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Impressions of a Revolutionary: Pissarro's People

by Robyn Perry A kind-looking man with a long flowing beard and piercing eyes, Camille Pissarro, father of French Impressionism, was not French at all.  He was born into a Sephardic Jewish family on the then-Danish colony of St. Thomas in the Caribbean, and remained a Danish citizen all his

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Review: A Dazzling and Delightful "Guys & Dolls" at Barrington Stage Company

The television series Glee has proven that a passion for Broadway show tunes and 1980s pop songs can be invigorating, sexy and relevant. Week after week, Glee has shown that old-fashioned song-and-dance numbers can be infused with a contemporary sensibility to bridge the generation gaps, appealing to teenagers, their parents

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Tony Margherita: The Massachusetts Man Behind the Band Wilco

Tony Margherita has managed Wilco since the band first formed in 1994. The band arrives in North Adams for its second Solid Sound Festival, June 24 - 26, taking over the MASS MoCA campus with a stellar line-up of musical acts, including The Levon Helm Band and Thurston Moore in

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BIFF and Pittsfield Honor Native Kent Jones

This weekend, June 2 through June 5, the Sixth Annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF), will host screenings in theaters in Great Barrington and Pittsfield.  In addition to some 70 independent feature films, documentaries and shorts from 15 countries, the festival includes Q&A sessions and panel discussions with

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StageWorks: An Evening with Celeste Holm

by Betsy Miller Imagine, at 19, making your Broadway debut, then a couple of years later originating the role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma, stopping the show night-after-night with the song, Cain't Say No.  Imagine winning an Oscar for only the third movie you've ever made

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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'

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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