View from the Top
Esteemed Reader • Shifting the paradigm of a consumption-driven culture.
Conversation • Mary Thunder talks with Jason Stern.
Community Notebook
Bulletin Board of the Intriguing, Edifying & Entertaining
Woodstock VW Reunion, Hudson Valley Film Festival, NY Renaissance Faire, Ulster Literacy Association.
Room for a View
Lost in the System: The War on Our Young People, Part II
By Lorna Tychostup. The second installment in a two-part series on the history of the juvenile justice system.
Letter From LA • By Josh Robinson. Our correspondent shadows the shadow convention.
Features
The Song of the Panther Kill
By Will Nixon. Listening to the raucous urban cacophony and siren song of nature.
Pulling Strings: Hudson Valley Puppetry Renaissance
By Pauline Uchmanowicz. Construction and performance in Rosendale, Barrytown, Saugerties and NYC.
Backbone
Frankly Speaking • Chapter Two: A Glance of Inward Regard. Frank Crocitto urges us to get a life.
Lucid Dreaming • What’s New? Beth Wilson previews projects and art spaces around the region.
Quarter to Three • The Glow of Sports. Sparrow interviews Elvis’s secret wife; Tree of the Month.
Ear Whacks • Reel Music. Todd Paul on movie music and the Woodstock Film Festival.
Planet Waves • Thoughts Turned Toward Home. Eric Francis warns about PCBs. Plus horoscopes.
Poetica • “Dragonfly” by Dennis Doherty and “oranges” by Shaina Kapeluck.
Whole Living Guide
Why Yoga?
By Ami Jayaprada Hirchstein. The varities and uses of yoga.
Whole Living Directory
Products and services for a positive lifestyle.