Speak Out! recent blogs
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My Conversation with Laurie Anderson
By Sparrow 08/21/08
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"Blogging for Blood Cancer" event
By Puja Thomson 08/01/08
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By Sparrow 07/06/08
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Pretty Much the Most Important Thing
By Bethany Saltman 06/23/08
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How do I Assess Risks versus Benefits of Treatment Options?- 3
By Puja Thomson 06/16/08
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By Sparrow 05/23/08
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By Sharon Nichols 05/22/08
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Dora Who?: On Raising a Weirdo
By Bethany Saltman 04/25/08
Arts & Culture
A Partial Catalog of Harold's Major and Minor EpiphaniesA short story by Brent Robison on the life, love, and lamentations of a man, that received an honorable mention in our 2007 short story contest. | 
Portfolio: Ryan SullivanEmerging artist Ryan Sullivan shares the influence the Children’s Media Project had on his life and graffiti-inspired artwork. | 
Between the Shirt and the SkinTerri C. Smith profiles the late photojournalist Eugene Smith, whose black-and-white photographs are now on permanent view at Dutchess Community College. |
Brisk BardIn 97 minutes, three actors will stage pieces from all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” at Boscobel in Garrison. | 
Sea of StillnessBard professor Peter Hutton’s silent film about the life and death of a container ship, At Sea, will be shown at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on August 24. | 
In the DarkPeter Shaffer’s “Black Comedy” will be performed at the Shadowland Theatre through August 10. | 
The Bold and Die Brücke“Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints” will be exhibited at Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center from August 22 though October 26. |
Food & Drink
Books
Book Review: A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food SupplyA Spring Without Bees is author Michael Schacker’s convincing, educating, and amusing look at how society is on the brink of Civilization Collapse Disorder. | 
Book Review: Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of SoundMusician and philosopher David Rothenberg examines the relationship that exists between science and art in Thousand Mile Song. | 
Book Review: The Slow Creaking of Planets and Meditations on Rising and FallingVisiting faculty at Bard College Gretchen Primack and Philip Pardi have written two notable first books of poetry. | 
Short TakesLooking for a great novel to tuck in that beach bag, or new ways to pamper the dog in your dog days? Read on! |
Lucid Dreaming
Unearthly Delights
Beth E. Wilson examines the symbiotic relationship that exists between art and nature in the work of Katie Holten and Nina Katchadourian.