Oh, misfortunate humanity! To be aware of ourselves is to suffer and to know it - what a grab bag of boons and curses is our lot. And oh, the resultant, urgently probing existential angst. And the horrors we...
Look out Lestat. Beware Edward Cullen and Bill Compton. A vampire rival has emerged, and he's...
Whatever their quality, the Coen brothers' pictures usually tend to include two distinct...
FAMILY: Children's Book Festival
J.K. Rowling started out with telling her kids stories about a character named Harry;...
The previouslies underscored the rivalry between Althea and Irina, specifically Irina's allegations that Althea ripped off Irina's Aspen look for her winning garment last round. Irina explained her blatant bitchitude: she prefers to tell people...
Stage
THEATER REVIEW: "Speed the Plow"
David Mamet's 1988 play "Speed the Plow" is a profane, high-powered satire of the movie business and the unrelenting cynicism and underlying fear of those who pursue money and power at all costs. It takes an equally high-powered cast of three to...
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...
Stage
THEATER REVIEW: "Zorba" at Blackfriars
It's important to write about Blackfriars Theatre's appealing new theater and "Zorba," the 1968 John Kander-Fred Ebb musical that opens the troupe's 60th season. But I want to hold off for a minute to single out one member of the company. Ken...
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
Let's get this out of the way up front: when it comes to horror movies, I am a great big sissy. We're talking face-buried-in-the-pillow, squeamish little spaz. So it should not come as a big surprise that I've lived my life quite happily...
My wife Deb and I have this get-out-of-jail free policy for affairs outside the marriage; each...
Local restaurants will square off to see who can stir up the best chili in town at this year's...
What child hasn't dreamed of flying, battling bad guys, and saving the world? Role-playing as...
Thank goodness summer is over. It's not that we're glad to see the sun, the beaches, or the...
OUR MONSTER ISSUE! The results are in! This year THOUSANDS of Rochesterians voted in our annual...
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How is it that there was no mention of Rochester's best photographer, Paul D. Van Hoy II? Go to his website and you'll see what I mean....
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