Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Monday, April 15, 201904/15/2019

Jazz Hands

In Bill Newman

4.15.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Paul Arslanian about jazz in The Valley. And Black In The Valley with special guest Kent Alexander

Saturday, April 13, 201904/13/2019

Western Mass Business Show 4.13.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

On Saturday, April 13, 11am, and Sunday, April 14, 8pm hear Ira
speak with KAREN BLANCHARD & TRACY BRYANT of INVISIBLAST
They got an idea from Tracy’s days in the Coast Guard and made it work in business; cleaning every kind of things with blasts of dry ice!! It can de-gunk an ancient machine, or delicately remove the ink from your business card; not to mention safe to work on electronics, or even food. Hear how Spark, Score,
SBDC all helped them hone their plan, how they compete with sandblasting
and power washing, how they plan to grow, and more!! Tune in!

Saturday, April 13, 201904/13/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 4.13.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Friday, April 12, 201904/12/2019

Bullet Points

In Bill Newman

4/12: ”NPR: Northampton Poetry Radio” with erstwhile poet laureate Rich Michelson and the amazing Jericho Brown; Labor Notes Education Coordinator (and former MTA President and former Northampton High School teacher) Barbara Madeloni and MTA Vice President Max Page on labor strife in the Northampton schools and the strike against Stop & Shop; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis And Make-It Springfield (Makers Space) co-founder Laura Masulis.

Thursday, April 11, 201904/11/2019

Palestinian Prisoners Day

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Palestinian Prisoners Day “Mensch Marks” with the author, Rabbi Joshua Hammerman; The Reverends and the Rabbi with Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Rev. Margaret Sawyer.

Wednesday, April 10, 201904/10/2019

Is Extravaganja going to pot?

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4/10: Max Page, MTA Vice President, on the upcoming Northampton School Committee meeting to consider (or not) the salary disparity between Northampton and surrounding school districts; then, April is Autism Awareness Mont, and our guest is Katie Drumm, Program Manager of Autism Connections—we highlight the upcoming western Massachusetts conference; then, coming to the Three County Fairgrounds–ENTRAVAGNAJA –what the City is doing to mess with a mellow time and a political event—we find out from marijuana legalization activist Terry Franklin and UMass. Cannabis Reform Coalition President, Claire Walsh.

Tuesday, April 9, 201904/09/2019

If Only Sports Talk Radio Sounded Like This

In Bill Newman

4/9: It’s Opening Day at Fenway and we are “Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke” (that’s Northampton-based SABRMETRIC star and baseball historian Duke Goldman) and Smith College Professor of Economics and MLB consultant and author of many books on the economics of professional sports, Andrew Zimbalist. We start by with honoring Monte over his most recent honor -at Greenfield Community College yesterday.

Monday, April 8, 201904/08/2019

Hampshire Lives!

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4/8: Political Gold with Josh Silver, the CEO of the Northampton-based national Organization Represent US, on Democrats, money, messaging, polls and prospects (and superbugs); author Marisa Labozzetta on “A Day in June” and her upcoming book reading at the Broadside Bookshop.

Saturday, April 6, 201904/06/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 4.6.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

A Talk about Puerto Rico is taking place on April 9 at 6 pm at the Holyoke Library. Barbara Tasch Ezratty, publisher of Read Street Publising, is presentin “Puerto Rico: An Oral History,” in which dozens of Puerto Ricans recall their lives in the early 1900s through the 2000s. Harry Ezratty is presenting “500 Years in The Jewish Caribbean.” Jay Candelario of Jays B&B in Holyoke is catering the savory, and the Pie Bar in Florence is catering the rugelach and hamantash cookies, so we’re seriously feating for the body and mind.
Also, Jossie Valentín, the point person for Democratic presidental candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, joins us for a Spanish segment with my journalist colleagues Iohann Vega and Manuel Frau Ramos; then in English with the sharpest political minds anywhere, Kate Albright-Hanna and Nathaniel Waring.

Saturday, April 6, 201904/06/2019

Western Mass Business Show 4.6.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

On Saturday, April 6, 11am, and Sunday, April 7, 8pm

hear Ira speak with CARLA NESS & CAROL SMITH of DELAP REAL ESTATE

Based in Northampton, and founded by Dennis Delap, who preferred a more cooperative model of agency, and bequeathed that agency to the agents, who now exemplify teamwork with their open, honest, non-competitive, supportive band of independent contractors, who together provide perspective and expertise to their clients, who are making one of the most consequential investment decisions of their life. Tune in!

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