Rochester’s time on the dark side of 2020 will be at its peak on Monday. Two local solstice events promise to make the most of the extreme.
Genesee Land Trust
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Calendar preview: Going shopless
Black Friday is a walk in the park, with guided hikes and neighborhood strolls throughout the weekend.
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Review: ‘Landscapes and the Unbuilt’
Drawing on a long tradition of artists taking inspiration from the natural world, Rochester Contemporary’s new exhibit “Landscapes and the Unbuilt” presents meditations by several local artists on various properties conserved by the Genesee Land Trust.
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Worlds collide on walls: WallTherapy 2013
Symbolically, walls stand to divide space, to enclose people and property. But for Dr. Ian Wilson and the network of medical professionals, artists, and volunteers he has organized around Rochester’s annual Wall\Therapy street-art festival, and the medical-philanthropy organization Impact, walls stand for something other than themselves. Through those initiatives, walls have the capability to unite […]
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On the streets where you live
Monroe County is about as diverse a community as you can find: a mid-size city, rural areas with orchards and farm markets, suburbs with 20th-century tract houses and shopping malls, and quaint, Victorian villages. The Genesee River and the Erie Canal bisect the county, more or less vertically and diagonally, so geology and history are […]
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Rail to trail: Creating an urban green space
A man and his dog have been walking along a portion of the abandoned CSX railroad track that runs parallel to Conkey Avenue and Hollenbeck Street. On this blustery February day, the pair are no longer visible, but their footprints remain etched in the snow. It is nothing but a detail, a small one at […]
