FILM & MOVIES

It's holiday times! And it's our 200th show! We talk with Chief Curator Stephanie Plunkett about Rockwell's body of work as well as other exhibits the museum has going, explore a live-reading/re-enactment event at the newly re-opened Triplex Cinemas, and are serenaded by Live Music guest Billy Keane, who plays at Egremont Barn on Saturday.

We chat with folx from Self Evident Education about their films screening at Smith College, Pizza Quest volume VII stops at Berkshire Mountain Pizza Cafe & Bakery in Pittfield, and we find out all about our favorite imported pollinators with Dick Connor of Red Barn Honey in Northampton

Mr. Universe digs into Ken Burn's latest documentary, Ioka Valley Farms gears up for tree cutting and more in its busiest season of the year, and we head down the road to the Mass Mutual Center to check out the Festival of Trees; a fundraiser for the Springfield Boys & Girls Club.

We find out about the inaugural Indigenous Film Festival in Williamstown, chat with NEPM's Karen Brown about her series on gambling in Massachusetts, hear Rep. Jim McGovern's concerns on The West Bank, hunger and more, and find out what it takes to row a pumpkin down the stream with Dave Rothstein.

We speak with mayoral hopeful Justin Hurst about his bid for the seat and his plans for Springfield, and hear about the Youth Performance Festival's collaboration with Make It Springfield.

We head over to Dakin Humane Society's Animal Shelter in Springfield to PET ALL THE THINGS...ahem... Find out about their new director and expanded offerings, and Mr. Universe, Hampshire College professor Salman Hameed, extols the virtues of the new Scorsese movie and tells how the discovery of ronin planets could mean much more in our search for new heavenly bodies.

We head to HCC to check out the only Community College in the commonwealth with a Latinx Studies program, talk with some of the folx behind the "Transformed" series at Amherst Cinemas, and Rep. Jim McGovern addresses the ousting of Speaker McCarthy

We hear the sounds and stories of pianist Carli Munoz, who plays at Smith College later this week, hear about the rebirth and new season of Pothole Pictures in Shelburne Falls, and hear about the possibilities of life on Jupiter's moon, Europa.

We get in-between the stanzas of the Tell It Slant festival being thrown by the Emily Dickenson Museum, and speak with Actor/director/author John Lithgow about why libraries are important before his appearance supporting one of our local ones this weekend.

We hear about local connections to the SAG-AFTRA Strike with Gary Gallone, fine out about the three new exhibits opening at the UMass Museum of Contemporary Art, and scuba into acronyms with Word Nerd Emily Brewster.