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A Deli in Disguise: The Great Barrington Bagel Co.

Who knew? If the Great Barrington Bagel Co. had hard salamis hanging from the ceiling over the counter, it would be immediately apparent that it's more than a bakery selling sandwiches and flavored cream cheeses. But it wasn't until I saw a sign posted for the

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Opening of Nari Ward: 'Sub Mirage Lignum' at MASS MoCA

MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, opened two exhibitions last Saturday night. On the second floor of Building 4, Nari Ward made enormous installations for a show titled Sub Mirage Lignum, a hybrid zone made of mostly repurposed materials where the real and the imaginary are intermingled, forcing visitor to

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Style Shopping: The Royal Wedding and We

What, precisely, does the British royal wedding have to do with the likes of thee and me?  Thanks to Selina van der Geest, owner of the Bangall (Dutchess County) shop NL-GB, quite a lot, as a matter of fact.  This weekend, Red Devon Restaurant in Bangall, together with its

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Dia:Beacon Sparkles in the Sunlight

DIA:Beacon normally specializes in exhibitions of large-scale pieces that are suited to its expansive, skylit galleries—all 240,000 square feet of them.  But there is one current exhibition that bucks that venerable institution's tendency to think big: Koo Jeong A’s Constellation Congress: A Reality

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Splendid Peasant Antiques: A Modern Approach to Folk Art

Kitty and Martin Jacobs understand if you're just as interested in their stunning contemporary house as their museum quality collection of antique folk art. After all, they built this house on a dirt road in Sheffield two years ago not only as their home but as a destination

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Vassar & New York Stage and Film Summer Preview

Twenty-seven years ago, Mark Linn-Baker and some other New York actors set up a summer program at Vassar that has blossomed into an annual festival where established and emerging theater artists collaborate on new productions in all stages of development.  Though most of the professional actors come from

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AgriCulture: Putting Our Animals to Work

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: As  Mark and I have learned more and more about what livestock  require to flourish and (awful though it may sound) taste good, we have become increasingly aware that it

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Restaurants: High Steaks at Flatiron

By Kathryn Matthews When Flatiron Restaurant in Red Hook opened in August 2008, it was an instant hit, filling a void for red meat lovers in this part of northern Dutchess County.  The good news: after two-and-a-half years, this contemporary steakhouse has aged well. Craig Stafford and

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Style Shopping: Stair Galleries' Albert Hadley Warehouse Sale

This Friday, Stair Galleries in Hudson will conduct an auction that includes items from the warehouse of Albert Hadley, interior designer extraordinaire, who is retiring at 93. As Christopher Petkanas writing for the The New York Times recently observed, in the late 1970s through 80s and well beyond, Hadley was

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The Alchemy of Art and Commerce

Last Blues of Dusk by Susanna Heller at the John Davis Gallery There is a hardly-secret, yet too-seldom-applied formula for enlivening Main Streets at night. Rather than play favorites, let us offer one example of a town from outside our region that applies it brilliantly: East Hampton,

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Ornamentum: Jewelry That is Art and Vice Versa

Crafts, in general, fare badly in the hierarchy of art;  jewelry-making perhaps most of all, particularly in the U.S., where it is still too often dismissed as a pass-time for 1960s-style drop-outs.   Stefan Friedemann, who with his wife Laura Lapachin owns Ornamentum, a Hudson gallery

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At the Farmer's Wife in Ancramdale, the Son-in-Law Also Rises

Even before Dorcas Sommerhoff opened The Farmer's Wife, her café and takeout shop in the heart of Ancramdale in 2002, she had spent more than a decade as the go-to caterer for savvy residents of Dutchess and Columbia Counties who craved earthy but sophisticated country cooking for

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