Good evening! It’s Monday, Sept. 30th, and this is the Jive
at Five - our 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
weeknights and weekends. I'm Maria
Johnson, producer and host of "Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the
Faith," which airs every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesday afternoon, from 4 to
right before the Jive at Five. Tomorrow, a chorus of voices celebrating Pope
Francis’s recent complaint that the Church is too obsessed with birth control,
abortion and homosexuality. Find audio of that and other shows at
www.reasonablycatholic.com. Okay, on with the Jive.
Here’s a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area
this week.
Tonight here in Middletown at 6pm, you can catch the up and coming
Wesleyan student rock act, Grand Cousin, performing a
stripped down acoustic set in Rob “Homegrown”
DeRosa’s “Music Monday” live music series at Red and Black Café, at 45 Broad
St. For info, look for the series on Facebook or Google it.
Here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, tonight is the
Anything Goes open mic night. Starting at 10 a.m. tomorrow and running all
month, take in “Sunsets: A Middletown Transformation,” a photography exhibit by
WESU’s own Dave Bauer, with an opening reception planned for Sunday, Oct. 6. Tomorrow
evening at 7 it’s Laughter Yoga with Mimi Claire and a potluck dinner. Thursday
is open mic night with Bob Gotta. Friday at 8 p.m., Jamie Anderson & The
Ladies Auxiliary Ukulele Orchestra plays. Saturday morning, the Buttonwood
offers Qigong (Chi Kung), community yoga and an empowerment workshop. Saturday evening,
The New Unity Band with Matt Dwonszyk performs. On Sundays, Food Not Bombs
serves food outside the Buttonwood at 1pm. All are welcome. You are also
invited to help prepare the vegetarian meal beforehand at 11am at First Church
Congregational on Court Street. Rumpus, an invitation to express the rhythm
inside you, happens during Food Not Bombs. On Sunday evening at 7, it’s the
Great Make Believe Improv Show. Details at www.buttonwood.org.
Tonight at 7:30 at the Mattabesett Canoe Club at Harbor
Park, it’s the weekly open mic night. Tuesday brings acoustic solo music.
Wednesday is Irish session night. Thursday brings the weekly jazz series. Friday
night, it’s blues. Saturday, classic rock. And Sunday, mixed musical offerings . www.mattabesettcanoeclub.com.
Down in New Haven at Toad’s Place, tonight brings A Night of
Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends. Tomorrow brings to Lilly’s Pad the
Wham Bam Bowie Band, a complete performance of Ziggy Stardust, among other
Bowie classics. Wednesday, it’s Immortal Technique & Brother Ali War and Peace Tour,
with Diabolic, I Self Devine, and Hosted By Poison Pen. Thursday, Hestia
Records presents Escape to EDM, with Narga & Bryski, Xeromynd, and Boltcutter.
Friday, the Cosmic Dust Bunnies come to Toad’s, with 7 Below (a tribute to
Phish), Turbine, and Rizzo’s Dilemma. Also on Friday, in Lilly’s Pad, Afton
Presents Negative Three, Great Blue, Amanda Blackmarsh, J Crow, Orphan Andies, Fat
Bradley, Man the Builder and Shemata. On Sunday, it’s Bayside/Motion City
Soundtrack, with What's Eating Gilbert and State Champs. Details at www.toadsplace.com.
Also in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight brings Primitive
Garage Rock, with The Neanderthals and The Outta Sites (featuring members of
Los Straitjackets). Tomorrow, Manic Productions and Asbestos Records presents The
Toasters, with The Hempsteadys and The Excitement Gang. Wednesday, the Raya
Brass Band plays Café Nine, with Milksop: Unsung. And Thursday brings Mary
Gauthier. Friday, it’s the L.A.M.P. Festival featuring Mark Mulcahy, with The
Streams. Saturday’s afternoon jazz jam is hosted by Mike Coppola and Friends.
The Gina Sicilia show that was to follow the jazz jam has been canceled. At 9 p.m.
on Saturday Murdervan plays, along with Orb
Mellon. Sunday brings the Blues Boot Camp with Greg Sherrod and his band to Café
Nine. www.cafenine.com.
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight is Jazz
Monday. Tomorrow brings Michael Palin's Other Orchestra. Wednesday’s blues jam,
one of the longest running in New England, is hosted by Mike Law. Friday, the Truck Stop Troubadors stop off at Sally’s.
And on Saturday, it’s Ana Popovic. www.blackeyedsally’s.com.
Also in Hartford, at Sully’s Pub, tonight is Acoustic Open
Mic Night. Tomorrow brings Positive Jam w/ Joey Batts & Self Suffice.
Wednesday is Karaoke w/ Tastefull Productions. Thursday, it’s Sully’s First
Thursday Comedy Series. Friday, it’s the Fat Guy Friday Happy Hour and Up is
Down and Post Modern Panic. Saturday, it’s Dirty Sanchez. And Sunday, it’s the
Electric Open Mic. www.sullyspub.com for details.
Back in Middletown, tomorrow kicks off Common Ground 2013:
The Fifth Middletown International Film Festival, a lineup of films on Tuesdays
through October and November, accompanied by expert commentary. Tomorrow’s film
is at the Russell Library: More Than Frybread – directed by Travis Holt
Hamilton, a fun “mockumentary” about a
fictitious frybread competition in Flagstaff, Arizona. Theodore Van Alst, of
Yale University, will speak. www.russelllibrary.org.
