Singer-songwriter Fran Broderick makes a joyful noise on the new Left-Handed 2nd Baseman cut “Never Grow Up”
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Lumiere Photo is back; The Yards winter art residency kicks off
Following a heart attack in February 2017, Lumiere Photo founder Bill Edwards came to the grim conclusion that he had to close up shop in the end of March. Lumiere remained partially operational for months while Edwards focused on healing and discussed selling the business to potential buyers. Throughout 2017 Lumiere still offered digital printing […]
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North Star Players celebrates Frederick Douglass’s legacy through multimedia production
Two hundred years have passed since trailblazing abolitionist and famous Rochesterian Frederick Douglass was born. And while his bicentennial is cause for celebration, it’s also a sobering reminder: It’s 2018 and mass incarceration of African Americans and police brutality are still national maladies; civil rights advocates from Black Lives Matter to professional athletes are still […]
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Sinclair TV spreads the conservative message
For years, Sinclair has forced its TV stations to run conservatively biased news and commentary within local newscasts. Rochester’s top-rated WHAM Channel 13 is no exception.
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Seal, Bela Fleck, and Alison Krauss among XRIJF 2018 headliners
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and no, we aren’t talking ’bout Xmas or even Festivus. We mean The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival when jazz artists as well as musicians of all stripes descend upon our fair city for nine days in the summer. Well, the bigwigs at the XRIJF have just […]
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A winter blues playlist
Seven Rochester songs for a different kind of holiday mood
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Musicians fight back: protest songs from the first year of Trump
It’s been a long year since election night 2016, but musicians across the country have been saying “fuck that.” Check out a playlist of protest songs curated by alt-weeklies
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Peter Yarrow brings 50 years of folk history to Hochstein
If you came of age in the 1960’s, folk singer Peter Yarrow was probably a part of your life. Before you knew the name Bob Dylan, chances are you heard Yarrow sing Dylan’s most famous song, “Blowin’ in the Wind.” As a member of Peter, Paul and Mary, Yarrow helped usher in a new age […]
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P.J. Soles talks ‘Carrie,’ ‘Halloween,’ and being part of the horror community
The actor will be in Rochester Saturday for a screening of the original “Halloween”
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Art/WORK Episode 4: Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez
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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Flower City ceramic exhibition confounds the norms
“Peripheral Of: The Periphery” is one of four current exhibitions that showcase the culminating works by the most recent rounds of artists in residence at Flower City Arts Center. On view at the center’s Firehouse Gallery are works by the 2016 ceramics residents, Ryana Lawson, who is from Rochester, and Marval A. Rex, who is […]
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On the road with Zagster
A couple of weeks ago, bike racks appeared on what seemed to be every corner in downtown Rochester, with Zagster’s signature white bikes fixed with a basket in the front and rack in the back. And most important, they were being used. In the first day, says Zagster Bike Share Rebalancer Allen McAllister, somewhere between […]
