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This site has been purchased from Bob Lemkowitz who will remain
editor and chief reporter.
The Village Voice editorial board has nothing to do with the views of Mr. Lemkowitz . Powerhouse
Books will be publishing Mr. Lemkowitz's new novel " SEVENTH AVENUE SOUTH " due in July 2012
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| The best eating establishment in the Mid-Hudson Valley |
Our reviewers will be covering the magnificent MATCHBOX
CAFE in Rhinebeck where everything is the best in the area without exception.
Oct 13,2011....Reviewed by Solomio
Holmes..( formerly of The L.A. Free Press, and
Mother
Jones )
Located at 6242 Route 9 just about 1/3 of a mile south of the Village of Rhinebeck
Phone them at 845
876-3911......
'Comfort Food and Cookies Stay Nice '
My only regret is that my dear
late friend Orson Welles had not lived to enjoy
the Matchbox Cafe....Bob Lemkowitz ed/pub; and now for the review
of Matchbox by our food reviewer Solomio Holmes.
As Mr. Lemkowitz has said, Mr Welles would have delighted
in the Matchbox as he was not only a great chef but a food critic and gourmet as well. Mr. Lemkowitz and
Mr. Welles
would travel about seeking out roadside establishments that featured in-house home style cooking. Their trips would take them
from Mr. Welles apartment at the Stanhope Hotel to small eating establishments between New York and Chicago. Now
about the Matchbox..This exquisite establishment run by Sam and Joann Cohen is ( according to your reviewer) the BEST
and I will repeat, the BEST
eatery in town and for that matter the Best in the Hudson Valley. What a surprising
treat and for that matter what a great score for the Village of Rhinebeck. There is not a way to describe the deliciousness
of the food and the space except to say go there and see for yourself. Comfort food, burgers, char-dogs, nachos, grilled
peanutbutter and banana sandwiches, french fries, onion rings...then cookies, brownies, shmoogies, pound cake, petit fours...I
can't take it anymore, I'm dyin' here.
I have been told by Mr. Lemkowitz that Joann's Kasha Varnishkes
are the best of all time and he had never had a mushroom gravy with chunks of mushrooms included.
Mr. Lemkowitz told
me himself that he has sampled KV ( Kasha Varnishkes) in cities
the world over and that includes Rue des Rossiers in
the Marais district of Paris..
The KV prepared here is the heavyweight champ of all KV's ever made in any bubbies
kitchen from Brighton Beach to Rivington Street. Get there as soon as possible, don't miss this treat. Wait a second ,
what's this...Mr. Lemkowitz is giving me a plate of Matchbox's Lasagna...hold on...I can't take it..this
is too good to be true, just when you think you have seen and tasted it all...here comes the Lasagna..
I have to take
a time out to soak my head !! I went back a day later and you would think there would be nothing else to surprise me, but
lo and behold out comes the Pumpkin Cheese Cake...now good readers, I have had CheeseCake at Juniors, Lindy's, Old Blakey's,
Davenports, Terrence's Place and of course Baby Watson, BUT, this was so extraordinary that words cannot express the texture,
taste and consistency of Sam and Joann's creation. One word of warning however, ladies, hold on to your skirts and buckle
your seatbelts before tasting this confection and order it early before Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Solomio Holmes
for the Hudson Valley Review
We will be hearing about a new culinary destination in Kingston, NY namely the
Kodomo Asian Bistro 478 Albany Ave ... Our new food reviewer Elmer Stuttgart
was invited to the Bistro on Tuesday
of this week to sample the menu and was
more than enthusiastic in fact in trying to convey to me his experience at the
Kodomo
Mr. Stuttgart started to weep in an uncontrollable manner and was forced to take to his bed. My attorney Mr. Israel
will be joining me next week at the Kodomo for a lunch of
Crispy Shrimp and Hibachi Scallops. Mr Israel has just concluded
a car and driver case
involving Mrs. Schmianik the offender, and Mr. Futterman the injured party. We will report
on this in the future. As a matter of information, if any of our readers are in need
of neck braces Mr. Israel's
wife has an array of sizes and styles and would be
happy to send a brochure. A 10% discount is now in effect until April
18.
Movie Review by our editior/publisher Mr. Lemkowitz
The Tourist Angelina Jolie and Johnny
Depp ( distributed by Columbia Pictures)
The stench left by this disgusting film caused the theater owner in Red Hook,
NY to call in a fumigation service to air out the theater and also had to purchase a few dozen bottles of Air Wick to
be placed in strategic spots....Jolie is an actress whose only interest is in posing for 'headshots' in every
scene. Depp has become a stiff and a cartoon character who is more interested in buffoonery than in doing his job. There
should be a skull and crossbones rating on anything these two produce in the future and as for Columbia Pictures, Ms Columbia
should be holding her nose in reaction to the stench created by thse two frauds. And by the way, each of them received 11
million dollars for their participation. G-d Bless America
Another ' crapper' from Ms. Jolie is due
out this June...hold your noses for this stinker !
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ACT 1...Bankers take advantage of lax regulations, run wild
and pay themselves princely sums while the bubble bursts.
