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Holiday Gift Guide

Holiday Gift Books: December 2008

Nina Shengold makes a booklist, checks it twice.

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Holiday Gift Guide

Hillary Harvey makes a few suggestions and offers some local solutions for thoughtful shopping.

Arts & Culture

Portfolio: Andrew Lichtenstein

Andrew Lichtenstein talks about his work photographing prison complexes and the incarcerated.

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Revving Homeward

Kingston-based Mercury Rev will perform at the Bearsville Theater on December 4 at 9pm.

Moments in the Margins

“Converging Margins” is on view at the Center for Photography at Woodstock through January 11.

Well-Respected Man

Ray Davies, the father of British rock, will perform at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on December 6 at 8pm

Masters Revealed

“Revealed Anew,” a show consisting of various paintings, portraits, and drawings too fragile to leave the vaults for extended periods of time, will be on display at the Frances Lehman Loeb Arts Center at Vassar College through January 4.

Ghost in the Machine

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Jeffrey Foucault will perform at the Rosenfale Café on December 13 at 8pm.

Lucid Dreaming

Season of Change

Beth E. Wilson reflects on nearly a decade of Lucid Dreaming.

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Music

Nightlife Highlights: December 2008

DJ Wavy Davy gives you the skinny on holiday-season nightlife.

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Avant Goddess

Peter Aaron talks with jazz legend Carla Bley about the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, her Remarkable Big Band, and the culmination of “Christmas all year ‘round.”

CD Review: Verdes

Jason Broome reviews the latest from Verdes, a New Paltz-based group that brings the best out of the alt-radio songs you hate to love, mated with the Americana rock greats of the ‘70s.

CD Review: Jeff "Siege" Siegel Quartet

Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson reviews the latest release from the Jeff Siegel Quartet.

CD Review: Hopewell

Sharon Nichols reviews Beautiful Targets, an album by the New-York foursome Hopewell.

Parting Shot

Parting Shot: Richard Dupont

Richard Dupont’s sculptures will be on view through January 18 at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill.

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News & Politics

The Nuclear Option

A fifty-billion-dollar question: Judith Lewis investigates the possible advantages, disadvantages, and dangers of using nuclear power.

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Alan Shrugged

Larry Beinhart slaps the invisible hand (and Alan Greenspan).

While You Were Sleeping: December 2008

Stolen radioactive materials, seniors footing the bill for Medicare drug plans, and other news you may have missed in the back pages of the media maelstrom.

Horoscopes

Horoscopes: December 2008

See what your stars have in store for you this month.

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Planet Waves: The Branching of the Road

While December builds toward an astrological hot spot, Eric Francis Coppolino muses on the political thinking of his peers and the changes promised by the Obama administration.

Whole Living

More than a Snip

Angela Starks investigates the medical, cultural, and religious aspects of circumcision.

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Flowers Fall: Field Notes from a Buddhist Mom's Experimental Life, December 2008

Bethany Saltman takes a Zen approach to “attachment parenting”

Poetry

Poem: Untitled

An untitled poem by Amelie Belfiore.

Poem: Untitled Reflection

An untitled reflection.

Poem: That Galaxy

A poem titled “That Galaxy,” by Mary Jablonski

Poem: Drive Home

A poem titled “Drive Home,” by Anna van Laan.

Poem: Temper

A poem titled “Temper,” by Patrick Walsh.

Poem: Late Bloomer

A poem titled “Late Bloomer,” by Suzanne B. Gillette.

Poem: A Personal Tragedy

A poem titled “Personal Tragedy,” by Donald Lev.

Poem: A Memory

A poem in memory of Studs Terkel (1912-2008), by James Houtrides.

Poem: Unnamed

An untitled poem by Sari Grandstaff.

Poem: Engagement

A poem titled “Engagement,” Susan Lewis

Poem: Untitled Lines

An untitled poem by Mary Lou Paturel.

Poem: How the Eerie Left Town

A poem titled “How the Eerie Left Town,” by J.R. Solonche.

Poem: Swamp Red Maple

A poem titled “Swamp Red Maple,” by Paul R. Clemente

Poem: Untitled Poem

An untitled poem by Robert Farley

Poem: Respite with Chardonnay

A poem titled “Respite with Chardonnay,” by Steve Clark.

View From the Top

Esteemed Reader: December 2008

With a view from the turning point, Jason Stern expresses some hope for the future.

Editor's note: Relief

Brian K. Mahoney is officially done with George W. Bush.

Local Luminary: Gerald Celente

Author of several books and journals that track current events and predict future trends, Gerald Celente offers a few of his ideas about our troubled times.

On the Cover

On the Cover: Jennifer Grimyser

With signs, captions, and photographed messages, Jennifer Grimyser experiments with the role of language in art. Her work “Change is Now” is on this month’s cover.

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Greene County

It's All Downhill from Here

Gabrielle Compolongo delivers the third installment of seasonal scenes and exciting activities in Greene County.

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Food & Drink

Comfortably Yum

Brian K. Mahoney recommends a few comfort dishes at some Hudson Valley restaurants that opened this year.

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Books

Get it On

Nina Shengold profiles Beacon resident David Rees, creator of Get Your War On and Adventures of Confessions of St. Augustine Bear.

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Book Review: Last Train Out

Anne Pyburn reviews Last Train Out, by Richard Boes.

Book Review: Dreaming Up America

Jay Blotcher reviews Russell Banks’s Dreaming Up America

Book Review: No Blood, No Foul

Anne Pyburn reviews Charley Rosen’s No Blood, No Foul

Short Takes: December 2008

The eternal feminine takes many forms—Goth girl, sister, mother, wise woman, goddess—in six new books by Hudson Valley women.