Plastic crack Collectors rarely announce themselves. After all, being a collector requires you to amass ungodly amounts of unpractical stuff. And detailing your unreasonable attachments to earthly surroundings isn’t going to get you far in most social settings. Sure, certain varieties of the collector are less offensive than others. But they’ve all got their detractors. […]
Chad Oliveiri
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Final cut pro
By now you’ve probably seen that new The Shining trailer making the rounds on the Internet. Someone’s put a different spin on the Kubrick horror classic by reassembling a few snippets from the film and mixing them with drippy pop and a saccharine voiceover. Instead of Jack Nicholson playing a man who terrorizes his family […]
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It’s the economy, stupid
They’ve obviously done their homework. The three major Democratic candidates for Rochester mayor have consulted the polls, and they agree on what you seem to be telling them are the big issues: crime, education, and economic development. Find a solution for all three, and they’ll get elected. And, maybe, save the city from its slow […]
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Like a larger-than-life music box
It’s practically impossible to succinctly review 100 concerts. And there’ve been nearly that many since we issued last week’s piece on the Rochester International Jazz Festival’s opening weekend. For those who missed out: our sympathy. This year’s RIJF was the best yet in terms of programming and (despite a few initial snags) overall organization. Over […]
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Opening notes: Jazz Fest in review
Four years along and the Rochester International Jazz Festival seems to be doing just fine. Throughout opening weekend, almost every Club Pass venue was filled to capacity as late-comers were turned away. But our music writers were there for all of it. Following is a compilation of their impressions from the festival’s first couple days. […]
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Alive
500 musicians. 100 acts. Nine days. Feel confused? You’re far from alone. It actually struck us last year, as we wandered between sets from Max of Eastman Place to Montage Grille while distant brass and percussion bounced off the Eastman Theatre and down Gibbs Street: The Rochester International Jazz Festival, now in its fourth year, […]
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Rochester International Jazz Festival 2005
500 musicians. 100 acts. Nine days. Feel confused? You’re far from alone. It actually struck us last year, as we wandered between sets from Max of Eastman Place to Montage Grille while distant brass and percussion bounced off the Eastman Theatre and down Gibbs Street: The Rochester International Jazz Festival, now in its fourth year, […]
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In her dreams
Juana Molina’s nighttime missives have been keeping us happily awake
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Sun City girl
Half the fun of following a band like Sun City Girls is wrapping your head around the notion that they could actually exist. Self-described “aristocrats of impertinence,” the Sun City Girls have been performing and recording their defiant music since 1981. And there’s really no sense in classifying that music, which was initially (and fittingly) […]
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Truth to power in the church: Callan on Ratzinger
It’s strange to think the Baha Men had any relevance to the selection last week of a new pope. But with the reputation of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — who’s been variously labeled “The Enforcer,” “Cardinal No,” and “God’s Rottweiler” — “Who Let the Dogs Out” has, yet again, taken on odd meanings. Ratzinger, now Pope […]
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Porn appreciation, an introduction
By most accounts, Julie Buck has established a successful career. After years of schooling, she’s now working at Harvard University’s Film Archives preserving materials on the verge of utter extinction. But it’s what she’s most widely known for — her work preserving and presenting vintage porn — that has made her career a taboo subject […]
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Prosecution or persecution? The story of Steve Kurtz
Art and government policy have never co-existed comfortably in the United States. And you don’t have to look far for examples of the discord. There’s the so-called NEA Four, a group of controversial performance artists whose National Endowment for the Arts grants were summarily vetoed in 1990. Or Andres Serrano, who had a photo of […]
