It’s impossible to put a price on the benefits of art and culture. Except when you’re, like, broke. While it would be swell to pick up a fabulous piece of art from a chic gallery, dart to a nice evening show at the theater, and follow it up with a rock concert, for most of […]
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Sounds good to me
Leon Redbone September 21 Water Street John Hammond September 22 Montage Grille Garnet Rogers September 23 Harmony House Tarbox Ramblers September 24 Milestones Acoustic Alchemy September 25 Milestones Danielia Cotton September 29 Montage Grille Hot Tuna September 29 Water Street Michael Smith September 30 Harmony House Gavin DeGraw September 30 St John Fisher Dashboard Confessional […]
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Best of the wurst
It’s hard to be cool when it’s so cold outside. Monday night and it was snowing sideways. The wind chill had pantsed the thermometer. Nevertheless The White Hots — guitarists Steve Greene and AleksDisljenkovic, bassist Ted Mosher, and harmonica player Tom Hanney — strolled into The Little Theatre Café one at a time with a […]
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Hear your live delights
I figure since we got screwed out of summer we deserve a cool fall. And I’m not talking about the mercury either. I’m talking about lots of groovy bands to shake our bodies to in order to work up the sweat we were supposed to have spilled in the last few months. Here are a […]
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The XX files
When my family was looking for a place to set down roots a few years ago, we wanted to move here because of Rochester’s high ratio of arts to people. For a town this size, we have a lot of public and private money and energy dedicated to visual arts, theatre, dance, and music. […]
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Music done cheap
Shopping at thrift stores for tunes — it’s like the day the music keeps dying. You’ll find soundtracks from bygone eras preserved in their dated formats — LPs, cassettes, 8-track tapes. Cool finds, like some early Jim Reeves or Elvis, can be weeded out of a heap of musicians that seemed so, so important at […]
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Beat nuts
What you need to understand before we begin is that hiphop is a culture. It’s a theory, a philosophy. But like the Tao, or trying to define exactly what “porn” is, it’s hard to nail down. Hiphop incorporates breakdancing, MCing, DJing, and graffiti, but it is not defined by those elements alone. It’s a movement […]
