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Food

AgriCulture: From Nomad's Caravans to Luxury Condos

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: My first real experience of nomads was in 1962 in central Turkey near Konya on the old Silk Road. An intrepid group of us had just piled back into

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Food

Smashed Potatoes & Celery Root with Chive Butter

Knobby celery root doesn’t look like a vegetable to cuddle up to, which is why most Americans don’t cook it (and why CSA members often leave it behind when they make their pickups.) But scratch its skin for an earthy aroma that’s celery-like with a distinctive

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Community

Millerton Falls for Art Again: Paintings, Parties & More

You don't have to be an art aficionado to participate in the treasure hunt this weekend in Millerton, which is designed to encourage you to take a serious look at the paintings, photographs and sculpture that more than sixty artists will be exhibiting at nearly three dozen local

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Arts

Jane Eckert's Local/Global Art Gallery

Eric Forstmann, October 23 - November 6 It's not everyday when a "local" artist and a "local" gallery attract more than local interest. (And when the local collectors include Kevin Bacon, Jill Clayburgh, Jane Curtin and Melva Bucksbaum & Ray Learsy.)  But Sharon artist Eric

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Parties

Rhinebeck Farmers' Market Dinner at Astor Courts

No wonder Chelsea Clinton chose Astor Courts for her wedding last summer. It's certainly as grand and stately as The White House, where she spent her teenage years. Last Saturday, owners Kathy Hammer & Arthur Seelbinder gave a party to thank local farmers and merchants (who'd

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Parties

NoAd > NYC: MASS MoCA's Manhattan Benefit

Although MASS MoCA is best known as a museum of the visual arts, it is equally committed to the performing arts, which is why there were so many performances at its sold-out annual New York City benefit at the Highline Ballroom on October 14, including the Brooklyn-based band,

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Food

AgriCulture: What We Learned About Farming in Turkey

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Back from Turkey, but one would be hard pressed to call it a vacation, as Peter organized and led the trip, introducing the group to sites he knew intimately

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Style

The Belgian Connection: TK Opens in Hudson

An ancient artifact, lit by an early 20th-century industrial lamp, rests on a rough-hewn antique table that’s pushed against a wall that appears to have clocked several hundred years of wear and tear and is all the more beautiful for it. Above the table hangs a large,

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Style

10th Annual Cornwall House Tour Spans Four Centuries

"This is the anti-McMansion house tour," says architect and sculptor Tim Prentice, who has worked on two of the six houses in this year's tour, which is centered around bucolic Cream Hill Lake. "You won't see any stone walls with hospital corners

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Arts

Review: "The Crucible" at Barrington Stage

Now through October 24 Barrington Stage artistic director Julianne Boyd has no fear of plays with dark themes and untrustworthy characters (e.g, her productions of Carousel, Sweeney Todd, A Streetcar Named Desire.) And there is no shortage of blood-chilling fear and moral corruption in Arthur Miller's

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Parties

Tony & Tina, I & II, Exchange Vows at Shakespeare & Company

The only thing better than a wedding is a double ceremony, and Shakespeare & Company delivered just that on Saturday, October 9, with its benefit performance of Tony n' Tina's Wedding.   Following a cocktail reception where actors in character mingled among the guests, many of whom were

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Parties

Proud to be Out & Partying in Pittsfield

On Friday night at the City of Pittsfield's Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Mayor James Ruberto issued an official proclamation—proudly held (left) by Jason Verchot and Dana Bixby of the Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition— declaring it Out in the Berkshires Weekend. It began: "Whereas the city

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