Good evening! It’s Monday, March 31st. 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: we celebrate April Fool’s Day with a
Catholic joke show. Priests, nuns, confession, the pope – all are fair game.
Sacrilege, you say? Nah. It’s all in fun.We kid because we love! Again, that’s
at 4 p.m. tomorrow. If you can’t hear the show in real time, find the audio later at
www.reasonablycatholic.com.
Okay! Now for our rundown of some of what’s happening in our
area this week.
Tonight at 6 at the Buttonwood Tree on Main Street in
Middletown, it’s Laughter Yoga with Mimi Claire, with a vegetarian potluck
dinner. Tomorrow at 7:30 brings Kirtan with Shubalananda to the Buttonwood.
Thursday at 7 is Open Mic Night with Bob Gotta. Friday
at 8, Danny Fitzgerald and the Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band takes the
Buttonwood stage, with romping versions of classic Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey
blues. Saturday morning brings Quigong, tai chi, and community yoga to the Buttonwood Tree. Saturday afternoon, there’ll be an
artist’s reception for Sheila Margaret Mullen’s exhibit, “Structured Chaos:
Assemblage Collage.” Then Saturday night at 8, it’s rockabilly time with The
Whiskey Rebels. On Sundays, Food Not Bombs serves food outside the Buttonwood
at 1 pm; all are welcome. You are also invited to help prepare the meal
beforehand at 11 am at First Church Congregational on Court Street. Sunday evening at 7, it’s the Great Make
Believe Improv. Details about all Buttonwood events at www.buttonwood.org.
Tonight at 7 in the Hubbard Room of the Russell Library, the
Middlesex County Historical Society presents a CD release concert for Tom
Callinhan’s latest recording, “We Owe Allegiance to No Crown,” featuring songs about the War of 1812. The program is free and
open to the public. For further information, contact the Historical Society at
860-346-0746.
Wednesday, at 6 p.m., at the Russell Library, there will be
a 'Natural Remedies for Common Ailments' workshop, in which herbalist Lisl
Meredith Huebner will share plant-based recipes for such routine conditions as colds
and flu, minor injuries and chronic aches, sleeplessness and stress, and even
age-related decline. Saturday morning at 10 at the Russell Library, Judith
Margolin, former executive with the Foundation Center in NYC, will present a
workshop offering advice and resources for the individual grantseeker.. A light lunch will be provided, and there
will be networking afterward. Register by calling the library at 860 347 2520.
More info about all programs can be found at www.russelllibrary.org.
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight is Jazz
Monday. Tomorrow night, Michael Palin's Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band,
works out new material. Wednesday’s blues jam is with Gene Donaldson. Friday at
9, Neal Vitullo & the Vipers come to Sally’s. Saturday at 9 brings the Northeast Blues
Harmonica Showcase to Sally’s, featuring four premier harmonica virtuosos,
backed by the jump blues trio The Eric Ducoff Band. Details at www.blackeyedsallys.com.
Also in Hartford, at Sully’s Pub, tonight is Acoustic Open
Mic Night. Tuesday features Pete Scheips. Wednesday is karaoke. Thursday brings
the First Thursday Comedy Series to Sully’s. www.sullyspub.com.
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight at 8 is Jason
Prince, with That Band Bones and Sam Perduta. Tomorrow brings Antique Scream with Orb Mellon and Food to Café Nine. Wednesday, it’s K. Bestia, with Mercy
Choir and Matt Jaffe. Thursday brings Run Boy Run, with Dr.Caterwaul's Cadre of
Clairvoyant Claptraps. Friday’s Weekly
Wind Down Happy Hour is with Sean Conlon. That’s followed at 8 by the CT
Rollergirls Fundraiser with Chaser Eight, Bragging Rights, Nasty Disaster and
Rusty Things. Saturday’s jam session at 4:30 is with The Morris Trent Band,
followed at 9 by the New Haven Record Release for “Frost,” with Daphne Lee
Martin, Elison Jackson, and Amy McCarley. Sunday’s Blues Boot Camp at 8 is with
Greg Sherrod. Details at www.cafenine.com
Wednesday afternoon, the Wesleyan University Center for the
Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition will feature work by seniors in Wesleyan’s art
and art history program. They are Emily Roff, Allison Greenwald, Evita Rodriguez,
Rebecca Schisler, Katie Deane, and Oliver Citrin. The reception will be from 4
to 6 p.m. in the Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace. Thursday at 8 p.m. is
the Spring Senior Thesis Dance, in which Wesleyan senior choreographers present
a collection of new works as the culminating project of the dance major. That’s
at the Patricelli ’92 Theater, 213 High Street. Friday, there will be two
senior recitals. The first, at 7, is by musician Tennessee Mowrey. Titled
“Actualizing Time,” it will take place at at Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys
Ave. The second music recital, by Noah Rush, is titled “Shoestrings,” and will
take place at 9 p.m. at Memorial Chapel, 221 High Street. Saturday at 7 p.m.
