Weekly Rochester Events #492 Starting Thursday, June 12, 2008
This afternoon at 5 p.m. at The Riverside Festival Site (Exchange Blvd. at Court St., under the Freddie-Sue Bridge) is moe. with Reid Genauer and the Assembly of Dust.
[source:
WBER calendar]
Some people from MEETinROCHESTER will be heading to the Vegetarian Open Mic Night at New Health Café (133 Gregory St., formerly Saint Aubyn's House of Soups) starting at 6:30 p.m.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a lecture in the Community Dialogue Series with Dr. Walter Cooper on social activism in Rochester.
[source:
Baobab website]
Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) will be hosting a meeting of The Bertrand Russell Society at 7 p.m. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at The Mercer Gallery at Monroe Community College (1000 E Henrietta Rd., in Building 5) is a screening of Bottle of Wine by Rick Staropoli.
[source:
band e-mail]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is North Lincoln, and You and Me and the Atom Bomb.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Agoniya (Rasputin) starting at 8 p.m. As usual, the Eastman House calendar captures my interest: "alternating between pre-revolution documentary footage and newly filmed color material, Klimov delivers a hypnotic, one-of-a-kind portrait of the legendary 'mad monk' and his deviancy, depravity, and destruction."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Show Is the Rainbow, UUVVWWZ, and Gentleman Auction House will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Tonight at The Black Pearl Cafe (791 Meigs St., formerly Dicky's) is A Drum and an Open Window , Yer Friend, Mike Arthur, Karrah Marie Teague, Tim Avery, and Mike Brown, probably starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
WBER calendar]
Over at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is Tell the Cold Wall .
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
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This evening at 5 p.m. at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) is the opening reception for photos by Margaret Sweger titled Auschwitz-Birkenau Detainment Camps.
[source:
City Newspaper]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) at 7 p.m. is The Red Tag Rumage Sale and great motley-folk from Baby Shivers Boutique followed by The Gifted Children and Nathaniel Seer at 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Tonight and tomorrow is a 2-day A|V Art Sound Space event at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) starting at 7 p.m. — a mix of noise and experimental bands.
[source:
A|V Space website]
[all ages]
Tonight's another Village Idiots Present (VIP) show: Improv Cypher's "Gorilla Theatre" at 7:30 p.m.
[source:
Village Idiots Present website]
Cafe Antarsia Ensemble will be at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Haebyonui yoin (Woman on the Beach) starting at 8 p.m. It's about a film director who has relations with two similar-looking women in a "deadpan comedy of the sexes." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is The Sisters of Murphy starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
Tonight and tomorrow at The High Falls Gorge (Platt St at Browns Race, the Pont De Rennes Bridge) starting around 9:30 p.m. is the River of Light Laser Show. [source: City Hall press release] |
 Flag Day
Today and tomorrow is the Maplewood Rose Festival at The Maplewood Rose Garden (Driving Park and Lake Ave.) probably starting around 10 a.m. [source: City Hall press release]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at Bodhi's Cafe & Lounge (274 Goodman St. N., in Village Gate) is technical and melodic acoustic soloist Kinloch Nelson and then at 9:30 p.m. it's great funk band The Filthy Funk.
[source:
Bodhi's Cafe MySpace page]
Tonight at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) is Auld Lang Syng, and The Color Wheels starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is Lucas Carpenter 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 All About Eve starting at 8 p.m. "Fasten your seatbelts—it's going to be a bumpy night."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) is Guitourist starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Equal=Grounds MySpace page]
[all ages]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Victory Fest with good metal from Sulaco, Burn Everything, Like Wolves, and Hellcat Maggie starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is The Lonely H , Sikamor Rooney, and The Found.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Late tonight — after midnight or so — is the After Hours Jam Session at The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.)
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
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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Father's Day
Today from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. is a Community Garage Sale and Super Flea Sale at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) [source: City Hall press release]
Today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. is Trolley Follies at The New York Museum of Transportation
and
Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum (6393 East River Rd., West Henrietta) featuring movies, demonstrations, and trolley rides.
[source:
Freetime]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing It's A Gift starting at 7 p.m. followed by Man on the Flying Trapeze at 8:30 p.m. — a couple W. C. Fields films. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Mannequin Men, Tearwave, and June Rising starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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Over at The Main Street Armory (900 E. Main St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Modest Mouse, and Love As Laughter.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is low-to-mid tempo alternative-semi-experimental band The Weird Weeds, and excellent digitally-manipulated acoustic music from Autumn In Halifax starting around 9 p.m.
[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] |
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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.
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing A Safe Place starting at 8 p.m. about "a young hippie trapped in a world of her own fantasies and torn between two men".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Hyperion Blast starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Gloria starting at 8 p.m. It's a John Cassavetes film about a woman takes to protecting a little boy from the mob after his entire family is killed.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players [and I'm really quite somewhat not uncertain this is a more official date than last time], great motley-folk from Baby Shivers Boutique, and funny and clever soloist The Bicycats starting around 9 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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