Caleb Klauder Country Band Kicks it Up
The Foghorn Stringband offshoot will play an old-fashioned barn dance in Ancramdale on November 15.
Robeson Returns to Peekskill
A play based on the life of the famous performer and activist comes to the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater on November 15.
Don Byron Performs in Beacon and Hudson in November
The revered clarinetist and his band will explore soul, funk, and jazz at two local shows.
Nice Mask: But What Are You So Afraid Of?
Before you dive deeper into the Scorpionic pool of taboos (especially sexual) and all their powerful, potentially confusing and seductive emotions, sit down and have a little think about how you express your erotic energy in your relationships.
Tim Hecker Returns to Troy Next Month
The acclaimed electronic artist will return to EMPAC on November 13.
Spotlight on the Nurse Purse
They say the mother of all invention is that moment when you’re scouring your closet or the Internet for something you desperately need and realize no one is making it. For Adrienne Frohlich, that moment gave birth to the Nurse Purse.
Tall Heights Bring Towering Sound to Hudson
The Boston acoustic-based duo will perform at Club Helsinki on November 6.
Love in Action: Learn End-of-Life Caregiving in Rhinebeck
Find out how to best support a dying loved one at this open-to-all training on October 27.
Film Focuses on Folk Music Guru
A recently released documentary examines the life and work of Izzy Young, who ran New York’s legendary Folklore Center.
Campaign Launched for Pauline Oliveros Documentary
Filmmaker Daniel Weintraub is seeking support to complete his film on the iconic Kingston composer and educator.
Pumpkins in the Park
When it comes to family-friendly Halloween happenings, all Hudson Valley parents really need do is leave the house.
Safe Space: Raising Domestic Violence Awareness in the Hudson Valley
Take a special yoga class or attend another event in October, which is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Rasputina Revisists Hudson This Thursday
The historically minded chamber rockers return to Club Helsinki with a new album.
Help Your Kids Run Off to Join the Cirkus
When it comes to the dream of running off to join the circus, lucky for your kids (and your band aid supply), they don’t have to stand on their bike’s handlebars in the middle of the cul-de-sac. They can just head over to Hudson and Chatham for free Cirkus After School classes with the Bindlestiff…
A Fragile Tomorrow Breaks into BSP
The Hudson Valley-rooted band will celebrate its new album on Saturday.
Woodstock Guitar Sculpture Auction This Sunday
The event will benefit Family of Woodstock’s Crisis Hotline Center.
Classics on Hudson Presents Roman Rabinovich
The esteemed pianist will perform on Saturday.
“1 Giant Leap II: What About Me?”: A Woodstock Film Festival Hit
“1 Giant Leap II: What About Me? Is an uncategorizable music-philosophy-essay/documentary that took two years to edit.
Woodstock Guitar Sculpture Auction This Sunday
The annual event will benefit Family of Woodstock’s Crisis Hotline Center.
Family Fun at O+
O+, that art, music, and wellness festival you’ve been hearing so much about since its inception in 2010, is coming back to Kingston this weekend. And with inventive family programming, it’s a fun way to spend the weekend.
Josh Fox at the Woodstock Film Festival
Josh Fox outline strategies for combating global warming at the Kleinert Gallery in Woodstock on Wednesday.
Minor League Football Hits Dutchess County
Come cheer on the Hudson Valley Fort, our new football team in the Fall Experimental Football League (FEXL). The team’s home opener for the 2015 season is October 10 at Dutchess Stadium in Fishkill, home of the Hudson Valley Renegades!
Strange Birds: Pigeons
The latest by Pigeons, “The Bower,” bears hints of a newfound comparative tightness that belies the rambling open-endedness of their earlier efforts.
ArtScene TV Episode 10
Each month, filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss produces “ArtScene,” a monthly video web series with short segments on artists, galleries, and museums in the Hudson Valley. Check it out at Chronogram.com/TV.
