Good evening, it's Wednesday, January 24th. 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
weekends our student and community volunteers bring you the best in free-form
programming.
I’m 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! Thanx for joining us.
Now, here’s a listing of some of the happening in our area
through the week.
In New Haven, at Café Nine ,Thursday’s headliners are Laini and
the Wildfire, Chaser Eight, and Treadwell. Friday’s Happy Hour set at 5pm
features Frank Critelli. Friday’s late show features The Suitcase Junket, Kate
Lorenz, and An Historic. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with the George Baker
Band, and the late show Saturday night features Girls, Guns and Glory, along with
Jeremy & The Harlequins. The Sunday Buzz Matinee features Ian Moore, and
they round out the weekend with a Blues Jam Session with the George Lesiw Band.
http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s tonight/Wednesday it's the
Community Blues Jam with guest Tommy Whalen. It’s Liviu’s Invitational on
Thursday, and on Friday it’s blues with the George T Gregory Band. Australian
singer/songwriter Harper & The Midwest Kind takes the stage on Saturday. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At the Russell Library in Middletown, The Girls Who Code Club
holds ongoing meetings every Wednesday at 6 pm. There’s Adult Coloring for
Stress Reduction on Friday morning, and they host Yoga in The Hubbard Room on
Saturday morning. The Vintage Players presents Carolyn Kirsch’s new play,
“So Bea It,” on Sunday at 2 pm. Check the website for more activities and
offerings for patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
The Hartford Mindfulness Center hosts Mindfulness Meditation After
Work every Wednesday at 6:15 pm at their Farmington Avenue location. www.facebook.com/pg/hartfordmindfulnesscenter
The Wesleyan Center for the Arts invites you to the opening of “A
Body in Fukushima: Recent Work,” a photography exhibit by Eiko Otake and
William Johnston, Thursday at noon at the Zilkha Gallery. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
On Thursday, the Middlesex Drum Circle meets at The Buttonwood
Tree in Middletown. It’s jazz and blues on Friday night at The
Buttonwood with BOP TWEED. The Aligned with Source Workshop and Meditation
happens on Saturday morning, and Saturday evening brings you the Everything
Turned To Color trio. The Hearing Voices Network meets Monday mornings and you
can enjoy the art exhibit, Mystic Collages, by featured artist Flo Bartosiak,
throughout the month. www.buttonwood.org
Storyteller Tom Lee is back by popular demand Thursday at 7:30 pm
at The Hubbard House in Middletown, sponsored by Artists for World Peace.
Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
You can Enjoy country, rock, and more from the American songbook
at the Hog River Brewing Company in Hartford every Thursday starting at 7 pm.
Hartford native Connor Zane Millican partners with local musicians to bring you
Twang Thursdays. http://www.hogriverbrewing.com/
Thursday night at Infinity Hall Norfolk, it’s Live Dead & Riders
'69. Friday they’ve got Vance Gilbert with Kerri Powers, and Saturday night at
Infinity Norfolk, you can catch Broken Arrow - A Tribute to Neil Young. Infinity
Hall Hartford brings you singer/songwriter Howie Day on Friday. Speak Up
Storytelling presents “Unfinished Business” on Saturday. On Sunday, you can
catch alternative rock, hip-hop, and more with G. Love and Special Sauce. www.infinityhall.com
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, on Friday, they’ve got Shakedown
playing the Music of The Dead and Beyond, along with the Kazoo Crew Family Band
while The Blameless Project takes the stage in Lilly’s Pad. This week brings
another Original Saturday Night College Dance Party. www.toadsplace.com
Cherry St. Station in Wallingford presents Crosby, Over the Line,
and Outside My Head on Friday. On Saturday, it’s Zombii, Cherry Pop, Jake
Fullington, and more. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
The Hartford Flavor Company presents “Tell Me Another: Snow
Job,” with extraordinary stories told by ordinary folks, on Friday at their
Arbor Street location. Details at www.hartford.com/events/
Manic Presents brings Umphrey’s McGee and Nicole Atkins to The
College Street Music Hall in New Haven on Friday. On Saturday, at College Street
they headlining Maria Bamford, appearing with Jackie Kashian. On Saturday, they
bring Bad, Bad Hats, Photocomfort, and Glambat to the Space Ballroom in Hamden.
