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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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April 9, 2025Essay
Fighting Oligarchy, or Here We Go Again?
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
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April 1, 2025Essay
Kendrick Lamar & Jay-Z: A Case Study in Laundering Black Rage & The Subtle Erosion of Wokeness
“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
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March 17, 2025Essay
‘Community’ As Trendy Buzzword Amongst the Left: How Identity Divides Us and Class Unifies Us
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.
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March 17, 2025Essay
💙🌊 Canoe Landing On Canadice Lake 💙🌊
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
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March 17, 2025Essay
Justice for Sam Nordquist
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
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February 11, 2025Reviews
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Interview with photographer Nate Tangeman
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February 5, 2025Essay
Butterfly Society
By Hank Stone The most effective work we can do for society is to describe the positive future we want. We need to imagine, and lead, where we want society to go. Society has become stuck. Yet many imagine that life will continue as it has, indefinitely. Population growth has not (so far) interfered with
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Interview with Photographer Jackie McGriff

Secret Mall Apartment and why it matters for Rochester

Against Conspiracism

Fighting Oligarchy, or Here We Go Again?

Kendrick Lamar & Jay-Z: A Case Study in Laundering Black Rage & The Subtle Erosion of Wokeness

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Bello’s Bipartisanship: Conservatives in Charge

Kendrick Lamar & Jay-Z: A Case Study in Laundering Black Rage & The Subtle Erosion of Wokeness

JazzRochester Battles The Jazz-Hating Aliens

‘Community’ As Trendy Buzzword Amongst the Left: How Identity Divides Us and Class Unifies Us

💙🌊 Canoe Landing On Canadice Lake 💙🌊

Justice for Sam Nordquist

PRETTY UGLY

Butterfly Society