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“Yvon’s Paris” is a collection of 75 images of the city between the two world wars taken by Yvon as he endlessly ambled about the city, the ultimate flaneur.
The anthropomorphic sublimity of Kathy Ruttenberg graces the September 2010 cvoer of Chronogram.
What we talk about when we talk about multiculturalism and the War on Terror.
The author of “A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb” talks with Brian K. Mahoney abut the cultural logic of the War on Terror.
Pé Okx’s 45-minute film “Westrisian Ringdike Walk: Fast Forward on an Ancient Dutch Dike” will be screened at Hudson River Maritime Museum and ASK this month in Kingston.
Brian Mahoney discusses the arts in the Hudson Valley.
The artistic director of Shadowland in Ellenville discusses the work being done at the theater and how regional theaters enrich lives, communities, and local economies.
An introduction to Chronogram’s “Throwback” issue.
“A Snake That Sheds Its Skin is Still a Snake” by Steven Strauss and
Phil Hennion exhibits at Surprenant Art and Design in Kingston.
Brian K. Mahoney reports on the debate over hydraulic fracturing, a new method of natural gas drilling and the subject of the documentary Gasland by Josh Fox.
Benjamin Krevolin, president of the Dutchess County Arts Council, shares ideas on saving the arts in the midst of economic crisis.
Thoughts on the arts and arts funding in local economies.
A letter to our editor plus a fitful rejection.
An untitled photograph by Joel Mandelbaum, at Seven 21 Media Center.
Jeff Milstein’s photographs of Cuba will be at Oriole 9 through the month of April.
Suzanne Vega will perform at the Towne Crier Café in Pawling on Friday, April 30 at 8:30pm.
Brian Mahoney discusses the Wheel of Pain and Chronogram’s nomination for an Utne award.
Brian Mahoney interviews local music icons Jay Unger and Molly Mason on their recent purchase of the Ashokan Center, formerly the SUNY New Paltz Ashokan Field Campus.
What was an adolescent harp seal doing in the Rondout? Looking for distressed properties to buy for a song?
“Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity” will be exhibited March 18 through Saturday, April 10 at EMPAC, on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.
Brian Mahoney mulls over the ethics of being a carnivore and an animal lover.
The sculpture “Plank” by Emil Alzamora.
Trisha Brown Dance Company will perform at Dia:Beacon Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14 at 12pm and 2pm.
Joshua Ferris’s first novel, “Then We Came to the End” (Little, Brown, 2007), is a laugh-out-loud dissection of early 21st-century cubicle culture at a Chicago advertising agency where rounds of layoffs are wreaking havoc on the psyches of the staff.
Brian Mahoney discusses how money changes politics.
An untitled photograph of Natalie Merchant by Mark Seliger.
An untitled photo taken at the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, outside the village of Wallkill.
The paintings of Michael Rose at KMOCA.
Renee C. Byer’s “A Mother’s Journey” at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz.
A profile of the college town nestled at the base of The Gunks.
The gist of what you may have missed.
Maybe 2009 was your year. The year everything came together for you.
Jason Cring’s infographic for the January 2010 cover
“Ode to Munkacsi” will be exhibited at the Center for Photography in Woodstock through December 20.
Galerie BMG in Woodstock shows Hibernus, photographs by David Ellingsen al month through January 11.
It must be the holidays—Winter Walk on Warren Street in Hudson is back, December 5.
Concrete Temple Theater’s “Hudson to China” will be performed December 11 and 12 at the Hudson Opera House.
Brian K. Mahoney profiles two charming towns on Route 94 in Orange County.
Brian Mahoney appreciates the little wooden tree on Wall Street in Kingston.
Japanese-style suicide prevention, juvenile offenders serving life without parole, record marijuana seizures in California, and more.
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.
Sydney Cash will be exhibiting at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon from December 7 through December 28 in “New Works On Paper”.
Aerial photographer Alex MacLean shows slides at the Cary Institute in Millbrook.
Eric Weiner talks about his book The Geography of Bliss at SUNY New Paltz.
Half Moon Theater’s Emerson High examines a teacher-student affair.
The ceramic sculptures Kathy Ruttenberg at the Kleinert/James in Woodstock.
Editor Brian Mahoney sums it all up.
Housefraus have more sex, kids are living on the streets, and music can be torture. Plus so much more.
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.
A photograph by Yasuhiko Ishikawa from an upcoming show at Unison.
