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Tom Hampson has been an avid birdwatcher since he was a child growing up in Allegheny National Forest. He's been a jazz lover since his teenage years and a radio host since his college days. But his listeners may still have been surprised the night he did a show of jazz tunes based on
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The producers of The Butterfly Effect open the movie with a prose epigraph citing the familiar statement from chaos theory about the beating of a butterfly's wing on one side of the planet eventually leading to hurricanes on the other, as if that notion explained their picture.
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Residing in a city with a film festival that has trouble getting its big name honorees to show up (failure might be impossible, but so is luring Pam Grier and Lainie Kazan to Upstate after Columbus Day), it practically made me giggle to hear that the 6th annual Sarasota Film Festival, which wrapped
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The distance between the coat check and the stage at the Blue Note may have been only a few dozen yards, but to Claudia AcuŅa, in the mid-1990s, it sometimes seemed miles way. AcuŅa took the coat-check job at the world famous Manhattan jazz
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This year's presidential election will be one of the most important in the nation's history. Voters will decide whether to re-elect a man whose policies are destroying much of what the nation stands for, are alienating other nations of the world, and are fueling terrorism.
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The word "librarian" may not conjure up the image of a guy laughing over a stack of records. But Gerry Szymanski is no ordinary librarian. "It seems that pop music covers are the ones that are the goofiest," says Szymanski, circulation services librarian
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The best school for your children may not be the one within walking distance. Instead of being theoretically tied to their neighborhood school, city kindergarteners next school year will have a choice of several schools. The schools available to them depend on
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Bound for Iraq with a seven-person peace delegation, 21-year-old Khury Petersen-Smith was waiting for a connector flight in Amsterdam. He spied a half dozen Americans in the airport, all headed for Iraq, and all wearing the "KBR" logo. He knew that stands for
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In a recession that won't say die, words like "underemployed" and "underpaid" take on a life of their own. They also consume some people's lives. City resident Brent James knows this.
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Everybody runs in Ray Cooney's Run For Your Wife. John Smith, the taxi driver who's married to two different wives, runs all over London trying to hide them from each other and, for that matter, also trying to hide two different policemen and two upstairs tenants --- all from one another, and the truth from
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"Abolitionist" and "suffragist" are two terms that describe Rochester's early heroes. We can now add a third: slave trader.Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, the businessman who made his fortune in grain, nails, rope, and banking in the South before moving to Upstate New York,also made money buying and selling slaves.Rochester's involvement in
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The appearance of Miracle, a docudrama about the remarkable victory of the United States hockey team over the USSR in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, provides an occasion to teach a lesson in the history of the later 20th century. A long
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Around the beginning of every year, this newspaper's publishers and editorial staff review their efforts from the previous year and outline goals for the coming year. Over the next several weeks, we'll be filling you in on those reviews and plans --- and asking for your comments.
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For the past three years, Rochester filmmaker Matthew Ehlers' short films have been selected to be part of the Sundance Film Festival. At the 2004 Festival, January 15 to 25, he was there promoting his most recent entry, a three-minute comedy called Who's Your Daddy? Ehlers kept a diary of his journey: 10 days filled
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It's the beat, the beat, the beat. OK, so Chuck Berry had the licks and Elvis got all the chicks. Buddy Holly had the twang and Little Richard made 'em shake that thang. But Bo... Bo Diddley had the beat. The Bo Diddley beat.
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This year's presidential election will be one of the most important in the nation's history. Voters will decide whether to re-elect a man whose policies are destroying much of what the nation stands for, are alienating other nations of the world, and are fueling terrorism.
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The Genessee Valley Park Ice Rink offers adult skate times on weekday and Sunday mornings, and Frank Binsack is usually there all six days. Binsack, who retired from Kodak in 1994, started skating the same year to get in shape. He's still skating 10 years later because he loves the sport, and the regulars.
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George Bush|burgers| Voter madness White House reporter Helen Thomas calls George W. Bush "the worst president in American history." One look at how we go about selecting our presidents indicates why we've done such a poor job recently. A rational voter would take a hard look at the candidate's history and performance in public life, and
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Don't know much about the Livable Communities Initiative? Bet you know even less than you think. You can stop looking for that pot of gold at the end of the LCI rainbow. Not only is there no gold. There's no rainbow, either.
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During a recent "Tuesday Topics" talk at the Central Library, Rochester Police Chief Robert Duffy laid out the causes of urban homicide. "Look into our homes," he said, referring to family relationships or the lack of them. "It all starts there." Yet the
