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Comedy duo Abby DeVuyst and Kerry Young combine "The Great British Bake-Off" and "Game of Thrones" in its new Rochester Fringe show.

The second day of the 2021 Rochester Fringe Festival featured homegrown improv comedy with "Unleashed! Improv" and "Bushwhacked Renaissance."

Rochester and Western New Yorks favorite books of 2020, part 2 We continue an annual Connections tradition by talking to different community members about their favorite books of the year. This year, we put the focus on librarians, whose work has changed during this pandemic. We about their “books of the year,” and about reading habits among patrons from across the community. Get a pen and paper so you can write a book list for yourself! Our guests: Anna Souannavong, director of the Gates P...

Originally published on December 29, 2020 1:55 pm “The start of this story,” says Donny Clutterbuck, “could potentially be the trials and tribulations of becoming a different business every month.” Thanks, Donny. I’ll take it from here.  Clutterbuck is the bar manager at Cure, which offers French farmhouse cuisine at the Rochester Public Market. It’s one of the small treasures on the culinary scene here. And like all restaurants and bars in the COVID-19 era, the trial it’s bee...

Thanks Donny. I’ll take it from here. Clutterbuck is the bar manager at Cure, located at the Rochester Public Market. It’s one of the small treasures on the culinary scene here. And like all restaurants and bars in the COVID-19 era, the trial it’s been undergoing is the coronavirus pandemic. As an Orange Zone designee, Cure is open only for take-out. But to sidestep the tribulations, it’s trying out other ideas. For New Year’s Eve, Clutterbuck and Cure have hooked u...