Reviews

KLEZMER CLARINET GREAT MARGOT LEVERETT FUSES COUNTRY AND OLD COUNTRY MUSIC AT CLUB HELSINKI ON SATURDAY, DEC. 20

(Great Barrington, Mass.) Club Helsinki's annual Hanukah bash this year features the return of Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, a supergroup of klezmer and bluegrass talent that combines country and Old Country music. The evening also includes a special Hanukah-themed dinner menu.

GRAN TORINO
Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

By SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine

He's a crabby old coot, a misanthrope who growls and talks to himself, who hates what his neighborhood and the world around him has turned into. He's old Clint Eastwood, and if the heart-of-gold beneath the crusty exterior thing has been overplayed, it works splendidly here, as Clint serves up his image on a sacrificial altar, in the service of a new, Obama-era America.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC
Celebrating Mendelssohn-
and Discovering Eduard Franck I
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
Great Barrington, Mass.
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Review by Seth Rogovoy

A somewhat selective concert calendar for the Berkshires and all New England, from Saratoga to Boston to Newport and beyond!

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Bubbling underneath this deceptively modest indie romance with Hollywood star power is a tragic drama of Shakespearean proportions, what with the merger of two family "dynasties" (in this case, a couple of modern-day, outer-borough dry cleaning establishments) that goes beyond a mere business deal to include a territorial grab, an arms-length friendship, and even an arranged marriage.