Season 2 – Premiering February 4, 2022 art/WORK is a video series that spotlights those working in the arts sector in Rochester. In the past we have focused on creatives of all kinds, but in this season we explore the role of the curator, who serves as the bridge between artists and audiences. In these […]
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Summer Guide 2018: Sunny days
All right, we’re nearing the end of June now, so I think we can safely call it: winter is officially over. (But be quiet about it; we don’t want to jinx anything.) We’ve entered that glorious time when Rochesterians get to shake off our winter blues and dive headlong into the great outdoors. And you […]
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Art and tech collide in W. Michelle Harris’s socially charged work
The digital-media artist tackles social and political issues by using racist historic imagery, self-portraiture, and audience interaction
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Andrew W.K. goes over the top to see the other side
Andrew W.K. wasn’t always what he considers “a servant to the party gods.” Despite having had music lessons since he was 4 years old, W.K. originally never considered music as a career. Before he became an indisputable force of party-rock positivity, he had moved to New York City in his early 20’s with different aspirations: […]
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Parkinson’s, cannabis, and hope
CITY music writer Frank De Blase spent a year pitting medical cannabis against his Parkinson’s disease
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WATCH: WXXI streaming Slaughter’s funeral service
Public funeral services for the late Representative Louise Slaughter start at 11 a.m. Friday. The services are being held at Kodak Hall in Eastman Theatre and they are open to the public, though it is not a ticketed event and seating is limited. Check in begins at 9 a.m. and doors open at 10 a.m. Overflow […]
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Fresh Cut: ‘Ordinary Life’ by The Able Bodies
For The Able Bodies, this is a grand pop cut full of epic atmosphere and joy.
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The F Word: Sixty Minute Man
Wait a minute. Think about it: 50 is only middle age if you live to be 100. And how many of us are going to be that lucky? Time is flyin’, man, and there’s none to waste. As a creative person, there are certain things I want to do and add to my legacy before […]
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The 5th Annual Lubies
Oscar night’s arrival this Sunday means that it’s finally time for everyone’s real favorite movie celebration: the annual Lubie Awards, CITY’s Oscar alternative highlighting some of the year’s best — but sadly overlooked — films and performances.
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The complex legacy of Joel Seligman
Joel Seligman will step down as the University of Rochester’s president next week, a move that he clearly didn’t want to take but decided the University needed. The controversy over sexual harassment accusations against Professor Jaeger was simply too big, and Seligman made his decision even before outside investigators released their report about the University’s […]
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The F Word: Good art, bad artists
The F Word. An online column for me to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. There’s a menagerie of despicable people roaming the Earth today. Sexual predators are […]
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What about the survivors?
Tina Starr’s multimedia exhibit and performance ‘Like a Kiss’ confronts the epidemic of rape and assault
