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PREVIEW: Close Encounters with Music presents all-Russian program at Mahaiwe on Sunday, March 23

In addition to performing as a soloist, Chertock serves as principal keyboardist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and has been a professor of piano at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Business Briefs: ‘Be Our Guest’ program; BerkShares networking event; Becket Arts Center gains chairlift; Hospice Honors for HospiceCare in the Berkshires; Medicare seminar; Jewish...

The Becket Arts Center has announced the installation of a new mechanized chairlift, which will enable patrons who cannot utilize stairs to reach its second-floor gallery.

Bits & Bytes: Ellsworth Kelly exhibit at BBG; ‘Spartan Strong’; ‘Little Stones’ at Mason Library; Susan Stryker at Bennington College; ‘The Little Book of...

Spartan Strong was organized by Railroad Street Youth Project in response to a cluster of deaths among local young people in the last year, many of which involved drug and alcohol use and/or were suicides.

Bits & Bytes: 30under30 art exhibit; ‘Poets Creating Conversation’; PCTV channels to change; BBG Bulb Show

By sharing personal stories, observations, and moments of inspiration and hope, the aim of 'Poets Creating Conversation' is to spark conversation and discussion around current issues affecting the country.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Snow covers

Our Self-Taught Gardener muses about how a persistent snow cover enables exotic plants to grow in unusual northern climes.

Bits & Bytes: Gardening in climate change; ‘Is the Moon Still There When Nobody Looks?’; CHP Walking Loop Trail guided hike; NMVA winter house...

Bard College physics professor Matthew Deady’s talk will provide a historical survey of quantum mechanics leading up to current experiments and theories that weigh on the questions that beset Einstein, Bohr and others.

Bits & Bytes: Four Freedoms Coalition anniversary; ASL for kids; “Anastasia Traina’s Fairytale Botanical World”; holiday cards for Fairview patients; nature as medicine at...

The Four Freedoms Coalition held its Four Freedoms March Jan. 7, 2017, in downtown Pittsfield with more than 2,000 people in attendance.

BRIEFS: BBG landscape design winners; Great Barrington Arts Market; Larkin records complete Jane Austen novels; Instacart enters Berkshires; ‘Tri-County Mixer’

For every download of any Austen title purchased directly from alisonlarkinpresents.com, $5 will be donated to the Literacy Network of South Berkshire via the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation for which Alison Larkin serves as U.S. ambassador.

Bits & Bytes: Botanical Garden art show; ‘Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley;’ ‘Real People, Real Stories;’ Pajama Night at Lenox Library; Olga Dunn Dance...

At the Lenox Library pajama night stories will be read by Lenox Board of Selectmen Chairman David Roche, Lenox Public Schools superintendent Timothy Lee, the Bookstore proprietor Matt Tannenbaum, Lenox Community Center youth services coordinator Michelle Messana and Lenox Library youth librarian Katie Wallick.

Berkshire Botanical Garden opens $2.3 million Center, poised to become year-round destination

Berkshire Botanical Garden is poised to provide expanded programming to inspire visitors’ love for the natural world … The idea behind the project, Larkin said, was to remain within the 18th century building's original footprint while extending the organization's influence in the county.

Business Briefs: Selectman joins VIM Berkshires; BBG holiday marketplace; first-time homebuyers’ class; ‘We Believe’ program

Those who would like to participate in the 'We Believe' program may drop off new, unwrapped gifts at any of Salisbury Bank’s 14 locations by Friday, Dec. 15.

Bits & Bytes: Big Dance Theater; renewable energy fair; flu clinic; Michelle Gillett tribute; arborists at BBG

Judith Enck, former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator under President Barack Obama, will be the keynote speaker at the 2017 Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair.

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Botanical Garden Harvest Festival; Morgan Bulkeley at Berkshire Museum; ‘Don’t Wait, Do Tell Me;’ Barbara Takenaga at WCMA; NUArts reunion...

“I try to make paintings that are beautiful, frightening, and funny all at once, similar to the Theater of the Absurd, which assumes things are so bad that you can only laugh.” --artist Morgan Bulkeley

Project Connection winds up program providing food for Berkshire Hills families

From September to June, one of every three students at Muddy Brook and one of every four at Monument Valley receives two meals for free or reduced price per day. That translates to 100 meals missing for those families, per child, during the 10 weeks of summer vacation.

Bits & Bytes: BBG Grow Show; Trisha Brown Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow; Peter, Paul and Mary tribute; holiday cookie championship; 350Mass Berkshire meeting

Berkshire Botanical Garden has partnered with area historic homes Chesterwood, Naumkeag, Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio, Olana, and the Mount to provide inspiration to artists entering the Grow Show’s floral design and photography divisions.

Bits & Bytes: Shake & Co. ruby gala; On the Fly story slam; Jamie Laval at Dewey Hall; cemetery walk; Grow Show photography competition

The cemetery walk will explore all the ins and outs of the landmark Red Lion Inn, from its founding as a store to its place in Stockbridge today as the center of town.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Cut-backs and by-roads

Willows are enjoying the rain and showing us how they can shine.
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