by Sean Lukasik | May 25, 2016 | Area Fun!, Corning Museum of Glass, Parks and Rec
If you’re like most hipsters, you probably think it’s a bad idea to show up to a popular festival celebrating glass, the material that single-handedly built a Fortune 500 company in our backyard. You wouldn’t be caught dead enjoying cotton candy, for...
by Logan Sweet | May 24, 2016 | Area Fun!, Best of Corning, Corning Museum of Glass, Local Arts, Local News, Local Trips
The Corning Museum of Glass opened The Studio?in 1996, to give artists a place to practice their craft and for the community and students to learn more about the art of glass making – an art that has quite literally put Corning on the map. In the twenty years...
by Logan Sweet | May 2, 2016 | Area Fun!, Corning Museum of Glass, Local News, Rockwell Museum
Corning is a tourist town. There’s just no sugarcoating it. In fact, Corning is the third most visited city in New York, coming in behind NYC and Niagara Falls, respectively. The Corning Museum of Glass is the biggest contributor to those tourism numbers,...
by Logan Sweet | Jan 6, 2016 | Area Fun!, Best of Corning, Community Voices, People of Corning, Uncategorized
We’d like to start this post by saying, thank you. Thank you to all of our readers. Because of you, 2015 was one of Urban Corning’s best years to date. In just 365 days we?got to learn more about some of the really amazing people that call Corning home,...
by Dave Rochelle | May 23, 2014 | Area Fun!, Best of Corning, Local Arts, Misc, Parks and Rec, Uncategorized
Point: Hey, remember the last episode of HBO?s The Sopranos? Counter-Point: Yeah, the one everyone hated? P: No, the one that ended in the middle of that Journey song. C-P: That?s the one. P: I always loved the end of that show C-P: You know, most people hated...