Texas Meets Cuba…at Clermont -- Parties © Openings Section --...
Lisa Green reports from Germantown. When you need a theme, it helps to look at your honorees’ backgrounds for inspiration. Carey Maloney (RI’s The Wandering Eye) and his husband and co-honoree, Hermes...
View ArticleChallenge Accepted For North East Community Center -- Parties © Openings...
Rachel Louchen reports from Lakeville. North East Community Center’s (NECC) annual Chef & Farmer brunch is always a well-attended event and, this year, it sold out more quickly than ever. On...
View ArticleKentPresents 2016: A Festival Of Big Thinking, Year Two -- Community Section...
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is interviewed by Christopher Buckley on “World Order” last year. By Jamie Larson Out in the beautiful and remote hills of Litchfield County, Conn.,...
View ArticleOatmeal Studios: Always Good For A Laugh -- Style Section -- Shopping
A trade show display. By Lisa Green When Oatmeal Studios gathers its team for a creative brainstorming session, it’s no ordinary staff meeting. The greeting card company based in Lenox Dale, Mass., has...
View ArticlePapa’s Best Batch (Food Truck) -- Restaurants -- {category_name}
Part of what makes Papa’s Best Batch, a smoked meat sandwich trailer, so special is its location: Behind Greig Farm’s big red barn, with a view of the hazy blue Catskills over yellow fields, and shaded...
View ArticleOpen For Guests -- Real Estate -- Listings of the Week
In Milan, a 118-acre property includes a rambling farmhouse with a restored brick barn that has been turned into a guest house, which has an open-floor kitchen, living room and dining room on the first...
View ArticleHistoric Weekender -- Real Estate -- Listings of the Week
This historic compound in Washington has an 18th-century main home and a guest cottage that still maintains its period character with antique floors and original hardware. The three-bedroom main house...
View ArticleFamily Compound -- Real Estate -- Listings of the Week
This Sheffield property has enough room for a very large family to visit comfortably. There is a guest house, six-bedroom main home, post-and-beam barn, kids’ playhouse and lots of outdoor space. The...
View ArticleA Manor For All -- Real Estate -- Listings of the Week
Crow Hill Manor’s grounds in Spencertown include several year-round houses: a six-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom guest house, a pond house and a caretaker’s apartment above the three-car garage. On...
View ArticleGuest Quarters -- Real Estate -- Listings of the Week
Keep your guests close, but not too close at this gracious manor in Housatonic with a two-bedroom open-concept guest cottage. The 1892 main house offers more than 10,000 square feet and 18 rooms, and...
View ArticleMagical Getaway -- Real Estate -- Listings of the Week
You won’t find a better location for a guest house than this one in Stuyvesant, situated by the bluestone pool with country views on 13 acres and no neighbors in sight. The three-bedroom guest house...
View ArticleFarm-To-Table With Purpose in Roxbury -- Parties © Openings Section --...
Rachel Louchen reports from Roxbury. Farm-to-table dinners are fairly regular occurrences in our region, but Litchfield County’s Sustainable Healthy Communities (SHC) annual Farmer’s Table dinner...
View Article“SoHo Sins” At The School Explores An Illicit NY Art Scene --...
Jamie Larson reports from Kinderhook. Crime and culture, art and mayhem describe the focus and backdrop of the posh gathering Saturday, Aug. 6 at Jack Shainman Gallery: The School. The event,...
View ArticleThe Hudson Library Holds A Swingin’ Sock Hop -- Parties © Openings...
Amy Krzanik reports from Hudson. Things were really cookin’ at the Raise The Roof Sock Hop, a benefit for the new Hudson Area Library, on Saturday evening, August 6. Around 150 supporters “made the...
View Article50 Years Later, “The Concerned Photographers” Still A Focus --...
MUSCLE BOY, Harlem, NY 1963 © Leonard Freed/Magnum By Shawn Hartley Hancock Ralph Brill, owner of the Brill Gallery in the Eclipse Mill Building in North Adams, Mass., calls it “probably the most...
View ArticleRecipe: Spicy Scallop Ceviche -- Food Section -- Recipes
Customers often ask me what I like to bake at home, and the answer, truthfully, is nothing; I love to bake, but I certainly get my fill at the bakery (and it’s so much more enjoyable when there’s...
View ArticleMaster Artists Reimagine The Modern Jewelry Box -- Style Section -- Shopping
By CB Wismar Tim McClelland is laughing. Which is okay, because he’s laughing at himself. “I just thought it would be fun to reach out to 15 extraordinarily talented people who had been part of an...
View ArticleChatham Dance Festival: Last Time In The Tent -- Arts Section -- Music
By Amy Krzanik RIOULT Dance NY This August might be your last opportunity to see a Chatham Dance Festival performance in the tent at PS21. No, not because it’s closing up shop, but a key feature of it...
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