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Jen Graney on November 4th, 2009
More than 2000 years ago in China (and maybe as many as 4000 years ago, depending who you're talking to), acrobatics began to take shape as an art form. In the early days, people used whatever they could find for props: tables, chairs, plates, jars. Then, during the Han Dynasty
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Jen Graney on November 4th, 2009
On Saturday, November 7, across Rochester (and even across the state) tons of people will be hosting parties for one reason: in celebration and support of the upcoming merger of AIDS Community Health Center and AIDS Rochester. Locally, Night of 1000 Parties will include a public event at Max
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Jen Graney on November 4th, 2009
Each year, Strong Museum honors creative toys with staying power by inducting them into its Toy Hall of Fame. Well known inductees include the Slinky, the Teddy Bear, alphabet blocks, Barbie, sidewalk chalk, and the Easy Bake Oven. But even the simplest objects, like the stick and the cardboard box,
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Jen Graney on October 28th, 2009
"A Mermaid's Guide to Living on Land," part of SUNY Brockport's DANCE/Hartwell program, might not deliver exactly what the title implies. But the dance, choreographed by MFA candidate Rebecca M. Sproul, and inspired by mermaids, daffodils, lightning storms, and cowgirls, will bring the audience on the journey of youth through
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Jen Graney on October 28th, 2009
As daylight hours grow short and Halloween-themed activities grow plentiful, families start to look for kid-friendly trick-or-treating locations. The No. 1 priority is to get the kids into their carefully chosen costumes and set ‘em loose without worrying about their safety. Families can find this and more at TreatFest, an
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Jen Graney on October 28th, 2009
The 17th Annual Lane Dworkin Jewish Book Festival is a seven-day affair that showcases Jewish authors and books with Jewish content. The event goes beyond your typical book sale to include lectures, book signings, panel discussions (including one on mystery writing), kids events, and much more. Erin Arvedlund (pictured), author
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Jen Graney on October 28th, 2009
Humans and animals, wild and domestic, have a curious and ever-changing relationship. There's alternately fear, respect, and appreciation between the two worlds. It's subject matter like this - the associations between society and the animal kingdom - that inspired "Animal Logic: Artists Contemplate Creature Kingdoms," an exhibit on display at
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Jen Graney on October 21st, 2009
"Swing for Victory" tells the story of The Four F's, a quartet who perform on the eve of VE-Day in 1945 to boost the spirits of soldiers who only have their radios to keep them company. Through songs by Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Rogers & Hart,
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Jen Graney on October 21st, 2009
It reads like a who's-who of Rochester performance groups: Blackfriars, Downstairs Cabaret, Geomantics Dance, Geva, Mercury Opera, Method Machine, PUSH Physical Theatre, RAPA, Unleashed Improv. But these are just a few of the many theater, dance, drama and comedy groups represented at this year's TheatreRocs event. The one-night-only showcase brings
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Jen Graney on October 21st, 2009
Robin Hood is one of those larger-than-life characters, immortalized in literature, songs, films, and other media. The whole "steal from the rich, give to the poor" thing is easy to latch onto, whether you first read it in a book, or got it from Disney's well-known take on the classic.
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Jen Graney on August 27th, 2009
Disclaimer: I'm not a sports fan, and can't remember the last time (if ever) I was at a ball game, unless you count my little brother's games in the 90's. Those were sweaty, suffering-in-the-bleachers affairs when I was much too young to toss back a few and get into it.
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Jen Graney on August 17th, 2009
It was obvious by the heavily-inked group of strangers at Lux Thursday night, that the Rochester International Tattoo Expo artists had hit town. They partied out back, and chatted with some of us over gin and tonics at the bar. My friend Jenna asked if it's hot not to be
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Jen Graney on August 3rd, 2009
On Sunday, a non-stop parade of people streamed by like a television show from my brother's third floor apartment on Park Ave. He'd taken the window out and pulled up the couch so he and his roommates could people-watch from a comfy vantage point. My friend Aubrey and I had
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Jen Graney on July 27th, 2009
In the second or third grade at my school, all the kids had to memorize a Shel Silverstein poem. Mine was about how to get out of washing the dishes. I still know it, and recited it for my friend during intermission at Method Machine and Stasz/Pruitt Productions' staging of
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Jen Graney on July 20th, 2009
If you haven't heard of Pride Weekend (like the people that gave us blank stares when my friend Tommy wished them "Happy Pride!"), maybe you don't pay attention to local news, because it's all over town. It's an entire weekend of revelry that celebrates the gay community. And it's so
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Jen Graney on June 30th, 2009
Carnivals bring us back to simpler times, when the biggest decision was whether to spend our dimes and quarters on messy cotton candy, or on chances to win the oversized stuffed tiger that looked as though he'd been hanging as a prize since the dawn of time. As adults, the
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Jen Graney on June 22nd, 2009
Dad never wants to make a big deal about Father's Day. He'd rather work outside in the garden, read the paper, and just do his own thing than be fussed over. And though my sister is in New Jersey (shacked up with her husband and Bassett hound) my brother John
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Jen Graney on June 16th, 2009
If you live anywhere near the Neighborhood of the Arts, it's easy to walk to the new Multi-use Community Cultural Center on Atlantic Ave. Once a church, MuCCC (pronounce it "muck") has been transformed to a cool arts space that Geomantics Dance Theatre took over for two evenings
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Jen Graney on June 5th, 2009
It's best to show up to the Greek Fest thirsty, with a grumbling tummy, the way my friend Steve and I did last Saturday. We parked and walked up the University Ave drive at the Greek Orthodox Church. A band played enthusiastically onstage. Lots of people watched, but they were
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Jen Graney on May 28th, 2009
The Dryden Theatre hosted the RIT School of Film & Animation Student Honors Show on a sunny Saturday afternoon last week. Not exactly the time of day most people want to sit in a dark theater, but it would've suited you just fine if you were out late the night
The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic.
Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring...
An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.
Sexpot film star Lola Burns seeks a new image and tries marrying a marquis, adopting a baby -- all sorts of schemes which go awry.
Egypt’s legendary Youssef Chahine directed this neorealist classic centered around the love triangle among a newspaper vendor, lemonade seller, and porter at Cairo’s train station. DP
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle (apparently somewhere in Germany), the vampire travels to a nearby city...
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