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Arts & Culture

Aluminum Pipes, Amplified Cactus

Mixing jazz, chamber music, cabaret, spoken word, the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown will be held at SUNY Ulster.

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It Takes a Village

Millbrook’s Merritt Books will have its first ever book festival, complete with story telling, reading, a parade and book signings.

Springing to Different Dreams

Various multimedia art projects are taking place around the Hudson Valley as part of the “Plugged In” exhibit.

Dancing at Dia

With 60 years of dancing under his belt, Merce Cunningham is instructing a new wave of dancers in his dance company.

No Rules, Just Photos

With no topic to be guided by, images from all over the country were sent to be judged for the Barrett Art Center’s 21st Annual Juried Photography Exhibition.

Portfolio: Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty discusses her paintings, sculptures and the decision to not go to school.

Fiction: Happy Valley

A story by Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang which won honorable mention in our 2007 Literary Supplement.

Outdoor Art

An art tour of work by both national and international artists on display in five outdoor locations.

News & Politics

Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

Larry Beinhart reveals that the real start of the secession was seven years ago.

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While You Were Sleeping

The gist of what you may have missed in the back pages of the global media maelstrom: campaign finance deform, secret trials, and uncollected taxes.

Talking Turkey

Lorna Tychostup talks with ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer about Turkey’s recent incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan.

Whole Living

Beyond Glasses

Learn ways to improve vision without glasses, contacts, or lasik surgery.

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Music

The Brides

Rock quartet The Bride’s release their second album.

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Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine

The comedic duo Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine release their latest recording of political meanderings combined with blues, hip hop, rap, and bop.

Sound From Silence

Peter Aaron finds musical history in West Hurley.

Globetrotting

Musicians Steve Gorn, Brian Melick, and John Davey, came together to release an album.

Food & Drink

Punk Tapas

Brian K. Mahoney finds tapas master Rich Reeve still creating revelatory small plates at Elephant wine bar in Kingston.

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Horoscopes

Horoscopes

Horoscopes for the month of May.

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Sex and the Problem of Self-Esteem

Eric Francis Coppolino examines the interlacing among self-esteem, sex, and relationships.

Books

Book Review: Thinking About Memoir and Chosen Forever

Susan Krawitz reviews Chosen Forever and Thinking About Memoir.

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Book Review: The Reserve

Caitlin McDonnell reviews The Reserve by Russell Banks.

Great Strides

Benjamin Cheever goes the distance in both writing and running.

Short Takes

Six area authors invite you across the universe: London, Shanghai, czarist Russia, Neanderthal think tanks, the Italo-Cuban Catskills, and the wilds of Yankee Stadium.

Poetry

The New Yorker Poem

Start out with something provocative yet innocuous like having a drink then getting into bed.

Portrait of my Fiancé in Black Gloves (1909)

The gypsy is missing a finger and when she takes my hand into hers the stub that was hacked off at the knuckle, brushes against mine and writhes

Suicide

I hope I die in the rain so my blood will wash into soil.

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A gentle breeze flows

The Dancer's Daughter

The dancer is expecting and she hopes her fourteen-year-old daughter will approve.

Found Poem

In a city of a thousand stories, cable TV has time to tell them all.

On Your Own

As usual, you’re long overdue and down to your last shred of leeway.

Van Gogh Broods over his Reaper in the Wheat Fields at St. Remy

They have said it: I am insolent because I confront the sun face to face.

The Tramp Poem

This man in dark glasses was walking on a downward sloping sidewalk towards me and I was sitting on this old bench.

The Underachiever

Inspired by crisis

Bending

Bottom of basement stairs, open-slatted steps where only deep air understands my questions.

View From the Top

Local Luminary: Erin Davies

Erin Davies is teaching the country about hate crimes with the help of her VW Beetle.

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Esteemed Reader

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain;

Editor's Journal: Easy Like Monday Morning

It’s Bike Month once again, and I am reminded of certain realities regarding our lifestyle in this country:

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CAFE CHRONOGRAM AT THE KINGSTON MUDDY CUP (4/19) HUDSON VALLEY GREEN DRINKS AT MAHONEY’S (4/22)

Parting Shot

Parting Shot

An untitled woodcut from Gods’ Man (Jonathan Cape and Smith, 1929) by Lynd Ward.

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Lucid Dreaming

A Tale of Two Artists

Beth E. Wilson visits the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the exhibits of works by Frida Kahlo and Lee Miller.

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On the Cover

Scarlet Tanager

Photographer, illustrator, painter, film maker, and antique store owner, Laura Levine does it all.

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Home & Garden

There's No Place Like Gnome

Discover the many different garden decorations the Hudson Valley has to offer.

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