On Sunday morning, I went looking for tomatoes — and found them in Richmond. Valencia, Indigo Rose … heirloom tomatoes have names as richly varied as their hues.
Read articleShortbread blooms at Bakkerij Krijnen
The shortbread tulip on my plate holds chocolate ganache between cream-colored cookies flecked with orange peel, and the conversation behind me at the counter is running along with laughter.
Read articleBen Gable Savories turns farm eggs into deft dishes
It may be the smoothest quiche I’ve ever had. The egg custard is soft and set, the ham cut small, flavorful and abundant, and the cheese warmly present. Ben Gable Savories in Chatham, N.Y., is living up to its name.
Read article‘Immortal Present’ links China’s past and present at Berkshire Museum
Chinese artist Huang Yan, who paints shan-shui tattoos on skin, joins in a group of contemporary artists and more than 350 objects across more than 2600 years in ‘Immortal Present: Art and East Asia,’ at the Berkshire Museum.
Read articleVincent Van Gogh: Painting nature at the Clark Art Institute
As a boy he knows the names of birds and collects beetles in glass jars. As a young man teaching himself to paint he finds perspective in alleys of poplars, texture in birds’ nests and color in petals. He came to Paris to discover Impressionism, and he left it again […]
Read articleClark Art Institute shows Van Gogh at a turning point
A dark stack of peat at sunset may not feel like Van Gogh — not in watercolor. A river at dusk softly undercuts its banks of dark mud with a fringe of long grass. Farmhouses sit low in the background, almost lost against the tree line. He was 30 when […]
Read article‘His Girl Friday’ brings fast action on the Chicago Beat to Barrington Stage
It’s late night in a Chicago press room in 1939. Camped out in city hall, with the condemned cell behind a door and a gallows outside the window, reporters from the city papers are waiting for a hanging. Hildegard Johnson (Jane Pfitsch), once the best journalist in the city, drops […]
Read articleMade in Ghent on the farm
On a Thursday morning, Mimi Beaven stands over a restaurant stove, preparing to make paté. The Black Freedom Ranger chicken that provided the meat on her cutting board grew in the pasture outside her window. Mimi and her husband, Richard, have built a rare combination — a working farm with […]
Read articleCass Morgan returns home to Ireland in music
The room feels like a pub — wooden beams, fireplace, wooden tables, a glass of amber liquid on the piano. Across the table, a lithe woman in a blue cotton shirt is telling you about her childhood in a Florida trailer park, her grandmother in Rochester, N.Y., and a few […]
Read article‘Red Velvet’ honors the first black man to play Othello on the London Stage
On the opening night of a production of Othello at the Rhode Island Shakespeare Theatre, a fellow actor gave John Douglas Thompson a book, Shakespeare in Sable by Erroll Hill. “I started to read it, and I was fascinated,” he said. “There were so many African-American actors playing Shakespeare — […]
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