The Fabulous 413

Collaboration can be magical, it’s true. We see it in a friendship that bloomed online and is benefiting a community facing agricultural crisis. Chef Neftali Duran talks about a fundraiser for Proyecto Rosenda. In addition to letting us know which Mezcal brands genuinely benefit the indigenous community that invented the spirit , we hear about how the non-profit he started to aid the area in refor...

We sit with all-around food justice championer Liz O'Gilvie who is taking part in CISA's storytelling event Field Notes this Sunday, hear about the 40+ year legacy of Girls Inc of the Valley with Jess Colson, and get into a listener question about resurging pronounciations with resident wordster Emily Brewster

It’s an emotional rollercoaster, today’s show. First, the ups: The Back Porch Festival is headed back to Northampton next weekend, March 15-17. Last year the event expanded to include more music, more venues, and more genres than ever before and Signature Sounds is keeping that momentum up this year with the most content we’ve ever seen. Jim Olsen, joins us to talk about the good musical trouble t...

It’s not that we’re seeing double, but we are getting things in twos. There has been a wave of municipalities calling for ceasefires regarding the conflicts between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza. The Amherst town council is poised to vote on one this very evening. But how effective are measures like these in a domestic or international context? We get two different approaches and opinions on thi...

We drink Croatian wine with winemaker Kreso Petrekovic, take a tour of the Dr. Seuss exhibits at Springfield Museums as they gear up for celebrations honoring his birthday, welcome back the Northampton Record Fair with organizer Justin Cohen, and have a harmonious Live Music Friday with the trio Eavesdrop

It's the 320th anniversary of the Deerfield Raid, but much has been learned about the incident in the intervening years. So we speak with author and historian James Swanson who has just released a new book about this moment in early American history. “The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America”. Before he comes to Deerfield Academy this w...

It is absolutely the time to explore the idea of freedom. This is especially true for us here in Massachusetts; a place that has always had a connection to the pursuit of liberty but also a much murkier connection to the legacy of enslavement. We chat with local historian Cliff McCarthy, who has participated in some of the local initiatives to recover more of these histories including Freedom Stor...

We get a sneak peek of CISA's upcoming event Field Notes with Tessa White Diemand of Diemand Farms in Wendell, look at the intersections of the humanities and environmental work with professor Malcom Sen of UMass, and take a tour of the exhibit "Emancipation" at the Williams College Museum of Art with curator Destinee Filmore.

We take a glance at the Point/Counterpoint speaker series with moderator professor Ilan Stavans, hear about a corporate lunar landing and what that could mean for the future of the moon with Mr. Universe, and head to Pittfield to get a taste of the Carribean at the newest eatery on North St.: BB's Hot Spot.

We take Live Music Friday on the road to hang out with punk rock duo Film & Gender, check out a new fabric store in Holyoke that's on a mission to conserve both broadway and hollywood fabrics and your clothes, hear about CSA week with CISA and Mark Rutkowski of Rivershed Farm, and make our own birthday-styled Wine Thunderdome.

We hear about the two events happening in Greenfield this weekend centered around the Rights to Nature movement with Dian Dix of the Nolumbeka Project and Livia Charles of Western Mass Rights to Nature, and hang out with another Amherst College alum who's headed back to campus for LitFest this weekend, Brown University professor Lisa Biggs.

We head to Umass' exhibition that combines art, science, Indigenous HIstory and more with Interim director of Umass Contemporary Art Museum Amanda Herman, start a new pursuit in the name of marginalized local history with professor Ousmane Power-Green, and get up close and particular with pronouns and Word Nerd Emily Brewster.

We hear about the community building and restorative work of Jesse Freidin and his latest series "Are You Ok?" which centers transgendered and gender non-conforming youth, and chat with Sam Lovejoy about the 50th anniversary of his tower toppling feat and the documentary about the event that will have a showing at the Shea Theater later this week.

We delve into the music catalog of Sopie Et Adam before their show at 33 Hawley, talk with confirmed MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient author Kelly Link about her brand new novel, and discover the new wine shop on the town in Easthampton at Tip Top Wine Shop for the wine thunderdome.

It’s the year of the dragon, but some of the other years are making other appearances in our show today.

We find out about an initiative to help the communities around the Quabbin Reservoir that don't have access to the waters in their backyard with NEPM Reporter Alden Bourne, Talk memoir and memories with Amherst College alums Aparna Nancherla and Jen Acker in preperation for the College's Lit Fest, and delight in liguistic misfires with Word Nerd Emily Brewster of Merriam Webster.

Lassiez les bon temps roulez!

We’re trying to make plans for the week really. That’s a large part of our chat with Dave Hayes, the Weather Nut. We heard there’s a bit of a storm headed our way and we tap the armchair meteorological specialist to find out how intense the storm is really going to be. We also cajole him into elaborating on the difference between the snow storms we might encounter. And speaking of meteors, Mr. Uni...

Folk artist of many disciplines Sean Rowe joins us for Live Music Friday, discover the nuances of appellation with a couple of interesting examples at Table & Vine for the WIne Thunderdome, and celebrate the beginning of maple season with pancakes (and waffles) at the North Hadley Sugar Shack.

Two Black History Month celebrations stop by the studio, the first a month long speaker series in Springfield, the second the culmination of months of research in Northampton, plus congressman Jim McGovern gets accolades from a jedi (or the joker) on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

It is another day where we’re looking for ties that might bring us closer. In the case of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra , they’ve got another program on the docket that looks to bring in bring in a much wider selection of the local community. Havana Nights will be an evening of latin diaspora spanning music from the traditionally “classical” to modern samba, merengue, salsa, and more, featuri...

Happy New Year! It’s lunar new year, and we’re entering the Year of the Dragon. More than a billion people will be celebrating this weekend, including some in Florence. Bombyx is having a Lunar New Year celebration on Feb 10th, hosted by local author illustrator Grace Lin , who herself has written a book on the subject. We speak with her about some of the symbols and traditions that they’ll be tea...

Today’s show is all about giving back. It’s in regular members of our community who come together to help our growing youth one on one. CHD’s Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County hosts the second annual “Big Love, Little Performances”, a fundraiser where the who’s who of the area come together to sing karaoke for the cause. Executive Director Susan Nicastro joins us to talk up how importan...

We sip wine from the turn of the century at State Street Wine & Provisions, Gush all about Dave Rothstein's latest surreal adventure of winning a snow sculpture contest, and celebrate The Colony's Motel's final show at Luthier's this bandcamp and Live Music Friday

We hang out with the host of our new show sibling, Carrie Saldo of NEPM's "The Rundown", explore more fallout from the shifting of the liquor licenses in Northampton with Parlor Room Collective executive director Chris Freeman, discover fun winter board games for the dark days with Justin Dowd of Start Playing Games, and Congressman Jim McGovern discusses the bipartisan Child Tax Credit, the conne...