Weekly Rochester Events #475 Starting Thursday, February 14, 2008
Valentine's Day
Today at 5:15 p.m. in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is another Thursday Thinkers lecture titled Creativity in Later Years (referring to Duke Ellington's lifetime creativity) by Dr. Jeffrey Lyness.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Today at 6:30 p.m., The Little (240 East Ave.) will be screening July '64. It's about the three-day riot in the streets of Rochester, NY starting July 24, 1964. [source: Little Theatre calendar] At George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) tonight at 6:30 p.m. is a Rochester Teen Slam for spoken-word responses to the exhibition Not Forgotten: Portraits of Life and Death in Rochester. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) will be hosting a meeting of The Bertrand Russell Society tonight at 7 p.m. Howard A. Blair will give a discussion on How Bertrand Russell Knew the Deal on Causation. "The notion of cause and effect seems obvious, but Bertrand Russell in a 1912 essay said that, scientifically speaking, it is a relic of a bygone age."
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
The Artisan Jazz Trio 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 Laura starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman calendar, it's "one of the most hauntingly romantic of all films noir. Tough and crude cop McPherson ... investigates the murder of beautiful advertising executive Laura Hunt ... and falls in love with her portrait."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is the rockin' rockabilly of Krypton 88  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] |
|
This evening at 6 p.m. at The Rochester Regional Community Design Center (RRCDC) (1115 E. Main St., in the Hungerford Complex) is the gallery opening for the We Shape Our City featuring the results of the Downtown Charrette.
[source:
Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail]
If you're up for meeting new people, MEETinROCHESTER is hosting a get-together for Fish Fry Friday at Jeremiah's Tavern (1104 Monroe Ave.) at 6 p.m. Be sure to sign up at the website.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Tonight at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is The Sunstreak , The Hoodies, and The Spiral Staircase starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[13+]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a screening of Afrique, je te plumerai (Africa, I'm Going to Fleece You). Discussion of the film will be facilitated by John K. Marah. [source: Baobab website] The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) will be hosting Azure Sky starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Serlingtons.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Gates starting at 8 p.m. Documentarian Antonio Ferrera will be on hand to discuss his film covering the 15 years it took for Christo and Jeanne-Claude to complete The Gates installation in New York City's Central Park.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Ringworm, The Red Death, The Sirens, The Sailors, and Borrowed Time starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
[21+]
|
|
This evening from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is an Exhibition Party for Larry Towell: The World From My Front Porch and Black in America: Eli Reed.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is Songwriters in the Round featuring Paul Swiatek, charismatic and varied soloist Scott Regan, witty and accomplished acoustic soloist Brian Coughlin, Taylor Buckley, and Perry Cleaveland .
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Vox Humana, Victory Light Black Honey, and Hungness (formerly Kill Myself on Monday) will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Belated Valentine's Day show featuring Paradigm Shift will be at The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.) starting around 9 p.m. followed late by The After Hours Jam Session with The Quinn Lawrence Trio starting around midnight.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
Tonight at 9 p.m. at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) is another Erotic Night featuring music, poetry, and art.
[source:
Craigslist Rochester events]
[all ages]
Tonight starting around 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is the annual Valentine's Day Massacre show featuring dozens of local bands drowning their sorrows.
[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. |
|
This afternoon at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a couple events. First at 1:15 p.m. is Behind the Scenes of The Dutch Connection with Amy Kinsey. Then at 3 p.m. is a Musicale with pianist Helen Wright.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Pierrot le fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) starting at 7 p.m. From the Eastman Calendar, "'The story of the last romantic couple' said director Godard of his brilliant portrait of two lovers on the run". [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] |
 President's Day
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting around 7 p.m. is The Eastman Chamber Music Society. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
This evening at 7 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a discussion titled Where Do We Go From Here? with local leaders discussing the subjects of Not Forgotten: Portraits of Life and Death in Rochester.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is Sole and the Skyrider Band, Telephone Jim Jesus, and excellent satirical gospel band The Lobster Quadrille.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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] |
|
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 the Gleason Auditorium of The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is another Tuesday Topics lecture with City engineer Jim McIntosh discussing How Safe is Our Infrastructure?
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting Ossia New Music 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 Dillinger è morto (Dillinger is Dead) starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman calendar, "a bored industrial designer discovers an old revolver in his home, wrapped in a 1934 newspaper announcing the death of a famous American gangster. He paints the gun with red-and-white polka dots, seduces his maid, and contemplates suicide as well as his wife's murder."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Apes, Company, and a perfectly just-off-from-perfect 1980's-styled rock band Tiger Cried Beef starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
|
|
Tonight at Kilbourn Hall
at
Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Wind Ensemble 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 Down by Law starting at 8 p.m. in which a trio of convicts breaks out of prison.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Java's (16 Gibbs St.) starting around 9 p.m. is Krum. [source: Java's calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is A-Ko, Audibel, Chae Hawk, and Tone Pony starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
This evening starting at 10:01 p.m. through 10:51 p.m. is a Total Lunar Eclipse. The partial eclipse will be visible from 8:45 p.m. to 12:09 a.m.
[source:
NASA Eclipse Home Page]
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] |
| Last Week |
Respond
| Read Guestbook
| Sign Guestbook
|
(Note that you can add comments to specific blog entries.)
Current Rochester Weather
Internet Movie Database
On this day ... February 14
Advertising:
DreamHost Web Hosting
I use DreamHost to run JayceLand.com. Click the ad to buy hosting and I'll get money to run my site. Hooray!
Store at CafePress
Buy some JayceLand junk at sky high prices!
Related Sites:
Freetime Magazine
The City
Rochester Music Coalition
Rochester Wiki
Rochester Blog
Rochester Goes Out (D&C)
RochesterDowntown.com
Rochester Punk Rock
Jazz@Rochester
Jazz 90.1
Delusions of Adequacy
My Rochester
InfoRochester
@ Rochester
RochesterDrinks
Kids Out and About
Weather Underground
Blog-Related:
links to a band's page on GarageBand.com which offers reviews and information about bands.
links to a band's page on MySpace.com which is a friend-networking site that is popular with bands.