Public Meeting—Cleaning and Structurally Lining of Water Mains 2017
2017-05-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Water Bureau, 10 Felix St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
Please attend this important meeting to discuss this year's water main cleaning and lining project. The project manager will inform residents about the project and address concerns.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2017-May-3]

The Last Word screening (2017-May-10 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-05-10 19:00 - 20:48 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen The Last Word (Mark Pellington, U.S. 2017, 108 min.) "Harriet is a retired businesswoman who tries to control everything around her. When she decides to write her own obituary, a young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth resulting in a life-altering friendship." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-May-3]

Chapter Meeting: Corsica's GR20 Trail: The Toughest Long Distance
2017-05-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC), 657 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Don Berens will present a lecture titled Corsica's GR20 Trail: The Toughest Long Distance at the Adirondack Mountain Club, Genesee Valley Chapter Meeting in the Eisenhart Auditorium of the Rochester Museum and Science Center.
Europe has dozens of long-distance hiking trails, each called a Grande Randonee (French), Gran Recorrido (Spanish), Grote Routepaden (Dutch), or simply "GR." The spectacular 118-mile GR20 traverses Corsica — the French Mediterranean island known as "The Isle of Beauty" and "The Granite Isle", 2/3 of which is comprised of mountains featuring 121 summits over 6600'. To do the GR20 means taking on its 41,000 feet of ascent, and another 41,000 feet of descent.
[source: Adirondack Mountain Club, Genesee Valley Chapter website, 2017-May-1]

Marie Antoinette screening
2017-05-10 19:30 - 21:58 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Marie Antoinette (W. S. Van Dyke, U.S. 1938, 148 min., 35mm) as part of the Eastman Entertains series.
Academy Award winner Norma Shearer stars with Tyrone Power in the story of a beautiful, intelligent, and ultimately heroic woman destroyed by the tidal wave of revolution sweeping across Europe: the ill-fated Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. A young Austrian princess forced to marry the French dauphin to seal an alliance between the two decadent, crumbling empires, Marie Antoinette (Shearer) seeks sexual fulfillment outside her marriage and eventually finds love in the arms of the dashing Count Axel de Fersen (Power). But when King Louis XV dies suddenly and Marie Antoinette becomes queen, she ends her relationship with Fersen and devotes herself to France. Her efforts come too late, however, as revolution sweeps the king and queen from power, and Marie Antoinette fearlessly walks to the guillotine. This lavish production was one of the most successful films of the 1930s, nominated for four Academy Awards, and was the last film produced by the legendary Irving Thalberg before his untimely death.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-1]

Life screening (2017-May-10 @ 8:50 p.m.)
2017-05-10 20:50 - 22:34 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Life (Daniel Espinosa, U.S. 2017, 104 min.) "A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form, that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-May-3]

Tommy Brunett Band musical performance (2017-May-10 @ 9 p.m.)
2017-05-10 21:00 - 23:00 | Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que website, 2017-May-1]

Overfed and Undernourished: The Relationship between Food, Disease, and Health
2017-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Bausch and Lomb Library Building, 110 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Ian Cramer will present a lecture titled Overfed and Undernourished: The Relationship between Food, Disease, and Health.
Please join for an exciting new health program, presented by Ian Cramer, Ian Cramer, MS, ATC, an eCornell plant-based nutritionist. Come and discover information on weight loss, cravings, common nutrition myths, and ways to live a healthy, disease-free lifestyle. We will also discuss chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, and how they start, progress, and can be prevented or even reversed using diet and lifestyle changes.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2017-May-8]

Twilight Tour (2017-May-11 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-05-11 19:00 - 20:15 | Mt. Hope Cemetery North Gatehouse, 791 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
This 75-minute tour includes some topics covered on Sunday North Section tours as well as new material, on an alternate route of the North Section.
[source: Friends of Mt. Hope website, 2017-May-8]

The Last Word screening (2017-May-11 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-05-11 19:00 - 20:48 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Rhapsody in Blue screening
2017-05-11 19:30 - 21:50 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Rhapsody in Blue (Irving Rapper, U.S. 1945, 140 min., 16mm) as part of the Eastman Entertains series.
The life story of George Gershwin would be interesting on its own, but here it's greatly enhanced by the music, most of which is played in its entirety (including the title piece). Robert Alda plays Gershwin, the highly driven and supremely talented musician who tragically died at 39, but not before writing some of the best-known music of the twentieth century. Many of the people who knew and worked with Gershwin play themselves in the film, including Al Jolson.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-8]

Life screening (2017-May-11 @ 8:50 p.m.)
2017-05-11 20:50 - 22:34 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Lilac Festival Begins
2017-05-12 10:30 - 20:30 | Highland Park, 450 Highland Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Lilac Festival runs from May 12 to May 21 from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. daily. [source: Rochester Events website, 2017-May-8]

Art in Transit
2017-05-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14610, United States
Join us for an evening with friends and fellow transportation enthusiasts. Featuring • Silent auction with transit-themed artwork and other cool stuff • Live auction with City Hall celebrities Erik Frisch and Kevin Kelley • Live jazz music to accompany the mingling and bidding • Delicious food spread, wine and beer ($5 suggested donation per drink)
[source: Facebook, 2017-May-8]

Logan screening (2017-May-12 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-05-12 19:00 - 21:17 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Logan (James Mangold, U.S. / Canada / Australia 2017, 137 min.) "Wolverine is retired in hiding as he nurses an ailing Professor X as the Mutants are everything but extinct. But then he is recruited to protect a young mutant girl with many of his same powers who is being pursued by nefarious forces." [source: Cinema e-mail, 2017-May-11]

