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Weekly Rochester Events #489 Starting Thursday, May 22, 2008

{The Tap and Mallet}
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JayceLand Pick This evening at 6 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.), Teru Kuwayama will present a Photography Lecture titled No Man's Land: Survival at the Ends of the Empire. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Call ahead then visit the studios of WXXI (280 State St.) around 6:45 p.m. for the live taping of WXXI's OnStage with wicked fun percussion-and-saxophone dominated jam band The BuddhaHoodMySpace link. [source: WXXI website]

JayceLand Pick Geva Comedy ImprovMySpace link's Gevapocalypse Now! continues tonight through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and also on Friday and Saturday at 10:30 p.m. at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.): "Geva Theatre's entire season, performed by eight guys. In 90 minutes." [source: RocWiki calendar]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Hiroshima, Mon Amour starting at 8 p.m. It's about a married actress who falls in love with an architect in Japan which reminds her of her first affair during the German occupation of France. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Local HMySpace link, and LionsMySpace link starting around 9 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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Clouds: Photographic Variations on Prints, Canvas, and Silk by Daniel P. Crozet opens tonight at 5 p.m. at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) It will be on display through June 15. [source: Image City Photography Gallery e-mail]

JayceLand Pick Sam WeirMySpace link will be at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) tonight at 7 p.m. followed by The Varnish CooksMySpace link at 8. [source: Boulder Coffee MySpace site] [all ages]

Tonight at Equal=GroundsMySpace link (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) is clever, charismatic, and skilled acoustic soloist Connie Deming starting around 8 p.m. [source: Equal=Grounds MySpace page] [all ages]

The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) will be hosting Joshua KnappMySpace link starting around 8 p.m. [source: Mez website] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 5 p.m. From the Eastman House Calendar: "At a baroque European hotel, a nameless hero (Giorgio Albertazzi) tries to persuade the nameless heroine (Delphine Seyrig) that they met the previous year." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]


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Over at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is North HeroMySpace link, Stone BabyMySpace link, and Joe+n. [source: Mez website] [all ages]

Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting The Greater AwakeningMySpace 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 Blade Runner starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 7 p.m. They're showing "The Final Cut" (a.k.a., "really, serious guys I mean it this time.") of the vision-of-the-future defining science fiction film. In it, replicants — manufactured human-like beings created as slaves — begin to gain self-awareness and a need for purpose, and as such must be destroyed. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

The Ben Britton BandMySpace link will be at The Flat Iron CaféMySpace link (561 State St.) starting around 9 p.m. followed by The After Hours Jam Session with The Quinn Lawrence TrioMySpace link. [source: Flat Iron Cafe webstie]

JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is post-rock band Nod, a perfection of rock-and-roll from Tiger Cried BeefMySpace link, and WalriMySpace 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 Like a PantherMySpace 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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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The RIT Student Honors Show starting early this morning at 11 a.m. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Rapid-fire modern metalish rock from The Gentlemen's Club, and great, somewhat mellow rock-and-roll band HinkleyMySpace link will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] [18+]


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Fly the flag today.Memorial Day Observed (half-staff until noon)

JayceLand Pick Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is The Heroine SheiksMySpace link, disorienting noise-and-lights show from AutoanimalMySpace link, and Dr. Zaes. [source: Bug Jar calendar] [18+]

JayceLand Pick 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.

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.

This evening at 6 p.m. is a Tuesday Nature Night bike ride along the Genesee Riverway Trail starting at The High Falls Gorge (Platt St at Browns Race, the Pont De Rennes Bridge). [source: City Hall press release]

Over at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is good jazz band Bending and Breaking. [source: Boulder Coffee MySpace site] [all ages]

The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Jules et Jim (Jules and Jim) starting at 8 p.m. about a love triangle between Jules, Jim, and Katherine in war-torn France. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Spinto BandMySpace link, Pepi GinsbergMySpace link, and Jon Moses will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. I have a good feeling about this show ... [source: Croquet Shows website]

Over at Monty's KrownMySpace link (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is CrucifistMySpace link. [source: WITR calendar] [21+]


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JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing A Woman Under the Influence starting at 8 p.m. It's a John Cassavetes film about "a painfully insecure woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown" struggling to maintain an American marriage. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting surf-rock and stage-show from The IsotopesMySpace link, and good white-boy blues from The White DevilsMySpace link starting around 9:30 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 Dogtown Hots (691 Monroe Ave.) at 7 p.m. is the Rochester Cruisers Wednesday Night Cruise (for bicyclists). [source: the proverbial grapevine]

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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