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Arts

"Kiss This - A Valentine's Day Cabaret" at Barrington Stage

Nikos Tsakalakos is the type of talented and ambitious young artist who finds Pittsfield a font of creativity. "Two years ago, Bill Finn told me his crazy idea that he wanted to make Pittsfield the epicenter of new musical theater," says Tsakalakos, who was a student of the

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Community

Camp Unleashed: 'Cause Dogs Get SAD Too

Help your best buddy beat the winter blahs with Camp Unleashed's Winter-Wonderland Weekend, February 20 -22, a rural retreat for dogs and their owners (or, as the powers that be at Camp Unleashed refer to those who feed, walk, bathe, and take dogs to the vet, "

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Arts

An Insider's Look at Vassar's Outsider Art

Vassar College has been collecting art since its founding in 1864, and the school's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center now has nearly 18,000 works, including the Warburg Collection of Old Master Prints and Matthew Vassar's collection of Hudson River School paintings. The holdings also include

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Food

Allium and the Mahaiwe: Their Funny Valentine Special

Local restaurateurs and chefs are letting their imaginations run wild for Valentine's Day. Take, for example, Halle Heyman, manager at Allium in Great Barrington. As if free chocolate petit fours at the end of the meal aren't enough to seal the deal, she has created a

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Style

An Annie Walwyn-Jones Fashion Event at Agapanthus

Stylish, feminine without being frou-frou, versatile, and just-the-right-degree-of-dressy for country nights, fashions by Annie Walwyn-Jones return to Agapanthus on Saturday, February 14, for a one-day event. Walwyn-Jones, who came to the States from her native London in 1972 to attend Parsons

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Food

Perfect for Late Winter: Summer Fish Curry

When the weather turns, as it has this week, from merely cold to utterly brutal, I retreat, as much as possible, to the kitchen. The numbing weather presents cooks with a fork in the road: either make rib-sticking, hearty comfort food (nothing wrong with that, except what it will

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Arts

Academy Award-Nominated Shorts at TSL

Unless you attend a lot of film festivals, it's unlikely you've seen the ten short films nominated for Oscars. Time and Space Limited offers remedy: the five animated and five live-action films will be screened there this week. As A.O. Scott of the New

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Food

Olde Hudson Wants To Do Your Shopping For You

"I was bored," says Dena Moran when asked why she decided to open an antique-furniture/body-and-bath shop in Hudson in 2001. In Manhattan, she had worked with her husband Dick Moran in the domestic textiles business—designing, merchandising and selling. Initially, their house in Claverack

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Style

The Mount: A Garden in Winter

Rich Pomerantz, who took the photographs for this season's gardening book of choice, Great Gardens of the Berkshires, climbed onto the roof of The Mount, the Edith Wharton historic site in Lenox, to get these extraordinary shots, which are nearly as instructive as they are beautiful. Like the

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Parties

Prescription for Winter Blues: Gotta Dance!

Sure this winter doesn't seem to know when to quit, but you'll get no sympathy from us unless you try to dance. Herewith a couple of suggestions for kicking up your heels, regardless of age, and keeping the blues and the blahs at bay: Grab your

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Parties

Super to You, Maybe, But for Some It's Just Another Ugly Bowl

Generally, we like to do our own scribbling here at Rural Intelligence, but we can't improve on this. Here, directly from the (p.m.) winebar website: "Finally...Super Bowl Sunday!!!!!! This weekend is Super Bowl Sunday!!! The Big Game!!! Millions of Americans will enjoy the action, drinking

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Community

Dan’s Diary: Yes, the New Yorker

What are the chances that you would come across three residents of our region within a six-page stretch of a single issue of The New Yorker? In the January 26 issue, there is commodities trader Jim Sinclair of Sharon, CT, quoted in Ben McGrath's story on doomsayers,

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