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Weekly Rochester Events #681 Starting Thursday, January 26, 2012


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    If you enjoyed The Pleasant Show last year (or if you didn't) there's a Planning Meeting today at 7:30 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) for the upcoming show in August. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) starting at 8 p.m. is Caged Alpha Monkey Racing which involves "local personalities from the beer world dressed in full monkey suits completing challenges while racing twice around the perimeter of the building." [source: Tap and Mallet website]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at 8 p.m. in Hoyt Auditorium at The University of Rochester (Elmwood Ave. at Intercampus Dr.) is a screening of Vegucated, co-sponsored by SAVVY. [source: University of Rochester Events Calendar]

    Today through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. is A Brief History of Women 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 Gunfighter starting at 8 p.m. Jack Garner will introduce this film in which Gregory Peck "delivers some of his best work as a famed gunfighter on the run. Every town has some punk who wants to challenge him. He can't put his gunfighting past behind him." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting The Champales starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene e-mail]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Inner PlanetsMySpace link, and Will Veeder starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    JayceLand Pick Updated: Tonight at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. is the Artists' Reception for The Eclectic Palette of Richard Welch, and Harriet Sutherland which runs through February 19. [source: Image City Photography Gallery e-mail]

    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]

    Frankie Leigh and JewelsMySpace link will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) for Happy Hour starting around 6 p.m. followed at 9:30 p.m. by The Pat Maloney Syndrome. [source: Abilene e-mail]

    Top Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Interrupters starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 5 p.m. It's a documentary about "three Chicago individuals whose own criminal pasts have led them to an innovative anti-violence program" which uses "contagious disease as a model," and "these self-described 'violence interrupters' attempt to halt 'infection' at its source by intervening directly in escalating personal conflicts." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Instead of SleepingMySpace link, Pearl White Ghosts, and The Anderson StingraysMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    Tonight at The Lovin' CupMySpace link (300 Park Point Dr., #110) is Art Beaty, and Todd East starting around 9 p.m. [source: Lovin' Cup calendar]

    JayceLand Pick Over at Sticky Lips Pit BBQ (625 Culver Rd.) starting around 10 p.m. is the nicely harmonious rock band WalriMySpace link. [source: JamBase calendar for Rochester]


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    JayceLand Pick Today at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting at 8 p.m. is a Fundraiser for Girls Rock! featuring music by Big Brain and The Drug Cartel, grindy rough rock duo Dick Snare, Green Dreams, and really great sounding acoustic trio The Baby SharkMySpace link along with the debut of The Broads Regional Arm Wrestling League (BRAWL). [source: Girls Rock! Rochester Facebook page]

    Eastman Virtuosi perform today at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Hadewijch starting at 8 p.m. followed by a discussion with Motion Picture Curator Dr. Paolo Cherchi Usai. According to the Eastman House calendar, "once upon a time, in the 13th century, there was a poet — Hadewijch of Antwerp — who expressed her views on the ecstasy of spiritual love in poems of flamboyant beauty. Fast forward to the 21st century: Céline, a 20-year-old French girl, is seeking God along the same path, but even the nuns of the monastery think she's crazy." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    The Bitchin' Kitchen will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 10 p.m. [source: Abilene e-mail]

    JayceLand Pick Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) will be hosting wicked fun, saxophone-driven, percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHoodMySpace link starting around 10 p.m. for their annual January Thaw Concert. [source: Water Street calendar] [16+]


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    Wind quintet Jackie Gilette will perform today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) starting at 3 p.m. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Junior BattlesMySpace link, good chiptunes rock band Chip's Challenge, and Crazy Fools will be at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. [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 Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

    This evening starting around 7:30 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is a screening of The Ken Russell Film Series. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]


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    This morning starting around 8 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.

    JayceLand Pick Updated: Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is another Tuesday Topics where Dr. Kevin S. McFarland will present a discussion titled Have We Discovered Warp Speed, Scotty? [source: Friends of the Public Library e-mail] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick This evening presumably starting around 7 p.m., Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) will present the performances of winners of the 2 Pages/2 Voices competition. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing La Vie de Bohème (The Bohemian Life) starting at 8 p.m. Another film from dry humorist Aki Kaurismäki — in this, "aspiring poet Marcel Marx (André Wilms) finds camaraderie with an Albanian composer and an Irish painter (both played by Finnish actors!) after getting evicted from his apartment, the three struggling to survive despite their meager incomes and questionable talents." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is really great sounding acoustic trio The Baby SharkMySpace link, Cu-CuMySpace link, Gin and Bonnets, and good indie-acoustic rock from Kirk StevensMySpace link starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    Today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Auditorium at The Rochester Public Safety Building (185 Exchange Blvd.) is a Luncheon With the Law with Rochester Police Department (RPD) in an apparently ironic celebration of Black History Month. Food will be available from Unkl Moe's BBQ and Catering Services (493 West Ave.) and entertainment by F.O.S. Family of Soul. [source: City Hall press release]

    Tonight at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is Open Mike Comedy Night hosted by Anna Hall. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman Wind Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Five Easy Pieces starting at 8 p.m. in which Jack Nicholson plays a "classically trained pianist from a highly cultured family in the Pacific Northwest, but you wouldn't know it: he spends all his time in oil fields and bowling alleys, wavering about his proudly redneck girlfriend (Karen Black). When he journeys back home to see his family for the first time in years, he only affirms his own alienation in this contemplative work of American art cinema." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Teenage Mysticism, Kurt Andrew, and great acoustic band N. Moore and the Helping Hands starting around 9 p.m. Tim said this show is going to be great. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

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