While Wendell Castle has incorporated modern technology into making his sculptural furniture, the storied artist still starts with pencil and paper Of all of the studio’s tools, analog or digital, the pencil is still Wendell Castle’s favorite. To him, drawing is discernment. His love for the tactile nature of making marks is palpable; his description […]
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Night of the living thread
A lifelong passion for scary movies led Ben Scrivens to start Fright Rags, an online purveyor of original horror-themed T-shirts. The Rochester-based company now has a global fan base, and is getting work from major movie studios.
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VIDEO: Roger Kuhn’s beautiful blues
He’s everywhere. Roger Kuhn is a fixture around these parts, a ghost if you will, steeped in the blues. A busker at heart, Kuhn can be seen throughout Rochester with his shiny Dobro, squeezing Washingtons – and the occasional Lincoln – out of passers by. Some stop and listen before shelling out their pittance as […]
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STORIFY: Black Lives Matter rally, Dallas police shootings
A collection of news about the Dallas police shootings and the local Black Lives Matter rally.
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Lej backs law tied to dissolving LDC’s
County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says that she expects to refinance the debts and contracts of three county-linked local development corporations and then dissolve the quasi-governmental organizations by the end of the year. Those plans depend on whether the state Assembly and Senate pass legislation allowing the county to borrow money to buy out those contracts […]
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Dinolfo tries I-Square damage control
Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinfolo isn’t changing her story on I-Square, but she’s released some e-mails and memos to back it up. An emotional, contrite Dinolfo held a press conference this morning to explain, as she put it, what she knew, when she knew it, and how she knew it in this scandal that has […]
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Work progressing at MCC’s future home
Crews are six months into construction of Monroe Community College’s future Damon City Campus, which officials expect to open in time for the fall 2017 semester. The project spans four connected buildings, all previously owned by Kodak, which provide a total of 255,000 square feet of space. DiMarco Constructors and LaBella Associates, the contractors on […]
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Trump brings campaign spectacle to Rochester
Donald Trump has no love for the media, for the GOP establishment, for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, for President Barack Obama, or for the deals that the US government has made with other countries. Neither do his supporters, which turn out by the thousands for his rallies; the mere mention of any of them […]
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The Corner Store attack
In the dark of night last week, somebody lashed out at one of our neighbors, hurting him, and shocking us all.
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VIDEO: “One Cubic Foot” on the Genesee
The Seneca Park Zoo Society has created a video series of photographer David Liittschwager’s project documenting the biodiversity of the Genesee River’s ecosystem.
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RPO announces 2016-17 season
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2016-17 season has been announced, and like the current season, it has its share of crowd-pleasing classics, American and contemporary works, and notable guest performers. But the big coup here is the presence of famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who will join conductor Ward Stare and the RPO for a special concert […]
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Jazz Fest announces four headliners
The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival this morning announced four headliners for its 15th edition. The 2016 festival will take place across nine days, June 24 to July 2. Singer-songwriter and Nocturnals frontperson Grace Potter will headline the festival’s opening night. Neo-soul icon Erykah Badu will perform Saturday, June 25. Jazz pianist and 22-time Grammy […]
