EVENTS: “CATS,” FLEET FEET SUMMER FEST DINING: ZEMETA ETHIOPIAN, DISHCRAWL, SHORT COURSES
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FILM: “THE WORLD’S END,” “THE SPECTACULAR NOW” 24 URBAN JOURNAL: RACISM SINCE THE MARCH
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Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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News. Music. Life.
We’re keeping people’s money that we don’t need to keep.” POLITICS, PAGE 6
Chaos in the classroom. EDUCATION, PAGE 4
Stop and Frisk and Rochester. PUBLIC SAFETY, PAGE 5
Downstairs Cab spills “Family Secrets.” THEATER REVIEW, PAGE 18
FINAL WEEK to vote in the Best of Rochester 2013 Primary. DETAILS, PAGE 17
MUSIC | STORY AND PHOTOS BY FRANK DE BLASE | PAGE 12
Where have all the cowboys gone? Earlier this month country superstar Kenny Chesney played CMAC in Canandaigua, drawing nearly 15,000 people. It’s not hard to see why. Chesney’s music is feverishly catchy and he puts on a dynamite show. It was not just a testimony to the man’s talent and appeal, but the entire genre itself: country music is huge. Yet the appeal seems to drop off sharply when it comes to country music on a local level. Where are the bands? Where are the country-music fans
the other days of the year that megastars like Chesney aren’t here? There are certainly local country artists, and fans, but it is disproportionate to the genre’s national popularity when compared to the amount of local concerts in practically every other genre out there. We reached out to country scenesters in Rochester and asked them to take a stab at an answer. For the most part, they were just as baffled. Where have all the cowboys gone? (Pictured: local country band Dang.)