Arts 40 Films in Four Days in Kent You'd think that a town without a proper movie theater would have a tough time pulling off a serious film festival, but the arts community of Kent, CT, does not let that inconvenient detail get in its way. "It requires a lot of imagination," says Frank By Editor
Arts One of a Kind: The Magic of Prints For the collector, the appeal of prints is their accessibility. They are, quite simply, more affordable than other unique works of art. For the artist, printmaking offers an opportunity to experiment and, consequently, often acts as a catalyst for change in his other work. This Saturday the Spencertown Academy launches By Editor
Food Ca'Mea Ristorante Often, going to a restaurant in our area can seem like landing in the middle of Waiting for Guffman--amateurs acting their hearts out badly. Polished, well-managed Ca'Mea Ristorante is just the opposite. Two Warren Street storefronts attractively combined, plus, in season, an enormous garden, it also By Editor
Arts Opera: Something Old, Something New Back in 1934, in nearby Hartford, CT, an organization called The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music financed the world premiere of Four Saints in Three Acts, an avant garde opera with music by Virgil Thomson and a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Performed with an all-black cast at the By Editor
Parties Berkshire Ides of March Gallery Hop On Saturday evening, Ferrin Gallery's double opening--Cynthia Consentino's solo show Exquisite Corpse and a group show 2D + 3D--gave a crowd of artists and art aficionados an opportunity to contrast 2-dimentional and 3-dimentional views of like subjects. Later this spring, selected works from By Editor
Parties Berkshire Grown The butcher, the baker, the fishmonger, the caterer, and farmers galore turned out in force on Wednesday evening for Berkshire Grown's March Maple Dinner, held in the festive party room upstairs at Spice in Pittsfield. Barrington Brewery and Pittsfield Brew Works kept everyone's thirst slaked as By Editor
Food Grassfed in Ghent: An Extended Two-Family Affair The first defining moment for Dan Gibson occurred when his daughter Christine finally walked through the door of their house in Katonah, NY on September 13, 2001, still covered with ash from the catastrophe that had destroyed her NYU dormitory on the corner of Water and Wall Streets two days By Editor
Arts One Chimp's Life: A Gripping Tale You don't have to be an animal lover like the East Chatham author Elizabeth Hess to find her new book, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human absorbing. You don't even have to care much about the merits of the scientific experiment that brought Nim By Editor
Arts "Mark Twain" Returns for One Night Hal Holbrook was just 34 years old when he took Broadway by storm (and by surprise) in 1959. "An extraordinary show called 'Mark Twain Tonight!' slipped into the Forty-first Street Theatre last evening. There should have been posters up all over the town to herald its By Editor
Arts Photography: Eban, Among Others If you are going to tell the story of your life, it helps to have had an interesting one. Gerard Malanga has. A poet whose work has appeared in Poetry, Partisan Review, The Paris Review and The New Yorker, the multi-faceted Malanga is remembered by students of art history By Editor
Parties The School of Rock: IS 183 Parties in Pittsfield Talk about school spirit. Hundreds of people attended Saturday night's IS 183 benefit in Pittsfield, and they heeded the invitation that read: "Zealous 'Rock-n-Opera' Costumes Encouraged." The mix of guests—from Lenox High School students to Berkshire business leaders—proved that the By Editor
Arts Summerscape: Back in the USSR How would you like your politics this morning, sir? "Prokofiev and his World," a seven-week festival at Bard College, kicks off on July 4th, with the sublime--a fully restored version of the composer's 1935 ballet Romeo & Juliet, as written but never before performed By Editor
