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Lee’s Main Street set for new bakery and coffee shop next month

Bliss Crumbs and Coffee will open in the space formerly occupied by T-shirt shop Twisted Orchard Company.

Bits & Bytes: Land trusts meeting; Earth Day writing workshop; wine tasting benefit; juried art exhibition; candidate meet and greet

David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and independent scholar with a primary focus on the commons as a new paradigm for economics, politics and culture.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Women’s Shorts;’ fake news talks; ‘Cellblock Visions;’ Nawal Nour at Williams; partner loss support group

The author of “Cell Block Visions: Prison Art in America,” Phyllis Kornfeld has explored the creative process with incarcerated men and women for more than 30 years.

Bits & Bytes: BFWW announces events; January Houseplant Daze; ‘Leisure & Lust’ at The Mount; community theatre auditions; Mumbet’s walk to freedom

Berkshire Botanical Garden will present January Houseplant Daze, two classes about caring for houseplants, on Saturday, Jan. 28.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Fiddler OFF the Roof;’ Williams interfaith conference; Monument Girls Write On; Matt Tannenbaum book talk; Robert Kopelson in Egremont; Hotchkiss one-acts;...

Bishop Gene Robinson is an advocate for full rights and marriage equality for gay, bisexual, and transgender people at the state, national and international levels.

Bits & Bytes: Global poverty conference; David Sedaris at the Mahaiwe; Carole Owens book talk; Norton Owen on Jacob’s Pillow; Butterfly Leadership Program; swing...

"Remarkable Women of New England" also includes the story of Anna Dix Orton Bingham, the Widow Bingham who fought to become the first woman to have a tavern license in Berkshire County on the site of the present-day Red Lion Inn.

Bits & Bytes: BFWW closing weekend; MGRSD spring musical; Oakes and Smith EP release; bird nest workshop; Ghent Playhouse auditions

The Mt. Greylock high School production of 'Nice Work If You Can Get it' involves more than 40 members of MGRSD’s student body as actors, singers, pit musicians, and crew.

Bits & Bytes: Writers-in-residence at the Mount; Nature Institute film screening; Ellen Berrey at Williams; Panorama at Olana; Anna Rogovoy dance performance

Anna Rogovoy is a 2009 graduate of Monument Mountain Regional High School. "West" is a technically demanding peek at effort, fame, and tumbleweeds, created in part during a residency at Bennington College.

Celebrating the creative voice: Berkshire Festival of Women Writers

The primary purpose of the Festival is that we all -- every one of us — have stories to tell. That should be told. And heard.

Bits & Bytes: BFWW announces March schedule; February at the Mahaiwe; ‘Heart Song’ at Ventfort Hall; Williams planetarium schedule; DCSC in February

Astronomy students at Williams College will host free shows for the public at the Old Hopkins Observatory’s Milham Planetarium Friday evenings at 8 p.m beginning February 5.

Bits & Bytes: Butterfly Leadership Program; chair yoga class; Great Barrington Republican meeting; Riotous Youth enrollment

At Riotous Youth sessions, students explore one of Shakespeare’s plays through games, activities, and rehearsal.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Jingle Jangle’ at Olana; BFWW writing retreat; holiday story slam; second bus to UNLOCK added

WordXWord will wrap up 2015 with a story slam at the Whitney Center for the Arts on Sunday, December 20 at 3 p.m. Storytellers are invited to share their five-minute true stories related to the theme “strange holiday.”

EDGEWISE: Arts activism can change the world

It was no accident that the realization of equality for gay Americans was preceded by a good decade of arts activism.

Bits & Bytes: Arthur Greene piano recital; BFWW showcase; Hopkins Forest Fall Festival; death penalty book discussion

The sentencing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombings brought up a lot of questions about execution in a non-death penalty state.

EDGEWISE: Trailblazing Jewish feminist, Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"It should not take a burning Torah or a flaming cross to make us form a bucket brigade." -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

EDGEWISE: Cultivating confidence, women and girls leaning in to leadership

I believe that if more women had the confidence to step into their potential as creative leaders, our world would be a more interesting, vibrant, and kinder place.

EDGEWISE: Three cheers for the U.S. Women’s World Champions!

The Vancouver final game was watched by 25.4 million viewers on Fox — a record for any soccer game, men’s or women’s, shown on English-language television in this country.
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