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Tim Lovett of Compass offers the opportunity to own your own 74-acre private sanctuary in the heart of Great Barrington. The architectural design firm of Clark Green + Bek works with new owners to transform Doctor Sax House from a private home to a stunning boutique hotel. A year-end wrap-up of 2024 real estate sales has surprises. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.

The first of many good days and nights to come: The Triplex reopens

In a lot of ways, the absence of The Triplex has made people’s hearts grow fonder for the theater and made them realize how valuable The Triplex is to the community.

AMPLIFICATIONS: ‘Woodstock’ on my mind

That love affair with film never ended. For the most part, the quality of the movies I watched improved, but I could still be found at Ed Wood retrospectives and just adoring the exploitation movies of Charles Band.

Movies, high heels and the big hurt

Go ahead, roll your eyes, but even in my 20s, I would cringe as I watched actresses run in high heels.

Where have all the dreams gone?

Before we conquered night, before external screens filled our minds, dreams were the main show in the dark of sleep.

CONNECTIONS: Movies become the Berkshires

Berkshire has a place in the history of American cinema after all. “Adams Mills 1917” is among the earliest films made in Massachusetts.

Part II: New York Film Festival, where non-Hollywood work stole the show

Hollywood films in the festival are strategically created, with an eye on the Oscars and the box office; what satisfies my soul are films where imagination needs no help from hi-tech, 3D or any other mechanical source.

The Baumbachs: Three generations of creative life

This desperate need to create can at times feel more like a curse to artists and those around them. The human soul doesn’t mess around.

FILM REVIEW: ‘Mistress America,’ Baumbach at his most urbane and zany

The film reminds one of Woody Allen at his best -- profoundly urban and urbane with Greta Gerwig playing an even more quick-witted variation of Diane Keaton. I’m not saying Baumbach’s film is as good as 'Manhattan' or 'Annie Hall,' but it comes close.

FILM REVIEW: ‘Trainwreck,’ a fabulous debut for comedienne Amy Schumer

Please, more movies from Amy Schumer. This was a bold first movie which holds great promise from our favorite comedienne of the moment.

FILM REVIEW: Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’ — another disappointment

Like so many of Allen’s films over the last two decades, “Irrational Man” seems knocked out -- an incomplete draft for a film rather than a fully realized work.

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Summer Strings; free summer movies 
in Pittsfield

The inspiration of director Erika Ludwig, Berkshire Summer Strings is a unique opportunity for local music students to learn from instructors active in the performance and composition of traditional styles of music.

AT THE CINEMA: ‘Love and Mercy’

If you weren’t a Beach Boys fan when you walked into this movie, you may have a new appreciation for them when you leave.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Hershey wrestles with his prediction for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars this weekend.
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