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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A New Brain reckons with illness and endurance
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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Imagine us a river under North Adams’ sky — #berkshireweekend
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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DEI Outdoors grows confidence and excitement in natural play
Rachel Hailey, founder of DEI Outdoors, has inspired more than 100 organizations nationwide in creating diversity, equity and belonging.
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Circle Mirror Transformation reflects potential and tragedy
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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Tulsa Ballet holds earth and sky
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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Compagnie Käfig dances with a universe of light
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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Women in the sky in vivid color — #berkshireweekend
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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HooRWA and WRL explore the Hoosic river valley in stories and music
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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Meadows bloom at the Spruces — #berkshireexperience
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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