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Es octubre y el velo es fino. Esta semana, Las Brujas Bilingues se están preparando para el otoño con pociones especiales y música espeluznante. It's October and the veil is thin. This week, Las Brujas Bilingues are getting ready for fall with special potions and spooky music. Also tune in the WGXC Congressional Report, with news from the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Congressional Districts, from Rensselaer County to Dutchess County. And also, Maurice Louca is an Egyptian musician and composer whose been commissioned for new work for "Shifting Center," the upcoming exhibition at EMPAC. Louca’s work often engages microtonality. He spoke with Sina Basila Hickey for Hudson Mohawk Magazine about his plans for the installation, influences in his work, location-based work. "Shifting Center" will be at EMPAC from November 3–18, 2023. Prior to the exhibition opening, Beatriz Cortez’s sculpture "Ilopango, the Volcano that Left" departs Storm King Art Center, the site of its current exhibition, to embark on a three-day performative journey along the Hudson River to Troy. The volcano can be witnessed as it sails upriver from various viewing points on both shores and online through a livestream. There will be a welcoming reception at the Sanctuary on October 28.

The "WGXC Morning Show" is a radio magazine show featuring local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC. The Catskill Makers Syndicate produce the "Better Weather" for the show. Rob Gelles produces the Columbia County history segment "Rob Around The County" and "This Month in History" for the show. Interview segments from Justin Maiman are often heard on this show, as our movie updates from Jenny Ghetti and Amanda Lees. Interviews by hosts of the "WGXC Afternoon Show" also get played back here occasionally. And Jack Sencabaugh contributes the "Backtracks in Time" segment about local history. Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show. The show begins each day with local headlines, weather, and previews of community events. Also tune in for national headlines from the Public News Service on WGXC. Sometimes national, state, or local press conferences, meetings, or events are also broadcast live here. Saturdays the show features weekly episodes of the "I Have Seen Niagara" serial.