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Community: 20 Questions for Ella Baff of Jacob's Pillow

Ever since Ella Baff moved to the Berkshires in 1998 to head Jacob’s Pillow, one of the world’s leading proponents of dance and the oldest dance festival in America, the Becket-based cultural organization has surged forward by leaps and bounds. During her tenure, the Pillow was designated

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Spencertown Academy Celebrates Twilight in the Garden

Dale Stewart reports from Ghent.Spencertown Academy Arts Center kicked off its 40th anniversary with a weekend full of horticultural happenings designed to delight garden enthusiasts and social butterflies alike. First up: the annual Twilight in the Garden cocktail party, on Friday, June 15, yet another sign that summer’s

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Food

Broccoli Raab and Green Garlic Quiche

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), shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to help us make the most of what's growing

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The Clark Art Institute Unveils "Unearthed"

Fiona Breslin reports from Williamstown.When museums talk of groundbreaking shows, it’s often hyperbole. This is not the case with The Clark’s dazzling summer exhibition, Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China. Museum supporters and staff plus Chinese dignitaries and academics (including Clark director Michael Conforti and photographer

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AgriCulture: Much Ado About Eggplant

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: Mark and I have had a busy few weeks here at Turkana Farms, struggling between showers and cloudbursts, sometimes in steady rains, to get our vegetable garden underway. Usually in

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Arts

Spring for Sound in Millerton

Pop music lovers: grab a lawn chair, put on your dancing shoes, and head to Millerton on Saturday, June 16, when 19 musical acts are set to hit the stage for Spring for Sound, a rocking fundraiser to benefit the North East Community Center (NECC). This is the second year

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Empire State of Pride at Hudson Valley Engagement

Dale Stewart reports from Red Hook, NY. The rain ended just in time on Saturday, June 9 for the second annual Hudson Valley Engagement, one of the first of many regional area events celebrating LGBT Pride Month. The festive afternoon was hosted by Harlan Bratcher & Toby Usnik on the

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Gunn Memorial's Library Luminaries a High-Wattage Affair

Fiona Breslin reports from Washington, CT.A constellation of stars – including Academy-Award-winning director James Ivory, television antique appraiser Leslie Keno, and former New York City Ballet principal dancers Heather Watts and Damian Woetzel – lit up the Litchfield Hills on Saturday, June 9, for the the Gunn Memorial Library

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Community

Spencertown Academy Enters the Fifth Decade of its Third Life

There’s a large, warm spot in Clare Verenazi’s heart for the Spencertown Academy Arts Center. “Spencertown Academy was where my husband went to school in the 1940s, and he walked there and home everyday,” says the 78-year-old Chatham resident. “We’d enjoy Christmas pageants and year-

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Arts

Debra Jo Rupp Goes All the Way as Dr. Ruth

Preview performances of Mark St. Germain’s new play, Dr. Ruth, All the Way, get underway on June 19 at Barrington Stage Company. Debra Jo Rupp portrays the inimitable, diminutive Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who captured the attention of Reagan-era television viewers with her grandmotherly looks, chirpy Teutonic accent, and

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Food

Recipe: Goodbye Potatoes, Hello Kohlrabi Fries

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

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Arts

She Saw Hitler: Cassandra Speaks at Shakespeare & Company

Cassandra Speaks, the one woman show written in the mid 1990s for the actress Tod Randolph (above) by her friend Norman Plotkin about the journalist Dorothy Thompson,  manages to accomplish  a lot in one entertaining—indeed riveting—fell swoop, and in only about 90 minutes. Thompson, referred to in her

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