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A show exhibiting WWI-era propaganda
The expanding financial crises and its effects on local businesses.
Alex Matthiessen of Riverkeeper on an upcoming Supreme Court decision that will affect the Hudson River.
Robert Kocik’s 2009 calendar, designed exclusively for Chronogram.
An exhibition of prints by SUNY New Paltz students at the Arts Society of Kingston this month.
Brian K. Mahoney is officially done with George W. Bush.
Andrew Lichtenstein talks about his work photographing prison complexes and the incarcerated.
Brian K. Mahoney recommends a few comfort dishes at some Hudson Valley restaurants that opened this year.
Back from a ten-day vacation in Italy, Brian K. Mahoney talks sightseeing, pasta, and wine.
In accordance with this month’s literary supplement, Brian K. Mahoney discusses new reading for our troubled times.
Author, wine critic, and professor at the Culinary Institute of America Steven Kolpan discusses his pragmatic and irreverent guide, WineWise.
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.
Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon presents the group photographic show Planet China, featuring work by Alan Chin, Justin Guariglia, and Julien Chatelin.
Noémie Lafrance’s Rapture, a site-specific choreographic work atop Bard’s Fisher Center, will be performed September 25-28 and October 2-5.
A description of the mixed-media installation by Robert Hite.
Brian K. Mahoney talks with chefs about sourcing local.
Editor Brian K. Mahoney laments about all the events he missed this past summer.
A picture framer first and an artist second, Eugenia Ballard creates tableaux and shadow boxes out of various knickknacks.
Peter Shaffer’s “Black Comedy” will be performed at the Shadowland Theatre through August 10.
Bard professor Peter Hutton’s silent film about the life and death of a container ship, At Sea, will be shown at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on August 24.
Brian K. Mahoney profiles Kingston’s Francophile haven Le Canard Enchainé.
Editor Brian K. Mahoney assesses the inequality that exists in the legal system when applied to same sex marriages.
Founders of the annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby, George and Nancy Donskoj, reveal why they started the derby 14 years ago and why they keep doing it.
Brian K. Mahoney’s Q&A with legendary comedy writer Alan Zweibel, who will perform his latest project, the “History of Me” at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar July 18 through July 20.
Fifty works from 20 sculptors will appear in the exhibition “Current,” sponsored by the Garrison Art Center. The exhibit will be held at five different landmark sites along the Hudson River through August 10.
Editor Brian K. Mahoney shares his experiences in culinary dare devilry—eating oddities from head cheese to cow foot—at several ethnic and specialty food restaurants in the Hudson Valley.
Temperamental electricity, a twisted ankle, and a plethora of ants in his home are having editor Brian K. Mahoney feeling like he’s in a hole.
A tour of “Facebook,” led by curator Mary-Kay Lombino, will be held on Thursday, June 26, at 6pm in conjunction with the exhibition’s opening from 5 to 9pm.
Brian K. Mahoney talks with wine importer Neal Rosenthal, author of
Reflections of a Wine Merchant, about terroir at his home in the Shekomeko Valley.
Brian K. Mahoney makes it from the antebellum south to the Brat Pack in four moves.
Jeff Cohen is a writer, lecturer, and media critic who founded the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting in 1986.
It’s Bike Month once again, and I am reminded of certain realities regarding our lifestyle in this country:
Erin Davies is teaching the country about hate crimes with the help of her VW Beetle.
Various multimedia art projects are taking place around the Hudson Valley as part of the “Plugged In” exhibit.
Brian K. Mahoney finds tapas master Rich Reeve still creating revelatory small plates at Elephant wine bar in Kingston.
Get fit and save the planet by bike riding.
One of the primary jobs of a magazine editor is to decide what material will comprise any given issue.
Founder of Bread Alone, Dan Leader traveled to South Africa helping to give the people there healthy bread.
With its inventive sour dough pizzas Baba Louie’s in Hudson and Great Barrington are a popular spot for Italian food.
Simone Dinnerstein puts her own spin on Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Yvonne Gunner discusses her love for shooting different subjects.
Though I was raised Catholic in the 1970s, I didn’t do much Bible reading as a child. This might seem odd for someone who spent 12 years taught by priests and nuns.
Carrie Haddad is helping to preserve Historic Hudson.
Daniel Heyman interviewed 25 detainees in Istanbul making transcript/portraits of them which will be at the Samuel Dorsky Museum this month.
Losing the wiffle ball in the high grass on the summer solstice, a year-and-a-half ago on the back side of the Shawangunk Ridge in High Falls. Twelve of us drinking wine, having a picnic, saying any absurdity that entered our heads—meaningless things you believe you’ll always have time for on the longest night of the year.
With its outstanding menu and friendly atmosphere Caffè Macchiato in Newburgh is a hit.
The gist of what you have missed.
Executive director of Safe Harbors on the Hudson Tricia Haggerty-Wenz is helping to make Newburgh a better place.
Nellie McKay will perform Friday, January 4 and Saturday, January 5 at 9pm at Club Helsinki in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
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.
Chronogram events in December (and late November).
January’s featured contributors.
Untitled December 21, 2007
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.
