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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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Sarah C. Mangelsdorf won’t be the only headliner when she’s formally installed as the president of the University of Rochester in October. Mangelsdorf, currently the provost at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will be inaugurated during Meliora Weekend, Oct. ...

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Two anonymous alumni of the University of Rochester have provided a gift to the Eastman School of Music that will create an endowed professorship honoring the late Paul Burgett. Burgett, who died in 2018 at age 72 after a brief ...

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Call it a $3.5 million parting gift. A student who earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising photography last year and his MBA last weekend, has made — with his family — the largest single gift ever to Rochester Institute of ...

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Three more local colleges have announced details of their commencement exercises; two will feature graduation speakers who are alumni. Roberts Wesleyan College’s commencement will be May 11 in the college’s Voller Athletic Center at 2301 Westside Drive, North Chili. Ceremonies ...

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The Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester Medical Center will partner on an initiative to innovate connections between health and the arts. Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM), the first program of its kind in Upstate New York, will ...

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The New York State Fair is clapping back at writers of “The Simpsons” television show by inviting them to the fair, with free admission and parking passes. Perhaps sampling the aromas of farm animals and fried snack foods will provide ...

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The George Eastman Museum will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a new rotation in its History of Photography gallery next month. The May 3 opening will celebrate the anniversary and examine the intersecting histories ...

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The poster for the 121st Annual Rochester Lilac Festival has been revealed. This year’s poster was commissioned by local artist Alison Coté, who is an award-winning vintage style graphic designer specializing in poster art. “I took inspiration from the flat ...

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A 1,000-pound painting pig from South Africa will have artwork in Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s annual 6×6 exhibit. Pigcasso was saved from a slaughterhouse as a four-week-old piglet by the Farm Sanctuary SA near Cape Town. The sow’s love of ...

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If you spent your childhood standing in front of a screen trying to shoot centipedes at the mall, or you’ve ever quickly minimized your computer window while playing solitaire at work, you’ll appreciate the World Video Game Hall of Fame ...

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CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival producers on Tuesday announced a full lineup that includes more than 320 shows at 20 venues. Previously announced headliners for the 18th annual show include George Benson; Steve Gadd Band; Patti LaBelle; Jeff Goldblum & ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology is making a splash at the largest game development conference in the world this week, with more than 100 RIT students, faculty, alumni and staff in attendance. Game Developers Conference 2019, at the Moscone Conference Center ...

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