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Republican Francis Rooney, former amb. to the Vatican on the midterms, Trumpism & the future of the Republican Party.
Nathaniel Malloy, Hadley Town Administrator, on new housing developments, low-income and senior housing,
Jonathan Edwards, founder of Whately-based Virtual Wayback: using AI to make history alive
Michelle Ong-Hendrick, Chester Theatre Co-Artist Director and Director of the current production “Dear Alien.”
Max Page, immediate past Pres of the Mass Teachers Ass’n: educators need more funding
Sen Paul Mark: what the legislature is doing this month, the Markey-Moulton race, & all the ballot questions.
ArtBeat -- Donnabelle Casis w/ Lydia Rivera-Early, UMass prof & organizer of the Latino Arts Festival at the Springfield Museums on August 28.
UMass Prof Chang Liu, awarded $1.3million from NIH for his AIDS research
WRSI’s Steve Sanderson and NEPM’s Monte Belmonte have too much fun previewing Transformance—next Tuesday at Look Park.
Beit Ahavah Rabbi Riqi Kosovske, who has just returned from Israel, on progressive activism and anti-Netanyahu politics there and here.
Northampton Jazz Festival Pres Ruth Griggs with jazz educator Ben Young on Jazz 101
Collaborative for Educational Services Dr Desiree Lalbeharie: youth mental health grant
Exec Dir of Valley Community Development Corp Alex Breiteneicher: affordable housing
Paul Spector, political activist and founder of Friday Action, on the upcoming event with environmental superstar Bill McKibben, the Maine race for the U.S. Senate, and keeping hope alive in dark times.
Cool Films with Larry Hott and Nina Kleinberg on “Casablanca"
Jenny Powers, Director of the Springfield Science Museum: Today's Partial Eclipse
Lynn Griesemer, Amherst Councilor on the Jones Library, Hampshire College, Wildwood Elementary and the September return of the city called UMass.
Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke, Duke Goldman: How About those Red Sox? The owners are greedy and acting stupid—what else is new? How to enjoy this season with a lock-out pending.
“Sweet Prince” with Hilary Dennis—her one-woman Hamlet, coming to the Center for the Arts.
Rep Pat Duffy: Freedom to Read law, the abortion bill, the Protect Act & Child Welfare legislation—all passed by the legislature and signed into law.
Rev. Carlos Anderson of Hope Community Church in Amherst: from a Black Congregational Church with a white pastor to the present day—the strange journey of race and faith in the Valley.
Corrine Corryat, candidate for the Democratic nomination for First Franklin Representative: the issues and the race.
Mayors Monday with Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: the Peace Walkers, CAFO finally!, schools & data centers.
Mount Holyoke College Professor Joshua Hotaka Roth: his new graphic memoir, co-authored with his father, titled “Lifelines: Art, Memory , Relationship.”
Northampton’s new school superintendent Annie Azarloza
Western Mass Business Show on 8.8.26 - Easthampton Neighbors
Community Action Pioneer Valley Exec Dir Lev Ben Ezra and Family Center Director Kia Burton-King on joy in a backpack and wrap-around services for families.
Max Page, recent (term-limited) Mass Teachers Assoc President and Matthew Bach, new MTA President, on MTA’s 2026-2027 goals & priorities, the strike in Andover that Matt led, and his history as a history teacher.
Documentary Filmmaker Lexi Jamieson Marsh: the world premiere of “I Was a Hurricane” on the Amherst Common tomorrow evening -- the story of the 2003 Amherst High School National Champion Ultimate Frisbee Team, a story of belonging, friendship, and trust.
ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Ava Harper on Ava’s new and moving solo exhibition at 33 Hawley, “Familial Bestiaries.”
Astronomer Salman Hameed: the critically important and under-reported story of the Trump administration’s combined attack on science, medicine, universities, and our future.
Congressman Jim McGovern on the corruption in Washington, the wars in Iran, Gaza and Ukraine, the slush fund for Jan 6 insurrectionists, and the Midterms and how Democrats should run.
Taylor Haas, Ex Dir, the Three County Fair: no horses races but don’t miss the school bus demolition derby, the horse and oxen pulls, agriculture exhibits, the fun animals, the midway and much more.
Atty Michael Fenton, candidate for Governor’s Council, explains what the Council is and does and why he is seeking this position.
Ruth Griggs, Pres, Northampton Jazz Festival on Jazz in the Valley and the fabulous artists in our midst.
Western Mass Clean Energy Network’s John Pepi and Keith Hastie
Disability Rights Advocate & Northampton City Councilor Jeremy Dubbs on Picture Main Street and is the City addressing the needs of persons with disabilities?
District Attorney David Sullivan, advocate for the Protect Act, which prohibits ICE enforcement in sensitive locations in Massachusetts, e.g., court houses, medical facilities, and schools -- on his way the signing ceremony with the Governor.
ServiceNet’s Dr Elaine Campbell on AI in therapy
Hannah Rechtshaffen, Ex Dir, Greenfield Business Ass’n, on the new Passport Program & so much more
Lisa Wong, South Hadley Town Administrator: the town’s cannabis ban, food trucks, agricultural entertainment zones, Mount Holyoke College and the PILOT, and the Override vote on Sept 1.
Black in the Valley w/ the founders-- Professors Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks & Carlie Tartakov -- & Amilcar Shabazz on Frederick Douglass’ “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will” -- applying that statement here and now.
FishWrap: unionizing the Eric Carle Museum; the First Franklin race debate; Nhmptn City Councilor Laurie Loisel on trans rights—her piece in today’s Gazette.
Sen Jo Comerford on the Freedom to Read bill, the Protect Act, long-term care legislation, data privacy, workplace violence, energy affordability, economic development, funding for higher ed, and more.
Joanna Rubiner, Voiceover Artist: the real and the reel.
Meg Ryan, Public Health Nurse with FRCOG, on you v. mosquitos and tics; what you don’t know can hurt you.
Writers Block: Whatcha readin’? Sister talk with Megan Zinn and Joanna Ryan.
SportsMan Scott Coen on the Red Sox rebound and what they’ll do today-- the trade deadline.
Western Mass Business Show on 8.1.26 - Tides for Reproductive Freedom
The Hustler Files Ep 173
Max Page of The Mass Teachers Assoc w/ Jim Baude of Boston Public Radio & Renee Loth of The Boston Globe: Reforming the ballot process & rules that effect election ethics
Artbeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & guests Danielle Amodeo of Arts Equity Group and Multimedia artist Angelica Olstad: The current exhibition, Music for Healing, at PaperCity Clothing Gallery in Holyoke
Carolyn Misch, Northampton Director of Planning & Sustainability: Picture Main Street Project
David Detmold: Walking for social change
Dr Caitlyn Pierce & Donald Snyder political scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: measuring judicial appeasement in the U.S. Supreme Court
Nate Clifford & Jade Jump Co-owners of Cornucopia Market on their move to Dwight St in Holyoke
Carol Rose Executive Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts: Police & Government Surveillance and challenging the military as immigration judges
All That Jazz w/ John Anz & Musician Jason Scwartz on his musical journey and monthly performance series at Theodore’s in Springfield
Karen Foster - Executive Director All Out Adventures: Kayakathon Sept 13th
Bill Danielson - Gazette Columnist: Speaking of Nature & looking for hints that things are actually ok
Karla Bonoff – Singer & Songwriter: Playing at The Iron Horse July 31st & her musical career
Jay Sefton - therapist and playwright - “Unreconciled”: surviving abuse & seeking solace in theater
Manou Africa, Activist & Founder of Rebelle: African Liberation & Rastafari Movement Part 2
Manou Africa, Activist & Founder of Rebelle: African Liberation & Rastafari Movement Part 1
Lora Wondolowski, Greenfield City Council President: Greenfield legislative matters & her campaign vision for Franklin County towns
Fairplay w/ Duke Goldman: On Ray Elliot and the importance of Negro League baseball history to the quest for oneness of humanity
Paul Bockelman, Amherst Town Mngr Samantha Giffen, Summer interns: Liana and Emily
Juliet Faithfull, author of Liar’s Dice
Josh Weill, author of What Came West
Deb Christakos, Pioneer Valley Food Tours
The Hustler Files Ep 172 - Sunlight Is The Greatest Disinfectant
Max Page, Former President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association: Billionaire tax and newly freed up millions for public education, but when will it get to the schools?
Artbeat w/ Donnabelle Casis: Nikki Bassette & Dan Jones owners of Abracadabra Film Lab & Trevor Powers Artist and wrestling fan and the return of analog photography.
Evan Goodchild: Tells prospective podcasters all they need to know to record, produce, & reach millions of listeners with a compelling show.
David Bollier, Author of the book “How to Think Like a Commoner”. The commons, a parallel social economy helping millions take charge and escape the predatory state order.
Abbe Spector & Jess Dawson of the Northampton Information Hub: Get real, honest, true, fact-checked information on everything to do with Northampton’s Government.
All That Jazz w/ Carol Abbe Smith: local jazz giant on upcoming Litchfield Jazz Festival & the local jazz scene
Dr David Gottsegen: local retired Pediatrician on RFK Jr & Trump’s war against children’s health
Ben Weil: Director of Northampton Climate Action & Project Administration on local efforts to achieve net zero emissions
Have Faith w/ Local Progressive Interfaith Pastor Carole Bull – Living Humility
Center for New Americans Ex Dir Laurie Millman & paralegal Ursula Wolanska-Fettes: citizenship exam
Prof Emerita of Anthropology Dr. Marge Bruchac: Native Strategies project at Historic Northampton
Dr Cory Harris, CHD urologist: how is your prostate performing? What can you do about it?
Cool Films: Larry Hott speaks with filmmaker Allen Moore: “The Shepherds of Berneray” (1981) & his return to this film, this story, this remote island, part of Scotland, 45 years later—a story and lesson for all of us.
The Hustler Files Ep 171 - The Women of Dying On The Inside
Millicent Jackson, Ex Dir, Voices from Inside: living and writing inside and outside the razor wire.
Nathaniel Malloy, new Hadley Town Administrator: Rt 9 development, the Overrides, regional planning & what will happen with Hampshire College’s land, 260 acres in Hadley.
