshop for Women Call for times. Series of workshops for women revolving around "work" related issues. $600. Spiritplay Studio, Woodstock. 679-4140.

Classes First Aid: National Safety Council 6pm-10pm. Health Quest Community Education. $50. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-8500.

Music Jamire Williams & Erimaj 7pm. Opening: The Callen Sisters. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Events

Alexis Cole Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

After-Hours Mixer 5:30pm-7:30pm. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce. $15. McGillicuddy's Restaurant & Tap Room, New Paltz. 255-0243.

Gibson Brothers Band 7:30pm. Sponsored by the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie.

473-2145.

Iron Grad Culinary Competition 6:30pm. Culinary competition and dinner. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 8pm. The Wherehouse Restaurant, Newburgh.

561-7240.

Music Of ABBA: Arrival From Sweden 8pm. $35/$31/$25/$20/$15 students. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

Shelley King 8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Christopher Robin Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Reality Check 8:30pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

SUNDAY 16 Body / Mind / Spirit

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

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Body / Mind / Spirit

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

Ollabelle 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Human Experience: Part II 2pm-4pm. Adrienne DeSalvo. $25. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Smokin' Aces Blues Band 9:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Exploring the Buddhadharma with Jeffrey Mann 4pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

O.C. Blues Xpress 10pm. Top Notch Bar and Grill, Walden. 778-0277.

Trance Journeying with Peter Blum 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Spoken Word

Classes

Conversation with Bethanny Frankel 8pm. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Soulmate Attraction for Women Call for times. Demonstrates the principles of soulmate attraction and radically improves the odds of success when relationship seeking. Lenox, MA. (413) 446-1777.

Theater Bye Bye Birdie 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 15 Art Inspired Landscapes: Paintings by George Ballantine & Robert Selkowitz 2pm-4pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper.

688-2828.

Body / Mind / Spirit Body Be Well Open House 10am-3pm. Free 30-minute trial classes: Yoga, Pilates, Zumba, more. Body Be Well, Red Hook. 758-0790.

Intentional Living Feng Shui Accomplishments 10am-3pm. With Gabrielle Alizay. $100. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Hudson Valley Community Reiki 11am-1pm. New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz.

616-1219.

Osho active Meditation: Nataraj with Shawn 12pm-1:15pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Classes CPR/AED 9am-3pm. Health Quest Community Education. $75.

Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-8500.

Salsa Dance Lessons 4:30pm-6pm. Taught by Maia Martinez, direct from Argentina. $12. Beacon Studios, Beacon. 440-7197.

Events Cold Spring Indoor Farmers' Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

Open House Theatrical Potluck 12pm. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Film Gasland 2pm-4pm. Hot Cocoa and a Movie series. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Music Ben Allison 7pm. Opening: Hallow Dog. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Dead Cat Bounce 7:30pm. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Roots Vibration 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Crooked Still 8pm. Roots Americana. $26. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

The Virginia Wolves 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Honey Dewdrops 8pm. Folk. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Dance Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/free children and volunteers. Knights of Columbus, Kingston.

FreestyleFrolic.org.

Film Journeyman 1pm. Documentary film on the male rites of passage.

Downing Film Center, Newburgh. 561-3686.

Images of America: Shandaken 2pm-3:30pm. Author reception and book signing. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Theater Bye Bye Birdie 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 17

Full Moon Meditation 7:15pm-7:45pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Tierney Sutton 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Call to verify. Unitarian Feelowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Vassar Jazz Combos and the Body Electric Afro-funk Band 8pm. Villard Room, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

Kirtan with Satya Lee Harrington 8pm-9pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Events Business Luncheon: Be Tax Smart: Employ Tax Planning Strategies Year-Round 12pm-1:30pm. $25/$20. Ship Lantern Inn, Marlboro.

255-0243.

Film Giselle Call for times. Live ballet. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Music

THURSDAY 20 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes

Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Schemker Fighting Spirit Karate Program 3:45pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-6. 5pm-6pm. Ages 6 and up.

Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Events

Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson.

Kids School's Out Winter Fun Day 10am-2pm. Esopus Meadows Point Preserve, Esopus.

473-4440 ext. 270.

TUESDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit Dance-Based Moves 4:30pm-5:30pm. Caribbean, African, Funk. Easy to follow using a wide range of inspiring music. $10.

Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

High Frequency Channeling 6pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $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.

What Can Hypnosis Do for You? 7pm-8:15pm. Frayda Kafka. Interface Healing, Kingston.

(914) 466-0090.

Commander Cody Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Bearsville Sessions 9pm. Celebrating the songs of Warren Zevon. $10.

The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Theater

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Unlearn-Think Call for times. Giorgio Baravalle of de.MO design firm.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-9957.

Gypsy Steampunk Cabaret 8pm. The Gypsy Nomads DVD Release Show. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.

Beginner/Mixed Level Bellydance Class 7pm-8:30pm. $15/$50 month. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Events

Schemker Fighting Spirit Karate Program 4:15pm-5:15pm. Ages 5 and up. Open Space, Rosendale. 687-8890.

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

Open Mike 7pm. Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

ASK for Music 7:30pm. Don Sparks; James Krueger; Pat Lamanna. $5.

ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

The Artists' Way with EFT 7pm-9:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Shen Yun 8pm. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Spoken Word

Music

Big Boss Bossa Nova 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Trail Mix Chamber Concert 2:30pm. Duo Figer Khanina, Guy Figer, violin and Anna Khanina, piano. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Schenectady Symphony Orchestra 3pm. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

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

Live Jazz 7pm-10pm. ZenDog Cafe, Rhinebeck. 516-4501.

Classes

Workshops

Gurdjieff Study Group 6:30pm. Stone Ridge. gstudygroup@gmail.com.

Music

Harry Belafonte Tribute in Honor of Martin Luther King 8pm. With Michael Monasterial. $19/$14 members/+$2 door. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Bye Bye Birdie 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WEDNESDAY 19

Events

Trivia Night 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Music Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci Call for times. In HD from Teatro all Scala, Milan.

Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Live Jazz 7pm-10pm. ZenDog Cafe, Rhinebeck. 516-4501.

Jo-Yu Chen Trio 7pm. Opening: Michael Hollis . Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Madd Dog 10pm. Rock. Mahoney's Irish Pub, Poughkeepsie.

471-3027.

FRIDAY 21 Art Points of View 5pm-7pm. Franc Palaia, photographs of the Hudson Valley, 2002-2010. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie.

454-4500.

Body / Mind / Spirit Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Transformation with Shamanic Sound 6:30pm-8:30pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow healing. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes BLS Healthcare Provider Course 6pm-10pm. Health Quest Community Education. $50. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-8500.

Dance Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 8pm. $24/$20 senior/$12 children. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Joe Louis Walker Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

John Schrader Band 8:30pm. Acoustic. American Glory BBQ, Hudson.

(518) 822-1234.

David Sancious featuring Joe Bonadio 9pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

The Bloodletters 9:30pm. Country. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Theater Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clowns Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Bye Bye Birdie 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Table Top Shooting Call for times. With Phil Mansfield. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

SATURDAY 22 Art Threads 5pm-7pm. Fabric and fiber artwork. Columbia County Council of the Arts, Hudson. (518) 671-6213.

