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Arts

Thirty Year Plan: Share Your Thoughts on Saving the World and Win Orion's New Book

As a way of marking its 30th anniversary, Orion magazine asked 30 writers and environmental leaders to consider what we need to build a better future on our planet. Their answers comprise a new book, Thirty Year Plan, which Orion launched on Sunday, July 8, at Bascom Lodge, atop Mt.

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Community

In Chatham, Judy Grunberg is a Force of Culture

Growing up in Manhattan, Judy Grunberg and her friends used to wait outside the big Broadway theaters at dawn to make sure they got the one-dollar standing-room-only tickets when the box office opened. “As a young girl, I saw so many of the famous Broadway musicals with

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Food

Recipe: Crème Fraiche Peach Cinnamon Ice Cream

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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Arts

"A Chorus Line" Is Alive and Kicking at Berkshire Theatre Group's Revival

It’s always reassuring to see a completely bare backstage wall in any production of A Chorus Line. Basically, if you can’t get the nothingness right and demonstrate that you’re not hiding anything (with curtains, say, or  a completely darkened stage), or if you gussy it up with

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Parties

Leisurely Lenox Gallery Crawl

Fiona Breslin reports from Lenox.  A trifecta of openings brought art enthusiasts to Lenox for an early evening gallery crawl on Saturday, July 7. At The Bookstore, The Shade Gallery held a reception to unveil Kindle-ing, a multi-media show featuring the work of 25 local artists inspired by

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Parties

Upstreet ArtsWalk #3 in Pittsfield

Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield.For the past few years, Pittsfield has become accustomed to downtown crowds in the warm months during its monthly 3rd Thursdays street festivals, and now the city hopes to to spark similar enthusiasm for its monthly ArtsWalk, held on the first Friday of

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Arts

Vertigo Dance Company and LeeSaar The Company: Two Israeli Troupes at the Pillow

There’s drama in Vertigo Dance Company’s world premiere, Mana, which runs at Jacob’s Pillow’s Ted Shawn Theatre through Sunday, July 8, but the story remains out of reach. There are men in long, flowing, dark-colored robes, and women who begin the evening-length dance full

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Arts

Reviews: Three Days of Theater Across the Rural Intelligence Universe

Amy Spanger, Tyne Daly, and Marylouise Burke in David Hyde Pierce's version of "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Williamstown Theatre Festival.The Importance of Being Earnest may be the most perfect comedy written in the English language, so it can withstand some directorial tinkering. In

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Parties

David Hyde Pierce Gets in on the Act at Alzheimer's Benefit

Bess Hochstein reports from Williamstown.On Sunday, July 1, actor David Hyde Pierce took time off from Williamstown Theatre Festival, where he helms the current production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, to step into another familiar role, that of advocate for Alzheimer’s Disease awareness and

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Style

Otto Leuschel's Old-Fashioned Germantown Variety Store

Some people boast of having lived in an area when it “hit," like Soho in the ’70s, or, more locally, Great Barrington, when Smithsonian named it the best small town in America. Next on the "hit" list: Germantown, if Otto Leuschel has his way; on June 28

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Food

Garlic Scapes: A Beginner's Guide with Seven Recipes

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the 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 help us make

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Parties

Shakespeare & Company Theatrically Marks 35th Anniversary

Bess  Hochstein reports from Lenox.Rebellion and Revolution may be the themes of Shakespeare & Company’s 35th anniversary season, but royalty was out in force for the gala on Saturday, June 30. There was political royalty, in the form two Massachusetts governors: current – Governor Deval Patrick – and past – Michael

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