Mayor Lovely Warren and other officials joined members of the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemorative Committee Thursday morning to unveil the first in a series of monuments around Rocester that pay tribute to the famous abolitionist and civil rights advocate. The life-sized statues of Frederick Douglass were sculpted by artist Olivia Kim. The first was […]
The Rochester International Jazz Festival says Xerox is out as the official sponsor…and CGI Communications is in. John Nugent and Marc Iacona say the festival they created ten years ago will now have the Rochester-based public relations firm as its title sponsor. Both say in a press release that they thank Xerox for ten […]
The great Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival opens this afternoon in downtown Rochester, with the Greece Arcadia High School jazz band playing the first notes at 4:30 from the City of Rochester Jazz Street Stage — on the temporarily renamed Gibbs Street by the Eastman Theater. Seal headlines tonight at 8:00 at the Kodak Hall […]