Food Doves Diner Opens in Ancram, Preserves Historic Parkway Pitstop Doves Diner reopened in the former West Taghkanic Diner in Ancram on March 6, with a classic menu "elevated" through local farm sourced ingredients and run by skilled kitchen pros. By Jamie Larson •
Emily Johnson / Catalyst, Quilt Being Star, worn by Ty Fierce Metteba, photo by Two Hawks Young. Arts "YOUR HONOR, a care procession" at MASS MoCA Yup'ik choreographer and performance artist Emily Johnson brings a communal performance inside Jeffrey Gibson's monumental Building 5 exhibition. By Jamie Larson •
Wellness Some Expert Help Planting Your Edible Garden This Spring Raised beds, smart placement, and realistic expectations: Kristen Svorka of Sproutwell shares how to build an edible garden that actually produces—and fits your life. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Style Writer Karen Rinaldi’s Cocteau-Inspired Copake Home is a Refuge After Divorce After a divorce upended her life, writer and editor Karen Rinaldi found a modest eyebrow Colonial in Copake and, with help from her sister, transformed it into a deeply personal retreat shaped by the spirit of Jean Cocteau. By Mary Angeles Armstrong •
Arts UFOs Land at Tanglewood—in New Concert that Invokes 1969 Local Sightings “Mirage,” a composition by Daniel Wohl, will be performed at Tanglewood’s Linde Center by contemporary quartet Hub New Music. By Jamie Larson •
Food Party’s Over: Hy’s Fried Closes Abruptly, Ending a Short, Electric Run After less than two years of fried chicken and dancing, Egremont restaurant and music venue Hy’s Fried announced late last week that it has closed. By Jamie Larson •
Community Eclectic April: 10 Singular Spring Events ten ways to spend April experiencing something that can’t quite be streamed, duplicated, or simulated. By Jamie Larson •
Style Former Ralph Lauren Creative Exec Alfredo Paredes Opens Hudson Interiors Shop Opening March 27, Alfredo Paredes Hudson, integrates vintage furnishings, and art with Paredes own growing line of furniture. By Jamie Larson •
Food "Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook" Authors Bring New Edition and Dinner to Mass MoCA On March 26, Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner present at MASS MoCA at 5pm with a themed dinner to follow at Casita. By Jamie Larson •
Food Popular Berkshire/HV Pop-Up Haema Finds Home in Hudson Hannah Wong and Sarah Jane McLaughlin are opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the former Bar Bene space, with an early summer opening planned. By Margot Isaacs •
Arts Jon Stewart Brings Politically Cutting Comedy (and a Drum Kit) to Tanglewood Stewart will make his Tanglewood debut June 20, performing a comedy set after backing his band Church and State on drums. By Jamie Larson •
Community Nasty Northeast Ticks Carry Multiple Disease-Causing Pathogens, New Study Shows Nearly 11 percent of ticks tested carried pathogens for BOTH Lyme disease and babesiosis. By Jamie Larson •
Food "Cooking Korean" with Hannah Wong in Hillsdale Haema's Hannah Wong Wong leads a hands-on class built around core techniques and flavor structures rather than a fixed menu. By Jamie Larson •
Food Party’s Over: Hy’s Fried Closes Abruptly, Ending a Short, Electric Run After less than two years of fried chicken and dancing, Egremont restaurant and music venue Hy’s Fried announced late last week that it has closed. By Jamie Larson •
Food "Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook" Authors Bring New Edition and Dinner to Mass MoCA On March 26, Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner present at MASS MoCA at 5pm with a themed dinner to follow at Casita. By Jamie Larson •
Food Popular Berkshire/HV Pop-Up Haema Finds Home in Hudson Hannah Wong and Sarah Jane McLaughlin are opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the former Bar Bene space, with an early summer opening planned. By Margot Isaacs •
Arts Leslie Mendelson Plays the Stissing Center's Grace Note Mendelson has been making thoughtful, piano-driven folk-pop for two decades, evoking 1970s singer-songwriters like Carole King By Jamie Larson •
Arts The Unstable Origins of Color Photography at The Clark "Technical Difficulties: Early Color Photography and Conditioned Viewing" with art historian Rachel Lee Hutcheson. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Intro to Opera With the Berkshire Opera Festival A free, one-hour family concert designed to bring opera to audiences who may never have sat through one. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Rebecca Novack Brings "Murder Bimbo" to Kinderhook Books Novack's attention grabbing debut novel is getting praise as "Gone Girl" for a new generation. By Jamie Larson •
Community Eclectic April: 10 Singular Spring Events ten ways to spend April experiencing something that can’t quite be streamed, duplicated, or simulated. By Jamie Larson •
