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Friday, August 30, 201908/30/2019

Artificial Intelligence: Not Just A Reflection of The Hosts

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8.30.19 Josh Silver from Represent.Us guest hosts with Monte and talks AI, the need for recess in schools and on what’s happening in The Valley this weekend.

Friday, August 30, 201908/30/2019

Jo Says Farewell To Francis

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Wednesday, August 28, 201908/28/2019

Remembering Francis Crowe

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8.28.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and reflects on the life and legacy of a Valley legend. Plus a preview of free klezmer music in Easthampton. And the author of See Jane Win.

Tuesday, August 27, 201908/27/2019

What’s So Funny?

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8.27.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Pam Victor, Kelsey Flynn and Scott Braidman from Happier Valley Comedy about what makes funny funny. Turns out, it’s minding your p’s and k’s.

Monday, August 26, 201908/26/2019

Feeling Sure About Hampshire

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8.26 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Hampshire College Professor and Search Committee member, Salman Hameed, about the new President and the new potential of the school. Plus Brian Burrell about his new book “How the Brain Lost its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness”

Monday, August 26, 201908/26/2019

8/19: Vietnam, Venezuela, and Black In The Valley

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Vietnam, Venezuela, and Black In The Valley

Saturday, August 24, 201908/24/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 8.24.19

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Friday, August 23, 201908/23/2019

Guns, diapers and the court house. Plus blowing glass!

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8/23: Guns, diapers, and the Court House — with State Rep. Mindy Domb; college debt, the new school year, and charter schools — with Mass. Teachers Ass’n Veep, Max Page; glassblowing with ArtBeat host Donnabelle Casis and local glassblower Dan Battat.

Thursday, August 22, 201908/22/2019

Trump, antisemitism, sex and Sox

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8/22: Rabbi Justin David on Trump’s recent pronouncements and the rise in anti-Semitism; Dr. Allan H Ropper and UMass Amherst…

Thursday, August 22, 201908/22/2019

A look back at LookStock 2019

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A look back at last night’s LookStock with The River’s (and WHMP’s) Joan Holliday; teachers and their local and nationwide struggles with former MTA President (and former Northampton teacher) and now Labor Notes Educational Coordinator, Barbara Madeloni; Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Recent Headlines

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A large fire has erupted at an apartment complex in Dallas

Firefighters battled a large fire that erupted Thursday at an apartment complex in Dallas, where debris from one collapsed building lay heaped on the ground while flames and black smoke billowed into the sky. Neighbors reported hearing a loud boom like an explosion.

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MLB owners have proposed a salary cap for the first time since baseball’s 1994-95 strike

Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players' association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps beyond.

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Justice Department opens investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of assault: AP source

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist who has said Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store 30 years ago, lied during the course of civil litigation against the Republican president, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Matthew Perry’s assistant gets more than 3 years in prison for central role in his ketamine death

Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the "Friends" star's descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with the fatal dose of the drug, was sentenced Wednesday to three years and five months in prison.

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The Blue Wave from tiny Curaçao is making World Cup history

Before the tournament even begins, Curaçao has already crafted a story like none other in World Cup history. A tiny island country — autonomous territory, if you prefer — of about 156,000 residents in the Caribbean is now the smallest, both in terms of population and land mass, to make it to soccer's biggest stage.