Rob Cullivan isn’t off for a deep-six holiday. This ain’t the big adios. And yet it feels a little bit like a funeral. In this case, however, the stiff can actually see who has come to pay their respects. Cullivan, a Rochester music scene fixture since the mid-’80s, is leaving town for good and heading […]
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HIV
It takes a little courage to step off some of the third-floor elevators at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Signs reading “Infectious Disease Unit” can be intimidating. One hallway has bio-hazard signs. Green arrows point to large showerheads and pull chains, which hang from the ceiling every few feet, for emergency rinses. Then there […]
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Going up, getting down
Get on St. Phillip’s Escalator, Rochester’s garage-busting rock trio
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An interview with an underdog
For the first time in more than a decade, the highest office in the state is going to turn over. Three men are vying to replace George Pataki and no matter who wins, there will be big changes in store for New Yorkers. So why isn’t this race bigger news? Why aren’t the conversations in […]
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For New York governor: Eliot Spitzer
New York is a mess, and we don’t need to list the reasons. You already know them. You also know that a governor can’t fix everything. But a governor can do a lot. For starters (as our article last week, “Reforming from the Governor’s Mansion,” noted), the governor could refuse to participate in the three-man […]
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The litmus test
We all know we’re supposed to care about what’s best for everyone. But sometimes, for some of us, there’s a single issue that dwarfs the rest — an issue that can make the difference when we’re making up our minds between two similar candidates. Here’s where Tom Suozzi and Eliot Spitzer stand on a handful […]
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Growing the Little
Bob Russell is enthusiastic and persuasive, two traits he’ll need in his new position as executive director of the Little Theatre Film Society. He faces the challenge of expanding the fledgling nonprofit’s role in the community without interrupting the steady supply of eye candy and brain food that local moviegoers have come to expect. In […]
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Tom Foolery and the Shannanighans
Blaring of the green The crowd at the ever-secretive Spy Bar slowly filters in as members of The Shannanighans drag equipment through the back door. Rick Yogis, singer and drummer, sips a Guinness at the bar as he waits for the band’s PA to arrive; it’s still tied up from the band’s earlier acoustic show […]
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Children of the incarcerated
Families struggle to cope with parents behind bars
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Chicks with picks
You see a young girl with a guitar perched on a stool on a makeshift stage in a dimly lit coffee house, and you just know what’s going to happen next, right? There’ll be some left-wing caterwauling, a litany of boy-bashing rhetoric over three or four well-worn guitar chords, and plenty of overwrought passion and […]
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River views
The temperature inside the meeting hall has risen by several degrees. At least that’s what it feels like at the public hearing when the question-and-answer period — which becomes more interrogation than questioning — begins. “I just wish you would back off on some of the building development,” says one Charlotte resident. “You negate or […]
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Too hot for TV
Amy Sedaris brings cult fave
“Strangers With Candy” to the big screen. Exclusive
Q&A with Dayna Papaleo
