Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Tuesday 4-10-18 Jive


Good evening, it's Tuesday, April 10th. 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 Marianne O’Hare, producer of Conversations on HealthCare, heard on Wednesdays at 4:40, right before the Jive at Five.
Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
At the Russell Library in Middletown, this evening (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

Here in Middletown, this evening (tues) 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

Manic Presents Has Steve Earle & The Dukes along with The Mastersons tonight (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 the weekend Manic has Men I Trust at The Space Ballroom Sunday night at 7pm.  www.manicpresents.com

In New Haven, at Café Nine tonight (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, Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra comes your way Tuesday nights. 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 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

Tomorrow/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
Tomorrow night here in Middletown, Laboca hosts and Open Bluegrass Jam with The Pitkin Pickers. Saturday night Cosmos Sunshine & the Butterfly Effect w/s/g No Mind take the Laboca Stage. https://www.facebook.com/pg/CityArtsOffice/events/ for info on this and more of what Middletown has to offer.
Thursday night at 7:30pm in Middletown, you can catch The Vintage Players production of “Outside Mullingar” at Oddfellows Playhouse www.oddfellows.org  for tickets ad information. 
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

WESU is hosting An Evening in Antarctica with Jonathan Chester this Friday,  at 6:30pm at Wesleyan University’s Shanklin Hall, Room 107, located at 237 Church St. in Middletown. Jonathan has traveled to Antarctica on over forty expeditions as a professional photographer, author, filmmaker, and environmentalist, and his lecture will showcase his Antarctic photography, Antarctica in general, and its relation to global climate change. You can find more about Jonathan at his website www.extremeimages.com.

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:



Through Thursday, 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). Friday Real Art Ways begins a new afternoon movie, Foxtrot about the emotional toll of active service on Israeli families.  www.realartways.org


This week brings the annual April in Paris Film Festival to Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford.
Tonight’s showing is 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
Right after the Jive stick around for spilled milk with Charlotte until 6pm
From 6-8pm it’s Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill, offering an eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and other music with a roots influence plus a concert listing at 7pm and frequent concert and festival ticket giveaways.

At 8pm stay tuned for The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry, A weekly spotlight of Connecticut arts and culture.

From 9-10pm it’s The Test Patterns Show

At 10 stick and stay for Universal Time Traversal with Hyphy - Taking the "Oh Geez" out of the OGs.

From 11-midnight, tonight, it’s “Profile”, With Maile and Sage for and an hour-long deep dive into an artist's life and career.
From midnight-1am  stay tuned for Mixed Media with DJ Pig in the City and DJ Megnanimous
From 1-2am stay tuned for Women's Music, Women's Wisdom with DJ Sensibility
At 2am it’s Fish and Chips, With DJ Chee, A music show dedicated to British bands and artists.
Maxium Rock and Roll Radio Comes your way at 3am and you can catch the BBC World Report at  4am.

We kick off our weekday program at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR, followed by a diverse mix of talk radio from Pacifica and NPR throughout the day.
That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, tune in each weekday at 4:55 for our rundown of local events and entertainment and our evening lineup here on WESU Middletown.
Find the script for this show, our current program schedule, a link to listen live, program archives and more, online at www.wesufm.org   

Stay tuned for Spilled Milk with Charlotte, up next!

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