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Sheriff Bush put on his holster after Wall Street failed to heed Preacher Bush's sermonettes. The new disguise worked momentarily, and market indicators went up. Townsfolk cheered as three bad guys --- Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and sons --- were arrested and booked for "one of the most extensive financial frauds ever to take
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Investing in children Thank you for providing more evidence that our elected officials do not care about children until they are old enough to lock up ("No Protection for Child Protectors," July 17). Most of us are
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Back in the 1950s, the heyday of the alien invasion flick, it really meant something when those saucers hovered over great cities, zapping buildings and disintegrating people with their death rays, and uniting the world in opposition to defeat the otherwise superior beings from outer space, who of course filled in for the Red Menace.
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Beginning with its ending and cobbled together via out-of-order celluloid chunks in the vein of Pulp Fiction, Jill Sprecher's sophomore offering, 13 Conversations About One Thing, (also opening Friday at the Little) is as brilliant a second film as you're likely to see.
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Talent is never enough, at least not in the art world. Of course talent's important, but timing is everything. And if an artist wanted to be noticed, the early 20th century was no time to be doing Rembrandt. Portrait of Life: The Etchings
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Along the timeline of death penalty reform, 1978 was a relatively slow year. According to Amnesty International, only Denmark outlawed the practice that year. Meanwhile in the US, partly because of contradictory court decisions on the question, society was in a political and moral knot.
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OK. I'll ask the question again: just what kind of community do we want? You've read the news. To make ends meet, County Exec Jack Doyle is going to lay off hundreds of county employees and
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"George Pataki is desperate to keep Tom Golisano off the ballot," reads a recent ad paid for by the Tom Golisano for Governor Committee. Despite Pataki's commanding lead in the polls so far, that assertion is not as absurd as it sounds.
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One of the most eye-opening, hilarious shows you're likely to see for some time is playing at Shipping Dock Theatre through the end of this month (and ought to be extended past then). In The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives, Mo
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Mary Lynn Vickers, The Phantom Chef, thinks personal chefs are a natural step from popular services such as personal trainers. Personal chefs seem to me to fit more with trends around saving time. Many folks hire cleaning services, and supermarkets are focusing more and more on prepared foods.
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Of all the new releases I'm fired up over, there's none more exciting than Peter Pan's new Honey Roast Peanut Butter. This could be the new crack. If the church replaced communion wafers with this goo, maybe I'd go back. Buy this for a date as opposed to the obligatory Alabama slammer. Deee-licious.
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At the age of 72, when most of his peers no doubt contemplate the sunset of their lives and professions, Clint Eastwood obviously retains both his creative intelligence and, perhaps more surprisingly, his on-screen appeal. One of America's most accomplished contemporary filmmakers, he
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When I was in grammar school, there was this one kid (we'll call him Butch) who was light years ahead of everyone else physically. I even remember our phys ed teacher shaking his head over Butch's amazing abilities, which were on display no matter what goofy sport we were being forced to participate in.
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The buzz had hardly died down from June's Rochester International Jazz Festival, but festival promoter John Nugent was back in town last week attempting to garner support from business and government leaders for next year's festival. Over the next few weeks we'll
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If America is the Invisible University, Rochester is surely one of the institution's biggest colleges. Look hard enough and you can probably find a course in nearly any imaginable subject, night or day. Expand your definition of "informal education," and the learning opportunities in this town are limitless.
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Happiness was a warm gun The arms race is not a modern phenomenon. Long before the Cold War, cave dwellers stockpiled rocks to use as weapons. And for one brief moment between the rocks and the missiles, Rochester made a contribution to the history of weaponry.
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In a world where everyone is an expert at something, my lack of expertise in any one area is a problem. I'm surrounded by professionals: doctors, educators, curators, software gurus. In lieu of grad school, which seems really hard and expensive, continuing education is my only hope.
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'We didn't want this' In your article "Clear Cut on Rundel" (July 31), both Environmental Commissioner Edward Doherty and the Landmark Society's Peter Siegrist claim to be "following the wishes of the neighbors" as the reason for the dismantling of the Rundel Park streetscape. As a 25-year resident of the street, I object to summarizing
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"Field interview form." It sounds like something a reporter might pull from a back pocket. But an "FIF" is not blank or neutral. It's a controversial tool of neighborhood policing. It's also an indicator of what people on the street are up to,
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Motorists have reason to celebrate --- at least in the short term. As part of County Executive Jack Doyle's proposed 2003 budget cuts, the county will no longer pay towns to resurface, sweep, and otherwise maintain county roads. If approved by the Legislature this fall, the move would save the county almost $1.5 million next
