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A response to Denny Alsop’s Letter to the Editor

Sadly, this is just the latest example of the lies and distortions that the small group of opponents of a well-planned project that will benefit every single taxpayer in Stockbridge will go to with their opposition.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Finding Home’ at Norman Rockwell Museum; ‘Dream/Awake’ premiere; ‘Food for Thought’ dinner; Nutcracker tea party; Malcolm Nance at Club Helsinki

Butcher and charcuterie expert Jake Levin, author of “Smoke House Handbook,” will host the next installment of Hancock Shaker Village’s “Food for Thought” series Saturday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m.

Bits & Bytes: W. E. B. Du Bois tribute; ‘The Vagina Monologues’ at the Whit; ‘Elegant Entertaining in the Gilded Age’

The program will also honor Du Bois biographer David Levering Lewis, who will receive the town’s first W. E. B. Du Bois Legacy Award honoring recipients for “embodying and preserving W. E. B. Du Bois’ legacy as a scholar and activist for freedom.”

THEATRE REVIEW: Town Players of Pittsfield’s ‘New and Used,’ a promise premiere

The play needs a few nips and tucks, some cuts and some improvements, but the show's concept is delicious and the flow of the piece is right on.

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘The Vagina Monologues’ at the Whit a fine picture of what women feel, experience, want

If you had a mother like mine, or like any of the women represented on stage at the Whit, this is a play that must be seen and heard—there is no other like it.

Bits & Bytes: Josh Billings RunAground; Berkshire BioBlitz; ‘Escaped Alone’ at WAM Theatre; ‘The Vagina Monologues’ at the Whit; ‘Historic New England’ at Chesterwood

In addition to surveying local species, Berkshire BioBlitz will include family events such as bird banding, microscope and specimen set-ups, and a hands-on water filtration activity, as well as interactive walks and conversations that will run throughout the day.

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘The Fabulous Lipitones’ at The Whit features wonderful vocalizing, close harmonies

This is far from a perfect production, but its humor seeps through the awkward spots and its second act offers some genuinely delicious moments.

Bits & Bytes: Michael E. Mann on climate change; Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra; Roberta Silman at the Mount; International Women’s Day celebration; ‘The Old...

Michael E. Mann was a lead author on the “Observed Climate Variability and Change” chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and was the organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences’ Frontiers of Science in 2003.

PREVIEW: At The Whit, ‘Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens,’ an Off-Broadway hit

The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.

Business Briefs: Hansell named BNRC president; Wynn joins BTCF board; Hillary Clinton visits Oblong Books; new director for the Whit

Michael Wynn has been serving Pittsfield for more than 20 years and has led the Pittsfield Police Department as its chief of police since December 2007.
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