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“When I am tempted to count down the moments until a workday or a workout or an obligation is done so I can move to the ...
12/30/2025

“When I am tempted to count down the moments until a workday or a workout or an obligation is done so I can move to the next thing, I try to take a breath and remind myself, ‘Time is all we have. Be here. You want to remember this.’”

In the final editor’s letter of 2025, Leah Stacy writes about staying present, the use(fullness) of social media, the power of words — and the future of local media.

Read it in our winter guide, on stands and online now, link in comments. 🔗

The marriage of direction by Josh Safdie and performance by Timothée Chalamet is key to making “Marty Supreme” what it i...
12/24/2025

The marriage of direction by Josh Safdie and performance by Timothée Chalamet is key to making “Marty Supreme” what it is, because Marty is rarely likable, but always compelling. 🏓

Read Matt Passantino’s review of “Marty Supreme” online [link in comments], and see it in theaters December 25.

Instead of talking about how much the weather bums you out, what about building a dopamine menu to battle the seasonal b...
12/23/2025

Instead of talking about how much the weather bums you out, what about building a dopamine menu to battle the seasonal blues?

Contributor Florence Cardella gives a step-by-step in our December issue, on stands and online now, link in comments 🔗

For nearly a century, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School sat like a sentinel above the city, perched on the hill a...
12/22/2025

For nearly a century, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School sat like a sentinel above the city, perched on the hill at 1100 South Goodman St., its Gothic towers peering over Highland Park. Designed by James Gamble Rogers, the same architect who left his mark on Yale and Columbia, the campus radiated a stately stillness that seemed immune to time.

CRCDS traces its lineage to Rochester Theological Seminary, founded downtown in 1850; Hamilton Seminary, which merged with it in 1928; and Crozer Theological Seminary of Pennsylvania, whose most famous student, Martin Luther King Jr., refined his theology of nonviolence there in the late 1940s.

Now, in a move as symbolic as it is strategic, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (CRCDS) has returned downtown, moving into the historic Sibley Triangle Building a few steps from Parcel 5, Eastman School of Music and the heartbeat of Rochester’s rebirth.

Read George Cassidy Payne’s full story in our December issue, on stands and online now, link in comments. 🔗

If you’re looking for a non-traditional holiday theater experience this weekend, “End of the Rainbow” at JCC CenterStage...
12/19/2025

If you’re looking for a non-traditional holiday theater experience this weekend, “End of the Rainbow” at JCC CenterStage + “Rumors” at Blackfriars Theatre might be just the ticket.

Our reviews of both shows are online now, links in comments. 🔗

Invitation only ✉️Three Black millennial women — Jahnae Holmes, Charmaine Walker and Janelle Holmes — have opened Exclus...
12/18/2025

Invitation only ✉️

Three Black millennial women — Jahnae Holmes, Charmaine Walker and Janelle Holmes — have opened Exclusively Members Only (EMO), a club-style dining and social venue downtown.

Read Racquel Stephen’s full story with photos by Roberto Felipe Lagares in our December issue, on stands and online now [link in comments]. 🔗

REVIEW | Though goals and results drive modern society, it’s only after struggle and pain that we learn the journey is t...
12/16/2025

REVIEW | Though goals and results drive modern society, it’s only after struggle and pain that we learn the journey is the destination. Local singer-songwriter Katy Martin’s latest solo album, “Are We There Yet,” captures this wisdom in eight indie folk songs that play with bright, twee sounds while tackling an ever-present heaviness.

Read ’s full review in our December issue, on stands and online now, 🔗 in comments

As Rochester Brainery founder Danielle Raymo contemplated ending her decade-plus tenure with the business, she wanted to...
12/15/2025

As Rochester Brainery founder Danielle Raymo contemplated ending her decade-plus tenure with the business, she wanted to go out the right way. She didn’t want to just close down, leaving the teachers of so many experiential classes without that revenue stream or unique marketing opportunity. She also didn’t want to hand it over to someone that was going to radically change how the Brainery operated.

Read Kellen Beck's full story on Rochester Brainery's next chapter in our December issue, on stands and online now [link in comments].

From the jukebox musical “& Juliet” — which lands somewhere between Lisa Frank, a Disney amusement park and a 90s music ...
12/11/2025

From the jukebox musical “& Juliet” — which lands somewhere between Lisa Frank, a Disney amusement park and a 90s music video — to a gender bent adaptation of “Persuasion” just in time for Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, freelance critic Katherine Varga has a few thoughts.

Read her reviews online now, links in comments. 🔗

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