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SPECIAL EVENT: Best Busker Contest (5/10)

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SPECIAL EVENT: Best Busker Contest (5/10)

City Newspaper wants to get you out for a night on the town, with free music and great deals on food and services. City's Best Busker Contest is back Thursday, May 10, in Rochester's East End. More than two dozen area merchants will have ridiculous offers from 5 to 9

Blackfriars announces 2012 summer shows, 2012-2013 season

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Blackfriars announces 2012 summer shows, 2012-2013 season

Blackfriars Theatre recently announced its summer 2012 shows, as well as its full 2012-2013 line-up. The summer will see the return of "Tom Foolery," the musical featuring the songs of political satirist Tom Lehrer originally performed this winter, as well as the local debut of "Love, Loss, and What

SPECIAL EVENT: City Newspaper's 2012 Cultural Crawl

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SPECIAL EVENT: City Newspaper's 2012 Cultural Crawl

Presented by VisitRochester Join the event on FACEBOOK for updates as soon as we get them. For a PDF version of the official Cultural Crawl Guide, published in the April 18 issue of City, CLICK HERE. Get out and take in Rochester's arts and cultural scene in ONE DAY! On Saturday, April

THEATER REVIEW: "Leaving Iowa"

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THEATER REVIEW: "Leaving Iowa"

While considering "Leaving Iowa," the new comedy at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre's Winton Place location, the words that kept coming back to me were "quaint," "American," "identifiable," and "universal." The DCT website references a review that places the play in "Mitch Albom territory." That's a good summation of the

SPECIAL EVENT: Dayglow: Life in Color Tour (4/6)

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SPECIAL EVENT: Dayglow: Life in Color Tour (4/6)

Forget eggs; if you want to spend your Easter weekend coloring something a bit more adult, the Dayglow: Life in Color Tour will be right up your alley. Dayglow is an international paint party, a huge rave-like experience that involves circus-like entertainers (stilt walkers, aerialists, contortionists, etc.), live DJs,

THEATER: Geva announces 2012-13 season with "Avenue Q," "Next to Normal," "Midsummer Night's Dream"

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THEATER: Geva announces 2012-13 season with "Avenue Q," "Next to Normal," "Midsummer Night's Dream"

Geva Theatre Center today announced the line-up for its 40th anniversary season, with two big summer shows leading up to a mainstage series that will include Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize-winning classics, a contemporary Broadway musical hit, a familiar family classic, and more. Summer 2012 will see two big musicals, "Avenue Q,"

DANCE: Martha Graham Dance Company headlines 2012 Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival

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DANCE: Martha Graham Dance Company headlines 2012 Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival

This morning Nazarethe College Arts Center announced the schedule for its 2012 Dance Festival, taking place Thursday, July 12-Saturday, July 21. The third installment of the festival will feature two different performances by the legendary Martha Garham Dance Company, "black box" modern-dance performances by Besie Award-winner Beth Gill, Buffalo's LehrerDance,

THEATER NEWS: "Book of Mormon" headlines RBTL 2012-13 season

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THEATER NEWS: "Book of Mormon" headlines RBTL 2012-13 season

The Rochester Broadway Theatre League tonight announced its 2012-2013 season. The impressive line-up includes everything from family-friendly fare to current Broadway critical darlings. The subscription series includes: -"Mary Poppins" (October 9-14), the musical based on the classic family film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke -"Memphis" (November 27-December 2), 2010 Tony

ANNUAL MANUAL 2012: Alternative entertainment

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ANNUAL MANUAL 2012: Alternative entertainment

It has been said many times, by many people: for a city its size, Rochester is packed with arts and cultural opportunities. On any given night literally dozens of events take place in the Greater Rochester area, from art exhibits to theater shows to dance recitals to music concerts. With

THEATER: "The Little Dog Laughed"

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THEATER: "The Little Dog Laughed"

Just a glimpse of John Haldoupis's set for "The Little Dog Laughed" gives you a surprisingly thorough roadmap to the show. A Hollywood red carpet flows into a hotel room, where it bisects a bed before continuing on to the iconic billboards of New York City. It's a compact,

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"American Idol" 2012: Top 2 REVEALED!

The opening group number was "Got To Get You Into My Life." I don't know why I continue to be surprised when Phillip sounds good on these group numbers. I think it's because his growly affectations would not logically work in a combo situation, but he sounded great here

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"American Idol" 2012: Top 3 Perform (Judges Pick/Contestant Pick/Jimmy Pick)

We're at Top 3! Joshua Ledet, Jessica Sanchez, and Phillip Phillips. Three very talented young people. Three songs for the semi-finalists. First came the judges' picks. Second were the contestants' picks. Third were Jimmy Iovine's picks. Overall a very strong night. Personally I think it's among the best Final

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"American Idol" 2012: Top 4 Results

Wednesday night's performance show demonstrated that we have three really talented finalists still in this race, and also poor Hollie Cavanagh, who has no business still being in this competition. It also proved to me that the Julian Lennon fan club still exists in the year 2012, so

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"American Idol" 2012: Top 4 Performances (Calfornia Dreaming/Songs I Wish I'd Written)

The themes for the night were "California Dreamin'" - songs either about California or by bands from California - and "Songs the Contestants Wish They Had Written." Those are incredibly broad themes. On top of the two solo performances there were two duets, a group number, and looks back

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"American Idol" 2012: Top 5 Results

Right to results - no group number tonight. Joshua was up first. I think it's safe to say that Joshua has become the most polarizing contestant this season. The judges, Jimmy, and the producers just love him, and so do many viewers. But then there are people like me who

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"American Idol" 2012: Top 5 Performances (60's/Brit Pop)

Top 5! There is light at the end of the tunnel. The theme for the week was split between music of the 60's and Brit Pop (which actually was still mostly music from the 60's). So naturally the guest mentor for the week was Steven Van Zandt. Hey

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"RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 4: Reunion and Coronation (finally!)

Locas! We're at the end of an exciting, wonderful season. Last week many of you had televisual blue balls after RuPaul pulled a cocktease by refusing to pick a winner during the supposed finale. Instead she told us that the winner would be revealed at tonight's reunion show, and

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"American Idol" 2012: Top 6 Results

Opening the show we got The Queen Extravaganza, a band that Ryan told us were hand-picked by the remaining members of Queen. They sang "Somebody to Love." The first half of this was simply dreadful. The lead singer looked vaguely like Freddie Mercury but his voice was dead.

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"American Idol" 2012: Top 6 Performances (Queen/Contestant Choice Week)

Last week we got the "shock" booting of Colton, and the week before that Jessica nearly went home. I think this season is really wide open, more than it has been in recent years. I think that, aside from Hollie and Elise, anybody else in the Top 6

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"RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 4: The Finale That Wasn't

I guess we'll call that the finale that wasn't. The finales for "Drag Race" have historically been controversial. In Season 1 you had the widely adored Nina Flowers losing to the also-awesome Bebet Zahara Benet. In Season 3 you had Ru giving the nod to edgy, unconventional queen Raja

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FESTIVAL NEWS: 360 365 Film Festival and George Eastman House end partnership

It was announced today that 360 | 365 -- the organization that originated in 2001 as the High Falls Film Festival -- and the George Eastman House have ended their two-year partnership. The organizations had collaborated on the 360 | 365 George Eastman House International Film Festival in 2009 and

MOVIE FEATURE: The Little in transition

If you're tuned in to the Rochester arts and cultural scene, you may have heard rumors about trouble at The Little, the region's premier independent and foreign movie house. Between a recent lawsuit brought against the theater for non-payment of some of its café musicians, the lack of an executive

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"

With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

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