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OTHER REVOLUTION: For sheer brutality, stupidity and mass
political madness in the post-World War II era, it’s hard
to top China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Beginning
in 1964, an ascendant radical movement in China’s Communist
Party demonized artists, intellectuals, teachers, engineers
. . . name a profession that didn’t involve farming, and anyone
practicing it was a likely target for arrest, prosecution,
re-education or death. On Friday and Saturday (June 16-17)
at 7:30 PM, Time & Space Limited (434 Columbia St., Hudson)
will be screening Morning Sun, a “psychological documentary”
about the Cultural Revolution. As Entertainment Weekly wrote,
“the movie draws us into the annihilating fervor of an era
in which purge followed upon purge, in escalating waves of
terror and control.” Tickets are $5 for TSL members, $7 general
admission. For more info, call 822-8448.
TAKE
A BOW: Local author, poet, educator and martial artist Joseph
Cardillo has had great, continuing success with his book Be
Like Water. It’s now in its third printing here in the states;
a German edition, Sei Sanft und Kraftvoll: Wie Das Wasser,
has just been published; and a Russian translation will be
issued—in Russia, naturally—later this year. Now, Marlowe/Avalon
Books have just published Cardillo’s follow-up volume, Bow
To Life: 365 Secrets From the Martial Arts for Daily Life.
The title is more-or-less self-explanatory; Cardillo suggests,
with what we hope is insight and clarity, ways to apply the
principles of martial arts to getting through the day. Cardillo
will be signing copies of Bow To Life tomorrow (Friday, June
16) at 7 PM at the Barnes and Noble on Wolf Road in Colonie.
If you go to his Web site, www.josephcardillo.com, there is
a complete list of upcoming readings and signings—including
an across-the-state tour in July that will bring the author
to Watertown, Buffalo, Ithaca, Saratoga Springs, Victor (that’s
part of greater suburban Rochester, for you non-Western New
Yorkers) and more—and TV appearances. For more info, visit
the Web site or, better yet, ask the author himself tomorrow
night.
RUN AWAY TO FIND YOURSELF: That’s what author and former Times
Union city desk editor Lori Soderlind did, and it worked for
her. She recounts this personal journey in her new memoir,
Chasing Montana; in an e-mail, Soderlind explained that “I
sometimes call it a cross between Thelma and Louise and Brokeback
Mountain, only this time, Geena Davis is a lesbian and no
one dies in the end.” She will be reading from the book tonight
(Thursday, June 15) at 7 PM at the Borders in beautiful downtown
Saratoga Springs; she will at the Borders on Wolf Road in
Colonie on June 22 at 7 PM.
GOOD FOOD, GOOD FILM: The Honest Weight Food Co-op is celebrating
its 30th anniversary this month. That’s three decades of organic
wholesomeness and community cooperation. As part of the celebration,
the Spectrum Theatres in Albany will host two screenings of
filmmaker/RPI prof Branda Miller’s new documentary, Honest
Weight Food Co-op: A Really Great Place to Shop! on Wednesday
(June 21) at 6:30 and 8:30 PM. The screenings are free; the
Co-op instructs us that “to reserve seats, tickets may be
picked up at the Spectrum Theatre box office on June 21, the
day of the show.” For more info, visit the Honest Weight Web
site at www.hwfc.com.
THE NEXT STAGE: The Woodstock Playhouse happily announced
this week that construction of their new stage is almost complete.
“At the present time,” reported Woodstock Arts Board president
Joan Roberts, “the stage is just about finished as are the
professional quality actors’ dressing rooms.” Thanks to a
grant from New York state—and a “hugely successful” fundraiser
last August with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward—they were
able to start construction in December 2005. The announced
lineup of performances this summer includes the Puppet People
production of Legend of Sleepy Hollow (July 1); Steven Brinberg
in Simply Barbra (as in drag, as Streisand, July 8); a concert
with the Radiators (July 21); Galumpha Dance Company (July
29); another concert, with Buckwheat Zydeco (Aug. 5); Goowins
Balloowins presentation—with audience participation—of Peter
Pan (Aug. 12); and the Missoula Children’s Theatre production
of Cinderella. For more info, call the Woodstock Playhouse
box office at (845) 679-4101.
—Shawn
Stone
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