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).

Making It On Main Street, Northampton

6/21: The history and present of Main Street, Northampton –a preview of a magnificent exhibit– with Historic Northampton Co-Directors Laurie Sanders and Elizabeth Sharpe.

An Ill Wind Blows

6/20: The renown Larry Diamond—his newest book is “Ill Winds: Saving Democracy form Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency;” State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on public regional transportation; Rev Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Smith College professor Carrie Baker on the right to abortion fight in Massachusetts.

Hampshire 2.0

6/19: Hampshire College Interim President Ken Rosenthal; Silverthorne Theater ‘s upcoming production of the Fantasticks—a preview.

Ideas On How To Fix The Truck Eating Bridge

6/18: A preview of the Serious Play production “The Wall;” The Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has and quizzer Kelsey Flynn.

Lego My Eho

6/17: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on building a city with Legos! Black in the Valley—a special edition on racial and climate justice with hosts Jaquelyn Smith-Crooks and Carlie Tartakov.

New Bedford Now Un-Chartered Territory

6/7: Mass. Teachers Ass’n Vice President Max Page on Cherish and Promise

Transforming America’s Prisons

6/6: Emily Bazelon: her new book is “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.”

The Fish Wrap with The Chief Fisherwoman

6/5: Brooke Hauser, editor of the Daily Hampshire Gazette —it’s a wrap—a fishwrap; Robbie Leppzer, award-winning filmmaker, on “Power Struggle,” starring Frances Crowe and allies and fellow activists in the community fight against Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant: www.powerstrugglemovie.com; then Peter Whalen and Jeff Bliss on this weekend’s 33 Hawley Street -the Arts Trust — extravaganza.

Grocery Story

6/4: Talking food co-ops here in the Valley with expert and author with Jon Steinman; talkin’ baseball with SABR expert and author Duke Goldman.

Juneteenth

6/3: Celebrate Juneteenth, celebrate freedom –we do on Black in the Valley. Also, State Senator Jo Comerford.

Recent Headlines

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Nashville’s airport would be renamed for Dolly Parton under Tennessee governor’s proposal

Nashville International Airport would be renamed for Dolly Parton under a proposal announced Friday by Tennessee's governor.

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Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell form in the Pacific Ocean as Dolly churns in the Atlantic

Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, both of which were expected to become hurricanes in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said.

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As super El Nino strengthens, study suggests that climate change is intensifying El Ninos

A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.

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Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80

Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the smug concierge in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," has died. He was 80.

3 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Dolly Parton built a better world, with rhinestones and songs

There are few inalienable truths: Everyone was born, everyone will die, and everyone loved Dolly Parton. Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died Tuesday, transcended celebrity in rhinestones and fringe.