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
Parting Shot: Tom BambergerTom Bamberger’s “Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film” will be on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College through July 29. | 
June Portfolio: Linda MontanoLinda Montano has explored art, life, and spirituality in her innovative performance work for almost 40 years. |
Animal EsperantoJan Harrison has invented her own language, literally. It’s called “Animal Tongues,” and she began speaking it in 1979. Though she doesn’t consider herself a performance artist, Harrison sometimes publicly sings—and speaks—in Animal Tongues. | 
Faces of War“Faces of War: Kamdesh and the Korengal Outpost, Afghanistan” is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of US soldiers on the front lines. | 
Museum Piece“Natural History” is a bittersweet chamber piece—four different vignettes in four different rooms of the Museum of Natural History. | 
The Silent TreatmentThose seeking an exposé in Into Great Silence—Carthusians: Beneath the Hood?—will find unanswered prayers in this digital scrapbook. |
Food & Drink
Sweet and Sharp: Hudson Valley Onions
The illustrious history of onion farming in the Hudson Valley most certainly began in the famed black dirt of Orange County.
Books
Desert BloomMorrow writes like an architect, using intricate mathematical structures to create three-dimensional worlds full of beauty and light. | 
Book Review: The FuturistOthmer has done a marvelous dissection of early 21st-century culture, tossed the pieces into a blender, and poured out a first-rate satirical novel in which tomorrow is to die for. |
Short Takes for JuneSummer reading in many flavors, including three books with upcoming launch parties, plus two more from some of our finest regional publishers. | 
Book Review: Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean NewsmanYou may never have heard of Geoffrey Nyarota, but, a world away in Zimbabwe, many consider him a contemporary folk hero. | 
Book Review: Tales of Three VeteransIt has taken these men decades to process their various experiences into art, and powerful art it is. | 
Stances with WolvesScott Ian Barry’s photographs were once described by Ansel Adams as “striking and generous portraits.” |
Lucid Dreaming
Add Viewer, Stir Gently
A provocative installation of minipaintings by Lucio Pozzi at BCB Art in Hudson this month.