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"We're having a fun summer in Henrietta," says Jim Breese, town supervisor for 18 years now. Breese is referring to a rift in Henrietta's Republican political establishment, which definitely hasn't been amusing itself lately. The rift will be on display in Henrietta voting booths September 9.
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Maybe you can come home again. In 1991, three acknowledged masters --- choreographer Garth Fagan, musician Wynton Marsalis, and sculptor Martin Puryear --- collaborated on an evening-long work, Griot New York. The premiere at Brooklyn Academy received rave reviews, as did the international performances.
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None of the women in the little club are standing still. Short-skirted and spike-heeled, they risk spilling Sangria as they hip-sway to the relentless Latin beat. Horns wail. Congas throb. Couples dance. Everybody is touching somebody. Tapas, a small club in the St. Paul Quarter, is hot and intimate, its dance floor swelling to capacity,
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Beginning with its title, which promises something quirky and unusual, the new movie from Alan Rudolph depends upon a number of deceptions, intended or not, that may fool the public (as, judging by the superlatives in the advertisements, they have already fooled the reviewers) into actually paying money to see it. Rudolph himself has spent
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There are a pair of 40-minute Middle Eastern films screening at the Dryden Theatre this Saturday (September 6). Each makes its Rochester debut and each arrives with buckets full of praise from people whose hearts go out to the ridiculously oppressed citizens of the countries represented by the shorts (Yemen and Iran).
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Let me be Systems Analyst for a day. As I see things, the health-care, financial system, and energy systems are like Tinker Toys. Stick the pieces together and hope they stay stuck. Controlled chaos masquerades as policy. It's so crazy, it just
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Labor Day off the farm Despite their vital role in our lives, locally employed migrant farmworkers --- the people who pick the fruits and vegetables we eat every day --- seem to be the great unknown. Many of them spend the summer working on area farms, isolated from the people who benefit from their labor. And
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'Business as usual' Strong Board or Weak Board? There has been little thoughtful weighing of this question, but the community must understand what is at stake before any further snuffing out of democracy for city residents in that most American grassroots institution --- the elected local school board.
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The town of Chili has almost classically developed a "negative capability." The town's politics are to a large extent defined by something that's not there, a plan that didn't happen. The non-entity is the Chili Thruway exit, which, had it become a reality, would have brought heavy traffic onto Route 259 in the southern part
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Talk about a slogan with a place-name that works. "Meet Me on Mt. Hope" tells you where to go, in a very positive way, and how to feel. The invitation will soon make a monumental debut.
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This week's cover story can only be read in the printed version of City Newspaper.
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The appearance of the new movie Matchstick Men underlines the surprising versatility of its director, Ridley Scott. He at times seems something of a throwback to the old studio system, when a great many talented, dedicated, hard-working people turned out all sorts of motion pictures without a great deal of thought about how they would
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From the thick of the 28th Toronto International Film Festival, here is the lowdown on the most notable films so far. The Good Coffee & Cigarettes: Not so much a film as a collection of shorts Jim Jarmusch started making back in 1986 (for Saturday Night Live, no less). Each features a few actors sitting around drinking coffee,
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Ed Hamell is bald. I mean Yul Brynner, cue-ball, Kojak bald. A regular guitar-wielding chrome dome. Yet when he mailed me a copy of his cool new disc, Tough Love, the package included an official Hamell On Trial comb. Yup, this Ed Hamell is an anti-folk smart aleck.
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'It don't mean a thing if...' After a long pause, a brave soul spoke up: "To swing." Satisfied with the young bass player's interpretation of a rhythm section's function, trumpeter and "jazz spokesman" Wynton Marsalis replied, "To swing... Hard." Welcome to Wynton's place, where
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Marion Hawks likely would have spent this past Saturday at home, listening to the Metropolitan Opera on National Public Radio. And at night, she surely would have gone to the Eastman Theatre to see Garth Fagan Dance --- one of her life's great treasures --- perform in a sold-out Griot New York.
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Do they have the money? Reporters and lawmakers have been trying to get the Rochester Rhinos to answer that question since the genesis of the PaeTec Park proposal in 2000.
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Forget Wegmans Wegmans has announced it will close its Mt. Hope Avenue store before Thanksgiving. The space is outdated and small, and although management considered expanding the site, Wegmans spokewoman Jo Natale said the cost of expansion and renovation is too high. When the store closes, Wegmans will have only two supermarkets left in the
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'Prime' numbers A couple Monroe County towns fired their leaders last week. In Chili, incumbent supervisor Steve Hendershott lost to County Legislator Tracy Logel in the Republican primary, 1,207 to 815. Hendershott goes on to the general election on the
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Where's City? If ever there was a need for the alternative media, it is now. Yet City Newspaper --- once our oasis in a vast desert --- seems to remain silent as major shocks to our democracy are occurring.
