Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, April 23, 202204/23/2022
Vaya con Muñoz – 4.23.22
This week on the show we are joined by Kate Albright-Hanna, Dan Torres, Matt Szafranski, Larry Hott, and Nathaniel Waring in discussing the state of Covid, both domestically and in China; The upcoming LGBTQ pride parade in Springfield, and why Northampton has traditionally outshone Springfield; The Springfield school committee’s decision to add a financial literacy class as an elective, and how that will help recent grads adjust to adult life; the situation in France, how how the French people are having to choose between bad and worse; and Larry talks about Billie Eilish winning, Woody Allen, and separating art from the artist.
Friday, April 22, 202204/22/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 4.22.22 – The Good Work & Voting Rights
The Good Work with Jeff Napolitano discussing foreclosures and evictions with Rose Webster-Smith of Springfield. Aditi Juneja promotes Movement Voter Project’s event: ‘Voting Rights: New Solutions. Unprecedented Challenges.’
Friday, April 22, 202204/22/2022
The Budget, the Schools, and the Arts
In Bill Newman
4/22: State Representative Mindy Domb on budgets and beneficence; Underfunded, Unaffordable and Unfair- Dr. Bahar Akman Imboden, author of this report on Massachusetts Higher Ed from the Hildreth Institute, is Max Page’s guest on “Your State U.” ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Laurie Devine and Vitek Kruta, co-creators of Gateway City Arts.
Friday, April 22, 202204/22/2022
One Planet, One People, No War
In Bill Newman
4/21: Nick Mottern, from Demilitarize Western Mass., and indefatigable activist, Paki Wieland, on Saturday’s demonstration. April is Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month –we speak with Rhonda Setkewich, Program Manager at Pathlight and Autism Connections. Rev. Michael McSherry and Rabbi Justin David on the war in Ukraine, and peace and prayer and G_d.
Thursday, April 21, 202204/21/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 4.21.22 – Grow Food Northampton & the Northampton Jazz Workshop
Brian Adams, Science and Sustainability Correspondent with Grow Food Northampton Executive Director Alisa Klein. Take Five with Ruth Griggs and Bruce Niemczyk celebrating the 10 year Anniversary of the Northampton Jazz Workshop.
Wednesday, April 20, 202204/20/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 4.20.22 – Wedegartner’s Wednesday & An Interesting Thing with Nan and Tague
Mayor Roxanne Wedegartner talks Greenfield. The Interesting Thing with Nan Parati and site director Tague Richardson of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for nearly all of its 51 years
Wednesday, April 20, 202204/20/2022
“Farm Free or Die”
In Bill Newman
4/20: “Farm Free or Die” with filmmakers Larry Hott and Roger Sorkin; live free and dance! with Jen Polins, Founding Director of the School of Contemporary Dance and Thought, and Steve Sanderson, Events Producer and Northampton Arts Council; and A GREAT SURPRISE—best selling author Leslea Newman joins Natalia Munoz. Leslea’s new book –pub date yesterday – is “Alicia and the Hurricane.”
Wednesday, April 20, 202204/20/2022
Climate Protest in Amherst & The Monthly Comedy Quiz Show
In Bill Newman
4/19: Climate protest at Bank of America in Amherst with Ben Weiner and Joyce Samet; our monthly Comedy Quiz with Quizmaster Maddy Benjamin and contestants Pam Victor, Jess Tyler and Bill Newman!
Tuesday, April 19, 202204/19/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 4.19.22 – We the People competition & Tom Geha and Jimmy Murphy
Easthampton High students discuss the We the People competition in Washington D.C. Playbill with Jackie Walsh with Tom Geha, chairman of the Greenfield Community College theater department and director of “the Elephant Man” and Jimmy Murphy, who plays John Merrick (the “elephant man”), in the play.
Monday, April 18, 202204/18/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 4.18.22 – Dale Melcher & Karen Bayne
Dale Melcher discusses the upcoming climate change protest in front of Bank of America in Amherst (Thursday, 4/21 at 12pm). Buzz rails against the massive inequality of wealth of the richest 20 individuals. Cabin Fever Roundtable with Megan Rubiner Zinn and Karen Bayne talk about navigating celebrations and family/friend gatherings during Covid at this time of Easter, Passover, and Ramadan.
