View from the Top
On the Cover • Beyond Pattern, Shai Eynav, archival print, 1998
Esteemed Reader • Jason Stern balances on the edge of the razor of presence.
Conversation • Vanaver Caravan directors Bill and Livia Vanaver talk with Jason Stern.

Room for a View
Whose River Is It Anyway?
By Manna Jo Greene. What’s fueling General Electric’s multi-million dollar anti-dredging ad campaign?
News & Views
CIA Takes Over AIDS; Messing with Mifepristone; Kosovo Commission Visits Mohonk, more.
Editorials
Rejecting the Politics of Fear; Voting Rights, Voting Responsibilities.

Community Notebook
Bulletin Board of the Intriguing, Edifying & Entertaining
Rosendale International Pickle Festival
Barn Documentation
Mother Earth Crucifix

Features
Living Together:
Cohousing on Cantine’s Island
Rachelle Gura visits the Saugerties cohousing community three years into the experiment.

Backbone
Lucid Dreaming • Dreaming of the Promised Land. Beth Wilson on landscape and the status quo.
Frankly Speaking • Striving for Wholeness. Part One in a series by Frank Crocitto on wholeness.
Ear Whacks • Rockabilly Boogie. Todd Paul on a not-so-obscure outpost of Americana.
Quarter to Three • How to Make Everything. Sparrow teaches Shop.
Planet Waves • Life in the Balance. Eric Francis on the “It’s not my fault” syndrome. Plus horoscopes.
Poetica • Poems by E. Gironda, Jr., normal and Andrew Tokash.


Parting Shot
Rear View, by Renata DeAngelis.