Community No Kings Rallies Sweep Region This Weekend, Amid Rising Tensions A growing national protest movement returns March 28 with rallies across the Hudson Valley, pushing back against Trump-era authoritarianism at home and abroad. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Wellness "The Emotionally Exhausted Woman" — A Retreat with Nancy Colier A three-day retreat led by psychotherapist Nancy Colier takes on a too-often untreated condition: emotional exhaustion. Running March 27–29 By Jamie Larson
Community "Rhapsody Repair Workshop: Ceramics" at MASS MoCA An extension of the exhibition itself, the workshop offers a chance to bring damaged objects back into use while situating that act within a larger conversation about making, care, and continuity. By Jamie Larson •
Style Former Ralph Lauren Creative Exec Alfredo Paredes Opens Hudson Interiors Shop Opening March 27, Alfredo Paredes Hudson, integrates vintage furnishings, and art with Paredes own growing line of furniture. By Jamie Larson •
Style New Hawthorne Valley Roots & Relics Market A carefully curated mix of folk craft, vintage finds, and small-scale makers in Ghent, Saturday, March 21. By Jamie Larson •
Hudson Home layers vintage furniture with contemporary design objects, creating interiors that feel lived-in, considered, and open to interpretation rather than styled to a script. Style Where to Shop in Columbia County: Antiques, Design, and Local Finds Antiques warehouses, design shops, bookstores, and everyday gathering places that reward browsing, curiosity, and long attention across Columbia County. By Chronogram Staff •
Style No Nails Needed: Andrew Jack Opens a New Chapter for the Windsor Chair in Sheffield On Sunday, March 1, from 10am to 4pm, Windsor chairmaker Andrew Jack will throw open the doors to his new workshop and gallery at 292 South Main Street in Sheffield. By Jamie Larson •
Arts UFOs Land at Tanglewood—in New Concert that Invokes 1969 Local Sightings “Mirage,” a composition by Daniel Wohl, will be performed at Tanglewood’s Linde Center by contemporary quartet Hub New Music. By Jamie Larson •
Food Party’s Over: Hy’s Fried Closes Abruptly, Ending a Short, Electric Run After less than two years of fried chicken and dancing, Egremont restaurant and music venue Hy’s Fried announced late last week that it has closed. By Jamie Larson •
Community Eclectic April: 10 Singular Spring Events ten ways to spend April experiencing something that can’t quite be streamed, duplicated, or simulated. By Jamie Larson •
Style Former Ralph Lauren Creative Exec Alfredo Paredes Opens Hudson Interiors Shop Opening March 27, Alfredo Paredes Hudson, integrates vintage furnishings, and art with Paredes own growing line of furniture. By Jamie Larson •
Food "Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook" Authors Bring New Edition and Dinner to Mass MoCA On March 26, Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner present at MASS MoCA at 5pm with a themed dinner to follow at Casita. By Jamie Larson •
Food Popular Berkshire/HV Pop-Up Haema Finds Home in Hudson Hannah Wong and Sarah Jane McLaughlin are opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the former Bar Bene space, with an early summer opening planned. By Margot Isaacs •
Arts Jon Stewart Brings Politically Cutting Comedy (and a Drum Kit) to Tanglewood Stewart will make his Tanglewood debut June 20, performing a comedy set after backing his band Church and State on drums. By Jamie Larson •
Community Nasty Northeast Ticks Carry Multiple Disease-Causing Pathogens, New Study Shows Nearly 11 percent of ticks tested carried pathogens for BOTH Lyme disease and babesiosis. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate 1850s Getaway by a Swimming Hole and the Racetrack in Lakeville An 1850 farmhouse by the Limerock racetrack, with its own private swimming hole. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate Restored 1820 Colonial, Stunning Interior, by the River in Stuyvesant The interior design is out of control at this restored early-19th-century house set along the Hudson. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate $90 Million 2,1050 Acre Estate With Historic Mill in Ancramdale Mill Farm is populated by a primary residence and a network of secondary homes, a working landscape, and internal infrastructure. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate 1929 Lake Garfield Estate with Olmsted-Attributed Grounds Newgrange, was built in 1929 as a country manor and remains one of the more substantial lakefront properties in this part of the Berkshires. By Jamie Larson
