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NEWS AND POLITICS 26 HOTBED OF HOPE Senior editor Lorna Tychostup reports from Kurdistan on the efforts of Nature Iraq, an environmental organization working to restore the country’s depleted marshlands and catalog idigenous flora and fauna in the midst of a war zone.
32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart offers a history lesson on the CIA’s secret wars.
COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 34 IN THE REALM OF ASHES Tobias Seamon takes a tour of Buddy’s Place, an animal crematorium outside Hudson.
38 SOLAR ATTRACTION Ann Braybrooks visits the Chatham campus of SunDog Solar and Solaqua Power and Art.
INTERIORS SUPPLEMENT 78 THE GREAT INDOORS Kelley Granger meets designers who bring the outdoors in.
80 THE BREATH OF A HOME Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis on creating spaces of respite.
MONEY & INVESTING SUPPLEMENT 86 ACT YOUR AGE (WITH YOUR MONEY) Kelley Granger talks to financial experts about planning a financial timeline for a lifetime.
88 THE SUBPRIME SQUEEZE Anne Pyburn reports on how the collapse of the high-risk loans is affecting consumer credit.
WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 94 FEEDING YOUR INNER HIBERNATOR Ilyse Simon explains why you should obey your seasonal cravings.
98 CONNECTING WITH ANGELS Angelic channel Margaret Doner makes a case for the angels.
BUSINESS SERVICES 68 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 90 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 100 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.
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HUDSON VALLEY EDITION CONTENTS 10/07
ARTS & CULTURE 44 PORTFOLIO Cave Dogs discuss their collaborative creative process.
46 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson previews “Outdoor Sculpture Installations at Saunders Farm.”
49 GALLERY AND MUSEUM GUIDE 52 MUSIC Peter Aaron sits down to some veggie fare and bluegrass at the Rosendale Cafe. Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Pamela Sue Mann L’oeuf Reviewed by Sharon Nichols. Manhattan Music Project Jazz Cycles Reviewed by Peter Aaron. Venture Lift FutureToReal Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.
56 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles author and basketball coach Charley Rosen.
60 BOOK REVIEWS Susan Krawitz reviews Trespass by Valerie Martin. Bri Johnson reviews Kill All Your Darlings by Luc Sante. Peter Lewis reviews King’s Gambit by Paul Hoffman.
64 POETRY
Harold Jacobs takes a scrumptious creekside stroll to Bywater Bistro in Rosendale.
148 PARTING SHOT Will Cotton’s Candy Curls at the Muroff Kotler Gallery at SUNY Ulster.
THE FORECAST 115 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 113 Indie-rock royalty Yo La Tengo play two shows at the Colony Cafe on October 20. 114 Chrissy Glenn of the Pearl Gallery in Stone Ridge curates two shows this month. 126 Former Weatherman Cathy Wilkerson speaks at TSL Warehouse on October 6. 128 The Woodstock Film Festival rolls out the celluloid in its eighth year. 133 Irish songstress Sinead O’Connor hits the Bardavon on October 21. 134 Michael Sibilia’s “Drawn to Distraction” at GAS Gallery in Poughkeepsie. 139 The Celebration of Celts presents RiverFire at the Bridgewater in Kingston.
PLANET WAVES 142 UNVEILING THE SOUL INSIDE THE FORM Eric Francis Coppolino on the entrance of Saturn into Virgo. Plus horoscopes.
JENNIFER MAY
Poems by Shon Arieh-Lerer, J. Driscoll, Diane Germaine, Yana Kane, Liz Kelso, Lawrence Kessenich, Peter Remler, Glen Shaheen, and Winston Scarlett.
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At a time when the world seems so divided and everyone at odds, one artist dares to dream of a unity so grand it shakes the very core of the planet. It’s an optimism new to Ken Vallario’s work, but one he’s ready to embrace. “As I get older I am consciously trying to make art to uplift people,” said Vallario. Pangea Ultima, the title painting in his upcoming show at Qbix Art Gallery in Philadelphia, refers to the theoretical land mass scheduled to coalesce in 250 million years when the planet’s plates collide. The earth’s crust smashing together to form one supercontinent may sound apocalyptic to some, but for Vallario, the metaphor for the world coming together is a pregnant woman symbolizing planetary rebirth. The painting is rich in symbols. The figure’s legs bisect the letters “W” and “E” that represent the west and east and together spell the word we. Three maps of the planet depict the supercontinent cycle. At the base of the painting in dark colors is the current divided state of the world. On her round stomach, like an ancient globe, is the former continent of Pangea. Above her head, like a halo, glows the future united world. Despite the positive message the figure sheds a giant tear. “Most of my work has a deep spiritual pain,” said Vallario. “My work reflects a very specific emotion, an existential love of life but at the same time the mystery and pain of being in the world.” The bittersweet imagery is a signature of the work of Vallario, who constructs his shows like musicians compose their albums. “Every album has a great rock song they put on the radio,” said Vallario. “I wanted Pangea Ultima to be that title piece. The other works refer to other ideas I am working on. In every piece I’ll cover a variety of new feelings.” He creates a catalog of emotion. “I normally have something that is purely beautiful, something that is a little provocative, and something that covers an obscure idea I’m into,” said Vallario. Whatever the combination he tries to make each painting stand on its own so that viewers do not think they are seeing the same work over and over again. With impending fatherhood and his upcoming one-man show at Qbix in Philadelphia, this New Paltz artist has plenty of reason to continue mining this optimistic vein. Ken Vallario’s exhibition “Pangea Ultima” will open at the Qbix Art Gallery in Philadelphia, on October 5 and run through the end of the month. (215) 625-2521; www.qbixart.com. —Francis Cruz
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EDITORIAL
BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL
Elgar AND HIS WORLD WEEKEND THREE October ,
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com SENIOR EDITOR Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com
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VISUAL ARTS EDITOR Beth E. Wilson visualarts@chronogram.com CAPITAL REGION EDITOR Timothy Cahill tcahill@chronogram.com EDITORIAL INTERN Francis Cruz fcruz@chronogram.com COPY EDITOR Peter Aaron PROOFREADERS Christopher Hewitt, Candyce Martin-Lynch CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Shon Arieh-Lerer, Larry Beinhart, Ann Braybrooks, Jay Blotcher, Eric Francis Coppolino, Amber S. Clark, Will Cotton, Jason Cring, Robin Dana, DJ Wavy Davy, Margaret Doner, J. Driscoll, F-Stop Fitzgerald, Kelley Granger,Hillary Harvey, Harold Jacobs, Annie Dwyer Internicola, Bri Johnson, Yana Kane, Liz Kelso, Lawrence Kessenich, Susan Krawitz, Peter Lewis, Jennifer May, Sharon Nichols, Matt Petricone, Anne Pyburn, Peter Remler, Winston Scarlett, Jeremy Schwartz, Nina Shengold, Ilyse Simon, Sparrow, Tom Tomorrow, Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis, Ken Valllario, Beth E. Wilson
SUBMISSIONS CALENDAR To submit calendar listings, log in at www.chronogram.com, click on the "Events Producers" link, and ďŹ ll out the form. E-mail: events@chronogram.com / Fax: (845) 334-8610 Mail: 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 Deadline: October 15
POETRY Submissions of up to three poems at a time can be sent to poetry@chronogram.com or our street address. See above.
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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Matt Petricone is a self-taught freelance photographer residing in Rosendale, calling the Hudson Valley home for the past four years. Matt can be found roaming the East Coast with his soul stealer by his side, capturing a wide range of subjects. The majority of his work is based in portraiture skateboarding, snowboarding, music, fashion, and photojournalism. Matt divides his time between the Hudson Valley and the New York City area, where he has a studio. Matt photographed Dutchess County legislator and progressive activist Joel Tyner for the Local Luminary profile on page 22. Portfolio: www.mattpetricone.com.
Photographer f-Stop Fitzgerald began his career as a freelance photographer shooting music, art, and politics for many San Francisco underground publications, including—the Bay Guardian, the Berkeley Barb and Damage. His work has been published in over 100 periodicals, including Rolling Stone, LA Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. He has authored six books about the rock & roll culture, including contributing to X-Capees: A San Francisco Punk Photo Documentary. f-Stop’s photos of the Rosendale Cafe appear on page 52.
Tobias Seamon is author of the novel The Magician’s Study and a poetry chapbook Loosestrife Along the River Styx. The New York Post called The Magician’s Study “required reading,” while Booklist said it “heralds the arrival of a major talent.” He also wrote and directed Amerikan Partizan, a short film that premiered at the Spectrum 8 Theatres as part of the Edwood Film Festival. Tobias’s work has appeared in McSweeney’s and The Mississippi Review. He lives with his wife in Albany. “In the Realm of Ashes,” his foray into the world of animal cremation, begins on page 34.
At the age of 10, Francis Cruz set three life goals: to be the first in her family to graduate from college, travel the world, and make a living writing. As a senior journalism major at SUNY New Paltz she is just shy of completing the first and preparing to spend the rest of her life chasing the other two. Francis isn’t home unless she’s near water and cannot visit a city without seeing its parks and museums. Francis is Chronogram’s editorial intern for the fall semester. Her preview of two shows curated by Chrissy Glenn appears on page 114.
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CHRONOGRAM SEEN PHOTOS: FAMILY FARM FESTIVAL AND HUDSON VALLEY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL BY ROBIN DANA; CAFE CHRONOGRAM BY GRISELDA ELENA PEÑA
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community. Here's some of what we saw in September: FAMILY FARM FESTIVAL / CAFE CHRONOGRAM IN CATSKILL / TASTE OF NEW PALTZ / HUDSON VALLEY FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL
Clockwise from top left: At the Family Farm Festival at Camp Epworth in High Falls on September 9, Danny Loeher, Ashley Loeher, and Ben Torpey offer produce and dried flowers from the Germantown Community Farm; Transmission artist Tom Roe of Free103.9 performing at Cafe Chronogram in Catskill on September 8; Shantell Muhammad from Soul & Caribbean Cuisine Catering in Stanfordville serving up chicken, sweet potatoes, cabbage, and dirty rice at the Taste of New Paltz at the Ulster County Fairgrounds on September 16; Dan Budd demonstrates cooking techniques on the Gourmet Food Showcase stage of the Hudson Valley Food & Wine Festival at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck on September 9.
CHRONOGRAM SPONSORS IN OCTOBER: WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL (10/10-10/14); CAFE CHRONOGRAM AT THE MUDDY CUP IN BEACON FEATURING VENTURE LIFT, SHARON NICHOLS, AND CHRISTINA MAZZALUPO (10/13); POUGHKEEPSIE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SHOWCASE OF CHAMPIONS (10/24).
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LETTERS “A Peculiar Article� I am writing to express the revulsion I feel toward Lorna Tychostup’s peculiar article “Stories of the Displaced� [9/07]. In fairness, until the part titled “Stories from the Displaced Front,� the article is informative. Then, in my view, it becomes shoddy and manipulative. She writes in this last part about the Iraqi painter Amal Alwan Maseer. I personally know Amal. I met her, as did Lorna, in Baghdad before the war. Congressman Hinchey has since helped her get residency in Jordan. A small group of people in the US—including Michele Riddell, with whom Lorna originally traveled to Iraq—still help Amal support herself by selling her paintings. Amal has been exhibited in a prominent SoHo gallery. Lorna takes some pains to undercut Amal’s credibility. She says that Amal “appears to have signs of post traumatic stress disorder� and that for her “the line between truth and fiction has disappeared.� She states as fact that Amal has been fed talking points by “peace activists.� I’d like to know who these peace activists are. Kathy Kelly, founder of Voices in the Wilderness, the antisanctions and antiwar group, who now works with Iraqi refugees? Or perhaps she means Cathy Breen, who also works with Iraqi refugees in Jordan? I and the rest of the people who help Amal financially would be glad to put every copy of our correspondence with Amal at Lorna’s disposal to see if she or anyone can find such influence. Lorna apparently assumes we would use our position to turn Amal into some kind of marionette voicing a position against the US occupation. She implies that left to herself she would not come to such a position on her own. Or if she did, perhaps it’s because there’s something wrong with her mentally. Why does Lorna make all these assumptions? Why does she attribute such behavior to a generalized group of unnamed people she calls “peace activists�? Because Amal points to the US as a cause of Iraqi misery instead of talking about the “overbearing influence of Iranians�? Which it seems that Lorna wants to hear? It’s not the first time Lorna’s done this. In 2005, without going to Crawford,Texas, or talking to a single person from Cindy Sheehan’s encampment, Lorna wrote a lengthy Chronogram article about how I, personally, and “peace activists� in general, were at Camp Casey to influence the politics of the camp. It was pure speculation, which she stated then as fact, as she does now. I would like as well to know who the “more reliable sources� who claim “overbearing Iranian influence in Iraq� actually are. They may be correct or not, but given the very real danger of a US attack on Iran in the near future, Lorna has a responsibility to back this statement up.The journalist Nir Rosen, the definitive writer on the Iraq insurgency and civil war, cites his sources and is clear about his own position. By not backing up her allegations, Lorna’s otherwise useful piece becomes a camouflage for her own “talking points.� Moreover, there is a tone of contempt toward her interview subjects. Is her hard, dismissive tone a stand-in for journalistic objectivity? For responsibility? What does she stand for? By playing at being an objective reporter while still editorializing in her articles, at best she undercuts her credibility and that of Chronogram, at worst she herself influences people by this posture of authority. She first went to Iraq cut-rate with the antiwar group Voices in the Wilderness. She avoided the costs that the Iraq regime imposed on journalists, but remained, as a journalist, immune from Treasury Department prosecution. Yet she seems not to be against the Iraq war, nor against another one in Iran. There is something ghoulish about this. Other journalists have taken a stand for their values. What are Lorna Tychostup’s? Judith Karpova, Kerhonkson Read Lorna Tychostup’s response to Judith Karpova at www.chronogram.com. Click on “View from the Top� and scroll down to “Letters.�
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS In our September issue, we misidentified the photographer who shot theWord of Mouth theatrical troupe. The photograph was taken by Lawrence Gullo. Our apologies. 18 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
ESTEEMED READER “When fortune knocks, open the door,” they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? —Idries Shah Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: As a teenager I was enamored of danger. I felt compelled to put my life in the hands of chance, though I justified the risk with the rationale that I was testing the limits of skill. I was fond of driving my motorcycle at top speed along dark, winding country roads at night. Sometimes I turned off the headlights to “use the force.” As a climber, I donned my climbing shoes and chalk bag to scale cliffs rope-free. I was seeking a certain taste of real life that was elusive in ordinary circumstances, and I sometimes found it, particularly when I barely escaped an almost certain demise. I would look with disdain at those who didn’t push themselves into the hazard of the unknown. Now looking back, I see the stupidity of my exploits, but I also understand what was sought. The Katha Upanishad states: “Sharp like a razor’s edge is the path, the sages say, difficult to traverse.” This razor’s edge traverses the gauntlet between the known and the unknown, the stable and chaotic, safety and catastrophe. It is a realm in which new possibilities enter and are entertained. Going boldly into this realm yields the stuff of real life. Of course, boldness does not always appear heroic or threaten life, but may simply be an opening to unaccustomed vulnerability or honesty. I am reminded of an exchange with my wife this week. I had missed my moment to get the children—two boys, three and one—to bed, and they were overtired, whining and fighting our push toward the bedroom. “You shouldn’t have read them so many books!” she said, annoyed, as we struggled to get them into pajamas. “Don’t criticize me,” I yelled over the children’s yelling. “Don’t make me wrong.” Then, after a moment, my real frustration became clear. “I don’t want to be wrong,” I confessed. She looked at me and smiled, the tension dissipated. “You just said something true,” she said. I left the exchange feeling like I had topped out on a difficult climb, though the feeling was subtler. It was a visit to the realm of hazard—a situation that could have devolved into a fight, but instead resolved at a higher level. It felt like grace, or in more mundane terms, luck had entered. In that pivotal, pressurized moment I didn’t feel prepared to part with pride, but magically the possibility appeared, and a shift occurred. There is a sweet spot on the perimeter of the known which is the realm of discovery. It is the frontier of being, in which we venture beyond the boundaries of familiarity and habit. The approach to this unknown country requires a wakefulness and readiness to respond, and faith that alertness will yield the best response. Like Odysseus running the gauntlet of Scylla and Charybdis, we are afflicted by the safety of the familiar on one side, and recklessly plunging into the unknown without maps or equipment on the other. Clearly, as in Odysseus’s case, we most find a route through the middle, carrying knowledge and experience, but ready to respond to something completely unforeseen. In venturing toward the unknown, the line between boldness and stupidity is thin, and perhaps only the traveler, in her soberest moments, can honestly say which is at work. Perhaps the most important quality is commitment, which etymologically signifies “having a mission.” I learned this from climbing. There is a point at which there is no turning back, when a climber has done moves so difficult that he cannot reverse them and return to the ground. There is no choice but to go forward—which means there is no choice. That is the commitment that is required in the realm of hazard. There is a relevant passage in John Bennett’s book Hazard: One of the great Sufi teachers, Baha ad-din Naqshbandi, tells a story of how he once went into a gambling den. He watched the gamblers and he saw one man who had lost everything and whose friends were trying to persuade him not to go on. They said, “You have lost everything and borrowed everything. You threaten to sell yourself as a slave in order to have money to gamble. For your soul’s sake, give up this madness.” The man answered, “I would not only sell myself as a slave, I would give my life rather than stop gambling. For me, this is more than life.” When Baha ad-din came out of the gambling den, he said to his pupils, “That is an example of how man should be. From that man I have learned what is single-minded devotion.” Baha ad-din clearly liked this story because it describes the disposition of a saint’s dedication to truth. But it is interesting in its portrayal of the role of commitment, however compulsive, in the realm of chance. —Jason Stern Publisher 10/07 CHRONOGRAM HUDSON VALLEY 19
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LOCAL LUMINARY JOEL TYNER LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY
concerned local residents. This includes Tyner’s loyal conservative opposition, who call in to debate Tyner, making for interesting local radio, like Air America writ small, without the goofiness. (The show has been on hiatus since June, and will start broadcasting again in early November, after the election.) Tyner, who got his start in radio as a music DJ in the late '80s, describes his program as “poll-driven politics in the best sense.” The name of the program is taken from Tyner’s belief that polls indicate that Americans across the political spectrum agree on a range of issues—universal health care, campaignfinance reform, environmental protection—that are not often represented by the focus of mainstream political debate. Tyner lives in a big house in the town of Clinton with his mother, Judy Malstrom, and eight cats. Tyner’s website (www.joeltyner.org) catalogs his opinions and legislative accomplishments, as well as links to government documents and petitions supporting progressive issues. —Brian K. Mahoney
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Joel Tyner’s electoral career got off to a rousing start in 1980 when he was elected student body president of Rhinebeck High School. The community activist’s success at the polls didn’t carry over so easily into post-secondary school life. Tyner ran for five different county and state offices between 1996 and 2000 before being elected to the Dutchess County legislature as a Democrat in 2003. Tyner, an unapologetic progressive, represents the towns of Clinton and Rhinebeck in the Republican-dominated legislature, and has been a vocal minority figure on issues ranging from sustainable development and the environment to health care and taxation. (Tyner is up for reelection in November.) An early childhood teacher at Little Tikes Day Care in Poughkeepsie, Tyner has worked in education for the past 20 years, from the Belmont School of Global Studies in the Bronx to the Poughkeepsie City School District. Tyner’s radio program, “The Real Majority Project,” airs on Sunday nights from 9 to 11pm on WVKR (91.3FM). The show is a mix of opinion, airing of the public record, and call-in chat with progressive notables like Jeff Cohen, Medea Benjamin, John Hall, and
What’s the biggest challenge facing the Hudson Valley and what are some possible solutions? The high level of local property and sales taxes crushing small businesses and all of us—and there are quite a few cost-saving innovations proven to work elsewhere that should be implemented here without further delay to save our tax dollars. Making sure those without health insurance get access to health care before costly emergency room visits (as in San Francisco), real Empire Zone accountability, ending millions of dollars’ worth of legalized kickbacks in county government annually with campaign finance reform (as in Rockland County), recycling sealed, unused prescription drugs in nursing homes (as in Tulsa, Oklahoma), allowing county employees and retirees the option of getting prescription drugs from Canada (as in Schenectady County), fully funding senior transportation to aid aging in place and save Medicaid dollars (as in Boston’s Beacon Hill Village), slash costly recidivism at our county jail with a job court (as Lancaster County, PA, does), and save money with a housing-first approach for our chronically mentally ill homeless (as Westchester County does).
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Favorite restaurant? Starr Cantina in Rhinebeck. If you were president, what would your first action after taking office be? I would help small businesses, corporations, and all of us save loads of money—by signing into law HR 676, the US National Health Insurance/Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and over 70 other members of Congress. There are now 50 million Americans without health insurance; medical illness and bills contribute to half of all bankruptcies. According to Harvard researchers, HR 676 would save well over $300 billion a year by replacing private insurance companies with a single public payer that would assure universal coverage of all medically necessary services—while allowing patients free choice of doctors once again. Administrative waste stemming from our reliance on private insurers consumes one-third of all health spending—US hospitals actually spend 24 percent of their budgets on billing and administration, while hospitals under Canada’s single-payer system spend only 12 percent.
What do you sing along to in the car? Patti Rothberg, A Tribe Called Quest, Failin’ Phelan and the Straight A Students, and Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching. What can citizens do to make their voice effectively heard in local government? Trite but true: “If you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention.” So pay attention (you’ll be shocked at what you discover). Start going to your town board or city council meetings—and your county legislature meetings—and start asking questions and speaking up. Call and write your representatives; letters to the editor make a difference too. Form a new group—and hold press conferences and rallies. Contact Assemblymember Kevin Cahill’s office to be updated on the common-sense legislation that gets passed by the Assembly each year (that the GOP-controlled state Senate refuses to even consider). Call Congress toll-free at (800) 828-0498. Finally, remember—we’ve all heard it before, but Margaret Mead’s advice for us still rings true: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
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A United Nations report released in late August revealed a second record year of opium cultivation in Afghanistan. The country had a 17 percent spike in cultivation this past year, and is now accounting for 93 percent of the world’s opium production (a one-percent increase in global market share over last year). One-hundred-andninety-three-thousand hectares of poppies were cultivated in Afghanistan, an area larger than all the land used to grow coca in Latin America. Production continues to grow in spite of $600 million in American counternarcotics efforts and increased eradication by Afghan officials. “Afghanistan today is cultivating megacrops of opium,” said Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes Policy. “Leaving aside China in the 19th century, no other country has produced so much narcotics in the past 100 years.” While opium cultivation is decreasing in the north, the south is seeing growth, especially in areas of Taliban influence where farmers are encouraged to grow the crop. Source: The New York Times, Afghanistan Opium Survey 2007 Executive Summary (United Nations), and US Counternarcotics Strategy for Afghanistan (US Department of State)
More than 200 trips taken by executive-branch officials between April 2006 and March 2007 were paid for by companies and trade organizations with interests in their agencies. The companies paying for the travel are regulated by or do business with government departments and agencies. “Corporations and trade associations want to pay for these trips for a reason, and that is to have face time with the regulators and government officials,” said Bill Hogan, director of investigative projects for the Center for Public Integrity. Rivanda Networks, a defense contractor, paid $4,200 in travel expenses for two homeland defense officials from the Defense Department to attend a conference it sponsored in Limerick, Ireland. The Consumer Electronics Association, hosted 24 officials from various agencies at Las Vegas’s five-star Wynn hotel for its trade show atrip that cost the lobbying group $34,000. Source: USA Today and The Hill State and local governments across the nation offer $50 billion in tax breaks and business incentives annually to entice companies to relocate and retain existing businesses. North Carolina landed a $600 million Google server operation in March by offering $212 million in governmental assistance over 30 years. “But the impact of incentives dissipates quickly, so in a few years, there’s no benefit to employment,” said University of Nebraska economist John Anderson. Google is employing over 400 construction workers to build the plant. Once the plant is built, those jobs will dry up. In September 2006, the Syracuse Post-Standard published a series exposing the flawed Empire Zone program that provides $600 million in breaks annually to 9,800 businesses in New York state. It revealed that New York reimbursed NRG Energy, Inc., $22 million in property taxes in turn for one-half of a new full-time employee. Now states like New York are moving toward limiting such tax breaks and holding companies accountable to promises made when economic incentives were granted, by suspending benefits and enacting legislation to reform state incentive programs. Source: USA Today, Computer World, and Syracuse Post-Standard The UN Food and Agriculture Organization announced that since 1999, 2,000 breeds of livestock have been identified as at risk of extinction. As countries rely more heavily on higher-yielding American and European breeds to keep up with growing populations, they lose at least one indigenous breed a month. Within 20 years, Uganda’s Ankole, a breed of cattle known for its rich milk and tasty meat, may be extinct because farmers are moving toward the Holstein-Friesian breed that produces more milk, now used in 128 countries. Of the 169 countries surveyed, almost 70 percent of the world’s unique livestock are found in developing nations. In 90 percent of industrialized nations only six specific breeds of cattle are used. “In the US, Europe, China, India, and South America, there are well-established gene banks actively preserving regional livestock diversity,” said Dr. Carlos Seré, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). “Sadly, Africa has been left wanting and that absence is sorely felt right now because this is one of the regions with the richest remaining diversity and is likely to be a hotspot of breed losses in this century.” In the past six years the ILRI built the Domestic Animal Genetic Resources Information System, a database of the distribution, characteristics, and status of 669 breeds of indigenous livestock in Africa and Asia, including cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens. They seek to prioritize the breeds most at risk of extinction. Source: Inter Press Service Global warming and dry, dead wood built up in protected forests ignited megafires around the world, a trend that began a decade ago and continues to accelerate. Megafires are conflagrations that burn over thousands of miles with 20-foot-high flames
and exceeding temperatures of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. They rage with no human way to suppress them, stopping only when they hit the coast or the weather changes drastically. The Great Fire Dragon that hit China in 1987 is the first blaze that could be characterized as a megafire, but it wasn’t until the late 1990s that the term was coined and the phenomenon reached a global scale. Last year, five of Australia’s six states were hit, destroying 1.2 million hectares and killing two people. Firefighters from Canada, New Zealand, and the US joined the 15,000 Australian volunteers to combat the blazes. Australia is most prone to the fires, where in 2003 megafires caused a tornado in Canberra, but internationally fire trends are on the rise. This summer in Greece, 63 people died and 482,000 acres of land were lost to fires. Throughout Europe 1.9 million acres were blackened. The past decade has produced record year after record year of fires in the US. Last year, 9.6 million acres were charred, a significant increase from the 500,000 acres burned in 1998. Source: The Independent (UK), Reuters, The Brookings Institution Center for Public Policy Education The Pentagon cannot account for 30 percent of the weapons issued to the Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005. The 190,000 missing AK-47 assault rifles and pistols lead some to worry that the weapons can be used against US troops. “They really have no idea where they are,” said Rachel Stohl, senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information. “It likely means that the United States is unintentionally providing weapons to bad actors.” The Government Accountability Office, which released the report, said since 2003 the US has spent $19.2 billion on developing the Iraqi security forces, including $2.8 billion to buy and deliver weapons. No central record exists of the weapons issued to security forces until December 2005, leaving a year-and-half of unaccounted weapon distribution. Source: Washington Post The United States was named most heavily armed society in the world in the “Small Arms Survey 2007.” The survey found that the US has 90 guns for every 100 citizens and 4.5 million of the 8 million manufactured every year globally are purchased by Americans. India, who ranked second in citizen-owned firearms, has 46 million guns—a number dwarfed by America’s 270 million. With 40 million firearms, China is third. The survey has a second list, which the US also tops, based on guns per capita. Yemen is second, with 61 guns for 100 citizens. Finland and Switzerland follow, with 56 and 46, respectively. Poorer nations that appear more violent fall lower on the list, as in the case of Nigeria that has one gun per 100 citizens. “Firearms are very unevenly distributed around the world,” said Small Arms Survey director Keith Krause. “The image we have of certain regions such as Africa or Latin America being awash with weapons—these images are certainly misleading.” The wealth of a nation is a larger indicator of weapon ownership than stability. Source: Reuters Afghan suicide bombings increased by 69 percent in the first eight months of 2007, according to a United Nations report. As of August, 103 Taliban-related suicide bombings took place, killing 200 people. In 2006, suicide bombings peaked at 123, while the year before ended with only 17. Afghanistan experienced one of the world’s highest number of suicide attacks in both 2006 and 2007—second only to Iraq. Although 80 percent of those killed in Afghan suicide attacks this year were civilians, the Taliban targeted Afghan and international security forces and government officials, a noted difference from Iraqi suicide bombers who execute attacks in crowded marketplaces. Source: The New York Times and Reuters —Compiled by Francis Cruz
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NEWS & POLITICS World, Nation, & Region
HOTBED OF HOPE
IDPs, Growing Pains, and Surveying the Environment in Kurdistan Text and photos by Lorna Tychostup
AMMAN, JORDAN, JULY 30 I don’t bother to check the weather. What would be the purpose? Hot is hot. I’ve been told it will be even hotter once I get to Iraq. The streets wind and plow their way up and down the many hills that make up Amman, as my taxi driver attempts to find the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Iraq Operation. It is my last day in Jordan before flying to Sulaimaniyeh. I’ve just come from picking up my Syrian visa from their embassy, which was very easy to find. My last task of the day is to gather information about the internally displaced Iraqis, and as my driver makes one phone call, takes another series of turns, and makes yet another phone call, I sense this is not his usual terrain. We pull onto a tree-lined dead-end city street wall-to-wall with modern buildings and I spy the UNHCR sign—the only identifying insignia visible on the nondescript office building. My driver, oblivious, begins to make a U-turn as I hand him the fare and hop out. Although it is four years to the month that the UN headquarters in Baghdad was destroyed by a suicide bomber driving a cement truck loaded with explosives, killing 23 people and injuring over 100, the memory is still fresh among UN officials throughout the Middle East. Security greets me even before I enter the building, where, once inside its cooling shade, I soon hear the clacking of high heels on tile floors. Anita Raman, associate reporting officer for the UNHCR Iraq Operation, appears and takes me to her office. Her eyes are obscured by huge dark sunglasses, à la Jackie Onassis, which offer protection from the midday sun streaming in the windows next to her desk. She is dressed in a flowing sleeveless black-and-white chiffon dress, showing more skin than I am used to in this repressed part of the world, where many women glide to and fro swathed head to toe in synthetic heatretaining fibers. I have been told to wear shirts that cover my elbows, especially when going to interviews, and have come to conclude that the men here must be so lacking in self-control that for a woman to reveal more could cause her harm. And yet, I think to myself as I don my own sunglasses—the glare literally hurting my eyes—here is this modern woman modeling freedom to my newly repressed and sweltering self. “We do have a presence in Sulaimaniyeh, and compounds in Baghdad and Erbil,” says Raman. “There has been significant growth in IDP numbers, especially
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in Sulaimaniyeh, near the Diyala borders.” IDP stands for “internally displaced persons,” the term used for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have had to flee their homes due to the sectarian violence unleashed by what Raman calls “a mixture of ethnoreligious factional and political violence.” With Baquba as its capital, Diyala is one of the 18 governorates that make up Iraq. It connects the governorate of Sulaimaniyeh with that of Baghdad, and is considered a “Little Iraq”—a microcosm of the country, consisting of a Shiitedominated provincial government and security forces (due to its majority Sunni population sitting out the elections), a healthy Kurdish presence on its northern border with Sulaimaniyeh, and a heavy concentration of al-Qaeda operatives. A minimal US troop presence in 2006, combined with the unintended consequence of surge efforts that has seen both Sunnis and al-Qaeda forces flee Baghdad for Diyala, has turned the governorate into one of Iraq’s major hotspots and caused even more IDP movement—this time extending farther north into cities within the three northern governorates of Kurdistan that, according to Raman, “form the nucleus of the IDP communities.” “Most of the IDPs in the north are ‘scattered urban,’” says Raman. “Because of the restrictions on entry, a significant proportion of the IDPs are people from central or southern Iraq who own property inside the KRG [Kurdistan Regional Government area].” Others came for employment reasons. “The displaced tend to gravitate toward urban centers. However, with the volume of displacement throughout Iraq and within the north, there have been a number of camps for the newly displaced rising throughout the country. The camps are, in some instances, just spontaneous settlements, which are receiving aid distribution but are not yet established as camps along international standards.”
A COUNTRY ON THE MOVE Trying to pin down numbers of the displaced opens a virtual Pandora’s box of complexities as to IDP issues within Iraq in general. To begin with, there are pre –February 2006 IDPs and post–February 2006 IDPs. On February 22, 2006—the apparent dividing line in time—the golden dome of Samarra’s al-Askari mosque was severely damaged in a bombing attack. Built in 944, the mosque is considered one of the most revered Shiite shrines in the world. A second bombing attack
AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE ZAGROS MOUNTAINS IN KURDISTAN, BOYS ATTENDING A NEARBY WEDDING SNEAK OFF FOR AN AFTERNOON SWIM.
in June 2007 destroyed its twin minarets and clock tower. But it was that first attack, along with the subsequent military operations, that marked an intense escalation in sectarian violence, pitting Shiite groups who had long held back against the rampages against them by Saddam-affiliated Sunni groups. Increases in anti-insurgency, counterinsurgency, and criminal activities also contributed to high levels of widespread violence and insecurity not seen before the February 2006 bombings. According to the most recent “Cluster ‘F’ Update” (I kid you not)—a biweekly compilation of the most recent information on IDPs within Iraq collected by the UNHCR—in the 16-month period between February 2006 and June 2007, a total of 1,011,870 Iraqis were displaced. A regional breakdown of “newly displaced” families during that same period shows 25,368 families displaced from northern Iraq, 78,984 from central Iraq, and 64,645 families from the south—almost 170,000 families forced from their homes. A further breakdown shows that after 2006, 47 percent of IDPs originated in central Iraq, with approximately 180,000 from Baghdad alone. Another 38 percent originated in the south, and 15 percent in the north. Since 2006, says Raman, “we have been witnessing massive movements out of Iraq’s major urban areas, mostly in central Iraq.”
RUNNING FROM SADDAM Most of the violence in Iraq at the beginning of the invasion tended to be politically based. After the Samarra bombing, religious divisions seemed to manifest as the root cause of the violence being perpetrated in a country where, if you ask Iraqis, there was general tolerance and acceptance of the “other.” Many did not care to ask if one was Shiite or Sunni, and intermarriage between the sects was common. With most of today’s violence targeting the urban centers with the clear intent of debilitating them through terror—areas that were suffering from infrastructure collapse long before the invasion in 2003—it appears likely that whoever is planning the violence is simply adding fuel to a fire that was already burning. These previously weakened areas did not, and still do not, have sufficient supplies to maintain municipal networks. The sewer system in Sadr City, Baghdad’s poorest district, was in dire need of repair before Coalition troops set foot in Iraq. Use of
generators was a daily event in many places, and unemployment, now reportedly risen to astronomical proportions, was already high under Saddam. The largest group of displaced in the pre–February 2006 time period, says Raman, is actually the pre-2003 displaced—those who fled or were forced from their homes under the regime of Saddam Hussein. The main reasons for this displacement, according to the latest Cluster “F” Update, were “human rights abuses” and “internal conflict along political, religious, and ethnic lines”; additional factors would include the Iran-Iraq War and, later, the Gulf War—the aftermath of which saw Saddam retaliate against the 1991 Shiite uprising in the south by attempting to destroy their economic livelihood, purposely draining the southern Mesopotamian marshes and horribly suppressing the Shiite population. “Construction of dams in central Iraq; competition over land and natural resources; as well as pursuit of Saddam’s ‘Arabisation’ policies” were also reasons for mass movements of Iraqis. The Arabisation policies included the infamous Anfal genocide, which took place between February and September of 1988 and saw a military campaign move from the southeastern section of the Kurdish north to the northwest in six months, clearing the land by killing tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians and Peshmerga—the Kurdish guerilla organization that now constitutes Kurdistan’s military force (which is doing a remarkable job of providing security in the north)—and then enticing Arab tribespeople to move there via relocation subsidies. According to Raman, “The pre-2003 displaced were, prior to the current conflict, mostly arising out of human rights abuses in northern and southern Iraq. They are estimated at 1.2 million and represent IDPs coming out of Anfal and the draining of the marshes.”
RUNNING, RETURNING, AND DESPERATE TO LEAVE A second, smaller group of pre–February 2006 displaced came from the movement of people between 2003 and 2006—families leaving as a result of time-bound or predictable military operations where people were given “time frames to vacate and then reenter urban areas. This was the movement out of Falluja and Ramadi,” says Raman, where the US advised residents to leave before they began their attack on insurgents. “The overwhelming majority of them have returned to their homes.” Then there are the refugee returnees—Iraqis who fled the country while Saddam was in power who have now voluntarily reentered Iraq post-invasion. Figures are
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(L-R): AT A CROSSROADS BETWEEN HALABJA AND BIYARI, A HARDWARE SELLER IN HIS KIOSK; INSIDE A KURDISH PIZZA SHOP IN SULAIMANIYEH.
inconclusive at best, with some governorates not counting returning Iraqis for months at a stretch and others not counting them at all. However, of the number of Iraqis repatriating northern Iraq since the invasion in 2003, Raman says, “there are no figures, but it is well in excess of 300,000. And that was as of March 2006.” Maps on the wall in her office show arrows representing movements of people into and out of certain areas of Iraq. When closely questioned as to the numbers represented by these arrows, Raman says that figures based on aid distribution as per the public distribution system maintained by the Ministry of Trade show an influx of 330,000 people returning to southern and central Iraq beginning in 2003 and continuing in a steady stream through 2004. The majority came from Iran and represent both Kurds and Shiites who had run from the brutalities of the former regime. Kurds returned to the north and Shiites to the center and south. Across the country, the number of returnees could easily be close to one million. On Raman’s map there are also three small triangles located in a vast expanse of open desert. These represent three different refugee encampments. Currently, 1,200 Palestinians live in one of these encampments. Iraq’s Palestinian refugee population, once estimated at 34,000, has dropped to approximately 15,000. Real numbers are hard to come by because many of those who once lived in Baghdad and were protected by Saddam have been subjected to extraordinarily brutal violence by hostile militias. Some were able to leave Iraq in the early days of the invasion, but after Syria and Jordan closed their borders, those who did not make it out are now trapped. “It is a forsaken location,” says Raman who visited there recently. “It is blisteringly hot. They have no access to schools. They have tented shelters. Snakes and scorpions are common. We are working with the Red Cross to improve the sites, but [this encampment] does not function and that is universally recognized.” Since January 2005, 197 Iranian Kurds have lived at a second, similar encampment. The third encampment holds 137 Sudanese from Darfur who once lived in Baghdad and worked as skilled laborers. Also targeted by militias, they now live in “extraordinarily harsh conditions in a very violent location that is difficult for us to access,” says Raman. “I find that the refugees tend to become a bit of a byline in the Iraq war.”
