It's creeping back in: the cold. Coats are already a necessity for going outside. Each day the frost covers a little bit more of the car windshield. And the freezing wood floor makes getting out of bed in the...
CHILD CARE: Lawsuit targets co-pays for subsidized day care
Subsidized child care can be a saving grace for low-income families. The funding lets parents...
INTERVIEW: The white people stay in the room
We don't need another conversation about race, says Joy Leary-DeGruy. We don't need another...
The last time Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine and I talked was between mouthfuls of...
The Creative Wellness Center is hosting a retrospective of artist Sonia Gutowski's work. The opening is tonight (Friday, November 6), from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Center, 320 North Goodman Street, Suite 201. Admission is free. Gutowski, who has been...
News Articles
City Council to consider red-light cameras
As early as next month, members of City Council will consider legislation to install red-light traffic cameras at city intersections.
News Articles
City Council member Lovely Warren says that she fully supports letting the fire department use vacant houses for training. She just wants to know, she says, that the monument to their training won't be left standing ad infinitum. "I...
Art
ART REVIEW: "Paint Made Flesh"
Oh, misfortunate humanity! To be aware of ourselves is to suffer and to know it - what a grab bag of boons and curses is our lot. And oh, the resultant, urgently probing existential angst. And the horrors we commit! World War II was certainly...
Restaurant Articles
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Tandoor Flame
I could happily eat Indian food every day for the rest of my life, but recently indulging my passion for curry either involved hunting for parking on Clinton Ave or fighting the swirl of suburban traffic in Henrietta to get my fix. When I heard...
Family
FAMILY: Children's Book Festival
J.K. Rowling started out with telling her kids stories about a character named Harry; now-retired fourth grade teacher Elizabeth Falk wrote books set during key points in New York State's history. Sure, one has made bazillions and the other?...
My wife Deb and I have this get-out-of-jail free policy for affairs outside the marriage; each...
Local restaurants will square off to see who can stir up the best chili in town at this year's...
What child hasn't dreamed of flying, battling bad guys, and saving the world? Role-playing as...
Thank goodness summer is over. It's not that we're glad to see the sun, the beaches, or the...
OUR MONSTER ISSUE! The results are in! This year THOUSANDS of Rochesterians voted in our annual...
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I won't be going to the Anchor Bar - not because the wings are bad, but because of the insane cruelty involved with the slaughtering of these...
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Reference is to the interview with Dr. Joy DeGruy in the November 4-9 edition of City. I am African American and a very senior citizen who had...
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