Writer speaks about Hurricane Katrina documentary
WILLIAMSTOWN – Writer Daniel Wolff recently gave a talk about the making of the film I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad and the Beautiful, which, over a period of five years,…
Free holiday extravaganza at Berkshire Athenaeum tonight
PITTSFIELD – Traditional holiday music, refreshments and early celebration of the season will take place tonight (Nov. 20) at 7 p.m. in the Berkshire Athenaeum auditorium, at 1 Wendell Ave., when the Pittsfield…
Pittsfield artist and crafter creates beautiful objects
PITTSFIELD – Nancy A. Leone creates intricately painted and colorful floral glass objects, cloth Christmas mice in detailed outfits, tiny scenes in walnut shells and a host of other artistic…
Comic book icon draws crowd at Norman Rockwell Museum
STOCKBRIDGE – The opening of the Norman Rockwell Museum’s new exhibit, “Heroes and Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross,” drew the largest crowd the museum has seen in recent memory. “I’ve never…
Local high school students experience Shakespeare
Last weekend, high school stages throughout Berkshire County and beyond rang out with the words of William Shakespeare. This weekend, those same words will be echoed back at Shakespeare and…
‘Man with the Iron Fists’ perfect for martial arts enthusiasts
If you’re the type of person who will enjoy The Man with the Iron Fists, you probably know who you are. I’ve been a fan of martial arts movies, and…
Book offers first-hand account of Phnom Penh exile
When the Khmer Rouge overran Cambodia in the early 1970s, everyone was driven out of Phnom Penh, its capital, to work as laborers in the countryside, forced to find their…
Fall Festivals set to return to Shakespeare
LENOX – What do you get when you give several hundred teenagers passionate text, boundless creative freedom, and dozens of gleaming broadswords? Shakespeare and Company’s 24th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare.…
Age of Desire fictionalizes Wharton’s life
I have never read a book of this kind – a fictionalized version of a very real period in a person’s life using actual letters written by and to her…
Dukakis returning to Shakespeare and Co.
LENOX – Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, of New York City, will return to Shakespeare and Company next summer for a production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children.…