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Williamstown Film Festival: The Screenplay's The Thing

Match By Lisa Green Its winning formula has kept it a Berkshire fall tradition, but the Williamstown Film Festival is opening its 16th year with an experiment, Project Screenplay, and if you’ve ever considered writing a screenplay (or just happen to have one on hand), you shouldn’t miss

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In Its 15th Year, FilmColumbia Branches Out — To Hudson

By Jamie Larson It’s movie time in Columbia County and this year the FilmColumbia Festival is celebrating its 15th year by expanding its offerings to a venue in Hudson for the duration, October 22-26. Of course, the festival remains centered where it all began, the Crandell Theatre in

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To Tell The Truth: Speak Up Storytelling Comes To The Mount

By Amy Krzanik “My friends have always said that I’ve lived one of the most unfortunate lives (including surviving homelessness and an armed robbery), so I’ve got a lot of material for stories," says Matthew Dicks [left] who will be at The Mount in Lenox with his

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Review "An Enemy of the People" at Barrington Stage

Arthur Miller’s 1950 play, An Enemy of the People, which he adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s prophetic 1882 play, is the story of a small Norwegian town called Kirsten Springs whose prosperity and identity are dependent on its salubrious waters, which the town doctor discovers are, in fact, toxic.

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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,

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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.

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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

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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

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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-

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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

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