Arts Young at Art Geoffrey Young doesn't expect you to buy anything at his second-floor gallery on Railroad Street in Great Barrington, and he's OK with that. "Nine out of ten people who come into the gallery don't buy art" says the elfin Young with By Editor
Parties ArtCircus: A Storefront Artist Project Benefit In 2002, artist Maggie Mailer founded the Storefront Artist Project in downtown Pittsfield with three goals: to provide non-traditional, visually accessible studio space for artists; to present innovative exhibitions and installations; and to bring artists and art-making to under-served communities. On Saturday May 31, hundreds of the By Editor
Arts Hudson Summer Concert Series Launches On Saturday night, you have a choice: You can either kick up your heels and take a picnic to the Hudson Waterfront Park, spread a blanket on the ground, and, even as you nibble cold chicken and sip vinho verde, experience bands like Bunnybrains, Family of Love, Franklin Mint, Hexual By Editor
Arts Theater Review: "I Am My Own Wife" Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, is nothing if not audacious. For her first show of the season, she chose a play that sounds like a hard sell for a bourgeois Berkshires audience: I Am My Own Wife (a hit on Broadway in 2003), which is the By Editor
Food Cocktails: The Grey Ghost Former beer drinker and Berkshire Mountain Dilstillers founder Chris Weld is becoming an expert on cocktails as travels the region selling the gin, rum and vodka that he makes at Soda Springs Farm in Sheffield, MA. For the opening night party of the Berkshire International Film Festival, he devised this By Editor
Food The Saturday Night Special Leave it to Matthew Rubiner to turn eating a prosaic grilled cheese sandwich into an event. A few weeks ago, Rubiner decided to start keeping Rubi's cafe in Great Barrington open until midnight on Saturday nights (it closes at 4 PM the rest of the week) and feature By Editor
Food Liquor for Locavores: The Berkshires Own Booze You might assume (as I did) that Berkshire Mountain Distillers is a boutique brand dreamed up by a green-minded, martini-drinking MBA as as a thesis project. It has a smart slogan ("Think Globally • Drink Locally") a product line whose evocative names have regional resonance ("Ice By Editor
Style Nesting: The Second Home Takes Center Stage Many people profess that a second home changes their life, but actress Annette Miller can make the case more emphatically and convincingly than most. Nearly twenty years ago, she and husband, Michael, who were living in Newton, MA, started looking for a little weekend house in the Berkshires. The place By Editor
Style Salander-O’Reilly Bankruptcy Auction at Stair Galleries For nearly a year, the art world has been abuzz with news of the closing of the Salander - O’Reilly Gallery, and its subsequent bankruptcy filing. On June 7th, Stair Galleries of Hudson conducts the first auction of goods from the collection. “It was a struggle from start-to-finish By Editor
Parties Mass MoCA: Good Times at the Badlands Opening Our friend Leslie Ferrin, the Pittsfield gallery owner, filed this report from the opening of Mass MoCA's powerful new show, Badlands: New Horizons in Landscapet. "The mood was upbeat last Saturday night. The enthusiastic audience included a lively mix of artists, curators, musuem and gallerists, patrons and By Editor
Arts Theatre Review: BTF's "The Caretaker" Netflix has made it easy for anyone to be an autodidact when it comes to the history of cinema—you just order up movies from the Classics category, and they arrive in your mailbox in whatever sequence you choose for your syllabus. But you can't design your own By Editor
Style There's Shopping, then There's Shopping Behind every good store, there’s an artful shopper. Most home furnishings stores in our region, for example, select their stock from the furniture market at High Point, NC and from the vendors at various trade shows at the Javits Center in New York. In other words, the same stuff By Editor
