Battenfeld’s Christmas Tree Farm: Cut Your Own Tree
Review of Battenfeld’s Christmas Tree Farm in Red Hook
DOSH Dishes Out Experimental Sounds at BSP Lounge
Andrew Bird’s right-hand man returns to his old Hudson Valley stomping ground next week.
That’s Not Tofurky: Sagittarius New Moon
Pallas in Virgo is calling for focus on the most precise details.
Noche Flamenca Visits Tivoli This Weekend
The famed flamenco troupe will perform at Kaatsbaan Dance Studio.
Detour: The Lodge at Woodloch in the Poconos
A review of The Lodge at Woodloch in the Poconos
New Suicide Prevention App Aims to Save Young Lives
Smartphones are getting smarter about suicide awareness and prevention. On November 13, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein unveiled the brand-new Suicide Prevention Education and Awareness Kit (SPEAK) – an app that offers wisdom, advice, and instant touch-screen help to troubled people and their family and friends. For today’s youth, smartphones are a way of life.…
Podcast Episode 38: Media Critic Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen stops by to talk about his recent fact-finding trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories. On Friday, December 6, at 7pm Cohen will be speaking at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Kingston about this trip. Cohen spent 10 days among the growing nonviolent resistance movement in the Occupied Territories, which echoes the civil…
Le Petit Bistro in Rhinebeck: Cozy, romantic & very French
A review of Le Petit Bistro in Rhinebeck
Hudson Happening Honors New York Punk History
Chronogram’s music editor, Peter Aaron, will read from If You Like the Ramones and the Dictators’ Andy Shernoff will perform on Friday.
Holiday Artisan Craft Market and Victorian Tea
Craft Market featuring unique jewelry pieces, luxurious felted scarves, photography, farm products, stained glass, quilts, porcelain ornaments and more. $5.00 benefits the Cunneen Hackett restoration fund. Victorian Tea is comprised of scones, petite sandwiches, fruit & cheese, sweets, a selection of teas and aperitifs. $15.00 includes Market admission
Bocuse Restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park
A review of The Bocuse Restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America
A Galactic Journey: Sun Enters Sagittarius
Notes on some stumbling blocks to spiritual growth.
Opera Theater of Kingston Kicks Off This Week
The new company will present “Liederabend (Evening of Song)” on Friday.
Adirondack Creamery Releases 100% Locally Flavored Ice Cream
Adirondack Creamery’s new limited-edition ice cream flavor hits the shelves of Brooklyn’s in Whole Food Market and Mid-Hudson Valley locations of Adams Fairacre Farms. I scream, you scream, we all scream for…Adirondack Creamery’s caramel apple ice cream! The creamery, located in Kingston, has recently added the 100 percent locally-flavored “caramel apple” to its repertoire of…
Felice Brothers to Play Kingston This Month
Palenville’s favorite sons will make a rare small-club appearance at BSP Lounge.
Podcast Episode 37: Michael Berg of Family of Woodstock
Michael Berg, executive director of Family of Woodstock talks about how the nonprofit got its start, where the agency is currently putting its focus, and why early childhood education is more important than ever.
Pete Seeger Plays at Beacon Sloop Club Benefit
“The Weavers at 65” honors the legendary folk group at the Towne Crier.
ReStore Habitat for Humanity Furniture Store
A visit to the new ReStore Habitat for Humanity furniture store in Kingston
The 16th Annual Rosendale International Pickle Festival is coming!
Pickle Festival in Rosendale
Fletcher Reads in Phoenicia on Saturday
The noted author will read from Boy About Town, a memoir about growing up in Britain during the early punk rock/DIY explosion.
Podcast Episode 36: Rye Conversation with the Coppersea Distillers
Angus MacDonald and Christopher Williams of Coppersea Disitillery stop by to chat about folk distilling, fetish commodities, and thwarting disposable culture.
Mercury Direct; Jupiter Retrograde
Mercury comes out of retrograde, and there is much rejoicing.
Natural-Born Cold & Flu Killers
It’s the season of desperation. The seemingly futile fight against the viral blues has begun. It’s time to batten down the hatches and fill the medicine cabinet arsenal with remedies and defenses. It’s time to get crafty – because just when it seems like one herbal therapy is working, a virulent new cold virus, like…
Keiko Sono’s “Will Work for Love”
Keiko Sono explores the reasons why artists bother to create art in her residency at SUNY Ulster’s Muroff-Kotler Gallery through November 8.
Geezer / It’s Not Night: It’s Space
Geezer / It’s Not Night: It’s Space play Kingston’s The Anchor November 15
Taking Back Wellness
Wendy Kagan discusses Chronogram‘s health and wellness archive.
How It All Got Started
Founders Amara Projansky and Jason Stern explain how it all got started.
Motherlode
Robert Burke Warren profiles Koren Zailckas and her new thriller, “Mother Mother.”
This Land is My Land
Eric Francis Coppolino describes ethics of land preservation and New Paltz’s Brook Farm Project.