www.manicpresents.com
The Connecticut Science Center in Hartford hosts a Women in
Science Day Saturday at 11 am featuring a Q & A with members of the Society
of Women Engineers. Details at www.ctsciencecenter.org
The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown hosts an event for
kids on Saturday at 2 pm, featuring MarcyKate Connolly presenting her new
middle-grade fantasy, “Shadow Weaver.” www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Vinnie’s jump and Jive in Middletown hosts The Hot Cat Jazz Band
Saturday night for a session that includes swing lessons with JC Noble. Details
at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice
The Connecticut Historical Society invites you to their ongoing
exhibit, That’s Weird, of strange objects connected to our state’s material
culture, happening every Saturday. Details at www.chs.org
Baby Grand Jazz at the Hartford Public Library presents Ronnie
Burrage this Sunday at 3 pm. Details at www.hplct.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues Rebels on Pointe,” a
documentary about the drag group Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and “In
Between,” about three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv, through Thursday.
They bring back “Loving Vincent,” an animated film about the iconic artist,
through Wednesday. Weekend openings include “The Final Year,” a documentary
about the last year of Obama’s foreign policy team, and “Django,” a French film
about a jazz guitarist in Nazi-occupied Paris. Check the website for details
and screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues “Wonderstruck,”
about deaf children escaping to New York City, through tonight/Wednesday. On
Thursday they open Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel,” about an unmarried mother
raising a son in the Coney Island of the 1950’s. It runs through Saturday.
Sunday’s Exhibition on Screen series continues with the work of David Hockey at
The Royal Academy of Arts, and they open a run of “The Square,” a Swedish film
about conflict between the classes. Check the website for full schedule and
screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
The Connecticut Science Center is screening two films in 3D all
week at the Hoffman Foundation Science Theater in Hartford. You can enjoy
“Dream Big: Engineering Our World,” about inventions and structures from across
the globe, or National Geographic’s “Extreme Weather: Powerful Forces Are
Colliding.” Details at www.ctsciencecenter.org
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford is screening “The Divine
Order,” a dramatic comedy about the suffragette movement in Switzerland. Visit
the website for dates and times. www.thewadsworth.org
Now here’s a rundown of tonight’s programming here on WESU:
Right after the Jive, stay tuned for he Latin Music Hour with
Isabel. Latin music from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's.
From 6 - 6:30 it’s Your Mind Matters with Helen Evrard, MD. We
explore the brain conditions known as mental illness from a holistic viewpoint
with guests who study them, treat them, or are affected by them in any way.
And from 6:30 -8 it's Fusion Radio with James Fusion.
The original... and still the best damn Techno mix on radio!
From 8 - 9:30 it's The Warehouse with Mike Nyce.
The best of underground house music mixed live for your listening
pleasure.
And starting at 9:30 and running until 11, it's The Vault with
Anton Banks Presents listeners with the latest in hard techno, minimal,
tech-house, and leftfield mixed live. Featuring exclusive music from
international artists.
From 11 - 3 stay tuned for Franco as he plays all those disco hits
from the '70s and '80s.
From 3 - 4 we’ll rebroadcast today’s noontime episode of Democracy
Now from Pacifica
And at 4am we bring you the BBC's world report before we kick off
our Wednesday morning programming with Morning Edition from NPR at 5am.
That's all for today's Jive at Five. Join us weekdays at 4:55 for
a daily rundown of area happenings a rundown of evening programming on WESU
Middletown!
Thanx for listening! Now, stay tuned for The Latin Music hour with
Isabel up next!
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