Governor’s Councillor Tara Jacobs: what and why is the Governor’s Council, its advise & consent role in confirming judges, clerk-magistrates & parole bd members and consideration of commutations & pardons.
Hannah Williams, Chester Theatre Managing Director and the playwright Mark St Germain on “Amchitka,” the atomic bomb explosions, isolation, knowing the unknowable & the uniqueness of Chester Theatre.
Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby on how to win an Override, & a fight with City Council.
Local author Morgan Thomas on their acclaimed and innovative debut novel “Mad Eden”
Educator Doug Selwyn on Gov Healy’s proposal for MCAS 2.0 & what you can do.
Lexi Walters Wright, owner of High Five Books & 2026 Commonwealth Heroine Award recipient
Political Good with Josh Silver: Rep Sabadosa stays with us, and we discuss ICE on the streets and in court houses and other sensitive locations in Massachusetts. Plus the Rep’s take on the ballot questions.
MTA rank-and-file member Max Page w/ Anthony Clough from the Mass Budget and Policy Center: should Massachusetts opt into the federal school voucher program?
Rep Lindsay Sabadosa takes on the most contentious issues before the state legislature now.
Amherst College Prof Austin Sarat on Trump’s speech last night. Will the President try to rig, and can he sabotage, the Midterms?
Dan Crowley, Ex Ed, Daily Hampshire Gazette & Greenfield Recorder, on today’s biggest stories
All That Jazz with Ruth Griggs and Ryan Hollander, Northampton Jazz Fest bd member & producer: behind the scenes, his remarkable music & Summer on Strong.
Silverthorne Theater’s Ezekiel Baskin, Ash Governman & Mary Beth Brooker on “Deep Blue Sound”—tonight is opening night & this play will be their last production at Hampshire College.
Dr. Jonathan Bayuk on health threats from the fires, cyclosporiasis & the lone-star tic. Also finding a doc & securing medical care.
Cool Films with Larry Hott: Larry reviews “John Candy: I Like Me” and the recent documentaries on Steve Martin and Martin Short and their focus on home and fathers.
“Hatfield on the Home Front” w/ Meg Baker, curator, Hatfield Historical Museum: the beginnings of the Revolutionary War – here, in 1774.
Jim Johnson, Smith College Prof Emeritus (after 52 years as a professor!) of Sports and Exercise Science: preparing for the World Cup, the heat, the competition & caring for yourself—his most recent Gazette column.
Carolyn Misch, Northampton’s Director of Planning and Sustainability: rewilding land in the City and an update on Picture Main Street.
Duke Goldman, Negro League expert and BIG baseball fan on why the All-Star Game is ridiculous
Hadley School Super Anne McKenzie: the federal tax credits that will support private schools, part of Trump’s “BBB” legislation -- how it will work, what effects it will have, the arguments for and against.
Rep Pat Duffy: the commemoration for the airmen who died when their B17crashed into Mt Tom –why she attends, what it says & why it matters; also, the Economic Development Bill the House just passed.
Milan Clark, Amherst Media’s Media & Broadcasting Mananger: the League of Women Voters show (League Talk), community engagement, & how you can become a producer.
Kemper Carlsen, Clinical Director, Fisher Home Hospice in Amherst: hospice & end-of- life care—what it is; also, their 20th anniversary & a $100,000 endowment campaign.
“And Death Shall Have No Dominion”— the community’s response this weekend.
It’s Mayors Monday w/ Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: the ban/moratorium on data centers in his city & the $2million/yr in tax revenues one (!) could bring; then, summer in the City.
Nancy Gertner, U.S. Dst Ct Judge (ret) & Harvard Law Professor: what the recent Supreme Court’s recent decisions mean for democracy, the future, & all of us.
Daniel Mason, the superlative, award-winning novelist on a nationwide book tour -- tonight at the Odyssey Books in South Hadley-- on “Country People.”
The Hustler Files Ep 170 - You Can’t Change Tomorrow Until You Heal Yesterday
MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page:
Political Gold with Josh Silver & his guest Joe Lyman: audit the legislature, the governor & the courts—really? Boston Globe investigations, transparency & public record requests. Touches a nerve.
Josh Silver on Maine’s U.S. Senate race—who will replace Graham Platner what qualities should the candidate have?
Community Action’s Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (Dir, Youth & Workforce Dev): a win-win-win for the community—well-paying jobs, free training while providing good and safe housing.
ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Kiah Tinkham of Waterway Arts in Turners Falls: “Please Touch”— we tell you why.
Helen Kahn, Farmers Market Manager for Grow Food Northampton – a feast for your eyes --the Tuesday Market, this week’s produce, HIP & your Bicycle Benefit.
Ruth Griggs & extraordinary musicians Ed Brainerd & Ethel Lee
Karen Giuliano, UMass Prof & Co-Director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation: her just-published break-through study at UMass that will make hospitals safer and improve patient care, using eye-tracking technology.
Rep Aaron Saunders: the ayes have it --approved by the legislature --money for UMass & research, the Bright Act, the Protect Act, and closing a criminal law loophole of sexual exploitation.
Richard Joyce, Conservation Biologist at Xerces Society: everything you wanted to know about fireflies here and now, lighting up our night sky.
Cool Films with Larry Hott: Larry recommends watching “Natchez,” an extraordinary film on heritage tours—whose heritage—slave owners or enslaved persons? And the names of streets in Northampton.
Hillary Caws-Elwitt, Nature and Environment Book Group Coordinator at Forbes Library: we start with “Total Garbage” and go from there.
Lynn Griesimer, Amherst Town Councilor: new schools, new library, new h.s. principal, a new school superintendent on the horizon. Welcome to Amherst, pop 17,000 (summer) 40,000 (when student are back).
Tom Weiner on “In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School.”
Amilcar Shabazz on freedom in our history, celebrating Juneteenth, & “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Sen Paul Mark, Commission Chair of America 250 in Mass, on how and why we are celebrating the Declaration of Independence; also, freeing children from social media exploiters.
Noah Bullock, Ex Dir, Cristosal, the Central American human rts org, on human rts abuses & the death of the rule of law in El Salvador & the tight friendship between Pres Trump &, El Salvador’s authoritarian right-wing President, Nayib Bukele.
Monica Cage, owner of Crown by Cage & Sec of Black Business Assoc of Amherst Area on Black entrepreneurship in western Mass, community support & the road ahead.
Writers Block -- Megan Zinn interviews Cara Benson on “An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment” -- at Broadside Bookshop this Wednesday.
Sen. Jo Comerford: Reading Frederick Douglass Together, recent Supreme Court decisions, the legislature’s approval of bonds for our future.
Mayors Monday w/ Northampton’s Gina Louise Sciarra: the July 4 Naturalization Ceremony, the Declaration of Independence this Wednesday at Memorial Hall, and the FACT Force (Fiscal Assessment Community Taskforce) – the override in the City’s future.
Dr. Xiomara Herman, Amherst, Pelham & Amherst Regional School Superintendent: why is she leaving at the end of this school year?
The Hustler Files Ep 169 - Worthy Of Love, Dignity, And Hope
Poet Martín Espada on “Shame” – the story of, his poem on, Alligator Alcatraz
Max Page, Pres of Mass Teachers Ass’n: ballot questions on taxes and rent control stuck from November’s ballot—for different reasons; Trump’s school voucher program in Mass; more $ for our schools?
Kristin Neville, Ex Dir, Blues to Green, & Lorenzo Gaines, Social Media & Community Engagement Guru, on the next weekend’s joyous Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival – free and open to all—an amazing lineup of musicians.
Congressman Jim McGovern: celebrating the 250th, government dysfunction, the housing bill, wars in Iran, Ukraine & Gaza, USAID, Trump’s 2026 election-rigging plans, & reflections on the reflecting pool.
Western Mass Business Show on 7/4/26 – Easthampton Council On Aging
7.1 ServiceNet
7.1 Rosalie Starvish
7.1 Cool Films
7.1 David Sullivan
Laurie Millman & Urszula Wolanska-Fettes, from the Center for New Americans, on becoming a citizen & the July 4th ceremony.
Tara Jacobs, Governor’s Councilor, on pardons, commutations, judicial confirmations & parole board nominees.
Lisa Wong, So Hadley Town Administrator: overrides, budget-busting health insurance costs, what towns and cities are saying to each other.
Salman Hameed, professor and astronomer, on cotton-candy planets, signs of life, Project Hail Mary & airbags in space.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Founder of National Martyrs Day, 7/5 honoring social justice warriors
Eric Nakajima, Holyoke Dir of Planning & Econ Devel: new data centers have been banned in the City—why?
Writers Block. Megan Zinn interviews Debra Curtis on “Laws of Love and Logic,” sisterhood, forgiveness, and the complicated nature of love. Smith College plays a part.
“A Stake in the Ground 1774”—opening soon in Historic Deerfield, the resonance of dissent and revolution, with Historic Deerfield’s Claire Carlson and Plays in Place Producing Artistic Dir Patrick Gabridge.
Western Mass Business Show on 6.27.26 -Downtown Amherst Foundation/The Drake
The Hustler Files Ep 168 - Before We Called It Social Justice, There Was Frederick Douglass
Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby: the BIG ongoing World Cup party and performances in his city w/ a sidebar on the Prop 2 ½ Override.
Rep Mindy Domb on Amherst Pride, the Blue Envelope legislation—now law! & the anti-book-banning bill.
Josh Silver on this week’s electoral victories for progressive Democrats & the influence of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the midterms.
6.26 Cello Festiva LIVE in studio—Jeremy Harman and Stijn Kuppens, members of the Intergalactic Cello Quarter, workshop leaders at this week’s New Directions Cello Festival at Smith College, & the performances at Bombyx this weekend.
Political Gold with Josh Silver: the secret recording of RFK pushing to elect a loyal Trump Republican. A crime?
Carole Bull, Northampton-based UCC Pastor, on Paki Wieland, non-violent direct action, L-3Harris demonstrations, the necessity defense & the relevant lessons of scripture.
