Friday, March 29, 2013

Mon., March 29 Jive

 Good evening, it's March 29th, Good Friday and the fifth day of Passover, and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming week nights and weekends.I'm Maria Johnson producer and host of Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith, a discussion of progressive ideas of faith and action. Tune in Tuesday when we'll be discussing the primacy of conscience. Also, letting you know that WESU is now recording our live stream! Visit wesu.streamrewind.com to hear Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith, and other great shows recorded here on WESU!

Let’s look at what’s going on in the community this week:

In New Haven tonight  at Café Nine the Friday happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m. features Rob Obie. Later at 9pm it's Rizzo's Dilemma; w/ The Mushroom Cloud • Rizzo's Dilemma is a hard-hitting improvisational rock band from southern CT.
Tomorrow, from 4:30 to 7:30 at Café nine, it’s the Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam w/ host Billy Cofrances.,followed at 9 by Wayne "The Train" Hancock; w/ Sean W Spellman (Quiet Life).
And then Sunday at Cafe Nine, starting at 8pm it's: Glen Matlock; Sylvain Sylvain.Later on Sunday at 8pm its Glen Matlock; Sylvain Sylvain • In a career spanning over 30 years, Glen Matlock has made indelible contributions to music; first as the original bass player and founding member of The Sex Pistols, to forming the underrated but much heralded Rich Kids. Learn more all events at cafenine.com.

Also in New Haven, over at Toad’s Place, tomorrow at 6:30 pm it's BIG JIM’S EGGSCELLENT EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, with performances by: Rubber Fist, High Octane, Nasty Disaster,Redline,Vengeance, and Evil Eyes.Later tomorrow night at Toads at 12pm is THE ORIGINAL SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY, students recieve discount pricing upon showing their student id's. For more information, you can go online to toadsplace.com.

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight at 9pm its Mike Crandall Band. Tomorrow at 9 p.m. it's Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez. More information about these events can be found at blackeyedsallys.com.

Wesleyan returns to life following their Spring Break and has a ton of events on the calendar as we enter the season of Senior Thesis presentations: This week, you can view the talents of the graduating seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History. Also on view this week is the work of Allison Kalt, Ally Bernstein, Tiffany Gerdes, Zoe Mueller, Ilyana Schwartz, and Anna Shimshak at Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, on Washington Terrace here in Middletown. Admission is FREE!

You can also catch “Arts - Fire and Bone” this week. This senior thesis production by Lily Haje '13 is an immersive theater experience that allows the audience to explore the physical and mental space of a halfway house for religious martyrs as they interact, reflect, and await judgment. There are two performances per night tonight and tomorrow evening at 7 and 9. The venue is located at 329 Mount Vernon Street in Middletown. Admission is FREE,  but tickets are required. Contact the Wesleyan CFA box office

Tonight at 8pm, Associate Professor of Dance Nicole Stanton presents the “Threshold Sites: The Ultimate Meal” project, a moving exploration of the relationships between body/self, home/community, and environment/ecosystem through the lens of food. This production feautres Wesleyan faculty, alumni, and artists from Connecticut and New York, and features live music and lively dancing, in addition to a communal feast to be shared with the audience at Wesleyan’s Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, 247 Pine Street, Middletown, CT.

Tomorrow night at 7pm, Zachary Sulsky’s senior music recital “Words & Music: The Songs of Cole Porter & Zack Sulsky”will be performed at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall. admission: FREE!

Also on tomorrow night you can catch “The Melting Pot: A Practice in Variation”— another senior music recital at Wesleyan by Robert Burvant. For more information about any of these events, you can visit www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.


And now let's take a look at cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

At Real Art Ways in Hartford, tonight brings "The House I live In:";As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans.

Also showing at RealArtways, through tonight it's, " Like Someone In Love."

