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Documentaries Dominate the 4th Annual Kent Film Festival: March 26 - 29

Four years ago, without any experience or a business plan, Frank and Patrice Galterio decided to create a film festival in Kent, CT.  They envisioned an event that would attract international talent yet remain authentic, accessible and community-minded. "Everyone walks down the same red carpet here,” says Frank, speaking

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A Masterful Clown's Free Performance at Simon's Rock

Tomas Kubinek gives performance art a good name.  "Mr. Kubinek is an acrobat, storyteller, stilt walker, unicyclist, musician, magician, clown and comic whose jokes and ad-libs bring giggles from youngsters and laughter from adults," according to The New York Times.  As critic Lawrence Van Gelder wrote: "Mr.

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Presenting The First Annual Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts

For the past eight years, Bard College at Simon’s Rock has quietly hosted an Annual International Women’s Day conference.  This year, Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, the director, believed the theme, The Power of Women in the Arts, had sufficient strength to exceed the bounds of the Great Barrington

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Recession Drama: Shakespeare & Company Will Do More With Less

Tina Packer usually defies—and exceeds—expectations. Over 32 years in the Berkshires, the founder of Shakespeare & Company has transformed the troupe that put on plays in the dilapidated Mount and its surrounding woods into a theatrical powerhouse. With year round educational programs and a reputation for producing gutsy

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To Hell with Home Alone: We've Got Oscar Parties!

Come on, admit it, you love it: the red carpet fashion show, the fatuous exchanges between the stars and Chris Connolly, the host's lame jokes, the "humble" acceptance speeches (even when the Academy voters get it dead wrong).   The Academy Awards is one of those ties

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The Banff Film Festival Comes to Lenox

Most film festivals last a weekend and then they're over. The organizers of the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada, which is devoted to movies about outdoor sports and adventure travel, take a broader view and send their festival on the road for six months, and this weekend

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A Musical Sleuth Revives Works by a Lost 19th-Century Composer

Just when you think you've heard it all—the entire classical music canon—Close Encounters With Music's artistic director Yehuda Hanani pulls another rabbit out of a hat.  The trick this time is the re-discovery of a heretofore virtually forgotten 19th-century composer, Eduard Franck, a student

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"Kiss This - A Valentine's Day Cabaret" at Barrington Stage

Nikos Tsakalakos is the type of talented and ambitious young artist who finds Pittsfield a font of creativity. "Two years ago, Bill Finn told me his crazy idea that he wanted to make Pittsfield the epicenter of new musical theater," says Tsakalakos, who was a student of the

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An Insider's Look at Vassar's Outsider Art

Vassar College has been collecting art since its founding in 1864, and the school's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center now has nearly 18,000 works, including the Warburg Collection of Old Master Prints and Matthew Vassar's collection of Hudson River School paintings. The holdings also include

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Academy Award-Nominated Shorts at TSL

Unless you attend a lot of film festivals, it's unlikely you've seen the ten short films nominated for Oscars. Time and Space Limited offers remedy: the five animated and five live-action films will be screened there this week.  As A.O. Scott of the New York

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"Selected Shorts" Returns to the Mahaiwe

The theme song alone (Roger Kelloway's Come to the Meadow) is enough to trigger endorphins, even before anyone has uttered a word.  Then comes the voice of host Isaiah Sheffer announcing another NPR broadcast of PRI's Selected Shorts, and instantly, fans of the show (and they

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Toulouse-Lautrec and His Paris at the Clark

Robert Sterling Clark, who always went by his middle name, was the grandson of Edward Clark, business partner of I.M. Singer, the inventor of the lockstitch sewing machine.  The elder Clark, a lawyer, handled the business side of the Singer Manufacturing Company, but he was inventive too—after settling

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