Collaboration between Eastman School, PUSH Physical Theatre, and Mexican arts organizations gives birth to weird, impressive new work It has been more than 60 years since an opera by an Eastman School of Music faculty member premiered in the illustrious Kodak Hall. Now, two Eastman professors of composition — the Mexican-born musicians Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez and […]
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Hillary Clinton for president
What we do on November 8 will speak volumes, to us, and to the world, about who we are as Americans and the principles we believe in.
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Los Campeones!
Over the last two months, CITY Newspaper’s Best of Rochester readers’ poll has asked for your opinion: What are the best people, places, and things in Rochester? We set the poll at 100 categories — down from almost 140 in previous years — and let you make the call. More than 12,000 people took this year’s final readers’ poll.
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Keep Bello, Slaughter
Louise Slaughter and Adam Bello have earned our endorsement in their races for Congress and Monroe County clerk, respectively.
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Generating beauty from busy lives
Each year, City Newspaper highlights four Rochester artists who are not yet household names, but are creating engaging work that’s been garnering attention. The following four emerging artists — Holly B. Heckler, Athesia Benjamin, Melissa Huang, and Marissa Kalen — come from diverse backgrounds, are at different points in their career paths, and pursue different […]
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Fried cakes: A sacred Rochester tradition
We went in search of the Holy Grail, but found seven instead.
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The housing plague lurking in Monroe County’s neighborhoods
From her front driveway, Kelly Rush has a perfect view of a neighboring house’s buckling roof. The vacant house is surrounded by well-maintained properties on a quiet street in Irondequoit’s Sea Breeze neighborhood; it’s the rotten tooth in an otherwise perfect smile. The house has fallen so far into disrepair that Irondequoit officials plan to […]
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The case for more black teachers in Rochester and everywhere
Windsor Asamoah-Wade took to teaching immediately. He had a full schedule in the Rochester City School District and jumped at every opportunity to coach. He was visible in the neighborhood, too; his students often called out his name when they saw him walking his dog or riding his bike. But Asamoah-Wade wasn’t certain in those […]
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Fall Guide 2016
There are the obvious reasons to love fall: changing leaves, Oktoberfest beers, and Halloween. But for us, the crisp air signals the beginning to the Rochester artistic seasons.
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It’s Bronson, hands down
CITY endorses Harry Bronson for State Assembly over challenger Rachel Barnart.
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Wendell Castle stays hands-on
While Wendell Castle has incorporated modern technology into making his sculptural furniture, the storied artist still starts with pencil and paper Of all of the studio’s tools, analog or digital, the pencil is still Wendell Castle’s favorite. To him, drawing is discernment. His love for the tactile nature of making marks is palpable; his description […]
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Trump unpopular south of the border
Mexican people had some choice words for “The Donald.”
