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Food

Swoon Kitchenbar

Is there another restaurant in Columbia County as New Yorky (in a good way) as this smashing place? Swoon Kitchenbar owner-chef Jeffrey Gimmel, a former top toque at Michael’s, and his partner in all things, Nina Bachinsky-Gimmel, once a pastry chef at the Union Square Café, met

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Style

Tweaking Tradition: Sprucing Up A Vintage Sears Colonial

It's a Leave It to Beaver house with a Queer Eye sensibility. The couple who lives full-time in this 1930s house are both flight attendants with American Airlines, the sort of guys who you'd expect to live in a luxury high-rise within commuting distance

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Parties

Jazz at Home in Falls Village

Last night, Dale McDonald invited sixty friends and neighbors for cocktails and a jazz concert in her barnlike living room, which overlooks the Housatonic River.  McDonald, who's on the board of the Falls Village Community & Cultural Center, wanted to introduce the sounds of Back Country Jazz a

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Arts

A New View of the Hudson

Until last year, film-producer (forthcoming: "The Duchess" starring Keira Knightly) and screenwriter Carolyn Marks Blackwood had never shown her photographs to anyone. Once she did, a whirlwind ensued. Since then, her work has been shown at Paul Rodger's 9W Gallery in Manhattan in a show,

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Food

Beyond Organic: Hail the Heritage Breeds

It was a Jane Austen-via-PBS moment: As I pass through a gate into the picket-fenced front yard of picturesque Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY, a dozen or so Karakul spring lambs scamper to greet me, playfully nudging me toward the front door where co-owner Peter Davies

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Arts

The Librarian's List

Who: Erica Joncyk Where: The David M. Hunt Memorial Library in Falls Village, CT, which opened on Main Street in 1891. Originally built as a private school, it functioned as a combination grammar school and library for many years. It holds a popular sale of slightly tattered new books on

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Parties

Spencertown Academy Revels

On January 19, Spencertown Academy, the venerable Columbia County arts center, held it’s 20th annual mid-winter movable feast; this year's theme, Food, Glorious Food.  A cocktail reception at the Academy was a tasty preamble to the dinner parties that followed at fourteen nearby private homes.  Matt

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Arts

TriArts Sets Its Season

Winter is audition season for our regional theater companies as they compete to import the best talent for their summer productions. At Tri-Arts in Sharon, CT, which casts Actors Equity performers with Broadway credits alongside inspired amateurs from the community, they are looking for hot guys willing to strip

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Community

Stonover Farm: A Hard Rocker Changes his Tune

Tom and Suky Werman met on a bike tour of France the summer both were 16. “I showed up early and looked over the roster,” Tom recalls. Among the names was one Susan Gould of Rye, NY.  “I thought, ‘She’s going to be my girlfriend this summer.’ ” She was,

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Food

Herb butter

Apart from chives, herbs don't freeze successfully unless they are suspended in fat (consider pesto).  This recipe is adapted from one by chef Waldy Malouf that appeared in New York Magazine, November 1, 1999.  He suggested whipping up a cup of it on Thanksgiving morning to baste the

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Parties

Stylemaker's Shindig in Kent

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Arts

Berkshire Museum's New Market

The Berkshire Museum Shop has come out of hiding.  It has moved from the bowels of the venerable Berkshire Museum and into a prime corner storefront at 31 South Street in Pittsfield. Designed and fabricated by local artists led by Mitch and Seth Nash of Blue Q and Joe Wheaton.

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