There’s nothing like being at the theater, seeing performances like this live, but as Sondheim writes in “With So Little to Be Sure Of”: “we had a moment, a wonderful moment.”
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The Self-Taught Gardener: Spring fever!
At a recent flower show, our Self-Taught Gardener couldn’t believe how obsessed people got over slight differences among varieties of snowdrops, until he got sucked in, too.
New ‘Little Women’ is visually beautiful, more sociologically accurate than previous adaptations
I have never wished I were a boy, but even as a child reading “Little Women” for the first time, I recognized why Jo said she was bitter about being born a girl.
I Publius: Remembering Michael Ballon
Michael Ballon would come out in his white chef’s outfit and we would gossip about things. Make no mistake about it: he had definite opinions and sometimes we would disagree.
2019 Berkshire International Film Festival ‘the best year yet’
Great Barrington — “This will be the best year yet,” Kelley Vickery, founder and artistic director of the Berkshire International Film Festival, stated during her recent chat on WAMC’s “The Roundtable.” “We want to bring a light to independent films from near and far.” Just perusing the catalogue and reading about the different films we can
LEONARD QUART: Oscar Night 2018
“I think that the greatest thing that our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper.”
— Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro
Bits & Bytes: Michael Pollan at Williams; ‘Suffragette’ to open FilmColumbia; Artful Hike at Olana; guided property walk in Sheffield; ‘Writers Read’ in Lee; Andrew Amelinckx at Arrowhead
From axe murders to botched robberies “Gilded Age Murder and Mayhem” has dredged up the forgotten underbelly of the Berkshires with unforgettable stories of greed, jealousy, and madness.
Culinary Adventures: Daire Rooney, resourceful chef at locally sourced Allium
There is a fresh menu every day so no matter how regularly you dine at Allium, there’s always something new to taste. “I like food that’s fun and interactive.”
— Allium chef Daire Rooney