While popular culture isn't exactly offering up healthy-life-choice alternatives, the past decade or so has seen increased public discussion surrounding our impending dietary doom. Films like Robert Kenner's...
SOCIAL JUSTICE: Seeking solutions to racial inequality
The local rent-to-own shop may seem like an odd symbol of inequality, but it is one. The poor...
VOTE NOW: Best of Rochester 2010 Primary Ballot!
Who will be this year's best in show? It's YOUR call: the Best of Rochester 2010 Primary Ballot...
SPECIAL EVENT: City Newspaper's "South Wedge-ucation" (9/9)
Get smart at City Newspaper's South Wedge-ucation event, taking place Thursday, September 9, 5-9...
The American Institute for Economic Research ranks Rochester as the 8th best mid-size city in the country as an area in which to attend college. Rochester jumped eight points from last year in AIER's "2010-2011 College Destinations Index"...
News Articles
TRANSPORTATION: First design workshop for bus station is September 15
RGRTA is apparently hitting all its marks on its way to getting final approval from the city for a Mortimer Street transit center.
Art
ART REVIEW: "The Worst is Yet to Come:" 1975 Gallery @ Booksmart
I recently received the latest letter from my brother, who moved to Virginia last summer for a teaching position. He's eloquent and self-aware, something that comes out in conversation if you know him well, but even more so in his thoughtful,...
Restaurant Articles
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Jim's Restaurant
Behind the cash register at Jim's Restaurant is a small wooden carving, the sort of thing kids make in shop class, spelling out "Elena" in block letters. Elena is Elena Knapp, the current owner of a diner that has been owned by four Jims and one...
News Articles
City streets get a high 'D' for cycling
City planners are developing a master plan for making the city more bicycle friendly, and as part of that process its consultants studied some of Rochester's main streets. They looked at things like pavement conditions, speeds, truck...
Music Articles
MUSIC PROFILE: The Tombstone Hands
When a rock song has no lyrics to paint the picture, it has to speak in broader, more physical terms. It's more about the hip shake than the heartbreak. Yet instrumental rock is so much more than splashy surf-a-go-go or the extended progressive...
Indie rockers Vampire Weekend have achieved some very un-indie accomplishments. The band's...
Now in its 54th year, the M & T Bank Clothesline Festival is our city's longest-running fine...
"But they soon realized, they just fucked with the wrong Mexican," the voiceover in the phony...
For new students, college can seem like the final frontier. You've spent your whole life doing...
The definitive guide to Rochester, NY. Inside Annual Manual 2010 you'll find profiles of several...
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