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Williamstown Theatre Festival Brings 'ART' to The Clark

The venerable Wililiamstown Theatre Festival is making an effort to have more of a year-round presence in the Berkshires. Now that it has a Williamstown-based general manager, Joe Finnegan (left with Kristen Johanson), it's reaching out to full-time residents and a staged reading of Yasmina Reza's

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The "Radioactive Bodega" Pre-Party

The IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires annual costume ball has become a cult even that attracts more than 400 partygoers of all ages.  The theme of the party is always playful—Sushi-a-Go-Go in 2007, Rock the Opera in 2008, the Hair Ball in 2009—and is open to

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Jason Houston's Solo Exhibit Opens at the Ferrin Gallery

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: Thursday, January 21 was something of a double-header for Jason Houston (near left with gallery owners Donald Clark and Leslie Ferrin.) The evening began with the reception for his solo photography show, Family of Mine, at Ferrin Gallery, and continued at

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Pittsfield Photographers Keep the Focus Local

It wasn't too long ago when "Pittsfield, snow and January" all mixed up together pretty much guaranteed quiet. No longer. Last Friday, more than 200 people showed up at the Lichtenstein Gallery for the opening reception of BerkshireCity: Pittsfield on Film, which proves that Pittsfield is

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Stars Align at Biskind Book Signing

Friends and cinephiles gathered on Saturday evening at The Chatham Bookstore to hear Peter Biskind read from his new book, Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America, an authorized (the subject's attorney's posturing notwithstanding) biography.  Biskind's first selection illustrates why Beatty is worthy of the

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Dressed for Chill at the Stockbridge Sleigh Rally

It was 8 degrees at 11 a.m. on Sunday, January 10, at Orleton Farm in Stockbridge, where the spectators huddled around a huge bonfire (which was stoked by shipping pallets) and sipped hot cider and hot cocoa to stay warm. Host Harvey Waller, the president of the Colonial Carriage

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A Magical Midwinter's Night of Music at The Mahaiwe

Before the Mahaiwe Center for the Performing Arts opened in 2005, you had to wait for summer to hear the superstars of classical music perform in the Berkshires. So it was appropriate that Emanuel Ax volunteered to play a tribute concert on January 2 in honor of Lola Jaffe, who

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A Night of Art to Be Reckoned With in North Adams & Pittsfield

MASS MoCA is the North Pole of the Rural Intelligence region, and you never know what the elves in North Adams will produce next. On Saturday December 12, in the football-field sized gallery known as Building 5, the museum unveiled an installation called Gravity Is A Force To Be Reckoned

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The Wandering Eye: Clermont Christmas

The Wandering Eye, aka Carey Maloney, wandered into our Parties section from his usual perch in Style, to report on the goings on this season at Clermont, the Livingston property that is now a New York State historic site. Beginning in 1728 (281 years and seven generations ago…), there have

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Hollywood on the Housatonic

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: When it comes to luring film productions to the area, the Berkshire Film and Media Commission (BFMC) takes its cue from real estate agents in citing the three most important factors: location, location, location. That was the message delivered to the

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The Berkshire Creative Community Sparkles Together

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: Hundreds of members of the Berkshire "creative class" converged on the Seven Hills Inn on Thursday, December 3, for the second annual SPARKLE, ­ the holiday edition of Berkshire Creative‘s  signature SPARK networking event. As befits the season, deal-making

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MASS MoCA Takes Manhattan

One of the amazing things about MASS MoCA is that a cutting-edge museum with an international reputation thrives in rural, northern Berkshire County.  As community-oriented as MASS MoCA is, it can not depend on locals to sustain it financially, which is why the museum holds an annual fundraiser in Manhattan.

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