<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Rochester - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest news about Rochester with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your region!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:04:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEW | ‘Possible Love’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The newest film from South Korean master Lee Chang-dong is just waiting to detonate. Instead, the plot of “Possible Love” simmers as a documentary project brings two families on different ends of a violent workers’ strike suppression together. Director Lee’s films always have a slow burn (his most recent feature from 2018 was named “Burning,” after all), building up to a moment of devastation or actualization for his protagonists. With his newest cinematic work, which premiered at]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-possible-love/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-possible-love/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western New York takes the spotlight in locally produced TV show ‘Abilene’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, Nick DiBella walked into Schutt’s Apple Mill in Webster and immediately had an epiphany. He compared the feeling to being struck by lightning. “Suddenly, I could see a television show in that place,” said DiBella, local filmmaker and co-founder of Faith Street Films. “I could see young people working on the farm, in the store and in the press room. I could see relationships and conflicts and generations of a family whose lives were all connected to this one place. I s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/western-new-york-takes-the-spotlight-in-locally-produced-tv-show-abilene/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/western-new-york-takes-the-spotlight-in-locally-produced-tv-show-abilene/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEW | ‘A Good Farmer’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Rochester Community Players are following the news. They&rsquo;re aware that ICE&rsquo;s escalated detainment campaign has separated local families. They have their eyes on federal attempts to override procedure and impose a detention facility on State Street. They know the Batavia detention center is expanding.&nbsp;Their response is a staging of the deeply emotional play &ldquo;A Good Farmer&rdquo; by Sharyn Rothstein, which runs at MuCCC through October 24.This production succeeds as mor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-a-good-farmer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-a-good-farmer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The VHS resurgence that’s part nostalgia rewind, part anti-digital consumerist revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donnie Del Plato has an entire wall of VHS tapes in her apartment, sorted and stacked from floor-to-ceiling in a kaleidoscope of cardboard sleeves. She&rsquo;s lost count of exactly how many she&rsquo;s amassed, but the number has crested 1,000, plus a few bulky CRT TVs.Del Plato&rsquo;s collection started three years ago with two curios: &ldquo;Jurassic Park&rdquo; and &ldquo;A Clockwork Orange.&rdquo; When the illustrator moved to Rochester from New York City, she found herself with an empty]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/the-vhs-resurgence-thats-part-nostalgia-rewind-part-anti-digital-consumerist-revolution/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/the-vhs-resurgence-thats-part-nostalgia-rewind-part-anti-digital-consumerist-revolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEW | ‘You Can See Everything’]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the upper echelon of the filmgoing community convenes in the dog days of summer at the Telluride Film Festival, two questions are usually on everyone&rsquo;s mind: Will the eventual Best Picture winner premiere here? And what is this year&rsquo;s secret screening?&nbsp;Telluride likes to keep the lineup under wraps until people start arriving in Colorado, but it&rsquo;s often easy to determine what will be playing over the long weekend in the mountains. The secret screening, however, usual]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-you-can-see-everything/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-you-can-see-everything/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEW | ‘Sense and Sensibility’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Early on in Georgia Oakley&rsquo;s &ldquo;Sense and Sensibility,&rdquo; the most recent adaptation of Jane Austen&rsquo;s beloved 1811 novel, Marianne Dashwood (played by Esm&eacute; Creed-Miles) finishes off a list of non-negotiables she&rsquo;s looking for in a husband with the potent summation: &ldquo;I require so much.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s played as a bit of joke &mdash; rightly, for even though we&rsquo;ve just met her, we can tell that Marianne wears her emotions quite visibly compared to he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-sense-and-sensibility/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-sense-and-sensibility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the band that opens for Jeff Tweedy of Wilco at RIT on 10/23]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the saying goes, you can&rsquo;t go home again. Even if your childhood home is still physically intact, there comes a time when the place you once knew becomes irretrievable. For writer-turned-singer-songwriter Casey Gomez Walker, home is actually a place she returns to often in her prose and her music.