Arts Carolyn Blackwood, the Accidental Artist It's not her fault that she trips into careers. She hadn't intended to become a lead singer for jazz bands, she just fell into it while in graduate school. Same with the years she spent as a tv producer in France. And now photography: It' By Editor
Arts A Happening Reading Relaunches the Basilica A reading of renowned novelist and screenwriter, Rudolph Wurlitzer’s 1984 novel Slow Fade by singer-songwriter, folk-music legend Will Oldham (below), who has played with the band Palace Brothers as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. The evening celebrates the release of Slow Fade, the first in a new line of alternative audio By Editor
Arts The Alchemy of Art and Commerce Last Blues of Dusk by Susanna Heller at the John Davis Gallery There is a hardly-secret, yet too-seldom-applied formula for enlivening Main Streets at night. Rather than play favorites, let us offer one example of a town from outside our region that applies it brilliantly: East Hampton, on eastern Long By Editor
Arts Melissa Auf der Maur, The Rock Goddess in Our Midst, Appearing at Club Helsinki This Saturday, March 12, Hudson's own Melissa Auf der Maur (aka MAdM) performs at Club Helsinki Hudson in a rare, experimental show—Hunt for the Heart—a mix of her own repertoire and tributes to those who have influenced her. Born and raised in Montreal, where she got By Editor
Arts Bart Gulley: The Making of a Painter "Artists can't help but be influenced by where they work," says the abstract painter Bart Gulley. "Particularly if they feel wedded to the place." Gulley is wedded to both Chatham, NY, where he has lived full-time with his wife, the writer Sally Helgesen, since By Editor
Arts Cynthia Wick: Inspired by the Berkshires When Cynthia Wick moved from Los Angeles to Lenox, MA, she was not so much trying to reinvent her life but rejuvenate it. A one-time movie marketing executive who'd been painting full-time for a decade while raising two sons, she and her writer-husband, Chan Gibson, felt suffocated by By Editor
Arts Twenty Minutes with Actress Karen Allen White Irish Drinkers at the Mahaiwe on February 5 The most famous person you are likely to run into on any given day in Great Barrington is also one of the nicest: Karen Allen, the actress who first became famous for her roles in Animal House and Raiders of The By Editor
Arts Henry Klimowicz at Berkshire Museum Opening January 15 - 5 - 7 p.m. When you walk into the soaring Art Deco Crane Room at the Berkshire Museum, you'll do a double take because the new exhibition, Henry Klimowicz: Constructs, looks like it belongs at MASS MoCA. The centerpiece of the exhibit is By Editor
Arts Video Intelligence: The RI Interview with "Hero" Author Michael Korda Michael Korda at home on his farm in Dutchess County. Apple-cheeked and clutching a steaming cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, the best-selling author Michael Korda doesn’t look tired when he strides from the stables at his Stone Gate Farm in Pleasant Valley, NY, on a recent Sunday morning to By Editor
Arts Michael Korda on His T.E. Lawrence Bio December 3, @ 5 p.m.; December 4 @ 5 p.m. According to Michael Korda's new biography of the British soldier and adventurer T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia; 1888 – 1935), George Bernard Shaw once scolded his friend, who had just published a biography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, By Editor
Arts Molly O'Neill of "One Big Table" at Oblong December 4 @ 4 - 6 p.m. To celebrate the spirit of the season, Oblong Books is hosting a community cookie swap with Molly O'Neill, author of the delectable new cookbook, One Big Table. Oblong has invited local home cooks and professional bakers to rustle up a batch By Editor
Arts Mann and Davis' "Sacred Landscapes" Saturday, November 27 @ 6 - 8 p.m. Generally, the bigger the book, the slighter its content, but this rule of thumb is turned on its head by A.T. Mann and Lynn Davis's Sacred Landscapes: The Threshold Between Worlds (Sterling Publishers, $35). Yes, it is a big, By Editor
