by Kristin Palpini | Oct 19, 2015 | Arts, News
Can a bunch of bound-up garbage be art? Hell yeah. Steven Siegel has been making this point for years. The artist is famed for amassing garbage from the sea, landfills, and illegal dumps and turning the detritus into something to be admired and abhorred. While his...
by Kristin Palpini | Oct 19, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Baby-killing clinics don’t deserve support Editor Kristin Palpini says, “Abortion isn’t the murder of a baby” (Between the Lines: Defund cancer screenings? Oct. 1-7, 2015). Excuse me? Of course it is. What a despicable sentiment! Planned Parenthood is in the business...
by Kristin Palpini | Oct 19, 2015 | Arts, News
This weekend is the fifth annual Made in the Berkshires Festival. Featuring Berkshire County artists, the three-day event will entertain people with short films, poetry, ballet, musicians, local food, plays, and artists’ panels. The show is curated by Hilary Somers...
by Kristin Palpini | Oct 19, 2015 | Arts, News, Uncategorized
In Western Mass, we like our Irish music year-round and the Big Bad Bollocks brings it. Screenwriter William Monahan describes the group succinctly as the “Pogues fused with the Sex Pistols.” Big Bad Bollocks: Friday, 7 p.m. to midnight, VFW Florence, 18 Meadow St.,...
by Kristin Palpini | Oct 19, 2015 | Arts, News
The Academy of Music is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hollywood classic shot in the Pioneer Valley, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, at the Academy of Music in Northampton Thursday night. The Oscar-winning film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a...
