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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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A New March Tradition: MASS MoCA's High Mud Comedy Fest

By Amy Krzanik Here comes MASS MoCA again, giving you something you didn’t know you needed -- a comedy festival for the in-between months. The aptly titled High Mud Comedy Fest will run Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12, joining the museum’s roster of already popular music

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Georgia O’Keeffe Is In The Room At The Rockwell Museum

By Lisa Green Photo by Jack T. Douglas. Courtesy Jack T. Douglas / Colleen Webster. All rights reserved. On Saturday, Feb. 13, visitors to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. will encounter not only "The Four Freedoms" and "Golden Rule," but also Georgia O’Keeffe. In

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Life is a Cabaret (Again)!: A Divine Evening With Charles Busch

By Robert Burke Warren Photo by Frederic Aranda. Few, if any, entertainers are more full service than actor-singer-playwright-novelist-librettist-screenwriter-director-drag pioneer-force of nature, Charles Busch. Opportunities to see him in action, up close and personal, are rare, especially outside Manhattan, but if you’re

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History Becomes A Memoir, A Play, And A Call To Action

Lynda Blackmon Lowery. By Jamie Larson Sometimes there are important lessons we think we know so well we forget how we came to learn them. Before she turned 15, Lynda Blackmon Lowery began fighting against segregation. A performance of her memoir,Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, is taking

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IS183 Art School Inspires Date Night Creativity

By Lisa Green Whenever I’m out photographing people at events we’re covering for Rural Intelligence, I feel like a dinosaur with a camera. Except for the pros who might also be there with their multiple lenses and impressive equipment, I’m the only one still using an old-

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Echoes Of The Borscht Belt (Plus Latkes) At Valley Variety

By Jamie Larson There’s a German word, sehnsucht, which means a longing for a place you’ve never been. Marisa Scheinfeld’s beautiful photographs of the crumbling ruins of Borscht Belt retreats in the Catskill Mountain are arresting in this same complex, yet relatable way. Scheinfeld will be speaking

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