HOW I’LL SPEND MY SUMMER VACATION: ALICE COOPER, THE VERY PERSONIFICATION OF SCHOOL BEING OUT, IS COMING TO FOXWOODS CASINO.
Hey, I just spent an hour yammering live on the Colin McEnroe show on WNPR. I guess they post podcasts of past episodes here.
The topic was “Summer Arts Preview,” and the other guests were Frank Rizzo of the Hartford Courant and Maurice Robertson of the Hartford Jazz Festival (July 15-17 this year), poet Tony Hoagland (who’s reading at the Sunken Garden Poetry Series June 8) and, in a whimsical ‘phone interview, Terry Adams, who’s bringing his new line-up of NRBQ to the Clang Thang weekend at the Best Western Colonial Inn in East Windsor June 24-26. I was the token Southern Connecticut correspondent.
Eveyone had an Arts & Ideas fave to plug: mine was Bang on a Can All-Stars. But I also got to hype the O’Neill Center’s Puppetry Conference (June 11-19), the Yale Summer Cabaret Shakespeare Festival (June 23-Aug. 12), Alice Cooper at Foxwoods (Aug. 13) and The Wiggles at the Oakdale (June 19). Totally missed a chance to get in a word about the Ideat Village festival or the New Haven/Leon Sister City Theater Project, but whoosh!—how these radio things fly by.