Friday, March 30, 2012

03-30-12 Jive



For the latest in local arts and entertainment beyond the Jive At Five, go to arts2GO.org – the City’s new website that features the arts/entertainment options available on any given day along with much more for anyone interested in what’s going on and what’s to do in Middletown. arts2GO.org

Here's a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area:

The Coleman Brothers Carnival has opened in Middletown for their 96th annual event. With more than 30 rides and attractions for all ages, the carnival has set up camp at Palmer Field on Bernie O’Rourke Drive. The Carnival will run through Sunday and is located just off of Rt 66 on Bernie O'Rourke Drive.

In the Russell Library’s Hubbard Room Saturday at 2pm, Singer/guitarist Enzo Boscarino offers a musical tour of some of his favorite regions of Italy. For more information on Russell Library events, visit www.russelllibrary.org

Here in Middletown on Saturday, The Buttonwood Tree on Main Street presents Songwriters In the Round featuring Tiff Jimber, Jen Vanderlyn, & Luis Narino. Sunday night, the Buttonwood hosts a fundraiser for St.Vincent dePaul with a night of spoken word and improvisational music.  Every Sunday, Food Not Bombs shares food around the 1 pm hour in front of the Buttonwood. All are welcome.  There is more information about all of these events at www.buttonwood.org

Trinity College in Hartford holds their 7th International Hip Hop Festival through Saturday. This event features top performances by Hip Hop artists from around the globe plus film screenings, panel discussion, workshops, and competitions, art shows and Break Dancing. Of note is the DMC World Turntablist regional championship from noon -4pm on Saturday, which will showcase CTs best DJs on the "ones and twos" flexing their skills. Lots of details online at www.trinityhiphop.com

The Davison Arts Center presents an exhibition of acquired prints "with a lot of help from our friends: 50 years of acquisitions" - celebrating the Friends of the Davison Art Center which has raised funds to purchase more than 900 works of art since its start in 1962. Works are on display from noon to 4pm in the Davison Art Center on the Wesleyan University campus thru May 29.

This week, you can view the talents of the  seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History, in the first round of senior thesis exhibitions, featuring Kuan-lin Huang, Elizabeth Chabot, Gil Sunshine, Johnny Tan, Sienna Perro, Xiao You. The exhibit runs through Sunday in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. The gallery is open from noon to 4pm and admission is free.

The Australian dance company Chunky Move, presents the CT premiere of “Connected“, which animates the physical connection between body & machine as dancers construct a kinetic sculpture designed by California-based artist Reuben Margolin. Performances are tonight and Saturday at 8pm in Wesleyan’s CFA Theater.

A senior music recital by Owen Callahan entitled "Music I Find Myself Writing." is at Wesleyan’s Memorial Chapel at 9 tonight, and is free and open to the public. Information on all of these Wesleyan University events is at wesleyan.edu/cfa

Tonight the Higher Grounds Coffee House at 70 Main St. in East Hampton hosts their weekly open mic. Show starts at 7PM. Every Saturday night there is live local music.

The Good Sponge Sampler Vol. 1 CD Release Party is Saturday night, and virtually every artist on the CD is performing live! John Fries and The Heat, The River God, WESU's Lauren Agnelli and Dave Rave, Franklin Brothers, Dogbite and more!  At the Rose Barn @ Eugene O’Neill Theater 305 Great Neck Road Waterford, CT (860) 443-5378; 7:30 p.m., doors open at 6:45 p.m. You can also visit Good Sponge at goodsponge.com

Starting at 10 am at Brew Bakers on Main St. in Middletown this Sunday, acoustic duet Diane & Dave perform popular American music from the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and into the 21st Century.

Sunday night in Collinsville at Bridge St. Live, you can catch Red Molly w/ special guest Roosevelt Dime for a night of creative Americana music at 8:00 PM. More online at 41bridgestreet.com 

Now here's what's going on in the world of cinema in central Connecticut:

Tonight and Saturday at Real Art Ways in Hartford is Salt of Life, about a man questioning why all of the passion seems to have disappeared from his life. Also, All In: The Poker Movie, a film on poker's renaissance, has a run this weekend. Realartways.org offers film ticket sales, trailers, and show times.

