A Seat in the Barn: 2017 Summer Farm Dinners
The term “farm-to-table” is showing up everywhere, with varying levels of credibility, but once place you know you can trust what you’re eating it is right on the farm itself. We’ve rounded up a list of on-farm dinners happening this summer in the Hudson Valley.
Evolfo Headlines ToeJam 421 Festival in Milton
The event features eight acts and takes place August 20 at Toenail Orchards.
Hudson Jazzworks In Concert At Hudson Hall
Pianist Armen Donelian and Saxophonist Marc Mommaas (Co-Directors) perform on Sunday, August 13th with Special Guest Guitarist Freddie Bryant and Participants of the 11th Annual Hudson Jazz Workshop. $20, students free. For concert info and reservations, visit www.hudsonhall.org or call (518) 822-1438. For workshop info, visit www.hudsonjazzworks.org.
Saugerties Music Festival Combats Opioid Crisis
The FH Festival will take place on August 5 and raise funds to help the family of Normand Ducas.
Kool Keith Chills in Woodstock on Saturday
The Ultramagnetic MCs founder tops a stellar bill at Colony organized by Meltasia Presents.
Notice What You Choose, Choose What You Value
With yesterday’s Sun-Mars conjunction in Leo beginning to dissolve, you might notice any restlessness you felt abating. Yet the astrology is still offering reasons to stay aware—particularly regarding any decisions you need to make. Broadly speaking, this is because we’re gradually approaching a pair of eclipses: a partial lunar eclipse on August 7 and the…
MMJ Telemedicine Platform NuggMD is Now Available in New York!
NuggMD a new medical cannabis service recently launched in New York, gives those in the Empire State a way to easily acquire a NY medical marijuana card. With California-based startup NuggMD coming to NY, new patients can conveniently connect with a licensed medical marijuana doctor in New York in just a few minutes online. Over…
Ameranouche Jazzes It Up in Rosendale and Bethel
The New England trio will appear live this weekend.
The Secret City Art Revival in Woodstock
Site specific performance and installation throughout the town of Woodstock, NY culminating in our Annual Secret City gathering at Bearsville Theater, Sunday, July 30th, 12noon. A sincere and fabulous celebration of the everyday creative life. With outfits! $20 suggested donation, free childcare.
Leo New Moon: Bridge to the Eclipse
The new moon and the Sun in Leo, with the Great American Eclipse approaching.
The Wassaic Project Summer Season: Festivals, Exhibitions & Sandwiches!
The Wassaic Project’s August 11-12 festival has live dance and film screenings. View the Summer Exhibition Vagabond Time Killers, bring the family to the Art Nest. Hear music at The Lantern Saturday; RSVP to a cutting-edge, yet family-friendly arts fest.
Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival Beats it Back to Mass MoCA
The innovative performance and educational event returns to North Adams for three weeks.
Place-Based Learning at Teaching the Hudson Valley’s Summer Institute
The annual Teaching the Hudson Valley summer institute will be held this year on July 25-27 with the theme of Building Community with Place-Based Learning.
It’s the HOOT! Get your FarmOn!
The FarmOn! Foundation’s annual farm-to-table gala fundraiser is back. Get your tickets today.
Rosendale Street Festival Returns This Weekend
This year’s event promises more than 80 live bands over two days.
Let’s Talk Turkey – Skyway Camping Resort’s Thanksgiving Celebration
Celebrate Thanksgiving with your Skyway Camping Resort family on Saturday, September 16! You bring the side dishes, we supply the turkey and hams. Don’t miss out – reserve your spot early for this annual tradition of delicious food and good company.
A Skyway Classic Corn Roast & Homecoming Fit for a Chili King
Skyway Camping Resort celebrates its annual Skyway Classic Corn Roast/ Chili Cook-Off & Homecoming on August 26, 2017. Enjoy fresh, local roasted corn, cook up your chili recipe and enter it in the cook-off, and enjoy live party music in the early evening.
Jazz in the Valley Festival Returns to Poughkeepsie August 20th
The Jazz in the Valley Festival fills Waryas Park with music on Sun., Aug. 20th. On the main stage see Jeff “Siege” Siegel Sextet, Christopher Dean Sullivan Ensemble, Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators, Swing Unlimited, and artist Juliette Hemingway.
