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Berkshire Creatives Let the Sparks Fly

Berkshire Creative, the NGO founded to stimulate new job growth and economic opportunity in the region by sparking innovative collaborations between artists, designers, cultural institutions and businesses, held one of its SPARK! networking parties at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on Tuesday, September 15. The Colonial's executive director,

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"Jump In!" - An Exhibit Inspired By The Housatonic River

On the Friday night of Labor Day weekend, the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in downtown Pittsﬁeld and the Housatonic River Museum hosted the opening of a week-long exhibition called Jump In! The group show included photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture, writing and video inspired by the waters of our region.

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Shakespeare & Company Has A Friend in Olympia Dukakis

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: One day after Tanglewood’s James Taylor lovefest paralyzed traffic in Lenox, Shakespeare & Company delivered its own traffic-stopping event as theater fans queued up August 31—a Monday night!—to catch Academy Awawrd-winning actress Olympia Dukakis in a one-night-only first reading of television writer

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Taking Woodstock Screenings Benefit the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

Carol and Bob Sadlon held back-to-back screenings of Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock at The Moviehouse in Millerton on Thursday, August 27, to benefit the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, which does such good work for the residents of Berkshire, Columbia, Dutchess and Litchfield Counties. Between the shows, there was

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A Grateful Hillsdale Ogles & Celebrates

It has been a big year for Hillsdale, NY. Earlier a group of concerned citizens had taken a good, hard look around and decided that the hamlet may have what it takes to be granted Historic Preservation District status. The formal study, spearheaded by Alexia Lalli with grants from the

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The Launch of Laura Pensiero's "Hudson Valley Mediterrenean"

It was a quintessential summer 2009 party: the sun was shining one minute and then rain was pouring down the next. The guests passed effortlessly from Amy Goldman's beautiful Rhinebeck garden—where she grows her world-famous collection of melons and tomatoes—to the tent where Laura Pensiero, the

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Pittsfield's Word X Word Festival Takes to the Roof

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: Mission owner Jim Benson was blessed with a perfect summer evening to kick off his Word X Word Festival and, at the same time, unveil what may turn out to be the Berkshires’ hottest summer party space: the rooftop of developer George Whaling’s Greystone

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Spencertown Academy: Bubbles, Barbecue & the Blues

It was perfect weather for blowing bubbles (Mike Grenny astonishing his daughter Lila, left) on Saturday night, and for the Spencertown Academy's beer-straight-from-the-bottle with pulled-pork-and-ribs-barbecue at Austerlitz Town Supervisor George Jahn's farm in Spencertown. Let's Eat, the academy's incomparable in-house caterers, weren&

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The Wassaic Project Is A Must-See Art World Happening

The Wassaic Project Summer Festival, which opened on Friday, August 14, is ambitious, audacious, and an absolute blast. As RI reported a few week ago, it is the brainchild of Eve Biddle, Elan Bogarin and Bowie Zunino (whose family has had a house in Kent, CT for 30 years.) It

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Berkshire Botanical Garden's 75th Birthday Party

Guests were greeted by actors dressed as birch trees for the Berkshire Botanical Garden's 75th birthday party on Saturday, August 8, in Stockbridge. The hands-on board of trustees had been involved with every aspect of planning the event, creating wonderful wire-and-crystal chandeliers for the tent at the studio

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"FARM: Painting, Photography & Sculpture" Opens at Stonover

Suky Werman is blessed with a great eye and generous heart, which is why hundreds of people descended on the Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm for the opening of FARM: Painting, Photography & Sculpture, which Werman had been planning since winter. It features the work of many local artists, including

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A Garden Party at Chesterwood

There is no finer spot for a garden party than Chesterwood, the National Trust Historic Site in Stockbridge, which was the country home and studio of Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), the sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial in Washington, DC, and The Minute Man, Concord, MA.

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