Mike Cutillo

2 weeks ago | fltimes.com | Mike Cutillo

ROCHESTER — The 127th annual Rochester Lilac Festival, which runs from May 9-18, has announced its headline acts for the KeyBank Center Stage in historic Highland Park. The lineup features nationally touring artists, regional favorites, and an eclectic mix of genres from Austin Soul and New Orleans jazz to Nigerian Afrobeat and Nashville country. The lineup:• May 9 — Sir Woman (R&B, soul, indie pop from Austin, Texas). • May 10 — Katie Pruitt (Soul, singer-songwriter, folk from Nashville).

2 weeks ago | fltimes.com | Mike Cutillo

AUBURN — Over the last decade, renowned historian Robert May, author of “Manifest Destiny’s Underworld” and other fascinating books about U.S. territorial expansion, has delivered nearly a half-dozen popular programs for Seward House Museum audiences. He returns to knit them together into a specialty tour of the house, connecting objects and artifacts to insights from his scholarship. The tour will be held Saturday, from 10-11:30 a.m., at the 33 South St. museum.

2 weeks ago | fltimes.com | Mike Cutillo

CANANDAIGUA — The Ontario County Department of Motor Vehicles is teaming up with Donate Life New York State in observance of National Donate Life Month in April, celebrating the lifesaving impact made by organ, eye, and tissue donors. Donate Life NYS is a statewide nonprofit whose mission is to increase organ, eye and tissue donation through collaborative advocacy, education, research, and promotion.

3 weeks ago | fltimes.com | Mike Cutillo

A couple of months ago, Charlie Agonito hobbled into our Finger Lakes Times office, walking with a cane and lugging a blue cloth Walmart shopping bag loaded with various items. This was not altogether unusual because Charlie — which is what I called him; more people called him Chuck, some called him Charles — often visited us here at 218 Genesee St., especially when he was writing his regular “Good Times” columns for the FLT.

1 month ago | fltimes.com | Mike Cutillo

PENN YAN — The Penn Yan Action Coalition’s sixth annual Community Read features the book “Immigrant” by Marcos Antil. “I am Marcos Antil, Guatemalan, Mayan Q’anjob’al, immigrant, family man, tech entrepreneur, founder of the company XumaK,” he writes. “At fourteen I migrated, undocumented, to the U.S.A. unaccompanied by any relative, fleeing the war — just as thousands of children from the region continue attempting today ...