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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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'Long Shot': Proves a Winning BetBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:36PM / Thursday, May 09, 2019 | |
 I'm giving director Jonathan Levine's "Long Shot" a three, even though by most of my film-criticizing parameters (pace, creativity, screenplay, blah, blah, blah) it rates a 2.5. But hey, it's such a convivial and much needed feel-good movie that I'm figuring why be a piker? It's not like I have to pay Microsoft a vig depending on how many popcorns I allot the film in question, although that day may indeed be coming. Pulling no punches in its hardly veiled muckrake of the current four-flushers down in Foggy Bottom, this delightfully quixotic confection, heir to the screwball comedies directors Frank Capra and Preston Sturges buoyed Depression Era 0 Comments
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North Adams Weekend Festival Features Music, Art and WellnessBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
03:59AM / Monday, May 06, 2019 | |
Danielle Klebes is painting 'Outdoor Recreation' on the back of Tres Ninos. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The O-Positive Festival is set to kick off on Friday with two days of music, performance, art and health care. "O-Positive is a cultural and wellness organization that supports the health of underinsured artists musicians," explained Ashley Strazzinski, artistic director, to the Public Arts Commission last week. "So artists will paint murals and host workshops, have different happenings and musicians will perform in exchange for wellness services at a clinic at Mass MoCA. There's going to be a health-care expo that's tied in with the 0 Comments
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WAM Announces Expansion of Theater Leadership| 11:45AM / Friday, May 03, 2019 | |
 LENOX, Mass. — WAM Theatre announces the addition of two new members to the WAM Leadership Team as a long-time team member Gwendolyn Tunnicliffe moves on.
"All of us at WAM will miss Gwen dearly. Her contributions to WAM in her four years with us have been immense and she is adored by our WAMily,” Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven explained. “We wish her well on her new life chapter and are excited to have hired long-time WAM artist Lia Russell-Self as our new associate producing director and newcomer to WAM, Kristen Perlman, as our new philanthropy manager. We look forward to following Gwendolyn's new adventures and to welcoming Lia and
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'Avengers: Endgame': What the World Needs NowBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:51AM / Thursday, May 02, 2019 | |
 Y'know how I'm always looking for metaphors and clues in movies that might lead the way to saving our republic from the current rash of misanthropic evildoers? Y'know, those who would replace our democracy with autocracy for their own profit and narcissistic obsession. Well, someday I'm going to just review a movie. But this isn't that someday. Nah, "Avengers: Endgame," a surprisingly entertaining, jaunty ride to vicarious liberty is simply too rich with the stuff of the Four Freedoms to be treated as just another superhero movie. It celebrates and brims with the very idea of righteousness, replete with an utterly contemptible villain too hateful and too 0 Comments
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Mass MoCA Exhibited 273 Works by High School StudentsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:25AM / Monday, April 29, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Garrett Rhoads was inspired when he looked into a little box on a piano, wondering what it was. The box held a spool of perforated paper to make the piano play. "I knew what it was because I have seen them before," the Pine Cobble School eighth-grader said. "I just, I loved how it looked. And so I wanted to do something with it." He unspooled the paper and liked the movement it made as it fluttered. So he created a waterfall of four pieces with an accent in the middle of printed words and fingerprints. "We were using ink and I actually got it on my fingers and I put it on my piece of paper 0 Comments
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Naumkeag Daffodil Festival Celebrates SpringBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:34AM / Saturday, April 27, 2019 | |
Director Brian Cruey says the 1885 estate is adding more events in the shoulder seasons to attract new visitors. STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — As if by magic, the woodland trail at Naumkeag is bursting forth with yellow and white blooms that will continue over the next several weeks. That magic is the result of more than 60,000 daffodil bulbs that were planted last fall in scattered groups along the trail and wooded hillside to mark the return of spring and to entice visitors the historic home during what had been the off-season. The first annual Daffodil Festival that opened Thursday — and the hugely popular "Winterlights" last December — 0 Comments
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'Teen Spirit': Youth, Not Wasted on the YoungBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
05:19PM / Thursday, April 25, 2019 | |
 If it's true that everything has a purpose, that there are clues to our lives in all that passes before us, especially a movie like "Teen Spirit" that I'd never see if I weren't a film critic, then what's Max Minghella's tale about a young lady's angst and ambitions trying to tell me? I'm a long ways away from the joys and sufferings of my teen-aged years. Any meditations in that rearward direction are generally devoted to the vivacity that permeated my days of immortality, when wearing the right jacket at a specific time was less a health consideration than a statement of how cool I was. But indeed there were times during those fires of spring 0 Comments
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