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The tail-end of a night on the town. It's 2 a.m. Love is in the air, the air that now occupies the space where you left your car hours before. Towed!
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Distinguished alumni continue to return to the Stratford Festival to make its 50th anniversary season stellar indeed. Alumnus Brent Carver, a Tony Award-winner for Kiss of the Spider Woman, returns to Stratford in the world premiere of Timothy Findley's play, Shadows. Findley, an
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Shohei Imamura's Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, which screens this Friday at the Dryden Theatre, is, at least at its foundation, remarkably similar to his critically acclaimed film The Eel. Both movies deal with a middle-aged, white-collar office drone who leaves a big city life to take up with a bunch of
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That flashy, fabulous, and complicated entity familiarly known as Hollywood occupies so large and so important an area of the American cultural landscape that it provides a readily recognizable source of satire --- it's easy to make fun of the absurdity and exaggeration of the film industry, and nobody ever misses the joke. In
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Johannesburg seems a world away, and the Earth Summit a world apart. Or so it seems to Americans, thanks to our head of state, who --- unlike 100 of his peers --- will not be attending. But the summit is actually the
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The R.A.T.S. pack Are you between the ages of 20 and 29? Are you sick of sitting home, pulling bongloads, and playing Sega until your thumbs bleed? Tired of the bar scene? Wish you could meet and mingle with people your own age without flunkies from the Zone showing up and trying to give you
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Whose rights? In "Taking the FIF" (August 14), Jack Bradigan Spula presents statistics that, like all statistics, leave unanswered questions. For example: "The NYCLU report shows that drug activity accounts for 55 percent of FIFs; no other 'context' accounts for more than 10 percent."
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As all students of the contemporary cinema know, and most reviewers tediously reiterate, the change of seasons from summer to fall should also signal a transformation in the variety of entertainment flickering in the multiple tense darknesses of the megaplexes. Accepted wisdom preaches
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Caption: Profound statements, profound moves: Gray Mayfield comes of age. Gray Mayfield will never forget the day Wynton Marsalis showed up at his dorm room. "A friend of mine used to study with Wynton. He was always saying, 'I'm going to contact Wynton
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Right or wrong, area foodies consider the west side something of a culinary wasteland. For haute cuisine, the East End has the Rio, Tonic, Max, and 2 Vine; the eastern suburbs have Joey B's, the Erie Grill, and the Victor Grilling Company. Out west, you've got Bernard's Grove and, well, Bernard's Grove.
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Agricultural Society Fair, Genesee Country Nature Center, 1410 Flint Hill Rd, Mumford (538-6822, www.geneseecountryvillage.org): A country fair, 19th-century style, with food, livestock and crafts. Oct. 5-6. Apple Umpkin Festival, Gaslight Village, Rte, 19 LeRoy (493-3320): Sept 28-29. AutumnFest: "A Celebration of the Earth": Genesee Country Nature Center, 1410 Flint Hill Rd, Mumford (538-6822, www.geneseecountryvillage.org): nature discovery, Native American
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Chris Arduser Hostage Drummers have a mostly deserved reputation for being knuckleheads. On the other hand, folks come along every now and then who step out from behind the kit to display broad musical gifts made all the more wonderful by the perspective of a percussionist. Levon Helm, Phil Collins, and even Karen Carpenter come to
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As the new Robert De Niro film demonstrates, even so ostensibly simple and relatively ancient a form (at least for the cinema) as the cop flick, even in the blockbuster blossom time, possesses the potential to be more than mysteries, manhunts, and shootouts. Based on a true story, City by the Sea examines not only
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Local 1570 Gallery, Valley Manor, 1570 East Avenue (442-8470): "Art for the Soul," with work by Eve Bothelho, Coral Dalton, M. Wendy Gwirtzman, Raphaella McCormack; opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Sept. 20; through Oct. 31. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-Fri. American Association of University Women (AAUW) Art Forum, 494 East Ave (244-8890): "Retrospective," woodcuts by Jeanne Card, through
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Example for the nations by Jack Bradigan Spula Just a year ago, while the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the wrecked Flight 93 were still burning, I used an Emily Dickinson poem, "After great pain," in a reactive, reflective essay. The poem's insistence on
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The 27thToronto International Film Festival, which continues to unspool even as you read this, is many things to many people. For some, it's an early indicator of which upcoming films might be Oscar contenders (five of the last six winners of the People's Choice Award for the audience's favorite film have gone on to nab multiple
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30th Annual Rochester Book Fair, benefits the University of Rochester Libraries: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 21, the Student Life Center, St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Avenue. (From 10 a.m.-12 p.m., have up to 3 books professionally assessed for $2 apiece.) Info: 275-4461. Barnes & Noble-Pittsford, 3349 Monroe Ave (586-6020): Miriam Grace Monfredo signs Children of Cain, 7
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The 27thToronto International Film Festival, which continues to unspool even as you read this, is many things to many people. For some, it's an early indicator of which upcoming films might be Oscar contenders (five of the last six winners of the People's Choice Award for the audience's favorite film have gone on to nab multiple
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Blackfriars Theatre, 28 Lawn St (454-1260; www.blackfriars.org): Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, Oct. 5-26. Dirty Blonde, Dec. 7-29, with performances Dec. 31. Fully Committed, March 1-22. Rags: A Musical, May 3-24, 2003. Tickets: $20-$22; $35 on New Year's Eve. Bristol Valley Theatre, 151 S. Main St, Naples (374-6318; www.bvtnaples.org): Horseplay!, 8 p.m. Sept. 20-21. In My Head I'm Thin, 8
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The headline is a phrase I've borrowed from journalist Pete Hamill. On a recent Lehrer NewsHour, Hamill used it in referring to last September's attack on New York City. And it's the most apt description I've seen. I have sought, over the past
