5.29.11
This is an Archival Site
There is now a new Rogovoy Report home
5.18.11
Weekend Preview May 19-24
Bob Dylan tributes, Deborah Voigt, Tom Paxton, Bill Kirchen, John Kirk and Trish Miller
5.18.11
Celebrating Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday in Style
Paying tribute to the greatest rock songwriter ever
5.17.11
FILM REVIEW: In a Better World and Of Gods and Men
Review by Seth Rogovoy
5.17.11
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5.12.11
Deborah Voigt Headlines Mahaiwe Gala
Opera star to sing arias, show tunes on Saturday, May 21
5.15.11
Famed Spiritual Teacher to Speak on Nonviolence
Mother Maya in free talk at Sruti Yoga in Great Barrington, Mass., on Friday May 20 at 7pm
5.12.11
Special Effects Wizard to Be Honored by Film Festival
Doug Trumbull to be Feted by BIFF
5.11.11
Weekend Preview May 12-16
Cultural Highlights of the Berkshire Weekend
6.4.09
Talk about a small world
Elaine and I grew up together, but only just recently met....
5.8.11
Berkshire Living to Cease Publication
A Farewell from Publisher Michael Zivyak
5.8.11
twiGs Branches Out
Lenox boutique launches new e-tail site
5.8.11
[MUSIC REVIEW] Avalon Quartet in Close Encounters at Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy
5.8.11
[MUSIC REVIEW] Avalon Quartet in Close Encounters at Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy
5.7.11
[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
Review by Seth Rogovoy
5.7.11
[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
Review by Seth Rogovoy
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All eyes upon us
6.11.08
From The Editor of Berkshire Living
A FEW YEARS AGO, I was in New York City interviewing a musician who was also director of an independent theater company based in Manhattan. I thought he had the life. Part of me has always fantasized about living in the city, which is sort of my ancestral home, even though I’ve spent very little time actually living within the confines of the five boroughs.
As we sat down in his cramped office in a building located smack in midtown,
where outside the energy and vitality of the city swirled around us, my interlocutor gave me a long, hard look, and said, “How did you do it?”
“Do what?” I replied.
“How did you wind up having it all—living in the most beautiful place in the world and finding a great job?”
My interviewee was familiar with the Berkshires, having done some work at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and at Tanglewood. To him, this place was nirvana. Even for a creative type who has to live somewhere that can provide enough working opportunities to support a growing family (he had a wife and three children at the time)—somewhere, for example, like New York—even for a New York native whose very name, accent, and manner had his hometown written all over them, to my friend, I had it over him in spades, because I was in the Berkshires and he was not.
It’s a truism that the grass is always greener, but in this case, it’s actually wrong: the grass is always greener on our side. It’s just that sometimes—as in my case, when I have moments of longing for the excitement of life in the concrete metropolis—we can lose sight of that. But then we meet someone who seemingly has it all—or, if not all, who seemingly has what we think we want—and he reflects back at us a mirror-view of reality. Or to put it another way, drawing on another cliché, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
All these thoughts come to mind as the summer cultural season is nigh upon us, and not only are we once again faced with an impossible surplus of things to do, but we actually become the focus of attention in the arts and culture sections of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and other regional and national periodicals that view the Berkshires as a summer cultural paradise. And with all that attention comes the desire of thousands of weekenders and visitors to share in our bounty. So on behalf of Berkshire Living and the greater community, I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you all here for what promises to be a banner season, as we outline in these pages and will continue to cover in subsequent issues of Berkshire Living throughout the summer and all year-round.
Step gently,
Seth Rogovoy
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