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February 2007
Vol. 15, No. 2

Arts & Culture

Books & Authors
Book Review: The Glorious Mushroom

Mushrooms and the Muse are a natural match.
by Mikhail Horowitz
Tags: Books & Authors, the, Glorious, Mushroom, Frank, Spinelli, mushrooms, Netted, Stinkhorn

Books & Authors
Book Excerpt: The Great Negro Plot

"Soon the city's citizenry, never known for their general sense of community, interrupted their lives to come to the rescue."
Tags: Books & Authors, Mat, Johnson, the, Great, Negro, Plot, Drop, Hunting, In, Harlem, Pym, Bard, College, Fort, George, Manhattan, isle, Lieutenant, Governor, Clark

Books & Authors
Harlem Renaissance Man

Author Mat Johnson does the write thing.
by Nina Shengold
Tags: Books & Authors, Mat, Johnson, the, Great, Negro, Plot, Hunting, In, Harlem, Drop, Pym, Incognegro, Bard, African-American, Niggerati

Books & Authors
Short Takes

Capsule reviews of books by Kenneth Salzmann, Norma Lehmeier Hartie, Leonard Shengold, Linda Zuckerman, and Sunny Berkley.
by Nina Shengold
Tags: Books & Authors, Albny, Scrapbook:, Vol., 1, Kenneth, Salzmann, WGY, Don, Weeks, show, Fidel, Castro, Smallbany, Harmonious, Environment, Norma, Lehmeier, Hartie, spiritually, inclined, eco-sensitive, homeowners, Feng, Shui, Four, Elements, Haunted, By, Parents, Leonard, Shengold, Yale, University, Press, Soul, Murder, parenting, Dr., Spock, Woolf, I, Will, Hold, You, to, Sleep, Linda, Zuckerman, parental, love, Caldecott, Honor, Muth, Mona, Lisa, Blossoming, Sunny, Berkley, Highland, author

Books & Authors
Book Reviews: Rebekkah's Journey and Five Little Gefiltes

Jewish-themed children’s books often straddle a tricky divide.
by Susan Krawitz
Tags: Books & Authors, children's, books, Jewish, Rebekkah's, Journey, Five, little, Gefiltes, Dave, Horowitz, Joel, Iskowitz, Yiddishisms

Books & Authors
Book Review: Just a Little Too Thin

How to Pull Your Child Back from the Brink of an Eating Disorder.
by Ilyse Simon
Tags: Books & Authors, eating, disorder, just, a, little, too, thin, Michael, A., Strober, Meg, Schneider, teen, diet, behavior, cultural, pressure

Comedy
The L is for Laughter

Generally, one does not think of comedy as a service industry—but Kate Clinton does.
by Sparrow
Tags: Comedy, Kate, Clinton, comedy, Studley, theater, New, Paltz, What, the, L?

Festivals
Jack Frost and Jack Wax

The Ashokan Field Campus hosts its 14th annual Winter Weekend.
by Peter M. Laffin
Tags: Festivals, Ashokan, Field, Campus, Winter, Weekend, Festival, Snowtubing, craft, Village, snow, Jack, Wax

Film
Film: Rules of the Game

Watch a trailer for Jean Renoir's 1939 tale of romantic intrigue.
Tags: Film, Rules, of, the, Game, Jean, Renoir, greatest, films, Marquis, de, la, Chesnaye, Sight, and, Sound, Citizen, Kane, french, subtitles, chateau, 1939, Video

Music
CD Review: The Stillhouse Rounders

Sometimes this critic thing gets in the way of letting one’s freak flag fly high.
by Mike Jurkovic
Tags: Music, Stillhouse, Rounders, Bluegrass, meatskin, Black, Dog, Video

Music
Tomorrow's Special

Sit down at the Sweet Peach Cafe for this tender slice of fiction.
by Mark Morgenstern
Tags: Music, sweet, peach, cafe, jukebox, culinary, wraps, chili, cigarette

Music
Lovin' Gumbo

Zydeco king C.J. Chenier brings his legendary Red Hot Louisiana Band to Club Helsinki in Great Barrington.
by Robert Burke Warren
Tags: Music, C.J., Chenier, Hurricanes, Katrina, and, Rita, accordionist, keyboardist, vocalist, the, Desperate, Kingdom, of, love, Club, Helsinki, Great, Barrington, Red, Hot, Louisiana, Band, Grammy

