Weekly Rochester Events #616 Starting Thursday, October 28, 2010
Thank goodness for TEDxRochester Live or else I'd have no idea who went first. Almeta Whitis Author, Storyteller Dr. Benjamin Miller Professor of Dermatology Biochemistry, Biomedical Karlie Robinson Owner Webpath Technologies (40 Charles Ave., Henrietta) Darren Stevenson and PUSH Co-Founder PUSH Physical Theatre Jane Andrews Nutrition and Product Labeling Manager Wegmans Food Markets (1500 Brooks Ave.) Moka Lantum Co-Founder The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) Shanterra Randle Associate Coordinator The Center for Teen Empowerment (107 Liberty Pole Wy.) Dr. Ralph Spezio Senior Associate URMC Community and Preventive Medicine Michelle Cardulla Executive Director The Museum of Kids Art (MOKA) (90 Webster Ave.) Dr. Ramon Ricker Director, The Institute for Music Leadership Eastman School of Music Jen Indovina President and CEO Tenrehte Technologies Jim Tappon Communications Manager COOL Rochester Speakers We are very pleased to announce our list of 2010 speakers. The following people will be sharing their stories and ideas with us throughout this incredible day. Listed in alphabetical order:
Constantine Manos will be in the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) to present a lecture on his photographs as part of the Wish You Were Here series.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7 p.m. is the Night of the Living Wedge Pub Crawl starting at Solera Wine Bar (647 South Ave.) — part pub crawl; part costume contest: a great way to get drunk and ruin your awesome costume just before Halloween!
[source:
Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association website]
This evening at 7 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.), Victoria Pass will be on hand to present a lecture on Psychedelic Fashion.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) will be hosting Duck Baker starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
The Rochester Community Players present MacBeth tonight through Saturday at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. kicking off a 3-week run at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) [source: MuCCC website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Letztes aus der DaDaeR (The Latest From The Da-Da-R) starting at 8 p.m. Director Jörg Foth will be on hand to discuss his film satirizing East German utopian ideals in Dada style.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Chloe Charles, Jenna Giuliani, and Ryan McMichael and the Trio starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Meyer and McGuire will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) tonight for Happy Hour from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and then at 9:30 p.m. Luca Forester, and The Electro Kings takes the stage.
[source:
Abilene website]
Apparently The Critical Mass Bike Ride is tonight starting at 6 p.m. at The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way) and heading through the city from there. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Ghost Walk will be held tonight and tomorrow every 10 minutes from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. tonight starting at The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word (597 East Ave.) [source: Landmark Society calendar] [all ages]
This evening at 7 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is the Members' Preview Party for the new photography show Taking Aim.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Man's Castle starting early at 7 p.m. followed by American Madness at 8:15 p.m. along with the short Betty Boop for President. The Eastman House calendar says, "in the first of these two fast-paced social dramas from Hollywood's pre-code era of the early 1930s, Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young star as lovers who transcend the Depression in a New York shantytown. In American Madness a good-hearted bank president (Walter Huston) strives to keep his business solvent for the "little people" who rely upon it."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Today and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., and tomorrow at 10 p.m., Spotlight Theatre Arts (66 N. Main St., Fairport) will be hosting Back of the Throat. I saw a screenplay reading a couple years ago and liked it quite a bit.
[source:
Craigslist Rochester events]
This evening in Cathedral Hall at The Auditorium Center (875 Main St E.) is the Alice in Wonderland Masquerade Ball in association with Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] Over at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) starting around 9 p.m. is John Brown's Body , and good, crowd-pleasing reggae from Thunder Body.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[13+]
Tumul will be playing a Halloween Creep show at a super secret location starting at 9 p.m. [source: Carbon Records calendar]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is the Halloween Party featuring a CD release by fantastic ska-influenced, synth-laden pop/rock from SPORTS, with The Dads.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) is a Blood Drive.
[source:
Record Archive e-mail]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Halloween starting early at 7 p.m. followed at 8:45 p.m. by Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. A faceless psychopath menaces a teenager; then returns again and again, culminating in a return to her as an adult with her own son.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
This evening at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) at 8:30 p.m. is a performance by electronic, quasi-noise musicians and humanizing performance artists The Bloody Nos and Nikola Tedsla of Frankenstein Revival: the Rise of Uterus Face.
[source:
Facebook]
Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is hosting their Halloween Bash with nice, well-executed jazzy swing from Bobby Henrie and The Goners tonight starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
The instrumental jam-rock genius of Pia Mater, and great reggae-ska/groove-rock band Nevergreen will be hosting a Halloween Bash tonight starting around 9 p.m. at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110).
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is brilliant satirical gospel band The Lobster Quadrille performing a play titled The Lost Idol of Ibn Al-F'Qwad, along with Tranquilatwist.
[source:
Facebook]
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Halloween
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Creature From The Black Lagoon starting early at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. &dmash; in Anaglyph 3-D!
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tim Schramm will perform Halloween Music on the Aeolian pipe organ at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) today for the Musicale from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 9:30 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is a performance of Phone Calls From the Dead. [source: MuCCC website]
The Scarlet Ending, and The Narrative will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is TEDx Rochester. You have hopefully already signed up!
[source:
TEDx Rochester website]
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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.
Amy Bach, Esq. will review Innocent by Scott Turow (or click here to skip the annoying flash introduction) at today's Books Sandwiched-In from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.)
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
The Ataris will be at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Today from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Penfield Public Library (1985 Baird Rd.) is The Psychology of Stuff, a discussion of controlling excess possessions by Joani Hardy. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]
Updated:
(Better late than never, but I had apparently read the website wrong and tonight is the movie.) The Cinema Theatre (957 South Clinton Ave.) will be playing Ordinary People as part of The Reel Mind Theatre and Film Series tonight at 7 p.m. with special guest Susan Rose Blauner and Dr. Sandra Mitzner will be on hand for a question-and-answer.
[source:
Reel Mind Theatre and Film Series website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Roaring Rails starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman House mailing]
[all ages]
Updated:
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is the great un-band Gaybot, The Chimp Trio, and Garden Fresh starting around 9 p.m. (The Nuclear Power Pants canceled as of Monday, November 1.)
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Today from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Carol Roberts will be hosting Stand-Up Comedy at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.)
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
[all ages]
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Just in time for the day after Election Day, Susan Rose Blauner, author of How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention will be in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) on hand to discuss her book and sign copies afterward from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
[source:
Friends of the Public Library e-mail]
[all ages]
Today at 5 p.m. at The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) is a Festive Ale Launch with Dundee beers from The High Falls Brewing Company (445 St. Paul St.) [source: Tap and Mallet website] R.A.P.I.E.R. poets will be at VENU Resto-Lounge and Nightclub (151 St. Paul St.) for Open Mic starting at 7 p.m. [source: Equal=Grounds Facebook page]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Jailhouse Rock starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman House mailing]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Mr. Gnome, and The Celebration of Man starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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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