Interfaith says peace As First Rogue George W. Bush tries to conjure an excuse for “pre-emptive” war on Iraq, hundreds of national organizations, community and student groups, unions, etc., are signing up for the peace movement. One new signer is the Interfaith Alliance of Rochester. Calling itself “a growing and diverse interfaith community […]
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News Briefs 1.22.03
Peacefully resolved It seems Washington will thrust the country, and maybe a large part of the Middle East, into a dirty little war soon — or a big one. But not everybody is sitting still for this. For example, during the run-up to a large anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC, on January 18, local […]
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News Briefs 1.15.03
The acoustic blues is alright Way, way too often, the blues is reduced to a cliché. Too many folks think if it ain’t old and black, or at least Southern, then it ain’t no good. Ride, Sally, ride… again and again and again. Cats like acoustic picker and grinner Keith Harden lose those shackles […]
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News Briefs 1.8.03
Ain’t it a drag Leave it to the queens to drag Rochester into the national spotlight. VH-1 film crews will hit the town January 9 and 10 to film mucho fabuloso female impersonators Pandora Boxx and Darienne Lake. “It’s going to be kind of a ‘day in the life’ thing,” says drag sensation […]
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News Briefs 12.18.02
Buried Treasures Pass the leberkäse Eating at the Swan Market (231 Parsells Avenue) is always like walking into another world, but this past Saturday was something else. Founder Gunther Schwahn and owner Barry Fischer threw a 100th birthday party for Joseph Gosert, who came to Rochester in 1927 from Idar-Oberstein, Germany. A diamond-cutter, Gosert had […]
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News Briefs 12.24.02
The bells, THE BELLS! Mistletoe, bells, the scent of pine, bells, snow, bells, lists of who’s been naughty and nice, and the ringing of bells all around as you shop this holiday season. And these bells have been ringing in front of red kettles in Rochester since 1900. “The whole red kettle concept started […]
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News Briefs 12.11.02
Buried Treasures Collaborators Richard Reisem and Frank Gillespie felt sympathy whenever they saw people trying to use their oversized picture book, Mount Hope: America’s First Municipal Victorian Cemetery, as a walking guide. To help visitors enjoy and understand the cemetery better, the author and photographer have teamed up again to produce Buried Treasures, a brand-new […]
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News Briefs 12.4.02
Bridge to this century The US Army Corps of Engineers considers the Hojack Swing Bridge a “hazard to navigation” and wants it removed. But the bridge, which once carried trains across the Genesee River near Lake Ontario, has defenders who rightly view it as a work of art. On Wednesday, December 11, at 7 […]
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News Briefs 11.27.02
Rochester, rolled It was my attraction to bright colors that led me to Rochester’s Cigar Factory at 467 State Street. Its brightly painted exterior has made it a local landmark — the bright spot on State Street just past “The Big Yellow Box,” Kodak. When I checked it out recently, the customers I saw were […]
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News Briefs 11.13.02
A new county name? There’s a movement afoot to change the name of Monroe County. A small group of local folks is dead serious that it’s time for a new name. Michael Argaman, an activist and financial advisor, is leading the effort. “President James Monroe doesn’t deserve to have the county named after him,” […]
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News briefs 11.6.02
Driving the body electric As its manufacturer has observed, your eyes are on the Sparrow. Ours certainly were as one specimen negotiated downtown Rochester traffic recently. But this is no bird we’re talking about. It’s the Corbin “Sparrow,” a fully enclosed and equipped one-seater electric vehicle on three wheels. Two Sparrows are known to inhabit […]
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News briefs 10.23.02
Ferry’s leaps and bounds Amid political currents — never mind the economy and the state budget — the Rochester-Toronto fast ferry project’s compass spins wildly. In just the past week, local media have run big headlines on some twists and turns: • The project ran aground because of holdups in promised state funding; shipbuilder […]
