Joe Louis Walker Jams in Marlborough for Monday Residency
The blues guitar great will burn it up once a week all this month at the Falcon.
Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016)
The influential composer, musician, and Kingston resident passed away last Friday at the age of 84.
KUBA’s Annual Snowflake Festival
Santa Claus is coming to town on Friday, December 2nd, during Kingston Uptown Business Association’s (KUBA’s) Annual Snowflake Festival.
Many Blessings: Your Thanksgiving Astrology
What the stars have on the table for your Thanksgiving celebration.
Rock Photo Exhibit on View in Albany
Photographer Patrick Harbron’s “Rock & Roll Icons” recently opened at the Albany Institute of History and Art.
Stompin’ RiffRaffs Smash it Up in Marlborough Wednesday Night
The multi-gender Japanese garage band will perform at the Falcon.
“A Gilded Age Christmas” Returns to Staatsburgh State Historic Site
Special holiday hours and decor return to Ruth Livingston Mills and Ogden Mills’ ornate late-nineteenth century mansion.
A Small Batch Gift Guide for the Holidays
A small batch gift guide of ideas found at last weekend’s Hudson Valley Hullabaloo to inspire your holiday shopping.
Top 5 Places to Walk in the Hudson Valley
Connect with nature and cultivate calm with tips and resources from author Ana Barreto.
Norman Rockwell Museum: Saturday Morning Cartoons and Conversations
A Hanna-Barbera themed exhibit for your inner kid, opening at the Norman Rockwell Museum Saturday, November 19th.
Desire, Dreaming, Scheming and Action
What’s in store for your desires and action this coming week, according to the stars.
Diamond Head Pummels Poughkeepsie on Saturday
The British metal gods, who influenced Metallica and others, will perform at the Chance.
Saturday, December 3rd: Foodstock 9 Benefit Concert at The Chance!
Head to The Chance in Poughkeepsie on Saturday, December 3rd, where Foodstock 9 kicks off at 5pm. It’s a wonderful night of music disguised as a benefit for the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley and the Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie.
The Veteran Arts Showcase
An event from November 18th to 20th at the FDR Presidential Library, exploring how trauma and healing for veterans come through artistic expression.
4th Annual Work:Shop Winter Market Returns to Beacon
This artisanal holiday market featuring locally made gifts stops by Beacon Saturday December 10th and Sunday December 11th.
Kingston Jazz Series Kicks Off This Thursday
The Senate Garage begins hosting the live music events with a preview party hosted by the Jazzstock organization.
The NYS Museum’s Carousel Celebration
On Saturday, November 19th, the New York State Museum’s historic carousel is this month’s theme for Family Fun Day, with games, crafts, and other theme-based activities.
Leonisa Ardizzone Swings into Rosendale
The New York jazz vocalist brings her quartet to the Rosendale Cafe on November 19.
An Evening of Pearls Saturday, November 12th, 4:30-7:30pm
Bespoke Hudson jeweler Geoffrey Good presents “An Evening of Pearls”, with renowned pearl expert Sidney Soriano visiting to shed light on these extraordinary gems. An exquisite selection of finished and loose pearls in all colors and shapes will be available.
Roswell Rudd Celebrates 81st Birthday in Marlboro
The legendary experimental jazz trombonist will perform at the Falcon on November 19.
Tracy Bonham’s Reimagined Burdens of Being Upright Recording
The Woodstock-based musician and PledgeMusic offer fans exclusive videos, deals, and promotions for her debut album’s 20th-anniversary reworking.
Gustafer Yellowgold at Roxbury Arts Group
Gustafer Yellowgold’s intergalactic travels collide with the Roxbury Arts Group on Saturday, November 12th, at 2p.
Emily Isabella Art Opening at Brunette
“Chairs: New Works by Emily Isabella,” running through November 20, opens November 5 at Brunette Wine Bar in Kingston.
Look Under the Lid, Let Out the Surprise
This week’s planet waves—puzzles, release, and self-expression.
Britemores Blast Beacon This Month
The Detroit garage punk quartet will perform at Quinn’s on November 14.
Mainstage Productions Presents “Oklahoma!” at SUNY New Paltz
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical of all musicals! “Oklahoma!” is the ground-breaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning story in which two young cowboys vie with an evil ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
The Third-Annual Mini Maker Faire Comes to Poughkeepsie
This all-day show and tell fair stops at the Poughkeepsie Day School from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, November 12.
