Leah Stacy

Rochester

Editor-in-Chief at Rochester City Newspaper

editor @roccitymag • writer • lit mag cofounder • cocktail fest producer • adjunct @newhousesu prof • penchant for 🥂 & 🧀

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Articles

In a Barbie world

1 week ago | roccitymag.com | Leah Stacy

Along the basement stairwell in my childhood home, there was a plastic bag filled with plastic bags that we used for transporting lunches, wet swimsuits, disposing of cat litter — the list went on. A few weeks ago, my mom handed me leftovers wrapped up in a plastic bag and I must’ve looked at her like it was contraband. “I got an Etsy order filled with plastic bags as packing materials!” she said.
Act two

2 weeks ago | roccitymag.com | Leah Stacy

click to enlarge The only night Richard Reddington ate dinner at Grinnell’s, he was with his dad, and it was right around the time news leaked that the Michelin-starred chef was moving back to open a restaurant in the former 2Vine space downtown. “This newscaster comes up to our table and says, ‘hey, can you come in and do an interview?’ and I’m like, ‘yeah, sure,’” said Reddington.
CITY Magazine's 'Earth Issue'

2 weeks ago | wxxinews.org | Evan Dawson |Megan Mack |Leah Stacy

The average brain contains about seven grams of microplastics — equivalent to the weight of a plastic teaspoon. That's according to a study published in the February edition of “Nature Medicine.” This month, CITY Magazine goes green with the first-ever "Earth Issue." From e-waste and recycled restaurant buildings to bitcoin mining and community gardening, the April edition explores practical (local) ways we can all take better care of the planet and ourselves.
CITY Magazine's 'Earth Issue'; Gateways Music Festival returns

3 weeks ago | wxxinews.org | Evan Dawson |Megan Mack |Leah Stacy |Patrick Hosken

12:00: CITY Magazine's 'Earth Issue'1:00: Gateways Music Festival returnsThe average brain contains about seven grams of microplastics — equivalent to the weight of a plastic teaspoon.
What’s luck got to do with it?

3 weeks ago | roccitymag.com | Leah Stacy

click to enlarge The Blarney Stone was wet. Which maybe makes sense when you’re kissing something — but on a 75-degree day in Ireland, I wasn’t expecting moisture to meet my lips. The whole experience was a lot less romantic than I expected.
Theater Review | ‘Every Brilliant Thing’

1 month ago | roccitymag.com | Leah Stacy

click to enlarge [ { "name": "500x250 Ad", "insertPoint": "5", "component": "15667920", "parentWrapperClass": "", "requiredCountToDisplay": "1" } ] (TW: depression, self-harm and suicide.)The fourth wall was never there.
The Landmark Society announces 2025 Five to Revive

1 month ago | roccitymag.com | Leah Stacy

The Landmark Society announced their 2025 Five to Revive on Thursday, March 13 during a press conference at their headquarters in Warner Castle.
Celebrating 10 years of Explore Rochester

1 month ago | wxxinews.org | Leah Stacy

It has been 15 years since Instagram was released to the world, and its effects on modern culture are undeniable — from photography and retail to politics and the Age of the Influencer. In 2014, local creatives Steve Carter and Justin Dusett founded Explore Rochester, an Instagram-based project that would grow in ways they say they never imagined.
Celebrating 10 years of Explore Rochester; Visual Studies Workshop enters a new era

1 month ago | wxxinews.org | Leah Stacy

12:00: Celebrating 10 years of Explore Rochester1:00: Visual Studies Workshop enters a new eraIt has been 15 years since Instagram was released to the world, and its effects on modern culture are undeniable — from photography and retail to politics and the Age of the Influencer. In 2014, local creatives Steve Carter and Justin Dusett founded Explore Rochester, an Instagram-based project that would grow in ways they say they never imagined.
Antidote for a digidemic

2 months ago | roccitymag.com | Leah Stacy

click to enlarge [ { "name": "500x250 Ad", "insertPoint": "5", "component": "15667920", "parentWrapperClass": "", "requiredCountToDisplay": "1" } ] Those hours of scrolling may have helped pass time during a pandemic, but what have they done for a different (ongoing) epidemic?