Weekly Rochester Events #487 Starting Thursday, May 8, 2008
V-E Day
The Bertrand Russell Society meets tonight at 7 p.m. in Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.). John Zeis will discuss Theology, Falsification and Anthony Flew.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a lecture on American Impressionism by Nancy Mowll Mathews titled Mary Cassatt's Parisian Fashions starting at 7 p.m. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] Degan Has Been Secretly Been Kip Winger For Some Time [which, to be honest, may be several bands, but without punctuation or any reason, I'm going to assume it's just one big long band name] will be at Boulder Coffee Co.  (100 Alexander St.) 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 Straight Out of Brooklyn starting at 8 p.m. — a realistic look at a Brooklyn ghetto. Actor Larry Gilliard, Jr. will be on hand to discuss the film.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Septicemia, Beyond This Day , and Crucifist will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is the rocking rockabilly of Krypton 88 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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Lilac Festival
begins today.
Over at Starry Nites Café (696 University Ave., formerly Moonbeans) starting around 8 p.m. is Dos Hombres. [source: Starry Nites calendar] [all ages] 
Accordion-and-musically-played-crosscut-saw duo Dreamland Faces will be at the Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) at 8 p.m. to provide music for dozens of unusual short films from the Eastman House archive.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Today from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. is the kickoff of Chef's Days at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) featuring an Iron Chef-styled cooking contest.
[source:
City Hall press release]
This afternoon starting around 6 p.m. at The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.) is a Pig Roast with Latin music by DJ Frankie.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
Over at Potential Life Studios (34 Elton St.) starting around 7 p.m. is Inward Becomes an Anthem, Stone Baby, and jbuonacc.
[source:
band e-mail]
Updated:
The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) — not Boulder Coffee — will be hosting Jann Klose starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
band e-mail]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Die stille vor Bach (The Silence Before Bach) starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 5 p.m. Quoting the Eastman Calendar's quote of Richard Brody of the New Yorker Magazine, the film "brings Bach's music to life with a mysterious, magnificent blend of drama, documentary, and quasi-surrealist whimsy. Beginning with a scene of a player piano rattling off the Goldberg Variation while rolling through a bright, bare loft, Portabella tickles the senses with a series of skits (while) a great and serious notion emerges: the construction of modern Europe on the basis of classical music".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Updated: I guess Andy Mac will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 — according to his site he'll be at Boulder while Jann Klose's site indicates he'll be at House of Hamez. (Prior to this, both performers were scheduled at Boulder ... who knows what's really going on ...)
[source:
band calendar]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is The Electric Prunes, gritty, wild rock from Handsome Jack , and The Apostles Of The Hidden Son.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is The Stone Believer starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[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. |
 Mother's Day
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting early today around 12 p.m. is Auld Lang Syng.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Quinn Lawrence Trio , and The Herb Smith Quartet will be at The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.) starting around 3 p.m.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
Tonight at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) starting at 6 p.m. is a meeting of Rochester Unconventional Action "inviting activists to a discussion of strategies for actions during civil disobedience". Then at 7 p.m. is a Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation for Peace in 1870. [source: Community Biking Alliance message board]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Mother starting at 7 p.m. Albert Brooks plays a writer who moves in with his mother to try and figure out what went wrong with his past relationships with women.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Demons, semi-melodic fast-paced noise from Pengo, drone-noise from Sick Llama, and Helicoptre Sanglante starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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 at 12 p.m., Dr. Julie Wosk will be in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) to present her lecture titled Alluring Androids and Robots in Film, Photography and Art.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at WXXI (280 State St.) is a taping of WXXI's OnStage featuring the stage-show and surf-rock outfit The Isotopes.
[source:
WXXI website]
Dubblestuff will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Too Late Blues starting at 8 p.m. in which a pianist tries to stay true to jazz with the help of a singer.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is simple, mid-fi melodic synth-and-vocals from Roger Houston, good "horror movie soundtrack" hard rock from J. G. Blizaro, and good, heavy rock and acoustic from Trees Are Down starting around 10 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 Dogtown Hots (691 Monroe Ave.) at 7 p.m. is the Rochester Cruisers Wednesday Night Cruise (for bicyclists). [source: the proverbial grapevine] 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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