Arts & Culture

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Portfolio: f-Stop Fitzgerald

f-Stop Fitzgerald is an early chronicler of the punk scene in San Francisco. His photo exhibition “Rockers Shot Onstage!” at the Rosendale Cafe opens November 31.

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Live, Like a Refugee

Dar Williams will perform in support of the new DVD release, Live at Bearsville Theater.

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Haunted House

Stanley’s House is an exploration of parallel lives lived in the same house.

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N'Dour on Tour

If James Brown was the hardest-working man in show business, N’Dour has certainly given the Godfather of Soul a run for his money.

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Hidden View

In Edmund C. Coates’s Lighthouse, near Caldwell’s Landing, gentle hills rise like green breasts above two full-bellied sailboats. The Victorians had an erotic love of landscape.

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Visions of the Rio Grande

The Samuel Dorskey Museum of Art hosts Gandert’s work as an event for this month’s Big Read in New Paltz.

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Blurring the Lines

Under the banner “A Break from the Constant” this refreshingly bold arts-in-the-schools initiative will take place November 1st through the 4th.

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From Dahomey to Da Bronx

Cuban-born composer and saxophonist Yosvany Terry chose Ye-dé-gbé as the name of his latest jazz ensemble project which tangles the influences of the Afro-Caribbean Arará culture with the American jazz form.

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Begin Morning Civil Twilight

Finch’s art takes a variety of forms, from works on paper to sculptural objects to set design, but his main medium is installation.

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Forever Young

“Rumi Embodied: An Ecstatic Celebration” will be held at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, November 15-18.

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The Tao of Roald

When the Nobel committee awarded the 1981 prize in chemistry to Roald Hoffmann, they couldn’t have known they were encouraging a poet, playwright, and art critic.

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Reinventing History

The gala is being described as the Dudley Observatory’s 150th anniversary bash, despite the fact that the facility was chartered in 1852 and dedicated in 1856.

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World of Shadows

“Chinese Shadow Figures from the Collection of Dr. Fan Pen Chen” is on exhibit from November 2 through January 6, 2008.

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Digital Daguerrotypist

“Photosemasia: Meaning in Light, Digital Translations of Lost Photographic Processes, Selected Works by Wil Lindsay,” runs from November 19 though January 20 at The Photography Center of the Capital District.

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Cool Moves

The Iceland Dance Company will perform at The Egg on November 2 at 8pm.

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Chronogram Seen: November

The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.

Food & Drink

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Consider the Herbalist

Amy Giezentanner profiles Gary Allen, author of The Herbalist in the Kitchen.

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The Sophisticated Crepe

At Ravenous, diners can choose from 13 savory and 13 sweet crepes, plus daily specials. “We’ve always been interested in concentrating on just a few items and doing them really, really well,” co-owner Lauren Wickizer says.

Books

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Perennial Voyager

The late Jim Ryan, curator of nearby Olana, once told Kermani, “Someday this house is going to be seen as a major work by John Ashbery.”

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Short Takes: November

Five books for November reading.

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Book Review: The Air We Breathe

Here, once again, Barrett has woven science and story into a seamless narrative. By the end of the novel, readers have become an intimate part of Tamarack society.

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Book Review: What You Call Winter

Nalini Jones’s debut collection suggests James Joyce’s The Dubliners. All of Joyce’s choice themes are here: lost innocence, alienation, dislocation, and a struggle with Catholic identity.

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Star Power

Beth E. Wilson grapples with celebrity in contemporary art as she reviews the exhibitions of artists, Jo Andres and Keith Edmier.