Art & Entertainment

Emily Dickinson Photo

Jane Wald, Executive Director of the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst discusses the excitement surrounding  the discovery of an 1859 daguerreotype, believed to be the only second known photo of the poet Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Museum      ...

Haitian Guitarist & Singer BélO

Haitian guitarist and singer BélO was in Guadeloupe when a massive earthquake hit Haiti on 12 January 2010.  BélO immediately performed a series of concerts to raise funds to rebuild his country. Throughout his career, BélO has been devoted to the cause of the less...

Artsbucks

Artsbucks is a new creative economy stimulus being used in the city of Pittsfield. For it, patrons get a rebate on the locally-made art that they buy. What are the nuts and bolts of this program and can it be...

Book Author Sarah Skinner-Kilborne

Sarah Skinner Kilborne has recently written a book about her family’s life and business in the silk industry in Holyoke, MA The book entitled AN AMERICAN PHOENIX: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster into Destiny, will be published...

Life with Monte: James Kitchen

The James Kitchen Public Art Initiative currently consists of two exhibits in downtown Springfield with plans for new commissioned works which will incorporate recycled metals from Springfield neighborhoods and industry to depict Springfield’s history.  We visit...

Art in Small Cities

Jonathan Secor, Director of Special Programs at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Megan Whilden, Pittsfield’s Director of Cultural Developmen,  discuss the many free happenings and arts-related programs taking place in both cities this...

Douglas Trumbull

Veteran Hollywood director, special effects designer, and Berkshires resident Douglas Trumbull talks with Producer Tony Dunne and Videographer Mark Langevin about his career and the new technology he’s working on to move motion pictures into the...

Author Jane Maas

Jane Maas, a real life Peggy Olson who started as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather in1964 and rose to become a creative director and agency officer, shares her personal insights on what it was really like to work amongst the “Mad Men” of advertising in...

Arts & Entertainment: Naia Kete

Musician Naia Kete sits down with Meghan Lynn Allen during a recent trip back home to western Mass.  Kete, originally from this area, now lives in California and was a recent contestant on the reality show The Voice. In-Studio Performance of “Crazy Glue”...