Plastics are everywhere, from shopping bags to cutting-edge medical devices. But as they’ve become more pervasive, they’ve also become more troublesome.
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Bail trap: Poverty keeps thousands behind bars
Activists have been pushing for bail reform, and Governor Andrew Cuomo supports it. But so far, the state legislature hasn’t acted.
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URMC artist in residence fights stigmas with portraits
Charmaine Wheatley has set up camp at the UR’s Medical Center to paint portraits of individuals from two stigmatized communities: people living with mental illness, and people living with HIV
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Sensory friendly theater experiences grow in Rochester
Individual performances are tailored to be inclusive for children and adults who are on the autism spectrum, have ADHD, and have special needs.
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Annual Manual 2018
Compared to some cities in the US, Rochester’s not very old. But boy, do we have history. And what happened in the past has shaped what we are today, in many ways.
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Amplifying voices
Rochester’s unique cultural exchange with Nagaland — a remote state in Northeast India — has yielded an international film festival with the aim of preserving and amplifying the cultural expressions of the indigenous Naga people. Locally, the driving force behind the exchange are Heather Layton and Brian Bailey, who co-facilitate a variety of collaborative projects in Rochester and abroad.
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Rochester plans a riverfront renaissance
Trails and bridges and islands and more: City Hall rolls out a bold plan to revitalize the riverfront.
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Power struggle
Renewables have a bunch of things working both for and against them. Trump’s solar tariff is just one.
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Rochester’s folk community isn’t easy to pin down
The Rochester area is a hotbed for folk music — even if it’s difficult to define what ‘folk’ means.
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Douglass’s Rochester
Frederick Douglass lived in Rochester for a quarter of a century, and is buried here. The city likes to claim him as its own, but how has Rochester preserved Douglass’s memory and upheld his legacy of fighting for equality?
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What about the survivors?
Tina Starr’s multimedia exhibit and performance ‘Like a Kiss’ confronts the epidemic of rape and assault
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After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans find hope in Rochester
After Hurricane Maria roared across Puerto Rico, more than 160,000 residents fled the devastated island, according to the New York Times. Many have found their way to Rochester, which has the state’s second largest Hispanic population.
