Weekly Rochester Events #469 Starting Thursday, January 3, 2008
The play Tea at Five returns to Rochester on the stage of Blackfriars Theatre (28 Lawn St.) starting tonight at 7:30 p.m. It runs through January 27.
[source:
Blackfriars Theatre website]
Electric Organic 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 restored 1945 version of The Big Sleep starting at 8 p.m. As the Eastman House calendar puts, it, "forget the convoluted plot co-scripted by William Faulkner—just revel in the thick film noir atmosphere and watch the sexy sparks fly between the two leads!"
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The rocking rockabilly of Krypton 88 will be at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar]
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: Rochester Film Lab Yahoo! Group] Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
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Over at The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.) starting around 5 p.m. is Debbie Kendrick and The Mo' Mo' Betta Bluez Band.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
Tonight at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) is the closing reception for their Re: Member and will feature music by Deciduous vs. Conifer, excellent poetic minimalism from Autumn In Halifax, and great motley folk from Baby Shivers Boutique from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
[all ages]
Dr. Jeffrey Allen Tucker will be at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) at 7 p.m. to discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and other African American folk literature. [source: Baobab website] Tonight at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) is A Televised Reality , and The Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Over at Starry Nites Café (696 University Ave., formerly Moonbeans) starting around 8 p.m. is The Artisan Jazz Trio. [source: Starry Nites calendar] [all ages] Tonight at Blackfriars Theatre (28 Lawn St.) at 8 p.m. is the opening night performance of Moonlight and Magnolias which runs through January 26. [source: Blackfriars Theatre website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Cabaret starting at 8 p.m. in which a singer gets "caught up in the glitz and decadence of interwar Germany."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) is Juxtapose starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
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Today from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. is the opening reception for Elsewhere at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) — their first juried show of works outside their immediate members including Jason Olshefsky.
[source:
Image City Photography Gallery flyer]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is A-Ko, M. C. Homeless, Paulie Think, and P. T. Burnem 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 epic Lawrence of Arabia starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Grime Time, Andy Smash , and The Brüd starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[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 at 2 p.m. is a What's Up Lecture at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) with Sydney Greaves discussing Adoration of the Magi.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Sons of the Desert starting at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar, I gather this is regarded as Laurel & Hardy's best film.
[source:
Dryden Theater 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.
Tonight's Game Night in The Little Theatre Café (240 East Ave.) features the card game euchre. [source: Little Theatre e-mail]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Totall Recall starting at 8 p.m. Maybe you're like me and just want to see Arnie's eyes pop out like a Muppet or that chick with 3 boobs, but the Eastman House has an interesting tidbit about the movie's historical significance: it "was also the last great special-effects epic before the age of computer-generated imagery."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is John Mossey , and Electric Organic 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 Casa de Lava starting at 8 p.m. In it, a woman "returns a comatose migrant laborer back to his seemingly cholera-plagued colonial village home in the Cape Verde Islands, yet the remaining villagers deny knowing the corpse-like man."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Sarah Johnson, noise-based loops and haunting voices from City Harvest Black, Foot and Mouth Disease, and big, fat, loud drum-and-bass/noise from Tuurd 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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