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Arts & Culture

Portfolio: Judith Linhares

From a distance, Judith Linhares’s paintings are pure candy-coated fantasies. The colors strike you first, pinks and purples, phosphorous greens, aqua- and ultramarines.

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Art Review: Idyll Rich

To think that a rich, young American couple could have inspired great art in a variety of media on two continents through the sheer force of their personalities and lifestyle is almost beyond imagination.

La Vie En Rose

The Real Food Film Series takes a turn from the political to the sublime on September 7 with Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers, director Les Blank’s 57-minute-long ode to garlic, the “stinking rose.”

The House Strained Peas Built

The centerpiece of the collection is a first-rate group of Winslow Homer paintings and watercolors, followed by a strong collection of works from the “Ash Can School,” urban realists working in the early 20th century.

Irish Symphony

n 1607, a pair of powerful Irish noblemen fled Ireland to seek help against the tightening grip of English domination. Robinson McClellan used the earls’ travels and travails to structure his piece.

River Keeper

Annea Lockwood has created an “aural journey” from the river’s source—the beautifully named Lake Tear of the Clouds, in the high peaks of the Adirondacks—to its terminus in New York harbor.

Joshing Around

Today the Great Josh Billings RunAground draws more than 400 teams made up of one, two, three, or four people, most of them wearing spandex and sporting state-of-the-art shoes, bikes, canoes, and kayaks.

It's an Ed Thing

The first thing to know about the band Eddie from Ohio, is that, yes, there is an Eddie but, no, he’s not from Ohio.

Portfolio: Richard Merkin

The great thing about being an artist is this: All the things you’ve done, all the pictures you’ve made, they’ll stay and say what you wanted to say.

Living Blues Treasure

Not only is Honeyboy Edwards alive, kicking, and sharp as a fresh toothpick, he’s on the road, making a rare and not-to-be-missed stop at the Rosendale Cafe on September 8.

Witness to History

Ron Haviv’s photo of a Serb militiaman kicking a dying Muslim woman in the head—published a week before the fighting started—became one of the most enduring images of the Balkan conflict.

The Good Word

Spoken-word performance, the artform so identified with Manhattan’s East Village of poverty, drug addiction, and AIDS, has once again inched its way up the Hudson.

Waxing Poetic

The encaustic boom is going strong. “Encaustic Works 2007,” R&F Encaustic’s biannual juried exhibition, was chosen from approximately 3,000 entries, by the artist Joan Snyder.

One Heck of a Hootenanny

Dan Zanes is not afraid to employ lap steel, trombone, saxophone, tambourine, mandolin, accordion, balalaika, tuba, tin whistle, fiddle, or anything else that helps step up the fun.

Public Opinion

What started as an editorial assignment to document public opinion about the US invasion of Iraq turned into a project examining how people are misinformed and confused by news and governmental spin on the war.

Books

Writing His Way Home

Like the disadvantaged tooth fairy in his latest novel, hatched parentless in an old tin can, author Gregory Maguire had a rough start.

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Short Takes

Reviews of books by Dr. Lewis Marola, Naton Leslie, Jon Katz, Paul Grondahl, and Bruce Piasecki.

Book Reviews: The Family Diamond

Schwarzschild’s new short story collection provides real emotional, intellectual, and aesthetic nourishment, never offering simplistic resolutions to complex situations.

Book Reviews: When Madeline Was Young

When Madeline Was Young is conceptually imaginative and potentially haunting, yet Madeline’s unique world failed to materialize in that ethereal transit zone between page and heart.

Perennial Voyager

There are few laudatory adjectives that critics haven’t applied to John Ashbery’s 26 books of poetry; “dazzling,” “sublime,” and the like become shopworn.

September Short Takes

Six must-reads for September.

Book Reviews: Trashed

Trashed is a delightful romp through the sordid and deliciously sleazy world of the Hollywood tabloid media machine and the seriously neurotic, occasionally psychotic stars who feed it.

Book Reviews: Russian Lover and Other Stories

A well-done short story feels miraculous, the selection of just the right moments and details to create an entire reality in a bite-sized handful of pages. Woodstock author Jana Martin gets it right.

Book Reviews: Land of Stone: Breaking Silence Through Poetry

Karen Chase begins her preface by calling Land of Stone “a story of silence and kinship.” It is also a story about love, healing, and the redemptive power of poetry—and it is unlike anything you’ll ever read.

Community Notebook

Never Look Down

Instead of taking the role of armchair critic, sitting back and celebrating his own good taste, Harith Abdullah decided to get out and put his experience to use and start a record label.

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Cannes Do

Since it was launched in 2000, the Edwood Film Festival has become the Capital Region’s preeminent annual film event.

Omega Rising

A center for wellness and personal growth, Omega is a mecca of spiritual ideas and methodologies and a platform for many of the world’s foremost thinkers.

Spiritual Inventory

When Jeff Cuiule and Audrey Cusson bought Mirabai, a holistic bookstore, there were many naysayers. But their store has doubled its income in the last three years alone.

Music

"Everything is Okay, We're in the Song"

One is a venerated Capital Region jazz legend, while the other is one of the most compelling young artists to come out of upstate New York in years.

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Nightlife Highlights

Roger Houston’s nightlife picks for September.

CD Review: Los Straitjackets

Yet the existential question remains: Is this contextual reframing a creative fusion of cultural flavors, or just a generous helping of Mexican pizza?

CD Review: The Tequila Mockingbirds

The Tequila Mockingbirds take a rather quirky approach to the songs they cover, and their sound is energetic, sometimes even catchy.

CD Review: Lee Shaw Trio

Venerable jazz pianist Lee Shaw simply shines with her nine-song CD of self-penned compositions Originals, the first release of her own tunes in a lengthy career.

Gutter Rock Girl

Weird isn’t the word for this spectacle; the Laura Pepitone Show and her infinite energy are almost too much—dizzying, inspiring, funny, and extremely entertaining, in one surreal serving.

CD Review: The Powder Kegs

The Powder Kegs are ace players on fiddle, guitars, doghouse bass, banjo, and mandolin, and still manage to deliver all of their chosen tunes with a subtext of contagious joy.

CD Review: Ratboy

In Ratboy, their signature lyrical and harmonic twist-up shows such influences as Beck (the urban pop country-esqe “Falling Up”) and Lou Reed (the haunting “El Futuro”).

CD Review: The Christine Spero Group

Whether your thing is jazz, pop, or Brazilian/Latin grooves, Christine Spero’s My Spanish Dream will transport you to a loftier place.

Horoscopes

Hold the Bread on that Sandwich, Please

Gluten is the probable main culprit in celiac, an autoimmune disease that can damage the small intestines and makes it difficult for people with the illness to absorb nutrients from other food.

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Horoscopes

Eric Francis Coppolino’s astrological outlook for September.

News & Politics

Stories of the Displaced

Approximately 50,000 to 60,000 Iraqis are fleeing their homes per month, according to Rana Sweis, spokesperson for the Jordanian office of the UNHCR.

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While You Were Sleeping

The gist of what you may have missed.

Beinhart's Body Politic: Secrets

Common sense, certain events, and most of the great theoreticians make it seem self-evident that secrets are crucial in war.

Whole Living

Classical Homeopathy: Alive and Well

When David Kramer’s chronic allergies were eliminated by homeopathic treatment, he knew there was something remarkable afoot in this approach.

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Creating From Your Center

Jeff Davis is running the first longterm study of yoga’s effects on students’ creative productivity, with students from the Masters of Fine Arts program at Western Connecticut State University.