People
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Visionary Artist Paul Laffoley
World Renowned Except in Boston
By: - Nov 18th, 2015When I curated a solo exhibition of work by the Visionary artist Paul Laffoley it was his first Boston show in 20 years. The exhibition was ignored by the Boston Globe. A few years later, during his brief time at the Globe, Ken Johnson declared Laffoley to be the most important Boston artist of his generation. In recent years he enjoyed national and international recognition
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A Confederacy of Dunces Slated for World Premiere
Creative Team Dicusses Production for Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Nov 01st, 2015A Confederacy of Dunces was published in 1980 eleven years after John Kennedy Toole's suicide. Recently the creative team- adapter Jeffrey Hatcher, director David Esbjornson, and actor Nick Offerman- met with the media to discuss the production for Boston's Huntington Theatre Company. The comedy will run from November 11 through December 13.
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Daniel Toral Wins 6th Annual Sommelier Slam
Ten Competitors, One winner
By: - Nov 01st, 2015It was fierce competition at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint,Brooklyn, where the sixth annual sommelier slam competition took place. The contestants had to know wine theory, master wine pairings and then sell their pairings to the jurors.
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Rikki Rudd at 102
Beloved by Berkshire Arts Community
By: - Oct 07th, 2015A small but growing increment live to be 100. Rikki Rudd, who was known and loved by many in the Berkshires arts community, passed away on October 6 at the age of 102. She emigrated from Denmark to the U.S. when in her 20s. She pursued journalism after study at Columbia University. That led to world travel and mastery of several languages. To celebrate her 90th birthday she took up sky diving. On every level she lived life to the full.
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Harvest Moon
Pillow Talk
By: - Sep 08th, 2015Following my poetry reading at the Annisquam Village Library the cousins lingered. We enjoyed a rare gathering that was not a wedding or funeral. As the Irish tend to do we formed a circle and swapped outrageous tales. Topped by Kevin's account of the rigors of driving his dad, the cantankerous Judge A.E. Flynn, from Florida to his summer home in East Gloucester.
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Susan Hall
Phantoms of the Opera
By: - Sep 07th, 2015During a holiday visit to New York critic Susan Hall treated me to nose bleed seats at the Met for Aida.
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Jiminy Peak and Nexamp Launch a Solar Project
2.3 Megawatt Solar Community Months Away
By: - Aug 25th, 2015Jiminy Peak Resort, of New Ashford, Massachusetts, partners with Nexamp, a solar energy developer to construct a 2.3 megawayy solar energy facility that will tackle the majority of power used on the ski mountain and the neighboring community.
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John Douglas Thompson on Ira Aldridge and Audra MacDonald
Twenty Years in the Berkshires with Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 23rd, 2015With the opening of Red Velvet at Shakespeare & Company behind him John Douglas Thompson had time for a leisurely breakfast in Lenox. It was the latest in a series of interviews about his classical and contemporary roles that started with Othello in 2006. This is the first of two parts of that recent dialogue
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Artist and Activist Lloyd Oxendine (1942-2015)
Worked to Promote Native American Art
By: - Aug 18th, 2015The Lumbee Indian, Lloyd Oxendine, who died on August 5, held a BA in art history from Columbia where he also earned an MFA. From 1970-78 he ran a New York gallery dedicated to Native American Art. In 1972 he wrote what proved to be most of an issue of Art in American surveying 23 artists. For many years he was a brilliant and outspoken activist.
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First Communion
Five and Five No Matter What
By: - Aug 18th, 2015No matter what I confessed the penance was always the same; five Our Fathers and five Hail Marys. Everything came with the usual five and five.
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Fete des Fleurs at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens
The 'Grow Show' Celebrates the Lenox Garden Club
By: - Aug 17th, 2015Hats off to the members of the Lenox Garden Club and the Berkshire Botanical Gardens for hosting the ever so popular 'Fete des Fleurs' event at the Gardens in Lenox,Massachusetts. Music was courtesy of luminary Mike Schiffer with hors d'ouvres from Kate Baldwin Caterering.
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New Musical The Boy from Oz
Based on Songs and Stories of Peter Allen
By: - Aug 11th, 2015We meet Peter Allen as a dance-obsessed kid (played by Garrett Hershey) growing up in rural Australia, then forming a duo and performing in clubs. A chance meeting with Judy Garland (Nancy Hays) results in Allen opening for Garland in London and the U.S. and marrying her daughter, Liza Minnelli (Michelle Lauto).
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Pizza
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Bookends
Waiting for the Show
By: - Aug 11th, 2015In the lobby waiting for the show stuck between ambient conversation, laments of age and disease, proved to be more memorable than the play itself.
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Mr. B. B.
Ain't Nothin but a Hound Dog
By: - Aug 10th, 2015Sometimes animals have a way of adopting us. More than just a dog B.B. King was a worldly wise hipster and friend.
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Roberto Lugo an Emerging Ceramics Artist
Ferrin Contemporary Opening on Aug.22
By: - Aug 06th, 2015Roberto Lugo, at 33, has emerged on the local art scene, thanks to Leslie Ferrin and her outreach program for artists in the ceramics, pottery world. His show opens on the Mass MoCA campus at Ferrin Contemporary on August 22.
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Marilyn Monroe – Declassified
Interview with Filmmaker Paul Davids
By: - Aug 06th, 2015Recently Jack Lyons met with filmmaker Paul Davids after a screening of his new documentary film Marilyn Monroe Declassified. It is due for theatrical release later this year.
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Going Dutch Iron Pot Cooking
Celebrating Nevada's Frontier Heritage
By: - Aug 05th, 2015Dutch oven cooking, popular since colonial times, came to Nevada with the early Mormon settlers of the area and remains a way of life even today. Nevada state parks regularly give demonstrations of how to cook with the short-legged, cast iron vessel with the rimmed lid.
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Laurel and Hardy
Lend Me Your Ears
By: - Aug 05th, 2015Creating is a team effort shaped by a critical process. Reaching an impasse. Hitting the wall. Tapped out. When you come to the fork in the road take it.
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Thoughts
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Peacemaker
Ballad for a Gunslinger
By: - Aug 04th, 2015He didn't like the killing particularly in the beginning.
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Hic Transit Dracones
Up the River for Kurtz
By: - Aug 04th, 2015As we explore and use our lives as art when do we reach the boundary? Having mapped the known where do we cross over to terra incognita? Or as inscribed on medieval maps the unknown ocean where hic transit dracones.
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Day by Day
Swinging for the Fences
By: - Aug 04th, 2015Over the span of a decade Vincent van Gogh created an oeuvre of some 2,000 works including 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings. The fifty works on view in Van Gogh and Nature at the Clark allows us to realize what results when an artist works almost every day. That made me think about the 250 or so poems and two books that I created in this past year. What is produced today inspires what happens tomorrow.
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Twosomes
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New Histories
How Past Become Future
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015Catching up with old friends we share stories, laughs and memories. Without a present, creating new stories, there is little hope or reason for future meetings.
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