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The event’s Center Stage also will host Zac Brown Tribute Band and Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad.

The event’s Center Stage also will host Zac Brown Tribute Band and Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad.

On a “golly its great to be here” sunny Saturday, Feb. 19, the Pine Island Garden Club celebrated its 20th Annual Garden Gala at Phillips Park at the islan

PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE / WXXI NEWS Herb Smith and 10-year-old Cameron Terry play together during a Herbs City Trumpets lesson. Herb Smith couldn’t sleep the night he spent in Monroe County Jail two years ago. The lights in the holding cell were too bright. To keep himself together until his arraignment the next morning he meditated, practiced yoga, and absorbed ...

A tented outdoor stage on the tennis courts of the JCC of Greater Rochester will host a summer performing arts series.

Verdi’s Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. ** 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, wri...

PHOTO PROVIDED Composer William Grant Still Among the many lessons we’ve learned this past year is this: most of us will never take live music for granted again. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra used its time off from live concerts during the pandemic to reevaluate its leadership role in a community frayed by racial strife. Here’s a little perspective. ...

Jim and Laurie Isley of Palmyra grow lots of soybeans — about 1,300 acres to be exact. Their son, Jacob, a sixth-generation grower, also works with them. Together, the family grows soybeans on their mostly sandy soil.  And even after farming for several generations, the family remains impressed by the number of uses for the versatile crop, which impacts animal feed, household products, soyfoods and other industrial uses.  “It’s pretty exciting to hear about the growth of many things ma...

The father of two Queensland boys killed by an out-of-control car in NSW has spent the day at the spot where his sons’ lives were snatched away.

by Ryan Young, Perry Duffin 6th Jan 2021 1:46 PM | Updated: 6:23 PM Premium Content Subscriber only The father of two Queensland boys killed by an out-of-control car at Wellington in NSWs Central West says his heart has been "ripped out" and has sat at the spot on the small town street where his sons lives were taken to play their favourite songs. The man allegedl...