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).
Arch (Guitar) Nemesis
12/27: Archguitarist Peter Blanchette; MTA Veep Max Page; and Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis and Tom Mahnken, cast member in A.P.E. No Theatre’s Production of a dark comedy, “A Skull in Connemara.”
The Restorative Power of Music
12/26: Local singer songwriters with amazing stories and amazing music: Stephan Alexander; then, Nerissa Nields.
Treatment Just Outside The Box
12/24: Hampshire County Sheriff Patrick Cahillane on his proposal for a new drug treatment facility; Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke. All Monte wants for Christmas is another World Series ring.
Happy Kwanzaa!
12/23: Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’ Technology for Liberty Program, Kade Crockford, on Northampton’s passage of a face surveillance ban and the movement of which it is a part; a memorable “Black in the Valley” on Kwanzaa.
Remember That Government Is “We The People”
12/20: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa –we draw the curtain back on Beacon Hill; then ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Northampton Open Media’s Al Williams.
A Decade with The Reverend & The Rabbi
12/19: Paul Kitagaki, Jr, author and photojournalist of “Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese-Americans Incarcerated During World War II;” Jonathan Wright, founder of Wright Builders, on his new book “Living Building Makers: Creating Sustainable Buildings that Renew Our World;” the Reverend Peter Ives and the Rabbi Justin David –we celebrate Hanukkah and our memorable anniversary (champagne all around!)
Outside: Rio Contrada’s Film About Homelessness
12/18: Filmmaker Rio Contrada and Service Net’s Josh Wren on homelessness here in the Valley; Gordon Edes, former and longtime Boston Globe and ESPN Boston Red Sox reporter, now the club’s historian and part of the club’s senior management team, on all things Sox.
Rev & Rabbi & Comedy & Quiz & Holidays
12/17: NYT bestselling author Julie Salamon –her new book is “An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer;” then, the (holiday) Comedy Quiz, a segment hosts mash-up, with the Reverend and the Rabbi and the Ha Has and Monte and Bill.
Easthampton’s Banner Year
12/16: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle; then, the upcoming New Year’s Polar Plunge for the Palestinian House of Friendship.
The Cost of Chaos
12/13: Peter Bergen, author of “Trump and His Generals—The Cost of Chaos;” then, this is for the birds—the annual western Mass. count with owlers Heidi Stemple and Dan Ziomek, and compiler Janice Jorgensen, and OMG member Lynn Pelland; and ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jill St. Coeur ( art with Donald Trump’s words –this is a stitch!).
