Catch the Wave

Oakland, Calif.-based rock band Rogue Wave and local band Hubcap will help Cornell students end the first week of classes with a free concert Saturday, Aug. 29, on the Arts Quad. The show begins at 8 p.m. and is sponsored by the Cornell Concert Commission. Information: http://www.cornell-concert.com.

Drawing the line

Award-winning author Arlie Hochschild will present "Commercialization of Intimate Life," Sept. 3 at 4:30 p.m. in 423 ILR Conference Center. The event, the fifth annual Distinguished Lecture in Honor of Alice Hanson Cook, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

As more Americans are pressed into paid work, longer hours and more tenuous personal lives, they need and yearn for more relaxed and meaningful personal relations. Hochschild will describe the strategies people devise for "drawing the line" and will propose solutions to the problems working people face to meet their work life and personal needs.

Hochschild is a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley whose writings and research focus on the demands on women at home and in the workplace.

Folk radio

WVBR-FM's "Bound For Glory" begins its 42nd season of live folk music broadcasts Sunday, Aug. 30, at 8 p.m. with Sadie Green Sales Ragtime Jugband at Anabel Taylor Hall Café. Admission is free for all ages, and refreshments are available.

The Pennsylvania band first performed on the program about 25 years ago and features the Hardware Orchestra, with everything from a musical saw and washboard to a tuned six-pack. The show, hosted by Phil Shapiro, can be heard at 93.5/105.5 FM and online, and features three sets of music. Upcoming concerts include Leslie Lee and Steve Gretz, Sept. 6; Mark Rust, Sept. 13; and Joe Jencks, Sept. 20. Information: http://www.wvbr.com/bfg.

Hitchcock 101

A serial killer terrorizes fog-shrouded London and attracts the interest of a naïve young model in Alfred Hitchcock's first notable film, "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" (1927). Cornell Cinema will show a restored color-tinted print of "The Lodger" Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre, accompanied by silent film pianist Philip Carli and introduced by senior lecturer and Hitchcock scholar Lynda Bogel. Tickets are $8, $6 for students and senior citizens.

The screening is part of the Cornell Cinema series "Hitchcock 101," coinciding with Bogel's seminar Studies in Film Analysis: Interpreting Hitchcock. The course considers Hitchcock as a major technical and stylistic innovator, viewing his films as texts for psychoanalytic and feminist study approaches and inviting questions about film language, the ethics of spectatorship and the nature of desire and sexuality.

Cornell Cinema will also screen Hitchcock's "Blackmail" (1929) Sept. 8, with an original score performed by the Alloy Orchestra. Tickets are $12, $9 for students and senior citizens. For advance tickets to these and other special Cornell Cinema events, visit http://www.cornellcinematickets.com.

Toni Morrison to visit

Author Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, will return to Cornell for a reading Thursday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Admission is free, and tickets (required) will be available starting Sept. 1 at the Willard Straight Hall Ticket Desk.

Morrison will sign books Oct. 1 at 4 p.m. in the Statler lobby. A discussion with the author Friday, Oct. 2, at 2:30 p.m. in Uris Auditorium is also open to the public. While on campus she will meet with President David Skorton and with Black Students United, and attend a private reception at the A.D. White House.

Morrison was the Robert F. Goheen Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University from 1989 to 2006 and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell from 1997 to 2003. She has held lectureships and academic chairs at universities across the United States and in Europe and was a senior editor at Random House for 20 years.

Her many honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature; the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon" and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for "Beloved." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," in addition to children's books and essay collections.