ANNUAL MANUAL ’11: Introduction
The toughest part of putting together the Annual Manual each year isn’t finding stuff to write about- it’s fitting all of Rochester into one publication. It’s impossible to condense any city into a few dozen pages, and Rochester is certainly no exception. City Newspaper could put out an Annual Manual every week and still not…
ANNUAL MANUAL ’11: Rochester blogs
 [ LOCAL COLOR ] By Kate Antoniades Amongst all the pharmaceutical-hawking spam messages, the tweets about Justin Bieber’s new haircut, and the YouTube comments that make you question your faith in humanity, you can still manage to find plenty of good stuff online. The following local blogs, each with a specific focus on an aspect…
ANNUAL MANUAL ’11: Historical Museums in Rochester
The North Star. Smugtown. Rochesterville. Bygone names – and some names that have stuck – conjure a rich heritage of Rochester that is not always apparent at first glance of our city. While our daily lives keep us moving forward, who walked this same ground before us, and what happened here? Answers and artifacts of…
ANNUAL MANUAL ’11: Rochester outdoor galleries
Some people might think that Rochester’s public art begins and ends with ARTWalk in the Neighborhood of the Arts, the horses on parade (remember those?), and those polarizing benches. But there have also been many different neighborhood art projects, as well as public and private commissions of local artists, plus works of art created randomly…
ANNUAL MANUAL ’11: Rochester Sports
 [ RECREATION ] BY JESSE HANUS Rochester is unquestionably a sports town. The city has its own minor-league baseball, hockey, basketball, and lacrosse squads, and a host of amateur teams in a variety of other sports. And we’re not all spectators: Rochester has a wealth of sports leagues for people looking to get in on…
ANNUAL MANUAL ’11: 2011 Festival Guide
 [ EVENTS ] COMPILED BY ERIC REZSNYAK For a city its size Rochester is jam-packed with events. Once the weather warms up we tend to go a little crazy, and nary a weekend goes by between April and October when there isn’t some fabulous festival bringing thousands of people to the streets.            Below is…
ANNUAL MANUAL ’11: Welcome to the Neighborhoods
MonroeCounty is about as diverse a community as you can find: a mid-size city, rural areas with orchards and farm markets, suburbs with 20th-century tract houses and shopping malls, and quaint, Victorian villages. The GeneseeRiver and the Erie Canal bisect the county, more or less vertically and diagonally, so geology and history are a constant…
