Rural Intelligence (Page 758)

Parties

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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Food

Sweet William's Orange Marmalade Linzer Cookies

Jason Young of Sweet William's Bakery in Falls Village, whose cookies are sold at his tiny shop and stores like Guido's and the Co-op, would never part with the recipe for his signature ginger cookies. But anyone who knows Jason knows he is generous, so

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Arts

40 Films in Four Days in Kent

You'd think that a town without a proper movie theater would have a tough time pulling off a serious film festival, but the arts community of Kent, CT, does not let that inconvenient detail get in its way. "It requires a lot of imagination," says Frank

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Arts

One of a Kind: The Magic of Prints

For the collector, the appeal of prints is their accessibility. They are, quite simply, more affordable than other unique works of art. For the artist, printmaking offers an opportunity to experiment and, consequently, often acts as a catalyst for change in his other work. This Saturday the Spencertown Academy launches

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Food

Ca'Mea Ristorante

Often, going to a restaurant in our area can seem like landing in the middle of Waiting for Guffman--amateurs acting their hearts out badly. Polished, well-managed Ca'Mea Ristorante is just the opposite. Two Warren Street storefronts attractively combined, plus, in season, an enormous garden, it also

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Arts

Opera: Something Old, Something New

Back in 1934, in nearby Hartford, CT, an organization called The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music financed the world premiere of Four Saints in Three Acts, an avant garde opera with music by Virgil Thomson and a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Performed with an all-black cast at the

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Parties

Berkshire Ides of March Gallery Hop

On Saturday evening, Ferrin Gallery's double opening--Cynthia Consentino's solo show Exquisite Corpse and a group show 2D + 3D--gave a crowd of artists and art aficionados an opportunity to contrast 2-dimentional and 3-dimentional views of like subjects. Later this spring, selected works from

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Parties

Berkshire Grown

The butcher, the baker, the fishmonger, the caterer, and farmers galore turned out in force on Wednesday evening for Berkshire Grown's March Maple Dinner, held in the festive party room upstairs at Spice in Pittsfield. Barrington Brewery and Pittsfield Brew Works kept everyone's thirst slaked as

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Food

Grassfed in Ghent: An Extended Two-Family Affair

The first defining moment for Dan Gibson occurred when his daughter Christine finally walked through the door of their house in Katonah, NY on September 13, 2001, still covered with ash from the catastrophe that had destroyed her NYU dormitory on the corner of Water and Wall Streets two days

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Community

Bears vs. Bulldozers: Who Will Control Our Future?

Bears vs. Bulldozers: Who Will Control Our Future?

By Lisa Green

Arts

One Chimp's Life: A Gripping Tale

You don't have to be an animal lover like the East Chatham author Elizabeth Hess to find her new book, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human absorbing. You don't even have to care much about the merits of the scientific experiment that brought Nim

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Arts

"Mark Twain" Returns for One Night

Hal Holbrook was just 34 years old when he took Broadway by storm (and by surprise) in 1959. "An extraordinary show called 'Mark Twain Tonight!' slipped into the Forty-first Street Theatre last evening. There should have been posters up all over the town to herald its

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