EVENTS: NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC & DANCE FEST, GROWING TOGETHER CONFERENCE 18 CHOW HOUND: LUNCH, QUAKER STEAK & LUBE, MORE 11 FILM: “HARRY POTTER,” “THE TRIP” 24 COMMENTARY: RUNNING THE CITY
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DJ Dan • Motley Crue • The Fleshtones • Kid Cudi • Lil Wayne • moe. • and more music, page 12
July 20-26, 2011 Free
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Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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Vol 40 No 45
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News. Music. Life.
There is something dangerous going on here...” MAIL, PAGE 2
Who’s watching the frackers? NEWS, PAGE 4
MedicareMedicaid: yes, you need to worry. NEWS, PAGE 6
Get into summer sings. CLASSICAL, PAGE 18
Nominations open for Rochester Theater Hall of Fame. DETAILS, PAGE 12
COVER STORY | BY KATHY LALUK | PAGE 8 | PHOTO BY MIKE HANLON
Good throw: disc golf in Rochester Disc golf is much like regular golf — or as disc-golf players sometimes refer to it as, “ball golf.” Players throw a flying disc (you probably call it a Frisbee) from a tee area at a target, the most common being a Pole Hole. The two- to three-foot metal pole is surrounded by a basket and metal chains to cushion a disc’s landing. The goal is to get your disc into the basket in the least amount of throws, called “strokes.” The Rochester area is home to seven disc-golf courses, all of them free and open year-round,
maintained by the Greater Rochester Disc Golf Club. The club estimates that there are anywhere between 300 and 500 recreational disc-golf players in Rochester, and this coming week that number will double when the Professional Disc Golf Association Amateur World Championships come to town July 24-30. The competition will draw players from around the world, and Rochester-area players say they’re ready to show off the growing popularity and strength of the disc-golf scene in the Flower City.