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View From the Top

On the Cover: The Human

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.

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Esteemed Reader

I stopped his swing and we looked in the direction of the sound. There, silhouetted against the darkening evening sky, was the outline of the long-beaked bird on a high tree branch. The bird’s knock-knock-knock resounded in the calm of dusk.

Editor's Note

It’s time again for my annual sermonizing on the benefits of the bicycle as a salubrious form of alternative transit.

Local Luminary: Jeff Cohen

Jeff Cohen is a writer, lecturer, and media critic who founded the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting in 1986.

News & Politics

While You Were Sleeping

Vonnegut was described in a FOX News obit as an “irrelevant” writer of “left-wing screeds” known for “his unique brand of despondent leftism.”

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Whose Lie Is It, Anyway?

When Karl Rove talks about protecting “ballot integrity,” that is shorthand for disenfranchising Democratic Party voters.

The Rise & Fall of America's Political Right

There is no real name for the movement that took over America six years ago and continues run it. That’s part of the reason for its success. Its very vagueness makes it hard to attack. In actuality, it is not a single entity.

This Modern World: May

The latest from Tom Tomorrow.

Arts & Culture

Portfolio: Cannon Hersey

If the world is to be saved, it’s people like Cannon Hersey who will spearhead the effort.

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Parting Shot: April Warren

“Ten Words,” a dual exhibition featuring April Warren and Eileen Brand, will be shown at the Main Street Bistro in New Paltz through June 6.

May Nightlife Highlights

DJ Wavy Davy’s picks for May!

Big Screen Berkshires

The second annual Berkshire International Film Festival will screen 50 movies at a number of venues in Great Barrington May 17 through May 20.

The Celts Are Coming

More than one-third of Americans descend from Celtic roots, tracing their ancestry back to one of the eight Celtic nations: Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Asturias, or Galicia.

Screen Scene

The premier screening of Racing Daylight, a slice of magic realism filmed in Ulster County and starring David Strathairn, anchors a summer film series by The Woodstock Film Festival.

Film: Breaking Up

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.

Food & Drink

You've Got Kale!

Supposing you want to try making raw food. You’ll need a blender. Devotees swear by the Vita-Mix. It’s the Harley-Davidson of blenders—goes forward, reverse, and vroom, vroom, vroom. You can crush ice, coffee beans, and probably beer cans with it.

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Raw Food Recipes

Recipes for Raw Kale Salad and Raw “Fettucine” Pomodoro, courtesy of Roni Shapiro.

Community Notebook

Stephanie Says

There’s nothing cozy or calm about Stephanie Daley, which examines the fear and ambivalence that can haunt even the most wanted pregnancy.

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Art of Business: Show Business

Since 1979, the Bardavon has been operated as a performance venue by the nonprofit corporation Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. “We’re very proud of what we do here,” says Silva. “It’s hard, though. Ninety percent [of it] boils down to fundraising.”

Lucid Dreaming

Intoxicating Abstraction

Abstraction just ain’t what it used to be.

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Music

Black Dirt Blowout

It’s 2007 and there’s a war on. If you’re a teen or twenty-something with a brain, what do you want, The Cranberries?

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CD Review: Holland, Thompson, & Tooch

I doubt if anyone is better at making the kind of simple yet eloquent life statements that multi-instrumentalist John Martucci does with the folk-jazzy “Gratitude” and the sing-along, feel-good closer “Keep on Chippin’.”

CD Review: Tugging at the Infinite

Rock ’n’ rollers have their own version of the American Dream: to quit their day jobs and write that symphony they’ve always wanted to write. Last year keyboardist Neil Alexander finally did so.

CD Review: All the Tired Horses

Mojave 3 meets the Cocteau Twins with a dude up front.

Sharp Shocked Show

1988’s Short, Sharp, Shocked, featured a controversial cover photo of the Michelle Shocked in the chokehold of a San Francisco Police officer.

Peak Performances

Ensconced in a natural amphitheater framed by the Catskill Mountains, the festival’s two stages will again feature an accomplished, eclectic array of artists, including Gov’t Mule.

Loaded Chamber

Famed songwriter and pianist Dave Frishberg is probably best known for 1973’s “I’m Just a Bill,” the first song he wrote for the TV show “Schoolhouse Rock.”

Oh, Our Odetta

How far will you travel to touch the hem of the great Odetta?

Q&A with Dave Frishberg

“I Have To Do My Homework”: An Interview with Dave Frishberg

Books

Graphic Novel Galaxy

Graphic novels have increasingly opened to women as well, with notable nonfiction titles including Marjane Satrapi’s Iranian-girlhood portrait Persepolis and Alison Bechdel’s familial tragicomedy Fun Home.

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Book Review: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo

Just reissued in paperback, this tale of American volunteer Larry Kaplanski’s time spent in a godforsaken place where “even the baboons feel sorry for us,” is told in a picaresque manner well suited to the 21st-century attention span.

Book Review: A Worldly Country

If it’s loveliness you want, here, take some, hissed the black fairy. Waiting for the string quartet, on the corner, denatured I wondered what the heck.

Book Review: Bloodthirsty

Former sitcom and ad writer Marshall Karp blasted holes through Hollywood hypocrisy in his 2006 debut, The Rabbit Factory. Now the Woodstock mystery maven brings his comical cops back for another round in Bloodthirsty.

Short Takes for May

These five new releases offer sustenance to heart, mind, and body, including John Cuneo’s romp through the lowest of chakras.

A Cowboy's Story

At his peak, Gene Autry was a cultural juggernaut.

Poetry

Poem: We Have All Been There

Don’t act so superior, we have all been there, the festering anxiety, the sudden break-up, the “let’s still be friends” routine,

Poem: The Death of Me

You are my unspeakable torment

Poem: 7. Green

You’re in a place, in a place I’m not sure, maybe a tree a certain tree.

Poem: Poet Cowboy

Walt Whitman laying at the bottom of a box. Face down. The poet cowboy surpassing the hold of technology.

Poem: Old School

These same scratchings on the chalkboard each day, Forcing your mind and guiding your way

Poem: Stray

i think of him wet whiskered

Poem: Last Call

Then the old man is off down the alley, his knife dreaming in the bed of his coat,

Poem: What You Thought

You are on a cliff with a pier below

Poem: Moby Dick Revisited

The meta- physics of madness

Poem: The Sky Sheds Our Violence

The stars burned, not even knowing our names.

Poem: Plastic Glitter

To Vogue under a garbled iPod glow

Home & Garden

Take It Outside

It’s the perfect time to think about extending your living space beyond the four walls of your home with an outdoor room.

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Household Harmony

By using subtle design techniques, feng shui can create environments that stimulate positive energy and increase prosperity and good health.

Whole Living

Your Body Speaks Your Mind

You are in charge of your own attitudes and feelings, of the way you treat yourself and your world, but you cannot determine the outcome of every circumstance, just as you do not make the sun rise or set.

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Inner Vision: Don't Get Mad, Get Wise

In numerous studies, anger has been found to have a wholly detrimental effect on our physical well-being.

Horoscopes

From Blacksburg to New Paltz

How much money would we spend to prevent a catastrophe like the one that happened at Virginia Tech last month?

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May Horoscopes

Your fear may finally be pushing you someplace you need to be, making you aware of something you need to be aware of.