Body / Mind / Spirit Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:30am-1:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Master Teacher Channeled Attunement 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing 5:30pm-8:30pm. With Lea & Philippe Garnier. $35. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Classes BLS Healthcare Provider Course 9am-3pm. Health Quest Community Education. $75.

Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-8500.

Salsa Dance Lessons 4:30pm-6pm. Taught by Maia Martinez, direct from Argentina. $12. Beacon Studios, Beacon. 440-7197.

Events Cold Spring Indoor Farmers' Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

Flying Karamazov Brothers 8pm. Comedy, theatre, music and juggling. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Music Cea Marie 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Midnight Slim and The Strangers 7:30pm. Blues. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Red Hen 7:30pm. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings 7:30pm. American Roots & Branches concert series. $44.50/$34.50/$29.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Aethelred The Unready 8pm. Comic opera by Richard Wilson. Martel Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Off Hour Rockers with DonaAnn 8pm. Rock. Gail's Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.

Hart Attack 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Rick Z and Karl Frizzell 8:30pm. Acoustic. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Rory Block 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

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Citizen Cope 9pm. Acoustic. $35/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

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Eilen Jewell Band 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

The Outdoors Winter Adaptations 2pm-3:30pm. Explore the world of winter adaptations both inside and outdoors. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.

Full Moon Snowshoe/Hike 6pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Theater Bye Bye Birdie 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Life Drawing 10am-Sunday, January 23, 5:30pm. Shuster Studio, Hudson. shusterstudio.blogspot.com.

Expressive Painting with Elena Sniezek 12pm-2pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

SUNDAY 23 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Art of Energetic Healing 10am-5pm. One year certificate course. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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Intro to Nada Yoga (Yoga of Sound) 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras with Shri Radha 7:30pm-9pm. $10. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Classes Schemker Fighting Spirit Karate Program 4:15pm-5:15pm. Ages 5 and up. Open Space, Rosendale. 687-8890.

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Film

Music

Membership Brunch 11am. Food, desserts, tea, convivial conversation, and songs by Claudia & Company. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Open Mike 7pm. Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Music Aethelred The Unready 3pm. Comic opera by Richard Wilson. Martel Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

The Grand Montgomery Chamber Music & Theater Series 3pm. Bonnie Ham, flutist, Jason Ham, euphonium player, Ruthanne Schempf, pianist. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867.

Sarah Blacker CD Release 4pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Philadelphia Orchestra Concert live in HD 4:30pm. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Kneebody 7pm. Opening: Dante DeFelice & Good Night Brother.

Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Esperanza Spalding 7:30pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Claverack Landing 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Nenad Bach Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Theater Story Circle: Word Plays 2pm. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Bye Bye Birdie 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Classes

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

Events

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Revealed 7pm-8:30pm. With Celeste Graves-Hoyal, MA, RYT. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Dinner with Melissa Leo, an overnight stay at the Minnewaska Lodge, art, massage, a day of guided rock climbing...

High Frequency Channeling 6pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Journeyman Call for time. Documentary film on the male rites of passage. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo, Broadway star Lori Wilner & the vaudeville team of Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine

Dance-Based Moves 4:30pm-5:30pm. Caribbean, African, Funk. Easy to follow using a wide range of inspiring music. $10.

Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

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

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TUESDAY 25 Body / Mind / Spirit

Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Schemker Fighting Spirit Karate Program 3:45pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-6. 5pm-6pm. Ages 6 and up.

Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson.

Film Chinatown 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Theater “Der Jasager und der Neinsager”/ “He Said Yes and He Said No” 7pm. Teaching plays by Bertolt Brecht. Rose Parlor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt 7:30pm. $79.50/$64.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

WEDNESDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit Gurdjieff Study Group 6:30pm. Stone Ridge, Stone Ridge. gstudygroup@gmail.com.

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

The Artists' Way with EFT 7pm-9pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

A Course in Miracles 7:30-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Call to verify. Unitarian Feelowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

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

Film The Economic of Happiness 7pm. A talk and film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, discussing how rebuilding smaller scale economies can help us rediscover essential relationships. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.

Music Live Jazz 7pm-10pm. ZenDog Cafe, Rhinebeck. 516-4501.

Theater Alumnae/i Music and Writing: W. K. Rose Fellowship Winners 4pm. Part of ModFest. Villard Room, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

THURSDAY 27 Art 150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis and Katherine Newbegin 5pm-9pm. Opening reception. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Beginner/Mixed Level Bellydance Class 7pm-8:30pm. $15/$50 month. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

art "thoughts of home" at the dosky museum

Edward Coppola, Welcome Home Mike, gelatin silver print, 15.625" x 15.5", 1991

Critiques of Randomness “Is there room in the room that you room in?” wrote the poet Ted Berrigan. “How homey is your home?” asks the photography exhibit at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, “Thoughts of Home,” which continues until March 18.

The 42 pieces in the show represent a variety of photographers, from world-renowned to obscure. The earliest photos are by Stephen Shore, from his landscape series “Uncommon Places” (1977). Shore, now director of the photography department at Bard College, took road trips in the 1970s to record epiphanies of American travel. The most recent work is a three-dimensional installation by Preston Wadley, “Letters from Home,” black-and-white photos set in a cardboard box buttressed with cloth and steel (2005). The exhibit is divided into three sections: the outside of houses, interiors, and portraits of renters and owners inside their homes.

Photography is a critique of randomness. Examining a photograph, offhand details suddenly become central. The clutter on a desk—keys, notes, rubber bands, a cigarette pack—is not arbitrary, but rather reveals character better than a Tarot reading. Erin, Age 11 (1998) by Beth Yarnelle Edward, for example, portrays a preteen girl splayed on her bed beneath a colorful and chaotic wall display, a small TV set, and a clock reading 7:50. This ecstatic mess delineates Erin’s mind, the photo implies. (The girl assesses us suspiciously with her left eye.) Corresponding with the rise of photography was the invention of the detective novel. In both genres, obscure visual “clues” reveal hidden truths.

Welcome Home Mike by Edward Coppola (1991) depicts a two-story house with two American flags, and a sign: “Welcome Home Mike.” Clearly a son is returning from war—almost certainly the Persian Gulf War. But just beneath the sign is a plastic jack-

o’-lantern—the kind stuffed with autumn leaves—grinning devilishly. What sort of home is Mike being welcomed to?

“Many artists have turned to the idea of photographing ‘home,’ because a lot of people are beginning to realize that life in the latter part of the 20th century, and certainly now into the 21st century, can be a lonely existence,” explains curator Wayne Lempka, who organized the show. Lempka dates the origin of this subject matter to Diane Arbus (1923-1971), whose uncomfortably intimate photographs redefined the artform. Lempka’s emphasis is documentary, on the power of photography to record American history as lived by the unrich and the unfamous.

The Dorsky Museum holds the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s permanent print collection on extended loan. This photographic archive contains over 1,500 images by photographers from around the world. (The current show features only American artists.) Lempka thumbed through the entire collection to organize “Thoughts of Home,” the fourth show at the Dorsky derived from this trove of photos.

“It’s a fun exhibition actually, because you get to look into the worlds of other people—their houses, their possessions—and you don’t feel uncomfortable, because it’s through a photograph. You’re allowed to stare, and point, without feeling guilty,” notes Lempka.

So visit the Dorsky Museum and become a socially sanctioned voyeur!

“Thoughts of Home: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection” will be exhibited at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz through March 18. (845) 257-3844; www.newpaltz.edu/museum.