At Cinestudio, Trinity College's cinema Friday and Saturday, The Adventures Of Tintin brings the cartoon classic to the big screen. Ready to tackle a new quest with his faithful white fox terrier Snowy by his side, Tintin teams up with the tipsy seafarer Captain Haddock to recover the treasure from the sunken ship, the Unicorn. Beginning Sunday Cinestudio shows Albert Nobbs, “A heady mix of sexuality, identity, class politics and romantic self-deception” says Ann Hornaday, of the Washington Post starring Glenn Close and Janet McTeer. Visit cinestudio.org for more.
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And now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.

Right after the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6:00pm it’s
 The Brittle Diameter
 w/Josh Sharp - 
A varied blend of brand new and time honored independent music, presented in a mixtape aesthetic.  Continuity and cohesion are the watchwords here.

From 6:00 to 6:30pm 
it’s Free Speech Radio News from The Pacifica Network - An independently produced half hour daily national and international radio news program focusing on peace and social justice issues in the US and around the world. FSRN is collectively run by its workers and reporters.

At 6:30 until 7pm, listen in to The Middletown Youth Radio Project - A weekly radio program featuring the thoughts, voices, creativity and talent of the kids in the WESU neighborhood.

From 7pm to 8:30pm we have the Universal Sound Wave with Sistah Tee - Informing listeners about local and global issues with health, nutrition, and stress reduction tips, featuring a wide range of music including African, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues.

Next up until 10pm, we take it
 From the Otherside with 
Rok-A-Dee - The Voice of Hartford, featuring local artists from Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Spotlighting Caribbean R & B, Soca and international music.

From 10 until 11:30pm, take in
 the sounds of Rumba en el Patio 
with Michael
- Classic Salsa for the dancers, Afro-Latin Big Band for the discerning ear. Join us as we adventure through the history of Musica Latina!

At 11:30pm until 1am Saturday it’s 
N.E. Tempo with 
DJ Berk
- Serious turntablism - Dubstep, DnB, techno, ragga jungle, breakbeats mixed live.

At 1am we go 
In the Master Bedroom, Under the Bed with 
Dope Dave 
until 3am - Celebrating conscious hip-hop and its offshoots & influences. Acrobatic emcees and down-tempo poets mix it up over varied oceans of sound.

At 3, to 4am it's the Hour of Slack from The Church of the SubGenius Radio Ministry with Bob - The compendium of the best and newest from all SubGenius radio & stage shows, bands, ranters, media barrage collage artists, plus the weirdest of the indie audio underground.

Then, we bring you
 Sing Out! 
from 4 to 5am, on a mission to preserve and support the cultural diversity and heritage of all traditional and contemporary folk musics, and to encourage making folk music a part of our everyday lives.

And we bring in the daylight from 5:00 to 6:00am with the 
BBC World News 
- a daily News roundup from the British Broadcasting Corporation

And staying on the other side of the big pond, from 6:00 to 7:00am it’s
 the Celtic Café
 - Traditional and contemporary music with a Celtic connection.

And now that the coffee’s hot enjoy Caffe Italia from 7:00 to 8:00am 
with Francesco Fiumara
 - A weekly roundup of news, music and memories from Italy.

That’s all for today’s Jive At Five, tune in each and every weekday at 4:55 pm to hear about what’s going on in the community and on the air right here at 88.1 FM WESU, a community service of Wesleyan University since 1939.

The Music behind today’s Jive At Five is from Kevin Norton’s Metaphor Quartet, a CD entitled Not Only In That Golden Tree . . . featuring (the late) Wilber Morris, Masahiko Kono, Hitomi Tono’Oka and Kevin Norton, the selection “not drunk, but stunned” and it’s out on clean feed records.

