Arts & Entertainment

Only at the Flower City Comic Con can you attend dressed as Miracle Man, and meet legendary comic artist Joe Jusko, wrestler Jerry Lawler, and the sixth doctor of “Doctor Who” Colin Baker. In its second year, FC3 has managed to pack a roster of guests ranging from media talents such as the red Power […]

My Instagram scrolling habit got a lot more amusing after I started following Rochester-based artist Jackie Evangelisti’s autobiographical “Underpants and Overbites: A Diary Comic.” Starring two egg-shaped characters based on Evangelisti and her fiancé Pat, the clever, frequently self-deprecating, and relatable content offers a weekly chuckle about snippets from daily life: stress, love, families, random […]

There’s a sly, self-deprecating dig in the title “You Might Also Enjoy Pete Johansson,” the comedian’s 2016 Netflix stand-up special. Johansson has been a consistent, well-regarded touring comedian for almost two decades, and here the title winks at the relative obscurity that many dedicated comics share if they aren’t one of the few A-listers filling […]

Alcohol at a funeral always reveals some new truth. During the wake for their neighbor, el Trino, Cecilia and Julian serve up a new recipe that combines rum and salsa picante, and of course, stories from the crowd come out. Rochester Latino Theatre Company Artistic Director Candide Carrasco’s comedy “Rumba y Mojito Picante” debuted during […]

Now in its 80th year, the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum will celebrate in style this Saturday with an event combining the nostalgia of a train ride with the comfort of craft beer. Rochester breweries Swiftwater, Iron Tug, and Triphammer Bierworks as well as local cidery Blue Toad will all represent, alongside regional outfits […]

Rochester has long had a vibrant, if less visible biking community. That community of passionate riders is more prominent than ever, evidenced in part by an abundance of activities during Rochester Bike Week. There are 10 different rides taking place through May 21, including: Rochester Bike Kids’ laid-back Wednesday Night Cruise (this adult ride starts […]

Loud Cow, a new Spencerport art spaces, is hosting “How Did We Get Here,” the first in its Exhibition Series. The show features local artists Clifford Wun, Dara Engler, Debra Fisher, Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, and Megan Armstrong. The pieces exhibited “look at spaces found in the inner worlds of the mental and physical as well as […]

Betty Parsons (1900-1982) was at the center of the mid-century American art world — as a painter and sculptor, but also as a New York City gallery owner. Her encouragement of such artists as Rauschenberg, Pollock, Rothko, and Saul Steinberg led her to be called “the den mother of Abstract Expressionism.” The elements of Parsons’ […]

Rochester this weekend will host the 24th Annual Acting Irish International Theatre Festival at Geva Theatre’s Fielding Stage (75 Woodbury Boulevard). The festival, which brings together members of Irish theater companies from the United States and Canada, is sponsored by The Irish Players of Rochester, a program of the Rochester Community Players. Our Irish Players […]

A new video installation on view at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Avenue), “Reflections on Place & Culture: Downey, Gower, Kluge,” features three short art videos that tackle the genre of documentary film and video through traditional and novel ways. Included in the exhibit are Juan Downey’s 1990 “Hard Times and Culture: Part One, […]