By Mickey Friedman October 6, 2011 There’s nothing like leaving home to help you see what’s happening at home. I just spent two glorious weeks in the Costa Rican rain forest trying my very best to do nothing but look…
Author: Mickey Friedman
I Heart Rain Forestology
By Mickey Friedman September 25, 2011 The Jungle, Costa Rica Frank T, who transformed sandwich life as we knew it in Great Barrington, and simultaneously built a home for wayward Barringtonians of all shapes, sizes, and pedigree and fed them…
A Hamlet For Us All
By Mickey Friedman September 23, 2011 Eminent Déjà Vu Domain. I remember those words. Something about a dump for Great Barrington. Eminent Domain. Paying less than the land was worth. And then a court case and paying a whole lot…
Reality TV is Reality, Really
Like It Or Not, Reality TV is Reality, Really: Of Bachelors, Their Pad, and the Decline and Fall of America By Camille LeCrow September 13, 2011 I’m the only one here at Red Crow corporate headquarters who watches TV with…
Feeling Stupid
By Mickey Friedman September 9, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON, MA — I don’t like feeling stupid. Of course, there have been times when I’ve been really stupid. Like all those times I didn’t do my homework, and sat there the next…
Goodnight, Al Schwartz, and Goodbye
By Mickey Friedman September 7, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON, MA — Tuesday night is poker night. How appropriate that I learned from my friend Bijan of Al Schwartz’s passing on poker night, Tuesday September 6. I only played a few times…
Riots, Tweets, and Zero Tolerance: 4 Years in Jail
By Mickey Friedman August 16, 2011 Interesting new developments from the riots across the sea. Amidst the calls to curtail the use of social media – and the arrests of a few Facebook posters and Blackberry instant messengers for incitement…
London Calling Again & Again
By Mickey Friedman August 13, 2011 In the early summer of 2010, Bruce Springsteen came to London town and offered up a stirring version of The Clash’s “London’s Calling” to a Hyde Park filled to the brim with adoring fans.…
The Rising: A Fishable, Swimmable Rising Pond
By Mickey Friedman August 12, 2011 GE sees Rising Pond and sees a PCB dump. I see Rising Pond and I see a gem, the cornerstone of a renewed and restored Housatonic, Massachusetts. I see people fishing on the banks,…
Conflicting Ideas for the EPA Remedy Review Board
By Mickey Friedman August 5, 2011 EPA Region One officials responsible for the GE/Housatonic River site spent two days on July 27-28, 2011 presenting a cleanup plan for “The Rest of the River” to the agency’s National Remedy Review Board…
Lennoxx: More & More & More
Editor’s Note: This is the story here in the Berkshires that will not die. A small town with big dreams, Lenox MA,, the summer home of the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood, has once again looked to a big city for aid.…
Of Red Crows, Train Crashes, and the Open Internet
Mickey Friedman July 29, 2011 New evidence of the age-old battle between open and closed, freedom and control, takes us from the U.S.A. to China and home again. The spirit of Red Crow, and a million permutations of Red Crow…