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Review: Bill T. Jones at Jacob’s Pillow

Photos by Paul B. GoodeChoreographers intending to create a dance about something, especially topics like politics or history, can often be soul-crushingly, boringly literal. Bill T. Jones is too smart, experienced, and talented to fall into that trap. So when you learn that his 2008 piece Serenade/The Proposition

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Parties

The World Premiere of "Pool Boy" at Barrington Stage

Has there ever been a Berkshires theater audience so hoping for a hit? Most of the people who gathered at Barrington Stage Company's Stage 2 in Pittsfield on July 21 know and adore composer Nikos Tsakalakos (near left with his onstage alter ego Jay Armstrong Johnson) who has

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Community

We ♥ Rhinebeck: A Guide for Chelsea Clinton's Wedding Guests

Who knows whether most of the guests invited to Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky's riverfront wedding in Rhinebeck on July 31 will arrive by helicopters, private Amtrak cars or limousines and head home right after the party. But for those who plan to make a whole weeekend of

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Marine Combat Artist at Norman Rockwell

Thursday, August 5 @ 5:30 p.m. Chief Warrant Officer Michael Fay, one of two official combat artists currently serving in the Marine Corps, will share stories of his experiences in the field through powerful artworks reflecting personal observations of military life in Iraq and Afghanistan. Norman Rockwell MuseumStocbridge, MA

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Food

AgriCulture: Indigestable Science News and the Comestible Beet

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: The news this week was certainly difficult to digest.  A Stanford University climate study was reported to have concluded that heat waves like the one we had in early July will by

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Arts

The Logic of the World and Other Fictions

Friday, July 23 @ 7:30 p.m. Robert Kelly, author of four previous volumes of "unsettling," "exhilerating," and "sparkling" fiction that has have been compared favorably with that of Borges, Nabokov, Calvino, and Coover, will read from and sign his latest collection of short

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Community

The Millbrook Mystique: Inside Fitch's Corner Horse Trials

Horse shows are a wonderful combination of sport and style, and nowhere are the equestrians more style-conscious than clubby Millbrook, which every year encourages outsiders to attend—for free!— the Fitch's Corner Hunter Trials Weekend on July 24 & 25. If you admire beautiful, well-groomed, well-

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Style

A House Grows in Gallatin: Susan Orlean and John Gillespie

On Sunday the writer Susan Orlean ("The Orchid Thief" and a biography of Rin-Tin-Tin that is in the works), will be among the featured authors at the weekend-long Berkshire WordFest, at The Mount in Lenox. Orlean and her husband John Gillespie recently gave Rural Intelligence

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Photography Show Opens at Carrie Haddad in Hudson

Lovers of the art of photography, in all its infinite variety, gathered on Saturday evening at Carrie Haddad Photographs for the opening of a show that featured photography of wildly divergent bents.  Andrian Fernandez, the Cuban photographer who Rural Intelligence's Wandering Eye Carey Maloney and his partner Hermes

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Review: "Judgment Day" at Summerscape

Through July 25 at the Fisher Center at Bard College To begin by praising the set, props and sound design of the 1937 drama Judgment Day at Bard Summerscape should not be misinterpreted: This is an extraordinary evening of theatre in every respect, but the awesome stagecraft powerfully serves the

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Review: "Six Degrees" at Williamstown

Through July 25 For anyone who is too young to remember 1980s New York as an era of smug money, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation is a fascinating history lesson. As New York Times theater critic Frank Rich wrote, Six Degrees is "a masterwork that captures

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Review: Pichet Klunchun Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow

Who is Sita? This is the central question of Chui Chai, an hour-long work by Pichet Klunchun Dance Company, which continues its first run in the United States through Sunday at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. An attempt to bridge khon, the highly codified form of traditional Thai court

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