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Bad marks

Yet another report says the Rochester school district is broken More...

By Tim Louis Macaluso

Recipe: Vegan green bean casserole

Try out our vegan and gluten-free take on this favorite holiday side dish, and make several people happy at once.

By Rebecca Rafferty

Amazon's HQ2: New York pays to buy love

A lesson from the Amazon deal, says a Brookings fellow: "we’re overdue for a national solution to the problem of corporate giveaways.”

By Mary Anna Towler

Aiming to be crowd-pleaser, the film's familiar odd-couple, “we can solve racism if we just learn to understand each other” narrative traffics in safe, comforting answers to the serious issues it seeks to tackle.

By Adam Lubitow

Arts & Entertainment

Brockport Writers Forum season wraps with memoir

Anne Panning's memoir on the death of her mother, "Dragonfly Notes: On Distance and Loss," is written in brief fragments in which dragonflies operate as a vehicle that takes the reader through different places and moments in time.

By Rachel Crawford

Music

Tom Kohn and Bop Shop Records celebrate 30 years of concerts

Nonstop bop

Tom Kohn is the proprietor of Bop Shop Records, but over the last 30 years he's also put on hundreds of concerts and, in the process, gotten close to the artists he loves.

By Ron Netsky