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View From the Top

Esteemed Reader: December

Publisher Jason Stern discusses miracles, large and small.

Editor's Note: My Sweet Gourd

Brian K. Mahoney sets the record straight: It’s a nectarine!

Local Luminary: Catherine O'Reilly

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.

First Impression: My Last Mix Tape

Robert Burke Warren recalls 1980s courtship and brotherly love through mix tape memories.

Featured Contibutors: December

What do you get when you combine a designer, production director, illustrator, intern, and several pots of coffee? Chronogram’s December issue, of course.

Chronogram Seen: December

Fionn Reilly risked lens and limb to get photographs of sword slinging Barushka, and the rest of November’s Chronogram sponsored performers.

Department of Corrections: December

Belleayre Resorts at Catskill Park will break ground in the fall of 2008.

Letters

I so enjoyed the memories aroused by reading Timothy Cahill’s latest, “The Daily Practice of November” (Editor’s Journal, November 2007).

No Exit

Andy Singer’s No Exit comics.

Editor's Journal: Link by Link

I’m as much a creature of my age as anyone, and wouldn’t want to live in a world without plastic. But there’s no way we need so damned much of it.

Local Luminary: Susan Holland

As executive director of Historic Albany Foundation, Holland has dedicated herself to the preservation of Albany’s neighborhoods.

December's Featured Contributors

Joseph Dalton, William Doiron, Michael Fallarino, and Nina Shengold contribute to December’s issue.

News & Politics

While You Were Sleeping: December

Organic is healthier, international assassins for hire, dropout factories, stubborn Staph, and much more.

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In Search of Hugo Chavez

Chávez’z autocratic and megalomaniacal tendencies have undermined governance and the democratic process in Venezuela. Still, his seductive political project has offered a measure of hope to many.

This Month in God

Larry Beinhart on downward-facing dogs and other Godly conundrums.

On the Cover

Moon Wheel

Rodney Alan Greenblat’s career has been full of color, characters, and whimsy. Take a peek at his new Zen-inspired work.

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Sanam

The idea for the painting Sanam came to Troy-based artist Jon Gernon, as he puts it, in a “flash” when he saw a family friend wearing a T-shirt she’d made based on the “Coexist” bumper sticker.

Arts & Culture

Portfolio: Susan Wides

Photographer Susan Wides explains how she went from wax museums to rooftops.

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Concerto Against the Violin

Arnaud Sussmann plays the impossible with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.

Linear Digression

“Time Tracers” features five photographers that chronicle the passage of time.

All in a Day's Work

Darryl Bautista and Lowell Handler turn their lenses on immigrant workers.

Crumpet Chronicle

Tom Ford stars in a local production of The SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris.

Music for Morpheus

Dean Jones unveils his first solo album, Napper’s Delight at the Rosendale Cafe.

Portfolio: Ray Materson

In the nearly two decades since his first stitch, Ray Materson has depicted episodes of violence, abuse, and degradation, as well as scenes of tranquility, joy, and redemption.

Chemical Attractions

“Molecules That Matter” continues through April 13, 2008 at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs.

La Dolce Vita

“Natura Morta: Still-Life Painting and the Medici Collections” continues at the Hyde Collection through January 13, 2008.

It Takes a Village

Richie Havens will bring his coffeehouse intimacy and Woodstock vibe to the GE Theatre at Proctors on December 8.

Steal This Movie

The film, an “apocalyptic buddy picture,” according to the director, is not, he admits, the kind of picture people are going to “rush to multiplexes” or even film festivals to see.

Early-Music Missionaries

The Boston Camerata will appear at Memorial Chapel on the campus of Union College in Schenectady on December 16.

Fabric of Unknown Lives

“Fabrica: Fiber Constructs by Estelle Kessler Yarinsky” remains at the Albany Institute through December 30.

Bronze Ages

“Cast Images: American Bronze Sculpture from the Metropolitan Museum of Art” continues at the New York State Museum through February 24, 2008.

Lucid Dreaming

Lines of Thought

Beth E. Wilson reviews legendary artist Saul Steinberg’s retrospective at Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery.

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Music

Giant Footsteps

Meet Eric Mingus. He makes quite an impression.

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Nightlife Highlights: December

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

CD Review: Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism

Take a trip down to New Orleans and steep in the sexy soul of jazz, blues, and rock ’n’ roll.

CD Review: The New Friends of Rhythm

The New Friends of Rhythm is one of the few big jazz bands that successfully played classical adaptions. Listen to this collection.

CD Review: Uncle Rock

Uncle Rock U., mines folk, funk, and rootsrock for 17 upbeat, flat-out fun tunes that celebrate polar bears, fire engines, grumpy neighbors, and more.

