Weekly Rochester Events #473 Starting Thursday, January 31, 2008
Updated:
Today from 12 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Medley Centre (N. Goodman St. and Medley Centre Pkwy., formerly Irondequoit Mall) is a Public Inspection of New Voting Machines in room C-201 (use north Entrance #1).
[source:
Rochester Turning]
This afternoon from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is Community Outreach Education Night, related to the exhibition Not Forgotten: Portraits of Life and Death in Rochester. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] 
At 5:15 p.m. in Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a Thursday Thinkers lecture featuring Chuck Lyons discussing The French Invasion of the Seneca Nation: A Seventeenth Century Pre-Emptive Strike.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Wind Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Big Heat and Human Desire starting at 8 p.m. A double-feature of film noir!
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Very good metal from Sulaco , and Conifer (although Freetime Magazine lists high quality heavy metal band Kalibas [misspelled, I might add] in place of Sulaco) will be at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
Tonight and every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Learning Center at Brighton Memorial Library (2300 Elmwood Ave.) is a meeting of The Rochester Movie Makers Club [source: Rochester Film Lab Yahoo! Group] Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
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There's a "Seconds" Sale at Genesee Pottery at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) today and tomorrow starting at 11 a.m.
[source:
Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
Today from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) is the opening reception for Postcards from Bosnia by Michael Murray which will be on display through February 24. [source: Image City Photography Gallery e-mail] Tonight from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) is the opening of works by Michael Rogers and Jack Wax which will be on display through April 6, along with the opening of Tanya Smolinsky's Meditations: A Series of Drawings in the LAB Space (on display through February 24). Rogers and Wax will be available for an Artists' Talk tomorrow at 1 p.m. [source: Rochester Contemporary calendar] [all ages] Today at Spot Coffee (200 East Ave.) from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. is an I Heart Handmade "cozy indie craft fair" with works from Second Storie}. [source: Gay Alliance website] [all ages]
This evening from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Rochester Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince St.) is an invitational photography exhibition titled Festival of 24 Things. Works will be on display through February 29.
[source:
Visual Studies Workshop calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) is Camelot , Scarletta, and From the Shadows starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[13+]
The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) will be featuring the opening of an art exhibit featuring works by Dunstan Luke and selected works from the Icons of Jazz collection of Angela Rossi starting at 7 p.m. [source: Baobab website]
Over at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is Gypsy Dave and the Stumpjumpers , and The Varnish Cooks.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Today at 8 p.m. at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is the Anniversary Party for The Hungness School Of Music (161 Norris Dr., above Sound Source) featuring performances by Brannon Hungness, Nevergreen, Mike Fyler and The Macro Meltdown, and Joe Fox-Boyd.
[source:
Craigslist Rochester events]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Battling Butler starting at 8 p.m. with a new orchestral score performed live by The BQE Project along with the animated Felix the Cat short Sure-Locked Homes.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Montage Live Music Hall (50 Chestnut St., formerly the Montage Grille) is Strangest Angels, and The Highway Lights starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
band calendar]
[all ages]
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Groundhog Day
Thoughful spoken word poetry over avant-garde ambient music from Urknee and Bjürton, NPV, The Noes, and noise-based loops and haunting voices from City Harvest Black will be at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers) starting at 8 p.m. Two brothers clash over a prostitute and drive a family apart ... I gather it's all about the way the story's told on screen that makes it so captivating. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Blood Bath and Beyond, and slower and cleaner-sounding metal from Orodruin. [source: Bug Jar calendar] [21+]
Good punk-rock band The Emersons will be at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
[21+]
Betty's Sing-a-Long is regularly scheduled at Betty Meyer's Bullwinkle Café (622 Lake Ave., a.k.a. "Bullwinkle's") starting around 10 but since September, 2007 people have reported they were closed. |
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This afternoon at 3 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a lecture by Janet Catherine Berlo on American Quilts as American History: The Lives and Works of Five Quilters.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
This afternoon at 5 p.m. at The Lyndon R. Huttemann Salon and Day Spa (214 Empire Blvd.), The Lobster Quadrille are shooting a video for their song "Cora Livinia's Cotillion". They're looking for extras "dressed for a turn of the century cotillion". From Solomon's e-mail, "men should wear dark suits, brush their bowlers, and wax their mustaches; ladies should bust out the lace, frills, corsets, and bustles! Snap on the watch chain, button up your waistcoat, dig out your grandpappy's cuff links, dust off your spats...help us set the scene for a kooky/spooky gathering of rogues, rakes, bon vivants, strumpets, and n'er-do-wells."
[source:
band e-mail]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Dead Man starting at 7 p.m. An accountant moves to the wild west for a job, accidentally kills the son of the local tycoon, and stays on the run from bounty hunters. My friend Sondra told me about this a few months ago and said I had to see it and she usually recommends worthwhile movies.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Photographer Michael Murray will be at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) tonight at 7 p.m. for an Artist Talk about his show, Postcards from Bosnia.
[source:
Image City Photography Gallery e-mail]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is the 2 Pages/2 Characters Playwriting Contest Winners Reading.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Bored? Why not check out 1980's DJ night at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 11 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] |
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This morning at 7:30 a.m. in the cafeteria overlooking the arboretum in
Bausch and Lomb
(140 Stone St.)
is the
Artists Breakfast Group
meeting ... anyone interested in art or creativity is invited.
Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is — you guessed it — another Tuesday Topics lecture. Today's topic is Polling and the 2008 Elections as presented by Jonathan W. Siegel.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Gravy Train (a.k.a. The Dion Brothers) starting at 8 p.m. in which a couple brothers "descend upon society from Appalachia, determined to start a crime wave that will support their dream of opening a seafood restaurant. Quirky to say the least, this immensely likable (and unjustly forgotten) '70s action comedy was recently re-discovered and championed by Quentin Tarantino."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The U.S. Bombs , Far From Finished, good and gimmicky heavy metal from Blüdwülf, and punk-rock/hard-rock from The UV Rays starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) will be hosting RedLine Zydeco starting around 10 p.m. [source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar] |
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Permanent Vacation starting at 8 p.m. This is Jim Jarmusch's NYU master's thesis project: the story of a 16-year-old drifter in Manhattan.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 8 p.m. is Scythian.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
[21+]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is good, long, hard rock from J. G. Blizaro, good, heavy rock band Trees Are Down, and great, simple, melodic synth-and-vocals from Roger Houston starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Poor People United meets tonight and every Wednesday at 7 at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality (402 South Ave.) [source: the proverbial grapevine] Every Wednesday starting at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) at 7 p.m. is the Rochester Cruisers Ride for bicyclists.
[source:
RocBike website]
There's an Open Mic for Acoustic Music at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) tonight around 8. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
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