(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — “Corporations & the Food Movement,” a conversation with author Michael Pollan and representatives from Walmart, is next in Edible Education: The Rise And Future Of The Food Movement, a series of videotaped lectures from UC Berkeley with renowned author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Nikki Henderson of the People’s Grocery,…
Metropolitan Opera Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts a new production of Don Giovanni, Mozart’s classic opera of lust, heartbreak, and revenge, with Mariusz Kwiecien in his first Met performances of the iconic title role. The 4-hour opera, hosted by Renée Fleming, will be screen Live in HD on Saturday, October 29, at 1 p.m. at…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Going into its 20th year of presenting outstanding chamber music with lively commentary, Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) presents the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Sunday, October 30, 2011, at 2pm. Conducted by Misha Rachlevsky, the ensemble returns for a second successive season with a program…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Sidney Lumet, Carol Channing, Marge Champion, and a special program on the intersection of Bollywood and the Berkshires are among the highlights of the second and concluding weekend of the 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival (WFF), running Thursday, October 27 through Sunday, October 29, 2011. WFF’s closing day, Saturday, October 29, kicks…
by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., and ZUCCOTTI PARK, New York, N.Y.) – The Sim’sMobile pulled out of downtown Great Barrington at 8 a.m. on Monday morning, destination lower Manhattan. At the wheel was Steve Vilot, owner of Sim’s Salon and Barber Shops in Pittsfield and Great Barrington, Mass., as well as a recognized authority…
by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 17, 2011) – By summer 2014, a visit to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will be a substantially new and different experience than it is today. While The Clark will remain one of the few institutions in the world with a dual mission as both a museum…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Tony Award-winning musical writer Stew, of the Broadway hit jazz-rock musical Passing Strange, and his artistic partner Heidi Rodewald of Stew and The Negro Problem, will perform in the MCLA Church Street Center Auditorium as part of the College’s MCLA Presents! performance series on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. They…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The a cappella ensemble Anonymous 4 performs “Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas” on Friday, October 21, 2011, at 8 p.m., in Thompson Memorial Chapel on the Williams College Campus. Renowned for their unearthly vocal blend and virtuosic ensemble singing, the four singers of Anonymous 4 combine musical, literary, and historical…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Pieta Brown, whose father, Greg Brown, was instrumental in establishing the sound and approach of the new-folk movement growing out of the 1970s singer-songwriter revolution — including founding Red House Records, home to some of the leading lights of the new-folk movement, including Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson — brings…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – David Sedaris, NPR humorist and bestselling author of Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, will speak at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield tonight, Wednesday, October 19, 2011, at 7:30pm. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s preeminent humorists. The…
