{"id":11071,"date":"2015-03-21T13:14:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T17:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2015-03-21T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T17:16:15","slug":"roclinks-32115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/03\/roclinks-32115\/","title":{"rendered":"RocLinks 3\/21\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Midtown Plaza [PHOTO: Thomas Belknap\/flickr]\" rel=\"lightbox-roclinks032115\" href=\"http:\/\/rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/denker\/links\/Midtown_Plaza.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:6px\" src=\"http:\/\/rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/denker\/links\/Midtown_Plaza.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Midtown Plaza [PHOTO: Thomas Belknap\/flickr]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2009\/01\/contributors\/#about-matthew-denker\">Matthew Denker<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for leaving everyone high and dry on the link front last week. Ironically enough, I was in Rochester, which complicated writing a RocLinks so much that I was unable to do so. That said, it was wonderful seeing\/meeting so many of you, and my deepest apologies to any readers I missed while in town.<\/p>\n<p>And now, from local development to just plain news of the weird, here are your RocLinks for this past week\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Explore Rochester<\/h3>\n<p>Assuming this post is live and visible before 2PM tomorrow, go to Fuego and <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/0T0UHdlZmN\/\" target=\"_new\">explore Rochester <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>. Even if it doesn&#8217;t make it, you at least have a new instagram worth following.<\/p>\n<h3>Upgrade!<\/h3>\n<p>The public market is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/nys\/rochester\/news\/2015\/03\/20\/rochester-public-market-funding.html\" target=\"_new\">getting a face lift <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>. I really hope this isn&#8217;t blowing anyone&#8217;s cover, but at an open house for a local design firm potential images of the building were hanging on the walls, and they were impressive to say the least.<\/p>\n<h3>Upgrade pt. 2!<\/h3>\n<p>Not into public markets? Well then maybe the June 2015 opening of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrath.com\/content\/rooftop\" target=\"_new\">the Rooftop at the Strath <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> will tickle your fancy. It purports to have 260 degree views of Rochester and have space for you and 249 of your closest friends to eat dinner.<\/p>\n<h3>Upgrade pt. 3!<\/h3>\n<p>Will it ever stop!? Maybe you don&#8217;t like public markets OR rooftop dining. Surely you&#8217;re the kind of person who loves performing arts centers over vacant lots, then. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2015\/03\/20\/rochester-midtown-mayor-lovely-warren-downtown-performing-arts-center\/25081123\/\" target=\"_new\">The city sure does <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Upgrade pt. 4!<\/h3>\n<p>Alright, you jaded reader you, forget about the market, the rooftop (and your 249 friends), and a PAC. Everyone loves glass (even if they can&#8217;t pronounce <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dale_Chihuly\" target=\"_new\">Chihuly <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>), so go check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/blogs\/corning-museum-of-glass-renovation?xid=blog_20150319_42361256&amp;adbid=578586810164490240&amp;adbpl=tw&amp;adbpr=16211434\" target=\"_new\">new wing at the Corning Museum of Glass <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> when it opens this weekend.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin:20px 0px 20px 0px\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/div>\n<p>As always, use the comments below as open discussion for anything in these links \u2013 or let us know if there\u2019s a topic you\u2019d like to see us hit more aggressively in future RocLinks. 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That said, it was wonderful seeing\/meeting so many of you, and my deepest apologies to any readers I missed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[242,114],"tags":[3295,3292,3291,1643,2510,3296,3290,3293,3294,2478],"class_list":["post-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester-destinations","category-rochester_news","tag-corning-museum-of-glass","tag-explore-rochester","tag-fuego","tag-matthew-denker","tag-midtown","tag-performing-arts-center","tag-public-market","tag-rooftop","tag-strath","tag-strathallan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}