Lunchbox sketch comedy tonight

It's free, and reportedly parent-friendly!

Date: Tonight, Oct. 18
Time: 9:00 PM
Place: Nicolson lounge

Wild Bill's Nostalgia Presents Cover Band Show

You've seen the posters up all around town for the past month, and it's happening today - Wild Bill's Nostalgia presents local bands Abbey Road and Riders on the Storm, playing a live show of Beatles and Doors covers.

Date: Saturday, October 18
Time: 4 pm
Place: Wild Bill's Nostalgia (on Route 3, 1003 Newfield St.)

Homecoming / Family Weekend

Homecoming / Family Weekend starts today.

Check out the load of stuff happening and find something interesting to do over the next few days.

Highlights from this year's weekend include:

20 WESeminars featuring alumni, parents, faculty, staff and students. Topics range from the 2008 presidential election to climate change, from writing thrillers to tackling the New York Times crossword puzzle. All WESeminars are free and open to everyone, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Wesleyan Football, Men’s and Women’s Soccer, and Field Hockey vs. Amherst, plus Men’s and Women’s Rugby matches.

The Eighth Annual Taste of Middlesex County Lunch where Andrus Field becomes a showcase of the delicious, diverse food in the Middletown area. Enjoy Indian, Jamaican, Thai and Italian cuisines, plus soups, sandwiches, homemade desserts and more.

The 16th Annual Dwight L. Greene ‘70 Symposium: “Enough: The Future of Black America” featuring NPR senior correspondent Juan Williams.

A benefit concert for the Green Street Arts Center featuring Wesleyan A Cappella groups.

from the Wesleyan Connection

Weather seems to be looking better than last years.

Russell House hosts Alastair Reid

Lucia Pier writes:

The Russell House Series presents poet, translator, and essayist Alastair Reid. Since 1959, Reid has written for The New Yorker, playing a major role as staff writer, South American editor, traveling correspondent, and noted champion of Latin American literature. He is the author of over twenty books—poems, essays, prose chronicles, and translations—and his writings have been widely translated.

For more information, contact Lucia at russellhouse@wes or ext. 3448.

Date: Saturday, Oct. 18
Time: 3:00 PM
Place: Russell House

Prometheus Presents: The Homecoming Show

Wesleyan's favorite fire-spinning group takes to Foss this Saturday for their first ever parents/homecoming weekend show!

Bring friends, bring alumni, bring parents, bring siblings, bring aunts and uncles, bring grandparents, bring pets*, and bring yourself. We'll bring the fire.

* preferably of the leashed variety

When: Saturday, October 18th, 9:45-10:30 pm
Where: Base of Foss Hill

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Patterns of Inheritance, Internet Opera

Come see Patterns of Inheritance, a "modern opera about the internet", by Ben Bernstein '10. This sounds ridiculously intriguing:

The entire libretto is composed of chopped up blog posts and Wikipedia articles, and the orchestrations are fragments as well. Using movement and a cast of five singers and eight instrumentalists, and six dancers, the opera attempts to paint a picture of the information we process, distribute, and inherit through the internet.

Basically, just imagine the lovechild of Phillip Glass and Gawker...a digital dream. You have 4 chances to catch the free show this Homecoming Weekend, so don't miss out!

Live performances at the '92 Theater
Dates/Times:
10/16 - 8pm
10/17 - 8pm
10/18 - 2:30pm, 8pm
Place: '92 Theater