Dangerous Laughter
Pulitzer Prize winning author Steven Millhauser discusses his latest collection of short stories and his exceptional writing carreer.
Flow: For Love Of Water
The documentary takes a look at the abuse of Earth’s most vital resource.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The fictional film tells the tale of a young college girl trying to help her roomate have an illegal abortion in communist Romania.
Banished
This film by Marco Williams follows three African American families as they seek reparations for the land their families lost after being driven out of town.
Prison Pictures
Photographer Daniel McCabe uncovers the growing gang problems in Honduran prisons.
Still Strange in the Brain
Musician as well as visual artist, Head will be performing and having an exhibit in Phoenicia.
Spring Awakening
The annual Beltane Festival hosted by the Center for Symbolic Studies, welcomes the coming of spring with a bang.
The Dance Within The Play
The Catskill Ballet Theater Company will be presenting an all new ballet story at the Ulster Performing Arts Center.
The Beef Over Downed Cows
Lorrie Klosterman takes a look at health problems stemming from standard practices within the US meat and dairy industry.
Un Confesion/ A Confesion
No tengo espacio en mi corazon Pero tengo espacio para tequila Patron.
Thoughts upon Julius Caesar’s Last Moment
When Caesar said “Et tu, Brute,” in shock his dying breath contained myriad things
Cubbyhole
Come down where down where who plays her what and I sing that thing for you you feel it too you do
Branded Content
Economizing Energy
Kelly Granger reveals how easily energy can be wasted and the quick solutions and larger investments that can help fix inefficient homes.
Portfolio: Nicholas Walster
Photographer Nicholas Walster discusses his most recent series of works, Personal Panoramas.
Chronogram Seen
“The Vagina Monologues” at the Bearsville Theater (3/1) CAFE CHRONOGRAM AT THE KINGSTON MUDDY CUP (3/15)
Editor’s Journal: Making the Cut
One of the primary jobs of a magazine editor is to decide what material will comprise any given issue.
Esteemed Reader
Recently, I became the primary caretaker of my two boys—ages 1 and 3. Though I knew full-time parenting is a demanding job, I now realize that it is more difficult and engaging than most of what I encountered at my day job.
Local Luminary: Dan Leader
Founder of Bread Alone, Dan Leader traveled to South Africa helping to give the people there healthy bread.
On The Cover
Polaroidologist Patrick Winfield discusses the art of working with Polaroid film and the possibe extinction of the film.
While You Were Sleeping
The gist of what you have missed in the back pages of the media maelstrom, fish on painkillers, America’s soaring credit card debt, misspent military aid, and more.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politics
Larry Beinhart brings to light who the US would really be hurting by bombing Iran.
No Honor in Killing
Lorna Tychostup interviews Rana Husseini about her investigative work uncovering the cultural practice of honor killings in Jordan and the Mideast.
Jazzhop Revolution
Featuring Hudson Valley bassist John Lindenberg and drummer Tani Tabbal Tha Sound of Truth is a creative blend of hip hop and jazz.
Amy Laber
New Paltz based singer/songwriter Amy Laber is making a name for herself and her hypno-folk.
Rock’s First Lady
Rock legend Genya Ravan discusses her long and winding career in the music business.
Atrocities of Proximate Censorship
Beth E. Wilson reviews “Intimacies of Distant War” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz and examines the recent dust-up over Wafaa Bilal’s exhibit “Virtual Jihadi” at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy.
Baba Louie’s Sourdough Pizzas
With its inventive sourdough pizzas Baba Louie’s in Hudson and Great Barrington are a popular spot for Italian food.
Deluge
A look at what the predicted changes in tidal levels, temperature, and climate conditions could mean for the Hudson Valley.
Short Takes
April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of dead land, mixing / Memory of desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” Drop that 1040 and read!
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
A review of Gilbert King’s The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the search for Justice in the American South by Jay Blotcher.
