Weekly Rochester Events #488 Starting Thursday, May 15, 2008
 Peace Officers Memorial Day (half-staff)
Tonight at 4 p.m. at The Lilac Festival is great instrumental funk from John Viviani and Filthy Funk .
[source:
Lilac Festival website]
[all ages]
This evening at 6 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.), photojournalist Ed Kashi will deliver a Photography Lecture titled Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] Tonight at 7 p.m. starting at Lamberton Conservatory (Reservoir Rd.) is a tour of Highland Park Poetry Sites with Fr. William Amann. [source: Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail] [all ages] Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Ave.) is a meeting of The Rochester Genealogical Society. Tonight's program includes the Election of Officers for 2008-2010 and a Stump the Experts panel. [source: Rochester Genealogical Society website] [all ages] Grace Seiberling will deliver a lecture titled French Impressionism, American Eyes at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) tonight at 7 p.m. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] 
Great, somewhat mellow rock-and-roll band Hinkley will be performing at tonight's taping of WXXI's OnStage at WXXI (280 State St.) starting at 7 p.m. Call ahead for free tickets.
[source:
WXXI website]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Radioactive Snowshu, and Golf.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Little Fugitive and On the Bowery starting at 8 p.m. In the former, a 7-year-old runs away fearing he had killed his brother. The latter documents life on "skid row". [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
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Today from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. and tomorrow and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) is Mezapallooza featuring dozens of bands — "A 3-Day Celebration of Music, Art & Food".
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
MEETinROCHESTER will meet at The Distillery (1142 Mount Hope Ave.) tonight at 5:30 p.m. — sign up at the website and meet some new people!
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Tonight at 5:30 p.m. at The Lilac Festival is RedLine Zydeco. [source: Lilac Festival website] [all ages]
The Cargo Cult Revival, and The National Rifle will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Faces starting at 8 p.m. with co-star Seymour Cassel and producer-cinematographer Al Ruban on hand to discuss the film. It's about a couple with a troubled marriage who separate for the night to stay with their respective lovers.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Upstage at The Auditorium Center (875 Main St E.), The Nuts and Bolts Comedy Improv Troupe is doing a benefit improv comedy show for The Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester (BCCR) (840 University Ave.).
[source:
Nuts and Bolts e-mail]
Tonight at The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) is great funk band The Filthy Funk starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is great 1960's-styled rock from The Hi-Risers starting around 10 p.m.
[source:
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar]
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Vivian Vande Velde, Cynthia DeFelice, and Bruce Coville will be in Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) to discuss Censorship and Book Banning at 10:30 a.m.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Among the performances today, good bar-rock band (with a country twang) Blue Jimmy will play at 1 p.m. at The Lilac Festival.
[source:
Lilac Festival website]
[all ages]
Today from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is an Altered Books Workshop on transforming "old, unwanted books into works of art". They'll also be repeating this program on Tuesday at the same time. [source: City Hall press release]
Tonight at 6 p.m. is a book discussion of A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win by Shelby Steele at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.)
[source:
Baobab website]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is talented stoner rock-influenced rock band Argus Eye, One Hand Waving Free, and Smock starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Killing of a Chinese Bookie starting at 8 p.m. with actors Ben Gazzara and Seymour Cassel along with producer-cinematographer Al Ruban to discuss the film. It's about a guy who gets into debt and kills a Chineese bookie as payment.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonigh at 9 p.m. at The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.) is The Dan Drohan Trio followed by the After Hours Jam Session with The Quinn Lawrence Trio.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
Meyer and McGuire will be at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Equal=Grounds MySpace page]
[all ages]
The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) will be hosting angry, fun punk-rock band Eddie Nebula and the Plague starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
Township, The Gifted Children, The Highway Lights, and The Skull Maracas will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Dawn starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
Betty's Sing-a-Long is regularly scheduled at Betty Meyer's Bullwinkle Café (622 Lake Ave., a.k.a. "Bullwinkle's") starting around 10 but since September, 2007 people have reported they were closed. |
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Lilac Festival
ends today.
The Rochester Flute Association (RFA) will be performing in the Conservatory at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) today from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] This afternoon from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. is the opening reception for the Rochester Art Supply Invitational Art Exhibit at The Center at High Falls Fine Art Gallery (60 Browns Race). [source: Artists' Breakfast Group e-mail] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Husbands starting at 7 p.m. with actor Ben Gazzara and producer Al Ruban to discuss the film. It's about three middle-aged men who carouse about London after the unexpected death of a friend.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Montage Live Music Hall (50 Chestnut St., formerly the Montage Grille) will be hosting fun ska band Mrs. Skannotto, Destroy Everything, Formaldehyde, Super Atomic, The Kujats, This is a Stick Up, and The Audibles starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
JamBase calendar for Rochester]
[all ages]
Old Time Relijun, Ian Downey is Famous , and good high-energy punk-rock from The Grievants will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
A|V Space website]
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Armed Forces Day
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Duke Galaxy and the Pipeliners, Nod, and good punk-rock band The QUiTTERS starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Bored? Why not check out 1980's DJ night at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 11 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] |
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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.
Ali's hosting a MEETinROCHESTER event at Make and Take Gourmet (1475 E. Henrietta Road) tonight at 6:30 p.m. If you want to come by and make a meal of your own, go on their site, select "Book a Session", pick the "Ali's Private Party" on May 20 at 6:30 p.m., enter the password "Ali" (case-sensitive: not "ali"), and you're on your way. I thought it a little confusing, but when they ask for meal quantities, that's just a way to get bulk pricing — for just one or two meals, pick the single-meal assembly pricing and you can choose more than one later.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Prizzy Prizzy Please starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing No Highway in the Sky starting at 8 p.m. Eastman House's calendar says, "in a fun early prototype for the classic disaster film, an aeronautical engineer (James Stewart) boards a newly designed plane, convinced that it's prone to metal fatigue and will crash after a certain amount of flying time. Supported by at least one passenger (Marlene Dietrich), his only choice is to create an incident that will force the plane down earlier." It also happens to be James Stewart's 100th birthday. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is thrashy, staccato drum and guitar duo The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Bloody Noes, and instrumental-cacophonous-rock nearly-noise band Science vs. Witchcraft starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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Author Anne Panning will be at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) for the Visiting Writers Series starting at 7 p.m.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) (657 East Ave.) is part of The Rochester Asian Pacific American Film Festival featuring Neal Dhand's new film Used followed by several other short films.
[source:
Craigslist Rochester events]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing A Child is Waiting starting at 8 p.m. It's about a woman who works at a home for mentally-handicapped children run by a progressive doctor. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages]
Tonight is the first of four days of improvisational comedy with Geva Comedy Improv at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) starting at 8:30 p.m.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
Poor People United meets tonight and every Wednesday at 7 at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality (402 South Ave.) [source: the proverbial grapevine] Every Wednesday starting at Dogtown Hots (691 Monroe Ave.) at 7 p.m. is the Rochester Cruisers Wednesday Night Cruise (for bicyclists). [source: the proverbial grapevine] There's an Open Mic for Acoustic Music at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) tonight around 8. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
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