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CAPITAL IDEAS: Lower interest rates can be bad for the economy

Lower interest rates could both help and hurt the U.S. economy, depending on the pace, magnitude, and expected path of each.

Bits & Bytes: Jamaica Kincaid at Simon’s Rock; land trust annual meeting; BerkChique!; Wild & Scenic Film Festival; ‘Writer’s Work-Out’

BerkChique! is being presented by and in support of WAM Theatre and its programs, with additional donations going to the Berkshire Humane Society, Community Access to the Arts and IS183 Art School of the Berkshires.

Remembering Jonathan Baumbach

Jon was an old-fashioned guy. He didn’t have a cell phone… He never saw “The Sopranos.”

On being a writer: From poet to novelist

After poetry’s compressed, telegraphic form, I couldn’t let all the nouns and verbs just hang out in sentences.

WENDILAH: A personal remembrance of Wendy Rabinowitz

On Tuesday, December 11, Wendy Rabinowitz, 72, died in a car crash several miles from her home in Pittsfield.vWhat you might not know is what a luminous presence Wendy Rabinowitz was in the Berkshires, and beyond.

A NOVEL: ‘Over the Edge,’ Chapter 7

The little bike wound up, down, between trees. This certainly was unusual, but she wasn’t complaining despite the bouncing up and down over the now-nonexistent road.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Jefferson’s Children’ at MMRHS; trauma healing talk; Writers Read; Natalia Zukerman at Club Helsinki Hudson

W.E. B. Du Bois Educational Series will welcome Shannon LaNier and Jane Feldman for an interactive, multimedia presentation exploring the meaning of race.

Bits & Bytes: Howard Dean in Pittsfield; Grillsdale 2016; BPL to present ‘War Stories’; Discover Tyler Street; Writers Read; Annette Miller on acting

Former DNC chairman, presidential candidate, six-term governor and physician Howard Dean currently serves as a senior strategic advisor and independent consultant focusing on the areas of healthcare and energy issues.

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: High Mud Comedy Fest; Edgar Heap of Birds at Williams; the Receiver at the Garage; Sonia Pilcer at Hevreh; learning differences...

The College Internship Program presentation will focus on simple strategies that can make navigating life a bit easier for young adults with autism, ADHD, and other learning differences.

Bits & Bytes: Lifelines for writers

Without deadlines, we are helpless to our demons. Most writers have a few. So come get a lifeline and meet a few other struggling writers.

Bits & Bytes: Intergenerational symposium; novelists at the Bookstore; poet at The Mount; Music School 75th anniversary

The goal of the Multicultural BRIDGE symposium is to increase the sense of value among Berkshire County youth in their families and communities

Bits & Bytes: Pilcer reading at Lauren Clark Fine Art; William Selke Memorial Lecture; Pianist Keely Schmerber in Hudson; Vlada Boutique celebrates 45 years

Now entering her 45th year in business, Vlada continues to bring intriguing, fun and functional style to her hometown community of Stockbridge.

‘The Last Hotel: A Novel in Suites’: Suite 49

Installment 32, the last chapter: “I ran down the street as soon as I heard the announcer on the radio. ‘John Lennon’s been shot as he was entering the Dakota,’” Hana continued. “There were hundreds of people in front of the gates, holding candles, playing guitars, singing.”

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Hills task forces convene; Sonia Pilcer reading, reception

The impetus for coming to a place of community involvement and cohesion about the Berkshire Hills Regional School District was two failed attempts to secure Great Barrington voter approval to renovate the 49-year-old high school, followed by a harrowing spring budget season.

‘The Last Hotel: A Novel in Suites’: Basement

How many times had he made the identical trip to the hotel? Every morning for nineteen years minus weekends, and returned back the same way, every evening, five times a week. 52 weeks. 4,940 times. Minus vacations, days off. 4,800. And this time was the last time. He exited at 60th Street and turned up Third Avenue.

Bits & Bytes: Savery’s Carnegie Hall reunion; Mahaiwe campaign; Grier Horner retrospective at Lichtenstein; Sonia Pilcer’s sunset paintings

The Mahaiwe is poised to eliminate all of its debt, including the theater’s mortgage, and establish its first cash reserve fund. This will provide a level of fiscal stability that is quite extraordinary in an arts organization of its age and size.
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