Michael Hurley Visits Bearsville Theater
The king of itinerant outsider folk will perform with local faves Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton.
Martin and Eliza Carthy Sing at Rosendale Cafe
The father-daughter English folk duo will appear on April 17.
Poughkeespsie Talk Examines Brooklyn Influx
“Looking for the New Brooklyn: Creative Migrations and Musical Landscapes in Upstate New York” takes place at Vassar College on April 8.
The Animal Welfare Approved Burger
The Hudson branch of the farm-to-table restaurant, Grazin’ Hudson, was the first Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) restaurant in the world. As of March 2015, the second is Grazin’ TriBeCa, the latest locally-sourced eatery from farmer/owner Dan Gibson.
Jazz Greats Jam in Catskill This Weekend
Pianist Bruce Barth and bassist Sean Smith will perform at Beattie-Powers Place on Saturday.
Suzy Bogguss Plays Pawling on Saturday
The country queen will perform at music venue and restaurant Daryl’s House.
Celebrating Spring with your Local Land Trust
The local land trusts and conservancies want to help your family greet the spring.
Psych Legends the Random Concept Hypnotize Hudson
The reunited Connecticut band featuring outsider folkie Gary Higgins plays the Spotty Dog Books & Ale.
The Sadies Hit Hudson This Weekend
The Canadian country punkers will perform at Club Helsinki on Friday.
The Three Sides of Musical Theater for Kids
Coming up are three opportunities to introduce the kids to the magic of live theater.
A Sweet Way to Raise Money for Breast Cancer
Brasserie292’s baking competition invites you to strut your stuff, for a great cause.
Dublin City Ramblers Play Sugar Loaf
The traditional Irish group headlines a Saturday concert in Orange County, New York.
Communicating Desires Activated By Times of Change
Think with your heart and soul—and don’t be afraid to go deep.
Saugerties’s John Street Jam Plans Final Nights
After 11 years, the beloved acoustic music series is coming to a close.
The Digital Dilemma
Hillary Harvey filters for you a conference on Balancing Media and Technology in Family Life
Grapes of Reign: Whitecliff Winery Wins
For the first time, a Hudson Valley winery won the prestigious New York State Wine and Grape Foundation’s Grower of the Year Award.
$10,000 Opportunity: Hack the Hudson Valley
A two month-long “virtual hackathon” is currently underway in the region.
Hudson Valley Summer Camp Guide 2015
Get your kids out of the house, on their feet, up a tree, and into some mud around the Hudson Valley this summer.
A Community Call to Arms: The Sidewalk on Columbia Street in Hudson
State and local governments wouldn’t fix the crumbling sidewalk in Hudson, so Time & Space Limited is turning to the community for help.
A Word-Lover’s Weekend in Woodstock
This year’s Woodstock Writers Festival features reading, writing, and regaling with some of the biggest names in literature in and around the Hudson Valley from March 19 to March 22.
Stairway to Feminine
Zepparella is an all-female Led Zeppelin cover band playing at the Chance on March 14.
Nightlife Highlights: The Levin Brothers
March 14. A list of the major musical figures that local legends the Levin Brothers have played with would easily fill the length of this page. So let’s just put forth a couple of choice names: Bassist Tony, well known for his years with King Crimson, also worked with John Lennon and Peter Gabriel, and…
March Literary Events: The Woodstock Writers Festival
The WOODSTOCK WRITERS FESTIVAL offers four days of stellar events, including a Thursday night story slam (3/19 at 7:30 pm, $15); Friday intensive workshops with Beverly Donofrio, Ann Hood, Lynn Johnston, Bar Scott, Kitty Sheehan, Gail Straub, and Marion Winik; panels on spiritual writing, publishing, journalism, fiction, biography, and memoir; Saturday’s Joe Donahue interview with…
Hudson Valley Beer and Cheese Fest
Tommy Keegan of Keegan Ales and Aroma Thyme’s Marcus Giulano join forces for the fourth annual Hudson Valley Beer and Cheese Fest on March 22 from 1pm to 4pm at Keegan Ales in Kingston.
