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Just a few years back, it seemed the Erie Canal was going through its most boosterish phase since 1825, the year the pioneering waterway opened. The old canal ditty that advised "Low bridge, everybody down" was rewritten as "High fives, everything's looking up."
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It took fencer Felicia Zimmermann a while to recover from a disappointing performance at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. "I'm like, 'I suck so bad! I suck!'" she remembers now with a self-deprecating laugh. "I was lost for a long time.
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Is there anything we take for granted more than the shape of the land around us? Sure, we're conscious of the streets and sidewalks, and we know how to find the malls and the parks. But how many of us ever stop to consider how the contours of the land came to be over
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Hollywood owes a considerable debt to the fertile genius of the late Philip K. Dick, the prolific science fiction writer whose work has inspired a variety of highly imaginative and highly successful movies: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and now, Paycheck. Unlike many of his colleagues, Dick concentrated on subjects and situations transcending the
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When the Danish band Ph¯nix (pronounced, roughly, "FooER-nicks") takes the stage at Milestones next week, it will be the second Scandinavian group to play Rochester in a year. Yggdrasil, whose members hail from Norway and the Faroe Islands, was featured at last summer's Rochester International Jazz Festival. But while that incarnation of Yggdrasil (there have
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Tim Burton's Big Fish (opens Friday, January 9) is a lot like that FedEx commercial where the young office worker suggests using the overnight delivery company to save money and then tells the story of his claim to fame over and over until the day he dies. Thankfully, the "story" in Fish is much
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Man, what a great year it's been so far. I guess I'm still waiting for the other shoe to fall. Sure, there're a few new maladies, a couple more gray hairs, but rock 'n' roll is still pogoing all around me. And you all look fabulous. Christmas shopping was a cinch: I bought potholes
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The big-tent stakes I read with interest "Under the Big Tent: Can County Democrats Get Their Act Together?" (December 23). While I agree with many of the assertions, I take exception to a few points. First, despite City's contention that Stephanie Aldersley's ascension to
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Crime. Poverty. Drugs. To talk about the problems facing certain areas in the city of Rochester in 2004 is to talk about what has been eating steadily away at the community for years. You might imagine the same conversation taking place in 2001.
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Our winter scene breeds Scrooges if left to its own devices. Prizes like the Golden Snowball Award, an unofficial prize given last year to the Upstate city with the highest snowfall, bring only a small smile amidst snow heaps, icy winds, and flu strains.
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The idea of a Performing Arts Center in downtown Rochester is not new. And Rochester Broadway Theatre League Board Chairman Arnie Rothschild has been a key player in arts-center discussions since the beginning. The initial idea --- developed in 1997 by a broadly
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The calendars in City Newspaper will keep you apprised of event details and updates on a weekly basis. But here is an outline of important winter happenings to help you sketch out in advance your personal must-do and must-see lists. Mark days on the calendar, scout out tickets, and look forward to a
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To state the doubly obvious: The national Republican Party is united around its 2004 presidential candidate, George W. Bush, who may be elected or re-elected, depending on how you look at it. And the national Democratic Party is divided nine ways as the primary season opens, with (in alphabetical order) Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, John
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Typically, when a multi-million dollar development project in the heart of a city is announced, the mayor of that city knows all about the project before the news hits the papers. But that wasn't the case last week when Governor George Pataki pledged
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In 1971, Ms. Magazine ran a satire by Judy Syfers titled "Why I Want a Wife." In the now-classic piece of feminist humor (and as this play points out, feminism and humor are not incompatible), Syfers discussed how a male friend of hers, recently divorced, was looking for a new wife, and the author
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No incumbents? No problem. People just shaking off the last bits of holiday reverie might be surprised to find that the person representing them in the county legislature is not who they elected to serve. Nearly a third of the 16-member Republican caucus
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"I don't know if you've ever had the experience where your eyes are shut but you can still see through your lids?" Lydia Samuel-Hanselman is telling the story of one of her scariest encounters with a spirit. Late one night, several years ago,
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It's just too easy to sit around and lament Rochester's winter weather. We all live here; we know how cold and snowy it is outside. We know the feeling of slush in our shoes. We know what it is to scrape the car off every time we park it. Enough already.
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Sometimes the serious contemplation of contemporary cinema leads one down the dark and winding path of depression and despair. The release of Chasing Liberty, a movie apparently intended as a vehicle for the alleged pop singer Mandy Moore, prompts a measure of that contemplation and certainly a good deal more than a modicum of melancholy.
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It wasn't a smart decision, and deep down Darrell Dietrich had to know that. But the idea of snowmobiling for a few days at his family's campsite was just so alluring that no ferocious snowstorm --- not even one that dumped four feet of snow in a matter of hours --- was going
