Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, November 5, 201611/05/2016
Vaya Con Muñoz 11.5.16
With just three days to go before Nov. 8 election, the most harrowing of a presidential campaign season in generations will conclude, and I had to rant and rave about what we need to do: Hillary haters, hold your nose and vote. Trump supporters: Not cool to vote for someone who spews hate against blacks, Latinos, Muslims, women and anyone else who does not agree with him.
Also, my excellent views on the 4 ballot questions in Massachusetts.
Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews Life Animated (trailer here: lifeanimateddoc.com/) about how the movies can be more than an event, they can transform lives.
We are sung out by Wilkins (¡!) singing “Cantares de Navidad” because as all Puerto Ricans know, November starts the Christmas season.
“MorePerfectUnion” by Natalia Muñoz 2016
Friday, November 4, 201611/04/2016
President Of The Fifth Grade?
In Bill Newman
11/4: “Grace For President!” with Paint Box Theater’s Tom McCabe, Jasmine Jiles, Callum LaFrance, & Linda Tardif; Cider Days in Franklin County with Al Sax from the Cider Days Committee and Steve Gougeon, owner of Bear Swamp Orchard; Lynn Ferro, Project Coordinator of the Drug Abuse Task Force of the Northwestern DA’s Office.
Thursday, November 3, 201611/03/2016
Eleanor After The War
In Bill Newman
11/3: Best-selling author, historian Blanche Wiesen Cook on “Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After;” The Reverend (Peter Ives) and the Rabbi (Justin David) along with the NPP (Research Director of the National Priorities Project, Lindsay Koshgarian).
Wednesday, November 2, 201611/02/2016
If There’s A Bustle In Your Hedgerow
In Bill Newman
11/2: PHENOM (Public Higher Education of Massachusetts) founder Max Page—his personal opinions on ballot questions 2 & 5 & a UMass football victory –a very expensive won (sorry, terrible pun-moving on); gallery owner and author Rich Michelson on “Fascinating” Leonard Nimoy along with erstwhile poet laureate Rich Michelson on political poetry; and poet Hannah Fries on her book launch of “Little Terrarium” at Emily Dickinson’s house.
Tuesday, November 1, 201611/01/2016
On The Money (11/2/16)
One analyst says the market will take a serious dip in the next 3 months. Is he on to something?…
Tuesday, November 1, 201611/01/2016
What Made Tap & Dye Die?
In Bill Newman
11/2: Historian Tom Goldscheider on “What Happened to Greenfield’s Tool Industry;” astronomer and professor Salman Hameed on colonizing Mars.
Monday, October 31, 201610/31/2016
RE: EMAILS, CLINTON & THE F.B.I.
In Bill Newman
10/31: Attorney John Pucci, former U.S. Attorney & head of Western Massachusetts Office, on Friday’s FBI disclosure of HRC’s emails; Liz Larson and Irv Rhodes on “Yes on 5,” the ballot question on new elementary schools in Amherst; Seth Lepore & Linda McInerney on “The Trump Show;” Bob Cilman on the upcoming Young @ Heart concert and intergenerational mash-up
Monday, October 31, 201610/31/2016
Western Mass Business Show 10.29.16
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Ira talks with total quality expert, Gary Nader.
Saturday, October 29, 201610/29/2016
Vaya Con Muñoz 10.29.16
Today we talk with our fabulous correspondent, my aunt Melo aka Victoria Muñoz Mendoza, who was a senator and gubernatorial candidate in Puerto Rico in 1992, about the US presidential election. She is hopeful that we in the US do our simplest and one of my most hallowed actions on Nov. 8: Voting.
Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews a funny documental about Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, called “Bright Lights.” Trailer here: https://deadline.com/2016/05/hbo-documentary-bright-lights-debbie-reynolds-carrie-fisher-cannes-video-1201755169/
And we get sung out by La India, the Princess of Salsa, singing “Nunca Voy a Olvidarte.”
Photo of the recent polls courtesy of RealClearPolitics.com
Friday, October 28, 201610/28/2016
To Sir, With Love
In Bill Newman
10/28: Professor James Stillwaggon on “Filmed School” –his new book about how film portrays teachers — “Desire, transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy;” Liz Friedman, Program Director of MotherWoman, Northampton City Councilors Alisa Klein and Gina Louise-Sciarra on the Pregnant Woman Fairness Resolution in Northampton; David Little, Director of the Mead—Amherst College’s—Art Museum, our special guest with Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone.
