Mmz2 000003Biggerfontfor Web.Indd
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
is proud to present the premiere party Come celebrate this inaugural issue with us. featuring a live performance by our featured artist Mark Marshall and the release of his debut CD New Eye Thursday, March 15th - 9:00 p.m. at Olive’s 116 Main Street Nyack, NY and broadcast live at rocklandworldradio.com in this issue... Exiled on Main Street 3 A change for the creative community of Rockland a word from the editor, Richard Quinn Rockland Works for Peace 4 On the street - truly supporting our troops by Nancy Tsou Practical Chaos 5 The Work/Life Minute™ - fi nding a center by Judy Martin Nyack Social Scene 6 An evening’s crawl through Nyack by Johnny Silver Cottage Views 7 Reviews of the new Bob Seger, and a fi ne wine by Michael Cimino Real Homes 8 How to “warm up” your home this winter by Lenore Congemi Koncert Kitchen 9 Safe, healthy and conscious cooking - AND eating by Johnny Ciao New Eye 11 The exquisite journey of our featured artist Mark Marshall - an interview by Judy Martin Go Where Film Is 13 Where to fi nd and see great fi lms in Rockland by Deb Shufelt Welcome to a New World 14 There’s local radio available to you on your PC. details on some great local internet radio shows Nightspots 16 OK, so you have your favorite haunts... but did you know about these? London Calling 17 Sights and sounds from across the pond by Laura Kanaplue Opinions 18 Locals speak out Advertisers & 19 supporters guide At MMZ, we not only care about your opinion - we want you to contribute. Send your submissions to [email protected]. All submissions will be considered, but we reserve the editorial right to include what we will. So take a chance, and participate. 2 Exiled on Main Street Richard Quinn The word on the street is, “it’s time for a change - perhaps it’s time we have a new game.” The rules haven’t changed since the dawn of time, but the tools and the toys never cease to evolve into sophisticated hybrids, thus creating new games and new ways to play. So, if it’s time for a new game, let’s play. Greetings, and welcome to our fi rst issue of MMZ, a Modern Metro Zine with the intent to play the space in-between. To go above, beyond and below if necessary... fi lling the void with arts, culture and opinion. Out- of-the-ordinary stories featuring out-of-the-ordinary people, events and happenings from near and far. For too long the artistic community has been snubbed and slandered, as if it corrupts society...as it creates anti-commercial statements with rebellious sentiments, while fully understanding the ultimate inevitability of it someday being used for commercial purposes. The revolutionary sounds and visions of the anti-establishment counter culture sixties and seventies have come back, now re-mixed to sell us cars, investment mutual funds or laundry detergent. It’s just business as usual. It’s not us against them, it’s us against us. We do this to ourselves, confusing the point of where we come from, where we want to go, and how to get there. We’re all in this together, sharing experiences... not to accept the status quo, but to move forward, toward something better...not just for ourselves, but for the well being of all. We need art, culture and opinion of the people to help us keep this balancing act up. The artist needs to be seen and heard, and we need to see and hear artistic expression. Together with RocklandWorldRadio.com, which has been broadcasting from Nyack to a worldwide audience, you’ll now be able to read AND hear about new music and art that’s being created - about local and global issues - as well as all sorts of information from a wide range of forward thinking people, right here on these pages, AND over the internet airwaves. According to Arbitron, 56 million people nationally are now listening to internet radio, half of which, while listening, research and purchase products on line. For those of you not yet online, or who just like to hold what you’re reading in your hands, we offer you MMZ. The more things change the more they stay the same, but some things will never be the same - and some things will never change. We move forward, slowly, very slowly at times, until suddenly something new appears... it looks different, feels different, and makes you realize that somehow, you’ve stepped into the future. From that moment on, you’re conscious of the ever changing, and maybe see what you might not have noticed before. We have defi nitely moved onto a new way of thinking and being. There is something happening here but you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones? This will not be business as usual. Exiled on Main Street? No, I don’t think so. Not anymore. RQ P.S. There was a lot of effort from one and all and I’d like to thank everyone for their time and energy to help get this 1st issue of MMZ off the ground. In more ways than one this would not exist otherwise. M E D I A S E R V I C E S web • multimedia • print • audio recording and production • video branding a specialty, and we work within your budget. www.maximuminteractive.com/mmz 845-942-8665 845-826-2639 “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the Heart.” - Helen Keller 3 Rockland Works for Peace Nancy Tsou For more than four years, the Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice has been holding peace vigils in Nanuet, every Saturday from 1-3 p.m., in opposition to the war and occupation of Iraq. We hold our homemade signs and banners to reach out to our fellow Rocklanders about the facts that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, had no connection to Al Qaeda, and did not attack the U.S. on 9/11/2001. Every week, we prepare a timely new fl y er and hand it out to motorists to alert them about the lies, the suffering, the illegality, and the cost of the war. We believe truth will prevail. Two-thirds of the American people now say the U.S. made a mistake in going to war in Iraq. Last November, they voted out pro-war candidates, and wanted troops to come home. This past January, two bus-loads of Rocklanders went to Washington, D.C. to join half-a-million people marching to the Congress and demanding an end to the war. We are sickened by the killings. More than 3,150 U.S. service members have died, and 23,680 seriously wounded (www.icasualties.org). Over 600,000 Iraqi people have died (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health). Paying for the war has led us to skyrocketing debt. So far $370 billion has been spent on the war, at the rate of $11 million per hour. On average, every household in Rockland has paid $7,800! We have mortgaged the future of our grandchildren to pay for the war debt. The reality is that the majority of our troops in Iraq want to come home now. A year ago, a Zogby Poll (2/28/06) showed that 72% of the U.S. troops in Iraq said end the war in 2006. Stand with us at our Saturday peace vigil in Nanuet (at the corner of Rte. 59 & N. Middletown Rd.) to support our troops’ wishes to come home now! For details, visit: www.rocklandaction.org. Nancy Tsou is Coordinator of the Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice 4 The Work/Life Minute™ Judy Martin PRACTICAL CHAOS: Are You Work-Life Balanced? Truth be told, in our chaotic, sensory overloaded climate, “balance” seems to be a far fetched vault when speaking of working and living in a balanced state of being. Yet, this seemingly elusive goal topped the New Year’s resolution wish-list of people around the world, according to research marketing group ACNielsen. It surveyed consumers in 46 countries, and found that more than half want work to play less of a role in their 2007 lives. So how about here in Rockland? In an unoffi cial survey of people in this region, it became clear that entrepreneurs, small businesses, and those who work for a single boss are all facing the same challenges. The global marketplace has picked up to a pace we can’t even track, and the internet has sped up our lives. With those challenges added to the daily chaos we are exposed to in the media, we might very well be stressed out before we even walk out the door to go to work. But a closer look at the way we work and live reveals an age-old lesson. It’s not so much that we are slaves to our jobs, but rather it’s the way we react to the chaos, or daily grind, that rattles us off course. So how do we respond from a place of wisdom, instead of reacting from a place of fear? That’s the underlying issue that many of us face – whether at home or in the workplace – and by far the topic that I’m most often asked to speak about when I teach workshops on cultivating work/life resilience.