Arts Tap Dancer Michela Marino Lerman Brings Betty Carter to Jacob's Pillow Jazz's premier tap dancer leads an ensemble celebrating the iconoclastic vocalist known as "The Kid" on the Henry J. Leir Stage. By Jamie Larson •
Community Free Tours of a "Ghost Habitat" at the Martin Van Buren Historic Site Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program leads guided walks through an experimental Kinderhook pine barrens restoration plot. By Jamie Larson •
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 •
