Arts & Culture

The Salvation Army of Greater Rochester says it’s facing a challenge to meet this year’s goal. That goal is $560,000  and right now  they still have to raise over $300,000. Compared to last year at this time, the campaign is down about $75,000.

Salvation Army Major Doug Hart says there are a few possible reasons for the shortfall.

“Part of it’s the calendar, we’re going to lose five days between Thanksgiving and Christmas but that doesn’t account for the 75,000 we’ve already lost, we just don’t have the number of volunteers that we have had in the past. “

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rookie Mike Glennon rebounded from one of his worst performances of the season to throw two touchdown passes and lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a 27-6 victory over the struggling Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Bobby Rainey scored on an 80-yard run on the second play of the day, and the Bucs (4-9) intercepted EJ Manuel four times en route to their fourth win in five games following an 0-8 start.

Manuel, Buffalo's first-round draft pick out of Florida State, was sacked seven times and doubled his interception total for the season.

Among the people in Rochester remembering Nelson Mandela is Rabbi Michael Silbert. He heads up the Jewish Student organization Hillel at the University of Rochester.

Silbert is a native of South Africa, and came to the United States in 1994, soon after Mandela was released from prison.

He spoke this morning with WXXI's Randy Gorbman about his reflections on Mandela's life:

The University of Rochester and the George Eastman House have announced a new master's degree program they will jointly offer in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management. The program will be the only one in the U.S.  dedicated to the study of the photograph as an object, in terms of the care and handling as well as their cultural and historical context.

Eastman House Director Bruce Barnes says even though there is such an emphasis these days on digital photography, it makes the traditional photograph all the more important when it comes to preservation.

A search has formally begun to choose the next Dean of the Eastman School of Music. Former Dean Doug Lowry died in October, after a battle with cancer. He had been dean for six years.

The President of the University of Rochester, Joel Seligman, says the search for a successor may look at candidates from around the world.

Legendary blues artist Son House is the inspiration for a four-day event planned for Rochester in the summer of 2015.

The Strong museum is receiving a donation of historic video games and artifacts. The family of Gerald Lawson, who died in 2011, and has been called the “father of the video game cartridge” has donated a collection of materials chronicling Lawson’s contributions to the video game industry.

Lawson, one of the first African American engineers in the world of electronics, worked on the Fairchild Channel F video game system, which was the first home console with removable game cartridges.

Is the Catholic Church anti-gay? And is it losing the argument on gay marriage? Those were two questions for New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan yesterday on NBC's "Meet The Press."

Moderator David Gregory asked Cardinal Timothy Dolan if gay marriage will someday be legal everywhere?

"I'd be a Pollyanna to say that there doesn't seem to be kind of a stampede to do this."

TORONTO (AP) — Matt Bryant hit a 36-yard field goal 3 minutes into overtime to lift the Atlanta Falcons to a 34-31 win over the Bills in Buffalo's annual "home" game in Toronto on Sunday.

Falcons safety William Moore set up the decisive score in a back-and-fourth game by forcing a fumble on Buffalo's second play from scrimmage. He punched the ball out of the arms of Bills tight end Scott Chandler.