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Photographer Bob Sacha has walked the streets of New York City along with 3.5 million others, but he is inspired by what lies beneath those streets. He and his camera travel below the city, through countless manholes, tunnels, and subway tracks. These places are where many choose to
Art
Oh, misfortunate humanity! To be aware of ourselves is to suffer and to know it - what a grab bag of boons and curses is our lot. And oh, the resultant, urgently probing existential angst. And the horrors we commit! World War II was certainly an end of innocence to
Music Articles
The last time Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine and I talked was between mouthfuls of late-night breakfast. Maroon 5 had played a show at Water Street Music Hall, and we somehow found ourselves crowded in the corner booth at Mark's Texas Hots in the wee hours of the morning.
Choice Concerts
At some point, most of us want to run off and join the circus. Not Roy Book Binder. After a few $5 guitar lessons he ran off with his teacher, the Reverend Gary Davis, on a gig to Chicago, and beyond. That's just the kind of story you'll hear when
Choice Concerts
Though the cello has been making memorable appearances in rock music for decades, it's still widely regarded in rock circles as a "special guest" support instrument. Cellist Alison Chesley, who plays under the name Helen Money, shatters that notion with her edgy solo act. Working with an array of effects
Choice Concerts
My wife Deb and I have this get-out-of-jail free policy for affairs outside the marriage; each is permitted a celebrity dalliance, as remote is it may be. If the famed object of lust is available, well then, it's OK. So in my wife's case, if David Bowie or Johnny Depp
Choice Concerts
Pianist Ted Perry has a served as a sideman with Kenny Burrell, Ernie Watts, and Nick Brignola, but he'll be heading his own group Thursday evening at an unlikely venue, the Academy of Medicine. Aside from original compositions, Perry will put his own spin on some classics, with new
Choice Concerts
This week the RPO will play host to an up-and-coming classical music superstar. Haochen Zhang, joint gold medalist of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will join the orchestra for a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Not only was Zhang the 2009 competition's youngest participant, winning the
Choice Concerts
Veteran jazz group Cabo Frio has been on the scene since the late 70's, right about that time when the introduction of the funky, rock-enthused, R&B style of jazz fusion was coming to the fore. The group has recorded eight albums and shared the bill in national festivals with Miles
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We've gotten so caught up in hit-single culture that focus has been taken off the album, the LP, as a whole body of work. Whether or not there's an intentional musical theme or lyrical narrative by an artist on any given record, that's how it's listened to - front
Choice Concerts
Walk into any beer joint on a Saturday night and you're sure to find a rock ‘n' roll cover band. They seem to be the mainstay of many palliative pouring places that might otherwise go out of business if it weren't for those weekend riots. What keeps us coming back
Restaurant Articles
I could happily eat Indian food every day for the rest of my life, but recently indulging my passion for curry either involved hunting for parking on Clinton Ave or fighting the swirl of suburban traffic in Henrietta to get my fix. When I heard that a new Indian place
Guides
No one can deny the allure of a quick energy fix. And we don't just want a small dose of it - we search for a heart-racing, mind-pumping, mega-indulgent pick-me-up. Whatever has you reaching for that energy boost throughout the day, know that you don't have to rely on a
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My name is Dayna, and I am a cookbook addict. Of course, lugging several hundred of them to my new home recently left me wishing I had chosen to obsess over something lighter, like toucan feathers or cotton balls shaped like Glenn Danzig. But anything that makes it easier to
News Articles
We don't need another conversation about race, says Joy Leary-DeGruy. We don't need another study, and we don't need another sentimental "We Are the World" moment. What we need, she says, is an honest conversation about race and we need to change. "If we don't do it, I'm telling you right
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Subsidized child care can be a saving grace for low-income families. The funding lets parents work, and it allows children to get quality care that will help nurture their development. But there's a catch. Each family has to make an out-of-pocket co-pay to the child-care provider - a fee that's determined
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When thinking about cheesecake, visions of the famous New York style of the dessert dance into my head. Thick, luxurious slices with some type of fruit topping - ruby red cherries, or perhaps flavorful blueberries. While I wanted to sample some classically styled cheesecakes, I also wanted to
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Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy confirms what many have long suspected: the city and the county are in talks to possibly merge water systems. "There are a number of issues that I think we have to work out," he says. "Like anything, nothing happens quickly, but we've been talking for some time
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City Council member Lovely Warren says that she fully supports letting the fire department use vacant houses for training. She just wants to know, she says, that the monument to their training won't be left standing ad infinitum. "I don't have a problem with them tearing a hole in the roof
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Kit Miller has been named director of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. She is the organization's third director, and replaces Arun Gandhi, grandson of Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi. | Miller was formerly the director of Oakland, California-based Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, which she grew from a staff of
