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A Summer Preview Party for Vassar's Powerhouse Theater

It was the ideal weather to be thinking about summer theater in the Hudson Valley. New York Stage & Film and Vassar invited its local supporters and advisory board for a preview on April 7 of the upcoming season, and the guests spilled out onto the terrace of the Alumnae

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A Riotous Night in the Reading Room of the Lenox Library

There was no one shushing anybody at the Lenox Library on Saturday night for the first Burlesque for Books fundraiser. Indeed, the reading room was filled with laughter  along with hoots and hollers from the balcony as the brilliant Sugar Shack girls did their brainy brand of burlesque, which was

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Berkshire Grown's Annual Maple Dinner at the Red Lion Inn

The annual Berkshire Grown Maple Dinner is an exercise in counterintuitive programming. Held in late March (when there are few local vegetables) on a Monday night (when weekenders can't buy tickets), the dinner gets bigger every year, and more than locavores packed into the main dining room of

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Culture Mix! NW Connecticut Arts Council Welcomes Spring

The stunning glass-box Nutmeg Conservatory of the Arts—one of the country's premiere ballet schools—was the setting for the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council’s spring Culture Mix, which brought together artists, actors, teachers, politicians and culture aficionados in downtown Torrington, CT. Local caterer Jill Nicolson outdid herself

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Home of the Brave: A Photographer Honors Berkshire Veterans

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield:  The stars aligned for photographer Bill Wright about six weeks ago, when he approached Megan Whilden, Director of Pittsfield’s Office of Cultural Development, about mounting an exhibition of portraits of local military veterans in the city’s Lichtenstein Center for

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Parties: BIFF Goes to the Oscars

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: No one gushed about who they were wearing, and no one volunteered that they had to return their jewels to Harry Winston, but guests at the Berkshire International Film Festival’s Oscar night party at the Beacon Cinema had been asked

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Radioactive Bodega: IS 183's Post-Apocolytpic Dance Party

Ever wonder what fashion look would rise from the ashes of a nuclear catastrophe? No?  Actually, neither have we, but enthusiastic supporters of IS 183 clearly gave the matter a lot of serious thought when they assembled their costumes for the art school's Radioactive Bodega fundraiser in Pittsfield

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Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center Toasts "Falsettos" in Rhinebeck

It's the rare community theater company that has the chutzpah to put on William Finn's landmark Tony-winning musical comedy about neurotic New York Jews at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. But the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck is a rarity—a gutsy community theater

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A Picture Perfect Opening for Boldini at The Clark

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Williamstown: To open its winter exhibition, Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, on February 13, The Clark threw a somewhat French-accented party -- largely by dint of the food: fondue (both cheese and chocolate) served in the café; classic Gallic dishes, such as

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Art! Beer! Wings! The Radioactive Bodega Preview Party

It was, appropriately, an evening of cultural dissonance.   Supporters of IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires (including Karen Lee and Jeremy Goodwin, left) gathered at the boozy Brick House Pub in Housatonic, MA,  to preview some of the fine art that will be part of the silent auction at

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Welcoming A Royal Gardener to the Berkshires

You rarely see men wearing ties in the Berkshires, but then you rarely see a royal gardener in our neck of the woods. The trustees of the Berkshire Botanical Garden had a cocktail party on February 12 to welcome Debs Goodenough, Head Gardener to HRH Prince Charles, who would be

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Barrington Stage Company's Carnivale at Jae's Spice

Nicole Garzino reports from Pittsfield: Why fly south when you can enjoy a red-hot, rock-n-roll salsain Pittsfield?  More than 100 masked revelers did just that on Saturday, February 6, dancing the night away to the Latin groove of Los Sugar Kings at last weekend’s benefit Carnivale for Barrington Stage

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