Arc Iris Pay Tribute to Joni Mitchell in Woodstock
The Rhode Island indie trio will perform at Colony on July 15.
Rosendale Street Festival
The Rosendale Street Festival back, and it’s bigger and better than ever. It comes to town on July 15th and 16th for a family-friendly, small-town-welcoming weekend of music and community.
Calling In the Capricorn Full Moon
The astrological setup is that the Sun in Cancer will oppose the Moon in Capricorn, exact just before 12:07am EDT on July 9. The Moon will be precisely one degree away from a conjunction to Pluto. The Sun and Moon are both making their way to square Uranus and Eris in Aries, though the Moon…
Matthew O’Neill Unveils Album in Mount Tremper
The singer-songwriter will hold a record release party for Trophic Cascade at the Pines on July 14.
The First Berkshire BEATLES Bash
The Berkshire BEATLES Bash on Saturday, July 8th, is the inaugural, day-long music festival at Ski Butternut in Great Barrington to celebrate the Fab Four’s music and style. It’s kid- and stroller-friendly, so bring your little Beatles-maniacs.
Home on the Waves
Sailor and shipwright Emily Cichon has made a floating tiny home on the Hudson River aboard her 31-foot sailboat Sea Lion.
Art of Business: Colony in Woodstock
After a painstaking restoration, Neil and Alexia Howard opened Colony in Woodstock (formerly the Colony Hotel and then the Colony Cafe) in May, with pub fare and a series of sold-out music events. We talked to Neil about stewarding a legend.
Esteemed Reader
Can I strive to be kind and at the same time recognize resistance or anger, and rather than expressing or repressing the anger, bear witness to it in the context of being together with others?
Aquarius for July 2017
A monthly horoscope for those born between January 20 and February 19
On the Cover: Julia Whitney Barnes
Julia Whitney Barnes combines multiple places and multiple sensations into a single piece of art.
Art of Business: Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens
Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens in Rhinebeck takes pride in offering its fan base of “plant nuts and garden meisters” a vast selection of familiar and obscure annuals, perennials, heirloom and hybrid varieties, a niche that founder Doug Santini says has evolved over more than three decades from a New York City-based mail order snake plant…
Book Review: Spill Zone
Three years ago, an unexplained event turned Poughkeepsie into a contaminated nuclear site of monumental proportions. The government fenced off the entire city and placed troopers along Route 9D to keep everyone out of the meltdown area. No entry, no photos, no survivors. Spill Zone is a graphic novel that follows Addison and Lexa Merrit,…
Parting Shot: Lonny Kalfus
Hillsdale resident Lonny Kalfus photographs the dark side of the Dutchess and Columbia County fairs.
Short Takes: July 2017
Learn about New York’s history and scandalous Prohibition-age murders while lounging by the pool with this month’s selection of titles. Short book reviews by Leah Habib
The Cry of Jazz
Frank Boyd’s one-man play “The Holler Sessions” defends jazz’s value and relevancy.
High and Lonesome, Sweet and Lowdown
Mama’s Broke, the itinerant Canadian duo, plays the Rosendale Cafe this month.
Art of Business: Northern Dutchess Realty
“All of our top-producing agents are former New York City residents who moved up here to make a Hudson Valley life and bring that experience of the transition to the table when they’re helping city people find the right second or retirement home,” Adele George of Northern Dutchess Realty says.
Building a Buzz
“The Secret Life of Bees” will be workshopped for the stage at Powerhouse Theater.
Art of Business: Woodstock Healing Arts
Woodstock Healing Arts practitioners offer modalities from holistic gynecology, integrative psychotherapy, and acupuncture to cooling chair massages with peppermint oil administered by a second-generation masseuse who trained at the Swedish Institute. Services are made as available as possible to all income levels—the massages are by donation, community acupuncture sessions are held at greatly reduced rates;…
The Summer Glide
Hillary Harvey compares European attitudes toward schooling and vacation.
Insane Inflatable 5K
The world’s largest obstacle course returns with the Insane Inflatable 5K.
Pretty in Pink
“A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique)” honors Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Is There a There There?
