Amanda Lynn

Monster Jam returns to the Blue Cross Arena this weekend, featuring the roaring engines of beastly machines “Grave Digger” and “El Toro Loco.” Drivers will compete together on a dirt motorsport track, performing gravity-defying stunts in the monster-sized vehicles. The Saturday and Sunday shows at 1:00 have the option of attending a Pit Party at […]

Science and engineering come together with art and creativity at the annual Maker Faire Rochester. This year more than 150 makers will gather and showcase their inventiveness and creativity, bringing exhibitions, demonstrations, and activities to this family-oriented event. Featured exhibits include Magic Wheelchair, a company that provides free Halloween costumes for kids in wheelchairs; RIT […]

Rochester-based artist and internationally-known muralist Sarah Rutherford’s years-in-the-making mural series, “Her Voice Carries” was an artistic quest to understand how the women of Rochester have come to shape the city. A documentary film named for her mural series explores the stories of the women in the murals, and Rutherford’s own journey of creating the large-scale […]

Whether you love comics, science fiction, superheroes, or pop culture in general, a comic convention can be a place for you to find kindred spirits. The annual, family-friendly RocCon features a costume contest, presentations, vendors, and food trucks. A variety of celebrities will be on hand as well, including Chester Rushing (“Stranger Things”), Brutus “The […]

The Gallery at More Fire Glass Studio offers Rochester more than glass art. Its upcoming exhibition, “Stephanie Del Monte: Transcendent” features large wall hangings constructed of wood and fiber. Del Monte’s works are introspective and represent her own meditations through intricate knots and weavings in hand-dyed cotton and wool, and botanically-dyed rope, suspended from carved […]

Rochester’s longest-running fine art and crafts festival has expanded this year to include artists from beyond the bounds of New York State. The Memorial Art Gallery’s 62nd Clothesline Festival will continue to host local and regional makers, but festival goers this year can also browse and buy from national artists. The fest will also feature […]

Oxford Gallery’s new exhibit, “Byways,” features new work by area artists Darryl Abraham and Roland (“Chip”) Stevens. Each artist works in watercolor on paper: Stevens’ style blends a moody realism and impressions of the rural landscape and domestic scenes, while Abraham favors a more stylized, illustrative style and incorporates mixed media into his work. “Byways” […]

After the closing of TILT, one of the Rochester’s favorite LGBTQ+ clubs, a new series of drag events was created to have a safe, fun place for the community to revel. DeeDee Dubois has teamed up with a team of queens, local DJs, and Photo City Improv for DeeDee’s Club Night Out. The series kicks […]

Many living in the Canandaigua watershed and the wider Finger Lakes region are concerned with the health of the freshwater that we use on a daily basis, and for some that has come to be a defining part of life in Upstate New York. During the Annual Seneca Heritage Day, guest Jason Corwin (Seneca, Deer […]

If you haven’t checked the astrological charts lately, I can inform you that the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars. Or, at least, that’s where they should be as Geva Theatre Center gets ready to present the love-rock musical “Hair.” This now classic originally opened in 1967 and has come […]