The visiting artist explores the intersection of art and law and Argentina’s Dirty War in new project at Flower City Arts Center
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JCC reopens after bomb threat
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester was evacuated this morning after it received a bomb threat.
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Surgery that’s almost real
Doctors Ahmed Ghazi and Jonathan Stone have the kind of personal synergy that lets them finish each other’s sentences. Their enthusiasm about their research, which could change the way surgeons are trained, is impossible to ignore. For the last three years, Ghazi, assistant professor in the University of Rochester’s Department of Urology, and Stone, a […]
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New purpose for controversial carousel panel
A controversial panel that was once part of the historic Dentzel carousel at Ontario Beach Park is now part of a travelling multimedia exhibit. The exhibit was unveiled by Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, the Rochester Museum and Science Center, the Central Church of Christ, and the Take it Down group on Monday. (Take it Down fought […]
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Rochester updates status as Sanctuary City
Rochester has asserted itself as a Sanctuary City amid sweeping federal orders to crack down on illegal immigrants. City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night that updates its status as a Sanctuary City. The move comes on the same day Homeland Security announced plans to enforce President Donald Trump’s executive order that enforces stricter […]
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Contested territory
Meleko Mokgosi challenges ideas of national identity and history in the exhibit ‘Pax Kaffraria’ at MAG and RoCo
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Dissecting the coffee wave
Rochester’s unique cluster of third wave coffee shops has grown into an intertwined family tree
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RPO announces 2017-18 season
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has announced its 2017-18 season, and its “best-of-both-worlds” approach has a lot to offer, including plenty of classic blockbusters and big names, from Perlman to Potter, and some pleasant surprises. The season will start on September 12 with an appearance from Itzhak Perlman, a violinist who truly does deserve to be […]
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Michael Hubbard gives tunes for the times at Hartnett Gallery
Michael Hubbard is a skilled painter, but he’s also a maker of books, films, and themed mixtapes. Oh, and he’s also a feminist. Hubbard’s women in music themed show, “Eleven Love Songs,” currently exhibited at the University of Rochester’s Hartnett Gallery, is a wonderful tribute to fierce female artists and revolutionaries throughout history and around […]
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Rochester protesters strike defiant tone
Sunday’s rally in Washington Square Park was both a moment of catharsis and an act of defiance against President Donald Trump for his immigration ban, enacted by executive order on Friday. The order temporarily bans citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States: Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Iraq. Syrian immigrants are […]
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Black Wall Street comes alive in new play
Following the Civil War, African-Americans began to establish all-black townships in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories. One of those townships was Greenwood — located north of the tracks in Tulsa. Created in 1906 by O.W. Gurley, one of Tulsa’s earliest pioneers, and other black entrepreneurs who invested in property, Greenwood over time became a self-sufficient […]
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Jazz Fest announces rest of 2017 headliners
The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival has announced the remaining four headliners of its 2017 edition. King Crimson, Joss Stone, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, and Maceo Parker performing a tribute to Ray Charles join previously announced headliners Mavis Staples and Sheryl Crow. The Jazz Festival, now in its 16th year, will take place June 23 […]
