Experience the sweat, buzz, and tears of roller derby this weekend as Roc City Roller Derby presents “Octoberfist” Saturday, October 13, with doors opening at 5 p.m., and the derby commencing at 6 p.m. Competitors in the Home Teams Round Robin will include the 5-H8-5s, the Midtown Maulers, and the Rottenchesters. Depending on how adventurous […]
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“How I Met Your Mother” Season 8, Episode 3
“How I Met Your Mother” started off, well, appropriately, with a bang. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) is fresh out of his relationship with Quinn (Becki Newton), right? And we all know how well he deals with new-found singledom.
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Concert Review: RPO season opener
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra opened its 90th season on Thursday night with all the fanfare of an opening day of a major-league sports season. The orchestra sported red carnations. Maestro Arild Remmereit led the RPO and the audience in the singing of the national anthem. And Remmereit offered play calls about pieces — several of […]
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“Project Runway” Season 10: Lower your avant-garde
It was the final challenge before Fashion Week, and the Final 5 – Dmitry, Sonjia, Christopher, Melissa, and Fabio – were hauled out to a castle in Long Island, given some nonsensical make-up-based inspirations (seriously, I have no idea), and then tasked with designing avant-garde looks. I think it blows that we got our avant-garde […]
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“The X Factor” Season 2: Boot Camp, Round 1
We’re done with the initial auditions, and on to Boot Camp! Having not watched Season 1, I had no idea what that entailed, but I assumed it was similar to Hollywood Week on “Idol.” That’s basically true. After fakey-fake “candid” videos featuring several contestants, most of whom were spotlighted in the original audition episodes, we […]
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METAL: Accept
German metal band Accept — you know, “Balls To The Wall” — rocks. It rocked back in the day and it will probably continue to rock going forward due to superb albums like “Blood of the Nations” (2010) and its latest, “Stalingrad.” Lead guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, bassist Peter Baltes, and company are old school and […]
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Art Walk Extension opens
It’s been a long, arduous journey, but Art Walk Extension in Rochester’s Neighborhood of the Arts opened Friday. And if it’s true that art is in the eye of the beholder, it’s probably also true that the success of a major urban development project is equally subjective. The end result of Art Walk Extension frustrates some people and delights others.
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ImageOut 2012
Over the course of 10 days, October 5-14, ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film & Video Festival will celebrate two decades of bringing to this city the world’s finest films about the ever-evolving lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender experience.
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THEATER: “44 Plays for 44 Presidents”
I am a bad American. This is true for many reasons, but for the purpose of this review we’ll focus on the fact that I am woefully ignorant about our country’s presidential history. I got a 90-something on my American history Regents exam, but I’ll be damned if I can remember any of our former […]
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DINING REVIEW: Thai Lao
Sweat breaks across my forehead. My eyes tear up. My nose is running. And I swear that my ears are ringing. I’ve only scooped one or two tangles of bright white rice noodles from the bowl of lava-red broth in front of me and I’m already in agony — the good kind of agony. The […]
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ART REVIEW: “Bob Conge / recent works”
Within the increasingly popular field of collectible plastic and resin art toys, some artists are set apart by the ambitiousness injected into their creations. Acting as a sort of modern-day mixture of Gepetto and Dr. Frankenstein, Bob Conge cannibalizes old toys to produce new, imaginative creations and invents complex, entertaining worlds from which each one-off […]
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Video Game Review: “Resident Evil 6”
Capcom’s latest entry in the hit survival horror franchise is finally here…but how is it?
