Four headliners to perform at the 2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival were revealed Tuesday - bringing a bit of soul, ...

Musicale of Greater Pontiac to host fundraiser featuring the Rochester chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, the “Guardians of Harmony,” Feb. 9.

Bacton Towers Action, a group of residents in Gospel Oak and Haverstock, has launched a petition against the plans which has more than 650 signatures. The petition argues the buildings are too big ...

Angela Williamson talks with Travis Johnson. Angela Williamson talks with Travis Johnson, lead singer of the Afro-Folk Gospel group Black Magic. He performs with his brother and sister and their a ...

Rochester, N.Y. — The Rochester Anime Fest will take place on Sunday at the Hilton DoubleTree Hotel on Jefferson Road. The convention is a haven for collectors, celebrating a variety of fandoms ...

Barrett-Porter was the last surviving member of the legendary gospel group The Barrett Sisters. They group was pivotal in shaping Chicago's gospel scene. Barrett-Porter was born on December 15 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — As minutes, hours and days go on and history progresses. That’s when the research begins for Geoffrey Zeiner. “Everyone's neighborhood has something in the past that's like gone that ...

Rochester City Council President-elect Randy Schubring, right, takes a walk with his husband, David Dobmeyer, around Quarry Hill Park & Nature Center in Rochester in December. The two regularly ...

A house explosion on Pullman Avenue on Friday leveled the property and caused fires at two adjacent homes, according to the Rochester Fire Department. Firefighters responded to reports of the ...

ROCHESTER. N.Y. The lake effect snow pattern began for Western New York yesterday, but Rochester did not see any of those fast moving flakes stick. Today will be different (though we still won’t ...

Also on the list of newly elected local officials for 2025 is Stephanie Whitehorn , who is the sole new member of the Rochester Public Schools board. Like Hopkins, she will join a board filled ...

Longtime readers of the New York Times know that opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof can be prone to outlandish claims. Years ago he promoted the amusing idea that the biblical Jesus favored big ...