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Arts

A Farm Film Feast: Film, Food and Discussion

The crusade to eat locally hits the big screen with such enticingly titled films as, Dirt! The Movie, Mad City Chickens, and What's On Your Plate?  This week and through the weekend, more than a dozen films about food will be screening at Images Theater in Williamstown, MA,

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Food

AgriCulture: From the Start, at Two With Nature

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: A few weeks back, Peter wrote about his lifelong passion for growing things, one which quite naturally led to an involvement in farming. When I was casting about for a topic to

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Community

Milestones: We're Celebrating Our Second Anniversary

During our exhilarating second year of publishing Rural Intelligence, we helped celebrate many local milestones such as the 10th birthday of MASS MoCA, the 15th anniversary of Barrington Stage Company, the 40th anniversary of the Norman Rockwell Museum, the 75th birthday of the Berkshire Botanical Garden, and Marge Champion´s

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Food

Shu Mai On My Mind

Most of us are so used to frozen or defrosted shrimp that "seasonal shrimp" sounds as oxymoronic as jumbo shrimp.  But they do exist.   I recently found these Maine babies at the supermarket and at Rubiner’s in Great Barrington, where they should be available for another month

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Food

AgriCulture: Remembering Daisy

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: Not all farm stories have happy endings. They may, at first, seem to, as was the case with Daisy, our poor young cow, whose harrowing birthing experience was recounted in a May

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Community

Deja Vu: Sam Pratt's All Over It Again

Back in 2005, when Hudson community activists Sam Pratt and Peter Jung celebrated their hard-won victory over St. Lawrence Cement, they believed that seven intense years of battle had ended in triumph.   New York Secretary of State Randy Daniels' unequivocal ruling had instructed the town authorities in Hudson

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Community

The Best of Media Matters 2010, Part I

You could think of 2010 as the year that The New York Times seemed besotted by the Rural Intelligence region. There were more than two dozen stories in the newspaper of record that catalogued the people, places and rituals that define our area. In Part II, we'll offer

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Parties

Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center Toasts "Falsettos" in Rhinebeck

It's the rare community theater company that has the chutzpah to put on William Finn's landmark Tony-winning musical comedy about neurotic New York Jews at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. But the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck is a rarity—a gutsy community

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Arts

Les Costumes Magnifiques!

Recycling is second nature to Govane Lohbauer. Last year, Shakespeare & Company's costume director got a call from S&Co founder Tina Packer who said she wanted to direct a winter production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which is set in the 18th century French court and requires

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Food

A Locavore Indulgence: Oysters on the Half Shell

It's best to plan ahead with oysters. Although you can always find them in the fish department at Guido's, I like to order them through {encode="cheesemonger@verizon.net" title="Rubiner's"}. If you sign up for the Great Barrington grocer&

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Community

A 'Step-Down' House in Salisbury That's A Cut Above

The journey from alcoholism to altruism has brought Pete Hathaway back to the scene of the crime.  In 2004, when he moved from New York City to a 19th century Greek Revival mansion that he renovated on Main Street in Salisbury, CT, he had a grand, perhaps grandiose, vision. He

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Community

A Step-Down Facility That's a Cut Above

The journey from alcoholism to altruism has brought Pete Hathaway back to the scene of the crime.  In 2004, when he moved from New York City to a 19th century Greek Revival mansion that he renovated on Main Street in Salisbury, CT, he had a grand, perhaps grandiose, vision. He

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