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Inspiration by the Decades at 10x10 On 10

Lisa Green reports from Pittsfield. What inspires you most at this decade of your life? That’s the question curator Diane Firtell (left) asked of each girl/woman who created a piece of artwork for the Alchemy Initiative’s art exhibit that opened on Saturday at Y Bar on North

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Community

Lounge Acts: Allium, griffinGB, and Vintage Make Sitting Around an Art

The lounge at Allium. Photo courtesy of Allium. Lounging can be much more than just chilling on a comfy couch. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) In some cases, it can even be an art form (just ask Proust), one that requires the collaborative efforts of hospitable professionals

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Goin' to Town: Townscape Valentine's Party at Gilmor Glass

Fiona Breslin reports from Millerton. Millerton's Townscape Valentine’s Day Party had a special, grateful air; a grouping of the town's lovers eager to finally get out on a Saturday night (February 9) post Nemo. The evening was, pardon the pun, chill, with everyone relaxing with

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A Grander Scale: Dai Ban Finds His True Nature

Poring over a thick picture portfolio of nearly two decades of work as a graphic model maker for film and television, artist and sculptor Dai Ban shakes his head and laughs lightly. “Nothing on TV is real,” he says, “Not even the real thing.” Inside his bright, cozy Great Barrington-

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Food

A Rose By Any Other Name

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to

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AgriCulture: Waste Not, Etc.

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. Here in the cozy warmth of our farm house, nicely insulated from what will turn out to be a major blizzard, I am thinking of frugality. Specifically my frugality. I

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At the Berkshire Museum, Nature Seen Anew

Sarah Todd reports from Pittsfield.A heart cockle shell the size of a skyscraper. A desert sunrise dividing a sand dune into even slopes of light and dark. At the Berkshire Museum’s opening reception on Saturday, February 9 for exhibits by Ansel Adams and Andreas Feininger, striking, Modernist nature

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Boxwood Linen: Pressed in Hillsdale

Franca Fusco, designer and owner of Boxwood Linen, doesn't believe in holding the finer things in life back. “When I hear people say ‘It’s too pretty to use,’ I just think ‘Oh dear. What life are you waiting for?’ Do it for yourself. I don’t understand

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Going Upstreet: Pittsfield's 10x10 Arts Festival

It’s nice when a good idea turns out to be an equally good reality. Looking for a way to harness the growing energy and community spirit among downtown businesses — and also provide a not-so-subtle nudge to encourage people to bundle up and make the scene in mid-

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Our Daily Bread (South): The Power & The Glory of Pastrami

Sometimes a sandwich is more than just a sandwich. Take the pastrami on rye at the new Our Daily Bread Bakery & Café in Chatham, NY (not to be confused with its elder, gluten-free, vegetarian sibling at the north end of town that confusingly goes by the very same

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A Coconut Cure: Congee, Chicken, and Greens

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to

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Intensive Care: Columbia Memorial Benefit At Helsinki Hudson

Scott Baldinger reports from Hudson. This observer has been bandaged, injected, medicated, and cuffed (for blood pressure) under the auspices of Columbia Memorial Hospital – but never served hor’s doeuvres or entertained by the Bindlestiff  Family Cirkus (Stephanie Monseu, seen at left on her trademark stilts), at least until attending

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