Weekly Rochester Events #606 Starting Thursday, August 19, 2010
Today at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) at 11 a.m. is an Art at 11 Lecture with Alberto Rey.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
Great, fun 1960's-styled rock band The Hi-Risers play tonight at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
City Newspaper]
[21+]
Tonight at 7 p.m. is a performance of The Sidewalk That Couldn't Be Plowed at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) [source: MuCCC website] [17+]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Dodesukaden starting late at 8:30 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar: "Tokyo's slums set the scene for master director Kurosawa's first color feature, a glimpse into the lives of urban have-nots at their most desperate and transcendent."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Very good, experimentally-daring acoustic soloist Seth Faergolzia will be at Havana Moe's Cigars (125 East Ave.) again at 9 p.m., this time with Jenna Giuliani
[source:
Facebook]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Laarks, The House of Bread, and The Indras starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Tonight at 6 p.m. at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) is Blues Night with The Coupe De' Villes.
[source:
Up All Night website]
Today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. is Improv Elimination and Conspiracy Theory with Village Idiots Present (VIP) at The VIP Theatre (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate, Suite #D106). [source: Village Idiots Present website] 
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Back to the Future starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, it's "just as much fun 25 years after its first release". Watch for evidence of the cola wars!
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Goatwhore, Order of the Dead, and Sarcous starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Girls, Guns and Glory starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
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Today from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. along South Avenue between Gregory and Averill is Wedgestock 2010. Don't miss musical highlights, brilliant satirical gospel from The Lobster Quadrille at 6:15 p.m., DJ Jon Herbert at 7:15 p.m., and (if I remember right) the final performance of Velveteen Fox at 8 p.m.
[source:
Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association website]
[all ages]
Today starting around 10 a.m. is The Clarissa St. Reunion at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Pranzo de ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch) starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 7 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "a charming tale of good food, feisty women, and unlikely friendships, Mid-August Lunch centers on middle-aged Gianni (writer and director Gianni Di Gregorio), who, broke and living with his 93-year-old mother in their Rome apartment, agrees to take on the building manager's mother during Italy's traditional summer holiday season. [...] Mid-August Lunch is both a warmly vibrant family drama and a delicately balanced comedy of manners."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at dusk (around 8:30 p.m.) is a screening of Toy Story at Park Point (300 Park Point Dr.). [source: Park Point website]
Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight at 10 p.m. at The High Falls Gorge (Platt St at Browns Race, the Pont De Rennes Bridge) is the weekly Laser Show. [source: City Hall press release] Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Anal Cunt, and Shamatari
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Creekside Lodge at Ellison Park (Blossom Rd. at Landing Rd.) is Womonstock featuring artworks by women.
[source:
Culture starts with ART! (CSWA) Yahoo! Group]
[18+]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is 40 Years of Tunis, 16 Years of Carbon Records featuring numerous bands from Carbon Records' library.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
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Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Abner Trio, Ju-Jajuba, and Revengineers starting around 9 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's MVP Health Care Tuesday Nature Nights starts at 6 p.m. of the Corn Hill Neighborhood starting from The Genesee Waterways Center (149 Elmwood Ave., in Genesee Valley Park)
[source:
City Hall press release]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Full Metal Jacket starting at 8 p.m. Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War — a "study of the perfect plan gone awry".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Poison Control Center starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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The 2010 Wegmans Concerts by the Shore Series tonight starts at 7 p.m. at Ontario Beach Park (Beach Ave. at Lake Ave.) with Ruby Shooz.
[source:
City Hall press release]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Houseboat starting at 8 p.m. — a romantic comedy about a man taking to the sea to avoid his wife's sister.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is Dave and Marrissa, and Those Mockingbirds.
[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] Tonight at 6 p.m. at The Clarissa Room (293 Clarissa St., a.k.a. Clarissa's, formerly Shep's Paradise) is The Heat is R.A.P.I.E.R. Open Mic. [source: Equal=Grounds Facebook page] [all ages] 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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