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Art et Industrie: Man, Meet Nature

Owner Jordan Schlanger and co-worker Caitlyn Schomaker on Jesse Reimer's "Mother-Daughter" bench Housatonic is a study in contrasts. In this Berkshire town, brick mill houses and graffitied trains long out of service nestle alongside a gushing river and hills flocked with trees. “It’s

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Food

Prairie Whale, A New Hangout in Great Barrington

Lots of restaurants in the RI region profess to be farm-to-table.  And like so many of their well-intentioned customers, they keep the faith whenever they can, which is to say, when it isn’t too ruinously inconvenient, expensive, or arduous. Now Prairie Whale (formerly called Bell &

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Arts

Music: Here Comes Trouble

If you want something done right, do it yourself. And if you can't do it yourself, get your Talmudic sisters to help you. This seems to be the motto held by the many women who appear in the scrolls of the Torah. Matriarchs, seductresses, prophets, and mothers line

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Parties

Construct Annual Walk for the Homeless

Rachel Louchen reports from Great Barrington. On Sunday, October 21st, hundreds gathered at Ski Butternut to walk 3.5 to miles to Construct headquarters in Great Barrington. Since the 1960s, Construct has continued to provide food and shelter, as well as adult education and counseling, to homeless individuals in Southern

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Williamstown Film Festival Is a Local Affair

Rachel Louchen reports from Williamstown. The 14th Williamstown Film Festival   opened with an introspective bang last Thursday, October 18, at Images Cinema . The party began with a film close to home, literally. Dreamscapes, a documentary by Wolfram Hissen looks in on the life and career of Williamstown’s own, Stephen

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Food

Recipe: An Amber Cup With a Side of Rubies

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 at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural

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Derwin's: Still Natty After All These Years

The seeds for R. Derwin Clothier’s in Litchfield, now run by a whole brood of Derwins, were sown more than fifty years ago from far, far away: Los Angeles, where patriarch Richard Derwin worked his way up the retail ladder as a buyer for several famous, now- defunct department

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Lupone and Patinkin: Embracing the Mahaiwe

Scott Baldinger reports from Great BarringtonTwo of the best — and hardest working — stars of the Broadway stage gave it their all for the audience attending the sold out gala benefiting that invaluable (and beautifully restored) resource, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on Sunday, October  14. The show,

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Community

The Briarcliff Motel: Not Just Another Roadside Attraction

Londoners Clare Weatherall and Richard Proctor first came to the Berkshires 15 years ago as tourists on a whirlwind tour of New England, staying mostly at bed & breakfast lodgings. Motels were out of the question. Like many Europeans, their impression of the quintessentially American roadside accommodation had been informed

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Food

Bravo for Brava: Delicious Late Night Tapas in Lenox

Is it really 11 p.m. on a Tuesday night in downtown Lenox and we are sipping a craft beer and a crisp Cava, staring at a menu of delicious things that we can actually order at this time of night? Bruschetta with jamón and white anchovies? (Yes, please!) A

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LitNet Celebrates 21 Years of Connecting Community

Rachel Louchen reports from Stockbridge. The Literacy Network of South Berkshire held its annual fundraising gala on Saturday, October 13, at the Berkshire Country Day School, celebrating the educational organization as well as a few notable members of the community. The Masiero Brothers, Matt and Chris of Guido’s and

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Arts

Theater Review: The 39 Steps Takes a Leap or Three

The dynamic cast of S&Co's The 39 Steps. All photos by Kevin Sprague. In the world of pre-war British espionage, it's all fun and games until someone loses a major national security secret, at which point, quite naturally, things just get hysterical. At

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