The Genesee Country Village & Museum will celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary on July 4.
Arts, Music and Culture
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Standing just off the curb on a street downtown, Gordon MacKay leans into the rear passenger door of his car. He holds up a shockingly yellow T-shirt. An affable blue alien named Irbir holds up a four-fingered hand in greeting. He looks like a cross between E.T. and something Luke Skywalker would nod to inside […] The post Gordon MacKay might offer to buy the shirt off your back appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..
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Over 20 years ago, Nita Brown was changing in the locker room at a local YMCA and her locker mate, Theresa Mazzullo, complimented her clothes. It was their usual interaction. Brown, who grew up learning about fashion from her seamstress mother and grandmother in Ghana, had been combining traditional Ghanaian patterns and fabrics with modern […] The post How local immigrant-owned boutiques outfit and educate across cultures appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..
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In some ways, the fifth and final season of The Bear feels less daring — but after four seasons, the small wins mean more.
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So You Want to See The President! depicts a procession of visitors waiting to see Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The original 1943 Rockwell suite of illustrations goes on public view Thursday in D.C.
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A federal judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to update him on programming and operational plans. But with most of the staff gone and many artists booked elsewhere, what shows would they present?
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The Switch 2 Star Fox remake comes with high-effort visuals and a fun battle mode, but its campaign feels stuck in the past.
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Don't let the season fly by. Gretchen Rubin, host of the Happier podcast, shares exercises to help you get what you want out of summer. Fill out the printable worksheet and stick it on your fridge.
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Pierce says he's motivated by the "ticking clock of mortality" — and the desire to challenge himself as an actor. He's currently starring in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Othello.
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A biography of Hannibal Lecter. A meditation on trees. A memoir by a child prodigy violinist. A treatise on the way we poop. These are just a few of the nonfiction books our NPR colleagues are enjoying.
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Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.
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For more than a decade, actor Laverne Cox been one of the most visible trans women in America. But the Orange Is the New Black star says she spent most of childhood keeping herself hidden.
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One of the most intellectually important relationships in the life of the late Fed chair Alan Greenspan was with his close friend, the formidable novelist and libertarian thinker Ayn Rand.
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During his chairmanship, Greenspan was celebrated as possibly the best central banker in history. But later, his reputation was tarnished by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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In the Season 3 premiere, a new dragon enters the chat and the Battle of the Gullet is in full swing.