Weekly Rochester Events #549 Starting Thursday, July 16, 2009
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Clever and charismatic acoustic soloist Connie Deming will play at Granite Mills Park (Platt St. and Browns Race) today at 12 p.m.
[source:
RocWiki]
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra String Ensemble will be at Otto Henderberg Square Park (Fountain St. and Avon Pl.) tonight from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. [source: Freetime] Geva Comedy Improv  will perform TV On Stage tonight at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) at 7:30 p.m., and again on tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
Over at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) starting around 8 p.m. is excellent, catchy satirical gospel from The Lobster Quadrille, and great country/acoustic rock from The Lovesick Heartstabbers.
[source:
Savor Our Flavor website]
[21+]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Hereafterthis starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Music Box starting at 8 p.m. An attorney defends her father charged with Nazi war crimes. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Tonight at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) is Steve Braund starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
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The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) will be hosting The Grand Canyon Rescue Episode starting around 6 p.m.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
This evening from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) is UpLift, celebrating recent building and facility improvements with music by the multi-cultural-sounding groove/jazz-ish band Margaret Explosion, Nate Rawls and the Swan Community Band, and The Tin Can Set .
[source:
Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
Rochester Pride Weekend starts tonight at The Strathallan (550 East Ave.) at 7 p.m. and runs all weekend. The Pride Parade is tomorrow at 4 p.m. along Park Avenue. [source: Gay Alliance website] Tonight at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is Richard Julian , and Jesse Harris starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Tonight at The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) is AudioInFlux starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Boy With Robot, and Hazmat.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
Aaron Zimmer 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 Hunger starting early at 6 p.m. and again at the "normal time" of 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, the film "chronicles the final six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands, the Irish prisoner who underwent a devastating hunger strike in 1981 to protest the repression of the British government."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is The Butterflies, and great motley folk from Baby Shiver's Boutique.
[source:
Abilene website]
The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) will be hosting Simplelife, and Dr. Drum starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Tonight at 9:30 p.m. at The High Falls Gorge (Platt St at Browns Race, the Pont De Rennes Bridge), is a ceremony to light the newly-renovated Genesee Beer & Ale Sign by North American Breweries — the new owners of The Genesee Brewing Company (445 St. Paul St., formerly the High Falls Brewery).
[source:
Cream Ale Drinker blog]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Psyopus , tight, technical hard rock from BML, and Abdicate starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Village Idiots Present (VIP) will be performing comedy improv 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]
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This morning at 8:30 a.m., people from MEETinROCHESTER will join Flower City Habitat for Humanity to work in the Paetec Park neighborhood.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Today from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and tomorrow from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. is Bop Fest 3 at Village Gate Square (274 N. Goodman St.) [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages]
This afternoon starting at 4 p.m. is the BeerAdvocate Pub Crawl starting at Murphy's Law Irish Pub (370 East Ave.) at 4 p.m., Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) at 5 p.m., and working down Alexander and Monroe to Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) at 9 p.m.
[source:
RocWiki]
The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) will be hosting Toxic Shock, The Bad Kids, good high-energy punk-rock from The Grievants, and Tim Avery starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) is The Badgemen starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Lo-Fi Lion, and El Roca starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting great country/acoustic rock from The Lovesick Heartstabbers, fun, cruel punk-rock from Eddie Nebula and the Plague, and tight-ass, lightning-fast rock-and-roll from The Motorpsychos starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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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 1:10 p.m. starting at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) is a Bicycle Tour of Brownfields and Polluted Sites in Downtown Rochester with Mark Gregor.
[source:
RocWiki]
[all ages]
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. is the Mercury Opera Divas and More Benefit Event at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) to benefit The Mercury Opera. [source: Geva Theatre website] At tonight's reading in the Festival of New Theatre at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is Dracula by Danny Hoskins and PUSH Physical Theatre tonight at 7 p.m. and again on Sunday at 3 p.m. [source: Geva Theatre website] Over at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) starting around 7 p.m. is The Bill Tiberio Group.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is Agustin Ramos, Abdicate, Sons of Azrael, and dark, heavy metal from Avulsion.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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First Manned Moon Landing in 1969
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Taste.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
The Hydra Melody, Montauk, and Love or Lust will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
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.
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. is the start of Summer Improv Bootcamp — an improv training course from Geva Comedy Improv at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.). Classes run through the end of August.
[source:
RocWiki]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is This Frontier Needs Heroes, and David Cloyd starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Compartiment tueurs (The Sleeping Car Murders) starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "in one of the classiest thrillers of the '60s, six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Extreme Animals will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) will be hosting Sakes Alive!, Caleb Lionheart, Half Hearted Hero, and Such Gold starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing How To Marry A Millionaire starting at 8 p.m. A comedy about a group of women trying to land wealthy husbands.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is A Lull, great motley folk band Baby Shiver's Boutique, Birdlips, and Audibel starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar 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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