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Arts & Culture

Portfolio: f-Stop Fitzgerald

f-Stop Fitzgerald is an early chronicler of the punk scene in San Francisco. His photo exhibition “Rockers Shot Onstage!” at the Rosendale Cafe opens November 31.

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Live, Like a Refugee

Dar Williams will perform in support of the new DVD release, Live at Bearsville Theater.

Haunted House

Stanley’s House is an exploration of parallel lives lived in the same house.

N'Dour on Tour

If James Brown was the hardest-working man in show business, N’Dour has certainly given the Godfather of Soul a run for his money.

Hidden View

In Edmund C. Coates’s Lighthouse, near Caldwell’s Landing, gentle hills rise like green breasts above two full-bellied sailboats. The Victorians had an erotic love of landscape.

Visions of the Rio Grande

The Samuel Dorskey Museum of Art hosts Gandert’s work as an event for this month’s Big Read in New Paltz.

Blurring the Lines

Under the banner “A Break from the Constant” this refreshingly bold arts-in-the-schools initiative will take place November 1st through the 4th.

From Dahomey to Da Bronx

Cuban-born composer and saxophonist Yosvany Terry chose Ye-dé-gbé as the name of his latest jazz ensemble project which tangles the influences of the Afro-Caribbean Arará culture with the American jazz form.

Begin Morning Civil Twilight

Finch’s art takes a variety of forms, from works on paper to sculptural objects to set design, but his main medium is installation.

Forever Young

“Rumi Embodied: An Ecstatic Celebration” will be held at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, November 15-18.

The Tao of Roald

When the Nobel committee awarded the 1981 prize in chemistry to Roald Hoffmann, they couldn’t have known they were encouraging a poet, playwright, and art critic.

Reinventing History

The gala is being described as the Dudley Observatory’s 150th anniversary bash, despite the fact that the facility was chartered in 1852 and dedicated in 1856.

World of Shadows

“Chinese Shadow Figures from the Collection of Dr. Fan Pen Chen” is on exhibit from November 2 through January 6, 2008.

Digital Daguerrotypist

“Photosemasia: Meaning in Light, Digital Translations of Lost Photographic Processes, Selected Works by Wil Lindsay,” runs from November 19 though January 20 at The Photography Center of the Capital District.

Cool Moves

The Iceland Dance Company will perform at The Egg on November 2 at 8pm.

Chronogram Seen: November

The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.

Lucid Dreaming

Star Power

Beth E. Wilson grapples with celebrity in contemporary art as she reviews the exhibitions of artists, Jo Andres and Keith Edmier.

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News & Politics

From Forced Evacuation to Liberal Education

Lorna Tychostup travels to Kurdistan, reporting on the conditions of an illegal displaced persons camp and the work being done toward the founding of a liberal arts university.

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SECRETS

The final installment of Larry Beinhart’s series on the perils of government secrecy.

While You Were Sleeping

The Mexican government cracks down on drug cartels, Americans suffer from chronic diseases, fewer casualties in Iraq, courts rule against Yale Law School, and more.

Horoscopes

Horoscopes: November

Eric Francis Coppolino’s astrological outlook on November.

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The Road to Nowhere

Eric Francis Coppolino examines the intersection of the personal and the global in his past.

Holiday Gift Guide

The Gifts that Keeps Giving

Why give Uncle Charlie another snowflake sweater? Francis Cruz offers alternatives to gift giving that put charity before consumption.

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Spirit of the Holiday

This holiday season, offer gifts that host and guest can enjoy together: wine. Francis Cruz talks to local merchants and vinters about smart buying choices.

Music

Still Angry After All These Years

Peter Aaron interviews Graham Parker.

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Nightlife Highlights: November

Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ WAVY DAVY for your listening pleasure.

CD Review: Courtenay Budd

So this album isn’t just for baby, it’s for anyone who enjoys top-notch classical or opera.

CD Review: Trio Loco

Plan on spending many late, smoky nights with all this Jass.

Uncle Monk

Three chords, no-frills recording, and a joyful disregard of the mainstream: punk rock or old-time string band music?

Washboard Charisma

The Ramblin Jug Stompers—Wild Bill, Bowtie, Cousin Clyde, and Mr. Eck—dispense timeless old-timey songs with a remarkably fresh approach.

November's Nightlife Highlights

Roger Houston’s nightlife picks.

CD Review: Sarah Pedinotti

With Sarah Pedinotti’s impeccable back phrasing, clever production, and amazing arrangements, this release surely raises the bar for regional recordings.

CD Review: Alta Mira

Birthed in Clifton Park, New York, barely legal quartet Alta Mira is out to impress with their first CD Fables and Fabrications.

CD Review: Carol R. Daggs

The songs are given enough air to breathe, and they bubble with life. Daggs’s raw imperfection is the perfection of this album, a foot deep in the ground while traveling the heavens.

