Speak Out! recent blogs
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By Sparrow 07/06/08
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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
Arts & Culture
Portfolio: George QuashaGeorge 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. | PoetryPoems 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 HangingFor “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. | 
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 DistressSociety’s insatiable appetite for melodrama may go far in explaining the enduring public interest in yet another maiden in distress: Jane Eyre. |
Food & Drink
Spice of Life
Suruchi, which is Sanskrit for good taste, or, more literally, “good interest,” features a menu that is largely inspired by the vegetarian cuisine of southern India.
Books
The Constant GardenerWhat do gardening, murder, women’s erotica, and Christmas past have in common? A most uncommon edito: Woodstocker Michele Slung. | 
Book Review: Up is Up but So is DownAnyone 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 NeddiadThe 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 TakesWhether 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 ViolenceIn Killed Cartoons, writer and editor David Wallis collects some of the great nixed editorial pieces of recent vintage. |
Lucid Dreaming
Things Fall Apart
Think of how often we seem to revel in the image of our own destruction. We seem, as a culture, to have fully embraced what Freud identified as the “death drive,” the erotics of Thanatos.