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Rochester and Western New York's 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 Public Library (Brené Brown’s podcasts) Ron Kirsop, executive director of the Pioneer Library Sy...

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Billy Connolly will show off the biggest moments in his career (Image: GETTY) READ MORE In an interview held to promote the show, Connolly was asked: “Is it true that Paul McCartney first came to see you out of curiosity because he heard you were being followed around by a priest?” Connolly replied: “Aye, he was a Scottish minister called Pastor Jack Glass. He took objection to me doing a routine about the Last Supper, so he used to picket my shows and accuse me of blasphemy. “He followed me all over Scotland and right into Wales. He died in 2004. He was a terrible prick. He had this ...

Allan Bloom’s 1987 meditation,  The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students, was a run-away bestseller. Bloom made this observation of popular music: “Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music…Today, a very large proportion of young people between the ages of ten and twenty live for music. It is their passion; nothing else excites them as it does; they cannot take seriously anything alien to music.”[1] Cardi B’s “WAP” has proved that Bloom’s statement still holds ...

>> what are those, david? >> well, there's a whole -- he died of course of opiate -- opiate overdose. and we have medications that are -- saboxone, methadone, they've been proven to work. they're controversial, but they shouldn't be. they have risks like any other medication. but they increase the risks that someone is going to be able to stay sober, that they won't relapse dramatically. these are block -- they're opiate blockers, that they take away the craving and they block an addict from getting high after treatment. and there's no reason why anyone in his position, in mr. monteith's posit...