Culture

The Orange Line Cafe Crawl

To accompany your next trip off campus, below is a guide of Rochester cafes within close walking distance to the Orange and Red shuttle lines. Whether you’re looking for a relaxing place to lounge, an all-day space to study, or just a quick beverage, there will certainly be a spot for you.  Read More

Book Club reviews: Parable of the Sower

Lauren and the two surviving members of their neighborhood trust a group of travellers they meet relatively readily and never really face consequences. Read More

The Essential Albums of Summer 2025

If you’ve been looking for new music to enjoy from a variety of genres, look no further! Read More

The best streaming service is…

Many will say Spotify; some Apple Music; if you hang out with middle-aged mothers, some might Pandora — but what is the definitive answer?  Read More

“Great Comet” shot too close to the sun

While UR’s production of “Great Comet” stunned as expected, I left the show with decidedly mixed opinions surrounding their unique interpretation of the source material. Read More

Jason Momoa performs humiliation ritual in the form of “A Minecraft Movie”

As a whole, this movie was bad in about every way a movie can possibly be bad. ’m not quite pretentious enough to pretend the purpose of “A Minecraft Movie” is to provide a great work of art to an adult population of English majors. Read More

Jane Remover “Revengeseekerz” follows no rules

Forget Playboi Carti — Jane has embraced the popular rage sound that is dominating rap right now but injected it with steroids and cybernetic limbs to create a blown-out, techno-orgy of throttling beats, sassy vocals, and tuneful melodies. Read More

National Book Award Finalist Maureen McLane Comes to UR

McLane was a National Book Award finalist for her collection “This Blue,” her work merges past and present, drawing on ancient texts — notably Sappho fragments — a contemplation of how human experiences are mediated by encounters with language and literature. Read More

Spring blooms at the George Eastman Museum’s “Dutch Connection

“I saw fresh flowers in February — in Rochester” is a sentence I never thought I would say. Read More

Should you follow fashion trends?

Fashion trends can be exciting, but do they actually help us develop personal style, or do they just make us spend more money? Read More