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Disclaimer: I'm not a sports fan, and can't remember the last time (if ever) I was at a ball game, unless you count my little brother's games in the 90's. Those were sweaty, suffering-in-the-bleachers affairs when I was much too young to toss back a few and get into it.
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It was obvious by the heavily-inked group of strangers at Lux Thursday night, that the Rochester International Tattoo Expo artists had hit town. They partied out back, and chatted with some of us over gin and tonics at the bar. My friend Jenna asked if it's hot not to be
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On Sunday, a non-stop parade of people streamed by like a television show from my brother's third floor apartment on Park Ave. He'd taken the window out and pulled up the couch so he and his roommates could people-watch from a comfy vantage point. My friend Aubrey and I had
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In the second or third grade at my school, all the kids had to memorize a Shel Silverstein poem. Mine was about how to get out of washing the dishes. I still know it, and recited it for my friend during intermission at Method Machine and Stasz/Pruitt Productions' staging of
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If you haven't heard of Pride Weekend (like the people that gave us blank stares when my friend Tommy wished them "Happy Pride!"), maybe you don't pay attention to local news, because it's all over town. It's an entire weekend of revelry that celebrates the gay community. And it's so
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Carnivals bring us back to simpler times, when the biggest decision was whether to spend our dimes and quarters on messy cotton candy, or on chances to win the oversized stuffed tiger that looked as though he'd been hanging as a prize since the dawn of time. As adults, the
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Dad never wants to make a big deal about Father's Day. He'd rather work outside in the garden, read the paper, and just do his own thing than be fussed over. And though my sister is in New Jersey (shacked up with her husband and Bassett hound) my brother John
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If you live anywhere near the Neighborhood of the Arts, it's easy to walk to the new Multi-use Community Cultural Center on Atlantic Ave. Once a church, MuCCC (pronounce it "muck") has been transformed to a cool arts space that Geomantics Dance Theatre took over for two evenings
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It's best to show up to the Greek Fest thirsty, with a grumbling tummy, the way my friend Steve and I did last Saturday. We parked and walked up the University Ave drive at the Greek Orthodox Church. A band played enthusiastically onstage. Lots of people watched, but they were
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The Dryden Theatre hosted the RIT School of Film & Animation Student Honors Show on a sunny Saturday afternoon last week. Not exactly the time of day most people want to sit in a dark theater, but it would've suited you just fine if you were out late the night
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Roller derbies sound like fun even when described in the barest of details. Women roller-skating around in circles. A rough-and-tumble competition of speed, skill, and strategy. Live music. Fishnets. So it didn't take much to convince a few friends to come along last Saturday, when the Roc City Roller Derby
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Get a group of people together, offer cheap drinks, cheap food, and free stuff, and it's pretty much an instant party. City Newspaper held the Recession Procession Thursday, May 7, and we hit the South Wedge in our City t-shirts to hand out "F&!$ the Recession" buttons, maps detailing all
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We all like stumbling on unexpected treasure. The fun of going to garage sales is sifting through the stuff other people have deemed disposable, in the hope that we (the hopeful shopper with pockets full of change, mind set to haggle) will come across the hidden gem that's been waiting
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There's no escaping the upstairs room where Writers & Books holds its readings. Show up on time, or else you'll be caught crossing the room in front of the audience. And once it starts, there's no back door to sneak out of if things get too lengthy. These were my
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On Friday, April 17, from 5 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., a warehouse in Gates was brought to life by ArtAwake, a University of Rochester-sponsored event that brought together hundreds of works of art, installation pieces, live music, live dance, and hundreds of visitors. The location was a little disenchanting when
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It was dark and rainy, and the RIT campus threatened to make my head spin when I showed up clutching my little print-out map on Thursday, March 26. I was running late, and scooted my Mary Janes across the football field length of a parking lot before turning to two
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I don't get to the theater enough, that's for sure. But I've always had respect for everyone involved with it, and sort of a romantic vision of it as a parallel world where the actors transform into different people, and the audience escapes into an alternate reality, at least for
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If you've been to the Hungerford Building (it's by the train tracks on East Main, just north of the Village Gate), you know its appeal. It holds studios for all sorts of artists and musicians, houses art galleries and a recording studio, and enables hundreds of creative souls to, well,
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Fat Tuesday is supposed to be the last hurrah before Lent. Prior to entering that season of self-restraint, we get a free pass (of sorts) to engage in as much debauchery as possible. In extreme New Orleans, the party rages all day and night long. Chilly Rochester doesn't
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In the icy, forbidding winter, it's hard to trade a cozy night at home for a trip out to a show. You've gotta scrape off the car, put on dowdy winter boots, and once there, you'll probably spend too much money on cocktails when you could be drinking whatever's in
