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Arts

Spelling Bee's H-O-M-E-C-O-M-I-N-G

William Finn has travelled from Broadway to the Berkshires and back again many times. Now he's here with his Tony Award winning musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which has returned to its birthplace, Barrington Stage Company (where it plays through July 12.)  Finn first musicalized

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Food

A Paean to Germana: The Guido's Butcher

Like any good butcher, Germana Sachs has rough hands and a thick skin. But what makes Germana a great butcher is that she's also got a tender heart. "I enjoy making people happy," she says softly and sincerely. "That's my special trade."

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Style

Conservancy Open Day Tour: Garden Variety

What makes a garden good enough to be on an Garden Conservancy Open Day?  All it takes is the artful use of the bits and pieces of land left over once a house, its outbuildings, and its main paths and driveways are in place--in short, a vision--and a

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Arts

Opening: Women on Display

The Storefront Artist Project presents “Women on Display,” an exhibition curated by the art historian Keith Shaw.  All six featured artists are women: Jessica Michelson Berger, Cynthia Consentino, Samantha Dewitt, Susan Graber, Jeanet T. Ingalls, and Rebecca Weinman. The show, which will be on view until June 29, is an

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Food

Food Festival: The Long Day of the Knives and Forks

This Saturday, the Cornwall Free Library’s Food, Glorious Food Festival will have us covered in delicious crumbs from breakfast through cocktails. The day starts at 9:30 with coffee and breakfast baked goods under the tent.  But for our money, things get serious at 11 a.m. That'

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Arts

Saturday At Spencertown Academy: Sloane Shelton as Eudora Welty

''There's a saying around here,'' the fiction writer Eudora Welty once said. ''If you hear it, tell it.'' "Around here," was Jackson, Mississippi, where Welty heard everything: the comedy and music in the language, the evasions, self-deceptions,

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Style

Trend Alert: Iron Garden Accessories

Two of the best-respected gardeners in northwestern Connecticut—Lee Link of Sharon and Bunny Williams of Falls Village—are both besotted with handmade metal ornaments made by the young fellows at Battle Hill Forge in Falls Village. "I learned about them when I was shopping for plants at

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Arts

Theatre Review: "The Ladies Man" at Shakespeare & Company

You, gentle theatergoer, play an integral role in the success of a farce. First, you must accept the slim premise based on mistaken identities and little white lies. You need to accept that a bourgeois house could have a room with only one window but five doors that never fall

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Parties

Art Opening Plus at Stonover Farm

Art insiders, the inn crowd, and even the outsider art in-crowd (you following this?) gathered on Saturday night at the fabulous barn at Stonover Farm for an opening of paintings by Curtis Ripley, pottery by Luna Garcia, and still-life photography by Dede Reed, among others.  While gallerist Suky

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Food

The Greening of the Red Lion Inn

Like the rock band Wilco playing at Tanglewood (on August 12), Brian Alberg's running the kitchen at the Red Lion Inn is a case of cultural dissonance.  Like many old guard Berkshires institutions, the Red Lion wants to maintain beloved traditions while developing a modern sensibility. Even as

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Community

Whole Lot of Shakerin' Goin' On

Before the industrial revolution, living alone was virtually unheard of for people without the means to keep a staff.  This appears to have been the principal draw, apart from spiritual striving, for followers of the strange religion popularly known as The Shakers.  The tidy, well-run, and, in many ways,

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Arts

Young at Art

Geoffrey Young doesn't expect you to buy anything at his second-floor gallery on Railroad Street in Great Barrington, and he's OK with that. "Nine out of ten people who come into the gallery don't buy art" says the elfin Young with

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