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A vinyl record spins on a turntable.
Photo by Anders Printz
Music

Record shops are turning up the sound in the Berkshires

September 5, 2023
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Vinyl is growing in the Berkshires — the past few years have seen a new energy and enthusiasm grow around records, and record stores are drawing in new audiences with live music and events.

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Darrell Purcell, Jr. and Adam Chanler-Berat appear as Roger and Gordon in A New Brain. Press photo courtesy of Barrington Stage Company
Photo by Daniel Rader
Theater

A New Brain reckons with illness and endurance

September 4, 2023
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Two men are holding each other in a hospital room. One of them is lying lean and tense in a hospital gown, and the other supports him to lift up. They sit together on the inadequate bed, facing an impossible diagnosis … a powerful image a musical first produced in 1998.

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Bright annuals bloom outside the UNO Community Center on a sunny afternoon.
Photo by Kate Abbott
newsletter

Imagine us a river under North Adams’ sky — #berkshireweekend

September 3, 2023
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Imagine you’re in charge of North Adams, and you have the resources to create the river you want to see … what do you see? Voices mull over answers …

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Rachel Hailey, founder of DEI Outdoors, and her daughter, Aria, laugh together on a ridge in the sun, with a wide view over the valley.
Rachel Hailey
Hikes

DEI Outdoors grows confidence and excitement in natural play

August 30, 2023
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Rachel Hailey, founder of DEI Outdoors, has inspired more than 100 organizations nationwide in creating diversity, equity and belonging.

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Hero Marguerite as Lauren and Corrina May as Marty meet in a community acting class in Annie Baker's 'Circle mirror transformation.' Press photo courtesy of Chester Theatre.
Chester Theatre
Theater

Circle Mirror Transformation reflects potential and tragedy

August 29, 2023
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It’s a quiet, sunny morning, and a handful of people are sitting in a bare room at a community center. It’s a clean and ramshackle room in a small town, the kind of place that can be everything or nothing — depending on the people who walk in …

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Dancers with the Tulsa Ballet perform on the outdoor stage at Jacob's Pillow. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Photo by Jamie Krauss
Dance

Tulsa Ballet holds earth and sky

August 26, 2023
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The company holds a dancer upward, and she raises her arms as though she is moving into the lift of the trees — Tulsa Ballet is dancing on the outdoor stage in the last week of this summer’s festival at Jacob’s Pillow.

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Dancers in Compagnie Käfig perform with lights in digital projections in in 'Pixel.' Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Photo by Christopher Duggan
Dance

Compagnie Käfig dances with a universe of light

August 26, 2023
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Compagnie Käfig performs their signature work, Pixel, in the newly renovated Ted Shawn Theatre, as world-class hip hop dancers navigate a digital world.

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Two women hold each other in a painting a building high, as Sylvia López Chavez' mural Sisterhood brings vivid color to North Street in Pittsfield.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Women in the sky in vivid color — #berkshireweekend

August 24, 2023
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Two women holding each other, relaxed and smiling in a swirl of color — they look like the kind of world I want to live in, and they’re vivid and tall as trees in the middle of North Street.

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The Hoosic river runs high on a sunny afternoon at the Spruces in Williamstown.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

HooRWA and WRL explore the Hoosic river valley in stories and music

August 18, 2023
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The Hoosic River Watershed Association and Williamstown Rural Lands are celebrating the Northern Berkshires in creative collaborations — original songs and poems and a new writing journal with Tupelo Press.

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Wild hopniss, groundnut, blooms beside the bike path along the Hoosic River to the Spruces in Williamstown.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Meadows bloom at the Spruces — #berkshireexperience

August 18, 2023
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I’m walking the bike trail along the Hoosic river toward the Spruces park in Williamstown, and the meadows and the pollinator garden are high with wildflowers.

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