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BIFF's Seventh Season Unveiled at Haven Café

Fiona Breslin reports from Lenox. Berkshire International Film Festival founder Kelley Vickery, speaking before a jam-packed crowd at Haven Café on Tuesday, April 24, announced a blockbuster lineup for the BIFF's seventh season, including the opening night documentary Ethel, a feature-length portrait of Ethel Kennedy directed

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In Hudson: McDaris Opens; Habitat for Humanity Celebrates

Dale Stewart reports from Hudson. Hudson was hopping on Saturday, April 21 as several galleries held opening receptions, including Warren Street's latest venue, Wendy McDaris Fine Art, where the inaugural exhibit featured a solo show of new work by Germantown artist Dawn Breeze (pictured with McDaris, left). Breeze’

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Whose Omi Is it Anyway?

Omi International Arts Center in Ghent has serious ivory-tower cred. Among the most selective artists' retreats in this country, Omi stands out for its reach beyond U.S. borders for applicants. Perhaps that's because its founder, Francis Greenburger, son of Sanford J. Greenburger, the legendary literary

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Food

Ramp, Asparagus, and Ricotta Frittata, and an Apology

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, like

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At Chesterwood, Meadowlark Gets a Hammertown-Style Makeover

When sculptor Daniel Chester French, he of Lincoln Memorial and Minute Man fame, needed to escape the friends, family members, clients, models, assistants, and assorted others who disrupted the serenity of the home, studio, and gardens of his Stockbridge, Massachusetts estate, Chesterwood, he would steal away to his “Little Studio,

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AgriCulture: The Farmer's Role in Feeding the Poor

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: I’m not usually a Wall Street Journal reader, but yesterday on the subway a nearby passenger’s paper caught my eye with an article entitled “From the Field to

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Alana Chernila: The Homemade Pantry from a Homegrown Gal

The best very best trips to the farmers’ markets are expeditions of discovery. There, amidst the familiar greens, beans, and tomatoes, sits a knobby root vegetable that you may have heard of – or even enjoyed in a restaurant – but you have no idea of what to do with it, much

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Privet House Hits a Bullseye with Pop-Up Shops at Target

Do you remember the movie The Miracle on 34th Street when Macy's Santa Claus, who believed he was the real Kris Kringle, advised the department store's customers to shop at Gimbel's for certain items? In the same counterintuitive spirit,  Rural Intelligence is encouraging you

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Alchemy Initiative's Earthy Earth Day Fundraiser

Fiona Breslin reports from Pittsfield.Perhaps it was the gypsy theme that set the wild, whirling scene for Alchemy Initiative’s third annual Earth Day fundraiser on Friday, April 20. Held in the second-floor event space above Spice Dragon, the evening kicked off with music from Hudson’s Pamelech

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Invisible Cities on View at MASS MoCA

Fiona Breslin reports from North Adams.The opening of the group show Invisible Cities at MASS MoCA on Saturday, April 14 felt a bit like Epcot in the Northeast. Named for Italo Calvino’s novel of the same title, Invisible Cities features two- and three-dimensional art and architecture by

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Rural Intelligence Returns! Publication Resumes on May 3

Rural Intelligence, the four-year-old online culture-and-lifestyle magazine for Berkshire, Columbia, Dutchess and Litchfield counties that has been on hiatus for the past six months, will resume publication at the beginning of May. Mark Williams, who lives in the Tyringham Valley of Massachusetts, has purchased Rural Intelligence

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AgriCulture: The Off-Label Uses of Basil

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Peter writes: One of the minor mysteries that nagged at me while living in Turkey years ago was the pots of dwarf bush basil I saw on the sills of the village

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