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MUSIC | ART | THEATRE & CINEMA LISTINGS FOR THE HUDSON VALLEY vol. 28 | november 10 - december 10 2009 music | art | theatre & cinema listings for thehudson valley |art &cinema listings for music |theatre CREATIVE LIVING IN THE HUDSON VALLEY Serving Healthcare Needs for Women in the Hudson Valley HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley™ offers two women’s centers for your convenience. Our Services: • Digital Mammography • Minimally Invasive Breast Biopsy • Bone Density Scans •TM Clinical Breast Exams • Genetic Counseling Benedictine Hospital • The Kingston Hospital • Margaretville Hospital Call today for your appointment. www.hahv.org The Fern Feldman Anolick Breast Center (845) 334-3088 on the Benedictine Campus The Greenspan Center for Women’s Health (845) 334-2712 on The Kingston Hospital Campus Gomen Kudasai color ad 9/27/09 3.50"W x 4.75"D dear readers, I’ve had it with vampires. No, really. Vampires suck, literally and figuratively. 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What do you call a banking system that, lacking any significant oversight, made ridiculously complex, dangerous, and frankly unethical transactions ✶ Music every weekend (derivatives, credit default swaps, etc.) that made a select group extremely Bearsville Theater ✶ wealthy when the going was good, but when the bottom (inevitably) “committed to bringing music back to Woodstock” dropped out ruining tens of thousands of lives, sucked over a trillion dollars out of the entire country to save itself…only to go right back to those risky Most Thursdays transactions, as if nothing had happened? ✶ BLUEGRASS CLUBHOUSE 8-10pm Miss Angie’s Karaoke LIVE! 10pm ✶ What do you call a media that will never allow campaign finance reform— something this country desperately needs, in my opinion, to keep our Friday & Saturday Nov. 13 & 14 representatives from being bought off—simply because they wouldn’t get match PWDSTMS27 6presentsU C9 0RAILROAD EARTHmatch PMS158theU millions of dollars politicians need to spend most of their time raising C100 M90 M65 instead of serving their constituency? Friday Nov. 27 Gandalf Murphy & the ✶ M1 00 ✶K30Slambovian CircusY8 0 Vampirism is alive and well, Dear Reader…for many, it has become a K50✶ 9pm way of “life.” For we don’t have just vampires. We have entire Vampire of Dreams Industries. And as long as they're getting…fed…well, they’re not going Saturday Nov. 28 The Brew 9pm anywhere. So, now that Halloween is over, how about we toss out the fake Friday Dec. 4 Three in Concert blood, mascara, and pointy teeth, and get out the stakes, garlic, and silver with Special Guest bullets. It’s time to reach down for our inner Van Helsing’s and Buffy’s and ✶ ✶ Weerd Science 9pm ✶ take on these amoral bloodsucking entities. Make your voices heard, write and call your representatives—don’t let them off the hook for a minute. Saturday December 5 Talk about it, sign petitions, blog. Demand that these vampires be forced 4th Annual Mulled Measure of Merry Mishegas into the sunshine where they don’t want to be. Let’s not have a country with Peter Schickele, Gilles Malkine that’s safe for vampirism; it didn’t work out so hot for Transylvannia, now ✶ and Mikhail Horowitz did it? And next year, if you’re looking for a classic monster to be, may I suggest Full Bar, Streamside Lounge, Gourmet Dining at Frankenstein’s monster, or the Bride? At least they had souls. The Bear Cafe! 2 miles west of Woodstock on Rt. 212... Tickets (845) 679-4406✶ • www.bearsvilletheater.com Cheers! Ross Rice, editor 2 | rollmagazine.com for his gift guide, can you put in images of: Acer and/or Lenova netbook Toshiba laptop Imac I think his description from last year, with the addition of these listed as pictured will work. 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ALAN MA r k E r /o W N E r 3835 main street/rte. 209 | stone ridge ny 12484 | 845.687.9505 | [email protected] 3 | rollmagazine.com table of contents 2 editor’s note 8 roll art & image— sky light on modern art: Dia Beacon, Riggio Galleries, by Ross Rice 16 roll the music— three the hard way: Peter Aaron talks to Joey Eppard of the band 3 18 roll listings— art | music | theatre & cinema 30 roll CD reviews— new releases by Twinn Connexion, John David Schrader, and Kirsten DeHann Punk DVD’s from Iggy Pop, Dee Dee Ramone, D.O.A., and U.K. compilations 32 roll dollars & sense— year-end planning, by Beth Jones 34 roll on stage & screen— the evolving image of black women in American film: a discussion with author and Vassar professor Mia Mask, by Jay Blotcher 37 roll holiday gift guide 44 Rob Brezsny’s freewill astrology— 46 roll wine & spirits— the Thanksgiving meal, by Timothy Buzinski and Mei Ying So, Artisan Wine Shop, Beacon 47 roll cuisine corner— celebrating the harvest with Turkey Ballontine, by Pierre-Luc Moeys, Oriole 9, Woodstock 48 roll portrait COVER ART , SUNPORCH 2, JENNY NELSON 4 | rollmagazine.com FARM-FRESH PRODUCE • BUTCHER SHOP • FISH MARKET VAST GOURMET GROCERY, CHEESE & COFFEE SELECTION DELECTABLE BAKED GOODS • SWEET SHOP AND MORE! www.adamsfarms.com POUGHKEEPSIE KINGSTON NEWBURGH Route 44 Route 9W Route 300 845-454-4330 845-336-6300 845-569-0303 5 | rollmagazine.com roll magazine is published monthly by Roll Publishing, Inc. 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