Opening tonight at Real Artways, is "A Fierce Green Fire;" the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Details about all of these events and more can be found at realartways.com

Tonight and tomorrow at Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema, "The Silver Linings Playbook," will be shown. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence give outstanding, breakthrough performances in a screwball comedy shot through with darkness and uncertainty.
More details can be found at cinestudio.org.

Tomorrow night, don’t miss the next event in the WESU Spring Concert Series: Zammuto, Snow Blink live on stage at Wesleyan’s Eclectic House located at 200 High St in Middletown.Zammuto is an album by The Books member Nick Zammuto. Snow Blink is an indie pop band, currently based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.All events in The WESU Spring Concert Series are free and open to the public! Learn more online at wesufm.org


And now let's take a look at what's on the air here at WESU, 88.1 FM in Middletown:

 Right after the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6:00pm it’s
 Wild Wild Live with MC Apper
A sneak peek into the magical live music scene of Wes. Tune in for in-station sets from campus bands and recordings of up-and-coming artists' campus shows.

From 6:00 to 6:30pm
it’s Free Speech Radio News - Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.

For the next half hour, until 7pm you have the Middletown Youth Radio Project - A weekly radio program featuring the thoughts, voices, creativity and talent of the kids in the WESU neighborhood.

At 7, until 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, including local artists from Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also features upcoming artists performing Caribbean R & B, Soca and international music.

From 10 until Midnight, 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 Midnight until 2am Saturday 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 2, to 3am it's the Bassment Beats with DJ Lokash – the Real Hip-Hop is over here.

The next hour 'til 4am it's Maximum Rock & Roll Radio - A weekly radio show featuring the best international DIY punk, garage rock and hardcore from the astounding, ever-growing Maximum Rock n roll radio record collection.

+Sing Out! Radio Magazine with Tom Druckenmiller comes on at 4 until 5am with a weekly, hour-long “magazine format” program, featuring interviews in addition to “live” and recorded traditional folk musics.

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 Corporatiopn

And staying on the other side of the big pond, from 6:00 to 7:00am it’s
 the Celtic Café
 with Pat Laffan and Mark Gallagher presenting traditional and contemporary music with a Celtic connection.

And now that the coffee’s hot enjoy Caffé Italia from 7:00 to 8:00am
with Francesco Fiumara, the former host of WESU's own WESParla
 - 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 written form for what you've heard on today’s jive is online at wesufm.org/jive

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!
Happy Easter and Happy Passover!

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Thursday's JIVE


Good evening, it's Thursday,March 28th and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming week nights and weekends.I'm J-Cherry producer and host of VOICE of the CITY, Tuesday from 8-9PM, Showcasing live and local music, arts, and culture. WESU is now recording our live stream! Visit wesu.streamrewind.com to hear VOICE of the CITY, and other great shows recorded here on WESU! Thanks for tuning in. 

Let’s look at what’s going on in the community this week:

Over at the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown tonight  at 7:30 is "The Campus Slammer" open mic where College students from Connecticut vie for honors in this inter-collegiate battle of words.

Tonight in Granby
is your food affecting your health? 
Join us in learning more about what genetically modified organisms (GMO) are, and what you can do to limit your exposure.  A brief discussion led by leaders from GMO Free CT, will follow the film.Seating is limited. Please call or email to reserve your seat.nfo@holcombfarm.org or 860-844-8616 This event is co-sponsored by Holcomb Farm www.holcombfarm.org

Also tonight at Real Art Ways GMO foods have been on our local grocery stores shelves for over ten years without our consent or knowledge. The good news is that the Connecticut legislature has the chance to pass HB6519 this spring and give us all our right to know. Tonight the panel will be moderated by Tara Cook-Littman, founder of GMO Free CT. You can hear what these leaders have to say and have your questions answered about one of the leading issues of our time. Sponsored by GMO Free CT, GMO Free Hartford, Food and Water Watch Hartford, NOFA, Sierra Club, Willimantic Food Cooperative, Billings Forge Farmers Market and Unitarian Universalist Society East


