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News & Politics

A Call To Arms

Lorna Tychostup interviews Robert Weissman, author of report “Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America”

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Biff! Bang! Boom! (Crash!)

With help from Batman and Robin, Larry Beinhart explains the theology of economy and Capitalism

While You Were Sleeping

You’ll find it all here: The homecoming drag queen, how Spain blows us all away, land mine detecting tobacco, and a high school fight club.

Music

Basketful of Noise

Peter Aaron feels the noise with Dan Seward of Bunnybrains.

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Nightlife Highlights

DJ Wavy Davy handpicks what’s going on for your listening pleasure.

CD Review: Jen Clapp

Review of Jen Clapp’s new CD release.

CD Review: The Princes of Serendip

Review of The Princes of Serendip’s second CD.

CD Review: Sangeeta Michael Berardi

Review of guitarist Sangeeta Michael Berardi’s newest CD.

Such Sweet Thunder

The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, in collaboration with a coalition of local choral groups, will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on April 18 at UPAC.

Crank You Very Much

Disbanded since 1998, post-punk garage-rock legends Chrome Cranks reunite at Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston on May 5, kicking off their reunion tour.

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Letters

Letters to the Editor

Chronogram Seen

Chronogram Seen: April Issue

Esteemed Reader

Jason Stern witnesses freedom from prison through dance.

Editor's Note

How are you doing? The cloud of unknowing negativity is starting to aggravate the editor.

On the Cover

On The Cover

Eric Bean’s archival pigment print, Chas 3, appears on the April cover.

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Community Notebook

Local Luminary

Interview with a young robotics prodigy from Vassar’s Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory.

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Art of Business

Giving Credit

Kelley Granger finds out the reasons why local banks are thriving.

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Arts & Culture

Portfolio: Hendrik Dijk

Kingston Renaissance man Hendrik Dijk exhibits this month at KMoCA.

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Down the Drain

Jeff Crane reviews the sculptures of John Cleater at Nicole Fiacco in Hudson.

On The Down Low

Luc Sante, author of Low Life and Kill All Your Darlings, talks with Peter Aaron. On April 6, Sante will lecture at Vassar College, part of its Public Voices series.

Frolic by the Fire

The rite of spring is celebrated on April 25 when the Center for Symbolic Studies hosts its 19th annual Beltane Festival. Anne Pyburn previews.

Film: Spin Slowly

Starring Summer Corrie, Evan Leone, Tony Grocki and Sean Grocki, the Trailer to the independent short film “Spin Slowly” written and directed by T. George McArdle was released on November 1, 2008.

Film: 21 BELOW

21 BELOW is the true story of a young woman going home to face family wounds that she had hoped to escape. Sharon, who now lives in the Hudson River Valley, is pregnant with her first child when she learns that the 14 month old daughter of her younger sister is dying from a rare genetic disease. It’s then she realizes that she can’t start a family of her own until she tries to help the family she’s left behind.

Books

Dismantling the Disquietude

Pauline Uchmanowicz profiles poet Charles Simic­.

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Book Reviews: Feed Me! and Two Weeks Under

Anne Pyburn reviews FEED ME! edited by Harriet Brown and Two Weeks Under by Rivka Tadjer.

Book Review: Emily Post

Marx Dorrity reviews Emily Post by Laura Claridge.

Short Takes: Arpil Issue

April is the cruelest month, fraught with tax returns and marshmallow Peeps. What better time to celebrate the lives of the not-so-saintly?

Comic Book Hero

Jay Blotcher talks with David Hajdu, author of comic book history The Ten-Cent Plague. Hajdu will be reading and signing at Joshua’s Cafe on April 4.

Food & Drink

Grains of Change

Don Lewis goes with the grain at the Wild Hive farm store in Clinton Corners, part cafe, part bakery, part purveyor of local foodstuffs. Peter Barrett visits.

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Poetry

The Fallen Soldier

Reader submitted poetry.

Stone Song

Reader submitted poetry.

Those Shoes?

Reader submitted poetry.

Tappan Zee Bridge

Reader submitted poetry.

Ask Me How I Am

Reader submitted poetry.

Back Again

Reader submitted poetry.

Hardware

Reader submitted poetry.

Trope Having to do with Time

Reader submitted poetry.

When the Last Wind Moves Down the Pines

Reader submitted poetry.

Triolet: Significant Other

Reader submitted poetry.

The Closing Statement

Reader submitted poetry.

Home & Garden

Garden of Earthly Delights

Crispin Kott talks with the experts about native and organic backyard plants.

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Whole Living

Cooking Up a Well Balanced Life

Lorrie Klosterman examines how the Institute for Integrative Nutrition defies the conventional wisdom about food, lifestyle, and diet.

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Flowers Fall

Field notes from a Buddhist Mom’s experimental life.

Horoscopes

Finding Your Missing Piece

Eric Francis Coppolino on a way out of our tense self-relationship.

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Horoscopes for April

Horoscopes by Eric Francis Coppolino.

Parting Shot

Parting Shot

Kenneth Cooke excitedly spies a yellow-spotted salamander and hurries to photograph it.

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Fiction

Garden City

Mimi Moriarty’s tale was a runner-up in our 2008 Short Story Contest.

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