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The Color Purple is now the second-biggest Christmas Day opening in history — $18 million on day one of its release.

We visit Forbes Library ahead of their "Rhythm and Rails" exhibit to explore rail history in Northampton, tour the Cottage Street Studios before artists open their doors and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.

We meet the director of Volunteers in Medicine and chat about their mission to provide care to those ineligible for insurance, hang out at a practice for one of the few high school girls ice hockey teams in western Mass with the Longmeadow Lancers, and Mr. Universe gets into another theory about the origins of black holes.

We chat with Carlos Uriona of Double Edge Theater and Larry Spotted-Crow Mann of Oketeau Cultural Center about Little Amal's visit to Ashfield, and celebrate 50 years of the Mattoon St. Arts Festival with organizers Jason Alves, Bob McCarroll, and Freya Bromwich.

We visit Maple Corner Farm for their pick-your-own blueberry season, chat with conductor Keith Lockhart as he celebrates 30 years with the Boston Pops and play pickleball to benefit the Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity.

Howard Bryant of ESPN.com is at the Wimbledon tennis championships and tells NPR's Scott Simon about what he's seen so far.

Over 130 critics voted on the best jazz albums of 2018 — celebrated elders dominated the top of the results, but a class of younger musicians is rising.

The bill, passed by Congress on Wednesday, would lower the rate for top earners and also let graduate students keep their tuition waivers.

Bad Bunny, who had the most-streamed album of both 2022 and 2023, seems to have another potential juggernaut on his hands. But to top the chart this week he had to hold off an unlikely challenger.

Madelyn Beck is a regional Illinois reporter, based in Galesburg. On top of her work for Harvest Public Media, she also contributes to WVIK, Tri-States Public Radio and the Illinois Newsroom collaborative.