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'Celebrating Pittsfield' Photo Show Opens at the Lichtenstein

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: The city at the heart of the Berkshires kicked off its 250th anniversary with a juried photography show, Celebrating Pittsfield, at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Judging from the crowds at the opening reception on Friday, January 14, a good

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'Henry Klimowicz: Constructs' Opens at the Berkshire Museum

There were more than few a Berkshire Museum virgins from Columbia, Dutchess and Litchfield counties who came to Pittsfield on Saturday night to celebrate the opening of Henry Klimowicz: Constructs. The exhibit got a rave review from artist and blogger Grier Horner, who was awed by the 20-foot-wide

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Style Shopping: Material Man Peter Fasano

No one can accuse Peter Fasano of failing to see the forest for the trees.  He sees both the big picture and all the details—the forest, the trees, the branches, the bark, the leaves, the veins within the leaf, and, just as important, the empty spaces in between that

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A Currier & Ives Sunday in Stockbridge

Long before snow tires and four-wheel drive, the residents of our region travelled by horse-drawn sleighs during the winter. The Colonial Carriage & Driving Society will recreate those bygone days on Sunday, January 16, at The Winter Classic Sleigh Rally at Orleton Farms in Stockbridge. (The event was

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Henry Klimowicz at Berkshire Museum

Opening January 15 - 5 - 7 p.m. When you walk into the soaring Art Deco Crane Room at the Berkshire Museum, you'll do a double take because the new exhibition, Henry Klimowicz: Constructs, looks like it belongs at  MASS MoCA. The centerpiece of the exhibit is Disc II:

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An Outstanding Outlet: Pine Cone Hill's New Pittsfield Store

On January 12, Pine Cone Hill opened an honest-to-goodness warehouse outlet at its world headquarters in Pittsfield. For several years, the 17-year-old company founded by Stockbridge native Annie Selke has had a store on the Lenox Road, where it sold its distinctive, beautifully-made and often

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Food

Bridges to Spring: Winter Farmers' Markets, a Blossoming Trend

In the wake of recent and ongoing snow storms, memories of leafy green local produce and last fall's bountiful harvest have all but faded for many of us.  But we don’t necessarily have to resign ourselves to shrink-wrapped meat and produce shipped from halfway around the

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How We Live: A Cool Cottage Heats Up the Chatham Countryside

"I left New York City kicking and screaming," says the photographer Laura Resen (left).  "Now there's no way I would go back.  I don't want what it is; I miss what it was." The story of how a sophisticated, Manhattan born-and-

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Gilded Moon Framing Rises Anew in Millerton

Jill and Paul Choma are betting again on the future of Millerton. Six years ago, the couple who'd been running a framing business out of their home in East Fishkill in southern Dutchess County, decided to open a custom framing shop in Millerton. "It was a leap

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The Best of Media Matters 2010, Part II

It's not only The New York Times that is fascinated by what's happening in our territory. Many magazines, blogs and newspapers reported on our region,too.  Here's some of the greatest hits, compiled by Dan Shaw, from the "Media Matters" column on

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RI's Second Annual Holiday Poem

Deck the Halls and Share the Bounty Greetings friends in Litchfield County. Hark to folks who hail from Dutchess, And Columbians, as much as, Those from Berkshire, self-possessed, We share a land, for which we're blessed. Not just in this festive season, But year ‘round, and with

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The 15 Most Memorable Parties of 2010

We go to a lot of parties, and what we remember most about any particular event is the sense of occasion—the feeling that you've had a one-night-only experience. Sometimes, it's the location (Astor Courts, the Salisbury School boathouse or the old Great Barrington

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