FOUND Magazine, the voyeur’s treasure-trove of love letters, shopping lists, Polaroids, sketches, and anything else found on the street, is on tour. Publisher Davy Rothbart and his brother Peter were in Providence, Rhode Island, at the end of April, and in December will end their 50-state Slapdance Across America Tour on the West Coast, after […]
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World’s Greatest Garage Sale,
We’re lowering prices over here!” calls a garage sale huckster in a leopard-print shirt. “That’s what we like to hear,” comes the reply from a group of five women with bulging shopping bags, swarming to a potential deal like piranhas. Savannah Acker, 7, wiggles nearby in a hula-hoop she just bought for a whopping 25 […]
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Astral Travel Workshop, Saturday, August 21 Pastor Robin Higgins of Plymouth Spiritualist Church explains bilocation: “Your spirit can travel when you sleep. It goes where your soul has to go in order to be with whoever needs you. You look different to [the person you’re visiting], but you can be in two places at once.” […]
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Northeast Naturist Festival, Friday, August 6, EmpireHavenNudistPark This past weekend was the perfect demonstration of Naturist Rochester’s slogan: “Nude when possible, clothed when practical.” Temperatures in the mid-60s forced most of the campers at EmpireHavenNudistPark in Moravia to cover up (at least partially), leaving only the hardiest among them clothes-free. Many of the Park’s more […]
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Rochester Pride Parade
You’re standing downtown at the corner of East and Scio and a fire truck is inching by. There’s a man to your right wearing short shorts and dancing the pony with a huge rainbow flag. An eight-foot bottle of hair product rolls past, escorted by a man (see the moustache?) with an impeccable blond bob, […]
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NWA Upstate Wrestling:
Pro wrestling is one of the great mysteries of our day: Men in showy spandex suits tumble around in a padded ring, groping, lunging, and acting like human missiles. From my angle, it’s a lot like a progressive, homoerotic modern-dance piece. From an adolescent boy’s perspective, it’s the ultimate in testosterone-driven showmanship. Give it a […]
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Rubber Duck Race, Ellison Park, Saturday, June 12 You couldn’t ask for better racing conditions. Not a cloud in the sky, a gentle breeze from the northeast. The water current is brisk. The air temperature is 58 degrees and rising. Fans line the banks of Irondequoit Creek, toting binoculars, talking smack. “My money’s on 4 […]
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“Fire on the Genesee”
When women say they love a man in uniform, do they mean a thick, wool reproduction of a Confederate Army uniform, complete with gold braid and flattened-pancake hat? After chatting up a few soldiers at Saturday’s Civil War reenactment at Letchworth State Park, my vote is a wholehearted “yes!” Enthusiasts crowded the yellow tape […]
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Dachsund Parade
Mary Lyle, one of the organizers of Rochester’s Dachshund Parade, expected about 60 dogs to gather this past Saturday for the third annual march down East Avenue. “We had 41 dogs last year, and this year we’ve had interest from people as far as Buffalo,” she says as she distributes photocopies of “The Doxie Song.” […]
