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'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel': First Class AccommodationsBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Staff
12:01PM / Thursday, June 07, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' explores the lives of problems associated with aging.Enjoying the profound and humorous insights about one's golden years so charmingly assayed by John Madden's "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," it occurred that this film should be mandatory viewing for anyone with a civic sense. While seniors will enjoy the concurrence of truths they've learned, young folks should benefit most from its wisdom. Apparently, none of the characters etched here by a fine ensemble of grade-A British thespians saw that dooming sign in the grocery stores, barber shops and auto garages of their youth that read, 0 Comments
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'Cassandra Speaks': Randolph Shines as WWII JournalistBy Larry Murray, Berkshire On Stage
09:40PM / Wednesday, June 06, 2012 | |
 LENOX, Mass.You have to see this wonderful play, it's as simple as that. Actor Tod Randolph and writer Norman Plotkin have plucked Dorothy Thompson from the dust of history and underserved obscurity and brought her amazingly, even brilliantly, to life again.
Dorothy Thompson, was a pioneer and a professional. She wrote a widely syndicated newspaper column for 22 years that was read by millions. She was, in many ways, the Oprah of her day. And it wasn't easy being her. I can imagine how many times men would be heard to say stupid things like: "She writes just like a man," as if digging for facts and finding news stories was just for little boys.
An important voice in the years 0 Comments
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North Adams' DownStreet Art To Feature MuralsBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
10:47PM / Friday, June 01, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The writing will be on the wall for DownStreet Art organizers as they are running out of empty storefronts.
The annual effort to use art to bring people to the city's downtown kicks off on June 28 and this year it will include mural paintings on four of the city's walls.
Murals will be painted on back of the Mohawk Theater, Juvenile Court, on the underpass of the Memorial Bridge and on a Holden Street wall to go with the series of exhibitions and open galleries.
The effort, now in its fifth year, is a collaboration of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the city, local artist and businesses.
"Our goal is to use great art as a catalyst to bring people 0 Comments
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'Men In Black III': Dressed To ImpressBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:30AM / Thursday, May 31, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) team up in time-twisting fashion for third movie of the "Men In Black" series.Well, this is a nice surprise. Traditionalists should be happy to know that director Barry Sonnenfeld's "Men in Black III," for all its cutting-edge psychedelia, avoids most of the pitfalls that usually plague sequels, especially summer films, with a rather old technique. It's called writing. Using its power, screenwriter Ethan Cohen saves the world, in a way.
It only makes sense. Without breathing reinvigorating life into those intrepid alien fighters, Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee 0 Comments
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Berkshire Museum Offers Troops & Families Free AdmissionBy Joe Durwin, Pittsfield Correspondent
11:32PM / Monday, May 28, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The doors of the Berkshire Museum were open on a Memorial Day for the first time in years as it welcomed Army Spc. Rodney Buzzella and his family to celebrate its participation in the Blue Star Museums program
The program offers free admission to active military members and their families throughout the summer.
Blue Star Museums is a 3-year-old collaborative effort of the National Endowment of the Arts, the nonprofit Blue Star Families and the Department of Defense working with museums around the country to be able to provide free admission for active-duty military members and their families.
The program runs from this Memorial Day, May 28, through Labor Day, 2 Comments
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MCLA Gallery 51 To Feature Photojournalist Gillian Jones| 11:26AM / Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Gallery 51 will present "Gillian Jones: Twenty Years of Photojournalism in the Berkshires," a selection of photographs taken throughout Jones' career at the North Adams Transcript, starting on May 31.
Jones captured a number of the unique moments that happened in the Berkshire County. This exhibition is a survey of her career, thus far. The public is invited to attend a free opening reception on Thursday, May 31, 5-7 p.m.
“It is one of the most challenging and exciting jobs in the world. It is the ‘toughest job I’ve ever loved.’ I capture people at their best and worst moments,” Jones 0 Comments
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Williamstown Woman To Head Berkshire Creative| 10:28PM / Monday, May 21, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Creative Economy Council has a new director with the appointment on Monday of Jodi Joseph, director of retail operations at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.
"Jodi Joseph brings a wonderful mix of experience in the creative economy and enthusiasm for the work of Berkshire Creative," said Cathy Deely, chairman of the non-profit organization's board of trustees. "We are very much looking forward to the work she will be doing to promote the creative economy, provide program and event support to creatives in the Berkshires, and to launch our soon-to-be announced membership program, featuring an online directory for the 6 Comments
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Summer Celebration of Jewish Music| 09:18AM / Monday, May 21, 2012 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — For the third summer in a row, Berkshire venues will host music that celebrates the rich tradition of Eastern European Jewish culture.
This year, with a choral concert and renowned musician Charles Neville joining the musicians, the celebration is broadening its scope and programming to include other cultures and their influence on Jewish music. All of the concerts are open to the public.
The celebration opens on Tuesday, May 29, at 7:30 p.m. with a concert at Congregation Knesset Israel. Guest artist, saxophonist Neville, of the Neville Brothers, will join co-director Paul Green and friends in a concert showing the deep connections between African-American and 0 Comments
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'Dark Shadows': Eternity RevisitedBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:45PM / Thursday, May 17, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Explaining Johnny Depp's niche in the film world, my daughter Erin, a promising player in the New York art scene, informed that the lead in Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows" is an iconoclast for the masses. Joanne, her mother, my wife and a college professor, simply exclaimed, "I just want to see my Johnny." My obsolescence couldn't be more satisfying. Neither a fan of the series when it played the small screen from 1966 to 1971, nor of vampires in general, approaching this assignment I would then be Filmdom's Alexis de Tocqueville, an outsider, the objective surveyor. As such, I bring news that, as long as you're not 0 Comments
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'Red Tails' To Screen At North Adams Airport| 11:19AM / Monday, May 14, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The large hanger at Harriman and West Airport will once again serve as the county's largest movie screen with the showing of the World War II film "Red Tails" on Tuesday, July 3.
This is the second time Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts has hosted an outdoor showing of an aviation-themed movie at the airport. Last year, the museum screened Robert Redford's "The Great Waldo Pepper" on the 90-by-22-foot airplane hangar door.
"Red Tails" follows a group of African-American pilots in the famous Tuskegee training program in 1944.
Seating will be on the tarmac; patrons should bring their own chairs and blankets to make themselves 0 Comments
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