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Talk about tough shoes to fill. From the beginning, the great pianist Dave Brubeck's signature sound involved the equally great saxophonist Paul Desmond. Desmond died in 1977 and taking his place in Brubeck's quartet for much of the last three decades has been Buffalo saxophonist Bobby Militello. 'Nuff said. Playing
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Holiday Events [ CALENDAR ] COMPILED BY ERIC REZSNYAK AND ALYSA STRYKER Ongoing [ EXHIBIT ] Festival of Trees Through December 6. More than 100 holiday items on display. Granger Homestead, 295 N. Main St, Canandaigua. Mon-Wed 1-5 p.m., Thu-Fri 1-7 p.m., Sat-Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed on Thanksgiving Day. $1-$5. grangerhomestead.org. [ EXHIBIT
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For anybody under 30 (or maybe even 40), it must feel as if God wrote "White Christmas" on the eighth day of Creation - right after He took a quick rest and cranked out "Silent Night." But, like everything else, "White Christmas" really does have a story - an unusual
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We hear a lot about what the holidays "used to mean" - family, friends, good will, etc. But some time ago (let's be real, practically from its onset) commercialism shoved all that warm fuzzy wholesomeness in the corner, and the season became a cash-spending and ulcer-growing contest. This year, consider
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Step aside, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." There's a group of bakers in town who are taking your housing game and making an even sweeter deal. Making gingerbread houses is typically a casual, family-friendly activity, but some fans of the traditional holiday activity are taking it to the next level and
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Before you're seated for "No Child...," a one-woman show at Geva about the ups and downs of the American public school system, you'll go through a metal detector. This sets the tone for the stories you're about to hear, 16 of them in 70 minutes, about students and employees of
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The Theater Association of New York State's annual TANYS Festival pools together more than 100 delegates from community-theater organizations across the state to perform and compete for outstanding actor, director, and production awards. The three-day event marks the 50th year of the festival, and this year, Daytime Emmy Award nominee
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If you're crafty, you're already hard at work on the special holiday project of the season. Maybe you make scarves for all your friends, bake elaborate cookies, or crochet cozy blankets. If you're like the rest of us, though, you're willing to part with a little green to save time
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Back in high school and college, a shop called Irish & Celtic Imports in Pittsford Plaza subsidized my shenanigans. I worked there maybe 30 hours a week, and much of that time was spent selling Celtic jewelry. You learn quickly that if a piece is covered in intricate knotwork, it's
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Toys with a shelf life of up to several hundred years will be dusted off and propped up next to some of the newest additions to the shelves at this year's Antique Toy Show. More than 175 tables will be decked out with toys and collectibles dating back as far
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Rochester Roots will present Dr. Samina Raja at this year's annual fundraiser and harvest dinner, an event where attendees can share a dinner made solely with local foods and a become educated on local community food and sustainable planning. Raja has studied racial disparities in food and the impact of
Art
When The Fool has something to say, it's prudent to perk up those ears. Whether represented as a sooth-saying oaf in Shakespeare or the daring and disaster-prone man in a deck of tarot, the seeming nonsensical madness can bring needed, if inexplicable, wisdom. Laugh at my tarot reference if you
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In addition to entertaining audiences, thoughtful works of stage and screen usually have something to say about the human condition. It's fitting, then, that Blackfriars' current show, "According to Goldman" - a play that's all about movies and the act of writing them - has quite a lot to say
Nightlife Articles
Tilt Nightclub & Ultralounge, recently voted Best Nightclub and Best Gay Bar in City Newspaper's Best of Rochester 2009 Readers Poll, has glitz, style, and a beat all its own. You can get a better sense of that this weekend, when Tilt throws itself a birthday bash on Saturday, November
Music Articles
"They" are everywhere. "They" say a lot. "They" are illusive and wily. Who do "they" think "they" are, anyway?" And now "they" are all talking about Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, a super-traditional, ultra-suave, funk-soul sensation straight out of Brooklyn. "They" have got Jones singing duets, "they" have the Dap
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God, that Meryl Streep is such a bitch.... Of all the screaming insanity found in the heavy music scene today, The Devil Wears Prada expertly rides the grunge-inspired tension-release format. There's melodic passages that flow in spite of the mayhem that punctuates the arrangements with bloody conviction. Singer Jeremy Depoyster
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It makes sense that a band known not only for the quantity (500 in the last three years) but the quality of its shows would sound best on record if it's live. Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad's new "Live Up" is a collection of 11 songs mined from five live
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The Nu Roc DJ Crew has been an international player in the breaks scene for five years now, and if that isn't reason enough to celebrate I don't know what is. They've put in work around the world, all from their home base in the 585. From hosting a radio
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Trombonist Steve Davis made such a strong impression while a student at the University of Hartford's Hartt School, that his teacher, Jackie McLean, recommended him to a friend. That friend was Art Blakey, and it wasn't long before Davis was invited to join Blakey's legendary Jazz Messengers. Since then he
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Camera Obscura is known for being able to make a fractured heart seem beautiful. The band's entire body of work, told through the tender, melancholy vocals of Tracyanne Campbell, captures the absurdities of love and revels in them. Since its first release in 1996, the Scottish indie-pop group has delivered
