- Issue of
- April 2009
- Vol. 17, No. 9
Arts & Culture
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- Books & Authors
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Comic Book Hero
Jay Blotcher talks with David Hajdu, author of comic book history The Ten-Cent Plague. Hajdu will be reading and signing at Joshua’s Cafe on April 4.
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- Books & Authors
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Dismantling the Disquietude
Pauline Uchmanowicz profiles poet Charles Simic.
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- Books & Authors
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Garden City
Mimi Moriarty’s tale was a runner-up in our 2008 Short Story Contest.
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- Books & Authors
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Book Reviews: Feed Me! and Two Weeks Under
Anne Pyburn reviews FEED ME! edited by Harriet Brown and Two Weeks Under by Rivka Tadjer.
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- Books & Authors
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Book Review: Emily Post
Marx Dorrity reviews Emily Post by Laura Claridge.
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- Books & Authors
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Short Takes: Arpil Issue
April is the cruelest month, fraught with tax returns and marshmallow Peeps. What better time to celebrate the lives of the not-so-saintly?
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- Music
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CD Review: Jen Clapp
Review of Jen Clapp's new CD release.
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- Music
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Crank You Very Much
Disbanded since 1998, post-punk garage-rock legends Chrome Cranks reunite at Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston on May 5, kicking off their reunion tour.
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- Music
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CD Review: The Princes of Serendip
Review of The Princes of Serendip's second CD.
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- Music
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Basketful of Noise
Peter Aaron feels the noise with Dan Seward of Bunnybrains.
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- Music
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CD Review: Sangeeta Michael Berardi
Review of guitarist Sangeeta Michael Berardi's newest CD.
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- Music
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Such Sweet Thunder
The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, in collaboration with a coalition of local choral groups, will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on April 18 at UPAC.
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- Music
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Nightlife Highlights
DJ Wavy Davy handpicks what's going on for your listening pleasure.
- Poetry
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When the Last Wind Moves Down the Pines
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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Stone Song
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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Back Again
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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Triolet: Significant Other
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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Those Shoes?
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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The Closing Statement
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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Tappan Zee Bridge
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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Trope Having to do with Time
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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The Fallen Soldier
Reader submitted poetry.
- Poetry
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Ask Me How I Am
Reader submitted poetry.
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- Visual Art
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On The Cover
Eric Bean's archival pigment print, Chas 3, appears on the April cover.
- Visual Art
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Film: 21 BELOW
21 BELOW is the true story of a young woman going home to face family wounds that she had hoped to escape. Sharon, who now lives in the Hudson River Valley, is pregnant with her first child when she learns that the 14 month old daughter of her younger sister is dying from a rare genetic disease. It's then she realizes that she can't start a family of her own until she tries to help the family she’s left behind.
- Visual Art
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Film: Spin Slowly
Starring Summer Corrie, Evan Leone, Tony Grocki and Sean Grocki, the Trailer to the independent short film "Spin Slowly" written and directed by T. George McArdle was released on November 1, 2008.
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- Visual Art
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Down the Drain
Jeff Crane reviews the sculptures of John Cleater at Nicole Fiacco in Hudson.
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- Visual Art
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On The Down Low
Luc Sante, author of Low Life and Kill All Your Darlings, talks with Peter Aaron. On April 6, Sante will lecture at Vassar College, part of its Public Voices series.
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- Visual Art
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Frolic by the Fire
The rite of spring is celebrated on April 25 when the Center for Symbolic Studies hosts its 19th annual Beltane Festival. Anne Pyburn previews.
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- Visual Art
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Parting Shot
Kenneth Cooke excitedly spies a yellow-spotted salamander and hurries to photograph it.
Food & Drink
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- General Food & Drink
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Grains of Change
Don Lewis goes with the grain at the Wild Hive farm store in Clinton Corners, part cafe, part bakery, part purveyor of local foodstuffs. Peter Barrett visits.
Horoscopes
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- Monthly Forecast
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Horoscopes for April
Horoscopes by Eric Francis Coppolino.
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- Monthly Forecast
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Finding Your Missing Piece
Eric Francis Coppolino on a way out of our tense self-relationship.
Home & Garden
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- General Home & Garden
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Garden of Earthly Delights
Crispin Kott talks with the experts about native and organic backyard plants.
Lifestyle
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- Art of Business
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Giving Credit
Kelley Granger finds out the reasons why local banks are thriving.
News & Politics
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- Community Notebook
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Local Luminary
Interview with a young robotics prodigy from Vassar’s Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory.
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- General News & Politics
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A Call To Arms
Lorna Tychostup interviews Robert Weissman, author of report "Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America"
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- General News & Politics
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Biff! Bang! Boom! (Crash!)
With help from Batman and Robin, Larry Beinhart explains the theology of economy and Capitalism
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- General News & Politics
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While You Were Sleeping
You'll find it all here: The homecoming drag queen, how Spain blows us all away, land mine detecting tobacco, and a high school fight club.
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- View From The Top
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Editor's Note
How are you doing? The cloud of unknowing negativity is starting to aggravate the editor.
- View From The Top
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Esteemed Reader
Jason Stern witnesses freedom from prison through dance.
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- View From The Top
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Chronogram Seen
Chronogram Seen: April Issue
- View From The Top
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Letters
Letters to the Editor
Wellness
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- General Wellness
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Cooking Up a Well Balanced Life
Lorrie Klosterman examines how the Institute for Integrative Nutrition defies the conventional wisdom about food, lifestyle, and diet.
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- General Wellness
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Flowers Fall
Field notes from a Buddhist Mom’s experimental life.
HV Towns
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- Kingston
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Portfolio: Hendrik Dijk
Kingston Renaissance man Hendrik Dijk exhibits this month at KMoCA.
Hudson Valley Events
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Rockland Free Fair
Thu., April 18, 5-11 p.m. and April 19-28, 1-11 p.m. — This family-friendly annual event features "The Greatest Showman"-style old-time sideshow acts under...
Metaphysical Containers: The Art of Carole Kunstadt
Modernist Opus in Olivebridge
The Photos of Nadia Sablin
Stanley Kubrick's Photos
Unshattered
Chronogram Conversations: Scribner's Lodge
More images of interior and exterior
Nadine Boughton—The Modess Women
The Creative Tenants of Atlas Studios in Newburgh
Birthday Party 2018
Chronogram Conversations 2018
Catskill & Hudson
Woodstock Film Fest
Bop Island Jazz Fest Performers
Rosendale Street Festival
The Amsterdam
