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As the number of those seeking emergency shelter in Massachusetts has increased, the state has relied on hotels to add more capacity to the system. It's been bringing in big bucks for the hotel owners with state contracts, but it's also displaced those who had been long-term renters.

Radio Boston guest host Amory Sivertson spoke with Ayanbeku about life as an athlete, the Paralympics, and juggling sports with life as a new mom.

This weekend, Boston's City Hall Plaza is hosting The GLD FSTVL. It's a free festival celebrating hip-hop music and culture. It'll feature Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan, along with a slew of local artists.

Skippy White is a legend in Boston. He owned numerous record shops in the city and was a well-known radio DJ. He brought the latest R&B, gospel, doo-wop and soul to the city at the time when no one else was selling or playing it on the radio.

Instability in Venezuela, now heightened by what's widely seen as a fraudulent election, has led to many protesting or fleeing the country. 

Negotiations continued Tuesday in bankruptcy court on the pending sale of five Steward Health Care hospitals. At the same time, many are rallying against the presumed closure of two of its facilities: Carney Hospital in Dorchester, and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer.

Chef Joe Gatto, host of Pluto TV's From Scratch, joins us to make vegan tacos with cauliflower and beets. 

Museum of Science officials say the exhibit is an invitation to imagine a society in which sustainability is built into everything we use and buy.

Radio Boston invited Dr. Milena Pavlova, a neurologist who specializes in sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, to help us understand insomnia, its potential causes and what to do about it.

Science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell joins Radio Boston to talk about her new book "Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels."