I know I’m not alone in my post-holiday hangover, a mixture of queasiness brought on by the credit card bills rolling in and stress from all the extra stuff I now have to find room for. Despite the fact that fifty-four percent of consumers started the season paying off credit card debt, polls showed that […]
Jennifer Loviglio
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When my family was looking for a place to set down roots a few years ago, we wanted to move here because of Rochester’s high ratio of arts to people. For a town this size, we have a lot of public and private money and energy dedicated to visual arts, theatre, dance, and music. […]
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Crafting friendship
In the dimming days of winter, many of us turn to the screen for warmth and comfort, much the way our ancestors turned to the hearth. Movie rentals increase, video game sales spike, and computers — with their instant access to e-mail and the Internet — take on new significance. It’s easier to stay inside […]
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Rochester has me feeling a little blue lately. The wicked high murder rate. The sad, sorry state of downtown. The poverty. To cheer myself up I sometimes squint my eyes like a kid looking at the stars until a gleaming vision of Rochester of yesteryear comes into focus. It’s the early 1900s and a city […]
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Spanish without the bull
At first I thought he had a little something on the side. My husband would lie in the hammock, book open on his chest, murmuring and smiling to himself. In the evenings after pulling in the driveway he’d sit a little too long in the car, as if dreading to come inside. I was beside […]
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Politician on the verge
In a house on Scottsville Road, just over the river from the University of Rochester where many of them first met, 10 young people discuss the plan. But unlike many of their peers, they’re not going on a road trip or to a concert.
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I confess to feeling more than just a little freaked out by all these stories lately about violence against women. I’m not alone; a recent poll shows that the top priority of women, over abortion and equal pay, is finding a solution to domestic violence. When they’re not abducting or raping, men seem to […]
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It’s fitting that Mother’s Day occurs in the spring, but not because life is bursting out all over. It’s fitting because spring is when daycare centers and kindergartens need to know your plans for next fall. Will you stay at home with your kids (if you’re lucky enough to have choices)? Start working or increase […]
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A Kitchen Built for Two
Moe Smith will be the first to say it’s not his kitchen — his domain is outside where, year round, he established his reputation as king of the grill, grilling everything from hot dogs to fish and corn to peppers. “He used to barbeque every day,” his wife Bernice says. “He’d put anything on the […]
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Professional Paradise
Gerry Vorrasi’s kitchen, although still under construction, is a thing to behold. Located in the back of his 1860s home off East Avenue, it’s a series of connected rooms that are both beautiful and highly functional. But you might expect this from the co-owner of Restaurant 2 Vine (24 Winthrop Street, 454-6020). He’s combined restaurant-industry […]
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Rochester: Art for Living
If you were in the grips of cabin fever this past winter, you might have wished your crib was more of a castle. There are several local alternatives to moving to Europe and actually buying one. The two artists and one store listed below offer a few different ways to make you fall in love […]
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My sons are the same age now that my little brother and I were when my parents were protesting the war in Vietnam. We usually attended demonstrations in Boston, where we lived; once or twice we went to DC. I don’t remember anything specific, only the singing and marching. That and I had to wear […]
