Those who frequent the Water Street Music Hall know to make a beeline for the long bar’s left side for the coldest beer, swift service, and a slice of local history. There, beneath the neon and Rattlesnake Pete’s gaze, stands Chops, Rochester’s notoriously sharp-witted, longest-running bartender. “Chops is an institution,” says Water Street owner John […]
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Reader Feedback 7.17.02
Just fed up A day after reading Mary Anna Towler’s “A God-fearing People” (July 3), the following appeared on my e-mail: “No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.” At a time when we are “at war,” to quote President Bush, it is a sad commentary to find that we are being censored for using […]
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Reader feedback 7.10.02
What if? In response to Jack Bradigan Spula’s “Just a Child: Learning the Facts of Death” (June 19): What if Craig Heard was “a wonderful little, smiling little (white) person”? What if officers Serge Savitcheff, Hector Padgham, and Mike Tymoch were people of color? What if we had a police force that […]
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News Briefs 7.10.02
Imagining ImageArt There’s more here than meets the eye. ImageArt, which is billed as the only annual juried exhibit of art by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) artists in Western New York, isn’t just a bunch of pretty pictures. ImageArt “gives gay and lesbian artists a voice in the Rochester community,” says artist David […]
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Recordings
Avenue A to the Great White Way: Yiddish and American Popular Songs 1914-1950 Tanz! With David Tarras and the Musiker Brothers Sony Legacy Anyone who has listened to National Public Radio’s “Yiddish Radio Project” on All Things Considered knows the story: While visiting the crowded office of an elderly radio show host, Klezmer scholar Henry […]
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Honky honky honky
You know what drives me nuts? Honkys. I don’t think I’m coming down too heavy on my pale brethren when they sell themselves short. Allow me to explain. Last Thursday Vince Neil (sans the Crüe) played the Water Street Music Hall to a tragically small crowd. The band sounded great and seemed stoked to be […]
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Reader feedback 7.3.02
I was pleasantly surprised by
the remarkably fair treatment the Promise Keepers event in Rochester received
in City (“The Cross and the Y
Chromosome,” June 19)…
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News briefs
Feeding the world Farm work is a demanding job, and without migrant workers, it’s difficult to imagine much of it getting done. To show its appreciation, the Brockport community has held “Bienvenida” for the last 20 years, a day to welcome migrant workers, the vast majority of whom now come from Mexico. “This is a […]
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Reader feedback 6.26.02
Community voices Thanks and congratulations to City and Ron Netsky for the splendid interviews in “Jump Jim Crow” (June 4, June 11). Both the historical and personal dimensions of these reminiscences are indispensable to our community memory. Voices that I have known over the years came through clearly, which was for me a wonderful bonus. […]
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Supporting Israel
Mr. Spula’s use of “right wing” to describe the Israel Now and Forever Rally (“DC Protests Spring Eternal,” May 2) was inaccurate — unless any pro-Israel activity is right wing in your dictionary. The participants from Rochester represented the entire spectrum of American politics. There were college students and community leaders from all stripes of […]
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Critic tips
My chief objection to George Grella’s movie reviews is that after reading them, I still have no idea whether I want to see the movies in question. Roger Ebert’s and Jon Popick’s movie reviews usually let me know whether I want to spend my money on them. It’s not just a matter of likes or […]
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No quick payback
Rochester was judged better than Buffalo the other day. But no honor was bestowed on either city. The Center for Community Change, a Washington, DC-based not-for-profit that jumpstarts grassroots development projects across the country, said Rochester and other Upstate cities rank above the national average in “subprime” loans made in African-American neighborhoods. The report, Risk […]
