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Three Funky Shops
Find extraordinary gifts for everyone on your list in one easy location.
Rhinebeck Department Store
Flannel sleepwear from Lanz of Salzburg, La Cera & Woolrich for ladies. Find Tartan shirts from Woolrich & Pendleton. Plus sleepwear from Izod, State of Maine & Life is Good and cuddly, soft stuffed animals from Pendleton & Gund.
Lili and Loo
Well known for unusual items at great prices, Lili and Loo runs from eccentric to classical, sleek to rustic, and ancient to modern.
Atelier Renee Fine Framing
Mirrors–a variety of vintage to new, simple to ornate, rustic to modern, large to small–are ready to go as unique gifts!
The Hyde Park Antiques Center
The Hyde Park Antiques Center has been a premier destination for antiques for over 40 years.
Sorella of Woodstock
Tucked away like a treasure box, as individual as the women who shop there… Sorella has something for every lifestyle.
Water Street Market
Twenty shops and over forty antique dealers, food, coffee, art, & oh… that view!
McMahon’s Home Improvement
The best gifts are here from one of the Mid-Hudson Valley’s most respected home remodeling companies with quality craftsmanship and an organized, clean execution process that consistently delights.
Holiday Gift Guide: 2009
This holiday, let “Chronogram” help with the shopping, and help you keep it local.
Celebrate the Holidays On the River Rhinecliff Style
Enjoy the Holidays at the Rhinecliff Hotel! Dine all day & into the night with a very special Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, & Boxing Day offerings, including a Toast to the Queen! “Swing into the Holiday Brunch,” on Dec 27, Experience Rhinecliff’s New Years Eve early dinner 5-7pm & a Grand New Years Eve Party…
Got the Holiday Blues Dance Party
Come to the Rhinecliff, Friday, December 18 at 9pm, and let Bruce Katz of Greg Allman’s band take your winter blues away.
Open Hive / Beahive Kingston Orientation and Introduction
Come find out what all the buzz is about in Kingston on December 10 in the Chronogram space. Mingle with like minded people at the Beahive (Kingston) information session.
Parting Shot
“Ode to Munkacsi” will be exhibited at the Center for Photography in Woodstock through December 20.
Dürable Goods
The prints of Albrecht Dürer at Vassar’s Lehman Loeb Art Center are on display until December 24.
Dying Breed
Galerie BMG in Woodstock shows Hibernus, photographs by David Ellingsen al month through January 11.
Puff: Still Not a Drug Song
Peter Yarrow reads and plays at Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck.
Blow Santa Blow
It must be the holidays—Winter Walk on Warren Street in Hudson is back, December 5.
No Boat to China
Concrete Temple Theater’s “Hudson to China” will be performed December 11 and 12 at the Hudson Opera House.
Articles of Faith
The photographs of Christopher Churchill at Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon through January 19.
A Mentoring Culture
Lorrie Klosterman examines local rites of passage for boys becoming men.
Hudson Valley Microdistilling
Peter Barrett tastes the fruits of the region’s emerging micro-distilleries.
Book Review: My River Chronicles
Anne Pyburn Craig reviews My River Chronicles by Jessica DuLong.
Book Review: The Awakener: A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties
Marx Dorrity reviews The Awakener by Helen Weaver.
Short Takes: December 2009
There is no finer gift than a well-chosen book. Here are a half-dozen eloquent shortcuts to somebody’s heart, plus a few other chakras.
Tennessee Waltz
Nina Shengold profiles writer and part-time Phoenicia resident John Bowers, whose short story collection Love in Tennessee was just published by Red Hen.
CD Review: Mike and Ruthy
Review of recent folk music by new parents Michael Merenda and Ruth Ungar Merenda.
Nightlife Highlights
Nightlife Highlights handpicked for your listening pleasure by Peter Aaron.
Small-town Suburbia
Brian K. Mahoney profiles two charming towns on Route 94 in Orange County.
Banning the Burqa
Lorna Tychostup interviews Lina Abirafeh, author of Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan, about the effect of outside actors on the fate of women in the developing world and how Western NGOs often alienate who they’re trying to help.
Editor’s Note
Brian Mahoney appreciates the little wooden tree on Wall Street in Kingston.
While You Were Sleeping
Japanese-style suicide prevention, juvenile offenders serving life without parole, record marijuana seizures in California, and more.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic
Larry Beinhart knows how the US can extricate itself its current entanglement.
Esteemed Reader
Chronogram publisher Jason Stern travels to Hawai’i to be in the moment.
Chronogram Seen
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.
Local Luminary: Philippe Vergne
Robyn Perry chats with the director of the Dia Art Foundation.
On The Cover
Sydney Cash will be exhibiting at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon from December 7 through December 28 in “New Works On Paper”.
WGXC: Change in the Air
WGXC, which takes to the air next year, will broadcast community radio to over 78,000 listeners in Greene and Columbia Counties and beyond, holding forth at 90.7 FM with 3,300 watts of power.
