Arts Berkshire High Peaks Festival Finds a New Mountain to Call Home Now in its 17th season, the free chamber music intensive moves to The Darrow School in New Lebanon. By Jamie Larson •
Arts "Fireflies" Brings a Late-Life Romance and Small-Town Gossip to Shakespeare & Company Isabel Keating and Jeb Brown star in Matthew Barber's Texas two-hander, directed by Daniela Varon By Jamie Larson •
Arts The Big Tuna Press Comes to Torrington for the Five Points Arts Print Festival A legendary traveling woodcut press, an international juried exhibition, and demonstrations across six printmaking disciplines make for a free two-day festival By Jamie Larson •
Arts The Nields Play a Back Porch Concert and Cookout at Hancock Shaker Village The western Massachusetts folk-rock sisters bring 35 years of sibling harmonies to a summer evening on the village grounds. By Jamie Larson •
Community Mexican Consulate on Wheels Rolls back into Poughkeepsie The Consulate General of Mexico brings its mobile consular services to the Mid-Hudson Library System auditorium. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Tab Benoit Brings "Soul of the Swamp" Tour to the Mahaiwe The Cajun bluesman who stopped recording for 13 years to fight for Louisiana's wetlands is back—with a guitar, a cord, and an amp. By Jamie Larson •
Community 10 Local Independent Bookstores With Stories Worth Knowing From Lakeville to Kinderhook, here are 10 of our favorite Indies, packed with books and personality too. By Jamie Larson •
Style A Dutchess Couple is Creating Community with Backyard Uruguayan Grill Mike Diago and Zoraida Lopez-Diago grew up in homes where the kitchen was the central focus, and they bring these traditions into their own home and residential community. By Mary Angeles Armstrong •
Arts Emanuel Ax Plays Mozart and Mahler with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood A concert pairing two composers at their most intimate—with Erin Morley as soprano in Mahler's child-like, unsettling Fourth. By Jamie Larson •
Arts "Bada Swing!": Two Aging Lounge Lizards at the Stissing Center "Bada Swing!" brings its New York Comedy Festival-tested musical comedy to Pine Plains for a night of nostalgia, ego, and slow unraveling. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Lenox Summer Art Festival Returns to Lilac Park 50-plus juried artists and artisans take over downtown Lenox for a free weekend of original work, live music, and food. By Jamie Larson •
Community Sherman Artists Association Raises Funds for a Permanent Home A summer evening at White Silo Farm and Winery kicks off the campaign for a Sherman Art Center. By Jamie Larson •
