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North Adams Drama Teacher Making Final Curtain CallBy Phyllis McGuire, Special to iBerkshires
02:03PM / Saturday, April 20, 2013 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Dr. Len Radin has decided that it is time to "hang up" his tuxedo. "It's getting frayed and needs a rest," he wrote in a letter announcing his retirement after 25 years as Drury High School's theater teacher: "I want to retire from teaching when I am still passionate about it." "When I told the Drama Team I would be leaving at the end of the school year, they cried and I cried, too," said the Williamstown resident in an interview. To those who know the Radin, better known as "Doc," the students' reaction was not 10 Comments
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'42': Root, Root, Root for HumanityBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:10AM / Thursday, April 18, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Warner Brothers I love baseball. Some even claim I'm moved to tears when taking in the playing field of Yankee Stadium for the first time each season. So it is in that vein that I declare Brian Helgeland's "42" both a stirring depiction of Jackie Robinson's epic breaking of the color line and a fine addition to those films recounting the saga of our national pastime. But more important among the dramatically solid movie's virtues is the conscientious refresher course on racism in America. The term sports metaphor has never been more appropriate. And, just 0 Comments
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North Adams Happenings: April 17-23| 09:00AM / Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | |
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EVENT Eagle Street Rising
Eagle St.
12-4pm
FREE
Click here for the Facebook Event page.
Eagle Street Rising is a community revitalization project that aims to demonstrate how temporary changes can create a vibrant and walkable street. These changes include art, landscaping, multi-modal transportation, pop-up businesses, and street life. Eagle Street Rising is North Adams' first Better Block Project.
EVENT Wee Read Berkshire County Event
North Adams Public
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Mass MoCA Teen Art Show Winners AnnouncedStaff Reports, iBerkshires
05:10PM / Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Student artists from throughout Northern Berkshire County recently had their works displayed at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
The third annual exhibit was hosted at Mass MoCA on April 12-14 before moving to the Eclipse Mill in North Adams.
Three students were awarded Grand Prize recognition and a $200 prize. Evan Sanders of Pine Cobble, Pape Souleye Fall of the Buxton School and Jesse Cuevas of Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School took top honors.
Two other Grand Prize winners — Drury's Ann McKenzie and Mount Greylock's Alexandra Delano — were awarded credit for a teen art class at Massachusetts College of
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Arts Venues Seek to Connect Adams, North AdamsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
03:00AM / Monday, April 15, 2013 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — Barely three years old, the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace and Museum is attracting tourists from around the Northeast and as far as Japan.
But the small homestead can't be the only destination.
"We need your help," the museum's new director Colleen Janz implored the gathering at the Fire House Cafe on Saturday night. "We're a small museum, it only takes about an hour to go through ... There has to be something else for these people to do."
The nearly 50 members of the area's "creative community" — artists, writers and representatives of cultural venues — agreed that it was time for North
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'Evil Dead': Bring Popcorn, a Soda and a TourniquetBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:23AM / Friday, April 12, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Tri-Star Pictures I grew anxious as "Evil Dead," director Fede Alvarez's remake/reboot/continuation of Sam Raimi's horror franchise, neared its invasion of the Bijou. In the parlance of my filmgoing childhood, just as when either "Them" (1954) or "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) loomed as the Saturday matinee, I was "a-scared," and not merely afraid. We made deals. Oh sure, we would go, no matter how frightening the prospect. It was compulsory — a lesson in taking the bad with the good — the good being a Western or 0 Comments
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North Adams Happenings: April 10-16| 01:38PM / Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | |
 North Adams Happenings
EVENT Day Into Night Click here for the Facebook event page You can spend May 5th in your room.... or partying with us. The Choice isyours.
EVENT Pre-School Story Time (Ages 3-6)
North Adams Public Library
74 Church Street, 2nd Floor
(413)662-3133 ext. 14
10:30am
FREE Click here for more information. Bring your children for some storytelling and singing! Event is suitable for children ages 3-6. For more information, contact Kim Di
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'G.I. Joe: Retaliation': Revenge is Oh So SourBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:47PM / Friday, April 05, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Paramount Pictures Call it a testament to the strength of our culture. The incredible thing about director Jon M. Chu's "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," an old fashioned shoot-'em-up dressed in brave new world clothing, is that for all its nihilistic, cacophonic violence, there seems to be a need to include some sort of storyline. Alas, all is not lost. And that's about it for the rosy side. Probably the sorriest aspect of this adventure about the elite defenders of freedom known as the G.I. Joes is that its sensibilities consist of the same old war stories we 0 Comments
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North Adams Happenings: April 3-9| 11:46AM / Wednesday, April 03, 2013 | |
 North Adams Happenings
OPEN CALL DOWNSTREET ART 2013: Beyond Industry
MCLA's Berkshire Cultural Resource Center
51 Main Street
(413)664-8718
FREE Click here for more information. DownStreet Art's call for artists and curators returns! Exhibition projects should reflect the theme of "BEYOND INDUSTRY". DownStreet Art 2013 invites all artists of all mediums and disciplines to submit work that explores the realms beyond industry; the art industry, the industry of the factory town in which DownStreet Art lives, as well as the industrial structures that
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'Admissions': Entree to EntertainmentBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:39AM / Thursday, March 28, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Focus Features Smarty pants me figured I had director Paul Weitz's "Admission" all figured out. She's the uptight, overachieving admissions officer at Princeton who gave her baby up for adoption back in college. He's the easygoing head of an alternative school, anxious to get a pet prodigy into Princeton. So of course we know how it plays out, right? Wrong! Weitz, working from Karen Croner's adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz's sociologically astute novel, smartly leads us down the garden path. Making use of our preconceptions, he teaches us a 0 Comments
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