CD Review: Spiv:UK
Sharon Nichols reviews So Far Machine, the latest album from Spiv:UK.
CD Review: The Wood Brothers
Robert Burke Warren reviews Loaded, the latest album from Oliver and Chris Wood.
The Flying Deutschman
David Deutsch’s aerial photographs and bird’s-eye perspective paintings are on display in Hudson this month.
Moves for Moderns
For the first time in almost 50 years, the American Ballet Theater is returning to the Hudson Valley.
Books: Jessica Abel
Cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel chats about the history of her career as a graphic novelist, her work as a teacher, and what to do after you buy Maus.
The Reel Deal in Woodstock
Jay Blotcher reviews several films showing at the Woodstock Film Festival and enjoys a Q&A sessions with WFF lifetime achievement award-recipient Haskell Wexler.
Tao on a Tightwire
Presenting the 29th North American tour of the world record-holding Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats.
Music: Bird Cracks Egg
Accompanying himself on violin, glockenspiel and guitar, singer/songwriter/whistler Andrew Bird performs his one-man show at The Egg in Albany.
Planet Waves: October 2008
Consider what Atlantis, Tolkien, and the apocalypse might have in common.
Parting Shot: Joy Taylor
A brief look at some of the works of collage artist Joy Taylor.
CD Review: Marilyn Crispell
Peter Aaron reviews Marilyn Crispell’s latest album Vignettes.
Nightlife Highlights: October 2008
From Ahmad Jamal to the Skytop Halloween Party, DJ WAVY DAVY handpicks this month’s nightlife selections.
Not Fade Away
Peter Aaron talks to Todd Mack, founder of FODFest (the “Friends of Danny” festival) which remembers musician and journalist Daniel Pearl on what would have been his 45th birthday this month.
Lucid Dreaming: Aesthetic Dis(interest)
Beth E. Wilson analyses the importance of beauty in the sphere of business-as-usual politics alongside a discussion of the show “War: Material and Lies” at TSL in Hudson.
Portfolio: Lilo Raymond
Lilo Raymond discusses her life, photography, and travels, along with her best and worst experiences, and what it’s like to be recognized.
Vin Populi
Author, wine critic, and professor at the Culinary Institute of America Steven Kolpan discusses his pragmatic and irreverent guide, WineWise.
Book Review: The Night Villa; What Makes a Child Lucky
A mystery by award-winning author Carol Goodman and a story by master oral storyteller Gioia Timpanelli are on this month’s reading list.
Book Review: Why the Dalai Lama Matters
Robert Thurman’s book, Why the Dalai Lama Matters is an exploration of the significance of the one who many Tibetans feel is “the returning presence of the Buddha himself.”
Where the Heart Is
Nina Shengold talks with writer Laura Shaine Cunningham about Sleeping Arrangements (featured in the 2008 One Book, One New Paltz celebration).
Flowers Fall: Field Notes from a Buddhist Mom’s Experimental Life
Musing about a friend who is expecting a new baby provides an opportunity for reflections on motherhood, Zen, cloth diapers, love, and drama.
Tick, Tick, Tick
Rhinebeck’s integrative doctor Steven Bock describes the pitfalls and ironies of tackling this misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and often just plain missed malady.
Be Greene with Envy
Amy Lubinski showcases the mountains, hip cafés, gourmet restaurants, fun festivals, and thrilling outdoor activities that Greene County has to offer. It’s a familiar destination with some unfamiliar charms.
Student Loan Savvy
Kelley Granger discusses student loans, federal loans, private loans, financial aid, and scholarships in an investigation of the best way to go to school on “free” money.
Out of the Toy Box
Photographer Steven Planck turns the relics of childhood into a series of black-and-white portraits for thetwentytenproject.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Reality Check
Larry Beinhart chalks up the past four years, bad assumptions, delusions, the upcoming rockin’ and rollin’ roller coaster ride of a presidential election, and (of course) lipstick.
Editor’s Note: This is Water
Brian K. Mahoney offers a few thoughts about David Foster Wallace and the most truthful, funny, useful, and inspiring speech ever given to a graduating class.
While You Were Sleeping: October ’08
Irradiated food is not virus-free, outstanding balances on home equity loans are higher than ever, chipping people has begun in the US, and other news you may have missed.
Esteemed Reader: October 2008
We are waking up from the American Dream–but what do we do next?
Local Luminary: Joseph Nevins
Joseph Nevins, author and professor of geography at Vassar College, discusses national boundaries, immigration laws, human rights, and his latest book, Dying to Live.
Silence Broken
Former comfort women seek justice and an apology from the Japanese government for forcing them into sexual servitude during World War II.
On The Cover: Ellen Nieves
Ellen Nieves’s paintings will be on display at the Woodstock Artists Association from October 4 through November 2.
