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I didn't see them at first, given that there's so much to stir the senses upon walking into Pittsford's new Village Bakery and Caf$#233;. Yet there they were, nestled demurely in their trays: my beloved macarons. Not to be confused with coconut macaroons, macarons ($1.50 each) are deliciously colorful
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The deluge of new sushi spots in the last couple of years probably had lovers of raw fish thinking that all their culinary desires were being fulfilled. They had best think again and pop over to Nikko, which quietly opened last month at
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Chances are that from now until December 31, most of us will have at least one social event per week nagging at us from the calendar. And you simply cannot go to these wingdings empty-handed, because someone will inevitably notice and talk about your moochery behind your back. So
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If thoughts of Viking stand mixers, Italian "00" flour, and white truffle butter make you swoon, carefully fold this newspaper, tuck it under your arm, and go immediately to the Piano Works Mall in East Rochester. That's where you'll find Rosario Pino's Artisan Foods, a heaven on earth for
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"Oh, I would love it if they came down in their pajamas for breakfast," says chef Jill Doebler of the dozens of Eastman School of Music students residing in the University Place apartments, which sit atop downtown's newest restaurant, Duck Soupe. And with most-important-meal-of-the-day offerings like
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You know, it's not just clever alliteration: we really do scream for ice cream. And while buying a half-gallon and bringing it home is certainly more cost-conscious, there's nothing thrilling about opening up the freezer door, thumping some sticky carton onto the kitchen counter, and eating the same lame
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There's just not enough time for a vacation. The depressing word "staycation" makes you cringe. So how about a daycation? Remember that the magnificent Finger Lakes are right in your backyard. Or perhaps it's in your front yard; I honestly don't know which way your house faces. My point
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It'll be the end of an era, as the Valentine's Day Massacre celebrates its 10th and final chapter by going out with a bang. Or, more accurately, a whole evening full of bangs, with past participants like Skull, the Teenage Girls, the Grinders, Yogi Lewis and the Knewz, and the
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"Sushi junkies," my friend Sharon explained to me on our way to the old California Rollin' on South Clinton, "are created by other sushi junkies so they'll have someone to eat sushi with." And sure enough, soon after she lured me into the mysterious world of jewel-cut seafood I began
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When Therese DePrez does her job properly, there's a decent chance that you won't actually notice. But her feelings aren't hurt: she knows that your subconscious mind gets it. Over the course of her 20-year career, the Rochester native has been the production designer on approximately 30 feature films. Her role
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Unlike sports or politics, gastronomy is one of the few topics about which people get passionate but not violent. While the world has seen many heated discussions concerning food, rarely has anyone ever rioted about the yummiest cut of steak, and few, if any, have been punched out in debate
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This marks the fourth year that the Little Theatre will observe Black History Month in the way that the Little does best, bringing to Rochester a series of films chronicling the African-American experience, then providing the audience with an opportunity to discuss what they've seen with speakers who can offer
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If the acronym QOTSA means anything to you, then you're familiar with Nick Oliveri. Hell, if you've heard any music in the last 20 years, you probably know Oliveri. Besides his most visible gig as one-time bassist in Queens of the Stone Age - he played on the wicked one-two
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Maybe you're one of those people who adore winter and all the snow-kissed merriment that it promises. If so, go suck a ski. I'd like to speak to the true Rochesterians, the ones who keep themselves warm by complaining about the low temperatures and the high cost of heating. If
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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
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Summer is over, which means it's time to pack away your beer-can helmet and dust off the ol' thinking cap. You know the drill: Hollywood sits on its primo stuff until the leaves turn, hoping to circumvent the apparently short attention spans of the Oscar voters. But this year, in
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Someone leveled the descriptor "film geek" at me recently, and after offering up a truly lame defense my initial squawks of protest gave way to hushed snarls of acceptance. What separates a film geek from a casual moviegoer is a deeper knowledge of the relatively useless factoids surrounding a production,
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Now that you're big, it's probably come to your attention that meals don't magically manifest at the appointed hours of 7 a.m., noon, and 6 p.m. As a matter of fact, you're supposed to forage for your own food, and if you're not eating it right where you found
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April 14, 1865. That's the night Abraham Lincoln had the rude nerve to be gunned down during Laura Keene's much-anticipated staging of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre. So rather than triumphantly basking in the accolades of the nation's capital, Keene instead got her hoop skirt saturated with the President's
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A few weeks ago I reviewed Black Sheep Theatre Coalition's "Rashomon," a play that explores the themes of memory and perception, specifically touching upon the mortal fallibility that causes people to remember the exact same events just a bit differently. Now meet what I will lazily describe as the Gaelic
