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She's Got Moxie! Saluting Creative Women of the Berkshires

Writer Bess Hochstein, who seems to know everybody worth knowing in the Berkshires, reports from Lenox: A brilliant sunset cast a festive glow in the lobby of Founders Theatre at Shakespeare & Company on March 13, as the Berkshire creative community gathered to fete the recipients of the She’s

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Community

The 'It' Boy: Emeric Harney Brings People Together

Last Sunday night, on the eve of his 22nd birthday, Emeric Harney who lives in Lakeville, CT, and works in Millerton, NY, hosted a party in the border town of West Stockbridge, MA.  "I wanted to bring together guys from three states,” says Emeric, who organized the gay "

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Style

High Drama at George Cole's Auction House in Red Hook

Sam Scripps, who lived for decades in an old stone house on the river in Rhineclif, had a passion for antiques and theater. Now, his love of the former will beneft the latter.  On Saturday, March 14, nearly 400 lots from his house will be sold at George Cole Auctions

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Stair Restoration: A Superstar in our Midst

When I first came to New York in the early 1980’s and worked at Christie’s (Fine Art Auctions), there was one firm that defined Fine (read: Very Expensive) English Furniture—Stair and Company.  What Harry Winston was to diamonds, Stair and Company on 57th Street was to English

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Arts

A Masterful Clown's Free Performance at Simon's Rock

Tomas Kubinek gives performance art a good name.  "Mr. Kubinek is an acrobat, storyteller, stilt walker, unicyclist, musician, magician, clown and comic whose jokes and ad-libs bring giggles from youngsters and laughter from adults," according to The New York Times.  As critic Lawrence Van Gelder wrote: "

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Food

Jeff Loshinsky's Soupe au Pistou

Caterer Jeff Loshinsky's most recent cooking class this season, held on February 19 at the Vince Mulford Gallery in Hudson, focused on Hearty Soups and Chowders.  Below is a recipe for one of the soups he featured that night, a vegetable soup with pistou, which is a pesto-

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Community

Dan's Diary: Shalom, Ellen Carton!

You probably don't too know much about the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, which might be described as a kosher Kripalu or an Omega for progressive Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Renewal Jews. But you'll probably be hearing more about Isabella Freedman--whose pickles

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Food

Wild Hive Farm: Living the Locavore Life

Don Lewis has raised the bar for anyone who wants to run a community-oriented small-town cafe serving locally grown food.  A baker who uses only Hudson Valley grains that he mills himself, Lewis has made his Wild Hive Farm Cafe and Bakery, which he opened last November in

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Arts

Presenting The First Annual Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts

For the past eight years, Bard College at Simon’s Rock has quietly hosted an Annual International Women’s Day conference.  This year, Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, the director, believed the theme, The Power of Women in the Arts, had sufficient strength to exceed the bounds of the Great Barrington

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Arts

Recession Drama: Shakespeare & Company Will Do More With Less

Tina Packer usually defies—and exceeds—expectations. Over 32 years in the Berkshires, the founder of Shakespeare & Company has transformed the troupe that put on plays in the dilapidated Mount and its surrounding woods into a theatrical powerhouse. With year round educational programs and a reputation for producing gutsy

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Parties

Ferrin Gallery Opens "Women: Portrait + Figure"

Writer Bess Hochstein, who's an aficionado of the Berkshires cultural scene, sent us her report on the big opening Saturday night in Pittsfield: Gallerista Leslie Ferrin (left with artist Michael Rousseau) jumped the gun on the month-long Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts, drawing a large

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Community

Dan's Diary: Gillibrand Fights for Farmers and Kids

My friend Lygeia Grace, the senior food editor of Real Simple who is a regular at the Otis Farmer's Market during her summer weekends in the Berkshires, was sent a copy of this letter co-written by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (with State Senator Darrel J. Aubertine) to the

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