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The fate of Parcel 5

What’s going to happen to Parcel 5? And when? More...

By MARY ANNA TOWLER, TIM LOUIS MACALUSO, JEREMY MOULE, AND REBECCA RAFFERTY

Now it its seventh year, Rochester's annual home-grown mural festival, WALL\THERAPY, is back this week with a scaled-down but nonetheless ambitious event. This year's event features a tight roster of just six artistsinvited to paint walls around the city, as well as the second annual Art & Activism conference.

By Rebecca Rafferty

News & Opinion

To our CITY readers: changes, and an invitation

We're reducing our page size – but not our journalism. Now readers need to join us as we cover key issues.

By Mary Anna Towler

Jul 17, 2018

News & Opinion

CGI Communications takes over Jazz Festival sponsorship

The Rochester International Jazz Festival is getting a new title sponsor.

By Jake Clapp

Jul 17, 2018

Movies

Film review: 'Sorry to Bother You'

“Sorry to Bother You” is an outrageous, wholly original, and dementedly weird feature directorial debut from hip-hop artist and activist Boots Riley. With a swaggering, anti-establishment, punk rock attitude, and fueled by a righteous anger, Riley’s film is an excoriation of late-stage capitalism and greed that plays like a fever dream.

By Adam Lubitow

Arts & Entertainment

Rochester Reads 2019 selection: Omar El Akkad’s ‘American War’

El Akkad's work of dystopian fiction envisions a Second American Civil War, the devastating results of climate change, and more of our worst fears. The author will be in Rochester next spring for a series of readings, signings, and other appearances.

By Rebecca Rafferty

Jul 12, 2018