Former Gates Police Chief James VanBrederode will appear on the ballot with the Republican line regardless of this lawsuit’s outcome.
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Rochester pushes back major riverfront project to late 2024
Construction planned next fall on the centerpiece of Rochester’s downtown riverfront improvement projects will start over a year late.
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Film review: ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
Director Yorgos Lanthimos specializes in dark and demented tales that delight in dismantling the rules and norms serving as the basis for civilized society. His previous work and one of last year’s best films, “The Lobster,” upended and satirized the idea of romantic relationships. That story had Lanthimos’ trademark bleak outlook, but was balanced with […]
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School 41’s future uncertain
The Rochester school board is once again faced with the question of what to do with one of its lowest performing schools. School 41, in the Kodak Park area, was one of two statewide that didn’t meet performance goals last year. (Buffalo school district’s Build Academy was the other.) Last week State Education Commissioner MaryEllen […]
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Theater review: ‘Dracula’ at Blackfriars
Although Christmas decorations quickly replaced any remnants of Halloween in stores, a large harvest moon hangs low in the sky and the weather has just begun the transition from temperate to bone chilling. With the opening of its second 2017-18 season production, “Dracula,” on Halloween, Blackfriars Theatre isn’t in a rush to move past the […]
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Religious liberty talk set
President Trump has talked repeatedly about building a wall on the US border with Mexico, but he’s been mum on the institutional wall he’s been tearing down: the separation of church and state. That’s part of the message that Barry Lynn, the retiring executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, will […]
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Interview: Author Mark Bray on antifa
It’s 2017 in the United States, and not only does the country have a growing anti-fascist movement, it may very well need it. That’s not to say that the US is hurtling toward fascism, the exact definition of which is somewhat fluid. In broad terms, fascism is a social and political ideology that melds authoritarian […]
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Art/WORK Episode 4: Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez
A video series on Rochester’s rich community of artists: sculptors, actors, dancers, glass artists… Come with us as we talk with them in their studios.
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Classical review: RPO’s 2017-18 season opener
If you’re going to open a symphony orchestra season, you may as well open it with a dazzling flourish or two. Richard Strauss’s tone poem, “Don Juan,” begins with one of the greatest opening salvoes in the orchestral repertoire, a hurtling rocket of strings and brass. When Ward Stare and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra leaped […]
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Beer’s best friend
Beer drinkers locally and nationally are experiencing something of a craft brewery renaissance. According to Datafiniti, Rochester now ranks 16th per capita nationally with 3.2 breweries for every 100,000 people. The trend slakes thirsts, but beer lovers often crave food with their brews. Several local breweries recognize that and have put together menus to meet […]
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Film review: ‘mother!’
The Las Vegas-based polling firm CinemaScore, since 1978, has been conducting weekly surveys of moviegoers, asking them to assign a letter grade based on their reaction to a new release they’ve just seen. The system gives some insight into the average person’s movie opinions and, for the studios, helps gauge how successful their films might […]
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Film review: ‘It’
Professional clowns have been up in arms over the release of “It,” the new film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a demonic evil that most frequently takes the form of a clown known as Pennywise. After last year’s sinister clown sightings around the country, they’re not eager for more bad publicity. But their worries […]
