Arts Storey Celebrates 35 Years With A Community Book Sale North Adams' own Storey Publishing will hold a community book sale to celebrate its 35 years in business. By Editor
Arts Q&A With Francis Greenburger, Entrepreneur In Our Midst By Jamie Larson Francis Greenburger has led an astonishingly successful, self-made, elite life. Last year he condensed a lifetime of accomplishments and struggles into a co-authored biography called “Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur.” On Saturday, Nov. 4, the longtime/part-time Columbia County resident will read from his book By Editor
Arts The Meaning Of Movement: Choreographer Paula Josa-Jones By Amy Krzanik You don’t need to be a “horse person” to read this article. You don’t have to have a background in dance, either. Although Paula Josa-Jones has had years of practice as both a rider and a choreographer, the only thing she asks you to bring By Editor
Arts Food, Farming And Sex: Alice Clayton's Hudson Valley Series By Andrea Pyros Inspiration comes at the oddest of moments. For best-selling romance novelist Alice Clayton, the idea for her sexy, saucy, food-obsessed Hudson Valley-based trilogy — Nuts, Cream of the Crop and Buns — came to her while she was waiting in line to buy cucumbers at her local St. Louis By Editor
Arts Dani Shapiro's 'Hourglass' Explores A Marriage Over Time In her new memoir, Hourglass (Knopf), Dani Shapiro of Litchfield County excavates and celebrates her marriage of nearly 20 years to screenwriter/director Michael Maren. In her previous critically acclaimed memoirs—Slow Motion and Devotion —Shapiro has put her personal history under the microscope to come to terms with her By Editor
Arts 'Love Where You Eat' Brings Joan Osofsky To The Table By Dan Shaw “Here in the country, when you invite people to dinner, they always ask, “What can I bring?” writes Joan Osofsky in her new book, Entertaining in the Country: Love Where You Eat (Rizzoli.) Osofsky, who owns the Hammertown stores in Great Barrington, Pine Plains and Rhinebeck, understands By Editor
Arts Joan Juliet Buck Leaves Paris And New York For…Rhinebeck By Dan Shaw Like many other “expats” in our region who’ve traded urban glamour and turmoil for rural simplicity and quietude, Joan Juliet Buck once had power, influence and an expense account. She was formidable, as they say in France, where she was editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris from 1994 By Editor
Arts The RuraList: Bestselling Winter Reads Of The RI Region We thought it would be interesting to canvas some of our region’s booksellers to see what books are among the most popular buys right now. Would a theme emerge? Sort of. Not surprisingly, books that are overtly political are selling well, as are nonfiction titles that help us live By Editor
Arts Seedy Stories: Peter C. Vermilyea's "Witches Of Litchfield County" By Amy Krzanik Horror movies and haunted houses are all well and good for a Halloween fright-night, but sometimes the scariest thing of all is the disclaimer “based on a true story.” Yikes. In keeping with the spirit(s) of the season, local historian Peter C. Vermilyea will explore a By Editor
Arts Ladies First: Grace Bonney Is In Great Company Author photo by Christopher Sturman By Amy Krzanik Writer Grace Bonney, founder of the immensely popular long-running website Design*Sponge, gets right to the point in her new book, In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs. In the very first sentence of By Editor
Arts 'Come Hungry And Ready To Read' At Basilica's Read and Feed By Jamie Larson It's practically a given that every event at Basilica Hudson, the adventurous art and culture venue in a former factory down by the river in Hudson, New York, will be unique, original, and feel like it could exist nowhere else. Read & Feed, on Saturday, By Editor
Arts Film, Television, Books, Dancing: David Black Does It All By Amy Krzanik Calling him prolific doesn’t do him justice; David Black is truly a man for all seasons. The Ghent, N.Y. resident (where he’s lived for the past 40 years with his wife, Barbara Weisberg, an author and the creator of the TV show Charles In By Editor
