Celebrate the culmination of the Berkshire Music School Painted Piano Project. The pianos will all be on display on the lawn of the Berkshire Music School. Panels from the pianos will be up for auction with proceeds benefiting the Berkshire Music School. 5-7:30 p.m.
The inaugural Berkshire Jazz Showcaseis a free event featuring a wide range of Berkshires-based artists, including Gruppo Mondo, Andy Kelly Gypsy Jazz, the Ben Kohn Quartet, the Jason Ennis Quintet with vocalist Natalia Bernal, and The Lucky 5. Food vendors include Lucia's Latin Kitchen and Ernie's Hot Dog Cart. Assembly Coffee Roasters will be selling coffee and Wandering Star Brewery and Balderdash Cellars will be hosting a beer and wine garden. 1-6 p.m.
Enjoy popsicles while pirates delight you with song at the Pirates & Popsicles Party! Dance and sing after the show and get your photo taken with a pirate. $10. 1-3 p.m.
Bring a mat and a towel and join the fun!Hancock Shaker Village will offer yoga with goats on Saturday from 10-11 a.m. The $25 fee includes admission to the Village for the day.
When his daughter is seduced and abducted, a devoted father is driven to murder in this devastating story of love, betrayal and vengeance. Berkshire Opera Festival returns to The Colonial for three performances only.There will be a discussion (free for all ticket holders)with Cori Ellison, dramaturg of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, an hour before Saturday's show. Performances are
Saturday, Aug. 25 at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 28 at 7:30 p.m. and Friday, Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Join Tina Cardot from the Funky Phoenix and learn how you can turn junk into amazing art! If you were a fan of our Tinker Lab during Ten Days of Play, this is another opportunity to deconstruct objects and recombine them into a product of your imagination!
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) presents the lecture Shakespeare's Relevance in these Troubled Times with Shakespeare & Company founder, author, actress, director and teacher Tina Packer. Berkshire Museum, 3 p.m.$10 for OLLI at BCC members; $15 for the general public; free to BCC students and youth 17 and younger.
Lisa Conroy is the last person you'd expect to find in a highway-side "sports bar with curves," but as general manager of Double Whammies, she's come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction.
Pittsfield's city-owned community arts center, the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, features nine working artist studios, a ceramics studio, a community room and an art gallery with changing exhibitions, classes, performances and more!
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Dalton Man Accused of Kidnapping, Shooting Pittsfield Man
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A Dalton man was arrested on Thursday evening after allegedly kidnapping and shooting another man.
Nicholas Lighten, 35, was arraigned in Central Berkshire District Court on Friday on multiple charges including kidnapping with a firearm and armed assault with intent to murder. He was booked in Dalton around 11:45 p.m. the previous night.
There was heavy police presence Thursday night in the area of Lighten's East Housatonic Street home before his arrest.
Shortly before 7 p.m., Dalton dispatch received a call from the Pittsfield Police Department requesting that an officer respond to Berkshire Medical Center. Adrian Mclaughlin of Pittsfield claimed that he was shot in the leg by Lighten after an altercation at the defendants home. Mclaughlin drove himself to the hospital and was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.
"We were told that Lighten told Adrian to go down to his basement, where he told Adrian to get down on his knees and pulled out a chain," the police report reads.
"We were told that throughout the struggle with Lighten, Adrian recalls three gunshots."
Dalton PD was advised that Pittsfield had swabbed Mclaughlin for DNA because he reported biting Lighten. A bite mark was later found on Lighten's shoulder.
Later that night, the victim reportedly was "certain, very certain" that Lighten was his assailant when shown a photo array at the hospital.
According to Dalton Police, an officer was stationed near Lighten's house in an unmarked vehicle and instructed to call over the radio if he left the residence. The Berkshire County Special Response Team was also contacted.
Lighten was under surveillance at his home from about 7:50 p.m. to about 8:40 p.m. when he left the property in a vehicle with Massachusetts plates. Another officer initiated a high-risk motor vehicle stop with the sergeant and response team just past Mill Street on West Housatonic Street, police said, and traffic was stopped on both sides of the road.
Lighten and a passenger were removed from the vehicle and detained. Police reported finding items including a brass knuckle knife, three shell casings wrapped in a rubber glove, and a pair of rubber gloves on him.
The response team entered Lighten's home at 43 East Housatonic before 9:30 p.m. for a protective sweep and cleared the residence before 9:50 p.m., police said. The residence was secured for crime scene investigators.
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