If you didn’t get a chance to write down some information for an event mentioned in our jive at five –we’ve published the script for today’s jive online at jiveat5.blogspot.com 

And if you value WESU as a source for information and entertainment in your life, how about supporting the station with a donation? You can make that donation online at wesufm.org anytime. Thanks for listening!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Thursday's Jive

Good evening, it's Thursday, March 29th, and this is the Jive at Five, WESU's Daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. Thanks for making WESU your listener supported source for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs and free-form community radio. I'm J-Cherry producer and host of VOICE of the CITY airing on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesday from 6:30 to 8PM Showcasing live and local music, arts, and culture.Thanks for tuning in.

The Coleman Brothers Carnival has opened in Middletown for their 96th annual event.
With more than 30 rides and attractions for all ages, the carnival has set up camp at Palmer Field on Bernie O’Rourke Drive. The Carnival will run through Sunday and is located just off of Rt 66 on Bernie O'Rourke drive.


Tonight at 7, Captain Glenn Sulmasy, Chairman, Department of Humanities and Professor of Law at the US Coast Guard Academy, will lecture on Guantanamo bay and Military Challenges Faced Today in Prosecuting Known Terrorists, in the Russell Library’s Hubbard Room. Saturday at 2pm in the Hubbard Room, Singer/guitarist Enzo Boscarino offers a musical tour of some of his favorite regions of Italy. For more information on Russell Library events, visit www.russelllibrary.org

Tonight, the Davison Arts Center presents "with a lot of help from our friends: 50 years of acquisitions" - celebrating the Friends of the Davison Art Center which has raised funds to purchase more than 900 works of art since its start in 1962. Works are on display from 5pm to 7pm in the Davison Art Center on the Wesleyan University campus, with a Gallery Talk at 5:30pm


Down in New Haven at Cafe 9 in tonight Skinny Jim And The Number 9 Blacktops; w/ The Hulls • Playing what has been dubbed as "Hot Rod Rockabilly," this Illinois trio takes the traditional rockabilly sound and soups it up with a high-octane edge! visit cafenine.com for a full line up of Café nine events this week.


Here in Middletown, at The BUTTONWOOD TREE on Main Street, Saturday, the Buttonwood presents Songwriters In the Round featuring Tiff Jimber, Jen Vanderlyn,  Luis Narino. Sunday night, the Buttonwood hosts a fundraiser for St.Vincent dePaul with a night of spoken word and improvisational music.  Every Sunday, Food Not Bombs shares food about 1 pm in front of The Buttonwood. All are welcome.  More information about all of these events at www.buttonwood.org


Trinity College in Hartford kicks off their 7th International Hip Hop Festival  tonight continuing through Saturday. This event features top performances by Hip Hop artists from around the globe plus film screenings, panel discussion, workshops, and competitions, art shows and Break Dancing. Of note is the DMC World Turntablist regional championship from noon -4pm on Saturday, which will showcase CTs best DJs on the "ones and twos" flexing their skills. lots of details online at www.trinityhiphop.com


This week, you can view the talents of the  seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History, in the first round of senior thesis exhibitions, featuring Kuan-lin Huang, Elizabeth Chabot, Gil Sunshine, Johnny Tan, Sienna Perro, Xiao You. The exhibit runs  through Sunday in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. The gallery is open from noon to 4pm and admission is free.

Friday night at Higher Grounds Coffee House on 70 Main Street in East Hampton hosts their weekly open mic. Show starts at 7PM. Every Saturday night at 70 Main is live local music.

