2010
When Jeremy picked his cast and crew, 10 - april we landed a leading role. 10 | march | march 32 vol. vol. c r e a t i v e living in t h e h u d s o n v a l l e y v a l l e y “They looked at us as people.” h u d s o n
t h e
Jeremy Ellenbogen, CEO
Seven21 Media Center in Kingston f o r
listings
Let US Help Your Business Succeed! c i n e m a & t h e a t r e
Schedule a personal visit and receive a free gift. | 1-866-440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com a r t |
Business Checking • Loans & Lines of Credit • Commercial Mortgages • Tax Preparation & Planning • Business Insurance m u s i c Employee Benefits • Retirement Planning • Payroll Services • Bookkeeping
Member *Tax Preparation & Planning, Business Insurance, Employee Benefits, Retirement Planning, Payroll Services and Bookkeeping products and services available through music | art | theatre & cinema listings for the hudson valley FDIC Ulster Insurance Services, Inc., and Ulster Financial Group, Inc., subsidiaries of Ulster Savings Bank, are NOT FDIC INSURED. Rush hour, Ulster County style. Just 90 minutes from here. So much time. So little to do.
® I LOVE NEW YORK logo is a registered trademark/service mark of the NYS Dept. of Economic Development, used with permission.
45.875X10.875_train_card_final.indd 7 8/26/09 10:54 AM
Awesome!
With 350 miles of hiking and biking trails within its quarter million acres of forever-wild lands, Ulster County is alive with vibrant communities, marinas, art, antiques, music, beautifully prepared fresh food, luxury spas, and cozy lodgings. So, bring the family for the day Rushor a weekend, hour, and enjoy just how alive our part of the world can be.
Ulster CountyVisit our web site, sign up for ourstyle. online newsletter and join the fun. ulstercountyalive.com Just 90 minutes from here. So much time. So little to do. Call us at 800-342-5826
® I LOVE NEW YORK logo is a registered trademark/service mark of the NYS Dept. of Economic Development, used with permission.
®I LOVE NEW YORK logo is a registered trademark/service mark of the NYS Dept. of Economic Development, used with permission.
45.875X10.875_train_card_final.indd 7 8/26/09 10:54 AM
Gomen Kudasai 1/4 Color Ad 3/1/10 3.50"W x 4.75"D
dear readers, uite a February! Shifty political winds have upturned the ships of both Governor David Paterson—now no longer going for “re-” election thanks to apparent q misuse of his captaincy—and Harold Ford Jr., who attempted to re-tack left for New York Senate voters much too quickly after a strong right-tack for Tennessee Senate voters, revealing the fundamental flaws in his unseaworthy vessel. Aren’t you loving the nautical metaphors? OK, I’m done here.
But it’s been the wacky weather that will make last month memorable. We got a big dose of super wet and heavy snow, taking out power and cable all around our area for days. As much of a drag as that was, it was also pretty cool. People tend to be more helpful and friendly in crummy weather around here; I guess it comes from everyone having a shared burden outside of their control that can actually be overcome, sometimes with a little help. Frost said “Good fences make good neighbors.” I say good snow shovels do. SushiIS OPEN FOR DINNER FROM TUE - SAT What was also memorable to me about this February was how locals came out for charity last month; I counted at least five benefits in the area for the Haiti earthquake survivors, featuring some of the Valley’s best talent. One in particular that was outstanding was the Project For Haiti benefit at the Bearsville Theater, raising several thousand dollars from generous residents for a reputable NGO that can put the money into Bar immediate action there. (Kudos to Ted Orr for coordinating the show.) BEST OF HUDSON VALLEY But this coming month sees a charity event unlike any other I’m aware of. Twelve hunger relief organizations—Queens Galley, Family of 845-255-8811 Woodstock, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen, Daily Bread Soup Kitchen, www.gomenkudasai.com Ulster Corps, Angel Food East, Saint James Food Pantry, Rosendale Food Pantry, People’s Place, Chiz's Heart Street, God Given Bread 215 MAIN ST. NEW PALTZ NY Food Pantry and Libertyview Farm—are collaborating on what they are calling a “hunger event,” on Sunday March 28, at Backstage Productions in Kingston.
It goes like this. Upon arrival at the event, guests make their donation—$35, or $25 non-tax deductible minimum—and draw tickets at random that assign each guest to a high, middle, or low tier, based on the latest statistics concerning the amount of people living in poverty. The Ghent Wood 15 (or so) percent who receive a high tier ticket are served a sumptuous meal by chef Samir Srichi of Ship to Shore, and the 35 percent on the Products middle tier will dine on an offering from the Kingston Consolidated school lunch menu. The 50 percent on the low tier get to help themselves to small portions of rice and water. The guest speaker will be Chef Sarah Copeland, spokesperson for the Food Network and Share Our Strength's Native Hardwood Floors fight against childhood hunger, and a co-founder of our Good Food Bringing the outdoors…in! Gardens initiative.
RusticApril Red Based on the OXFAM “hunger events,” this bit of participatory theater Oak Flooring creates a first-hand experience of the reality of world hunger, and matchspecial PMS276U C90 match PMS158U 10% offOFF All 5% off illustrates how those who get to enjoy the high-tier a) are not as numerous, in stock. S4S Red oak & C10020%February 2010 M90 Poplar,M65 in compared to world populations, as they think they are, and b) are high- commonpaneling cherry March 2010 tier ticket holders thanks only to the luck of the draw. Which in real life M100 K30 in stockY80 only is often where and to whom you were born. The out-numbering middle- K50 and low-tier ticket holders here, munching on bologna sandwiches and rice, should no doubt provide some lively counterpoint to the feasting.
Ash, Maple, Pine, Black Walnut, If this sounds to you like a bad dinner plan, fear not: reservations will Red & White Oak,Curly Maple, be available for the 85 percenters at Ship To Shore following the event, Hickory & Cherry* which goes from 5 to 7 PM. What really counts here is the donation to the aforementioned relief organizations, and the necessary experience— * Available in Rustic or Select (3” to 12” widths) which is frankly easier to take than facing the very real hunger that’s out there in the world today. Ghent Wood Products, Inc. 1262 Rt. 66 Ghent, NY 12075 So have a great—not hungry—March. And as always, be sure to make good use of our art, music, and theatre/cinema listings herein. See you 518.828.5684 out there! www.ghentwoodproducts.com Cheers, Ross Rice V V Mention this ad and receive a free gift with purchase Editor, Roll Magazine
2 | rollmagazine.com March 2010 at The Dorsky EXHIBITIONS Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises Through July 25 Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller Through March 28 Renée C. Byer: “A Mother’s Journey” and Selected Photographs Through April 11 Body, Line, Motion: Selections from the Permanent Collection Through April 11 EVENTS Performative Lecture by Carolee Schneemann Wed, March 3, 7 pm, Lecture Center 102 Night Science: Trumpeter Ben Neill & Video Artist Bill Jones Sat, March 6, 4 pm, Black Box Theater First Sunday Free Gallery Tour with Kevin Cook Sun, March 7, 2 pm Tangitan: live music & video – Jaanika Peerna & Carolee Schneemann, Kitch’s Last Meal, 1973-8/2007 edit, David Rothenberg Super 8 film transferred to digital video, double projection (still from video), courtesy the artist Tues, March 9, 6 pm, Shepard Recital Hall Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art Open Wed-Sun 11 am – 5 pm State University of New York at New Paltz 845-257-3844 / www.newpaltz.edu/museum
3 | rollmagazine.com table of contents
2 editor’s note—
8 roll art & image—gained in translation: artist Tona Wilson at Women’s Studio Workshop, by Ross Rice
16 roll the music— Pump Audio keeps the music flowing, by Peter Aaron
18 roll listings— art | music | theatre & cinema
30 roll CD reviews— roll back- The Sun Ra Arkestra, Eberhard Weber, & Spiritual Jazz
new releases from Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, Uncle Rock, and The Trapps
32 roll dollars & sense— retirement: the power is in the plan, by Beth Jones
34 roll pen & paper— shocking true story: the rise and fall of Confidential, America’s most scandalous scandal magazine, by Jay Blotcher
38 roll on stage & screen— fun in the digital corridor: Kingston public access television meets Seven21 Media Group, by M.R. Smith
40 roll eco— gone to seed with the Hudson Valley Seed Library, by Jamaine Bell
44 Rob Brezsny’s freewill astrology—
46 roll wine & spirits— sipping Syrah, by Timothy Buzinski and Mei Ying So, Artisan Wine Shop, Beacon
47 roll dining in— talkin’ the talk: cook lingo, by Gary Allen
48 roll portrait
Ab o u t o u r c o v e r ... t h i s m o n t h s c o v e r is b y o u r f e a t u r e d a r t i s t , t o n a w i l s o n
Co v e r ; Ce l l s , To n a Wi l s o n
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
the bardavon presents...
the very isaiah shEFFEr’s met opera los david hungry selected live in hd lobos sedaris caterpillar shorts ambroise thomas with & OthEr Eric carLE with daVid strathairn hamlet leo KottKe FaVOritEs & JanE curtin
saturday saturday saturday sunday Friday March 13, 11aM March 13, 8pM March 27, 1pM March 28, 7pM apriL 9, 8pM at BARDAVON at BARDAVON at BARDAVON at BARDAVON at UPAC
Jane W. Nuhn Louis Greenspan Dr. Edwin Ulrich Charitable Trust Charitable Trust Charitable Trust
BARDAVON • 35 Market Street • Poughkeepsie, NY • Box Office 845.473.2072 • UPAC • 601 Broadway • Kingston, NY • Box Office 845.339.6088 Ticketmaster 800.745.3000 • www.ticketmaster.com • www.bardavon.org • www.upac.org
5 | rollmagazine.com roll magazine is published monthly by Roll Publishing, Inc.
Ed i t o r | Ross Rice
Cr e a t i v e Di r ec t o r | Donna Calcavecchio
Op e r a t i o n s | Tom Grasso
Ca l e n d a r Ed i t o r & Pr o d u c t i o n As s i s t a n t | Tristan Shelton
Bu s i n e s s Ma n a g e r | Ali Gruber
Co n t r i b u t o r s Peter Aaron, Gary Allen, Jamaine Bell, Jay Blotcher, Timothy Buzinski and Mei Ying So, Beth Jones, Crispin Kott, Ross Rice, M. R. Smith
Ph o t o g r a p h y David Morris Cunningham, Dana Mathews, Matt Petricone, Joyce Ravid, Kate Simon
Co p y Ed i t o r | Adele Jones
Pr o o f Re a d e r s | Adele Jones & Dan Kajeckas
I.S.A. certIfIed ArborISt w eb s i t e | www.rollmagazine.com
Advertising | 845.658.8153 | [email protected]
Logo by ClingRap
Web s i t e d e s i g n | dmc/design Limbertree services, inc. Tristan Shelton | web master Su bm i s s i o n s | Advertising contact: [email protected] | 845.658.8153 Ad deadlines and artwork submissions are the 845.594.5033 25th of the previous month. [email protected] Ev e n t s roll magazine publishes event listings for local music, art, theatre, film, dance and spoken-word events. Deadline for submission is the 23rd trimming • planting of the previous month. Email event listings to: [email protected]. removal cabling Include date, name, venue, time and location. • Ed i t o r i a l If you are interested in writing for roll magazine, or have an climbing interesting story on creative living in the Hudson Valley, email a brief press release or story idea to [email protected] consulting Or send to: Roll Publishing, Inc. PO Box 504 | Rosendale, NY 12472 hazard assessment Roll Publishing, Inc. is not responsible for anything, including the return or loss of submissions, or for any damage or other injury to unsolicited manuscripts or artwork. Any submission of a manuscript or cat rescue artwork should include a self-addressed envelope or package bearing adequate return postage. All contents copyright 2009 by Roll Publishing, Inc. fully insured | woodstock ny
6 | rollmagazine.com Looking for Natural Inspiration in Your New Home? I would love to help you find the best value that will serve to inspire your creative side. Also, in celebration of my new GREEN designation, I would like to offer you a free guide to going green in your home and a green calendar e-mail me at [email protected] Most of my clients are looking for privacy, an inspiring landscape and a home studio space all with as many green aspects as possible. These things are my specialty. I can also help you find an amazing value if you need studio space that is larger than your home studio. If you are thinking of buying or selling real estate, let me show you what real estate in the Hudson Valley can be. Also, if you live in the Hudson Valley, please check out my tv show This home “Mercedes’ Hudson Valley” Fridays @ 6:30, channel 23 (TWC). in Olive Mercedes Ross, Broker Associate, MBA, ABR, GREEN really is Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty gorgeous! Kingston, Woodstock, Stone Ridge & Windham, NY(845) 750-1133 [email protected]
MaRCh evenTs Thursday, March 18, 7 pm Community Meeting Rosendale Recreation Center. Meet members of the collective, hear the latest news and learn how you can get involved. Saturday, March 20, 2 pm Youth animations from around the World Rosendale Theatre. Kids Free, Adults $10 (all children must be accompanied by an adult). Children’s Media Project has brought together some of the best short videos by young people from around the world! Sunday, March 28, 11 am Gospel Brunch with saints of swing The Rosendale TheaTRe featuring Miss Rene Bailey Rosendale Theatre. Adults $15 (2 for ColleCTive needs You! $25 in advance - see website for locations), Teens & Seniors $12, Kids 5-10 The Rosendale Theatre Collective is a $5 (free under 5). community group formed to purchase CoMinG up in and preserve the Rosendale Theatre apRil and continue its mission of providing incredible online auction An impressive variety of items from art quality films, live theater, music and and massages to a day of guided rock climbing... community events in the tradition of its original owners, the Cacchio family. 4 days, 40 potlucks Join together with your friends and neighbors at a potluck near you (or host one yourself). sponsored by roll magazine get information • make a donation • get involved Memoir Writing Workshop with laura shaine www.rosendaletheatre.org Cunningham followed by lunch at the Rosendale Café.
7 | rollmagazine.com roll art & image
To n a Wi l s o n , p h o t o b y Ma tt Pe t r i c o n e TONA WILSON: gained in translation
by Ross Rice
8 | rollmagazine.com e a l D
There’s a real art to translation and interpretation. It takes a special talent the education, prison, and court systems in the Hudson Valley. But the to capture the nuance and subtleties expressed by one person in their own rest of the time, she has built a solid body of art works that reflect a language, and accurately present them to another listener in theirs, using deep interest in the human condition; works often created as a response completely different words and sentence structures. Often the translator to her jobsite experiences. Not to mention a vivid glimpse at her own must be an empty vessel to achieve this well, allowing the information to mortality. flow through without injecting themselves into the process to insure an accurate communication. ituated just outside of Rosendale , the Women’s Studio Spend enough time with any artist—in any discipline—and you will Workshop sits back from Binnewater Road, its multi- often hear them express a similar analogy: the ideas just flow through windowed front facing the hills to the west. A staunch me, I feel like a conduit for them, I’m just accurately trying to realize advocate of the “voice and vision of individual women the inspiration. The artist as translator: this metaphor will usually get a artists,”S the WSW functions as a gallery, educational laboratory, and nod of the head from the artist—though you’d get varying results as to has multiple studios specializing in printmaking, hand papermaking, who/what is requiring translation in the first place, and just who exactly ceramics, letterpress printing, and photography. is receiving the message. It’s in the field of “book arts” that WSW has been a pioneer, initiating Tona Wilson is a rare combination of the two. In her “day job” as a a book arts grant program in 1979 that has produced over 180 limited professional Spanish translator, she is in high demand using her skills in artist’s editions, at the rate of seven per year—making them the largest
9 | rollmagazine.com c o n t i n u e d o n p g 10... c o n t i n u e d f r o m p g 9... publisher of hand-printed books in the country. WSW also features led to more translating work, inevitably leading her to upstate New yearly artists-in-residence (thanks to the grant), and this semester it’s York’s number one industry: the prison system. New Paltz- based artist Tona Wilson getting the nod. As she found her services more in demand, she couldn’t help but be It has been a circuitous route getting here for Tona. Born in New York affected by the stories of those she translated for, and started sketching City, she had a peripatetic upbringing, as her parents moved frequently particularly memorable events and interactions. “Right away when I when she was young. But she knew she wanted to be an artist, and started working for them I started drawing in these sketchbooks…as a eventually she ended up in a Chicago art school. When her great aunt, way of processing what happened during the day. Because there were sculptor Helen Wilson—passed away, she left Tona a small inheritance. always really interesting stories.” “It wasn’t a huge amount, but I thought I was rich! I quit my job, quit art school, and headed out. I had a lot of adventures in South America, and Though the sketches have the appearance of happening in real time, they ended up settling in Buenos Aires.” are actually recollections drawn later at home. “I’ll sit there looking, and while part of my brain is doing the translation, the other part is looking. While in Argentina, Tona found herself immersed in the Spanish They’re probably distorted by my memory, but it’s basically what I saw, language, as a result becoming fluent over several years. The time in my own interpretation.” True life stories, like when the crying two-year Buenos Aires also rekindled her interest in her art, and she had her first old was cruelly kept in a separate holding cell from his mother, and the exhibitions there at both the Ciudad de Buenos Aires and San Martin visitor who had to change a diaper on the filthy floor of the bathroom, Cultural Centers in the late 80s. using her jacket under the baby—all presented journalistically, without judgment. Tona and her then-partner decided to move back up to the States in 1988, to be closer to her parents, who were then living in Kingston. Within These sketches led to her “Jail Portrait” series, straightforward snapshots weeks she had found herself an unexpected career. “When I got back of orange-clad inmates, all regarding the viewer from different angles. here I realized: well, I’ve got no skills except my Spanish to make a “Those are really not portraits, they’re more composites. There is a living. Nobody’s going to buy my art right away.” A teaching job soon confidentiality issue, and actually I’m not too good at likenesses of people,
c l o c k w i s e t o p - b o tt o m : ja i l 1, Pr i s o n Hospi ta lit y, yo u n g ma n in ha n dc u f f s , ja i l 2
10 | rollmagazine.com n s u r g e n t s i
fortunately!” Though indeed inspired by real people, Tona makes sure happy to be doing so. (A similar new work will be one of two pieces nobody is overtly recognizable. But that doesn’t detract from the honest that will be shown this March at the exhibit “Painted Cities,” at Carrie humanity of the images, which run the emotional gamut—with the Haddad Gallery, Hudson.) exception of joy. “The expressions and gestures I think are accurate.” The following series of oil stick on canvas works took on a different tone. But Tona’s spare unused sketchbooks soon had a new subject, when she was But they too started from the idea of a “wall,” with her triptych Firing diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, and much as she did with the court/ Squad (2007). “It was an attempt to get a really tall wall that was made prison sketchbooks, she found therapeutic value in recording images and out of people. I wasn’t sure how I was going to do it; I cut out silhouettes observations. “I just drew all the time, through the whole treatment.” of people out of paper, and using oil stick, I rubbed around the edges. Fortunately, it had been diagnosed early, and the chemotherapy—though Then I realized I didn’t want it to be one layer, I wanted layers and layers often harsh—stopped the cancer, and she is now in remission. But for a of people. So it comes from the same process of thinking, though it looks time, the scary story she was interpreting was distinctly her own. quite different.” Starting with a black background, Tona constructs layers and wisps of white and pastel, with ghostly human shapes and While in recovery, Tona started a new series of works on paper, inspired silhouettes interacting in the often densely packed spaces, creating a by a Berthold Brecht song titled “Whitewash.” “I wanted to do a web-like visual texture. whitewashed wall that had (underneath) all kinds of the stuff people don’t want to look at. It was an external/internal train of thought that But it’s a return full-circle to the sketchbooks that brings Tona back to had to do with people not wanting to look at death, not wanting to look the Women’s Studio Workshop (she did a previous artist-in-residency at scary stuff.” there in 2005). As well as teaching some art classes for Kingston fifth- graders, she is working on completing a new composite book of her The image of the wall became a recurring theme for awhile. She started courts and prison sketches. A single box will hold four pamphlet-stitched incorporating bones as building blocks, and the walls “came alive.” One sections of the book—which is really more like a hand-drawn graphic particularly powerful work is Cells (2006), where individuals are seen novel, to be accurate—with prison bars in the window on the box's front. constructing their own private cells out of their possessions, effectively Through the bars, a portrait can be seen on the cover of the sections, each cutting themselves off from contact with one another, and seeming quite of which tells that person’s story, as well as others. “It deals with jail
c o n t i n u e d o n p g 12... 11 | rollmagazine.com c o n t i n u e d f r o m p g 11... e f u g e e s R
12 | rollmagazine.com and prison. It was originally going to be (about) prison in general, but obviously my experiences with immigrants (added to it.) This is going to sound really dry, but (it’s now about) the ‘immigration consequences of criminal convictions.’” Once seen through the bars, the books can then c l o c k w i s e t o p - b o tt o m : be manually examined and experienced during the exhibition. Sa l l y p o r t , Wa i v i n g t h e Ri g h t t o App e a l , Ci t y Co u r t w a i t i n g
Without her beating you over the head with them, Tona makes her feelings about immigration justice understood. But when asked directly, she firmly replies: “I would like to see more humaneness in the treatment of immigrants. That’s a general thing. I’d like to see actually more discretion (in sentencing) for people who are in deportation proceedings. I’ve seen even the judges complain that they don’t have any discretion anymore. I’d like to see ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) treat people better, and in a more honest way.”
Tona is nothing if not honest in how she treats her subjects. Many of these stories echo stories of our own, and things that we fear may happen to us. The project has taken on a life of its own now, as Tona is planning to do a full-fledged graphic novel on the subject, having work-shopped it last fall upstate at the Blue Mountain Center—as well as at the WSW, to a certain extent.
Meanwhile she continues to create at her New Paltz studio and home she shares with partner Judy Mage, and to work her “day job” as translator, a job that—though it’s sometimes trying—offers a degree of flexibility in scheduling suitable for a creative soul. Tona has the quiet determination of someone who knows her value in the world. There’s always someone or some idea in need of interpreting that shouldn’t be lost in translation.
Tona Wilson’s sketchbook exhibition will be showing through April at Women’s Studio Workshop, on Binnewater Lane just outside of Rosendale (www. wsworkshop.org, 845.658.9133), during weekdays hours 10 AM-5 PM or by appointment; and two of her larger-scale works are part of the “Painted Cities” exhibition at Carrie Haddad Gallery, 622 Warren St., Hudson (www. carriehaddadgallery.com, 518.828.1915), showing through April 11, 11 AM-5 PM, closed Tu/We. Visit www.tonawilson.com for more about the artist.