&nbsp;The St. Louis exurb of Gomez Walker&rsquo;s youth casts quite the shadow over &ldquo;Last Missouri Exit,&rdquo; her 2025 debut album as the focal point of the band Case Oats. A modernist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/meet-the-band-that-opens-for-jeff-tweedy-of-wilco-at-rit-on-1023/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/meet-the-band-that-opens-for-jeff-tweedy-of-wilco-at-rit-on-1023/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morphin’ time: local filmmaker racks up a half million views on Power Rangers fan flick]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even the cab driver snapped a photo.When Jesse Ferrara and his wife were on a babymoon in Japan, Ferrara, a lifelong fan of Power Rangers &mdash; yes, the Mighty Morphin&rsquo; kind &mdash; saw it as a great opportunity. On a break from exploring the local culture, the couple ventured to a remote quarry.But not just any quarry. This very craggy spot was where scenes from many Japanese action series, including the original 1990s Power Rangers show, had been filmed.They arrived in Tochigi after a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/morphin-time-local-filmmaker-racks-up-a-half-million-views-on-power-rangers-fan-flick/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/morphin-time-local-filmmaker-racks-up-a-half-million-views-on-power-rangers-fan-flick/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morphin’ time: how a local filmmaker racked up a half million views on his Power Rangers fan flick]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even the cab driver snapped a photo.When Jesse Ferrara and his wife were on a babymoon in Japan, Ferrara, a lifelong fan of Power Rangers &mdash; yes, the Mighty Morphin&rsquo; kind &mdash; saw it as a great opportunity. On a break from exploring the local culture, the couple ventured to a remote quarry.But not just any quarry. This very craggy spot was where scenes from many Japanese action series, including the original 1990s Power Rangers show, had been filmed.They arrived in Tochigi after a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/morphin-time-how-a-local-filmmaker-racked-up-a-half-million-views-on-his-power-rangers-fan-flick/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/morphin-time-how-a-local-filmmaker-racked-up-a-half-million-views-on-his-power-rangers-fan-flick/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake Taniguchi makes RPO debut as assistant conductor and RPYO music director]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a child in Hawaii, Jake Taniguchi would go to classical concerts with his grandfather. The first orchestra he saw in concert was the Honolulu Symphony, led by then-principal conductor Andreas Delfs, who is currently music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.&nbsp;Taniguchi is now a conductor himself, and having a bit of a full circle moment: beginning September 1, he&rsquo;ll join the RPO as assistant conductor (working with Delfs) and as music director of the Rochester Philharm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/jake-taniguchi-makes-rpo-debut-as-assistant-conductor-and-rpyo-music-director/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/jake-taniguchi-makes-rpo-debut-as-assistant-conductor-and-rpyo-music-director/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Williamson to depart Geva Theatre in December]]></title><description><![CDATA[The post Elizabeth Williamson to depart Geva Theatre in December appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/elizabeth-williamson-to-depart-geva-theatre-in-december/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/elizabeth-williamson-to-depart-geva-theatre-in-december/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEW | ‘Vision of Exile’ by Great Klons]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the dream, you&rsquo;ve crash-landed some kind of flying object into a billowy bed of lilacs somehow blooming out of season in October and, stranger still, unconnected to any trees. It&rsquo;s dusk. Who knows where you&rsquo;ve landed. Point is, you&rsquo;re safe; you&rsquo;ve survived. You emerge from the nonwreckage and decide to do a little gardening in this beautiful and unfamiliar place and time of life. Does gardening help you reassume control?As you sink your hands into the soil, Jeff]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-vision-of-exile-by-great-klons/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-vision-of-exile-by-great-klons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote for the Best Of Rochester 2026 finalists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The time has come to unveil the Best Of Rochester 2026 finalists!After 15,492 submissions &mdash; including laugh-out-loud write-ins, several three-way ties and more than a few surprises (always) &mdash; voting is now open for the final round in 156 categories.