A good bar, the type I like to go to, should be a third place. It’s where you celebrate wins, drown sorrows and everything in between. Bars are such interesting spaces — at the end of the day, they are businesses, but can feel like an extension of home. And just like every house has […]
Nightlife
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A barricaded ‘entertainment district’ in the East and Alexander neighborhood is driving popular businesses to close
It’s a clear early autumn night as crowds of revelers make their way down East Avenue to the slew of watering holes and eateries that dot the strip. Before the weekend party begins, each must make a pitstop at a gated barricade, empty their pockets and get frisked by a security officer. People under 21 […]
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The Avenue Pub celebrates 50 years as a staple in the LGBTQIA+ community
Under a bright yellow sign and through a purple-painted door on Monroe Avenue sits an unassuming neighborhood bar: The Avenue Pub. The pub celebrated 50 years in September, making it one of Rochester’s oldest gay bars. It has stood strong since the 1970s alongside the 52-year-old Bachelor Forum on University Avenue; a pair of stalwart […]
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Celebrating Tara, and a decade of gay culture in Rochester
The trailblazing bar will be memorialized at its former home, now Abilene Bar & Lounge, on September 3
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Marge’s Lakeside Inn: Where the party never stops
With its beach chairs, live music, and sand beckoning bare feet, Marge’s Lakeside Inn feels much more exotic than the shore of a Great Lake.
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Café SOL, SKYWAY share space in Center City
The unique space shared by the two businesses is one of only a few in town that makes a drastic shift from a daytime business to serve as a spot for nightlife in the evenings.
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New Year’s Eve Events Guide
Comedy Geva Comedy Improv’s New Year’s Eve Comedy Spectacular! Live music, actors, comedy, champagne toast at midnight, and dance party after the 10:30 p.m. performance. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd. Shows at 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. $25. 232-4382. gevacomedyimprov.org. Guy Torry. The Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd. Shows at 7:30 & 10 p.m. $15-$20. […]
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80’s New Wave Night
Whether it was Madonna, David Bowie, The Violent Femmes, The Cure, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, a specific music ruled the airwaves and the clubs back in the 1980’s. Now these singers and bands are household names, but at that time, they hadn’t yet broken into mainstream culture. Today, the sound of the 80’s continues […]
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Love projected
Tucked off Chestnut Street, at 45 Euclid Street, is a little club with a lot going for it. I visited LOVE with two companions on a blustery Friday night in late March. The place wasn’t difficult to find but we weren’t sure where to park, and frankly, a little police presence would have been nice […]
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New Year’s Eve 2014 Guide
Congratulations! If you’re reading this you’ve survived another year on this planet. If you’re reading this and you didn’t survive, then I guess that means the zombie apocalypse that we keep hearing about is finally upon us.
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New Year’s Eve 2013 Guide
In retrospect, 2012 was a pretty monumental year. Just within the past few months, we grappled with Superstorm Sandy, witnessed the reelection of the nation’s first African-American president, learned how to work it “gangnam style,” and managed to survive the Mayans’ predicted end of the world. For those of us still standing, I’d say we […]
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The low-brow art low down
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is an international figure-drawing series for adults. The Rochester chapter will host another event next week with a “holiday fetish” theme. Get the details and BYOB.
