A Rochester-wide initiative to collect valentines from community members to the 9-year-old who was pepper sprayed by police is underway.
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Geva stages world premiere of ‘One House Over’
Catherine Trieschmann’s new play explores themes of family, culture, and roots — it’s a sweet, hilarious story about immigration, love, and trusting strangers.
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Fresh Paint
Rochester’s annual, week-long mural-making festival, Wall Therapy, kicked off officially on Friday, July 18. Most of the out-of-town artists have arrived and are now working on their large-scale public artworks under this year’s portraiture theme. Due to scheduling, a couple more artists will have arrived by midweek and have a later start. Gloomy weather and […]
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Goodbye, Joe. Hello…?
Monroe County Democrats have some big races ahead of them this year. Louise Slaughter is running for re-election to her Congressional seat, ditto Ted O’Brien in the State Senate. And Gary Pudup, former local director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, is running for the Assembly seat formerly held by Republican Bill Reilich. Democrats’ […]
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Urban texture
Last autumn, Rochester witnessed the annual summer street art festival, Wall Therapy, bust out of its regular July programming with an off-season “Fall Therapy” mural-making series. After a dormant winter, Wall Therapy will present yet another break-out painting session this week. “Writes of Spring” will focus specifically on letterform graffiti, and will feature an international […]
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“Race: Are We So Different?”
I have visited the “Race” exhibit at Rochester Museum and Science Center twice so far, and both times caught college classes crowding the different stations, with students and teachers strolling in pairs or small groups and discussing with one another — and with community members — the heavy things that we must discuss. I witnessed […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’12: Rochester 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 […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’10: Communal Creativity
New York: State of the Arts There’s always a bit of religious-like mysticism surrounding the creation of artwork. But the reality of it is that it is work, it’s often messy, and, like most occupations, requires time and space. But being holed up in your studio can get lonely, and many artists who can afford […]