brings “Highway Alive: A Concept Album,” a recital by senior Lindsay Schapiro,
to World Music Hall, 200 Church Street. More info about all the recitals can be found at the
www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Down in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, Wednesday is the Museum
of Consciousness Tour, with Shpongle and Desert Dwellers. Thursday brings Dirty
Heads, with The Burning of Rome and Remember September. Friday at Toads is a
Tribute to Sublime, with Badfish, Something Simple, Balcony, and Anchors Away. Details
at www.toadsplace.com.
On Wednesday in New Haven, at Bar, Manic Productions
presents Ovlov, LVL Up, Disco Doom, and Bad History Month. www.manicproductions.com
On Friday evening at 7:30 and on Saturday and Sunday
afternoon at 2, the Jr. Rep Production at Oddfellows Playhouse is “Buccaneers,”
about young Enid Arabella who longs for adventure and escape from her family’s
poverty. She runs away and is captured by a pirate king and his crew of
kidnapped children. More info at www.oddfellows.org.
Also in Middletown on Friday, at Scatz Restaurant and Jazz
Lounge, 139 Main St. Ext., Out the Box performs. On Saturday, it’s MD111. ...
And Sunday brings Ol’ School Soulful Sundays. …www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com.
That’s scatz with a z.
Saturday at 7:30 p.m., the Greater Middletown Concert
Association brings the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra to the MHS Performing
Arts Center, 200 LaRosa Lane, Middletown, to perform “Ellis Island: The Dream
of America,” a multimedia production with live narration by actors, and images
from the Ellis Island archives. More info at www.greatermiddletownconcerts.org.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut: This week, Real Art
Ways in Hartford continues its run of “Elaine Stritch: Shoot
Me”, a documentary using rare archival footage and cinema verite to chronicle
the life of the 87-year-old Broadway legend; it runs through Thursday. Also running through Thursday is “Maiden Trip,”
telling the story of a 14-year-old girl who sails around the world alone. Friday, “Particle Fever” opens. It follows six brilliant scientists during the
launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and
most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of
human innovation as they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe. Then
Saturday and Sunday, it’s the New York International Children's Film Festival
Animated's Shorts. . Check out the full line-up at www.realartways.org
At Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, April
in Paris, a week-long festival of French and Francophone films, continues. Tonight,
it’s Alphaville. Tomorrow it’s Yeelen. Wednesday, it’s The Rabbi’s Cat.
Thursday is Holy Motors. Friday is Barbarella. Saturday’s matinee is City of
Lost Children, followed at 8 by Mars et Avril.
Sunday, it’s Alphaville. Visit www.cinestudio.org for the complete
schedule.
And now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.
5:05‑6pm
Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry
6‑6:30pm
Real Talk with Jack Spira
6:30‑8pm
Life is a Killer with
Johnny Analog
8‑9:30pm
The Rumpus Room with Lord Lewis
9:30‑11pm
The Attention Deficit Disk Jockey with Lee
11pm‑12am
Girl Power Hour with
DJ Jeffrey and DJ Moe
12‑12:30am
Romancipation with Dr. Love and DJ Smooth
12:30‑1:30am
The Laugh Infection with DJ Willie Zabar
1:30-2:30
Good Times with MKC,
Omardaslayer, and djspecialk
2:30‑4am
Free Association with
DJ Robin Hood
4‑5am
BBC World News
5‑10am
Morning Edition from NPR
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
calendar, the script is published online at wesufm.org/jive.
2014 marks 75 years of alternative music, public affairs,
and community service from WESU. Look for information on special programming
and events online at www.wesufm.org.
Thanks!
Now stay tuned for Charles Henry.