FRI • 4/18

Days Inn at the Falls - EERIECON 10 (April 18-20). Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi convention. Visit www.eeriecon.org for details

Mohawk Place - 8pm Lucero, with American Princes and Queen City Station. $12.50/advance (Ticketmaster) or $14 day of show.

Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort - 9pm The Searchers (April 18-19). $20 & up at www.ticketmaster.ca

Nietzsche’s - 10pm The Juliet Dagger and Mother Red. $6. Ages 21+

Showplace Theatre - 7:30pm Agent Me CD Release Show, with Lovepuddle. $5-$7

Stillwater - 11pm “Rhyson and the Heist.” Hosted by Gr@ Phee with special guest Official Heat and DJs LoPro & Cutler. $7 (ladies free before midnight)

Riviera Theatre - 8pm Harold Lloyd Film Festival (April18-20). Kick off event with an introduction by Anthony Bannon & Patrick Loughney of the George Eastmen House followed by a screening of the silent comedy “Speedy.” $15 or $54 for a Festival Pass. Contact 692-2413 or www.rivieratheatre.org for tickets

Rockwell Hall -  8pm Great Performers Series presents Cherish the Ladies. $32/general with discounts for students, seniors. Contact 878-3005 or www.buffalostate.edu/pac for tickets

Tralf Music Hall - 8pm Colin Melroy (of the Decemberists) solo acoustic show with guest Laura Gibson. $20/presale (852-5000/www.ticketmaster.com) or $22/day of show

WNED Broadcast Center - 2-4pm Regional Public Forum with Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser: “Resurrecting Buffalo.” Presentation by Glaeser, author of “Can Buffalo Ever Come Back?” followed by a conversation moderated by Margaret Sullivan of the Buffalo News. $30. Contact 541-1770 or www.thepartnership.org/events to register

Xtreme Wheels - 6pm Fighting For First, Black Dog $8

SAT • 4/19



Art Dialogue Gallery/WNY Artists Group - 11am Lecture Series: Native American Rock Art with Donald Scheller. $25. Call 885-2251 for reservations

Buffalo Museum of Science - 5:30pm-9:30am “A Night at the Museum.” Overnight family event. Help security guards close the Museum. Mystery, scavenger hunt, pizza party, dance party, crafts & a movie. Bring sleeping bags & jammies for a slumber party. Breakfast on Sunday morning. $45-$50 for one child & adult plus $25 for each additional person. Ages 6+. Contact 896-5200 ext. 345 to register

Buffalo State College - 8:30am Buffalo State College Earth Day: Great American Cleanup. Registration and breakfast at 8:30am in the lobby of the Science Building; projects begin at 9am at Grant Street (from Military to West Ferry), the Scajacquada Creek, the Blackrock-Riverside area. Contact 878-5811 or vslc@buffalostate.edu for info

Church of Scientology - 1-5pm “So You Think You Can Dance?” Auditions (April 19-20). Celebrity judges accepting bios, headshots, demos, etc. Call 866-296-8209 for info

Club Infinity - 8pm Goodbye Houston, Tearwave, Wings of Eden, Eddie Nebula & the Plague, Kandid Theory

Elks Lodge - 4-10pm “Blues, Bikes, & Tattoos Show” (April 19-20). Tattooing and piercing on site, contests for best tattoos, piercings, & flash art, music by Black Star and BIGCITY THRILL. Food & full bar. Proceeds benefit Variety Club of WNY. $5

First Spiritualist Temple of East Aurora - 10am Mediums’ Day. Twenty minute readings, $25 per reading. $10 deposit required in advance. Call 649-7501 for more info

Hallwalls - 8pm Winston Choi

Kleinhans - 8pm Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra presents “They’re Playing Our Song” directed by Marvin Hamlisch and featuring Robert Klein & Lucie Arnaz. Contact 885-5000 or www.bpo.org for tickets

Lafayette Tap Room - 9:30pm “A Painkiller Birthday: Have Your Cake & Throw It Out.” The Painkillers, Bad Ronald, Litterbox

