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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.

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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Where's Your Data?

After more than $50 million spent on testing and cleaning so far, the question is whether students will be exposed to that contamination, and, if so, how it will affect them.

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.

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.”

Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit

Dan Millman, former world-champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor is perhaps best known for his multimillion-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior.

Arts & Culture

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.

Lucid Dreaming

“Bivouac” takes a witty, somewhat arch approach to art, inventiveness, and imagined survivalism, while “Paths: Real and Imagined” gravitates toward an archetypal/metaphorical reading of its stated theme.

Blinded by Frankenscience

The idea for “Mothers of Invention” began in 2002, after Laura Poe read an article about GMO food “and the crazy, crazy things going on.”

The Writing on the Wall

As a postwar phenomenon, graffiti parallels the rise of street toughs and gangs. Its present form began in the late sixties, and became known as part of hip hop culture by the mid ‘70s.

Outside the Box

A round-up of unique Hudson Valley cultural outings.

Portfolio: Sarah Mecklem

Sarah Greer Mecklem is an artist whose life and career have always been intricately intertwined with the history and—more importantly—the experience of the Hudson Valley.

Conversation of the Birds

Perhaps science doesn’t take the topic seriously, but David Rothenberg has devoted his career to listening to nature in a musical way.

Cassandra in a Party Dress

Martha Beall Mitchell was known for her coruscating gift of gab. But her unbridled Southern charm barely camouflaged a sly intelligence that was neither expected nor tolerated in Washington wives.

Shared Enchantment

On August 24 and 25 from 7 to 11pm (raindate August 26), Arm-of-the-Sea will present its seventh annual “Esopus Creek Puppet Suite” at Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park in Saugerties.

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.

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.

Music

CD Review: Artie Traum

Artie Traum’s all-star local band—Levin, drummer Gary Burke, pianist Warren Bernhardt and special guests like John Sebastian —lead us on an invigorating tour of Americana.

CD Review: Dead Unicorn

Dead Unicorn tears through the material with a gleeful malevolence reminiscent of early Killing Joke.

CD Review: Samuel Claiborne

Samuel Claiborne has certainly had no shortage of pain and spiritual trials from which to draw for the sparse, fathomless, and profoundly moving solo piano improvisations in The Annunciation.

Back to the Future

This is TONTO, which, at a height of five feet and occupying 300 square feet, is the world’s largest analog synthesizer and the very one played by Stevie Wonder.

Community Notebook

The Possible Dream

Richard Rothbard and his wife, Joanna, who is also an artist, manage American Art Marketing out of their rustic home in the Orange County town of Slate Hill.

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Ellenville Awakens

According to those people who are keeping Ellenville’s blood pumping, it’s time to find a new way to try and wake their village up. And the Ellenville Area Arts Alliance, or EA3, is hoping to be the solution.