Weekly Rochester Events #485 Starting Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Today from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a Blood Drive for The American Red Cross.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a lecture by Jim Mott on his journey to explore his landscape art. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] 
Tonight at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) at 8 p.m. is Pure Kona Open Mic featuring The Bloody Nose with Ian Downey and Mary Lewandowski.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Audibel, good shoe-gazer drone/mellow rock from The Sleeping Kings of Iona, and BEV-BEVERLY.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing examples of the work of Saul Bass in Saul Bass and the Art of Title Design starting at 8 p.m. along with his own short film, Why Man Creates?.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 8 p.m. is The Fay Victor Ensemble .
[source:
WITR calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is wicked fun percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHood starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar]
Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
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Arbor Day
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 5 p.m. is Teenager , and The Wills Wilde.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at 5 p.m. at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) is the opening reception for Dancing with the Universe by Jim Hartsen which will be on display through May 18.
[source:
Image City Photography Gallery e-mail]
Apparently The Critical Mass Bike Ride is tonight starting at 5:30 p.m. at the clock tower near The Wilson Commons at The University of Rochester (Library Road, #39 on River Campus Map.) to The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way) at 6 p.m. and heading through the city from there. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Tonight at 8 p.m. (I think) is the opening night of Anna in the Tropics at Shipping Dock Theatre (31 Prince St., new location at Visual Studies Workshop). [source: Shipping Dock Theatre website] Harlow 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 good punk-rock/bar-rock band The Spaces will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Tonight at Blackfriars Theatre (28 Lawn St.) starting at 8 p.m. (I think) is the opening of The Wild Party. [source: Blackfriars Theatre website] Tonight at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is great reggae/dub band Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting great, somewhat mellow rock-and-roll from Hinkley, and solidly good 5-piece ambient rock from Ada le O starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
[21+]
Tonight probably starting around 7 p.m. at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) is the Subversive Komedy Fest. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
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You can sign up at MEETinROCHESTER to skydive with The Rochester Sky Diving Club today — presumably at The Hamilton Airport (6610 Airport Rd., Hamilton) — leaving at 9 a.m. from Rochester.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Today at The Community Darkroom at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. is their Photo Garage Sale. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar] At Genesee Pottery at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. is Pottery Olympics. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
Tonight at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) at 6:30 p.m. is a lecture in the Community Dialogue Series titled Religion and Politics in 21st Century America — Fine Nuances Which the Founding Fathers Never Anticipated.
[source:
Baobab website]
The Irondequoit Theatre Guild will perform Side Show tonight at 6:30 and again tomorrow and also next weekend at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.). [source: RocWiki calendar] Tonight at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) is Andy Cohen starting around 8 p.m. [source: House of Hamez website] [all ages] Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is Devall Music starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Searchers 2.0 starting at 8 p.m. with producer Jon Davison in person and writer/director Alex Cox by phone. The film is the tale of two actors who are determined to confront a screenwriter who mistreated them many decades prior.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.) will be hosting Mike Cottone starting around 9 p.m. and then the After Hours Jam with The Quinn Lawrence Trio.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
Guitourist will be at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Equal=Grounds MySpace page]
[all ages]
Tonight at Pub 511 (511 E. Ridge Rd., formerly Stooges) is Joe Brucato starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
WBER calendar]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Dead Meadow, Crush the Junta, and slower, cleaner metal from Orodruin starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[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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Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting simple, melodic synth-and-vocalist Roger Houston starting early today around 12 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
This afternoon at 3 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a visit from photographer Larry Towell with harmonica virtuoso Mike Stevens in conjunction with Towell's exhibition titled The World from My Front Porch.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Searchers starting at 7 p.m. about a man on a mission to rescue his niece from malicious Comanches.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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MEETinROCHESTER is hosting a Mexican Monday Dinner at Paola's Burrito Place (1921 South Ave., formerly Big Dog's Hots) at 6:30 p.m.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Once again Norm Davis will be back to host Wide Open Mic at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) at 7:30 p.m. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
In theory, there is another
Emerging Filmmakers Program
tonight at
The Little
(240 East Ave.)
at 9:15 p.m., but I haven't heard anything about it so your guess is as good as mine. As soon as I get the details I'll post the films.
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 another Books Sandwiched-In lecture — today featuring Rev. Kaaren Anderson reviewing Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) is an Artist Talk with Jim Hartsen on his currently-running exhibition, Dancing with the Universe. [source: Image City Photography Gallery e-mail] Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Sendelica.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Straight Story starting at 8 p.m. David Lynch tells the real-life tale of Alvin Straight who drove his lawnmower from Iowa to Wisconsin to visit his brother.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Adam Gould and The Bronsons, and great one-man guitar/synth/drum stoner-rock cover band Skull starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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Tonight is the first night of The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) (or whatever it's called) at The Little (240 East Ave.) and at the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.). It's the destruction ... er ... absorption of The Rochester International Film Festival (RIFF, or Movies on a Shoestring, MoaS) into The High Falls Film Festival (HFFF).
[source:
High Falls Film Festival press release]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is an Earthen Technology Informational Session titled Build Your Own Mud House. [source: Baobab website]
Updated:
According to a poster at Dogtown Hots (691 Monroe Ave.), "strap lights to your bike", meet at Dogtown Hots (691 Monroe Ave.) at 7:30 p.m., "ride through the Park Ave/South Wedge area", and end at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.)
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
The Eastman Wind Orchestra will be at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting around 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 Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford starting at 8 p.m. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Sendelica, and solid rock band with a salsa-Spanish flavor, Night Gallery starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
band calendar]
[21+]
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 Wednesday Night Cruise (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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