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STEPHEN COHEN: Bella Italy

Italians are fascinated by Trump. Tuscany is very liberal, but even my more conservative friends here and in Sicily and Milan cannot understand why he continually changes his policies on a daily basis.

News Briefs: Crowdfunding campaign aims to stop Berkshire Museum art sale; Project Lead the Way grants available

The community-based grassroots movement Save the Art – Save the Museum announced that it has launched a GoFundMe campaign to underwrite legal action on behalf of the Berkshires’ cultural heritage.

Elise England, 86, of Lenox, pioneering entrepreneur

Elise and Moe were early pioneers of today’s craft beer movement. They started Merchant du Vin East in 1981, a beer-importing company representing some of the most iconic breweries in the world.

Bits & Bytes: Shake & Co. partners with EBT Card to Culture; grant for Columbia Land conservancy; new staff at CDC; Sheffield Cultural Council...

Discounted tickets for EBT cardholders can be reserved over the phone, online and in person at the box office.

Setsuko Winchester’s ‘Yellow Bowl Project’ explores the fear of immigrants

Perhaps by exposing these places of ‘fear’ we can finally exorcise the shame and guilt, and move forward rather than blame the victim or shame the oppressors. In other words, I hope we will always remember and try to forgive. -- Setsuko Winchester, creator of Freedom From Fear/Yellow Bowl Project

Barnbrook’s Mary White honored by Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce

In 2016 Mary White was also awarded the Great Barrington Rotary Club's distinguished Paul Harris Award.

Bits & Bytes: Citizenship naturalization ceremony; Baseball Day at Berkshire Mall; Woofstock; GBLC Hullabaloo; BNRC community celebration

Berkshire County residents who immigrated to the U.S. from around the world will be sworn in as new naturalized citizens against the backdrop of Norman Rockwell’s iconic “Four Freedoms” paintings.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Spamalot’; Storytellers and Songwriters series; Stockbridge Sinfonia concerts; Knosh & Knowledge

The program for the Sinfonia concerts will include Mozart’s Overture to 'The Magic Flute,' Khachaturian’s 'Masquerade' Suite, Schubert’s Symphony No. 3 and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

Bits & Bytes: James Warhola at Norman Rockwell; Duncan dancers at Stockbridge Library; ‘After the Darkness’ staged reading; student places in video contest; mattress...

Isadora Duncan was well known to the communities of Stockbridge and Lenox at the turn of the century and gave outdoor recitals at Berkshire cottages.

Bits & Bytes: ‘The Derby;’ ‘until/UNTIL;’ Civil War living history; Housatonic River cleanup; Rockwell, Warhol panel discussion

The Housatonic Valley Association invites volunteers to meet at Wahconah Park for a cleanup of the west branch of the Housatonic River.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Home Run!’ at Norman Rockwell Museum; ‘Sing Along With the Muppet Movie;’ Township No. 1 Day; Sun Parade in North Adams;...

With influences ranging from British folk songs to Motown, Sun Parade will be on the road throughout 2017 in support of their latest album, “Braindrain.”

Business Briefs: Mahaiwe, Norman Rockwell Museum receive Cultural Facilities Fund grants; new development director for Berkshire Children and Families; Berkshire Theatre Group receives grant;...

Berkshire Agricultural Ventures plans to support farm and food businesses in the Berkshires, neighboring Hudson Valley in New York State, northwest Connecticut and other surrounding areas.

Frances M. Schneyer, 95, of Glendale

She was a member of the Glendale Women’s Auxiliary and actively worked on the campaign to bring the Norman Rockwell Museum to Glendale.

Bits & Bytes: Four Freedoms Forum; ‘The Happy Film;’ ‘4000 Miles;’ ‘Summer in Spencertown’

“4000 Miles” features award-winning actress Annette Miller and Shakespeare & Company member Gregory Boover along with Zoë Laiz and Company newcomer Emma Geer.

News Brief: Donation for Norman Rockwell Museum after return of stolen painting

The painting, “Boy Asleep with Hoe,” had been stolen from a family home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in 1976.

Bits & Bytes: ‘The Flintstones’ talk; Shakespeare birthday celebration; Bolshoi Ballet presentation; Indian music at Race Brook Lodge

Raga is a central feature of the classical Indian music tradition, but has no direct translation to concepts in the classical European music tradition.

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.
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