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Weekly Rochester Events #683 Starting Thursday, February 9, 2012


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    JayceLand Pick Mara Ahmed will be at The Little (240 East Ave.) today at 7 p.m. to discuss her "upcoming documentary about the partition of India" with Dr. Victoria Farmer, Dr. Neeta Bhasin and Dr. Aitezaz Ahmed. [source: Rochester Documentary Group Facebook page]

    Rochester Red and Black meets tonight at 7 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge). [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]

    JayceLand Pick The Bertrand Russell Society meets tonight at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) with Phil Ebersole discussing Bertrand Russell in World War One. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Big Country starting early at 7 p.m. Jack Garner will introduce this epic Western — "about a fight over water rights between a wealthy rancher and a scruffy brood of neighbors." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Comic Brian ReganMySpace link will perform tonight at 7:30 p.m. at The Auditorium Center (875 Main St E.) [source: RocWiki calendar]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is The Eastman New Jazz Ensemble starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting This Is Not Cake, Dan CoyleMySpace link, and Collin Jones starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    JayceLand Pick Tonight starting at 6 p.m. at The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) is the Opening Reception for Dark Places by Richard F. Storms with music by great full-power chiptunes rock from Revengineers. [source: Record Archive e-mail]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., Geva Comedy ImprovMySpace link presents GCI's Be My Valentine: A Blood-soaked Slasher/Romantic Comedy at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) [source: Geva Theatre website]

    JayceLand Pick Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra 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 Paul Goodman Changed My Life starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. Director Jonathan Lee will be on hand tonight to discuss his film on the man "perhaps best remembered for his book Growing Up Absurd — a sociopolitical tract on 'the disgrace of the Organized System' that both predicted and helped to inspire the radical changes of the 1960s". [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Greg Townson will perform tonight's Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. followed at 9:30 p.m. by Cabinet. [source: Abilene website]


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    Today from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is a Valentine's Day Card-Making Workshop for Families. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages]

    This afternoon from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Arnett Branch Library (310 Arnett Blvd.) is Gardening 2012 with Michael Warren Thomas. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

    Anderson Alley Artists (250 Goodman St. N.) will be having another open house this and every second Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine]

    Today at The Cobblestone School (10 Prince St.), Rafe Martin will present Stories and Sundries as a fundraiser for the school. [source: Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association website] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Today at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.), ShakeCo: The Shakespeare Company Radio Theater presents The Hound of the Baskervilles at 7:30 p.m. [source: MuCCC website]

    Today starting around 8 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Give Chris A Chance, (a benefit for The Chris Coon Trio to replace his stolen keyboard) featuring the nicely harmonious rock band WalriMySpace link, The Champales, Trip ThrottleGarageBand linkMySpace link, Garden Fresh, The Pickpockets, and Liana GabelMySpace link [source: Abilene website]

    The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing We Can't Go Home Again starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 5 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "'Directed' by Nicholas Ray, this largely improvised, highly experimental film was actually produced over the course of several years by some 45 students at SUNY Binghamton's Harpur College, where Ray taught film in the early '70s. Screened as a work-in-progress to a baffled Cannes audience in 1973, the film remained unfinished until Ray's widow, Susan Ray, reconstructed the film in time for inclusion at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. Today this daring formal experiment stands as both a fascinating failure and an invaluable document of its time, and remains essential viewing for anyone remotely interested in Ray or the possibilities of filmmaking." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Kingsley FloodMySpace link, Bethseda, and Mike Brown will be at The Lovin' CupMySpace link (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Lovin' Cup calendar]

    JayceLand Pick Over at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10 p.m. is the annual Valentine's Day Massacre show featuring awesome, tight, complex rock and roll from The VEiNSMySpace link, good punk-rock from The EmersonsGarageBand link, Philo Beddoe, The Grinders, good, amiable hard rock from The ClockmenMySpace link, Yogi Lewis and The News, and Tim AveryMySpace link. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    JayceLand Pick Tonight at Sticky Lips Pit BBQ (625 Culver Rd.) is the solidly good bar-rock band with a country twang Blue JimmyGarageBand linkMySpace link starting around 10 p.m. [source: Freetime]


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    Fly the flag today.Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809)

    Today at 12 p.m. at Ontario Beach Park (Beach Ave. at Lake Ave.) is the 2012 Polar Plunge for Special Olympics. The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) will be hosting an after-party starting around 2 p.m. [source: Tap and Mallet website] [all ages]

    Today at 2 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a screening of The Music Never Stopped. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

    Today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. features the string quartet of Jebat Arjuna KeeMySpace link. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick Today starting around 4:30 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is The Major Tony Nelson Valentine's Day Special featuring The Bad Kids, Epilogue, The John John Trio, ethereal, meditative, synthesized soundscapes from Eric "The" TaylorMySpace link, Joel Dow, Norm Davis and (hopefully) Major Tony Nelson. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website]

    The Industry: Part I will be at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    JayceLand Pick Tonight at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) is Haewa, Darwin, and The Wonderland House Band starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]


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    Valentine's Day

    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 Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Colin O'Malley will present today's Tuesday Topics lecture: Whatever Happened to the Progressive Tax? [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages]

    Today at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) starting at 7:30 p.m. is Cupid's Capers with The Deadly Dames Burlesque, Inc. [source: MuCCC website]

    JayceLand Pick Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman Jazz Ensemble [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]

    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Somewhere in Time starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "after he finds her portrait hanging in the Grand Hotel, Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) becomes obsessed with early 20th-century actress Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour). Smitten, Collier attempts to conquer time from his room, determined to will himself back to 1912 and the woman he loves. Ignored upon release, Somewhere in Time steadily and justifiably became a cult film, even inspiring an annual convention." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting ChillumMySpace link, Bongslave, The Love Tunnels, SBD, and Dirt Eyes starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) will be hosting The Chris Hollywood Pro-Am JamMySpace link starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Abilene website]


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    JayceLand Pick The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The King of Marvin Gardens starting at 8 p.m. in which Jack Nicholson "plays a Philadelphia-based radio host called to Atlantic City by his shady brother (Bruce Dern) to help develop a deluxe Hawaiian resort. These icy and listless dreams are matched by cinematographer Laszlo Kovac's expert lensing of a wintry and desolate boardwalk empire." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]

    Over at The Bug JarMySpace link (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is PenetrationMySpace link, Infernal AbyssMySpace link, and HellcannonMySpace link. [source: Bug Jar calendar]

    Today starting around 8 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is The Reggae Lounge with Ras Courtney and his Imperial Sounds. [source: Abilene website]

    Today from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Scotland Yard Pub (187 St. Paul St.) is National Singles Day — a lock-and-key dating game. [source: Craigslist Rochester events]

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