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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,

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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.

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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

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Stage AND Screen: Broadcasting Broadway to the Berkshires

Chris O'Dowd and James Franco. Photo by Richard Phibbs. By Nichole Dupont The greatest moments are sadly the most fleeting. And what is more fleeting than the stage? We mourn that we never saw the sweat on Lawrence Olivier’s newly-muscled forearm in his stage debut as

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Acclaimed Photographer Stephen Shore Celebrates Retrospective

Stephen Shore: Survey (Aperture, 2014) By Robert Burke Warren If you want to know what chutzpah looks like, you should be at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck this Sunday. Acclaimed photographer and longtime Bard faculty member Stephen Shore, celebrating the publication of photo book Stephen Shore: Survey, will talk about his

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From China To Chatham: The Marvelous Mystique Of Mah Jongg

By Lisa Green Not long ago, I was asked 1) if I wanted to join a Hadassah group, and 2) would I like to play Mah Jongg with a group of ladies. Right there, right then, I knew I’d passed some sort of demographic milestone. Wasn’t it just

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How Playwright Winter Miller Got The Story Of 'In Darfur'

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Williamstown Film Festival: The Screenplay's The Thing

Match By Lisa Green Its winning formula has kept it a Berkshire fall tradition, but the Williamstown Film Festival is opening its 16th year with an experiment, Project Screenplay, and if you’ve ever considered writing a screenplay (or just happen to have one on hand), you shouldn’t miss

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In Its 15th Year, FilmColumbia Branches Out — To Hudson

By Jamie Larson It’s movie time in Columbia County and this year the FilmColumbia Festival is celebrating its 15th year by expanding its offerings to a venue in Hudson for the duration, October 22-26. Of course, the festival remains centered where it all began, the Crandell Theatre in

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To Tell The Truth: Speak Up Storytelling Comes To The Mount

By Amy Krzanik “My friends have always said that I’ve lived one of the most unfortunate lives (including surviving homelessness and an armed robbery), so I’ve got a lot of material for stories," says Matthew Dicks [left] who will be at The Mount in Lenox with his

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Review "An Enemy of the People" at Barrington Stage

Arthur Miller’s 1950 play, An Enemy of the People, which he adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s prophetic 1882 play, is the story of a small Norwegian town called Kirsten Springs whose prosperity and identity are dependent on its salubrious waters, which the town doctor discovers are, in fact, toxic.

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John Waters Brings His Filthy World To Hudson (To Fundraise!)

Photo by Greg Gorman By Robert Burke Warren Ever since filmmaker-performer-author John Waters unleashed his transgressive 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos on an unsuspecting public, he’s accepted numerous titles: The Pope of Trash, The Baron of Bad Taste, The Prince of Puke. With a reputation like that,

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