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'The Great Gatsby': A Bit Jazzed-UpBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:46AM / Thursday, May 16, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Warner Brothers Too bad the 1926, silent version of "The Great Gatsby," filmed only a year after F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book, is missing. Add that to the 1949 edition, the 1974 adaptation I consider the best, and this latest techno-charged remake directed by Baz Luhrmann, and we'd be dangerously armed for all sorts of didactic, comparative studies in filmmaking. Instead, maybe like what Daisy Buchanan wished for her daughter, we should be pretty little fools, unfazed by all that rigor and fuss, and simply enjoy this latest offering for what it is: a big, 0 Comments
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Guest Column: Don't Let The Summer EndBy Charles Evered, Guest Columnist
06:06PM / Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | |
Last summer I had the pleasure of heading up north, from my home in Princeton, N.J., to the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where I saw the last performance of Steve Lawson's fine adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Valley of Fear."
Though the show was wonderful, it was a moment about half an hour after the curtain came down that really struck a chord in me. In the world of the theater, it was nothing unusual, basically the moment just before "strike," (the final dismantling of the set,) where everyone — actors, ushers, apprentices, the director, etc. — will take a moment, pop a bottle or two of perhaps not terribly expensive
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North Adams Merchants Preparing for Solid Sound ArrivalBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
09:15PM / Monday, May 13, 2013 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Galleries and merchants are once again girding for a welcomed invasion of Wilco fans this June.
But that isn't the only event hoping to draw visitors — and their wallets — the city.
"[Solid Sound brought] 5,000 people to town the last time it was here ... lots and lots of people in North Adams," said Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art's Jodi Joseph to a gathering of cultural and business representatives. "It's a friendly crowd ... It's a lovely group. .. If you want thousands of nice people to come, invite Wilco to come to your home."
The Grammy-winning band will curate its third Solid Sound Festival at
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BAMCon Anime Convention Returns to Crowne Plaza| 03:06PM / Thursday, May 09, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Anime and Manga Club, a local group devoted to Japanese comic books and animation, is back with another comic festival.
Comic book, gaming and animation fans will converge on downtown Pittsfield for 2nd annual Berkshire Anime and Manga Convention. The gathering, better known as BAMCon, will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Friday, May 10, through Sunda, May 12. The spotlight guest will be Bella Hudson, a voice actress who has performed roles in notable anime series Pokemon and One Piece. Returning is Japanese anime rock band The Asterplace. Find the full schedule and more information here. "Last year was a great kick-off," said Jon
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'The Big Wedding': An Affair to DisrememberBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
09:34AM / Friday, May 03, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Lionsgate Remember that time long ago at some cousin's wedding when your crazy Uncle Herb just stood up, yelled something at your dad and stormed out of the place? Baffling, it was your official indoctrination to family dysfunction. Well, just in case you desire a refresher course in the wacky dynamic, director Justin Zackham provides it in "The Big Wedding." Not as funny as you'd like, mixing just OK with not so OK portrayals, and more than a bit awkward in its preachings on tolerance, the film nonetheless possesses a harmless lilt that, were it not for an 0 Comments
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African-American Heritage Celebrated Countywide This SummerBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
03:15PM / Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Downstreet Arts' first Thursday in June this year coincides with the launch of the biennial countywide celebration of African-American heritage in Berkshire County.
Lift Ev'ry Voice — a festival of artistic endeavors and historical events — brings a World Music Dance Party to Main Street and a reading of civil rights activist Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July Address on June 20.
The festival was founded three years ago by Shirley Edgerton and Eugenie Sills as a way to give voice to a significant element of the county's history and culture that ranges from Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman who sued for her liberty to the Rev.
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MCLA Students to Host All-Day Performing Arts Show| 10:29AM / Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | |
NORTH ADAMS, MASS. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts announced its 4th annual Performing Arts Management show, "Day into Night," will take place on Sunday, May 5, from 3 to 10 p.m. Part of this season's MCLA Presents! performance series, this festival — which will showcase music, dance, theater and visual art — will begin in the MCLA Quadrangle and end in the adjacent Venable gym. A highlight of the event will be an evening dance party with hip-hop artist Spose. Also known as Ryan Michael Peters, Spose released his first album "Preposterously Dank" in 2007. Sam Pfeifle of the Phoenix magazine describes Spose as 0 Comments
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'Trance': You're Getting Sleepy, SleepyBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:10PM / Friday, April 26, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Fox Searchlight Pictures You know that dream you have, the one you think you've had several times before, but when you awake can't recall the recurrence? Well, if you can explain what that's all about, you'll have no trouble following director Danny Boyle's quasi-linear "Trance," about a psychologist's attempt to help some art thieves find a misplaced masterpiece. Formed of numerous story striations, seemingly plopped together to confuse, the film's elusive nature does work to draw our interest, but in the final analysis, not all that 0 Comments
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Clark Research & Academic Program Appoints New Director| 03:57PM / Thursday, April 25, 2013 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has appointed Darby English, associate professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, to serve as the next Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program.
English will lead the program's international agenda of intellectual events and collaborations and will oversee the Clark's library and its active residential scholars' program, all based on the institute's 140-acre campus.
"Darby English brings a dynamic perspective to the work of the Clark's Research and Academic Program, rooted in his knowledge of the field of art history — both its traditions and
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Yankee Finds Two 'Bests' on North Adams' Eagle StreetStaff Reports, iBerkshires
05:31PM / Monday, April 22, 2013 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Two Eagle Street establishments have nabbed Editor's Choice selections in this year's Yankee Magazine's Travel Guide to New England.
Making the Best of New England list for Western Mass (which has a preponderance of Berkshire venues this year) is the legendary (and not surprising) Jack's Hot Dog Stand as the "Best Retro Hot Dogs." But newcomer Martha Flood Design Studio & Fabric Gallery just a few doors down made the list as well.
Flood opened her Eagle Street studio three years ago and features a line of fabrics from recycled plastics inspired by the Berkshires — leaves, water, flora and bark. The studio
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