Contemporary Hip Hop artists celebrate the form’s emergence in the Bronx in the 1980s with community, loyalty, challenge and laughter and glorious comedy, as acrobatic as astronauts in in zero gravity.
Read articleBeninois artist Georges Adéagbo invokes Abraham Lincoln
An internationally acclaimed artist crosses the Atlantic to open a site-specific work, ‘Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America,’ a mosaic of ideas, stories, music and sculpture at Chesterwood.
Read articleMapping wonder in West Stockbridge — #berkshireexperience
I’m looking at the bin of old maps at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge and thinking, how would I draw a map of these hills, and what would I put in? When you have an afternoon in West Stockbridge to explore, how do you find unexpected places?
Read articleInside scoops with chocolate and cherry ripple — #berkshireweekend
Chocolate cherry ice cream — this is new. The cream comes from here, from High Lawn Farm. The ice cream stand opened four years ago, but according to a flier as I pick up my cone, the dairy farm has just celebrated their 100th summer.
Read articleStone formations shapeshift on Tyringham Cobble
The sun is high — a rare afternoon in this rainy summer — and the path begins in the open, but I’ll have shade on the hill. I’m walking in the meadow at the foot of Tyringham Cobble.
Read articleSéan Curran and Darrah Carr hold a contemporary Irish Céilí
Irish music and dance have come to Jacob’s Pillow, as Séan Curran and Darrah Carr’s companies meet in Ceilidh — in a language that feels both international and contemporary.
Read articleDorrance Dance propels percussive invention
The impact resounds like a hickory stick on a dunun drum. Feet pound a sounding box. And then the sound quiets to a rocking like wind in palmetto, like thunder and heat lightening before the rain …
Read articleHere be dragons … real ones #berkshireweekend
I met a dragon in the ruins at Ashintully. A live one — really. She’s a bearded dragon named Phoebe, and she came up with a young couple exploring the hills …
Read articleFrom Fado to fireflies — a taste of LuluFest Lenox
Jazz vocalist Suzy Stern opened LuluFest Lenox on Friday night, alongside acclaimed jazz musicians bassist MaryAnn McSweeney violinist Sara Caswell and jazz pianist Peggy Stern.
Read articleJazz violinist Sara Caswell celebrates ‘The Way to You’
The low voice of the strings carries an unexpected timbre, like the air on a summer across an open ridge. The sound shivers, vulnerable as anyone may be when they talk openly with someone they love.
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