CD Review: Not Without Work and Rest
Jason Broome reviews the new album by Last Good Tooth.
Short Takes: November 2013
Forget Black Friday. Six Hudson Valley authors explore the dark sides of pasta sauce, real estate, family ties, booze, tattoos, and good old-fashioned crime.
20 Years of Chronogram: A Look Back
Editorial Director Brian Mahoney looks back on 20 years of Chronogram.
CD Review: Brahms/Mozart
David N. Lewis reviews the new album by The Stuyvesant Quartet with Alfred Gallodoro.
Chronogram and Uranus Conjunct Neptune
Eric Francis Coppolino runs Chronogram‘s 20-year astrological birth chart.
The Melody Lingers On
Music Editor Peter Aaron reflects on Chronogram‘s musical history.
Zohar Lazar at the Hudson Opera House
Zohar Lazar’s paintings and drawings will be on display at the Hudson Opera House through December 7.
Thank You To Our Sponsors
Chronogram thanks 20th Anniversary sponsors Ulster County Tourism, The Museum at Bethel Woods, H. Houst & Son, and Columbia County Tourism.
Half Moon Theatre Stages Love/Sick
Poughkeepsie’s Half Moon Theatre Performing Space presents “Love/Sick.”
Giving Thanks By Giving Back
Robert Burke Warren on understanding gratitude through volunteering.
Book Review: Doing Time Outside
Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Doing Time Outside by Ginnah Howard.
An Afternoon of Early French Baroque Masterpieces
“An Afternoon of Early French Baroque Masterpieces” will take place on November 10 at 3pm in the Event Gallery at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel.
Bard College Conservatory Orchestra
Bard College Conservatory Orchestra comes to Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts November 10.
Lance Armstrong’s Legacy Revealed in “Wheelmen”
Two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate the truth behind Lance Armstrong’s achievements.
The Local-to-Global Connection
Lorna Tychostup reviews 20 years of Chronogram’s news and politics.
Filthy Gorgeous Burlesque Show at Two Boots
Red Hook’s Two Boots Pizza hosts New York City’s best burlesque show on November 8.
The Apotheosis of Hudson Valley Culture
Chronogram considered as the apotheosis of Hudson Valley Culture.
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week
This year’s celebration features over 150 restaurants from November 4 to 17.
Hudson & Columbia County
Visitors flock to the county’s vast variety of music, food, art, and farmland.
Parting Shot: Andrea Baldeck
Vassar College’s Palmer Gallery displays 19th-century medical artifacts as documented in Andrea Baldeck’s photography book Bones, Books and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection.
Sinterklaas Celebration
The celebration kicks off November 21 at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston.
Drawing Outside the Lines
Former art director Carla Rozman looks at Chronogram‘s illustrations.
Beinhart’s Body Politic: Loony Tune Season
Larry Beinhart on the controversial Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which turns animal activists into terrorists.
Vassar College Hosts Theater of War
Vassar College hosts Outside the Wire’s dramatic reading of scenes from Sophocles’ PTSD drama “Ajax” on November 3.
The Chronogram Community
Local Luminaries and former contributors write a few words on our behalf.
Coppersea Distillery: Lively Water
Jeff Crane visits West Park’s new Coppersea Distillery.
Warwick, Chester, & Sugar Loaf
Three Orange County communities offer a stress-free, beautiful escape.
Editor’s Note: The Wonderful Omissions
Brian K. Mahoney reflects on 20 years of Chronogram.
While You Were Sleeping: November 2013
Doggie fitness helps obese canines, baby wipes blamed for nation’s sewage clogs, Appalachian residents trending eroding brown teeth, and more.
Kingston’s First Mini-Mansion
Jennifer Farley tours the colorful and lively abode of couple Haynes Llewellyn and Gary Swenson
On the Cover: An Art Director Reflects
David Clark Perry reflecting on the history of Chronogram‘s signature cover.
Open Call
Poetry Editor Phillip X. Levine reflects on Chronogram‘s evolving poetry section.
Chronogram Seen: November 2013
Check out this past month’s festivals, including the O+ Festival, the Hudson Valley Dance Festival, the Forsynth Nature Festival, and the Woodstock Film Festival.
Esteemed Reader: November 2013
Jason Sterm discusses the beginning and ending stages of life, reflecting on the womb of earth and the development of the individual.
Horticulture Lessons from Mohonk
Michelle Sutton talks gardening with Mohonk Garden Manager Andrew Koehn.
Zen and the Art of Musical Maintenance
Peter Aaron discusses Eastern philosophy with bassist Gary Peacock.
Community: We The People
The region’s mix of creative types—entrepreneurs, artists, farmers, activists, journalists, spiritual seekers and leaders, and characters—speaks to the dynamism of our cultural landscape.
Podcast Episode 35: A Conversation with Sparrow
Brian K. Mahoney talks with cultural critic Sparrow about how the Beatled ruined rock `n’ roll, how the avant garde failed, and sundry other matters of little import.
