What's next for the RCSD?

Geneva first in region to launch energy program

The state of the neighborhoods

State may get strong rent laws

A changing City Council faces major challenges

Aquino says his report rallied the community around city schools

Warren: put state RCSD takeover on the ballot

Mayor Lovely Warren stepped up her push for a state takeover of the Rochester City School District. She wants city residents to vote on the issue.

State offers $300 million for lakeshore infrastructure

Many city high school students getting free home internet

Trump, Mueller, and the country's future

Trump and the Republicans' attack on the country's values continues. Impeachment seems futile. And Democrats risk losing in 2020.

Urban Action 6/5

State takeover of RCSD is not the answer

Our focus should be on expanding the successful programs we see at outstanding schools in the district. Taking away the voice of voters and community members isn’t the answer.

Feedback 6/5

The Ladder Literary Conference returns for second year

The Ladder aims to link writers at all levels with valuable resources. Presented by Writers & Books this weekend in downtown Rochester, the event will showcase authors, editors, and publishers who will discuss how to navigate the struggles that all writers face.

Mike Birbiglia to headline Rochester Fringe

American comedian, storyteller, director, and actor Mike Birbiglia will be this year’s KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival comedy headliner. The show, “An Evening with Mike Birbiglia” will take place Friday, September 20, at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.

Memorial Saturday for Rochester theater icon Barbara Biddy

Biddy was co-founder and artistic director of the Shipping Dock Theatre. Her life and work will be commemorated on Saturday with a service that's open to the public.

DANCE | Dances at MuCCC

SPECIAL EVENT | Outdoor Expo

LECTURE | Artist Talk: Diversity

ART | 'Good/No Good'

DANCE | 'Exhilaration'

SPECIAL EVENT | Art & Treasures Sale

Ben Folds reunites with RPO in 2020

Genre-bending musician Ben Folds will join the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra next spring in a May 8 performance at Eastman Theatre’s Kodak Hall, as part of the 2019-20 season of “Eastman Presents.” Folds last performed with the RPO at CMAC in 2014.

Album review: 'Silver Recovery'

Album review: 'Take Care of My Love'

MODERN JAZZ | Aaron Staebell & Beverly

AMERICANA | The Avett Brothers

ROCK 'N' ROLL | Fairport Steel Rail Revival

SOUL | Kat Wright

PSYCH-PUNK | Leggy

The F Word: Frank gets burned by holy water

Last Thursday, Significant Other burned down the Record Archive’s Backroom barn with its funkified drive. People were on their feet, people were on each other’s feet, people were on the tables, guzzling beer and wine and jumping for Joy, but she wouldn’t come down off the chandelier.

International treasure at Nepali Kitchen

Nepali Kitchen's food is rich and filling, marrying the cooking styles of China with flavor portfolios from India. Bring a friend or two, especially if you get the Nepali Thali sets, which (unless you're ravenous) are sharing dishes.

A sweet expansion for Cheesy Eddie's

Don't worry, the South Wedge shop is not going anywhere.

Rochester Black Pride's glamorous Saturday affair

Rochester Black Pride Collective will present "Black Glamour: A Met Gala Affair" this Saturday. The social mixer is a fundraiser for this year's Rochester Black Pride festival.

Film review: 'The White Crow'

With this fitfully compelling biopic, actor-director Ralph Fiennes tackles the life of legendary and mercurial Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev. The film doesn't require a prior knowledge or particular love of ballet, centering mostly on Nureyev's defection from the Soviet Union to the West -- the first Soviet artist during the Cold War to do so.

Film review: 'Non-Fiction'

The latest from French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, "Non-Fiction" is a chatty, breezily entertaining comedy of manners when isn't getting bogged down by its characters' self-conscious meditations on life and culture in the digital age.

Film preview: 'The Tomorrow Man'

Each of the main characters have their own unique ways of maintaining control in a world that appears to be steadily careening toward chaos; both are eager to escape some pain of their past while possessing an often debilitating fear of the future. But together they might find a more manageable present.

Rockin' the house, indoors and out

Frank offers a few musical options for the summertime

Dances with canoes

Marc Ornstein is the viral star of the mega-niche, competitive sport of interpretive canoeing

Stage a road trip

Nearby festival theaters are worth the drive

We're past the 'Endgame' now

The biggest movie of the year may have come and gone, but there's still plenty more reasons to get excited for summer movie season