RCSD gets low grades from Distinguished Educator
The Rochester School District "seems driven more by the needs of administrators, teachers, and parents, with student concerns often taking a back seat to adult interests," says a scathing assessment of the district by the state-appointed Distinguished Educator, Jaime Aquino. More...
Restaurants
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.
News & Opinion
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.”
Movies
Film preview: 'Green Book'
The long road ahead
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.
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.
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.
Movies
Film review: 'Boy Erased'
Based on a 2016 memoir by writer Garrard Conley, "Boy Erased" details the author's experiences being sent to gay conversion therapy after being forcibly outed to his conservative family.
This Week's Issue
In this year's Holiday Guide, we've got the prescription for a more relaxed, yet still festive season, with plenty of ideas for slowing things down, whether you're celebrating Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or the winter solstice. read more ...
Guides & Special Issues
- Best of Rochester 2018
- Fall Guide 2018
- Summer Guide 2018
- Jazz Festival 2018
- Dish 2018
- Festival Preview 2018