SULAIMANIYEH, KURDISTAN, JULY 31 Among those who know me, it is well known that I fall in love too easily. Even before my plane lands at the Sulaimaniyeh airport, I am overcome by the beauty of the Kurdish mountains, covered in long golden grasses, their green dried away months ago by the arid heat. Dotted with hardy, stunted evergreens and oaks, their massive transparent peaks steamily rise through the relentlessly harsh glare of the summer sun and become one with the sky. Any trepidation I may have felt at reentering a violent country quickly dissipates as my feet hit the tarmac. It suddenly all comes back to me as to why I am here—having wondered at the airport in Amman if I was truly crazy for returning to this place of war. But the war is not apparent in Sulaimaniyeh. There are limited checkpoints, men with scarves wrapped turbanlike around their heads and wearing flowing zoot-suit-type pants cinched at their ankles, smooth, clean black-asphalt roads, and signs of enormous growth everywhere—new construction of more smooth, clean black-asphalt roads, hotels, condominiums and other housing, the almostcompleted University of Sulaimaniyeh, even a newly opened gelato parlor. How could it be that I was at all tentative about coming to this place that has once again captivated my affection so immediately, so intensely? 28 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
I have gained entry to this part of Iraq with the help of two friends, Nathan Musselman and Anna Bachman. Anna and I met in Baghdad in the weeks before the war in 2003. We had both entered Iraq under the umbrella of the now-defunct Voices in the Wilderness (VITW), an Iraq-awareness-raising, antisanction organization founded by long-term peace activist Kathy Kelly. At the time, VITW was the only known group bringing delegations of people into Iraq. Meeting up months later during the segment of a larger speaking tour Anna had arranged in her community in Washington State, she and I made plans to return to Iraq. In February 2004, while at Kennedy Airport waiting for Royal Jordanian officials to remove the body of a man who had died on the flight over from Amman from our delayed plane, Anna spotted her friend Nathan Musselman, who just happened to be on our flight. Today, Nathan is the Prefect and Deputy to the Chancellor of the brand-new American University of Iraq in Sulaimaniyeh (AUI-S), and he has arranged my letter of entry—required to gain admittance to Iraq. Anna lives in Sulaimaniyeh working as a project manager at Nature Iraq (NI), an Iraqi NGO focused on the protection and restoration of the environment and the cultural heritage of Iraq. Under the guidance of its director, Iraqi-born Azzam Alwash, NI’s primary project has been working to restore Iraq’s extensive marshes. Once the third-largest wetlands in the world, most of the marshlands were purposely destroyed by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1990s in retaliation for the Shiite uprising during the first Gulf War. Anna introduced me to Alwash in January 2005 in Amman. I was on my way to Baghdad to cover the first Iraqi election. The three of us shared tea in a downtown restaurant. The combination of Alwash’s PowerPoint presentation, with its amazing satellite, aerial, and ground-level images showing the before and after effects of restoration efforts, his fiery, impassioned stories of a resilient, determined people—the Marsh Arabs—whose culture his father had introduced him to as a child, and his obvious reverential affection for their culture left me captivated. “One benefit, one positive story that may be coming out of the liberation of Iraq is the fact that we’re working on resuscitating a 7,000-year-old culture,” said Alwash with eyes aglow. “There is a clay tablet from 3,000 BC documenting reed construction methods that are still being used today.” When the last US bomb fell back in 2003 (maybe even before), Alwash, working along with others, began encouraging the taking down of the artificial barriers that had literally drained the ancient marshes, allowing them to be reflooded. Born in Kut, Alwash moved with his family to Nassiriya, on the edge of the marshes, when he was nine months old. They lived there for eight years before moving to Basra and then to Baghdad. After being pressured to join the Baath party, Alwash, a Shiite, moved to the US in 1978. But it was the marshes—8,000 square miles of wetlands the size of the state of Massachusetts—that called him back. Alwash’s words remain permanently etched in my memory: “It is one of the few places on Earth where human beings have completely integrated themselves into their environment. Talk about sustainable! The life of the Marsh Arabs is completely dependent on the reeds. They are the skeletons of life, [as is] the water. Water feeds the reeds. The Tigris and Euphrates are headquartered in the mountains of Turkey and northern Iraq. Snow falls, spring comes, snow melts. This humongous amount of water comes rushing down in the spring. Between February and May, 70 percent of the water flow occurs. It comes rushing in with silt and clay, bringing life—timed perfectly for the coming of the reeds from hibernation, the fish coming up from the Gulf for spawning, and the migration of birds from South Africa back to Siberia. The reeds feed the water buffalo. People
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THE HILLS OF MAWAT, NORTH OF SULAIMANIYEH, NEAR THE IRANIAN BORDER. THE AREA IS LITTERED WITH MINES LAID DURING THE WAR WITH IRAN.
use [the reeds] to build their homes, furniture, to feed their fires.” The silt and clay brought by the yearly rush would push out the brackish water left over from the previous year and create islands made of reeds and mud that accumulated over generations and expanded the marshes. Some of the islands, explained Alwash, are sprung loose by the spring influx of water and air, and left to float freely in the marsh lakes. This rush of water historically also brought with it pollution, which was filtered out by the marsh reeds and allowed cleaner water to flow into the Persian Gulf. Saddam’s drainage, which included the building of dams in the north, destroyed massive areas of the marshes. Before restoration efforts began in 2003, polluted water could be found six to seven miles out into the Gulf. Today, 60 percent of the marshes have been restored, thanks to the “New Eden Team” headed by NI and Iraqi and Italian experts. They have recently released their “New Eden Master Plan for Integrated Water Resource Management in the Marshland Areas.” Sponsored by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land, and Sea, it represents over two years of work by NI, Italian partners, and various Iraqi ministries. The plan will help Iraqi legislators plan and addresses issues such as improving the efficiency of water use, restoring the environment, regional economic development, flood control, and community building for returning refugees and displaced peoples. Working under self-stated goals such as improving the capacity of Iraq’s institutions to protect its environment; developing a database of environmental conditions and trends focusing on water resources, ecology, and biodiversity; promoting the sustainable use of Iraq’s environment and resources; respecting and balancing the traditional use of the environment by indigenous inhabitants, and preserving wildlife and biodiversity, NI oversees projects that include monthly monitoring of water flows in and out of the marsh rivers and a census of the number and distribution of water buffalos in the marshes of the three southern governorates. NI has conducted biannual summer/winter surveys of biological and physical variables such as water quality, macrophytes, phytoplankton, zooplankton, macrobenthos, marine life, and birds at 62 sites within six governorates in southern Iraq. With offices in Basra and Baghdad, NI was encouraged by its successes to open an office in Sulaimaniyeh earlier this year and, at the request of the Iraqi Ministry of Environment, to extend these seasonal surveys to the Kurdish regions using funds provided by the Italian government. Anna invited me to stay at the newly opened office/house of Nature Iraq in Sulaimaniyeh, and I arrived in time to participate in the start of the first six-week-long survey, which will encompass 30 sites and involve extensive animal and plant surveys and water-quality monitoring at selected dry and wet sites, including a few located on the Darbandikhan and Dokan reservoirs.
WORKING TOGETHER After sleeping a good part of my first day in-country and making introduc30 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
tions to the 13-plus members of the survey team, we all went off early the next morning to the second choice site of the day: Biyari, a small mountain village on the border with Iran that has a centuries-old stream emanating from an underground spring. The original survey site we were supposed to go to on the Iran/Iraq border was closed off to us by the military due to insurgent activity. The Biyari site was wooded and cooler than Sulaimaniyeh. Seated on blankets under the spacious arms of the trees, families were gathered to picnic and beat the summer heat. A mixture of Kurds and Shiite and Sunni Arabs, the NI’s survey team of biologists, chemists, and geologists stands in stark contrast to the brain drain that is decimating central and southern Iraq. A few of the Shiite and Sunni staff are among the displaced, having had to flee their places of origin, and some have family who have scattered to Jordan, Syria, Switzerland, and farther. One man has yet to see his 10-month-old grandson because the child is in Syria. The team quickly scattered and went to work. Some measured water quality, sediments and benthic invertebrates, while others took to the hills to photograph the flora and fauna. I was free to mingle with the families who beckoned to me to join them, drink tea, and take their photograph. One family up the hill had brought a sound system, and Kurdish music flowed among the trees. A rock wall acting as a buffer between the picnic area and stream housed colonies of hundreds of leaf-camouflaged moths with orange underbellies. Although we were so close to the border we could have been technically in Iran, I had difficulty believing this was Iraq. Wherever we were, there were no signs of war. However, as we readied to leave a few hours later, a woman preaching Islamist dogma to a large group of women and girls, all apparently enraptured by her speech, was pointed out to me. It was not rapture but brainwashing, the Kurdish members of the NI team informed me. The Kurds openly despise the Islamists. I was told that this woman and her disciples were most likely members of Ansar al Islam—a radical splinter group of Islamist Sunni Kurds that promotes jihad and is known for using suicide bombers against Kurdish targets. “Ansar al Islam was kicked out by the Peshmerga and the US,” I was informed by our extraordinarily observant and intelligent young Kurdish biologist/fixer. “They go in and out of Iran at will.” We passed a number of checkpoints while making our way up the mountain— some made up of Kurdish police, some of Kurdish border guards, others Peshmerga or Kurdish government forces. At one checkpoint women in uniform were working alongside the men.
SULAIMANIYEH, KURDISTAN, AUGUST 17 I have been here in Sulaimaniyeh for over two weeks and have hiked, swum, and traversed some of the region’s more spectacular sights while tagging along with the survey team. Having come here to report on the effects of the war,
guilt pervades my being—I have not been shot at once this trip. Of course, its not been all fun and sun. The members of the team—all have cameras, all experts in their fields—work practically round the clock, either out collecting data from the lakes, rivers, and dry areas within Kurdistan, or back at the office/ house organizing and analyzing the data. Or, in the case of Haidar Fishman, dissecting the fish samples he has collected. Or, in the case of the water study team, analyzing the water samples for levels of different planktons. For the most part, they spend a good part of each day in full sun with temperatures hovering at 100 plus. This sort of work, on this level, has never been done in Iraq before. They are not only pioneers, but also incredibly brave men. (Chronogram cannot publish photos that show their faces for fear they will become targets.) Just about all the survey team members have said they believe that Iran and al-Qaeda are behind the violence in Iraq. Most have said they don’t want the US troops to leave Iraq. On the day Fox News reported that the Bush administration planned to declare Iran’s internal army, the Iranian Republican Guard Corps (IRGC), a “terrorist” organization, thus leaving the IRGC open to having their assets frozen—not to mention subject to attack by the US without the consent of Congress—just about all of the survey team’s members told me they hoped the US would go to war with Iran and wipe out the present regime there. Some said they wanted America to replace Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki and install an Ayad Allawi type—someone who would kill Sunni and Shiite equally and not single out one sect for punishment over the other. When Maliki’s visit to Iran was aired on TV, the repeated showing of him holding hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nearly incited a gentle riot among them. “This is proof that Iran now runs Iraq,” said one, others nodding in agreement. But no bombs have been exploding. I don’t recall hearing even a gun go off. The only shouts I’ve heard have come from crowds of people watching local soccer games, although I did hear my first ambulance siren tonight. The central souk area, a seemingly endless maze of shops, has been nothing but teeming with people and goods of all kinds. I’ve been to an art opening, gone bowling with “the guys,” eaten at a Chinese restaurant (where an American peaceactivist-filmmaker-posing-as-a-journalist told me, not once but twice, that I should die because I believe there are good things happening in Iraq along with the bad), and taken a three-hour drive through thriving towns on the way to the burgeoning and modern city of Erbil. The only alarm that’s gone off was within me, and it was in relation to the lack of a female presence on the streets in these smaller towns. Men are everywhere—but no women. I don’t think I have ever experienced that before. I suppose it has been risky being here. I’ve been swimming in remote and not-so-remote mountain lakes and rivers, and climbed down into a dangerous but stunningly beautiful gorge where I did come close to being incapacitated— by heat emanating from the surrounding boulders. Touching them literally singed my fingertips. As part of our day-off picnic, I gave swimming lessons to some of the guys. Admittedly, it was a bit of a challenge attempting to teach eight grown men, whose languages of Arabic and Kurdi are alien to my tongue and who are terrified of the water, how to swim. Later, while photographing them playing soccer, I thought they might be thinking of eliminating me when the ball inadvertently went over the cliff and down a 30-meter rock scramble to a sheer drop-off into deep water. “Lorna! Lorna!” went the war cry. The only strong swimmer, I was volunteered to retrieve the ball—not once, but three times. Another day, I left a meeting to go get some water. In Kurdistan, men don’t allow women to do much on their own—a polite tradition masking a deeprooted subjugation of women. NI’s superfriendly driver, Shorsh, who speaks no English, followed me to the grocery store. As we mounted the steps together, he gestured insistently that he would purchase the water. I gently tugged on his shirt in an attempt to hold him back. As Shorsh ordered the water bottles and took out his wallet to pay, I thought, I am going to kill you. At the very same moment—literally—he pointed to a toy handgun on the counter and said slowly, in pure, clear English, “I am going to kill you.” When I told him I was thinking the same of him, we both laughed—tears streaming down my face. And that is about the closest to danger I have come while here. But I am in Kurdistan. In Iraq—a country that has been watched, dissected, critiqued, used and abused by the media, terrorists, insurgents, and agendists left, right, and center—this place called Kurdistan has been virtually ignored. The opinions of its people have not been aired. The good going on here does not exist for those who do not want anyone to know that among the rubble, horror, and death that exists in other parts of Iraq—yes, it exists, I know that for a fact—the din of construction, the pains of growth, and the sounds of laughter also exist. 10/07 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS 31
Commentary
Beinhart’s Body Politic
THE CULTURE OF SECRECY, PART 2: COVERT OPS Since the current two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, are working out so well, George Bush and Dick Cheney are test marketing a third one against Iran. The ostensible reason is that we have to stop the Iranians before they can develop a nuclear weapon. We don’t have any ground troops left, so it has to be an air war. Smart, smarter, and smartest bombs and missiles will zip down the chimneys of facilities in Iran and take out their capabilities—and maybe their conventional forces while we’re at it—creating only the barest minimum of collateral damage. (Collateral damage is dead babies, crippled children, burnt mothers, and crushed fathers.) All of this requires intelligence—information, not smarts. Do they actually have a weapons program? How close are they? Would they really use them? Where are the targets? How are they protected? So the President picks up the phone and calls the CIA and says, “What do our spies tell us?” The answer is, “Nothing.” In 2004, someone made a clerical error and sent a batch e-mail to the CIA’s network in Iran such that any recipient could identify all the others. One was a double agent. So much for that. No matter. We have our multibillion-dollar NSA supersecret, spy on anyone, don’t need no courts or warrants, listening program! Remember Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi émigré, convicted of bank fraud, who orchestrated the “information” that Iraq had WMDs, and who was picked to be the Charles DeGaulle of liberated Iraq? He told the Iranians that we had broken the code of their intelligence service. That shut that down. This is not a unique situation. It is the standard. The archetype. The prototype. The CIA has never been able to penetrate hard targets. Either to get information, to foment unrest, revolutions, and coups, or to carry out assassinations. Hard targets refer to stable, authoritarian regimes, usually with an ideological base. During the Cold War, that meant the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, and Poland), Red China, North Korea, North Vietnam, and Cuba. Since the Cold War such targets include Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and the nonstate enemy, al-Qaeda. They certainly tried. There was not just one Bay of Pigs. There were many. Attempts were made in all the countries listed above. All of them failed. Thousands died. Still, the CIA has a fearsome reputation, acquired in 1953 with the famous coup that overthrew the elected government of Iran and put the Shah in power. This introduces us to the concept of blowback: unanticipated consequences that explode in our face. It can be immediate. The operation fails, we’re caught with our hands in the cookie jar and no “plausible deniability.” Examples include failed coup attempts in Syria and Indonesia in 1957, trading arms for hostages in Iran under Reagan (against US law and it only returned three of thirty hostages), and supporting armed insurrection in Nicaragua (against US law, it failed, and the Contras were dealing cocaine). Or it can succeed, and its very success creates failure. The Iranian coup did attain its goals—to save British oil interests and put an antiCommunist ally in power. Plus the Shah lasted 22 years. A hell of a run for anyone. 32 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
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BY LARRY BEINHART
However, it brought democracy in Iran to a dead stop. When the revolution finally came it created an Islamic theocracy that sponsors terrorists and Islamic revolutionaries. Other examples of blowback include: Iraq, 1958-68: Supported coup attempts that finally brought the Ba’ath Party to power, bringing the world Saddam Hussein. Congo, 1961: Coup against Patrice Lumumba (subsequently murdered). Mobutu Sese Seko took power, a corrupt, murderous dictator who looted the country for 32 years. Afterward, the country collapsed into civil war. South Vietnam, 1963: Coup against President Diem (assassinated). His successors were worse and even less able to pull South Vietnam together. Cambodia, 1970: Supported Lon Nol after his coup. The CIA became his partners in running the country. A reasonably stable, neutral country devolved into a civil war which the Khmer Rouge won, and then launched one of the more horrific killing campaigns of modern times. Afghanistan, 1979-89: The CIA’s greatest success. Support of the Afghan rebels against the Soviet occupation. That war was Russia’s Vietnam, but worse, a significant cause of the collapse of the Soviet system. However, no one gave any thought or attention to what would happen afterward. The rise of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. There were coups that succeeded in keeping Communists—or just leftists— out of power that didn’t have particularly bad consequences for the US, but were terrible for those countries. Most prominent are: Guatemala, 1954: A coup against a left leaning government. Led to “forty years of military rulers, death squads, and armed repression.” (Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA) Chile, 1973: Coup against Salvador Allende. Transformed a stable democracy into sixteen years of dictatorship under August Pinochet. About 3,000 killed and another 25,000 put in prison for political offenses. His security forces even carried out an assassination in Washington, D.C. Indonesia, 1965: Sukarno replaced by Suharto, who ran an anti-Communist purge, that killed 500,000 to 1,000,000 civilians. From the ‘60s to the ‘80s there were right wing coups all over South America. Beginning in 1975 the military governments and dictators of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru cooperated in Operation Condor, a program of assassinations, death squads, torture, disappearances, and imprisonment of leftists. It’s hard to pinpoint the degree of American involvement, but both the coups and the state-sponsored terror certainly received US support and cooperation. The Cold War was a real war with many dead bodies and ruined lives. Accepting the premise that it had to be fought around the world, was it won this way? Or could it have been won by supporting democracy and elected governments whichever way they wandered? That’s the real question about the past. It was never seriously debated. Because, after all, it was all secrets. Which brings us to the question for the present and for the future: Can secrecy— of this sort—work at all? Next month: the answer to that question and the role of covert operations in a democratic society.
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IN THE REALM OF ASHES BUDDY’S PLACE By Tobias Seamon photos by Amber S. Clark For many, the idea of pet funerals brings back childhood memories of shaded backyard graves, with only a rough-hewn cross or perhaps the departed’s name chalked on an old paving slate. As solemn and affecting as these early bereavement rituals are, though, such traditions might be going the way of the Currier & Ives sleighing scene. Earlier this year, the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association released its estimated pet spending projections for 2007 and the results were mind-boggling. According to the APPMA, by the end of the year Americans will have spent $16.1 billion for food, $9.9 billion for supplies and over-the-counter medications, $9.8 billion for veterinary care, and $2.9 billion for “other services.” Funerals and cremations factor more than a little in this last category, and few would know more about this aspect of the pet industry than Andrea Walker, assistant manager and cruelty investigator for the Columbia-Greene Humane Society and co-owner, with her mother, Karen Walker, of Buddy’s Place pet crematorium. Fitting to the emerging form of pet services, there is nothing funereal about Andrea’s appearance. In her early thirties and striking, with multiple ear piercings and elegant Sanskrit tattoos on both wrists, she looks far more like a stylish Pixies fan than a long-faced mortician. Nor does Buddy’s Place possess any of the squalid atmosphere of the dreaded knacker’s yard. Located in the rolling farmlands of central Columbia County, the crematorium is just minutes from both the Merchant and Ivory Foundation and the early 18th-century Luykas Van Alen house, which was used as a location for Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence. The area has been likened to the pheasant-filled parklands of England before World War II, and while driving from Albany to Columbia County, I remember why this portion of the Hudson Valley has become the ideal spot for wealthy urbanites wishing to fulfill fantasies of becoming landed gentry. Andrea and I meet at a homemade-ice cream stand, unfortunately closed for Rosh Hashanah. Two of her pet dogs are snarfling around the backseat of her sedan, and she tells me that the bulldog named Sadie recently had surgery to implant a titanium kneecap. As I ponder the marvels of veterinary science, Andrea says she has to make a couple stops before we visit Buddy’s Place. Between the 34 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
humane society, cruelty investigations, and the crematorium, she’s in constant motion, usually with live or dead animals in tow. Today she’s trying to finalize a cremation contract with a local veterinarian, and she makes sure to bring a box of doughnut holes, bagels, and a Buddy’s Place magnet as gifts for the office. Whether it’s aluminum siding, pharmaceuticals, or animal cremation contracts, sales is the same everywhere, and Andrea gets a partial victory when the receptionist tells her the vet will be sending cats to Buddy’s Place, though the dogs, which cost more because of their size and weight, will still go to another cremator, one who the doctor has been doing business with for years. Curious about the eternal feline-canine rivalry, I ask whether she gets more business from cat or dog people. “It’s really about 50-50. If we get more dogs, it’s probably because we tend to get a lot of big dogs that the owners physically can’t move or bury by themselves.” The Walkers also have trouble with the bigger animals, and a third partner at Buddy’s Place, Ehren Melius—in his 20s, with Hunter Thompson’s “gonzo” symbol tattooed on a forearm—does the heaviest lifting. From there, we make a short drive to the Columbia-Greene Humane Society shelter. The Hudson Valley is at its autumnal finest, with the air so clear that each yellowing leaf seems encased in glass. As we drive, Andrea tells me that I can compare the broken-down cremator at the shelter with the one she has at Buddy’s Place. Set along a dirt road running between hay fields, the shelter, once a dairy farm, is a complex of small barns. The main office is surrounded by kennels, storage rooms, sick bays, and dog-walking areas, and a small pet cemetery beneath some pine trees. The office and cat rooms are cheery enough, but space limitations have forced the shelter to use several decrepit outbuildings as well. A couple of them are little more than grim concrete sheds, and it’s in one of these that the retired incinerator squats. “Get ready to get creeped,” Andrea warns as we approach the former crematorium. Thick vines have grown over the main doorway and we have to squeeze down a mildewy passage between sheds to get to a side entrance. The dingy,
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: THE CREMATORIUM AT BUDDY’S PLACE; A GRAPH TO MONITOR OPERATIONS; CREMATION REMAINS PRIOR TO PULVERIZING.
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unlit and unheated room is dominated by the massive incinerator. I gape at the rusted-out machine, a hulking, square oven, until Andrea attracts my attention to an even more ominous sight: medical waste containers. “Burning medical waste is a big moneymaker for anyone with an incinerator,” she says. Columbia-Greene used to burn its own waste but now contracts with another incineration service. Andrea explains that many crematoriums, including human ones, burn medical waste. As unappealing as it is, medical waste earns up to $5 per small bag and can be a key source of income for shelters with their own incinerators. Few find this aspect of the shelter business pleasant, and fewer still are willing to talk about it, but the economic incentive for taking in waste is often a matter of necessity for underfunded animal shelters. Desperately lacking in resources, shelters are forced to choose between refusing to accept more animals; overcrowding and the subsequent danger of disease; or euthanasia, all of which hit a nerve with a pet-obsessed public.
A TRULY THANKLESS JOB Despite the lateness of the season, rose bushes, blossom-filled trellises, and immaculately kept gardens surround the crematorium. Located amid fields and patches of woods, Buddy’s Place looks like a typical ranch house from the outside. Karen Walker greets me in the gravel parking area, just steps from a small pond containing a fountain and a big-lipped carp named Mick Jagger. A twinkling, matter-of-fact person, Karen says with a laugh that the rest of the Stones will soon be joining Mick in the splashing waters. Inside, Buddy’s Place is divided in half, with an office on one side and the incinerator and walk-in freezer for cadavers on the other. Smelling lightly of nag champa incense, with a futon couch and glass-fronted woodstove along the wall, the office also doubles as display area for urns and other containers for “cremains,” as the ashes are referred to. Customers are able to select from among the tin canisters of varying sizes and designs, hefty brass urns, granite headstones, and handcrafted, locally made, wooden boxes. The cremains are given to clients in the container of their choice, along with a satin drawstring bag imprinted with “forget-me-not,” a freshly cut bouquet of flowers, and, if the owners have requested, a hardened clay pawprint of the deceased. It’s also common that flowers be placed alongside the pet inside the incinerator if the owner is present for the cremation. As Andrea will emphasize throughout the day, whether the deceased is human or not, providing dignity and ritual to death is important to the bereavement process. From the pictures of pets and thankful letters sent by past clients, it’s obvious the Walkers’ efforts are appreciated. Anyone believing such consideration in the pet funeral industry is typical, however, would be sadly disappointed. When Karen Walker’s aged basset hound, Buddy, was euthanized at home in the mid-’90s, she asked the attending vet to have the body cremated so she could scatter the ashes. Like most veterinary clinics, this one outsourced cremations to incineration specialists, and, in Buddy’s case, the specialist was named Terence McGlashan. With his silken manners and impeccable suits, McGlashan appeared every inch the professional mortician, but instead of cremating the cadavers, he paid a dairy farmer to dump them in a pit not far from Saratoga Springs. The unsuspecting pet owners were given ordinary wood ashes, though anyone who’s ever seen human or pet cremains would know that no matter how finely sifted, a few tiny shards of bone are always present. When the police discovered the pit after a passing jogger complained of the smell, more than 40,000 animal corpses from three different states were exhumed from the reeking pasture. Adding to the horror was McGlashan’s sideline: medical waste incineration. Internal organs, surgically removed tumors, and hypodermic needles were strewn throughout the pit. The police and the state wildlife pathologist sorted through the corpses’ identifying tags in order to inform as many of McGlashan’s clients as possible what had happened to their pets, and McGlashan eventually served a six-month sentence for fraud. But that was little consolation to the Walkers, who were inspired to create a pet crematorium and funeral service that provided everything they’d been denied by McGlashan: the clean, respectful, and dignified service any beloved companion deserves. This was also why they refuse to use their facility for any medical waste, no matter how profitable that aspect of the incineration business is. For better or worse, Karen tells me, this day’s cremation will be a messy one. It’s a 14-year-old golden retriever that’s died of natural causes. The elderly owner had trouble with the body, though, and the retriever had been stuck in the furnacelike trunk of his car for a full day before a vet performed an autopsy and turned the corpse over to the Walkers.
Customers at Buddy’s Place are able
to select from among the tin canisters of varying sizes and designs, hefty
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brass urns, granite headstones, and
“Cremations used to be the rite of passage for new staffers,” Andrea tells me as we walk around the machine. “We were all in our early 20s, so, you know, we thought we were badasses. In winter, we’d lean against the incinerator and smoke cigarettes while it was running to freak new people out. “You definitely need a sense of humor for this,” she adds, and Andrea has that in abundance. Returning a follow-up call later in the week, she hoots over her cell, “Guess what we’ve got in the van now?” It turns out to be a 115-pound Newfoundland that had been euthanized for aggressive behavior, then exhumed from the owner’s yard and decapitated in order to check the brain tissue for rabies. If that seems grisly, Andrea’s duties as cruelty investigator defy the limits of tolerance. Frequently called out to investigate country squalor at its worst, she relates incidents of sickening routine: starved farm animals, unwanted kittens roasted alive in a burn barrel, or cancerous dogs frozen to the winter ground by their own burst tumors. Not so routine is a recent call to Germantown, where a senile woman in her 90s was removed from a house where dozens upon dozens of handmade coffins filled with dead cats were discovered beneath the knee-high layers of filth, feces, and other cat corpses. The oven’s menace seems to pale in comparison to stories like these, until we look inside. The incinerator door has been rusted shut, and we have to slam the squealing handles open. The inner brick lining inside has crumbled to dust, and a hole gapes in the center of the floor directly where most of the copses would lie. Looming in the far back are the rib bones of a small animal. Rags of scorched fur still cling to the skeleton. “We couldn’t finish the cremation because the flooring collapsed,” Andrea informs me with a depressed sigh. “Now there’s no way anyone can get it out. One time, there was a malfunction and a burning body fell through the back of the incinerator into the inner machinery. That could have set the whole incinerator on fire so one of us, a girl, waited until everything was cooled down, then crawled inside the oven and got the body. That really took courage.” Along with liability and staff safety issues, dangers such as fires and biohazards are why Columbia-Greene retired the oven and now outsources its cremations, yet another strain on a depleted budget that can neither afford to replace the incinerator or have it dismantled and removed by an expert. Blinking against the mellow September sun, a white dog in an open enclosure silently watches us when we emerge from the passageway. The dog is as placid as the chopped fields and brushy hillsides that surround the shelter. Thankful to be among the living again, we’re off to Buddy’s Place.
handcrafted, locally made, wooden boxes. The cremains are given to
clients in the container of their choice, along with a satin drawstring bag
imprinted with “forget-me-not,” a
freshly cut bouquet of flowers, and if
the owners have requested, a hardened clay pawprint of the deceased. As Andrea will emphasize throughout the
day, whether the deceased is human or not, providing dignity to death is
crucial to the bereavement process.
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LEFT: FINAL ASH PROCESSOR. RIGHT: ANDREA WALKER, RIGHT, AND HER MOTHER, KAREN WALKER, OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF BUDDY'S PLACE PET CREMATORIUM.
“Do you have a strong stomach?,” Andrea asks before we go through the door into the crematorium. I truthfully tell her yes; still, one can’t help but wonder what’s beyond the threshold. What I find, however, is an incinerator and workspace that are shinier than many antique automobile garages. The metal siding of the oven glistens and the bleached floor with the drain in the center is spotless. Stacked shelving units with carefully labeled boxes line the wall, along with a tie-dyed Woodstock ’94 banner that Karen received after working the festival as an EMT. Viewed from the front, the open incinerator looks just like a behemoth pizza oven. Lined inside with brick (which absorbs the heat and fiery body fluids more effectively than steel) and run on propane, the oven reaches upward of 2,000 degrees and can incinerate up to 175 pounds at a time. A tall chimney rises from the center of the incinerator, though special cooling chambers within the stainless-steel body make for a smokeless incineration. Buddy’s Place has been affected by high fuel prices just like everyone else, and running the incinerator costs about $32 an hour. This is no small expense considering that between the veterinary contracts and private cremations, which are always done individually, the Walkers run the oven three to four days a week and these cremations often take three hours to complete, even for a small cat. Passing the industrial-grade processor used for grinding and sifting ashes, Andrea opens the freezer door to show several dogs and a newly arrived cat that are waiting for cremation. There’s also a foal that was too big for the oven and is waiting transportation to another crematorium. Looking at the cadavers, I can feel myself mentally distancing; these aren’t pet cats, dogs, or colts, they’re used space on icy metal shelves. It’s too easy to forget those used spaces all have names. What’s amazing about the Walkers, however, is that they haven’t surrendered
to that numbness. The retriever is laid on a tarp on top of a raised stretcher, and Karen is right, this one is disgusting. The body reeks, the autopsy sutures are bursting, and maggots squirm everywhere, but still, time is taken to press the paw twice into the clay so the owner gets a clear print before the corpse is carefully rolled into the oven. Visibly horrified by the larvae, Andrea is bleaching the floor the moment the oven door closes, and whether it’s Andrea shuddering at the maggots or Karen hauling the fetid tarp out into the sun, it’s plain that what these women do isn’t easy for them but they do it because they believe the grieving owners and their deceased animals deserve their care. Not an easy accomplishment when the messiest details of death are a workaday reality. Wanting some space, I go around back to check the chimney. There’s no smoke or smell whatsoever, just a plume of heat emanating from the top of the stack, and any thoughts that animals might avoid the funereal location turn out to be nothing more than superstitious fabrications. Birds fly nearby, monarch butterflies bounce among the red blossoms, and neighboring dogs stroll the fence line, their only obvious concern being my presence near their turf. The afternoon doesn’t hit home until I’m driving back to Albany. Imagined or not, I can’t get the smell of the maggots out of my sweater. There’s no way to avoid brooding on morbid churchyard images and I picture what I’ll write on my cat’s headstone when the time comes: He Was My Friend. What’s compelling about the Walkers is that they treat every animal as if it were a close companion. Not even the bones at the back of the shelter’s incinerator are forgotten, and Andrea tells me that she plans on cremating those and spreading the ashes when the oven is finally taken out. Wanting it as much for herself and the memory of Buddy as for the abandoned creature and the good of the shelter, she says, quietly, “At least that’ll be some kind of completion.” 10/07 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 37
THE ART OF BUSINESS
SOLAR ATTRACTION
Kling Magnetics, Inc., SunDog Solar, and Solaqua Power and Art By Ann Braybrooks photos by Hillary Harvey
Renewable energy. The arts. Combine the two to create a unique arts and business complex powered by sunlight, an existing waterfall, and possibly even recycled vegetable oil from local restaurants. Do this by rehabilitating and redeveloping a sprawling former box-board mill that straddles a section of the Stonycreek Kill, about a mile from the village of Chatham. Add all kinds of cool things: artist studios; workshop space for ecofriendly woodworking, metalsmithing, and tilemaking businesses; and a huge green building center, where prefab homes with integrated energy-efficient systems can be manufactured. Maybe even construct a carbon-neutral ecovillage on the property adjacent to the mill, and simply move those energy-efficient, prefab dwellings down the road. Encourage residents to leave their cars in a lot off the main thoroughfare and use electric vehicles, or, better yet, their legs and feet, to get to their front doors. Some residents might even be able to walk from work to home if they hold one of the “green-collar” jobs at the Solaqua complex, or if they work at the restaurant or performance space envisaged for the property. Solaqua Power and Art is the dream of Jody Rael, owner and president of Kling Magnetics, Inc., a manufacturer of custom magnets and magnetic products, and SunDog Solar, a renewable-energy consultation and installation business that Rael launched this past August as Solaqua’s first incubator business. All three businesses, with about two dozen workers (some of whom change hats, depending on need), are housed in a combined office building and manufacturing plant on the large mill property that Rael purchased in 1997. In keeping with Rael’s green philosophy and plans for the site, eight solar electric (photovoltaic) panels mounted on poles have been installed alongside the dirt parking lot between the ’60s-era manufacturing plant and the century38 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
old mill. The panels, which have been operational since June, provide 12.6 kilowatts of power to the building where Rael runs his three businesses and conducts research on renewables. The goal for the PV solar system is to offset escalating utility costs while conserving energy from nonrenewable sources, such as petroleum products. Rael hopes that the new system will handle one-third to one-half of the building’s energy needs. With a grant from NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority), Rael and crew have also launched a solar thermal (solar hot water) project. It consists of three arrays of evacuated tubes, flat-plate solar collectors, and a hybrid system that works in conjunction with traditional propanefueled or electric water heaters. Since April, a prototype solar-thermal system has provided all of the hot water for the Kling Magnetics building. “The potential [for solar thermal] is limitless, commercially and residentially,” says Rebecca Boyd, Rael’s daughter and Solaqua marketing director. “Solar thermal could be used for car washes, laundromats.” Boyd says that once the solar thermal project is installed at Kling, it is projected to save more than $1,000 annually in propane expenses. Yet another Solaqua project involves converting fryer waste, collected weekly from local restaurants, into renewable energy. Again, the Kling manufacturing plant will act as guinea pig. The experiment will begin this winter, when the filtered veggie oil will be used, via a waste-oil burner, to heat the building and run a generator. A back-up propane system will be in place should any kinks need to be worked out. With all three projects, the company wants to reduce its carbon footprint, demonstrate methods of reducing national dependence on foreign oil, and develop
(OPPOSITE) JODY RAEL STANDING IN THE FUTURE HOME OF SOLAQUA POWER AND ART. (ABOVE LEFT) SOLAR PANELS ON THE KLING MAGNETICS/SUNDOG SOLAR/SOLAQUA CAMPUS; (ABOVE RIGHT) THE FUTURE SITE OF SOLAQUA ON THE STONYKILL CREEK.
systems that can help educate the community about renewable sources of energy. The Solaqua group also hopes that the systems will be replicated at the mill site. Meanwhile, Kling Magnetics and SunDog Solar continue as usual. Kling creates custom magnets for toymakers, publishers, and companies that use magnets for promotional or educational purposes. Clients listed in the company’s literature include Fisher Price, General Foods, Pepsi, Continental Airlines, Learning Resources, and Scott Foresman. In the educational market, manipulatives are particularly popular. Says Rael, “It’s easy to teach someone about fractions if you have a magnetic pie that you can move pieces out of.” For the retail market, Kling manufactures magnetic paint, magnetic travel puzzles and games, and magnetic playing cards, which can be used outdoors (great on a windy day) or indoors by people who are bedridden or traveling via train, plane, boat, or automobile—anywhere cards can get lost or be hard to retrieve. For its Magic Wall Magnetic Paint, Kling uses a proprietary process to make magnet-receptive paint that can be applied to existing walls, making it possible for artwork, posters, charts, and plans to be displayed without potentially destructive tacks, pushpins, glue, or tape. The water-based acrylic latex paint, which has been mixed with superfine, nonrusting iron particles, can be left in its dark-gray form or top-coated with latex or enamel paint. According to Kling marketing materials, the Magic Wall Magnetic Paint is lead-free and kid-safe. Rael grew up in New York City and spent weekends on a family-owned farm in Chatham. “My father made photograph albums, but he always dabbled in magnetics,” says Rael. “He invented the magnetic scheduling board and magnetic playing cards, and I took the magnetics part of his business in 1984 and brought it up from New York City to Hudson.” Rael’s father had made a lu-
crative business out of manufacturing 100-page photo albums with peel-away plastic page covers. When Rael first moved the magnetics part of the business upstate, he wanted to lease the building that currently houses Kling Magnetics, SunDog Solar, and Solaqua. The real-estate broker “couldn’t lease it to me because he was in the process of negotiating a sale to York Paper,” says Rael. York succeeded in purchasing the property, and Rael took Kling Magnetics to Hudson, instead. “[York] ran it until ’94 or ’95,” says Rael, “and then just abruptly shut down the whole mill. When York announced they were closing, I wanted to buy just this building. Instead, they made me buy the mill and 200 acres.” After two years of negotiations, Rael acquired the property and moved Kling into the building he had initially hoped to lease. “And then I was left with 100,000 square feet of space,” says Rael, referring to the mill. “We kept walking through it and throwing out ideas. Of course, the first idea was an arts center. That’s what everybody with a factory space thinks. Okay, let’s bring in a bunch of artists.” For a few years, Rael invited people to tour the property and brainstorm ways that it could be developed. “Then the renewables aspect hit me,” he says. “I kept looking at the waterfall and thinking, ‘Gosh, if we could power this thing [the arts center] renewably…’ And then I got that blinding flash of inspiration of marrying the arts and renewable energy.” He adds, “I started looking at solar energy commercially again, because I’d been very into it in the late ’70s and ’80s, having built a number of solar-powered PA systems.” Currently, Rael uses a retrofitted GEM (Global Electric Motorcar, from a unit at Chrysler) to produce solar-powered sound at concerts, festivals, educa10/07 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 39
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tional outreach programs, and promotional and fundraising events. Each of the electric vehicle’s wing doors has 12 50-watt photovoltaic modules that charge the car’s battery bank and energize the custom PA system. The GEM has appeared at the Columbia County Fair and other Hudson Valley events. Although Rael purchased the mill property ten years ago, only in the last three has he begun working on establishing Solaqua Power and Art at the site. His staff includes Boyd and Cherie Miller-Schwartz, who was hired this year to work full-time as Solaqua’s executive director. Previously, Miller-Schwartz had been the director of master planning and rehabilitation at the Shaker Museum’s Mount Lebanon project. “Our idea continues to be clarified based on existing conditions of the mill, and also the economic and market demands,” says Miller-Schwartz. “There’s much more awareness of renewable energy now, certainly than there was even two years ago. And there’s much more demand for green businesses now than there was two years ago.” Rael says that so far, “Kling Magnetics has been the money engine behind the mill project. So if I have to do it alone, it’s going to proceed very slowly, at my speed.” Rael and the Solaqua team have reached out to community members, politicians, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, renewable-energy experts, architects, and investors in an effort to make Solaqua Power and Art happen. Among Rael’s many fantasies for the Solaqua site is a solar-powered icecream factory. “That’s the idea here,” he says. “To provide energy-intensive crafts and food for people with very low-cost energy.” In addition to running Kling Magnetics and SunDog Solar, Rael wants to “create something unbelievable.” For him, Solaqua Power and Art is it. For more information about Kling Magnetics, Inc., SunDog Solar, and Solaqua Power and Art, call (518) 392-8171 or visit www.kling.com, www.sundogsolar.net, or www.solaqua.net. 10/07 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 41
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Can’t Hear Me Now from “The Bad Dog Show” Nadine Robbins and Molly Ahearn Mona Lisa Gallery, Rhinebeck
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PHOTOS PROVIDED BY JIM FOSSETT/CAVE DOGS
Portfolio CAVE DOGS
The name Cave Dogs summons all sorts of possible references—from the ancient Latin cave canem (beware of dog), to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (especially since the group works extensively with shadow play), to some pack of feral canines holing up in a cave. In reality, this collaborative group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers began in 1991 with a shadow play performance in Rosendale’s Widow Jane Mine (the Cave), directed by the then recent SUNY New Paltz MFA graduate Suzanne Stokes. That first show premiered as Cave Core, but Stokes broke away from that group shortly thereafter to form Cave Dogs, generating six new productions in the years since.
meanings and images that it carries with it aptly describes the group’s complex collaborative performances, which combine sculpture, painting, shadow puppetry, music, and video projections on a large theatrical scrim. An overload of sight and sound, their most recent piece, “Archeology of a Storm,” creates an elliptical, allusive journey through multiple generations of residents in a New York City apartment building, raising questions about history, legacy, and politics. This work will appear as part of the Kingston Sculpture Biennial 2007 in an open air performance in Hasbrouck Park on Friday, October 5 at 8pm. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair, and decide for yourself what it all means.
