Weekly Rochester Events #643 Starting Thursday, May 5, 2011
Cinco de Mayo
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. is the Spring General Meeting for The Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association at St. Anne Church (1600 Mt. Hope Ave.) The meeting will cover Collegetown and the Mt. Hope Avenue Reconstruction Project along with a proposed fast-food drive-thru.
[source:
Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail]
[all ages]
This evening at 6:30 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is the Rochester Anarchism Discussion and Debate Series discussing Anarchism: What It is and Isn't.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Joywave, KOPPS, On Horses, and nice sounding acourtic duo Dave and Marrissa starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Of Human Bondage starting at 8 p.m. about a medical student who falls for an illiterate waitress. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting Izzy and the Kesstronics starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
The Mambo Kings will be at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
This evening at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is the Pure Kona Poety Reading and Open Mic starting at 8 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] |
No Pants Day
Tonight is another First Fridays around art galleries downtown starting around 5 p.m. [source: First Friday website] This evening from 6 p.m. at The Firehouse Gallery at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) is the Opening Reception for Sanctuary featuring the works of Tybre Newcomer. The works will be on display through May 29. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar] Today from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) is the Opening Reception for Bracketed Exposures by George Wallace, Gilbert Maker, and Don Menges.
[source:
Equal=Grounds Facebook page]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is a performance of How I Became Famous by John W. Borek. [source: MuCCC website]
Tonight at Johnny's Irish Pub (1382 Culver Rd., still smoke-free) starting at 5 p.m. is Jam Box, then Comedy with Dave Schmitt, Joe Fico, and Julie Donofrio at 8 p.m., and finally Virgil Cain at 9 p.m.
[source:
Johnny's Irish Pub calendar]
Tonight's Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will feature This Other Life starting around 6:30, and then The Bitchin' Kitchen will start around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Running from 10 p.m. tonight to 10 p.m. tomorrow is The 24 Hour Play at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) in which playwrights will "write, cast, stage and perform 3 one act plays in 24 hours."
[source:
MuCCC website]
Tonight at The Maryland Film Festival is a screening of The Beast Pageant (and on IMDb) at 10:30 p.m. at The Charles Theater (1711 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD). [source: Facebook] |
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Today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Hedonist Artisan Chocolates (674 South Ave.) is a Mother's Day Chocolate Tasting.
[source:
Hedonist Chocolates website]
The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) will be hosting Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion starting around 5 p.m.
[source:
Record Archive e-mail]
The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) will be hosting Common Enemy starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be hosting a Grease Sing-A-Long starting at 8 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. tomorrow.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Funky Blu Roots will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website] The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Demos, The Radium Girls, Wolf Ram Heart, and solidly good power electric alt-acoustic rock from The Dads starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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 Mother's Day
V-E Day The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Sandlot starting early at 2 p.m. in which "baseball brings together a disparate group of losers in the 1960s Midwest." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] At today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., EunMi Ko will play piano. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is a screening of Rochester's Underground Experimental Music Scene by Juanita Jenny Viera.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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This evening starting at 6 p.m. on Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is another What's Next: Regional Writers Showcase featuring staged readings of Shoplifting 101 by Carolyn Kourofsky, My Best Friend by Peter Tonery, and In the Territories by Mark Jabaut.
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
Today at 7:30 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is The Miche Fambro Show. [source: MuCCC website] Fun, fast punk-ska band Suit Em Up (formerly Free For All), Preemptive Strike , Flip Shit, and The Real Deal 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.
Tonight at the Sanctuary at The Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Ave.), authors Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, and Ronald Cotton will discuss Picking Cotton.
[source:
Restorative Rochester Yahoo! Group]
[all ages]
Tonight in the Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.), Joan Crawford's grandson Casey LaLonde will be on hand to discuss her home movies starting at 7 p.m. followed by a screening of Humoresque at 8 p.m. in which she plays "a society hostess with a taste for la vie bohème, liquor and handsome men who aren't her husband."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Douglas Adams died in 2001.
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Root Hogs, solidly good power electric alt-acoustic rock from The Dads, and There I Say is Lightning starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is The Crawdiddies starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website] |
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