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Editor's Note: Il Miglior Fabbro June 25, 2009
Chronogram editor Brian Mahoney reflects on an achievement and a loss.
Parting Shot May 28, 2009
Bo Gehring will be exhibiting as part of a group show at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon.
While You Were Sleeping May 26, 2009
GE begins dredging the Hudson, closing Guantanamo Bay, and more.
Chronogram Seen May 26, 2009
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference,
the Chronogram community.
Parting Shot April 30, 2009
Eileen Carpenter, designer for Chronogram, will be a graduating SUNY New Paltz photo major.
Editor's Note: 09-04 April 29, 2009
Brian K. Mahoney on the upcoming November presidential election.
Editor's Note April 27, 2009
This month, our editor may take up golf as the act of riding a bike has run amok.
While You Were Sleeping April 27, 2009
The real unemployment rate, why sisters are better than brothers, and more.
Chronogram Seen April 27, 2009
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference,
the Chronogram community.
Film: Spin Slowly April 09, 2009
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.
The Problem of the Media: An Interview with Robert McChesney April 08, 2009
An interview with media reformer Robert McChesney.
Parting Shot March 31, 2009
Kenneth Cooke excitedly spies a yellow-spotted salamander and hurries to photograph it.
Crank You Very Much March 30, 2009
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.
Editor's Note March 27, 2009
How are you doing? The cloud of unknowing negativity is starting to aggravate the editor.
While You Were Sleeping March 27, 2009
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.
Vulvapalooza February 27, 2009
“The Vagina Monologues” are staged at the Rosendale Theater on March 20 and 21 in benefit performances for HOPE’s Fund.
Portfolio: Nervous System February 27, 2009
Non-traditional jewelry designers Nervous System combine science and architecture to produce beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces.
Local Luminary February 26, 2009
Michael Chen discusses breaking into the acting business with Brian Mahoney.
While You Were Sleeping February 25, 2009
The rise of cleanvertising, increase in US Army suicide rate, Sweden deemed most democratic nation and more in While You Were Sleeping: March Issue
On the Cover: Ice #20 February 25, 2009
Carolyn Marks Blackwood’s “Ice #20,” appeared on the cover of the March issue of Chronogram.
Editor's Note: Gradually, then Suddenly February 25, 2009
Brian Mahoney expresses his views on the current state of print media.
Local Luminary: Eileen McAdam January 27, 2009
Eileen McAdam speaks with Brian K. Mahoney about the Sound and Story Project.
On the Cover: Chris Metze, "Untitled" January 27, 2009
Chris Metze’s “Untitled,” appeared on the cover of the February issue of Chronogram.
Portfolio: Molly Rausch January 12, 2009
Molly Rausch’s paintings are being exhibited at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon this month.
Brian K. Mahoney: Editor’s Note December 22, 2008
The expanding financial crises and its effects on local businesses.
Local Luminary: Alex Matthiessen December 22, 2008
Alex Matthiessen of Riverkeeper on an upcoming Supreme Court decision that will affect the Hudson River.
On The Cover: Calendar 2009 December 22, 2008
Robert Kocik’s 2009 calendar, designed exclusively for Chronogram.
Fit to Print December 22, 2008
An exhibition of prints by SUNY New Paltz students at the Arts Society of Kingston this month.
Portfolio: Andrew Lichtenstein November 24, 2008
Andrew Lichtenstein talks about his work photographing prison complexes and the incarcerated.
Comfortably Yum November 24, 2008
Brian K. Mahoney recommends a few comfort dishes at some Hudson Valley restaurants that opened this year.
Cinghiale, Chianina, Chianti October 27, 2008
Back from a ten-day vacation in Italy, Brian K. Mahoney talks sightseeing, pasta, and wine.
Editor's Note: End Times October 27, 2008
In accordance with this month’s literary supplement, Brian K. Mahoney discusses new reading for our troubled times.
Vin Populi September 25, 2008
Author, wine critic, and professor at the Culinary Institute of America Steven Kolpan discusses his pragmatic and irreverent guide, WineWise.
