Podcasts: Vaya Con Muñoz

Vaya Con Muñoz

Vaya con Muñoz is hosted by Natalia Muñoz, a multimedia journalist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Interviews and rants and raves on politics, culture and media, in English and en español. Airs Saturdays 10-11am and Sunday nights at 7pm.

Vaya Con Muñoz 4.6.19

A Talk about Puerto Rico is taking place on April 9 at 6 pm at the Holyoke Library. Barbara Tasch Ezratty, publisher of Read Street Publising, is presentin “Puerto Rico: An Oral History,” in which dozens of Puerto Ricans recall their lives in the early 1900s through the 2000s. Harry Ezratty is presenting “500 Years in The Jewish Caribbean.” Jay Candelario of Jays B&B in Holyoke is catering the savory, and the Pie Bar in Florence is catering the rugelach and hamantash cookies, so we’re seriously feating for the body and mind.
Also, Jossie Valentín, the point person for Democratic presidental candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, joins us for a Spanish segment with my journalist colleagues Iohann Vega and Manuel Frau Ramos; then in English with the sharpest political minds anywhere, Kate Albright-Hanna and Nathaniel Waring.

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.30.19

A segment from RadioPlasma podcast hosted by Iohann Rashi Vega on Black Holyoke with guest Erika Slocumb. This and other bilingual podcasts by Iohann here: https://radioplasma.com/2019/02/19/erika-slocumb-black-holyoke/

A review of a few comments by former Senator and Vice President and Perennial Presidential Candidate and Creepy Gaffer Joe Biden.

The roundtable on politics with Kate Albright-Hanna and Nathaniel Waring.

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.16.19

On Sat, Mar 23 at 11am, and Sun, Mar 24 at 8pm hear Ira Bryck,

speak with JON ARONSTEIN of Mill River Music. Jon began guitar at 12,

and was a tinkerer who built custom instruments. Now, in a time where large manufacturers, as well as retails chains, of guitars have struggled, he finds Northampton a city where guitar buffs can buy, trade, consign, fix, learn,

in stores like his, with devoted employees, transparency, effective sales systems, and a global market that allows for bringing money into the community. Hear more this Saturday and Sunday, and always online.

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.2.19

How green is Rep. Richard Neal, D-MA? Quite, actually, but environmental advocates say he needs to do more and faster, because our lives are in extreme and imminent danger. Matt Szafranski, founder and editor of Western Mass. Politics and Insight, on this subject.
Also, y en español, la crítica de cine Ariadna Goenaga sostiene que la influencia de Netflix nos está abriendo el mundo, para los que vivimos en los EEUU o los que vivimos en otras partes.
La curadora de arte, Waleska Santiago toma el tema del museo – ¿porqué hay pocas obras por latinos en los muestros de nuestra región, y porqué pocos latinos van a los museos de nuestra área, y cómo cambiar esta situación?
Oh yeah, Trump called me from Vietnam…

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