In New Haven tonight  at Café Nine it's Ports of Spain; w/ Ghost of Chance • "Ports of Spain present the listener with a sound on the cutting edge.The Friday happy hour at Cafe Nine is from 5 to 7 p.m. featuring Rob Obie. Later at 9pm it's Rizzo's Dilemma; w/ The Mushroom Cloud • Rizzo's Dilemma is a hard-hitting improvisational rock band from southern CT.
Saturday, from 4:30 to 7:30 at Café nine, it’s the Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam w/ host Billy Cofrances.,followed at 9 by Wayne "The Train" Hancock; w/ Sean W Spellman (Quiet Life).
And then Sunday at Cafe Nine, starting at 8pm it's: Glen Matlock; Sylvain Sylvain.Later on Sunday at 8pm its Glen Matlock; Sylvain Sylvain • In a career spanning over 30 years, Glen Matlock has made indelible contributions to music; first as the original bass player and founding member of The Sex Pistols, to forming the underrated but much heralded Rich Kids. Learn more all events at cafenine.com.


Also in New Haven, over at Toad’s Place, on Saturday at 6:30 pm it's BIG JIM’S EGGSCELLENT EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, with performances by: Rubber Fist, High Octane, Nasty Disaster,Redline,Vengeance, and Evil Eyes.Later Saturday night at Toads at 12pm is THE ORIGINAL SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY, students recieve discount pricing upon showing their student id's. For more information, you can go online to toadsplace.com.

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight it’s "The Blind Owl Band," with Seth Adams.Then friday at 9pm its Mike Crandall Band.Saturday at 9pmitsChristine Ohlman & Rebel Montez. More information about these events can be found at blackeyedsallys.com.

Wesleyan returns to life following their Spring Break and has a ton of events on the calendar as we enter the season of Senior Thesis presentations: This week, you can view the talents of the graduating seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History. Also on view this week is the work of Allison Kalt, Ally Bernstein, Tiffany Gerdes, Zoe Mueller, Ilyana Schwartz, and Anna Shimshak at Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, on Washington Terrace here in Middletown. Admission is FREE!

You can also catch “Arts - Fire and Bone” this week. This senior thesis production by Lily Haje '13 is an immersive theater experience that allows the audience to explore the physical and mental space of a halfway house for religious martyrs as they interact, reflect, and await judgment. There are two performances per night this Thursday, Fri, and Saturday evenings at 7 and 9. The venue is located at 329 Mount Vernon Street in Middletown. Admission is FREE,  but tickets are required. Contact the Wesleyan CFA box office

Tonight night at 8pm, there will be a senior music recital by Tobias Butler performed at 200 Church, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Admission is free!

Friday at 4pm you can catch Alex Lough’s senior music recital —“Reshaping Traditions”— Performed in the CFA Hall, on Washington Terrace

Friday night at 8pm, Associate Professor of Dance Nicole Stanton presents the “Threshold Sites: The Ultimate Meal” project, a moving exploration of the relationships between body/self, home/community, and environment/ecosystem through the lens of food. This production feautres Wesleyan faculty, alumni, and artists from Connecticut and New York, and features live music and lively dancing, in addition to a communal feast to be shared with the audience at Wesleyan’s Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, 247 Pine Street, Middletown, CT.

Saturday night at 7pm, Zachary Sulsky’s senior music recital “Words & Music: The Songs of Cole Porter & Zack Sulsky”will be performed at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall. admission: FREE!

Also on Saturday night you can catch “The Melting Pot: A Practice in Variation”— another senior music recital at Wesleyan by Robert Burvant. For more information about any of these events, you can visit www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.


Tonight at 6:30at Russel Library @ 6:30 pm, in Meeting Room 2, is "We Were There: Veterans' Writing Group.", inviting veterans to share their stories in their own voices. All veterans are encouraged to come and write their experiences for their own benefit or to share with family and friends. For more information about any of these programs, you can access russelllibrary.org

And now let's take a look at cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

At Real Art Ways in Hartford, tonight and tomorrow brings "The House I live In:";As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans.