Brian Mahoney, fearless editor, considers global warming and asks us the ultimate question.
The lesser known dangers of huffing, the spills we don’t know about, and corruption in the former Bush administration? Oh my!
John Waldie’s photographic portraits were part of a group show in Beacon.
Chronogram’s guide to all the best pick-your-own farms.
Brian Mahoney cannot tell a lie.
Rigged medical studies, Dick Armey decries eco-hysteria, and more.
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.
The Woodstock Shakespeare Festival’s Summer of Love adaptation of “All’s Well That Ends Well” will be performed through September 6 at the Comeau Property in Woodstock.
Photographer David Halliday’s Grapefruit and Eucalyptus print from a recent retrospective at Carrie Haddad photographs in Hudson.
Chronogram editor Brian K. Mahoney gets a lucky break.
Chronogram editor Brian Mahoney reflects on an achievement and a loss.
Bo Gehring will be exhibiting as part of a group show at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon.
Brent Stirton’s “Last Gorillas of the Congo” at Fovea in Beacon.
Chronogram editor gets green.
GE begins dredging the Hudson, closing Guantanamo Bay, and more.
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference,
the Chronogram community.
Eileen Carpenter, designer for Chronogram, will be a graduating SUNY New Paltz photo major.
Brian K. Mahoney on the upcoming November presidential election.
This month, our editor may take up golf as the act of riding a bike has run amok.
The real unemployment rate, why sisters are better than brothers, and more.
The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference,
the Chronogram community.
Brian K. Mahoney previews The Corporation.
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.
An interview with media reformer Robert McChesney.
Brian K. Mahoney bids farewell to New Paltz.
Kenneth Cooke excitedly spies a yellow-spotted salamander and hurries to photograph it.
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.
How are you doing? The cloud of unknowing negativity is starting to aggravate the editor.
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.
Eric Bean’s archival pigment print, Chas 3, appears on the April cover.
“The Vagina Monologues” are staged at the Rosendale Theater on March 20 and 21 in benefit performances for HOPE’s Fund.
Non-traditional jewelry designers Nervous System combine science and architecture to produce beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces.
Michael Chen discusses breaking into the acting business with Brian Mahoney.
The rise of cleanvertising, increase in US Army suicide rate, Sweden deemed most democratic nation and more in While You Were Sleeping: March Issue
Carolyn Marks Blackwood’s “Ice #20,” appeared on the cover of the March issue of Chronogram.
Gouache on paper work by artist Erik Schoonebeek.
Brian Mahoney expresses his views on the current state of print media.
Editor Brian K. Mahoney expresses his appreciation.
Mixed media work by artist Elisa Pritzker.
Eileen McAdam speaks with Brian K. Mahoney about the Sound and Story Project.
Chris Metze’s “Untitled,” appeared on the cover of the February issue of Chronogram.
Molly Rausch’s paintings are being exhibited at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon this month.
A show exhibiting WWI-era propaganda
The expanding financial crises and its effects on local businesses.
Alex Matthiessen of Riverkeeper on an upcoming Supreme Court decision that will affect the Hudson River.
Robert Kocik’s 2009 calendar, designed exclusively for Chronogram.
An exhibition of prints by SUNY New Paltz students at the Arts Society of Kingston this month.
Brian K. Mahoney is officially done with George W. Bush.
Andrew Lichtenstein talks about his work photographing prison complexes and the incarcerated.
Brian K. Mahoney recommends a few comfort dishes at some Hudson Valley restaurants that opened this year.
Back from a ten-day vacation in Italy, Brian K. Mahoney talks sightseeing, pasta, and wine.
In accordance with this month’s literary supplement, Brian K. Mahoney discusses new reading for our troubled times.
Author, wine critic, and professor at the Culinary Institute of America Steven Kolpan discusses his pragmatic and irreverent guide, WineWise.
Brian K. Mahoney offers a few thoughts about David Foster Wallace and the most truthful, funny, useful, and inspiring speech ever given to a graduating class.
Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon presents the group photographic show Planet China, featuring work by Alan Chin, Justin Guariglia, and Julien Chatelin.
Noémie Lafrance’s Rapture, a site-specific choreographic work atop Bard’s Fisher Center, will be performed September 25-28 and October 2-5.
A description of the mixed-media installation by Robert Hite.
Brian K. Mahoney talks with chefs about sourcing local.
Editor Brian K. Mahoney laments about all the events he missed this past summer.
