Good evening, it's Tuesday, March
10th. This is the Jive at Five, o ur 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! Thanx for joining us!
Here's some of what's happening in
our area this week:
At the Buttonwood Tree in
Middletown, the genre-ending band South for Winter performs on Thursday night,
and on Friday you rock with blues roots with Parker’s Tangent. The Aligned With
Source workshop happens Saturday morning, followed by All the Write Ways: A
Workshop for Self-Expression at 1 pm. Erin Earth and Cazz takes the stage
Saturday night with New Orleans-style music. There’s a Reiki Level 2 class on
Sunday, and you can view the current exhibition throughout the month that
includes the photography of Ryan Martin Callanan and Heather Cohn. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, at Café Nine,
tonight/Tuesday you can catch The Mastersons and Bonnie Whitmore.
Couchsleepers, Ports of Spain, and Among the Acres takes the stage on
Wednesday, and on Thursday they bring you Juicebox Batter. Friday’s Happy Hour
features Outlaw Unofficial Non-Sanctioned St. Pat’s Parade Hooley, and in the
evening they’ve got Service Dog, Every Branch, and Pulsr.The Saturday Jazz Jam
Session is led by Gary Grippo, followed by the late show with Fate and Dose the
Well. Sunday morning it’s the St. Patricks Day Parade Party with The Jovial
Crew, and they round out the weekend with the George Lesiw Band Sunday night. www.cafenine.com
At Black-Eyed Sally’s in Hartford,
Michael Palin’s Orchestra is on hand tonight/Tuesday and Liviu’s Invitational
with a special guest comes your way on Thursday. On Friday, Bobby T’s Allstars
play and on Saturday they’ve got Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Up in Hartford this evening/Tuesday
at 5:30, there’s an electronics and Digital Fab Meetup, for anyone interested
in electronics, 3D printers, computer programming, the internet of things,
robotics, etc Check the MakerspaceCT website for details.
At 7, it’s Wellness Night, focusing
on Joyful Collage, in the atrium of the Hartford Public Library downtown
branch.
Wednesday, there’s a Knitting for
Everyone Workshop from 1 to 2 at the Hartford Public Library Park branch.
Thursday, enjoy Brains & Brews
Trivia at City Steam Brewery, starting at 7. Also at 7, Twang Thursdays
presents Honeysuckle at Hog River Brewing Co, 1429 Park St.
On Friday, chase away the Winter
Blues with singer/songwriter Kelly English from noon to 1 in the lobby of City
Place 1, 185 Asylum St, and at 5:30, on the third floor of the Hartford Public
Library downtown branch, there will be an opening reception for Lost in Color,
an exhibition of black and white Hartford street photography by Erik Williams.
From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Saturday, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade takes place.
Details at http://www.hartford.com/events
At the Wesleyan/RJ Julia Bookstore
in Middletown this evening/Tuesday, at 7 p.m., Terence Hawkins discusses his
new sci-fi novel American Neolithic. Inspired by current events, readers enter
a world where America has become a Police State, drones are always watching,
and the Bill of Rights has been tossed aside for new amendments.
On Wednesday at 6 p.m., readers in
grade 7 and higher are invited to join WESteen Readers for a monthly event
featuring food and conversation about books.
Also on Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m.,
author Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo visits to discuss her second middle-grade novel A
Galaxy of Sea Stars, about family, loyalty, and the hard choices we face in the
name of friendship. On Thursday at 7 p.m., author Chad C. Betz will discuss
"Late Bloomer: It’s Not Too Late To Succeed!" There will be another
family story time on Saturday at 10:30. More at
wesleyanrjjulia.com/events
Also in Middletown, at the Russell
Library this evening/Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m., the Job and Career Workshop
meets in the Hubbard Room.
Also at 6:30, the Russell Readers
will discuss”Double Birthday” by Willa Cather from the collection The Best
American Short Stories of the Century.
On Wednesday morning at 10,
Preschool Power Story Time happens for children ages 3-6 and their caregivers.
Siblings welcome! No registration required, but space is limited to the first
40 who arrive.
Scrabble Wednesday happens at 5 p.m.
Also on Wednesday at 5, it’s Slime Science, for kids in grades 2 to 5.
Baby Rhyme Time happens at 10 am on
Thursday. And the Russell Library Job Group also meets at 10. Later on
Thursday, at 6 p.m., Books and Brews meets offsite at Stubborn Beauty Brewing
to discuss Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger. Also on Thursday, from 6 to 9
p.m., the library is offering a preview of its Friday-Saturday-Sunday Wicked
Big Book Sale.
