
Underpants and Overbites
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2026 issue of (585).

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2026 issue of (585).

Leading the next act at the RPO After a nine-year tenure with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), president and CEO Curt Long stepped down this

Last fall, Michael Solis moved to Rochester to accept the position of executive director at Writers & Books, a literary arts nonprofit and independent bookstore.

I visited Peppermint Boutique on a sunny, cloudless afternoon. The store’s owner, local entrepreneur Tanvi Asher, and I sat outside at a red picnic table

I walked into the classroom on my first day of kindergarten, and all I could hear was screaming. Several kids clung to their parents’ legs

It’s a summer party, and everyone has a beer in their hand as they sit around the picnic table. This is great for some, but

As if the bright red exterior and sign with a cartoon wiener dog holding a red hot three times the size of his body isn’t

My daughter’s strawberry-blond waves bounced to the melody of “This Must Be the Place” as she twirled in front of an oversized mirror. The four

When it comes to tourism, the days of rushing through a checklist of must-see attractions are being replaced with “slow travel.” People are choosing to

The population of Rochester surged in the 1920s, fueled by a rapidly expanding industrial base that spanned industries from optics to photography and precision engineering.
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