Although the new moniker was chosen largely by chance, the felicitous layering of
—Beth E. Wilson
CAVE DOGS ON THEIR WORK Current personnel in the group include: Suzanne Stokes, James Fossett, Michelle Hughes, Dan Getman, Jeremy Holmes, Tracy Leavitt, and Amy Schoonover. Individual speakers are identified by their initials. What is it? SS: “Archeology of a Storm” is about legacy and what we leave behind us—physically, environmentally, conceptually, just everything. So when the war themes came in, it happened as a result of all the rest, just naturally. We didn’t start from a pedantic point about war. I have a problem with that kind of artwork. I didn’t want this artwork to be seen that way. I think there’s a lot more to it than that. DG: No truly collaborative piece could ever be as simple as that. A collaboration with so many different people, so many things going on, visually, sonically, in shadow and image and acting, projections—it could never be that simple or unitary. SS: I hesitate to call it performance, because that carries all kinds of connotations with it that the work is absolutely
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not. But it is performative. I think it’s closer to theater than to anything else, but it doesn’t start that way. It’s started through the visual, and sound. My sound bite, when I’m trying to get a venue, is: “Cave Dogs is a shadow-based theatrical company,” or something like that. Even that doesn’t really cut it. It’s a genre unto itself. TL: It can’t be just like painting, or sculpture, or a puppet play, or something cut-and-dried like that. It’s all those things, and it’s none of them individually. DG: And nobody has ever seen anything like it, unless they’ve seen another Cave Dogs piece. Because it doesn’t fit into any of those categories, it’s hard to explain, and hard to understand. It challenges the viewer in a way, as well. How do you look at shadow play like this, when your brain’s never done that before? How do you look at video in relation to that, and what are they saying? There are so many things going on that the viewer has to put together, different from anything they’ve ever experienced before. SS: People do try to categorize it, but the first 10 minutes
of the show they’re just going “What is this?” I don’t have a problem with not having a name for it—only when I’m trying to explain it quickly to somebody. Genesis of a storm MH: I live next door to Jim and Suzanne; our kids are close friends. I’ve been writing for a while, mostly for myself, when to my great surprise, Suzanne came to me and asked if I would write this story [“Archeology of a Storm”] for Cave Dogs. It was an amazing process. It took a year and a half to write the play, I think. It was a collaborative venture. The Cave Dogs began to think about some themes—like legacy, what we pass on to the next generation (both positive and negative), and the war had started, 9/11 had happened, it was an emotionally tense time. As we worked on it, it became about community, about family, about this house, and the things left in this house, the legacy of war, and that’s how the story evolved. We read it a number of times as a group, then I’d go back to work on it, and come back—that’s how the character development happened. It was very funny—I said to Suzanne, “Get with the group, and come up with some themes, and I’ll begin to shape
(Opposite) Cave Dogs in their Bloomington studio (back row): Amy Schoonover, Jeremy Holmes, Suzanne Stokes, Michelle Hughes, Dan Getman; (front row) Tracey Leavitt, Jim Fossett.
All images on this page from the Cave Dogs production “Archaelogy of a Storm.”
the story from that.” She came back with three pages of visual images! These were all artists, but luckily I have an art background, so that helped me understand what they meant by all that.
doing my part. It does take time to hear and to see everything in the story. The music is a big part of it as well. There’s a reason why that song is there, there’s a reason why those words are being said. It’s a sensory overload.
AS: When I first joined, I just sat in the back and watched the rest of them run through the piece. Afterward, they asked me what I thought, and I basically just told them the whole story. They were amazed, they couldn’t believe that I got it all. When I saw it, I appreciated the war theme, the family theme, and I liked the way they poked a bit of fun at the administration now. When the Iraq war started, I was in Europe, and there were a few times that I actually said I was Canadian over there. This show really brought back some of those feelings. The more I watched it, the more I got involved, the more I appreciate it. There’s a lot to focus on at once. The more you see it, the more you can pick up from it. Some of the lines are very subtle, other things slip in. I know some people who were concentrating mostly on the visual side of the show. The shadows are so dimensional, there are things you can miss there as well. Many times as we rehearsed, I would notice lines I hadn’t even heard before, because I was so involved in
Indirect direction JF: Everyone [in the group] locks into a different piece of the show, and it’s the same for the audience as well. It’s such a huge sensory overload in both the visual sense and the audio sense, it’s a real challenge to concentrate on both. I think it’s a good challenge, a positive challenge, because you’re trying to connect to so many things. Lots of people come out and say, “I’m not sure what that was about, but I really liked it.” It’s the effect of the effects. Sometimes we try to let it be just about the soundtrack, like a radio experience, or hearing a story told to you, so you can generate some of your own mental images as an audience. SS: I think the way we work as a group, as a collaborative, and the kinds of fairly serious topics we address—the format we use with the shadow and video projections and the soundtrack—is a nice way to say difficult information.
If people can see it and hear it in a different way than just “We shouldn’t be at war” or whatever, it’s just a way of giving information. DG: The show is just not didactic, or a political show in the sense of having a single point. It’s a layering of history, of multiple generations and the issues that they’re facing. An important part of it for me, coming in after the story was written, the continual evolution and process of matching the shadows to soundtrack, changing the soundtrack to match things we were doing the back, changing the cast which brought new ideas and ways of doing the shadows. There was a continual collaboration with what we’re each doing. It’s an amazingly creative process. TL: The process itself is a statement which mirrors what I love about what we’re saying. It’s that community that has evolved in that apartment building, that’s what’s important in life. I love the picture, the video of the soldiers in slow motion. You know they’re veterans, and you know that they come into this as well. For me it’s an antiwar statement, but it’s ultimately an affirmation of community.
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Lucid Dreaming BY BETH E. WILSON
ART WHERE THE COWS COME HOME
When you install art outdoors, there are always a number of things to keep in mind. Are the materials sufficiently weatherproof? Are there sharp projections, moving parts, or other features that might endanger members of the public? Will it be able to withstand a herd of 40 Black Angus steers? Wait! There’s something about that last question that seems a bit unusual…. The Outdoor Sculpture Installations exhibition, organized by Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm in Garrison, is one of the more decidedly unique environments in which I’ve ever encountered art. This is the second year that Collaborative has organized an exhibition here, and now I regret having missed last year’s edition. The landscape is amazing—broad grassy fields (some steeply pitched), tucked away a stone’s throw away from Route 9G in Garrison, one of the last largely undisturbed stretches of agricultural land left in Putnam County. On a crisp fall day there can be nothing quite as spectacular as hiking up through these fields (farmer Sandy Saunders only asks that you close the gates behind you), with the views framed by a clear blue sky and nothing but the wind rustling through the trees on the soundtrack. Oh, and the occasional bunch of cows passing through. Collaborative Concepts has gone through a number of different manifestations since its founding in 1999. At its core is a group of serious professional artists, whose goal is to organize exhibitions (over 40 so far) designed to provide “exceptional cultural experiences.” When I first encountered the group, its digs were in a large storefront space on Main Street in Beacon, showing consistently engaging work by the likes of Grace Knowlton, Michael Pilon, Lyndon Preston, and others. When the landlord raised the rent beyond the modest means of the group, they moved briefly to Bulldog Studios in Beacon, and now since Bulldog has closed, they’ve reinvented their exhibition space to take in over 100 acres of Sandy Saunder’s cow pasture. 46 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
For a sculpture show, there are a few points at which painting (or pictorial concepts) play a surprisingly significant role. Richard Bruce’s small, abstract paintings riff on the convention of the trail marker, tacked up on tree trunks along a haphazard cow trail through some woods on the edge of the fields. But instead of being painted a standard, single utilitarian color, each marker is an aesthetic cosmos in and of itself—soft pastel washes of white, sea green, and blues, like abstracted versions of Symbolist paintings by Odilon Redon. Strictly speaking, they represent nothing, yet functionally they manage to pull the feeling of open sky and atmosphere into the wooded path that they mark, a strikingly beautiful use of the location. Th is sort of painterly strategy is reversed in Robert Brush’s witty Four Landscape Paintings, located on the westernmost edge of one of the fields. Just off the pasture, alongside a preexisting hiking trail through the property, Brush has erected a section of wall, painted deep red (a favorite of Victorian decorators). He has cut four holes through the wall, each framed by an ornate bit of gold molding. The site is located near the top of a hill that provides a sweeping view of Storm King Mountain and the Hudson, so when you stand nearly anywhere in front of the piece, you’re presented with four real-time Hudson River School landscape “paintings”—an interesting reminder of the conventions of picturemaking that were so successful in the 19th century. According to Eric Arctander, one of the organizers of the exhibition (and one of its artists as well), before accepting any artist’s proposal, the artist had to visit the farm, in order to encourage work that responds to, and takes full advantage of its unique setting. This strategy has paid off in a number of cases, perhaps most spectacularly with Scott Boyd’s Portrait of a Barn, a series of three white-painted wooden modules that abstractly emulate the mass/shape of a barn (think Monopoly houses), lined up on a steep hillside. If you hike up beyond the three forms, to the uphill side of the group, you realize that from a particular angle of view,
ABOVE: SPINNING CLOWN HEAD/BLACK FLAGS (DETAIL) BY MAX YAWNEY OPPPOSITE: PORTRAIT OF A BARN BY SCOTT BOYD
they line up perfectly with an actual large white barn on the property, which sits across the hollow, on a hill opposite. The artist has accommodated the shift in scale by sizing his modular barns to visually match the apparent size of the real one, oering a startling perceptual experience that updates the ideas of both Minimalism and site-speciďŹ city. Naturally, not everything in the show quite clicks—Max Yawney’s Spinning Clown Heads/Black Flags attempts too many references in an overly obnoxious carnivalesque mode that seems entirely out of place here, while Michael Natiello’s The Scratching Post: Saunders Farm Redoubt, an eight-foot plywood cube, admirably takes on board a signiďŹ cant piece of local history (a Revolutionary-era military redoubt was located nearby), but fails to deliver with a series of “garbage mandalasâ€? inside that shift the focus in an entirely dierent direction. (I don’t think the patriots did much New Age meditation in their redoubt.) Perhaps the best contribution of this exhibition happens on the macro level, however—the organizers speciďŹ cally invited the local homeowners’ association to come to the opening, building a bridge between past and present. The homeowners, mostly suburban residents brought to the area by more recent developments in the real estate market (i.e., turning agricultural land into residential developments), had formerly thought of Saunders Farm only as an annoyance, when a slow-moving tractor held up traďŹƒc on the road. They were amazed to discover the beauty of the farm itself (in addition to the interest added by all the artwork), and to learn that Saunders allows hikers and nature-lovers free access to the property in all seasons (provided the gates are shut behind you, of course). With this new appreciation of the undisturbed farmland—and even more, what an unfortunately unique resource such a place represents today—perhaps this will turn out to be an instance where art both enhances the life of the community, and helps put the brakes on the juggernaut of gentriďŹ cation and development. Now there’s a welcome twist to the usual story, one I’ll be happy to listen to until the cows come home.
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galleries & museums
ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
BRUYNSWICK GALLERY
GALERIE BMG
258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519.
1058 BRUYNSWICK ROAD, GARDINER 255-5693.
12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.
“Illumination.” Works by Michael Somoroff. Through October 14.
“Elisa Pritzker & Marlene Wiedenbaum.” Through October 6.
“Bohemia.” Landscape photographs by Craig J. Barber. Through October 8.
ANN STREET GALLERY
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 EXT. 119.
622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.
Opening Saturday, October 13, 5pm-7pm.
“Chi.” Works by seven Latin American artists. Through October 27.
“Richard Merkin Retrospective: 1970s-Present.” Through October 28.
THE GALLERY AT ARTEMIS 33 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 339-2494.
ARMADILLO 97 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON 339-1550.
“Our Pets.” Three Paintings of cats and dogs. October 6-December 30. Opening Saturday, October 6, 3pm-5pm. ART UPSTAIRS
“Jane.” Works by Regan Stacey. October 12-November 19.
106 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-5552.
“Artemis: After the Hunt.” Fashion as an artistic expression. Through October 4.
“Out on a Limb.” Works by Allen Bryan and Linda Gordetsky. Through October 14.
GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY
“Works By Thomas Locker.” October 20-December 20.
5348 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-3104.
Opening Saturday, October 20, 5pm-7pm.
“Sytes.” Through November 4.
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES
GO NORTH GALLERY
THE CATSKILLS GALLERY
60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.
“Illuminations.” Through October 13.
469 MAIN STREET, BEACON GONORTHGALLERY@HOTMAIL.COM.
BACKSTAGE STUDIO PRODUCTIONS
“Keith Edmier 1991-2007.” October 20-February 3.
“Neologisms.” Works by Rachel B. Abrams. Through October 7.
323 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 338-8700.
Opening Saturday, October 20, 1pm-5pm.
“Lollipops and Dragons.” Three dimensional artwork by Barbara Graff. Through October 1.
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957.
BARRETT ARTS CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.
“Inside, Outside.” Recent Paintings by Audrey Hall. Through October 13.
“Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004.” Through October 21. “What We Think Now.” Photographs by Jonathan Hollingsworth. Through October 21. CHTHONIC CLASH COFFEEHOUSE
BCB ART GALLERY
“Interpreting Beacon.” Works by Beacon Art Salon members. Through October 8.
“Vice.” Group show. Through November 4.
453 MAIN STREET, BEACON 831-0359.
11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS 687-0660.
“Natural Elements: Women in the Woods.” Multi-media show expressing connections to the natural elements. October 6-November 5. Opening Saturday, October 6, 5:30pm-7:30pm. BERTELSMANN CAMPUS CENTER
“GCCA Applauds.” October 13-November 10. Opening Saturday, October 13, 5pm-7pm.
162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068.
“Wire Mesh Sculpture.” Works by Karen Bamonte. Through November 18. HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
CROSS RIVER FINE ARTS 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580.
BE GALLERY
398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY
“The Great Hudson Valley Landscape.” Paintings, Pastels, and Watercolors. Through October 13.
116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539.
GREEN COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS CATSKILL GALLERY
“Glens and Gardens.” Works by 18 watercolorists. October 6-30. Opening Monday, October 8, 5pm-8pm.
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.
“Size Matters: XS.” Recent small-scale paintings. Through November 10. KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON KMOCA.ORG.
CUNEEN HACKETT ART CENTER 12 VASSAR STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4571.
“Just a Moment.” Photographs by Robert Lipgar. Through October 28.
“Photography by Karen Capobianco.” October 6-31. Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-7pm. KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER
BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7235.
34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.
“Photo of the Day.” Full retrospective of James Livingston’s 18-year project. October 13-28.
CUNNEEN HACKETT THEATER 9 VASSAR STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 452-7067.
“Collage: A Group Show.” Through October 14.
Opening Saturday, October 20, 4pm-7pm.
“Called to Row.” Photographic documentary exhibit by Mary Koniz Arnold. Through October 16.
“2007 Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit.” Paths Real and Imagined group show. Through October 8.
ELLENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
M GALLERY
40 CENTER STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-1497.
350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0380.
“Melange: A Medley of Life in Photographs.” Works by Ken Lipston. October 1-31.
“Interpreting Paradise: Views of the Catskills.” Works by local artists. October 20-November 15.
Opening Saturday, October 6, 12:30pm-2:30pm.
Opening Saturday, October 20, 5:30-8:30pm.
EXPERIMENTAL ART COLLECTIVE
MARIANNE COURVILLE GALLERY
345 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 392-9620.
341 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 755-4208.
“Relationship.” 5 artists explore relationships in art. Through October 7.
“Rome: 1969.” Photographs by John D. Pepper. Through October 14.
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO 54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244.
“A Family Affair.” Works by Betsy Jacaruso and her family. October 6-27. Opening Friday, October 12, 6pm-8pm. BOOKS AND MORE 347 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 966-4038.
“Other Lives: The Photographs and Writings of William Gedney.” October 20-December 1.
museums & galleries
BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598.
Opening Saturday, October 20, 6pm. G.A.S.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
BRIGGS MOUNTAIN GALLERY
196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE (845) 486-4592.
NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241.
495 ACADEMY HILL ROAD, MILAN 758-3266.
“Drawn to Distraction.” Photographer’s adventure into ADD by Michael Sibilia. Through October 14.
“Plein Air Paintings.” Works by James Cramer and James Coe. Through October 17.
“The Luminous Palette.” Group show of plein air and still life paintings. Through October 13.
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galleries & museums
BASIC QUILTING & KNITTING with Nancy Shaw, Fiber Artist FIGURE DRAWING, PAINTING & DRAWING with Nancy Catandella, MFA COMIC BOOK ART & ILLUSTRATION with Gerry Acerno, Marvel & DC Comic Book Artist
MUSIC
MONA LISA GALLERY
ROSE GALLERY FINE ART
417 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-3009.
444 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6128.
“The Bad Dog Show.� Photographs. October 5-8.
“Works by Loman Eng.� Fusion of classic Chinese painting with Hudson River School. Through October 29.
Opening Friday, October 5, 5pm-8pm.
GUITAR & MUSIC THEORY Susan Hoover, Past Faculty Mannes College Of Music & The Guitar Study center, NYC
MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL
STRING ENSEMBLE & MUSIC THEORY with Guy Thillet, MA, Cert. in Music Education
“Camera Vision.� Works by Maureen Gates. October 1-November 11.
WEEKDAYS | EVENINGS | SATURDAYS Kids & Adults (all ages!) Small Group Classes 1 Water St. New Paltz | 845 255 7990 | nancy@nancycatandella.com
6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670.
Opening Friday, October 12, 5:30pm-7:30pm. MUDDY CUP, POUGHKEEPSIE 305 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-1378.
“Jumbo.� Large-scale art in all media. October 5-December 31.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858.
“A Designed Life: Arts and Crafts of Byrdcliffe.� Through December 9. “Interpreting Utopia.� Through October 7. TANGO VILLAGE RESTAURANT 3299 FRANKLIN AVENUE, MILLBROOK 677-6002.
Opening Friday, October 5, 6pm-8pm.
“Dutchess County SPCA Benefit Art Show.� Featuring works by Jason Bannister, Hank Meirowitz, and Al Nowak. Through October 31.
MUDDY CUP, CATSKILL
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP
410 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-5366.
60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342.
“An Experience Shared.� Works by Anna West and Dara Young. Through October 13.
“It Ain’t Just Paint.� Works by 20 artists in mixed media. October 19-November 12. Opening Saturday, October 20, 6pm-8pm.
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NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 506 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090.
“The Set Up.� Staged photography. Through October 20. OPEN STUDIO
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482.
“Sacred Spaces.� October 13-November 24. Opening Saturday, October 13, 5pm-8pm.
402 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-9531.
“Playing Outside.� Recent works by Julie Chase and Dina Bursztyn. Through October 20. PEARL GALLERY
UNISON ARTS AND LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.
“The Beauty of Aging.� Photography exhibit by Kelly Hoolihan. October 7-28.
3572 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-0888.
Opening Sunday, October 7, 4pm-6pm.
“Sound and Vision.� Works by Val Bertoia, Barbara Bash, Marty Carey, Jane Herold and Tim Rowan. October 14-November 25.
UNISON GALLERY
Opening Sunday, October 14, 2pm-5pm.
“Paintings by Eileen Brand.� October 7-28.
WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.
Opening Sunday, October 7, 4pm-6pm. PUTNAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 63 CHESTNUT STREET, COLD SPRING 265-4010.
“This Perfect River-View� Hudson River School paintings in private collections. Through November 25. THE QUEST 3764 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-7963.
VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005.
“Paintings by Peter Tassone.� Through October 4. “The September Special.� Collection of flavorful artists new to the Woodstock area. Through October 9.
“Women & Books: Artist Books by Four Local Women Artists.� An exhibition of artist books in a range of styles and formats. October 6-November 4.
VITA GALLERY
Opening Friday, October 5, 5pm-7pm.
“Truth is Love.� Paintings by Vita. Through October 7.
R & F HANDMADE PAINTS 84 TEN BROECK AVE, KINGSTON 331-3112.
“Richard Purdy: Encaustics 2000-2007.� October 6-November 17.
12 OLD FORGE ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-2329.
WARNER GALLERY 131 MILLBROOK SCHOOL ROAD, MILLBROOK 677-8261 EXT. 130.
Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-7pm.
“Grasslands. New Drawings from the Prairie.� Drawings by Ann Coulter. Through October 3.
RAINTREE GALLERY
WHITECLIFF VINEYARDS
107 MAIN STREET, HIGH FALLS 687-2685.
331 MCKINSTRY ROAD, GARDINER 255-4613.
“Darkness and Delight.� Photography by Jo Andres. October 6-31.
“Up Here and Down There.� Photographic images by Tom Ligamari. Through October 31.
Opening Saturday, October 6, 5pm-9pm. RIVER STONE ARTS
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM
37 WEST BROAD, HAVERSTRAW (917) 532-3090.
28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940.
“James Tyler: Structure and Sensuality.� Exhibition of paintings and sculpture. Through October 28.
“Semblance & Spirit: Portraits by Woodstock Artists.� Through October 7. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
RIVERWINDS GALLERY
159 GREEN STREET, KINGSTON (518) 272-3500.
172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.
“The Face of New York: Portraits of Working Life.� October 6-31.
“Vanishing Landscape.� Paintings by Robert Ferrucci. Through October 8.
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BY PETER AARON
TALENT WITH TASTE THE ROSENDALE CAFE
PHOTOS BY F-STOP FITZGERALD
It’s just before 5pm and the phone is ringing. On the other end is the Rosendale Cafe’s Mark Morganstern with an update on tonight’s sure-fire sell-out by septuagenarian blues legend Louisiana Red. “Listen, Red’s wife, Dora, just called,” Morganstern says. “They’re in New London, Connecticut. She thinks they can be here in about two hours. No way. If we’re lucky, they’ll roll in just in time for Red to set up and play.” But the cafe’s famously tasteful talent booker seems barely fazed by the delay. “Oh, well, that’s the blues, I guess. We’ll be fine.” Half an hour before show time, however, Red’s straight-back chair is still waiting, empty, on a tiny riser against the long wall in the middle of the one-room venue. None of the patrons in the packed house are complaining, though; they’re all engaged in conversation or chowing down on veggie quesadillas or tofu stroganoff. Yet, to a former promoter, the uncertainty of the star’s whereabouts all too quickly brings back certain nail-biting episodes of the 1980s. Will he show, or will the premises face mass refunds and rioting, angry blues fans? Neither, thank God. As if on cue, Red and Dora’s car pulls into the parking lot with only minutes to spare. Morganstern and some helpers carry the musician’s amp and guitars in and set them up. The booking agent next returns to help the blind elder bluesman to the stage and introduces him to the audience with palpable reverence, humility, and graciousness. Then it’s goosebumps all around as Red gets to work, growling away, stomping his foot a la John Lee Hooker, and slap-plucking his guitar like Son House. It’s the real deal, all right. Rack up yet another stellar performance at the Rosendale Cafe, though not without a little sweat. But after 14 years of presenting a truly unparalleled balance of world-class live music, eye-catching local art, and renowned vegetarian cuisine, Morganstern, whose focused intent, wild gray hair, and bushy mustache might one day land him the lead in The Albert Einstein Story, has built up a knack for riding out such potential difficulties. He’ll be the first to tell you, however, that it’s been a communal effort the whole way: Mark’s wife of 23 years, Susan Dorsey, co-owns the restaurant and oversees its menu; the couple’s three children, Luke, 21, Lily, 17, and Harry, 11, can all be seen waiting tables and helping out; and the business also employs a
dedicated, hardworking staff of young students, musicians, and artists. Together with some early partners, the Mark and Susan opened the eatery-cumvenue in September 1993, directly across the road from its present location in what had been the Tea & Foibles coffeehouse. Susan, a slim, studied dancer who holds a degree in theater and also works as a professional doula (assistant to the mother during childbirth) rolls her eyes as she recalls the period right before they took the plunge. “We thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to have a little, simple coffee shop?’,” she says with a short laugh. “We had no idea we’d end up with something like this. But back then Rosendale really had nowhere to go if you wanted to eat out, unless you count the Stewart’s Shop on Route 32. So we decided to reopen [the original coffeehouse] as a vegetarian restaurant—healthy fast food, using organic ingredients as much as possible—and it just took off. People were telling us they drove for miles just to get our apple crisp and coconut cake. So then we thought, ‘Why not book some music, too?’” Since the day that fateful question was asked, the list of luminaries to have graced the cafe’s modest space has grown to include some of the most revered, iconic, and promising new performers of folk, jazz, blues, rock, and world music; names like Janis Ian, Reggie Workman, Graham Parker, Chris Smither, Steve Forbert, Honeyboy Edwards, Dave Van Ronk, Tin Hat Trio, Ron Carter, Mary Gauthier, Eilen Jewell, Don Byron, and Mark Murphy, to name just a fraction. (In April, the bistro even hosted a talk by Ralph Nader, who was in town to promote the Rosendale Theater’s screening of An Unreasonable Man.) By 1998 the burgeoning operation had necessitated the move to a bigger space, so they took over 434 Main Street, a 100-year-old building that has, at various times, been a grocery store, a post office, and a video store. To help attract a crowd on the off nights, the cafe recently installed a gorgeous 1930s-era wooden bar, acquired from a local salvage outlet. “Early on, as I understand it, the upstairs was a place where ladies lived who provided ‘entertainment’ for the miners who stayed at the Astoria Hotel [across the street],” says Morgenstern. “It’s been said that these ladies used to sit on the gallery porch, sunning themselves.” Mark is perhaps the most discerning booking agent upstate, one who knows
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what’s real and good and prefers not to bother with the mediocre; a connoisseur whose prudence area audiences have come to trust and respect. “The concept is to present the absolute best music of its type in whatever genre,â€? he explains. “It doesn’t matter if [an act is] local, national, or international. It has to be something really exceptional, something that really moves me, or I’d rather just not have anything for that night.â€? A ďŹ ction writer whose work has appeared in Chronogram and other publications, Mark has a background that makes him well qualiďŹ ed to make the kind of artistic judgment calls his solid reputation is built on. Raised in Schenectady, he’s a classically trained bassist who studied at the Manhattan School of Music and played in jazz ensembles for several years (during the Vietnam War, he circumvented the draft by joining the Army band and even performed at the White House). “What the Rosendale Cafe does is totally unique,â€? says Chris Silva, executive director of Poughkeepsie’s Bardavon Theater, “completely dierent than any other live-music venue in the entire Hudson Valley.â€? “Mark really strives for quality with the kinds of acts he books. I mean, where else could you see someone like [the now deceased] Dave Van Ronk in such an intimate setting? With Mark, it’s never about ‘How much money can I make?’ It’s all bout the music.â€? In addition to the venue’s proven genres, Morgenstern’s “as long as it’s goodâ€? policy has resulted in dates featuring local hip hop crew ReadNex Poetry Squad (October 20) and Rosendale hardcore unit Rising Up/Rising Down, whose drummer, Dan Estes, is a line cook at the cafe. “The [loud] volume was a bit too much for me,â€? Morgenstern says of the latter event, a matinee record-release party, “so I just stood outside and watched the kids jump up and down. Which was still pretty fun, actually.â€? Other mediums have a home at the venue too: Morgenstern selects the regional artists whose work hangs on the walls each month (October features paintings by Lora Shelley; a show by top photographer and Chronogram contributor f-Stop Fitzgerald opens with a reception on November 4), while Susan’s passion for dance has resulted in a popular Sunday-night salsa class/dance session. “We take nothing from the door, it’s all for the musicians,â€? says Morgenstern. “We have people that drive up here from New York to see shows. This place just has a really good feeling.â€? Talk to a few, and the musicians themselves are quick to echo the sentiment. “It really is a very welcoming place, deďŹ nitely one of my favorite places to play in the Hudson Valley,â€? says pianist Francesca Tanksley, whose trio featuring John Coltrane bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Newman Taylor Baker performs on October 6. “Mark obviously respects the musicians very much, and he creates a really great atmosphere—not just for the musicians, but for the audiences, too. When I play there, it feels like I’m among friends.â€? Add one more voice to the choir, that of Louisiana Red. “This is my favorite place I played at so far this tour. It’s a really nice place here,â€? he enthuses. “And you better print that.â€? No doubt the headliner himself has picked up many new fans tonight, but the youngest one in the room has to be Harry Dorsey, who shues between the full tables, oering cups of water to customers still reeling from a transcendental performance. So, Harry, out of all the musicians you’ve seen play here, who did you like the most? He doesn’t have to think about it long. “This guy,â€? he says, pointing at the smiling, venerated bluesman. “So far.â€? High praise, indeed. So keep smiling, Red. Harry may be young, but he knows what’s good. For a complete schedule of the Rosendale Cafe’s upcoming events, visit www.rosendalecafe.com.
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MARC BLACK BAND October 5. In a show subtitled “Dance Till You Find The New World,” Marc and the band celebrate the turning of the season with rhythm, melody, and harmonies for your ecstatic dancing pleasure at the Bearsville Theater. He may well be the hardestworking man in Woodstock, and half the job must be lining up his phenomenal band: keyboardist Warren Bernhardt, bassist Mike Esposito, violinist Betty MacDonald, and who else but Eric Parker on drums. Believe Marc when he promises other fantastic players from the area will sit in and add to the celebration. 9pm. $20. Woodstock. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com.
ANNA CHEEK October 6. We love Anna for her unique voice, piano talents, fearless repertoire, and new-venue radar. Here, she tips into the Mountain Cow Cafe on Route 199, where, we hear, the great vibes match the food and owner Charlie lets you BYOB if so inclined. Anna and Kyle Esposito will perform her captivating originals plus some covers in an acoustic setting. 8pm. No cover. Pine Plains. (518) 398-0500; www.annacheek.com.
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October 13. Phoenicia’s Uncle Monk is an old-time/bluegrass duo comprised of original Ramones drummer and Replacements/Talking Heads producer Tommy Ramone on mandolin, banjo, guitar, and vocals and Claudia Tienan on guitar, bass, and vocals. For this date, the twosome and their rootsy style make their Kingston debut at Muddy Cup in midtown. Tommy cites “a similarity between punk and old-time music; both are home-brewed, as opposed to schooled.” Grab the band’s recent debut CD and hear more at UncleMonk.com. And on October 20, Muddy Cup in New Paltz presents jazz/improv combo Wet Paint, featuring percussionist/vocalist Dug Elliot, saxophonist Daniel Carter, bassist Don Pate, and drummer Mark E. Johnson. Both shows 8pm. $10. Kingston: (845) 338-3881. New Paltz: (845) 255-5805; www.muddycup.com.
JAY UNGAR AND MOLLY MASON October 14. The Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts presents a benefit concert for Museum Village and a meet-and-greet with Jay and Molly on a fine fall Catskills weekend. Feast your eyes on their silent auction prizes and visit the Museum Village crafters with your vino in hand and nosh on local foods along the museum green. Garrison Keillor called Jay and Molly “an apotheosis of American music” and director Ken Burns used their “Ashokan Farewell” for his public television series “The Civil War.” Tune into Northeast Public Radio at wamc.org anytime to hear their “Dancing on the Air” music program. 2pm. Reception tickets: $40-$125. Concert only: $37-$47. Sugar Loaf. (845) 782-8247; www.museumvillage.org.
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October 19. Ye know by now that pipers led Celtic warriors into ancient battles, and this trad-Scot band has won over fans like Van Morrison. The Battlefield Band has hit the Towne Crier almost every year for two decades, blending traditional ballads and dance tunes with original compositions using ancient and modern instruments. In addition to founder member and lead vocalist/keyboardist Alan Reid, the group includes Alsdair White (an award-winning fiddler since the age of 13), Mike Katz (a piper since he was 10), and Sean O’Donnell on guitar and vocals. 9pm. $30, $35. Pawling. (845) 855-1300; www.townecrier.com.
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CD REVIEWS MANHATTAN NEW MUSIC PROJECT JAZZ CYCLES: MANHATTAN NEW MUSIC PROJECT PERFORMS PAUL NASH MNMP RECORDS, 2007
W When Bronx-born jazz composer Paul Nash w was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer iin 2003, he handled the news far better than m most of us would have. “My life has been given ssudden deďŹ nition,â€? he wrote, “an end point that I can almost prepare for. At once frightening aand magniďŹ cent.â€? Resolved to document the eessential works of his 30-year career before he d departed, Nash wasted no time in booking sstudio time with the Manhattan New Music P Project, a collective featuring guitar avatar Vic JJuris and New Paltz bassist Jay Anderson that N Nash formed in 1990 to play his music. Jazz C Cycles is the ďŹ rst of the two CDs of material that rresulted from the urgent sessions. What’s immediately striking about Nash’s work is how huge it sounds. Here the MNMP is merely a septet, but the leader’s classical-meets-jazz vision somehow yields a massive, inversely proportioned sound, one that recalls the much larger modern big bands of Gil Evans and Don Ellis. On “Night Flight,â€? Nash’s trademark widescreen air comes through loud and clear via Grisha Alexiev’s cavernous drums and the high-drama section work of trumpeter Shane Endsley and reedsmen Tim Reis and Bruce Williamson. Darker drama ensues on “Strange Rifeâ€? thanks to Anderson’s low-down, slinky lines and the strangled screams of Juris and the brass. Nash passed away in 2005, but with the music here he leaves one of jazz’s most riveting legacies. An epitaph writ large, as it were. The Manhattan New Music Project will perform at Iridium in Manhattan on October 17. www.mnmp.org. —Peter Aaron
PAMELA SUE MANN L’OEUF COSMIC KIN MUSIC, 2007
I her sophomore effort, High Falls resident In Pamela Sue Mann nails what critics have dubbed P ““ethereal pop,â€? handing to her listeners songs that aare upbeat, lush, compelling, and sweet. Though rrecorded in 2005, L’œuf was released in the US this yyear and has already been added to the playlists of more than 50 radio stations, which should come m aas no surprise to those who’ve heard how accessible tthese songs are. Produced by hubby Gerry Leonard ((David Bowie, Laurie Anderson), this recording sshowcases Mann’s girlish voice—reminiscent of Lisa Loeb or local songstress Valen—which wraps L iitself around fuzzy guitars, driving percussion, sstrings, loops, and samples. The sound at once sstrikes one as having a strongly airy Jane Siberry vibe, but it’s sure to appeal to most fans of top-notch, straight-ahead female singer-songwriters. Mann, who’s been called “a new diva in the makingâ€? by MTV, plays keyboards and guitar but also brings in several other impressive musicians. Her pensive lyrics are packed with vibrant imagery beďŹ tting these autumn days, and the elaborate CD packaging itself is also gothic and romantic. This graduate of Berklee College of Music has recently toured and recorded with Suzanne Vega and is also part of a Hudson Valley-based musical project called Revenant, which draws inspiration from the occult and hauntings. Mann is most certainly an artist to keep an eye on, and she’ll be playing an in-store gig at Rhino Records in New Paltz on October 27 at 3pm. www.pamelasuemann.com. —Sharon Nichols
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The whole point of psychedelia is to split open yyour mind like a ripe melon and present a new way oof seeing things; the word itself springs from the Greek combo of “mindâ€? and “manifest.â€? What’s G eemerged from the consciousness of Woodstock’s SStanton Warren in the past several years—namely, his Venture Lift project—is a melding of late-’60s h Pink Floyd to the droning shoegaze of Spacemen P 33, with all the cerebral meanderings to boot: ““Hipporates said ďŹ rst to do no harm / to the philosophers I say as well as the poets and the p bbards / rise up from your victim manicure / from yyour cathode rays to lease again the natural stateâ€? ((from “Green Earthâ€?). Warren is responsible for a trove of instruments here, and his tranquil voice h hovers and d slowpokes l k iin th the bbackground k d lik like pensive i specter. He generously brings in a bevy of local luminaries to widen his trippy scope; hopefully, he’ll drag along a few of them for Venture Lift’s Cafe Chronogram performance on October 13 at Muddy Cup in Beacon. Perhaps we’ll be treated to his acid-trip cover, the Syd Barrett/James Joyce gem “Golden Hairâ€? (ďŹ ngers crossed). Meanwhile, check out the aural fractals at myspace.com/venturelift and set your mind free. —Sharon Nichols
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BIG MAN ON CAMPUS CHARLEY ROSEN GOES BEYOND BASKETBALL By Nina Shengold photos by Jennifer May
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harley Rosen lives high on a hillside in Accord, at the top of a quarter-mile driveway so quiet, deer stroll across at midmorning. As his two dogs bound toward a visitor, frisking and scrimmaging, the 6' 8" former basketball coach appears on the deck, shouting “No jumping!” in a Bronx-tinged growl that both dogs obey at once. Moments later, he’s gushing at them in affectionate babytalk. Rosen wears old shorts and a T-shirt with a graphic of a gramophone. A self-described “goon,” he’s strikingly more comfortable seated than standing. At full height, he appears stiff and furtive, abashed by his bulk. Kicked back in a chair with his bare feet sprawled out, waving long arms as he talks, he seems richly at peace. Rosen’s persona is an odd mix of streetfighter and Boddhisatva, with a dash of vintage Deadhead. A Wall Street Journal reviewer called him “the game’s foremost literary chronicler,” and he’s generated a steady stream of hoop lore, including two books coauthored with eight-time championship coach Phil Jackson, Maverick and More Than a Game. Rosen was Jackson’s assistant coach with the Albany Patroons; 22 years ago, they launched an Omega Institute course called Beyond Basketball. 56 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
Bison Books just reissued Players and Pretenders: The Basketball Team That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, a freewheeling account of coaching Bard College’s 197980 Running Red Devils through a season in which they won one lone ballgame (against younger players at Simon’s Rock) and numerous personal victories. The coach’s CV included two graduate degrees in Medieval Studies, four mismatched jobs teaching English at junior highs and community colleges, varsity basketball MVP at Hunter, and numerous publications. Not listed: a world-class collection of Grateful Dead bootlegs, an unraveling car named Foodini, and humor to burn. Rosen’s application concluded, “Coaching basketball at Bard is a chance to participate in basketball in its purest form—no money, no pressure, no statistics, no concept of the ‘enemy.’ Free-form and spontaneous. Meditations. A zen exercise seeking the spiritual radiance of the game.” He was hired on the spot. Bard is no jock school, and most of his players were under six feet. Some barely knew how to dribble and shoot; many were infrequent flyers, missing practice for math tests and Shakespeare rehearsals; all brought van-loads of emotional baggage for the coach to unpack. Still, on their own unique terms, they became a team. Rosen grew up on the streets of the Bronx. His father was a chronic invalid, a volatile man who took out his frustrations on his hulking son. Always a big kid, Charley reached 6' 5" at 14. “People expect more of you—they think you’re older, so you should be more mature,” he reflects. “Everyone notices you; you can’t get away with anything.” Both parents were Communists, though their son was more aware of the social aspect of meetings held at their house than politics. In fifth grade, he researched a social studies report on a political party by visiting Party headquarters on Tremont Avenue. “There was this old man sleeping. I woke him up and he gave me a couple of pamphlets.” This being the height of the McCarthy era, Rosen’s parents were called into school; he was nearly expelled. Sports were his refuge. He spent every free minute playing sandlot baseball and street games: kick-the-can, punchball, stickball, and a basketball knockoff played by shooting a pink spaldeen ball through fire escape ladders. He encountered his first real hoop at a camp for emotionally disturbed kids in New Hampshire: “Swimming was awful; we called it Leech Lake. I found this old hoop nailed onto a tree and would stand throwing rocks through it.” Basketball was “a home for someone my size, the first time I didn’t feel like a freak.” At 13, he started playing indoor games at Bronx House and in the offseason locker room of a public pool with an alleged former Harlem Globetrotter. Clumsy and stiff, Rosen wasn’t a natural. But he’d seen how the game could be played, and longed to join those “joyful warriors.” Rosen compares basketball to jazz. “It’s a quintet. You’re finding a balance, one guy supporting another, playing roles, creating enough structure so you can be creative without descending into chaos.” Asked to compare it with other sports, he blows the verbal equivalent of a Charlie Parker solo. “Unlike baseball and football, the play is continuous. Basketball players have to make decisions on the move, they don’t have time to gather into a huddle and plan. It takes a different kind of vision, instinct, reaction.” Unlike the specialized roles of, say, an offensive lineman and placekicker, “hoopsters need the same skills in all positions: run, dribble, shoot, rebound, handle. Everyone touches the ball, it’s more fluid, you’re constantly transitioning between offense and defense. You have to recognize it in action and do it before you think about it. It’s less intellectual, more here and now. Ten guys and one ball. You need to have respect for yourself, your teammates—everyone but the referees.” Rosen’s contempt for zebra-shirts is a running theme in his books. He was once banned from a game for asking a ref what he terms “a pair of purely rhetorical questions: ‘What are you? Fucking blind?’” After nine years coaching in the Continental Basketball Association, his volatility erupted, and he was arrested for assaulting a rival coach. His players gladly chipped in the $400 bail (some offering reminiscences of their own busts) but Rosen knew he’d crossed a line. In More Than a Game, he describes this turning point, “I finally had to face it—I was a writer. I needed to edit reality, over and over again, until I got it right.” He’d started writing in the mid ’60s, as an escape from a dead-end teaching job and a dying marriage. After penning three novels (later used as notepaper and kindling), he divorced, moved back to New York, and wrote for Sport magazine, still dreaming about the Great American Basketball Novel. Though the NBA is big business, basketball hasn’t penetrated our national culture quite as pervasively as other sports. The Horatio Alger mythology of baseball—the lone batter facing the outfield—and the ritualized combat of football have spawned countless novels and films. Perhaps basketball, with its double
quintets and densely woven interplay, offers too complex a metaphor. Nobody’s told Charley Rosen, though, and over the years he’s crafted five novels with hoops at their center: Have Jump Shot Will Travel, A Mile Above the Ring, Barney Polan’s Game, The Cockroach Basketball League, and The House of Moses All-Stars. No Blood, No Foul is forthcoming from Seven Stories in 2008. Rosen’s personal favorite is The House of Moses All-Stars, about seven tall Jews barnstorming Depression-era America in a converted hearse (three players sleep in the crypt). Like the subject of Rosen’s erstwhile dissertation, The Canterbury Tales, it’s full of tales within tales. The pilgrims include a mad Bolshevik, a 6’ 10” Hasidic virgin, two petty criminals, a Zionist worrier, an Irish ringer who forgets to shun ham on buffets, and the morally compromised narrator, Aaron Steiner. “It’s really about America, the dissolution of the culture economically and in every way—the noble experiment was a failure,” Rosen says. He has two more books underway: The First Season, a history of NBA predecessor the Basketball Association of America’s debut (’46-47) for McGraw Hill, and Beyond Basketball for Wisdom Press. He still teaches that course at Omega each year, with partners including Darryl Dawkins and Scott Wedman. Though there’s plenty of on-court work, it isn’t a sports clinic, focusing more on the spirit of teamplay. “We try to get ego out of the way so the game can come to you,” he explains. Rosen and his third wife, Daia Gerson, are Tibetan Buddhists, and after mumbling that his meditation practice is “lazy,” he confirms that Buddhism profoundly affects his approach. “You leave your life behind once you step over that white line. That’s where you are, this is what you’re doing. You play the game with as much awareness as you can.” Rosen is chief NBA analyst for FoxSports.com, churning out 17 or more columns a month. Quick to separate himself from the right-wing TV network, he calls it “a good gig” with no muzzle on content. He enjoys posting idiosyncratic lists; his Top 10 NBA international roster included Tim Duncan (St. Croix), Steve Nash (South Africa), Manu Ginobili (Argentina), and Dennis Rodman (Mars). When he wrote that Chinese phenomenon Yao Ming has gigantism and might suffer from brittle bones, a colleague quipped, “Six billion people want to kill you.” Indeed, recent blog headlines include “Charley Rosen Is Making Enemies With His Lists” and “Fire Charley Rosen!” “The bloggers are lunatics,” Rosen grins. He’s “on a crusade” at Fox, trying to shift the NBA’s focus from superstars to teamwork. A generation ago, players came up through long on-court apprenticeships. With college freshmen recruited straight into the majors for staggering salaries, under the glare of publicity, “You have to justify the money you’ve spent, so you give them a lot of court time, meaning you have to dumb down your game. These kids have great talent and ball skills, but they don’t know the game. The NBA is just chasing the ball around the court.” In 1995, at age 53, he played with the Albany Golden Bears at the World senior Games in Utah, earning a bronze medal. But he hasn’t played in 10 years now. He lays his big hands on the table, displaying gnarled joints. “That one got snagged in Rick Barry’s jersey,” he says, launching a knuckle by knuckle autobiography. In More Than a Game, Rosen describes his “Over-50 Defense”: “Instead of playing bone-on-bone, instead of staking my ego on every possession, I came to joyfully dance through the games as best I could. I admired and vocally applauded good plays made by both teams. Just as happy to lose as to win, I was thrilled just to be playing. At long last, when I was too vulnerable to play with hatred anymore, I finally got it right.”
