Rural Intelligence (Page 739)

Arts

"This Wonderful Life" at Barrington Stage Company

Could there be a better moment for a Christmas play about a despairing banker who considers suicide because his savings-and-loan is about to go under and, with help from an angel, rediscovers the meaning of life? Timing is everything in theater as in life, and Barrington Stage Company

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Arts

Celebrity Book Signings at Hammertown and Privet House

A bona fide celebrity—not just someone who is accomplished or has a well-known name—is a person whom you've always wanted to see in the flesh to determine whether the image you have from magazines and television is accurate. Both Mario Batali, the restaurateur and Food

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Community

The Wonderland that is Winter Walk

Come as a clown, a clock, a character from Dickens, or simply as you are. Bring the kids, the dog, grandpa, and your most exacting, hard-to-please friends. Like Hudson itself, Winter Walk, the annual citywide holiday festival that takes place this Saturday, December 6, from 5 to 8,

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Community

Christmas Past is Present in Stockbridge

“Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas (Home for Christmas),” Norman Rockwell.Oil on canvas. “McCalls,” December 1967. ©1967. Licensed by Norman Rockwell Licensing, Niles, IL. From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. All over the United States, people fantasize about an old-fashioned Christmas, the kind you see in the

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Food

Thanksgiving, Part III: At the Governor's Mansion in Albany

Early last summer, picking up my weekly farm share from Hawthorne Valley Farm's CSA, I was amused to see an entry for "Governor's Mansion" on the pick-up list. I was naturally curious and eventually discovered that Noah Sheetz, the executive chef for the

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Arts

Channelling Katharine Hepburn at TriArts in Sharon

There was no one more tweedy and New England than Katharine Hepburn, which is why it seems so apt that the TriArts Sharon Playhouse is presenting Tea at Five, a one woman show about the legendary actress, for the Thanksgiving weekend. The production originated last summer at TheatreWorks in New

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Community

Community: The Many Ways of Giving to Food Banks & Pantries

Hunger is the last thing anyone reading this is likely to suffer this week, as we overeat our way through Thanksgiving, the kick-off of the caloric bonanza that lies in the month ahead. Or, if we do "suffer," it's from good hunger, the kind that&

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Style

HunterBee Brings A Flea Market Aesthetic to Millerton

For many years, Kent Hunter and Jonathan Bee spent weekends visiting flea markets and antiques fairs, buying furniture and funky decorative objects that they had no room for in their apartment in New York. They stored their finds in Bee's parents house in Great Barrington. "When the

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Food

The Wine 'Snob' Next Door

David Kamp, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and author of The United States of Arugula, will be signing his latest book, The Wine Snob's Dictionary at Little Gates & Co in Millerton on Saturday, November 29, from 2 to 5 PM. It's the fourth in

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Arts

Carrie Haddad Opens a Brave New Photography Gallery

Since she opened her first gallery in Hudson in 1991, Carrie Haddad has been exhibiting photography as well as paintings, most recently in her eponymous gallery at 622 Warren Street. "I have a history of showing photography and an audience for it," she says. "But it'

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Parties

Antiques: Hudson Supermarket Celebrates

On Saturday, November 22, Vintage and Modern Inc. and the Hudson Supermarket co-hosted a drinks and dim-sum do to introduce new vendors. Dealers from up-and-down Warren Street joined in welcoming (have these people never heard of cut-throat competition?) Olenka, whose "Artworks" floral designs

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Food

Thanksgiving, Part II: Talking Turkey with the Professor of Wine

When you hear Michael Albin of Hudson Wine Merchants expound on wine, his alter egos—writer, musician, former English professor—are all in evidence. His descriptions of his various offerings, their strengths and potential pitfalls, are impassioned and detailed, and his greatest delight seems to be in finding the perfect

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