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The Beacon Cinema Says "Thank You" and "Welcome"

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield:  The brand new Beacon Cinema officially opened on November 19 with a raucous North Street block party and midnight screening of New Moon. But the very next Monday, November 23, the cinema closed its doors to the public to throw another

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Night of 100 Plates: A Feast to Help Feed the Hungry

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: Art dealers Leslie Ferrin and Donald Clark were thinking of ways to give back to the community during the holidays, so they decided to host a festive dinner to benefit St. Stephen’s Table on November 21. The meal followed the

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"The French Blue" Book Party at The Mount

Cultural Correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: It should come as no surprise that self-taught goldsmith and gemologist Richard W. Wise gets things done with a certain flair. Rather than hold the typical author's reading and signing to launch his new book, The French Blue, Wise

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Urban Renewal! Williamstown Theatre Festival's NYC Benefit

It wasn't surprising that many of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's hometown trustees made the trek from the Berkshires to New York City for the company's fall benefit at the baroque Prince George Ballroom (left) on November 16.  What was surprising—and gratifying—was to

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Hark! Opening Night of the Berkshire Museum's Festival of Trees

The Berkshire Museum's Festival of Trees is like being in the toy department of some bygone department store (think Marshall Field's or J.L. Hudson) except the only toys are the Alexander Calder push-and-pull toys in one of the adjacent galleries. For the 25th silver anniversary

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Wine & Cheese in the Poesis Workshop

It's becoming a familiar story in our region: A young couple moves to the country and buys a house with a barn so they can work from home. Designer Rob Bristow (photographed with his friend Michelle Childs, left) and his wife, Pilar Proffitt, run a design business called

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bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy Opens in Rhinebeck

bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy, a new store on Rhinebeck's Montgomery Row, held a gala opening on Saturday, November 7.  The culinarily ambitious, both pros and amateurs, were eager to check out the latest wrinkles in bakeware, cookbooks, electronics, dinnerwear, linens—no matter what ails your kitchen and/or dining

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Live and Let's Give: A Shopping Party for Charley's Fund

Benjamin & Tracy Seckler, who started Charley's Fund to finance medical research to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, have loyal, generous family and friends who were shopping for a good cause on Friday night at the Live and Let's Give Crafts Fair (through November

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The Junior League's Taste of the Berkshires

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: The women of the Junior League take on serious tasks, promoting volunteerism to improve the lives of others. In Berkshire County, the Junior League confronts tough issues such as literacy, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, domestic violence, and alcoholism. But last Thursday, November 5, the organization

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Art for Animals: When the Model Barks

Art lovers and other animals thronged Spencertown Academy on Sunday afternoon for a benefit to support local companion dogs.  The Academy walls were rich in canine portraiture by young, not-yet-established artists from Taconic Hills Central School, as well as by an astonishing array of art stars such as Richard Serra,

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"1969: The Year of Gay Liberation" Exhibit Visits Locally

If you can't bring all of Columbia County to the New York Public Library, then bring an NYPL exhibition that is dear to your heart to Columbia County.  Thus was the reasoning behind Carey Maloney and Hermes Mallea's Saturday, October 24, showing at their Germantown house

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Fall for Art Takes Millerton By Storm

Despite the heavy rains, every shop in Millerton was hopping on Saturday night for the first Fall for Art celebration, which promised 50 artists and 30 parties in 3 hours. At the Motorworks (left), which normally repairs vintage sports car, Alex Kramer had his friend Sophia Tarrasov hang her paintings

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