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Cabinet Of Curiosity: What Were The Curators Thinking?

Photos by Karl Rabe, courtesy of Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. By Robert Burke Warren If you’re a collector — of anything — we have an exhibit for you. Even if you’re of the “no clutter" camp, it’s hard not to be inquisitive about a  “cabinet

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Egremont Village Inn Brings Music Back To The Barn

By Lisa Green When a family of professional musicians (plus one videographer) revitalize an inn that has a barn on its property, you can be sure the old saw, “hey kids, let’s have a show," has entered their thoughts. If only it were that easy, or immediate. But

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The Art Of The Ride At Good Gallery In Kent

By Jamie Larson There’s something captivating about shiny chrome, matte black rubber, the curve of a gas tank or sloping fender. These lines, shapes and textures make up the motorcycles that descend on Kent, Conn. during good weather weekends and are also the muse of photographer Gary Halby. Now

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Review: 'American Son' At Barrington Stage Company

By Dan ShawBarrington Stage Company’s world premiere production of Christopher Demos-Brown’s "American Son" is meant to provoke discussion about race in America. For audience members like myself who arrive in Pittsfield with their white privilege, it’s difficult to analyze the play because any opinions

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Karen Ziemba’s Star Turn In 'Gypsy' at Sharon Playhouse

By Dan Shaw Mama Rose, the nervy and domineering stage mother, is one of the greatest roles in the American musical theater canon. It’s a part for a woman of a certain age and must be portrayed by a seasoned actress like the Broadway veteran Karen Ziemba, who received

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Film, Television, Books, Dancing: David Black Does It All

By Amy Krzanik Calling him prolific doesn’t do him justice; David Black is truly a man for all seasons. The Ghent, N.Y. resident (where he’s lived for the past 40 years with his wife, Barbara Weisberg, an author and the creator of the TV show Charles In

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The Skivvies Perform Pop Songs 'Au Naturel'

By Amy Krzanik Why would two singers – a duo who harmonize and play cello and ukulele, among other instruments – ever need to coordinate the color of their underwear? It’s not because of some odd superstition the two share, but because their undergarments will be “on display," so to

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The View From BIFF 2016: World Facing And Local Focus

A Year By The Sea By Jeremy D. Goodwin One of the most delicious preludes to summer’s high season around here is the Berkshire International Film Festival, which reliably fills downtown Great Barrington (and a busy bubble around Pittsfield’s Beacon Cinema) with happily dazed festival warriors, walking around

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2016 Season Preview (AKA Tickets Not To Miss)

Some people try to tell you their favorite season is autumn. And personally, I do have a soft spot for spring. But here in the Rural Intelligence region, summer is a time like no other. This much we know. So even all you confirmed ski addicts and avid leaf peepers

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Seeing Through The Camouflage: Animals On Canvas At HSV

By Shawn Hartley Hancock If you've ever watched a wild-animal nature documentary where a cheetah runs down an antelope for supper, you know why camouflage is central to survival. "Wild animals have it down," says artist Susan Merrill. But Merrill's latest exhibit of

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Sarah Aroeste Brings Ladino Music To A New Generation

By Jeremy D. Goodwin Inspiration doesn’t always have a practical application. But it’s nice when it does. And so it was for musician, mom and self-styled cultural ambassador Sarah Aroeste, whose latest album came to be because she wanted some music to play for her daughter that

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Volume Reading Series Amps Up The Author Reading Experience

By Jamie Larson Author readings give you a chance to get your nose out of your book, hear it read in the voice that wrote it, and then meet the mind behind it. The format for readings hasn't changed much over the years, until now. But two Hudson

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