Ali Louis Bourzgui: Calm by day; a mullet-rocking vampire by night

NOTED PHYSICIAN, WRITER, AND THOUGHT LEADER DR. EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL BRINGS HIS UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE TO THE BERKSHIRES COURTESY OF DR. EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL SOME OF THE COUNTRY’S leading writers, artists, and scholars will converge in Lenox for the inaugural field, a new festival to be held from October 23 to 25 that will be devoted to ideas, conversation, learning, and discovery. Among the guests is Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., an oncologist, bioethicist, author, and one of th

Theres so much happening in the world of books and ideas this Fall

A conversation with the presidents of our Berkshire Colleges

The Marvelous Wicked Missy Trades the Cosmos for The Berkshires

The Grammy®-winning singer-songwriter brings her distinctive voice to MASS MoCA Fall 2026 Read Berkshire Magazine's Fall 2026 Issue. Madison Cunningham has built a career out of finding beauty in musical contradictions. Her songs can be intricate without sacrificing intimacy, cerebral without losing emotional immediacy, and rooted in folk traditions while freely absorbing elements of rock, pop, jazz, and experimental music. On Friday, September 25, the singer, songwriter, and

Persistence describes this year’s Berkshire 25.

The jazz supergroup The Cookers will headline the Williamstown Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 12, at 8 p.m. at the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance.

Legendary Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer Arturo Sandoval to light up the stage in the finale of the inaugural Williamstown Jazz Festival

The trailblazing conductor brings her talents to Tanglewood

The Art Shed is an art gallery, artwork storage, and studio for abstract artist Kathleen Jacobs, located in Great Barrington. Jacobs’ work has been exhibited at TurnPark Art Space and The Mount in the Berkshires. She takes raw canvas and wraps it around living trees for months or years, then brings them to her studio to rework the surfaces with oil and pigments. The shape of her studio, designed by Grigori Fateyev, is intentional, a nod to vernacular agricultural shed roof ty

SEE THE BSO’S BELOVED SUMMER HOME THROUGH ENTIRELY NEW EYES

A BEST-SELLING BOOK BY JEFF CHANG ON BRUCE LEE’S CULTURAL ECHO By Anastasia Stanmeyer August 2026 Read Berkshire Magazine's August 2026 Issue. Jeff Chang props his phone at eye level on a shelf in his kitchen in Berkeley, California, then goes back to what he was doing: making homemade stock for Hainanese chicken rice. I was quite familiar with the Southeast Asian dish, having lived in Hong Kong and Indonesia, and was happy to keep the conversation going by Zoom as he worked

The Berkshires Bars You Need To Try Tonight

Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus visits the Berkshire to talk in The Mount's Summer series