ARTS & CULTURE

We talk to Jazz à la Mode host and Merriam-Webster editor Peter Sokolowski about the 100th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee and learn about little red dots with Mr. Universe.

We hear live music from Cheap City, learn about the documentary, "Secret Mall Apartment," and try wine at Tip Top Wine Shop.

We talk with John Sanders of DSP Shows about this year's Green River Festival, check out Franklin County Technical School's food pantry and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.

Today we host a roundtable discussion with four local organizations who are facing real-life material consequences from widespread federal funding cuts.

Canadian Musician JayWood stops by to perform before his sold out show at The Iron Horse, learn about the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Festival, and discover the new exhibit, "Witch Panic!," at Springfield Museums.

We talk to The Human Monster Truck to get the lay of the local wrestling landscape, talk to the organizers behind the upcoming Sun Ra Arkestra concert in Northampton and check in with Mr. Universe.

We check in with some of the students benefiting from the Play It Forward drive at STEM Middle Academy, hear live music from local band Splendid Torch and taste wine at State Street Fruit Store.

We meet many of the folx making up the former factory, now work/event/living space Greylock WORKS in North Adams.

Today on The Rundown, Carrie Saldo and panelists discuss ICE presence in western Mass., how federal funding cuts could impact the local arts and culture economy, how municipalities prepare for future climate disasters and much more.

We speak with author Heidi Stemple about her latest book, "The Poetry of Car Mechanics," agonize over better words to describe terrible things with Word Nerd Emily Brewster and check out the arborvitae at Amherst Nurseries.