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Weekly Rochester Events #474 Starting Thursday, February 7, 2008


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JayceLand Pick Today at 4:30 p.m. at Lyell Branch Library (956 Lyell Ave.) is the unveiling of a dollhouse from China restored by Pamela Meyers. Here's the meat of the press release: "Approximately 90 years ago, the Pulaski Branch of the Rochester Public Library received a gift of a dollhouse from China. It was displayed there until the branch closed in 1990. The house fascinated many children and adults throughout the years." [source: City Hall press release]

JayceLand Pick Today at 5:15 p.m. in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a Thursday Thinkers lecture titled Our View of Iran by Shahin Monshipour. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick This evening at 6:30 p.m. in the Curtis Auditorium at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is an Artists Panel Discussion with Will Yurman, Juliana Muniz, and Heather Layton on the exhibition Not Forgotten: Portraits of Life and Death in Rochester. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Night and The City starting at 8 p.m. Another excellent example of film noir. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) will be hosting blues-charged rock-and-roll from Buford and the Smoking Section starting around 10 p.m. [source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar]

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 Gallery at The Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester (277 N. Goodman St.) is the opening reception for Jazz: The Spirit of the Moment by James Allen. The works will be on display through February 28. [source: Arts and Cultural Council website]

JayceLand Pick Tonight at 6 p.m. at The Golden Dynasty Restaurant (1900 S. Clinton Ave., in Loehmann's Plaza, not the one on East Ave.) is a Chinese New Year Lion Dance. [source: Craigslist Rochester events]

JayceLand Pick The Little (240 East Ave.) will be screening Strange Fruit tonight at 6:30 p.m. then again at 3 p.m. tomorrow and 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. As they describe it, "in 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled 'Strange Fruit' that begins with the words: 'Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.'" [source: Little Theatre calendar]

Tonight at 5 p.m. at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) is a presentation of A Year in Portraits: Rochester's Homicide Victims by Jeremy Oversier. [source: City Newspaper]

JayceLand Pick Over at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is Critical TheoryGarageBand link. [source: House of Hamez website] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The LoveMySpace link will be at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee MySpace site] [all ages]

St. Mary's Church (15 Saint Marys Pl.) will be hosting The Eastman Chorale starting around 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Man Who Fell to Earth starting at 8 p.m. in which David Bowie plays an alien looking for a way to save his dying home planet. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Tonight at Monty's KrownMySpace link (875 Monroe Ave.) is Crush the JuntaMySpace link, anti-traditional 3-piece rock from Nod, and Ian Downey is FamousMySpace link starting around 10:30 p.m. [source: Carbon Records calendar] [21+]


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Today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) is a class titled Valentines and Vandercooks where you "design and print a Valentine's Day card using letterpress techniques on one of our 2 Vandercook printing presses." [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]

Today at 10:15 a.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is another Members' Upstairs/Downstairs Tour. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

If you'd like to meet some new people, MEETinROCHESTERMySpace link is holding a Chinese New Year Dim Sum at The Cantonese House (3159 S. Winton Rd.) for lunch today at 11 a.m. Sign up at the MeetIn site. [source: MEETinROCHESTER calendar]

This evening at 6 p.m. at Potential Life StudiosMySpace link (34 Elton St.) is the opening reception for When the Rest of the World Remains Silent... by Jeremy Dziedzic and Colleen Guthrie. [source: City Newspaper]

Top Pick Today at 6:30 p.m., tomorrow at 12 p.m. and again on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of July '64. It's about the three-day riot in the streets of Rochester, NY starting July 24, 1964. Note that tonight's screening will be followed by a discussion led by filmmakers Carvin Eison and Chris Christopher. [source: Little Theatre calendar]

This evening at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) at 7 p.m. is Community Dialogue 3: Black Folks are Failing; Hip Hop, Parenting, Inspiring Ourselves and Our Youth with Sean McLeod. [source: Baobab website]

Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) is Devall MusicMySpace link starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee MySpace site] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Bigger Than Life starting at 8 p.m. Novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem will be on hand to discuss this film about a man whose sanity dissipates after a cortisone treatment. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

Tonight at 8:30 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) (and again tomorrow at 3 p.m. and Monday at 9 p.m.) is a screening of Ray: the story of Ray Charles. [source: Little Theatre calendar]

Tonight at Bodhi's Cafe & LoungeMySpace link (274 Goodman St. N., in Village Gate) is excellent pure instrumental funk from The Filthy FunkMySpace link starting around 10 p.m. [source: Bodhi's Cafe MySpace page]

Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is TroykaMySpace link starting around 10:30 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] [21+]

Over at Monty's KrownMySpace link (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is The Skull MaracasGarageBand linkMySpace link. [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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This morning at 11 a.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a Valentine's Day Brunch in the Potter Peristyle followed by a 12 p.m. screening of Charade in the Dryden Theatre. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

Today starting around 11:30 a.m. at Ontario Beach Park (Beach Ave. at Lake Ave.) is The 24th Annual Lakeside Winter Celebration. [source: MEETinROCHESTER calendar]

Today at 3 p.m. is a Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) featuring pianist Beata E. Golec. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

This evening at 5 p.m. at The Flat Iron CaféMySpace link (561 State St.) is The Annual Valentine's Day Gift Baskets Raffle Party and Wine Tasting Event with jazz by Mike CottoneMySpace link. [source: Flat Iron Cafe webstie]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing La Chinoise starting at 7 p.m. The Eastman House calendar notes, "this stylish and energetic critique of a Maoist cell of Sorbonne students in Paris helped inspire student revolt at Columbia University". [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Sam Buck RosenMySpace link starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee MySpace site] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Good bar-rock/thrash band The Hounds of HellMySpace link, and Buffalo's wild rockers Handsome JackGarageBand linkMySpace link will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] [18+]


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JayceLand Pick Tonight at 6:30 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Oatka Trail which features a dance inspired by a Seneca Indian trail near Rochester. After the film is a discussion with Fay Ray, Geri Kennedy, and Garth Fagan. [source: Little Theatre calendar]

Tonight at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is Eastman Chamber Jazz 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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Fly the flag today.Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809)

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.

JayceLand Pick Today at 12:12 p.m. in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a discussion by Joni Monroe titled Changes Downtown: Plans and Designs. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

The Eastman Percussion Ensemble will be at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting around 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Happy Birthday, Wanda June starting at 8 p.m. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. adapted his own play into film. It's about a man who abandoned his family only to become reunited and find his ex-wife to be much more interesting than he remembered. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is Cruelty FreeGarageBand link, and Serenity FallsMySpace link. [source: Bug Jar calendar] [18+]

JayceLand Pick The Dub Land UndergroundMySpace link (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) will be hosting Johnny Rabb's BioDieselMySpace link starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: JamBase calendar for Rochester]


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This morning at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) at 9 a.m. is a Members' Curator Coffee Talk with Landscape Curator Amy Kinsey. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Updated: This evening at 6 p.m. at The Downtown United Presbyterian Church (121 N. Fitzhugh St N.) is a presentation of the Downtown Charrette Report. [source: Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail] [all ages]

Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Eastman Jazz Ensemble. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Stranger Than Paradise starting at 8 p.m. — a deadpan comedy about a group of friends dealing with the 1980's. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Shooting SpiresMySpace link, great instrumental-cacophonous-rock from Science vs. WitchcraftMySpace link, and PegacideMySpace link starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] [18+]

Really good reggae-dub band Giant Panda Guerilla Dub SquadMySpace link will be at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) starting around 10 p.m. [source: Water Street calendar] [13+]

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 KrownMySpace link (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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