Arts & Culture

The Real Last Samurai

A new show of prints by 19th century Japanese artist Chikanobu.

Portfolio: George Quasha

George Quasha is something of a latter-day Renaissance man, with a wide-ranging list of accomplishments as a publisher, a poet, an artist, and an all-around inquiring mind.

Poetry

Poems by Erin Buttner, Mark Massey, Jeffrey Aaron Schmidt, Peter Scheckner, Nicholas Ripatrazone, Jeffrey Paggi, Amy Beth Barton, Lauren Tamraz Judson, Kim Barke, and Michael Hunt.

For “Photowork ’07,” Barrett Art Center’s 20th annual national juried photography exhibition, the Poughkeepsie gallery’s director, Laurie Strange, gave juror Asher Miller the freedom to select works not based on any particular theme or genre.

Poetic Liar

By Al Desetta

Charles Simic will read at SUNY Ulster’s 13th Annual Poetry Forum on April 18.

Little Dollface

By Jay Blotcher

“Dollface,” which runs April 12 through 15, is a sidelong wink at the synthetically cheery 1950s and the breezy musicals that flourished during that era.

Damsel in Distress

By Jay Blotcher

Society’s insatiable appetite for melodrama may go far in explaining the enduring public interest in yet another maiden in distress: Jane Eyre.

Food & Drink

Spice of Life

By Eric Steinman

Suruchi, which is Sanskrit for good taste, or, more literally, “good interest,” features a menu that is largely inspired by the vegetarian cuisine of southern India.

Lucid Dreaming

Things Fall Apart

By Beth E. Wilson

Think of how often we seem to revel in the image of our own destruction. We seem, as a culture, to have fully embraced what Freud identified as the “death drive,” the erotics of Thanatos.

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