Good evening, it's
Monday, April 9th. 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 Maria Johnson, producer and host of
"Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith," which airs every first,
third and fifth Tuesday from 4 to right before the Jive at Five. A week from tomorrow, on April 17th, we'll focus on a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Redding, Conn., which draws practitioners from a range of religions, including Catholicism. Can't listen live? Find the audio archived later that night at www.reasonablycatholic.com
Now here's some of
what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown,
tonight, the weekly Anything Goes Open Mic at The Buttonwood Tree will be
hosted by Ashley Hamel. Tuesday evening from 6-8pm, The Buttonwood hosts a
reception for their new gallery show by photographer, Don Logie, who’s captured
night time images of Buttonwood Tree performances as well as scenes from around
the world. Friday night Rj Ruotolo’s Jazz Workshop Quartet
takes the Buttonwood Tree Stage and Saturday night Al Copley, who’s played with
Room Full of Blues and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, makes for a night of boogie,
blues, jump, and Jazz piano. The Hearing Voices Network meets Monday
mornings. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, Café
Nine’s Manic Mondays brings you THE NATIONAL RESERVE and Hayley Thompson-King.
Tomorrow (tuesday) there’s a triple bull featuring ANNA ROSE, ANDREA NARDELLO, &
LEILA CROCKETT. Wed’s
it’s Comedy night with Dan Rice at Café Nine. Thursday night Café Nine presents
British Songwriter Bobby Long with opening act Nick DePuy. At 5pm
Friday, LAURA DOWDING takes the stage and later Friday night, GO KAT GO!
Presents: THE LIVING DEADS alongside BLOODSHOT BILL. Café Nine’s weekly
Saturday afternoon jazz jam will be hosted by Gary Grippo and Friends at
4:30. Saturday night you can catch Grammy Award Winners LOST BAYOU
RAMBLERS
with guests, An
Historic. Sunday afternoon at 4pm, SARAH BORGES & THE BROKEN SINGLES
FEAT. ERIC "ROSCOE" AMBEL take the stage with Stefanie Austin and The
Palomino Club. Later, Sunday at 9pm it’s the Sex Beat Dance Party with DJ Kid
Congo Powers. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed
Sally’s, tonight’s Jazz Monday event
features the Andrew Wilcox Quintet. Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra comes your
way Tuesday night. The Community Blues Jam happens on Wednesdays and Its Liviu
Pop’s Jazz Invitational on Thursday evenings with special guest artists. This
Friday night, Sally’s presents The MIKE CASEY TRIO. On Saturday you can catch the
JAY COLLINS BAND. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At the Russell Library
in Middletown, tomorrow (Tues) at 6pm,
The Racial Justice Book Group will discuss The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot. Wednesday afternoon its Gamer’s Realm from 4:30-5:30 in the Activity
Room. Thursday night The Veteran’s Writing group meets at The Russell
Library. Friday at 1pm, The Library will Screen 2001 A Space Oddyssey. For information
about these and more activities at www.russelllibrary.org
Manic Presents Has Steve
Earle & The Dukes along with The Mastersons tomorrow night (Tues) at The College St Music Hall. Wednesday Manic Presents features Mirah, Secret
Drum Band, and Olive Tiger at The Space Ballroom in Hamden. Thursday they’ve got the Wolf Alice and The
Big Pink at College St. They’ve got Colter Wall and Ian Noe at The Space Ballroom
on Friday night. Friday night Manic presents and premier concerts present THey
Might Be Giants at The College St Music Hall. Finally, closing out th weekend Manic
has Men I Trust at The Space Ballroom Sunday night at 7pm. www.manicpresents.com
At Wesleyan’s Center
for the arts. This week brings Graduate recitals, new gallery shows and year end
concerts. Wednesday brings the opening reception for the second studio arts
Senior Thesis Exhibition to Zilka Gallery.
WesFest Concert I: with Organ, Chamber, Jazz, and Laptop performances
happens at Wesleyan’s Memorial Chapel Wednesday night at 7pm. Thursday
at noon, you can catch The Elizabeth Verveer
Tishler Keyboard Competition at Memorial Chapel. WesFest Concert II with Choir, Gamelan,
Korean, and Taiko Drumming Ensembles happens on Thursday evening at 6pm in the
World Music Hall. The Spring Senior
Thesis Dance Concert happens Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8pm in
the Patricelli '92 Theater. The Kronos
Quartet performance for this weekend at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall is sold
out. ]www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Wednesday at Noon here in Middletown, The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore ipresents "Books on the Menu" a talk with RJ Julia
Booksellers Chief Operating Officer Lori Fazio and Book Buyer Brian Wraight. Patrons can get the inside scoop on all the latest new releases. Wednesday evening at 7pm at Wesleyan RJ Julia
you can catch another bookstore event: Richard Adelstein, "The Exchange
Order: Property & Liability as an Economic System" www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Thursday night at Infinity Hall Hartford, you can catch Frankie Justin
w/ Plywood Cowboy. Friday night Max
Creek celebrates their 47th Creekiversary at Infinity Hall Hartford. SaturdayThe
Trucks pay tribute to The Cars. Thursday night at Infinity Hall Norfolk, The
Artimus Pyle Band takes the stage. Friday at Infinity Norfolk, you
can catch The Slambovian Circus of Dreams. The Alpaca Gnomes takes
the infinity Hall Norfolk stage Saturday eve and Sunday Sessions Live at
Infinity Norfolk features Bernice Lewis. www.infinityhall.com
Cherry St. Station in
Wallingford offers loud music this Thursday
night with Wait and Shackle alonside The Refectory and Snowpiler. Ryder (from Bklyn,
NY) makes their debut at Cherry Street Station on Friday April 13th along with OVER
the LINE, All In All Out, & The Sadists! Saturday at Cherry St, brings the Apostasy
15th anniversary with special guests VenomSpreader, The Aberration, Savage
World, and
Friday night at The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, you can catch a
special performance of vignettes created by Anne Cubberly, Casey Grambo, and
Rosanna Karabetsos in celebration of the special exhibition Gorey’s Worlds.
