For nearly a century, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School sat like a sentinel above the city, perched on the hill at 1100 South Goodman St., its Gothic towers peering over Highland Park. Designed by James Gamble Rogers, the same architect who left his mark on Yale and Columbia, the campus radiated a stately stillness that […]
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Native Made Market, a hub of Indigenous heritage, returns on Small Business Saturday
On a crisp November morning in Rochester, the doors of the annual Native Made Market will once again swing open, and the room will hum with voices, laughter, drums, rattles and the quiet shuffle of footsteps across wooden floors. For founder Angelina Marie Hilton, the annual event, which returns on Saturday, Nov. 29 for year […]
Legends & Lore roadside markers chronicle folk tales, oral traditions and local myths
The fog drifts in like a breath held too long. The trees hush. Near the edge of Lake Ontario, a story lingers. Youโre walking the winding trails of Durand Eastman Park. Maybe alone, maybe not. Maybe youโve heard the tale before, around a bonfire on the beach or whispered over too many Genesee Cream Ales. […]
I.M. Pei left his mark on Rochester, too
I.M. Pei, one of the world’s most iconic and prolific architects, has died at the age of 102. Among his works: the University of Rochester’s Wilson Commons.
Trump’s Riyadh speech and the roots of terrorism
Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia was willfully ignorant about America’s role in terrorizing Middle Eastern nations






