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An hour before taking the stage Sunday night, the bald 18-year-old hunted for a good couch to nap on at Water Street Music Hall. The month before, Charlie CotÈ lay in a hospital bed at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, uncertain if he would respond to a last-resort treatment for malignant
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You're a sell out Bored by all the forums, press conferences, and hollow rhetoric? You're in luck: Rochester's race for mayor has become a lot more interesting. And all it took was a T-shirt. City Councilman Adam McFadden's custom-made T-shirts (modeled here at a Park Avenue cafÈ by City Newspaper intern Katie Sauer) are extremely limited
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The totals: 1,793 American soldiers, 194 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 23,140 to 26,189 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to July 31. American soldiers killed from July 24-31: Staff Sergeant Jason W. Montefering, 27; Parkston, South Dakota | Specialist Ernest W. Dallas Jr., 21; Denton, Texas | Sergeant Milton M.
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My pal Craig "I honestly believe that I'm smarter than most of my friends, and am genuinely surprised when they know words outside of everyday vocabulary. I don't think I'm better than them, just smarter." Ah, the furtive frolics of Internet bulletin boards and chat rooms. The illicit things we learn! They're the confessional booth, the pasted-up
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A savvy Rochester hipster can have an escort and an ounce of genuine "BC Bud" waiting for them at their Toronto hotel upon check-in. Though lacking an official European-style red light district, T-Dot's booming cannabis cafÈ and lady-for-hire industries are easily accessible. Seeking to lure the Yankee greenback, Toronto's New York State advertising campaign is billing the
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FINDING RACISM As the owner of a club in the East and Alexander area, I find Corey Adams' letter --- "Something's Sour in the SuffragistCity" (July 12) --- to be insulting, hypocritical, incendiary, and without merit. For a person who does not appreciate being stereotyped, and rightfully so, he seems to have no problem characterizing
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Swimming It's already been a long, hot summer, and we've still got the hottest month left. You can avoid the heat by holing up in movie theaters, but remember, we'll all be stuck indoors for seven months pretty soon. Our favorite way to survive the heat and still enjoy the summer is to swim outdoors. First
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Public safety has become one of the biggest issues in this year's campaign for Rochester mayor. In part, that's because after a decline, Rochester's murder rate has been rising. In part, it's because one of the Democratic candidates is Bob Duffy, the popular police chief who retired to run for mayor.
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Here at City Newspaper HQ, we get frequent email updates from the Rochester Police Department filling us in on the latest in local crime. Mostly, they just form a sad commentary. (You should see all the RPD messages with the subject header "Homicide" clogging our inbox.) But when one titled "Possible Fetus" arrived a couple
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City: What specific steps will you take within the police department to reduce crime? Mains: Step one, have an exceptional chief of police. I'm liking a lot of what Cedric's doing [new Police Chief Cedric Alexander]. I'm not prepared to say absolutely I'd
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Pho Duong Dong owner Dieu Pham doesn't speak much English, so her niece, Linda, is helping us. I've asked about chicken soup, and without translating, Linda answers, "We can make it, but we don't." Pham looks distressed and says something like, "It's not right." Many Vietnamese restaurants cave and serve pho ga, but not Pham. It's partly
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City: What specific steps will you take within the police department and the rest of the criminal justice system to reduce the level of crime? Duffy: Well first of all, I would like to point to the successes we've had and our track record so far. Project Cease Fire and Project Exile work and have
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In its long and crowded history, Hollywood traditionally produced war movies of real quality, some of them even thoughtful and insightful in their examination of a rich and important subject. Although the invasion and occupation of Iraq continues, with increasing loss of life, money, and credibility, Hollywood appears reluctant to tackle the action in any
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Karrie Laughton, headmistress of Lux Lounge, is a rabid movie buff who counts among her favorite filmmakers men like Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmusch. Yet despite quality taste in film, she readily cops to a soft spot for B movies, or flicks "so over-the-top ridiculous that you can't help but chuckle." Laughton doesn't think
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Chris Maj wants Rochester to form its own militia. He wants us to stop paying state and federal taxes. He wants Rochester to become the capital of a new 51st state. He wants to annex the suburbs. And he's running for mayor. To run for mayor in Rochester, all you have to do is get 1000
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City: What specific steps will you take within the police department to reduce crime? Norwood: Number one, I believe that we need to reverse the reorganization and move to a structure that allows for more neighborhood connection between the police officers and the neighborhoods they patrol. Number two: We will increase state funding on a
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When Paul Gardner takes three-day weekends in the summer he travels light. He wraps a small pouch around his waist to go camping in the mountains of Naples or the Adirondacks. In the pouch, Gardner carries a disposable poncho, a lighter, a knife, and a 12-foot rope. And yes, the survivalist does this on
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How much do the Democratic candidates for mayor know about the city they want to lead? We thought we'd put them to the test --- no prior notice, no research allowed. And we'd love to ask any of your questions. In fact, our readers helped inform this week's pop quiz. To have your questions
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As JoAnn James-Scott opens her front door, I can see her smiling through the screen. She calls it her Kool-Aid smile. She's lived in the 19th Ward all her life. Her home is modest, and its goldenrod base with burgundy trim looks freshly painted. She asks if I'd mind taking off my shoes. We sit in
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Some of life's lessons just happen by accident. Others you have to seek out. You probably already know the many colleges and cultural institutions offering classes in our education-rich city. Our goal here is to point you towards some learning opportunities you may not have heard of yet. We're also here to tell you
