{"id":16364,"date":"2019-09-23T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T15:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:51:36","slug":"madison-calendar-september-23-september-29-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/madison-calendar-september-23-september-29-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"This week: The New Pornographers, Samantha Power and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Need motivation to get through another dreaded week at your soul-sucking job? There\u2019s no shortage of cool stuff to do in Madison… it\u2019s just figuring out which cool stuff best suits you. Here\u2019s what Madison is doing this week.<\/span>\n

Chris Pureka<\/h3>\n

Monday, Sept. 23, High Noon Saloon (info<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris Pureka is always watching. The Portland-based singer-songwriter is a masterful observer of human intricacy. She seems to know what we\u2019re saying when we\u2019re not saying anything, and has spent almost decades putting it to music. Pureka isn\u2019t unlike Bruce Springsteen in her ability to find the beating heart of her subjects, no matter how mundane. Nashville folk pop duo The Harmaleighs<\/strong> will open.<\/span>\n

Samantha Power<\/h3>\n

Tuesday, Sept. 24, Orpheum Theater (info<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine walking into a job interview, talking shit about the job you\u2019re applying for and then being offered it. That\u2019s more or less what happened to Samantha Power. She immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland as a child, and as a journalist developed a foreign policy view that was highly critical of her adopted home. Her unromanticized yet optimistic take on America caught the eye of then-Sen. Barack Obama, whom she\u2019d spend the next decade working with (ultimately becoming U.S. ambassador to the United Nations). A former war correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner, Power will discuss her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist<\/em>.<\/p>\n