13 | rollmagazine.com
march/art highlights
V 3/11 t h r o u g h 4/18- “WALKING HOME”: p h o t o g r a p h y Bearsville Theater V b y Id a We y g an d t , al s o w o r k s b y Elli o t www.bearsvilletheater.com Ka u f man an d Kell y Sh im o d a , a t Ca r r ie (845)679-4406/Box Office Hours Tues.–Fri. 12 – 4pm Ha d d a d Ph o t o g r a p h s , Hu d s o n —Just Most Thursdays a bit down the street from her gallery, V BLUEGRASS CLUBHOUSE 8-10pm V Carrie Haddad Photographs has a similar Miss Angie’s Karaoke LIVE! 10pm attention to quality work from (mostly) Friday March 12 regionally based artists. This month Five Points Band V features photographer Ida Weygandt’s Friday March 19 “Walking Home.” From the press release, Amos Lee V “In the large format photographs presented with special guest Cary Ann in this exhibit, Ida Weygandt uses the landscape to expand on her themes Wednesday March 24 of interior world aligning with exterior, of the interconnection between V Don and Bunk Show nature and self and the concept of home. And, in turn, the elements absorb starring Mothers of Invention Originals and the Music of Frank Zappa V her, taking her in, making her at home. Whether or not she physically Friday April 2 appears as a component in the landscapes, Weygandt uses texture and light Purple K’nif to reflect and enlarge on the wider landscape she sees. Each image, with Saturday April 3 or without the figure, is about both interior and exterior, the self and the DJ Heat V land. “ With works by Elliot Kaufman: “The original sources are what Thursday April 8 we see—sky and water. Kaufman sets up a static camera shot, sometimes Hold Steady for three to four days or sometimes just a few hours at intervals of every with special guest The Oranges Band V one second to every hour, depending on the view and dynamic movement Full Bar, Streamside Lounge, Gourmet Dining at of the scene. He is dependent on cooperative weather patterns and often The Bear Cafe! 291V Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498 rewarded with remarkable surprises.” And Kelly Shimoda’s series I guess you don’t want to talk to me anymore “is a documentation of mobile phone text messages by and to people she has encountered—both those familiar to her and strangers. The 8 x 10 inch images provide the viewer an intimate look Learn More about Sudbury Education at this form of communication that is fleeting by design and rarely seen by anyone other than the original author or intended recipient.” Carrie Haddad Photographs, 318 Warren St., Hudson, www.carriehaddadgallery. com, 518.828.1915. Opening reception with the artists Sa 3/13 6-8 PM
3/13 t h r o u g h 10/3- “WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE”: r e g i o nal a r t i s t g r o u p s h o w a t Beac o n In s t i t u t e f o r Rive r s an d Es t u a r ie s , Beac o n —Though it’s considered one of the great American rivers, the Hudson is really more an estuary with its wide-open access to the Atlantic Ocean, making this region an excellent place to do research on river/estuary systems. In 2000, New York Governor George Pataki OPEN HOUSE established a commission to devise plans for an institute dedicated to March 20th 1:00-4:00 river and estuary studies, and in 2003, Beacon was selected as an ideal call 845-679-1002 to register location. Finally, in 2008, the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries was established, completing the Center for Environmental Innovation and Education on Denning’s Point. This month the Institute has a variety of events, but the main feature is “Water, Water, Everywhere,” where Hudson Valley artists explore “the ubiquity of water.” Artists include Joel Adas, Peter Brauch, Erica Hauser, Laura Moriarty, Richard Sigmund, and Shaun Snow. Beacon Instiute for Rivers and Estuaries, 199 Main St., Beacon, www.riversandestuaries.org, 845.838.1600. Opening reception Sa 3/13 6-8 PM
HUDSON VALLEY SUDBURY SCHOOL www.sudburyschool.org 84 Zena Road, Kingston NY
14 | rollmagazine.com Th r o u g h 3/28- “BEYOND THE GRID/AN ARTIST’S JOURNEY” s o l o r e t r o s p ec t ive o f p ain t e r CHRIS GONYEA, a t Seven 21 Me d ia Cen t e r , Kin g s t o n —As otherwise described in our roll stage & screen section this month, Seven21 Media Center in Kingston is also a multi-floored art gallery, with this month’s focus on painter Chris Gonyea. What makes this exhibition special is how it shows the development of the artist’s creative process over the course of his career, starting with his more abstract collages in the mid 80s, and moving towards his more recent use of trees and landscape images as motifs to reveal the kinetic energy of nature. Gonyea has shown in Belfast and Munich, and recently was part of the “The Uncanny Valley” exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, all while maintaining his own gallery The Livingroom in uptown Kingston. Seven21 Media Center is a good stop to make on First Saturdays with Arts Along the Hudson. Seven21 Media Center, 721 Broadway, Kingston, www.seven21.com, 845.331.0551. Open weekdays until 5
Th r o u g h 4/3- “THE BUG, THE SPIDER, & THE BUTTERFLY”: GERBEN MULDER, XAVIER NOIRET-THOMÉ an d JANAINA TSCHÄPE, a t Ro o s Ar t s , Ro s en d ale —It’s an interesting triad of artists featured at Roos in Rosendale this month; each artist really does seem to be part of the same three-legged stool. Even if each leg has its own distinct style and texture, they somehow come together to make a cohesive—if not contrapuntal—exhibition. I’ll let reviewer Joann Kim take it from here: “In this exhibition the object, process, and practice of Painting is discussed, dissected, decomposed and re-interpreted by three artists who take on different approaches to find a common ground, one that relishes in the instability and fleeting significance of cultural statements. Xavier Noiret-Thomé appreciated the structure and geometric perfection of the spiderweb, Janaina Tschäpe swells in the fluidity of water and the shapes subsequently painted, and Gerben Mulder combines forms derived from culture and nature to emphasize impermanence. Here, nature is more ephemeral than ever before, and the structures existing within its multi- faceted forms are given credence through the artistic practice.” Roos Arts, 449 Main St., Rosendale, www.roosarts.com, 718.755.4726.
c l o c k w i s e f r o m t o p t o b o tt o m : El l i o tt K a u f m a n , Va r i a t i o n II, Ch r i s G o n y e a f r o m Be y o n d t h e Gr i d , Ke l l y Sh i m o d a , It's a Li t t l e Lo n e l y To n i g h t
15 | rollmagazine.com roll the music o r o Z i n e t h r i s , C z k a t a W a n y tt r i , B i s t a k e r a i B m e Z a r i n e i r , K e s , K m o a s e k G t o i i a n a W , D o r e s e n n i f e r F , J r i a n , B a z a r u s L a r r B h e r t l e x e a , A , H w h o l a i r c B a r a y a n T : R l e n r - l : G , r w - l r o ,
w m o r o
tt o p b o t
16 | rollmagazine.com Keeps the Music Flowing
By Peter Aaron
It used to be the mark of “selling out,” but in today’s recession-wracked famous, and then burn out after three years when those things aren’t wasteland that stigma is long gone. For indie musicians now, getting a cutting it anymore and they realize they need to make a living. [Pump] song used in the background of a TV show or commercial is like striking offers a situation that can actually become a ‘day job’ for musicians, o r o gold, a well-deserved payday after years of flogging away for beer and one where they can still play club shows at night and during the day Z gas money—if they’re lucky—in dark and dingy clubs. Ever wonder, do something that really pays.” Under the company’s non-exclusive i n e t then, just exactly how the music heard in so many big-paying ads and agreement Pump artists are free to work with other licensing firms and h r i s programs actually gets there? Well, believe it or not, much of it makes its can bow out of the contract at any time. , C way to those seemingly impenetrable Madison Avenue and Hollywood z k a t accounts via Tivoli, New York—through the auspices of the cutting- “We’re lucky in that we have a great team that really knows the music—a a
W edge music-placement company Pump Audio. lot of our people are musicians themselves,” says Heather Lazarus, who’s been Pump’s director of client relations since 2005. “Through our website a n y tt clients can access our soundtrack tool, which contains over 35,000 mp3s; r i we also offer content via our PumpBox, which is an external hard drive , B ounded in 2001 by ex-Simpletons front man Steve Ellis,
i s Pump Audio arose out of a realization that hit Ellis we send to clients that holds about 33,000 CD-quality tracks.” While t a k e r a i
B when, in one of the few bright spots from a sour record Mills works in the company’s Manhattan branch, Lazarus is ensconced m e deal, one of his band’s songs was pimped by the label in the renovated Tivoli barn that was once an alternative health center Z a r i n
e i r for a TV ad. Ellis figured that while most commercial and television but now serves as the firm’s client-relations office. The music-cataloging , K e s
, K F wing is located across the street in a converted house where a crew projects had been using “canned” music that was being produced in- m o house, at the same time there was no shortage of struggling musicians of five processes the approved music submissions into appropriate a s e k G t categories (e.g., style, mood, genre, vocals, instrumentals) and readies it o i creating “real” music who’d be more than happy to earn some serious i a n a
W coin by letting their songs work for them. Calling on his former band for client access; the department also retains several members who work
, D mates and other local musicians for material, Ellis began compiling remotely. o r e s e n n i f e r a library of saleable music, established the Pump name as a direct F , J licensing agent, and started pitching his inventory to potential buyers, Ellis retired from in Pump in 2007, when the business was acquired by r i a n along the way partnering with more and more artists and growing Getty Images. Although his company has taken some heat in the wake of , B a z a r u s the company’s catalog. The big breakthrough came when Pump was the merger for changing its artists’ share from 50 percent to 35 percent L a r r tapped to re-score MTV’s “The Real World,” after which things of the take, Mills maintains that although the move was a difficult but B h e r t quickly snowballed, leading to the one-time startup’s current spot necessary reality of its restructuring, it’s ultimately been a boon for l e x e a as the world’s foremost independent music-licensing organization, musicians. “For Pump to support what we do within the framework of a , A , H w with satelite offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, big corporation we have to show more profit,” he says. “But at the same h o l a i r c and Melbourne and clients around the globe. Among its accounts time being with Getty has instantly given us a global reach that we never B a r a Pump boasts Nike, NBC, IBM, Burger King, Mercedes-Benz, VH-1, had before, opening up markets that we’d never even dreamed of—which y a n T means that for artists the amount of places they can sell their music : R Kellog’s, the BBC, CBS, Comedy Central, and more. l e n r - l to now is almost endless. What I love most about my job is that I get : G , r w - to impact artists’ lives positively and directly every day. One musician l “The music industry has been dangling that carrot in front of young r o ,
w even used me as reference to get a mortgage for a house. That made me m bands forever,” says Larry Mills, Pump’s vice president of marketing o r o and partnerships. “[Most bands] start out just wanting to get laid or get feel great.” tt o p b o t www.pumpaudio.com
17 | rollmagazine.com art listings art listings
ACCORD—No r t h Li g h t St u d i o , 4 City Hall Road, 845.626.2843 CHATHAM—Jo y ce Go l d s t e i n Ga l l e r y , 16 Main St., www.joycegoldsteingallery.com ACCORD—St o n e Wi n d o w Ga l l e r y , 17 Main Street, 845.626.4932 518.392.2250 Open Sa And Su 10 AM- 6 PM And Weekdays By Appointment ELLENVILLE—Ar o m a Th y me Bi s t r o , 165 Canal Street ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON—He s s e l Mu s e u m Of Ar t At Ba r d Co l l e g e , Route 9 G www.aromathymebistro.com, 845.647.3000 www.bard.edu/ccs/museum, 845.758.7598 Th r o u g h 3/21- STUDENT CURATED EXHIBITIONS g r o u p o n e GARDINER—Br u y n s w i c k Ar t Ga l l e r y An d St u d i o , 1058 Bruynswick Road Th r o u g h 3/23- LIVING UNDER THE SAME ROOF t h e m a r i e lu i s e h e s s e l 845.255.5693 c o l l ec t i o n a n d t h e ce n t e r f o r c u r a t o r i a l s t u d i e s GARRISON—Ga r r i s o n Ar t Ce n t e r , Garrison’s Landing, ASHOKAN—Ro be r t Se l k o w i t z Su n l i g h t St u d i o Pa i n t i n g s An d Wi n t e r n i g h t Ga l l e r y www.garrisonartcenter.org, 845.424.3960, 12-5 PM 3024 Route 28, www.artfolks.com, 845.657.6982 Th r o u g h 3/28- LEONDA FINKE s c u l p t u r e /d r a w i n g s ; ASTRID FITZGERALD p a i n t i n g s BEACON—Ba c k Ro o m Ga l l e r y , 475 Main Street, 845.838.1838 4/2 t h r o u g h 4/11- SITE s c h o o l invitational t h eme & me n t o r e x h i b i t i o n BEACON—Be a c o n Ar t i s t Un i o n , 161 Main Street, www.baugallery.com, 845.440.7584 GOSHEN—Or a n g e Co u n t y To u r i s m Ex ec u t i v e Su i t e Ga l l e r y , 124 Main St., BEACON—Be a c o n In s t i t u t e f o r Ri v e r s a n d Es t u a r i e s , 199 Main Street 845.615.3860 www.riversandestuaries.org, 845.838.1600 3/13 t h r o u g h 10/3- WATER, WATER EVERY WHERE h u d s o n r i v e r a r t i s t s HIGH FALLS—Ka e t e Br i t t i n Sh a w Fu n c t i o n a l An d Sc u l p t u r a l Po r ce l a i n , Rte 213 e x p l o r e t h e u b i q u i t y o f w a t e r www.kaetebrittinshaw.com, 845.687.7828 Sa 3/13- Op e n i n g Rece p t i o n 6-8 PM BEACON—Di a :Be a c o n , 3 Beekman Street, www.diabeacon.org HIGHLAND—El i s a Pr i t z k e r St u d i o At Ca s a De l Ar t e , 257 South Riverside Road 845.440.0100, Th-Mo 11 AM- 6 PM www.pritzkerstudio.com, 845.691.5506 On g o i n g - 24 COLORS – FOR BLINKY b y i m i k n o ebe l On g o i n g - ROOM 19 b y i m i k n o ebe l HUDSON—Ca r r i e Ha d d a d Ga l l e r y , 622 Warren Street On g o i n g - ROBERT RYMAN g a l l e r y www.carriehaddadgallery.com, 518.828.1915 On g o i n g - AGNES MARTIN g a l l e r y (Gallery closed until 3/3) Th r o u g h 9/30- YOU SEE I AM HERE AFTER ALL b y ZOE LEONARD Th r o u g h 4/11- PAINTED CITIES /w v i c k i w u l f f , d a r s h a n r u s s e l l , Th r o u g h 11/30- SOL LEWITT d r a w i n g s e r i e s d a v i d k o n i g s be r g , e i l ee n m u r p h y , a r t h u r h a mme r , t o n a w i l s o n , j u d i t h w y e r , Sa 3/27- g a l l e r y t a l k s : YASMIL RAYMOND o n DONALD JUDD je s s i c a h o u s t o n , m a r l e n e w i e d e n b a u m , b i l l c l u t z , d a n r u p e , t o n y t h o m p s o n , BEACON—Fi r e Lo t u s , 474 Main Street, www.thefirelotus.com, 845.235.0461 p a u l c h o j n o w s k i , k a t e k n a p p , r i c h a r d b a u m a n n , s t a a t s f a s o l d t , r o be r t k o f f l e r , BEACON—Fl o o r On e , 17 East Main St., 845.765.1629 m a r g a r e t c r e n s o n , c o l l ee n k i e l y , r i c h a r d me r k i n , a n d e d w a r d av e d i s i a n BEACON—Fo v e a Ex h i b i t i o n s , Beacon Gallery, 143 Main Street HUDSON—Ca r r i e Ha d d a d Ph o t o g r a p h s , 318 Warren St. www.foveaexhibitions.org, 845.765.2199 www.carriehaddadgallery.com, 518.828.1915 BEACON—Th e Ho w l a