The Australian dance company Chunky Move, presents the Connecticut premiere of “Connected“,  which animates the physical connection between body and machine as dancers construct a kinetic sculpture designed by California-based artist Reuben Margolin.  There will be a pre-performance talk by dance scholar Debra Cash on Friday at 7:15pm in CFA Hall. Performances are at Friday and Saturday at 8pm in Wesleyan’s CFA theater Friday, March 30, 2012


A senior music recital by Owen Callahan entitled "Music I Find Myself Writing." is at Wesleyan’s  memorial chapel at 9 on Friday, and is free and open to the public. Information on all of these Wesleyan UNiversity events at wesleyan.edu/cfa

The Good Sponge Sampler Vol. 1 CD RELEASE PARTY Saturday night,*Virtually every artist on the CD performing live! John Fries and The Heat, The River God, WESU's Lauren Agnelli and Dave Rave, Franklin Brothers, Dogbite and more!  The Rose Barn @ Eugene O’Neill Theater 305 Great Neck Road Waterford, CT (860) 443-5378 7:30 p.m., doors 6:45 p.m. You can also visit Good Sponge at goodsponge.com

Starting at 10 am at Brew Bakers this Sunday, acoustic duet Diane & Dave perform popular American music from the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and into the 21st Century.


Sunday evening at 7:30, The Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford is hosting an Evening with percussionist Richie Barshay, featuring percussive paintings, universal rhythms, and sonic adventures. Visit http://emanuelsynagogue.org/ for more info.

Sunday night in Collinsville at Bridge St Live, you can catch Red Molly w/ special guest Roosevelt Dime for anight of creative americana music. at 8:00 PM .more online at  http://41bridgestreet.com 


Now Here's what's going on in the world of cinema in central Connecticut:

Through tonight at Real Art Ways in Hartford, you can catch "Declaration of War", which follows a new couple, Romeo and Juliette, who must face the ultimate test when they discover their new born child is very ill. Friday and Saturday at Real Art Ways is Salt of Life, about a man questioning why all of the passion seems to have disappeared from his life. Realartways.org offers film ticket sales, trailers, and show times.


at Cinestudio, Trinity College's cinema Friday and Saturday, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN brings the cartoon classic to the big screen. Ready to tackle a new quest with his faithful white fox terrier Snowy by his side, Tintin teams up with the tipsy seafarer Captain Haddock to recover the treasure from the sunken ship, the Unicorn. visit cinestudio.org for more.


Now, Here’s the lineup for tonight’s programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown.
5:05-6pm
Homegrown with Rob DeRosa – The best crop of Connecticut-connected music presented for a global audience.

6-6:30pm
Free Speech Radio News From The Pacifica Network - An independently produced half hour daily national and international radio news program focusing on peace and social justice issues in the US and around the world. FSRN is collectively run by its workers and reporter.

6:30-8pm
Total Praise with Minister Latrecia - A diverse and inspirational blend of contemporary Christian gospel music to uplift your spirit! Get your Praise on!

8-9:30pm
Evening Jazz with Bill Denert – Where hearing is the best experience.  A broad range of swing, be-bop, and avant garde as well as a sprinkling of new releases.


9:30-10:30pm
Bridging the Gap with JBrent - Exploring how music has changed forms through the years, and the links that tie together seemingly disparate genres such as blues and rap, or funk and Krautrock.

10:30-11:30pm [alternating – 1st, 3rd, & 5th weeks]
Alphabet Soup with DJ Blaze- An anti-genre, request-based show where we randomly select a letter from the alphabet, and play bands or artists whose names start with that letter.

10:30-11:30pm [alternating – 2nd & 4th weeks]
The Slap-Happy Hour with Rachel Silton - A modern mix of indie pop and singer-songwriter material, with an emphasis on the acoustic and the up-and-coming


11:30pm-1am [alternating – 1st, 3rd, & 5th weeks]
Flight 881 with Captain Q - Not your Grandma's World Music Show! Strap in your seatbelts, put out that cigarette, and open up that small packet of honey roasted peanuts! Flight 881 every week is going to a new country to check out what music scenes are happening in the country with a focus on contemporary world music, including Bhagra from India, Afro-Beat, and Brazillian funk.

11:30pm-1am [alternating – 2nd & 4th weeks]
Tokyo Sonata with Dangerous Dan - Covering Japanese music, new and old, from a wide variety of genres.

1:00-2:00am
Songs Without Words with Jacob Feder  - An eclectic assortment of instrumental music from all genres and generations.