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SHORT TAKES Bring out yer dead! Hudson Valley authors and illustrators have brewed up some weird and wondrous books to pack for your next haunted hayride.
Trespass Valerie Martin Nan A. Talese Books/Doubleday, ,
THE QUIVER TRILOGY TH JASON GEHLERT JAS STONEGARDEN.NET PUBLISHING, 2006 & 2007, $11.95 STO
Sm town, big teeth. For those who like their werewolf tales bloodSmall sp splattered, Gehlert’s troika of Lupine Valley horror novels come in m medium rare, rare, and beefsteak tartare. The prolific author has also just released Amazon Shorts gorefest The Woodsman. Author al si signing at Borders, Newburgh, 10/26 at 6pm.
TH THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD: SURVIVORS OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S INFAMOUS SERIAL SU KILLERS KIL FRED ROSEN FRE HARPER, 2007, $7.99 HA
“T “They stared into the faces of pure evil...and survived!” Woodstock true-crime maven Rosen leaves the victims on the W slab for a change, instead chronicling seven people who survived sl almost-too-close encounters with Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, al Richard Speck, and four other notorious serial killers. A surefire R ggoosebump-inducer.
NOVELS IN THREE LINES NO FÉLIX FÉNÉON, TRANSLATION & INTRODUCTION BY LUC SANTE FÉL NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS, AUGUST 2007, $14
Au Author, art critic, and anarchist Fénéon penned these lowlife haikus of murder and mayhem for a Paris newspaper in 1906; ha the equally protean Sante (see review of Kill All Your Darlings) th has ha hardboiled them in English. “At 20, M. Julien blew his brains out ou in the toilet of a hotel in Fontainebleau. Love pains.” Bet you can’t c read just one!
ST. PETER’S WOOD ST C.A. RODRIGUEZ C.A MARCH HOUSE PRESS/HUDSON HOUSE, 2006, $14.95 MA
In New Paltz author Rodriguez’s hypnotic tale, a chance encounter between a dog walker and a lost horseman in a en snowy wood at twilight beckons the reader into a world in which sn being dead makes a man neither special nor silent. “There is be no path to the house in St. Peter’s Wood. To find it...you must n lose your way.” lo
THE GODDESS ORACLE DECK & BOOK SET TH AMY SOPHIA MARASHINSKY, ILLUSTRATED BY HRANA JANTO U.S. GAMES SYSTEMS, INC., 2006, $27 U.S
Ul Ulster County artist Janto has painted 52 diverse faces of th the Divine Feminine, from the Greco-Roman familiars to Az Aztec Coatlicue (Grief), Indian Lakshmi (Abundance), Welsh B Blodeuwedd (Betrayal), and their many sisters. Marashinsky’s te text offers mythological history, oracular card spreads, and rituals to summon your inner crone.
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Gu Gurney embarks on his fourth voyage to the fabled los lost island where humans and dinosaurs coexist. His splendid illustrations will thrill fantasy fans of all ages sp (don’t miss the brachiosaurean fire truck!) Author (d si signings at Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, 10/6, at 7:30pm; Borders, Albany, 11/14, at 7pm; Merritt Bookstore, B Millbrook, 11/17, at 11am. M
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hloe Dale is an illustrator living with her husband, Brendan, in an upstate New York farmhouse. They’re both engaged in interesting, creative work, and their adored son Toby, an only child, is a junior at NYU. They aren’t wealthy but have the money to afford nice restaurants, and the time to support liberal causes. It’s an idyllic life, especially when compared to that of their son’s new girlfriend. Salome Drago is a Croatian immigrant raised in southern Louisiana, where she fled with her father and brother from Yugoslavian civil war. Salome is dark where Toby’s family is light, boldly confrontational where the Dales prefer to skim the surface. But can anyone be good enough for Chloe’s son? Certainly not this odd, bold girl. When Chloe realizes Toby’s utterly smitten, she finds it unspeakably threatening. And then, in short order, it seems her entire world is surrounded by menace. Salome becomes pregnant, the US is on the brink of attacking Iraq, and a gunwielding poacher, apparently foreign, frequents their woods in defiance of posted signs. The tension increases when Salome discovers the mother she’d thought was murdered survived, and flees to Italy to find her, followed by Toby, then Brendan. Chloe’s home alone with her fears when the poacher—their embodiment— knocks at the door. Will Chloe finally be able to see him as a person instead of an alien force of danger? Millbrook resident Martin, whose Orange Prize-winning novel, Property, investigates the relationship between master and slave, knows the darker depths of the human heart. In Trespass, she uses a background of liberal, middle-class America to examine the line that divides real from theoretical danger. It’s a keenly insightful, masterfully written book. Martin’s prose is incisive, and she subtly enhances the plot by layering in thematic elements and using contrasting characters. Chloe’s illustrating an edition of Wuthering Heights, the ultimate story of the passionate outsider, and Brendan, who has a savior-ish bent, is writing about the Crusades. Jelena, Salome’s mother, is a sturdy pragmatist who has survived unspeakable horror; Toby’s mother, Chloe, is strangled by anxiety, though she’s lived a thoroughly privileged life. The characters are hauntingly three-dimensional, and change as the story progresses, rattling the reader’s judgments in ways that feel true. The book is paced like the beat of a panicked heart. Martin uses a presenttense narration with varying viewpoints, and seamed throughout is an unattributed first-person narrative. We find out eventually that this pitiless voice is Jelena’s, telling the story of her life and the savage war that destroyed it: At first we lived in a small town, then we moved to an even smaller one so that we could be closer to his parents because his father was ill. I had three children in five years. In the city we never paid much attention to where people come from, what church they attended, what alphabet their newspaper came in, but in the small towns it was different. Still there were intermarriages, it’s an old story. Unlikes attract, is that what you say? No. It’s opposites attract. Yes. Like magnets. Trespass employs a broad canvas, but it isn’t just a political story. Valerie Martin peels back big issues to reveal the bigger ones beneath, like the difference between the frightening and the truly dangerous, the possibility that our worst enemy lies within, and the absurdity of professing a liberal mind without also having a liberal heart. —Susan Krawitz HUMOR CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 10! Create a title for the classic works of literature that Sondheim et al. overlooked. For example: “The Ring and I”: Lord of the Rings, the musical, including such tunes as “These Are a Few of My Favorite Rings” and “They Call the Mines Moria.” Send entries to fiction@chronogram.com or 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401.
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Mirabai PROFILES What was the last book you’ve read?
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The biography of Baba Muktananda by Swami Prakashananda. It examined Muktanada’s early years when he first started touring outside of India and how his ashram developed to an international movement.
What, in your opinion, is the most sacred sound in the world? The sound of my dogs barking. What spiritual, mental or physical practices most enhance your well-being? I love chanting. It releases so many positive feelings for me. What author or teacher has most inuenced your life? Gurumayi. I divide my life into the time before and after meeting her and the “afterâ€? portion is so much fuller -- a feeling of really understanding there’s a unity among all life and that divinity lies within so there’s no need to look on the outside for it. Even if another religion tried to teach me that prior to Gurumayi, I never really believed it. Under her guidance, it wasn’t just a teaching, it became an experience. What virtues guide your life? Truthfulness. Even if it isn’t initially beneficial to me, I find that when I remain truthful, the end result always turns out miraculous for me and everyone else. What word or phrase do you most associate with Mirabai? Joy.
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READ LOCAL READ GLOBAL Words by Omega Institute resident Brett Bevell and drawings by Eben Dodd, America Needs A Woman President calls on empowered feminine archetypes to rescue us from our present political malaise. Imagine a President who leads with a mother’s love, the forgiving humor of a grandmother, and the wisdom of a Medicine Woman, and you have the basic idea of the poem. America Needs A Woman President re-ignites the flame in Liberty’s torch, and puts Her in the White House. America needs this book!
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“America does need a woman president. America needs a woman president, a Buddhist president, a poetic president; America needs the sort of poetry you’ll find in these pages. . . Read, enjoy, and act.” -John Perkins, Author of the NY Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity’s extinction. They can be fought with one weapon only: the mind, pushed to - and beyond - its limits. Colin Wilson wrote The Outsider (1956) at age 24 and has written over 100 books. He has consistently revealed his contention that insight is achieved during moments of wellbeing, attained through effort and focus and that pessimism is what robs people of their vital energies.
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he subtle nuances of cigarette-enhanced gestures. The elusive origin of the blues. The almost comical hubris of Victor Hugo. The S&M-drenched search for visual perfection in Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs. These and other culturally intriguing subjects animate Kill All Your Darlings, Luc Sante’s wide-ranging, entertaining, and thoughtful collection of essays from the last decade and a half. A native Belgian, Sante has become a quintessentially New York literary talent, lending his voice to the Village and indelibly incorporating the Village in his voice. Now a professor at Bard College, he’s also a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and many other publications. For those of us who missed out on Downtown’s late-’70s heyday, Sante provides a vivid, vicarious experience. Interspersed with nostalgic memories of moving furniture on subways in the dead of night and listening to middle-aged transvestites sing perfect four-part harmonies outside his window are clear-eyed observations of a Lower East Side where “businesses seemed to remain open solely to give their owners shelter from the elements” and “large fires a few blocks away every night…just became weather.” In another essay, Sante ruefully recalls Baudelaire’s warning “that the city changes faster than the human heart,” and jumps to the rediscovered New York of the decadent mid ’80s. In “The Ruins of New York,” an imaginative, playful piece, Sante presents a 1985 metropolis that has been enveloped in volcanic magma and perfectly preserved, Pompeii-like, for 500 years. Utilizing a perfect mock-scholarly tone, he takes us into the Palladium, a massively popular nightclub, describing the various debates regarding moving the preserved cadavers to explore, since the club is so crowded that archeologists can’t get through the rooms. “Even the toilet stalls, intended for one person, were each crowded with as many as four or five, participating in sex acts, ingesting drugs, or both at once.” New York is never far from Sante’s cultural essays, either. Indeed, one of the only common threads throughout these pieces (aside from Sante’s intelligent, whimsical narrative voice) is their adherence to recognizable New York standards of hipness. And although he offers the self-conscious admonition that defining hipness “might as well be the subject’s obituary,” his meditation on its mutable nature is specific enough to be accurate and vague enough to withstand the test of time. Sante is a great historian of our era, and the best professor one could ask for in a crashcourse on popular culture. Despite his preoccupation with all things hip, he rarely affects the carefully cultured, world-weary tone so rampant among New York hipsters today. His attitude of interested delight, even exuberance, splashes colorfully across his descriptions of musicians, politicians, criminals, artists, and himself. During the crescendos of his extended verbal riffs, his prose takes on a joyful tone reminiscent of the Beat era. His essay on Allen Ginsberg (my personal favorite in the collection) is a passionate piece on a passionate subject. “Howl,” writes Sante, took up “the ragged flag of an entire generation of confused questers groping for something they can’t begin to name, and in the process of recounting the story manages to incarnate the nameless thing sought.” Within the equally hypnotic spell of Sante’s own narratives, trends, movements, and people are resurrected, examined, and appreciated, both for their own sake as well as their reverberations throughout our culture. —Bri Johnson
King’s Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World’s Most Dangerous Game Paul Hoffman Hyperion, , .
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ajdorf Dragon, Poisoned Pawn Sicilian, Four Knights Opening, Two Turtle Doves, Nimzo Indian, and the Ruy Lopez. Question: Which of the preceding wouldn’t know Vladimir Kramnik from Anatoly Karpov? Chess—you don’t have to be nuts to find yourself in its bondage, but evidently it doesn’t hurt. Woodstocker Paul Hoffman tows readers into his thrall with the game, and he’s not nuts. Neurotic, sure, though he doesn’t hold a candle to Bobby Fischer or Paul Morphy, who stomped the grounds of Bedlam with a host of other chessaddled inmates. Exploring the dark side of chess is just one thread in King’s Gambit, a neat piece of participant/observer journalism with an overarching narrative of self-awareness. The chessboard serves as Hoffman’s couch, from which he investigates the emotional tribulation of his early years. To wit, his hugely appealing, mischievous, feckless, insecure, unsupportive, pathological liar of a father—writer, professor, political progressive, hustler, and shill with plenty of baggage he left for the younger Hoffman to unpack. Hoffman’s father introduced him to the game and by dint of circumstance— separated from Hoffman’s increasingly reclusive mother, he lived in New York’s Greenwich Village, a minor Mecca of chess—fed his son’s growing involvement. Hoffman got good enough that chess gave him an identity to measure against his overwhelming father and a sanctuary from the unnerving turmoil of home life. Disillusion came after college. Hoffman’s progress was stymied; he could not coax magic from the board like a grandmaster. He took a 20-year hiatus. He became something of a bright star in the publishing firmament. Then a quixotic boss soured his dream job at Encyclopedia Brittanica and a painful, disfiguring, idiopathic ailment shook him to the core. Once more, chess became a sanctuary, an avocation, and now, a vocation, with Hoffman as a writer and commentator on the game. Hoffman made it his job to rub shoulders with, and cadge games from, absorbing characters in the chess world, which gives his work a critical sense of engagement beyond pure reportage. The writing is deliberate, the words carefully chosen, yet the rhythm is unlabored and refined. His gin-clear profiles of Bruce Pandolfini, Garry Kasparov, Pascal Charbonneau (in a terrific, Ionesco-like Libyan interlude), Nigel Short, and Jennifer Shahade are welcome antidotes to the game’s madfolk. Stratospheric players with their own portfolios of quirks, they maintain enough distance from the game to speak informatively to nonplayers, yet retain the mystique of great play, where intuition permits the consideration of a move—its beauty and rightness—after it has been made. Not to say that chess’s bad boys—self-entitled, immature, ungoverned—don’t exert their own fascination. Hoffman gives them their due. “Because chess culture has turned a blind eye to how chess players dress and speak (or whether they can even speak at all), chess culture is a haven for social misfits,” writes Hoffman, with ammunition to back it up. “Chess doesn’t drive people mad. It keeps mad people sane,” says a British champion. Well, hardly; dumbfounding theatrics and grotesqueries litter the book, as do pleasingly colorful tidbits like Ben Franklin playing a game with a married French lady while she is taking a bath. Meanwhile, as Hoffman deciphers the perplexing chessboard of his life, he finds enough disturbing similarities, and blessed differences, with his father to keep his hair on fire. Unlike Father, his heart is soft but strong, hitting 140 bpm as he sits—sits!—before the chessboard, with no relief in sight. Sounds suspiciously like self-inflicted torture, and another bag to unpack. —Peter Lewis 10/07 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 63
POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. Submissions are accepted year-round. Deadline for our November issue is October 5. Send up to 3 poems or 3 pages (whichever comes first), by regular mail, to: Poetry, 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401, or via e-mail (preferred) to poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Poetry Submission. Full submission guidelines at www.chronogram.com\submissions.
Well, it happened. Yours truly crashed his computer and lost October’s submissions. If you submitted work in the last month, kindly accept my apologies, and resubmit your work for consideration for our December issue. I am sorry. In November, Chronogram will be publishing our Literary Supplement. For that issue, we are seeking poems that addresses a specific political issue. E-mail to poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Literary Supplement Poetry Submission. —p
A THANK-YOU NOTE TO EMILY DICKINSON, FOR POEM #1760; IN THE FORM OF A LOVER’S PLEA “I’m happy” “Me too” tumbled out the words quick and cautious cloaked in guilt, love, loyalty, virtue, truth, misconception, and fear What is happy? Is happy not miserable? “In Elysium,” he says, “perhaps we meet again.” Elysium? I want you now chokes my heart Life is short drums my mind Elysium is an illusion asserts my soul Emily marvels at what the soul can endure, and Rumi says there is a field— I’ll meet you there, and we’ll lie down together in that grass. Hush love, and listen to me. There is no after…there is only now. tears heat communion grace
THE HISTORY OF MAN
BOMBED IN LAS VEGAS
Three Achaean raiders sit in the plaza on top of a heaping plate of bureaucracy. Which hums to itself a tune about a kettle and a book. The first raider scratches his beard and throws himself onto the ground. The other two look on as he melts into a puddle and seeps through the cobblestones. A market stand falls onto the second Achaean raider, and the third is consumed by a large hat. The raiders slowly trickle down bureaucracy’s throat and are carefully indigested, then they are put into separate com part ments and are stored for the Neolithic Age. When it comes, though, it prefers to eat crème brûlée and pot pie.
Zombie was the drink of choice as we awaited the explosion, all night on the rooftop of the Sands, sports jackets buttoned, shawls wrapped tight against the cold and brittle desert air. Al and I would have preferred martinis but the girls insisted we drink with them and they were girls we wanted to please, hoping they would please us back come morning. We had seen bombs explode before, Al and I all up and down the length of Europe but Artie, testing A-bombs down the road told us, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, my friends!” By the time the dawn appeared, a knife edge on the horizon, Al was dueling tongues with Doris, my hand was far up Sally’s skirt. And then the monstrous thing exploded. The rumble was like a million tanks rolling across France at once, the wind like as many bombers whooshing overhead, the light as if the Earth itself was a cannon muzzle. And as the monstrous cloud began to rise like nothing less than Death, himself I crawled into Sally’s welcome lap and buried myself in her perfume. Later, we made love like animals, proving we, at least, were still alive, unlike the Japs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki who suddenly could have been next door.
—Shon Arieh-Lerer In these the illusion withers, and only the field remains. —J. Driscoll
And when I ejaculated, the white cloud of my semen mushrooming inside of her I, who’d said he never wanted children prayed this explosion would bring new life. —Lawrence Kessenich
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SLAM BAM AFGHANISTAN
MY ONE GIRL
THE GREAT BIG CITY FLOOD
Slam Bam Afghanistan Man say he got a plan Go after the Taliban Man Plan Afghanistan.
She’s too pretty for that, too fragile for that; She’s— too my daughter for that— My One Girl.
In these empty streets a snake presses all
Taliban flee the Devil Man Head out on the lam Refuge in Pakistan Man Stan Taliban. War Lords focus on a plan Grow the poppy on their land Taliban gone no more ban Grand Plan Pakistan. Fields of poppy cross the land All they way to Iran World high on Afghan Brand Devil Plan Devil Man. War On Drugs who gives a damn? We got them gone that Taliban Gone from Afghanistan Damn Man Damn Plan. Taliban in Pakistan Poppy in Afghanistan Soldiers dyin in that span Dyin for Poppystan. Taliban back in Afghanistan Come home to make a stand War Lords now in command Devil Plan Afghanistan. Ain’t it grand Ain’t it grand That whole damn Devil Plan Make Afghanistan Poppystan Taliban in Afghanistan Ain’t it grand Ain’t it grand.
And no joy can dispel my frenzy of the killing machines: She’s too pretty for the debris of bodies of car wrecks or dry overdoses, the patterns of veins in thin arms; she’s too fragile for falls from windows 50 feet up or the sniper’s bullet; she’s too my daughter for blood on tiles and dismembered parts in fields.
Hey. Hey. Is today OK? Is today OK to? Is today OK to do that thing? Is today OK to do what thing? That thing. What thing? That thing with our lips...
You couldn’t call your sister if your life depended on it. Or your brother. The phones are down. Behind doors, favors are done, favors not proper for God or newspaper to see. What is worth the theft of a baby’s first step? Water can still be boiled at this new altitude. —Glenn Shaheen
She’s my joy— My One Girl; and there’s no use to frenzy about unnamed hate I cannot dispel, or plastic explosives so lovingly strapped with the intimacy only a lover can know. —Diane Germaine
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These are tricky poems to find; they are the subtle hum in your notebook… —Natalie Goldberg At the first tingling of a poem, Pounce upon the sensation. Scratch it hard, like a kid Absorbed in the first mosquito bite of the season. Scratch, tear, let it become a frenzy, a fury. Draw blood. Do not worry whether anyone Will ever read your words. At this moment, the universe tastes your salt.
BEANS Green beans, refried beans black beans, lima beans beanstalk, bean burritos, yellow beans, pinto beans, jumping beans, cool beans, rice and beans, bean bags, soy beans, baked beans, kidney beans, jelly beans, Mr. Bean, L.L. Bean, coffee beans, cocoa beans, beantown, full of beans, spill the beans, vanilla bean, red bean, yankee beans, navy beans, chickpeas. —Liz Kelso
—Yana Kane That thing with our hips? —Winston Scarlett
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Down by the River BYWATER BISTRO By Harold Jacobs photographs by Jennifer May A neighborhood bistro that will delight and excite even jaded diners has joined the growing number of Hudson Valley restaurants. Situated on Main Street in Rosendale, the Bywater Bistro takes its name from the Rondout Creek, which the restaurant’s garden overlooks. Sam Ullman, its 26-year-old chef, bought the building with family backing from the owners of the Rosendale Cement Company. After remodeling the cavernous restaurant, the bistro opened in July 2006 with a brighter, more open, and vibrant look. Ullman’s concept: To make a bistro approachable to people from all walks of life and to offer simple, flavorful dishes. The dining room’s walls are done in an adobe terra cotta hue, giving the interior a warm Southwestern ambience. To the right of the dining room sits an imposing Honduran Mahogany bar with a poured concrete counter top and back-lit liquor cabinet encircled with royal blue tiles. Cylindrical gray metal light fixtures are suspended from the ceiling over the bar area, while yellow and orange hand-crafted stained glass fixtures light the dining room. In addition to the bar’s nine stools, there’s table seating for 30 inside and another 20 on the rear deck. The deck affords a view of the spacious garden bordering the creek, and is accessible to the public. Created and nurtured by the previous owners, the stunning garden has grown even more lovely under the stewardship of Ullman’s mother, Mimi Labourdette, who has tastefully expanded its array of colorful annuals and perennials. (On summer weekends, the restaurant offers a light fare menu in the garden, prepared on a charcoal grill. Ullman has also wisely kept the Cement Company’s Airstream trailer bar, where mixed drinks can be bought. On a clear night, this is one of the most pleasant locations in the Hudson Valley to enjoy a bite or cocktail.) Ullman had years of prior restaurant experience before opening the Bywater Bistro. In the Berkshires, he apprenticed in the kitchens at Bizen, a fine Japanese restaurant in Great Barrington and at the Old Mill, a restaurant known for its New American and Continental cuisine in South Egremont. Ullman wanted the Bywater Bistro to be a casual, middle-level restaurant that would serve well-prepared American food. He has designed his menu to entice and satisfy a broad range of palates. But the chef also has shown an inclination to draw on 66 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
the full range of essential spices from around the world to give an exciting and sometimes unusual uplift to classic comfort food preparations. You can expect his food to be neither contrived nor overly composed yet still contain elements of sophistication; the food combinations are not extensively layered but utilize clean, complementary, and sometimes contrasting flavors to create well-balanced dishes with visual appeal. You might start with the crab cake. A generous portion of Jonah lump crabmeat mixed with shallots, garlic, celery, Dijon mustard, mayonnaise, parsley, chives, and panko bread crumbs is pan fried just enough to lightly brown the cake and retain the succulence of the meaty crab. The mixture results in an almost-weightless cake with a mildly spicy kick. Another seasonal appetizer is the corn chowder in which onion, celery, and garlic are sweated in rendered bacon fat for added flavor. Then fresh corn kernels and diced potatoes are added with flour, thyme, and chicken stock and simmered until the ingredients are cooked through and the liquid thickened. The chowder is finished with heavy cream and garnished with parsley and chives. No surprises here in the relatively standard ingredients, but Ullman shows his adroit way with marrying flavors. The natural sweetness of the corn plays off nicely against the texture and taste of the dairy-enriched liquid base with the garlic adding depth and the various herbs rounding out the chowder. More off the beaten path is an Asian-inspired shrimp dumpling with kimchee accompanied by a dipping sauce. Here pureed shrimp seasoned with mirin (a mildly sweet Japanese cooking wine) and dashi stock is encased in a shumai dumpling wrapper and steamed, then served with hot mustard. Ullman succeeds admirably in balancing the sweetness of the shrimp dumpling with the seriously spicy but not overwhelming hot flavor of the kimchee. One of Chef Ullman’s most popular dishes is a grilled hanger steak in a red wine shallot jus served with fries tossed with white truffle oil. Classic comfort food gets kicked up a notch by drizzling truffle essence on the fries and using house-made stock reductions to make a glance de viande, which when added at the last minute to the sauce gives it a richer flavor, a deeper color, and a smoother
LEFT: SATURDAY EVENING DINERS AT THE BYWATER BISTRO IN ROSENDALE; ABOVE: THE VIEW OF THE GARDEN, AIRSTREAM BAR, AND CREEK BEYOND FROM THE BACKYARD DINING DECK.
texture. This summer, the teriyaki grilled sea scallops were the bistro’s break out dish, utilizing large, wild dry scallops. When presented, the caramelized scallops were accompanied by jasmine rice and ginger-braised greens. While this dish is Japanese inspired, the use of jasmine rice instead of Japanese rice is nontraditional. Ullman has tweaked the ingredients to produce a somewhat unusual South Asian/North Asian fusion-style dish. By further cooking the jasmine rice with kir lime leaf and bay leaf, he makes the distinction even more pronounced on the palate. The chef’s most interesting entrées exhibit this kind of cultural diversity. (Ullman was finalizing his fall menu for an October debut as Chronogram went to press.) The slow roasted pork in pineapple BBQ sauce exemplifies the restaurant’s signature style of basic, well-executed sauce construction. An intensified pork stock, Spanish onions, carrots, celery, garlic, tomato, fresh local peaches, and pineapple are simmered down, pureed, and then combined with sherry vinegar. The pineapple’s acidity gives the sauce a bit of a cutting bite and a summery touch. The pork, scored and rubbed with roasted garlic oil, cumin, salt, and pepper, is slow cooked for six hours at a low temperature and allowed to retain its natural flavor. Served with creamed corn and a spicy cole slaw, the pork is tender and succulent. The braised short ribs are equally exciting, covered with an unorthodox spice rub, containing juniper berry, Szechwan peppercorns, cardamom seed, coriander seed, and pulverized bay leaf. Flavor is also enhanced by the use of a rich brown ale in the braise. For those inclined toward more classic American fare, the pan-roasted Murray’s half chicken, served with a lemon thyme pan jus, mashed potatoes, and glazed carrots is moist and tender throughout due to the removal of the thigh bone so as to not overcook the breast. Such thoughtfulness can transform a simple but good dish into an exceptional one. The dessert offerings include a light, delicate bay leaf panna cotta. This elegant Italian custard comes with fresh peaches poached in a spice syrup and a cardamom-infused caramel sauce. It is an unusual and delicious way to end a meal. Another great but more conventional treat is the hot chocolate fondant
cake served with cinnamon ice cream and whipped cream. A fondant is basically an undercooked chocolate cake with a molten center. The bistro’s version is made with extra-bittersweet Venezuelan El Rey chocolate, giving it an especially robust and intense flavor. Appetizers average $7, entrees range from $19 to $25 (more than half are available in half sizes and priced accordingly). Desserts cost about $7. The wine list is relatively extensive and carefully chosen to emphasize good quality and value. Bottles cost from $15 to $80 with most falling in the $25 range. Wines also can be ordered at $5 to $12 per glass. Among the more than a dozen white and red wines offered by the glass, the Bonny Doon Pacific Rim Dry Riesling, 2004, is light, elegant, and fruity with just a trace of sweetness ($26/bottle, $8/glass). It is quite versatile and marries well with most of the seafood and poultry offerings. The Woop Woop Shiraz, 2005, is an Australian, medium-bodied red wine with strong black licorice, sweet and sour berry flavors, and spicy pepper accents. The finish is smooth and rich and it pairs well with red meat or duck ($26/bottle, $8/glass). With Chef Samuel Ullman at the helm, the Bywater Bistro has deservedly carved out a niche in the increasingly competitive Hudson Valley restaurant scene. The restaurant’s ambience is comfortable and casual; prices are moderate; its well-executed dishes are loaded with flavor; and there is a nice selection of affordable wines. Here is a place well worth seeking out where you can enjoy contemporary American bistro-style dishes often prepared with an unusual and delectable Asian twist. It just could become one of your favorites. BYWATER BISTRO 419 Main Street, Rosendale (845) 658-3210; www.bywaterbistro.com Dinner: 5-9pm Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday; 5-10pm Friday and Saturday. Closed Tuesday.
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BAKERIES The Bakery 13a North Front Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8840 www.ilovethebakery.com
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When in New Paltz, don’t miss a trip to The Bakery. Residents consider The Bakery, with its rustic outdoor café and beautiful gardens, to be the center of social life in New Paltz – a place to meet new people, bump into old friends, or sit quietly and read the papers. Known since 1980 for great bagels, croissants, rolls, rugulah, danish and butter cookies, The Bakery includes a coffee bar and full lunch menu. HV Magazine awards for Best Bakery, Best Coffee, Best Bagels, and now Best Scones in the Hudson Valley. Experience New Paltz! Visit The Bakery.
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CAFÉS Bread Alone Café Rhinebeck, NY 45 E. Market Street, (845)876-3108 Boiceville, NY Route 28 (845) 657-3328 (headquarters) Woodstock, NY 22 Mill Hill Road (845) 679-2108 Bread Alone cafés offer fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at three mid-Hudson locations.
CATERING Blue Mountain Bistro Catering Co. 1633 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8519 www.bluemountainbistro.com On- and off-premise catering. Sophisticated Zagat-rated food and atmosphere in a rustic country setting, wide plank floors, rough hewn beams and a stunning zinc bar. Chef-owner Erickson.
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Garrison, NY (845) 424-8204 www.FreshCompany.net At our kitchen in the Hudson Highlands, we gather great local and imported ingredients for events of all sizes and pock-
etbooks, from grand affairs to drop-off parties. True to our name, we emphasize the freshest, finest ingredients, because great food is the spark that ignites a convivial gathering. Our style is reflected in meals that encourage hospitality and leisure at the table, the elemental enjoyment of eating and drinking well.
Pad Thai Catering (845) 687-2334 Delicious, affordable, and authentic Thai cuisine served with authentic Thai hospitality to your group of six or more. Lunch or dinner served in your home by Chef & Owner Nuch Chaweewan. Please call for prices and information.
FARM MARKETS Sprout Creek Farm 34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie NY 12603 845-485-9885 www.sproutcreekfarm.org cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org COME TO SPROUT CREEK FARM MARKET! Grass-fed cheese from our own Guernsey and Jersey Cows... Free from artificial antibiotics and hormones. While you’re here you can also pick up... Grass Fed Pork, Veal, and Beef as well as Remsberger Farms Honey and Maple Syrup. Come meet all of our cows, sheep, goats, and ducks!
HOME COOKED MEALS Lagusta’s Luscious (845) 255-8VEG www.lagustasluscious.com Lagusta’s Luscious brings heartbreakingly delicious, sophisticated weekly meal deliveries of handmade vegetarian food that meat-and-potatoes people love too to the Hudson Valley and NYC. We are passionate about creating political food— locally grown organic produce, fair wages, environmentally sustainable business practices—that tastes just as good as that served at the finest restaurants. Let us end weeknight meal boredom forever.
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Natural Food Markets Beacon Natural Market 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 Lighting the Way for a Healthier World... Located in the heart of historic Beacon at 348 Main Street. Featuring organic prepared foods, deli and juice bar as well as organic and regional produce, meats and cheeses. Newly opened in Aug. ‘05, proprietors L.T. & Kitty Sherpa are dedicated to serving the Hudson Valley with a complete selection of products that are good for you and good for the planet, including an extensive alternative health dept. Nutritionist on staff.
PASTA La Bella Pasta (845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.
design of the Café. Servers will bring your selections to you on the wrap-around sundeck with views of Mt. Tremper and the Esopus Creek. Open for lunch every day, 11am to 4pm. Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mt. Tremper, just 10 minutes from Woodstock.
Gilded Otter 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven & brewed locally!
Hana Sushi 7270 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-4333 www.hana-sushi.com Best authentic sushi in the Hudson Valley! Superb Japanese sushi chefs serve the best authentic sushi with extended dining area. Sit at the counter or tables and enjoy all your favorites from chicken Teriyaki and Udon to Yellowtail and special rolls. Eat-in, take-out, and private room are available.
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(845) 688-2444 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort and Spa, the Catamount is an ideal, quiet location to host a wedding or other special event. The Emerson’s in-house event planner handles all the details, making each occasion unique with stunning views, creative cuisine, and impeccable service. Enjoy the fresh air under our graceful pavilion or venture inside to the warmth of the Catamount spacious dining area, complete with two fireplaces and a full bar. Set along the Esopus Creek, the Catamount is a perfect place to join together friends, families, and business associates for an event to remember. For a site visit or questions, please call us or visit us online.
Emerson at Woodstock 109 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7500 www.emersonresort.com Crave fresh seafood? Need your red meat fix? Have a hankering for slow-cooked pork chops, organic chicken, or right-offthe-farm vegetarian dishes? Experience the Emerson at Woodstock. Enjoy fine wines, micro-brews, or specialty drinks from the Emerson’s magnificent bar while you enjoy the atmosphere of the transformed 19th century farmhouse. Surf the web at the Emerson’s new internet café with free wi-fi. Available for private parties, rehearsal dinners, and business functions.
Emerson Organic Spa Café (845) 688-2828 Refreshing, organic veggie and fruit drinks. Made-to-order salads and wraps. Daily soup specials. Everything available to-go or for enjoying in the Asian-inspired
Located on historic Route 28 between Kingston and Woodstock, Hickory offers diners Hudson Valley’s finest barbecue and smokehouse cuisine such as ribs, pulled pork, smoked beef, fish, and freerange chicken. Whether enjoying your meal by the fireplace in Hickory’s threestar dining room or sipping a cocktail at the wood bar, Hickory’s staff is trained to make you feel as comfortable as you would at home. Hickory also features several vegetarian options, steaks, homemade desserts, happy hour specials, a complete take-out menu, and catering and special events in our private dining room. You can enjoy live music featuring the area’s hottest bands on Friday and Saturday night. Open daily for lunch and dinner.
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Luna 61 55 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 758-0061 www.luna61.com Best Vegetarian Restaurant. Hudson Valley Magazine. Food is simply delicious, four stars. Poughkeepsie Journal. Imagine spicy Thai noodles, delicate spring rolls, and the best banana cream pie you’ve ever eaten. Join the Culinary Revolution. Dutchess Magazine. Luna 61 is relaxed and funky, candlelit tables, cozy, and romantic. Organic wine and beer.
Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant 301 Broadway, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6478 www.machupicchurest.com The only authentic Peruvian restaurant in Orange County, NY. Family owned and 10/07 CHRONOGRAM TASTINGS DIRECTORY
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Main Course 232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2600 www.maincourserestaurant.com
7270 So. Broadway HARDSCRABBLE PLAZA Red Hook, NY U (845) 758-4333 www.Hana-Sushi.com OPEN TUES-FRI: LUNCH 11:30AM-2:30PM; TUES-THURS: DINNER 5-9PM; FRI: DINNER 5-10PM; SAT: DINNER 4:30-10PM
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Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-range Hudson Valley products. Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.
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743 ROUTE 28 Kingston, NY
Featuring more than award-winning BBQ, but fresh, signature salads, soups & sandwiches served in a relaxed atmosphere quickly and at an affordable price. Don’t forget to stop by the Ice Cream Counter where we continue to serve over 32 avors of Jane’s Famous Homemade cones, sundaes, cakes, pints, etc.
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Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in NYC and Best Margaritas in the Hudson Valley, Mexican Radio features fabulous, homemade dishes made fresh daily. Extensive vegetarian/vegan choices. A Great Place for Parties!
Neko Sushi & Restaurant 49 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0162 Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi & Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls, and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted.
Osaka Restaurant 74 Broadway, Tivoli, (845) 757-5055 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY, (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Daily Freeman. Visit our second location in Tivoli.
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Soul Dog 107 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-3254 Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts, and many gluten-free items prepared in-house. Redefining the hot dog experience!
Sukhothai 516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375 Sukhothai Restaurant, located in Beacon, NY, offers a delicious menu full of authentic Thai cuisine. From traditional dishes, such as Pad Thai and Som Tam, to custom dishes created exclusively by our master chef, our menu is sure to please any palate. Takeout is also available.
The Phoenix 5340 Route 28, Mount Tremper, NY (845) 688-7700 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa. The area’s newest restaurant compliments the Silk Road design of the adjacent Inn. Chef Ross Fraser uses local ingredients and infuses spices from the Orient and India to create unique, mouthwatering dishes. Two dining rooms, a large bar area, and an expansive deck overlooking the Esopus Creek make the Phoenix a true Catskills dining destination. Tavern and children’s menu available. Open daily.
Viscount Wine and Liquor 1173 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 (845) 298-0555 www.viscountwines.com info@viscountwines.com Huge store selection and prices with small store warmth and service. We have 8,000 wines, a 15,000 bottle climate-controlled cellar, 150 imported Vodkas, 90 singlemalt Scotches, 75 Tequilas, and 50 Cognacs.
