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The First Annual Hudson Gay Pride Parade

There were rainbow flags flying in front of many shops and restaurants along Warren Street in Hudson on Sunday, June 20, as the raffish, stylish Columbia County city officially laid claim to being the gay capital of the Rural Intelligence region with the 1st Annual Hudson Gay Pride Parade. It

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Wrapped! Father & Son Mummy Reunion at Berkshire Museum

"Mummies represent the potential for people to be immortal," says Dr. Jonathan Elias, an Egyptologist and curator of the new exhibition Wrapped! Search for the Essential Mummy at the Berkshire Musem (June 19 - October 31. ) As he installed the exhibition featuring the museum's own 2,

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Prom Kids Galvanize Hudson for Gay Pride Weekend

That queen is no heroine; in fact, he is every bit as much a hero as the king.  Charlie Ferrusi and Tim Howard, the openly gay Hudson High School seniors who ran for Prom King and Queen and won by a landslide in a vote by the student body, made

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The Well-Groomed Grooms: Mark Johnson & Maurice Peterson

The guests at Mark Johnson and Maurice Peterson's wedding on June 5 in Lenox made an extra effort with their clothes and hair, but that was to be expected. After all, the two grooms own Seven.Salon.Spa, the improbably chic day spa and hair salon that they

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Berkshire Film Festival's Kelley Vickery Paints the Town Red

"Parties are not the point of BIFF," says Kelley Vickery, the hands-on founder of the Berkshire International Film Festival. "The programming is." Nevertheless, every year  BIFF ups the glamour factor for its parties, which is why Vickery negotiated with the Town of Great Barrington to use

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Manhattan Transfer: Twentysomethings Back in the Berkshires

By Fiona BreslinFor twentysomethings living in the 413, last call is early by Manhattan standards. A late night is 1:30 a.m., 2 o'clock if you’re lucky. But it’s the monotony that can become most unappealing: one bar, one street, 1 a.m., every night.

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Upstairs at Olana: Frederic Church Slept Here

During the period (c. 1869) that the great Hudson River School painter Frederic Church was dreaming up his home Olana with the architect Calvert Vaux, Victorian-era domestic architecture was going through it's most flamboyant and fantastical stage.  Though Church was too artistic and cosmopolitan to follow the lead

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Our Neighbor Joan Rivers: The RI Interview

Joan Rivers is one of us. When the hardest working woman in show business takes off the rare weekend, she heads to her house in Litchfield County, which was recently featured in The New York Times.  Instead of slowing down at age 76, she is busy performing, working on her

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One Night Only: Jill Clayburgh Channels Gail Sheehy & Ed Herrmann Brings Clay Felker Back to Life

It's a rainy afternoon in early May, and the esteemed actors Edward Herrmann and Jill Clayburgh are running lines on the pulpit of the whitewashed Lakeville United Methodist Church. They are rehearsing a play called Chasing the Tiger by Gail Sheehy, the Vanity Fair contributing editor who is

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Berkshire Playwrights Lab: Consider It a Cultural CSA

You could think of buying a ticket to the Berkshire Playwrights Lab benefit on Friday, May 21,  as akin to buying a membership in a CSA: you're paying in advance for a full summer share of free-to-all Wednesday night play readings at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in

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An Alternative Gallery Takes Root on a Millerton Farm

It's a not uncommon scenario in these parts: A New York City artist buys a derelict farm with a rundown barn that he plans to turn into a studio and, perhaps, a gallery space. Artist Henry Klimowicz and his wife, physician Kristie Schmidt, moved from Manhattan to Millerton

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Bohemian Rhapsody: At Home with Edna St. Vincent Millay

In her day, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was a rock star (although, of course, she predeceased rock-'n'-roll.)  Rich, famous and influential, she lived for 25 years in grand, back-to-the-land, high-bohemian style with her husband at Steepletop, their estate in Austerlitz, NY, where she died

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