Parting Shot: Cooper Lake
Last fall, Niagara Bottling, the largest private bottled water supplier in the country, announced plans to siphon up to 1.75 million gallons of water daily from Cooper Lake.
Nightlife Highlights: Channel 3
In addition to X, Black Flag, T.S.O.L., Agent Orange, and the Circle Jerks, Southern California punk rock in the 1980s was defined by Channel 3, who hit the Low Beat on March 14.
March Literary Events: Spring Word Café Salon
SPRING WORD CAFé SALON is an open mike for Word Café participants and anyone curious about this lively new reading/writing series, hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold at outdated: an antique café, Kingston. 3/12 at 6:30pm, $10. Wordcafe.us.
Waiting for The Big Thaw
Eric Francis Cappolino on winter’s wrath, Jon Stewart, David Carr, Kyle Kyaska and Bob Simon.
Two Dosas, Twice Daily
Newburgh is basically the last place you’d expect to find a restaurant like Nimai’s Bliss Kitchen. The building that once housed a dingy diner now serves fresh, farm-to-table, all-vegetarian meals based on the ancient dietary practices of Ayurveda.
Sergei Rachmaninoff and Russian Orientalia
Russian pianist Vassily Primakov and Israeli-American cellist Yehuda Hanani explore the mesmeric maestro’s small-scale works on March 21.
Book Reviews: Short Takes for March 2015
The History of the Hudson River Valley: From Wilderness to the Civil War Vernon Benjamin Overlook Press, 2014, $45 Many American histories start with European invaders. Historian Benjamin, who’s lectured at both Marist and Bard, takes a much longer view, opening with a “Paleo Prelude” of the region’s geology, early hunter-gatherers, and Algonquinian cultures. Next…
Aries for March 2015
ARIES (March 20-April 19) There’s something unusually beautiful or momentous brewing, though you may not be able to focus on it well enough to predict. Plenty has been happening; You have been keeping busy and from the look of things, positive and involved with life. Yet, there’s something beyond all that, as if hiding off…
Nightlife Highlights: David Bromberg Quintet
One of the essential-but-unheralded figures of contemporary Americana, Tarrytown-raised multi-instrumentalist David Bromberg was a fixture of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, working with Richie Havens, Tom Rush, Tom Paxton, Jerry Jeff Walker, and others before making his self-titled debut on Columbia Records in 1971 (featuring “The Holdup,” a collaboration with George Harrison).
Book Review: “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
Marx Dorrity reviews Ian S. MacNiven’s novel.
Taurus for March 2015
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) Your charts are blaring out for physical activity, just in time for the weather to ease off a bit. So get physical. But that is not enough; this is a means to an end, and that objective would be tapping your mental agility and a new crop of ideas that has…
CD Review: Cicada Dream Band
John Burdick reviews the new album recorded by David Rothenberg, Pauline Oliveros, and Timothy Hill.
Book Review: What Comes Next and How to Like It
Jana Martin reviews Abigail Thomas’s memoir.
Surviving Cancer
It may seem a bold, even risky statement to say that cancer today is becoming less of a death sentence and more of a chronic illness that can be managed with vigilance and care. (Plenty of people caught in the final fire of disease, and their loved ones, would disagree.) Yet doctors and researchers in…
Gemini for March 2015
GEMINI (May 20-June 21) You have found a focus of devotion and I suggest you trust that. Devotion is profoundly important to human sanity. It may be the central organizing principle of consciousness, and you have it going on strong right now. It matters less what you are devoted to and more that you focus…
Well-Spent: The Home and Body Edition
This month, Jana Martin invites you to indulge in comfort, light, and relaxation to combat winter woes.
An Untitled Poem by Raven-Star-Fire Twining
An untitled poem by 4-year-old Raven-Star-Fire Twining.
Smells Like Queen Spirit
Perfume Genius and guest Jen Hval will perform at BSP Lounge in Kingston on March 25 at 8pm.
