Style Shopping: Pookstyle Peps Up Park Row Museum shops appeal to the sort of people who believe that, as Mies van der Rohe so famously said, "God is in the details"—that a beautifully designed, say, pot-scrubbing brush can so enhance daily life that it's worth every penny, even if it costs By Editor
Parties Holiday Shopping Party at IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires An ordinary holiday crafts fair can be full of things you don't actually want to buy, but that wasn't the case at IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires' Color A World Scholarship Sale, which featured ceramics, leather goods, fine art, photography, jewelry and textiles By Editor
Food Food Shopping: Pies That Hit a High Note By Kathryn Matthews How did Debra Every, a former opera singer and bond trader, sneak back onto center stage—and into the limelight? By baking pies. Lots of them. And winning fans. Lots of them. At Me-Oh-My Pie Shop & Café in the village of Red Hook on By Editor
Arts 99¢ & Up: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction at MCLA Gallery 51 Now - January 2, 2011 'Tis the season to make affordable artwork available to shoppers seeking artful alternatives to the mall or internet experience. This group show of art multiples is easy on the wallet, with price tags beginning at 99¢ and topping out at $99.99. The show is By Editor
Food AgriCulture: Turkey vs turkey AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: I don’t know how my life has come to oscillate between “Turkey” and “turkey” (one capitalized, the other not) but lately somehow it has. All summer, with my travel By Editor
Community Art for Animals: More Than A Rock and Roll Benefit Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports: Lovers of animals, food, art, and music converge in Hudson this Friday as Club Helsinki hosts Rock ‘n Roll Rescue, a star-studded benefit for Art for Animals, an organization dedicated to helping animal rescue groups and educating young people about humane issues By Editor
Food AgriCulture: Buttoning Up But Not Shutting Down for Winter AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: We're feeling the restorative effects of a balmy late fall weekend. After a nasty beginning of last week, with hail and high winds that had our newly shorn By Editor
Parties Williamstown Theatre Festival Welcomes Back Jenny Gersten Dozens of Berkshires residents travelled to Manhattan on Monday night for the sold-out Williamstown Theatre Festival "Sing" Benefit in NYC. It was the first official party for new artistic director Jenny Gersten (left), who was WTF's associate producer from 1996 - 2004. Wearing a dress with By Editor
Style The Dominick Dunne Estate Auction at Stair Galleries Dominick Dunne the author of best-selling novels such as People Like Us and The Two Mrs. Grenvilles who became a household name as a television commentator during the O.J. Simpson trial— always liked being around famous people. He liked being famous himself, so he'd no doubt By Editor
Food Holiday Farmers Markets for Thanksgiving Cooks Last year, Berkshire Grown, the organization that facilitates the farm-to-table movement held its first pre-Thanksgiving farmers' markets simulateneously in Great Barrington and Williamstown. They proved to be unqualified successes—merry happenings where you could purchase local ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner and catch up with friends at By Editor
Food Just in Time for the Turkey: Hudson-Chatham's Baco Noir By Christopher Matthews Mention “Baco Noir”, and what comes to mind? A men’s cologne? Dark chocolate from Madagascar? Or an award-winning wine grape in the Hudson Valley (HV)? The answer is the latter, a French-American hybrid grape that grows well here in the Valley. In fact, back By Editor
Parties Opening of the Berkshire Museum's Festival of Trees 2010 The Berkshire Museum felt like a department store on "Black Friday" as crowds poured into the Crane Room and adjacent galleries to ogle more than 200 one-of-a-kind Christmas trees created by local business, schools and not-for-profit organizations. This year's "Storybook By Editor
