(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – It was totally appropriate that Catherine Russell, who performs at MASS MoCA on Saturday, February 18, at 8 pm in the Hunter Center, released her brand-new album, Strictly Romancin’ (World Village), this past Tuesday – February 14 aka Valentine’s Day – as it’s an album full of romance and heartbreak. But…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Nancy Fitzpatrick, noted philanthropist and owner/CEO of the venerable Red Lion Inn, has invited some of the most stylish residents of the Berkshires to clean out their closets for the benefit of the Berkshire Creative Economy Council. Fitzpatrick will be hosting BerkChique Pop-Up Shop and Clothing Sale, a fashionable alternative to the…
(MANCHESTER, Tenn.) – Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, Bon Iver, the Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour, Steven Bernstein’s MTO Allstars Plays Sly and Skrillex are among the initial lineup of artists slated to perform at the 2012 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the four-day camping and music festival that will be held…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire artist Morgan Bulkeley’s playful, fabulistic landscapes are the subject of a solo exhibition at Berkshire Museum now through March 4, 2012, in the museum’s Ellen Crane Memorial Room. Morgan Bulkeley: Bird Story is a terrific companion exhibition to the sprawling, epic major exhibition, Taking Flight: Audubon and the World of Birds,…
Review by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – If you ever doubted that we share this planet with birds – or rather, that they share this planet with us, and that the interrelationship between birds and humans is imprinted in every aspect of our culture – indeed, that in order to understand what it is that…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Sometimes being one with the prevailing zeitgeist can have its drawbacks. Barrington Stage Company’s artistic director Julianne Boyd had planned to direct Arthur Miller’s The Price on the Pittsfield theater company’s Mainstage this coming summer. As it turns out, some Broadway producers had the same idea, and so the local company has…
(NEW YORK) – On Friday, March 2, 2012, the James Beard Foundation will present Preserving the Berkshire Harvest, an evening showcasing the culinary talents and farm-to-table efforts of several of the most innovative chefs of the Berkshires. The foods prepared will have been preserved using time-honored preserving and curing methods with foods raised and harvested…
SYNTH-FUNK DANCE PARTY at MASS MOCA with GORDON VOIDWELL (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – On Saturday, February 11, 2012, at 8 p.m., MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center will be filled with 1980s outfits and dancers moving to a mix of pop, new wave, and funk at a Synth Funk Dance Party hosted by Gordon Voidwell. The New…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – On view as of Wednesday, February 8, 2012, Anna Betbeze debuts four new paintings in her first solo museum exhibition in MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center mezzanine gallery. Betbeze’s innovative work – described by Suzanne Hudson in Artforum as “exquisitely grotesque” – uses Greek Flokati carpets as a ground for a mix…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Wagner’s epic opera Götterdämmerung, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt and American tenor Jay Hunter Morris, screens at The Clark in Williamstown and the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on Saturday, February 11, 2012, at noon, live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera. The 6.5 hour opera will also be shown…
