Boom Town Press

March 2, 2024Reviews
Is Being a Full-Time Artist Still Possible?
by Brian Geldin of Mañón Media Management Making a living solely on your art can be incredibly difficult and with inflation, rising costs and the advent of AI, many are wondering if it’s even possible today? In pondering the answer to this existential question, I did a Q&A with two acclaimed artists, Erica Bryant and Samson
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February 29, 2024Reviews
Q&A with Amy Fights Monsters comic creator Rich Johnson
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February 22, 2024Reviews
Meet Samson Tonton, the Artist Behind “The Mask”
Samson Tonton is a Haitian-American artist and elementary school art teacher based in Connecticut.
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February 10, 2024Editorial
RDDC’s Limited Vision for Downtown: A Rising Tide Lifts a Few Yachts…
We are at Rochester Downtown Development Corporation’s Economic Growth Series: Vision~Future 2023, and Mayor Evans is taking the property owners, developers, and investors filling the conference room at Rochester Riverside Convention Center on a journey of economic opportunity.
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February 7, 2024News
“Family Trouble”: The 1975 Killing of Denise Hawkins and the Legacy of Deadly Force in the Rochester, NY Police Department
Ted Forsyth is a Rochester-based researcher, an Alfred University adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice, and co-author of The Case for an Independent Police Accountability System – a report that led to the creation of Rochester’s Police Accountability Board. Mallory Szymanski is an Alfred University cultural and gender historian of the 19th- and 20th- century United
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January 31, 2024Editorial
Joe Morelle Supports Genocide in Palestine, but Won’t Own Up to It
On January 31st, 2024, the Monroe County Democratic Committee (MCDC) held its Candidate Designation Meeting for the 17th, 21st, 23rd, and 24th Legislative Districts at James Monroe High School in the Pearl-Meigs-Monroe neighborhood. Joe Morelle – the sole Congressional candidate on the ticket – intended to attend this event. Plans changed at the last minute.
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January 30, 2024Essay
Still Here
My complicated relationship with the Buffalo Bills and Western NY Originally published in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature — Vol. 35.2 Geoff Graser is a freelance writer based in Rochester, NY. His work can be found at geoffgraser.com.
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January 28, 2024Editorial
Music journalism’s ideological chokehold MUST be broken.
Longtime music journalist Saby Reyes-Kulkarni riffs on music / culture / sports and talks to a bunch of people. I’m speaking out after more than ten years of silence. Music critics — my peers — have played a role in fostering the hyper-polarized state we now find ourselves in. Those same critics, I argue, can
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January 26, 2024Reviews
True Detective: Night Country panders to an oversimplified view of racial and sexual dynamics
Longtime music journalist Saby Reyes-Kulkarni riffs on music / culture / sports and talks to a bunch of people. I’ve just posted a video about my first impressions of the new season of True Detective. In my view, the show’s premise couldn’t be more rife with potential: a suspense thriller set in a region in
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January 23, 2024Essay
Finding Comradeship and Building Trans Solidarity with ROC DSA
This is just a snippet re-post from RED STAR – the blog of Rochester Democratic Socialists of America. Red Star Editor’s Note: The author (Travis Covitz) was recently featured in a piece from The Guardian, “Trans people are finding safe haven in an unexpected place: upstate New York.” Rochester (ROC) DSA stands proudly with our
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Is Being a Full-Time Artist Still Possible?

Q&A with Amy Fights Monsters comic creator Rich Johnson

Meet Samson Tonton, the Artist Behind “The Mask”

RDDC’s Limited Vision for Downtown: A Rising Tide Lifts a Few Yachts…

“Family Trouble”: The 1975 Killing of Denise Hawkins and the Legacy of Deadly Force in the Rochester, NY Police Department

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New Observations: Bringing Art and Activism to Challenging Times

NLG Conversation with Jalil & Jihad

Democrats Committed to Maintaining their White Male-only Snow Globe

Joe Morelle Supports Genocide in Palestine, but Won’t Own Up to It

Still Here

Music journalism’s ideological chokehold MUST be broken.

True Detective: Night Country panders to an oversimplified view of racial and sexual dynamics

Finding Comradeship and Building Trans Solidarity with ROC DSA