In addition to entertaining audiences, thoughtful works of stage and screen usually have something to say about the human condition. It's fitting, then, that Blackfriars' current show, "According to Goldman" - a...
ART REVIEW: "Zorcutt:The Way of the Future"
When The Fool has something to say, it's prudent to perk up those ears. Whether...
You only experience first love once; I suppose it's like the chickenpox in that way. Both...
ART REVIEW: "Paint Made Flesh"
Oh, misfortunate humanity! To be aware of ourselves is to suffer and to know it - what a grab...
When we last saw our Final 3 - Althea, Carol Hannah, and Irina - Carol Hannah was puking her guts out, and the other two designers were at least sympathetic to her plight. That really does suck for CH, to be this close to living a dream and to...
Stage
THEATER REVIEW: "Lipstick Massacre"
"Lipstick Massacre" is an original murder-mystery comedy written by Michael Steck, best known to Rochester audiences as drag queen Pandora Boxx. It's a frothy pastiche of several genres, including bawdy drag comedy, over-the-top soap opera, and...
Family
Several of you might roll your eyes in disgust once realizing this story is a head-first leap into a Christmas-related story. Yes, already. Sick indeed, but see, when holiday commercials are airing before Halloween, and stores...
Stage
Look out Lestat. Beware Edward Cullen and Bill Compton. A vampire rival has emerged, and he's gliding across the floorboards of Geva Theatre, fanged bared. As Dracula, the prototype for all of today's young vampiric upstarts, Darren Stevenson of...
Art
Human Sexuality: the Final Frontier! Here is the truth: we have always stood in awkward, vulnerable terror of our sexual nature. In lusting after strict and neat definitions, we forsake the beauty and freedom that can be found in seeing that the...
Family
REVIEW: "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition"
Ego, wealth, optimism, and opulence. RMS Titanic was the grandest symbol of all this and more. Branded as "practically unsinkable," the largest ship ever built in its time boasted a top first-class ticket price of more than $103,000 in today's...
Talk about tough shoes to fill. From the beginning, the great pianist Dave Brubeck's signature...
If you're crafty, you're already hard at work on the special holiday project of the season....
What child hasn't dreamed of flying, battling bad guys, and saving the world? Role-playing as...
Step right up to the greatest show in town: City Newspaper's Best of Rochester 2009! Every...
I was recently talking with a friend who, due to various schisms in his family, doesn't...
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