Thursday was Day 7 of the 10-day Wall\Therapy street-art festival, with at least eight murals completed and many more nearing completion. Wednesday night, an artist talk was held at School of the Arts, which included a panel of six muralists who engaged in a discussion led by Wall\Therapy co-founder Dr. Ian Wilson. The panel included […]
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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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CHOW HOUND: Wylie Chayote and more
“This is so far removed from Flour City Diner cooking,” says chef Jerry Manley, who recently put his popular comfort-food repertoire on the back burner in order to try his mano at Mexican cuisine, which involves a bevy of ingredients that Manley hadn’t worked with professionally… until now. Lucky for us, the results of this […]
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CHOW HOUND: Urban renewal
“I’d been looking for a spot in the South Wedge or Park Avenue,” says Shema Sushi chef Su Holmes of her decision to move her popular eatery from the location on West Main Street in Webster that it had occupied since 2007. Shema recently opened the doors to its new home on Alexander Street’s Restaurant […]
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DINING REVIEW: Harry G’s New York Deli & Cafe
My tax worksheets this year were a little bit hard to read by the time I actually got around to filing on Monday morning. On one corner of the first page of my 1040 form was a mustard-colored blot obscuring the signature block. My Schedule C was spattered with tiny dots (and not-so-tiny dots) of […]
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DINING REVIEW: La Casa Restaurant
UPDATED 4/4/13 to correct the spelling of Lyjha Wilton’s name. La Casa on Alexander Street is certainly the most hotly anticipated Mexican joint in the city; countless fans and aficionados have been waiting eight years for it to finally open. A bit more than eight years ago, Omar Ramos, his wife, Mia Bocanegra, and their […]
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DINING REVIEW: Banzai Sushi & Cocktail Bar
The South Wedge is quickly becoming my go-to place for just about anything I might need. Craft beer? The Tap & Mallet fills that niche admirably. A reliable place to take your girlfriend and her parents for dinner? Zeppa Bistro’s a great choice. Jamaican for lunch? Peppa Pot. A dive bar to suck down PBRs […]
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[UPDATED] The mark of Ginger Beard
“Ginger Beard” sounds like a pirate, or maybe a red-haired chippie doing human-shield work for a closeted so and so. The mark of Ginger Beard — whoever that is — is spreading through the South Wedge like white plastic lawn chairs spreading through suburban summers. GB has been plastering the Wedge with wheat paste posters […]
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City Newspaper’s 2012 South Wedge-Ucation
City Newspaper’s South Wedge-Ucation is back! This year’s event, presented by Visit Rochester, will feature RIDICULOUS offers from South Wedge merchants, deals and information from some of Rochester’s top arts & cultural organizations, and more. South Wedge-Ucation is FREE and open to the public, and is an especially good time for local college students. Why’s […]
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The new reliable
“Reliable.” In a hyperbolic age when anything short of hosanas and accolades is the equivalent of damnation, reliable has become a dirty word. It’s not. Reliable, along with other disfavored words like “steady,” “dependable,” and “workmanlike,” are strong, noble words, describing people who work hard, deliver what they say they will deliver, and do it consistently day after day.
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Partying (and developing) in the Wedge
“We funk-tified it,” says Lyjha Wilton. He’s referring to Boulder Coffee Co. on the South Clinton-Alexander Street intersection. Granted Wilton’s a little biased. He is, after all, the coffee shop’s owner. But the interior is undeniably funky. The walls meet at odd angles; the décor is a mix of antique mirrors, orange-beaded lamps, and overstuffed […]
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Metro ink – 2.15.06
Growing South and Gregory Nannett Hayes-Cepero — part gardener, part entrepreneur — knows that many people think they have to eat organic to eat well. But with her green grocery, scheduled to open this summer at the corner of South and Gregory, she hopes to snag a more transitional audience. Some farmers employ low-spray tactics, […]