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Events Trivia Night 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Live Jazz 7pm-10pm. ZenDog Cafe, Rhinebeck. 516-4501.

Brandon Ross "Promised Land' Collective Trio 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

FRIDAY 28 Body / Mind / Spirit Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Film A Clockwork Orange 7pm. Stanley Kubrick’s take on the Anthony Burgess novel. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Music Steve Chizmadia 7:30pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Cygnus Ensemble 8pm. Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

Bernstein, Mehldau, Weiss & Stewart 8pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Magnets 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Rick Altman and David Oliver 7:30pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Hot Tuna Blues 8pm. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Vixen Dogs Band 8pm. Covers. Gail's Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.

Orchestral and Chamber Ensembles 8pm. Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

Iris Dement 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Johnny Winter Band 9pm. Acoustic. $45/$35/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

GamVille Hosted by The Wiyos 9pm. Variety show with guests. Club Helsinki, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Theater Bye Bye Birdie 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Fantasticks 8pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

SATURDAY 29 Art Winter 2011 6pm-8pm. Arthur Hammer, Leslie Bender, and Jenny Nelson. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-1915.

Body / Mind / Spirit Advanced Psychic Development 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Cleansing with Sound of the Crystal 4pm-6pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Salsa Dance Lessons 4:30pm-6pm. Taught by Maia Martinez, direct from Argentina. $12. Beacon Studios, Beacon. 440-7197.

Events 5th Annual Knickerbocker Ice Festival Honors the history of the ice industry with food, beverages and activities. Rockland Lake State Park, Valley Cottage. www.knickerbockericefestival.com.

Cold Spring Indoor Farmers' Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

Film War Made Easy 5pm. $7. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 2pm-2:45pm. Newborn through crawler. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 3pm-3:45pm. Toddler to age 3. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5.

John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson.

Film Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 8pm. Chicago Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

TUESDAY 1 FEBRUARY

Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $40/$75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Workshops Intro to Digital Photography Call for times. With Joan Barker. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Intro to Organic Beekeeping: Planning a New Hive for Spring 10am-6pm. Hands-on beekeeping workshop for beginners, with HoneybeeLives’ Chris Harp. $95.

Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. www.HoneybeeLives.org.

SUNDAY 30 Body / Mind / Spirit Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

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

Akashic Records Revealed 2pm-4pm. With June Brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Exploring the Buddhadharma with Jeffrey Mann 4pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Events 5th Annual Knickerbocker Ice Festival Honors the history of the ice industry with food, beverages and activities. Rockland Lake State Park, Valley Cottage. www.knickerbockericefestival.com.

Music

Learn to Meditate! Raja Yoga Meditation 6pm-7:30pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. With Peter Blum & community. Singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy work. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes

The Fantasticks 2pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Music Mahagonny Ensemble 11am. Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

Tower of Babel 3pm. Rose Parlor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

THURSDAY 3 FEBRUARY Body / Mind / Spirit Class For People With Health Challenges 9:30am-10:30am. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge.

687-4836.

Balance Yogab 7pm. $40 series/$12 class. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

255-1255.

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

What’s the Buzz? A Discussion about Mammography Screening 7pm. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 334-3077.

Classes Creative Movement 10am-11am. Ages 4-5. $150. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Kids

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for jugglers and prop manipulators. John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. (518) 828-7470.

Spoken Word Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Kati Marton 7pm. Author of Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America. Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7816.

WEDNESDAY 2 FEBRUARY Art

Body / Mind / Spirit

Wizard of Oz Call for times. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Words Before Music Lecture 6pm. Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra”. Lee Library, Lee, MA. (413) 243-0385.

Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie.

473-2500 ext. 1208.

Joe Lovano/John Scofield Quartet 7:30pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Theater

Spoken Word

Paws and Refresh 6pm-9pm. Benefit designed to nurture dogs in body, mind and spirit, proceeds to Jack Russell Refuge.

Pause Dog Boutique, Rhinebeck. 876-4330.

Saugerties Art Lab 3pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties.

246-5155.

Winter Wildlife Tracking 9am-12pm. $20/$20 students and seniors/children free. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.

Neko Case 8pm. Alt-country chanteuse. With Lost in the Trees.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. $40. 679-4406.

Modern Dance 5:30pm-7:15pm. A basic, thorough, modern dance class w/ center & floor work, traveling combinations & phrases. $12. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

The Bacon Brothers 5pm. Benefit concert for Healing the Children. $50-$100. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The Outdoors

Keith Pray's Big Soul Ensemble 9pm. Tess' Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

Cooking Vegetarian Class 7pm-9pm. $30. Garden Cafe, Woodstock. 679-3600.

Warwick Art League Session 10am-1pm. Paint, draw and more from your own set-up or photos. Greenwood Lake Public Library, Greenwood Lake. 477-8093.

Iris Dement 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

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

Modern/Ballet 4pm-5pm. Ages 6-8. $150. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Attacca Quartet 4pm. Pre-concert talk at 3:30pm. $25/$5 student.

Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. rhinebeckmusic.org.

Bye Bye Birdie 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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Events

The Outdoors

The Fantasticks 8pm. $15/$12 Friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Mambo Kikongo 9:30pm. Latin. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Open Mike Hosted by Chrissy Budzinski 7pm-9pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Healing Flow Hatha Yoga 10:30am. $40 series/$12 class. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Theater

High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Mezoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

Message Circle 7pm-8:30pm. Receive messages from your loved ones in the after life with medium Adam Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Wilderness Survival with Mountain Scout Survival School 10am-2pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus.

473-4440 ext. 273.

Music

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

The Providers 9pm. Blues. Millbrook R&B Bar & Grill, Millbrook.

677-3432.

Jim Weider with Blue Chicken 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Shemekia Copeland 9pm. Blues. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

MONDAY 31

Rumpelstiltskin 11am. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Lara Hope & The Champtones 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Bye Bye Birdie 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Reality Check Duo 9pm. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005.

Understanding and Caring For Your Honeybees 10am-6pm. Second level of organic beekeeping with HoneybeeLives' Chris Harp. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. www.HoneybeeLives.org.

Frank Vignola’s Hot Club 8pm. $25. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Frank Vignola's Hot Club Trio 8pm. Gypsy jazz. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Joseph Arthur 9pm. Singer-songwriter. Club Helsinki, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Workshops

Spirit Guide Readings w/ Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein 12pm-6pm. $40/$75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

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

Classes Modern/Ballet 4pm-5pm. Ages 9-11. $150. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

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

Dance Beginner Tango Series 7pm. Learn to tango. Body Bar, Poughkeepsie.

Events

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

Homeschoolers Nature Education 12:30pm-2:30pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

Youth Media-Arts Workshop 3pm-6pm. Ages 12-16. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Afterschool Juggling and Circus Arts Program 4pm-5:30pm. Ages 9 and up, 8 sessions. Morris Memorial, Chatham. (518) 828-7470.

Music Marc Cohn & Suzanne Vega 8pm. Contemporary singer/songwriters. $43/$39/$33/$29. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy.

(518) 273-0038.

Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess' Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Split Rock 9:30am-1:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Spoken Word Focus on Non-Profits 7:30am. Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce, featuring Nicholas Garin, Assistant Attorney General, and Michael West, Esq. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 454-1700 ext. 1000.

“Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2010: A Report from the Ground” 5:30pm. Ethan Bronner. Taylor Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Workshops Special Education Rights Workshop 2pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

Writers Workshop: A Peer Critiquing Group 4pm-6pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

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Kids

Body / Mind / Spirit

ToddlerTime 10:30am. Story hour, crafts and music for 18 months3 years. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Traditional Taoist/Buddhist Chi Gung & Tai Chi Chaun Call for times. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

750-6488.

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Spector of Climate Change Temperatures are increasing, glaciers are melting fast, and sea levels are rising. The entire planet is affected by global warming, and polar bears in Antarctica aren’t the only ones facing changes. Expected weather changes in the Hudson Valley in coming years include more intense storms, heat waves, and less snow cover. This could greatly affect the agriculture, animals, and landscape of the region. Scenic Hudson is an organization that focuses on protecting and restoring the Hudson River and educating its residents and visitors on environmental preservation. It is also committed to reducing the impact of climate change by encouraging Hudson Valley residents to act locally. Dr. Sacha Spector, Scenic Hudson’s director of conservation science, will discuss the impact of the latest climate-change projections on the region and a variety of ways to reduce emissions and prevent serious impacts from occurring. Dr. Spector will also enumerate a variety of adaptation tools that municipalities can use to deal with challenges as they arrive, in his talk “Our Fight Against Global Climate Change” at the Newburgh Free Library on January 6 from 6:30to 8pm and on February 22 at the Cornwall Presbyterian Fellowship Hall from 7:30 to 9pm. www.scenichudson.org.

—Sunya Bhutta

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What are the latest climate change projections?

Over the next century we’re likely to see temperature projections, sea-level-rise projections, the shift in precipitation, snow cover, flooding, and drought. Projections are really contingent on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions we continue to emit.

The New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force just published their results. Their range is between 7 and 52 inches by the end of the century. The conservative range is up to about two feet. If the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica continue to accelerate melting like they have been in the last decade, then we could be on a different trajectory.

We could see up to four feet or more by the end of the century.

How is climate change effecting the Hudson Valley?

We’ve seen sea level rise by around a foot over the last hundred years. That’s a combination of seawater expanding because of the rising temperature and land subsiding. In terms of temperature, we’ve risen about a half a degree centigrade, or a little more than a degree Fahrenheit, since 1970. Our winters are on average about five degrees warmer. That’s leading to less snow cover, which has economic impacts to industries like the ski areas in our region. It also has ecological importance because snow cover is important for some organisms. We’re seeing earlier melt-out, larger drought, and intense flooding. We are expecting five percent more precipitation on average here in the Hudson Valley. So we’ll see bigger, less frequent storms that drop a lot of water on the landscape quickly. It also means a lot of the water is running off as opposed to recharging the groundwater supply.

What will happen to the Hudson River as a result of the sea level rising?

The salt front [dilute sea water coming up the river from the Atlantic Ocean] is expected to move northward. Communities like Poughkeepsie will probably have to contend with higher salt levels as they draw their drinking water from the river. The Hudson has billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure along the river and some of it is at very low elevation—some wastewater plants and water supply facilities. We need to think about the human connection on the river. We’re going to need a plan going forward that will help us protect our infrastructure, but also make sure the natural shoreline qualities of the Hudson are maintained. The Hudson has some world-class tidal habitats along it.

Those are really important natural resources for the Valley.

What will become of the communities that reside along the river?

A lot of the Hudson River has fairly steep banks. In those areas, sea-level rise will have less serious impacts than extensive lowlying areas along the river. Sea-level rise inundation is going to be more concentrated in the upper part of the river north of Kingston. A two-, three-, four-, or six-foot storm surge from a Northeaster on top of that sea-level rise is a serious inundation along municipal waterfronts that will effect infrastructure like our rail line. It’s the combined effect of sea-level rise plus storm surges that really delineates where the risk is.

How will the agriculture and the wildlife of the region be affected?

We’re already seeing the signature of climate change strongly in the natural world.

Plants are flowering earlier, migrating species are arriving a little earlier and leaving a little later. Nature doesn’t lie in telling us what it’s experiencing: warmer temperatures and shorter winters. One challenge is going to be a slow adaptation process in the agricultural sector to rotate toward crops that will do better in warmer climates.

That will be an ongoing process farmers will have to tackle. For the natural world, we’re going to have to think about doing our best to maintain the Hudson Valley landscape in a connected way, so that species can move across the landscape more easily.

How can communities and residents help prevent the drastic impacts of climate change?

Switch to clean, renewable energy. Install your own solar or wind generators or purchase electricity from renewable energy generators. A really good way for municipalities to start is by joining the New York State Climate Smart Community Program, run by the Department of Environmental Conservation. It helps communities act locally to prevent climate change with a step-by-step process of auditing their energy use and understanding where there biggest opportunities for efficiency and reduction are. All of us can take concrete, easy, and cost-saving steps to save energy. Switching our light bulbs to more efficient models like compact fluorescent or LEDs. Weatherizing our homes.

Reducing the number of miles we drive, carpooling, or using public transportation.

Reducing meat consumption even by one meal a week. Many of these things save money and have positive impacts on our health.

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Supporting your Immune System with Osteopathy 6pm. Ridgefield Community Center, Ridgefield.

(203) 874-4252.

Self Healing with One Light Healing Touch 7:15pm-8:30pm. $15. Anjali Space, Accord. 687-2252.

Winter Weekend Call for times. Workshops, craftmaking, indoor & outdoor activities. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge.

657-8333.

Classes

Film

Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Goldfinger 7pm. James Bond, Pussy Galore, and Fort Knox. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Improvisation 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. $150. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

The Third Man 5:30pm. $7/$5 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

How to Cook Fish 7pm. $55. W/Jennifer Clair., Beacon.

(917) 803-6857.

Sweet Grass 7:30pm. $7/$5 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

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

Video Festival 8pm. An evening of original documentary and narrative work. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Events A Toast to Haiti Fundraiser 5:30pm-8pm. Local author and inspirational speaker Keryl Pesce will deliver the keynote presentation.

Music by DJ Mr. Vince. $35. Shadows, Poughkeepsie.

797-5213.

Dutchess Word Progressive Newspaper Fun & Fund Raiser 6pm-9pm. $20-$40. Amici's, Poughkeepsie. 902-8154.

Holla for Haiti 8pm-10pm. Featuring local performers. $5. Ely Hall, Poughkeepsie.

Film Winter Film Festival 8pm. Going All the Way, The Path of Enlightened Aging, and Nayelli's Journey. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.

Kids Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Ages 7 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 8-12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursdays: Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Bob Lusk 7pm-9pm. Irish Folk. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Live in HD: A Prairie Home Companion 7pm. $22/$15 children. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

The Circle: Songwriters In The Round 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Brandi Carlile 7:30pm. Country singer-songwriter. $25/$35. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

SUNDAY 6 FEBRUARY

Events

Music Glenn Zaleski Modern Jazz Quintet and Neil Alexander & Nail Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro.

546-0444.

Weekend of Folk Music Call for times. Warwick Conference Center, Warwick.

(718) 672-6399.

Eric Erickson 5pm. Singer-songwriter. Reservoir Inn, West Hurley.

331-9806.

Big Boss Bossa Nova 7pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

David Kraai with Sean Powell 7pm. Singer-songwriters. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz.

