Bill Dwight Show

We’re live at Serio’s Market, where customers are friends and friends are customers - and the walk-in is filled with fresh, local turkeys for Thanksgiving! Sarah Smith from Safe Passage has some updates on the Hot Chocolate Run. We talk to Kat Dunn about the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign…and a little bit about roller derby. (If you’d like to volunteer for the Red Kettle campaign, call 413-586-5243.) Also in the house - Eric Bennett, a purveyor of penguins, and a recent transplant to Northampton. Finally, the Mike Hooker Experience rocks the aisles.

It’s a live remote simulcast radiothon extravaganza, as we come to you live from Whole Foods in Hadley to raise money for the Food Bank of Western Mass. We’re joined by Monte Belmonte from our sibling station 93.9 WRSI the River joins us with info about all sorts of cool gifts you can get for your pledge.

Apparently the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife was feeling a little ignored, so they decided to whip up a little controversy to get your attention.

Kitty Callaghan of the Northampton Living Wage Coalition comes in to talk about the resolution that will be going before the city council tomorrow night.

Artist Rob Pruitt’s work is currently being shown in conjunction with the Andy Warhol exhibit at the UMass Fine Arts Center. Rob will be giving a talk tonight, and we get a little preview on the show. And Bill doesn’t challenge him to an iPhone duel.

Also, Jaz seems to have unicorns on the brain. What’s up with that? I have no idea.

Due to being out last week, I didn’t get a chance to post some of the shows on the blog. So now they get their due.

11/12: Barney Frank is getting an award from area Democrats - we talk to some of them about why. Also, Lexie Barnes comes in to talk Twist - the coolest craft fair around. Finally, Jeannine Haas and Julie Waggoner are getting up to some mischief onstage….

11/13: Happy Friday the 13th! No bad luck here - we’ve got people bringing us chocolate! We chat to the organizers of the 16th Annual Chocolate Dessert Buffet & Silent Auction. Also Mary Serreze of Northampton Media talks about her vision for new media in Northampton.

Swine flu survivor Chris Collins talks about Wednesday night’s WHMP forum on the issues around H1N1 (and thankfully does not go into gruesome detail about his ordeal). Sarah Buttenwieser wonders why women were sacrificed for health care. And Nancy Talanian of “No More Guantanamos” talks about the recent Amherst decision that sparked death threats.

Today we’re broadcasting from the surface of the sun! Actually, it just feels that way, because the heat’s gone all kerflooey in the building. Luckily, Northampton Planning Director Wayne Feiden is used to taking heat. He comes in to talk about some of the current hot button issues here in the city. Then Chris Rohmann and Jan Whitaker tell us about this weekend’s Write Angles writers’ conference.

Happy Veteran’s Day. We chat with our own Bill Scher about the stupid Stupak amendment tied to the health care reform bill that just passed the House. Then, Jaime Michaels and director Wendy Jo Carlton discuss Wendy Jo’s film Hannah Free, which will be shown as part of the Out! for Reel film series this Friday.

Today we had a big ol’ live broadcast/party at the Hampshire Regional YMCA, talking about the upcoming Mayor Higgins’ Hot Chocolate Run to Benefit Safe Passage. We learn about how the race orgaziners have violated the laws of physics, how the Northampton Brewery is gonna get chocolatey, and how the Y can help you get ready for the race.

Cartoonist Hilary Price brings us gifts, and great tidings of cool things. Plus, our pal Steve Sauter (who is this week’s cover story in the Valley Advocate) stops by to explain why the moon and the sun don’t change size depending on the time of day, why the world is NOT going to end in 2012 (but he’s still going to enjoy watching stuff blow up on the big screen), and other various and sundry stuff designed to broaden and/or blow your mind.

Hey, here’s a head’s up: DON’T go to the Arts and Industry building this weekend for Open Studios. Because it’s not happening THIS weekend. It’s NEXT weekend. Too bad Hilary Price wasn’t available to correct our egregious mistake. But it’s okay - she’ll be here Monday.

Anyway, today we talked to Chris Smither, who’ll be at the Iron Horse tomorrow night. Plus Russ Peotter, General Manager of WGBY, talks about this weekend’s Northampton Independent Film Festival.

Then Jaz, Kelsey, and Monte all gang up on Bill about running The Mayor Higgins’ Hot Chocolate Run to benefit Safe Passage.