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Poetry

Poem: One Paper Boat

Poetry is edited by Phillip Levine.

Poem: "Winter Morning Montclair"

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Poem: Aubade

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Poem: Spelling Lesson

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Poem: Love Song

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Poem: Finally, We Are No One

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Poem: Interior Designs

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Poem: Guys and Dolls

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Poem: The Crows Are Not as Wicked as the People Have Said

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Poem: Untitled

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Poem: A Candle for Karma

Poetry is edited by Philip Levine.

Poem: Split Personality

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Poem: Catharsis: 1966

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Arts & Culture

Notorious B.A.R.D.

A preview the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s season; including “Bomb-itty of Errors.”

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The German Puccini

Bard’s Summerscape continues with the work of Alban Berg.

Spock vs. Zeus

Leonard Nimoy’s “Secret Selves” opens August 1 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Two Guys Who Never Met

“Picasso Looks at Degas” will continue at the Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts, until September 12.

Catskill Mountain Breakdown

The Bethel Woods Bluegrass Jamboree takes place at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on August 22 at 2pm.

Phoenicia Festival of the Voice

The Phoenicia Festival of the Voice will take place August 13 to 15.

21st Annual Bard Music Festival “Berg and His World” Opens Friday, August 13

Beginning this Friday at 8 p.m. in Bard Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater, two weekends of orchestral, choral, and chamber concerts explore the cultural world, works, and life of the early 20th-century Viennese composer Alban Berg and his contemporaries. Through the prism of Berg’s life and career, this year’s festival will explore the origins, varieties, and fate of modernism in music. Listeners will encounter music from the era of Mahler to the age of fascism. The early 20th-century fascination with the psyche and sexuality and the post-World War I critique of the relationship between art and society—between aesthetics and ethics—led Berg to confront the works of writers and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Karl Kraus, August Strindberg, and Thomas Mann.

Whole Living

Flowers Fall: Why Have Kids?

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing,and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

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Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopathic doctors combine alternative approaches with medical school training. But in some states, they struggle to deliver it.

News & Politics

While You Were Sleeping

John Boehner suggests raising the retirement age to 70; decision on whaling practices reaches stalemate; BP still the Defense Department’s largest fuel supplier; and two billion dollars of stimulus money to be used for solar panel plants.

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Larry Beinhart's Body Politic

Larry Beinhart on the war in Afghanistan.

Whistling in the Dark

Myron Levin discusses what happened when Neal Jorgensen blew the whistle on his employer; a plastic recycling firm in Preston, Idaho.

Community Notebook

Local Luminary: Joan Kaplan Davidson

Joan Kaplan Davidson, who has served as head of the New York State Council of the Arts, president of the Kaplan Fund, and Parks Commissioner, talks about her career.

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Chronogram Seen

The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.

Music

CD Review: Kenny Siegal

Sharon Nichols reviews “Eleccentricity” by Kenny Siegal.

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CD Review: Graham Parker

Robert Burke Warren reviews “Imaginary Television” by Graham Parker.

CD Review: Keith Pray's Big Soul Ensemble

Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson reviews “Live at the Lark Tavern” by Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble.

Best of Both Worlds

Girl rocker Tracy Bonham talks about her music career, moving from the West Coast to Woodstock, and forthcoming motherhood.

First Annual Catskill Chill Music Festival

The first annual Catskill Chill Music Festival, at beautiful Camp Minglewood, will feature the music of Keller Williams, Soulive, The New Mastersounds, The Easystar Allstars, Particle and many more.

Food & Drink

Umami Dearest

Peter Barrett explores the locally produced soy sauce and miso.

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Hudson Valley Restaurant, Bar & Market Openings

A guide to notable local debuts.

Food & Drink Events for August 2010

Food and drink events for August.

Horoscopes

Let's Get Real: Saturn in Libra

Eric Francis Coppolino on Saturn in Libra.

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Horoscopes: August 2010

Eric Francis Coppolino’s horoscope predictions for August

Books

Book Review: In the Fullness of Time

Susan Krawitz reviews “In the Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life after 50,” by Emily W. Upham and Linda Gravenson.

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Mentor of Unheard Stories

Zachary Sklar tells about his life and career from proofreading at “Time” and “Life” to writing the screenplay for Oliver Stone’s “JFK.”

Book Review: Holy Water

Gregory Schoenfeld reviews “Holy Water” by James P. Othmer.

Beauty and Fashion Supplement

In Season

Kelly Granger on this season’s fashions.

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Education Supplement

Life's University

A look at various continuing education opportunities in the area.

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Parting Shot

Parting Shot: Here Comes the Rain

On exhibit at the Barett Art Center in Poughkeepsie through August 14.

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View From the Top

Esteemed Reader: August 2010

Jason Stern on happiness.

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Editor's Note

Brian Mahoney discusses the arts in the Hudson Valley.

On the Cover

Titanoboa

James Gurney’s “Titanoboa” will be featured in “Focus on Nature XI” through October 31, at the New York State Museum in Albany.

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Community Pages

Rural Urbanity

Jamie Larson takes a look at the evolution of Hudson and Columbia.

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Little Water Place

A look at what surrounds the LED bridge in Poughkeepsie.

Green Living

The Power of Three

The 3/50 Project supports local business and a green lifestyle. Cinda Baxter, founder of the 3/50 project, will speak at SUNY New Paltz on August 13.

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