Nancy Talanian, Co-Founder, the western Mass-based Guantanamo Survivors Fund on her fund and tomorrow’s U.N. International Day In Support of Victims of Torture.
Carol Rose, Exec Dir of the ACLU of Mass, on the passing of 40+year ACLUM Legal Director John Reinstein, SCOTUS, birthright citizenship, and celebrating July 4 –"Beyond 250” and “Fired Up for Freedom.”
John Anz, host of All That Jazz, with pianist and composer Jen Allen on her life in Music & her upcoming performance July 13 at Bushnell Park in Hartford
Stephen Rich, UMass Microbiologist: everything you ever wanted and didn’t want to know about ticks & protecting yourself.
Kevin Whitney, Pres & COO Cooley Dickinson Hospital: emergency & urgent care, how the relationship with MGB actually works, keeping money loca,l & a shout-out for the new coffee shop!
Sonya Clark, Amherst Coll Art & Art History Prof & 2026 Guggenheim Fellow: Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye, marigolds, hair, ancestors, creativity, genius.
Stephen Platt, UMass History Prof & 2026 Guggenheim Fellow: China rising, isolated, capitalist, run by CCP, WWII internment camps, & more –a fascinating conversation.
Duke Goldman, Negro Baseball League expert, on ongoing discrimination in professional sports.
Ivy Meeropol -- her newest documentary film is “Ask E. Jean,” on E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump’s sexual assault of her— now at the Amherst Cinema.
Paul Newlin, founder and Director of Watermelon Wednesdays, on the upcoming concert of Skye Consort with vocalist Emma Bjorling and the quarter century history of Watermelon Wednesdays.
Lora Wondolowski, Gfld City Council Pres, on the state’s refusal to certify “free cash,” a tough budget year, & alarm over possible layoffs at Baystate Franklin Medical Center.
Harvard Law School Criminal Law Prof Alexandra Natapoff: “America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance” – race, class & justice for sale.
Laura Zigman—coming to the Odyssey this Wednesday on her new work “The Author Weekend.” (Megan Zinn loves this author.)
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.
Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman & Comms Mgr Sam Giffen: Hampshire College update, the revised budget, celebrating Pride, upcoming fireworks, & Reading Frederick Douglass Together.
The Hustler Files Ep 167 - Invisible Cages: When Free Isn’t Free
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.
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
Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: Environmental Bond Bill – rewilded golf course in Williamsburg & Economic Development Bond Bill – Quantum Computing, digital revision
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
Rep Lindsay Sabadosa & Wildlife Conservationist Emma Howard Boutiette: Legislation to stop SGARS (Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides) – highly potent rat and mouse poisons
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
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, Jennifer Schantz, & Brian Pinkney
DHG & Recorder Exec Ed Dan Crowley: Neal cancels debate appearance, no to data centers in Holyoke
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
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
Coen from Demilitarize Western Mass: L3Harris in Northampton, confronting the military industrial complex.
Larry Hott & Kathy Mellon from Movement Voter Project: shifting culture, winning power, & shaping policy
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.
Michael Lawrence-Riddell, Self-Evident Ed, new film “Get a Mule, 40 Acres or So…” 6/20 Nohoarts.org
ReBelle’s Manou Africa & Kalpana Devi: Juneteenth performance 6/20 Marigold Theater Easthampton
Lily Sexton- LIVE -a preview of her Splendid Torch Band’s performance Green River Festival 6/19
Sex Matters: Jane Fleishman w/ Karen Rayne, co-authors of a new book about young people with problematic sexual behavior, published by Unhushed.
The River’s Steve Sanderson previews this coming weekend’s Green River Festival.
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.
Megan and Bill Fishwrap the just-announced ceasefire with Iran.
The Hustler Files Ep 166 - At Coffee Creek, No Woman Walks Alone
Western Mass Business Show on 6.13.26 – Zoar Outdoor
Josh Silver: Easthampton Override & Easthampton’s World Cup Watch Parties
MTA President Max Page w/ Congressional Candidate Mariah Lancaster: running for an open seat for the 6th Congressional District, Primary in September
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
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).
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.
Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: war & peace, scripture & poetry.
Ruth Griggs, Pres, Northampton Jazz Festival, on Eugene Uman’s Convergence Project @ the Vermont Jazz Center.
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.
Jenny Green, Authenticity Chair of the Green Valley Homestead: dressing for the revolution, celebrating the 250th anniversary in style
Cassandra Holden Founder & Executive Director of Bombyx in Florence: Arts, Equity, & Eclectic performances
Cool Films w/ Larry Hott & Leslie Askew: In Search of Phyllis Wheatley, enslaved Genius Poet of the 18th century
Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer: Budget, Overrides, Potholes & what to do with Hampshire College
UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz on Juneteenth in Northampton.
Rep. Pat Duffy remembers Barney Frank, the first out gay Congressman, who recently passed. She attended the celebration of his life yesterday.
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.
Pat Ononibaku, Pres of Black Business Assoc of Amherst: the upcoming 19th annual Juneteenth Jubilee & Black businesses in the Valley.
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!
The Easthampton Override -- the stakes are huge -- with teacher Kelley Brown, police lieutenant Andrew Beaulieu and firefighter and EMT Cody Potasky.
Yale Professor of Law and History Samuel Moyn on “Gerontocracy in America: How thew Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth and What to Do About it.”
Author Danielle Crittenden on “Dispatches from Grief: A Mother’s Journey Through the Unthinkable” – the death of a child.
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor -- Smith History Professor, Richard Pryor’s daughter and author of “Something We Said: Richard Pryor, A Notorious Word, and Me.”
Western Mass Business Show on 6.6.26 - Mary Yun
The Hustler Files Ep 165 - Breaking Stereotypes Behind And Beyond The Wall
Max Page: last night’s U.S. Senate’s all-nighter and why the MTA is endorsing Ed Markey for re-election.
Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Lev Ben Ezra, Kara Peters, & Jodi McGahn: funding childcare, medical attention and wrap-around services for our children.
Astronomer Salman Hameed: the White House on aliens.
Political Gold with Josh Silver: the polls and the pols.
ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Madison Palffy & Rick Myers: the new Caesura Unit Art Gallery in Easthampton and the exhibit “Bad Time.”
Northampton-based poet and novelist Jendi Reiter on “Introvert Pervert” & his upcoming events at the Broadside and Odyssey Books.
We Fishwrap Hadley’s Override, & Kelsey Flynn talks turkey.
Nhtn Jazz Fest Pres Ruth Griggs, Grammy Award-winning vocalist Catherine Russell & jazz vocalist Carol Abbe Smith on “The Girls in the Band”
Congressman Jim McGovern: the debate and vote on the Iran War and the War Powers Act. Any chance Congress can control Trump?
Eric Nakajima, Holyoke’s Dir of Planning and Econ Dev: a proposed data center; the city’s hydro-created power; transforming the dilapidated K-Mart Plaza; also, Framebridge Custom Framing -- opening & hiring soon.
District Attorney David Sullivan: do juries work, how juries work.
Larry Hott w/ Professor Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber: the great divides in Israel—ethnic, racial & political.
Hadley 3rd Graders are working hard to make asparagus the official state vegetable. Their idea, their effort! We speak with their teachers Charlene Desjardnis & Elaine Tudryn.
Sarah Welch from Hilltown Land Trust: what happened on the beaver dam—and why and WOW!
Deborah Snow, co-founder of Amherst-based Bridge for Unity: dialogue for fighting racism and discrimination—the June 13th event.
Lisa Wong, South Hadley Town Administrator, on overrides, the right number, creative solutions.
Garrick Perry, Nhmptn Reparations Commission member & Councilor-at-large: Juneteenth – the celebration in Northampton on June 6 –the stars are coming & the stars have aligned. Don’t miss this!
Sen Paul Mark: the 250th celebration – Trump v Massachusetts; state bonding authorization of billions for education, roads, vital infrastructure.
Author Tom Perrotta on “Ghost Town,” racism & a white town. In conversation with Martin Espada @ the Odyssey this evening.
Writers Block w/ Megan Zinn & Ruth Ozeki: “The Typing Lady and Other Fictions”— a preview of her upcoming event at the Odyssey Bookshop, in conversation with Kelly Link
Mayor GL Sciarra of Northampton: the schools, the budget, the fiscal stability plan, & an override in our future?
Watermelon Wednesdays w/Paul Newlin & world-renown musician Corey Pesaturo: a preview of this week’s amazing concert.
Senator Jo Comerford: the Protect Act, ICE in Massachusetts & the legislative process—getting it right.
The Hustler Files Ep 164 - One Question, Many Answers
Western Mass Business Show on 5.30.26 - Friends of Forbes Library
ArtBeat w/Donnabelle Casis & artist Mahwish Chisty and Ehmtn OOO gallery owners Emma Chubb & Matt Cummings on “Wounds” & how you can help repair the wounds of war.
Jim Nash, former Nhmtn City Council Pres on overrides in Easthampton June 9 & Northampton next year.
Chester Theatre’s Co-Artistic Directors Chris Baker & Michelle Ong-Hendrick on upcoming plays
Political Gold with Josh Silver: the mid-terms & what are the odds.
MTA Pres Max Page: Trump’s tax credits for private & religious schools, an attack on public education.
Chester Theatre’s Co-Artistic Directors Chris Baker & Michelle Ong-Hendrick on upcoming plays
ArtBeat w/Donnabelle Casis & artist Mahwish Chisty and Ehmtn OOO gallery owners Emma Chubb & Matt Cummings on “Wounds” & how you can help repair the wounds of war.
MTA Pres Max Page: Trump’s tax credits for private & religious schools, an attack on public education.
Political Gold with Josh Silver: the mid-terms & what are the odds.
Jim Nash, former Nhmtn City Council Pres on overrides in Easthampton June 9 & Northampton next year.
All that Jazz with John Anz and Liz Longley, coming to the Iron Horse.
Pastor Carole Bull: Having faith in a time of political turmoil.
Carol Rose, ACLU of Mass Ex Dir: the ACLU’s fight in Mass federal court against Trump’s Ex Order putting him and his Post Office in charge of voting. The hearing is Tuesday.
