Weekly Rochester Events #610 Starting Thursday, September 16, 2010
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Mexican Independence Day
Rochester A-List will be hosting an Oktoberfest party at MacGregor's (300 Jefferson Rd.) tonight at 5:30 p.m. [source: RocWiki calendar] Updated: At tonight's The Rochester Genealogical Society meeting starting at 7 p.m. at The Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Ave.), Genealogy Consultations will kick off the short program, followed by Cal Graziano's discussion of Albion Seed: Who were the British immigrants, and why did they leave? [source: Rochester Genealogical Society website] [all ages] Tonight at 7 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.), Amy Kinsey will be presenting a Garden Tour to Eastman House members. [source: Eastman House e-mail] [all ages] 
Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) will be hosting brilliant satirical gospel from The Lobster Quadrille starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
City Newspaper]
[21+]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Mister Lonely starting at 8 p.m. in which a Michael Jackson impersonator in Paris falls for a Marilyn Monroe impersonator married to a Charlie Chaplin impersonator.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Very good, experimentally-daring acoustic soloist Seth Faergolzia is back at Havana Moe's Cigars (125 East Ave.) tonight at 10 p.m. with Benjamin Jameson Morey.
[source:
Rochester Indiefest website]
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 Citizenship (Constitution) Day
Today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. is Rochester's PARK(ing) Day in front of The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.)
[source:
Rochester Contemporary calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 6 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Paper Castles followed at 9:30 p.m. by good country band Dang!.
[source:
Abilene website]
This evening at 6:30 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a Community Dialogue Series lecture titled Vibes and Rhythms with Les Slater.
[source:
Baobab website]
Tonight at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) are 3 openings: at 6 p.m. in the Firehouse Gallery is History in the Making, at 7 p.m. in the Community Darkroom is Original Stain: New Alternative Imaging, and at 7 p.m. in the Printing and Book Arts Gallery is A Photo Retrospective of the works of Roy Sowers.
[source:
Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
Today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at The VIP Theatre (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate, Suite #D106) is a Command Performance by Village Idiots Present (VIP). [source: Village Idiots Present website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Araya starting at 8 p.m. A salt-mining community in Venezuela is the setting for this "gorgeously photographed poem of a movie [that] captures the life and backbreaking work of the Arayan salineros and fishermen in breathtaking images."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Thee Oh Sees, Cavalcade, and Skip Jensen starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Rockin' rockabilly from Krypton 88 , and The Tombstone Hands 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]
Over at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) starting around 10 p.m. is RedLine Zydeco.
[source:
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar]
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Today is
International Coastal Cleanup
day so get out there and start picking stuff up! More information is available at the
Center for Marine Conservation.
The Reynolds Auction Company is hosting a Surplus Auction of equipment (mostly busses) from The Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA) in the parking lot of Meikle Automation (400 Trabold Rd.) starting at 9 a.m. [source: Reynold's Auction website] Today at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is another Upstairs/Downstairs Tour starting at 10:15 a.m. [source: Eastman House e-mail] [all ages]
The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is having a Do-It Yourself (DIY) Fest starting at 1 p.m. today.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Updated:
Tonight at TiLT Nightclub and Ultralounge (444 Central Ave.) is Earthdance starting at 6 p.m. featuring numerous DJ's, musicians, and performers.
[source:
flyer]
[21+]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Trash Humpers starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 7 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "this creation from provocateur filmmaker Korine follows a group of anarchic individuals wearing creepy old-age masks who commit random acts of vandalism and simulate sexual intercourse with trash cans and dumpsters. Decidedly not for every taste, Korine's imagery is undeniably potent: this is what filmmaking after the apocalypse will look like! We're positive you've never seen anything like it."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Tango Cafe Dance Studio (389 Gregory St.) is great, witty acoustic soloist Maria Gillard, witty, accomplished acoustic soloist Brian Coughlin, and Jeff Riales starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting BLOW!, Elsa and the awesomeAWESOMES, and Hotel Reverie starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Lawnmowers will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Abilene website] |
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The Lower Gorge Explorer, Fall, Series 2 is today from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. starting from the Tamarack and Beach RGRTA stop (Tamarack St. and Beach Ave.)
[source:
City Hall press release]
Today at the Webster Arboretum in Irving R. Kent Park (1690 Schlegel Rd.) is a performance of Robert Morris' Arboretum by Ossia New Music starting at 2 p.m. (Note: rain date is Saturday, September 25.)
[source:
Ossia New Music calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Peter Pan starting early at 2 p.m. As part of the James Card Memorial Lecture Series, Caroline Frick Page will introduce and discuss James Card's childhood favorite film and Edward E. Stratmann will discuss "Card's personally assembled score of pre-recorded music, which will serve as the soundtrack to this presentation of Peter Pan." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is The Spampinato Brothers starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Updated:
Tonight at 8:30 p.m. is the very last Laser Show at The High Falls Gorge (Platt St at Browns Race, the Pont De Rennes Bridge).
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is great synth-driven, drum-rich dance-rock from El Ten Eleven, Dosh, Baths, and The Turbines.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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This evening from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. is Savor Rochester at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.), a benetit for Foodlink (936 Exchange St.)
[source:
Hedonist Chocolates website]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is a Faculty Jazz Concert. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages] Black Umbrella, and Aficionado will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting The Terr-Henrie Family Band starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website] |
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POW/MIA Recognition 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 from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m., former Monroe County Executive Jack Doyle, Esq. will discuss Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand (Turtles Can Fly) starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar, "at the Turkish-Iraqi border in the days before the 2003 American invasion, a 13-year-old Kurd convinces his village elders to install a satellite dish to pick up news of the coming conflict. Meanwhile, he pursues a romance with a young girl whose brother has lost both arms to a land mine. Director Bahman Ghobadi once again reveals his ability to get riveting performances from nonprofessionals in this moving tale of children and war."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Quick and Easy Boys starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Carol Roberts hosts this months Story Slam at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) starting at 6:30 p.m.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Victory starting at 8 p.m. in which a group of Allied prisoners of war during World War II attempt to use a soccer game with Germans as a backdrop for escape.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) is Kevin Higgins, and Barbara Maltese starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup 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 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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