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Dan's Diary: Musical Chairs in Millerton

It's a good thing that the merchants of Millerton never decided to make a Monopoly board of the village, because there have been several changes in the retail landscape. Most notably, Jane Eckert Fine Art, which features the work of Eric Forstmann and Robert Rauschenberg, has arrived from

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Pittsfield Season Opens with a Double Header at Ferrin Gallery and Berkshire Museum

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: Downtown Pittsfield was the place to be on Saturday, May 28 for lovers of wine and art, as Leslie Ferrin (in photo, on the right) reopened her North Street gallery with The Pursuit of Porcelain, a show she called one of her best

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TriArts Gala at the Salisbury School Boathouse

TriArts in Sharon, CT, is rethinking how it defines "crowd pleaser."   A unique blend of professional designers, directors, musicians, Equity actors, non-Equity actors, and dedicated community performers and volunteers, TriArts built its reputation on reprising Broadway classics primarily from the Rodger & Hammerstein era. After this year&

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Food

Serge Madikians Cooks from the Soul at Serevan in Amenia

Serge Madikians treats running a restaurant as if it were a cross between a grand opera and an extreme sport. As the chef/owner of six-year-old Serevan in Amenia, NY, he does everything from taking reservations and driving to New York City to buy fresh fish to crisscrossing

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A Designer Showcase at Ventfort Hall

Vivian Kimmelman of Berkshire Home & Antiques created an Italian loggia, an indoor sitting room with an outdoor feel, from a skylit space mid-way up the grand staircase, that had perhaps been a fernery in the Morgans' day. When times are good, as they were in the late

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AgriCulture: Instead of Roasting, They're Grilling

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Mark writes: I am much relieved that Saturday before last we dodged another bullet at Turkana Farms. Just after 5:59 p.m., I interrupted chores to yell into the house to

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Architecture for Art: Where Things Intersect

Architecture for Art, or A for A, a gallery that opened this past winter in Hillsdale, is, as its name implies, dedicated to exploring the nexus between two disciplines. Fittingly, for a concern that takes siting and points of convergence seriously, it is situated at an important crossroad for this

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The Mahaiwe Hits a High Note with Deborah Voigt

On Saturday, May 21, in Great Barrington, opera’s great dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt performed a rare intimate recital at the Mahaiwe Gala to benefit the theater's year-round programming fund. Local opera lovers were thrilled to have Voigt all to themselves, having just seen her star turn

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AgriCulture: Animal Farm

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Peter writes: It is the time of the big change-over at Turkana Farms. Last week our veteran prize ram, Suleyman the Magnificent left for his new home at Pine Hills Farm

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BIFF and Pittsfield Honor Native Kent Jones

This weekend, June 2 through June 5, the Sixth Annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF), will host screenings in theaters in Great Barrington and Pittsfield.  In addition to some 70 independent feature films, documentaries and shorts from 15 countries, the festival includes Q&A sessions and panel discussions with

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John Andrews: Reinvigorating the Farm to Table Restaurant

Dan Smith, the chef who opened John Andrews restaurant in 1991 in an old farmhouse in Egremont, MA (on the Berkshire/Columbia County border), has always cooked with as many local ingredients as possible. "They weren't as easy to come by back then," says Smith, who

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Williamstown Theatre Festival Summer Preview in Lenox

Last Thursday in Lenox, the kids put on a show in the barn. But what kids! What a barn!  With a new, effervescent artistic director, Jenny Gersten (left with general manager Joe Finnegan) the storied Williamstown Theatre Festival is trying to woo residents of southern Berkshire County (and adjacent counties,

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