Also showing at RealArtways, through tomorrow it's, " Like Someone In Love."

Opening this Friday at Real Artways, is "A Fierce Green Fire;" the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Details about all of these events and more can be found at realartways.com

From tonight through Saturday Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema, is showing "The Silver Linings Playbook," Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence give outstanding, breakthrough performances in a screwball comedy shot through with darkness and uncertainty.
More details can be found at cinestudio.org.

This Saturday night, don’t miss the next event in the WESU Spring Concert Series: Zammuto, Snow Blink live on stage at Wesleyan’s Eclectic House located at 200 High St in Middletown.Zammuto is an album by The Books member Nick Zammuto. Snow Blink is an indie pop band, currently based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.All events in The WESU Spring Concert Series are free and open to the public! Learn more online at wesufm.org


And now let's take a look at what's on the air here at WESU, 88.1 FM in Middletown: 
Homegrown with Rob DeRosa

The best crop of Connecticut-connected music presented for a global audience.


6-6:30pm
Free Speech Radio News
Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.

6:30-8pm
Total Praise with Minister Latrecia
Your Thursday night Gospel music connection! A diverse and inspirational blend of contemporary gospel music to uplift your spirit!

8-9:30
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 Jesse Brent
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
(1,3,5) The Middletown Weavers with DJ Ping and DJ Zing

(2,4) Bach Party with Canyon Girl
Bach Party will feature a unique theme each week showcasing work from a grand pool of classical composers and compositions. Tune in, remain composed, and keep it classy.

11:30pm-12:30am
(1,3,5) Underdogs Edge with DJ Malik1Fam
The Underdogs Edge will feature local hip hop artists across the region with tracks from mainstream artists normally not played on radio.

(2,4) Songs Without Words with Jacob Feder
Songs Without Words offers an eclectic assortment of instrumental musics both new and old.
12:30-1:30am
(1,3,5) UnderCover with Rebecca Seidel
Bridging genres, musical styles, and time, Undercover explores the concept of inspiration through imitation.

(2,4) The Art Of Improvisation with DJ Jack
I will be playing music that blends styles, genres, and interesting melodic and harmonic arrangements. I would focus specifically on jazz and jazz influenced music, rock n' roll, jam bands, bluegrass, funk, and any blending of the above genres.

1:30-2:30am
(1,3,5) Rock Fatale with DJ Stella
Featuring the first ladies of rock, from The Marvelettes to Metric.

(2,4) Live From The Paris Hotel with The Sparrow
A mercurial mixture of pop music and poetry, cavorting the ley lines of the human voice. Step outside the Dr. Luke degeneration into the magnificent streets of the city where the ravings of mad poets and mods dissipate into a smoky rain spilling down on an ocean of umbrellas. The promenade continues, submerging in all dimensions of lyric-centric pop: rock, soul, reggae, folk, R&B, punk, funk, post-punk, new-wave, jazz and wherever else the street winds, from the 1950s to the present. Pop music interspersed with spoken word tracks and poetry readings.

2:30-3:30am
(1,3,5) Blues After Midnight with DJ Sick Nelden
Blues sounds great. But it sounds best on vinyl after midnight. Listen to DJ Sick Nelden as he takes you through the many stories and sub-cultures of the Blues.

(2,4) Road Trips with Nina G
Fill up your tank, grab your snacks and let's hit the road. Each week we will travel to a different destination passing the time with some entertaining stories and music to match. DJ Nina G's at the wheel for a trip full of tunes, tales and lots of fun. 

3:30-4am
Sunspot Loops
A sporadic exploration of what exists in music at the moment.


The BBC World News Service kicks on at 4AM and we begin tomorrow's broadcast at 5 a.m. 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 tojive@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.  


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 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 wesufm.org. Every dollar counts and we need to hear from you. Thanx for listening and stay tuned for The Needle Drop.

