Health care, not jail for some suspects

Arts groups share ideas on boosting downtown

Bronson releases RCSD improvement bill

Assembly member Harry Bronson has released a draft of the Rochester City School District Empowerment Act, a bill he says will help improve student outcomes in Rochester schools.

Rochester Sudanese youth protest against massacre in home country

Sudan's transitional military government has been increasingly violent against peaceful protesters. Local organizers are holding a demonstration in support of the Sudanese people at noon Saturday in front of the Liberty Pole.

Confusion around special education programs continues

Historians discuss the Broad Street Bridge

City Council member Mitch Gruber, a historian himself, will be joined by City Historian Christine Ridarsky, and Michael Brown, assistant professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology, for a June 19 discussion on the Broad Street bridge and aqueduct.

Urban Action 6/12

COMEDY | Joel McHale

ART | Western New York Pottery Festival

SPECIAL EVENT | Wine Tasting Cruise

SPECIAL EVENT | Brighton Eco-Fair

SPECIAL EVENT | 'Cultivating Creative Agency'

THEATER | 'Four Men on a Couch'

FILM | 'EVA: A-7063'

Sugar Glider: new name, same sweet songs

The Rochester art-folk group formerly known as The Sugar Gliders has been making headway in the local music scene with its irresistible, heart-melting lullabies. The band has also made plenty of changes, morphing from a duo to a quartet, changing its name, and working on a debut studio album — expected to be released at the end of June.

2019-20 Eastman Opera Theatre boasts two double bills

Eastman Opera Theatre continues to stage productions of operas outside of the standard repertoire. But while EOT has frequently highlighted the work of living composers, the 2019-20 season features lesser-known operas from both the 18th and 20th centuries, including works by important but underappreciated composers.

2019 CGI RIJF offers daytime concerts, workshops

The 2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival will host 12 p.m. performances at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County and 1 p.m. jazz workshops at the Eastman School of Music's Ray Wright Room, Monday June 24 through Friday, June 28.

Laura Dubin Trio brings 'West Side Story' to 2019 CGI RIJF

Two young people from different backgrounds meet and fall in love — and society tears them apart. You may recognize that as “West Side Story." Here’s another story: Two young people from different backgrounds meet and fall in love — and end up making music together all over the world.

Album review: 'Blue Darling'

Album review: 'Queen Shade & etc'

ROCK 'N' ROLL | Alison Pipitone Band

BLUES | Doug MacLeod

REGGAE | The Wailers

AMERICANA | Jon Itkin & The Receivers

INDIE ROCK | Muler

Jines, rain or shine

Rochester mainstay Jines offers a wide-ranging and inventive menu of tasty homemade food at reasonable prices (including Greek specialties and breakfast all day), as well as outdoor seating on the prime people-watching corner of Park Avenue and Berkeley Street.

Film preview: 'The Dead Don't Die'

The new zombie comedy "The Dead Don't Die" suggests that it's society itself that's currently making writer-director Jim Jarmusch most apprehensive, and the film ultimately offers up his rather bleak appraisal of the modern world.