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Mario the Maker Magician Rochester Museum & Science Center announces that renowned children’s performer, Mario the Maker Magician, is bringing his live show to Rochester for two performances. Mario is an award-winning magician, known for his integration of electronics and ...

‘Story Theatre’ offered outdoors in Penfield The Penfield Players are presenting a readers’ theatre performance of Paul Sills’ “Story Theatre.” Carl De Buono, pictured, directs the award-wining show, which retells famous fables from the Brothers Grimm to Aesop in a ...

Concerts at St. Joseph’s Park Eastman Community Music School and Landmark Society of Western New York have teamed up to host afternoon concerts at St. Joseph’s Park. The final concert features the talents of the JapKam Duo. Letitia Jap is ...

The winners of the Rochester Business Journal’s 2019 Rochester’s Coolest Spaces awards have been selected. Rochester has a history of impressive buildings and recent developments have only added to the interesting locations throughout the area—unique architecture, gorgeous views, funky designs, ...

In previous columns we have discussed the importance of conducting due diligence in the process of selecting a financial services professional. There is much that you can do to screen out individuals and firms that do not deserve your trust. ...

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Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce has gotten intensely involved in our region’s economic development initiatives over the past year. This is in addition to our core offerings of business advocacy, professional development, networking, promotion, human resources, and background screening and ...

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The College at Brockport is one of four state colleges and universities to receive grants from the Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC) in partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The projects receiving funding, which totals $121,916, ...

Diana Louise Carter talks with the University of Rochester’s Jessica Lacher-Feldman, assistant dean and Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation. The UR is about to receive the congressional papers of the ...

Opera Guild of Rochester is sponsoring a trip to Jerome Kern’s and Oscar Hammerstein’s “Show Boat” at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown. The Cotton Blossom docks in Mississippi and Cap’n Andy Hawks and his extended family end up on a ...

Black Sheep Theatre is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and Rochester’s 2019 Pride Festival by hosting two plays: Harvey Fierstein’s “On Tidy Endings” and Jane Shepard’s “Commencing.” Both plays explore different topics involving homosexuality. Shows run from ...

Live at MLK! brings George Thorogood and the Destroyers as part of their Good to be Bad Tour: 45 Years of Rock. They’ve sold over 15 million albums, broken records, performed at Live Aid and became mainstays of radio. Special ...

ROC SweatFest is a premiere fitness and wellness festival bringing together some of the city’s best fitness studios, instructors and wellness experts for a day of exercise. Compass Cycle + Flow will offer rhythm riding, M/Body presents boxing fusion and ...

Sonnenberg Gardens continues its Moonlight Stroll Concert Series with Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra with the tradition of Count Basie. 8 to 10 p.m. on Friday, July 19 on the mansion veranda. sonnenberg.org

High Falls fiddle The 2019 Hochstein at High Falls concert series fills the city of Rochester’s High Falls District with the sounds of local music every Thursday this summer. The Brothers Blue plays on July 25 at Granite Mills Park. ...