Weekly Rochester Events #512 Starting Thursday, October 30, 2008
In the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.), Andrew Cross will discuss The Middle of Nowhere — The Center of Everywhere starting at 6 p.m. (He created the exhibition Passing Time: Recent Video which is on display in Museum).
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.), David Pollack will discuss The Craftiest Art: Japanese Surimono Prints. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] 
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Halloween starting at 8 p.m. A classic where a "faceless psychopath" murders a house full of teenagers.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar  (219 Monroe Ave.) is Everthus the Deadbeats, Walri, and The Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Halloween
Apparently The Critical Mass Bike Ride is tonight starting at 5:30 p.m. at the clock tower near The Wilson Commons at The University of Rochester (Library Road, #39 on River Campus Map.) to The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way) at 6 p.m. and heading through the city from there. [source: the proverbial grapevine]
Tonight at 6 p.m. is the opening reception for Bushwacked, "political art exhibit curated by Keven Atoms" at The Method Lab (650 South Ave., formerly Condé Photography).
[source:
City Newspaper]
Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is hosting a Literary Costume Party and Halloween Open Mic hosted by Gregory Gerard and Sonia Livingston starting at 7 p.m. Costumes required. (!) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) at 7 p.m., Carvin Eison will be screening an excerpt from his new film, Shadows of the Lynching Tree and leading a discussion on "the lingering effects of lethal racial violence inherited from the era of lynching".
[source:
Baobab website]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is Geva Comedy Improv 's Five Minutes of Fear Film Festival featuring short films in the horror genre. Later — at 10:30 p.m. — is their regularly-scheduled improvisational show titled Friday Night Face-Off, and then tomorrow night at 10:30 it's their Improvised Zombie Movie.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Land of the Dead starting at 8 p.m. The Eastman House Calendar makes this sound so inviting: "The fourth and most politically savvy of [writer-director George A. Romero's] gory and satirical cycle of flesh-eating zombie movies shows us a world almost completely taken over by the ghouls. A group of rich Americans (led by Dennis Hopper) have protected themselves from the living dead in a heavily guarded luxury high-rise. Outside, other survivors with presumably less money scavenge for the wealthy amidst the increasingly intelligent and organized zombie population."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
RedLine Zydeco will be at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) starting around 10 p.m. [source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar] The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting 40 Rod Lightning, a fantastic deadpan satire of a gospel rock band from The Lobster Quadrille, and The Stone Believer starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight probably starting around 7 p.m. at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) is the Subversive Komedy Fest. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
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This morning at 8 a.m. at Webster Thomas High School (800 Five Mile Line Rd., Webster) is a robotics competition titled The Rah Cha Cha Ruckus.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
Today at 9 a.m. at Lake Riley Lodge in Cobb's Hill Park (Norton Dr., softball diamonds near 490) is the Pumpkins in the Park 5K run/walk to benefit The Tony Jordan Youth Sports Foundation. [source: City Hall press release] This afternoon at 4 p.m. at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) is The 5th Annual Great Bowls of Fire Chili Cookoff. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Frontrunners starting at 5 p.m. this afternoon and again at 8 p.m. It's a documentary about the "race for class president at Stuyvesant" in New York City where candidates "utilize primaries, televised debates, and newspaper endorsements to win over their fellow classmates' votes."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 6 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a Youth Voices Community Dialogue Series discussion titled Civic Engagement in the Digital Age.
[source:
Baobab website]
Family Funktion and the Sitar Jams will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight at High Fidelity (170 East Ave., formerly Milestones) is great medium-tempo progressive rock band Sirsy , More Than Me, 28N, and From These Eyes starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
band e-mail]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is great black-and-white checkered-print dreamland synth-pop duo Yip Yip, The Big Digits, BEV-BEVERLY, Bob E. Kocktapus, and DJ Kribs.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is really great, tight, current punk-rock from 5 Watt Bulb starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
[21+]
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Daylight Saving Time Ends — Set your clock back one hour from 2:00 a.m. daylight saving time to 1:00 a.m. standard time in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. is The Bop Shop Fall Record Show at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square).
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
Today from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Six Pockets (716 Ridge Rd. E.) is a Benefit for Kate Silverman with a bunch of Rochester's acoustic and rock-and-roll performers. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Today at 2 p.m., Colleen Piccone will discuss A Sculpture Gallery by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema in a What's Up Lecture at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages]
Today at 3 p.m. in Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Eric Weaver, Sue Sotack, and Susan Havens will lead a workshop titled Understanding Mental Illness.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Tonight at the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) at 7 p.m., Matt McCormick will be on hand to introduce and discuss his films in a program titled From Tugboats to Polar Bears: Short films by Matt McCormick. His films include a variety of topics from The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal to a music video for The Shins.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Horse Feathers, and ambitiously experimental acoustic rocker Gregory Paul will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is A Viking Funeral starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Shotgun Party starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
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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Election 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.
At today's Books Sandwiched-In program in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Sanford Shapiro will review Theodore "Ted" Sorensen's Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is an Election Party [and notably pro-Obama] with music by Paradigm Shift.
[source:
Abilene website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Godless Girl starting at 8 p.m. about the leader of a group of teenaged atheists who battles with the Christian-supporting class president — and both are sent to a tough reform school. Live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Homosexuals, and good high-energy punk-rock from The Grievants starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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This evening at 7 p.m., John Feodorov will discuss his paintings in an Artist Lecture in the auditorium at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.). Check out an image of his work titled Initiation on the event's listing.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Photographer, His Wife, and Her Lover starting at 8 p.m. Eastman House's calendar has this titillating description: "Photographer O. Winston Link, whose work is currently on view at George Eastman House, took elegant black-and-white nighttime photographs of the last of the great American steam locomotives. When he was 73, Link married 48-year-old Conchita Mendoza, who soon after began selling off original prints of Link's photographs for considerable profit while becoming sexually entangled with another man, all without the artist's knowledge."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is angry-sounding medium-rock from The Ghostwriter, and good white-boy blues from The White Devils.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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] Tonight at 8 p.m. at Abeline Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is an Open Mic with The Grand Canyon Rescue Episode .
[source:
Abeline website]
Open-Mic Comedy at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine] [all ages] |
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