Podcasts

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Monday, November 1, 202111/01/2021

The Last Day of Campaigning with the Northampton Council Candidates

In Bill Newman

11/1: Northampton Ward 4 City Council candidates, Jesse Hassinger and Garrick Perry on the Northampton Arts Council’s decision to cancel the biennial art exhibit; Ward Three City Council candidate David Kris on his reasons for running and differences with his opponent; NPR–Northampton Poetry Radio–with segment host, erstwhile poet laureate Rich Michelson, and Lanette Sweeney–her new collection is titled “What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir About Losing a Child to Addiction” — her virtual reading will be this Thursday at the Odyssey.

Saturday, October 30, 202110/30/2021

Vaya Con Muñoz 10.30.21

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week on the show Nathaniel Waring fills in for Natalia again, and is joined by Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, Dan Torres, and Matt Szafranski to discuss the environment, and what a recent study said about what we can expect in terms of a global temperature increase; the likelihood of space travel being used to evacuate people in the face of climate change, and how silly it is to think that another planet would be easier to terraform than Earth would be to save; the Mayoral election in Holyoke, and other elections around the valley; Buffalo’s mayoral race between Byron Brown and India Walton, and what sore loser laws have to do with it; the recent rash of progressive attorney general, and the difference between Chesa Boudin and Larry Krasner, the DA of philadelphia; and how mass incarceration is a tool of white supremacy to disenfranchise black and brown people.

Saturday, October 30, 202110/30/2021

Fascia-nating

In The Western Mass. Business Show

10.30.21 Tara Brewster talks with Jessica Kerns, a certified neuromuscular therapist, about fascia, martial arts, bees, horses and Monte’s bad puns.

Friday, October 29, 202110/29/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 10.28.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Professor of History Christian Appy discusses the Vietnam withdrawal in the context of the Afghanistan withdrawal, and the upcoming November…

Friday, October 29, 202110/29/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 10.27.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Buz has on for the full hour Cassandra Holden and Kyle Homstead of Florence’s Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity. 

Friday, October 29, 202110/29/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 10.26.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Buz starts the show with gubernatorial candidate Ben Downing and then on this week’s Playbill Jackie Walsh is joined by…

Friday, October 29, 202110/29/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 10.25.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Buz discusses the upcoming infrastructure project and Kim John Payne – Founding Director of The Center for Social Sustainability and…

Friday, October 29, 202110/29/2021

Young@Heart-On Hold

In Bill Newman

Thursday, October 28, 202110/28/2021

Who will YOU choose as the next Mayor of Northampton?

In Bill Newman

10/28: Northampton mayoral candidates Marc Warner and Gina-Louise Sciarra in their final joint discussion before the election.

Wednesday, October 27, 202110/27/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 10.22.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Nora Borealis, Director and Founder of the WholeTone Music Academy, talks about the recent action of Extinction Rebellion in Swampscott…

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