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Food

Fresh: A Digestible Documentary About Food

Fresh, which screens this Sunday at the Moviehouse in Millerton as part of their free FilmWorks Forum series, is not just another "ain't it awful" documentary about the villainous food industry.  More upbeat and folksy than the recent Food Inc., Fresh, makes quick and fair-minded

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Arts

The Annual Kent Film Festival April 22 - 25

The Kent Film Festival doesn't start officially until Thursday, April 22, so the screening on April 21 of Company Retreat, written and directed by Campbell Scott (left), is being called a "private screening" which is a fundraiser for the five-year-old, not-for-profit festival.

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Arts

Terenchin Gallery Moves to Hudson

For those who have trouble keeping up with all that is happening on this side of the river, it comes as great news that Terenchin Gallery in Catskill, where Hudson artists Frank Faulkner, Jim Holl and Laetitia Hussain have had solo shows, has moved to Hudson.  The current show there,

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Parties

A Double-Header Season Opener at Ferrin Gallery

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: As if there were any question, Leslie Ferrin has proven beyond doubt that she’s the most energetic art dealer in the Berkshires. On Wednesday, April 7 she and business partner Donald Clark hosted a reception for Lenox artist Paul Graubard, whose colorful,

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Style

The Wandering Eye: It's a Boy!

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Francisco Jose Yunior    “Frankie” I have misgivings.  Is it in appalling taste to mourn the little lost friend publicly in March and then adopt three weeks later in April and ‘announce’

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Parties

bluecashew Hosts Frances Palmer and John Barricelli

On Saturday afternoon, our favorite potter, Frances Palmer, and her Connecticut friend and neighbor, author of the just published The SoNo Baking Company Cookbook John Barricelli joined Gregory Triana and Sean Nutley at the bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy, in Rhinebeck for a festive signing, sipping, nibbling, meeting and greeting.   Everyone'

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Parties

A Summer Preview Party for Vassar's Powerhouse Theater

It was the ideal weather to be thinking about summer theater in the Hudson Valley. New York Stage & Film and Vassar invited its local supporters and advisory board for a preview on April 7 of the upcoming season, and the guests spilled out onto the terrace of the Alumnae

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Arts

Summer's Hottest Ticket? Wilco's Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA

Chicago-based Wilco is making a habit of touring our region in summer. Last year, the literate, prolific, politically progressive band played Dutchess Stadium; the previous summer Wilco made an improbable and magnificent appearance at Tanglewood. The area has made an indelible impression on the band, who will be back

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Community

Portrait of the Pittsfield Artist as a Young Man

Michael Boroniec calls himself an Art Soldier, which is fitting since he's on the front lines of Pittsfield's cultural revolution.   A ceramic artist and painter who graduated from Taconic High School and went to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) on full scholarship, he

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Food

New England Meets Mexico Maple Custard

A week in Oaxaca inspired me to mingle the maple season here with a classic Mexican dessert —  flan with a New England twist. Fried from my trip, I preheated the oven and laid out the ingredients. Then I remembered something — a fabulous custard recipe from Lindsey Shere’s Chez Panisse

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Food

AgriCulture: The Compleat Farmer, At Last

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark recounts the final stage of his embrace of farming. Picture this: a gray-haired lawyer in overalls on a soggy raw early March day, crawling at full speed for the third or fourth

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Style

The Queen of Mid-Century Modest

When Pam Kueber and her husband David Fisher bought their 1951 ranch house in Lenox in 2001, it was not because they were devotees of the mid-century modern style.  Their previous house, in Michigan, had been a 1912 Colonial Revival/Arts and Crafts pastiche, and through renovating that, they

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