Shelburne Falls News

"We're looking for extras for a movie being made by Warner Brothers," Aaron Kahl, casting director for Boston Casting, told the crowd.

Boston Casting will hold an open casting call for the upcoming movie "The Judge" starring Robert Downey Jr.

Nearly 40 years after its first release, "Root Hog or Die," the Franklin County documentary film on the last of the old time horse farmers in Western Massachusetts, re-appears on the big screen in Shelburne Falls.

Singer-songwriter Erica Wheeler remembers growing up in suburban Maryland, where her father imbued her with a sense of curiosity about the stories behind everything they encountered.

Of the occasion, Fanale writes, "I read the poetry of great masters - in this case Rumi and Hafiz and follow this by playing improvised piano responses coming from the feelings and inspiration produced by the poetry itself." Darling's "Musical Bill of Rights," reproduced below, is surely a document designed to ensure that absolutely no one be left ... (more)

On May 31, between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., film cameras for the upcoming Warner Bros.' film "The Judge" will be shooting aerial views of a funeral procession down the village's main streets.

BASE CAMP PHOTO, 22 Riddell St., Greenfield, 413-475-340. Limited-edition photographs by internationally known contemporary photographers from the photography project called collect.give , which gives 100 percent of its sales to charity.

CASTING CALLS is a free listing of creative opportunities in our area that runs on a weekly Entertainment page.

Boston Casting plans to hold an open casting call for the upcoming movie The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr., in Shelburne Falls, MA on Saturday, May 18.

Recorder/Paul Franz Phyllis Labanowski and Jane Beatrice Wegscheider stand in the Arts Garden in Shelburne Falls amid works in the Rx 4 HEALth exhibit.

Big Kid Pictures in association with Team Downey are gearing up to begin filming on the Warner Bros.

Board members Liz O'Keefe and Jesse Martinez hold up the cake marking Wheel Estates' new establishment date a resident-owned park.

Boston Casting Inc. will hold an open casting call for Shelburne Falls area residents for scenes that are to be shot for the movie this summer.

However, she didn't start her professional life thinking about flowers. "After I graduated from the College of the Atlantic, I got a fellowship that allowed me to spend a year traveling around the world, focusing on agricultural issues.

Seven finalists for the town's next generation cyber school board of trustees include a former school committee chairman and a former town councilor.

HOSMER GALLERY at Forbes Library, Northampton. Northampton High School Fine & Performing Arts and the Technology Education Departments student artwork.

His hour-long documentary, "Root Hog or Die" is one he still marvels at, 40 years later.

In the second half of a four-hour annual town meeting, residents unanimously approved a one-year extension of the town's wind-turbine moratorium and bought the Highway Department a new, used pick-up truck and a reversible, power-angled snow plow.

NORTHAMPTON - It might never become a tourist draw like the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, but the people of Leeds are determined to spruce up the Hotel Bridge so they can at least walk across it.

But you're more likely to spot the purple, pyramid-shaped detection traps set high near treetops for the emerald ash borer, or the long, S-shaped tunnels they've dug on de-barked ash trees.