The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead screening
Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Ave., RochesterThe MAG will screen The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (Wes Orshoski, 2015) as part of the Alternative Music Film Series. From "Lemmy" filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk—The Damned, the … Continue reading
Suffragette screening (2015-Dec-17 @ 7 p.m.)
Cinema Theatre 957 S. Clinton Ave., RochesterThe Cinema will screen Suffragette (Sarah Gavron, U.K. 2015, 106 min.) "The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State."
Pure Kona Open Mic Poetry Series
Greenhouse Cafe 2271 E. Main St., RochesterThe Game's Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays theatrical performance (2015-Dec-17 @ 7:30 p.m.)
Blackfriars Theatre 795 E. Main St., RochesterIn Ken Ludwig's (Lend Me A Tenor, Fox on the Fairway, Shakespeare in Hollywood) latest comedy, it's Christmas Eve, 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited … Continue reading
An Evening of "Christmas" Music
MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center) 142 Atlantic Ave., RochesterSick and tired of Christmas music? Well, so are we, so come join us as we pay homage to these terrible tunes in ways you've never heard before with some of Rochester's finest local musicians!
The First Legion screening
Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House) 900 East Ave., RochesterThe Dryden will screen The First Legion (Douglas Sirk, U.S. 1951, 86 min., 35mm). "All is not well in the hushed spaces of Jesuit Saint Gregory's Seminary. Dominated by conservative older men, the institution is sometimes suffocating to younger initiates … Continue reading
Truth screening (2015-Dec-17 @ 8:50 p.m.)
Cinema Theatre 957 S. Clinton Ave., RochesterThe Cinema will screen Truth (James Vanderbilt, Australia / U.S. 2015, 125 min.) "Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather … Continue reading