WINE & SPIRITS

We speak to the folks at Turn It Up CDs and More as they transition leadership, taste Eastern Bloc grapes for the latest Wine Thunderdome and hear music from Misty Blues.

We visit the Center School's new building in Greenfield, we speak with East Forest before his performance at the Hope Center for the Arts and take the latest Thunderdome at Tip Top Wine Shop in Easthampton.

We talk with artists and organizers behind "A Happening V: The Bestiary" at the Shea Theater, visit WANDER Berkshires before their "Rocky Horror Picture Show" event and try wines with wine friend Ken Washburn.

Rival Galaxies join us for Live Music Friday, we hear about local style at Fab Passion Fashion Week, meet the Spirits go Blah folx behind an ambitious residency at A.P.E. Gallery, and pit two American spirits against each other at Provisions

Writer Alex Storozynski shares his family history of spies in the Eastern Bloc, The Mammals perform for Live Music Friday, and we try Argentinian orange wines with Tip Top Wine Shop.

We talk to the final candidate in our Northampton mayoral race marathon, Jillian Duclos, chat with hosts of BPR Jim Braude and Margery Eagan before they visit the 413 and taste wines with NEPM's own Nirvani Williams.

We learn about a play to highlight stories of Sudanese women, "The Epic of Violence," have Live Music Friday with psychedelic band Tropa Magica and try wines at Dare Bottleshop & Provisions.

We talk with Kitty Hendricks-Miller about the 12th annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival, learn about the multi-cultural dance found in "Urban Love Suite" at Jacob's Pillow and taste wines at Dare Bottleshop in Lenox.

We learn about the electronic music festival, Extension Chords II, with some of the performers and organizers of the event and try wines with our Franklin County wine friend Ken Washburn.

We talk to NEPM President Matt Abramovitz to bring a local context to eliminated federal funding for public media, hear live music with Florence's Lucia Dostal and imbibe at Tip Top Wine Shop.