Rural Intelligence (Page 644)

Parties

Drama in The Pastures at Volunteers in Medicine Benefit

Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Southfield, Massachusetts.Supporters of Volunteers in Medicine, which operates a clinic in Great Barrington that provides free healthcare to low-income, uninsured Berkshire workers and residents, gathered at The Pastures during the 'golden hour' on Thursday, August 11, for VIM’s annual

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The Wandering Eye: House Guests

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Okay. Hermes had (another) good idea.. A blog on House Guests. Avoiding all the clichés, comparisons to old fish, etc. All it takes is a few moments searching the Interweb to

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McTeigue & McClelland Are in the Business of Enchantment

For nearly a century following its founding in 1895, McTeigue & Co. was one of the most respected hallmarks in the fine jewelry trade, selling only to elite retailers such as Tiffany & Co., which in 1990 acquired and absorbed the family-owned business into its own. Yet as he

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What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Just about everything it turns out, as le tout Hudson showed up at Club Helsinki to celebrate the release of Evermore, a new cd by Chris Swicegood, one half of the local favorite singing duo Chris and Lolly Swicegood. The couple (in photo, left) usually sing together and did that

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Arts

David Neumann and Jodi Melnick Join Forces at Jacob’s Pillow

Dance review by Bess J.M. Hochstein Photos: above, Julieta Cervantes; below, Cherylynn Tsushima Is it downtown week at Jacob’s Pillow? In the Ted Shawn Theatre, Trisha Brown, enduring icon of the Judson Church dance days, marks her company’s 40th anniversary in a program that travels through the

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Trisha Brown Dance Company Marks 40-Year Anniversary at Jacob’s Pillow

Dance review by Bess J.M. Hochstein Photo: Julieta CervantesTrisha Brown is the Eileen Fisher of the dance world. Like Fisher’s clothing, Brown’s dances are loose, comfortable, fluid, and seemingly simple and unstructured while actually finely and smartly constructed with shrewd attention to detail. Like Fisher in the

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Food

West Street Grill, A Hardy Litchfield Perennial

West Street Grill, A Hardy Litchfield Perennial

By Lisa Green

Food

AgriCulture: Turns Out the Philanderer Also Farms, In a Way

In last Sunday's New York Times Magazine Andrew Goldman revisited Mark Sanford, former governor of South Carolina, whose political career and marriage went down in flames when it came to light that he was having an affair with an Argentinian "soul mate." Since Turkana Farms'

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Arts

Word Up! Taylor Mali on Word X Word Festival 2011 and the Lives of the Poets

What’s the word? Find out this week in Pittsfield at the third annual Word X Word Festival from August 13 – 20. This celebration of words written, spoken and sung—created in 2009 by Jim Benson, proprietor of Mission Bar + Tapas—kicks off with its now-legendary rooftop party, one

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Hudson Music Fest: It's Not Only Rock 'n' Roll, But You'll Like It

. by Betsy Miller Organizers of music festivals tend to follow the Woodstock model—one outdoor site, many acts scheduled over the course of several days. This weekend, impresarios in the city of Hudson will test a different construct: 10 restaurants, 2 performance venues, 5 tents, 1 radio station, and 4

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Hillsdale Tour of 19th-Century Rural Houses

This Saturday, the Hillsdale Preservation Committee will sponsor a pedestrian-friendly tour of historic houses. Some of the houses on the tour originally had been home to farmers, others to farmworkers. But, though all have grown and changed over the years, their 19th-century character has been retained and all,

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Dia-fied: Blinky & Co. at Beacon and Bard

by Scott Baldinger “Art is not innocent (Oscar) Wilde says ... Violence can be done in its name. Indeed, the twentieth century brought forth many Dorian Grays: fiendishly pure spirits so wrapped up in aesthetics that they become heedless of humanity.” This quote, from a recent New Yorker article by Alex

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