On Friday, June 2, CITY visited the School of the Arts’prom to see the kids get fancy and ask about their post-graduation and summer plans.
School of the Arts
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Financial literacy classes prep teens for real world money management
Legislation could require schools across New York to instruct students in financial literacy.
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Kathy reviews ‘Lost in the Shuffle,’ ‘Fairy Tale Ending,’ PUSH Physical Theatre & ‘Elemental Guardians’
One of the most respected hoofers in the Rochester area, Cheryl Johnson, is putting her entire tapping career on display at the Lyric Theatre at this year’s Fringe Festival with her show “Lost in the Shuffle.” And the styles are as varied as they are incredible to watch. Johnson shuffles and shim sham shimmies across […]
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Leah reviews ‘Love and Information’
The first thing to understand about playwright Caryl Churchill’s 2012 work “Love and Information” is that there is no linear plotline. Instead, the short play is comprised of more than 60 mini-plots, some as short as one word, sound or sentence. Local St. John Fisher College professor and Theater Apparatus company founder Jeremy Sarachan produces […]
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VIDEO: Rochester students join national walk-out
Students from nearly two dozen Rochester-area schools joined millions of students from across the nation Wednesday for a school walkout honoring the victims of the Parkland shooting and urging stronger gun regulations. Today is the one-month anniversary of the shooting, and most of the participating students walked out of their schools at 10 a.m. and […]
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Red Inc.
Often in rock ‘n’ roll, the best bands have a weak link, a member that comes up short, or a particular dynamic that feels a little flat among the others that sparkle. And we’re not just talking local kids-in-the-garage bands, either. There are major acts with major deficits in their ranks. Hell, The Ramones made […]
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Worlds collide on walls: WallTherapy 2013
Symbolically, walls stand to divide space, to enclose people and property. But for Dr. Ian Wilson and the network of medical professionals, artists, and volunteers he has organized around Rochester’s annual Wall\Therapy street-art festival, and the medical-philanthropy organization Impact, walls stand for something other than themselves. Through those initiatives, walls have the capability to unite […]
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Fabo Collabo 2013
In January 2012, several of Rochester’s leading dance groups came together to create a collaborative performance known as Fabo Collabo. Geomantics Dance Theater, the Bill Evans Dance Company, FuturPointe Dance, BIODANCE, and Push Physical Theatre shared the Geva Nextstage. Now, Fabo Collabo is back, but in a very different way. This year, it is more […]
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NEWS BLOG: Vandals and valedictorians: the School of the Arts incident
Hearing about the vandalism at School of the Arts, handiwork by mostly school seniors, many of people probably shook their heads and thought, “What can you do? Kids will be kids.” SOTA’s principal, Brenda Pacheco, said she was saddened by what appeared to begin as a prank escalated to damaging the school. But I couldn’t […]
