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Charity Begins at Home for Construct Inc.

As affluent as the Berkshires are, there are many people who struggle financially in the rural culture capital, and Construct Inc. provides comprehensive housing, support and educational services to anyone in the Southern Berkshire region who has lost his or her home or lacks the financial resources to maintain safe,

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Rhinebeck's Paper Trail Always on the Cutting Edge

To call Paper Trail a stationery store is misleading, because owners Maureen Missner and Serine Hastings not only sell classic and cutting-edge notepaper, greeting cards, books, and gift wrap but also artworks made of paper.  On Saturday May 8, the store had an opening party for an exhibition of paper

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Stewards of the Hudson Gather on its Bank

It was a party with a beautiful purpose.  On Saturday, as the mighty and the almost meek met on the grounds of Joan Davidson's elegantly unpretentious riverfront property for their annual update on efforts to preserve the glories of the Hudson River Valley, speechifying politicians didn't

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CATA's "Sticks & Stones" Is A Big Hit

Cultural Correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Lenox:Community Access to the Arts (CATA) provides creative opportunities for people with disabilities to express themselves and engage in crafts, fine art, and performance. This year’s May Day fundraiser, at Shakespeare & Company’s nearly sold-out Founder’s Theatre, put

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Berkshire Botanical Garden's Fantasy Garden Sheds Show

Trustees and friends of the Berkshire Botanical Garden gathered on Saturday evening to preview the show of garden shed/follies that will amuse visitors there throughout this season.  Five designers turned simple Amish sheds (generously donated by The Barn Raiser) into crowd-pleasing flights of fantasy, with nary a trowel in

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Spring for Art Celebrates the Blossoming of Millerton

Eclectic, eccentric and electric are all adjectives one could use to describe Millerton's Spring for Art evening on May 1, when nearly every business in town—from Elyse Harney Real Estate and Gilmor Glass to Little Gates & Company and the Motorworks—exhibited work by local artists, and

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'Material World' Opens at MASS MoCA

On Saturday, April 24, MASS MoCA unveiled Material World: Sculpture to Environment in which seven artists made site specific installations on the museum's second and third floor galleries. Using ordinary materials, the artists chosen by curator Susan Cross created sculptures that are meant to engaged. There seems to

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The Kent Film Festival Kicks Off with Campbell Scott

The 5th annual Kent Film Festival is the Little Engine That Could—a four-day celebration of cinema in a town without a movie theater. Each year, founders Frank and Patrice Galterio and an army of volunteers transform the Kent Community Center into a theater with the aroma of freshly made

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Can We Talk About the Berkshire International Film Festival?

On April 15 at  Haven in Lenox  the 5th annual Berkshire International Film Festival (June 3 - 6) announced its 2010 lineup. BIFF will still be headquartered in Great Barrington, but it's expanding to Pittsfield with screenings at the Beacon Cinema and the Little Cinema at the Berkshire

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Hudson Opera House's Movable Feast 2010

Executive Director Gary Schiro was everywhere at once, yet still managed to elude our camera, keeping things moving at a brisk pace at the Hudson Opera House's Movable Feast fundraising gala on Saturday, April 17.  Following cocktails at the Opera House, guests moved on to twenty-four dinner parties,

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A Double-Header Season Opener at Ferrin Gallery

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: As if there were any question, Leslie Ferrin has proven beyond doubt that she’s the most energetic art dealer in the Berkshires. On Wednesday, April 7 she and business partner Donald Clark hosted a reception for Lenox artist Paul Graubard, whose colorful,

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bluecashew Hosts Frances Palmer and John Barricelli

On Saturday afternoon, our favorite potter, Frances Palmer, and her Connecticut friend and neighbor, author of the just published The SoNo Baking Company Cookbook John Barricelli joined Gregory Triana and Sean Nutley at the bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy, in Rhinebeck for a festive signing, sipping, nibbling, meeting and greeting.   Everyone'

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