Weekly Rochester Events #656 Starting Thursday, August 4, 2011
Today from 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. at Granite Mills Park (Platt St. and Browns Race) is a Hochstein at High Falls Summer Concert Series performance by The Moho Collective .
[source:
City Hall press release]
This evening at The Little (240 East Ave.) starting at 6:30 p.m. is a screening of The Corporation. [source: Little Theatre e-mail] 
This evening at 7 p.m. at Brighton Memorial Library (2300 Elmwood Ave.), Win Trafton — founder of WynTec Enterprise, LLC — will discuss Renewable Energy.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting great power-pop from Big Hurry, solidly good power electric alt-acoustic rock from The Dads, and effortlessly tight, fast, hard-pop-rock from Routine Involvements (was Stereophone) starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will present The Dryden at 60 Years — Program #2 featuring screenings of The Gangsters and the Girl, The Professor's Romance, and Manhattan Madness accompanied on piano by Dr. Philip C. Carli starting late at 8:30 p.m. This program was originally screened in May, 1951.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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] |
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Today at The Rochester Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince St.) is the first day of something titled Transitions-Rochester which runs through November 13. Good luck finding information on it — it probably has some kind of opening that might be this evening sometime.
[source:
Visual Studies Workshop calendar]
[all ages]
The Puerto Rican Festival runs today and tomorrow from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Frontier Field (333 N. Plymouth Ave.) [source: City Hall press release] Tonight is another First Fridays around art galleries downtown starting around 5 p.m. [source: First Friday website] Tonight at 6 p.m. at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) is Bands on the Bricks featuring The 50/50 Band , and Download.
[source:
Up All Night website]
Today from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (137 East Ave.) is the Opening Reception for State of the City: In The Loop. [source: Artists' Breakfast Group e-mail] Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting at 6 p.m. for Happy Hour is This Other Life followed at 9:30 p.m. by Mason Porter.
[source:
Abilene website]
Over at Village Gate Square (274 N. Goodman St.) starting around 6 p.m. is Dan Frank and The True Believers .
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
Curio opens tonight at Genesee Pottery at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) starting at 6 p.m. and featuring works by Lynne Hobaica, and Allison Rose Craver. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar] Today from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Grass Roots Gallery (1115 E. Main St., suite #157 in the Hungerford Building) is an Art Reception for bART Without Orders featuring works by Colleen Virdi, and Stephen Lindsey. [source: City Newspaper] Happy Hour at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will feature Honest John and Super Sarah starting around 7 p.m. followed around 9 p.m by Joywave, fantastic ska-influenced, synth-laden pop/rock from SPORTS, Light Feelings, and excellent ska-driven rock from The Beaumonts
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) presents Shambolica by Kimberly Niles starting tonight at 8 p.m. [source: MuCCC website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Princess Bride starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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The Park Avenue Festival (Park Ave. at Alexander St. to Culver Rd.) runs today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
Today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. is the Parade for The Puerto Rican Festival starting at The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way). [source: City Hall press release] This evening starting at 6 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Every Photo is a Metaphor: "a unique look at the photography of Scott Stewart by silk screen artist Harold Ross Copp." [source: City Newspaper]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is a performance of Midnight in the Front Lawn of Good and Evil: a hypothesis by Spencer T. Christiano — a dramatization of "the recent Emily Good/Police Recording controversy".
[source:
Facebook]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Beetle Juice starting at 8 p.m. and again tomorrow at 5 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "a pair of newly dead newlyweds returns to their country home to discover unwanted guests: an obnoxious yuppie family whom the spirits want evicted at once." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at TiLT Nightclub and Ultralounge (444 Central Ave.) is another IRENICS : Episodes in the Dance starting around 10 p.m. featuring DJ's and dancing.
[source:
Facebook]
[21+]
Peter Karp and Sue Foley will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website] God Size Hate , Ten Dead Heroes, Drama God, and Keaton will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Wicked fun, saxophone-driven, percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHood performs at The Dragonfly Tavern and Pizza Factory (725 Park Ave.) today at 12 p.m. as part of The Park Avenue Festival (Park Ave. at Alexander St. to Culver Rd.).
[source:
JamBase calendar for Rochester]
Nita Brown will present a What's Up Lecture titled Talking Up Adinkra today at 2 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.)
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
Today at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) at 2 p.m., Jeremy Clowe will present The Stories Behind Rockwell's Famous Faces. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] |
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Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is fun, fast punk-ska band Suit Em Up (formerly Free For All), and The Results starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is The Chris Hollywood Pro-Am Jam starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
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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.
Updated: Today's Tuesday Nature Nights is a Guided Canoe/Kayak Paddle starting at 6 p.m. from The Genesee Waterways Center (149 Elmwood Ave., in Genesee Valley Park). [source: City Hall press release] The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) will be hosting The Shot Heard Around The World starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
JamBase calendar for Rochester]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Married to the Mob starting at 8 p.m., a "nutty, mobbed-up romantic comedy [that] presaged the '90s and our cultural obsession with all things Mafia."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Lost Patrol, Dotsun Moon, and The Cosmos starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Aqueduct Park (E. Main St. and Graves St., by the river) is a Noontime Concert Series performance by Uptown Jazz featuring Whitney Marchelle.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Today from 3 p.m. to noon tomorrow in Washington Square Park (Woodbury Blvd at South Clinton Ave, across from Geva Theatre) is Cardboard City 3. [source: City Hall press release] Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting Steve Lyons starting around 8 p.m. [source: Abilene website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Canyon Passage starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "a very peculiar and special Technicolor Western, Canyon Passage was Tourneur's first attempt at the genre. He achieves something more like director John Ford's work than the master himself achieved: an ambling, exposition-averse story that examines the workings of a frontier community in Oregon, glimpsing longingly at the lives of entrepreneur Dana Andrews, gambler Brian Donlevy, his fiancee Susan Hayward, and a host of supporting players including Lloyd Bridges, Andy Devine, and Hoagy Carmichael."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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