Arts & Culture

The New York Wine and Culinary Center in Canandaigua has a new name.  It is now called  New York Kitchen.

General Manager Bethany DiSanto says the idea is for the branding to more accurately reflect the many foods and beverages that the facility will be talking about.

She says when they first began a dozen years ago, wine was a larger percentage of the beverages talked about at the center, but with the explosion in the number of breweries, as well as homegrown food choices, it was time to come up with a different name.

A controversial panel at the Dentzel Carousel in Ontario Beach Park will soon be replaced by a new image featuring a black panther.

Rochester City officials joined with the Rochester Museum and Science Center and leaders of the "Take it Down" campaign on Tuesday  to announce a contest to create a new painting. It will replace a panel with racist imagery that was removed two years ago.

The Borinquen Dance Theatre is celebrating its 37th anniversary this weekend.

The nonprofit will present "Awaken and Arise," a show inspired by dancers' feelings and frustrations after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. 

Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez is the Founder & Director of the theatre, and says it’s also about the power of expression through dance.

"How you can manage those challenges but overcome those challenges with a sense of purpose, and sense of hope and a sense of being united."

"One Million Abolitionists" is an initiative to get Frederick Douglass's autobiography The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass into the hands of one million students nationwide.

And some of those books are coming to Rochester, with the help of Writers and Books and the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives.

The 2018 Party in the Park lineup has been announced, but this year’s shows will have some new additions.

Kicking off the weekly run with be Turkuaz on Thursday June 7th. Other headliners include G Love and Special Sauce, The Original Wailers and hometown favorites Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, with Queen cover band Almost Queen closing out the year on August 2nd. 

Groups around the country are calling on Hollywood to stop putting smoking scenes in kid’s movies.

Reality Check, which is a division of the Smoking and Health Action Coalition of Monroe County has been holding events at local libraries with smoke free movies to get more parents engaged.

Joseph Potter is the Youth Manager of Reality Check and says some people are surprised that smoking in kid’s movies is still as common as it is.

The movie Rango, which came out in 2011 has over 60 smoking scenes in it.