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To make sure that the gifts you give your kids this year won't be outgrown, forgotten, or broken by the time the holiday season rolls around again, consider presenting them with a family membership offered by a local museum or organization. With perks like free admission and discounted classes,
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Amongst all the pharmaceutical-hawking spam messages, the tweets about Justin Bieber's new haircut, and the YouTube comments that make you question your faith in humanity, you can still manage to find plenty of good stuff online. The following local blogs, each with a specific focus on an aspect of life
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When you're a 12-year-old girl, you might ask your mom to throw you a pool party or drop off you and your friends at the movies. If your mom is a Broadway producer, though, you can aim a bit higher. KidzROC is the latest project from Lori Bajorek, producer of "Godspell"
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Two upcoming events focus on art produced for and by young adults. One provides the opportunity to interact with authors who write for teens, while the other gives attendees the chance to view videos made by local residents of the same age. On Sunday, May 2, the Dryden Theatre will host
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Forty years after the first Earth Day, the Rochester Museum and Science Center is celebrating the environmental holiday in a big way. "We have never done a line-up as extensive as the one this year," says Debra Jacobson, RMSC director of marketing and community affairs. Together with the Water
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Linda Greenfield was watering plants outside her museum one day last summer when she spotted a yellow plastic bag on the ground. Figuring it was trash, she opened it to discover a doll inside - one that had definitely seen better days. After gluing the head back on and reattaching
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Parents with children of a certain age might begin to suspect that there's an unwritten law that declares a kid's inalienable right to celebrate his or her birthday at an indoor inflatable playground. Luckily, that isn't the case - in fact, the Rochester area offers plenty of imaginative birthday-party options.