2:00-3:00am
Undercover with DJ Becca - The best covers take original tracks and transform them into their own creations. Bridging genres, musical styles, and time, Undercover explores the concept of inspiration through imitation. Sometimes they surpass the original, sometimes they miss the mark - it's your call.

3-4am
Itso-ezee with DJ Otto Nation providing an eclectic mix of new releases from the WESU music library

The BBC World News Service kicks on at 4AM and we begin tomorrow's broadcast at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR.That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a chance to write down some of the information mentioned in our community calendar, the script is published online at www.wesufm.org/jive, and if you know of any events that you'd like to have announced on the Jive, send them to jive@wesufm.org

If you tune in to WESU for information and music that you can’t find elsewhere, then we are counting on you to help support the service you depend on.Please take a moment to make a donation of any size online at www.wesufm.org, every dollar counts and we need to hear from you.

Thanks for listening and stay tuned for Home Grown with Rob Derosa

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

03-28-12 jive


Good evening, it's Wednesday, March 28th, and this is the Jive at Five, WESU's Daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. Thanks for making WESU your listener supported source for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs and free-form community radio. I’m Bill Denert, producer and host of Thursday night's Evening Jazz where "hearing is the best experience." Thanks for tuning in!


The Coleman Brothers Carnival has opened in Middletown for their 96th annual event.
With more than 30 rides and attractions for all ages, the carnival has set up camp at Palmer Field on Bernie O’Rourke Drive. The Carnival will run through Sunday and is located just off of Rt 66 on Bernie O'Rourke drive.


Tonight, Indira Karamcheti, Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University, will lead a discussion of “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand at 7 in the Hubbard Room at Russell Library. This book tells the true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner turned World War II airman, whose bomber crashed in the South Pacific.

Thursday at 7, Captain Glenn Sulmasy, Chairman, Department of Humanities and Professor of Law at the US Coast Guard Academy, will lecture on Guantanamo bay and Military Challenges Faced Today in Prosecuting Known Terrorists, in the Russell Library’s Hubbard Room. Saturday at 2pm in the Hubbard Room, Singer/guitarist Enzo Boscarino offers a musical tour of some of his favorite regions of Italy.

For more information on Russell Library events, visit www.russelllibrary.org
 
Here in Middletown, tonight at The BUTTONWOOD TREE on Main Street, The Matt Flinner Trio, features guitar, bass, and mandolin, and plays modern bluegrass. Saturday, the Buttonwood presents Songwriters In the Round featuring Tiff Jimber, Jen Vanderlyn,  Luis Narino. Sunday night, the Buttonwood hosts a fundraiser for St.Vincent dePaul with a night of spoken word and improvisational music.  Every Sunday, Food Not Bombs shares food about 1 pm in front of The Buttonwood. All are welcome.  More information about all of these events at www.buttonwood.org


Down in New Haven at Cafe 9 in tonight you can catch the Australian band, Twerps, plus The Estrogen Highs celebrate their new record "Release", Access cafenine.com for a full line up of Café nine events this week.


This Thursday, in celebration of Women’s History Month, the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame will give a presentation and discussion on its 16 new inductees at the Middlesex Community College library’s Periodical Room from 12:30 – 2 p.m. Portraits of the 16 inductees are currently on exhibit at Middlesex Community College's Jean Burr Smith Library in Chapman Hall until March 31.


Trinity College in Hartford kicks off their 7th International Hip Hop Festival this Thursday night continuing through Saturday. This event features top performances by Hip Hop artists from around the globe plus film screenings, panel discussion, workshops, and competitions, art shows and Break Dancing. Of note is the DMC World Turntablist regional championship from noon -4pm on Saturday, which will showcase CTs best DJs on the "ones and twos" flexing their skills. lots of details online at www.trinityhiphop.com


This week, you can view the talents of the  seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History, in the first round of senior thesis exhibitions, featuring Kuan-lin Huang, Elizabeth Chabot, Gil Sunshine, Johnny Tan, Sienna Perro, Xiao You. The exhibit runs  through Sunday in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. The gallery is open from noon to 4pm and admission is free.


