More ways to celebrate this year coming to a close, because it’s good to reflect sometimes and bestow kudos where kudos are due!

 We’ll check in with the folx at the Triplex in Great Barrington, who are celebrating the one year anniversary of their revival. Ex. dir. Ben Elliott speaks with us about the triumphs and challenges of their first year as a non-profit community cinema, and how it’s shifted the organization’s perspective going into their second year. 

Plus, more First Night performers join us, as the legendary Ray Mason joins us in the studio before you can catch him on the very last night of the year in Northampton. We’ll hear in songs and in stories how his incredible tenure has evolved into his latest album “You Never Lose That Grip”

And although Merriam-Webster has made polarization their word of the year, their senior editor and our resident wordster Emily Brewster opens our perspective to what topped the lists for some of the other dictionaries around.