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'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone': A Conjured TasteBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:58AM / Thursday, March 21, 2013 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Warner Brothers For reasons both nostalgic and personal, I probably like director Don Scardino's "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" more than most normal folks will. Having had a childhood friend who aspired to magical greatness made it much more appreciable. You see, I knew Lew Wymisner when he was just becoming the Great Loudini. Heck... once, just as our friendship was germinating, I even helped. Interviewing me on the basketball court for my one and only stint as a magician's assistant, he asked if I had a sport coat. Responding in a style reminiscent of Jack 0 Comments
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Berkshire Taconic Awards Over $35K in Grants to Nonprofits | 01:53PM / Friday, March 15, 2013 | |
SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation announced that the Central Berkshire Fund recently awarded grants totaling $35,898 to 16 nonprofit organizations. Berkshire Music School: $1,000 to assist Wahconah High School's band instructor by coaching ensembles and giving private music lessons to interested students. Berkshire Nursing Families Lactation Program: $1,000 to bring their Lactation Program to Central Berkshire County. Berkshire Theatre Festival BTG PLAYS! School Residency Program: $3,000 for a 14-week process to create and present original one act plays. Central Berkshire Regional School District Families First Program: $2,073 to teach 0 Comments
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'Oz the Great and Powerful': Somewhere, Sort of Near the RainbowBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:49AM / Thursday, March 14, 2013 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Walt Disney Studios Sam Raimi's "Oz the Great and Powerful," being hawked as a prequel to L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," is filled with so much goodness that it almost compensates for its lack of greatness. Which, ironically, mirrors the moral message of the film. PG-rated, the fantasy provides Junior a good bridge to more sophisticated viewing. After attempting to duck a wave that nearly made me spill my party mix, I concluded that this colorful and convivial film vaunts the best use of 3D since "Avatar." Finding out you 0 Comments
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Qualprint Taking Submissions for Annual Calendar Contest| 02:17PM / Monday, March 11, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Grab your cameras. Qualprint's accepting applications for its 30th annual "A Closer Look at the Berkshires" contest.
The annual contest selects the top 12 images taken by both amateur and professional photographers and artists to illustrate its calendar. The printing company has been publishing calendars illustrated with beautiful images of the Berkshires for 29 years.
The top 12 winners also receive cash prizes totaling $1,050 and all entrants will receive a 2014 calendar for participating in the contest. This year more than 50 honorable mention winners will be chosen and included in the calendar.
Application forms are now
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Mayor Bianchi Drums Up Support For Beatlemania ConcertBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
02:03PM / Wednesday, March 06, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The PHS bands is looking for a little help from their friends to pay for a ticket to ride to Quebec.
The band has booked the Beatlemania Stage Show to perform at Berkshire Community College for the benefit of Mr. Ronald Lively's high school music program. The show will raise funds for the band to take the long and winding road to Quebec City to perform there.
Band director Lively says it will cost about $4,600 in transportation costs. This band has flown, well bused, there before and each year has fundraisers to get some Help! The trip will be something the students will remember when they're sixty-four.
The stage show is a group of
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Cultural Pittsfield This Week: March 1-7| 01:00PM / Friday, March 01, 2013 | |
 Head Upstreet This Friday for Artswalk! Check out over 15 new art shows and a very special showing of 18th century Masonic regalia (see left) for one night only this Friday in downtown Pittsfield's Upstreet Cultural District. Click here for a handy downloadable map and guide to the March 1st Artswalk, or pick one up upstreet! Friday, March 1st | 5-8pm | Upstreet Cultural District | 413-443-5601 | FREE The Colt Six sit right at the intersection of classic country, old school R&B and rock-and-roll. More soul than alt.country, more twang than rock, and more rock than
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'Side Effects': Dangerous InteractionsBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:24AM / Thursday, February 28, 2013 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Open Road Films There's a big surprise in director Steven Soderbergh's "Side Effects" when what looks like it's just going to be a dramatic meditation on prescription drug abuse segues with a vengeance and opens Pandora's Pill Case. And now you already know too much. But if you think I've left you in the dark, just wait until this smartly written plot starts churning. At long last, here's one that'll have you guessing, as well as make you think twice about your doc's motivations the next time you are handed a prescription or referred to a, 0 Comments
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Oscars Predictions: KidnappedBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:25AM / Thursday, February 21, 2013 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Warner Brothers If this, my annual Oscars prediction column, has reached your eyes, I have been successful, and perhaps in some small way the causes of democracy and freedom will have been served. You see, I have been kidnapped. The vile event occurred just as I set about to forecast the winners of the 85th annual Academy Awards. I ask you, "What more heinous thing could one perpetrate on humankind?" Alas, to date, I know neither my abductors nor their purpose, though I have three theories: A competing newspaper, jealous of my prognostications and 0 Comments
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'A Good Day to Die Hard': And the Sooner the BetterBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:40AM / Thursday, February 21, 2013 | |
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by Michael S. Goldberger
Twentieth Century Fox Films In this brave new world, even a meditation on healing the rift between workaholic dad and wayward son is apt excuse for Hollywood to let loose yet another raucous raft of violence. Meant for mass consumption at the multiplex by undiscerning youths with nothing better to do, "A Good Day to Die Hard" is the Saturday night special of films. One imagines the assigned writer and director seated in Danish couches, picture window overlooking the Pacific at Malibu, lattes emptied and chopsticks propped out of Chinese food containers as they muse, 0 Comments
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Cultural Pittsfield This Week: Feb. 15-21| 10:25AM / Friday, February 15, 2013 | |
 Don't miss the many 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival events this weekend & beyond. But holy cow, there's a lot of other great events happening too! Check them out below... Friday-Monday: Animated Shorts at the Little Cinema All five of 2013's Oscar-nominated animated short films will be screened this weekend. Disney'sPaperman is the favorite to win, but Minkyu Lee'sAdam and Dog has gained a lot of attention. In addition to those two you have Fresh Guacamole by PES, Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin
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