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As of this week, the Fairport Canal Days, Corn Hill Arts Festival, and Park Ave Summer Art Fest have all been canceled until 2021. The Fairport Canal Days, which were to take place from June 5 to 7, 2020, were canceled with no new date yet scheduled for 2021. Organizers for the 2020 Corn Hill […]

A lot of people are searching for silver linings during the SARS-CoV-2 crisis. This earth day, one silver lining that everyone can appreciate is the air and sky quality changes. With fewer cars on the road and fewer factories pumping out the byproducts of fossil fuels and other pollutants, people in many areas of the […]

On Tuesday, April 14, organizers of the San Francisco Pride announced that the COVID-19 pandemic and associated social distancing forced them to cancel the 50th Anniversary SF Pride that had the theme Generations of Hope. Although organizers initially hoped to merely suspend the event until later this year, there is still so much unknown about […]

Breaking news: Tyra Banks’ new theme park in Santa Monica, California, ModelLand, won’t open as planned on May 1. Per a press release, the 21,000-square-foot beauty and fashion theme park was supposed to merge a “fantasy version of the modeling world with state-of-the-art interactive entertainment, creative collaborations, curated retail, dining and special events.” Now, an […]

The Rochester Music Hall of Fame (RMHF) announces its “Class of 2020” to be honored at an induction ceremony. Originally slated for April 26 at the Eastman Theater, the RMHF ceremony has been postponed to the Fall because of health concerns. Born in Rochester, Roy McCurdy is one of the RMHF honorees. He started playing […]

Christian Smalls, a black Amazon warehouse worker, was fired after he led a walkout of many employees at Amazon’s distribution warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon insists that Smalls was not fired because he led the protest, but because he violated a company policy that imposes a 14-day quarantine on employees who come in contact with […]

For days now, 49-year-old Derrick Jones, known popularly as the deejay and rapper D-Nice, has been hosting a free live quarantine dance party via his Instagram account @dnice in the afternoon and evening each day around 2 or 3 p.m. PST. The party typically runs for six to nine hours and features not only a […]

Imagine training the last 3 years, if not longer for a chance to Win Gold at the 2020 Olympics. Unfortunately, it looks like that’s not going to happen. International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound announced the Summer Games in Tokyo will be postponed because of coronavirus pandemic. The news doesn’t come as a surprise. Sunday […]

Drake has made the history books yet again. According to information from Billboard, the musician now holds the record for the most Hot 100 chart entries ever after achieving his 208th placement this week. The OVO star managed to accomplish the record-setting feat after appearing on Lil Yachty’s recent single “Oprah’s Bank Account”. The track […]

Donald Glover has worn a lot of hats during his 36 years on this world. Besides his career as an actor, producer, director, writer and comedian, he is also a DJ and has created and released music as Childish Gambino and under his own name. Some time overnight on Sunday, March 15, Glover directed fans […]