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BITS & BYTES November 12, 2026: What’s happening in the Berkshires and beyond!

Fall Festival of Shakespeare at Shakespeare & Company. Lenox— From November 19th through the 22nd, Shakespeare & Company presents the 38th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. Since 1988, Shakespeare & Company’s Education Program has brought together high school students from across the region to introduce and nurture a love...

Lenox, MA · 1d
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Chicopee soup kitchen seeks turkey donations as costs rise

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – As grocery prices continue to rise, local food pantries are working to ensure families in need can still enjoy a Thanksgiving meal. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, supermarket food prices have increased by about 1.8% since September 2025. Volunteers at Lorraine’s Soup Kitchen & Pantry in Chicopee say community donations are especially important this time of year.

Chicopee, MA · 3d
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Mermaids, rainbows and safari adventures await at new children’s salon in Holyoke

HOLYOKE — For children walking into ChiquiLook Salon & Spa, a trip to get a haircut doesn't begin in a barber chair. Instead, it starts at a prize station near the entrance, where young customers can choose a reward. From there, families step into a colorful salon filled with...

Holyoke, MA · 4d
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Amherst residents connect with school superintendent, town leaders over coffee

Amherst residents had an opportunity to connect with local leaders Monday evening during a community coffee gathering at the new Amethyst Brook Elementary School.

Amherst, MA · 3d

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PREVIEW: TLI presents Grammy-winning Imani Winds Sunday, Nov. 15

Lenox — Imani Winds won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium with the album “Passion for Bach and Coltrane.” They are a daring lot, to say the least, and they will demonstrate their artistic bravery at Tanglewood’s Linde Center on Sunday, November 15, at 3 p.m., when they perform a program that blends works from the standard repertoire with pieces the group has recently commissioned.

Lenox, MA · 1d

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Westfield man credits service dog Petra with saving his life

A Westfield service dog is being credited with helping save her owner's life.

Westfield, MA · 3d

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Free All-American burgers for veterans at Friendly’s

Friendly's will offer veterans and active-duty service members a free All-American Burger entree this Wednesday.

Chicopee, MA · 3d

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A taste of home: The story behind Jenni’s Kitchen BISTRO

HOLYOKE — For Jennifer Escalera, the climb toward building a future on her own terms led her to open Jenni’s Kitchen BISTRO, where she has turned her passion for food into an opportunity to bring people together. “A girl who never went to college, who used to move...

Holyoke, MA · 3d

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Every Thanksgiving Week, Massachusetts Families Pick Up Their Turkey Dinners From These 6 Old-School Restaurants

Some Massachusetts families never roast a single bird on Thanksgiving, and they are perfectly happy about it. Instead, they lean on a short list of old-school spots that have been feeding New England for generations. A few are colonial-era inns with fireplaces and creaky floors, while others are humble turkey...

Massachusetts · 4d

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2 cats found dead in Pittsfield fire

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Two cats were found dead and six people were displaced after a structure fire in Pittsfield Monday afternoon. The Pittsfield Fire Department responded to 54-56 Worthington Place, a three-story two family residence, around 4:30 p.m. A fire on the first floor was put out thirty minutes later.

Pittsfield, MA · 3d

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Cowboy Junkies celebrate 40 years at the Mahaiwe

Now celebrating 40 years, Cowboy Junkies will perform Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The band is celebrating its long career with a triple-vinyl retrospective album called “Open to Beauty,” featuring a selection of songs from 2000 onward, including material from its most recent release, “Such Ferocious Beauty.”

Great Barrington, MA · 2d

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New Pittsfield Shop Offers Nontoxic Scented Candles & Cozy Decor

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Alyssa Sena loves scented candles. But she found lighting them in her home was aggravating her asthma. So she set to work to find a healthier option for herself, and her home. "I realized how bad they are for you and the paraffin and how harmful...

Pittsfield, MA · 4d

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Alma Thomas exhibit at Smith, hip hop legend REKS, Mr. Universe

Hip hop artist REKS joins The Fabulous 413 for discussion and a Live Music Session. At Smith College Art Museum, you still have time to encounter the work of a woman who is singular in perspective and experience. Alma Thomas was an artist of many mediums, but may be best known for her paintings and work with color. We take a tour of the works on display within"Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum " with curator Emma Chubb and guest lecturer Tiffany Barber, to fill in the holes of her life and career that art History often leaves by the wayside.

Northampton, MA · 3d

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Mike Selbach finds the extraordinary in everyday life

Subway stations may seem unlikely places to encounter the divine, but amid the rumble of trains, the crush of commuters and the cavernous underground passageways, Salisbury artist Mike Selbach finds moments of unexpected beauty. In “Subway Saints,” his solo exhibition opening Thursday, Nov. 12 at the Warren Family Gallery at...

Sheffield, MA · 2d

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You Could Spend All Day At Connecticut’s Largest Restaurant Hall That Has 21 Vendors And 3 Bars

Parkville Market in Hartford, Connecticut is the kind of place that makes you look at your watch at 4pm and realize you’ve been there since noon and have absolutely no regrets about it. Twenty-one vendors and 3 bars in one building sounds like a math problem, but the answer...

Hartford, CT · 5d

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A Jamaican Takeout In Hartford Is Where Locals Line Up For Oxtail And Jerk Chicken

Some Hartford food traditions go back further than most of the people standing in line for them. On one busy stretch of the North End, a small counter has kept families coming back for more than four decades, and many regulars first walked in as kids. People often come looking...

Hartford, CT · 8d

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Pete Holmes Brings Stand-Up Comedy Home to MGM Springfield Next March

Pete Holmes is heading back to Massachusetts for a night of stand-up comedy at MGM Springfield's ARIA Ballroom, with the Lexington native scheduled to take the stage on Saturday, March 20, 2027, at 8 p.m. Tickets for the show go on sale this Friday, November 13. According to MassLive, tickets...

Springfield, MA · 4d

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Cowboy Junkies celebrate 40 years at the Mahaiwe

Now celebrating 40 years, Cowboy Junkies will perform Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The band is celebrating its long career with a triple-vinyl retrospective album called “Open to Beauty,” featuring a selection of songs from 2000 onward, including material from its most recent release, “Such Ferocious Beauty.”

Great Barrington, MA · 2d

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Thomas V. Czarnowski of Sheffield

Thomas V. Czarnowski was an award-winning architect who was equally at home overseeing complex projects in Shanghai as he was pruning fruit trees and building shelves in his beloved farmhouse in Sheffield. The son of Polish wartime refugees, Tom (as he was known) was born in 1943 in Vermont and...

Sheffield, MA · 4d

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West Stockbridge Historical Society presents ‘The World of Bees’ Friday, Nov. 13

West Stockbridge — The West Stockbridge Historical Society (WSHS) Nature Series will host “The World of Bees,” with ecologist Kyle Bradford on Friday, November 13, at 7 p.m. at Old Town Hall (9 Main Street). Audience members will have the opportunity to hear from Bradford about bees and the important work they do to hold together our food systems and ecosystems—and what is putting that work at risk. Admission is free for WSHS members with a $10 suggested donation for non-members. Those interested in attending should reserve their seats through the WSHS website.

West Stockbridge, MA · 2d