As a child in Hawaii, Jake Taniguchi would go to classical concerts with his grandfather. The first orchestra he saw in ...

In the dream, you’ve crash-landed some kind of flying object into a billowy bed of lilacs somehow blooming out of season in October and, stranger still, unconnected to any trees. It’s dusk. Who knows ...

The time has come to unveil the Best Of Rochester 2026 finalists! After 15,492 submissions — including laugh-out-loud ...

For museums, ‘cost of admission’ takes on many meanings. There are entrance fees, of course. But there are other costs that ...

Jay Lincoln, the local artist whose vibrant and dynamic paintings and caricatures decorated the city’s bars and coffee shops, has died at age 60. He posted on Facebook about his prostate cancer ...

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The results of CITY’s annual “Best of Rochester” readers’ poll are in! This year resulted in more than 18,000 nominations and 180,000 final votes for in 136 categories — everything from your favorite ...

Rochester’s reputation as a “festival town” is one we herald proudly from May through (roughly) October — and even beyond. From downtown to the Finger Lakes, our region features festivals celebrating ...

On a bustling street in Rochester’s Swillburg neighborhood lies a hidden oasis filled with colorful bookshelves and cozy reading spaces. Between the sound of the rustling of pages turning and the ...

Mount Hope Cemetery, dedicated in 1838, holds in its 196 acres more stories and mythology than many of us in the Flower City would guess. Over the past 175 years, the cemetery has become the final ...

The word ‘scene’ is used to describe many things: a location; part of a film or play; in popular culture, the overall vibe or energy of a place. For this year’s Rochester 10 cohort, scene is a ...