Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Tuesday, September 6, 201609/06/2016

Is The Wait For Weed About To Be Over?

In Bill Newman

9/6: Northampton attorney Richard Evans, Chair of the Committee to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Massachusetts on the upcoming marijuana referendum; Tom Manley, President of Antioch College on college work-study; Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on the recently discovered earth-like planet — close enough to visit? Northampton author Zane Kotker on her exquisitely written new novella, ”Goodnight, Ladies.”

Saturday, September 3, 201609/03/2016

Vana Con Muñoz 9.3.16

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Longtime journalist Diane Alverio, founder and publisher of CTLatinoNews, talks with us about Donald Trump and Republicans with no good option in November.
Larry Hott reviews “The Music of Strangers,” a documentary about cellist Yo Yo Ma and his ensemble and invited musicians as they travel the world. This isn’t a concert movie, though; this is about how music defines us and our times and transforms cultures. Larry says it’s an astonishing film in both content and even frame by frame. I believe him.
We are sung out by Colombian singer-songwriter Carles Vives singing a happy song, “Quiere Verte Sonreir,” I want to See You Smile.”
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Friday, September 2, 201609/02/2016

Who Will The New Sheriff Be?

In Bill Newman

9/2: Melissa Perry, candidate for Hampshire County Sheriff; Daily Hampshire Gazette Executive Editor Jeff Good and reporter Amanda Drane – breaking the story on breaking stories.

Thursday, September 1, 201609/01/2016

A Kinder Kind Of Divorce Court

In Bill Newman

9/1: Hon. Linda Fidnick, First Justice of the Hampshire Probate and Family Court, with members of the FRSC (Family Resolutions Specialty Court) Advisory Board Jim Frutkin from Service Net and family law lawyer Leslie McLellan Brown; Rev. Peter Ives on God and sexual fluidity; Max Page on UMass this week — one first place and one last.

Wednesday, August 31, 201608/31/2016

Meet Adam Hinds

In Bill Newman

8/31: Adam Hinds, candidate for the state senate from the Berkshire-Hampshire-Franklin-Hampden District; Cool Films with Larry Hott; Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.

Tuesday, August 30, 201608/30/2016

Who Will Be The New Sheriff In Town?

In Bill Newman

8/30: Patrick Cahillane, candidate for Hampshire County Sheriff; Bob Pura, President Greenfield Community College and Tom Spiro, director of the Elms College B.A. program offered at G.C.C.; journalist Scott Atkinson, editor of “happy anyway: a flint anthology.”

Tuesday, August 30, 201608/30/2016

On The Money (8/31/16)

Healthcare costs are going up at twice the inflation rate. How do we afford it? New phone and email scams…

Monday, August 29, 201608/29/2016

Another Hopeful For “The Ellen Story Seat”

In Bill Newman

8/29: Lawrence O’Brien, candidate for Ellen Story’s seat; Nathan Stoltzfus, author of “Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany;” then (for a real change of pace!) Steve Sanderson and Monte Belmonte preview Transperformance.

Saturday, August 27, 201608/27/2016

Western Mass Business Show 8.27.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

8.27.16 Ira talks with Vince George from Bombay Royale in Northampton

Saturday, August 27, 201608/27/2016

Vaya Con Muñoz 8.27.16

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week Eloisa Gordon Mora, vice president of academic affairs at Sagrado Corazón University in San Juan, Puerto Rico, talks about how the economic crisis in Puerto Rico is destroying education at all levels from elementary to university schools.
Then we go positive with our esteemed colleague Liz Román of El Pueblo Latino/MassLive.com/TheRepublican, who tells us about the big giant fiesta taking place next week in Chicago, where the Puerto Rican community there is honoring Holyoke and Springfield, the cities with the largest concertrations in our region.
Larry Hott review four films: Ticked, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, The Young at Heart Chorus and Don’t Think Twice. The first two are investigate documentaries, while The Young at Heart is about Northampton’s much beloved chorus and the fourth, Don’t Think Twice, a comedy playing at Amherst Cinema.
And singing us out is El Topo with his song called “Verde Luz,” considered the unofficial anthem of Puerto Rico because rather than gloryfing Columbus as is done inthe official “La Borinqueña” song, his is a love to song to the beauty of our island.

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