Good evening, it's Thursday, November 8th.
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 Charlotte Strange, a DJ at WESU and
co-host of Tuesday Night’s newest radio hour, Silk Sheets. Thanks for tuning
in!
Here in Middletown tonight at The
Buttonwood Tree, you can catch an artist reception for Rosie Warren, whose art
exhibit of abstracts will be on display throughout the month of November.
Friday, Arlene Wow’s quartet Vagabond Bandido performs at the Buttonwood Tree,
along with a screening of a documentary that depicts her Cuban parent's
arrival in the US in the mid 50's as well as the challenges the family faced.
Saturday morning at 10:30 brings the weekly Aligned with Source - Personal
Development Workshop and Meditation, followed by live performance by Dr.
Steve’s - Twilight Zone Show Saturday evening. The Buttonwood rounds out the
week on Sunday with Near and Far Storytellers “TELLebration!” www.buttonwood.org
At the Russell Library in Middletown
tonight it’s the weekly meeting of We Were There: Writing Your Military
Experiences. At the Stubborn Beauty Brewery in Middletown, the library hosts an
offsite discussion of Educated by Tara Westover on Tonight at
6pm. On Saturday Morning, you can check out the library’s Free Yoga Workshop in
the Hubbard room from 9am to 1pm. www.russelllibrary.org
Manic Presents is at the Space Ballroom
in Hamden tonight you can catch a solo acoustic set from Ty Segall and William Tyler.
Friday at The Space Ballroom, you can catch Cursive with Meat Wave and
Campdogzz. At the College Street Music Hall, it’s Dweezil Zappa: Choice Cuts.
On Friday, Lucinda Williams and her band Buick Six grace the music hall, before
playing a set at the Wall Street Theater in Norwalk on Saturday. www.manicpresents.com
In New Haven tonight at Café Nine, The
4-on-the-floor, Tigerman, and WOAH take the stage. Mike Hatfield plays the 5pm
happy hour set show on Friday. Friday night, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys
playing with Little Lesley and the Bloodshots hit the Café Nine Stage. Saturday
The Nine’s weekly afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Gary Grippo and Friends at
4pm. Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey take the stage with the Shellye Valuskas
Experience, Saturday night. The Manchurians and Anne Castellano
& The Smoke perform Sunday afternoon, and Cafe Nine rounds out the week
with a performance by Y La Bamba and Fernandito Ferrer Sunday eve. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s
tonight, it’s Liviu’s Jazz Invitational with special guests. Friday night, the
Dylan Doyle band, takes the stage. On Saturday, the Nick Moss Band featuring
Dennis Gruenling appears at Sally’s.http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At Toad’s Place in New Haven you can
catch HOBO JOHNSON & THE LOVEMAKERS performing
with Oliver Tree, and Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts this evening. Friday it’s a
Blacklight Glow Party with DJ Mortality and TreFyah in the main room and High
Risk and NightimeBurnOut in the rainforest room. On Sunday, you can catch St.
Lucia and Arkells. www.toadsplace.com
This evening, the Wesleyan Center for
the Arts invites you to a public lecture by the Institute for Curatorial
Practice in Performance on Engaging Traditional Arts in Contemporary Curatorial
Practice. This lecture will be at the Ring Family Performing Arts Hall. Friday,
you can enjoy the music and dance of Yogyakarta at the Crowell Concert Hall at
7:30 pm. There will be a guided tour of the Khalil Robert Irving exhibition in
the Zhilka gallery at 1pm on Saturday, as well as a symposium on Enacting
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Indonesian Performing Arts at 9am. At 2:30pm on
Saturday, there will be a Wayang Golek Puppet Play in the World Music Hall. In
this performance, Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble teams up with Yogyakarta Court
Puppeteer Ki Gondo Suharno and the Court of Yogyakarta gamelan group.www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Cherry Street Station brings a range of
punk, hardcore, and ska this week as it hosts the Benefit for the North
East Oi Fest on Saturday. Raising money to bring bands to the Oi Fest, the
benefit will be showcasing Cry Havoc, Easy Killer, Brix’n Mortar, On The Loose,
So Long Liberty, and Olde Dogs. Details athttps://www.facebook.com/groups/CherryStreetStationEvents/
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the
beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues the
run of “Border” a supernatural romantic thriller about a border guard with a
special superpower. On Saturday and Sunday, there will be two special showings
of “On Her Shoulders,” the story of a 23-year-old Yazidi genocide and ISIS
sexual slavery survivor. Check the website for details and screening times
atwww.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford
continues its run of Michael Moore’s “Farenheit 11/9,” about the water crisis
in Flint, MI this week. Tonight, there’s a special showing of Best of 2018
Short Films. Reel Rock 13, a film showcasing different rock climbing practices
worldwide, is up for a one-time showing on Saturday. On Sunday, this season’s
Bolshoi Ballet brings La Sylphide live from Moscow! Cinestudio also opens a run
of Black ‘47, Ireland’s first full length feature that takes place during the
famine of 1845-50, following an army deserter on his quest for revenge against
his family’s landowner. Check the website for times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s
lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown :
Right after the Jive,
stay tuned for Homegrown with Rob DeRosa. The award winning Connecticut
Connected Music Show, Playing Connecticut connected artists of multiple genres.
Pre-release material and in-studio interviews with artists as well as
information about live shows in the area.
From 6 – 8:00 it's Imagine
with Karen Stein. Peace through music! Listen to the best music from around the
world and around the block!
From 8 - 9:30 it's Evening
Jazz with Bill Denert. A broad range of swing, be bop and avante garde with a
sprinkling of new releases, where “Hearing is the best experience.”
And from 9:30 to 10, catch
Spicy! Spicy! Hot! Hot! With Beizo Bish and Jew Chainz. Scalding hot takes on a
new area of pop culture each week, featuring topical tracks and a variety of
dynamic guests.
From 10-11 it’s The
American Empire with Yours Truly, Tootse Mutants – an exploration of the
influence of American cultural imperialism on foreign music, such as Korean
Hip-Hop, Japanese Jazz, Peruvian Punk, and more.
From 11 - midnight
it's Goats and Kids with DJ Oat Heiress, painting a decade with a genre, goats
and kids examines the best songs of their day and concludes with current
recommendations that could have evolved from that scene.
from midnight to 1 it's Jazzalicious
definition with DJ Stocks’n’Socks and MC McGee. Jazzaalicious travels through
the history of jazz by highlighting a different artist, sub-genre, or time
period each week.
And from 1 - 2am it's Middletown
by Moonlight with DJ Monsoon Moon. A tour of the rare and obscure best albums
from around the globe that you wish you had known before.
From 2 - 3am, Dovetail
brings you Butterfingers – dropping funky tunes, one groovy slip at a time.
From 3-4 it’s the hour
of slack. Reverend ivan stang presents his own commentary, along with recorded
material from all SubGenius radio and stage shows, bands, ranters, media
barrage collage artists, and selections from the indie audio underground created
by various subgenii and others.
The BBC World News
comes on at 4 followed by Morning Edition from NPR at 5.
That's all for today's
Jive at Five. Join us every weekday at 4:55pm for a daily update of happenings
in central CT!.
Thanx for listening.
Now stay tuned for Homegrown!
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