n d Cu l t u r a l Ce n t e r , 477 Main Street 3/11 t h r o u g h 4/18- WALKING HOME b y IDA WEYGANDT w i t h w o r k s b y www.howlandculturalcenter.org, 845.831.4988, Th-Su 1-5 PM ELLIOT KAUFMAN a n d KELLY SHIMODA (Gallery closed Su 3/28) Sa 3/13- Op e n i n g Rece p t i o n 6-8 PM Th r o u g h 3/28- WOMEN'S ART EXHIBITION ce l eb r a t i n g w o me n 's h i s t o r y HUDSON—Hu d s o n Op e r a Ho u s e , 327 Warren Street m o n t h w i t h 15 l o c a l a r t i s t s www.hudsonoperahouse.org, 518.822.1438 BEACON—Hu d s o n Be a c h Gl a s s Ga l l e r y , 162 Main Street Th r o u g h 3/27- 14t h ANNUAL JURIED ART SHOW EXHIBITION www.hudsonbeachglass.com, 845.440.0068 Th r o u g h 6/5- CLEMENS KALISCHER photography e x h i b i t i o n BEACON—Ma r i o n Ro y a e l Ga l l e r y , 460 Main Street, 727.244.5535, HUDSON—Jo h n Da v i s Ga l l e r y , 362 1/2 Warren Street, www.johndavisgallery.com www.marionroyaelgallery.com 518.828.5907, Th-Mo 10 AM-5:30 PM BEACON—Mo r p h i c i s m , 440 Main St., www.morphicism.com, 845.440.3092 Th r o u g h 3/28- NEW YORK b y CLAUDE CARONE BEACON—Op e n Sp a ce Ga l l e r y , 510 Main St., www.openspacebeacon.com HUDSON—Li m n e r Ga l l e r y , 123 Warren Street, www.limnergallery.com 718.207.3793 (Closed February) 518.828.2343 BEACON—Ri v e r w i n d s Ga l l e r y , 172 Main St., www.riverwindsgallery.com Th r o u g h 3/27- EMERGING ARTISTS 2010 845.838.2880 4/1 t h r o u g h 4/24- DIGITAL ART EXTRAVAGANZA w o r k s i n d i g i ta l p r i n t me d i a BEACON—Va n Br u n t Ga l l e r y , 460 Main Street, www.vanbruntgallery.com HUDSON—Po s i e Kv i a t Ga l l e r y , 437 Warren Street, www.posiekviat.com 845.838.2995 518.653.5407 Th r o u g h 3/29- JOHN ERIC BYERS n e w w o r k s BETHEL—Be t h e l Wo o d Ce n t e r Fo r Th e Ar t s , 200 Hurd Road and Route 17B 4/3 t h r o u g h 5/3- IF I KNOW MORE, I WOULD TELL YOU b y EILEEN COWIN www.bethelwoodscenter.org, 845.454.3388 KINGSTON—A.I.R. St u d i o Ga l l e r y , 71 O’Neil Street, www.airstudiogallery.com BOICEVILLE—Fa b u l o u s Fu r n i t u r e Ga l l e r y & Sc u l p t u r e Ga r d e n , 3930 Route 28 845.331.2662, We-Sa 9 AM-1 PM www.fabulousfurnitureon28.com, 845.657.6317 Ev e r y 2n d Sa- ACOUSTIC ARTISTS COALITION & ART PARTY 8-11 PM KINGSTON—Ag u s t s s o n Ga l l e r y , 176 Broadway, 845.331.1388, Tu-Su 10-6 PM CATSKILL—Ga l l e r y 384, 384 Main Street, 917.674.6823 KINGSTON—Ar t s So c i e t y Of Ki n g s t o n (ASK), 97 Broadway, www.askforarts.org On g o i n g - REMOVE THE LANDMARK: w o r k s b y c a n n o n h e r s e y a n d 845.338.0331 a a r o n y a s s i n Th r o u g h 3/30- RIC DRAGON a b s t r a c t a r t CATSKILL—Ga l l e r y 42, 42 Prospect Ave., 518.943.2642 KINGSTON—BSP (Ba c k s t a g e St u d i o Pr o d u c t i o n s ), 323 Wall Street CATSKILL- Gr ee n e Co u n t y Co u n c i l o n t h e Ar t s Ga l l e r y , 398 Main St., 518.943.3400, www.bspinfo.net, 845.338.8700, Weekdays 3-8 PM, Fr & Sa 3 PM-12 AM www.greenearts.org KINGSTON—Ba t t l e d o r e Li m i t e d (Ar t Ga l l e r y De v o t e d To Pr e s e n t i n g Th e Ar t Of CATSKILL—M Ga l l e r y , 350 Main Street, 518.943.0380, www.mgallery-online.com Ma u r i ce Se n d a k ), 600 Broadway, 845.339.4889 Sa & Su 12-5 PM KINGSTON—Ce l l a r St u d i o An d Ga l l e r i e , 69 Esopus Avenue, 845.331.6147 CATSKILL—Th e Op e n St u d i o , 402 Main Street, www.potatospirit.com KINGSTON—Co r n e l l St. St u d i o s , 168 Cornell Street, 845.331.0191 518.943.9531 KINGSTON—Do n s k o j & Co m p a n y , 93 Broadway, www.donskoj.com CATSKILL—Sa w d u s t Do g Ga l l e r y , 375 Main Street, 845.532.4404 845.388.8473, Th-Sa11-5 PM CATSKILL—Te r e n c h i n Fi n e Ar t , 462 Main Street, www.terenchin.com KINGSTON—Du c k Po n d Ga l l e r y (At Es o p u s Li b r a r y ), 128 Canal Street, Port Ewan 518.943.5312, Mo-Sa 1-6 PM www.esopuslibrary.org, 845.338.5580, Mo, Tu, Th 10 AM-5:30 PM CATSKILL—Th o m a s Co l e Na t i o n a l Hi s t o r i c Si t e , 218 Spring Street, 518.943.7465 We 10-8 PM, Fr 10-7 PM, Sa 10-4 PM www.thomascole.org KINGSTON—Th e Fi r e Ho u s e St u d i o , 35 Dunn Street CATSKILL—Un i o n Mi l l s Ga l l e r y , 361 Main St., 845.510.8081 www.thefirehousestudio.com, 845.331.6469 CATSKILL—Ve r s o Fi n e Ar t , 386 Main Street, www.versofinearts.com, Mo 4/5- OPEN STUDIOS 5-8 PM 518.947.6367
18 | rollmagazine.com art listings art listings
KINGSTON—FHK (Fr i e n d s Of Hi s t o r i c Ki n g s t o n Ga l l e r y ), corner of PAWLING—Ga l l e r y On Th e Gr ee n , 3 Memorial Avenue, www.gotgpawling.com Main/Wall Street, www.fohk.org, 845.339.0720, Sa & Su 1-4 PM 845.855.3900 or by appointment KINGSTON—Ga l l e r y At R&F Ha n d m a d e Pa i n t s , 84 Ten Broeck Ave., PEEKSKILL— Be a n Ru n n e r Ca f é , 201 S. Division Street, www.beanrunnercafe.com www.rfpaints.com, 1.800.206.8088 914.737.1701 KINGSTON—Hu d s o n Va l l e y LGBTQ Co mm u n i t y Ce n t e r , 300 Wall St. 3/27 a n d o n g o i n g - FROM THE HEART i n t u i t i v e a b s t r a c t i o n s www.lgbtqcenter.org, 845.331.530 Sa 3/27- Op e n i n g Rece p t i o n 3-6 PM KINGSTON—Ki n g s t o n Mu s e u m Of Co n t em p o r a r y Ar t , 103 Abeel St. PEEKSKILL—Fl a t Ir o n Ga l l e r y In c ., 105 So Di v i s i o n St r ee t , flatiron.qpg.com www.kmoca.org 914.734.1894 Th r o u g h 3/27- BIOMORPHIC DREAMS b y LAURA GURTON a n d PEEKSKILL—Pa r a m o u n t Ce n t e r Fo r Th e Ar t s , Up p e r Ar t Ga l l e r y , 1008 Brown Street JASON O’MALLEY www.paramountcenter.org, 914.739.2333 4/3 t h r o u g h 4/24- POT PIE AND CANDY b y EIJA LINDSEY a n d PEEKSKILL—Th e Ha t Fa c t o r y , Ya me t Ar t s , In c ., 1000 N. Division Street Suite 4 sCOTT SPAHR www.yametonarts.com, 914-737-1646 KINGSTON—Mi c h a e l La l i c k i St u d i o , 18 Hone St. 845.339.4280 PEEKSKILL—Hu d s o n Va l l e y Ce n t e r Fo r Co n t em p o r a r y Ar t , 1701 Main Street KINGSTON—Se v e n 21 Ga l l e r y On Br o a d w a y , 721 Broadway, 2nd Floor, www.hvcca.com, 914.788.0100 845.331.1435, Hours: Mo- Fr 9 AM- 5:30 PM, or by appt. Th r o u g h 6/26- DOUBLE DUTCH: a n e x h i b i t i o n ce l eb r a t i n g t h e q u a d r i ce n t e n n i a l o f t h e d u t c h d i s c o v e r y a n d s e t t l eme n t o f t h e h u d s o n r i v e r MIDDLETOWN—SUNY Or a n g e , Harriman Hall, 115 South Street On g o i n g - FENDRY EKEL: ART AND ARCHITECTURE: A WAY OF SEEING www.sunyorange.edu, 845.341.4891 thE WORLD Th r o u g h 3/30- HISTORIC ORANGE COUNTY ARCHITECHTURE On g o i n g - FOLKERT DE JONG: MOUNT MASLOW Th r o u g h 3/15- HARRIMAN STUDENT GALLERY On g o i n g - THOMAS HIRSCHHORN: LAUNDRETTE Th r o u g h 3/25- NORTH EAST WATERCOLOR SOCIETY MEMBER'S SHOW PHOENICIA—Ar t s Up s t a i r s , 60 Main Street, 2nd Floor, www.artsupstairs.com MILLBROOK—Mi l l b r o o k Ga l l e r y a n d An t i q u e s , 3297 Franklin Ave 845.688.2142 www.millbrookgalleryandantiques.com, 914.769.5814 PHOENICIA—Ca b a n e St u d i o s Fi n e Ar t Ga l l e r y a n d Ph o t o g r a p h y St u d i o , 38 Main Street, cabanestudios.wordpress.com NEWBURGH—An n St r ee t Ga l l e r y , 104 Ann Street, www.safe-harbors.org Th r o u g h 4/10- WINTER WONDERLAND g r o u p s h o w 845.562.6940 Th-Sa 11 AM- 5 PM Th r o u g h 3/27- FARENHEIT 180 a g r o u p e n c a u s t i c e x h i b i t i o n w/ PINE PLAINS—Th e Ch i s h o l m Ga l l e r y , 3 Factory Lane, www.chisholmgallery.com g r i m a n e s a a m o r o s , w i l l o w b a d e r , f r a n c i s c o be n i t ez , j o y b r o o m , k a t h r y n d e t t w i l l e r , 518.398.1246 s i s a v a n a h h o u g h t o n , n a s h h y o n , m a r i l y n j o l l y , l a u r a m o r i a r t y , c a t h e r i n e n a s h , m a r t h a p f a n s c h m i d t , d o n p o r ce l l a , c i n d y s t o c k t o n -m o o r e , k a t h l ee n t h o m p s o n POUGHKEEPSIE—Ar l i n g t o n Ar t Ga l l e r y , 32 Raymond Avenue a n d j a n i s e y n t em a www.arlingtonartgallery.com, 845.702.6280 NEWBURGH—Th e Ka r p e l e s Ma n u s c r i p t Li b r a r y Mu s e u m POUGHKEEPSIE—Ba r r e t t Ar t Ce n t e r /c l a y w o r k s /g a l l e r y , 485 Main Street 94 Broadway, 845.569.4997 www.karpeles.com www.barrettartcenter.org, 845.471.2550 POUGHKEEPSIE—Ca f é Bo cc a , 14 Mt. Carmel Place NEW PALTZ—Ma r k Gr u be r Ga l l e r y , New Paltz Plaza, www.markgrubergallery.com www.cafebocca.net, 845.483.7300 845.255.1901 POUGHKEEPSIE—Du t c h e s s Co mm u n i t y Co l l e g e , Mildred Washington Art Gallery Th r o u g h 3/10- DON'T TOUCH THE ART n u d e g r o u p s h o w 53 Pendell Road, www.sunydutchess.edu, 845.431.8916, Mo- Th: 10 AM- 9 NEW PALTZ—Ne w Pa l t z Cu l t u r a l Co l l ec t i v e , 60 main street, www.60main.org, PM, Fr: 10 AM- 5 PM 845.255.1241 POUGHKEEPSIE—Th e Mi l l St r ee t Lo f t Ga l l e r y , 45 Pershing Ave., Ev e r y Tu- CRAFT NIGHT: b r i n g y o u r p r o jec t t o w o r k o n i n g o o d c o m p a n y www.millstreetloft.org, 845.486.0223 Ev e r y Th i r d Sa- NEW PALTZ THIRD SATURDAY: l i v e m u s i c a n d a r t s h o w Th r o u g h 3/13- SENIOR PROJECT SHOW NEW PALTZ—Sa m u e l Do r k s y Mu s e u m Of Ar t At Su n y Ne w Pa l t z , 1 Hawk Dr. POUGHKEEPSIE—Th e Fr a n ce s Le h m a n Lo eb Ar t Ce n t e r At Va s s a r www.newpaltz.edu/museum, 845.257.3844 124 Raymond Avenue, fllac.vassar.edu, 845.437.7745 (Museum closed from 3/13 to 3/21 for spring break) Tu,We,Fr,Sa, 10 AM- 5 PM, Th 10 AM- 9 PM, Su 1-5 PM Ev e r y Su- Fr ee Ga l l e r y To u r Ev e r y Th- LATE NIGHT THURSDAYS a t t h e f l l a c 5-9 PM Th r o u g h 3/28- PANORAMA OF THE HUDSON RIVER b y GREG MILLER Th r o u g h 3/18- AT THE HEART OF PROGRESS f r o m t h e Th r o u g h 6/25- WITHIN AND BEYOND THE PREMISES b y JOHN P. ECKBLAD COLLECTION CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN Th r o u g h 3/18- HOLE IN THE WALL b y HARRY ROSEMAN Th r o u g h 4/11- BODY, LINE, MOTION: s e l ec t i o n s f r o m t h e p e r m a n e n t POUGHKEEPSIE—G.A.S. Ga l l e r y An d St u d i o , 196 Main Street c o l l ec t i o n www.galleryandstudio.org, 845.486.4592, Fr-Su 12- 6 PM Th r o u g h 4/11- A MOTHER'S JOURNEY a n d s e l ec t e d photographs b y POUGHKEEPSIE—Ko r k a t Ba i l e y Br o w n e CPA & As s o c ., 80 Washington Ave, Ste rENÉE C. BYER 201, korkd.blogspot.com, 914.844.6515 4/10 t h r o u g h 9/26- ANDY WARHOL: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC IN 151 POUGHKEEPSIE—Lo c u s t Gr o v e , 2683 South Rd, www.lgny.org, 845.454.4500 photographs (Gallery open by appointment only through March) Fr 4/9- Op e n i n g r ece p t i o n POUGHKEEPSIE—Ma r i s t Co l l e g e Ar t Ga l l e r y , 3399 North Road NEW PALTZ—Un f r a me d Ar t i s t s Ga l l e r y , 173 Huguenot Street www.marist.edu/commarts/art/gallery, 845.575.3000, Ext. 2308 www.unframedartistsgallery.com, 845.255.5482 POUGHKEEPSIE—Mi l l St r ee t Lo f t , 455 Maple Street, www.millstreetloft.org NEW PALTZ—Un i s o n Ar t s Ga l l e r y , Water Street Market, Lower Main Street 845.471.7477 www.unisonarts.org, 845.255.1559 3/20 t h r o u g h 4/10- TARRYL GABEL s o l o e x h i b i t Th r o u g h 3/28- 7t h ANNUAL LIFE DRAWING AT UNISON SHOW Sa 3/20- Op e n i n g Rece p t i o n 5:30 PM NEW PALTZ—Un i s o n Ar t s , Unison Theater, 68 Mountain Rest Road POUGHKEEPSIE—Pa l me r Ga l l e r y At Va s s a r Co l l e g e , 124 Raymond Ave. www.unisonarts.org, 845.255.1559 palmergallery.vassar.edu, 845.437.5370 Ev e r y Th- LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS 7:30 PM Th r o u g h 3/23- MARK TWAIN AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN a n e x h i b i t i o n NEW PALTZ—Va n Bu r e n Ga l l e r y , 215 Main Street, www.vanburengallery.com o f l e t t e r s , a r t w o r k , m a n u s c r i p t s , b o o k s a n d a r t i c l e s 845.256.8558 RED HOOK— Ta s t e Bu d d ’s Ca f é 40 W Market St. www.tastebudds.com Th r o u g h 3/28- LOCAL WOMEN ARTISTS: WORKING IN PAINT, PENCIL 845.758.6500 and PHOTOGRAPHY w/ h e l e n g u t f r e u n d , p a t t i h o k a n s o n -m u r p h y , p o l l y r e i n a , Th r o u g h 3/31- JOHNATHAN WINSTRAL m a u r ee n r o g e r s , e i l ee n q u i n n a n d y o n g s o o k k i m 4/1 t h r o u g h 4/30- ROBERT MCMURRAY Sa 3/20- THIRD SATURDAY ART LOOP 5-8 PM RED HOOK—Th e Ar t s Ce n t e r Of Th e Gr e a t e r Hu d s o n Va l l e y 7392 S Broadway (Route 9), 845.758.8708 NEW WINDSOR—Wa l l k i l l Ri v e r Ga l l e r y (Works Of John Creagh And Pat Morgan) RED HOOK—Be t s y Ja c a r u s o St u d i o & Ga l l e r y , The Chocolate Factory www.wallkillriverschool.com, 845.689.0613, Mo-Fr 9:30 AM- 6:30 PM 98 Elizabeth Street, www.betsyjacarusostudio.com, 845.758.9244 Sa 10 AM- 5 PM
19 | rollmagazine.com art listings art listings
RHINEBECK—Ga l l e r y Lo d o e , 6400 Montgomery Street, www.gallerylodoe.com WOODSTOCK—Th e Co l o n y Ca f é , 22 Rock City Road, www.colonycafe.com 845.876.6331. Open 11-6 PM, except Tu 845.679.5342 RHINEBECK—Ga ze n Ga l l e r y , 6423 Montgomery Street, www.gazengallery.com Fr/Sa 3/12- 3/13- WOODSTOCK GODDESS ART EXHIBITION be n e f i t f o r 845.876.4278 t h e u l s t e r c o u n t y b a t t e r e d w o me n ’s s h e l t e r RHINEBECK—Ome g a Rh i n ebec k Ca m p u s , 150 Lake Dr, www.eomega.org WOODSTOCK—Va r g a Ga l l e r y , 130 Tinker Street 877.944.2002 www.vargagallery.com, 845.679.4005 3/13 t h r o u g h 4/4- SOLO SHOW a r t i s t t b a ROSENDALE—Li f eb r i d g e Sa n c t u a r y , 333 Mountain Rd., www.lifebridge.org, WOODSTOCK—Vi t a ’s Ga l l e r y & St u d i o , 12 Old Forge Road, www.vitas.us 845.338.6418 845.679.2329 ROSENDALE—Ro o s Ar t s , 449 Main Street, www.roosarts.com, 718.755.4726 WOODSTOCK—Wi l l o w Ar t Ga l l e r y , 99 Tinker Street, Th r o u g h 4/3- THE BUG, THE SPIDER, AND THE BUTTERFLY b y 845.679.5319, Th-Mo 12:30-6 PM gERBEN MULDER, XAVIER NOIRET & JANAINA TSCHÄPE WOODSTOCK—Wo o d s t o c k Ar t i s t s As s o c i a t i o n & Mu s e u m , 28 Tinker Street ROSENDALE—Th e Ro s e n d a l e Ca f é , 434 Main Street, www.rosendalecafe.com www.woodstockart.org, 845.679.2940 845.658.9048 Th r o u g h 3/28- RECENT WORK j u r i e d b y CARL VAN BRUNT; ROSENDALE—Wo me n ’s St u d i o Wo r k s h o p , 722 Binnewater Lane sMALL WORKS j u r i e d b y JOHN KLEINHANS a n d PAULA NELSON www.wsworkshop.org, 845.658.9133 4/3 t h r o u g h 5/2- FAR & WIDE s ec o n d a n n u a l w o o d s t o c k s m a l l w o r k s r e g i o n a l Th r o u g h 3/29- TONA WILSON a r t i s t ’s b o o k r e s i d e n t Sa 4/3- Op e n i n g Rece p t i o n 4-6 PM WOODSTOCK—Wo o d s t o c k Sc h o o l Of Ar t , 2470 Rte. 212 SAUGERTIES—Ca f é Mezz a l u n a Bi s t r o La t i n o An d Ga l l e r y ,626 Route 212, www.woodstockschoolofart.org, 845.679.2388 845.246.5306 Th r o u g h 6/5- STUDENT EXHIBITION SAUGERTIES—Ca t s k i l l Ga l l e r y , 106 Partition Street, 845.246.5554 3/13 t h r o u g h 5/1- REGINALD WILSON s o l o e x h i b i t i o n SAUGERTIES—Cl o v e Ch u r c h St u d i o & Gay l l e r , 209 Fishcreek Rd., 845.246.7504 Sa 3/13- Op e n i n g Rece p t i o n 3-5 PM open noon- 4 PM SAUGERTIES—Ha l f Mo o n St u d i o ,18 Market Street, 845.246.9114 SAUGERTIES—Lo v e l a n d Mu s e u m /j u s t i n Lo v e Pa i n t i n g Ga l l e r y An d St u d i o 4 Churchland Road, www.justinlove.com, 845.246.5520 search by date SAUGERTIES—Mu d d y Cu p /i n q u i r i n g Mi n d Co f f ee h o u s e & Bo o k s t o r e , 65 Partition St., 845.246.5775 Ev e r y Tu- SAUGERTIES ART LAB 3-5 PM www.rollmagazine.com
