{"id":995,"date":"2012-07-26T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2012-10-10T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:27:22","slug":"jayceland-2012726","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/07\/26\/jayceland-2012726\/","title":{"rendered":"Events for Thursday, July 26, 2012 through Wednesday, August 1, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><strong>Thursday, July 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I'm downtown, I'll probably stop at <strong>Granite Mills Park<\/strong> (at High Falls) today to see <strong>Kristen Shiner McGuire<\/strong> perform starting around 12:15 p.m. <em>[source: RocWiki events, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Curiosity may get the best of me and get me to go to the <strong>Reynolds Auction<\/strong> of the <strong>Karen Huntley-Romanow Estate<\/strong> (255 Berkeley St.) starting at 5 p.m. If nothing else, the Fiesta Ware collection is absurdly huge and I'd like to see how much some of those things sell for. <em>[source: Reynolds Auction website, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Marni Shindelman<\/strong> of Rochester and <strong>Nate Larson<\/strong> of Baltimore will present the <strong>Biennial Artist Lecture<\/strong> at the <strong>MAG<\/strong> this evening starting around 7 p.m. <em>[source: MAG website, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>If not, I'll head to the <strong>Dryden<\/strong> to see <strong>The Omega Man<\/strong> (Boris Sagal, US 1971, 98 min.) starting late at 8:30 p.m. (due to the Garden Vibes performance, so maybe I can catch the lecture anyway). Here's the calendar summary:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The second of several films based on Richard Matheson's classic post-apocalypse vampire novel I Am Legend, this film casts Charlton Heston as one of the few humans to survive a biological war between China and the USSR. Most everyone else has been turned into predatory instant mutants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>[source: Dryden calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Over at <strong>Abilene<\/strong> starting more like 9:30 p.m. is <strong>Mary Cutrufello<\/strong>. Musically, Abilene describes her as \"a Texas honky-tonk heroine, a fiery Midwestern roots-rocker, and a powerhouse acoustic performer\" but it's the \"Yale-educated\" footnote that has me really intrigued. <em>[source: Abilene calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friday, July 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I hate to miss <strong>National Lampoon's Vacation<\/strong> (Harold Ramis, US 1983, 98 min.) playing tonight at 8 p.m. and on Sunday at 5 p.m. at the <strong>Dryden<\/strong> but I've got other plans. <em>[source: Dryden calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday, July 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This afternoon at 2 p.m. at the <strong>Little<\/strong> is the matin&eacute;e screening of short films in the <strong>NY Filmmakers' Quarterly<\/strong> (same as this past Wednesday). <em>[source: Little Theatre e-mail, 2012-Jul-18]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Over at the <strong>MuCCC<\/strong> tonight at 7:30 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m. is <strong>The Man at the Piano is Not Here<\/strong> by <strong>Ned Bobkoff<\/strong>. Quoting from the MuCCC website:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\"The Man At The Piano Is Not Here\" is a dramatic monologue with music on the life of Clara Schumann. In 1854 Robert Schumann was committed to a mental asylum in Endenich, Germany, where he died in 1856. Clara returned to the concert world with sustained musical energy and success, and always wore black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>[source: MuCCC website, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tonight at the <strong>Dryden<\/strong> is a screening of <strong>The Lost Bird Project<\/strong> (Deborah Dickson, US 2012, 60 min., Digital Projection) at 8 p.m. with \"a panel discussion featuring director <strong>Deborah Dickson<\/strong>, sculptor <strong>Todd McGrain<\/strong>, producer <strong>Muffie Meyer<\/strong>, cinematographer <strong>Scott Anger<\/strong>, and executive producer <strong>Andy Stern<\/strong>\". Also see McGrain's sculptures of recently-extinct birds around the Eastman House grounds. The film will screen again tomorrow at 2 p.m. <em>[source: Dryden calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sunday, July 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tonight around 9 p.m. at the <strong>Bug Jar<\/strong> is the \"<strong>Fuzz Fest Finale<\/strong>\" with <strong>The Vacant Lots<\/strong>, <strong>Abandoned Buildings Club<\/strong>, <strong>Chillum<\/strong>, <strong>Harmonica Lewinsky<\/strong>, and <strong>Colonel Parmesan<\/strong>. <em>[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday, July 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This evening at 7 p.m. in the <strong>Eastman Quadrangle<\/strong> of the <strong>University of Rochester<\/strong> is another of the <strong>Hopeman Memorial Carillon Summer Recital Series<\/strong> with <strong>Koen Cosaert<\/strong> of Belgium leading a performance. I checked it out last week and it's quite amazing to think there's a group of people pulling ropes to make that music happen. <em>[source: University of Rochester Events Calendar, 2012-Jul-10]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>event <em>[source: , 2012-Jul-16]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, July 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tonight at 8 p.m. at the <strong>Dryden<\/strong> is a screening of <strong>The Endless Summer<\/strong> (Bruce Brown, US 1966, 95 min.) Here's what the calendar has to say:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>With a 16mm camera and guileless enthusiasm, filmmaker Bruce Brown set off on a globe-trotting journey with two surfheads in search of \"the perfect wave.\" The result is a Technicolor wonder that maintains the coziness of a family slide show. With an unforgettable surf music soundtrack, The Endless Summer is an iconic time capsule of a gentler counterculture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>[source: Dryden calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, August 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Dryden<\/strong> is screening <strong>The Naked Prey<\/strong> (Cornel Wilde, South Africa\/US 1966, 96 min.) tonight at 8 p.m. Quoting the calendar:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Survivalist Wilde directs himself in this heart-pounding adventure about a white guide in 19th-century Africa who winds up the game in a terrifying hunt across the veldt. Stripped of his clothes and the last vestiges of colonial comfort by an angry tribe, he must fight to survive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>[source: Dryden calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>How can you not want to hear a band called <strong>Kitty Snowpants<\/strong>? They'll be having an <strong>E.P. Release<\/strong> tonight at the <strong>Bug Jar<\/strong> around 9 p.m. with <strong>Fowls<\/strong>, and <strong>Archimedes<\/strong>. <em>[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Good, crowd-pleasing reggae from <strong>Thunder Body<\/strong>, meanwhile, will be at <strong>Abilene<\/strong> starting around 10 p.m. <em>[source: Freetime calendar, 2012-Jul-23]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[611,2091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-parents","category-jayceland-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}