Teagan and the Tweeds | teaganandthetweeds.com 4:30 p.m.: M&T Pavilion – Squeezers Stage (Bluesy rock ‘n’ roll) These Rochester jazz fest veterans deliver straight-up barroom-brawlin,’ beer-and-a-shot rock music at its finest. Teagan Ward sings soulful, salty, and salacious as her band occupies that coveted in-the-pocket groove and tone. It’s gonna be good. (FD) Jake Shimabukuro […]
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Building a better Rochester
Rochester’s a city in transition, with changes taking place everywhere: in its population, its employment base, its neighborhoods, its politics, its downtown. But this is nothing new. Change is woven throughout the city’s history, brought about by individuals – famous and not famous – who helped build it from its early days as a mill […]
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Rochester updates status as Sanctuary City
Rochester has asserted itself as a Sanctuary City amid sweeping federal orders to crack down on illegal immigrants. City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night that updates its status as a Sanctuary City. The move comes on the same day Homeland Security announced plans to enforce President Donald Trump’s executive order that enforces stricter […]
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The Year in Food
As 2016 winds down, CITY decided to take a look back at how the Rochester dining scene changed over the year — and a lot has happened, from a hit pop-up coffee shop moving into a brick and mortar location and youth culinary programs getting off the ground to long-standing restaurants closing. But we know […]
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Week Ahead: Events for the week of Monday, August 15
County Clerk Adam Bello’s task force on vacant and abandoned properties – zombie properties – will hold a public forum from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday in the Rochester City Hall’s City Council Chambers, 30 Church Street. Bello assembled the task force to examine how the houses become vacant and why they stay unoccupied, […]
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DISH 2016
We give a snapshot of the Rochester’s culinary community as it exists today.
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VIDEO: “One Cubic Foot” on the Genesee
The Seneca Park Zoo Society has created a video series of photographer David Liittschwager’s project documenting the biodiversity of the Genesee River’s ecosystem.
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Rochesterians doing great things behind the scenes
There are many talented people in Greater Rochester working to make the region a better place to work, live, and play. But it often seems like the same names dominate headlines, while other no less deserving people go unnoticed. The Rochester 10 — an annual project by City Newspaper — is designed to bring some […]
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DISH 2015
In this year’s edition of Dish, City’s guide to Rochester’s food and drink culture, we explore some of the more recent changes in the area’s dining scene.
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The Rochester 10
The Greater Rochester area is full of smart, talented people. People who make this a great place to live. While it would be impossible to shine the spotlight on all of them, this project — the Rochester 10 — is designed to bring some of the hard-working background players in our local scene into the forefront.
