Rural Intelligence (Page 704)

Parties

"Jump In!" - An Exhibit Inspired By The Housatonic River

On the Friday night of Labor Day weekend, the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in downtown Pittsﬁeld and the Housatonic River Museum hosted the opening of a week-long exhibition called Jump In! The group show included photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture, writing and video inspired by the waters of our

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Arts

Dan's Diary: Barrington Stage is the Stepping Stone to Broadway

For songwriters who yearn to hear their songs on a Broadway stage someday, you can't get any luckier than knowing Bill Finn, the musical theater guru of Barrington Stage Company. For the fourth year in a row, Finn has put together an evening of Songs By Ridiculously Talented

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Food

Nudel Opens in Lenox With Seasonally Inspired Food

Bjorn Somlo, chef and owner

By Lisa Green

Food

Agri-Culture: From Hardship to Bounty and Back Again

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: Are we approaching another food watershed? Did I say, “Food watershed?” Well, if there is such a thing, I think I have experienced a number of them. And it may be

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Community

Fence Art Show in the Hamlet of Riders Mills

Riders Mills, a tiny hamlet in north-central Columbia County, is a rarity even here in the country: it is bisected by neither a state nor a county road, making it the most remote and perhaps least spoiled of a trio of small villages (in addition, Rayville and Malden Bridge)

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Food

The Pizza Farm's Legacy: Recipes by Local Farmers

The creators of last weekend's one-day only Pizza Farm wanted to leave behind a permanent legacy so they asked all of the local farmers with whom they worked to provide them with recipes, and the graphic designers behind Pizza Farm produced two-sided, two-color recipe cards

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Parties

Shakespeare & Company Has A Friend in Olympia Dukakis

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: One day after Tanglewood’s James Taylor lovefest paralyzed traffic in Lenox, Shakespeare & Company delivered its own traffic-stopping event as theater fans queued up August 31—a Monday night!—to catch Academy Awawrd-winning actress Olympia Dukakis in a one-night-only first

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Parties

Taking Woodstock Screenings Benefit the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

Carol and Bob Sadlon held back-to-back screenings of Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock at The Moviehouse in Millerton on Thursday, August 27, to benefit the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, which does such good work for the residents of Berkshire, Columbia, Dutchess and Litchfield Counties. Between the shows,

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Food

Pizza Farm: Food Designed for Social Change

On Saturday, August 29, at 4 p.m., the first ever Pizza Farm will open for business in Canaan, CT, under the pavillion in Lawrence Field at Routes 7 & 44. It will close two hours later after giving away 300 individual six-inch grilled pizzas made with local farm-

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Arts

"Radio Deluxe" Comes to the Tanglewood Jazz Festival

The New York Times cabaret critic Stephen Holden has flipped his lid for John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, who host Radio Deluxe, which will tape at Ozawa Hall on Saturday, September 5 as part of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. "The wittiest, most musically savvy husband-and-wife team in

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Community

Dan's Diary: Scenes From A Connoisseur's Cookout

The Herculean challenge Emily Newman & Jeremy Stanton set for themselves would have been difficult enough to pull off in perfect weather. But Saturday, August 22, was another one of those days when torrential rains appeared out of nowhere, which complicated every aspect of serving a five-course dinner to

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Food

AgriCulture: Still Pondering "The Omnivore's Delusion"

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: When my sister sent me Blake Hurst’s article from “The American” last week, I thought it was an obscure little piece that you all would be unlikely to know about.

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