Saying goodbye to the Bills’ king of candor
National Football League free agency means teams usually don’t spend much time at the top or bottom. It also means many top players don’t spend much time in one place. So when they’re free agents after three to five years and they choose to sign elsewhere, their careers with their old teams — usually the…
Don’t forget, kids: The ’70s are hilarious
“Starsky & Hutch” the TV show ran for four seasons and 88 episodes from 1975 to 1979. I don’t remember one episode. All I can remember is Starsky’s bright red-and-white muscle car. Starsky & Hutch the movie runs slightly longer than 88 minutes. All I can remember is Starsky’s bright red-and-white muscle car. The…
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You might be forgiven for thinking, from the posters, that the titular hero of Hidalgo is played by Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings). But Hidalgo is a mustang. The marketing folks at Disney can’t seem to decide between pushing Viggo, a sudden commodity, or the horse, not coincidentally possessor of the second-worst horse name…
Beautifully bombastic
The Suicide Girls have brought bump ‘n’ grind one step closer to rock ‘n’ roll. Pushing the standards of traditional burlesque and augmenting it with punk rock, this troupe of punk pop tarts stripped and teased and copped heaps of attitude to a capacity crowd at Buffalo’s Soundlab two weeks ago. Black electrical tape pasties,…
Anybody but butch
Like everybody tuned in to the presidential race, I’ve been hearing “drumbeats” lately. One of them has my head pounding: the post-Super Tuesday demand that all join hands in backing presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry. Up-front disclosure: If Kerry’s the One, as seems inevitable, he’ll get my vote. It won’t be the first time…
Do you know Goa?
Do you know Goa? “Which part of India did Francis Xavier arrive at in 1542?” If there are esoteric questions in the air and small groups of people with pensive looks on their faces huddled around tables, then it must be Trivia Night at the Old Toad Pub. “Most English pubs have trivia nights…
Do you know Goa?
Do you know Goa? “Which part of India did Francis Xavier arrive at in 1542?” If there are esoteric questions in the air and small groups of people with pensive looks on their faces huddled around tables, then it must be Trivia Night at the Old Toad Pub. “Most English pubs have trivia nights…
Do you know Goa?
Do you know Goa? “Which part of India did Francis Xavier arrive at in 1542?” If there are esoteric questions in the air and small groups of people with pensive looks on their faces huddled around tables, then it must be Trivia Night at the Old Toad Pub. “Most English pubs have trivia nights…
The mess we’re in
The city of Rochester’s in crisis mode. Again. Rochester City School Superintendent Dr. Manuel Rivera announced that the district is facing a $50 million dollar budget gap. One day later, in his State of the City address, Mayor Bill Johnson said the city will have to cut funding to the schools unless it sees…
The war on women
At 15, Andrea Lipomi found herself pregnant and — she thought — alone. “As a depressed suburban teenager with very religious parents, I figured the best thing to do would be to take matters into my own hands,” she says. “So I basically stopped eating for over two months, hoping that my body couldn’t…
Shut up and do something
Everybody is disgusted, outraged, disillusioned, and disappointed. Yet, funding for city school nurses still hasn’t been restored. Last week there were: two press conferences, an ugly Ways and Means committee meeting, a lawsuit, and a phone-a-thon — all about the nurses. Leaving city kids without school health care would be a travesty, everyone said.…
Campaign barbs: Who’s a liberal?
It will not be a pretty campaign. President Bush is already seeing to that. And the people who analyze this stuff say the election will be decided by 8 to 10 percent of voters — the folks who haven’t already lined up ardently behind Bush or Kerry. The Bush money, and the Bush attack…
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The Nader candidacy, our restaurant critic, defusing tension
Infiltrating the ranks of the rich and famous
There really was a clever young con man who pretended to be Sidney Poitier’s son and insinuated himself into the homes of wealthy New Yorkers, whom he charmed and robbed. Playwright John Guare heard the story from friends who were victims of that fraud. For his play Six Degrees of Separation Guare used that…
True or false? Rochester and slavery
Change the present A friend sent us a copy of the February 10 City article on the revelations of Nathaniel Rochester’s activities as a slave trader. It is appropriate that a complete history of significant people of the past should be made known. However, it is not enough. We feel comfortable making judgments about…
Rock ’n’ roll soul
Tom Wales strolls into Mark’s Texas Hots with the enthusiastic gait of a big kid. He carries a Gibson SG in a beat-up case in one hand, and an even more beat-up Bible in the other. The two seem to balance him out. Sporting wraparound shades and dressed in black, standard-issue rocker gear accented…
The poet washes dishes
It took several hours. There were spaces in the cookware of which no one was aware, save the poet. The soft downturn of the ladle handle soared and fell like the epic point guard’s final jump-shot as the seconds die away…. Water turned from periods to semi-colons and, finally, ellipses. If the sponge was wrung-out…
