Saginaw Alano Club

Family & Friends Meeting (Saturdays 4:30pm)

2009-09-16T14:58:00.000-04:00

Where can family members learn about – and talk about – AA? Come to the Saginaw Alano Club. The Family and Friends meeting is an open discussion for alcoholics, family members of alcoholics and friends of alcoholics. Anyone and everyone may attend, including AA’s and Al-Anon/Alateens. Again, you need not be an alcoholic to attend.

Meetings last 1-1½ hours. We do not use timers for speakers, but ramblers are politely asked to conclude their remarks. We understand that many of us are going through tough times, and we are all here to help each other, but we also strive to balance sharing and listening with time schedules.

Cross-talking and interrupting are not permitted. Speakers should confine their remarks to their own personal experiences to minimize this issue.
Smoking is permitted at the Alano Club.
For more information call George C. at 989-928-8626.

ASL - American Sign Language Meetings (Wednesdays 6:00pm)

2009-09-16T14:50:00.000-04:00

Deaf and hearing alcoholics, and family members of alcoholics, are welcome to join our open meeting Wednesday evenings from 6-7:00pm. An ASL (American Sign Language) translator will be present. You do not have to be deaf or hearing impaired to attend.

Euchre Tournament (7:00pm Saturdays)

2009-09-16T13:02:00.000-04:00

Games begin at 7:00pm and end at around 10:00pm. Tournament players pay $3 per night per player, but the events are FREE for substitute players including walk-ins. Prizes are awarded at the end of the tournament. Only paid tournament players can win prizes, but everyone involved is welcome to the dinner celebration at the end of the tournament. For more information, call George C at 989/928-8626 or email saginawalanoclub@gmail.com.

Movie Matinees

2009-09-16T09:28:00.000-04:00

We are looking for people interested in re-starting the movie matinees. If interested, please call George C, 989-928-8626.

Movie Matinee (Sat Mar 14, 2:00pm)

2009-03-14T08:48:00.000-04:00

Movie: Harvey

Amazon.com essential video
It's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realize what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it's only polite to introduce Harvey to complete strangers. The supporting cast can't be beat. --Tom Keogh

Product Description
James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citizens of his community. That is, until Elwood begins to claim that he has a friend named Harvey who is an invisisble six foot rabbit. Elwood's snooty socialite sister, Veta, determined to marry off her daughter Myrtle to a respectable man, begins to plot to keep Elwood's lunacy from interfering.

Movie Matinee (Sat Mar 7, 2:00pm)

2009-03-03T06:00:00.000-05:00

Movie: Conversations with God

Product Description
Based on Neale Donald Walsch's best-selling, acclaimed trilogy comes a film you won't want to miss! Starring Henry Czerny and Frances Fishers, Conversations with God is an entertaining yet practical exploration of perhaps the most spiritual experience a person can have, regardless of their faith. See why everyone is talking about this exciting, empowering film!

Movie Matinee (Sat Feb 28 CANCELLED)

2009-02-07T04:51:00.000-05:00

Bill K. presented the Jellinek chart at the Unity Club at 1:30pm, Saturday, February 28. We cancelled the Feb. 28 movie to avoid a conflict with that event.

Movie Matinee (Sat Feb 21, 2:00pm)

2009-02-07T02:30:00.000-05:00

American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, will be shown in the main meeting room. Italian food provided by chez Lori.

Bring a dish or a dollar if you plan to eat. Don't make us have to come after you for the money.

Amazon.com review: Ridley Scott puts on his "sweeping saga" gameface again, this time not for the sci-fi vistas of Blade Runner or the ancient world of Gladiator but for an urban epic. American Gangster gives the story of Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), a real-life Harlem crime lord who built an empire on Southeast Asian heroin in the 1970s. Running parallel to Lucas's somewhat standard story is the investigation led by a persistent New Jersey cop, Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe). Roberts is a more interesting character than Lucas--too honest for his own good, unlucky in his personal life--and this kind of character, easily patronized by others, fits Crowe like a polyester shirt. Scott's tendency to hit his points square on the noggin is much in evidence here, including the typecasting of the supporting roles and the predictable Serpico atmosphere of the whole thing. (And speaking of supporting actors, the film needs more Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose role as a Lucas sidekick feels cut down.) It succeeds as a kind of chewy entertainment, fueled by the presence of two big stars working their muscles. Both Washington and Crowe look pretty brawny here. --Robert Horton

Movie Matinee (Sat Feb 14, 2:00pm)

2009-02-06T18:55:00.000-05:00

This week's movie is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Jack Nicholson. This movie is even better when you watch it sober!

