Joe Tunis certainly has the look of an RIT alum, computer software developer, and family man who’s played his fair share of Frisbee golf. But it’s also the look of a DIY entrepreneur who still operates the same fledgling record company for indie rock and experimental music that he started in April 1994.
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Rochester’s cemeteries as parks
Beyond visiting the resting places of family and friends, spending time near graves might seem like the domain of moody teens or vandals. But in many ways, cemeteries are ideal places to spend a peaceful morning or afternoon, alone with your thoughts while you’re jogging or in the company of friends.
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Franklin Florence on Rochester and racism: Little has changed
Civil rights leader Franklin Florence on Rochester and racism
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Fall Guide 2018: Relishing the season
CITY’s annual guide to the Fall season of art, theater, dance, drinks, film and music.
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2018 Fringe Festival Guide
The seventh annual Rochester Fringe Festival kicks off Wednesday, September 12, and this year has expanded to a whopping 11 day stretch of more than 500 shows taking place in and around downtown Rochester.
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The Nixon-Cuomo race
While challenger Cynthia Nixon is campaigning as the more strongly progressive candidate, it’s hard to find many issues on which she and Governor Andrew Cuomo disagree.
More primary action: Three Democrats seek Morelle’s Assembly seat
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The East-UR ‘experiment’
Shaun Nelms on the changes at a once-failing school
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The Pride Divide
Feeling excluded from the Rochester Pride festival, queer and trans people of color create their own spaces.
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Enemy of the people
When Aaron Cantú arrived at his new job at the Santa Fe Reporter in New Mexico last year, he came with the baggage of a recent arrest. Two months earlier, he spent a night in jail with hundreds of others detained during protests on Inauguration Day in Washington, DC. His actions consisted of walking, wearing […]
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Ask a punk
Rochester punks — and adherents abroad — face new challenges, from inside as well as out. Are they ready for what’s coming? Can punk save itself like it saved rock ‘n’ roll? Or is punk dead?
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Douglass’s Rochester: Voting rights
Voter suppression in New York can’t be attributed to a single barrier, rather it results from a long list of complex problems.
