Last Saturday night, I poked my partner in the ribs to wake him up. Listen to this, I said.
We sat there as President Obama talked about the LGBT community. The word "homosexual" spoken in Obama's voice rolled around the room like a beach...

Anthony Costello says the Rochester Broadway Theater League should choose his company's Brighton site for a new performing arts center because it'll have a built-in audience.
Anthony J. Costello and Son proposes locating the new theater in its...

The Daily Beast has a ranking of the country's smartest (and dumbest) cities.
Rather than using wealth, standard of living, and cultural offerings, the Beast looked at the education level of the population and the intellectual...

Dr. Jeffrey Kaczorowski began last week's annual meeting for the Children's Agenda with a story about a 13-year-old girl, one he remembered treating a year earlier.
The girl complained of having chest pains, Kaczorowski said, and when she...

There's a good reason why so many environmental groups and even politicians - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, for example - want the DEC to extend the comment period for the DEC's new shale gas-drilling regulations: it's a very complicated...

There are big changes coming to the Rochester/High Falls International Film Festival. First: a new name. The festival will now be known as 360 | 365. Executive Director John Richardson says the new name represents the organization's growing...

Years ago, fresh out of college I went to work for a local institution that cared for children and adults with mental disabilities.
It was hard, often emotionally draining work. I cared for a group of young children who, at the time, were...

The way Farmington officials and their partners see it, a new theater next to the Racino could mean more money for the Rochester Broadway Theater League, as well as more bodies in the seats.
This afternoon, the town made its pitch for RBTL to...