Arts Berkshire Opera Festival 2026 Expands with Tragedy, Comedy, and Residency An 11-year-old opera company that fills the Mahaiwe each summer adds a training program built around a rarely performed Grétry comedy By Jamie Larson • •
Arts Farm-to-Easel: See Jill Duffy Grow Her own Paint at Farm & Field Walnut ink, wild vine charcoal, and oil and cold wax paintings made from the same land they depict—plus foraging walks, a pigment lab, and 210 acres of trails for Upstate Art Weekend. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate A Barn Conversion on 10 Acres, Tended by the Same Owners for 52 Years, in Chatham A stone fireplace, wide-plank floors, a lofted primary suite, and gardens that have had half a century to mature. By Jamie Larson •
Arts A Triple Feature for Mel Brooks's 100th Birthday at the Crandell "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles," and "Young Frankenstein" hosted by FilmColumbia Festival Director Calliope Nicholas. By Jamie Larson •
Style First Kinderhook Street Tag Sale in Chatham The first neighborhood-wide sale brings 35-plus households to one of Columbia County's most historic streets By Jamie Larson •
Arts An Endangered Instrument, Revived and Funkified: Oki Dub Ainu Band at PS21 The tonkori meets reggae, dub, and afrobeat as Japan's most celebrated indigenous music act makes a rare US appearance in Chatham By Jamie Larson •
Arts PS21 Opens Summer with Next Festival of Emerging Artists June 5 World premieres by five composers from Spain, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, and Brazil. By Jamie Larson •
Food Hudson-Berkshire Wine and Food Festival in Chatham The festival returns to the Columbia County Fairgrounds in Chatham for its annual Memorial Day Weekend run on May 23 and 24 By Jamie Larson •
Arts PS21 Summer 2026 Season Preview: Groundtone, Premieres, and Global Voices With 10 premieres, returning festivals, and artists from around the world, PS21’s 2026 season turns its Chatham campus into a living laboratory for contemporary performance. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Arts "André Is an Idiot" Screening with the Director in Chatham Director Tony Benna joins the Crandell this Saturday. The film project began when André Ricciardi, a San Francisco ad man was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer—because he didn't get a colonoscopy. By Jamie Larson •
Community New Yorker Artist Maira Kalman Opens “Shaker Outpost” With Shaker Museum in Chatham At the Shaker Museum’s new pop-up space in Chatham, Maira Kalman brings her wry, tender eye to the sect’s material culture, pairing favorite objects from the collection with new paintings that explore utility, beauty, and belief. By Bill Arning •
Arts The Dark: PS21’s Winter Festival of Performance This Week A weeklong festival of performance, installation, music, dance, theatre, and community-oriented experiences across more than a dozen locations February 16-22. By Jamie Larson •