Merlin’s - 11pm The Stone Hearts, Red I Clan (NYC), Blood Orange. $4

Mohawk Place - 9pm The Koffin Kats, with the Rabies, Lincoln Shootin’ Fools. $10

Nietzsche’s - 8pm Doug Stanhope: Cruel & Unusual Comedy

Showplace Theatre - 7pm Displaced, Speakerfire, Chae Hawk, Johnny Nobody, Host Echo, Falling Into Place. $6-$8

Soundlab - 9pm Pissed Jeans (www.ticketweb.com)

Tralf Music Hall - 8pm It’s Just Comedy Jam with SHANG headlining. Hosted by TALENT with Bad Boys of Comedy, Comic View, White Boyz in the Hood. $20/presale (852-5000/www.ticketmaster.com) or $25/day of show. Ages 21+

Urban Roots Community Garden Center - 2pm Shade Gardening. Presented by Roxanne McCoy of Lilies of the Field. Contact 362-8982 or workshops@urbanroots.org to register

Xtreme Wheels - 6pm Burn Down Broadway CD Release Show. $8

SUN •4/20

Buffalo Suzuki Strings - 3pm Women in the Arts Festival 2008 (April 17-20). Gala All-Arts Festival featuring the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo Choir, Poet Celeste Lawson, Storyteller Carol Wolf, Textile Artist Bonnie Klatt, The Janet Reed Dancers, the Tanzen Dance Company of NCCC & others. Free will offering. Visit www.agohq.org/chapters/buffalo for Festival details

Club Infinity - 8pm Perpetual Groove, with the WAKOS. $12-$15

Jamestown Community College - 5pm Vasen (acoustic Nordic roots band). $7/general; $5/students, seniors

Mohawk Place - 8pm Uncle Monk (featuring Tommy Ramone of the Ramones), with the Steam Donkeys, Chris Malakowski (of Wolf Tickets). $10

Tralf Music Hall - 8pm The Proclaimers. $17/presale (852-5000/www.ticketmaster.com) or $20/day of show

Unity Church - 3:30pm Friends of Vienna presents Antoine LeFebvre (violin) and Edward Chilungu (piano). $6/general; $4/FOV members; $1/students

TUE • 4/22

Kleinhans - 8pm Buffalo Chamber Music Society Series. The Pavel Haas Quartet . $20/general; $10 students or visit www.buffalochambermusic.org for season ticket info.

Millennium Airport Hotel - noon-1:15pm Buffalo Niagara Sales & Marketing (BNSME) Executives Lunch Seminar: “Learn Why Green is the New Color of Your Bottom Line” presented by Todd Salansky (online thymes llc). $15/BNSME members or $25/general. Contact 662-2279 or www.bnsme.org to register

Showplace Theatre - 8pm (doors). Meat Beat Manifesto, with Raz Mesinai’s Badawi. $12. All ages

UB Center for the Arts - 8am-9pm “Building UB—The Comprehensive Physical Plan Phase II Review: Campus Concepts.” Workshops, breakout discussions, & more. Reception/celebration to folllow.

WED • 4/23

Shoppe on Main - 5-9pm Girls’ Night Out. Hairstyling, facials, massage, bath & body supplies & more. $35 includes gift bag, wine & appetizers. Pre-paid reservations required, call 778-5273

THU • 4/24



Cornell Cooperative Extension Center at Roycroft - 7pm MasonWinfield.com Lecture Series presents” Dowsing the Human Aura” with Dowser/Mystic Ray Watson. $10. Contact 655-6663 or www.MasonWinfield.com for more info

High Fidelity (Rochester) - 8:30pm Tea Leaf Green. $15. Ages 18+

Parent Network of WNY - 10am-noon Free Parenting Today Workshop: “How to Talk the Talk—Communicating with Professionals.” Contact 332-4170 or www.parentnetwork.org to register

Resurrection Life - 7pm Kutless Acoustic Tour with Esterlyn and Chris Taylor. $20 at www.kingdombound.org or 800-461-4485; 7pm Kutless Acoustic Tour. $20/general or $18/groups of 10 or more. Call Kingdom Bound Ministries at 800.461.4485