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Read part 1 from this 2 part series here Slavery was abolished after the Civil War in 1865, but the aftershocks continue to this day. A key chapter in the history of race in the United States took place in the mid 20th century, whenmillions of Blacks migrated north from
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If you'd come in late to East High School's athletic awards ceremony last Tuesday, you would've been greeted by a balding, middle-aged white guy with a close-cut beard, his East High sweatshirt matching the purple plastic tablecloth. He would have handed you a program and told you to sit anywhere, then he'd go hand out
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It's obviously Barbara Biddy's enormous affection for Jonathan Harvey's sweetly quirky play Beautiful Thing that energized Shipping Dock's exceptional production. Not an easy assignment, the play about awkward first love between two working-class teenage boys in southeast London carries the added burden of comparison with a film version that has become internationally beloved. Well, Biddy
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People are always saying thereís no good Mexican food in Rochester. Itís certainly true that we donít have the variety youíd find in Texas or California, but the general pronouncement might say more about the taste of the speaker. Besides the chains, we also have Mariaís, Salenaís, and Los Amigos, all of which are good
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Because motion pictures require a good deal of time to plan, finance, produce, edit, publicize, and release, The Bourne Identity, a typical espionage thriller dealing with violent international intrigue, lags far behind current events and contemporary awareness. Although calling the picture ìa 21st century spy film,î the folks who put the whole complicated, expensive project together
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The Golden Age of Comic Books began back in the '30s and ended with the adoption of the Comics Code in 1954, but a comics renaissance is taking place right now. Spider-Man is the fifth-highest-grossing movie of all-time, and The Hulkís trailer is leaving fans salivating for its release next summer, along with Daredevil
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On a balmy June night, in a dank East Main Street rehearsal space, amidst the grime, beer bottles, and static, The Veins made it. No Grammy. No applause. No fat cats puffiní cigars with hollow promises and crossed fingers. No glittery glamazons hanging on their arms, just a few girly pictures lost among a
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Feeding the world Farm work is a demanding job, and without migrant workers, itís difficult to imagine much of it getting done. To show its appreciation, the Brockport community has held ìBienvenidaî for the last 20 years, a day to welcome migrant workers, the vast majority of whom now come from Mexico. ìThis is a
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Community voices Thanks and congratulations to City and Ron Netsky for the splendid interviews in ìJump Jim Crowî (June 4, June 11). Both the historical and personal dimensions of these reminiscences are indispensable to our community memory. Voices that I have known over the years came through clearly, which was for me a wonderful bonus. This
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In the late 1980s, when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura teamed up for the film Predator, America was deregulating and otherwise fantasizing its way into economic trouble. Soon enough, ordinary working people spied some monsters among the dollar signs. One was called consumer debt, with credit-card marketers getting top billing.
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Geva Theatre continues its adventurous programming into the summer with a work of historical interest in the intimate Nextstage. Even before Indiana Repertory Theatre's world premiere last fall of James Still's Looking over the President's Shoulder, Geva had arranged to give its original production this second presentation anywhere. It now has other productions planned
