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A Garden Blog Especially for Us

Margaret Roach was planning to finally spend some quality time in her Columbia County garden when she left her executive job at Martha Stewart Omnimedia in New York City and moved to her weekend house this winter. But like her former boss, Roach is apparently indefatigable and ambitious so it&

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Arts

Bunny and Me

It's rare that the author of a coffee table book on interior design is invited to give readings at public libraries, so it seems noteworthy that Bunny Williams had two readings scheduled at Litchfield County libraries this month. (If you missed her appearance at the Scoville Memorial Library

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Arts

Revisiting Things Fall Apart: A Fiftieth-Year Retrospective

In 1958 Chinua Achebe, a young African broadcast journalist, published his first novel, Things Fall Apart, a tender portrait of a "strong man" in an Ibo village in Nigeria whose orderly world irreparably unravels when Christian missionaries arrive. Since its publication, Achebe's novel has sold over

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Food

Is this Spa Cuisine? Canyon Ranch's Secret Sauce

I recently went to have dinner with my mother who was at Canyon Ranch for a few days, and I learned one of the the dirty little secrets of the famous spa in Lenox: You're allowed to eat as much as you want! I saw the man at

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Parties

Gala: A Moveable Feast for the Hudson Opera House

On Saturday evening, a colorful crowd--writers, artists, composers, academics, and performers of every stripe--gathered at the Hudson Opera House for cocktails and chatter, then scattered in twenty-seven different directions to attend dinner parties in nearby private homes. The event raised funds for the non-profit Hudson Opera

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Shopping: Green Living 101

How many college graduates does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, if you consult Brian Torrico. A 2007 graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nation's oldest engineering school, Torrico recently opened the Grenergy Solar Store in Sheffield, MA (he grew up in neighboring Mt.

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Community

Whose Mount Is It Anyway?

"This is a sorry sight." —Macbeth Update, July 6, 2008: Granted a six-month reprieve by the banks, The Mount had raised $1,000,000 by mid-June—just one-third the amount needed by October 31 to forestall foreclosure. Along with it's other troubles (detailed

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Community

Out and About: A Spring Drive in Northern Dutchess

Mud season; relentless, sepia-toned mud season has us all cowering by the hearth and scratching at the window glass. But one day soon, the world will turn a tender shade of green, and we will want to kick up our heels, rush outside, and go…where? Some people find

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Arts

Classical Concerts: No Tickets Necessary

We'll never know if it's liberal (arts) guilt that motivates them, but we are grateful that the elite boarding schools and private colleges that dot our region often open their doors to the community for gratis lectures, concerts and exhibits. This Friday night, April 4 at

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Community

Lodgings: The Inn at Kent Falls is Cozy and Chic

When Ira Goldspiel turned 40 a few years ago, he started to think about changing his life. A high-flying retail executive who'd worked in New York and San Francisco for companies like the Gap and Armani Exchange, he had the proverbial fantasy about opening a bed and

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Parties

Kent Film Fest Launches; BIFF Announces Roster

It was hard to tell who was most excited at the opening night cocktail party (scroll down for pictures) on March 27 of the Kent Film Festival: the filmmakers, whose movies would be screened over the weekend; the volunteers, whose hard work made it all happen; or the fans who

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Toasting the Kent Film Festival

Film festival board member Jill Zinzi with actor/teacher Roger Hendricks Simon, who stars in Georgiana Nestor's film The Sublet; Barbara Fisher, the president of the National Vaccine Information Center, with New Milford director Judy Apicella who features Fisher in her documentary What Are We Doing To Our

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