Nov 15-21, 2006

Nov 15-21, 2006 / Vol. 36 / No. 9

Museum weekend

Big museums bust out the fun Rochester, New York: the city that never naps. This weekend is no exception. The MemorialArtGallery has My America Family Day on Sunday, November 19 from noon to 4 p.m. Visit the new national traveling exhibition My America: Art from the Jewish Museum Collection 1900-1955, as well as the permanent…

Linda Kostin

Food for thought

I had the pleasure of meeting with a wonderful, insightful, intelligent 17-year-old woman who came to my office for weight-loss counseling. She weighed 345 pounds. She said that her lifelong obesity made her feel that she had been born into debt and had been unable to pay it off. According to the American Obesity Association,…

Laurence I. Sugarman, MD

The alt giving guide

For the frazzled host I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris Are you fed up with all those entertaining guides showcasing centerpieces that you will never assemble and foodstuffs that you wouldn’t dare attempt? Try the new hospitality handbook from Renaissance woman Amy Sedaris. It’s got recipes for her famous cupcakes (she’s…

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Fall TV check-up

ABC Fall TV check-up Now that we’re halfway through November sweeps, it’s time to see what shows in the 2006 TV freshman class have got what it takes, and which ones have but a few more short weeks to live. ABC The Alphabet net scored minor hits with Thursday’s Americanized telenovela, Ugly Betty, and the…

Eric Rezsnyak

Holiday Happenings

Breakfast with Frosty Sat Dec 9. Features children’s performers.WebsterCommunity Center, 985 Ebner Dr. 9:30-11 a.m. (breakfast), 10:15 a.m.-noon (lunch). $6, registration required. 872-2911, http://websterparksandrecreation.org. Breakfast with Santa Sat Dec 2 & 9.NorthChiliCommunity Center, 400 Buffalo Rd. 10 a.m.-noon. Reservations required. 889-4680. Breakfast with Santa Sat Dec 2, 9 & 16.Springdale Farm, 700 Colby St, Ogden.8,…

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Bridging the racial divide

Located between the GeneseeRiver and the Erie Canal, the 19th Ward is the most diverse neighborhood in Rochester. Residents say that’s a choice, not an accident. The mission of the neighborhood, according to the 19th Ward Community Association’s website, is “to create a conscious multi-racial community where individual and cultural differences are not only tolerated,…

Sujata Gupta

RazorSharks return

Defending champions the RazorSharks look forward to a repeat In 2005-06, the Rochester RazorSharks pulled off what few, if any, of the other teams in the American Basketball Association were able to do — succeed on and off the court. In its first year of existence, the team won the ABA title and instantly became…

Ryan Whirty

Solera

Solera: Grape expectations There are a lot of pains in life — heartbreak, plastic surgery gone wrong, debt, death. And yet I find nothing comes close to the excruciating realm of the red wine hangover. It’s hell, people. If you’re like me, you waste a day in the fetal position, twist a cherry-flavored Alka-Seltzer in…

Noelle d'Estries

For the morning after, a somber celebration

A friend of mine put it best: the morning after the election, you could almost feel a great sigh of relief rising up from the country. The polls had shown widespread dissatisfaction with Republicans in Washington, particularly with the Bush administration, but it was hard to hope. Polls can be wrong. TV ads work. All…

Mary Anna Towler

“Stranger Than Fiction”

Not so strange, after all Movies Given its origins in chemistry and mechanism, and the illusory magic of its moving images, the cinema not only encourages but virtually demands experimentation with form and content. Despite the relative crudeness of their equipment, its earliest practitioners in fact played with such tricks as slow and fast motion,…

George Grella

Metro ink – 11-15-06

PLAZA PLANS? Why would the City of Rochester want to buy MidtownPlaza? For several reasons, maybe. But chief among them is fear. Fear that the wrong developer might buy it. City Council was to vote last night on approving an option to buy the massive complex. According to the terms of the deal, $250,000 gets…

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“This Film Is Not Yet Rated”

Art is all but dead anyway Movies Recent documentaries are leading me to the conclusion that my blind faith in everyone and everything isn’t so much a comforting virtue as it is a fatal flaw. In the last couple of years I’ve been forced to accept that Big Macs are bad for you, politicians are…

Dayna Papaleo

“American Buffalo”

Nickled and dimed by David Mamet Theater William H. Macy is stingy with the cheese. No, “cheese” isn’t a euphemism for cash. Cheddar, provolone, gouda — you know, cheese. The now-famous, wealthy actor who has starred in such critically acclaimed films as It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie and TV’s The Boy Who Loved…

Erin Morrison-Fortunato

What next? The election’s aftermath

Politics For politicians, the first order of business after an election isn’t figuring out what the results mean for the future of government but what they mean for future elections. And across the country as well as locally, politicians are already looking way ahead. On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton victory-lapped the state in a plane on…

Krestia DeGeorge

Veluxe

Veluxe deluxe Veluxe rocks deluxe with a solid indie sound in a town where there ain’t a whole lottaindie. The few groups that do occupy this shelf — Hinkley, Tiger Cried Beef, Gaylord, Atumdivers, for example — do so relatively alone. This is a city where a solid band in this vein can truly stand…

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Cost of war – 11-15-06

The totals: 2851 US soldiers, 246 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 47,016 to 52,142 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to November 9. 4432 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between November…

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