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With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend …

The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include film, theater, roots music, chamber music … plus a whole lot more.

Noah talks to architect Cesar Pelli about the world's tallest buildings. Pelli designed what is currently the world's tallest: the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Those will soon be dwarfed by a tower in Shanghai, China. And Donald Trump has plans for a still-taller skyscraper in lower Manhattan. Pelli's own design for a 2,000-foot tall building in Chicago has remained un-built since it was unveiled in 1989. Pelli says there are a lot of hurdles for skyscrapers to overcome before completion. He says with extremely tall buildings, the architect must view the process as adding a story at the BOTTOM, not the top -- to account for all the services, wires, elevators, and so forth that go into making a building work.

The cultural highlights for our region this weekend include folk-rock, chamber music, jazz, theater, Latin music … plus a whole lot more.Legendary…

The fourth of July weekend is typically NOT a big one in terms of cultural events, but this year is an exception, with major art openings, dance…

The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include film, honkytonk, cabaret, jazz, dance, photography, theater, and a whole lot more.The big news…

The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include chamber music, art openings, literary readings, theater, and a whole lot more.The Close…

The fall cultural season is underway in the Berkshires, but it’s hard to detect much difference between the summer and fall. There’s still plenty to see…

This week brings four novels about love: childhood love in immigrant Brooklyn; married love in dot-com San Francisco; intergenerational love and tension in Philadelphia; and an academic father's sometimes obtuse love for his three daughters. In nonfiction, football star Michael Oher describes his experiences in foster care.

Health care workers are bracing for a deadly January, and President-elect Joe Biden cautioned that "the next few weeks and months are going to be very tough."