Get the details on not one, but two upcoming events featuring our city’s growing fleet of mobile food purveyors, plus a buffet of restaurant openings and other local food news.
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Fall Guide 2012
The air is crisp and cool, the food is bountiful (thanks, harvest!), and most importantly, our area arts and cultural groups return with packed schedules after relatively quiet summer months.
Show time for Rochester Fringe
It took dancers jumping off buildings for people to finally “get” the magnitude of the inaugural First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival. “Another festival?” is a common refrain in Rochester. It can be hard to get excited about a new project when the area is already so flush with celebrations of everything from Turkish culture and […]
City Newspaper’s 2012 South Wedge-Ucation
City Newspaper’s South Wedge-Ucation is back! This year’s event, presented by Visit Rochester, will feature RIDICULOUS offers from South Wedge merchants, deals and information from some of Rochester’s top arts & cultural organizations, and more. South Wedge-Ucation is FREE and open to the public, and is an especially good time for local college students. Why’s […]
Turn the beat around
As boisterous and bombastic as hip-hop tends to be, it is still a genre preceded by public misperception, generalization, and out-and-out dismissal. As with any genre of music, the ears of those outside its fan base are often assailed by topical, shallow misrepresentations of the form. Minds get made up, hasty conclusions get drawn. Not […]
The Mt. Morris miracle
Mt. Morris is no stranger to hard times. The “Best Town by a Dam Site” was once a thriving community with retail shops, restaurants, and its own movie theater. But by the 1990’s, Mt. Morris, like many small towns in Western New York, was gripped by a slow, steady decline. Main Street had so many […]
Busy Maplewood library needs a new home
Maplewood Community Library gets so busy that staff members sometimes have to clear the building, either due to fire code, or just to settle things down.






