We're about to go on vacation here at the show and it feels like we should start our pause with a bang. So for Live Music Friday we welcome the Greenfield-based synth-pop duo Homebody to the studio before their return to the Hatch Shell at Peskeomskut Park for their fifth free Homebody and friends show this Saturday. And ask them about the evolution of their sound and stage showin their 13+ years, and the wicked neat toys they've brought for a "stripped down" set of songs. 

Senior Editor Emily Brewster, our resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster in Springfield kindly digs into a request from Kaliis to explore the unicorn-like linguistic phenomena of hapax legomena

Plus the Tina Turner Memorial Wine Thunderdome returns to Provisions Longmeadow where, in Benson Hyde's absence, Bruce McAmis and Eric Rueli pit two very different, very-chillable, naturally fermented late-summer wines against each other, and against their fiercest competitor: cheese!