Thursday, the Davison Arts Center presents "with a lot of help from our friends: 50 years of acquisitions" - celebrating the Friends of the Davison Art Center which has raised funds to purchase more than 900 works of art since its start in 1962. Works are on display from 5pm to 7pm in the Davison Art Center on the Wesleyan University campus, with a Gallery Talk at 5:30pm
The Australian dance company Chunky Move, presents the Connecticut premiere of “Connected“,  which animates the physical connection between body and machine as dancers construct a kinetic sculpture designed by California-based artist Reuben Margolin.  There will be a pre-performance talk by dance scholar Debra Cash on Friday at 7:15pm in CFA Hall. Performances are at Friday and Saturday at 8pm in Wesleyan’s CFA theater Friday, March 30, 2012


A senior music recital by Owen Callahan entitled "Music I Find Myself Writing." is at Wesleyan’s  memorial chapel at 9 on Friday, and is free and open to the public. Information on all of these Wesleyan UNiversity events at wesleyan.edu/cfa


Starting at 10 am at Brew Bakers this Sunday, acoustic duet Diane & Dave perform popular American music from the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and into the 21st Century.


Sunday evening at 7:30, The Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford is hosting an Evening with
 percussionist Richie Barshay, featuring percussive paintings, universal rhythms, and sonic adventures. Visit http://emanuelsynagogue.org/ for more info.

Sunday night in Collinsville at Bridge St Live, you can catch Red Molly w/ special guest Roosevelt Dime for anight of creative americana music. at 8:00 PM .more online at  http://41bridgestreet.com  


Now Here's what's going on in the world of cinema in central Connecticut:

Through tonight at Real Art Ways in Hartford, you can catch "Declaration of War", which follows a new couple, Romeo and Juliette, who must face the ultimate test when they discover their new born child is very ill. Friday and Saturday at Real Art Ways is Salt of Life, about a man questioning why all of the passion seems to have disappeared from his life. Realartways.org offers film ticket sales, trailers, and show times.


Tonight at Cinestudio, Trinity College's cinema in Hartford, you can catch "Pariah", the coming of age story of an African American lesbian girl growing up in Brooklyn. Friday and Saturday, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN brings the cartoon classic to the big screen. Ready to tackle a new quest with his faithful white fox terrier Snowy by his side, Tintin teams up with the tipsy seafarer Captain Haddock to recover the treasure from the sunken ship, the Unicorn. visit cinestudio.org for more.


Now, Here’s the lineup for tonight’s programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown.

From 5:05 to 6pm it's The Needle Drop with Anthony Fantano
An hour of the latest and greatest in the world of independent rock, pop, electronic, and experimental music out there today.

From 6 to 6:30pm it's Free Speech Radio News From The Pacifica Network
Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.

Starting at 6:30 and running until 8pm it's Fusion Radio with James Fusion
Techno from around the globe mixed live since 1992. It's a vinyl world!

From 8 to 9:30pm it's The Warehouse with Mike Nyce
The best of underground house music, mixed live for your listening pleasure.

At 9:30, it's Smorgasbord with DJ Maneki Neko
A colossal mix of electronic infused with the spices of dance..

At 11pm-1230am, it's Word…Life Radio with H Biz & B Fiz
Early 90's hip-hop is the focus here, with the occasional touch of punk, funk, reggae and soul.

From 1230-2am, it's Beats with Dylan Bostick
Hip-hop. Electro. Techno. UK bass. Music that makes you groove.

In the wee hours from  2-3am it's The Postman Express Hour with DJ JD, DJ MacChillin, & DJ Jack 3 DJs give their take on a specific "post" genre, be it post-folk jangling, post-psychedelic, post-rock, post-punk, any other post. Exploring jarring, weird and stimulating new music, and placing it in a historical context.

From 3-4am, it's Search and Recover with DJ Cheshire Cat
Search and Recover scours the world of music to find as many versions of a single song as possible. Join the exploration of the modern musical standards!

