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Weekly Rochester Events #674 Starting Thursday, December 8, 2011


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    The Rochester Police Accountability Coalition (RPAC) meets tonight at 5:30 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge). [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]

    The Bertrand Russell Society meets tonight at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Raintree County starting early at 7 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "Edward Dmytryk's sweeping epic follows the trials and tribulations of a feisty Civil War-era Southern belle (Elizabeth Taylor) who ensnares Montgomery Clift by claiming she's pregnant." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight in Webb Auditorium at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map) at 8 p.m. is another lecture in The Caroline Werner Gannett Project: Drew Berry will discuss Science and aesthetics of biology through a microscope. [source: Caroline Werner Gannett Project website]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is Way YesMySpace link, and Gin and Bonnets starting around 8:30 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 7 p.m. is Jennie Lowe Stearns and Mike StarkMySpace link followed at 10 p.m. by The Alex Skolnick Trio. [source: Abilene website]


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    JayceLand Pick Today at 2 p.m. and on Sunday at 1 p.m. are more tours of the Extreme Materials 2 exhibit at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages]

    Pentimento, and Anchor Me DownMySpace link will be at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 5 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]

    For Happy Hour starting at 6 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara), it's The Jane Mutiny followed at 9:30 p.m. by C'est Bon Cajun Dance Band, and then Black Coffee. [source: Abilene website]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a screening of Tootie's Last Suit. [source: Baobab website]

    The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) will be hosting Rick Petrie, and Phil MarshallMySpace link starting around 7 p.m. [source: band e-mail]

    The Rochester Oratorio Society presents Brass, Bells and Candlelight tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Third Presbyterian Church (4 Meigs St., at the corner of East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Wind Ensemble, and The Eastman Wind Orchestra 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 Christmas in Connecticut starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 5 p.m. A late screwball comedy, "Barbara Stanwyck plays a Martha Stewart-esque domestic goddess who advises housewives on how to become gracious homemakers. In truth she's a single career gal who can't even cook, and who types her popular magazine column in a cramped New York City apartment far from the rolling hills of Connecticut. When her bamboozled boss (Sydney Greenstreet) insists she invite a handsome war hero (Dennis Morgan) to her 'farm' for the holidays, she has to scramble to make her perfect — and perfectly fictitious — life a reality." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]


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    JayceLand Pick Today at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. is a Print Shop Inventory Reduction Blowout sale. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]

    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]

    JayceLand Pick This evening from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) is a Benefit Show for The Center for Youth Services (905 Monroe Ave.) featuring Hunu? (featuring members from Colorblind James Experience, a.k.a. "¿hünü?"). [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Lovin' CupMySpace link (300 Park Point Dr., #110) will be hosting very good medium-tempo progressive rock from SirsyGarageBand link, Falls Road, and very good electrified acoustic rock from The Driftwood SailorsMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Lovin' Cup calendar]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is a New Wave Tribute featuring good, crowd-pleasing reggae from Thunder BodyMySpace link, impressive, organic experimental jazz from The Blood and Bone OrchestraMySpace link, tight modern rock band VeluxeMySpace link, Big Brain and The Drug Cartel, MNT DST, Muler, Nod, The Celebration of ManMySpace link, luscious, poetic acoustic rock from Autumn In HalifaxMySpace link, Rotten, and Tumul. [source: band flyer]

    JayceLand Pick Nice, well-executed jazzy swing from Bobby Henrie and The GonersMySpace link will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Abilene website]


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    Today from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Java's (16 Gibbs St.) is The Hearts and Crafts Indie Craft Market's Holiday Heart Bazaar. [source: City Newspaper] [all ages]

    Over at The Lift Bridge Book Shop (45 Main St., Brockport) starting around 2 p.m. is Rick Petrie and a number of other local writers and poets. [source: band e-mail]

    Today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be performed by Kathy Wilkins. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Over at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is The Baby SharkMySpace link, Peter HouseMySpace link, and N. Moore and the Helping Hands. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    JayceLand Pick Miché FambroMySpace link will perform The Miché Fambro Show tonight at 7 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) with Connie Fredericks-Malone, Ward Hartenstein, and Geraldo De-Souza. [source: MuCCC website]

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

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is The David Mayfield Parade, and Katie PowderlyMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website]


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    Ali's Birthday

    This morning starting around 8 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 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ starting early at 7 p.m. with Dr. Philip C. Carli providing live piano accompaniment. According to the Eastman House calendar, "the grandest of silent epics, boasting a cast of thousands and every technical effect available to its makers, the original Ben Hur remains unequalled not only for pageantry and thrills but for humanity and passion." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Anderson StingraysMySpace link will be at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Hail the Conquering Hero starting at 8 p.m. in which "hay fever keeps lovable oaf Eddie Bracken from serving in the Marines, but it doesn't stop his hometown from toasting him as a hero of Guadalcanal. Simultaneously a tribute to aw-shucks small-town life and a jaw-dropping critique of blind patriotism (especially radical as the US was still very much at war in 1944), Hail the Conquering Hero is quintessential Sturges — laughing at American life while remaining sympathetic to its peculiar hang-ups." (Free to Eastman House members.) [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is Calligraphy, Trio Chomp, and A Victory for UpfishMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting Steve Lyons starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website]

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