CD Review: Pop It! Drum For Your Life
Pop It! Drum for Your Life (2015, System Dialing Records) Google Amir Ziv and you are going to learn a lot about the dean of the Columbia University Business School. Different guy. The Amir Ziv we are concerned with today is the wildly imaginative drummer, drum educator, and composer behind the ensemble Pop It!, whose…
Poem: Untitled
Untitled At least in pencil, Defacer of borrowed book I can erase “you” —G.D. Burns
Horoscopes: Aries
Fighting chaos is like trying to smooth out the surface of water with a canoe paddle. You may be facing some challenging situations at work, though it won’t take much for you to turn them into opportunities. The first thing to do is take a different approach to any turbulence or conflict, which would begin…
One Step Closer: The Blended Family Mosaic
Hillary Harvey explorest the blended family dynamic at the Dunn household.
Poem: Halloween Moon
Halloween Moon It’s Halloween night, spooky costumes everywhere. The sky is beautiful with its leather jacket of stars. The moon must be trick or treating somewhere else, because it’s not here with us tonight. I have already got my candy and eaten it, but the moon has not. —Ana Dooley (9 years)
Where Are the Strong, and Who Are the Trusted?
Eric Francis Coppolino’s reaction to and reflection on this month’s cover photo by Tim Davis.
Horoscopes: Taurus
Consider sincerely the challenges your partners are facing. This isn’t some special treatment you would be offering; rather, it’s the essence of companionship and collaboration. Your own astrology has been compelling you to mature and take on more responsibility; not just for your personal life, but also for the world around you. You might feel…
Gone to the Dogs: The Nebca Herding Trials
Featured here—sheepdogs and shepherding at a day of the Northeast Border Collie Association’s Fall Foliage Championships in Old Chatham.
Poem: Labels
Labels I am a black Hispanic LGBQ transgendered Native American male who looks like a conventional white guy but that’s only because you see what I appear to be and not a jigsaw puzzle with bent and broken pieces that if dropped in a therapist’s office would scatter its social construction and fall into a…
Poem: Paranoia
Paranoia and I sleep in a wooden white sheet bed that has never been made by a stranger —Matthew Young
Horoscopes: Gemini
Gemini is said to be one of the more mental signs, but now there’s no avoiding an emotional situation that’s been vying for your attention for some time. Once you devote yourself to understanding and healing, you will discover a world of possibilities, by which I mean support from others and an opportunity to grow…
Global Palate: Nirmala Narine’s Spice Shop and Farm
A glimpse inside Nirmala Narine’s 15-acre farm and agroecology center in Highland
Poem: Thursday
Thursday in the dark i lost myself and then i lost you too —Emma Rudzinski
Poem: October Morning
October Morning What wonder The sun-drenched maple tree! A flaming crown of yellow and orange leaves bursting forth from the ground so green! —Juan DePascuale
Horoscopes: Cancer
Better things are calling you—creative, amorous, erotic, adventurous. All you need to do is respond. This is usually easier said than done, because the demands of life and, moreover, the habitual patterns of life rarely support those aspects of being. Indeed, they seem designed to prevent them. If there is a key to unfolding your…
Will Rock for Change
A profile of the former congressman and Orleans musician John Hall.
Poem: Unnamed
Unnamed The world asks you to surrender more than you carry. A garden trowel held loosely in a gingham apron pocket, a watch burnished drab from ticking, a feather found just when your belief in feathers had vanished. So much is asked of our tender human souls. So many things we could never part with.…
Poem: Ode to Pit Stop Napkins
Ode to Pit Stop Napkins common white napkins that melt on lips in glove compartments everywhere food workers stuff wads of them in to-go bags enough to swab a giant’s mouth enough to wipe dew from a mirror oil from a dipstick— droppings from a hot dog enough to scoop up dead bugs hold a…
Horoscopes: Leo
Belief is fragile. Most beliefs do not stand up to verification. Yet the starting point to getting real is discovering your assumptions and, one by one, popping them like balloons. That’s the big, courageous thing involved in growth. Some forms of spiritual training and study give you a pin to do the popping; others give…
Nightlife Highlights: John Esposito Residency
See the jazz-pianist for free at The People’s Pub in Chatham, November 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30.
Horoscopes: Virgo
By all rights, being born under Mercury’s most potent sign would make it easy for you to get to the essence of what you want to say. Yet often it’s more difficult than that. Your ideas get mixed up with your emotions, and therefore lost in the sauce. That, however, is the simpler equation to…
Nightlife Highlights: Orquesta Victoria
The 12-piece music group comes to tango November 5 at Bearsville Theater.
Poem: To An Indian Cornfield
To An Indian Cornfield Flowers do not beat their drums when fall leaves them naked for winter’s death. In spring, you can hear their echoes, their leaves together sound their slow message. —Matthew Diomede
Mighty Mighty Micromakers
Small-batch producers that blend home grown and hand crafted with entrepreneurial innovation in the Hudson Valley.
