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Summer's Hottest Ticket? Wilco's Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA

Chicago-based Wilco is making a habit of touring our region in summer. Last year, the literate, prolific, politically progressive band played Dutchess Stadium; the previous summer Wilco made an improbable and magnificent appearance at Tanglewood. The area has made an indelible impression on the band, who will be back

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A Farm Film Feast: Film, Food and Discussion

The crusade to eat locally hits the big screen with such enticingly titled films as, Dirt! The Movie, Mad City Chickens, and What's On Your Plate?  This week and through the weekend, more than a dozen films about food will be screening at Images Theater in Williamstown, MA,

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Les Costumes Magnifiques!

Recycling is second nature to Govane Lohbauer. Last year, Shakespeare & Company's costume director got a call from S&Co founder Tina Packer who said she wanted to direct a winter production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which is set in the 18th century French court and requires

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RI Selects: Beautiful Film, Ugly Predicament

Friday, February 26 @ 7 p.m “We have a 10-15 year window to make some noise,” says Columbia County resident Sven Huseby. “I would love to see the term ‘ocean acidification’ become part of the political discourse.” According to the documentary Huseby appears in and co-produced and that

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Reading List: Recent Books by Local Authors

Peter Biskind, author of such film classics as Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures writes an intimate, revealing and balanced biography of a Hollywood legend in Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America (Simon & Schuster, 2009).  In it, Biskind makes the case that, for all his excesses,

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Dan's Diary: Lauren Ambrose & The Leisure Class Packs the Lion's Den

With its low ceilings, small tables and intimate scale, the Lion's Den at the Red Lion Inn is a classic cabaret, and it was literally packed to the rafters for Monday night's second Berkshires performance of Lauren Ambrose and the Leisure Class, a gypsy-like, New

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Critic's Choice: Lauren Ambrose & The Leisure Class at the Lion's Den

Music critic Jeremy Goodwin previews the show at the Lion's Den in Stockbridge on Monday January 18 at 8:30 p.m. The only issue is whether we’ll be allowed to dance on the tables. When Lauren Ambrose and The Leisure Class made their live debut last

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Beatty Biographer Peter Biskind Talks Shop With Fellow-Author Sheila Weller

Last week—vying with the latest economic, Tiger Woodsian, and failed-Northwest-Airlines-terrorist-bombing-blame-game news that was zinging around the web—was a certain number: 12,775. Specifically, it was the cool surmisal that, if you did "simple arithmetic," Warren Beatty has likely bedded a

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Seth Rogovoy Sees Dylan's Jewish Spirit Blowin' in the Wind

It's not hyperbole to say that Seth Rogovoy considers listening to—and performing—the music of Bob Dylan a spiritual experience. Rogovoy, the editor in chief of Berkshire Living who was the rock critic for the Berkshire Eagle for nearly two decades, has been a die-hard Dylan

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Dan's Diary: Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall . . .

Even in the off season, Tanglewood dominates the cultural and economic life of the Berkshires. "For the Berkshires to thrive, we need Tanglewood to survive," says BSO trustee Nancy Fitzpatrick, the owner of the Red Lion Inn, who is head of the Tanglewood Business Partners.  According to the

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Norman Rockwell's American Dream: The Auteur Theory

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Williamstown Film Festival Tickets on Sale

Suitably enough, the highlight of the first weekend of the 11th Annual Williamstown Film Festival (October 23 - 25; second weekend, October 29 - November 1), will be dinner and a movie on Saturday night.  The annual benefit dinner is being held this year at Mezze's new catering facility in

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