Cancer for March 2015
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your visions of the future may be flooding you right now, though it’s essential that you work from the practical side of things. Stick to the matters at hand, and the methods you trust, and make progress in small ways. They are not as small as you think, because each gesture…
CD Review: Electrified & Blue
Jason Broome reviews Hank and The Skinny 3’s new album.
Psychic Chip Coffey
In his return to Woodstock on March 28 at the Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, “An Evening with Chip Coffey,” the psychic will hold a gallery reading, including a Q&A session and readings for randomly selected audience members.
Leo for March 2015
LEO (July 22-August 23) This is a fine time to consider the nature of your agreements and commitments. This applies to agreements that involve an exchange of money, sex or conscious energy. These must be clear. You must be clear. Once you are, you will feel like you’re under far less pressure, as will those…
Venus Square Jupiter: A Little of What You Love Goes a Long Way
If your week began with some unexpected reminders of ways you’ve held yourself back due to old hurts, you might be feeling more inclined than usual to give yourself a pass today and just do what feels good. You might even feel like spreading the love around to the people you adore. A square between…
Stargate 4173
The Antols go stargazing from the astronomical addition on their top floor.
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry is showing at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on March 7 (followed by a Q&A with editor/producer Nancy Kennedy) and at Upstate Films in Woodstock on March 8 (followed by a Q&A with writer Sheila Isenberg). The film also screens at Time and Space Limited in Hudson March 12 through 15…
Video: Photographer Franco Vogt’s Portraitures
The March 2015 “On The Cover” artist talks about how his interest in psychology and his ability to make people comfortable affects his photography for the better.
Virgo for March 2015
VIRGO (August 23-September 22) You possess the truth you seek. Yet, you may also not quite feel that way, and be pursuing a course of finding it outside yourself. That is certainly compelling enough; ancient sites, quests and journeys over the sea have been undertaken for millennia for the purpose of discovering something that is…
On the Cover: Franco Vogt
Franco Vogt has one of those personalities. Short and witty with a full-faced smile, the photographer and his wife of 22 years, Lucia Reale-Vogt, have earned a reputation in the Hudson Valley for making their subjects comfortable in front of the camera.
Man of the House
Peter Aaron profiles the front half of Hall and Oates at Daryl’s House, his restaurant, music venue, and new home of the singer’s smash TV show, “Live from Daryl’s House.”
The Locals Return
Dinges, New York comes to BSP Kingston for this season’s live recording of our podcast, “The Locals.”
ArtScene Episode 3
The third episode of Chronogram’s web TV series, ArtScene, exploring the Hudson Valley’s vibrant artistic community of artists, featuring Kate Hamilton, the Videofreex, photographer Franco Vogt, and the Center for Metal Arts.
Botanical Nomenclature
Much is revealed, and often mellifluously, from the small package that is the Latin name.
Dream Big With a Strategy: Pisces New Moon and Equinox Eclipse
No matter what the weatherman is saying, we’re on the verge of a new season: the Sun ingresses Aries Friday, heralding spring. But this is no ordinary equinox, with its equal day and night; an eclipse is ushering the Sun into its new sign. The astrology right now is suggesting you dream big—but do so…
Libra for March 2015
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) You are being gently tugged to keep your focus on yourself. I say gently, though there’s a persistence to this that has been present for a while; it’s coming into focus now in a new way. As there are currently fireworks exploding in your house of relationships, that may be a…
Editor’s Note: Let’s Talk About Anything Else
Let’s talk about literally anything other than the weather.
Spawn vs. Spawn
Especially at the end of winter, sibling rivalry can pose a challenge. But what’s behind the bickering isn’t always hostility.
And, As, But, Because
To celebrate Conjunctions literary magazine’s 25th anniversary, a star-studded reading featuring Ann Lauterbach, Neil Gaiman, Robert Kelly, and Francine Prose—all Bard professors whose writing has appeared in Conjunctions, will take place on March 26.
