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Live-streamed theater
Is it here to stay?
By: - May 02nd, 2020Los Angeles-based No Pants Theatre Company is one of several founded as a response to the pandemic. The company, as of now, produces only live-streamed productions. Up next for No Pants Theatre Company is a college and university short play festival.
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Corona Cookbook: Chinese
Jane Hudson's Fried Rice
By: - May 03rd, 2020The Williamstown based artist, poet, musician and philosophe, Jane Hudon, launches a new feature for Berkhire Fine Arts. During this time of isolation we invte you to share what's cooking.
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Do the Math
Response to the Unmasked
By: - May 04th, 2020We are all connected; we are one. One plus one is one. There is even a word for this. That word is love. As difficult as it may be sometimes, it is nonetheless the answer.
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Corona Cookbook: Scallops
From Artist Linda O'Brien
By: - May 04th, 2020An artist neighbor, Linda Obrien, of the Eclipse Mill in North Adams is an amazing home chef. Food for her is a passion. We have been fortunate to share meals with her and Opie.
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Corona Cookbook: Bitter Lemons
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Corona Cookbook: Parmesan Wonton Crackers
Michael Bedford Cooks
By: - May 05th, 2020Our Eclipse neighbors Michael Bedford and Sarah Sutro spent many years living and working in Asia. Here he concocts a handy snack that will freeze well.
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Corona Cookbook: Eggplant Parm
Chicago Critic Nancy Bishop
By: - May 05th, 2020Chicago critic and fellow ATCA member is taking a forced leave from covering theatre. She walks us through her Eggplant Parm.
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Carona Cookbook: Spanish Tortilla
Kampe's Familiar Breakfast Treat
By: - May 06th, 2020Phil and Maria spent several months in Spain before the pandemic hit. They share what was a typical Spanish breakfast. Served cold it is also a familar tapas item in bars,
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Corona Cookbook: Sydney Sauce
Cooking Down Maine
By: - May 06th, 2020Sydney who lives Down Maine is cursed by shellfish allergy, She still craves lobster in summer with friends. All that it's cracked up to be but for now no longer possible.
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Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon
Call For Art
By: - May 07th, 2020Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon invites the public to participate in a community engagement project, “Call for Art: In Union, Remotely,” with artwork which may be submitted in a variety of mediums.
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Corona Cookbook: Strawberry Rhubarb Pear Galette
When Life is Bitter Sweet
By: - May 08th, 2020When life gets bitter-sweet Pip opts for the sweet. It's rhubarb time in Norwood Heights. She tried this for this last night and reports that it was a hit.
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Remembering Little Richard
When Rock Was Young We Had So Much Fun
By: - May 09th, 2020It was summer of 1954 when I scoured downtown Gloucster to cop a copy of "Rock Around the Clock." A couple of years later Little Richard busted out with "Tutti Frutti." There has never been anyone like him before or since. He died this week at 87.
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Corona Cookbook: Baking
Yum Cake from Fast Eddy
By: - May 10th, 2020One might say that the New York critic best known as Fast Eddy is a tad eccentric. When he came to visit in the Berkshires he sent a long list of ingredients. He came with a friend and invited two more from Connecticut. We were relegated to cleanup. For dessert he baked rum cake. The recipe is found here. It was indeed divine and we became friends with his friends. Typical of Fast the formatting here is as topsy turvy as it was sent.
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Corona Cook Book: Hungarian Goulash
Ungarisches Gulasch
By: - May 10th, 2020'How about Hungarian Goulash?' - he asked: 'Yes, that's a very good idea!' Hungarian Goulash is a German National dish and, of course, in Eastern European countries* as well. I grew up eating 'Ungarisches Gulasch' with boiled potatoes and green beans, perhaps, or another vegetable and a side salad. (Was it really first prepared in Hungary and when? Just as the Hamburger was coined by Americans. 'I am a Hamburger,' my cousin told an American. 'You are eating burgers!')
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The Mount On Line
Free Programming
By: - May 11th, 2020The Mount the home of Edit Wharton in the Berkshires announces a schedule of free programs. It is requires registration at EdithWharton.org.
