Weekly Rochester Events #472 Starting Thursday, January 24, 2008
Tonight at 5 p.m. in the Hawkins-Carlson Room of The Rush Rhees Library at The University of Rochester (Library Rd. at Intercampus Dr., details on River Campus Map) is a lecture by Steven Kurtz titled Crossing the Line: Interdisciplinary Work in a Society of Fear.
[source:
University of Rochester website]
Tonight at 6 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) are two separate events. There's a Members' Conservation Clinic for tips on how to care for old photographs, and there's a Photo Lecture by Will Yurman on his exhibition Not Forgotten: Portraits of Life and Death in Rochester.
[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 Spotlight on Global Issues: Coming Out of the Smoke followed by a discussion with Ben W. Ebenhack on the growth of modern energy consumption in Africa. [source: Baobab website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Nightmare Alley starting at 8 p.m. It's a gritty film noir about the "dark and seamy side of carnival life".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) is Animal Forum  starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
WBER 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: 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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Apparently
The Critical Mass Bike Ride
is tonight starting at 5:30 p.m. at the clock tower near
The Wilson Commons
at
The University of Rochester
(Library Road, #39 on River Campus Map.)
to
The Liberty Pole
(1 Liberty Pole Way)
at 6 p.m. and heading through the city from there.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
Really talented guitarist and singer Kinloch Nelson will be at Bodhi's Cafe & Lounge (274 Goodman St. N., in Village Gate) starting around 6:30 p.m.
[source:
Bodhi's Cafe MySpace page]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting The Soups of the Day, Walri, and Nora Kaminski starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Shipping Dock Theatre (31 Prince St., new location at Visual Studies Workshop) is Shipping Dock Unleashed .
[source:
Shipping Dock Theatre mailing]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Strange Culture starting at 8 p.m. Steven Kurtz will be on hand as well to discuss this film about his encounter with the U.S. Government's overzealous use of the PATRIOT Act.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight and tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is more improvisational comedy with Geva Comedy Improv.
[source:
RocWiki]
The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) will be hosting pure instrumental funk from The Filthy Funk starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
Tonight probably starting around 7 p.m. at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) is the Subversive Komedy Fest. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
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The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) will be hosting RedLine Zydeco, and The All Night Ramblers starting around 7 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 Tina Albright with The Steve Greene Trio. [source: House of Hamez website] [all ages]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Varnish Cooks.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Starship Troopers starting at 8 p.m. Although I missed the message when it came out, I've come to realize this is as the Eastman Calendar notes: "one of contemporary cinema's great anti-war satires, taking every opportunity to lampoon fascist ideology". (And as an added bonus, watch for comedian and actor Greg Travis as the reporter who gets gruesomely killed — he's the same guy who gets the crap beat out of him for tailgating in
Lost Highway and generally gets somehow thrown around in several other movies.)
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Potential Life Studios (34 Elton St.) starting around 8 p.m. is noise-based loops and haunting voices from City Harvest Black, Deep Fried Radio Static For a New American Century, 8:14am, and Nothing Moves Inside.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
Tonight at The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.) is Mike Cottone starting around 9 p.m. followed by The After Hours Jam Session with The Quinn Lawrence Trio.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
Tonight at The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) is Jae Mood, and Aranka Fabian starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
JamBase calendar for Rochester]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting a Roast of Todd "Grinder" with his band The Grinders starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Good stoner rock-influenced rock band Argus Eye will be at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) 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 Praise starting at 7 p.m. Filmmaker John Curran will be on hand to introduce and discuss his "decidedly offbeat, and ultimately haunting story of love between two outsiders." Also screening is his short film, Down Rusty Down.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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A new program titled The Hornets' Nest starts tonight at 7 p.m. at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) with a script-in-hand reading of Back of the Throat by Yussef el Guindi. The play deals with the supposed balance between freedom and security.
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
Tonight at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is another Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis at 7:30 p.m. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
In theory, there is another
Emerging Filmmakers Program
tonight at
The Little
(240 East Ave.)
at 9:15 p.m., but I haven't heard anything about it so your guess is as good as mine. As soon as I get the details I'll post the films.
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting thick bass-driven noise from Tuurd, instrumental-cacophonous-rock from Science vs. Witchcraft, and Red Tag Rummage Sale starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
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.
Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a Tuesday Topics discussion with Mayor Robert J. Duffy discussing Public Safety and Our Community. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages] Tonight's Game Night in The Little Theatre Café (240 East Ave.) features an assortment of board games. [source: Little Theatre e-mail] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Serenity starting at 8 p.m. in which the crew of a cargo spaceship "protect a mysterious young girl by avoiding the fascist Alliance and a powerful bounty hunter." Of interest is that the movie was made largely at the insistence of fans of the related television series, Firefly. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Vinnie's Attic starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] [18+]
The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) will be hosting Four Finger Five starting around 9:30 p.m. [I thought it funny that Freetime Magazine has this band listed as Four Finger Eleven.]
[source:
JamBase calendar for Rochester]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Juventude Em Marcha (Colossal Youth) starting at 8 p.m. in which a man who visits his fellow immigrants living in a housing project at the site of a demolished slum.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Shitty Faggots , and The Dead Catholics 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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