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'The Great Gatsby': A Bit Jazzed-UpBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:46AM / Thursday, May 16, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Warner Brothers Too bad the 1926, silent version of "The Great Gatsby," filmed only a year after F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book, is missing. Add that to the 1949 edition, the 1974 adaptation I consider the best, and this latest techno-charged remake directed by Baz Luhrmann, and we'd be dangerously armed for all sorts of didactic, comparative studies in filmmaking. Instead, maybe like what Daisy Buchanan wished for her daughter, we should be pretty little fools, unfazed by all that rigor and fuss, and simply enjoy this latest offering for what it is: a big, 0 Comments
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North Adams Happenings: May 15-21| 08:47AM / Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | |
 North Adams Happenings
EVENT NAMA Prom Presents: Under the Sea
North Adams Elks
100 Eagle St.
(413)652-2462
8:30 – 10pm: cocktail hour and hors d'oeuvres
10pm-1:30am: Dance Party
$10 before 10pm / $5 after 10pm
Click here for Facebook Event page.
We got no troubles, life is the bubbles...UNDER THE SEA! Which is where the NAMA Prom Committee will take you for this year's edition of the NAMA Prom; Berkshire County's social event of the season. This year's exciting, underwater version of the legendary North Adams semi-formal 0 Comments
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North Adams Merchants Preparing for Solid Sound ArrivalBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
09:15PM / Monday, May 13, 2013 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Galleries and merchants are once again girding for a welcomed invasion of Wilco fans this June.
But that isn't the only event hoping to draw visitors — and their wallets — the city.
"[Solid Sound brought] 5,000 people to town the last time it was here ... lots and lots of people in North Adams," said Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art's Jodi Joseph to a gathering of cultural and business representatives. "It's a friendly crowd ... It's a lovely group. .. If you want thousands of nice people to come, invite Wilco to come to your home."
The Grammy-winning band will curate its third Solid Sound Festival at
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North Adams Sets Information Session on Summer Season| 12:53AM / Monday, May 13, 2013 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city is expecting an influx of visitors this year as the third Solid Sound Festival kicks off the summer season.
The North Adams Chamber of Commerce and Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, a program of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, are hosting an informational session on Monday evening how to meet those visitors' expectations and prepare for their arrival.
The session takes place at MCLA Gallery 51 on Main Street beginning at 6 p.m.
Business owners, local artists, neighbors and interested residents are invited to attend.
Representatives of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the North Adams Office of Tourism, and BCRC will present some
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BAMCon Anime Convention Returns to Crowne Plaza| 03:06PM / Thursday, May 09, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Anime and Manga Club, a local group devoted to Japanese comic books and animation, is back with another comic festival.
Comic book, gaming and animation fans will converge on downtown Pittsfield for 2nd annual Berkshire Anime and Manga Convention. The gathering, better known as BAMCon, will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Friday, May 10, through Sunda, May 12. The spotlight guest will be Bella Hudson, a voice actress who has performed roles in notable anime series Pokemon and One Piece. Returning is Japanese anime rock band The Asterplace. Find the full schedule and more information here. "Last year was a great kick-off," said Jon
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North Adams Happenings: May 8-14| 01:02PM / Wednesday, May 08, 2013 | |
 North Adams Happenings
EVENT DownStreet Art Kick Off!!
Main Street
(413)664-8718
6pmon
FREE
Click here for more information.
Join us June 20th as DownStreet Art, the summer long public art series, kicks off the 2013 season with gallery openings and a dance party celebration to prepare the city for Mass MoCA's Solid Sound Festival as they close down Main St. for a night of art and entertainment Thursday, June 20th at 6pm. Montreal's own multilingual, multicultural, super-group Nomadic Massive will get the dance party started with a
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'The Big Wedding': An Affair to DisrememberBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
09:34AM / Friday, May 03, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Lionsgate Remember that time long ago at some cousin's wedding when your crazy Uncle Herb just stood up, yelled something at your dad and stormed out of the place? Baffling, it was your official indoctrination to family dysfunction. Well, just in case you desire a refresher course in the wacky dynamic, director Justin Zackham provides it in "The Big Wedding." Not as funny as you'd like, mixing just OK with not so OK portrayals, and more than a bit awkward in its preachings on tolerance, the film nonetheless possesses a harmless lilt that, were it not for an 0 Comments
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African-American Heritage Celebrated Countywide This SummerBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
03:15PM / Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Downstreet Arts' first Thursday in June this year coincides with the launch of the biennial countywide celebration of African-American heritage in Berkshire County.
Lift Ev'ry Voice — a festival of artistic endeavors and historical events — brings a World Music Dance Party to Main Street and a reading of civil rights activist Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July Address on June 20.
The festival was founded three years ago by Shirley Edgerton and Eugenie Sills as a way to give voice to a significant element of the county's history and culture that ranges from Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman who sued for her liberty to the Rev.
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MCLA Students to Host All-Day Performing Arts Show| 10:29AM / Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | |
NORTH ADAMS, MASS. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts announced its 4th annual Performing Arts Management show, "Day into Night," will take place on Sunday, May 5, from 3 to 10 p.m. Part of this season's MCLA Presents! performance series, this festival — which will showcase music, dance, theater and visual art — will begin in the MCLA Quadrangle and end in the adjacent Venable gym. A highlight of the event will be an evening dance party with hip-hop artist Spose. Also known as Ryan Michael Peters, Spose released his first album "Preposterously Dank" in 2007. Sam Pfeifle of the Phoenix magazine describes Spose as 0 Comments
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NASC Graduate Holding Book Signing at Pitcher's Mound PubBy John Durkan, iBerkshires Staff
04:08PM / Thursday, April 25, 2013 | |
 North Adams State College graduate Thomas Donahue will have a book signing at the Pitcher's Mound Pub on Saturday, April 27, from 2 to 5 p.m. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — When Thomas Donahue was considering murder, the first place he thought of was North Adams. That's how the city became the backdrop to the North Adams State College graduate's self-published murder-mystery "Fraternal Bonds." Donahue returns to the scene of the crime on Saturday, April 27, for a book signing at the Pitcher's Mound Pub from 2 to 5 p.m. The Boston native, who graduated from what is now Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 1991, majored in sociology with a minor in 2 Comments
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