Weekly Rochester Events #499 Starting Thursday, July 31, 2008
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Frank De Blase will be at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) tonight at 6 p.m. to give a photography lecture titled Peel and Squeal Appeal.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Otto Henderberg Square Park (Fountain St. and Avon Pl.) is The Swillburg Carnival — to celebrate The National Night Out Against Crime from 5:30 p.m. to dusk. [source: Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail] [all ages] 
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The French Connection starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting witty guitarist and ... umm ... ukeleleist The Bicycats, and Walri starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is wicked fun percussion-and-saxophone dominated jam 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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Tonight is another First Fridays around art galleries downtown starting around 5 p.m.
[source:
First Friday website]
Tonight from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) is the opening of a new exhibition titled State of the City which runs through September 21. [source: Rochester Contemporary calendar] [all ages]
Today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Studio 354 in The Hungerford Building (1115 E. Main St.) — use door 1 — is Good is Dead by Jason Bimber.
[source:
First Friday website]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Method Lab (650 South Ave.) is the opening reception for A Tibetan Pilgrimage: photographs by Mary Ferrigno. [source: City Newspaper] The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) will be hosting Critical Theory  starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Russkiy kovcheg (Russian Ark) starting at 8 p.m. It's an impressive history of Russia and the Soviet Union done in one continuous shot through The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia).
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Nazareth Academy (1001 Lake Ave.) is the premiere performance of the "green" musical Earth on Strike, A Peace Child Production. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Tonight at 8 p.m. at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) is an Open Mic Poetry Reading with featured poet Jeremy Fernaays. [source: First Friday website]
Julia Nunes will be at Abeline Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abeline website]
RedLine Zydeco will be at The Keg (315 Gregory St., behind German House where Rohrbach's used to be) starting around 10 p.m. [source: Golden Link website]
Over at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Inugami, and The Clockmen.
[source:
band calendar]
[21+]
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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Today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. is the The Park Avenue Festival (Park Ave. at Alexander St. to Culver Rd.)
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Over at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is Chris Squire, and Steve Roth. [source: Mez website] [all ages] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing La France starting at 8 p.m. The Eastman House calendar says, "the less you know ahead of time about this unique and unpredictable creation, the more satisfying the journey," so I'll only add that it's set in World War I. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is 1960's-style rock with a late '60'early '70's glam-rock vibe from St. Phillip's Escalator, and The Found.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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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]
Today at 2 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a What's Up Lecture with Jessica Marten discussing Untitled by Alfred Leslie. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] Complex, hard-hitting, mid-tempo rock band Hungness (formerly Kill Myself on Monday) will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting early around 7 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Crime and Punishment starting at 7 p.m. followed by Stranger on the Third Floor at 8:45 p.m. — two classic, early examples of film noir.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Ganon, The Pax Cecilia , and 8 Eyes will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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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.
Join some people from MEETinROCHESTER to Give Yoga a Try For Free from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.)
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Updated: Tonight at Eastmoreland Commons (Eastmoreland Dr. at Shelbourne Rd.) is The Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association's National Night Out Against Crime event starting at 6:30 p.m. [source: Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Giù la testa (A Fistful of Dynamite, or Duck, You Sucker) starting at 8 p.m. Ok, right back to the Eastman House calendar: "Little seen and previously only available in butchered versions, this underappreciated Leone Western stars James Coburn as an Irish terrorist trying to flee from his bitter past in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution, and Rod Steiger plays a crude Mexican peasant who robs banks to liberate political prisoners."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is punk-rock/bar-rock with some excellent guitar work from The Spaces starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Aqueduct Park (E. Main St. and Graves St., by the river) will be hosting Virgil Cain starting around 12 p.m.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
Updated: Make and Take Gourmet's (1475 E. Henrietta Road) Taste of August has been inexplicably rescheduled to tomorrow. [source: Make and Take Gourmet website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Roman Holiday starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Matt and Kim, and great, synthy high-energy rock from Ice Cream Social starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Monroe Village Farmers' Market runs from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the parking lot of The Church of the Blessed Sacrament (534 Oxford St.) [source: Eat Out Rochester] 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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