3/27/13 jive



Good evening, it's Wednesday,March 27 and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming week nights and weekends. I am Bill Denert, producer and host of Thursday night's Evening Jazz where "hearing is the best experience" and Connecticut's number 1 Washington Nationals fan! Thanks for tuning in.

Let’s look at what’s going on in the community this week:

Over at the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown tonight at 7:00 is "Karaoke with Deni", free and fun for all ages.

On Thursday at 7:30 is "The Campus Slammer" open mic where College students from Connecticut vie for honors in this inter-collegiate battle of words.


Tonight at 8pm at Café Nine it's Tom Goss; w/ E.L.E.I.,offering dynamic acoustic rock.

And at 8pm tomorrow, Cafe Nine brings: Ports of Spain; w/ Ghost of Chance • "Ports of Spain present the listener with a sound on the cutting edge.

The Friday happy hour at Cafe Nine is from 5 to 7 p.m. featuring Rob Obie. Later at 9pm it's Rizzo's Dilemma; w/ The Mushroom Cloud • Rizzo's Dilemma is a hard-hitting improvisational rock band from southern CT.

Saturday, from 4:30 to 7:30 at Café nine, it’s the Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam w/ host Billy Cofrances.,followed at 9 by Wayne "The Train" Hancock; w/ Sean W Spellman (Quiet Life).

And then Sunday at Cafe Nine, starting at 8pm it's: Glen Matlock; Sylvain Sylvain.Later on Sunday at 8pm its Glen Matlock; Sylvain Sylvain • In a career spanning over 30 years, Glen Matlock has made indelible contributions to music; first as the original bass player and founding member of The Sex Pistols, to forming the underrated but much heralded Rich Kids.

Learn more all events at cafenine.com.


Also in New Haven, over at Toad’s Place, at 9pm it's "Max Creek," with opening acts "Full Spectrum", and "String Band"

And on Saturday at 6:30 pm it's BIG JIM’S EGGSCELLENT EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, with performances by: Rubber Fist, High Octane, Nasty Disaster,Redline,Vengeance, and Evil Eyes.

Later Saturday night at Toads at 12pm is THE ORIGINAL SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY, students recieve discount pricing upon showing their student id's. For more information, you can go online to toadsplace.com.

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight it’s the Blues Jam, with host this week, Tim McDonald.

Thursday at 8pm it's "The Blind Owl Band," with Seth Adams.Then friday at 9pm its Mike Crandall Band.Saturday at 9pmitsChristine Ohlman & Rebel Montez.

More information about these events can be found at blackeyedsallys.com.

Wesleyan returns to life following their Spring Break and has a ton of events on the calendar as we enter the season of Senior Thesis presentations: This week, you can view the talents of the graduating seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History. Also on view this week is the work of Allison Kalt, Ally Bernstein, Tiffany Gerdes, Zoe Mueller, Ilyana Schwartz, and Anna Shimshak at Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, on Washington Terrace here in Middletown. Admission is FREE!

You can also catch “Arts - Fire and Bone” this week. This senior thesis production by Lily Haje '13 is an immersive theater experience that allows the audience to explore the physical and mental space of a halfway house for religious martyrs as they interact, reflect, and await judgment. There are two performances per night this Thursday, Fri, and Saturday evenings at 7 and 9. The venue is located at 329 Mount Vernon Street in Middletown. Admission is FREE,  but tickets are required. Contact the Wesleyan CFA box office

Tomorrow night at 8pm, there will be a senior music recital by Tobias Butler performed at 200 Church, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Admission is free!

Friday at 4pm you can catch Alex Lough’s senior music recital —“Reshaping Traditions”— Performed in the CFA Hall, on Washington Terrace

Friday night at 8pm, Associate Professor of Dance Nicole Stanton presents the “Threshold Sites: The Ultimate Meal” project, a moving exploration of the relationships between body/self, home/community, and environment/ecosystem through the lens of food. This production feautres Wesleyan faculty, alumni, and artists from Connecticut and New York, and features live music and lively dancing, in addition to a communal feast to be shared with the audience at Wesleyan’s Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, 247 Pine Street, Middletown, CT.