Horoscopes: Libra
You must do something about any lingering inferiority complex that you have, or the present one that’s driving you nuts. First, let’s get one thing out of the way: The world is designed to make us all feel inferior and inadequate. All the advertising and politics and catty, competitive social interactions that seem inescapable: All…
Editor’s Note: Locker Room Talk
Editor Brian Mahoney’s take on locker room talk, involving an adolescent breach of privacy.
Nightlife Highlights: The Magnetic Fields
A show for the band’s forthcoming album, 50 Song Memoir at Mass MoCA November 18 to 19.
Poem: What Does It Take to Be A Writer
What Does It Take to Be A Writer I cannot give an accurate answer to that question. I am not a writer; I am just a person putting thoughts on paper, mostly disconnected thoughts that end abruptly midsentence. I blankly stare at a screen that emits ultraviolet rays struggling to find that next word that…
Horoscopes: Scorpio
It’s time to make contact with your drive for social justice. This is a real value that you hold, and it can transcend many other distractions. You believe in the truth, and deep in your heart you want the truth to prevail. You believe in the right thing, and you want the right thing to…
While You Were Sleeping
A penis museum, grapefruit-sized hairball, how drug overdoses are affecting organ donation, and more you may have missed.
Nightlife Highlights: Jonathan Richman
The Modern Lovers founder and singer-songwriter performs at the Rosendale Theatre November 17.
Poem: Rain, Fishermen, and the Treaty of Light
Rain, Fishermen, and the Treaty of Light His lips, lungs, diaphragm, and fingers launch the flute’s sound. I drink in the flow, the open round spaced notes. Outside, rain patterns dot swift green whispering waters. Chris fishes from a large rock with a friend’s child. They catch and release under clouds a shade of silver…
Power Point Presentation
An interview with Japanese pop-punk rockers Shonen Knife, who play Quinn’s in Beacon on November 2.
Horoscopes: Sagittarius
We all have limited time to accomplish what we came here to accomplish—and we don’t know how much time we have. Making peace with those facts is the first step toward bona fide maturity. The presence of Saturn in your birth sign will be reminding you of this in some way every day. Sometimes this…
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Ode to Autumn
Larry Beinhart’s poetic approach to politics.
Nightlife Highlights: Rootstock
A musical event at the Towne Crier, featuring three-indie acts including Floodwood (pictured) to benefit agricultural organizations.
Poem: The Fork in the Road
The Fork in the Road To tell the truth, that’s a poet’s job, to lie about it, a politician’s We have a choice. —Betsy Atkins
Boomboxes Are Booming
“The Boombox Project” will remain at the Hudson Opera House from November 19 through December 23.
Horoscopes: Capricorn
You’re starting to make contact with your own desire. By that I mean you’re removing the obstacles between what you want and admitting what you want. You might think this is too simple to be effective, but all the complexity—the wrangling over appropriateness and guilt and your fear of personal anarchy if you let go…
Art of Business: Hudson Valley Sunrooms
Good Day, Sunshine Chris Smalley has loved installing sunrooms ever since he helped add one on to his parents’ home. Shortly thereafter, he opened his Four Seasons Sunrooms franchise in 1984. “That sunroom is still mom’s favorite room,” he says. “My grandfather spent his last years there, feeling like he was outside. Nowadays, we have…
Lost and Found: Alexandra Weinbaum Resurrects a Holocaust History
An interview with Alexandra Weinbaum, whose newly released book explores documents and letters from her family’s life during the Holocaust.
Poem: Drop
Drop Our pain: is a curled root stuck between two dry rocks. Our love: is the step right below the cliff you fall off. —Cristin Sauter
Dance Communities Great & Small
The sampling of dance types and troupes that will appear at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli.
Horoscopes: Aquarius
Every decision you make stems from what you think you are. When you make contact with who you truly are, you will feel your own grandeur and the beauty of your life. When you feel small, or weak, or inferior, you can be sure you’ve lost contact with who you really are. When you feel…
Art of Business: New Leaf Building Company
New Leaf, New Life Fans of local sourcing, take note: the New Leaf Building Company would love to help you create something new and beautiful from the lumber on your own property. Caleb White loves trees—and fine houses. A certified arborist and builder, he specialized for a while in building fine houses in trees. Now,…
Short Takes: Short Book Reviews for November 2016
As the weather gets colder, explore Hudson Valley history from home.
