“You’re not posting a blurry phone photo of that ring on Facebook. We can do better than that,” says my twenty-one-year-old sister. “Put on your
In 1982, the Marketplace Mall was set to open in Henrietta, adding a fifth suburban-style indoor shopping mall to the already saturated Rochester market. As
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At around 8 a.m. on a humid Wednesday, glassmaker Ruth Hill drives from her apartment in the Nineteenth Ward to a basement studio in
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It’s mid-morning in the hills of a winding private road in Victor, a suburban community built around a private golf course where homeowners keep their
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When Chef Richard Bailey stood on the stoop of the Valley Inn’s gaping front door, he could see straight through the dilapidated building and out