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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The MAG’s first-ever curator of contemporary art tells the story of now
For more than a decade, until recently, the Memorial Art Gallery’s main contemporary art space was segmented off by a series of internal walls. These walls divided the exhibits into small groups and dissociated the room from the outside. Visitors sometimes didn’t know whether they were on ground level or below it. One of the […]
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Theater Review | “Venus in Fur”
The Company Theatre christens their new home on Lawn Street with a Broadway-worthy season opener.
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The Little Theatre awarded $201,000
Senator Cooney secured the New York State capital funding, which will finance renovations.
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Theater Review | ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’
A night of intentional incompetence provides an enjoyable escape at Geva Theatre.
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8 visual exhibitions to check out this fall
Life has many of us bouncing between sleepless concern over relentless waves of serious issues and the desire to walk into the woods and never look back. Maybe it’s always been that way. But, good news: this season, the roster of offerings at local and regional art houses has something for both needs (and we […]
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Rochester’s theater season turns the spotlight on art with a message
It’s been a tough year for artists. The termination of previously awarded National Endowment for the Arts grants feels like an attempt of the current administration to regress the country to a time before the NEA’s establishment in 1965, or maybe even earlier (the era of kings?). Local theaters are also looking back, presenting seasons […]
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Rochester Fringe Festival returns for its 14th year, with plans for the future
Every circus needs a tent. The centerpiece of the ESL Rochester Fringe Festival is the Spiegeltent, a type of gorgeously mirrored entertainment venue handmade by only a handful of families in Belgium. Set up at East Main and Gibbs streets (aka One Fringe Place), it houses some of the fest’s most popular events, including the […]
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CITY reviews Rochester Fringe
Our take on “Cirque du Fringe: Claws Out,” “Submergence,” “Tarot Cabaret” and more.
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CITY’s Fringe picks
Stuff we’re jazzed to see, in case you want some recs.
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Hungerford Building nears foreclosure
Once an artist’s hub in Rochester, the building has since fallen into a state of decay — and its owner has defaulted on payments to his lender.
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A dancer’s creative rebirth through krump
Ashley Alondra Green ran around her Syracuse home at midnight on April 9, yelling and clapping. She couldn’t believe she’d been chosen to debut her full-length choreography at the ESL Rochester Fringe Festival — it was time to tell her story of rebirth, from what was nearly the end of her dance career. Green has […]