Performers include Joey Batts, Studio 860, Sea Tea Improv, and Night Fall cast
members. This weekend brings the month Second Saturdays for Families
event: Paper Theater
Take the stage! where
you can explore theatrical scenes in Gorey’s Worlds, then collaborate with a
local artist to create a cross-hatched paper costume and participate in a paper
puppetry workshop. Museum admission is free during Second Saturdays activities.www.thewadsworth.org
Friday night at 7 p.m. brings a rare opportunity to experience the INTERNATIONALLY
ACCLAIMED BREAD & PUPPET THEATER who will PERFORM at FIRST CHURCH in
MIDDLETOWN! for ONE night ONLY! After the performance Bread and Puppet will
serve its famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread and Puppet’s
“Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread
and Puppet Press – will be for sale. The
Bread and Puppet Practitioners-of-the-Pursuit-of-What String Band will welcome
the public. ADMISSION BY DONATION. For
more information on the event, please visit http://breadandpuppet.org/
The Unitarian
Universalist Church in Meriden is holding a FUNdrasier concert featuring The
Coffee Grinders, a Roots/Traditional Blues band with special guest Rocky
Lawrence on Saturday, at 7pm. for tickets and information visit www.UUMeriden.org or contact Donna at 203-237-1323
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
Now here's a rundown
of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
This week Hartford’s
Real Art Ways continues their afternoon movie run of A Fantastic Woman, about a
waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, dealing with the death of her
older boyfriend. Through Thursday Real Art Ways continues their run of Outside
in which follows a newly released ex-con navigating the personal and societal
challenges that follow 20 years on the inside. The Dark Comedy. The Party, continues
through Wednesday at Real Art Ways. In
Cinemas Worldwide for One Night Only: this Thursday at Real Art Ways you can
catch Distant Sky – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen. Thursday,
Real Art Ways opens runs of French films, Ismael’s Ghosts and Back to Burgundy
(Ce qui nous lie). www.realartways.org
This week brings the
annual April in Paris Film Festival to Trinity College’s Cinestudio in
Hartford.
Tonight’s showing is
The Nun about a young girl forced to join a convent. Tomorrow night you can
catch Black Girl, about the effects of racism on a young woman from a poor
village in Senegal. Wednesday night Latest News From the Cosmos explores autism
and the profound bond between mother and daughter. Thursday night at Cinestudio you can catch Fatima,
bringing the life and challenges of a working class North Africa mother to
screen. Friday night, The April in Paris
Film Festival continues at Cinestudio with the dark comedy in The Death of
Louis XIV. Saturday, it’s a dystopian animated tale of Paris in April and The
Extraordinary World and Sunday the film festival concludes with The French
coming of age film Worst Case, We Get Married.
Details & screening times @ www.cinestudio.org
Here's the rundown of
tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:
Right after the The
Jive at Five, stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry From classic bop
to smooth contemporary sounds.
At 6 it’s Radical
Radiowaves with DJ ORacle
At 6:30 until 8pm Jake
fills in for Michael Benson’s 75% folk.
From 8-9:30pm tonight
Stay tuned for Unfocused Folk with Chip Austin.
From 9:30-11pm, it’s
Cruiser’s Radio Program with Jack Sullivan bringing listeners back to the 1950s
and 60s.
And at 11pm it’s Hits
of the 60’s and 70’s with Jimmy Z Playing billboard hot 100 hits of the 60’s
and 70’s. Win a WESU mug on our weekly “Name That Tune” contest.
AT 12:30 lit-mus with
DJ Chi and DJ baby ruth Explore the intersections of literature and music with
anonymous submissions from students across the country.
Then at 1:30 check out
Weekly Ketchup wit DJ Oat Neal and DJ Opal.
at 2:30, On This Day
with DJ Celiac and Jamsterdam Explores what was musically and historically
significant on this day and listen to the #1 songs and fun facts from past
decades.
At 3:30 Spoiler Alert
Radio Conversations on the craft of filmmaking.
The BBC world Report
comes your way at 4am and we begin our weekday program with Morning Edition
from NPR at 5am.
That’s all for today’s
Jive at Five, Now stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry, up next!
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