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JOHN BREASTED: The Great Barrington Selectboard’s credibility gap

Transparency does not require officials to reveal legal strategy. It does require them to tell voters when the town has been sued.

EDGEWISE: Bernie Sanders: Is a new American Revolution at hand?

Bernie Sanders may be an unlikely hero, but he’s got the guts to be out there speaking truth to power in ways that no one else in the Democratic Party seems willing to do.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Why leave your dog at home when out on a shopping spree? That's advice from Doctor Hershich, pet psychologist.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Doktor Herschich, pet psychologist, answers questions from pet owners, and offers advice owners don't want to hear.

CONNECTIONS: Heroin: 19th century dream-maker, 21st century nightmare

"I feel that bringing charges against heroin is almost like questioning the fidelity of a good friend. I have used it with good results.” -- An American physician in 1906

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Have a problem with your dog, ask the expert, Doktor Herschich, an animal psychologist who is himself a poodle.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

As the final act of the Cafe Perpectivo's Performance Art Festival Michelangelo plays the folding electric guitar.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

The staff at Cafe Perspectivo has taken performance art to another level, as Jared, the barista, is on stage at a gala dinner.

Lulu and Hershey

The staff at the Cafe Perspectivo gets into the performance art mode. Jess, the barista, has created an unusual act, involving toast and clothes pins.

Julian Bond and W.E.B. Du Bois

Civil rights activist Julian Bond died August 15, at the age of 75. In 1969, he delivered the keynote speech at the dedication of the W.E.B. Du Bois homesite in Great Barrington.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

At Lulu and hershey's coffeeshop, the Cafe Perspectivo, Hershey is introducing a 'festival of performance art' -- and he appears to be the opening act.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

The staff at Lulu and Hershey's coffee house, Cafe Perspectivo, have gotten the brilliant idea of introducing performance art at the coffeeshop.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

With his New Yorker-style cartoons, Hershey evokes an Old Testament theme with a very modern twist.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Hershey continues with his New Yorker-style cartoons, and is sending this one off to the New Yorker offices in Manhattan.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Hershey can't get over how gifted he is as a would-be New Yorker cartoonist -- even though he is a poodle, and a dead one at that, plus he's a character in a cartoon.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Hershey is really into creating cartoon panels in the New Yorker style, and thinks he's got a candidate for the publication.

CONNECTIONS: Inanity, thy name is presidential candidates

One pundit observed about the GOP “debate” last week: The Republican participants looked like “a police lineup after a bachelor party.”