She is an Australian artisanal bread baker trained in New York. He is a former Manhattan chef and a butcher — a Russian Hungarian Jew from Connecticut. Together, at A-Ok, they are inventing Berkshire barbecue.
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The center can hold (January 6 newsletter)
Tonight while a mob is attacking government buildings, while I am sitting safe by the fire at the foot of a mountain in a town where I know college students have been threatened a mile away and somehow stood tall and gone on, I am reading Danusha Lameris’ poems for the first time.
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Clear skies ahead (December 30 newsletter)
A few weeks ago I was walking with a friend at night, wandering into back corners of town I’d never seen before, and she asked me what holiday rituals look like for me.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival premieres ‘The Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club’
In the world premiere of a new audio play, an international group of transgender women band together at a hotel in Thailand as they prepare for gender confirmation surgery.
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Snowshoe and cross country ski trails
The winter woods can be quiet and beautiful in the snow. In the valleys we have trails to walk when the snow is light or snowshoe or ski when it gets deeper, and on the ridges some trails are groomed for skiers.
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Unison stronger than fission: Poetry and art hold a light in hard times
Artist Trinh Mai and poet Shann Ray have created a book of words and paintings probing a world where the beauty of high canyons and loving relationships can exist at the same time as fission and division.
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We’re transforming holidays to keep them alight (December 23 newsletter)
It’s snowing tonight. It’s the seventh night of Hanukkah as I’m writing this by the fire, and in windows nearby candles are burning down quietly.
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Cheshire Glassworks glimmers with the colors of winter
In her studio at Cheshire Glassworks, Jill Reynolds is making beads. They reflect the changing seasons, the shifting landscapes outside her window.
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Only in My Dreams gives the Berkshires in a package
Imagine fresh coffee, or tea and honey, coming to you as a gentle surprise. Oskar Hallig and his husband, Michael Zippel, have evolved Only in My Dreams in the pandemic to offer locally sourced gift boxes and care packages.
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IS183 lifts artists in virtual holiday market
Blue marbled cups and sunset in canyon country, beads of polished wood … IS183 Art School of the Berkshires is creating a virtual holiday market for artists in the region with Mill Town Capital, through December 11.
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Express delivery: Creative places, shops and artisans welcome the holidays (December 16 newsletter)
The lights are on. Holiday trains are running on the Hoosac Valley Line, and up and down the county downtowns, shops and artisans are trying to face December with a glimmer.
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