Friday: The Smithereens @ the Colonial Theater Pop legends the Smithereens play The Who’s Tommy, Beatles’ B-Sides, and their own greatest hits Friday night. Brandishing heavy guitars and a shameless fetish for British Invasion Pop, The Smithereens carved their niche on rock radio and earned a reputation as a huge concert attraction with songs like A Girl Like You, Only A Memory, and Blood & Roses. Now the all original-member group are touring their greatest hits and paying homage to the music of The Who and The Beatles.  Friday, January 22nd | 8pm | Colonial Theater | 111 South St | 997-4444 | $45/$25 Click here to check out the Smithereens online. Friday: The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay Professor of Literature James Kraft and Edna St. Vincent Millay Society Executive Director Peter Bergman read Millay poetry & more in this reading sponsored by the Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition.  They will talk about the poetry, the life Millay lived in the Berkshires from 1925 to 1950, and her relationships with other women.  Friday, January 22 | 6pm | Chapters Book Store | 78 North St | 443-2665 | Free Click here to read more about Edna St. Vincent Millay. Friday: Karaoke & Bossa Nova on North Street! If you want to belt one yourself, show off your karaoke skills at Flavours Restaurant.  Otherwise , head to Jae’s Spice for a lively night of dancing to Berkshire Bateria’s Bossa Triba bringing authentic Brazilian dance music and fun to the dance floor. Karaoke | Friday, January 22 | 8pm | Flavours Restaurant | 75 North Street| 443-3188 | Free  Berkshire Bateria | Friday, January 22 | 9pm | Jae’s Spice | 297 North St | 997-5237 | Free Click here to check out the Berkshire Bateria on YouTube. Friday & Saturday: Mid-Winter METALFEST @ Rebel Sounds Night #1 of the Mid-Winter METALFEST features Scrap Metal (with Nick of Scrumtrillescent), Blessings of Ruin, Lost Since a Thought and Twisting Karma.  Saturday night features local bands Warsynium and When I Came Back from Death, as well as The Emergency Empire (NY), The Poachers (NY) and Western Massacre.  Head over to Rebel Sound Records to enjoy a night of face melting riffs and incredible energy! Night #1 | Friday, January, 22 | 7pm | Rebel Sound Records | 146-A North St | $7/ (Two day passes available for $10)  Night #2 | Saturday, January, 22 | 7pm | Rebel Sound Records | 146-A North St | $7 Click here to check out Rebel Sound Records schedule online. Saturday: Armed & Dangerous opening party! Bring the family to the Berkshire Museum for the opening preview party for Armed & Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal, showcasing a large swath of history illustrated by arms and armament. Using natural science, propaganda, historical objects as well as contemporary art, Armed & Dangerous  encourages you to think about weapons and human culture in a new way. Refreshments, dueling demonstrations, swords, armor, helmets, art, propaganda posters, try-on stations, Shepard Fairey, and live alligators & skunks too! Saturday, January 23 | 1pm-5:30pm | Berkshire Museum | 39 South St | 443-7171 ext. 10 | $13/$6 Children 3-18/ Free for children under 3 or Museum members Clcic here to visit the Berkshire Museum's website. Saturday: Healing Arts & Movement workshop As part of Stefanie Weber's monthlong artist residency at Storefront Arist Project, Dawn Meltzer, artist and long-time collaborator of Weber’s will be investigating various emotional states and behaviors and how they translate into movement in a free workshop. Utilizing expertise from her broad professional background in sacred dance and the healing arts, including Chinese Medicine, Medical Qigong and Sufism, she will also delve into qualities in movement that could be defined from a “mystically divine” perspective.    Saturday, January 23rd | 10:30am-12:30pm | Storefront Artist Project | 124 Fenn St |442-7201 | Free, donations accepted Click here to find out more about Stefanie Weber's artist residency at the Storefront Artist Project. Saturday: Live Blues & Reggae Downtown Spend Saturday night enjoying live music at a great restaurant! Art Holmes and the Blues Band with special guests BILLY G and The Blue Zone blues it up this Saturday at Flavours.  Across the street at Pittsfield Brew Works, the Equalites perform in their Bier Hall.   The Equalites have taken reggae into an exciting new territory reminiscent of the classic Studio One recordings that also pushed the boundaries into advanced dub, afro beat, and bluebeat.  Their original and vibrant sound will have you dancing and singing along.  21+ admitted to this show.   Art Holmes | Saturday, January 23rd | 8pm | Flavours Restuarant | 75 North Street | 443-3188 | $5   The Equalites | Saturday, January 23 | 8:30pm-11:30pm |Pittsfield Brew Works | 34 Depot St | 997-3506 | $5 Check out the Equalites online here! Saturday & Tuesday: Mexican Folk Music @ Mission & More Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and donkey jawbone rattling will likely have you on your feet when the David Wax Museum makes its debut in The Mission Window. The quartet brings with it a lively fusion of traditional Mexican and American folk music as well as heart-wrenching harmonies, poignant lyrics, and a rooted Americana sound. And be sure to come by to show your stuff every Tuesday on open mic night! The David Wax Museum | Saturday, January 23 | 8pm | Mission Bar + Tapas | 438 North St | $5 Open Mic Night | Tuesday, January 19 | 7pm | Mission Bar + Tapas | 438 North St | Free Click here to check out the VERY marvelous David Wax Museum! Sunday: Steven Wright @ the Colonial Theatre When Steven Wright says “I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don’t accidentally walk through into another dimension,” you know his trademark comedy comes from an off-center perspective. Wright is an Oscar winning comedian with dry wit and a deadpan delivery. He is one of the hottest acts to catch today, selling out venues worldwide. He even smiles once in a while: “every so often, I like to stick my head out the window, look up, and smile for a satellite picture.” Sunday, January 24 | 7pm | the Colonial Theatre | 111 South St | 997-4444 | $55/$35 Click here to visit Mr. Wright's online home. Monday: Tell Me A Story with Susan Kerr Susan Kerr's "Tell Me A Story" as an adventure in journaling, which differs from diary keeping in that the writer focuses not on daily activity, but is free to examine and investigate feelings about memories of past times in an effort to problem solve, explore emotions, and gain self knowledge. Kerr noted this self-discovery through writing offers a method of processing a traumatic event in a positive manner that yields a decrease in stress and an increase cognitive functioning.  "Journaling does not require great writing," stressed Kerr, "just a pen and a notebook, which will be enjoyably employed in group and individual exercises to facilitate the learning of a valuable and personal literary skill."    Monday, January 25th | 1pm | Congregation Knesset Israel | 16 Colt Rd | 442-4360 ext. 15 | $6 donation suggested If this email was forwarded to you or you are reading this online, click here to sign up for your own FREE subscription to Cultural Pitstfield This Week.