STONE RIDGE—Ce n t e r f o r Cr e a t i o n Ed u c a t i o n , 3588 Main Street, www.cce-kingston.org, 845.687.8890 email your music, art, STONE RIDGE—Th e Dr a w i n g Ro o m , 3743 Main St., www.thedrawingroomonline.com, 845.687.4466 STONE RIDGE—Pe a r l Ar t s Ga l l e r y , 3572 Main Street, www.pearlartsgallery.com stage & screen listings and 845.687.0888 STONE RIDGE—SUNY Ul s t e r , Muroff Kotler Gallery, Cottekill Road creative living events by www.sunyulster.edu, 845.687.5113 the 23rd to: TIVOLI—Ti v o l i Ar t i s t s Co-o p An d Ga l l e r y , 60 Broadway www.tivoliartistsco-op.com, 845.757.2667, Fr 5-9, Sa 1-9, Su 1-5 3/12 t h r o u g h 4/4- THEME 3 SHOW a r t w o r k i n a l l me d i u m s b y c o -o p membe r s 4/9 t h r o u g h 5/2- PAPER p a p e r a r t o f a l l f o r m s [email protected]
WEST HURLEY—So h o We s t Ga l l e r y , Route 28 at Wall Street, 845.679.9944
WOODSTOCK—Ce n t e r Fo r Ph o t o g r a p h y At Wo o d s t o c k , 59 Tinker Street www.cpw.org, 845.679.9957 WOODSTOCK—Ea s t Vi l l a g e Co l l ec t i v e , 8 Old Forge Road, 845.679.2174 WOODSTOCK—El e n a Za n g Ga l l e r y , 3671 Route 212, www.elenazang.com 845.679.5432 WOODSTOCK—Fl e t c h e r Ga l l e r y , 40 Mill Hill Road, www.fletchergallery.com a unique & secluded, handcrafted house 845.679.4411, Th-Su 12-6 PM available as a vacation or weekend get-away WOODSTOCK—Fo r s t e r Ga l l e r y An d St u d i o , 72 Rock City Road www.forsterstudio.com, 845.679.0676 WOODSTOCK—Ga l e r i e Bm g /c o n t em p o r a r y Ph o t o g r a p h y 12 Tannery Brook Road, www.galeriebmg.com, 845.679.0027 (Open by appointment only through 4/8) 4/9 t h r o u g h 5/17- RAW OBJECTS APPEAR LIFE SIZE b y VINCENT SERBIN Sa 4/10- Op e n i n g Rece p t i o n 5-7 PM WOODSTOCK—Ha w t h o r n Ga l l e r y , 34 Elwyn Lane, 845.679.2711 WOODSTOCK—Ja me s Co x Ga l l e r y At Wo o d s t o c k , 4666 Route 212 www.jamescoxgallery.com, 845.679.7608 WOODSTOCK—Kl i e n e r t /Ja me s Ar t s Ce n t e r , 34 Tinker Street www.woodstockguild.org, 845.679.2079, Fr-Su 12-5 PM the 3/27 t h r o u g h 5/2- ANNUAL MEMBER’S SHOW WOODS Sa 3/27- Op e n i n g Rece p tion 4-6 PM r e t r e at WOODSTOCK—Li l y En t e St u d i o ,153 Tinker Street, 845.679.6064, 212.924.0784 WOODSTOCK—Lo t u s Fi n e Ar t , 33 Rock City Rd, www.lotuswoodstock.com, 845.679.2303 WOODSTOCK—Sw ee t h e a r t Ga l l e r y , 8 Tannery Brook Road www.sweetheartgallery.com, 845.679.2622 WOODSTOCK—Th e Be a r s v i l l e Th e a t e r , 291 Tinker Street (Route 212) www.bearsvilletheater.com, 845.679.4406 www.thewoodshudsonvalleyretreat.com
20 | rollmagazine.com music listings music listings
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON—Ri c h a r d B. Fi s h e r Ce n t e r At Ba r d Co l l e g e , Route 9G HYDE PARK—Hy d e Pa r k Br e w i n g Co m p a n y , 4076 Albany Post Road www.fishercenter.bard.edu, 845.758.7950, Box Office: 845.758.7900 www.hydeparkbrewing.com, 845.229.8277 Su 3/14- 4/4- CONSERVATORY SUNDAYS c h a mbe r m u s i c 3 PM Ev e r y We- OPEN MIC Bl u e s Ja m 8:30 PM Fr 3/12- IS BEACON—Ho w l a n d Cu l t u r a l Ce n t e r , 477 Main Street Sa 3/13- THE WOODCOCKS www.howlandculturalcenter.org, 845.832.4988 Fr 3/19- VITO & 4 GUYS IN DISGUISE Th 3/11- CONCERT VIDEO NIGHT 8-10 PM Sa 3/20- PETEY HOP Su 3/14- DEBRA KAYE time tba Fr 3/26- THE HARVEY CITRON BAND Su 3/21- ADAM LEVY & THE MINT IMPERIALS 7:30 PM Sa 3/27- TONY MERANDO Fr 3/26- RAMBLIN’ JUG STOMPERS 7:30 PM Su 3/28- PEABODY PIANO TRIO h o w l a n d c h a mbe r m u s i c c o n ce r t 4 PM KINGSTON—A.I.R. St u d i o Ga l l e r y , 71 O’Neil Street, www.airstudiogallery.com BEACON—Th e Pi g g y Ba n k , 448 Main Street, www.local845.com, 845.838.0028 845.331.2662. Second Saturdays (art, food, and acoustic music), 8-11 PM Ev e r y 2n d Sa- Ac o u s t i c Ar t i s t s Co a l i t i o n & Ar t Pa r t y 8-11 PM BETHEL—Be t h e l Wo o d Ce n t e r Fo r Th e Ar t s , 200 Hurd Road and Route 17B KINGSTON—Th e Ba s eme n t , 744 Broadway, www.myspace.com/thebasement744 (at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival) 845.340.0744 www.bethelwoodscenter.org, 845.454.3388 Fr 3/12- 4 GUN RIDGE w/ EDDIE FINGERHUT 9 PM CATSKILL- Ca t s k i l l Co mm u n i t y Ce n t e r , 344 Main St. Sa 3/13- ST. PATRICK’S DAY BASH w/ THE ARKHAMS, SOUL REAPIN’ 3 www.catskillcommunitycenter.org, 518.719.8244 a n d AMERICAN BARFIGHT 9 PM Fr 3/12- SQUARE DANCE, be n e f i t f o r c o mm u n i t y r a d i o WGXC 7:30 PM Th 3/18- THE GODDAMN GALLOWS w/ ONE SHORT FALL 9 PM Fr 3/19- MURPHY’S LAW w/ SLIPFIST a n d WHITE KNUCKLE RODEO 9 PM CHATHAM—PS/21 2980 Route 66, www.ps21chatham.org, 518.392.6121 Sa 3/20- 80’S NIGHT DANCE PARTY w/ DJ EAN NICE 9 PM Evy e r Th- THE LISTENING ROOM 8 PM Fr 3/26- HAITI BENEFIT SHOW w/ THE BIG TAKEOVER, NCM, huMBLE BOY CLUB, TEOROCK a n d DJ WAVY DAVY 9 PM CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON-—2 Al i ce s Co f f ee Lo u n g e , 311 Hudson St. www.2alicescoffee.com Sa 3/27- SHAT w/ OKOSU, STANDARD ASSAULT a n d FENRISMAW 9 PM Tu 3/30- THE FAST TRACK 9 PM Sa 3/13- THE KURT HENRY BAND 8 PM KINGSTON—Kee g a n Al e s , 20 St James Street, www.keeganales.com Sa 3/20- THE UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA w/ ELIZABETH MUISE 7:30 PM 845.331.2739 Fr 3/26- DELMARK GOLDFARB 8 PM Ev e r y We- Op e n Mi c Ni g h t 6:30 PM Sa 3/27- PAUL SACHS 8 PM Ev e r y 2n d Su- THE BIG BANG JAZZ GANG p l a y s t h e m u s i c o f MINGUS, ELLENVILLE—Ar o m a Th y me Bi s t r o , 165 Canal Street MONK DUKE a n d m o r e www.aromathymebistro.com, 845.647.3000 KINGSTON—Sk y t o p Br e w i n g Co m p a n y An d St e a k h o u s e , 237 Forest Hill Drive All shows 8-11 PM unless otherwised noted www.skytop.moonfruit.com, 845.340.4277 Ev e r y Th- JOHN SIMON a n d t h e GREATER ELLENVILLE JAZZ TRIO 7-10 PM Ev e r y 1s t Sa- Th e Up s t a r t Bl u e s Al l s t a r s 9 PM Ev e r y 1s t Fr- OPEN MIC NIGHT 10 PM Ev e r y Tu e s d a y - St u m p Tr i v i a ! 8 PM Sa 3/13- LOWRY HAMNER KINGSTON—Sn a p p e r Ma g ee s , 59 North Front Street Sa 3/20- HELEN AVAKIAN www.myspace.com/snappermageeslivemusic, 845.339.3888 Sa 3/27- ERIC ERICKSON All shows start at 10 PM and are 21+ Sa 4/3- BRYAN GORDON KINGSTON—Th e Ch i l d r e n ’s Ho me o f Ki n g s t o n , 26 Grove Street, 845.331.1448 FISHKILL—Th e Ke l t i c Ho u s e , 1004 Main Street KINGSTON—Ul s t e r Pe r f o r m i n g Ar t s Ce n t e r , 601 Broadway, www.upac.org www.myspace.com/thekeltichouse, 845.896.1110 845.473.5288 Ev e r y We- OPEN MIC w/ THROWN TOGETHER 6 PM MIDDLETOWN—Co r n e r St a g e , 368 East Main Street Th 3/11- THE HERE AND NOW w/ s p ec i a l g u e s t s 10 PM www.myspace.com/cornerstage, 845.342.4804 Sa 3/13- SIDEFX 1 AM Ev e r y We- ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC NIGHT Su 3/14- 50LB HEAD 1 AM Ev e r y Th, Fr, & Sa- OPEN BLUES JAM w/ Th e Mi k e Qu i c k Tr i o 9 PM Fr 3/19- GOOD N LOADED 9 PM MIDDLETOWN—Pa r a m o u n t Th e a t r e , 17 South Street Sa 3/20- AVOIDING TOMORROW 9 PM www.middletownparamount.com, 845.346.4195
GARRISON—Ph i l i p s t o w n De p o t Th e a t r e , Garrison's Landing MILLBROOK—La Pu e r t a Az u l , 2510 Route 44, www.lapuertaazul.com www.philipstowndepottheatre.org, 845.424.3900 845.677.2985 Ev e r y Th- OPEN MIC NIGHT 8:30 PM GREAT BARRINGTON, MA—Th e Ma h a i w e Th e a t e r , 14 Castle Street Ev e r y Sa- b r u n c h p e r f o r m a n ce b y ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL’S www.mahaiwe.org, 415.528.0100 string QUARTET 12 PM Fr 3/12- MMRHS POPS CONCERT w/ ALLAN DEAN 8 PM MILLBROOK—Se a ny B’s, 3264 Franklin Avenue, Sa 3/20- THE ROMANTIC BACH f r o m c l o s e e n c o u n t e r s w i t h m u s i c 6 PM 845.677.2282 Sa 4/10- DAVID BROMBERG w/ ANGEL BAND 8 PM MILLERTON—Ma n n a De w , 54 Main Street, 518.789.3570 HIGH FALLS—Hi g h Fa l l s Ca f é , Route 213 and Mohonk Road Ev e r y Th- OPEN MIC NIGHT 10 PM www.highfallscafe.com, 845.687.2699 Ev e r y Fr- LIVE JAZZ, BLUES, AND FOLK 10 PM 1s t & 3r d Tu- BLUES AND DANCE PARTY w/ Bi g Jo e Fi t z 7 PM Ev e r y Th- ACOUSTIC THURSDAY h o s t e d b y Ku r t He n r y 7 PM MOUNT KISCO—Aa r o n Co p e l a n d Ho u s e a t Me r e s t e a d , 455 Byram Lake Rd, Su 3/14- THE BERNSTEIN BARD TRIO 12 PM www.coplandhouse.org, 845.788.4659 Su 3/28- THE RICK ALTMAN TRIO 12 PM Su 3/21- THE COMPOSER’S HOUR w/ JOHN CORIGILANO a n d s o p r a n o aMY BURTON HIGHLAND—Bo u g h t o n Pl a ce Th e a t e r , 150 Kisor Rd., www.boughtonplace.org, 845.691.7578 NEWBURGH—Pa me l a ’s On Th e Hu d s o n , 1 Park Place HUDSON— Co l u mb i a Gr ee n e Co mm u n i t y Co l l e g e , 4400 Route 23 www.pamelastravelingfeast.com, 845.563.4505 www.sunycgcc.edu, 518.828.4181 NEWBURGH—Th e Ri t z Th e a t e r , 111 Broadway HUDSON—Hu d s o n Op e r a Ho u s e , 327 Warren Street www.safeharborsofthehudson.org, 845.563.694 www.hudsonoperahouse.org, 518.822.1438 Sa 3/27- MARIA ZEMANTAUSKI w/ t h e HUDSON VALLEY PHILHARMONIC HUDSON—Ja s o n ’s Up s t a i r s Ba r , 521 Warren Street, www.jasonsupstairsbar.com string QUARTET 8PM 518.828.8787 NEWBURGH—Te r r a ce Ba r & Lo u n g e , 81 Liberty Street, 845.561.9770 Ev e r y We- OPEN MIC NIGHT 9 PM Ev e r y Tu- Ja zz Ja m Se s s i o n Wi t h Ma r v i n Bu g a l u Sm i t h 7:30- 10 PM Ev e r y Th- HIP HOP b y DJ NES 9 PM NEW PALTZ—Go me n Ku d a s a i , 215 Main Street, www.gomenkudasai.com HUDSON- Ti me a n d Sp a ce Li m i t e d , 434 Columbia St., 845.255.8811 www.timeandspacelimited.org, 518.822.8448 Sa 2/13- DINNER CONCERT w/ RAY SPIEGEL a n d BRIAN PRUNKA 7 PM Sa 3/20- DOG ON FLEAS 1 PM
21 | rollmagazine.com music listings upstate NEW PALTZ—Th e Mu d d y Cu p Co f f ee h o u s e , 58 Main Street, www.muddycup.com musicians & artists 845.255.5803 Ev e r y Mo- Op e n Mi c Ni g h t 7 PM NEW PALTZ—Ne w Pa l t z Cu l t u r a l Co l l ec t i v e , 60 Main Street, www.60main.org 845.255.1901 Ev e r y Th- OPEN MIC 8 PM Si g n u p s a t 7:30 PM your work Ev e r y Su- JAZZ JAM 2 PM Ev e r y Th i r d Sa- NEW PALTZ THIRD SATURDAY: l i v e m u s i c a n d a r t s h o w deserves attention We 3/10- MINOR CONSTELLATIONS, MADELINE AVA, MAX WEISS a n d last YEAR’S MEN 8 PM which means you need a great bio for Fr 3/19- LEARA BEE w/ THE JINGS 10 PM your press kit or website Fr 3/26- THE CLARK JOHNSON TRIO a n d Peter Aaron | [email protected] BLACK MOUNTAIN SYMPHONY 8 PM I also offer general copy editing & proofreading services NEW PALTZ—SUNY Ne w Pa l t z , Mc k e n n a Th e a t r e , 1 Hawk Drive www.newpaltz.edu/theatre, 845.257.3880 NEW PALTZ—Un i s o n Ar t s Ce n t e r , 68 Mountain Rest Road, www.unisonarts.org 845.255.1559 Ev e r y Th i r d Su- OPEN MIC NIGHT Ho s t e d By Jo h n De n i c o l o Ev e r y We- AFRICAN DRUM w/ Fo d e Si s s o k o a n d To b y St o v e r 6 PM
OLIVEBRIDGE—As h o k a n Ce n t e r , 477 Beaverkill Road, www.ashokancenter.org, 845.255.1559 American Roots PAWLING—Th e To w n e Cr i e r , 130 Route 22, www.townecrier.com, 845.855.1300 Fr/Sa shows at 8:30 PM, Su 7:30 PM unless otherwise noted 1s t An d 3r d We- Op e n Mi c Ni g h t 7 PM music (Third Wednesday open mic on 3/17 rescheduled for Th 3/18) Fr 3/12- JIM DAWSON w/ LORI LIEBERMAN Sa 3/13- THE CLANCY TRADITION rock | jazz | cajun | gospel | r&b | cowboy Su 3/14- POGEY We 3/17- ASHLEY DAVIS w/ i r i s h h a r p i s t CORMAC DE BARRA Th 3/18- OPEN MIC 7 PM Fr 3/19- FRANKIE GAVIN w/ DE DANNAN Sa 3/20- VANEECE THOMAS whvw/950 am Su 3/21- JERRY JOSEPH w/ BRET MOSLEY Fr 3/26- DEBBIE DAVIES bu l e s b a n d Sa 3/27- CARAVAN OF THIEVES Fr 4/2- RHETT TYLER b a n d w/ RUBY HOGG Sa 4/3- LESLIE GORE w/ TWO GUITARS Fr 4/9- DAVID JACOBS-STRAIN w/ BROOKS WILLIAMS
PEEKSKILL—12 Gr a p e s Mu s i c & Wi n e Ba r , 12 North Division Street, www.12grapes.com, 914.737.6624 Ev e r y Su- SINGER SONGWRITER SHOWCASE 6 PM Th 3/11- JERRY DUGGER & THE DUGGER BROTHERS b l u e s 8:30 PM Fr 3/12- ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION w/ thE PEEKSKILL GRAND MARSHALL TOUR 6 PM Fr 3/12- JOHNNY C & THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL c l a s s i c r&b 9:30 PM Sa 3/13- DUTCHESS DI & THE DISTRACTIONS 9:30 PM Su 3/14- ERIN HOBSON 5:30 PM Th 3/18- RICH KELLY w/ DREW BORDEAUX r o c k j a m 8:30 PM Fr 3/19- STONEFLY c l a s s i c r o c k 9:30 PM folk | big band | rockabilly | bluegrass Sa 3/20- LIVE SOCIETY r&b/p o p r o c k 9:30 PM Mo 3/22- GREG WESTHOFF & THE WESTCHESTER SWING BAND 8 PM PEEKSKILL— Be a n Ru n n e r Ca f é , 201 S. Division Street, www.beanrunnercafe.com www.whvw.com 914.737.1701 Ev e r y 2n d & 4t h We- LATIN JAZZ w/ SKIN AGAINST METAL 7 PM DP_RollAd.pdf 2/4/09 10:13:03 PM Fr 3/12- THE BIG TAKEOVER 7:30 PM Sa 3/13- JAZZ NIGHT w/ FRANK LACEY, JOHNATHAN BLAKE a n d KEVIN RAY 7:30 PM Su 3/14- NO APOLOGIES c d r e l e a s e p a r t y w/ JOHN BASILE, PAT BANCHI a n d CARMEN INTORRE 4 PM
C Fr 3/19- LET THE WAVES COME IN THREES w/ ANNA DAGMAR 7:30 PM Sa 3/20- SAGE ceb l e r a t i n g w o me n ’s h i s t o r y m o n t h 7:30 PM M Su 3/21- KATHLEEN PEMBLE & COLD SPRING t h e b a n d 4:30 PM Fr 3/26- JON POUSETTE-DART 7:30 PM Y Offset & Digital Printing Sa 3/27- BILLIE HOLIDAY BY CANDLELIGHT w/ TAMM E. HUNT 7:30 PM
CM Cross-Media Campaigns Fr 4/2- AN EVENING OF ALL JOHN COLTRANE w/ THE YOUTH GROUP Custom Variable Imaging a k a THE BOB MEYER PROJECT 7:30 PM MY Digital Die-Cutting Fr 4/9- TWO GUITARS w/ GUS WIELAND 7:30 PM Sa 4/10- ÄJ w/ ANDREA AND JAMES ROHLEHR 7:30 PM CY PEEKSKILL— Th e Di v i s i o n St r ee t Gr i l l , 26 North Division Street
CMY www.divisionstreetgrill.com, 914.739.6380 PEEKSKILL—Pa r a m o u n t Ce n t e r Fo r Th e Ar t s , 1008 Brown Street K 518.446.9129 www.paramountcenter.org, 914.739.2333 We 3/17- MICHAEL BOLTON: ONE WORLD, ONE LOVE 8 PM Digital Page is FSC Certified. 75 Benjamin Street | Albany, NY 12202 Fr 3/26- NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND 8 PM
22 | rollmagazine.com music listings
PEEKSKILL—Pee k s k i l l Co f f ee Ho u s e , 101 S. Division St., www.peekskillcoffee.com 914.739.1287
POUGHKEEPSIE—Ci b o n e y Ca f e , 189 Church St., 845.486.4690 POUGHKEEPSIE—Th e Ba r d a v o n , 35 Market Street, www.bardavon.org 845.473.2072 We 3/17- BLACK VIOLIN 10 AM, 12 PM www.ginoswappingers.com Fr 3/19- HIP HOP THEATRE 7 PM Tu/We 3/23- 3/24- HUDSON VALLEY PHILHARMONIC y o u n g p e o p l e ’s c o n ce r t 10 AM, 11:45 AM Su 3/28- LOS LOBOS a n d LEO KOTTKE 7 PM POUGHKEEPSIE— Ca f e Bo cc a , 14 Mt Carmel Pl., www.cafebocca.net 845.483.7300 Sa 3/27- JOHN MUELLER 7 PM Fr 4/9- SHIVATI 8 PM Sa 4/10- RAY PRIM 7 PM POUGHKEEPSIE— Ju n i o r s Lo u n g e , 504 Salt Point Turnpike, 845.452.6963, www.juniorsloungesaltpoint.com POUGHKEEPSIE—Th e Ch a n ce , 6 Crannell St. www.thechancetheater.com 845.486.0223 Th 3/11- EVERY TIME I DIE w/ FOUR YEAR STRONG, POLAR BEAR CLUB a n d TRAPPED UNDER ICE 7 PM Fr 3/12- JUDAS PRIESTESS (t r i b u t e t o j u das p r i e s t ) w/ THE VIXEN DOGS a n d MADD DOG 8 PM Su 3/14- WASP w/ SEASONS IN PRUGATORY a n d STARSTRUCK 6:30 PM We 3/17- SOULFLY w/ PRONG, INCITE, ROTTING CORPSE a n d LEFT IN RUINS 7 PM Fr 3/19- THE CHILLIEBURGERS (r e d h o t c h i l l i p a p p e r s t r i b u t e ) 8:30 PM Sa 3/20- THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA w/ VANNA, DR. ACULA a n d SURRENDER THE DANCE FLOOR 6:30 PM Su 3/21- TRAIN w/ BUTCH WALKER 6 PM Th 3/25- ANTHONY K w/ DEZERATA 7:30 PM Fr 3/26- BADFISH (a t r i b u t e t o s u b l i me ) w/ THE BIG SHOE a n d STARK RAVEN 8:30 PM Sa 3/27- KITTIE AND GOD FORBID w/ KARASCENE, HYNGD, PAINMASK a n d AMONG THE DEAD 8 PM Sa 4/10- FACELESS (a g o d s m a c k t r i b u t e ) w/ NO JACK SUNDAY, last CHANCE STANDING a n d DOWNFIRE 8 PM POUGHKEEPSIE—Th e Lo f t , 6 Crannell St., www.thechancetheater.com 845.486.0223 Fr 3/12- A KICK OF CRIMSON w/ UNDETERMINED a n d SHOSHANNA THE WAITERESS 8:30 PM Fr 3/26- BEFORE THE WAR w/ APATHY FOR THE DEAD a n d VICTIM OF TRAGEDY 8:30 PM Fr 4/2- FOXY SHAZAM 8 PM We 4/7- FROM FIRST TO LAST w/ EYES SET TO KILL, CONFIDE, slEEPING WITH SIRENS a n d BLACK VEIL BRIDES 6 PM POUGHKEEPSIE—Pl a t i n u m Lo u n g e , 367 Main Street, www.thechancetheater.com Fr 3/12- THE GENTLING w/ SEVENTH VOID a n d EFFECTS OF E 7:30 PM Fr 3/19- THE EVENT HORIZEN w/ SATORI, MATT BOOTH, thE GOOD FIGHT a n d THE DANCE CANCER 8:30 PM Sa 3/20- MASON BELL PLAYS THE DOORS 8:30 PM Fr 3/26- CHRIS WOOD w/ TO NO AVAIL, MARK GERLUACH, photography | www.danamatthews.com pENNY RACER, ANTHONY PARKS a n d SADLER & JULES 8 PM Fr 4/9- THE CLOSER w/ RED PILL a n d SNAPHAMMER 8 PM POUGHKEEPSIE—Sk i n n e r Ha l l Of Mu s i c , Va s s a r Co l l e g e , 124 Raymond Avenue, music.vassar.edu, 845.437.7319 Fr 3/26- g u e s t e v e n t : RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE o r g a n 8 PM Sa 3/27- s e n i o r r ec i t a l : SARAH GOLDFEATHER v i o l i n w/ ANNA POLONSKY p i a n o 1:30 PM Sa 3/27- s e n i o r r ec i t a l : ASHLEY ALTER mezz o -s o p r a n o w/ RICHARD MOGAVERO p i a n o a n d CATHERINE O’KELLY ’10 g u i t a r 4 PM Sa 3/27- VASSAR COLLEGE WOMEN’S CHORUS 8 PM Fr 4/2- MAHAGONNY ENSEMBLE 8 PM Sa 4/3- s e n i o r r ec i t a l : LAUREN SHERMAN s o p r a n o w/ TODD CROW p i a n o 1:30 PM Sa 4/10- s e n i o r r ec i t a l : LAURA SOUSA v i o l i n w/ TODD CROW p i a n o 1:30 PM Sa 4/10- s e n i o r r ec i t a l : ALEXANDER LINSALATA c l a r i n e t w/ TODD CROW p i a n o , SARAH GOLDFEATHER ’10 v i o l i n a n d TIFFANY SHI ’12 p i a n o 4 PM
