Wait a minute. Think about it: 50 is only middle age if you live to be 100. And how many of us are going to be that lucky? Time is flyin’, man, and there’s none to waste. As a creative person, there are certain things I want to do and add to my legacy before […]
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The F Word: If it’s too loud, you’re not old enough
The F Word. An online column for Frank De Blase to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. Going out to see all these shows is taking its toll […]
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The F Word: The right to keep and arm bears
The F Word. An online column for Frank De Blase to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. Who am I to argue with Ronnie Van Zant? He was […]
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The F Word: Stay cool
The F Word. An online column for me to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. When the curtain went up on the Kodak Theater for RAPA’s production of […]
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The F Word: Good art, bad artists
The F Word. An online column for me to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. There’s a menagerie of despicable people roaming the Earth today. Sexual predators are […]
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The F Word: Can The Struts save glam?
Introducing The F Word. This will be an online column for me to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. The Struts are more than they appear to be. […]
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Critics’ picks: Frank De Blase
PUSH Physical Theatre, Pinch and Squeal, “The Black Bird of Death,” and more.
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Jazz Fest 2017: Meet the writers covering the XRIJF
Ron Netsky My real job is Chairman of the Art Department at Nazareth College and my main work is in the field of printmaking, but I love music and I’ve been writing about jazz for CITY since the 1990’s. Late-June is one of my favorite times of the year, a chance to indulge in great […]
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Meet the writers covering Fringe 2016
Rebecca Rafferty I’m the Arts & Entertainment staff writer for City, and a freelance writer with work published in 12oz Prophet and Afterimage, among other publications. This is my fifth year covering the Rochester Fringe Festival, and I’m excited to check out more than 20 shows, especially, Denton Crawford’s "Savage Sanctuaries" exhibit at Gallery r; […]
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Jazz Fest 2016: Meet City’s jazz bloggers
Ron Netsky [IMAGE-1] My real job is chairman of the art department at Nazareth College, but I’ve been writing about jazz for City since the late-1990’s. My love of music can be traced to the people I grew up with: my uncle was a Broadway composer; my twin brother, Steve, is a songwriter; and my […]
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Meet City’s Fringe bloggers
Adam Lubitow [IMAGE-1] This is my third year covering the Rochester Fringe Festival for City Newspaper, and while I’ve got a long list of shows I’m looking forward to — Remote Rochester, ShakesBLOOD, Hot Tub: The Musical, and the RIT Student Honors Show currently top my list — by now I’ve learned that my favorite […]
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Jazz Fest 2015: Meet City’s jazz bloggers
Ron Netsky This year’s Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival opens with one of my favorite artists from last year’s XRIJF, Cecile McLorinSalvant. If you haven’t heard this wonderfully expressive singer, come to Kilbourn Hall and you’ll understand why she won DownBeat Magazine’s Critics Poll as Jazz Artist of the Year in 2014. I’m also looking […]