The BBC World News kicks on at 4 and we begin tomorrow's programing at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a chance to write down some of the information mentioned in our community calendar, the script is published online at jiveat5.blogspot.com (the five is the number five), and if you know of any events that you'd like to have announced on the Jive, send them to jive@wesufm.org

If you tune in to WESU for information and music that you can’t find elsewhere, then we are counting on you to help support the service you depend on.
Please take a moment to make a donation of any size online at www.wesufm.org, every dollar counts and we need to hear from you. Now stay tuned for The Needle Drop.

Monday, March 26, 2012

03-27-12 jive

Good evening, it's Tuesday, March 27th, and this is the Jive at Five, WESU's Daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. Thanks for making WESU your listener supported source for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs and free-form community radio. I’m Justin Miller, WESU Intern.


Tonight at 7 Here in Middletown, Otakus, Russell Library’s teen group for fans of Anime, Manga and all things Japanese, meets in the Meeting Room 3 to view anime shorts, discuss manga series and explore japan's culture. Ages 11 and up.


The Coleman Brothers Carnival is opening tonight in Middletown for thier 96th annual event.
With more than 30 rides and attractions for all ages, the carnival has set up camp at Palmer Field on Bernie O’Rourke Drive. The Carnival will run thorugh Sunday and is located just off of Rt 66 on Bernie O'Rourke drive.



 Tomorrow/Wednesday Indira Karamcheti, Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University, will lead a discussion of “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand at 7 in the Hubbard Room at Russell Library. This book tells the true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner turned World War II airman, whose bomber crashed in the South Pacific.
Thursday at 7, Captain Glenn Sulmasy, Chairman, Department of Humanities and Professor of Law at the US Coast Guard Academy, will lecture on Guantanamo bay and Military Challenges Faced Today in Prosecuting Known Terrorists, in the Russell Library’s Hubbard Room. Saturday at 2pm in the Hubbard Room, Singer/guitarist Enzo Boscarino offers a musical tour of some of his favorite regions of Italy.
For more information on Russell Library events, visit www.russelllibrary.org  
Here in Middletown, this Wednesday at The BUTTONWOOD TREE on Main Street, The Matt Flinner Trio, features guitar, bass, and mandolin, and plays modern bluegrass. Saturday, the Buttonwood presents Songwriters In the Round featuring Tiff Jimber, Jen Vanderlyn,  Luis Narino. Sunday night, the Buttonwood hosts a fundraiser for St.Vincent dePaul with a night of spoken word and improvisational music.  Every Sunday Food Not Bombs shares food about 1 pm in front of The Buttonwood. All are welcome.  More information about all of these events at www.buttonwood.org


Down in New Haven at Cafe 9 in tonight you can catch the Australian band, Twerps plus  The Estrogen Highs’ celebrate their new record Release, www.cafenine.com  for a full line up of Café nine events this week.


This Thursday, in celebration of Women’s History Month, the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame will give a presentation and discussion on its 16 new inductees at Middlesex Community College library’s Periodical Room from 12:30 – 2 p.m. Portraits of the 16 inductees are currently on exhibit at Middlesex Community College's Jean Burr Smith Library in Chapman Hall until March 31.



Trinity College in Hartford kicks off their 7th International Hip Hop Festival this Thursday night continuing through Saturday. This event features top performances by Hip Hop artists from around the globe plus film screenings, panel discussion, workshops, and competitions, art shows and Break Dancing. Of note is the DMC World Turntablist regional championship from noon -4pm on Saturday, which will showcase CTs best DJs on the "ones and twos" flexing their skills. lots of details online at www.trinityhiphop.com


This week, you can view the talents of the  seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History, in the first round of senior thesis exhibitions, featuring Kuan-lin Huang, Elizabeth Chabot, Gil Sunshine, Johnny Tan, Sienna Perro, Xiao You. The exhibit runs Tuesday through Sunday in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, which is open noon-4pm, free of charge.