Music
Jazz with an Edge

Avant-jazz isn’t really for the casual listener (or the mentally unstable or the faint of heart, for that matter).
by Sharon Nichols
Tags: Music, EDGE, Avant-jazz, quartet, Jason, Kao, Hwang, Asian, Improv, Records, music, from, China, Museum, of, Chinese, In, the, Americas, Video

Music
CD Review: The Stryker / Slagle Band

Let’s face it: Jazz is often perceived as pretentious or intimidating.
by DJ Wavy Davy
Tags: Music, Jeff, Stryker, Steve, Slagle, Billy, Hart, Jay, Anderson, Zoho, music, bop, jazz, bebop, Video

Music
Nightlife Highlights

Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ Wavy Davy for your listening pleasure.
by DJ Wavy Davy
Tags: Music, the, arts, Society, of, Kingston, gad-fly, girls, Elly, Wininger, Elise, Pittleman, Reality, Check, Silo, Ridge, Country, Club, Ducthess, County, Uncle, rock, Phantoms, Robert, Burke, Warren, West, End, Maurice, Sendak, Shel, Silverstein, Bearsville, theater, Roald, Dahl, Taste, Budd's, Anthill, Mob, Michael's, Sports, Bar, Fantom, Frequency, Cabaloosa, DJ, Claw, Rusted, Root, UPAC, Chance, WDST, Quintus, Pete, Levin, Organ, Trio, Paul, Simon, Miles, Davis, Rosendale, cafe, Video

Music
Kingston Crusader

Singer-songwriter Adam Snyder gives his city its due.
by Peter Aaron
Tags: Music, Adam, Snyder, This, Town, Will, Get, It's, Due, Mercury, Rev, Kingston, Hudson, Valley, Catskills, Rondout, Americana, Video

Music
CD Review: Lunch with Beardo

Whatever your psychedelic Kool-Aid of choice, Lunch with Beardo might be a worthy side dish.
by Jason Broome
Tags: Music, Lunch, with, Beardo, Surrealistic, Picnic, FDH, Records, noise, rock, experimental, freak, Folk, indie, Video

Poetry

Poems by Roberta Allen, Tad Richards, B Law, Bertha Rogers, Oliver Grech, Carol Lee, Mark Vian, Zachary C. Bush and Reina Hardy.
by Phillip Levine
Tags: Poetry, Roberta, Allen, Tad, Richards, B, Law, Home, Office, Bertha, Rogers, Forlorn, Turtle, Verse, Oliver, Grech, Carol, Lee, Mark, Vian, Zachary, C., Bush, Reina, Hardy

Theater
It's In the Bag

The Paper Bag Players bring Darwin's theory of evolution to the stage.
by Peter M. Laffin
Tags: Theater, Judith, Martin, Paper, Bag, Players, theater, Children

Theater
Deirdre, Warrior Princess

Introducing Deirdre, the heroine of a Celtic saga dating back to the first century.
by Jay Blotcher
Tags: Theater, Deirdre, Maura, Ellyn, Joseph, Campbell, Marbletown, Multi-Arts, theater, Chiaroscuro, Celtic, Pro-Feminist

Theater
Puppet Rulers

The Tanglewood Marionettes bring "The Fairy Circus" to Rhinebeck.
by Peter M. Laffin
Tags: Theater, puppet, show, Tanglewood, Marionettes, the, Fairy, Circus, center, for, Performing, arts, at, Rhinebeck, puppeteer, Peter, Schaefer, Anne

Visual Art
The P-Word

Are upstate artists really as provincial as New Yorkers like to think they are?
by Beth E. Wilson
Tags: Visual Art, Lucid, Dreaming, Provincial, Woodstock, Artists, Association, American, Scene, Carl, Van, Brunt, Beacon, James, Dustin, Portia, Munson, Cooper, Union, Pele, DeLappe, Woodstock's, Village, green

Visual Art
Portfolio: Candace Feit

Photographer Candace Feit chronicles her recent visit to Darfur.
by Brian K. Mahoney
Tags: Visual Art, Darfur, Candace, Feit, Africa, Sudan

Weddings
DIY Sidebar: RESOURCES

For those who want to bravely go to the Final Frontier of wedding planning and do it yourselves, here are some Hudson Valley-based resources.
by Sukey Pett
Tags: Weddings, Final, Frontier, wedding, planning, DIY

