City Newspaper’s guide to Rochester’s biggest music festival. For more reviews, blogs, photos, and the latest news, check our website every day of the festival.
Cover Story
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Standing up for city schools
These parents see themselves as urban dwellers and they want their children to have the same experience, and that includes the city’s public schools.
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DISH 2015
In this year’s edition of Dish, City’s guide to Rochester’s food and drink culture, we explore some of the more recent changes in the area’s dining scene.
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Who’s worrying about the water?
Much of California is coping with a severe, multi-year drought. The state’s water supplies and reservoirs are depleted, urban residents are now required to limit their water use, and many farms in the state are losing their crops. By comparison, the Rochester region is hydrologically gifted. Lake Ontario provides people, farms, and businesses with massive […]
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FESTIVAL PREVIEW 2015
CITY Newspaper’s guide to the summer festival season
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The super-commuters
Chris McGoldrick often leaves work on Friday afternoons, but it’s not until the early hours of Saturday morning that he pulls his white Subaru Outback into his driveway. Aside from the flickering glow of a neighbor’s television, there are few signs of life. It takes about six-and-a-half hours for McGoldrick to drive the nearly 400 […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Artistry and swagger
During the 2014 Rochester Fringe Festival, FuturPointe, a Rochester-based dance company co-founded by Guy Thorne and N’Jelle Gage, presented “Unbridled” with photographer Carrie Mateosian. While the audience crowded up close at the outside venue downtown, company members Liam Knighten and Melinda Phillips each had a turn at being photographed by Mateosian while they were being […]
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Victory over climate change
James Hansen sat in front of members of the US Senate and told them that the Earth is warming and that human-generated greenhouse gas emissions are to blame. Back in 1988. Hansen was director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at the time and had been studying global warming and the greenhouse effect since […]
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Character in the 21st century
Rising local playwright Kate Royal captures the voice of the millennial generation
Posted inMusic
Breaking boxes
Depending on who you ask — or when you ask the question — you’ll get a variety of explanations of what the Sound ExChange Project really is: A local contemporary classical ensemble; a chamber group; an artist collective; composers; curators; educators; community-investors.
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Them fighting Dems
Local Democrats have a golden opportunity this year. Can they stop squabbling long enough to take advantage?
