Culture

Red Ryder brings drama, nostalgia, ’70s aesthetic

The International Theatre Program’s “When you comin’ back, Red Ryder?” premiered last Thursday, opening the fall season to a full house. Read More

Ben Folds makes audience and performers one

Ben Folds played a free outdoor concert for Meliora Weekend on Saturday, closing out a solo piano tour that took him across the Northeast. Read More

Tony Bennett ever better with time

Up on stage, Bennett looks and sounds like an elder statesman of jazz, as essential today as he was back then. Read More

‘Vanish’ exhibit brings ecological issues to light

The Rochester Contemporary Art Center made the invisible visible on Thursday night with the opening of its newest exhibit, “Vanish.” Read More

Joywave confirms ROC4TIM show

Joywave has officially confirmed it will be playing in ROC4TIM on Dec. 3 at Anthology on East Ave. Read More

Cultures meet via novel translations

A New Yorker at heart, Andrea Labinger gave a literary dimension to The Daily Refresher bar last Tuesday. Read More

‘Atlanta’ provides comic relief with painfully realistic situations

“Atlanta,” FX’s new television show, stars Donald Glover as Earn Marks, a broke father in the titular town living off the hospitality of the mother of his child, Vanessa. Read More

Ultraviolet meshes hip hop, nature

Part of the reason Ultraviolet's YouTube channel is so wonderful is because his videos are simple yet inspiring, just like his beats. Read More

Bon Iver drops ’22, A Million’

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon made it abundantly clear that he is a master of balancing between too radical and not different enough Read More

‘Sex Object’ offers truth, reality in feminism, life

I didn’t understand if I was supposed to read subsequent recounts of abuse and harassment bravely, sadly, or simply as a woman who already knows that this happens all the time. Read More