Arts Dan's Diary: You Don't Have To Be Jewish . . . To paraphrase the old Levy's Rye Bread ad from the 1960s, You Don't Have to Be Jewish To Like Golda's Balcony. You don't need to be a Zionist or a Socialist or a Feminist to appreciate the political and personal struggles of By Editor
Style Endangered Architecture: Tour Two and Hear About 10 More While our Restoration blogger Carey Maloney and his partner in all things Hermes Mallea of the M (Group) are vacationing in Cuba, we are temporarily usurping his space to announce a not-to-be-missed preservation event. On Sunday, June 28th, the Preservation League of New York State is conducting By Editor
Parties They Could Have Danced All Night at Jacob's Pillow Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: The best thing about the annual Jacob’s Pillow gala is the dancing–by students, professional artists, and almost everyone in attendance. Guests arriving at this year’s opening gala on June 20 were greeted with flutes of Champagne and fold-up umbrellas (which would By Editor
Parties TriArts "Summer of Fun" Gala at the Sharon Playhouse Summer stock is all about pouring enthusiasm, razmatazz and heart into the right material in the right proportions. From the elaborate season preview at Saturday night's TriArts gala, it looks like it's going to be a boffo summer at at the Sharon Playhouse, which opened on By Editor
Parties Gallery at Stonover Farm Opening and Barn Dance Art jewelry lovers of all ages and persuasions, including 15-month-old Kestrel Miro Duke (left), gathered at Suky Werman's Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm on Friday evening for the opening reception of a show of (mostly) jewelry by Israeli artists. Leslie Ferrin of the Ferrin Gallery in By Editor
Community Kripalu Weathers Change by Being Flexible and Disciplined Change is never easy but when change comes to a beloved institution, one that has been a source of succor for tens of thousands, it can be downright dangerous. This is why cathedrals are built to last. The brains behind Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, a " By Editor
Food Think Pink: Now Is The Time To Drink Rosé Whether he is selling a $10 bottle of wine or a $1 million house, Andrew Gates wants to see people fall in love. As both a real-estate broker at Sotheby's in Lakeville, CT, and a shopkeeper in Millerton, NY, he cultivates clients by paying attention to their By Editor
Community Summer Solstice: Fairies in the Garden, Solar Panels on the Roof It is the day the sun is said to stand still, the wedding of earth and sky, the first day of summer, and the longest of the year. The pagans celebrated by staying up all night. In the Rural Intelligence region, there are a range of ways to express joy By Editor
Food The Guru of Indian Cooking Comes to Cornwall In a world where the term "celebrity chef" is used to describe anyone who has ever cooked in front of a TV camera, Madhur Jaffrey is the real deal. Since publishing her first book, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (Knopf) in 1973, she has earned her celebrity by By Editor
Parties Marge Champion's Birthday Party at Jacob's Pillow Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from Becket: Membership does have its privileges, at least at Jacob’s Pillow, where members were invited on June 14 to celebrate the 90th birthday of legendary Marge Champion, the part-time Berkshires resident and star, with her late husband, Gower, of classic films such By Editor
Arts Dan's Diary: A Youthquake at Music Mountain On Sunday afternoon, two teenage girls with apples-and-cream complexions who looked like they were dressed for their high school prom, opened the 80th season at the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village. Madalyn Parnas, an 18-year-old violinist, and her sister Cicely, a 16-year- By Editor
Food Farming: The 60% Solution Here Mark Scherzer of Turkana Farms laments never being able to get more than 60% of the farm chores done. Yet the photographs he and Peter Davies sent of Turkana as it appears right now belies his claim that a high degree of chaos (40% to be precise) prevails. Makes By Editor
