A year ago this month, David L. Long was standing at a podium showing off Rochester Institute of Technology’s newest toy – MAGIC Spell Studios, a state-of-the-art studio for creating video games, movies and all kinds of media. It would ...
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Amid neatly stacked shelves and bins of steel odds and ends, punctuated with brilliant sculptures by Albert Paley — some oxidized to a rusty finish and others wearing a bright white coat — an end-of-an-era party took place Thursday. The ...
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A $1.3 million gift from an alumnus of Rochester Institute of Technology and his wife will expand a relationship between the university and the Genesee Country Village & Museum. The two institutions have been working together under a memorandum of ...
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Read More »The scaffolding has only been gone for a year from the Jane and Laurence Glazer Music Performance Center at Nazareth College. It turns out that the new building itself has been a scaffold: It was part of a long-term plan ...
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Six recent graduates of Rochester Institute of Technology can’t say they were there at the original Woodstock concert 50 years ago. But they created an interactive video exhibit that will help others look back at that culture-shifting concert on its ...
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The history and popularity of the Lilac Festival, Corn Hill Arts Festival and the Park Ave Summer Art Fest are proof that Rochester loves a good festival. Folks in the Neighborhood of the Arts are pretty sure Rochester loves a good ...
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News correspondent Anderson Cooper will be the featured speaker at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend in October. Cooper, a correspondent for CBS’s “60 Minutes” and anchor of “Anderson Cooper 360°,” will speak at 2 p.m. ...
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Tickets for the New York State Fair go on sale July 8 online and at select retail locations around the state. The fair, which is the third largest in the country, runs for from Aug. 21 to Sept. 2 in ...
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A $10,000 grant from Avangrid Foundation, in partnership with Avangrid subsidiary Rochester Gas & Electric Corp., will pay to make some summer learning camps free at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. According to the RMSC, the grant will cover ...
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The big, weird balloons are coming back. Organizers of the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival announced this morning the return of Plasticiens Volants to the festival on Sept. 13 and 14. The French street theater group last appeared at Fringe in ...
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Wickham Farms in Penfield will temporarily close on Sunday and reopen at a new location on Aug. 17. The agricultural entertainment business is moving three-tenths of a mile to the east from its current location at 1821 Fairport Nine Mile ...
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What’s old is new again this year at the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival. This September the headline act at the Fringe Festival will once again be London-based Massaoke, returning for a second year to offer two different shows on the ...
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Full-service hotels, especially those in small markets, don’t normally get adventurous with their restaurants. But the Ramada Plaza in Geneva, which changed hands in October 2017, has set out to do just that with the hiring of Finger Lakes culinary star ...
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Several Rochester food trucks, including one of last year’s champions, will participate in the annual Taste NY Food Truck Competition at the New York State Fair Sept. 1 and 2. The annual competition features 40 trucks, with twelve new ones ...
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Jonathan Binstock has been appointed for a second five-year term as director of the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery. During his first five years as the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark director of the MAG, Binstock has expanded ...
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