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Parties

A Picture Perfect Opening for Boldini at The Clark

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Williamstown: To open its winter exhibition, Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, on February 13, The Clark threw a somewhat French-accented party -- largely by dint of the food: fondue (both cheese and chocolate) served in the café; classic Gallic dishes, such as

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Food

AgriCulture: The Inside Story on "Animal Welfare Approved"

A friend recently asked that we write something about “Animal Welfare Approved” (I’ll call it AWA), a certification that has begun to appear around the region. I had seen their  certificate at Hilltown Pork, the Canaan facility where most of our cattle, lambs and pigs are slaughtered.  Although I

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Art! Beer! Wings! The Radioactive Bodega Preview Party

It was, appropriately, an evening of cultural dissonance.   Supporters of IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires (including Karen Lee and Jeremy Goodwin, left) gathered at the boozy Brick House Pub in Housatonic, MA,  to preview some of the fine art that will be part of the silent auction at

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Welcoming A Royal Gardener to the Berkshires

You rarely see men wearing ties in the Berkshires, but then you rarely see a royal gardener in our neck of the woods. The trustees of the Berkshire Botanical Garden had a cocktail party on February 12 to welcome Debs Goodenough, Head Gardener to HRH Prince Charles, who would be

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Style

Interiors: A Hands-On Couple's Graphic Redesign

"The day I met him," says Raina Kattelson of her husband, Robert Butscher, an architect with Wadia Associates in New Canaan, CT, "he was trying to shore up the porch."  For some women, that might have been an uh-oh, see-you-around-pal moment of

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Arts

RI Selects: Beautiful Film, Ugly Predicament

Friday, February 26 @ 7 p.m “We have a 10-15 year window to make some noise,” says Columbia County resident Sven Huseby. “I would love to see the term ‘ocean acidification’ become part of the political discourse.” According to the documentary Huseby appears in and co-produced and that

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Everybody's All American: Paul Rich & Sons

Tom Rich has been betting on North Street's renaissance for 27 years. When he and his parents, Paul and Betty Rich, opened their furniture store, Paul Rich & Sons, in 1983, "Pittsfield was still a GE town," recalls Rich. "The England Brothers department store was

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Barrington Stage Company's Carnivale at Jae's Spice

Nicole Garzino reports from Pittsfield: Why fly south when you can enjoy a red-hot, rock-n-roll salsain Pittsfield?  More than 100 masked revelers did just that on Saturday, February 6, dancing the night away to the Latin groove of Los Sugar Kings at last weekend’s benefit Carnivale

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Williamstown Theatre Festival Brings 'ART' to The Clark

The venerable Wililiamstown Theatre Festival is making an effort to have more of a year-round presence in the Berkshires. Now that it has a Williamstown-based general manager, Joe Finnegan (left with Kristen Johanson), it's reaching out to full-time residents and a staged reading of Yasmina

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Food

AgriCulture: The Mysterious Impulse to Garden

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: Recently we mailed off our very ambitious vegetable seed order to Fedco and expect to wait the usual two weeks or so for delivery. Unbelievably, it is almost time to begin planting

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Community

New Year, New You...(And Some Sweetheart Deals)

Kathryn Matthews is a lifestyles writer based in New York City and Red Hook, Dutchess County.  She frequently writes about travel, health, food and leisure for the New York Times, Town & Country and O Magazine. On New Year’s Eve, you swore that THIS YEAR WILL BE DIFFERENT.  You’

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Prince Charles' Gardener Tells All

Debs Goodenough, Head Gardener to TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will be the featured speaker at the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Annual Winter Lecture to be held on Saturday at Monument Mountain Regional High School Auditorium in Great Barrington. “We are delighted that Mrs. Goodenough

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