Taking a Look Under Your Hood
Here’s the thing about looking below the surface of yourself and your relationships: You don’t need any special training to know what feels good and what does not.
Esteemed Reader—October 2015
Participating with underlying forces is not simply a matter of exploiting resources as the principles of capitalism guide, for to be harmonious with the reality both invokes and requires gratitude.
Nightlife Highlights: Laetitia Sadier
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Stoking the Fire
Things are never dull in Kingston—never have been. Remember, this is where they relocated the capitol of New York State to keep it safe, only to have it get burnt down. Political rivalries occasionally veer into hot messes worthy of a miniseries or reality show. There exist several excellent novels that can be classified as…
Nightlife Highlights: Radkey
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Well Spent: Fall Edition
Every season’s got its own appeal in the Hudson Valley, but fall’s got it all. From artisanal wood furniture to apple cider donuts, here’s a local harvest of spend-worthy makers and shops.
Editor’s Note—October 2015
Imagine, if you will, an alien visitation. What if an alien, an interstellar tourist, landed in the Hudson Valley and all [insert gender-neutral alien pronoun here] had to explain the contemporary state of the human race was a copy of the October issue of Chronogram?
Nightlife Highlights: Ida Blue
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Got Breast Milk?
When breastfeeding isn’t an option, some families buy and share breast milk. Hillary Harvey talks to Hudson Valley parents who are staying all natural.
Nightlife Highlights: Helena Baillie and Babette Hierholzer
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Meet the New Loft
New York City may have a lofty tradition of unconventional live/work spaces, but the Hudson Valley does not. That meant that Ken Rabe had to be a pioneer, and explain to banks what his vision was. And as the old joke goes, a pioneer is the guy on the trail just ahead of you with…
The Reel Deal
FilmColumbia takes place at various locations in Chatham and Hudson from October 20 to 25. Filmcolumbia.org.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: The Little Bank on the Corner
Once upon a time our bank officers had been local—I’d see them in the rescue squad, at the local school, at little league—and they had some longevity. Now, I never saw them outside the bank and rarely seemed to last in the bank for more than a year. A cynical friend suggested they were rotated…
Nightlife Highlights: Mark Fell
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Turn Around and Emerge With Mercury
ow do you get some of the “justice” in your life, for yourself and your self-esteem?
Oakley Hall III’s “Grinder’s Stand”
The production coincides with an exhibit highlighting the famous playwright and his contributions to Greene County’s cultural, artistic development, including archival photos of the Lexington Conservatory Theatre and a screening of Bill Rose’s documentary on Oakley’s life, The Loss of Nameless Things.
“Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience”
A whirlwind of comedic costume changes, musical madness, and preposterous props brings the magical creatures and characters worshipped by children and adults alike to the stage at Sugarloaf Performing Arts Center on October 17.
Hudson Valley Halloween
Whether you’re after knee-knocking titans of terror or fun-filled fall festivities, we compiled a ghastly guide for the trick-or-treaters and jeepers-creepers planning on heading to the Valley this season. Chronogram.com/Halloween.
Craig Finn at the Bearsville Theater
Craig Finn brings his one-of-a-kind sketches of endearingly imperfect Americana to Bearsville Theater on October 14—the first stop on his 2015 Faith in the Future tour.
Wild At Heart: Ashley Mayne’s Magic Circle
Talk to Ashley Mayne for awhile, and you might feel a little bewitched. Her eyes are pale green and her gaze asymmetrical, so she seems to be simultaneously looking you right in the eye and focused on something beyond.
Naked Coffee
In the eight years I’ve been living in uptown Kingston (I moved here from Belgium in 2007), I’ve watched it grow from a place where I could make tumbleweed jokes to a thriving community where nobody gets my tumbleweed jokes anymore.
Short Takes—October 2015
October brings a bountiful harvest of books by Hudson Valley authors. Here are six standouts with author events on both sides of the river. Buy local, read local!
