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It's pretty early on a Thursday night --- just 10:30 p.m. --- but East Avenue at Alexander Street is already jumping. People are everywhere: The Old Toad, BarFly, Whiskey, Coyote Joe's. By midnight, elbowroom at the hottest spots and any hope of decent parking are long gone.
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In addition to all the millions spent on the familiar publicity blitz and the subsequent stories and interviews in that coalition of the willing known as the media, in the movie business, context still counts. In the decade leading up to the year 2000, the apocalypse that never arrived (remember the disappointment of certain
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Where there's water, there's life. If the water is threatened, however, so is the life. That's the message environmentalists have been trying to get across for years concerning the Great Lakes basin, which, in the later half of the 20th century, has taken a huge hit from development and misuse.
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"I know I'm really lucky. I think I'm really happy." So declares Natalie (Natalie Picoe, pictured) in the opening voiceover of Nosey Parker, John O'Brien's sweet slice of life. But even the most novice moviegoer will know something is rotten in the State of Vermont (played here by itself, in all its shameless autumnal glory).
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While the rich are getting tax cuts, the neediest amongst us may literally lose their roofs. Included on the list of social services being gutted by the Bush Administration is Section 8, a federal housing program that provides aid to about two million
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How did Ishtar (1987), director Elaine May's fourth and final feature, come to be the ultimate shorthand for cinematic failure? While it's far from perfect, Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman eventually manage to wrangle some chemistry out of their time together on-screen, and the film is often quite funny. So what happened?
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Trying to classify guitarist James Blood Ulmer just doesn't work. The best term I've seen to describe his music had to be invented: avant-gutbucket. Ulmer came into prominence in the avant-garde jazz scene of the 1970s when he was closely associated
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The new album by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Bon RÍve, has been called "the Sgt. Pepper of Cajun music." After beginning as a traditional Cajun band 15 years ago, Riley and the Playboys veered into experimentation. Riley acknowledges that the previous two albums "jumped all over the place, but this one is pretty
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Frances Wilson, a retiree, holds a baby named Elijah in her arms as she waits for their turn to play a game called "What's in the sock?" Both are grinning. Wilson and Elijah are part of Generations, a care center at 234
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BOOK DROP CONCERNS I wish to correct some statements and impressions from your article "Book Drop" (May 19) about the pending Swasey-Rhees Library merger. ï "It has become impossible to maintain the library's $425,000 budget."
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I was shocked and dismayed to read of your proposal to demolish buildings on East Avenue extending from your store to Winton Road. The parcel contains a number of small structures that are assets to the community and
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Water Street Music Hall is presenting its first fully staged rock musical, a sensational production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch. But you can bet this won't be its last. Produced here in Rochester --- mostly by
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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: 810 American soldiers, 111 "Coalition" soldiers, and approximately 9,000 Iraqi soldiers and 10,750 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since the
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If you happen to pass by St. Paul's Episcopal Church on a Monday evening, you may hear a thundering, percussive noise. If it piques your curiosity, you might walk over to the steel grates and look down through the window into an old basement gymnasium.There you'll find the answer to
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The leading trumpet players of the last several decades coaxed no shortage of distinctive sounds out of the instrument. Miles Davis was known for evoking extraordinary pathos. Wynton Marsalis can make it sing with astounding clarity. And Jon Faddis can play in an upper register so high that you might
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When Oscar Peterson walked out on the Eastman Theatre stage Saturday evening, the Rochester International Jazz Festival audience responded with a tremendous ovation. Peterson appeared frail as he walked to the piano, but as soon as he began to play, all concern disappeared.
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The Real McKenzies seemed a little more focused on drinking than playing their show a few weeks back at The Club at Water Street. The B.C. band was positively wild and sounded like a party threatening to boil over. A mohawked, kilted cat bounding around the stage while playing the bagpipes is really something
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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: 825 American soldiers, 111 "Coalition" soldiers, and approximately 9,000 Iraqi soldiers and 11,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since the
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We don't often get to experience the stunned awareness in realizing that what stands (or hangs) before us isn't really what it seems. Recently, for us, it was realizing that what looked like an actual dress stretched out and pinned to the wall was, in fact, a digital photograph --- complete with all the
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Some men in their 60s and 70s are suing the state of Massachusetts for branding them "morons" as children and locking them away in the Fernald State School, a hideous institution where they were abused and fed radioactive oatmeal as part of a science experiment.
