Weekly Rochester Events #638 Starting Thursday, March 31, 2011
This evening at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room of The Auditorium Center (875 Main St E.) is a screening of Beyond Hatred.
[source:
Gay Alliance website]
This evening at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a lecture by Dr. Patrick E. McGovern titled Uncorking the Past: the Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Origins of Viniculture starting at 7:30 p.m.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the New York Room of Cooper Hall at SUNY Brockport (350 New Campus Dr., Brockport), Dr. Tucker B. Culbertson will present a lecture titled The End of Marriage: Race, Sex and the Constitution.
[source:
Gay Alliance website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Fortune Cookie starting at 8 p.m. reuniting Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in a tale of a comedic insurance scam.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Lucky Tubb and The Modern Day Troubadours  will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene e-mail]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Child Bite, Prussia, and King Vitamin starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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April Fool's Day
Tonight is another First Fridays around art galleries downtown starting around 5 p.m. [source: First Friday website]
Today from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) is the Northeast Regional Contemporary Fiber Exhibition on display through May 9.
[source:
Rochester Contemporary e-mail]
[all ages]
Today from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is a Silent Auction Fundraiser and Show for Warehouse Arts.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Today at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is the First Fridays/Wide Open Mic hosted by Norm Davis from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] This evening at The Community Darkroom at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. is the Opening Reception for Landscape: Mind and Matter featuring the photography of Joe Ziolkowski, and Christopher Schwer. The exhibit will be on display through May 29. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
Good, crowd-pleasing reggae from Thunder Body, fantastic ska-influenced, synth-laden pop/rock from SPORTS, Roots Collider, Sophistafunk, good attention-deficit melodic hard-rock Triglactagon, Total Babes, Crush the Junta, and Roger Kuhn will be at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
[16+]
The Rochester Community Players' Irish Players will present Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson, and Bedtime Story by Sean O'Casey at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) starting at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, and repeating on weekends through April 16. [source: MuCCC e-mail]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing the satirical comedy classics Airplane! starting at 8 p.m. followed by The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! at 9:45 p.m. (and both again on Sunday starting at 4:30 p.m. likewise).
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Geneva Underground Cinema is presenting a screening of The Beast Pageant (and on IMDb) tonight starting at 8 p.m. at Smith Opera House (82 Seneca St., Geneva) featuring a filmmaker Q&A afterward.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
This Other Life will perform at Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 6 p.m. followed at 9 p.m. by Lac La Belle and The Rob Falgiano Band.
[source:
Abilene e-mail]
Tonight at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) is good country-based rock from Josh Netsky, Eddie Nebula's Awesome Sound, and Honey Pollution starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
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Today at The Stone-Tolan House (2370 East Ave.) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. is an April Fools Tour inviting guests to identify that which doesn't belong.
[source:
Landmark Society calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Enter The Void starting at 8 p.m. — a "first-person POV head trip par excellence, Enter the Void seemingly violates the laws of physics as its camera glides and swoops through the strip clubs, back alleys, and love hotels of the Tokyo underworld."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[18+]
Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting The Vassar Brothers starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene e-mail]
Over at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 9 p.m. is We the People, and FunkNut.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Warblade , Ebony Sorrow, Order of the Dead, and Malformed starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is a Benefit Show for Autism Speaks featuring The Bill Tiberio Group, Uncle Plum, Northside Johnny, and more.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
At today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.), Joe Blackburn will play the Aeolian pipe organ from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
Today from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Strong Auditorium at The University of Rochester (Elmwood Ave. at Intercampus Dr.), Nontombi Naomi Tutu will be the Gandhi Institute Speaker with a lecture titled Us and Them: How We Construct and Can Connect with the Other.
[source:
University of Rochester Events Calendar]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 8:30 p.m. is Such Gold, Gunnar Stahl, The Curl and Drag, Endangered Youth, and fun, fast punk-ska band Suit Em Up (formerly Free For All).
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is Jessy Carolina and the Hot Mess, and Tik Tok.
[source:
Abilene e-mail]
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Today at 7:30 p.m. in Hoyt Hall at The University of Rochester (Elmwood Ave. at Intercampus Dr.) is an Out of Reel Film Series screening of It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School.
[source:
University of Rochester Events Calendar]
Storyteller and author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will present Shifting Spaces: Identity, Literature and the Emergence of Stories at tonight's The Caroline Werner Gannett Project lecture in Webb Auditorium at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map) starting at 8 p.m. She will also be at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) for a reading today at 4 p.m.
[source:
Caroline Werner Gannett Project website]
Energy Crisis, and (ca. 2003) the melodic, experimental sampling and keybord work of Beople/Plytone will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) 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.
At today's Books Sandwiched-In from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m., William Sanders will review Mark Shulman's SCRAWL in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages] Today at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.), author Mark Shulman will be on hand to discuss his book SCRAWL. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]
Physikos: The Art and Science of Movement (302 N. Goodman St.) will be hosting The Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra starting around 8 p.m. Funding for this show is through the ICP Orchestra Concert Kickstarter as the grant for these shows is no longer available.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman Jazz Lab Band
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing What Price Hollywood? starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans (Constance Bennett) rises to the top of the heap thanks to the efforts of director Max Carey (real-life director Lowell Sherman), but as Mary"s star rises, Max's alcoholism threatens to derail the careers of them both."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Johnny's Irish Pub (1382 Culver Rd., still smoke-free) is an Open Mic with very good bluegrass from The String Theory Bluegrass Band starting around 8 p.m. [source: Golden Link website]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Kelly and The Ruths, solid acoustic rock from Caleb Spaulding, The Aeroneers, and The Windsor Folk Family starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Tonight at Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) (657 East Ave.) is a screening of Olmsted and America's Urban Parks: A Documentary (a.k.a. The Olmsted Legacy) starting at 7 p.m.
[source:
Landmark Society e-mail]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke (Samurai Spy) starting at 8 p.m. "After fourteen years of rule by the Tokugawa clan, trouble stirs when a spy for the shogunate threatens to defect to the opposition. Unwittingly drafted into the conflict, neutral samurai Sasuke Sarutobi sets out to find the defector, making his way through a maze of double agents, corrupt officials, and persecuted minorities. Shinoda"s revisionist samurai film takes a page from film noir, with shadowy visuals and a complex plot that explicitly parallels the Cold War crisis." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Peter Katz, good acoustic soloist Nick Young, Jack Danson and The Flood, and N. Moore starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) will be hosting Kelly and The Ruths starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
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