Eric Jay Dolin, author of “ The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair and Deliverance in the Age of Sail.” An amazing story.
Carol Rose, ACLU of Mass Ex Dir: the ACLU’s fight in Mass federal court against Trump’s Ex Order putting him and his Post Office in charge of voting. The hearing is Tuesday.
Eric Jay Dolin, author of “ The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair and Deliverance in the Age of Sail.” An amazing story.
Pastor Carole Bull: Having faith in a time of political turmoil.
All that Jazz with John Anz and Liz Longley, coming to the Iron Horse.
Dave Small, Dir of Conservation @ Mount Grace Land Trust: saving the Ebony Bog Haunter (really!), dragon flies and 40,000 acres.
Dr. Ethan Chapin, Cooley-Dickinson’s Dir of Emergency Medicine: It’s Stroke Prevention Month—save yr life & the life of a loved one—BE FAST.
Resilient Valley’s Julia Riseman & Lora Wondolowski: fundraising ideas & more
Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby: the override vote on June 9th
The Leslẽa Newman on “Rainbow Cookies” and “Something Sweet: A Sitting Shiva Story;” also, censorship, love, & her upcoming reading for kids & parents at High Five Books.
Greenfield City Council President Lora Wondolowski: Greenfield is a happening place – Juneteenth & the Green River Festival; her job at the Peace Development Fund, public safety & balancing priorities.
Sports historians Duke Goldman & Keith O’Brien (coming to Broadside) on his new book “Heartland: A Forgotten Place, An Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird.”
Amherst Town Manager Paul Bockelman: Hampshire College’s closing—an update preserving services, school funding,layoffs?
Western Mass Business Show on 5.23.26 - John Bidwell Chief Development Officer at Way Finders
The Hustler Files Ep 163 - He Served 22 Years For A Crime He Didn't Commit
Alex Bowman from the new AAA -- All Ages and Abilities: shared use trails, electric bikes, the expanding bike trail network, new state regs and laws?
Rep Mindy Domb. The reveal—she’s a night owl and Stephen Colbert’s last show made her laugh and cry—for many reasons that she shares. Also, the Blue Envelope Bill is close to becoming law. Congrats Rep Dom and Sen Comerford.
Max Page, Mass Teachers Ass’n Pres: $ for schools & higher ed this year, and college in three years, not four—the debate is joined.
Political Gold with Josh Silver: Trump’s plummeting poll numbers portend what?
ArtBeat With Donnabelle Casis and Will Baczek: his 30th anniversary show featuring Scott Prior and Nanny Vonnegut and other stars and celebrating art here.
UMass Ph. D. & Post- Doc Researcher Yuzhen Zhang on UMass-developed new technology, BactiSee – using a smart phone to detect bacteria in commercial food facilities & in our home kitchens, on cutting boards & dishwashers.
All That Jazz Ruth Griggs, Paul Arslanian & Tap Dance percussionist Alexis Robbins
Extra!! Extra!! w/ Gazette and Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: the Northampton Housing Authority, the Overrides, & Picture Main Street.
Memorial Day – so much and so many to remember – with Central Hampshire Veterans Service Director Steve Connor.
Kate Buckman, Aquatic Ecologist with the Greenfield-based Connecticut River Conservancy: happening here – fish on elevators, the great migration, nest building male fish, shad’s return from their world tour, local sea lampreys – don’t call them eels or
From Transitions Through Motion in Hatfield -- Leora Barry, Ex Dir, and Theresa Fischer: horses helping people.
We Fishwrap Picture Main Street and the news on Hampshire’s closing.
Filmmakers Larry Hott and John Manulis on “Fortunate Sons” – highly recommended.
Paradise City Arts Festival at the Fair Grounds this weekend—we visit with the show Director, Mariah Swanson—200+ artists and craftspersons, musicians (new, larger stages) and perfect weather for the show.
Feminist Futures with Smith Coll Prof Carrie Baker. Carrie interviews Marianne Winters, Ex Dir of Safe Passage about the two recent domestic violence homicides in our community—at UMass and in Belchertown.
Comedy Quiz –on bugs and bees—with Happier Valley Comedy’s Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, Sally Ekus & special contestant Carrie Baker.
Sci- Tech Café with MHC Prof Kerstin Norstrom & Hampshire Coll Ecology & Global Change Prof Jennifer Van Wyk: bees (gender is a social construct!), No Mow May, and bugs v insects. Also, Hampshire College’s commencement and its closing.
The three not so little bears in Bill’s neighborhood.
Michael Klare, Five College Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: War and Peace (?) -- China, Iran, Cuba & Ukraine.
Megan Zinn with Katie DeBonville on “Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir.”
Andrew Zimbalist, Smith Prof and sports expert: the World Cup coming to Mass -- an economic boondoggle?
Dr. David Gottsegen on plastics in our food and water.
The Hustler Files Ep 162 - Sounds Like Trouble to Me: From Prison Walls to Powerful Fiction
Western Mass Business Show on 5.16.26 - Paradise City Arts
ArtBeat with Jason Montgomery (in for Donnabelle Casis) & Darrell Clemmer: “Small Scale, Epic World” at 50 Arrow Gallery in Easthampton.
Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: “ The Supreme Court’s Takedown of American Democracy Is Complete.” And last night Texas executed its 600th person since the death penalty was reinstated—a person profoundly intellectually challenged.
MTA Pres Max Page: the banks’ demands on Hampshire College and why it’s closing, the MTA’s position on overrides, and the MTA’s newly-elected officers (Max is term limited).
Students from Mohawk Trail Regional interview Bill about radio and journalism.
Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: the state budget—the good, the bad & the ugly, the Protect Act and bonding bills for the environment and economic development.
Michael Klare, Five (Four?) College Prof. Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping, the Strait of Hormuz (which they both want open), the Wars in Iran and Ukraine, likely outcomes & dangers ahead.
Buz and Bill on local overrides and Prop 2 ½.
Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: the erroneous conflating of Judaism with Netanyahu’s government.
Eric Nakajima, Holyoke Dir of Economic Development: housing for all.
Eric Reeves, Founder of Project Zam Zam: the catastrophe in Sudan and Darfur.
Lynn Griesemer, Amherst Town Councilor: Hampshire College’s closing -- what we know and when we know it and maybe a silver lining for the town?
Darcy DuMont & Paul Fenn, founder & Pres of Local Power: The green energy you think you’ve been buying isn’t green—sorry; and more nukes?—sorry again.
Larry Hott & Raeshma Razvi, from Mass Humanities: “ A People’s Guide to the Revolution” -- aspiration, inspiration and reality.
Emily Boddy & Laura Erny, from ReConnect Western MA: “Digital Delusions—How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids.”
Hadley School Superintendent Anne McKenzie: the proposed overrides - the people will decide
Northampton Bike Week: George Kohout & Rick Ranti why ride & this week’s trips and events.
Duke Goldman w/Andy (A.M) Gittlitz, author of “The Metropolitans: New York Baseball
Rep Pat Duffy: Holyoke educators win a contract, the future of the Farm Bill & the Protect Act.
Novelist Joanna Margaret: “The Daughters” –a thriller, Odyssey Bookshop reading Wed 5/13
Safe Passage Exec Dir Marianne Winter & author Patricia Lee Lewis: “Story Telling as Healing"
Corrine Coryat, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the First Franklin District.
Jarrett Krosoczka: RISE Fest an amazing literary and art event of, by and for young people @ NHS
Nhmptn City Councilor Laurie Loisel: last night’s passage of the Resolution about ICE & budget
MTA Pres Max Page: this weekend’s election, how the MTA actually works
Erin Buzuvis, WNEU Law Professor & expert on sex discrimination law
Political Gold with Josh Silver: what recent polls portend.
ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis & Deborah Way: “What Wears You.”
The Hustler Files Ep 161 - Planting: One Seed At A Time
Western Mass Business Show on 5.9.26 - – Jennifer Derringer & Tom Navin
Mental Health Law Prof Frederick Vars: “Through the Fire: Mental Illness
Congressman Jim McGovern: the feds v Smith Coll, elections 2026 & the War in Iran.
Food Bank of Western Mass Dev Dir Jillian Morgan: 40%-50% of people here are food insecure.
All That Jazz w/ Ruth Griggs & bassist Matt Dwonszyk: Side of Jazz @Eastside Grill.
Grow Food Nhampton’s Helen Kahn: Tues Market Mgr & Aoma Muma: farmer of world veggies
Tapestry Health’s Harm Reduction Program with Pedro Alvarez & Katy Lessard: savings lives
“The Revenge of the Electric Car” – bringing back the dead—With Larry Hott and Greg Goff
District Atty David Sullivan: the recent alleged murders at UMass & in Belchertown.
Jehann El-Bisi, the People’s Artist: political & prison art & art as a healing practice
Sen Paul Mark: the Protect Act, time capsules & lottery money.
Lisa Wong, S. Hadley Town Administrator: overrides, schools, cuts, taxes
Rep Aaron Saunders: ICE in Mass, the Quabbin, state PILOTS.
Why It’s Gotta Be theater group’s Devin Dumas(Director) & Julia Adamo (actor) on “Legoland”
Kirsten interviews Bill on “Naming Truth’s Way,”
Bill interviews Kirsten on Hampshire College’s closing—its effect on Mount Holyoke College
N’hmptn Mayor Gina Lousie Sciarra: Hampshire Pride & a new school superintendent.
Amherst School Super Dr Xiomara Herman: budgets, priorities, special ed & EVs.
Astronomer & Hampshire Prof Salman Hameed: the Trump Administration v Science
Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Lev Ben Ezra & Skylah Colon
ArtBeat w/Donnabelle Casis & MHC prof Ligia Bouton: ‘The Remnant and the Echo.”
Fishwrap: Hampshire closing, Celts losing.
The Hustler Files Ep 160 - The Emotional Epicenter of a Criminal Record
Western Mass Business Show on 5.2.26 - Kisha Zullo
Theresa Lynn and Sarah Penna: Girl Scouts of Central and Western Mass: the “Art & Soul” event.
Clay Pearson, Director of Hampshire Pride, on Saturday’s celebration and protest.
