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Food

Just in Time for the Turkey: Hudson-Chatham's Baco Noir

By Christopher Matthews Mention “Baco Noir”, and what comes to mind? A men’s cologne? Dark chocolate from Madagascar? Or an award-winning wine grape in the Hudson Valley (HV)? The answer is the latter, a French-American hybrid grape that grows well here in the Valley. In fact, back

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Opening of the Berkshire Museum's Festival of Trees 2010

The Berkshire Museum felt like a department store on "Black Friday" as crowds poured into the Crane Room and adjacent galleries to ogle more than 200 one-of-a-kind Christmas trees created by local business, schools and not-for-profit organizations. This year's "Storybook

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Berkshire Film & Media Commission Makes Movie Magic

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: In the Berkshires, it often seems as if all the world’s a stage, but at the first annual Berkshire Film and Media Commission gala on Saturday, November 6, the Masonic Temple in Pittsfield was literally transformed into a soundstage as

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Style

Bunny Williams on Life After Decorating

In her third book, Bunny Williams' Scrapbook for Living, the New York uber-decorator best known in these parts for generously throwing open her Falls Village garden gate to one and all on behalf of any good cause, tells us how to live in our houses once they are

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Food

AgriCulture: Naughty on the Hoof; Great on the Plate

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: People often say when they are trying to describe something difficult or impossible that, “It’s just like herding cats.” Well, we could one-up that and say, “Like herding

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Style

Wandering Eye: Credit Where Credit is Due

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Disclaimer: This blog is not advice about refinancing your mortgage. I’m wondering what to write about… I’m not crazy about ‘assignments’ (I don’t think I take instruction well…

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The Art Garage Benefit at Kent's Morrison Gallery

The Art Garage is one of those after-school programs that not only benefits kids but also brings together parents and non-parents, full-time residents and weekenders.  An after-school program founded in 2004 and run by working artists in the northwest corner of Connecticut, it a 2,000

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Community

RIP Jill Clayburgh: A Good Neighbor, A National Treasure

In northwestern Connecticut, you become accustomed to seeing Broadway and Hollywood stars without their makeup. At the post office and polling place, you see actors and actresses who are frequently nominated for Tony, Emmy and Academy Awards. These men and women rarely get gossiped about in tabloids because they live

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Arts

When Artists Take Their Private Lives Public

Now - December 12 Morning Ritual No. 29 by David Lebe There are many fine people who believe in privacy, who think that, for instance, their names should appear in the newspaper just three times in their lives—when they are born, when they marry, and when they die. None of

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Community

A Glee-ful Charity Tour of Connecticut Kitchens

If you're looking for pie-in-the-sky kitchen design ideas, you can read scores of shelter magazines, watch endless HGTV programs, and tour pristine kitchen showrooms. But the best way to accumulate ideas for redoing your own kitchen is snooping around other people's houses to

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Arts

Paul DeAngelis' Dear Mrs. Kennedy

By Kathryn Matthews Saying “I’m sorry for your loss...” is never easy.  Especially to the grieving widow of President John F. Kennedy. On a recent Saturday evening at Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck, author Paul De Angelis swallowed hard after reading a letter sent by a Navy chaplain

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A Close Encounter with Music at Blantyre

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: As the daylight hours diminish with winter’s approach, the concept of an afternoon benefit becomes much more appealing than venturing out in the cold, dark night. It’s hard to think of a more perfect place to spend a chilly

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