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Gutsy Gals Wanted: Women in Film Honored

By Nichole Dupont Like the skies over the region, the recent Oscars was a dismal affair punctuated by political outbursts of truth (thank you, Patricia Arquette and John Legend) and abysmal-even-for-Hollywood underrepresentation of women across the board. Writer/director/actor and pretty much everything elser Cathryn Michon [in photo, right]

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Get A Round: Scoring At The Meet Market

By Amy Krzanik Tinder, Grindr, GROWLr, Match, Hinge, Scruff: No, this isn’t a long-lost e.e. cummings poem or a list of possible names for a new Brooklyn bar; it’s a list of dating sites and apps and there’s plenty more where they came from. But for

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The Rural We: Steele Andrews

The Silvanus Lodge in Hillsdale is a popular destination for skiers and summer visitors thanks to its affordability and convenient location. Its charismatic owner, Steele Andrews, is another reason guests keep coming back. Approaching his 14th year as owner of the Lodge, he takes great pains to make sure his

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The Rural We: Gabriel Squailia

From conception to publication, Gabriel Squailia's debut novel, Dead Boys, has been in the works for nearly 15 years. Well-known for spinning parties at Jacob's Pillow and Berkshire Museum as DJ BFG, he spent years perfecting his writing before making the jump into the literary world.

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The Rural We: Amy Wynn

Photo: Nancy DePecol Amy Wynn is the Executive Director of the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council, based in Torrington. It's a job she relishes because it allows her to combine her experience in arts administration with working in the community she loves. She acknowledges many people have questions about

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The Rural We: Tracy Huling

Tracy Huling began using her background in public policy, filmmaking, research and analysis three years ago to found and direct the Prison Public Memory Project in Hudson. Its aim is to use storytelling, new media and research to tell the story of the Hudson Correctional Facility, which was known as

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10 Ways To Survive A Snow Day In The RI Region

We invite you to peruse the nearly eight years’ worth of Rural Intelligence archives. It's a good time to make a list of the restaurants you still need to try or the stores you haven’t yet shopped. Not feeling it? Consider some of the options we’ve

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The Rural We: Richard and Abby Tovell

After a decade of living and working in London, Abby and Richard Tovell — along with their two children and their freelance graphic design business, T Square Design Studio — picked up stakes and relocated to Housatonic in 2010. T Square has since become the secret weapon of some of the area’

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For Gibson Buffs, OK Guitars Is The Sound of Dreams

By Robert Burke Warren Charlie Gelber makes dreams come true. A semi-retired NYC film editor and director, Gelber collects and deals stringed instruments, specializing in the shapely Gibson ES-335 electric guitar. From his Kent, CT store, OK Guitars, he sells them, mostly to men aged 48 to 68 who desire

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The Dish On Dining At Downton Abbey

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Fourth 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival Is Collaborative And Creative

Eli Merritt Sculpture for Ten Spot. By Lisa Green If you’ve watched Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival develop since its 2012 inception, you’ve witnessed the ideal of community collaboration in action. Returning for its fourth year February 12-22, the wintertime festival, which was created to get people

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The Rural We: Liana Toscanini

Liana Toscanini is the Development and Marketing Director at Community Access to the Arts (CATA), the organization she has been involved with for 13 years out of its 22-year history, five as a board member and seven on staff. CATA's long-term success, Liana believes, is due to the

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