Weekly Rochester Events #622 Starting Thursday, December 9, 2010
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George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be hosting hteir Annual Holiday Homecoming Celebration from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Although sold out as of Monday, The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) is hosting a Food Is Art fundraising event featuring local chefs strutting their stuff tonight at 6 p.m. [source: Rochester Contemporary calendar] [all ages] 
Tonight at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is another meeting of The Bertrand Russell Society.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.), Peter Conners will present a lecture on his new book, White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg at 7 p.m. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] At tonight's Flowetic Rhythms at Gallery One Fine Arts in the Executive Building (36 W. Main St., suite #17) starting around 7:30 p.m. is First-timers Night hosted by Lu Highsmith, and David Haygood, Jr.. [source: Culture starts with ART! (CSWA) Yahoo! Group] Dave Rivello's 12-Piece Jazz Ensemble will be at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 8 p.m. [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages] Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar  (219 Monroe Ave.) is Freya, Order of Ennead, Warblade , and To the Deep starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting The Skillet Lickers, Jeff Simpson, and Jeff Sherner starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website] Tonight at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 8 p.m. is Lovin' Cup Live Lounge.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
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Mike Brown plays Happy Hour tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 6 p.m. followed at 9:30 p.m. with A Cow-Punk Christmas by good country band Dang!.
[source:
Abilene website]
Over at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 6 p.m. is Where the Ocean Meets the Sky.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Today at The Frederick Douglass Resource Center (36 King St.) is a presentation of Pepsy Kettavong's latest work, Lynching in America starting at 6 p.m.
[source:
City Newspaper]
Today from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Monroe Branch Library (809 Monroe Ave.) is its 80th Birthday Celebration. [source: City Hall press release] [all ages]
The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) will be screening The Devil Came on Horseback tonight at 7 p.m.
[source:
Baobab website]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting fantastic, heavy, electric, lounge-folk from Auld Lang Syne, Kingsley Flood, and good acoustic soloist with echoes of Neil Young and Bob Dylan Electric Organic starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Electronic, quasi-noise musicians and humanizing performance artists The Bloody Noes present their Third Annual Santanalia Pageant and Holiday Spectacular at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) — sure to be a superb and surreal variety show tonight at 8 p.m. Bring a dish to pass or a "wrapped 'gift' for under the tree (if you bring one you can take one)."
[source:
MuCCC website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Hotspot, See, and Forever Young starting at 8 p.m: 3 short films with filmmaker Robin Lehman on hand to discuss them.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Anderson Alley Artists (250 Goodman St. N.) will be having another open house this and every second Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting their Third Annual Hoppy Daze starting this afternoon at 3 p.m. featuring "obscure hoppy beers from all over."
[source:
Monty's Krown Facebook page]
[21+]
Starting at 5 p.m. tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is their Christmas Bash Part One featuring music by C'est Bon Cajun Dance Band, and nice, well-executed jazzy swing from Bobby Henrie and The Goners .
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight starting around 8 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is the X-Mas Folk, Rock and Noise Show with The Years (members of the Blood and Bone Orchestra), the nicely harmonius rock band Walri, Repeater, Mitch Jones and the Shocking, and The Tortures.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a Participatory Drawing Mob.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
John W. Borek presents A Window on the Carrageenan at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) tonight at 8 p.m. [source: MuCCC website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing North By Northwest starting at 8 p.m. — one of Alfred Hitchcock's best.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is good, amiable hard rock from The Clockmen, good hard rock from The Cheetah Whores, Hotel Reverie, and Gracious Sakes Alive.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 9 p.m. is good country band Dang!, and rockin' rockabilly from Krypton 88.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
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Holidays at the Market takes place today at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Today at 10 a.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a Pancake Breakfast with St. Nick and Santa. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
The Hearts and Crafts Indie Craft Market will be at Java's (16 Gibbs St.) today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
[source:
City Newspaper]
[all ages]
Today from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at The Chili Public Library (3333 Chili Ave.) is Ghost Ships of Lake Ontario: a discussion led by Jim Fischer.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
Over at The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) starting around 2 p.m. is The East End Quartet. [source: City Hall press release] [all ages] The Silver Tones Flute Choir will play at today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] Today at The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) kicks off their 12 Beers of Christmas celebration at 5 p.m. — a new release each day through the 23rd. [source: Tap and Mallet website]
From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is Make It Better: Putting the LGBTQ Suicides in Context. A camera will be available to record messages for The It Gets Better Project.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Today at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is a performance of Dutchman with play author Amiri Baraka starting at 5 p.m. with a reception following at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.)
[source:
MuCCC website]
Tonight from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) is Tiki Bar Night with Jeff Elliott for a night of Jimmy Buffett music. [source: Monty's Krown Facebook page] [21+]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Song Remains the Same starting at 7 p.m. featuring "rock-umentary" footage of Led Zeppelin.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bunker (see source website for details on getting the address) starting around 8 p.m. is Stare Case, Drainolith, Finkbeiner, SHED, and Scrappy Joe. [source: Carbon Records calendar] Today at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is a December to Dismember Vol II featuring Infernal Abyss, Penetration, Malformed, and Cain.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Ali's Birthday
I didn't find it in my usual perusal of the Eastman House website, but George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is apparently having a Photography Workshop on The Platinum Print: History and Technique today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. [source: City Newspaper] [all ages]
Tonight from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. is the Presentation of the Final Rochester Bicycle Master Plan in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.)
[source:
Rochester Cycling Alliance blog]
[all ages]
Over at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Fan-Tan, Jennings, and Gun Trouble starting around 9 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.
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Rude Boy starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "artfully merging real footage of The Clash with a fictional story concerning one of their most dedicated roadies, Rude Boy features unforgettable performances of 'White Riot,' 'I'm So Bored with the USA,' 'I Fought the Law' and many others, capturing Joe Strummer and his sneering punkish crew at their creative zenith."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Juiceboxxx, Jack Topht and The Vegetables, and very good, experimentally-daring acoustic soloist Seth Faergolzia starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Frank Zappa tribute band Ugly Radio Rebellion starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
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Today at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is another Story Slam hosted by Carol Roberts.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Get Crazy starting at 8 p.m. Again from the Eastman House calendar, "director Allan Arkush called upon his many years working for legendary New York rock club Fillmore East for this spoof that's every bit as funny and inspired as his Rock 'n' Roll High School."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is The Reynolds, and LastNote.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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