Thursday, the Davison Arts Center presents "with a lot of help from our friends: 50 years of acquisitions" - celebrating the Friends of the Davison Art Center which has raised funds to purchase more than 900 works of art since its start in 1962. Works are on display from 5pm to 7pm in the Davison Art Center on the Wesleyan University campus, with a Gallery Talk at 5:30pm
The Australian dance company Chunky Move, presents the Connecticut premiere of “Connected“,  which animates the physical connection between body and machine as dancers construct a kinetic sculpture designed by California-based artist Reuben Margolin.  There will be a pre-performance talk by dance scholar Debra Cash on Friday at 7:15pm in CFA Hall. Performances are at Friday and Saturday at 8pm in Wesleyan’s CFA theater Friday, March 30, 2012


A senior music recital by Owen Callahan entitled "Music I Find Myself Writing." is at Wesleyan’s  memorial chapel at 9 on Friday, and is free and open to the public. Information on all of these Wesleyan UNiversity events at wesleyan.edu/cfa


Starting at 10 am at Brew Bakers this Sunday, acoustic duet Diane & Dave perform popular American music from the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and into the 21st Century.


Sunday evening at 7:30, The Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford is hosting an Evening with
 percussionist Richie Barshay, featuring percussive paintings, universal rhythms, and sonic adventures. Visit http://emanuelsynagogue.org/ for more info.

Sunday night in Collinsville at Bridge St Live, you can catch Red Molly w/ special guest Roosevelt Dime for anight of creative americana music. at 8:00 PM .more online at  http://41bridgestreet.com   


Now Here's what's going on in the world of cinema in central Connecticut:
Through Wednesday at Real Art Ways in Hartford,  you can catch  Declaration of War, which follows a new couple, Romeo and Juliette, who must face the ultimate test when they discover their new born child is very ill. Friday and Saturday at Real Art Ways is Salt of Life, about a man questioning why all of the passion seems to have disappeared from his life. www.realartways.org offers film ticket sales, trailers, and show times.


through Wednesday At Cinestudio, Trinity College's cinema in Hartford, you can catch "Pariah", the coming of age story of an African American lesbian girl growing up in Brooklyn  Friday and Saturday, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN brings the cartoon classic to the big screen. Ready to tackle a new quest with his faithful white fox terrier Snowy by his side, Tintin teams up with the tipsy seafarer Captain Haddock to recover the treasure from the sunken ship, the Unicorn. visit cinestudio.org for more.


Now, Here’s the lineup for tonight’s programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown.
Right after the Jive at Five catch our commercial free drive time music mix. at 6, it's Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network on Free Speech Radio News. 

at 6:30-8pm it's Wild Wild Live with Tom Foolery.  Featuring the best music Wesleyan has to offer, in a live and intimate studio setting. Tom will talk about the Wesleyan music scene, on campus and off, and supplement live material with artist interviews and recordings of live shows across the Wesleyan campus.

From 8-930pm, Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill, presents 90 minutes of Americana, country, folk, folk-rock, bluegrass, and other music that has a roots influence.

At 930pm It’s Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat, who’s got a song in his my heart, a chemical imbalance in his head and a musical library at his fingers. From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.

At 11pm -  Alive, Not Amplified with Adrien brings you the best in acoustic based music.

At Midnight, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with DJ Sleepy Girl... features The dulcet tones of bluegrass and folk -- just not entirely. 

At 1am The Boss with DJ Moe shines the focus on a different era of Bruce Springsteen each week.

At 2am “Soundstrip” with DJ Skip McCoy and DJ Strangelove, Examines music from a different film each week, exploring how songs function in film and enhance a movie’s perspective.

At 3am late tonight, City Spotlight  City Spotlight features the musical talents of a new citty each week, highlighting the unique contributions of each locale, and spanning genres from jazz to punk rock.

The BBC World News Service kicks on at 4AM and we begin tomorrow's broadcast at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a chance to write down some of the information mentioned in our community calendar, the script is published online at www.wesufm.org/jive  If you know of any events that you'd like to have announced on the Jive, send an emai to jive@wesufm.org

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