Category: Podcasts

A Monte New Year’s Eve Show?

Yes indeed. And here Monte talks with the Wine Snobs about the show and about what sparkling wine to drink…

Stirring Up Some Dough for The Treehouse Foundation

Monte talks with Julie Kumble from The Treehouse Foundation about how you can turn “dough” into dough into cookies into…

The Dr. of Rock on The Fisk Jubilee Singers

Smith College Professor Dr. Steve Waksman on one of the earliest all-Black singing groups, who paved the way for so…

The Ice Cube Observatory: MR. UNIVERSE

While the “N” in N.W.A.  most certainly does NOT stand for “neutrinos,” neutrinos is EXACTLY what the IceCube Observatory is…

Any Port in a storm

Monte and The Wine Snobs at State Street drink 3 fortified wines that might just be perfect before or after…

New House Leadership and Trump’s Taxes

Monte talks with Congressman Jim McGovern about Trump’s taxes, new leadership in The House, the rail strike, and recovering from…

Running into the arms of community

The Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage is this Sunday. Monte talks with Safe Passage’s Marianne Winters and Laura Penney-Edwards…

Show biz kids and their mentors

Monte talks with Sarah Marcus and Kelly Silliman about the next session of the Youth Performance Festival.

The runners-up for word of the year are not much more promising…

Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster on some of the also depressing runners up to their word of the year,…

Gaslighting: WORD OF THE YEAR 2022

Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster on the dictionary’s word of the year. And why this psychologically troubling word might…

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