EVENTS: FASHION WEEK, AMERKS HOME OPENER 19 CHOW HOUND: DUCK SOUPE, NEW STICKY LIPS
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CLASSICAL: YING QUARTET’S NEW CD 18 URBAN JOURNAL: RISK-AVERSE ROCHESTER
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FILM: “IDES OF MARCH,” “HIGHER GROUND” 24 CROSSWORD 35
close your eyes • joe nichols • parker quartet • jellyroot • peter case • sound tribe sector 9 • AND MORE MUSIC, PAGE 12
OCTOBER 12-18, 2011 Free
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Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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Vol 41 No 5
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News. Music. Life.
We’re not anti-business.” NEWS, PAGE 5
Snarls slow superintendent search. NEWS, PAGE 4
Occupying Rochester. NEWS, PAGE 6
VOTE NOW: Best of Rochester 2011. DETAILS, PAGE 24
City’s 2011 Restaurant and Bar Guide. INSIDE
FEATURE | BY REBECCA RAFFERTY | PAGE 10 | PHOTO PROVIDED
The city’s present, future, past through art Like countless other post-industrial cities suffering from ongoing decline, Rochester has a bit of an identity crisis. Meaning, the city is limping along economically, with seemingly very little vision for our current state, let alone our future, while our humiliating mountain of failed projects keeps rising. Segregation along race and poverty lines is as sharply defined as the Inner Loop’s boundaries, and a slowing of the mass exodus, so-called the “brain drain” is nowhere in sight. “Transitions-Rochester,” a collaborative exhibit and series of events held at three local cultural institutions, explores how our city is
dealing with its transitional period, and seeks to open up discussion about what future Rochester might be shifting toward. It remains to be seen if we will pull together to improve the quality of life for all Rochester residents, revitalize the city center, and invent a future for ourselves. The exhibitions kicked off August 5 and some aspects of the project continue through November 13. Much of the exhibition explores the role of Kodak and popular photography in the shaping of Rochester’s self-image, and asks the question of how Rochester will choose to cope in the aftermath of Kodak’s legacy.