Rhinebeck Restaurant Hosts Weekly DJ Series
The all-vinyl guest DJ event happens Monday nights at Terrapin’s Red Bistro.
Woodstock’s Landy Launches Band Book Project
The famed local lensman is preparing a lavish tome of previously unseen images.
Dirty Projectors’ Nat Baldwin to Play Hudson
The bassist and singer-songwriter plays the Spotty Dog Books & Ale on January 9.
“Glow” for It: A Workshop for the New Year in Rhinebeck
If you’re on a mission to achieve radiant health in 2014, you can jump right in at Satya Yoga Center in Rhinebeck this Sunday. “Sparkle & Glow” is a 5-day blend of yoga, cold-pressed juices, and Ayurvedic cooking designed to cleanse the body, clear the mind, and perhaps even let the soul shine through -…
Beacon Jazz Series Continues
Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee plays Quinn’s this Monday night.
Alan Weisman to Discuss Population Growth at Cary Institute
On Friday, January 10 at 7 p.m. investigative journalist Alan Weisman, author of the bestselling The World Without Us, will give a special presentation at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
Chronogram Conversations: Peace Now with Scotty Bruer
Scotty Bruer, founder of Peace Now, talks about his petition to get a billion signatures for peace.
Blue Jasmine: Only the Pulp Remains
Looking back on Woody Allen’s latest film, Sparrow counts its failings.
Music at Omi Residency Accepting Applications
The Columbia County arts center will host visiting musicians for collaborations and live performances.
Podcast Episode 42: Peace Now Founder Scotty Bruer
Scotty Bruer, founder of Peace Now, talks about his petition to get a billion signatures for peace.
My New Santa Songwriting Spree
I rewrote “Here Comes Santa Claus” — while myself impersonating Santa — as a new utopian anthem.
Ashokan Center Hosts New Year’s Weekend
The four-day program of music and dance winds up with a year-ending dinner and dance party.
Approaching the Capricorn New Moon
Astrology does not always line up so well with the civil calendar, but this year we have a very impressive cluster of major planets on the cardinal cross.
Heart Child Yoga in Bearsville: Kids Yoga for all ages & needs
A review of Heart Child Yoga
Strange Web TV: Hudson Valley Ballers
Long time “SNL” writers Paula Pell and James Anderson write and star in a funny and strange send-up of life in the Hudson Valley.
An Eggplant Handwarmer
What is the meaning of an eggplant handwarmer, found in the Albany Institute of History and Art?
Rock ‘n’ Roll Resort Returns to Kerhonksen
The popular festival will see revelers jamming in the New Year.
Hookline Fish Company brings Northwest-style Smoked Salmon to Kingston
A review of the new Hookline Fish Company in Kingston
Venus Retrograde: Something Old, Something New
We are hours away from the southern solstice, when the Sun aligns with the Tropic of Capricorn. That’s also known as the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice, or summer solstice for our readers in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. For those of us in the northern side of the globe, we are pointed as far…
Podcast Episode 41: Hetta Glogg
A talk with Darren Davidowich, maker of Hetta Glogg, a traditional Nordic mulled wine that’s made in Rhinecliff. Former Chronogram art director Carla Rozman, who designed the packaging, sits in for a couple drinks and some conversation.
Handel’s Messiah Ressurected in Cold Spring
The holiday-season performance of the well-known choral work will aid local charities.
Tips & Take-aways from the Small Biz Online Marketing Seminar with Dragon Search
Advice from the Small Biz Online Seminar at SUNY New Paltz
Video: The Alternate Reality of Kahn and Selesnick
Nick Kahn and Richard Selesnick’s latest series of magical realist photographs playfully blurs genres, time, and history.
The 8-Day Week: Your Weekend To-Do List
This week: Christmas in Catskill, cabaret in Peekskill, Zak Pelaccio and Ruth Reichl in conversation, and more.
Woodstock Sound Healing Retreats Resonate
Sage Center for the Healing Arts has several events on offer.
Gemini Full Moon, Sun Conjunct the Galactic Core
We see something about ourselves reflected back at us by others, and that can be provocative in relationships.
Podcast Episode 40: The Marvelous Mompreneurs
A talk with Marybeth Cale, Arlene Deahl, Denise Summerford, Jessica Walsh, and Hillary Harvey about balancing the demands of family and entrepreneurship.
Podcast: The Marvelous Mompreneurs
A talk with Marybeth Cale, Arlene Deahl, Denise Summerford, Jessica Walsh, and Hillary Harvey about balancing the demands of family and entrepreneurship.
Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon Rocks North Adams
The queen of noise’s new duo plays MASS MoCA on December 14.
