Good evening, it's Tuesday, October 22nd. 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 Ben Michael, Thanks for joining us!
Now here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
In New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight, The Burning Hell and The
Proud Flesh take the stage. Wednesday, Café nine presents Austin Bonk, Mamma’s Boy, and
Donnie Alexzander. You can catch the legendary Flamin’ Groovies along with Dust
Hat on Thursday at The Nine. Friday Café nine’s weekly live Happy Hour music
showcase features Hatfield. Friday night, Anthony Da Costa and David Wax Museum
take the stage. Café Nine’s Weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam session is with
the George Baker Band and the Saturday night main event brings you Richard
Lloyd and Happy Ending. The Sunday Buzz Matinée features Jake Kulak & The Lowdown,
appearing with Vicki F. The nine finished out the weekend with The Meadows
Brothers, Noble Dust, and Pat Stone sharing a bill Sunday eve. http://www.cafenine.com/
At The State House in New Haven, Tuesday Table Tennis is on
the books with a 5 pm start, and on Wednesday, The Statehouse presents comedy
with Rell Battle. The Statehouse offers a genre-bending music mix on Thursday
with their “F the Format” session, and on Friday it’s the Rock Lottery Finals
where four groups meet four musical challenges. The Statehouse headlines Nikhil
P. Yerawadekar and Low Mentality on Saturday, appearing with the Forest Room. Sunday Multiplex 5, the statehouse improvised
music series, features Joe Morris, Jamie Saft, Brant Beale, and many
more. www.statehousepresents.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, Michael Palin’s Other
Orchestra brings you jazz, R&B, soul classics, and more on Tuesday nights.
Wednesday Sally’s weekly Community Blues Jam is hosted by Ray Morant, and on
Thursday Liviu’s Invitational. You can catch blues-based rock and roll on
Friday with Mambo Sons, and on Saturday the Aussie group Harper & The
Midwest Kind takes the stage to bring you harmonica and the didgeridoo. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Infinity Hall Hartford hosts a Laughs for Kids Stand-Up
Comedy Benefit this (Tue) eve with proceeds benefitting the Kids of Summer
Foundation. On Friday, it’s Completely Unchained, a Van Halen tribute band. At
Infinity Norfolk, Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals bring you pop, R&B, and more on
Thursday, and on Friday they’ve got folk singer/songwriter Sean Rowe.
Illusionist and Comedian Andy Gross is in the house on Saturday, and on Sunday,
you can catch The Mighty Pines, a jam band playing bluegrass and roots
rock. www.infinityhall.com
The Middlesex Drum Circle meets on Thursday at The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown. Friday the Buttonwood Tree offer a night of bluegrass
with The Plate Scrapers. The Aligned With Source Workshop happens Saturday
morning, and Saturday evening Frankie and The Know It Alls play blues/rock
classics. Eileen Anderson leads a Reiki Share session on Sunday
afternoon. www.buttonwood.org
Wesleyan’s Special Collections & Archives is presenting
a symposium, “Homage to Samuel Beckett” on Thursday at 3 pm to celebrate the
recent gift of Beckett letters and books by Dr. Jay Levy ’60 and Sharon Levy. It’s
free and open to the public.
The Middletown Arts & Culture Office announces that the
CT Office of the Arts hosts an ADA Workshop on Wednesday morning, Principles
and Practice for Arts Administrators, at Nelson Hall in Cheshire. The Godfrey
Memorial Library offers a genealogy research help session on Friday. The
Wadsworth Mansion holds a 2-day Halloween Bash fundraising event, A Strange
Evening with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Friday and Saturday evening. The
Recreation Division hosts a Halloween Party for kids on Saturday morning. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
Tomorrow, Scrabble Wednesday is on for 5:00 pm at the
Russell Library in Middletown. Thursday
the Middletown Substance Abuse Prevention Council presents a session on current
drug trends for parents and child caregivers at The Library. They partner with the US Postal Service
Saturday morning for Passport Day, and also offer yoga in the Hubbard Room.
Paul Rice will speak about medical massage modalities in the afternoon at
Russell Library. On Sunday afternoon, pianist Mark Valenti presents works by
Mozart, Debussy, Chopin, and more in the Hubbard Room. www.russelllibrary.org
The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore hosts award-winning novelist
Eileen Pollack on Wednesday with her new work, “The Professor of Immortality.”
