Rural Intelligence
Lenio Kaklea's "The Birds" Makes Its New York Premiere at PS21
Arts

Lenio Kaklea's "The Birds" Makes Its New York Premiere at PS21

The Paris-based choreographer explores mating rituals, hunting patterns, and the desire to be seen through the lens of avian behavior.
By Jamie Larson •
Fall Food Finds: New Dishes, Harvest Dinners, and Cider Donuts
Food

Fall Food Finds: New Dishes, Harvest Dinners, and Cider Donuts

From a smokehouse built on an apple orchard to the season's best-argued-about donuts, here's what's actually happening on plates across the region this harvest season.
By Jamie Larson •
Eisenhower Resurrected By Barrington Stage
Arts

Eisenhower Resurrected By Barrington Stage

Tony winner John Rubinstein and Broadway veteran David Sitler split a nine-day run playing a president who put country over party
By Jamie Larson •
Infamous Occult Artist Cameron Gets Rare Exhibition in Pine Planes
Arts

Infamous Occult Artist Cameron Gets Rare Exhibition in Pine Planes

Kent Fine Arts' fall exhibition, on view September 25 through November 14, gathers work by Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel—an artist who spent decades avoiding the commercial gallery world entirely after a 1957 show got shut down by police.
By Jamie Larson •
"Widow's Weeds" Brings an 84-Year-Old's Fight for a Revolutionary War Pension to the Stissing Center
Arts

"Widow's Weeds" Brings an 84-Year-Old's Fight for a Revolutionary War Pension to the Stissing Center

Dyan Wapnick's play, funded through Dutchess County's REV250 grant program, returns by popular demand after last fall's premiere
By Jamie Larson •
Norfolk Church Screens "Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy"
Arts

Norfolk Church Screens "Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy"

The award-winning documentary traces the movement's roots to a 1970s tax exemption ruling, not Roe v. Wade, in a screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.
By Jamie Larson •
Millbrook Library Tours Beatrix Farrand's Wild Garden in Hyde Park
Style

Millbrook Library Tours Beatrix Farrand's Wild Garden in Hyde Park

Director of Horticulture Ashley Gamell leads a walk through the newly installed native plant garden at Bellefield, at peak abundance in September
By Jamie Larson •
A Close Look at the Giant Wooden Ribcage, Slowly Decaying in the Woods at the Clark
Arts

A Close Look at the Giant Wooden Ribcage, Slowly Decaying in the Woods at the Clark

A guided discussion of "the End" closes out the "Ground/work: A Close Look" series, examining a sculpture built to disappear.
By Jamie Larson •
Feet Keep the Beat Connects Culture Through Percussive Dance at the Adams Theater
Arts

Feet Keep the Beat Connects Culture Through Percussive Dance at the Adams Theater

The Somerville-born percussive dance festival, now touring beyond its home base, closes with a free community workshop taught by featured artists.
By Jamie Larson •
“The Last Quiet Place”: Coley Cary Photographs Every Public Library in Berkshire County
Community

“The Last Quiet Place”: Coley Cary Photographs Every Public Library in Berkshire County

"The Last Quiet Place" documents all 31 public libraries in the county. Part photo project, part love letter, part response to a national decline in library visits.
By Jamie Larson •
A Renovated Cabin With a Serious Kitchen, on 4 Wooded Acres in Copake
Real Estate

A Renovated Cabin With a Serious Kitchen, on 4 Wooded Acres in Copake

Three bedrooms, a chef's kitchen with a high-BTU gas range, a wood insert fireplace, and new HVAC and windows throughout.
By Jamie Larson •
Old Growth Modernist Design: Ten Broeck Cottage in Livingston
Style

Old Growth Modernist Design: Ten Broeck Cottage in Livingston

Two architects spent two decades transforming a crumbling 1734 Dutch farmhouse into a modernist family home—salvaging its history in the beams, floorboards, and a dining table cut from a fallen sugar maple.
By Mary Angeles Armstrong •

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