A.J. Stickle Variety Store in Rhinebeck
A review of A.J. Stickles Variety Store in Rhinebeck
Art Foray at Mohonk Mountain House
An affordable art show of works by local artists at the Mohonk Mountain House
Cold Comfort Opens at KMOCA
“Cold Comfort, Monstrous Icons of Winter” opens on Saturday at KMOCA in Kingston.
Bassist and Painter Jam in Accord
The bassist will accompany the live painting of Nancy Ostrovsky in an intimate house concert on December 14.
Mercury and Mars on the Move
This week, two inner planets change signs within a couple of days of one another, Mercury and Mars.
Date Night: Liberty Public House in Rhinebeck
A review of the Liberty Public House in Rhinebeck
Tav Falco Plays Beacon on Friday
The roots-revisionist legend tears up the Towne Crier this week.
Podcast Episode 39: The Wisdom to Survive Screens in Rosendale
“The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism and Community” makes its New York State premiere on Wednesday, December 4, at 7:15 pm at the Rosendale Theatre.
A Call to Share Stories about Pregnancy and Infant Loss
They are tiny, new, and completely innocent, and their loss brings vast oceans of grief. They are the stillborn, the miscarried, the missed – and they can leave parents with a deep, lonely longing that rarely gets voiced to a larger public. Now the code of silence is breaking. Reconceiving Loss, a Rhinebeck-based organization and…
A Poem: The Mathematician
It seems I was born to count winters. My years are scored by falling leaves. Decembers like decimals of icy splinters. To fields of corn the remainder cleaves. I’ve measured time by love’s equation. With sticks of chalk reduced to fingers. Mindful of each numbers station, But still the remainder lingers. Where is my beloved…
A Poem: A Thousand Ways
I shift my weight from one foot to the other In my body, I follow worry through the world like a raindrop pursues gravity There are a thousand ways to purge the soul, but I’ve never learned their names I imagine lighting candles made of skulls and releasing ten cries of feminine, feral power I…
A Poem: Two for the Road
1 Outside, everyone drinks wine in the garden, offering it to the latecomer, who refuses repeatedly. A naked woman emerges from an in-ground pool, wine glass in her hand, offering him a sip and asking if he can distinguish the grape variety. He has neither any idea nor any interest, and refuses to drink a…
A Poem: Red Car
in retrospect, she was too old to be fucking around in the car knew better than to kick the back of her mother’s seat swear at her younger brother while her father was driving. but the road was empty the sky was clear, and reason seemed to just float out the window to follow the…
While You Were Sleeping: December 2013
Spices contaminated with insect parts and rodent hairs, Occupy Wall Street buys consumer debt, Sweden’s declining prison prison population, and more.
A Poem: The Haunt
I took my brother to the mountain. I took him to the sea. I took him to the city. I’ll take him everywhere. I will take him from the deserts of Afghanistan and show him green Ireland. I’ll show him the biggest, oldest trees and the temples and the fish markets and the spices in…
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politics: The Great White Dope
Larry Beinhart reminisces about Rick Perry’s run for the Republican presidential nomination, and why you should be born in Texas or Saudi Arabia.
A Poem: Bus Ride Home from Tivoli
I want a blend of cardamom and sunshine, and let’s hope there’s no rain that day. I want a palace, not a place—add the A. I will store my shadow here; I will store my grace. I want the song with speckles of white, playing beneath the ivy as I walk past the lake. I…
Editor’s Note: Dream of the Best Christmas Song Ever
Chronogram Editor Brian Mahoney discusses the integral roles of music, memories, and dreams.
NRBQ and The Nighthawks Holiday Jam and Hoedown
Terry Adams, visionary, driving force and “untamed genius of the keyboards” for NRBQ since the band’s inception over four decades ago, is one of music’s true originals. Roaring rockabilly, transcendent pop-rock, roadhouse blues, avant jazz – you name it, Adams claims it and reframes it. The new band is a revelation, capable of playing nearly…
Esteemed Reader: December 2013
Using traditional narratives, Jason Stern ponders perception, grief, and the real matter of existence.
A Craftsman’s Home in Rosendale
Jennifer Farley visits the Arts-and-Crafts-style home of Jerry and Bettylou Vis in Rosendale, which has been extensively renovated by Jerry Vis, a master craftsman.
Holiday Events This Season
Anne Pyburn Craig previews the plethora of holiday events this season, including Hudson Valley Hullabaloo; Frozendale; the Snowflake Festival; performances of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and “A Christmas Carol,” and much more.
The Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Mompreneurs
Hillary Harvey talks with women who are juggling motherhood and business.
