Weekly Rochester Events #580 Starting Thursday, February 18, 2010
At today's Thursday Thinkers lecture from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. at The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Dr. Bruce M. Gilberg will explore Intergenerational Relationships: Crossing the Developmental Divide.
[source:
Friends of the Public Library flyer]
At Arnett Branch Library (310 Arnett Blvd.), there are Dogs in the Library! Oh My! — Children Reading to Dogs from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and again from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. I mean come on, how cute is this? The notice says they'll have a Sheltie, a Golden Retriever, a Golden Lab, a Mastiff, and more.
[source:
Friends of the Public Library e-mail]
[all ages]
Today at 7 p.m. at The Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Ave.) is a meeting of The Rochester Genealogical Society featuring Genealogy Consultations with Sharon Burch, Gregory S. Spacher presenting The American Female Gender vs. The United States: Legal Discrimination, and 100 Years of Reunions by Barry Hartley. [source: Rochester Genealogical Society website] [all ages]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is very good, experimentally-daring acoustic soloist Seth Faergolzia starting around 8 p.m. ... at least according to the notoriously wrong Boulder website.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman Percussion 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 Where the Sidewalk Ends starting at 8 p.m. The Eastman House calendar summarizes the plot: "in a nightmarish noir scenario, Dana Andrews plays a brutal New York cop who accidentally kills someone while investigating a murder and then proceeds to cover his tracks."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 10 p.m. is All Tomorrow's Thursdays... featuring Jay Repp, and A.K.A. Paul Burke at Sully's Pub (242 South Ave., formerly the Brickyard Pub).
[source:
Facebook]
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Today from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at City Hall (30 Church St.) is the Black Heritage Month Food Tasting presented by employees of the city and area vendors.
[source:
City Hall press release]
For Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Teagan and the Tweeds will be performing. Then at 9:30 p.m., Walri performs.
[source:
Abilene website]
Today at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.), Malik Evans will facilitate a discussion titled Reggae as a Tool for Education following a film screening. [source: Baobab website]
Today at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is the start of an Arthur Bicknell Career Retrospective with a performance of What is Art? by Arthur Bicknell at 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. is the notoriously bad play Moose Murders: the Musical Revival, and concluding with "the off-Broadway hit" My Great Dead Sister on Sunday at 3 p.m.
[source:
MuCCC website]
Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m., Village Idiots Present (VIP) present Director's Cut at The Pillar Theatre (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate, Suite #D106). [source: Village Idiots Present website]
Over at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 8 p.m. is good high-energy punk-rock from The Grievants, Pegacide, and great, haunting noise-based loops and vocals from City Harvest Black.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
[18+]
Over at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 8 p.m. is The Michael Musillami Trio.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) starting at 8 p.m. When the Pope visited Rio de Janeiro in 1997, the titular elite squad of police was dispatched to protect His Holiness from the criminals in the slum he was visiting.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Today from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Mt. Hope Cemetery (1145 Mt. Hope Ave., the South Gate) is a Mt. Hope Cemetery Winter Tour.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Today from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Turning Point Park (260 Boxart St.) is a Saturday Hike in the Park starting at The Petten St. Parking Lot (Petten St. Exd., toward the south turn around) [source: City Hall press release] Tonight at The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) is Andy Smash and the Rustbelt Hot Rods starting around 5 p.m.
[source:
Record Archive e-mail]
Tracy Grammer will be at The Rochester Christian Reformed Church (2750 Atlantic Ave., Penfield) starting around 7:30 p.m.
[source:
Golden Link website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Missing Person starting at 8 p.m. with star Michael Shannon in person to introduce and discuss this modern noir update.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Today at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) at 8 p.m. is HER by Sistas Sayin' Somethin'. [source: City Newspaper] [18+] Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is a Fundraiser for LGBT Equality starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The All Hank Band will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) will be hosting Nick Bullock, and Josh Netsky starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Tonight at 11:59 p.m. (a.k.a. midnight) at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is a screening and performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] [18+] |
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Today at 2 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is CopWatch Training based on Berkeley CopWatch.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
[18+]
The Second Winds Clarinet Ensemble will be at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) starting around 3 p.m. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Alice in Wonderland starting at 7 p.m., a peculiar gem from Depression-era cinema.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Jesse Kilguss, and Josh Netsky starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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George Washington born 1732
Today at 7:30 p.m. is Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
In theory, there is another
Emerging Filmmakers Program
tonight at
The Little
(240 East Ave.)
at 9:15 p.m., but I haven't heard anything about it so your guess is as good as mine. As soon as I get the details I'll post the films.
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.
Today at 10:30 a.m. in the Golisano Computing Center at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map), it's rumored that Richard Stallman (founder of GNU and The Free Software Foundataion) will be doing a lecture. Get there very very early if you are interested.
[source:
flyer]
Today at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is 25 and Under hosted by Sally Bittner Bonn. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
Tusedays at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is A.K.A. Paul Burke Presents featuring Paul Burke and other people, perhaps performing.
[source:
band e-mail]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Daigaku wa deta keredo (I Graduated, But...) and Rakudai wa shita keredo (I Flunked, But...) starting at 8 p.m. Of the first, only a small portion remains — it's about a college graduate who refuses a job that's "beneath him". The second is more complete and is a "comic romp about college goof-offs who cheat on their exams".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is So Cow, The Threadbare Orchestra, and Mandate of Heaven.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Interlock Rochester (1115 E. Main St., suite 42 of the Hungerford Building, door #1) has their Weekly Meeting at 8 p.m. [source: Interlock Rochester website] [all ages] |
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The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) will be hosting Grey Market starting around 5 p.m.
[source:
Record Archive e-mail]
Tonight at The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) at 8 p.m. is a Beer Social for Sleeman Unibroue, Inc. (80 Rue Des Carrières, Chambly, QC) [source: Tap and Mallet website]
Solid rock with a Spanish flair from Night Gallery will be at Johnny's Irish Pub (1382 Culver Rd., still smoke-free) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Johnny's Irish Pub calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Martin Scorsese's excellent film Casino starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Grey Market, Autoverse, and excellent, superfast, synth-pop, novelty songs from Worm Quartet will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar 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] It's Whirrly Wednesdays: Hooping, Drumming, and Grooving at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) at 6 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] [18+] 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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