Weekly Rochester Events #474 Starting Thursday, February 7, 2008
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Over at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is Critical Theory .
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
The Love will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (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]
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]
Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is Crush the Junta, anti-traditional 3-piece rock from Nod, and Ian Downey is Famous 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, MEETinROCHESTER 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 Studios (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]
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. (100 Alexander St.) is Devall Music 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 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 & Lounge (274 Goodman St. N., in Village Gate) is excellent pure instrumental funk from The Filthy Funk starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Bodhi's Cafe MySpace page]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Troyka 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 Skull Maracas.
[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 Café (561 State St.) is The Annual Valentine's Day Gift Baskets Raffle Party and Wine Tasting Event with jazz by Mike Cottone.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
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]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Sam Buck Rosen starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Good bar-rock/thrash band The Hounds of Hell, and Buffalo's wild rockers Handsome Jack will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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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] |
 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.
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]
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]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is Cruelty Free, and Serenity Falls.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) will be hosting Johnny Rabb's BioDiesel 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]
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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]
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]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Shooting Spires, great instrumental-cacophonous-rock from Science vs. Witchcraft, and Pegacide starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Really good reggae-dub band Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad 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 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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