View From the Top

Featured Contibutors: November

Three writers and a cartoonist who contributed to this month’s Literary Supplement.

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First Impressions: November

Sparrow reviews the highlights of the Woodstock Film Festival and which films caused geriatric riots.

Esteemed Reader: November

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. —Walt Whitman

Editor's Note: Are you LOHAS?

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.

Local Luminary: Dean Gitter

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.

November's Featured Contributors

Jim de Seve, Tracy Frisch, Amy Halloran, and Michael Oatman contribute to November’s issue.

First Impression: Bumper Sticker Report

Sparrow gives an update on his bumper sticker slogans.

Editor's Journal: The Daily Practice of November

It’s November, the waiting season. The changeover. The interregnum between the kingdom of plenty and the kingdom of ice.

Local Luminary: Ed Tick

Timothy Cahill speaks to psychologist and author Ed Tick.

On the Cover

Ladder for Booker T. Washington

Reflecting on the metaphorical qualities, Martin Puryear recognized a connection to progress Booker T. Washington encouraged blacks to adopt in the nineteenth century.

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9 Lives

Charles Bremer’s images are on exhibit through November 25 at Amrose Sable Gallery, 306 Hudson Avenue, Albany.

Literary Supplement

Well Met!

Vonnegut, Frost, Oates, and more show local authors how to have a good time.

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Literature, the musical

Literary Supplement editors Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold invited readers to create titles for the Broadway musical versions of classic works of literature that Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, et al., have heretofore overlooked, and also provide a few representative songs.

Opportunities for Writers

Small presses and obscure publications advertise for content.

But How Do I Start the Middle?

Gioia Timpanelli, Akiko Busch, and Janine Pommy Vega on the pitfalls of writing.

Fiction Contest Winner

Fiction by our short story contest winner, Timothy Tocher’s “Red Rover.”

Author Portraits

Jennifer May takes aim at Hudson Valley writers.

Chronogram's Choice

The best of the best of the past year. Already behind? Start turning the page.

Poetry

Losing the Job

He’d thought nothing of it when he told his ten year olds the job of the Judicial Branch is choosing the President.

America Needs A Woman President

America needs a woman president who trusts in the wisdom of the moon.

Enemy

i, at ten, didn’t know war so brutal. i, at ten, thought you just killed the enemy.

Our Common Soil

This is my country where decent people watch the murders they have paid for, and yawn, and go to sleep.

Morning Song

The animal of man…

Global Warming

From our flames come your deaths, from our ashes no rebirth.

At Nineteen

Our clever bullets tumble through skin and bone.

The Hood

I pretend nothing is ever wrong. I feel like crap walking home to a dirty neighborhood.

Laundered Ideals

I say the stained shirts should stand tall,proudly displaying their perceived flaws.

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Five works by poet and teacher Nancy Klepsch.

Whole Living

The Healthy Brain

You exercise your body, feed it well, and look for ways to keep it at optimal performance—but what about your brain?

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Power of the Group

Jeffrey Schneider explains the healing potential of group therapy.

Community Notebook

Fair Lady

Ann Braybrooks visits Cecilia Dinio-Durkin of Women’s Work in Cold Spring, who specializes in fairly traded items from Africa and South America.

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The Polar Bears of Dutchess County

Hillary Harvey spends time tracking climate change with the scientists and researchers at the Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.

Under the Bridge

Halloran and de Sève present a comic book history of Troy and a building project that vanished “under the bridge.”

Have Pig, Will Travel

In 2004, a small group of upper Hudson Valley farmers and New York City chefs launched a unique kind of service that is repairing the chasm that separates their businesses.

Food & Drink

Consider the Herbalist

Amy Giezentanner profiles Gary Allen, author of The Herbalist in the Kitchen.

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The Sophisticated Crepe

At Ravenous, diners can choose from 13 savory and 13 sweet crepes, plus daily specials. “We’ve always been interested in concentrating on just a few items and doing them really, really well,” co-owner Lauren Wickizer says.

Books

Perennial Voyager

The late Jim Ryan, curator of nearby Olana, once told Kermani, “Someday this house is going to be seen as a major work by John Ashbery.”

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Short Takes: November

Five books for November reading.

Book Review: The Air We Breathe

Here, once again, Barrett has woven science and story into a seamless narrative. By the end of the novel, readers have become an intimate part of Tamarack society.

Book Review: What You Call Winter

Nalini Jones’s debut collection suggests James Joyce’s The Dubliners. All of Joyce’s choice themes are here: lost innocence, alienation, dislocation, and a struggle with Catholic identity.

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Tyler constructs small-scale structures then destroys her work and photographs the breakdown process.

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Parting Shot: Kip Fulbeck

“The Hapa Project: Portraits by Kip Fulbeck” is on view at the Mandeville Gallery, located in the Nott Memorial building on the Union College campus in Schenectady, through February 3, 2008.