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If you’re looking for weekend fun, the 42nd Annual Sterling Renaissance Festival runs every Saturday and Sunday from now until Aug. 19. This weekend is “pirate invasion weekend”—pirates will be roaming the Shire with swashbuckling adventure, comedy and music. 10 ...

DVC Presents “Disenchanted” this weekend at the Multi-Use Community Cultural Center. Ten years after DVC’s first performance, the music is brought back with a new title, a new book and an all-MCR soundtrack. 7:30 p.m. tonight, 2 and 7:30 p.m. ...

Carlo Van Ulft is the final carillonneur to perform in the University of Rochester’s Hopeman Memorial Recital Series. The Netherlands native has served on the staff of the Royal Carillon School in Belgium and has held the role of municipal ...

Rochester Association of Performing Arts is bringing back the classic children’s tale, “Charlotte’s Web.” Young Fern spends most of her time with one of her farm animals, a pig named Wilbur. Wilbur befriends a large spider, Charlotte, who opens his ...

Scavenger history hunt The Landmark Society’s Young Urban Preservationists are hosting a bike scavenger hunt of local historic sites this weekend. Teams of one-to-six cyclists are invited to see some of the most fascinating structures in Rochester. Following the tour, ...

Let the audience be the judge The Penfield Players’ will present their latest show, “The Trials of Robin Hood,” on Saturday at the Penfield Amphitheater. Directed by Meredith Powell, the audience will be the judge on whether Robin Hood is ...

   27th Annual Native American Dance & Music Festival This weekend is Friends of Ganondagan’s 27th Annual Native American Dance & Music Festival. Featured this year is actor and singer Gary Farmer and his blues band The Troublemakers. Established in ...

DiVincenti discusses his career and his work at the zoo, where he takes care of about 400 animals.

I’ve spent 80 years of my life staunchly opposed to marijuana or drugs of any sort—until my aging body became crippled with rheumatoid arthritis. For years, nothing could alleviate the symptoms that confined my once very active self into a ...

Working to improve the environment and address climate change is one of the pressing concerns of our time. But solving that problem by suing energy companies is not the right approach, and a judge was right to throw out New ...

After 20 years of compiling the annual list of 100 Best Companies to Work For, Great Place to Work® has updated the metrics it uses to evaluate and rank companies. Until now, it has measured trust, pride and camaraderie, because ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

Everywhere you go in the Rochester area, you can find a variety of cool spaces—unique architecture, gorgeous views, funky designs, repurposed buildings, cutting-edge offices and more. The Rochester Business Journal is honoring the coolest spaces in Rochester with the help ...

The Supreme Court has upended one of the most basic principles of sales tax law, allowing states to impose sales tax collection duties on out of state companies. The 5-4 ruling in Wayfair v. South Dakota, authored by retiring Justice ...

Tagged with: Josh Gewolb Taxing Matters

In the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. W. J. Howey, the U.S. Supreme Court established a test for determining whether an instrument is an investment contract that is treated as a security and subject to securities laws. William Hinman, ...

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Every investor needs to grapple with a few bedrock decisions to approach investing with success, but there is one decision that rules them all: choosing an investment philosophy. Every investor must decide upon an asset allocation strategy. Which asset classes ...

Tagged with: David Peartree The Informed Investor