Here's what's going on this week:
Thursday, January 10

• Today and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday from 10:15 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Eastman House will run a repeating program of 16mm films from the Motion Picture Collection in the Curtis Theatre. This week, Amber Bertin curated Representations of Labor in Silent Cinema (89 min.) [source: Dryden website, 2013-Jan-8]
• Today from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the Curtis Theatre, Todd Gustavson will present a Focus 45 Lunch Series about the First Digital Single-Lens Reflex Camera. [source: Eastman House calendar, 2013-Jan-7]
• Ahura Mazda will be at Boulder Coffee on Park Ave. tonight from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee calendar, 2013-Jan-7]
• The Bertrand Russell Society meets tonight at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books for a General discussion of the future of the Greater Rochester Russell Set. [source: Writers and Books website, 2013-Jan-7]
• Tonight through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. (also repeating next week), and on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the MuCCC is 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose. [source: MuCCC website, 2013-Jan-7]
• This evening at The Yards is Goo House at 8 p.m., "a free comedy/music show" featuring music from Routine Involvements, and Garden Fresh. [source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2013-Jan-9]
• Over at the Bug Jar starting around 8:30 p.m. is The Soft Moon, and Majical Cloudz. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-7]
• Ocupanther performs tonight at Skylark Lounge, probably starting around 10 p.m. [source: JamBase calendar, 2013-Jan-7]

Friday, January 11

• This evening at 6 p.m. at Record Archive is an Opening Reception for Art by: Biscuit, with music by Husky. [source: Record Archive e-mail, 2012-Dec-24]
• Tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Firehouse Gallery at Genesee Pottery is the Opening Reception for Ten-nineteen (Return to Station): A 40 Year Retrospective. Works will be on display through February 10. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts website, 2013-Jan-7]
• Meanwhile, in the new Joe Brown Gallery at the Printing and Book Arts Center is Alphabet Soup: Student Show, opening tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and running through January 31. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts website, 2013-Jan-7]
• The Baobab will screen Slavery by Another Name (Samuel D. Pollard, 2012, U.S., 90 min.) tonight at 7 p.m.
  

  [It is a] documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality. It was a system in which men, often guilty of no crime at all, were arrested, compelled to work without pay, repeatedly bought and sold, and coerced to do the bidding of masters. Tolerated by both the North and South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century.

  [source: Baobab website, 2013-Jan-7]

• Ahura Mazda returns to Boulder Coffee — this time on Alexander — to perform starting around 8 p.m. [source: Boulder Coffee calendar, 2013-Jan-7]
• The Bug Jar will present a Local Compilation Release featuring Attic Abasement, good, guitar-driven, synth-enhanced, staccato-rock band Autoverse, tight modern rock band Veluxe, Kitty Snowpants, effortlessly tight, fast, hard-pop-rock from Routine Involvements, Gifted Children, Cavalcade, and White Woods starting around 8 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-7]
• Starting around 10:30 p.m. at Monty's Krown is good, amiable hard rock from The Clockmen, Why the Wires, and Flood Drinker. [source: WBER Concert Schedule, 2013-Jan-7]

Saturday, January 12

• This evening starting around 7 p.m at The Yards is the Closing Reception for Continental Breakfasts featuring music by CJ Boyd, Hnossa, and Nasa Sent Wolves. [source: The Yards website, 2013-Jan-8]
• Mikaela Davis, Right Turn Racer, and The Michael Vadala Trio will perform tonight at the Bug Jar starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-7]

Sunday, January 13

• Today at 11:30 a.m. in the Curtis Theatre at George Eastman House, Mark Osterman will present The Camera Never Lies … Or Does It? — a special program for Eastman House members that discusses photographic manipulation through the years. [source: Eastman House calendar, 2013-Jan-7]
• This afternoon starting at 4 p.m. in Eastman Theatre is a performance titled William Warfield: A Legacy of Music. [source: Facebook, 2013-Jan-7]
• Midge Ure, and Right the Stars will be at the Club at Water Street tonight starting around 9 p.m. According to Freetime, Ure is "a veteran of 70s and 80s bands Slik, The Rich Kids, Thin Lizzy, Visage and Ultravox, Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player and songwriter". [source: Freetime website, 2013-Jan-7]

Monday, January 14

• Tonight at 7 p.m. on the Nextstage at Geva is a Hornets' Nest script-in-hand reading of Blackbird.
  

  When a young woman tracks down and confronts the man who took advantage of her as a minor, the story of their relationship becomes increasingly complicated. Without making any moral judgments, the play never shies away from the brutal truth of the abandoned and unconventional relationship. Is it ever really possible to escape your past?

  [source: Geva Theatre ticket website, 2013-Jan-7]

• Over at the Bug Jar is a Manic Mondays Retro Dance Night with Dr. Hamburger starting around 10 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-7]

Tuesday, January 15

• Tonight at Boulder on Alexander is An Evening of Unobtrusive Poetry and Ambient Sound with Andy Conley and Saby Reyes-Kulkarni. [source: Facebook event, 2013-Jan-4]
• Tonight at the Bug Jar is Turnt Up Tuesday, a Food Not Bombs Benefit Dance Party, featuring DJ Alykhan, and Vampyre Eyes starting around 10 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-7]

Wednesday, January 16

• This evening from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in City Council Chambers at City Hall is a presentation of the Center City Master Plan, "a presentation on downtown planning efforts since 2003 and will focus on the ideas and concerns of current downtown residents and those who are considering living downtown." [source: City of Rochester website, 2013-Jan-9]
• Tonight at the Fairport Public Library starting at 7 p.m., Padme Livingstone will present Practical Meditation for Living Your Life. [source: Monroe County Library website, 2013-Jan-7]
• The Last Bison, Hollands, and The Moho Collective perform tonight starting around 8 p.m at the Lovin' Cup. [source: Lovin' Cup website, 2013-Jan-7]
• Cairo, impressive, organic experimental jazz from The Blood and Bone Orchestra, Rash, and Crush the Junta will perform tonight starting around 9 p.m. at the Bug Jar. [source: Carbon Records calendar, 2013-Jan-7]