Category: Podcasts

Read Your Sleep with Word Nerd Emily Brewster

Why just call it “sleepy” when you can describe your sleep with words like dozy, sleepify, peepy, somnolentand sloom. Emily…

Seth Harwood’s Maltese Jordan’s & Monte’s Magic Kicks

A serendipitous meeting at Solid Sound and another at Green River Festival and a major find by Monte’s wife at…

Cannabis Current Events in The Commonwealth: It’s High Time for A Different Leaf

Michael Kusek, publishing impressario, has a new publication about cannabis that is geared to us olds. It’s called Different Leaf…

Mr. Universe Wants You To Look at The Night Sky This Week

The Perseid Meteor shower, Jupiter, Saturn AND Mercury?!? Plus a new moon, meaning darker skies. Hampshire College Astronomer Dr. Salman…

Food Tastes Better at Home

Samite brings his powerful music and his powerful stories to the Ko Fest in Amherst. From his esacpe from Uganda…

Mister G’s Monarch Mariposa as Migration Metaphor

Latin Grammy winner and local hero Mister G can add children’s book author to his bona fides. And his song/turned…

McGovern Talks Climate Change with Farmers

If you had any doubt about whether the weather is changing due to climate change, look no further than our…

SoporificOscitancyLogy-A-La-Dozing: Even Though The Sound of It Is Something Just like Snoring

Word Nerd Emily Brewster, resident wordster from Merriam-Webster, on some of the words of sleep. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/sleep-words-part-i-word-nerd

Seven Generations of Shenandoah: Joanne Shenandoah comes to The Shea

As part of the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival, The Nolumbeka Project welcomes to The Shea a national treasure, Grammy award winner…

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