Guides
At most you probably just have the two ears, and at some point during the nine days of the Rochester International Jazz Festival they might become uncomfortably full of solos, chords, riffs, fills, and/or vamps. Luckily, Rochester offers endless ways to engage your other senses as you cleanse your aural
Guides
This weekend the 2007 Rochester International Jazz Festival starts swinging, with more acts than you can possibly ever see. With hundreds of live shows at venues around town, the experience can be overwhelming June 8-16. If you're one of those whose jazz appetites are hearty but who need a break
Opinion
Though I'm sure the math teacher introduced the stock market in sober and responsible terms, this is what my 10-year-old son heard: "You can be rich, rich, RICH!" As part of an online stock game, each student was given a hypothetical $100,000 to invest in a real-time portfolio. And my
News Articles
This week's calls to citizenship include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Making the historic Susan B. Anthony neighborhood a tourist destination is the focus of a planning charrette on Saturday, June 9, sponsored by the Rochester Regional Community Design
News Articles
The totals:3476 U.S. soldiers, 276 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 64,776 to 70,934 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to June 4.5603 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reportsAmerican servicemen and
Letters
Thank you for the article on COMIDA. We badly need a public discussion of economic development. I have attended dozens of COMIDA meetings over several years, and not once has there been a proposal for improvement until community members call for it. IDA's in New York granted over $500 million
Letters
Not everyone in our neighborhood opposes the Rainaldi plan for Rite Aid. As a homeowner familiar with Monroe Avenue for over 35 years, I think Mr. Rainaldi has presented a plan 100 percent superior to the plan submitted by SEAD (South East Arts Development) and the Monroe Village Task Force.
Pop Culture
Nintendo's lovable lead character, Mario, has been in many video game genres throughout his existence, from traditional platformers to sports games, party games, and even console-style role-playing games. The RPGs have typically been represented by the Paper Mario series, which, as you might guess from the title, has Mario and
News Articles
Developer Fred Rainaldi's Rite Aid project for Monroe Avenue and South Goodman Street has hit another snag. The city's Zoning Board and Planning Commission approved the project earlier in the spring, but on May 15, a community group called the South East Arts Development Corporation filed a suit in state
Family
...the first principal of Shambhala vision is not being afraid of who you are. Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself. - Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the WarriorI am raising weird kids, thanks be to God. Better an ostracized delight than a
Family
The Brockport-based Generation Cool program has a whole new series of events lined up to keep your kids entertained this summer. The fun kicks off this week and continues every Friday, 7-8 p.m., culminating in a huge block party in mid-August. Here's the schedule rundown:-June 8: WOWEE Wildlife Local wildlife
News Articles
To sue or not to sue? With the new internet-access policy for area public libraries, the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter is taking a wait-and-see approach. The policy was approved last month by the Monroe County Library System's board, after County Executive Maggie Brooks threatened to cut library funding.
Choice Concerts
Hailing from southern Louisiana, all the members of the Pine Leaf Boys can speak both English and French, and they can all play multiple instruments. Such eclecticism is surely reflected in their music, which takes fundamental Cajun and Creole traditions and infuses them with blues, funk, folk, and good ol'
Music Articles
Since leaving Jazz 90.1 (WGMC FM) and his talk show on WROC AM, Jason Crane has been a stay-at-home dad and an organizing director for UNITE HERE, the union for hotel, food service, laundry, and racing and gaming workers. He's also written for All About Jazz (a leading jazz website)
Choice Concerts
Kathryn Koch's voice is soulfully manic as it teeters between old time dust-ups to folk music of a more nascent relevance. It's this vocal enthusiasm that gives Red Headed Stepchild's two-man line-up its punch and giddy-up. Fiddle, upright bass, piano and harmonica find their way onto the band's 2005 CD,
Choice Concerts
First They Might Be Giants, now these guys. Christ, it's like a geek invasion. Dean and Gene Ween have been doing this since 1984. And if you can get past Ween's oddball view and penchant for irritation - "Push Th' Little Daisies" ring a bell? - you'll hear a band
Choice Concerts
It's probably going to be a while before you hear another band that's as consistently listenable as this Chapel Hill five-piece that includes the standard guitars-bass-drums setup as well as cello and lots of percussion. Over the course of the band's two EPs and two full-lengths, several obvious comparisons to
Choice Concerts
Together for 15 years now, Peachy Nietzsches has become something of a local institution. Unfortunately, that means it's easy to take the band for granted. But if you stop and think about all the changes in local music since '92, Peachy Nietzsches' stunning versatility makes a certain sense. Watching the
Choice Events
There are only 17 works in the new show at the High Falls Fine Art Gallery. That's because they are, like the show's title says, "Big"! The gallery's director, Sally Wood Winslow, handpicked each grand scale artwork for this invitational. The exhibit includes a variety of media - sculpture, photos,
Choice Events
The Rochester Step-Off Educational Foundation runs dance-centric programs for city youth that focus on improving academic performance while teaching the African-American dance form called stepping. Stepping is a spectacle, an elaborately choreographed, rhythmic team dance, full of clapping and stomping. The foundation's annual competition, the Rochester Step-Off, comes to the
