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Well, city taxpayers, get ready to start celebrating. Forget about begging Albany for more money. The good people of the Town of Brighton, backed by the Brighton-Pittsford Post, have come up with a way to help solve the city's financial problems: Get tax-exempt properties to pay for the services they use. Monroe Community College is
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Usually when you throw "stream of conscious" and "guitar player" in the same sentence or on the same stage, folks like Adrian Belew come to mind. New England guitar slinger --- well, I suppose it's not really slinging if you're sitting on a stool --- Johnny A played whatever came to mind Thursday night
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The totals: 2327 US soldiers, 209 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 33,821 to 37,943 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to April 3. 3091 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between March 28 and
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Claire Schneider, curator of the Extreme Abstraction exhibition at the Albright-KnoxArtGallery in Buffalo, recently pointed out that the word "extreme" may be the word of our time. For example, reality TV shows like Fear Factor show "ordinary" people jumping from tall buildings, laying among snakes, and/or eating all sorts of strange things all in the
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With this issue, City Newspaper says goodbye to a valued staff member, Erica Curtis, who later this spring moves to Oregon with her husband. In her three years with City, Erica has made enormous contributions. Some of them --- beautifully crafted features --- bear her name. Others are less obvious. For two of those three years,
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[image-4][image-2][image-3] James Hunter sings that sweet soul music. And once again, a decidedly American music form, forsaken by American artists for whatever flavor of the year, is picked up by a British artist who turns around and frankly does it better. "We go into it more," Hunter says of his country's obsession with and devotion to
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Right from the beginning, nobody thought he could be serious. Or at least they hoped he wasn't. LastmonthCounty Legislature President Wayne Zyra proposed using the local share of the sales tax to cover the county's Medicaid costs first, then dividing the rest among the city and the other municipalities. You could almost hear the collective gasp from the
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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown Now, if we had an ounce of sense here at the Family Valued Popcorn Counter, we'd be telling you how great the Rochester Children's Film Festival has been and will continue to be for the next couple of weeks. Problem is, the younger members of our target-market family really wanted
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LEFT RAIL [image-1] Jumpin' Joe McCarthy! The prospects for New York's Republican Congressional candidates must be shakier than we thought. How else to explain the Republican press release on Monday headlined: "Reds Come to the Aid of NY Dems"? The fax says the Communist Party's People's Weekly World magazine has praised several Democrats who are
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Wrestling? Twist my arm. Jake "The Snake" Roberts --- an'80s vintage WWF baddie --- has seen better days. How do I know? I saw him on Wrestlevision. Wrestlevision is a locally produced show devoted to Western New York wrestling. It combines wrestling matches, comedy sketches (often parodies of TV shows like Cheaters or Live with
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When James Howard Kunstler's first book, "The Geography of Nowhere," came out in 1994, talk about running out of oil was akin to talk about that fake moon landing. Crackpots, oil executives, and every undergraduate geology student in the county knew we were approaching the peak of worldwide oil production, but most people had
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[image-1] On nights when the barn-like interior of the Alexander Street Pub becomes thick and humid from wall-to-wall 20somethings in search of booze, casual hook-ups, and ass-shaking beats, the music of the New York City-based group Bacci makes a kind of gut-level sense. With frontman Pete Bagale slyly invoking lust while he swings his hips
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Rochester Red Wings General Manager Dan Mason calls the rival Buffalo Bisons "the Yankees of the International League." Whether that's a compliment or a slam is open to interpretation, depending on your feelings about the Bronx Bombers and their absurdly humongous payroll. But as a statement of fact, Mason's evaluation of the Bisons is pretty much
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Tucked Behind the Hill Most residents of Rochester's Eastern neighborhoods have become accustomed to the iconic views of Cobbs Hill's western face, with it's tree-covered slope, extensive urban park, and Lake Riley. It is here where the masses play softball, walk their dogs, and hike up to the reservoir. A different
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World War I was considered "The Great War," with a cost of more than 14 million military and civilian lives, but it remains one of the more puzzling modern-day conflicts, lacking the obvious good vs. evil distinction attendant to its horrifying sequel. It's this ambiguousness that no doubt led to the Christmas Truce of
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STRIVE FOR UNDERSTANDING The attitude that the violence associated with the cartoons of Mohammad is a "sure sign that they hate our freedom" is slightly misguided (The Mail, March 15). This is a very delicate time. It calls for a lot of patience and, indeed, some walking on eggshells. If Muslims believe that to
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For fans of Sharon Stone, the 14-year hiatus between Basic Instinct --- where the actress wowed audiences with one of the most famous shots in recent film history --- and the imaginatively titled Basic Instinct 2 must seem an eternity. Whether the wait for the long-promised sequel was worthwhile remains to be seen, but
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Look at them, just sitting there, with their filthy mitts and kissable cheeks. Oh, sure, it seemed like a good idea --- "Let's have a baby!" --- but as time marches on they're eating your food, watching your TV, and interrupting your precious slumber with their early mornings and late nights. Now your kids
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First of an occasional series. Last week, a grand jury indicted three Rochester men in connection with the March 9 murder of Herschel Scriven, a young minister and church organist, in southwest Rochester.
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FOR DOWNTOWN: COMMON-SENSE GOALS More residential development. Cultural and entertainment activity as an important revitalization component. Clubs, bars and unique retail offerings to strengthen consumer attraction. As reported in Urban Journal ("Real Hope for Downtown?"March 22), Rochester hopes to finally achieve a renaissance (not to be confused with that other flawed distraction: Renaissance Square) in its urban
