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Weekly Rochester Events #551 Starting Thursday, July 30, 2009


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JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Titus starting early at 7 p.m. Shakespeare's tale brought to the big screen. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is CursiveMySpace link, The Love LanguageMySpace link, and great motley folk from Baby Shiver's BoutiqueMySpace link starting around 8 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

JayceLand Pick Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) is semi-melodic fast-paced noise (sometimes) from Pengo, The Graveyards, and CTJ starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee website] [all ages]

Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Billy Wallace and the Virginia BluesMySpace link, and The Bark EatersMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website]


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Lindsay House (973 East Ave.) is hosting a charity benefit sale for Help Us Give Smiles (HUGS) today through Sunday starting at 10:10 a.m. [source: RocWiki calendar]

Author Richard O. Reisem will be at The Landmark Society of Western New York (133 S. Fitzhugh St.) from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. today to launch his new book, Historic Photos of New York State. [source: the proverbial grapevine]

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]

The Electro KingsMySpace link will be at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 6 p.m. [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages]

Today at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) at 6 p.m. is an art exhibition titled Scattered Lights of Jamaica by Ikahl (Michael) Beckford. [source: Baobab website]

The Spring Ensemble will be at The Mez CaféMySpace link (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. [source: Mez website] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (955 Genesee St.) will be hosting The Patrons Of SweetMySpace link, The Empire State TroopersMySpace link, and very tight modern rock from VeluxeMySpace link starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee website]

JayceLand Pick Over at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is The Glorious VeinsMySpace link, good acoustic soloist Electric OrganicMySpace link, Harsh MellowsMySpace link, and Violet MaryMySpace link. [source: Boulder Coffee website] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Léon Morin, prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest) starting at 8 p.m. and again tomorrow at 5 p.m. In German-occupied France, an atheist widow finds God and/or the titular priest. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting The Dirty Bourbon Blues BandMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website]

The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Buck Wild! 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]

Village Idiots Present (VIP) will be performing comedy improv tonight at 8 p.m. [source: Village Idiots Present website]


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JayceLand Pick Today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. is The Park Avenue Festival (Park Ave. at Alexander St. to Culver Rd.) [source: Park Avenue events calendar]

Today at 2 p.m. at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Born Too Late Doom Metal Festival II featuring Iron Man, ArgusMySpace link, Revelation, OgreMySpace link, Pale DivineMySpace link, Apostle of SolitudeMySpace link, Against NatureMySpace link, good hard rock from J. G. BlizaroMySpace link, slower, cleaner metal from Orodruin, and While Heaven WeptGarageBand linkMySpace link. [source: Bug Jar MySpace page]

JayceLand Pick The Will Play for Peace Benefit is tonight at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) with MicahMySpace link, Brian RathGarageBand linkMySpace link, and The BeaumontsMySpace link starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee website] [all ages]

Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (955 Genesee St.) is The WrayGuns starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee website]

JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing My Fair Lady starting at 8 p.m. in which a professor tries to turn a plain girl into a lady of distinction. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

Updated: Tonight's show with New MathMySpace link at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) has been cancelled. [source: Abilene e-mail]


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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]

Top Pick As part of The Park Avenue Festival (Park Ave. at Alexander St. to Culver Rd.), infectious, percussion-and-horn-driven groove rock band The BuddhaHoodMySpace link will be at The Dragonfly Tavern (725 Park Ave.) today from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine]

JayceLand Pick Today at 2 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a What's Up Lecture with Debora McDell-Hernandez discussing Jacob Lawrence's Summer Street Scene in Harlem (1948). [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages]

The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing It Pays To Advertise starting later than usual at 7:45 p.m. followed by White Woman at 9 p.m. Here's what the Eastman House calendar has to say: "screen icon Carole Lombard stars in a pair of racy features from a brief period of relaxed censorship in Hollywood. First, Lombard is a secretary who doesn't know she's in for a surprise when she plans to marry the layabout heir to a soap fortune. Rochester's own Louise Brooks co-stars! Then, in the lush White Woman, a torch singer (Lombard) banished from Malay nightclubs for "arousing" the natives, absconds with a sadistic plantation owner (Charles Laughton) who takes turns tyrannizing his new wife and his pet monkey. This wacky precursor to Apocalypse Now offers a heady brew of tribal insurrections, sexy ex-convicts, and a delirious Laughton as self-appointed 'King of the Jungle.'" [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (955 Genesee St.) will be hosting Jettison NeverMySpace link starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee website]


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JayceLand Pick Over at Boulder Coffee Co.MySpace link (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Sparrows and ArrowsGarageBand linkMySpace link. [source: Boulder Coffee website] [all ages]

JayceLand Pick Gang Gang DanceMySpace link, and Hex MessageMySpace link will be at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar 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.

The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Ni na bian ji dian (What Time Is It There?) starting at 8 p.m. A watch salesman searches for a woman to love while he tries to care for his recently widowed mother. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is Mobius TripMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing River Of No Return starting at 8 p.m. Marilyn Monroe "co-stars in a rugged outdoor adventure/love story as a woman searching for her missing husband". [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

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]

Tonight at The Comedy Club (2235 Empire Blvd., Webster) is a Comedy Open Mic with Michael GatelyMySpace link. [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 EpisodeMySpace link. [source: Abeline website]

The Comedy UndergroundMySpace link 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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