The second annual Flower City Pottery Invitational, hosted by the Genesee Center for the Arts and Education, kicked off Thursday morning with (many sold out) classes offered by some of the exhibiting artists. The event, which last year drew nearly 1,000 visitors to the center, continues through Sunday, October 16, with an opening reception Friday, […]
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Adam reviews ‘Grimms’ Mad Tales,’ ‘Ruts!,’ and Pandora Boxx
The rainy weather seemed to keep at least a few people from Friday evening’s performance of the clever “Grimms’ Mad Tales,” but hopefully they’ll catch the show’s second performance, since it’s well worth the time. Staged similarly to 2014’s “Spoon River Rochester” (and also directed by David Henderson), the show is immersive public theater, or […]
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A renovated Geva Theatre Center opens
A rededication and ribbon cutting ceremony Friday morning marked the official opening to a renovated Geva Theatre Center, following a seven-year-long process that touched on virtually every part of the 51,832-square-foot space. Geva had closed for the summer in order to finish work on its lobby, cafe, a new members’ lounge, flooring in the Fielding […]
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Frank reviews ‘Dance Macabre’ and checks out Friday on the Fringe
I started the second day of Fringe with a chamber quartet, The Chanson String Quartet to be exact, who played pieces focusing on death so gingerly and gently that the audience in the near-empty Xerox Auditorium (the TheatreROCS Main Stage) didn’t quite know where or when to applaud. The group played Camille Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre,” […]
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Frank reviews Cirque Du Fringe: ‘Miracle Cure’
The Spiegeltent strikes me as a steampunk spaceship sent down to teach us the art of the spectacle. In an unrelenting fast-paced show, a sold-out crowd was treated to Cirque Du Fringe — jugglers, contortionists, dancers, acrobats, slapstick comics, one guy who balanced 10 spinning plates on sticks the way I saw it done on […]
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Plaseebo plays with the macabre
Bob Conge has been collecting vintage toys for 50 years. They fill the barn attached to his 1840’s farm house on a Wayland, New York, property that also includes a cemetery and a collection of 1950’s and 60’s robots. And he says he’s got a certain fondness for ghosts. All of these aesthetics inform the […]
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Artist spotlight: Danny Cocuzza
Danny Cocuzza is one of those driven young talents who nimbly pluck fruit from different realms of creativity. At 24, the Hilton native is known for his skillful, irreverent illustrations, which often set the tone as show fliers for local bands. At this particular moment in time, you can peep his witty, finely rendered brush-and-ink […]
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Art exhibit preview: “Hoarders of Cool”
Though plans for the proposed Roc City Skatepark have met a series of frustrating hiccups over the past decade, the board is far from ready to give up its efforts. This weekend, you can learn about the status of its plans while you check out some rad art from the personal collections of five prominent […]
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The City Seen: July 30-31
City Newspaper last weekend stopped by City Hall and traveled out to the Village of Spencerport for its Canal Days Festival. City Hall’s Link Gallery is currently displaying Frank Liberti’s photography, which features panoramic views of Rochester’s architecture and everyday life on aluminum plates. His high contrast, wide-view shots gave visitors a new perspective on […]
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Five takes on “House and Home” at Main Street Arts”House and Home”
The current show at Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, “House and Home,” offers achingly nostalgic looks at mostly rural environments. The works of three painters, one printmaker, and one mixed-media sculptor explore the physical structures and nebulous dreams that make a home, and together they build a sense of domestic tranquility, the passage of […]
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Rochester Pride 2016
Rochester held its annual gay pride parade on Saturday afternoon. This year was particularly poignant in light of the June massacre of LGBTQ people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Some of the parade’s participants/floats referenced the tragedy and honored the victims. ALL PHOTOS BY JOSH SAUNDERS
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Rochester Pride 2016
Rochester held its annual gay pride parade on Saturday afternoon. This year was particularly poignant in light of the massacre of LGBTQ people in June at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