A picture framer first and an artist second, Eugenia Ballard creates tableaux and shadow boxes out of various knickknacks.
Peter Shaffer’s “Black Comedy” will be performed at the Shadowland Theatre through August 10.
Bard professor Peter Hutton’s silent film about the life and death of a container ship, At Sea, will be shown at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on August 24.
Brian K. Mahoney profiles Kingston’s Francophile haven Le Canard Enchainé.
Editor Brian K. Mahoney assesses the inequality that exists in the legal system when applied to same sex marriages.
Founders of the annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby, George and Nancy Donskoj, reveal why they started the derby 14 years ago and why they keep doing it.
Brian K. Mahoney’s Q&A with legendary comedy writer Alan Zweibel, who will perform his latest project, the “History of Me” at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar July 18 through July 20.
Fifty works from 20 sculptors will appear in the exhibition “Current,” sponsored by the Garrison Art Center. The exhibit will be held at five different landmark sites along the Hudson River through August 10.
Editor Brian K. Mahoney shares his experiences in culinary dare devilry—eating oddities from head cheese to cow foot—at several ethnic and specialty food restaurants in the Hudson Valley.
Temperamental electricity, a twisted ankle, and a plethora of ants in his home are having editor Brian K. Mahoney feeling like he’s in a hole.
A tour of “Facebook,” led by curator Mary-Kay Lombino, will be held on Thursday, June 26, at 6pm in conjunction with the exhibition’s opening from 5 to 9pm.
Brian K. Mahoney talks with wine importer Neal Rosenthal, author of
Reflections of a Wine Merchant, about terroir at his home in the Shekomeko Valley.
Brian K. Mahoney makes it from the antebellum south to the Brat Pack in four moves.
Jeff Cohen is a writer, lecturer, and media critic who founded the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting in 1986.
It’s Bike Month once again, and I am reminded of certain realities regarding our lifestyle in this country:
Erin Davies is teaching the country about hate crimes with the help of her VW Beetle.
Various multimedia art projects are taking place around the Hudson Valley as part of the “Plugged In” exhibit.
Brian K. Mahoney finds tapas master Rich Reeve still creating revelatory small plates at Elephant wine bar in Kingston.
Get fit and save the planet by bike riding.
One of the primary jobs of a magazine editor is to decide what material will comprise any given issue.
Founder of Bread Alone, Dan Leader traveled to South Africa helping to give the people there healthy bread.
With its inventive sour dough pizzas Baba Louie’s in Hudson and Great Barrington are a popular spot for Italian food.
Simone Dinnerstein puts her own spin on Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Yvonne Gunner discusses her love for shooting different subjects.
Though I was raised Catholic in the 1970s, I didn’t do much Bible reading as a child. This might seem odd for someone who spent 12 years taught by priests and nuns.
Carrie Haddad is helping to preserve Historic Hudson.
Daniel Heyman interviewed 25 detainees in Istanbul making transcript/portraits of them which will be at the Samuel Dorsky Museum this month.
Losing the wiffle ball in the high grass on the summer solstice, a year-and-a-half ago on the back side of the Shawangunk Ridge in High Falls. Twelve of us drinking wine, having a picnic, saying any absurdity that entered our heads—meaningless things you believe you’ll always have time for on the longest night of the year.
With its outstanding menu and friendly atmosphere Caffè Macchiato in Newburgh is a hit.
The gist of what you have missed.
Executive director of Safe Harbors on the Hudson Tricia Haggerty-Wenz is helping to make Newburgh a better place.
Nellie McKay will perform Friday, January 4 and Saturday, January 5 at 9pm at Club Helsinki in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Now, as we go to print in this darkest hour of the year, hard on the winter solstice, I’m ready to look back on 2007 with the requisite level of repose and clarity.
Chronogram events in December (and late November).
January’s featured contributors.
Untitled December 21, 2007
Two artists working within the new paradigm of Asian art are Soe Soe and Khin Zaw Latt, two brothers from Burma whose paintings anchor the inaugural exhibition at Lodoe Gallery.
“Time Tracers” features five photographers that chronicle the passage of time.
Belleayre Resorts at Catskill Park will break ground in the fall of 2008.
Fionn Reilly risked lens and limb to get photographs of sword slinging Barushka, and the rest of November’s Chronogram sponsored performers.
What do you get when you combine a designer, production director, illustrator, intern, and several pots of coffee? Chronogram’s December issue, of course.
