As part of the Rochester Bicycle Film Festival, the Cinema will screen Breaking Away (Peter Yates, U.S. 1979, 101 min.) Breaking Away is the lighthearted and heartwarming tale of competitive bicyclist Dave Stohler and his working-class friends. The film was … Continue reading
Riots, deception, legitimate and illegitimate science, aristocratic villains and drug addicted heroes- who knew these were all part of the evolution of medicine as we know it here in America?
Tonight at 8 p.m., the Dryden will screen Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, Us/France 1992, 125 min., 35mm). Scripted by Joe Eszterhas (Jagged Edge) and starring Michael Douglas, Verhoeven's glossy pulp shocker stands as the ne plus ultra of the '80s/'90s … Continue reading
Starting around 9 p.m. at the Bug Jar is Agent Orange, In The Whale, good, amiable hard rock from The Clockmen, and Periodic Table Of Elephants.
Blues Traveler performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 7 p.m.
Starting at 7 p.m., the Little will screen Les Triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belville, Sylvain Chomet, France / Belgium / Canada / U.K. / Latvia 2003, 80 min.) The Triplets of Belville (French: Les Triplettes de Belleville) is … Continue reading
Starting at 7:30 p.m., the MuCCC will host a reading of Everybody Gets Ice-Cream by James St. Jean. In "Everybody Gets Ice-Cream" one man, Ian Christopher Muller, decides to cheer up NYC by giving everyone free ice-cream. When his brother … Continue reading
Tonight at 8 p.m., the Dryden will screen The Game (David Fincher, U.S. 1997, 127 min., 35mm). What birthday gift should you give to a man who already has everything? You give him The Game. Tailored specifically to each participant. … Continue reading
Rusted Root performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 7 p.m.
Starting at 7 p.m. at the Baobab is a screening of The Line (Linda Midgett, U.S. 2012, 30 min.) followed by a discussion with Ann Johnson, and Ed Doherty. The Line is a groundbreaking documentary chronicling the new face of … Continue reading
As a girl, Violet was involved in a tragic accident leaving her with a visible scar across her face. With enough money finally saved, she's traveling across the deep south in 1964 towards a miracle - the healing touch of … Continue reading
Yiyun Li's debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Pen/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and the California Book Award for fiction. Her subsequent works have also won numerous awards including … Continue reading
Iron Chic, good punk-rock from The Emersons, California Cousins, and Fire In The Radio perform at the Bug Jar starting around 8:30 p.m. tonight.