Speak Out! recent blogs
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Pretty Much the Most Important Thing
By Bethany Saltman 06/23/08
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How do I Assess Risks versus Benefits of Treatment Options?- 3
By Puja Thomson 06/16/08
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By Sparrow 05/23/08
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By Sharon Nichols 05/22/08
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Dora Who?: On Raising a Weirdo
By Bethany Saltman 04/25/08
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What is the Sound of No Steps?
By David Aston-Reese 04/21/08
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By Trish Malone 04/04/08
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How do I Assess Risks versus Benefits of Treatment Options?- 2
By Puja Thomson 03/26/08
Arts & Culture
Will Work For Food
“For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s” is an exhibition of paintings and sketches on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery.
Apocalypse AvertedMohonk Mountain Stage Reader’s Theater performs “Copenhagen” at Unison in New Paltz on January 26 & 27. | 
Chip Off the Old BlockThe sculpture of Anthony Gennarelli is on view at Galleria Alba in Newburgh through February 28. | 
Horses to WaterMark Doerrier’s documentary about the goings-on in an Orange County town, In the Land of Goshen, will screen at Yellow Bird Gallery on January 26 and Cafe Chronogram on January 6. | 
Slide Show: Patrick MilbournStreamline Media’s Brian Branigan narrates on a new show by artist Patrick Milbourn. |
Film: Two Square MilesTwo Square Miles is a critically acclaimed documentary from NiiJii Films about the conflicts arising from the possible siting of a cement plant in Hudson, NY. | 
PortfolioThe dead outnumber the living in Totowa, New Jersey, the birthplace of photographer Laurie Giardino. | 
Film: Tempting God...Tricking the DevilKingston filmmaker Evan Leone’s “Tempting God…Tricking the Devil” is the gritty tale of a young couple’s unplanned pregancy. | 
Lucid DreamingBeth E. Wilson shows why McWillie Chambers’s sketches are much more than “identity politics”. |
Food & Drink
Tippling Through Two Lips
While recent transplants from Gotham might bemoan the perceived lack of amenities at local bars, one thing is certain: There is no shortage of places to get a drink in the Hudson Valley.
Books
Outsider Artist
James Lasdun packs a prodigious literary pedigree. The London-born author has published two acclaimed novels and three collections apiece of short stories and poems.
Book Review: Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of MenWry and episodic, Jaems Canon’s magical realist novel Tales from the Town of Widows opens in November of 1992, when Marxist guerillas come recruiting in tiny Mariquita, Colombia. | 
Book Review: Maude March on the Run!In this sequel to her acclaimed The Misadventures of Maude March, part-time South Fallsburg resident Audrey Couloumbis keeps the dust churning, the bullets zipping, and the wry wit flying. | 
Book Review: Ask the ParrotThe first few lines of Ask the Parrot parachute the reader into the middle of a manhunt in the backwoods of New England—and into the life of an incredibly dangerous man. | 
Short TakesStart your New Year off reading with this quintet of diverse new releases by Hudson Valley authors. |