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On Thursday, November 15th, The Bijou Theatre in historic downtown Bridgeport will journey back in time for a double-feature screening of Dracula’s two earliest—and still most famous—movie appearances. This spine-tingling series of old-school movies is showing as Brian Solomon hosts a journey into mystery and terror, BEDLAM AT THE BIJOU: The Count Begins.

Dracula has ingrained himself at the very core of our consciousness—a Jungian archetype that transcends its literary origins. Though the names are changed to avoid copyright infringement, the 1922 German Expressionist gem “Nosferatu” is indeed the first film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s timeless novel. And after 90 years, it’s still one of the most terrifying movies ever made. But when we think of the Count, it’s inevitably Bela Lugosi’s portrayal in the 1931 Universal production of “Dracula” that instantly comes to mind. Despite decades of kitsch and parody, this remains an iconic milestone in the history of horror.

“I believe this is the first time that ‘Nosferatu’ and the 1931 Dracula have ever been shown together in one double feature,” said Solomon. “It’s going to be a bloody good evening, and I look forward to sharing the scares with horror fans, as well as anyone fascinated by film history or the phenomenon of the vampire in popular culture.”

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As part of the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s Lecture Series “Defying Expectations: Independent American Women of the Early 1900s,” Curator Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen will present Louisine Havemeyer and Electra H. Webb, Pioneering American Collectors, a lecture on Wednesday, November 14th at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum.

Born in New York in 1855, Louisine Elder went to boarding school in Paris where she eventually met the American Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt and they became lifelong friends. When Louisine Elder came back to America in 1883, she married Henry O. Havemeyer, founder of the American Sugar Refining Company. Together they acquired one of the world’s preeminent art collections. They bequeathed nearly 2,000 items to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, now in numerous galleries, but most notably works in the Impressionist collection. Electra Havemeyer Webb, the third child of Henry O. and Louisine W.E. Havemeyer, became a pioneer collector of American art and founder of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. Her “Brick House” in Shelburne survives today as a rare and intact example of the Colonial Revival. Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen is the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She graduated from Princeton University and received a M.A. from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.

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Opening Chapters, Closing Notes-Stories in Words and Tunes will be debuting at Two Boots Restaurant on Tuesday, November 13th!

Without missing a beat, Ina Chadwick’s MouseMuse Productions lives comfortably between two Bridgeport venues – The Bijou Theatre and Two Boots Restaurant, and they happen to be located next to each other. Chadwick continues to supply top-notch entertainment to both venues and the debut of her new series, “Opening Chapters, Closing Notes” will again provide audiences with outstanding programming in the Writer/Singer/Songwriter genre.

The featured artist, Robert Steven Williams, a talented Westport-based lyricist and guitarist who is about to publish his first novel, “My Year as a Clown.” He will perform his original musical stories and read from his book. Williams was a record label executive and when the recording industry sputtered he found himself at a crossroads.

Joining him will be Westport writer Tom Fifer who will read a few selected short memoirs. Fiffer is a graduate of Yale and holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He posts daily on his blog, Tom Aplomb, on his morning commute from Westport to New York, where he works at Leadership Directories, a database publishing company He is also a featured storyteller with MouseMuse Productions, a contributor for The Good Men Project, and is working on his first novel.

Ina Chadwick, founder of MouseMuse, will read two short memoir pieces from her collection “Hush Money.” Chadwick is an award-winning writer in journalism and literary as well as a commercial wordsmith. “I had to earn a living by my words, and if you have to write copy on the backs of soap boxes, by all means do it!”

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The Regina A. Quick Center For The Arts will be hosting Kati Marton on Monday, November 12th for a talk on “Human Rights: Free Press and Democracy”!

Kati Marton has successfully combined a career as a reporter and writer with human rights advocacy. Contributing to major news organizations, she has covered everything from terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland to the peace efforts in the Middle East. Marton is actively involved in humanitarian causes and was chief of Outreach at the United Nations. Her latest book, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America, in which she reveals her eyewitness account of her parent’s arrests in Cold War Budapest, was hailed by Barbara Walters as “a true story that is deeply moving and altogether amazing.”

