Often, food writing amounts to an absurd quest, like the search for the perfect noodles in the film Tampopo. I’ve gone on missions for ribs, breads, chicken wings, and, at the height of growing season, I sought the Corn Man. Plenty of local farmers grow corn, but sources pointed to 1092 Penfield Road, the location […]
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Posted inNews & Opinion
Reader Feedback 8.28.02
The county budget, the Jazz Festival, Democrats in disarray,
moms in playland
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News briefs 8.28.02
News recycling Calling all connoisseurs of “merger mania” and its analogies. As time goes on, there’s more evidence of cooperation than of competition between some local media operations. Recently, for example, WOKR Channel 13’s 11 p.m. newscast began offering a peek at the Democrat and Chronicle‘s headlines for the following morning. It may be […]
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News briefs 8.21.02
The
greeting card industry is a $7 billion monster that commodifies human emotions
into trite sentimentality. At least that’s how local entrepreneur and wise guy
Tom Rusling sees it.
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Reader feedback 8.21.02
It’s what we want; Where’s the outcry?; Is the money there?; Dems in disarray; Shut out; Moms in playland
Posted inNews & Opinion
News briefs 8.14.02
Happiness was a warm gun The arms race is not a modern phenomenon. Long before the Cold War, cave dwellers stockpiled rocks to use as weapons. And for one brief moment between the rocks and the missiles, Rochester made a contribution to the history of weaponry. In 1861, a dentist named Josephus Requa invented […]
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Reader feedback 8.14.02
We didn’t want this, Clearly shocked, Building downtown, Weird’s humor, God and the pledge, Confessions of a thriftaholic…
Posted inNews & Opinion
Reader Feedback 8.7.02
Investing in children, Cuts hurt children, Park pleasures, Caesar’s ghost…
Posted inNews & Opinion
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 […]
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Reader feedback 7.31.02
Step forward again; Guilty as charged; Westside slam; A friendly critic; Targeting Muslims
