Food 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 By Editor
Community 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 By Editor
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 By Editor
Food 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 By Editor
Community 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 By Editor
Food 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 By Editor
Community 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 By Editor
Community 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 By Editor
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’ By Editor
Food 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 By Editor
Food The Shelter: Underground Wine Bar An Above-Average Hideout Rhinebeck’s coolest bar-cum-restaurant comes to life at night. By Andrea Pyros
Community 10 Things to Love About Salisbury By Nichole Dupont Connecticut’s Northwest Corner has long enjoyed a reputation for the finer things that the region has to offer. Quirky restaurants, unique retail shops (including fabulous bookstores) and a thriving antiques culture make the area a hotspot – literally – for a spring drive into the cultivated country. Salisbury By Editor
