People
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That ‘70s Show
Mass Birthday Celebration in Sheffield
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015My buddy Jim Jacobs, known as Shango back in the day, and Kathleen hosted a last hurrah for the Berkshire hipster clan. It was held in a barn and tent in Sheffield. Just up the road a piece from where Benno and Stephanie held all those holiday celebrations. We gathered from near and far for an evening of Indian food and a groovy rock band. On the dance floor Astrid had all the right moves.
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Playwright John Guare at Barrington Stage
Updating His Adaptation of His Girl Friday
By: - Aug 01st, 2015The renowned playwright John Guare was in Pittsfield recently for the first days of rehearsal of his play His Girl Friday. It is being directed by Julianne Boyd for Barrington Stage Company. He and others in the production met with the media for a lively give and take.
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Naumkeag's Exceptional Garden Party
Restoration at the National Historic Landmak is Evident
By: - Jul 30th, 2015The Trustees of Naumkeag host the yearly Garden Party for an enthusiastic crowd of local and out-of-town well wishers. Bellinis , hors d'oeuvres and sweets entertained the crowds appetite on this glorious, sunny afternoon in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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Art Critic Francine Koslow Miller (1951 to 2015)
Mass College of Art Professor and Art Forum Correspondent
By: - Jul 29th, 2015Since the 1980s Francine Koslow Miller had been a formidable presence in the Boston art world as a critic for Art Forum, professor at Mass College of art and organizer of exhibitions and projects. As an alumna of Brandeis she was defender of the Rose Art Museum when there was a plan to sell the collection and close the museum. She died this week at the age of 64.
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Paul Natkin Superstars
Exhibition at Ed Paschke Art Center in Jefferson Park.
By: - Jul 28th, 2015Paul Natkin told an attentive audience about shooting Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis on his Born in the USA tour for a Newsweek cover. That shoot was described in a story about Natkin in the Chicago Sun-Times. "That's when my family believed I was a real photographer," he said. That publicity also led to five years as the staff photographer for the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Arnie Reisman Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate
Clara Bow Died for Our Sins
By: - Jul 27th, 2015As I inscribed in my book for him Arnie Reisman was my first and best editor starting with the Brandeis Justice and then Boston After Dark. I have enjoyed reading his first book of verse Clara Bow Died for Our Sins.
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Remington
The Write Stuff
By: - Jul 27th, 2015A fine arts major I expected to spend my life as an artist. That has proved to be more or less true with as many facets and tangents as a cubist composition. A rejected gift of an old Remington upright typewriter changed everything.
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Freddy's Music Unlimited
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Brilliant and eccentric he was an actor in the WPA. After a breakdown moved to Boston and the care of my father. Opened a record shop where I worked for him on Saturdays now and then.
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Uncle Freddy
Dove of Peace
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Like many urban poor during the Great Depression my colorful Uncle Freddy was a card carrying member of the Communist Party of America. He was better red than dead.
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Aboard the Yacht Rachel
Tennis and Yoga!
By: - Jul 26th, 2015More tales of the Ancien Regime recalling Marat's lists composed in the bathtub. But in Annisquam not Paris where they eat cake and sail by moonlight.
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The G
Witness for the Prosecution
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Poet, archivist, photographer, raconteur Gerard Malanga lives with books and cats in Hudson, New York. Time was in leather he performed a whip dance with the Velvet Underground.
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Family Business
Sons in the Great War
By: - Jul 24th, 2015Starting with a tavern in Gloucester around 1910 then in Boston my grandfather James Flynn ran hotels, bars, speakeasies and nightclubs. Booze and entertainment was the family business. During the war that's just what my Uncle Arthur, later a judge did. In the air-force, as an officer, Uncle Brother landed planes from a tower in England. The good life was, and still is, the Flynn family business.
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James Flynn Flynn Letter to My Dad
Posted October 26, 1940 On the Occasion of My Birth
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015My grandfather James Flynn was noted as a man of few words. This is a verbatim transcription of a rare note that he wrote to my father on the occasion of my birth. On many levels it is a remarkable document.
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Wyatt Earp King of the Wild Frontier
Encounter with Gunslinger in Virginia City, Nevada
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015By the time he took part in The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Wyatt Earp was already famous; after that October afternoon in 1881, he was a legend.
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Provincetown's Chris Busa on Ekphrasis
Publisher of 30-year-old Provincetown Arts Magazine
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015This summer Chris Busa has published the 30th annual issue of Provincetown Arts Magazine. The publication which is organized as a non profit is a widely respected compendium of the arts in the Lower Cape, past and present. The award winning magazine covers the fine arts, literature with and emphasis on poetry, film and theatre.
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Blue Moon Roof Top Party in Pittsfield
July 31 Benefit to Support Pittsfield Farmers Market
By: - Jul 22nd, 2015Dance drink and enjoy the stars from the Blue Moon Rooftop in downtown Pittsfield. It's a benefit for the Farmers Market.
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Annual Naumkeag Garden Party
Saturday, July 25th in Stockbridge
By: - Jul 22nd, 2015Naumkeg needs your support by attending the annual Garden Party.
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Talking with Chicago Star Faye Butler
Currently on Stage at Goodman Theatre
By: - Jul 19th, 2015Faye Butler describes herself as an actor who sings, not a singer who acts. She's a theater and musical star in Chicago and nationally and has won many awards and honors for her work. She currently plays the cleaning lady, Cassandra, who knows the source of her name only too well, in the current Goodman Theatre production, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. I interviewed her about that role and her other stage and cabaret work. She let me in on a few secrets about her voice, her vocal practices -- and her dreams. (Also see our review of the play.)
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On the Porch
Meeting the In Laws
By: - Jul 18th, 2015Mom married under one condition. That after their internships and residencies the young doctors would return to Boston and her family. Josephine and James Flynn were shocked that their daughter married an Italian even though he was a surgeon. Dad eased into it with pipes on the porch.
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Audra Mcdonald in Concert at Tanglewood
Tony winner plays Ozawa Hall on Sunday, July 19th
By: - Jul 18th, 2015Known for her recent role as Billie Holiday, multiple Tony award winning actress and singer, Audra Mcdonald takes center stage at Tanglewood on July 19.
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Baylor Bullies
Sicilian Deep in the Heart of Texas
By: - Jul 16th, 2015The oldest of seven children from an immigrant family in Brooklyn Dad was the first to attend college. With a pharmacy degree he worked three jobs to help support the family. He left home to focus on the goal of becoming a surgeon.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Wynton Marsalis Returns to Tanglewood
By: - Jul 15th, 2015On August 20, 2012 Wynton Marsalis shared an appearance at Tanglewood with bass player Christian McBride. Last night he returned to Ozawa Hall with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. This superb group of New York based musicians presented a program of traditional big band music from the 1930s and 1940s in the first half and works by members of the orchestra, including Marsalis, in the second.
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Three Irish Lads
Two Nugents and a Flynn Set World Record
By: - Jul 14th, 2015My grandfather and two Nugent in laws set a world record in 1898.
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O' Maley Birthday Party
Renting the Hockey Rink with Pizza
By: - Jul 14th, 2015On the way to Ipswich for a birthday party. Renting the hockey rink with pizza to celebrate.
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Adams
The Terrorist Next Door
By: - Jul 14th, 2015On Monday nights a group of artists meet for dinner and gossip at Sushi House. Great food and margaritas served by Joy with just that. In the busy summer season there's a lot to talk about. Eric Rudd had hosted his annual Beach Party on Eagle Street. Fun stuff, news of exhibitions, projects and book launches. Then it got real dark.
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