Breakfast at Tiffany's screening (2017-May-12 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-05-12 19:30 - 21:25 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, U.S. 1961, 115 min., 35mm) as part of the Eastman Entertains series.
In her most cherished performance, Audrey Hepburn stars as Truman Capote's heroine Holly Golightly in one of the most enduring of Hollywood romances. Small-town girl Holly and her pal Cat find a home among the compulsively hip in New York City, but when Holly falls for George Peppard, "kept man" of Patricia Neal, cracks start to show in her mod faÃ§ade.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-8]

The Blacks: A Clown Show theatrical performance (2017-May-12 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-05-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States
Blackfriars Theatre will host a performance of The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet.
A troupe of black actors reenact the rape and murder of a white woman before a kangaroo court and thus begins The Blacks: A Clown Show a play that examines racism and oppression through the ritualistic reenactment of a murder where all the participants are played by black actors — even the white characters. Written by Jean Genet at the request of a black actor, The Blacks "flows as freely as an improvisation, with fantasy, allegory and intimations of reality mingled into a weird, stirring unity…Genet's investigation of the color black begins where most plays of this burning theme leave off." —Howard Taubman, New York Times
[source: Bread and Water Theatre website, 2017-May-1]

Kong: Skull Island screening (2017-May-12 @ 9:20 p.m.)
2017-05-12 21:20 - 23:18 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts, U.S. / China / Australia / Canada 2017, 118 min.) "The second feature 'Kong: Skull Island' reimagines the original tale as monster hunters explore an uncharted island in the South Pacific to explore the exotic creatures and hostile landscape when they trespass into the territory of the great creature." [source: Cinema e-mail, 2017-May-11]

The Isotopes, Hot Mayonnaise musical performances
2017-05-12 22:00 - 2017-05-13 00:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Bug Jar will host a great stage show and excellent surf-based rock from The Isotopes for their Album Release Show with Hot Mayonnaise opening.
The Isotopes release a brand new full-length album – The Isotopes Play Surf Music. It's their first album since 2013's Overstay Their Welcome, winner of Best Local Album in the Best of Rochester by City Newspaper. (They were fortune Springer didn't put out an album that year).
[source: Facebook, 2017-May-8]

Saturday Morning Garden Seminars: Mushroom Gardening with Olga Tzogas
2017-05-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Hansen Nature Center, 1525 Calkins Rd., Pittsford, New York, 14534, United States
[source: Tinker Nature Park website, 2017-Mar-6]

Annual Plant Sale (2017-May-13 @ 10 a.m.)
2017-05-13 10:00 - 15:00 | George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Purchase perennials and woody plants grown from seeds, divisions, cuttings, and offshoots from the museum gardens. Sale is located near the University Avenue entrance.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-8]

Lilac Festival Parade
2017-05-13 10:30 - 12:30 | Highland Park, 450 Highland Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Lilac Parade begins on South Avenue at Science Parkway, then travels north on South Avenue to Highland Avenue where it turns south past the lilac gardens before ending at the corner of Highland Avenue and Goodman Street.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2017-May-10]

Mother's Day Card Printing
2017-05-13 11:00 - 14:00 | Flower City Arts Center (formerly Genesee Center for Arts and Education), 713 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
We are opening up the paper lab for anyone who would like to make a handmade paper card for Mother's Day. You make the paper then letterpress print your greeting. This is a great way to surprise Mom with something unique or handmade, or go With Mom and have a great afternoon creating together.
[source: Flower City Arts Center website, 2017-May-8]

Focus 45: Will Green, Photography and Architecture
2017-05-13 12:00 - 13:00 | George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Since the invention of photography was first announced to the public in 1839, architectural photography has been one of the medium's most popular genres. Join William Green, curatorial assistant in the Department of Photography, for a discussion of the architectural photographs featured in the most recent installation of objects in the museum's History of Photography Gallery.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-8]

Kong: Skull Island screening (2017-May-13 @ 4:15 p.m.)
2017-05-13 16:15 - 18:13 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Logan screening (2017-May-13 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-05-13 19:00 - 21:17 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

The Blacks: A Clown Show theatrical performance (2017-May-13 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-05-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States

Splendor in the Grass screening
2017-05-13 19:30 - 21:33 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, U.S. 1961, 123 min., 35mm) as part of the Eastman Entertains series.
In small-town Kansas, 1928, lower-middle class Deanie (Natalie Wood) is fatally in love with college-bound scholar Bud (Warren Beatty's remarkable debut). As their relationship deteriorates, Deanie's methods of seduction turn extreme and lead her toward a nervous breakdown. Kazan's complex and compelling psychosexual drama is one of the screen's quintessential depictions of the malaise and confusion of American youth.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-8]

Hinkley musical performance
2017-05-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Excellent, deceptively mellow, complex rock-and-roll from Hinkley will perform at Three Heads Brewing.
Hinkley is coming back to the Beer Garden to celebrate the vinyl Release of their new record "Peak of Light". Hinkley is a hard-working band from Rochester, NY. They play pop music, which is sometimes country, sometimes psychedelic, sometimes quiet and sometimes loud. Hinkley thinks it is important to play songs that convey a meaning. They've been described as genuine, timeless and sincere and we agree.
[source: Facebook, 2017-May-8]

Kong: Skull Island screening (2017-May-13 @ 9:20 p.m.)
2017-05-13 21:20 - 23:18 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Reservoir Dogs screening (2017-May-13 @ 9:30 p.m.)
2017-05-13 21:30 - 23:09 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, U.S. 1992, 99 min.) as part of the Saturday Night Rewind series.
A group of thieves assemble to pull of the perfect diamond heist. It turns into a bloody ambush when one of the men turns out to be a police informer. As the group begins to question each other's guilt, the heightening tensions threaten to explode the situation before the police step in. Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut is not only a classic, but it will also change the way you listen to 'Stuck In The Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2017-May-8]
