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Some rules are meant to be broken. The state recently made an exception to one of its own policies and allowed the Brighton Town Board to expand the county's Empire Zone boundaries several months before schedule. The measure, which was approved during
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Red Wing Jason Bartlett is playing his first AAA season in the International League and his fourth season in the minor leagues. San Diego drafted the Lodi, California, native from University of Oklahoma in June 2001 and traded him to Minnesota in July 2002. "Publication Baseball America" named the 24-year-old shortstop Minnesota's sixth-best prospect
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Missing Spula There is disturbing silence about Rochester because one of our area's most able environmental reporters is not on the job. We cannot begin to fix the environment if we do not know what is going on. Most of us do not
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In addition to its obvious relevance to some important and up-to-date scientific issues, Godsend owes as much to Mary Shelley's grand Gothic novel Frankenstein --- and a century of its proliferating cinematic progeny --- as to today's headlines. While the new
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The state of Main Street: treasures, problems Jack BradiganSpula's article on Main Street (April 14) is the first time I've seen our fine and historical Penguin Restaurant (my "inn") ever mentioned in an article. It's a restaurant I recall through many years and changes of ownership, as far back as when it was frequented by the co-eds
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We all know April showers bring May flowers, but do you know what May flowers bring? No, not Pilgrims. In these parts, Shakespeare's darling buds of May herald the unspooling of the Rochester International Film Festival, better known as Movies on a Shoestring.
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Over the past couple of months there has been quite a bit written about the Village of Brockport Police Department relative to the laying off of police officers and the elimination of shifts. A number of these articles, including the one in City ("Cops on Trial," March 31), contained numerous quotes, opinions, and theories but
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In Envy, Jack Black and Ben Stiller play coworkers. Black invents something that makes dog waste disappear. Stiller fails to invest in the cockamamie scheme and loses out on the resultant windfall. Black builds a life of absurd, cartoon opulence across the street from his friend. Stiller becomes envious and reckless.
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As rock 'n' roll's swagger staggers under the weight of its disproportionate masculinity (you know, too many dudes), women with the appropriate stance and guts are keeping it somehow viable, visceral, and real. It's still a man's world, but women like The Breeder's Kim Deal, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Deborah Harry, or yes, even Madonna
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I love The Grinders. I mean I love me some mailman Todd. But I'm not sure I dig 'em in a big venue like Water Street Music Hall, where they warmed the boards for The Chesterfield Kings two weeks ago. They still sounded great, and sure, they've earned the right to rock a huge crowd
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Imagine you've spent four years fulfilling what you thought were the requirements of your major, minor, or certificate, only to receive a thick envelope from the office of the university registrar less than two months before graduation. You open it and find that you've been "audited" by someone who doesn't believe you're really finished.
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Center Stage at Jewish Community Center has mounted a first-class revival of Israel Horovitz's popular, appealing play, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard. An elegantly composed interplay for two actors, it is both heartwarming and funny. Horovitz is one of our most prolific playwrights,
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To honor the war dead and fill an information gap in US mass media, City Newspaper will run weekly lists of American/"Coalition" soldiers and Iraqi citizens killed during the ongoing occupation of Iraq. The totals: 753 American soldiers, 106 "Coalition" soldiers, and approximately 9,000 Iraqi soldiers and 10,750 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since the
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Read the US Constitution. No matter how long you search, you will never find the phrase "eminent domain." It is a legal procedure that authorizes the government to take private property for a price it deems appropriate, whether or not the owner
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If Wegmans proceeds with its plans to double the size of its East Avenue store, only one thing seems to be certain: That section of East Avenue near Winton Road --- generally considered the gateway to the East Avenue Preservation District --- may change. Drastically.
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Crossing cultures Several years ago, my husband and I had the opportunity to live for an extended time with the Saami (Lapp), the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. One of the most provocative questions asked of us while we were there was, "Are we exotic enough for you?"
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BUSH, HERE AND ABROAD What a wonderful world Bush is creating. We "liberate" Afghanistan, renege on promises to rebuild the country, and stand by (and perhaps cooperate) as warlords and the drug trade flourish. We "free" Iraq by killing tens of thousands
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It looks hopeless. The Sherbrooke Canadiens trounce the visiting Amerks 6-1 in game five of the 1987 Calder Cup Finals, and lead the best-of-seven series 3-2. The Canadiens are in the zone, the Amerks in the toilet. They lost consecutive games --- one at the War Memorial --- by a 13-4 margin. It's time
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It's bloom time Our 10-day homage to the heady lilac has returned: This year's Lilac Festival will run from Friday, May 14, through Sunday, May 23. The festival doesn't only give us more incentive to enjoy the well-designed acres of Highland Park,
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The lavish new vampire movie, Van Helsing opens, appropriately, with a sequence that combines back story with an act of homage to the long, rich history of horror. Shot in black and white, with the classic Expressionist oblique angles, the opening duplicates the famous laboratory from the Frankenstein movies.
