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As early as next month, members of City Council will consider legislation to install red-light traffic cameras at city intersections. Camera placement would be determined by traffic volume and accident rates. Only licenses plates would be recorded, as New York State law prohibits the cameras from photographing drivers. All potential violations would
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The state Department of Environmental Conservation today announced that it's extending the comment period for its new Marcellus and Utica Shales natural gas drilling regulations. The comment period will now end December 31, which adds a full month. State environmental, watchdog, and legal groups have called for an extension of the
Family
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? Well, she did something even better. She helped her students
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's book "The Secret Garden" has enthralled audiences for generations, and has been adapted successfully for film and stage. This weekend Eastman Opera Theatre will perform the 1991 Broadway musical version of the story, which won three Tonys and played for 700 performances on the Great White
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More than 2000 years ago in China (and maybe as many as 4000 years ago, depending who you're talking to), acrobatics began to take shape as an art form. In the early days, people used whatever they could find for props: tables, chairs, plates, jars. Then, during the Han Dynasty
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On Saturday, November 7, across Rochester (and even across the state) tons of people will be hosting parties for one reason: in celebration and support of the upcoming merger of AIDS Community Health Center and AIDS Rochester. Locally, Night of 1000 Parties will include a public event at Max
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Local restaurants will square off to see who can stir up the best chili in town at this year's 6th Annual Great Bowls of Fire Chili Cookoff at the Genesee Center of the Arts. Eateries including Aladdin's Natural Eatery, Beale Street Café, Jines, Natural Oasis Market, and Tap & Mallet
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Each year, Strong Museum honors creative toys with staying power by inducting them into its Toy Hall of Fame. Well known inductees include the Slinky, the Teddy Bear, alphabet blocks, Barbie, sidewalk chalk, and the Easy Bake Oven. But even the simplest objects, like the stick and the cardboard box,
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Photographer Bob Sacha has walked the streets of New York City along with 3.5 million others, but he is inspired by what lies beneath those streets. He and his camera travel below the city, through countless manholes, tunnels, and subway tracks. These places are where many choose to
Art
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 an end of innocence to
Music Articles
The last time Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine and I talked was between mouthfuls of late-night breakfast. Maroon 5 had played a show at Water Street Music Hall, and we somehow found ourselves crowded in the corner booth at Mark's Texas Hots in the wee hours of the morning.
Choice Concerts
At some point, most of us want to run off and join the circus. Not Roy Book Binder. After a few $5 guitar lessons he ran off with his teacher, the Reverend Gary Davis, on a gig to Chicago, and beyond. That's just the kind of story you'll hear when
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Though the cello has been making memorable appearances in rock music for decades, it's still widely regarded in rock circles as a "special guest" support instrument. Cellist Alison Chesley, who plays under the name Helen Money, shatters that notion with her edgy solo act. Working with an array of effects
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My wife Deb and I have this get-out-of-jail free policy for affairs outside the marriage; each is permitted a celebrity dalliance, as remote is it may be. If the famed object of lust is available, well then, it's OK. So in my wife's case, if David Bowie or Johnny Depp
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Pianist Ted Perry has a served as a sideman with Kenny Burrell, Ernie Watts, and Nick Brignola, but he'll be heading his own group Thursday evening at an unlikely venue, the Academy of Medicine. Aside from original compositions, Perry will put his own spin on some classics, with new
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This week the RPO will play host to an up-and-coming classical music superstar. Haochen Zhang, joint gold medalist of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will join the orchestra for a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Not only was Zhang the 2009 competition's youngest participant, winning the
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Veteran jazz group Cabo Frio has been on the scene since the late 70's, right about that time when the introduction of the funky, rock-enthused, R&B style of jazz fusion was coming to the fore. The group has recorded eight albums and shared the bill in national festivals with Miles
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We've gotten so caught up in hit-single culture that focus has been taken off the album, the LP, as a whole body of work. Whether or not there's an intentional musical theme or lyrical narrative by an artist on any given record, that's how it's listened to - front
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Walk into any beer joint on a Saturday night and you're sure to find a rock ‘n' roll cover band. They seem to be the mainstay of many palliative pouring places that might otherwise go out of business if it weren't for those weekend riots. What keeps us coming back
Restaurant Articles
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 that a new Indian place
