Rural Intelligence (Page 685)

Food

Spring Pizza with the Toppings of the Moment

Asparagus and ramps have a natural affinity. "There's an expression that chefs use, What grows together goes together," explains Jim Gop, the in-house chef at Guido's Fresh Marketplace, who has been making this spring pizza for the past few weeks. Although he grew

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dbO Home's Pop-up Shop Opens in Great Barrington

Since giving up her high-powered marketing job at Elektra Records in New York City in 2006, Dana Brandwein (left with her husband, Daniel Oates) has been making pottery in her barn in Sharon, CT. Her porcelain and stoneware is found on the tables at the highly regarded restaurant Blue

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Food

Restaurants: Spring Pickings at Mercato

You know the eating is good if Italians are in the house.

By Lisa Green

Parties

The Sun Shined for Trade Secrets' 10th Anniversary

The weather is always a major topic of conversation at Trade Secrets, the massive plant and antique sale to benefit Women's Support Services, and this year was no exception. The high winds toppled small trees and topiaries and chilled bones even as the brilliant sunshine had everyone squinting

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Trade Secrets: The Rare Plant & Antiques Fair Turns 10

Trade Secrets is not such a secret anymore. Like a well-tended garden, the rare plant and garden antiques sale grows lusher and more interesting every year, raising ever more money for Women's Support Services, the not-for-profit agency that provides aid to victims of domestic violence

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Arts

Broadway Bound in the Berkshires

The out-of-town tryout is a tried-and-true Broadway convention, and in the good old days shows played Philadelphia or New Haven before heading to New York City. This summer, Great Barrington is getting to play that part. The Broadway bound production of Lombardi—a play about the

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Parties

Charity Begins at Home for Construct Inc.

As affluent as the Berkshires are, there are many people who struggle financially in the rural culture capital, and Construct Inc. provides comprehensive housing, support and educational services to anyone in the Southern Berkshire region who has lost his or her home or lacks the financial resources to maintain safe,

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Arts

Michael Perry's "Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg"

Wednesday, June 16 @ 7:30 p.m. From the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story comes this humorous, heartfelt memoir. Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse, faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and recently informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver

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Community

An Alternative Gallery Takes Root on a Millerton Farm

It's a not uncommon scenario in these parts: A New York City artist buys a derelict farm with a rundown barn that he plans to turn into a studio and, perhaps, a gallery space. Artist Henry Klimowicz and his wife, physician Kristie Schmidt, moved from Manhattan to Millerton

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Parties

Rhinebeck's Paper Trail Always on the Cutting Edge

To call Paper Trail a stationery store is misleading, because owners Maureen Missner and Serine Hastings not only sell classic and cutting-edge notepaper, greeting cards, books, and gift wrap but also artworks made of paper. On Saturday May 8, the store had an opening party for an exhibition of

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Just in Time for Spring, the New, Improved Ward's Nursery

There's always good reason to stop by Ward's Nursery in Great Barrington, perhaps the largest and most ambitious gardener's resource in our district, especially on a Saturday in springtime when the chances of bumping into the nursery's affable founder Don Ward, Jr.

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Arts

Books: Millbrook Festival, Storytime for All

Everyone has long known the value of reading aloud to young children. Now there is mounting evidence—the growing popularity of books on CD and entertainments such as staged play readings and, of course, NPR's beloved "Selected Shorts"—that adults want and perhaps need to be

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