Category: Podcasts

The Return To Big Science

Legendary artist Laurie Anderson and her long time musical collaborator Roma Baran talk with Monte about revisiting their groundbreaking 1982…

False Start on Mars: MR UNIVERSE

Well, the Mars helicopter is delayed but Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed reminds us of our other failures (and…

Zoomer in The Before Times: WORD NERD

Listen to this conversation from February of 2020 with Emily Brewster from Merriam-Webster and Monte where they have a long…

After The Great Selah with Hales

Daniel Hales looks back at his very difficult year and at his band’s first album. His livestream this Friday is…

Another Interstellar Interloper: Mr. Universe

Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed on the recent discovery of our second interstellar visitor 2I/Borisov https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/another-interstellar-interloper-mr-universe

Wines You Must Stash: WINE SNOBS

Monte and the Wine Snobs at State Street try wine heroine Laely Heron’s Heron wine and admire the Wine Son’s…

Irida Comes Home

Scenes from Irida Kakhtiranova homegoing. Irida is the Russian immigrant who has been living in a church in Northampton for…

Infrastructure and Extra-Terrestrial Tech? McGoverning with McGovern

Monte gets up earlier than the Congressman, so some early April Thursdays it can be easier to pull the wool…

Did Our April Fools’ Day Ads Fool You?

Here’s our Quarantone Paint ad https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/quarantone-paint   And you can listen to all  the classics here. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/the-rivers-april-fools-day-ads

Vaccine or Vitamin C? The Muller Report

UMass virologist Dr. Mandy Muller responds to a recent opinion piece in the Gazette and gives us her latest take…

Recent Headlines

22 hours ago in Entertainment, Music

Bruce Springsteen performs at New York Public Library gala

Bruce Springsteen was among six honorees Monday night at the New York Public Library's annual "Library Lions" gala, which pays tribute to "outstanding achievements" in arts, culture, letters and scholarship.

1 day ago in National, Trending

Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84

Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.

2 days ago in National, Trending

Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded in November

President Donald Trump's administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP for November, after two judges issued rulings requiring the government to keep the nation's largest food aid program running.

2 days ago in Entertainment, Music

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dies at 78

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a soulful mezzo-soprano who provided backing vocals on such 1960s classics as "Suspicious Minds" and "When a Man Loves a Woman" and was a featured singer with the Grateful Dead for much of the 1970s, has died at 78.

2 days ago in Sports, Trending

After the $500 million Dodgers’ title repeat, what’s next for MLB?

The $500 million Los Angeles Dodgers' thrilling World Series win over the Toronto Blue Jays attracted record international attention for Major League Baseball, affirmed LA's status as the sport's best team and drew more attention to baseball's payroll disparity heading into what is likely to be contentious labor negotiations.