Rochester could soon have an officially designated location where homeless people could set up an encampment. City of Rochester officials are in talks with local homeless advocates to designate a parcel of land on Industrial Street, near West Broad, as an encampment site, and would turn over control of the property to a community organization. The […]
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VARIOUS | ROC The Park
The City of Rochester’s ROC The Park series is marking five years. The summer music series takes place the first Saturday of July, August, and September in Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, and kicks off its 2018 run on July 7 with a Latino Music Night. The concert will feature music from Banda Light, […]
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Rochester responds to Trump immigration moves
Hundreds of people found shade wherever they could in Washington Square Park for Saturday’s Families Belong Together rally. The protest, co-hosted by 20 local organizations, was a response to the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy — especially the practice of separating parents and children at the US border — and a call for solidarity with […]
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Families Belong Together rally set for Saturday
Saturday is the Families Belong Together day of action against the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, and there will be a protest at Washington Square Park. The Rochester rally begins at 3 p.m., and speakers will talk about Trump’s recent executive order to stop the separation of migrant families detained by immigration officials, local organizations that […]
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CLASSICAL | Futaba Niekawa and Olga Shupyatskaya
Summertime at the Eastman School of Music gives a chance for the school’s faculty to step front and center with their own recitals. July will feature a full lineup of Summer at Eastman concerts, including performances by Dave Rivello, Bob Sneider, Charles Pillow, Sophia Gibbs Kim, and Kenneth Kam. The July run begins on Sunday […]
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Nuisance Abatement Law gets an overhaul
Music blaring from a neighboring rental house… suspected drug sales at a corner store… fights outside of a nightclub…. Living and working in a city has plenty of advantages, including the proximity of businesses, cultural offerings, and people, all of it adding convenience as well as richness and diversity to life. But that closeness can […]
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VARIOUS | Jazz Fest at the Station
Maybe you’ve got to take a break from the Jazz Festival madness going on downtown, or you could be looking to stretch out your night after the Club Pass venues grow quiet. If you want to get in one last band before you head home for the night, a couple of bars outside of the […]
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Jazz Fest 2018, Update: Miles Electric Band to replace St. Germain
The Miles Electric Band, an ensemble of Miles Davis alumni revisiting the repertoire of Davis’s electric years, will play the free, 9 p.m. outdoor show at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival on Friday, June 29. The French house and jazz musician St. Germain was scheduled for Friday’s show, but had to cancel his North […]
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Jazz Fest 2018: Meet CITY’s jazz bloggers
Ron Netsky By day I am Chairman of the Art Department at Nazareth College, but during the next nine nights, I’ll be in various venues downtown indulging in music. My love of music can be traced to three generations of music-makers in my family. My uncle, Harold Karr, was a composer, who wrote Broadway musicals, […]
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Rallies for immigrant families and refugees take place this week
A march protesting the Trump administration’s separation of immigrant families will take place at 6 p.m. Friday, and events around UN World Refugee Day will take place Saturday.
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SPECIAL EVENT | Make Music Day
Marking the summer solstice with music sounds almost too picturesque. Make Music Rochester on Thursday is organizing an afternoon and evening of free music performances, events, and lessons at various locations around the city. Its second year in Rochester, the events are part of the worldwide Make Music Day; more than 700 cities are participating […]