On Friday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
you can have your resume looked over by a certified resume reviewer. Call for
an appointment: 860-347-2520. Also on Friday, from 4 to 5:30, teens are invited
to explore their life goals by creating a Vision Board.
Finally, need a new or renewed
passport? On Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., there’ll be a Passport
Fair, courtesy of the library and the US Postal Service. Details on all these
activities at www.russelllibrary.org
Manic Presents is at the College
Street Music Hall in New Haven on Wednesday with Bonnie "Prince"
Billy, Emmett Kelly and Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins. They’re at
the Space Ballroom in Hamden, starting on Wednesday with Kyle Kinane’s sold-out
early show and a late show; check for ticket availability. They continue at the
Space with Aquanet on Thursday and Oso Oso, Prince Daddy & the Hyena, Just
Friends, and Sincere Engineer on Saturday. www.manicpresents.com
The State House in New Haven holds
their usual Open Mic Night tonight/Tuesday with Patrick Dalton, and there’s
Blacklight Glow Party Featuring Nikita, Falconeer, and Forest Room on
Thursday.
On Friday, it’s Surf Night with
Ninth Wave, Renegade Lounge, The Clams, and the Aquatudes. The Pist, WARXGAMES,
Chem-Trails, Nightmare Solution, and World Game take the stage on Saturday, and
you can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday with Mickey Rickshaw, Chousand,
and more on Sunday afternoon. www.statehousepresents.com
Infinity Hall Hartford brings you
The Soul Rebels on Wednesday and Stop Making Sense, a tribute to the Talking
Heads, on Friday. At Infinity Norfolk, you can catch Gary Hoey on Thursday,
Dana Fuchs on Friday, and Roomful of Blues on Saturday. www.infinityhall.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford
hosts Intercourse, Scavengers, Grizzlor, and Deadsong on Friday and on Saturday
they’ve got Down With Rent, Killer Kin, Horns Of Ormus, Inner Vista, and more. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
Toad’s Place has Emo Night on
Thursday. On Friday, they’ve got Riders on the Storm, a tribute to The Doors,
and bands on two stages. On Saturday, it’s Bear Grillz, Phiso, and more, and on
Sunday, they headline Slip Marley. www.toadsplace.com
Now here's a rundown of cinema off
the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways is showing
“Portrait of a lady on Fire,” about a forbidden affair between an 18th century
aristocrat and a painter commissioned to paint her portrait, through Thursday.
Check their website for show times and this weekend’s screenings. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio has
“Mephisto,” about a struggling actor who wins fame in pre-WWII Berlin playing
Mephistopheles, through Wednesday.
On Thursday, they’re showing “And
Then We Danced,” a passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative
confines of modern Tbilisi, and on Friday and Saturday, they’re showing “Just
Mercy,” the true story of a lawyer who represents two men on Death Row: one
innocent, and one guilty. On Sunday, they open a run of “Clemency,” about a
Death Row prison matron who is cracking under the horrors of her job. Sunday
evening, there’s a single presentation of the Royal Opera House’s “La Boheme.”
Full details at http://www.cinestudio.org
Here's the rundown of tonight’s
lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:
Right after the Jive at Five, stay
tuned for Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat from 5:05-6pm. From krautrock to
post-rock, grunge to garage, blues to BeBop, novelty to New Romantic,
Wonderland has a place for it.
From 6-8pm Bill Revill brings us
Acoustic Blender, offering an eclectic selection of new and older folk,
Americana, bluegrass, blues and other music that has a roots influence with a
concert listing at 7pm and frequent concert and festival ticket giveaways.
And at 8pm, stay tuned for Roll Over
Beethoven. Who knows classical composers who aren't white men? The
favorites--Bach, Mozart, Beethoven--surely get eliminated. R.O.B. is dedicated
to making the equally profound sounds of marginalized and modern composers
known.
from 10-11pm it's Windy City Sounds.
An episodic look at different eras and genres of the Chicago music scene,
featuring discussion of the artists and songs from two Chicago natives.
And at 11pm until midnight, it's The
Guest List. Come along with DJ Lukey G and his weekly guest on a journey
of playlist curation based on a weekly theme: a color, a movie, a mood, you
name it! Stay tuned for in-between-the-music in which Lukey G gets to know his
guest…
from midnight-1am it's State of the
Union with Celiac and Juicebox. A talk show about liminal spaces and other
shared interests.
at 1 it's Word on the Street.
exploring the link between language and music, picking a meaningful word from
the week and seeing how it can inspire a musical path.
from 2-3am it's Notes to Self. A
pity party. Letters to self -- past, present, or future. A place for people to
get creative with their thoughts, their hopes and dreams. Even the boring ones.
at 3am 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
Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat.
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