Saturday night at 7pm, Zachary Sulsky’s senior music recital “Words & Music: The Songs of Cole Porter & Zack Sulsky”will be performed at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall. admission: FREE!

Also on Saturday night you can catch “The Melting Pot: A Practice in Variation”— another senior music recital at Wesleyan by Robert Burvant. For more information about any of these events, you can visit www.wesleyan.edu/cfa .

Tomorrow at 9am in the Russell Library's Hubbard Room is "Job Group", a weekly opportunity to network with other job seekers, as well as receive the advice of professionals.

Then on Thursday at 6:30 pm, in Meeting Room 2, is "We Were There: Veterans' Writing Group.", inviting veterans to share their stories in their own voices. All veterans are encouraged to come and write their experiences for their own benefit or to share with family and friends. For more information about any of these programs, you can access russelllibrary.org

And now let's take a look at cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

At Real Art Ways in Hartford, tonight and tomorrow brings "The House I live In:";As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans.

Also showing at RealArtways, through tomorrow it's, " Like Someone In Love."

Opening this Friday at Real Artways, is "A Fierce Green Fire;" the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Details about all of these events and more can be found at realartways.com

From tonight through Saturday Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema, is showing "The Silver Linings Playbook," Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence give outstanding, breakthrough performances in a screwball comedy shot through with darkness and uncertainty.

Then Sunday, it’s"Amour."Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence give outstanding, breakthrough performances in a screwball comedy shot through with darkness and uncertainty.More details can be found at cinestudio.org.

This Saturday night, don’t miss the next event in the WESU Spring Concert Series: Zammuto, Snow Blink live on stage at Wesleyan’s Eclectic House located at 200 High St in Middletown.Zammuto is an album by The Books member Nick Zammuto. Snow Blink is an indie pop band, currently based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.All events in The WESU Spring Concert Series are free and open to the public! Learn more online at wesufm.org

And now let's take a look at what's on the air here at WESU, 88.1 FM in Middletown:

Right after the Jive at Five 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 6-6:30pm, it, Free Speech Radio News From The Pacifica Network
Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.

From 6:30-8pm it'sFusion Radio with James Fusion
Techno from around the globe mixed live since 1992. It's a vinyl world!

Beginning at 8 and running until 9:30pm it's The Warehouse with Mike Nyce
The best of underground house music, mixed live for your listening pleasure.

Next, from 9:30 to 11pm it's Missteps with Guy Fridge and Nicholas Msall
Missteps is a club night, record label, and radio show run by Guy Fridge and Nicholas Msall that seeks to bring attention to the latest in underground club music from around the world. Missteps focuses on forward-thinking dance music including juke, global bass music, uk-garage, underground house/techno, and wonky beats.

And from  11pm to 12:30  DJ Quandry presents Shelf Life, an electronic music show consisting of random cds plucked from the shelves of the electronic music section minutes before the start of the show. It's a guaranteed way to discover new, different, and surprising artists in the electronic genre.

From 12:30 til 2:00am it's Midnight Munchies with DJ Gus Lo
Below Ground Street music your ears have been craving.

Right after Midnight Munchies, from 2:00 to 3am it's Pop! Goes My Heart with Ian McCarthy
(Primarily) Sad pop music with a different title-based theme every show; experimental, ambient, riot grrrl, synthpop, baroque pop all somewhat represented, plus more.

And from 3:00 to 4am it's Tracking Transcience..

