Path of the rainbow
Part one of a two-part series. It’s April 9, and there’s an uncustomary rumbling at the Atlantic-University neighborhood’s less up-and-coming eastern edge. Two-dozen men and women are making some commotion. But their cheers and jeers, punctuated by the heavy beat from a dance studio across the way, are not at all disturbing. …
Boob scotch
Went and warmed my bones in Miami right in the middle of The Winter Music Conference — essentially the same gay-disco beat pounding everywhere amidst the pink neon, Cuban sandwiches, and palm trees like a broken record for three days. Attendees were a bunch of bleary-eyed kids jabbering jittery German through clenched teeth. I opted…
Family Matters
Gayle and Nick Mourgides’ kitchen is both big and cozy, the kind of place that makes you think of family. Done in yellow and white with a long farm table at one end, the room has lots of counter space for little helpers to work. The Mourgides — owners of Olives (50 State Street, Pittsford,…
Home Design 2003
Chefs at play We see these chefs at work in our favorite restaurants — their kitchens full of steaming pots emanating wonderful smells. Ever wonder what their real kitchens, their home kitchens look like? Disorganized? Nothing but a hot plate and a George Foreman Grill? Here’s a look into the home kitchens of the chef-owners…
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…
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…
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…
Reader Feedback 4.16.03
Nojay and the bus station; remembering Ryan; porn’s complexities; the war
News Briefs 4.9.03
They came, they didn’t saw Calls have been trickling into the City Newspaper office about an obsession of ours: the future of the city-owned Hemlock-Canadice lakes watershed, a source of Rochester’s municipal water for more than a century. Based on what’s been said at some recent public forums, rumors are circulating that city crews…
Small towns, small lives, small movie
Such recent movies as The Good Girl, One Hour Photo, and About Schmidt suggest that the cinema can still connect with the drab underside of American life, sounding the muted note of defeat and despair that accompanies the grand public trumpet of confident optimism and exuberant expansion. Our nostalgia for a past that may never…
Cranking out pseudo-stylish junk
Cranking out pseudo-stylish junk There’s something rather admirable about Spun’s casting strategy, which seemed to involve finding as many irritating actors as possible and having all of their characters strung out on crank. It’s a bold and brazen approach — kind of like if somebody told you they could toss a dime from the top…
Slap and twang
Slap and twang. You can say both. You can do both. And if your love lies in American roots music, you dig hearing both. Slap and twang. Two organic tones and approaches essential to rock music’s expressive sound. Where lyrics fall short in painting an accurate mood, the less-specific grunts and wails from an…
Hypnotized by that golden pulse
The Eastman Gamelan is exactly the kind of endeavor that Rochester should be crowing about. It’s an example of true multiculturalism: people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds coming together to enjoy the beauty of a little-known culture. It’s cooperative, not about competition or big egos. Though the Eastman Gamelan is affiliated with an…
The XX Files
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…
This side of the Genesee
It’s just a little way for the 19th Ward to say, “Hey, we’re not so scary.” Fourteen 19th Ward families invited University of Rochester students to cross the Genesee River Footbridge and have dinner with them in their homes. These springtime Bridge Dinners are meant to “show students that the 19th Ward is a……
