Connections
In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 8/5/26, we welcome the CITY Magazine team and members of the 2026 "Rochester Ten" cohort. The list honors people making a difference in Rochester.
Arts, Music and Culture
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Behind-the-scenes and setting the scene: Leaphe Ferm, Jeffrey McCune, Jr., Beatriz LeBron, John Kucko, Jenna Manetta-Knauf, Max Kelley, Jon Spacher, Pam Sherman, Andria B. Langston and Nydia Padilla-Rodríguez. The post Introducing the 2026 Rochester Ten appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..
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A Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has chosen Rochester’s Strasenburgh Planetarium to help promote her latest album. New music from Phoebe Bridgers can soon be heard as part of a laser show and with special projections in the venue’s dome. The “Lost Weekend Planetarium Experience” kicks off Monday, August 10 and runs through the album’s release on Friday, August 14. The listening parties give fans […] The post Phoebe Bridgers listening parties coming to Strasenburgh Planetarium appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..
Local and national arts from NPR
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Destin Daniel Cretton grew up in Maui, and says movies expanded his perspective: "I have always found movies to be a way of peering into other lives that I would never otherwise experience," he explains. -
Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.
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The 1976 film is about a '60s trio based loosely on The Supremes. It wasn't a big hit, but it has a devoted cult following, and critic Ken Tucker says it features some of Aretha Franklin's finest performances. -
Ulf arrives late to the party and sets it ablaze. -
More than 100,000 artifacts stolen by Nazis have never been returned to their owners. Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to help. -
A new gallery show in London features the paintings of Marc Padeu, playing with themes from Renaissance art and bringing them to his homeland of Cameroon. -
Matt Rutherford is sailing 10,000 nautical miles, through ice floes and gales, to try and accomplish a world first. He spoke with NPR from the cabin of his boat. -
One Night Only manages to fail as a dystopia and as a rom-com. Meanwhile, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a perfect tale for this moment — if you don't mind your eroticism with a side of gore. -
The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season. -
A federal appeals court says above-ground construction cannot continue without approval from Congress, siding with historic preservation advocates. -
The internationally known chef, writer, and television star died in 2018. Tony, starring Dominic Sessa, tells just a splinter of Bourdain's life — the mid-1970s summer when he was 19. -
President Trump's proposed arch in Memorial Circle would intrude on dozens of nearby sites, says the National Park Service. But there's been minimal discussion of alternate locations.
