Commentary
Even though options for parents abound, the very best option remains the simplest — pick up a book, snuggle up, and read.
These products are imaginative clues to what our ‘new normal’ future will be like.
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Darick Campbell was one of the Campbell Brothers, the Rochester-based group whose emergence on the roots music circuit in the late ’90s played a major role in the mainstream discovery of the sound known as “sacred steel.”
A hundred years ago today one of the most influential writers and editors in American history, William Dean Howells, died in Manhattan at the age of 83.
Are we seeing the birth of a competing union, one dedicated to mobilizing a generation of musicians whose needs aren’t being met by the American Federation of Musicians?

Arts Remembrance: Lynn Shelton, Rising Star of Independent Film
Lynn Shelton had developed what was becoming her own distinctive blend of comedy and drama, one that drew on strong writing, improvisation, and women characters.
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