Home | About | Archives | RSS Feed |
Twilight All Night in North Adams
If you can't get enough of the film versions of Stephanie Meyer's blockbuster vampire series, the North Adams Garden Cinema is offering an "Triple Twilight Evening" you can sink your teeth into.
The cinema is showing first and second films in a double-feature on Tuesday night before the midnight showing of third movie in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse."
"Twilight" begins at 6:30 p.m.; "New Moon" begins immediately after. Tickets are $7.50 adults, $6.50 for students, seniors and children, for both films.
"Eclipse" tickets are the same price and will be sold separately. That film begins at 11:55 p.m.
You can also buy tickets online here.
Our roving reporter and Twihard Melanie Rancourt will be at the midnight showing - tell her how much you love Twilight.
Tags: movies |
DownStreet Art Draws a Crowd
The downtown's new benches were popular. |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — DownStreet Art kicked off its third year with another successful launch on Thursday.
Some 37 galleries, double the number of the freshman year, opened to the hundreds of visitors drawn downtown. There was music at both ends of the street and people lingered in the restaurants and — on the benches.
It's not graffiti, it's a sign of the times. |
The long-anticipated benches arrived earlier in the day and were quickly installed along the south side of the streets. They were rarely empty and aided the flow of people along the main drag. In the past, people have tended to cluster at both ends of the street: around the Berkshire Bank plaza up to Holden Street and again around the gallery at 107 Main.
The benches weren't the only changes — bright green footsteps led the way east along the sidewalk with the occasional "Art This Way" signs to keep people going in the right direction. But the sight of some young people stenciling the sidewalk Thursday morning led to several calls to City Hall reporting graffiti.
Expect to see more sidewalk art because once completed, the footsteps will mark a trail from Mass MoCA to Main. There's also plans for signs (and maybe even some footprints) on the pillars of the Veterans Memorial Bridge if the state gives the OK. The idea is to make sure motorists and Mass MoCA visitors know where the art is.
What else can we say? One fellow we ran into was driving by and wondered what everyone was doing out. "I stopped and all these art galleries were open."
That's pretty much the point — giving people a reason to stop.
Who was out and about last night? Find out here.
Tags: art |
'I Want to Wash Your Hands' by NARH
We just love this video created by North Adams Regional Hospital. It's something that will make you smile on a gray day - and remind you to wash your hands. |
Tags: NARH, video |
Tangiers: Going, Going, Gone
Customers thought the little boats in the windows of Tangiers meant owner Barbara May was going vacation. |
Barbara May had to change the signs in the window of Tangiers Boutique the other day. She'd put some little sailboats in the window of the Main Street store with signs saying "going, going, gone" and a final note telling customers the shop would close on June 30.
"People were coming in and asking when we were going to reopen," she said on Tuesday. "[Because of the boats] they thought we were going on vacation."
If it's a vacation, it's a permanent one. The tanning salon and gift shop is over and done on June 30 and a new sign makes it quite clear it's not a vacation: "Finished, closing for good, over & done, kaput."
"Our cookie has crumbled," May repeated. "And our ship has sailed."
The salon's struggled to stay open over the past few years. May nearly called it quits in fall 2008, but a last-minute lease renegotiation and an outpouring of support kept the doors open. She'd considered a move to Eagle Street — but the building burned down.
"We tried to be optimistic," she said, but the economic downturn over the past year was too much. "We can't outlast it.
"We tried to donate to the community and we tried to be there creating jobs and supporting things that's why owning a small business is so much fun," she continued. "We just hope that everybody that came here enjoyed it. We had wonderful time and we'll miss it."
The boutique is having a going out-of-business sale; May said the fixtures are also for sale. Its closure leaves yet another empty storefront on Main Street.
Tags: Tangiers, closing |
Bring a Friend to the North Adams Museum
Have you been to Western Gateway Heritage State Park lately? The volunteers at the North Adams Museum of History and Science are inviting the community to come by on Saturday - and bring a friend.
Sure, there's a lot of construction going on around the Hadley Overpass, but don't let that deter you. The North Adams Trolley will be picking up and dropping off from 12:30 to 3:30 on Saturday afternoon at the park and from Main Street, the St. Anthony's Municipal Parking Lot, City Hall, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Sons of Italy.
The North Adams Historical Society is encouraging residents and visitors to tour all the venues in the state park. Along with the museum, which features the golden, refurbished J.J. Newberry letters installed on their traditional red background, a number of other events are occuring throughout the day:
• "Furniture That Talks," an exhibit with creator/collector Don Trimarchi at the museum, runs from 10 to 4
• Talk at the park Visitors' Center in Building 4 at 2
• Mill City Productions highlights past performances and preps for upcoming caberet from noon to 3
• Tunnel City Coffee will be offering samples from 10 to 11:30 under the Freight Yard Pub tent and during the Mill City event
• Tony Pisano will discuss beekeeping in the morning
• Tala's Quilt Shop will offer quilting demonstrations
• Freight Yard Pub is offering a special lunch
Tags: museum |