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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.) Ebony and ivoryMoving Beyond Racism will hold a book discussion on Gregory Howard Williams's "Life On The Color Line: The True Story Of A White Boy Who Discovered
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On an empty lot near Bernard and Baron Streets, less than 100 feet from where community activist James Slater was killed last year, City Council member Adam McFadden on Thursday introduced Iris Banister as the first executive director of the Rochester Children's Zone. | The site was chosen, McFadden said,
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It's a new chapter in the search for MCC's next president. That was the message from Richard Guon, chair of MCC's board of trustees, as he introduced interim college President Larry Tyree at a press briefing on Monday. Tyree, a veteran senior administrator of community colleges, was one of several
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For Kim Zuber's family, farming has been a way of life for three generations. It's not an easy living. A farmer can invest lots of time and money in a crop, only to see it suffer at the hands of nature or the marketplace. As an example, Zuber brings up
Opinion
You could have knocked a lot of Republicans and Democrats over with a feather last week: our own Boss Minarik, booted by County Exec Maggie Brooks. (Well, "asked to resign.") Minarik has been a hardball-playing Republican Party chair, punishing those who resisted him and raising buckets of money. Back in
Letters
Last weekend, I attended the Ithaca Festival in, duh, Ithaca, New York. After enjoying some good eats with my family, I proceeded to throw out our "trash" only to be halted by a festival volunteer monitoring the disposal of all things deemed waste. He informed me that our plastic plates
Letters
As a member of the Advisory Committee for the Auburn Trail extension, representing the Coalition to Save the Railroad Mills Special Environmental Area, I agree wholeheartedly with Richard E. Williams (The Mail, June 18) that the Auburn Trail should be accessible to everyone. We believe that the trail can be
Letters
The description of the Auburn Trail in "Happy Trails to Whom?" (June 11) misses two important facts. "It has this really wild natural feel" is correct at first glance, but the truth is that this is some of the least natural environments possible. It is a railroad bed. It was
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TOTALS - 4113 U.S. soldiers, 314 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 85,323 to 93,065 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to June 30.American servicemen and -women killed June 20-26:-- Staff Sgt. Du Hai Tran, 30, Reseda, Calif.-- Pfc. Bryan M. Thomas, 22,
Music Articles
She's a YouTube phenomenon. She's a ukulele-wielding smartass and an incredible talent. She's Julia Nunes - and she just woke up.Fairport native Nunes has been working her 19-year-old butt off lately. She just got back from a handful of dates opening for piano popster Ben Folds, she's in the middle
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Downtown, the storm surge from the Rochester International Jazz Festival has ebbed, and things are getting back to normal. This year's stats: 125,000 people attended. All 3200 club passes sold out. Al Green concert: a near sell-out. Reggae Night pulled about 10,000 people.There has been grousing that the festival had
Restaurant Articles
Mustard's Eatery & Bar is the newest Pittsford canal eatery, located in the former Schoen Place Prime Rib and Grill location. This Napa-style restaurant offers a formal menu in a relaxed, casual atmosphere with warm oak floors and wicker furniture that bring to mind the sunny West Coast. The waterside
Nightlife Articles
It's 10 a.m. at Water Street Music Hall, and Chopsie's pouring coffee for everyone. (Last night was a long one.) The man is at ease behind the bar, which makes sense; he's bartended here since 1978, when the place was a country western joint. Now going on 84 years old, Chopsie
Choice Events
Take a walk or drive on Bowerman Road in Farmington on any decent-weather day in May or June and you're bound to see someone soaring high above in the sky, essentially harnessed to a giant, colorful kite with outstretched wings flexed wide in the breeze. This isn't some attempt to
Family
Even though drive-in movies are seemingly dead, watching flicks outdoors in the summer is not. Movies at the Beach, held every Tuesday at Ontario Beach Park, and Movies at the Bowl, held every Thursday at Highland Park Bowl, are back this year and will run through the second week of
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Landlords are Rochester's small business kings. There are about 6,000 property owners providing 60 percent of the city's housing, says Bret Garwood, the city's director of development services. Landlords' influence on the condition of many city neighborhoods, housing policies, not to mention property tax revenue is considerable. That's why the
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He has been Monroe County's version of Karl Rove: tough, combative, creative, outspoken, eminently effective, and - so it has been assumed - in complete control of both his party and local Republican elected officials. But in a heartbeat last Friday, Steve Minarik was gone, his removal by County Exec
Choice Concerts
Having LA hard rockers Buckcherry on the Cruefest bill should raise the bar for the aging hosts of the party. Buckcherry's sound is visceral, loud, irreverent, rude, with maximum sex appeal. Since this band came together in 1995, it has unapologetically lived the life of excess and destruction other bands
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What makes every Widespread Panic show epic depends as much on behind-the-scenesters like ex-Dead lighting tech Candace Brightman as it does the dudes on stage. It's a full-blown operation. Twenty-two years and 10 albums have made this Georgia sextet tight, baby. And even with the loss of founding member and
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There's no such thing as American music. Some would say that in this country, it's all derived from other places. That wasn't a problem for 19th century songwriter Stephen Foster, who cooked up European classical and minstrel elements to create such gorgeous tunes as "Beautiful Dreamer." The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
