10/20/26, Co-Host — Amilcar Shabazz
We speak with Dr. Xiomara Herman, Amherst-Pelham Regional School District Superintendent, about buses, budgets, and balancing competing interests.
Dr. Carolyn Anderson, UMass Film Studies professor emerita, tells us about His Girl Friday, a screwball comedy. Dr. Anderson is presenting at the GCC Sr Symposium, Wed, 10/21, at Greenfield Garden Cinema, where this classic movie, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel and directed by Howard Hawks, will be shown. One of the funniest films ever!
The Monthly Comedy Quiz with Happier Valley Comedy folks Maddy Benjamin and Scott Braidman. The topic de jour is pumpkins and gourds. Our conversation reveals so much that we don’t know! We award a participation trophy.
“The Keys to My House: A Gaza Diary.” We have a moving conversation with Jim Hicks, long-time Massachusetts Review editor and translator of this book, and Anna Lombardi, the co-author, who is a Special Correspondent for the Italian Daily La Republica. The other co-author is Sami al-Ajrami, who will be joining their discussion this afternoon via Zoom. His daily reports from Gaza and conversations with Anna Lombardi are at the heart of this book. 4:00 today at the UMass Honors College events hall
