Rural Intelligence (Page 678)

Community

Listen Locally! The Community Radio Renaissance

Call it the new Golden Age of Radio. The people have spoken, and they want to hear themselves and their neighbors instead of overpaid pontificators or market-researched playlists. In the Rural Intelligence region, there are three young not-for-profit community radio stations that provide an eclectic mix of

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Food

West Taghkanic Diner

Warm, welcoming, familiar, and reliable

By Lisa Green

Arts

"Lombardi" Kicks Off at the Mahaiwe

July 22 - 28 Actor Dan Lauria will portray the Green Bay Packers coach on stage.Millerton resident and New York Times best-selling author Peter Richmond, whose new book, Badasses:The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders (Harper Collins) will be published this

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Dog Days: Artists Unleashed at Berkshire Botanical Garden

A new exhibition opening this weekend promises to be as amusing as the garden sheds show that was here earlier this season. This time Matt Larkin, the show’s curator, has invited a dozen art and design superstars to take something humble and make it into something that is not

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Parties

Chatham's Crandell Theatre Reopens At Last

The official ribbon cutting was on Friday night and the tv crews were there to take in the spectacle as the Crandell Theatre, dark since the untimely death of owner Tony Quirino last January, reopened with Toy Story 3. Crandell loyalists were relieved to find that, as promised, the only

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Parties

Bard's Summerscape Festival is a Hudson Valley Happening

Bard Summerscape is like a rural version of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It brings together visual and performing artists as both presenters and audience, creating a cultural center of gravity for the Hudson Valley, which is one of the goals of Bard College president

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Parties

A Paeon to Industry at the Ferrin Gallery Dish and Dine

Those who make political hay by promoting the fiction that liberals "hate America" would have been discomfited to hear the art photographer Susan Mikula and the art potter Frances Palmer sing the praises of American industry on Saturday night, July 10, at the Ferrin Gallery's Dish

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Style

Cuban Photographer Adrian Fernandez at Carrie Haddad

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). We have spent a fair amount of time in Cuba these past three years…lots of time, in fact, as Hermes is working on a book, so we (legally) return every

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Food

AgriCulture: Cassis-Making Season at Maison Turkana

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: While last week Mark discussed the pains of farming in a dry season, I am going to describe one of its rare pleasures, a wet one at that, as Turkana Farms starts

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Parties

Now It's Summer! Tanglewood Opening Night Gala 2010

Resurrection indeed! Summer does not officially begin in the Berkshires until the opening night of Tanglewood, and the sun was shining brightly on the lawn outside the Hawthorne Tent as Tanglewood's loyal supporters arrived for a gala dinner before heading to the Koussevitzky Music Shed on Friday, July

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Arts

Review: Barak Marshall at Jacob's Pillow

Photograph by Gadi Dagon A prominent presence looms throughout Barak Marshall’s hour-long dance-theater piece, MONGER, but never appears on stage. It’s the mistress of the characters we first see huddled in shabby black overcoats in the darkness, who cluster together in terror as her high heels

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Community

Passages: Horse Heaven, Escaping the Plate

Elizabeth Hess, the author of "Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human" lives in Spencertown, NY. She writes here about Equine Advocates, an animal rescue facility in Chatham, NY that is welcoming visitors this Sunday, July 11, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Last week, the staff

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