Weekly Rochester Events #466 Starting Thursday, December 13, 2007
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Today (well yesterday, actually) through Sunday at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is The Holiday Fiction Used Book Sale in Kate Gleason Auditorium Today's hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages] This evening from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is their Holiday Homecoming ... mostly for families. [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 Freedom to Marry followed by a discussion with Todd Plank.
[source:
Baobab website]
The Bertrand Russell Society meets tonight at 7 p.m. at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] Tonight The Community Biking Alliance (CBA) changed their meeting place to The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) staring at 7 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Teressa Wilcox  , and Mike Z will be at Starry Nites Café (696 University Ave., formerly Moonbeans) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Starry Nites calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Third Man starting at 8 p.m. in which a writer looking for his friend "gets caught in a growing web of deceit, corruption, and political intrigue."
[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] |
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This evening from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is their Holiday Social and Fund Raiser Event featuring Djamila H. ML. Liniger-Strauss.
[source:
Baobab website]
Tonight at 5 p.m. at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) is the opening for Political Art Originals and Award Winning Animation Videos/DVDs by Dave Puls. If you haven't seen his work, it's worth a look — he definitely has his own style. [source: City Newspaper] Tonight at 6:15 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is the meeting of a Movie and Talk Group in the cafe. [source: MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is a book release and gallery opening for Nicholas Gurewitch's The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories which features comics from his hilarious series The Perry Bible Fellowship.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) is This Other Life, and The Million Dollar Trailers starting around 8 p.m. [source: Water Street calendar] [16+]
Tonight at Starry Nites Café (696 University Ave., formerly Moonbeans) is The Varnish Cooks starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Starry Nites calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Eastman Wind Orchestra. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Seraphim Falls starting at 8 p.m. It's about a group of people trying to survive in the West shortly after the Civil War.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
40 Rod Lightning will be at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
[21+]
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Over at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is Darnere Dunfore.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Disorienting, deliberately annoying, experimental anti-band Gaybot, and excellent down-tempo medium-fi synth-pop from Roger Houston will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bunker (see source website for details on getting the address) is The Three-Legged Race, Caboladies, something like semi-melodic fast-paced noise from Pengo, and noise-based loops and haunting voices from City Harvest Black starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
Cavalcade, Inugami, and Magic Wolf will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Over at The Black Pearl Cafe (791 Meigs St., formerly Dicky's) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Deep Blue. [source: Rochester Music Coalition calendar] 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]
The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) will be hosting Dexter Ardoin and the Creole Ramblers, and The All Night Ramblers starting around 12 p.m.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Muppet Treasure Island starting this afternoon at 2 p.m. Treasure Island + Muppets = this movie.
[source:
Eastman House 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 The Clarinet Collection. [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 The Man Who Would Be King starting at 7 p.m. So what happens when a couple guys are mistaken for being more than mortal and start to believe it? (Note that Eastman House members get in free.)
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is The Walking Corpses, dark heavy metal from Avulsion, Blood Bath and Beyond, Spoonful Of Vicodin, Loaded For Bear , and Deep Shit.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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Tonight at 7:30 p.m. is another Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.)
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Kilbourn Hall
at
Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman New Jazz Ensemble starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[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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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.
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is Azure Sky 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 Blowup starting at 8 p.m. in which a guy snaps pictures in a park and unintentionally gets clues to a murder.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting wild, dirty rock from Handsome Jack , really great, tight, current punk-rock from 5 Watt Bulb, and Roger Kuhn starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Night of the Hunter starting at 8 p.m. in which a "murderous man of the cloth [pursues] two children and a cache of stolen money."
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is good "horror movie soundtrack" hard-rock from J. G. Blizaro , and The Apostles Of The Hidden Son starting around 10:30 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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