Talk The Talk: Not For The Birds

Not For the Birds
5/23/24: Amherst student activists on tomorrow’s walk-out and Strike for Abortion Rights. Harvey Silverglate, attorney for Trump attorney John Eastman, on the indictments. GCC science prof emeritus Brian Adams w/ Hampshire Bird Club Pres Derrick Allard. Bill Dwight: Northampton’s school budget.

Talk The Talk: State of Affairs

State of Affairs

5/22/24: The Bow Bow Bash w/ Squirrel’s Sascha Farmer & Jaiden Meltzer. Cool Films: Larry Hott recommends “Girls State” & “Boys State.” Sexologist Jane Fleishman & sex researcher Dr. Debbie Herbenick on “Yes, Your Kid.” Human Rights atty Laura Pitter: Israel & Hamas was crimes. CDH’s Sara Burgess on strokes.

Talk The Talk : Players

Players
5/21/24:  Larry Tye: “The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.”  The Comedy Quiz: Old Toys w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, & Ben May. Valley Players Matteo Pangallo & Chris Rohmann: Bars & the Bard. Linda Post & Mariah Swanson: Paradise City Arts Festival.

Talk The Talk: Words To Live By

Words to (Try To) Live By
5/20/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: lead & forever chemicals in our water & soil – also, downtown street construction. Eric Reeves: starvation and genocide in Darfur. Former Sen Pres Stan Rosenberg: UMass protests & life after the legislature Megan Zinn w/ Merriam-Webster Editor-at-Large Peter Sokolowski: the words we live by.

Talk The Talk: Subject To Debate

5/17/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: the House’s Health Care Bill. MTA Pres Max Page: the free community college bill. Donnabelle Casis w/ Leslie Ferrin & Adam Chau on APE’s Platitude: Queer Serviceware. SPRINGFEST w/ NCMC Exec. Dir. Jason Trotta. EM Kennedy Inst CEO Adam Hinds: presidential debates.

Talk The Talk: Matters of Life & Death

DHG & Recorder Editor Dan Crowley: the flood of 1874, antisemitism in Belchertown schools, & defunding libraries. Rich Michelson w/ Emily Dickinson Museum’s Brooke Steinhauser, poets Al Salehi & Ivy Schweitzer on Emily Dickinson – today! GCC Prof Emeritus, Enviornmetnal Science, Brian Adams w/ Smith botanist Gabi Immerman & Historic Northampton’s Betty Sharpe: the 150th anniversary of the Mill River Flood. Ruth Griggs w/ band leader & vocalist Sarah Clay—live in studio—WOW!!​

Now Hear This, Watch This

5/15/24:  Atty John Pucci: People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump — an update & analysis. Poet Martín Espada, Nat’l Book Award-winner & UMass prof, w/ Elisa New, Director – PBS’s “Poetry in America” — WOW! Joe Ricker, Director,  Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra: this season’s last performance this weekend at Bombyx. Rev Michael McSherry: climate change, pastoral counseling and God.

Here’s Our Pitch

5/14/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: the Soldiers Home, schools, & health care. SABR star Duke Goldman: pitching at 100+ mph. Educ Collab Dir Todd Gazda: middle & high school student protests. Caitlin Arnold Stephano: Farm Aid & its hotline. Cntr for New Americans Dir Laurie Millman: “Immigrant Voices.”

Aspirations & Arrests

5/13/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Paper City’s present & future: the arts, police & schools. UMass profs Amilcar Shabazz & Toussaint Losier: encampments, the Chancellor’s “last resort” & arrests. THE Lesléa Newman: her new books “Joyful Song: A Naming Story” & “Like Father, Like Son.” CSO’s Geoffrey Oldmixon: Wednesday’s Wellness Fair. Megan Zinn w/ Christopher Carlisle: Pickett’s Dream.”

Protest

Rep Natalie Blais: saving the Connecticut River. MTA Pres Max Page: turmoil at UMass. Cassandra Holden, Exec. Director Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity. Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ Jackson Katz, co-founder, Mentors in Violence Prevention.