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My name is Dayna, and I am a cookbook addict. Of course, lugging several hundred of them to my new home recently left me wishing I had chosen to obsess over something lighter, like toucan feathers or cotton balls shaped like Glenn Danzig. But anything that makes it easier to
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Summer is over, which means it's time to pack away your beer-can helmet and dust off the ol' thinking cap. You know the drill: Hollywood sits on its primo stuff until the leaves turn, hoping to circumvent the apparently short attention spans of the Oscar voters. But this year, in
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Someone leveled the descriptor "film geek" at me recently, and after offering up a truly lame defense my initial squawks of protest gave way to hushed snarls of acceptance. What separates a film geek from a casual moviegoer is a deeper knowledge of the relatively useless factoids surrounding a production,
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Now that you're big, it's probably come to your attention that meals don't magically manifest at the appointed hours of 7 a.m., noon, and 6 p.m. As a matter of fact, you're supposed to forage for your own food, and if you're not eating it right where you found
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April 14, 1865. That's the night Abraham Lincoln had the rude nerve to be gunned down during Laura Keene's much-anticipated staging of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre. So rather than triumphantly basking in the accolades of the nation's capital, Keene instead got her hoop skirt saturated with the President's
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A few weeks ago I reviewed Black Sheep Theatre Coalition's "Rashomon," a play that explores the themes of memory and perception, specifically touching upon the mortal fallibility that causes people to remember the exact same events just a bit differently. Now meet what I will lazily describe as the Gaelic
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Over the last 50 years it's come to be known as the Rashomon effect - those inexplicable blips in perception that can occur when several people recall the same event, each believing his or her version to be the absolute truth. And though the term derives from Akira Kurosawa's 1950
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When I was a kid I thought adultery sounded like something both grown-up and classy, and though I didn't know its actual definition, I totally looked forward to participating in this undoubtedly swank activity once I got big. Well, turns out thou art not supposed to commit-eth adultery, though that
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Vague conversations with vague relations. The orgy of coats on the spare bed. Overloaded electrical sockets, crystal pickle dishes, unforgivable candy. December offers enough predictability as it is; do you really want to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" or "Miracle On 34th Street" again? Even "A Christmas Story" and "National
Choice Concerts
You'd be tempted to just close your eyes and let the atmospheric instrumentals whirl around you, but keep at least one of ‘em open to see how El Ten Eleven pulls it off. Armed with a doubleneck guitar/bass and a command center of effects pedals, Kristian Dunn and percussionist Tim
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It's akin to found-object assemblage, or maybe sampling, when some imaginative soul takes a piece of literature and fashions it into a stage musical full of songs that the source material never envisioned. And it's happened numerous times; think of "Les Misérables," "The Phantom of the Opera," and "My Fair
CD Reviews
Blazing no new trails in the well-worn field of Southern rock, there was nonetheless something arrogant and primal about the first two recordings from the Followill boys, and last year's ambitious "Because of the Times" allowed the Tennessee sons of a preacher man to evolve their God, grits ‘n' girls
Pop Culture
ImageOut: The Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival celebrates its 16th year this time around. And after a decade and a half of consistently bringing local audiences the planet's best films about the lesbian-bisexual-gay-transgender experience, she's earned a little freedom - like most socially responsible 16-year-olds - to
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There, there. Dry those tears, li'l buckaroos! No, it's not fair that eleventh-hour shuffling means you now have to wait until next summer to see "Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Cake," or whatever, but as Mom gleefully reminded you every damn chance she got, life's not fair. Besides, this autumn
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According to Hollywood calendars, summer begins in May, and it's traditionally the time of year that the studios offer up explosions, robots, car chases, superheroes, and boobs. So in an effort to keep your brain from totally atrophying, I've arranged this handy guide to the warm-weather movies in an alphabet-esque
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This country's freakishly knowledgeable obsession with food seemed to explode at the end of the century, right around the time Emeril turned cooking into entertainment. Nowadays it seems that when we're not actually eating, we're discussing the myriad ingredients available and the yummiest ways to fashion them into our next
Choice Events
I hate to blow the ending of a movie, but the Muslims that local filmmaker Mara Ahmed knows are pretty much like the people of faith that you know, cherishing family, tradition, knowledge, and peace. The difference is that your Christian, Jewish, and Druid pals haven't been subjected to intense
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There's a good chance that some talented alumni of RIT's School of Film and Animation will go on to become famous auteurs. But until someone invents a way to predict upon whom the Fates will smile, you can always hedge your bets with SoFA's yearly Honors Show, which offers the
Choice Concerts
Aw, down on love, sweetie? Boo f**king hoo. Line ‘em up at the Valentine's Day Massacre, where a Whitman's Sampler of local bands fire off classic tunes about matters of the heart and other, lower organs. This year catch old-timers like The Blastoffs and The Emersons, first-timers such as Old
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A self-congratulatory competition amongst beautiful, overpaid grownups who play pretend probably doesn't affect you directly. For most of us, the Oscar-night answer to "Who are you wearing?" will be "I dunno; the tag fell off," and our escorts for that evening usually include Ben and Jerry. Its magnificent insignificance, however,
