WINE & SPIRITS

We talk more about liquor licenses with Parlor Room Executive Director Chris Freeman, chat with Carrie Saldo about hosting NEPM's new weekly show, hear about a new bill with Rep. Jim McGovern, and talk about winter gaming with game nerd Justin Dowd.

We talk about Northampton liquor licenses with NEPM's Jill Kaufman, chat with Zul Manzi about his animated series, and discuss apostrophes with word nerd Emily Brewster.

We talk about the intersection of art and equity with folx from the Art for the Soul Gallery, welcome Misty Blues to play for Live Music Friday, and go to Greece for our latest wine Thunderdome.

We talk with musician Peter Mulvey about his upcoming album, chat with the key players putting together the Springfield Symphony Orchestra's celebration of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and compare wines with sommelier Ken Washburn.

We taste some bubbles with Dare Provisions & Bottleshop in Lenox at a champagne tasting around the corner at Pizzeria Boema, talk First Night Northampton with Northampton Arts Council Event Coordinator Steve Sanderson, and hear a few of the folx you can catch that last night of the year for Live Music Friday: Father Hotep and Love Crumbs

Kimaya Diggs joins us for Live Music Friday as she gears up to bring along more musicians to the Drake this weekend for her 3rd Annual Kimaya Diggs and Friends Holiday Show, we sip bubbly (but not champagne) with Table & Vine Ambassador Michael Quinlan, and find out about the LGBTQIA+ BIPOC Makers Market happening in Holyoke with organizer Ebbie Russell, plus a slightly delayed chat with Congressman Jim McGovern.

We chat with Anne Thalheimer of Lowbrow Craft Fair happening this weekend, The Wine Thunderdome gears up for a gala at State Street Deli, Wines & Spirits with a extra special NEPM tie-breaker and big reds, live Music Friday has local folk music legend Tracy Grammer visit the studios, and we speak with folx from Jews for Peace about their March from Northampton to Springfield calling for a ceasefire in Israel.

We discover all the neat things Forestopia brings us from the trees, Kendra Morris joins us for Live Music Friday, and The Wine Thunderdome takes us to Provisions where we hear about bubbles, but get into the terroir of Syrah

We get a jump on Hunger Awareness Week by chatting with Lev Ben Ezra of the Amherst Survival Center, and Executive chef of Stone Soup Cafe Kirsten Levitt, have Live Music Friday with Forest Alley String Band before they play a benefit for Stone Soup Cafe this weekend, heavily allude to a way you can help alleviate hunger and still enjoy some wine during our Tina Turner Memorial Wine Thunderdome at State Street Deli, Wine & Spirits, and go totally tuber with Diane Swazlowski-Mullins of Swaz Potato Farms.

We dance with BCUC for Live Music Friday, wrap up our collaboration with the Media Lab Fellows and their series "Books for Young People", celebrate Dare Bottleshop & Provision's 2nd birthday with a tour of Beaujolais, and introduce you to a new voice in jazz here at NEPM.