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Chris Lehrecke Opens New Design Hub in Hudson

Furniture and lighting designer Chris Lehrecke christened his new store location at 415 Warren Street in Hudson with an elegant opening on Saturday, June 4.  Lehrecke's curated collection of design objects also includes jewelry by Gabriella Kiss, jewelry and objects by Ted Muehling, gilded objects by Maureen Fullam

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BIFF's Sixth Wraps in Style

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports: The sixth annual Berkshire International Film Festival set Great Barrington and Pittsfield reeling with four days of nearly nonstop screenings and almost as many parties, and Festival founder Kelley Vickery (right, with BIFF board chair Al Togut) seemed to be everywhere at once.

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A Riverfront Benefit for the Empire State Pride Agenda

Our Wandering Eye blogger, Carey Maloney, and his architect husband, Hermes Mallea, have been passionate supporters of many LGBT causes over the years, but the fight for marriage equality speaks very directly to them. When they decided to finally get married two years ago, they couldn't have the

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Opening Night of the 6th Berkshire International Film Festival

For the opening of the 6th annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) on June 2 in Great Barrington, the red carpet outside the Mahawie Performing Arts Center was donated by Dash & Albert, the Pittsfield textiles company owned by Annie Selke, and inside some 500 people gathered to see the

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Pittsfield Season Opens with a Double Header at Ferrin Gallery and Berkshire Museum

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: Downtown Pittsfield was the place to be on Saturday, May 28 for lovers of wine and art, as Leslie Ferrin (in photo, on the right) reopened her North Street gallery with The Pursuit of Porcelain, a show she called one of her best

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TriArts Gala at the Salisbury School Boathouse

TriArts in Sharon, CT, is rethinking how it defines "crowd pleaser."   A unique blend of professional designers, directors, musicians, Equity actors, non-Equity actors, and dedicated community performers and volunteers, TriArts built its reputation on reprising Broadway classics primarily from the Rodger & Hammerstein era. After this year'

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Architecture for Art: Where Things Intersect

Architecture for Art, or A for A, a gallery that opened this past winter in Hillsdale, is, as its name implies, dedicated to exploring the nexus between two disciplines. Fittingly, for a concern that takes siting and points of convergence seriously, it is situated at an important crossroad for this

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The Mahaiwe Hits a High Note with Deborah Voigt

On Saturday, May 21, in Great Barrington, opera’s great dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt performed a rare intimate recital at the Mahaiwe Gala to benefit the theater's year-round programming fund. Local opera lovers were thrilled to have Voigt all to themselves, having just seen her star turn as

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Williamstown Theatre Festival Summer Preview in Lenox

Last Thursday in Lenox, the kids put on a show in the barn. But what kids! What a barn!  With a new, effervescent artistic director, Jenny Gersten (left with general manager Joe Finnegan) the storied Williamstown Theatre Festival is trying to woo residents of southern Berkshire County (and adjacent counties,

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Community Access to the Arts Spring Benefit

The Berkshires have become synonymous with "culture," but it's not just the world class museums, concerts and plays that define the county. It's organizations like Community Access to the Arts (CATA), which was founded in 1993, to nurture and celebrate the creativity of people

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Martha Stewart Leads the Charge at Trade Secrets

There's no one who shops as single-mindedly at Trade Secrets as Martha Stewart who paused briefly to answer her phone and chat with her one-time garden editor, Margaret Roach (left), the blogger (awaytogarden.com) and author of the memoir, And I Shall Have Some Peace There, which begins

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Winnakee Land Trust's High Society Bash

The Locusts on Hudson in Staatsburg, recently acquired by hotelier Andre Balasz, was the glamorous setting on Saturday, May 14, for a benefit for the Winnakee Land Trust, an organization dedicated to protecting open space and farmland in Northern Dutchess County.  At present only available for private functions (this event

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