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The city of Rochester has received a submission for a Request for Qualifications for ferry service between Rochester and Toronto. The Canadian firm, Hover Transit Services, provided the submission. The city and Toronto Port Authority jointly issued the RFQ on March 6 to solicit a privately funded and operated ferry
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says Governor David Paterson has asked him to conduct an investigation of the state police, presumably in relation to accusations that former Governor Eliot Spitzer used state police and police records to discredit State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. In a press release issued this afternoon
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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.) The Muslim-Catholic connection The Muslim Catholic Alliance will present "Muslim Catholic Dialogue: Opportunities and Challenges" on Wednesday, April 9. It will be held at the Turkish Society of
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Barely four days old, a missive written by Rochester attorney-personality John Parrinello and posted on City Newspaper's website had already become a pseudo-historical document. The letter was sent Friday and was addressed to Richard Guon, chair of the Monroe Community College Board of Trustees. Parrinello urged Guon to scrap the
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A new name and $3 million worth of improvements are on the way for the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The owner is severing ties with the Crowne Plaza chain and by April 18, the building will be called the Rochester Plaza Hotel. But labor advocates and a clergy group say that
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Hopes of finding an effective HIV vaccine were dashed last fall after human trials were stopped over reports that some volunteers in trial groups who received the experimental vaccine MRK-Ad5 had contracted HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS. The news rocked HIV vaccine researchers, and raised questions about funding
Opinion
In his classic study of race in America in 1992, "Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal," Andrew Hacker includes a prescient description by the British statesman, Benjamin Disraeli:"Two nations, between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thought, and
Letters
The reaction from pundits to the comments of the Reverend Wright reinforces my concern regarding the low level of political analysis and discourse provided by the mainstream media. I applaud former Republican candidate Mike Hukabee for his candor during his March 19 appearance on the MSNBC Morning Joe show (the
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Regarding your article on the cost of the war in Iraq ("Iraq 5 Years Later," March 19): I am reminded of two things. The first is a remark by neocon strategist Grover Norquist about "getting government down to a size where we can drown it in a bathtub." The second
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TOTALS - 4003 U.S. soldiers, 309 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 82,591 to 90,115 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to March 31.6789 Iraqi policemen and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports.American servicemen
Restaurant Articles
Winter grinds on. I escaped to Florida, and came back to snow. I longed for the feeling of sand between my toes and a cold beer in my hand. I wanted conch fritters and a grouper sandwich. And that's when I heard about the Sanibel Cottage in Webster, which co-owner
Music Articles
Whether he's thumping and popping at breakneck speed or making the instrument sing, Victor Wooten brings the bass out of the shadows and into the spotlight.If you wonder how a mere mortal can play like Wooten, consider this: he is now in his early 40s and he's played the bass
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City Schools Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard and Mayor Bob Duffy are meeting next week to appoint the oversight board for the school district's $700 million, 15-year building modernization project. The State Legislature approved $325 million last fall to begin improvements on the first 13 city schools. | The superintendent and the
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The Erie Canal has evolved from its days as the centerpiece of the state's commercial transportation infrastructure to a present-day recreation and tourism byway. But a central argument concerning the canal - who should pay for it and how - has barely changed in the almost-200 years since the canal
Nightlife Articles
It's Friday night happy hour at the Bug Jar (219 Monroe Avenue, 454-2966, bugjar.com) and Bob Macomber - Bobby Mac to you - is behind the bar, pouring drinks, cracking jokes, flashing his pale blue eyes and shit-eating grin at everybody. An important package shows up. "Let's see what he
Art
On the edge of old downtown's waterfall, our city's artists share space with Rochester's preserved history. The Center at High Falls offers a look into Rochester's past, while also providing a gallery dedicated entirely to showing the work of local artists.The current exhibit in the beautifully lit upstairs gallery is
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Auditory hallucinations? Not this time. The "voices" you'll hear at St. Anne Church on Sunday, April 13, are decidedly embodied ones, belonging to members of Rochester's professional choral chamber ensemble, Voices, led by William Weinert, the director of choral activities and a professor of conducting at the Eastman School of
Choice Concerts
Amongst his many metal credits, one of Joey Belladonna's biggest moments gets overlooked. At its peak, nobody played lightning-fast metal better than Anthrax. As the band's vocalist from 1985 to 1992, and again in 2005 and 2006, Belladonna could nail those operatic, multi-octave, canine-exclusive screams, no sweat. But he didn't
Choice Concerts
When saxophonist David Pope was an undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the 1990's, he was already attracting attention. In 1994 he was named Down Beat magazine's top collegiate instrumental jazz soloist. Since then he has toured North America with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, toured Germany
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On "Sleep Forever," the latest album by NYC-based trio the Big Sleep, you can immediately tell the band is really into guitar tones. Big vibrato chords shimmy their way through your head in a way that would make David Lynch pee himself with excitement. And, where other bands would truncate
