Weekly Rochester Events #460 Starting Thursday, November 1, 2007
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This evening at 6 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a "Wish You Were Here" Photography Lecture with Denis Defibaugh discussing Day of the Dead.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) at 7 p.m. is a screening of African Weaving and The Quilts of Gee's Bend. [source: Baobab website] 
The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) will be hosting Yuganaut starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (Two Or Three Things I Know About Her) starting at 8 p.m. about a "film actress/suburban Parisian housewife who turns tricks in the city once a month to make ends meet."
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) will be hosting good blues-charged rock-and-roll/groove-rock from Buford and the Smoking Section starting around 10 p.m. [source: Freetime] Tonight and every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Learning Center at Brighton Memorial Library (2300 Elmwood Ave.) is a meeting of The Rochester Movie Makers Club [source: AIVF Salon Rochester Yahoo! Group] Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
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This afternoon from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and then Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. is the Holiday Sale at Crocus Clay Works (1115 E. Main St. Door #2, Suite 225).
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
Early this evening from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is the opening reception for Textiles, Fibers and Fabrics which runs through November 30. [source: Baobab website] Genesee Pottery at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting a Potter's Potluck Dinner from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
This evening from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. is an Open House for the galleries upstairs from The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) In addition, it's the opening night for Michael Bosworth's installations titled The Apostacy in the main gallery and works by Tony Hess in the LAB Space. Both shows are on display through December 1.
[source:
Rochester Contemporary calendar]
[all ages]
In the Main Gallery at The Rochester Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince St.) is the opening of Selected Landscapes by Mark Klett and In My Taxi by Ryan Weideman.
[source:
Visual Studies Workshop calendar]
[all ages]
Funny, 1950's-styled acoustic soloist The Bicycats, Grampall Jookabox, and CJ Boyd will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Maltese Falcon and Satan Met s Lady starting at 8 p.m. The former is a well-known classic while the latter is a lesser-known satirical remake.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) starting around 8:30 p.m. is Sevendust , Ten Years, Black Light Burns, and Neverset .
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight probably starting around 9 p.m. at Java's (16 Gibbs St.) is a Folk and Blues Jam Session called Black and Blues. [source: Java's calendar] [all ages] Tonight at Bodhi's Cafe & Lounge (274 Goodman St. N., in Village Gate) is acoustic soloist (with a powerful, emotive voice) Teagan L. Ward starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bodhi's Cafe MySpace page]
Excellent pure instrumental funk from The Filthy Funk will be at The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
Over at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is The Sisters of Murphy.
[source:
Freetime]
[21+]
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Today from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Rochester City School District School #12 (James P.B. Duffy) (999 South Ave.) is a State of the Sector Conference for Neighbors Building Neighborhoods Sector 6 (NBN6), covering most of the southern part of the city.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
Today from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. is a Residential Computer & Electronics Recycling Event at The Church of the Good Shepherd School (3288 E. Henrietta Rd., Henrietta) Donate household electrical appliances for Flower City Habitat for Humanity. [source: Craigslist Rochester events]
Today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. held at The Gro-Moore Farms Farm Market (2811 E. Henrietta Rd., Henrietta) is the 12th Annual Cupboard Craft Sale to benefit The Rush-Henrietta Area Food Terminal (RHAFT) so bring a donation of non-perishable food for admission.
[source:
Craigslist Rochester events]
Today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is their 7th Annual Fine Craft Show. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] 
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing all 7 hours of Sergei Bondarchuk's Voyna i mir (War and Peace) in 4 parts this weekend: tonight at 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. then tomorrow at 7 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Lisa Bigwood, and The Kitchen Syncopators will be at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. [source: House of Hamez website] [all ages] Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is The Varnish Cooks starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Bodhi's Cafe & Lounge (274 Goodman St. N., in Village Gate) will be hosting really talented guitarist and singer Kinloch Nelson starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bodhi's Cafe MySpace page]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Brimstone Howl, and excellent, wild hard-rock from Handsome Jack starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is Porthos starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
[21+]
Betty's Sing-a-Long is regularly scheduled at Betty Meyer's Bullwinkle Café (622 Lake Ave., a.k.a. "Bullwinkle's") starting around 10 but since September, 2007 people have reported they were closed. |
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Daylight Saving Time Ends — Set your clock back one hour from 2:00 a.m. daylight saving time to 1:00 a.m. standard time in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) is their Fall Record Show and Sale. [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages] Today in the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. is a Polish Youth Concert. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] Today 2 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a What's Up Lecture with Jean Ligozio discussing Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Peter and Dominic, from the School of Nardo di Cione. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] Tonight at 5 p.m. at The Country Party House (321 E. Linden Ave., East Rochester) is a Murder Mystery with Everyone's Theatre Company titled Print is Dead. [source: Everyone's Theatre Company website] |
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This evening at 5 p.m. in the Hawkins-Carlson Room of The Rush Rhees Library
in
The University of Rochester (Library Rd. at Intercampus Dr., details on River Campus Map) is a lecture by Jonathan David Katz titled Robert Rauschenberg, Sexuality, and the Utility of Things.
[source:
University of Rochester website]
This evening at 7 p.m. is another in The Monday Evening Creative Arts (MECA) Lecture Series at The Steve Carpenter Studio, #176 Anderson Alley (250 N. Goodman St.) tonight featuring Lynn Allinger and Gary Stam, owners of Craft Company No. 6 (785 University Ave.)
[source:
MECA Rochesster website]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at Boulder Coffee Co.
(100 Alexander St.)
is
Pure Kona Poetry.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Bored? Why not check out 1980's DJ night at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 11 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] |
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Election Day
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.
Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. is another Books Sandwiched-In discussions in the Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) This time Thom Ward will be discussing The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Mike Tamburo, Horseback, and The Varnish Cooks starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
A|V Space website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Faust — Eine deutsche Volkssage (Faust: A German Folk Legend) starting at 8 p.m. and featuring a new score performed live by Willem Breuker Kollektief. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Melt Banana, Psyopus, and fun, gimmicky heavy-metal band Blüdwülf starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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This evening at 6:30 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is an informal Curator Coffee Talk featuring Jim Healy.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble starting around 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing a series of short films titled Free Radical: The Films of Len Lye starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Poor People United meets tonight and every Wednesday at 7 at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality (402 South Ave.) [source: the proverbial grapevine] There's an Open Mic for Acoustic Music at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) tonight around 8. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
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