Weekly Rochester Events #633 Starting Thursday, February 24, 2011
Author Charles Benoit will speak at the George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) for its Noir Series at 6:30 p.m. and introduce tonight's film.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Today at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) at 7 p.m. is a lecture by Dr. Timothy J. Madigan titled Aristotle's E-Mail: Friendship in the Cyber Age
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman Percussion Ensemble [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Asphalt Jungle starting at 8 p.m. — a noir heist classic by John Huston.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar  (219 Monroe Ave.) is Gunnar Stahl, The Weak Teeth, ROUT, and Sounding starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is Steve Lyons. [source: Abilene website] |
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Apparently The Critical Mass Bike Ride
is tonight starting at 6 p.m. at The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way) and heading through the city from there.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
String of Pearls performs at Happy Hour starting around 6:30 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) followed at 9:30 p.m. by The Chinchillas 
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a screening of Up from the Bottoms: The Search for the American Dream.
[source:
Baobab website]
The Eastman Wind Orchestra will be at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The ManShee Chronicles perform tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.)
[source:
MuCCC website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Promised Lands starting at 8 p.m., a documentary about "the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing divisions within Jewish thought over the question of Palestinian sovereignty" and "shot in Israel during the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is The Bad Kids, and Grimetime.
[source:
Monty's Krown Facebook page]
[21+]
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Tonight at St. Mary's Church (15 Saint Marys Pl.) is The Eastman Chorale 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 'Round Midnight starting at 8 p.m. in which "an American musician in Paris [struggles] to stay on the wagon."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is wicked fun, saxophone-driven, percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHood, Fire Wheel, and Roots Collider starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Tonight at 9:30 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is the 3rd Annual "Johnny Cash Birthday Bash" featuring CASH Back .
[source:
Abilene website]
Prime Time Funk will be at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Pheromones, P-spot, Allergic to Retro, and Attic Abasement starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting talented stoner rock-influenced rock band Argus Eye starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown Facebook page]
[21+]
Tonight is another Left of Center Stage Variety Show at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] |
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The Flyng Squirrel Poetry Series continues at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) this evening starting around 6 p.m.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is the Academy Awards Party. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is The Buffalo Killers, awesome, wild, blue-collar rock from Handsome Jack, White Bison, and Raunchy Sex.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today at 7 p.m. at The Rochester Friends Meeting House (84 Scio St.) is a screening of The Singing Revolution.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
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]
Chris Bathgate, solid acoustic rock from Caleb Spaulding, and good acoustic soloist Nick Young will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 8:30 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.
At today's Tuesday Topics from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a discussion of The 100th Anniversary of the Creation of Alexander's Rag Time Band with Michael Lasser. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages] Tonight in the Auditorium at Gleason Works (1000 University Ave.), Mayoral Candidates Discuss Rochester's Future at 7 p.m. [source: Rochester Cycling Alliance blog] Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman New Jazz 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 The Doorway To Hell starting at 8 p.m. in which "a Chicago gangster who organizes a successful syndicate, gets married, and retires to Florida to write his memoirs, ceding control to his lieutenant [but] the mugs back home aren't having it, however, and fate soon brings Louie back home."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is RJ and the Big Notes, Jack Danson and The Flood, and good acoustic soloist with echoes of Neil Young and Bob Dylan Electric Organic starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Tonight at The Rush Rhees Library at The University of Rochester (Library Rd. at Intercampus Dr.) is a screening of Edward S. Curtis: Coming to Light followed by a discussion and reception.
[source:
City Newspaper]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Fail-Safe starting at 8 p.m. An excellent early cold-war thriller in which "a glitch sends a group of Moscow-bound bombers past the point of no return."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Vacant Lots, Velvet Elvis, and INN starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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