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'The Spy Behind Home Plate': Glove, Mask, Cloak-and-DaggerBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
06:05PM / Friday, June 14, 2019 | |
 "Get your scorecards. Get your scorecards. Can't tell the spies from the conspirators without a scorecard." Such was just one of my thoughts after seeing filmmaker Aviva Kempner's fascinating, incredible and rather mind-blowing documentary about Morris "Moe" Berg, Major League catcher, Princeton (B.A.) and Columbia (LL.D.) graduate, speaker of 12 languages who studied Sanskrit at the Sorbonne and, oh, almost forgot, spy for the OSS. Psst ... He was assigned to help undermine the Nazi atomic bomb program during WWII. But what drives you crazy as you partake of Kempner's scholarly and entertaining treasure trough of the superbly 0 Comments
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CATA Breaks Ground for New Art Center & Headquarters| 02:23PM / Friday, June 14, 2019 | |
The 6,400 square foot center is designed by Clark & Green Architects. It's expected to take about a year to renovate the structure. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Community Access for the Arts broke ground on Wednesday morning for a new art center at 420 Stockbridge Road. The center will be a permanent home for CATA and allow the organization to expand its innovative arts programs for people with disabilities. The two-story, 6,400-square-foot facility will double the organization's existing studio space, with two studios — one for visual arts and writing, the other for dance and performing arts. CATA's new arts center will also embody the 0 Comments
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Sandisfield Arts Center Presents 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'| 10:51AM / Friday, June 14, 2019 | |
 SANDISFIELD, Mass. — Roald Dahl’s beloved classic "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" will be brought to life by the Sandisfield Players at the Sandisfield Arts Center this Father's Day weekend, with evening performances at 7 p.m. Friday, June 14, and Saturday, June 15, and a matinee at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 16. This production is one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by Ben Luxon and the Sandisfield Players. While Luxon has directed such memorable productions as "Shakespeare Unchained," "Under Milkwood" and "Our Town, "Charlie" is the first musical the group has undertaken. The production includes
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Summer Music Festival Season is About to Beginby Stephen Dankner, Guest Column
12:24PM / Wednesday, June 12, 2019 | |
 After a particularly severe and brutally cold winter, the upcoming seasonal musical offerings will be balm to both popular music and classical aficionados, who, each June, anticipate the feast of music these diverse festivals and series present. These are the music festivals that make our locality a cultural capital, drawing thousands to hear great music – popular, classical chamber, symphony, choral, opera, musical theater, contemporary classical, et al – to experience legendary artists perform masterworks within the verdant hills and dales of the Berkshires and southwestern Vermont we call home.
For this first week of Classical Beat, here's a capsule preview of six of
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BBBBBzzz: Bombino, Berkshire Jazz Start the Pop Season with a BangBy Grace Lichtenstein, Guest Column
11:57AM / Wednesday, June 12, 2019 | |
Summer is almost here, and so is pop, jazz, dance, musical theater and new music throughout the region. As before, I'll preview what's coming up each week to help you kick off your shoes.
Hopefully, I'll encourage you to attend a performance of music you know you love, or even music you don't know but that you might love. A great, varied season awaits from Great Barrington to North Adams. Tanglewood Music Festival Let's begin with Tanglewood, in Lenox, with its early season non-classical lineup in the Shed. On Saturday, June 15, at 5:45 p.m. it's an American Public Media "Live from Here" broadcast with Chris Thile. The show features not just
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'Rocketman': Godzilla vs. Elton JohnBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
07:25PM / Friday, June 07, 2019 | |
 I actually wanted to see the new "Godzilla." Not that I'm a big fan of the franchise. Maybe it's the kid in me or perhaps because the early stuff was so hokey and so terribly dubbed that it was entertaining. Composed of poorly constructed miniatures and the barest of plots, it was probably the hypersuspension of disbelief engendered in us moppets that stirred our imaginations more than the calamitous perpetrations themselves. My curiosity was up. Hence, as the time approached to decide if it'd be "Rocketman" or "Godzilla" this week, the Japanese nomenclature became my recurring word of the day. "Gojira! Gojira!" I repeated in 0 Comments
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'Aladdin': Wishful ThinkingBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
05:07PM / Thursday, May 30, 2019 | |
 Three wishes. It sure seems like a lot. One would think you could solve all the world's problems as well as a few of your own if a genie granted them to you. But after mulling director Guy Ritchie's adaptation of the "One Thousand and One Nights" Arabian folktale Disney first treated us to in 1992, I'm still not certain how I'd proceed. Are you sure you can't wish for more wishes? Yeah, I know, I know. That's the way it has to be. You see, it's all part of a built-in lesson about hopes, aspirations and the human condition, brought to the silver screen here in fine fettle. Rated PG and boasting a bevy of positive beliefs, with special 0 Comments
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'John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum': How Can I Kill Thee? Let me Count the WaysBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
01:27PM / Friday, May 24, 2019 | |
 There are two things in this world that really confound me. Nope, it's not wondering what the secret of life is. I've got that figured. It's to get a Ferrari. And it isn't how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin, either. Fifty-six, I reckon, same as DiMaggio's hitting streak. No, the first of my dual quandary is, how anyone in America isn't repulsed by the administration currently besmirching the sanctity of democracy down in Foggy Bottom? The second dilemma that really has me scratching my head is why on Earth someone would want to see director Chad Stahelski's "John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum?" I concur with Hesh 0 Comments
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'Poms': Something to Cheer AboutBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:07PM / Thursday, May 16, 2019 | |
 The philosophical gist of "Poms," a rootin'-tootin' homage to Baby Boomer relevance about a former cheerleader who forms a cheer leading squad at her retirement community, reminded me of an illuminating exchange I had with my wife, Joanne, about 20 years ago. We were driving across the Neversink River in New York's Sullivan County on the way to our daughter's summer camp when The Rolling Stones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" came on the radio. Funny how you remember where you were during epiphanic moments. Well, it occasioned me to opine, somewhat resignedly, "Could you imagine, we'll be in the old age home someday 0 Comments
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Norman Rockwell Museum Celebrates 50th with Founders Day| 11:36AM / Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | |
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Norman Rockwell Museum will host Founders Day, welcoming Berkshire County residents for free in celebration of the Golden Anniversary of the opening of The Old Corner House, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 19.
Family and friends of Rosamond Sherwood wanted to honor her memory and her contribution as one of the three Stockbridge women who in 1967 helped rescue the then 200-year-old building that would later become the original Norman Rockwell Museum.
"Rosamond Sherwood, with Norma Ogden and Patricia Deely, led an effort to save this historic building and helped rescue the Old Corner House from demolition in 1967," said Laurie Norton Moffatt,
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