Rural Intelligence (Page 478)

Arts

Review: "The Comedy of Errors" at Shakespeare & Company

By Dan Shaw When you walk into the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox for its production of The Comedy of Errors, you feel as if you’ve stumbled into a backyard barbecue scene about to be shot for a John Waters movie. The actors, who are

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Community

The Rural We: Rebecca Soffer

Raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, the co-founder of Modern Loss also holds a master's in journalism from Columbia and is a former producer of "The Colbert Report." For the past four and a half years, she and her husband and young son have been

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Parties

What A Marvelous Night For A Barn Dance At Pleasant Valley

Mary Garnish Bauman reports from Lenox. A barn dance in the Berkshires — that’s what Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary decided to do for its 7th annual fundraiser on July 18, welcoming 100 guests to celebrate “An Evening in the Woods." The center of the action this year was Pleasant

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Food

Recipe: Honey Hibiscus Iced Tea

Twice a month, Berkshire County native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), contributes a thoughtful and heartfelt essay/recipe created exclusively for Rural Intelligence readers. Her first cookbook has achieved top-seller

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Parties

Dish + Dine Brings Ceramics Experts To Ferrin Contemporary

Amy Krzanik reports from North Adams. If you’ve ever watched an episode of Antiques Roadshow, you may have recognized a couple of familiar faces at Independent Art Projects (IAP) on Sunday, July 19. Specialists, collectors and Roadshow appraisers Suzanne Perrault and David Rago were joined by the show’s

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Community

Kent Presents: An Ideas Festival About What Comes Next

Speakers include Jeffrey Toobin, Henry Kissinger, Mia Farrow, Soledad O'Brien, Siddhartha Mukherjee and Paul Krugman. Photo of Krugman: Frank R. Conrad, The New York Times. By Jamie Larson It is impossible to overstate the caliber of speakers, the depth of knowledge or the collective value of experience planned

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Parties

Slideluck Mixes Art And Community At Stonover Farm

Amy Krzanik reports from Lenox. Suky Werman, co-owner of Stonover Farm Bed and Breakfast and a board member of IS183 Art School of the Berkshires, curates an amazing benefit art show for the School in her Barn Gallery each summer. She boasts an impeccable eye for art, but isn’

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Parties

Hancock Shaker Village Goes Back To Its Roots

Lisa Green reports from Pittsfield.Hancock Shaker Village celebrated its 55th anniversary with a gala themed “Back to Our Roots." And, indeed, the theme was carried out through the dinner, which was prepared over open fire by Fire Roasted Catering of Great Barrington, with nearly all of the food

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Arts

At Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Watch Musicals In The Making

By Robert Burke Warren When it comes to creating art, inspiration is only a fraction of the process. Artists also contend with time constraints, isolation, and financial woes, especially in aggressively capitalist, crowded, notoriously noisy New York City. Musical theater folks have it particularly hard; Broadway depends on lavish sure-

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Real Estate

Set The Bar

Located in Lenox, this home has an entire lower level dedicated to leisure with a huge wood wet bar, game room and family room. The custom-designed house has living spaces on three levels, a grand vaulted entrance, solarium, formal dining room, library and a large country kitchen. The master

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Real Estate

Top Shelf

A bookshelf may be a fairly obvious place to hide a safe, but it's also the perfect disguise for this home wet bar. Located in the library with walls of bookshelves, a secret door opens to the bar, which is just one of many unique features in this

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Real Estate

Spirits By The Lake

After a day on the lake, this bar is the perfect place to relax with a drink. The Canaan seven-bedroom home is sun-drenched on 250 feet of water frontage on Lake Queechy, with a huge dock just waiting for a boat. There is also a gourmet kitchen with

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