Amazon.com essential video (review): One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system--and it works on every level. Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble that the picture sometimes feels like a documentary. Unlike a lot of films pitched at the "youth culture" of the 1970s, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest really hasn't dated a bit, because the qualities of human nature that Forman captures--playfulness, courage, inspiration, pride, stubbornness--are universal and timeless. The film swept the Academy Awards for 1976, winning in all the major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay) for the first time since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1931. --Jim Emerson

Product Description: A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward. Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept all five major 1975 Academy Awards: Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucous, searing and with a superb cast that includes Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, this one soars.

Movie Matinee (Sat Feb 7, 2:00pm)

2009-02-05T11:43:00.000-05:00

Movie Matinee: Saturday at 2:00pm. Admission is free. Lunch is pot luck so bring a dish if you can. Food will include deer neck roast and ham.

Friday will be shown on the big screen in the main meeting room. The movie stars Chris Tucker and Ice Cube.

Amazon.com review: Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a 'hood movie refreshingly free of the semiseriousness and moralism of shoot 'em up soaps such as Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience.
Scripted by rapper Ice Cube, Friday is a no-frills tale of a typical day in the life of a pair of African American youth in South Central. Cube plays Craig, a frustrated teen who endures the ultimate humiliation: getting fired on his day off. Then unknown Chris Tucker plays Smokey, a marijuana-worshipping homeboy whose love for the green stuff lands him in predicament after predicament.

Sitting on the stoop of Craig's rundown home, the two hilariously confront a kaleidoscopic array of gangbangers, weed dealers, crack heads, prostitutes, scheming girlfriends, and neighborhood bullies--all of whom, it should be noted, come off as sympathetic even as they are being caricatured, a true achievement in the crass, "booty call" environment of '90s African American comedy. --Ethan Brown

Movie Matinee (Sat Jan 31, 2:00pm)

2009-01-24T11:02:00.001-05:00

Movie Matinee: Saturday at 2:00pm. Admission is free. Lunch is pot luck so bring a dish if you can. Food will include spaghetti and bread sticks.

Peaceful Warrior will be shown on the big screen in the main meeting room. Stars Nick Nolte. "There are no ordinary moments."

Movie Matinee (Sat Jan 24, 2:00pm)

2009-01-24T10:49:00.000-05:00

Movie Matinee: Saturday, January 24, 2:00pm. Admission is free. Lunch is pot luck so bring a dish if you can.

Leatherheads will be shown on the big screen in the main meeting room. Academy Award® winners George Clooney and Renée Zellweger team up in this fun-filled comedy set against the beginnings of pro football. Dodge Connelly (Clooney), captain of a struggling squad of barroom brawlers, has only one hope to save his team: recruit college superstar Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski, The Office). But when a feisty reporter (Zellweger) starts snooping around, she turns the two teammates into instant rivals and kicks off a wild competition filled with hilarious screwball antics! Critics are cheering Leatherheads as “a real winner” (Claudia Puig, USA Today).

Movie Matinee (Sat Jan 17, 2:00pm)

2009-01-17T10:55:00.000-05:00

Movie Matinee: Saturday, January 17, 2:00pm. Admission is free. Lunch is pot luck so bring a dish if you can.

Two for the Money will be shown on the big screen in the main meeting room. Academy Award winner Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey star in this adrenaline-charged thriller about the sexy, high-stakes world of sports betting, where fortunes can be made and lost with a flip of a coin.

Movie Matinee (Sat Jan 10, 2:00pm)

2009-01-04T05:57:00.000-05:00

Movie Matinee: Saturday, January 10, 2:00pm. Admission is free. Lunch is pot luck so bring a dish if you can.

Mr Brooks, will be shown on the big screen in the main meeting room. It's a psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego. Stars Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt. 121 mins. Rated: R.

Movie Matinee (Sat Jan 3 at 2:00pm)

2009-01-02T05:51:00.000-05:00

Movie Matinee: Saturday, January 3, 2:00pm. Admission is free. Lunch is pot luck so bring a dish if you can.

Thank you for smoking, will be shown on the big screen in the main meeting room. It's a comedy about Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son. Nominated for two Golden Globes. 92 mins. Rated: R.

Alcothon (Dec 24 - Jan 2)

2008-12-20T06:07:00.000-05:00

The Alcothon (or Alkathon) is a 10-day closed AA meeting marathon. The event begins at 8:00am every Wednesday, December 24, and ends just before midnight on Friday, January 2. Each day, meetings begin at 8:00am and end around midnight. The outside doors are locked at 10:00pm, so if you arrive after that please use the buzzer, or knock on the door really hard. The Alcothon takes place in the main meeting room. All other events scheduled for the main meeting room are suspended during the Alcothon.

Map of 1415 Williamson

2008-12-01T04:00:00.000-05:00

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