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Arts & Culture

The Real Last Samurai

A new show of prints by 19th century Japanese artist Chikanobu.

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Portfolio: George Quasha

George Quasha is something of a latter-day Renaissance man, with a wide-ranging list of accomplishments as a publisher, a poet, an artist, and an all-around inquiring mind.

Poetry

Poems by Erin Buttner, Mark Massey, Jeffrey Aaron Schmidt, Peter Scheckner, Nicholas Ripatrazone, Jeffrey Paggi, Amy Beth Barton, Lauren Tamraz Judson, Kim Barke, and Michael Hunt.

Juried Hanging

For “Photowork ’07,” Barrett Art Center’s 20th annual national juried photography exhibition, the Poughkeepsie gallery’s director, Laurie Strange, gave juror Asher Miller the freedom to select works not based on any particular theme or genre.

Poetic Liar

Charles Simic will read at SUNY Ulster’s 13th Annual Poetry Forum on April 18.

Little Dollface

“Dollface,” which runs April 12 through 15, is a sidelong wink at the synthetically cheery 1950s and the breezy musicals that flourished during that era.

Damsel in Distress

Society’s insatiable appetite for melodrama may go far in explaining the enduring public interest in yet another maiden in distress: Jane Eyre.

News & Politics

The Politics of Food

A speech by Vandana Shiva.

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Beinhart's Body Politic

The attorney general takes an oath to uphold the constitution and execute the law. When controversial matters come up, his role, traditionally, is often to be the guy who says, “We can’t do that, it’s against the law.”

Community Notebook

Queens of the Catskills

Four decades before Patrick Swayze donned a wig and eyeliner in To Wong Foo, rural Greene County was home to a sorority of male cross-dressers.

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Art of Business: The Grounds Keepers

In the past three years, Muddy Cup coffeehouses have opened in Hudson, Albany, Beacon, Catskill, and Kingston. By summer, there will be locations in Poughkeepsie, Schenectady, and New Paltz.

Books

The Constant Gardener

What do gardening, murder, women’s erotica, and Christmas past have in common? A most uncommon edito: Woodstocker Michele Slung.

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Book Review: Up is Up but So is Down

Anyone who spent time in lower Manhattan during the years covered in editor Brandon Stosuy’s rich and riveting anthology, Up Is Up But So Is Down, will tell you the same thing: Their city is gone.

Book Review: Home Remedies

“In relationships one person always cares more than the other,” a mother warns a daughter in Angela Pneuman’s enticing debut, Home Remedies.

Book Review: The Neddiad

The Neddiad is an epic tale that mixes disparate genres and elements in a way only the author of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency could imagine.

Short Takes

Whether they’re writing about military realities, queer identity, land use issues up- and downriver, or that iconoclastic bride of Christ, these five local authors are helping to break new ground.

Book Excerpt: "The Pact"

An excerpt from “The Pact” by Roberta Allen, from Up Is Up, But So Is Down.

Graphic Violence

In Killed Cartoons, writer and editor David Wallis collects some of the great nixed editorial pieces of recent vintage.

Music

Lessons From Legends

Prior to the Homespun Tapes’ there hadn’t really been any way to learn how to play folk music other than by transcribing it by ear from old 78s or by getting enlightenment firsthand.

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CD Review: John Esposito Quintet

One beautiful thing about ensemble jazz recording is that the musicians truly have to play in the same room at the same time.

CD Review: Guitars & Hearts

Raw and passionate without being excessively “grrrl,” Guitars & Hearts runs the gamut, exploring gender variance and queerness in a way that almost any listener can relate to.

CD: Todd Giudice

Todd Giudice’s latest is aptly titled—the little-known secret is that this 12-track CD is solid as stone.

Nightlife Highlights

April is another great month of musical performances.

Divine Alliance

On April 10, the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie will host a stop on the eagerly anticipated tour pairing virtuoso pianist Brad Mehldau with legendary guitarist Pat Metheny.

Guitar Glory

On April 14, Leo Kottke, joins David Lindley, at the historic Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill.

Horoscopes

Planet Waves News Notes

The Living True Greed Truly seminar will help enable participants to balance the demands of being highly spiritual and simultaneously deeply materialistic.

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Horoscopes

Astrologer Eric Francis Coppolino looks to the heavens.

Whole Living

Colors of the Spectrum

Autism has become a national crisis. It is the fastest-growing disability in the United States, affecting one in every 150 children. Diagnoses of autism are increasing at the startling rate of 10 to 17 percent per year.

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Horse Tales

Hippotherapy literally means “treatment with the help of the horse. The idea of seeking aid for human ailments from horses began in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in the 1960s.

Stretching and Falling

We are accustomed to stretching our physical bodies. Similarly, it is important to stretch our consciousness if we want to maintain a healthy, vital, and enthusiastic spirit.

No Fear

What do Al Gore, Nora Ephron, Jane Goodall, and Ariana Huffington have in common? They’re all afraid.

Home & Garden

Homegrown Heroes

Many of our most commonly used lawn care techniques and supplies are out of sync with our native ecological system. However there are species in our backyards that we’ve been conditioned to exterminate that may be beautiful from a different perspective.

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