Currently and historically, jazz has boasted a great number of hugely talented female musicians. But jazz, and jazz music education, remain male-dominated fields. The Eastman School of Music, and its assistant professor Christine Jensen, are setting out to change that with the inaugural “Sisters in Jazz” weekend on Sept. 20-21.

During Elizabeth McDade’s time as program manager for the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning, she encountered many examples of lead unexpectedly entering peoples’ bodies. A few have stuck with her. A father’s beard, covered in dust from his construction job, passed lead into his young daughter. An immigrant...

The sharp rise in housing prices that began during the pandemic has started leveling off in other parts of the country, but not in Upstate New York. Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, and Albany recently topped Zillow’s list of the strongest seller’s markets in the country. The rising cost of...

Thomas Sowell once opined that “much of the history of the Western world over the last three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” I think about that quote each election season, as promises about “the future” and how “our best days are ahead of us” dominate the airwaves.

When it comes to opinions on artificial intelligence, the tech community is more strongly divided than the general public. That’s among the findings of an analysis conducted by University of Rochester researchers of nearly 34,000 comments posted on social network Reddit. The study used ChatGPT and natural language processing...

The Rochester City School District Board of Education has a guiding timeline for hiring the district’s next superintendent. The individual could be hired as early as March 2025. After two meetings with Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, there appears to be alignment among board members on the search firm’s...

For the second year in a row, a group of local climate organizations will gather for a march in downtown Rochester in conjunction with a global day of action. Kicking off at Washington Square Park, the Sept. 27 march will stop occasionally for speeches from participating organizations, which include the Climate Solutions Accelerator, Third Act Rochester, Sunrise Rochester, Rochester Youth Climate Leaders, and Citizens Climate Lobby, as well as several local government leaders. It will conclude at the park with a climate fair.

Ten years ago today, Jane and Larry Glazer died in the crash of their private plane. For decades, the Glazers were among Rochester’s most notable entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Both were Rochester Business Hall of Fame inductees. Jane Glazer, who began her career as a math teacher, founded and led QCI Direct, which became one of the area’s fastest-growing private businesses. As CEO and managing partner of Buckingham Properties, a real estate business he co-founded and grew into the area’s largest commercial real estate developer and property management company, Larry Glazer helped to revitalize Rochester with a series of daunting projects including redevelopment of the former Midtown Tower, now Tower280, and rebirth of the former Genesee Hospital as Alex Park Campus. The Glazers also gave back to the community, supporting nonprofits such as the Jewish Home, the JCC, and WXXI. Their loss stunned the community—more than 2,000 people attended the memorial service for the Glazers.

If you want to buy a house in the Rochester area, better be quick on your feet. Houses for sale here are still selling faster than in any other large metro nationwide. In July, the median time from listing to sale was 21 days, Realtor.com’s monthly housing market trends report shows. That compares with 15 days a year earlier and 17 days in July 2022—when metropolitan Rochester also ranked No. 1 in median days on the market among the 50 largest metros.

A new outreach model aims to help students stay safe, find emotional support and focus on learning. The city of Rochester Tuesday said its Pathways to Peace initiative will launch a proactive case-management approach through its school-based team. The team will designate a small number of students in each school who exhibit the greatest need for support and provide services both in and out of school, officials say.

The Finger Lakes region has been awarded more than $3.9 million in the next phase of New York’s Youth Employment Program. The program, state officials say, has helped lower gun violence by connecting at-risk youth with job opportunities and training. The Youth Employment Program also plays a role in...

In advance of the full release of her latest album, “Blame it on Eve,” award-winning blues singer Shemekia Copeland will be performing at Fanatics Pub next month. The 12-track album runs the gamut of styles and topics, kicking off with the album’s namesake, itself a fiery rebuke of modern-day misogyny with wickedly sharp lyrics referencing politics and reproductive rights.

As the nation grapples with a housing shortage, Rochester and Monroe County might appear from a distance like a market where things aren’t so bad. Zoom in closer, however, and the disconnect in supply and ability to pay is stark. “What we know is there’s a mismatch here of...

While progress appears to be far away, there is alignment among city leaders on bus stop-arm cameras. Discussion about stop-arm cameras on school buses continued last week at a Rochester City School District board meeting. While several suburban school districts installed camera systems for their buses last year, RCSD Board...

If it weren’t for friends and alumni, Max Lowenthal Hall wouldn’t have been able to offer a dynamic new setting for teaching and learning. The renovated and expanded home of the Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology officially opens this week for the fall semester.

When you buy a home, you don’t just buy the house. You buy a neighborhood and a community. When my wife and I moved to Fairport Village eleven years ago, we were delighted to become part of a vibrant, small town. Every homeowner reasonably expects their local government to do what’s necessary to maintain their community’s character. For some reason, our local government has something else in mind.

In a bid to block a regulatory order to close its Finger Lakes power plant used for bitcoin mining, Greenidge Generation LLC has filed suit against the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The DEC gave the company an early September deadline to shut down the Greenidge Generating Station in the...

Think of concerts at the Eastman School of Music, and you are most apt to conjure up images of the school’s two historic halls: Kodak Hall (formerly Eastman Theatre) and Kilbourn Hall, each a century old. In 2010, the elegant Hatch Recital Hall opened in the school’s recently built...

Ginny Maier’s home sits on a double lot in Fairport. She and her husband would like to continue living in the village, but they feel somewhat trapped. “We know we could sell it for a lot of money, but we wouldn’t be able to buy something that was suitable for a retired couple in Fairport,” Maier says. “It’s nearly impossible to find. I mean, it’s nearly impossible to find anything but something that’s sort of equivalent to a starter home. We’re competing with young families for the smaller homes.”

Parties in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy have asked to put off a previously scheduled hearing for the court to consider confirmation of the diocese’s plan of reorganization. Plan confirmations by Bankruptcy Court judges are a final step in Chapter 11 cases before creditors...