( 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
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
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
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
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
By Marc James Léger Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are currently on a tour of the United States that is focused on those swing states that switched from Democrat to Republican in the last election.1 Titled ‘Fighting Oligarchy,’ the tour is hailed by the
“Laundering Black rage means trying to get at something maybe even worse than co-optation, an actual means of governing people’s rage – to take that threat and then use it against them as a means of keeping them within the very framework that they’re pissed off about.” -Too Black, author of Laundering Black Rage: The
The concept of building community is commonly used as a buzzword by NGOs and leftists as a proposed solution to the struggles faced under capitalism within the imperial core, where we find ourselves socially alienated and struggling to tread water financially. The issue however is that it rarely materializes into anything more than empty platitudes.
Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty Not too many waters are as pure as Canadice Lake. The wildness of the wilderness still remains as homes are prohibited from the shoreline and large boats are banned from the waves. Just the tranquility of fresh water splashing on the
We are here today heartbroken and angry. We mourn the brutal murder of Sam Nordquist, a Black transgender man from Minnesota who went missing here in Canandaigua. Sam’s life was cut