The BBC World News Service kicks on at 4AM and we begin tomorrow's broadcast at 5 a.m. 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 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 wesufm.org. Every dollar counts and we need to hear from you. Thanx for listening and stay tuned for The Needle Drop.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Tuesday, March 26


Good evening, it's TTuesday,March 26 and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming week nights and weekends. I am Isabelle, host of the Fuss, a free form interview show airing every first third and fifth friday of the month from 2:00-2:30. Thanks for tuning in.

 

Let’s look at what’s going on in the community this week:

 

Over at the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown on Wednesday at 7:00 is "Karaoke with Deni", free and fun for all ages.On thursday at 7:30 is "The Campus Slammer" open mic where College students from Connecticut vie for honors in this inter-collegiate battle of words.

 

Tonight at 7pm MANIC PRODUCTIONS Presents: Nightmare Air ; w/ the Suicide Dolls; Slander •Wednesday at 8pm at Café Nine is Tom Goss; w/ E.L.E.I.,offeri ng dynamic acoustic rock.And 8pm Thursday at Cafe Nine brings: Ports of Spain; w/ Ghost of Chance • "Ports of Spain present the listener with a soundon the cutting edge.The Friday happy hour at Cafe Nine is from 5 to 7 p.m. featuring Rob Obie.Later on Friday at 9pm is Rizzo's Dilemma; w/ The Mushroom Cloud • Rizzo's Dilemma is a hard-hitting improvisational rock band from southern CT.Saturday, from 4:30 to 7:30 at Café nine, it’s the Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam w/ host Billy Cofrances.,followed at 9 by Wayne "The Train" Hancock; w/ Sean W Spellman (Quiet Life).And then Sunday at Cafe Nine, starting at 8pm it's: Glen Matlock; Sylvain Sylvain.Later on Sunday at 8pm its Glen Matlock; Sylvain Sylvain • In a career spanning over 30 years, Glen Matlock has made indelible contributions to music; first as the original bass player and founding member of The Sex Pistols, to forming the underrated but much heralded Rich Kids.

Learn more at www.cafenine.com.

 

 

Also in New Haven, over at Toad’s Place,

Friday at Toad's at 9pm is "Max Creek," with opening acts "Full Spectrum", and "String Band"

Saturday at 6:30 pm isBIG JIM’S EGGSCELLENT EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, with performances by: Rubber Fist, High Octane, Nasty Disaster,Redline,Vengeance, and Evil Eyes.

Later Saturday night at Toads at 12pm is THE ORIGINAL SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY, students recieve discount pricing upon showing their student id's.For more information, go to www.toadsplace.com.

 

 

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight at 8pm brings Michael Palin's Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band, to Sally’s stage. And Wednesday it’s the Blues Jam, with host this week, Tim McDonald. Thursday at Black Eyed Sallys, at 8pm is "The Blind Owl Band," with Seth Adams.Then friday at 9pm its Mike Crandall Band.Saturday at 9pmitsChristine Ohlman & Rebel Montez.

For more info go to www.blackeyedsallys.com ...

 

Wesleyan returns to life following their Spring Break and has a ton of events on the calendar as we enter the season of Senior Thesis presentations: Beginning today you can view the talents of the graduating seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History. On view this week is the work of Allison Kalt, Ally Bernstein, Tiffany Gerdes, Zoe Mueller, Ilyana Schwartz, and Anna Shimshak at Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, on Washington Terrace here in Middletown. Admission: FREE!

 

 

You can also catch “Arts - Fire and Bone” this week. This senior thesis production by Lily Haje '13 is an immersive theater experience that allows the audience to explore the physical and mental space of a halfway house for religious martyrs as they interact, reflect, and await judgment. There are two performances per night this Thursday, Fri, and Saturday at7pm and 9pm. The venue is located at329 Mount Vernon Street in Middletown. Admission: FREE but tickets required; contact the Wesleyan CFA box office

 

 

 

Thursday night at 8pm, there will be a senior music recital by Tobias Butler. Performed at 200 Church, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Admission is free!

