Weekly Rochester Events #476 Starting Thursday, February 21, 2008
This afternoon at 5:15 p.m. in Gleason Auditorium of The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is another Thursday Thinkers lecture. Walter Ruehle will discuss A Human and Legal Look at Immigration.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight in the Curtis Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is Families and Friends: A Place of Compassion, Experience, and Support with Audrey Smith, founder of Families and Friends of Murdered Children and Victims of Violence (FFMCVV). [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] This evening at 7 p.m. at The Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Ave.) is a meeting of The Rochester Genealogical Society with James Swartz discussing National and Regional Genealogy Societies and a panel of historians with Kathy Kanauer, Mary Jo Lanphear, and Audrey M. Johnson discussing How Can Historians Help With Our Genealogy Research? [source: Rochester Genealogical Society website] [all ages]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Orchard Drive , and The Highway Beautiful starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Eastman Chamber Percussion Group will be at Kilbourn Hall 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 Force of Evil and He Ran All the Way starting at 8 p.m. In the first, an attorney is involved with the New York numbers racket. In the second, a man who killed a cop is on the run from the law. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) is Ed Downey's CD Release Party starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Bird Names, dreary low-key acoustic from Carbonic, and Attic Basement starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
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Today at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is the opening of a play performed by Shipping Dock Theatre (31 Prince St., new location at Visual Studies Workshop) titled Frozen starting at 7:30 p.m. [source: Shipping Dock Theatre website] Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is loud, fast rock from El Destructo, The White Rose, and The Celluloids.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Over at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Eastman Philharmonia. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Killer of Sheep starting at 8 p.m. Just a slice of everyday life in the 1970's in Watts, California.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tight, technical hard rock from BML, The Dirty Bourbon Blues Band, Kaged, and amazing acoustic-rock from Old Boy will be at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) starting around 9 p.m. for Little Ones Need Organs Too — A Benefit for Tyler J. Nichols.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[13+]
High Fidelity (170 East Ave., formerly Milestones) will be hosting tight, fun modern-rock band The Meddling Kids, and Simplelife starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
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Discreet Charm Productions will be hosting a film premiere at 7 p.m. at The School of the Arts (45 Prince St.) featuring short films by writer/director Neal Dhand along with a new trailer for their film Sleep Shift.
[source:
Craigslist Rochester events]
Great acoustic soloist Maria Gillard, and clever, charismatic soloist Connie Deming will be at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Arms and Sleepers, and Laura Higgins will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) along with 16mm Films and Videos 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 Forever starting at 8 p.m. — a documentary about visitors to the Cimetière du Père Lachaise (Père Lachaise Cemetery) (Boulevard de Ménilmontant, Paris, France).
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is good bar-rock band Burning Daylight, great, somewhat mellow rock-and-roll from Hinkley, and good countrified bar-rock and covers from Blue Jimmy 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 Dead Catholics.
[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 afternoon at 2 p.m. in Rundel Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a presentation titled Geothermal Energy and Your Home.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
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Tonight at 6:30 p.m., MEETinROCHESTER is getting together at Paola's Burrito Place (1921 South Ave., formerly Big Dog's Hots) for a Mexican Monday Dinner. Sign up at the website to join.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Norm Davis is back with another Wide Open Mic tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] Java's (16 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Tom Lowery Quartet starting around 9 p.m. [source: Java's calendar] [all ages]
This evening at 9:15 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a special Black History Month screening of The Emerging Filmmakers Series.
[source:
Rochester Film Lab Yahoo! Group]
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 at 12:12 p.m. in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is another Tuesday Topics lecture titled Free Lunch. It's not clear from the description who will be presenting: possibly John C. Bogle or author David Cay Johnston although neither are particularly likely.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is Greg Carder, and Solomon Blaylock starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Over at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 8 p.m. is The Respect Sextet. [source: WBER calendar] [all ages] |
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Over at Java's (16 Gibbs St.) starting around 9 p.m. is The Jeremy Siskind Trio.
[source:
Java's calendar]
[all ages]
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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