Rochester City Newspaper - Arts & Entertainment

On a humid 90-degree day last July, nearly 400 people sat shoulder-to-shoulder inside the Fedder Building on East Main Street. Handheld fans and sweating bottles of Modelo took the edge off, and any discomfort was forgotten as the first-ever Rochester Fashion Runway program began. For the next two hours, more than 10 designers, 20 performing artists and 100 models presented ...

A Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has chosen Rochester’s Strasenburgh Planetarium to help promote her latest album.

New music from Phoebe Bridgers can soon be heard as part of a laser show and with special projections in the venue’s dome. The “Lost Weekend Planetarium Experience” kicks off Monday, August 10 and runs through the album’s release on Friday, August 14...

With contributions by Carver Snyder

Blue makes Michael Burritt think “of hope and good things.”

He has assigned that color to a few of his pieces, including one just recorded by the Eastman Percussion Ensemble: “Blue Soul.” Burritt takes on a journey through overlapping musical worlds, over about nine minutes of music.

There’s lots goin...

The word ‘scene’ is used to describe many things: a location; part of a film or play; in popular culture, the overall vibe or energy of a place.

For this year’s Rochester 10 cohort, scene is a throughline.

In the August pages, you’ll meet folks you have perhaps heard of in passing more than seeing them around the community. Maybe it will provide a face to...

Age: 50
Hometown: Rochester
Current residence: Rochester
Occupation: CEO and co-owner, Fee Brothers

Jon Spacher doesn’t come across as someone eager to be the face of anything. Gregarious but understated, he’s more at ease talking about Fee Brothers than his own role spearheading it all.

But as CEO of the esteemed Roche...