Ongoing Festival of Trees Design and display a holiday tree, wreath, basket, handmade jewelry or other home decoration to be loaned through exhibit or donated for auction. Continues through Dec. 11. Granger Homestead Museum, 295 N. Main St., Canandaigua. 394-1472; grangerhomestead.org. Glass Wonderland Family-friendly holiday showcases and activities will be located throughout the museum. Nov. […]
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A world of culture
Rochester performance groups carry traditional art forms into the future The rich cultural diversity of Rochester’s arts community shows in its various festivals and performance groups. Individuals who have landed in Rochester from afar as well as this region’s Native Americans have sustained their culture’s traditional performance arts, imbuing them with a timeless quality and […]
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Water Street Music Hall denied license renewal
Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli has notified the Water Street Music that it must stop hosting events immediately. The popular live music venue, located at 204 North Water Street, was denied renewal of its entertainment license, because “there are justifiable concerns” regarding its ability to operate in compliance with all State and Local laws,” Ciminelli […]
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WAYO-FM hits the home stretch
In March 2014, City ran a story about the groups vying for the new spaces the FCC opened up on the FM dial for low-power community radio stations. Some of these stations have since gone on air or are streaming online, including WXIR-FM (100.9), an alternative news station run by Rochester Community TV; a Spanish-English […]
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SPECIAL EVENT: City Newspaper’s 2015 Best Busker Contest
Congratulations to Jackson Cavalier for his first place win during last night’s Best Busker competition, and to Poncho for coming in second and Jug Band Dan for third. A massive thank you to all of the buskers, businesses, and of course, everyone who came out to make it one of City’s best Best Buskers yet! […]
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CALENDAR: Holiday Events
Wednesday, November 19 Holiday Display & Auction More than 25 holiday wreaths designed and donated by local florists, through Nov. 30; tabletop tree displays of pre-lit, three-foot decorated trees continues through Dec. 18; Sweet Creations Gingerbread house display will continue through Dec. 17. George Eastman House, 900 East Ave. 271-3361 x 242. eastmanhouse.org. Festival of […]
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Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
What a long, strange trip it’s been. From playing to 10 people on the roof of an upscale East End watering hole, to creating a booty shake quake with thousands of fans in Red Rocks, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad is clearly the master of roots reggae in the jam band world. It doesn’t lampoon […]
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Green Dreams
In the never-ending quest to corral punk, to throw a saddle on it and ride, bands and their fans spend countless hours in circular debate over this flexible genre’s beguiling definition and their own adherence to its limits. What is punk? Who is punk? Punk is a sound and attitude perfectly exemplified by Rochester’s Green […]
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Frank reviews Hopeless Romantic
The term hopeless romantic makes about as much sense to me as the phrase guilty pleasure. If you’re a romantic then you’re far from hopeless. And if you get off on something, f**k those who don’t and judge you because you do. OK? OK. That being said, Hopeless Romantic’s vocal chanteuse Sage Melcher was particularly […]
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The Dmitri Matheny Group
Perhaps you’ve seen it before … A pachuco limps the gutter stroll on Cuban heels while a street walker checks her face in a busted compact mirror. A hard guy tries to soft sell, snake eyes roll, and folks from vice to nice rub shoulders on the hot asphalt parade. Somewhere in the distance, a […]
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Matthew Shipp-Michael Bisio Duo
There is little doubt that Matthew Shipp is among the most brilliant pianists in jazz. But over his three-decade career he has sparked no shortage of controversy due to his embrace of genres outside of jazz. In the 1990’s he put out records on punk rocker Henry Rollins’ 2.13.61 label. He later performed and recorded […]
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Top cat on the bottom end
It’s not hard to spot Brian Williams. It’s hard to keep up with Williams, but not hard to find him at joint du jour, his arms around his big doghouse bass, with that big smile on his dial. Williams is everywhere, he’s the bass man of the Rochester scene, the go-to guy, the top cat […]
