Weekly Rochester Events #677 Starting Thursday, December 29, 2011
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This afternoon at 4:30 p.m. is a City Council Special Meeting in City Council Chambers at City Hall (30 Church St.) to "discuss two items: funding for pre-employment drug testing for City employees; and clarification of costs for administration of the Firefighters' Entrance Exam." Seems kind of weird to me ...
[source:
City Hall press release]
Tonight at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) starting at 7:30 p.m. is The Last Fruitcake Waltz featuring The Public Market Band. [source: MuCCC website] 
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starting at 8 p.m. — a "brilliant screen adaptation" of "Edward Albee's play about a pair of dysfunctional academics".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar  (219 Monroe Ave.) is Achilles, Such Gold, Raindance, The Rational Animals, and School Shootings starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Rubblebucket Orchestra, and wicked fun, saxophone-driven, percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHood will be at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
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Once again at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a tour of the Extreme Materials 2 Exhibit starting at 2 p.m.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
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] This evening at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 6 p.m. for Happy Hour is Boss Tweed followed at 9:30 p.m. by rockin' rockabilly from Krypton 88 .
[source:
Abilene website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Three Stooges films starting at 8 p.m.: Ants in the Pantry, We Want Our Mummy, You Natzy Spy!, In the Sweet Pie and Pie, and Loco Boy Makes Good.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Jet Black Berries, The Pheromones, and The Spacelords starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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New Year's Eve
Kwanzaa Ends
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing a New Year's Eve Double Feature of The Thin Man, and After the Thin Man starting early at 7 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "William Powell and Myrna Loy gave their most iconic performances as Dashiell Hammett-originated husband-and-wife detective team Nick and Nora Charles over the course of six swanky MGM productions. In the first, Nick and Nora solve a murder over the course of a Manhattan dinner party; then, the couple (and beloved terrier Asta) returns to San Francisco and gets wrapped up in another murder, with every hood in the city a suspect (and an old acquaintance of Nick's).
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Rochester Riverside Convention Center (123 E. Main St.) is the city's New Year's Eve Celebration culminating in fireworks at 10 p.m. [source: City Hall press release]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. is the annual New Year's Eve show of Geva Comedy Improv at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.).
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is the Garage Pop Records Reunion Show featuring Nod, The Thundergods (in their original line-up), The QUiTTERS (also the original line-up), Muler, Intrinsic, and DJ El Destructo.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 10 p.m. is good, crowd-pleasing reggae from Thunder Body.
[source:
Abilene website]
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 New Year's Day
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Singin' in the Rain starting at 3 p.m., but stop by at 1 p.m. for the Cafe's special brunch preceding the film.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Joe Blackburn will play the Aeolian pipe organ 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] |
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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 Le rayon vert (The Green Ray) starting at 8 p.m. in which "a group of travelers seeks out a rare atmospheric phenomenon that is believed to grant those who witness it heightened perception and deeper personal insight."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Thrifter, Machine Gun English, and Feast Of The Superb Owl will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Tonight at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra starting at 7 p.m.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
Anna Hall will be hosting tonight's Open Mike Comedy Night at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) starting at 7 p.m. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Blackboard Jungle starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "Richard Brooks's raucous drama about a war vet-turned-teacher (Glenn Ford) who fights a new kind of battle in a classroom opens with a blast — specifically, 'Rock Around the Clock' — and never lets up.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Mr. Boneless, very good, experimentally-daring acoustic soloist Seth Faergolzia, and All of Them Witches starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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