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Community Notebook

Standing on the Source

Many of us have heard of geothermal heating and cooling, but may not have a clear idea of how it works, and how it can be used to provide for a home’s energy needs.

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Tales Out of School

Romano stopped struggling for a moment, and Sawchuk tried to push the gun away. The barrel was pointed at the ground, and he thought, If this thing goes off now, it’s going to blind me or something.

Tales of a Chaat Wallah

“I bought a big generator. I hung up Christmas lights, and had a 500-watt halogen light bulb shining on the side of the Ryder truck: _ Mike’s Fish Fry—One Bite and You’re Hooked _. You could see it from a mile away.”

Arts & Culture

Bang in the Berkshires

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival offers a full schedule of performances by composers from America and abroad, as well as workshops, live improvisation, children’s events, master classes, music business seminars, free gallery recitals, and more.

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Blessed by the Bard

“The aesthetic that we espouse, which is Shakespeare’s aesthetic, is that the language leads the action of the play,” Packer explains. “You have to be deeply connected to the play, always involving the energy of the audience. There is no fourth wall.”

Notes from Underground

A dynamic of eternal fame is the subject of Glimmerglass Opera’s 2007 festival season, as it explores the ancient story of Orpheus in four operas and a concert spanning a period of four centuries through July and August.

Wheeldon on a Roll

Christopher Wheeldon has whipped up more excitement in the ballet world than any dance-maker in decades.

Zazen Poetics

“The future of literary culture in this country is pretty much dependent upon the independent literary press. If we don’t do it, who’s going to? I’m a proselytizer for poetry. I’m passionate about it,” says Chase Twichell.

Cool Katz

The people inhabiting Katz’s paintings are of a type—slender and white, crisp and clean, conveying a certain ease (if not affluence). They are, in fact, more object than subject.

July Portfolio: Stephen Hannock

At a distance, his paintings look like traditional scenes of rivers, mountains, or city skylines. As you approach them, though, they envelop the eye in layers of visual and textual interplay.

July Portfolio: Mohawk Hudson Revival

The show Douglas chose, while possessing the Regional’s usual variety, is perhaps more weighted toward craft than is usual for a contemporary art exhibit—craft, in this sense, meaning the expert use of materials as a defining element of the work.

Frankly Mr. Shanley

For a luminous example of theatrical symbiosis, look no further than the two-decade relationship between playwright John Patrick Shanley and the Powerhouse Summer Theater program at Vassar College.

Books

Book Reviews: Varieties of Disturbance

Largely devoid of setting, definitive narrative structure, character development, and other familiar conventions, these 57 stories defy easy categorization.

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Book Reviews: Varieties of Disturbance

Largely devoid of setting, definitive narrative structure, character development, and other familiar conventions, these 57 stories defy easy categorization.

Book Reviews: Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here

The epigraph, a quote attributed to Heraclitus, best captures the essence of these essays: “You could not step twice into the same river, for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”

Subversive Complications

The praise her first book received couldn’t match Kakutani’s exuberance over Eat the Document. Spiotta’s “stunning new novel,” the Times critic proclaimed, possessed “the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay and the historical resonance and razzle-dazzle language of a Don DeLillo novel.”

Dana Spiotta: _Eat the Document_ Excerpt

Five state borders, and then she was handing over the cash for the room—anonymous, cell-like, quiet.

Whole Living

Advance Directives

You take care of your health to enjoy a good quality of life. But what about a good quality of end of life?

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Inner Vision: Messages from Merton

What lies beneath the “cheap and showy garment” is what we actually are: the parts of us that were not found in advertisements and cannot themselves be marketed.

Culinary Adventures

Capital Region Farmers' Markets

A comprehensive listing of farmers’ markets in the Capital Region.

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Currant Events

When the “U-Pick” signs start to sprout at our local orchards and farms, and canning supplies are massed in the supermarket aisles, the urge to make jam comes upon me.

View From the Top

Editor's Journal

Chronogram is a place for the fluid exchange of thought, knowledge, observation, insight, pleasure, bliss, desire, imagination—all the active machinery of being human.

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Esteemed Reader: July

“Why?” has been called the Devil’s question. It is inherently unanswerable. Despite all the efforts of theology, science, and etiology, there are only explanations—not answers.

Food & Drink

Food and Function

Local 111’s chef, David Wurth, uses the bistro’s close proximity to regional farmland to create new, rustic American cuisine that emphasizes local organic and grass-fed ingredients.

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Music

Buttoned-Down Blues

Albert Cumming’s bland demeanor and unassuming way is in sharp contrast to his screaming guitar and heartfelt vocals.

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CD Review: Brain Patneaude Quartet

The Albany-based tenor saxophonist/composer’s music is largely a synthesis of left-leaning major-label jazz from the ’70s and ’80s.

Nightlife Highlights

Roger Houston’s nightlife picks for July.

CD Review: Sheri Bauer-Mayorga and Lincoln Mayorga

This 20-track collection by the Valatie husband-and-wife duo of Sheri Bauer-Mayorga and Lincoln Mayorga is the aural equivalent of a Ken Burns documentary, a broad-scoped survey of American popular music.

CD Review (July)--Poem Rocket

Formed in New York City around the core, husband-and-wife duo of Michael Peters (vocals, guitar) and Sandra Gardner (bass, vocals, keyboards), Poem Rocket has been plying its highly individual brand of electroacoustic, post-punk art pop for nearly 15 years.

News & Politics

Cost-Benefit Analysis

The war in Iraq has cost about $434,000,000,000 (four hundred and thirty-four billion dollars) to date. Albany County’s share of this is $597 million; Ulster County is $354 million. So far.

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Heavy Traffic

Trafficking of human beings—the domestic or global transfer of people for cash, through deceit, exploitation, or force—is one of the most lucrative forms of international illegal trade, second only to drug smuggling.

While You Were Sleeping: July

The gist of what you may have missed.

Horoscopes

Planet Waves: At Opposite Ends

The issue of this opposition is integrity: the integrity of the world, of our communities even though we are in denial that they exist, and our individual integrity, for which there are precious few examples and even fewer coherent definitions.

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July Horoscopes

What Carl Jung called “big dreams” are possible—those revelatory journeys that show us the most poignant symbols of our lives, and reveal the myths we live by.

Parting Shot

Parting Shot: Francisco de Goya

Francisco de Goya cast a cold eye on the cruelty and corruption of his fellow man, be he king or inquisitor, aristocrat or judge.

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Poetry

The Poetry of Thom Francis

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