Weekly Rochester Events #597 Starting Thursday, June 17, 2010
Dubblestuff  will perform today at 12:30 p.m. at Granite Mills Park (Platt St. and Browns Race) as part of the Hochstein at High Falls Concert Series.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
[all ages]
Today from 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. is The Rochester Genealogical Society picnic at Mt. Hope Cemetery (791 Mt. Hope Ave., the North Gate) followed at 6 p.m. by a walking tour led by Bert Balt. [source: Rochester Genealogical Society website] 
Tonight at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.), Meet the Artists: Painters of South Wedge Traffic Boxes from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
[source:
City Newspaper]
[21+]
Ca$hback plays tonight at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) starting at 7 p.m.
[source:
City Newspaper]
[21+]
Trevor Flynn will present a lecture titled 20 Fresh Perceptions: Uncommon Sense and the Visual Imagination at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) tonight at 7 p.m. [source: City Newspaper] [all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is Club Sandwich (a.k.a. Big Boy Soda and the Yucky Snakes), and fantastic ska-influenced, synth-laden pop/rock from SPORTS.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Soylent Green starting at 8 p.m. I think everyone knows the end from innumerable parodies, but the story is what counts. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] |
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Cynthia Howk will present an Architecture for Lunch walk today from 12:10 p.m. to 12:35 p.m. starting at Washington Square Park (Woodbury Blvd at South Clinton Ave, across from Geva Theatre).
[source:
Landmark Society e-mail]
This evening from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) is the opening reception of Summer Quintet which runs through July 11. [source: Image City Photography Gallery e-mail]
Tonight from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is the Colorama Members' Preview Party.
[source:
Eastman House e-mail]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Lunchfilm starting at 8 p.m. — a series of short films "inspired by an ingenious concept: [Mike Plante] takes a filmmaker to lunch and draws up a napkin contract where the artist must make a film with a budget that matches the cost of the meal."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. is Improv with Village Idiots Present (VIP) at The Pillar Theatre (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate, Suite #D106).
[source:
Village Idiots Present website]
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Today from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m at The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley (GAGV) Youth Center (875 E. Main St.) is the Big Gay Garage Sale.
[source:
Gay Alliance website]
Today at ReHouse, Inc. (1473 E. Main St.) from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. is their 5 Years in Retail Anniversary featuring a Home Repair Clinic from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with Jim Salmon, and John Carr. [source: ReHouse e-mail]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Apocalypse Now Redux — Francis Ford Coppola's 2001 re-edit starting at 8 p.m. ... "one of cinema's definitive statements on the madness of war."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bass Drum Of Death , and The White Widow will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at 10 p.m. at The High Falls Gorge (Platt St at Browns Race, the Pont De Rennes Bridge) is the weekly Laser Show. [source: City Hall press release] |
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Father's Day
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Superman the Movie screening twice today: once at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) starting around 3:30 p.m. is Civil Twilight .
[source:
WBER calendar]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is NoBunny, Mikey Jukebox, and great motley folk from Baby Shiver's Boutique starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Lucky Tubb starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
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The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Woven Bones, good, amiable hard rock from The Clockmen, and Suppertime starting around 9 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.
Tusedays at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is A.K.A. Paul Burke Presents featuring Paul Burke and other people, perhaps performing.
[source:
band e-mail]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Freshman starting at 8 p.m. in which Marlon Brando essentially reprises his role as The Godfather — in this comedy.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is Tortoise, and good metal band Sulaco.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Dino Dinicolo will be at The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) starting around 5 p.m.
[source:
WBER calendar]
Tonight at 6:30 p.m., Jim Healy as the Festival Director of Programming for The 360|365 Film Festival (formerly the Rochester High Falls International Film Festival) will discuss the task of choosing films for the festival at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.)
[source:
Eastman House e-mail]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. is Jimmy Buffett Night Cruise with Fred Vine aboard The Colonial Belle (400 Packett's Landing, Fairport). [source: Freetime]
The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) will be hosting Dino Dinicolo starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven) starting at 8 p.m. I'm not so sure about this one: it has all the earmarks of being tiring and unwatchable; the Eastman House calendar praises this "extremely clever film is simply one of the past decade's best movies." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] The charmingly named bands Anal Cunt, and Total Fucking Destruction will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) 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 The Bill Murray Experience .
[source:
Abilene website]
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] It's Whirrly Wednesdays: Hooping, Drumming, and Grooving at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) at 6 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] [18+] Tonight at 8 p.m. at Abeline Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is an Open Mic with The Grand Canyon Rescue Episode .
[source:
Abeline website]
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