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The Fairfield Theatre Company will be hosting Jerry Douglas on Sunday, November 11th!

Jerry Douglas, the world’s most renowned and in-demand dobro player, has a shelf of awards (including 13 Grammys), more than 2000 recording credits, and peer testimonials like John Fogerty proclaiming Douglas to be his favorite all-time musician.

Jerry Douglas is a connoisseur’s musician, a man of many musical borders; he takes you to the frontier of bluegrass, country, blues, folk, and Indie Rock without ever breaking a sweat. The phrase living legend may be overused, but in the case of the master Dobro guitarist Jerry Douglas, it’s also an understatement.

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The Unitarian Church In Westport will be having a tribute to Chet Baker on Saturday, November 10th!

A Tribute to Chet Baker features five of the area’s top jazz musicians performing an evening of Baker’s signature songs including the timeless, My Funny Valentine, There Will Never Be Another You and his famous Let’s Get Lost. The Tribute concert will explore Baker’s emotive, cool jazz approach. Chet’s song lyrics take on new meaning when viewed in light of his charmed and doomed life. The show will examine his life and legacy through music and lyrics.

The band includes vocalist Kim Oler, trumpet player Chris Brown, pianist Rob Silvan, bassist John Mobilio, and drummer Bob Leonard.

Chet Baker was an elusive icon. A leader of the West Coast school of cool jazz in the 1950s, he had a restrained, intimate playing style on trumpet and flugelhorn. His singing was just as intimate, with a remarkable voice that was delicate, plaintive, and evanescent. Though his life was haunted by addiction and ended much too soon, Baker is revered as one of the original voices in jazz. His matinee-idol good looks were not lost on filmmaker Bruce Weber. He rightfully focused on Baker’s musical influence in his highly acclaimed documentary, Let’s Get Lost, (1988).

In the Tribute, Kim Oler will sing songs that are associated with Baker and which have become regular inclusions in his own concerts, including, That’s All, Time After Time, and There Will Never Be Another You.

“Chet was such a monumental talent, it will take two of us to recreate his stuff,” laughs trumpet player Chris Brown, remarking how he and Oler will combine to cover Baker’s horn and vocal talents. “Chet Baker’s music is an antidote to the brash, aggressive world we’re surrounded by,” adds Brown. “His music makes it’s own world. It’s a wonderful world to live in.”

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The Regina A. Quick Center For The Arts will be hosting a string quartet on Friday, November 9th! Don’t miss out!

Formed while working in Yo-Yo Ma’s globetrotting ensemble the Silk Road Project, the adventurous, genre-defying string quartet Brooklyn Rider combines a wildly eclectic repertoire with a gripping performance style that is attracting legions of fans and drawing critical acclaim from classical, world, and rock critics. Featuring violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violist Nicholas Cords, and cellist Eric Jacobsen, Brooklyn Rider builds programs that careen from the romantic to the contemporary. National Public Radio credits Brooklyn Rider with “re-creating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.”

At the Quick Center, Brooklyn Rider will present a diverse and dynamic program, including repertoire from the classic canon, pieces from their latest release Seven Steps, and a preview of a new work commissioned by The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, composed by Ethan Iverson, pianist of the world-renowned jazz trio The Bad Plus.

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Come down to the Fairfield Museum and History Center on Thursday, November 8th for a presentation of “Men of Color, To Arms!”!

The call to arms from impassioned abolitionist Frederick Douglass echoed the overwhelming sentiments of nearly 190,000 colored troops that joined the Union cause for the promise of freedom.

David Koch, Assistant Professor of History at Housatonic Community College and David Naumec, Manchester Community College, will discuss this important turning point in the Civil War. Koch will discuss the 29th and 30th Connecticut regiments, which saw service in the Civil War and ushered in an era of sweeping change in the state’s treatment of its African-American citizens.

Naumec will discuss how race and identity lines became increasingly blurred in the 19th century and the issues that impacted Lincoln’s decision to allow black soldiers to fight for the Union.

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