Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Wednesday, April 17, 201904/17/2019

The Green New Earth Day

In Bill Newman

4.17.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with organizers of the Earth Day/Green New Deal forum in Northampton. Plus Flint Taylor on The Torture Machine in Chicago. And a preview of Silverthorne Theater’s new season.

Tuesday, April 16, 201904/16/2019

Movie Quiz!

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4.16 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts as Laura Patrick brings back the comedy quiz with Quizmaster Ben May

Monday, April 15, 201904/15/2019

Jazz Hands

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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

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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?

In Bill Newman

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

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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.

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