Culture

A circa-1835 cobblestone house in Victor’s otherwise new-build High Point development is now home to Bonesteel Wines & Spirits, a design-forward, community-oriented shop which opened April 24. The minority and woman-owned boutique wine and spirits shop is helmed by Tanvi Asher, who also owns Peppermint Boutique at the Culver Road Armory in Rochester. “The store […]

Sitting around a boardroom table at their University Avenue headquarters, members of non-profit organization BLOOM ROC describe their paths into the world of cannabis. They use business-tinged terms like “distribution” and “logistics” as their roles in the legacy market — the era before the legalization of cannabis in 2021 — words that simply mean they […]

Embroidered on J. Michael Moore’s pine green hooded sweatshirt is the Norbut Farms logo. Beneath it the phrase, “The farm of tomorrow.” That’s the core belief throughout the grounds of the agriculture division that Moore, general farm manager, runs at Norbut Solar Farms in Spencerport. The Kentucky native pioneered the first solar grazing program at […]

There’s a reason chefs don’t translate cleanly into daylight. They belong to the hours when the rest of the world is loosening its grip. When people are drinking, touching, confessing, unraveling. While everyone else is reaching for pleasure, chefs are manufacturing it. While the room fills, they disappear. That inversion matters. Tension lives there. Food […]

Kristi Phillips and Richelle Acker were in a familiar stage of adult sisterhood: Phillips was a new mom stressed about going back to work. Acker was completely burnt out from her corporate job. They were living separate lives in cities far apart, missing each other and feeling isolated.  Then last year, on a trip home […]

As Rochester Brainery founder Danielle Raymo contemplated ending her decade-plus tenure with the business, she wanted to go out the right way. She didn’t want to just close down, leaving the teachers of so many experiential classes without that revenue stream or unique marketing opportunity. She also didn’t want to hand it over to someone […]

A line forms outside Ridge Donut Cafe each morning well before the sun makes its daily appearance. The demand for donuts remains strong, and the longstanding donut shop is only one of two (the other being Donuts Delite on Culver Road) in the area still making them by hand “the old fashioned way,” without automated […]

Something all-consuming happens when you walk into someone’s house for the first time; quick evaluations that steer what path you’ll take through the house. Is there a pile of shoes by the door, encouraging you to take yours off? Laughter, cooking smells and loud music flowing from the kitchen? These tiny details come together, even […]