Maybe you don't want to drink beer while watching the important game starring our favorite New England team and our second favortie New England team from New York (well not MY second favorite). Here's some wine instead.
As The Hipster Happy Valley encroaches upon "New Holyoke" people like DJ Steve Porter are helping to part the Tofu Curtain. Take a tour inside his Holyoke studio and hear some of his remixes for NBC's Community and for our beloved Patriots
Wildlife experts say cougars/pumas/mountain lions/panthers (all the same thing) are extinct. And yet many of my listeners (and even I) believe we have seen one. Local Author Robert Tougias has a new book The Quest for The Eastern Cougar
Relive the most painfully memory in Patriots fan history as their chances at a 19-0 perfect season were incomprehisbly pinned to the helmet of David Tyre during the 2007 season.
The man everyone at the station basically worships Smith College's Dr. Steve Waksman, Professor of Music and American Studies, schools us all in Rock & Roll.
Dan from DadDoes.com is just back from the International Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. And what happens is Vegas...is you can find lots of nerdy electronic products to make you a fitter, happier and more productive parent.
Decades before MLK, Juanita Nelson was preaching non-violence and getting arrested at segregated lunch counters. What does she think of Dr. King, the movement, and the fact that we now have a black president of the United States?
Holyoke's Mayor-Elect, Alex Morse, was invited to The White House for a holiday party. Did he get to give The President and 'I Heart Holyoke" pin? Did Michelle make him eat kale? Gloria Estafan?
Apart from the beginning of ballgames and whilst blowing out candles, why is Christmastime the only time Americans sing songs that are over 50 years old? Why have these carols stuck with us for so long? What was an early American Christmas REALLY like? And why has Cordelia's Dad/Cold Mountain Soundtrack contributor and Local Hero Tim Eriksen caved in to record a Christmas album?
Bo Muller-Moore, the artist behind Vermont based Eat More Kale , is embroiled (emfried?) in an Andre The Giant v Oompa Loompa battle with a southern fast food chain about who is legally allowed to "Eat More".
Six and 11/12ths year old Atticus Belmonte is an aspiring fashion designer. Turners Falls fashionista, Anja Schutz, made his dream come true at Suzee's Third St. Laundry with some left over undergarments.
With the promise of a 200 million dollar investment in the sciences at Amherst College, The Belmontes tour Amherst College's already amazing science museum.
Or more closely resembling Huck Finn. Katja Schneider is an exchange student from Germany who build a Huck Finn style raft and is floating it down the Connecticut River for her senior project at The Academy at Charlemont.
The woman in the red scarf with the blue shoes whose picture flashed around the globe after 700 people were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge is from right here in the Valley.
The Governor on the aftermath of Irene and the future of VT Yankee; and which bands he hears on the River that he likes the best (HINT: they're both from Vermont).
Mark Bode and the Evil Dr. Revolt, legendary artists of the aerosol can, tag The River studios with a spray paint mural with allusions to Ninja Turtles and Yo! MTV Raps
88 years young. The woman behind the Greenfield Farmers Market and this weekend's Free Harvest Supper, Gramma 'Nita still just wants you to know that it's important to eat local and embrace your community
The Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program brings students from Iraq to Amherst to study U.S. Domestic policy, have dinner with American families and to see the country that invaded theirs with their own eyes.
Friday June 24th, Wilco woke up EARLY (for rock & rollers) and had breakfast with Monte et al to talk Solid Sound. And Monte got the scoop from Mr. Tweedy on the real name of the forthcoming Wilco album.
How a community rallied around the cult and culture of a video store. And how in its final days, the community is rallying again to save its meticulously curated collection.
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