Arts All That Jazz: Wanda Houston Sings with Heart & Soul When Wanda Houston sings her zippy version of "Over the Rainbow," it's as if you've never heard the Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg tune before. When she puts a gospel spin on Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'," By Editor
Style The Souce Perrier Warehouse Sale Returns Apparently, the Source Perrier Catalog is grinding down operations, which means there will be continual clearance sales at the Canaan, CT, warehouse. This weekend, you can shop Thursday - Saturday (November 13 - 15) from 10 AM to 4 PM. Cash or check only. No credit cards and no delivery. 99 Railroad By Editor
Style Shop for a Cause: Hammertown Gives a Damn Plus a Percentage Money is infamous for burning holes in pockets, but there’s something else money often does that isn’t bad at all: It makes the person who has a little or a lot more than he needs want to give some of it away--not recklessly, but effectively, so that By Editor
Arts A Major Sol LeWitt Retrospective at Mass MoCA Sol LeWitt, one of the most influential artists of the last half century, so opposed the notion of artist-as-celebrity, it's hard to imagine, had he lived, how he would have grappled with the opening this weekend at MASS MoCA. Never mind that the exhibition is a By Editor
Parties Findustry's New Show: Dirty Dishes and Other Stories The fun at Findustry, a gallery/store on Warren Street owned by John Findysz, always starts outside, with the windows. These had been done on Saturday afternoon, November 8, by the star of that evening's performance piece, Homer Snyder (in cowboy gear at left), using nothing but masking By Editor
Arts Duncan Sheik Comes to Albany & Great Barrington Duncan Sheik, the 38-year-old alternative rocker and songwriter, has had a cult following since his days at Brown University. He made Broadway history when Spring Awakening, his musical about adolescent sexuality, opened to rave reviews on Broadway. "A straight shot of eroticism steamed open last night at By Editor
Parties Linda Horn's Opening at the Nicole Fiacco Gallery Lots of warm, family feeling infused the gala opening on Saturday, November 8, at the Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson. The exhibition, "Negative Space," a one-woman show of sculpture by the artist Linda B. Horn, is comprised almost exclusively of all-white plaster pieces. Everyone talked about By Editor
Community Dan's Diary: Red, White and Mostly Blue We know intuitively and anecdotally that we live in a very liberal corridor of the country but just how blue is our region in actuality? Here are the percentage of votes that Barack Obama and Joe Biden received in a cross-section of towns in our region in Tuesday' By Editor
Food Dan’s Diary: A Three-Course French Dinner for $16.50? In the northwest corner of Connecticut, many people say Pastorale is their favorite French bistro as much for the food as the convivial and comforting atmosphere. Nevertheless, I was dubious about the new Tuesday night prix-fixe "Mini" for $16.50—how could they pull it off and By Editor
Food The Farmer's in the Kitchen and the Chef's in the Dell For the sort of people (you know who you are) who secretly long to burst the barricades and invade the kitchens at restaurants, Columbia County Bounty is offering the next best thing: a tour of chefs' kitchens, complete with demonstrations. On Wednesday, November 12 at noon, their Farm-to- By Editor
Style Saperstein's: The Store That Time Forgot (Thankfully) If you're old enough to remember when Jimmy Carter was president, then you probably remember shopping for Levi's and Duofold long underwear at a store like Saperstein's. One of the mainstays of Millerton's Main Street, the store is anticipating, counterintuitively, a robust By Editor
Style Conserving Water, One Raindrop at a Time This Saturday, November 8, as part of their Green Gardening Educational Series, The Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge will offer a special two-hour talk on water conservation in the garden by guest lecturer Marcus de la Fleur. Mr. de la Fleur, a landscape architect with the Conservation Design Forum By Editor
