Weekly Rochester Events #493 Starting Thursday, June 19, 2008
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy , and Lady Rose will be at The Riverside Festival Site (Exchange Blvd. at Court St., under the Freddie-Sue Bridge) starting around 5 p.m.
[source:
WBER calendar]
Over at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) starting around 7 p.m. is A Kidnap In Color, and Hush Hush Commotion.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Buy Me That Town starting early at 7 p.m. followed by San Antonio Rose at 8:30. Film scholar and preservationist Michael Schlesinger will introduce these entertaining, quickly-produced films of the 1940's.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight in Star Alley [perhaps the pocket park next door or Hipster Alley in back] at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) is Jive Mama, Jen Graney, and Harlow starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
WBER calendar]
[21+]
Shotgun Willy will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Jukebox the Ghost, and Via Audio starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is wicked fun percussion-and-saxophone dominated jam band The BuddhaHood 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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Today from 12:10 p.m. to 12:35 p.m. at Washington Square Park (Woodbury Blvd at South Clinton Ave, across from Geva Theatre) is an Architecture for Lunch lecture with Cynthia Howk.
[source:
Landmark Society calendar]
Tonight at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) is the opening reception for America Through a German's Eye by Matthias Finke .
[source:
City Newspaper]
Tonight at 7 p.m. starting at the Lower Gate House across from Lamberton Conservatory (Reservoir Rd.) is a tour by Tim O'Connell titled Frederick Law Olmsted's Vision of Highland Park.
[source:
Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail]
[all ages]
Over at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. is good singer and storyteller Jerry Falzone, Warren Paul, Chris Wilson, and clever and charismatic vocalist Connie Deming. [source: Mez website] [all ages]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is The Skull Maracas 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 I compagni (The Organizer) starting at 8 p.m. Turning to the words of the Eastman House Calendar, it's about a "a socialist labor organizer in turn-of-the-century Turin who helps textile workers fight for better working conditions." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Tonight starting around 10:30 is another Chroma party at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) [source: Bug Jar calendar]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Clockers, and The Patrons Of Sweet 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] |
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Today from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The South Presbyterian Church (4 E. Henrietta Rd.) is a Community Design Workshop to address traffic issues on Mount Hope Ave. from Raleigh St. to Elmwood Ave. Interested community members are encouraged to contact Marcia Barry for more information at 428-6858 or barrym@cityofrochester.gov.
[source:
City Hall press release]
James — one of the members of MEETinROCHESTER — will be hosting a screening of The Big Lebowski at his home at 7:30 p.m. Sign up at the site if you're interested.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is overlapping entertainment: Saturday Night Comedy hosted by Matt Rohr along with Josh DuPré, Nate Cronk, and Caleb Hawley.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing All That Jazz starting at 8 p.m. Again, I quote straight from the calendar: "[Bob] Fosse broke conventions with a film that brings the classic musical into the hospital (or vice versa). Like Fellini's 8 1/2, he tells the semi-autobiographical story of a chain-smoking and womanizing Broadway choreographer and movie director (the late Roy Scheider)".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Jed Curran will be at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Equal=Grounds MySpace page]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10 p.m. is awesome, tight, complex rock and roll from The VEiNS, bar-rock band Swab, "horror movie soundtrack" band J. G. Blizaro, and The Dead Catholics.
[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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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]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Idi i smotri (Come and See) starting at 7 p.m. about a boy in Nazi-occupied Russia who joins a group of fighters and witnesses atrocities after his own village is destroyed.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Tonight at Paola's Burrito Place (1921 South Ave., formerly Big Dog's Hots) is Mexican Monday Dinner through MEETinROCHESTER starting around 6:30 p.m.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting multifaceted musician Ian Downey is Famous, and Hi Red Center starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
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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Midsummer Day
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. Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (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 Play It As It Lays starting at 8 p.m. about an actress whose life goes to shit after her marriage ends.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Lustkillers, Grimetime, and very good punk-rock from Taduya starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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The Kite Party will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting early around 6 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Love Streams starting at 8 p.m. In this John Cassavetes film, a man who doesn't love at all is reunited with a child he never knew while his sister loses her daughter because she loves too much.
[source:
Dryden Theater 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 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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