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Weekly Rochester Events #678 Starting Thursday, January 5, 2012


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    JayceLand Pick Today from 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Brighton Memorial Library (2300 Elmwood Ave.), Van Henri White will review The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, and Unlikely Brothers by John Prendergast and Michael Mattocks. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. (and again next week), The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) will host a performances of Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy. [source: MuCCC website]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Ox-Bow Incident starting at 8 p.m. Jack Garner will present this film about "a drifter who gets caught up in a town's mob rule as three supposed rustlers are summarily threatened with the noose." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is Les Racquet, Right Turn RacerMySpace link, and good, slightly bluesy country-rock from The Greener Grass BandMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    This evening at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is the Pure Kona Poety Reading and Open Mic starting at 8 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]


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

    Tonight is another First Fridays around art galleries downtown starting around 5 p.m. [source: First Friday website]

    Updated: Today from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and tomorrow from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) is the Artists' Reception for The Magic of Light featuring the works of 86 photographer-artists. [source: Artists' Breakfast Group blog]

    Good acoustic soloist Nick Young will perform tonight's Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) followed at 9:30 p.m. by The Dirty Bourbon Blues BandMySpace link. [source: Abilene website]

    JayceLand Pick The Waffle StompersMySpace link, and Uncle Joel's CombMySpace link will be at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 6 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]

    Today at Joe Bean Roasters (1344 University Ave., #110) is a First Friday Art Reception with photos by Andy Schecter. [source: Joe Bean e-mail] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) is a presentation of You are Nowhere: Burning Man 2011 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. with Eddie Davis, III, Aydin Ture, and music by Jahn Henry. [source: Rochester Contemporary calendar] [all ages]

    Tonight at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is First Fridays / Wide Open Mic hosted by Norm Davis. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Tabloid starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "for a few months in 1977, the hottest story in England wasn't the Sex Pistols or the Queen's Jubilee, but 'The Case of the Manacled Mormon,' a sex scandal involving an ex-Miss Wyoming, a Mormon missionary, and an alleged case of kidnapping and sexual enslavement — on the part of the beauty queen. Mud was slung, revelations piled up, and the 'true story' was never quite cracked. Tracking down prime participant Joyce McKinney for an extended, lively interview, legendary documentarian Errol Morris has produced a real-world Rashomon whose wildly entertaining surface masks a clever inquiry into the slippery nature of truth." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]


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    JayceLand Pick The Bill Welch Band, and the solidly good bar-rock band with a country twang Blue JimmyGarageBand linkMySpace link will be at The Lovin' CupMySpace link (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 8 p.m. [source: Lovin' Cup calendar]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing House of Bamboo starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 5 p.m. Again from the Eastman House calendar: "though beautifully shot on location in Japan in colorful Cinemascope, and owing a visual debt to Mizoguchi, Sam Fuller's remake of the 1948 thriller The Street with No Name is, at its dark heart, very much a film noir. Infiltrating a criminal gang of dishonorably discharged American GIs in post-WWII Tokyo, American Robert Stack encounters violence, culture clash, and more than a little same-sex attention from gang-leader Robert Ryan." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Tonight at 7 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara), it's very good electrified acoustic rock from The Driftwood SailorsMySpace link followed at 10 p.m. by The Robert Zimmerman Philharmonic. [source: Abilene website]

    The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Los Doggies, Liana GabelMySpace link, The AbsolutesMySpace link, and the nicely harmonious rock band WalriMySpace link starting around 10:30 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    Over at Monty's KrownMySpace link (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Clinton's Ditch. [source: JamBase calendar for Rochester] [21+]


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    Today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is a meeting of The Electoral Reform Working Group of Occupy Rochester. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]

    JayceLand Pick Today at 2 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a What's Up lecture with Kitty Jospé titled Beyond Description. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight starting around 9 p.m. at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is their annual Bowie Birthday Bash. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting The Chris Hollywood Pro-Am JamMySpace link starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Abilene website]

    This evening starting around 7:30 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is a screening of The Ken Russell Film Series. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]


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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.

    Moorish Science Temple© The Divine and National Movement of North America, Inc., 13® The Moorish American National Republic meets tonight at 6 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge). Good luck making sense of it. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]

    The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (The Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle) starting at 8 p.m., a "breezy quartet of bright summery 'adventures'". Unfortunately the description reminds me of Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Celine and Julie Go Boating) which I didn't enjoy at all. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is Elvis Presley's Birthday Bash featuring Mark Gamsjager and the Lustre KingsMySpace link. [source: Abilene website]


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    JayceLand Pick Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) will be having an Afternoon Tea from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Updated: The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Rebel Without a Cause starting at 8 p.m. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

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