With millions of songs available at any moment, finding fresh, compelling music can be overwhelming. Radio is no longer the cultural force it once was, and streaming algorithms often reinforce…
As hot cocoa silently steams, snow flurries drift softly down and the winter wind moans, let’s get indoors for some soul-warming live music in the mountains. Check out this toasty…
His Facebook page IDs ad hoc impresario Chris Wells as an “artpreacher” and “celebrationist.” He’s all that and. A gifted actor/writer himself, he also has a knack for spotting and…
Photography by Dori Fitzpatrick exclusively for The Mountains I’d only just returned from a morning trail run in the southeasternmost corner of the Berkshires when I got a call…
Almost four decades ago, I was a contributing editor to Interview magazine. I’m also an insomniac. Consequently, I routinely wrote at night and went to bed late. That is, until…
Photography by Dori Fitzpatrick About eight years ago, I started writing (and posting on social media) a weekly e-mail blast I dubbed 5THINGS2LIVE4 (Five Things To Live For) to…
Photography by Douglas Friedman (courtesy of Patti LuPone) My heart rate is quickening as I approach Patti LuPone’s door at her sprawling home in the bucolic town of Kent, CT…
“If we really want to help this world, we have to uplift women,” says Shana Falana. “That alone would heal the planet.” The Leeds-based psych-rock musician manifests this intention with…
Photography by Quentin Bacon When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn…
