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City officials said today that they plan to take control of Paetec Park, home of the financially troubled Rochester Rhinos soccer team. The city owns the land on which the stadium was built. At a press conference this afternoon, Mayor Bob Duffy and city attorney Tom Richards said that Rochester's land
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This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Middle East expert to speak The Jewish Community Federation will present a discussion with Stephen Berk, a professor at Union College known for his expertise on Israel and
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When Latasha Shaw was killed by a mob last year, the brutality shocked and infuriated the city. Though Shaw's attack was reportedly witnessed by dozens of people, there have been no arrests. Rochester Police Chief David Moore has said that it has been difficult to get people to volunteer information
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One thousand people. That's how many Minister Ray Scott wants to come out to a planned mass gathering at Central Church of Christ on March 8. "Can we do it?" he asked the crowd, his enthusiastic voice echoing in the sanctuary."Yes," came the response, a little flat. "Some of you
Opinion
Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard has more than enough challenges. But one of the toughest is how to help the Rochester school district's "high-risk" students. These are students who are so disengaged from school that they skip class, or have home problems so severe that they can't concentrate. Students who don't care
Letters
Regarding your front-page illustration showing Arun Gandhi being silenced (February 13): a more appropriate image would have been to show him with his mouth wide open and his foot firmly lodged inside. (I suppose that we should be grateful that the arm of the censor wasn't draped in the Israeli
Letters
Arun Gandhi's entry into the debate on "The future of the Jewish identity" has, in my opinion, rightly thrust open a subject that is rarely discussed in the American media. However, those who have publicly criticized Dr. Gandhi's comments, especially those in the pages of City Newspaper, would rather build
Letters
I was enlightened upon reading an editorial in the January 30 edition of City, written by publisher Mary Anna Towler. Imagine my astonishment when I discovered that Rochester does not have a bus station. I guess I was simply disillusioned when I made the trek to 17 Midtown Plaza in
Letters
Nine months after its ejection from the Public Market, the AV Space is still without a home. Not for lack of trying: the curators have been in constant search for an appropriate space in town. Meanwhile, among the community of young creative folk in Rochester, the absence of AV is
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Five years into the Iraq War and you're...angry? Frustrated? Ashamed? The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center on Monroe Avenue is creating a "street blog" until March 19 - the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War - to exhibit those feelings. | Members of the public can fill out
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Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard plans a 20-percent staff reduction in the Rochester school district's downtown administrative offices. In an interview last week, Brizard said that he hopes to see reductions by July 1, and that he'll make the cuts throughout the building. "The first goal," he said, "is not to reduce
Restaurant Articles
The Tap and Mallet, Rochester's first gastropub, has been open for four months, but it has the feeling of a place that has been open for much longer. There are still some kinks to work out - in particular, something needs to be done to stem the Hobbesian struggle for
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New York is one of the few states that have not passed a Defense of Marriage Act to prevent recognition of same-sex marriages. But New York hasn't legalized same-sex marriages, either. Though it's too early to be mailing wedding invitations, a combination of court action and a changing political climate
Profiles
Aaron-Taylor (Tate) Austin's voice echoes around RIT's cavernous Ritter Arena as he instructs the Genesee Express Synchronized Skating team. The arena's stands are empty, save for a couple parents watching their daughters practice.It's 9 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, and the Express has been at work for about an hour.
Nightlife Articles
A hookah pipe has many names: it's a nargila, a shisha, a hubbly-bubbly. But basically, it's a fancy looking pipe with a glass bottle as its base, and you smoke tobacco through it. This way of smoking - and the tradition of doing so in groups, at special lounges -
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TOTALS - 3973 U.S. soldiers, 308 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 81,632 to 89,103 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to March 3.6651 Iraqi policemen and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports.American servicemen
Choice Concerts
I don't know what happened. Heavy music is alive and well, with a lot of bands - be they punk or hardcore or somewhere in between - pushing forward with metal might. But when references are made, they don't seem to go much deeper than the 80's. Say what you
Choice Concerts
If you were to hear the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra back to back with a professional band, it would take a moment or two to tell the difference. The group is THAT good. The members, all local high school students, play with polish and sophistication, in large part thanks to
Choice Concerts
What's more charming than watching a seasoned progressive rock band divebomb through grandiose 20-minute epics in odd time signatures like 9/4 and 13/8? Try watching a bunch of budding rockers-in-training do the same thing. This show features the voice of prog himself, Jon Anderson of Yes. You may laugh at
Choice Concerts
I've seen the Boss three times, which translates to roughly 12 hours of rock 'n' roll. His concerts are more like musical marathons. At the ones I've attended, he's never played "Candy's Room," a personal favorite of mine. Hell, he's only got 23 albums worth of material to draw from.