News & Politics

Community Notebook
Memories of '56

In a foreshadowing of the “Prague Spring” that would occur 12 years later, the Hungarian Revolution began in October 1956, as a spontaneous nationwide uprising against repressive Soviet rule.
by Al Desetta
Tags: Community Notebook, Bard, College, Annandale-on-Hudson, Bela, Liptak, refugee, Leon, Botstien, Cold, war, FDR, World, II, Abraham

Community Notebook
Chocolate Perfection

Ann Braybrooks gets a taste of Oliver Kita Fine Confections.
by Ann Braybrooks
Tags: Community Notebook, chocolate, Dutchess, County, Oliver, Kita, Fine, Confections, culinary, CIA, Heaven, cafe, Woodstock, truffle

General News & Politics
Letter from Baluchistan

Annie Nocenti rides shotgun with Baluch tribal leader Khan Mir Suleiman Daud.
by Annie Nocenti
Tags: General News & Politics, Baluchistan, Pakistan, Khan, of, Kalat, Mir, Suleiman, Daud, Middle, East, Taliban, Quetta, Pervez, Musharraf, Prince, Musa, Tribal, Leader, Video

General News & Politics
Capitalism 104

Larry Beinhart Tackles the Pros and Cons of Capitalism.
by Larry Beinhart
Tags: General News & Politics, capitalism, socialism, communism, economics, trickle-down, invisible, hand, Adam, Smith, unions, New, Deal, FDR

General News & Politics
Marching Like Mailer

An account of the January 27 Washington, DC, rally against the war in Iraq.
by Michael Boyajian
Tags: General News & Politics, Mid, Hudson, Progressive, Alliance, Dutchess, Peace, Coalition, Washington, DC, rally, march, escalation, Iraq, war, Jane, Fonda, Jesse, Jackson, Tim, Robbins, Dennis, Kucinich, Susan, Sarandon, Vietnam

General News & Politics
This Modern World

This month: Your handy guide to the eminently sensible American health care system.
by Tom Tomorrow
Tags: General News & Politics, cartoon, Tom, Tomorrow, Health, Care, This, Modern, World, socialism, Insurance, Company

General News & Politics
While You Were Sleeping

A little of what you may have missed on the big news networks.
by Peter M. Laffin
Tags: General News & Politics, New, York, Times, September, 11, civil, liberties, national, security, letters, Pentagon, CIA, FBI, Patriot, Act, KDND, Sacramento, Hold, your, wee, for, Wii, Justin, Timberlake, water, intoxication, Jennifer, Strange, USA, Today, Mental, hospitals, Justice, Department, criminology, University, of, Chicago, Against, Prediction:, Profiling, Policing, and, Punishing, In, an, Actuarial, Age, President, Bush, Washington, Post, Cully, Stimson, Guantanamo, Bay, CEOs, Terrorists, Lawyers, Guild, International, Panel, on, Climate, Change, greenhouse, gasses, Eliot, Spitzer, SUNY, Albany, Alain, E., Kaloyeros, Brooklyn

View From The Top
Editor's Note

Finding that sense of place in the Hudson Valley.
by Brian K. Mahoney
Tags: View From The Top, English, major, Frost, New, England, Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha, County, Sense, of, place, Hudson, Valley, Half, Moon

View From The Top
Esteemed Reader

Our yoga-practicing publisher regales with tales of mat-shredding Hatha sessions.
by Jason Stern
Tags: View From The Top, Hatha, Yoga, Ashtanga, eight-limbed, Tristhana, citta, vrtta, nirodhah, Sanskrit, New, Paltz, observation

View From The Top
Featured Contributors

Four of this month's key players.
Tags: View From The Top, Mark, Morgenstern, City, College, Writing, Program, literary, Messenger, Hunger, Magazine, fiction, Sukey, Pett, food, travel, Frank, Zappa, Deborah, DeGraffenreid, Adam, Snyder, portraits, Annie, Nocenti, Baluchistan, Pakistan, New, York, Times, High

Wellness

General Wellness
The Power of Dance and Movement

A look at the vast healing potential unlocked when we trip the light fantastic.
by Aimee Hughes
Tags: General Wellness, dance, therapy, self, Margaret, N, H'Doubler, American, Association, Dancing, Dialogue, healing, and, Expressive, Art, center, Cold, Spring, Yoga, Asana

