Guitar Glory
On April 14, Leo Kottke, joins David Lindley, at the historic Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill.
Damsel in Distress
Society’s insatiable appetite for melodrama may go far in explaining the enduring public interest in yet another maiden in distress: Jane Eyre.
Little Dollface
“Dollface,” which runs April 12 through 15, is a sidelong wink at the synthetically cheery 1950s and the breezy musicals that flourished during that era.
Divine Alliance
On April 10, the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie will host a stop on the eagerly anticipated tour pairing virtuoso pianist Brad Mehldau with legendary guitarist Pat Metheny.
Poetic Liar
Charles Simic will read at SUNY Ulster’s 13th Annual Poetry Forum on April 18.
Juried Hanging
For “Photowork ’07,” Barrett Art Center’s 20th annual national juried photography exhibition, the Poughkeepsie gallery’s director, Laurie Strange, gave juror Asher Miller the freedom to select works not based on any particular theme or genre.
Graphic Violence
In _Killed Cartoons_, writer and editor David Wallis collects some of the great nixed editorial pieces of recent vintage.
Stretching and Falling
We are accustomed to stretching our physical bodies. Similarly, it is important to stretch our consciousness if we want to maintain a healthy, vital, and enthusiastic spirit.
Horse Tales
Hippotherapy literally means “treatment with the help of the horse. The idea of seeking aid for human ailments from horses began in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in the 1960s.
Book Excerpt: “The Pact”
An excerpt from “The Pact” by Roberta Allen, from _Up Is Up, But So Is Down_.
Homegrown Heroes
Many of our most commonly used lawn care techniques and supplies are out of sync with our native ecological system. However there are species in our backyards that we’ve been conditioned to exterminate that may be beautiful from a different perspective.
Colors of the Spectrum
Autism has become a national crisis. It is the fastest-growing disability in the United States, affecting one in every 150 children. Diagnoses of autism are increasing at the startling rate of 10 to 17 percent per year.
Poetry | March 2007
Poems by Erin Buttner, Mark Massey, Jeffrey Aaron Schmidt, Peter Scheckner, Nicholas Ripatrazone, Jeffrey Paggi, Amy Beth Barton, Lauren Tamraz Judson, Kim Barke, and Michael Hunt.
Portfolio: George Quasha
George Quasha is something of a latter-day Renaissance man, with a wide-ranging list of accomplishments as a publisher, a poet, an artist, and an all-around inquiring mind.
Planet Waves News Notes
The Living True Greed Truly seminar will help enable participants to balance the demands of being highly spiritual and simultaneously deeply materialistic.
Beinhart’s Body Politic
The attorney general takes an oath to uphold the constitution and execute the law. When controversial matters come up, his role, traditionally, is often to be the guy who says, “We can’t do that, it’s against the law.”
CD: Todd Giudice
Todd Giudice’s latest is aptly titled—the little-known secret is that this 12-track CD is solid as stone.
CD Review: Guitars & Hearts
Raw and passionate without being excessively “grrrl,” Guitars & Hearts runs the gamut, exploring gender variance and queerness in a way that almost any listener can relate to.
CD Review: John Esposito Quintet
One beautiful thing about ensemble jazz recording is that the musicians truly have to play in the same room at the same time.
Lessons From Legends
Prior to the Homespun Tapes’ there hadn’t really been any way to learn how to play folk music other than by transcribing it by ear from old 78s or by getting enlightenment firsthand.
Things Fall Apart
Think of how often we seem to revel in the image of our own destruction. We seem, as a culture, to have fully embraced what Freud identified as the “death drive,” the erotics of Thanatos.
Spice of Life
Suruchi, which is Sanskrit for good taste, or, more literally, “good interest,” features a menu that is largely inspired by the vegetarian cuisine of southern India.
Short Takes
Whether they’re writing about military realities, queer identity, land use issues up- and downriver, or that iconoclastic bride of Christ, these five local authors are helping to break new ground.
Book Review: The Neddiad
_The Neddiad_ is an epic tale that mixes disparate genres and elements in a way only the author of _The Hoboken Chicken Emergency_ could imagine.
Book Review: Home Remedies
“In relationships one person always cares more than the other,” a mother warns a daughter in Angela Pneuman’s enticing debut, _Home Remedies_.
Book Review: Up is Up but So is Down
Anyone who spent time in lower Manhattan during the years covered in editor Brandon Stosuy’s rich and riveting anthology, _Up Is Up But So Is Down_, will tell you the same thing: Their city is gone.
The Constant Gardener
What do gardening, murder, women’s erotica, and Christmas past have in common? A most uncommon edito: Woodstocker Michele Slung.
Art of Business: The Grounds Keepers
In the past three years, Muddy Cup coffeehouses have opened in Hudson, Albany, Beacon, Catskill, and Kingston. By summer, there will be locations in Poughkeepsie, Schenectady, and New Paltz.
Queens of the Catskills
Four decades before Patrick Swayze donned a wig and eyeliner in _To Wong Foo_, rural Greene County was home to a sorority of male cross-dressers.
Parting Shot
_Afloat_ by Matthew Palin will be showing at the New Paltz Cultural Collective this month.
While You Were Sleeping
The “No Paris Hilton Zone,” blameless genocide, government cultivate marijuana, and more.
Letters to the Editor
Bill Mulcahy of the Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter takes note of the environmental impact of an expanded Stewart Airport.
On the Cover
Fionn Reilly’s _Ryners Lane_. The place is Middlesex, and it’s the focal point of Reilly’s latest show, “Middlesex: Mundane Photographs from Metroland,” a series of photos that represent his relationship with a familiar place, where mundane, circa 1930s London rooftops glisten in the daylight.
The Real Last Samurai
A new show of prints by 19th century Japanese artist Chikanobu.
