WINE & SPIRITS

Eggtooth Production's Linda McInerney and the band Cloudbelly talk about A Happening III, happening in Turners Falls. Plus a Wine Thunderdome with orange wine at Provisions. And NEPM Media Lab's Maggie Kocsmiersky talking with author Mychal Connolly Sr.

We have Live Music Friday with Ciarra Fragale, playing Hawks & Reed this and next weekend, explore our local and global eating options with Andy Cox and German Alvarado of Smith College Dining Services, hear the final product of what the NEPM Media Lab Fellows got up to this summer, and head into the Wine Thunderdome at Table & Vine in West Springfield with one extra Mike and a whole lot of tradition.

Double Live Music Friday with La Perla Bogota and Priya Darshini both playing in the area over the weekend, and we head to the thunderdome for a switch up where we make the folx at State Street Deli Wine & Spirits pair a wine on the fly with food that we've brought.

We taste through six Cabernet Francs with Allison Slute of Cab Franc Chronicles and the folx at Dare Bottleshop, and hear about the event Queertivity from it's founder and organizer, local musician Red Jasper.

We discover the WIT festival happening next week in Lenox, bring the Wine Thunderdome to Franklin County (finally), and get a quick look at the Millpond series, which opens tonight in Easthampton

We check out the local literary magazine Meat for Tea as they gear up for their quarterly Cirque, Hang out with Jonah Keane from Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary and Wallace Field who'll be playing the Arcadia Fold festival on those grounds next week, and drink the wine we abandoned for PInot Grigio with the Wine Snobs at State Street.

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 find out what's wrong with local lilacs and even more wrong with local trees with Plant Pathologist Nick Brazee, head to Table & Vine to drink a much maligned grape with Michael Quinlan, and bring Franklin County's High Tea in for live music Friday.

Max Page of Mass. Teachers Union comes to talk about their initiative to shift perspective on the MCAS tests, Justin Dowd of Start Playing Games tells us about games so good they'll get you through a move, and Alden Booth of The People's Pint in Greenfield shows us how hyperlocal can be done right and right here.

A conversation about the removal of a roadside landmark on Route 2. Greenfield Recorder reporter Richie Davis on his new collection of stories. The Wine Thunderdome returns to Provisions. And live music with King Radio.