Web Only: Weeds in Your Garden? Bite back!
View your weeds as cultivated plants. Give them the same care and you’ll reap a tremendous harvest.
Revival Fever
Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, the oldest environmentally conscious outdoor fest of its kind in the country, returns this Father’s Day weekend to Croton Point Park in Westchester.
Jamming in the Ether
Thirty Deep Listening musicians from across the globe converge on the Hudson Valley for a series of concerts this month.
Composing Women
“Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers,” a chamber festival at Dia:Beacon over the first three weekends in June, attempts to redress the undeserved anonymity of female composers.
The Silent Treatment
Those seeking an exposé in _Into Great Silence_–Carthusians: Beneath the Hood?—will find unanswered prayers in this digital scrapbook.
Museum Piece
“Natural History” is a bittersweet chamber piece—four different vignettes in four different rooms of the Museum of Natural History.
Faces of War
“Faces of War: Kamdesh and the Korengal Outpost, Afghanistan” is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of US soldiers on the front lines.
Animal Esperanto
Jan Harrison has invented her own language, literally. It’s called “Animal Tongues,” and she began speaking it in 1979. Though she doesn’t consider herself a performance artist, Harrison sometimes publicly sings—and speaks—in Animal Tongues.
Stances with Wolves
Scott Ian Barry’s photographs were once described by Ansel Adams as “striking and generous portraits.”
Chronogram Seen: What We Saw in May
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.
June Portfolio: Linda Montano
Linda Montano has explored art, life, and spirituality in her innovative performance work for almost 40 years.
Family Fun Time
Here are our (selective) suggestions on where to entertain visiting relatives in the Hudson Valley.
Weddings on the Green
By taking fuller advantage of what the Hudson Valley can offer, the day after your big day can contribute to more than just the landfill.
First Impression
Two thoughts came to mind almost simultaneously: 1) Do they really have a llama Intensive Care Unit? And 2) This is gonna cost some serious cake.
Esteemed Reader
“To have a meaningful life,” he began, “is to be generous with your life. You are given life in order to give it away. Your life is not for you.”
On The Cover
Greig will be exhibiting her photographs from the _Representations_ series this month at Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson.
Book Review: Tales of Three Veterans
It has taken these men decades to process their various experiences into art, and powerful art it is.
Book Review: Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman
You may never have heard of Geoffrey Nyarota, but, a world away in Zimbabwe, many consider him a contemporary folk hero.
Short Takes for June
Summer reading in many flavors, including three books with upcoming launch parties, plus two more from some of our finest regional publishers.
Book Review: The Futurist
Othmer has done a marvelous dissection of early 21st-century culture, tossed the pieces into a blender, and poured out a first-rate satirical novel in which tomorrow is to die for.
Desert Bloom
Morrow writes like an architect, using intricate mathematical structures to create three-dimensional worlds full of beauty and light.
Art of Business: Better Blooms
A former pilot and flight instructor, Maggie Oyen is adamant about how flowers should be treated after traveling thousands of miles by air.
Going With the Flow
It’s a rhythm and adventure that’s been repeated for the past six summers, as the Great Hudson River Paddle has become a signature summertime event.
Editor’s Note
Two years ago in July, I wrote what I termed “a transcription of the aural landscape of my backyard.” This month, I have endeavored to capture the evening sounds of that same space.
Sweet and Sharp: Hudson Valley Onions
The illustrious history of onion farming in the Hudson Valley most certainly began in the famed black dirt of Orange County.
CD Review: Scott Helland and the Traveling Band of Gypsy Nomads
On this, his seventh recording, the six-string minstrel works all acoustic guitars, bass, drums, and percussion in what sounds like a band of gypsies but is really just his royal self on 12 jubilant tracks.
CD Review: Mighty Girl
Someone’s been studying the melodic chapters of the Velvet Underground songbook.
CD Review: Mark Donato
The record’s tone, alternating between earnest and tongue-in-cheek, morbid, and wry, creates some interesting results.
Po Better Blues
“I really believe that years from now we will look back on some of Joe McPhee’s records as some of the most important records ever made,” says jazz historian and Chicagoan John Corbett.
Beinhart’s Body Politic: Capitalism 105
When a government wants an economy to grow, it throws money at it.
The Corn Conundrum Sidebar: Reducing Poverty and Hunger With Biofuels
To reduce poverty, global trade and foreign aid need to strengthen rural economies, not flood markets in poor countries with subsidized grain.
The Corn Conundrum Sidebar: Farmers Just Can’t Win
Cliff Bradley, an expert on biofuels and sustainable energy, responds to Runge and Senauer’s article.
Parting Shot: Tom Bamberger
Tom Bamberger’s “Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film” will be on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College through July 29.
June Horoscopes
I don’t propose you concern yourself with what is new, what you want to create, or what you are seeking, but rather with the process of identifying and releasing, in that order.
Planet Waves: Growing Up
Eric Francis Coppolino uses the dioxin contamination at SUNY New Paltz as a catalyst to discuss growth issues involved in taking action on the environment.
Poem: Saving What Is Lost in Translation
I do not want to be another dumb American just here for the music, speaking Doner stand German
Poem: Don’t Run!!
Though it wore no cloak nor carried a scythe Me and Jim both…we knew it was him.
Poem: The Stink of Zen
with nowhere else to go i sat, sipping her mercy and favor from a dirty chalice
Poem: Biopsy, April, 2005
Because of this biopsy: I see Cynthia, and darling lover press, undress, and breathe, and try just to be…
While You Were Sleeping
A study links child abuse to military deployment; 1,000 seals wash ashore in Kazakhstan; a spill of 7.5 million gallons of sewage contaminates the Hudson;and other news you may have missed.
Inner Vision: Heart Song
Bill Vanaver recounts insights and powerful experiences he had while close to death and during his recovery.
Be Your Own Herbal Expert
Susun S. Weed introduces a variety of useful herbs and gives advice on the safety, selection, and savoring of herbal preparations.
Local Luminaries: John Cronin
John Cronin talks to Brian Mahoney about the regional environment and growing up in the Hudson Valley.
Add Viewer, Stir Gently
A provocative installation of minipaintings by Lucio Pozzi at BCB Art in Hudson this month.