Their monthly Philosophy Night happens on Saturday at 6 pm. Kids’ events
continue this week, including a slime party and story time, and they present
Brendan Wenzel on Thursday with his nature book, “A Stone Sat Still.” The Well
Read Black Girl Book Club holds a meet-up on Sunday afternoon. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Manic Presents brings The Districts to the Space Ballroom in
Hamden on Wednesday, and on Thursday Vacationer and Wavelengths take the Front
Room stage. They headline Fit For An Autopsy on Friday, appearing with Lorna
Shore, Dyscarnate, and more, and on Saturday you can catch Of Montreal. They
bring Bob Saget to the College Street Music Hall in New Haven on Thursday, and
on Friday Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot are in the house. www.manicpresents.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Cortége TX,
Pinto Graham, and BHR on Wednesday. You’re invited to their Halloween Bash 2019
on Friday, with performances by Insano Vision, Dumpster Fire, Our Own
Destruction, and Murder Monday, along with a costume contest. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
Toad’s Place headlines Hip Hop Artist, Jidenna on Friday
with his 85 to Africa Tour, appearing with Kelechi. They’re holding a Halloween
College Dance Party on Saturday. College ID’s are required. www.toadsplace.com
Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts hosts free events
on Saturday, including guided tours of the Brendan Fernandes exhibit,
“Inaction,” along with an “Inaction” Dance Party and performances, all at the
Zilkha Gallery. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
The Recreation department and residents at Wadsworth Glen on
Boston Road, Middletown are extending an invitation for children in costumes – to
stop by their digs, with their parents, for some excellent trick or treating on
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27th from 1 – 4 PM recreation@wadsworthglenhcc.com
for info
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Linda Ronstadt: The
Sound of My Voice,” a celebration of the iconic vocal artist; “Moonlight
Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements,” a memoir about a deaf boy, his
grandfather, and Beethoven; and “Anthropocene: The Human Epoch,” a documentary
about human planetary domination. On Friday they open “Fantastic Fungi,” a
documentary about the healing power of fungi, with post-film discussions on
Friday and Saturday. Also opening on Friday is WHERE’S
MY ROY COHN? www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues the run
of “Tel Aviv on Fire,” a comedy about a soap opera that eases
Israeli-Palestinian tensions, through Wednesday. On Thursday they open
“Hustlers,” about New York strippers who turn the tables on their Wall Street
clients. There’s a one-time showing of a new, Ultra HD version of “Donnie
Darko” Friday night as part of their Moonlight Movies series. Their Sunday
matinée offering Bolshoi Ballet in Cinemas’ “Raymonda,” directed by Alexander Glazunov,
and in the evening they open a run of “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.”
Full details at http://www.cinestudio.org
The Middletown International Film Festival continues this
eve (Tuesday) at the Russell Library with a screening of the award-winning
Mexican film “Roma,” about domestic strife and political turmoil in the ‘70’s
era. There’s a post-film discussion with Professor Maria Ospina. On Wednesday
at Russell, The Connecticut Center for Mind-Body Enrichment sponsors a
screening of the documentary “Heal,” about how mind-body connections affect
human healing. Registration is required www.russelllibrary.org
The Spooky Popcorn series in Hartford continues at
Constitution Plaza with a screening of “The Lost Boys” on Tuesday, “Poltergeist”
on Wednesday, “The Ring” on Thursday, and “Pet Sematary” on Friday. www.hartford.com/events/
The Wesleyan RJ Julia holds a Scary Movie Night on Friday
and will be showing “Let The Right One In,” a Swedish film about
vampires. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Artists for World Peace invites you to a screening of “The
Hunchback of Notre Dame” Saturday evening at the DeKoven House in Middletown
with live music accompaniment to this silent film provided by The Flying
Particles. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice
The Wesleyan Center for the Arts invites you to a free
screening of the 1931 film, “Frankenstein,” with live orchestral accompaniment,
Saturday at 8 pm at the Goldsmith Family Cinema on campus. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Right after The Jive at Five, stick around for an hour
of Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat, for a free form music romp into the rabbit
hole!
next up at 6pm, stay tuned for 2hrs of Acoustic
Blender with Bill Revill, offering an eclectic selection of new and older folk,
Americana, bluegrass, blues and other music that has a roots influence. Plus a
weekly concert listing at 7pm and frequent concert and festival ticket
giveaways. “tonight, national touring act Mustard’s Retreat will be live in the
studio. They will be playing at the Black Bear Festival as well as
Buttonwood tree this Saturday. “
From 8-9 pm stay tuned for for J-Cherry’s Voice of the City!
at 9pm, stay tuned for The Guest List with DJ Lukey G and
his weekly guest on a themed journey of playlist curation.
from 10-11pm The Classroom: Sports Edition with DJ Goose
brings you Wesleyan sports, world sports, debate, and callers.
at 11pm Not Ur Mom’s Tunes with DJ Amoroso and DJ MT SPEN
invite you join them for a plunge into a guest’s first musical influence: their
mom. with new moms covered each week!
from midnight-1am What’s Goin’ On? with DJ Sam offers a deep
dive into the career and their music of artists with songs that have under
1,000,000 plays.
at 1 Passing Thru with DJ Slimbo Clean take a musical investigation
into the spaces we inhabit and the ways we move through them-- down the street,
across the country, and beyond
from 2-3am Louisiana Barn Dance brings us an hour of rootin
tooting Cajun and roots country sounds from Louisiana.
at 3am third shift listeners can catch an encore
presentation of our noontime broadcast of Democracy Now!
At 4am we kick of four daytime public affairs block with BBC
World Report followed by morning edition from NPR.
Stay tuned each weekday, for the area’s most diverse mix of
public affairs from Pacifica, NPR, and independent sources.
That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Catch us each weekday
at 4:55pm for this daily community calendar and run down of night time
programming here on WESU Middletown, one of the nation’s first student owned
and operated radio stations, celebrating 80 years of community service in 2019!
Stay tuned for Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat, up next!
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