Even though Rochester has been buzzing for weeks about mayoral control, city schools Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard has been relatively mum on the subject. That's understandable. Whatever he says, he risks...
THE SCENE: Irish Bars & Nightclubs
Legend has it that St. Patrick banished snakes from Ireland while standing on a hilltop holding...
"Grease" - currently on stage at the Auditorium Theatre - is a curious cultural phenomenon....
EDUCATION: Young, deaf, and gay
When Kriston Pumphrey joined the Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf, an educational and social...
A Congressional Budget Office report says the Senate-approved health-care bill will reduce the national deficit. That might help Democrats move the public and media focus off of procedural details and onto the bill's merits. Much of the brouhaha...
Music Articles
Saxophonist/composer Ted Nash is at the piano. He has been commissioned by Wynton Marsalis to compose a major work for the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, which Nash had been a member of since the late 1990's. He is about to begin the...
News Articles
ENVIRONMENT: Lake Ontario, on the rebound
About two miles off the shore of Lake Ontario, the water's often so clear that a measuring device submerged 40 feet is visible from the surface. That's a major improvement from the 1970's and 1980's, when "if you could see down 10 feet, you'd...
Art
REVIEW: "Saints & PRVRTS"; The St. Paul Project
A fresh pair of shows with street-art roots opened this month in two alternative gallery spaces. Each exhibit blurs the line between the art-going crowd and potential new clientele for the host businesses, while presenting three talented...
Restaurant Articles
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Italian Osteria Abruzzi
In a city like ours, which has dozens of Italian restaurants, it can be very hard to stand out from the crowd. One veal parm melts into another. One plate of beans and greens is very much like the one before it, and the one to come after it,...
Music Articles
CLASSICAL PREVIEW: Women in Music Festival
The feminist movement of the 60's and 70's did more than just give women a reason to burn their bras. It also introduced music historians to the idea of feminist musicology, a movement which spurred a scholarly interest in the study of women as...
With ABBA being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, what better time for a...
When most people think of silent cinema, the image that arises is a bright, grayscale world of...
"You're in my spotlight," Pandora Boxx says with a coo as she playfully shoos a particularly...
Step right up to the greatest show in town: City Newspaper's Best of Rochester 2009! Every...
The definitive guide to Rochester, NY. Inside Annual Manual 2010 you'll find profiles of several...
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