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Arts & Culture

The Evolving Revelation of Puff the Magic Dragon

Peter Yarrow will perform and sign copies of Puff the Magic Dragon (book with CD) and Puff and & Other Family Classics (CD) on Saturday, January 19 at 2pm.

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Whoa Nellie

Nellie McKay will perform Friday, January 4 and Saturday, January 5 at 9pm at Club Helsinki in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Love Like Candy

Untitled (Placebo) remains on view at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown through March 23.

Goofy Eloquence

John Prine will appear at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on January 6 at 7:30pm.

The Limits of Language

The artist K. Rakoll has created a phonetic alphabet that can express every human language. “K. Rakoll: The Secret Tongues of Babel” is at BeGallery in High Falls, through January 15.

The Force of Poetry

After seeing this show by Anselm Kiefer at MASS MoCA, I’m afraid I’ll have an even harder time settling for the more arid, intellectual charms offered by Dia’s minimalism.

Portfolio: Itty Neuhaus

An associate professor of art at SUNY New Paltz, she engages many different media in her own art, including sculpture, collage, video, performance, and installation work.

Books

Long and Winding Road

Imagine: A studio drummer who’s never written anything but letters decides to write the definitive book about the Beatles, subject of some 500 previous books.

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Book Review: Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

One of only four Vanderbilt biographies to date, Renehan’s book prominently features the Hudson River and surrounding environs, from which Vanderbilt launched his remarkable career.

Short Takes

Six books to fulfill your New Year’s resolution to read more about mind and spirit.

Book Review: Night Work

Ulster County Noir is serious fun for any lover of the genre, and Hamilton pulls it off with enormous panache.

Book Review: The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa

You are Josh Swiller, a Peace Corps volunteer as far from peace as Mununga is from anywhere, and you may well be about to experience a really ugly death.

View From the Top

Featured Contributors

January’s featured contributors.

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Chronogram Seen

Chronogram events in December (and late November).

First Impression: Under the Sun

A home born of companionship is an impish child, a wanton act of play.

Esteemed Reader

Though I have sought insight in many ways, the persistent pull of family and children has produced the most effective arena for fulfilling my love of meaning.

Editor's Note

Now, as we go to print in this darkest hour of the year, hard on the winter solstice, I’m ready to look back on 2007 with the requisite level of repose and clarity.

Local Luminary: Mark Greene

Mark Greene’s cartoons aren’t just for kids. His brand of political satire forces viewers to examine their role in American consumer culture.

On the Cover

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Two artists working within the new paradigm of Asian art are Soe Soe and Khin Zaw Latt, two brothers from Burma whose paintings anchor the inaugural exhibition at Lodoe Gallery.

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Community Notebook

Lust for Life

As a humorous, passionate, gorgeous woman who has beaten the odds, it’s no wonder so many people want a piece of Kris Carr’s magic.

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Music

The Enchanted Dollhouse

Blueberry is Snyder’s ongoing “band” concept, a project that has released three albums of sultry, psychedelic pop-soul on the singer and multi-instrumentalist’s own The Shaz Records.

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Nightlife Highlights

DJ Wavy Davy’s nightlife picks for January.

CD Review: Frankie and his Fingers

The debut by Frankie and His Fingers sports the stripped-down sound of guitar and drums straddling the lines between twitchy postpunk and pure overdriven powerpop.

CD Review: Sarah Perrotta

A first spin of The Well may call to mind shades of Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, though Perrotta remains completely original and exceedingly sophisticated in her writing.

CD Review: The Chrome Cranks

Though the band’s been defunct for a decade, Atavistic recently released this high-octane, double-disc set of singles, demos, and rarities.

News & Politics

The Pakistan Centrifuge

The US and the international community were confronted with the sleeper issue of our time: To what degree is Pakistan a reliable partner in the fight against terrorism?

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Beinhart's Body Politic

If we really want to figure out what religion is about, we have to start with the assumption that God doesn’t exist.

While You Were Sleeping

The gist of what you may have missed.

Parting Shot

Landscape Series #2

“Our identity is sometimes linked with our hair color or our features,” said Mackie. “I use hair as a metaphor for larger issues of identity.”

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Horoscopes

Small World Stories

Two thousand eight is a year of an unusual transition: Pluto will begin its move from Sagittarius to Capricorn.

Poetry

Poem: Polaroids

Eager and thrilled, so easily done with summer, the young tree by the bend in the creek has given everything over to scarlet red

Poem: How to Fetch Firewood

For the women and children of Darfur

Poem: The Couple

My reading lamp shines on the turnings of a pair of ladder-back chairs—my parents’ chairs— laying bright spots on the high points, the balls and rings, it settles in valleys and shallow coves

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a poem is less burdensome than an inventory of red artificial flowers or a handful of beggar’s pencils

Poem: Flood

Southbound quickly the silent hum of train lines swung down coastal catastrophe

Poem: Sandy Feet

Words are full of meaning. It is very important to keep things flowing.

Poem: The Carving

More permanent than the ice the roads re-carved the Catskills.

Poem: You Exercise in the End

You know what you must do as much as you

Poem: Your Tree

The tree you watered and loved into growing—it grew in your face.

Poem: A Man at my Feet

A man lies at my feet and a woman, and another over there. I glide between bodies. Hovering, Maybe to touch, where?

Poem: Nothing

Who I am doesn’t matter. What I have done doesn’t exist.

Whole Living

Off the Hook

“Hooking” is a phenomenon in which a line of energy is cast from one person into another person’s space.

Help for Caregivers

Any longterm illness is a challenge to a caretaker who must add that task—usually without much warning—to existing daily demands.

Weddings & Celebrations

Treading Lightly Down the Aisle

By making new ceremony choices that support our biosphere, they lead the way for those to come and respect what they will leave behind.

Piece of Cake

Few things inspire more “oohs” and “aahs” than a wedding cake (except for the bride) and few are as disaster-prone.

Food & Drink

Taste of Thailand

Sukhothai, one of the few Thai restaurants in region, fulfills Rabenda’s goal to bring Thai culture and “tasty, well presented” food to the area.

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