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A New March Tradition: MASS MoCA's High Mud Comedy Fest

By Amy Krzanik Here comes MASS MoCA again, giving you something you didn’t know you needed -- a comedy festival for the in-between months. The aptly titled High Mud Comedy Fest will run Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12, joining the museum’s roster of already popular music

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Georgia O’Keeffe Is In The Room At The Rockwell Museum

By Lisa Green Photo by Jack T. Douglas. Courtesy Jack T. Douglas / Colleen Webster. All rights reserved. On Saturday, Feb. 13, visitors to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. will encounter not only "The Four Freedoms" and "Golden Rule," but also Georgia O’Keeffe. In

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Life is a Cabaret (Again)!: A Divine Evening With Charles Busch

By Robert Burke Warren Photo by Frederic Aranda. Few, if any, entertainers are more full service than actor-singer-playwright-novelist-librettist-screenwriter-director-drag pioneer-force of nature, Charles Busch. Opportunities to see him in action, up close and personal, are rare, especially outside Manhattan, but if you’re

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History Becomes A Memoir, A Play, And A Call To Action

Lynda Blackmon Lowery. By Jamie Larson Sometimes there are important lessons we think we know so well we forget how we came to learn them. Before she turned 15, Lynda Blackmon Lowery began fighting against segregation. A performance of her memoir,Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, is taking

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IS183 Art School Inspires Date Night Creativity

By Lisa Green Whenever I’m out photographing people at events we’re covering for Rural Intelligence, I feel like a dinosaur with a camera. Except for the pros who might also be there with their multiple lenses and impressive equipment, I’m the only one still using an old-

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Echoes Of The Borscht Belt (Plus Latkes) At Valley Variety

By Jamie Larson There’s a German word, sehnsucht, which means a longing for a place you’ve never been. Marisa Scheinfeld’s beautiful photographs of the crumbling ruins of Borscht Belt retreats in the Catskill Mountain are arresting in this same complex, yet relatable way. Scheinfeld will be speaking

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Rodgers Book Barn: A Community Shop With A Long Shelf Life

Owner Maureen Rodgers poses next to the woodstove. By Amy Krzanik “Old books and CDs" read the bookmarks and business cards used to advertise Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, N.Y. And while that claim may technically be true — the barn-turned-bookshop does indeed offer those items —  the

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Kinderhook Century-Old Limericks Foretell 'Winter in America'

By Jamie Larson Who is Harold Van Santvoord? And why the hell are the 19th-century illustrated limericks from the long dead Kinderhook, New York writer’s journal being presented at one of our region's premier modern art venues? Past and present collided in 2006, when the Friends

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Crime In The Gilded Age? Grislier Than You Might Expect

By Jamie Larson Murder and mayhem may not be the first two words that come to mind when you think of our lovely Berkshires, but during the region’s “Gilded Age" life was, at times, a bit less civil than we’ve come to know it. From the 1870s

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An Artistic Revolution In New Milford: the harts gallery

Carmen Elsa Lopez Abramson. By Jacque Lynn Schiller When a gallery’s business plan is as inspiring as the art on its walls, you know the gallerists are seeking to do more than simply display pretty pictures — though the recently opened the harts gallery [sic] in New Milford, Conn. accomplishes

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Something Old And A Whole Lot New At Wind-Up Fest

By Amy Krzanik Some people find it difficult to cultivate the suspension of disbelief needed to enjoy most big-budget films. Luckily, the recent and explosive popularity of memoirs, reality TV shows and documentary films has filled in the entertainment gap. Their popularity can be attributed, in part, to the

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Spencertown Festival Of Books Turns The Page On Ten Years

David Highfill, Kimberly Rawson and Academy Board President Nick van Alstine at last year's preview party. By Amy Krzanik Not just another used book sale, the Spencertown Festival of Books spans four days (September 4-7) and features award-winning and bestselling authors of fiction, history, memoir, food

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