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Celebrity Book Signings at Hammertown and Privet House

A bona fide celebrity—not just someone who is accomplished or has a well-known name—is a person whom you've always wanted to see in the flesh to determine whether the image you have from magazines and television is accurate.  Both Mario Batali, the restaurateur and Food Network

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Channelling Katharine Hepburn at TriArts in Sharon

There was no one more tweedy and New England than Katharine Hepburn, which is why it seems so apt that the TriArts Sharon Playhouse is presenting Tea at Five, a one woman show about the legendary actress, for the Thanksgiving weekend.   The production originated last summer at TheatreWorks in New

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Carrie Haddad Opens a Brave New Photography Gallery

Since she opened her first gallery in Hudson in 1991, Carrie Haddad has been exhibiting photography as well as paintings, most recently in her eponymous gallery at 622 Warren Street.  "I have a history of showing photography and an audience for it," she says. "But it'

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The Glory & The Grandeur: Antiquities Gallery Opens in Hudson

When the present is uncertain, it can be comforting to look to the past, particularly to a great and distant era.  Which is why no period in human history will ever supplant "the glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome" as a reliable wellspring of revivals.

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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jacques Kaplan in Kent

Jacques Kaplan, the pioneering art dealer in Kent, CT, was a larger than life figure.  A one-time Fifth Avenue furrier, who collaborated on coats with artists such as Frank Stella in the go-go sixties, he ran his Paris-New York-Kent Gallery in a caboose by Kent's old railroad station

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All That Jazz: Wanda Houston Sings with Heart & Soul

When Wanda Houston sings her zippy version of "Over the Rainbow," it's as if you've never heard the Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg tune before.  When she puts a gospel spin on Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin',"

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A Major Sol LeWitt Retrospective at Mass MoCA

Sol LeWitt, one of the most influential artists of the last half century, so opposed the notion of artist-as-celebrity, it's hard to imagine, had he lived, how he would have grappled with the opening this weekend at MASS MoCA.   Never mind that the exhibition is a landmark retrospective

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Duncan Sheik Comes to Albany & Great Barrington

Duncan Sheik, the 38-year-old alternative rocker and songwriter, has had a cult following since his days at Brown University.  He made Broadway history when Spring Awakening, his musical about adolescent sexuality, opened to rave reviews on Broadway. "A straight shot of eroticism steamed open last night at the Eugene

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The Murder of Lidice; A Multi-Media Event

With the very air around us still crackling with political energy, the Spencertown Academy will host a live performance of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem, "The Murder of Lidice" this Friday night. On June 10, 1942, the German government announced that it had destroyed the small

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"Over the Top: American Posters from World War I" Opens at the Norman Rockwell Museum

As anyone who has spent time at the Norman Rockwell Museum knows, the quintessential American illustrator was a politically-minded man with a highly developed social conscience.  Rockwell's spirit lives on not only in the museum's extraordinary permanent collection of his paintings, but also in the temporary

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"Forces of Nature" at Kent's Ober Gallery

"Some of my best clients are my former students," says Rob Ober, the former tennis pro at the Sharon Country Club who became an art dealer two years ago when he opened the Ober Gallery in Kent. "One day during a lesson, the man I was teaching

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6th Annual Local Authors Day in Sheffield

If you have any lingering doubts that our region has more than its fair share of writers in residence, just take a look at the list (below) of 49 authors and illustrators who will be signing books in Sheffield on Saturday, November 1, at the 6th annual Bushnell-Sage Library'

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