RED HOOK—St. Pa u l ’s Lu t h e r a n Ch u r c h Ha l l , Broadway 845.802.6515
23 | rollmagazine.com music listings
RED HOOK— Ta s t e Bu d d ’s Ca f é 40 W Market St. www.tastebudds.com 845.758.6500 Ev e r y Sa & Su- LIVE AT TASTE BUDD’S l i v e m u s i c Sa 3/13- BREAD AND BONES 4 PM Su 3/14- LAURA SUMNER 2 PM Sa 3/20- BETHEL STEELE 4 PM Su 3/21- RED ROOSTER 2 PM Sa 3/27- KAMA LINDEN 4 PM Su 3/28- ALEKSIS BILLMANIS 2 PM Sa 4/3- VINCE TAMPIO 4 PM Su 4/4- MARJI ZINTZ 2 PM Sa 4/10- JOHN KELLER 4 PM
RHINECLIFF—Th e Rh i n ec l i f f Ho t e l , 4 Grinnell St., www.therhinecliff.com 845.876.0590 Ev e r y Tu- LOCAL MUSICIAN SHOWCASE w/ Ka r l Al l w e i e r 9 PM Ev e r y Sa- LATE LOUNGE AT THE RHINECLIFF 9 PM Ev e r y 1s t Su- ERIN HOBSON COMPACT 11:30 AM Ev e r y 2n d Su- WILL SMITH TRIO 11:30 AM Ev e r y 3r d Su- BLUE GARDENIA 11:30 AM Ev e r y 4t h Su- VARIOUS ARTISTS 11:30 AM Fr 3/12- C. B. SMITH 9 PM Su 3/14- WILL SMITH TRIO 11:30 AM Su 3/14- A FATHER COEN’S ST PADDY’S PARTY 4 PM Su 3/21- BLUE GARDENIA 11:30 AM Su 3/28- ELAINE RACHLIN w/ s p ec i a l g u s t s 11:30 AM
RHINEBECK—Ce n t e r Fo r Th e Pe r f o r m i n g Ar t s , Route 308 www.centerforperformingarts.org, 845.876.3080 RHINEBECK—St a r r Pl a ce Re s t a u r a n t s & Lo u n g e , 6417 Mo n t g o me r y St. www.starrplace.com, 845.876.2924 Ev e r y 1s t Fr- OPEN MIC Ev e r y Th- KARAOKE w/ D.J. TEDESH
ROSENDALE—Ma r k e t Ma r k e t , 1 Madeline Lane, www.jentrip.com, 845.658.3164 Ev e r y Fr- MIXTAPE FRIDAY w/ DJ ALI GRUBER 9 PM Fr 3/12- THIS AIN’T YOUR MAMA’S KARAOKE 9 PM Sa 3/13- WEMUSTBE 9 PM ROSENDALE—Ro s e n d a l e Th e a t r e , 330 Main St., 845.658.8989 ROSENDALE—Th e Ro s e n d a l e Ca f é , 434 Main Street, www.rosendalecafe.com 845.658.9048 Fr 3/12- SALSA DANCE 9:30 PM Sa 3/13- HONEYBOY EDWARDS 8 PM We 3/17- THE LUCKY CHARMS 8 PM Fr 3/19- BRUCE MOLSKY 8 PM Sa 3/20- JOY KILLS SORROW 8 PM Tu 3/23- SINGER-SONGWRITER TUESDAYS w/ f i n l e y a n d p a g d o n , d o u g y o e l , be t t y a l t m a n & p h i l m i l l e r , e d d i e f i n g e r h u t & j o h n p i n d e r , m i k e a g u i r r e a n d k a t e mcc o y 8 PM Fr 3/26- FRANK VIGNOLA’S HOT CLUB 8 PM Sa 4/3- SUSAN MCKEOWN 8 PM Sa 4/10- GERRY O’BEIRNE & ROSIE SHIPLEY 8 PM ROSENDALE—Ro s e n d a l e Rec r e a t i o n Cet n e r , 1055 Route 32, www.rosendalestreetfestival.com, 845.943.6497
SAUGERTIES—Ca f é Mezz a l u n a Bi s t r o La t i n o An d Ga l l e r y ,626 Route 212, 845.246.5306 Ev e r y 1s t & 3r d Th- OPEN MIC SAUGERTIES—Jo h n St r ee t Ja m , 16 John Street, www.johnstjam.net, 845.943.6720 Sa 3/13- MONTGOMERY DELANEY, PENNY NICHOLS, GLEN ROETHEL, JANN KLOSE, LUKE LIDDY, SEAN CRIMMINS, JULIA NICHOLS a n d THOMAS EARL 7:30 PM SAUGERTIES—Mu d d y Cu p /i n q u i r i n g Mi n d Co f f ee h o u s e & Bo o k s t o r e , 65 Partition St., 845.246.5775 All shows 7 PM unless otherwise noted Ev e r y Tu- OPEN MIC w/ CHRISSY BUDZINSKI 7 PM SAUGERTIES—Sa u g e r t i e s Se n i o r Ci t i ze n Ce n t e r , 207 Market St. (tickets will be sold at the door)
search by date www.rollmagazine.com
24 | rollmagazine.com music listings
STONE RIDGE—Ja c k An d Lu n a ’s, 3928 Main Street, www.jackandluna.com, 845.687.9794 Sa 3/27- ALI RYERSON, w i t h MIKE KULL, CHARLIE KNICELEY, AND Visit us Free Wi-Fi CHRIS BOWMAN 7:30 & 9 PM on the way to Art Exhibits Walk Across the Hudson TIVOLI—Th e Bl a c k Sw a n , 66 Broadway, 845.757.3777 Weekend Entertainment 1 1/2 blocks from the WOODSTOCK— Al c h em y o f Wo o d s t o c k , 297 Tinker St, 845.684.5068 Espresso Bar All shows 9 PM unless otherwise noted walkway entrance. Lunch Anytime Ev e r y We- OPEN MIC 6 PM WOODSTOCK—Th e Be a r s v i l l e Th e a t e r , 291 Tinker Street (Route 212) www.cafebocca.net www.bearsvilletheater.com, 845.679.4406 845 483-7300 [email protected] Ev e r y Th- BLUEGRASS CLUBHOUSE 8 PM Ev e r y Th- MISS ANGIE’S KARAOKE 10 PM 14 Mount Carmel Place, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 cafe bocca cafe (3/25 show rescheduled for 3/26) Fr 3/12- THE FIVE POINTS 9 PM Fr 3/19- AMOS LEE w/ CARY ANN 9 PM We 3/24- DON AND BUNK SHOW w/ t h e m u s i c o f FRANK ZAPPA 8 PM Fr 3/26- r e s c h e d u l e d BLUEGRASS CLUBHOUSE a n d MISS ANGIE’S KARAOKE 8 PM, 10 PM Fr 4/2- PURPLE K’NIF 8 PM Sa 4/3- DJ HEAT 9 PM Th 4/8- THE HOLD STEADY w/ THE ORANGES BAND 8 PM Sa 4/10- EPIPHANY PROJECT w/ BET WILLIAMS a n d JOHN HODIAN 8 PM WOODSTOCK—Th e Co l o n y Ca f é , 22 Rock City Road, www.colonycafe.com 845.679.5342 Ev e r y Mo- SPOKEN WORD: p o e t r y , p r o s e , a n d o p e n m i c w i t h v i n y l s h o w c a s e 9:30PM Sa 3/20- CREATIVE MUSIC STUDIO ORCHESTRA Su 3/21- JGB BAND w/ MELVIN SEALS a n d STU ALLEN WOODSTOCK—Th e Kl e i n e r t /Ja me s Ar t s Ce n t e r , 34 Tinker Street www.woodstockguild.org, 845.679.2079 WOODSTOCK—Ti n k e r St. Ci n em a , 132 Tinker Street WOODSTOCK—Ma v e r i c k Co n ce r t Ha l l , Maverick Road www.maverickconcerts.org, 845.679.8217 WOODSTOCK—Wo o d s t o c k Ar t i s t s As s o c i a t i o n & Mu s e u m , 28 Tinker Street www.woodstockart.org, 845.679.2940
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to Financial Planning for Inspired People the rest of the world." —John Muir
pro audio & video production proaudio&video production Sales & Rentals roll magazine is printed Ballantine communications on recycled f s c paper using soy based inks key foods plaza • rt 44 • pleasant valley • ny 12569 845.635.8606
25 | rollmagazine.com theatre/cinema listings theatre/cinema listings
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON—Ri c h a r d B. Fi s h e r Ce n t e r , Route 9G KINGSTON—Ul s t e r Pe r f o r m i n g Ar t s Ce n t e r (UPAC), 601 Broadway, www.fishercenter.bard.edu, 845.758.7950, Box Office: 845.758.7900 www.upac.org, 845.339.6088 Fr 3/12- c i n em a : CASABLANCA (1942) BEACON—Be a c o n In s t i t u t e f o r Ri v e r s a n d Es t u a r i e s , 199 Main Street Tu 3/16- THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR AND OTHER www.riversandestuaries.org, 845.838.1600 ERIC CARLE FAVORITES 10 AM, 12 PM BEACON—Di a :Be a c o n , 3 Bee k m a n St r ee t , www.diabeacon.org Fr 3/19- LISA LAMPANELLI 8 PM 845.440.0100, Th-Mo 11 AM- 6 PM Fr 4/9- DAVID SEDARIS 8 PM BEACON—Ho w l a n d Cu l t u r a l Ce n t e r , 477 Main Street www.howlandculturalcenter.org, 845.832.4988 MIDDLETOWN—SUNY Or a n g e , Harriman Hall, 115 South Street Fr 4/2- f e a t u r e s p o e t s : JANET HAMILL a n d ROBERT MILBY 8 PM www.sunyorange.edu, 845.341.4891 BEACON—Ho w l a n d Pu b l i c Li b r a r y , 313 Main St., 845.831.1134, howland.beacon.lib.ny.us NEWBURGH—Th e Do w n i n g Fi l m Ce n t e r , 19 Front Street www.downingfilmcenter.com, 845.561.3686, check website for times BETHEL—Be t h e l Wo o d Ce n t e r Fo r Th e Ar t s , 200 Hurd Road and Route 17B (at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival) Ev e r y Su- FILMS WITH FRANK 1 PM www.bethelwoodscenter.org, 845.454.3388 We/Th 3/10- 3/11- c i n em a : THE LAST STATION 3/12 t h r o u g h 3/18- c i n em a : THE WHITE RIBBON CHATHAM—PS/21, 2980 Route 66, www.ps21chatham.org, 518.392.6121 CHATHAM—Cr a n d e l l Th e a t r e , 46-48 Main Street, www.thechathamfilmclub.com, NEW PALTZ—Ne w Pa l t z Cu l t u r a l Co l l ec t i v e , 60 Main Street, www.60main.org 518.392.3331 845.255.1901 NEW PALTZ—SUNY Ne w Pa l t z , Mc k e n n a Th e a tr e , 1 Hawk Drive ELLENVILLE—Sh a d o w l a n d Th e a t r e , 157 Canal Street www.newpaltz.edu/theatre, 845.257.3880 www.shadowlandtheatre.org, 845.647.5511 NEW PALTZ—Un i s o n Ar t s Ce n t e r , Mountain Rest Road, www.unisonarts.org Sa 3/20- c i n em a : WHEN COMEDY WAS KING 2 PM 845.255.1559 3/19 t h r o u g h 3/27- OPUS Sa/Su 8 PM GARRISON—Ph i l i p s t o w n De p o t Th e a t r e , Garrison's Landing www.philipstowndepottheatre.org, 845.424.3900 NEW WINDSOR— 3/12 t h r o u g h 3/14- c i n em a : THE RETURN OF THE INCREDIBLE National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, 374 Temple Hill Road, shrinking MAN 8 PM www.nysparks.com, 845-561-1765 3/19 t h r o u g h 3/21- WINTER INTO SPRING f o u r o n e -a c t p l a y s b y a e r y t h e a t r e PEEKSKILL— Be a n Ru n n e r Ca f é , r e s i d e n t playwrights 201 S. Division Street, www.beanrunnercafe.com 914.737.1701 Fr 3/26- d o c u me n t a r y : DON'T LOOK BACK 7:30 PM PEEKSKILL—Pa r a m o u n t Ce n t e r Fo r Th e Ar t s , 1008 Brown Street Sa 3/27- HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 8 PM www.paramountcenter.org, 914.739.2333 Fr 4/9- d o c u me n t a r y : STEPHEN IVES' MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 7:30 PM Sunday shows at 3 PM, all other shows at 8 PM unless otherwise noted GREAT BARRINGTON, MA—Th e Ma h a i w e Th e a t e r , 14 Castle Street 3/19 t h r o u g h 3/25- BROKEN EMBRACES www.mahaiwe.org, 415.528.0100 3/27 t h r o u g h 4/1- CRAZY HEART Sa 3/13- LIVING WITH IT w/ FRANK LA FRAZIA 7:30 PM 4/2 t h r o u g h 4/4- AJAMI Su/Mo 3/21- 3/22- ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER’S 4/9 t h r o u g h 4/15- THE LAST STATION ailEY II Su 3 PM Mo, 10 AM Th 3/11- AN EDUCATION 8 PM Fr 3/26- c i n em a : COOL HAND LUKE (1967) 7 PM Su 3/21- A YEAR WITH FROG & TOAD NEW THEATER ADVENTURE 3 PM Sa 3/27- MET OPERA: THOMAS’S HAMLET 1 PM We 3/31- c l a s s i c f i l m s e r i e s : AFRICAN QUEEN 7:30 PM We 4/7- c l a s s i c f i l m s e r i e s : MY FAIR LADY HIGHLAND—Bo u g h t o n Pl a ce Th e a t e r , 150 Kisor Rd., www.boughtonplace.org, 845.691.7578 PHOENICIA—STS Pl a y h o u s e , 10 Church Street, www.stsplayhouse.com Fr 3/26- READ FOR FOOD p o e t r y o p e n m i c f u n d r a i s e r 7-10 PM 845.688.2279 3/21 t h r o u g h 3/30- GODSPELL HUDSON—Hu d s o n Op e r a Ho u s e , 327 Warren Street www.hudsonoperahouse.org, 518.822.1438 Fr 3/26- c i n em a : THE PARTY (1968) 7 PM HUDSON—Sp a ce 360, 360 Warren St., www.wtdtheater.org, 1.800.838.3006. Shows are 8 PM, Su 2 PM POUGHKEEPSIE—Th e Ba r d a v o n , 35 Market Street, www.bardavon.org 845.473.5288, Box Office: 845.473.2072 Sa 3/13- OFF LEASH i m p r o v t h e a t e r e n s emb l e Sa 3/13- THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR & OTHER HUDSON—St a g e w o r k s -t h e Ma x a n d Li l l i a n Ka t zm a n Th e a t e r 41-A Cross Street, www.stageworkstheater.org, 518.822.9667 ERIC CARLE FAVORITES 11 AM Sa 3/27- MET OPERA: HAMLET 1 PM HUDSON—Ti me & Sp a ce Li m i t e d , 434 Columbia Street www.timeandspace.org, 518.822.8448, check website for times POUGHKEEPSIE—Va s s a r Co l l e g e , 124 Raymond Avenue, Th r o u g h 3/13- c i n em a : SERAPHINE www.vassar.edu, 845.437.7319 POUGHKEEPSIE—Cu n n ee n -h a c k e t t Ar t s Ce n t e r 3/10 t h r o u g h 4/7- YOUTH PROGRAM m u l t i -me d i a a r t s p r o g r a m , 9 & 12 Vassar Street 3/11 t h r o u g h 3/21- c i n em a : SWEETGRASS 845.486.4571 Sa 4/10- HUDSON VALLEY SUSTAINIA-BEAUTY PAGEANT, p r e s e n t e d b y 3/18 t h r o u g h 3/21- c i n em a : THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY m i s s em p i r e r o y a l t y p a g e a n t a n d p a s s i n g t h e t o r c h t h r o u g h t h e a r t s 3/18 t h r o u g h 3/20- c i n em a : AJAMI 9 AM-5 PM POUGHKEEPSIE—Mi d Hu d s o n Ci v i c Ce n t e r 3/25 t h r o u g h 3/28- cn i em a : OFF AND RUNNING , 14 Civic Center Plaza 3/25 t h r o u g h 3/28- c i n em a : NORTH FACE www.midhudsonciviccenter.com, 845.454.5800 POUGHKEEPSIE—Mi l l St r ee t Lo f t 4/1 t h r o u g h 4/3- c i n em a : PARIS WAS A WOMAN , 455 Maple Street, www.millstreetloft.org 4/1 t h r o u g h 4/4- c i n em a : DANCING ACROSS BORDERS 845.471.7477. See website for classes and events. 4/8 t h r o u g h 4/11- THE DIRT CHEAP MONEY CABARET RHINEBECK—Ce n t e r Fo r Th e Pe r f o r m i n g Ar t s b y BREAD & PUPPET THEATER , Route 308 Sa/Su 3/13- 3/14- MET OPERA: CARMEN www.centerforperformingarts.org, 845.876.3080 Sa/Su 4/3- 4/4- MET OPERA: HAMLET Fr/Sa shows 8 PM, Su 3 PM 3/12 t h r o u g h 3/28- RENT Sa/Su 4/8- 4/9- MET OPERA: ARMIDA 4/2 t h r o u g h 4/18- s h a k e s p e a r e ’s MACBETH KINGSTON—ASK Ar t Ce n t e r , 97 Broadway, www.askforarts.org, 845.338.0331 4/9 t h r o u g h 4/11- NOAH AND HIS WIFE KINGSTON—Co a c h Ho u s e Pl a y e r s , 12 Augusta Street p l u s THE SECOND SHEPHERD’S PLAY 8 PM www.coachhouseplayers.org, 845.331.2476 Sa 3/13- THE DRAGON KING 11 AM 4/9 t h r o u g h 4/11- MURDER BY NATURAL CAUSES Fr/Sa 8 PM Su 2 PM Th 3/18- THE SECRET GARDEN 10 AM KINGSTON—Se v e n 21 Me d i a Gr o u p , 721 Broadway, www.seven21.com, We 3/24- FUN WITH ENERGY 10 AM 845.331.0551 Sa 3/27- AMAZING MAGICAL MARGO 11 AM Fr 3/26- s ec o n d c h a n ce 4 me p r e s e n t s ALMOST FAMOUS FILM FESTIVAL, Fr/Sa 4/9- 4/10- SHAKESPEARE FOR KIDS Fr 10 AM, Sa 11 AM s h o r t f i l m s b y l o c a l f i l mm a k e r s 7:30 PM
26 | rollmagazine.com theatre/cinema listings march/theatre & cinema highlights
RHINEBECK—Co c o o n Th e a t r e , 6384 Mill Street (Route 9) Sa 3/13- Sy m p h o n y Sp ace ’s SELECTED SHORTS “A TOUCH OF www.cocoontheatre.org, 845.876.6470 wi t h an d h o s t RHINEBECK—St a r r Pl a ce , 6417 Montgomery St., starrplace.com, 845.876.2924 MAGIC”, DAVID STRATHAIRN, JANE CURTIN, RHINEBECK—Up s t a t e Fi l m s , 6415 Montgomery Street (Route 9) ISIAIAH SHEFFER a t t h e Ba r d av o n , Po u g h kee p s ie —Fans of public www.upstatefilms.org, 845.876.2515. Call for dates and times. radio (WAMC, most likely around here) have probably heard the Selected Shorts show on one or maybe more occasion. Maybe you clicked in one ROSENDALE—Ro s e n d a l e Th e a t r e , 330 Main St., 845.658.8989 afternoon to hear somebody telling a really good story, really well, and
SAUGERTIES— Mu d d y Cu p /i n q u i r i n g Mi n d Co f f ee h o u s e & Bo o k s t o r e you find yourself sitting in your car at your destination, waiting to see how 65 Partition St., 845.246.5775 the story ended. Now think about this: when was the last time you heard a really good story told really well….live? Host Isaiah Sheffer brings a live STONE RIDGE—SUNY Ul s t e r , Qu i mb y Th e a t r e , Cottekill Road (Route 209) performance of “A Touch of Magic” to the Bardavon, with Jane Curtin and www.sunyulster.edu, 845.687.5000, 800.724.0833 David Strathairn (must I list these actors’ numerous accomplishments here?
