Fireworks

6/22/26, Co-Host — Megan Zinn

Nate Woodard, recent Gfld H.S. grad; Co-Chair, Gfld Human Rts Comm’n; Student Trustee, Gfld Community College; Youth Leader, Communities that Care Coalition: his extraordinary journey from homelessness & his goal of becoming President.

Laura Zigman—coming to the Odyssey this Wednesday on her new work “The Author Weekend.” (Megan Zinn loves this author.)

Harvard Law School Criminal Law Prof Alexandra Natapoff: “America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance” – race, class & justice for sale.

Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman & Comms Mgr Sam Giffen: Hampshire College update, the revised budget, celebrating Pride, upcoming fireworks, & Reading Frederick Douglass Together.

Live & Local

6/19/26 (Host – Josh Silver)

MTA President Max Page: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision to bar the proposed income tax cut ballot initiative from appearing on the November ballot.

Rep Lindsay Sabadosa & Wildlife Conservationist Emma Howard Boutiette: Legislation to stop SGARS (Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides) – highly potent rat and mouse poisons

Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: Environmental Bond Bill – rewilded golf course in Williamsburg & Economic Development Bond Bill – Quantum Computing, digital revision

Professor Austin Sarat: 50th Anniversary of reinstatement of the death penalty, where the death penalty stands now in the U.S. & the U.S. Iran Peace Deal

Emily Boddy, Co-Founder of Reconnect Western Mass & the Founding Member of The Distraction Free Schools Policy Project: Northampton schools enacting a bell-to-bell cell phone policy

Art Beat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Dean Brown, artist and owner of PULP Holyoke: Art exhibition feat Anna Helper, Sean Sullivan, & Roger Brouard now through July 12

Music! Music! Music!

6/18/26 (Host – Buz Eisenberg)

Dr. Kathy Bullock Singer & Professor Emerita of Music Berea College: Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Tour” a multi-state concert tour and musical pilgrimage retracing the paths of the Underground Railroad  At Bombyx Sun June 21 Concert: 4:00pm

Extra Extra with DHG & Gfld Recorder Executive Editor Dan Crowley: Neal cancels debate appearance, no to data centers in Holyoke, & man found not guilty after 28 years in prison.

Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter, and Rocker June Millington on her upcoming performance at The Green River Festival Friday at 545 & Saturday at 430

All That Jazz w/ Ruth Griggs, Pres of the Northampton Jazz Festival, & Jennifer Schantz, Exec Dir of The Eric Carle Museum Of Picture Book Art & Brian Pinkney, Illustrator of children’s books: Jerry Pinkney exhibit opening; Sunset Thursdays, and jazz and art collaboration at The Eric Carle Museum in Amherst.

Protesting, Haunting, Farming, & Voting

6/17/26 (Host Brian Adams)

Coen from Demilitarize Western Mass: L3Harris in Northampton, confronting the military industrial complex.

Pamela Petro: Guggenheim Foundation award winner & Smith College Professor: her future book Haunts & Haunting: ghosts on Cape Cod & beyond

Lexi Polokoff & Dan Ingram from Climate Action Now : Battling climate change by supporting local farmers

Larry Hott & Kathy Mellon from Movement Voter Project: shifting culture, winning power, & shaping policy

Flagging Land and Peace

6/16/26 (Host- Amilcar Shabazz)

Michael Lawrence-Riddell, Founder of Self-Evident Education, on their new film “Get a Mule, 40 Acres or So…” at the Northampton Center for the Arts this Saturday at 4:00.

Lily Sexton— performing LIVE in studio—brilliant and beautiful music—a preview of her Splendid Torch Band’s performance at the Green River Festival on Friday.

ReBelle’s Manou Africa & Kalpana Devi: previewing their Juneteenth performance Saturday at the Marigold Theater in Easthampton.

The Happier Valley Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Banjamin, Scott Braidman & Allison Reding w/ Dr. Shabazz as scorekeeper—the topic –flags of the world.

Prof Michale Klare: War and Peace, Iran & Ukraine.

Unhushed

6/15/26: (Co-Host – Megan Zinn)

The River’s Steve Sanderson previews this coming weekend’s Green River Festival.

Megan and Bill Fishwrap the just-announced ceasefire with Iran.

Writers Block: Megan Zinn interviews Smith Prof Heather Able on her new novel  “The Emilies,” set in Northampton. The book launch tomorrow, presented by the Odyssey.

Mayors Monday: Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby on the Override, the possible recount, FIFA World Cup Watch Parties & interactions on Facebook.

Sex Matters: Jane Fleishman w/ Karen Rayne, co-authors of a new book about young people with problematic sexual behavior, published by Unhushed.

Performers & Politicians

6/12/26 (Host – Josh Silver)

MTA President Max Page w/ Congressional Candidate Mariah Lancaster: running for an open seat for the 6th Congressional District, Primary in September

Director Rose Schwietz Malla, Assistant Director Hia Ghosh, Actor Caleb Koval: Silverthorne Theater Company’s Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok, Performances now through June 21 at Hampshire College Theater (Emily Dickinson Hall).

Director Jen Polins: The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought presents Hatchery Dance Company’s Asteroid B-612: A Love Story inspired by The Little Prince at The Workroom Theater in Northampton. June 12 (sold out) & June 13 2 & 730 pm

Josh Silver: Easthampton Override & Easthampton’s World Cup Watch Parties

MTA President Max Page & Senator Ed Markey: Public Education, The Big Ugly Bill & Markey facing Seth Moulton for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the September 1 primary. 

Live!

6/11/26 (Host – Bill Newman)

Amherst-Pelham School Superintendent Xiomara Herman: the accomplishments this year, the challenges and finances of the next.

Live in the studio — Django in June in Northampton: Musicians Sam Farthing, Giacomo Smith & Sami Arefin — their music is amazing — and Andrew Lawrence, founder and director.

Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: war & peace, scripture & poetry.

Ruth Griggs, Pres, Northampton Jazz Festival, on Eugene Uman’s Convergence Project @ the Vermont Jazz Center.

In Style

6/10/26: Host Brian Adams

Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer: Budget, Overrides, Potholes & what to do with Hampshire College

Cassandra Holden Founder & Executive Director of Bombyx in Florence: Arts, Equity, & Eclectic performances

Jenny Green, Authenticity Chair of the Green Valley Homestead: dressing for the revolution, celebrating the 250th anniversary in style

Cool Films w/ Larry Hott & Leslie Askew: In Search of Phyllis Wheatley, enslaved Genius Poet of the 18th century

The Presence of the Past

6/9/26: Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz

Rep. Pat Duffy remembers Barney Frank, the first out gay Congressman, who recently passed. She attended the celebration of his life yesterday.

UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz on Juneteenth in Northampton.

Third Graders at Hadley Elementary on their lobbying efforts to make asparagus the official state vegetable—meeting the governor, their state senator and rep. Civic engagement at its best!

Pat Ononibaku, Pres of Black Business Assoc of Amherst: the upcoming 19th annual Juneteenth Jubilee & Black businesses in the Valley.

The IL (Injury List) grows. It includes baseball itself. Why don’t the owners care? We ask Duke Goldman, who also explains the masking tape over the NYY insignia on the Aaron Judge tee that Newman gave him.