255-2400.

Rocky 7pm-9pm. Acoustic rock. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

American Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm. $20-$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Art

The Press, Los Doggies, and Three by Five 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz.

255-1901.

Armageddon Art Opening 6pm. Spoken word and multi-media group gallery event. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 464-0037.

Bears With Wings 8pm. Rock. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Body / Mind / Spirit North American Inclusion Month Call for times. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville.

647-5600.

Classes

Frank Vignola Quintet: Tribute to Django Reinhardt 8pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Collaga with Pia Oste-Alexander 9am-4pm. Through Sunday, February 7. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Pajamazon 8pm. Pop. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Creative Movement 9am-10am. Ages 5-7. $150. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Printmaking 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Planning a New Hive for Spring 10am-6pm. Organic beekeeping. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

An Evening with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin 8pm. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Poetry Masks 11am-1pm. Ages 9-12, exploring voice work and mask development to support a character. $175. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson & The Magic Rockers 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Sketch Class 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Dance 8th Annual DanceFest! 2010 7pm. Hosted by The Vanaver Caravan, featuring students, teachers and choreographers from many dance schools and studios. $15/$10 children and seniors. New Paltz High School, New Paltz. 256-9300.

English Country Dance 8pm. Workshop at 7:30pm. $10/$5 students. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 679-8587.

Milton 8pm-11pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Film

Eilen Jewell Band 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Marc Douglas Berardo 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Painmask, Hooker Dragger and Komondorp 9pm. Metal. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.

The Third Man 5:30pm. $7/$5 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Sweet Grass 7:30pm. $7/$5 members and students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Poetry by Bob Waugh and Jan Schmidt 7pm. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

SRBP Lecture Series: Invasives: Here to Stay?

7pm-8:30pm. Lecture Center 100, New Paltz.

255-0752.

CAPS 8pm. Featured Poets: Dr. Nelson Samaris & Glenn Werner. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

North American Inclusion Month Call for times. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville.

647-5600.

Reiki 3 Master Class 2pm-6pm. Body and Soul of the Hudson Valley, Newburgh.

Classes Printmaking 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

679-2388.

Scene Study 5pm-7pm. Ages 13-18. $200. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Dance Hip Hop Afro-Fusion Dance 4:30pm-6:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Hop For Haiti 7pm. International Swing Dance Benefit Campaign to Aid Earthquake Victims. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie.

454-4500.

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The Giver 7pm. Berkshire Country Day School, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0755.

Cream of Shorts 8pm. Short play retrospective from past Actors & Writers Shorts Festivals. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Community Playback Theater 8pm. Improvisation of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

Emperor Jones 8pm. New Day Repertory Company. $18/$17 seniors/$16 students. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 485-7399.

Rabbit Hole 8pm. County Players Falls Theatre. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Bird Banding Demo 10am-12pm. Berkshire Sanctuaries, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0320.

Singles and Sociables Snowshoe: Rock Rift 10am-3pm. 7-mile trek. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

Spoken Word

A Southern Town in Stories: Peter Neofotis 8pm. $15/$12 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Spoken Word

Body / Mind / Spirit

2010 NASTAR Open Call for times. Windham Mountain, Windham.

(518) 734-4300.

Little Leonardo and the Fantastic Flying Machine 11am. By the Robert Rogers Puppet Company. $8/$6 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Fred Hersch Trio Call for times. The Falcon Music & Art Hall, Marlboro.

546-0444.

Dangerous Liasons 7pm. Shakespeare & Company. $12-$48. Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox, MA. (413) 637-3353.

The Outdoors

Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring Howard Horowitz. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165.

Music

Theater

The Stoners 9:30pm. Rock. Copperfield's, Millbrook. 677-8188.

Storytime, Music & Movement 10am. Ages 3 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Spoken Word

SATURDAY 5 FEBRUARY

The Retro Rockets 9pm. Jerry's first annual 54th Birthday Bash. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Kids

Children's Valentine's Tea 12pm-2pm. $15/$12 children. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

The Big Takeover 9pm. The Celtic House, Fishkill. 896-1110.

The Saucy Jack Band 9pm-1am. Classic rock. The White Star Bar and Grill, Tannersville. (518) 589-9400.

Program Information Session 10am-11am. Bard MAT. Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7151.

Urban Sprawl 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Sharon Klein 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring.

265-2012.

The Jesse Janes 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Woodstock Tribute to Bob Marley 8pm. Featuring live reggae music. $20/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Barefoot, smoke-, drug-, alcohol-free. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.

The King's Singers 8pm. $20-$40. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

Side by Side by Schubert 8pm. $16/$14. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Storytelling 10am-11am. Ages 8-10. $150. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

WeMustBe 8pm. R&B, pop. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill.

(914) 739-1287.

Still To Us At Twilight; Songs of Days Gone By 8pm. Parlor and music hall songs of the 19th and early 20th century. $16/$14. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Coffeehouse 8pm. Presented by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Comedy Night 8pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Theater Dangerous Liasons Call for times. Shakespeare & Company. $12-$48.

Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 637-3353.

I Heart WGXC 11am-6:30pm. Benefit featuring local artists. Sorted, Hudson. sortofsorted.com.

Met Opera Live in HD: Simon Boccanegra 1pm. Verdi’s masterpiece. Bardavon, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

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

Auditions for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 2pm. 90 Miles Off Broadway. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. email@ninetymilesoffbroadway. com.

Joey Eppard Solo Acoustic 6pm. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Weerd Science & Friends 6pm. Hip hop music and art from Christina Varga, Scott Ackerman, and other artists. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.

Emperor Jones 3pm/8pm. New Day Repertory Company. $18/$17 seniors/$16 students. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 485-7399.

Mark Brown and Mark Donato 7pm-9pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Within the Clouds 7pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Music Without Walls Project 7pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

The Giver 7pm. Berkshire Country Day School, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0755.

Upstage NY Community Coffeehouse 7pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Bern & the Brights 7pm. New Age. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Sharon Klein and Brian Melick 7:30pm-9:30pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Workshops

Real 7:30pm. With Kristin Hoffmann and Premik Russell Tubbs. $7. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Art for Relaxation Painting Workshop 12pm. $25. Wings Gallery and Shop, Rosendale. www.wingsart.org.

American Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm. $20-$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Rabbit Hole 8pm. County Players Falls Theatre. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

The Waypoint 8pm. $10. MassMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.

(413) 662-2111.

Workshops Become a “Batty for Bats” Family 1pm-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Victorian Valentines 3pm-5pm. $40. Wing and Clover, Rhinebeck.

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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings will perform at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on January 23.

Sweet Soul Sister For classic soul and R&B flamekeepers it’s been sweetly vindicating that the fiery music they love so well has been fanned anew, connecting with younger listeners via reissues of vanguard material and a recent wave of torch-carrying newer artists. The ascent of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, who will play the Bardavon Opera House on January 23, however, has certainly been extrasweet. After all, in an age of precious, Brian Wilson-wannabe indies and one trite teen tart after another, who could’ve foreseen both commercial and critical success for a horn-heavy, Stax-stoked outfit fronted by a 54-yearold former Rikers Island prison guard? But—hallelujah!—it’s happened, testament not only to Jones’s sweltering presence as a vocalist and performer and her band’s consummate skills, but also to the timeless, undeniable power of the music itself.

