Parties Abandoned Architecture and Dark Spaces Dale Stewart reports from Hudson.On a warm fall evening, art affectionados dashed between neighboring Hudson galleries McDaris Fine Art and Galerie Gris on Saturday, October 27. Galerie Gris featured a solo exhibition of UK photographer Christopher Sharples’ remarkably rich images of the abandoned Universal Atlas Cement Plant in nearby By Editor
Style Cordially Yours: The Stationer Matthew Lynn, owner of Washington Depot’s The Stationer, is perfectly disheveled in a perfectly preppy way, not to mention movie star handsome. It's almost exactly what you’d expect from a small town stationery store owner who keeps shop in an old blacksmith studio with a dirt By Editor
Food Getting Comfy in PUBLIC Squirreled away doing back-office work for the North Adams restaurant Taylor’s for nearly two years, Jared Decoteau (left) harbored ideas about the changes he’d make to the place if given a chance. First and foremost, there were the eleven tap lines to the bar, tragically underutilized, he By Editor
Community Community: 20 Questions for Laurie Norton Moffat Photo: Sue Geller Laurie Norton Moffatt, champion of the artwork and legacy of Norman Rockwell, spearheaded the transition of the Norman Rockwell Museum from a local house museum to an internationally recognized cultural institution dedicated not only to the work of the iconic American illustrator but also to a scholarly By Editor
Food Earthy Roots: Creamy Potatoes and Celeriac 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 at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural By Editor
Arts Alex Ross at NRM: A Comic Book Coming Home The Norman Rockwell Museum's upcoming exhibition, Heroes and Villains, is going to be pretty super. Opening on Saturday, November 10, it gives more than the usual space to the career of illustrator Alex Ross, best known for his work with DC and Marvel Comics and perhaps the most By Editor
Parties Behind the Lens: Unseen Arbus at KMR Dale Stewart reports from Washington Depot, Connecticut.Guests were shoehorned into the intimate two-room KMR Arts Gallery in Washington Depot on Friday, October 26, for a reception to celebrate the opening of Diane Arbus: Guggenheim Grants, 1963-1967. Patrons like authors Ann Leary and Candace Bushnell, pictured left, sipped By Editor
Food Back in the Swim of Things AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. Arriving back at the farm after being away for nearly a month, I had the distinct impression that I was returning to a somewhat different place from the one I By Editor
Parties We Did the Mash Scott Baldinger and Fiona Breslin report from Hudson and Pittsfield.Despite the imminent arrival of Hurricane Sandy, it wasn’t quite the quiet weekend before the storm in the RI region. After all, it was Halloween. And what is the holiday weekend for the over twenty-one crowd if not By Editor
Food Finally Home, Turkey In Retrospect AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter Davies writes from back in the states. After four weeks of traveling throughout Turkey, it occurred to me, upon returning to our farm in Germantown and attending the Sheep and Wool By Editor
Style Dynamite Angel: Shoebox Soigné “I have a rich fantasy life, I dress up to pick up Chinese food,” says Dynamite Angel store-owner and musician Carolyn Wallace, looking around her recently opened, 250-square-foot jewel box of a space in New Preston, Connecticut. As customers came streaming in on a perfect fall day, By Editor
