Weekly Rochester Events #545 Starting Thursday, June 18, 2009
Hochstein at High Falls continues today at 12:15 p.m. at Granite Mills Park (Platt St. and Browns Race) with The Mambo Kings.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
Today at 6:30 p.m. at Nathaniel Square (South Ave. and Alexander St.) is the unveiling of new Parking Meter Totems sponsored by The Business Association of the South Wedge Area (BASWA). At 7 p.m. in the pocket park next to Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.), Fred Vine will perform followed by The Jive Mamas.
[source:
Savor Our Flavor website]
Today at 6:30 p.m. at The Rochester Civic Garden Center at Warner Castle (5 Castle Park) The Rochester Civic Garden Center at Warner Castle (5 Castle Park) is a Garden Soiree with people from MEETinROCHESTER .
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
[all ages]
The Festival of New Theatre continues this weekend on Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) with Sirens by Deborah Zoe Laufer tonight at 7 p.m. and again on Saturday at 7 p.m.
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at WXXI (280 State St.) is a town hall-style meeting titled Let's Talk Money: Living Within Your Means, airing live. [source: RocWiki calendar] 
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Umberto D. starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, it "tells the story of a retired bureaucrat who finds himself broke and homeless on the heartless streets of Rome with his little dog, Flike."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Rosewood Thieves, Pterodactyl, and Josh Netsky starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Hotel Reverie , Cavalcade, and Autoverse will be at The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
WBER calendar]
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At today's Architecture for Lunch at 12:10 p.m., Cynthia Howk will meet at Washington Square Park (Woodbury Blvd at South Clinton Ave, across from Geva Theatre) to discuss the park and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
[source:
Landmark Society calendar]
Tonight at 5:30 p.m. is Lauren O'Connell followed at 9 p.m. by The All Night Ramblers Cajun Band at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara)
[source:
Abilene website]
The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) will be hosting The GoCats starting around 6 p.m.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
Today from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., and tomorrow and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. is The Maplewood Rose Weekend at The Maplewood Rose Garden (Driving Park and Lake Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar]
Thoughful spoken-word poetry and avant-garde ambient music from Urknee and Bjürton Russell, The Bloody Nos, and Harlow Crandall will be at The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
Demonstrating preservation work performed at The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be present Unburied Treasures: The Selznick School Preservations starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Fun, great 1960's-styled rock from The Hi-Risers will be at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Village Idiots Present (VIP) will be performing Micetro tonight at 8 p.m. [source: Village Idiots Present website] 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]
Tonight and tomorrow is another River of Light Laser Show at The High Falls Gorge (Platt St at Browns Race, the Pont De Rennes Bridge) starting at 10 p.m. [source: City Hall press release] |
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Tonight at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) is An Early Ending, and Texas In July starting around 6 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Leslie Lee and Steve Gretz , Jim Clare, and witty and accomplished acoustic soloist Brian Coughlin will perform as Songwriters In The Round tonight at 8 p.m. at The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks)
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
The Blind Drives will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 7 p.m. Harvard and Yale's 1968 American football teams met at a championship match — each team undefeated that year.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) will be hosting Joanna McNaney starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
WBER calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) is Subsoil, The Gunpoets, and Rising Sun starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Brüd, good punk-rock from The Emersons , and The Spacelords starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Father's Day
Every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. is the Greatest Community Garage Sale and Super Flea series at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) [source: City Hall press release] Today at 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a special Father's Day House Tour that "highlights George Eastman's love of hunting and the outdoors." Then from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Joe Blackburn will play the Aeolian Pipe Organ. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
In The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Thomas X. Grasso will present From Clinton's Ditch to the Barge Canal System from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Earth vs. The Flying Saucers starting early this afternoon at 2 p.m. followed by 20 Million Miles to Earth at 3:30 p.m. Both highlight Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion animation effects.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) will be hosting Madeline Forster starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Over at The Auditorium Center (875 Main St E.) starting around 7 p.m. is Tom Jones.
[source:
JamBase calendar for Rochester]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) is Ten Elevenths starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
Tonight at 8 p.m. is a Sublime Frequencies Film Screening at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.). [source: A|V Space website] [all ages] |
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MEETinROCHESTER will meet at Paola's Burrito Place (1921 South Ave., formerly Big Dog's Hots) at 6:30 p.m. for a Mexican Monday Dinner — one of the last before Paola's closes.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Norm Davis hosts Wide Open Mic tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Western Front.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
Sir Richard Bishop, Oaxacan , Pengo, and The Auger will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) 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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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.
La Vérité will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Far Country starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar: "after killing a man for stealing his cattle, James Stewart takes his herd to Alaska with the law on his tail. With the help of Walter Brennan, Stewart faces off in a mining town against a powerful but evil judge (John McIntire). The Far Country—with its vengeful, conflicted hero, violent action, and beautiful but rugged landscapes—is very much of a piece with the other Western collaborations between director Mann and Stewart." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Midnight Creeps, M.O.T.O., and The Dudes Of Earl starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Midsummer Day
Today from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is the Red Cross Blood Drive. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Last Starfighter starting at 8 p.m. in which a kid lands a job as a warrior by being good at playing a video game. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting excellent superfast synth-pop novelty songs from Worm Quartet, Devo Spice, and Seth Faergolzia starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) starting around 9 p.m. is Rick Holland, and Evan Dobbins.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Washington Square Park (Woodbury Blvd at South Clinton Ave, across from Geva Theatre) is the Foodlink Farmers' Market. [source: RocWiki calendar] Today at 12:00 p.m. is a meeting of The Brown Bag Book Discussion Group in the Literature Division's Study Room at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages] 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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