All posts tagged in Rochester
February 11, 2025
- 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
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576 - 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 More666 - 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
- August 29, 2024
Dr. Tyana Velazquez-Smith has a unique understanding of the needs of her neurodiverse students. Having been diagnosed with autism as an adult, she now uses her perspective to create inclusive and sensory-friendly educational environments through Sensational Inclusion, a learning center and educational program she created in February this year. Already, Sensational Inclusion has worked with
Read More1.8K - May 3, 2024
Rod Serling speaks: “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead: Your next stop the Twilight Zone.” Rod Serling is wearing his usual black suit,
- May 2, 2024
Editor’s Note: The letter is a festidiously annotated text,
Read More5.9K - April 7, 2024
I am Sarah Brownell, a Rochestarian, a mother, a Catholic Worker and an Engineering Professor. I come before you today as a fellow traveler in the journey of
Read More5.8K - April 5, 2024
Mutual Aid in Rochester What Is Mutual Aid? “n its simplest form, mutual aid is the motivation at play any time two or more people work together to solve a problem for the shared benefit of everyone involved. In other words, it means co-operation for the sake of the common good.”1 Mutual aid is an
Read More5.4K - April 1, 2024