&nbsp;Vote HERE until Friday, Nov. 27 at midnight.If you&rsquo;re a finalist, you can also promote yourself / your business right on the Best Of ballot here and find the Best Of 2026 media kit for sharing on your social channels and websi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/vote-for-the-best-of-rochester-2026-finalists/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/vote-for-the-best-of-rochester-2026-finalists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Jay Lincoln, whose caricatures captured Rochester, has died]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jay Lincoln, the local artist whose vibrant and dynamic paintings and caricatures decorated the city&rsquo;s bars and coffee shops, has died at age 60. He posted on Facebook about his prostate cancer diagnosis in early 2025.Lincoln worked in caricature, presenting faces with exaggerated features that brimmed with motion. He painted local fixtures and celebrities, especially well-known pop-culture figures like Jack White, The Velvet Underground, David Byrne and characters from &ldquo;Twin Peaks&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/artist-jay-lincoln-whose-caricatures-captured-rochester-has-died/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/artist-jay-lincoln-whose-caricatures-captured-rochester-has-died/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Memorial Art Gallery will remove all admission fees in 2027, returning to its roots]]></title><description><![CDATA[For museums, &lsquo;cost of admission&rsquo; takes on many meanings.There are entrance fees, of course. But there are other costs that are harder to see: wondering whether you belong; worrying about how your children will behave; not seeing people who look like you in the galleries; or simply never having learned the unwritten rules of a museum.The Memorial Art Gallery is betting that removing one barrier will help visitors confront some of the others. Beginning in 2027, general admission to MA]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/the-memorial-art-gallery-will-remove-all-admission-fees-in-2027-returning-to-its-roots/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/the-memorial-art-gallery-will-remove-all-admission-fees-in-2027-returning-to-its-roots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statutory rape allegation preceded RPO youth orchestra conductor’s departure — now, he’s suing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The post Statutory rape allegation preceded RPO youth orchestra conductor&rsquo;s departure &mdash; now, he&rsquo;s suing appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/statutory-rape-allegation-preceded-rpo-youth-orchestra-conductors-departure-now-hes-suing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/statutory-rape-allegation-preceded-rpo-youth-orchestra-conductors-departure-now-hes-suing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone brings psych-pop sounds of yesteryear to RIT]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 1960s produced an extraordinary number of records that seem to exist outside of time. Despite being together for only five years, English band The Zombies left an enduring mark on that era with just two albums and a handful of 45s.Colin Blunstone, the voice of The Zombies, has had a career spanning more than 60 years and is still performing. At 81, he continues to sing beloved songs like &ldquo;Time of the Season&rdquo; and &ldquo;She&rsquo;s Not There&rdquo; in their original keys, somethi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/the-zombies-colin-blunstone-brings-psych-pop-sounds-of-yesteryear-to-rit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/the-zombies-colin-blunstone-brings-psych-pop-sounds-of-yesteryear-to-rit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review | ‘Primetime’]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the reality TV boom of the aughts, many households likely heard the timbre of one man&rsquo;s voice announcing his presence as he entered a room. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC,&rdquo; he would say, as he invited an unsuspecting child predator to take a seat at a kitchen counter. Shocked and surprised, the alleged criminals would immediately start computing an excuse as to why they were at the house.The show, &ldquo;To Catch a Predator,&rdquo; gripped audiences for three]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-primetime/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/review-primetime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kathy Clem Museo de Arte readies its large walls for a grand opening]]></title><description><![CDATA[No matter the medium, an artist&rsquo;s work is her own language. Painter Kathy Clem took that a step further. She invented her own alphabet.&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re an artist, you have to have a style, or that&rsquo;s what everybody says, anyways,&rdquo; Clem said. &ldquo;But I decided not to have a style. I wanted to learn a lot of different things, so the things that I was interested in became a letter of my alphabet.&rdquo;Clem&rsquo;s diverse and colorful work, made across 40 years, lines th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/kathy-clem-museo-de-arte-readies-its-large-walls-for-a-grand-opening/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/kathy-clem-museo-de-arte-readies-its-large-walls-for-a-grand-opening/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rochester’s growing Asian American community hosts third Harvest Moon Festival this weekend]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before electricity was invented, farmers in peak harvest season worked beyond sunset with help from the light of the full moon. The eponymous &ldquo;harvest moon&rdquo; arrives closest to the autumn equinox each year, sitting low in the sky. For many Asian cultures, this moon extends beyond agricultural significance and represents a time for community.&nbsp;On September 26, the Rochester chapter of Asian Pacific American Public Affairs (APAPA) will host the Harvest Moon Festival, its third iter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/rochesters-growing-asian-american-community-hosts-third-harvest-moon-festival-this-weekend/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/rochester/rochesters-growing-asian-american-community-hosts-third-harvest-moon-festival-this-weekend/</guid></item></channel></rss>