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The Good Life: Documentary Finds True Happiness In The Shire

By Nichole Dupont The longer we live, the more essential it is to continue to drink from the elusive goblet of happiness. But where does the elixir come from? Documentary filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll (executive producer of "Born into Brothels" and director of "Who Does She Think

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The School: One Year And Art Five Decades In The Making

El Anatsui, “Stressed World" (as installed at The School, Kinderhook, NY). By Robert Ayers It has been almost exactly a year since Jack Shainman changed the contemporary art landscape in this part of the world by opening The School in Kinderhook, NY. On Sunday, May 17, he is throwing

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Season Preview 2015: RI's Can't-Miss Picks

Another summer, another embarrassment of riches when it comes to performing arts in the Rural Intelligence region. As usual, there's enough theater, music and dance (and just about everything else) to go around. Though we know the winter months offer their own pleasures, the arrival of the long-awaited

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Basilica Hudson's 24-Hour Drone: A Sound And Social Scene

Photo by Matt Charland By Jamie Larson A whisper, a warning, a quick snap or an unceasing tone — sound is elemental. Starting Saturday, April 25, at 3 p.m., the waterfront industrial cathedral that is Basilica Hudson will become a “temple of sound" as it embarks on a super

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The 'New Brooklyn' Redux, But This Time In Music

Looking out from Dope Jams, a vinyl mecca that moved from Brooklyn to Oak Hill, NY at the base of the Catskills. By Jaime Lowe It’s official: Brooklyn has migrated. These days, Brooklyn is more than just a borough in New York. For better or worse, it’s an

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BSO's Free Chamber Concert Is A Tease To Tanglewood Season

Poring over the 2015 Tanglewood season brochure is a pretty delicious activity, but it also leads to jonesing for the Boston Symphony Orchestra to get here already. You’ll have to wait until June for the entire orchestra to arrive, but a healthy contingent will be giving a (free) concert

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Donkey Inspiration: 'Travels With Missie — The Artists' View'

Missie (as Carousel Donkey), by Susan Edwards By Jeremy D. Goodwin Kevin O’Hara’s 1979 sojourn with a donkey named Missie has already been well documented. O’Hara, a lifetime Pittsfield resident (and quite proud of it, thank you very much!) who seems to have as many stories to

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WCMA Launches A First: 'Warhol By The Book'

Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol’s Index (Book), 1967 (pre-publication mock-up designer’s copy). Williams College Museum of Art, Gift of Richard F. Holmes, Class of 1946. © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. By Lisa Green Even now, 28 years after

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Searching For The Moon: Amber Chand's Heroine's Journey

Photo by Karen Schiltz By Amy Krzanik Not just anyone can pull off a one-woman show. You need to have the talent to write one and the energy to perform it, as well as a story interesting enough to hold an audience’s attention. None of these were problems for

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Brendan O'Connell, The 'Walmart Painter,' Turns Abstract

One of Brendan O’Connell’s foot-square paintings currently on display in Washington Depot. By Robert Ayers You wouldn't normally think of going to a real estate office to see an art exhibit. But whether or not you are looking to buy a place in Litchfield County, you

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Author Megan Bergman Brings 'Almost Famous Women' To Oblong Books

By Nichole Dupont There is almost no drawl left in Megan Bergman’s voice. The North Carolina native has become almost completely northernized thanks to life on her Vermont farm which she shares with her veterinarian husband, their two young daughters, and a slew of feathered and four-legged critters. Maybe

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For The Love Of Lit: Lenox Celebrates Edith Wharton's Birthday And More

By Amy Krzanik The Mount in Lenox has been hitting it out of the park, or in its case, hitting it out of the garden, with an eclectic and thought-provoking lineup of year-round interactive literature events celebrating former inhabitant Edith Wharton and the written and spoken word in general. This

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