FLAMER: Northampton’s Mike Curato’s Groundbreaking Graphic Novel

Read it before and because it will get banned. The most important works do. Curato’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel may be…

Learning From Bugs How to Fight COVID: Heavy Petting

They live in colonies. But they don’t wipe themselves out with horrible diseases. How? And what can we learn from…

Screw Starlink & A Snow White Planet? Mr. Universe

First, Monte is tricked by Elon Musk’s new space experiment. And then Mr. Universe, Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed,…

Let’s Be Franc: WINE SNOB

To be frank, this year has gone to poop. So, Monte and the Wine Snobs drink the most scatological smelling…

On The Death of RBG: McGoverning with McGovern

Congressman McGovern reflects on the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And he lets us know if a new justice…

The Chefs at Coco Stir Up Some Love!

Monte talks with Unmi Abkin and Roger Taylor (not that Roger Taylor) of Coco in Easthampton about Stir Up Some…

Will we arrive to or arrive at an answer to this usage question? WORD NERD

Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster on a usage debate you didn’t know you wanted to arrive at. Or arrive…

What In The Sam Hill is Going on The Hill Institute in Florence?

Tara Brewster and Kate Cardoso both graduated The Hill Institute’s kindergarten in 1985. They’ve teamed up again in 2020 to…

Enriching Soil, Rebuilding Lives, and Creating Homes

Trenda Loftin and Revan Schendler, two worker owners from The Compost Cooperative on their innovative mission, and how you can…

Don’t Let The Pigeon Do Storytime comes to HBMO

Monte talks with Mo and Cher Willems in their Northampton backyard about The Pigeon’s move to HBO Max. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/dont-let-the-pigeon-do-storytime-with-mo-willems