Jen Nery on “Let’s Go Downtown.”
Josh Silver: Trump’s poll numbers, SCOTUS’ decision yesterday & gerrymandering
A political Fishwrap with Bill and Josh.
Ruth Griggs w/ Paul Arslanian on his musical journey, awards, & last night's concert.
Larry Hott w/ Roger Sorkin on “The Burden” & “Tidewater:” fossil fuels & the military.
Gretchen Savenson from the Rich Earth Institute: Peecycling.
Amy Newshore, relationship coach: need help?
Lynn Hersey, Smith BBall Coach, & star player Hannah Martin: women’s sports and winning.
Reparations: a discussion w/ Dr Shabazz.
Sci-Tech Café: MHC Prof Kirsten Norstrom w/ UMass Kinesiology Prof Amanda Paluch: Steps
Gfld City Council Pres Lora Wondolowski: health ins costs, layoffs? Baystate nurses’ strike
Duke Goldman: Why so few Black coaches in the NFL?
Tony Giardina w/ Francis DeBernardo: New Ways Ministry and Catholics for Inclusion.
Prison Policy Initiative’s Mike Wessler: the Just Income Program & $445 billion/yr to jail people
Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: Hampshire Coll closing, the budget & ed funding.
Megan Zinn w/ Emma Copley Eisenberg: “Fat Swim.”
Fishwrap on Ruth Suyenaga’s powerful DHG and Recorder piece on ICE and internment camps.
UMass Professor of Chinese History & Guggenheim Fellow (& NHS grad) Stephen Platt.
MTA Pres Max Page: bell to bell cell phone bans & controlling exploitive social media.
Rep Mindy Domb: a violent death at UMass & Hampshire College’s closing.
Donnabelle Casis’ ArtBeat: the Easthampton Film Festival.
The Hustler Files Ep 159 - From Felonies to Futures, Two Stories of Second Chance Hiring
Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now.
Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.”
ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate.
All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.
Forbes Library’s Priya Charry & Smith College journalism prof Naila Moreira
Smith Prof Erica Tibbetts: Sport for Social Change.
Alison Keller, end-of-life doula.
Karen Miller, Cooley Dick & VNA Hospice Manager: National Health Care Decisions Month.
Deb Klemer, Nhmptn City Council VP: founding Indivisible Northampton & misogyny in politics
Ehmptn Mayor Salem Derby: the Override & the World Cup.
The Comedy Quiz w/ Happier Valley Comedy: meteorological messiness-come play.
Rob Weir: sports celebrities not necessarily legends.
Kate Senecal creator and co-host of Kill Your Darlings reading series at Darlings Bar in EHamp
Prof. Michael Klare on Iran, energy prices, and the use of AI for war.
Lindsi Sekula, executive director of the Easthampton Housing Authority, new venture
Dr. Anne Markes, executive director of Well on Their Way, medical outreach in northern Uganda
Jacqueline Hayden (Hamp Coll prof) & Lilly Hayden Daiber (Hampshire Coll alum): mourning
Lindsay Sabadosa: Hampshire Coll, ed funding & tough choices.
Amherst prof Austin Sarat: Hampshire students, unhinged Trump, the War & murder.
ArtBeat w/ Kahli Hernandez & Imo Imeh: revolutionary art.
Larry Hott: the Movement Voter Project.
The Hustler Files Ep 158 - Four Wasn't Failure, It Was Finding Faith
“An All-Star Klezmer Evening” w/ Jake Shulman-Ment & Ira Temple.
Immunologist Dr Jonathan Bayuk: flu, measles, covid, Lyme, EEE & West Nile.
“Young@Heart Meets Y@H NYC:” local stars Bob Cilman & Sonya Nieto w/ NYC stars
Gld Recorder & DHG Ex Ed Dan Crowley: breaking news, overrides & Hampshire Coll closing.
MTA Pres Max Page: the House budget just dropped.
Western Mass Business Show on 4.18.26 - She Is
Bill & Brian on Hampshire College Closing after 56 years – sad ending
ServiceNet’s Shawn Robinson & Maribeth Ritchie: amazing farms & farming.
Reader to Reader w/ David Mazor: Saturday’s book drive for young readers—can you help?
Nhamp attorneys David Hoose & Ryan Shiff: Anthony Baye arson case & reasons for release.
Larry Hott w/ Issac Solotaroff:”Born to Bowl” -- funny and fantastic.
Hadley School Super Anne McKenzie: experience with cell phones? & AI.
Talkin Baseball: Duke Goldman - how about those Sox? a/k/a a Twins killing.
“Be Seriously Scared” w/ Chris Appy, Larry J. Tish & Michael Dwyer: fun with nukes?
Rep Patricia Duffy: bell-to- bell school cell-phone bans? & data privacy.
S#arp Attitude-THE UMass women’s a cappella group-LIVE in the studio: the Manna event.
Writers Block: Author Jennifer Acker on “Surrender,” Tuesday at the Odyssey.
Eric Nakajima, Holyoke’s Planning & Econ Dev Dir: Gateways.
Dr. Jane Fleishman: elders & intimate relationships & dating.
Western Mass Business Show on 4.11.26 - Irida Kakhtiranova
The Hustler Files Ep. 157 - Thief, Soldier, Prisoner, Priest (a book by guest Paul Cowley)
MTA Pres Max Page w/ UMass Prof & PRIM candidate Lenore Paladino: State Pensions
Fix and repair your stuff at Smith Voc — with David Starr.
Hut x3—SCDT performance 4.11 w/ Jennifer Polins, Cameron Childs & Donnabelle Casis.
The fight for cell-phone free schools w/ Emily Boddy.
Free Press Co-CEO Craig Aaron: the horrifying mega media marriage with Trump presiding.
Night Fest Saturday April 18 w/ Catherine Moriarity & Don Darnell.
Ruth Griggs w/ David Picchi: his upcoming concert at the Drake & UMass Jazz in July.
Congressman Seth Moulton: the war, the President, the Congress, the death & destruction.
Bonnie Heiple, Mass. Comm of Dept of Env Protection: $1.16 Billion for cities and towns.
Bill & Buz on the War & MHC's $3 Million contribution to So Hadley.
Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Greismer: fires, housing & volunteer boards.
Sarah LaValley & Tom Lautezenheiser: rewilding the Pine Grove Golf Course
Larry Hott on “Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan” and “Summer of Soul.”
The Academy of Music’s Melanie Slabaugh on the “Let’s Hear It” campaign.
Sen Paul Mark: the supplemental budget vote tomorrow & more $ for education.
Professors Amilcar Shabazz & Idris Robinson: the Black experience in America today.
Best-selling author Nathan Edmondson: “The Master: A Novel of Golf and Death.”
MTA Pres Max Page & Matthew Scheffler: Investing — public employees pension fund
Treehouse’s Erica Couster, Tara Brewster GSB VP & Dir of Philanthropy, & Lynn Muth
Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the school budget & Picture Main Street.
MHC Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing Mariah Rigg: “Extinction Capital of the World.”
Cammie McGovern: “The last Letters of Sally and Walter”— love in a retirement community.
Sen Paul Mark: the supplemental budget vote tomorrow & more $ for education
MTA Pres Max Page w/ Matthew Scheffler: investing $130 billion—the public employees pension fund, its benchmarks, & the fight for transparency
Professors Amilcar Shabazz & Idris Robinson: the Black experience in America today
Best-selling author Nathan Edmondson: “The Master: A Novel of Golf and Death.”
4.6 Treehouse: foster care, community & the Runway 5.
Cammie McGovern: “The last Letters of Sally and Walter”— love in a retirement community.
Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the school budget & Picture Main Street.
MHC Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing Mariah Rigg: “Extinction Capital of the World.”
“The last Letters of Sally and Walter”— love in a retirement community
Treehouse: foster care, community & the Runway 5K.
MHC Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing Mariah Rigg: “Extinction Capital of the World.”
Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the school budget & Picture Main Street.
The Hustler Files Ep 156 - From Incarcerated to Influencer: The Jesse Crosson Story
Donnabelle Casis’ ArtBeat w/ Northampton Playwright Lab’s Harley Erdman & Talya Kingston
Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Lev Ben Ezra (Ex Dir) & Frances Hall (Dir, Community Services): WIC prospers
Astronomer Salman Hameed: going to the moon, Mars & war.
Silver on Iran & November
MTA Pres Max Page: school funding & tax cutting
Professors Colin Gleason (UMass) & Taylor Rowley (Williams Coll): their new $6million NASA grant.
Congressman Jim McGovern: The War, Trump, DHS funding & No Kings.
Hilary Price, Kelsey Flynn, Kelly Silliman & Ginny Mayer:” A Laugh a Day Keeps Despair Away.”
Ruth Griggs’ “All That Jazz” w/ David Ambrosio on “Civil Disobedience,” coming to the Iron Horse.
Historic Deerfield’s Lauren Whitley & Phillippa Pitts: “Picturing and Dressing the Revolution.”
DA David Sullivan & Kara McElhone, April is Child Abuse Awareness & Prevention Month.
Pam Victor, Head of Happiness @ Happier Valley Comedy: Yes And.
Sal the Salamander, Woody the Wood Frog, Pete the Peeper & Brian Adams: crossing over.
Western Mass Business Show on 4.4.26 - Angela Park
ACLU Mass Ex Dir Carol Rose: birthright citizenship, tomorrow at SCOTUS , Protect Act
DM Gordon: “Loosestrife for Porcupines” & the poetry of resistance.
Dr. Xiomara Herman, Amherst School Super, on time-outs, restraints & the Blue Room
Larry Hott: films on Mel Brooks, Ben Stiller & Anne Meara, & Jayne Mansfield.
Rob Weir: “7 Swings at 7: Mickey Mantle—Legend and Victim of American Culture.”
Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby: antisemitism in schools, the budget, impending override?
David Roitman: UU Democracy Action Team & Prof Danielle Allen on “Reimagining Democracy"
Megan Zinn’s Writers Block w/ Jessica Brilliant Keener: “Evening Begins the Day.”
