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Summertime is the best time for car cruises, meetups, and shows. Check out our list of area auto events. Details are subject to change, so check online or call the venue for the most recent information and to learn more about each event. Take photos and tag (585) on socials for a chance to be featured on our Facebook and…
25.06.2025
A monolithic brick building stands prominently in the center of a quiet, residential neighborhood in downtown Rochester, a stark contrast to the modest, two-story homes to its left and right. A large outdoor patio and two well-manicured gardens form the front edge of a wide, freshly-paved parking lot. Unlike the abutting properties, Central Park Garage cuts an imposing presence with…
25.06.2025
Kyla Paradiso There is a distinct noise and scent of an auto repair shop that anyone can recognize—the rhythmic swirls and drills of impact wrenches, the popping of tire changers, the smell of oil and sometimes gasoline.  There was a day when one could expect to see only men under the cars and among the Rotary lifts and toolboxes of…
25.06.2025
You’ve seen the classic cars on the road—those that were exceptionally restored back to their former glory. Maybe you’ve attended a car show or two over the years and seen them up close and personal: the 1950s Bel-Airs, the 1920s Model Ts, the muscle cars of the sixties and seventies. They are hard to miss. The hours of love and…
25.06.2025
Stephen T. Lewis in front of the Big Pink house near Saugerties where the Band and Bob Dylan played Despite his quintessential vocals, the Band’s Richard Manuel has often been relegated to the margins of rock history. Starting his career with the Revols in Canada in the late 1950s, he later joined Ronnie Hawkins’s band, where he was introduced to…
25.06.2025
Every day for Erin Crowley feels like sci-fi. “We are essentially an age zero bio bank,” she says, “looking to invest in the future of people’s health with our exosome currency.” As comanaging partner of the Crowley Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics, she describes the stem cells, grown from umbilical cords, as a skeleton key that carries the ingredients and messages…
25.06.2025
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2025 issue of (585).
24.06.2025
If you know you know: Danny Deutsch—the longtime music promoter with Energizer Bunny moves. Abilene Bar & Lounge—a musical Mecca housed in a narrow nineteenth-century house in downtown Rochester, the one with the bold Ukrainian flag.  On a Friday night visit to Abilene, the flag flaps slowly in the breeze (Deutsch raised it the day the war started), and the…
24.06.2025
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Step inside

Imagine your house being the one that neighbors ooh and ahh over when walking the neighborhood. The colors are pleasing and cohesive and the plants, fixtures, and decorations all work together to create a look that says the owners care and they know what they’re doing. Now imagine enhancing the curb appeal of your dwelling, …

Fine dining with roadhouse attitude

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Broody and brooding

Dear Stacey, For the past seven years, I’ve been dating a man five years my junior. I was previously married and divorced in my twenties and have no children from that relationship. Throughout this time, the current boyfriend and I have always been on the same page about our relationship—we did not see ourselves having …

Seeing the wood for the trees

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Saturday morning can last forever

“One word. Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics.” If the family friend in The Graduate was referring to tiny sculptures of superpowered characters, his advice would have paid dividends many times over. POP ROC, the coffee bar concept at 337 East Avenue, targets the grown-up kid who once sat down for Saturday morning cartoons …

Riding royalty

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