Good evening, it's Wednesday,
February 12th . 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 and Boston
Braves fan!Thanks for joining us!
Here's some of what's happening in
our area this week:
At the Buttonwood Tree in
Middletown, Waberi Jordan takes the stage on Friday with special guest Shena
Vrrett for a Valentine Birthday Special. The Aligned With Source workshop
happens Saturday morning, followed by a Teen Open Mic at 3 pm. Enjoy pop and
rock with Interrupter Jones on Saturday night. You can view the current
exhibition throughout the month that includes Ryan Martin Callanan’s “Were You
Here” and Heather Cohn’s “Blue Pearl” series of photographs. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, at Café Nine, there’s
a Tribute to Jeff Buckley on tonight/Wednesday, and on Thursday they’re
bringing you Sarah Golley, Chad Browne Springer, and Addy Edward. Friday’s
Happy Hour includes The Tommys plus Buzz Gordo who’ll be performing love songs,
and in the evening you can catch Joe Jack Talcum, The Mega Yeah, and Malcolm
Tent.
The Saturday Jazz Jam Session is led
by Tony Di and Friends, followed by the late show with The Right Offs and Ditch
Boys. The Sunday Buzz matinée brings you Eric Lindell, and they round out the
weekend later with a Blues Jam featuring the George Lesiw Band. www.cafenine.com
At Black-Eyed Sally’s in Hartford,
it's the Wednesday Community Blues Jam with Ray Morant, and Liviu’s
Invitational comes your way on Thursday. Enjoy blues, soul, and more with your
Valentine on Friday brought to you by Latanya Farrell and her musicians. John
Nemeth takes the stage on Saturday with his harmonica to bring you classics and
originals. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Up in Hartford, this
evening/Wednesday, the Mark Twain House continues its Mark My Words series with
Tracy Strauss and Gina Barreca who discuss “Writing About Love.” The Bruce
Gregori Quartet is at The Half Door Wednesday night. Hartford Prints! is
holding a Happy Hour on Thursday evening, and the Barbour Street branch of the
Hartford Public Library holds a Celebration of the Life of Toni Morrison.
Your Parents perform live at the
Arch Street Tavern Thursday night, and they host the BRYAC funk supergroup on
Friday. The seven-week indoor music series at City Place opens with Arlene Wow!
at noon. There’s Goat Yoga at Dunkin’ Donuts Park on Saturday morning, and
there’s a Valentine’s Dinner and Dancing event at the Gershon Fox Ballroom in
the evening. Kulick performs live at The Webster on Saturday, and the Arch
Street Tavern hosts Shakedown. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
The Middletown Arts and Culture
Office reminds you that the Shakespearean Acting and Writing Plays classes, as
well as the Circobatics class, continue this week at Oddfellow’s Playhouse. The
Fred Astaire Dance Studios is holding a Valentine’s Day Dance Party and Open
House on Friday, and there’s a Pasta Class and Wine Tasting Saturday evening at
the Wadsworth Mansion.
There’s still time to get tickets to
the Artists for World Peace fundraiser Broadway event on Sunday, where you can
enjoy dinner and performances by Broadway professionals at The Cutting Room in
New York City. Check the FB page for details. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
At the State House Cabaret in New
Haven, there’s a Down Home Hootenanny on Thursday featuring country songs of
love and heartbreak. You can Party Out of Bounds on Friday with their Love
Stinks Valentine’s Day Party, bringing you favorites of the 80’s and 90’s.
Dance the night away at their House and Soul Explosion on Saturday with Douglas
Oliver and J Anthony Coon. www.statehousepresents.com
At the Russell Library in Middletown,
Scrabble Wednesday is on the books at 5 pm, and on Thursday there’s an off-site
Books and Brews session at Stubborn Beauty Brewing to discuss Commonwealth” by
Anne Patchett. The Lifestyle Medicine series continues on Saturday with Jeff
Hush, founder of Food and Movement Therapy. The library is closed on Sunday and
Monday for President’s Day. Consult the website calendar for future events
geared to all patrons, including help sessions for people who are
home-insecure, and both special offerings from the Job and Career Center. Enjoy
their monthly exhibit, the paintings of Enox Shabazz, featuring prominent
African-Americans as well as Biblical themes. www.russelllibrary.org
Wesleyan University’s Center for the
Arts sponsors free events this week. There’s a Senior Recital Friday at
the Ring Arts Hall, and on Sunday the 4 th Annual Wesleyan FluteFest Concert
happens at Crowell Concert Hall at 7 pm. You can browse books about Beethoven
on Monday morning at 9 am at the Olin Library and check out the sound
exhibition of his 9 th symphony.
