Miata Edoga is helping people to create a sustainable life in an uncertain world. She teaches creative entrepreneurs, and in the pandemic she sees those skills becoming vital — for everyone.
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New local shops spring up in North Adams
I keep hearing about new places in North Adams lately — offering everything from baked goods to books to begonias — so I’m taking a walk through town.
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Women transform rooms into life-changing moments
Marie Tattiana Aqeel is sitting at the kitchen counter, strumming a guitar quietly, and two friends pause in their conversation to listen to her sing. … More than 65 artists have come to the Berkshires from across the country to create a new work of theater together.
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The Making of Rites of Passage
The room is full of plants, densely cascading green fronds and overlapping leaves and fowers floating in a wide clay bowl, and Pooja Prema stretches out with stems around her …
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Change the universe until Iphigenia lives (November 3 newsletter)
Wayne Shorter, internationally acclaimed composer and saxophonist, and esperanza spalding, bassist, vocalist, both Grammy winners many times over, are transforming a Greek classic with a new voice.
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Discoveries along the Chestnut Trail
I almost walked into a deer. It was a rare sunny afternoon in this odd fall, drawing out in warm, wet days, so the color comes late and it’s still lingering.
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Joshua Ross embodies light and shadow in his art
In a studio at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, bodies are moving in cloth as fluid as water — in Joshua Ross’ drawings, arms and legs are weaving together, sometimes solid and muscled, sometimes turning into shadow.
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Halloween revives in the Berkshires
What does trick-or-treating look like in the mountains — and Halloween in a pandemic? The night smells and tastes of fall, pumpkins, apples and chocolate. Take a look at this week’s events …
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Celebrating Halloween on cold fall nights (Oct 27 newsletter)
In a break in the storm, I’m sitting in the dooryard, on the driveway, clearing the rinds from black walnuts. It’s not the way I thought I’d be coming into Halloween week … but it’s satisfying.
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Unexpected encounters around the full moon (October 20 newsletter)
Mindy Miraglia is good at finding places like this. She and Berkshire Camino are leading a guided walk on a fall morning from Housatonic to Chesterwood …
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