Arts & Culture

The Real Last Samurai

A new show of prints by 19th century Japanese artist Chikanobu.

Portfolio: George Quasha

George Quasha is something of a latter-day Renaissance man, with a wide-ranging list of accomplishments as a publisher, a poet, an artist, and an all-around inquiring mind.

Poetry

Poems by Erin Buttner, Mark Massey, Jeffrey Aaron Schmidt, Peter Scheckner, Nicholas Ripatrazone, Jeffrey Paggi, Amy Beth Barton, Lauren Tamraz Judson, Kim Barke, and Michael Hunt.

For “Photowork ’07,” Barrett Art Center’s 20th annual national juried photography exhibition, the Poughkeepsie gallery’s director, Laurie Strange, gave juror Asher Miller the freedom to select works not based on any particular theme or genre.

Poetic Liar

By Al Desetta

Charles Simic will read at SUNY Ulster’s 13th Annual Poetry Forum on April 18.

Little Dollface

By Jay Blotcher

“Dollface,” which runs April 12 through 15, is a sidelong wink at the synthetically cheery 1950s and the breezy musicals that flourished during that era.

Damsel in Distress

By Jay Blotcher

Society’s insatiable appetite for melodrama may go far in explaining the enduring public interest in yet another maiden in distress: Jane Eyre.

Food & Drink

Spice of Life

By Eric Steinman

Suruchi, which is Sanskrit for good taste, or, more literally, “good interest,” features a menu that is largely inspired by the vegetarian cuisine of southern India.

Books

The Constant Gardener

By Nina Shengold

What do gardening, murder, women’s erotica, and Christmas past have in common? A most uncommon edito: Woodstocker Michele Slung.

Book Review: Up is Up but So is Down

By Peter Aaron

Anyone who spent time in lower Manhattan during the years covered in editor Brandon Stosuy’s rich and riveting anthology, Up Is Up But So Is Down, will tell you the same thing: Their city is gone.

Book Review: Home Remedies

By Caitlin McDonnell

“In relationships one person always cares more than the other,” a mother warns a daughter in Angela Pneuman’s enticing debut, Home Remedies.

Book Review: The Neddiad

By Susan Krawitz

The Neddiad is an epic tale that mixes disparate genres and elements in a way only the author of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency could imagine.

Short Takes

By Nina Shengold

Whether they’re writing about military realities, queer identity, land use issues up- and downriver, or that iconoclastic bride of Christ, these five local authors are helping to break new ground.