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Year-end lists condition people like me to think that there must be One Best Album to rule over all others. This is simply not true. My favorite 2025 music was made by several diverse artists that I love equally: ambient instrumentalist Walt McClements, New ...


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“Monty Python’s Spamalot” galloped into the West Herr Auditorium Theatre this week on invisible horses, leaving behind a trail of flatulence, flesh wounds, flying cows and a lot of laughter, proving that this 20-year-old madcap musical of the highest disorder is“not dead yet.”

If those references were lost on you, not to worry, not to worry. “Spamalot” doesn’t want...


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Long before he was demanding last year’s rent from his bohemian friends, Taye Diggs grew up in Rochester and attended School of the Arts. Since then, the actor, singer and Broadway star has gone on to much success and acclaim, including performances in the stage and film ver...


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Age: 98 Hometown: Mumford Current residence: Center City Occupation: Philanthropist and community champion

On September 1, Midge Thomas will turn 99 years old.

The times and accomplishments for which she’s most remembered — her marriage to Dr. Freddie Thomas, the establishment of a foundation and community center in his honor after his untimely death, the...


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Best ice cold martini service: PS Martini at Patron Saint

It was a visit to Bemelmans Bar on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that really ruined me for all other martinis. The bar, founded in 1947, is located in the ...


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