Calling all zombies

Last year I read about the Rochester Zombie Walk in the City Newspaper.  My daughter and I thought we’d try it out and we had a blast. We’re excited for this year’s event: Zombies Care, which starts next Sunday at the Hungerford Building (@1115 E. Main St). Zombies Care, a family-friendly event, is organized by [...]

A few more free concerts

I know I’ve already posted twice about free western NY concerts (once in May and again in June).  I have two more free concert series I wanted to share with you before all the dates have passed, one in Niagara Falls and the other in Rochester. The Hard Rock Cafe on the US side of [...]

Check out the Market

I lived in Rochester over 20 years before I made my first visit to the Rochester Public Market.  I had heard from friends how great it was but for some reason never took the time to go downtown and check it out.  I had my local farm markets in Chili (there are two) on the [...]

It’s a good time to become a locavore

I hadn’t heard the term locavore until this year. Locavores are people who prefer to eat locally grown/produced food. This summer I listened to the audio-book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, author Barbara Kingsolver and family’s memoir of a year spent trying to eat only local foods.  They had taken the locavore [...]

Having fun in the name of charity

Yesterday my daughter and I had a blast during the 3rd Annual Rochester Zombie Walk. The Zombie Walk is organized by Sample Soap, a non-profit that collects and distributes toiletry items to the needy.  For the price of donating some new personal items, volunteers turned us into zombies. This was a family-friendly event with kids [...]