Dalton Art Guild announces award winners
PITTSFIELD – Jo-Anne Irwin, a Lenox folk artist, won “best of show” at the annual membership show of the Dalton Art Guild. Her intricate and picturesque Early American primitive…
‘Before Midnight’ offers change of pace in summer sequels
Before Midnight, filmmaker Richard Linklater’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, lives up to its predecessors. Nine years after the last film ended, Ethan Hawke and Julie…
Tanglewood Popular Artists Series begins this weekend
LENOX – From Joan Baez to Guster, this year’s performers in the popular artists series at Tanglewood offer something for everyone. And that is the whole intention of the series,…
‘This Is the End’ delivers outrageous humor
This Is the End is a movie that’s almost as funny as it is outrageous. And boy, is it outrageous. Co-written and co-directed by Seth Rogen, it features him and…
Bloomsday in Williamstown
WILLIAMSTOWN – Bloomsday was recently celebrated in the town, thanks to Karl Mullen and John Strachan who planned the day, as they did last year. This year, with one or…
‘Orchardist’ explores depth of family relationships
The Orchardist is a straight story – a first novel – but without the psychological twists that seem to characterize contemporary fiction. In more or less the mid-19th century, the…
The wonder of paper
PITTSFIELD – As you read the paper, do you ever think about what goes into making it? No, not the work of the writers, even more important may be the…
DownStreet Art to launch sixth year
NORTH ADAMS – Those who have always wanted to dance through the streets of the city will get their chance on Thursday, June 20. At 8 p.m., North Adams’ Main…
‘Heroes’ opens at S&Co. this weekend
LENOX – Shakespeare and Company’s second show of the summer season begins this weekend. Heroes, winner of the 2006 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, tells the tale of three World…
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel forms complex view of titular character
Advertised as a book of short stories – 13 of them – Olive Kitteridge is actually separate chapters of a narrative in which each character comes at the reader with…