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Corona Cookbook: Bavarian Dinner
Pork with Sauerkraut, Beer and Tarragon
By: - May 12th, 2020Here is a foolproof recipe from may old running buddy. We served it to friends and it's now a go to dinner for my BFF. The key is to lay in s stash of tarragon my any means necessary.
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Music in Berlin and Amsterdam
Meeting the Demands of Covid 19
By: - May 12th, 2020The Berlin Philharmoniker, perhaps the world’s greatest orchestra, has opened their digital concert world for free. This allows us to safely enjoy their music, although of course we are denied the pleasure of live. Their annual European Concert was to have been performed in Tel Aviv. Instead they are at their home in Berlin, celebrating their founding on May 1 in 1882.
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Corona Cookbook: Veal Stew
With Time on Your Hands
By: - May 13th, 2020Alan Smason is a New Orleans based home cook. He is a colleague from American Theatre Critics Association. This recipe may be prepared Kosher.
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Steinberg/ATCA Award Winner Announced
E.M. Lewis' How the Light Gets In Wins
By: - May 14th, 2020The Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association 2020 New Play Award award announced. The honor recognizes playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City. E.M. Lewis' How The Light Gets In receives top award. The runners-up are Chandler Hubbard's Animal Control and Lee Edward Colston II's The First Deep Breath. The M. Elizabeth Osborn Award went to Dan McCabe, for his play, The Purists.
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Rene Fleming Sings Strauss on Carnegie Stream
Live from Carnegie Hall Twice Weekly
By: - May 15th, 2020Rene Fleming and Rufus Wainwright entertained us on Thursday. Next week Yannick Nezet-Seguin on Tuesday and a tribute to Lynn Harrell on Thursday. From the Super Bowl to Broadway, Fleming has spread her lovely voice across unusual venues and in unusual projects like the impact of music on health.
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How Jan Fontein Stabilized the MFA
From Curator of Asiatic Art to Director in 1975
By: - May 17th, 2020Because of the Raphael Incident, Perry T. Rathbone. was forced out as director of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1970. The board president, George Seybolt, who ousted Rathbone, then passed over acting director, Classical curator, Cornelius Vermeule, to unilaterally appoint a dark horse candidate, Merrill Rueppel. That ended with a curatorial coup from which Asiatic curator, Jan Fontein, emerged as acting director in 1975. He calmed troubled waters and acccomplished much through 1987. From April 1983, this is the first of two transcribed interviews.
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Spring Awakening
A Time to Plant
By: - May 18th, 2020Hostas, bleeding hearts, astilbe, ligularia, snakeroot, spirea, lying dormant (yin) for the winter and now bursting forth (yang) as the seasonal change urges them on. They have not spent the winter “thinking” about this; they have simply done it. The Japanese red lace leaf maple gave it not a thought when buds peaked out and began to open. It just happened.
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MFA's Jan Fontein Two
Addressing Issues of Racism in 1984
By: - May 21st, 2020In 1983 the Museum of FIne Art organized a traveling exhibition A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting: 1760-1910. It toured the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Grand Palais in Paris, as well as being shown at the MFA. Artists and members of Boston's African American community protested that the exhibition did not include artists of color. In this 1984 interview former MFA director, Jan Fontein, discussed negotiatons to include the 19th century artist Henry Osawa Tanner. We also covered gaps in 20th century European and American art.
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Traveling the World in Two or so Hours
Long Distance Affair is an Immersive, Intimate Theatrical Experience.
By: - May 27th, 2020Long Distance Affair zooms you to London, Madrid, Miami, New York, Paris, and Singapore. Take a safe overseas trip without worrying about passports, baggage, or COVID-19. A collaboration between Miami-based Juggerknot Theatre Company and New York's PopUP Theatrics could lead to a dream summer vacation.
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Hancock Shaker Village Phase One
Campus Access as of June 4
By: - May 29th, 2020On Thursday, June 4 as part of Massachusetts Phase 1 initiative, Hancock Shaker Village will open only its outdoor spaces—including its beloved baby animals in outdoor fenced-in areas—to the public Thursdays through Sundays, 10 am–3 pm. This schedule will be in place at least through June, as the Village plans for a full reopening in Phase 3.
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