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Arts & Culture

Parting Shot: Tom Bamberger

Tom Bamberger’s “Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film” will be on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College through July 29.

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June Portfolio: Linda Montano

Linda Montano has explored art, life, and spirituality in her innovative performance work for almost 40 years.

Animal Esperanto

Jan Harrison has invented her own language, literally. It’s called “Animal Tongues,” and she began speaking it in 1979. Though she doesn’t consider herself a performance artist, Harrison sometimes publicly sings—and speaks—in Animal Tongues.

Faces of War

“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.

Museum Piece

“Natural History” is a bittersweet chamber piece—four different vignettes in four different rooms of the Museum of Natural History.

The Silent Treatment

Those seeking an exposé in Into Great Silence—Carthusians: Beneath the Hood?—will find unanswered prayers in this digital scrapbook.

Whole Living

Be Your Own Herbal Expert

Susun S. Weed introduces a variety of useful herbs and gives advice on the safety, selection, and savoring of herbal preparations.

Inner Vision: Heart Song

Bill Vanaver recounts insights and powerful experiences he had while close to death and during his recovery.

Web Only: Weeds in Your Garden? Bite back!

View your weeds as cultivated plants. Give them the same care and you’ll reap a tremendous harvest.

News & Politics

While You Were Sleeping

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.

The Corn Conundrum

Ethanol may not be the solution we think it is.

The Corn Conundrum Sidebar: Farmers Just Can't Win

Cliff Bradley, an expert on biofuels and sustainable energy, responds to Runge and Senauer’s article.

The Corn Conundrum Sidebar: Reducing Poverty and Hunger With Biofuels

To reduce poverty, global trade and foreign aid need to strengthen rural economies, not flood markets in poor countries with subsidized grain.

Beinhart's Body Politic: Capitalism 105

When a government wants an economy to grow, it throws money at it.

Horoscopes

Planet Waves: Growing Up

Eric Francis Coppolino uses the dioxin contamination at SUNY New Paltz as a catalyst to discuss growth issues involved in taking action on the environment.

June Horoscopes

I don’t propose you concern yourself with what is new, what you want to create, or what you are seeking, but rather with the process of identifying and releasing, in that order.

Music

Po Better Blues

“I really believe that years from now we will look back on some of Joe McPhee’s records as some of the most important records ever made,” says jazz historian and Chicagoan John Corbett.

CD Review: Mark Donato

The record’s tone, alternating between earnest and tongue-in-cheek, morbid, and wry, creates some interesting results.

CD Review: Mighty Girl

Someone’s been studying the melodic chapters of the Velvet Underground songbook.

CD Review: Scott Helland and the Traveling Band of Gypsy Nomads

On this, his seventh recording, the six-string minstrel works all acoustic guitars, bass, drums, and percussion in what sounds like a band of gypsies but is really just his royal self on 12 jubilant tracks.

June Nightlife Highlights

DJ Wavy Davy’s picks for June!

Composing Women

“Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers,” a chamber festival at Dia:Beacon over the first three weekends in June, attempts to redress the undeserved anonymity of female composers.

Jamming in the Ether

Thirty Deep Listening musicians from across the globe converge on the Hudson Valley for a series of concerts this month.

Community Notebook

Going With the Flow

It’s a rhythm and adventure that’s been repeated for the past six summers, as the Great Hudson River Paddle has become a signature summertime event.

Art of Business: Better Blooms

A former pilot and flight instructor, Maggie Oyen is adamant about how flowers should be treated after traveling thousands of miles by air.

Revival Fever

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.

Books

Desert Bloom

Morrow writes like an architect, using intricate mathematical structures to create three-dimensional worlds full of beauty and light.

Book Review: The Futurist

Othmer has done a marvelous dissection of early 21st-century culture, tossed the pieces into a blender, and poured out a first-rate satirical novel in which tomorrow is to die for.

Short Takes for June

Summer reading in many flavors, including three books with upcoming launch parties, plus two more from some of our finest regional publishers.

Book Review: Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman

You may never have heard of Geoffrey Nyarota, but, a world away in Zimbabwe, many consider him a contemporary folk hero.

Book Review: Tales of Three Veterans

It has taken these men decades to process their various experiences into art, and powerful art it is.

Stances with Wolves

Scott Ian Barry’s photographs were once described by Ansel Adams as “striking and generous portraits.”