(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — How many geckos do you know? From neon green to tropical camouflage, these highly charismatic creatures come in many colors, shapes, and sizes. Geckos have adapted to drastically different habitats all around the world, and they have the bulging eyes, sticky toepads and disposable body parts to prove it. Geckos: Tails to…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) announced the winners of the annual BIFF Juried Prize Award and the BIFF Audience Award. In the Juried Documentary category, the winner was Yoav Potash’s Crime After Crime, about the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Katy Kline, former director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art (1998-2008), has been named interim director of the Williams College Museum of Art. She will serve from early August until the permanent director is in place. Current director Lisa Corrin steps down from her position on June 30. Deputy director John Stomberg…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Hancock Shaker Village will present a Shaker Farm-to-Table Dinner on Thursday, June 16, 2001, to benefit the living history museum’s agricultural education programs. Guest chefs from Mezze Restaurant Group, Mission Bar + Tapas, Red Lion Inn, Route 7 Grill, and Savory Harvest Catering will celebrate the beauty and bounty of the Shaker…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Singer-songwriter Bobby Sweet will celebrate the release of his latest recording, Cowboys and Poets, with a concert on Saturday, June 18, at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass. Sweet’s new folk/Americana style has drawn comparisons to John Prine, Jackson Browne, Guy Clark, and “a countrified Bruce Springsteen.” An engaging storyteller and dynamic…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Artist and designer Karen Beckwith explains the challenges and triumphs she faced in turning a room in a Gilded Age mansion into “a flexible space for meditation, yoga, journaling and drawing, reading, napping, and occasionally hiding…” Ventfort Hall, the Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, has been transformed room by room by…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff, a native of Adams, Mass., and a graduate of Williams College, will discuss her latest work and recent New York Times #1 best seller, Cleopatra: A Life, on Sunday, June 12, at 5 at the Founders’ Theatre at Shakespeare & Company. Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Never Stand Still, a new documentary about Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass., is receiving a preview screening at the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) on Saturday, June 4, at 7, at the Triplex Cinema, in advance of the film’s official West Coast premiere.
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Tickets to the previously announced They Might Be Giants concert at the Mahaiwe on Friday, September 9 at 8 pm go on sale to Mahaiwe members today, Thursday, June 2 at noon, and to the general public on Saturday, June 4 at noon. They Might Be Giants tickets ($27 to $34)…
(HOUSATONIC, Mass.) – John Gorka, Christine Lavin, Dan Bern, Bill Staines, Rory Block, Jonathan Edwards, Barry McGuire, Vance Gilbert, and, of course, Arlo Guthrie, are just a few of those slated to perform in the 2011 Summer Troubadour Series at the Guthrie Center, located at the Old Trinity Church where Alice of Alice’s Restaurant fame…
