Want to stay in touch with the latest updates from Rochester City Newspaper - Special Sections? That's easy! Just subscribe clicking the Follow button below, choose topics or keywords for filtering if you want to, and we send the news to your inbox, to your phone via push notifications or we put them on your personal page here on Specificfeeds.
Reading your RSS feed has never been easier!
Website title: Rochester City Newspaper
Is this your feed? Claim it!
Heather Layton sat cross-legged in a big armchair off her living room. This is where she calls her friend, Baher.
“We talk until our batteries run out on our phones,” she said, laughing.
Sometimes the call goes unanswered, and Layton worries Baher and his family are dead.
On this particular day, he answered.
“I didn’t have wi-...
Some time in my mid-20s, right after the pandemic, this crazy thing happened to me. Suddenly, I didn’t know how to make friends. There was no school, no clubs, no mini city-esque world of college. I got up, went to work and, most days, came straight home (to my parents’ house). Everyone I was close with didn’t live in Rochester, and I felt like I was on a bit of an island, u...
Abstract shapes of shifting colors dance over an otherwise mundane video of a cup of coffee, recorded with a handheld Portapak analog camera and displayed on three projectors. Actually it’s two videos; a lagging copy hovers over itself like a ghost, a polychromatic distortion, following the actions of its original, trailing behind the pouring, the drinking, the camera adjust...
Before they ever actually met, Chuck Mangione brought Jeff Tyzik to Rochester. All it took was hearing his music.
“Somebody sent me a Chuck Mangione recording, and when I listened to that, I was inspired by his music enough to want to come to Rochester and study at the Eastman School [of Music] where he was teaching,” Tyzik
In the mid-19th century, traditional Irish pubs began to create “snugs,” a small booth or table located near the bar that allowed women (or often, the wealthy) to drink in a less conspicuous, private way.
When it comes to Irish pubs these days, you might hear more about “splitting the G” — a clever marketing ploy by Guinness that challenges consumers to down eno...