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Editor's Journal

In New York State, these yellow signs are as common in the suburbs as minivans. The wording on them reads like some macabre poem: PESTICIDE APPLICATION/ DO NOT ENTER/ DO NOT REMOVE/ SIGN FOR 24 HOURS.

Esteemed Reader

Each of us individually is but a part of a being on a scale so vast as to be incomprehensible.

Local Luminary: Megan Whilden

In the two years Megan Whilden’s been Pittsfield’s culture czar, the Colonial Theater has opened and the Barrington Stage Company moved to town.

Featured Contributors

August’s featured contributors.

News & Politics

Beinhart's Body Politic: Marketplace of Ideas

In the marketplace of ideas the power of big money is kicking ass and rationality is down for the count.

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Dirty Little Secrets

The trip was an “extraordinary rendition,” the transfer of a terror suspect to a foreign country for interrogation—and sometimes torture, human rights activists charge—outside of any legal process.

While You Were Sleeping—August

The gist of what you may have missed.

Horoscopes

Horoscopes

You’re holding in your hands vital information about what it means to be stuck, and you’re on the threshold of discovering how you and the people closest to you can get brilliantly unstuck.

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Planet Waves: Which Way is Reality?

They proposed that the bodies of climate change victims, who they said now number about 150,000 a year, could be rendered into a burnable product, particularly as combustion of fossil fuels sped up ecological disasters.

Whole Living

Being Fertile

Don’t let an infertility diagnosis steal your ability to create life. Instead, discover the most creative, whole, healthy person you can be—and you may well make a baby in the process.

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The Serendipity of a Bean Salad

I was struck. There it stood, like a signpost: the abundant flow of creative energy. Loud and clear it spoke. “The creative process uses every opportunity to create.”

Arts & Culture

Sketches of Monet

No artist epitomizes Impressionism more than Claude Monet. His famous paintings of Paris and the Normandy coast are among painting’s purest celebrations of color and light.

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Dutch Treatment

Regicide, fratricide, filicide: The Medea myth is a bloody affair.

Disarmed By Jazz

A world-class player herself, McPartland’s musician’s point of view and calm demeanor easily disarms guests, who play and talk in a manner that would be unlikely in a different setting.

Dancing to a Different Drummer

His attitude toward dance as an expression of music is a no-no to most European post-moderns, whose emphasis is on conceptual movement over passionate musicality.

Field of Dreams

Omi’s newest exhibit, “Bivouac,” turns the concept of art in nature on its head.

Days of Plays

Not long after winning her Pulitzer, Parks undertook a project that is bringing her subversive and quirky humor right to the leafy hills of western Massachusetts.

Masked Angel

Since 1984, Angel’s reverb-laden sound has found its home with six-string kings Los Straitjackets, a quartet whose members, for reasons that remain mysterious, wear Mexican wrestling masks when they perform.

Portfolio: Phyllis Galembo

Galembo’s latest work presents large-scale color prints of the masquerade, a centuries-old costumed ceremony she witnessed in the African nations of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria.

Books

Book Review: A Portrait of Pia

Pia’s story is eminently accessible to young teens. The characters and their dilemmas are drawn with loving detail and the book’s lack of simple resolutions rings of real life.

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The Gospel According to Pinkwater

Daniel Pinkwater’s voice—instantly recognizable to NPR listeners—resonates down the stairwell as he appears, a Hitchcockian silhouette dressed in top-to-toe black with a dusting of pet hair.

Book Reviews: Way of Water and Welcome to Camden Falls

Fate, often enough, arrives as a beanball. Down you go, a crumple in the dirt. Then, through the pain and vapors, you see a hissing curveball coming your way. That’s when life gets interesting.

Summer Reading Round-up for Kids

Susan Krawitz and Nina Shengold offer their picks for picture books, poetry, and young adult titles.

Beauty and Fashion Supplement

Eco Style

“Organic clothing is not just about Birkenstocks and long skirts anymore,” says Joanna Black of Hip-E-Living in Woodstock.

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Saving Face

There are alternatives for those seeking a more holistic approach to facial rejuvenation and want to forgo the dramatic change a scalpel promises for a more natural and subtle improvement.

Education Supplement

Conformity or Cooties?

I hope that in the future, the public school system will try harder to cater to students’ individual needs, so that they don’t have to wait until high school to appreciate their talents.

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Music Together

Music has become something we consume rather than something we create. The truth is that making music and exploring movement is for everyone.

Music

Old As the Hills

Part of a burgeoning scene of new, tradition-conscious American acoustic artists, The Hunger Mountain Boys bypass the ill turns country has made in recent times.

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CD Review: HuDost

HuDost has a folk quality yet is quite post-modern; the band offers new takes on ancient words and melodies, cross-cultural hybrid transcendental chill-out music with an edge.

CD Review: Super 400

Hailing from that hotbed of rock bands, Poestenkill, New York, long-time Capital area favorite Super 400 has a dazzling new release, 3 and the Beast.

Nightlife Highlights

Roger Houston’s nightlife picks for August.

CD Review: The Last Conspirators

Tim Livingston is back with The Last Conspirators, a quartet that brings a welcome, Information Age crunch to the tough, melodic sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s Brit-punk.

Community Notebook

Rural Electrification

Not only could biogas contribute to our ever-growing demand for electricity, but it might also preserve the rural landscape and the farming way of life.

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Spraypaint Warriors

They are street artists, whose illicit artwork graces buildings, billboards, and street signs across the region. They intentionally paint on private property and challenge the concept of public art.

Food & Drink

Flight to Paris

Like something on the Rue Saint Marc in Paris, Brix is decked out in dark woods, a handcrafted zinc bar, Old World-style paintings on the walls, and cozy tables with burgundy linens.

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Parting Shot

Parting Shot: Sitting Bull

When Sitting Bull drew Self-Portrait in Battle in 1874, two years before the Battle of Little Bighorn, he drew himself not only as he was, but also how he saw himself spiritually.

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On the Cover

Silver Sun

If the photographs for which Eve Sonneman is best known can be seen as a kind of visual phenomenology, her oils are forays into the sensual pleasures of light and color.

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