Arts "Frozen River" Screens in Chatham As usual on the last Sunday of the month, the Chatham Film Club will screen a movie at the Crandell Theater this week. But there's nothing "as usual" about this particular screening. In fact, it’s safe to assume, there has never been a screening closer By Editor
Community The Mount: Drop by for a Drink The masterminds behind The Mount, the troubled but on the mend (we hope) Edith Wharton property in Lenox, have had an idea so brilliant it gives us hope for the historic site's future. On Friday and Saturday evenings throughout July and August, the cafe there will remain open By Editor
Food It's PYO Blueberry Season We went blueberry picking the other day at Windy Hill Farm in Great Barrington. Picking them requires patience and perseverence, but doesn't everything worthwhile in life? In the back of our minds, we were thinking of the first stanza of Blueberries by the great New England poet Robert By Editor
Arts Summer Stock: Staying Alive (Part II) The Mac-Haydn in Chatham is not the only barn in our region where you can see musical theater with high production values, vigor and pluck. TriArts at the Sharon Playhouse stages three musicals every summer with a unique formula that combines first-rate regional and community theater: a couple By Editor
Parties The Berkshire Fringe Takes Center Stage On Monday at the Daniel Arts Center of Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, the Berkshire Fringe kicked off its fourth season with "Eating It," a fundraising party featuring local foods and a performance honoring the tomato that concluded with the serving of a By Editor
Style Mr. Siskin Blogs His Dream House For anyone now in the process of building a house from the ground up, or anyone who dreams of one day building such a house, or even anyone who thinks that anyone who builds a house is insane, you'll find justification for your position on Paul Siskin' By Editor
Arts Talking about China in the Berkshires; Simon Winchester at Home Simon Winchester, the Oxford-trained geologist turned bestselling author, became renowned with his inspired much-touted The Professor And the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and almost equally praised for Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883. The latest By Editor
Parties Dog Day Afternoon in Hudson Despite the sizzling heat, tous les chiens of Hudson and beyond, their proud and hopeful owners in tow, paraded down Warren Street on Saturday before gathering at the Basilica for the Walking the Dog Theater benefit dog show. A panel of dogly-wize children analyzed each canine's merits By Editor
Parties Spencertown Academy Garden Party On Friday night, friends and supporters of the Spencertown Academy gathered in the garden of Liz Diggs and Emily McCully to celebrate the next day's Hidden Gardens Tour. As always, the Academy's in-house catering team, Let's Eat, aka 4 Guys in Aprons, kept By Editor
Parties Garden Gates Exhibit Opens at the Norman Rockwell Museum Besides having an incredible collection of iconic paintings, the Norman Rockwell Museum has an incomparable park-like setting. On Thursday July 10, the museum had a fund-raising garden party to celebrate the installation of two-dozen fantastical garden gates designed by artists for "In Full Bloom," which By Editor
Food Grass-fed Beef (and Authentic Farmhouse Style) in Salisbury Robin and Allen Cockerline, who raise grass-fed beef in Salisbury, CT, are not the type of farmers who'd call their house "stylish" or describe their hamburgers or hot dogs as "gourmet." But their good taste is quite evident at their quaint shop at By Editor
Food The Trojan Tea Shop “I inherited a tea shop in Park City, Utah from my mother,” says Kim Bach. Actually, this assertion is not entirely accurate. To begin, Bach’s mother, Bonnie Deffebach, now 85, is still very much in the picture, so not technically in a position to “leave” anything to anyone. Moreover, By Editor
