Rochester news

• Crews battle vacant house fire in Rochester

  29-03-2017 12:14
  
  Investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a fire at a vacant home in Rochester...
  
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• Gateway to the Finger Lakes

  29-07-2025 11:00
  As it nears two decades, New York Kitchen continues to lead with local.
  
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• Album Review | 'Richocet'

  29-07-2025 11:00
  The garage-prog group’s debut EP is all raw, for better or worse.
  
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• 'Pavement fans would have been going to the video store'

  28-07-2025 18:14
  
  
  Director Alex Ross Perry will present two cultural documentaries at the Dryden Theatre, July 29-30.
  
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• Theater Review | 'Always… Patsy Cline'

  25-07-2025 11:00
  A breezy concert based a true events, dressed up as a play and presented by Geva Theatre Company through August 3.
  
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• A spa with sparks

  24-07-2025 11:00
  Welder and metal sculptor Stacey Mrva provides empowerment and community at Ironwood Studios.
  
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• Movie Review | 'Eddington'

  23-07-2025 11:00
  Ari Aster's latest film isn't a horror flick — but the pandemic-era plot has its share of horrifying moments.
  
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• Eastman Museum celebrates 75 years; keeps a cautious eye on the future

  22-07-2025 22:57
  With federal grants in jeopardy, the center looks to alternate sources of funding for ambitious expansion projects.
  
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• Quiet legacy

  22-07-2025 15:08
  Middlesex Music Festival — a small fest with a big history — returns to the eastern shore of Canandaigua Lake August 23.
  
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• Album Review | 'Upside Down'

  22-07-2025 11:00
  The group’s sonic contemplation of childhood puts the “twee” in “tweenager.”
  
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• Movie Review | 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'

  18-07-2025 14:35
  The latest horror legacy sequel tries to skewer nostalgia, but is left powerless.
  
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• Whey finding

  17-07-2025 11:00
  Meet the four family run farms along the Finger Lakes Cheese Trail.
  
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• Rochester Fringe Festival reveals 2025 lineup

  16-07-2025 18:00
  Highlights of the 14th annual fest, which runs Sept. 9-20, include a world premiere Cirque show in the Spiegeltent and the return of free programming at Parcel 5.
  
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• Album Review | 'Homesick'

  15-07-2025 11:00
  Flying Object’s first full-length album sounds best when windows are down and defenses are up.
  
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• Theater Review | 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'

  14-07-2025 19:26
  The Rochester Community Players mount an infectious, joyful adaptation of Shakespeare's fairytale romp during their centennial season.
  
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• Nature prevails

  14-07-2025 11:00
  Two journalists take an unexpected walk through the Owasco Flats Nature Preserve.
  
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• Movie Review | ‘Superman’

  11-07-2025 17:53
  Director James Gunn reimagines the Kryptonian superhero for a new generation.
  
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• Dances of the longhouse

  11-07-2025 11:00
  The Indigenous Spirit Dancers share Haudenosaunee culture through movement.
  
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• Area of constant dawn

  10-07-2025 19:58
  As the sun sets on Wells College, a small-but-mighty society fights for another day.
  
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• Float on

  09-07-2025 11:00
  Hemlock Canoe keeps an even keel for half a century.
  
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• Music Review | 'MISSING'

  08-07-2025 11:00
  
  Eastman School of Music's Timothy Long conducts the music from an opera about a missing Indigenous girl.
  
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• Sounds of summer

  07-07-2025 11:00
  Finger Lakes Opera welcomes an elevated creative team and the return of a hometown soprano for its July and August shows.
  
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• Cold hands, warm heart

  04-07-2025 11:00
  The Sprinkle Starship ice cream truck blasts off for its eighth summer in the Finger Lakes with owner Paige Montgomery at the helm.
  
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• For the thrill of it

  03-07-2025 11:00
  Local scream machines for adrenaline junkies of all ages.
  
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• Defying gravity

  02-07-2025 11:00
  Rochester native Blanche Stuart Scott soared beyond societal limitation and into aviation history.
  
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• Five million — and counting

  01-07-2025 11:00
  After his wife’s life-changing diagnosis, Stan Munro pivoted from TV news to toothpicks.
  
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• Higher plane of consciousness

  30-06-2025 11:00
  A chosen family of habitual skydivers searches for peace through freefall.
  
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• Race Eberhardt is 'Strait Undercover'

  28-06-2025 17:38
  From local Artists Unlimited productions to a feature film and “The Today
  Show,” the 37-year-old actor is just getting started.
  
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• Concert Review | Thundercat

  27-06-2025 06:28
  The bass virtuoso gave a neo-soul jazz masterclass at Kodak Hall on June 26.
  
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• Movie Review | ‘F1’

  27-06-2025 04:12
  Director Joseph Kosinski's newest film starring Brad Pitt is a cinematic thrill ride.
  
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