Rural Intelligence (Page 687)

Food

A Forager's Favorite: Ramp Pesto

In the Berkshires and Hudson Valley, foraging for ramps has become a fetish of sort. I bumped into two fellow foragers gathering ramps two miles from my house. Even from my car, I could see the woods were lousy with ramps as well as the red flowers topping endangered trillium.

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Community

POST-INTERNET-AGE? Welcome, The Sandisfield Times

PRINT BOOM IN WOODSY, MYSTERIOUS CORNER OF THE BERKSHIRES A local arsonist who got out of prison and hangs out at everyone’s favorite bar. The raging, no-one-didn’t-believe-it rumor that Brad and Angelina were building a house, and a helipad, on a deserted road here.

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Parties

'Material World' Opens at MASS MoCA

On Saturday, April 24, MASS MoCA unveiled Material World: Sculpture to Environment in which seven artists made site specific installations on the museum's second and third floor galleries. Using ordinary materials, the artists chosen by curator Susan Cross created sculptures that are meant to engaged. There seems to

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Style

How to Sell a House: Scenes from a Staging

"I don't like the word 'staging'," says James Male, one of two Columbia County agents with Mark Phillips Realty, a boutique agency headquartered across the river in Durham, NY (Greene County). "It implies fakery; I prefer to say 'editing.' " Call

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Food

AgriCulture: Tomatoes with Trepidation

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: While the livestock side of the farm is burgeoning (3 piglets, 2 calves, and our 18th lamb so far this season, as well as 125 turkey poults and 40 goslings arriving next

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Parties

The Kent Film Festival Kicks Off with Campbell Scott

The 5th annual Kent Film Festival is the Little Engine That Could—a four-day celebration of cinema in a town without a movie theater. Each year, founders Frank and Patrice Galterio and an army of volunteers transform the Kent Community Center into a theater with the aroma of freshly

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Community

The Spirit of Bohemia Lives at Sheffield's Race Brook Lodge

Before it became a brand, the Berkshires was a state of mind. If you're searching for that now mythic land where Alice's Restaurant was not just a song but a place where hippies congregated, you can start at Race Brook Lodge in Sheffield, MA. Owned by

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Community

The Real Housewives of Berkshire County Sing Out

Technically, Lisa Kantor, Pam Rich, Laurie Schiff and Debbie Zecher are not housewives. "We're all wives and mothers with jobs," says Zecher, the senior rabbi at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire in Great Barrington, where she has worked since 1992. But Dangerous Women: An Evening of Song

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Style

High End On-Line, the Brave New World of Luxury Retailing

"A couple of years ago, big-time luxury retailing changed drastically. The stores became impossible for a small vendor like me to deal with," says Kerry MacBride (left), a Hudson-based jewelry designer whose creations had done well for years at such lofty outlets as Berdorf Goodman, Saks

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Parties

Can We Talk About the Berkshire International Film Festival?

On April 15 at Haven in Lenox the 5th annual Berkshire International Film Festival (June 3 - 6) announced its 2010 lineup. BIFF will still be headquartered in Great Barrington, but it's expanding to Pittsfield with screenings at the Beacon Cinema and the Little Cinema at the Berkshire Museum,

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Arts

'Material World: Sculpture to Environment' Opens at MASS MoCA

Opening Reception: April 24 @ 5:30 p.m. "Orly Genger Masspeak," (2007) Nylon climbing rope with latex paint. Courtesy Larissa Goldston Gallery (Photo:Tom Powel Imaging) For Material World: Sculpture to Environment, curator Susan Cross invited seven artists to create site specific installations that relate to MASS MoCA&

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Parties

Hudson Opera House's Movable Feast 2010

Executive Director Gary Schiro was everywhere at once, yet still managed to elude our camera, keeping things moving at a brisk pace at the Hudson Opera House's Movable Feast fundraising gala on Saturday, April 17. Following cocktails at the Opera House, guests moved on to twenty-four dinner

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