Rural Intelligence (Page 632)

Parties

Berkshire Theatre Group Shines at I Own A Theatre Gala

Fiona Breslin reports from Pittsfield. Supporters of the RI region’s first-class music, dance, performing arts, education, and more came out Saturday night, November 10, to celebrate youth education programs at Berkshire Theatre Group's "I Own a Theatre" gala. The laid-back fundraiser was hosted

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Arts

Kelly Meets Cage, Once Again

Left: photo of John Kelly by Billy Erb; right: photo of John Cage poster by Everett McCourt On a New Year's Eve in the early 1990s, John Kelly was invited to a party at a downtown Manhattan loft while working on a production of his Light Shall Lift

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Arts

Cool Brit Gets Blown Around by the Winds of America

Longtime rock music fans may remember England's whiskey voiced Graham Parker and his group, the Rumour -- an ensemble equally adept at Motown-ish rave-ups, reggae, and Dylanesque folk rock — for their 1979 hit album, Squeezing Out Sparks, which yielded the catchy soul-pop single “Local Girls.” Now

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Wellness

Swing, Shimmy, Sweat: Exercising Off the Beaten Path

Come November, a familiar jog or bike ride around New England streets can start to feel a little lonely. Where are the neighbors, fellow health nuts, and eager leaf-peepers? And is wind chill some kind of cruel punishment designed to keep dutiful exercisers from getting in their morning cardio?

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Arts

Art Reaches for the Stars at Williams

Like many of us, Elizabeth Rooklidge's fate, it seems, was written in the stars. A second year art history graduate student at Williams College, Rooklidge, who made her way east from Southern California, found her muse in the vaults of Williams College Museum of Art's (WCMA&

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Food

Olé! Hot Chocolate With Some Heat

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

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Food

Après Le Déluge

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. As we spent the days intently preparing at the farm for what turned out to be Superstorm Sandy, our concern about the welfare of our Cedar Street gallery/loft in

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Parties

A Taste of Giving in Pittsfield

Rachel Louchen reports from Pittsfield. Neither rain nor the threat of blackouts prevented more than 300 people from gathering at the Masonic Temple on Thursday, November 1, for the fifth annual Taste of the Berkshires benefit. Thrown by the Junior League of Berkshire County, the evening showcased food and beverages

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Community

Wilderstein: A Grand Middle Ground

Despite the brickbats of revisionist history, FDR was a great president and his wife Eleanor a towering public figure. But their taste in architecture and design were rather lacking in, shall we say, devil-may-care fun. In fact, this deficiency, if it is one, was quite deliberate. The statement

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Food

Brava

A place to eat well and unwind until midnight in downtown Lenox

By Lisa Green

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

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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

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