Editor's Note: This is Water September 25, 2008
Brian K. Mahoney offers a few thoughts about David Foster Wallace and the most truthful, funny, useful, and inspiring speech ever given to a graduating class.
Sino Qua Non August 26, 2008
Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon presents the group photographic show Planet China, featuring work by Alan Chin, Justin Guariglia, and Julien Chatelin.
Dancing on the Ceiling August 26, 2008
Noémie Lafrance’s Rapture, a site-specific choreographic work atop Bard’s Fisher Center, will be performed September 25-28 and October 2-5.
Serving the Bounty of the Valley August 26, 2008
Brian K. Mahoney talks with chefs about sourcing local.
Editor's Note August 24, 2008
Editor Brian K. Mahoney laments about all the events he missed this past summer.
The Stromberg Alphabet August 24, 2008
A picture framer first and an artist second, Eugenia Ballard creates tableaux and shadow boxes out of various knickknacks.
In the Dark July 29, 2008
Peter Shaffer’s “Black Comedy” will be performed at the Shadowland Theatre through August 10.
Sea of Stillness July 29, 2008
Bard professor Peter Hutton’s silent film about the life and death of a container ship, At Sea, will be shown at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on August 24.
Editor's Note July 28, 2008
Editor Brian K. Mahoney assesses the inequality that exists in the legal system when applied to same sex marriages.
Local Luminaries George and Nancy Donskoj July 28, 2008
Founders of the annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby, George and Nancy Donskoj, reveal why they started the derby 14 years ago and why they keep doing it.
A Life in Laughs June 26, 2008
Brian K. Mahoney’s Q&A with legendary comedy writer Alan Zweibel, who will perform his latest project, the “History of Me” at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar July 18 through July 20.
Tidal Surge June 26, 2008
Fifty works from 20 sculptors will appear in the exhibition “Current,” sponsored by the Garrison Art Center. The exhibit will be held at five different landmark sites along the Hudson River through August 10.
Off the Beaten Palate June 25, 2008
Editor Brian K. Mahoney shares his experiences in culinary dare devilry—eating oddities from head cheese to cow foot—at several ethnic and specialty food restaurants in the Hudson Valley.
Editor's Note June 25, 2008
Temperamental electricity, a twisted ankle, and a plethora of ants in his home are having editor Brian K. Mahoney feeling like he’s in a hole.
Parting Shot May 28, 2008
A tour of “Facebook,” led by curator Mary-Kay Lombino, will be held on Thursday, June 26, at 6pm in conjunction with the exhibition’s opening from 5 to 9pm.
The Good Terroirist May 28, 2008
Brian K. Mahoney talks with wine importer Neal Rosenthal, author of
Reflections of a Wine Merchant, about terroir at his home in the Shekomeko Valley.
Editor's Note May 27, 2008
Brian K. Mahoney makes it from the antebellum south to the Brat Pack in four moves.
Local Luminary: Jeff Cohen May 16, 2008
Jeff Cohen is a writer, lecturer, and media critic who founded the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting in 1986.
Editor's Journal: Easy Like Monday Morning April 29, 2008
It’s Bike Month once again, and I am reminded of certain realities regarding our lifestyle in this country:
Local Luminary: Erin Davies April 29, 2008
Erin Davies is teaching the country about hate crimes with the help of her VW Beetle.
Springing to Different Dreams April 29, 2008
Various multimedia art projects are taking place around the Hudson Valley as part of the “Plugged In” exhibit.
Punk Tapas April 28, 2008
Brian K. Mahoney finds tapas master Rich Reeve still creating revelatory small plates at Elephant wine bar in Kingston.
Editor's Journal: Making the Cut March 26, 2008
One of the primary jobs of a magazine editor is to decide what material will comprise any given issue.
Local Luminary: Dan Leader March 26, 2008
Founder of Bread Alone, Dan Leader traveled to South Africa helping to give the people there healthy bread.
Adventures in Pizza March 26, 2008
With its inventive sour dough pizzas Baba Louie’s in Hudson and Great Barrington are a popular spot for Italian food.
