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John Waters Brings His Filthy World To Hudson (To Fundraise!)

Photo by Greg Gorman By Robert Burke Warren Ever since filmmaker-performer-author John Waters unleashed his transgressive 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos on an unsuspecting public, he’s accepted numerous titles: The Pope of Trash, The Baron of Bad Taste, The Prince of Puke. With a reputation like that, attendees to

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Ashton Hawkins & Johnnie Moore: A Collected Life At Auction

Moore and Hawkins. By Jamie Larson Auctions at the laudable Stair Galleries in Hudson often capture specific artistic moments or movements. On display now and up for sale this Saturday is the sum of an artistic life steeped in style, history and love. The personal collection of Ashton Hawkins and

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MASS MoCA Keeps It Fresh With Festivals...Bluegrass and Otherwise

Fans gather at the 2013 FreshGrass festival. Photo: Danielle Poulin By Jeremy D. GoodwinMASS MoCA has been home to all manner of boundary-breaking contemporary art over its 15 years. If you’ve got a hankering to see some upside-down trees suspended in the air, this is your place. So it

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Chef Michael Ballon: 25 Years Of A Chef's Life In The Berkshires

By Lisa Green When  Chef Michael Ballon, a regional pioneer of the farm-to-table movement, first opened the Castle Street Café in Great Barrington 25 years ago, he had to import goat cheese from California. But he soon learned that excellent versions of it were being produced in our area, and

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There's Still Room At The Inn

The spirit of the 1960s endured at Lenox's Music Inn. By Jeremy D. Goodwin The goings-on at the late, great Music Inn surely provided lots of good (though perhaps hazy) memories for folks who attended concerts and other events there. David Rothstein, the third in a series of

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BUMP at Basilica Hudson

By Lisa Green Try this, and see what happens: Touch a dinosaur skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History. You might not get arrested, but you’d have security all over you faster than you can say Tyrannosaurus rex. So maybe don’t. But next week, at Basilica Hudson,

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Drummer Bobby Previte Cooks A New Brew In Hudson

Photo: Michael DiDonna By Jeremy D. GoodwinBobby Previte has long been associated with New York’s once-thriving “Downtown" scene, where avant-jazz excursions and other musical experiments used to happen with regularity at venues like the Knitting Factory. Though that spirit lives on in certain pockets, the ever-creeping cost of

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Review: "The Visit" at Williamstown Theatre Festival

By Dan Shaw Without baring her famous legs or a single high-step, Chita Rivera razzle-dazzles us in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of Kander & Ebb’s The Visit. As Claire Zachanassian, the richest women in the world who has returned to the small, down-on-its-luck European village where she grew

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In Its 25th Year, Bard Music Festival Focuses on Schubert

By Robert Burke Warren Every summer, the Bard Music Festival invites audiences into the world of a specific composer, presenting musical works alongside lectures about the artist’s life and times, plus panel discussions and Q & A sessions. While many past subjects – Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, et al – might be

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg: Author And Director Shows, But Doesn’t Tell

Michael Lindsay-Hogg photo by Lisa Ticknor. By Robert Ayers Many artists use ambiguity in their work, but the City of Hudson is about to gain a new resident whose whole life story is shot through with intrigue and uncertainty. Michael Lindsay-Hogg (born 1940) is definitely not the son of Orson

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Theater: A Bear And A Rembrandt Walk Into A Room...

Michael Burnet directs two charming one-acts for the inaugural season of Pythagoras Theatre Works. Photo: Jeremy D. Goodwin. By Jeremy D. Goodwin Do we need more theater here in the Rural Intelligence region? When you have access to the sort of talent that the brand-new Pythagoras Theatre Works does, and

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Hear This: 'Beethoven' Mixes Music And Theater At The Mount

Photo: Jacqueline Chambord By Jeremy D. Goodwin Though we may tend to think of it nowadays in terms of visuals, theater is an art form that’s always been very concerned with listening. In Shakespeare’s day, audiences went to “hear" a play, not see one. There’s a

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