December Nightlife Highlights

Roger Houston’s picks for December.

CD Review: Grainbelt

On Trouble Coming Down, Grainbelt splits the difference between the pedal-steel-fortified country inflections of CPK, and the more four-on-the-floor, twin-guitar rock stylings of the Dugans.

CD Review: Al Gallodoro

Many of Daybreak’s tunes sound as if they’ve been pulled from a grand old black-and-white movie.

CD Review: Plum Crazy

Maybe the best thing from Vermont since maple syrup, Plum Crazy has a new CD stocked with its unique blend of radio-ready rock.

The Long Road to Edwards

The idea of getting fresh music out into the world sometimes seems as remote as Edwards. But at the end of the road, with luck, you may finally arrive.

Books

Fresh Air

Berkshire novelist Andrea Barrett talks with Nina Shengold about fiction,science, and her new novel, The Air We Breathe.

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Short Takes: December

A celebration of vibrant new work by Hudson Valley poets and independent presses.

Book Review: Making the New Lamb Take

Caitlin McDonnell reviews two new volumes of poetry.

Crazy in America

Kim Wozencraft reviews Crazy in America, a book that addresses the imprisonment and criminalization of the mentally ill.

Book Review: Toehold

Anne Pyburn reviews the new Stephen H. Foreman novel, Toehold.

Memories of a Year Well-Read

Six book reviewers tell readers their top two recommendations for books of the year.

Poetry

The Northway, 2:00 am

“a broken white line flashes”

Old Woman in the Passenger Seat of a Jeep Cherokee

“The mouth absently open, a screen door to the night lawn, post-party.”

My Life as an Author

“look for a picture of the person I’ve been told I resemble”

Subterranean Skyline

“It’s 8:40 pm And I’m on a rooftop In New London”

Myth Making in Louise’s Garden

“the afternoon lazy in fallen leaves”

What the Bumblebee Does

“Unlikely icon of Mexican TV”

Some Questions about the Soul

“Tell me, what fills the sleep of whales? Do they dream of their lost feet?”

Bad Baggage (Cinquains for the Middle of the Road)

“They say there’s not one thing anyone gets to keep, just odd, assorted things for rent or loan.”

In My Strawberry Underwear

“I am thinking what it would be like all of it”

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“I pack my snowballs and leave them at the door”

Early Garden

“The garden I planted at thirteen, cherry and plum tomatoes, secret carrots, cucumbers, poled string beans and corn, still weeds me.”

In the Dry Well of the Afternoon

“Later, her head rose even higher—gazelle at the edge of the grasses long neck arched, chin tucked in listening hard for the sound of approach.”

Dream Noir

“In this dream noir friends flicker and fade the score pounds a rock on my skull”

The Heights

“Hour after hour spent in a box lined with velvet,”

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“The quince is still green”

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“family photo—”

Poetry: Anthony Bernini

Four poems by poet Anthony Bernini, author of Distant Kinships.

Parting Shot

Parting Shot: Rhododendron

Lilli Farrell discovered a new technique to treat her photographs with that allows her to look at nature in a different light.

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Buddha in a Cage

Buddha in a Cage and other images from “The Chinese” are part of the “New Acquisitions/New Perspectives” exhibition on display at the Williams College Museum of Art through January 6, 2008.

Horoscopes

My America

Eric Francis Coppolino reads the signs and fears trouble ahead for 2008.

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Horoscopes: December

Eric Francis Coppolino’s astrological outlook for December.

Holiday Gift Guide

Hudson Valley's Holiday Gift Guide

Francis Cruz searches the Hudson Valley for thoughtful, unique gifts.

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Holiday Gift Books

Nina Shengold picks these page-turners to give.

Think Festively, Shop Locally

Francis Cruz and William Doiron round up the best local gifts.

Whole Living

The Ebb and Flow of Ecstasy

Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson explore Tantric paths to sudden joy.

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The Osteopathic Lineage of Healing

Lorrie Klosterman describes how cranial osteopathy and cranialsacral therapy can restore the body’s healing powers.

Food & Drink

Get Your Goat

Sukey Pett gets her goat at Lynnhaven Farm and Triple H Ranch.

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New Kid in Town

The new menu at Marché is a mind-meld of European fresh-market cuisine and American standbys reinterpreted for the modern, food-smart diner.

Community Notebook

Defeating the Digital Divide

Kelley Granger profiles the Children’s Media Project in Poughkeepsie, where students create their own programming.

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Under the Bridge: Cont'd

Part two of the Troy comic series.

Green Bodhisattva

In cradle-to-cradle thinking, when a product reaches the end of its useful life, it should be possible to recapture the component materials to maintain all of their potential usefulness.