Wasabi Japanese Restaurant 807 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1888
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THE GREAT INDOORS BRINGING THE OUTSIDE IN If you enjoy taking a hike in the woods, lingering in your garden, or relaxing by the lake, you may be doing more for yourself than you realize. Research continues to back up Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson’s theory of biophilia, which inextricably links human happiness with nature. Ponder this: Have you ever paid more to spend a night in a hotel room with a view of the ocean or mountains? Sent flowers to a sick friend in the hospital? Felt gloomy being cooped up in the midst of winter? Studies suggest that exposure to natural elements like wood, water, and plants can lift your mood, reduce stress, and make you more productive. With colder, shorter days approaching, consider the addition of these natural elements—whether a complete room revamping or a couple of small touches to perk up your spirit and the ambiance of your home. Wood you like to feel better? Different kinds of flooring, sculpture, and even lighting accents made of wood can bring an earthy feel to any room. Dominic Carota, president of Blair House Interiors of Latham, says that growing concern for the environment coupled with an increased desire for natural looks has put some interesting options for flooring in the limelight. “What we’ve been finding with our clients is that they’ve determined for us what the mission is for their home—often they want to make environmentally responsible choices, and our job is to do that,” Carota says. For clients that request hardwood floors, Blair House Interiors has been working with Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, which uses reclaimed wood from old barns and other structures. The allure of this option is not only the environmental benefit of recycling wood, but the opportunity to admire the historical character of rare and even extinct wood—like the antique chestnut boards that the company recovers from barns, farmhouses, and other old buildings. Carota says another trend in natural flooring is cork, which is made from the bark of the cork oak. The tree is able to survive and regenerate new growth, making it an optimal choice when considering sustainability. Cork tiles come 78 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
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in a variety of looks, resist pressure and moisture, are softer and warmer underfoot than most other flooring, and have excellent acoustic properties that absorb vibration. Both Carota and Barbara DeStefano, an interior designer and certified Feng Shui consultant in Port Ewen, say that they have become fans of bamboo flooring for its sustainability and visual appeal. “I love the look of bamboo floors,” DeStefano says. “And I love using them because they’re a very sustainable element. There are many different varieties and they’re absolutely beautiful.” Like cork, bamboo can be harvested without killing the root, allowing additional growth. If you’re not planning a major renovation, think about integrating wood objects on a smaller scale. Raj Singh, owner of Antara Home in Albany, has added an assortment of dried natural elements to his lineup of home goods. The line will include bamboo and manzanita, which has thick, twisty branches, as well as dried eucalyptus and willow. Singh says these items, which range in height from two to six feet and are called “branch candelabras,” make dramatic centerpieces or hall decorations that help soften the feel of a room. “They really blur the line between sculpture and plant and they’re very well suited for a contemporary environment,” Singh explains, adding that they would flatter any home that blends Old World craftsmanship and contemporary design. Other wood objects that can add a soft touch are light fixtures, furniture, and even a wood-related textile. Carota says that Blair House has sourced wooden sconces and chandeliers that are painted to appear weathered and antiqued. DeStefano helped design an office in which she placed a desk created from a planed and honed tree trunk that came from Fabulous Furniture in Boiceville, which creates specialized pieces of furniture that retain the natural lines and imperfections of the hardwoods the shop works with. Carota says natural textiles are becoming popular—tensile, a material made of cellulose and a byproduct of wood processing, is gaining momentum along with hemp, flax, linen, and organic cottons. Carota has been using some of these fabrics to cover walls instead of painting them. “It gives a very nice acoustic element and it also is great aesthetically,” he says.
Room with a view When DeStefano is working with a client, she says there are three things she considers. One: What are the attributes of the structure? Two: What are the qualities of her client? And three: What surrounds the space? The answer to the third question can provide the simplest and most riveting solution to bringing the outdoors in: Make your backyard environment part of your indoor’s allure. DeStefano, who lives in a townhouse with a view of the Rondout River, brought her view of the water inside by lining a dividing wall with a mirror to reflect it. “It’s kind of a fool-your-eye, you have the surrounding view and the space appears larger, too,” she says. “It makes the space feel substantially larger than it is.” DeStefano frequently implements this idea with clients. One house she worked in was situated in a secluded section of woods, and windows in an area of the living space were left uncovered, inviting nature in. DeStefano has also transformed an outdoor space—she worked to create a walking garden with plants and rock ledges that provided not only a pleasant respite outside, but was situated right in front of windows so that it could be enjoyed from inside as well. “Frequently, apartment dwellers have real limitations with their views,” DeStefano says, but there are ways to bring in natural elements to help balance the energy of the room and make it more appealing. She once worked with a resident of a Manhattan apartment building who had only one window—a view of a brick wall barely two feet outside. DeStefano installed five glass shelves into the window and formed “a full circle of creative cycle” with different elements— the first shelf housed a fountain; the second, a plant; the third, red candles; the fourth, some rock crystals; and the fifth, a metal sculpture. These things were placed in a cycle of the elements according to Feng Shui (water, wood, fire, earth, metal; repeat) but also allowed the resident access to the light of the window without the oppressive view. Rock the house “We’ve done interior walls with stone, and although it’s been done for years, it creates a wonderful aesthetic,” Carota says. In one project, Blair House combined the elements of rock and water to create a natural-looking indoor waterfall that covered a section of the wall from the floor to the ceiling, eight feet tall and ten feet wide. “Running water creates a really wonderful feel, especially if it’s in a natural setting. We’re seeing a lot of this in day spas because it’s very relaxing, and people are not just employing this in a commercial setting but also in their homes,” Carota says. The waterfall that Blair House created was made with dry-laid river rock using a minimal amount of mortar. Copper piping providing a filtration system and water ran down the rock wall into a basin before being recycled through again. “We were able to really bring a nice element of the outdoors in,” he says. Rock and water also play integral roles in feng shui. DeStefano uses a bagua, a template in feng shui that is used to map areas of a location that correspond to specific aspects of a person’s life. For spaces relating to relationships and career, DeStefano recommends incorporating aspects of earth and water elements. “For example, relationships are very much connected with the earth element, and in those areas of the home related to relationships I would be inclined to use something of the earth element like stone,” DeStefano explains. “Anything of the earth, marble, sculptures made of that. Another area of the bagua relates to the career and is symbolic of our journey and our path, our flow in life, and the element is water.” For some clients, DeStefano has set up fountains and even created custom designed saltwater aquariums. Planting the seed “When there are no plants or living things in a room, there’s a coldness,” says Chris Grigas of My Favorite Things, a full-service florist in Albany. “It feels unnatural to me, so I always try to incorporate some plants or flowers into a room. Anytime I do an arrangement and put plants or flowers into a room, it changes the atmosphere.” To enjoy the benefits of indoor plants, Grigas recommends asking a professional for advice in selecting unique, low-maintenance varieties for your home. Grigas suggests looking for indoor types of ferns, like the Boston fern. “Ferns are great because they are really pretty, they last all year long, and you can cut them back and they’ll regrow,” Grigas says. He’s also a fan of the African mask, an easy-to-care-for plant that is more distinctive. “When you look at the face of the leaf it actually looks like a mask, it’s very dramatic,” Grigas explains, describing the plant as two feet tall with long stems that bear 20 to 40 elongated, black-and-green-veined leaves. If you are a “black thumb,” you can still enjoy the presence of plants in your home. My Favorite Th ings, like many florists, offers a delivery service
FENG SHUI CONSULTANT BARBARA DESTEFANO’S SKETCH OF A “FULL CIRCLE OF CREATIVE CYCLE” WITH NATURAL ELEMENTS IN A WINDOW DECORATION.
that will bring unique arrangements of fresh flowers to your home on a weekly or monthly basis. Grigas will create and deliver arrangements using unique elements—incorporating things like moss-covered branches or pitcher plants (carnivorous white plants with deep, burgundy veins). “I’ll take curly willow and wind it into a ball and put it in the vase, and then do the arrangement so the stems are going through it,” Grigas says. “It gives you the feeling of a plant with the flowers above and the ball of curly willow in the vase that almost looks like roots. The arrangement actually looks like a plant growing in the vase.” Grigas uses lots of natural materials in his out-of-the-box approach to floral design—instead of ho-hum wicker baskets he uses ones that are made of branches or birch twigs and offers pieces of naturally shaped granite with cut bottoms and a small drilled hole perfect for displaying a single flower. DeStefano feels that bringing living elements into a room has multiple benefits. “Plants are incredible from a design perspective,” she says. “They bring in color and balance the negative aspects of a space.” She loves indoor plants like the dracaena marginata, a potted plant with three or more stalks and palmlike fronds, and also recommends lush, green varieties of philodendron. Bringing it home “What is outside always affects what I do on the inside,” DeStefano explains. She uses “three Is” when designing a room—intuition, inspiration, and intention. If you’re not going to seek the help of a professional designer, look inside yourself to discover what’s missing in the feel of your home. Then look out the window. RESOURCES Barbara DeStefano, interior designer and Feng Shui consultant (845) 339-4601 Dominic Carota, Blair House Interiors (518) 786-7800, www.blairhouseinteriors.com Raj Singh, Antara Home (518) 465-8475, www.antarahome.com Chris Grigas, My Favorite Things (518) 427-7758, www.myfavoritethingsflorist.com
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THE BREATH OF A HOME ON FINDING REFUGE EVERY DAY By Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis Before entering their 1850s Accord farmhouse, Jeff Davis and Hillary Thing remove their shoes. The dirt and pollution of the outside world are left at the door as they observe this common Eastern tradition that implies a sense of courtesy, humility, and respect. Davis is a writer and yogi. Thing is an acupuncturist and herbalist. They are both teachers, and their home is their sanctuary. The kitchen is airy and bright, ingredients and cooking equipment close at hand. Davis’s office is filled with books that he treasures. Yoga mats are spread across the floor there, and chairs for clients are comfortable and inviting. There is a deck off sliding glass doors, and a view from his desk of the pond out back, lotus pads floating. He can also catch sight from his working seat of the trails he has forged through their wooded lot and the herbs such as goldenrod that Thing has planted. Her garden is impressive. Thing is anomaly among acupuncturists—she grows her own Chinese herbs. She also tracks animals to understand their energy and medicine, collecting broad wings from perished birds and displaying them in the hall outside her upstairs treatment room. Along with statues of Buddha and Ganesh, there is a print of a female Avalokiteshvara hanging in that room. Legend has it that the deity was so bombarded by the cries of this world’s suffering she grew a score of extra heads and arms, an eye in the palm of each new hand so that she could see and reach out to all those in need. We too are bombarded each day. The stream is constant: noise, obligation, unsettling strife far away and close by. The wish for retreat and respite, for escape from this everyday chaos, is an understandable given. Like Davis and Thing, we need not flee our homes to find refuge. We may create it every moment and in our own space. Relaxation “It’s more about the choices you make than the money you have,” says interior designer Betsy Zimring, founder of Betsy Pringle Associates of Pine Plains. A warm, solid paint color may encourage serenity. Textured fabrics, scented candles, and light fixtures on dimmers are among other ways to soothe a busy mind after a long day. For those with cash to spend, a bubble tub may be appealing. In contrast to traditional hot tubs with strong jets, these spurt gentle, fizzing bubbles into bathwater. Another tub model releases a continuous flow of water that pours over into channels built for catching and recirculating spill-off, seemingly bottomless water relaxing tired muscles from chin to toes. Zimring works with many families, and she acknowledges the difficulty of creating a retreat environment throughout an entire house if not every resident wishes to cooperate. Small nooks are then found. At her own home, Zimring has created a space for herself under a wide tree in her yard. A table and chair beckon her there for breakfast each sunny morning. She works with natural spaces such as these for her clients to make seamless transitions from the outside world into the home. Connection Working in tandem with nature is a passion for Davis and Thing. One warm day last February, Davis began a project in this spirit. The barn on their property was 200 years old, but stable. It was filled with unwanted materials leftover from previous owners. He cleared the derbis, laboring steadily throughout the day. 80 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
What remained when he was done is the high-ceilinged interior now known as WEN. Wen is a Chinese term encompassing the many paths to the reading of nature and its lessons. Writing workshops and yoga classes are held at WEN during the warmer months of the year, breezes blowing through and the calls of wildlife audible. “We adjust to nature,” says Davis, “not it to us.” In sharing this manner of living with others, Davis and Thing deepen the quality of retreat in their home. Connection to nature and the cultivation of relationships are crucial elements in sustaining what they have built for themselves. As feng shui consultant and interfaith minister Betsy Stang of Bearsville might say, making physical room for others and having respect for the natural world when arranging a home clears the way for fresh possibility and the achievement of one’s highest potential. “We want to create a place of true hospitality,” Stang says. “If I can be real here, you can be real. If you can be your authentic self, then so can I. If a place is a refuge, it is a refuge for everyone.” Transcendence In getting rid of the clutter in the barn, Davis expanded his life and the lives of his life partner, friends, family, and students who visit WEN. This practice of letting go of unwanted and unused items is fundamental to feng shui. It is one of the actions that permit the flow of chi. Stang refers to chi as “the breath of a house,” and when that breath can move in and out freely, can flood every available niche, that house shimmers with playful vitality. And when a house pulses with such aliveness, it becomes a place of renewal. Its residents may find asylum and inspiration there. “We all walk around with the seed of a dream of who we wish to become,” says Stang. “Making our home into a retreat means creating an environment that reflects that dream. Place items in your home that remind you of your highest aspirations, that have meaning and beauty to you. Be grateful for all that you do have.” Davis and Thing are profoundly grateful for their home, and for the chance to shape and share it. On September 16 they were married on the grounds. Celebrating the union of man and woman, they honor the coming together of other pairs: humans and nature, mine and yours, home and refuge. By so doing, they show what it means to transcend these supposed dichotomies, and to find an inner peace accessible everywhere and anytime—especially at home. RESOURCES Jeff Davis and Hillary Thing www.wenbarn.com, www.centertopage.com, earthboundapothecary.com Betsy Zimring Zimring & Pringle, Millerton, (A high-end gift store selling home and decorative accessories) Betsy Pringle Associates, Pine Plains, (518) 398-9278 Betsy Stang www.betsystang.com, www.wittenbergcenter.org
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ACT YOUR AGE (WITH YOUR MONEY) By Kelley Granger
Work. Budget. Save. Invest. Retire. The basic formula to financial health is amazingly simple, but Americans are getting lost somewhere along the way. Th is nation is in financial crisis with soaring rates of mortgage default, credit card and student debt, and poor savings habits. To get ahead today, you truly have to come out from behind. Steve Mannato, a registered representative with William Tell Financial Services, and Sharon Pilz, a trust and investment officer at Salisbury Bank, help bring you back to the basics with a financial timeline for each period of your life. Under 21 Establish savings habits. If there is a key to financial success in life, it starts here with parents teaching their children to save. “I think the biggest thing that I work with concerning young clients is the discipline of saving money,” Mannato says. “[Americans] are the worst savers in the world, even though we have most of the wealth of the world.” Mannato suggests starting slow, saving $25 to $50 a month in a money market or savings account with a good interest rate, and then leaving it alone. Th is builds discipline, which will pave the way for making investments in the future. “The last thing you want is someone to invest and then six months later say, ‘I need the money back,’” Mannato says. Practice sticking to a budget. Young adults typically have jobs that don’t pay very well, and learning to budget is crucial. Pilz says to consider expenses 86 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
and income, then use the “pay yourself first” strategy and deposit a set amount right away into a savings vehicle. The rest can go toward expenses, which, with timely payments, will help build a solid credit history. 22-30 Continue developing savings strategies. Pilz suggests that an additional portion of your income should be saved for the unexpected. “Set up an emergency fund, so you have money put aside for any unforeseen things taking place in your life that you’re going to need that cash for,” she says. Whether for a car breakdown or a plane ticket to see a sick relative, this fund will be the stash that helps you avoid racking up credit card debt and interest fees. This is also the time when student loans become due, and Pilz recommends sitting down with a customer service representative at the bank and discussing consolidation options that may lead to a lower rate. “It’s worth taking a shot to sit down and do that, because it may make it much easier to pay back,” she says. Mannato believes that sometimes advisors need to be creative with their clients—and he devised a savings tactic that can increase your savings balance and help prepare you for the real world. “Many kids are now living at home until a later age,” he says. “Use this as a learning experience, if you’re living at home pretend that you have an apartment.” The money that would be spent on rent and utilities should go into savings, helping to demonstrate if someone is financially ready to move out while simultaneously increasing their nest egg.
Develop goals and start investing. “What are your financial goals?,” Pilz will ask you, “and what are your time horizons for the short, median, and long term? Do you want to be purchasing a home in 10 years? Having children? Then it’s time to start thinking about investing.” Pilz’s first recommendation is to look into a 401K plan before anything else. “Especially in your 20s, you should start to save into your 401K plan,” she says. “Even if it’s a very small amount of money, you’re not taxed on the money that goes into your 401K plan and the earlier in life you start saving for your retirement, [the more] that money keeps compounding through the years.” Then, Pilz advises beginning to make other investments. A meeting with a financial advisor will help determine your risk tolerance, and what type of investments will be best for you. “When you’re 20 to 30, if you invest for the long term you can take more risks by investing in a growth fund or international equity fund,” Pilz explains. “But if you tell me your heart stops if you lose $1,000, we may look to put together a portfolio that has a mixture of not 100 percent stocks, but maybe 80 percent stocks, 10 percent bonds, and 10 percent money market [funds].” 30-40 Hone investments. When you begin placing money in different investment categories like equities, bonds, and money market accounts, an advisor will help create an asset allocation model for you. This model illustrates your investments and should represent your goals and risk tolerance. Pilz explains that it’s critical to review your asset allocation on a regular basis to make sure it’s still meeting your needs. “We monitor that consistently,” she says. “People’s lives change, what is applicable to you today might not be next year.” With the uncertain future of Social Security and many employers doing away with pension plans, Mannato strongly encourages clients to take advantage of 401K plans or, if unavailable or a client is self-employed, IRAs. He says an ideal amount to save to a 401K is six percent of your income, because many companies will match that. “Increase savings gradually each year so if you start at six percent, let’s strive to raise that by one percent the next year, and one percent the following year,” Mannato suggests. “Then you can budget that into your money system so that it’s not that big of a hit. Savings into a 401K plan is either going to make or break someone who wants to be able to retire at a reasonable age.” Another option is the IRA, or individual retirement account, which is a personal savings plan that offers tax benefits. Roth IRAs are similar but grow tax-free without a tax deduction for contribution, while regular IRAs grow tax-deferred but contributions are tax-deductible. Speak to an advisor to establish the best method for you. “It depends what your employment status is, what your tax bracket is, which could be good for you in terms of tax savings,” Mannato says. Prepare for large expenses. Mannato says at this point multiple things are happening in people’s lives: They want to buy a house, they’re having children, and want to make sure they’re saving enough for these events. In terms of home buying, Mannato stresses the importance of good savings habits and offers services that help clients budget their money according to when they want to purchase a home and how much money they want to put down. If your plan to buy a house is more short-term, which would be less than two years, Pilz recommends certain types of accounts. “You’d want to look for CD [certificate of deposit] or money market funds that have good rates to put your money aside for the house,” she says. When couples start having children, Mannato urges clients to set up college savings accounts as early as possible. “The cost of education goes up more and more each year, and the longer you wait, the more you’re going to get behind the eight ball,” he says. Pilz recommends parents start investing in a growth fund, which is a mutual fund that appreciates based on investments in the growth stocks of burgeoning companies. “Let’s say you could only afford to put $50 a month in,” she says. “You could open an account for the baby, send money to a mutual fund every month for a number of years and you’ll be surprised how quickly that money could grow.” Mannato says there are a number of investment vehicles available for college savings, like the 529 educational plan, which offers special tax benefits. Sitting down with an advisor can help determine a client’s savings potential and provide direction toward the best plan. Mannato also emphasizes the importance of estate planning for couples who have just purchased a home and have started a family. “If anything happens to the parents and both of them pass away, who’s going to take care of the upbringing of the children? Who’s going to handle the financial matters pertaining to the children?,” he asks. “There are a lot of individuals that don’t think of this because they’re concerned about the next paycheck, the next bill. My role is more of an educator and planner more than anything.” An advisor
can help figure out the financial aspects of estate planning, and even refer you to an attorney who can help with other portions like health care proxy and successor/custodian orders. 40-50 Take advantage of peak earning years and continue saving. Mannato says in this pre-retirement phase, people are making the most income and should keep increasing savings geared toward retirement. “We’re continuing to save or increase savings to their 401K or any savings plan that’s going to help them toward retirement, which may only be 12 years away if they’re 50 and want to retire at age 62,” he says. Remain creative with savings strategies. “If you and a person go out to dinner and it’s buy one/get one, and if you’re going to spend $20 each and you save $20,” Mannato says, “you were going to spend that $20 anyway. Just bank it now.” Try saving spare change or stashing away dollar bills, which will quickly add up without noticeable detractions from your wallet. Get a check-up. Mannato wants clients to be aware of where they are financially. Ensure that your spending is within your income, and that you’re still able to save. “Individuals need to sit down with a financial advisor once or twice a year just like people go to the doctor,” he says. “Individuals who don’t go to the doctor for three or four years, they may have problems that they don’t know about. Sitting down with a financial advisor can give them a view from a different set of eyes and a different thought process that the clients aren’t aware of.” 50+ Keep saving and manage risk. “As long as someone is employed they’re still in what’s called the accumulation mode, and as long as they have income, they need to consider saving for their goals,” Mannato says. “This is where sitting with an advisor to make sure the client’s risk tolerance meets their objectives is important, because they don’t have the time now to be in risky investments. There’s not much time for it to rebound, so this is where risk needs to be managed.” Pilz says at this point she’ll work to balance a portfolio. “Someone who is 50 should be investing in a balanced fund, which would be pretty much 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds, depending on their risk tolerance,” she explains. “If they have a great tolerance, then maybe 80 percent stock and 20 percent bond. You’d want some growth in that portfolio but also some bonds to minimize the risk so that they don’t lose money.” Keep reviewing your assets. “As you move closer to retirement age, start changing your asset allocation because you don’t want to be 100 percent in equities,” Pilz advises. “As you get older you mix to stabilize.” Haven’t started saving yet? “The sooner that you [start saving for retirement] the better you are later on in life because your money compounds and is worth much more at the end of that time period than if you started later on in life,” Pilz says. “But you also have to look at it like it’s never too late to start.” Endless alternatives Each person has an infinite number of variables concerning income, lifestyle, and goals, and many advisors will say it’s hard to generalize where a person should be with their money at any given point. Beth Jones, president, financial consultant, and registered life planner at Third Eye Associates in Red Hook, says that her firm’s advisors take a unique approach to this type of counseling. “We do financial planning on the foundation of a life plan, what people are most passionate about and what their fundamental values are in life,” she says. “We don’t strictly look at their finances, we look at their life in a holistic way and do a series of exercises with people to get to the source of what’s most important to them.” After analyzing their current life and determining their “ultimate” life, they guide clients to discovering ways to live a more rewarding life now rather than later. “A lot of people have this idea that when they retire, they’ll have enough money and they’re going to do what they’re really most passionate about,” Jones says. “We don’t believe in that theory. We believe people should live their most fulfi lled life all the time.” EXPERTS QUOTED IN THIS ARTICLE Steve Mannato, William Tell Financial Services (518) 782-9155; www.willtell.com Sharon Pilz, Salisbury Bank (860) 435-9801, x1503; www.salisburybank.com Beth Jones, Third Eye Associates (845) 752-2216; www.thirdeyeassoc.com
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THE SUBPRIME SQUEEZE HOW HOMEOWNERS CAN RIDE OUT THE STORM By Anne Pyburn Illustration by Jason Cring
“Another Katrina.” That’s the phrase some have used in describing the earthquake that has hit the subprime lending universe. No fewer than 32 subprime lenders folded their tents between early 2006 and May of 2007; $1.3 trillion in subprime loans are currently outstanding, and $235 billion of that debt is expected to be reset at rates that could be as high as 12 percent. All of which is likely to translate to a couple of million foreclosures in the US. But while Katrina’s initial cause (never mind the ways in which malfeasance worsened its effects) was a blameless force of nature, the subprime crisis can plainly be laid at the feet of human greed and naïveté—played out in syndromes that Jack M. Guttentag, Professor of Finance Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and founder of GHR Systems, Inc., a mortgage technology company, calls “payment myopia” and “disaster myopia.” The two varieties of shortsightedness share a common element, says Guttentag: the faith that housing prices would simply keep heading skyward, allowing equity to increase steadily and reliably, a rising tide that would never recede. Aggressive marketing techniques aimed at unlikely homebuyers coupled with low interest rates in the wake of the dot-com crisis led many to convince themselves it was safe to buy more house than they could afford, or drain the equity out of their property in order to refinance credit card debt—and then run out and accumulate more debt. The marketing certainly was aggressive, the ploys tempting, as anyone who’s watched any late-night TV can attest. Guttentag offers an example: “Periodically I receive an advertisement from a subprime wholesale lender rep advertising what is available from his firm. (He thinks I am a mortgage broker.) One came to me on April 19, 2007, showing that a borrower with a credit score of 620 [a low rating] could qualify for a loan of $650,000 with a down payment of 10 percent. Checking back in my “Deleted Items” archive, I found a message from the same rep dated June 20, 2006. At that time, he was offering the borrower with a 620 score a loan of $1 million with nothing down.” As the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. Subprime loans in themselves, say Guttentag and other experts, are not always a bad thing. “Subprime mortgage instruments have traditionally been very useful to certain buyers who might be less traditionally qualified, but can afford them,” says Laurie Della Villa Miller of PRG Realty in New Paltz. “But banks, unfortunately, have given money to people who can’t.” Steve Carle, vice president of mortgage originations at the Mid Hudson Federal Credit Union, agrees. “They’re now calling these ‘nonprime’ loans, and if it’s done right, it’s reasonable,” he says. “But relaxed qualifications led to a lot of trouble— $100,000 for $500 a month? The focus on ability to repay got lost on both sides.” The curious thing about financial markets is just how vulnerable they are to perception. For all the talk about another Katrina, Carle points out, foreclosures actually peaked in 2000. “Delinquencies and foreclosures are actually lower now, but all the disaster talk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he says. “People lose faith, others think it’s all right to walk away—it can spiral.” This is true as well in the world of securitization. “Virtually all subprime 88 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
mortgages are converted into mortgage-backed securities that are sold to investors. These securities are actively traded and are therefore under constant surveillance by investors, traders, and rating agencies,” Guttentag explains. “Bad news about defaults surfaces quickly and is quickly reflected in lower market prices of securities. The value of loans in the pipeline—on the way to securitization but not there yet—also drop.” Unsurprisingly, regulations on both lending itself and the manner in which mortgage loans are sold and securitized have begun to tighten in reaction. Quasi-governmental agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been issued new guidelines by their regulators on how to handle subprime loans. About $170 billion dollars worth of the securities held by the two agencies are in subprime loans, and both have committed to buying more. For individual homebuyers affected by the crisis, whether help is available may depend on just how bad their situations really are. Those who bought a 100 percent financed house with zero equity, simply hoping that the market would continue to rise, and those who drew down their home equity to create artificial liquidity in the face of unchecked spending and overpriced credit card debt, are unlikely to find anyone rushing to help. “The political roar is now, ‘Hey, we’ve got to help these people,’ says Carle, “and there will be efforts. Sunny Mae, which is a New York state organization, has teamed up with Freddie Mac, and they’ve created something called Keep the Dream. They’ve pledged a hundred million dollars to help. It’s an attempt. Will it help everyone? No.” “Some people are not salvageable, and there are going to be some tragedies,” says Della Villa Miller. “The government should not bail out banks to try to save every last person out there who got burnt. But if you have some equity, some stability, and are struggling, investigate what is going on with the FHA [Federal Housing Administration]. They can help refinance some adjustable rate loans. “In the Northeast, foreclosures are miniscule. I think it may be because we see buyers who have the education and sophistication to be more careful.” Locally, home sales and prices have remained steady. “After a huge inflation, the last little piece of it—that was based on rising expectations—will always get lopped off. It’s fluff. That’s the market adjustment,” she observes. “But prices around here are still high and they’re not going to plummet unless there’s a complete national disaster. Buyers right now are affected by all the negative information—it’s a pent-up market, with everyone waiting to see what will happen.” The experts concur, though, that there’s no need for the average homeowner to do anything differently. If you’ve got equity and need cash, want to move up, or are otherwise considering a major financial move, things are not necessarily any riskier or safer than they’ve ever been. The necessity of dealing with reputable lenders and reading the fine print has been underscored, but it’s nothing new. “I don’t understand,” says Carle, “why anyone facing the biggest transaction of their financial life would not go to a reputable institution in the first place.” “But it’s out there. I sold my own house in 2006—bought it in 2000 for $100,000, sold it last year for $289,000 to people who had a subprime loan. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear it had gone into foreclosure.”
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1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com
Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.
DANCEWEAR First Street Dancewear Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.com First Street Dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warmups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.
DOG BOARDING Dog Love, LLC 240 N. 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 playgroups in 40 x 40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats. 10/07 CHRONOGRAM BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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FAUX FINISHES Faux Intentions
encourage you to take advantage of our in-store sharpening and engraving services. 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY 12722. (845) 876-6207
(845) 532-3067 Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in Custom Faux Finishes for your home and business. With infinite possibilities, your walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes and many other mediums, help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhiliration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away.
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Pathways Mediation Center
Mac’s Agway in Red Hook/New Paltz Agway
(845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com
Mac’s Agway, 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY. (845) 876-1559 New Paltz Agway, 145 Route 32N, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-0050
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Specializing in all your lawn and garden needs. We carry topsoil, peat moss, fertilizers and organics, grass seed, shavings, straw, fencing, pet food, bird seed, bird houses, and more.
Chill Media North (845) 750-5789 empress@chillmedianorth.com A full-service integrated marketing, publicity, and viral guerrilla tactical company for the Hudson River Valley and beyond.
MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION
We are a unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a Guidance Counselor working with families and children. This male/ female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web.
Phantom Gardener
MOVING & STORAGE
Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8606 www.thephantomgardener.com
Allways Moving & Storage
At Phantom we provide everything you need to create and enjoy an organic, beautiful landscape. Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff will help you choose from an unbeatable selection of herbaceous or woody plants, garden products, and books. We offer professional design, installation, and maintenance services. Visit us!
HOME GOODS Hammertown (518) 398-7075 www.hammertown.com Hammertown is a family of three award winning home and lifestyle stores located in Pine Plains and Rhinbeck, NY, and Great Barrington, MA. All Hammertown locales feature Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams furniture, lighting, antiques, kitchenware, rugs, bedding, kids toys, books, and much more.
HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING Hearth n Home
85 Grand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-5676 www.allwaysmovingandstorage.com Accurate — Free Estimates.
MUSIC Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011 Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs.
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607 Samsonville Road, Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-2758 www.catskillnativenursery.com We sell North American perennials, shrubs, trees, & fruits. Native plants are a natural choice for woodland, meadow, and wetland gardens—and the flower borders around your house. Native plants are ornamental, easy to maintain, and provide food and habitat for birds, butterflies, bees—and yourself.
PERFORMING ARTS Lehman-Loeb Art Center / Powerhouse Theater Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5902 befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu
PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable housesitting for your pets.
PHOTOGRAPHY China Jorrin Photography (917) 449-5020 www.chinajorrin.com
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
France Menk Photography
34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 wguild@ulster.net
(845) 750-5261 www.france-menk.com iam@france-menk.com
MUSIC LESSONS
Events / Portraits / Advertising / Fine Art. Private instruction in the art of photography: for all levels of experience.
Center for Personal Development Through Music (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir.
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(845) 876-6207 www.warrenkitchentools.com
McCoy’s Guitar Shop
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(845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.
Warren Kitchen & Cutlery
Located in historic Rhinebeck, in New York’s beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley, Warren Kitchen & Cutlery is a true kitchenware emporium — a place where inspired chefs and cooking enthusiasts can find their favorite cutlery, cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and serving pieces for home or restaurant. Knives are our specialty; we have more than a 1000 different styles and sizes in stock. We
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A Hudson Valley based photographer dedicated to documenting weddings in a candid and creative style. While remaining unobtrusive she is able to capture key, quiet and personal moments of the event. Please call for rates and availability.
www.hnhgateway.com Take what you’re good at and marry it to your passion. That’s how we created Hearth n Home. Our vision — a holistic business that addresses all aspects of making your house a home; repairs/upkeep to additions/renovations; fantastic dinner parties to a quiet evening at home with loved ones.
Guitar Shop our aim is to make your instrument play as well, or better than, you ever thought possible. Remember, if your instrument isn’t playing up to par, perhaps neither are you! Come to McCoy’s Guitar Shop and fall in love with your instrument all over again! McCoy’s Guitar Shop: Expert repairs, restoration, guitars and basses bought, sold and traded. Give us a call, you’ll be glad you did!
Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7467 Is your guitar or bass performing up to its fullest potential? Do you have fret buzz? Is your action too high/ too low? Is your instrument just plain old hard to play? Guitars and basses regularly need set ups, much like cars need oil changes and tune ups to keep them running well. Here at McCoy’s
Michael Gold The Corporate Image Studios, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.michaelgoldsphotos.com Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish, off-the-wall personalities. Complete studio facilities and lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional. Unconditionally guaranteed.
PIANO Adam’s Piano (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326. www.adamspiano.com Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck) showroom.
Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices, pictures at www.adamspiano.com. A second showroom will be opening in New Paltz in November. Superb service, moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos!
PLUMBING AND BATH N & S Supply 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-6291 cloijas@nssupply.com
TREE SERVICE AND LANDSCAPING Midavies Tree Service (845) 658-9507 www.midaviestreeservice.com
DiGuiseppe Architecture / Interior Design
For all your tree care needs. We are a small personalized business dedicated to our customers and their trees. Free estimates and consultations.
WEB DESIGN PRINTING SERVICES Curious Minds Media Inc. New York Press Direct (845) 896-0894 At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason— to delight our customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shopping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions are leading-edge in the industry. Our pricing is among the most competitive in the northeast region. Call John DeSanto or Larry Read for more information.
(888) 227-1645 www.curiousm.com Coding skills + design sensibility makes Curious Minds Media the right choice for your next project. We are the region’s Premiere provider of new media services.
WEDDINGS Catamount Banquet Center (845) 688-2444 www.emersonresort.com
Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care — Maria Ferguson, Aesthetics School
Located at the Emerson Resort and Spa, the Catamount is an ideal, quiet location to host a wedding or other special event. The Emerson’s in-house event planner handles all the details, making each occasion unique with stunning views, creative cuisine, and impeccable service. Enjoy the fresh air under our graceful pavilion or venture inside to the warmth of the Catamount spacious dining area, complete with two fireplaces and a full bar. Set along the Esopus Creek, the Catamount is a perfect place to join together friends, families, and business associates for an event to remember. For a site visit or questions, please call us or visit us online.
256 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0013 www.HVSAesthetics.com info@hvsaesthetics.com Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers.
Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care — Rosanna Tudisco, Massage School 72 Vineyard Avenue, Highland, NY (845) 691-2547 www.HVSMassageTherapy.com info@hvsmassagetherapy.com Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers.
SNACKS Mister Snacks, Inc. (845) 206-7256 www.mistersnacks.com Call Vinny Sciullo at (845) 206-7256 for distribution of the finest snacks in the Hudson Valley. Visit our Gift Shop online.
SUNROOMS Four Seasons Sunrooms Beacon: (845) 838-1235 Kingston: (845) 339-1787 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com Hudson Valley Sunrooms has been selling and installing Four Seasons Sunrooms since 1984. We offer sales, skilled installation and service, as well as experienced consultation on residential and commercial sunroom projects. We welcome you to visit our showroom located just south of Kingston on Route 9W. We provide free in-home estimates.
Sensitive Historic Renovations Hudson Valley Inspired Architecture • Luxurious Interiors Anthony J. DiGuiseppe AIA RIBA • Accord | New York City | Boca Raton (845) 687-8989 / (212) 439-9611 • www.diguiseppe.com
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WRITING SERVICES CenterToPage: Moving Writers From The Center To The Page Accord, NY (845) 679-9441 www.CenterToPage.com Invite your muse to visit every day. Author & workshop leader with 19 years’ experience offers writers truthful, compassionate guidance. Nonfiction & fiction book proposal & manuscript consultations, editing, rewriting. Coaching relationships. Yoga As Muse facilitator training. Workshops: Woodstock, Taos, & elsewhere. Jeff Davis, Director.
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WRITING WORKSHOPS Wallkill Valley Writers (845) 255-7090 khamherstwriters@aol.com Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated. 10/07 CHRONOGRAM BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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FEEDING YOUR INNER HIBERNATOR WORKING WITH THE SEASON’S FOOD CRAVINGS Does the change of season mandate a downward spiral in our healthy eating habits?
by ilyse simon illustrations by annie internicola It’s October. The fresh peaches of summer are sweet history, the farmers’ markets are closed, and autumn is here to remind us that this is a season of change. There are modifications to our wardrobe, adjustments to the darkness that greets us in the waking hours, and variations in our daily routines. The cooler temperatures push us indoors, hungry for books and crafts and other notably sedentary activities, preferably in front of a warm fire. We also need a bit of added insulation with the drop in the thermometer. For many of us, the extra layers may not be sweaters and scarves but unwanted pounds acquired from creamy noodle kugels, pot roasts, comfort desserts, and other calorie-rich foods. Gone are the salads plucked from the backyard vegetable garden and emerald stalks of broccoli for a couple dollars. With the seasonal decline of affordable and appealing produce, it’s natural that the contents of our shopping bags and menus have shifted. We load up on grains and proteins, not fresh salads and tree-ripened fruit, and then cover them with butter, cheese, or gravy.
SEASONAL EATING There’s a reason we are drawn to different foods with the passing of seasons. Holly Anne Shelowitz, a certified nutrition counselor at Nourishing Wisdom in Stone Ridge, explains: “It’s part of our evolution for our diet to change when the season changes. In winter, cravings kick up for heavier foods like sweets and comfort foods. Appetites increase and our bodies want to be warm and satisfied. Our bodies strive for balance, so it’s unlikely we will crave watermelon and things that have natural rhythms in warm weather. It’s why a steaming bowl of oatmeal sounds so appealing in the colder weather.” Ellie Wilson, senior nutritionist at Price Chopper in Schenectady, notes, “We wouldn’t make a turkey dinner in July, but we don’t think twice about 94 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
it in December.” Wilson is quick with a tip on how to lighten the load when the season turns cold and dark. “I continue to cook familiar dishes, albeit heavier foods, yet make them higher in fiber. Stop peeling your potatoes before you put them in the stew. Consider using other vegetables like parsnips and sweet potatoes. The variety offers people different flavors, more fiber, and a nutrient bang for their buck.” Soups and stews are winter’s answer to lots of things. They are warming, satisfying, and can be the ultimate vehicle for vegetables. If you are not a raving fan of vegetables, pile them into your favorite bean soup, add a spin from the hand blender, and voila! You’ll never know what’s hidden in that bowl. Open a package of frozen broccoli and dump it into your crockpot creation. No washing, no chopping, no fuss. Wilson acknowledges, “For some, the inclination to cook during the winter declines. Sticking chapped hands under cold water to wash a bunch of kale is not enticing. And for people who feel like they have less time to plan and prepare meals, I tell them to use frozen veggies to augment already prepared foods. There are some brands of prepared soups that are low in sodium, like Imagine or Amy’s, which are a great place to start. Add some frozen spinach to the soup and a slice of whole-grain bread, and you have a light meal, but still warm winter food.”
FILLING IN FOR LIGHT, AIR, AND MOVEMENT Still hankering for starchy, cheesy, or sweet stuff? Is it the call of our wild side to store fat over the winter and hunker down in a cavelike condo? Or are our stomachs weak to temptations of buttery, crusty scents? It’s probably both. Unconsciously we may feel the evolutionary pull to stock up on calories for winter, and therefore give our desire for tasty comfort foods a little more leeway.
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Our cravings for mashed potatoes, steak, and cinnamon rolls may contain a nugget of insight. Shelowitz swears that there is a form of body intelligence in those cravings. She says, “Carbohydrates and fat provide warmth in the body. So there is wisdom in those cravings. But it’s not about eating white bread, French fries, and doughnuts.” She attributes these food desires to the reduced exposure to the outdoors. Winter, says Shelowitz, “is a time of year when people are not so physically active. We are indoors more and not getting as much sunlight and fresh air. Sun and fresh air are energizing to the body. When we are not receiving that natural form of energy, the body craves other ways of getting it [enter glazed doughnut and mocha]. Of course, carbohydrates provide the exact opposite type of energy. You might get an initial buzz, like with sugar, but eventually there is low energy or a letdown. Ultimately, it won’t be very satisfying—and that’s why people continue to crave them.” Meeting our needs for sunshine and movement can be trickier when the air is sharp. If you have established healthy activity habits, don’t abandon them due to the weather. Adapt your routine. Wilson says, “Whether due to cold weather or concern about injury, so many of us stop walking from November to April. A great way to stay connected to your fitness goals is with a DVD or exercise routine in the home. Walking DVDs are geared from one- to threemile increments, and there’s no need to be concerned about traffic. It is an inexpensive way to stay active.”
THE LONELINESS FACTOR So the question becomes: How do we get the energy we need when “energy” is not just a matter of calories? Energy also means our vital force. That can be harder for some of us to connect with in the winter. It’s a season of solitude. Shelowitz says, “Winter can be lonely. That’s a big piece. We are lonely and want comforting foods. In addition, people can lean toward depression in the winter, and eating more can be a way to try to get out of it.” Succumbing to those starchy cravings doesn’t help loneliness or depression in the long run. Shelowitz has a better idea: Cook with friends. Prepare meals as a group activity. It’s fun and nurturing in ways other than just providing nutrients. It quenches the isolation many of us succumb to on frigid days and long, dark nights. 96 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
CAVING TO CRAVINGS THE HEALTHY WAY If you can’t subdue the need for a feel-good food, acknowledge that the craving is telling you something. It’s your body’s way of shouting “I have a need!” But you can work with your cravings. What if you have a hankering for warm French bread with butter to satisfy a carb craving, for instance? Shelowitz encourages her clients to meet their desire for bread with more whole grains in their diets. She says, “Pair whole grains like quinoa and kasha with healthy fats such as butter or coconut oil, so that you can meet your body’s needs for those foods in healthy ways.” And what if you have gotten your daily dose of sunshine, joyful movement, and friends, and still want something sweet and starchy? Healthy desserts are not an oxymoron. You can make desserts that are actually nourishing to your body and soul. Start with some seasonal sweet source. Apples and pears are great staple fruits for the winter. Shelowitz suggests, “Bake apples, pears, and yams in a casserole dish with butter and cinnamon, and sweetened with maple syrup. It’s local, delicious, and the house smells beautiful. The nourishing, warming, comforting needs are being met (with the aromas) before we’ve even taken a bite of the food.” Warm compotes of dried plums, figs, apricots, and spicy cinnamon-ginger applesauce can nurse your sweet craving ’til summer, too. So, go ahead, eat a healthy dessert. No, not every day, but when you really want it.
