Hidden and forbidden
The best way to get to know a city is to explore the off-limit areas. Riding on the back of subway trains in Boston, leaping across townhouse rooftops in Washington, DC, and poking around boarded-up hospitals and vacant office buildings in Philadelphia in my reckless youth taught me more than any Chamber brochure ever could.…
Summer treat
Unfortunately, InterPlay, Shipping Dock Theatre’s annual festival of new plays, can schedule only three performances each during two summer weekends, so you have only this coming weekend to see the two plays that opened last week. I suspect, though, that Craig Pospisil’s delectable Months on End will show up again. In 1995, InterPlay introduced…
Park Ave for grown-ups
You could go years without realizing that the Park Avenue Pub even exists. Until it was recommended to me last year, even I’d been unaware, and I did my laundry next door for years. But Ted Bunce has been running the place since July of 1973. Ted’s wife, Lisa, says it’s the kind of…
Party of one
Here’s a mild-mannered guy with super-hero potential: an unassuming individual of shy opulence with a keen willingness to share nonetheless. No heart on his sleeve; nothing up his sleeve, for that matter. You might mistake him for a doctor, a lawyer, an Indian chief: anything but a musician. You probably wouldn’t expect to read about…
Doin’ the mess around
Man, I love this job. I recently pulled off a cover photo shoot with my ex, convincing her to do it in her underwear. I think I’ll ask her to model for my nude sunbathing article next. While you all got fat watching re-runs, I was driving four hours to see San Diego’s Paladins…
News briefs 7.31.02
Fountain of youth Brad Welker and Ernest Orlando playing Peter Pan at Seabreeze. Wife, kids, job, foot fungus, life in general got you down? Find yourself praying you won’t wake up in the morning? Baptize yourself in chlorinated redemption and be saved. Water parks can cure your blues and ease the heat. And no…
Reader feedback 7.31.02
Step forward again; Guilty as charged; Westside slam; A friendly critic; Targeting Muslims
The triumph of the juvenile
It seems a shame that Ian Fleming, whose James Bond novels — which nobody (including the screenwriters and directors) seems to read these days — couldn’t live long enough to witness the full impact of his creation on world culture and the visual arts. The Bond movies have transcended their literary originals to become a…
Swedish surrealism via Peru and Python
Before going largely unnoticed during its extremely limited theatrical release last August, Songs From the Second Floor was a Jury Prize-winner at Cannes in 2000 and an invitee to Roger Ebert’s 2001 Overlooked Film Festival. Floor took Swedish writer/director Roy Andersson four years to complete. (And you thought you waited a long time for Stanley…
Clear cut on Rundel
Seven big trees went horizontal last week on the Rundel Park mall, victims of the desire for a wider street.Rundel Park, a quiet non-thoroughfare just opposite the newly refurbished Atlantic-University intersection, is being upgraded with new curbs, pavement, and street lights.
If we build it, will they come?
What will it take to breathe life into the center of downtown Rochester? The corporate crusaders of Wilmorite Inc. thought they had an answer.
