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Molly O'Neill of "One Big Table" at Oblong

December 4 @ 4 - 6 p.m. To celebrate the spirit of the season, Oblong Books is hosting a community cookie swap with Molly O'Neill, author of the delectable new cookbook, One Big Table.  Oblong has invited local home cooks and professional bakers to rustle up a batch and

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Mann and Davis' "Sacred Landscapes"

Saturday, November 27 @ 6 - 8 p.m. Generally, the bigger the book, the slighter its content, but this rule of thumb is turned on its head by A.T. Mann and Lynn Davis's Sacred Landscapes: The Threshold Between Worlds (Sterling Publishers, $35).  Yes, it is a big, lushly

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99¢ & Up: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction at MCLA Gallery 51

Now - January 2, 2011 'Tis the season to make affordable artwork available to shoppers seeking artful alternatives to the mall or internet experience. This group show of art multiples is easy on the wallet, with price tags beginning at 99¢ and topping out at $99.99. The show is

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When Artists Take Their Private Lives Public

Now - December 12 Morning Ritual No. 29 by David Lebe There are many fine people who believe in privacy, who think that, for instance, their names should appear in the newspaper just three times in their lives—when they are born, when they marry, and when they die. None of

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Paul DeAngelis' Dear Mrs. Kennedy

By Kathryn Matthews Saying “I’m sorry for your loss...” is never easy.  Especially to the grieving widow of President John F. Kennedy. On a recent Saturday evening at Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck, author Paul De Angelis swallowed hard after reading a letter sent by a Navy chaplain

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Nicki Wilson Sees Beyond the Berkshires

The Maids at Pittsfield's New Stage through October 31 Ken De Loreto & Daniel Osman in "The Maids." Photo by Ritch Holben. "Pittsfield doesn't suffer from Berkshire elitism," says Nicki Wilson, who opened the New Stage Performing Arts Center above Richard Stanley&

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The Frankies' Spuntino Kitchen Companion

November 6 @ 3 – 6 p.m. Let's start by parsing the title. The Frankies are two chefs, both named Frank, who knew each other as kids, then went on to do a lot of swell chef-ing here and abroad before deciding (long before it became a trend—

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What's So Funny? Humor in Art Examined

Now - November 21 Real and Imagined by Phillip Knoll Any artist who attempts to express humor through his work runs the risk of being dismissed as a cartoonist or of having produced a visual one-liner.  At the Spencertown Academy, an exhibit,  “What’s So Funny?”, curated by the artist

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Jane Eckert's Local/Global Art Gallery

Eric Forstmann, October 23 - November 6 It's not everyday when a "local" artist and a "local" gallery attract more than local interest. (And when the local collectors include Kevin Bacon, Jill Clayburgh, Jane Curtin and Melva Bucksbaum & Ray Learsy.)  But Sharon artist Eric

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Review: "The Crucible" at Barrington Stage

Now through October 24 Barrington Stage artistic director Julianne Boyd has no fear of plays with dark themes and untrustworthy characters (e.g, her productions of Carousel, Sweeney Todd, A Streetcar Named Desire.) And there is no shortage of blood-chilling fear and moral corruption in Arthur Miller's

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Chris Innvar: Barrington Stage's Go-To Guy

Starring in The Crucible through October 24 It's hard to recall that not-so-long-ago Barrington Stage Company was the underdog theater company of the Berkshires. Before moving to its own home in Pittsfield in 2006, it mounted plays and musicals  in the cinder-block-walled auditorium

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William Kennedy to Read at Bard

Monday, October 4 @ 6:30 p.m. “What James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago, William Kennedy has done for Albany, New York,” wrote critic James Atlas in Vogue. Kennedy is the author of eight novels, including Legs and Ironweed, which won the Pulitzer Prize and

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