Saint Bernadette

Okay well maybe we’re overselling this show. After all we don’t know how badly seasonal adjustment disorder is affecting your mood, but either way turn off the Olympics and get on over to 51 Crescent Avenue in Bridgeport this Saturday for a show curated by The Gallery at Black Rock .

Saturday 3 to 8pm pm. Directions Get directions to the show here..

The opening of their INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH ART SHOW will be a bigger blast than bobsled racing on the boob tube will ever be. And in case you think we’re being snooty, we do like bobsled racing. As the title suggests the show presents a variety of work in which artists respond to the industrial landscape.

If your friends in Brooklyn think Connecticut is nothing more than Martha Stewart and The Mohegan Sun get them on Metro North and take them too.

Okay so we’re all ready for the first crocus to start blooming but in the meantime don’t hibernate. This Saturday at 9 p.m. come see the Philiadelphia based Zelawoza play at The Acoustic Cafe as part of their tour promoting their new album Elephants on a Mousehunt.

In case you’re wondering about the band’s name it’s the Polish town where Frederick Chopin was born. In case you’re wondering about the music it’s a creative force that will leave you feeling inspired. Part punk rock, part art rock and something all its own.

Better yet local favorite Darian Cunning opens the show.

Saturday 9 pm at Acoustic Cafe for five meager bucks. Don’t miss it.

Being an artist who works for little money and sporadic attention news of the suicide of celebrated bad boy fashion designer Alexander McQueen left me humbled at the randomness of life, the unfairness of celebrity, happiness and what it takes to create a self-made life as an artist or just an everyday Jane.

It would seem like someone who had such acclaim should be happy. Especially when that someone did it his own way, without the agreement of the establishment and who rose to great prominence in spite of them. After all don’t money and success especially when doing something you love always lead to happiness?

Of course, as proven time and time again the answer is an obvious NO.

Yet we are lucky to be surrounded by so many inspired creators who need to do their work, be it music, writing, dance, photography whatever the hell it is that turns them on, without so much attention. The need to create is what drives them.

So like our friend Bridgeport comedian Jackson noted, in of all places his Facebook page, we are both the slave and our master.

Poor people are often happy. Rich folks often miserable. Same for the famous and the unknown, too.

Well the first two I am sure you already know about but after several drives by Beardsley Park smelling what was either a skunk or some of the finest green smoke ever to appear in Connecticut we read in the New Haven Register that February is that oh so special time of year when skunks mate and their oh so aromatic smell is a sign of love gone wrong.

But the really interesting part is that if the female isn’t interested in her male suitor she just lets go and douses him with a big old spray of skunk juice leaving the male to ponder his heartbreak all alone in the cold.

So if you’re shy around someone you want to get it on with, GO FOR the LOVE. And if she or he tells you NFW console yourself with the knowledge that if love stinks at least you won’t.

Okay Bridgeport isn’t New Orleans but we’ve got a whole day and night of music, some free beads and a whole lot of celebrating that might make you think you’re south of the Mason Dixon Line. No’ we’re not smoking anything we’re talking about the Third Annual Black Rock Mardis Gras Celebration.

Acoustic Cafe, Lady Luck and Black Rock Cafe are the place to be this Saturday February 13th. From 2pm til 2 am come hear the music at three venues for just $20 bucks. Advanced tickets are an even bigger bargain at $15 and available at The Acoustic Cafe .

Kids under 12 are free and 12 to 21 years old get in for just $5 smackers. The young ones must be accompanied by an adult and can party to the music at Lady Luck up to 8:30. Then its time to call your babysitter.

Jazz trombone great Delfayo Marsalis, Brother Joscephus and the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra share the love along with lots of other bands bands that you know and love and others that we know you’ll love.

Check out Black Rock Rocks for more details.

Oh yeah and you can party for a cause. This year the party benefits the Uptown Music Theater of New Orleans. Founded in 2000 by Delfeayo Marsalis, Uptown Music Theatre is a summer arts program specifically aimed at providing junior high and high school youth with musical theatre training.