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The Wake Robin Inn: A Celebration Destination

If you're one of those people who've always dreamed of running a country inn, Michael Loftus & Shaffin Shariff  would like to talk to you. Ten years ago, the two men (who were then a couple) moved from Chicago to Lakeville, CT, to overhaul the woebegone
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Food

AgriCulture: Awaiting the Impending Storm

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Peter writes: There is a strange silence, an ominous stillness. It is around eight o’clock Thursday morning but instead of a steady brightening the morning continues to darken, the sky taking
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Parties

Hudson Opera House Feasts Again!

The Hudson Opera House is both impossible and easy to overlook.  Impossible because its doors are always open, and something is always going on there.  Easy, because most of what happens there is not for the sort of people who showed up on Saturday, April 30 at HOH's
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Food

The Dream Away Lodge: A Boho Berkshire Dream Come True

You could call the Dream Away Lodge a living landmark. Surrounded by October Mountain State Forest in Becket, MA, the former roadhouse is a time capsule of Berkshire bohemia, the place where Bob Dylan (photo below), Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and Sam Shephard made a movie, Renaldo and Clara,  in
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Parties

BIFF's Sixth Season Announced at Haven

Cultural corespondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: Cineastes and supporters gathered at Haven Cafe in Lenox on Thursday, April 28 to be among the first to hear the roster for the Sixth Annual Berkshire International Film Festival. Founder and executive director Kelley Vickery (left, with Berkshire Botanical Garden&
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Food

Not Just Bread at Bread Alone Café & Restaurant

By Kathryn Matthews For over a decade, discerning carb lovers have been able to get their fix of artisan breads, from French sourdough (levain) and whole wheat sourdough (miche) to baguettes, challah and peasant bread—all made with organic flours—at Bread Alone Bakery in Rhinebeck village.  Pastries, too, like
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Style

Out on a Limb: Architects Take a Bough

According to Vitruvius, the Roman scholar who authored De architectura, architecture is man's imitation of the nests, lairs, and hives animals build for themselves.  He also famously observed that architecture must have commodity, firmness, and delight. One wonders where he would have stood on treehouses.  These improvised structures
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Berkshire Botanical Garden Opens the Season on a High

Everyone was looking up at the Berkshire Botanical Garden as it opened it season with a reception for the exhibit Out on a Limb: Architects Take a Bough which was curated by Matt Larkin and Elizabeth Hamilton. The designers are Robyn Sandberg (left, in her bamboo-and-climbing-cord construction)
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Parties

Hudson Dines Out for Life

Now in its seventh year, Dining Out for Life is the day in Hudson when lunch or dinner at participating restaurants means a minimum 25%-of-the-check donation to the The AIDS Council of Northeastern NY.  Each restaurant has a Council-appointed "ambassador" to meet and greet,
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Community

RIP Jack Stern: The Retired Rabbi Who Wasn't Retiring

You did not need to know that Jack Stern had been a great rabbi to know that he was a holy man.  When he moved to Great Barrington full time in 1991 (after retiring as the senior rabbi at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, NY), he became involved with Construct
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Community

Pittsfield's 250th Anniversary

History is often taken for granted in our neck of the woods with so many of our town dating back to before the revolution and the Declaration of Independence. Pittsfield, which is turning 250, will be having a year-long celebration, which kicks off this weekend. It will be a
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Food

AgriCulture: Father Time Rules the Roost

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Mark writes: "The clock is ticking," my father said recently with respect to an impending major birthday.  As if I didn't know.  His comment should have clued me
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