The Hustler Files Ep 155 - From Incarcerated Youth to Community Leader
ArtBeat -- Donnabelle Casis w/ Donna Castellanos: “Book of Wonder, Cover to Cover.”
Rep. Mindy Domb: protecting immigrants in Mass and No Kings.
Atty Chris Swartz from Democracy Defenders: Trump’s crimes, the Epstein files, the Law of War
Dr. David Gottsegen: “Mending the Body with the Mind: Kids Heal and Stay Healthy.”
Western Mass Business Show on 3.28.26 – Good Dog Spot
All That Jazz: John Anz w/ singer Jane Monheit...Return to The Iron Horse Wed April 15
Pastor Carole Bull: Easter & the Resurrection
Michael Klare: 5 colleges prof. emeritus of peace and world security studies - the War in Iran
Susan Triolo & Four Rivers Charter Students: Olivia Long & Luka Warren-Pukis… No Kings Day
Dr Amir Mohani & Dr Sunny Shukla of Cooley Dikinson Hospital: Talking Heart Health
Cool Films with Larry Hott w/ Christine La Monte - Ai Weiwei’s Turandot: Opera Karma
Meg Talbert: What’s Shakin at Dakin Animal Shelter - Dogs cats mice & rats
Carla Imperial of Northampton Resists & Katherine Haycox with Sunrise: No Kings Day 3/28
Princeton History Prof Rhae Lynn Barnes on “Darkology: Blackface
Sci-Tech Café MHC Prof Kirsten Norstrom & Hampshire Prof Juliet Johnston: Everyone Poops...
Gfld City Council Pres Lora Wondoloski: budget fights & single-stream recycling.
Duke Goldman: Fair Play - UMass Adjunct Prof, on college & professional sports gambling.
Tara Brewster & Susan Nicastro: Big Brothers/ Big Sisters & karaoke at the Iron Horse.
Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: his Executive Order on immigration enforcement.
Ellen Meeropol, on “Sometimes an Island.”
Megan Zinn w/ Mark Oppenheimer on “Judy Blume, a Life.”
Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson, Co-Director, Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project: resilience resistance
Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: ICE in Massachusetts & the ballot questions.
Labor leaders Max Page & Jon Weissman: protesting Bank of America.
Trustees of Reservations’ Wendy Ferris: Beaver Brook’s Rewilding
Political Gold Josh Silver: resistance
Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump’s cognition & media’s giving him a pass.
Western Mass Business Show On 3.21.26 – Summerlin Floors & Chik Media
The Hustler Files Ep 154 - When Class Action Wins Out Over Retaliation
DHG & Gfld Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: ICE grabs local men, Citizen of the Year,
Ruth Griggs w/ the extraordinary Giacomo Gates, coming to the Drake.
Nanny Vonnegut: censorship of her father Kurt Vonnegut’s books
Dr. Jonathan Bayuk on Covid, flu, allergies, & vaccinations.
Larry Hott: And the Oscar deservedly goes to…
Jenny Powers, Dir, Spld Science Museum: “Dinosaurs Still Live!”
Robert Meeropol, Founder, Rosenberg Fund for Children, Angela Davis to Nhamp
Mary Witt—singing LIVE in studio—“Singing Spring In” this Sunday.
Sue Kassirer: the Art for the Earth exhibit in Leverett
Josh Shanley: the Great Flood of March,1936 & are we safe now?
Feminist Futures -- Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ WAM Theater Artistic Director Genee Coreno
Our monthly Comedy Quiz — come play Hat Tricks.
Bill & Carrie Baker FishWrap weapons of mass distraction.
Megan Zinn w/ Anne Fadiman on “Frog and Other Essays” coming to Broadside.
Oscars Recap & Reactions w/ Megan Zinn & Kerstin Nordstrom.
Kerstin Nordstrom w/ Olivia Aguilar, MHC Prof & Dir of Miller Worley Ctr for the Environment
MA LUCE Immigrant Justice Hotline w/ Lena Entin & Michael Kane.
Western Mass Business Show on 3.14.26 - Kate Riley
Josh Silver the politics of the War
ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Michael Tillyer of NE Visionary Artists Museum: Headspace Two
We remember Paki Wieland.
Edo Mor the Valley’s music scene
The War in Iran w/ Smith Professors Naveed Mansoori & Brent Durbin.
“Mean Girls” at NHS
The Hustler Files Ep 153 - When Your Superpower Stands at the Intersection of Juveniles and Justice
The housing crisis here w/ John Bidwell (Way Finders) Laura Bandara (PVPC) & Kerry Spitzer
We The People—EHS teacher Kelly Brown & three students— Nat'l Championship!
Remembering Natalie Graves
Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: reflections on today’s world.
Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer: fighting ICE & repairing potholes.
Daniel Bullen: “Daniel Shays’ Honorable Rebellion” & lessons for today.
Joe Boisvert, owner of North Hadley Sugar Shack: maple syruping and fab breakfasts.
Cool Films w/ Larry Hott: pairing for the Oscars.
Mass Review Ex Ed Britt Rusert: the Incarceration and Family issue - inside the razor wire.
Rep Patricia Duffy: the Protect Act – restraining ICE in Mass.
Mean Girls @ NHS w/ Dave Grout & Ruby Ferrari – performing/singing LIVE in studio!
Talkin Baseball w/ Duke Goldman: Spring training, World Baseball Classic, balls & strikes.
Hadley School Super Anne McKenzie: school budget crises.
Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: silenced sirens & Holyoke’s Irish tradition.
3.9 Country Joe remembered
UMass Middle East Prof David Mednicoff: the Iran War, nukes & int’l law.
Megan Zinn w/ Lindy West: her on-the-road memoir “Adult Braces.”
Megan Zinn w/ political novelist Ellen Meeropol: “Sometimes an Island,” – life after the Undoing.
Western Mass Business Show On 3.7.26 - Bianca Walker
MTA Pres Max Page: AP scores --we’re no.1!, rural school $, the Bright Act
Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Ex Dir Lev BenEzra & Bd Pres Charity Day: Help—an emergency need for fuel assistance funds & the lived experience.
Donnabelle Casis w/ Heart for the Soul Gallery Ex Dir Sierra Meyers: the Inhairitance Exhibit.
Hampshire Coll Prof & astronomer Salman Hameed: the Iran War & other Black Holes.
The Hustler Files Ep 152 - Sheriff Calls ICE Arrest 'Bush League'
Northampton HS Chamber Choir, previewing the Local Vocal Chord Bowl—amazing!
Ruth Griggs w/ Dee Boyle-Clapp & Casandra Holden: the creative economy here.
The recently greatly honored E’mpton artist, marquetry master Silas Kopf
Congressman Jim McGovern: the war, Epstein, Bondi & the budget.
Lora Wondolowski, Gfld City Council Pres & state rep candidate: effective public service.
DA David Sullivan: protecting ourselves from consumer rip-offs & ICE.
Larry Hott w/ Yvonne Russo & Nicholas Pike: Oscar-nominated song “Sweet Dreams of Joy”
Magic Wings’ new co-owner Vytautas Sukys: talkin’ butterflies.
Jeremy Dubs -- Nhmptn Ward 4 Councilor, disability rts advocate & star of “Tallywacker.”
Forbes Library Dir Lisa Downing w/ Bill Scher, Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library Standing
Ken Comia, new Pres, Mass Chapter, American Planning Ass’n: the Pioneer Valley’s future.
Sen Paul Mark: our creative Mass economy.
Free Press Co-CEO Jessica Gonzalez & Ruth Livier, Campaign Mgr, Democracy & Civil Rts Team
“Enchanted April” in March - Easthampton Theater Co’s Gilana Chelimsky & Jane Barish.
U.S. Rep. & Armed Services Comm member Seth Moulton: the War in Iran.
Sen Jo Comerford: the Iran War, protecting immigrants here & College and University funding.
Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: students advocating for state aid for schools.
Your State U w/ Max Page & Prof & Author David Backer “As Public as Possible: Schools
Buz - The Massachusetts Government’s Response To ICE
Umass Asst Prof & Research Astronomer Jorge Zavala – Missing Link In Galaxy Evolution
Art Beat: Amanda Herman-Umass Contemporary Arts Museum w/ Sally Curcio & Alana Casey
Buz & Andy On Trump & USA Hockey
The Hustler Files Ep 151 - One System, Two Paths; Restoration vs. Punishment
Rabbah Riqi- Purim celebration
ACLU of Mass.'s Carol Rose-Mass law. ICE , No Kings Day
Buz and Bill on GCC Senior Symposia—State Power
All That Jazz: John Anz w Nick Hempton upcoming show at Tanglewood
Larry Hott & Anthony Kaufman "Don't Panic" Doc Filmmaking
Elizabeth Sacktor—Shroudmakers, Undertakers, and hairworkers
Winter Hoopla (Shelbourne Falls) this weekend: Laura Iveson, Jane Wegscheider
Mimi Kaplan & Eric Broadbent: Heat Pumps & Electrifying Massachusetts
Professor Chris Appy & Chris Small—UMass lecture: From Amazon to Gaza: Solidarity.
Fair Play—Duke on Winter Olympics & Women Athletes in sports
Lora Wondolowski—City Council of Greenfield & Running for State Rep 1st Franklin County
MHC Professor Kerstin Nordstrom & Smith College Prof. Sarah Mazda—Local volcanoes
Western Mass Business Show on 2.21.26 - Hannah Rechtschaffen
Lindsay Sabadosa: Healthcare and Education
Buz and Dan on AI: Pros & Cons
Max Page & Riley Hernandez, president of the Springfield Education Assoc: Healthcare etc
Amherst College Austin Sarat: Pam Bondi performance & November 2026 election nightmare
Buz & Dan on schools and regionalization
Bombyx Director Cassandra Holden & Kristin Neville: Corey Harris Friday, February 27 at 7 PM
The Hustler Files Ep 150 - When Hope Meets Action: Lives Reclaimed
Exe. Dir. Dan Crowley--Local Sports & Local Journalism
All That Jazz w/ Ruth Griggs & Jazz Guitarist Peter Bernstein comin' to Drake Mar 7th
UMass Prof. & PERI co-director Michael Ash—100 WORST polluters list
Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby—Waste treatment, Housing, & WE THE PEOPLE need $$$
Paul Spector—Friday Action Group; Flipping the House
Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman--School Budgets: The Good and Bad.
