The souls of artists and philosophers are never still; their vigilant senses are buffeted by the urgently calling winds and tides of change that they often detect before others. As such, some artists serve as the most honest of social critics. The current exhibit filling the South, Annex, and Brackett Clark galleries of George Eastman […]
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DINING REVIEW: Yummy Garden Hot Pot
Yummy Garden Hot Pot on West Henrietta Road allows you to customize your own soup, choosing between various broths, sauces, veggies, meats, and noodles. Just make sure not to overfill your pot.
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Concert Review: Passion Pit, Matt and Kim, Icona Pop at Main Street Armory
Passion Pit has always been about mixing the light and the dark. The songs on the band’s first two albums, “Manners” (2009) and “Gossamer” (2012), obsessively dwell on kill-me-now topics like depression, self-loathing, bankruptcy, suicide attempts and frontman Michael Angelakos’ struggles with bipolar disorder. But these grim lyrics are always hyped up with bubbly, blindingly […]
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Video Games: Happy Valentine’s Day Nintendo Direct
Valentine’s Day. A day for relationships? A day to spend with people? Chocolates and hearts and all that stuff?
Nah. Not if you’re Nintendo.In a Nintendo Direct this morning, Nintendo unleashed
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Video Game Review: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Two hundred and twenty six. That’s how many times I started up “Fire Emblem: Awakening” before I beat it. Two hundred and twenty six different times, with an average play time of 10 minutes before I hit the power button and started over again. Across the 40 and a half hour adventure, that’s a lot of resetting. The game now sits at third place (only behind the Mii Plaza and the Notifications menu) among my most frequently opened 3DS titles.
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Performance photos: Joel McHale and Brooks McBeth at RIT
“The Soup” and “Community” star Joel McHale came to RIT as part of its annual FreezeFest weekend on February 1. Brooks McBeth opened up the night.
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Video Games: Nintendo shows off a bunch of new Wii U games
It looks like Nintendo has listened.
A much more apologetic Satoru Iwata led off today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, and in the first chunk of the presentation gave a lot of good news on small, but important fixes to the overall Wii U experience. The Wii U virtual console is coming (with GamePad, Miiverse support), as are two system updated that will fix the load times of the system. Game Boy Advance titles are coming to the service as well, but sadly there was no mention of GameCube games. Miiverse will also be branching out, coming to smartphones sometime in the Spring.
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New life for old Academy Building
The four-story building at 13 South Fitzhugh Street is alive with activity as construction workers in hard hats and dusty dungarees file in and out of the front entry. Some workers haul materials up to the roof, while others caulk the ground-floor windows. Just inside the chain-link fence that guards the building’s perimeter stands a […]
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SWAN plans growth
At a time when many neighborhood organizations are tightening their belts, Robert Walker-Smith, new executive director of the Southwest Area Neighborhood Association, says his goal is to nearly triple the group’s annual budget from $1.2 million to about $3.5 million over the next 18 months. Where will the extra money come from? SWAN will likely […]
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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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Concert photos and video: The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses
A first look at the Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses.
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Concert slideshow: Hugh Laurie and the Copper Bottom Band
Hugh Laurie brought his Copper Bottom Band through Buffalo on August 28.