Variation on Variations February 25, 2008
Simone Dinnerstein puts her own spin on Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Itchy Trigger Finger February 25, 2008
Yvonne Gunner discusses her love for shooting different subjects.
Editor's Journal: Good News February 25, 2008
Though I was raised Catholic in the 1970s, I didn’t do much Bible reading as a child. This might seem odd for someone who spent 12 years taught by priests and nuns.
Local Luminary: Carrie Haddad February 25, 2008
Carrie Haddad is helping to preserve Historic Hudson.
Still Life With Torture January 28, 2008
Daniel Heyman interviewed 25 detainees in Istanbul making transcript/portraits of them which will be at the Samuel Dorsky Museum this month.
Editor's Note January 25, 2008
Losing the wiffle ball in the high grass on the summer solstice, a year-and-a-half ago on the back side of the Shawangunk Ridge in High Falls. Twelve of us drinking wine, having a picnic, saying any absurdity that entered our heads—meaningless things you believe you’ll always have time for on the longest night of the year.
Italy (via Brooklyn) in Newburgh Caffè Macchiato January 25, 2008
With its outstanding menu and friendly atmosphere Caffè Macchiato in Newburgh is a hit.
Local Luminary Tricia Haggerty-Wenz January 24, 2008
Executive director of Safe Harbors on the Hudson Tricia Haggerty-Wenz is helping to make Newburgh a better place.
Whoa Nellie December 21, 2007
Nellie McKay will perform Friday, January 4 and Saturday, January 5 at 9pm at Club Helsinki in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Editor's Note December 21, 2007
Now, as we go to print in this darkest hour of the year, hard on the winter solstice, I’m ready to look back on 2007 with the requisite level of repose and clarity.
Untitled December 21, 2007
Two artists working within the new paradigm of Asian art are Soe Soe and Khin Zaw Latt, two brothers from Burma whose paintings anchor the inaugural exhibition at Lodoe Gallery.
Linear Digression November 28, 2007
“Time Tracers” features five photographers that chronicle the passage of time.
Department of Corrections: December November 26, 2007
Belleayre Resorts at Catskill Park will break ground in the fall of 2008.
Chronogram Seen: December November 26, 2007
Fionn Reilly risked lens and limb to get photographs of sword slinging Barushka, and the rest of November’s Chronogram sponsored performers.
Featured Contibutors: December November 26, 2007
What do you get when you combine a designer, production director, illustrator, intern, and several pots of coffee? Chronogram’s December issue, of course.
Local Luminary: Catherine O'Reilly November 26, 2007
Catherine O’Reilly’s work on climate change in East Africa has been published in the scientific journal Nature and was featured on PBS and on Public Radio International’s “Living on Earth” program.
Editor's Note: My Sweet Gourd November 26, 2007
Brian K. Mahoney sets the record straight: It’s a nectarine!
Local Luminary: Dean Gitter October 25, 2007
Gitter started a Kingston-based regional TV station (WTZA), co-founded the Big Indian Spring Water Company, and runs Catskill Corners, including the Emerson Place Resort and Spa, in Mt. Tremper.
Editor's Note: Are you LOHAS? October 25, 2007
If you like the serenity of yoga, then you’ll love the less ecosystem-destructive feeling of driving a Toyota Prius to buy grass-fed beef on your way home from the acupuncturist.
Discursive Lens September 27, 2007
Hopewell Junction-based photographer Michael Sibilia will exhibit urban landscapes this month at GAS Gallery in Poughkeepsie.
Local Luminary: Joel Tyner September 25, 2007
Dutchess County legislator and radio host Joel Tyner, tells us where he’s dining, what he’s singing while stopped at a red light, and his first order of business if elected president.
Public Opinion August 27, 2007
What started as an editorial assignment to document public opinion about the US invasion of Iraq turned into a project examining how people are misinformed and confused by news and governmental spin on the war.
Witness to History August 27, 2007
Ron Haviv’s photo of a Serb militiaman kicking a dying Muslim woman in the head—published a week before the fighting started—became one of the most enduring images of the Balkan conflict.
