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A Night on the Nile at the Berkshire Museum

To celebrate the opening of Wrapped! Search for the Essential Mummy, the Berkshire Museum had a "Night on the Nile" gala on June 18. Several guests wore Egyptian-style jewelry but nobody took the theme more seriously than Vicki Bonnington (left, with musuem executive director Stuart Chase) who looked

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Steig Show Gala Opening at Norman Rockwell Museum

Over 200 guests and admirers visited Norman Rockwell Museum on Saturday, June 12, to attend the opening of the exhibition "William Steig: Love & Laughter." Also in attendance at the opening/dance party were the artist's wife Jeanne Steig, his daughter Maggie, granddaughters Melinda and Lucy,

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The Clark's Opening of "Picasso Looks at Degas"

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Williamstown: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s annual summer exhibition openings are always something of a moveable feast, as guests shuttle across the bucolic campus from the party tent to the special exhibition galleries to the Stone Hill Center, and

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Equine Advocates' Barn-to-Barn Open House

In 1996, Equine Advocates, under the leadership of Susan Wagner, started saving horses from slaughter, abuse, and neglect.  In 2004, they established a 140-acre rescue farm on Route 66 just north of Chatham village.  Today, EA has nearly 100 horses, ponies, donkeys and even a couple of goats under their

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Stargazing in Salisbury: Jill Clayburgh, Ed Herrmann & Co.

For 90 un-airconditioned minutes,  Jill Clayburgh and Edward Herrmann showed how great actors perform in a hot, humid New England church for no money: they perform with the same grace and gusto as if it were an opening night on Broadway. Joined onstage by Star Herrmann, Rick Trabucco and Gail

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The Show Must Go On

At their season finale gala performance, Close Encounters with Music's artistic director and cellist,  Yehuda Hanani, managed to deliver his inimitable opening remarks to an evening of Czech  music, then announced that he could not play, as usual.   Felled by a persistent (rumored to be tick-related) fever, he

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Opening Night of 5th Berkshire International Film Festival

There was a red carpet outside the old Great Barrington firehouse where the 5th annual Berkshire International Film Festival had a sit down dinner party for 225 guests on June 3,  before a screening next door at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center of two documentaries about accomplished performers in their

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Columbia County Land Conservancy Food & Family Fête

Rural Intelligence's friend and sometime contributor Paige Orloff, one of the founders of The Sister Project reports: Over 1,000 people attended the Columbia Land Conservancy's annual Memorial Day weekend fundraisier, a family-friendly afternoon of food (catered by Carlucci Catering  of Chatham, Georgia Ray's

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Hancock Shaker Village Opens A 50th Anniversary Exhibit

Cultural correspondernt Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: On the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend, Hancock Shaker Village, which is celebrating its 50th year as a living history museum, opened a new exhibit, True & Honest Before the World, for which 30 celebrity curators such as filmmaker Ken Burns,

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TriArts Gala at the Salisbury School Boat House

On May 29, TriArts— the hybrid semi-professional theater at the Sharon Playhouse that usually features professional actors in the leading roles with college theater majors in many of the supporting roles—had its annual summer preview and benefit at the stunning Salisbury School Boathouse on the Twin Lakes. Dazzled by

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Berkshire Playwrights Lab Rocks the Mahaiwe

The Berkshire Playwrights Lab kicked of the summer theater season at its gala at the Mahaiwe on May 21 with an evening of staged readings of seven new one-act plays featuring actors such as Jay Thomas, Dan Lauria, Treat Williams, Elizabeth Franz, Lauren Ambrose and Kristen Johnston.  BPL's

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The Sun Shined for Trade Secrets' 10th Anniversary

The weather is always a major topic of conversation at Trade Secrets, the massive plant and antique sale to benefit Women's Support Services, and this year was no exception. The high winds toppled small trees and topiaries and chilled bones even as the brilliant sunshine had everyone squinting

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