Tag: Massachusetts

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    Cadillac Crew celebrates women who drove the civil rights era

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    WAM Theatre presents ‘Cadillac Crew’ Oct. 13-29   Cate Alston and Kyra Davis perform in a rehearsal last month for WAM Theatre’s upcoming production of “Cadillac Crew.” David Dashiell photo/courtesy WAM Theatre   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. It’s late spring or early summer 1963, and four women are talking in the office of read more

    Cadillac Crew celebrates women who drove the civil rights era
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    Williamstown festival works to transform and cast off a toxic legacy

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    Williamstown festival works to transform, cast off a toxic legacy   Students head out the back door of the ‘62 Center for Theatre & Dance at Williams College, where the college and Williamstown Theatre Festival have set up a new intensive training program this summer. Photo by Susan Sabino   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, read more

    Williamstown festival works to transform and cast off a toxic legacy
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    For love of theater, festival must change

    To outsiders, the heady creative atmosphere of a summer theater festival might seem an unlikely place to be worried about workplace safety. But theater productions depend on people who wrestle with heavy equipment, hot stage lights and electrical connections — and who work with power tools to build sets. Physical exhaustion can contribute to dangerous read more

    For love of theater, festival must change
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    Cell-tower dispute puts Pittsfield at center of national debate

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    Cell tower dispute puts Pittsfield at center of a national debate   Courtney Gilardi and her daughters stand outside their home in Pittsfield, Photo by Susan Sabino.   By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. Courtney Gilardi’s 9-year-old daughter came downstairs one morning in the late summer of 2020 and announced that she was feeling “headachy, read more

    Cell-tower dispute puts Pittsfield at center of national debate
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    MCLA artist’s residency lifts portraits of a community

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    Exhibit reflects artist’s yearlong residency in North Adams       Conrad Egyir’s new exhibit, “Travelogue,’ which opened in June at Gallery 51, includes his portraits of, from left, Odiase Williamson, Winston Wall and Delano Mills, along with others he met in the course of his artist residency at MCLA. Courtesy photos   By KATE read more

    MCLA artist’s residency lifts portraits of a community
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    On Pittsfield cell tower city’s leaders fumble

    If 20 people were sickened by a toxic release from a chemical factory in their neighborhood, most of us would expect some public authority to take charge promptly to limit further public exposure and environmental damage. So when 20 people in Pittsfield, Mass., began reporting nearly two years ago that they were being sickened by read more

    On Pittsfield cell tower city’s leaders fumble
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    Jacob’s Pillow opens 90th season with celebration of diverse traditions

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    At Jacob’s Pillow, opening show draws on diverse traditions   Mythili Prakash, one of a new generation of dancers in the Indian tradition of Bharatanatyam, is among the diverse group of performers in “America(na) to Me,” the opening show in this year’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Photo courtesy of Mythili Prakash   By KATE ABBOTTContributing read more

    Jacob’s Pillow opens 90th season with celebration of diverse traditions
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    In sign of spring new life emerges on farms

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    Area events provide close encounters with piglets, lambs and more   Piglets are among the new arrivals this spring at the annual Baby Animals festival at Hancock Shaker Village in the Berkshires. Susan Sabino photo.   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer HANCOCK, Mass. The barn is different on a spring night. Calves lie in the hay read more

    In sign of spring new life emerges on farms
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    Ceramics and sculpture anchor new shows at Mass MoCA

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    Ceramics, sculpture anchor new shows at Mass MoCA   Tomato frames bound together with kudzu vines form one portion of Lily Cox-Richard’s new installation, “Weep Holes,” at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. The museum also has a new group show, “Ceramics in the Expanded Field,” with works by eight artists. Photo read more

    Ceramics and sculpture anchor new shows at Mass MoCA
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    Election 2021

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    Here are the results of the key races and ballot questions decided by voters in the Nov. 2 elections in Massachusetts and New York. A guide to political party abbreviations is in the box at right. In the tables below, incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*), and winning candidates are in bold type. A read more

    Election 2021