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The Clark Art Institute Gala: A Truly Grand Re-Opening

Lisa Green reports from Williamstown. On Saturday, June 28, the gala to celebrate the opening of the expanded Clark Art Institute was commensurate with the endeavor and investment that went into the creation of the magnificent new campus. More than 700 guests (and, it seemed, an almost equal number of

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Pera Mediterranean Bistro Brings A New Accent To Williamstown

By Amy Krzanik The first thing you notice about Pera's owner, Fahri Karakaya, is that he's there. I mean, he's in the restaurant and he's handing you the menu and he's pouring your water and he's checking on

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In Memoriam: John Harney of Harney & Sons Tea

John Harney, who founded a small tea company some thirty years ago in Salisbury, CT, which is now a prestigious and revered international brand with its headquarters in Millerton, NY, passed away suddenly at age 83 on June 17. Harney, whom many considered the unofficial mayor of northwestern Connecticut, was

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Food

Review: The Bistro Box Is A Roadside Classic

By Nichole Dupont There are those places that are just cursed. You know the kind. Switches hands every 1 to 3 years, nobody really knows what kind of food they serve anymore. You tentatively step into each new rendition only to leave disappointed or gripping your stomach with regret. There

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Copake Ag Center A Big Opportunity For Small Farmers

Jenny Elliott of Tiny Hearts Farm on the "new" 1951 tractor. By Nichole Dupont Pop open any regional real estate guide, and you will notice a cornucopia of old Victorians, rambling farmhouses and beautiful New England vistas. But the real estate that Monet would deem as priceless, in

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MASS MoCA: Party Like It’s 15!

By Robert Burke Warren Since the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a.k.a. MASS MoCA, opened its doors in 1999, it has garnered a reputation as one of the liveliest arts centers in the country, if not the world. That’s code for “great party museum." Keeping its

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Review: Pleasant & Main Is A Housy Hub

By Nichole Dupont I have this friend who used to live on the Lower East Side, and I would take the train into Manhattan to visit her in her little shoebox on the ninth floor. Saturday would be devoted to museum hopping, bargain hunting, and a Broadway show followed by

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10 Things To Love About Red Hook

By Jamie Larson The Town of Red Hook seems to encapsulate everything we like about Dutchess County and, indeed, all the pleasures of the eastern shore of the Hudson Valley. Pastoral farmlands surround and blend seamlessly into quaint villages that offer some incredibly refined metropolitan attractions while clothed in the

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Lost And Found: Forgotten Amusement Parks Of The Hudson Valley

Carousel at Kinderhook Lake's Electric Park By Amy Krzanik Don your finest bonnet and gather up the children, because it's 1920 and we're boarding the train for Electric Park in Kinderhook. Or perhaps you'd prefer we take the steamship up the Hudson

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Food

RI's Hamburger Helper

When we came up with the idea of doing a hamburger roundup similar to the one we did on egg sandwiches,we wondered not if we could gather enough really great hamburgers in our region, but if enough people would be willing to do the reviewing. Turns out it wasn’

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Sweets Too Good To Be Gluten Free? Not Anymore.

Madeleine's gluten-free Berkshire Crunchie cookies, strawberry shortcake cupcakes, and lemon chiffon mini muffins. By Amy Krzanik You've seen it everywhere lately – “gluten free" – and either grabbed five of the item or rolled your eyes. I admit, I have to laugh at some of the products

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The Shelter: Underground Wine Bar An Above-Average Hideout

Rhinebeck’s coolest bar-cum-restaurant comes to life at night.

By Andrea Pyros