Jones met up with an early incarnation of the Dap-Kings, who serve as the house band for bassist Gabriel Roth (aka Bosco Mann) and saxophonist Neil Sugarman’s Daptone label, in the mid 1990s, when she appeared as a backing vocalist on a session by singer Lee Fields. Blown away by the Augusta, Georgia-born Jones’s sheer talent and authentic, heartfelt style, the group decided to record a track with her on lead vocals for its own album; by 2002, Jones’s name was out front for the band’s official debut, Dap Dippin’ with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. The disc quickly caught on with deep-soul DJs and collectors, leading to the extensive international touring with which the act firmly established itself as a club and festival favorite capable of kicking out the kind of gospel-rooted, gut-bucket funk ’n’ stank unheard since the 1960s heyday of Muscle Shoals Studios.

Jones and the Dap-Kings’ follow-up, Naturally (like all of their albums, on the defiantly analog Daptone Records), came out in 2005 and brought even more accolades and new fans. It also caught the ears of some high-profile music-biz figures, including British producer Mark Ronson, who had been searching for real-deal, old-school soul players to back Amy Winehouse. The result: That’s Brooklyn’s incomparable DapKings you hear behind Winehouse on her million-selling 2006 breakthrough, Back to Black (Island Records). After sessions later that year, Jones and the group unveiled 100 Days, 100 Nights, the storming set now regarded as one of the so-called retro-soul genre’s essential albums. The band’s acclaimed fourth outing, I Learned the Hard Way, arrived in April 2010.

But despite their many fine recordings, it’s the live stage, of course, that offers the ultimate Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings experience. With a sweat-dripping Jones at the fore, delivering heated, blues-soaked testimonials and dancing the funky chicken, and the nine-piece Dap-Kings cooking and sizzling their way through rump-rolling grooves behind her, it only takes a few bars to make you a believer for life. And if you ain’t one already, you’ll get your chance this month.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings will perform at the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie on January 23 at 7pm. Tickets are $47 and $42. (845) 473-2072; www.bardavon.org.

—Peter Aaron

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

Planet Waves Horoscopes 2011 Beloved Readers: I have used up all my space this month writing your forecasts for 2011. I have written more—but it’s on the web. Access the introductory materials and information about Light Bridge, the extended sign readings for 2011, at www.Light-Bridge.com/chronogram.

Don’t forget the hyphen!

Your astrologer, Eric Francis

ARIES (March 20-April 19) How many commercials have we seen promising some version of “the new you,” whether it was for a workout gadget, hair color, or a mental outlook offered in a self-help book? Despite our collective obsession with personal renewal, this seems to be something that rarely works. Part of why involves our attachment to the past, and the typically human fear of change. Yet these tumble when we have a vision that we want to create with passion.

With Uranus entering your birth sign for the next seven years, your sense of self becomes something entirely flexible, and you may have the feeling that anything is possible. That is true: Yet what, exactly, do you want to be possible? Over the past few seasons you’ve had a clue. It may have seemed like something too good to be true, or impossible because it was so amazing.

That’s the thing to guide yourself with. Don’t worry about whether it seems possible, or concern yourself with plotting every step in the process. You grew from a zygote into a fetus into a child and then into an adult understanding nothing about how that worked on the anatomical level.

Thank goodness for DNA. The DNA of Uranus in your sign suggests not merely personal renewal but rather ongoing personal revolution. It may take a while to figure out what I mean, but it will become obvious. From the inside, this may feel like the desire to burst free even though you did precisely that yesterday; to drop every pretense you ever put up; to act boldly and immediately, instead of taking years to plan things that rarely happen. Something inside is seeking to set itself free. In short, this transit brings out your true nature, as if a veil were being lifted off of your psyche.

Your inner awareness is being joined closer with your daily expression. You will tap the rich potential even of what seemed like negative developments. Whatever may have happened during 106 planet waves ChronograM 1/11

the past four seasons, trust that the world has made room for you, for the work you want to do, and the person you want to be in your deepest relationships. Patience may be the most challenging virtue you can muster in these seasons of your life. This is a new kind of patience—one based not on waiting, but on cultivating trust in yourself, practiced like yoga from day to day.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) Though most descriptions of your sign cast you as practical, grounded, and organized, you have one of the dreamiest minds around. This is why you can find yourself getting caught in fantasy, and it’s why material things often take so long for you. The story of your astrology for 2011 and well beyond is about gaining clarity. Most of that clarity is to your emotional nature. You are sensitive; the solution is about enhancing that sensitivity rather than toning it down. Though it may seem odd to say, your true liberation will come from fully honoring your inner life. That will set you free to act with confidence in the world.

One of the most exciting aspects of your journey through the next four seasons involves discovering that you create who you are as you go. At times this may feel like a path of discovery, but that’s an illusion of time. This is true to the extent that, for the sake of grounding and a sense of stability, you’ve often preferred to depend on who you were yesterday, but your imagination is way too rich for that. The thing about having a lavish imagination is that it truly helps to be disciplined about it.

As part of that discipline, you must turn to everything you ever considered as a fault and turn it into an asset. For example, if you consider yourself a procrastinator, you can discern the thing you’re most motivated to do at any given time—such as choosing the thing on your “to do” list that’s the most fun. If you do that consistently, you will get everything done. If you are a raging idealist and don’t think the world is ready for you, then test out your own belief and try something specific and see what happens.

The trend of your life is moving away from theorizing and into action; away from guilt and into pleasure; away from being concerned about risks and toward being a kind of test pilot of the soul.

As you experiment in all these ways, remember: Manifestation always proceeds from an idea into tangible form. And the one thing between the idea and its expression is, most often, what you believe. So if you want to make real changes that are 100 percent certified by the cosmos, change what you believe. It’s easier than you currently believe.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) It can be challenging maintaining a balance of power between you and the people in your life. That is especially true when so much in the world seems to come down to a question of power or control.

The essence of balance, in that case, is making sure your life has a different theme and a different purpose. To do that, you need more creative concepts, but the first thing to do is to respect power for what it is. This way, you can enter a direct relationship with it; from here you will have the feeling of dancing with destiny rather than merely being subject to it.

That is a big difference, yet it only becomes clear through experience. Now, the question is, how do you get there? At the essence of your growth mission is freeing yourself from emotions that tend to lock you into certain relationship situations “against your will.” First among these is guilt. Next on the list is your sense of obligation. Then comes a tendency to honor the status quo.

You may experience a value that says someone with more money is a better person than someone with less of the stuff. All of these notions are ideas you have inherited rather than invented—and what you are doing at this stage of your life is giving back that inheritance. To whom? To the ancestors; to a culture that defined your relationships before you had a chance to; to your family for the examples it set.

You have your own ideas, and this is the time in your life when you get to express them—if you want. As you take apart the ideas from the distant past that don’t work for you, the next step is to evaluate people and events on their own merits. That implies applying your discernment to every situation in your life. This is more than most people are willing to do, because if you’re wrong, then the error is all your own. Yet if you’re correct, then you have nobody to thank but yourself.

You are seeking more social freedom than most people would ever dream of. One of your most cherished dreams is that of absolute individuality. Thus, never apologize for being yourself. And remember that embracing what works for you always involves letting go of what does not.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) It is truly amazing what we take on faith, and what we reject supposedly on the basis of rationality. How many people bite into a hamburger assuming that it’s wholesome food? How many times have you decided that there isn’t a place for you in the world? How often have you feared you were incapable of something, then turned around and did it well? It’s time to put your faith where it belongs—in yourself.

