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Style

Style Shopping: At 3FortySeven Charisma Reigns

The building started life as an art deco service station.  He started out as a Harvard-trained architect.  Together, what they are in the process of becoming—3FortySeven is still very much a work in progress—is already far more exciting than either of those bio snippets would suggest. Not

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Food

Don't Shop! Save the Environment, Become a Forager

By Betsy Miller Food forager Russ Cohen has a shopping list that’s a little different.  This week he’ll be looking for Dame’s Rocket Flower (left), which is currently rife along the margins of fields edging wooded areas.  When he finds the white or purple flowers, he’ll

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Community

The Civil War: Frederic Church Makes a Statement

by Betsy Miller Before cameras were common, the cognoscenti learned about the physical world from paintings.  Salons and art openings weren’t just for creative contemplation, they were opportunities to be educated.  And the paintings of Frederic Edwin Church, among the country’s premier artists, were each received by an

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Food

Food, Glorious, Food! Guido's Grows in Pittsfield

As Tanglewood is to music, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace is to groceries. (Or, if you prefer, it’s to food what Jacob’s Pillow is to dance and MASS MoCA is to art.)  Whichever analogy you like, it’s incontrovertible that the Masiero family’s grocery stores in Pittsfield and

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Community

Naumkeag: Tree Peonies and a Stanford White House

Apologies to Tolstoy, but, happy or not, rich families in any given milieu tend to be a lot alike—similar politics, values, virtues, blindspots.  In contrast, Joseph Hodges Choate (1832 - 1917) and his wife Caroline (nee Sterling) are interesting because they were not quite standard-issue for their day.  A

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Community

20 Questions for 'Money and Power' Author William D. Cohan

When RI last chatted with William D. Cohan, he had just published House of Cards, his New York Times best seller about the fall of Bear Stearns. Now he's written another insider account of Wall Street greed called  Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the

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Parties

Community Access to the Arts Spring Benefit

The Berkshires have become synonymous with "culture," but it's not just the world class museums, concerts and plays that define the county. It's organizations like Community Access to the Arts (CATA), which was founded in 1993, to nurture and celebrate the creativity of people

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Food

AgriCulture: Life and Death Decisions

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Mark writes: Spring mud is still with us.  The mud in front of the barn is proving a challenge for our  oldest ewes, especially Marina, an eleven year old favorite of mine

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Parties

Martha Stewart Leads the Charge at Trade Secrets

There's no one who shops as single-mindedly at Trade Secrets as Martha Stewart who paused briefly to answer her phone and chat with her one-time garden editor, Margaret Roach (left), the blogger (awaytogarden.com) and author of the memoir, And I Shall Have Some Peace There,

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Arts

StageWorks: An Evening with Celeste Holm

by Betsy Miller Imagine, at 19, making your Broadway debut, then a couple of years later originating the role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma, stopping the show night-after-night with the song, Cain't Say No.  Imagine winning an Oscar for only the third movie you've

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Parties

Winnakee Land Trust's High Society Bash

The Locusts on Hudson in Staatsburg, recently acquired by hotelier Andre Balasz, was the glamorous setting on Saturday, May 14, for a benefit for the Winnakee Land Trust, an organization dedicated to protecting open space and farmland in Northern Dutchess County.  At present only available for private functions (this event

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Food

AgriCulture: Kybele Gets Her Dream House

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Peter writes: It has been well over ten years now since we restored our then collapsing barn into a working sheep barn. And we had almost forgotten the arduous process we went

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