THE COLOR OF CHLOROPHYLL Are the colorful falling leaves pressed between the pages of your cookbooks the only multihued things that make it to your kitchen? Green is not just the color of money. It’s the color of chlorophyll—the lifeblood of all flora. Dark leafy greens like kale, collards, broccoli, swiss chard, and spinach are perfect when steamed, sauteed in omelets, and tossed in soups. Shelowitz says, “In the wintertime, we are missing the color green from the landscape. Green brings sunshine into your body, it’s cleansing; and greens are rich in chlorophyll and high in minerals.” Wilson agrees. “You want to make sure it’s not a white-and-brown diet during the winter. Add a big side of steamed green beans to your meal.” For the artist in us all, it is fun to use color to help us achieve nutritional
balance. Ensure that a rainbow of color is represented each time you sit in front of a plate of food. Browns, tans, and whites only count if they mean mushrooms and cauliflower. If your staple dinner is macaroni and cheese (artificial coloring does not count either), you might start by adding one color to each meal. Broccoli mac and cheese is ever so yummy. By adding a good helping of this colorful, vitamin- and fiber-rich vegetable, you will need less of other foods to fill you up. Other great color foods are steamed carrots, purple cabbage, and beets.
PLAYING WITH PORTIONS Wilson stresses that it’s important to keep familiar foods on your menu, while adding higher fiber vegetables. She suggests, “Double the size of less calorie-dense foods (vegetables) and reduce your portion of higher-calorie foods (i.e., everything else). For example, take three servings of spinach— fill half of your plate—a small baked potato, and a third less of your usual steak serving. The plate is still full, but there’s 250 fewer calories on it. By changing portions and adding foods, you can manage the quantities of ingredients that are calorie-dense.”
QUICK-FIRE CHALLENGE Here’s a test. It’s lunchtime. You reach for a grilled cheese sandwich and chicken noodle soup. Then, like a bolt of lightning, it hits you, and you see the colors about to settle on your plate: white and tan (and maybe pale orange). Quickly, you shove the chicken soup back in the cabinet and tug at the can of hearty vegetable way in the back. Then you make a mad dash for the freezer, pull out a handful of frozen spinach, and plop it in your soup cooking on the stove. “Wait! Wait! The sandwich!” you exclaim. You know you can brighten up the pasty-white duo. You slice some gorgeous purple onion and nestle it between the Colby. You are on a roll. You throw open the fridge and frantically sort through bottles and jars…ah! There, behind the mustard and capers, is the jar of roasted red peppers from that time you made pizza. You open the lid, take a sniff, and decide it’s still good. Voila! You have created a masterpiece. From blah to ahhh in two minutes flat. You sit down to regard your creation. It’s lovely, satisfying, and delicious. You vow to do it again!
FIND YOUR BALANCE Balance comes in many shapes and sizes. It can be a balance of exercise versus movie watching, pasta versus broiled chicken and greens, snack versus meal, and, of course, nutritious food versus Green and Black Organic chocolate. It’s not everyone who can be a high wire artist, for whom balance is innate. For the rest of us, it takes a bit of mindfulness to get the nourishment we need, the treats we want, and the wisdom to know the difference. Planning will get you through the day in food-choice balance. Plan for meals to be a colorful balance of vegetables, whole grains, fruits, proteins, and healthy fats. Balance a bagel-with-cream-cheese breakfast with baked tilapia, lentil soup, and cabbage for dinner. Strategize your weekly food choices, too. If you know you have a party on Saturday, and you’ll want to try half of the desserts, plan to limit your sweet indulgences the week before. Wilson’s personal game plan for balance at parties and special occasions is to eat what is special for the season. She says, “I look at the holiday buffet and think about which foods I will only get at this time of year. So I have the eggnog and sweet potato casserole, and I don’t eat the typical chips and dips. If it’s my mother’s almond crescent cookies I’ll eat it, but not a plain cookie that I could get at any time of the year.” So pull out a cookbook, invite over some pals, and get creative with the greens of Lacinato kale and the oranges of kubocha squash. Don’t let seasonal habits take a toll on your health. Get outside in the sunshine for a few minutes each day. Fill up with nourishing food and nourishing activities. Let the seasonal changes guide your eating toward appropriate choices. And remember: There’s wisdom in those cravings. Ilyse Simon is a registered and certified dietician who counsels whole foods nutrition in uptown Kingston. She can be found during much of winter clutching a warm mug of tea.
THE SANCTUARY A Place for Healing
5 ACADEMY STREET NEW PALTZ
845.255.3337 www.newpaltzsanctuary.com
Counseling & Psychotherapy ARiella Morris, LCSW-R EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness Body-Centered and Talk Therapy for Trauma, Abuse, Relationships, Accidents, Illness/Surgery & the hurts of life (Sliding scale) 853-3325
counseling & RESTORATIVE yoga Nancy Denicolo, Lic. MHC, RYT Movement s Breath s Deep Relaxation s $SFBUJWF &YQSFTTJPO Thursday Womens Restorative Yoga Class 5:30 - 6:30 pm www.omamaworks.com 926-2086
Reiki & I.E.T. Treatment Rev. Denise Meyer, BS, RMT Reiki Shares, Attunements, Private and Group Classes 255-3337 ext 2
Therapeutic massage annie serrante, lmt, lmsw 25 years experience Gift Certificates available. 255-3337 ext. 1 Students and Senior Citizens discounts available
Grief Counseling REV. JESSE J. CAUDIL, CT. Interfaith Minister revjesse2002@yahoo.com 234-8994
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LEARNING ABOUT YOURSELF FROM SPIRITUAL HELPERS BY MARGARET DONER ILLUSTRATION BY JASON CRING Have you noticed a powerful angelic presence in the world lately? Songs, books, angel cards, angel readings, pictures, and sculptures provide us the reminder that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Many people are searching for a way to connect to their spirit that doesn’t feel threatening, and those who were raised with the idea of a rigid and fear-based God often find comfort in the presence of angels even when other religious figures have “turned them off.” Angels are nondenominational: Every religion has some form of them. And, unlike God, people don’t go to war and kill one another over angels. The Judeo-Christian culture offers an array of angels. The most commonly known are Ariel, the Angel of Nature; Michael, the Angel of Protection; Raphael, the Angel of Healing; and Gabriel, the Angel of Communication. Most of us were taught that we have guardian angels watching over us. Some of us have had an “otherworldly” experience—a moment when the curtain between the physical and the nonphysical seemed to slip away. Those experiences are really not unusual at all. Many people have a story or two to share about such an occurrence if they feel safe to do so (or if you give them a few beers!). You may have wondered if otherworldly experiences are always outside of our control. Do angels only show up when they feel like it, or can we call angels to us? The answer is yes, we can call on them. Because angels must always honor a person’s free will, they will not intercede unless asked to do so. The exception to that is when someone’s life is in danger, and it isn’t part of their “life plan” for death or an accident to occur. I had the experience of my angels literally taking the wheel of my car and miraculously getting me around what would have been a horrible accident. Of course, in that case there wasn’t enough time for me to ask for help. But I knew immediately that it wasn’t me who steered my automobile around the suddenly stalled car in the middle of Route 9G in Hyde Park. When it comes to life guidance, the best way to be assured that your angels are working with you for your highest good is to create a daily dialogue with them. Because angels are devoid of fear and ego, and because they are aligned 98 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
with the highest good for all concerned, they can offer an overview of a situation that we humans (stuck down here on Earth with our limited perspective) often cannot achieve. Of course, whether we mortals want to look at the truth of a given situation, or know what angels think about what we are doing, is another issue altogether! Developing a connection and a communication with angels can be the first steps to understanding the eternal question Who am I?; not “who am I” right now as I sit in my office, or serve the umpteenth customer a burger deluxe, but who was I before I came to Earth and who will I be after I leave? Who am I at the level of my soul? This last question is the best reason of all to begin an intentional relationship with the angelic realm. Once you begin to understand that angels are spiritual beings with a consciousness that resonates at a much higher level than that of the average human, you then question who you are in relationship to these divine beings. And once you start to ask questions of angels, you better be ready to get some answers. Angels welcome the smallest opportunity to make their presence known in signs, symbols, songs, smells, visions, and deep, intuitive bursts of wisdom. But daily distractions and noise act as filters that keep out their heavenly wisdom. If we would stop filling every single moment of our lives with distractions, tasks, and obligations, we might hear them talk. Ah, silence. Seekers of spiritual wisdom go to a quiet place to receive enlightenment because they know that listening to a jackhammer and a bunch of taxi horns will drown out the subtler voices. Without silence you can’t get much information from an angel. It can be argued that people put so much noise and activity into their lives because they want to block out all that deeper spiritual insight. They are afraid of what they will hear if they sit in silence for a day. But, if you are curious about developing an angelic connection, the first step is to give angels some space in your life to speak to you. Seek a quiet, calm place to invite an angelic presence. When you are in that place, close your eyes, breathe deeply, and imagine a
beautiful waterfall of light coming down from above. Let that light wash away all your daily concerns. When you feel those concerns have left you, next draw loving energy from Mother Earth in through the soles of your feet. So, from above you are allowing the light to flow through you; from below you allow Mother Earth to nurture you. Picture yourself as a conduit between heaven and Earth. Next, link your heart to your angel’s heart with light. The best way to find your angel is to imagine that your angel is floating above your head. Feel for a sense of connection as you invite your angel to join you. Your angel is with you when you feel relaxed and more lighthearted. (A smile always comes to my lips when I first connect to the angels!) Then, allow questions or requests to flow. You may wish to ask, for instance, what you are missing in your current life’s equation—why you don’t feel as alive and joyful as you wish. Or perhaps you seek the answer to a relationship that keeps hitting rough ground. Remain in quiet, open awareness, allowing answers to come to you. In this way, I have connected with angels, and helped clients to do so, for many years. In fact, I would say that for me and my clients, angels have been teachers first and foremost. When I see a client for a private angel channeling, we do a meditation together and then the client has the opportunity to ask the angels some questions and concerns that are on their mind. As a channel, I allow the angels to use my body as a vehicle for their thoughts and words. I have asked Archangel Ariel and Archangel Michael to speak about us humans as an example of the guidance they can offer. Here is what they had to say. Archangel Michael: “Your emotions of love are not being given to you by an outside force that determines how you feel about another or how another feels about you. Love is present as a representation of who you are at this moment. Know the love that is present in your life and know yourself. Each person you have strong feelings about—and remember we do not think love and hate are as opposite as you do—each person that you have strong feelings about is telling you a story about you, and you would do well to explore that story and take the gift of self-knowledge that is being offered.” Archangel Ariel: “Some of you feel that this journey of self-discovery needs to be a struggle. I struggle to find who I am. I struggle to find God. I struggle to find my purpose, as though you are laden and burdened with this task of self-discovery. There is no more joyful task than the task of self-discovery. You will find at the end of the road lies the most beautiful soul and that soul is you. The struggle is something humans are in love with. Learn to be wedded to joy as much as you are to pain. Find joy in the act of self-discovery and change the world. “In the days to come, be honest about how you feel. Please take a moment to sit with your true feelings so that you can recognize again who you are. You can begin to recognize the truth in your heart of who you are. “Once you have the truth of your identity you will find it much easier to contact higher angels or spiritual beings because you won’t be hiding. Many people feel afraid that if they contact spiritual beings such as angels they are being ‘seen.’ They fear they are being judged by us. This embarrasses you. You feel you are being shamed. In some cases you fear us because we are showing you the truth of yourself: You are afraid of the mirror of Truth. “The more you begin to love and understand who you are truly and feel that all parts of yourself, including your shadow, are integrated into your consciousness, then the more you will feel comfortable allowing all parts of yourself to be revealed to angels.” Here is my final (human) suggestion if you want to consciously include angels in your life: Stop denying their existence. Even someone who is dramatically “touched by an angel” and proclaims it loudly at the time is likely to belittle the experience a week later and say, “Oh, I don’t know, it was probably just me.” It must be awfully frustrating for angels to try and help human beings and then have themselves denounced! Good thing angels are infinitely patient—otherwise they would have stopped helping us eons ago. Margaret Doner is an angelic channel who offers monthly group angelic channeling sessions and private angelic consultations. She is the author of Infinite Darkness/Infinite Light; the soon-to-be-released novel Children of Angels: A Modern Day Fairy Tale; Lies and Lust in the Tudor Court: The Fifth Wife of Henry VIII; and the recently released DVD, Archangels Speak. She can be reached at (845) 229-9133 or at www.margaretdoner.com.
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Elise Bacon Director CertiďŹ ed Instructor Since 1987 12 North Chestnut Street New Paltz NY 12561 Phone: 845.255.0559
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EQUINE FACILITATED HEALING
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Ada Citron, Taoist Counselor and Instructor (845) 339-0589 www.adacitron.com
FITNESS TRAINERS Body Language — Jerome Downey 7 Grand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 224-9173 www.bodylanguage.com Body Language is a personal fitness training studio offering personalized exercise plans, nutritional counseling, education for longevity, diet, correct posture, balance, pain management, stress relief, and healthy solutions for fatigue, chronic back pain, osteoporosis, and arthritis. You deserve a better body.
HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing (845) 255-3337 A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Offering Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Psychotherapy, Reiki, Dr. Hauschka Facials, Counseling, Restorative Yoga, and Kabbalistic Healing. Classes in Spontaneous Theater, Toning, NVC, Pathwork. Call for an appointment.
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH INFORMATION
(845) 339-5653 www.earthboundapothecary.com See listing in Acupuncture.
IT’S ALL ABOUT CHOICES SERVING KINGSTON, BENEDICTINE & NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITALS!
HOLISTIC HEALTH Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Omega Institute welcomes the local community as we celebrate 30 years of awakening the best in the human spirit. Join us for an evening event on our Rhinebeck campus or sign up for a women’s only Saturday workshop with holistic fitness expert Sierra Bender.
HYPNOSIS Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753 A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotism, hypnocoaching with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential.
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SHARON SLOTNICK, MS, CHT. New Paltz/Kingston, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stressrelated illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change your outlook. Gain Control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology.
JEWISH MYSTICISM/ KABBALAH Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Kabbalistic Healing in person and long distance. 6 session Introduction to Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
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Jeanne Asma, LCSWR — Psychotherapist & Life Coach
Pleasant Stone Farm
(845) 462-1182 www.JeanneAsma.com
130 Dolson Avenue, Middletown, NY (845) 343-4040
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EquisessionsÂŽ with Ada, a life-long rider, are therapeutically oriented, equine facilitated encounters based on the Epona Method from The Tao of Equus, by Linda Kohanov. Riding is involved in later sessions. This year Ada will present an all day pre-conference workshop for Region 1 of NARHA, the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, on Chi Kung as a tool for mounted equine facilitated healing work. She will also present, for the second time, her Chi Kung for Horse People at the conference itself.
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Change Your Life? Feeling unfulďŹ lled? Something missing? Life was not supposed to look like this? We have all been there from time to time. But you don’t have to stay there. My name is David Basch. I am a certiďŹ ed professional life and business coach. If you want to produce extraordinary results in your life, contact me for a free sample session at 845-626-0444 or visit www.dwbcoaching.com. Change is inevitable... growth is optional. It’s your call. 0## s 0ROFESSIONAL CertiďŹ ed Coach
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Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach
Violet Alchemy
Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.
MASSAGE THERAPY Ada Citron, LMT
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(845) 339-0589 www.adacitron.com A licensed practitioner since 1988, Ada currently prefers the modalities of Chi Nei Tsang, Chinese internal organ massage, and Shiatsu, pressure point massage. Classes offered in CNT. House call fees are commensurate with travel time. Kingston.
Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net
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Psychotherapy Dreamwork Sandplay Art Therapy Michelle Rhodes LMSW ATR-BC 845-255-8039 deepclay@mac.com www.deepclay.com
Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes. Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter.
Madhuri Yoga Spa 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 797-4124 www.MadhuriYogaSpa.com Healing‌ with a twist! A tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offering personalized aromatherapy massage, Therapeutic Yoga, Ayurvedic treatments and products, and master-level Reiki. Yoga for the Special Child starts 10/07. Gift Certificates available. Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT. By appointment only; call or visit us online.
Michelle Renar L.M.T 224 Fair Street Kingston NY (914) 388-5007 Custom Massage therapy for all body types and conditions. Modalities include: Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Swedish, Shiatsu. I also offer Aromatherapy massage using the purest grades of essential oils. Come enjoy a therapeutic touch tailored to your specific needs. Gift Certificates available. Appointment only. 106
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(845) 255-6482 Healing Massage. Swedish. Deep Tissue. Hot Stone. Shiatsu. Craniosacral. Lymph Drainage. Tibetan Reflexology. Reiki. Touch For Health.
(845) 883-7899 www.violetalchemyhealing.com Dona Ho Lightsey, LMT, IET Master Instructor. 44 S. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY
MEDITATION Zen Mountain Monastery South Plank Road, Mt. Tremper, NY (845) 688-2228 Offering year-round retreats geared to all levels of experience: introductions to Zen meditation and practice; programs exploring Zen arts, Buddhist studies, and social action, and intensive meditation retreats.
MIDWIFERY Catskill Mountain Midwifery — Home Birth Services (845) 687-BABY Give birth as you wish, in an environment in which you feel nurtured and secure; where your emotional well-being, privacy, and personal preferences are respected. Be supported by a tradition that trusts the natural process. Excellent MD consult, hospital backup.
Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 womanway@gmail.com Since the 1970s Jennifer has been actively involved in childbirth. She is an expert in preserving natural birth and has attended over 3,000 births in hospitals, high-risk medical centers, birth centers, and homes. She is uniquely qualified to provide women with personal, safe, and supportive pregnancy & birth care in their homes. Certified Nurse Midwife & NYS licensed with excellent medical backup.
NUTRITION Jill Malden, RD, CSW 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 489-4732 Prominent Nutritionist specializing in eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level, cravings, concentration, energy level, and sleep, in addition to body weight. Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life!
Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition (845) 687-9666 www.nourishingwisdom.com See listing in Cooking Classes.
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Amy J. Davidson, D.O.
Psychically Speaking
197 County Rt. 10, Germantown (518) 567-9977
(845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com
Dr. Davidson, a Fellow in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) incorporates Myofascial Release, Counter Strain, Cranial Osteopathy and other modalities, practicing OMM exclusively. Mainstays include pain management (arthritis, back pain, sciatica, fibromyalgia, etc.), M.S., Parkinsons’ and Pediatrics (otitis, scoliosis, nursing disorders and birth trauma). Dr. Davidson is a 2001 graduate of New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Applied Osteopathy — Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 138 Market Street, Rhinebeck, (845) 8761700 3457 Main St, Stone Ridge, (845) 6877589 257 Main Street, New Paltz, (845) 2569884 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com
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Psychic Consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 20 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and insights as a means to provide awareness of ones life and destiny. Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone.
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Kingston (914) 388-7789
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(845) 380-0023 Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-graduate candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Psychotherapeutic work with adults and adolescents. Opportunity currently available for intensive, supervised psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction for appropriate individual. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Peter M. del Rosario, PhD 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (914) 262-8595 Licensed psychologist. Insight-oriented, culturally sensitive psychotherapy for adults and adolescents concerned with: relationship difficulties, codependency, depression, anxiety, sexual/physical trauma, grief and bereavement, eating disorders, dealing with divorce, gay/lesbian issues. Free initial consult.
Rachael Diamond, LCSW, CHt Women’s Care Center Rhinebeck (845) 876-2496 Kingston (845) 338-5575 Empowerment through information. Located in Rhinebeck and Kingston. Massage and acupuncture available. Gynecology - treating our patients through the most up-to-date medical and surgical technologies available, combined with alternative therapies. Obstetrics - working with you to create the birth experience you desire. Many insurances accepted. Evening hours available.
PILATES Pilates of New Paltz / Core Pilates Studio Pilates of New Paltz (845) 255-0559 These studios offer caring, experienced, and certified instruction with fully equipped facilities. Each student receives detailed attention to his/her needs while maintaining the energizing flow of the classical pilates system. Hours are flexible enough to accommodate any schedule.
New Paltz, NY (845) 883-9642 Holistically-oriented therapist offering counseling, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy. Specializing in issues pertaining to relationships, personal growth, life transitions, alternative lifestyles, childhood abuse, codependency, addiction, recovery, illness, and grief. Some insurances accepted. Office convenient to New Paltz and surrounding areas. Free half hour consultation.
PSYCHOTHERAPY Amy R. Frisch, CSWR New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229 Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls, and The Healing Circle: an adult bereavement group offering a safe place to begin the healing process after the death of a loved one. Most insurances accepted.
Debra Budnik, CSW-R The Moving Body 276 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7715 www.themovingbody.com
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Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We have studied with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO, and completed a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. For more information call or visit the website.
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Yoga Barbara Boris 5 classes a week at Mt. View Studio, Woodstock
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the Divine Fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of Divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame. B.K.S. Iyengar
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Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir Uniquely qualified to help you ignite your musical spark, no matter what your ability. Peter Muir, PhD, Dip. IMH, is an internationally known pianist, composer, scholar and conductor with over 20 years teaching experience.
(845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com
COME TO SPROUT CREEK FARM MARKET! Grass-fed cheese from our own Guernsey and Jersey Cows... Free from artificial antibiotics and hormones While you’re here you can also pick up... Grass Fed Pork, Veal, and Beef as well as Remsberger Farms Honey and Maple Syrup.
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Come meet all of our cows, sheep, goats, and ducks! 34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie NY 12603 www.sproutcreekfarm.org ~ 845-485-9885 ~ cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org Wednesday–Saturday 10–6
identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.
Deep Clay (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LMSW ATR-BC. Short term counseling and in-depth psychoanalytic arts-based psychotherapy. Activates creative imagination to enhance healing and problem solving for life transitions, bereavement, trauma and dissociative disorders. Women’s group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, and teens.
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933
(845) 679-5511 x304 Development of solutions through simple self-observation, reflection, and conversation. Short- or long-term work around difficult relationships; life or career transitions; ethical, spiritual, or psychic dilemmas; and creative hurdles. Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy. Sliding scale.
Meg F. Schneider, MA, CSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 Psychotherapy for adults and adolescents. Counseling and guidance for special parent issues: helping children thru divorce, coping with a new single life and communicating with troubled teens. Long or short term therapy and EMDR.
REIKI The Sanctuary — Reiki
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Rev. Denise Meyer offers Usui Reiki treatments. Experience the benefits of deep relaxation and energetic releases through this method of healing touch. Reiki energy supports and heals the mind, body, heart and spirit through the delivery of Light Energy into the energy field of the receiver.
Rhinebeck & Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 876-7600 Offering a variety of approaches, both short and long term to help you regain a sense of personal control, meaning, and connections in your life. Specializing in mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, abuse, addictions, loss, eating disorders, and relationship/communication difficulties. Serving individuals and couples; adults and adolescents.
(845) 462-1182 www.JeanneAsma.com Individual, couples, and group sessions for adults. Women’s issues groups now forming. Specializing in relationship issues, improving self-esteem, binge eating and body image, life transitions including divorce and grief issues, trauma, and abuse. Many insurances accepted or sliding scale available. Office located in Poughkeepsie.
Judith Blackstone, Ph.D. (845) 679-7005 www.realizationcenter.com Offering traditional psychotherapy and EMDR for healing from trauma and changing limiting beliefs, breathwork for relieving stress and breathing difficulties, and Realization Process, a body-oriented meditation for deepening contact with oneself and others. For individuals and couples. NY State licensed. Offices in Kingston, Willow, and NYC.
Judy Swallow, MA, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY Integrative body/mind therapist using Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama in her work with individuals, couples, groups, HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/07
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and families. Inquire for workshops and training, as well as therapy.
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SCHOOLS Institute of Transpersonal Psychology ITP is an accredited graduate psychology school offering clinical and nonclinical certificates, MA, and PhD degrees. The curriculum combines mind, body, and spiritual inquiry with scholarly research and self-discovery. Graduates have strong clinical skills and can communicate in a variety of complex relational circumstances.
SPAS & RESORTS Emerson Resort & Spa (845) 688-1000 www.emersonresort.com There is a Silk Road running through the Hudson Valley. Introducing the new Emerson Resort & Spa. A place just minutes from Woodstock offering the comforting sense that one is no longer part of the outside world. The new Spa, with 10 beautifully designed treatment rooms, celebrates the old-world traditions of India and the Orients with Ayurvedic rituals and Japanese and Chinese therapies. Modern spa-goers will also appreciate more wellknown treatments like Swedish, sports, and deep tissue massage, manicures, facials, and body wraps. Individuallytailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa’s 40+ treatments. Spend the day enjoying the Spa’s hot tubs, steam showers,
sauna, resistance pool, cardio equipment, yoga/meditation room and relaxation area... all included with your Spa visit. Day spa appointments available.
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meat three times a day or a lacto-vegetarian wanting to give up dairy, it’s a process that can be fun, easy, and meaningful. You can do it easily with the proper support, guidance, and encouragement from your Vegan Lifestyle Coach.
YOGA Patricia Lee Rode, M.A. CCC-SLP (646) 729-6633 Speech Language Pathologist with ten years experience providing diagnostic/ therapeutic services for children/adults with speech/language delays and neurological disorders. Specializing in Autistic Spectrum Disorders, PDD, ADHD, Apraxia, memory and language related disorders. Trained in P.R.O.M.P.T., and Hippotherapy. Offer individual therapy and social skills groups. Offices in NYC/Rhinebeck.
SPIRITUAL Healing, Pathwork & Channeling by Flowing Spirit Guidance (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com
TAROT Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone. Also see ad.
VEGAN LIFESTYLES Andrew Glick — Vegan Lifestyle Coach (845) 679-7979 www.meatfreezone.org andy@meatfreezone.org The single most important step an individual can take to help save the planet’s precious resources, improve and protect one’s health, and stop the senseless slaughter of over 50 billion animals a year...is to Go Vegan. What could make you feel better about yourself than knowing you are helping the planet, your own health, and the lives of countless animals all at the same time? If the idea is daunting and seems undoable to you, then let your personal Vegan Lifestyle Coach take you through steps A to Z. Whether you’re a cattle rancher eating
Mt. View Studio, Woodstock (845) 679-3728 www.barbaraborisyoga.com bxboris@yahoo.com The Iyengar method develops strength, endurance, and correct body alignment in addition to flexibility and relaxation. Standing poses are emphasized: building strong legs, increased general vitality, and improved circulation, coordination and balance. 12 years teaching yoga, 20 years practicing. 12 trips to India. Extensive training with the Iyengar family.
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Jai Ma Yoga Center New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 Offering a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week, from Gentle/Restorative Yoga to Advanced. Meditation classes free to all enrolled. Chanting Friday evenings. New expanded studio space. Private consultations and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy sessions available. Gina Bassinette, RYT & Ami Hirschstein, RYT, Owners.
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It is our birthright to experience the abundance of the universe, the deep love of God, and our own divinity! It is also our birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to do it. So why don’t we? Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully the love and the abundance of God’s universe. We can have it in any moment. We can learn to purify our imperfections AND experience heaven on earth. Jaffe Institute Spiritual Healing; Pathwork and Channeling available. Contact Joel Walzer for sessions.
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Madhuri Yoga Spa (845) 797-4124 www.MadhuriYogaSpa.com Healing... with a twist! Yoga for the Special Child, Gentle and Beginners’ Hatha for special populations; Therapeutic and One-on-One Yoga Sessions. Gift Certificates available. Alice Madhuri Velky, LMT, RYT. Call or visit us online for more info.
Satya Yoga Center Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2528 www.satyayogarhinebeck.com Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center is located in the heart of Rhinebeck village, on the third floor of the Rhinebeck Department Store building. We offer classes for all levels, 7 days a week. There is no need to pre-register: we invite you to just show up.
The Living Seed 521 Main Street (Rte. 299, across from Econo Lodge), New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com Open to the community for over 5 years. Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced. Including pre- and post-natal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, acupuncture, sauna and organic Yoga clothing.
Partners in Massage 4415 Albany Post Rd–Route 9 Just South of the Vanderbilt Mansion
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WE NOW OFFER Hot stone massage, Deep tissue, Medical and Swedish massage, Couples massage, Shiatsu, Reexology, Cranio-Sacral therapy, Reiki sessions and training workshops. Think of us for your bridal or baby shower. SPA SERVICES NOW AVAILABLE:BODY WRAPS, SEA-SALT GLOW, SPA BACK AND FOOT TREATMENTS, REIKI I AND REIKI II TRAINING
Margaret Doner LMT, Chris Hanckel LMT, Carol Kaiser LMT, Aide Kopito LMT, Mark Pukmel LMT welcome you to experience the healing of mind, body and spirit at Partners in Massage. CertiďŹ ed Hypnotist Donna Thomas has joined the practice. Hours available seven days a week by appointment.
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Freewheeling Freakout At this point, it almost goes without saying that Yo La Tengo is a cherished, venerable cornerstone of the indie rock community. The guitar-drums/husband-wife duo of Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley came roaring out of Hoboken 23 years ago with a healthy respect for the polarities of the Velvet Underground— shimmering, melodic ballads and feedback-drenched noise workouts. Now the band, which also features long-time bassist James McNew, is finally making its Woodstock debut with two shows at the Colony Cafe on October 20. “The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo” tour should disprove the notion that you can’t teach an old band new tricks. The all-acoustic set will be chock-full of selections from the band’s more than 15 albums, including the gloriously titled 2006 platter I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador). With its name alone the band has garnered an eclectic and irreverent reputation. Spanish for “I’ve got it!”—“Yo la tengo!” was the cry of 1962 New York Mets shortstop Elia Chacon, who frequently collided with his teammate Richie Ashburn on pop-ups. Kaplan said the acoustic format allows the band to play in new venues, as well as approach songs from different angles. “[Acoustic] definitely makes it quieter,” says the singer-guitarist via cell phone from a European tour. “I think the plan is to turn things down and go in with less of a scheme about what’s going to be happening on any given night. What’s fun about doing [guitar freakout] songs, like ‘The Story of Yo La Tengo,’ is adapting them to different styles and using different approaches. If it was going to
Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew of Yo La Tengo.
translate precisely, it would take a lot of the fun and challenge out of it.” Although the band will touch on various permutations of its sound, Kaplan is adamant that the tour not be looked at as some kind of valedictory good-bye kiss. “This is not a grand statement of summation,” he asserts. “It’s just something we’re going to do and you can’t help but sum things up anytime you do something. We’ve never thought too far into the future. Being together for this long was never something we planned to do or planned not to do. We try not to look too far into the future or backward at various moments. The three of us are really excited and interested in what we’re doing and in doing different things. We don’t struggle very hard to find something to be captivated by.” I Am Not Afraid of You is as diverse a record as an audiophile could hope for. “Mr. Tough” is a horn-driven toe-tapper with a dose of Curtis Mayfield falsetto, while “Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind” marries a “Funky Drummer” beat to a squalling freight train of noisy drone. “I think the diversity contributed to the length,” Kaplan says about the album. “If we had songs that all sounded the same, the record would have been a lot shorter. We never go into it with a clear expectation of what needs to be done. We like the feeling of seeing what’s going to happen and not be committed to doing anything in particular.” Yo La Tengo will play on October 20 at 8pm and 10pm at the Colony Café in Woodstock. (845) 679-5342; www.colonycafe.com; www.wdst.com. —Jeremy Schwartz 10/07 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST
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Clockwise from upper left: Object #6, Tim Rowan, raw clay sculpture; Surfaced Coral Garden, Val Bertoia, bronze sculpture; Center, Barbara Bash, suma ink on paper; Grandma After the Snow, Marty Carey, pen and ink on paper.
Serendipitous Encounters A friend of the family, a chance meeting in Nevada, a dinner party invitation: Serendipitous encounters leave their mark on a local curator’s work. Chrissy Glenn’s run-in with fate gave birth to two shows this month: “Sound and Vision,” a group show at the Pearl Gallery in Stone Ridge, and “Green Flag Song,” an exhibition of Joni Mitchell’s photographs in Manhattan. The groundwork for “Sound and Vision” was set in Pennsylvania during Glenn’s high school internship with renowned sculptor and family friend Val Bertoia. Years later, Glenn is now framing an exhibition around Bertoia’s work, showing it alongside the work of four artists who work in diverse media: Barbara Bash (large-scale calligraphy), Marty Carey (pen-and-ink drawings), Tim Rowan (sculpture), Jane Herold (ceramics). “It’s wonderful to see the juxtaposition of a three-dimensional work with a two dimensional work, and I always have a sculptor with my shows of painters, photographers, and printmakers,” said Glenn. “I like to bring them together.” Val Bertoia did not stumble upon art—he was born into it. His father, Harry, famed designer and sculptor began the Bertoia Studio that Val has run since 1978. Harry Bertoia met his moment of providence while constructing a chair. He hit two metal rods together and from the gonglike reverberations were the inspiration for the Sonambient sound sculptures made of copper, brass, and steel rods. When touched, the work vibrates, emitting multiple tones. Four years ago, Glenn attended Burning Man in the Nevada desert, where she met the friend of a friend of Joni Mitchell. Over dinner in Stone Ridge a couple of years later,
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Glenn was convinced to visit Los Angeles and see Mtichell’s “Green Flag Song” at the Lev Moross Gallery. Glenn accepted the impromptu offer and found herself in front of a battleship-gray wall with heart-wrenching green-toned photographic triptychs printed on canvas, calling for peace. “I was so moved by it,” said Glenn, “so incredibly moved by the poignancy of her work and how the timing for it is just so needed. The need for a change of consciousness and for people to become aware what’s going on in the world.” With a little encouragement from her new friends she wrote Mitchell a letter offering to curate her show in Manhattan. Mitchell agreed, and “Green Flag Song” will be at Violet Ray Gallery at Openhouse through October 10. The multitalented Mitchell has also just released a new album, Shine, which was released in conjunction with the opening of her photographic exhibition in late September. Earlier this year she debuted a ballet, “The Fiddle and the Drum,” with the Alberta Ballet in Calgary. “Sound and Vision” will be exhibited from October 14 through November 15 at the Pearl Gallery, 3572 Main Street in Stone Ridge. An opening reception will be held on October 14 from 2 to 5pm, with demonstrations of Sonambient sculpture by Val Bertoia and large-scale calligraphy created using an oversized brush the size of a mop by Barbara Bash. (845) 687-0888; www.pearlartsgallery.com. “Green Flag Song” will run through October 10 at Violet Ray Gallery at Openhouse, 201 Mulberry Street in Manhattan. (917) 913-2700; www.violetraygallery.com. —Francis Cruz
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Engaged Spirituality
Qigong
Call for times. The movement of spirit in action. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
Call for times. Traditional Qigong forms. $100 ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
Contemplative Reading
Tai Chi Chuan
7pm. Pearls of Gnostic wisdom for living in the present. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Conference Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799.
Call for times. Ten session course. $100. Call for location. 452-7067.
CLASSES Commonsense Acupuncture 6:30pm-Thursday, October 4, 8pm. Foundational understanding of Chinese Medicine and will focus on research into. $49. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
CLASSES Flying Trapeze Lessons Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.
Capoeira Angola
Swing Dance Class
Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.
Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
DANCE
Capoeira Angola Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.
Enlightened Women: Life of Yeshe Tsogyal Call for times. Taught by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche. $120. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-0360.
SPOKEN WORD What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason 4:30pm. Film screening. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.
Scrabble Group
Modern Dance 5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.
KIDS Preschool Story Time Call for times. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.
6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.
Sudbury School Information Meeting
Marbletown Natural Heritage Plan Public Release
12pm-1pm. Overview of the school and our educational philosophy. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.
7:15pm. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 687-0660.
MUSIC
WORKSHOPS
Open Mike Night
Yoga for Golfers
8pm. $4. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Call for times. Improve your game through focus and flexibility. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
Celtic Jam Session
Divorce and Your Children
Open Mike
12pm-2pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
Working on Your Marriage Alone 7pm. Improving your marriage. W/Bill Colagrande. 275 Fair Street, Kingston. 339-6250.
TUESDAY 2 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tuesday Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Dharma Gatherings 7:15pm-8:30pm. Topics from social justice to the arts, from a Shambhala Buddhist perspective. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
CLASSES
7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
THEATER Kathy Buckley 7pm. Comedy. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.
6:30pm-8:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
THURSDAY 4 4pm-8pm. To benefit the scholarship fund for the Art Institute. Vassar Alumni House, Poughkeepsie. 437-7100.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class
Life Drawing Sessions
CLASSES
6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.
2pm-3pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
Hudson Valley Golf Classic
Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style
Mind Matters 12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7223.
For Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement
7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. (917) 232-3623.
Learn to Dance 7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-1162.
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
4pm. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3179.
MUSIC
WORKSHOPS
Simchas Torah with the Saints of Swing
Divorce: Share Questions and Answers with Others 12pm-1:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
Divorce - How To Get Through It 6:30pm-8:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
Planning for Trees in Urban & Community Landscapes 7pm-9pm. $10. NYSDEC Stony Kill Environmental Education Center, Wappingers Falls. 758-0504.
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Call for times. Through October 4. Robert Ohnigian. $270. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
11:30am. To benefit the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center. Hollow Brook Golf Club, Cortlandt Manor. (914) 332-5953.
Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York (845) 437-5632 http://fllac.vassar.edu Open Tuesday-Sunday, until 9:00p.m.onThursdays
6:30pm-8:30pm. Poetry workshop. AIR Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
Art Institute: Alumni Art Auction
7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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12:30pm-1:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
West Coast Swing Classes
Call for times. Tour different eateries, meet with the owners, and enjoy dinner. $119. Call for location. 339-2025.
A Focused Collection, Drawings From Dia, and Selections from the Permanent Collection
Divorce: Get Organized
6:30-8:30pm. W/Chef Jessica Bard. Warren Kitchen and Cutlery, Rhinebeck. 876-6208.
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Indian-Inspiration Menu
Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
William Stanley Haseltine (1835-1900) Sunset Glow, Roman Campagna, after 1874, oil on canvas Collection of Alvin and Maryann Friedman
6pm. The Saints of Swing & Rabbi Jonathan Kligler lead an exciting Simchas Torah Celebration. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 246-1671.
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BOUND FOR CANAAN: THE EPIC STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, AMERICA’S FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Fergus M. Bordewich, Oct. 2nd - Villa Library THE CATHOLIC INTELLECTUAL TRADITION: WHAT DOES THE CHARISM OF THE DOMINICANS, FRANCISCANS, AND JESUITS CONTRIBUTE TO THIS TRADITION? Panelists: Sr. Margaret Palliser, O.P., Fr. David Flood, O.F.M. and Dr. James Finn Cotter, Oct. 9th - Hudson Hall Aud. FRANZ LISZT: EMBLEM OF ROMANTICISM, KEYBOARD SUPERMAN. Militades Matthias, Oct. 11th - Music Room, Aquinas Hall. FAITH IN NEWBURGH: HOW THE CITY AND ITS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES INFLUENCE ONE ANOTHER. Assistant Pastor Danny Dottin ’95, Amazing Grace Apostolic Faith Church; Rev Deborah M. Dresser, St. George's Episcopal Church; Imam Salahuddin M. Muhammad of the Masji Al-Ikhlas; Fr. Bill Scafidi ‘88, pastor of St. Mary’s Church Oct. 30th - Aquinas Hall Theatre. For more information: Cultural Center: 569-3179
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SPOKEN WORD Separation & Divorce Support Group
Kurt Henry Band 9:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps
Authors and Artists Cristina Biaggi and Imogene Drummond
SPOKEN WORD
7pm. Reading from The Rule of Mars: Readings on the Origins, History and Impact of Patriarchy. Merritt Books, Cold Spring. 265-9100.
This Perfect River-View 7:30pm. $7/$4 members. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-OnHudson. 534-5506x204.
11pm. Classic rock. Snug Harbor, New Paltz. 255-9800.
Religions and Politics 12pm. Luncheon lecture series. $14/$12. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7235.
Kali and Maegan 8pm. Poetry and drums. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.
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8pm. Host of NPR’s “Fresh Air” talks about her storied career. Students Building, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
Margaret Steele and James Hamilton
THEATER Margaret Steele and James Hamilton 8pm. Magic of the Golden Age. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 8763080.
FRIDAY 5 ART Women & Books: Artist Books by Four Local Women Artists 5pm-7pm. An exhibition of artist books in a range of styles and formats. The Quest, Stone Ridge. 687-7963.