While you often seem at the mercy of external influences, your program of self-mastery involves turning those influences to your advantage, rising to the occasion of whatever you’re presented with. Other times you’ll need to recognize something is a projection of your own fear rather than an actual factor of your environment.

Indeed, rising above fear is the greatest gift you can give yourself. You don’t need it. In truth it has never served you; it’s neither protected you nor nourished you. Fear gives bad information, and so does guilt. You have been feeling the calling to set your own goals and define your own purpose. To do that, you need to feel bold and, in a sense, innocent.

Be aware of the rules and affinities created by your loyalty to groups and organizations, whether they are as far-reaching as national identity or religion, or as close to home as your family and your most intimate relationships. Often we don’t see these for what they are until we make some attempt to define ourselves as an individual. That’s when it becomes obvious that something seemingly external may be standing in the way of being real. As it turns out, it’s actually not external—it’s something within our own minds and beliefs that we can change, and this is what is gradually dawning on you.

You may not consider yourself a rebellious person, but you are stepping into a bold phase of your life where, in actual truth, you can achieve anything you want. Define this by a tangible purpose. Focus on that. I don’t mean a principle, such as “helping people,” but rather a direct goal of some kind. There will be a strong temptation to rebel against, which doesn’t get anyone so far.

Therefore, create in the affirmative. Create a vision and if you have to rebel on the way to getting there, go for it. Most of that rebellion will consist simply of being yourself.

LEO (July 22-August 23) The concept of belief is one of the most significant and invisible issues of consciousness. Belief—not truth—often runs the world, and tends to run our lives. What we believe becomes what is true for us, and then that perceived truth reifies itself. This is how people come to believe many things that have no basis in reality.

You’re in the process of having all—and I do mean all—of your beliefs about yourself up-ended, which I would say is some of the best news in years. This may feel like it’s happening overnight, though it’s part of a long process of figuring out where you stand with yourself.

That is another way of saying you’re discovering your potential, and I dare say that as this happens, the feeling will be shocking. You may find yourself exploring entirely new domains of possibility on a daily basis. For a measure of distance, consider how far your ideas are from the ones you were raised with. Meanwhile, you may feel like you’re under some kind of odd spotlight that is making your soul visible to the world. The concept “original intention” comes to mind, in terms of your sense of remembering what you came here to do, and why. It would be healthy for you to make friends with how little money means to you, when you get to the bottom of your values system. It’s not that you don’t enjoy or appreciate money, but rather, it does not serve as a direct motivator in the way that you so often see in the world around you.

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The thing to place emphasis on is time. Your perception of time is changing, and that includes the value of time. The time deficit that the world seems to be experiencing is happening in the midst of a world obsessed with planning and speculation. You have little need to do either of these things. Your power, your deepest contentment, and your knowledge of your actual potential are available right now. If you feel that your ideas lack solidity, remember that it is you who gives them life the moment you think them.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Always give yourself a third choice. Whether you’re deciding where to go on holiday or looking at a seemingly complex dilemma, if you see two possibilities, create a third. While you’re creating extra possibilities for yourself, meditate on the idea that everyone is learning, you among them. It’s the happy, conscious learners who are the most successful and who make the most out of their experience in the world. One of the most meaningful things we are learning here is how to make choices and see options.

With Chiron entering your opposite sign, Pisces, you may at times have to face an unusual kind of directness in certain intimate partnerships. This may feel like a plunge into intimacy and at other times like you must get serious, and at others like being backed into a corner. If you react defensively, you will validate negative emotions and compound them; if you respond with awareness and creativity, you will figure out that in the process, you create your experience of life.

You may occasionally have this feeling of not knowing who is a friend and who is a foe. I would suggest, in this case as in many others, you go for a third option. Your old definitions of ally and enemy have not served you so well, as you’ve shown some extraordinary allegiance to people who have harmed you and turned your back on those who would help you. In truth the roles that certain individuals take will be more complex than ever, and this will summon an ever-increasing level of discernment.

The most valuable kind of discernment is emotional rather than intellectual. You will know who someone is by how you feel in their presence. You will know that a task or goal you set out for yourself is worthwhile because you feel an opening and a pleasant sense of rising to a challenge. The challenge represented by Chiron is always some form of integrity.

Yet it will benefit you immensely if you don’t seek outside validation. Experience that validation when it’s there; see it for what it is but don’t go after it. Rather, affirm your own talents, your existence, your desires and your dreams. Be the one who comes through with assistance and affirmation for yourself before you expect or even desire anyone else to. Others are eager to support you, but for the moment, the first move is yours.

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You have yet to discover yourself as the source of traditional wisdom that you are. While most of humanity is busy living in a world that makes no sense, you’ve been cultivating contact with the firm ground of reason and sanity. I realize your life may not always feel like this, but even incidents that provoke you serve to support your goal of mental and emotional grounding. It would be fair to say that your deepest goal is to be emotionally autonomous. This provides a value in itself, and it gives you a sane point of observation when the world around you goes a bit mad.

One thing you are doing is tapping deep into the knowledge of the past. I don’t mean “caught in the past” but rather having access to a rich mine of forgotten ideas that will serve you well, as you bring them into a modern context.

Yet at the same time you may be experiencing something stirring in your ancestral past.

Skeletons may be chattering in the closet. Certain members of your family of origin showing their true, and perhaps weird, colors. What you have here is an opportunity for transcendence.

You are no longer beholden to their emotional ways, customs, or rituals. Let everything in the world be a reminder of who you are.

This year is likely to develop into some unusual, even extraordinary, experiences of relationships. You may not be able to tell right away if something is innovative or disruptive; if the energy is about rebellion or innovation. It may be all of the above, in the most productive and positive sense of the concepts. While you may feel like you have to be forward-thinking to handle what you’re experiencing, remember that in many ways you are practicing timehonored traditions. One of those traditions is about how, in truth, the experiences of human relationships is one long experiment.

The story of human relationships, taken as a whole, is anything but the story of monogamy.

In our natural state, we people are tribal, inquisitive, explorers and inventors. If in the midst of any situation you need a reality check, here is a simple one. Can you tell the whole truth about your experience to everyone around you? Can the people you know do so? You are safe where you can be honest. Honesty is a sign of wholeness and the most fertile ground of intimacy and freedom.

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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) While few would call you meek, there is a thin line between a man and a mouse. Remember that if you hear yourself state some of what you want rather than all of it; if you express part of what you feel rather than your actual feeling; or if you censor yourself because you’re worried what someone might think. Speaking from the core of your values will get results—indeed, results far beyond what you ever expected. It’s also true that to the extent that you have not had the results you wanted, you were denying something you know is true at your core.

I recognize that this is an ongoing quest, and yet it takes on particularly strong meaning this year—and will do so increasingly.

One thing you seem to be figuring out is how toxic guilt is. That is a discovery worthy of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The question then shifts to: Once you get clear about that fact, and you discover that the opposite of guilt is love, what is the most loving action to take? Guilt supports many other seemingly unrelated thought systems and ways of organizing reality. When you divest your loyalty from guilt, those thought systems can collapse—that is, within your own psyche—and you may for a moment have the sensation of having no bearings.

