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It's a few minutes before 8 a.m., and Tony Burgio and Dean Contreras are eating nearly identical breakfasts. Burgio has already polished off a bowl of grits before a server brings plates crowded with an omelet, home fries, and a buttered bagel. Another plate of doughnuts eyes them from the middle of the table. They devour their
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The totals: 1,536 American soldiers, 177 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 17,316 to 19,696 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to April 5. American soldiers killed from March 30 to April 5: Private First Class Samuel S. Lee, 19; Anaheim, California | Specialist Eric L. Toth, 21; Edmonton, Kentucky
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Scout registration: all together now When my son came off the school bus six years ago all amped up to join Cub Scouts, I was hesitant. But I've learned it's possible to love the Boy Scout program even if you don't agree with every policy. Since he joined, my son --- once quiet and
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Daniel Pipes, a conservative academic and ¸ber-pundit on all things Middle Eastern, will be speaking April 14 at the Rochester Institute of Technology, as part of the school's Gannett Lecture Series. And back in December, Pipes was declaring on his website that his appearance was "already generating more heat than light."
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Trend starters are often not trend setters. David Bowie and Alice Cooper didn't invent Glam Rock, but has anyone heard of the New York Dolls? I'm thinking about "gourmet" pizzas, those individual-sized, thin-crusted pies topped with everything from mango chutney to truffles. The trend-setter in our area might have been Ciao, and places like Benucci's have
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Film distributors often fill the odd intermezzo between the late-year Oscar shoehorning and the explosive appearance of those sure harbingers of warm weather, the blockbuster action flicks, with some small, sometimes unclassifiable pictures. The late winter dumping time may explain the considerable quantity of favorable publicity surrounding Mike Binder's new picture, The Upside of Anger. Its
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Dear Queen Latifah, Have I turned into some sort of Tinseltown power broker? About a month ago I mentioned in this space that I would like to see Djimon Hounsou (In America, Constantine) as the love interest in a romantic comedy, and now we've got Beauty Shop! I can't help but conclude that you saw
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If commitment made record contracts, MC Beneficial would be rich by now. The young rapper's first CD dropped last week. Called Great Expectations, it took a year and a half to put together. And with all that work, he made sure it looked and sounded right. "A lot of people, they just record in somebody's attic, burn
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"Dead wrong": Don't you just love the words? The information that led the United States into war in Iraq --- the information that is said to have led the United States into war in Iraq --- was dead wrong, according to the presidential commission investigating the pre-war intelligence. That, apparently, will be the end of the story. What
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Adolf Hitler wrote in Mien Kampf "The people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." The key is to keep repeating it over and over. For the second time in three years, the Bush administration is using the Big Lie Technique to advance its agenda. The first Big Lie was the
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Sally Howard, one of the organizers of this year's Alternatives in Living conference, is particularly excited about a track called "renewing citizenship and community." "I think it is an incredibly important time for us to not retreat into our caves," she says. "With all of the adversity that came out of the last few years
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PUSHING PESTICIDES Thank you for noting the opt-in provision of the state neighbor-notification law (Metro Ink, March 16), which would require application companies to notify neighbors 48 hours before applying commercial pesticides to next-door property. The "turf wars" are often portrayed as arguments
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The best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival didn't go to an international critics' darling like Javier Bardem or Gael Garcia Bernal but to a 14-year-old boy named Yagira Yuya. His subtle, heartbreaking performance anchors Nobody Knows, the latest film by talented Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. Inspired by events that occurred in late
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In 1990, the Motion Picture Association of America invented the NC-17 rating to slap on Henry & June (Saturday, April 16, Dryden Theatre, 8 p.m., 271-4090, $6), Philip Kaufman's look at the stormy and steamy relationship between writers Anais Nin and Henry Miller and their muse, Henry's wife June. Not explicit enough for an X
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By most accounts, Julie Buck has established a successful career. After years of schooling, she's now working at Harvard University's Film Archives preserving materials on the verge of utter extinction. But it's what she's most widely known for --- her work preserving and presenting vintage porn --- that has made her career a taboo subject among her
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This Friday and Saturday, in conjunction with the exhibit The Art of the Print at Rochester Contemporary, master printer Bill Goldston of Universal Limited Art Editions will show and discuss original prints by contemporary artists like Jasper Johns, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Rauschenberg, Lisa Yuskavage, James Rosenquist, and others. The discussion and exhibition are presented by local
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The big Social Security crisis the Bush administration is keeping in the headlines is serving as a big distraction. The real crisis resides with Medicare/Medicaid. Yet the administration hardly ever mentions this fact. We wonder why. Given the mendacity of Bush and the mentality of his top advisors, it should not be hard to figure
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From the beginning of Mark Cuddy's Hamlet at Geva Theatre Center the production's clear priority is theatrical artifice. The purpose of playing, Hamlet says, is to hold a mirror up to nature; this Hamlet holds the mirror up to the stage. We begin with the Players, who show up in Shakespeare's text some seven scenes
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There's a saying that goes, "Do what you love and the money will follow." Most artists hope the adage is true, but it neglects to mention the necessary elements to get a person from the beginning of that statement to the end of it: talent, opportunity, and luck. Michael DeLuca is one of
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Take the elevator to the third floor of the Auditorium Center and see Portraits Friday or Saturday; there's no more time left. This revival of a show bountiful in musical pleasures and local talents will surprise, please, and satisfy you. The surprise is that, with few production values and no storyline, a full-length musical
