Good evening, it's Wednesday March 15th. This is the Jive at
Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of nighttime programming here on
88.1 FM WESU Middletown. By day, WESU offers talk radio from NPR and Pacifica,
as well as independent and local public affairs sources. Weeknights and
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I'm Ben Michael. Thanks for tuning in! I hope you’ve gotten dug out of the snow and ice that Stella left in its wake as the mid-March storm ripped across our state. Here's a rundown of some of what's going down in our area this week.
I'm Ben Michael. Thanks for tuning in! I hope you’ve gotten dug out of the snow and ice that Stella left in its wake as the mid-March storm ripped across our state. Here's a rundown of some of what's going down in our area this week.
Mindfulness After Work happens every Wednesday
at the Hartford Mindfulness Center starting at 6:15. Register at www.hartfordmindfulnesscenter.org
Tonight Manic Productions presents Mike Adams
at His Honest Weight, Fatal Film, and Farmertan at Bar in New Haven. At The
Outer Space tomorrow/Thursday, Manic presents And The Kids, Vundabar, and
SPORTS. Friday you can catch Movements, Firestarter, From States Away, and In
Response. Saturday, they’ve got The Pietasters, The Hempsteadys, and Dagwood. www.manicproductions.org for details
Tonight in New Haven, Café Nine there’s a
comedy/poetry Open Mic with Mooncha and Puma Simone. Olive Tiger and Granite to
Glass take the Café stage on Thursday. Café nine’s weekly Friday Wind Down
Happy Hour brings you Stephanie Harris Austin, Te ri Lynn, and more, this week.
TheMain event Friday night features Glambat, Tuxis Giant, Teen Spaceship, and
Underwear. Saturday's weekly Jazz Jam Session features Tony DioGuardi &
Friends this week. Saturday night’s line up at the Nine features Little Lesley
& The Bloodshots sharing a bill with Bopthrills. "The Sunday
Buzz" matinee headlines the Zoo Front 25th Anniversary Tour. Later Sunday
night Café Nine presents a triple bill featuring True Will, Zombii, and Sunday
Morning. www.cafenine.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, This
week’s Wednesday Community Blues Jam is with Tommy Whalen tonight. Sally’s
in house band-The Po Boys hold down a regular Thursday set, with mystery guests
every week. On Friday it’s the Chris O’Leary Band. Saturday’s headliner is
blues singer Regina Bonelli, appearing with Michael Hill. www.blackeyedsallys.com
At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, the regular
monthly Thursday night Gong & Sound Meditation will take place at the
Mac650 Gallery this month. The Joe Fonda & Satoko Jujii Duet brings you experimental
and exciting jazz on Friday night. Saturday morning brings the weekly Aligned
with Source workshop and later Saturday night, songwriters Eric Taylor and Dana
Coper perform at the Buttonwood Tree. Sunday afternoon, the folk group Cricket
Tell The Weather takes the Buttonwood stage.
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, Friday, it’s DJ
Bucks Birthday Bash with reggae pop star, Shaggy. Saturday’s DMZ and 1 Shot
Dealz perform at Toad’s. Find more info at www.toadsplace.com
At the Russell Library in Middletown, they’re
showing the film “Indignation” on Thursday as part of
the Books to Blockbusters series. Middletown’s Poet Laureate Susan Allison
presents Women Poets on Friday. There’s Tai Chi and Qigong on Saturday morning.
Check out the website for the full schedule of events for all the family. www.russelllibrary.org
At Infinity Hall in
Hartford, Thursday night there’s a Concert for Kymberly Cotton to benefit the
ALS Association of CT, with a night of classic rock featuring That 70’s Band
and Optic Nerve. Thursday, Infinity Hall Hartford presents the Mars vs Venus
Cosmic Comedy Clash featuring Kerri Louise, Bob DiBouno and Joe Currie . Friday
at Infinity Hall Hartford, you can catch blues and rock with the Matt Zeiner
Band featuring Baby Dynamite. On Saturday, its funk and world music with Red
Baraat Festival of Colors. Infinity Hall Norfolk presents a night with Masters of
the Telecaster: Jim Weider (The Band) and Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan and Levon
Helm) and Tash Neal (The London Souls), Friday night.www.infinityhall.com
Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts hosts a
reception for the Middletown Public Schools Art Exhibition with an opening
reception, this Saturday at the Zilhka Art Gallery on Washington Terrace. The
exhibit runs through the end of the month and features hundreds of pieces of
art created by city art students K-12. www.Wesleyan.edu/cfa for more info
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten
track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues their run
of James Baldwin’s “I Am Not Your Negro” withSamuel Jackson through March 23rd.
opening Friday, Real Art Ways opens a run of “Kedi,” a cat documentary filmed
in Istanbul. In their Film 101 series, this Sunday, they’re offering the 1959
classic “Some Like It Hot,” with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe.
There’s a post-film discussion.
Tonight (Weds) Trinity College’s Cinestudio in
Hartford starts a run of Woody Allen’s 1979 classic, “Manhattan,” that runs
through Saturday. On Thursday they show “A Prep School Negro,” about a boy from
the Philadelphia ghetto who gets a chance at an elite education. There’s a
post-film discussion. The Sunday matinée is the Bolshoi Ballet’s performance of
Stravnisky’s “A Contemporary Evening.” In the evening they open a run of
“Paterson,” starring Adam Driver as a New Jersey busman with a repetitive life.
Details and screening times at www.cinestudio.org
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Harford is
screening the Academy Award-winning film “Moonlight” tonight (Wednesday) at the
Wadsworth Atheneum, with a post-film discussion. www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org
And, don’t forget about the Middletown’s
Russell Library screening of the film “Indignation” on Thursday night. www.russelllibrary.org
Now here's what's on the air tonight, on WESU:
Right after the Jive, stay tuned for an hour
of commentary and music with Eric Kuhn, host of The Big Controversy.
At 6pm, stay tuned for Your Mind Matters with
DR Helen Evrard.
Fusion Radio with James Fusion brings you a 90
minute techno mix at 6:30 and The Warehouse with Mike Nyce keeps the mix going
with 90 minutes of deep underground house music.
The Vault with Anton Banks, presents another
90 minute set of electronic music from 9:30 to 11pm.
After that, Chip Austin is in the house for an
hour of Americana and folk music until midnight.
Then stay tuned for 3 hours of free form radio
at its best with Chaim.
At 3am, its Maximum Rock and Roll Radio, for
an hour of loud rock.
Weekdays WESU offers BBC’s world Report at
4am. At 5 we continue with NPR’s Morning Edition.
Rising up with Sonali from Pacifica comes your
way weekdays at 9am.
That's followed by NPR’s 1A with Joshua Johnson and at 11am (Monday Through Thursday) Stay tuned for the newest addition to our Morning talk show line-up, Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod from Pacifica. Fridays at 11am we present First Voices from Pacifica. Of Course, at noon every weekday, you can tune in for Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. Find the rest of our Spring program schedule, a live audio stream, program archives, the script for today's Jive, a donation link and much more online at www.wesufm.org
That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Tune in
to WESU each and every weekday at 4:55 p.m. to hear about what’s going on in
the community, and on the air right here at WESU 88.1 FM, a community service
of Wesleyan University since 1939.
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