Weekly Rochester Events #663 Starting Thursday, September 22, 2011
Today through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 41 Woodside Dr., Penfield is a Mega Garage Sale and Bake Sale mdash; a fundraiser for Carolina's Fight for Life (the daughter of Juan and Maria of Juan and Maria's Empanada Stop (280 N. Union St., in the Public Market next to the Railroad St. entrance).
[source:
flyer]
The Nan Miller Gallery (3450 Winton Pl., in the Winton Plaza) will be hosting Visual Tastings today from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. featuring food-inspired art and art-inspired food. [source: City Newspaper]
Today through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m. is An Evening with Frankenharry: 2 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 the Short Films of Bill Plympton starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) is brilliant satirical gospel from The Lobster Quadrille starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
band calendar]
[21+]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Swaggering Growlers, The Creator of the Universe, and Such Reckless Children starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is Maria Muldaur. [source: Abilene website]
Entertaining, animated, high-energy punk-rock band The Static Jacks will be at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
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This evening from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. is The Inside Downtown Tour in the East End.
[source:
Landmark Society calendar]
Watkins and the Rapiers will play Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 6:30 p.m. followed by Jessy Carolina and the Hot Mess at 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) starting at 7 p.m. is a screening of Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Is Spoken Here. [source: Baobab website] Tonight at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, and The Eastman Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Sing Me A Love Song starting at 8 p.m. in which a department store heir "goes undercover at the family operation, befriending an elevator operator and two girls in the music department (Patricia Ellis and ZaSu Pitts) to get the straight dope on the shop." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Demos, The National Rifle , The Tins, and The Sleepy Hahas starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) will be hosting their Sidewalk Sale today from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
Today starting around 12 p.m. is a Garage Sale and Auction at The Calvary St. Andrew's Presbyterian Parish (68 Ashland St.) [source: Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association website] [all ages]
Today from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is the 30th Anniversary Writers Block Party.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) will be hosting C'est Bon Cajun Dance Band starting around 3 p.m. [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages]
Over at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 8 p.m. is Hamell On Trial.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing the one-and-only The Rocky Horror Picture Show starting at 8 p.m. and again tomorrow at 7 p.m. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] 
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is great, gritty, grizzled acoustic soloist Dave Donnelly starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is Mikaela Davis, solidly good power electric alt-acoustic rock from The Dads, Jenna Giuliani, and Vampire State Building.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today starting at The Seneca Park Zoo (2222 St. Paul Blvd.) at 7:30 a.m. is The Rochester Kidney Walk.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Gordon Porth 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]
The Midnight Brigade, The Windsor Folk Family, a rich tapestry of modern Americana from The Bogs Visionary Orchestra, and Hunter Dialectic will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at The Little (240 East Ave.) at 10 p.m. is an evening with Kevin Smith (via video conference) after a screening of his film Red State.
[source:
Little Theatre e-mail]
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Today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. is a Taste of Localvore at The Cornell Cooperative Extension (249 Highland Ave.)
[source:
Rochester Farm Connection Yahoo! Group]
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] Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman Wind Orchestra, and The Eastman Wind Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages] Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting Deke Dickerson, and Big Red and the Sideburns 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.
Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Robert Mitchell will review Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand as part of Books Sandwiched-In. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]
Ossia New Music will be at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Ossia New Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, and Counsel on De Fence starting at 8 p.m. In the former, silent film comedian Harry Langdon stars as "a befuddled contestant in a cross-country walking race" — with live piano performed by Dr. Philip C. Carli. The latter is "one of Langdon's rarely seen talkie shorts, the riotous Counsel on De Fence, a spoof of 1930s courtroom dramas."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Prickers, The Milk Carton Kids, Gaby Moreno, and Shiv Hurrah starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is Don Christiano, and Spencer T. Christiano [source: Abilene website] |
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Tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is the Monthly Story Slam hosted by Carol Roberts.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Confessions of an Opium Eater starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar, "an astonishing artifact of Orientalist exploitation, Confessions of an Opium Eater stars Vincent Price as Gilbert 'son of Thomas' De Quincey, a 19th-century explorer who lands in San Francisco at the height of a Tong war. Fueled by opium, philosophy, and fear, De Quincey plunges himself into a labyrinthine nightmare from which he can't escape."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Japanese Gum, Torus, and Stone Baby starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Today at 12:00 p.m. is a meeting of The Brown Bag Book Discussion Group in the Literature Division's Study Room at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages] |
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