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Jazz Fest postpones again, until summer of 2022

By feedbot ~ Posted Mon, 05/03/2021 - 1:17pm
After an attempt to save this year’s edition of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival by moving it back a month and changing the location to...
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Mon, 05/03/2021 - 8:57am
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New York arts organizers make best-laid plans for live events

By feedbot ~ Posted Wed, 04/28/2021 - 1:13pm
I had my coming-out from COVID-19 about a week and a half ago. My first indoor concert in more than a year. Two solo acoustic performers: a ridiculously...
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Wed, 04/28/2021 - 1:49am
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City of Rochester announces plans for nature center at Maplewood Park

By feedbot ~ Posted Tue, 04/27/2021 - 7:42pm
The city of Rochester is making a commitment to provide children with better access to nature. Mayor Lovely Warren gathered with city council members...
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Tue, 04/27/2021 - 1:38pm
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Mixed messaging confuses organizers about whether to hold events

By feedbot ~ Posted Tue, 04/27/2021 - 5:40pm
Even as COVID-19 vaccination rates grow and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its recommendations for outdoor masking , another...
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Thu, 04/29/2021 - 10:55am
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Betty Strasenburgh, longtime Rochester philanthropist and activist, has died

By feedbot ~ Posted Tue, 04/27/2021 - 1:33pm
Rochester philanthropist and activist Betty Strasenburgh has died at the age of 90. Strasenburgh was a philanthropist, harpist, sailor, pilot,...
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Tue, 04/27/2021 - 1:37pm
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Park Ave Festival canceled for 2nd year in a row due to the pandemic

By feedbot ~ Posted Tue, 04/27/2021 - 11:29am
For the second year in a row, the Park Avenue Summer Art Festival has been canceled. Organizers released a statement on Tuesday saying, “The Park Avenue...
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Tue, 04/27/2021 - 1:38pm
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Pioneering record producer Ethel Gabriel's legacy focus of forthcoming documentary

By feedbot ~ Posted Wed, 04/21/2021 - 6:54am
A handful of framed gold records lined the otherwise mundane hallway of the Rochester Presbyterian Home, and then on to the walls of the one-room...
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Wed, 04/21/2021 - 6:15am
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Corn Hill Arts Festival canceled due to COVID-19

By feedbot ~ Posted Tue, 04/20/2021 - 3:27pm
For the second year in a row, the Corn Hill Arts Festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We explored many different options to make...
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Tue, 04/20/2021 - 10:44am
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Pop-culture investments fuel poet Hanif Abdurraqib

By feedbot ~ Posted Wed, 04/14/2021 - 6:33am
Hanif Abdurraqib left Connecticut in the spring of 2017, after a painful breakup. Now he was back in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. A wounded writer....
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Wed, 04/14/2021 - 1:51am
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The Cinema Theater to show movies again

By feedbot ~ Posted Tue, 04/13/2021 - 4:10pm
Not long after the operators of the Cinema Theater announced in February that Rochester's oldest movie house would close for good, the marquee began...
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Tue, 04/13/2021 - 12:37pm
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