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Monthly Archives: July 2011

A New Look for BerkshireDaily

July 31, 2011
The new BerkshireDaily logo, designed by Jen Ødegaard

On Monday, August 1, 2011, BerkshireDaily introduces a new look, a new brand, and some new features. Mostly, however, the changes are on the surface, and BerkshireDaily remains the same – your free one-stop for the day’s news, features, reviews and information you need, gathered from around the corner and around the globe via...
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(Movie Review) ‘Beginners’ by Mike Mills

July 31, 2011
beginners-movie-poster

Beginners Written and directed by Mike Mills Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent   Reviewed by Seth Rogovoy   A romantic comedy about commitment phobia, Beginners succeeds winningly owing to sharp writing, self-consciously clever filmic devices (including a talking Jack Russell terrier – something that would ordinarily really bug the crap out...
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(Dance Review) Big Dance Theater at Jacob’s Pillow

July 29, 2011
Pete Simpson and Tymberly Canale in Big Dance Theater's 'Supernatural Wife' (photo Christopher Duggan)

JACOB’S PILLOW Big Dance Theater Thursday, July 28, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – An hour-long work which lies somewhere in a liminal space between dance and theater, Supernatural Wife – enjoying its U.S. premiere in the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob’s Pillow through Sunday, July 31 — is delicately wrought and...
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(Dance Review) Laboratory Dance Project at Jacob’s Pillow

July 28, 2011
LDP/Laboratory Dance Project in 'Are you happy to see me?' (photo Christopher Duggan)

LDP/Laboratory Dance Project in ‘Are you happy to see me?’ (photo Christopher Duggan) JACOB’S PILLOW Laboratory Dance Project (LDP) Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) -  In the mixed bill of three works that made up their Jacob’s Pillow debut , Laboratory Dance Project (LDP) displayed...
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Berkshire Weekend Cultural Preview, July 29-31, 2011

July 27, 2011
Pianist Peter Serkin (by Kathy Chapman)

This week’s cultural highlights include a dual art opening at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield that includes photography by the great Gregory Crewdson, whom the Berkshires can lay claim to both residentially and artistically, as much of his work is staged and shot here; experimental Latin pop by Helado Negro at Club Helsinki Hudson; the...
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Peter Serkin, Mozart, Mahler, and Brahms at Tanglewood 7/29-31

July 27, 2011
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein (photo by Lucio Lecce)

(LENOX, Mass.) – This weekend’s highlights at Tanglewood include the Berkshires’ own Peter Serkin, the world-renowned concert artist, joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra for an all-Brahms program on Saturday night. The weekend kicks off on Friday night with pianist Orion Weiss, filling in for the ailing Leon Fleisher, joining the BSO in a program...
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Latin Pop Experimentalist Helado Negro at Club Helsinki

July 27, 2011
Helado Negro (photo by Kristi Sword)

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Ecuadorian-Floridian pop experimentalist Roberto Carlos Lange, a new generation’s answer to Tom Zé, performs his gauzy electronic soundscapes under the nom-de-band Helado Negro at Club Helsinki in Hudson, N.Y., on Saturday, July 30, at 9 p.m. Helado Negro’s alternate universe features lilting melodies, purred Spanish lyrics and beats that dance from...
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Photography and Sculpture Show at Ferrin Gallery Features Gregory Crewdson Work

July 27, 2011
Gregory Crewdson, Production Still, Untitled, (Worthington Street #1), courtesy Gagosian Gallery, Archival Pigment Print, 17" x 22", Edition of 20

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Beauty In Decay, a group show of photography and a solo show of sculpture by Gordon Chandler, opens at Ferrin Gallery on Saturday, July 30, with a reception from 4 to 6. The two exhibitions with the same title explore themes of beauty drawn from decaying surfaces, objects and structures. The...
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(Music Review) Steely Dan at Tanglewood

July 27, 2011
Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and the Embassy Brats

TANGLEWOOD Steely Dan Tuesday, July 26, 2011   Review by Seth Rogovoy   (LENOX, Mass.) – It’s hard to believe we had to wait until the year 2011 to see Steely Dan at Tanglewood, but it was worth it, because it was perfect. Which isn’t any surprise, because Steely Dan is all about perfection....
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Artscape Hosts Walking Tours of Public Art in Downtown Pittsfield

July 25, 2011
Art Everywhere

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Artscape, a public outdoor art exhibition, resumes its monthly tours of public art in downtown Pittsfield on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 1 p.m. Artist and educator Craig Langlois narrates the 90-minute tours, which conclude on Oct. 8. Free of charge and made possible by a grant from the Pittsfield Cultural Council, the...
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