Editor's Note: Sardines/Oranges August 27, 2007
This exchange reminded me of a poem long buried in my memory, about a poet visiting a painter’s studio and watching him paint (while drinking, of course).
American Portrait Project August 27, 2007
“American Portrait Project,” Deborah DeGraffenreid’s examination of the nation’s polyglot face, will be exhibited at the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art through September 29.
Department of Corrections August 08, 2007
Jim Reardon’s letter to the editor about June’s “Better Blooms” article.
Editor's Note: Enter the Wau Wau August 02, 2007
Before the final chorus had settled across the packed house at Bard’s Spiegeltent on that balmy July evening, the Sisters had stripped (each other) to their underwear in an acrobatic burlesque that was part Pilobolus, part hilarity, part Scores, part blasphemy.
Metaphysical Ground June 27, 2007
Vincent Serbin will exhibit new, landscape-based work through July 23 at Galerie BMG.
Editor's Note: July June 27, 2007
“A good question is never answered,” writes Ciardi. “It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of an idea.”
Revival Fever May 31, 2007
Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, the oldest environmentally conscious outdoor fest of its kind in the country, returns this Father’s Day weekend to Croton Point Park in Westchester.
Faces of War May 31, 2007
“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.
On The Cover May 31, 2007
Greig will be exhibiting her photographs from the Representations series this month at Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson.
Editor's Note May 30, 2007
Two years ago in July, I wrote what I termed “a transcription of the aural landscape of my backyard.” This month, I have endeavored to capture the evening sounds of that same space.
While You Were Sleeping May 30, 2007
A study links child abuse to military deployment; 1,000 seals wash ashore in Kazakhstan; a spill of 7.5 million gallons of sewage contaminates the Hudson;and other news you may have missed.
Local Luminaries: John Cronin May 29, 2007
John Cronin talks to Brian Mahoney about the regional environment and growing up in the Hudson Valley.
Film: Breaking Up April 30, 2007
Breaking Up is a short film about unrequited love and bad cell phone reception, shot on location in Kingston, by Jeff Burns and the IAC film collective.
Big Screen Berkshires April 30, 2007
The second annual Berkshire International Film Festival will screen 50 movies at a number of venues in Great Barrington May 17 through May 20.
While You Were Sleeping April 28, 2007
Vonnegut was described in a FOX News obit as an “irrelevant” writer of “left-wing screeds” known for “his unique brand of despondent leftism.”
Editor's Note April 28, 2007
It’s time again for my annual sermonizing on the benefits of the bicycle as a salubrious form of alternative transit.
On the Cover: The Human April 28, 2007
This month’s cover image, The Human, is an underwater portrait of Italian surfer Nicolo Violati diving through a wave in the Maldives.The photo is part of a recent series by the artist created around, inside, and over the element of water.
Graphic Violence March 30, 2007
In Killed Cartoons, writer and editor David Wallis collects some of the great nixed editorial pieces of recent vintage.
Portfolio: Candace Feit January 25, 2007
Photographer Candace Feit chronicles her recent visit to Darfur.
Portfolio December 28, 2006
The dead outnumber the living in Totowa, New Jersey, the birthplace of photographer Laurie Giardino.
Slide Show: Patrick Milbourn December 28, 2006
Streamline Media’s Brian Branigan narrates on a new show by artist Patrick Milbourn.
Tippling Through Two Lips December 27, 2006
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.
Portfolio December 26, 2006
Iain Machell’s drawings will be exhibited this month as part of “Faculty Works,” a group show at SUNY Ulster’s Muroff Kotler Gallery in Stone Ridge.
Editor's Note December 22, 2006
We believe the revised Chronogram.com is the most comprehensive online cultural resource in the Hudson Valley, as well as an interactive forum for the Chronogram community.
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Planet Waves News Notes
Tara, the piece is satire. However, Eric has written seriously on the PCB issue for Chronogram before. You can check out some of his past articles if you search on the site for "PCBs." One such article is available here: http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2004/05/backbone/planetwaves.html
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The Christmas Lesson
Alysa--This is super! I love the placement of the pictures.