Chili, Cheese, & Cider Fest
The Hudson Valley’s best chili chefs, cheesemakers, and cider producers collide in gastronomic harmony at the Henry Hudson Riverfront Park in Hudson on October 10 from 12-4pm.
Book Review—Immaculate Blue
A reunion is always good for revelatory drama, particularly a reunion centered around the wedding of two middle-aged men, along with their families, and some frenemies. Of course sparks will fly. But one of the unexpected delights of Vassar professor Paul Russell’s intense and erotic Immaculate Blue is where the real heat comes from.
O+ Festival: Healthy Return
The 2015 Kingston O+ Festival will take place at venues throughout Kingston on October 9, 10, and 11. For a schedule of performances, clinics, and events and other information, visit Opositivefestival.org.
Book Review—The Other Paris
Glimpsing into these skulls and imagining the lives of ragpickers, rope dancers, cafe divas, brothel workers, opium addicts, besotted bohemians, and flame-throwing revolutionaries, the distinguished Belgian-born historian and critic leads us through twisting ancient streets to the teeming, generally insalubrious, stomping grounds of Baudelaire, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Edith Piaf.
You and Your Relationships: How Much Is Seen?
Have you ever told yourself that you are “sparing” your partner from your rough edges, your dark secrets and your “unacceptable” desires?
Creating Places of Peace and Joy
Liz Elkin founded Bloom Landscape and Fine Gardening Service (“Bloom”) in 2008 in New Paltz, where she lives with her husband of ten years, Matthew, and their two children: Tahlia, age six, and Jonah, age three. Elkin says, “I fell in love with horticulture while working in a greenhouse that grew organic, hydroponic basil in…
A Little Shellfish
Jean Claude Frajmund’s startup in Newburgh is of the jumbo variety. Early last month, he opened the doors to Eco Shrimp Garden—New York’s first indoor shrimp farm.
The Burning of Kingston
To celebrate Kingston’s resilience, rehabilitation, and revolutionary spirit, the biennial Burning of Kingston event is held this year from October 16 to 18.
A Celebration of Value
Creating a wedding celebration that’s a reflection of a couple’s shared values strengthens their ties and mutual understanding, and declares to all what brings—and will hold—them together. It also makes for a unique and memorable celebration.
Good Vibrations
For two weeks in September, I took a romp through the world of energy healing—a world that is esoteric, warm, wild, strange, mystical, earthy, and loving.
In Service of Jervis
“Jervis McEntee: Poet-Painter of the Hudson River School” remains at the Dorsky Museum of SUNY New Paltz until December 13. (845) 257-3844. Newpaltz.edu/museum. “Jervis McEntee: Kingston’s Artist of the Hudson River School” is at Friends of Historic Kingston’s Fred until December 13. (845) 339-0720. Fohk.org.
School of Life: Internships & Apprenticeships
There was a time when young people learned adult skills and responsibilities by following actual adults around as they performed their tasks, not sitting at desks and being expected to absorb trigonometry and Chaucer while their hormones and curiosity about the world past the classroom ran wild.
Code Switching
In the last decade, tech entrepreneurs have been moving to the area from the city, attracted to the Hudson Valley’s affordability and excellent quality of life.
Parting Shot—Natalie Wargin
Natalie Wargin’s work gives viewers the opportunity to see the Hudson Valley with a fresh perspective—big-city-girl-let-loose-in-the-country awe.
On The Cover—Eric Forstmann
It’s immediately obvious that Eric Forstmann is self-reflective—a considerate artist with a sense of humor, an open mind, and an accelerating national reputation. His art is available for purchase at Eckert Fine Art Gallery in Pine Plains.
Yoga for Kids
September is National Yoga month, and many local yoga studios are just starting up their kids’ and family classes again after a summer break.
Simhara Spa Healing: 33% Off for Chronogram Readers
Treat yourself to aromatherapy and energy healing this fall at Simhara spa in Stone Ridge.
