Arts & Culture

 A local museum that promotes the display of vintage aircraft is changing its name.  The 1941 Historical Aircraft Group in Geneseo is going back to its original name, the National Warplane Museum. That name had been used by a museum in Elmira, but they are no longer using that title since their mission is changing.

President of the Geneseo group, Austin Wadsworth, says the name change will help them market themselves better.  The Geneseo museum has about 15 vintage warplanes.

Rochester officials have announced the lineup for two events coming up at the Public Market.

One of them is the free Bands on the Bricks concert series which debuts on July 12th, and continues each Friday night from 5:30 to 10 p.m. through August 9th.

The bands appearing include Donna the Buffalo, Los Lonely Boys and Felice Brothers.

The Memorial Art Gallery cut the ribbon on its Centennial Sculpture Park Wednesday.

It was a near-record crowd and near-perfect weather for the annual J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge on Tuesday night in Rochester.

A total of  10,921 runners and walkers  in teams representing 460 companies and other organizations competed in the three and a half mile race.

The weather started out muggy, but a cool breeze greeted the participants by race time at the RIT course, and then toward the end, thunderstorms drenched  whoever wasn’t  under the many tents set up at the campus.