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Construct Inc. Builds a Better Community

Monday is traditionally chef's night off in most of the Berkshires, but many of the best cooks and most generous restaurateurs were serving delicious tastings last Monday to the throngs at the Mayfest fundraiser for Construct Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides comprehensive housing, support and educational services

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Hudson Opera House Feasts Again!

The Hudson Opera House is both impossible and easy to overlook.  Impossible because its doors are always open, and something is always going on there.  Easy, because most of what happens there is not for the sort of people who showed up on Saturday, April 30 at HOH's

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BIFF's Sixth Season Announced at Haven

Cultural corespondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: Cineastes and supporters gathered at Haven Cafe in Lenox on Thursday, April 28 to be among the first to hear the roster for the Sixth Annual Berkshire International Film Festival. Founder and executive director Kelley Vickery (left, with Berkshire Botanical Garden&

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Berkshire Botanical Garden Opens the Season on a High

Everyone was looking up at the Berkshire Botanical Garden as it opened it season with a reception for the exhibit Out on a Limb: Architects Take a Bough which was curated by Matt Larkin and Elizabeth Hamilton. The designers are Robyn Sandberg (left, in her bamboo-and-climbing-cord construction), Michael Trapp, Joseph

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Hudson Dines Out for Life

Now in its seventh year, Dining Out for Life is the day in Hudson when lunch or dinner at participating restaurants means a minimum 25%-of-the-check donation to the The AIDS Council of Northeastern NY.  Each restaurant has a Council-appointed "ambassador" to meet and greet, turning what normally

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Carrie Haddad Celebrates Her 20th

A huge crowd, spilling onto the street, gathered on Saturday, April 23, to help Carrie Haddad celebrate the 20th anniversay of the Carrie Haddad Gallery. Twenty years ago when Haddad (left, with her Warren Street neighbor Mark Wasserbach of Mark's Antiques) held her first art exhibition in Hudson,

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Litchfield Jazz Festival Scholarship Party

The Litchfield Jazz Festival is more than an August weekend of great music on the campus of the bucolic Kent School. It is also the culmination of a four-week camp that offers intensive music education for some 550 students. The camp is a unique opportunity for students interested in jazz—

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A Surreal Benefit for IS 183 Art School of the Berkshies

The Berkshires prides itself as having a strong creative economy, and there was double-digit creativity on parade at the IS 183 "Anime Hothouse" benefit on Saturday night in Lenox.  It was clear proof once more that beneath the Yankee rectitude the Berkshires is an exciting, slightly eccentic place.

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Opening of Nari Ward: 'Sub Mirage Lignum' at MASS MoCA

MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, opened two exhibitions last Saturday night. On the second floor of Building 4, Nari Ward made enormous installations for a show titled Sub Mirage Lignum, a hybrid zone made of mostly repurposed materials where the real and the imaginary are intermingled, forcing visitor to

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Dia:Beacon Sparkles in the Sunlight

DIA:Beacon normally specializes in exhibitions of large-scale pieces that are suited to its expansive, skylit galleries—all 240,000 square feet of them.  But there is one current exhibition that bucks that venerable institution's tendency to think big: Koo Jeong A’s Constellation Congress: A Reality Upgrade

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Vassar & New York Stage and Film Summer Preview

Twenty-seven years ago, Mark Linn-Baker and some other New York actors set up a summer program at Vassar that has blossomed into an annual festival where established and emerging theater artists collaborate on new productions in all stages of development.  Though most of the professional actors come from New York

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Hudson Pride Foundation Makes Big Plans for June

Last year, the newly formed Hudson Pride Foundation organized its first annual parade in less than six weeks.  The organization has been making plans for this year's pride festival ever since, and Peter Frank hosted a fundraiser at his beautiful Hudson house last weekend to recruit sponsors and

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