Weekly Rochester Events #620 Starting Thursday, November 25, 2010
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Buy Nothing Day
Today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The More Fire Glass Studio (80 Rockwood Pl.) is their Annual Sale. [source: City Newspaper] The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) will be having a Black Friday Celebration starting at open at 11:30 a.m. featuring "stouts, porters, and other sorts of delicious black beers to help relieve your stress". [source: Tap and Mallet website] Today at The Little (240 East Ave.) starting at 12 p.m. is a whole bunch of bands such as Velveteen Fox  , Watkins and the Rapiers, {Brian Lyndsay And The Bootleggers}, excellent, daring folk/acoustic-rock soloist JoAnn Vaccaro, talented singer-guitarist Kinloch Nelson, virtually trippy jazz from Margaret Explosion, and Madeline Forster.
[source:
WBER calendar]
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] Over at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 7:30 p.m. is People with Teeth .
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Awful Truth starting at 8 p.m. "Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are perfectly matched as bickering soon-to-be divorcees." A grand screwball comedy ...
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Jet Black Berries, The Spacelords, and The Absolutes starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at 9 p.m. at The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way) is Sparkle Motion's last Alley Cat of the year: bicycling and a scavenger hunt rolled into one. Sponsored by Knog, and Subversive Cycling.
[source:
Facebook]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9:30 p.m. is The Lawnmowers. [source: Abilene website] |
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Today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. is Second Storie's 2010 Indie Market at The Rochester Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince St.)
[source:
Facebook]
[all ages]
Today at The Edgerton Community Center (41 Backus St.) is the Edgerton Model Railroad Room 60th Anniversary Celebration from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. [source: City Hall press release] The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is hosting an Animation Night from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. today. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Senso starting at 8 p.m. Here's what the Eastman House calendar has to say: "Alida Valli plays the tragic aristocratic Italian heroine whose downward spiral begins when she falls blindly for an Austrian soldier (Farley Granger) in this 'lush, melodramatic portrait of seduction and betrayal, decadence and deceit in the midst of Italy's resistance to Austrian occupation in the mid-19th century' (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader)." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at TiLT Nightclub and Ultralounge (444 Central Ave.) is an After-Gobble party starting at 9 p.m.
[source:
Facebook]
[21+]
The Po' Boys Brass Band will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Instead of Sleeping, The Ohm, and Zoobombs starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Updated:
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting High Volume Componants, good hard rock from The Cheetah Whores, Anchorage, Nebraska, and Broken Division starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Facebook]
[21+]
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The Clarinet Collection will perform today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Wilson Commencement Park (251 Joseph Ave.) will present a Home for the Holidays benefit concert with Wycliffe Gordon this evening at 7 p.m. at The Reformation Lutheran Church (111 N. Chestnut St.)
[source:
Baobab website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Woodstock starting at 7 p.m. Note that this Director's Cut includes a lot of footage ... and, just like the actual Woodstock, something that's great to see once. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is Craig Marlowe, The Freeminer Birds, tight modern rock band Veluxe, The Silver Threads, and The Reynolds.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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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]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is The Beale Street Blues Band starting around 8 p.m. [source: Abilene website]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is Act:Live Music featuring Nite Club.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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.
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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 at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of GasLand at 6:30 p.m. with a discussion led by director Josh Fox.
[source:
City Newspaper]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Special Delivery starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "recently restored by George Eastman House, the last silent vehicle for legendary wide-eyed vaudeville and Hollywood comedian Eddie Cantor finds the funnyman as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, our hero stumbles upon a gang of crooks (led by William Powell) who are planning a large-scale confidence scam." Featuring live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Josh Netsky, and Benjamin Jameson Morey and The Wallpaper Singers starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of A Small Act starting at 6:30 p.m. presented by Rehema Home.
[source:
Gay Alliance website]
Today at The Hochstein School of Music and Dance (50 North Plymouth Ave.) starting at 7:30 p.m. is a World Aids Day Concert: "Embrace Life". [source: Culture starts with ART! (CSWA) Yahoo! Group] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Let's Spend the Night Together starting at 8 p.m. — a concert footage of The Rolling Stones in their prime.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Paul's Grandfather, Dave and Marrissa, and Doug Campbell 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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