Lundy Bancroft & Sarah Matthews Western Mass Rights of Nature
Dr. David Gottsegen--Author of Mending the Body with the Mind
Smith Prof. Carrie Baker & Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian- Reclaiming faith in trying times.
Happier Valley Comedy Quiz -- Maddy Benjamin, Micaela Foster, Scott Braidman, Carrie Baker
Feminist Futures Carrie Baker & Exec Director Amanda Sanderson Resilience Center
7th Hampden State Rep. Aaron L. Saunders—Two AI bills & ICE legislation on Beacon Hill
2/16: Elyse Moore --"Jolly Good Time in the Kitchen" GCC Senior Symposia 2/18, at 2pm
Mandi Jo Henneke — Amherst Town Council president on budgets, schools, housing, & charter
Writers' Block w/ Megan Zinn & acclaimed Lauren Groff about her new book Brawler
MHC Kerstin Nordstrom with MHC Astronomy Prof. Ben Boatwright — Colonizing Mars?
Western Mass Business Show on 2.7.26 -- Maureen Scanlon
Western Mass Business Show on 2.14.26 -- Chantal Bernard
Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis—JooYoung Choi, AstroFuturist artist
Max Page and Peter Enrich-Raise Up Mass Coalition on Ballot Initiatives $7 or 8 billion in cuts
Al Williams of Northampton Open Media & Jeff Mastroianni – Executive Director (E-Media)
John Feffer and John Berkowitz—Ukraine War End game?
The Hustler Files Ep 149 - Finding Hope in a No-Parole State
Buz and Dan—Incivility in Congress, our AI Future
Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy: book talk with David Daley, interviewer Chris Appy
UMass Professor Epstein—Fed Reserve Investigation, Jobs Report, and Independence
Dr Adam Barsouk — Outsmarting Cancer, Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention,
Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer —HOUSING, UMass Students & ICE
Larry Hott—Larry’s got the Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond, & animation not just for Kids
Chris Freeman - Iron Horse—"Music Alone Shall Live"
George Kahout — Friends of Northampton Trail & Riding Down Main street
Pat Duffy—5th Hampden Rep—Breaking News: AI regulation, Housing, & Spr. Museum
Duke Goldman—Will not miss the Super Bowl end, Spring Training,
Charles Walker-Hoover & Alannah Brunt, UMass, 2/13 (NAACP Week 2026)
Sheryl L. Stanton, Superintendent, Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional School Districts
John Bonifaz, Pres & Founder of Free Speech for People: prosecuting ICE agents, the AG, DAs,
Writers Block w/John Sayles's on “Crucible,” Henry Ford, industrial policy & his antisemitism.
Megan Zinn w/ Broadside’s Roz Kreshak-Hayden: books to read & indies to support.
Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Bad Bunny, schools, MTA negotiations, icy roads, state aid
Panorama -- Episode 142 -- Will Brideau & Steve Sanderson
2.6 Super Bowl Preview
Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis— Elizabeth Stone, Rosalyn Driscoll, Tori Lawrence
Salman Hameed—Mr. Universe— Science, Kids, Learning & A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Lev BenEzra-Community Action—Peter Wingate, Director of Energy & Weatherization Program
Your State U Max Page-Carolyn Chou & Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on rent & health care cost
The Hustler Files Ep 148 - Fostering Change, One Child at a Time
Sheryl Stoodley (artistic dir), John Sheldon (Red Guitarist), Robin Doty (managing dir)
Our House w/ Representative Jim McGovern—Ice, Affordability, Elections
Corrine Coryat - candidate for 1st Franklin District—Listening & Leading.
Ruth Griggs previews Fat Tuesday w/ Samirah Evans & Chris Lenois
Lora Wondoloski, Jessa McCormack, Henry Morgan—Peace Dev Fund funding the movement
Brian Adams with UMass Professor of Public Policy Juniper Katz on renewable energy
Cool Films with Larry Hott on Oscar nominees for best short documentary
NW DA David Sullivan: Gov Healey responds to ICE & new plan to combat sex trafficking
Carole Bull-Do something! The journey of healing
State Senator Paul Mark—Money, Healthcare, 250th celebration, & the Pats
Super. Dr Xiomara Herman—Pelham Schools, Difficult Days Ahead
Hampshire College President Jennifer Chrisler--Financial Sustainability & the Future
John Bollard: “Two Hundred Years of Protesting with Rosa Parks.”
Megan Zinn w/ Bremond Berry MacDougall & Lisa Endo Cooper: “lost” women authors.
Nmpton Mayor GL Sciarra: If ICE comes to Hamp, snow removal, art & artists
Sen. Jo Comerford: combatting ICE’s harms in Mass & nationwide & state finances.
Panorama -- Episode 141 -- On The Western Tradition with Harvard Professor James Hankins
Western Mass Business Show on 1.31.26 -- Lindsay Labonte Manager of Applied Mortgage
Josh Silver: Nmpton Open Media, YouTube, polarization & diss-course.
Donnabelle Casis w/ -- Tuman & Newman: “Every Day Is Play: The Art of Dave Rothstein.”
MTA Pres. Max Page: taxing billionaires from Massachusetts to Washington State.
Josh Silver w/ Atty Steve Jonas -- Democracy Defenders Fund: can the courts save us?
The Hustler Files Ep 147 - It's OK to Say the F Word
Ehmpton Mayor Salem Derby: what if ICE comes? & other pressing issues.
Court Dorsey, actor & poet and Grammy Award-winning cellist Eugene Friesen
UMass Poli Sci Prof Ray La Raja: too much democracy in Amherst?
All that Jazz: Jon Anz w/ Orice Jenkins –Tuesday @ City Sports Grill w/ the Green St. Trio.
The Northamptones LIVE! And fabulous!
Cooley Dick Hosp Pres & COO, Kevin Whitney: paying for health care.
Manna Comm Kitchen Ex Dir Niki Landowski & Dev Dir, Kaitlyn Ferrari: combatting hunger here
“Cool Films” w/ Academy Award voter Larry Hott: his movie recommendations.
Citizens Awareness Network Ex Dir Deb Katz: Gov Healey is wrong—No Nukes!
Gfld Council Pres Lora Wondoloski: banning surveillance cameras & affordable housing.
UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz w/ Amherst DEI’s Philip Avila: honoring Black History Month.
Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: CRESS & Snowmageddon.
Mt Holyoke Prof Kerstin Nordstrom w/ Amherst’s Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi: GIANT planets
Western Mass Business Show on 1.17.26 -- Mesuda Cafe
The Hustler Files Ep 146 - Intellectual Espresso
Donnabelle Casis w/ STCC Prof Sondra Peron: “Faces of Grief.”
MTA Pres Max Page: The Gov’s “State of the Commonwealth” address, Fair Share, etc
Political Consultant Josh Silver: Trump, Greenland, Epstein, Davos, NATO & Europe.
The Writers' Mill Founding Members Mary Beth Caschetta & Morgan Griffin
UMass Poli Sci Prof & pollster Tatishe Nteta: Trump’s continuing popularity?
Rabbi David Seidenberg: ICE, Rabbinic resistance, religious extremism & Tu BiShvat.
Ruth Griggs w/Dave Haughey & Natalie Padilla: “Cello & Chocolate” @ Bombyx.
Nanette Vonnegut & ACLU of Utah atty Tom Ford: their lawsuit against book banning
ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: how you can resist-- now, today, really!
1.21 King & Pawns
1.21 All Out Adventures
1.21 Steinberg
1.21 Cool Films
Mayors Monday w/ N’mpton’s GL Sciarra: schools, money & your time with her.
Feminist Futures: Carrie Baker w/ Mass Comm on Status of Women Comm’r Tina Gaines
Comedy Quiz w/ Happier Valley Comedy’s Maddy Benjamin, Laura Patrick & Scott Braidman
Rep Aaron Saunders: SNAP, fed cuts & state funds.
Panorama -- Episode 139 -- Save Paradise City
Panorama -- Episode 139 -- Independent Voices
MTA Pres Max Page: death by 1,000 cuts?
Josh Silver: behind the headlines, polls & pols.
Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump, higher ed & troops on the streets.
Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: our democracy, ourselves.
Donnabelle Cass w/ Smith Coll Museum of Art’s Emma Chub – the extraordinary exhibit
The Hustler Files Ep 145 - From Lecture Halls to Behind the Wall | Life, Inside Out
UMass Legal Studies Prof, Atty Jamie Rowen: Trump, Venezuela, Greenland & int’l law.
Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: flu is rampaging & the medical system failing.
Gazette & Recorder Ex Editor Dan Crowley: Trump’s attacks on the press & local topics
Ruth Griggs w/ star flute and saxophonist Anna Webber: coming to the Iron Horse w/ her nonet
Amherst Cinema’s Alex Horbeck & George Myers: films you really want to see.
Phil Ringwood, Ex Dir, Dial Self: homeless youth here.
Amherst Councilor Lynn Greismer: schools & the 2026 financial cliff.
Hillary Caws-Elwitt: light eaters, romantic turtles, talking trees & books.
Pat Goggins on commercial rent in Northampton
Duke Goldman: the Red Sox let another star go.
Bishop Talbot Swan: MLK as a radical prophet.
Prof Amilcar Shabazz on violence in America - yesterday & today.
Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garica, Treasurer Rory Casey & Councilor Megan McGrath-Smith:
Amherst author Jill Shulman: choosing a college & taking time to tell them who you are.
Megan Zinn w/ Jedediah Berry, author of “The Naming Song,”
UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz: years later, are we honoring MLK’s legacy?
The Hustler Files Ep 143 - The Reality Is In The Numbers
Panorama -- Episode 138 -- The Far-Right Movement and Nick Fuentes
Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Lev Ben Ezra & Jess Thompson: the working poor
Astronomer Salman Hameed: space station troubles, aliens & galaxies w/o stars.
MTA Pres Max Page: strong unions, Social Security & the state budget.
Donnabelle Casis w/ Hannah & Anneke Corbett: “Stitchin’ Kin.”