You obviously want to make changes in your immediate environment. You need a more passionate, alive, and exciting climate in which to work and play. You need the rules of life to reflect current reality rather than what reality is “supposed to” be. Your environment will, over and over, send you this message. It may come in the form of “unplanned” disruption to things that were not working for you. You may discover that you’re extremely restless or fed up with your life and need to try something different. If you do, this experiment will be a potent source of vitality for you. In short, everything about your chart describes a person craving the unfamiliar.

Don’t worry so much about others. They each have their own agenda, and they care less about what you do with your time and energy than you think. But whether you allow yourself to be free comes back to the question of guilt, which is why I suggest you become genuinely clear with yourself about this. Sanity is freedom. You need both.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) While most descriptions of your sign cast you as freewheeling and a bit over the top, you know how deeply you adhere to certain core principles that have always served you well. Now those principles are changing as fast as the times in which we live. This is not to say you’re going to fly off the rails, but rather that you don’t need to cling to concepts that have worked for you in the past, and that you are now abundantly ready to let go of.

Just as any tradition must change in order to be alive, one’s personal ethical principles go through an evolutionary process, if we are actually feeling and thinking. For many this means growing more conservative as they get older, which typically means frightened and disgusted. You seem to be growing in precisely the opposite direction—refusing to let fear run your life, and embracing the human condition in total. It’s a great gift that you are big enough of a person to do so. In the process you will gain authentic independence from mainstream views that, in truth, seem to serve very few of the people who adhere to them.

Chiron entering Pisces suggests that you are gaining profound sensitivity to your environment.

This is true on every level—be it your home environment, the ecology of the planet, or the emotional weather in any situation that surrounds you. Your enhanced sensitivity is likely to have two distinct effects: One is to shift your relationship to your family, in any form that concept takes.

Certain things that were bearable will no longer be acceptable. Certain things that are toxic will actually feel that way. And you will seek emotional grounding to a depth that is unusual and, in fact, may be unprecedented in your life. If you find yourself in an emotional crisis of any kind, remember that. Getting in or even near water will help, be it a bathtub or Lake Tahoe.

This year, take another step toward a highly specific mission. In Western terms, we usually call this a career. That’s not necessarily the right word. What I am describing is bigger and more important; it’s a quest that combines your most “extreme” and unusual skills with the single-minded determination that is the hallmark of your sign. What I am describing is not a role and it’s not a job—it’s the thing you came here to do.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) When I was about 22, a friend took me to meet his guru. I had about five minutes with her. We sat down on a yoga mat in a big, empty room. She looked at me and said instantly, “You have maturity. You lack confidence.”

Your charts this year are all about gaining confidence that you may not know you lack. Maturity is something you’ve possessed very nearly forever and could frankly do with a little less of; confidence is a challenge in a world that always seems to have the upper hand. The basis of confidence is within, if we’re to learn anything from the lives of people who have had absolute power but who were totally insecure. You are having to learn this confidence as you go, even as you encounter experiences that keep shaking you up, rattling your sense of identity and, in the end, serving to push you out of your shell.

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If you reach the spot where your concept of your identity is crumbling, allow the concept to fall away and your true self to come through.

When you find yourself tasked with a challenge that calls on you to take leadership but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily feel qualified, remember that most of leadership is about responding to an authentic calling, and listening to people as much as you might speak to them.

As for being able to do with a bit less maturity: Gradually, as the years press on, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re figuring out that a deep element of the meaning of life is your ability to enjoy and appreciate each moment as it passes, each human encounter, each small step toward freedom. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we usually think maturity specifically denies. In the subtle words of the poet Ginsberg, remind yourself: I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

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Well, you can memorize the pattern from within and navigate toward the exit. You can try the psychic equivalent of pushing on one of the walls. If the walls are solid, you can climb on top to change your perspective and look around. You might call out to see if anyone else is in there with you someplace. When you find your way to the exit, keep going in some direction other than back in. Just rememberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whatever the maze represents, it was there before you were born, and part of your quest for freedom involves going beyond the drama and futility that certain of your ancestors thought was normal. What is this structure made of? In a word, fear. And you have some awesome incentives for not being caught in something that has served humanity so poorly for so long.

You must know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the cusp of a big event or adventure. You may have the feeling of having endlessly prepared for something that you are now waiting to happen. Using birth as a metaphor, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at that stage of the process where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to push. Initially, this will involve pushing your vision. That might mean writing the first draft of a new concept, rough as it is. This is about taking the initial tangible step toward creating something. Working with imagery will be genuinely helpful: imagery, that is, instead of a concept or idea. Describe in visual detail what you want to create. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry about how, or what might go wrongâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;focus on what is affirmative.

This may take some daily discipline. Create a space and make it happen.

When, suddenly, the momentum of your life shifts and events proceed faster and more tangibly than you imagined, these drawings or descriptions will prove to be vital. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprised if what you actually create far exceeds your initial concept.

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This is going to be an unusual year. I mean that in the best sense of the word. In one of the most touching Sun-sign horoscopes Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever read, Rockie Gardiner in the mid 2000s made a comment to Pisces about how the distances you are crossing are so vast, you may have no sense of where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going or whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ever going to arrive. You are now in a phase of arrival. Like most things in astrology, this happens in phases and in layers, though at this time, you are well into the process.

The journey has changed you. Being in a constant confrontation with the unknown, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned what to do in an environment of uncertainty. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a little like learning to walk across a high wire, which is not such a useful skill until the day comes when you have to walk across a narrow ledge, and then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned to exist in an environment that is only marginally supportive of who you are. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned to breathe air instead of waterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a good trick for a fish.

And what now? The world taking shape around you is responsive to your ideas. You are able to grasp where people are coming from and respond to them accordingly. It is mysteriously easier to manifest resources. You have some radical ideas, and you can get them going. As regards ideas, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just â&#x20AC;&#x153;tryâ&#x20AC;? themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;become their very embodiment.

The single most significant thing you can take with you as you dance with your transits through 2011 is: Be bold about being different. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean different for your own sake. I mean as different as you are, with courage and curiosity in your heart.

Chiron is going to be the most prominent energy in your chart, and Chiron is always different for a purpose. The most vital skill you can develop is mindfulness. That is the art of being aware from moment to moment, and experiencing life as a constant dynamic between your feelings, your thoughts, and your choices. This is also the year to get very good at taking care of your health.

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Carol Slutzky-Tenerowicz has been fascinated by the landscapes surrounding her home in Elka Park all her life. As a painter inspired by the outdoors she works en plein-air, French for “in the open air.” She also incorporates memorable places she has visited in her printmaking. Though there are many forms of printmaking, Slutzky-Tenerowicz employs the linocut relief technique. Slutzky-Tenerowicz begins by mounting a sheet of linoleum onto a wooden block. The areas of the image that will not be colored are carved away. A roller is used to apply ink on the surface of the linoleum that was left uncut. A sheet of paper is applied on the block and she puts it through her Vandercook, a rotary printing press made in the 1960s. The ink is transferred from the linoleum sheet to the paper, leaving a mirror image of the carved linoleum.

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*The Mid-Hudson Valley Region is defined as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Ulster counties.

For a complete listing of the Health Quest hospital HealthGradesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; achievements, please visit www.Health-Quest.org/healthgrades.

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