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Parties

Shakespeare & Company Has A Friend in Olympia Dukakis

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: One day after Tanglewood’s James Taylor lovefest paralyzed traffic in Lenox, Shakespeare & Company delivered its own traffic-stopping event as theater fans queued up August 31—a Monday night!—to catch Academy Awawrd-winning actress Olympia Dukakis in a one-night-only first

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Parties

Taking Woodstock Screenings Benefit the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

Carol and Bob Sadlon held back-to-back screenings of Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock at The Moviehouse in Millerton on Thursday, August 27, to benefit the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, which does such good work for the residents of Berkshire, Columbia, Dutchess and Litchfield Counties. Between the shows,

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Food

Pizza Farm: Food Designed for Social Change

On Saturday, August 29, at 4 p.m., the first ever Pizza Farm will open for business in Canaan, CT, under the pavillion in Lawrence Field at  Routes 7 & 44. It will close two hours later after giving away 300 individual six-inch grilled pizzas made with local farm-

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Arts

"Radio Deluxe" Comes to the Tanglewood Jazz Festival

The New York Times cabaret critic Stephen Holden has flipped his lid for John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, who host Radio Deluxe, which will tape at Ozawa Hall on Saturday, September 5 as part of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival.  "The wittiest, most musically savvy husband-and-wife team in

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Community

Dan's Diary: Scenes From A Connoisseur's Cookout

The Herculean challenge Emily Newman & Jeremy Stanton set for themselves would have been difficult enough to pull off in perfect weather. But Saturday, August 22, was another one of those days when torrential rains appeared out of nowhere, which complicated every aspect of serving a five-course dinner to

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Food

AgriCulture: Still Pondering "The Omnivore's Delusion"

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: When my sister sent me Blake Hurst’s article from “The American” last week, I thought it was an obscure little piece that you all would be unlikely to know about.

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Style

Shopping: Tivoli Mercantile Puts the Red Back in Red Hook

As bright and cheerful as the bouquet of zinnias that greets customers as they walk through the door, Tivoli Mercantile, the new shop in Red Hook owned by Jill Cornillon, has something for everyone; at least, everyone who is likely to be walking down East Market Street in Red Hook

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Hollister House Garden's "Late Season" Plant Sale Plus

Those great sweeps of bright orange day lilies that looked so vibrant and "country" in our garden in July?   Nothing but yellowing foliage and dry stalks now.  The thyme-and-alyssum walk that was the essence of charm just a few weeks ago? Shot-to-seed, and in

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A Grateful Hillsdale Ogles & Celebrates

It has been a big year for Hillsdale, NY.   Earlier a group of concerned citizens had taken a good, hard look around and decided that the hamlet may have what it takes to be granted Historic Preservation District status.  The formal study, spearheaded by Alexia Lalli with grants from the

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Parties

The Launch of Laura Pensiero's "Hudson Valley Mediterrenean"

It was a quintessential summer 2009 party: the sun was shining one minute and then rain was pouring down the next.  The guests passed effortlessly from Amy Goldman's beautiful Rhinebeck garden—where she grows her world-famous collection of melons and tomatoes—to the tent where Laura Pensiero,

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The Wandering Eye: Boning Up on Upholstery

There is a constant up here in the country:  We all share resources, but even so, we all have gaping holes in our Rolodexes/Palms/Outlooks.  “Do you have a good, cheap painter?” (Dream on.)  “My mowing guy quit! Who do you use?” (First tell me why he quit...) “My

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Community

The Winthrop Estate: New Life for a Gilded Age Mansion

In 2002, when Jamie and Ethan Berg were living in Cambridge, MA, and expecting their first child they started to explore the real estate market in the Berkshires.  Their broker mischievously asked them: "You wouldn't be interested in a 15,000 square foot mansion in the middle

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