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View From the Top

Local Luminary: Joseph Nevins

Joseph Nevins, author and professor of geography at Vassar College, discusses national boundaries, immigration laws, human rights, and his latest book, Dying to Live.

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Esteemed Reader: October 2008

We are waking up from the American Dream—but what do we do next?

Editor's Note: This is Water

Brian K. Mahoney offers a few thoughts about David Foster Wallace and the most truthful, funny, useful, and inspiring speech ever given to a graduating class.

News & Politics

Silence Broken

Former comfort women seek justice and an apology from the Japanese government for forcing them into sexual servitude during World War II.

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While You Were Sleeping: October '08

Irradiated food is not virus-free, outstanding balances on home equity loans are higher than ever, chipping people has begun in the US, and other news you may have missed.

Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Reality Check

Larry Beinhart chalks up the past four years, bad assumptions, delusions, the upcoming rockin’ and rollin’ roller coaster ride of a presidential election, and (of course) lipstick.

Money & Investing

Student Loan Savvy

Kelley Granger discusses student loans, federal loans, private loans, financial aid, and scholarships in an investigation of the best way to go to school on “free” money.

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Whole Living

Tick, Tick, Tick

Rhinebeck’s integrative doctor Steven Bock describes the pitfalls and ironies of tackling this misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and often just plain missed malady.

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Flowers Fall: Field Notes from a Buddhist Mom's Experimental Life

Musing about a friend who is expecting a new baby provides an opportunity for reflections on motherhood, Zen, cloth diapers, love, and drama.

Arts & Culture

Portfolio: Lilo Raymond

Lilo Raymond discusses her life, photography, and travels, along with her best and worst experiences, and what it’s like to be recognized.

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Nightlife Highlights: October 2008

From Ahmad Jamal to the Skytop Halloween Party, DJ WAVY DAVY handpicks this month’s nightlife selections.

Tao on a Tightwire

Presenting the 29th North American tour of the world record-holding Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats.

The Reel Deal in Woodstock

Jay Blotcher reviews several films showing at the Woodstock Film Festival and enjoys a Q&A sessions with WFF lifetime achievement award-recipient Haskell Wexler.

Moves for Moderns

For the first time in almost 50 years, the American Ballet Theater is returning to the Hudson Valley.

The Flying Deutschman

David Deutsch’s aerial photographs and bird’s-eye perspective paintings are on display in Hudson this month.

Books

Where the Heart Is

Nina Shengold talks with writer Laura Shaine Cunningham about Sleeping Arrangements (featured in the 2008 One Book, One New Paltz celebration).

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Book Review: Why the Dalai Lama Matters

Robert Thurman’s book, Why the Dalai Lama Matters is an exploration of the significance of the one who many Tibetans feel is “the returning presence of the Buddha himself.”

Book Review: The Night Villa; What Makes a Child Lucky

A mystery by award-winning author Carol Goodman and a story by master oral storyteller Gioia Timpanelli are on this month’s reading list.

Books: Jessica Abel

Cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel chats about the history of her career as a graphic novelist, her work as a teacher, and what to do after you buy Maus.

Lucid Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming: Aesthetic Dis(interest)

Beth E. Wilson analyses the importance of beauty in the sphere of business-as-usual politics alongside a discussion of the show “War: Material and Lies” at TSL in Hudson.

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Horoscopes

Planet Waves: October 2008

Consider what Atlantis, Tolkien, and the apocalypse might have in common.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes: October 2008

See what your stars have in store for you.

Music

Not Fade Away

Peter Aaron talks to Todd Mack, founder of FODFest (the “Friends of Danny” festival) which remembers musician and journalist Daniel Pearl on what would have been his 45th birthday this month.

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CD Review: Marilyn Crispell

Peter Aaron reviews Marilyn Crispell’s latest album Vignettes.

Music: Bird Cracks Egg

Accompanying himself on violin, glockenspiel and guitar, singer/songwriter/whistler Andrew Bird performs his one-man show at The Egg in Albany.

CD Review: The Wood Brothers

Robert Burke Warren reviews Loaded, the latest album from Oliver and Chris Wood.

CD Review: Spiv:UK

Sharon Nichols reviews So Far Machine, the latest album from Spiv:UK.

Poetry

Poetry: Extrait 2

Extrait 2, a poem by Christopher Porpora.

Poetry: Body and Land

Body and Land, a poem by Alifair Skebe

Poetry: Five Clips

Five Clips, a poem by nine-year-old Ada I. J. Lowengard

Poetry: Andness

Andness, a poem by Tom Holmes

Poetry: Untitled (October 2008)

An untitled poem by Chuck Mishkin

Poetry: Montreal Confession

Montreal Confession, a poem by Veronica Mort

Poetry: Love Poem to My Brother

Love Poem to My Brother, by Dorothy Albertini

Poetry: Poncho

Poncho, a poem by Richard Donnelly

Poetry: Old Boots

Old Boots, a poem by William Seaton

Poetry: Countdown

Countdown, a poem by seven-year-old Fenner Osmond Friedman.

Poetry: Untitled

An untitled poem by Phillip Levine.

Parting Shot

Parting Shot: Joy Taylor

A brief look at some of the works of collage artist Joy Taylor.

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Community Notebook

Out of the Toy Box

Photographer Steven Planck turns the relics of childhood into a series of black-and-white portraits for thetwentytenproject.

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Greene County

Be Greene with Envy

Amy Lubinski showcases the mountains, hip cafés, gourmet restaurants, fun festivals, and thrilling outdoor activities that Greene County has to offer. It’s a familiar destination with some unfamiliar charms.

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On the Cover

On The Cover: Ellen Nieves

Ellen Nieves’s paintings will be on display at the Woodstock Artists Association from October 4 through November 2.

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Food & Drink

Vin Populi

Author, wine critic, and professor at the Culinary Institute of America Steven Kolpan discusses his pragmatic and irreverent guide, WineWise.

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