All posts tagged in Rochester
June 17, 2025
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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366- April 23, 2025
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
Read More522 - April 21, 2025
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
Read More587 - April 12, 2025
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
Read More686 - April 10, 2025
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
Read More557 - March 17, 2025
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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- February 5, 2025
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
Read More398 - December 9, 2024
Nic Sweet talks praxis and theory in his evolution as an artist When I’m making pictures, everything in my life is going to bleed into it. I didn’t get into a lot of theory until my twenties. And not to Kropotkin or Bookchin until I was 30 at least and had my first stable job
Read More515 - December 3, 2024
Interview with creator Nic Sweet BIOGRAPHICAL INFO Boom Town Press: What inspired you to get into graphic novel making or cartoon making? Nic Sweet: I think the first comic book I remember was Spectacular Spider-Man. He was fighting the Tarantula, I think, like the first comic book I remember
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