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This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) All eyes on Iowa - HuckabeeLocal supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will meet for an Iowa Caucus party at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 3 at
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The city's new public arts policy is drawing criticism from the arts community.| The policy's intention is to boost the city's image by adding more public art to city streets and neighborhoods. But another intent of the policy, says City Council Vice President Bill Pritchard, is to provide artists, arts-related
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Imagine Monroe Avenue as a colorful corridor where butterflies alight up and down the street. That's what Carolyn Curry and the Monroe Village Task Force had in mind when they planted butterfly-friendly gardens on Monroe - two at the Dunkin' Donuts on the corner of Monroe and Alexander. "It was
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A team of RIT professors hopes to get Great Lakes freight shippers to look beyond considerations of cost and time when determining how to deliver products. They want shippers to look at the environment, too.Researchers are studying three modes of freight transportation in the Great Lakes: trucks, trains, and boats.
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Looking up from Corbett's Glen toward an office park, you can see a few balloons floating in the air, clearly visible through the naked treetops on this December morning. It's cold, but the snow that fell a few days ago is starting to melt. Allens Creek is flowing quickly and
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Every year it's the same. Fireworks, champagne, and kisses at midnight, everyone's glassy eyes full of hope and promise as the New Year's Eve party vows to (fill in the blank) stop smoking, ride an elephant, jump out of a plane, run for office, lose weight, spend more time at
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This is going to be the year when you finally learn how to cook. Or how to perfectly execute that troublesome aria. Or take up rowing. Or teach your pooch how to sit up and roll over.We all have a million things on our lifetime "to do" list, but too
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Admit it: this holiday season, you indulged. You had that extra slice of pecan pie. And thirds on mashed potatoes. And all of Santa's cookies. And hey, let's not even get started on all the eggnog, right?When it comes to holiday weight gain, though, there's good news and bad news.
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Luckily, Rochester has several volunteering clearinghouses that will do the hard work for you, matching you to the charity or non-profit that best suits your schedule, interests, and talents. Best of all, they're now online, which means volunteering is only a click away. The Volunteer ConnectionThe largest of the local networks,
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The art and science of mixology has brought the cocktail into its own, and bartenders here and across the country are updating the classics. Commercially infused spirits have expanded the bartender's flavor palette, and classics like the Rickey, the Old Fashioned, and the Collins have been elbowed off the menu
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TOTALS - 3898 U.S. soldiers, 307 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 79,913 to 87,060 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to December 28.6459 Iraqi policemen and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports.American servicemen
Music Articles
It seems every age group wants to align itself with another. The young wish for the wisdom and respect of age while the old pine for the flexibility and opportunity of youth. Nobody is happy with where they're at and you hear those hackneyed maxims people use to bullshit themselves,
Choice Concerts
Grime Time guitarist and frontman Shane Bates (who also fronts Triglactagon) plays thrashy riffs with the perfect balance between precision and crunch. Unsurprisingly, Grime Time doesn't fall too far afield of Triglactagon's hybrid of thrash, surf, and punk, but the bands are by no means interchangeable, and the differences between
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On his last visit to Rochester in 2006, guitarist Joel Harrison impressed fans at the Rochester International Jazz Festival with his interpretations of the music of George Harrison. That was just one aspect of the diverse interests of a multi-faceted musician who is equally comfortable with rock, jazz, Indian, and
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With the information super duper highway and all, more kids can have a band, record that band, book that band, pimp that band, and get closer to the dream than previously ever imagined. And with Water Street Music Hall's battle of the high school bands, young bands get to live
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I figured if I bugged Rochester' Delta blues aficionado, Gordon Munding (the artist formerly known as Walkin' Willie), long enough to play me Son House's "Death Letter," he would. Well, the cat's gone one step further and turned his Thursday night Delta blues jam into a jam centered around this
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This compilation of recordings by the strangely poignant front man of poppy power-nerds Weezer is a testament to the destructive nature of commercialized art criticism. In 1996, Weezer released its second album, "Pinkerton." Largely condemned by the mainstream press, its delicate rockings inspired a generation of whiners, who would soon
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This record is positively brilliant, not just as a left-of-center concept, but in its delicate execution. The seemingly adverse pairing of Krauss and Plant sets the listener up for the fall. Krauss brings the heartache of her sweet, sweet voice. And where you think Plant might bulldoze the affair, he
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Man, the kids and their YouTube these days. Rochester chick with pick Julia Nunes' talent as a songwriter, guitarist, and ukuleleist (that's what I said) is matched only by a condition she suffers from known medically as "terminus wise assus." With gorgeous pipes that rival the dame that sings when
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This frigid city practically dares you to leave the house in winter. But sometimes all it takes is a good nudge (and maybe the prospect of a drink or two) to get you out and about. The City Walk gives you a reason, no matter the weather, on the first
