Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Saturday, March 16, 201903/16/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.16.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

On Sat, Mar 23 at 11am, and Sun, Mar 24 at 8pm hear Ira Bryck,

speak with JON ARONSTEIN of Mill River Music. Jon began guitar at 12,

and was a tinkerer who built custom instruments. Now, in a time where large manufacturers, as well as retails chains, of guitars have struggled, he finds Northampton a city where guitar buffs can buy, trade, consign, fix, learn,

in stores like his, with devoted employees, transparency, effective sales systems, and a global market that allows for bringing money into the community. Hear more this Saturday and Sunday, and always online.

Thursday, March 14, 201903/14/2019

Booty Kiss?

In Bill Newman

3/14 (Pi day): Burikes (not Booty Kiss) live!! and in studio, together with us and Eveline MacDougall!! Plus Sally Roesch Wagner on “The Women’s Suffrage Movement;” also the return –and a preview — of The Mammals; plus “The Reverend (Peter Ives) and the Rabbi (Justin David).

Tuesday, March 12, 201903/12/2019

A Century of Francis Crowe

In Bill Newman

Monday, March 11, 201903/11/2019

(IN)Dependent

In Bill Newman

3/11: “(In)dependent: The Heroin Project” (opening soon in Northampton) with Emily Curro from the Academy of Music, Linda McInerney, Director, playwrights Emilia Sherin and Zack Manthey.

Saturday, March 9, 201903/09/2019

Western Mass Business Show 3.9.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Hear George O’Brien, editor of BusinessWest magazine, speak with Dr. YVES SALOMON-FERNANDEZ, president of Greenfield Community College. Hear her thoughts on a changing landscape in higher education today, marked by smaller high school graduating classes, rising pricetags for a college education, and a persistent skills gap within the workforce and a need for community colleges to help close that gap. Also hear about how the community college mission is carried out in rural Franklin County, where GCC is only institution of higher learning.

Saturday, March 9, 201903/09/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.9.19

In Bill Newman

Friday, March 8, 201903/08/2019

Grease Is The Word

In Bill Newman

3/8: LIVE in the studio, a preview of the upcoming NHS production of GREASE! Then, long-time western Mass. social activist Paki Wieland, just back from her 10 days trip to Iran, part of the Code Pink delegation;
MTA Veep Max Page on the proposal for an on-line UMass University; Art Beat with (ssshhhhhhh!! also the new art show of) Donnabelle Casis (at Smith College).

Thursday, March 7, 201903/07/2019

Code Pink!

In Bill Newman

Wednesday, March 6, 201903/06/2019

Them Bones

In Bill Newman

3/6: “Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone” – we speak with the author, Brian Switek (guess what we want to talk about first!); The Western Mass. Drug Lab Scandal and the mass Mass. exoneration—we speak with Matt Segal, Legal Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts; plus Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz (who shares her thoughts about Bernie).

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