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You wouldn’t think that being part of “the definition of a hot mess” would be a sweet memory, but Tara Bronner brought us right there in her story “Tuesdays with Lois”. That’s this week’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast from NEPM!

On The Rundown with Carrie Saldo, panelists discuss the state of freedom of speech in western Mass., where $2.5 million in state funds went, and the impacts of a potential federal government shutdown.

We preview a new play about the long lasting effects of slavery, explore the untapped legacies of the slave trade in Caribbean, Central and South America and get our political questions answered by Rep. Jim McGovern.

We engage in healthy discourse before the WIT Literary Festival, talk with author and musician Mister G before his book release concert, and check out the lineup for this year's Northampton Jazz Festival.

K&E Theatre Group tells us about their production of Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George," composer Rafiq Bhatia shares his two solo albums and his picturesque modern sounds, and Norma Dream performs on Live Music Friday.

Hamed Sinno brings his solo show "Poems of Consumption" to UMass Amherst's Fine Arts Center, two artists from the Berkshires will present their new graphic novels in Easthampton, and the new season at the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.

We speak with the first of three mayoral candidates in Easthampton, current Interim Mayor Salem Derby, get a preview of the costumes Monte will wear on the March for the Food Bank, and hear about comets you can see in the sky this week with Mr. Universe.

Monte and Kaliis are taking some time off, but while they're gone, they explore the Cricket Creek Farm Fall Festival, the Write Angels Conference, A new play "Swamped" in Wendell, new documentary "Hunting Yellow Pigs", and Recordville's Northampton Record Fair.

We talk to the president of Smith College about its new plan to make tuition free for some students, and tour Farmer Clark's in Hampden.

We hear from Easthampton mayoral candidate Lindsi Sekula, learn about Massachusetts Farm to School Month and celebrate Catherine Newman's new novel, "Wreck."