The Rochester trio Honeymoonphase plays atmospheric, subtly layered music that evokes a sense of nostalgia – not for any one place or thing, but for an idealized place in the mind.
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Video: Lunar Eclipse
It might be too overcast to see the lunar eclipse this Sunday night. But Strasenburgh Planetarium director Steve Fentress tells us what we’ll be missing and why it’s a cool sight.
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Community remembers Christopher Morrison
Rochester lost a beloved dancer, choreographer, and teacher this past weekend. After months of battling pancreatic cancer, Christopher Morrison died in New York City on Saturday. As the community mourns, it shares memories of the Jamaican-born artist and teacher.
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Change is coming to the city school district, one way or another
At a forum hosted by state education officials, members of the public sounded off on their concerns about the Rochester school district. And the officials made it clear that they’re not going to stop pushing the district to change.
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Renovated planetarium re-opens with immersive technology
RMSC’s Strasenburgh Planetarium now offers an immersive experience of the Earth, our solar system, and the universe beyond.
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ART/Work
A video series on Rochester’s rich community of artists: sculptors, actors, dancers, glass artists… Come with us as we talk with them in their studios.
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Douglass statue on Alexander is replaced
Less than a week after vandalism brought down one of the 13 statues of Frederick Douglass that have been placed around Rochester, a replacement has been installed. On Thursday, more than 100 people gathered at the intersection of Tracy and Alexander Streets for the installation. Carvin Eison, project director of the yearlong bicentennial celebration that created […]
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RIT’s new digital media center brings the future to the classroom
MAGIC has existed for about five years already, but with the opening of the new center, students working in film, animation, game development, and other digital media studies got a serious upgrade in their classroom environment and amenities.
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RBTL theater site moves to the riverfront
The Rochester Broadway Theatre League will get its new theater, if its fundraising is successful. But it won’t be on Parcel 5. It’ll be by the river, part of a large, $250 million multi-use complex on the site of the former Radisson Riverside Hotel on East Main Street, across the street from the Riverside Convention Center.
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Fresh Cut: ‘Pedaling’ by The Able Bodies
The new video from The Able Bodies’ “Pedaling” casts the synth-pop duo as fitness enthusiasts, and the track spins toward pure bliss.
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Interview: Mroztronium’s Martin Freeman
Electronic musician
Martin Freeman is a mad scientist of sound. A longtime fixture in Rochester’s
experimental music scene, Freeman also sells original, made-from-scratch instruments through his company Mroztronium.
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Fresh Cut: ‘I’m in the Pool, Man’ by Passive Aggressives Anonymous
John Valenti is at it again. Although the mastermind behind Rochester’s most darkly satirical indie band Passive Aggressives Anonymous recently relocated to sunny California, it hasn’t dislodged his tongue from his cheek. If anything, with his newly released music video, “I’m in the Pool, Man,” Valenti seems freshly inspired. The musician and filmmaker is still […]
