Weekly Rochester Events #555 Starting Thursday, August 27, 2009
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Today from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., tomorrow and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. is The Greek Fest at The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit (835 South Ave.)
[source:
City Hall press release]
Boulder Coffee Co.  (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Hollow Reed starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing 42nd Street starting at 8 p.m. A depression-era musical whose "much-imitated, never-equaled choreography is by the great Busby Berkeley."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Devall Music , and Driftwood 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 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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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]
Virtually trippy jazz from Margaret Explosion 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]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing House of Wax — in 3-D, starting at 8 p.m. A sinister film about a man who has an unusually way of casting figures for his wax museum, combined with the absurdity of 3-D.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) is The Deep Blue Dream starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting massive hard acoustic-rock from Old Boy, and great heavy-hitting proto-rock from Auld Lang Syne starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
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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Today at 8 p.m., Village Idiots Present (VIP) will present the Improv Comedy Championship — a benefit show for The Strong Memorial Hospital General Patient Fund (for which there is mysteriously no web evidence).
[source:
Village Idiots Present website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Dial M For Murder (in its original 3-D presentation) starting at 8 p.m. Alfred Hitchcock sure puts a fine twist on the 3-D effect in this tale of a husband plotting the murder of his wife.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is Turnip Stampede starting around 10 p.m. I've never seen them, but their name always cracks me up.
[source:
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting high-energy rock from the now-defunct Bee Eater (back because Meghan's in town), The Legendary Jones Gang, and great garage rock from The Grinders starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is well-constructed heavy rock/metal from Heatseeker.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
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Jayce Turns 3013
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 2 p.m. at Highland Bowl (South Ave. at Robinson Dr.) is Wedgestock 2009 with local artists and music by The King Pins, very danceable percussion-and-saxophone dominated jam band The BuddhaHood, and Java along with Irish dance from The Rince na Sidhe Dance School of Rochester.
[source:
The Wedge]
The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) will be hosting Mojo Chunk starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Today at the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a 3-D Triple Feature with Jesse James Vs. The Daltons, The Nebraskan at 7:15 p.m., and Fort Ti at 8:45 p.m. Note that each of them have exactly a 4.7 of 10 rating on The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at 7 p.m., excellent surf-rock / novelty stage act band The Isotopes will play on The Isotopes Booze Cruise II on Colonial Belle (400 Packett's Landing, Fairport).
[source:
band e-mail]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 8 p.m. is really great, tight, current punk-rock from 5 Watt Bulb, The Intelligent Gunmen, Inugami, and All of Them Witches.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today at the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a 3-D Double Feature with Man In The Dark starting early at 7 p.m. and then Drums of Tahiti at 8:30.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Free Energy , and Man vs. Moon will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at The Little (240 East Ave.) at 9:15 p.m. is the Emerging Filmmakers Series Program #58 featuring Tea Ceremony at the End of the World by Zoje Stage, In My City of Angels by Donna De Palma, The Return Home by B. Anthony Gibson (, also at IMDb), AUX 2 by Jack Beck, Matt Costanza, and Rick Scott, and Doctor, Doctor, Is There a Mystery in the House? (Scoob Spoof #8) by Jeffrey T. Cook.
[source:
Little Theatre calendar]
Blues-charged rock-and-roll/groove-rock from Buford and the Smoking Section will be at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) starting around 10 p.m. [source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que 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 The October Man starting at 8 p.m. about a man who's accused of the murder of a young woman on a night he can't remember.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Baba Yaga, excellent wild rock-and-roll from Handsome Jack, and Triglactagon starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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V-J Day
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing My Flesh and Blood starting at 8 p.m. It's a documentary about Susan Tom who adopted 11 children with disabilities. [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 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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