Catherine O’Reilly’s work on climate change in East Africa has been published in the scientific journal Nature and was featured on PBS and on Public Radio International’s “Living on Earth” program.
Brian K. Mahoney sets the record straight: It’s a nectarine!
Gitter started a Kingston-based regional TV station (WTZA), co-founded the Big Indian Spring Water Company, and runs Catskill Corners, including the Emerson Place Resort and Spa, in Mt. Tremper.
If you like the serenity of yoga, then you’ll love the less ecosystem-destructive feeling of driving a Toyota Prius to buy grass-fed beef on your way home from the acupuncturist.
Hopewell Junction-based photographer Michael Sibilia will exhibit urban landscapes this month at GAS Gallery in Poughkeepsie.
Dutchess County legislator and radio host Joel Tyner, tells us where he’s dining, what he’s singing while stopped at a red light, and his first order of business if elected president.
What started as an editorial assignment to document public opinion about the US invasion of Iraq turned into a project examining how people are misinformed and confused by news and governmental spin on the war.
Ron Haviv’s photo of a Serb militiaman kicking a dying Muslim woman in the head—published a week before the fighting started—became one of the most enduring images of the Balkan conflict.
September’s Local Luminary, Ariel Shanberg.
September’s featured contributors.
This exchange reminded me of a poem long buried in my memory, about a poet visiting a painter’s studio and watching him paint (while drinking, of course).
“American Portrait Project,” Deborah DeGraffenreid’s examination of the nation’s polyglot face, will be exhibited at the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art through September 29.
Jim Reardon’s letter to the editor about June’s “Better Blooms” article.
Featured contributors for August.
Before the final chorus had settled across the packed house at Bard’s Spiegeltent on that balmy July evening, the Sisters had stripped (each other) to their underwear in an acrobatic burlesque that was part Pilobolus, part hilarity, part Scores, part blasphemy.
An interview with Ann Davis, a leading light of the community.
Vincent Serbin will exhibit new, landscape-based work through July 23 at Galerie BMG.
“A good question is never answered,” writes Ciardi. “It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of an idea.”
Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, the oldest environmentally conscious outdoor fest of its kind in the country, returns this Father’s Day weekend to Croton Point Park in Westchester.
“Faces of War: Kamdesh and the Korengal Outpost, Afghanistan” is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of US soldiers on the front lines.
Greig will be exhibiting her photographs from the Representations series this month at Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson.
June’s featured contributors.
Two years ago in July, I wrote what I termed “a transcription of the aural landscape of my backyard.” This month, I have endeavored to capture the evening sounds of that same space.
A study links child abuse to military deployment; 1,000 seals wash ashore in Kazakhstan; a spill of 7.5 million gallons of sewage contaminates the Hudson;and other news you may have missed.
John Cronin talks to Brian Mahoney about the regional environment and growing up in the Hudson Valley.
Breaking Up is a short film about unrequited love and bad cell phone reception, shot on location in Kingston, by Jeff Burns and the IAC film collective.
The second annual Berkshire International Film Festival will screen 50 movies at a number of venues in Great Barrington May 17 through May 20.
Vonnegut was described in a FOX News obit as an “irrelevant” writer of “left-wing screeds” known for “his unique brand of despondent leftism.”
It’s time again for my annual sermonizing on the benefits of the bicycle as a salubrious form of alternative transit.
This month’s cover image, The Human, is an underwater portrait of Italian surfer Nicolo Violati diving through a wave in the Maldives.The photo is part of a recent series by the artist created around, inside, and over the element of water.
In Killed Cartoons, writer and editor David Wallis collects some of the great nixed editorial pieces of recent vintage.
Multimedia artist Judy Pfaff’s prints and drawings.
Stories find their way to Chronogram in different ways.
Finding that sense of place in the Hudson Valley.
Photographer Candace Feit chronicles her recent visit to Darfur.
Relationship guidance from the Kama Sutra.
The dead outnumber the living in Totowa, New Jersey, the birthplace of photographer Laurie Giardino.
Streamline Media’s Brian Branigan narrates on a new show by artist Patrick Milbourn.
While recent transplants from Gotham might bemoan the perceived lack of amenities at local bars, one thing is certain: There is no shortage of places to get a drink in the Hudson Valley.
Iain Machell’s drawings will be exhibited this month as part of “Faculty Works,” a group show at SUNY Ulster’s Muroff Kotler Gallery in Stone Ridge.