General Wellness
Sacred Space

Evan Pritchard takes a deeper look into water and rivers.
by Julia Taylor
Tags: General Wellness, Evan, Pritchard, philosophy, Marist, Hudson, River, Mirabai, books, the, Valley, Woodstock, workshop

General Wellness
Inner Vision

An uninterpreted dream is like an unread letter.
by Lorrie Klosterman
Tags: General Wellness, Lucid, Dreaming, the, World, Dream, book, Rabbi, Hisda, Marin, Institute, for, Projective, Work, yogi, Wake, Up, Through, Grunther, Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, Jeremy, Taylor

HV Towns

Kingston
On the Cover

An untitled work by Kingston artist Kevin Paulsen.
by Peter M. Laffin
Tags: Kingston, Kevin, Paulsen, Rufus, Porter, Muralist, Dante's, Inferno, early, American, Muralists, decay, Europe, Kingston

New Paltz
Parting Shot

Christina Mazzalupo's _Other Mentals_.
by Peter M. Laffin
Tags: New Paltz, Hey, Get, Mental, Other, Mentals, Christina, Mazzalupo, Main, Street, Bistro, New, Paltz

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Mushrooms and the Muse are a natural match.

"Soon the city's citizenry, never known for their general sense of community, interrupted their lives to come to the rescue."

Author Mat Johnson does the write thing.

Capsule reviews of books by Kenneth Salzmann, Norma Lehmeier Hartie, Leonard Shengold, Linda Zuckerman, and Sunny Berkley.

Jewish-themed children’s books often straddle a tricky divide.

How to Pull Your Child Back from the Brink of an Eating Disorder.

Generally, one does not think of comedy as a service industry—but Kate Clinton does.

The Ashokan Field Campus hosts its 14th annual Winter Weekend.

Watch a trailer for Jean Renoir's 1939 tale of romantic intrigue.

Sometimes this critic thing gets in the way of letting one’s freak flag fly high.

Sit down at the Sweet Peach Cafe for this tender slice of fiction.

Zydeco king C.J. Chenier brings his legendary Red Hot Louisiana Band to Club Helsinki in Great Barrington.

Avant-jazz isn’t really for the casual listener (or the mentally unstable or the faint of heart, for that matter).

Let’s face it: Jazz is often perceived as pretentious or intimidating.

Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ Wavy Davy for your listening pleasure.

Singer-songwriter Adam Snyder gives his city its due.

Whatever your psychedelic Kool-Aid of choice, Lunch with Beardo might be a worthy side dish.

Poems by Roberta Allen, Tad Richards, B Law, Bertha Rogers, Oliver Grech, Carol Lee, Mark Vian, Zachary C. Bush and Reina Hardy.

The Paper Bag Players bring Darwin's theory of evolution to the stage.

Introducing Deirdre, the heroine of a Celtic saga dating back to the first century.

The Tanglewood Marionettes bring "The Fairy Circus" to Rhinebeck.

Are upstate artists really as provincial as New Yorkers like to think they are?

Photographer Candace Feit chronicles her recent visit to Darfur.

Food & Drink

Bell's Cafe brings the flavors of the Mediterranean to Catskill.

Horoscopes

Examining the impact and back story of Saddam Hussein's execution.

What's in your stars this month.

Lifestyle

Sukey Pett dreams big and spends small for a wonderful wedding.

For those who want to bravely go to the Final Frontier of wedding planning and do it yourselves, here are some Hudson Valley-based resources.

News & Politics

In a foreshadowing of the “Prague Spring” that would occur 12 years later, the Hungarian Revolution began in October 1956, as a spontaneous nationwide uprising against repressive Soviet rule.

Ann Braybrooks gets a taste of Oliver Kita Fine Confections.

Annie Nocenti rides shotgun with Baluch tribal leader Khan Mir Suleiman Daud.

Larry Beinhart Tackles the Pros and Cons of Capitalism.

An account of the January 27 Washington, DC, rally against the war in Iraq.

This month: Your handy guide to the eminently sensible American health care system.

A little of what you may have missed on the big news networks.

Finding that sense of place in the Hudson Valley.

Our yoga-practicing publisher regales with tales of mat-shredding Hatha sessions.

Four of this month's key players.

Wellness

A look at the vast healing potential unlocked when we trip the light fantastic.

Evan Pritchard takes a deeper look into water and rivers.

An uninterpreted dream is like an unread letter.

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Christina Mazzalupo's _Other Mentals_.

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