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ACCENTUATE
THE POSITIVE I know, I know: Dan Savage beat me to
this news two whole weeks ago. Our own former news editor
and current contributing writer- columnist Miriam Axel-Lute
has co- organized, in association with the National Coalition
for Sexual Freedom, the Center for Sex & Culture and woman-friendly
sex-device company Babeland, the “Sexies.” The Sexies
are awards for sex-positive journalism. This is, as Axel-Lute
noted in a recent phone conversation, an attempt to recognize
journalism that is both objective and unbiased—two qualities
often missing from stories about everything from teen sexuality
to swingers to BDSM. Attention writers from The Record,
the Times Union, the Daily Gazette,
the Post-Star and—ahem—Metroland:
The deadline for submitting stories for the Sexies is March
23. For complete info, visit www.sexies.org.
AND THE WINNERS ARE The photography exhibit The Digital
Eye continues through May 1 in the Jerry Burrell Gallery
at the Hamilton Hill Arts Center (409 Schenectady
St., Schenectady), but the suspense—and the judging—is all
over. The winners are Duncan Bailey (Best in Show)
for Bouquet of Kids; Mabel Leon (Best Digital
Art) for Andy Warhol Goes to Cuba; and Cheila Law-Daio
(Best Traditional Photograph) for Ode to the Ranch.
The show “includes the work of youth who participate in the
Project Art Reach program at the center. If you’re wondering
what these photos look like—and you should be—the gallery
hours are 11 AM to 5 PM from Monday through Friday. For more
info, call 346-1262.
FORD AT THE CLARK One of the most exciting DVD sets issued
last year was Ford at Fox, a collection of 24 films John
Ford directed at Fox Film and 20th Century Fox from 1917
to 1952. It’s pricey—I know, I bought it—but worth it if you
want to experience the essence of American cinema, both great
and terrible. Anyhoo, the Clark Art Institute is in
the middle of a Saturday afternoon series of Ford westerns,
in conjunction with their Frederic Remington exhibit, Remington
Looks West. This Saturday (March 22) at 2 PM, they
will be showing what is arguably the last great film he made
for Fox, the 1946 Wyatt Earp-OK Corral drama My Darling
Clementine, starring Henry Fonda. The following weekend
(March 29), they will show what is arguably Ford’s most visually
gorgeous color film, the cavalry drama She Wore a Yellow
Ribbon, made for his own company and released by RKO
in 1949. Finally, on April 5, they’ll screen The Searchers,
which usually turns up on all those ten-best-films-ever lists.
(It’s also Laura Leon’s favorite movie.) All screenings are
at 2 PM at the Clark Art Institute (225 South St., Williamstown,
Mass.). Admission to the museum and the screening is free.
—Shawn
Stone
sstone@metroland.net
 Hudson
River Preview
On
Tuesday (March 18), composer and violinist Mark O’Connor
previewed and discussed his newest work, the Hudson River
String Quartet, beginning at 7:30 PM at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon
Library Center in Clifton Park. Over 200 people showed up
to hear O’Connor perform excerpts from the piece, which was
commissioned as part of next year’s Hudson River Quadricentennial.
You won’t have to wait until 2009 to enjoy it, however; O’Connor
will premiere the work on April 12 at the Egg (Empire State
Plaza, Albany).
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