Weekly Rochester Events #465 Starting Thursday, December 6, 2007
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This morning at 9 a.m. at The Restaurant Warehouse (279 Burrows St., or thereabouts) is a Public Auction of all sorts of stuff (mostly restaurant-related) put on by The Reynolds Auction Company.
[source:
Reynold's Auction website]
The Charlie Lindner Trio will be at Bodhi's Cafe & Lounge  (274 Goodman St. N., in Village Gate) starting around 6 p.m.
[source:
Bodhi's Cafe MySpace page]
This evening at 6:30 p.m. in Dewey Hall, 2-162 at The University of Rochester (Elmwood Ave. at Intercampus Dr., details on River Campus Map) is a student panel discussion titled Real Talk: The Struggles and Successes of the RCSD on the state of The Rochester City School District (RCSD) (131 West Broad St.) [source: University of Rochester website] Tonight at Starry Nites Café (696 University Ave., formerly Moonbeans) is The Standard Jazz Quartet starting around 8 p.m. [source: Starry Nites calendar] [all ages] 
Kilbourn Hall
at
Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman Marimba Ensemble starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Touchez pas au grisbi starting at 8 p.m. Founder and co-president of Rialto Pictures, Bruce Goldstein will be on hand to discuss this French noir film. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] 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] |
 National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (half-staff until sunset)
Tonight at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) is the opening reception for their 3rd Annual Holiday Show from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. [source: Image City Photography Gallery website] Tonight at 6 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is the opening reception for Cuddling Cultures and Colors featuring works by Djamila H. ML. Liniger-Strauss which will be on display through January 12. [source: Baobab website] Genesee Pottery at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting the Potter's Potluck — Tour of Chinese Potteries with Gayle Erwin from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar] Tomorrow is the last day to see Ariel Yichun Lin's Lost and Found: A Journey MFA thesis exhibition at The Rochester Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince St.) and tonight from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. is the closing reception for it. [source: Visual Studies Workshop calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) at 7 p.m. is the Re: Member members' show. The upstairs studios are having an Open House at the same time.
[source:
Rochester Contemporary calendar]
[all ages]
The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) will be hosting The Years Gone By , and The Morning Of starting around 7:30 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[13+]
Over at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is Ed Downey, The Years (members of the Blood and Bone Orchestra), and The Brilliant Corners.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Starry Nites Café (696 University Ave., formerly Moonbeans) will be hosting Paul Hodges, and Captain Jack starting around 8 p.m. [source: Starry Nites calendar] [all ages]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting The Varnish Cooks 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 Gojira starting at 8 p.m. Rialto Pictures founder and co-president Bruce Goldstein will be on hand to present this original Japanese version along with a discussion of the differences between it and the Americanized version.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) will be hosting fun, great 1960's-styled rock from The Hi-Risers starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting fantastic hard-hitting acoustic-rock from Old Boy starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
[21+]
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Today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Printing and Book Arts Center at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) is a workshop to Make Your Own Greeting Cards.
[source:
Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) will be presenting a screening of A Patch Of Blue tonight at 7 p.m.
[source:
Baobab website]
Over at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) starting around 7 p.m. is definitive rock band Longwave , and These Electric Lives.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[13+]
Stone Spoon Baboon 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]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Muppet Commercials and Experiments starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. It's what the Muppets were before they were the Muppets.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Java's (16 Gibbs St.) is The Dylan Smith Trio starting around 9 p.m. [source: Java's calendar] [all ages] Over at The California Brew Haus (402 West Ridge Rd.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is crowd-safe "bluesy" country band The Commander Cody Band, and Jeff Elliott. [source: Freetime] Fun ska from Mrs. Skannotto, and okay rock-ska band Room 30 will be at The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is better-than-excellent rock/surf-rock/rockabilly band The Sadies, good white-boy blues band The White Devils, and a perfection of 1980's-styled rock from Tiger Cried Beef starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Over at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is The Shitty Faggots. [Note: Freetime Magazine lists only "S.F." instead, but I deciphered their censorship.]
[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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Today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. is another Holidays at the Market at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) of course.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Today at 2 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a lecture by Peter G. Rose titled The Forgotten Holidays. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages]
Bri's Bitchin' Birthday Bash featuring fucking awesome punk-rock from The Blastoffs, hard/punk rock from The UV Rays , The Spaztiks, The Uta Hagens, The Insubordinates, and Love Pork will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 3 p.m. The bands are really good. I only met Bri a couple times in the past, hanging out more with her mom to drink (friends of friends) and her dad (who's in several bands I've liked) so it's kind of weird, but hey, the bands are really good.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[all ages]
This afternoon from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is another Holiday Musicale this time featuring Margaret-Anne Milne. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
Today at 7 p.m. at Shipping Dock Theatre (31 Prince St., new location at Visual Studies Workshop) is Shipping Dock Unleashed.
[source:
Shipping Dock Theatre website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Le cercle rouge (The Red Circle) starting at 7 p.m. The Eastman House calendar says, "[the] wonderfully tense and philosophical film opens with a Buddhist aphorism about fate binding two men to meet again, and ends with a police chief pronouncing all men ultimately guilty." [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] |
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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.
If you're a member of George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) note that tonight from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. is Members' Only Shopping Night. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Eros and the short film Lo Sguardo Di Michelangelo (Michelangelo Eye To Eye) starting at 8 p.m. The feature is an anthology of three erotic stories from different directors.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
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Tonight at Kilbourn Hall
at
Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Jazz Ensemble starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing King Creole starting at 8 p.m. in which Elvis — playing a nightclub singer — gets wrapped up in a world of crime ... Elvis at his most rebellious.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Matscho.
[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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