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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: TriviaCity (the Greatest Event of All Time)
Question: What was the most amazing way for Rochesterians to spend Wednesday night? Answer: By participating in TriviaCity: An Arts & Culture Quiz, put on by City Newspaper at the Spiegelgarden as part of the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival. I can say, without any conflict of interest, that this was the greatest game of […]
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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: “Waiting at the Crossroads Cafe,” “Anomaly”
I saw only two shows at the Fringe Fest on Sunday. While they were wildly different in content, they were alike in two ways. First, they showcased some of the truly astonishing artistic talent we have right here in Rochester. And second, they cemented for me that the quality of Fringe Festival shows in general […]
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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: “Psychopomp & Pageantry,” PUSH Physical Theatre
Fringe Festival Day 3 and a full bill of dance and theater for me: Garth Fagan Dance, FuturePointe Dance and PUSH Physical Theatre. Three hard-hitting local biggies. Each so much its own entity that seeing them all in one evening was like reading three good novels back to back to back. How can you digest […]
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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: “Not Wallace Stevens,” “All Your Questions Answered”
According to Just Poets member Roy Bent, the group titled its Fringe Festival program of original poetry “Not Wallace Stevens” because while Stevens is undeniably a great poet, he’s one who’s “good on the page, but not on the stage.” It’s a characteristic endemic to poetry as a whole, and their group hopes to change […]
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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: Kinect the Dots, “Ole!”
My Friday night at the Fringe started at Little Theatre 1 for the second performance of Kinect the Dots. This show is a collaboration between FuturePointe Dance and RIT Projection Artists in which the movements of the dancers are captured live with an Xbox Kinect (hence the title), projected on to the Little 1’s screen, […]
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FRINGE 2013: What to see on Friday, September 27
The 2nd Annual First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival takes place Thursday, September 19-Saturday, September 28, with performances in 28 venues around Downtown Rochester. With more than 350 shows taking place over the course of 10 days — ranging from art exhibits to dance performances to theater shows to stand-up comedy to family events — it […]
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History told by the survivors
UPDATE: The groundbreaking for the Seneca Art and Culture Center will be held on Monday, September 16, at 11 a.m., and the public is invited to attend. One lasting effect of the actions of empires is that it can be difficult to locate the voices of the underdog, unmitigated by the interests of the victor. […]
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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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DINING REVIEW: Brown Hound Bistro
Summer is in full swing, which is a good excuse to get out of the city. Head south on Route 64, down toward Canandaigua Lake, through Bloomfield, past Bristol Mountain Ski Resort (marvel at the green summer slopes), and stop before you reach Monica’s Pies and downtown Naples. Near the “Y” where Route 64 meets […]