Real Estate Former Stagecoach Tavern, Turning Point Inn in Great Barrington A roadside landmark, by the ski slopes, with deep Berkshire roots, this property began life in 1802 as a tavern and stagecoach stop. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate Bucolic Contemporary on Shekomeko Creek over 19 acres of flat, fenced pasture, where a newly built house lays low along the landscape. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate A Modern Cabin on the Housatonic in Great Barrington A contemporary house that feels almost suspended in the trees on the backside of Monument Mountain. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate 1695 Farmhouse at Core of Elegant Elizaville Homestead A house with roots reaching back to the earliest years of the Hudson Valley’s European settlement. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate Creative Compound on 119 Acres in Claverack A hidden former farmstead turned creative retreat, the property has the scale of a private estate and the infrastructure of a serious live-work compound. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate Country Elegance Near the Historic Sharon Green A stately Litchfield County residence set quietly within the Great Elm community, just steps from the historic Sharon Green. By Jamie Larson •
Stressless by Design: Paul Rich & Sons Quality Furniture For more than four decades, Paul Rich & Sons has evolved alongside the homes it furnishes. By Chronogram Media Branded Content Team •
Rest, Perfected: Handmade Shifman Mattresses at Paul Rich & Sons Home Furnishings + DESIGN in Downtown Pittsfield At Paul Rich & Sons Home Furnishings + DESIGN, Shifman’s hand-tied, two-sided mattresses made from natural materials offer decades of comfort that far outlast foam mattresses. By Chronogram Media Branded Content Team
Guide Longyear Gallery Artist-Run Cooperative Representing emerging and seasoned artists located throughout the New York State region. By Chronogram Media Branded Content Team
Courtesy Berkshire Food Co-op Food Better Food, Smarter Shopping: Berkshire Food Co-op [SPONSORED] Since 1981, Berkshire Food Co-op has been helping neighbors access high-quality groceries without breaking the bank By Chronogram Media Branded Content Team
Arts Leslie Mendelson Plays the Stissing Center's Grace Note Mendelson has been making thoughtful, piano-driven folk-pop for two decades, evoking 1970s singer-songwriters like Carole King By Jamie Larson •
Arts The Unstable Origins of Color Photography at The Clark "Technical Difficulties: Early Color Photography and Conditioned Viewing" with art historian Rachel Lee Hutcheson. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Intro to Opera With the Berkshire Opera Festival A free, one-hour family concert designed to bring opera to audiences who may never have sat through one. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate 1850s Getaway by a Swimming Hole and the Racetrack in Lakeville An 1850 farmhouse by the Limerock racetrack, with its own private swimming hole. By Jamie Larson •
Food Doves Diner Opens in Ancram, Preserves Historic Parkway Pitstop Doves Diner reopened in the former West Taghkanic Diner in Ancram on March 6, with a classic menu "elevated" through local farm sourced ingredients and run by skilled kitchen pros. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Rebecca Novack Brings "Murder Bimbo" to Kinderhook Books Novack's attention grabbing debut novel is getting praise as "Gone Girl" for a new generation. By Jamie Larson •
Emily Johnson / Catalyst, Quilt Being Star, worn by Ty Fierce Metteba, photo by Two Hawks Young. Arts "YOUR HONOR, a care procession" at MASS MoCA Yup'ik choreographer and performance artist Emily Johnson brings a communal performance inside Jeffrey Gibson's monumental Building 5 exhibition. By Jamie Larson •
Wellness Some Expert Help Planting Your Edible Garden This Spring Raised beds, smart placement, and realistic expectations: Kristen Svorka of Sproutwell shares how to build an edible garden that actually produces—and fits your life. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Arts New Book Finds Frederic Church's Greatest Art Underfoot at Olana The book is laid out as a series of walks, unpacking the history of everything visible in the landscape. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate Restored 1820 Colonial, Stunning Interior, by the River in Stuyvesant The interior design is out of control at this restored early-19th-century house set along the Hudson. By Jamie Larson •
Arts UFOs Land at Tanglewood—in New Concert that Invokes 1969 Local Sightings “Mirage,” a composition by Daniel Wohl, will be performed at Tanglewood’s Linde Center by contemporary quartet Hub New Music. By Jamie Larson •
Adam Gopnik Credit: Bridgette Lacombe Arts The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik Brings “Adam Gopnik’s New York” to the Mahaiwe New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik transforms four decades of city life into a one-man show blending memoir, humor, and cultural history on April 25 at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington. By Brian K. Mahoney •
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