Weekly Rochester Events #494 Starting Thursday, June 26, 2008
Today from 12:10 to 12:35, meet at Eastman Place (387 E. Main St., a.k.a. The Miller Center) for an Architecture for Lunch tour of the East End Cultural District with guided by Cynthia Howk.
[source:
Landmark Society calendar]
Today at 5:30 p.m. at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) is the Official Monthly Mingler Happy Hour of MEETinROCHESTER.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
[21+]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Pearwood James 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 Proshchanie (Farewell to Matyora) starting at 8 p.m. which is about the residents who refuse to leave a valley to be flooded for a hydroelectric plant. Sounds like Northfork only hopefully better. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is a refreshingly unique ordered chaos from Shapes and Sizes, and good music (albeit varying in instrumentation so much as to defy classification) A Wonderful starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
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Another The Taste of Rochester (1 E. Main St. to St. Paul St.) weekend is upon us: today from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
Today at 5 p.m. is the Opening Reception for Denise Logan's The Art of Jazz at the gallery at The Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester (277 N. Goodman St.) [source: Arts and Cultural Council website] 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]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing It Always Rains on Sunday starting at 8 p.m., then screened again on Sunday at 5 p.m. It's a slice-of-life about an escaped convict who hides out at his now-married ex-girlfriend's home.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) will be hosting RedLine Zydeco starting around 10 p.m. [source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar] Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Brokedown starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
Over at The Black Pearl Cafe (791 Meigs St., formerly Dicky's) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Blame Johnny, and The John Bolger Blues Band. [source: WITR calendar] 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] Tonight and tomorrow at The High Falls Gorge (Platt St at Browns Race, the Pont De Rennes Bridge) starting around 9:30 p.m. is the River of Light Laser Show. [source: City Hall press release] |
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Thoughful spoken word poetry over avant-garde ambient music from Urknee and Bjürton, and NPV will be at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is SKooBER .
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Le voyage de ballon rouge (Flight of the Red Balloon) starting at 8 p.m. and again tomorrow at 7 p.m. I'm not all that excited about this one, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Here's what the Eastman House calendar had to say: "When puppeteer Suzanne ([Juliette] Binoche) hires Taiwanese film student Song (Song Fang) as a housekeeper and nanny to her young son, they develop an unusual bond. Paying homage to Albert Lamorisse's classic The Red Balloon, and revisiting many of that film's gorgeous Paris locations, Hou's film is actually a loving tribute to the transformative powers of all art, including music, painting, and literature." It's that "tribute to the transformative powers of all art" phrase that makes me feel like its too derivative for my taste. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Over at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) starting around 9 p.m. is Jim Bowers.
[source:
Equal=Grounds MySpace page]
[all ages]
Well-executed jazzy swing (although the claim is rockabilly) from Bobby Henrie and The Goners will be at Abeline Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abeline website]
Good bar-rock from Burning Daylight , Auld Lang Syng, and Mikey Jukebox will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Over at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Woody Dodge.
[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. |
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Today from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. is a Community Garage Sale and Super Flea Sale at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.)
[source:
City Hall press release]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is Kepi Ghoulie, and The Copyrights.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Updated:
Burning Barn Theatre is apparently going to do a Bare Bones performance at the pocket park next to Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) around 7 p.m.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
[21+]
Once again it's time for Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) tonight 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 at 5:45 p.m., meet at The State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport MetroCenter (55 St. Paul St., formerly the Rochester Chamber of Commerce) — and meet with MEETinROCHESTER members — for the Trees in Our Neighborhoods Walk: St. Paul Quarter.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Tonight at 7 p.m. on the second floor of Barnes & Noble (3349 Monroe Ave.) is a meeting of The Rochester Speculative Literature Association (R-SPEC) with the topic Speculative Graphic Art with Lyndsay Calusine hosting artist Jason Strutz. [source: R-SPEC Google Group] Tonight from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is another Eastman Summer Sings program of choral music. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Konkurs (Audition) starting early at 7 p.m. followed by Cerný Petr (Black Peter) at 8:30 p.m. The former is a humorous quasi-documentary about various show business competitions. The latter is about a miserable grocery-store clerk.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Potential Life Studios (34 Elton St.) will be hosting Insects with Tits, Nernes/Skagen, and Oliver/Reeg starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Pink Panther starting at 8 p.m. This, kids, is a seriously funny movie — unlike the occasional remake or most of the sequels. The gist is that a clumsy inspector who doesn't realize that his wife is cheating on him with the man he's chasing — the thief of the valuable Pink Panther jewel.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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] Tonight at 8 p.m. at Abeline Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is an Open Mic with The Grand Canyon Rescue Episode .
[source:
Abeline website]
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