Poem: Mohonk Tower
Mohonk Tower Once, when we were crazy, we made love on Mohonk Tower. Warm autumn afternoon, other hikers voices floating up to us, daring us, “Come on! Push it!” “Get up there!” “You can do it, honey!” My wife is still that bold. She would come— with me— like that again. I’m still nuts that…
Finding Power in the Written Word
Award-winning and best-selling author Sapphire reads at SUNY Ulster November 17
Horoscopes: Pisces
You may have noticed that you have more traction than usual: You’re getting things done. You have respect and self-respect. Now it’s time to expand your mission. The past few years of Chiron in your sign (actually, back to 2010) have been a time of profound introspection, dealing with your insecurities and taking care of…
Art of Business: Zephyr Float
Floatation Sensation Several decades ago, it was discovered that floating in an isolation tank of body-temperature salt-water for an hour or so could evoke theta brain waves—the state between sleeping and waking, the level that meditators strive to achieve. A floatation session, being a mini-vacation from gravity and external stimuli, has been found to reduce…
Book Review: The Fall Guy
James Lasdun’s latest novel The Fall Guy is a tense toggle between reality and self-delusion. Set in an upstate New York town closely resembling Woodstock, this erotic thriller centers on well-heeled banker Charlie, his ne’er-do-well cousin Matthew, and Charlie’s wife Chloe. Matthew, a chef in New York City, is floundering; he’s close to “living off…
Poem: America Needs a Muslim President
America Needs a Muslim President America needs a Muslim President saying “Peace be upon you” when addressing the nation America needs a Muslim President whirling dervish dancing the path of enlightenment a Kareem Abdul Jabbar kind of President defeating adversaries by rising gracefully above them America needs a Muslim President who speaks words of…
Ahimsa Yoga & Music Festival
A weekend-long celebration of traditional and emerging styles of yoga and music at Hunter Mountain, November 4 to 6.
Parting Shot: ReActor
A small crowd gathered after being dropped off in a field by a rickety golf cart at Omi International Art Center in Ghent in early October. Two men were positioned about a half a foot above the group, in what looks like a windowed boxcar tottering on a cement beam. A few people commented on…
Book Review: Invasion
What would happen if Earth were invaded by brilliant, fun-loving aliens with the best of intentions? How welcome would such a species be? If there was ever an era that cried out for satire, our current state of affairs surely qualifies; we seem to have developed an advanced knack for shooting ourselves in the foot.…
Poem: Three Sentences
Three Sentences Life insurance shouldn’t wait Be on the alert Please read these regularly to keep the information current in your mind —Tina Remine
The Capitol Steps
Political satire in this pre-election performance at the Bardavon, November 6.
The Band FAQ Booksigning
An evening dedicated to The Band, and a new book by Peter Aaron at the Kleinert/James Center for the Performing Arts in Woodstock.
Rise and Root Farm
Crowdfunding Community Agriculture Four veteran food activists from New York City came together to found Rise and Root Farm in the rich black dirt of Orange County’s town of Chester in the spring of 2015. Karen Washington, Lorrie Clevenger, Jane Hodge, and Michaela Hayes are educators, organizers, and leaders as well as farmers, dedicated to…
CD Review: Take Me Where I Don’t Know I Am by David Greenberger, Keith Spring, and Dinty Child with Keiichi Hashimoto
David Greenberger, Keith Spring, and Dinty Child with Keiichi Hashimoto Take Me Where I Don’t Know I Am (2016, PelPel Recordings) Take Me Where I Don’t Know I Am is based on conversations with residents of a nursing home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. David Greenberger voices the words of these elderly souls over 19 diverse…
Poem: Ash
Ash He used to store his paintings In the attic above the garage Lots of landscapes Mountain scenes Swimmers at Big Deep You’d see him in the early morning Sketching or painting at his easel Preoccupied like Cézanne In the regal beauty Of earth or body Thousands of pictures Piled up against the walls In…
Alton Brown: “Eat Your Science”
The celebrity chef stops in Kingston for an interactive and informative food-based performance on November 17.
CD Review: Parsonsfield Afterparty
Parsonsfield Afterparty (2015, Signature Sounds) From an old fart’s perspective, this whole acoustic-roots music thing has been around the block more than once. It didn’t start with O Brother, Where Art Thou? and it didn’t devolve into Berklee shredding without other touchstones along the path. On its boisterous, aptly named Afterparty EP, Parsonsfield echoes current…
Poem: In Twos
In Twos (1) To breathe is to negotiate with self, with superfluities. (2) Tailings turned into napalm. You lit it, and wondered, why I burned that easily? (3) Verisimilitude is ok. Who wants all the truth? (4) I buzz a buddy: high-up on corporate hire, has he heard his boss cut one? We laugh like…
Here Beside the Rising Tide
Eric Francis Coppolino’s astrological take on the election season.
Red Hook & the Chocolate Festival
Red Hook & the Chocolate Festival is a celebration of small village charm, history, and chocolate, held on Saturday, November 5th, throughout the village. And with a chocolate theme, multiple happenings, and a walkable locale, it’s the perfect thing to explore with the kids.