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Contents
Horoscopes: August 2010
We're updating the site as I write this, and the Sagittarius scope will be up momentarily. Our apologies to all the Sags out there! nothing personal.
Phoenicia: The Secret of the Catskills
George,
Thanks for your comment. There are indeed so many places in the Hudson Valley worthy of ink that we have not yet gotten around to writing about. Give us another 16 years and we still will not have done it! Re the Emerson, Hunter, Belleayre, et al.: While spatial constraints in one article force us to focus a bit more narrowly than what might give a comprehensive treatment of Phoenicia and Shandaken, we were not comped any rooms at the Emerson, nor do I believe are they advertising at this time. But I wouldn't know, as editorial and advertising are separate departments here at Chronogram. —The Editor
Phoenicia: The Secret of the Catskills
George,
Thanks for your comment. There are indeed so many places in the Hudson Valley worthy of ink that we have not yet gotten around to writing about. Give us another 16 years and we still will not have done it! Re the Emerson, Hunter, Belleayre, et al.: While spatial constraints in one article force us to focus a bit more narrowly than what might give a comprehensive treatment of Phoenicia and Shandaken, we were not comped any rooms at the Emerson, nor do I believe are they advertising at this time. But I wouldn't know, as editorial and advertising are separate departments here at Chronogram. —The Editor
Local Luminaries: The Rosendale Theatre Collective
This just in from Brian Cafferty at Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty about a successful fundraiser for the Rosendale Theater Collective on March 7 in Stone Ridge:
The Stone Ridge office of Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty Ltd. recognized the need to step up and help the Rosendale Theatre Collective purchase and preserve the Rosendale Theatre as a community not for profit theatre. “As a local Real Estate company serving the same demographic area as the Theatre, we are committed to protecting both our historic and cultural assets in our ongoing effort to enhance our community’s quality of life” said Brian Cafferty, who coordinated the event on behalf of both Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty and the Rosendale Theatre Collective. The Brunch & Silent auction was held this past Sunday at the historic Cole House estate on Hurley Mt Road in Stone Ridge and was a sold out success with well over 100 people in attendance. “It’s a testament to how much the Stone Ridge community loves the Rosendale theatre, said Lynn Masonotti, who organized the silent auction on behalf of company.
The fundraiser was part of a larger effort to expand the awareness and support for the project beyond just Rosendale, and to help people recognize that the Rosendale Theatre is truly a regional asset. If the success of this event is any indication, then it’s safe to say that there is a lot support for Theatre beyond just Rosendale. “We are grateful to everyone who not only donated items to the auction, but also to everyone who attended, without which this event could not have been possible”, said Amy Levine of Westwood Metes & Bounds, who help spearhead the event.
Local artists and businesses donated items and services in large numbers and over 20 agents from the Stone Ridge office of Westwood Metes & Bounds Ltd. pulled together to make the event a huge success. The honorable, Maurice Hinchey even stopped by to show his support for the preservation effort and thank the attendees for their foresight and generosity.
The fundraising will continue at a feverish pitch, because the Collective, in order to secure a mortgage and purchase the theater, will have to raise a down payment of $160,000 by May of 2010. The group has already raised over $50,000 to date.
Cold Spring and Garrison
Richard Shea, the Philipstown Supervisor, sent of this note about the article:
Dear Editor,
I was pleased and surprised to see the article about our Town in your March issue. I do feel compelled to make a few clarifications. Philipstown is comprised of not only Cold Spring and Garrison but also includes North Highlands, Continental Village and Nelsonville. As for the being a "Town with a plan", that is the direct result of a long history of good governance. Although all the groups that you cited ( the Hastings Center is a bioethical research center that deals with medical ethics ) have been a positive influence, especially the Highland Land Trust, I was a little put off to see the Town Governments role put in as an "also ran". Local government has provided the guidance and stewardship that has made Philipstown the completely unique place that it is today. My Town Board and I spend every day making sure that Philipstown avoids the fate of so many of our neighbors; overdeveloped and historically bankrupt. Thanks for stopping by. Next time turn off the engine and stop in.
Hudson Valley Craft Breweries
In this article, we mistakenly referred to Chatham Brewing as the Old Chatham Brewery. While there are many old things in Chatham, Chatham Brewing, which was founded in 2006, is not one of them. Also, we neglected to mention that there is a third owner of the brewery, Chris Ferrone, in addition to Tom Crowell and Jake Cunningham. Our apologies.
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