Hinda Bodinger of Egremont, Mass., and Rye Brook, N.Y., and Scott Haskell of Hancock, Mass., and Boston, are the lucky winners, respectively, of the May giveaway of dinner for two at John Andrews Restaurant in Egremont, Mass., and the June giveaway of a pair of tickets to a show at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox,…
For the next three weeks in July, three lucky contributors to the Rogovoy Report will win a free dinner for two at John Andrews Restaurant in Egremont, Mass., as well as a pair of tickets to a play at either Shakespeare & Company (in Lenox, Mass.) or Berkshire Theatre Group (in Pittsfield and Stockbridge, Mass.)…
Jewhooing the Sixties by David E. Kaufman Brandeis University Press, 360 pages, $36 Review by Seth Rogovoy The final week of September 1961 proved to be an auspicious one in American Jewish history — or, at least, in the history of Jewish-American celebrities. Within a matter of just a few days, Sandy Koufax set his…
Listening to NPR this morning, I learned something new – or if I ever knew it, I forgot it. It’s so obvious, it’s easy to overlook. The month of July is named after Julius Caesar (like August, also named after a Roman emperor). It seems that for awhile, the Roman emperors were on a month-naming…
You can almost predict with certainty — you could even put money on it — that any time there is a rock festival in town, anywhere in the greater Berkshire region, the local newspaper will run a story about how the nearest hospital emergency room is overrun with incoming — drunk and disorderlies, drug overdoses,…
I’m reading a new biography of a guy named Allan Sherman, to review for The Forward, so I will say more about Sherman and the book in my review. But in the meantime I am very curious about the relative awareness of Sherman. So tell me – how many of you have never heard of…
by Seth Rogovoy I’ve been using Apple’s built-in Reminders app to create daily to-do lists. This is kind of a work-around use of the app, as it really is made for what the name suggests – for setting up reminders to yourself, a feature that I actually rarely use. So it’s kind of a clunky…
by Seth Rogovoy Disease-bearing bugs. Bacterial-laden water. Cancer-causing rays. Oppressive humidity. Need I say more? Summer has always been my least favorite season. I just can’t stand hot weather. You can always add on layers if you’re cold, but there’s only so much stripping down you can do to cool off before there’s nothing left…
by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Score another home run for Berkshire Museum for the brand-new exhibition, PaperWorks: The Art and Science of an Extraordinary Material, another in a series of original shows brainstormed and curated by director of interpretation Maria Mingalone (Taking Flight: Audubon and the World of Birds; Rethink! American Indian Art; Armed…
by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – I visited the Clark recently and got an update on the latest expansion of the cultural venue. I say the latest because, taking the long view, the Clark has seemingly been expanding for decades. When they talk about the current construction, I suppose the term “expansion” means something very…