TIVOLI—Ka a t s b a a n In t e r n a t i o n a l Da n ce Ce n t e r , 120 Broadway, I thought not.) performing stories with a magical twist by Ray Bradbury, www.kaatsbaan.org, 845.757.5106 W.W. Jacobs, and Saki. There’s a whole lot more going on at Bardavon/ UPAC this month, including The Met Opera Live in HD presents Hamlet WAPPINGERS FALLS—Co u n t y Pl a y e r s , 2681 West Main Street www.countyplayers.org, 845.298.1491 (Sa 3/27) and David Sedaris (UPAC Kingston Fr 4/9). Might want to think about a Bardavon/UPAC membership, folks. The Bardavon, 35 Market WOODSTOCK— Al c h em y o f Wo o d s t o c k , 297 Tinker St, 845.684.5068 St., Poughkeepsie, www.bardavon.org, 845.473.2072. 8 PM WOODSTOCK—Co l o n y Ca f é , 22 Ro c k Ci t y Ro a d , www.colonycafe.com 845.679.5342 Th r o u g h Ma r c h /Ap r il - Sp o t li g h t o n PHILIPSTOWN DEPOT Ev e r y Mo- SPOKEN WORD o p e n m i c w i t h h o s t PHILIP LEVINE 7:30 PM WOODSTOCK—Ov e r l o o k Un i t e d Me t h o d i s t Ch u r c h , 233 Tinker St, 845.246.7991 THEATRE, a t Ga r r i s o n ’s Lan d in g , Ga r r i s o n —If you’ve ever been WOODSTOCK—Ti n k e r St r ee t Ci n em a , 132 Tinker Street, 845.679.6608 down to the Garrison train station, right there by Garrison Art Center, you WOODSTOCK—Th e Be a r s v i l l e Th e a t e r , 291 Tinker Street (Route 212) probably wondered—as did I—what the heck they were doing with that www.bearsvilletheater.com, 845.679.4406 small stone depot building? Turns out there’s a theatre in there, and this Th 3/25- LADIES NIGHT AT BEARSVILLE THEATER w/ ALL AMERICAN MALE m a l e d a n ce r s 8 PM month there’s an almost non-stop burst of activity inside, starting with The WOODSTOCK—Wo o d s t o c k Pl a y h o u s e , Route 212 and 375 Return of the Incredible Shrinking Man (Fr/Sa 3/12 & 13 8 PM, Su 3/14 2 PM), www.woodstockplayhouse.org, 845.679.4101 a new play which takes its cue from the classic 50s sci-fi movie, updating WOODSTOCK—Wo o d s t o c k To w n Ha l l , 72 Tinker St., www.performingartsofwoodsock.org, 845.679.7900 the subject to “the place of the mythic American Male in the context of Fr-Su 4/3-5- & 4/9-11—Pe r f o r m i n g Ar t s o f Wo o d s t o c k p r e s e n t s today's corporate reality.” Then it’s the Aery Theatre Company presenting two GUYS AND A STAR a n d HARRY BELAFONTE: HEAR THE MUSIC, “Winter Into Spring,” four one-act plays by resident playwrights (Fr 3/19 a n e v e n i n g o f m u s i c , c o me d y & d r a m a , Fr/Sa 8 PM, Su 4 PM 8 PM, Sa 3/20 4 & 8 PM, Su 3/21 4 PM). Director D.A. Pennebaker will be a special guest for a screening of his classic Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back (Fr 3/26 7:30 PM), choreographer/dancer Lauren Hale Biniaris hosts a matinee of Depot Dances (Sa 3/27 2 PM), then the actors of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare festival bring a touring version of Midsummer Night’s Dream followed by an actor’s talk (Sa 3/27 8 PM). A performance by the Open Heart String Quartet and Odyssey Quartet (Su 3/28 4 PM) and a showing of Stephen Ives’ Martin Luther King Documentary (Fr 4/9 7:30 PM) round out the month. Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison’s Landing, Hunger is Garrison, www.philipstowndepottheatre.org, 845.424.3900. 4/2, 3, 6, 7, 13 t h r o u g h 18- Sh ake s p ea r e ’s MACBETH a t Th e Cen t e r f o r Pe r f o r min g Ar t s a t Rh ine b eck , Rh ine b eck —Ah, Macbeth. A tale so wicked and cursed that simply uttering its name inside a theatre will cause unfathomable misfortune (it must thus be referred to as “The Scottish Play”). Witches, raw ambition, murder, ghosts, revenge, misinterpreted not an prophecies, beheadings….good times! As one of the Bard’s shorter works, clocking in at a little over half as long as Hamlet, it’s also more easily performed with a smaller cast, as many roles can be doubled. It’s a good one for the acting ladies too, between the three witches (always fun) and that legendary power-wife from Hell, Lady Macbeth (Vivien Leigh, Judith Anderson, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, and Glenda Jackson have all had a… option er…stab at the meaty role). CENTER head Lou Trapani directs a modern- times version, with design by Richard Prouse. Also: a special presentation Hudson Valley Hunger Banquet of Shakespeare for Kids gives a great entry into the playwright through four major works, for grades K through high school (Fr 4/9 10 & 11:30 AM, Sunday | March 28, 2010 Sa 4/10 11 AM). The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rte. 308, sponsored by roll magazine Rhinebeck, www.centerforperformingarts.org, 845.876.3080. Fr/Sa 4/2 & 3 8 PM, Tu/We 4/6 & 7 (student shows) 10 AM for more information go to: www.thequeensgalley.org
27 | rollmagazine.com High Falls Cafe march/music highlights great food, great music, good times Sa 3/13- SUZANNE THORPE an d BONNIE JONES p r e s en t ELECTRONIC MUSIC: POWERED BY GIRLS w o r k s h o p an d c o nce r t a t Ann St. Galle r y , New b u r g h —Girls and live music weekly young women—aged 13-18—who are interested in digital sound possibilities and personal poetic expression won’t want to miss this St. Patrick’s Day Specials special workshop and presentation at Newburgh’s Ann St. Gallery. A daytime workshop features musician/educator Suzanne Thorpe and sound/text artist Bonnie Jones giving young girls hands-on corner of rt. 213 & Mohonk road experience with both digital and analog technologies, fostering high falls nY / 845.687.2699 / www.highfallscafe.com familiarity and confidence in areas of art, science and technology. Then, the evening concert features the guest artists: Thorpe will present a single performance of her Nautical Twilight, a multichannel solo work for flute, electronics, laptop and hemispherical speakers. Jones will present an improvised performance based on a text/ poetry score, with unusual self-made electronic instruments and use of microphones to provide a unique palette in which to explore ideas of “voice” and “language.” Also: an improvised collaborative duet performance. Ann St. Gallery, 104 Ann St., Newburgh, www. safeharborsofthehudson.org, 845.562.6940. WORKSHOP: 1-5 PM, CONCERT: 8 PM
Sa 3/20- Cr ea t ive Mu s ic St u d i o p r e s en t s t h e DIFFERENT MUSIC FESTIVAL a t t h e Co l o n y Ca f é , Wo o d s t o ck —Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, and Ornette Coleman, the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio (CMS) became an enormously influential workshop center, bringing together leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities; the list of artists who have passed through is a who’s who of great international creators. Though CMS closed officially in 1984, the community persists, and Berger and Sertso—with audio engineer Ted Orr— have literally hundreds of live concerts to transfer to digital and mix down. (The first batch is presently available through a special subscription program—see www.creativemusicstudio.org). This fundraiser for the Archives Project features the CMS Orchestra— under the direction of Berger—as well as small group improvisations with drummer Harvey Sorgen, and a late funk-dance party with Blue Food, with surprise guest soloists. Colony Café, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock, www.colonycafe.com, 845.679.5342. 7 PM
Su 3/21- ADAM LEVY & THE MINT IMPERIALS a t Ho wlan d Cu l t u r al Cen t e r , Beac o n —Kudos must go to Michael Jurkovic, who has been bringing in more music to the venerable Howland Cultural Center, which happens to be a very cool place to catch a performance; the beautiful Victorian-style open library room has very nice acoustics. This month the Howland gets a visit from Adam Levy & the Mint Imperials; if the name sounds familiar, it’s probably because Levy has been Norah Jones’ guitarist from day one. In his solo mode, Levy evokes a bluesy soft/gruff vocal style similar to Lyle Lovett, while playing supple and soulful Gibson ES- 335 through a Fender Princeton (translation: his tone is like buttah) in a trio format, with bass and drums. Also coming up at the Howland: Debra Kaye (3/14), Ramblin’ Jug Stompers (3/26), Peabody Piano Trio (3/28). Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St., Beacon, www. howlandculturalcenter.org, 845.832.4988. 7:30 PM
28 | rollmagazine.com Fr 3/26- JOHN MEDESKI, s o l o p ian o , a t Hi g h Mea d o w Pe r f o r min g Ar t s Cen t e r , St o ne Ri d g e—I remember the first time a friend turned me on to Medeski, Martin, and Wood. The beautifully raw sounds of the drums, bass, organs and pianos; the deceptively casual interplay in the trio, the sweet-pocketed grooves—sophistication with sweat. And when my friend told me that MMW were actually quite successful classing up the jam band scene, with a large fan base and many tours and releases, I have to say that was a great yee-haw moment: the good guys were winning one for a change! Local resident and MMW keyboardist John Medeski is well known to be generous with his time and talent, and this month he’s performing solo piano on behalf of the High Meadow School in Stone Ridge. Rumor has it he will be exploring a lesser-known side of his musical landscape, having started out as a classical pianist before delving into the world of jazz theory and improvisation, and later developing his rhythmic R&B Hammond organ/electric piano style. This will be a special, intimate show. $30 donation at the door, but a special $75 includes pre-show reception (7 PM), a chance to meet the artist, and preferred seating. High Meadow Performing Arts Center, 3643 Main Street, Stone Ridge, www. highmeadows.org, 845.687.4855. 8 PM
Su 3/28- LOS LOBOS wi t h s p ecial g u e s t LEO KOTTKE a t t h e Ba r d av o n , Po u g h kee p s ie —If successes in the music business were measured in sheer musicality instead of sales and ambition, Los Lobos would be in permanent contention for the top spot. This “rock band from East L.A.” is about as complete a package as you can get: each member is a monster multi-instrumentalist, great vocals with an outstanding lead singer (David Hidalgo), absolute command of multiple styles: rock, Tex- Mex, country, blues, rockabilly, Latin, Norteño, jazz, to name a few, strong songwriting chops and attention to sound quality, and to top it off, can’t tell me left-handed guitarist Cesar Rosas doesn’t look cool with his goatee and shades. Their latest twist: Los Lobos Goes Disney, where familiar tunes from Disney movies get…Los Lobofied. Only this band can make it work (well, OK, maybe the Flaming Lips). Opener Leo Kottke is well- known to lovers of fine acoustic guitar picking with his deep open-tuned 12-string approach, and dry-witted baritone often heard on NPR’s Prairie Home Companion. Like Los Lobos, Kottke defies compartmentalizing, so you’ll just have to trust me on this: arrive early. This will be a memorable evening of music. The Bardavon, 35 Market St., Poughkeepsie, www. bardavon.org, 845.473.2072. 7 PM
Mo 4/8- Ra d i o Wo o d s t o ck p r e s en t s THE HOLD STEADY wi t h s p ecial g u e s t THE ORANGES BAND a t Bea r s ville Th ea t e r , Wo o d s t o ck —Gotta give The Hold Steady credit: they’re not slacking for a second. Since their debut Almost Killed Me in 2004, they’ve kept a steady pace of a release per year and almost non-stop touring and TV appearances, playing an honest workingman’s rock ‘n’ roll that makes you wonder: how did good stuff like this ever go out of style? Craig Finn’s quartet (sometimes quintet) is putting the finishing touches on their upcoming Heaven is Whenever (Vagrant Records), which was recorded in Queens and at Woodstock’s Dreamland Recording Studios, and is due to drop May 4. Meanwhile, the group is road-testing the new record with dates in the Northeast and California, and a European run in June, including a coveted lot at the upcoming Isle of Wight Festival. Baltimore- based indie rockers The Oranges Band opens. It’s another great month of music at Bearsville—also coming in March/April: The Five Points (3/12), Amos Lee with Cary Ann (3/19), Don Preston & Bunk Gardner play Zappa (3/24), Purple K’nif (4/2), and Epiphany Project (4/10). Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St. (Rte. 212), Bearsville/Woodstock, www.bearsvilletheater. com, 845.679.4406. 8 PM
29 | rollmagazine.com music reviews
The Trapps—Cheap Seats During the Vancouver Olympics, a collection of (independent) “inspirational” tracks meant to signify digging down There’s no way this is going to come off as deep, giving 110% and taking it to the next level was complimentary through no fault of the Trapps, but repeatedly hawked during commercial breaks. None it’s not meant as a slight; If Phil Collins suddenly got of those songs provided a fraction of the rush with cool and joined an indie roots rock band, it might a million times more platitudes than what’s heard in sound like Cheap Seats. the truly glorious “Never Quit,” which appears four songs into an already tremendous collection by the Say what you will about Phil Collins (I’ve certainly done so plenty of Trapps. With a soaring chorus effortlessly carried by the musicians, this times over the years), but he’s got a fantastic voice, one capable of great is what inspiration is meant to sound like. range and depth of emotion. If he’s ever had the songs to really back it up, it’s virtually impossible to remember. Sean Schenker, frontman and At varying times, the Trapps are augmented by a trio of fellow musicians, principal songwriter for the Trapps shares with Collins that same vocal including violinist Tracy Bonham. That these guest appearances neither ability, but does far more with it over the 12 songs on his band’s new detract from nor overwhelm the music is a testament to the strength of album than Collins could have in a thousand years. the band, which harkens back to a day when musicians working together came on like a gang. Going on about the former Genesis singer/drummer does a disservice to Schenker and his bandmates, who’ve produced the kind of album To paraphrase Dave Eggers, Cheap Seats may not be a work of staggering that sounds as though it comes from a bygone era, but is in fact quite genius, but it doesn’t have to be. Instead, it’s something a great deal contemporary. more. — Crispin Kott
www.thetrapps.net
Uncle Rock— The Big Picture (independent) Professor Louie and the Crowmatix— Like many musicians, Robert Whispering Pines Burke Warren’s career has taken (Woodstock Records) countless fascinating twists and The trouble with tributes is that it's often hard to know where an artist's turns, but it wasn’t until he took own persona begins and ends. on the Uncle Rock persona that he really found his niche. The Professor Louie and the Crowmatix' Whispering Pines isn't just named area is packed with musicians making quality music for kids, and Uncle after a song by the Band; it effectively serves as a template for an album Rock is among the very best. that not only evokes everything from the pastoral mood of the Band to the distinctive vocals of Levon Helm, but which also covers two of their On his latest album, The Big Picture, Uncle Rock continues his ability to songs and a third, "Ain't No More Cane," which is a cover of a cover. Plus hit the kinds of topics kids can get into (“Leave the Bees Be” and “My there's a take on Band co-conspirator Bob Dylan's "Serve Sombody" and Friend Bigfoot”) while rocking with enough legitimacy that music fans further covers of artists like Warren Zevon and Leonard Cohen. of all ages can enjoy the ride. Whispering Pines is best approached as a collection of songs you might hear If your teenage years are but a distant memory—whether or not you if you wandered into a bar and found Professor Louie and the Crowmatix have children of your own—chances are you’ve been reminded of the on stage; you'd likely have a great time, drinking beers, tapping toes, march of time by hearing music from your own personal youth presented occasionally singing along. You'd marvel at the skill of the musicians, in a nostalgic way. This is what happened when a snippet of Billy Idol’s their cohesive drive always heading in the same direction, whether “Dancing With Myself” suddenly surfaced in the already-rollicking taking scenic country roads or rough city streets. And chances are, you'd “Shake it Off!”, the second track on The Big Picture. Whether it really come away feeling like you've had a pretty great night on the tiles, with is an Idle reminder or not is irrelevant, because it’s there. And it’s just a perfect soundtrack to such an endeavor. a small part of what makes Uncle Rock’s music so enjoyable, even for grownups. The Big Picture, like the very best music ostensibly made for Where Whispering Pines ultimately proves frustrating is that there's so kids, has the uncanny ability to remind those of us who haven’t been a little of Professor Louie and the Crowmatix to get to know. With so kid for some time what it felt like to get up and dance for no particular few originals and such respect being paid to their heroes, it's hard not reason other than it’s a good time. to wonder how things might have been a little different. 10 songs in and the question is answered with absolute certainty, as "Melody of Peace," Perhaps one of the greatest things any musical artist can aspire to is to not the album's closer, truly stands out. Recorded in Prague with the Czech be a phony. To cut the mustard both with kids and grownups is no small Radio Symphony and Kuhn Choir backing the band, Professor Louie feat, but it’s something Uncle Rock manages quite effectively with an and the Crowmatix finally step out from the shadows of their forebears. album that makes rock music, rockabilly and a host of other styles sound Hopefully the next time around they'll follow their own road, as it seems fresh. No wonder kids like the guy so much. — Crispin Kott a worthy journey to take. — Crispin Kott www.unclerock.com www.professorlouie.com/www.crowmatix.com 30 | rollmagazine.com roll back
The Sun Ra Arkestra— Points on a Space Age DVD (MVD Visual) Various Artists— Spiritual Jazz (Jazzman/Now Again Records) Eberhard Weber— Colours
When the great Sun Ra split this galaxy for the next in 1993, tenor saxophonist John Gilmore assumed leadership of his legendary Arkestra; after Gilmore died two years later Ra’s baton was passed to altoist Marshall Allen, a crucial member of the band since the late ’50s. Since he took over, Allen—who turns 87 in May—has continued to lead the Arkestra on its tours and recordings, along the way recruiting new players and indoctrinating them into the ways of this boldly experimental big band’s founder. Centering on this more recent era of the Arkestra, director Ephraim Asili’s beautifully shot Points on a Space Age features superb concert and rehearsal scenes interspersed with stock NASA footage befitting the ensemble’s space-travel aesthetic, and brief interviews with band members. If you’ve seen the earlier Space is the Place or A Joyful Noise, both of which feature Ra himself, this intriguing documentary is the logical next step.
Sun Ra’s art and that of another visionary, John Coltrane, directly influenced a whole school of music: the intensely meditative underground late-’60s/early ’70s scene retroactively dubbed “spiritual jazz” by studious collectors. Another fine anthology on the Jazzman/Now Again logo (see past installments of Roll Back for reviews edgeless, and effects-treated instrument, of the label’s Florida and Carolina funk comps), Spiritual Weber’s monochromatic, glacially paced Jazz explores this avant-garde subgenre, a style strongly music is typified by the piano and synthesizer informed by the progressive polemics and psychedelic of Rainer Brüninghaus and the saxophone of consciousness of the day. Curiously, coming from what was mainly Charlie Mariano—who at the behest of Weber switched to soprano from a D.I.Y. movement, some of these meandering, mystical tracks—the his customary alto, which the leader felt was too closely identified with Lightmen Plus One’s roiling “All Praises to Allah”; the Morris Wilson the jazz tradition (Mariano also contributes flute and Indian nagaswaram Beau Bailey Quintet’s “Paul’s Ark”—were originally released on seven- and shenai). While the music on Colours is ambitious and may have stood inch singles, not a format one readily associates with modern jazz. out as being fairly “modern” when it was initially released, time has not Fittingly, one of the standouts here is by bassist Ronnie Boykins, who been kind to it; there are several interesting, soundtrack-ish passages served with the Arkestra early on: the 13-minute “The Will Come, Is on the first two discs, but for the most part this set is an exercise in Now,” which dates from 1974 and weaves a questing web of harrowing waiting for its few animated moments to arrive (see the tellingly named, horns and hypnotizing percussion. Don those beads and kaftan, fire up 18-minute “Seriously Deep”). Nevertheless, it’s a handsomely packaged that incense, and take a trip… set with a thick booklet of attentive notes by ECM historian Michael Tucker, and those who’ve been scouring used bins for the original LPs Germany’s Eberhard Weber is perhaps the archetypal ECM Records will be pleased. —Peter Aaron artist. Playing a kind of coldly Teutonic, essentially blues-devoid chamber jazz, the bassist clearly owes much of his inspiration to European Sun Ra Arkestra: www.wvdb2b.com. classical styles and contemporary composers. Colours—named for the Spiritual Jazz: www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk. quartet Weber led from 1974 to 1981—is a box set that brings together Eberhard Weber: www.ecmrecords.com. three of his long out-of-print albums for the label: 1975’s Yellow Fields, 1977’s Silent Feet, and 1980’s Little Movements. Along with his own loping,
31 | rollmagazine.com roll—dollars & sense
RETIREMENT — THE POWER IS IN THE PLAN By Beth Jones, RLP® and how you are going to make the best use of it. Planning for your retirement—even if it is 10 or 20 Depending on your health, life expectancy, retirement goals, and LOSSyears OFaway—has SPOUSE—When never been more you beginimportant. to process That is whatbecause halfhas happenedsources to of your income, life after you maythe losswant of to a spouse,receive socialyou come security face-to-face benefits withof all two Americans major issues:under agethe 65 grief are nowover expected the loss toand live a intonew their financial 90s, positionbeginning that at has your been early thrust retirement upon ageyou. (62), Both your of fullthese retirement issues are age so powerfulSocial Security and at istimes expected overwhelming to cover less that and you less may of retirees’ find yourself income acting (betweenas though 65 one and or67), both or evenof them age 70.does Because not exist. there This is noloss mandatory is not one ofneeds, those and miserable health care situations costs continue you can to rise. work Make around—you a plan now—it’s must up work throughage to begin it. The taking amount benefits, of timedetermining it will takewhen toto startfeel “normal”receiving socialagain variesto you. widely as there are no magic time tables you can consult to findsecurity out when is a criticalthe grief component will end. of retirement planning. The two most important factors in making this decision are (1) your life expectancy By working with your trusted advisors today to organize your and (2) what you plan to do with your social security income. INSURANCE SETTLEMENTS—Money that comes from the settlement of a lawsuit is hardly a joyous windfall. Most of the time, this financial information, assess your income needs in retirement, and money is a recovery of damages, pain, suffering, and loss. It has probably taken many years of legal battling to secure your settlement. While develop a sound retirement income strategy, you will be on a path The Social Security Administration website, www.ssa.gov, is a gettingto working the money toward might maximizing be nice, your the retirementreal blessing resources. is to have To the plan matter valuableover with resource. so you can As yougo onknow, with many your people life. You are may working be surprised well past at thesuccessfully, way you feel you when need you to know finally what receive assets the you settlement. have and buildThis event an canthe reignite typical the retirement pain and age, suffering regardless you ofexperienced their income needs.when the This tragedy may firstinvestment occurred. strategy Ideally, that you could will helpbegin you the meet orientation your financial and planninggoals for processprove prior an tooption receiving even ifthe you settlement. could readily take your social security retirement. Your first step is to develop a budget so you can estimate benefits early. BEWAREwhat your OF expenses FUTURE will SPENDING—Evenbe in retirement. if the settlement amount sounds huge, be assured that it is limited. You don’t want to end up owing as much or more than you receive. Pre-settlement is a confusing DIStime,T RIByou UTcanION either improve you chance of successfully managing yourBU DGElife, orT you can permanently and unknowingly damage your futureBe financial sure to security. consider health care costs. To create a distribution plan Calculate what your expenses are today and what will change when that can help you achieve your financial goals, we suggest working Workyou retire. with a financial planner trained in Financial Transition Planning. Thewith Decision your financial Free Zone advisor. is your Planningbest tool tofor separate the distribution the necessary of your • First, determine your essential needs because these are the most retirement assets after your death is an important part of your estate and unnecessary decisions. Then begin to build a system for stress-testing the financial mpacti of your ideas; what house to live in, need important expenses to cover first. planning. Not only will it help to ensure your inheritance wishes are for• additionalSecond, look income, at the lifestylehow to changesafford the you best will insurancewant to make coverage to and socarried on. Sudden out, but Money® it also can Advisors help minimize are uniquely estate taxes. suited to guide you through enjoy the retirement. complexities of life transitions. www.suddenmoney.com. • Third, remember your dreams, which may include creating a DESIGNATE BENEFICIARIES Beth legacy Jones, or RLP® fulfilling is a Registered lifelong desires. Life Planner and independent Financial OnceConsultant you have with named Third both Eye your Associates, primary Ltd, and a contingent Registered beneficiaries Investment Adviser located at 38 Spring Lake Road in Red Hook, NY. She can be onreached all of your at 845-752-2216 accounts, it is importantor www.thirdeyeassociates.com to keep these designations and up is anPLAN affiliated Sudden Money® Advisor. Securities offered through Commonwealthto date, reviewing Financial annually. Network, Discuss Memberthe implications FINRA/SIPC. of designations Maximize your potential resources by contributing as much as you with your estate planning attorney and financial advisor. can to all of the tax-advantaged retirement plans available to you. • If you are age 50 or older and have earned income, you can make LEAVE A LEGACY WITH THE STRETCH IRA catch-up contributions to your IRA and 401(k) accounts. Consider stretching your IRA distributions over several generations • If you have a 401(k) account, make sure that you are contributing with the Stretch IRA strategy. Designed for investors who will not enough to take advantage of any matching contributions. need all the money for their own retirement needs, a Stretch IRA • The Roth 401(k) was introduced in January 2006 and may offer allows your beneficiary to take distributions over his or her life another opportunity for tax-advantaged savings. Check with your expectancy. This minimizes current income taxes and potentially company to see if it offers one. keeps more assets growing in a tax-deferred account. As the owner CONSOLIDATE of the account, it is important to make sure your heirs understand the Consider consolidating your assets to simplify your retirement plan principle of the Stretch IRA strategy. accounts, reduce annual fees, make your bookkeeping easier, and clear the way for better oversight of the required minimum distribution MAXIMIZE GIFTING (RMD) process. If you own a 401(k), 403(b), 457, or pension with a Because of upcoming changes in the gift and estate tax laws, careful former employer, or if you have in-service distributions, you may planning is important. The current estate tax exemptions, including benefit from consolidating these assets. Work with your financial the elimination of estate taxes in 2010, have a sunset provision. Unless advisor as to the proper consolidation method, as taking distributions Congress acts to make the planned exemptions permanent, estate from these accounts prematurely will incur penalties and taxes. taxes in 2011 will revert to 2001 levels. Regardless of where you are The right plan may help you maximize your retirement savings, right now, you can create a plan to get you on the road to becoming minimize your taxes, and help make your money last longer in your financially self-sufficient in retirement. Even the most seemingly retirement. impossible situations are better addressed with the assistance of a qualified professional. SOCIAL SECURITY INCOME When should you take it and how much will it be? Many people Beth Jones, RLP® is a Registered Life Planner and independent Financial Consultant believe that once they hit age 62, they should immediately begin with Third Eye Associates, Ltd, a Registered Investment Adviser located at 38 receiving social security benefits. Others have been advised to wait as Spring Lake Road in Red Hook, NY. She can be reached at 845-752-2216 or www. long as possible before drawing distributions. This has become an even thirdeyeassociates.com. Securities offered through Commonwealth Financial Network, more difficult situation given the recent turbulent market conditions, Member FINRA/SIPC. which may have damaged other retirement savings. As you may have guessed, there is no one right answer. There is, however, a right answer for you. 32 | rollmagazine.com some spring performances - tip of a terrific iceberg
• david Mallett 4/16 Folk at uniSon • SWeetbaCk SiSterS a community supported arts center 4/24 Country/bluegraSS at uniSon • PatriCk ball
sculpture garden 5/1 CeltiC harP at uniSon performances program guide classes • vanCe gilbert gallery 5/7 blueS/Folk at uniSon • Makoto nakura 5/8 ClaSSiCal MariMba at uniSon 35 • yuri liberzon years 5/21 ClaSSiCal guitar at uniSon Spring 2010
68 mountain rest road new paltz, new york 12561 • 845.255.1559 www.unisonarts.org • Claire lynCh band 5/22 Country/bluegraSS at uniSon • dala 6/4 Folk/PoP at uniSon Also At unison • Mark Mitton’S SPeCtaCular • Mohonk Mountain Stage Co. 6/5 beneFit variety ShoW at MCkenna theater, Suny • FaMily PrograMS • MaCtalla Mor 6/19 CeltiC Mega band at MCkenna theater • gallery • neWFound road • SCulPture garden 7/3 bluegraSS at FireWork - FairgroundS - Free • ClaSSeS & WorkShoPS • ShakeSPeare (abridged) 7/8-11 & 15-18 at Parker theater Suny
for sound & video clips check our website www.unisonarts.org call 255-1559 for tickets, information & program guide
33 | rollmagazine.com roll pen & paper Henry E. Scott’s SHOCKING TRUE STORY: the rise and fall of Confidential, America’s most scandalous scandal magazine
By Jay Blotcher
He n r y E. Sc o tt p h o t o b y Jo y c e Ra v i d
34 | rollmagazine.com Ah, the irony of modern media: While style has triumphed over substance—Oscar talk over Iraq War updates—the last bastion of responsible journalism may be the gossip rags. The granddaddy of this genre, the National Enquirer, is in the running for a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story of erstwhile Vice-Presidential nominee John Edwards, his mistress, and illegitimate child. A saga weightier than that of typical Enquirer quarries—rehabbed celebs—Edwards’ fall from grace may bring the magazine an unparalleled legitimacy. Cultural critic Frank on journalistic ethics and an investigation of the power of gossip. The Rich was correct in a recent speech at Vassar College, where he heralded, book also explains why Confidential provided a blueprint for today’s albeit reluctantly, a new era of “info-tainment.” Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition and TMZ on TV. His decades-long background as a newspaper reporter, which includes a hitch on the New York Times business desk, explains Scott’s steady control of the narrative. he Enquirer’s journey to journalistic respectability In a January interview, Scott, 58, a former Ulster County weekender, suggests a similar story from a half-century ago: explained why he spent twelve years working on his book. Confidential magazine. At its zenith, this vicious bi- monthly filleted celebrities and politicians alike, “I’ve long been a real contrarian,” Scott said, speaking via cellphone positioningT itself as judge and jury of public morals in the era from a business trip in Atlanta, “and one thing I’ve always loved is of Communist-hunting. The magazine’s unlikely rise, brief but contrarian books, contrarian stories. And this was a contrarian magazine powerful reign, and dramatic downfall are documented in Shocking that basically said, 'What you’ve been told isn’t true and we can prove it, True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, America’s Most Scandalous and here’s what the truth is.'” Scandal Magazine, by Henry E. Scott. Confidential was a walking contradiction. In the repressive Eisenhower The breathless title, while emblematic of the fervor of its subject, is a era, the magazine thrived, beginning in December 1952. It offered a disservice to the book’s power. Author Scott has crafted a multi-faceted generous peephole onto a parallel universe where celebrities cavorted piece of journalism: by turns cultural history, media analysis, a discourse in feckless affairs—many homosexual, all of them morally suspect—and
c o n t i n u e d o n p g 36... 35 | rollmagazine.com c o n t i n u e d f r o m p g 35...
