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Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal

by The Staff February 28, 2013

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  The acclaimed Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal company return to Western Massachusetts this weekend for two shows at MASS MoCA. The company won raves when they performed at Jacob’s Pillow in 2010; the Times Union’s ...

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A City Near You

by Meisha Rosenberg June 14, 2012

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Invisible Cities at MASS MoCA was inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel of the same name, a work imagining Marco Polo’s descriptions of fantastical cities upon his visit to Kublai Khan. In the novel, Calvino ...

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The Museum Issue

by The Staff March 1, 2012

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The Adirondack Museum Blue Mountain Lake might seem like it’s in the middle of nowhere, but what it’s really in the middle of—as in right smack in the middle of, geographically—is the Adirondack Park itself. So ...

Modern Pickin’

by The Staff September 29, 2011

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After the three-day blowout that was the second incarnation of Wilco’s Solid Sound festival here in June, Mass MoCA continued to expand its evolving identity as a performing arts center last weekend with a stab ...

Other Culture

by Kathryn Geurin June 22, 2011

The Berkshires are positively brimming with world-class arts institutions, which bloom to their most vital in the summer. But many of these icons of culture also offer less prominent programming that is worth exploring, and ...

Iron and Wine

by Jeremy D. Goodwin April 13, 2011

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Recording under the name Iron and Wine, Samuel Beam has been at the leading edge of the hipster reconsideration of American folk and Appalachian music that blossomed into a bona fide subgenre—call it beard rock—for ...

Memery

by The Staff March 30, 2011

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Lolcats, double rainbow guy, Rickrolling, epic fails, Oolong the pancake rabbit. Memes, the pervasive, delightful contagions of the interwebs. Meme, “a unit of social information.” The term was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his ...

A Civilized Affair

by Jeremy D. Goodwin August 18, 2010

Maybe it was seeing Jeff Tweedy plunge into the water of a carnival-style dunk tank, while wearing the heavy red suit he dons onstage when Wilco is in full ham-it-up, showman mode. Maybe it was ...

And It Rocked, Too

by Josh Potter August 18, 2010

But what of the sounds of the Solid Sound festival? Well, if you were a Wilco fan, you were clearly in the right place. Festival organizers had literally displayed the band’s name in front of ...