By Mickey Friedman November 17, 2015 Not surprisingly, after all this time, politics prevailed. And the Environmental Protection Agency will allow General Electric to leave great quantities of PCB contamination in our Housatonic river system. Even though with every additional…
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One Man’s Save, Another’s Bye-Bye
By Mickey Friedman October 30, 2015 Eileen Mooney’s NEWSletter, the remarkable compendium of all things Great Barrington, has a comprehensive report on the planned demolition of the Searles School and the construction of the Mahidas’ 95-room hotel. This project, on…
From Can to Pan
By Mickey Friedman October 17, 2015 Over a bowl of Campbell’s Chunky Mushroom, Chef Bertram deMincemeat shared his plans and daring menu with local movers and shakers at NewBar&Grill@YeOldeFirehouse, the innovative retro-eatery due to open at 20 Castle Street next…
Pinocchio 18, America 0
By Mickey Friedman October 7, 2015 Webster defines “devolution” as retrograde evolution: degeneration. Deterioration, decline, and downfall. In the 1960s, when hope and illusion twisted themselves together, people used to chant “the revolution will be televised.” All these years lately,…
It’s the Economy
By Mickey Friedman September 30, 2015 I’m not an economist. And never played one on TV. And most of the time I have no idea what they’re saying. But there’s been a lot of talk recently in Great Barrington about…
No Dumbo
By Mickey Friedman August 13, 2015 I got the text message at two in the morning. “Cecil the Lion? The Dentist? You ready for our side of the story?” He’d be the guy holding the bleu cheese crumbles in the…
No Smiles. No Miles.
By Mickey Friedman July 30, 2015 There was a message waiting from Monty Pickleberg, Founder of Facelook. “It has come to our attention that it’s been a while since you posted a smile. You know, of course: No Smiles, No…
Every Bad Journey
By Mickey Friedman July 20, 2015 It finally happened. That dreaded knock on the door. Right in the middle of SportsCenter. Ever get the feeling that you just shouldn’t answer? I won’t tell you what I muttered but I managed…
Terror: Red, White, and Blue
By Mickey Friedman June 30, 2015 We have been relentlessly focused on Muslim Extremism ever since 9/11. It is how we view terrorism. On TV shows, on news reports, in our nightmares, the terrorists are Muslims. Though it happened in…
Allez
June 22, 2015 By Mickey Friedman 2003. It seems like a lifetime ago when Republican Bob Ney renamed French fries because the French didn’t want to invade Iraq. We showed those Frenchies. Freedom fries not only tasted better but were…
The Melting Honeybees
By Mickey Friedman June 10, 2015 I’ve never been able to juggle. One ball’s going up, another is headed down, and another is suspended for a moment in space. Too confusing and the balls invariably fall from the sky and…
I Know Defensive
By Mickey Friedman May 22, 2015 I’ve been lucky enough to have loved and been loved, in the short term at least, by a small gaggle of therapists. Of the Freudian, Jungian, Family, and Psychosynthesist persuasions, plus a Hungarian Jewish…