Film: 21 BELOW
21 BELOW is the true story of a young woman going home to face family wounds that she had hoped to escape. Sharon, who now lives in the Hudson River Valley, is pregnant with her first child when she learns that the 14 month old daughter of her younger sister is dying from a rare…
Film: Spin Slowly
Starring Summer Corrie, Evan Leone, Tony Grocki and Sean Grocki, the Trailer to the independent short film “Spin Slowly” written and directed by T. George McArdle was released on November 1, 2008.
Parting Shot
Kenneth Cooke excitedly spies a yellow-spotted salamander and hurries to photograph it.
Finding Your Missing Piece
Eric Francis Coppolino on a way out of our tense self-relationship.
Crank You Very Much
Disbanded since 1998, post-punk garage-rock legends Chrome Cranks reunite at Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston on May 5, kicking off their reunion tour.
Comic Book Hero
Jay Blotcher talks with David Hajdu, author of comic book history The Ten-Cent Plague. Hajdu will be reading and signing at Joshua’s Cafe on April 4.
Such Sweet Thunder
The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, in collaboration with a coalition of local choral groups, will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on April 18 at UPAC.
Frolic by the Fire
The rite of spring is celebrated on April 25 when the Center for Symbolic Studies hosts its 19th annual Beltane Festival. Anne Pyburn previews.
On The Down Low
Luc Sante, author of Low Life and Kill All Your Darlings, talks with Peter Aaron. On April 6, Sante will lecture at Vassar College, part of its Public Voices series.
Down the Drain
Jeff Crane reviews the sculptures of John Cleater at Nicole Fiacco in Hudson.
Cooking Up a Well Balanced Life
Lorrie Klosterman examines how the Institute for Integrative Nutrition defies the conventional wisdom about food, lifestyle, and diet.
Garden of Earthly Delights
Crispin Kott talks with the experts about native and organic backyard plants.
Grains of Change
Don Lewis goes with the grain at the Wild Hive farm store in Clinton Corners, part cafe, part bakery, part purveyor of local foodstuffs. Peter Barrett visits.
Short Takes: Arpil Issue
April is the cruelest month, fraught with tax returns and marshmallow Peeps. What better time to celebrate the lives of the not-so-saintly?
Book Reviews: Feed Me! and Two Weeks Under
Anne Pyburn reviews FEED ME! edited by Harriet Brown and Two Weeks Under by Rivka Tadjer.
Portfolio: Hendrik Dijk
Kingston Renaissance man Hendrik Dijk exhibits this month at KMoCA.
Editor’s Note
How are you doing? The cloud of unknowing negativity is starting to aggravate the editor.
While You Were Sleeping
You’ll find it all here: The homecoming drag queen, how Spain blows us all away, land mine detecting tobacco, and a high school fight club.
Local Luminary
Interview with a young robotics prodigy from Vassar’s Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory.
CD Review: Sangeeta Michael Berardi
Review of guitarist Sangeeta Michael Berardi’s newest CD.
Nightlife Highlights
DJ Wavy Davy handpicks what’s going on for your listening pleasure.
Biff! Bang! Boom! (Crash!)
With help from Batman and Robin, Larry Beinhart explains the theology of economy and Capitalism
A Call To Arms
Lorna Tychostup interviews Robert Weissman, author of report “Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America”
