When only six local artists are chosen from thousands of applicants to be featured in a major exhibition by one of the most important art institutions in town, there's bound to be some hurt feelings and sore...
DEVELOPMENT: MCC narrows search for new downtown campus to three sites
Monroe Community College has narrowed its list of possible sites for a new $72 million...
EDUCATION: Math, ELA test scores plunge in city schools
State Education Commissioner David Steiner recalibrated the state's English and math proficiency...
Two meetings set on city's nuisance points system
City Council member Adam McFadden is hosting a public forum for neighbors and the community on...
It is just getting to be too much. As the House of Representatives Ethics Committee rolls out the list of charges against Harlem's Charlie Rangel, our governor, embroiled in his own scandal, declares that he has now been "exonerated." I was...
News Articles
POLITICS: [UPDATED: 4 p.m.] City 'mystified' by county committee's rejection of red-light agreement
By a vote of 9-2, a county committee has shot down an intermunicipal agreement requested by the city for its pending red-light camera program. Two Democrats joined with seven Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee to reject the...
News Articles
DEMOLITION: The city's demolition dilemma
To call 32 Jefferson Terrace a dump would be an insult to dumps everywhere. The ground-floor windows are boarded up, the second-story windows are gone and the frames are smashed and hanging loose, the porch roof is almost completely collapsed,...
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ARTS: Naz Dance Festival set to return in 2011
Earlier this month, Nazareth College made an ambitious leap into the Rochester arts-festival circuit with the Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival, which ran July 10-17. The event took place on the Nazareth campus and several...
Stage
THEATER REVIEW: 2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Even without Christopher Plummer's extraordinary performance as Prospero in "The Tempest," the Stratford Festival's current production of William Shakespeare's final play is well worth seeing for its dazzling staging and for the childlike yet...
Family
FAMILY EVENTS: Movies on the beach and in the parks
Even when the weather gets nice, it's not always easy for parents to pull the kids away from the television. But thanks to local outdoor film screenings this summer, everyone can get what they want. The Monroe County-sponsored Movies at the Bowl...
You won't hear Willie Nelson on jazz radio, but I've always felt the haphazard phrasing and the...
Not sure what to do with the little ones this weekend? One Saturday morning per month, the...
When the three Followill brothers - Caleb, Nathan, and Jared - spent most of their childhood...
Congratulations: you've made it to another glorious summer in Rochester, your reward for putting...
The definitive guide to Rochester, NY. Inside Annual Manual 2010 you'll find profiles of several...
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Tom Janowski said:
What get's me is all this talk about Rangel being about to "make a deal". Why do we allow elected representatives with ethics violations to make...
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It is very apparent through what I see in traffic every day, that Americans are becoming lawless. Changing lanes without turn signals, speeding,...
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I am convinced I will one day witness the death of one or more people in an accident at the intersection of Lyell Road and Elmgrove Road. Every...
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Nice blogs. They make me laugh, but they are also fair and well considered, and I have better insight into the show after reading them. Keep up...
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