You’re invited to purchase tickets
for the New England Dance on Tour performance on Friday night at the CFA
Theater. Details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/
At the Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
in Middletown, The Light Up Your Mind! program continues through the week, and
check the website for Kids’ Event programs, including their new read-aloud
Chapters Book Club, Family Story Time, and a session with “Twisted Tales”
series author Liz Braswell . www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Manic Presents is at the Space
Ballroom on this evening/Wednesday with Christopher Paul Stelling and Elison
Jackson in the Front Room. At the College Street Music Hall in New Haven, you
can catch Ween on Thursday. As always, you can purchase tickets with no box office
fee at Redscroll Records in Wallingford. www.manicpresents.com
Infinity Hall Hartford brings you
pop, rock, and soul tonight/Wednesday with Citizen Cope. They continue
the pop and rock on Friday with The Weight Band, featuring members of The Band
and the Levon Helm Band. At Infinity Norfolk, it’s blues, swing, and more on
Saturday with Vilray, and on Sunday you can catch more blues and soul with Popa
Chubby. Check the website for details. www.infinityhall.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford
hosts Left Hand Backwards, Deranged Youth, Zombii, and more on Saturday.
Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
Toad’s Place brings you The Drug Is
In Me Gold Tour with Falling In Reverse on Sunday, along with Escape the Fate
and The Word Alive. Check the website for details. www.toadsplace.com
Now here';s a rundown of cinema off
the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues
screenings of this year’s Oscar nominee shorts in the categories of Animation,
Live Action, and Documentary, through tonight/Wednesday. Also tonight/Wednesday
there’s a one-time screening of “Portrait of A Lady on Fire,” a love story of
two women in eighteenth century France. Upcoming openings include “Sleepwalk
With Me.” Check the website for details and times. www.realartways.org
At Trinity College’s Cinestudio
tonight/Wednesday they are showing “After Parkland,” a documentary
commemorating the two-year anniversary of the Stoneman Douglas High School
Shooting. Their OutFilm CT series continues Thursday with “Paris is Burning,”
and the college’s Black Student Union invites you to the moonlight movie on
Friday, “Love & Basketball,” about two neighbors who hope to turn their
love into a shot at the pros. You can see perennial classic “Casablanca” on
Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday they open a run of “Kind Hearts and
Coronets,” a restoration of this 1949 black comedy about a serial killer
aspiring to become a Duke. Full details at http://www.cinestudio.org
Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts
offers a free screening of “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”Thursday night at
the Powell Family Cinema. There’s a post-film discussion with the producer and
director. This film won the 2020 Sundance award for Best Director of a
documentary.
The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore is
holding movie night on Friday, where you can view “Never Let Me Go.”
Pre-registration is required, so go to www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford
holds a Tea Party in Morgan Great Hall Saturday along with a screening of
“Downton Abbey,” and will screen the movie again on Sunday afternoon. www.hartford.com/events/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s
lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:
Right after The Jive at Five, stick
around for The Latin Music Hour with Isabel. Latin music from the 80’s, 90’s
and early 2000’s.
From 6-6:30pm stay tuned for Growing
Greener with Tom Christopher for 30 minutes of Gardening tips from leading
experts in sustainable gardening practices.
At 6:30, stay tuned for Fusion Radio
with James Fusion for 90 minutes of techno mixed live!
From 8-9:30 it's The Warehouse with
Mike Nyce featuring the best of underground house music, mixed live for your
listening pleasure.
And starting at 9:30 til 10:30, it's
The Bump with DJ Float. Your favorite way to spend a Wednesday night… The Bump
is a LIVE MIX of Electronica that will make you wanna dance.
At 10:30, it's The Mouth of
Middletown talk show. A collaboration with Middletown residents to bring
you developed long form radio stories about the most compelling and interesting
local issues.
And starting at 11 until midnight,
stay tuned for Splitting Hairs. A humorous musical discussion show dedicated to
analyzing the lyrics of popular songs, and finding their inconsistencies and
comical meanings.
At midnight until 1, it's The Chef's
Special. Each week we'll cook something different, the ingredients are never
the same.
And starting at 1, it's an hour of
Stage Fright. Stage Fright is the island of misfit songs, old and new: b-sides,
demos, and live shows welcome.
From 2 - 3, it's the Hour of Slack
from Pacifica Radio. 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
And from 3 to 4am, third shift
listeners can catch an encore presentation of our noontime broadcast of
Democracy Now!
At 4am we kick off our daytime
public affairs block with BBC World Report followed by morning edition from NPR
at 5am.
Stay tuned each weekday, for the
area’s most diverse mix of public affairs from Pacifica, NPR, and independent
sources.
For a complete schedule of all our
free-form and public affairs programming, visit our website wesufm.org.
That's all for today's Jive at Five.
Join us weekdays at 4:55 for a daily rundown of area happenings and a rundown
of evening programming on WESU Middletown!
Thanks for listening. Stay tuned for
the Latin Music Hour with Isabel!
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