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September 16, 2025Reviews
Mushroom House gets mention by influencer f.y.i.arch
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September 15, 2025News
JazzRochester Battles The Jazz-Hating Aliens
If you were a jazz-hating alien who dropped onto earth with a mission to destroy all jazz on the planet you would probably start eliminating all the economic supports that enable musicians to play and record jazz music. Your first step might be making sure humans don’t know where the jazz is happening. This strategy
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September 14, 2025Reviews
Jazz & Espionage Collide
Soundtrack To a Coup D’Etat By Jon M. Greenbaum
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June 18, 2025Essay
The US-Israel Genocide in Palestine: Resistance and its Suppression and the Authoritarian Moment
By Robert Sandgrund, LCSW
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June 17, 2025Editorial
No Mayor Evans, the Answer is not “Zero”: On Arresting the Unhoused
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins Rochester’s mayoral primary debate took place on May 28, between incumbent Mayor Malik Evans, ROC DSA-endorsee and city councilmember Mary Lupien, and local businessman Shashi Sinha. Lupien spoke ambitiously of her vision for a better future, while Evans and Sinha invoked limitations
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May 17, 2025Reviews
Creation as a cross to bear. Does it have to be that way? (Maybe…but maybe that’s okay.)
( Original and full article published on May 15, 2025 by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni on Substack at: feedbackdef.substack.com ) André 3000 and The Dandy Warhols can teach us some very important lessons about how to carry that weight. André 3000 has just released a new collection of music titled 7 Piano Sketches. I hesitate to call this release
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April 23, 2025Essay
All the Quiet Men: Morelle, Bello, Evans Hide on Immigration
Rochester’s top Democrats have nothing to say while immigrants are detained, deported, and disappeared. Mayor Malik Evans would rather talk about anything else. At a recent press conference, Evans awkwardly confirmed that Rochester police officers helped Border Patrol detain undocumented immigrants—violating the
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April 21, 2025Interview
Interview with Photographer Jackie McGriff
Just a quick background setting question: How did you get into photography? I started taking photography more seriously after my paternal grandmother passed. When my sister and I were kids, she used to always visit and insist on taking photos of us. One day, when I was visiting her house, she asked me to follow
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April 12, 2025Events
Secret Mall Apartment and why it matters for Rochester
By Bleu Cease On April 10, The Little Theatre hosted this film as part of their One Take Documentary Series presented in partnership with Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo). The film tells the story of a group of young Rhode Islanders who secretly built an apartment inside the Providence Place Mall from 2003 until their
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April 10, 2025Essay
Against Conspiracism
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins Did Donald Trump stage an attempted assassination to score political points? Did McDonald’s help track down Luigi Mangione using AI-powered facial recognition technology? What if
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Mushroom House gets mention by influencer f.y.i.arch

JazzRochester Battles The Jazz-Hating Aliens

Jazz & Espionage Collide

The US-Israel Genocide in Palestine: Resistance and its Suppression and the Authoritarian Moment

No Mayor Evans, the Answer is not “Zero”: On Arresting the Unhoused

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Jalil Muntaqim: Support of Palestine is not anti-Semitic

Doug Noble’s art reaches children around the world

Letter to University of Rochester President

Creation as a cross to bear. Does it have to be that way? (Maybe…but maybe that’s okay.)

All the Quiet Men: Morelle, Bello, Evans Hide on Immigration

Interview with Photographer Jackie McGriff

Secret Mall Apartment and why it matters for Rochester

Against Conspiracism