The Rochester Broadway Theatre League announced its 2015-16 season Wednesday evening. The energetic six-show lineup opens with “Newsies” on October 6, and includes “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” “Matilda” on its first U.S. tour, the soulful “Motown,” and “White Christmas” making a holiday appearance. “Dirty Dancing” will end the season beginning May 10, 2016. Also […]
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The boys on the bus: hate with a smiling face
In the seclusion of the fraternity house and en route to an off-campus party, blatant racism was acceptable behavior.
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I Scene It: St. Vincent at Water Street Music Hall
I was stumped on the opening for this St. Vincent show
review so I asked Frank for a little De Blase help. This
is what he gave me: It was a night of ugly guitar and ethereal beauty…
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MCC’s new downtown campus on target for 2017 opening
The first phase of construction at Monroe Community College’s new $72 million downtown campus is three-quarters complete, and the facility is on track for a fall 2017 opening. The new 255,000-square-foot campus will be spread across seven floors in four former Kodak buildings on State Street, bought by the county. The first phase of construction […]
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XRIJF adds three more headliners to 2015 festival
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and The Steep Canyon Rangers
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The 2nd Annual “Lubies”
Forget the Oscars; City Film Critic Adam Lubitow weighs in on his favorite films and performances of 2014
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The gospel according to Serena Young
When Serena Young competed last year in the seventh season of Black Entertainment Television’s popular gospel show “Sunday Best,” the judges used words like “conviction” and “grace” to describe her performances. Young says it was heady praise coming from the gospel greats, including Yolanda Adams and Donnie McClurkin. “Out of maybe 20,000 contestants, I made […]
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First chords
Concert-goers got a look Tuesday night at what’s in store for them under the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s young new music director in a preview program that featured selections from the 2015-16 season. Stare assumed his position leading the RPO last September, but by then this year’s performances were already set, so next year will be […]
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‘Pops’ and substance: the RPO’s balancing act
Eighteenth-century composers and writers on music used to differentiate between “music lovers” and “connoisseurs.” The music lovers, it was thought, went for the simple, tuneful, dance-y stuff; the connoisseurs liked more complicated, modern music. In their search for audiences, modern concert organizations tread a fine line between the two, trying to strike a balance that […]
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Jennifer Hudson and Gary Clark Jr. added as XRIJF headliners
Soul vocalist Jennifer Hudson and blues rocker Gary Clark Jr. have been added as headliners to the 2015 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, organizers of the festival announced this morning. [IMAGE-1] Hudson, a Grammy Award-winning singer and Academy Award-winning actress, will perform on Wednesday, June 24. Clark, who is also a Grammy winner, will perform […]
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No surprises out of Cuomo’s State of the State
The big questions heading into Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State Address weren’t about what he was going to propose; he’d laid out most of his plans over the past week and a half. Rather, legislators questioned how Cuomo would pay for it all, and media types speculated on the speech’s tone. Much of […]
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Film Review: “The Babadook”
The greatest horror films — the ones that stand the test of time — continue to resonate with audiences not just for the theme park thrills they provide, but because they find a way to tap into our deepest, most primal fears. They can choose to make those fears metaphorical or terrifyingly literal, but that […]
