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Although the official announcement of the season is scheduled for next week, the Rochester Broadway Theatre League 2010-11 schedule leaked today when renewal forms were sent out to season ticket holders, spilling many of the details. Regardless, it's a great line-up, a mix of contemporary hits and crowd-pleasing classics. "A Chorus
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County Executive Maggie Brooks will not run for the 29th Congressional District seat. Brooks announced her decision in a statement this morning. "The time may come when we take our message of stable taxes, controlled spending, and job creation to the halls of Congress, but today I couldn't be prouder to continue
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A new group has formed to fight efforts to dissolve the Village of Brockport. Pro-Brockport is a 50-member committee whose members include village Trustees Hal Legg, Kent Blair, and Scott Hunsinger; former mayor, Jo Matela; and former village trustee, Carrie Maziarz. Brockport residents are being "blindly asked" to dissolve a level
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Former Congress member Randy Kuhl doesn't want the 29th District seat back, according to a statement he sent out this afternoon. "Over the last week, I have heard from hundreds of my former constituents urging me to run for my old congressional seat," the statement reads. "Their emotional plea to me
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RGRTA head Mark Aesch told 13 WHAM that the agency won't build a bus station if it can't use the Mortimer site. [See a response below from City Council member Elaine Spaull.] Design work for that site is complete and environmental approvals have been secured, he said. Those steps were completed
Family
Parents with children of a certain age might begin to suspect that there's an unwritten law that declares a kid's inalienable right to celebrate his or her birthday at an indoor inflatable playground. Luckily, that isn't the case - in fact, the Rochester area offers plenty of imaginative birthday-party options.
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Geva Theatre has been located at its current Armory Building location on Woodbury Boulevard since 1985, and since then the building has been host to countless plays, musicals, revues, and more. To celebrate the location's 25th anniversary, Geva will host a special one-night-only performance of the popular
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When I think about a woman's place in the world 100, or even 50 years ago, it completely blows my grateful mind. The advancements that my heroes made toward allowing women to participate more equally in the world are amazing, but there is more work to be done, particularly in
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Soapbox-car racing is an enduring piece of Americana that has been around since the early part of the 20th century. This weekend you can see the action up close as Rochester will host one of the All-American Soap Box Derby's races at the Main Street Armory. Racers will be coming
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St. Patrick's Day is filled with corned beef and cabbage, shamrocks, tacky bright green clothes, and of course, parades. The 2010 Rochester St. Patrick's Day Parade will mark its 33rd year in existence. This parade should include the usual parade-walking merriment, plus the return of Ireland's 32, a
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Gardens lend a sense of vitality and beauty to any setting, especially when they are masterfully planned and created. This year's GardenScape flower and garden show will be packed with more than 20 such gardens created around the theme of a powerful storm. In addition to the exotic gardens, the
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I've often woken sharply at night after I turn in bed, inadvertently shoving a few of the books I'm snuggling up to off the edge of the mattress and onto my wooden floor. Until they figure out how to put literature into an IV drip, or until my loved ones
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In an attempt at redemption that balances on the narrow line between courage and folly, the chancellor of Germany invites 6 million Jews to return to his country - their country as well, he says. Written in 1997 but set early in the 21st century, Israel Horovitz's play, "Lebensraum," now
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Jazz fans are accustomed to hearing music in the Afro-Cuban tradition popularized by Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie. Now meet the ensemble behind Afro-Peruvian music. This innovative fusion is the mission of the Gabriel Alegria Sextet. Alegria is a vibrant trumpet player whose skills are matched by every member of
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It's not a regular occurrence that you get a DJ straight out of Germany - yes, Germany - doing not one, but two gigs in town, two nights in a row. So check the moon when you go out tonight; it might be blue, thanks to Eskei83, who is pulling
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The Dexateens are creeping up on the national stage, having performed at the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival, while the band's most recent studio album was co-produced by Patterson Hood (best known as a member of the Drive-by Truckers). Woody Dodge will also contribute some locally grown alternative rock
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Growing up on the island of St. Lucia, a young Taj Weekes was exposed to all kinds of music on the radio - music that wasn't segregated, gentrified, or defined as anything other than just good music. Church played an influence as well as his Caribbean surroundings. Weekes moved to
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The Monologue Bombs started out as one lone Monologue Bomb - Raleigh, North Carolina's Scott Phillips. Phillips did his thing on the piano, accordion, and guitar, but has since fleshed out the duties to include a full band. The music is uniformly rarified by Phillips' vocal strength and gentle nonchalance.
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It's not that Wilkes-Barre dark heavies Breaking Benjamin are letting up on the gas with the 2009 release "Dear Agony." It's just that you can't easily lump the band in with all of the other Korn disciples or Tool-inspired bands anymore. Years on stage mashing melody into minor-keyed metal have
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The Honey Island Swamp Band, who list beer and whiskey as two of their musical influences, will have the chance to share drinks and driving country melodies with the patrons of the Dino on St Patrick's Day. The band brings their serious Southern rock sprinkled with just the right spices
