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Arts

Berkshire Fringe Founders Take the Plunge

If you want to produce and perform your own plays, the best advice might be: don’t start a theater festival. It may sound counterintuitive, but that’s the lesson learned by the three young founding artistic directors  of Berkshire Fringe: Peter Wise, 32; Sara Katzoff, 31; and Timothy Ryan

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Parties

A Midsummer Party for Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust

Dale Stewart reports from South Kent.There was something uniquely Gatsby-esque about the Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust Midsummer party on Saturday, July 14. In the glow of a cinematic sunset, to a soundtrack of jazzy world music, impeccably dressed guests mingled and nibbled on fig and jambon mousse canapés,

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Parties

Artists and Curators and Guests, Omi!

Scott Baldinger reports from Ghent. Who knew that artists, particularly those from around the world, such as Omi resident artistsAhmed el Shaer, from Egypt, and  Kakyoung Lee, from South Korea (at left) -- and even curators, board members, and just plain supporters and guests from more local parts -- could be so

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Arts

The Imaginary Invalid at SummerScape: Is There a Doctor in the House?

Appropriately bilious, dyspectic, splenetic, and cast and staged with almost vertiginous comic invention, The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt as part of Bard's SummerScape Festival at the Fisher Center, may not be “just what the doctor ordered.”  This production, and the play

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Parties

IS 183 Art School Stokes the Appetite for Midsummer Soul

Samara DiMouro reports from Lenox.Stonover Farm overflowed with artists, their supporters, and party people on Friday, July 13, for Soul Appetite, a gallery opening and dinner/dance party to benefit IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires. Board member Nancy Kalodner and founding chair Lucy Holland (left) beamed with

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Food

The Scoop In Hillsdale? Tattoo Parlor Turns Ice Cream Parlor

Many of you know Margaret Roach from her wildly popular blog, A Way to Garden, or her book about dropping out of the corporate world, And I Shall Have Some Peace There, or way back to her days as garden editor of Newsday or Martha Stewart Living. What you may

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Community

The Millbrook Mystique: Inside Fitch’s Corner Horse Trials

Rural Intelligence's preview of the Fitch's Corner Horse Trials first ran in July 2010. We've updated Dan Shaw's original story to reflect this year's event. Horse shows are a wonderful combination of sport and style, and nowhere are the equestrians

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Arts

Tero Saarinen's Borrowed Light: A Luminous Evening of Dance at Jacob's Pillow

What better test of a dance that has blown you away than to see it again a few years later and find out if it still packs the same power? Happily, the lasting impression left by Tero Saarinen’s luminous work Borrowed Light, first performed at the Pillow in 2006,

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Parties

New Berkshire Museum Exhibit Rethinks American Indian Art

Fiona Breslin reports from Pittsfield. Just a few short weeks after Berkshire Museum unveiled its new commission by glass artist Tom Patti, the museum's galleries came alive again after-hours on Thursday, July 12, for the opening reception for Rethink! American Indian Art at Berkshire Museum. The exhibit

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Food

Jewish Farmers Find A Field of Dreams in Falls Village

You might call Alex Mulens and Leo McLaughlin the goyish gentleman farmers. The couple (left), who both work as flight attendants for American Airlines and own the Mix on Main antiques shop in Sheffield, MA, have been living in the center of Falls Village, CT, for nearly a decade, turning

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Food

AgriCulture: Celebrating Celeraic Way Ahead of Schedule

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. On the rare occasions I have found celeriac (also known as celery root or knob celery) in food stores, the cashier – looking down at what is a very large, ugly,

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Style

Garden View: Growing Roses in the RI Region - A Thorny Affair

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels “Local Knowledge,” “So Near,” and the forthcoming “A Place for Us,” all set in the Rural Intelligence region. She and her husband divide their time between Manhattan and West Stockbridge, MA where she writes — and putters around in her garden. We’re

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