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The Creative Wellness Center is hosting a retrospective of artist Sonia Gutowski's work. The opening is tonight (Friday, November 6), from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Center, 320 North Goodman Street, Suite 201. Admission is free. Gutowski, who has been in Monroe Community Hospital recovering from a stroke, will be
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There are big changes coming to the Rochester/High Falls International Film Festival. First: a new name. The festival will now be known as 360 | 365. Executive Director John Richardson says the new name represents the organization's growing year-round presence and appeal to all audiences. When the festival began eight years
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From outsider to magic man in four years. The Democratic Party knows the superstar it has in Mayor Bob Duffy - who did not get the party's endorsement during his first run - and is milking the Duffy brand dry to sell the party's slate of primary candidates. Today, Duffy announced
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Actually, a more direct translation is "pubic hair," which is SO MUCH BETTER. A member of City Council is alleged to have hurled an expletive at last night's meeting. I didn't hear it. I was distracted by the guy in the hall outside screaming about his First Amendment rights. Usually that means
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I hesitated writing this because I was afraid that it might encourage Glenn Beck to come cry on my doorstep. (Flash back 40 years and tell me that nub wasn't getting creamed for his milk money on a daily basis.) The same network that promoted the heck out of those tea
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The court room looks like an unfinished basement: dim; dark, wooden walls; dirty industrial-like tile that scuffs when you rub your shoes against it. Anthony DiPonzio's mother and father are in the front row. Spectators carrying heavy coats stride purposely forward: "I'm so sorry..." Dozens of gold and silver badged Rochester cops
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With one arm around Whoopie (Behar, by contrast, looked like she was sitting next to a pile of stinky diapers) hopeless Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich skipped his impeachment trial this morning to tap-dance on the View. It's a frame-up, see? said Blago, sounding like Edward G. - "It's curtains for you,
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It's fair to say that the D&C takes its share of knocks around the City newsroom; we gloat when we scoop them and bitch and make lame excuses when they scoop us. We laugh, like the liberal-elitist-intellectuals we are accused of being, at the D&C's Teddy Geiger worship or innovations
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I get what people are saying: Obama's election is proof that anyone can be president in America. We've always said that, of course, but it's tough to believe it when every president from General Washington on down has looked a certain way. Some academics are worried that people will now forget
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I don't remember much from that college philosophy course, except that my instructor really, really liked Aristotle. Something else: The end justifies the means, if the means are justifiable. I'd never heard that second part before. I thought about that last night when I was watching - as much as
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Look out. The term "lame duck" is a misnomer. And misleading.You might think that with approval ratings somewhere near the bottom of Hannibal, Missouri's legendary bottomless sinkhole, George Bush and one of the most incompetent, dangerous administrations in American history are safely neutered. Wrong. They don't care what you or
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Few things really set my blood boiling these days. But Dan Quatro's comments in the D&C this morning did the trick. Quatro is majority leader in the Monroe County Legislature. The Lej picked a new trustee for MCC last night. That is to say, the Republicans did. The GOP deigned
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Do I really need to see Cheryl Dinolfo's face on my TV screen already? Why is the county clerk running campaign ads five months before the election? The ads themselves are laughable. When was the last time you stopped in at the clerk's office downtown and found Dinolfo there, waiting
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A column by D&C writer Denise-Marie Santiago this morning about the disappointing administration of County Executive Maggie Brooks, nicely articulates what some of us around the newsroom have been thinking. Brooks could have used her considerable gifts to heal the partisan wounds inflicted by the Doyle administration. Instead, she's kept
