After a week exploring and relaxing in Puerto Morelos, Mexico a brief glimpse into the amazing culture, language and food of the Mayan people living in the Mayan Riviera. How you can eat a delicious Mexican meal alongside cookbook superstar, Mark Bittman, and help The Pioneer Valley Workers Center’s create a more just food system by supporting their new co-op farm. A youth led circus that is also supporting the Workers Center. Glamazon-a new Merriam Webster word that has nothing to do with the website or the jungle. Affordable Bordeaux. Affordeaux, if you will And Congressman Jim McGovern on the Alabama abortion decision and the drum beat of war with Iran.

This week: Actor Comedian and Musician Lea DeLario on breaking out in song, Bowie and being Big Boo in Orange is The New Black. World Champion organist, Josh Kantor, taking a break from his duties as Fenway Park’s organist to take your requests live in studio. Rules Committee Chair Jim McGovern on Attorney General William Barr and contempt of Congress. Nerissa from The Nields reflecting on Pete Seeger’s 100th birthday. A Belmonte Family review of Cher in Springfield. Some of the new garbage time words in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. Que syrah, sirah, shiraz with the Wine Snobs and more.

This week: Earth Day and why perhaps we should prepare to move to Tatooine. Why the Green New Deal is so important to 6th graders in Amherst and High School students in Northampton and why they are imploring Congressman McGovern to do something about it. “Neuticals” something great for your dog or are they just nuts? A 30-hour local performance piece in one church and strange radio waves from another-both in the same town of Turners Falls. A review of “Wild Nights with Emily” from Rhymes with Orange cartoonist Hilary Price and what beers we’re brining to “Ubeerfest” and an awful lot more.

This week: Earth Day and why perhaps we should prepare to move to Tatooine. Why the Green New Deal is so important to 6th graders in Amherst and High School students in Northampton and why they are imploring Congressman McGovern to do something about it. “Neuticals” something great for your dog or are they just nuts? A 30-hour local performance piece in one church and strange radio waves from another-both in the same town of Turners Falls. A review of “Wild Nights with Emily” from Rhymes with Orange cartoonist Hilary Price and what beers we’re brining to “Ubeerfest” and an awful lot more.

This week: the anticipation of and the look into the redacted Mueller report. Congressman McGovern and the listeners weigh in. Passover-not just for the chosen people any more but a Passover for ALL people plus some Kosher wines for Passover and some goyish wines as well. While Stop & Shop is on strike, one local business is getting bought out by its employees.

In the afterglow of a brief encounter with Muppet legend Frank Oz AND Annie Lennox on the same night in the same place! Hampshire College might be spared the chopping block AND the first ever picture of a black hole. Two conversations with the same expert, Hampshire College Astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed. Why the CT River Conservancy is in a dam fight with First Light, the company that runs the Turners and Northfield dam. The magical world of surrealist Leonora Carrington with Double Edge Theatre. More day tripping around the Valley and introducing the place to the new President of GCC.

This week: Congressman Richie Neal goes for Trump’s taxes. I talk with his Congressional colleague, Jim McGovern about it and about the subpoena of the Mueller Report. Going down the Oregon Trail to Wine Snobbery. Some April Fool’s shenanigans including some fake ads we ran on the River on April Fool’s. A road trip with the new president of Greenfield Community College. Two people walking long distance for two different but equally important causes.

This week: Meltdown! Our free family music and book bash. Talking to the author’s coming to Meltdown including newly retired New England Patriot, hero of Super Bowl LI and children’s book author, Malcom Mitchell. What are the Dems gonna do now that the Mueller report…report is out? My chat with Congressman Jim McGovern. Literal blind tasting of wine…in the dark!

This week: comedian Judah Friedlander on his brief appearance in The Force Awakens and on who in the Dave Matthews Band gives the best hugs. Radio legend, Tom Bodett, who has reconvened his Storytellers on A Mission. We have new James Beard Award winners in the Valley and this organization doesn’t even cook. How much does the Milky Way weigh? And why do we call a lighting person a “gaffer”. Congressman McGovern on who he is endorsing for President and more.

This week: Impeach pie or ap-pelosi pie? Talking impeachment and pi day with Congressman Jim McGovern. Paying tribute to the greatest rock & roll drummer of all time, Holyoke Mass’s own Hal Blaine. How Whitney Houston brought new meaning to the word “receipts” with Emily Brewster from Merriam-Webster. And a brief history of a beer and a shot with a rebranding of a poorly named St. Patrick’s themed beer shot combo.