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Hunting grounds

Salvation Army, www.salvationarmy-rochasny.org: Wednesdays are senior discount days. Weekly colored tag specials. No layaway. Visa and MasterCard accepted. Proceeds benefit the local Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center. Call 235-2769 for hours and pick-up information. Locations:                   โ€ข 745 West Ave, 235-2769                   โ€ข 136 S. Main St, Canandaigua, 394-3531                   โ€ข 430 Exchange St, Geneva, […]

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News Briefs 7.17.02

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 donโ€™t think Iโ€™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 6.26.02

Community voices Thanks and congratulations to City and Ron Netsky for the splendid interviews in โ€œJump Jim Crowโ€ (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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