Weekly Rochester Events #515 Starting Thursday, November 20, 2008
Hedonist Artisan Chocolates (674 South Ave.) will be hosting a Chocolate Tasting at The South Wedge Farmers Market — the last one of the year — at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) this evening from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
[source:
Hedonist Chocolates website]
At tonight's meeting of The Rochester Genealogical Society at The Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Ave.) at 7 p.m. is a presentation of The Latest in Family Search by Roy Thurston and then a one-woman play: Interweaving the Generations with Doris Naundorf performing as her great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, and self.
[source:
Rochester Genealogical Society website]
[all ages]
The Eastman Trombone Choir 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 Murder on the Orient Express starting at 8 p.m. The Eastman House's calendar offer's the key adjective: "lavish". [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is somewhat minimal emotionally-charged personal songs from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (also at LiveJournal) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) is the 3rd Friday Songwriters Open Mic with Jim Bowers starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Equal=Grounds MySpace page]
[all ages]
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Today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Monroe Community Hospital (435 E. Henrietta Rd.) is a Harvest Craft Faire.
[source:
City Newspaper]
This evening at 6:30 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a Community Dialogue Series on Day of the Dead with Denis Defibaugh. [source: Baobab website]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at [location redacted] is a Village Idiots Present (VIP) show titled Nuclear Family Fusion followed tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. with their established show, "Gorilla Theatre" Improv Cypher.
[source:
Village Idiots Present website]
Tonight at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is Shiny Toy Guns starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Tonight at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) is Steven Piper starting around 8 p.m. [source: Mez website] [all ages] Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Liana Gabel.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Over at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Exiles starting at 8 p.m. and again tomorrow at 5 p.m. Film aficionados are thrilled by this 50-years-lost film discovery. It chronicles "a day in the life of Native Americans who have left their reservation to live in the decaying Los Angeles neighborhood of Bunker Hill."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) is solidly good funk from The Filthy Funk starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
JamBase calendar for Rochester]
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Today from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Wine Sense (749 Park Ave.) is another Chocolate Tasting from Hedonist Artisan Chocolates (674 South Ave.).
[source:
Hedonist Chocolates website]
Orange Nichole , and Chris Gunter will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) 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 Flow: For Love of Water starting at 8 p.m. A documentary about that which we take for granted but desperately need, and therefore will do pretty much anything for.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Hollands (, a.k.a. The Good Spellers), and Your 33 Black Angels will be at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup Myspace page]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Abdicate, dark heavy metal from Avulsion, Spoonful Of Vicodin, The Venereal Messiah, and Neurolepsy starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Dumbo starting early at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. A baby elephant's debilitating handicap is a testament to the "punctuated equilibrium" theory of evolution in this heartwarming tale.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Elisabeth Tonnard's exhibit The Man of the Crowd opens today at 2 p.m. at Small World Books (425 North St.) It will be on display through December 6.
[source:
City Newspaper]
At today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) at 3 p.m., The Hochstein School of Music and Dance (50 North Plymouth Ave.) presents Vivace Violins.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is El Ten Eleven, The Indras, and hot punch-rock talent from The Cheetah Whores.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is another Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
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.
Sally Bittner Bonn hosts 25 And Under featuring younger writers at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
Eastman student composers will present their works in Composers' Sinfonietta in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) tonight at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
Good punk-rock-groove band The Edge of Jupiter  resurfaces at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Taking of Pelham One Two Three starting at 8 p.m. wherein a group of four men hijack a full New York City subway car — an action classic!
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is closer-the-better angry-fun punk-rock from Eddie Nebula and the Plague, great dirty-edged punk-rock from Handsome Jack, and excellent hard acoustic rock from Old Boy starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is fun, great 1960's-styled rock from The Hi-Risers .
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is wicked fun percussion-and-saxophone dominated jam band The BuddhaHood, and hoppin'-good reggae-dub band Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad starting around 9:45 p.m.
[source:
band e-mail]
[16+]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting awesome, tight, complex rock and roll from The VEiNS, great rock-and-roll from The Grinders, Baba Yaga, and The Dudes Of Earl starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
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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