Good evening, it's Wednesday, March 11th. 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/Wednesday
Couchsleepers, Ports of Spain, and Among the Acres takes the stage, 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, 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 on 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/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 this evening/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
In Middletown, at the Russell Library, it’s Scrabble
Wednesday happening at 5 p.m. Also this evening/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 this evening/Wednesday with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Emmett Kelly
and Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins. They’re at the Space Ballroom in
Hamden, starting tonight/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
At the State House in New Haven, 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
tonight/ 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 tonight/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,
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. A half-hour talk show. A collaboration with Middletown residents to bring you
developed long form radio stories about the most compelling and interesting
local issues.
And at 11, Splitting Hairs comes
on board with an hour of humorous
musical discussion dedicated to analyzing the lyrics of popular songs, and
finding their inconsistencies and comical meanings.
From midnight to 1am it's The
Chef’s Special. Each
week we'll cook something different, the ingredients are never the same.
And starting at 1, stay tuned
for Stage Fright. Stage
Fright is the island of misfit songs, old and new: b-sides, demos, and live
shows welcome.
At 2am it's the Hour of Slack
from Pacifica. 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 the 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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