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Weekly Rochester Events #580 Starting Thursday, February 18, 2010


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JayceLand Pick At today's Thursday Thinkers lecture from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. at The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Dr. Bruce M. Gilberg will explore Intergenerational Relationships: Crossing the Developmental Divide. [source: Friends of the Public Library flyer]

JayceLand Pick At Arnett Branch Library (310 Arnett Blvd.), there are Dogs in the Library! Oh My! — Children Reading to Dogs from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and again from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. I mean come on, how cute is this? The notice says they'll have a Sheltie, a Golden Retriever, a Golden Lab, a Mastiff, and more. [source: Friends of the Public Library e-mail] [all ages]

Today at 7 p.m. at The Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Ave.) is a meeting of The Rochester Genealogical Society featuring Genealogy Consultations with Sharon Burch, Gregory S. Spacher presenting The American Female Gender vs. The United States: Legal Discrimination, and 100 Years of Reunions by Barry Hartley. [source: Rochester Genealogical Society website] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) is very good, experimentally-daring acoustic soloist Seth Faergolzia starting around 8 p.m. ... at least according to the notoriously wrong Boulder website. [source: Boulder Coffee website] [all ages]

Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman Percussion Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Where the Sidewalk Ends starting at 8 p.m. The Eastman House calendar summarizes the plot: "in a nightmarish noir scenario, Dana Andrews plays a brutal New York cop who accidentally kills someone while investigating a murder and then proceeds to cover his tracks." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Tonight at 10 p.m. is All Tomorrow's Thursdays... featuring Jay Repp, and A.K.A. Paul BurkeMySpace link at Sully's Pub (242 South Ave., formerly the Brickyard Pub). [source: Facebook]


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Top Pick Today from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at City Hall (30 Church St.) is the Black Heritage Month Food Tasting presented by employees of the city and area vendors. [source: City Hall press release]

JayceLand Pick For Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Teagan and the TweedsMySpace link will be performing. Then at 9:30 p.m., WalriMySpace link performs. [source: Abilene website]

Today at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.), Malik Evans will facilitate a discussion titled Reggae as a Tool for Education following a film screening. [source: Baobab website]

JayceLand Pick Today at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is the start of an Arthur Bicknell Career Retrospective with a performance of What is Art? by Arthur Bicknell at 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. is the notoriously bad play Moose Murders: the Musical Revival, and concluding with "the off-Broadway hit" My Great Dead Sister on Sunday at 3 p.m. [source: MuCCC website]

Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m., Village Idiots Present (VIP) present Director's Cut at The Pillar Theatre (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate, Suite #D106). [source: Village Idiots Present website]

JayceLand Pick Over at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 8 p.m. is good high-energy punk-rock from The GrievantsMySpace link, PegacideMySpace link, and great, haunting noise-based loops and vocals from City Harvest BlackMySpace link. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] [18+]

JayceLand Pick Over at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 8 p.m. is The Michael Musillami Trio. [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) starting at 8 p.m. When the Pope visited Rio de Janeiro in 1997, the titular elite squad of police was dispatched to protect His Holiness from the criminals in the slum he was visiting. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]


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Today from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Mt. Hope Cemetery (1145 Mt. Hope Ave., the South Gate) is a Mt. Hope Cemetery Winter Tour. [source: City Hall press release]

Today from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Turning Point Park (260 Boxart St.) is a Saturday Hike in the Park starting at The Petten St. Parking Lot (Petten St. Exd., toward the south turn around) [source: City Hall press release]

Tonight at The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) is Andy Smash and the Rustbelt Hot RodsMySpace link starting around 5 p.m. [source: Record Archive e-mail]

Tracy GrammerMySpace link will be at The Rochester Christian Reformed Church (2750 Atlantic Ave., Penfield) starting around 7:30 p.m. [source: Golden Link website]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Missing Person starting at 8 p.m. with star Michael Shannon in person to introduce and discuss this modern noir update. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

Today at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) at 8 p.m. is HER by Sistas Sayin' Somethin'. [source: City Newspaper] [18+]

Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is a Fundraiser for LGBT Equality starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

The All Hank BandMySpace link will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website]

The Lovin' CupMySpace link (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) will be hosting Nick Bullock, and Josh NetskyMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Lovin' Cup calendar]

Tonight at 11:59 p.m. (a.k.a. midnight) at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is a screening and performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] [18+]


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JayceLand Pick Today at 2 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is CopWatch Training based on Berkeley CopWatch. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] [18+]

The Second Winds Clarinet Ensemble will be at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) starting around 3 p.m. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Alice in Wonderland starting at 7 p.m., a peculiar gem from Depression-era cinema. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Jesse Kilguss, and Josh NetskyMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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George Washington born 1732

Today at 7:30 p.m. is Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick 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.

Top Pick Today at 10:30 a.m. in the Golisano Computing Center at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map), it's rumored that Richard Stallman (founder of GNU and The Free Software Foundataion) will be doing a lecture. Get there very very early if you are interested. [source: flyer]

Today at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is 25 and Under hosted by Sally Bittner Bonn. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Tusedays at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is A.K.A. Paul Burke Presents featuring Paul BurkeMySpace link and other people, perhaps performing. [source: band e-mail]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Daigaku wa deta keredo (I Graduated, But...) and Rakudai wa shita keredo (I Flunked, But...) starting at 8 p.m. Of the first, only a small portion remains — it's about a college graduate who refuses a job that's "beneath him". The second is more complete and is a "comic romp about college goof-offs who cheat on their exams". [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Over at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is So CowMySpace link, The Threadbare OrchestraMySpace link, and Mandate of Heaven. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

Interlock Rochester (1115 E. Main St., suite 42 of the Hungerford Building, door #1) has their Weekly Meeting at 8 p.m. [source: Interlock Rochester website] [all ages]


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JayceLand Pick The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) will be hosting Grey MarketMySpace link starting around 5 p.m. [source: Record Archive e-mail]

Tonight at The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) at 8 p.m. is a Beer Social for Sleeman Unibroue, Inc. (80 Rue Des Carrières, Chambly, QC) [source: Tap and Mallet website]

JayceLand Pick Solid rock with a Spanish flair from Night GalleryGarageBand linkMySpace link will be at Johnny's Irish Pub (1382 Culver Rd., still smoke-free) starting around 8 p.m. [source: Johnny's Irish Pub calendar]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Martin Scorsese's excellent film Casino starting at 8 p.m. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Grey MarketMySpace link, AutoverseMySpace link, and excellent, superfast, synth-pop, novelty songs from Worm QuartetMySpace link will be at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

Today at 12:00 p.m. is a meeting of The Brown Bag Book Discussion Group in the Literature Division's Study Room at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

It's Whirrly Wednesdays: Hooping, Drumming, and Grooving at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) at 6 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] [18+]

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 EpisodeMySpace link. [source: Abeline website]

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