Here's what's going on this week:
Thursday, January 17

• Tonight at 6:30 p.m. is the start of the Rochester Movie Makers Mind2movie 72 Hour Film Competition, starting and ending (72 hours later on Sunday at 6:30 p.m.) at RCTV-15 (21 Gorham St.) [source: Rochester Craigslist events, 2013-Jan-14]
• This evening from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Henrietta Public Library is a discussion on Ghost Hunting with local writer and ghost hunter Ralph Esposito. "There will also be a display and demonstration of ghost hunting equipment to see if the library is haunted." [source: Monroe County Library website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Tonight at the Lovin' Cup starting around 8 p.m. is Quintopus, presented by Jazz90.1. [source: Lovin' Cup website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Starting around 8:30 p.m. at the Bug Jar is Math the Band, great one-man-band with chiptune vocoder BC Likes You, and good, bright, slick chiptunes band Faking Amnesia. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-14]
• Over at Abilene starting around 9 p.m. is Ana Egge with charismatic acoustic soloist Scott Regan. [source: Abilene website, 2013-Jan-14]

Friday, January 18

• Today from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Gandhi Institute is a Restorative Rochester Strategic Planning Gathering with Shannon Richmond. [source: Gandhi Institute calendar, 2013-Jan-14]
• Today from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Sage Art Center on the University of Rochester Campus is the Opening Reception for (en) Gendered. [source: UofR website events calendar, 2013-Jan-14]
• Alex Bogs will perform at Spot Coffee on East tonight from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. [source: Facebook, 2013-Jan-16]
• The UofR Cinema Group will screen Looper (2012, 119 min.) tonight at 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m., and midnight in the Hoyt Auditorium on the University of Rochester Campus. [source: University of Rochester Cinema Group website, 2013-Jan-14]
• The Baobab will present a screening of the film Color Adjustment (1992, 86 min.) starting at 7 p.m. "Color Adjustment traces 40 years of race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment, scrutinizing television's racial myths and stereotypes." [source: Baobab website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Tonight at Boulder Coffee on Alexander starting around 8:30 p.m. is 33 Black Angels, and Pillow Fight Accident. [source: Boulder Coffee calendar, 2013-Jan-14]
• Tonight in the 3rd Floor Ballroom of Tango Cafe is The Groove Juice Special: live swing music by Jon Seiger and his Hot Five starting around 9 p.m. (with a beginner swing dance lesson at 7 p.m.) [source: Groove Juice Swing website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Over at Skylark starting around 10 p.m. is Harmonica Lewinski, Raunchy Sex, and Big Brain And The Drug Cartel. [source: Facebook, 2013-Jan-14]
• The Bug Jar will host Adam Kramer's Birthday Show with Silverfish, nice, solid acoustic rock from Archimedes, Kaleidoscopes, I Can't Stop Wondering, and Josh Mordecai starting around 9 p.m. (Dan Ripley will play during Happy Hour starting around 6 p.m.. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-14]

Saturday, January 19

• Today from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Arnett Branch Library is their Solar Energy Display Grand Opening. [source: Monroe County Library website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Tonight at 7 p.m., 9:15 p.m., and 11:30 p.m. in Hoyt Auditorium on the University of Rochester Campus, the UofR Cinema Group will be screening Pitch Perfect (2012, 112 min.) [source: University of Rochester Cinema Group website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Tonight starting at 8 p.m. is An Evening Of Jeff Slutsky and Friends at the Bread and Water Theatre — a non-perishable food drive for Foodlink. [source: Bread and Water Theatre website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Tonight starting around 8 p.m. at Water Street Music Hall is wicked fun, saxophone-driven, percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHood's annual January Thaw with The John Payton Project, Mosaic Foundation, and Audioinflux. Proceeds raised go to the Tony Cavagnaro Young Musician's Scholarship Fund to benefit Hochstein School of Music. [source: Water Street Music Hall website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Rockin' rockabilly from Krypton 88 will be at the Firehouse Saloon tonight starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Freetime website, 2013-Jan-14]

Sunday, January 20

• Today from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Water Street Music Hall is Party for the People by Move To Amend — Rochester, "a local organization singly focused on adding an amendment to the U.S. Constitution enabling the Congress to regulate money spent on elections." [source: Facebook, 2013-Jan-14]
• Today from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Rundel Auditorium on the 3rd floor of the Rundel Library, Jim Duffus will discuss Rochester's Rich History…How We Became Who We Are: The Old Bank — Rochester Savings Bank, 1831-1982. [source: City of Rochester Events page, 2013-Jan-16]
• Tonight at the Bug Jar starting around 9 p.m. is Onuinu, Light Feelings, and great danceable digital beats and melodies from PK. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-14]

Monday, January 21

• After tonight's 6 p.m. screening of Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, U.S. 2012, 157 min.) at the Little Theatre, Skip Battaglia will lead a discussion of the film as the first of the RIT Faculty Series. [source: Little Theatre e-mail, 2013-Jan-16]
• Tonight at the Yards is Critique at the Yards starting around 7 p.m. "This is an opportunity for local makers to share and receive feedback on current work, and to open a forum for dialogue, critique and an exchange of ideas among artists in our city." [source: Facebook, 2013-Jan-14]

Tuesday, January 22

• Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Rundel Library, Kit Miller will discuss Celebrating the Season for Nonviolence: How Nonviolent Principles and Practices Can Enhance Your Work and Community Life. [source: Monroe County Library website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Tonight at the Little, Linda Moroney will introduce and lead a discussion after Brooklyn Castle (Katie Dellamaggiore, U.S., 2012, 101 min.) screening at 7 p.m. as part of the One Take: Stories Through the Lens Series.
  

  Winner of six audience awards, the film is the remarkable and improbable true story of I.S. 318 in Brooklyn — an inner-city school where more than 65% of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level — that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. In fact, if Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he'd only rank fifth best. Chess has transformed the school from a "school in need of improvement" to one of New York City's best. But a series of recession-driven pubic school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

  [source: Little Theatre e-mail, 2013-Jan-16]

• Lastnote, Typewriter, and Adam Clark will play at the Bug Jar tonight starting around 9 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2013-Jan-14]

Wednesday, January 23

• Color Brighton Green presents Beyond the Blue Box — Recycling at the Monroe County Ecopark today from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Brighton Memorial Library. "Learn about the various items that you may drop off for recycling at the Monroe County Ecopark, from electronics and fluorescent bulbs to large plastic items and clothing." I wonder if they will explain why it's located nearly 7 miles from downtown. [source: Monroe County Library website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Carol Roberts will host the Monthly Story Slam starting at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books tonight. [source: Writers and Books website, 2013-Jan-14]
• For the Little Theatre's triple-play, tonight at 7 p.m. is a New York Filmmakers Quarterly short-film program. [source: Little Theatre e-mail, 2013-Jan-16]
• Daniel Bachman, and Ian McColm will perform at the Bop Shop tonight starting around 8 p.m. [source: Bop Shop website, 2013-Jan-14]
• Over at Tala Vera is Beard Without a Moustache, Swallowing Bile, Laestrygonia, and Foot and Mouth Disease starting around 9 p.m. [source: Facebook, 2013-Jan-14]
• In the "intimate Upstairs Lounge" at Abilene is Ommie Wise, starting around 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website, 2013-Jan-14]