Weekly Rochester Events #463 Starting Thursday, November 22, 2007
 Thanksgiving
Tonight starting around 10:30 p.m. at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Thanksgiving Night Shakedown featuring several DJ's.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
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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Buy Nothing Day
This afternoon at 3 p.m. is a Buy Nothing Day Bicycle Ride starting at The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way) [source: Community Biking Alliance message board] The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) will be hosting good singer and storyteller (with an obvious Neil Young influence) Jerry Falzone, and Warren Paul starting around 8 p.m. [source: House of Hamez website] [all ages] Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co.  (100 Alexander St.) is good "horror movie soundtrack" hard-rock from J. G. Blizaro, and more good heavy rock from Trees Are Down 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 Mafioso starting at 8 p.m. Kind of a satire and social commentary all rolled into one. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
Over at Bodhi's Cafe & Lounge (274 Goodman St. N., in Village Gate) starting around 9:30 p.m. is excellent, pure instrumental funk from The Filthy Funk.
[source:
Bodhi's Cafe MySpace page]
Tonight and tomorrow at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is another show by Geva Comedy Improv starting at 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
The Swingin' Neckbreakers, great rock-and-roll from The Grinders, and solidly good punk-rock from The QUiTTERS will be at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
[21+]
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This afternoon at 4 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a discussion of The Last of the African Kings by Maryse Condé.
[source:
Baobab website]
Stone Baby, Oliver/Reeg, Overlap, and The Sins of the Father will be at the Gallery at Potential Life Studios (34 Elton St.) starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb starting at 8 p.m. It's quite a black comedy — about the absurdly likely possibility of nuclear war. If you've never seen it, just do so.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Baba Yaga, awesome, tight, complex rock and roll band The VEiNS, The Brüd, and The Stone Believer will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Troyka, The Spirit Of Ontario, and Devall Music starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[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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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Muppets from Space starting at this afternoon at 2 p.m. in which The Great Gonzo learns he's from outer space ...
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
This afternoon at 4 p.m. at Jitters Café (3333 W. Henrietta Rd., in Southtown Plaza) is the monthly RocWiki Meeting.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
Later, at 7 p.m. at the Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a screening of American Graffiti. It's a movie that defined a generation (that happens to be approximately my parents' generation, but who's counting). [And Kurt Loder is not our Wolfman Jack.]
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is the movie premiere for Spange DIY with music from Tomorrow's Cry.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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Tonight at 7:30 p.m., Norm Davis will host Wide Open Mic in Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.)
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Ok, so The Emerging Filmmakers Series has been canceled tonight due to lack of submissions. [source: the proverbial grapevine] 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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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.
Over at Kilbourn Hall
at
Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is Ossia New Music.
[source:
Ossia New Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Matinee Idol starting at 8 p.m. Philip C. Carli will provide piano accompaniment to this feature about "a laughably inept Civil War show, [which] is viewed as a comic masterpiece by a cynical producer." [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting one-man angry-rocker The Ghostwriter, and fantastic satirical gospel from The Lobster Quadrille starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Tonight at 10 p.m. at Spenders (1600 Lyell Ave.) is "an all nude performance" by Gravity , with Nevergreen.
[source:
Rochester Music Coalition calendar]
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Tonight at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is Shiny Toy Guns starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers) starting at 8 p.m. Set in a manor, two sisters wait for their third sister to die.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is awesome, hilarious disco-rock from Gil Mantera's Party Dream starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Poor People United meets tonight and every Wednesday at 7 at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality (402 South Ave.) [source: the proverbial grapevine] Every Wednesday starting at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) at 7 p.m. is the Rochester Cruisers Ride for bicyclists.
[source:
RocBike website]
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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