June 2011
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"Great Barrington festival transforms a town, a...
I had the chance to write about the Berkshire International Film Festival for this Sunday’s Boston Globe. This means I’ve now written about this festival for four different publications over the course of its six years; it was a challenge to avoiding repeating myself and still keep it fresh, while still introducing the event to the publication’s readers, since the Globe had not...
May 2011
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ARTICLE: "Of Borscht, Flaubert and Hungarian...
I’m pleased to have the cover story in this week’s Metroland, about the Berkshire/Pioneer Valley band Bella’s Bartok. (Metroland, for ausländers, is the alt-weekly for Albany and the New York Capital Region.) I knew I’d seen them in various situations—playing in the parking lot, at a Halloween party, in a friend’s living room—but didn’t realize I...
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ARTICLE: "Two Gents swing" (Two Man Gentlemen...
Caught the Two Man Gentleman Band last Friday at Gypsy Joynt, which just relocated from mini-strip-mall-land to downtown in Great Barrington. This review ran in today’s Berkshire Eagle. BTW, the band responded to the review by tweet and noted that Andy Beane has indeed purchased a house in Great Barrington.
“It’s easy to assume the two are working their way through forgotten...
What it means to be a progressive in America
We were right about abolition. We were right about the Fugitive Slave Act. We were right about women having the right to vote. We were right about direct election of United States Senators. We were right about creating unions, about workplace safety, about child labor, about the eight-hour workday. We were right about creating the weekend. We were right about segregation and we were right about...
