April 28, 2026: Movies, jazz, and the end of eras

We now turn our attention to another film that is locally grounded. Watching Mr. Pearson is a beautiful look at fame, legacy, memory and care through an aging actor and his two caretakers, and we speak with the core of the movie’s production teams Samantha Valletta and Dillon Bentlage about the process of completing this work before you can see it for yourself at Garden Cinemas in Greenfield this Wednesday. April 29th at the Hope Center for the Arts will be filled with an ongoing legacy of vocal prowess. Madeline Peyroux joins us before she takes that stage tomorrow to talk about the political arc of her recent albums, the joys of collaboration, and the winding road her sound has taken to get to this point. And Mr. Universe, Kainaat Studios and former Hampshire College astronomer Salman Hameed, talks about that loss in particular and how it resonates on a larger scale against a backdrop of recent and ongoing federal cuts to science agencies, even in the wake of the successful Artemis mission.