Weekly Rochester Events #531 Starting Thursday, March 12, 2009
Today at The Gallery at The Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester (277 N. Goodman St.) is a Special Reception for Nowruz: Persian New Year — A Folk Arts Exhibit from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
[source:
Arts and Cultural Council website]
At today's Thursday Thinkers from 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. — this time in the Rundel Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) — Elizabeth Henderson will offer answers to the question Locally Grown: Green and Economically Viable?.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Today at 6:30 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a special Women in Art Tour. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] MEETinROCHESTER  will be hosting the first of their A-Z Rochester Restaurant Tour starting with Aladdin's Natural Eatery (646 Monroe Ave.) tonight at 6:30 p.m.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Tonight at 7 p.m. in Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.), The Bertrand Russell Society meets and Dr. Timothy Madigan will discuss Russell's Evasion of Evolution.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) will host another in the Community Dialogue Series with tonight's presentation at 7 p.m. on Health Disparities: How hypertension and other diseases disproportionately affect the African American population with Dr. Ian Wilson and Dr. Kevin Fiscella. [source: Baobab website] The play Regrets Only will be performed tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Ida Hart Theatre at The Jewish Community Center (JCC) (1200 Edgewood Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing M starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar: "a series of child murders in an unnamed German city causes the police to mistakenly crack down on the criminal underworld. To protect its business, the mob undertakes its own investigation to catch the real culprit."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Charley Orlando, and Greg Clark starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Pure Kona Open Mic Poetry will be at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) tonight starting around 7:30 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
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Tonight at 6 p.m. at German House (315 Gregory St.) is the Lucky 13: Two Hoods, One Party for The Swillburg Neighborhood and The Highland Park Neighborhood.
[source:
Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail]
Over at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Felice Brothers , and Taylor Hollingsworth.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Tonight at The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) is Sadie Ava, and excellent experimental acoustic musician Gregory Paul starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting The Electric Volcano Experiment starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is The Color Wheels, and Park Ranger starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) starting around 9 p.m. is The True Believers.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[18+]
Great fun, 1960's-styled rock from The Hi-Risers will be at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar]
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Steak and Blowjob Day
The St. Patrick's Day Parade starts at 12:30 p.m. today, downtown. [source: MEETinROCHESTER calendar] Anderson Alley Artists (250 Goodman St. N.) will be having another open house this and every second Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine] The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) will be hosting Mike Allen, Nick Weiser, and Greg Wachala starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
The Quartershots will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Pandora and The Flying Dutchman starting at 8 p.m. A seaman is condemned to sail the seas forever. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting The Skiffle Minstrels starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) is The Frogbots, Steve Brew, and Hugh Yamada starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[18+]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Chylde, and Baba Yaga starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Rundel Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Leatrice Kemp will present The Stone Collection: photographs taken by journalistic photographer Albert Stone in the Rochester area from 1904 to 1936.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Wizard of Oz twice today: once at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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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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Saint Patrick's 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.
Today at 12:12 p.m., Daniel J. Burns will review Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell at Books Sandwiched-In in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.)
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting [early, and according to their website] around 7 p.m. is (the last [?] show) of the Irish-slanted punk band Tom Foolery and the Shannanighans (not Shenanigans), and The Clockers.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight starting at 8 p.m. at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is Victory Beer Night — referring to The Victory Brewing Company — featuring music by awesome, tight, complex rock-and-roll from The VEiNS.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Private Affairs of Bel Ami starting at 8 p.m. A man "climbs the ladder of society by charming a series of wealthy women."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) starting around 8:30 p.m. is The Bourbon Mothers.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[18+]
Updated:
Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting their own special, last-minute-added St. Patrick's Day Show featuring The Bog Savages — Bill Henrie and friends playing Irish music.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing WUSA starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar: "set in New Orleans, Rheinhardt ([Paul Newman]), a drifter, takes a job at WUSA, which soon becomes the focal point of a right-wing conspiracy."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Jambang , Greg Ginn, The Taylor Texas Corrugators, and The Auger will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[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] Tonight at The Comedy Club (2235 Empire Blvd., Webster) is a Comedy Open Mic with Michael Gately .
[source:
Comedy Club website]
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]
The Comedy Underground will be at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) tonight at 8 p.m.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
[all ages]
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