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WAM Announces Expansion of Theater Leadership| 11:45AM / Friday, May 03, 2019 | |
 LENOX, Mass. — WAM Theatre announces the addition of two new members to the WAM Leadership Team as a long-time team member Gwendolyn Tunnicliffe moves on.
"All of us at WAM will miss Gwen dearly. Her contributions to WAM in her four years with us have been immense and she is adored by our WAMily,” Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven explained. “We wish her well on her new life chapter and are excited to have hired long-time WAM artist Lia Russell-Self as our new associate producing director and newcomer to WAM, Kristen Perlman, as our new philanthropy manager. We look forward to following Gwendolyn's new adventures and to welcoming Lia and
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'Avengers: Endgame': What the World Needs NowBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:51AM / Thursday, May 02, 2019 | |
 Y'know how I'm always looking for metaphors and clues in movies that might lead the way to saving our republic from the current rash of misanthropic evildoers? Y'know, those who would replace our democracy with autocracy for their own profit and narcissistic obsession. Well, someday I'm going to just review a movie. But this isn't that someday. Nah, "Avengers: Endgame," a surprisingly entertaining, jaunty ride to vicarious liberty is simply too rich with the stuff of the Four Freedoms to be treated as just another superhero movie. It celebrates and brims with the very idea of righteousness, replete with an utterly contemptible villain too hateful and too 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Honors Winners of Jazz-themed Student Art ContestBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
11:56AM / Wednesday, May 01, 2019 | |
Lynniah Falwell accepted the award for Sophia Nguyen who was unable to attend. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Jazz and Mayor Linda Tyer honored the winners of the 12th annual student art contest on Tuesday morning. The annual event is organized by art teacher Colleen Quinn at Pittsfield High School and asks students to create jazz-inspired pieces of work. Sophia Nguyen took home this year's first prize, Megan Francoeur took home second, and Antonia Bedard Torres came in third. "It is really a thrill to have our art teachers here today to help us celebrate this accomplishment. The artwork is remarkable," Tyer said. The city also noted 0 Comments
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Mass MoCA Exhibited 273 Works by High School StudentsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:25AM / Monday, April 29, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Garrett Rhoads was inspired when he looked into a little box on a piano, wondering what it was. The box held a spool of perforated paper to make the piano play. "I knew what it was because I have seen them before," the Pine Cobble School eighth-grader said. "I just, I loved how it looked. And so I wanted to do something with it." He unspooled the paper and liked the movement it made as it fluttered. So he created a waterfall of four pieces with an accent in the middle of printed words and fingerprints. "We were using ink and I actually got it on my fingers and I put it on my piece of paper 3 Comments
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Naumkeag Daffodil Festival Celebrates SpringBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:34AM / Saturday, April 27, 2019 | |
Director Brian Cruey says the 1885 estate is adding more events in the shoulder seasons to attract new visitors. STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — As if by magic, the woodland trail at Naumkeag is bursting forth with yellow and white blooms that will continue over the next several weeks. That magic is the result of more than 60,000 daffodil bulbs that were planted last fall in scattered groups along the trail and wooded hillside to mark the return of spring and to entice visitors the historic home during what had been the off-season. The first annual Daffodil Festival that opened Thursday — and the hugely popular "Winterlights" last December — 0 Comments
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'Teen Spirit': Youth, Not Wasted on the YoungBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
05:19PM / Thursday, April 25, 2019 | |
 If it's true that everything has a purpose, that there are clues to our lives in all that passes before us, especially a movie like "Teen Spirit" that I'd never see if I weren't a film critic, then what's Max Minghella's tale about a young lady's angst and ambitions trying to tell me? I'm a long ways away from the joys and sufferings of my teen-aged years. Any meditations in that rearward direction are generally devoted to the vivacity that permeated my days of immortality, when wearing the right jacket at a specific time was less a health consideration than a statement of how cool I was. But indeed there were times during those fires of spring 0 Comments
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Mass MoCA Celebrates 20 Years With Parties, Music and MoreBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:13PM / Wednesday, April 24, 2019 | |
Annie Lennox will be featured at the May 25 birthday celebration; her installation is on exhibit now. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mass MoCA's holding holding a summerlong birthday celebration to mark its 20th year with performances, installations, and the return of the Solid Sound Festival. Headlining the birthday bash on May 25 will be Annie Lennox and The Pretenders will make an appearance on July 26 for a benefit concert. The museum will also host a public block party that day and a week free admission earlier May for Berkshire County residents. Joseph Thompson, who's been director of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art since the 0 Comments
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'After': Of Good Girls and Bad BoysBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
02:57PM / Thursday, April 18, 2019 | |
 It's just not fair. The lady preteens and barely teens who attended a showing of "After," presumably to look into the crystal ball and commiserate with future peer, Tessa Young, left it all to me. I was to see what was to be with the gal who embarks on her college career and that first real love. They were much too busy chattering, texting or running back and forth to either the concession stand or the powder room to pay any attention to Katherine Langford's decent but a tad treacly portrayal of the girl next door turned co-ed. Oh well, I figured, perhaps they read writer Anna Todd's "After" series on Wattpad, whatever that is, and were only in 0 Comments
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Williamstown Author Pens Second Middle-Grade NovelBy Rebecca Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
09:49AM / Saturday, April 13, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — When Williamstown author Ali Benjamin started thinking about a follow-up to her 2015 middle-grade novel "The Thing About Jellyfish," she struggled to find the right topic and the right tone. "Jellyfish," while a beautiful story about a young girl's journey of self-discovery, is, after all, a story about the death of a child. Benjamin had planned her next book around the issue of gun violence, but in the years following the release of "Jellyfish," real life seemed too dark in many ways to pick another tough topic. "I finally said to my editor, 'I don't think I can do the book we have been talking about,'
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'Dumbo': A Relevant ElephantBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
02:27PM / Thursday, April 11, 2019 | |
 Here's what drives me crazy. Mostly everyone you and I know has been brought up on a steady motion picture diet of morality tales like this latest version of Disney's "Dumbo," based on the studio's 1941, animated delve into the wiles and munificence of human nature. All the good lessons concerning proper human behavior are therein contained. And yet, look at some of these uncaring, inconsiderate curmudgeons young and old sharing the planet with us. This week I'm particularly down on the 30-something, balding Wall Street dude, sunglasses-attired, who passes you on the right in his 3 series BMW and then celebrates his belligerence by giving you the 0 Comments
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