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Four Bitchin' Babes do 'Diva Nation' at Stockton

Four Bitchin’ Babes at Stockton Campus Theater


It’s not exactly startling, but you can’t help but notice that the first performance of the fall season for the Stockton Performing Arts Center is an intriguing sounding show by the Four Bitchin’ Babes. Actually, the performance by Sally Fingerett, Debi Smith, Dierdre Flint and Nancy Moran, four “gal pals” who travel together presenting original music and humor, is dubbed Diva Nation. As the group explains. “The Four Bitchin’ Babes celebrate the ‘Inner Majesty’ in everyone. A sense of humor will be the ticket to a magical place where chocolate is a vegetable, wine is in the food pyramid, shopping for shoes is medicinal, and a girl can safely admit that she wears 100-percent cotton underneath it all. This is an enchanting excursion to Diva Nation, where all songs are sung with pride, attitude, and terrific accessories.” The show is being held Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Campus Center Theater at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Tickets are $35. Call 652-900 or visit Stockton.edu. — Mike Pritchard


Appreciate America’s True Art Form 


The Ocean City Free Public Library is continuing its six-part series this Wednesday, Oct. 19, on America’s “true art form” — jazz. The series, entitled “Jazz History Appreciation and Analysis Lecture Series,” will discuss and analyze jazz theory. No theoretical knowledge or experience in jazz is required to participate in this event, but attendees can look forward to learning about the roots of jazz, from its African roots to dixieland, swing, be-bop, smooth jazz and more. The event will be held at the Ocean City LIbrary’s lecture room N110. Michael Pedicin, the education committee chairperson and volunteer coordinator of the Somers Point Jazz Society, will serve as event presenter and lecturer. Established in 2004, the Somers Point Jazz Society has since provided funding to supplement the local school district’s music and creative arts educational programs. The jazz-history event was created so the community will have the opportunity to learn who made this music what it is today and how it has evolved. This program is made possible in part through the New Jersey State Council of the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, visit the Somers Point Jazz Society Web site at spjazz.org, or call 927-6677. — Lauren Wainwright

FURTHER READING: "Remembering the Messenger" — When jazz legend Art Blakey lived in the Atlantic City area.

Joe Henry


‘Reverie’ (ANTI-)



Although singer-songwriter Joe Henry isn’t as well known as producer Joe Henry, both sides of the man are extraordinary, exhilarating, wistful and delightfully plagued by dreams. Henry, who is a Grammy-winning producer that has put his haunting Americana stamp on records by the late Solomon Burke, Susan Tedeschi and Bettye LaVette, to name a few, could be the most imaginative and talented modern-day songwriter whose songs you’ve never heard. And that’s more than a shame. Later this month, ANTI- will release Henry’s latest masterpiece, Reverie, which critics are already raving about. Songs like “Heaven’s Escape,” “Tomorrow Is October” and the stark “The World and All I Know” don’t get played on radio so you’ll have to go buy the album. But first, track down the four albums preceding this one — especially 2007’s Civilians — for a real treat. — Jeff Schwachter

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