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Wellness

Snowcapades: Winter Sports

By New England standards, this winter is looking positively mild-mannered — all the more reason to get out and enjoy it! Thanks to the magic of modern snowmaking machines, skiers and snowboarders can find fresh powder at any one of six resorts in Berkshire and Litchfield counties, each of which

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Food

Heat Wave

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. I think we are all, either from direct experience or reading about it, aware that the year 2012 has gone down in U.S. weather history as being the hottest

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Arts

Habitat for Harmony

Photos of Melissa Auf Der Maur by George Folk; Tommy Stinsom by Steven Cohen for Spinner; Meshell Ndegeocello, courtesy of www.meshell.com; Rapustina by James Jackson When three internationally acclaimed, world-traveled rock star bassists and a cellist picked the same ten-by-five block town — Hudson, NY— as

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Food

Currant Scones: Get 'em While They're Hot!

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to

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Style

Walking on Art: The Unlikely Canvas of the Masses

Rarely does a writer pick up the pen in a moment of complete bliss. Nor does an artist envision and create a monumental masterpiece due to an overabundance of happiness. No, the art world (or art of any kind) is usually born of pain and sorrow. Scott Bartzsch can attest

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Arts

The Grand Slambovians and Darlingside: The Twain Shall Meet

By Robert Burke Warren Americana road warriors The Grand Slambovians (left) and string-band pop upstarts Darlingside (right) are excited to share the bill at the esteemed Norfolk, CT venue Infinity Hall, in part because each band reveres the other, but also because of Mark Twain. Legend has it the

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Food

AgriCulture: Going Rogue

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. This is the season when we all make resolutions for improvement in the new year. While I consider myself a person of reason, not trapped in age old superstitions, I

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Food

January Salad With a Side of Inspiration

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to

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Wellness

At Hudson Wellness Collective, Health As Human Right

Sarah Falkner, Masha Schmidt, Caroline Ruderman; Photo credit Nicholas Kahn There's nothing clinical about walking into the Hudson Wellness Collective, a center for healing arts that opened on Hudson’s bustling Warren Street last fall. Strings of tiny white lights and a paper lamp cast a warm glow

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Parties

RI's Memorable Parties of 2012

Above: Musicians David Byrne and Renée Albulario; Robert Montgomery, Jane Iredale, founder of Jane Iredale cosmetics, and MA State Representative Smitty Pignatelli; Sarah Patrick Morgese and her father, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick; realtor Nancy Kalodner and dancer Marge Champion; actor David Hyde Pierce and Karen Gold; jewelry designers Janis Kerman

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Food

AgriCulture: Ducks and Geese and Farmers Better Scurry

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. It was the morning of our departure for a four-day getaway to New Orleans, Mark’s generous treat in celebration of my birthday. When one gets to a certain

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Community

Hudson Goes Giddy for the Holidays

Hudson, although far from being merely on the upswing, is still a study of contrasts. You can see this veering from the town’s more down- and- out areas to the retailers on Warren Street. These are not your everyday vendors; they are all so talented at window display that

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