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When Max owner and chef Tony Gullace met me and his other chefs, Dan Eaton and Mark Cupolo, he'd already been at the Public Market an hour. Tony agreed to 7 a.m., but a creature of habit, he'd been up and about well before 6. He's loved the market for years, but it's all
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During a training camp session on a sauna-like day, running back Travis Henry spots a photographer shooting pictures of him from about 40 feet away. He smiles, points, then flashes the thumbs-up sign. The 25-year-old is cheerful and relaxed, exhibiting little concern that former University of Miami superstar Willis McGahee is starting for him while
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The important connection between the detective and his quarry, a staple of the mystery story since Poe, undergoes a peculiar metamorphosis in our time. Based on the evidence of both history and headlines, the serial killer is the culprit of choice these days, supplanting such quaint figures of the past as the safecracker, the
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The devil just ain't evil anymore. In fact, evil ain't what it used to be. Satan has been co-opted by Disney and being bad has just been plain played out. As soon as artists figured bad was a good career move, good music by bad people became a thing of the past... until now. Texan Scott
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It's the battle that almost wasn't. After failing to win the Democratic Party's nomination for a school-board seat last year (he finished fifth in a race for four seats), Domingo Garcia intended to shelve his political ambitions for good. There's little doubt now that some in his party wish he'd stuck to that plan. This year, though, Garcia's
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REVIVING DOWNTOWN Year after year, we keep recycling the same idea: we need to attract people downtown by demolishing X and constructing Y that people from the suburbs and beyond will flock to. It never seems to occur to anyone that the goal should be to attract permanent settlers rather than transient visitors.
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For Domingo Garcia, his presence in the upcoming Democratic primary for school board is something of a surprise. At 64, he's become an elder statesman for Rochester's Hispanic community and boasts an impeccable activist resume --- involvement with organizations like the Ibero American Action League (which he helped found), the National Puerto Rican Coalition, and
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Shit, I have to stop swearing. I've been trying to quit since I had my first child a decade ago. But it's so hard. Even before George Carlin got in trouble for his shtick about the seven words you can't say on the air, I started swearing. When I first heard curses on the
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Cynthia Elliott's fed up. And she's not the only one, she says. A look at the Rochester City School district's graduation rates frustrates most parents and community leaders, she says. For Elliott, it was enough to get her into the race for a seat on the school board. "I'm disappointed in the graduation rate of our
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"Are you worried?" a friend asked the other day. You bet I am. We're nine weeks away from the presidential election, and Kerry and Bush are still in a virtual tie in the polls. Bush continues to swat away the bad news as if it's no more concern than a mosquito. And Kerry
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I missed parts one and two of Peter Hinton's The Swanne and just now caught the finale of this ambitious new Canadian trilogy, The Swanne: Queen Victoria (The Seduction of Nemesis). The title may suggest some of its problems. The play is a too-elaborate historical fantasy in which the young Queen Victoria writes a
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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 soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed during the occupation of Iraq. The totals: 978 American soldiers, 131 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 11,717 to 13,724 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the
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Job Information Center My parents were champions of the "unfortunate," which meant that my 11 siblings and I were also involved. Fundraisers, suppers, bake sales, Christmas morning package deliveries. You name it. Our little army was out in force to serve the many people in our small Southern Tier community who suddenly found themselves without
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People For A Better Bus System and the RGRTA have different definitions of "citizen input." "I think their idea of citizen input is like, 'OK, we'll help you pick out the flower boxes when this thing's all done,'" says PFABBS member Luke Lorenzo. PFABBS started in November 2003, when a group of concerned citizens
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Astral Travel Workshop, Saturday, August 21 Pastor Robin Higgins of Plymouth Spiritualist Church explains bilocation: "Your spirit can travel when you sleep. It goes where your soul has to go in order to be with whoever needs you. You look different to [the person you're visiting], but you can be in two places at once."
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A glance at New York's 29th congressional district reveals a stark lack of symmetry. At the bottom --- etched in bold, nearly straight lines --- lies a block of rural counties, stacked four wide along the Pennsylvania border. Extending from this, like a hand grasping northward, a crooked, zigzagging piece of the district reaches toward Rochester,
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Anyone physically close to the Rochester crew that marched through New York City last week knows how determination smells --- musty and rank, like a high-school locker room. While many of the 5,000 delegates to the Republican convention stayed in swanky hotels, ate at
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The events of September 11 didn't turn 29-year-old Jeremy Glick into an activist; he's been one all his life. Glick, a star of Robert Greenwald's documentary, "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," lost his father in the destruction of the WorldTradeCenter. He has since become known for his outspoken criticism of the Bush administration.
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The soul of reading Many books have fed me over the years. The books I knew and loved as a child took root in my soul, where they've lived for a lifetime. And now, when I see these books, it's like finding a lost love, or reconnecting with a soul I knew in another
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Some sports fans are disgusted when players fight, but they really ought to appreciate its significance. When Montreal's Nevio Pizzolitto punched Rochester's Lenin Steenkamp in the face as they headed to the locker room during the Rhinos' 2-0 win on August 27, it indicated passion. I don't care whether Pizzolitto cheap-shotted Steenkamp, or Steenkamp