Friday at 5 p.m., it’s the monthly Middletown Gallery Walk,
a chance to take in the latest art exhibitions downtown.
Saturday afternoon at 2, at the Russell Library, you can enjoy "Romanticism
Forever Young" with Pianist Pi-Hsun Shih and Cellist Tanya Anisimova
performing Chopin and Mendelssohn.
Sunday, a rare Model T-Ford advertising vehicle will be
among the features of the Middlesex
County Historical Society’s 28th annual Antique Car Show and Flea Market. The show, at Middletown High School on LaRosa
Lane, off Newfield Street, opens with car registration at 8:30 a.m. The featured
car, used primarily for advertising, appeared in many parades and was used by a lumber company to keep its business in the public eye. The owner at the
time was John C. Barry, a gentleman very much loved by the people of Portland.
He had held virtually every office in the town government save for First
Selectman since he became a registered voter in 1891. This car has been in
Portland all its life and was also under water in the 1936 flood and 1938
hurricane. The car has been restored by its owners Edward and Rosemarie Organek
of Portland, CT. Details by calling the Society at 860-346-0746.
Also on Sunday in Middletown, the Shaped Note Singers meet
from 4 to 6 p.m. at the MAC650 Gallery, 650 Main St. All are welcome. A potluck
follows the singing. More information by emailing Neely Bruce at nbruce@wesleyan.edu.
Back in New Haven, at Bar, on Wednesday at 9 p.m. Manic Productions
Presents Potty Mouth, with California X and Blessed State.
www.manicproductions.com.
Several farmers' markets in our area are still in full
swing. In Middletown, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. through
Halloween, there's a longstanding farmer’s market on the South Green. Through
October 25th, on Fridays in Middletown from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., The North End
Farmers Market happens in the parking lot of It's Only Natural Market on Main
St., near the intersection of Liberty St. from
www.northendfarmersmarket.org.
Through October 25th, in Higganum, there’s a market on
Fridays from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m on the town green. In East Haddam, this Wednesday
is the last chance to shop the farmers' market from 4 to 7 p.m. at the town
grange on Town Street.
Now that the Durham Fair has ended, fairgoers turn their
attention to the Berlin Fair, which runs from Friday through Sunday at 430
Beckley Road, East Berlin. Info at www.Ctberlinfair.com.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, Short Term 12, an emotional
drama set in a foster care facility, runs through Thursday. Also through
Thursday: The Trials of Mohammed Ali, a documentary exploring the famous boxer’s
refusal to serve in the Vietnam war, even after his status as a conscientious
objector was denied, on the grounds of protesting racial injustice at home. The
film captures his passion and anger in interviews and television appearances culled
from a rich variety of rare archival sources. Opening Friday is Smash &
Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers, and Herb and Dorothy, 50 by 50, about a
world-class art collection built by a postal clerk and a librarian in their
modest home, then donated, one work to each of the 50 states.
www.realartways.com for details.
At Cinestudio, The Trinity College cinema in Hartford, it’s The
Attack, about a highly successful Palestinian surgeon) living in Israel who finds
his life changed in the instant that his wife is suspected of being the suicide
bomber in an attack that killed innocent children in a café. Wednesday is a
special one-night screening of Girl Rising, about how educating girls can
change the world. Children in nine countries, from Cambodia to Sierra Leone to
Peru, perform vignettes written by nine authors and narrated by nine actresses. Thursday
brings a double feature to Cinestudio: the
Israeli film Yossi and Jagger, about an Army commander stationed in the mountains
on the border of Lebanon, and his passionate love affair with Jagger, one of
his soldiers known for his rock star looks. And the sequel, Yossi, set 10 years
later, with Yossi a closeted and lonely cardiologist in Tel Aviv who still
dreams of finding satisfaction, both emotional and sexual, after losing Jagger,
the love of his life. Friday begins a run of The Conjuring, a creepy horror
film based on real events in Rhode Island. And Sunday begins a run of Twenty
Feet from Stardom, a documentary in which great backup singers get the
attention they deserve. www.cinestudio.org.
Now here’s what's on the air tonight on WESU, 88.1 FM in
Middletown:
Right after the Jive at Five stay tuned for a well-rounded
jazz show on Charles Henry’s Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry until 6pm.
Weekdays at 6 Free Speech Radio News rrom the Pacifica
Network offers a daily dose of alternative international news and reporting.
At 6:30 it's Life is a Killer, with Johnny Analog.
That’s followed at 8pm by The Rumpus Room with Lord Lewis.
Then at 9:30, stay tuned for the Attention Deficit Disk
Jockey, with Lee, the music of yesterday’s future, today.
That’s followed at 11 by A Hate Supreem with DJ AWOL.
Then at midnight, it’s Maelstrom of the Weird with Phil
Void, followed at 1 a.m. by Local Color with Peter Helman.
Next, at 2, comes the Explorer’s Hour, with Pickup Sticks, a
synthesis of science, spoken word and a lot of popular music.
Then at 3, it’s 88 Keys with Mads, playing tracks chosen for
their outstanding piano features.
The BBC kicks on at 4, followed by NPR's Morning Edition at
5.
And 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
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