The Hustler Files Ep 144 - Guided By Experience + Grounded By Science = Changing Outcomes
Human rts atty Laura Pitter: Trump’s justifications for ICE’s killing & Maduro’s abduction.
UMass Prof Cole Fitzpatrick: new local data on car fatalities.
Ruth Griggs w/ Valley Jazz Voices Dir Jeff Olmsted: Saturday’s fabulous concert @ Bombyx.
Heartbeat Theater’s Kimberly Gaughan & Jason Rose-Langston on “Proof.”
Larry Hott’s Cool Films: “The Alabama Solution” & “The Perfect Neighbor.”
Mass Audubon’s Tom Lautzenheiser: brumation, waking up winter, & meadow-jumping mice.
Broadside Bookshop co-owner Roz Kreshak-Hayden: navigating Picture Main St & new books
DA David Sullivan: Venezuela, fentanyl & local prosecutions.
Sen Paul Mark: some good news from the Beacon Hill.
Sen Jo Comerford: the 2026 ballot questions.
Congressman Seth Moulton: Trump’s aggression & Congress’ passivity.
UMass History Prof Kevin Young: Venezuela & war & UMass Amherst
At-large Amherst Councilor Mandi Jo Hanneke: buy the numbers.
Megan Zinn w/ Margot Douaihy: “Divine Ruin,” third in the Sister Holiday mystery series.
Nation Magazine Defense Correspondent Michael Klare: Venezuela & beyond.
Bob Flaherty: Trump, the invasion, protests & rewilding.
The Hustler Files Ep 142 - Grit, Grace & Not A Gangster
Beth Gillis, couples' therapist: resolutions?
Bill Danielson: “Speaking of Nature”— photo of the year
Cool Films with Larry Hott—three recommendations.
Ben Weil, Northampton Dir of Climate Action: good news!
Western Mass Business Show on 1.3.26 --
Archguitarist Peter Blanchette LIVE in studio.
Rio Contrada & Joan Axelrod Contrada: artists at work
Joseph Morrison: Outline Sour Candy’s grand opening
Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Our Money Ourselves
Gwen Agna: the view from the principal’s office and the school committee
Thomas Draudt: “Conversations on Main”— Picture Main St.
Megan Zinn, Lee Thomson & Alice Hough:” Whatcha reading?”—fantasies to consider
Lucia Dostal—an amazing musician—in studio!
The Hustler Files Ep 142 - Grit, Grace & Not A Gangster
Prison Policy Initiative’s Mike Wessler: Christmas in prison.
Wayne Feiden: open space, cityscapes, Picture Main St & his gig at UMass.
CDH Dr Sunny Shukla: Welcome to the ER.
Larry Hott highly recommends “Cover-up” & “The $ Six Billion Man.”
Western Mass Business Show on 12.27.25--Begley/Childs/DiStefano Interview
Charter Review Committee -- The Origins
Charter Review Committee -- The Recommendations
Charter Review Committee -- Democracy in Amherst
Charter Review Committee -- The Future
Pres Lora Wondoloski: housing, housing housing!
Paki Wieland & Nick Mottern: the L3Harris demo & their successful necessity defense
Eric Reeves: genocide in Sudan
Fair Play w/ Duke Goldman: the San Quentin Giants.
Manou Africa & Kalpana Devi: First Night with Rebelle
Amh Town Mgr Paul Bockelman & Comms Mgr Sam Giffin: $, budget, schools, potholes
Megan Zinn w/Elinor Lipman on “Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters.”
A First Night preview with Nmptn Arts Council Events Producer Steve Sanderson
Celebrating Kwanza w/ Kwanza Collective Co-founders Dr Amilcar Shabazz & Ayanna Crawford
Francis Rooney, former ambassador to the Holy See & Republican Congressman
MTA Pres Max Page: $ for education, grad reqmts & a living wage for paras.
Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: political and budget consensus?.
ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Jason Montgomery: Human Nature.
The Hustler Files Ep 141 - 30 Years and 30 Feet from Death's Door
Melissa Allen--the legal fights
Dr. Jonathan Bayuk on the looming HEALTHCARE CRISIS in Mass
Daily Hamp. Gazette Ed. Dan Crowley -- local fires and X-Mas gifts
John Anz w/ Leala Cyr: Hartford Jazz Orchestra holiday show.
Jonathan's farewell to Hungry Ghost Bread, a new chapter begins
First Night Preview w/ Steve: singer, songwriter Eleanor Levine
Cool Films w/ Larry and Sarah Salomon & Julie Hahn -- new beginnings later in life
Jennifer Polins--ECHOES Explorations in dance, humanity and interconnections
Irene Butter’s story, surviving the Holocaust and lessons for today
Comedy Quiz--Maddy, Mo McElligott, Scotty B., Buz, and Carrie--Ice Sports!
State Representative Aaron Saunders on the health care crisis!
Feminist Future Carrie Baker & Marissa Hoechstetter—on doctor abuse and survivor resilience.
Nate Clifford, co-owner of Cornucopia, on reopening in January
Western Mass Business Show on 12.13.25 -- Lora Wondolowski and Kim Snyder Resilient Valley
Amherst Super. Dr. Xiomara Herman—budgets, start time, and staff.
EMK Institute CEO Adam Hinds on polarization and the Filibuster.
Writers' Block w/ Megan Zinn & Karolina Zapal on the Book Reading Challenge
Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby—lean budgets and affordability.
Max Page & Berkshire Comm Coll Pres Ellen Kennedy: threats to higher ed but optimism
Free Press Co-Pres Craig Aaron: Trumps’ EO prohibiting regul AI regulation, media mergers
Political Gold w/ Josh Silver: Trump’s vulnerabilities, SCOTUS Voting Rights Act? redistricting
Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Trump’s DOE killing Sublime Systems’ low-carbon cement
Donnabelle Casis w/ poet Matt Dunovan & artist Ligia Bouton on Emily Dickinson
The Hustler Files Ep 140 - Justice in the Face of Overwhelming Odds
Michael Moriarity, educational specialist: ed reform—a possible Massachusetts Miracle?
Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: miracles and Hannukah.
Professor & astronomer Salman Hameed: a new planet & --amazing-- life on asteroids
Rep. Natalie Blais: on the road again, food insecurity & health care.
Andre′ Boulay, co-owner, A2Z Toy Store: way too much fun! & yr gifts
Bob Schraeder, owner-operator, Chestnut Mountain Tree Farm: yr Christmas tree
Larry Hott highly recommends “Soul of a Nation” & “Thank You Very Much.”
Amherst Council Pres Lynn Griesemer: the state of the town, schools, capital projects & $.
Hadley School Super Anne McKenzie: AI in schools
Duke Goldman w/ Robert Fitts: “In the Japanese Ballpark-- Behind the Scenes…”
Kim Wolcott from Racial Justice Rising: Kwanza in Greenfield
Nation Mag Defense Corr Michale Klare: the National Security Strategy & Ukraine
Panorama -- Episode 136 -- Northampton Election Retrospective 2
Laurie Millman, Dir. Ctr for New Americans, & Narissa Nields - performing LIVE in studio
Mass banned Christmas -- Historian Tim Blagg explains
Megan Zinn w/ Joanna Sokol: “A Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance.”
Dr. Amilcar Shabazz w/ Amherst Area Gospel Choir’s Jacqueline Wallace & Holla Heather Lord
MTA Pres Max Page & Harry Feder, Ex Dir, Fair Test: high stakes testing in Mass—again?
Bill and Josh Fishwrap on Trump and Netflix.
Josh Silver w/ Ben Scott, Ex Dir, Reset, the int’l org: digital disinformation and democracy.
Matteo Pangallo, John Bidwell & Chris Rohmann: “It’s a Wonderful Life."
Donnabelle Casis w/ George Kohout, Pres. Friends of N’ton Trails: the mini museums here.
Community Action’s Lev BenEzra & Jess Thompson: food and heat – for all?
The Hustler Files Ep 139 - The Power of Truth Shall Not Be Silenced
Panorama -- Episode 135 -- Lindsi Sekula on Running for Mayor of Easthampton
Congressman Jim McGovern: will his War Powers Resolution pass?
Congressman Seth Moulton: why run against Ed Markey?
Ruth Griggs w/ Kyle Homstead: new music venues: Hope Center & De la Luz — the experience.
“Borderland” w/ Ari Keigan (PVWC), Ellen Koteen (Interfaith Action), Maria Garcia (St. John’s)
Safe Passage’s Marianne Winters, Natalie Ulrich & Amanda Lapierre
D.A. Dave Sullivan: prosecuting domestic violence
Cool Films w/ Larry Hott: the Academy Awards & “All God’s Children.”
UMass Prof Bethany Bradley: invasions of invasive species here
Sci-Tech Cafe w/ MHC Profs Kerstin Nordstrom & Ted Gilliland: birds
Harvard prof James Hankins, co-author of “The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition.”
Sen Paul Mark: legislators dress code! book bans & food insecurity
Rich Michaelson w/ local poet Aiyana Masla: “The Underdream.”
Court Dorsey, Joe Laur, Izzy Miller & Steve Eldredge: “Swamped.”
Rev Carole Bull & activist Crystal Zevan: daily updates from Gaza
Megan Zinn w/ Linda Summersea : “The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll,” a memoir.
N’ton Mayor GL Sciarra: the election & its aftermath.
Western Mass Business Show on 11.29 --
The Hustler Files Ep 138 - Stories of (Thanks)Giving
Larry Hott: two brave anti-fascist films: “Norita” & “Mr. Nobody Against Putin.”
Andre Strong Bearheart Gaines: National Day of Mourning & the Nipmuc Nation
N’ton Survival Ctr’s Heidi Nortonsmith & Alexander Leger-Small: food for 18 communities
CDH Dir of Comm Health, Agathe Hoffer-Schaefer: our health needs -- the assessment
Duke Goldman: professional athletes, politics & free speech.
Valley Comm Dev Corp’s Jessica Allan & Alexis Breiteneicher: new affordable housing
Gfld City Council Pres Lora Wondoloski: the march, surveillance cameras, & housing