Reds were hiding under every other bed in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. Its slogan “Uncensored and Off the Record” warned away the faint of heart. But it took its role as moral crusader seriously. Next to a celebrity evisceration would be an expose of anti-Semitism in the hotel industry. The magazine even went after Big Tobacco years before the Surgeon General’s 1964 landmark study. Perhaps this duality was evidence of the magazine’s conflicted motivations. Either way, it attracted readers—many ambivalent about their interest in this naughty tabloid, Scott said. (A common ploy was to hide a copy inside a Life magazine before reaching the cash register.) Nonetheless, Confidential was, for a time, the best-selling magazine on the stands, selling nearly five million copies.
But the history of Confidential is not merely venal chatter in the pursuit of a buck. Scott dissects the personalities and psychological motivations that made this poisonous little rag a self-professed moral juggernaut— and, dubiously, an example of conscientious journalism. The drama begins with Robert Harrison, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant who came to New York with his family for a better life. He began his career publishing girlie magazines with titles such as Eyeful, Titter and Wink. (One of his models was ne plus ultra model Bettie Page.) But Harrison, an ardent social climber, craved respectability. He stripped any remnants of ethnicity from his character, started wearing white suits and matching fedoras and sipped cocktails while rubbing elbows at the famed temples of Manhattan’s Café Society: The Colony, El Morocco and The Stork Club. (Scott is especially successful in conjuring vivid details of New York City and Los Angeles nightlife in the 1950s.) Harrison cast about for a new publishing venture that would fit his game plan for respectability and, more importantly, power.
Why he chose to sink his fortunes in a scandal sheet defys logic. But, Scott explains, Harrison hoped that a magazine aimed at rooting out evils would gain professional adulation. What the publisher couldn’t apprehend was that exhuming scandals required rolling around in the same mud as his targets, making both parties morally suspect. Undaunted, Harrison created a formidable network of well-paid insiders on both coasts, including nightclub hatcheck girls, waiters and whorehouse madams. These tipsters and whistleblowers allowed Confidential to steer clear of the powerful press agents who dispensed pre-approved pap about their star clients. Nobody but Confidential dared print the true scoops for fear of losing access.
To raise his magazine’s profile further, Harrison handpicked as editor, on the say-so of the powerful Walter Winchell, a man named Howard Rushmore. A sad-eyed figure of six- foot-five, Rushmore was a man of great ideological conflicts; previously, he was a research director for witch-hunter Sen. Joseph McCarthy and before that, a stalwart Communist
36 | rollmagazine.com All the news unfit to print... writing columns for The Daily Worker. Flipping allegiances seemed a chronic tic. He was, Scott said, “a man who turned against everyone he ever got close to.”
In the course of his research, Scott realized that Howard Rushmore was emerging as the most provocative character in the saga— “the most troubled and bizarre” of the cast, Scott said. The author spent three weeks in the rural town of Mexico City, Missouri, Rushmore’s hometown, speaking to neighbors. (This is but one example of Scott’s old-school caliber of reporting; the book cites extensive research sources and interviews that lend the tale its full-bodied complexity.)
“The two men clashed enormously in terms of personality,” Scott said of Harrison and his new hire. Harrison, fiercely apolitical, felt celebrities and studio heads deserved the lion’s share of coverage. But Tinseltown peccadillos were small potatoes for McCarthy’s former stooge. “Rushmore was not interested in Hollywood scandal, celebrity scandal, social scandal,” Scott said. “He was interested in politics and political scandal.” Rushmore’s quest for moral rot in the halls of power began to transform the magazine.
Confidential was able to air dirty laundry unfettered, due to a powerful research department. In addition to fact-checkers, Harrison retained Confidential was trash, but eminently readable trash. Its detectives on both coasts and in London. A safeguard against inevitable tattletale prose was enlivened by insinuating turns of phrase lawsuits, the process ensured a level of journalistic accuracy rare among and film noir slang. Consider a paragraph from January 1955’s these magazines. If allegations could not be proven, reporters possessed “Does Desi Really Love Lucy?” a knack for innuendo: they would imply salacious details and allow the overheated minds of readers to imagine the worst. “Because behind the scenes, Arnaz is a Latin Lothario who loves Lucy most of the time but by no means all the time. He But as Howard Rushmore grew more combative and his drinking more has, in fact, sprinkled his affections all over Los Angeles for a pronounced, his hold over the magazine’s operation faltered. The once- number of years. And quite a bit of it has been bestowed on meticulous editor allowed factual mistakes to slip by in the celebrity vice dollies who were paid handsomely for loving Desi briefly stories, which he loathed. In a landmark 1957 Los Angeles case, the but, presumably, as effectively as Lucy.” magazine was accused of criminal libel. The case commanded attention across America. While the jury ultimately deadlocked, it meant the beginning of the end for Harrison’s tawdry empire. He sold the magazine in July 1958 and it foundered quietly a few more years before closing.
While Shocking True Story is a worthy addition to tomes on First Amendment rights, Scott does not stint on titillation. He intersperses the Harrison-Rushmore saga with Confidential smears on Rita Hayworth (child neglect), Clark Gable (abandoned his first wife), Sammy Davis, Jr. (interracial love), June Allyson (nymphomania) and Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Van Johnson and Liberace (take one guess).
Author Scott, ever the contrarian, said that Confidential ultimately did some good. While mainstream film and TV back then trafficked in nuclear family wish-fulfillment, Harrison’s magazine exposed scandals, providing a corrective for an antiseptic era steeped in self-deceit.
“So in an odd way, Confidential did a public service,” Scott said, “although it did it in a somewhat nasty and personally unpleasant light.”
37 | rollmagazine.com roll stage & screen kingston fun in the digital corridor:
Public Access Television: what the heck is it? With hundreds of channels PUBLIC on cable available, satellite and internet, it’s often the channel you’re skipping to get over to American Idol or HBO, the one with the not-so- ACCESS great production values, with non-professional folks on camera, that doesn’t have the whizbang computer graphics. television meets Seven21 Media Group by M.R. Smith But hang on a second: this is Public Access Television! Haven’t you ever wanted to have your own television show? Ever watched a show and said to yourself (or friends) “I could do that?” Well, if you have a solid Digital Media (HD video/audio production); Evolving Media Network idea for a show, there happens to be a station for you, complete with the (internet media, video/audio production); Learner First (online tech necessary equipment and volunteers to help out: Kingston Area Public tutoring); Woodstock Films (film production); Totally Good Media (web Access (KAPA), Channel 23, with its studio located at 721 Broadway, promotion and media design); NYC Getaways (travel agency); Second Kingston. Chance 4 Me (see below); Overlook Mountain Amateur Radio Club (ham radio); Evil Demon Studios (game design); Smoke Out Productions Personally, I’ve always had a soft spot for public access TV, having (anti-smoking puppet theatre); K-Town Studios (full audio recording participated in a variety of comedy and music programming over the and post, 5.1 Surround mix to picture). And coming soon: the new and years—including a live wedding!—most recently performing on the improved Kingston Public Access studio, and the Almost Famous Café. venerable Poughkeepsie Live (Time Warner Cable). So when KAPA chairman Mercedes Ross contacted me to visit the studio recently, she Collaborations have already borne fruit for Seven21. Recently found an interested party. Little did I know that there was an entire Ellenbogen worked with K-Town Studios to do a multi-camera multi- media community—Seven21 Media Group, covering virtually all aspects track audio shoot of jazz artist Alan Glover and his group, using the old of the creation and distribution of modern media, and more—ensconced RNN studio floor. Webjogger had become the building’s internet service in the three-story building there at 721 Broadway, ready to take on the provider, offering great broadband service, and has also become an onsite new digital age. digital storage facility for Ellenbogen. There’s usually an extra camera, computer, monitor that can be rented or borrowed onsite in a pinch.
Though she’s the chairperson for KAPA, Mercedes’ day job is as a y all measures it’s been a difficult economic realtor, and she sees a strong media technology center like Seven21 as an environment in the Hudson Valley the last two years, extra selling point for those in New York City looking for a less stressful so it’s a real treat to find a bastion of optimism at and more affordable place to live. “We have so many people who want Seven21. Mercedes welcomes me into the building, to buy second homes—or really first homes—in this area who want to andB introduces me to Henry Ellenbogen of the Ellenbogen Group work five days a week in New York City. What seems to happen is that and his son Jeremy, whose brainchild is the Seven21 Media Group. people buy a house (here), and then they try to figure out how to do more Henry’s been in the broadcast and media business since 1959, first as telecommuting so they can work in the city three days a week and stay an engineer installing transmitters around the Valley, then later in here and try to work from home. Or from maybe a facility like this.” It’s the film-to-video transfer business, later getting more into digital possible; just about everything concerning digital audio/visual media, editing, transfer, and archiving. Business was good at their St. recording, performance, communication, broadcasting, and internet can James St. location, but they wanted a bit more studio space for video be handled at Seven21. production. Back to Kingston Public Access television, which has had a rough time The prime location at 721 Broadway became available when its main of it, having had to vacate for renovations for just over a year, and tenant, Regional News Network, moved the bulk of their operation to returning to the air last October. But things have been looking up, a new state-of-the-art digital facility in Rye Brook, leaving behind not thanks to a collaboration between KAPA, the Ellenbogen Group, public only three stories of leasable office space, but a fully wired soundstage, radio station WKCR, and State Rep. Kevin Cahill’s office. Together with cables run for audio and video feeds. Still, it was a lot more space they applied for—and secured—a grant for much needed funds to than the Ellenbogen Group really needed. expand KAPA into a larger space from which they can better serve the community, and consolidating public radio, television, and internet Recognizing the potential for the building as a media center, Jeremy content into one community access point. Ellenbogen aggressively courted tenants in all aspects of media development. Around this time the Kingston Digital Corridor concept The general hope is to bring added relevance to regional public access came into being, with local young tech-savvy entrepreneurs trying to TV. With the new studio coming later in the year, KAPA will be help “bridge the digital divide,” and bring Kingstonians up to speed in able to broadcast live musical and theatrical performances, and talent the Digital Age. Not much over a year later, Jeremy and his new Seven21 and cooking shows in the studio. New technology has made remote Media Group has amassed an impressive community of (mostly) media broadcasting feasible, and Jeremy hopes local events like the Shamrock businesses under one roof. At present, tenants include: Run and the Annual Soapbox Derby can be enjoyed live on TV. With Channel Six (Middletown) gone, there’s actually a real need for more The Ellenbogen Group; RNN TV (a remaining office and studio regional news. As Mercedes puts it: “This market is way underserved by space); Law firm Jakobowitz & Gubits, LLP (one of their specialties is the national media. It really is an opportunity for something like KAPA, art, media, and entertainment law); The MacWorks (Apple computer the Media Center, and (public radio) to fill in the gaps, and do it in a experts); Webjogger (internet service provider, digital storage); Remote more independent way.” 38 | rollmagazine.com wall with a blue backdrop and three chairs lined up, with a small table— with telephones—and two boom mics in position. Two broadcast grade cameras….but only room to use one at a time. Oh, a modest little lounge just outside in the hallway, with water cooler, coffee maker, fridge, and two small patio tables with chairs. To say it was modest would be putting it….modestly.
Present programming is mostly a regional calendar in the mornings and afternoons, and live television from 5-10 PM, Mercedes: “A lot of people television meets Seven21 Media Group do pre-taped shows. Some individuals do call-ins here, people who are by M.R. Smith aspiring politicians who want to complain about the hierarchy, if you will. Maybe it’s created problems, but in my opinion it’s the strength of the media.”
But that’s about to change with the upcoming grant money, which will allow them to move into a larger adjacent space—the size of the old RNN studio—presently being used for storage, and to upgrade some equipment. (A timeshare arrangement is being worked out for use of the RNN studio as well.) And though at present KAPA covers a small area: City of Kingston, Towns of Kingston, Rosendale, Hurley, Esopus, Marbletown, and Ulster, there is discussion of linking up with statewide o n e c
r i systems, starting with Poughkeepsie. t e P
tt The trick to improvement and expansion of public access television is a
M still funding; KAPA exists because of volunteers. Mercedes envisions b y working with local musicians and artists on fundraising drives, with the o s
t enticement of multi-camera digital video, and professional audio results
p h o for artist promotional use. KAPA still can use volunteers: as in people , with some free time, who are interested in getting a free education on a p c
o how to operate modern media technology. R
y a n It’s been a nice tour of the Seven21 building. On the third floor, retired R teacher Lou Spina has an extraordinary program in place called Second i x e r
m Chance 4 Me, which provides a variety of artistic and media-based
ways to give the mentally challenged a re-entry point into the modern
s o u n d job market, and ways to improve their quality of life. In the basement, Ron Kuhnke has two recording studios: one for digital Surround 5.1 21, 21, mixdown, and one that he is renting out—without a recording engineer,
e v e n you have to be or bring one—for an unbelievable $85…..per day! S t a
a y If there’s one thing I’m leaving Seven21 with today, it’s some of that w optimism that pervades the building. Looks like the Kingston Digital h a l l
, Corridor has a solid anchor. Now let’s make local television happen.
o s s ublic access has had a hard row to hoe from day one. Any takers? R In exchange for giving cable companies a monopoly
e d e s to provide content back in the 80s, the government c So you want to do a show on KAPA? Those interested should download the producer e r mandated that there be space set aside for the public application from the website (presently www.freewebs.com/kpa23). Meetings are at : M to use. Often the cable provider was subsidized to provide basic t 7 PM on the second Thursday of every month, at Kingston City Hall on the second
l e f P equipment for the public access channel, as Time Warner has for floor, but make sure to bring the completed application to the producer session at 6:30 o p Poughkeepsie Live, up until recently. t PM. If the show is green-lighted and a time confirmed, there are volunteer producers m available to help out. Pre-recorded content should be of a reasonably high quality for f r o
It’s the magic of television that it has the capability of making a small consideration. i s e space look pretty large, and a large space quite small. Well, there’s not w k
c much that magic can do for the kitchen-sized basement-level room that l o
c presently holds all of what is KAPA. A single rack of recording, playback, For more about Seven21 Media Group, see www.seven21.com. Please also visit and broadcast equipment; a table with three monitors, unlit, and a side kingstondigitalcorridor.org. 39 | rollmagazine.com roll eco gone to seed talking about the importance of producing local seeds
s with the Hudson Valley Seed Library w h e
by Jamaine Bell t a M a n a D b y
o s t p h o ) | R ( i l l e r M g o u ), D ), L ( r e e n e G e n K
What would we do if the only seeds available to grow our food came being considered or written into existence every year, thus increasing from one or two sources nationally, or if the only seeds available to buy the market share and power of these giant corporations by eliminating were produced with pesticides, or were genetically-modified? What if it the local competition. were illegal to save your own seeds for next year’s garden or harvest and that you could go to jail or face stiff fines for saving those seeds? Think Those of us who have seen the documentaries Food Inc. and King Corn are these questions verge on the extreme? Not in Iraq or India, where seed familiar with these issues, leaving many of us to wonder: what can be saving of any sort is illegal, or even in the US if you are buying patented done? Fortunately, Ken Greene and Doug Muller of the Hudson Valley seeds from a multinational agribusiness corporation. Seed Library are already ahead of that question and are working to bring seed saving, bio-diversity, and food security to the Hudson Valley, and not a moment too soon.
