Good evening, it's Tuesday, April 10th. 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 Marianne O’Hare, producer of Conversations on
HealthCare, heard on Wednesdays at 4:40, right before the Jive at Five.
Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
At the Russell Library in Middletown, this evening (Tues) at
6pm, The Racial Justice Book Group will discuss The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks By Rebecca Skloot. Wednesday afternoon its Gamer’s Realm from 4:30-5:30
in the Activity Room. Thursday night The Veteran’s Writing group meets at
The Russell Library. Friday at 1pm, The Library will Screen 2001 A Space
Oddyssey. For information about these and more activities at www.russelllibrary.org
Here in Middletown, this evening (tues) from 6-8pm, The
Buttonwood hosts a reception for their new gallery show by photographer, Don
Logie, who’s captured night time images of Buttonwood Tree performances as well
as scenes from around the world. Friday night Rj Ruotolo’s
Jazz Workshop Quartet takes the Buttonwood Tree Stage and Saturday night Al
Copley, who’s played with Room Full of Blues and The Fabulous Thunderbirds,
makes for a night of boogie, blues, jump, and Jazz piano. The Hearing
Voices Network meets Monday mornings. www.buttonwood.org
Manic Presents Has Steve Earle & The Dukes along with The
Mastersons tonight (Tues) at The College St Music Hall. Wednesday
Manic Presents features Mirah, Secret Drum Band, and Olive Tiger at The Space
Ballroom in Hamden. Thursday they’ve got the Wolf Alice and The Big
Pink at College St. They’ve got Colter Wall and Ian Noe at The Space Ballroom
on Friday night. Friday night Manic presents and premier concerts present THey
Might Be Giants at The College St Music Hall. Finally, closing out the weekend
Manic has Men I Trust at The Space Ballroom Sunday night at 7pm. www.manicpresents.com
In New Haven, at Café Nine tonight (tuesday) there’s a
triple bull featuring ANNA ROSE, ANDREA NARDELLO, & LEILA
CROCKETT. Wed’s it’s Comedy night with Dan Rice at Café Nine.
Thursday night Café Nine presents British Songwriter Bobby Long with opening
act Nick DePuy. At 5pm Friday, LAURA DOWDING takes the stage and
later Friday night, GO KAT GO! Presents: THE LIVING DEADS alongside BLOODSHOT
BILL. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon jazz jam will be hosted by Gary
Grippo and Friends at 4:30. Saturday night you can catch Grammy
Award Winners LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS
with guests, An Historic. Sunday afternoon at 4pm,
SARAH BORGES & THE BROKEN SINGLES FEAT. ERIC "ROSCOE" AMBEL take
the stage with Stefanie Austin and The Palomino Club. Later, Sunday at 9pm it’s
the Sex Beat Dance Party with DJ Kid Congo Powers. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, Michael Palin’s Other
Orchestra comes your way Tuesday nights. The Community Blues Jam happens on
Wednesdays and Its Liviu Pop’s Jazz Invitational on Thursday evenings with
special guest artists. This Friday night, Sally’s presents The MIKE CASEY TRIO.
On Saturday you can catch the JAY COLLINS BAND. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At Wesleyan’s Center for the arts. This week brings Graduate
recitals, new gallery shows and year end concerts. Wednesday brings
the opening reception for the second studio arts Senior Thesis Exhibition to
Zilka Gallery. WesFest Concert I: with Organ, Chamber, Jazz, and
Laptop performances happens at Wesleyan’s Memorial Chapel Wednesday night at
7pm. Thursday at noon, you can catch The Elizabeth Verveer Tishler
Keyboard Competition at Memorial Chapel. WesFest Concert II with Choir,
Gamelan, Korean, and Taiko Drumming Ensembles happens on Thursday evening at
6pm in the World Music Hall. The Spring Senior Thesis Dance Concert
happens Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8pm in the Patricelli '92
Theater. The Kronos Quartet performance for this weekend at
Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall is sold out. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Tomorrow/Wednesday at Noon here in Middletown, The
Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore ipresents "Books on the Menu" a talk with
RJ Julia Booksellers Chief Operating Officer Lori Fazio and Book Buyer Brian
Wraight. Patrons can get the inside scoop on all the latest new
releases. Wednesday evening at 7pm at Wesleyan RJ Julia you can
catch another bookstore event: Richard Adelstein, "The Exchange Order:
Property & Liability as an Economic System" www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Tomorrow night here in Middletown, Laboca hosts and Open
Bluegrass Jam with The Pitkin Pickers. Saturday night Cosmos Sunshine & the
Butterfly Effect w/s/g No Mind take the Laboca Stage. https://www.facebook.com/pg/CityArtsOffice/events/
for info on this and more of what Middletown has to offer.
Thursday night at 7:30pm in Middletown, you can catch The Vintage
Players production of “Outside Mullingar” at Oddfellows Playhouse www.oddfellows.org for tickets ad information.
Thursday night at Infinity Hall Hartford, you can catch
Frankie Justin w/ Plywood Cowboy. Friday night Max Creek celebrates
their 47th Creekiversary at Infinity Hall Hartford. SaturdayThe Trucks pay
tribute to The Cars. Thursday night at Infinity Hall Norfolk, The Artimus Pyle
Band takes the stage. Friday at Infinity Norfolk, you can catch The
Slambovian Circus of Dreams. The Alpaca Gnomes takes the infinity
Hall Norfolk stage Saturday eve and Sunday Sessions Live at Infinity Norfolk
features Bernice Lewis. www.infinityhall.com
Cherry St. Station in Wallingford offers loud music
this Thursday night with Wait and Shackle alonside The Refectory and
Snowpiler. Ryder (from Bklyn, NY) makes their debut at Cherry Street Station on
Friday April 13th along with OVER the LINE, All In All Out, & The Sadists!
