Bordering on Treason
“Bordering on Treason” is a film about photojournalist and New Paltz resident Lorna Tychostup.
Pain de Siècle: Café Le Perche
Peter Barrett visits Hudson’s Parisian-style bakery serving up French pastries and bread.
Book Review: Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side
Robert Burke Warren reviews Ed Sander’s Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side.
“Wall Street to Main Street” in Catskill
The “Wall Street to Main Street” art installation brings Zuccotti Park to Catskill.
Minimalist Barn, Maximum View
Jeff Daly and Gary Delemeester’s contemporary Ancram barn.
A Better Ending
A report on palliative care and informed end-of-life decisions by Wendy Kagan.
TAP NY Beer Festival at Hunter Mountain
TAP New York, on April 28 and 29, at Hunter Mountain celebrates beer and highlights the achievements of independent breweries from all over New York.
Book Review: Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
Jana Martin reviews William Kennedy’s Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes.
Saugerties Performing Arts Center Opening
The Saugerties Performing Arts Factory’s opening gala “Arts Under One Roof” will be held Friday, April 20, 7:30 to 10:30 pm; Saturday, April 21, children’s show, 11:30 am to 1 pm, evening performances 8 to 11 pm; and Sunday, April 22, 3 to 5 pm.
The Craft: Everything Old Is New Again
Lindsay Pietroluongo examines Meagan Camp’s updated antiques.
Flowers Fall: April 2012
Bethany Saltman and A. on The Six Realms of Existence and the Wheel of Samsara.
Writing With Scissors
Augusten Burroughs, author of “Running with Scissors” headlines the Woodstock Writer’s Festival this month.
Garrison, Cold Spring, and Mahopac
Erik Ofgang visits three Putnam County towns on the water.
Shady in the Right Places
Michelle Sutton explains how to plant trees to shade your house from summer’s heat.
Rock and Remembrance at Basilica Hudson
“Rock ’n’ Remembrance” takes place at Basilica Hudson on April 8 at 6pm.
Video: Joel Richardson on “Grassroots Financial Revolutionary”
Joel Richardson talks about his Occupy-inspired “Grassroots Financial Revolutionary,” which was featured on the April 2012 cover of Chronogram.
The Well-Tempered Cavalier: Vladimir Feltsman
Peter Aaron interviews a modest piano virtuoso: Vladimir Feltsman.
Unlocking the Inner Landlord
Jeffrey Alexander explains how a buyer’s market offers investment opportunities (as well as pitfalls!) for prospective rental property owners.
Matt Finley & Rio JAZZ
April 3. Did you know April is Jazz Appreciation Month? Yep, we have a month for that, too—which of course we should, for jazz is seen around the world as America’s greatest art form. And this 25th-anniversary concert at Dutchess Community College’s Drumlin Hall by trumpeter/flugelhornist Matt Finley’s Rio JAZZ is a fine way to…
Grow Your Own Community
The movement toward self-sustaining communities is taking root in the Hudson Valley. Paul E. McGinniss talks with the forward thinkers behind the Transition movement
Mamalama CD Release Party
Mamalama CD Release Party April 7. Led by singer-harpist Elizabeth Clark-Jerez, Saugerties/Woodstock-area band Mamalama weaves together threads of Anglo-European folk and classical, Renaissance/medieval, psychedelic, modern Minimalist, and South American, West African, and Native American music, adorning this tapestry with dashes of mystical poetry. This night at the Bearsville Theater heralds the release of group’s sophomore…
Hudson and Columbia County
Peter Aaron highlights Columbia County’s urban and rural hotspots.
Adrienne Haan
Adrienne Haan April 20. Germany’s Adrienne Haan is one of the brightest torchbearers of her homeland’s cabaret tradition, a lineage that harks back to Berlin’s Weimar Era. However, her new show, which here saunters into the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, focuses on our own Great American Songbook. Titled “’Til the End of Time,” the evening…
Columbia County Local Notables: Carole Osterink and Sam Pratt
Columbia County local notables and community bloggers Carole Osterink and Sam Pratt.
MOVE Music Festival
MOVE Music Festival April 21. It seems the Upstate music festival season is upon us a little earlier this year, with the launch of the Capitol Region’s new MOVE Music Festival. Taking place at venues throughout Downtown Albany, the day-long indie event promises sets by 100 bands, along with guest speakers and a trade show.…
Cold Spring Local Notable: Mindy Krazmien
Mindy Krazmien is a Cold Spring resident and director of the Putnam County Historical society.
Jem Cohen Film Premiere
April 27. Filmmaker Jem Cohen’s numerous music-oriented works include the Fugazi doc Instrument, the Elliot Smith portrait Lucky Three, the ghostly eulogy Benjamin Smoke, and others on R.E.M., Cat Power, the Butthole Surfers, and Vic Chesnutt. His newest such offering is We Have an Anchor, a “documentary-based” multimedia project that combines footage of Nova Scotia…
Cold Spring Local Notable: Leonora Burton
Leonora Burton owns The Country Goose and Highland Baskets in Cold Spring.
CD Review: Two Dark Birds
Robert Burke-Warren Reviews Two Dark Birds’s Song for the New.
Columbia County Local Notable: Todd Erling
Todd Erling is the director of the non profit Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation based in Hudson.
Editor’s Note: April 2012
Editor Brian K. Mahoney links the rebirth of spring to the reemergence of the Occupy Movement and the shift to Transition Towns.
Events: Hudson and Columbia County
A list of events throughout the year in Hudson and Columbia County.
CD Review: Roswell Rudd
Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson reviews Roswell Rudd’s The Incredible Honk.
Esteemed Reader: April 2012
Jason Stern parallels a child phenomenon Kim John Payne calls “soul fever” to the current state of humanity.
Events: Cold Spring, Garrison, and Mahopac
A list of events happening in Cold Spring, Garrison, and Mahopac throughout the year.
Short Play Festival at the Rosendale Theatre
The Plays Festival will take place on Saturday, April 21 at 8pm and again on Sunday, April 22 at 3pm and 7:30pm at the Rosendale Theatre.
Einat and Hakim in Red Hook, Kingston, and Rosendale
Einat and Hakim appear at Taste Buds in Red Hook at 1 pm and the AIR Gallery in Kingston at 8 pm on April 21; and at the Rosendale Cafe April 24 at 8 pm.
Chronogram Seen: April 2012
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.
While You Were Sleeping: April 2012
The rich steal candy from babies, red meat is proven to increase the risk premature death, number of hate groups in the US has risen, and more.
Skywriter
Skywriter performs with Fire Dean and the Brooklyn Garden Club on April 7 at Market Market.
“The Good Father” at Tangent Arts in Tivoli
“The Good Father” will be staged May 3 through May 26, Thursday to Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm, at the Carpenter Shop Theater, in Tivoli.
The Art of Printmaker Julie Mehretu
Etcher and Printmaker Julie Mehretu’s piece Entropia.
Wag the Santorum
In American politics, Jesus Christ suffers from DID: dissociative identity disorder.
Short Takes: April 2012
Literary locavores will savor this tasting sampler of Hudson Valley history, memoir, and homegrown zombie fiction.
Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters
“Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters” will be on display at the Museum at Bethel Woods.
Joel Richardson’s Grassroots Financial Revolutionary
Joel Richardson’s “Suitman” series can be seen wheat-pasted around Catskill as part of the Wall Street to Main Street art installation.