The Bad Dog Show 5pm-8pm. Photography exhibit. Mona Lisa Gallery, Rhinebeck. 876-3009.
Jumbo 6pm-8pm. Large-scale art in all media. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie. 486-1378.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
11am. Magic of the Golden Age. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 8763080.
Over the River and Through the Woods 8pm. Call ahead for seating. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Stories told by audience members are brought to life by this improv troupe. $6. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.
The Belle of Amherst 8pm. $20. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
WORKSHOPS Yoga as Muse Call for times. A retreat for writers by Jeff Davis. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 679-9441.
Hudson Valley Dutch Family Puppet Making Workshop 4pm-5:30pm. $8. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.
SATURDAY 6
Spirit Readings with a Psychic Medium Call for times. Receive messages from spirit guides. $40/$75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Breast Cancer Support Group 1pm-2:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 339-4673.
ART Artists in the Garden 11am-4pm. Over 50 artists will display and sell works in all media. Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park. 229-6432.
CLASSES
Melissa Harris Art Studio Sale
Salsa Dance Classes
11am-6pm. Melissa Harris Art Studio, Hurley. 340-9632.
Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
Melange: A Medley of Life in Photographs
Fall Foliage in Oil
12:30pm-2:30pm. Works Ken Lipston. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.
Call for times. Mary Anna Goetz. $270. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
The Fall Dutch Barn Show
DANCE
1pm-6pm. Art show and reading with potluck cookout. Rose Burlingham Fine Art, Clinton Corners. 266-4012.
Moroccan Nights
Photography Karen Capobianco 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org.
EVENTS
Richard Purdy: Encaustics 2000-2007
Grass-to-Fuel Field Days
5pm-7pm. R&F Handmade Prints, Kingston. 331-3112.
12pm-2:30pm. Growing biomass grasses. Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. 677-8223.
The Face of New York: Portraits of Working Life
Grand Opening: Center for Creative Education 4pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
KIDS Music Together
5pm-8pm. Workforce Development Institute, Kingston. (518) 272-3500.
Darkness and Delight 5pm-9pm. Photography by Jo Andres. Raintree Gallery, High Falls. 687-2685.
Natural Elements: Women in the Woods
10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location. (203) 256-1656.
5:30pm-7:30pm. Be Gallery, High Falls. 687-0660.
MUSIC
Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group
Bach & Vivaldi Concertofest
11am-12:30pm. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 339-4673.
Call for times. Presented by the Berkshire Bach Society. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. (845) 399-6088.
Billy Mitchell and Jon Walters 4pm. Singer/songwriters. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.
Annual Gala Recognition Dinner 6pm. SUNY Ulster honors community leaders with silent auction, cocktail hour, and elegant dinner. Hillside Manor, Kingston. (845) 687-5283.
Rosendale Rocks the Vote Concert 6pm-9pm. Featuring Jesse Alexander, Yarrow, Big Sister. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-8533.
Jon Walters 6:30pm-8pm. Singer/songwriter. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.
Mustard’s Retreat 8pm-1am. Folk. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Cosy Sheridan 8pm. Friends of Fiddler’s Green concert. $8/$6 members, seniors, students/children free. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 483-0650.
Roomful of Blues 9pm. $35/$40 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Marc Black Band 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
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9pm. Featuring the Marc Black Band. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
6pm-8pm. For women. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-2235.
1:45am-1:45am. Belly dancing. Le Rive Gauche, Kingston. 339-2003.
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Breast Cancer Support Group 6:30pm-7:30pm. Palenville Branch Library, Palenville. (518) 678-3357.
DANCE Ballroom/Latin/Swing Dance 7:30pm-11:30pm. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
EVENTS Boscobel/ Mandeville Joint Tour 10am. Historic houses just 3 miles from each other. (845) 265-3638.
Second Annual Kingston Chili Cook-Off Call for times. T.R. Gallo Park, Kingston. 331-7517.
Hudson Valley Green Homes and Buildings Open Houses 1pm-4pm. See energy efficient, green buildings. Call for location. (413) 774-6051x30.
Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.
Heart of the Hudson Valley Bounty Festival 10am-4pm. Showcasing agricultural heritage and attractions. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789.
Capital Region Green Homes and Buildings Open Houses 10am-4pm. See energy efficient, green buildings. Call for location. (413) 774-6051x30.
Marc Miller Photographs November 3 - November 24, 2007
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Admission is free and open to all Open Tuesday – Friday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 1 – 5 p.m. 845.257.3844
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Tour of Historic Dutch and English Barns 10am-4pm. $35/children free. Call for location. 876-4213.
10:30am-1:30pm. Chants, sitting and walking meditation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Wild Life Program
CLASSES
11am. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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DANCE
Imani Woodwind Quintet
10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.
8pm. $25/$5 students/children free. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870.
Horse and Carriage Day
Vassar College Orchestra
The Bronx Opera 8pm-10pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291x205.
Oberlin Fortepiano Trio
Singles and Sociables Hike-Stokes Loop 9:30am-4pm. 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Mushroom Hike 10am. $5/$3 members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506x204.
Night Walk/Owl Prowl
Jazz Concert 4pm. Pianist/composer Peggy Stern with saxophonist Giulio Martino. Adam’s Piano, Shokan. (518) 537-2326.
Second Sunday Songwriters Series 7pm-9pm. Triple of singer/songwriters. $8. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Jazz Jam 8pm. W/Pamela Pentony. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.
Pete Best Band 8pm. With the Michael Packer Blues Band. $30/$35 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike-Bonticou Crag
Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club
9:30am-2:30pm. 5-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Poets’ Walk Past and Present
10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 6877023.
11am. Learn about the park’s history as a 19th-century Romantic landscape. Poets’ Walk, Red Hook. 473-4440 x270.
Wolves: Past, Present and Future
SPOKEN WORD
11am. With wolf teacher Pamela Brown. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Reading by Herschel Silverman
Legacy Farm Cohousing
8pm. Jazz poet. $5. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-8777.
12:30pm-4pm. Information session. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 943-9005.
THEATER
Reading of Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara 7:30pm. Come hear James Gurney’s best-selling fourth book where humans and dinosaurs live peacefully. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-0500.
Former Weathermen Cathy Wilkerson 8pm-9:45pm. Reading from her memoir, Flying Close to the Sun, with screening of Legacy of Torture. $7/$5 students and members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
THEATER
Over the River and Through the Woods 2pm. Call ahead for seating. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Margaret Steele and James Hamilton 3pm. Magic of the Golden Age. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
The Belle of Amherst 3pm. $20. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
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11am. Magic of the Golden Age. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Yoga for Golfers
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SPOKEN WORD 8:30am-6pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2975.
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7pm-9:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Women’s Studies Conference
12:30pm-2:30pm. Freedom, civil rights and social justice singers to benefit WBCR-LP 97.7 FM. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington. (413) 528-3394.
Reality Check
Call for times. Difficult hike. Call for location. 532-9303.
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Acoustic Brunch with Kim and Reggie Harris
Mellow Brew
Flume/Ice Cave/Grand Canyon Sam’s Point
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MUSIC
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1pm-5pm. Through storytelling and art. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. 2pm-3:30pm. For ages 5-10 and their families. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.
8pm. Acoustic. $25/$20 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.
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Tiger Piss and Friends
12pm-4pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.
The Mammals
9pm. Silo Ridge Country Club, Amenia. 373-7000.
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6:30pm-9pm. Beginner lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.
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8pm. To benefit the MAA Scholarship Fund. $15. MAA Cabaret, Stone Ridge. 687-4760.
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3pm-5pm. I Am Just A Kid: songs for kids and parents. Max’s on Main, Beacon. 838-6288.
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8pm. $20. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
The Art & Science of Breath for Radiance & Vitality
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2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
8pm. Comedy. $48.50/$43.50 members. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
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Call for times. Ages 8-80+, various levels. $60. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
Hive Maintenance 10am-1:30pm. Fall and winter preparation. $40. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.
SUNDAY 7 ART Melissa Harris Art Studio Sale 12pm-7pm. Melissa Harris Art Studio, Hurley. 340-9632.
Paintings by Eileen Brand 4pm-6pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Beauty of Aging 4pm-6pm. Photography exhibit by Kelly Hoolihan. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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EVENTS Apple Festival 9pm-5pm. Weeds Orchards, Marlboro. 236-2684.
GALLERY Glens and Gardens 5pm-8pm. Cross River Fine Arts, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
MUSIC Big Kahuna 8pm. Covers. Barton Orchards, Poughquag. 227-2306.
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DANCE
Deyo Family Association
Modern Dance
Call for times. Annual meetings. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.
EVENTS
Discussion with Lewis Black
Nursing Information Sessions
WORKSHOPS
3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.
Divorce and Your Children
FILM
8pm. Comedian. Riverspace, Nyack. 348-0741.
12pm-2pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
TUESDAY 9 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tuesday Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. $15/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Dharma Gatherings 7:15pm-8:30pm. Topics from social justice to the arts, from a Shambhala Buddhist perspective. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Woodstock Film Festival Call for times. Call for specific films and showing times. Call for location. 679-4265.
KIDS Preschool Story time Call for times. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.
MUSIC Celtic Jam Session 7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
SPOKEN WORD
CLASSES
Adult Book Discussion
West Coast Swing Classes
7pm-9pm. Animal Farm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.
Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
An Appreciation for Your Hometown Eateries Call for times. Tour different eateries, meet with the owners, and enjoy dinner. $119. Call for location. 339-2025.
Rosendale Community Drum and Sing 7pm. $48 series/$14 session. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 658-8673.
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THE OUTDOORS Nature Strollers 9:30am. Hike for families with young children. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506x204.
SPOKEN WORD Mind Matters 12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7223.
Hudson River Style Perriaugers
In the Heart of the Catskills: A History 7pm. With author Bob Steuding. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
7pm. With Authors Russell Dunn and Barbara Delaney. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.
Discipline Tips From the Young Naturalist Classroom 7:30pm.. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwallon-Hudson. $5/$2 members. 534-5506x204.
WORKSHOPS Fresh Start 6-9pm. A practical guide to breaking the grip of past hurts. 275 Fair Street, Kingston. $79. 339-6250.
Divorce: Starting All Over Again 6:30pm-8:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.
Lecture and Gallery Opening Will Coton will present his fantasy paintings. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-5262.
Marat/Sade
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Call for times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Tai Chi Chuan Classes
6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.
CLASSES Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. (917) 232-3623.
Learn to Dance
Divorce - How to Get Through It
7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-1162.
6:30pm-8:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
Life Drawing Sessions
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7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS 3rd Annual Business Awards Recognition Dinner 5:30pm. Presented by the Ulster Chamber of Commerce. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 331-0700.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
MUSIC
Qigong
Vassar College Music Colloquium
Call for times. Traditional Qigong forms. $100 ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
Tai Chi Chuan Call for times. Ten session course. $100. Call for location. 452-7067.
A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
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7pm. With wolf teacher Pamela Brown. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.
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6:30pm-8:30pm. Poetry workshop. AIR Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
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8am-10:45am. $10. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 331-8920.
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7pm. Forgotten Colonial Ferryboats. $5. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.
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4:30pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.
Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Hungarian Brass Quintet 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7196.
Celtic Music 8:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock. 679-2470.
Flying Trapeze Lessons
SPOKEN WORD
Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.
Will Cotton 7pm. Art lecture. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.
Capoeira Angola
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Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.
7:30pm. $7/$4 members. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-OnHudson. 534-5506x204.
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Cathy Wilkerson agitating at a protest, circa 1968. Wilkerson will read from Flying Close to the Sun, her memoir of life as a Weatherman radical, at Time & Space Limited in Hudson on October 6.
Vintage Violence Cathy Wilkerson joined Weatherman, the leftist revolutionary group, when it was founded in 1969, and was soon chanting slogans like “Kick the Ass of the Ruling Class” and “Bring the War Home!” On March 6, 1970, she was in a townhouse on West 11th Street in New York when it exploded after two Weathermen incorrectly assembled a pipe bomb. The townhouse belonged to her father; Wilkerson was at that moment ironing sheets. In her new memoir, Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman (Seven Stories Press), she describes the explosion: “I was bearing down on the wrinkles on the white sheet covering the ironing board when a shock wave shot through the house. A blast reverberated through the house and in place of the ironing board, a mountain of splintered wood and brick rose up all around me.” Three Weathermen died in the explosion. Wilkerson escaped (she came to police attention as the woman seen running naked from the burning brownstone), and lived underground for 10 years. In 1980, she turned herself in, and served a short sentence for possession of illegal explosives. Today, Wilkerson works in the New York City school system teaching mathematics. Cathy Wilkerson will be speaking about her life and reading from Flying Close to the Sun on October 6 at 8 pm at Time & Space Limited in Hudson. (518) 822-8448; www.timeandspace.org. —Sparrow First of all, let me tell you I loved Flying Close to the Sun—and I read every word of it, even the footnotes. You’re lucky you didn’t read the first draft, which was 200 pages longer! Reading your book, I realized I was the audience for Weatherman. I was 15 years old in 1968. I read the Village Voice, the East Village Other, and Rat. I vividly remember the Weatherman communiqués, which I found savvy, thrilling, and romantic. Yes, and I think many young people, teenagers especially, reacted to them that way. But in the book I was trying to make the distinction between enthusiasm and actual work—that people were enthusiastic, but not willing to risk their lives for the revolution. To me, that was one of the big revelations of the book. You’re speaking as a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organizer, and I never knew—because I was a kid at the time—that for organizers, the ’60s were not such a great time! Right. I mean, we were successful, but it was hard work. And being successful in the big sense meant that we failed a lot of times. For every demonstration that you got a thousand people [to attend], you called five that no one came to. So successes were only the tip of the iceberg. Also, it must be difficult to organize students, because they leave every four years. Yes, but four years seemed like a lifetime to us. Perhaps, like most people, I find the idea of living underground fascinating. Well, there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people who live
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underground now—most of whom are immigrants. Or women who are hiding from battering husbands. Or people who are in debt and are hiding from creditors. So there is always a pool of people who are living under the radar. And there’s very little protection for them. Is it glamorous living underground? I’m not sure what you mean by glamorous living in any setting. In the book, when you first go underground, you mention your alienation from hippies—that you’d never really considered yourself a hippie. I wasn’t alienated from hippies, but I was a political activist. And there was a continuum of people who had rejected mainstream values purely on a cultural basis and those of us whose rejection had come about from the civil rights movement, primarily. But all of us were part of a counterculture. And did you eventually make a rapprochement with the hippie end of the spectrum? Well, the political people were always into music and drugs and alternative lifestyles. So it wasn’t a matter of rapprochement. But in the course of my day, I worked on the movement, and other people did drugs all day, or listened to music all day. So it was really how you spent your days. I wonder why a new Weatherman doesn’t rise up today to protest the US in Iraq. Well, I’m certainly glad that it hasn’t, because while Weatherman was an expression of mass popular rage, Weatherman didn’t have a strategy for change. As a voice for popular rage, it was very effective—like you said, you could totally relate to it. It spoke for your own anger. But we didn’t ‘t have any idea what to do about it. So in the end, the US got out of Vietnam because the Vietnamese had a superior organization and because the United States Army became incapable of fighting, due to sort of an internal revolt. And much the same will happen, I think, in Iraq, where the Iraqis don’t have a superior organization in the same way the Vietnamese did, but they certainly have superior power to create chaos and devastation. The accessibility of devastating weaponry is so much greater now than it was then. Anybody can get their hands on a roadside bomb or a shoulder-held missile—many of which are produced and sold by the US. The United States arms manufacturers dumped billions of dollars in weapons on Africa after the Cold War, and made enormous amounts of money. And now it’s all come back, of course, to bite us. But I don’t think the particular vehicle that Weatherman used to express outrage would be effective today, at all, because the conditions we’re dealing with in the world today are very different. Nobody would think it was funny, or cool, to set off a small explosive device in a police station, because we’ve lived amongst too much carnage. One of the problems with violence is that it polarizes people. Violence can create a backlash. Absolutely. But the biggest problem with violence is that it hurts people. That’s a big problem.
THEATER
Sacred Spaces 5pm-8pm. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz. 255-5482.
Marat/Sade Call for times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
DANCE
WORKSHOPS
5pm-9pm. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.
Getting Started in Freelance Writing Call for time. Lead by Erica Manfred. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
FRIDAY 12
Old Fashioned Barn Dance
Woodstock Contra Dance 8pm. $10/$9 members/children half price. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.
EVENTS
ART
Kingston Farmers’ Market
Camera Vision
9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.
5:30pm-7:30pm. Works by Maureen Gates. Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670.
Architectural Tour of Kingston
A Family Affair 6pm-8pm. Works by Betsy Jacaruso and her family. Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, Red Hook. 758-9244.
CLASSES Salsa Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
9:30am-5pm. Includes a slide-lecture. $65/$50 members. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.
Ashokan’s Fall Festival 11am. Broommaking, apple cidering, blacksmithing, tinsmithing, and performances by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. 657-8333.
Hudson Valley Organic Potato and Olive Oil Festival
EVENTS
11am-6pm. Ana Marie Organics, Millbrook. 868-7273.
Maine Lobster Bake
MUSIC
6pm-9pm. Emerson Inn and Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-7900.
KIDS Music Together 10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location. (203) 256-1656.
MUSIC Big Kahuna 8pm. Cafe international- dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.
Billy Mitchell and Jon Walters 4pm. Singer/songwriters. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.
Jon Walters 6:30pm-8pm. Singer/songwriter. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.
Da Capo Chamber Players 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425.
Dissident Folk and Arts Festival 1pm-11pm. Featuring protest songs and poetry, workshops. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Radio Festival 2pm-8pm. Afternoon radio workshops and evening performances. $5. Wave Farm, Acra. (518) 622-2598.
Jazz Concert 7pm. Pianist Armen Donelian Trio with bassist David Clark and drummer George Schuller. $10. Adam’s Piano, Shokan. (518) 537-2326.
Leaf Peepers Concerts 7:30pm. Baroque concert. $20/$50 series pass. Copake United Methodist Church, Copake. (518) 325-3805.
Happy Traum Presents Mike Dowling 8pm. $20/$15 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Sugarloaf Music
Natalie Merchant
8pm. Frank Vignola Quintet. $25. The Pavilion at the Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 258-3019.
8pm. $32/$27. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Pablo Ziegler Quintet
Natalie Macmaster 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Ryan Lion
Girl Howdy
8pm-11:30pm. Spinning reggae. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.
8pm. Honky-tonk groove. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Met Mania
In Flight Radio
8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
8:30pm. Brooklyn rock band. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.
Eilen Milton
SPOKEN WORD
9pm. $20/$25 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Religions and Politics
Sonando
12pm. Luncheon lecture series. $14/$12. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7235.
Kristopher and Mike Hollis
10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.
THE OUTDOORS AT Hike
THEATER
9am. Difficult 11-Mile hike from Rt. 341 in Conn. to Cornwall Bridge. Meet at Apple Valley Shopping Center, LaGrange. pmcgin1@aol.com.
Marat/Sade
Mohonk Preserve 18th Annual Ridge Hike
8:30pm. Poetry and blue. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.
Call for times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Seussical 7pm. Presented by Golden Stone Productions. $12/$18. Stone Ridge. 687-4758.
Reading of Trespass 7:30pm. Valerie Martin raises the question, who shall inherit America? Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-0500.
Over the River and Through the Woods
6:30am-4:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Locust Grove/Samuel Morse Estate 9:30am. Easy walk. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 452-1727.
Creature Features 11am. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 473-4440x270.
SPOKEN WORD Call for times. Annual meetings. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Faith Healer
Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club
8pm. The story of Frank Hardy. $15/$12 seniors and students. Center for Creative Education, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.
10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.
Picnic
10am. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.
8pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Seussical
SATURDAY 13 Warwick Valley Artists Open Studio Tour
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3pm/7pm. Presented by Golden Stone Productions. $12/$18. Stone Ridge. 687-4758.
The Portrait, The Environment 8pm. David Hilliard. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
THEATER
Dutchess County Day
8pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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10am-5pm. Exhibition of 35 artists, demos, treasure hunt. La Monteil Dance Studio, Warwick. 987-8748. Guided house and landscape tours. Advance reservations required. $8. Manitoga, Garrison. 424-3812.
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Hasbrouck Family Association
8pm. Call ahead for seating. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
ART
Portraits of Loved Ones
Picnic
Faith Healer
5pm-7pm. Works by Regan Stacey. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.
8pm. The story of Frank Hardy. $15/$12 seniors and students. Center for Creative Education, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.
GCCA Applauds
Marat/Sade
5pm-7pm. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.
Call for times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
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FILM WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL
Mary Lynn Rajskub and William Baldwin in American Fork, directed by Chris Bowman.
Still Rolling THE 2007 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL By Jay Blotcher
Now in its eighth year, the Woodstock Film Festival (October 10-14) comports itself less like an unruly preteen and more like an institution which has slid quietly into a dignified middle age. That is to say, lurching metamorphosis is not a hallmark of the event that turns Tinker Street into a crunchy version of the Rue de la Croisette once a year. The goals and values of WFF, established from the start, are merely reaffirmed year after year, to the delight of unreconstructed lefties, veteran counterculturists, and musicians who seek a liberal oasis from the surging conservative madness in our midst. If there is any whiff of chaos still clinging to the proceedings, it springs from misbehaving microphones at speaker panels or occurs among lines of ticket holders that snake out into the street for a buzzworthy screening. Co-founders Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto continue their benevolent reign over this cineaste empire—she alternately genteel and anxious, he in an unruffled state of bliss. Their fellow programmers Ryan Werner, Tom Quinn, and Michael Lerman have helped concoct an overstuffed schedule of narratives, documentaries, shorts, and animated films to play in venues from Hunter to Rosendale. While WFF clearly has no Sundance envy—their sponsors remain modest, the opening night party at New World Cooking is no Cannes bacchanal—the festival continues to deliver films that have dazzled at other leading competitions. This year, Blaustein and company have hit a high point on that count. The opening night coup is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by artist-director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) which garnered him the Best Director prize at Cannes this year. Unavailable at press time for viewing, the film is based on the real-life memoir Le Scaphandre et le Papillon by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor in chief of 128
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French Elle. A stroke at age 43 transforms the imperious man into a living corpse, the victim of locked-in syndrome. The haunting, hallucinatory aspect of this story is an ideal match for Schnabel’s collagelike approach to filming. The closing night film, also not available in advance, already has critics honing their knives for the loopy premise alone. I’m Not There by Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven, Safe) offers a meditation on the many lives of Woodstock’s erstwhile resident Bob Dylan, played by several actors, including Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, and Heath Ledger. While the naming of the winning films often seems beside the point, festivalgoers enjoy the Maverick Award, the annual selection of an individual whose personal activism complements a body of work featuring some sharp message films. Recipients have included Woody Harrelson, Barbara Kopple, Tim Robbins, Mira Nair, and Steve Buscemi. This year’s recipient is Christine Vachon of independent powerhouse Killer Films, who’s produced such gems as Infamous and Boys Don’t Cry. The Trailblazer Award, honoring indie film behind the scenes, will be given this year to Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix, for his work promoting niche and small production films via the DVD subscription service. WFF 2007 will feature a line-up of 150 films (including eight world premiers), panels, concerts, and parties, as well as a technological innovation: a showcase of high-definition films at the Bearsville Theater. The Woodstock Film Festival remains a cultural highlight of this or any other Catskill season. For a complete schedule of films and special musical events, and to order tickets for screenings and panels, visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
Selected Film Reviews from WFF 2007 (* indicates critic's choice) NARRATIVE *American Fork Chris Bowman, Director The flat, even tone of this tale of a good-natured, obese loser named Tracy Orbison should seem familiar; the film was produced by Jeremy Coon, who produced 2004’s Napoleon Dynamite. But while Dynamite grated with its one-note lead character—sorry, Jon—American Fork benefits from the big-hearted lead, depicted by Hubbel Palmer, (who also wrote the wincingly funny screenplay), and William Baldwin as a narcissistic acting coach. *August Evening Chris Eska, Director/Writer A tale from Mexico that, gratefully, does not include the narrative pyrotechnics of Babel, Amores Perros, or 21 Grams. Jaime (Pedro Castaneda) is a Mexican campesino, a field worker now in late middle age and unemployable. When his wife dies, Jaime is left alone with his widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe (Veronica Loren). Together, they travel over the border for shelter with Jaime’s married children, striving for middle-class assimilation and embarrassed by their father who hews to old Mexican tradition. The fitful progress of Jaime and Lupe unfurls with a lyrical ease, and issues of aging, familial responsibility, and racism are touched on with grace, rather than with a dull thud. Castaneda and Loren radiate enormous, understated dignity. The Cake Eaters Mary Stuart Masterson, Director A tale of broken lives and redemption in a Hudson Valley town (in this case, Catskill). Co-producer Jayce Bartok wrote the script and plays the prodigal son, a failed rock star whose return unsettles this sleepy world. At the center of this gallery of eccentrics, Kristen Stewart plays a high school girl suffering from a terminal nerve disease, intent on cramming life’s peak moments in her remaining years. Aaron Stamford is her hangdog suitor, and veteran scene-stealers Elizabeth Ashley and Bruce Dern make this film a sentimental favorite. Choose Connor Luke Eberl, Director/Writer If this tale of corrupt politicians and one boy’s shattered trust were on cable TV, I might give a pass to the wooden acting and improbable situations. But as a feature film, it withers under scrutiny. Dreamy Escher Holloway maintains a measure of self-respect as the S&M stooge nephew of a congressional candidate gone wrong—but what in hell is Steve Weber doing in the title role of this utterly overcooked turkey?
The House Is Burning Holger Ernst, Director/Writer We’re in Larry Clark territory here: frantic, sex-starved, drugtaking American suburban teens breaking rules, talking trash, and bleeding confused anger from every sweaty, acne-clogged pore. German filmmaker Ernst sets up the overlapping tales with a mathematical precision but undercuts any pretense of naturalism with overwritten dialogue and an incessant soundtrack. Still, the camerawork and lighting are exquisite (Stefan Grandinetti) and the performances of Robin Taylor as the feral Phil, Nicole Vicius as Valerie, Harley Adams as Steve, and Melissa Leo as Mrs. Miller rise above the relentless histrionics. Executive producer Wim Wenders must teach Ernst to strip away his excesses, guaranteeing a revelatory next film.
In Search of a Midnight Kiss Alex Holdridge, Director/Writer New Year’s Eve, Los Angeles. Wilson, another failed screenwriter, faces the prospect of this forced celebration alone. Cajoled into placing a personal ad, Wilson meets bipolar Vivian in a cafe. Holdridge has shrewdly set this in the LA we never see: the decaying downtown areas, far from the sunny valleys. Robert Murphy’s moody cinematography perfectly complements this touching anti-romance, starring Scoot McNairy and Sara Simmonds.
*Liberty Kid Ilya Chaiken, Director/Writer A group of Dominican teens try to find their way in a post-9/11 world in this quietly lacerating film. Tico is a hustler selling drugs; Derek wants to do well by his twin children by starting another household. Chaiken’s narrative is blessed with an ensemble cast that, to a person, retains purpose and poise even when the characters lose their way. Al Thompson as Derek and Kareem Savinon as Tico (making his screen debut) fill the screen with a formidable life-force.
Dark Matter Chen Shi-Zheng, Director
Super Heroes Alan Brown, Director/Writer
The Virginia Tech massacre of last April will spring fresh in viewer’s minds after seeing this film about an Asian transfer student fighting an unjust system. Eager to share his iconoclastic theories of cosmology (the “dark matter” of the title), Liu Xing from Beijing is nurtured and encouraged by his patron (Meryl Streep) yet thwarted by his headstrong professor (Aidan Quinn). Ambitious in its scope, the film suffers from a stunning lack of direction; it is unsettling to see actors of this caliber stumble as they try to breathe life into a script riddled with holes.
An Iraqi War veteran named Ben, shattered by trauma and riddled with shrapnel, is befriended by Nick, a Brooklyn videographer. The pair drive to the soldier’s Catskill Mountains cabin where the layers of his psyche slowly peel back. What plays out too often like an acting class exercise still manages to offer occasional jolts: several consultants made sure Ben’s psychological and physical ailments are medically accurate. While tethered to some ham-fisted monologues, Dash Mihok as Ben nonetheless creates a disturbing portrait of another casualty of this ongoing war.
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Selected Film Reviews from WFF 2007 (* indicates critic's choice) DOCUMENTARY *Billy the Kid Jennifer Venditti, Director
*Chicago 10 Brett Morgen, Director The director of the winningly weird The Kid Stays in the Picture now assuredly dissects the elements that led to the youthquake and police brutality of the 1968 Democratic Convention. The hours and days are pieced together through vintage footage, interviews with the survivors, and extended animation that re-creates the trial of Yippie organizers Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, et al. (Supplying the voices are powerhouse actors Mark Ruffalo, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Hank Azaria, Jeffrey Wright, Roy Scheider, and Liev Schreiber.) Morgen steers clear of partisan politics in explaining why a dream died in Chicago that week.
Life and love happen no less profoundly for kids than adults, but most teens simply lack the emotional intelligence to voice it. But meet Brunswick, Maine’s 15-year-old Billy Baker. Abandoned by his alcoholic father, he shares a trailer home with his mom, likes heavy metal guitar, has an allergy to pineapple and, he tells the camera, “I’m always at war with myself.” Perhaps autistic—it’s never explained—Baker delivers guileless and penetrating observations about himself and his first romance with a local girl named Heather. A heartbreakingly funny documentary. *Black White & Gray James Crump, Director
Constantine’s Sword Owen Jacoby, Director Your host for this exploration of Church dogma is James Carroll, a former Roman Catholic priest who authored the book of the same name. Carroll’s spiritual peregrinations are thoughtful, but he remains enslaved by the basic tenets of his faith, which really preclude any deep examination of the centuries of injustice fomented by power-hungry popes and priests. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Philip Bosco, Eli Wallach, and Natasha Richardson.
Behind the protean, manic genius of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was a more grounded influence: curator Sam Wagstaff. Ridiculously graced with privilege and patrician beauty, Wagstaff was a visionary collecting rare art photography in the '70s when he and Mapplethorpe collided. It was a perfect symbiosis: Mapplethorpe was a shameless social climber; Wagstaff wanted to shepherd a budding artist yet also gain access to the S&M world that his lover/client inhabited. Insightful interviews with Patti Smith and Dominick Dunne, offset by grating blather from leading art critics. Chasin’ Gus’s Ghost Todd Kwait, Director/Writer Like a jug band jam, this intriguing chase takes its sweet time, ambling around the country in search of the progenitors of this American musical genre. Kwait exhumes forgotten pioneers like the titular Gus Cannon—and sets the record straight. He also interviews modern practitioners John Sebastian and Bob Weir, the latter exulting, “Jug band music is the mud my toes are planted in.”
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The Cool School Morgan Neville, Director The Los Angeles art movement receives its due in this exhaustive, fraternal dissection of the men who became its ambassadors to a skeptical world: among them, Ed Ruscha, Craig Kauffman, Ed Moses, and Larry Bell. Their clubhouse was called Ferus Gallery on La Cienega and their aim was to upend the New York art standards that oppressed them. A surfeit of footage from the era suggests that they sensed immortality in the air and documented it accordingly. *The Future is Unwritten Julien Temple, Director The audacious, kinetic director of two Sex Pistols docs turns his talents on the canonization of the leader of the only rock group that ever mattered: Joe Strummer of The Clash. Through brazen, hyperanimated graphics, vintage photos, and home movies, we watch young, mouthy Woody (his childhood name) morph into Art School Joe, a budding pop artist and rockabilly devotee. Temple has assembled numerous witnesses to Strummer’s genius and his later megalomania. Some are indispensable—bandmates Topper Headon and Mick Jones—while some prompt head-scratching. Do we really need the gushings of Matt Dillon, John Cusack, and Johnny Depp? Still, a worthy record of a wild ride that ended too soon.
Selected Film Reviews from WFF 2007 Making Trouble Rachel Talbot, Director
(* indicates critic's choice)
Steal Me a Pencil Michele Ohayon, Director
Jewish comediennes of the last century provided more than rueful yuks; they challenged the sexist shortcomings of the goyishe new world. Making Trouble rescues from obscurity Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, and Sophie Tucker, while citing their latterday successors Gilda Radner, Joan Rivers, and Wendy Wasserstein. (Sarah Silverman deserves inclusion but gets short shrift here.) Like the legendary Pu-Pu Platter, Making Trouble piques our appetite but leaves us hungry for more. *Operation Filmmaker Nina Davenport, Director
This sentimental doc produced by Red Envelope Entertainment (Netflix) signals an offbeat addition to the voluminous canon of Holocaust films. Jaap Polak and Ina Soep were in the early stages of a romantic affair in 1940s Holland—she single, he bleakly married—when the Germans descended. The Polak couple and Ina were remanded to Bergen-Belsen. There, Jaap defied his wife Manja’s edict and corresponded steadily with Ina, her sister Josette secretly playing messenger between the barracks. Many fevered passages are recited in voiceover by leading Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe. An affirmation of love and life.
Backstory: Liev Schreiber sees a Shiite film student, his Baghdad school in ruins after the US bombing, on MTV. He decides to offer 25-year-old Mathuna Mohmed an internship on his film Everything Is Illuminated, shooting in Prague. This documentary chronicles that internship. What threatens to be a self-congratulatory spasm of liberalism evolves into something more morally gray. Mohmed proves himself a slacker prone to conflicting tales and Schreiber eventually gives up on him. But Nina Davenport follows Mohmed through numerous scrapes, forming a codependent relationship that calls into question the responsibility of a filmmaker for its subject. Disturbing and fascinating.
*Surfwise Doug Pray, Director
*Oswald’s Ghost Robert Stone, Director/Writer A sobering yet bracing meditation on the legacy of the Kennedy assassination by the director of 2004’s Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst. Thoughtfully, expansively, Stone quizzes the cream of the assassination theorists and Kennedy biographers to learn why conspiracy tales persist years after the Warren Commission released its report and why a marked distrust of the government has colored American politics ever since.
Meet the Paskowitzes, the first family of California surfing. Father Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz chucked a medical career, leading his wife and nine children across the world in the '60s and '70s in search of the perfect wave and eventually opened a surfing school. Extensive footage and exhilarating graphics capture the era, buttressed by plainspoken interviews with disgruntled family members. Ultimately, Doc’s dream could be achieved only through extreme discipline, which explains why the family eventually imploded.
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THE OUTDOORS
8pm. Call ahead for seating. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Toddlers on the Trail Walk-In Search of Signs of the Glaciers
WORKSHOPS
Suck
Fresh Start 9am-12pm. A practical guide to breaking the grip of past hurts. 275 Fair Street, Kingston. $79. 339-6250.
Paddle on the Esopus
Plein-Air Drawing and Watercolor Workshop
SPOKEN WORD
1pm-4pm. $60. Brine Garden, Peekskill. 855-9023.
What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason
SUNDAY 14
Rock You choose.
ROSENDALE ROCKS THE VOTE help us register voters of all ages FREE CONCERT
Friday October 5, 2007 6-9 PM Rosendale Recreation Center Pavilion
PITCHFORK MILITIA BIG SISTER YARROW JESSE ALEXANDER
ART Warwick Valley Artists Open Studio Tour Call for times. Exhibition of 35 artists, demos, treasure hunt. La Monteil Dance Studio, Warwick. 987-8748.
Sound and Vision 2pm-5pm. Works by Val Bertoia, Barbara Bash, Marty Carey, Jane Herold and Tim Rowan. Pearl Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-0888.
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Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.
WORKSHOPS Divorce and Your Children 12pm-2pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
TUESDAY 16
Sunday Morning Meditation
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
10:30am-1:30pm. Chants, sitting and walking meditation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Tuesday Meditation
CLASSES
Dharma Gatherings
Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
7:15pm-8:30pm. Topics from social justice to the arts, from a Shambhala Buddhist perspective. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
EVENTS
CLASSES
Hudson Valley Organic Potato and Olive Oil Festival
West Coast Swing Classes
6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
12pm-7pm. Ana Marie Organics, Millbrook. 868-7273.
Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market
An Appreciation for Your Hometown Eateries
MUSIC
Call for times. Tour different eateries, meet with the owners, and enjoy dinner. $119. Call for location. 339-2025.
Big Kahuna
Apple Pie Perfect
10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.
8pm. Covers. Barton Orchards, Poughquag. 227-2306.
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Benefit Concert 2pm. Benefits the Museum Village in Monroe. $37-$75. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Saugerties Pro Musica Concert 3pm. Featuring Jane Barsumian & Friends. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021.
6:30-8:30pm. W/Chef Jessica Bard. Warren Kitchen and Cutlery, Rhinebeck. 876-6208.
Rosendale Community Drum and Sing 7pm. $48 series/$14 session. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 658-8673.
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
4pm.Three Brahms violin sonatas, with piano. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. (845) 297-9243. $30/$10.
SPOKEN WORD
Global Drum Project
12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7223.
7pm. With Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain. $44.50/$39.50. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Jazz Jam 8pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.
Sam Lardner & Barcelona 8pm. $20/$25 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike-Undercliff/Overcliff 9:30am-1pm. 5-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Mind Matters
LECTURE 7pm. Jon Bowermaster presents his expeditions to Altiplano, South America and Gabon, West Africa with lecture, film, and photography. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-5262.
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Over the River and Through the Woods 2pm. Call ahead for seating. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Faith Healer 3pm. The story of Frank Hardy. $15/$12 seniors and students. Center for Creative Education, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.
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Picnic 3pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Soovin Kim & Jeremy Denk
sponsored by barcones music and the rosendale democratic committee
10am-12pm. Ages 2-6. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
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WEDNESDAY 17 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong Call for times. Traditional Qigong forms. $100 ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
Tai Chi Chuan Call for times. Ten session course. $100. Call for location. 452-7067.
CLASSES Flying Trapeze Lessons Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.
Capoeira Angola Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.
7pm. Presented by Golden Stone Productions. $12/$18. Stone Ridge. 687-4758.
DANCE
WORKSHOPS
5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Yoga for Golfers Call for times. Improve your game with added focus and flexibility. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
Photographing the Nude in Nature 1pm-5pm. $90/$75. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MONDAY 15 CLASSES Capoeira Angola Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.
Modern Dance
EVENTS Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.
KIDS Preschool Story Time Call for times. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.
MUSIC Open Mike Night 7pm. $4. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
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Haunted Huguenot street Stories of ghosts, witches, poltergeists, other paranormal activities and unfortunate deaths revealed. Haunting centers in and around a fort, a 300 year old graveyard, a French Church and historic houses dating from the 1700s. Tours of the street and chilling stories will leave you filled with the haunting spirit of Halloween. Who knew history could be this scary? FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 $5 ADULTS; $2 KIDS 12 AND UNDER
Sinead O’Connor will perform at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on October 21.
Queen of Controversy The uncompromising Sinead O’Connor has done it again, but this time it’s not quite as shocking as some of her past stunts. She’s just released her tenth studio album, Theology (Koch)—featuring a crop of Bible-based original hymns—and she’s receiving equal amounts of praise and criticism. You can judge for yourselves, though, as she’s sure to perform a few of her prayers at a WDST-sponsored concert at the Bardavon on October 21. Let’s recap some of her jaw-dropping “transgressions.” At 15, O’Connor’s shoplifting and truancy led to reform school, then boarding school (where she recorded a demo, two songs of which appeared on her lauded 1987 debut album The Lion and the Cobra). Early in her career, she made controversial comments about the radical Irish Republican Army and slammed U2. In 1990, O’Connor was scheduled to perform at the Garden State Arts Center but refused if the national anthem was played. (“A country which imposes censorship on artists [is] hypocritical and racist,” O’Connor said.) After her performance, she was banned from the venue and several radio stations. She refused to appear on a “Saturday Night Live” show hosted by comedian Andrew Dice Clay, whom O’Connor labeled a misogynist. Her most well-known stunt was also “SNL”-related—in 1992, she shredded a photo of Pope John Paul II onstage while singing the word “evil” during an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s “War.” An unwise career move for O’Connor, as she was booed and heckled in subsequent performances, her records were destroyed, and she was again banned from radio stations. In a 1997 interview, she begged the Pope’s forgiveness, but when asked several years later if she would change anything about the incident, she replied, “Hell no.” Around the same time, she was ordained as a priest by a Catholic splinter group to protest the prohibition on female ordination. O’Connor took the name Mother Bernadette Mary. In 2000, O’Connor came out as a lesbian, but soon after changed her mind, stating, “I’m three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter gay. I lean a bit more toward the hairy blokes.” She announced her retirement from music in 2003, only to bounce back two years later with the reggae album, Throw Down Your Arms. She’s also had four children by four different men, and let’s not forget her shaved noggin, angry expression, and freaky clothing. Now that we’re up-to-date on O’Connor’s controversies, let’s get back to her latest release. Of the new double album, she says, “Theology is an attempt to create a place of peace in a time of war. It is my own personal response to what is affecting everyone around the world since September 11, 2001. I want to be very clear—there is no message. No preaching. Nothing deep and meaningful, nothing troublemaking. I simply wanted to make a beautiful thing.” And beautiful it is (listen for yourself at www.myspace.com/sineadoconnormusic.). Disc one consists of minimal and acoustic tracks, while the second features full-band arrangements with harp, strings, horns, and percussion. Though seemingly religious, the album’s anthems focus primarily on emotions: agony, gratitude, loneliness, and anger. In O’Connor’s search for redemption, she appears to be saved at last. Sinead O’Connor will perform at the Bardavon, 35 Market Street Poughkeepsie, at 7pm on Sunday, October 21. Tickets range from $35 to $55 and are available
Ghoulishly guided tours leave every half hour — each a 45 minute journey back into bone-chilling history. Last tour departs at 10pm. Tours leave from the DuBois Fort Visitor Center. Appropriate for children seven and up. Pre-paid reservations to this popular events are STRONGLY recommended. For reservations, please call (845) 255-1660. PRESENTED BY HISTORIC HUGUENOT STREET 18 Broadhead Avenue, New Paltz, NY 12561 www.huguenotstreet.org y 845.255.1660
through WDST or the Bardavon. (845) 473-2072; www.wdst.com. —Sharon Nichols 10/07 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST
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PHOTOGRAPHY MICHAEL SIBILIA
Discursive Lens Hopewell Junction-based photographer Michael Sibilia’s exhibition of urban landscapes, “Drawn to Distraction: A Photographer’s Adventure into ADD,” will be exhibited through October 14 at GAS Gallery, 196 Main Street in Poughkeepsie. (845) 486-4592; www.michaelsibilia.com.
