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News & Politics

Liberaltarians

With the historical ties between libertarians and traditional conservatives fraying due to the GOP’s dogged pursuit of neoconservative policies, the possibility exists for liberals and libertarians to form an alliance of their own.

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Beinhart's Body Politic

Happy New Year. It feels like a year of change and hope. Then I realize, with a sense of real astonishment, that George Bush is still president.

This Modern World

Biting wit and sharp observations. Funny, too.

Community Notebook

Being Andy Warhol

In the 1960s, Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, and artists have been pursuing their tick of the clock with ferocity ever since.

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Weiner Takes All

Poughkeepsie’s Soul Dog is more than a gourmet hot-dog joint—it’s also a haven for people with food restrictions—dairy allergies, gluten intolerance, celiac disease—who still want to chow down on the quintessential American treat.

Redemption Song

Kingston’s piano man, Adam Markowitz, brings some sweet relief to the Deep South.

Whole Living

Navigating Your Way

“Any activity, even everyday tasks including cancer appointments, can become a spiritual practice when done with love and awareness.” —Puja Thomson, After Shock

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Inner Vision: Spiritually Speaking

“Spiritually Speaking,” a radio show for progressives of a liberal bent, airs on Tuesday nights from 4-5pm on Vassar’s WVKR, 91.3FM.

Music

Juice-Box Jamboree

In 2001, ex-Del Fuegos frontman Dan Zanes kicked off the kids’ music revival. Local acts like Dog on Fleas, Uncle Rock, and Elizabeth Mitchell are furthering the renaissance, crafting tunes even adults can love.

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CD Review: ReadNex Poetry Squad

Ig’nant listeners might hear hate in some lyrics on this Middletown crew’s debut CD, but a deeper listen draws out the tough love earned by these lyrical flowsters.

CD Review: Wet Paint

An artist’s paint waits to create, and the quintet Wet Paint has been laying down sonic strokes with wild abandon since 1995.

CD Review: Michael Merenda

Quiver is a quiet, decisively acoustic affair earthily infused with Merenda’s old-school folk lyricism and Ruth Ungar’s autumnal harmonies.

Nightlife Highlights

Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ Wavy Davy for your listening pleasure.

Egg Cooker

Robert Cray brings his band and his soulful, pleading vocals and effortless facility on the Telecaster to the Egg in Albany on January 13.

Eaglesmith Landing

Fred Eaglesmith (aka the “Canadian Springsteen”) brings his Flying Squirrels to the Rosendale Cafe on February 1 to play his brand of blue-collar folk-rock.

Vlad the Prevailer

Jazz pianist Vlad Girshevich will make his East Coast debut on January 13 with a solo recital at the Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, part of the 2007 Windham Chamber Music Festival.

John Schrader: Funny Man

Local musician and cancer survivor John Schrader contributed a track to I’m Too Young for This, a cancer benefit CD. Available exclusively to Chronogram readers.

Arts & Culture

Will Work For Food

“For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s” is an exhibition of paintings and sketches on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery.

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Apocalypse Averted

Mohonk Mountain Stage Reader’s Theater performs “Copenhagen” at Unison in New Paltz on January 26 & 27.

Chip Off the Old Block

The sculpture of Anthony Gennarelli is on view at Galleria Alba in Newburgh through February 28.

Horses to Water

Mark Doerrier’s documentary about the goings-on in an Orange County town, In the Land of Goshen, will screen at Yellow Bird Gallery on January 26 and Cafe Chronogram on January 6.

Slide Show: Patrick Milbourn

Streamline Media’s Brian Branigan narrates on a new show by artist Patrick Milbourn.

Film: Two Square Miles

Two Square Miles is a critically acclaimed documentary from NiiJii Films about the conflicts arising from the possible siting of a cement plant in Hudson, NY.

Portfolio

The dead outnumber the living in Totowa, New Jersey, the birthplace of photographer Laurie Giardino.

Film: Tempting God...Tricking the Devil

Kingston filmmaker Evan Leone’s “Tempting God…Tricking the Devil” is the gritty tale of a young couple’s unplanned pregancy.

Lucid Dreaming

Beth E. Wilson shows why McWillie Chambers’s sketches are much more than “identity politics”.

Books

Outsider Artist

James Lasdun packs a prodigious literary pedigree. The London-born author has published two acclaimed novels and three collections apiece of short stories and poems.

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Book Review: Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men

Wry and episodic, Jaems Canon’s magical realist novel Tales from the Town of Widows opens in November of 1992, when Marxist guerillas come recruiting in tiny Mariquita, Colombia.

Book Review: Maude March on the Run!

In this sequel to her acclaimed The Misadventures of Maude March, part-time South Fallsburg resident Audrey Couloumbis keeps the dust churning, the bullets zipping, and the wry wit flying.

Book Review: Ask the Parrot

The first few lines of Ask the Parrot parachute the reader into the middle of a manhunt in the backwoods of New England—and into the life of an incredibly dangerous man.

Short Takes

Start your New Year off reading with this quintet of diverse new releases by Hudson Valley authors.

Horoscopes

Planet Waves

The beginning of the year is typically a time for divining the future, or making choices and commitments that change our destiny.

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Horoscopes

Eric Francis Coppolino interprets the stars for January and takes a look at how the rest of the year will shape up astrologically as well.