MARY WALRATH

Seven years before the pivotal Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, Mexican-American students challenged discriminatory laws in the schools of California and won. A children’s book by Duncan Tonatiuh, “Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation,” tells about that fight for Mexican-Americans to attend a “whites only” school […]

Rochester Contemporary Art Center will open its ninth iteration of the annual 6×6 exhibition this weekend. A crowd-sourced exhibition, 6x6x2016 features thousands of artworks, all six inches by six inches in size, exhibited anonymously both in the gallery and online. The art contributions are made by celebrities, local and international artists, designers, college students, and […]

David Liebe Hart was simply hoping to find a museum where he could check out trains from the 1920’s-50’s to start off his first visit in sometime to New York State. Instead, he found himself lost in the New York City subways. “I’m not so great,” Hart says over the phone, followed by a burst […]

The first Western New York Bike Festival, a two-day event, will feature rides and events in one cumulative set of festivities for off-road, road, recumbent, trike, tri, adaptive, experienced cyclists and new-to-biking riders. Clinics, demonstrations, and guided rides will also be featured at the event, which has been organized by local biking groups. The festival […]

NTID’s performing arts program this weekend will produce Stephen Schwartz’s Broadway hit, “Godspell,” under the direction of Luane Davis-Haggerty, at Geva’s Nextstage. NTID’s unique presentation of this work includes both deaf and hearing actors, and will be presented in spoken English and American Sign Language. “Godspell” has long been a hit for its fantastical visual […]

In the spirit of spring, MuCCC Theater will present Julia Cho’s magic-realism-style romantic comedy “The Language Archive,” directed by Jeff Siuda. The play tells the story of George, a man too wrapped up in being a prominent linguist and the head of the prestigious Language Archive to pay any mind to his unraveling personal life. […]

The ROC City Rib Fest returns to Genesee Valley Park for its ninth year of Memorial Day Weekend barbeque competitions. “When you think Memorial Day Weekend, you think backyard barbeque” says co-founder Todd Krupa. “With the Rib Fest, you get world-class barbeque.” This year’s festival will feature live music, a food truck “throwdown,” and some […]