City officials use nuisance abatement laws to try to relieve some of the problems that come with urban living: noise, drug sales, deteriorating buildings. But the laws themselves can create problems. Critics say abatement laws don’t really fix the nuisances. Instead, they put tenants at risk of being evicted, and they just shuffle problems around […]
Jake Clapp
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ROCK | Incubus
For more than 25 years, Incubus has dug into virtually every corner of the rock domain. The band started out in nu metal and funky alt-rock territory on “Fungus Amongus” and “S.C.I.E.N.C.E.” before exploding in 1999 with “Make Yourself” — you probably still hear “Drive” on the radio at least twice a day. But Incubus’s […]
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Album review: ‘Honey from the Rock’
Druse “Honey from the Rock” Head2Wall Records druse.bandcamp.com Love is music’s favorite topic. More often than not, though, music’s love comes in shallow forms. It’s shiny infatuation or sad yet optimistic heartache. “All you need is love” sounds good on paper, until you realize reality is little more complicated. “Honey from the Rock” is an […]
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Douglass’s Rochester: Voting rights
Voter suppression in New York can’t be attributed to a single barrier, rather it results from a long list of complex problems.
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VARIOUS | Warped Tour
For a lot of people who grew up in the late-90’s and the 2000’s, Warped Tour means something special. It was a summer ritual when a ton of bands — usually some of that year’s biggest punk, pop punk, metal, hip-hop, and rock acts — who’d normally never play your town finally set up in […]
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Douglass statues coming to Rochester streets
The fact of Frederick Douglass’s presence will always be a part of Rochester, and now a set of life-sized statues will bring his physical representation to contemporary city streets.
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CGI Communications takes over Jazz Festival sponsorship
The Rochester International Jazz Festival is getting a new title sponsor. The festival for 10 years has had Xerox at the head of its name, but festival organizers announced Tuesday that CGI Communications will now take on the sponsorship. Full name: CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Presented by M&T Bank. CGI Communications, a digital marketing […]
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POP | Freezepop
Freezepop takes synthpop to its very definition: this is poppy, sugary, sometimes quirky electro-rock. The Boston-based band is coming up on 20 years of making danceable cuts that have a slightly geeky flair to them — if you played a lot of “Guitar Hero,” you’ll probably remember the song “Less Talk, More Rokk,” and the […]
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Black Lives Matter group shuts down intersection, RPD makes arrests
Rochester police arrested 16 following Saturday’s rally
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Rochester clergy hold Eucharist in support of migrants
The Old Testament book of laws, Leviticus, lays it out: “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” In the New Testament, Jesus spoke often about caring for your neighbor, […]
