• Blues Traveler

    Lilac Festival 450 Highland Ave., Rochester, New York, United States

    Blues Traveler performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 7 p.m.

    Free
  • Everybody Gets Ice-Cream reading

    MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center) 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, United States

    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

  • The Game screening

    Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, United States

    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

    Lilac Festival 450 Highland Ave., Rochester, New York, United States

    Rusted Root performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 7 p.m.

    Free
  • The Line screening and discussion

    Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Ave., Rochester, New York, United States

    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

  • Violet performance (2015-May-14 @ 7:30 p.m.)

    Blackfriars Theatre 795 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, United States

    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 lecture

    Downtown United Presbyterian Church 121 N. Fitzhugh St., Rochester, New York, United States

    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

  • Thursday Night Comedy Fight

    Butapub 315 Gregory St., Rochester, New York, United States

    Starting around 10:30 p.m. at Butapub is Thursday Night Comedy Fight hosted by Michael Colon, and Chris Thompson.

  • Sirsy

    Very good medium-tempo progressive rock from Sirsy performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 4 p.m.

    Free
  • Thunder Body

    Lilac Festival 450 Highland Ave., Rochester, New York, United States

    Good, crowd-pleasing reggae from Thunder Body performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 5:30 p.m.

    Free
  • Orestes 2.0 performance (2015-May-15 @ 7:30 p.m.)

    Bread and Water Theatre 172 W. Main St., Rochester, New York, United States

    Orestes 2.0 by Charles Mee is based on Orestes by Euripedes. The Euripides after-war play, re-set in the world today, in which veterans return from the Trojan War, to find that the disorder and nightmare of war has come home … Continue reading

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