The time has come to unveil the Best Of Rochester 2026 finalists! After 15,492 submissions — including laugh-out-loud ...

For museums, ‘cost of admission’ takes on many meanings. There are entrance fees, of course. But there are other costs that ...

Jay Lincoln, the local artist whose vibrant and dynamic paintings and caricatures decorated the city’s bars and coffee shops, ...

During the reality TV boom of the aughts, many households likely heard the timbre of one man’s voice announcing his presence as he entered a room. “I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC,” he would say, ...

No matter the medium, an artist’s work is her own language. Painter Kathy Clem took that a step further. She invented her own alphabet. “If you’re an artist, you have to have a style, or that’s what ...

Before electricity was invented, farmers in peak harvest season worked beyond sunset with help from the light of the full moon. The eponymous “harvest moon” arrives closest to the autumn equinox each ...

The 1960s produced an extraordinary number of records that seem to exist outside of time. Despite being together for only ...

Rochester’s reputation as a “festival town” is one we herald proudly from May through (roughly) October — and even beyond. From downtown to the Finger Lakes, our region features festivals celebrating ...

It’s not entirely unwarranted. American cheese (the category) is fairly young, all things considered, gaining traction only in the 1970s, and is often conflated with the giant bricks of ...

Kodak Center’s 1,978 seats make it a larger theater venue. But Rochester lacks mid-size music halls with capacities closer to 1,000. Credit: TOMAS FLINT. A few years ago, Hannah Maier drove to Buffalo ...

Unlike many politicians, Malik Evans is private and believes in collaboration over big political personalities. Credit: PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH Malik Evans was uncomfortable, uncharacteristically, ...