A collage of conversations explore honesty, communication and silence in Joseph Grigely’s In What Way Wham? White Noise and Other Works,’ at Mass MoCA.
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Photo by Christopher Duggan
Local news reimagined
You want to know what to do this weekend. You want to find places only the local people know. You want to meet people who feel the same way? Come out and explore …
We live in a rare place in Western Massachusetts. We have minds at work out here in the country, and minds at play too. I live and write here. I’m a local journalist, so I get to walk behind the scenes and talk with people about what they love. We all want connection — we want to laugh, share ideas, dance barefoot and listen to music on a mountain at night … Let’s go see what we can find.
Stories of the week
Azaleas are in full blow on the Taconic crest
It’s hard to explain the feeling of a whole hillside of azaleas in bloom. Blossoms rise in waves twice my height, blossoms thick on the bushes in clusters ...
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Eddie Jaku bares the strength to live through the Holocaust
Broadway and Off-Broadway veteran Kenneth Tigar speaks in a world premiere adapted from the memoir of Eddie Jaku, who lived through the brutality of Buchenwald and Auschwitz — and lost many people he loved.
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Photo by Susan Geller
About Town
Want to know what’s happening in town this weekend? From North Adams to Lenox, we’re seeing a new energy in the Berkshires. Wherever we are in the pandemic now, locals are adapting and new voices are coming in. If you’re looking for nightlife or a good cup of coffee, a vintage t-shirt or an artisan fair … take a look through our Berkshire towns.
The town names above also become links to their town pages — two to three of them
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Theater and music
We have emerging singer-songwriters, bluegrass legends and Yo-yo Ma on summer nights … sometimes all of them together. We’re known around the world for the people who come here to play, and they can be global travelers or as local and familiar as the farmer’s market on the corner. Or both. And we can dance to the beat.
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Lights, color, action — Chesterwood opens in film and Pride week — #Berkshire Weekend
The stone glows like alabaster channeled by waterfalls of glass. On an afternoon bright enough to be summer, sculptor Ron Mehlman has come to Chesterwood at the opening of his solo show.
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New artist co-ops, craft and food spaces open at GreylockWorks
The artists of the Railroad Street Collective join a growing community of artisans and creative minds at GreylockWorks in North Adams.
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Douglas Gilbert tracks visions in pencil
In his studio at GreylockWorks, Douglas Gilbert invokes landscapes in hundreds of lines of graphite — individual strokes converge into a reflection on the water.
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