Weekly Rochester Events #564 Starting Thursday, October 29, 2009
Today at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) at 6 p.m., Thomas N. Tischer will present a lecture titled Have We Forgotten Streetcars?.
[source:
Eastman House mailing]
[all ages]
Today starting at 6 p.m. at The Beale Street Cafe (689 South Ave.) is the Night of the Living Wedge Halloween Pub Crawl arriving at The South Wedge Colony Bar and Grill (503 South Ave., formerly Dashen Restaurant) at 6:45 p.m., Solera Wine Bar (647 South Ave.) at 7:30 p.m., Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) at 8:15 p.m., The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) at 9 p.m., The Keg (315 Gregory St., behind German House where Rohrbach's used to be) at 9:45 p.m., and finishing at Caverly's Pub (741 South Ave., formerly Genesee Co-op Credit Union) at 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Savor Our Flavor website]
Today at 7:30 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a lecture by Dr. Andrew Goldman titled From Phrygian Capital to Roman Fort: Recent Excavations at Gordion (Turkey).
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7:45 p.m. at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is Customer Appreciation Night free show with Randy Weeks, Hollis Brown and Yarn.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Harris Eisenstadt will be at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) starting at 8 p.m. with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is excellent ska-driven rock from The Beaumonts starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is really good blues-charged rock-and-roll band Buford and the Smoking Section starting around 10 p.m. [source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar] |
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Starting today at 3 p.m. in Holt Lodge at Webster Park (999 Lake Rd.) is a Park Show with technical metal band The End, War Squad, Like Wolves, Spoonful Of Vicodin, Bad Taste, Wombat Syndrome, Necrochasm, Run With the Hunted, and Ian Downey is Famous.
[source:
band e-mail]
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] Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Rochester Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince St.) is a program of works by Julie Perini titled Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Julie Perini's Radical Video Aesthetics. [source: City Newspaper] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Eid milad Laila (Laila's Birthday) starting at 8 p.m. A laid-off judge tries to provide a simple birthday for his daughter in Palestine.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at The Montage Live Music Hall (50 Chestnut St., formerly the Montage Grille) is Fixation — A Metal Halloween Masquerade & Burlesque Party featuring metal from 1:37, The Phukettes, The Red Light Circus and Burlesque, Twelve Gauge Apocalypse, and Impalement.
[source:
Freetime]
[all ages]
Tonight at 10 p.m., Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) will be hosting The Devils Night Fetish Masquerade with Bitter Flesh Thing, Tranquilatwist , House of Hellfira, Silent Auction, and DJ Darkwave.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[18+]
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] |
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Halloween
Ossia New Music will be performing today at 6:30 p.m. at The Interfaith Chapel at the University of Rochester (Wilson Blvd.)
[source:
Ossia New Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Vampire Movie Trailers and Låt den rätte komma in starting early at 7 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Dr's Inn Grill and Tap Room (1743 East Ave.) is the great percussion-and-saxophone dominated jam band The BuddhaHood, and Geode starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
band e-mail]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting innovative non-gospel and satirical gospel band The Lobster Quadrille starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Daylight Saving Time Ends — Set your clock back one hour from 2:00 a.m. daylight saving time to 1:00 a.m. standard time in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
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 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. is the Fall 2009 Record Show and Sale at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square).
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
Today at 1:15 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.), photographer Phyllis Pittman Kitt will be on hand to sign her book God's Country: Historic Churches and Chapels of the Genesee Valley. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
All Things Mali continues today with a class taught by Jan Hewitt Towsley on how to Hand Weave a Mali Bracelet or Bookmark at 2 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.)
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Today at 2 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a What's Up Lecture with Rachael Baldanza on "the Gallery's collection by American artist Hugh Botts".
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Rashômon starting at 7 p.m., a story of murder told through four different characters.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Today from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. is the inaugural TEDx Rochester event (an independently-organized TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design): Ideas Worth Spreading series of lectures) at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) featuring a dozen lecturers.
[source:
TEDx Rochester website]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is Mark Gamsjager and the Lustre Kings.
[source:
Abilene website]
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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Election 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.
At today's Books Sandwiched-In in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) at 12:12 p.m., Thomas R. Frey will discuss The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Updated: The other/other/other show listed previously for today at The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) had the incorrect date: they will be playing on November 20. Stay tuned. [source: band e-mail] Today at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is the start of the Tabletop Tree Display & Auction and the Holiday Wreath Display & Auction, both through November 17. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Band Wagon starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "one of the greatest of all MGM musicals".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Today at 4 p.m., Rebecca Solnit will be at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) for a Reading and Reception, and will continue to Webb Auditorium at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map) at 8 p.m. for a presentation titled Other Loves: Public Life and Unsaid Emotions as part of The Caroline Werner Gannett Project.
[source:
Caroline Werner Gannett Project website]
Tonight at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Jazz Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing National Lampoon's Vacation starting at 8 p.m. A family's trials on their cross-country vacation.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) will be hosting LastNote, and Gavin Castleton starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
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]
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