Chronogram - Chronogram’s Greatest Hits

Chronogram's Greatest Hits

It's hard to let last year go, especially considering all the stellar material we printed in these pages. Here's a list of what we think was great in '04. Most of it is available at www.chronogram.com. If it's not, or you want a paper copy to complete your 2004 set, back issues are available for $5 each; just drop us a note stating which issues you'd like and send a check to:

Chronogram Back Issues
314 Wall Street
Kingston, NY 12401

The Faux Cover Show

In the fall of 2003, Art Director Carla Rozman sent out a call to area artists to design fake Chronogram covers. In response, we received 66 submissions, one of which we printed on our January '04 cover (Lesley Stone's Ophelia Plumbs the Depths), and a select few we featured in a spread within the magazine that month.

Harold Jacob's Review of the French Corner

Also in our January issue, Hal Jacobs review of chef Jacques Qualin's French Corner—a restaurant review so well written it begged to be plagiarized. And it was!—by the (former) restaurant critic of the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Baby Highlander by Valerie Shaff

On the cover of the February issue, we featured a sepia print by Hudson-based photographer Valerie Shaff of a goofy-looking drooling calf with shaggy mane that bewitched us.

Reportage from Iraq

Lorna Tychostup traveled to Iraq twice in 2004, filing impassioned dispatches for our March, April, and October issues.

Messing with the Masterpiece

Lorrie Klosterman penned a two-part series about the state of pollution in the region in our April and May issues, finding the usual suspects (GE's PCB dump known as the Hudson River), as well as a disturbing number of localized spills, unremediated brownfields, and the disturbing specter of pollution from further development.

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