Why do all the people around Trump get agitated whenever the word “Russia” pops up? Commentators are baffled. What’s there to hide? They ask: “Is there any there there?” In real journalism, you can’t deduce what’s inside the black box of the White House. An insider has to speak or a paper must be leaked.…
The Secret City Art Revival
Community-style art worship event Secret City returns to Woodstock.
“The Skin of Our Teeth”
Voice Theater performs the witty classic American drama “The Skin of our Teeth.”
Editor’s Note: The Cave of Secrets
Editor Brian Mahoney on reading novels, The Vaults of Yoh-Vohombis, and a memory of childhood.
Story of a Girl
Upstate Films screens Story of a Girl, a coming-of-age story for the digital age.
Garden By Numbers
Michelle Sutton shares rules of thumb for standard garden calculations.
While You Were Sleeping for July 2017
Diana Waldron compiles odd news headlines from June 2017.
Wilderstein Outdoor Sculpture Biennial
The Wilderstein Outdoor Sculpture Biennial returns with 18 new installations.
Inviting Ease with the Alexander Technique
People who’ve benefited from the Alexander Technique are downright evangelical about it.
Ben Perowsky Residency at the Falcon
July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31. Ben Perowsky has long been one of the most diverse and forward-thinking percussionists on the New York scene. The drummer and occasional Woodstock resident has performed and/or recorded with Rickie Lee Jones, James Moody, Roy Ayers, John Cale, Lonnie Liston Smith, John Zorn, David Liebman, the Lounge Lizards, Elysian…
Virgo for July 2017
A monthly horoscope for those born between August 23 and September 23
The Church
July 8. Staples of alternative radio thanks to their worldwide 1988 hit “Under the Milky Way,” Australian quartet the Church have been plying their idiosyncratic blend of chiming, neo-psychedelic rock since 1980. Despite the departure of lead guitarist Marty Willson-Piper (he was replaced by Ian Haug in 2014), the band, led by singer-songwriter and bassist…
Libra for July 2017
A monthly horoscope for those born between September 22 and October 23
Connor Kennedy: Manifested Destiny
Peter Aaron talks to local rising rock star Connor Kennedy.
Mavi Diaz & Las Folkies/Maria Volonté: Blue Tango Project
July 16. The saying goes that it takes two to tango, and here the Bearsville Theater welcomes a pair of award-winning, female-led acts from the homeland of tango itself, Argentina. Rather than focusing on the country’s best-known musical export, though, Mavi Diaz & Las Folkies instead specialize in its likewise deep rural folk music (Mavi…
Scorpio for July 2017
A monthly horoscope for those born between October 23 and November 23.
Those Little Gaps of Silence
Recovering interior space and composure in an invasive digital age.
Yidstock
July 13-16. Now in its sixth year at the Yiddish Book Center under the artistic direction of Chronogram contributor Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock brings together musicians who fuse klezmer with elements of traditional Yiddish music, jazz, Americana, and other styles. In addition to performances by Eleanor Reissa and Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars, the Andy Statman Trio,…
Sagittarius for July 2017
A monthly horoscope for those born between November 22 and December 22.
Art of Business: Allure
ARTIST’S PALETTE Lois DiDonna, owner of Allure in Rhinebeck, an Aveda Concept Salon, studies portrait painting on the side. “I’m studying with someone rather famous right now and working on some oils,” she says. “My father painted portraits, so it came naturally. There are a lot of common elements—to do haircolor really well, you need…
Breakfast in Fur
July 29. After taking a whole two years off, New Paltz’s acclaimed indie pop outfit Breakfast in Fur are back for this, to say the least, long-awaited show at BSP. Profiled in the February 2015 issue of Chronogram, the shoegaze-y band was founded as a lo-fi bedroom-recording project by singer and guitarist Dan Wolfe and…
Capricorn for July 2017
A monthly horoscope for those born between December 22 and January 20
2017 Education Almanac
Schools and other educational programming in the Hudson Valley offer our young citizens a quality education in a great setting. From writing workshops and college prep to experiences outside of the classroom, the region’s educational offerings set your children up for success.
View the most recent printed Education Almanac HERE!
Tracking Your Eris Awareness
Be aware as Cancer Sun and Eris in Aries toy with chaos, subversiveness, and provocation.