Saturday at Cherry St, brings the Apostasy 15th anniversary with special
guests VenomSpreader, The Aberration, Savage World, and
WESU is hosting An Evening in Antarctica with Jonathan
Chester this Friday, at 6:30pm at
Wesleyan University’s Shanklin Hall, Room 107, located at 237 Church St. in
Middletown. Jonathan has traveled to Antarctica on over forty expeditions as a
professional photographer, author, filmmaker, and environmentalist, and his
lecture will showcase his Antarctic photography, Antarctica in general, and its
relation to global climate change. You can find more about Jonathan at his
website www.extremeimages.com.
Friday night at The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, you
can catch a special performance of vignettes created by Anne Cubberly, Casey
Grambo, and Rosanna Karabetsos in celebration of the special exhibition Gorey’s
Worlds. Performers include Joey Batts, Studio 860, Sea Tea Improv, and Night
Fall cast members. This weekend brings the month Second Saturdays for
Families event: Paper Theater
Take the stage! where you can explore theatrical scenes in
Gorey’s Worlds, then collaborate with a local artist to create a cross-hatched
paper costume and participate in a paper puppetry workshop. Museum admission is
free during Second Saturdays activities.www.thewadsworth.org
Friday night at 7 p.m. brings a rare opportunity to
experience the INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED BREAD & PUPPET THEATER who will
PERFORM at FIRST CHURCH in MIDDLETOWN! for ONE night ONLY! After
the performance Bread and Puppet will serve its famous free sourdough rye bread
with aioli, and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards,
pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for
sale. The Bread and Puppet Practitioners-of-the-Pursuit-of-What String Band
will welcome the public. ADMISSION BY DONATION. For more information
on the event, please visit http://breadandpuppet.org/
The Unitarian Universalist Church in Meriden is holding a
FUNdrasier concert featuring The Coffee Grinders, a Roots/Traditional Blues
band with special guest Rocky Lawrence on Saturday, at 7pm. for tickets and
information visit www.UUMeriden.org or
contact Donna at 203-237-1323
The Connecticut Historical Society invites you to their
ongoing exhibit, That’s Weird, of strange objects connected to our state’s
material culture, happening every Saturday. Details at www.chs.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Through Thursday, Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues their
afternoon movie run of A Fantastic Woman, about a waitress who moonlights as a
nightclub singer, dealing with the death of her older boyfriend. Through
Thursday Real Art Ways continues their run of Outside in which follows a newly
released ex-con navigating the personal and societal challenges that follow 20
years on the inside. The Dark Comedy. The Party, continues through Wednesday at
Real Art Ways. In Cinemas Worldwide for One Night Only: this
Thursday at Real Art Ways you can catch Distant Sky – Nick Cave & The Bad
Seeds Live in Copenhagen. Thursday, Real Art Ways opens runs of French films,
Ismael’s Ghosts and Back to Burgundy (Ce qui nous lie). Friday Real Art
Ways begins a new afternoon movie, Foxtrot about the emotional toll of active
service on Israeli families. www.realartways.org
This week brings the annual April in Paris Film Festival to
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford.
Tonight’s showing is Black Girl, about the effects of racism
on a young woman from a poor village in Senegal. Wednesday night Latest News
From the Cosmos explores autism and the profound bond between mother and
daughter. Thursday night at Cinestudio you can catch Fatima,
bringing the life and challenges of a working class North Africa mother to
screen. Friday night, The April in Paris Film Festival continues at
Cinestudio with the dark comedy in The Death of Louis XIV. Saturday, it’s a
dystopian animated tale of Paris in April and The Extraordinary World and
Sunday the film festival concludes with The French coming of age film Worst
Case, We Get Married. Details & screening times @ www.cinestudio.org
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM
Middletown:
Right after the The Jive at Five, stay tuned for
Right after the Jive stick around for spilled milk with
Charlotte until 6pm
From 6-8pm it’s Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill, offering
an eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and
other music with a roots influence plus a concert listing at 7pm and frequent
concert and festival ticket giveaways.
At 8pm stay tuned for The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry, A
weekly spotlight of Connecticut arts and culture.
From 9-10pm it’s The Test Patterns Show
At 10 stick and stay for Universal Time Traversal with Hyphy
- Taking the "Oh Geez" out of the OGs.
From 11-midnight, tonight, it’s “Profile”, With Maile and
Sage for and an hour-long deep dive into an artist's life and career.
From midnight-1am
stay tuned for Mixed Media with DJ Pig in the City and DJ Megnanimous
From 1-2am stay tuned for Women's Music, Women's Wisdom with
DJ Sensibility
At 2am it’s Fish and Chips, With DJ Chee, A music show
dedicated to British bands and artists.
Maxium Rock and Roll Radio Comes your way at 3am and you can
catch the BBC World Report at 4am.
We kick off our weekday program at 5am with Morning Edition
from NPR, followed by a diverse mix of talk radio from Pacifica and NPR
throughout the day.
That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, tune in each weekday at
4:55 for our rundown of local events and entertainment and our evening lineup
here on WESU Middletown.
Find the script for this show, our current program schedule,
a link to listen live, program archives and more, online at www.wesufm.org
Stay tuned for Spilled Milk with Charlotte, up next!
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