ACT 2..Bankers are bailed out by YOU and I with no strings
attached
while the rest of the citizenry suffers
ACT 3..Bankers show their gratitude by turning on the folks who saved
them, throwing their support and wealth ( provided by US) behind
the fiends who promise to not increase taxes on the very rich and
cut and slash teachers, cops, firemen and civil service workers who they
have portrayed as the cause of all of it...
Given all of this, how can you not support the citizens taking part
in this protest ? Where is Maximillian Robespierre when he is needed ?
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'SALT' another disgusting film featuring Angelina Jolie...watching this film
was
akin to sitting in the electric chair and having the
executioner scream in your
face for 102 minutes.. the only pleasure was
watching two kids throw Milk Duds
at the girls in the front row..............
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration / Isabel Wilkerson ( Random House)
Ms.Wilkerson is the first African=American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Journalsim. In her new book she chronicles
the decades long migration of African-Americans from the South to the North and West, from World War 1 to the 70's,through
three individuals and their families. This book is a masterful narrative of the long and difficult journey and a must
read for those wanting to understand how we developed into a modern nation...
JULIO LOBO SUGAR KING OF HAVANA / JOHN
PAUL RATHBONE / PENGUIN PRESS
'The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo Cuba's Last Tycoon'
Cuba has known many
rich men since Christopher Columbus first introduced sugar cane to the island but even among the legendary tales of wealth
and influence , Julio Lobo's life stands apart. Lobo was the richest man in pre-revolutionary Cuba, Lobo remains emblematic
of an era which came to an end when Castro marched into Havana fifty years ago. Lobo led a remarkable life thta mirrored the
many rises and final fall of the troubled Cuban republic.
Saxophone Colossus...a new book
about the great Sonny Rollins to be reviewed coming up / also Mr. Rollins will be signing this book
at B&N on Warren St, NYC in Sept...call there for details...
Bruce Davidson..the great MAGNUM photographer
" East 100th Street" "Brooklyn Gangs" and "Subway" will be signing his new book called "Outside/
Inside" and new 3 volume set on OCT 4 at B&N 86th st/Lexington Ave..do not miss this signing as copies
of this 3 book volume are selling for $450-600 signed.. The books can still be purchased at Strandbooks in FIRST EDITION
for $155 ( A real bargain)
' WHEN THAT ROUGH GOD GOES RIDING' by Greil Marcus / Listening
to Van Morrison.....
Greil Marcus is America's most insightful cultural critics
who is at his best with this new book
as he pursues Van Morrison's particular and peculiar genius through the extraordinary
and unclassifiable moments in Morrison's career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. Marcus covers
the uniqueness of Morrison's art which put him in a class with only a few other performers of his generation.
The book is published by PUBLIC AFFAIRS... Mr. Marcus will appear at Barnes and Noble 17th Street on Oct 18 for a book signing.
The domain name has been sold by Mr. Lemkowitz to a subsidiary of News Corp ( News Corporation)
Mr.
Lemkowitz will still be editor/publisher until such time that he will not be editor/publisher/photographer and local radio
host. That time will not come soon as he works CHEAP !
This site is under new construction as of SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
All photography shown on this site will be that of
Mr. Lemkowitz our ed/pub except where indicated.
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GEOFFREY
CHAUCER'S
THE
CANTERBURY TALES (reviewed by B. Lemkowitz )
A RETELLING
BY PETER ACKROYD ( VIKING BOOKS $35 )
Now, as every English
schoolboy knows..........
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droughte of Marche
hath pierced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich liquor
Of which virtu engendered
is the flour
in the retelling.............
' When the soft sweet showers of April, reach
the roots of all things, refreshing the parched earth
nourishing every sapling and every seedling, then
humankind rises up in joy and expectation....'
I was sitting in my
backyard last summer with my friend Larry the rug dealer when out of nowhere he starts reciting the prologue to the Canterbury
Tales in the original Middle English..... " When that April with his showers soote..." Holy Shit said I
.. and almost fell off the bench, I was stunned, not that Larry is a dope or something, but how many times in your life do
you hear that narration..? I won't get into the details but what he uttered are a few of the most famous lines in
all of literature, especially to an Englishman.
Peter Ackroyd, the great English critic,historian and writer has
turned his hand to a retelling in prose of The Canterbury Tales, arguably the greatest poem in the English language.
The U.K. Observer has described the new prose version as a ' new crib for generations of students to come'
Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1343-1400) English poet and diplomat is creditied as being the first author to demonstrate the
legitimacy of the vernacular
We are sorry that Knopf and Pantheon
Books... ( Pantheon being an imprint) do not find us to be a legitimate reviewer of books despite the fact that we have
been doing this for 33 years both in NYC and now for 10 years in the mid-Hudson Valley...shame on you !!!
THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE / NELL IRVIN PAINTER / W.W. NORTON / $ 27.95 cloth/ 512 pages.
Do white people belong to a race ? Is there more than one white race? Why have beauty and whiteness been so paired
through the ages ? All these answers and more lie in this fascinating and comprehensive assessment of western ideas of race,
beauty and blood from antiquity to present .
A masterpiece of scholarship. 'THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE' explains
that notions of race-white,black beautiful and ugly - are and always have been as fluid as the changing face of America.
Thanks to Elyse Topalian and Rebecca Herman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for escorting us through the Museum's
Picasso exhibition after hours. Our tour will be covered in the late May edition of our newsletter.
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