 

Friday at 4pm you can catch Alex Lough’s senior music recital —“Reshaping Traditions”— Performed in the CFA Hall, on Washington Terrace

 

Friday night at 8pm, Associate Professor of Dance Nicole Stanton presents the “Threshold Sites: The Ultimate Meal” project, a moving exploration of the relationships between body/self, home/community, and environment/ecosystem through the lens of food. This production feautres Wesleyan faculty, alumni, and artists from Connecticut and New York, and features live music and lively dancing, in addition to a communal feast to be shared with the audience at Wesleyan’s Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, 247 Pine Street, Middletown, CT.

 

Saturday night at 7pm, Zachary Sulsky’s senior music recital “Words & Music: The Songs of Cole Porter & Zack Sulsky”will be performed at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall. admission: FREE!

 

Also on Saturday night you can catch “The Melting Pot: A Practice in Variation”— another senior music recital at Wesleyan by Robert Burvant. For more information about any of these events, you can visit www.wesleyan.edu/cfa .

 

Wednesday at 12pm in the Russel Libraries Hubbard Room is "Me and Orson Welles. This series continues a discussion led by film critic and former stage actor Richard Alleva. Thursday at 9am, in the Russell Library Hubbard Room, is "Job Group", a weekly opportunity to network with other job seekers, as well as receive the advice of professionals.

Then on Thursday at 6:30 pm, in Meeting Room 2, is "We Were There: Veterans' Writing Group.", inviting veterans to share their stories in their own voices. All veterans are encouraged to come and write their experiences for their own benefit or to share with family and friends. For more information about any of these programs, go to www.russelllibrary.org

 

And now the cinema.

 

At Real Art Ways in Hartford, tonight through Thursday brings "The House I live In:";As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans.

Also showing at RealArtways, tonight at 7:30pm, through Thursday is, " Like Someone In Love."

Opening Friday, March 29, at Real Artways, is "A Fierce Green Fire;" the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change.

 

.Details about all events at www.realartways.com

 

 

Over at Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema, tonight at 7:30pm is "56 Up". The UP films are unique in the history of both film and anthropology. Time-lapse studies of the human animal in all his and her ordinary beauty.” Ty Burr, Boston Globe.

 

From Wednesday to Saturday Cinestudio is showing "The Silver Linings Playbook," Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence give outstanding, breakthrough performances in a screwball comedy shot through with darkness and uncertainty.

Then Sunday, it’s"Amour."Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence give outstanding, breakthrough performances in a screwball comedy shot through with darkness and uncertainty.Details at www.cinestudio.org.

 

 

 

This Saturday night, don’t miss the next event in the WESU Spring Concert Series: Zammuto, Snow Blink live on stage at Wesleyan’s Eclectic House located at 200 High St in Middletown.Zammuto is an album by The Books member Nick Zammuto. Snow Blink is an indie pop band, currently based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.All events in The WESU Spring Concert Series are free and open to the public! Learn more online atwww.wesufm.org

 

 

And here is the schedule for tonight’s programming on 88.1 WESU Middletown.

Right after the Jive at 5, stay tuned for Lily Meyers on The Wayfaring Stranger, a folk program

Then at 6pm each weekday, it’s Free Speech Radio News From The Pacifica Network, offering an evening dose of alternative international news and reporting in the service of peace and social justice.


From 6:30-8pm At 6:30 Bill Revill brings us Acoustic Blender, featuring another 90 minutes of Folk, Americana, and roots music.


At 8 pm Voice of The City with J Cherry presents an hour of live local arts and culture.


At 9pm its Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat who’s got a song in his heart, a chemical imbalance in his head and a musical library at his fingers.


After that Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with DJ Sleepy Girl is on till 12:30

From 12:30-1:30 is Six Degrees of Separation with Monica

And from 1:30-2:30 is Declan MacManus, International Art Thief with DJ Moe

Then Romancipation with Dr. Love until 3:00am.

And Search and Recover with DJ Cheshire Cat until 4am,

Rounded off with BBC World News till 6 am


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
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