Gas prices are sky high, global warming is only making things hotter, and your pesky doctor wants you to exercise. Welcome to summer in the modern world. But you can still hit the water. No one’s taken the fun out of that yet. Canoes, kayaks, sailboats, sailboards — they’re all powered by you (or the […]
Erica Curtis
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Roses are red
Today you can find any book or magazine you could ever want at your local mega-bookstore — if you didn’t already buy it online. There’s little question that small, independent publishing houses didn’t exactly hit the jackpot with the rise of the Waldens and Barnes & Nobles of the world. But Thom Ward, fiction editor […]
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A family in circles
It’s not a new story. A family grows up in the kind of rural Midwestern town believed to be held in God’s palm, where there are baseball games, nosy neighbors, and church on Sundays. It’s a family with one son, one daughter, one overbearing but well-meaning mother, one father who disappears as soon as anyone […]
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As American as pasta e fagiole
You can eat apple pie and hamburgers for only so long. If you’re seeking ingredients to build meals in honor of your (or someone else’s) culture, here’s a list of some independent ethnic grocery stores. In some cases you may have to look for on-street parking, and you may not be able to hit the […]
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The incomplete revolution
She’s been dead 100 years. She belonged to a time of petticoats and whalebone, stagecoaches, “women of a certain age,” the Abolitionist and Temperance movements, our Civil War. But Susan B. Anthony refuses to go away. She was a radical, with radical ideas, even by today’s standards. She was full of fire. To her critics: […]
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Celebrate
The heartiest and most enterprising souls among us realize winter can be not only a time of fun, but a time of tourism! Why not get the people out of their huts and into the open, they reason, if only for a brief while? The sun-deprived masses are bound to shell out for a cup […]
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Look
After some brief holiday downtime, local galleries and museums are back in full force. So you have an array of culture to choose from, if you’re into that kind of thing. At Rochester Contemporary, 137 East Avenue, Deborah Jack’s Lift/Left, an installation of video, sound, text, and still images, is on display January 13 through […]
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Listen
Hear that? Because so many local organizations and institutions go all out planning them for this slow time of year, winter is a great time to attend lectures. There’s politics, science, art, community relations, and cooking. Get a ticket and go learn something. The RochesterRegionalCommunityDesignCenter will this year hold its first lecture series, titled “Reshaping […]
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Applaud
Here’s an outline to plan your ticket-foraging with. Scatter a few of these evenings through the season like little culture outposts and absorb some of the talent — both local and bussed in — at hand this season. The show’s about to begin. For dance, you’re in a hotspot: the quality dance program at SUNY […]
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Fiz – 12.21.05
Wish this Remember the Sears Wish Book? Or, do you at least remember your parents talking about the Sears Wish Book? Not the first or the only catalogue, Sears Roebuck made mail order famous and fun: Each page of the holiday book was crammed with delights to circle or cut out or drool on in […]
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Little changes
Jennifer Caleshu, acting executive director of the Little Theatre, says she’s been fielding phone calls from people interested in taking the helm of the downtown landmark. “I think that for those who might not be in the business, it sounds like a really attractive job,” she says. Caleshu was the associate director when executive director […]
