Portfolio: Nicholas Walster

Photographer Nicholas Walster discusses his most recent series of works, Personal Panoramas.

The Dance Within The Play

The Catskill Ballet Theater Company will be presenting an all new ballet story at the Ulster Performing Arts Center.

Spring Awakening

The annual Beltane Festival hosted by the Center for Symbolic Studies, welcomes the coming of spring with a bang.

Stand-Up Punk

Justin “Jt” Habersaat mingling punk rock with stand-up comedy.

Prison Pictures

Photographer Daniel McCabe uncovers the growing gang problems in Honduran prisons.

Banished

This film by Marco Williams follows three African American families as they seek reparations for the land their families lost after being driven out of town.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

The fictional film tells the tale of a young college girl trying to help her roomate have an illegal abortion in communist Romania.

Flow: For Love Of Water

The documentary takes a look at the abuse of Earth’s most vital resource.

Willing

Hollis Seamon reviews Scott Spencer’s Willing.

The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South

A review of Gilbert King’s The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the search for Justice in the American South by Jay Blotcher.

Short Takes

April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of dead land, mixing / Memory of desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” Drop that 1040 and read!

Dangerous Laughter

Pulitzer Prize winning author Steven Millhauser discusses his latest collection of short stories and his exceptional writing carreer.

Atrocities of Proximate Censorship

Beth E. Wilson reviews “Intimacies of Distant War” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz and examines the recent dust-up over Wafaa Bilal’s exhibit “Virtual Jihadi” at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy.

Adventures in Pizza

With its inventive sour dough pizzas Baba Louie’s in Hudson and Great Barrington are a popular spot for Italian food.

Rock's First Lady

Rock legend Genya Ravan discusses her long and winding career in the music business.

Amy Laber

New Paltz based singer/songwriter Amy Laber is making a name for herself and her hypno-folk.

Happy Rhodes

Happy Rhodes releases her 11th studio record.

Jazzhop Revolution

Featuring Hudson Valley bassist John Lindenberg and drummer Tani Tabbal Tha Sound of Truth is a creative blend of hip hop and jazz.

Still Strange in the Brain

Musician as well as visual artist, Head will be performing and having an exhibit in Phoenicia.

No Honor in Killing

Lorna Tychostup interviews Rana Husseini about her investigative work uncovering the cultural practice of honor killings in Jordan and the Mideast.

Larry Beinhart's Body Politics

Larry Beinhart brings to light who the US would really be hurting by bombing Iran.

While You Were Sleeping

The gist of what you have missed in the back pages of the media maelstrom, fish on painkillers, America’s soaring credit card debt, misspent military aid, and more.

Local Luminary: Dan Leader

Founder of Bread Alone, Dan Leader traveled to South Africa helping to give the people there healthy bread.

Esteemed Reader

Recently, I became the primary caretaker of my two boys—ages 1 and 3. Though I knew full-time parenting is a demanding job, I now realize that it is more difficult and engaging than most of what I encountered at my day job.

Editor's Journal: Making the Cut

One of the primary jobs of a magazine editor is to decide what material will comprise any given issue.

Chronogram Seen

“The Vagina Monologues” at the Bearsville Theater (3/1) CAFE CHRONOGRAM AT THE KINGSTON MUDDY CUP (3/15)

On The Cover

Polaroidologist Patrick Winfield discusses the art of working with Polaroid film and the possibe extinction of the film.

Parting Shot

Doppelgänger:01.16.07, 2007 by Cornelia Hediger.

There Are Only Butterflies

where the wind evolves.

Cubbyhole

Come down where down where who plays her what and I sing that thing for you you feel it too you do

Thoughts upon Julius Caesar’s Last Moment

When Caesar said “Et tu, Brute,” in shock his dying breath contained myriad things

The Artist’s Studio in Afternoon Fog 1894

Cabin smoke drift along

What Part of “No” Do You Not Understand?

The Never Girl is not impressed

The Quiet

if we were to watch our breaths

Alone

In a corner a girl sits no one notices her

Reproduction

Pregnancy may be the ultimate STD

Do Not Write About Love

Do not write about love it is clichéd

Un Confesion/ A Confesion

No tengo espacio en mi corazon Pero tengo espacio para tequila Patron.

52 Hertz

52 Hertz The Sound, scientists say of a tuba’s low note

The Land

A kingless kingdom lays bare; What richness would have grown.

Hamlet Haiku

Hamlet

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Economizing Energy

Kelly Granger reveals how easily energy can be wasted and the quick solutions and larger investments that can help fix inefficient homes.

Deluge

A look at what the predicted changes in tidal levels, temperature, and climate conditions could mean for the Hudson Valley.

What's It All About?

Eric Francis Coppolino discusses the politics of human necessities.

Horoscopes

Horoscopes for the month of April.

The Beef Over Downed Cows

Lorrie Klosterman takes a look at health problems stemming from standard practices within the US meat and dairy industry.