View from the Top
Esteemed Reader • The difference between practice and spectation.
Conversation • Countreculture icon and presidential candidate Stephen Gaskin talks with Jason Stern.
Letters to the Editor • Considering overpopulation; Donald Silberger returns fire on gun control.

Community Notebook
Bulletin Board of the Intriguing, Edifying & Entertaining
Dowsing in Kingson, Powerhouse Theatre, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Puppet Making Camp.
Woodstock Film Fest

Room for a View
The Spectrum Conspiracy • By Gary Alexander. What the telecommunications industry hasn’t told you about cell phones and the possible damaging effects of electro-magnetic radiation.
Views & News: Short Takes, Updates and Calls to Action • Water repellant planet; saving good bacteria; tobacco industry setbacks in Florida civil suit; AMA refusal to call for death penalty moratorium.
Editorial • Life in the Corproate Age by Todd Paul.

Features
Hidden Children of the Holocaust
By Beth Elaine Wilson. An exhibition at the Urban Cultural Park in Kingston documents the stories of local survivors of Nazi perseuction and their heroic rescuers.

Backbone
Frankly Speaking • A Far Greater Glory. Frank Crocitto buys a hat and gives a hat away.
Lucid Dreaming • A Sense of Place. Beth Wilson on Ilya Kabakov and the Byrdecliff installation exhibit.
Quarter to Three • Zero. Sparrow wonders what the new (845) area code will mean for us.
Ear Whacks • Three of Four Mavericks. Todd Paul previews the Shostakovich summer at Maverick.
Planet Waves • Horoscopes with astral navigator Eric Francis.
Poetica • Poems by David A. Joseph & Joy Sherri.