(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Music and More’s 2011 season concludes with a panel featuring four nationally prominent authors: Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus, Bruce Murkoff and Tracy Kidder, hosted by Mitchel Levitas of the New York Times. The authors will discuss the rewards and frustrations of writing their recently published work and answer questions from the…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The final DownStreet Thursday of the season will feature seven new exhibition openings, including a milestone retrospective show by local artist Gregory Scheckler in MCLA Gallery 51 and a site-specific exhibition of ceramic objects, drawing, paint and video curated by Pittsfield’s Ferrin Gallery owner Leslie Ferrin in The Artery. The evening…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriters Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault, both sporting new recordings, perform a double-bill at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9. Known mostly for her rootsy, original Americana-flavored folk-pop songs, nothing in the music of Kris Delmhorst immediately suggests a deep affinity with proto-punk new-wave masters The Cars, and…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) The Harrison Gallery will present a show of two gallery favorites: realist painter Nick Patten and bronze sculptor Susan Read Cronin. The artists will attend the opening reception on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 5 until 7 pm. Nick Patten paints the interiors of rooms in old houses with direct and reflected light…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Close to 400 guests attended the 13th annual Berkshire Grown Harvest Supper at Eastover Resort in Lenox last Monday, Sept 19, 2011. Funds raised support Berkshire Grown’s ongoing work to support local food and farms, including Farm to Table Directory and networking, Map-o-licious on the website, Guide to Farms, e-newsletter, Preserving the…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A simulated horde of zombies will descend on downtown Pittsfield on Saturday, October 8, 2011. The Berkshire-based Zombie Action Committee will present the 2nd Annual Pittsfield Zombie Pub Crawl that evening from 5pm to midnight. Last year’s event, promoted almost exclusively through Facebook, proved extremely popular and was generally considered to be…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — In a special “One-Night-Only” event, Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema will screen Red State, the controversial thriller written and directed by Kevin Smith, on Sunday, September 25, 2011, at 7 p.m., followed by an interactive webcast Q&A session with Smith from Los Angeles. Smith’s post-show Q&A will be digitally streamed, live, from Quentin…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Former New York Times columnist and theater critic Frank Rich will speak at the Colonial Theatre on Sunday, October 9 at 2 pm. WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s morning host Joe Donahue will moderate the conversation with Rich, who now writes a monthly column for New York magazine. As the former chief theater…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Nearly 100 dancers participated in a LIVE UNITED flash mob during Pittsfield’s Third Thursday event on September 15, 2011 at 6 pm at the intersection of North and Eagle Streets. While dark clouds threatened and strong winds brought cool temperatures, the dancers quickly warmed up and shed their jackets and sweaters to…
(BOSTON) – Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki today appointed Helena Fruscio, an experienced creative economy leader in Berkshire County, to the position of Creative Economy Industry Director for the Commonwealth. Fruscio will help advance the state’s $1 billion creative economy industry, which currently employs over 100,000 Massachusetts workers, according to a…
