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Renaldi pictures the ‘Manhattan Sunday’ at Eastman

Photographer Richard Renaldi’s new body of work, “Manhattan Sunday,” which opened at George Eastman Museum on Friday, straddles the lines between portraiture, street photography, and still life. Featuring photographs made on eerily empty Manhattan streets in the wee hours after the clubs let out, the work also captures the blurred lines between nightlife and daybreak, […]

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80’s New Wave Night

Whether it was Madonna, David Bowie, The Violent Femmes, The Cure, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, a specific music ruled the airwaves and the clubs back in the 1980’s. Now these singers and bands are household names, but at that time, they hadn’t yet broken into mainstream culture. Today, the sound of the 80’s continues […]

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Love projected

Tucked off Chestnut Street, at 45 Euclid Street, is a little club with a lot going for it. I visited LOVE with two companions on a blustery Friday night in late March. The place wasn’t difficult to find but we weren’t sure where to park, and frankly, a little police presence would have been nice […]

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MUSIC: Sing, sing a song

Its title derived from mashing up the Japanese words “kara” (meaning empty) and “okesutora” (meaning orchestra), karaoke has been around for a long time. And some of its roots, believe it or not, are American. In fact, one of the oldest examples has ties to good ol’ Rochester. From 1961 to 1966, NBC carried a […]

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