Podcasts: Bill Newman
Bill Newman
The Bill Newman Show. Weekdays at 9AM. Join Bill & Monte Belmonte as they talk with news-makers, elected officials, authors, artists, poets, and ‘fish wrap’ about the day’s headlines.
Recent guests include authors Senator Elizabeth Warren (Persist); Larry Tye (Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy); Daniel James Brown (Facing the Mountain); Chuck Collins (The Wealth Hoarders and Born on Third Base).
United We Stan
7/5: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg—on a very busy next 20 days; Oliver Broudy on “High Brow at the (Northfield) Drive-In”this Thursday; plus our Fishwrap.
Broadway in Chester
7/1: From the Chester Theatre Company, author and director Daniel Kramer on “My Jane;” Dr. Andy Lazris, author of “Curing Medicare: A Doctor’s View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It;” LGBTJPJM Sorrell on new legislation legalizing discrimination; Inside/Out with Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone and Sports, Man! Scott Coen.
Black Space
6/30/16: Rashad Shabazz, author of “Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago;” Rev. Peter Ives and Smith College Professor of Government and Director of Latino/Latina Studies Dept., Velma Garcia; and The Grass Whisperer Bernadette Giblin.
Better Late Than Never
6/29: We Fishwrap Bernie, who himself created Fishwrap today; Sam Rush, Producing Director of New Century Theatre, on “Bakersfield Mist”—opening tomorrow; Eveline MacDougall, founder and director of the Amandla Chorus, on a potentially life-altering opportunity for teenagers in the Valley; Natalia Munoz with National Lawyers Guild President, Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, on today’s U.S, Senate vote on Puerto Rico.
Does Hamp Really Have An Empty Storefront Issue?
6.28.16 Josh Silver from Represent.Us guest hosts and talks with Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz about the state of Downtown. And he talks with two local brewers about the C_LVIN beer made in honor of the issue.
Poetry & Pro’s
6.27.16 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts with Rich Michelson talking with poet Ed Ochester and talking with film pro’s like Harry Keramidas about the Ashfield Film Fest.
Justice for Western Mass Drug Lab Scandal Victims?
6/24: LGBT JP JM Sorrell joins our Fishwrap; Northampton civil rights and criminal defense attorney Luke Ryan on the SJC’s decision yesterday –homelessness is not a crime; Don Perry, founder of Project Operation Change on the fight for justice –combating the western Mass drug lab scandal; then western Mass. super chef, author of “Seasons to Taste” (really, done by the seasons) – the exquisite cook book that comes complete with play lists.
Peter, Paul & Jane?
6/23: Rock ‘n’ roll star and Beatles friend Peter Asher on his upcoming gig at the Iron Horse; the Reverend and the Rabbi segment this week is the Reverend and the Reverend with Rev Peter Ives and Rev. Sarah Buteaux, Associate Pastor of First Churches; then Ben Ehrenreich, author of “The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine.”
Wage Theft
6/22: Labor law professor and attorney Harris Freeman and Pioneer Valley Workers’ Center Coordinator Rose Bookbinder on wage theft in the Valley and the proposed ordinances to stop it; then, Professor Freeman on his testimony last week before the United States Senate on the fight between workers and franchises; then, from the Artisan Beverage Co-op in Greenfield, Will Savitri and Sandy Pearson—an opportunity to invest locally; Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz and National Lawyers Guild President and human rights attorney Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan on the House’s bill to (allegedly) bail out Puerto Rico.
Judges
6/21: Bill & Monte fishwrap about the Supremes supremely disturbing decision. “We Called Him Bunny”—Author Richard Anderson on Bunny Taliaferro, baseball, segregation, and Springfield Massachusetts v. Gastonia, North Carolina—and how the prejudice and segregation continues—the make-up game from 80 years ago is this weekend. Then, an interlude. Then, “The Comedy Quiz Show starring Laura Patrick from the improv group, the Ha Has; Bertha Josephson from the Superior Court, Monte Belmonte from his microphone and Quiz Master Kevin McVeigh from the world of teaching, activism, and Moth story-telling.
