Get the details on not one, but two upcoming events featuring our city’s growing fleet of mobile food purveyors, plus a buffet of restaurant openings and other local food news.
Dayna Papaleo
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FILM: Waiting for the weekends
There are nine Fridays (plus one very desirable Wednesday) between now and Thanksgiving, and, as usual, Hollywood will be pummeling you with movie upon movie. But autumn is typically a strange time for film, acting as a sort of bridge between summer’s dopier action flicks and the end-of-the-year Oscar hopefuls. Typically we’re allotted a handful […]
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MOVIE PREVIEW: Witness Palestine
It’s difficult to know where to even begin when discussing the conflict between Palestine and Israel, a decades-old schism with passionate stances on both sides, each believing theirs to be the just one. Yet as the powers-that-be lock horns over figurative lines in the literal sand, there continue to be human beings trying to make […]
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CHOW HOUND: TRATA, Gluten-Free Fair, Openings and more
I stopped mid-sentence, absorbed by one of those across-a-crowded-room moments. My friend Jen saw where my attention was now directed, and she was a little intrigued as well. Our eyes followed this super-sexy heap of buttermilk fried chicken, fluffy whipped potatoes, and an ethereal biscuit ($15.95) as it made its way to one lucky diner […]
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“Robot & Frank”
When we imagine what the future might look like, the pictures that enter our heads typically come straight from the movies. What we don’t usually think about is that before, say, “The Fifth Element” breaks out, before the unitards and the hover cars, there will be small, gradual changes. A translucent phone here, a robot […]
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A repurpose-driven life
Greentopia’s second year finds the sustainability celebration expanding to include a full-blown film festival. Under the care of Linda Moroney, festival director by day and documentarian by night, Greentopia | FILM features four nights of primarily nonfiction films, all focusing on various aspects of the increasingly crucial need for us earthlings to reduce, reuse, recycle, […]
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The kindness of strangers
For as long as they’ve been making movies, they’ve been making movies in which a crabby older person finds purpose and redemption by caring for a younger person in serious need of guidance. Titles as varied as Walter Salles’ Oscar-nominated “Central Station” and Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore” immediately spring to mind, as does Luc Besson’s “The […]
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Forever is a long time
The end of a relationship isn’t always the burning wreckage that Hollywood likes to portray. Sure, that scenario lends itself to crucial narrative conflict and vicariously entertaining spite, but more often than not, when a romantic love dies, the entrenched bond remains. Navigating that conundrum is at the heart of Lee Toland Krieger’s surprisingly touching […]
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Through the grapevine
You know, wine might be the original form of conscious eating. With a label full of details about things like vintage and varietals, few packaged products throughout history have been so transparent with regard to their origins.
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Declaration of independents
When the Little Theatre first opened in 1929, its mission was to show “art films that appeal to the intelligent and sophisticated,” and more than 80 years later it still strives to do just that. Yeah, there was that brief porn interlude in the 1960’s, but who hasn’t had one of those? These days, however, […]
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Made in Rochester
While it really qualifies more as old-fashioned common sense rather than a popular movement, locavore eating is all about reducing your carbon footprint by subsisting on the ingredients closest to home. And this philosophy doesn’t just apply to whatever you can pull out of the ground or score from a nearby farm; it also involves […]
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Arrested development
Not so fast, you. This might not be one of those times when you can skim the first and last paragraphs of a review to quickly learn whether the writer liked the art in question. Honestly, you could read the whole piece and still not figure it out, which can only mean that you’re about […]
