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Weekly Rochester Events #684 Starting Thursday, February 16, 2012


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    JayceLand Pick Today at 10 a.m. at The Vietnam Veteran's of America (VVA) Thrift Store (1199 E. Main St.) is an auction of Store Fixtures and Inventory by The Reynolds Auction Company. [source: Reynold's Auction website]

    The Culinary Reading and Discussion Group meets tonight at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., hosted by Sandy Bosworth, and Kathy Pottetti. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Brighton Memorial Library (2300 Elmwood Ave.) is hosting a program by Color Brighton Green titled The Rewards of Recycling: Get Paid to Recycle! from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

    This evening at 7 p.m. at Interlock Rochester (1115 E. Main St., suite 42 of the Hungerford Building, door #1) is Do Night — an "unstructured evening of general making, coding, and doing of stuff. This event is open; you don't have to be a member to attend." [source: Interlock Rochester website] [all ages]

    Today at The Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Ave.) at 7 p.m. is this month's meeting of The Rochester Genealogical Society featuring Gregory S. Spacher presenting the short program titled Using Church Records to Find Ancestors, and Alicia Reinhardt, and Laura Richardson presenting the main program, Using Libraries to Find Clues About Your Ancestors. [source: Rochester Genealogical Society website] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) will present Unrehearsed: A John Borek Performance Art Piece tonight at 7:30 p.m. [source: MuCCC website]

    Richard Gere will be in the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) tongiht at 7:30 p.m. to receive the George Eastman Award. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Chamber Percussion Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is Red Wanting BlueMySpace link, and The VanderbuiltsMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    JayceLand Pick This evening at 6 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Happy Hour with music by Eva and the Dog Boys followed at 9:30 p.m. by Steve Johnson, Charity Nuse, and Amanda Barton of acoustic-rock jam-band Big Leg Emma. [source: Abilene website]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Gold Rush starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. "The most famous man in the world in his most famous role: a Yukon tramp with dreams of striking it rich and an unrequited crush on a beautiful dance hall girl." This is a recent restoration! [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Over at The Harro East Theatre and Ballroom (155 North Chestnut St.) starting around 8 p.m. is comic John PinetteMySpace link. Although, you know, his website doesn't say so. [source: WBER calendar]


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    Jaded Seed Art presents an Art Reception for Tabula Rasa: Renatus tonight from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Tajze Wine and R&B Lounge (139 State St., formerly Spy Bar) [source: City Newspaper]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at 8 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is improv troupe Polite Company Improv Sketch and Comedy's Debutant Ball [sic]. [source: MuCCC e-mail]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Weekend starting at 8 p.m. and again tomorrow at 5 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "a picturesque postcard of provincial France gone homicidally wrong, Godard's acid vision of a bourgeois apocalypse still packs a sick wallop. Nominally about a typical couple plotting to collect an inheritance (and dismember each other) over the course of a weekend, their plans are interrupted by roadside cannibals, automotive orgies, and a mounting sense of regret." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Order 66 ("Rochester's only Star Wars themed cover band") will perform tonight, probably starting around 9 p.m. at The Firehouse Saloon (814 S. Clinton Ave., formerly Snuffy Magee's). [source: Craigslist Rochester events]

    Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is John & Mary and The ValkyriesMySpace link starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Abilene website]

    JayceLand Pick The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Waylon SpeedMySpace link, solid, crowd-pleasing bar-rock from MoChesterMySpace link, Dirty Wings, and Sonar Mail starting around 10:30 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    Violinist Lauren Cavley will perform today's Musicale at 3 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

    My Heart to FearMySpace link, The World Ends With You, Walking With Titans, Sleep Circadia, PraxiaMySpace link, and Jonestown 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]

    JayceLand Pick Updated: Today at 6 p.m. at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church (141 Adams St.) is a lecture with Rev. Dr. James M. Lawson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s respected non-violent strategist. [source: flyer]

    Over at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is The QueersMySpace link, The AtarisMySpace link, and Far From FinishedMySpace link. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    Fly the flag today.Washington's Birthday (observed)

    Caution! Artist at Work! will feature Marilynne Lipshutz "demonstrating the art of bead making" this evening from 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Vince DynamicMySpace link, The American Opera, Payton Maravitch, and Cammy Enaharo will be at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 8:30 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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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.

    JayceLand Pick At today's Tuesday Topics in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m., Ty Marshal will present There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Recreating the Cardiff Giant. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick This evening starting around 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is the Monthly Story Slam. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    A Raisin in the Sun opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) [source: Geva Theatre website]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Portrait of Jennie starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "a struggling painter (Joseph Cotten) meets a young girl (Jennifer Jones) in Central Park who inspires a portrait and invigorates his career. She continues to visit him, but always preternaturally aged, and as the painter's affections deepen, he begins to wonder". Screened on the original nitrate (a treat enjoyed by visiting the Eastman House, and a few dozen other venues worldwide.) [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Bad Kids, and Upstate Music starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    George Washington born 1732

    JayceLand Pick This evening at 7 p.m. in Brighton Town Hall (2300 Elmwood Ave.) is the Winter Film Series On Localization featuring a screening of Economics of Happiness. [source: Mud Creek Farm blog]

    The Reggae Lounge Vibe with Ras Courtney of His Imperial Sounds continues tonight starting at 8 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara). [source: Abilene website]

    JayceLand Pick This evening at The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) starting at 8 p.m. is a Beer Social with Chris Valenti of The Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (6 Cannery Village Ctr., Milton, DE). [source: Tap and Mallet website]

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

    Top Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Chinatown starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar, "a sun-dappled film noir for the '70s, replete with political paranoia, intricate conspiracies, and an energy crisis. Nicholson offers an uncharacteristically understated performance (his face bandaged for much of the film) as J.J. Gittes, the bedroom dick who suddenly finds himself sifting through mysterious real estate transfers for clues to an unfolding plot to control Los Angeles's water and its economy." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting El DestructoMySpace link, Matt Frank, and really great sounding acoustic duo The Baby SharkMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    Today at 12:00 p.m. is a meeting of The Brown Bag Book Discussion Group in the Literature Division's Study Room at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

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