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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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'The Avengers': Just DessertsBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:53AM / Thursday, May 10, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Joss Whedon's "The Avengers," a superhero answer to Kellogg's Variety Pak featuring Captain America, The Black Widow, Iron Man, The Hulk, Hawkeye and Thor, is like a 4th of July celebration, except that its fireworks finale lasts about 60 minutes. This is mostly dessert with little main course, a cacophonous sugar rush of special effects.
Any more of a plot than it's simple, villain-from-outer space-come-to-dominate-us scenario would more than likely get crushed in the relentless whirligig, if not suffocated by the unremitting phantasmagoria. All of which makes it perfect for viewers who, since toddlerhood, have imbibed little else 0 Comments
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Rock The Block Attracts Over 2,000 To Main StreetBy John Durkan, iBerkshires Staff
03:15PM / Monday, May 07, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Rock The Block attracted roughly 2,500 people to a crowded Main Street throughout a picture-perfect Sunday afternoon. The event, put together entirely by Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Performing Arts Management (PAM) class, featured a plethora of performances and activities on the half-closed street. "The students did a great job," said Jonathan Secor, director of special programs at MCLA. Secor said the students felt an overall disconnect between the community and the college. The class decided to fix that.
Lauren "Lo" Sottile, a senior and the teaching assistant of the PAM class, said she remembered how school leaders 2 Comments
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'The Five-Year Engagement': To Wed, Or Not To Wed?By Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:10PM / Thursday, May 03, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Universal Pictures Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star in the rollercoaster romantic comedy, "The Five-Year Engagement."Filmmaker Nicholas Stoller's "The Five-Year Engagement" humorously and sweetly reminds that of all the folly we foment in this human existence, few pursuits are more profound with sheer, dizzying, bedeviling joy than love and marriage. 'Tis the masks of comedy and tragedy put into full play by no less a wily director than Mr. Cupid himself. Accepting that premise, the engagement period is essentially the dress rehearsal, a time to tweak your lines, adjust your characters, delve their 0 Comments
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