Chronogram Seen: November
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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.
World of Shadows
“Chinese Shadow Figures from the Collection of Dr. Fan Pen Chen” is on exhibit from November 2 through January 6, 2008.
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.
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.
Forever Young
“Rumi Embodied: An Ecstatic Celebration” will be held at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, November 15-18.
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.
Parting Shot: Kip Fulbeck
“The Hapa Project: Portraits by Kip Fulbeck” is on view at the Mandeville Gallery, located in the Nott Memorial building on the Union College campus in Schenectady, through February 3, 2008.
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.
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.
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.”
CD Review: Carol R. Daggs
The songs are given enough air to breathe, and they bubble with life. Daggs’s raw imperfection is the perfection of this album, a foot deep in the ground while traveling the heavens.
CD Review: Alta Mira
Birthed in Clifton Park, New York, barely legal quartet Alta Mira is out to impress with their first CD _Fables and Fabrications_.
CD Review: Sarah Pedinotti
With Sarah Pedinotti’s impeccable back phrasing, clever production, and amazing arrangements, this release surely raises the bar for regional recordings.
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.
Washboard Charisma
The Ramblin Jug Stompers—Wild Bill, Bowtie, Cousin Clyde, and Mr. Eck—dispense timeless old-timey songs with a remarkably fresh approach.
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.
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.
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.
Have Pig, Will Travel
In 2004, a small group of upper Hudson Valley farmers and New York City chefs launched a unique kind of service that is repairing the chasm that separates their businesses.
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.
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.
Under the Bridge
Halloran and de Sève present a comic book history of Troy and a building project that vanished “under the bridge.”
Editor’s Journal: The Daily Practice of November
It’s November, the waiting season. The changeover. The interregnum between the kingdom of plenty and the kingdom of ice.
First Impression: Bumper Sticker Report
Sparrow gives an update on his bumper sticker slogans.
November’s Featured Contributors
Jim de Seve, Tracy Frisch, Amy Halloran, and Michael Oatman contribute to November’s issue.
Haunted House
Stanley’s House is an exploration of parallel lives lived in the same house.
9 Lives
Charles Bremer’s images are on exhibit through November 25 at Amrose Sable Gallery, 306 Hudson Avenue, Albany.
Live, Like a Refugee
Dar Williams will perform in support of the new DVD release, Live at Bearsville Theater.
Chronogram’s Choice
The best of the best of the past year. Already behind? Start turning the page.
Laundered Ideals
I say the stained shirts should stand tall,proudly displaying their perceived flaws.
The Hood
I pretend nothing is ever wrong. I feel like crap walking home to a dirty neighborhood.
Our Common Soil
This is my country where decent people watch the murders they have paid for, and yawn, and go to sleep.
Enemy
i, at ten, didn’t know war so brutal. i, at ten, thought you just killed the enemy.
America Needs A Woman President
America needs a woman president who trusts in the wisdom of the moon.
Losing the Job
He’d thought nothing of it when he told his ten year olds the job of the Judicial Branch is choosing the President.
Fiction Contest Winner
Fiction by our short story contest winner, Timothy Tocher’s “Red Rover.”
But How Do I Start the Middle?
Gioia Timpanelli, Akiko Busch, and Janine Pommy Vega on the pitfalls of writing.
Opportunities for Writers
Small presses and obscure publications advertise for content.
Literature, the musical
Literary Supplement editors Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold invited readers to create titles for the Broadway musical versions of classic works of literature that Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, et al., have heretofore overlooked, and also provide a few representative songs.
Well Met!
Vonnegut, Frost, Oates, and more show local authors how to have a good time.
Local Luminary: Dean Gitter
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?
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.
Esteemed Reader: November
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. —Walt Whitman
First Impressions: November
Sparrow reviews the highlights of the Woodstock Film Festival and which films caused geriatric riots.
Featured Contibutors: November
Three writers and a cartoonist who contributed to this month’s Literary Supplement.
Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Reflecting on the metaphorical qualities, Martin Puryear recognized a connection to progress Booker T. Washington encouraged blacks to adopt in the nineteenth century.
Uncle Monk
Three chords, no-frills recording, and a joyful disregard of the mainstream: punk rock or old-time string band music?
CD Review: Courtenay Budd
So this album isn’t just for baby, it’s for anyone who enjoys top-notch classical or opera.
Nightlife Highlights: November
Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ WAVY DAVY for your listening pleasure.
The Healthy Brain
You exercise your body, feed it well, and look for ways to keep it at optimal performance—but what about your brain?
Spirit of the Holiday
This holiday season, offer gifts that host and guest can enjoy together: wine. Francis Cruz talks to local merchants and vinters about smart buying choices.
The Gifts that Keeps Giving
Why give Uncle Charlie another snowflake sweater? Francis Cruz offers alternatives to gift giving that put charity before consumption.
The Polar Bears of Dutchess County
Hillary Harvey spends time tracking climate change with the scientists and researchers at the Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.
Consider the Herbalist
Amy Giezentanner profiles Gary Allen, author of The Herbalist in the Kitchen.
The Road to Nowhere
Eric Francis Coppolino examines the intersection of the personal and the global in his past.
Fair Lady
Ann Braybrooks visits Cecilia Dinio-Durkin of Women’s Work in Cold Spring, who specializes in fairly traded items from Africa and South America.
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.
Star Power
Beth E. Wilson grapples with celebrity in contemporary art as she reviews the exhibitions of artists, Jo Andres and Keith Edmier.
Parting Shot: Untitled
Tyler constructs small-scale structures then destroys her work and photographs the breakdown process.
While You Were Sleeping
The Mexican government cracks down on drug cartels, Americans suffer from chronic diseases, fewer casualties in Iraq, courts rule against Yale Law School, and more.
SECRETS
The final installment of Larry Beinhart’s series on the perils of government secrecy.
From Forced Evacuation to Liberal Education
Lorna Tychostup travels to Kurdistan, reporting on the conditions of an illegal displaced persons camp and the work being done toward the founding of a liberal arts university.