“Time Tracers” features five photographers that chronicle the passage of time.
Belleayre Resorts at Catskill Park will break ground in the fall of 2008.
Fionn Reilly risked lens and limb to get photographs of sword slinging Barushka, and the rest of November’s Chronogram sponsored performers.
What do you get when you combine a designer, production director, illustrator, intern, and several pots of coffee? Chronogram’s December issue, of course.
Catherine O’Reilly’s work on climate change in East Africa has been published in the scientific journal Nature and was featured on PBS and on Public Radio International’s “Living on Earth” program.
Brian K. Mahoney sets the record straight: It’s a nectarine!
Gitter started a Kingston-based regional TV station (WTZA), co-founded the Big Indian Spring Water Company, and runs Catskill Corners, including the Emerson Place Resort and Spa, in Mt. Tremper.
If you like the serenity of yoga, then you’ll love the less ecosystem-destructive feeling of driving a Toyota Prius to buy grass-fed beef on your way home from the acupuncturist.
Hopewell Junction-based photographer Michael Sibilia will exhibit urban landscapes this month at GAS Gallery in Poughkeepsie.
Dutchess County legislator and radio host Joel Tyner, tells us where he’s dining, what he’s singing while stopped at a red light, and his first order of business if elected president.
What started as an editorial assignment to document public opinion about the US invasion of Iraq turned into a project examining how people are misinformed and confused by news and governmental spin on the war.
Ron Haviv’s photo of a Serb militiaman kicking a dying Muslim woman in the head—published a week before the fighting started—became one of the most enduring images of the Balkan conflict.
September’s Local Luminary, Ariel Shanberg.
September’s featured contributors.
This exchange reminded me of a poem long buried in my memory, about a poet visiting a painter’s studio and watching him paint (while drinking, of course).
“American Portrait Project,” Deborah DeGraffenreid’s examination of the nation’s polyglot face, will be exhibited at the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art through September 29.
Jim Reardon’s letter to the editor about June’s “Better Blooms” article.
Featured contributors for August.
Before the final chorus had settled across the packed house at Bard’s Spiegeltent on that balmy July evening, the Sisters had stripped (each other) to their underwear in an acrobatic burlesque that was part Pilobolus, part hilarity, part Scores, part blasphemy.
An interview with Ann Davis, a leading light of the community.
Vincent Serbin will exhibit new, landscape-based work through July 23 at Galerie BMG.
“A good question is never answered,” writes Ciardi. “It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of an idea.”
Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, the oldest environmentally conscious outdoor fest of its kind in the country, returns this Father’s Day weekend to Croton Point Park in Westchester.
“Faces of War: Kamdesh and the Korengal Outpost, Afghanistan” is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of US soldiers on the front lines.
Greig will be exhibiting her photographs from the Representations series this month at Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson.
June’s featured contributors.
Two years ago in July, I wrote what I termed “a transcription of the aural landscape of my backyard.” This month, I have endeavored to capture the evening sounds of that same space.
A study links child abuse to military deployment; 1,000 seals wash ashore in Kazakhstan; a spill of 7.5 million gallons of sewage contaminates the Hudson;and other news you may have missed.
John Cronin talks to Brian Mahoney about the regional environment and growing up in the Hudson Valley.
Breaking Up is a short film about unrequited love and bad cell phone reception, shot on location in Kingston, by Jeff Burns and the IAC film collective.
The second annual Berkshire International Film Festival will screen 50 movies at a number of venues in Great Barrington May 17 through May 20.
Vonnegut was described in a FOX News obit as an “irrelevant” writer of “left-wing screeds” known for “his unique brand of despondent leftism.”
It’s time again for my annual sermonizing on the benefits of the bicycle as a salubrious form of alternative transit.
This month’s cover image, The Human, is an underwater portrait of Italian surfer Nicolo Violati diving through a wave in the Maldives.The photo is part of a recent series by the artist created around, inside, and over the element of water.
In Killed Cartoons, writer and editor David Wallis collects some of the great nixed editorial pieces of recent vintage.
Multimedia artist Judy Pfaff’s prints and drawings.
Stories find their way to Chronogram in different ways.
Finding that sense of place in the Hudson Valley.
Photographer Candace Feit chronicles her recent visit to Darfur.
Relationship guidance from the Kama Sutra.
The dead outnumber the living in Totowa, New Jersey, the birthplace of photographer Laurie Giardino.
Streamline Media’s Brian Branigan narrates on a new show by artist Patrick Milbourn.
While recent transplants from Gotham might bemoan the perceived lack of amenities at local bars, one thing is certain: There is no shortage of places to get a drink in the Hudson Valley.
Iain Machell’s drawings will be exhibited this month as part of “Faculty Works,” a group show at SUNY Ulster’s Muroff Kotler Gallery in Stone Ridge.
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Tara, the piece is satire. However, Eric has written seriously on the PCB issue for Chronogram before. You can check out some of his past articles if you search on the site for "PCBs." One such article is available here: http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2004/05/backbone/planetwaves.html
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The Christmas Lesson
Alysa--This is super! I love the placement of the pictures.
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