A Family Affair: The Nutcracker
Alysa Wishingrad explores the family connections of the New Paltz Ballet Theater.
A Poem: After a Shave
My dear son: Your old man trembles, looking into a mirror, seeing your face.
A Poem: Orientation
He used words like robust, timeline, roadmaps, and concrete, while the audience meditated and prayed, sifted his empty syllables of bragging and pretending, rooster prancing and posturing. Façade. Time settled like dust on lard. They shrank into themselves, dug deep like the men paid to burrow a well on the property and after weeks of…
Newburgh, NY: Turning Point
Newburgh may not be the easiest place to love in the Hudson Valley, but those who call it home are fiercely proud of the city on the river.
A Poem: I Don’t Honk So
I mean I don’t think so. Because every time I open a big fat mouth of mine, it’s like an aberrant keyboard making thistles out of whistles and crow out of Velcro. There was a time when speaking could be as clear as a moving cloud over a frozen lake, the horizontal sun as quiet…
An Untitled Poem
After brushing her hair “to keep the tangles out. There they are. See? Those are tangles.”
A Poem: School Morning
Silence in the wind Leaves blow off trees around Lawn mower disturbs
A Poem: Your Country
There are these great distances, in between your ribs. I want to kiss the furrows that dip along your side, open up dark, raw spaces, and plant my words there. Sow them up into you with the traces of my fingers. I want those words to grow in your chest, burst forth, bloom in wild,…
A Poem: Frogs and Squirrels
If a frog and a squirrel met while walking their dogs in the park in autumn with the light going through sideways trees and dinner crock-potting at home, I think he’d pick her up. The dogs share a bone in the kitchen, pretend this is everyday. The frog and squirrel move to the couch the…
The English Beat at the Chance Theater
The English Beat headlines the Chance Theater December 8.
Parting Shot: Roy Gumpel
Roy Gumpel’s West Village, NYC, a photograph from his show at Ruby Gallery.
Cheryl Wheeler and Steve Forbert at Infinity Music Hall
Cheryl Wheeler and Steve Forbert at Infinity Music Hall and Bistro on December 12.
Tips On How To Begin Thinking About Renovating An Old House
Jerry & Ben Vis, owners of Cottage Industries, give tips on renovating an old house.
Michelle LeBlanc at Division Street Grill
Michelle LeBlanc performs with pianist Hiroshi Yamazaki on December 13.
The Autoimmune Connection
Autoimmune disease is the biggest epidemic you’ve never heard of—and a call for the medical world to see the larger picture.
Savion Glover and Jack DeJohnette at the Egg
Savion Glover and Jack DeJohnette perform at the Egg on December 28.
Live Arts Bard presents “Elephant Room”
Elephant Room lands at Bard’s Fisher Center December 13 to 15.
CD Review: So Tough
Robert Burke Warren reviews the new album by David Greenberger and A Strong Dog.
The Diamond Street Dames at Club Helsinki
The Diamond Street Dames bring the burlesque on December 5 and 6.
“The Beacon Portrait Project” at Fovea Exhibitions
Meredith Heuer’s Beacon Portrait Project is at Fovea through January 5.
“No Wave Heroes” Exhibit Extended
Five artists featured at No Wave Heroes: Xmas 13 through January 12.
Chronogram Seen: December 2013
Check out photos of Elvis Costello, Chris Cornell, and more from this month’s Chronogram Seen.
“Miracle in Bethlehem” performed in Woodstock
Songwriter Johanna Hall and Ars Choralis director Barbara Pichkhardt premier “Miracle in Bethlehem,” on December 7 and 8 in Woodstock.
CD Review: The Warp/The Weft
Michael Eck reviews The Warp/The Weft’s self-titled album.
Yungchen Lhamo in Concert
Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo performs for healing on December 7.
Top of the Class
A profile of journalist Alison Stewart, whose First Class was just published.
Zak Pelaccio and Ruth Reichl Talk Local Food
Zak Pelaccio and Ruth Reichl talk local food on December 14.
Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Books
The season’s best gifts for readers, reviewed by Brian K. Mahoney, Jana Martin, Nina Shengold, and Robert Burke Warren.
Air Pirates Radio: It Ain’t Such a Wonderful Life
Air Pirates Radio Theater revives “Herb Marks Freelance” this month.
Uptown Kingston New Year’s Eve
The ball drops on Wall Street at midnight on Uptown Kingston New Year’s Eve.
Eat Local, Act Global
A profile of Field Goods, a farm delivery service based in Athens.
Hell and Hindsight
Peter Aaron chats with Richard Buckner about being a crime suspect.
All-Star Tribute to Roy Buchanan
Tribute to Roy Buchanan at The Falcon on December 6.
