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Jacob's Pillow Gala makes the New York Sun
Mysterious Zelig shows up in front-page photo
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MONTREAL DIARY
Live from the Montreal International Jazz Festival
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WTF's NICHOLAS MARTIN TO HEADLINE FREE FORUM
[PRESS RELEASE] New WTF leader at Triplex, Sunday, July 13, 11 a.m., for REST OF THE STORY
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[DANCE REVIEW] Mark Morris at Tanglewood
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
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Passenger air travel on brink of collapse
System headed for full-metal breakdown by end of year
6.24.08
Gas prices may usher in era of New Urbanism
Suburbs collapsing from internal contradiction of life built around cars, highways, and cheap gas
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Ian McEwan joins Martin Amis in speaking out against Islamism
Rare writers willing to take a politically incorrect stand
6.24.08
BTF's Kate Maguire speaks at forum on Sunday, June 29
REST OF THE STORY event at Triplex Cinema
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YOGA to be focus of forum on September 23
Berkshire Living's REST OF THE STORY event at the Triplex
6.19.08
New Mamet One-Act to Debut at Mahaiwe
[PRESS RELEASE] Benefit Performance for Berkshire Playwrights Lab June 25
6.19.08
[FILM REVIEW] ROMAN DE GARE
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.16.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Jen Chapin at Club Helsinki
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6.18.08
[DANCE REVIEW] Garth Fagan collaborates with Wynton Marsalis at Jacob's Pillow
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6.17.08
Cafe Latino to celebrate opening of gallery, downtown arts festival
[PRESS RELEASE] Restaurant at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to display Latino artwork
6.17.08
Cafe Latino to celebrate opening of gallery, downtown arts festival
[PRESS RELEASE] Restaurant at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to display Latino artwork
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[MUSIC REVIEW] Suzanne Vega at the Mahaiwe
9.21.07
MAHAIWE THEATRE
Suzanne Vega
September 16, 2007
Review by Seth Rogovoy
Last Sunday night, Suzanne Vega performed a terrific concert at the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington that pleased old and new fans alike. With her four-piece band, Vega mixed old favorites with several numbers from her excellent recent album, Beauty and Crime, many of which focus on her native New York City.
Vega smartly bookended the concert proper with two versions of one of her greatest hits: “Tom’s Diner.” She opened the concert alone on stage singing the song in its original a cappella arrangement. Then, at the conclusion of the concert, she started the song again – momentarily puzzling a good portion of the crowd – but then her band kicked in and laid down a funky groove behind the song, which has been the basis of many such remakes and remixes by other bands.
In between, Vega and her band were totally solid, digging deep into her folk roots with songs like “Marlene on the Wall” through her industrial-folk period with “Blood Makes Noise” up to, as previously noted, songs from her new album like “Ludlow Street” and the very appropriate “Edith Wharton’s Figurines” – Vega mentioned that earlier in the day she and her band paid a visit to The Mount in Lenox, where Wharton wrote some of her best known works. And of course, Vega played a pitch-perfect rendition of the song that made her famous, “Luka,” about a battered child.
10/11/2007
Thanks for the Suzanne Vega review as we are considering seeing her soon. As many of her songs are quite short how long approximately was her show, main + encore(s) ? Thanks, Chris.
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