A daily aggregation of news, features, and reviews from around the corner to around the world, from a Berkshire point of view.
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Singer-songwriters Lyle Lovett, Ben Folds, Keb’ Mo’, Suzanne Vega, and rootsy heartland-rockers BoDeans will perform at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass., between May and October 2024. Lyle Lovett, joined by singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb will perform in a collaboration on May 10, roots-rock band BoDeans on May 25, blues guitarist and…
(AMHERST, Mass.) February 27, 2023 — Aaron Lansky, the Yiddish Book Center’s visionary founder and MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant winner, will retire from his role as president of the center in June 2025. Susan Bronson, the center’s long-time and accomplished executive director, will assume the position of president. Following his retirement, Lansky will remain at…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Ny Whitaker has been named executive director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy (known as the Du Bois Freedom Center), following a seven-month, national search funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Whitaker will oversee operations, fundraising, and programming while reporting to…
(LENOX, Mass.) – James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his All-Star Band for performances on Wednesday, July 3, and Thursday, July 4, 2024, at 8pm, in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. This summer marks 50 years since Taylor first performed at Tanglewood on July 30, 1974. The two dates scheduled this July will bring the total…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire restaurateur Josh Irwin (Cantina 229, MoonCloud) will open a “fast casual” food establishment in a space adjacent to the Triplex Cinema. Plans call for a 550-square-foot space, accessible from both the interior of the Triplex and the exterior on the Triplex patio via a takeout window. Juju’s will open in…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Julianne Boyd, founder and artistic director of Barrington Stage Company (BSC), has announced plans to retire at the end of the 2022 season. The Board of Trustees is conducting a national search for her successor, who will assume leadership in the fall of 2022. For a comprehensive appreciation of Julie Boyd’s accomplishments…
(KINDERHOOK, N.Y.) – Columbia County’s organic Katchkie Farm will become one of New York’s only “pizza farms” courtesy of Neapolitan-style pie master Rafi Bildner, who will be in residence with a pop-up of his Hilltown Hot Pies on the 60-acre farm every weekend, Thursday-Sunday, beginning on Thursday July 23, 2020, and running through September 20,…
by Seth Rogovoy The Democratic candidates for president need to stop running against each other and unite in one single task: to defeat Donald Trump. This should be the sine qua non of their campaigns. When they run against each other, they make themselves look small and ineffectual, like Lilliputians turned against each other rather…
(BECKET, Mass.) – For the month of August, Hilltown Hot Pies, a pizza pop-up restaurant, has landed at Dream Away Lodge, serving up handmade, Neapolitan-inspired sourdough pizza. Rafi Bildner, a trained pizzaiolo who has honed his pizza-making skills under some of the best pizza chefs in the world, has returned home to the Berkshires for…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Bob Dylan author Seth Rogovoy will host an exclusive screening of Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese at the Triplex Cinema on Tuesday, June 11, at 7pm. The Triplex screening will be one of only a few dozen in the world before the film moves to the…