Ken and Doug are homesteaders and transplants to the Hudson Valley. hese questions are not just for farmers or gardeners. Both with backgrounds in education and from diverse places such as The answers to these questions affect anyone who Boston and Florida, they found their way here and fell in love with the eats: in other words, every one of us. Under the radar, natural beauty and culture. Ken started working at the Gardiner Library, giant agribusiness interests are working to become handling the grant writing, doing some programming, and even shelving theT only sources of the seeds for all our food. With their influence, books. With a keen interest in plants, as well as in sustainability and self- governments around the world are taking away the basic rights sufficiency, he came up with the idea for the Gardiner Library’s seed of people to feed themselves independently, by passing laws that exchange. As he explains, “I thought a lot about books and the things grant these corporate giants unlimited access to their markets while that libraries do for communities in terms of preserving information simultaneously taking away the rights of the farmers to do what they and ideas. So, I figure why not add seeds to the library catalog? People have done for thousands of years, which is saving their own seeds to could check them out, take them home, grow a garden, save the seeds ensure next year’s food supply. Farmers who buy patented seeds from and then return them to the library. It was sort of extending the concept agribusiness giants must agree to the contract terms, which include of what a library can do.” The seed exchange program was a big hit, an agreement to not save and use any seeds for the next harvest. with over 60 members. Ken and Doug were both members of the Seed- All well and good for the agribusiness corporations, who are seeing Savers Exchange, and with their interest in living sustainably, they multi-billion dollars sales from these patented seeds. eventually decided to start a farm themselves. As Ken tells it, “I was completely obsessed with seeds at that point, so we thought, why not However, those same businesses are lobbying to get laws passed that take grow for seed and create a catalog. Before that, neither of us had farming away the rights of those who would save seeds that are not patented, in backgrounds.” other countries and in the US as well. Here in the U.S., while saving non- patented seeds is not (yet) illegal, Monsanto is pressuring the FDA to put But why seeds? Ken explains, “There are many amazing vegetable restrictions on seed cleaning equipment, making seed cleaning, whether growers around here. We are so lucky that we have so many farms. of patented or non-patented seeds, virtually impossible for any but the The idea of trying, on our tiny farm, to be one more farm growing best funded—meaning largest—companies. Some states have already great vegetables—I felt that there are people here who are good at passed these laws, and many other egregious laws and regulations are that already, but there wasn’t anyone who was focused on growing 40 | rollmagazine.com seeds.” Seeds are a vital link in the food production cycle: without them, pool resources in such a way that allows for some of the land to be obviously there would be no food. As part of a growing concern for local preserved and to allow for the space and resources needed for the farm. food independence, local sustainability, and bio-diversity, Ken and Doug Ken and Doug’s community orientation extends to their friendships feel that they are providing a crucial element in reaching those goals here and collaboration with area farmers as well as such diverse groups as in the valley. They have established working relationships with local artists, food enthusiasts, and gardeners. The gallery opening last year at organic farms and farmers to provide seeds for the catalog as well as Roos Art in Rosendale, which featured the Art Pack artwork created by growing them themselves on their farm. area artists for each individul seed packet, drew over 200 attendees. Ken describes it as an amazing cross-section of people. As he explains, “I felt All the locally produced seeds are hand-crafted, literally meaning that really grateful that we were able to pull together all these people, even if they are cleaned and packaged by hand, often by the farmer’s themselves. they weren’t farming conscious or food conscious.” At this point, however, not all of the seeds in the catalog are locally produced. Ken and Doug fill in the catalog with organic seeds from The Hudson Valley Seed Library is finding a niche in the local community reputable national companies when the local supply runs out or with and is creating connections between various groups with their seeds, but products that they have yet to add to the local production. The goal is to also with their message, which basically comes down to the idea that have 100% locally grown seeds in their catalog. Not only would this fulfill sustainability starts at the local level. By increasing our self-sufficiency the local community focused nature of the business, but it would also and building strong community ties, we are increasing our resilience and ensure that the seeds in the catalog are acclimated best to our particular establishing our independence away from the overwhelmingly monolithic climate and growing conditions. Ken explains that they are looking for culture of corporate dominance. As Ken often explains in his lectures, local farms to grow seed for them, even if it is for one vegetable. Often, we must “transition from being consumers to being producers. We are a he finds that he must help educate folks in the art of seed saving, which consumer society. Everything we see is geared towards getting us to buy was once common and naturally integrated into the farming cycle, but things with money that we earn at jobs where we’re not actually has recently become a lost practice. o r r i s M t o b e r R b y s e e d p a k u l a g a r u , o l l e n d e r H e n d y W b y s e e d p a k b a s i l
Interest in the seed library has grown tremendously since it started producing goods. So, what we’re doing here is just as much about saying two years ago. The first year the seed catalog went online, they had that we want to change the way that our local economy works. It makes over 500 members. This year Doug and Ken plan to go all-out and put a stronger economy and a stronger network if we have producers and their homesteading aside for the year to focus on growing (literally) consumers.” the catalog and increasing local production. They also sell at various farmers’ markets and offer workshops on seed saving, growing organic Ken and Doug feel that one of their greatest successes is getting people vegetables, and the importance of local self-reliance. Ken is also keen to notice and think about seeds. And while the average person may to organize a Northeast seed conference and bring all of the seed saving not spend a lot of time thinking about them, you can be sure that the organizations in the region together to share and network. agribusiness conglomerates are—thinking of ways to make you buy only their seeds, or of buying food produced from their seeds and theirs alone. Having a community oriented and based business was an important It could happen here if we don’t pay attention. It already has in other aspect of starting the seed library. The Hudson Valley Seed Library parts of the world. farm is based on the property that Doug and Ken share in an intentional community. Ken explains that sharing the land with others helps to visit seedlibrary.org for more information about the Hudson Valley Seed Library 41 | rollmagazine.com the Storm King School STAATS and LOIS 100% college acceptance ARE BACK!!! STAATS FASOLDT Watercolor & Drawing Wednesdays, 9-12 Saturdays, 9-12, 1-4
Attend & Participate in our OPEN HOUSE & Music/Arts/Drama Scholarship Competition saturday, march 27 • Call for Details: 845.534.9860 • outstanding visual & performing arts • competitive & club athletics LOIS WOOLLEY • programs for students with learning differences Portrait & Figure Painting • small classes, grades 8-12, Fridays, 9-12 day & boarding • diverse community Painting & Composition The Storm King School w/ HongNian Zhang, Fridays, 1-4 314 Mountain Road | CoRnwall-on-Hudson, nY | www.sks.oRg for a complete listing of classes please visit preparing students for college since 1867 www.woodstockschoolofart.org
42 | rollmagazine.com Artists Featured: FAHRENHEIT 180 Gerald Hopkins Grimanesa Amoroa Encaustic Group Exhibition Woodstock Artist Willow Bader Closing ReCeption ApRil 10, 6-9 pm Francisco Benitez exhibit Runs 2/27 thRu 4/10 Joy Broom Kathryn Dettwiller Sisavanh Houghton Nash Hyon Marilyn Jolly Cindy Stockton Moore Laura Moriarty Catherine Nash Martha Pfanschmidt 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY Don Porcella 845.562.6940 x119 www.annstreetgallery.org Kathleen Thompson Gallery Hours: THurs-saT 11am-5pm Janise Yntema Nash hyoN, Star Chart, ENcaustic oN PaNEl or by appoinTmenT
Walt Whitman “Blades of Grass” Gay Icon “I dreamed in a dream of a city where all the men were like brothers, O I saw them tenderly love each other, I often saw them in numbers walking hand in hand” Fletcher Gallery 40 Mill Hill Road Woodstock, NY 12498 (845)679.4411 www.fletchergallery.com galleries
Art in Historic Rhinebeck “Express Your Love” Show February 13th - April 4th
Express Your Love Every Day
Stimulate Your Senses
Art: The Gift That Lasts a Lifetime!
6423 Montgomery Street www.GazenGallery.com 845-876-4ART (4278)
43 | rollmagazine.com march/2010 © Copyright 2010 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (Ma r c h 21-Ap r i l 19): "Everything is The line that works best is "My two favorite things are commitment complicated," wrote poet Wallace Stevens. "If that and changing myself." I recommend that you make that your own were not so, life and poetry and everything else catchphrase, Leo -- not just this week but for the foreseeable future. The would be a bore." I hope you will choose his wisdom entire year of 2010 will be an excellent time to deepen your commitments to serve as your guiding light in the coming weeks. and transform yourself, and the weeks ahead will bring unprecedented It is high time, in my astrological opinion, for you to opportunities to intensify those efforts. shed any resentment you might feel for the fact that life is a crazy tangle of mystifying and interesting stories. Celebrate it, VIRGO (Au g . 23-Se p t . 22): "Be not forgetful to Aries! Revel in it. Fall down on your knees and give holy thanks for it. entertain strangers," advises a passage in the Bible, And by the way, here's a big secret: To the extent that you do glory in "for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." the complications, the complications will enlighten you, amuse you, and While that's always good counsel, it's especially enrich you. apt for you in the coming days. I believe you will come into contact with people who can provide you TAURUS (Ap r i l 20-Ma y 20): This is one time when with valuable teaching and healing, even if they're you can be both the river and the bridge. In fact, I disguised as baristas or pet shampooers or TV repairmen—and even if strongly suggest that you make every effort to be this will be the one and only time they will provide you with teaching both the river and the bridge. I'll leave it up to you to and healing. interpret how this metaphor applies to your life, but here's a clue to get you started. Be a force of nature LIBRA (Se p t . 23-Oc t . 22): Metaphorically speaking, that flows vigorously along even as you also provide you have recently begun crossing the water in a a refuge for those who want to be close to your energy but are not yet dream boat that has a small leak. If you keep going, ready to be inside it and flow along with it. it's possible you will reach the far side before sinking. But that's uncertain. And even if you were GEMINI (Ma y 21-Ju n e 20): Almost exactly ten years able to remain afloat the entire way, the shakiness of the situation would from now, you will be blessed with an eruption of probably fill you with anxiety. My suggestion, then, is to head back to personal power that's so crafty and so practical that where you started and fix the leak. you will be able to visualize a solution to a problem that has stumped you for a long time. It may take SCORPIO (Oc t . 23-No v . 21): Some Scorpios bring you months to actually carry out that solution in its out the worst in people. Other Scorpios draw out entirety, but all the while you will have the luxury of the best. Then there are those members of your tribe feeling perfect certainty about what must be done. And you know what who sometimes bring out the worst in their fellow the weird thing is, Gemini? Something very similar is in the works for humans and other times bring out the best. Where do the next few weeks: an eruption of crafty, practical power that will help you fit in this spectrum? Regardless of your position you materialize the key to solving an old dilemma, hopefully followed up until now, I'm betting that in the coming months by months of carrying out your lucid plan. you'll be moving in the direction of bringing out more of the best. And it all begins now. To get the process underway, think of five people you CANCER (Ju n e 21-Ju l y 22): Last night I had a dream care about, and visualize the wonderful futures that it might be possible in which I was addressing a crowd of thousands of for them to create for themselves. Cancerians in a large stadium. I was referring to them as dolphins rather than as crabs. "I say unto SAGITTARIUS (No v . 22-De c . 21): More than a you, my fellow dolphins," I proclaimed (I myself was few fairy tales feature the theme of characters who born June 23), "that you have been given a sacred accidentally find a treasure. They're not searching assignment by the great gods of time themselves. And that assignment is for treasure, don't feel worthy of it, and aren't fully to master the art of Timeology." When I awoke from the dream, I was prepared for it. They may initially not even know awash with feelings of deep relaxation and ease, although I wasn't sure what they're looking at, and see it as preposterous why. I had never before heard that word "timeology," so I googled it. or abnormal or disquieting. Who could blame them Here's how the Urban Dictionary defined it: "spending time doing what if they ran away from the treasure? In order to recognize and claim it, you want to do, not accomplishing anything major but also not wasting they might have to shed a number of their assumptions about the way the time." It so happens that this prescription is well-suited to our current world works. And they might have to clear up a discrepancy between astrological omens. I suggest that you and I be as playful as dolphins. their unconscious longings and their conscious intentions.
LEO (Ju l y 23-Au g . 22): In an episode of the animated CAPRICORN (De c . 22-Ja n . 19): Everyone alive TV sci-fi series Futurama, we get to see inside the has some kind of learning disability. I know brilliant headquarters of Romanticorp, where "love research" physicists who are dumb about poetry. There are is being done. One of the experiments involves robots fact-loving journalists whose brains freeze when delivering various pick-up lines to actual women. they're invited to consider the ambiguous truths
44 | rollmagazine.com of astrology. My friend John suffers from dyslexia, while I myself am incapable of mastering the mysteries of economics. What's your blind spot, Capricorn? What's your own personal learning disability? Whatever it is, this would be an excellent time, astrologically speaking, to work with it. For the next few months, you will be able to call on what you need in order to diminish its power to limit you.
AQUARIUS (Ja n . 20-Fe b . 18): "We cannot change anything until we accept it," said psychologist Carl Jung. "Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." Make that your hypothesis, Aquarius, and then conduct the following experiment. First, choose some situation you would like to transform. Next, open your heart to it with all the love and compassion you can muster. Go beyond merely tolerating it with a resigned disappointment. Work your way into a frame of mind in which you completely understand and sympathize with why it is the way it is. Imagine a scenario in which you could live your life with equanimity if the situation in question never changed. Finally, awash in this grace, meditate on how you might be able to actually help it evolve into something new.
PISCES (Fe b . 19-Ma r c h 20): If you were going to launch a career as a rap artist any time soon, I'd suggest that maybe you use the alias "Big Try" as your stage name. If you were planning to convert to an exotic religious path and get a new spiritual name, I'd recommend something like "Bringit Harder" or "Pushit Stronger." If you were about to join an activist group that fights for a righteous cause, and you wanted a new nickname to mark your transformation, I'd urge you to consider a tag like "Radical" or "Prime" or "Ultra." And even if you're not doing any of Authorized Dr. Hauschka dealer the above, I hope you'll carry out some ritual of transition to intensify Gluten-Free Products your commitment to your life's vital dreams.
www.beaconnaturalmarket.com To check out my expanded audio forecast of your destiny go to http://RealAstrology.com.
45 | rollmagazine.com roll wine & spirits w/timothy buzinski & mei ying so, owners of the artisin w i n e s h o p in Beacon
As with autumn, spring is a season of changes. Days grow longer and Sipping sweaters emerge from beneath winter coats. Our minds run to thoughts of tender asparagus, locally foraged morels and more delicately prepared dishes. The reality is, there is still a chill to the air and each week seems Syrah to bring a new snowstorm, each touted as bigger than the last. Thus we still crave wines that offer some texture, some body and complexity to pair with roasted meats and vegetables. With spring celebrations coming up, give syrah a try. Central California and parts of Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino are all sources for excellent quality syrah wines. On a recent trip to Sonoma, Hi s t o r y o f Sy r a h we discovered many innovative winemakers who are championing cool- You are probably most familiar with Australia’s ever-popular shiraz. climate syrahs. These wines focus on a fresh, elegant and more subtle style Don’t be fooled by the spelling; this is indeed the same grape as syrah. of syrah. Washington State is also producing exceptional wines using The name variation leads to a discussion on the origins of the grape syrah, many of which hedge even closer to traditional northern Rhône variety. Many point to the ancient Persian city of “Shiraz” in modern day styles. Wines from Columbia Valley and Walla Walla must be included in Iran as the source for the grape and thus the name. The wine of “Shiraz” any conversation of home-grown syrahs. In addition to Australia, other was known far and wide to be of high quality, however, the wine getting southern hemisphere countries also use syrah. South Africa in particular the most attention was in fact white, not red. Another theory revolves is a great option with its smoky-styled shiraz. Chile and Argentina are around the town of Syracuse in Sicily as shiraz was originally spelled also places to look to for well-made, value-driven syrah. scyras when it is thought to have arrived in Australia in 1832. Regardless of the theories, in 1998, it was scientifically established that the parents While syrah is not exactly a chameleon grape, changing with every of syrah are in fact two obscure southern French grapes. While at home different hillside, it does adapt. This is one of the reasons syrah is in France, the grape is now planted throughout the world. According to considered such a noble grape variety. Along with, for instance, pinot renowned wine writer Jancis Robinson, it is the seventh most planted noir, when well-made, syrah not only expresses the subtleties of various grape and fifth most common red grape. Examples can be found regions, but also maintains a focus that lets you know you’re enjoying everywhere from Argentina to Switzerland and beyond. While most a bottle of syrah and not a merlot or zinfandel. Add to this its inherent wine critics acknowledge that shiraz has a rightful place in the world, structure and syrah earns a place among the best grapes. Lighter and they also agree that France is home to the world’s best syrah. fruitful versions are enjoyable in youth while more ambitious bottles are capable of aging for decades. With the spring holidays approaching, syrah St y l e s o f Sy r a h will make a perfect companion on the table. This would be especially true Every region and country brings its own unique set of factors to bear if lamb is on the menu. The drying tannins of a youthful syrah will meld on growing syrah, thus different styles have developed. Again, there are with the rich, gamey flavors of a Walnut Grove Farms leg of lamb. no hard and fast rules about syrah or any other grape, or region for that matter. It is often tempting to simply label or compartmentalize grapes A Fe w Bo t t l e s t o Tr y or regions as being of a certain style, but there is always an exception. With that in mind, some regions have become known for creating Be r n a r d An g e Cr o z e s -He r m i t a g e AOC 2006 ($22-$25) certain styles of wines. Syrah offers perhaps the clearest example of this This is a delicate and pure expression of syrah. Loads of white pepper generalization. The most simplistic way of looking at this would be to on the nose with more gentle fruit on the palate. A must for roast compare fruit-forward, softer styles with more complex, dry versions. chicken.
Australia would have to be the epicenter of fruit-forward syrah/shiraz. Wi n e s o f Su b s t a n c e Sy r a h Wa s h i n g t o n St a t e 2008 ($16-$18) These wines are usually riper and sweeter, offering hints of cocoa mingled With a label design that riffs on the periodic table, the bottle is as with a more subtle sense of spice. At the other pole, France’s northern memorable as the wine. This complete package has just the right Rhône, with its steep, rocky slopes, offers wines with more dominant balance, offering fruit, acid and structure. spice, more subtle fruit and a medium to full body. While many would say the region of Hermitage makes the finest manifestation of syrah, Ar n o t -Ro b e r t s Sy r a h Hu d s o n Vi n e y a r d No r t h Bl o c k Lo s other areas in France can also produce expressive wines. Other names to Ca r n e r o s Na p a Va l l e y 2006 ($40-$50) seek out in France include Côte Rôtie, St-Joseph, Cornas, and Crozes- This wine is more subtle than many other California syrahs, but Hermitage, all neighbors of Hermitage. At their best, these wines are offers a powerful structure with juicy acidity and dry tannins that silky in texture with intoxicating aromatics of peppery spice and dark will marry perfectly with an Easter lamb. fruit notes. Of these areas, in general, only Crozes-Hermitage and St- Joseph are approachable in youth. Wa g t a i l Sh i r a z Ba r o s s a 2008 ($15-$17) A full-bodied style but with more balance than many Australian Looking at domestic syrah, perhaps the most effective way to describe wines. it is as a synthesis of the two styles. Syrah from California is generally more plush-textured than the wines of the northern Rhône while more Ga l i l Mo u n t a i n Wi n e r y Sy r a h “Yi r o n ” Ga l i l e e 2005 ($17-$22) restrained than those from down under. Syrah adapts well to a warm This Kosher wine is dark and intense with rich fruit and spices, sure climate, so many parts of the west coast are good fits for this noble grape. to please on the Passover table.
46 | rollmagazine.com roll dining in w/gary allen, food maven historian & author Talkin' the Talk
For some reason, people who have never worked in the food service Co n s i d e r t h e s e n a m e s f o r e g g d i s h e s , industry think that anyone who cooks is a chef. This notion is so far a l l c l a s s i c d i n e r s t a n d -b y s : off the mark that one can only assume that there is some language barrier that prevents them from understanding what it is that makes Ad a m a n d Ev e o n a r a f t , o r l o g (poached eggs on toast) a chef a chef. The actual duties of a chef are so numerous, and involve Ar ch e s (eggs) a set of skills that have nothing to do with the cooking itself, that we Be r r i e s , Ca c k l e b e r r i e s o r Co c k l e b e r r i e s (eggs) should probably save that discussion for another time. Bi d d i e s o n a r a f t (poached eggs on toast) However, that language barrier is worth examining. Cl u c k (eggs; hence: Cluck and grunt, bacon and eggs ) Co wb o y (western omelette; hence Cowboy with spurs: Like most trades, food service personnel have developed their own Western omelette with fries) jargon, a private vocabulary—what might be called a “shorthand De a d e y e (a poached egg) for short-order cooks,” if it didn't apply to all levels of kitchens— Et e r n a l t w i n s (ham and eggs) that makes their work-life easier, or prevents mistakes that might Fl o p t w o (a pair of fried eggs, cooked over easy; similarly, flop two, over otherwise be made. medium and flop two, over hard) Fo r t y -t w o (two orders of eggs over; hence: Forty-two over all the way: add Because the basic structure of the professional kitchen is based on fried potatoes and toast) models established by the French (specifically, Escoffier’s creation Fr y t w o o r Le t t h e s u n s h i n e o r Su n n y s i d e u p (a pair of fried eggs of the brigade de cuisine in the nineteenth century, in which an almost with yolks intact) military hierarchy was instituted to provide a chain of command, He n Fr u i t (boiled eggs) thereby eliminating confusing or contradictory orders—everyone, from the executive chef to the lowly plongeur, dish washer, knows Ki s s t h e p a n (eggs over easy) his assignments). This model is used in almost all high-end, or white Nu n ’s t o a s t (hard-boiled eggs with white gravy on toast) tablecloth, restaurants—but, in simplified form, can be seen in the Po p e Be n e d i c t (poached eggs on an English muffin, with Hollandaise sauce) lowliest greasy spoon. Along with le brigade, a host of terms that serve Tw o d o t s a n d a d a s h (two fried eggs and one strip of bacon) as shorthand have come to us from the French. Wr e c k ’e m (scrambled eggs) Wr e c k e d h e n w i t h f r u i t (scrambled eggs with a glass of orange juice) Mise en place, refers to the cook’s need to have everything ready before cooking ever begins. It means not only all the ingredients that Some of the terms listed above are numerical (such as Forty-two). Almost will be needed, but a work station that is clean and orderly and, by all of such terms were derived from soda-jerk slang that was coined in extension, an orderly mindset that allows for the efficient and timely the 1920s and early 1930s, during Prohibition. One, “eighty-six,” is still production of whatever that station is meant to produce. Mise en place in use in every kitchen. It means an item is sold out, no longer on the is the professional’s mantra. menu—or, in some cases, should not be served to a particular customer. Professionals don’t need to be told how to prepare the standard components of dishes, so simple terms replace whole sets of No t a l l s o d a j e r k s l a n g w a s i n t e n d e d t o i n c r e a s e instructions. Mirepoix is nothing more than two parts onion, one part professional e f f i c i e n c y , h o w e v e r : celery, and one part carrots—all chopped so they can be lend their distinctive aromatic presence to countless dishes. In Cajun kitchens, Ei g h t y -s e v e n a n d a h a l f (check out the pretty girl who just walked in; the diner equivalent is “ Check the ice”) mirepoix becomes “the trinity” by substituting green pepper for the carrots. Concassé is nothing more than peeled, seeded and chopped Ni n e t y -e i g h t (the assistant manager, a toady) tomatoes. Brunoise sounds sophisticated, but means nothing more Ni n e t y -n i n e (the boss) than “cut into tiny dice, approximately a quarter inch or smaller.” Th i r t e e n (watch out, the boss is around) There are hundreds of such terms, to be found in the glossary of culinary French terminology. (For more, see www.onthetable.us/ It’s been said that fifty percent of Americans have worked, at some culinaryfrench.shtml.) point in their lives, in food service of some kind. Could it be that the creators of “Get Smart” had such experience? It might explain why the Classic French restaurants are not the only places that need clear, bumbling Maxwell Smart’s codename was Agent 86, while his beautiful concise and unmistakable communication. Consider the high-speed and competent partner was Agent 99… ordering and production that takes place at the window between kitchen and counter in a diner. All day long, orders are shouted, orders that could easily be mistaken because they sound like something You can find more of Gary Allen's culinary wit and wisdom on his website: else. “Rye toast” could be confused with “dry toast”—but not if the www.onthetable.us waitress calls for “whiskey down.” Diner lingo is especially colorful, no doubt created not just for efficiency but to enliven an otherwise dull occupation.
47 | rollmagazine.com roll portrait
Madonna, by Kate Simon
48 | rollmagazine.com spring
are BLOOMING at...
mac’s agway in red hook new paltz agway 845.876.1559 | 68 firehouse lane red hook, ny 12571 845.255.0050 | 145 rte 32 n, new paltz, ny 12561 When Jeremy picked his cast and crew, we landed a leading role.
“They looked at us as people.”
Jeremy Ellenbogen, CEO Seven21 Media Center in Kingston
Let US Help Your Business Succeed!
Schedule a personal visit and receive a free gift. 1-866-440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com
Business Checking • Loans & Lines of Credit • Commercial Mortgages • Tax Preparation & Planning • Business Insurance Employee Benefits • Retirement Planning • Payroll Services • Bookkeeping
Member *Tax Preparation & Planning, Business Insurance, Employee Benefits, Retirement Planning, Payroll Services and Bookkeeping products and services available through FDIC Ulster Insurance Services, Inc., and Ulster Financial Group, Inc., subsidiaries of Ulster Savings Bank, are NOT FDIC INSURED.