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Gay & Arty: LGBTQ Exhibitions in Hudson & Pittsfield

The Hudson renaissance has always had a gay subtext with so many of the antique dealers, shopkeepers and home restorers being gay.  But it wasn't until this spring when the drag queen/event planner Trixie Starr organized (in just two months!) the first Hudson Pride Parade  that the

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Hark! The Medieval Faire Returns to Ventfort Hall

Chivalry is back in the Berkshires this weekend as Ventfort Hall, the Jacobean-revival mansion that houses The Museum of the Gilded Age once again provides a semi-persuasive setting for its crowd-pleasing Medieval Faire.   Last year a mix of locals and tourists drawn to the region specifically for

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Berkshire Botanical Garden's 76th Annual Harvest Festival

The Berkshire Botanical Garden is going back to its roots. "The Harvest Festival is our biggest and most popular event of the year, and with all the music, hay rides, food and crafts people often forget that they are at a botanical garden," says Molly Boxer, who has

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Cycling Season: Three Unique Bike Rides for Good Causes

Is there any better way to take in the glories of fall than on a bicycle?  The hills and roadways of the Rural Intelligence region provide cycling challenges and quintessential country vistas, and for the next three Sundays—September 19 in Lime Rock, September 26 in the southern Berkshires, and

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20 Questions for Millerton Sportswriter Peter Richmond

Peter Richmond's love for professional football the-way-it-used-to-be is clear from the books he writes. Last year, he co-wrote with Frank Gifford The Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever, which made The New York Times best-seller list. Now,

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Germantown Celebrates the Big 3-0-0!

By Kathryn Matthews America was built on the backs of diverse immigrant groups.  But when recalling those immigrants with hard-luck tales to tell, the Germans aren’t likely top-of-mind. While Germany ushers in the 20th anniversary of its East-West reunification on October 3rd, Germantown, New York,

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Berkshire Forum : A Three Day Think Tank Debuts in Pittsfield

The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield is being turned into a Think Tank called The Berkshire Forum from September 14 -16. Tina Chase and Mary Collins George—veteran organizers of the Gilder/Forbes Telescom Conferences who work out of offices above Tom's Toys in Great Barrington—are bringing together

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Girls Gone Wild at the Goshen Agricultural Fair

Celia McGee, a journalist who has been spending weekends in Goshen, CT, for many years, reports from the fairgrounds: The Goshen Fair, held every Labor Day Weekend at the Goshen Agricultural Society fairgrounds in Litchfield County, is famous for its view of the Litchfield Hills, its dairy barn, its democratic

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Who Needs Disneyworld? We Have County Fairs

It's the season for the annual county and country fairs, and they can be schizophrenic affairs—earnest agricultural competitions side by side with scary rides and schlock. The carnival side of the Dutchess County Fair is Coney Island-in-the-country, featuring the usual games of chance along

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Solid Sound Festival: A Wilco Lovefest at MASS MoCA

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from North Adams: Even before the Solid Sound Festival began, love was in the air, as the local music media gathered for a press conference on the afternoon of Friday, August 13. Reporters peppered MASS MoCA’s Joe Thompson and Wilco band members Jeff Tweedy,

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Pittsfield's Word X Word Festival: Not for Hipsters Only

Jim Benson, the owner of Mission Bar + Tapas and Pittsfield's leading hipsterpreneur, wants to make it clear that the second annual Word X Word festival—a celebration of the performed word that is written, spoken or sung—is not as avant garde as its marketing suggests. "There&

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Festival Frenzy: A Weekend of Music & Happenings

No matter where you go this weekend—from Wassaic to North Adams, from Norfolk to Annandale-on-Hudson—you will find a one-of-a-kind festival. If it sounds too good to be true, it is because there is no way to take advantage of everything that is going

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