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Celtic Jam Session
Gideon Freudmann
7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
8pm. Friends of Fiddler’s Green concert. $8/$6 members, seniors, students/children free. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 483-0650.
Arias & Bacarolles 8pm. Graduate Program in Vocal Arts. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7196.
Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
SPOKEN WORD Workshops
Steve Forbert 8pm. Cooperstown “Got Music?” Concert Series. $20/$15 senior citizens/$5 students. Call for location. (607) 547-1812.
Constellation Trio 8pm. Classical guitar. $15/$11 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Pursuit of Happiness 6-9pm. A practical guide to achieving greater happiness. 275 Fair Street, Kingston. $79. 339-6250.
Or Zublasky
Divorce: Starting All Over Again
The Battlefield Band
6:30pm-8:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
THURSDAY 18
9pm-1pm. Israeli singer/songwriter. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901. 9pm. Celtic. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Woodstock MusicWork Concert
ART
9pm. Norm Wennet’s birthday party starring Stoney Clove Lane. $10. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards
THE OUTDOORS
5:30pm. Dutchess Golf and Country Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222.
Tracking the Silent Visitor: A Scientist Studies Saw-Whet Owls
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
8pm-10pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Tai Chi Chuan Classes
SPOKEN WORD
Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class 6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.
CLASSES Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. (917) 232-3623.
Learn to Dance 7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-1162.
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards Dinner 5:30pm. $95. Dutchess Golf and Country Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222.
Going Places with Asperger’s Call for times. Conference for adults with Asperger’s Syndrome. Holiday Inn, Kingston. (800) 661-1575x2.
Religions and Politics 12pm. Luncheon lecture series. $14/$12. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7235.
THEATER 8pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Faith Healer 8pm. The story of Frank Hardy. $15/$12 seniors and students. Center for Creative Education, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.
Over the River and Through the Woods 8pm. Call ahead for seating. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Seussical 7pm. Presented by Golden Stone Productions. $12/$18. Stone Ridge. 687-4758.
6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
ART
Celtic Music
Keith Edmier 1991-2007
Mid-Week Hike Call for times. Easy to moderate difficulty. Call for location. 677-9909.
SPOKEN WORD Separation & Divorce Support Group 6pm-8pm. For women. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-2235.
Working in and for Nature: Stories from the Past 7:30pm. $7/$4 members. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-OnHudson. 534-5506x204.
1pm-5pm. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7598.
Photo of the Day 4pm-7pm. Full retrospective of James Livingston’s 18year project. Bertelsmann Campus Center, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7235.
Works By Thomas Locker Interpreting Paradise: Views of the Catskills 5:30pm-8:30pm. Works by local artists. M Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-0380
Other Lives: The Photographs and Writings of William Gedney 6pm. Books and More, Catskill. (518) 966-4038.
The Spirits of Trauma
It Ain’t Just Paint
FRIDAY 19 CLASSES Salsa Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
DANCE Martha Graham Dance Company 8pm. $38.50/$33.50. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
EVENTS
6pm-8pm. Works by 20 artists in mixed media. Tivoli Artists’ Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Female Spirit in Action Call for times. Holistic fitness workshop for women. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
Breast Cancer Support Group 11am-12:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 3394673.
Liberating Your Dream: Overcoming Fear
Call for times. Terrapin Restaurant, Bistro, Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-3330.
DANCE
8pm. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 246-7045.
Eats, Reads & Leaves 2007 Don’t miss the opportunity to advertise in this much anticipated annual Literary Supplement issue. Best Reviewed Books of 2007 Drawn from over 100 local books reviewed in the past year.
Author Portraits Jen May’s photographic chronicle of local writers.
Fiction Contest Juried by Abigail Thomas, bestselling author of Safekeeping and A Three Dog Life.
Personal Essays By Gioia Timpanelli, Janine Pommy Vega, and Akiko Busch.
Well-Met Mini anecdotes from Daniel Pinkwater and other literary lights of the Hudson Valley describing memorable encounters with other writers.
Humor Contest Broadway musical versions of great works of literature. Poetry An expanded poetry section with political-themed poetry, edited by Phillip Levine.
Fall Foliage in Pastel
4pm. Singer/songwriters. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.
All Mendelssohn
MUSEUM VILLAGE: MJWJOH IJTUPSZ t 1010 Route 17M, Monroe, NY 845.782.8248
CLASSES 9am-Sunday, October 21, 4pm. Christina Debarry. $205. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
6:30pm-8pm. Singer/songwriter. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.
BERGSTEIN & ULLRICH
1pm-5pm. Using nonviolent communication. $60. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston.
Billy Mitchell and Jon Walters
Jon Walters
Lycian Centre Box Office 845.469.2287 or buy tickets online @ www.museumvillage.org $37 children/students/seniors $47 adults $75 benefactors (includes reception) $40 reception only
ACTION PLUS PROJECT MANAGEMENT BERSON+CORRADO CHRONOGRAM FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS STEWART’S WALLACE & BERRY YARN SWIFT
Private Readings
Music Together
Terrapin Bandstand
SPONSORS:
TICKETS:
11am-12:30pm. Nature’s Pantry Health Food Store, Fishkill. 231-2470. 12pm-6pm. Psychic Adam Bernstein. $75/$40. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MUSIC
Lycian Centre, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY
Health Food Store Tour
KIDS 10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location. (203) 256-1656.
Sunday, October 14 at 2pm
5pm-7pm. The Catskills Gallery, Saugerties. 246-5552.
WORKSHOPS 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Following the concert: Meet-the-artists reception at Museum Village with food & drink, tour with costumed interpreters, and silent auction.
SATURDAY 20
Acoustic Thursdays
THE OUTDOORS
Jay & Molly ungar mason
Picnic
MUSIC
8:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock. 679-2470.
Benefit Concert for Museum Village
West Coast Swing Dance 8pm-12am. Lesson 7pm-8pm. $10. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
EVENTS Kingston Farmers’ Market
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Lighthouse Tours
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THE OUTDOORS
Picnic
Ulster County Memory Walk
Call for times. Indie rockers. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Singles and Sociables Hike-Millbrook Mountain
8pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
9:30am Presented by the Alzheimer’s Association of Hudson Valley. (800) 872-0994.
2pm-3pm. By boat. $10. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.
Seussical 3pm/7pm. Presented by Golden Stone Productions. $12/$18. Stone Ridge. 687-4758.
10:30am-1:30pm. Riverside Market, Hudson. (518) 943-4300.
SPOKEN WORD
4pm. Benefit for the Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties, Inc. $45/$10 children. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Close Encounters with Music: Vivaldi for All Seasons
Call for time. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 416-7629.
Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.
DuBois Family Association
GALLERY
Hurley Mountain Highway
Call for times. Annual meetings. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
WORKSHOPS
Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club
The Pursuit of Happiness
Pumpkin Walk and Reception
Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions from the Marieluise Hessel Collection Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7598.
7:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
All Mendelssohn
KIDS
8pm. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. $17/$5 students. Pointe of Praise Family Life Center, Kingston. 246-7045.
Super Saturdays for Kids
The Powder Kegs
10:30am. Featuring the Legend of Sleepyhollow by Puppetree. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Sudbury School Information Meeting 7pm-9pm. Overview of the school and our educational philosophy. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.
MUSIC Big Kahuna 8pm. Covers. Barton Orchards, Poughquag. 227-2306.
Ellen Johnson Call for times. Featuring Christopher Dean Sullivan. Susan’s Restaurant, Peekskill. 737-6624.
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9:30am-2:30pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
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8pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
California Guitar Trio 9pm. $30/$35 at the door. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Seth Davis 9:30pm. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.
Kurt Henry Band 9:30pm. Rock. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.
Slam Allen 10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.
Hudson Valley Celiac Support Group Over the River and Through the Woods 8pm. Call ahead for seating. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 6877023.
9am-12pm. A practical guide to achieving greater happiness. 275 Fair Street, Kingston. $79. 339-6250.
Reading by Author Patricia Polacco
Open Pit Fired Pots
2pm. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.
Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival
10am-1pm. $85/$75 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
2pm. Featuring poets Barbara Adams and Cheryl A. Rice. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock.
SUNDAY 21
Reading and Musical Performance 7:30pm. Lyn Burstine will read her memoir Second Verse: Second Chorus and her daughter, Lisa Sturz, and Fran Mandeville will sing songs from their new album The Cuckoo. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-0500.
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Sunday Morning Meditation
Call for times. 10th annual 10-minute play festival. Odd Fellows Theater, Olivebridge. 657-9760.
The Art of Chi 2pm. Talk by artist Eugene Cuttica. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 562-6940.
10:30am-1:30pm. Chants, sitting and walking meditation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
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CLASSES
Rosendale Community Drum and Sing
Euro Dance Classes for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.
Candlelight Tours
EVENTS Business After Hours Membership Mixer
7pm-8:30pm. $7. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.
5pm-7pm. Ulster Chamber of Commerce. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 338-6418.
MUSIC
SPOKEN WORD
Phil Minissale
Contemporary Masters
1pm-4pm. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.
Trail Mix Concerts
Sales and Rentals
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS
Pro Audio & Video Production
7pm. $48 series/$14 session. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 658-8673.
2:30pm. Duo Piano: Ami Hakuno & Pascal Roge. $20/$5 students. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.
All Mendelssohn 3pm. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. $17/$5 students. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 246-7045.
Opera by Kerry Henderson and Maria Pollicina 3pm. St. Gregory’s, Woodstock. 679-8800.
Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Baird Hersey and Prana with Krishna Das
Call for times. Eulogium: In Praise of Literature. Call for location. 758-7439.
Mind Matters 12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7223.
WORKSHOPS Divorce: Share Questions and Answers with Others 12pm-1:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published)
7pm. CD release party. $30/$25 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
6:30pm-8:30pm. $75/$15 per session. Call for location. 679-8256.
Jazz Jam
Divorce - How To Get Through It
8pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.
SPOKEN WORD
6:30pm-8:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
WEDNESDAY 24
Come Meet the Parents of Multiples 9:30am. Babies R’ Us, Poughkeepsie. 297-4579.
Mudd Poets’ Poetry Series 7pm-10pm. Featured poets followed by open mike. $2. Mudd Puddle Cafe, New Paltz. 255-3436.
Signing of Nine Ways to Cross a River 7:30pm. Akiko Busch signs his book. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-0500.
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Seussical 3pm/7pm. Presented by Golden Stone Productions. $12/$18. Stone Ridge. 687-4758.
WORKSHOPS Yoga for Golfers Call for times. Improve your game with added focus and flexibility. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
MONDAY 22 Capoeira Angola
EVENTS 2007 Showcase of Champions 12pm-6pm. Presented by the Poughkeepsie Area Chamber of Commerce. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 454-1700x1000.
Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.
KIDS
MUSIC
What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason
Celtic Jam Session
4:30pm. Sor Juana’s Dream: The Elusive Pursuit of Knowledge. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.
More Truth Will Set You Free 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
TUESDAY 23
Call for times. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.
7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
Seoul Arts High School Orchestra 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
SPOKEN WORD Adult Book Discussion 7pm-9pm. Straight Man. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.
Making Quality Time Count 7:30pm. Fun ways to incorporate learning in your everyday life. $5/$2 members. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506x204.
WORKSHOPS
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Getting Started in Freelance Writing
Tuesday Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Call for time. Lead by Erica Manfred. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Dharma Gatherings
Looking Good
7:15pm-8:30pm. Topics from social justice to the arts, from a Shambhala Buddhist perspective. $5. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
CLASSES West Coast Swing Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
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5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
SPOKEN WORD
12pm-2pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
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Preschool Story Time
Divorce and Your Children
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Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.
Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.
WORKSHOPS
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Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.
3pm. The story of Frank Hardy. $15/$12 seniors and students. Center for Creative Education, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.
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Flying Trapeze Lessons
3pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
CLASSES
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Call for time. Traditional Qigong forms. $100 ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
Picnic
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2pm. Call ahead for seating. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
An Appreciation for Your Hometown Eateries Call for times. Tour different eateries, meet with the owners, and enjoy dinner. $119. Call for location. 339-2025.
6-9pm. A practical guide for developing an optimistic outlook. 275 Fair Street, Kingston. $79. 339-6250.
Divorce: Starting All Over Again 6:30pm-8:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
THURSDAY 25 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi Chuan Classes Call for times. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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Burning Down the Year There are few who aren’t entranced by the magic and mystery of Halloween, with its fallen leaves, spooky pumpkins, and adorable trick-or-treaters. There are also few who understand the holiday’s origins, symbology, and traditions. Anne MacPherson knows, and she’s spent much of her time and energy educating the public about our Celtic heritage through numerous local events. MacPherson’s nonprofit Celebration of Celts, the largest Pan-Celtic festival in the Northeast, is dedicated to the history, heritage, music, and dance of the eight Celtic nations. She presents RiverFire, a celebration of Samhain, on November 3, with an ancient fire ceremony to herald in the Celtic new year. “The Celts invented what we now call Halloween,� says MacPherson, “although in that pre-Christian era, it was a floating holiday that coincided with the three days of the ‘dark of the moon.’ This year our fire festival will take place on the last day of the three days of the New Year celebration.� Samhain (pronounced So-wuhn), one of four traditional Celtic fire festivals, celebrates endings and beginnings; the other three are Oimelc (a quickening, winter), Beltane (fertility, spring), and Lughnassadh (harvest/victory, summer). These festivals were based upon the changes of the seasons, not actual calendar dates, and occur at opposite ends of the calendar in the northern and southern hemispheres. As the Celtic day began at sunset, so the Celtic new year began at the onset of winter, marking the end of the dying year and the rebirth of the new. Samhain celebrates the sexual union of the Irish god of bounty, Dagdha, with Morrigan, the raven or bird of death. Their union symbolized the joining of the living world with the world of the dead, and many believed the door between those two worlds was open at this time. Hence, this was a time when the spirits of loved ones were honored with table settings for nourishment. The food was then distributed to the poor; if not offered, wrath would incur from the faerie realm. It’s no wonder, then, that children today disguise themselves as spooks and collect treats at our doors...or else. The RiverFire celebration begins with a children’s costume party, pumpkin carving, and apple bobbing from 3 to 5pm. Ghost tales will be presented by Irish storyteller Kevin O’Hara from 6:30 to 7:30pm along with a dance dedicated to Saint Bridget. The highly acclaimed Celtic rock/folk band Coyote Run will host a dinner for 16 lucky folks ($20 in advance or $25 at the door), with all proceeds going to Celebration of Celts, then they’ll hit the stage at 8pm with their heart-racing rhythms and haunting melodies. Singer/songwriter Sarah Stockwell will open the show. Following the concert, Coyote Run will escort the audience to the courtyard where a strawman with a jack-o'-lantern head will be standing, awaiting the torch. They’ll lead a song and dance as participants place stones with their names on them around the strawman, after which the fire will be lit. Advance purchase tickets for RiverFire are $12 for adults and $5 for children, and can be obtained online at www.chronogram.com or at Bridgewater Grill, 50 Abeel Street, Kingston before November 1. Tickets at the door are $15. Participants are encouraged to wear their finest Celtic attire. (518) 851-9670; www.celebrationofcelts.com. —Sharon Nichols
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Full Circle Tai Chi Advanced Class 6pm. Call for location. 452-7067.
National Sustainable Building Advisor Certificate Program Information Session
An Evening with the Afterlife: Special Halloween Edition
Mission Wolf
7pm-9pm. $25/$20 in advance. Mizuna Cafe, Kingston. (518) 929-5397.
CLASSES Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:15pm-9:30pm. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. (917) 232-3623.
4:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5012. 6pm/8pm. View “ambassador wolves” from wolf sanctuary and teaching facility in Colorado. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-5262.
THEATER Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 8pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Learn to Dance
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Life Drawing Sessions
3-Day Juice Cleanse
7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
DANCE
Acoustic Thursdays
Fall Dance
Artist-in-Residence Series 7pm. SUNY Ulster presents fiddling and dancing with Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-5262.
David Rovics and Attila the Stockbroker 8pm. Protest folk. New Paltz Village Hall. 687-0587.
Celtic Music 8:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock. 679-2470.
THE OUTDOORS Tracking the Silent Visitor: A Scientist Studies Saw-Whet Owls 8pm-10pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Reading by Poet Bill Berkson 5pm. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson. 758-7235. Creating a Sustainable Future for the Hudson Valley 7:30pm. $7/$4 members. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-5506x204.
Open Mike Featuring Readnex 8:30pm. $7. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.
WORKSHOPS
8pm. Moderation and other student choreography. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
EVENTS 11th Annual Quilting Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.
Annual Spirits of Sheffield Cemetery Walk 2pm. Call for location. (413) 229-2694.
KIDS Amazing Arachnids 10am. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506x204.
Josh White, Jr. 2pm. Songs and stories. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MUSIC Bard Music Festival: Weekend III Call for times. Elgar and His World: Nostalgia, Patriotism, and Aesthetic Ideals. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Big Kahuna
Our Higher Voice
8pm. Cafe international- dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.
7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Elgar and the Next Generation
FRIDAY 26
2:30pm. Performance by faculty and students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
CLASSES
Leaf Peepers Concerts
Salsa Dance Classes
7:30pm. String trios. $20/$50 series pass. St. James Church Library, Chatham. (518) 325-3805.
Call for times. Various levels offered. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
DANCE Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Music by Peter Davis and Friends. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Bar Scott 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Terry Champlin and Helen Avakian
EVENTS
8pm. Acoustic. Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.
11th Annual Quilting Weekend
Josh White, Jr.
Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. (845) 985-2291x205.
8pm. Folk, blues, jazz. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Tea at Three
Queen Latifah
3pm-4pm. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.
8pm. Hip hop. $45-$85. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
KIDS Music Together 10am. Children from birth to age five listen to and make music with parents. Call for location. (203) 256-1656.
David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 8pm. Country rock. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.
Something Automatic
MUSIC
10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.
Billy Mitchell and Jon Walters
THE OUTDOORS
4pm. Singer/songwriters. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.
Catskill Wittenberg: Cornell Mountains
Jon Walters 6:30pm-8pm. Singer/songwriter. Willow Art Gallery, Woodstock. 679-5319.
Bard Music Festival: Weekend III 7pm. Elgar and His World: Nostalgia, Patriotism, and Aesthetic Ideals. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
An Evening with David Crosby & Graham Nash 8pm. $52.50/$47.50 UPAC and Bardavon Members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Kicasso 8pm. World pop dance. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.
Jazz Concert 8pm. Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quartet. $10. Adam’s Piano, Shokan. (518) 537-2326.
Denny Dillon and Improv Nation 8pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
A Women’s Voice 8:30pm. Women’s Resource Center benefit. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
SPOKEN WORD Religions and Politics 12pm. Luncheon lecture series. $14/$12. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-OnHudson. 758-7235.
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7pm-Monday, October 29, 8pm. $175. The Beacon Healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.
MUSIC 6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
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7:30pm. Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Greek, Roma. $10/class. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-1162.
Call for times. Difficult hike. Call for location. 046-2190.
Singles and Sociables Hike-Rock Rift. 9:30am-2:30pm. 6-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.
Elgar and His World: Nostalgia, Patriotism, and Aesthetic Ideals 10am. Panel discussion: Anglophilia and Imperialism. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Julia and Albert Rosenblatt 10am. Author of Historic Courthouses of New York State. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.
Gallery Talk 1pm. Tim Rollins on Robert Ryman. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.
Reading of Antarctica: Life on the Ice. 7:30pm. Susan Fox Rogers and Jon Bowermaster will discuss and read the newest book in the Travelers’ Tales Series. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-0500.
Anne Waldman Book Release Party 8pm. $10. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-8777.
THEATER
DANCE
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Fall Dance
8pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
7pm. Moderation and other student choreography. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
WORKSHOPS
SPOKEN WORD
Fall Quilting Weekend
What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason
Looking ahead to fall, Frost Valley is planning for its 11th annual Quilting Weekend. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2254.
SUNDAY 28 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
4:30pm. Galileo and Modern Science: The Union of Observation and Theory. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.
Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.
Sunday Morning Meditation
WORKSHOPS
10:30am-1:30pm. Chants, sitting and walking meditation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Divorce and Your Children
Eckhart Tolle group meeting
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Euro Dance Classes for Seniors
Tuesday Meditation
Fall Dance 3pm. Moderation and other student choreography. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
2pm. $3. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
An Appreciation for Your Hometown Eateries Call for times. Tour different eateries, meet with the owners, and enjoy dinner. $119. Call for location. 339-2025.
Getting to Know Your Chef’s Knife
Treasures in Your Attic: Old and Rare Books
6:30-8:30pm. W/Chef Jessica Bard. Warren Kitchen and Cutlery, Rhinebeck. 876-6208.
2pm. Presentation and appraisal by Kenneth Gloss. Great Room, Emerson Resort, Mt. Tremper. 688-2451.
Rosendale Community Drum and Sing
PFLAG Meeting
7pm. $48 series/$14 session. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 658-8673.
6:30pm-8:30pm. The Kingston Chapter of PFLAG. LGBTQ Center, Kingston. 853-5798.
Life Drawing Sessions
FILM
7:30pm-9:30pm. $11/$8 members per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The American Ruling Class
SPOKEN WORD
Call for time. Dramatic documentary musical with Lewis Lapham. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-3408.
KIDS Halloween Mask Making/Storytelling Call for times. $10/$8 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MUSIC Thomas Sauer
Mind Matters 12pm. Discussion group interested in neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7223.
Kairos: Bach Cantata Series
Divorce - How To Get Through It
8pm. “Nights in White Satin,” etc. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
Jazz Jam 8pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.
Qigong Call for times. Traditional Qigong forms. $100 ten sessions. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
Tai Chi Chuan
Singles and Sociables Hike-Mine Hole
CLASSES Flying Trapeze Lessons
10am-2pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.
SPOKEN WORD
Capoeira Angola
Pathwork Spiritual Lecture Reading/Discussion
Call for times. Brazilian martial arts. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.
10:30am. New York Region Pathwork, Phoenicia. 688-2211.
DANCE
THEATER
Modern Dance
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5:30pm-7pm. With the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
3pm. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS
EVENTS
Yoga for Golfers
Nursing Information Session
Call for times. Improve your game with added focus and flexibility. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
3pm. Information session. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.
Looking Good
Preschool Story Time
9am-12pm. A practical guide for developing an optimistic outlook. 275 Fair Street, Kingston. $79. 339-6250.
Tarot Basics 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MONDAY 29
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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Call for times. Ten session course. $100. Call for location. 452-7067.
Rock Rift Hike and Scramble
(Andrews McMeel, hardcover $29.95)
WEDNESDAY 31
THE OUTDOORS 9:30am-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
In the spirit of Marco Polo and Gulliver's Travels, Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara recounts the journal entries and adventures of explorer Arthur Denison and dinosaur Bix as they explore the exotic eastern realm of James Gurney's Dinotopia.
6:30pm-8:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
Scott Helland’s The Gypsy Nomads
The Moody Blues
The fourth book in James Gurney's best-selling Dinotopia series transports readers to an enthralling world of art, science, exploration, and invention, where humans and dinosaurs live peacefully together.
Divorce: Share Questions and Answers with Others 12pm-1:30pm. Sidney Gale Consultants, Pine Bush. 978-0548.
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ast month, Saturn entered Virgo with plenty of fanfare: a pair of eclipses on the Pisces/Virgo axis, then Venus stationing direct a few days before. Sign changes of Saturn are always significant. For millenia, Saturn was the farthest known planet from the Sun. It defined the bottom line of the world before science, electricity, the Enlightenment, and the American Revolution. Saturn represented the bottom line of reality: what we could see with our senses, and also the authority that could be imposed on us by doctrine, force, or structure. Since Uranus was discovered in 1781, we have gone through a variety of phases where the bottom line was defined by a different planet, with the latest one ending in the summer of 2006 when it was determined that Pluto was allegedly not a planet. During the phase that Pluto was the official edge of reality, we lived through what I will call the “death works” era of history, taking us from the rise of the Nazis through the peak of the Bush administration. Yet because Saturn ruled over the edge for so long, we have some deep cultural imprinting that we must live with, and when this planet changes signs every two to three years, we begin a distinct new phase of our lives, both personal and collective. For the past five years, we have lived with Saturn in Cancer (confrontation with insecurity in the guise of “security”) and Saturn in Leo (the breaking of structures and the establishment of new patterns and ideas). Neither of these signs is easy for us when Saturn is there. Sorting truth from falsehood is too often driven by the emotions and not the mind or intuition. With Saturn in Leo, greed and ambition have once again been raised to the level of gods, and any serious discussion of global problems seems to be on the shelf. I don’t count the car trip home from An Inconvenient Truth as being serious discussion; it would at least need to continue at breakfast the next day to qualify. Saturn in Virgo is associated with deep thought, intelligence, science, and reform. You could call it the authority of actual intelligence. The last time Saturn was in Virgo was during the Carter administration, which was about the last time we actually considered fuel-efficient cars or lowering the thermostat a little bit. Perhaps if Carter, a minister, had ordered the bombing of Iran, Reagan would not have been elected—but at that time in history, cooler heads prevailed. Let’s look more deeply at what this journey of Saturn in Virgo might mean at the moment. All the symbols of astrology conceal a deeper level that addresses much longer-term issues than we normally think of; longer term, as in the history of thought and the mission of the human race. It is precisely this kind of thinking that Saturn in Virgo cultivates, taking us back to the discussion of the relationship between spirit (or energy) and matter—the very relationship that is the basis of science, religion, and astrology. Alice A. Bailey writes in Esoteric Astrology that Virgo is the “soul life, as sensed in [humanity, in its] gestation period.” Virgo is like the seed pod that conceals the soul before it’s aware that it is a soul. I recognize that “soul” is a controversial term,
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so we could call it the real person inside all the games, fears, and self-images that we are taught. Most of us experience this dualism: for example, the experience of “the real me” within ourselves, that always seems to be struggling for expression. Saturn works to bring out the truth, so the journey across Virgo puts us on an inevitable path with something deeper within ourselves. Saturn tends to dictate the necessity of the day, on the most basic level. The necessity at this time would seem to be the question: Is there really more to the material world than we can see? In Hebrew mythology, Virgo is Eve, the woman who takes a bite of the apple of knowledge, which was given to her by a serpent. In Egyptian mythology, she is Isis, the Black Madonna, who takes this quest for knowledge and understanding to the more esoteric levels (such as the astral level), where we begin to encounter polarity and the shadow side of knowledge in a direct way. Isis is also one of the direct descendents of the Earth Mother tradition. In Christian mythology, Virgo represents Mary, the cosmic woman who gestates and gives birth to the Christ. The Christ is the unifying principle or value system (not specifically Jesus or his many mythological prototypes) that guides us to sanity. Christ means anointed one, or king. The “second coming” would be people taking up authority for themselves, in essence making the choice to rule their own lives. We do indeed live in the time without a king, which typically represents a time of spiritual and intellectual chaos. Yet we also live in times when an internal guiding principle is difficult to identify as a phenomenon we can share. It will be the role of Saturn in Virgo to help bring that out, though Saturn often represents a power struggle as one form of authority (dogmatic, external, governmental) is let go of, and another form (inner authority) is embraced. Saturn often represents a struggle because typically, we refuse to take sufficient authority in our own lives to master this energy. As I write, I keep resisting describing some of my recent experiences outside Gage Residence Hall here in New Paltz—one of the dioxin-contaminated dorms. But this time I will yield. Whenever I’m out there, most recently taking photos and then earlier this week doing an interview for public television, I take time to talk to students who live there. Most of them are women, so I focus the discussion on reproductive issues, such as toxins passed on to their future children, and more immediate concerns like endometriosis. Most people simply do not care. So what, exactly, is there to reach to within someone in order to have a real conversation about what matters—such as health, the environment, relationships, or sex? It is not really possible to convince some-
one to care about themselves; that would be the starting point, rather than the endpoint. What you would be conversing with at minimum is someone’s ability to take charge of their life in some small but significant way. We who don’t live in Gage Hall face similar situations with many personal and global issues at this time, and Saturn in Virgo represents the squeeze. How much pressure will it take to manifest our actual intelligence and make actual decisions? What will it take to get us to look at the data and assess it meaningfully? Saturn is generally considered the lord of time; things involving Saturn typically take time, and we are warned to be patient. But Saturn making a move also brings immediate changes, and can represent a change of mind or of outer circumstances. When we add a solar eclipse to this (about a week after the ingress), we have the image of things moving quickly before they slow down. We have the image of a confrontation with truth, both inner and outer. Saturn transits: conjunctions to outer planets Between 1956 and 1972, Pluto was in Virgo. Between late 1961 and 1969, Uranus was in Virgo. Between 1960 and early 1969, Chiron was in Pisces. (These dates do NOT factor for retrogrades into the prior or succeeding sign, so if you are born at one of the far ends of the transit, please check an ephemeris.) On October 9, 1965; April 4, 1966; and June 20, 1966, Uranus and Pluto were exactly conjunct in Pluto, representing the peak of both planets’ transit in Virgo. This was the astrology of revolution, evolution, and liberation that we experienced in the 1960s, which is typical of any era when Uranus and Pluto get together. Over the next 30 months or so, Saturn in Virgo will make aspects to Uranus, Pluto, and the conjunction points in many millions of natal charts, as well as making oppositions to everyone who has natal Chiron in Pisces. In other words, all the hottest 1960s astrology is about to be set off by Saturn in Virgo—including Saturn itself, which opposed Pluto during this era (for a prototype chart showing the whole configuration, look at April 23, 1965, at 2:56pm EDT—the chart is linked from the online edition of this article). To me, the Uranus-Pluto configuration represents a massive well of untapped energy, innovation, creativity, and intelligence. Many keep wondering what it will take to wake up this generation, most of which thinks it’s trapped in a cubicle and mortgage. The “service” aspect of Virgo and Pisces is so strong that it often entirely overshadows the innovative aspect. It may be that the generation of Pluto in Virgo might wind up being the “good Nazis” of our era: people who are loyal to a fault, but don’t ask what, exactly, they are loyal to. It is often enough to be “a good person inside a bad system” or the supposed reformer from within. But I don’t think that is enough. We were taught by our predecessors that living under the conditions of the Great Depression was intolerable; we were taught by the next generation that we must take care of ourselves at all costs; we have learned, as a result, that the “best” way to live is to take up our places as cogs in the machine, but only nominally asking just what that machine is for. We tend to live “spirituality” as a passive act—often refusing to make our spiritual values into social or political values; perhaps more often, but not often enough, making them into creative values. In other words, we tend very strongly not to put intelligence into action. If we heard more from this generation, we would have less of the impression of living in apathetic or conservative times, and more of the sense of living in times when there was actual discussion and controversy about issues that matter to all of us, most particularly the Earth herself. Saturn in Virgo is going to push the issue of the role of intelligence in our lives. This happens immediately, but there are peaks. Through mid-to-late 2008, Saturn will make its first pass over the Uranus-Pluto conjunction point in mid-Virgo. The Saturn retrograde from December 31, 2008, through May 2009 will cross the points a second time, and then the Saturn station direct in May 2009 will cross the conjunction points again. The Virgo-Pisces astrology of the 1960s, which millions of us walk around with, could be described as the soul within the form of existence. Virgo is the protective matter that covers and gestates the fragile essence of truth; yet the added presence of Saturn in the equation will do its part to bring out the inner reality, if we are willing to get out of our heads, bring things into the world of action, and to cooperate in real life. Saturn in Virgo is saying it is time; time to get real, time to use our minds, time to look at the world we live in, and time to envision the world we want. It is time to use what we know. That would be innovative.
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TAURUS (April 19-May 20) You are in a certain situation for the long haul, but you may not want to think of it that way. Rather, consider that now that you’ve overcome certain deep doubts about yourself, and have constructed a foundation strong enough to build on, others around you are showing their commitment and integrity—now. You may feel you need to push against them, or claim your space; rather, I suggest you enlist their cooperation, and propose terms of the relationship that work for you. The seemingly least likely situations are the ones most likely to work out best, and agreements that recently seemed impossible to assemble are now subject to that beautiful cosmic property known as breakthrough. Bear in mind that what you co-create is something entirely new, based on dierent principles than anything you’ve experienced before. You may at times feel you lack the permission of “the world,â€? but the time has ďŹ nally come for you to have more inuence on the culture than it has on you—in art as well as in love.
GEMINI
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Your deepest healing will come from revealing your deepest secrets. It is fair to say that most people strain under the burden of what they don’t reveal to their loved ones. These might include feelings, impassioned desires, and one’s sense of emotional pain; they might include unexpressed gripes or the fact that one is keeping an emotional scorecard in a relationship. You now have an extended opportunity to get the truth out. If it feels you must do so at the risk of a particularly close or committed relationship, I suggest you take the chance. What good is an opportunity to bond with another person if it’s not done from a clear place? It may seem like you’re risking what you have, but what you’re really gambling on is the possibility of something a lot better. Be mindful that if you go down this road, you are in essence committing to going as deep into the past as you need in order to be sane, happy, and free in the present. You may agree, this is a reasonable proposition.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Mars is now in your birth sign, where it will remain well into 2008. (Mars turns retrograde in Cancer Nov. 15, so it spends about six months of its two-year orbit in your sign.) This is your invitation to focus your intentions and experiment with the power of desire. Note that this era doesn’t appear to be a transient phase of your life, but rather, a threshold to a new understanding of yourself and how you can relate to your world: directly. You are soon to learn that you’re more likely to get what you desire than what you don’t desire. The key to this equation is to make your desires conscious, and to learn how to cancel the ones you don’t want or need. This will require a constant exercise in awareness, and then the additional step of making choices. Part of what you sort out are your past desires from your current ones; all while making room for what you may want in the future. As you do this, remember: feeling secure is more of a choice than a matter of chance.
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If it seems a never-ending quest to keep the peace at home and at work, remember what the two have in common. The bonds that tie people together are remarkably similar no matter what the setting, though we allow some to become more intimate than others (or deem them so). Depth or passion does not change the basic necessities of communicating our expectations, of stating grievances out loud, and most meaningful of all, asking for assistance when the burdens of life become too heavy to carry alone. You need to guard against what is in truth baseless insecurity about yourself; you may at times swing through extreme moods and decide one day that you’re king of the mountain and another day notice you’re struggling for any sense of worth. If you are defensive and protective, you will likely feel less safe. If you seek cooperation, balance and honesty, you will ďŹ nd that these things come to you with surprising ease and grace—even if at certain times during the next few months you display no such qualities.
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LEO (July 22-August 23) You now have the conďŹ dence to make some unusual progress, which will teach you one thing mainly—conďŹ dence is most of what you want to have the life you want. I wish this were a subject of more open discussion—but what it takes to have faith in oneself is generally kept quiet, or sold at an extremely high fee. I propose that there are two elements to conďŹ dence that, once mastered or at least made conscious, go a long way toward creating self-assurance. One is conďŹ dence with language. This is rare to ďŹ nd; most people honestly feel they are stumbling over their words, falling short of what they really mean. That leads to silence more often than speaking up. Second is sexual self-conďŹ dence, which is even rarer to ďŹ nd. In this world, you can get by pretty good with one or the other; I don’t think you can get far with neither working; both would be best, because we need that balance between the Goddess and the alphabet. Now they can work together for you. I suggest you use this opportunity to ďŹ nd the words to say what you think and what you feel—literally, to speak the unspeakable.
VIRGO
(August 23-September 22)
All the potential you have been secretly brewing these months and perhaps years is getting ready to hatch, or is at the moment coming out of its shell. Can you feel it? Well, it may not feel so thrilling; it may however feel like this huge pressure to come to terms with yourself, like there is something you must reckon with complete honesty. That urge to be boldly, blatantly honest with yourself is the feeling of being reborn. I suggest you give it a try, or another try—let out whatever you are holding in, even if it’s into a notebook, anonymous blog, or digital recorder. To some, Saturn’s presence in their sign may seem to be sending the message that you must wait, contemplate, and organize yourself. I get a dierent message: wake up, and let go of the past—and quickly. Be aware from your attempts to reach your truth of all that is outmoded in your life. Use your brain; consider your own thoughts; state your priorities. Last month’s solar eclipse in your sign started a process that will continue for the next six months, at least.
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SCORPIO
(October 23-November 22)
You seem to be making up your mind about something that you usually run through in rapid cycles of belief or dedication. Suddenly, it seems you know exactly what you mean when you speak to yourself; you know exactly how you feel. The astrology, however, says that you have found your way to a longer, more complex version of the same cyclical thought process, and will soon be looking at the other side of the Moon. I would describe this as a crisis of faith, but actually it’s a form of devil’s advocacy that only one as edgy as yourself could get o on. You will soon have the power, and I do mean it, to decide that all your beliefs are wrong; that what you wanted is not what you wanted; that what you have experienced is more a demonstration of what is not true rather than of what is true. The beauty of the moment is that you can focus on certain ideas long enough to experience them fully and to ďŹ nally size them up with an unusual degree of consciousness. No matter how deep you go or how committed you are, you will not get stuck.
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) A theme that developed last month persists: Take care of the details. You also need to know what details matter and which do not. So the other bit of stardust advice is don’t get too carried away. You need to do what you must to keep the kind of control that can only come with awareness; and you would be wise to recognize just how much awareness you already possess. I don’t mean to talk circles here. The short way around the tree is to say, pay attention to the extent that you can be mindful of what matters, and let go of the rest. You are in a building phase right now, where all you touch can turn to gold. Touch gently, but make actual contact; make sure your handprints are where they belong. The point is, by the time the astrology of 2007 peaks in your birth sign later in the autumn, your mind will once again be on the very large picture and you will not have time to handle the small stuff. You have time now, and using that time well is an investment that will pay you back handsomely.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) Be mindful of what you think is possible. Be mindful, at the same time, of what you think is possible for God, Goddess, Nature, or however you conceive of the organizing cosmic principle. Indeed, you may want to probe just what you think that principle is. You seem to have been questioning the influence of your past in the beliefs that you hold today. We were all taught things as children that profoundly influenced what we thought of as possible or impossible; likely or unlikely; subject to the influence of luck; subject to the influence of planning. For that matter, you had some concrete ideas about what was intractable, and for the most part these seem to be ideas about yourself. You are entering an extended phase when the immovable is indeed mutable; when what was nonnegotiable is up for discussion; when you will see that the limits you placed on the universe no more shaped the course of nature than a blindfold turns day to night.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Refine your ideas now; mix the 24-track recording down to eight tracks. Find practical application for your highest visions; start by applying a “for instance” to as many concepts as you can. While you’re at it, test your theories, whether in a simulator or in some form of reality. This is the time to begin the vital process of grounding your ideas about life into reality. Take tangible steps, even if they are small. Tangible means you can document your progress; you can make and receive commitments; there is a sense of exchange and development, no matter how small they may seem. You need to create a working model of the world you want, rather than having the whole thing be in your head. It is true that in recent years you have come up against many limitations that have caused you to question whether the world, or anyone for that matter, is ready for you. It’s time to resolve that issue.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) Saturn in your opposite sign is a serious transit, but Saturn says keep it light. Let others do all the getting heavy—trust me, they need the exercise in dedication, and Saturn’s presence in your relationship angle is the perfect invitation for those who are devoted to have a strong presence in your life. You have done most of your part; you have been generous with your ideas, your feelings, and your faith in freedom. The factor that seems to be out of control is the timing. When that is the case, all you can do is look at your life, now. But you can also look for tangible signs of dedication. Look at the present, look at history, and look at the trends that the two make when you superimpose them. You are in a phase of your life when awareness goes a long way toward activating the potential of the universe. Keep track of what you have seen to be true and what you have seen to be false, and make a note of when something moves from one column to the other—it’s a sign of progress.
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