Scorpio for March 2015
SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) A Scorpio rising friend told me recently that men sniff her as she walks down the street, and that she finds this annoying. I just laughed and reminded her what a compliment this is—that she personally inspires people to be in spontaneous contact with their primal, visceral nature. That nature is…
Nightlife Highlights: Brazilian Girls
Early on, the band, which this month plays Club Helsinki for the first time, won the patronage of Talking Heads main man David Byrne, who appeared on their 2008 single “I’m Losing Myself” (the group covered the Heads’ “Cross Eyed and Painless” for a 2007 AIDS benefit album). The foursome’s danceable cocktail makes a fine…
Jam Session: Spring 2015 Fashion Shoot
For this season’s fashion shoot, we gathered eight local musicians into BSP Kingston for a nightlife-themed shoot by Franco Vogt.
Gender Polarity, Balance, Integration: Sun-Chiron in Pisces and the Last Uranus-Pluto Square
We’re entering a very rich couple of weeks of astrology right now. Some months, a Full Moon like we experienced yesterday in Virgo might feel like the peak of energy, the big, dynamic turning point with which you can mark your life. And it still might be that for you personally—but it’s also part of…
Sagittarius for March 2015
SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) You will go a long way to ease the internal pressure you’re feeling by rolling up your sleeves and attending to the practical matters of your life. That might mean sorting out your accounting records for the past year, it might be writing a song, and it might be charging up…
While You Were Sleeping
A secret multi-millionaire benefactor, the world’s largest solar plant, and more.
The Edge of Knowing
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres has named her new trilogy The Last Hundred Years. Its first volume, Some Luck (Knopf, 2014) earned rave reviews; Early Warning will come out in May and the final installment this fall.
Nada Yoga and Poetic Footwork
Steve Gorn, Grammy-winning bansuri player, and Janaki Patrik, the director and co-founder of the Kathak Ensemble & Friends dance company, are bringing Indian culture to SUNY Ulster this spring.
Capricorn for March 2015
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) This month brings a sublime shift in the momentum of your life, which looks a little like this. Your emotional confidence is beginning to exceed the many changes you’ve had to make over the past few years. It’s as if you’re finally catching up with yourself. The whole journey of improving,…
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: The United States of Hysteria
The hype around this year’s winter weather is a cash cow for TV broadcasting companies.
March Literary Events: Berkshire Festival of Women Writers
Now in its fifth year, the BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL OF WOMEN WRITERS is a monthlong celebration with more than 50 events throughout March, including workshops, readings, screenings, and special events.
What You Can Get Away With
Starting March 7, the Williams College Museum of Art will host “Warhol by the Book,” a study of Andy Warhol’s contributions to the field of publishing. Curated by Matt Wrbican, chief archivist of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the exhibition boasts more than 500 objects—paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, manuscripts, letters, LP covers, dust jackets,…
Aquarius for March 2015
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Be sure you have identified the center of your life, then tend to that center. This may be something requiring you to offer yourself fully to the service of someone or something. It may seem to distract you from other goals, though those goals are alive and well and simmering along.…
Nightlife Highlights: ZZ Top
March 13. Well, if it ain’t that L’il Ol’ Band from Texas. In the boogie business since 1969, ZZ Top is an American institution on par with barbeque, muscle cars, and Daisy Duke cutoffs. The trio of singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons, singer-bassist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard (memory assist: The latter is the only member…
March Literary Events: Oblong Books & Music
OBLONG BOOKS & MUSIC presents two blockbuster events: acclaimed novelist Richard Price (The Whites, writing as “Harry Brandt”) in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue, and the national book launch for New York Times #1 best-selling author Erik Larson (Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania).
Spell Breaking
The Ministry of Maåt in Kingston, an international group of men and women who teach educational and spiritual growth, will perform excerpts from their recently published book, Spell Breaking: Remembered Ways of Being (Deep Listening Institute), at the Rosendale Theatre on March 29.
Pisces for March 2015
PISCES (February 19-March 20) Ultimately you can, must, and will do what you want, and that may make some people around you nervous. You are naturally susceptible to the viewpoints and opinions of others, and you must not allow yourself to be blown off course by those with strong opinions. It is, however, in your…
