Winter Guide
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Winter warmup
Something feels a little incongruent with publishing this Winter Guide during a relatively mild winter. There hasn’t been much snow in the first month of 2017, and a streak of days with temperatures in the upper-30’s and mid-40’s would fit better in April rather than a Rochester January.
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Netflix vs. chill
When you’re snowed in, make your own movie marathon with these suggestions
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Through the winter
The big concerts, theater performances, and events to look forward to in the beginning of 2017
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Choose your noodle
Local restaurants capitalize on the ultimate comfort food
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Celebrate
The heartiest and most enterprising souls among us realize winter can be not only a time of fun, but a time of tourism! Why not get the people out of their huts and into the open, they reason, if only for a brief while? The sun-deprived masses are bound to shell out for a cup […]
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Look
After some brief holiday downtime, local galleries and museums are back in full force. So you have an array of culture to choose from, if you’re into that kind of thing. At Rochester Contemporary, 137 East Avenue, Deborah Jack’s Lift/Left, an installation of video, sound, text, and still images, is on display January 13 through […]
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Play
Spanking new year, same old story: we all peer outside from the warmth of our homes for a couple weeks and then, realizing that winter ain’t going anywhere anytime soon, concede that if we want to stave off cabin fever, we’re going to have to make with the bulky coats and really unattractive boots. So […]
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Listen
Hear that? Because so many local organizations and institutions go all out planning them for this slow time of year, winter is a great time to attend lectures. There’s politics, science, art, community relations, and cooking. Get a ticket and go learn something. The RochesterRegionalCommunityDesignCenter will this year hold its first lecture series, titled “Reshaping […]
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Frozen in pictures
Our inaugural Winter Guide photo contest has been a success. We had great response to our call for photos of winter in the Rochester area. Many of you dug through your collections and sent us snowdrifts and icicles, things buried in snow and things made of snow. (And one guy who looked like he might […]
